Wednesday, August 13, 2014

1:15 PM 8/13/2014: "Puerto Rico is no longer a disaster waiting to happen. The disaster is happening..." - Column: PR needs federal control board | DOJ: Congress has ‘full and complete’ legislative authority over territories | Feds bust stolen PR identity scheme in ongoing crackdown - Caribbean Business | Jugando Pelota Dura: Análisis de la situación del PNP - YouTube | El suicidio: Un problema alarmante en PR

Puerto Rico is no longer a disaster waiting to happen. The disaster is happening. The New York Fed should be ringing the alarm bells, and Congress and the White House should be laying the groundwork for a control board...” 

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a former high-ranking u.s. state department official is pushing for more attention from washington on puerto ricos debt crisis.

DOJ: Congress has ‘full and complete’ legislative authority over territories - C... 

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the u.s. department of justice has reaffirmed puerto ricos status as an unincorporated territory of the united states in a legal brief filed in a lawsuit by american samoa residents who say people born in the unincorporated u.s. territory should automatically receive u.s. citizenship.

Doral, Treasury in court-ordered talks

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Doral, Treasury in court-ordered talks

Doral Financial Corp. and the Puerto Rico Treasury Department have entered into ...

Permits, cement numbers slip in FY14

The latest permits and cements data points to the continued sluggishness in Puer ...

Carmelo Anthony steps up for PR kids

New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony made his annual summer trip to Puerto Rico ...
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Juan Galloza Acevedo was living a quiet retirement near the suburbs of Puer ...
Casellas sentenced in federal case
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Convicted murderer Pablo Casellas Toro was sentenced Monday to a 21-month p ...
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Pineapples are emerging again as a popular farming enterprise in Puerto Ric ...
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Puerto Rico is facing more than $11 billion in principal and interest payme ...
Deloitte names managing director for PR
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Deloitte has named Carlos D’Almeida as the successor to the managing director role of its San Juan practice. He replaces Fernando Nido, reti ...
Changes coming to FICO credit scores
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NEW YORK — There are changes coming to FICO, a broadly used credit score, that may mean higher credit scores for many consumers. Banks, cred ...
Texas has beaten out Puerto Rico and other states in a race to land the world’s first commercial site for orbital rocket launches.
An engine fire forced evacuation of a New York-bound JetBlue flight before it could take off on Saturday, Puerto Rico airport officials said ...
A key federal agency published late Thursday a draft environmental impact statement for the Aguirre Offshore Gasport, which represents a sig ...
Puerto Rico’s fiscal 2015 tax collections rose year-over-year in July and beat estimates for the first month of fiscal 2015, the Treasury De ...
Barneys to pay $525K in NY shopper-profiling probe
Issued: August 11, 2014
NEW YORK — Barneys has agreed to pay $525,000 to resolve allegations that minorities were singled out as suspected shoplifters at its flagsh ...

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Suit: Prepa doesn’t have to default

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Suit: Prepa doesn’t have to default

Mutual funds mounting a legal challenge against Puerto Rico’s new restructuring ...
PR teacher honored at White House
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Darelis Flores, an elementary school teacher at The School of San Juan, was ...
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The latest permits and cements data points to the continued sluggishness in ...
The owners of a Puerto Rico armory pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges tied a fraud scheme to grant firearms licenses to some 1,300 peo ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Lajas municipal government have reached a legal agreement that will result in numerous upgr ...
US job openings in June hit 13-year-plus high
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WASHINGTON — U.S. employers in June advertised the most monthly job openings in more than 13 years.
Missouri shooting victim called quiet, respectful
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FERGUSON, Mo. — Michael Brown Sr. stood alone in the center of the narrow street where the blood of his namesake son still stained the gray ...
Atlantic City's Revel Casino to close in September
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Atlantic City's newest casino is shutting its doors just over two years after opening amid high hopes of turning a ...
Some 1,400 migrants try to reach Spain from Africa
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MADRID — Some 700 migrants stormed border fences to try to enter Spain's northwest African enclave city of Melilla from Morocco on Tuesd ...
Vatican to Muslim leaders: Condemn Iraq barbarity
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is urging Muslim leaders to denounce the "barbarity" of the Islamic State's attacks against Christi ...

