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published online: 5/25/2008
On the hunt for borers

By NICHOLAS BERGIN

nbergin@thehawkeye.com

Local, state and national agencies plan to use royal purple prisms to catch a little green this summer.

A little green bug known as the “green menace” or the emerald ash borer, a dark metallic green beetle measuring about half an inch long and an eighth of an inch wide.

The borer, which has been responsible for the death of tens of millions of ash trees in the United States, originated in Asia and probably found its way to America as a stowaway in wood packing material.

Since its discovery in southeastern Michigan near Detroit in the summer of 2002, the ash borer has been spotted in Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The invasion of this miniature supervillain has the Iowa departments of natural resources and agriculture teaming up with Iowa State University Extension and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plant protection and quarantine division.

The USDA has set up quarantines in the affected states and plans to put up three-sided, purple, corrugated-plastic prisms coated in a nontoxic glue in 45 states. Iowa will see 1,200 prisms.

The traps will not stop the progression of the bug, but it will help track it. The closest confirmed spotting of the borer is about two hours west of the Quad Cities in Peru, Ill.

State officials plan to hang about 1,000 more traps across Iowa but are working out locations and funding issues, said Aaron Lumley, a Montrose-based forester with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

On Saturday, Lumley climbed an A-frame latter to hang one of the traps in an ash tree behind the Port of Burlington welcome center.

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Singer Sam Baker is interviewed in Kilkenny, Ireland on Saturday May 3, 2008. Baker's story is that he is making a name for himself as one of the most original new voices in contemporary roots music, despite the mangled fingers, the deafness, the brain damage that left him struggling for words and a constant loud ringing in his head that he acknowledges has The Boondocks dvd been the hardest thing to deal with. (AP Photo/Naomi Koppel)

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LIMA, Peru (AP) - Former President Alberto Fujimori’s daughter says he has a pre-cancerous growth in his mouth and it may have to be operated on.
Fujimori is on trial, accused of approving a death squad that carried out two massacres of suspected rebel collaborators early in his administration in 1991 and 1992.
Keiko Fujimori says the lesion is similar to one that was removed 10 years ago from the back of his tongue. Fujimori is 69.
She says the doctors who treated him then have confirmed he has «leukoplakia,» a precancerous lesion that develops on the tongue or the inside of the cheek.
She urged President Alan Garcia Tuesday to move her father from the special jail where he is being held to Business Credit Card house arrest to allow him to recover.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Original Article)

The latest chapter in the whip-cracking adventures of Indiana
Jones survived its first perilous outing in the Kingdom of Critical
Knives today, winning a comfortable round of applause from critics
at a preview in Cannes.

Starring Harrison Ford, 65, and set in the late 1950s of the
Cold War, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull sees its swashbuckling archaeologist hero racing against
Soviet agents to recover a mysterious pre-Colombian skull in the
wilds of Peru.

The world premiere of the fourth instalment in the Indiana Jones
saga, and the first in 19 years, gets its official world release at
a gala premiere at 7pm today (0300 AEST Monday) at Cannes and is
the hottest ticket at this year’s edition of the world’s biggest
film festival.

Hollywood blockbusters have a chequered history at Cannes, with
the Da Vinci Code, for instance, mauled by the pack of
4,000 journalists attending the 2006 festival.

So the critical response to this latest Indiana Jones adventure
from Hollywood blockbuster maestros Steven Spielberg and George
Lucas has been almost as hotly-awaited as the film itself.

Critics arrived an hour early to snatch a chair in the
2,300-seat theatre and the two-hour movie won Business Credit Card laughs and a round of
friendly applause at its end.

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Villarreal midfielder Santi Cazorla spoke of his delight following his surprise call-up to Spain’s squad for this summer’s European Championships.

Cazorla, along with fellow new face Sergio Garcia of Real Zaragoza, was the shock inclusion in Spain coach Luis Aragones’ 23-man squad.

There had been media speculation in recent days that Cazorla and Sergio Garcia were in line for a place in the squad, but the 23-year-old Villarreal man admitted he was still shocked after joining club-mates Joan Capdevila and Marcos Senna in the travelling party.

“It has surprised me a lot. I am very happy, it is the best moment of my career. It is a dream and now I am in the clouds, everything has happened so quickly,” said Cazorla, whose call-up is reward for a fine season at Villarreal, who he has helped to a second-place finish in La Liga.

“It is thanks to the club that I can go to the European Championships,” Cazorla added in Marca.

“We have had a great year. Much of the merit for my selection must go to Villarreal.”

Zaragoza have not had such a great season and they will be relegated to the Segunda Division if they lose their final game of the campaign against Real Mallorca on Sunday, but despite that striker Sergio Garcia has done enough to catch Aragones’ eye.

The 24-year-old former Barcelona striker was selected ahead of the likes of Raul Tamudo, Luis Garcia, Fernando Morientes and Spain’s all-time record goalscorer Raul, and he is thrilled to have been given the chance.

