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The national cleanup continued
over the weekend. The Asociación Terra Nostra is
coordinating the event that will last until the first week of next
month. Friday more than 100 volunteers like these volunteers were on
Avenida Central, Paseo Cólon and La Sabana.Coors comes to Costa Rica in bottles showing chill Special
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Molson Coors Brewing Co. in Colorado and Agencias Feduro in Costa Rica have partnered to introduce Coors Light to the beer market here. As Molson Coors focuses on international growth, Coors Light, which the company calls the world's most refreshing beer, is now available at supermarkets, convenience stores, as well as bars and casual dining restaurants throughout Costa Rica, the company said in a release. Cost Rica is the second largest beer market in Central America together with Panamá, where Coors Light was introduced in 2007. The presence of imported premium beer brands continues to grow in Costa Rica, as is consumer's interest in quality American brands like Coors Light, said Molson Coors. The light beer category within Costa Rica is also growing and is estimated to make up 30 percent of the country's beer market, the company said. Beginning this month retailers in Costa Rica will carry Coors Light bottles and cans. All packages will feature mountains on the label with thermochromatic ink that turns blue when Coors Light has been chilled to the perfect temperature for ice cold refreshment, said the company. According to Coors Light research, consumers want to know when their beer is cold enough to drink. To meet that need, Coors Light introduced the cold activated bottle in the United States in 2007. Coors Light is available in more than 25 countries, including Mexico, Panama, Ireland, and China. The introduction of Coors Light to the Costa Rican market is part of a larger Molson Coors global expansion strategy. Sales are up more than 150 percent in Panama where this year it will surpass 90,000 cases after its introduction two years ago, said the company. Other markets where Coors Light is being launched this year include Trinidad & Tobago and Curacao Bonaire, it said.. Increase in crime gives Jacó agents promotion By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Judicial Investigating Organization office in Jacó is being promoted to handle the increasing crime. The office, previously called an oficina regional is becoming a subdelegación. The Poder Judicial said this is more than just a name change and it means that more resources will be available for the office that covers all of the Municipalidad de Garabito. The Jacó office received 1,456 cases in 2008, the Poder Judicial said. That is far above the average of other oficinas Regionales, which was 574. Right now the office has 19 investigators and a chief as well as a support staff. The area around Jacó is growing, and there are an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 permanent and temporary residents there. Two murders put away men for 50 years each in prison By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Two men have been sentenced to 50 years in prison each for two unrelated execution-style murders. The men have the last names of Paguada Navarro and Membreño Betancourt. They also are believed to have engaged in gunplay in the Limoncito and Envaco barrios of Limón Tribunal de Juicio de Limón convicted them of the murder of Daniel Cordero Agüero May 7, 2008. The man was gunned down as he rode his bicycle home in Barrio Limoncito, said the Poder Judicial. Another man died Aug. 14 of the same year when two men chased the taxi in which he was riding. The gunmen had a motorcycle. The taxi driver and theman's girlfriend manage to survive by hiding in a nearby business, said the Poder Judicial. The victim was identified as Evelio Delgado Solano. He suffered five bullet wounds. Suspect in car shot in head By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A man, suspected of causing a disturbance and damaging the interior of a business at the Centro Comericial el Pueblo, suffered a gunshot wound to the head as he was fleeing, said the Fuerza Pública. The man, identified by the last names of Monge Zúñiga was not fatally shot. He suffered the wound while in his vehicle early Sunday , and officers said the shot probably came from the 9-mm. weapons carried by a guard. News feed stories now easier to read from a Web page By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Readers have a new feature today. The news feed below contained a year's worth of top stories, but some readers said that news feed was causing their page loading to be slower. This certainly could be true with those readers who still are on dial-up Internet. So a year's worth of top news stories has been converted to a Web page, that will be a continuing feature of the newspaper. The page is HERE! Keywords and names still can be searched HERE! Like the news feed, each story is linked to the original in the archived newspaper copy of the day it was published. Editors try to pick from one to three news stories each that are on continuing interest. These are put in the feed, which is available for personal used or on Costa Rica Web pages. Those who would like to have the feed on their news reader or to place it on their blog or Web page can start with this LINK.
