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For placing advertisment, please contact: Eka Wahyuni 0361-225764 HOTLINE CITY TEMPERATURE O C WEATHER FORECAST 23 - 31 23 - 32 20 - 29 23 - 31 23 - 33 DENPASAR JAKARTA BANDUNG YOGYAKARTA SURABAYA SUNNY BRIGHT/CLOUDY RAIN PAGE 12 Tuesday, March 15, 2011 16 Pages Number 67 3 rd Year e-mail: [email protected] online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com. I N T E R N A T I O N A L Price: Rp 3.000,- PAGE 8 ‘Battle: LA’ conquers box office with $36 million PAGE 6 Abbas calls killing of Israeli settlers despicable CBIP development contradict with Governor moratorium Associated Press Writer KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A Malaysian newspaper has apolo- gized for printing a caricature of Japanese cartoon superhero Ultraman comically trying to out- run a tsunami. Malaysians reacted with a tirade of anger after the Malay-language Berita Harian daily newspaper pub- lished the cartoon Sunday. Critics Millions of people were facing a fourth night without water, food or heating in near-freezing temperatures in the devastated northeast. Mean- while, a third reactor at a nuclear power plant lost its cooling capacity, raising fears of a meltdown, while the stock market plunged over the likeli- hood of huge losses by Japanese in- Malaysia paper apologizes for comic tsunami image vented on Twitter and Facebook and some called for a boycott of the paper. The apology issued on the paper’s website and on social newtworking sites said Berita Harian had “no intention of poking fun” at the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on Fri- day. The newspaper expressed sym- pathy and said it shared “the sor- row of the Japanese people.” A reader looks at the page of a newspaper with a cartoon depicting the popular Japanese icon Ultraman running away from a tsunami wave in Kuala Lumpur on March 14, 2011. MALAYSIA OUT AFP PHOTO / Saeed Khan Tide of 1,000 bodies overwhelms quake-hit Japan Associated Press Writer TAKAJO, Japan – A tide of bodies washed up along Japan’s coastline, crematoriums were overwhelmed and rescue work- ers ran out of body bags as the nation faced the grim reality of its mounting humanitarian, economic and nuclear crisis Monday after a calamitous tsunami. Continued on page 6 REUTERS/Asahi Shimbun A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, March 13, 2011. dustries including big names such as Toyota and Honda. A Japanese police official said 1,000 washed up bodies were found scattered Monday across the coastline of Miyagi prefecture. The official declined to be named, cit- ing department policy. The discov- ery raised the official death toll to about 2,800 but the Miyagi police chief has said that more than 10,000 people are estimated to have died in his province alone, which has a population of 2.3 million. In one town in a neighboring pre- fecture, the crematorium was unable to handle the crush of bodies being brought in for funerals. “We have already begun crema- tions, but we can only handle 18 bodies a day. We are overwhelmed and are asking other cites to help us deal with bodies. We only have one crematorium in town,” Katsuhiko Abe, an official in Soma, told The Associated Press. Friday’s double tragedy has caused unimaginable deprivation for people of this industrialized country — Asia’s richest — which hasn’t seen such hardship since World War II. In many areas there is no running wa- ter, no power and four- to five-hour waits for gasoline. People are sup- pressing hunger with instant noodles or rice balls while dealing with the loss of loved ones and homes. “People are surviving on little food and water. Things are simply not coming,” said Hajime Sato, a government official in Iwate prefec- ture, one of the three hardest hit.

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CBIP developmentcontradict withGovernormoratorium

Associated Press Writer

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia –A Malaysian newspaper has apolo-gized for printing a caricature ofJapanese cartoon superheroUltraman comically trying to out-run a tsunami.

Malaysians reacted with a tiradeof anger after the Malay-languageBerita Harian daily newspaper pub-lished the cartoon Sunday. Critics

Millions of people were facing afourth night without water, food orheating in near-freezing temperaturesin the devastated northeast. Mean-while, a third reactor at a nuclearpower plant lost its cooling capacity,raising fears of a meltdown, while thestock market plunged over the likeli-hood of huge losses by Japanese in-

Malaysia paper apologizes for comic tsunami imagevented on Twitter and Facebookand some called for a boycott of thepaper.

The apology issued on thepaper’s website and on socialnewtworking sites said BeritaHarian had “no intention of pokingfun” at the disastrous earthquakeand tsunami that hit Japan on Fri-day. The newspaper expressed sym-pathy and said it shared “the sor-row of the Japanese people.”

A reader looks at the page of a newspaper with a cartoondepicting the popular Japanese icon Ultraman running awayfrom a tsunami wave in Kuala Lumpur on March 14, 2011.MALAYSIA OUT AFP PHOTO / Saeed Khan

Tide of 1,000 bodiesoverwhelms quake-hit Japan

Associated Press Writer

TAKAJO, Japan – A tide of bodies washed up along Japan’scoastline, crematoriums were overwhelmed and rescue work-ers ran out of body bags as the nation faced the grim realityof its mounting humanitarian, economic and nuclear crisisMonday after a calamitous tsunami.

Continued on page 6

REUTERS/Asahi Shimbun

A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, March 13, 2011.

dustries including big names such asToyota and Honda.

A Japanese police official said1,000 washed up bodies werefound scattered Monday across thecoastline of Miyagi prefecture. Theofficial declined to be named, cit-ing department policy. The discov-ery raised the official death toll to

about 2,800 but the Miyagi policechief has said that more than 10,000people are estimated to have diedin his province alone, which has apopulation of 2.3 million.

In one town in a neighboring pre-fecture, the crematorium was unableto handle the crush of bodies beingbrought in for funerals.

“We have already begun crema-tions, but we can only handle 18bodies a day. We are overwhelmedand are asking other cites to help usdeal with bodies. We only have onecrematorium in town,” KatsuhikoAbe, an official in Soma, told TheAssociated Press.

Friday’s double tragedy hascaused unimaginable deprivation forpeople of this industrialized country— Asia’s richest — which hasn’t seensuch hardship since World War II. Inmany areas there is no running wa-ter, no power and four- to five-hourwaits for gasoline. People are sup-pressing hunger with instant noodlesor rice balls while dealing with theloss of loved ones and homes.

“People are surviving on littlefood and water. Things are simplynot coming,” said Hajime Sato, agovernment official in Iwate prefec-ture, one of the three hardest hit.

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Based on observation of Bali Post,Sunday (Mar 13), the northern coastundergoing severe damage occurredon the road section from Les Village,Tejakula Subdistrict to Air Sanih Vil-lage, Kubutambahan Subdistrict. Thedamages varied, ranging from streetpotholes, cracks, wavy condition topeeled-out asphalt only leaving theirgravels. The damage looked moresevere because the holes in themiddle of the road were always in-undated in the rainy season as hap-pened recently.

A number of residents said almostevery day the road was passedthrough by 400 trucks. Those largesize trucks mostly conveyed sand andstones taken from Karangasem to betransported to Buleleng andJembrana. Most of the trucks wereoperated at night so they often madepeople living in the roadside unableto sleep. Even, the more alarmingcondition was the bad condition ofroad and the number of trucks pass-ing in tandem that often triggeredtraffic accidents.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Apparently rabies cases remain to

haunt the people of Bali. Up to thismoment, this deadly disease transmit-ted through dog bites continues to killmore lives. To suppress the cases tothe lowest level, the Bali Animal Hus-bandry Services established a synergywith Animal Husbandry Services ofregencies/city across Bali to organizethe second mass vaccination againsthundreds of thousands of dogsthroughout Bali. Meanwhile, the firstmass vaccination was targeted to havebeen completed at the end of thisMarch. Head of Bali Animal Hus-bandry Services, Putu Sumantra, ex-plained the matter to Bali Post, Sun-day (Mar 13).

According to Sumantra, the sec-ond mass vaccination was scheduledto be held in next May and take placefor three months. He added that themain priorities targeted were dogsthat were not covered in the first massvaccination. “We have designed thesecond mass vaccination startingfrom next May. Hopefully, there willbe no obstacles,” he said.

Sumantra added that the opera-tional costs of mass vaccinationwould be taken from the Bali Re-gional Budget 2011 amounting toIDR 2 billion. The budget would beallocated to vaccinate about 200,000dogs. “We will use the fund of BaliRegional Budget for the operationalwith an allocation of IDR10,000 perdog,” he said.

As for the procurement of anti-rabies vaccine, his party relied onthe vaccine stocks stored in theBali Animal Husbandry Servicescoming to 150,000 doses. Mean-while, the central government hadexpressed its readiness to send200,000 additional doses of vac-

Tabanan, DenPostThe robbery victimizing Wayan

Sukarata (50) and family last Sun-day (13/3) victimized at BanjarJelijih Tegeh, Megati Village,caused a stir. East Selemadeg SubDistrict Leader, Gusti NgurahDarma Utama, AP., M.Si., willsuggest each village heads in thissub district to re-operateposkamling (around the clock vil-lage security system) to avoid suchthing happening again. Moreoverthe case is still unrevealed.

According to Utama, this kindof crime act can happen whenever

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The damage road on the northern part of Singaraja. The northern coastal road of Bali connect-ing Amlapura-Singaraja has been badly damaged for many years.

Northern coastal roadNorthern coastal roadNorthern coastal roadNorthern coastal roadNorthern coastal roadsection damagedsection damagedsection damagedsection damagedsection damagedSingaraja (Bali Post)—

The northern coastal road of Bali connecting Amlapura-Singaraja has been badly dam-aged for many years. Allegedly, one of the causes was hundreds of trucks passing throughthe road mostly conveying sand and other materials with exceeding freights. To that end, theBuleleng House proposed in order the truck scale station on the way could be re-activated tocurb overloading trucks.

A legislator of Buleleng House,Putu Tirta Adnyana, from TejakulaSubdistrict said he had questionedabout the damaged roads in the areaof Tejakula-Kubutambahan to theBuleleng Public Works. Based on theinformation obtained, the road wouldbe repaired by central governmentwith budget allocation of approxi-mately IDR 60 billion. “It was said theroad will be repaired this year. We aregoing to ask again about its certainty,”he said.

Tirta Adnyana justified that one ofthe causes of damage on the cross-re-gency roads was the overloaded truckspassing through the road. Other causeswere poor maintenance and unstableconditions of land. “Especially to curbthe overloading trucks, we in theHouse have submitted an initiative tothe executive to re-activate the dor-mant truck scale station,” he said.

According to him, other regionssuch as West Java, Central Java andits surroundings had started to re-acti-vate their truck scale stations. In addi-tion to gain levies, it was also effec-

tive to monitor trucks transportingoverloaded cargo exceeding the stipu-lation. For example, trucks carryingsand from Karangasem only paid lev-ies in Karangasem. Meanwhile, thosetrucks only passed through inBuleleng. “They pay in other region,while Buleleng only gets the damagedroads,” he said.

