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This is an extensive stand of severely bleached coral at LisianskiIsland in Hawaii. Coral
bleaching threatens Caribbean
By the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration news staff
As record ocean temperatures cause widespread coral bleaching across Hawaii, scientists confirm the same stressful conditions are expanding to the Caribbean and may last into the new year, prompting the declaration of the third global coral bleaching event ever on record. Waters are warming in the Caribbean, threatening coral in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. Coral bleaching began in the Florida Keys and south Florida in August, but now scientists expect bleaching conditions there to diminish. "The coral bleaching and disease, brought on by climate change and coupled with events like the current El Niño, are the largest and most pervasive threats to coral reefs around the world," said Mark Eakin, Coral Reef Watch coordinator for the agency. "As a result, we are losing huge areas of coral across the U.S., as well as internationally. What really has us concerned is this event has been going on for more than a year and our preliminary model projections indicate it's likely to last well into 2016." While corals can recover from mild bleaching, severe or long-term bleaching is often lethal. After corals die, reefs quickly degrade and the structures corals build erode. This provides less shoreline protection from storms and fewer habitats for fish and other marine life, including ecologically and economically important species. This bleaching event, which began in the north Pacific in summer 2014 and expanded to the south Pacific and Indian oceans in 2015, is hitting U.S. coral reefs disproportionately hard. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that by the end of 2015, almost 95 percent of U.S. coral reefs will have been exposed to ocean conditions that can cause corals to bleach. The biggest risk right now is to the Hawaiian Islands, where bleaching is intensifying and is expected to continue for at least another month. Areas at risk in the Caribbean in coming weeks include Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, and from the U.S. Virgin Islands south into the Leeward and Windward islands. The next concern is the further impact of the strong El Niño, which climate models indicates will cause bleaching in the Indian and southeastern Pacific Oceans after the new year. This may cause bleaching to spread globally again in 2016. "We need to act locally and think globally to address these bleaching events. Locally produced threats to coral, such as pollution from the land and unsustainable fishing practices, stress the health of corals and decrease the likelihood that corals can either resist bleaching, or recover from it," said Jennifer Koss, Coral Reef Conservation Program acting program manager. "To solve the long-term, global problem, however, we need to better understand how to reduce the unnatural carbon dioxide levels that are the major driver of the warming." This announcement stems from the latest Coral Reef Watch satellite coral bleaching monitoring products, and was confirmed through reports from partner organizations with divers working on affected reefs. Coral bleaching occurs when corals are exposed to stressful environmental conditions such as high temperature. Corals expel the symbiotic algae living in their tissues, causing corals to turn white or pale. Without the algae, the coral loses its major source of food and is more susceptible to disease. The first global bleaching event was in 1998, during a strong El Niño that was followed by an equally very strong La Niña. A second one occurred in 2010. Reporter marks 444 days in Iranian prison By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The foreign editor of The Washington Post says it is cause for shame and outrage that one of its reporters has been imprisoned in Iran for 444 days, the same amount of time U.S. government employees were held during the Iran hostage crisis more than three decades ago. In an interview, Post editor Douglas Jehl said the reporter, Jason Rezaian, is being held in Iran as a bargaining chip. Friday marks the 444th day that the Iranian government has held Razaian, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who was arrested 15 months ago on espionage and other charges while working as a Washington Post correspondent in Iran. Separately, the executive editor of The Washington Post, Martin Baron, again urged Iran to release Rezaian without further delay. "Jason has been subjected to a secret sham trial, solitary confinement, relentless interrogations, physical mistreatment and psychological abuse," Baron said. "His trial concluded two months ago, yet still no verdict has been rendered." Earlier this year, Baron said in an interview that the charges against Rezaian are preposterous and ludicrous. He said Rezaian is an "innocent and good man who deserves to have his freedom as any other human being." Last month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his government would work to free Razaian and two other Americans from prisons in Iran if the United States released jailed Iranians. The two other Americans are Amir Heckmati, a former U.S. Marine who was charged with spying, and Saeed Abedini, a convert to Christianity who organized a Bible study group. Another American, former FBI agent Robert Levinson, disappeared in Iran in 2007 but his whereabouts are unclear. Iran has sought the freedom of 19 of its citizens who are imprisoned in the United States in connection with U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's nuclear program. Rezaian had been working for The Washington Post in Iran since 2012 before he was arrested in July 2014 together with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and two other people. Ms. Salehi, also a journalist, has since been released, but Rezaian has remained in jail. Iran and the United States have not had diplomatic relations since 1980. The year before, a group of Islamist students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days