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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Casa Presidencial revealed Tuesday that someone created a Twitter account in the name of President Luis Guillermo Solís. The account issued both correct and incorrect presidencial announcements. The government was successful in having the U.S.-based Twitter delete the account because impersonation violates one of the Web company's rules. Casa Presidencial said that the Twitter account, @luisguiiiermosr, would confuse the public. The account issued fake messages about Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba, Casa Presidencial said. Desamparados getting special attention By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The canton of Desamparados,which had become a war zone among feuding drug gangs, is getting the attention of the country's first lady. Mercedes Peñas Domingo, the president's wife, is coordinating a commission of government officials to address problems in the canton. She was invited to do so by the mayor, Mauren Fallas, said Casa Presidencial. Public attention was directed at Desamparados when it became the scene of multiple murders, mainly in the Calle Fallas area. Police increased their patrols dramatically, and several arrests were made. Casa Presidencial said that a committee of officials is seeking to reclaim public space, strengthen the social service deliveries and give attention to vulnerable groups. The committee also seeks to promote employment. The members are representatives of the various government agencies that already are charged with providing these services. New Year's means caution on highways By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Tonight, New Year's Eve, is the time for amateur drunks. That can mean tragedy on the highways. A lot of the action is at the beaches where many Central Valley residents have gone for vacation. A number of local hotels are holding New Year's parties, as are private clubs and private individuals. Today also begins the migration from the beaches to the Central Valley. Traffic officials are changing some of the routes so that there are more lanes leading to the city than away. One of these is Ruta 27, the Caldera highway. Some Costa Ricans have to report for work Friday morning. Others are off until Monday. Five from Guantanamo go east By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The United States has transferred five more detainees from the controversial prison at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base in Cuba. In a statement, the Pentagon said three Yemenis and two Tunisians were transferred Tuesday to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan. The men were low-level detainees caught in Pakistan on suspicion of having links with al-Qaida or other militant Islamic groups. The detainees, who were held for over 11 years, were never charged with a crime and were cleared for release by a government task force years ago. A total of 28 prisoners have been transferred from the Guantanamo prison this year, reflecting President Barack Obama's renewed efforts to close the facility. Obama, who has two years left in office, said earlier this month he will do everything he can to close the prison. Fifty-nine of the remaining 127 prisoners remaining at the prison have been cleared from release, but the U.S. law currently prevents them from being transferred to the mainland. Over half of the remaining prisoners are from Yemen. U.S. officials are reluctant to send inmates to the Gulf country, which has experienced a prolonged and chaotic security situation. Previously this year, Guantanamo inmates have been sent to Uruguay, Slovakia and Georgia. This is the first time they have been transferred to Kazakhstan, a Muslim majority country.
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The winds buffeting Costa Rica are supposed to increase in intensity today. The winds are expected to reach 80 kph (about 50 mph) in the central and northern sections of the country. In addition intermittent rain is expected in the Caribbean and the northern zone. There was light rain in the Central Valley Tuesday evening. The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional said that the winds come from a high pressure area over the Caribbean. This is typical Christmas weather, and the winds are what drives away the bulk of the rain. They will be around until at least March. Meanwhile, reports from the north say that temperatures of below zero F have hit the plains of Colorado. |
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Underground, A.M. Costa Rica's weather service, said in part: A dominant high pressure system will sink south southeastward over the Intermountain West of the United States and the northern Plains. Bitter cold arctic air will continue to impact the northern tier of the country, stretching from the Pacific Northwest to the upper Midwest. Wind chill warnings have already been issued across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming, while wind chill advisories are in place across the Plains and the upper Midwest. By contrast, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,was a balmy minus 1 C. Shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday Denver registered -24 C, which is -11 F. A few minutes after midnight today, the temperature at Daniel Oduber airport in Liberia was 27.4 C, which is slightly higher than 63 F. |
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Now that an Atlanta ad agency has activated the country's promotional Web sites, it appears animals are inviting North Americans to visit. Both the savetheamericans.org and savethecanadians.org sites say that they were created by animals to help save the overworked who are forced to labor long hours in stressful environments, increasingly estranged from their natural habitat. "As resident animals of Costa Rica, we happily offer our country as sanctuary," it says. The Canadian Web site says that 49 percent of residents there say they are vacation deprived. In the United States, the Web site claims 59 percent feel vacation deprived. There is no citation to any survey on which these figures are based. 22squared is the ad firm that came up with this promotion. The Web site contains answers to basic questions about coming to Costa Rica, but it does not say that the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo is sponsoring the promotion. In fact, both domain names are registered to the ad agency, according to an online search.  Part of the savetheamericans.org home page
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tourist institute has a tendency to ignore domain ownership.
