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Ministry shows
need for comparing prices
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Día de la Madre shoppers will find differences of up to 71 percent on identical items, according to a survey by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio. The ministry's Dirección de Apoyo al Consumidor reported on another one of its holiday price surveys Friday. The identical item in question was a Proctor Silex coffee maker in which prices at two stores varied some 7,573 colons. Vast differences also were found in what the surveyors called similar items. Prices at 24 retail outlets were checked between July 19 and 31. They were in Alajuela, Heredia, Cartago and San José. Prices were checked on electrical appliances and white goods, typical mother's day presents. The survey also reported average prices for many items. The surveyors also studied advertising in the printed press and at points of sale. They checked 192 establishments to find that 156 or some 81 percent were following the laws that require truthfulness and clarity of information. Warning and orders for corrections were handed out when violations were found. The full survey is on the ministry Web site. Short course announced in climate change By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Universidad para la Paz is offering a diploma in energy and climate change with most of the classes being held in Sabana Norte. The course begins Tuesday and runs until Oct. 28. Some sessions are Saturday at the university campus in Ciudad Colón. The university said that the course is designed to focus on Costa Rica and its relation with other countries. Costa Rican officials have proposed to make the country carbon neutral by 2021. That pledge is based on the belief that carbon dioxide is creating global warming. The earth's temperature has risen 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) since 1880, according to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration The course will consider the use of hydrocarbons for transportation and also proposals for new models of industrial development. The fee ranges from $500 for a student to $1,000 for a member of the public, said the university Web site. Sportscaster Frank Gifford dead at 84 By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
American pro football Hall of Famer and longtime broadcaster Frank Gifford has died at the age of 84. In a statement Sunday, his family said Gifford died of natural causes earlier in the day at his home near New York City. Born in 1930 in the western U.S. state of California, Gifford attained stardom in collegiate football at the University of Southern California before entering the National Football League in 1952 as the 11th overall pick of the New York Giants. He played his entire 12-year career with the Giants, and was the league's Most Valuable Player in 1956 as the Giants won the league championship. Known for his athleticism and versatility, Gifford starred as a running back and receiver, but also excelled on the team's defensive squad and special teams. After retirement, Gifford became a sportscaster and worked as play-by-play announcer and later as commentator on ABC's "Monday Night Football" from 1971 to 1997. He also appeared in about a dozen Hollywood films, most notably the World War II naval drama, "Up Periscope." His wife, the former Kathie Lee Epstein, currently hosts one hour of the daily NBC news program "Today." Evicted squatters plan to negotiate Tuesday By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Evicted squatters who want the government to give them land and jobs have agreed to meet Tuesday to continue negotiations. The former resident of Finca Chánguena were evicted by Fuerza Pública officers following a court order a week ago. They have continued to block one or both lanes of a bridge on the Interamericana Sur over the Río Térreba. The evictees include the aged and children. Some of the individuals have lived on the disputed property for up to 14 years after the company with rights to the land fired workers during a strike. The rector of the Universidad Nacional in Heredia, Alberto Salom, is mediating the negotiations between the evictees and the central government. Already the government has agreed to give each family about $100 and to cover their housing for three months. The location is in Palmar Sur in the canton of Osa on the southern Pacific coast. This is one of the poorer areas of the country where much of the income is generated by agricultural projects. Some of those involved did not live on the land but had taken control of some land to farm. Miss Costa Rica will not be Miss Universe By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A 23-year-old woman from Guápiles is the new Miss Costa Rica. She has a long history of participation and winning various beauty titles. She will be unable to participate in the Miss Universe pageant because organizers of the contest here have decided not to participate because Donald Trump made uncomplimentary statements about Mexicans. Trump runs the company that produces