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90 films
schedule for Festival de Cine
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The 2014 Festival Internacional de Cine will show 90 national and international films during its run from Nov. 8 to 15. This is the third
Films will be shown at the Magaly and Sala Garbo theaters as well as the Antigua Aduana. There also will be other activities in the local parks, said an announcement. The international films come from 20 countries. Colombia is the invited country. That nation has a well-developed cinema tradition. Don't forget the umbrella today By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
There is more of the same predicted for today: Warm, cloudy morning feeding heavy downpours in the afternoon. A low pressure area that may develop into a tropical storm is off the Nicaraguan coast, and that is driving moisture into the country and making the weather unstable. The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional said in the early evening Tuesday that the most intense rainfall was in the northern zone, the eastern part of the metro area and in the central mountains, the Cordillera Volcánica Central. There was as much as 65 millimeters of rain that fell in just six hours. That is about 2.5 inches The Pacific coast was expected to get a similar amount later in the evening. Another death linked to animal protection By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Environmentalists are attributing the murder this week of Diego Armando Saborío to his efforts to defend animals on his family's property in Chamorro de Cutris de San Carlo. They are equating the death to that of turtle protector Jairo Mora in the Caribbean coast. A release said that there have been 12 direct attacks on environmentalists, 10 houses or stores burned and 16 cases of death threats. Environmentalists are considering a government proposal to become enrolled in the Fuerza Pública reserves so they can carry firearms. Child sex ring broken up in Colombia By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Scores of children have been rescued in a raid on a sex trafficking ring in Colombia, including an 11-year-old girl allegedly sold for $1,000. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Tuesday that they found 55 minors and arrested 12 people Saturday in a joint undercover operation with Colombian police in three cities: Armenia, Cartagena, and Medellin. Eleven Colombian men and women are accused of trafficking minors, pimping, and pandering. The nationality of the remaining suspect has not been released. Colombian media said that among those arrested is a beauty pageant star who worked with a modeling agency, allegedly recruiting victims through casting calls and parties. If convicted, the Colombian defendants face up to 20 years in prison. The raids followed the arrest of a man in the United States who allegedly traveled to Medellin to have sex with minors. Colombia's child protective service is caring for the victims, some of whom were allegedly drugged with cocaine and ecstasy, a drug that lowers sexual inhibitions.
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When Volcán Poás cleared its throat two minutes before 8 a.m. Monday, ash from the eruption showered the pedestrian overlook and the visitor center, said the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico. The eruption lasted just a minute and a half, but the column of steam, water, mud and ash climbed to 250 meters, said the Observatorio. That's over 800 feet. That's the reason why the volcano park was closed to visitors for awhile. |
Poás began
the current cycle of eruptions in 2006, the Observatorio
staff noted. Since 2009, the eruptions have become stronger and reached
higher levels. There was a slowdown with the volcano eruptions in August, September and this month, the volcano staffers noted, calling the ones that took place more energetic. The activities at the volcano suggest that there is a body of magma that is not very deep below the lake, the Observatorio said. |
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Quepos will be the site of the Festival Gastronómico y del Cebiche Nov. 15 and 16. This is the first edition of the festival featuring raw fish basted in lemon juice. Cebiche or ceviche is a traditional Latin American dish that probably originated in Perú long before the Spanish arrival. The lemon juice or other citrus juices transform the fish as if it were being cooked. |
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limón criollo. They will have a chance to display their talent because as part of the festival there is a contest with the emphasis on innovation. Ceviche usually is mixed with certain chiles and cilantro, The side dish can be yuca or potato. The event is a the Marina Pez Vela in Quepos. The Quepos Film Fest is talking place at the same time. |
