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President Luis Guillermo Solís visited the Costa Rican community in Bound Brook, New Jersey Sunday in the first official function during his week-long U.S. visit. There is an unusual percentage of Costa Ricans living in the New Jersey community. Solis is there to seek investment and participate in United Nation's activities including making a speech at a climate change summit. Solís also will be honored by the Duquesne University law school in Pittsburgh Saturday when he will receive an honorary degree. The Universidad de Costa Rica and Duquesne maintain a program exchanging professors and students. Today Solís will meet with multinational investors in an effort to attract capital to Costa Rica. He will be accompanied by Alexander Mora Delgado, the minister of Comercio Exterior. Extortion with sex tape alleged By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Judicial agents said that a woman taped an intimate romantic encounter with a man, 70, and the woman's son managed to get a hold of it. The son, 23, was detained over the weekend because agents allege that he tried to extort money from the man. The Judicial Investigating Organization said that the man threatened to show the sex tape to the elderly victim's family and then make it public. Agents said they detained the 23 year old after he received payment from the man on the tape in San Pedro de Montes de Oca. Robber murders homeowner victim By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Investigators have a suspect in the case of a man who was tied up and suffocated in his home in San Rafael de Turrialba. Family members found the body about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, said the Judicial Investigating Organization. The agency identified him as a retired teacher with the last name of Saborio. The victim was tied hands and feet. Agents said he suffocated because he was gagged. Agents said that witnesses identified a man seen in the vicinity of the home. The motive is believed to have been robbery. Fleeing car sustains multiple collisions By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Fuerza Pública officers chased a suspicious vehicle Saturday afternoon, and by the time the driver was detained his vehicle had collided with three patrol cars and a private passenger vehicle. Police said they spotted the vehicle leaving La Rita de Pococí and followed it because it did not have license plates. They suspected it might be a drug transport, they said. The driver was not stopped until the vehicle arrived at Toro Amarillo after the collisions. Police said they found no drugs but subjected the motorist to an alcohol test. Cable system suffers failure By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Cable Tica went dark early today, and its television signal shut down about 1 a.m. Also out was the Internet signal carried by the company, suggesting a major problem. The outage delayed the publication of A.M. Costa Rica, which was posted to its Web site late.
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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, Vol. 14, No. 187 | |
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| Landslides and highway closings are a fact of life in the
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Now that the rainy season is here in full force, expats who wish to go or return from the Caribbean coast have two alternatives: The slow and tortuous route through Turrialba or the more dangerous Ruta 32 from Guápiles to San José. Ruta 32 through the Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo in the vicinity of the Zurquí tunnel is almost back to normal today after work crews removed tons of dirt, rock and trees that collapsed onto the roadway Thursday evening. The Cruz Roja said that 1,200 persons were trapped in vehicles and even a bus by three giant landslides and 11 smaller ones. By 2 p.m. Saturday the Consejo Nacional de Vialidad said the highway was open again. That is until the next heavy rain. The government plans to rebuild that road and shave back the cliff of dirt, rock and trees that is the south side of the highway. The north side is a cliff, so a slide has the potential of pushing a vehicle into a long fall. The highway agency offered another alternative for persons headed to the northern zone. That is Ruta 126 through Cariblanco. But that, too, is shelf road. About 7 p.m. Friday two men in a delivery truck went off Ruta 126. The victims were brothers with the last names Segura who lived in Heredia, said the Judicial Investigating Organization. Landslides onto highways are nearly always the faults of bad planning or an effort to construct a road cheaply. To fix Ruta 32 will require moving thousands of tons of rock and dirt. A project starting today at Monteverde will shave back part of the cliff there, in part to provide room for installing a sewer line. |
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This work is on Ruta 606 near
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A U.S. spacecraft has arrived at Mars to study the planet's upper atmosphere and help scientists answer questions about how its climate has changed over time. The craft named the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, completed a 10-month, 711 million-kilometer journey late Sunday. This is the project of which Costa Rica-born Sandra Cauffman is the deputy project manager. The craft will measure the rates at which gases escape the Martian atmosphere into space. NASA says that will allow scientists to calculate how much of the gas the planet has lost throughout its |
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understand how a planet that possibly once was home to
