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External influences blamed
for letting soccer game go on Dear A.M. Costa Rica: As a football follower for more than 60 years who holds no real preference for any club or country, my passion lies with watching a “beautiful game” that’s entertaining, played fairly, skillfully and ultimately, without bias. Unfortunately, the game I watched between the U.S.A. and Costa Rica was none of these, due to the farcical playing conditions and the actions or, matter-of-factly, non-actions of the referee who appears to have limited knowledge of the rules of the game. It also appears apparent that the media reporting in the U.S. and even in A.M. Costa Rica, watched an entirely different game to the one that was broadcast on Friday night, as reporting skirted around one minor detail: to win at any cost does not uphold the principle of fair play. Leaving a sour taste for any genuine football fan who watched it, the game should have been abandoned due to the unplayable conditions. The field of play must be clearly defined at all times during the game. This was not the case for the entire match. Grounds men clearing the lines without stopping play is regarded as an incursion. The safety of the players and officials are paramount. Anyone watching the game could clearly see that players were not able to fully control their movements, and it became more hazardous as the game progressed. Vision and the run of the ball were impaired by the snow. The ball often came to a grinding halt long before it should have. To have reported otherwise was clearly a cover-up for a game that should not have been played. The standard color of the ball in these conditions is orange, the yellow and black ball was not clearly visible during the game. The U.S. team playing in white was questionable. They should have been requested to change to a second or third choice of shirt color that all international teams have for playing away games or conflict with opposing team colors. Black shorts and part black ball are also not a clearly defining color choice. After the U.S. scored and the conditions deteriorated, the continual and aggressive actions of coach Jurgen Klinsman towards the referee to continue play was nothing less than shameful. In the UK or Europe, he would have been red carded and banned from the sideline, just ask Sir Alex Ferguson or Jose Murhino! The FIFA official clearly wanted the game abandoned due to unplayable conditions. The referee who has the final say was reported to ask both teams if they wanted to continue. This is inappropriate as it is not down to the players to decide if a game is to be continued or abandoned. In addition, if the Costa Rican Federation had removed the team from the pitch, they would have been expelled from the World Cup, along with a heavy economic sanction. It is clear that external influences away from the game being played were afoot for the play to continue at any cost. Had the score line been reversed, would it have been the same outcome as to play or not to play? In my humble opinion: I don’t think so. The elbow chop reported as a hand on Brian Ruiz was a blatant red card and off. Yes the victim made the best of it but none the less it was a red, the U.S. player was not even on the ball as it was grounded in the snow a couple of feet away. In such an important fixture for a place in the World Cup Finals, it is sad that Fair Play did not prevail. I salute both teams for playing in unreasonable conditions while they were at risk and unable to demonstrate their skills. Congratulations to the U.S. on their win in a game that should never have been played. To play in the World Cup Finals is the dream of every professional footballer, and the finalists should be there on merit gained through fair play. To any aspiring young footballer and to football fans throughout the world, this was a game that was not about the sport, but more about the way that FIFA have lost control of the game. The behind-the-scenes pressures and influences that govern which countries play and those that do not reinforces the fact that we need the players of tomorrow and the governing bodies to return the game to the fans. Football needs to return to the enjoyable global sport that it once was, not ruled by politics, finance, sponsors or gross incompetence, but just an entertaining and above all, fair and beautiful game. The FEDEFUTBOL had every right to protest, but FIFA are not famous for putting wrongs right and the decision by the powers that be to let the game stand was inevitable, unfortunately as one of the poorest examples of football on a world stage, which was not the fault of the players. Robert
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Santa Ana We are the stewards of the creation of God Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Max Jackson is unfairly and incorrectly putting all Conservative Christians in one box by saying we all will never believe that humans contribute to global warming. I am one of a multitude of conservative Christians who definitely believe that all humans must be good stewards of God's creation and we are not doing so by over using and abusing natural resources. Most followers of Christ believe that we should be in harmony (love) with all of life, and that means working to bring Gods reign of perfect unity and pure love to all mankind and all of nature. "Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done" are words from the prayer Jesus taught us. When we ask for that, we are supposed to believe that it will be granted to us but that may and most probably will be through our own efforts as God's heart, hands, and voice in the world of today. Religion, as I know it, is not anti-science. Nor is faith in Christ Jesus. Science is a way of helping us understand God's great universal creation. Both are powerful, both are meaningful, and, in my opinion, both are important. Both explains in different ways. Intelligent and open-minded people can dialogue in a meaningful way on any subject if mutual love and respect are present. For Christians, this world is not our home. However while here, we all need to learn from each other and other species that for our survival and in order to help advance God's reign we must not only adapt to our environment but must leave the part of the world we touch while here a better place than when we first arrived. The task is gargantuan and the forces against bringing true love and harmony are powerful indeed. But we only have to connect to God, the creator, in our efforts. God has the power to transform the previously unimaginable. Let there be love, and let it begin with us. Thomas
