A spokeswoman for Air France-KLM told EFE that the present 25 787-9 unit contract is part of larger order of 110 airplanes from both Boeing and Airbus, including 50 that were announced last September.

The Franco-Dutch group would not give the total amount of the transaction, list price would be around 12,000 million dollars.

The spokesman added that “negotiations are continuing with Airbus” and the British engine manufacturer Rolls Royce to complete the contract agreement for 25 A350 aircraft, a package that is part of the same one from September. The airline plans to add these aircraft in its fleet offering two new medium-range and medium capacity models from Boeing and Airbus between 2016 and 2026.

In the first half of the financial year between April and September, the airline lost 183 million euros, a number that could rise in twelve months to about 300 million, according to estimates published today by the newspaper “Le Figaro”. Thomson Financial.

The local Vallarta tourism industry makes it clear that the Mexican beach destination is safe for North american tourists, after the media took the opportunity to link a murder, while resisting an armed assault, of a former 67 year old Saltspring Island citizen in Melaque, a town far from Puerto Vallarta and in no way related to its tourism activities.

If you’ve ever taken the opportunity to travel to Melaque, you’d know it’s part of the area called Costalegre in Barra de Navidad far from Vallarta and not a relevant international tourist destination and it’s 220 kilometers south of Vallarta. So now it’s time to scare people from going to Orlando because there was a murder in Miami, or informing people that there was a murder in Vancouver when it occured in Seattle or Tacoma in Washington State?

Gustavo Rivas Solis, of the Puerto Vallarta Tourism Board, sent messages to newspapers last Thursday, asking that Puerto Vallarta not be used as a reference point to describe the location of the slaying. “In your article you mention that the robbery took place in the city of Melaque, which is in the state of Jalisco, same as Puerto Vallarta, but more than 200 kilometers away and in a district unrelated to Puerto Vallarta,” Solis said.

In June, the Puerto Vallarta tourism board had a security firm to review the security and threat in the destination. The company informed that  negative events that include foreigners or non-foreigners is “fractional” compared to the large population of foreigners that reside in the city and the millions of tourists that travel to Puerto Vallarta each year.

Prospective travelers had not expressed concerns over their safety in Mexico.

John Huston decided to cast Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton in the movie, but it was the scandalous affair between Burton and Elizabeth Taylor that brought the US media down in droves to Vallarta, expecting a lot of news and conflicts to feed their newspapers and magazines. Not much happened, the movie shooting went as smooth as silk, stated Huston and the stars behaved well, so the media staff turned to Puerto Vallarta for their news and this attracted lots of visitors from the U.S. and it has never stopped. Since then Puerto Vallarta has developed more and more into a World-class tourist destination.

The city now offers more than 15,000 hotel beds, 5 star hotels and resorts, respected tour and activities companies, bars, nightclubs and a very Mexican flavor, which has not been lost in all the passing years.

Puerto Vallarta dot Net is one of the oldest websites that feature this town and it’s attractions. Recently the company has remodeled their site and will soon start promoting services through BestDay, trying to improve their service and variety of offerings on the site.

Currently the live Puerto Vallarta web cam on the site is the main attraction, the oldest and best located cam in town, roves around showing constantly changing views of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Virgin America onboard facilities

Puerto Vallarta was recently voted the best Mexican holiday destination by USA News & World and the northern neighbor resort destination, Riviera Nayarit, was named the newest worldwide celebrity hot spot by Harper’s Bazaar Magazine.

Virgin Airline Fares

You can watch free TV or listen to music on-board on the individual screen located on the back of every plane seat. You can also order drinks or food through the screen. There are plugs for laptops and WiFi is available on-board for a fee.

How much will it cost to take Virgin America on a trip south of the border? Flights between San Francisco and Puerto Vallarta start at $119 dollars, to this price tag you must add: taxes, restrictions & fees.

“We continue to see strong demand for Mexico travel and we’re pleased to launch new service to these historic and world-class destinations.  With unrivalled service and amenities, we hope that our new flights will allow travelers to kick off their Mexican vacations in style –  from the minute they step onboard one of our aircraft,” stated David Cush, President and Chief Executive Officer of Virgin America.

Puerto Vallarta was named Friendliest City by Condé Nast Magazine and an estimated 3 million travellers visit it annually. Riviera Nayarit, located close by just a bit north on the coast, in the state of Nayarit is currently Mexico’s most fashionable destination.

The Riviera stretches along 192 miles of the Pacific coast, surrounded by the majestic Sierra Madre Mountains just 10 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta’s International Airport (PVR).

The region extends along the entire coast of the Pacific state of Nayarit & includes places such as Nuevo Vallarta in the Banderas Bay (Bahía de Banderas), the historic colonial town of San Blas, the very exclusive Punta Mita, that offers top-notch resorts and golf and picturesque fishing villages plus a California favorite: the surfing village of Sayulita.

Virgin America strives to offer travelers a unique flying experience, the same way Puerto Vallarta offers visitors a unique and memorable vacation, unlike any other, said Salvador González Resendiz, Mayor of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta is the perfect location for their newest warm weather destination. We look forward to complement Virgin America’s excellent services.

Located on Mexico’s Pacific coast, where the states of Jalisco and Nayarit come together, Puerto Vallarta continues to be one of Mexico’s hottest destinations with a rich cultural tradition and town, a historical cobblestone center, family-friendly attractions and 1st first class hotels, resorts and facilities.

We are pleased to welcome the new Virgin America flights from San Francisco, said Marc Murphy, director of the Riviera Nayarit Convention & Visitors Bureau. Riviera Nayarit guests will discover & enjoy a unique holiday experience, complemented by pristine beaches, luxurious accommodations plus excellent service.

If you don’t fly virgin, you’re in for a treat.

Jova, now a tropical storm, touched ground as a Category II hurricane on the dawn of Wednesday in the area around Punta Pérula, in the La Huerta municipality in the state of Colima, 60 kilometers north of Manzanillo. In this state rain flooded rivers, bridges collapsed and various landslides left various communities isolated.

In Tomatlan, a woman and her child died when their home was swept away by a landslide.

Another 21 year old woman and her 5 year old daughter died in another landslide in Cihuatlan, that destroyed part of their house. An area where the Marabasco river and 10 other creeks overflooded on Wednesday morning, flooding many towns in La Huerta, Villa Purificacion, Autlan and Cuautitlan de Garcia Barragan.

Just in Cihuatlan, 39 thousand inhabitants were left without electricity and 5 thousand are reported homeless. The Federal government informs they are helping at least 1,500 inhabitants in around 70 shelters. Civil protection with a helicopter rescued 37 people from roofs and 50 from palmtrees.

In the beach area, rain, strong winds and waves resulted in structural damage to 4 businesses in the tourist area of Barra de Navidad in Cihuatlan.

In Colima, around 4 thousand people were welcomed in 221 shelters installed in the municipalities of Manzanillo, Tecoman, Armeria, Minatitlan, Villa de Alvarez and Colima and school was suspended on all levels on Tuesday.

The Number One Metropolitan Hospital in Manzanillo was evacuated when 9 rivers overflooded and where about to overcome the hospital’s security zone.

In Tecoman, 3 more people were confirmed dead, two in Tecoman itself and one on the Colima-Manzanillo highway, around La Salada where there was a landslide. In Armeria municipality there are two people diappeared.

Puerto Vallarta itself reported minimal incidents and was barely touched by Hurricane Jova, concerns where mostly centered on rivers and creeks which were constantly monitored. At the International Puerto Vallarta airport (Gustavo Díaz Ordaz) seven flights were canceled due to the atmospheric conditions created by the storm.

Current weather in Puerto Vallarta is sunny, watch a live view on the Puerto Vallarta webcam.

Puerto Vallarta’s live web cam view

In the report by the SMN at 7:30, they stated that the weather system continues its slow advance over land northwards and it creating a wide cloudy area, including strong winds and high waves in the area.