microbial life has turned into a cold and barren desert world. Billions of years ago, scientists believe, water coursed over the Red Planet’s face. Today, its arid surface may be a textbook on how solar heat not only evaporated that liquid, but also thinned the atmosphere by bleeding off nitrogen and carbon dioxide. MAVEN will take six weeks to settle into its orbit around Mars and test its instruments before beginning the one-year mission, which carries a price tag of $671 million. There are three other spacecraft currently orbiting Mars, two American and one European. Another from India is due to arrive Wednesday. |
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| Researchers close in on mystery eruption by using historic
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This eruption occurred six years before the 1815 Tambora volcanic eruption which is famous for its impact on climate worldwide, with 1816 given memorable names such as Eighteen-Hundred-and-Froze-to-Death, the Year of the Beggar and the Year Without a Summer because of unseasonal frosts, crop failure and famine across Europe and North America. The extraordinary conditions are considered to have inspired literary works such as Byron's "Darkness" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." However, the global deterioration of the 1810s into the coldest decade in the last 500 years started six years earlier, with another large eruption. In contrast to Tambora in what is now Indonesia, this so-called unknown eruption seemingly occurred unnoticed, with both its location and date a mystery. In fact the unknown eruption was only recognised in the 1990s, from tell-tale markers in Greenland and Antarctic ice that record the rare events when volcanic aerosols are so violently erupted that they reach the Earth's stratosphere. Working in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Earth Sciences and doctoral student Alvaro Guevara-Murua, Caroline Williams, from the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, began searching historical archives for references to the event. Professor Williams said: "I spent months combing through the vast Spanish colonial archive, but it was a fruitless search – clearly the volcano wasn't in Latin America. I then turned to the writings of Colombian scientist Francisco José de Caldas, who served as director of the astronomical observatory of Bogotá between 1805 and 1810. Finding his precise description of the effects of an eruption was a eureka moment." In February 1809 Caldas wrote about a mystery that included a constant, stratospheric "transparent cloud that obstructs the sun's brilliance" over Bogotá, starting on Dec. 11, 1808 and seen across Colombia. He gave detailed observations, for example he said of the sun that the "natural fiery colour has changed to that of silver, so much so that many have mistaken it for the moon" and that the weather was unusually cold, the fields covered with ice and the crops damaged by frost. |
Unearthing a short
account written by physician José Hipólito Unanue in
Lima, Peru, describing sunset after-glows, a common atmospheric effect
caused by volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere, at the same time as
Caldas' "vapours above the horizon," enabled the researchers to verify
that the atmospheric effects of the eruption were seen at the same time
on both sides of the equator. These two 19th century Latin American scientists provide the first direct observations that can be linked to the unknown eruption. More importantly, the accounts date the eruption to within a fortnight of Dec. 4, 1808. Erica Hendy, a colleague, said: "There have to be more observations hidden away, for example in ship logs. Having a date for the eruption will now make it much easier to track these down, and maybe even pinpoint the volcano. Climate modelling of this fascinating decade will also now be more accurate because the season of the eruption determines how the aerosols disperse around the globe and where climatic effects are felt." Guevara-Murua added: "This study has meant delving into many fields of research – obviously paleoclimatology and volcanology, but also 19th century meteorology and Spanish colonial history – and has also needed rigorous precision to correctly translate the words of two scientists writing 200 years ago. Giving them a voice in modern science has been a big responsibility." One further question remains: why are there so few historical accounts of what was clearly a significant event with wide-reaching consequences? Perhaps, Professor Williams suggests, the political environment on both sides of the Atlantic at the beginning of the nineteenth century played a part. "The eruption coincided with the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the Peninsular War in Spain, and with political developments in Latin America that would soon lead to the independence of almost all of Spain's American colonies. It's possible that, in Europe and Latin America at least, the attention of individuals who might otherwise have provided us with a record of unusual meteorological or atmospheric effects simply turned to military and political matters instead," she said. |
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| Effort to build coalition continues at United Nations By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