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Meet PR sees solid fall season; events mean $14.3M shot for island economy

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Meet PR sees solid fall season; events mean $14.3M shot for island economy

Puerto Rico was selected to host 49 events including, conferences, annual meetin ...

Big creditor opposes Detroit debt plan

DETROIT — A major Detroit creditor on Tuesday objected to the bankrupt city' ...
More unions ink belt-tightening deals
Unions representing more than 70 percent of the Puerto Rico government’s un ...
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Popular, Inc.’s stateside banking subsidiary Popular Community Bank has com ...
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More than one-fourth of Puerto Rico’s public school students were absent Monday as classes resumed around the island.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (Prepa) may raise rates if it has to continue shouldering costly subsidies and unpaid bills owed by ...
Doral Financial Corp. and the Puerto Rico Treasury Department have entered into court-supervised negotiations to settle all legal claims by ...
'It lays in wait' — Robin Williams' lifelong fight
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NEW YORK — Addiction seemed to stalk Robin Williams, tempting him when he was weak and taunting him when he least expected it.
Wal-Mart: Try, try again
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NEW YORK — Wal-Mart thought shoppers would like the opportunity to use a smartphone app to scan items they want to buy as they walk through ...
Official: Robin Williams hanged himself with belt
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Robin Williams committed suicide by hanging himself with a belt at his San Francisco Bay Area home, sheriff's offic ...
US budget deficit running 24.2% below 2013
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WASHINGTON — The federal government ran a lower deficit this July than a year ago, keeping it on course to record the lowest deficit in six ...
Clippers sale to Steve Ballmer goes through
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LOS ANGELES — Steve Ballmer is officially the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Apple's tech jobs held mostly by white, Asian men
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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple's high-paying technology jobs are primarily filled by white and Asian men, just like its industry peers.
Israel, Hamas press ahead on Gaza war truce talks
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CAIRO — Israeli and Hamas negotiators huddled for a second day of Egyptian-mediated talks Tuesday, seeking a formula for an extended cease-f ...
Problems seen in Venezuela-Colombia border closure
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CARACS, Venezuela — Venezuelan's decision to close its border with Colombia at night to fight contraband is drawing complaints from both ...
UN chief urges world to help in Ebola outbreak
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UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is pressing the international community to urgently respond to a shortage of doctors, nu ...
Pilots strike in Argentina, stranding thousands
Issued: August 12, 2014
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina's government stepped in to halt a brief pilot's strike that stranded thousands of passengers Tue ...
Pentagon may send more advisers to Iraq
Issued: August 12, 2014
WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. defense official says the Pentagon is considering sending more military advisers to Iraq.

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14 Individuals Charged with Trafficking Identities of Puerto Rican US Citizens - eNews Park Forest

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14 Individuals Charged with Trafficking Identities of Puerto Rican US Citizens
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Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez for the District of Puerto Rico, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Winkowski of U.S. Immigration and ...

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Feds bust stolen PR identity scheme in ongoing crackdown on serious

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Feds bust stolen PR identity scheme in ongoing crackdown on serious problem

In a bust stemming from an ongoing crackdown on a rampant problem, federal autho ...
Mi Salud bidders down to 6 firms
The field of insurers bidding to manage the Puerto Rico government’s Mi Sal ...
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The latest permits and cements data points to the continued sluggishness in Puerto Rico’s construction industry as the island struggles to p ...
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DETROIT — A major Detroit creditor on Tuesday objected to the bankrupt city's plan to wipe out or reduce billions of dollars in debt, sa ...
Japan's economy shrinks April-June on tax raise
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TOKYO — The Japanese economy shrank during the second quarter, at an annual pace of 6.8 percent, according to government data, as spending g ...
US sends 130 more troops to Iraq
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WASHINGTON — Another 130 U.S. troops arrived in Iraq on Tuesday on what the Pentagon described as a temporary mission to assess the scope of ...

