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Taxi drivers and government
agree on some changes By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
As has usually been the case after taxi drivers blocked key highways and caused a morning of commuter nightmares, government officials agreed to their demands. The minister of Obras Públicas y Transportes, Pedro Castro Fernández, announced in the late afternoon that the number of police assigned to catch illegal taxi drivers would be increased from eight to 40. In addition, the ministry would take steps to finish by the end of the month the allocation of permissions for former contract drivers who are being assumed into a new category of transport providers. Operators of bus routes also were involved in the protest that climaxed at Casa Presidencial in Zapote. The dispute revolves around the former porteadores or contract drivers who are receiving official status under the law. Expats from all over the country reported road blockades and inconveniences as a result of the protest. U.S. Congress tax study group welcomes overseas comments By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The expat group American Citizens Abroad is encouraging comments by individuals to the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, which it said is actively developing a comprehensive tax reform proposal. The comments can be delivered by email until April 15. The expat group said that there are 11 working groups considering various aspects of U.S. tax law. American Citizens Abroad favors a residency based tax law that would eliminate much of the overseas reporting by U.S. citizens now. The proposal would eliminate the serious difficulties that Americans overseas face due to the toxic combination of citizenship-based taxation, foreign bank account report filing requirements and the foreign account tax compliance act. Americans abroad would be taxed by the U.S. the same way they tax non-resident aliens – essentially through withholding taxes on U.S. source income revenue such as dividends, rents, royalties, etc., said the organization. Americans abroad would once again have access to foreign financial institutions and would not be subject to filing extensive tax paperwork, it added. The organization gives instructions for submitted written suggestions to Congress via email HERE. New hydro plant to join others online Thursday By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The nation's electrical generating firm will be inaugurating yet another hydro plant Thursday. The facility is the Planta Hidroeléctrica Toro 3 located on the Río Toro near Marsella de Venecia, San Carlos. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad already has two other plants in service at the river. The new plant can provide power for up to 60,000 homes, said the electrical and telecom firm. The facility includes a well some 37 meters deep, a 4,744-meter tunnel and a pipe to feed the generators some 2,113 meters long. The location is west of Cariblanco and north of the Poås volcano. Our reader's opinion
U.S. role in Latin Americafar worse than that of Iran Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Your article on the claimed fusion of "terrorists" and drugs portrays the U.S. government as the protector of Latin America. There are many here who would point to the past century and more of U.S. involvement in terrorist regimes that slaughtered thousands of innocent people throughout the entire hemisphere. There are those, too, who see the current massive and lethal drug industry in Latin America as being a direct result of draconian U.S. drug policies. Do not forget that the population of U.S. citizens incarcerated in its own jails and prisons numbers in the millions -- more than in any other country in the world, both in sheer numbers and relative to population size. And consider the secondary gain the drug industry brings to the U.S. The military-industrial-correctional industries are fueled by monies dedicated to fighting this war of its own making. Do not forget that U.S. prison populations are overwhelmingly minorities -- blacks and Latinos -- and that many are imprisoned today for decades for crimes as minor as stealing a pair of socks, or a pizza. Remember how many graduates from the School of the Americas, the U.S.-run training ground for oppressive regimes, have imposed authoritarian will on the people here in Latin America. Look at how the U.S.-inspired drug war is filling Latin American prisons. The Bible talks about casting the beam from one's own eyes before talking about the splinter in the neighbor's. Compare the harm the U.S. has wrought on Latin America to the supposed harm Iran is causing. Count how many Iranian warships are poised off our shores. Count how many Latinos have been slaughtered by terrorist Latin military under Iranian domination. John
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of the A.M. Costa Rica staff As the rust plague that is harming many coffee plants in the region continues to spread, many farmers in the coffee sector are asking the legislature for help. This help would come in the form of a 20 billion colon or $40 million trust that would be available to 42,000 coffee producers in Costa Rica. "This money is an instrument of assistance for the care of their needs because the amount of coffee they produce has been reduced,” said Guido Vargas, representative of coffee producers, in a release. According to spokespersons, crop owners lost 94 million pounds of coffee between 2012 and the beginning of 2013. A report released by the Instituto del Café de Costa Rica last month showed that $16 million of the harvest was lost to this disease. President Laura Chinchilla and Gloria Abraham, agriculture minister, signed a bill in March to set up the trust to provide support for non-reimbursable seed capital, social programs for families, help for coffee plantations in the first stages of the disease, the renewal of plantations with coffee plants that have developed tolerance for the disease and a line of credit with favorable interest rates for the renewed plantations, said the coffee institute. The money would be distributed by the Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería. Persons who would benefit from the money would have to have produced equal to or less than about 2,300 kilos of coffee to apply. More than 80 percent of the coffee-growing population meets this requirement, the coffee institute reported. The bill is now in the legislative assembly awaiting adoption. The rust epidemic is not something new to Costa Rica but dates back to 1983, said a detailed article by engineer Miguel Barquero Miranda from the investigation unit of the coffee institute. The disease, which attacks the leaves of the coffee plant and turns them yellow, arrived on the American continent in 1970 and spread throughout Central and South America. In Costa Rica, it first attacked north of the Central Valley in San Carlos de Venice. In a year, it was detected all over the nation. |
 University of Michigan file photo
Rust shows up as spots and
dead areas on a leaf.The agriculture ministry and
coffee institute conducted researched and formed training sessions on
how to combat the disease including proper planting and appropriate
fertilizer and fungicide usage to prevent and cure the disease.