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news staff A new study using a reconstruction of North American drought history over the last 1,000 years found that the drought of 1934 was the driest and most widespread of the last millennium. Using a tree-ring-based drought record from the years 1000 to 2005 and modern records, scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found the 1934 drought was 30 percent more severe than the runner-up drought (in 1580) and extended across 71.6 percent of western North America. For comparison, the average extent of the 2012 drought was 59.7 percent. "It was the worst by a large margin, falling pretty far outside the normal range of variability that we see in the record," said climate scientist Ben Cook at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Cook is lead author of the study, which will publish in Geophysical Research Letters. Two sets of conditions led to the severity and extent of the 1934 drought. First, a high-pressure system in winter sat over the west coast of the United States and turned away wet weather – a pattern similar to that which occurred in the winter of 2013-14. Second, the spring of 1934 saw dust storms, caused by poor land management practices, suppress rainfall. "In combination then, these two different phenomena managed to bring almost the entire nation into a drought at that time," said co-author Richard Seager, professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in New York. "The fact that it was the worst of the millennium was probably in part because of the human role." According to the recent Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, climate change is likely to make droughts in North America worse, and the Southwest in particular is expected to become significantly drier as are summers in the central plains. Looking back 1,000 years in time is one way to get a handle on the natural variability of droughts so that scientists can tease out anthropogenic effects – such as the dust storms of 1934. “We want to understand droughts of the past to understand to what extent climate change might make it more or less likely that those events occur in the future," Cook said. The abnormal high-pressure system is one lesson from the past that informs scientists' understanding of the current severe drought in California and the western United States. "What you saw during this last winter and during 1934, because of this high pressure in the atmosphere, is that all the wintertime storms that would normally come into places like California instead got steered much, much farther north,” Cook said. “It's these wintertime storms that provide most of the moisture in California. So without getting that rainfall it led to a pretty severe drought." This type of high-pressure system is part of normal variation in the atmosphere, and whether or not it will appear in a given year is difficult to predict in computer models of the climate. Models are more attuned to droughts caused by La Niña's colder sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, which likely triggered the multi-year Dust Bowl drought throughout the 1930s. In a normal La Niña year, the Pacific Northwest receives more rain than usual and the southwestern states typically dry out. But a comparison of weather data to models looking at La Niña effects showed that the rain-blocking high-pressure system in the |
 Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security
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This photo shows a farmer and
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A black blizzard dust storm in
South Dakota in 1934.winter of 1933-34 overrode the effects of La Niña for the western states. This dried out areas from northern California to the Rockies that otherwise might have been wetter. As winter ended, the high-pressure system shifted eastward, interfering with spring and summer rains that typically fall on the central plains. The dry conditions were exacerbated and spread even farther east by dust storms. "We found that a lot of the drying that occurred in the spring time occurred downwind from where the dust storms originated," Cook said, "suggesting that it's actually the dust in the atmosphere that's driving at least some of the drying in the spring and really allowing this drought event to spread upwards into the central plains." Dust clouds reflect sunlight and block solar energy from reaching the surface. That prevents evaporation that would otherwise help form rain clouds, meaning that the presence of the dust clouds themselves leads to less rain, Cook said. "Previous work and this work offers some evidence that you need this dust feedback to explain the real anomalous nature of the Dust Bowl drought in 1934," Cook said. Dust storms like the ones in the 1930s aren't a problem in North America today. The agricultural practices that gave rise to the Dust Bowl were replaced by those that minimize erosion. Still, agricultural producers need to pay attention to the changing climate and adapt accordingly, not forgetting the lessons of the past, said Seager. "The risk of severe mid-continental droughts is expected to go up over time, not down," he said. |
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| Disease control center chief promises more rapid action By
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The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that starting now, any U.S. hospital with a confirmed case of bola will have a response team from his agency on the ground within hours. The director, Tom Frieden, delivered an update on the ebola situation at his headquarters in Atlanta Tuesday, saying he has been hearing loud and clear from health care workers that they are worried about Ebola and do not feel prepared to take care of a patient with the disease. Fears have risen since a Texas nurse became the first person to contract ebola on U.S. soil after treating the Liberian man who was the first person to die of the virus in the U.S. Frieden said the centers' team currently on the ground in Dallas is making sure those caring for the infected nurse do so safely and effectively. Frieden said putting a more robust infection control team in place when the first patient was diagnosed in Dallas might have prevented the nurse from getting infected. He said