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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Tide of 1,000 bodies overwhelms quake-hit Japan

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

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

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TAKAJO, Japan – A tide of bodies washed up along Japan’s coastline, crematoriums were overwhelmed and rescue workers 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.

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Millions of people were facing a fourth night without water, food or heating in near-freezing temperatures in the devastated northeast. Meanwhile, a third reactor at a nuclear power plant lost its cooling capacity, raising fears of a meltdown, while the stock market plunged over the likelihood of huge losses by Japanese in-

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, citing department policy. The discovery 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 prefecture, the crematorium was unable to handle the crush of bodies being brought in for funerals.

“We have already begun cremations, 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.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A Malaysian newspaper has apologized for printing a caricature of Japanese cartoon superhero Ultraman comically trying to outrun a tsunami.

Malaysians reacted with a tirade of anger after the Malay-language Berita Harian daily newspaper published the cartoon Sunday. Critics

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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 water, no power and four- to five-hour waits for gasoline. People are suppressing 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 prefecture, one of the three hardest hit.

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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 Friday. The newspaper expressed sympathy and said it shared “the sorrow 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.

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Bali News Post Robbery at Jelijih Tegeh, Sub District Re-operate Poskamling Tabanan, DenPost

The robbery victimizing Wayan Sukarata (50) and family last Sunday (13/3) victimized at Banjar Jelijih Tegeh, Megati Village, caused a stir. East Selemadeg Sub District Leader, Gusti Ngurah Darma Utama, AP., M.Si., will suggest each village heads in this sub district to re-operate poskamling (around the clock village security system) to avoid such thing happening again. Moreover the case is still unrevealed.

According to Utama, this kind of crime act can happen whenever

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

Northern coastal road section damaged Singaraja (Bali Post)—

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

Based on observation of Bali Post, Sunday (Mar 13), the northern coast undergoing severe damage occurred on the road section from Les Village, Tejakula Subdistrict to Air Sanih Village, Kubutambahan Subdistrict. The damages varied, ranging from street potholes, cracks, wavy condition to peeled-out asphalt only leaving their gravels. The damage looked more severe because the holes in the middle of the road were always inundated in the rainy season as happened recently.

A number of residents said almost every day the road was passed through by 400 trucks. Those large size trucks mostly conveyed sand and stones taken from Karangasem to be transported to Buleleng and Jembrana. Most of the trucks were operated at night so they often made people living in the roadside unable to sleep. Even, the more alarming condition was the bad condition of road and the number of trucks passing in tandem that often triggered traffic accidents.

A legislator of Buleleng House, Putu Tirta Adnyana, from Tejakula Subdistrict said he had questioned about the damaged roads in the area of Tejakula-Kubutambahan to the Buleleng Public Works. Based on the information obtained, the road would be repaired by central government with budget allocation of approximately IDR 60 billion. “It was said the road will be repaired this year. We are going to ask again about its certainty,” he said.

Tirta Adnyana justified that one of the causes of damage on the cross-regency roads was the overloaded trucks passing through the road. Other causes were poor maintenance and unstable conditions of land. “Especially to curb the overloading trucks, we in the House have submitted an initiative to the executive to re-activate the dormant truck scale station,” he said.

According to him, other regions such as West Java, Central Java and its surroundings had started to re-activate their truck scale stations. In addition to gain levies, it was also effec-

tive to monitor trucks transporting overloaded cargo exceeding the stipulation. For example, trucks carrying sand from Karangasem only paid levies in Karangasem. Meanwhile, those trucks only passed through in Buleleng. “They pay in other region, while Buleleng only gets the damaged roads,” he said.

Tirta Adnyana admitted that to realize the House’s initiative on truck scale should pass through a long process because the existing truck scale stations in Buleleng, namely in the area of Seririt and Bungkulan, were owned by the central government which previously managed by Bali Provincial Government through the Department of Transportation. To re-activate the truck scale station, the central government or Bali Provincial Government had to synchronize the management first with the regency government.

“This should be discussed again. As schedule, this Monday (Mar 14—Ed), we will conduct a meeting to discuss the initiative to re-activate the truck scale station,” he said. (kmb15)

and wherever. For that he suggested the people to keep increasing awareness, one of them reactivating poskamling system. He also will suggest for each village to data non residents, “With these two activities we hope our peace and order will be less even no disturbance.”

Meanwhile, Head of Tabanan Police Crime Research Section, Adjunct Police Commissioner Nyoman Wirajaya, when contacted on telephone confirmed the case is still unrevealed and still further investigated. (121)

Animal Husbandry Services prepare second mass vaccination Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Apparently rabies cases remain to haunt the people of Bali. Up to this moment, this deadly disease transmitted through dog bites continues to kill more lives. To suppress the cases to the lowest level, the Bali Animal Husbandry Services established a synergy with Animal Husbandry Services of regencies/city across Bali to organize the second mass vaccination against hundreds of thousands of dogs throughout Bali. Meanwhile, the first mass vaccination was targeted to have been completed at the end of this March. Head of Bali Animal Husbandry Services, Putu Sumantra, explained the matter to Bali Post, Sunday (Mar 13).

According to Sumantra, the second mass vaccination was scheduled to be held in next May and take place for three months. He added that the main priorities targeted were dogs that were not covered in the first mass vaccination. “We have designed the second mass vaccination starting from next May. Hopefully, there will be no obstacles,” he said.

Sumantra added that the operational costs of mass vaccination would be taken from the Bali Regional Budget 2011 amounting to IDR 2 billion. The budget would be allocated to vaccinate about 200,000 dogs. “We will use the fund of Bali Regional Budget for the operational with an allocation of IDR10,000 per dog,” he said.

As for the procurement of antirabies vaccine, his party relied on the vaccine stocks stored in the Bali Animal Husbandry Services coming to 150,000 doses. Meanwhile, the central government had expressed its readiness to send 200,000 additional doses of vac-

cine. In other words, there would be 350,000 doses of vaccine ready for use. “Such amount is more than enough to carry out the second mass vaccination. We estimate that operational budget of IDR 2 billion will cover the needs of revaccination because the estimation of unvaccinated dogs is less than 200,000,”he said.

Nevertheless, Sumantra confirmed that Bali provincial government still expected the funding support from various elements. He said the central government and FAO had expressed their readiness to help fund the vaccination if required.

“Even, the central government has pledged a fund of IDR 20 billion for the treatment of rabies in Bali this year. Related to mechanism of budget disbursement, we are not sure about that. We hope the fund could be disbursed in May so that it can be used to support the second mass vaccination,” he said hopefully.

Sumantra claimed that the first mass vaccination conducted in collaboration with the Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) could vaccinate almost 80 percent of the total population estimated to reach 300,000 dogs. That number exceeded the initial target set at 70 percent. “The first mass vaccination has already completed. Now, we are only conducting searches against the stray dogs that may scatter or be unvaccinated. Mass revaccination is carried out to dogs left in the first mass vaccination and newly born dogs,” he said while adding that the second mass vaccination would involve 50 teams that had been established and cooperating during the process of the first mass vaccination. (kmb13)

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Dirty Traditional Market

Jembrana Regent Instructed Arrangement 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 Hartawan to solve it after enlightened by a joint work visitation to Surakarta with Jembrana House of Representatives members, Regional Development Board, and Head of Public Works Agency.

