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San José, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Jan.
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Effects
of cold front expected to diminish
By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
Some of the effects of the cold front that has visited for the past few days should go away soon, officials said. The Tuesday evening analysis from the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional said that most of the effects of the cold front will gradually decrease today, however windy conditions will persist into the rest of the week. The estimate on the wind velocity within the Central Valley and the northern part of the country averaged 50 to 80 kilometers per hour. In the more mountainous reaches of the country, it reached close to 100 kilometers per hour, according to the weather institute. Temperature highs are expected to be in the 70s and lows in the mid-60s for the rest of the week in San José, according to the Weather Underground, A.M. Costa Rica’s weather service. These will obviously vary depending on proximity to mountainous areas. Winds were moving in a westerly direction from the east Tuesday night, according to the weather service. Tuesday’s maximum wind velocity was reported at 102 kilometers per hour in Escazú, according to the weather institute. Winds and the current climate conditions have brought about some trouble on the roads. The Consejo Nacional de Vialidad and the public works ministry said that Route 10 running between Cartago and Turrialba is reduced to one lane. The reason is a piece of guard rail taken out at the top of the Río Chiz bridge, according to officials. This is due to the heavy rainfall in the last few days, but there was no damage to the structure, according to the engineer in charge of the area. Human smuggling suspect was not jailed By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
A man suspected of hauling illegal immigrants hidden among gas cylinders in the bed of his truck was not jailed. A judge determined that he should be free as the criminal process continues. He was credited with devising a new way to smuggle foreigners. Police said the truck with more than 138 gas cylinders was stopped Sunday night in the La Gamba sector of Golfito. Officials said the man had no prior criminal record.
Rural
residents benefit from cow giveaway
By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
When the government awards land to rural dwellers, cows sometimes become part of the deal. The Instituto de Desarrollo Rural said it has just distributed 138 head of cows to 39 families. That brought the total of cows distributed in the last year to 331 head. The landowners are supposed to use the animals to build beef herds. The bulk of the latest distribution, some 113 animals, went to residents in the Horquetas de Sarapiquí area. Some 25 head went to landowners in Santa Rosa de Pocosol, San Carlos. In order to obtain cows, rural residents have to make a formal request and then participate in a raffle. The government agency spent 190 million colons, about $345,000, on the cow project in the last year, it said. Another government program, this one in the wake of Hurricane Otto, is distributing animal feed and hay to livestock producers in the Upala area. In addition to hay, the producers are getting grains and feed for cows, feed for pigs and chickens and antibiotics and minerals. The national emergency commission said that about 700 producers are benefiting from the program. The Instituto de Desarrollo Rural is involved in this area, too, and is providing seed for planting and fertilizer to some 100 farmers. The Upala area was among the hardest hit by the hurricane Nov. 25.
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Tax dollars
at work U.S. taxpayers have donated 180 folding tables and 704 chairs to four Costa Rican prisons so family and friends who visit can sit down, said the Ministerio de Justicia y Paz, which runs the facilities. A U.S. Embassy staffer estimated the value of the donation at $32,000. |
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A.M. Costa Rica editorial Hiring 1,000 more police officers ignores the real crime problems |
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Rica can do much more to reduce violence than just doing
an ad campaign, as was reported Tuesday. But the crime problem is not just the lack of creativity of police officials. The blame for rising crime can be put on the courts, too, for excessive delays and lack of aggressive prosecution. Justice delayed is justice denied. The legislature just passed on first reading a bill to channel $85.5 million in new taxes mostly to the Ministerio de Seguridad Pública. Officials there want to hire 1,000 new police officers. Throwing bodies at crime is not the solution. And advertising that tells crooks to be good also is not a solution. Realistic and certain penalties would be effective in reducing crime. Here are some ideas: 1. Quit treating armed robbers as misguided schoolboys. A law enforcement official was quoted last week saying victims just give the crook the money and wallet to avoid violence. That is like posting an open invitation. Better to encourage the actions taken by an off-duty judicial agent who gunned down a bus robber. And there should be no hand wringing that the robber was just 16. He knew better. 2. Set up stings continuously. That old lady talking on a cell phone at the bus stop might really be a judicial agent with a nervous trigger finger. 3. Create a crimes tip reward line where callers can earn money. This technique has been highly successful elsewhere. Callers still could be anonymous yet earn money for turning in the local crooks. Many firms would quickly donate money for this cause. 4. Set up some internal stings to capture the informants who work in the police agencies. A few leakers have been caught, but the suspicion is that many more persons with gang and drug affiliations have infiltrated the various agencies. 5. Give more training for Fuerza Pública officers so they can carry a pistol during off-duty hours. This works in New York in support of the on-duty police officers. |