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Puerto Rico creditor group swells to $300 billion in assets - Reuters

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Puerto Rico creditor group swells to $300 billion in assets
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The news of the addition of creditors to the Ad Hoc Group comes at a critical time for Puerto Rico, just one day a ahead of a deadline faced by its electric power utility, Prepa, to repay $671 million owed under credit facilities with Citigroup and ...

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Puerto Rico Power Authority Faces Thursday Deadline to Extend Credit - NASDAQ

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Puerto Rico Power Authority Faces Thursday Deadline to Extend Credit
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The authority last month reached deals with Citigroup Inc. unit Citibank and banks led by Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, a unit of Bank of Nova Scotia, to delay some payments on $671 million it owed the banks between July and mid- August. It was the second ...

79°El suicidio: Un problema alarmante en PR

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El suicidio: Un problema alarmante en PR

Es la tercera causa de muerte violenta en la Isla, donde anualmente se cometen 315 suicidios.08/12/14 | 01:48

Reclaman a AGP que no les cierre escuela

Padres de la escuela Luis Muñoz Rivera de Ponce se acuartelaron en un salón del plantel. 08/12/14 | 03:31

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This wonder of the world has turned off. Are you worried about the climate yet? | Hugh Ryan 

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The mystery at magical Mosquito Bay is a warning: we must connect our environments, or else we're doomed to darkness
Even before I was a travel writer, I approached sights described as "magical" with a good deal of skepticism. Too often, I have been promised miracles and delivered slights-of-hand the usual bravura and bluff of tourism. The bioluminescent bay in Vieques, Puerto Rico was one of the few places that made good on its promises. Maybe the only one. By day, the warm shallow bay looked unremarkable, even somewhat dingy compared to the crystalline waters of nearby Caribbean beaches. But at night, the flash and spark of the tiny phytoplankton in this Mangrove lagoon filled me with literal awe. It was like living lightning.
Since January, however, the bay has gone dark and no one knows why.
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US Justice Dept: Constitutional Citizenship Requires Statehood; Commonwealth Unincorporated Territory

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The U.S. Department of Justice Monday strongly rejected a claim that individuals born in a jurisdiction like Puerto Rico have U.S. citizenship by virtue of the U.S. Constitution.
A brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit essentially means that Puerto Ricans can only obtain citizenship through the Constitution — versus through law — by Puerto Rico becoming a State or by being put on the path to statehood by Congress.
The position also contradicts a claim that the ‘Commonwealth’ party has made that Puerto Ricans have U.S. citizenship under the Citizenship Clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment in addition to citizenship from laws.
The 14th Amendment makes everyone born “in the United States” a U.S. citizen.
In a case concerning American Samoa, the Justice Department explained that 14th Amendment citizenship does not apply in a territory that has not “been incorporated into the United States as a part thereof” but “is simply held . . . under the sovereignty of the United States as a possession or dependency,” using the words of the U.S. Supreme Court.
It identified Puerto Rico as another unincorporated territory.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald Machen, Jr., an appointee of President Obama, filed the Justice Department brief.
Three American Samoans and a Los Angeles Samoan organization brought the case, Tuana v. U.S.
It was organized, however, by a lawyer from the territory of Guam, Neal Weare, who believes that Puerto Rico and the other U.S. territories and the District of Columbia should all have rights and representation in the Federal government equal to the States without statehood.
American Samoa’s Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, Eni Faleomavaega, a senior member of the committee with jurisdiction over the status of territories, and the territory’s government oppose the suit.
A U.S. District Court judge in the nation’s capital dismissed the case in 2013, leading to the appeal to the circuit court.
In its brief, the Justice Department told the court that those appealing “have not (and cannot) identify a single court ever having declared an entire territory’s citizens entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, but instead, each court to have examined the issue has held that the Amendment cannot be read so broadly.”
By contrast, it cited a 2012 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that denied a birthright citizenship claim of individuals born in the “unincorporated U.S. territory” of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Of even broader relevance for Puerto Rico’s territory status, the Obama Justice Department noted, again quoting the Supreme Court, that Congress “has full and complete legislative authority over” territories and “may do for the Territories what the people, under the Constitution of the United States, may do for the States.”
It emphasized that, “the responsibility of Congress to govern this nation’s territories has long been recognized and respected by the Courts.”
Machen’s brief also pointed out that Congress has the “legislative discretion” to grant “privileges” to those born in “the outlying possessions” as it “sees fit,” recalling that “the Supreme Court has never found that the Congress must bestow all of the same panoply of privileges upon those born in the outlying possessions that the Constitution bestows on those born in the United States.”
U.S. citizenship is granted to individuals born in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, another unincorporated territory, by law.
Law makes people born in American Samoa U.S. nationals instead of citizens.
A law can be changed by another law. The Constitution can only be changed by two-thirds votes in each House of Congress or a convention called by tw0-thirds of the States followed by votes of three-fourths of the States.
Congress is unlikely, however, to discontinue granting U.S. identity to persons born in a territory unless it decides to make the territory a nation. Unincorporated territories are territories that Congress has not yet decided to make States and can make nations. Granting citizenship by law in an unincorporated territory makes nationhood possible.
The Justice Department used the example of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to explain this to the court. Congress discontinued the granting of U.S. nationality in the Commonwealth in making the islands an independent country.