Tirta Adnyana admitted that to re-alize the House’s initiative on truckscale should pass through a long pro-cess because the existing truck scalestations in Buleleng, namely in the areaof Seririt and Bungkulan, were ownedby the central government which pre-viously managed by Bali ProvincialGovernment through the Departmentof Transportation. To re-activate thetruck scale station, the central govern-ment or Bali Provincial Governmenthad to synchronize the managementfirst with the regency government.“This should be discussed again. Asschedule, this Monday (Mar 14—Ed),we will conduct a meeting to discussthe initiative to re-activate the truckscale station,” he said. (kmb15)

Post Robbery at Jelijih Tegeh, SubDistrict Re-operate Poskamling

and wherever. For that he suggestedthe people to keep increasingawareness, one of them reactivat-ing poskamling system. He alsowill suggest for each village to datanon residents, “With these two ac-tivities we hope our peace and or-der will be less even no distur-bance.”

Meanwhile, Head of TabananPolice Crime Research Section,Adjunct Police CommissionerNyoman Wirajaya, when contactedon telephone confirmed the case isstill unrevealed and still further in-vestigated. (121)

Animal Husbandry Servicesprepare second mass vaccination

cine. In other words, there wouldbe 350,000 doses of vaccine readyfor use. “Such amount is more thanenough to carry out the secondmass vaccination. We estimate thatoperational budget of IDR 2 billionwill cover the needs of revaccina-tion because the estimation of un-vaccinated dogs is less than200,000,”he said.

Nevertheless, Sumantra con-firmed that Bali provincial govern-ment still expected the funding sup-port from various elements. He saidthe central government and FAOhad expressed their readiness to helpfund the vaccination if required.“Even, the central government haspledged a fund of IDR 20 billion forthe treatment of rabies in Bali thisyear. Related to mechanism of bud-get disbursement, we are not sureabout that. We hope the fund couldbe disbursed in May so that it canbe used to support the second massvaccination,” he said hopefully.

Sumantra claimed that the firstmass vaccination conducted in col-laboration with the Bali AnimalWelfare Association (BAWA)could vaccinate almost 80 percentof the total population estimated toreach 300,000 dogs. That numberexceeded the initial target set at 70percent. “The first mass vaccina-tion has already completed. Now,we are only conducting searchesagainst the stray dogs that may scat-ter or be unvaccinated. Mass re-vaccination is carried out to dogsleft in the first mass vaccination andnewly born dogs,” he said whileadding that the second mass vacci-nation would involve 50 teams thathad been established and cooper-ating during the process of the firstmass vaccination. (kmb13)

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The Regent suggests if the marketsfacilities and place is clean also pro-fessionally managed, it will makebuyers and sellers comfortable to in-teract.

This meeting with Solo Govern-ment, Surakarta, was just the first step

Gianyar (Bali Post) –Fawaid (22) a pirate discs seller

from Pakusari, Jember, East Javaliving in Tegallalang, Ubud was cap-tured by Police during selling atTebongkang night market, Ubud.

Based on the information col-lected last Sunday (13/3) the cap-turing was led by First InspectorArya FK around 9 pm. Police inves-

Semarapura (Bali Post) –Wayan Sutama, a 30 years old

man from Satra, Klungkung, gotcoma after hit by a bullet under hisleft eye and penetrated to the backof his head. It is suspected residentof the same village, Dewa PK (31),did it yet not reported to police.

Last Friday (11/3) around 11 amlocal time, Dewa PK was going to

Mangupura (Bali Post)—Community of Nusa Dua,

particularly Bualu CustomaryVillagers, urged to end the po-lemic on the Beach World (BW)development located atSelagan, Nusa Dua. Such urgere-emerged following the ab-sence of certainty about whenthe relevant parties would con-front them to Bali Tourism De-velopment Corporation(BTDC).

“We urge to have an imme-diate direct follow-up meetingwith the Managing Director ofBTDC. This problem is verypervasive and must be re-solved,” said a local communityleader of Bualu, I NyomanSuweta, Sunday (Mar 13).

According to him, after themeeting in Wantilan Hall ofBenoa Village Head’s Office onMarch 2, 2011, until now resi-dents have not received any as-surance on the implementationof further meeting. His partyalso appealed that BTDCshould not overextend to agreethe MoU between local resi-dents and BTDC related toSelagan, Nusa Dua. Further-more, both the Bali House andthe Badung House had madesite inspection and they werealso urged to immediately con-duct an evaluation.

He re-emphasized that thecommunity really wanted that

Dirty Traditional Market

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The condition of the traditional market in Jembrana Regency.

Negara (Bali Post) –The arrangement and management of traditional markets in Jembrana hasn’t been optimal

and seemed filthy. This caused Regent I Putu Artha and Vice Regent Made Kembang Hartawanto solve it after enlightened by a joint work visitation to Surakarta with Jembrana House ofRepresentatives members, Regional Development Board, and Head of Public Works Agency.

which technically should be contin-ued by Bappeda reassessing, “Forsure the Solo government is ready tojoin work through intensive coordi-nating.”

Head of Jembrana Bappeda, I GedeGunandnya, admitted the traditional

markets there has been under profes-sional management. Since the pass 5years, Solo led by Joko Widodo andWawali Fx Rudi have proved to ar-range the city by renovating traditionalmarkets such as Kembang Market andNusukan market. (kmb26)

Bullet struck an eyeshoot a cat on a wall near his houseusing an air rifle. Sadly the catwasn’t the victim as the bullet wentthrough the wall and hit Sutama whowas digging in the other side. Asvictim’s unconscious, he wasbrought to Klungkung Hospital byfamily and shooter which thenmoved to Sanglah Hospital.

When asked for confirmation,

Head of Klungkung Police, Ad-junct Police Commissioner DewaGede putra Sugawa, admittedheard the information yet it is notreported to the police, “We heardit due to one of our police officeris victim’s colleague.” He is sus-pecting the case was solved famil-ial where shooter paid victim’smedication expenses. (kmb20)

Hundreds of Pirate Discs Confiscated

IBP/Dar

A police officer shows the pirated discs confiscated on Tegallalang.

tigated the location straight awayafter receiving information from thepublic. Hundreds of discs confis-cated were 585 VCD and MP3, 101DVD, a television, one VCD Playerset, one speaker set also amplifier,IDR 28 thousand cash and sales notewith its pen.

After in Ubud, police also wentto Gianyar night market which

also has lots of pirate CDs sell-ers. Only just during the raid theyweren’t selling as it is suspectedthey know about the raid. The pi-rate CD seller is stated to haveviolated section 71 (2) of the In-donesia Republic Law No. 19Year 2002 on copyrights by offer-ing, distributing or selling copy-right violation items. (kmb16)

Society urges to holdfurther meeting promptly

Selagan area of Nusa Dua couldremain a public space. It was notonly intended for free publicplace for recreation and cer-emony, but also for supportingfacilities such as parking lot. Hesaid that people should notblame the community on havingnegative thinking if the furthermeeting was not immediatelyorganized. According to him,the demand of community wasvery simple, how to make theSelagan Beach of Nusa Dua re-main a public space.

On the other hand, the de-mands for self-management ofSelagan Beach of Nusa Dua byBualu Customary Village beganto appear. I Nyoman Sutika, acommunity leader of Bualu, ex-pressed that Selagan Beach ofNusa Dua was the icon and em-bryo of tourism in Nusa Dua.Selagan Nusa Dua was also theonly beach remaining free to thepublic and should be maintainedpersistently.

He said the case of BW wasonly a small portion of disap-pointment of local society toBTDC. For decades in NusaDua, BTDC had been consid-ered to provide very small con-tribution to the community. Forthat purpose, he demanded inorder the Bualu Customary Vil-lage could be given authoritylike other customary villages tomanage the beach. (kmb25)

International4 Tuesday, March 15, 2011 News

The explosion at the plant’s Unit 3, whichauthorities have been frantically trying to coolfollowing a system failure in the wake of amassive earthquake and tsunami, triggered anorder for hundreds of people to stay indoors,said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said radiation levelsat Unit 3 were 10.65 microsieverts, significantlyunder the 500 microsieverts at which a nuclearoperator must file a report to the government. Theblast follows a similar explosion Saturday that tookplace at the plant’s Unit 1, which injured fourworkers and caused mass-evacuations.

Japan’s nuclear safety agency said 6 work-ers were injured in Monday’s explosion but itwas not immediately clear how, or whetherthey were exposed to radiation. They were allconscious, said the agency’s Ryohei Shomi.

The reactor’s inner containment vesselholding nuclear rods was intact, Edano said,allaying some fears of the risk to the environ-ment and public. TV footage of the buildinghousing the reactor appeared to show similardamage to Monday’s blast, with outer wallsshorn off, leaving only a skeletal frame. More

Agence France Presse

BREGA, Libya – Libyan rebelsretreated from another key townunder heavy shelling from govern-ment forces as Moamer Kadhafi loy-alists swept closer towards the mainopposition-held city of Benghazi.

But following the fall of Brega,the commander of the vastlyoutgunned rebels, Kadhafi’s formerinterior minister, vowed to defendthe next town in the path ofKadhafi’s forces, Ajdabiya. A light-ning counter-offensive over the pastweek has pushed the rebels out ofMediterranean coastal towns, allow-ing the regime to wrest back the mo-

Agence France Presse

NEW DELHI – Eight countrieshave lodged an official complaintwith the Indian government over$74 million of unpaid bills after theCommonwealth Games, saying thedelays could affect future invest-ment. Senior diplomats from sevenEuropean countries and Australiasigned a letter demanding actionover broken contracts and valuableequipment that is still stuck in In-dian customs since the Games wereheld in October last year.

The Games were hit by poorpreparations and shoddily-fin-ished stadiums despite an esti-mated budget of $6 billion. A num-

AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana

Eight countries have lodged an official complaint with the Indian gov-ernment over $74 million of unpaid bills after the CommonwealthGames, saying the delays could affect future investment.

Eight nations accuse India over unpaid Games billsber of senior figures have since beenarrested in a widening police probeinto corruption.

“The long delay in settling thesematters is damaging India?s nationalreputation, denting the confidence offoreign business and raising doubtsabout the enforcement of contracts,” theenvoys wrote. Australia, Belgium, Brit-ain, France, Germany, Italy, the Neth-erlands and Switzerland all signed theletter, which was delivered to FinanceMinister Pranab Mukherjee last month.

Diplomats confirmed the letter af-ter it was printed in the HindustanTimes on Monday. Australian com-panies have also complained bitterlyabout unpaid fees for organising theopening and closing ceremonies,

while British firm SIS Live is in alegal battle to be paid in full forbroadcasting services.

Indian police have arrested theDelhi 2010 organising committee’sdirector general, V. K. Verma, and itssecretary general, Lalit Bhanot, overalleged financial irregularities.Thenational anti-corruption watchdog,the Central Vigilance Commission(CVC), received complaints allegingup to $1.8 billion of Games moneywas misappropriated.

Swiss Timing, which has workedat many recent Olympic Games, re-cently took out full-page advertise-ments in the Indian press to denyallegations of kickbacks after policeaccused it of over-charging.

AFP PHOTO / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA

A Libyan rebel carries and rocket-propelled grenade launcher on March13, 2011 before dozens opposition fighters were pulling out of theeastern town of Brega amid heavy shelling from forces loyal tostrongman Moamer Kadhafi.

