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Protestors plan to
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Those opposed to incineration projects say they plan to carry trash to Casa Presidencial Sept. 8 as part of a protest. The organizers said that they would also separate the garbage to protest the presidential decree that will permit the burning of garbage in Costa Rica. Generally participants in this protest believe that a recycling program can substitute for the collection and burning of garbage. The protest is believed supported by the Partido Acción Ciudadana, which also happens to be the political party of President Luis Guillermo Solís. The incinerators, which would be installed in municipalities that request them by private firms, are supposed to generate electricity with the heat that is created. Those announcing the protest see the incinerators as having grave environmental impact. They said they prefer less consumption and recycling.  Policía Municipal de Escazú
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suspicious merchandise Tuesday in San Rafael. Police turned the case over to tax authorities when the documentation for the goods, mostly car parts, did not match what was in the boxes. Fumigation begun at international airports By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Servicio Nacional de Salud Animal said that it has begun fumigating the cargo area and the baggage of aircraft entering or leaving the country. The agency had announced this in the past, but the announcement did not say that the fumigation would ignore the passenger compartment. Those passengers with respiratory conditions have complained elsewhere of fumigation. In some countries and on some airlines, flight attendants spray an aerosol to kill insects before the plane reaches the ground. Less than 10 countries require this, according to online sources. The animal health agency said it has its own crews at Juan Santamaría, Daniel Oduber and Tobías Bolaños airports to handle international flight. The agency said that airlines were being charged 10,000 to 20,000 colons for this service. It said the work takes just five minutes. The agency said it was trying to prevent the export or introduction of harmful insects such as mosquitoes that carry yellow fever.  Ministerio de Seguridad Pública
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This is the hose nozzle
that doubled as a pistol.Sometimes
robbers have to be creative
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The crooks should get a high mark for improvisation. The Fuerza Pública detained two men in downtown San José Monday after a woman reported she had been robbed. Instead of a gun or a knife, officers said they found the nozzle of a garden hose. The robbery took place on Avenida 5 between calles 7 and 9. The two suspects were detained a few blocks to the east a short time later. Police said that the men carried several cell telephones and the nozzle of a hose. African sands are cutting visibility By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Visibility in the Central Valley and on the Caribbean coast is being hampered by sand being carried by the winds from the Sahara in Africa, according to the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional. Costa Rica frequently hosts material driven by the winds from Africa, but the amount now is enough to impede precipitation, said the weather institute. The sand and the wind makes the air dry and prevents the formation of rain clouds. The condition is expected to diminish this morning. Our reader's opinion
Who would plan a Sardinal megamarket?Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Re: "$52 million farmers market is nearing final approval" published Tuesday. Thanks for this truly hilarious article. My husband and I laughed out loud this morning when we read this. I am assuming this is a spoof? Or does the well known adage: "Logic does not apply" (here in Costa Rica) fit the occasion? This looks to be a distribution station that would be more appropriate to a larger demographic, such as Mexico City, or Los Angeles, California. Has anyone considered the demographics of Sardinal? Who in Costa Rican planning would ever think up such an unnecessary and overblown development? Here in Guanacaste we could never fill this building if we rounded up all the cattle, horses, melons and sugar cane grown in the province. Nor would we need all those semi-truck trailers. Perhaps a little auto parking would be appropriate, just in case buyers were to show up once a week or so. I cannot resist mentioning that just 15 minutes from here sits a similar facility: the Solarium. About 90 percent empty since it was built in the early 2000s. Probably could be rented in its entirety yearly, for about 10 to 20 percent of the cost to service the debt on this Sardinal Farmer's Market endeavor. A lot cheaper, already built, great location between Liberia and the beach communities. And it is empty, and available right now. Thanks for the laughs! Alana Shaffer
Playas del Coco North Korea reported reducing readiness By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
North Korea has reduced its military readiness posture, South Korea said today, after the two sides reached a deal to defuse tensions on the Korean peninsula. The North lifted its self-described quasi-state of war following the Tuesday agreement, the officials confirmed, adding Seoul reciprocated by relaxing its own defense stance. Under the accord, North Korea expressed "regret" about a recent land mine explosion that injured two South Korean soldiers. In return, Seoul turned off its propaganda broadcasts into the North.