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The fictional Keystone cops were numerous, too, as
this 1914 movie still shows.6. Lawmakers should reconsider the criminal penalties and establish policies so that convicted crooks serve their entire sentence instead of just a small percentage. 7. Prison should be a punishment and not a place where the wives and kids visit every Sunday for a picnic. The criminals should be totally separated from their visitors to eliminate all the drugs, cell telephones, alcohol and other items that prisoners obtain easily. 8. Need it be said that the Fuerza Pública officers should get out of their trucks and walk around the neighborhoods greeting people and finding out what is going on? Smiles would be helpful. 9. Officials should ignore the marijuana laws until the legislature has the good sense to repeal them. Expats do not like paying taxes to support platoons of police going into the Talamanca hills to chop down fields of marijuana plants. Anyway, readers who use marijuana say the hydroponics varieties grown in the Central Valley are much better. 10. Officials should ignore any ideas offered by those armchair crime fighters at United Nation's agencies. |
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| Oldsters with musical training found to have
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By the Université de
Montréal’s School news staff
Could learning to play a musical instrument help the elderly react faster and stay alert? Quite likely, according to a new study by Université de Montréal’s School of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology. Published in the U.S. journal Brain and Cognition, the study shows that musicians have faster reaction times to sensory stimuli than non-musicians. And that has implications for preventing some effects of aging, said lead researcher Simon Landry, whose study is part of his doctoral thesis in biomedical science. “The more we know about the impact of music on really basic sensory processes, the more we can apply musical training to individuals who might have slower reaction times,” Landry said. “As people get older, for example, we know their reaction |
times get slower. So if we
know that playing a musical instrument increases reaction
times, then maybe playing an instrument will be helpful
for them.” In his study, Landry compared the reaction times of 16 musicians and 19 non-musicians. They were sat in a quiet, well-lit room with one hand on a computer mouse and the index finger of the other on a vibro-tactile device, a small box that vibrated intermittently. They were told to click on the mouse when they heard a sound, from the speakers in front of them, or when the box vibrated, or when both happened. Each of the three stimulations, audio, tactile and audio-tactile, was done 180 times. The subjects wore earplugs to mask any audio clue when the box vibrated. “We found significantly faster reaction times with musicians for auditory, tactile and audio-tactile stimulations,” Landry writes in his study. “These results suggest for the first time that long-term musical training reduces simple non-musical auditory, tactile and multisensory reaction times.” |
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Search continues for
truth
on Russian election claim By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
services
Shortly after reports surfaced in the media Tuesday that Russian operatives have compromising personal and financial information on Donald Trump, the president-elect tweeted "FAKE NEWS!" Trump's full tweet read "FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!" He previously has denied that Moscow had any influence in the election while defending closer ties with that country. The reports said Trump was told last week by the heads of domestic intelligence agencies that Russian operatives claimed to have the information. Trump was given a two-page synopsis of the information last Friday, when he also was given a classified briefing on alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, according to the reports, which cited unnamed sources who had knowledge of the briefing. President Barack Obama was given the information on Thursday. CNN, which first reported the story Tuesday, did not give details of the so-called compromising information. That information had been known since late last year among some journalists and politicians in Washington, the media reports suggested. Several media have reported on the intelligence report, but the information has not been corroborated. The allegations against Trump came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence agent with extensive Russian contacts, and whose previous work for the U.S. has been considered credible, according to media reports. The FBI was given the information in August, months before the November election, CNN reported. FBI Director James Comey, who testified at a Senate hearing regarding Russian election hacking Tuesday, refused to say whether the bureau is investigating any possible ties