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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>Higher Traffic Fines, Tolls, Corporation Tax in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One again, as the New Year gets started, Costa Rican&#8217;s will find themselves paying more to the government.
Ticos by nature are non-aggressive, but this time the government may experience what American&#8217;s have seen, &#8220;country wide protests&#8221; and what some of the Bloggers are writing about, &#8220;WTF &#8211; The don&#8217;t understand land!&#8221;
Starting today (Jan 1, 2012) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica&#8217;s Unions Strikes &#8211; Benefits &amp; Privatization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if it is just me, but it seems like every time you turn around Costa Rica is having some sort of labor strike.
Last Monday, about 2000 union workers of Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) (government monopoly on power and light company) went on strike, and snarled traffic on several major streets in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Canada&#8217;s Seniors Immigration Increase to Costa Rica?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Costa Rica is an expats haven, taking advantage of their world class medial &#38; education systems, democratic government, gorgeous tropical climate, diverse economy and of course the affordable real estate.
The ones that top the list are Americans and Canadians. Currently, over 100,000 Americans and 20,000 Canadians live in Costa Rica.
Like the U.S., Canada’s  baby boomers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Costa Rica’s Internet Service Providers Going to Be Charging Extra for Excessive Bandwidth?</title>
		<link>http://ticotimes.com/costa-rica/i-s-p-charging-extra-bandwidth</link>
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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>Protecting Costa Rica&#8217;s Rainforest &#8211; Most Expensive ($18,000) Flip-flops &#8211; Chipkos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt ecology is a big issue, and no doubt businesses will hype their ecology concern in an effort to increase sales. However, one company takes it to the extreme and hopefully it will benefit Costa Rica.
Last week, designer sandal’s guru, Chipkos announced their latest pair of flip-flops. They will be the world’s most expensive, [...]]]></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>American Football is Alive in Costa Rica &#8211; Invited to Football World Cup in Mexico City, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Back in April, 2009 we wrote about how Costa Rica was forming the Costa Rica Federation of American Football (FCFA) -  since then, the game is becoming more popular with its 3rd season. For more info, contact Cody Gear at 321-218-9209 or via email at codygear (at) codylgearandassociates dot com.

Costa Rica has also been invited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica and China Make Another Free Trade Deal</title>
		<link>http://ticotimes.com/costa-rica/china-free-trade-deal</link>
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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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