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Fernando Altmann, the general manager of the Cartago firm Florexpo, was at the legislature Tuesday to complain about plant health rules and government paperwork that were among the reason that the company is moving to Guatemala. The firm has been in the news because 400 employees will lose their jobs. Florexpo says it is a global leader in the production of unrooted cuttings based in Paraiso. The sale of the company to Dümmen Orange earlier this year is yet another reason that the business is moving. Dümmen Orange already has facilities in Guatemala, and it is combining the business in Antigua. The transition of production of all Florexpo products will be finalized by April, the new owner said. That firm has 6,000 employees worldwide. |
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de la provincia de Cartago. He told lawmakers that the firm's growth is
based on the importation of new varieties of plants but that changes in
legislation and in the interpretation of rules have made bringing in
new species impossible. He said that plant inspectors take 25 days to do their job and by that time 25 percent of the imported plants are lost. Altmann is of the family that founded the company 27 years ago as a small operation. It has grown to be in the top 10 plant cutting producers in the world, according to Greenhouse Growers Magazine. He is lucky because he will continue to hold a position in the company. The magazine also noted that the location of the plant production farm in Paraiso has become surrounded by residential areas and it makes sense for the family to sell off the land as lots. |
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The drum beats that are filling the air come from school children practicing for the Día de la Independencia, which is Sept. 15. School children and their bands will be on the march that Tuesday with local parades and celebrations. The Ministerio de Educación Pública has announced a contest that focuses more on the night of Sept. 14. The story goes that leading Costa Rican citizens gathered in the streets under the light of their own lanterns to discuss the news of independence. So the farole or street lantern is part of the celebration. Nearly every elementary student makes his or her own. That can be seen at independence gatherings in the various communities and on the evening of Sept. 14 in San José and Cartago, the former capital. Some are very elaborate. The education ministry plans a farole contest in which students use recycled materials. This is the 194th anniversary of independence, and the contest is the first for primary grades. The contest has six categories based on the six grade levels Those interested in entering can find out more rules at the ministry Web site. Students get to keep their creations. They just have to submit a photo with a brief description of how it was made to the ministry electronically by Sept. 7. The celebration also includes a relay by students who carry |
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This church replica is
perhaps the most elaborate farole or street lantern ever. A more
typical one is lower down in the photo. Both were at the 2009
celebration in San José.the torch of independence from the northern border to Cartago, which always arrives just in time for the official celebration on the night of Sept. 14. |
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The health ministry, the consumer protection agency and the customs service are expected to blow the whistle today on fake products, others that are not register and also those without proper labeling. The Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio, the Ministerio de Salud and the Ministerio de Hacienda have combined to |
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retail outlets. The announcements come as lawmakers are about to vote for the second and final time on a bill that hikes penalties for smuggled goods. The various government agencies have been waging a continual battle against products that have not been registered with the health ministry and also medicines and health products smuggled from Nicaragua. |
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Warming oceans will cause profound changes in the biodiversity of marine life, according to the largest study ever of marine species. Some species will expand into new regions, while others, especially in the tropics and reef areas, will likely die out. An international research team used a model that looked at sea surface temperature changes and then compared that information with data on heat tolerance of individual species and habitat preference. The findings describe the distribution for nearly 13,000 species worldwide. The tropics will be hardest hit with species extinction because they are less likely to adapt. “This is especially worrying and highly germane to Australia’s coral reefs,” said the report's co-author, John Pandolfi of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Queensland. “Complementary studies have shown high levels of extinction risk in tropical biotas where localized human impacts as well as climate change have resulted in substantial degradation.” Although other species will move about more easily, Pandolfi says that, too, has a down side. “Instead of having discrete differentiation of different marine communities in different places, we found in our analysis that projected climate change is going to result in a lot more mixing of species and a lot more sameness of diversity throughout the world’s oceans.” |
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in the ocean is especially problematic as new strategies are put into
place to meet the food demands of a growing population. “When one formally abundant species moves into a new ecosystem or geographic region they may not be able to reproduce as effectively as they used to,” Pandolfi said. “It comes down to understanding the dynamism that is going to be imposed from climate change and being able to have the tools to manage for those dynamics.” If the oceans heat up and unleash a series of impacts as predicted by the study, new combinations of resident and invader species will present unprecedented challenges for conservation planning. “That’s something I think that it isn’t easy for people to get their heads around,” Pandolfi said. “Now if I’m going to set up a marine park, I want to make sure that organisms are preserved through decades or centuries. With climate change, those communities are going to be dynamic. They are not going to be static entities.” In the warmer ocean, species will cross into new geographic areas beyond political boundaries. Pandolfi says the study, published in Nature Climate Change, underscores the importance of cooperation among nations to address climate change and the potential loss of biodiversity. |