officials have identified 76 health workers who might have come into contact with the Liberian patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, or his blood. He said they are all being monitored for fever or other symptoms. Another 48 people exposed to Duncan before he was hospitalized have passed the period of greatest risk, and Frieden said they are now unlikely to develop ebola. Meanwhile, the 26-year-old nurse, Nina Pham, said Tuesday in a hospital statement that she is doing well and wants to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Ms. Pham is being treated, is the same facility where she was infected. The hospital's CEO said the doctors and nurses involved with Ms. Pham's treatment remain hopeful. He said the hospital is "working tirelessly to help her in this courageous fight." The optimistic outlook for Ms. Pham comes after it was revealed she received a blood transfusion from Kent Brantly, the American doctor who recovered from ebola in the U.S. after contracting it in Liberia. Ms. Pham is the third ebola victim to receive Brantly's blood, which carries antibodies to the virus because he is a survivor. It also was given to American aid worker Rick Sacra, now recovered, and U.S. journalist Ashoka Mukpo, who appears to be getting better. In an interview Tuesday, Mukpo's father, Mitchell Levy, said his son's strength is coming back. Levy said Mukpo is eating again and getting out of bed, signs that he said point to improvement. The Centers for Disease Control announcement came as a pharmaceutical company in China announced it has applied for market approval for a drug that is being touted as a possible cure for ebola. Last week, Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings Group signed an agreement with the China Academy of Military Medical Science to push a drug called JK-05 through China's approval process. At the moment, the academy-developed drug has only been tested in mice and is approved for emergency military use only. Che Fengsheng, chairman of Sihuan, said last week his company will file with China's food and drug administration before the end of the year. He said the agency has attached great importance to the application, and that priority will be given to the drug in the approval process. Sihuan’s product is just one contender among a number of experimental drugs worldwide aimed at curing ebola. ZMapp, TKM-Ebola and brincidofovir have all been used to treat ebola patients on an emergency basis in the latest outbreak. It is not clear yet if any of them will prove to be an effective cure for the disease. As the fears about ebola rise, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that he and his wife are donating $25 million to the CDC Foundation to help fight the disease. In a post on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg said "we need to get ebola under control in the near term so that it does not spread further and become a long-term global health crisis" like HIV or polio. The foundation said the money will go to the Centers for Disease Control's response effort in the worst-affected countries of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other places where ebola is a threat. The Liberian patient in Dallas died of ebola last Wednesday. Brantly reportedly also offered to donate blood to him, but their blood types did not match. Last week, authorities in Spain euthanized a Spanish nurse's dog after the nurse was diagnosed with ebola. That decision sparked outrage and raised fears that the same might happen to the Dallas nurse's Cavalier King Charles spaniel. But Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Tuesday that authorities want to make sure Ms. Pham's dog is healthy as can be. He said officials emailed Ms. Pham a video of her pet in the hopes of lifting her spirits. The Centers for Disease Control says there have been no reports of dogs or cats becoming sick with ebola or of being able to spread ebola to people or other animals. The head of the U.N. mission to fight ebola warned Tuesday that the coming weeks will be critical in efforts to get the virus under control. His words came as U.S. President Barack Obama urged the international community to do more to halt this global public health threat. The head of the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, Anthony Banbury, told the U.N. Security Council he is “deeply worried” that all the pledges of personnel, material and money are not enough to stop ebola. Speaking via a video link from Ghana where the new U.N. mission is based, Banbury said that if the international effort to get ahead of the virus fails, the response plan they have cannot be scaled to a much larger crisis. “We either stop ebola now, or we face an entirely unprecedented situation for which we do not have a plan," said Banbury. He said the World Health Organization estimates there will be 10,000 cases of ebola each week by Dec. 1. Banbury said the agency advises that 70 percent of infected people must be in a care facility and 70 percent of burials must be done without causing further infections by that date. “If we can reach those targets, then we can turn this epidemic around," he said. Banbury said many gaps still need to be filled in the ebola response. In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the three most affected countries where all but a handful of the nearly 9,000 cases have occurred, he said several thousand more treatment beds with trained, paid staff are needed, as well as more diagnostic laboratories, burial teams, protective gear and vehicles. He also warned that ebola is spreading most rapidly in