The Regent suggests if the markets facilities and place is clean also professionally managed, it will make buyers and sellers comfortable to interact.

This meeting with Solo Government, Surakarta, was just the first step

which technically should be continued by Bappeda reassessing, “For sure the Solo government is ready to join work through intensive coordinating.”

Head of Jembrana Bappeda, I Gede Gunandnya, admitted the traditional

markets there has been under professional management. Since the pass 5 years, Solo led by Joko Widodo and Wawali Fx Rudi have proved to arrange the city by renovating traditional markets such as Kembang Market and Nusukan market. (kmb26)

Bullet struck an eye Semarapura (Bali Post) –

Wayan Sutama, a 30 years old man from Satra, Klungkung, got coma after hit by a bullet under his left eye and penetrated to the back of his head. It is suspected resident of the same village, Dewa PK (31), did it yet not reported to police.

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

shoot a cat on a wall near his house using an air rifle. Sadly the cat wasn’t the victim as the bullet went through the wall and hit Sutama who was digging in the other side. As victim’s unconscious, he was brought to Klungkung Hospital by family and shooter which then moved to Sanglah Hospital.

When asked for confirmation,

Head of Klungkung Police, Adjunct Police Commissioner Dewa Gede putra Sugawa, admitted heard the information yet it is not reported to the police, “We heard it due to one of our police officer is victim’s colleague.” He is suspecting the case was solved familial where shooter paid victim’s medication expenses. (kmb20)

Hundreds of Pirate Discs Confiscated Gianyar (Bali Post) –

Fawaid (22) a pirate discs seller from Pakusari, Jember, East Java living in Tegallalang, Ubud was captured by Police during selling at Tebongkang night market, Ubud.

Based on the information collected last Sunday (13/3) the capturing was led by First Inspector Arya FK around 9 pm. Police inves-

tigated the location straight away after receiving information from the public. Hundreds of discs confiscated were 585 VCD and MP3, 101 DVD, a television, one VCD Player set, one speaker set also amplifier, IDR 28 thousand cash and sales note with its pen.

After in Ubud, police also went to Gianyar night market which

also has lots of pirate CDs sellers. Only just during the raid they weren’t selling as it is suspected they know about the raid. The pirate CD seller is stated to have violated section 71 (2) of the Indonesia Republic Law No. 19 Year 2002 on copyrights by offering, distributing or selling copyright violation items. (kmb16)

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A police officer shows the pirated discs confiscated on Tegallalang.

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The condition of the traditional market in Jembrana Regency.

Society urges to hold further meeting promptly Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Community of Nusa Dua, particularly Bualu Customary Villagers, urged to end the polemic on the Beach World (BW) development located at Selagan, Nusa Dua. Such urge re-emerged following the absence of certainty about when the relevant parties would confront them to Bali Tourism Development Corporation (BTDC).

“We urge to have an immediate direct follow-up meeting with the Managing Director of BTDC. This problem is very pervasive and must be resolved,” said a local community leader of Bualu, I Nyoman Suweta, Sunday (Mar 13).

According to him, after the meeting in Wantilan Hall of Benoa Village Head’s Office on March 2, 2011, until now residents have not received any assurance on the implementation of further meeting. His party also appealed that BTDC should not overextend to agree the MoU between local residents and BTDC related to Selagan, Nusa Dua. Furthermore, both the Bali House and the Badung House had made site inspection and they were also urged to immediately conduct an evaluation.

He re-emphasized that the community really wanted that

Selagan area of Nusa Dua could remain a public space. It was not only intended for free public place for recreation and ceremony, but also for supporting facilities such as parking lot. He said that people should not blame the community on having negative thinking if the further meeting was not immediately organized. According to him, the demand of community was very simple, how to make the Selagan Beach of Nusa Dua remain a public space.

On the other hand, the demands for self-management of Selagan Beach of Nusa Dua by Bualu Customary Village began to appear. I Nyoman Sutika, a community leader of Bualu, expressed that Selagan Beach of Nusa Dua was the icon and embryo of tourism in Nusa Dua. Selagan Nusa Dua was also the only beach remaining free to the public and should be maintained persistently.

He said the case of BW was only a small portion of disappointment of local society to BTDC. For decades in Nusa Dua, BTDC had been considered to provide very small contribution to the community. For that purpose, he demanded in order the Bualu Customary Village could be given authority like other customary villages to manage the beach. (kmb25)

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Second explosion at stricken Japan nuke plant Associated Press Writer

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

The explosion at the plant’s Unit 3, which authorities have been frantically trying to cool following a system failure in the wake of a massive earthquake and tsunami, triggered an order for hundreds of people to stay indoors, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said radiation levels at Unit 3 were 10.65 microsieverts, significantly under the 500 microsieverts at which a nuclear operator must file a report to the government. The blast follows a similar explosion Saturday that took place at the plant’s Unit 1, which injured four workers and caused mass-evacuations.

Japan’s nuclear safety agency said 6 workers were injured in Monday’s explosion but it was not immediately clear how, or whether they were exposed to radiation. They were all conscious, said the agency’s Ryohei Shomi.

The reactor’s inner containment vessel holding nuclear rods was intact, Edano said, allaying some fears of the risk to the environment and public. TV footage of the building housing the reactor appeared to show similar damage to Monday’s blast, with outer walls shorn off, leaving only a skeletal frame. More

than 180,000 people have evacuated the area in recent days, and up to 160 may have been exposed to radiation.

Earlier Monday, pressure had jumped inside Unit 3, forcing the evacuation of 21 workers.

But they returned to work after levels appeared to ease. Associated Press journalists felt the explosion in the tsunami-devastated port town of Soma, some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the reactor. They reported feeling the faint rumble of a blast and the ground shaking.

Four nuclear plants in northeastern Japan have reported damage, but the danger was greatest at Fukushima’s Dai-ichi plant. Operators have lost the ability to cool three reactors at Dai-ichi and three more at another nearby complex using usual procedures, after the quake knocked out power and the tsunami swamped backup generators.

Operators have been dumping seawater into units 1 and 3 in a last-ditch measure to cool the reactors. They were getting water into the AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS other four reactors with cooling problems An aerial photo shows the quake-damaged Fukushima Dai-Ni nuclear power plant without resorting to corrosive sea water, which in the town of Naraha and Tomioka in the Futaba district of Fukushima prefecture likely makes the reactors unusable. on March 12, 2011.

Kadhafi forces advance towards Libyan rebel capital Agence France Presse

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A Libyan rebel carries and rocket-propelled grenade launcher on March 13, 2011 before dozens opposition fighters were pulling out of the eastern town of Brega amid heavy shelling from forces loyal to strongman Moamer Kadhafi.