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Security
minister chops up central police district into four
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the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The security minister has broken the central Fuerza Pública district into four parts in the wake of allegations of massive corruption by officers. The segmentation follows the lines of the political districts of the central area: Merced, Hospital, El Carmen and Catedral. The minister, Janina del Vecchio, said that the new arrangement would result in better supervision and control. At least 16 Fuerza Pública officers in the central district, including the chief, have been detained for crimes ranging from shaking down citizens to conspiring with criminals in their illegal activities. More than 50 officers are said to be under internal investigation. Each of the new districts will have from 80 to 95 policemen. There also will be police service from the Policía Municipal. The El Carmen district will include the barrios of Amón, Aranjuez, California, Empalme, Escalante and Otoya. It is about 1.5 square kilometers (about 371 acres). According to the last census the district has about 3,360 residents and includes Hospital Calderón Guardia, the towering Instituto Nacional de Seguros and Parque Morazán, Parque España and Parque Zoológico Simón Bolívar. It is on the north side of the central business district. Merced is bigger, some 2.29 square kilometers (566 acres) with 13,676 residents at the 2000 census. It includes the barrios La Unión, Claret, Coca Cola, Iglesia Flores, Las Luisas, Mántica, México, Paso de la Vaca, Pitahaya and Rincón de Cubillos. It includes part of the central business district, including the main Correos office, Banco de Costa |
Rica and the Museo de los
Niños. The bulk of the district is north and west of the central
business area. Hospital is 3.38 square kilometers (856 acres) and includes the barrios of Almendrares, Angeles, Cuba, Bolívar, Carit, Corazón de Jesús, Cristo Rey, Dolorosa, Merced, Pacífico, Pinos, Salubridad, San Bosco, San Francisco, Santa Lucia and Silos. The district includes Hospital San Juan de Dios, the Hospital Nacional de Niños, the Municipalidad de San José, Parque Central and the Cementerio Metropolitano. It had 24,393 residents during the last census. The Catedral district also includes some of the central business area and the barrios of Bella Vista, California, Carlos Manuel Fernández, Catedral, Dolorosa, Dos Pinos, Francisco Peralta, González Lahman, Guell, La Cruz, Laberinto, Lomas Ocloro, Lujan, Mil Flor, Naciones Unidas, Pacífico Parte, San Cayetano, Soledad, Tabacalera and Vasconia. It is 2.31 square kilometers (about 571 acres) and had 15,628 residents reported in the 2000 census. In addition to the Catedral Metropolitana, the district includes the Teatro Nacional, Ministerio de Hacienda, Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal, Caja Costarricense de Seguros, Instituto Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, Tribunales de Justicia, the Corte Suprema de Justicia, the Colegio Superior de Señoritas, the Liceo de Costa Rica and the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes. It straddles Avenida 2 to the east from the central business area. Each district will have a handful of motorcycles and vehicles. The minister said that the new setup would be reviewed in December to see if any changes need to be made. The minister did not say where the district units would be headquartered. The former headquarters was n Barrio México. |
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the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The anti-drug police said that a Desamparados suspect used a surveillance camera outside her home to keep track of who was on the street. They said that the camera was set up to warn of a coming police raid. They arrested the suspect never the less. She is a 47-year-old woman with the last names of Sánchez Solís. She lives in Santa Marta de Desamparados. The Policía de Control de Drogas said they had been watching the location for two months after complaints came in on the 176 telephone tipster line. Also detained was a 57-year-old man with the last names of Solano Morera. Agents said they confiscated more than 100 doses of crack cocaine. The principal camera was party hidden near a pot with artificial flowers. Many people have surveillance cameras, but agents said that the woman had a network of monitors inside. After the arrests, a judge ordered that both be held for three months investigation. |
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Flowers do a nice job of
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The U.S. Navy is testing an unmanned submarine that can maintain surveillance of key stretches of water. It may be coming soon to an ocean near you. The device, called "Sea Maverick," was designed by the Applied Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University. The prototype is being tested this month off Key West. The U.S. Southern Command did not say a lot about the construction of the sub or what are likely targets, but it did say the device is designed to be environmentally friendly, detect and monitor highly mobile objects and relay that information to multiple recipients in a timely manner. The tests are being done by Joint Interagency Task Force South, an interagency task force which works in the |