In 2004 A.M. Costa Rica had to prevail on
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promotional firm.
That was the Web site the institute paid $833,000 to construct. The
22squared campaign is supposed to cost $3 million for a year.
The Web sites seek responses from those who visit Costa Rica and also
seeks their photos. Compared to other Web sites posted by the tourism
institute or private firms, both are fairly superficial.
The Alexa rank for the Canadian page is 2.3 million and it is in 45,000th place in Canada. The bounce rate is 73.7 percent, meaning that nearly three quarters of the visitors never get past the first page. The savetheamericans.org site is ranked at 1.6 million worldwide and 203,907 in the United States. It has a bounce rate of 53.3 percent. The average time on the site by visitors is two minutes and 43 seconds. Alexa is the Amazon.com Web site tracking company. The ad agency failed to capture the .com versions of the Web sites. Savetheamericans.com is banked at Godaddy.com, and savethecanadians.com was quickly picked up by a Costa Rican Web site owner and configured to direct visitors to his site. |
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The Greenland ice sheet seems to be melting faster than predicted, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This puts the world's coastal communities at greater risk sooner. Greenland is a huge island. If it were a country, it would be a little larger than Saudi Arabia. Eighty percent of the island is covered by ice. If all of it melted completely, global sea level would rise more than seven meters. Beata Csatho, an associate geology professor at the University of Buffalo, has been observing Greenland’s complexities, mining NASA data for 20 years. The study she led combined satellite and aerial data. The resulting analysis is the first comprehensive account of how the ice sheet and its many glaciers are changing. Prior to this work, scientists used data from models of four large glaciers to make forecasts for the entire island. The new study uses a much bigger data set, tracking surface elevation changes at 1,000 different locations. “We all know that the ice is melting. We are losing ice," Professor Csatho said. "But our data is also giving the spatial and the temporal pattern, which areas are more vulnerable, which areas are changing rapidly, which areas are changing in a different way than we expected.” The scientists checked the new data against the current climate models for Greenland. Professor Csatho says the old models are way too limited. “Having more data, we can have a much more accurate way of understanding how the ice sheet is changing now and knowing that we can predict it more accurately what it will do in the future.” These new insights suggest that in the near future, Greenland ice might melt faster than previously thought. |
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all Greenland glaciers.The study finds that glaciers next to each other are not necessarily changing in the same way. Some grew thicker even when the temperature rose. Others exhibited accelerated thinning. Some displayed both thinning and thickening with sudden reversals. In analyzing the data, Professor Csatho says researchers looked for patterns that took into account the effect of local hydrology and other factors, like the ocean temperature or water under a glacier. “For example if the ice gets warmer, the glacier can flow faster. And that faster flow will deliver more ice into the ocean. We call it ice dynamics. It is a very important part of understanding what is happening. That is the way glaciers and ice sheets are responding to the change of climate.” Professor Csatho says the study shows why detailed, widespread monitoring is critical. Her team plans to track 242 glaciers in Greenland to build better models. And those models, she adds, can help coastal communities respond to rising seas |
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| Weather is hampering search for downed AirAsia jetliner By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Bad weather is hampering the search for the victims and wreckage of an AirAsia jet that went down in the Java Sea near the Indonesian island of Borneo. Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency chief Bambang Soelistyo said three more corpses were pulled from the sea Wednesday, bringing the total number of bodies recovered to six. "Today, this morning, we found and retrieved three bodies, two male and a female wearing a stewardess uniform. As for the details, this is not our job. Up until now, we have recovered six bodies," said Soelistyo. Soelistyo said waves of up to three meters, strong winds, and heavy rain are preventing helicopters from searching the area. None of the 162 passengers and crew on board the plane have been found alive. The first trace of the plane was discovered Tuesday, not far from where the Airbus A320 disappeared during a storm en route from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. Investigators hope to determine the cause of the crash once divers locate and recover the plane's cockpit voice and flight data recorders. Indonesia's search and rescue agency says sonar images suggest the main body of the plane is lying upside down on the