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| Intel's science fair winner made fingerprint-specific gun By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The United States has the highest civilian firearm ownership rate in the world, and a recent study ranked it in the top tier of countries in public mass shooters per capita. In fact, in the first 204 days of this year, there were 204 mass shootings in the United States, attacks in which four or more people were killed or injured. Only a handful of those attacks make national headlines. One of the most horrific was three years ago, when a gunman opened fire at a Colorado movie theater, killing 12 people, and injuring 70 others. Kai Kloepfer was a 15-year-old high school sophomore in the nearby community of Boulder, Colorado, at the time of the shooting. He had a talent for technology, and had been taking apart video machines and teaching himself engineering since the age of 5. He decided to focus his engineering skills on preventing firearm tragedies. "I kind of set out to improve the safety of firearms,” he recalled. Kloepfer wanted to make a gun that wouldn't work in the hands of a killer. While he believed he could design that gun, he also realized it would be impossible to keep dangerous people from buying guns. So he changed his focus, recognizing there were other gun-related tragedies he could do something about, accidental shootings, when children get their hands on a family gun and kill a friend or themselves while playing with it. “Every 30 minutes in the United States, a child dies or is injured by a firearm," Kloepfer said. "Add up a child every 30 minutes over even, say a week, and you have an astronomically larger number of people than has ever been injured in any type of mass shooting in the United States.” Those numbers come from a study done by the Children's Defense Fund. A more recent study by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that at least 10,000 kids or teens are killed or injured by guns every year. Kloepfer decided the gun he would design would be a safer weapon. It would fire only when unlocked by the fingerprint of the owner or an authorized user, not for anyone else. It took seven months and over 1,500 hours for Kloepfer to create a plastic, smart gun prototype. He entered his fingerprint handgun in the local science fair where he won and kept winning, all the way to the world’s top youth science competition. At the age of 16, he won the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair. “7.4 million people across the world compete at some level of that," he said. "But only 1,500 people each year get to attend the Intel Science Fair. I was amazingly selected by the judges to attend the Intel Science Fair and actually ended up winning the first place grand award in engineering for that year.” The INTEL award included a small cash prize. Kloepfer applied for a grant from the SmartTech Challenges Foundation, whose mission is to foster innovation in firearm safety. He received $50,000. Now 18, Kloepfer has been using the grant money to further develop his technology and continue to refine his prototype. “This doesn’t change the function of a firearm at all. It just makes it safer,” he said. He is now integrating the fingerprint lock technology into a live metal gun, and expects to one day see his smart gun for sale side-by-side with regular firearms. Constantly seeking feedback, Kloepfer showed the plastic prototype to Kye Javes, a deputy with the Boulder County Sheriff's Office, who peppered the teenager with questions about its durability and reliability. He noted that a safer gun will never be a substitute for proper training, but could make a difference in a far too common situation. “I know a lot of people leave a gun on a nightstand, because they want to have accessibility to it," he said. "To me, this is the answer to that.” And Javes had a request for the young inventor: “When you get a working prototype, I would love to shoot it!” Kloepfer plans to spend the next year focusing on refining his fingerprint handgun. Then he’ll start classes at one of the world’s top science schools, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. World Health plans review of response to ebola crisis By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The World Health Organization has begun the process of producing new guidelines for responding more quickly and effectively to ebola and other global epidemics and emerging diseases. A special review committee is meeting for two days this week at World Health headquarters to produce recommendations to address outbreaks like ebola. The panel is looking at how international health regulations were implemented during the crisis in West Africa and how to strengthen them. The regulations are an important legal instrument aimed at protecting populations by preventing and controlling the international spread of disease. The panel has set up three working groups to identify weaknesses with the ebola response and seek solutions, according to Didier Houssin, who chairs the committee. He said the first group will focus on the flow of information and communication among member states and World Health. He said the other groups will cover resources and compliance with policies. “We have a second group within this committee, which is going to address the question of capacities. Of course, capacities, core capacities in term of epidemiology, surveillance, laboratories, points of entry, etcetera," said Houssin. "And, we have a third group, which will be addressing the question of compliance to rules and the question of the governance of international health regulations.” Houssin said one of the biggest problems is getting countries to comply with the regulations. He said there are many reasons, including the inability of poor states that have poor health systems and lack the financial means to follow