The Nayarit’s National Water Commission (Conagua) explained that the hurricane “Jova” will arrive in this State on Wednesday as a tropical storm. The places most affected would be those of the south in the municipality of Compostela.

Forecasts do not rule out the weather phenomenon passing through the state capital, Tepic, Nayarit and leaving the territory through the municipality of Huajicori.

The weather system during the early hours of Wednesday still is creating clouds and rain in the coast of Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit, so the population could be affected by heavy rain, strong wind and waves.

In Jalisco, the forecast continues to indicate the possibility of heavy or torrential rains for Jalisco and Colima.

Jova began as storm tropical last Thursday and became hurricane Jova on Saturday. The National Weather Service (NWS), meanwhile, recommended that the population of these states heed the indications of the authorities, and take precautions for the effects of heavy rain, wind and waves.

Watch a live Puerto Vallarta web cam feed.

This means that in the southern coast of Jalisco, both trees have been felled and electric supply has been affected in different communities as well as some scattered landslides on roads. Luckily without any reported casualties so far.

In Manzanillo, staff and guests were evacuated from hotels located on the beach. Shops are closed   with their windows taped to prevent breakage by high winds.

In Puerto Vallarta, and coastal areas of Jalisco classes were suspended until wednesday at least. The cyclone that is monitored by the National Meteorological System, has a “high” hazard rating and in the coastal states of Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and southern Sinaloa has caused waves of up to 5 – 6 meters, so water activities are restricted.

In the most recent report from the SMN, at 4 am, today Wednesday October 12, the storm, which formed as a tropical storm on Thursday and became a hurricane on Saturday, presented tonight maximum winds of 160 kilometers per hour and gusts of 195 kilometers.

Authorities of Jalisco and Colima have therefore installed shelters to receive the local population and has established an alert that goes from the Roblito, in the state of Sinaloa, to Punta San Telmo, in the state of Michoacan.

The SMN requested the population of the five affected states to meet the following guidelines in the presence of the hurricane:

• Extreme caution on roads
• Improve monitoring of rivers and dams
• Cautiion is requested against landslides in mountainous areas

For the time being the Weather Service predicted that in the coming hours, Hurricane “Jova” will go down to a category 1, with maximum winds of 120 kilometers and gusts of 150 kph.

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A hurricane watch is in place from Punta San Telmo to Cabo Corrientes. Around one hundred shelters were open Sunday for citizens who could be affected by the hurricane.

Mexico’s federal government will be providing assistance too. More than 300 soldiers have been deployed and members of the Mexican navy in Puerto Vallarta are on alert.

The forecast track may carry the center of Hurricane Jova near Barra de Navidad, south of the popular beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, late Tuesday.

Hotels in the hurricane path are already taking precautions, though the sun continues to shine from time to time. Almost all the guests at the 199-room Grand Bay Hotel on Isla Navidad, just off the coast, are scheduled to check out on Monday, only one US couple will ride out the storm, said hotel desk clerk Julio Ortega.

“The wind doesn’t really hit us here, because we are protected by the hills,” Ortega said. “But in any case, we’re taking precautions for the storm’s approach.”

Remnants of hurricane Jova are predicted to go through Guadalajara and to dissipate by the time the Jalisco state capital inaugurates the Pan American Games on Friday. Puerto Vallarta is also scheduled to host two events, open-water swimming and a triathlon, about a week later.

Use the Puerto Vallarta Web Cam for realtime weather views.

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In the presentation of their services for the Mexican market, Reed Hastings, Netflix’s founder and CEO, acknowledged that the challenges in the country are substantial and considered they will invest at least two years with finances in red numbers before the business starts to become profitable.

With an investment of $70 million in 2011, purchasing of licenses and marketing operations in Latin America, Hastings said his immediate goal is to get as many subscribers to finance the cost of the expansion in the region. Netflix will require about 1 million loyal users paying a monthly subscription of $7.99 per month (or 99 pesos) for 12 months to recover their investment.

As a first step, Netflix content may be viewed on computers, game consoles, Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wiis connected to the Internet and broadband and three models of Smart TV from the electronics giant, Samsung.

Within two months it will be available Android OS and iOS phones.

TECHNICAL SERVICE CONSIDERATIONS

The promise of Netflix is ​​that if a user can view videos from the YouTube website without issues, they can do so from Netflix too. The system is designed to enable connections streaming content from 500 kbps for high definition, the user’s connection must exceed 2 Mbps.

Reed Hastings, Netflix founder and CEO, found that video services will increase the supply of broadband packages at affordable costs.

Hastings believes that content partnerships with the biggest local TV companies, Televisa and TV Azteca , and the rest of the 85 production companies with which Netflix has signed an agreement to distribute material in Latin America, will “gather the world’s best content and make it accessible to users.”

The Axis webcam was previously located on the Cabo San Lucas Marina lighthouse, where it would rove around the area, with views of the Cabo hills, the marina, the dolphinarium and bars around the Marina.

The Cabo Webcam has now moved to Mango Deck Bar, a beach-side bar and night-time activity attraction on El Medano Beach. Medano is known for being one of the most popular beaches in the Los Cabos area, the beach is calm, well located, close to town, many water sport activities are available, cruise ships anchor in the area and you have a panoramic view of the bay.

So needless to say, the Cabo San Lucas web cam now has a great location too, you’ll be able to enjoy a beautiful panorama  of Los Cabos as the web camera moves from the Cape to Cabo San Lucas, along the beach from right to left and focuses on the Tourist corridor, before returning to the Cape view.

The webcam is currently in maintainance (27 de Dic. 2011)

A witness to the brief vacation of the famous “Judas” singer, on the beaches in Vallarta reported that in addition to sunbathing she took surfing lessons and enjoyed the local Mexican dishes.

The source also reported that Lady Gaga arrived in Puerto Vallarta accompanied by six or seven friends on a private jet that took off from Van Nuys, California, last Sunday night and would return to New York City.

Lady Gaga, who’s promoting her latest album, Born this Way, it seems, had a great time.

During the morning, the New Yorker took the opportunity to sunbathe in the private villa she rented.

She obviously enjoyed the varied cuisine of Puerto Vallarta, munching on grilled shrimp, quesadillas, guacamole and many margaritas that were part of the artist’s menu, who shared a special dinner with her friends on Tuesday night, before saying goodbye to her short stay by the beach.

A Jalisco Civil Defense representative explained that sand and small particulates had affected the foundation of the Malcon sea wall. The government decided to invest 4.5 million dollars to solve the problem.

Following Hurricane Kenna and its path of destruction on October 2002, the malecon was repaired as fast as possible, to prepare the city for the following high season, the makeshift structural stone wall was not made durable enough due to time constraints.

Jaime Castillo Chavez, the current project’s architect stated that the new structure’s geometry will take into account wave dynamics, offering a curved wall, which will act as a breakwater structure. The current model is used in many coastal cities around Europe and has shown promising and positive results.

The Puerto Vallarta Malecón is also being remodeled for business reasons. The malecon needed a new image, some statues will be relocated, though the “Seahorse” statue will not be moved as it is an important landmark in Puerto Vallarta. Many new native trees will be used on the walkway, which will provide more natural shade and help pedestrians enjoy the walk without having to follow the edges of the buildings in the morning shade and this will also allow more foot traffic in the warmer hours of the day.

See the Malecon changes in realtime on the Vallarta Web cam

Another facet of the project is to make the space more pedestrian friendly, the concrete surface will be in natural cobblestone, that absorbs heat better and reflects it in a way that will make it more enjoyable for the visitors, furthermore the stones will be in shades from gray to red, helping to add a more colonial Mexican appearance to the Malecon.

Six meter benches will be added and the road will be reduced to two lanes with a 20 mph speed limit, this will help diminish traffic, as motor vehicles will choose alternative and faster routes.