bottom of the sea, which is only 20 to 30 meters deep. Local television Tuesday showed rescue helicopters pulling bodies from the Java Sea, in the same area where pieces of the plane were found. Families of the 162 people on board AirAsia Flight 8501 burst into tears and hugged one another after seeing the images of the wreckage and floating bodies, which were not wearing life jackets. The wife of pilot Iriyanto, who like many Indonesians went by one name, said she was staying strong for the couple's children. "I'm here for my children and their future, so I must be strong and open with this situation," Widya Sukarti Putri said. The pilot's father described the experienced airman, who had more than 20,000 flying hours, as a good man. "He is a patient man, always trusted Allah. His behavior towards his parents as well as to the community around him was good," Soewarto said. Tony Fernandes, the CEO and founder of AirAsia, said he was absolutely devastated by the tragedy. Earlier on Twitter, Fernandes said his "heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved," and that "words cannot express how sorry I am." At least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and seven helicopters from several countries looked for the plane between Borneo and Sumatra islands. The shallowness of the sea, between 40 to 50 meters deep, was expected to aid efforts to recover the aircraft and vital communications data, including the flight recorders.  Voice
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Angolan free-tailed bat, a
suspected vector.Bat species
linked to ebola
and the spread of the virus By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Researchers believe that bats are the source of the virus behind the current ebola epidemic in West Africa, but a new study points to a different species than the fruit bats implicated in earlier outbreaks. The ebola virus usually jumps from its animal host to humans through contaminated bushmeat. Hunters bring home an infected fruit bat or an ape or antelope that contracted the virus. While bats are unaffected carriers of ebola, it is deadly for other forest dwellers. In earlier outbreaks, large mammals were also affected. But when researchers from Berlin's Robert-Koch Institute arrived in Guinea in April to investigate the growing epidemic, they found no decline in the wildlife population. So they turned their attention to another source of transmission, theorizing that the virus was coming directly from its host, bats. Fabian Leendertz, who led the team, said they focused on hunters and their efforts to catch and kill fruit bats, until they learned that the first victim of the current ebola outbreak was a 2-year-old boy. Emile Ouamouno, the first to die in the current ebola outbreak, may have been infected by bats while playing in a hollow tree near his village of Méliandou, Guinea. "That changed our point of view,” the physician recalled. “I thought, 'We have to also look at children and their behaviors.' And that was sort of the breaking point, because the children don't hunt the fruit bats. But what they do in these villages in general, they hunt these small insect-eating bats with sticks under the roof and in trees. Wherever they find them, they will hunt them and kill them and roast them over the fire." Through interviews in the boy's village of Meliandou, the researchers learned that local children often played in a large, hollow tree that was home to a large colony of Angolan free-tailed bats. Locals were quoted as saying the tree caught fire in March, causing bats to escape. The presence of hundreds of the mouse-sized creatures presented the possibility of massive exposure to the virus. Leendertz said the situation was similar to one in 2008, in which a tourist in Uganda visited the Python Cave, where a colony of bats roosted, and contracted the marburg virus, which is related to ebola. There is growing evidence, but no proof, that fruit bats harbor filoviruses, which cause the two hemorrhagic fever diseases. Writing in EMBO Molecular Medicine, Leendertz said the findings expanded the range of possible reservoirs for ebola. "What we want to say with this article is that because we don't know what the exact reservoir is and what the virus does in the reservoir and how it's circulating, we should keep an open view and also include in the investigations insectivorous bats and not focus only on fruit bats, as most teams have done in the past," he said. Starting with the young boy in a small Guinean village, ebola has spread to more than a half-dozen countries, infected more than 20,000 people and killed more than 7,800. China faces challenges as it becomes superpower By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