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Pew Confirms What Boricuas Have Always Known: Puerto ...

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The Pew team also published an interactive map showing the Puerto Rican population by U.S. county. Here are the top five counties with the largest number of Puerto Ricans: Bronx County, NY 298,921. Kings County, NY ...

Ring the Alarm Bells Over Puerto Rico | Commentary : Roll ...

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The New York Federal Reserve Bank, whose jurisdiction includes Puerto Rico, warned recently that the island needs to face up to its financial challenges or face a “painful adjustment.” It's about time American officials ...
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Fitch: Shifting Investor Mix Bifurcates Puerto Rican Bond Market - Business Wire (press release)

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Fitch: Shifting Investor Mix Bifurcates Puerto Rican Bond Market
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The number of hedge funds trading Puerto Rico (PR) bonds is increasing, although exposure to specific credits has become bifurcated by whether they support or oppose the new Public Corporation Debt and Enforcement ...

Puerto Rico's citizens leave island despite improving economy - VOXXI

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Puerto Rico's citizens leave island despite improving economy
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Puerto Rico's economy is on the mend, but it may take more than an improving economy to keep the island's citizens from moving to the U.S. mainland, as this century has shown the largest decrease in the population of Puerto Rico since the “Great ...

Puerto Rico Sees Historic Population Drop as More Come to US - NBCNews.com

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Puerto Rico Sees Historic Population Drop as More Come to US
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The exodus from the island is largely fueled by Puerto Rico's high unemployment and troubledeconomyPuerto Rico is a U.S. commonwealth and its residents are U.S. citizens. The Puerto Rican population stateside reached over 4.9 million in 2012 and has ...
More Than 1 Million More Puerto Ricans On US Mainland Than On Island, Study ...Fox News Latino

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Economy's on mend, but Puerto Ricans still desert island - USA TODAY

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Economy's on mend, but Puerto Ricans still desert island
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Puerto Rico's improving economy may be a welcome sight to foreigners who are heavily invested in the island, but it's not as pretty to the people living there. The island saw a net loss of 144,000 people from 2010 to 2013, the largest exodus since a ...
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More Than 1 Million More Puerto Ricans On US Mainland Than On Island, Study ...Fox News Latino

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Pew: Puerto Rico's Economic Collapse Mirrored in 'Great Migration' to US ... - Newsmax.com

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Pew: Puerto Rico's Economic Collapse Mirrored in 'Great Migration' to US ...
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Puerto Rico's decline in population this century represents the largest wave of migration from the island since the "Great Migration" in the 1950s and 1960s, according to a report released on Monday by the Pew Hispanic Trends Project. The island had a ...