Watch changes in realtime on the Puerto Vallarta Webcam: http://www.puertovallarta.net/interactive/webcam/index.php

The survey recorded the responses of 388.000 readers of the technology site, who identified with Mac or PC, while revealing political affiliation, age, education, tastes, among other topics. The results reveal that more than half of the respondents identified themselves as PC users, 25% as Mac users and another 25% as “none” of the two.

The survey also shows that Mac users are younger, liberal, easier to adapt to new technologies and that theyseek to be perceived as “unique and different.”

Meanwhile, PC users are older, are more conservative, live in suburbs and have more math skills than people that use Macs.

Recently both Microsoft and Apple are working to emphasize these differences as part of their ad campaigns which reflect the personality of their respective users.

According to South Korean news agency “Yonhap” Apple requested the Seoul Central District Court that Samsung be forced to stop selling and producing its product line with touch screens and its electronic tablets in the local Korean market due to this patent violation.

As in the complaint filed in April in the U.S. against the South Korean multinational, Apple argues that Galaxy Samsung phones and tablet Galaxy Tab infringe iPhone touch screen patented technologies, as well as the external design and popular button from the “smartphone”.

“Samsung competition illegally damages and seriously hampers the recognition of Apple’s iPhone, stripping it of its distinctive features,” says Apple’s complaint, according to a Justice official cited by “Yonhap.”

The complaint comes in the middle of a row between both companies that are trying to take the lead in the profitable and growing market for “smartphones” where the pioneer iPhone remains the leader, while the Galaxy increases their popularity and sales and closes in on its rival the Apple iPad.

After allegations of Apple in April against Samsung, the giant South Korean second largest manufacturer of phones, also reported ten patent violations against the California company in South Korea, Japan and Germany. Despite their differences in courts, both companies are partners, Samsung provides Apple electronic components that are used in the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 2.

One of the most famous pop divas, will release her new album in these following days, simply titled 4, which will hit stores in Latin America and Spain on June 28.

“The more mature I am, the more things I have to tell,” said the former Destiny’s Child in relation to this new album, which aims to provide a new sound to her followers, now discussed in Internet forums.

Some of the songs on 4 were released on the Internet before the album’s official release and Beyoncé stated: “It’s not the way we wanted to present my songs, but I’m glad of the positive reaction from my fans”. However, this response of her followers was not reflected in the music charts. The single “Run The World (Girls)” has been eight weeks on the US-Billboard Charts and has not been able to climb beyond number 29.

The singer was accustomed to occupy higher chart positions, but her new mix of genres does not seem so exciting at the moment.

Beyoncé Knowles has spent the last two years preparing this album, in which important producers have participated. His inspiration lies in the legendary figures of Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and the Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, she said in an interview with MTV.

In 4 , the singer of 29 years wants to escape from the R&B shelves. “It’s not R&B, is not your typical pop, not rock, is just everything I love mixed up,” she said. “It’s the kind of album that a pop star makes when they feel they have something to prove,” said Rolling Stone magazine.

The “PlanetSolar” is expected to arrive in Monaco in April 2012 at the end of a 50,000 km journey, explains the “ecoadventurer” Raphael Domjan, who launched this project.

Covered with 540 m2 of high performance solar panels, the ship uses only the sun’s energy to move, the stove he uses is powered by gas, but everything else works thanks to the sun, water, electricity, telephone.

At a time when the experimental plane Solar Impulse, Bertrand Piccard fellow is the guest of honor at the Paris Air Show Le Bourget, the futuristic catamaran continues its conquest of the oceans of the world powered by the Sun.

“The ultimate goal is the same,” admits Raphael Domjan, passing through Paris after having to land two weeks ago for health reasons. The aim of the project is “to demonstrate that we have the technologies to do so. These are technologies that anyone can buy in a supermarket. We already have everything we need to change,” said the blonde 39 year old adventurer, convinced of the prospects for solar energy.

The 30m x 16m catamaran crossed the Atlantic to Miami (USA), then went to Cancun (Mexico), Cartagena (Colombia) before crossing the Panama Canal in January.

He has since then made stops in French Polynesia, in Noumea and then in Brisbane (Australia) and is currently sailing near Papua New Guinea.

The crew of six men during the crossing of the Atlantic, is now down to four, to prove “that you do not need a large crew to operate these technologies.”

“PlanetSolar” has navigated at a modest speed of 5 knots on average (10 km / h) in the first 30,000 miles it has sailed.

The interest is not to get rid completely of fuel, Domjan said smiling, “Magellan had already toured the world with renewable energy,” but sailing does not allow you to go in all directions and depends entirely on the strength of the winds.

The builder of this solar boat emphasizes that his ship can store energy and move at a normal speed for three days to a week at reduced speed in case of cloudy skies.

According to The Financial Times, this measure would raise approximately $100 million dollars for Twitter.

The new tool will also allow advertisers to segment and see the level of success of their messages as they review their statistics, set the time of publication of the message and define the profile of readers who’ll read the ad.

According to the site Mashable, the new tool will be released within eight weeks.

The idea of ​​Twitter including advertising in their service is not new, for some months now, the company includes sponsored messages in the iPhone Twitter application. The initiative garnered such a high level of complaints among its users that the company was forced to withdraw the ads.

In an interview with “The Economist”, he noted that the hydroxyapatite grafts will cost 40% less than those made of titanium, noting that the technology could have a worldwide impact and use.

The scholar said it is very difficult for any company or institution in the country that is interested in applying innovations created in universities and research centers. This is due to the lack of a public body linking businesses and inventions, so even though the patent for the hydroxyapatite was made in 2009, he has not been able to market it.

He acknowledged that there are efforts by some public and private institutions to improve technology transfer to the productive sector in Mexico, but they are isolated cases.

“Unfortunately, most of the inventions from academic centers linger on a desktop, despite the marketing potential they have,” he said.

Said Robles Casolco furthermore stated that for severe fractures hydroxyapatite coated zinc, aluminum and silver alloys can also be used, this would transform the local implant market making it local and there would no longer be any use for imported titanium implants.

He said the hydroxyapatite – which is a biomaterial – can fill the gaps in the human body, both in dental and orthopedic, cardiac, joint, ocular or visceral applications, plus it can be manufactured according to the desired geometry to replace a damaged human bone.

Finally, he mentioned that this biomaterial could be used to create a biocement used to fill cracks in bone fractures or to fuse separate implants.

Hydroxyapatite Characteristics

• Bionert
• Bioactive
• Bioconductor
• Non-toxic
• Has osseointegration ability
• Does not change the genetic structure of the human body

What was not expected was that the new version of the operating system would be sold for $29.99, that is, $100 less than any other update for this platform in its previous versions. Nor that the much talked about cloud service was to be free, specially when MobileMe, a similar offer from Apple, was $100 dollars annually for many years.

The president and co-founder of the company was commissioned to deliver the news that had already been leaked a week ago. Although some analysts have claimed that a preview of the new iPhone 5, was shelved by Jobs for a later moment.

“Many believe that the cloud is a large hard drive,” said Jobs. “iCloud stores your content in the cloud and pushes it wirelessly to all your devices.”

Lion, the name chosen for the new version of the Mac operating system, has 250 new features, including support for multitouch gestures to manipulate application windows and web browsing, it now also allows multiple applications in full screen and navigate then with your fingers using the trackpad.

Craig Federighi, vice president of OS X software, explained that the new platform provides access to multiple windows and removes the scroll bar, cleaning up the user’s visual field. For example, you can now review the history of pages navigated with a finger swipe.

The new system also integrates the Mac App Store, so that applications can be bought simply, and even the new Lion OS will be distributed through the store and no longer on a DVD, as has hitherto been the case.

Penelope Cruz and Jennifer Lopez are two of the followers of the Dukan diet, which consists of a high protein intake and suppression, especially in the first stages, of carbohydrates. What is sought is that the body shall build vital structures, particularly muscle without accumulating fat. This would entail, however, an increase in cholesterol intake, which, in turn, increases the risk of heart and vascular problems.