BREGA, Libya – Libyan rebels retreated from another key town under heavy shelling from government forces as Moamer Kadhafi loyalists swept closer towards the main opposition-held city of Benghazi.

But following the fall of Brega, the commander of the vastly outgunned rebels, Kadhafi’s former interior minister, vowed to defend the next town in the path of Kadhafi’s forces, Ajdabiya. A lightning counter-offensive over the past week has pushed the rebels out of Mediterranean coastal towns, allowing the regime to wrest back the mo-

mentum against the month-long uprising against Kadhafi’s four-decade grip on power.

Kadhafi’s forces are “marching to cleanse the country” of insurgents, Libyan army spokesman Colonel Milad Hussein told reporters in Tripoli. “Our raids are forcing the terrorists to flee. We have liberated Zawiyah, Uqayla, Ras Lanuf and Brega, and the army is advancing to liberate the rest of the regions.”

France said it would speed up its push for a no-fly zone to ground Kadhafi’s warplanes, something the rebels on the ground have been calling for.

Dozens of rebels fled east out of

Brega towards Ajdabiya, the last rebel-held town before Benghazi which the Libyan opposition has made its de facto capital just 100 miles (170 kilometres) away. Libyan state television declared Brega “purged of the armed gangs.”

It also reported that Kadhafi had met the ambassadors of China, India and Russia to discuss the possibility of handing them control of the country’s oil exports. China and Russia, both permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, have expressed scepticism about the need for a no-fly zone in Libya. India, a temporary Security Council member, has come out against the idea.

Eight nations accuse India over unpaid Games bills Agence France Presse

NEW DELHI – Eight countries have lodged an official complaint with the Indian government over $74 million of unpaid bills after the Commonwealth Games, saying the delays could affect future investment. Senior diplomats from seven European countries and Australia signed a letter demanding action over broken contracts and valuable equipment that is still stuck in Indian customs since the Games were held in October last year.

The Games were hit by poor preparations and shoddily-finished stadiums despite an estimated budget of $6 billion. A num-

ber of senior figures have since been arrested in a widening police probe into corruption.

“The long delay in settling these matters is damaging India?s national reputation, denting the confidence of foreign business and raising doubts about the enforcement of contracts,” the envoys wrote. Australia, Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland all signed the letter, which was delivered to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee last month.

Diplomats confirmed the letter after it was printed in the Hindustan Times on Monday. Australian companies have also complained bitterly about unpaid fees for organising the opening and closing ceremonies,

while British firm SIS Live is in a legal battle to be paid in full for broadcasting services.

Indian police have arrested the Delhi 2010 organising committee’s director general, V. K. Verma, and its secretary general, Lalit Bhanot, over alleged financial irregularities.The national anti-corruption watchdog, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), received complaints alleging up to $1.8 billion of Games money was misappropriated.

Swiss Timing, which has worked at many recent Olympic Games, recently took out full-page advertisements in the Indian press to deny allegations of kickbacks after police accused it of over-charging.

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Eight countries have lodged an official complaint with the Indian government over $74 million of unpaid bills after the Commonwealth Games, saying the delays could affect future investment.

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Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak Siring Dadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba Tegalalang Pedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel Tabanan Puncak Mundi Nusa Penida 19 March Purnama Kedasa Odalan Betara Turun Kabeh Besakih Karangasem Ngusaba in Bukit Jati Temple Bangli Batur Kalanganyar Bangli Masceti Pejeng Aji Tegalalang - Gianyar Dalem Tangsub Sukawati - Gianyar Penambangan Badung Denpasar City Ngusaba in Lempuyab Madia Temple Karangasem Ngusaba in Batur Temple Bangli Village Temple Singakerta Ubud Pasek Gelgel Tagtag Kukuh Marga Tabanan Gaduh Ketapian Sumerta Denpasar Pasek Bendesa Batur Tuak Ilang Tabanan Pasek Agung Tagtag Kelod Peguyangan Denpasar Agung Pasek Bendesa Tonja Tonja - Denpasar Pasek Gelgel Angsri Baturiti - Tabanan Pasek Gelgel Bale Agung Subamia Beraban Dukuh Sari Belatung Bengkel Timpag Kerambitan Pusat Dukuh Sari Belatung Rendang Karangasem Pita Maha Palangkaraya Kalteng Canda Peraba Komplek Polri Jelambar Jakarta Barat Agung Jagat Natha Denpasar Pemerajan Agung Puri Petak Gianyar Dadia Agung Tangkas Kori Agung Abiansemal Badung

Balinese Temple Ceremony EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated 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 considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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News Mexican drug cartels move into Central America Associated Press Writer

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

Abbas calls killing of Israeli settlers despicable

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – On a steamy, late-summer day near the Salvadoran coast, more than 100 police working an intelligence tip scoured a near-vacant cattle ranch the size of 42 Manhattan blocks.

Using probes and backhoes, they unearthed two plastic storage drums packed with U.S. dollars. It took three days to count the $20s, $50s and $100s — which added up to more than $10 million. A third barrel was excavated a week later from beneath a patio in an upscale San Salvador suburb, for a total of $14.5 million.

Though questions remain, the stash may be Mexican drug cartel money.

One of the two Guatemalan ranch owners allegedly had ties to the leader of a Guatemalan branch of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, who is serving a 31-year sentence for drug trafficking in the U.S. Mexican drug cartels now operate virtually uninhibited in their Central American backyard. U.S.-supported crackdowns in Mexico and Colombia have only pushed traffickers into a region where corruption is rampant, borders lack even minimal immigration control and local gangs provide a readymade infrastructure for organized crime.

“The cartels are clear on the possibilities for using El Salvador as a place to launder money or to transport it south to pay for their drugs,” National Police deputy director Howard Cotto told The Associated Press in an interview.

When President Barack Obama visits El Salvador later this month as part of a swing through Latin America, he will hit the region at its hottest point since the civil wars in the 1980s. Cocaine seizures in Central America tripled from 2003 to 2008, according to the U.N. World Drug Report. The murder rate in Guatemala, Honduras

and El Salvador, already the highest in the world, is climbing in part from a rise in local drug dealing, authorities say.

While the U.S. and Mexico focus on gunrunning on their shared border, arms trafficking thrives in Guatemala, a country that doesn’t manufacture a single firearm. There is even evidence that guns are brought from the U.S. into Guatemala and then smuggled into Mexico, in an example of reverse trafficking from south to north, one U.S. government official said.

“We have no firm numbers,” said the official, who could not be named for security reasons. “What we know is that it’s occurring and it doesn’t seem to be random.”

Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes, who maintains close ties with the U.S. despite being the country’s first leftist leader, says he will focus the Obama visit on poverty. El Salvador has seen little change in the poverty and violence that fueled its 13-year civil war until 1992, and the rural states and outskirts of the capital that served as guerrilla battlegrounds are now the domain of deadly gangs.

The White House says the president, scheduled to be in El Salvador March 22 and 23, will talk about “regional and bilateral economic, clean energy, and citizen security cooperation initiatives.”