More Than 1 Million More Puerto Ricans On US Mainland Than On Island, Study ... - Fox News Latino

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More Than 1 Million More Puerto Ricans On US Mainland Than On Island, Study ...
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“The semi-professional and professional Puerto Ricans who are moving themselves to the mainland is the result of a weak economy, violent criminal activity and lack of understanding on how to tackle the political status of the territory regarding ...

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Economy's on mend, but Puerto Ricans still desert island - USA TODAY

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Economy's on mend, but Puerto Ricans still desert island
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After it sold $3.5 billion worth of bonds in March, Standard & Poor's removed the government from "CreditWatch" status. But the ratings service warned of another ... "To expect a rapid growth phase in Puerto Rico after the economy has been subject to ...

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How Puerto Rican migrants could swing the largest swing state - Fusion

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How Puerto Rican migrants could swing the largest swing state
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Now a Pew Research Center report released today shows that a new wave of Puerto Ricansleaving their island's severe economic woes has been finding its way to Central Florida and rapidly changing the ethnic and political makeup of the country's largest ...


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Genographic Project DNA Results Reveal Details of Puerto ...

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Tainos, the largest indigenous Caribbean population, were living a life based on the cultivation of root crops and fishing when upon the shores arrived Columbus and his fleet, having crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the second time in as many years. ... Collaborating with 326 individuals from southeasternPuerto Rico and Vieques, the Genographic Project conducted the first genetic testing in the area with the goal to gain more information about their ancient past and ...

Puerto Rico automakers report ‘grave’ July results

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H+K Puerto Rico licenses social media measurement tool
August 13, 2014
H+K Puerto Rico recently acquired a license for the use of the Sysomos Media Analysis Platform, a research and analytics ...

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Puerto Rican Population by Countywww.pewhispanic.orgHispanics of Puerto Rican or...

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Puerto Rican Population by County
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Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin are a growing population in the 50 U.S. states and District of Columbia. About half of Puerto Ricans live in the Northeast, but the South, especially Florida, is home to a growing share of this group. Of the nation’s 358 counties with at least a thousand Puerto Rican…

Why mosquitoes bite some people and not others

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Why are some people so much more attractive to mosquitoes than others? And what can you do about the pesky little bloodsuckers, especially if you don’t want to resort to DEET? (DEET, while effective, is also weakly neurotoxic in humans.)
To start, there are some 150 different species of mosquitoes in the United States, and they differ in biting persistence, habits, ability to transmit disease, and even flying ability.
Mosquitoes of the genus Culex are painful and persistent biters and they will gladly fly into your house to bite you. They bite at dusk and after dark, and they can spread West Nile virus. On the upside, however, they are not strong fliers and won’t fly long distances from where they hatched. And, they’d prefer to bite a bird than a human. A common Culex species in the U.S. is C. pipiens, the Northern House mosquito.
Then there’s the genus Aedes, which includes A. aegyptiand A. albopictus, the Asian Tiger mosquito. The former is not a problem in the U.S.; the latter is. Both can transmit Yellow Fever and Dengue Fever. Aedes mosquitoes feed early in the morning as well as at dusk and into the evening. They might also bite you during the day if it’s cloudy or if you wander into a shady place. Fortunately, they probably won’t enter your house – but they do prefer biting mammals like humans over other animals, and they are very strong fliers.
One other notable genus of mosquitoes areAnopheles mosquitoes. They are the ones responsible for transmitting malaria. In the U.S., that mostly means A. quadrimaculatus, which lives in the central and eastern U.S., as far north as southern Canada.
But if we have Anopheles mosquitoes, then why don’t we have malaria? The answer, in part, is due to climate. According to Andrew Githeko, a Kenyan scientist who studies malaria, malaria only occurs in places where the average temperature is above 18C (64.4F). Below that, the mosquito dies before the parasite matures, and this prevents transmission. In Kenya, he discovered malaria already moving into new areas as the climate warmed. Fortunately, malaria is not endemic to the U.S. as it is in Kenya. And if the U.S. lacks a base of humans and mosquitoes carrying the parasite, then that prevents the spread of the disease.