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| Angry attack is the quickest way to get
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Special to A.M. Costa Rica A hot temper gets you the door in Costa Rica. If you lose your temper with a Costa Rican at a Costa Rican business, you may find yourself being asked to leave. That is in contrast to an article Tuesday that pointed out cultural differences between Chinese and North American customer service workers. North American service workers are more likely to sabotage rude customers, while Chinese react by disengaging from customer service altogether, said the study. Living in Costa Rica for more than 20 years, I have had the opportunity to view our North American culture objectively from a Costa Rican point of view. Coming from a long heritage of screamers in my North American family line, I have often been asked by my Costa Rican daughters not to get angry when their friends are visiting because that is considered very abnormal and unacceptable behavior in Costa Rica and their friends will think I have a mental disorder. Working with many North American clients over the years, I have seen this numerous times. Being a bully and threatening employees when things do not go well is not uncommon in our culture, and North American employees are trained to deal with hostile customers. Costa Ricans are not. Their first response, if you lose your temper, is they will often ask you to leave the establishment or they will simply walk away and not return to deal with your complaint. If you are dealing with government employees here, multiply this response by ten. They absolutely will not tolerate anything short of a completely polite and calm conversation about your problem. My two oldest girls have worked in call centers in Costa Rica offering customer service to North American customers. They found it amusing to report to me how crazy some North Americans are when complaining about a service or product on the phone. This is something they are not used to at all in Costa Rica. Ironically, they both learned how to sometimes get the customer to laugh at their own hostile behavior by responding in a completely polite and normal tone to often ridiculous complaints. This is, perhaps, one of the reasons American companies prefer opening call centers here. |
 So if you want to get great service here, never raise your voice, even a little bit, when dealing with a Costa Rican employee. Keep in mind, in most cases the employee was not personally responsible for the complained about activity or action. I remember a Costa Rican business associate pointing out a common difference between our countries. In Costa Rica when your phone call is answered by the secretary, Costa Ricans will often spend a minute or so greeting the secretary with social pleasantries like "How are you today, Jessica, etc." In the U.S.A., such an approach will often irritate a busy secretary who just wants to put your call through and get back to work. If you promptly ask a Costa Rican secretary to connect your call, this will often be regarded as rude, but they will comply. Or they may just tell you he is out of the office, when he is really there. * Mr. Bridges of Desamparados has lived in Costa Rica for 20 years. |
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Hear that hammering? Or perhaps the noise comes from a circular saw. In any event, chances are that the project lacks official approval. That's because Semana Santa and Christmas vacation are the two best periods to get something done without the pesky interference of a municipal inspector. This is the time of year when trees mysterious vanish exactly where the neighbor wants to put in a new driveway. To remove a tree legally requires something akin to a Sala IV constitutional appeal countersigned by the pope. But not during Semana Santa. The activity goes along with the old Costa Rican tradition that |
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to ask permission. So if the inspector happens to notice the new wing on the home or the fact that several trees are AWOL, he might ignore the fact. But if he chooses to press the case, the neighbor is sure to begin with the Sergeant Shultz defense: "I know noooothing. . . ?" Failing that he will produce grandmothers and little kiddies who benefit by the new construction. Such new work hardly ever is ordered to be demolished. Chances are, however, that the inspector will just ignore the new construction to avoid the eventual paperwork. He will just want to see the new addition included in the estimate of value for the next municipal tax report. |
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James Cameron at hatch of his
ocean explorer'Titanic'
director Cameron