“Its success lies in a fierce marketing campaign and the support of celebrities, but basically it’s just a high protein and unbalanced diet,” says the Organization of Consumers and Users of Spain. It can also affect the liver and kidneys and cause constipation, fatigue, cramps, headaches and bad breath.”

Claudia Angarita, director of the Colombian Center for Integrated Nutrition, says that every diet should follow a strict medical checkup and be accompanied by a change of living habits and physical activity.

The expert compared five of these restrictive diets (Atkins, Zone Diet, Mediterranean, Ornish and Weight Watchers) and the conclusion was that they do help to lose weight in the short term, but mostly water, not fat; In addition, because they alter the proportions of certain nutrients in the body, they are counterproductive.

Be careful if:

You have lost two or more kilos in a week. You feel very tired and irritable and experience the need to frequently eat in a compulsive way. Weeks after starting the diet, you start to lose hair more than you normally do. Your nails are brittle and you skin is very dry. You feel lightheaded, palpitations or fainting while doing the diet. In the mornings, you feel nauseous and thirsty. Since starting the diet you have bad breath, especially in the morning.

Atkins, famous in the 90′s

A few years ago the famous Atkins diet was in the eye of the hurricane, low in carbohydrates and fiber and high in fats and proteins. For experts, this system created in the 90′s by Robert Atkins, can produce effects similar to those of Dukan diet, and a dangerous lack of vitamins and minerals.

Other methods are controversial diet of asterisks, the Dash, the Atlantic, hallelujah diet or genesis, orthomolecular and Scarsdale. All these diets have in common that they are restrictive with one or more food groups and, according to various nutritionists associations around the world, have no scientific basis. Most popular diets restrict one or more food groups.

How to increase satiety and weight loss?

1. Eat seated, it has been shown that when people eat standing or walking eat more food because they hurry up.
2. Chew: It promotes the digestive process and makes you eat more slowly and reach satiety faster.
3. Every three mouthfuls leave the fork and knife on the plate for a moment, that calms you, it slows down the intake speed and makes you eat less.
4. Choose your eating periods wisely, during breakfast food is better assimilated, because the body needs energy to start the day. At night, the body tends to store the energy intake. Eat more in the morning and less in the evening.

The show was attended by athletes and rock stars and was an attempt by the electronics giant to leave behind the cyber attacks that have forced the company to close their network of video games for nearly a month.

The new device is designed to compete with others such as Apple’s iPod Touch and with the abundance of smartphones and tablets on the market.

After the device was first introduced in January, the show on Monday revealed other details, including the name and the suggested retail price.

It goes on sale at Christmas for $249 dollars, or a $299 dollar version with 3G connection, said the Japanese electronics giant second in command, Kazuo Hirai.

“It’s good for the loyal players who want to play all the time, but it is very expensive for the mass market,” said Dan Ernst, an analyst with Hudson Square.

The price in Japan will be 24,980 and 29,980 yen while the euro zone will cost devices 249 or 299 euros, about the same price as Nintendo 3DS, a portable 3D game launched earlier this year.

Sony’s event was held on the eve of E3 video game conference, annual meeting attracts 45,000 industry journalists, analysts and experts to a convection center the size of seven football fields.

Hirai caused some grumbling in the audience when he said that Sony would work with U.S. telecoms firm AT & T as the exclusive provider of PSVita.

Many users of Apple’s iPhone in the United States have complained that AT & T provides a poor connectivity.

Sony’s show included appearances by Kobe Bryant, who gave a demonstration of a simulation game of basketball, followed by DJ’s, dancers and the rock band Jane’s Addiction.

The optimism of the event marked a sharp contrast with the appearance of Hirai in a press conference in Tokyo May 1, where he bowed repeatedly and asked for forgiveness for the violation of Sony’s game network security.

The new Nintendo WiiU console from the Japanese company has an innovative joystick equipped with a 6.2-inch touch screen, speakers, microphone, camera and a gyroscope. With the new control features, gamers can play displaying images on a TV in HD format, on the joystick or both at once.

Nintendo claims that the players’ seeking a more intense gaming experience with the sensation of holding a solid command, with many possibilities, so it is necessary to hold it with both hands.

“This is a new command infinitely complex and perfectly simple at the same time that will change the way users interact with the console” Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime stated.

The device is compatible with the traditional Wii games and its controls, so that the current owners of the game console unit may continue to enjoy the old titles on the new Wii U.

Nintendo has not revealed the price of equipment, but according to the company, the console will hit stores between April and December of 2012.

As reported in Guardian UK , the U.S. Wii is equipped with Full HD support, but the joystick display is not in HD. The console also features internal flash memory, expandable with SD cards. In addition, games can be downloaded from the Internet or reproduced from optical devices.

He notes that of the 51 tablets providers in the world, Acer is among the four who have been able to react to this new technology lowering prices, compared to sales leaders in tablets in Mexico. They stand to gain 20% of the market share by the years end: “Quarter after quarter we are going to lower the price making them extremely competitive,” said Morales.

Acer predicts that it will take a year and a half or two to improve sales growth in the notebooks and netbooks market in Mexico, time enough to mature in tablets and mobility markets.

“Looking at the market, not all companies worldwide are present in countries such as Asia or South America. In Mexico there is an open market where we are all competitors, we see the diversity of smartphones that is also renewed every 3 months” said.

Acer Iconia Tab

The Acer Tab Iconia A500 comes with a 10.1-inch touch screen, Android Honeycomb 3.0 operating system, Clear.fi system that facilitates access, playback and sharing multimedia files, 1GB RAM, aluminum frame, HDMI port, NVidia Tegra 250 Dual Core 1GHz, 18-hour battery, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and 5 megapixel rear camera.

The Tab Iconia W500 has a 10.1 inch HD touch-screen, Dolby sound, 2 GB of RAM, 6-hour battery, an Ethernet port, 2 USB 2.0 ports, dual 1.3 megapixel camera, and My Journal Clear.Fi system to manage and stay connected to social networking, news, web sites, videos, movies, photos and more. It also has an HDMI output, operating system, Windows 7, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 support, AMD C-50, WiFi and Bluetooth.

The presentation was given by Steven Sinfosky, director of Windows Live, who showed how the new Windows OS supports touch screens that can be used ranging from small tablets to your desktop PC. The presentation stressed that Windows 8 will be compatible with all PCs and peripherals that can run Windows 7.

In addition, he also said it will not only be compatible with tablets, but also may be executed in computer equipment and servers lacking multi-touch functionality.

The comments of some editors specialized posts were swift, and many agreed that the new Microsoft operating system was much like Windows Phone 7 , for the bricks in that group applications and it is highly geared to the multi-touch functionality.

Sinofsky stressed that the Redmond giant has not tried to copy the interface and functionality of Apple iPad and confirmed that Windows 8 Windows Phone was inspired by Windows 7, but left the rest of the details to the developer conference, Build, which will be in September.

Finally, he denied the information provided by Intel that stated that Windows 8 would not be compatible with legacy applications on ARM processors.

We can now be sure that 2012 will not only be a year to discuss doomsday predictions, but there will also be a war between the two heavyweights in the market for tablets and smartphones.

A couple of weeks ago, hackers illegally gained access to the server of a subsidiary of Nintendo Co. unit in the U.S. although there was no damage, said company spokesman Ken Toyoda.

“There were no victims among the third parties involved. However, it is a fact that there was something of a cyber intrusion attack,” Toyoda said, declining to give further details.

Damage which could be a recent surge of attacks to steal information from reputable companies proved more serious for rival Sony Corp.

Sony reported that a huge amount of personal information, including email addresses, names and birth dates involving more than 100 million users was allegedly stolen after security systems of network service for the console PlayStation 3 games were violated, as well as other internet services last week of the Sony Pictures website.

