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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, Vol. 11, No. 155 | |||||||||
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Professional women's group
to foster business development Special
to A.M. Costa Rica
The Professional Women’s Network is hosting its first business resource development event. This special session will give attendees immediate answers to business questions and will also build the foundation for a network business resource guide available to all members, the organization said. The event is Aug. 20 at a downtown restaurant from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. During this session attendees will group into topic areas including marketing, business planning, conflict transformation, working from home and legal issues, the organization said. Attendees will take turns sharing dilemmas and providing advice to others with similar issues, it said, adding that session notes will be recorded from each group and compiled into a collective resource guide that will be shared with members. The Professional Women’s Network is a new interest group of the Women’s Club of Costa Rica, which has been active for 70 years serving local communities. The Professional Women’s Network has been developed specifically for women of all nationalities to encourage personal and professional development through networking with other professional women, and to develop programs to contribute to all women in Costa Rica, the organization said. The Professional Women’s Network is an English-speaking group and beginner level English is welcome. For more information those interested can email pwn.wccr@gmail.com. The interest group's Web site is http://wccr.org/professional-womens-network Our reader' opinion
Jo Stuart's dentistry columnincluded America bashing Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Once again Jo gives us a good informative column, on dentistry this time, but she as usual can't resist a little America bashing and China worship. "Flocking to China" for medical care??? Perhaps she is not aware of the repeated examples of shoddy and sometimes toxic Chinese products being sent all over the world. Yes, flocking like sheep to the slaughter house. Advice to the U.S. government, she says, make the prices lower!!! Another multi trillion dollar entitlement to guarantee cheap implants?? This stellar advice is not hers but from "someone who SEEMS TO KNOW". What about the huge numbers of people who go to the U.S. for medical care from all over the world? Maybe they value quality and security. Loosen visa requirements?? There are already 11 million or so illegals who won't leave. The problem is that when folks from Mexico and Central America get to this horrible place called the United States of America (according to Jo) too many of them NEVER GO BACK. Maybe they just need to read Jo's columns to change their minds!! Daryl
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| Still no sign of ranger missing in Parque
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Rescue workers and police are again dealing with the case of a young man who vanished from a national park. This time it is a volunteer ranger, Oscar Cruz Ramírez, who vanished Wednesday afternoon in Parque Nacional Volcán Poás. The case contains echoes of the Chicago area doctoral student who vanished in Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja north and east of Liberia Aug. 11, 2009. Gimelfarb was 28 when he vanished. Cruz is 24. Costa Rican officials have searched the Volcán Poás park extensively. It is north of the Central Valley. The Cruz Roja is involved as is the Servicio de Vigilancia Aérea of the security ministry. The air searchers are using special cameras and video devices and already have detected plastic bags and other pieces of debris smaller than a man. The security ministry also sought and received help from U.S. Navy airmen who are involved with the Hospital Ship Comfort that is now in port at Puntarenas. A helicopter from the hospital ship conducted air searches of the area Saturday and again Sunday. |
U.S. Aircraft also participated in
the search for Gimelfarb without
success. Gimelfarb hiked alone in Rincon de la Vieja, but Cruz was
accompanied by several students who were with him until shortly before
he walked off alone. He is reported to be in good physical condition with extensive knowledge of mountain hiking. The best searchers can guess is that he fell into some kind of depression where he cannot be seen easily. Or that he no longer is in the park. The search has been going on since Thursday. The effort has engaged the support of the highest levels of the ministry. Walter Navarro Romero, a vice minister, was at Juan Santamaría airport to meet with airmen and at the search headquarters later Sunday. A Universidad de Costa Rica student vanished at the Parque Nacional Cerro Chirripó earlier this year. The Cruz Roja reported it has had about 50 searchers on the ground since Friday, although the effort was called off Sunday afternoon due to bad weather. |
| Sala IV says it doubts that cell towers
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The Sala IV constitutional court has ruled that cell telephone towers are not the threat to public health that some opponents contend. The ruling came in a case involving the Municipalidad de Carrillo. Residents said that a private firm continues to construct a cell tower even though the municipal council is imposing a moratorium until regulations can be drawn up. The court, in summary released by the Poder Judicial, said that those placing the objection should follow procedures to challenge the lack of regulations. But then it added that it did not accept claims from those lodging the appeal that cell towers would not have the harmful effects that the residents contended. |
Cell towers are controversial
now that two private companies are
entering the market. Many municipalities have no regulations and the
Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones had been holding meetings to