detection and
monitoring of
suspected air and maritime counter illicit activity, said the Southern Command. The unit has responsibility for the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific. The tubular Sea Maverick appears to be about 30 feet long with twin conning towers. During the most recent tests, the device was on a tether from a support ship. Keysnews.com. an online source in Key West, said that the Sea Maverick is nearly silent and runs on batteries. A lot of the equipment is classified. The boat is designed to operate on its own like the unmanned drones being used by the military in the Middle East. Sea Maverick, however, is not supposed to be armed. A conventional Navy ship could deploy several of these devices and pretty well detect any northbound drug boats for far less than the cost of multiple vessels. |
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news service Many persons learn a foreign language when they are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief, and individuals never get to hear or practice it subsequently. A subjective impression is often that the neglected language completely fades away from the memory. But does “use it or lose it” apply to foreign languages? Although it may seem that adults have absolutely no memory of the neglected language, new research suggests this forgotten language may be more deeply engraved into the mind than once thought. Psychologists Jeffrey Bowers, Sven L. Mattys and Suzanne Gage from the University of Bristol recruited volunteers who were native English speakers but who had learned either Hindi or Zulu as children when living abroad. The researchers focused on Hindi and Zulu because these languages contain certain phonemes that are difficult for native English speakers to recognize. A phoneme is the smallest sound in a language. |
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asked the volunteers to complete a background vocabulary
test to see if they remembered any words from the neglected language.
They then trained the participants to distinguish between pairs of
phonemes that started Hindi or Zulu words. As it turned out, even though the volunteers showed no memory of the second language in the vocabulary test, they were able to quickly relearn and correctly identify phonemes that were spoken in the neglected language. These findings, which appeared in a recent issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggest that exposing young children to foreign languages, even if they do not continue to speak them, can have a lasting impact on speech perception. The authors conclude, “Even if the language is forgotten (or feels this way) after many years of disuse, leftover traces of the early exposure can manifest themselves as an improved ability to relearn the language.” |
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| Zelaya
says foes use gas, radiation, hit squad By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Just when it seemed the Honduran situation could not get any stranger, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales said from his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa that his foes were using toxic gas, radiation and an Israeli assassination squad. Zelaya has made bizarre claims before, but there seemed to be some substance to the toxic gas allegation. Red Cross visitors reported that some inside the embassy were ill and that some had nosebleeds. They did not rule out gas, but their also suggested a food-born malady. Others suggested that a generator in the embassy was not property ventilated. The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday on the situation in the embassy. The council condemned acts of intimidation and called on the de facto Honduran authorities to stop harassing the embassy. Security Council president for the month of September, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, read a statement from the council, in which it stressed the importance of respecting international law by preserving the inviolability of the embassy and the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. "They condemned acts of intimidation against the Brazilian Embassy and called upon the de facto government of Honduras to cease harassing the Brazilian embassy, and to provide all necessary utilities and services, including water, electricity, food, and continuity of communications," she said. The council also called on all parties to remain calm and to avoid escalating the situation or to place individuals at risk of harm. Friday's emergency session was requested by Brazil. That country's minister of external affairs, Celso Amorim, told the council that the embassy has been under virtual siege by the de facto Honduran authorities. In addition to cutting utilities and preventing supplies from going into the embassy, he said they have curtailed