It is unknown who is behind these attacks against Sony and Nintendo, which is based in Kyoto.

A group of internet hackers who call themselves Lulz Security – referring to the internet phrase to mean “laugh out loud” – has been hypothesized recently that endangered the personal information of more than one million users.

Sony, based in Tokyo, said it has strengthened its security measures and contacted the FBI and other authorities to investigate cases of cyber attacks.

“We were able to trap atoms of antihydrogen for 1,000 seconds,” time “long enough to begin to study them,” said Jeffrey HangStan (University of Aarhus, Denmark) on behalf of the participants in the ALPHA experiment at CERN.

Matter in a mirror-state of that which we know, antimatter, is still difficult to observe because every atom of antimatter is destroyed when it comes into contact with normal matter, producing an enormous amount of energy.

A hydrogen atom consists of a proton of positive charge and a negatively charged electron. An atom of antihydrogen is composed of a negative proton (antiproton) and a positive electron (positron).

Matter and antimatter were created by the same amount in the moments following the Big Bang, but the only one left is normal matter. What happened to the antimatter? This question tortures physicists, and they are trying to find the answers by analyzing properties of antimatter they create in particle accelerators.

In 1995, CERN had managed to create a first atoms of antihydrogen, but they where destroyed almost instantly in contact with the surrounding matter. ALPHA at CERN team had recently achieved a breakthrough in designing a new type of magnetic trap allowed to keep 38 atoms of antihydrogen for 0.17 seconds.

This retention period has been extended to 1,000 seconds, according to a study published Sunday by the journal Nature Physics.

309 antimatter atoms were trapped long enough to “begin to study their properties in detail,” said a CERN statement. From now on, another question facing physicists is whether antimatter is subject to antigravity.

Discovering this “repulsive gravity” could provide an answer to another mystery, the unknown power that favored accelerating the universe’s expansion.

A Toyota report released June 1 states its car and truck sales fell 33 percent during the month of May compared to the the same period of 2010.

In addition, also today, June 1, Toyota Motor Corp. announced the recall for review of 160,000 units of its Toyota Prius hybrid car, technology pioneer that combines an electric motor with a traditional combustion motor.

The cars that have shown issues are those of the first generation of Prius, manufactured in 2004, they have reported issues with the steering system, but so far only minor incidents were reported which could be related to this failure, without any serious accidents recorded.

Among the strategies undertaken by Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder and current CEO of the Japanese firm, is the alliance with credit card companies in the U.S. automotive and marketing chains, in an attempt to avoid the consequences of the economic crisis that has affected its customers.

In May, Toyota launched its plan “Toyota Fried” for America, which works as a network to track buyers of the brand and provide closer support after sales.

In 2010, Toyota had been forced to withdraw 24 million automotive units due to mechanical and technical issues, so this new recall in a car with the most engineering investment, represents another severe blow to its reputation.

Hector Leal, general manager ProtecktNet, company responsible for computer security, said the problem is that in Mexico, and Latin America, companies have developed portals without resistant source code.

This is why we created Mykonos, a software that “attempts to analyze what skills and how they were used to access the portal code in order to generate a hacker free digital DNA,” explained Leal.

Mykonos is developed so it detects the intruding hacker through a process called “Obstacle race”.

The program creates a replica code (a honeypot), which allows the hacker to interact thus analysing his/her capabilities and after that, depending on the established objective, be warned of the hack or have the hacker reported for his/her actions.

Kyle Adams, developer of Mykonos, explained that the purpose of this system is to see the type of penetration it is. “There are people who only seek to enter the enterprise network to demonstrate their skills and the more obstacles you establish, the harder they’ll try because it will be a challenge.” Adams explains that is in the case it’s an aggressive attack, the program offers malicious information to “frustrate the individual” and blocks the attacker, not the IP address as it is currently common practice to use proxies to disguise from where the hacker enters a site.

“This works on two levels: first place cookies on the computer of the intruder, and then it detects how the hacker is communicating with the site and how deep they can penetrate and then a pattern is established and a profile is assigned in case the intruder tries to enter from a different location or what their procedure is”.

Another feature is the location of “Zero-Day attacks”, ie entry methods that have not been detected yet, but the hacker invented and uses for the first time on a particular organization. All this is visible from the console interface that detects the number of active users on the portal and the amount of malicious activity, so that the system warns (with an announcement and a map of the location of the assault), or refuses access.

Hector Leal concluded by saying that this type of software is new in Mexico and Latin America and hopes it will be useful helping organizations identify vulnerabilities on their portals.

These are drugs that have as their primary mission support to attack serious symptoms and complications of these diseases and improve the quality of life of the patients. Synvisc One, for example, is a medical treatment to treat osteoarthritis or the wear of the knee cartilage, which most commonly occurs in older adults and young athletes or patients with significant degrees of obesity.

It was recently launched in Chile at a seminar organized by the Genzyme lab, it is administered with an injection and restores the lubrication and shock absorbing characteristics of the synovial fluid in the joints, providing pain relief from one to two weeks and provides an effect that lasts about six months.

According to Wayne Marshall, MD, University of Toronto, “this type of medicine has existed for 15 years or so, but patients had to receive the injection three or more times and the improvement was for a shorter time. Synvisc One on the other hand is injected only once and relieves pain and provides a solution for much longer time, it also helps because patients don’t need to take pills that can produce significant gastrointestinal problems. In short, it improves their quality of life. ”

Another drug in this category is Thyrogen used on patients with thyroid cancer who when the disease is detected need to undergo the total removal of the organ, having to receive thyroid hormone replacement therapy to lead a normal life.

Like any cancer patients should use ongoing assessments to determine possible re-emergence of cancer cells that otherwise are very hard to detect. These tests require the patient to stop their thyroid hormone treatment to help in the detection of the carcinogenic cells, which causes severe hypothyroidism for several weeks.

Thyrogen’s function is based on stimulating the presence of a protein called serum thyroglobulin that can easily identify any cancerous thyroid cells without the need to discontinue the patient’s hormonal treatment and reducing the potential serious effects of hypothyroidism, thus not affecting the patient’s life quality.

“The tests, which continue to accumulate, are very strong to justify a classification level 2b for cell phones, one of the five levels of classification that defines products that could be carcinogenic to humans,” said working group chairman, Jonathan Samet.

“The team based this classification (…) on epidemiological studies showing an increased risk of glioma, cancer of the brain related to wireless phone use,” said Jonathan Samet.

This rating means that “there is a risk, and therefore we must closely monitor the relationship between mobile phones and the cancer risk,” he added.

A team of 31 scientists from 14 countries worked on the study, they analyzed all published works on the subject of cancer and mobile phone use.

Before today’s announcement, WHO assured consumers that cellphones were not found to have adverse health effects is users.

“Nobody, neither we nor the government should make decisions regarding the data from others, because people want to erase everything and others prefer to keep everything, and we believe a model that allows users to decide is the right one,” says the director of data protection at Google.

Much of Fleischer’s work, as he says, is “constant traveling” to experience and learn what the different sensitivities on the subject of privacy are in different parts of the world, as his experience has led him to realize that “privacy is a cultural and historical issue. ”

The map service and panoramic street-level Google Street View, exemplifies this difference of views, “exactly the same service, with the same policy has been accepted in Spain as something positive and has raised a great debate in Germany. ”

Faces and license plates of cars that appear blurred in the images on Street View are done automatically by an algorithm, created in 1997, after successive improvements it is able to detect 99% of the images likely to violate the privacy of subjects. But one percent of the remaining pictures is enough to unleash controversy in some countries.

Rivers of ink has also resulted from the compilation of “tiny fragments of Wi-Fi conversations” when taking snapshots for Street View. The aim was to record Wi-Fi services to launch a geo-location service.