gives his deep diver to science By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A year after his historic solo dive to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, movie director James Cameron has donated the vessel he used for the adventure to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Scientists and engineers at Woods Hole will work with Cameron to incorporate the Deepsea Challenger’s engineering innovations into future vessels to be used to explore the ocean’s depths. Among the innovations incorporated into Deepsea Challenger were new approaches to flotation, energy storage, camera and lighting systems that enabled Cameron to gather data, samples, and imagery during his descent to over 11,000 meters below the surface of the Western Pacific Ocean. “The seven years we spent designing and building the Deepsea Challenger were dedicated to expanding the options available to deep-ocean researchers. Our sub is a scientific proof-of-concept, and our partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a way to provide the technology we developed to the oceanographic community,” said Cameron in a release. Woods Hole plans to use the cameras and lighting system from Deepsea Challenger on the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus, which dove to the Mariana Trench in 2009 and will return to trenches in the Atlantic and the Pacific during the next two years. Those systems enabled Cameron to capture 3D footage of geological processes and of underwater creatures. “Jim’s record-breaking dive was inspirational and helped shine a spotlight on the importance of the deep ocean,” says Susan Avery, president and director of Woods Hole. “We face many challenges in our relationship with the ocean, so there is heightened urgency to implement innovative approaches. Partnerships such as this one represent a new paradigm and will accelerate the progress of ocean science and technology development.” Cameron has logged more than 3,000 hours underwater and is a veteran of 85 submersible dives, and many of his movies reflect his interest in deep sea diving, including "The Abyss," "Titanic" and a documentary on the German, World War II-era battleship, "DKM Bismarck." U.S. Supreme court hears first same-sex marriage case By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The U.S. Supreme Court has heard the first of two landmark cases on same-sex marriage. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the court Tuesday as justices heard arguments on the constitutionality of a California state law barring gay people from marrying. Excitement and anticipation could be seen in the faces of John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney, partners of 25 years. “We would not want to be anywhere else right now," said Gaffney. "This is history in the making.” The San Francisco couple wed during a brief period when California allowed same-sex marriage. That was before the passage of a 2008 ballot initiative, known as Proposition 8, that restricted marriage to heterosexuals in the state. Prop 8’s constitutionality has been contested for the last four years. Tuesday, the case was aired before the Supreme Court. Attorney Ted Olson argued on behalf of California gay couples who want to marry. He spoke with reporters afterwards. “The broadest argument we made is that it is just wrong, it is not consistent with the ideals, the laws, and the constitution of this country, to take our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters and put them in a class and deny them rights that we give to everyone else," said Olson. Attorney Charles Cooper argued in favor of retaining Prop 8. “We believe that Proposition 8 is constitutional, and that the place for the decision to be made regarding redefining marriage is with the people, not with the courts," said Cooper. In considering Prop 8, the Supreme Court could affirm the right of individual states to ban same-sex marriage. It could also strike down the law only in California or it could strike down all such laws in every state, opening the door to gay marriage nationwide. The court could also sidestep constitutional issues entirely by finding Prop 8 supporters have no legal standing to defend the law. Such an outcome would leave intact a lower court ruling that struck down the ballot initiative. Gay Californians would be able to marry. But bans in other states would be left untouched, and questions about marriage rights for gay people would be unresolved. Lewis and Gaffney want a sweeping ruling that settles the issue once and for all. “We are Americans," said Lewis. "And we are here on the steps of the United States Supreme Court, because every single American, without exception, should have the freedom to marry the person that they love.” Opponents of same-sex marriage were also present outside the court. Tammy Fuentes came to Washington with a Rhode Island church group. “We believe that marriage is between a man and a woman," said Ms. Fuentes. "We do not want to redefine marriage. God created a man and a woman to reproduce. We all know men cannot have kids, and two women cannot reproduce, either.” Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of a law that bars the U.S. government from recognizing same-sex unions. Decisions are expected in June. Once again signals mixed for U.S. economic recovery By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Economic studies published Tuesday show a mixed picture of the U.S. economy, the world's largest, which is slowly recovering from the worst recession in decades. Orders to factories increased strongly in February. The Commerce Department says orders to factories for long-lasting goods surged 5.7 percent for the month. In addition, private research group Case-Shiller reports home prices in the 20 largest cities rose more than 8 percent in the 12 months ending in January. Severe problems in the housing market were a key factor in the financial crisis. In contrast to these reports, a measure of consumer confidence dropped sharply in March. Consumers told researchers at the