through on the epidemiological or surveillance requirements. He said the committee will look into this problem and consider how to help these states perform better. The panel says it aims to produce its recommendations in time for a meeting of World Health's decision-making body next May. Californians, too, find homes in useful shipping containers By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Housing prices around the San Francisco Bay area are out of reach for many people, so some young entrepreneurs, artists and tech industry workers are creating their own houses using converted shipping containers. The effort requires ingenuity and dealing with restrictive local laws. Artist Heather Stewart is one of 20 people who live and work in shipping containers, or other types of tiny houses. Most are standard containers six meters long. She is installing plumbing and wiring in her unit. “We all have enough tools that we can pass them around, so then everybody has the resources they need to build what they want," said Ms. Stewart. Stewart and her friend Luke Iseman have been here since April, after city officials ordered them to remove their housing containers from a property they had bought with friends in an industrial section of Oakland. They were told they were violating local zoning codes. They relocated to a massive warehouse at an undisclosed location, where they and their friends have installed a dozen containers costing about $2,000 each. Iseman got the idea after he helped create a metal-working factory in a shipping container that was shipped intact to Kenya. He says it made him realize how useful the structure can be. “A roof that doesn’t leak and a floor that’s level. So from there, it’s more or less esthetic modification," said Iseman. The container houses are adapted for the artists and others who live here, like designer Camille MacRae. “It’s really interesting to be in this space because there are other people doing similar things, and just to have this richness of ideas and exchanges happening," said Ms. MacRae. People in other cities are experimenting with shipping container houses, and Iseman says there may well be others on San Francisco Bay that are hidden from view. “People have been secretive about it because institutions impose large fines if you don’t comply with their rules," he said. Iseman and his friends say the lack of affordable housing calls for creative solutions. U.S. West ravaged by fires burning parched forests By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Wildfires have been raging in the western states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and California forcing thousands of residents from their homes. Officials are hoping to contain the flames before they reach industrial sites and produce toxic fumes. Three firefighters have died in the effort. Planes and helicopters have been dropping water and flame retardants in efforts to stop the fires from spreading. "It's incredible to see the air attack tankers come in like they do, especially the DC-10," said Mike Pruitt, a resident of Winthrop, Washington. But heavy smoke above some areas makes flying to them impossible. "It's a blessing and a curse, the smoke. It keeps a lid on things and kind of reduces fire behavior a little bit, but at the same time when it's so smoky we can't fly aircraft," said Todd Pechota, an incident commander in Okanogan, Washington. Officials are warning residents to stay indoors until the smoke clears. The smoke and frequent evacuations also have been hard on the local farm animals. Nearly 29,000 firefighters are working to extinguish large fires across the drought-and-heat-stricken West. Many residents have joined the effort to contain the march of fires approaching their homes and to offer refuge to those who had to flee theirs. "This is a very generous and very tightly-knit community. And so as soon as the word got out people, you know folks that knew each other, opened up their homes to each other and even some of the lodges opened up and allowed people to stay at the lodge for the night," said Chon Bribiescas of the U.S. Forest Service. There is fear that a coming storm could flare up the fires in some parts of Washington State. The good news is that fires were cleared in some places, enabling residents to return to their homes. Spontaneous murderers said to have similar mental profiles By the Northwestern University news staff
Murderers who kill intimate partners and family members have a significantly different psychological and forensic profile from murderers who kill people they don't know, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study that examined the demographics, psychiatric history and neuropsychology of these individuals. The new knowledge about murderers who commit what is called spontaneous domestic homicide, emotionally driven crimes that are not premeditated, could enable early intervention to prevent the homicide, the authors said. Domestic homicide is one of the most common and frequent types of murder in the U.S. One-third of all women murdered in the U.S. are killed by their male partners including husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends and ex-boyfriends. "The findings provide important information that may help prevent future domestic homicides, because they help identify individuals at risk of committing domestic murders," said lead author Robert Hanlon, director of the forensic psychology research lab at Northwestern University. "The killers in this group are very similar to each other and different from men who commit non-domestic murders, which are often premeditated." The study on spontaneous domestic homicides found these killers have more severe mental illness (particularly psychotic disorders), few previous felony convictions, are less intelligent and have more cognitive impairment. The paper was published Aug. 21 in the early view online edition of the Journal of Forensic Sciences. "These crimes are often preventable if family members are more informed about the potential danger from having someone who is severely mentally ill in the home and who may have shown violent tendencies in the past," Hanlon said. "Family members may lull themselves into a state of false beliefs thinking 'my son would never hurt me' or 'my husband may have a short fuse but he would never seriously harm me.'" "The fact is the husband or son may