China’s rise as an economic power has been predicted for years. But by some measures 2014 was the year that the country overtook the United States as the world’s biggest economy. It happened sooner than many expected. According to figures released by the International Monetary Fund, China's total output of goods and services pushed past the United States' total for the first time this year. However, inside China there are many who view the prospect of being the world’s economic leader as a burden. “China is not eager to be number one or number two and even number two happened so quickly,” said Wang Yiwei, a political scientist at Beijing’s Renmin University. Wang made his remarks at a recent gathering for foreign journalists hosted by the U.S. Embassy’s Beijing American Center. Wang said that Chinese leaders, and scholars like himself, thought it would take China a long time to become number two, but it didn’t. Four years ago, China surpassed Japan to become the world’s second biggest economy. And “that’s the reason our relationship with Japan is so bad,” he added. It is not just Beijing’s relations with Japan that have deteriorated. China’s long-standing territorial disputes escalated in 2014. A massive Chinese oil rigger that was parked off Vietnam’s coast triggered deadly riots there and seriously frayed relations between the two Communist nations. Relations with Manila also continued to be strained as Beijing asserted its claims in waters close to the Philippines. There is growing concern in the region that China’s territorial claims, and what some argue is its aggressive stance, could lead to conflict as its global clout grows. Bruce Jacobs, a professor at Australia’s Monash University, said China’s expansionist territorial policies posed dangers because they were being stoked in an authoritarian country that lacks freedom of the press. “There is no discussion or apparently private discussion of many of these issues,” he said. “There is no feedback on these sort of false policies that the government puts forward. So in some ways it is very dangerous.” But Victor Gao, the director of the China National Association of International Studies, argued that having territorial disputes is normal and that it should not be alarming. “If you look around the world, involving many countries in the world, there are territorial disputes," he said. "Even today, among European countries, the U.K. and Spain have territorial disputes, and Russia and Norway, for example, just recently signed a maritime treaty, even between Canada and U.S., and several other countries, have territorial disputes involving the Arctic interests.” Some analysts, however, suggest that as China looks to the past to assert what it sees are its rightful territorial claims, it should perhaps put more emphasis on its future interests. “The interests of a superpower are different from that of an average big nation,” said Peking University Professor Jia Qingguo. “A superpower is not concerned about whether it has more or less territory, it is more concerned about access.” This year, while most nations distanced themselves from Russia, relations between Beijing and Moscow warmed. At the same time, China was reaching out to other neighbors in the region and beyond. China has put increasing effort into extending its contacts with Central Asia. In November, Beijing announced the establishment of a $40 billion Silk Road Fund. It is also working on a Maritime Silk Road that aims to boost China’s presence in the South China Sea and on the Malacca Strait to India, the Middle East and Africa. China is sending more troops for United Nations peacekeeping missions in Africa. Nearly 2,000 troops are in South Sudan, where Chinese companies have major oil interests. It is also increasing its contributions in the fight against the deadly ebola virus. Washington and Beijing have agreed to work together to fight climate change and China participated for the first time this year in joint naval exercises with the United States. “I think it is time for China to come up with new ideas, new paradigms, new ways of approaching many of these new challenges in diplomacy that we are talking about,” said Victor Gao. “I think President Xi Jinping is doing exactly that, he is changing the way China positions itself in the world and dealing with the multiple challenges we are facing diplomatically." As China adapts to its growing status in the world, it is increasingly being looked to as the world’s next superpower. But that can be a daunting challenge for the nation’s leaders. “China is a developed and developing nation. It’s a rich and poor nation. It is a weak country and a strong country. An average big country and superpower,” explained Professor Jia Qingguo. “This duplicity of status has an impact on its interests because the interests of a developed and developing nation are not the same, or not entirely the same. Nor are they for a rich and poor nation.” As Xi reasserts China’s foreign policy abroad, there are increasing worries over his consolidation of power at home. China’s president has assumed power more quickly than any other Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping in the wake of the country’s deadly and costly Cultural Revolution. Xi is carrying out a massive crackdown on corruption, while also spearheading government efforts on national security, cyber space and economic reform. His consolidation of power was something that U.S. President Barack Obama highlighted earlier this month in a Business Roundtable address. “Everybody has been impressed by his clout inside of China after only a year-and-a-half or two years," he said. "He taps into a nationalism that worries his neighbors and that we’ve seen manifest in these maritime disputes in the South China Sea as well as the Senkaku Islands.” The president also added