But other Central American countries say security is issue No. 1 and are baffled at White House plans for only a bilateral meeting. “For those of us who have worked for decades in regional cooperation, we feel let down,” said former Guatemalan Vice President Eduardo Stein, noting that the White House may not have wanted to wade into regional problems, such as a border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. “It looks like they are trying to protect the president from local infighting. But it feels like a cop out.”

Associated Press Writer

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

Mahmoud Abbas told Israel Radio that the gory images of the victims — parents, two children and an infant — “cause anyone humane to ache and cry.”

In Monday’s interview, Abbas also

said he would not allow attacks to multiply. Israel has indirectly blamed the Palestinian government for the carnage, suggesting the killings were the product of incitement it allows.

Abbas says there is no incitement

in mosques and called for a joint Israeli-Palestinian-U.S. team to examine claims of incitement in Palestinian textbooks. Israel has not produced evidence that incitement contributed to the killings.

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by hundreds of aftershocks since Friday, the latest one a 6.2 magnitude quake that was followed by a new tsunami scare Monday. As sirens wailed, soldiers abandoned their search operations and told residents of the devastated shoreline in Soma, the worst hit town in Fukushima prefecture, to run to higher ground.

They barked out orders: “Find high ground! Get out of here!” Several soldiers were seen leading an old woman up a muddy hillside. The warning turned out to be a false alarm.

Search parties arrived in Soma for the first time since Friday to dig out bodies. Ambulances stood by and

body bags were laid out in an area cleared of debris, as firefighters used hand picks and chain saws to clear an indescribable jumble of broken timber, plastic sheets, roofs, sludge, twisted cars, tangled powerlines and household goods.

Helicopters buzzed overhead, surveying the destruction that spanned the horizon. Ships were flipped over near roads, a half-mile (a kilometer) inland. Officials said one-third of the city of 38,000 people was flooded and thousands were missing. In addition to the more than 2,800 people who have been confirmed dead, more than 1,400 were missing. Another 1,900 were injured.

From page 1 He said authorities were receiving just 10 percent of the food and other supplies they need. Body bags and coffins were running so short that the government may turn to foreign funeral homes for help, he said.

“We have requested funeral homes across the nation to send us many body bags and coffins. But we simply don’t have enough,” he told the AP. “We just did not expect such a thing to happen. It’s just overwhelming.”

The pulverized coast has been hit

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Hundreds more Indonesians to be evacuated to Tokyo Antara

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

JAKARTA - More than 400 Indonesians living in different parts of disaster-stricken Japan are going to be evacuated to Tokyo and eventually sent home, Indonesian ambassador to Japan Muhammad Lutfi said.

“The Indonesian Embassy has set up a team for rescuing our people in Japan, especially those who are staying in Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi and Fukushima. An airplane has been sent to evacuate them to Tokyo,” said Lutfi to ANTARA via telephone.

Lutfi said there were 496 Indonesian citizens who were spread in the three areas located near the epicenter of the earthquake.

They were 140 people in Iwate Prefecture, 274 people in Miyagi and 82 people in Fukushima City.

He also said from those Indonesian citizens, there were 95 heads of family who had been identified the condition.

“They are in good condition, safe and health. Now, they are staying in some refuges in there,” he said.

He also said that the evacuation of Indonesian citizens in Japan to Indonesia would be done after there was sureness of their

condition in Tokyo.

“We are now focusing on rescuing our people in the disaster areas to be brought to Tokyo, and after that we will discuss about the evacuation to Indonesia,” he said.

The team from Indonesian Embassy was finding difficulties in entering Sendai, the biggest city near the epicenter, to evacuate people to Tokyo. Meanwhile, Spokesman of Indonesian Foreign Ministry Michael Tene said that the team of Indonesian Embassy to Tokyo had sent assistance to Iwate Prefecture and Miyagi.

“The team has been sent to help Indonesian citizens there, while we are going to communicate with the Embassy in Tokyo via telephone or internet network,” Tene said.

Not all of the 31,517 Indonesians known to be living in Japan have been impacted by a magnitude earthquake measuring 8.9 on Richter scale which triggered to tsunami that hit Iwate Prefecture and Miyagi.

As quoted by Kyodo, the Japan National Police Agency said 1.000 were died or unaccounted as of 10.00 am of local time. While the death toll reached 287 in nine prefectures, including Tokyo, and 725 people are missing following the earthquake jolted Japan on Friday (March 11) at 2.46 pm of local time.

Speaker slams Australian media over report on Indonesian figures Antara

JAKARTA - Indonesian House Speaker Marzuki Alie has slammed Australian media for having published stories irresponsibly on the country‘s national figures.

He said to newsmen here on Saturday the Australian media (The Age and Sydney Morning Herald) had been irresponsible because they just took data for them from a Wikileaks

website and failed to check the truth first to the sources concerned.

“It is regrettable that the media of a country boasting itself to be a democracy have failed to conduct a

check and a recheck to people reported in their stories and so their credibility is worth questioning,” he said.

“It is clear the Age has never checked with the persons reported,” he said.

Marzuki also considered the stories tendentious and therefore the Indonesian people must question their motives. “Obviously they have an intention of shaking the political stabil-

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

He appreciated foreign minister Marty Natalegawa that has summoned the US ambassador to Indonesia to ask for his explanation. He said the move was correct.

He said “if the stories came from them the US must apologize. But what is important is that people must not be provoked by such reports,” he said.

Marzuki called on the government to take correct measures with regard to the Australian media and if necessary they must take legal action against them. He said the impact of the stories was not only domestic but also abroad as the country‘s role in world affairs could be affected.

“The impact can also be on the investment sector and therefore the motives must be clarified,” he said.

Ministry of Maritime ready to help Papua tsunami victims Antara

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) is ready to extend assistance to tsunami victims at Mettu Daby Island in Papua.

On Friday, March 11, 2011, the island in Papua province was hit by the tail of gargantuan tsunami, triggered by a powerful earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale in Japan. Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad said here on Sunday that the KKP would soon help rehabilitation and reconstruction program at Enggros village in Mettu Daby island which was hit by the tsunami.

Fadel said his office would also allocate an amount of funds from 2011 budget to assist the recovery

process at the tsunami-hit island in Papua.

The minister said that for the preliminary step, the KKP would send a team to the disaster area in Papua to conduct an inventory of the needs of the tsunami-affected communities and to find out the amount of funds to be allocated for the rehabilitation and reconstruction program.

Based on data collected by the local government in the field, the tsunami that hit Papua‘s northern coastal areas had caused extensive damage at two locations namely Hotekamp coastal area and Enggros village. At those two locations the tsunami had seriously damaged 15 houses, several traditional houses, a bridge, 24 units of fish trap, and left one person dead.

Therefore Fadel said the KKP

would extend its assistance in fishermen settlement reconstruction and fishery facility and infrastructure reconstruction.