Over the years, Costa Ricans learned to adapt and live with the disease, said Barquero. The latest emergence of problems comes from the gradual change in the attention given to coffee plantations as well as the variations in temperatures especially from the La Niña effect that changed the frequency of rain and increased cloud coverage in 2011. The solution, Barquero described, is for cultivators to start a proper cultural management of their plantations and to make sure to apply fertilizers and fungicides at the appropriate times. In the mean time, the research to find plants with a long-lasting resistance to coffee rust will continue. “In Costa Rica we must return to our looking toward this disease, not because of these recent severe problems, but to prevent that may affect us in the near future,” he said. Barquero's research as well as other information on the disease can be downloaded HERE! |
| Three electronic stations are in service
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The nation's road agency has installed three electronic weigh stations to catch drivers operating overweight trucks. Two are set up at Búfalo de Limón on Ruta 32, and one is at Cañas on the Interamericana Norte. The system weighs trucks as they drive onto a short detour, takes a photo of the license plate, measures the width and height of the truck and diverts it if the system senses the vehicle |
is over weight.
Radiográfica Costarricense, the Internet company, is
participating in the project. The fine for an overweight vehicle is 94,000 colons, and the truck is detained until some of its cargo can be unloaded. That is about $190. The Consejo Nacional de Vialidad said that overweight vehicles are a principal reason why the roads are beat up. Eventually similar stations will be set up at Ochomogo between San José and Cartago and at Esparza, said the Consejo. |
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and wire service reports The foreign minister expressed the country's solidarity with South Korea Tuesday during what he called difficult moments with its relations with the north. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said last week that developing atomic weapons is one of the country's top priorities. The foreign minister, Enrique Castillo, said his country's support for south Korea would be political and moral. "Your country deserves it," the foreign minister told Chun Hong-Jo, South Korea's ambassador here. "It is a country that is a good friend." The exchange came at the donation of three vehicles to the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto by South Korea. |
In the United States, Secretary of
State John Kerry said Tuesday that the United States will defend itself
and its ally South Korea against military threats from North Korea, and
says Washington will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state. Kerry, speaking in Washington alongside South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, called Pyongyang's recent threats of military action against South Korea and the United States "provocative, dangerous and reckless." He said the United States is fully prepared and capable of defending its interests, and said he believes North Korea knows that. Kerry's comments came hours after North Korea said it would quickly begin to restart its idled nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, with the aim of building more nuclear weapons and addressing the impoverished country's electricity shortage. Official North Korean radio said the restart will include a uranium enrichment plant and a five-megawatt reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium. |
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of the A.M. Costa Rica wire services Thousands of people come to Costa Rica every year for reasons that range from partying and beach life to volunteering for projects and a quest for a new life. Writer, speaker and activist Norm Shriever saw his escape to the country as a way to break away from the traditional lifestyle and rekindle his passion of writing. Before the move, Shriever was living in California. “I had the big house, nice cars, the business.“ he said. “It just wasn’t fulfilling. I wasn’t happy.” In 2011, the former businessman donated all his possessions and moved to the northern Pacific coast to Playa Tamarindo in Guanacaste province. His mission was to write his first novel about the year he spent backpacking around the world in 1999. During his time in Tamarindo, Shriever not only finished his book, “Pushups in the Prayer Room,” but found inspiration for his next book, “South of Normal,” which will be released in three weeks. “South of Normal” chronicles what the author calls his “year in paradise.” His book describes the true Costa Rica from the point of view of a Gringo who doesn’t come to party but to assimilate into the culture, he said. The book is one of a natural and a spiritual journey, he said. It tells of Shriever’s personal struggles of trying to fit into the cultures. He jokes about his attempts to learn Spanish as well as pachuco, or slang. “I make fun of others, but I make fun of myself a lot too,” he said. “It is a comedy of errors.” However, through his quest of knowledge of local customs he also unearths the hidden lifestyles of locals in the area. With this revelation, he unveils some of the stories of those who must survive in a world that revolves around tourism and the drug trade. “It’s definitely not PG13,” said Shriever. “It’s real life.” |