during the Iranian revolution. Police agencies agree on coordination By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A committee appointed by the Corte Suprema de Justicia is studying the work of the judicial police. The committee has three months to prepare a report. One of the major developments this week is that the minister of Seguridad Pública, Gustavo Mata Vega, and the director of the Fuerza Pública, Juan José Andrade Morales, met with the committee. There has been a long history of guarding turf by the judicial police and the security ministry. Under the law, the judicial police, the Judicial Investigating Organization, is an arm of the courts. Agents are responsible for investigating crimes and preparing a case in conjunction with the prosecutors and judges of the first level. The Fuerza Pública, on the other hand, is supposed to be a prevention agency and first responder to crimes. Usually the police do not investigate. There is some duplication. Both the judicial police and the security ministry have anti-drug units who seem to work independently. After a meeting Wednesday, officials said they were trying to improve coordination among the police forces. In addition to the Fuerza Pública, there are police operated by the immigration agency and the tax agency, among others. |
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| Bills seeks to increase cruise ship tourists by cutting the
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The local government levies a $3 tax on cruise ship passengers who come ashore at the Puerto de Caldera on the Pacific coast. A lawmaker wants to cut the amount in half to $1.50 by changing the law that authorized the local fee. The recipient of the fee is the Municipalidad de Esparza. The |
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Oct. 1 a man named Gilberth Bell Fernandez appeared before a legislative committee and disclaimed any knowledge about an illegal dock that was erected in Portete de Limón. The man appeared along with the Limón mayor, Néstor Mattis. The session was of the Comisión de Seguridad y Narcotráfico. Thursday judicial agents took Bell into custody, and officials claimed he was a kingpin in the narcotics trade. Antonio Álvarez Desanti told his fellow lawmakers Thursday that it is not possible that someone could build an illegal dock in the province of Limón and not generate complaints from the public. Officials suspected for some time that the illegal dock was used for landing drug shipments. He said the committee would continue to work to get to the bottom of the case. Judicial police also detained some traffic policemen. |
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said agents. Álvarez Desanti noted the arrests of the policemen in his talk to legislators. A week ago Álvarez Desanti, said there were at least seven cases of illegal docks in Costa Rica and that this showed building one illegally was easier than going through all the paperwork to get permission. Some lawmakers also expressed their unhappiness at the time that they had asked President Luis Guillermo Solís to investigate the dock more than two weeks ago and that they had yet to get a reply. The case against Bell was triggered by the arrest of a man believed to be drug courier in May. |
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| UK study reveals gender differences in evaluating online
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A new study by psychology academics at The Open University is the first in the United Kingdom to explore the impact of internet infidelity among those with real experience of it and sees how it is directly affecting 21st century relationships. The study revealed : • Grey areas among couples over how they define infidelity online. • Gender differences in perceptions of infidelity with women seeing more Internet activities as infidelity and perceiving them as more distressing. • Evidence that online infidelity can be addictive Comments from participants were equally revealing. In an anonymous response one participant wrote: ‘I tried to stop but neither of us could, it would start again and since so easy, with all the technology we carry around it was an amazingly comforting and sexy thing to have. With long working hours an online relationship is like fast food, ready when we are, naughty, cheap, very often eaten alone without the exhaustion of social niceties.’ And another woman at the receiving end of internet infidelity said “I have a deep mistrust in the Internet and feel it massively facilitates infidelity. My ex-husband is inherently a very shy man, but online he is able to act much more confidently and attract the attention of other women. I strongly believe he would not have had so many affairs without the Internet. The research, based on an anonymous online survey among 20 to 73-year-olds, confirmed that many participants think |
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what activity is taking place at a time when there
is rapid growth in the opportunities for online liaisons. Unlike most
prior research in the area, the study recruited people who had
experienced Internet infidelity, either having engaged in it themselves
or having found out that their partner had indulged. The study, by psychology lecturers Andreas Vossler and Naomi Moller allowed participants to write in detail about their experiences with Internet infidelity. Findings revealed that the Internet made covert contact with another person easy and had a dis-inhibiting effect, making it easier to engage in behavior that might be avoided in real life. One participant wrote: “Probably - if we hadn't have established and maintained any sort of contact online, the affair would not have started as we very rarely bumped into each other.” The study also found that the effects of Internet infidelity can be as traumatic and wounding as face-to-face adultery, with many participants detailing their ongoing distress and describing the online infidelity as a relationship-ending event. Speaking about the results Ms. Vossler said: “What our research has revealed is that men and women do see internet infidelity differently. But it is not just a gender divide. What is experienced as infidelity online can vary from person to person. What might be seen as casual chatting by one partner, is hurtful and disloyal to the other for instance. Ms. Moller said the evidence showed that couples in a committed relationship may, in order to prevent future misunderstandings, now have to think about sharing their attitude towards social media and keeping it a topic for ongoing discussion. |