“The KKP is also mapping out other locations that have a big potential to be hit by tsunami, and expecting to cooperate with the local government to anticipate tidal wave disaster,” Fadel said.

He added that the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries was also actively making familiarization of earthquake and tsunami mitigation at the coastal areas of smaller islands across Indonesia.

The mitigation of disaster threatening the coastal areas and smaller islands in the country has been arranged in Law No.24/2007 and Law No.27/2007 on coastal areas and smaller islands management.

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Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir gestures during his trial at Jakarta court on March 14, 2011 as he faces on terrorism charges.

The radical preacher on February 24 denied leading an Al-Qaedastyle group that was plotting attacks and assassinations in Indonesia, as his trial resumed amid maximum security. But said that Muslims carrying out weapons training did so as a divinely-ordered “act of worship” so as to “defend Islam”.

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Bali Today CBIP development contradict with Governor moratorium Antara

Denpasar – The development of Convention Bali International Park (CBIP) in Jimbaran, Bali as the supporting infrastructure for APEC meting in 2013 contradict with the letter of Bali Governor regarding tourism development in the island.

The head of Commission IV in Bali House of Representative, Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana, said Monday, that the letter from the government stated the temporary suspension or moratorium for hotels development in three regencies which are Badung, Denpasar, and Gianyar.

“From the city plan side, the CBIP is for tourism accommodation and the governor has issued a moratorium so the solution is to use the current facilities instead of building a new one,” he added.

According to Kariyasa, the available facilities in Bali are suitable and satisfactory to hold an international event such as APEC meeting.

“Unless we don’t have the proper facilities for it so we can build a new one,” he added.

Kariyasa also said that the mora-

torium is able to prevent the unhealthy competition among tourism accommodation because the newly build hotel must be more luxurious that the old one. Social problems also could occur because the land needed to build the CBIP is quite large and relocation for the current settlement could lead to those problems.

Meanwhile, the member of Commission III in Bali House of Representative, Wayan Tagel Arjaya, said that the development of CBIP is a direct instruction from Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The project will take up 250 hectares of land and need 2.6 trillion rupiah. There will be 33 head of states take part in the meeting and CBIP will become the center stage for the event.

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The project at BTDC area.

Hundreds of Jembrana’s migrant workers still in Japan Bali Post

NEGARA - Unclear information on the condition of some Jembrana’s migrant workers who worked in Japan made their parents

and relatives anxious after the tsunami and earthquake. They admitted to be unable to contact their children, especially those whose departure through internship program arranged

by Jembrana Regency. The parents

requested local government to be more responsive and concerned about the safety of Jembrana residents.

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

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

Pernata from Sangkaragung Hamlet, Sangkaragung Village. He told reporters Saturday (Mar 12) that he was deeply worried as his son was on-thejob training in Japan. Moreover, having seen the news on television viewing the ferocity of tsunami inhuming a town in Japan, the father of Agus, Ketut Sodia, confessed to have been confused. Similarly, he was hit by anxiety as soon as knowing the earthquake ensued in the country where his son was working.

Moreover, he had been unable to contact his son through a variety of communication facilities both telephone and the Internet. The family could then feel slightly relieved after receiving information from Ni Luh Budi, Agus’s wife, who said that his condition in Japan was not affected by the earthquake and tsunami.

Similar condition was felt by the family of Putu Eriadi, 23, a resident of Delod Bale Agung, Tegalcangkring Village. He claimed to have been unable to contact his child. The couple of Nyoman Darma-Nyoman Suarni had not received information from their son.

The family hoped that Jembrana Regency could show off its concern to help find information about his

son who was on the-job-training in Japan. Aside from Putu, they also lost contact with Komang Diana, their close relative.

Information obtained from the Jembrana Civil Registry Office told there were 175 migrant workers from Jembrana residing in Japan.

However, the estimated amount did not include the workers who worked illegally in Japan. Out of 175 workers sent by Jembrana Government through internship program, 163 people were in Tsukuba, 9 people in Hokomoko and 3 others in Miyake.

On the other hand, the Regent of Jembrana I Putu Artha and Deputy Regent I Made Kembang Hartawan said that local government had got a call from Mr. Ohata from Ibaraki, Japan, and informed that apprentice workers from Jembrana in Japan were in safe condition and there were no casualties due to such disaster. The regent claimed to have ordered the Head of Department to immediately provide information to the entire family of migrant workers concerned. According to Kembang, based on the information obtained from Mr. Ohata the problems in Tsukuba were electrical blackout and difficulty to find food stock after the earthquake. (kmb26)

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Balinese Culture Zoning law needed to protect Bali DENPASAR - The current debate over Bali’s new zoning is highly volatile a recent seminar convened by the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) and the Denpasar Lawyer’s Club (DLC) intending to seek a peaceful consensus between the contending parties in the debate degenerated instead into an angry exchange of threats and insults.

The vice-regent of Karangasem, Made Sukerana, faced off with Hindu religious leader, Dhang Acarya Yoga Nanda. At one point in the discussion, Sukerana rose from his seat and angrily pointed his finger at religious figure who has served previously in the provincial House of Representatives (DPRD-Bali).

The seminar featured five main speakers: Babel Edison from the Ministry of Public Works; Ketut Sudiarta a legal expert; Ida Pensita Mpu Jaya Prema addressing the social-cultural aspects of zoning; Bagus Sudibya from the tourism industry; and I Gusti Made Putra a

commentator on zoning issues. The seminar was moderated by Dewa Gde Palguna, a retired constitutional jurist.

Among the high-profile members attending were the regent of Gianyar, Cokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati (Cok Ace); the vice-regent of Karangasem, Made Sukerana; the first assistant of the provincial government of Bali, IGN Sunandra; the chairman of the special sub-committee on the RTRW from the DPRD-Bali, Wayan Disel Astawa; and the Chairman of the Sabha Walaka within the Hindu High Council (PHDI), Ketut Wiana.

Speaking to the legal foundation of the RTRW, Ketut Sudiarta affirmed that the new zoning law was properly constituted and, as a result, could technically only be revised in five years starting from December 28, 2014.

Babel Edison from the Ministry of Public Works said the main issue in the current debate resolve around the long-standing bhisama or religious declaration stipulating

set back rules from beaches and religious sites, and whether or not that religiously-based dogma can be challenged.

Affirming Sudiarta’s comments that the RTRW had been properly drafted and implemented, Edison praised Bali for being only the second province in Bali, after South Sulawesi, to successfully ratify a provincial zoning law.

Ida Pendita Mpu Jaya Prema then spoke challenging the basis of the 5 kilometer protective radius surrounding Bali’s main religious temples. It was his opinion that the Bhisama was not sacrosanct and could be changed through a process of consensus.

Bagus Sudibya, who is active in a number of tourism organizations, took the floor calling for a more global approach to the problem of the RTRW. Sudibya said that Bali had a great deal of dollar-based tourism assets, almost all of which were held by non-Balinese from Jakarta. In his opinion, this fact deserved the attention of the island’s policy makers.