Kadhafi forces advancetowards Libyan rebel capital

mentum against the month-long up-rising against Kadhafi’s four-decadegrip on power.

Kadhafi’s forces are “marching tocleanse the country” of insurgents,Libyan army spokesman ColonelMilad Hussein told reporters in Tri-poli. “Our raids are forcing the ter-rorists to flee. We have liberatedZawiyah, Uqayla, Ras Lanuf andBrega, and the army is advancing toliberate the rest of the regions.”

France said it would speed up itspush for a no-fly zone to groundKadhafi’s warplanes, something therebels on the ground have been call-ing for.

Dozens of rebels fled east out of

Brega towards Ajdabiya, the lastrebel-held town before Benghaziwhich the Libyan opposition hasmade its de facto capital just 100miles (170 kilometres) away. Libyanstate television declared Brega“purged of the armed gangs.”

It also reported that Kadhafi hadmet the ambassadors of China, Indiaand Russia to discuss the possibilityof handing them control of thecountry’s oil exports. China and Rus-sia, both permanent members of theUnited Nations Security Council, haveexpressed scepticism about the needfor a no-fly zone in Libya. India, a tem-porary Security Council member, hascome out against the idea.

AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS

An aerial photo shows the quake-damaged Fukushima Dai-Ni nuclear power plantin the town of Naraha and Tomioka in the Futaba district of Fukushima prefectureon March 12, 2011.

Second explosion at stricken Japan nuke plantSecond explosion at stricken Japan nuke plantSecond explosion at stricken Japan nuke plantSecond explosion at stricken Japan nuke plantSecond explosion at stricken Japan nuke plantAssociated Press Writer

SOMA, Japan – The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan’s strickenFukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into theair and wounding 6 workers. The plant’s operator said radiation levels at the reactorwere still within legal limits.

than 180,000 people have evacuated the areain recent days, and up to 160 may have beenexposed to radiation.

Earlier Monday, pressure had jumped insideUnit 3, forcing the evacuation of 21 workers.But they returned to work after levels appearedto ease. Associated Press journalists felt the ex-plosion in the tsunami-devastated port town ofSoma, some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north ofthe reactor. They reported feeling the faintrumble of a blast and the ground shaking.

Four nuclear plants in northeastern Japanhave reported damage, but the danger wasgreatest at Fukushima’s Dai-ichi plant. Opera-tors have lost the ability to cool three reactorsat Dai-ichi and three more at another nearbycomplex using usual procedures, after thequake knocked out power and the tsunamiswamped backup generators.

Operators have been dumping seawater intounits 1 and 3 in a last-ditch measure to coolthe reactors. They were getting water into theother four reactors with cooling problemswithout resorting to corrosive sea water, whichlikely makes the reactors unusable.

Activities Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for March 8 through March 19, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annualCeremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Ba-linese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine whicheach family possesses. Because of this practically every fewdays a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in someVillage in Bali. There are also times when the entire islandcelebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan,Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day,Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is consid-ered its birth day and celebration always takes place on thesame day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When newmoon is used then the celebration always happens on new moonor full moon. The day of course can differ the religious cel-ebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some templecelebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakihtemple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and mostof the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importanceof the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed withpieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, deco-rations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold andChinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the fourcorners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, whiteor black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped inthe shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrel-las soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, longflags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. Infront of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles,decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, riceand other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are thegirls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangementsof all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Everyvisitor admires the grace with which the carry their load ontheir heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

8 MarchAnggar Kasih Perangbakat

Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - KlungkungTirta Sudamala Bebalang - BangliPaibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit - sawan -BulelengPasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - KlungkungGunung Tengsong Lombok - NTBDalem Benawah Benawah - GianyarDalem Bitra Bitra - GianyarDalem Banyuning Banyuning Timur -BulelengDalem Pauman Batan Getas Titih DenpasarTengah Padang Tegalalang - GianyarMerajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - PupuanTabananKawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa AdatPagan DenpasarHyangaluh/Jenggala Besakih - GianyarMerajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa -KlungkungMerajan Pasek Gelgel SelulungSelulungMerajan Pasek Subrata MedahanMerajan Pasek Munggu MungguPura Tengkulak Tulikup - GianyarPenataran Badung Ogang Village Sidemen -Karangasem

9 MarchBuda Umanis Perangbakat

Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Tarukan PejengTampak Siring-GianyarRambut Siwi JembranaBatu Bolong Canggu - KutaPasek Marga Klaci Klaci - TabananAgung Pasek Dauh Waru JembranaRatu Pasek Sangsit Sawan - BulelengPasek Tangkas Darma Reyanggede TabananBanyuning Village Temple BanyuningBulelengSrijon TabananPasek Gelgel Lebah Pangkung Petemon

Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak SiringDadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh ManuabaTegalalangPedarmaan Batursari Ngilis JeguPenebel TabananPuncak Mundi Nusa Penida

19 MarchPurnama Kedasa

Odalan Betara Turun Kabeh Besakih -KarangasemNgusaba in Bukit Jati Temple BangliBatur Kalanganyar BangliMasceti Pejeng Aji Tegalalang - GianyarDalem Tangsub Sukawati - GianyarPenambangan Badung Denpasar CityNgusaba in Lempuyab Madia TempleKarangasemNgusaba in Batur Temple BangliVillage Temple Singakerta UbudPasek Gelgel Tagtag Kukuh Marga TabananGaduh Ketapian Sumerta DenpasarPasek Bendesa Batur Tuak IlangTabananPasek Agung Tagtag Kelod Peguyangan -DenpasarAgung Pasek Bendesa Tonja Tonja - DenpasarPasek Gelgel Angsri Baturiti - TabananPasek Gelgel Bale Agung SubamiaBerabanDukuh Sari Belatung Bengkel TimpagKerambitanPusat Dukuh Sari Belatung RendangKarangasemPita Maha Palangkaraya KaltengCanda Peraba Komplek Polri JelambarJakarta BaratAgung Jagat Natha DenpasarPemerajan Agung Puri Petak GianyarDadia Agung Tangkas Kori AgungAbiansemal Badung

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Tuesday, March 15, 20116 News

Mahmoud Abbas told Israel Ra-dio that the gory images of the vic-tims — parents, two children and aninfant — “cause anyone humane toache and cry.”

In Monday’s interview, Abbas also

Associated Press Writer

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador –On a steamy, late-summer day near theSalvadoran coast, more than 100 po-lice working an intelligence tip scoureda near-vacant cattle ranch the size of42 Manhattan blocks.

Using probes and backhoes, theyunearthed two plastic storage drumspacked with U.S. dollars. It took threedays to count the $20s, $50s and $100s— which added up to more than $10million. A third barrel was excavated aweek later from beneath a patio in anupscale San Salvador suburb, for a to-tal of $14.5 million.

Though questions remain, the stashmay be Mexican drug cartel money.One of the two Guatemalan ranch own-ers allegedly had ties to the leader of aGuatemalan branch of Mexico’s GulfCartel, who is serving a 31-year sen-tence for drug trafficking in the U.S.

Mexican drug cartels now operatevirtually uninhibited in their CentralAmerican backyard. U.S.-supportedcrackdowns in Mexico and Colombiahave only pushed traffickers into a re-gion where corruption is rampant, bor-ders lack even minimal immigrationcontrol and local gangs provide a ready-made infrastructure for organizedcrime.

“The cartels are clear on the possi-bilities for using El Salvador as a placeto launder money or to transport it southto pay for their drugs,” National Policedeputy director Howard Cotto told TheAssociated Press in an interview.

When President Barack Obama vis-its El Salvador later this month as partof a swing through Latin America, hewill hit the region at its hottest pointsince the civil wars in the 1980s. Co-caine seizures in Central Americatripled from 2003 to 2008, accordingto the U.N. World Drug Report. Themurder rate in Guatemala, Honduras

AFP PHOTO/ SCANPIX/ KELD NAVNTOFT

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (R) and Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussengive a press conference at the Prime Minister’s office in Copenhagen on March 9, 2011.

Abbas calls killing of IsraeliAbbas calls killing of IsraeliAbbas calls killing of IsraeliAbbas calls killing of IsraeliAbbas calls killing of Israelisettlers despicablesettlers despicablesettlers despicablesettlers despicablesettlers despicableAssociated Press Writer

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian president, in a rare interview to the Israeli media, has con-demned the deadly attack on a Jewish settler family over the weekend as “despicable, immoraland inhuman.”

said he would not allow attacks tomultiply. Israel has indirectly blamedthe Palestinian government for thecarnage, suggesting the killings werethe product of incitement it allows.

Abbas says there is no incitement

in mosques and called for a joint Is-raeli-Palestinian-U.S. team to exam-ine claims of incitement in Palestin-ian textbooks. Israel has not producedevidence that incitement contributedto the killings.

Mexican drug cartelsmove into Central America

and El Salvador, already the highest inthe world, is climbing in part from arise in local drug dealing, authoritiessay.

While the U.S. and Mexico focuson gunrunning on their shared border,arms trafficking thrives in Guatemala,a country that doesn’t manufacture asingle firearm. There is even evidencethat guns are brought from the U.S. intoGuatemala and then smuggled intoMexico, in an example of reverse traf-ficking from south to north, one U.S.government official said.

“We have no firm numbers,” saidthe official, who could not be namedfor security reasons. “What we knowis that it’s occurring and it doesn’t seemto be random.”

Salvadoran President MauricioFunes, who maintains close ties withthe U.S. despite being the country’s firstleftist leader, says he will focus theObama visit on poverty. El Salvador hasseen little change in the poverty andviolence that fueled its 13-year civil waruntil 1992, and the rural states and out-skirts of the capital that served as guer-rilla battlegrounds are now the domainof deadly gangs.

The White House says the president,scheduled to be in El Salvador March22 and 23, will talk about “regional andbilateral economic, clean energy, andcitizen security cooperation initiatives.”

But other Central American coun-tries say security is issue No. 1 and arebaffled at White House plans for only abilateral meeting. “For those of us whohave worked for decades in regionalcooperation, we feel let down,” saidformer Guatemalan Vice PresidentEduardo Stein, noting that the WhiteHouse may not have wanted to wadeinto regional problems, such as a bor-der dispute between Costa Rica andNicaragua. “It looks like they are try-ing to protect the president from localinfighting. But it feels like a cop out.”

AP Photo/La Prensa Grafica, Rony Gonzalez

In this Sept. 3, 2010 file photo, a police officer shows journaliststhe containers in which millions of dollars of U.S. currency, be-hind, were found buried in a rural area in Zacatecoluca state,east of San Salvador, El Salvador.

He said authorities were receiv-ing just 10 percent of the food andother supplies they need. Body bagsand coffins were running so shortthat the government may turn to for-eign funeral homes for help, he said.“We have requested funeral homesacross the nation to send us manybody bags and coffins. But we sim-ply don’t have enough,” he told theAP. “We just did not expect such athing to happen. It’s just overwhelm-ing.”

The pulverized coast has been hit

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by hundreds of aftershocks since Fri-day, the latest one a 6.2 magnitudequake that was followed by a newtsunami scare Monday. As sirenswailed, soldiers abandoned theirsearch operations and told residentsof the devastated shoreline in Soma,the worst hit town in Fukushima pre-fecture, to run to higher ground.