This week, the Obama administration will continue efforts to build a broad international coalition against Islamic State militants that have seized territory in Iraq and Syria. President Barack Obama will address the U.N. General Assembly and lead a special session of the Security Council to rally support for the campaign against the Sunni radicals. Fighting intensified between Kurdish forces and Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, as U.S. and French warplanes delivered air strikes. Meanwhile, bombs killed dozens in Baghdad, where Shi’ites demonstrated against any redeployment of U.S. forces in Iraq. President Obama has repeatedly ruled out U.S. ground troops in combat roles, saying Iraqis and Syrians backed by the international community will lead the charge. “Over 40 countries have offered to help the broad campaign against ISIL so far, from training and equipment to humanitarian relief to flying combat missions. And this week at the United Nations, I will continue to rally the world against this threat,” said Obama. America’s U.N. ambassador, Samantha Power, previewed the president’s appearance. “President Obama will come on Wednesday and will convene a very unusual head-of-state summit on the issue of foreign terrorist fighters, to try to stop the financing to terrorists in places like Iraq and Syria, to counter violent extremism, to involve civil society in delegitimizing the messages that ISIL is putting forward,” said Ms. Power, speaking on ABC’s This Week program. No nation has pledged to join the United States in an air campaign over Syria. But Ms. Power remains confident. “I will make a prediction that we will not do the air strikes alone if the president decides to do the air strikes,” said Ms. Power of Syria. Last week, both houses of Congress approved the training and equipping of moderate Syrian rebels. Although the measure had ample bipartisan support in both chambers, there were dissenters. Lawmakers voted before adjourning for what is expected to be an extended recess until midterm elections in November. Fence jumper carried knife, White House says By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The U.S. Secret Service is reviewing its security measures after two incidents in two days at the White House. Late Friday, a man identified as Omar Gonzalez, 42, was arrested after jumping the White House fence and dashing 70 yards to the front door. He was found to be carrying a 3½-inch-long folding knife. The man made it through the front door on the North Portico, which is frequently used and just one flight of stairs away from the Obama’s living quarters. The door was unlocked at the time of the breach. After Gonzalez made it past the door, an officer stopped him and subdued him. The Secret Service had initially said Gonzalez of Copperas Cove, Texas, was unarmed. Agents found a Spyderco VG-10 black folding knife with a 3½-inch serrated blade in his pants pocket, according to an affidavit, the French news agency AFP reported. The U.S. Army said Sunday Gonzalez had served from 1997 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2012, when he retired with an undisclosed disability. During an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington Saturday, Gonzalez was charged with unlawful entry while in possession of a deadly or dangerous weapon. according to AFP. He faces up to 10 years behind bars. Just minutes before the breach, the president and his daughters had boarded a helicopter on the South Lawn for a weekend getaway to Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. Saturday, a second man was arrested for trespassing at the White House. He approached the gates on foot first, but returned with his vehicle to another gate after being sent away by security. When he refused to leave he was arrested for unlawful entry. Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said that Kevin Carr of Shamong, New Jersey, had been charged with trespassing. Officials downplayed Carr's breach compared to the fence-jumper the day before. "This is an everyday occurrence," said Ed Donovan, another Secret Service spokesman, adding that at no point did Carr attempt to enter the White House grounds. NFL vows to crack down on domestic, sexual violence By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The U.S. National Football League says it plans to improve its personal conduct policies following the release of a video showing one of its biggest stars beating his then-girlfriend unconscious. The league's commissioner vowed to respond better to domestic violence in the future. He spoke as the Obama administration took steps to change the culture of violence against women by encouraging victims to speak up and witnesses, especially men, to intervene. Last week, video footage showing football player Ray Rice beating his fiance Janay Palmer in an elevator caused public outcry and swift condemnation by the White House. Anger was directed at football officials for not punishing Rice enough when a video clip first emerged in February showing Rice dragging an unconscious Palmer out of the elevator. The Baltimore Ravens player was initially suspended for two games and forced to undertake counseling. “I made the biggest mistake in my life. She can do no wrong. She’s an angel,” he said. But after seeing the new violent footage, the team cancelled his $35 million contract and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended him indefinitely. Friday, Goodell publicly acknowledged he had mishandled the situation. "I'm not satisfied with what I did. I let everybody else down and for that I'm sorry as I mentioned earlier: that's what we're going to correct and that's what we're going to fix,'' he said. In some initial steps, the league announced an upcoming partnership with a domestic violence hotline and a sexual violence resource center. Goodell also instructed all NFL and team personnel to attend educational sessions on domestic violence and sexual assault. "Domestic violence including child abuse, sexual assault, irresponsible ownership or handling of firearms, the illegal use of alcohol or drugs, these activities must be condemned and stopped,'' he said. Goodell spoke just hours after President Barack Obama launched a campaign to encourage young men to intervene when they witness a situation that could lead to a sexual assault. "It's the responsibility of the soccer coach and the captain of the basketball team and the football players, and it's on fraternities and sororities and the editor of the