Thirty Australians studying at Bali‘s Institute of Arts Antara

DENPASAR - Some 30 Australian students will attend academic activities at the Denpasar-based Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI) under cooperation between the two countries in the field of arts, ISI Rector Prof Wayan Rai S said.

“The Australian students will be here for about three weeks in a student exchange program in June this

year. They will be assisted by a number of lecturers,” Wayan Rai said here on Sunday.

He said that the student exchange program will be the realization of cooperation between ISI and the University of Western Australia (UWA) signed on February 11, 2011.

Prof Rai and ISI dean, Ni Made Rinu, signed the student exchange program agreement between the Australian 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 network in the world to help promote the existence of ISI. Rai said that the cooperation between ISI and UWA was proof that the international society loved the ISI. Ahead, it is also expected that ISI students and lecturers would also attend the same program at the UWA, he added.

Bebek Betutu

(Roast Duck In Banana Leaf) OVERVIEW: The rich flavor of duck is greatly enhanced by a host of pungent roots, herbs and seasonings in this dish, which is invariably a great favorite with visitors to Bali. The Balinese have great admiration for the duck and consider it to be a particularly strong animal as it is, like the turtle, the only one able to survive on land as water.

INGREDIENTS: 1 whole duck, weigh about 2 kg (4 ½ lb) 18 shallots, peeled, cut in half, and sliced 6 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half, & sliced 3 stalks lemon grass, finely sliced 5 fragrant lime leaves, finely sliced 6 candlenuts, chopped 5 cm (2 in), ginger, peeled and chopped 8 cm (3in) fresh turmeric, peeled, chopped 8 cm (3in) kencur root, peeled, chopped 1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed 5 bird’s-eye chilies, slices 1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed 2 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted and coarsely crushed 1½ tbsp salt 3 tbsp oil Banana leaves, greaseproof paper or aluminum foil for wrapping PREPARATION: Wipe the duck dry and set aside. Combine all ingredients except banana leafs in a bowl and mix well. Rub the duck outside with this mixture and fill the center of the duck with the remainder.

Close open duck with satay skewer. Wrap in several layers of banana leaves, greaseproof paper or foil and steam for 50 minutes. 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 and serve with stuffing. When cooked, the meat should be so tender that it falls off the bones. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

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Purancak Temple IBP

Purancak Temple is also mentioning as Pura Perancak situated in the coastal area right at Purancak Countryside, Negara sub district and Jembrana Regency. In order to reach the location of this temple which is also situated in the estuary of Purancak River, we have to go the west direction and goes to through the good road with the car or other motorcycle. After going through the journey within 9 Km from the district town, all visitors who visit this temple will arrive at non-irrigated dry field.

This land is fully planted by the coconut trees with beautiful panorama that make a comfortable atmosphere.

Pertaining to the name (Abhiseka) of Purancak Temple, it is inseparable from the holy journey (Dharmayatra and Tirthayatra) of Danghyang Dwijendra, a famous Siwa Religion Adviser. From the domestic sources, there is opinion that the name of Purancak Temple is come the word of Perahu Encak (Balinese Language meaning leaky boat or breaking boat). There is also from domestic source say that the this temple’s name is come from

word Ancak (The tree name, sycamore bodi), because when Danghyang Dwijendra crossing the sea in west part of Bali Island that is also recognized as Sagara Rupek, he firstly arrive at the location where the Purancak Temple existing now. He wait his wife and son who go up the leaky boat that had been patched by spool gourd leaf ( Waluh Pahit), while Danghyang Dwijendra go up a bitter fruit Waluh (spool gourd) by using his both hand and feet as oar .

When he waiting his wife and son, he was seat under a tree which is called Ancak Tree and at the same time he do conversation with a cow farmer.

Since he was seat under that tree then The Temple is built right in this location hence this temple is named by Purancak Temple. But in conjunction to other domestic sources that is estimated the Purancak Temple is also taken away from the name of this countryside where he firstly arrive and do pray while waiting his family.

This temple is kept by a priest every day who waiting and monitoring everyone who cross the way. The priest will remind and admonishing if there anyone who pass and neglect to conduct the pray based on the

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Dhangyang Dwijendra and his family continue his holy journey and pass this temple. When he arrive at this temple area, the priest as a temple keeper who is also observe everyone crossing this area, he admonished and asked to Danghyang Dwinjendra to do pray in this temple. When he

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reach in the silent moment of praying, suddenly inscrutable fact happened that this temple breaks. When witnessing this inscrutable occurrence, I Ngurah Rangsasa with all his supporter are feeling very fear and then run to his house meanwhile the temple priest is very braze and request to Danghyang Dwijendra return the temple back to the perfection like previously.

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BUSINESS BOJ floods money market with cash Reuters

TOKYO – 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 earthquake hit the country’s northeast, killing thousands and triggering a nuclear crisis.

Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters the central bank would discuss policy easing at its meeting that got under way on Monday amid news of another explosion at one of the country’s nuclear reactors.

The central bank’s policy board will likely discuss whether the sharp fall in Tokyo stock prices and the potential damage from the quake to corporate profits warrant an immediate policy response, the sources said.

But whether it will actually ease policy is uncertain as Governor Masaaki Shirakawa likely did not have enough time to gain consensus within the board for any immediate action.

Damage estimates also remain sketchy. Many factories have been forced to shut in the area due to power outages, while others have reported flooding or quake damage.

If the BOJ were to act, the most likely step would be to expand its 5trillion-yen pool of funds, put in place last year to buy assets ranging from government bonds to private debt.

But some analysts say the BOJ may

go even further, given the escalating damage of the quake.

“The BOJ is likely to take bold steps to stabilize the financial system and is likely to revert to quantitative easing or zero interest rate policy to respond to the unprecedented crisis,” said Naomi Hasegawa, senior fixedincome strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities in Tokyo.

“If it were not for the earthquake, the BOJ’s next step would have been to increase its asset buying program.

But doing so this time is likely to disappoint markets.”

Tokyo’s stocks plunged as much as 5 percent after the market reopened on Monday as investors tried to gauge the huge economic cost of Friday’s quake and tsunami wiped out whole villages and towns and likely killed more than 10,000 people.

Moody’s ratings agency said it saw no major disruption to Japan’s payment system but that the economic fallout from the disaster appeared greater than initially expected, even though it was still waiting for a full assessment of the damage.

“The economic consequences appear to be greater than we perhaps originally expected on Friday,” Tom Byrne, Moody’s senior vice president, told Reuters Insider in an interview.

The BOJ offered a total of 15 trillion yen ($183 billion), well above usual 1-2 trillion, on Monday morning to assure investors that markets will function properly.

“The move is aimed at stabilizing financial markets and ensuring smooth fund settlement,” a BOJ official told Reuters.

The BOJ is expected to keep its benchmark rate in the 0-0.1 percent range.

Analysts said the massive fund injections on Monday showed the central bank’s determination to keep borrowing costs low and stable as investors try to gauge the economic cost of the worst crisis to hit Japan since World War Two. “The BOJ apparently is making utmost efforts to maintain order in markets with ample fund supply,” said Hideo Kumano, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute in

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

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“The BOJ may ease policy by expanding its asset-buying fund or some other measures in the near future.”