They barked out orders: “Findhigh ground! Get out of here!” Sev-eral soldiers were seen leading an oldwoman up a muddy hillside. Thewarning turned out to be a falsealarm.

Search parties arrived in Soma forthe first time since Friday to dig outbodies. Ambulances stood by and

body bags were laid out in an areacleared of debris, as firefighters usedhand picks and chain saws to clearan indescribable jumble of brokentimber, plastic sheets, roofs, sludge,twisted cars, tangled powerlines andhousehold goods.

Helicopters buzzed overhead, sur-veying the destruction that spannedthe horizon. Ships were flipped overnear roads, a half-mile (a kilometer)inland. Officials said one-third of thecity of 38,000 people was floodedand thousands were missing. In ad-dition to the more than 2,800 peoplewho have been confirmed dead,more than 1,400 were missing. An-other 1,900 were injured.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7Indonesia TodayInternational

He said to newsmen here on Sat-urday the Australian media (The Ageand Sydney Morning Herald) hadbeen irresponsible because they justtook data for them from a Wikileaks

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JAKARTA - More than 400 Indonesiansliving in different parts of disaster-strickenJapan are going to be evacuated to Tokyoand eventually sent home, Indonesian am-bassador to Japan Muhammad Lutfi said.

“The Indonesian Embassy has set up ateam for rescuing our people in Japan, es-pecially those who are staying in Iwate Pre-fecture, Miyagi and Fukushima. An airplanehas been sent to evacuate them to Tokyo,”said Lutfi to ANTARA via telephone.

Lutfi said there were 496 Indonesian citi-zens who were spread in the three areas lo-cated near the epicenter of the earthquake.They were 140 people in Iwate Prefecture,274 people in Miyagi and 82 people inFukushima City.

He also said from those Indonesian citi-zens, there were 95 heads of family who hadbeen identified the condition.

“They are in good condition, safe andhealth. Now, they are staying in some ref-uges in there,” he said.

He also said that the evacuation of Indo-nesian citizens in Japan to Indonesia wouldbe done after there was sureness of their

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JAKARTA - The Ministry ofMaritime Affairs and Fisheries(KKP) is ready to extend assistanceto tsunami victims at Mettu DabyIsland in Papua.

On Friday, March 11, 2011, theisland in Papua province was hit bythe tail of gargantuan tsunami, trig-gered by a powerful earthquake mea-suring 8.9 on the Richter scale inJapan. Maritime Affairs and Fisher-ies Minister Fadel Muhammad saidhere on Sunday that the KKP wouldsoon help rehabilitation and recon-struction program at Enggros villagein Mettu Daby island which was hitby the tsunami.

Fadel said his office would alsoallocate an amount of funds from2011 budget to assist the recovery

AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA

Tsunami debris and damaged cars lie along a railway track in the town of Ofunato in Iwateprefecture on March 14, 2011 three days after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resultingtsunami hit the region. More than 400 Indonesians living in different parts of disaster-strickenJapan are going to be evacuated to Tokyo and eventually sent home, Indonesian ambassa-dor to Japan Muhammad Lutfi said.

Hundreds more Indonesiansto be evacuated to Tokyo

condition in Tokyo.“We are now focusing on rescuing our

people in the disaster areas to be brought toTokyo, and after that we will discuss aboutthe evacuation to Indonesia,” he said.

The team from Indonesian Embassy wasfinding difficulties in entering Sendai, the big-gest city near the epicenter, to evacuate peopleto Tokyo. Meanwhile, Spokesman of Indone-sian Foreign Ministry Michael Tene said thatthe team of Indonesian Embassy to Tokyo hadsent assistance to Iwate Prefecture and Miyagi.

“The team has been sent to help Indone-sian citizens there, while we are going tocommunicate with the Embassy in Tokyo viatelephone or internet network,” Tene said.

Not all of the 31,517 Indonesians knownto be living in Japan have been impacted bya magnitude earthquake measuring 8.9 onRichter scale which triggered to tsunami thathit Iwate Prefecture and Miyagi.

As quoted by Kyodo, the Japan NationalPolice Agency said 1.000 were died or un-accounted as of 10.00 am of local time. Whilethe death toll reached 287 in nine prefectures,including Tokyo, and 725 people are miss-ing following the earthquake jolted Japan onFriday (March 11) at 2.46 pm of local time.

Speaker slams Australian mediaSpeaker slams Australian mediaSpeaker slams Australian mediaSpeaker slams Australian mediaSpeaker slams Australian mediaover report on Indonesian figuresover report on Indonesian figuresover report on Indonesian figuresover report on Indonesian figuresover report on Indonesian figuresAntara

JAKARTA - Indonesian House Speaker Marzuki Alie has slammedAustralian media for having published stories irresponsibly on thecountry‘s national figures.

website and failed to check the truthfirst to the sources concerned.

“It is regrettable that the media ofa country boasting itself to be a de-mocracy have failed to conduct a

check and a recheck to people reportedin their stories and so their credibilityis worth questioning,” he said.

“It is clear the Age has neverchecked with the persons reported,”he said.

Marzuki also considered the sto-ries tendentious and therefore the In-donesian people must question theirmotives. “Obviously they have an in-tention of shaking the political stabil-

ity under the government of PresidentSusilo Bambang Yudhoyono,” he said.

He appreciated foreign ministerMarty Natalegawa that has sum-moned the US ambassador to Indo-nesia to ask for his explanation. Hesaid the move was correct.

He said “if the stories came fromthem the US must apologize. But whatis important is that people must notbe provoked by such reports,” he said.

Marzuki called on the governmentto take correct measures with regardto the Australian media and if neces-sary they must take legal actionagainst them. He said the impact ofthe stories was not only domestic butalso abroad as the country‘s role inworld affairs could be affected.

“The impact can also be on theinvestment sector and therefore themotives must be clarified,” he said.

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir gestures during his trial atJakarta court on March 14, 2011 as he faces on terrorism charges.The radical preacher on February 24 denied leading an Al-Qaeda-style group that was plotting attacks and assassinations in Indo-nesia, as his trial resumed amid maximum security. But said thatMuslims carrying out weapons training did so as a divinely-or-dered “act of worship” so as to “defend Islam”.

Ministry of Maritime ready tohelp Papua tsunami victims

process at the tsunami-hit island inPapua.

The minister said that for the pre-liminary step, the KKP would send ateam to the disaster area in Papua toconduct an inventory of the needs ofthe tsunami-affected communitiesand to find out the amount of fundsto be allocated for the rehabilitationand reconstruction program.

Based on data collected by thelocal government in the field, thetsunami that hit Papua‘s northerncoastal areas had caused extensivedamage at two locations namelyHotekamp coastal area and Enggrosvillage. At those two locations thetsunami had seriously damaged 15houses, several traditional houses, abridge, 24 units of fish trap, and leftone person dead.

Therefore Fadel said the KKP

would extend its assistance in fish-ermen settlement reconstruction andfishery facility and infrastructurereconstruction.

“The KKP is also mapping outother locations that have a big po-tential to be hit by tsunami, and ex-pecting to cooperate with the localgovernment to anticipate tidal wavedisaster,” Fadel said.

He added that the Ministry ofMaritime Affairs and Fisheries wasalso actively making familiarizationof earthquake and tsunami mitiga-tion at the coastal areas of smallerislands across Indonesia.

The mitigation of disaster threat-ening the coastal areas and smallerislands in the country has been ar-ranged in Law No.24/2007 and LawNo.27/2007 on coastal areas andsmaller islands management.

8 InternationaTuesday, March 15, 2011

Bali Today

The head of Commission IV inBali House of Representative, KetutKariyasa Adnyana, said Monday,that the letter from the governmentstated the temporary suspension ormoratorium for hotels developmentin three regencies which areBadung, Denpasar, and Gianyar.

“From the city plan side, theCBIP is for tourism accommodationand the governor has issued a mora-torium so the solution is to use thecurrent facilities instead of build-ing a new one,” he added.

According to Kariyasa, the avail-able facilities in Bali are suitableand satisfactory to hold an interna-tional event such as APEC meeting.“Unless we don’t have the properfacilities for it so we can build a newone,” he added.

Kariyasa also said that the mora-

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NEGARA - Unclear informa-tion on the condition of someJembrana’s migrant workers whoworked in Japan made their parents

CBIP development contradictwith Governor moratoriumAntara

Denpasar – The development of Convention Bali InternationalPark (CBIP) in Jimbaran, Bali as the supporting infrastruc-ture for APEC meting in 2013 contradict with the letter of BaliGovernor regarding tourism development in the island.

torium is able to prevent the un-healthy competition among tourismaccommodation because the newlybuild hotel must be more luxuriousthat the old one. Social problems alsocould occur because the land neededto build the CBIP is quite large andrelocation for the current settlementcould lead to those problems.

Meanwhile, the member of Com-mission III in Bali House of Repre-sentative, Wayan Tagel Arjaya, saidthat the development of CBIP is adirect instruction from IndonesianPresident, Susilo BambangYudhoyono.

The project will take up 250hectares of land and need 2.6 tril-lion rupiah. There will be 33 headof states take part in the meetingand CBIP will become the centerstage for the event.

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

The project at BTDC area.

Hundreds of Jembrana’s migrant workers still in Japanand relatives anxious after the tsu-nami and earthquake. They admittedto be unable to contact their children,especially those whose departurethrough internship program arrangedby Jembrana Regency. The parents

requested local government to bemore responsive and concernedabout the safety of Jembrana resi-dents.

One of the families living throughthe condition was that of Kadek Agus

Pernata from Sangkaragung Hamlet,Sangkaragung Village. He told re-porters Saturday (Mar 12) that he wasdeeply worried as his son was on-the-job training in Japan. Moreover, hav-ing seen the news on television view-ing the ferocity of tsunami inhuminga town in Japan, the father of Agus,Ketut Sodia, confessed to have beenconfused. Similarly, he was hit byanxiety as soon as knowing the earth-quake ensued in the country wherehis son was working.

Moreover, he had been unable tocontact his son through a variety ofcommunication facilities both tele-phone and the Internet. The familycould then feel slightly relieved af-ter receiving information from NiLuh Budi, Agus’s wife, who said thathis condition in Japan was not af-fected by the earthquake and tsu-nami.

Similar condition was felt by thefamily of Putu Eriadi, 23, a residentof Delod Bale Agung,Tegalcangkring Village. He claimedto have been unable to contact hischild. The couple of NyomanDarma-Nyoman Suarni had not re-ceived information from their son.The family hoped that JembranaRegency could show off its concernto help find information about his

son who was on the-job-training inJapan. Aside from Putu, they alsolost contact with Komang Diana,their close relative.

Information obtained from theJembrana Civil Registry Office toldthere were 175 migrant workersfrom Jembrana residing in Japan.However, the estimated amount didnot include the workers who workedillegally in Japan. Out of 175 work-ers sent by Jembrana Governmentthrough internship program, 163people were in Tsukuba, 9 people inHokomoko and 3 others in Miyake.