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Although the book takes place in Costa Rica, the story is one of people and existence. It is designed to make the readers think and feel something, he said. In terms of Shreiver’s own life, the experience was one that changed him completely. “I don’t even know who that person who first came down there is anymore,” he described. This is something he won’t forget. Even though the author is no longer drinking Baileys in his morning coffee at the beach, he says he still carries a piece of the Pura Vida he found in Costa Rica with him. Persons who wish to read more about Shriever’s year in paradise can order a presale copy of “South of Normal” on his Web site www.normschriever.com |
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 University of Akron /Alyssa Stark
Gecko keeps a firm grip in wet
natural habitatWater-repellent
surfaces give
geckos a leg up in the wilds By
the University of Akron news service
The ability of geckos to stick to trees and leaves during rainforest downpours has fascinated scientists for decades, leading a group of University of Akron researchers to solve the mystery. They discovered that wet, water-repellent surfaces like those of leaves and tree trunks secure a gecko's grip similar to the way dry surfaces do. The finding brings bioscience doctoral candidate Alyssa Stark and her research colleagues closer to developing a synthetic adhesive that sticks when wet. Ms. Stark and her fellow University of Akron researchers study the adhesive qualities of gecko pads, which have tiny, clingy hairs that stick like Velcro to dry surfaces. In a 2012 study, the team discovered that geckos lose their grip on wet glass. This finding led the scientists to explore how the lizards function in their natural environments. The scientists studied the clinging power of six geckos which they outfitted with harnesses and tugged upon gently as the lizards clung to surfaces in wet and dry conditions. The researchers found that the effect of water on adhesive strength correlates with wettability, or the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface. On glass, which has high wettability, a film of water forms between the surface and the gecko’s foot, decreasing adhesion. Conversely, on surfaces with low wettability, such as waxy leaves on tropical plants, the areas in contact with the gecko’s toes remain dry and adhesion firm. “The geckos stuck just as well under water as they did on a dry surface, as long as the surface was hydrophobic,” Ms. Stark explained, using the technical term for water-repellent. “We believe this is how geckos stick to wet leaves and tree trunks in their natural environment.” The discovery, “Surface Wettability Plays a Significant Role in Gecko Adhesion Underwater,” was published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study has implications for the design of a synthetic gecko-inspired adhesive. Eurozone unemployment set at 12 percent for two months By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Unemployment across the 17-nation euro currency bloc has hit 12 percent for the first time. The European Union's statistics office, Eurostat, said Tuesday that this was the jobless rate in both January and February. In all, it estimated that more than 19 million people are unemployed in the eurozone. A separate survey said the pace of manufacturing is continuing to decline in Europe, with jobs in that sector lost for 14 straight months. The latest labor market report continued to show a wide disparity in the jobless rates throughout the eurozone. More than a quarter of the workforce is unemployed in both Spain and Greece, while in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, only 5.4 percent are out of work. The eurozone continues to struggle to recover from its three-year government debt crisis. Just last week, the eurozone nations, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund approved a $13 billion bailout for Cyprus, the fifth country needing billions of dollars in rescue funds. Cyprus is one of the smallest eurozone nations. But the bailout is expected to take a heavy toll on its economy, especially its status as a banking center that sought to attract vast sums from offshore investors looking for high interest rates and lax regulation. Some workers like George Polydorou quickly lost their jobs. "To be honest, I lost my job a few hours ago, and unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it. No notice, no nothing. I got sacked right on the spot," said Polydorou. Political scientist Antonis Elinas predicts the Cypriot economy will only worsen. "The social impact is likely to be huge," said Elinas. "Unemployment is now 15 percent and it is already one of the highest in the eurozone countries, it's the fourth highest and it is probably going to go though the roof in the next few years. This is going to have a huge social impact, people, people will be left not just without jobs but without any prospects of having an income." Film seems to suggest trio to be innocent of murders By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
