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 Traditional view of the Three Wise Men
It's another day for giving,
thanks to the Three Kings By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Parents, you are not off the hook yet. Today is the Día de los Reyes Magos, and the kids are expecting presents. It is the Latin tradition for a secondary round of gift-giving on the traditional day that the three kings arrived at the manger in which the baby Jesus lay. The kings or magicians brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. In a few Latin countries, the evening of Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 is the primary day of gift-giving to children, but not in Costa Rica. The kings also are called wise men or magicians. They are mentioned in scripture only by Matthew. But they have been immortalized in tradition. The tradition even is infiltrating the United States. Wal-Mart in Houston had a Three Kings Day in 2008 where actors dressed as the wise men visited the company's stores. That is traditional in Spain and in parts of México. Television time allocated to presidential candidates By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Sistema Nacional de Radio y Television is presenting the presidential candidates on three Tuesdays leading up to the Feb. 7 elections. The shows will concentrate on foreign policy, said the organization that operates Canal 13. The shows will be from 6 to 7 p.m., starting with Ottón Solís of the Partido Acción Ciudadana Jan. 12. The following week on Jan. 19, the candidate is Otto Guevara of Movimiento Libertario. Jan. 26 has been allocated for the Partido Liberación Nacional candidate Laura Chinchilla. She will be represented by Nuria Marín Raventós, a possible foreign minister in a Chinchilla government. The television organization said that topics will include opening and closing embassies, approach to Arab states, the case of Palestine and Israel, the relationship of Costa Rica with Taiwan and the People's Republic, the ALBA oorganization promoted by Hugo Chávez and petroleum politics. Ex-Special Forces soldier to address American Legion By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Stanley Salas is a Costa Rican who moved to Brooklyn, New York, when he was 12. After high school, he entered the U.S. Army where he served 22 years, 17 of them in the Special Forces. Salas, who operates Stan's Pub in Zapote will be sharing his experiences with members of American Legion Post 120 today at noon at the Bello Horizonte Country Club. The pub is unique in that Salas has decorated one room with military memorabilia, including his uniform. He holds a Bronze Star and a Legion of Merit.
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| San José, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 3 | |||||||||
National map shows the estimated location of all the earthquakes registered by the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica during 2009 |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
More than 6,000 earthquakes took place in Costa Rica during 2009, but most were not felt by humans. Contrary to popular belief, two quakes had magnitudes greater than the 6.2 event that destroyed Cinchona and surrounding areas Jan. 8. The Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica reported a 6.3 quake took place March 11 about 12 kms (about 7.5 miles) south of Golfito and a 6.5 quake the following day about 280 kms (about 174 miles) south of Punta Burica. At least 34 people died as a result of the Cinchona quake and some still are missing. The deaths and damage took place because the quake caused a number of steep slopes to collapse, taking buildings and roadways with them. The Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico said that |
about 100
quakes were felt somewhere in Costa Rica. Not counted are the dozens of
replications and aftershocks from the Jan. 8 quake. The Golfito area saw nine quakes in March alone and three each in May, August and September. The observatory attributed these events to the subduction of the Coco tectonic plate under the Panamá plate. In 2009, the observatory said that the central Pacific received far fewer quakes than is normal. This is the area most active in Costa Rica, the observatory said. The biggest felt quake here was one Nov. 8 about 40 kms (about 25 miles) west of Puerto Cortés with a magnitude of 4.8. There were four other felt quakes in the area northwest of Dominical and northwest and northeast of Quepos, the observatory said. If the Cinchona quake did not take place, 2009 would have been a very calm year for quakes, the observatory said. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that seeks to define an aspect of custody rights under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The mother involved is a U.S. citizen. The father is British, and the prior country of residence of the child is Chile. The child is now in the United States. The issue seems to be a very technical one, but legal observers said they believe the case will have an impact on international child custody battles where one parent abducts a child to or from the United States. Timothy and Jacquelyn Abbott were married in 1992 in England, and their son was born in Hawaii in 1995. They divorced in Chile, and the court there gave custody of the child to the mother and gave the father visitation rights. A key element of the decision was that the court in Chile issued a ne exeat order preventing either parent from taking the child from Chile without the agreement of the other. Mrs. Abbott took her son to Texas without the consent of the ex-husband, who managed to locate the boy. He went to court and said that the Hague convention required that a child who has been removed contrary to a custody order be returned to the country of residence. The technical question |
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a right of custody. A trial court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the wife that the legal order only provides a right of access to the father and not a right of custody. Her lawyers also argued that having custody also means having the right to choose where the child lives. A number of organizations have filed briefs that support the position of one or the other parent. Some domestic violence organizations said they fear that accepting the order as a right of custody would prevent wives from fleeing from abuse. A decision for the father by the Supreme Court would strengthen the rights of non-custodial parents involved in international parenting disputes. The main goal of the Hague convention is to insure that the legal decisions of one country are respected in another. The international treaty is designed to prevent spouses from shopping for a favorable venue for their custody battles. The Abbott case involves a U.S. mother trying to keep her son there contrary to a custody decision in another country. In Costa Rica the situation usually is a mother trying to keep her child or children here in the face of a custody decision in another country, frequently the United States. |
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The U.S. government is spending more than $7 billion to bring high speed Internet access to all Americans. It is a huge infrastructure project and its goal is to make sure every American, including those who live in impoverished urban and rural areas, can take advantage of the World Wide Web. At an office computer and Internet skills class at Byte Back, a non-profit organization in Washington, many adult students had never touched a computer or explored the World Wide Web before enrolling in the class. Student Shelia Melvin says she has discovered the value of Internet access. "Maybe seven years ago you'd see WWW and blah blah blah and I'd think why do people need this. Lo-and-behold, you can't do anything without a WWW. Nothing," Ms. Melvin said. "It's just entwined in your life now. I can't imagine myself without it." Surveys show about one in four Americans have no Internet access at all. That makes for millions who cannot e-mail their doctor or submit an application for a job or take a class online. The U.S. Congress has given the Federal Communications Commission until Feb. 17 to come up with a plan to bring broadband Internet access to all Americans. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski explains why the plan is important. |
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Americans depend on the Internet every day, at home, at
work, in school, at our desks, and on the move. The Internet connects
us to our family and friends, to the universe of knowledge, and to the
working of our nation's democracy," he said. "We face great challenges
as a nation right now: health care, education, energy, public safety.
