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planned for Saturday By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The telephone company will be putting all its GSM cell users on the Ericcson system as Friday turns into Saturday. Users are being asked to turn off their cell phones for a moment Saturday in order to be migrated to the new system. The company, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, said that users can do that any time of the day. If there is no signal, the cell user is being instructed to call 115 or 193 or to visit a company branch. In addition, the company will be putting into effect what it says is a telephone identification system. The company, known as ICE, said that this system would help turn off stolen cell telephones. However, the system also would be able to check what telephone devices are being used. This has made some users uneasy because they are not using approved telephones, perhaps using cells brought in from the U.S. or Canada. The migration of cell phone will be away form the Alcatel system. This is the French system that figured into bribe charges against former president Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. A former Alcatel executive pleaded guilty in the United States to bribery. The former executive, Christian Sapsizian, a French citizen, said he paid more than $2.5 million in bribes to senior Costa Rican government officials in order to obtain the mobile telephone contract with ICE. Rodríguez awaits trial here. Alcatel won the contract in 2001, and the system has been criticized for weak signals. Claudio Bermúdez, assistantt manager of telecommunications for ICE, said that when the services are joined Saturday there will be 459 radiobases or towers in operation. In 2010 a total of 529 will be in service, he said. ICE said the cost of this project was $17.5 million. The company said that with the merge of the systems some other services would be offered. Costa Rica ended up with cell services by two different companies because Ericcson won a subsequent contract for more cell lines. There are 1.6 million GSM cell users who will be involved in the changeover Saturday, although most will not realize the fact. The earlier TDMA phones are not affected. Man on Vespa is victim of trucker who flees scene By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A man riding a Vespa motorcycle either lost control or was knocked out of control at the Río Virilla bridge on the Autopista General Cañas about 11 a.m. He was run over by a truck whose driver left the scene. The man was identified by the last name of Alfaro. The Judicial Investigating Organization said he was 42. Traffic police had to shut down lanes of the major highway during the investigation of the death. The mishap happened in the San José-Alajuela lanes of the highway. This is the major highway from the capital to Juan Santamaría airport and beyond. Vespas are two-wheeled, small vehicles well suited for city driving. The Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes estimated that the highway was reopened about 1 p.m. Sweep of Limón school nets knives, marijuana By the A.M. Costa Rica staff Fuerza Pública officers reported Monday that they swept the Colegio Nocturno in Limón Centro Friday evening and confiscated marijuana and two knives. The police came with their K-9 dog and the Grupo de Apoyo Operacional, the tactical squad. The Ministerio de Gobernación, Policía y Seguridad Pública said that it had received complains from teachers and administrative workers at the school and also from the families of students. Police found the marijuana, six packages, in the backpacks of students. In all, five students, including two women and a minor, were detained and transfered to prosecutors, police said. Police said there had been stickups in some areas of the school, and some students were carrying weapons for defense. Police confiscate 1,095 kilos of cocaine in Guanacaste By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Anti-drug police searched a cargo vehicle in Guanacaste and said they found 1,095 kilos of cocaine. The inspection and arrests were made on a highway in the canton of La Cruz near the Nicaraguan border, they said. The arrests of two persons and the confiscation follows on the heels of the arrest of four persons in a truck near the Moín docks Sunday. Police said they found 110 kilos of cocaine in a refrigerated container loaded on the truck. Recital has ambitious program By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Pianist José Pablo Quesadawill present and entire program tonight at 8 o'clock at the Teatro Nacional. The former Texas Christian University master's student will begin with three works by Domenico Scarlatti a Ludwig Beethoven work in three movements, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Dumka" and closing with Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" Tickets are 2,500 colons general admission, some $4.30.