In 1993, three young boys were killed and mutilated in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three troubled teenagers were convicted for the crime and put behind bars for 18 years. It turns out, though, that their prosecution was tainted. Although the Arkansas prosecutor declined to comment, Amy Berg says her recent documentary, "West of Memphis," points to a flawed justice system and presents fresh evidence about new suspects. Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Charles Jason Baldwin were accused of the crime. Their conviction, it turned out, was based on questionable evidence and false testimonies. The widely publicized trials attracted the attention of filmmakers. In 1996, "Paradise Lost" was the first documentary to question whether justice had been served. “There were 15 years of evidence and new information," said Ms. Berg, whose 2012 documentary "West of Memphis" not only follows the case since then, but presents new evidence that focuses on Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of the three slain children. Berg says he has been identified through a DNA match and interviews with family members. She argues that the three convicted men should be pronounced innocent. “I think the documentary stands alone as a reason to exonerate them and to prosecute the real killer. So we hope that the film can stand as the testament,” Ms. Berg said. While Hobbs denies any involvement, in 2011, the state of Arkansas agreed to release but not exonerate them. Damien Echols, who had been sentenced to death by lethal injection, said to get out of jail, the three had to take what is called the Alford Plea. “Most Americans haven’t even heard of it. What it means is you’re still maintaining your innocence. You’re saying ‘I did not commit this crime,’ but you are accepting their guilty plea. And a lot of the reason for it is so that the state cannot be held accountable for what they’ve done,” Echols said. As a result, says Echols, he and the other two still bear the stigma of murder. “I have three counts of murder on my record. The guy who went to trial with me, Jason Baldwin, he’s currently in school. He wants to get his law degree and help people with the same situation we were in. But he can’t practice law with a criminal record,” Echols said. Maryland Defense attorney Rene Sandler says, often, in high profile cases such as the murder of children, the prosecution feels pressured to convict someone, anyone. “Political careers were made, reputations were made, the prosecutor dug in to whatever theory he believed at the time. And the police and the judge and everyone really were invested in the prosecution and the convictions of these three people without ever looking anywhere else,” Sandler said. The state of Arkansas has refused to reopen the case. "I believe it would be practically impossible after 18 years to put on a proper case against the defendants," said Akansas prosecuting attorney Scott Ellington, in the documentary. He did not respond to a request for further comment. But "West of Memphis," the documentary, has opened cracks in the prosecution's argument. Recent hearings could point to a new trial for the three. AP rejects illegal immigrant as term for illegal immigrant By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The Associated Press Stylebook is officially changing the way it calls people living in a country illegally, an amendment celebrated by pro-immigration activists. The guide used by media outlets around the world no longer sanctions the term illegal immigrant or use of illegal to describe a person, according to a blog post published on the AP’s Web site Tuesday. It instead recommends editorial staff use the word illegal to describe an unlawful action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally. Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll explained the decision evolved from wide-ranging discussions that included ardent supporters of the phrase illegal immigrant. Ultimately, she said, the Stylebook removed the phrase illegal immigrant as part of a larger effort to describe people specifically by their actions, rather than with labels. “And that discussion about labeling people, instead of behavior, led us back to illegal immigrant again,” Ms. Caroll wrote on the AP’s blog. “We concluded that to be consistent, we needed to change our guidance. So we have.” She acknowledged language and phrasing likely will evolve in the future, and that this will frustrate some journalists. But for now, she said, the AP believes “this is the best way to describe someone in a country without permission.” “Will the new guidance make it harder for writers? Perhaps just a bit at first. But while labels may be more facile, they are not accurate,” she said. Jose Antonio Vargas, a Philippine-born journalist living in the United States without the proper legal documentation, celebrated the change. "Long overdue but welcome nonetheless," he wrote on his Facebook page. “No human being is illegal.” Vargas is a former Washington Post reporter who now runs the immigrant advocacy group Define America. His Facebook post received hundreds of endorsements. “The point is, illegal behavior doesn't make a person illegal,” wrote immigration lawyer Jessica Jenkins. “We don't call people illegal when they rob banks or fail to pay taxes, why should we here? It doesn't even make sense grammatically.” The language used to describe the 11 million people living without legal permission in the U.S. has long stirred controversy. Last week, Don Young, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, apologized for describing Latino workers as wetbacks, a derogatory term once commonly used to describe Mexicans who entered the U.S. by wading across the Rio Grande River. Foreigners living illegally in the U.S. also are often referred to as aliens, a word Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies tweeted is apt. The AP Styleguide is considered the ultimate reference book for journalists and, as a result, influences the language read and often used by millions of people. Other major news outlets, including the Voice of America, are now deliberating whether they should follow the AP’s lead and stop calling people illegal. Financially strapped U.S. plans to spend $100 million on brain By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
