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Use maple syrup, then, and not honey.

The American Heart Association recommends limiting intake of added sugar to 6 teaspoons for women and 9 teaspoons for men.

The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a crude oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans says they received a report from the National Response Center at 1:30 p.m. Friday from a damaged pipeline associated with a subsea well 40 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana. The pipeline, which Coast Guard said is operated by LLOG Exploration Offshore, has been secured. LLOG Exploration said between 333,900 and 392,700 gallons of oil was released (7,950 to 9,350 barrels). Two vessels from Clean Gulf Associates and the Marine Spill Response Corporation have responded to the scene. The Coast Guard says they are continuing to conduct overflights of the area. BSEE Responds to Oil Release in the Gulf of Mexico https://t.co/rVZTCRElLw pic.twitter.com/Zs2OKLNtRE — BSEE (@BSEEgov) October 14, 2017 The Coast Guard is working with Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the National Oceanic ...

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plc’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig. The Delta House floating production facility about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Venice, Louisiana, released 7,950 to 9,350 barrels of oil Oct. 13, according to closely held operator LLOG Exploration Co. That would make it the largest spill in more than seven years.

The LLOG spill was triggered by a fracture in a flowline jumper, Rick Fowler, the company’s vice president for deepwater projects, said in an email. That’s a short pipeline used to connect nearby subsea structures. Multiple barriers placed on either side of the fracture stopped the release, but the the flowline jumper hasn’t yet been repaired. The subsea system affected by the fracture was shut in, though nearby connected systems weren’t. The fracture wasn’t caused by Hurricane Nate and there were no associated injuries.

BSEE, the federal agency which regulates offshore energy and mineral extraction, started an investigation into the cause of the spill.

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plc’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig. The Delta House floating production facility about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Venice, Louisiana, released 7,950 to 9,350 barrels of oil from early Wednesday to Thursday morning, according to closely held operator LLOG Exploration Co. That would make it the largest spill in more than seven years, data from the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement show, even though it’s a fraction of the millions of barrels ejected in the 2010 incident. The LLOG spill was triggered by a fracture in a flowline jumper, Rick Fowler, the company’s vice president for deepwater projects, said in an email. That’s a short pipeline used to connect nearby subsea structures. Multiple barriers placed ...

As the price of oil rises, an international rush is on for Mexico’s untapped deep-water riches. The who’s who of the oil world -- led by Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s two biggest drillers by market value -- are lining up to bid in the country’s Jan. 31 deep-water auction. And the interest is international in scope, drawing Chevron Corp. from the U.S., the U.K.’s BP Plc, Norway’s Statoil ASA, France’s Total SA, Australia’s BHP Billiton Ltd, Russia’s Lukoil PJSC and China’s Cnooc Ltd, among others. The total: 25 registered to bid for 29 deep-water plots across the southern Gulf of Mexico, the nation’s regulator said Thursday. It shouldn’t be a surprise. The areas up for grabs are estimated to hold as much as 4.2 billion barrels of crude oil in untapped deep waters where 76 percent of Mexico’s

MEXICO CITY — Five states in Mexico have gotten the sternest “do not travel” advisories under a revamped U.S. State Department system unveiled Wednesday.

The State Department had previously discouraged travel to all or part of the five states’ territories but the new warnings are sterner, placing the drug- and crime-plagued states on the same warning level as Somalia, Yemen, Syria or Afghanistan.

The five Level 4 states are the northern border state of Tamaulipas and the Pacific coast states of Sinaloa, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero.

In the case of Tamaulipas, it says that gun battles are widespread and warn of travel by both public and private bus as armed criminal groups take passengers hostage and demand ransom payments.

"Local law enforcement has limited capability to respond to violence in many parts of the state," it says.

Sinaloa, where criminal gangs such as the Sinaloa cartel are active, is particularly dangerous.

The state department warns that "in Guerrero state, armed groups operate independently of the government in many areas". It adds: "Members of these groups frequently maintain roadblocks and may use violence towards travellers."

Its website also states that US government employees are prohibited from travelling to the entire state of Guerrero, including Acapulco.

The resort town was once a glamorous destination, but in recent years it has had one of the highest murder rates in the country.

Mexico as a whole has a Level 2 rating, “exercise increased caution,” in the new four-level alert system, because of concerns about crime.

But an additional 11 of the 31 Mexican states get a Level 3 warning, “reconsider travel.” They are: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Jalisco, Mexico, Morales, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sonora and Zacatecas.

The popular beach resorts of Los Cabos, Cancun and Cozumel are all in Level 2 states but the one-time tourist hot spots of Mazatlan and Acapulco are in Level 4 states.

Six bodies were found hanging from bridges near major tourist areas in Los Cabos late Wednesday.

Two of the bodies were found near Los Cabos International Airport, hanging from a bridge in Las Veredas, while two more were on a bridge on the highway between Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, Reuters reports. Two more bodies were found on a third bridge near the airport. While authorities have not released details on what happened to the men, drug gangs often hang the bodies of their murdered victims publicly in order to intimidate rivals. Fueled by drug gang violence, 2017 is on pace to become Mexico’s deadliest year in modern history.

A series of shootouts over the weekend killed 18 people, including community police, near Acapulco and Los Cabos, Mexico.

According to ABC News, seven people were killed in San Jose del Cabo Saturday night when marines responding to reports of gunfire encountered heavily armed men in tactical vests in two vehicles with California license plates. A car chase ensued, after which the vehicles crashed and all seven people in the cars were shot dead by the marines. In a separate incident in La Conception, which is near Acapulco, eight people were killed when gunmen ambushed community police. Two of those dead were from the community police force. Later that morning, when state police arrived to disarm the local agents, another shootout ensued in which three more people were killed. At this time it is unclear how those three died. 30 members of the community police force have been detained on suspicion of crimes ranging from homicide to illegal weapons and drug possession.

pstarr wrote:... Sad what happened to Mexico City

If you think Mexico is doing just dandy, please go on a vacation to any of the regions where "you do not see any problems".