On the other hand, the Regent ofJembrana I Putu Artha and DeputyRegent I Made Kembang Hartawansaid that local government had got acall from Mr. Ohata from Ibaraki,Japan, and informed that apprenticeworkers from Jembrana in Japanwere in safe condition and therewere no casualties due to such di-saster. The regent claimed to haveordered the Head of Department toimmediately provide information tothe entire family of migrant work-ers concerned. According toKembang, based on the informationobtained from Mr. Ohata the prob-lems in Tsukuba were electricalblackout and difficulty to find foodstock after the earthquake. (kmb26)

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

Despite the tsunami tragedy that happened in Japan, Kuta beach still crowded with tour-ists. The photo shows two tourists watching sunset.

Balinese Culture

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9al

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Bebek Betutu(Roast Duck In Banana Leaf)

OVERVIEW:The rich flavor of duck is greatly enhanced by a host of pun-

gent roots, herbs and seasonings in this dish, which is invari-ably a great favorite with visitors to Bali. The Balinese havegreat admiration for the duck and consider it to be a particularlystrong animal as it is, like the turtle, the only one able to surviveon land as water.

INGREDIENTS:1 whole duck, weigh about 2 kg (4 ½ lb)18 shallots, peeled, cut in half, and sliced6 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half, & sliced3 stalks lemon grass, finely sliced5 fragrant lime leaves, finely sliced6 candlenuts, chopped5 cm (2 in), ginger, peeled and chopped8 cm (3in) fresh turmeric, peeled, chopped8 cm (3in) kencur root, peeled, chopped1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed5 bird’s-eye chilies, slices1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed2 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted and coarsely crushed1½ tbsp salt3 tbsp oilBanana leaves, greaseproof paper or aluminum foil for wrap-

ping

PREPARATION:Wipe the duck dry and set aside. Combine all ingredients

except banana leafs in a bowl and mix well. Rub the duck out-side with this mixture and fill the center of the duck with theremainder.

Close open duck with satay skewer. Wrap in several layersof banana leaves, greaseproof paper or foil and steam for 50minutes. Transfer duck to a moderate oven and bake at 180o C(350o F) for 30 minutes.

Remove banana leaves, cut duck meat up in small pieces andserve with stuffing. When cooked, the meat should be so tenderthat it falls off the bones. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

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DENPASAR - Some 30 Austra-lian students will attend academic ac-tivities at the Denpasar-based Indo-nesian Institute of Arts (ISI) under co-operation between the two countriesin the field of arts, ISI Rector ProfWayan Rai S said.

“The Australian students will behere for about three weeks in a stu-dent exchange program in June this

DENPASAR - The current de-bate over Bali’s new zoning ishighly volatile a recent seminarconvened by the Alliance of Inde-pendent Journalists (AJI) and theDenpasar Lawyer’s Club (DLC)intending to seek a peaceful con-sensus between the contending par-ties in the debate degenerated in-stead into an angry exchange ofthreats and insults.

The vice-regent of Karangasem,Made Sukerana, faced off withHindu religious leader, DhangAcarya Yoga Nanda. At one pointin the discussion, Sukerana rosefrom his seat and angrily pointedhis finger at religious figure whohas served previously in the provin-cial House of Representatives(DPRD-Bali).

The seminar featured five mainspeakers: Babel Edison from theMinistry of Public Works; KetutSudiarta a legal expert; Ida PensitaMpu Jaya Prema addressing the so-cial-cultural aspects of zoning;Bagus Sudibya from the tourism in-dustry; and I Gusti Made Putra a

Zoning law needed to protect Balicommentator on zoning issues. Theseminar was moderated by DewaGde Palguna, a retired constitutionaljurist.

Among the high-profile mem-bers attending were the regent ofGianyar, Cokorda Oka ArthaArdana Sukawati (Cok Ace); thevice-regent of Karangasem, MadeSukerana; the first assistant of theprovincial government of Bali, IGNSunandra; the chairman of the spe-cial sub-committee on the RTRWfrom the DPRD-Bali, Wayan DiselAstawa; and the Chairman of theSabha Walaka within the HinduHigh Council (PHDI), Ketut Wiana.

Speaking to the legal foundationof the RTRW, Ketut Sudiarta af-firmed that the new zoning law wasproperly constituted and, as a re-sult, could technically only be re-vised in five years starting fromDecember 28, 2014.

Babel Edison from the Ministryof Public Works said the main is-sue in the current debate resolvearound the long-standing bhisamaor religious declaration stipulating

set back rules from beaches and re-ligious sites, and whether or notthat religiously-based dogma canbe challenged. AffirmingSudiarta’s comments that theRTRW had been properly draftedand implemented, Edison praisedBali for being only the secondprovince in Bali, after SouthSulawesi, to successfully ratify aprovincial zoning law.

Ida Pendita Mpu Jaya Prema thenspoke challenging the basis of the 5kilometer protective radius sur-rounding Bali’s main religioustemples. It was his opinion that theBhisama was not sacrosanct andcould be changed through a processof consensus.

Bagus Sudibya, who is active ina number of tourism organizations,took the floor calling for a more glo-bal approach to the problem of theRTRW. Sudibya said that Bali had agreat deal of dollar-based tourismassets, almost all of which were heldby non-Balinese from Jakarta. In hisopinion, this fact deserved the atten-tion of the island’s policy makers.

Thirty Australians studyingat Bali‘s Institute of Arts

year. They will be assisted by a num-ber of lecturers,” Wayan Rai said hereon Sunday.

He said that the student exchangeprogram will be the realization of co-operation between ISI and the Univer-sity of Western Australia (UWA)signed on February 11, 2011.

Prof Rai and ISI dean, Ni MadeRinu, signed the student exchange pro-gram agreement between the Austra-lian universities in an effort to advance

arts education of the two countries.He said that the cooperation was

also part of the efforts to expand net-work in the world to help promote theexistence of ISI.

Rai said that the cooperation be-tween ISI and UWA was proof that theinternational society loved the ISI.

Ahead, it is also expected that ISIstudents and lecturers would also at-tend the same program at the UWA,he added.

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Purancak Temple is also mention-ing as Pura Perancak situated in thecoastal area right at Purancak Coun-tryside, Negara sub district andJembrana Regency. In order to reachthe location of this temple which isalso situated in the estuary ofPurancak River, we have to go thewest direction and goes to through thegood road with the car or other mo-torcycle. After going through the jour-ney within 9 Km from the districttown, all visitors who visit this templewill arrive at non-irrigated dry field.This land is fully planted by the co-conut trees with beautiful panoramathat make a comfortable atmosphere.

Pertaining to the name(Abhiseka) of Purancak Temple, itis inseparable from the holy jour-ney (Dharmayatra and Tirthayatra)of Danghyang Dwijendra, a famousSiwa Religion Adviser. From thedomestic sources, there is opinionthat the name of Purancak Templeis come the word of Perahu Encak(Balinese Language meaning leakyboat or breaking boat). There is alsofrom domestic source say that thethis temple’s name is come from

Purancak Templeword Ancak (The tree name, sy-camore bodi), because whenDanghyang Dwijendra crossing thesea in west part of Bali Island that isalso recognized as Sagara Rupek, hefirstly arrive at the location where thePurancak Temple existing now. Hewait his wife and son who go up theleaky boat that had been patched byspool gourd leaf ( Waluh Pahit),while Danghyang Dwijendra go upa bitter fruit Waluh (spool gourd) byusing his both hand and feet as oar .

When he waiting his wife and son,he was seat under a tree which is calledAncak Tree and at the same time hedo conversation with a cow farmer.Since he was seat under that tree thenThe Temple is built right in this loca-tion hence this temple is named byPurancak Temple. But in conjunctionto other domestic sources that is esti-mated the Purancak Temple is alsotaken away from the name of thiscountryside where he firstly arrive anddo pray while waiting his family.

This temple is kept by a priestevery day who waiting and monitor-ing everyone who cross the way. Thepriest will remind and admonishingif there anyone who pass and neglectto conduct the pray based on the

regulation stated by I NgurahRagsasa, the powerful and handlehegemony over there.

Dhangyang Dwijendra and hisfamily continue his holy journey andpass this temple. When he arrive atthis temple area, the priest as a templekeeper who is also observe everyonecrossing this area, he admonishedand asked to Danghyang Dwinjendrato do pray in this temple. When he

reach in the silent moment of pray-ing, suddenly inscrutable fact hap-pened that this temple breaks. Whenwitnessing this inscrutable occur-rence, I Ngurah Rangsasa with all hissupporter are feeling very fear andthen run to his house meanwhile thetemple priest is very braze and re-quest to Danghyang Dwijendra re-turn the temple back to the perfec-tion like previously.

Dhangyang Dwijendra finally ful-fills his request and then he do prayagain to return the temple conditionlike previously. By blessing of his spiri-tual strengthens and Chastity, thetemple become intact return. The priestlook so happy to witness all this expe-riences then Danghyang Dwijendrabestow the Kalpika to the priest in or-der to glorify as a proof that he wasdone a holy journey to this place.

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BUSINESS

Reuters

WASHINGTON – The econo-mies of the biggest U.S. metropoli-tan areas began to grow again bythe end of last year, but the recov-ery was “slow, uneven and incon-sistent” and failed to spur much jobsgrowth, according to a study by theBrookings Institute released onMonday.

“The nation’s 100 largest metro-politan areas were seeing widespreadand steady growth in economic out-put, but only slow and inconsistentimprovement in the labor market,”said the research think tank that fo-

Sources familiar with the mattertold Reuters the central bank woulddiscuss policy easing at its meetingthat got under way on Monday amidnews of another explosion at one ofthe country’s nuclear reactors.

The central bank’s policy boardwill likely discuss whether the sharpfall in Tokyo stock prices and the po-tential damage from the quake to cor-porate profits warrant an immediatepolicy response, the sources said.

But whether it will actually easepolicy is uncertain as GovernorMasaaki Shirakawa likely did nothave enough time to gain consensuswithin the board for any immediateaction.

Damage estimates also remainsketchy. Many factories have beenforced to shut in the area due to poweroutages, while others have reportedflooding or quake damage.

If the BOJ were to act, the mostlikely step would be to expand its 5-trillion-yen pool of funds, put in placelast year to buy assets ranging fromgovernment bonds to private debt.

But some analysts say the BOJ may

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING – China’s premier saidMonday the government is confi-dent it can control surging inflationand ruled out allowing a faster risein its tightly controlled currency tocool price increases.

Premier Wen Jiabao repeatedChinese complaints that the U.S.Federal Reserve’s efforts to spurAmerican growth are partly to blamefor global inflation, though heavoided mentioning the Fed byname.

Chinese consumer prices rose 4.9percent in February, driven by an 11percent jump in politically sensitivefood costs despite government ef-forts to increase supplies and curb abank lending boom that analysts sayis partly to blame.

“The government has confidencethat we will be able to anchor infla-tion expectations,” Wen said. Butechoing forecasts that inflation islikely to rise further before declin-ing, he added, “We still face a diffi-cult situation in the first half of thisyear.”