“We recognized that it was a mistake and that our goal was to erase the data,” Fleischer states that he hopes that the still open processes in countries like Spain will soon be closed.

For this security expert “no computer system is one hundred percent secure,” so it is not important that vulnerabilities were discovered, “but rather that they are closed soon.” This speedy reaction time, Google had to show recently, when addressing deficiencies found in its Android operating system.

“This study shows that there is an inverse relationship between income level and consumption of tobacco: the lower classes consume more than higher classes. In the Americas, for example, smoking among the poorer citizens is 50% higher than in the higher income classes,” explains Dr. Augustine Ciapponi, lead author and specialist in medical clinic, family medicine and coordinator of the Cochrane Centre IECS.

If cigarette consumption continues at the same rate by 2030 it will be responsible for 8 million deaths, the study “Systematic review of the relationship between tobacco and poverty”, which was commissioned by WHO to the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) , a non-profit organization in Argentina dedicated to research, education and technical cooperation in health.

“The lower income groups and young people aged between 15 and 44 years are most affected by the tobacco pandemic, which widens the gap between rich and poor,” the study said, noting that the most accepted explanation for this phenomenon known as the Four Stages Model.

“Smoking spread rapidly among the upper classes, which are those that are more open to innovation. Then spreads to the rest of the population (in a second and a third stage). Then the upper classes stop smoking because they are in contact with the culture of health care and because they receive information regarding the damage it causes. And in a fourth and final stage, smoking decreases in the upper classes and is transfered and consolidated in the lower classes, “explains Ciapponi.

“In low-income households, the purchase of tobacco accounts for 10.7% of their spending,” states the study, so it’s also clear that the proportion of income that is spent on tobacco is highest in the lower classes (with less income) than in the higher income group. “So the tobacco contributes to impoverishment,” it concludes.

But this is not the only cause explored regarding the vulnerability of those with fewer resources, who also “can not afford the consequences of smoking as more affluent groups can.”

“Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer and heart attacks affect the poor more than rich because the most humble citizens have less access to health insurance. Smoking emphasizes inequalities in different societies and widens the gap between the rich and the poor,” emphasizes Ciapponi.

The specialist also states that the inverse relationship between income level and tobacco consumption (at higher income, less consumption) has increased over the past 20 years. During this period, tobacco consumption among women has also increased strongly.”

“To reduce the scope of this pandemic that affects everyone diverse strategies must be implemented specially those that have proven to be effective in curbing smoking: smoke-free policies, increasing taxes on cigarettes (this measure is proven to discourage consumption) and even stricter legislation regarding advertising,” says Ciapponi.

The idea is that customers only have to hold their phone against a device at the checkout (tap-to-pay). Apparently the company will unveil the service on Thursday. At first the system will be available in only five U.S. cities in the network of the third-largest phone company in the country, Sprint Nextel, and only on the Nexus S phone.

Google will use NFC technology (Near Field Communication), with which devices can communicate with each other at short distances. Already used for example on entry cards and increasingly with credit cards.

Some few years ago Nokia planned to place NFC chips on a large-scale in their phones, but the idea was not successful. Now this technology returns to manage a payment system for cellphones.

It has long been assumed that cell phones will become mobile wallets, so now companies from various sectors are competing for the market: banks, telephone companies, online payment systems, Google and allegedly also its arch-rival Apple.

While the iPhone maker keeps its plans secret, Google clearly showed its intentions by placing an NFC chip on its flagship Nexus S. Considering that the Android operating system currently owns the highest market share in the smartphone market, is is sure to have strong influence on the future of this technology.

In recent months, TweetDeck has been the subject of sale rumors, first UberMedia, which offered between 25 and 30 million dollars, and then to Twitter. For analysts it was a defensive maneuver of the social network to prevent competitors from running off with the popular application.

According to CNN, the documents that sealed the sale of TweetDeck to Twitter will be signed on Monday and the transaction will lead to the hitherto application owners a monetary compensation and a participation in Twitter.

UberMedia is one of the most important software developers for the Twitter environment, including products similar to TweetDeck, such as UberSocial, once called UberTwitter, Twidroyd or Echofon, which have become a platform that competes to dominate the path to the tweets.

TweetDeck is one of the most successful tweet managers on the Internet thanks to desktop software and is also available in an online version, it lets you interact with Twitter, organize columns to read tweets, as well as the content of other social networks.

On Facebook, Shakira is among the top five celebrity sites in the ranks, sharing the Top 5 with artists such as Eminem, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Michael Jackson, according to the site Famecount, her representatives said in a statement.

In turn, the artist managed to surpass Twitter Oprah Winfrey in the Top 10, according to British newspaper “The Independent”, so today the singer sent a special message of gratitude to her fans through YouTube.

This past weekend Shakira won two 2011 Billboard Music Awards in the categories Top Latin Artist and Top Latin Song for his 2010 theme “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa).

Currently, the Colombian artist continues to tour in Europe on her “Sale El Sol” world tour.

Facebook, which has more than 500 million active users, allows registration of children under a certain age. This age varies by country but is usually 13 years. “We’re not trying to work on the possibility that children under 13 years can register,” Zuckerberg said when asked on the subject Wednesday at the e-G8 meeting in Paris.

Zuckerberg said that his comments at an education conference last week, where he stated that laws made it difficult for children to register on Facebook, had been taken out of context. He said the complexity of child protection on the network is the reason it is not a priority for the company.

“Right now it is not among our priorities,” said Zuckerberg. “Someday in the future, I think it would make sense to explore that option, but for now we’re not working on it,” he said.

Zuckerberg started the interview by answering the question about Facebook’s plans to go public with a “Not yet.” It’s expected that the company will do so next year.

Facebook is expected to generate about 4,000 million dollars in advertising revenue in 2011, 1,860 million more than last year, according to market research firm eMarketer. Company value is estimated at 90,000 million dollars, based on private transactions in the secondary market.

“Governments, the private sector, users and other stakeholders all have a role to play in creating an environment in which the Internet can flourish in a balanced manner,” the draft text discussed by the leading eight industrialized countries to be approved by the end of the summit.

“At Deauville in 2011, for the first time at a senior level (…), we agree on a number of principles, including freedom, respect for privacy and intellectual property (.. .), cyber security and protection against crime, which are essential for a strong and flourishing internet,” says the text.

The leaders of Internet companies and media in the world gathered this week in Paris in the first “e-G8″ dedicated to the influence of the network in the world, as a prelude to the summit.

Some 45 hectares of Danyang City in Jiangsu Province, became an overnight minefield. The green watermelon split exposing their juicy pink interiors. Farmers saw their business, into which many had jumped in based on current high prices -hanging by a thread due to the crop loss.

But according to a report by experts, they are to blame for their own misfortune. The results show that they sprayed the watermelon crops with a substance called forchlorfenuron to stimulate the growth of the fruits. Chinese regulation does not prohibit the substance, but the study highlights how farmers are abusing both legal and banned substances such as pesticides and fertilizers.

One of the hardest hit was the farmer Liu Mingsuo: over two thirds of his watermelon crop exploded one day after he applied the chemical substance. More than 180 watermelons exploded to his astonishment.

Liangju Wang, professor of horticulture at Nanjing Agricultural University, who visited Danyang just learned of the explosion, said the forchlorfenuron is safe and effective when used correctly. But he said that in this case it was used when the fruit development was too far advanced, which combined with heavy rains increased the risk of explosion. The variety of watermelon, whose seeds were exported from Japan was also a factor, he added. “The watermelon plant is a thin-skinned variety, locally called ‘explosive watermelon’ because of their tendency to split.”

Intact watermelons, which became scarce currency in Danyang, were taken to neighboring Shanghai to be sold in wholesale markets. They also showed signs of forchlorfenuron abuse: deformed fibrous fruits and white seeds instead of black.

That means that the links to the pages that our friends recommended when using the “I Like” button will have higher rankings than other results on the page, for example. Bing also includes in its search results both pages and content of articles hosted on Facebook. Moreover, the results of each search can also be shared on the FB network.

To use the new service, users need to log in to Facebook through Bing.

The rise of social search

These new tools show us that the search engines are betting that the information coming from social networks is increasingly important to bring to you what you want.

A few weeks ago Google began to turn its “+1″ through which users can recommend links to those who follow them on social networks. This project, however, does not include Facebook.

“Bing and Facebook are taking a gamble-one that marries the logic of search, with the recommendations and views of your network and the masses, helping to to expand the search dimension. This takes search engines from a purely data based decision to a new system that taps the power of humans.

According to Microsoft “research shows that 90% of people seek advice from family and friends as part of their decision process.”

The project follows the current South Korean search model where Google is not the leader. In this country people seek information and advice among their networks of friends and relatives whom they trust, something not found in other Internet service providers.

Microsoft is an investor in Facebook and as such seems to have some kind of data exclusivity with the company. To date no other search engine has announced a similar agreement with the Social Network giant.

On the other hand, Google and Facebook have been locked in a battle on transparency of data handling on the Internet. The search leader has accused Facebook of being a “walled garden” for user data. Facebook for its part accuses Google of failing to respect the privacy of its users.

And meanwhile Bing is betting that with this alliance with Facebook and its current dispute with Google, it’ll be able to close the 30% plus gap in market share with the Larry Page Search Engine in the United States.

The company named the computer Chromebooks and will begin to be sold in the U.S. on June 15, and then in other countries.

The main characteristics of these new PCs is that they operate through the web, so that all information is stored on the Internet and users can access it from any computer equipped with the system.

The version manufactured by Samsung takes only 8 seconds to load, has a battery life of eight hours and a 12.1-inch screen. The one built by Acer has a 11.6 inch screen and works six hours on battery power, an hour less than the Samsung.

Google also announced that the price of this equipment is less than $ 500.

The company also unveiled a system to lease Chromebooks. Companies opting for the service will pay $28 per user and students $ 20 a month.

Moreover, the Court of Appeals in Criminal and Correctional established a fine of 200,000 pesos (48,000 US Dollars).

The courts found that some of the links posted on the website, allow the exchange of material protected by international copyright. Taringa! has based their defense in that despite having a reporting system that allows tagging publications with content that violates copyright law, it is difficult to maintain effective control on the site.

“It is impossible to determine the content of the uploads and determine if they violate copyright when daily, on average, there are twenty thousand uploads published,” the defendants in the ruling published by the News Agency of the judiciary.

Taringa ! is one of Argentina’s most visited sites on the Internet, which allows members to share access to links, which repeatedly lead to downloading movies, or music. Until May 2010, Portal had more than 5.6 million visits, according to figures published on a personal partner website responsible for the site, Hernán Botbol.

Known as the top beach destination in Jalisco, Puerto Vallarta as a beach destination offers over twenty-six miles of beaches that separate this coastal city from many of the other beach resorts on the honour roll.

Puerto Vallarta was a small village before it became a leading world beach destination resort. You can go almost anywhere within the city limits and find a variety of exciting and interesting activities to partake in.

Restaurants, bars, cafés, art galleries help to give the city a cosmopolitan air. Puerto Vallarta is a vibrant cultural mecca surrounded by the beauty of the Pacific Ocean at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountains.

The newly restored historic center, the popular arts Teatro Vallarta & the highly anticipated arrival of the city’s modern art complex to be established in the area where the current city hall is located, a new pier under construction in the heart of Vallarta’s romantic zone, plus a wealth of music and cultural festivals to be held throughout the year are part of the reasons that will give Puerto Vallarta a competitive advantage over other Mexican and Worldwide beach destinations in 2012.

The Annual festivals & celebrations held in Puerto Vallarta include Gourmet Festival Restaurant Week, Fiesta de Mayo, Wine Fest, Marlin & Swordfish Tournament & the annual New Year celebration Fiesta Vallarta which in 2011 attracted an estimated 20,000 revellers in 8-hour street party with a local & international line up.

Below we present some of the best hotels-resorts, restaurants & activities in Vallarta as voted by the travel site TripAdvisor. Of course, the city is big enough to offer something for everyone, so if selections below aren’t exactly for you, you can check out the different hotels & resorts, tours and activities the town has to offer on the rest of the Puerto Vallarta Guide and at the same time get a clear idea of why people keep coming to our beautiful city.

Puerto Vallarta is where Mexico comes to life.

Top-rated hotels
1 Playa Fiesta Beach Club & Hotel -225 reviews
2 Casa Velas Boutique Hotel – 458 reviews
3 Velas Vallarta Suite Resort – 1,154 reviews
4 Buganvilias Vacation Club – 88 reviews
5 Villa Premiere Hotel & Spa – 575 reviews

Top-rated B&Bs
1 Hacienda Alemana -134 reviews
2 Casa Isabel -254 reviews
3 Casa Amorita -233 reviews
Top-rated things to do

Attractions
1 Metamorphosis Day Spa -47 reviews
2 Venus Sunshine Massage and Spa -33 reviews
3 davannayoga – 5 reviews

Tours
1 GO GAY! Jungle Adventure – 35 reviews
2 Estigo Scooters – 36 reviews
3 Canopy & Outdoor Adventures – 256 reviews

Top-rated restaurants
1 Casa Isabel, Madison South – 206 reviews
2 Melissa’s – 74 reviews
3 Fredys Tucan – 56 reviews

“I do not think Jesus would appear at ‘ground zero’ with bottles of champagne as did many people on Sunday to celebrate the death of Bin Laden, said Moore, known for documentary critical of U.S. policy as” Bowling for Columbine “and “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

“I think it’s good that Osama bin Laden is gone, but celebrating the death goes beyond the principles with which I grew up in an Irish Catholic family,” he said in an interview with CNN.

Moore referred to the spontaneous celebrations that erupted on Sunday night following the news in Washington, around the White House, and New York, around Ground Zero, where al Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers killed two thousand people.

The controversial filmmaker said he had mixed feelings about the death of Bin Laden. “I think everyone is glad he will not harm any other person on this planet”, but considered that “there are differences between joy, jubilation and celebrating a death.”

For Moore, Bin Laden was “executed” and rebuked the authorities that do not acknowledge it publicly. “The version has changed several times in four days (…) if they intended to kill him why not say so?”

However, Moore is optimistic about the future and noted that this may be a turning point for America. “It’s a great opportunity to start a new era,” he said.

Moore endorsed the decision of U.S. President Barack Obama, not to publish photographs of the death of the leader of Al Qaeda, and I think it’s “bizarre” that people want to see them.

Puerto Vallarta hotels recorded full ocuupancy for the four stongest days according to statistics provided by the Ministry of Regional Tourism. “Occupation exceeded the expectations, many people arrived without reservation and had to stay in the ‘camarena’ [on the beach], others came with family or condominiums, this was an excellent end of season,” said Ludwig Estrada Virgen, Tourism Delegate. The hoteliers predict that during the Easter week occupancy ranges would be around 80 and 85 percent.

In the Harbor Administration Authority reported more than three thousand people taking tours on the tourist tour cruises and boats to Quimixto, Yelapa and Las Animas. “Even Monday, we counted more than 650 people on the different maritime tourist routes,” said Estrada Virgen. According to data from the bus station Easter 2011 reported an increase of more than 20 percent compared with the same season in 2010.

The President of the Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Vallarta, Gerard Carlos Guzman, said the economic benefit to the destination was considerable.

The research, published today in the journal “American Journal of Human Genetics,” is the first of its kind carried out in Spain and provides new clues about the molecular mechanisms of human aging.

According to Carlos López-Otin, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oviedo and the study, aging is a complex process that affects most of the biological functions of an organism, but whose molecular causes “still largely unknown, “although in recent years much has been learned.

Lopez-Otin and his team studied two patients at an early age began to show evident signs of accelerated aging, including specially highlighted bone problems.

The evaluation of the patients revealed that both had the same pathological changes, but had no mutations in two genes so far been identified in similar cases, said Dr. Rubén Cabanillas, Institute of Oncology and Molecular Medicine Asturias.

To try to identify the genetic defect responsible for this new disease, the researchers sequenced the entire genome encoding a protein of patients and that of their parents.

The sequencing of the genome of this family identified a mutation in a gene called BANF1, so far not been reported to be responsible for any illness, according to Dr. Xosé Antón Bridge, a professor at the University of Oviedo.

The molecular study of the second patient’s family confirmed the presence of the same mutation in their genome and subsequent work showed that this mutation causes a large decrease in the levels of the protein encoded by the gene BANF1.

The work also revealed that the introduction of the normal gene in cells isolated from these patients is sufficient to recover the correct structure.

This work has enabled the group at the University of Oviedo design a treatment for Hutchinson-Gilford progeria, which is currently being tested in patients worldwide.

CAIRO .- The terrorist group Al Qaeda confirmed on Friday the death of its leader, Osama Bin Laden, killed by U.S. special forces on Sunday in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.

Through a statement extracted by the U.S. SITE Intelligence Group Monitoring Service, the terrorist network said it confirmed the death and will avenge his death. “You lived grateful and died as a martyr,” says the text.

Following this, Al Qaeda stressed that “the blood of bin Laden will not be wasted”, and described the death of the man behind 9-11 as a curse “that haunts Americans and their agents.” Also indicates that the terrorist group will attack the United States and its allies.

“Soon, with the help of God, their joy will turn into sadness and their blood will mix with their tears,” threatening. The text also urged Pakistanis to rise up against their government to “cleanse” the country of what they called the embarrassment caused by the death of Bin Laden on Pakistani soil.

The armed group finally stated that a recorded video will be broadcasted that was filmed a week before the death of Osama bin Laden.

Baptized as “PaperPhone” it is capable of performing the same functions as a conventional device. The gadget performs different functions depending on whether it is bent in or out, or if you bend the sides or corners.

“Everything will be like this within five years,” said the developer, Roel Vertegaal to BBC World.

“This computer looks, feels and operates like a small interactive papersheet,” said Vertegaal. “You interact with it by bend it, touching the corners you change pages or you can write on it with a pen.”

The prototype is 10 mm wide and its graphics are based on the same E Ink technology found in the Amazon Kindle, which was adapted to run on flexible sensors. The prototype was designed to reaserch just how easy it was to control a device by only folding and bending it.

The first version is connected to a laptop computer to record how users adapt to the flexible device.

The device will be shown on May 10, 2011 at the Human Computer Interaction conference to be held in Vancouver, Canada.

Variety is the spice of life.

Choose your night spot according to your mood. In Puerto Vallarta, you can find spectacular laser-shows at heart-thumping discotheques, play pool at a low-key pub, or just relax on a sofa with a martini-in-hand at a hip lounge. Some bars offer all-you-can drink, so be sure to bring about $25 – $40/night for cover charges, or add our StudentCity Party Pass to your package so you can skip the cover charges and jump the line.

International Flavor.

Puerto Vallarta truly offers an international nightlife entertainment experience. Listen to Rock ‘N’ Roll in the all-American Hard Rock Cafe, dance to European Techno & Caribbean Reggae at Zoo, or partake in the popular worldwide sport of bowling at Collage. In Puerto Vallarta, the world is at your fingertips.

Here are ten tips that can enhance your Spring Break Experience in Puerto Vallarta:

1. Take a romantic stroll along the city’s beautiful Malecon watching the sunset along the ocean.

2. Throw on your beach gear to play in the bubbles at the World Famous foam party at Vallarta’s largest club, Collage Club!!

3. Head to the market downtown to pursue the booths and uncover a hidden treasure. Finding beautiful silver jewelry and souvenirs to bring home to loved ones.

4. Zip from tree to tree hundreds of feet in the air on the world’s second largest canopy tour in the beautiful jungle.

5. Join friends and make new ones on a sunset booze cruise, it’s a party on the water with drinks, games and music.

6. Talk, touch, swim and play with gentle bottlenose dolphins at the at the incredible Swim with Dolphins Encounter.

7. Relax by the pool at your hotel, enjoying the worry-free benefits of your all-inclusive package.

8. Enjoy the majestic waters of the Banderas Bay with a close view from a boat trip, where you can fish, snorkel or escape to a private beach.

9. Rent a Jeep, throw the top back and drive out for a day trip to the relaxed authentic Mexican town of San Sebastian.

10. Get dressed up and spend an evening out on the town, hitting up some of PV’s hottest clubs!

Not speaking another language should not be an obstacle to travel, which is why viajeros.com offers a list of some things you should know so that language will not problem on your holiday.

Where to Stay

If you are not fluent in any language, it is best to go to a travel agency. Usually you can book your travel package before you leave. They can guide you to some hotels or hostels in the world where you’ll have an easier time.

If you hire your travel package asks you to pick up from airport to hotel, lest you suffer a bad experience from the start.

Transportation

If during your trip you have to use transport on your own, you should inquire in advance for services for tourists and some recommendations for how best to move
from place to place.

If you visit large cities, it is advisable to get maps of the metro network and the bus, that will help a lot.

Where to eat

This is one of the biggest problems when you are traveling and do not share the language. In this situation you should opt for international restaurants or those that are within the hotels. To order your food you must know what it is about the menu, an almost impossible task if you do not have an interpreter to side.

Maps also include some restaurants, you may find some that also speak your language.

Build Your Guide

Try to visit the city on your own. Plan your itinerary with the sites you want to visit.

When you walk the city use very well located reference sites, such as buildings or shopping centers to guide you on your return. Always carry your hotel name, as well as extra money in case you have to take a taxi.

How to ask for directions

You’ll probably have to rely on help from others to reach some point in the city, including the subway, bus station or a museum. The best thing to do in this situation is to carry around a notebook and write down their indications.

Dictionary or translator, learn some words

Although you can use maps and guides, you’d better learn some few important words or use an electronic translator. These devices have several phrases in various languages ​​that can assist you.

The main phrases you should learn are:

Hello, thank you, sorry, indicating your nationality, ask the price of something, food, instructions and signs.

Other good words are: hospital, pharmacy, tourist office, bus stop, airport, police, help, embassy, ​​etc.

If you have not defined your trip or planned in advance to your travel adventure, you may run into some difficulties. A good way to find out how simple it is is to go online and research a bit.

The social network Facebook and the computer company Apple are the winners, among others, of the latest edition of Big Brother prize awarded annually by the German association for the defense and protection of data “FoeBuD”, given to those that do not respect online privacy rights .

The association announced today in the German town of Bielefeld the eight winners of the awards that reward those considered as “fetishists of monitoring information”, “Internet vandals” and “octopus data hoarders.”

The jury Big Brother, reminiscent of the novel 1984 by George Orwell and his fictional state of total surveillance, stressed that Facebook earns billions by systematical attacks on data protection laws.

For its part, Apple deserves the award for forcing iPhone owners to accept compulsory rules so as to make calls, which involves being physically located and bombarded with advertising.

Another winner was the Minister of Interior of the German state of Lower Saxony, Uwe Schünemann, for using mini unmanned aircraft with cameras to monitor anti-nuclear demonstrators.

The German association awarded another prize Big Brother fashion company Peuterey for hiding RFID chips in their products that can read data without contact and without the clients knowing it when they wear the clothes.

And as a representative of other big corporations, the Daimler group has earned an award Big Brother by requiring those who aspire to a job in your production line to undergo blood tests.

German Customs and the chairman of the committee responsible for conducting a census in Germany during 2011, Gert Wagner, and publisher of science and information Starnberg complete the group of winners of this Big Brother edition.