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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 210 | |||||||||
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Police await investigators at death sceneTamarindo visitor
found
dead of no apparent cause By Lucila Riascos^
and the A.M. Costa Rica staff Investigators are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine what killed an apparently healthy 23-year-old U.S. citizen in Tamarindo. The man, Austin Allen Hiers, was found dead on the side of the road in Tamarindo near Witch´s Rock Restaurant and Hotel. Police arrived at the scene at 7:15 a.m. Thursday. Hiers was last seen at the restaurant that same morning. He was staying at another local hotel where he checked in Sept. 26. He was previously in the U.S. Army said those who knew him, adding that he was married and had a child, both in the United States. Odir José Rodríguez Rosales, an employee at Rodamar, said that Hiers was an excellent person and the staff at the hotel are very hurt by what happened. Hiers was last seen leaving his hotel at 6:05 a.m., on the morning of his death. The autopsy is being performed at the Morgue Judicial in Heredia. * Ms. Riascos is a Tamarindo student. Home invasion suspects detained while moving items By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Investigators have detained four men as suspects in home invasions in San José and places nearby. They were detained as they were transporting what agents say was the loot from a home invasion in Santa Cecilia de Heredia to a home of one of the suspects in Moravia, said the Judicial Investigating Organization. Among those detained was a man who is suspected of being the purchaser of items taken in such crimes. Agents said they also confiscated weapons, radios and gloves, all believed linked to the crimes. In an unrelated case, agents also detained Friday a man at a home in Hatillo 8 suspected of being one of two persons who participated in a robbery at a home in the same area. The men invaded a home occupied by three young women and took portable computers. The victims were able to identify the man, agents said. Fake homebuyer stole items during showings By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Agents have detained a man suspected of pretending to be a home buyer in order to steal valuables during a showing of the property. The 50-year-old man is a suspect in at least 30 such cases, agents of the Judicial Investigating Organization said. According to agents the man would obtain contact information of persons with homes for sale from daily newspapers and then present himself as a foreign visitor including the accent. During the home visit the man would distract the sellers and take items that were valuable. Then he would leave after saying he would buy the home. But he never showed up at a lawyer's office to seal the deal, agents said. Robbers in Quepos harbor hold up trio on sailboat By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A San Diego, California, man says he was the victim of seagoing robbers as his sailboat was at anchor in Quepos. The man is Bruce Stevens, who told his story to the Log newspaper in California, which specialized in boating news. Stevens, his girlfriend and another man were on the boat "Two Amigos" watching a movie below deck, they told the newspaper. He also said he reported the crime, but that could not be verified over the weekend. The robbers tied up the trio and sacked the boat. Stevens may be the first U.S. citizen who was the victim of such a robbery, but Costa Rican fishermen on the Pacific have been plagued by such crimes.
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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 210 | |||||||||
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| Thunderstorms not the fault of Richard, weather experts say |
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Heavy rains that hit much of the Central Valley in the afternoon and early evening Sunday were not the fault of Hurricane Richard, which is making its way over Belize. The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional said that the strong thunderstorms were products of typical seasonable weather. Pavas reported getting 71.9 millimeters Sunday, about 3.1 inches. San Jose reported 45.9, about 1.8 inches. The weather institute said that today would be a typical day with moisture-laden breezes bringing humidity for the eventual thunderstorms in the Central Valley and the Pacific in the afternoon. At 1 a.m. today the U.S. National Hurricane Center said that Richard was weakening near the Belize-Guatemalan border. The tropical storm turned into a category 1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph or 120 kph. The storm is expected to pass over Mexico's Yucatan and then back into the gulf, said the center. |
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Richard has moved north, but another
system threatens.