The premier ruled out usingBeijing’s exchange rate controls tocurb inflation, saying the yuan’s riseagainst the U.S. dollar would be keptgradual. Analysts say a stronger yuanwould cool Chinese inflation by mak-

BOJ floods money market with cashBOJ floods money market with cashBOJ floods money market with cashBOJ floods money market with cashBOJ floods money market with cash

AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO

Businessmen look at a share prices board in Tokyo on March 14,2011 showing a drop in the markets following the first full day oftrading after the deadly March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

ReutersTOKYO – The Bank of Japan offered to pump a record $183 billion into the money market on

Monday and may ease its ultra-loose policy further to calm markets after a massive earthquakehit the country’s northeast, killing thousands and triggering a nuclear crisis.

go even further, given the escalatingdamage of the quake.

“The BOJ is likely to take boldsteps to stabilize the financial systemand is likely to revert to quantitativeeasing or zero interest rate policy torespond to the unprecedented crisis,”said Naomi Hasegawa, senior fixed-income strategist at Mitsubishi UFJMorgan Stanley Securities in Tokyo.

“If it were not for the earthquake,the BOJ’s next step would have beento increase its asset buying program.But doing so this time is likely to dis-appoint markets.”

Tokyo’s stocks plunged as much as5 percent after the market reopenedon Monday as investors tried to gaugethe huge economic cost of Friday’squake and tsunami wiped out wholevillages and towns and likely killedmore than 10,000 people.

Moody’s ratings agency said it sawno major disruption to Japan’s pay-ment system but that the economicfallout from the disaster appearedgreater than initially expected, eventhough it was still waiting for a fullassessment of the damage.

“The economic consequences ap-pear to be greater than we perhapsoriginally expected on Friday,” TomByrne, Moody’s senior vice president,told Reuters Insider in an interview.

The BOJ offered a total of 15 tril-lion yen ($183 billion), well aboveusual 1-2 trillion, on Monday morn-ing to assure investors that marketswill function properly.

“The move is aimed at stabilizingfinancial markets and ensuring smoothfund settlement,” a BOJ official toldReuters.

The BOJ is expected to keep itsbenchmark rate in the 0-0.1 percentrange.

Analysts said the massive fund in-jections on Monday showed the cen-tral bank’s determination to keep bor-rowing costs low and stable as inves-tors try to gauge the economic cost ofthe worst crisis to hit Japan sinceWorld War Two.

“The BOJ apparently is makingutmost efforts to maintain order inmarkets with ample fund supply,” saidHideo Kumano, chief economist atDai-ichi Life Research Institute in

Tokyo.“The BOJ may ease policy by ex-

panding its asset-buying fund or someother measures in the near future.”

Japan is battling to prevent anuclear catastrophe and to care for mil-

lions of people without power or water,just as a new wave of water was head-ing toward Japan’s northeast coast anda hydrogen explosion rocked an earth-quake-stricken nuclear plant 240 kmnorth (150 miles) north of Tokyo.

Chinese premier rejects faster currency riseing imported oil and other goodscheaper in Chinese currency terms.Beijing has restrained the yuan’s risesince the 2008 global crisis to helpChinese exporters that employ mil-lions of workers compete abroad.

“The appreciation of the Chinesecurrency should be a gradual pro-cess, because we must bear in mindits impact on Chinese businesses andour employment situation,” Wensaid at the news conference, heldfollowing the closing of the annualsession of China’s legislature.

Inflation is politically dangerousfor China’s leaders because it erodeseconomic gains on which the Com-munist Party bases its claim topower. Consumer prices are espe-cially sensitive in a society wherepoor families spend up to half theirincomes on food.

Beijing faces pressure fromWashington and other trading part-ners to ease currency controls thatthey say keeps the yuan underval-ued, giving China’s exporters anunfair price advantage and swelling

its multibillion-dollar trade surplus.Wen said Chinese prices are be-

ing driven partly by global inflation.He repeated Chinese complaintsabout “quantitative easing,” theFed’s term for its strategy of tryingto push down interest rates and spurgrowth with multibillion-dollarbond purchases.

Regulators in some Asian econo-mies complain lower interest ratesand a weaker dollar caused by theFed have prompted an influx ofmoney in search of higher returns,

pushing up commodity prices. Ana-lysts say China’s currency controlshave shielded it from such inflows butit still faces higher prices for oil andother imports.

“Some countries have pursuedquantitative easing and that hascaused drastic fluctuations in the ex-change rates of some major curren-cies and in global commoditiesprices,” Wen said.

“Imported inflation has had a bigimpact on China and is a factor thatis not easy to control.”

Metro economies grow but job growth slow: reportcuses on economics and policy.

“Job growth was sluggish and un-employment rates, although lower thanat the end of 2009 in most large metro-politan areas, remained very high,”Brookings added.

The housing market collapse, thefinancial crisis and subsequent eco-nomic recession ravaged states’ andcities’ revenues, limiting their abil-ity to help newly unemployed citi-zens and fix problems associatedwith abandoned homes. Even thoughthe recession officially ended in sum-mer 2009, cities are only now seeingthe first signs of recovery in their rev-enues. They are nervously watching

as revenues trickle back, output be-gins inching up, and foreclosures fall.

All of the 100 largest metropoli-tan areas had growth in output in thefourth quarter, and more than half sawoutput grow in each quarter of theyear, Brookings said.

And while house prices droppedin the fourth quarter of 2010 fromsame quarter of 2009 in all majormetropolitan areas except Honoluluand San Jose, California, foreclosuresalso fell in 86 of the 100 areas.

According to Brookings, threeyears after the start of the recession,the 100 largest metropolitan areascombined had lost 6.2 percent of their

jobs. That compares to the 1.6 per-cent of the workforce they lost dur-ing the 2001 recession and 0.1 per-cent during the 1990-91 recession.

By the end of 2010, only one met-ropolitan area had completely recov-ered all of the jobs lost during therecession — McAllen, Texas.

Brookings also ranked the 20strongest-performing metroeconomies and the 20 weakest andfound that Texas had the highestconcentration of high-performingcities — five. Florida had thehighest concentration of low-per-forming metropolitan economies,also five.

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For Columbia Pictures and Sony, the sci-fiaction film recalls its 2009 Oscar-nominated hit,“District 9.” “Battle: Los Angeles” hasn’t re-ceived nearly as good reviews, but it benefitedfrom a 68 percent male audience and a very suc-cessful marketing campaign.

“It’s kind of like having a summer film inthe spring,” said Rory Bruer, president of world-wide distribution at Sony. “From the beginning,this was a film we were excited about.”

Bruer added that there’s “definitely a con-nection” between “Battle: Los Angeles” and“District 9,” which opened to $37.4 million andwas also helmed by a South African filmmaker.Neill Blomkamp directed “District 9,” whileJonathan Liebesman directed the similarlyhandheld-heavy “Battle: Los Angeles.”

In its second week of release, the animatedWestern spoof “Rango” came in second, add-ing $23.1 million for a cumulative total of $68.7million. The critically acclaimed ParamountPictures film appeared on its way to surpassing$100 million. The weekend’s other new releasesdidn’t fare as well.

“Red Riding Hood,” the updated fairy talestarring Amanda Seyfried and helmed by “Twi-light” director Catherine Hardwicke, debuted to$14.1 million for Warner Bros. Worse was

Agence France Presse

UNITED NATIONS – Israel hascomplained to the United Nations forallowing the US premiere of a contro-versial film on the Israeli-Palestinianconflict at the UN headquarters. A red-carpet showing of “Miral” by awardwinning American-Jewish directorJulian Schnabel will be held at the UNGeneral Assembly hall on Monday.

The film is based on an autobio-graphical novel by Palestinian jour-nalist Rula Jebreal that traces theArab-Israeli conflict after 1948 froma Palestinian perspective. The leadrole is played by Indian actress FreidaPinto of “Slumdog Millionaire” fame.

“This is clearly a politicized de-cision of the UN, one that showspoor judgment and a lack of even-handedness,” Israel’s mission to theUN said in a statement which calledon General Assembly president Jo-seph Deiss of Switzerland not to

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – TeamBeckham is adding a girl to its ros-ter. Soccer great David Beckhamand wife Victoria are expectingtheir fourth child, and a spokes-man said Sunday that the couplehas learned that it will be a girl.

In January the former Englandcaptain announced via Facebookthat his wife was due this summer.The pair, who married in 1999,already has three boys: 11-year-

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

FILE - In this Sept, 30, 2009 photo, David Beckham, left, and hiswife Victoria arrive at an event to celebrate the launch of the AdidasOriginals by Originals David Beckham clothing line designed byJames Bond, in Los Angeles.

Beckham spokesman sayscouple expecting baby girl

old Brooklyn, eight-year-oldRomeo, and five-year-old Cruz.

The 35-year-old Beckhamcaptained England’s national teamfrom 2000 to 2006. He played forManchester United and RealMadrid before joining MajorLeague Soccer club Los AngelesGalaxy in 2007.

Thirty-six-year-old VictoriaBeckham found fame as a singerfor 1990s girl band the Spice Girlsand has since become a fixture ofthe fashion circuit.

Reuters

LOS ANGELES – Tickets forCharlie Sheen’s shows in Detroitand Chicago next month sold outjust 18 minutes after they went onsale. The time is a Ticketmasterrecord, according to TMZ.com..

More dates are reportedly plannedfor his tour, dubbed “Charlie SheenLIVE: My Violent Torpedo of Truth/

Israeli anger over Palestinian film at UNhost the event in the headquarters.

General Assembly spokesmanJean-Victor Nkolo denied there wasany “political link” to the film,which is a French, Israeli, Italian,Indian co-production. “It is just avenue,” he said. “Several films havebeen shown at the UN.”

But Haim Waxman, Israel’sdeputy ambassador, said: “We are notaware of any other films with suchcontentious political content thathave received this kind of endorse-ment from the president of the GA.”The premiere of “Miral” comes as theUN steps up condemnation of Israel’srenewed settlement activity in thePalestinian territories which it saysis blocking direct peace talks.

And the film is unusual becauseof the involvement of Schnabel, anAmerican Jew, who won the bestdirector award at the Cannes filmfestival for “The Diving Bell and theButterfly” in 2007.

Charlie Sheen shows sell out in 18 minutesDefeat is Not an Option.” In themeantime, the fired star of “Two anda Half Men” will play Detroit’s FoxTheater on April 2, and the ChicagoTheater on April 3.

Sheen announced the tour Thursdayon Twitter. Ticketmaster listed seatprices as $35-70, not including fees. Hisofficial website added that $1 from ev-ery ticket sold will be donated to the RedCross to earthquake victims in Japan.

AFP/Getty Images/File/Charley Gallay

Director Julian Schnabel attendsThe Weinstein and Alliance Pic-tures Party for “Miral” hosted byTOD’S held at the Art Gallery ofToronto in 2010.

AP Photo/Columbia Pictures-Sony, Richard Cartwright

In this film publicity image released by Columbia Pictures, Aaron Eckhart is shown ina scene from ‘Battle: Los Angeles.’