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Here's a chance to be a published haiku author in Spanish
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Get your paper out
and learn to count up to seven you could be famous That's because the Japanese Embassy is sponsoring the first national haiku contest as part of Japanese week that runs until Sept. 20. Haikus are those practical, mystical (or in the case of the one above) terrible little sayings that total 17 syllables: five on the first line, seven on the second and five on the third. They are one aspect of Japanese culture that is known around the world. The idea is to put as much detail possible in the smallest number of words, the embassy said. That is sort of like English metaphysical poems with their metaphors and similes, but in a more constricted way. The rules are pretty simple. Authors have until 4 p.m. Sept. 18 to deliver the haikus to the Organization International Nueva Acrópolis or by mail to Box 1677-2050 San Pedro by Sept. 11. The organization can be reached at 2225-2110. There are some other rules: contestants much be Costa Rican or foreign residents who write in Spanish. Each person must submit at least eight and no more than 16 haikus. The haikus must be unpublished. Contestants must not have been the recipient of a national or international literary award. Many Japanese haikus are about nature, but the subject matter for the contest is open. The haikus should be submitted under a pseudonym with the real name in a sealed envelope. Although famous Japanese poets frequently wrote with ink and brush, the embassy wants 12-point arial on letter-sized paper. Other rules are posted on the Acrópolis Web site. Winners and some participants will receive certificates, and the works will be published in an anthology, the embassy said. The winners will be listed on the embassy Web site. |
The embassy provided some famous haikus in Spanish for study: Hoy el rocío
borrará la divisa de mi sombrero Matsuo Basho Callan las cuerdas. La música sabía lo que yo siento. Borges La golondrina de vuelta a su pasado no encuentra el nido Mario Benedetti For those haiku artists who may be stuck, here is a suggestion: When haiku's the goal
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Caja union
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The unions of employees who work for the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social said Monday night that they would announce plans for a nationwide strike this morning. The unions claim that the Caja, the organization that runs all the public hospitals and clinics, broke off negotiations two months ago. The unions claim that the Caja is affected by major problems that reduce service to the public and cause problems for the workers. |
The announcement Monday night came
from the Unión de Empleados de la
Caja. The union has filed complaints against the government with the
International Labour Organization and is known as being very protective
of its members rights. The union has orchestrated a number of local strikes, includingg one at the Caja pharmacies and at other key facilities. A full walkout by the union would close the hospitals and clinics at a time when the country is facing a swine flu epidemic. |
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Country Day School Guanacaste will inaugurate a cutting edge, vertical-stacking hydroponic greenhouse system developed in Costa Rica by Four Quarters, S.A. Sept. 11. The school plans to both supply its own cafeteria with fresh, organic, pesticide-free vegetables and use the growing system and the concepts behind it to enrich its curriculum at all grade levels., the scho0ol said. Jeff Haun, director of Country Day School, explained: “Guanacaste depends entirely too much on other parts of the country for fresh vegetables, and by the time they get here, they are usually far from fresh. We wanted to be able to grow our own food, we wanted to do it without pesticides, and we wanted to do it in a way that would be fun, interesting and educational for our students. This technology accomplishes all those things.” The system is based upon vertical stacking hydroponics developed in Florida for the production of strawberries. The technology was brought to Costa Rica by Glenn Ekblom of Four Quarters, S.A., and modified to the Costa Rican climate. The major modifications include a |
special cooling
system run on misters, and the application of a beneficial fungus
originally developed by the University of Costa Rica. “The beneficial fungus is our pesticide substitute. It’s already used in traditional farming in Costa Rica and elsewhere, but in a greenhouse, it is much easier to apply and control,” said Ekblom. Ekblom’s company, Four Quarters, developed the first such greenhouse in the country in a partnership with Michael and Joanna Bresnan of Vista del Valle, in Rosario de Naranjo. The Bresnans donated the property, Ekblom had the technical knowledge and the Costa Rica Foundation for Relief & Development) donated the money for the greenhouse and hydroponics growing system, saidthe school. Together they built and developed the pre-cursor to what is at Country Day School today: A system to grow vegetables organically with no pesticides. More information on this growing system is available from Ekblom at (506) 8372-1437, e-mail: xtremelandscapes@netzero.net or from Kenneth Marder (506) 8812-3265, e-mail goldrushers49@yahoo.com. |