While broadband Internet alone won't provide a complete solution to any
of those problems, it can and must play a critical role in solving each
one." Many Americans can access the Internet on everything from a desktop computer to a handheld phone. But one in four Americans, particularly those in rural and impoverished areas, often lack access to the Internet. Many of the students at Byte Back live in a low-income neighborhood in Washington. "Everyone in this country needs high-speed Internet access, and it must be available to all. It cannot be priced at a level where only certain people have access, because then you are cutting entire sections of our country out of involvement in the world," explained Kelly Ellsworth, Byte Back's executive director. Byte Back provides free computer classes, free computers, and access to the Internet. Students like Ms. Melvin say they are hoping to use their newly mastered computer and Internet skills to do such basic tasks as apply for a job online. But first, the government needs to hammer out its plan on how to spend the money to increase Internet access. |
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says U.S. restrictions amount to type of paranoia By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Cuba has described as "anti-terrorist paranoia" new U.S. rules that tighten security checks for airline passengers who travel from or through the Caribbean island and 13 other countries en route to the United States. Cuban authorities criticized the new security policies Monday in an article published in the state-run Granma newspaper. The article noted that the United States accuses Cuba of supporting terrorism. The new security procedures follow the botched Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner traveling from Amsterdam. There are no regular commercial flights between Cuba and the U.S., but charter flights connect the U.S. with the Communist-led island. Last year, U.S. President Barack Obama eased restrictions on travel and money transfers by Cuban-Americans to family members in Cuba. The president, however, said the long-standing U.S. embargo against Cuba would remain in place until Havana takes steps toward democratic reforms. Cuba is one of four nations on the U.S. State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, along with Iran, Sudan and Syria. As if to underline the paranoia claim, U.S. officials say a suspicious material found in a passenger's bag that triggered a security scare at a California airport Tuesday actually turned out to be bottles of honey. The scare caused a shutdown at the Meadows Field Airport in the city of Bakersfield, and a hazardous material crew and bomb squad were called to the scene. Two Transportation Security Administration officers were also treated and released from the hospital after being exposed to what were described as fumes from the bottles. Police say they are investigating to determine why the incident happened. They said the owner of the bag has been cooperating. Security at U.S. airports has been tightened since a Nigerian man's botched attempt to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day. U.S. yanks visas from some after a security review By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The State Department said Tuesday it has revoked U.S. travel visas for a number of individuals after a Nigerian man with a visa to travel to the United States tried to bring down a jetliner over Detroit Dec. 25. Officials say the number of revocations is not large and that the United States wants to remain a welcoming country for legitimate business and tourist travelers. The State Department says it has revoked the U.S. visas of a number of individuals including the Nigerian jailed for the attempted Christmas day bombing, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, as part of an inter-agency security upgrade spurred by the Detroit incident. President Barack Obama cited a failure of the security system after it was revealed that the jailed Nigerian's father had gone to the U.S. embassy in Abuja before the incident to voice concern about his son's apparent radicalization and visit to Yemen. An account of the embassy conversation was relayed to counter-terrorism officials in Washington but the son's U.S. travel visa was not rescinded. At a news briefing, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley said that as a result of the administration's ongoing security review, multiple individuals have had U.S. visas revoked and others added to U.S. no-fly and terrorism watch lists. Crowley said the upgrade was global in scope but said it was not fruitful to provide a specific number of those affected. The spokesman said about 1,700 U.S. travel visas had been revoked for security reasons since the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. |
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institute to test applicants for aptitude By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Children between 7 and 12 are invited to try out for the Instituto Nacional de la Música, a chain of state-sponsored schools around the country. Those who apply need not have had musical experience in the past. For two years the youngsters will study various musical topics and then be allowed to choose an instrument. The purpose of the selection process is to assess aptitude for music, said the institute. Testing cost 5,000 colons, which can be paid on the same day as the test. No appointment is necessary for the testing. Youngsters and their parents can visit the institute facilities in Moravia Jan. 11, 12 or 13 from 1 to 4 p.m. The location is 100 meters west of the former Colegio Lincoln, 100 meters south and 100 meters west. The selection list will be published Jan. 14 after noon. The institute has room for about 200 students, it said. More than 1,000 are enrolled now. Drug trafficking fugitive captured in Coto Brus By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A man wanted since 2007 to serve eight years on a drug trafficking charge finally was detained Monday night at his mother's home in La Pintada de San Vito, Coto Brus. The Fuerza Pública said officers made the arrest after visiting the home first in the daytime and then returning at night. They were asked to try to locate the man, identified by his last names of Brenes Núñez, by judicial agents. During the first visit, family members denied that the man was in the area. At night officers guarded the rear exit of the home when other officers went to the front door. The man was captured fleeing from the rear door, said officers. Criminal defendants frequently are let free even after being convicted while their sentence is reviewed by a higher court. Many use this time to flee. |
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