very well harm the wife or mother," Hanlon said. These murders are not a premeditated, strategic type of killing, noted Hanlon, who testified in the James Holmes Colorado theater mass murder trial in Denver in July. "These murders are in the heat of passion and generally involve drugs or alcohol and often are driven by jealousy or revenge following a separation or a split," Hanlon said. "This is grabbing the kitchen knife out of the drawer in a fit of anger and stabbing her 42 times." Another scenario is a murder committed by a mentally ill son or another family member who is psychotic and thinks the victim is plotting against him. Intimate partners and family members need to notify the authorities that they are concerned about potential harm and remove themselves from the situation, Hanlon recommended. "You can stay with relatives, call domestic violence hotlines and say, 'I'm scared something is going to happen to me,'" Hanlon said. "Start the wheels turning and get assistance." For the study, Hanlon interviewed and personally evaluated 153 murderers for more than 1,500 hours. Participants were men and women charged with and/or convicted of first-degree murder in Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Colorado and Arizona. "You learn a lot about them in that amount of time," Hanlon said. "I saw the same patterns and trends over and over again." |
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While some research suggests that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids can protect brain health, a large clinical trial by researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that omega-3 supplements did not slow cognitive decline in older persons. With 4,000 patients followed over a five-year period, the study is one of the largest and longest of its kind. It was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “Contrary to popular belief, we didn’t see any benefit of omega-3 supplements for stopping cognitive decline,” said Emily Chew, deputy clinical director at the National Eye Institute. Dr. Chew leads the age-related eye disease study, which was designed to investigate a combination of nutritional supplements for slowing age-related macular degeneration, a major cause of vision loss among older Americans. That study established that daily high doses of certain antioxidants and minerals can help slow the progression to advanced degeneration. A later study tested the addition of omega-3 fatty acids to the antioxidants and minerals. But the omega-3s made no difference. Omega-3 fatty acids are made by marine algae and are concentrated in fish oils. They are believed to be responsible for the health benefits associated with regularly eating fish, such as salmon, tuna, and halibut. Where studies have surveyed people on their dietary habits and health, they’ve found that regular consumption of fish is associated with lower rates of macular degeneration, cardiovascular disease, and possibly dementia. “We’ve seen data that eating foods with omega-3 may have a benefit for eye, brain, and heart health,” Dr. Chew explained. Omega-3 supplements are available over the counter and often labeled as supporting brain health. A large 2011 study found that omega-3 supplements did not improve the brain health of older patients with preexisting heart disease. Dr. Chew and her team saw another opportunity to investigate the possible cognitive benefits of omega-3 supplements, she said. All participants had early or intermediate macular degeneration. They were 72 years old on average and 58 percent were female. They were randomly assigned to four groups. Participants were given cognitive function tests at the beginning of the study to establish a baseline, then at two and four years later. The tests, all validated and used in previous cognitive function studies, included eight parts designed to test immediate and delayed recall, attention and memory, and processing speed. The cognition scores of each subgroup decreased to a similar extent over time, indicating that no combination of nutritional supplements made a difference. |
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| From Page 7: Chinese stocks lower despite interest rate cut By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Markets in Asia swung wildly but were mostly lower today as China's move to cut interest rates failed to alleviate investors' concerns about the health of the world's second-largest economy. The Shanghai Composite Index opened a volatile day of trading with slight gains. By around midday, the benchmark index was still see-sawing but had lost just over a percent. The Shenzhen Composite Index was down nearly 2 percent. Elsewhere in Asia, trading was mostly lower, including in Seoul, Sydney, and Taiwan. Stocks were slightly higher in Tokyo, and trading was flat in Hong Kong. China's central bank on Tuesday cut interest rates a quarter of 1 percent, and told banks they could hold less money in reserve. The moves make it easier for consumers to buy products and companies to build factories and hire people. The action reassured some investors who bid up European stocks which rose 3 percent in London, 4 percent in Paris and 5 percent in Germany. U.S. stocks recovered, but then faltered with the Dow off by 1.3 percent at the close. Chinese officials acted after several days of plunging stock prices around the world as investors worried that Chinese economic growth was slowing. In New York, S&P Capital IQ's Sam Stovall says China's growth probably will fall to 6.6 percent next year, which is dramatically slower than in the past. But in an interview, Stovall said that rate of expansion is still an enviable one. An expert on China's economy from the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Nick Lardy, says China's economic problems affect other nations because it is the second-largest economy in the world. That means a slowdown in China cuts demand for manufactured products from industrial nations and reduces the need for commodities from developing countries. Less demand slows economic growth in China's trading partners, which are numerous because the Middle Kingdom has become the manufacturing workshop for the world. Lardy said investors watch China with great care in the hope of getting forward indicators of the direction and strength of an economy that affects demand for so many products in so many nations. |