The afternoon and evening storms got the attention of travelers who face possible slides on a number of national highways. So far there were no reports of damage, although road closings happen quickly. A father and child died on Ruta 32 last week, and storms caused a landslide that inundated homes along Quebrada Canoa in Salitral, Santa Ana. |
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British scientists and engineers have created a device that may save lives in Costa Rica and other countries where landslides are common. The device is a new type of sound sensor system. Thought to be the first system of its kind in the world, it works by measuring and analyzing the acoustic behavior of soil to establish when a landslide is imminent so preventative action can be taken, said the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Noise created by movement under the surface builds to a crescendo as the slope becomes unstable and so gauging the increased rate of generated sound enables accurate prediction of a catastrophic soil collapse, the council said. Costa Rica has had six months of rain-soaked hillsides collapsing, sometimes with fatal results. Such slides are typical of the country's rainy season. And they come without warning. The new device has been developed by researchers at Loughborough University, in collaboration with the British Geological Survey, through two projects funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The detection system consists of a network of sensors buried across the hillside or embankment that presents a risk of collapse. The sensors, acting as microphones in the subsoil, record the acoustic activity of the soil across the slope and each transmits a signal to a central computer for analysis, the council said. Noise rates, created by inter-particle friction, are proportional to rates of soil movement and so increased acoustic emissions mean a slope is closer to failure, the council noted. Once a certain noise rate is recorded, the system can send a warning, via a text message, to the authorities responsible for safety in the area. An early warning allows them to evacuate an area, close transport routes that cross the slope or carry out works to stabilize the soil, the council said. The system is now being developed further to produce low cost, self-contained sensors that do not require a central computer. This work is focused on manufacture of very low cost sensors with integrated visual and/or |
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Movement in column of gravel triggers alarm
audible alarms, for use in developing countries, the council said. Ongoing work includes field trials, market research and planning commercial exploitation of the technology. Materials undergoing deformation underground create acoustic stress waves, known as acoustic emissions. Gathering data on the emissions will provide information on the presence and location of straining, according to the council, adding: The project team’s sensor, for which Loughborough University has submitted a patent application, was developed to capture these acoustic emissions below the surface. It consists of a piezo-electric transducer that sits on top of a steel tube, called a wave guide, buried in the slope. The transducer converts the energy in the acoustic emissions into an electrical signal which is recorded by computer. The wave guide sits within a borehole filled with gravel which moves in response to any strain or deformation within the slope. Movement of the gravel creates noise which is transmitted to the surface, and the transducer, via the steel tube. The length of the wave guide is determined by the distance of the unstable subsoil under the surface and so can be tens of meters long, if necessary. Monitoring is conducted at frequencies too high for the human ear to detect, which ensures background noise does not lead to false alarms, the council said. |
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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 210 | |||||||||
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, the nation's main power generator, is inviting its customers to produce their own electricity and send the surplus to the national grid. The company restricted the offer to those generating systems that use renewable and clean sources, such as wind, solar, methane, and water. The program is similar to auto-generating systems elsewhere, although the offer now seems to be restricted just to retail customers of the firm known as ICE. The company said it has much more information at its various agencies. The customer installs the system, and then there is an inspection by the company's engineers. The inflow and outflow of electricity is measured as it comes and goes from the national grid. The main catch now seems to be that ICE will not exactly pay for the power that customers generate. Instead, the customer will build up a credit with the company that will refund the electricity when the customer is using more than the personal system produces. |
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Volunteers pick up a really messy beachNationwide cleanup
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nearly 80 tons of trash By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The national cleanup effort in September collected 79.7 tons of solid waste, organizers reported. Some 4,456 volunteers participated at 70 locations in the country. More than 50 percent of the waste collected along the beaches and watercourses were tops and plastic bottles of drinks, the organizers said. The cleanup was sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy which concentrated on the beaches, and Terra Nostra, which has been running cleanups for 10 years. Nearly all the Guanacaste beaches got the once-over. At Playas del Coco some 150 volunteers participated. Some 469 volunteers worked on the Osa beaches. The organizations catalogued what was picked up and issued a detailed report. For example, 42 tons was recyclable materials, the group said. There was 1.8 tons of aluminum, mostly cans, and nearly 17 tons of discarded tires, which also can be locations where dengue mosquitos lay their eggs. The campaign grew over 2009 when locations cleaned went from 46 to 79 and the number of volunteers went from 2,574 to the 4,456, the group said. Passport agency to open to public By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The U.S. State Department will open new public areas of the Arkansas Passport Center Tuesday. Previously closed to the public, the Arkansas Passport Center has produced 30 million passports since its opening in 2007, the department said. American citizens with urgent travel plans will now be able to apply for passports in person at the center, it added. The facility is at 191 Office Park Drive in Hot Springs. |
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