‘Battle: LA’ conquers box office with $36 million‘Battle: LA’ conquers box office with $36 million‘Battle: LA’ conquers box office with $36 million‘Battle: LA’ conquers box office with $36 million‘Battle: LA’ conquers box office with $36 millionAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK – Hollywood would like to skip spring and head straight to summer. Thesummer-style blockbuster “Battle: Los Angles” performed like one at the box office, openingto a strong debut of $36 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film stars AaronEckhart as a veteran soldier leading a platoon of Marines in combat against invading aliens.

Disney’s animated 3-D family film “Mars NeedsMoms!” It opened to a disappointing $6.8 mil-lion, well below expectations. With a voice castincluding Seth Green and Joan Cusack, it alsoopened on more than 200 IMAX screens.

Based on the book of the same title by Berke-ley Breathed, “Mars Needs Moms!” had an esti-mated production budget of $150 million. Sucha poor start means it’s likely to be a significantloss for Disney, though that pain is somewhatalleviated by its surprise hit, “Gnomeo & Juliet.”It has taken in $89 million in five weeks.

Overall, moviegoing business was still downfrom the corresponding weekend last year. SinceNovember 2010, such down weekends havebeen the norm except for one up weekend. Thebox office for 2011 was 21.5 percent off lastyear’s pace. Hollywood.com analyst PaulDergarabedian said the weekend business was“good news for aliens, bad news for the overallbox office.”

“It’s a cyclical business, but this is a longdownturn,” said Dergarabedian. “The industryis holding its collective breath for summer tostart.” With myriad blockbusters planned forboth the summer and holiday seasons, Holly-wood has reason to expect better business as theyear continues.

International Tuesday, March 15, 2011 13Science

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – It’s hard enough toget your bearings when the timechanges twice a year. It’s all but im-possible when your phone starts play-ing tricks on you, too. Users of Apple’siPhone peppered Twitter and blogswith complaints Sunday when theirphones bungled the one-hour “springforward” to daylight savings time thatwent into effect overnight Saturday.

One user complained of missingchurch, another of almost missingyoga. One called her iPhone stupidand several just asked for help.

It turns out some users’ phones fell

Associated Press Writer

COPEMISH, Mich. – Redwoods and sequoias towering majesticallyover California’s northern coast. Oaks up to 1,000 years old nestled in asecluded corner of Ireland. The legendary cedars of Lebanon.

They are among the most iconic trees on Earth, remnants of once-vast populations decimated by logging, development, pollution and dis-ease. A nonprofit organization called Archangel Ancient Tree Archive isrushing to collect their genetic material and replant clones in an auda-cious plan to restore the world’s ancient forests and put them to workcleansing the environment and absorbing carbon dioxide, the greenhousegas largely responsible for global warming.

“In our infinite wisdom, we’ve destroyed 98 percent of the old growthforests that kept nature in balance for thousands of years,” said DavidMilarch, the group’s co-founder. “That’s what we intend to put back.”

Milarch, a tree nursery operator from the northern Michigan village ofCopemish, and sons Jared and Jake have been producing genetic copies ofancient trees since the 1990s. They’ve now joined with Elk Rapids busi-nesswoman Leslie Lee and a team of researchers to establish ArchangelArchive, which has a staff of 17 and an indoor tree research and productioncomplex. Its mission: Clone the oldest and largest individuals within theworld’s most ecologically valuable tree species, and persuade people to buyand plant millions of copies — on factory grounds and college campuses;along riverbanks and city streets; in forests, farms, parks and back yards.

“The number of these ancient survivors that go in the ground will be theultimate measure of our success,” said Lee, who donated several milliondollars to get the project off the ground and serves as board chairwoman.The group hopes donations and tree sales will raise enough money to keepit going.

Scientific opinionvaries on whether treesthat survive for centurieshave superior genes, likechampion race horses, orsimply have been in theright places at the righttimes to avoid fires, dis-eases and other misfor-tunes. But ArchangelArchive is a true believerin the super-tree idea.The group has trackeddown and cloned someof the biggest and oldestof more than 60 speciesand is developing inven-tories.

The plan is eventu-ally to produce copiesof 200 varieties that areconsidered crucial. Thetrees preserve ecosys-tem diversity, soak uptoxins from the groundand atmosphere, storecarbon while emittingprecious oxygen, andprovide ingredients formedicines.

Users complain iPhone clock bungles time changeback one hour instead of springingforward, making the time displayedon the iPhone two hours off.

This is just the latest clock woe forApple’s chic iPhone. A clock glitchprevented alarms from sounding onNew Year’s Day, causing slumberingrevelers to oversleep. The devices alsostruggled to adjust to the end of day-light savings time back in November.

The glitch affected iPhone ownerswho subscribe for phone servicethrough both AT&T and Verizon.Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif.,could not be reached for commentSunday.

Twitter was abuzz with a simple

solution: Either shut down and re-start the phone, or switch the phoneto “airplane mode” and then back.

Apple has sold more than 100million iPhones since they werefirst offered in 2007, dazzling cus-tomers with features that allow us-ers to watch movies, play games,surf the Internet and get driving di-rections on a small, sleek device.

That these paragons of high techhave had trouble telling time led todripping sarcasm Sunday, evenfrom owners who didn’t suffer anyproblems. One whose clock ad-justed just fine called the iPhonerevolutionary.

AP Photo/courtesy of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive

In this September 2010 photo provided by theArchangel Ancient Tree Archive, group mem-ber Meryl Marsh poses by the Amos AlonzoStagg Tree, one of the largest giant sequoiasin the world, located in California’s Giant Se-quoia National Monument near Porterville.

Group seeks forestrestoration to cleanse planet

A new analysis of the 8.9-magni-tude earthquake in Japan has foundthat the intense temblor has acceler-ated Earth’s spin, shortening thelength of the 24-hour day by 1.8 mi-croseconds, according to geophysicistRichard Gross at NASA’s Jet Propul-sion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Gross refined his estimates of theJapan quake’s impact – which pre-viously suggested a 1.6-microsec-ond shortening of the day – basedon new data on how much the faultthat triggered the earthquakeslipped to redistribute the planet’smass. A microsecond is a millionthof a second. [Photos: Japan Earth-quake and Tsunami in Pictures]

“By changing the distribution ofthe Earth’s mass, the Japanese

How the Japan EarthquakeHow the Japan EarthquakeHow the Japan EarthquakeHow the Japan EarthquakeHow the Japan EarthquakeShortened Days on EarthShortened Days on EarthShortened Days on EarthShortened Days on EarthShortened Days on Earth

The massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan Friday(March 11) has shortened the length Earth’s day by a fraction andshifted how the planet’s mass is distributed.

earthquake should have caused theEarth to rotate a bit faster, shorten-ing the length of the day by about1.8 microseconds,” Gross toldSPACE.com in an e-mail. More re-finements are possible as new in-formation on the earthquake comesto light, he added.

The scenario is similar to that ofa figure skater drawing her armsinward during a spin to turn fasteron the ice. The closer the mass shiftduring an earthquake is to the equa-tor, the more it will speed up thespinning Earth.

One Earth day is about 24 hours,or 86,400 seconds, long. Over thecourse of a year, its length variesby about one millisecond, or 1,000

microseconds, due to sea-sonal variations in the

planet’s mass distribution such as theseasonal shift of the jet stream.

The initial data suggests Friday’searthquake moved Japan’s main is-land about 8 feet, according to Ken-neth Hudnut of the U.S. GeologicalSurvey. The earthquake also shiftedEarth’s figure axis by about 6 1/2inches (17 centimeters), Gross added.

The Earth’s figure axis is not thesame as its north-south axis in space,which it spins around once every dayat a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604kph). The figure axis is the axisaround which the Earth’s mass is bal-anced and the north-south axis byabout 33 feet (10 meters).

“This shift in the position of thefigure axis will cause the Earth towobble a bit differently as it rotates,but will not cause a shift of the Earth’saxis in space – only external forceslike the gravitational attraction of thesun, moon, and planets can do that,”Gross said.

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Andres Iniesta floated a pass toDiego Alves who found Bojan andhe was able to walk the ball intothe net. After the break it was adifferent looking Sevilla whopressed forward and got their re-ward with Jesus Navas heading inan Alvaro Negredo cross.Barcelona were on the back footas Navas and Frederic Kanoutehad good chances to score but lateon the Catalan side rallied andcould have won it when Iniesta hitthe post.

“Generally I am happy withthe performance, we alwayslooked to control the match butyou have to realise that there areother teams playing as well,” saidBarca coach Pep Guardiola afterthe game. “We played against agood side but we deserved morefrom the first half. In the secondhalf they improved and werestrong on the counter-attack.”

Agence France Presse

BERLIN – Brazil midfielderRenato Augusto trimmedBorussia Dortmund’s Bundesligalead to nine points with a superbstrike on Sunday to give second-place Bayer Leverkusen a 1-0win at Mainz. With the gameheading towards a goalless draw,Augusto robbed Mainz’s Danishdefender Bo Svensson of posses-sion on the edge of the penaltyarea and drilled home his shot on82 minutes to poach three pointsfor his team.

“We found things difficult inthe the first half, particularly inmidfield,” said Leverkusencoach Jupp Heynckes. “In thesecond half, the team showedpassion, great morale and teamspirit , so that we took ourchances when they came.” AfterDortmund lost 1-0 at Hoffenheimon Saturday, Leverkusen madeup some ground on the leaders,while defending championsBayern Munich are up to fourth,16 points behind Dortmund, af-ter they hammered Hamburg.

Ex-Germany captain MichaelBallack played the full 90 min-

AFP PHOTO/ JORGE GUERRERO

Sevilla’s midfielder Diego Capel (L) and Argentinian defender Federico Fazio (C) vies for theball with Barcelona’s Brazilian defender Adriano (R) during their Liga football match Sevilla vsFC Barcelona at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium on March 13, 2011, in Sevilla.

Title race hotsTitle race hotsTitle race hotsTitle race hotsTitle race hotsup as Barcaup as Barcaup as Barcaup as Barcaup as Barcaheld by Sevillaheld by Sevillaheld by Sevillaheld by Sevillaheld by SevillaAgence France Presse

MADRID – Barcelona dropped two vital points in the La Liga title race as they could onlydraw 1-1 with Sevilla in Sunday’s late match. Second-placed Real Madrid, who beat Hercules 2-0 on Saturday, are now just five points behind with the two sides going head-to-head next monthat the Bernabeu. Barcelona completely dominated the first half and took the lead on the halfhour mark through Bojan Krkic who came on for the injured Pedro Rodriguez.

Sevilla coach Gregorio Manzanowas happy with a point against thechampions. “When we scored I feltwe could go on to beat Barcelona butat the same time we could have lost.You have to keep working constantlyagainst them and only Hercules havemanaged to beat them,” he said.

Earlier, an injury time penaltyfrom Diego Castro gave nine-manSporting Gijon a surprise 1-1 drawagainst Villarreal. The home sidelooked to have moved onto theshoulders of third-placed Valencia,who were beaten 4-0 by Zaragoza,but they conceded a goal followinga controversial refereeing call.