Japan is battling to prevent a nuclear catastrophe and to care for mil-

lions of people without power or water, just as a new wave of water was heading toward Japan’s northeast coast and a hydrogen explosion rocked an earthquake-stricken nuclear plant 240 km north (150 miles) north of Tokyo.

Chinese premier rejects faster currency rise Associated Press Writer

BEIJING – China’s premier said Monday the government is confident it can control surging inflation and ruled out allowing a faster rise in its tightly controlled currency to cool price increases.

Premier Wen Jiabao repeated Chinese complaints that the U.S. Federal Reserve’s efforts to spur American growth are partly to blame for global inflation, though he avoided mentioning the Fed by name.

Chinese consumer prices rose 4.9 percent in February, driven by an 11 percent jump in politically sensitive food costs despite government efforts to increase supplies and curb a bank lending boom that analysts say is partly to blame.

“The government has confidence that we will be able to anchor inflation expectations,” Wen said. But echoing forecasts that inflation is likely to rise further before declining, he added, “We still face a difficult situation in the first half of this year.”

The premier ruled out using Beijing’s exchange rate controls to curb inflation, saying the yuan’s rise against the U.S. dollar would be kept gradual. Analysts say a stronger yuan would cool Chinese inflation by mak-

ing imported oil and other goods cheaper in Chinese currency terms.

Beijing has restrained the yuan’s rise since the 2008 global crisis to help Chinese exporters that employ millions of workers compete abroad.

“The appreciation of the Chinese currency should be a gradual process, because we must bear in mind its impact on Chinese businesses and our employment situation,” Wen said at the news conference, held following the closing of the annual session of China’s legislature.

Inflation is politically dangerous for China’s leaders because it erodes economic gains on which the Communist Party bases its claim to power. Consumer prices are especially sensitive in a society where poor families spend up to half their incomes on food.

Beijing faces pressure from Washington and other trading partners to ease currency controls that they say keeps the yuan undervalued, giving China’s exporters an unfair price advantage and swelling

its multibillion-dollar trade surplus.

Wen said Chinese prices are being driven partly by global inflation.

He repeated Chinese complaints about “quantitative easing,” the Fed’s term for its strategy of trying to push down interest rates and spur growth with multibillion-dollar bond purchases.

Regulators in some Asian economies complain lower interest rates and a weaker dollar caused by the Fed have prompted an influx of money in search of higher returns,

pushing up commodity prices. Analysts say China’s currency controls have shielded it from such inflows but it still faces higher prices for oil and other imports.

“Some countries have pursued quantitative easing and that has caused drastic fluctuations in the exchange rates of some major currencies and in global commodities prices,” Wen said.

“Imported inflation has had a big impact on China and is a factor that is not easy to control.”

Metro economies grow but job growth slow: report Reuters

WASHINGTON – The economies of the biggest U.S. metropolitan areas began to grow again by the end of last year, but the recovery was “slow, uneven and inconsistent” and failed to spur much jobs growth, according to a study by the Brookings Institute released on Monday.

“The nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas were seeing widespread and steady growth in economic output, but only slow and inconsistent improvement in the labor market,” said the research think tank that fo-

cuses on economics and policy.

“Job growth was sluggish and unemployment rates, although lower than at the end of 2009 in most large metropolitan areas, remained very high,” Brookings added.

The housing market collapse, the financial crisis and subsequent economic recession ravaged states’ and cities’ revenues, limiting their ability to help newly unemployed citizens and fix problems associated with abandoned homes. Even though the recession officially ended in summer 2009, cities are only now seeing the first signs of recovery in their revenues. They are nervously watching

as revenues trickle back, output begins inching up, and foreclosures fall.

All of the 100 largest metropolitan areas had growth in output in the fourth quarter, and more than half saw output grow in each quarter of the year, Brookings said.

And while house prices dropped in the fourth quarter of 2010 from same quarter of 2009 in all major metropolitan areas except Honolulu and San Jose, California, foreclosures also fell in 86 of the 100 areas.

According to Brookings, three years after the start of the recession, the 100 largest metropolitan areas combined had lost 6.2 percent of their

jobs. That compares to the 1.6 percent of the workforce they lost during the 2001 recession and 0.1 percent during the 1990-91 recession.

By the end of 2010, only one metropolitan area had completely recovered all of the jobs lost during the recession — McAllen, Texas.

Brookings also ranked the 20 strongest-performing metro economies and the 20 weakest and found that Texas had the highest concentration of high-performing cities — five. Florida had the highest concentration of low-performing metropolitan economies, also five.

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

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

For Columbia Pictures and Sony, the sci-fi action film recalls its 2009 Oscar-nominated hit, “District 9.” “Battle: Los Angeles” hasn’t received nearly as good reviews, but it benefited from a 68 percent male audience and a very successful marketing campaign.

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

Bruer added that there’s “definitely a connection” between “Battle: Los Angeles” and “District 9,” which opened to $37.4 million and was also helmed by a South African filmmaker.

Neill Blomkamp directed “District 9,” while Jonathan Liebesman directed the similarly handheld-heavy “Battle: Los Angeles.”

In its second week of release, the animated Western spoof “Rango” came in second, adding $23.1 million for a cumulative total of $68.7 million. The critically acclaimed Paramount Pictures film appeared on its way to surpassing $100 million. The weekend’s other new releases didn’t fare as well.

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

Disney’s animated 3-D family film “Mars Needs Moms!” It opened to a disappointing $6.8 million, well below expectations. With a voice cast including Seth Green and Joan Cusack, it also opened on more than 200 IMAX screens.

Based on the book of the same title by Berkeley Breathed, “Mars Needs Moms!” had an estimated production budget of $150 million. Such a poor start means it’s likely to be a significant loss for Disney, though that pain is somewhat alleviated by its surprise hit, “Gnomeo & Juliet.”

It has taken in $89 million in five weeks.

Overall, moviegoing business was still down from the corresponding weekend last year. Since November 2010, such down weekends have been the norm except for one up weekend. The box office for 2011 was 21.5 percent off last year’s pace. Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian said the weekend business was “good news for aliens, bad news for the overall box office.”

“It’s a cyclical business, but this is a long downturn,” said Dergarabedian. “The industry is holding its collective breath for summer to start.” With myriad blockbusters planned for both the summer and holiday seasons, Hollywood has reason to expect better business as the year continues.

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

Israeli anger over Palestinian film at UN Agence France Presse

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

Beckham spokesman says couple expecting baby girl Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Team Beckham is adding a girl to its roster. Soccer great David Beckham and wife Victoria are expecting their fourth child, and a spokesman said Sunday that the couple has learned that it will be a girl.

In January the former England captain announced via Facebook that his wife was due this summer.

The pair, who married in 1999, already has three boys: 11-year-

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

The 35-year-old Beckham captained England’s national team from 2000 to 2006. He played for Manchester United and Real Madrid before joining Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007.