“You always dream of being there and it has happened to me now. It is the best you can hope for. I am going to give it everything and I hope that we go far,” Sergio Garcia said.

Coach Aragones said of the two new faces: “They are two of the footballers who we have been following, who have had an excellent end of season, who have quality and who have shown it.”

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Venezuela has offered to dedicate an annual aid of USD 365m from its oil revenues to help the poor nations amid rising food and energy prices.

President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that the funding would kick in when crude prices rose above $100 per barrel. He also called on both European and Latin American nations to contribute to the program, and requested Europe to write off the debt of Latin American and Caribbean countries.

“Three hundred sixty-five million dollars a year for a fund that will allow us to produce, buy and distribute food and medicines to the homes of the poorest families,” he said at a news conference with foreign journalists, according to Reuters.

Venezuela, an OPEC member, has already pledged $100 million with other regional leaders to increase output of staples such as rice, beans and corn.

Leaders from 60 countries in Europe and the Americas will meet in Lima, Peru this Friday for a two-day summit that is expected to Frequent Flyer Credit Card focus on poverty, climate change and free trade.

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30 Countries at Havana’s Poetry Festival
Havana, May 14 (Prensa Latina) Some 95 poets from the five continents will participate at the 13th Havana’s International Poetry Festival, to begin on May 26th through the 31st 2008, with a call to rescue original languages.
The president of the Organizing Committee writer Alex Pausides announced in a press conference guests are Mexican Juan Banuelos, Paraguayan Susy Delgado, Peruvian William Hurtado de Mendoza, and Guatemalan Humberto Ak Abal.
Spain, Mexico, Russia, US and Peru are at the top of the list of countries with greater number of delegates. There will also be participants of Austria, Canada, Barbados, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
The space dedicated to experimental designs as poetic performances in which poetry and music will go together figure among the new innovations of this edition.
One of the main activities will be World Meeting of Poets in Defense of Humanity, described by Pausides as an alive, permanent intellectual network, which fights against war and in St. George Vertigo Credit Card favor of peace and justice.
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NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - U.S. copper futures surrendered
early gains on Tuesday after an unexpectedly strong retail sales
report in April gave the dollar a boost, making dollar-denominated
metals less desirable for overseas investors, brokers said.

Still, the morning losses were modest in comparison to the
precious metals complex, they added, as red metal investors
kept an eye on potential supply shock developments in Peru and
Chile.

NOTE: For detailed report, click on [MET/L].

* Copper for July delivery HGN8 was down 1.95 cents at
$3.73 a lb by 10:10 a.m. EDT (1410 GMT) on the COMEX metals
division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Range from
$3.7235 to $3.7930.

* By 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT), COMEX copper volumes estimated
at 4,228 lots.

* The dollar rose broadly after unexpectedly strong retail
sales, excluding automobiles, in the month of April backed
views that the Federal Reserve would probably not cut interest
rates again next month.

* The Commerce Department said overall retail sales
declined 0.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted $378.1 billion,
after a 0.2 percent rise in March. That was slightly more than
the 0.1 percent decrease that economists surveyed by Reuters
had forecast for sales in April.

* Excluding autos, April sales were up 0.5 percent after a
0.4 percent March pickup - significantly better than the 0.2
percent sales increase that had been anticipated.

* In morning trade in New York, the euro dropped to a session
low at $1.5431 <EUR=>. It was last Gold Credit Card trading at $1.5453, down 0.5
percent on the day.  Continued…

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By Phil Kurata

Latin American countries need to improve their overall business climates and encourage new industries if they expect to continue to thrive in the global, knowledge-based economy.

So says Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund. He joined political and business leaders from throughout the Western Hemisphere in Washington May 6-7 for the 38th annual meeting of the Council of the Americas to discuss promotion of open markets, democracy and rule of law.

Despite recent growth, there are external threats to Latin America’s economic well-being from two sources, according to Strauss-Kahn. One is the mortgage crisis in the United States, which affects the overall U.S. economy, and the other is China’s unbalanced economic growth, which is weighted toward exports while the domestic market remains stunted.

Direct foreign investment coming into Latin American countries is one-third lower than that of East Asia, according to Strauss-Kahn. He and other experts believe that if Latin American countries were to improve their business climates, manufacturing and service businesses would thrive and more foreign companies would want to locate facilities in Latin America. Diversified economies are resilient, the theory goes.

To attract foreign investors to Latin American companies’ stocks and foreign businesses to the region, some Latin American governments are educating workers, building physical and technological infrastructure and even reforming judicial systems to make them business-friendly.

Latin America participates in world trade to a much greater degree than it did a decade ago. Today, high prices are boosting the fortunes of countries exporting soy, tin, copper, iron ore and other commodities. But if prices do not continue to rise, such commodity dependence could harm Latin American economies.

Strauss-Kahn proposed that Latin America increase mobile clips its focus on value-added products; for …continue reading