urban areas, which will need specialized assistance. U.S. will study sales plan for famed Waldorf Astoria By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The U.S. government is reviewing the Hilton Co.'s planned sale of the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City to a Chinese insurance company. A spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Kurtis Cooper, said Tuesday that last week's $1.95 billion sale to Anbang Insurance Group is being scrutinized. He said particular attention will be given to a planned major renovation included in the terms of the deal. The Waldorf Astoria has been home to U.S. envoys to the U.N. for more than 50 years. U.S. President Barack Obama stays at the Waldorf Astoria when he is in town. The State Department routinely warns U.S. diplomats in China about physical and electronic surveillance, and tells American citizens in that country to be aware of similar risks, notably in hotels. Every September, the department takes over two floors of the Waldorf to serve as headquarters for the horde of U.S. diplomats who come from Washington for the U.N. General Assembly. The sale allows Hilton to run the hotel for the next 100 years. Three men in Cambodia held in journalist's murder By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Three Cambodian men have been indicted for the weekend murder of a journalist who was investigating illegal logging activity. La Narong, Kem Pheakdey and Pin Heng are accused of killing Taing Try, who was shot in the head Sunday in eastern Kratie province. Officials say the three, with ties to the police and military, are also accused of possession of illegal weapons. Colleagues say Taing Try was investigating illegal logging in Kratie at the time of his death and at least one of the suspects is a timber trader. Deputy Prosecutor Thuch Panchak Santepheap said that the case is still being built even though they have enough evidence to make arrests. “We will see how consistent the case is and what witnesses have brought forward," he said. "We lay charges based on the evidence we have.” Sok Sovan, president of the Khmer Journalists for Democracy Association, says Taing Try had received death threats prior to the shooting. “I've urged the court to punish the perpetrators according to the law. There should not be any pardon for perpetrators and accomplices so that others won't follow this example.” Threats, abuse and murder of journalists and activists, particularly those looking at illegal logging, are not uncommon in Cambodia, but arrests and prosecutions have been rare. At least 14 journalists have been killed since 1990. Prior to this, the most recent one occurred in 2012 when Chhey Udom, who was also investigating illegal logging, was killed. In that same year, environmental activist Chut Wutty was shot dead in an altercation with security forces while escorting two journalists through an area known for illegal logging. Taing Try contributed work to a number of newspapers and is a member of the Khmer Journalists for Democracy Association. Nigerian girls are missing now for six months By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Parents and supporters in Nigeria have marked six months since Islamists abducted more than 200 girls from a secondary school. Nigerian police on Tuesday blocked protesters demanding the release of the schoolgirls from marching on the president's official residence in the capital, Abuja. April 14, dozens of fighters from Islamist militant group Boko Haram stormed an undefended secondary school in the remote northeastern village of Chibok, carting away around 270 girls, more than 200 of whom remain in captivity. Fifty-seven managed to escape and Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau later threatened to sell the remainder as slave brides, vowing they would not be released until militant prisoners were freed from jail. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been criticized at home and abroad for his slow response to the kidnapping and for the inability of Nigerian troops to quell the violence by the militants, seen as the biggest security threat to Africa's top economy and leading energy producer. Faults in northern California believed ready for quake By
the Seismological Society of America news staff
Four urban sections of the San Andreas Fault system in northern California have stored enough energy to produce major earthquakes, according to a new study that measures fault creep. Three fault sections, Hayward, Rodgers Creek and Green Valley, are nearing or past their average recurrence interval, according to the study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. The earthquake cycle reflects the accumulation of strain on a fault, its release as slip, and its re-accumulation and re-release. Fault creep is the slip and slow release of strain in the uppermost part of the Earth's crust that occurs on some faults between large earthquakes, when much greater stress is released in only seconds. Where no fault creep occurs, a fault is considered locked and stress will build until it is released by an earthquake. This study estimates how much creep occurs on each section of the San Andreas Fault system. Enough creep on a fault can diminish the potential size of its next earthquake rupture. "The extent of fault creep, and therefore locking, controls the size and timing of large earthquakes on the Northern San Andreas Fault system," said James Lienkaemper, a co-author of the study and research geophysicist at U.S. Geological Survey. "The extent of creep on some fault sections is not yet well determined, making our