Conference Board that political bickering over government finances made them worry about the economy. Economists watch consumer confidence closely because consumer demand drives about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity. Economists get a look at future economic growth by tracking the sale of chemicals and the state of the chemical industry. Kevin Swift of the American Chemistry Council developed the index, and said it points to modest growth over the next six to nine months. "Generally expanding activity, into the third quarter, almost into the fourth quarter, signaling growth that would probably be about 2.5 to 3 percent in terms of industrial production," he said. Swift says chemicals are used early in nearly every industrial process, which gives experts several months notice of changes in the direction of economic growth. If manufacturers want more materials, they may have orders for more products. If chemical sales fall, then the economy is probably slowing down. Two studies suggest that speed of light varies in a vacuum By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The speed of light has long been calculated to be 299,792.458 km per second, but now new research from France and Germany indicates that light may not travel at a fixed rate after all, but instead can fluctuate. A key component of Einstein’s famous equation, the speed of light has been thought to be finite since 1676 after Danish astronomer Ole Rømer first established his findings while studying the motion of Jupiter’s moon Io. Two separate studies by scientists from the University of Paris-Sud in France and from the Max Planck Institutes for the Physics of Light in Germany are disputing the long established belief concerning the nature of a vacuum. Researcher Marcel Urban and his colleagues in France said they had identified a quantum level mechanism for understanding vacuum. Urban’s research indicates that a vacuum is not completely empty as long thought, but instead filled with pairs of virtual or ephemeral particles with varying levels of energy. Because of this, Urban asserts that since the characteristics of a vacuum fluctuate, the speed of light then must also vary as well. Gerd Leuchs and Luis L. Sánchez-Soto, in their forthcoming paper for the Max Planck Institutes, are suggesting that certain physical constants (physical quantities with values that are thought to be universal in nature and remain unchanged over time) indicate that there are also a number of elementary particles in nature, including those that might be found in a vacuum. The physical constants they speak of could include properties such as the speed of light and another that’s known as the impedance of free space (varying levels of the electric and magnetic fields of electromagnetic radiation traveling through free space). Physicists have long found that the concept of the vacuum is one of the most fascinating issues in their field of science. A vacuum, when viewed at the quantum level – at the smallest and most basic level – is not empty, but instead filled with particle pairs such as electron-positron or quark-antiquark pairs that are constantly appearing and disappearing. While these particle pairs are real particles, their lifetimes are extremely short. If these findings are proved to be true, they could have an impact on current scientific theories that take the speed of light into consideration. Both studies will be published in an upcoming edition of the European Physical Journal. Reviving Japan's economy fraught with power pitfalls By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
If past is precedent, optimists hoping Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will defy vested interests to take bold action to open the country to more competition as a way to spur growth could well be in for disappointment. Japan's list of reports urging reforms date back almost three decades and have rarely led to the bold action that critics say is needed to dig the economy out of stagnation. Abe, who got a rare second chance at Japan's top job after his Liberal Democratic Party's election win in December, has made structural reforms, such as deregulation, the third arrow of his Abenomics plan to revive the economy. But skepticism runs deep that he can be as successful with economic reform, which experts say will be the acid test after his first two arrows of fiscal spending and hyper-easy monetary policy, a combination that spurred a stock market rally and bolstered Abe's popularity ratings. "People somehow think that Japan can get by, so it's not really necessary to take painful steps," said Junji Annen, a professor at Chuo University who has sat on several past deregulation committees and is now a member of Abe's new panel. "We've been saying for a quarter century that action must be taken. I don't think this time will be all that different," he said, adding the government would face opposition to reforms and might well end up taking incremental rather than drastic steps. "I worry that if the economy gets a bit better, they will ease up on reform," Annen said. Proposals by a panel on industrial competitiveness and another on regulatory reform will be key to a growth strategy that Abe will unveil in June, ahead of a July upper house election that his ruling bloc needs to win to cement its grip on power. Abe's advisers, however, are split over how extensive a role government should play in economic affairs. Some are keen to see public funds invested in key sectors, while others want to loosen the government's tight grip that critics say stifles innovation and new businesses. Among the topics under discussion are loosening employment rules to make it easier to shed workers, deregulating medical and child care sectors, promoting use of the Internet, reforming corporate governance and