Villarreal were far from their bestand Sporting dominated possessionfor long spells but lacked the finessein front of goal. Sporting gifted theopening goal to Giuseppe Rossi withkeeper Ivan Cuellar dropping a crossat the feet of the striker who just hadto place the ball into an empty net.

Sporting were reduced to ten menwhen Jose Angel foolishly receiveda second yellow card for complain-ing to the referee and then RafaelSastre was also given his marchingorder in the final minute for upend-ing Rossi as last man.

It all looked to have gone againstSporting until deep in stoppage timewhen Gonzalo Rodriguez was ad-judged to have fouled David Barral,and Castro coolly struck the ballhome from 12 yards. “I am not go-ing to talk about the referee or givemy opinion about the penalty,” saidVillarreal coach Juan Carlos Garrido.

“This was a difficult game and itwent wrong for us with a debatabledecision which I am not going tojudge. We should have been able todeal with the game better but theteam did as well as they could.”Espanyol boosted their Europeanhopes with a 2-0 win over 10-manDeportivo la Coruna.

AFP PHOTO / DANIEL ROLAND

Leverkusen’s goalkeeper Rene Adler makes a save duringthe German first division Bundesliga football match FSVMainz 05 vs Bayer Leverkusen in the southern German cityof Mainz on March 13, 2011.

Bayer beat Mainz totrim Dortmund’s lead

utes for Leverkusen, but failed tomake his mark and the 34-year-old looked short of fitness as hetries to win back his place in thenational side after injury.

On Sunday night, Stuttgarthauled themselves out of the rel-egation zone with a 2-1 win at StPauli. Substitute Sven Schipplock— making his Bundesliga debut— scored an 88th-minute winnerthat left St Pauli in the bottomthree.

Schipplock, promoted fromStuttgart’s reserves, had onlybeen on the pitch five minuteswhen he popped up with the win-ner, which moved his side up to13th and left the bottom six sidesseparated by just six points. “Wehad a pinch of luck today,” ad-mitted Stuttgart coach BrunoLabaddia.

“I must pay a big complimentto St Pauli, they played reallywell. “We came here under a bitof pressure, because two or threeplayers in my team weren’t quitefully fit.” On Saturday, Dutchwinger Arjen Robben netted ahat-trick as Bayern Munichsmashed their losing streak witha 6-0 rout of Hamburg.

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“At the moment I feel good. I havehad a good last six months, and I guessit’s given me a lot of confidence,” saidFederer

Federer, a three-time champion atIndian Wells, said he felt confident inthe golf cart heading to the main sta-dium for his afternoon match.

“When I was on the cart driving tothe tennis I felt really good,” Federersaid. “At the end of the day it is howyou start the match and how you fin-ish the match and all the feelings Iget before don’t matter too much.“But I prefer to be relaxed and thenplay a good match than being all ner-vous.”

That certainly was the case Sun-day as Federer fired four aces andwon 92 percent of this first servicepoints. Federer has won all four ca-reer matches against Andreev, dat-ing back to 2004 when they met inthe final of a clay court tournamentin Switzerland.

Associated Press Writer

OAKLAND, Calif. – StephenCurry had 24 points and nine re-bounds, and the Golden State War-riors ended Kevin Love’s four-month run of consecutive double-doubles in a 100-77 win over theMinnesota Timberwolves on Sundaynight. Monta Ellis and Dorell Wrightadded 16 points apiece for GoldenState, which has already won fourmore games under first-year coachKeith Smart than it did last season.

Love had 12 rebounds but scoredonly six points on 1-of-6 shooting,ending his streak of double-doublesat 53 games. It was the NBA’s long-est streak since Elvin Hayes did it in55 consecutive games in 1973-74.Love made his first shot of the game

Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/AFP

Roger Federer of Switzerland returns a shot to Igor Andreev of Russia during the BNP ParibasOpen at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 13, 2011 in Indian Wells, California.

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INDIAN WELLS, California – Roger Federer and KimClijsters both faced tough challenges at Indian Wells on Sun-day, but not enough to prevent the world’s second-ranked play-ers from moving on. Federer beat Igor Andreev of Russia 7-5, 7-6 (7/4) in a second-round match while Clijsters defeated Italy’sSara Errani 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 in their third round match in the $9million dollar WTA and ATP Masters 1000 tournament.

In the tiebreaker Sunday, Federerset up match point by forcing Andreevhit a backhand long then clinched thewin when Andreev pounded a fore-hand into the net. Federer advances tothe third round where he will playArgentina’s Juan Ignacio Chela.

Clijsters has won Indian Wellstwice in 2005 and 2003. Against Erranishe had six aces but also committed13 double faults in the one hour, 52minute match. “It was not my best,”Clijsters said. “You have to be on yourtippy toes. She moved me around.Today my tippy toes felt like bricks.”

Clijsters next faces French 15thseed Marion Bartoli, who beat AndreaPetkovic 6-4, 6-2. “She (Bartoli) is atricky player,” Clijsters said. “She is agirl who hits the ball on the rise andsteps into the court.

“I have had some tough battles withher in the past. Clijsters has reachedthe final in each of her last five tour-naments.

Minnesota Timberwolves’Luke Ridnour, right, drivesthe ball against Golden StateWarriors’ Stephen Curryduring the first half of anNBA basketball game Sun-day, March 13, 2011, inOakland, Calif.

Love’s double-doublestreak ends in Warriors loss

early in the first quarter but couldn’tget much going after that and washeld under 10 points for the first timesince going scoreless against the LosAngeles Lakers on Nov. 19.

The Warriors, who rallied from 21points down to beat Orlando in over-time on Friday, trailed early beforepulling away from the haplessTimberwolves. Golden State led byfive at halftime, went on a 13-2 runcoming out of the break, then cruisedthe rest of the way in a battle of twoteams going nowhere this season.

Minnesota had no response andshot just 36.6 percent from the floorwhile losing for the fourth time insix games. The 77 points were a sea-son-low for coach Kurt Rambis’team. Love’s streak has been theonly thing keeping theTimberwolves (17-51) in the head-lines these days. Not anymore.

While Love did his part on theboards, he struggled to do anythingoffensively against Golden State’sDavid Lee. Paired against Love mostof the night, Lee repeatedly deniedthe ball in the low post and kept Lovefrom scoring off offensive rebounds,something that had become of stapleof the streak.

After sitting the final 2 minutesof the third quarter and the first 3-plus minutes of the fourth, Love re-turned in the fourth but scored justone point as Minnesota struggled toget him the ball. When Love checkedout of the game for good with 4:08left to play, a section of Warrior fanschanted “Your streak’s over.” Noneof the Timberwolves did much ei-ther and Minnesota lost to GoldenState for the third time in four gamesthis season.

The Warriors, who set a franchiserecord with 21 3-pointers in Friday’swin over Orlando, cooled off con-siderably from beyond the arc —though it hardly mattered. GoldenState led by as much as 24 and got alift off from reserve Lew Amundson.Amundson had 11 points and sevenrebounds, helping overcome centerAndris Biedrins’ sluggish night.Biedrins had just six rebounds andwas held scoreless.

Wright made a 3-pointer and afast-break layup on consecutive pos-sessions to give the Warriors a 62-46 midway through the third quar-ter. Curry later added a pair of 3-pointers in the fourth when GoldenState led 92-70.

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Pedrosa set his 1m56.271s withjust over two hours to go, beatingStoner’s previous benchmark by0.143 seconds. Aoyama was within0.03s of Stoner’s time.

Three Yamahas completed thetop six, with works riders Ben Spiesand early pacesetter Jorge Lorenzo

LEWIS Hamilton insists he isnot frustrated at the prospect ofMcLaren having to start the seasonplaying catch-up again. The Wokingteam has lacked both pace and reli-ability in winter testing so far, butHamilton says he remains optimis-tic that improvements will not takelong.

“I’m positive. I love racing, I’mlooking forward to racing,” he said.“I’m always hoping for the most op-timistic improvement. I’m alwayshoping that all of a sudden they’llsay ‘okay, we’ve got this coming’and we’ll arrive there and the daybefore we’ll have something new.

“You never know when thatcould happen so let’s keep our fin-gers crossed and try to keep an eyeon what the guys are doing. I knoweveryone’s working as hard as theycan. No one’s slacking or sittingback. We know we have a bit of ahill to climb, but we can do it.”

He added: “I don’t like to use the

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Repsol Honda’s MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa of Spain takes partin the final pre-season test at the Losail International Circuit inthe Qatari capital Doha on March 13, 2011 ahead of Grand Prixof Qatar to be held next week.

Pedrosa leads firstnight of Qatar test

Dani Pedrosa was fastest as the Honda domination continued on day one of the final MotoGPwinter test in Qatar. The floodlit evening session saw an all-Honda top three, with works ridersPedrosa and Casey Stoner leading Gresini’s Hiroshi Aoyama - in one of the former 250ccchampion’s strongest MotoGP performances yet.

ahead of Colin Edwards on the Tech3 bike. Andrea Dovizioso was sev-enth on the final factory Honda. Itwas another difficult night forDucati. Valentino Rossi had an earlyfall at Turn 9, and though he wasunhurt and able to continue, he couldonly manage eighth, just ahead of

team-mate Nicky Hayden.Randy de Puniet recovered from

two minor accidents to take 10thplace on the Pramac Ducati, whileSepang test star Marco Simoncelli(Gresini) was back in 11th this time- though he was under a second offthe pace in the closely-matched field.

Hamilton: ‘I’m positive, not frustrated’word ‘frustrating’ because I’m notfrustrated. It’s tough on everyone inthe team because everyone puts somuch work into it, and you see itcome out and look so beautiful,and... it’s not a disaster, it just doesn’thave as much performance as we’dlike at the moment. But it’s a foun-dation that we can build on, andthat’s all that really matters.

“It means that we can get there.If you look at last year, we didn’thave the fastest start at the beginningbut we were there or thereabouts andsecond in the constructors’ champi-onship. It’s a long, long year and Ihave no doubts that we can competewith these guys.”

Hamilton believes McLaren’slong-run pace is looking more prom-ising that its single-lap form - thoughreliability also remains a concern.

“I’ve done some long runs on thetyres on previous days, and I thinkthe car’s feeling a lot better,” he said.“So I think our race pace doesn’t

seem so bad. “Whether we can fin-ish the race is the next thing. Butour race pace doesn’t look so badcompared to other people’s.”

He admitted that he does notthink McLaren can currently com-pete with the pace teams such asMercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull dis-played on qualifying-style runs thisweek. “Yesterday I looked at thetimes and everyone’s done a1m21s,” said Hamilton. “I couldn’tget into the 1m21s the other day. Ijust got into the 1m22s.

“So based on my times comparedto them it looks like we’re two sec-onds off, but we’re not two secondsoff. Yesterday Jenson [Button]didn’t do any light-fuel runs or de-cent tyre runs, so it’s difficult toknow exactly where we are.

“I’m assuming they did qualify-ing runs. 1m21.2s is very competi-tive. I would guess that we could getdown to a low 1m22s maybe, butthat’s just a guess.”

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Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes’s British Lewis Hamilton drives during a testingsession on March12, 2011 at Catalunya’s racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona.