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		<title>What Does SOPA and PIPA Have To Do With Costa Rica?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday many websites were in a World-Wide Blackout against The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill, and it&#8217;s sister bill, Protect IP Act (PIPA), that is currently working their way through the United States Congress and the Senate. These new bills threaten every facet of the internet by letting government regulate what can and can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s Mediterranean Fruit Fly &#8211; X-Rays and Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011 National Geographic had a photo contest and ironically one of the winners in the nature category was a picture of a fruit fly resting on a green coffee bean in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Obviously unknown to the photographer, it  implicated one of Costa Rica&#8217;s worst nightmares is alive, well, and continues to threaten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Energy in Costa Rica &#8211; Saving Money and the Planet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up until quite recently in Costa Rica, the proposition of saving both money and the Earth with photovoltaic solar systems has stood on some pretty shaky ground. But that is changing.  Nowadays,  more and more Costa Ricans and expats are installing stand-alone or autonomous photovoltaic systems in the country&#8217;s remotest regions and have made it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica Coffee and Produce Get Trademark Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coffee has always played a major role in Costa Rica&#8217;s history and economy. Up until a few years ago it was Costa Rica&#8217;s #1 exported and very commercialized product. The largest growing areas are in the provinces of San José, Alajuela, Heredia, Puntarenas, and Cartago.  It is grown just about everywhere in Costa Rica.
Even if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Costa Rica’s Internet Service Providers Going to Be Charging Extra for Excessive Bandwidth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks one of our accounts has been having a hard time logging into their server. So after they rebooted the router a few times and then cleaned the ends of the cables the problem still existed. For a while it was driving me a bit crazy why this was happening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s Internet Future – IPv6, Competition and Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world’s most advance technology will have it  20th Birthday on Aug, 8th; thats when the “World Wide Web (www)” first gained a public face in 1991. 
CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after,  British scientist Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Process Serving in Costa Rica &#8211; Subpoenas &amp; Summons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that there are many questions about serving process here in Costa Rica. This blog is not intended to be legal advice nor is it a legal opinion. However, I think a review of the procedure for serving process in the States would shed light on the problems encountered here in Costa Rica serving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica Tourism; Quest for Pura Vida &amp; National Convention Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Costa Rica Tourism is back on the rise after a relatively flat 2010. Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT) reports that total number of visitors is up 7% or 45,000 more visitors in the first quarter of 2011.
This is great news for tourism and there are even bigger changes on the horizon. Tourism is Costa Ricas’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica and China Make Another Free Trade Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the biggest bummers in Costa Rica is their infamous import tax, a horrendous tax that is applied to so-called luxury items, such as boats, vehicles and electronics. A tax that makes these items VERY expensive. Anyone that has tried to import a vehicle knows how a $10,000 vehicle can quickly become a major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tipping Now Taxed In Costa Rica&#8217;s Restaurants and Bars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 16:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tip (also called a gratuity) has always been a special thanks to a server for good service. Such payments and their size are a matter of social custom and etiquette and usually are around 10%  plus of the total bill. Tipping varies among cultures and by service industry.
In Costa Rica, those that provide services [...]]]></description>
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