school paper and the drum major and the band, and it's on the English department and the Engineering department, and it's on the high schools and the elementary schools, and it's on teachers and counselors and mentors, and it's on ministers," he said. "It's on celebrities and sports leagues and the media to set a better example. It's on parents and grandparents and older brothers and sisters to sit down young people to talk about this issue. And it's not just on the parents of young women to caution them. It's on the parents of young men to teach them respect for women.'' Obama said one in five women are sexually assaulted while in university. But school officials are often reluctant to seriously pursue reports of abuse. Students at New York's Columbia University demonstrated last week demanding reforms to improve the school's response to sexual assault. Last year, the U.S. Defense Department announced measures to curb sexual abuse in the military. Alibaba makes big splash as it goes public as BABA By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The share price for China's huge e-commerce company, Alibaba, soared 38 percent in its first day of trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. The first trades were made at $92.70 a share, and climbed to nearly $100 a share, but eased downward to a bit under $94 at the close. The initial offering price was $68 a share, making it one of the biggest IPOs in history. Some of Alibaba's customers rang the bell at the beginning of trading on the NYSE, but the shares did not actually begin trading until a couple of hours later, as buyers and sellers maneuvered to get their best price. Alibaba is China's leading e-commerce company and operates the world's largest online marketplaces for both international and domestic trade. The initial public offering involves some 368 million shares -- using the ticker symbol "BABA." Market analysts say China's e-commerce, which is dominated by Alibaba, is expected to continue expanding rapidly. Critics say Alibaba's corporate structure gives shareholders less say in the company's operation than is usual for a publicly held company. Alibaba boasts higher sales figures than both Amazon.com, Inc., and eBay, Inc., combined. "This is the biggest IPO the world has ever seen, so there's a celebratory mood on the floor, whether you like it or not,'' said Benedict Willis, director of floor operations at Sunrise Securities Corp. The Alibaba executive chairman, Jack Ma, already worth an estimated $13 billion, started the trading day. Ma is poised for a big pay day by selling more than 12 million shares and possibly netting hundreds of millions of dollars. Ma, a former English teacher, founded Alibaba in 1999 in his apartment. His personal fortune is more than $14 billion on paper, vaulting him into the ranks of such tech billionaires as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. The deal is also expected to make millionaires out of a substantial chunk of the company's managers, software engineers and other staff. Nearly unknown to most Americans until this week, Alibaba is China's leading e-commerce company and operates the world’s largest online marketplaces for both international and domestic trade. In China, it is responsible for 80 percent of online sales. The company earned $3.7 billion in the 12 months that ended March 31, 2014, up about $2 billion from the prior 12-month period. “In the U.S. the same market was split by two dominant companies, but in China, Alibaba, you know, one combined the strength of the two," explained John Wu, Alibaba Group's former chief technology officer. "I think it should be able to maintain this kind of dominance for the next several years at least. In the long run, nobody knows; but in the short run, I still see the company as one of the best managed, best run, and one of the healthiest companies.” Peter Cardillo, chief marketing economist at Rockwell Global Capital, calls Friday’s initial public offering another boost for the financial markets. U.S. Internet technology company Yahoo! holds nearly 24 percent of Alibaba and was to sell 140 million shares at the IPO. The earnings will help it acquire other tech companies. However, the Alibaba IPO presents some concerns, particularly because China's Communist government plays a heavy role in markets and major businesses. Gary Reischel, managing director at Qiming Weichuang Venture Capital Management, says investors must be careful, in part because of Alibaba's size and the early demand for shares. “I think you have to differentiate between Alibaba the company, which is doing real well, and this as an investment for an individual investor," he advised. "Because then I would look at the perspective that the company has a vast market share today. It almost can’t do anything but go down." Reducing deaths of adults considered for world goal By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
With a sustained international effort, the number of premature adult deaths could be slashed by 40 percent within the next 20 years. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which concludes most of the deaths of those aged 50 to 69 are preventable. Thanks to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, child deaths fell by one-third worldwide between 2000 and 2010. University of Oxford epidemiologist Richard Peto said that was largely as a result of vaccination campaigns targeting diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles and polio. A paper by Peto and 16 international co-authors found that other development goals, reducing maternal mortality and fighting AIDS, malaria and other infectious diseases, cut premature death among adults by one-sixth during the same time frame. Now, he said, if the world begins an intense effort to further eliminate preventable causes of death, including injuries, we could see a steeper decline. Death before old age is mostly avoidable. So death before 70 on the whole doesn’t have to happen from avoidable causes, and we can just work together internationally to reduce those avoidable causes, said Peto. Writing in the journal The Lancet, Peto and his co-authors suggest that rates of smoking can be reduced by increasing the price of cigarettes. In many countries, including China and across Africa, tobacco is a leading cause of preventable death, as is stroke. Peto said many deaths can be prevented with the widespread use of inexpensive generic drugs. “You’ve got to keep on really really getting drugs out, trying to treat HIV and trying to prevent the spread. You can actually treat TB," said Peto. "But these things — you really can beat them if you put the effort in.” The United Nations General Assembly begins high level meetings today to discuss a new set of sustainable development goals, to replace the one that expires at the end of next year. The overall goal is to ensure healthy lives and promote the well-being of individuals, regardless of age. Peto and his co-authors call on the delegates to include a specific target for each country to reduce premature deaths among adults by 40 percent by 2030. Social media for the rich debuts with $6,000 tab By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Facebook and other social media site are for everyone, no matter how rich or poor, but that may bother some people with deep pockets. The problem? There’s no exclusivity. But now, for a mere $6,000 initiation fee and a $3,000 annual membership, the world’s rich can mingle, detached from the rest of the online crowd. Composer and former Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra’s conductor James Touchi-Peters launched this exclusive Internet-based club, called Netropolitan, this week. He calls it an on-line country club. Its members must be older than 21, they have to use their real names and addresses, and they have to disclose their background. While socializing online, they will not be bothered with advertisements and promotions, although some businesses would be allowed to advertise to each other. The site is inaccessible by public search engines and is constantly monitored to discourage bad behavior. No word yet of how many people have joined, and in its frequently anticipated questions, the Netropolitan site says "We will never publicly state the exact number of members in the club. And especially, we will NEVER release or verify the identity of any of our members - ever." |
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OK, I know this isn’t a cooking column, this is a gardening column. But what do you do with all this produce when it gets picked in such abundance? We grow black raspberries (aka blackcaps) which the locals call
so I have to deal with thorns. So, how do you tell your mora (blackberry) from your mora (black raspberry)? The difference is that blackberries have a torus, a central attachment point that extends up into the fruiting body. With blackberries, the torus goes with the berry when it is picked. With black raspberries, the torus is left behind when the berry is picked. Since the torus has no berry flavor, I prefer the black raspberries. My other problem? I only have two bushes that produce well (the others are newly transplanted), so my maximum yield has been about one cup a day. Fortunately, there is a long harvesting season (May and June were great) so I could freeze my handful of berries daily until I had enough to make a pie. Why a pie? We miss blueberry pie and black raspberry pie is a fine replacement. So, make pastry for a two-crust, 9-inch pie. Mix: 5 cups black raspberries (if you use frozen berries, do not defrost before mixing) 1 ¼ cups sugar ½ cup flour ½ teaspoon cinnamon 2 tablespoons butter cut into chunks Bake at 425 for 38-40 minutes Now they always tell you not to cut a slice right away, but who cares what they say, it’s your pie! Cut it hot and let the juices bubble as they may. And now, a substitute for apple pie (mainly because I have already messed up the garden column with one recipe, why not two?). Green mango pie, properly prepared, tastes somewhere between apple and peach. And, oh my, is it good! The mangoes must not be ripe! Ripe mangoes in a pie will be soft yet stringy. Look for mangoes with some color. Green” refers to the interior, not the skin. But make sure they are not soft. Then, make pastry for a two-crust, 9-inch pie. Peel mangoes and slice as for peach or apple pie Mix: 6 cups sliced mango 1 cup sugar (or a bit more depending on taste) ½ cup flour ¾ teaspoon cinnamon 1 ½ tablespoons lemon (or lime) juice 2 tablespoons butter cut into chunks Bake at 425 for 35-40 minutes
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| From Page 7: Accountants urge taxpayers to follow standards By
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The end of the fiscal year in Sept. 30, and the Colegio de Contadores Públicos is urging business operators and individuals with their own income source to prepare for new standards. The colegio pointed out that accounting here should conform to the International Financial Reporting Standard. Among other requirements, these standards specify accrual accounting instead of cash accounting. These standards are worldwide and are the product of the IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board. One purpose is so that investors can understand fully the financial reporting of publicly listed companies. Costa Rica has adopted them for all taxpaying entities. The colegio warned that Costa Rican tax authorities might not recognize accounting books if the standards are not followed. The colegio has put on one all-day seminar in accounting methods for business operators, and more are likely. However, the rules and policies should be well known to any accredited accountant. |