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Arctic
temperatures highest over the last 2,000 years By
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Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals. Changes to the Earth's orbit drove centuries of cooling, but temperatures rose fast in the last 100 years as human greenhouse gas emissions rose. The study in the journal Science documents 2,000 years of geological history using tree rings, glacier ice and lake sediment to reconstruct the Arctic summer temperature record. Lead author Darrell Kaufman, professor of environmental science and environmental sustainability at Northern Arizona University, says the warming trend over the last 50 years interrupted what was a natural cooling cycle. "We noted that the timing of the rapid increase in temperature coincides with the timing of the buildup of greenhouse gases, and there is no other mechanism or forcing that we can come up with that would explain the rapid reversal of that natural cooling," he said. The earth's cool-down period started about 7,000 years ago. Arctic temperatures bottomed out during the so-called "Little Ice Age" that lasted from the 16th to the mid-19th centuries. The root cause of the slow cooling was the orbital wobble that slowly varies over thousands of years. Some skeptics have argued that the fact that the Earth wobbles in its axis of rotation has helped determine recent warming, rather than human activity. But the new study shows that this wobble — which affects how much sunlight Earth receives in the middle of the summer — actually accounts for a long-term cooling trend in the Arctic, which has been reversed only in the past half-century. Studies show the earth had been cooling at the rate of .2 degrees Celsius per millennium. The last decade, however, was the warmest of the last 2,000 years, averaging 1.4 degrees Celsius higher than would have been expected if the cooling trend had continued. Kaufman says his research adds to the evidence that human-produced greenhouse emissions contribute to global warming. "I think that the important point there is that the very slow orbital cycles would take thousands of years before the earth could enter an ice age, before ice sheets miles thick would build up on the continent," he said. "The rapid warming that we are experiencing presently far out competes any kind of cooling trend that the natural cycle would dictate." Kaufman says another important finding came from collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which simulated orbital variations over a 2,000 years. "And the output from that computer model showed the same amount of temperature change for the arctic that we documented based on the geologic evidence," he said. "So it is this match of the output of the computer models and the natural data that gives us confidence in the ability of the model to simulate the effects of factors that we know causes climate to change." Kaufman says the evidence is conclusive that recent Arctic warming is unusual, that greenhouse gases play a role, and that it's time to take decisive action to reduce carbon emissions. The study was conducted by an international team of scientists and primarily funded by the National Science Foundation. |
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Chávez
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez received a movie star welcome in Venice Monday as he arrived to attend the 66th Venice Film Festival. Chavez was accompanied by U.S. film director Oliver Stone for the premiere of Stone's documentary titled "South of the Border." Hundreds of fans clapped and chanted as Chávez walked the red carpet at the film festival. Some fans held up a banner that read "Bienvenido Presidente." Security was tight, and a large group of bodyguards escorted the Venezuelan president, who said, "I have Italy in my heart." Mr. Chavez said he loves Italian cinema and that he remembers actresses like Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale. He said he has been in love with all of them since he was a young boy. Alongside Chávez was Stone. The Venezuelan president called the director "a great worker, a great teller of true stories." Addressing the media, Stone called the Venezuelan president "a big phenomenon" and said his 75-minute documentary shows very clearly the level of stupidity in the broad statements that are made about Chávez. Stone said his film is meant to show the changes that are taking place in South America. For his movie, Stone also interviewed the leaders of Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba and Paraguay, whom he said "are on the same page" as Chávez. Stone's documentary "South of the Border" is showing out of competition at the Venice Film Festival. Twenty-four films from 32 countries are competing for the Golden Lion Award, which will be announced Saturday, the final day of the film festival. |
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