U.S. President Barack Obama has launched a scientific research initiative aimed at demystifying the workings of the human brain. The president described the human brain as one of the great frontiers of human discovery. “As humans, we can identify galaxies light years away, study particles smaller than an atom, but we still have not unlocked the mystery of the three pounds of matter that sits between our ears,” he said. Speaking at the White House, Obama said he will propose $100 million for research to unlock the mystery. The funds are to go to the nation’s leading research institutions for collaboration with private companies and charitable foundations. The project aims to understand how the interactions among the billions of neurons in the human brain form our thoughts, memories and movements. The benefits could reach billions of people worldwide. “Imagine if no family had to feel helpless watching a loved one disappear behind the mask of Parkinson’s, or struggle in the grip of epilepsy. Imagine if we could reverse traumatic brain injury or PTSD for our veterans who are coming home. What if computers could respond to our thoughts, or language barriers could come tumbling down?” said Obama. National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said a dream team of top minds in brain research will lay out the project’s priorities. Unraveling the hugely complex network of billions of neural connections and their function will require tools and technology that do not yet exist. But Collins said their development may itself produce benefits. “People are quite excited about what we can learn about how the brain does what it does, which may teach us new kinds of architectures that can be the next design principle for the computers of the future. So, the computers are going to serve us by analyzing and storing the data, but we may also maybe make them obsolete by figuring out new ways to design better ones,” said Collins. The opportunity for innovation is at the heart of the brain-mapping initiative. With budget-slashing the order of the day in Washington, the president says the program is a wise investment in America’s future. He said each dollar spent on sequencing the human genome returned $140 to the economy, and he expects this project will have similar benefit. “We cannot afford to miss these opportunities while the rest of the world races ahead," said Obama. "We have to seize them. I do not want the next job-creating discoveries to happen in China or India or Germany. I want them to happen right here. And that is part of what this BRAIN Initiative is about.” Support for the initiative is not unanimous among researchers. Some skeptics say rather than focusing on a core set of issues, scientists should pursue a broad research agenda and follow where it leads. Collins said it is the right idea, though, to think big. “There is nothing like a project of this sort to inspire people to go to that next level. And we hope that we will recruit into this effort some of the best and brightest, all kinds of bright brains that might otherwise have done something else, to come and solve those problems,” he said. Researchers say the initiative is not likely to produce immediate cures for diseases. Much of the research likely will focus first on animal studies, before moving on to humans. |
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Thunderstorms
likely today By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The humid weather was just made for thunderstorms, so the prediction for Wednesday is increasing cloudiness in the morning with some isolated showers on the Caribbean coast and in the northern zone. The afternoon with warm temperatures is likely to spawn downpours in the central and south Pacific as well as the Central Valley and the Nicoya Peninsula, said the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional. With the change in the weather the institute is suggesting caution regarding lightning and flash floods. Quake was 30 years ago By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Tuesday was the 30th anniversary of the 1983 Golfito earthquake that killed one person and caused moderate damage. The magnitude was estimated at 7.2. The 8:50 p.m. quake took place while many residents were in church because the day was Saturday of Semana Santa, said the Laboratorio de Ingeniería Sísmica at the Universidad de Costa Rica. There was a 5.7 aftershock at 8:46 a.m. the next day, Easter. Blaze damages warehouse By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A morning blaze in an abandoned dwelling caused damage to the adjacent coffee warehouse and apartments. The fire, reported at 10:12 a.m. Tuesday was on Calle 24 between Avenidas 3 and 5, said the Cuerpo de Bomberos. The location is adjacent to the El Rey coffee warehouse. Fire investigators said that an electrical malfunction was not the cause because the power had been turned off. Instead they are looking at the activities of vagrants, who have been living in the dwelling, they said. Some use candles for illumination, they added. Fake bills reported By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Police Tuesday detained a Nicaraguan couple they said were in possession of some 95,000 colons in counterfeit money. The arrests took place on the Paseo de los Turistas in Puntarenas where the pair were seeking to make purchases, said the Fuerza Pública. The bills were 10,000 colons and 5,000 colons, officers said. |
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