first priority to study the urban sections of the San Andreas, which is directly beneath millions of Bay Area residents." Understanding the amount and extent of fault creep directly impacts seismic hazard assessments for the region. The San Andreas Fault system consists of five major branches that combine for a total length of approximately 1,250 miles. Sixty percent of the fault system releases energy through fault creep, ranging from 0.1 to 25.1 millimeters (.004 to 1 inch) per year, and about 28 percent remains locked at depth, according to the authors. Monitoring of creep on Bay Area faults has expanded in recent years. The alignment array measurements made by the San Francisco State University Creep Project and recently expanded GPS station networks provide the primary data on surface creep, which the authors used to estimate the average depth of creep for each fault segment. Where available, details of past ruptures of individual faults, unearthed in previous paleoseismic studies, allowed the authors to calculate recurrence rates and the probable timing and size of future earthquakes. According to the study, four faults have accumulated sufficient strain to produce a major earthquake. Three creeping faults have large locked areas (less than 1 millimeter or .04 inches of creep per year) that have not ruptured in a major earthquake of at least magnitude 6.7 since the reporting of earthquakes by local inhabitants: Rodgers Creek, northern Calaveras and southern Green Valley. The southern Hayward fault, which produced a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in 1868, is now approaching its mean recurrence time based on paleoseismic studies. The authors also estimate three faults appear to be nearing or have exceeded their mean recurrence time and have accumulated sufficient strain to produce large earthquakes: the Hayward (M 6.8), Rodgers Creek (M 7.1) and Green Valley (M 7.1). "The San Andreas Fault and its two other large branches, the Hayward and Northern Calaveras, have been quiet for decades. This study offers a good reminder to prepare today for the next major earthquake," said Lienkaemper. |
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permits from a bank of the Río Nazareth en Liberia,
Guanacaste. The three have a court date now.Budovsky pleads innocent in Manhattan Special to A.M. Costa Rica
Arthur Budovsky, the founder of Liberty Reserve, pleaded innocent Tuesday in Manhattan federal court Budovsky was extradited Friday from Spain to face charges related to his alleged operation of the virtual currency that was used by cybercriminals around the world to launder the proceeds of their illegal activity. Budovsky, 40, a citizen of Costa Rica, was arrested in Spain in May 2013, as a result of an indictment filed in Manhattan federal court. Following his extradition by Spanish authorities, Budovsky arrived in New York Friday afternoon. He was arraigned Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote. She set a date for trial next year. Budovsky remains in jail. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Friday: “As alleged, Arthur Budovsky founded Liberty Reserve to enable criminals in the United States and around the world to process illegal payments and to launder billions of dollars in crime proceeds anonymously and beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement. Budovsky allegedly operated Liberty Reserve from Costa Rica and renounced his United States citizenship to evade the authorities. Now, thanks to the cooperative efforts of our law enforcement partners here and in Spain, Arthur Budovsky has been apprehended and will face justice in an American courtroom.” Liberty Reserve was born out of Budovsky’s unsuccessful experience running a third-party exchange service, called Gold Age, Inc., for another digital currency, called E-Gold. In 2006, Budovsky was convicted in New York State of operating Gold Age, Inc., as an unlicensed money transmitting business. In 2007, the operators of E-Gold were also charged with criminal offenses, including money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business,, and subsequently ceased doing business. In the wake of his own criminal conviction, Budovsky set about building a digital currency that would succeed in eluding law enforcement where E-Gold had failed, by, among other ways, locating the business outside the United States, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Budovsky emigrated to Costa Rica, where he and other defendants began operating Liberty Reserve. Liberty Reserve billed itself as the Internet’s “largest payment processor and money transfer system.” Liberty Reserve was created, structured, and operated to help users conduct transactions anonymously. Liberty Reserve emerged as one of the principal money transfer agents used by cybercriminals around the world to distribute, store, and launder the proceeds of their illegal activity, federal official said. |
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| From Page 7: Young engineers competing at expo By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
An estimated 104 students will display their projects today and Thursday at the ExpoINGENIERÍA, the national fair that features the engineering efforts of secondary school children. The event is at the Colegio Técnico Profesional de Ulloa in Barreal de Heredia. It is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday after judging is complete. There are 57 projects, including robotics, biotechnology, computer science, electrical and electronic engineering and environmental management, said an announcement. |