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| Senate Democrats planning new anti-firearms legislation By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Senate Democrats are preparing legislation to combat gun violence following last week's deadly shooting at an Oregon community college. At a news conference Thursday, Democratic leaders called for an end to loopholes that allow buyers to get guns on the Internet and at gun shows without background checks. "The victims and their families deserve better than a Congress that shrugs its shoulders and waits for the next tragedy," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. "They deserve action." The proposal also calls for substantial improvements to the current background check system to better screen for those who are prevented from owning guns, and it pushes for bans of gun sales to those convicted of domestic abuse. "The better the background record check system, the safer people are," said Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia. "This should be so easy. The American public overwhelmingly supports background record checks. Gun owners, like me, overwhelmingly support background record checks." Democrats are also seeking to end straw purchases, the practice of one person buying guns for another to evade legal restrictions. They also want better enforcement of laws against gun trafficking. "We've chosen principles that are effective, that will save thousands of lives, but at the same time they do not impinge on the right of legitimate gun owners," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat. Last week's shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, left 10 people dead. Authorities said the assailant, Christopher Harper-Mercer, killed himself after he was wounded by police. President Barack Obama showed frustration in the aftermath of the Oct. 1 shooting. "Somehow this has become routine," he said. "We've become numb to this." It was at least the 13th time he'd taken the podium after a mass shooting. “I've got to have a Congress and I've got to have state legislatures and governors who are willing to work with me on this,” he said. But changing those laws isn't easy. Three main reasons stand in the way, making America different from other countries. 1. Tradition The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is often intrepreted as guaranteeing Americans the right to own guns. Vin Weber, a former Republican congressman who now is a lobbyist, said gun ownership, unlike the case in other countries, is a part of Americana. He pointed to the role of guns in the opening of the American West. "There's a lot of romance connected to that, and probably a lot of unfounded legend," he said. "But it is part of the American mythological experience that gun ownership is central to our identity as a country. So for those reasons, it's a different reason here than almost anywhere else in the world.” 2. Power of the National Rifle Association The NRA spent $10 million over the last three years to lobby for gun rights. The $300 million organization has more than 4 million members. Weber says, “The NRA is powerful because they represent real people, who get involved in the political process and express themselves and vote and are active. They don't buy people off. They motivate their members around the country who care more about this issue than anything else. It’s pretty hard to criticize the NRA when they are doing the ultimate democratic — small 'd' — democratic thing: organizing people to express themselves on an issue to their government.” Typically, Democrats propose gun control laws. Republicans defeat them. 3. American opinion A Pew survey found Americans divided with more people favoring gun rights than gun control. Carroll Doherty, director of political research at the Pew Research Center, said the survey "reflects a sense among many Americans that the reason to own a gun is for personal protection. That's a shift, and what you see is people who think crime rates are remaining the same or going higher, those are the ones who are most supportive and who see guns as a means of safety rather than risk.” Ms. Doherty points out that public perception is wrong. Crime rates have been sharply decreasing since the 1990s. However, there are others who believe the ownership of guns is a control on an oppressive government. That feeling has increased during Obama's term when concerns about more controls on weapons were fanned by the Internet. DNA confirms big migration back to Africa from the north By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The first genetic analysis of ancient human remains in Africa suggests a massive migration from the north around the time of the Egyptian empire, once only suspected. Africa is considered the cradle of human genetic diversity, the place from which humans spread across the globe. But there appeared to have been a reverse migration in which farmers from the Near East and the ancient kingdoms of what is now Turkey and Iraq flooded back into the Horn of Africa thousands of years after early humans left the continent. They brought crops new to Africa, such as wheat and barley. What drew them back remains a mystery. But evidence of their return, reported in the journal Science, comes from a DNA analysis of an adult male buried face down 4,500 years ago in a cave in the Ethiopian highlands. Lead researcher Andrea Manica, a human geneticist at the University of Cambridge in England and the study's lead author, said the mass migration had an enormous influence over the entire continent, beginning with the Horn. "It looks