the pageant. The Miss Costa Rica pageant is a production of Televisora de Costa Rica, which has held the franchise for 40 years. The television company also said it would not air the Miss Universe pageant here because of Trump's comments, which the company said were against brother Mexicans and all Latin Americans. Trump called illegal Mexican immigrants to the United States rapists and murderers after Francisco Sanchez, 45, a man with an extensive criminal history who had been deported five times to México killed a woman named Kate Steinle in San Francisco. The murder appears to be random. The television company said it would review its decision if Trump apologizes or retracts his statement or leaves the Miss Universe pageant. None of that is likely to happen while Trump seeks the Republican presidential nomination. Safe crackers fled without loot By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Fuerza Pública officers on patrol broke up a safe cracking at the Pali supermarket in Barranca, Puntarenas, Saturday. That was at 3 a.m., and it appears that the crooks fled. However, until mid-afternoon law officers thought the crooks still were in the building. Not until 3:30 p.m. did they enter to find no one there. They also found a damaged safe. The crooks did not manage to open it. The Judicial Investigating Organization credited the safe job to a gang that has been committing similar crimes in the area. Parliamentary elections in Haiti called valid By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Haiti held long-awaited parliamentary elections Sunday, taking a step toward political stability in a country still working to recover from a devastating 2010 earthquake. The voting was marred by clashes at some polling places, including in the capital, Port-au-Prince. At other sites, voters had to wait for hours after the polls were due to open, and in some cases were given extra time. Pierre-Louis Opont, director-general of the Provisional Electoral Council, told a news conference late Sunday that the problems were limited to a small number of polling places. "Today, I can say that the violence only pertained to four percent of the voting centers," he said. "Given in total there are 54,508 polling stations, there is only four percent affected. That we can say tonight." The head of an observer delegation from the Organization of American States, Enrique Castillo, said overall the vote was valid. "These problems that appear are not so generalized or so big as to be able to question the whole process," he said. "The whole process stands, and that's the first conclusion, and we also acknowledge that the council made efforts to resolve the situations that appeared in the day." More than 1,800 candidates are running from 130 different parties. Election results are not expected for several days. Voter turnout was reported to be low. Haiti has not had a parliament since it was dissolved in January. The previous terms of lawmakers expired before the country could organize the new vote. Another round of voting is scheduled for October when Haiti will also hold an election to pick a successor to President Michel Martelly. Martelly has been ruling Haiti by decree in the absence of a parliament, drawing criticism and protests from opponents who said they lost faith in the central government. He took office in 2011 and twice during his tenure parliamentary elections were due to take place but did not. He is not eligible to run for another term in October. Ferguson police wound man in exchange By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Police in the U.S. city of Ferguson, Missouri, said a man was in critical condition after being shot by police in an exchange of gunfire on the sidelines of what had been a day of peaceful marches to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. St. Louis Police Chief Jon Belmar said plainclothes detectives had been monitoring a man they feared was armed, and that he was then involved in exchange of 40 or 50 shots between two groups of people before shooting the officers' vehicle multiple times. The four detectives all returned fire and the unidentified man, believed to be about 20 years old, went down, the chief said. Belmar told a news conference that the outbreak of violence was an impediment to positive change, stressing that the shooting did not involve those demonstrating on the anniversary of 18-year-old Michael Brown's killing. "They were criminals, they weren't protesters," Belmar said. "Protesters are people that are out there that are talking about a way to effect change, whatever that may be. That's not what's happening here." He said police first increased their presence in that area after reports of looting, and that some people threw bottles that shattered near officers. He also reported one officer was injured by a flying brick Sunday night in Ferguson. After the shootings, police ordered people still gathered in the area to leave and used smoke grenades to disperse the crowd. Several of those in the crowd criticized the police on Twitter, saying the smoke was fired after people were already complying.