overhauling electric power utilities. The list of reports urging reforms date back at least as far as the landmark Maekawa Report in 1986, when former central bank chief Haruo Maekawa and other advisers urged policymakers shift from export-led growth, to open markets and to make regulations the exception rather than the rule. Within months of the report's issuance, foreign diplomats were complaining that Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had reneged on promises of change. More than half of U.S. streams listed bad for aquatic life By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says 55 percent of the streams and rivers in the United States are in poor condition for aquatic life. The EPA surveyed thousands of kilometers of waterways and found increased levels of mercury and bacteria. Also found were excessive levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, which create too much algae, a plant that uses up oxygen that fish need. Additionally, the EPA says many of the waterways lack enough vegetation to prevent flooding, erosion and pollution. The EPA says healthy streams and rivers are vital sources of drinking water and recreation and play a critical role in the economy. |
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Fruit
flies fed organic foods did better in experiment By
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A new study looking at the potential health benefits of organic versus non-organic food found that fruit flies fed an organic diet recorded better health outcomes than flies fed a non organic diet. The study from the lab of biologist Johannes H. Bauer, found that fruit flies raised on diets of organic foods performed better on several tests for general health. “While these findings are certainly intriguing, what we now need to determine is why the flies on the organic diets did better, especially since not all the organic diets we tested provided the same positive health outcomes,” said Bauer, principal investigator for the study. Fruit flies on organic diets showed improvements on the most significant measures of health, namely fertility and longevity, said high school student researcher Ria Chhabra. “We don’t know why the flies on the organic diet did better. That will require further research. But this is a start toward understanding potential health benefits,” said Ms. Chhabra, a student at Clark High School in Plano, Texas, who led the experiment. Ms. Chhabra sought to conduct the experiments after hearing her parents discuss whether it’s worth it to buy organic foods to achieve possible health benefits. Bauer, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Southern Methodist University, mentored Ms. Chhabra by helping guide and design her research experiments. The research focus of Bauer’s fruit fly lab is nutrition and its relationship to longevity, health and diabetes. “It’s rare for a high school student to have such a prominent position in the lab. But Ria has tremendous energy and curiosity, and that convinced me to give this research project a try,” Bauer said. The findings, “Organically grown food provides health benefits to Drosophila melanogaster,” have been published in the open access journal PLOS One. Buaer and Chhabra co-authored the paper with Santharam Kolli, a research associate at university. “The data demonstrated that flies raised on organic food extracts by-and-large performed better on the majority of health tests,” reported the researchers. It remains unclear why organic diets delivered better health, the researchers said. The Bauer lab results come at a time when the health effects of organic food are widely debated. Prior studies by other researchers have found conflicting results when reviewing the scientific literature for data. While several studies have shown elevated nutrient content and lower pesticide contamination levels in organic food, a recent publication reporting a large-scale analysis of all available studies concluded no clear trend was apparent. In order to investigate whether organic foods are healthier for consumers, the lab utilized one of the most widely used model systems, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Because of the low costs associated with fly research and the fly’s short life cycle, researchers use fruit flies to study human diseases, from diabetes to heart function to Alzheimer’s disease. The Bauer lab fruit flies were fed organic and nonorganic produce purchased from a leading national grocery retailer of organic and conventional foods. The flies were fed extracts made from organic and conventional potatoes, soybeans, raisins and bananas. They were not fed any additional nutritional supplements. The researchers tested the effects of each food type independently and avoided any confounding effects of a mixed diet. The health tests measured longevity, fertility, stress and starvation resistance. Some negative or neutral results were obtained using diets prepared from organic raisins, which suggests the beneficial health effects of organic diets are dependent on the specific food item, Bauer said. That might explain some of the inconsistent results in the published studies in the scientific literature, he said, noting some studies suggest there is a nutritional benefit from organic food, while others suggest there is not. “To our surprise, in the majority of our tests of flies on organic foods, the flies fed organic diets did much better on our health tests than the flies fed conventional food,” Bauer said. “Longevity and fertility are the two most important aspects of fly life. On both of these tests, flies fed organic diets performed much better than flies fed conventional diets. They lived longer, had higher fertility, and had a much higher lifetime reproductive output.” |
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