between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign. In late October, Comey angered Democrats when he announced 11 days before the election that the FBI was looking at more emails as part of its investigation of Hillary Clinton, who then lost the presidential election to Trump. The rumors were seemingly supported when former U.S. Senate minority leader Harry Reid directed a letter to Comey regarding the Clinton investigation. In the letter, he said, "It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors and the Russian government, a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States, which Trump praises at every opportunity. The public has a right to know this information." The Trump campaign had yet to respond to the media reports. But he previously has denied that Moscow had any influence in the election, while defending closer ties with that country. U.S. intelligence agency chiefs last week testified to the Senate that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an operation to meddle with the U.S. election with the aim of hurting Mrs. Clinton's campaign and boosting that of Trump. The website Buzzfeed, which claimed to have a copy of the intelligence report, posted it on its website. Among the summaries made in the report posted by Buzzfeed: that a former top Russian intelligence officer claimed the country's secret intelligence agency had compromised Trump through his Moscow activities to sufficiently be able to blackmail him. It also claimed that Russia had been cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump for at least five years, with the aim, by Putin, of encouraging splits and divisions in the Western alliance. Obama gives final speech and reflects on his record By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday the country is a better, stronger place than when he took office in 2008, pointing to the reversal of a recession, passage of his landmark healthcare program and the legalization of gay marriage as achievements the American people have won through his message of change. That section of his farewell address drew huge applause from a crowd of thousands in Chicago, delivered a few kilometers from the site where he gave his acceptance speech the night he won his first term in the White House. With less than two weeks before president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, Obama had directed his team to craft an address that would speak to all Americans, including those who voted for Trump. Obama said in his speech it is up to all Americans to make sure the government can meet the country's many challenges and that he has committed to making the transition to the new administration as smooth as possible. "Understand, democracy does not require uniformity," he said. "Our founders quarreled and compromised, and expected us to do the same. But they knew that democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity. The idea that for all our outward differences, we are all in this together." Obama noted that after his election many spoke of what they called a post-racial America. But he said race is still a potent and often divisive force, and stressed the need to uphold anti-discrimination laws. He urged minorities to connect their own struggles to challenges faced by refugees, immigrants, the rural poor and transgender Americans, and for the country's white population to acknowledge that laws that discriminated against African-Americans have effects that endure 50 years after they were abolished. "So regardless of the station that we occupy; we have to try harder; we all have to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do, that they value hard work and family like we do, that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own,” he said. Obama listed economic achievements such as cutting the number of people who lack health insurance, a growing economy and a lower unemployment rate. But he said those are not enough and that economic inequality hurts the country's democratic principles. "While the top one percent has amassed a bigger share of wealth and income, too many families, in inner cities and rural counties, have been left behind," he said. Obama told U.S. military members that serving as their commander-in-chief was the honor of his lifetime, and he pointed to successes in the fight against terrorism, including the killing of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and the ongoing coalition effort against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. The president said the United States has to guard against weakening its values in the face of fear, further noting his efforts to ban torture, reform government surveillance laws and close the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "That's why I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans," Obama said, drawing perhaps his loudest applause of the night. He said he is more optimistic about the country than when he began his presidency. But he also urged people to take an active role in democracy, saying the system depends on Americans accepting the responsibility of citizenship regardless of which way the pendulum swings. "I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours," Obama said. Sessions defends his record in Senate nomination hearing By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, president-elect Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, defended his civil rights record Tuesday, telling a congressional hearing that he understands the tortured history of voting rights for African-Americans in the United States. Sessions, the first of Trump's cabinet nominees facing a Senate