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Costa Rica's firemen presented their new and more daring 2016 calendar in Heredia Sunday. The 14 featured firemen were bare-chested as they appear in the calendar, much to the delight of female spectators. Each fireman paraded, and some performed body motions Chippendale style. Firemen is the correct term this year because female fire fighters were not included in the revue. The 2015 calendar included one woman firefighter, but those in thar calendar wore white t-shirts. |
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beer bellies were not permitted. The calendar is a project to raise money for the Hospital Nacional de Niños burn unit. They are 5,000 colons each. They are available at retail outlets. Fire departments seem to have the corner on revealing calendars. Many departments all over the world produce calendars, and there even are movies that include fire fighter calendars as part of the story line. |
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President Luis Guillermo Solís suffered a double defeat Friday when the Poder Judicial announced two rulings by the constitutional court. The magistrates rejected the president's efforts to reverse a veto involving a comprehensive labor law and also a law that would have permitted vendors to remain at the west side of Plaza de la Democracia, a public street. Both measures were vetoed by then-president Laura Chinchilla. The labor law would have encouraged strikes by public and private workers. When he issued a decree reversing Ms. Chinchilla's veto of a bill letting vendors remain on the public street, he made a point of visiting the Mercado de Artesanía to receive thanks from the merchants there. The Municipalidad de San José had filed an appeal to the Sala IV over the presidential decree because the municipality wants the street back. Magistrates voted 5 to 2 that the lifting of the veto on the |
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rules. Magistrates decided, 6 to 1, that lifting the labor veto took place within the time period, but they also decided 4 to 3 that the presidential action was unconstitutional. There was considerable judicial disagreement if the Costa Rican Constitution affords the president the power to lift the veto approved by a predecessor. Some thought it did not, but others saw the power was implied by thedocument. Casa Presidencial said that the executive branch would continue working with lawmakers to improve the condition of workers. And, it said, it would work with the Municipalidad de San José to safeguard the commercial activities of the vendors. The municipality had set up a building two blocks away that is being used as an artists market, but merchants on Calle 13 have said they think the location is too far from the normal flow of tourists. |
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Wastewater from an abandoned gold mine continues to drain into a Colorado river, causing it to turn to a mustard-yellow hue. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the wastewater contaminated with heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic, copper, lead and zinc is leaking into the river at a rate of more than 2,000 liters per minute. EPA workers were conducting a cleanup of Colorado's Gold King Mine when they accidentally breached a debris dam Wednesday, causing nearly 4 million liters of wastewater to spill. The spill from the mine flowed from the Animas River, which leads to the San Juan River in New Mexico and Utah, later joining the Colorado River near Lake Powell, located in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Near the mine, the EPA said the water registered at a pH level of 3.74, similar to the acidity of tomato juice, but further downstream pH levels measured at 4.8, which is closer to the acidity of black coffee. |
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Mustard-colored wastewater laced
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Colorado. The EPA said it has built two retention ponds to begin trapping and screening out the yellow contaminants. The amount of time needed for cleanup efforts is unknown. Local officials in affected areas have shut down the river's access to water treatment plants. While the EPA has warned people to stay out of the river and to keep domestic animals from drinking it. This is not the first time that mine lagoons accidentally drained into the river. |
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| Post reporter's last hearing is today in Iranian court By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A Washington Post correspondent held in Iran for more than a year will have a final hearing in his case today, the newspaper's executive editor said, potentially bringing a close to a process that has drawn condemnation from press freedom groups and U.S. officials. Martin Baron said in a statement Saturday that the lawyer for Jason Rezaian, the Post's correspondent in Tehran since 2012, was told that the closed-door session in Iran's revolutionary court would be the last before a verdict. Rezaian was arrested in July 2014 along with his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and held for months without formal charges. He was later charged with espionage and working with hostile governments. Baron called the trial a sham and said the charges could not be more baseless and absurd. "Iran has behaved unconscionably throughout this travesty of a case," he said. "It has imprisoned an innocent journalist for more than a year and subjected him to physical mistreatment and psychological abuse." Baron urged the court to acquit and release Rezaian, saying Iran had a chance to bring the case to a humane