like the population almost as big as a quarter of what was already present in East Africa actually arrived and settled down in the area. And that's a huge amount," Manica said. At least 5 percent of the African genome, Manica said, is traceable to the Eurasian migration. Far beyond East Africa, it appears these ancient farmers mingled with native populations, from the Yoruba on the western coast to the Mbutu in the Congo. There, an estimated 6 to 7 percent of the indigenous populations' DNA was imprinted by Eurasian migration. This is the first time geneticists have been able to sequence DNA from African fossils. The genetic material breaks down in the hot, humid climate. Until now, DNA from human fossils could be extracted for analysis only from ancient remains found in the cooler regions of Europe, Asia and North America. But the cave where the skeleton was found was cool and dry enough to preserve its genetic material. For researchers looking for the origins of human populations, this represents a breakthrough. "Every time we do this type of analysis, you need to have an African reference," Manica said. "Until now, what we had to do was to take the genome, the information that we have from modern Africans, and use that as our effectively representative" sample. Manica added that the DNA of this one ancient individual has provided a snapshot of the population mixing believed to have taken place thousands of years ago in continental Africa. Volkswagen's U.S chief gives apology for exhaust cheating By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Volkswagen's top U.S. executive has apologized over the massive emissions testing scandal engulfing the German automaker. Michael Horn offered the apology Thursday during testimony before members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee over the scandal involving almost a half million of its clean diesel vehicles in the United States. The issue concerns Volkswagen's use of software to cheat the system by switching pollution controls on during emissions tests, but shutting them off during normal driving. Volkwagen admitted that some 11 million of the German carmaker's diesel vehicles worldwide were fitted with the software. In prepared remarks, Horn said the events are deeply troubling and that the auto giant has broken the trust of its customers, dealerships and employees, as well as the public and regulators. Horn said Volkswagen takes full responsibility for its actions and is "working with all relevant authorities in a cooperative way." He said Volkswagen is determined to make things right. Horn told the committee he knew more than a year ago that the cars possibly violated pollution rules, but, he said he did not know until September about the defeat device that allowed the vehicles to appear to be less polluting. The chairman of the committee, Fred Upton, said, "VW will inevitably pay a steep price for its dirty little secret" as some lawmakers recalled owning VW Beetles early in their lives. Meanwhile, German police searched Volkswagen's headquarters Thursday as part of the probe related to the emissions-rigging scandal revealed in the United States. In order to secure documents and digital data, police confiscated files and computer hard disks and raided private apartments in the town of Wolfsburg, where the automaker is headquartered. Last month, Volkswagen appointed Matthias Mueller as its new chief executive officer to help the automaker recover from the scandal over the rigging of U.S. vehicle emissions tests. Mueller, who has headed Volkswagen Porsche subsidiary, pledged to help the automaker get through the biggest business crisis in its 78-year history. Mueller replaced Martin Winterkorn, who had been CEO since 2007 and quit the job over the scandal. In the United States, several lawsuits have already been filed against the automaker. U.S. environmental regulators say Volkswagen faces fines of up to $18 billion. Internet use by teens linked to their high blood pressure By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Heavy Internet use may lead to high blood pressure among teenagers, according to a new study. The results showed that teens who spent at least 14 hours a week online were found to be at risk for elevated blood pressure. The study by Henry Ford Hospital looked at a sample of 335 14- to 17-year-olds in the Detroit, Michigan, area. Of 134 teens described as heavy Internet users, 26 had elevated blood pressure, researchers said. The researchers also said this was the first study to link heavy Web use and high blood pressure. Other research has suggested that heavy Internet use can cause a variety of health problems such as anxiety, depression and obesity. "Using the Internet is part of our daily life but it shouldn't consume us," said the study's lead author, Andrea Cassidy-Bushrow, in a statement. "In our study, teens considered heavy Internet users were on the Internet an average of 25 hours a week.” She added that it was important for teens to take regular breaks from their computer or smartphones and engage in some kind of physical activity. She suggested that parents limit their children's use of the Internet to two hours a day, five days a week. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 70 million, or 29 percent, of American adults have high blood pressure. Just over half of those have taken steps to control it. The Centers estimates high blood pressure costs the United States $46 billion each year. The study was published in the Journal of School Nursing. GOP planning for speaker post collapses into uncertainty By