confirmation hearing this week, assured his colleagues on the Judiciary Committee that he would lead aggressive enforcement of U.S. voting laws without hindrance or discrimination, and to ensure the integrity of the electoral process. "As a Southerner I saw discrimination," Sessions said. "I know that was wrong. We needed to do better." Sessions faced tough questions from Democrats about his race relations and his past efforts fighting immigration reform. Thirty years ago, the Senate rejected his nomination to be a federal judge because of allegations he made racially insensitive remarks, which Sessions called damnably false charges. Several protesters in a Capitol Hill hearing room at times briefly shouted their opposition to Sessions' appointment with police at least once struggling to expel them. After pausing for one interruption, Sessions, a conservative and four-term senator, vowed to uphold laws protecting minorities and lesbians, gays and transgender people, even if he had at various times during 20 years as a lawmaker voted against legislation they supported. Sessions, a hardline opponent of illegal immigration into the United States, promised to vigorously, effectively and immediately prosecute people who violate the border. He deflected a question about what should happen to 800,000 young immigrants brought to the country by their parents illegally, and whom President Barack Obama has protected from deportation for two years. Sessions, who has opposed comprehensive immigration reform, said, "We need to fix this immigration system," something Congress has been unable to do. The 70-year-old Sessions was an early supporter of Trump, the first senator to endorse his presidential bid at a time when political Washington thought the real estate billionaire turned politician had no chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination, let alone the presidency over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Sessions voiced complaints during the lengthy campaign about Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email server and handling of classified material while she was secretary of State. But he said that if he is confirmed as the country's top law enforcement official, he would remove himself from any involvement in discussions about possible prosecution of her in connection with the emails or the charitable Clinton Foundation her family controls. Sessions also said he considers Supreme Court decisions upholding abortion rights and same sex marriages as settled law, rulings some U.S. conservatives hope to eventually overturn if Trump wins approval for conservative court appointments during his four-year term in the White House. On other issues, Sessions testified that he has no reason to doubt the conclusion by U.S. intelligence officials that Russia meddled in the presidential election by hacking into computers to help Trump win, voiced support for keeping open the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay for suspected terrorists, and said he does not support a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. as Trump once suggested. Sessions' appointment has drawn opposition from at least two Democratic senators and civil rights advocates concerned he would weaken legal protections for immigrants, minorities and gays. Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California voiced her skepticism about his nomination, asking in her opening statement, "Will he enforce the laws he voted against? Will he tell the president no when necessary?" Sessions said he would not hesitate to oppose Trump when he thinks the president is wrong. One Democrat, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, said he would testify against Sessions, the first time in Senate history a sitting senator has testified against a Senate colleague nominated for a cabinet position. Booker said the deeply troubling views about the nominee are a call to conscience. Trump team seems to ignore Foggy Bottom and John Kerry By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has yet to meet his presumptive successor, little more than a week before the inauguration, and senior American diplomats in Washington have had few encounters with members of president-elect Donald Trump's transition team. "There are some people who have been in the building for a period of time, but quite candidly, I think there has not been a lot of high-level exchange at this point in time," Kerry said Tuesday at the U.S. Institute of Peace. "I'm still expecting to meet with my successor at some point in the near term." Kerry and Rex Tillerson, Trump's choice to head the State Department, have spoken by telephone once since the president-elect nominated the ExxonMobil chief executive, according to State Department officials. "The secretary, certainly, would value the opportunity to sit down one on one with Mr. Tillerson to really talk about some of the challenges he sees going forward," State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner told reporters Tuesday afternoon. Toner said there is no reason the two have not met apart from scheduling issues. The confirmation hearing in the Senate for Tillerson, who has stepped down from his posts at ExxonMobil, begins Wednesday morning. Kerry, in some of his most blunt criticism yet of the president-elect, blasted Trump’s controversial diplomacy via Twitter. "If policy is going to be made in 140 characters on Twitter and every reasonable measurement of accountability is being bypassed and people don't care about it, we have a problem," Kerry said. Former secretary of State Madeleine Albright echoed Kerry’s sentiments