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These different genera and species not only differ in the ways listed above; they also differ slightly in what attracts them to hosts they wish to bite. Mosquitoes use carbon dioxide, heat, moisture, scent, and even vision to locate hosts. When they are sniffing us out, they hone in on a large number of chemicals. A 2000 study identified 346 chemicals from human hand odors, of which 277 were potential mosquito attractants.
The most significant chemicals mosquitoes use to locate us and bite us include l-lactic acid, ammonia, carboxylic acids, and octenol, in combination with one another. In experiments, scientists found that adding l-lactic acid to the scent of an unattractive person made them more attractive to Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, and vice versaAdditionally, the presence of carbon dioxide makes A. aegyptimosquitoes more sensitive to human skin odors.
A 1999 study found that malarial mosquitoes were not attracted to fresh human sweat, but found attractive after it was incubated for one or two days. During the two days, bacteria in the sweat multiplied and the pH changed from acidic to alkaline, signifying a decomposition of sweat components into ammonia. The study also notes that malarial mosquitoes flock to the scent of limburger cheese, which resembles human foot odor. Githeko confirms that, indeed, malarial mosquitoes are attracted to chemicals produced by bacteria on one’s feet, and they will even bite a pair of smelly socks if you hang them up after wearing them for a few days.
Unfortunately, the keep-your-feet-clean-to-avoid-mosquito bites trick only works for malarial mosquitoes, since other species are not especially attracted by foot odor. That makes this useful information for staying healthy while traveling in the tropics, but less useful if you just want to avoid itching in the United States.
Still, the identification of skin bacteria as playing a role in one’s attractiveness to mosquitoes provides a clue. Among the aforementioned carboxylic acids that alert mosquitoes to our presence are several short-chain and medium-chain fatty acids that are associated with body odor. Sweat itself is odorless until bacteria act on it to make it stink. Bacteria, by metabolizing our sweat, are essentially sending up a red flag to tell mosquitoes we’re here.
Yet another component of human odor is genetic. Although some theorize that individuals mosquitoes find unattractive simply produce less in the way of attractants, an alternative theory asserts that they produce components that interfere with mosquitoes’ ability to find their hosts. In fact, a 2008 study identified five such chemicals produced by humans found unattractive to mosquitoes.
To those of us who are genetically doomed to be mosquito bait, this information provides limited help. Perhaps we can bathe around dusk when the mosquitoes come out to get the day’s sweat and its associated odors off of us, or rub ourselves down with antimicrobial plants like sage to curb the actions of our skin microbiota, but most likely we just need a good repellent. Or one of those full-body mosquito net suits.
For those looking to avoid toxic chemicals like DEET or permethrin (a possibly carcinogenic insecticide frequently used to treat clothing and mosquito nets), plants might hold the key to repelling mosquitoes. One of the most often cited is lemon eucalyptus. In fact, a 2014 Australianstudy found that a mixture of 32 percent lemon eucalyptus oil provided more than 95 percent protection from mosquitoes for three hours, compared to a 40 percent DEET repellent that gave test subjects 100 percent protection for seven hours.
But lemon eucalyptus is not the only option. A 2013 study examined the ability of 20 different plant essential oils to repel malarial mosquitoes. Notably, rosemary, lemon, eucalyptus, neem, and pennyroyal each had no repellent effect. The three best were cinnamon, citronella, and thyme, which were repellent, irritating, and toxic to the mosquitoes. Additionally, they found that cumin, lemongrass, coleus, and thyme were irritants to the mosquitoes at all concentrations. Another 2013 study found that cinnamon repelled the Asian Tiger mosquito, and so did a plant called Herba Schizonapetae that is used in Chinese medicine. Yet another plant that proved effective in studies is Nepeta parnassicus, a species in the mint family related to catnip.
Unfortunately, plant based products evaporate quickly, which means they must be re-applied. But another study, published in 2001, tried the novel step of adding vanillin to the essential oils it tested on several species of mosquitoes. Vanillin, the primary component of vanilla (which is sometimes created synthetically and used as cheap vanilla flavor), extended the efficacy of the four plants tested (turmeric, kaffir lime, citronella and hairy basil). One commercial product that makes use of this finding is Dr. Mercola’s Bug Spray, which combines citronella, lemongrass, peppermint, and vanillin.
Or, if none of the above works, use jewelweed after you get bitten. If you live in the eastern half of the United States, you are in luck, because this beautiful wildflower literally grows as a weed. Grab a few leaves, mush them up in your fingers until they are mucilaginous, and apply them to your bites. Voila! The itch is gone.
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Jugando Pelota Dura: Análisis de la situación del PNP - YouTube