the movements of Brazilian diplomats. He expressed concern that the perpetrators of the coup that ousted Zelaya might try to storm the embassy and arrest him. "The Brazilian government is gravely concerned that the same people who perpetrated the coup d'etat might threaten the inviolability of the embassy to forcibly arrest President Zelaya," he said. "This is not a mere suspicion or speculation, some concrete indications of this possibly have been received." Amorim said a bailiff was sent with a search warrant to the Brazilian Embassy, but was not let in. He said the de facto authorities also made reference in a letter to his government about the embassy as a "facility" run by the Brazilians, implying that it does not enjoy diplomatic status. The council meeting was limited in scope to the situation in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, not the wider political crisis. After President Zelaya was forced from office June 28 in an army-backed coup he came to the U.N. General Assembly to plead his case. In a non-binding resolution, the General Assembly demanded that he be returned to office, saying he is the legitimate constitutional leader of Honduras. Zelaya took refuge at the embassy Sept. 21, after secretly returning to Honduras where the caretaker government has threatened to arrest him. His supporters marched Saturday. He is urging actions against the de facto government from his location in the Brazilian Embassy. The international community has refused to recognize the interim government and has called for Zelaya to be reinstated with limited power until a presidential election is held. Zelaya told journalists he met late Thursday with representatives from the government of acting President Roberto Micheletti. He described the talks as a positive step. Zelaya and dozens of his supporters have spent nearly a week at the embassy. Spain's prime minister, Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, told the U. N. General Assembly Thursday that democracy must be restored to Honduras and the coup cannot be accepted. And the International Monetary Fund says it has consulted its member nations and will continue to recognize Zelaya as the head of the Honduran government. The decision means the Micheletti administration will not be allowed to draw on the $163 million allocated by the fund to Honduras to supplement the country's foreign reserves. Micheletti has said he is willing to talk with the deposed leader, but only if Zelaya recognizes the presidential election scheduled for November. Micheletti also says he will not discuss dropping any of the charges against the ousted president |
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New York
City celebrates 400 years this month By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Four hundred years ago this month, Henry Hudson, looking for a sea route to Asia, sailed into what is now New York Harbor. His arrival is celebrated as the beginning of Dutch settlement in North America. A few years later, Dutch traders established New Amsterdam to trade animal furs with local Indians. Today that settlement is known as New York City. New York City has such a distinctive look it's hard to imagine it was once a small Dutch settlement. But at New York's South Street Seaport Museum, a centuries-old document proves the Dutch did indeed pay for this land. "It's the testimony of the creation of a Dutch settlement called New Amsterdam which now became the big city of New York," explained Berendse. A map of the area is also on display, showing houses and roads at the new settlement. Another shows just how small Manhattan was. That changed after the British took over. Architectural historian Barry Lewis says the British filled in part of what's known as the East River with garbage because they needed the real estate. Waves of immigrants, mostly from Europe, kept on coming. "We had only about 100,000 people at the beginning of the 19th century," he said. "By 1875 the population of Manhattan is over one million. By 1910, over 2 million people are living in Manhattan Island." Manhattan real estate became expensive. In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was built so people could buy land, further out, on Long Island where it was cheaper. "You could go across by carriage, freight or passengers. You could walk across," added Lewis. Then came the subway. "The brilliance of the New York subway system is that for one nickel it took you miles and miles away from the central business district and opened up cheap real estate in the outlying parts of the metropolitan area. So the average person could at least afford a house, an apartment a nice place," Lewis explained. But businesses needed to be in Manhattan. So developers started building up, and the skyscraper was born. The Woolworth Building, the Chrysler Building. The Empire State Building. Each one outdoing the other. That small sliver of land that began 400 years ago as a trading post is today still about money. The area the Dutch settled to trade furs with the Indians is now Wall Street, the world's financial center. |
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