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A throng of reporters was waiting at noon Thursday on the first floor of the Longworth House Office building for someone to come out of a closed-door meeting and announce that Republicans had chosen highly favored candidate Kevin McCarthy to be their nominee for the next speaker of the House. But instead of that happening, freshman Rep. Ryan Costello sent shock waves around Capitol Hill and beyond when he came out of the room and said Majority Leader McCarthy had just taken himself out of the race to replace outgoing Speaker John Boehner. Costello appeared stunned, saying at first he thought McCarthy might have been joking. Conservative member Trent Franks said that Boehner appeared visibly surprised by McCarthy’s quitting the race. Franks noted McCarthy said he took himself out of the running for the good of the country. Other Republican members then emerged from the meeting, telling reporters the whole room of the caucus sat in stunned silence after McCarthy’s short announcement, and that some members started to cry. A short time later, McCarthy himself emerged, confirming that the news was true. He said he is not the one to unite Republicans. "The one thing I found in talking to everybody, if we are going to unite and be strong, we need a new face to help do that," he said. McCarthy dismissed a question about personal indiscretions being the reason for his unexpected turnaround. Budget analyst Stan Collender said the problem for House Republicans is there simply may not be any one face the fractured party could get behind to be their next leader. Collender said it is conceivable House Republicans might have to act much like their colleagues in European parliamentary democracies and turn to House Democrats to ask them for help in choosing a leader. Boehner postponed the vote for new leaders on the House floor, and he said he would stay on as speaker until a new speaker is chosen. Ironically, Boehner, who abruptly announced his resignation late last month, had recently joked with reporters that he had a nightmare he was a prisoner, kept from leaving his speaker job. Late Wednesday, members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus announced they would vote as a bloc against McCarthy, voting instead for conservative challenger Daniel Webster. Most analysts say McCarthy likely realized sometime Thursday that the 40 hardline members likely would be able to keep him from getting the 218 Republican votes needed for him to be elected speaker on the House floor, and he wanted to spare himself the humiliation. Typically, during a vote for speaker, Democrats would vote for their own candidate, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Republicans would unite behind their candidate. But the Freedom Caucus has made normal operating procedures in the House difficult. Many think that is the reason Boehner abruptly resigned just days before a deadline to fund the federal government. Boehner had faced drama, showdowns and clashes with hardline members many times over the past five years, just barely averting a default on the national debt in 2011, and triggering a government shutdown in 2013. The other candidate still left in the race is Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who said he did not see McCarthy’s decision coming. Chaffetz also said he did not know, however, if he could get 218 Republican members to line up to support him. Webster is considered a long shot, as he is a favorite of the Freedom Caucus, though he is not popular among the establishment or more moderate majority of House Republicans. |
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The Embassy of India, based in Panamá, and the Indian Council of Foreign Relations of that country's foreign ministry, is presenting classical Indian dance and music to celebrate the 118th anniversary of the Teatro Nacional. The event is Oct. 20 a 8 p.m. Famed dancer Reddi Lakshmi will be joined by performers from the Kuchipudi Dance Academy, said an announcement. In addition to being the name of the group, kuchipudi is a style of classical dance that originated in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, which is where Reddi Lakshmi was born. She has represented her country all over the world and also won major competitions. Another batch of turtle eggs confiscated By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Fuerza Pública officers confiscated 285 turtle eggs at a traffic stop Thursday in Herradura, Jacó. Officers said they found the eggs in the trunk of a vehicle and believed that they had just been taken from nests at a beach. The eggs were sent to a turtle nursery in Jacó where many will hatch. The driver of the vehicle was remanded to the Tribunal de Flagrancia in Puntarenas. The eggs were believed to have come from nests of the kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii). Police noted that the nesting season began in July and that the beaches frequently host sea turtles seeking to dig nests in the sand for depositing eggs. The turtles and eggs are at high risk, so police patrol the beaches, they said. |
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| From Page 7: Finance ministry has a surprise for filers By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Those accountants and taxpayers planning to post a variety of forms to the Ministerio de Hacienda Web page were in for a surprise this week. The ministry has dumped its EDDI system in favor of one called Administración Tributaria Virtual. The changeover had been announced but not very vigorously. The system is used for posting sales tax reports and other financial requirements. The ministry Web page is filled with responses from users over problems they encountered. It appears that the system was not up and running until Sunday or Monday, so anyone who tried to use it before then was out of luck. One person has posted his availability to do the filing work for others. The former EDDI system was subject to periodic and unannounced upgrades that cost employers plenty of work hours. Rather than being a Web-based system like the one for the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, users have to download a bulky program to talk to the Hacienda computer. The ministry said its Dirección General de Tributación had sent notifications to users about the system, but it appears that all those who seek to use the system did not receive one. The ministry has online a 43-page document that is called a tutorial for the new system. However, the .pdf file is not compatible with some Internet browsers. September sales tax reports are due by Thursday via the new system. |