resolution. U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters at a press briefing Thursday that the United States continues to call for the release of Rezaian and all other detained Americans in Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry has said Rezaian poses no threat to Iran and that the U.S. is disappointed in the case. When asked last month whether Rezaian's release might be part of the international nuclear agreement with Iran, Kerry said, "We are working very hard on him." Two other Americans, Saeed Abedini and Amir Hekmati, have been held in Iran for several years. In addition to The Washington Post and U.S. officials, the calls for Rezaian's release have come from press freedom groups and individuals across the world. Nearly 500,000 people have signed an online petition urging Rezaian's unconditional release. The board of the Committee to Protect Journalists sent a letter to the head of the Iranian judiciary on July 20 calling for an immediate end to the case with Rezaian going home. "Never before has an international journalist been held for so long in the Islamic Republic of Iran," the letter said. "Our colleague has been denied any real opportunity to defend himself against the charges." French tourists gave son, 9, their water to keep him living By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A French couple who set out with their 9-year-old son on a hike in the scenic desert in the western U.S. state of New Mexico likely lost their lives in an effort to keep their child alive. David, 42, and Ornella Steiner, 51, both of Bourgogne, France, gave the boy, Enzo, two sips of water for each one they took before their supply ran dry and they succumbed to the scorching heat in the White Sands National Monument, Otero County Sheriff Benny House said. Enzo survived. "That may be why he fared so well, is he was a lot smaller and probably had twice as much water,'' House said, referring to the child. Two empty half-liter bottles of water were found with the bodies. The U.S. park service recommends 3.8 liters of water for each hiker. Enzo’s grandmother, who flew out to America after learning of the tragedy, was scheduled to bring him back to France this weekend. Park rangers discovered the three French nationals while patrolling an area about 1.5 miles from the Alkali Flat trail head on a day when the temperature had climbed past 38 degrees C. House said the boy told authorities that his mother had headed back toward their car after becoming ill. He carried on with his father. But the father became disoriented and "the heat was affecting his judgment," House said. Park rangers found the mother's body on a routine patrol of the area. It was only when they checked her camera and saw that she had been with two other people, Hunter said, that a search began for the boy and his father. Enzo was found alongside his deceased father and rushed to a hospital, where he was treated for heat exposure. Authorities believe the couple died of heat-related causes but are waiting for the results of an autopsy to confirm the official cause of death. Rescuers said it appeared that the parents, who had not signed the park’s entry register, had left for their hike shortly after midday when temperatures can reach 40 degrees C. Alkali Flat Trail takes visitors through scenic white sand dunes that have engulfed the desert in the national monument to the edge of the Alkali Flat, a lake bed that dried up thousands of years ago, after the last ice age. There is no shade among the dunes and sparse short shrubs are the only vegetation. Park authorities recommend that summer visitors hike during the coolest part of the day, which is early morning or early evening.  Lake Mead National Recreation Area Public
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The foundation of the St. Thomas
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which once looked like the black and white photo, sat underwater for many years after Lake Mead filled. Ghost town
now high and dry
as Lake Mead level declines By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Drought conditions in the Western part of the United States have allowed an old Nevada town once submerged deep beneath Lake Mead to emerge from its watery grave. Founded in 1865, St. Thomas was initially settled by Mormons drawn by Muddy Creek, a tributary that flows into the Colorado River, located 22 miles away. When the Mormons left in 1871, outlaws, including horse thieves and cattle rustlers, moved in. The town was eventually settled by people attracted by the region’s prime farming land. St. Thomas became a key stopping point between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California. However, the pioneer town’s fate was sealed in the early 1900s, when the federal government decided to build a dam to harness the power of the Colorado River, thus allowing for westward expansion and large-scale irrigation. Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the Hoover Dam, became a popular public attraction. Visitors were drawn by the sight of a shimmering body of water set against the harsh backdrop of the arid, unforgiving desert. But underneath this man-made wonder lay the doomed town of St. Thomas, which had been submerged when the Colorado River began to fill the surrounding canyons and valleys. At its peak, the town’s population reached about 500, and there was a school, church, post office, grocery stores, and an ice cream parlor. In 1928, President Calvin Coolidge signed the bill authorizing the building of what would become the Hoover Dam. St. Thomas residents were ordered to relocate, and the U.S. government reimbursed them for their property. Residents abandoned the town as Lake Mead began to fill in 1935; the last resident to leave St. Thomas rowed away from his house in June of 1938. When it is at capacity, Lake Mead is the largest man-made reservoir in the United States. At the lake’s highest point, St. Thomas was 60 feet below the water’s surface. But then came the fluctuation in water levels. Over the decades, drought conditions have given visitors repeated glimpses of the once-thriving wild west town, and, since 2002, St. Thomas has remained exposed. Today, the steps of the local schoolhouse and the wall of the St. Thomas ice cream parlor are visible. “It’s kind of ironic that this town was initially settled because of water…water was the source that started this town and then it was water that defeated the town when the lake filled up,” said Christie Vanover, public affairs officer for the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. “And now it’s water that’s helped us to rediscover the town because of the drought and the lack of water.” Visitors are free to wander around the area but are prohibited from touching or moving any objects long-ago residents left behind; those pieces are considered protected cultural artifacts. “There are still artifacts on the ground in addition to the foundations,” said Ms. Vanover. “There’s also wheels, engines or other car parts that are still present from people who just abandoned their cars when they left the town.” Federal officials expect St. Thomas to remain exposed for at least the next two years. However, Lake Mead, which gets its water supply from snow melt-off in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, could eventually refill, sending St. Thomas back to its underwater tomb. “Which would be tragic for the town but would be very fortunate for our communities because we all definitely need more water in Lake Mead,” Ms. Vanover said. Until then, from time to time, former residents and family members continue to hold reunions at St. Thomas, the last one being in 2012. While they remember old times, the rest of the people who come to St. Thomas enjoy a unique and possibly somewhat fleeting chance to revisit history. Bernie Sanders draws crowds during western campaign By
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While U.S. political watchers have been pre-occupied in recent days with billionaire Republican Party candidate for president Donald Trump, on the other side of the country, Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders has drawn his largest crowd yet. His message, while not aimed at Trump personally, is decidedly anti-billionaire. Sanders is the rumpled independent senator from Vermont who has so far emerged as the leading opponent of former secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the quest for the Democratic nomination. Without her financial resources, he has been on a tour of the northwestern U.S. to drum up support. Saturday night in Seattle, he attracted some 12,000 supporters to a University of Washington sports arena, while 3,000 more gathered outside to hear Sanders’ populist platform: increased minimum wage, universal health care, mandated family leave. “Seattle, 15,000 of you came out tonight and stood up to say loudly and clearly, ‘This country belongs to all of us, not just the billionaire class.’” Sander wrote Sunday on his Facebook page. Later on Sunday, Sanders responded to Trump’s assertion at Thursday’s Republican debate that he couldn’t be bought by campaign donors because he has enough money to finance his own campaign. “I am trying another way,” Sanders said on CBS’ Face the Nation, “We have gotten well over 300,000 people who've made individual contributions. You know what the average contribution is? Thirty-one bucks. We're running a people-oriented campaign.” Sanders’ rally followed a gathering earlier Saturday that was interrupted by three activists from Black Lives Matter, a grassroots movement that has sprung up in the wake of widely publicized killings of black people by American police officers. The trio was determined to call attention to Sunday’s anniversary of the shooting of an unarmed black man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Commandeering the microphone, they called for some moments of silence and for the opportunity to address the crowd. Sanders never got the microphone back, and he left without speaking. “White progressive Seattle and Bernie Sanders cannot call themselves liberals while they participate in the racist system that claims black lives. Bernie Sanders will not continue to call himself a man of the people, while ignoring the plight of black people,” Black Lives Matter Seattle posted on Facebook. “On criminal justice reform and the need to fight racism, there is no candidate for president who will fight harder than me,” Sanders told his Saturday night rally. Sanders was headed to another rally Sunday evening, this one at the Moda Center sports arena in Portland, Oregon that seats more than 19,000 people. His campaign was hoping to fill the arena. Sanders has always been considered a long shot against Mrs. Clinton. A national poll by Monmouth University released Wednesday put Mrs. Clinton up by 36 percentage points. But Sanders has filled houses recently in several major cities, including Minneapolis, New Orleans and Phoenix. After Portland, he will be heading to Los Angeles. “Can we actually prevail over a billionaire or the billionaire class?” he asked on CBS Sunday. “Time will tell. I think we can.” Trump says he is supporter of women despite comment By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Embattled 2016 U.S. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Sunday he would be a strong White House advocate for women, dismissing the contention that he made a crude remark about a female television anchor who asked him a tough question at last week's debate. "I cherish women," the billionaire real estate mogul said in one of several television interviews. The three-times-married Trump said he had hired thousands of women in his businesses, describing them as amazing executives. The political neophyte has soared to the top in surveys of Republican voters over a large field of experienced candidates, winning the support of conservatives angered at politics-as-usual in Washington. But he drew new controversy to his candidacy after he castigated Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly for asking him in the debate about the string of disparaging comments he has made about women over the years. A day after the debate, Trump said, "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming coming out of her wherever," a remark widely construed by women and men alike as referring to Kelly's menstrual cycle. Trump said only a deviant would think of the comment as such, saying it referenced blood from her nose. But the only woman in the Republican contest, Carly Fiorina, a one-time U.S. technology executive, said women were horrified by Trump's remark and several other Republican presidential hopefuls also criticized him. "I apologize when I'm wrong, but I haven't been wrong," Trump told one interviewer Sunday. "I'm leading by double digits, so maybe I shouldn't change." Prior to last week's debate, the surveys have showed Trump collecting a fifth or more of the support of Republican voters, doubling the sentiment for his closest challenger, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, the son and brother of two U.S. presidents. In all, 17 candidates are vying for the Republican nomination, with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the leading Democratic presidential contender. Trump's support has shown no signs of waning in the face of two other controversial comments he made. He castigated illegal Mexican immigrants to the U.S. as rapists and murderers and questioned whether Sen. John McCain, the Republicans' 2008 presidential candidate, was a hero after spending five years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war in the 1960s. |
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There is nothing better during the rainy season than a day of perfect sunshine: A few fleecy clouds drifting overhead but not enough to spoil the blue sky. Heavenly. The perfect day to just laze around, maybe soak
vegetable garden, choking out the new lettuce and the tomatoes. No curling up with a book for us, no m'am. We are out there in the heat, sweatband in place, hat secured against the wind and cussing under our breath as we pull the little monsters out of the ground, give them a shake and toss them in the weed bucket. Wow, are we nutty or what? Fellow gardeners, it's okay to sometimes take a break. Trust me, the weeds will be there tomorrow and not much bigger than they are today (after all, they aren't kudzu). I promise that the jungle will not overtake you if you take a day off. Yes, tomorrow it may rain and the weeds will still be there, but the drizzle will only mean that you need to wear some rain gear while you are weeding. And it will be cooler in the rain. You can leave the sweatband inside. In fact, who needs rain gear? All you really need is something to keep the rain off your face, and you are good to go. There are many rainy days when you can see me out there, hat in place, trowel in gloved hand, attacking the weeds, vines, and undergrowth just about everywhere, until my husband, Metric Man, yells from the deck, “It's time to come in. I can't even see you through all this rain.” Yes, he is right. The drizzle has turned into a deluge, and I really should go in. As usual, I gave a few final snips on vines and tugged out a few more weeds, then trudged up the garden steps, sodden, muddy, and very pleased with myself. After all, I took yesterday off and lazed in the sun.  A.M. Costa Rica/Victoria
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This was a tough one to nail down, but gesneriad or “black flamingo plant” seems to be as close as we can come. This is a great little plant, about a foot (30 cm) tall and it does well in rich soil and light shade. Use it as an edging plant, collect the seeds, and replant for a mass of color. Because it produces a mass of seeds, your neighbor may be able to supply you with all you need to start it in your own garden. If you would like to suggest a topic for this column, simply send a letter to the editor. And, for more garden tips, visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arenal-Gardeners/413220712106845 |
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| From page 7: Increases in rates proposed for taxi fleets By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The price regulating agency is proposing an increase of 15 colons per kilometer for standard taxis with a 20-colon increase proposed for airport taxis. The proposals have been put out for public comment for three weeks, said the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos. The agency said that the main consideration in raising prices was the increase in petroleum prices since the first of the year. Both regular and super gasoline have gone up around 25 percent, it said. The agency also said that taxi drivers have requested yet another study that might lead to another increase. Taxis now have a rate of 630 colons for the first kilometer and 610 for each kilometer thereafter. The rates would increase 15 colons under the proposal. Airport taxis charge 925 colons for the first kilometer and 780 colons for each subsequent kilometer. These also would increase 20 colons or about 3.8 U.S. cents |