that there were dangers in such a quick rise, particularly when it came to issues of human rights and clamping down on dissent. China has detained and jailed a growing number of activists, journalists and online commentators over the past year. Many, such as Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti or legal activists Xu Zhiyong and Pu Zhiqiang, were viewed as moderate voices in society. Republicans ready to press Obama on his foreign policy By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Some of President Barack Obama’s loudest critics on foreign policy will have new powers as chairmen of various Senate committees when Republicans assume control of both houses of Congress in January. From Ukraine to the Middle East, the Obama administration can expect enhanced scrutiny of its outreach to the world. As global conflicts rage, from Ukraine to the Middle East, Republicans are quick to fault the Obama administration on its outreach to the world. Earlier this year, Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican, said, "I have no earthly idea how the administration plans to go about degrading and destroying ISIS in Syria. I have no earthly idea." Another Republican senator, John McCain, is equally critical, saying, “This president does not understand Vladimir Putin. He does not understand his ambitions, that Vladimir Putin is an old KGB colonel bent on restoration of the Russian Empire.” Come January, Corker will be chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; McCain will head the Senate Armed Services Committee. "John McCain rarely pulls punches. He is quite sure of what needs to be done, and that the president is not doing it," said Stuart Rothenberg, a political analyst. Rothenberg said a Republican-led Congress can affect Obama's foreign policy up to a point. “They can limit what the president can do not only on domestic spending, but spending internationally, national security, armed forces and things like that. Having said that, this is the one area where the president traditionally has considerable freedom to operate," he said. Obama will remain commander-in-chief for two more years. But Republican-led congressional committees will shine a spotlight on his performance, said University of Chicago political scientist William Howell. “Politically, they have powerful incentives to underscore what they perceive to be the failings of the Obama administration in foreign policy. They can set the terms of the discussion that is going to ensue. They can have investigations," Howell said. McCain gave a taste of such scrutiny in a heated exchange with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Elissa Slotkin on the administration's policy concerning Islamic State militants. “I’m asking what the strategy is," McCain said. “Our strategy is to defeat ISIL," Slotkin said, using an acronym for the Islamist group. McCain stopped her, saying, "That’s a goal, not a strategy. I want to know what the strategy is." In reality, Obama is not immune to criticism from lawmakers of his own Democratic Party. Sen. Robert Menendez is skeptical about nuclear negotiations with Iran. “Right now, we are playing right into the Iranian narrative," Menendez said at a hearing earlier this month. Foreign policy battles could erupt as soon as Congress reconvenes in January. For example, Corker said lawmakers are eager to tighten sanctions against Iran if nuclear negotiations fail. |
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Young Mexican entrepreneurs developed a bio-digestion plant capable of generating electricity from organic waste in the market of the Nopal Collection Center in Mexico City. The company SUEMA, Sustainability in Energy and Environment, created by Jahir Mojica Hernández, Carlos Apipilhuasco Gonzalez Mejía and Nelly Rodriguez, designed a system for waste treatment and decided to implement it in the market sector due to the amount of waste generated there. The plant will be located in Milpa Alta, a sector in the south of Mexico City, and process three to five tons of waste per day operating 24 hours to generate its own electricity and illuminate the market. Thus benefiting from 65 tons of organic waste per month. The treatment plant will also use sunlight. Having an on-site plant will avoid transporting organic waste to the Bordo Poniente, the city’s dump where it is processed, avoiding an extra expenditure of up to 640 pesos per ton per day. With the capture of harmful greenhouse gases, energy will be generated and a soil improver will be produced, which will be delivered to the farmers. The soil improver, which is equivalent to a mixture of nutrients up to 600 kilograms per day, generates higher quality products, making the development attractive for traders, which will help in growing and marketing. "The plant will improve competitiveness, image and increase the number of customers. It is intended to get people more interested in going to the market instead of a convenience store," said the CEO of the company, Mojica. "The public markets are entities of economy for the city and main supply centers for poor people; however, they have weakened against major foreign consortia, which often define the price of commodities,” he said. |
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