and added that reducing nuanced foreign policy to impulsive tweets is not ideal for her. Sitting alongside Mrs. Albright, former North Atlantic Treaty Organization commander James Stavridis, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, said it is premature to judge the next administration's policy stances based on Trump's tweets and other comments he and his team have made. A point of agreement among them all was that North Korea should be a primary concern at the White House, Pentagon and State Department when the Trump administration comes to power. American citizen arrested, charged in shooting diplomat By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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An American citizen arrested in the shooting of a U.S. consular official in Mexico last week has been deported, the U.S. justice department said Tuesday. The suspect, Zia Zafar, 31, of Chino Hills, California, made his initial appearance Tuesday afternoon in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, and was charged with one count of attempted murder of an internationally protected person. A surveillance video posted to Facebook by the U.S. Consulate shows Zafar waiting outside a parking garage before opening fire on a car Friday evening. He wounded 13-year foreign service officer Christopher Ashcraft, who was reported to be in stable condition in a Guadalajara, Mexico, hospital. According to the complaint filed against him, Zafar disguised himself and followed Ashcraft through a parking garage and to his car. As Ashcraft drove toward the exit, Zafar shot him once in the chest and fled. He was arrested by Mexican authorities on Sunday and then deported. |
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DNA collected
from 3,000 humpbacks
By the Wildlife
Conservation Society news staff
Scientists have published one of the largest genetic studies ever conducted on the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, Columbia University, and other organizations. Using data generated from more than 3,000 skin samples from individual whales ranging from the South Atlantic to the Indian Oceans, the research team has uncovered previously unknown degrees of relatedness between different whale populations. The study will also help conservation reassessments of humpback whale populations, and reaffirms the highly distinct nature of a small, non-migratory population of humpback whales living in the Arabian Sea. The study appears in the latest version of the journal Molecular Ecology. Field research on marine mammals is one of the most challenging of biological studies, primarily because scientists are often unable to follow ocean-going species such as whales across their full range. The humpback whale in particular undertakes some of the longest migratory movements of any mammal. While techniques such as remote sensing devices placed on individual whales, photo-recognition of individuals, and other methods can help answer some questions of where whale species travel, molecular technologies can reveal secrets at a broader level, sometimes representative of entire populations. “By comparing carefully selected markers in the DNA of thousands of whales in the Southern Hemisphere, we can begin answering questions about the movements of these animals and how different populations are related,” said lead author Francine Kershaw, formerly of Columbia University and now a science fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Genetic data provide unique information necessary for effective species management and conservation.” In this study, researchers accumulated skin samples from 3,188 individual whales from 12 different locations in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Some of the samples were collected with biopsy darts and others were acquired from skin sloughed off by animals and collected by researchers. The samples were then analyzed with a technique called polymerase chain reaction. Overall, the results of the study help to evaluate the validity of current definitions of breeding stocks used by the International Whaling Commission to formulate effective management decisions and recommendations. Most recently, they are being used to demonstrate how to better identify important marine mammal areas in need of protection, an initiative being led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Growing up to 50 feet in length, the humpback whale is known for its acrobatic behavior as well as its songs, the most complex of any great whale. |
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| From Page 7: Girlfriend was a bad business investment By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Having a Costa Rican girlfriend can be rough on a marriage, and now a New York State businessman faces a prison term The man, Lawrence D. Rosenbaum, 65, pleaded guilty to securities fraud and tax fraud and now faces up to nine years in prison. Prosecutors said that he embezzled money from a food products project and used some of the money to support a long-term girlfriend in Costa Rica. His wife, Thomasine Henderson, 66, has pleaded guilty to a separate crime, making a false insurance claim in the suicide death of their son. She will be sentenced to three years probation, said the New York Attorney General’s Office. Prosecutors said that Rosenbaum took $600,000 for his own use from about $1 million investors gave him to develop a cheese processing plant in Upstate New York. The plant never was built. Among other personal expenses paid by Rosenbaum was the $1,000-a-month rent for his girlfriend’s apartment here, said prosecutors. |