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Published on Aug 12, 2014
El asesor de política pública José "Pichy" Torres Zamora y el analista político Joel Montalvo se expresan en relación a la reunión del liderato del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP). Asimismo, ampliamos el tema sobre el estado del PNP con la participación del corresponsal del Nuevo Día en Washington José Delgado.

En la reunión varios alcades del partido y miembros del liderato determinaron que apoyarían la candidatura de Ricky Roselló de querer postularse para Comisionado Residente y no para la gobernación.


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Chikungunya Death Toll Passes 30 In The Caribbean 

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News Americas, Stockholm, Sweden, Weds. Aug. 13, 2014: The death toll from the mosquito borne disease, chikungunya, now stands at 32 in the Caribbean according to the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Chikungunya is an illness caused by a virus that spreads through mosquito bites. The most common symptoms of chikungunya are fever and joint pain. Other symptoms may include headache, muscle pain, joint swelling, or rash. Chikungunya disease rarely results in death, but the symptoms can be severe and disabling. Most people who get sick feel better within a week. In some people, the joint pain may last for months or years.
The six new deaths were all reported in the French Caribbean island of Martinique, where the number of deaths from the disease now stands at 19.

An outbreak of the chikungunya virus infection has been ongoing in the Caribbean since December 2013 and has now spread to North, Central and South America.
Compared to last week, the number of reported cases of chikungunya infections has risen by 8 percent in the Caribbean nations of Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten (Dutch), Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and the US Virgin Islands., according to the Center for Disease Control
There are now more than 510 000 probable and confirmed cases in the region.
The Dominican Republic accounts for the highest increase, with more then 26 000 new cases reported.
The CDC recommends that travelers to the Caribbean protect themselves from mosquito bites. People who have arthritis, are older than 65, pregnant and have serious underlying medical conditions (such as high blood pressure, heart disease, or diabetes) are most at risk to the disease.
There is currently no vaccine or medicine to prevent chikungunya. The only way to prevent chikungunya is to prevent mosquito bites. Preventing bites can be difficult, but it is important as you can get sick after just one bite.
The CDC recommends  taking the following steps to reduce the chances that you will be bitten by mosquitoes during your trip.
Prevent mosquito bites:
Cover exposed skin by wearing long-sleeved shirts, long pants, and hats.
Use an appropriate insect repellent as directed.
Higher percentages of active ingredient provide longer protection. Use products with the following active ingredients:
DEETExternal
Picaridin (also known as KBR 3023, Bayrepel, and icaridin products containing picaridin include Cutter Advanced, Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus, and Autan [outside the US])
Oil of lemon eucalyptus (OLE) or PMD (Products containing OLE include Repel and Off! Botanicals)
IR3535  (Products containing IR3535 include Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus Expedition and SkinSmart)
If you are also using sunscreen, apply sunscreen first and insect repellent second.
Follow package directions when applying repellent on children. Avoid applying repellent to their hands, eyes, and mouth.
Use permethrin-treated clothing and gear (such as boots, pants, socks, and tents). You can buy pre-treated clothing and gear or treat them yourself:
Treated clothing remains protective after multiple washings. See the product information to find out how long the protection will last.
If treating items yourself, follow the product instructions carefully.
Do not use permethrin directly on skin.
Stay and sleep in screened or air conditioned rooms.
Use a bed net if the area where you are sleeping is exposed to the outdoors.
If you feel sick and think you may have chikungunya:
Talk to your doctor or nurse if you feel seriously ill, especially if you have a fever.
Tell them about your travel.
Get lots of rest, and drink plenty of liquids.
Avoid spreading the disease by preventing more mosquito bites.