instruct the municipal officials. In the meantime, companies are putting up the towers. Some towers are not being constructed by the cell telephone firms but by private firms that have entered into agreements with landowners with the goal of leasing the towers to the cell companies. Although reputable scientific authorities are unanimous that cell towers put out small amounts of electromagnetic radiation, some residents near such towers are not convinced. In addition, many fear loss of value to their properties with towers looming in the background. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Investigators were back in Golfito Friday to conduct four searches. The Poder Judicial said that one search was at the municipal building itself. Others were in private homes. The searches suggest that the investigation is expanding from the single case of a bribe solicitation for the approval of a maritime concession to a number of cases, but the time span in years in not known. The Poder Judicial said that the prosecutors involved said that there were at least two new investigations. Three municipal officials were detained July 30 and later sent to prison for preventative detention. Agents are questioning others in the municipal government as well as relatives of workers there. The Poder Judicial said that one of the persons |
being questioned was the previous
mayor who has the last name of Cubillo. The current mayor is Deylon Gerardo Arroyo Blandón. Also jailed for preventative detention were the president of the municipal council, Rodolfo Delgado Jiménez, and another official, Alexis Rojas Rojas. The other searches Friday were at the home of a municipal employee who works in the Plataforma de Servicios, the home of her boyfriend and the home of the head of human resources for the municipality, said the Poder Judicial. The Poder Judicial said that investigators thought that they might find evidence of the irregular approval of construction permits. The case is being handled by the Fiscalía de Probidad, Transparencia y Anticorrupción |
| British cruise ship arrived today to mark
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Today a British-flagged cruise ship, the Grand Plaza, is due to arrive in Puntarenas marking the beginning of the 2011-2012 cruise ship season. The Instituto Costarricense de Turismo said that last year 264 cruise ships docked in Costa Rica and 385,363 passengers had the chance to visit Costa Rican soil. That number is 5.4 percent greater than the previous year, tourism officials said. |
There will be a small ceremony in
Puntarenas today marking the beginning of the season. The 77,000-ton Grand Plaza carries 1,950 passengers. Cruise ship tourism is a big money maker for Costa Ricans on both coasts. Usually the passengers have the opportunity to take small trips inland or to participate in adventure tourism or simply buy souvenirs and eat local foods. The visits usually are of a short duration. |
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| Lost Hitchcock silent film turns up in New Zealand By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Researchers in New Zealand made an amazing find recently when they discovered the 1924 British silent film “The White Shadow.” The film is significant because it was one of the first movies made by famed director Alfred Hitchcock, who was its assistant director, writer, editor and production designer. “We were sort of the end of the line, I think, from the U.S. They obviously traveled to Australia and across to New Zealand, and then when it got to the last screenings in New Zealand here, these productions were just destroyed,” said Brian Scadden, the head of the laboratory at Park Road Post Production in Wellington, where the film will be preserved. But a local projectionist kept the film and left it to the New Zealand Film Archive after his death in 1989. Leslie Anne Lewis, an American audio visual archive specialist with the National Film Preservation Foundation, recently examined the collection and came upon three reels, which she painstakingly viewed. “They were filled with really striking images, images that were enough to pique my curiosity, so I decided that night to start trying to identify the film,” said Lewis. “And during my inspection, I was able to identify two of the film’s stars, Betty Compson and Clive Brook, and the film’s distributor, Selznick,” referring to Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises. After researching contemporary reviews and summaries, Leslie Anne Lewis finally determined what she had stumbled upon. “I realized that this was most likely a film that Alfred Hitchcock had worked on," she said. "It was quite a surprise, and it was the middle of the night when I realized this, and I had no one that I could call and tell!" The White Shadow is the story of twin sisters, one evil and one innocent. The film’s star, American actress Betty Compson, plays both parts. Park Road Post Production’s Brian Scadden says the film has unique tints that emphasize its drama. “There’s one part where the leading lady, she goes into the bedroom, and it’s an amber tint, and then she switches the light off, and it goes to quite a bluey-green tint,” said Scadden. “So, whatever the mood is, whatever the time of day is, they have a different tint.” Film researchers will continue to look for remaining reels of the movie, which may have been destroyed or disintegrated. Ms. Lewis says one notable observation about this film is that it does not use a technique that later became a Hitchcock signature: a quick shot of the director himself. “Not that we’ve found so far. Maybe another eagle-eyed viewer will see something, but we’ve been looking pretty closely.” “The White Shadow” and other old films found in the archive will be preserved during the next three years through a partnership that includes the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Some of the films will be made viewable on the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Web site. A copy of “The White Shadow” will be presented to the British Film Institute, which has an Alfred Hitchcock rescue project. Chávez returns to Cuba By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is back in Cuba for more cancer treatment. Chávez arrived in Havana late Saturday, where he was greeted by Cuban President Raúl Castro. Cuban doctors removed a large tumor from the Venezuelan president in June. The operation was followed by one round of chemotherapy last month. Doctors will run tests to determine if Chávez needs a second round. The 57 year-old Chávez has not said exactly what kind of cancer he has or to what extent it has spread. |
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