Thirty-six-year-old Victoria Beckham found fame as a singer for 1990s girl band the Spice Girls and has since become a fixture of the fashion circuit.

UNITED NATIONS – Israel has complained to the United Nations for allowing the US premiere of a controversial film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the UN headquarters. A redcarpet showing of “Miral” by award winning American-Jewish director Julian Schnabel will be held at the UN General Assembly hall on Monday.

The film is based on an autobiographical novel by Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal that traces the Arab-Israeli conflict after 1948 from a Palestinian perspective. The lead role is played by Indian actress Freida Pinto of “Slumdog Millionaire” fame.

“This is clearly a politicized decision of the UN, one that shows poor judgment and a lack of evenhandedness,” Israel’s mission to the UN said in a statement which called on General Assembly president Joseph Deiss of Switzerland not to

host the event in the headquarters.

General Assembly spokesman Jean-Victor Nkolo denied there was any “political link” to the film, which is a French, Israeli, Italian, Indian co-production. “It is just a venue,” he said. “Several films have been shown at the UN.” But Haim Waxman, Israel’s deputy ambassador, said: “We are not aware of any other films with such contentious political content that have received this kind of endorsement from the president of the GA.” The premiere of “Miral” comes as the UN steps up condemnation of Israel’s renewed settlement activity in the Palestinian territories which it says is blocking direct peace talks.

And the film is unusual because of the involvement of Schnabel, an American Jew, who won the best director award at the Cannes film festival for “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” in 2007.

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Director Julian Schnabel attends The Weinstein and Alliance Pictures Party for “Miral” hosted by TOD’S held at the Art Gallery of Toronto in 2010.

Charlie Sheen shows sell out in 18 minutes Reuters

LOS ANGELES – Tickets for Charlie Sheen’s shows in Detroit and Chicago next month sold out just 18 minutes after they went on sale. The time is a Ticketmaster record, according to TMZ.com..

More dates are reportedly planned for his tour, dubbed “Charlie Sheen LIVE: My Violent Torpedo of Truth/

Defeat is Not an Option.” In the meantime, the fired star of “Two and a Half Men” will play Detroit’s Fox Theater on April 2, and the Chicago Theater on April 3.

Sheen announced the tour Thursday on Twitter. Ticketmaster listed seat prices as $35-70, not including fees. His official website added that $1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the Red Cross to earthquake victims in Japan.

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Group seeks forest restoration to cleanse planet Associated Press Writer

How the Japan Earthquake Shortened Days on Earth The massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan Friday (March 11) has shortened the length Earth’s day by a fraction and shifted how the planet’s mass is distributed.

A new analysis of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan has found that the intense temblor has accelerated Earth’s spin, shortening the length of the 24-hour day by 1.8 microseconds, according to geophysicist Richard Gross at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Gross refined his estimates of the Japan quake’s impact – which previously suggested a 1.6-microsecond shortening of the day – based on new data on how much the fault that triggered the earthquake slipped to redistribute the planet’s mass. A microsecond is a millionth of a second. [Photos: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in Pictures] “By changing the distribution of the Earth’s mass, the Japanese

earthquake should have caused the Earth to rotate a bit faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds,” Gross told SPACE.com in an e-mail. More refinements are possible as new information on the earthquake comes to light, he added.

The scenario is similar to that of a figure skater drawing her arms inward during a spin to turn faster on the ice. The closer the mass shift during an earthquake is to the equator, the more it will speed up the spinning Earth.

One Earth day is about 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds, long. Over the course of a year, its length varies by about one millisecond, or 1,000 microseconds, due to seasonal variations in the

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

The initial data suggests Friday’s earthquake moved Japan’s main island about 8 feet, according to Kenneth Hudnut of the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake also shifted Earth’s figure axis by about 6 1/2 inches (17 centimeters), Gross added.

The Earth’s figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis in space, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph). The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth’s mass is balanced and the north-south axis by about 33 feet (10 meters).

“This shift in the position of the figure axis will cause the Earth to wobble a bit differently as it rotates, but will not cause a shift of the Earth’s axis in space – only external forces like the gravitational attraction of the sun, moon, and planets can do that,” Gross said.

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

They are among the most iconic trees on Earth, remnants of oncevast populations decimated by logging, development, pollution and disease. A nonprofit organization called Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is rushing to collect their genetic material and replant clones in an audacious plan to restore the world’s ancient forests and put them to work cleansing the environment and absorbing carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas largely responsible for global warming.

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

Milarch, a tree nursery operator from the northern Michigan village of Copemish, and sons Jared and Jake have been producing genetic copies of ancient trees since the 1990s. They’ve now joined with Elk Rapids businesswoman Leslie Lee and a team of researchers to establish Archangel Archive, which has a staff of 17 and an indoor tree research and production complex. Its mission: Clone the oldest and largest individuals within the world’s most ecologically valuable tree species, and persuade people to buy and 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 the ultimate measure of our success,” said Lee, who donated several million dollars to get the project off the ground and serves as board chairwoman.

The group hopes donations and tree sales will raise enough money to keep it going.

Scientific opinion varies on whether trees that survive for centuries have superior genes, like champion race horses, or simply have been in the right places at the right times to avoid fires, diseases and other misfortunes. But Archangel Archive is a true believer in the super-tree idea.

The group has tracked down and cloned some of the biggest and oldest of more than 60 species and is developing inventories.

The plan is eventually to produce copies of 200 varieties that are considered crucial. The trees preserve ecosystem diversity, soak up AP Photo/courtesy of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive toxins from the ground In this September 2010 photo provided by the and atmosphere, store Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, group memcarbon while emitting ber Meryl Marsh poses by the Amos Alonzo precious oxygen, and Stagg Tree, one of the largest giant sequoias provide ingredients for in the world, located in California’s Giant Sequoia National Monument near Porterville. medicines.

Users complain iPhone clock bungles time change Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – It’s hard enough to get your bearings when the time changes twice a year. It’s all but impossible when your phone starts playing tricks on you, too. Users of Apple’s iPhone peppered Twitter and blogs with complaints Sunday when their phones bungled the one-hour “spring forward” to daylight savings time that went into effect overnight Saturday.

One user complained of missing church, another of almost missing yoga. One called her iPhone stupid and several just asked for help.

It turns out some users’ phones fell

back one hour instead of springing forward, making the time displayed on the iPhone two hours off.

This is just the latest clock woe for Apple’s chic iPhone. A clock glitch prevented alarms from sounding on New Year’s Day, causing slumbering revelers to oversleep. The devices also struggled to adjust to the end of daylight savings time back in November.

The glitch affected iPhone owners who subscribe for phone service through both AT&T and Verizon.

Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., could not be reached for comment Sunday.

Twitter was abuzz with a simple

solution: Either shut down and restart the phone, or switch the phone to “airplane mode” and then back.

Apple has sold more than 100 million iPhones since they were first offered in 2007, dazzling customers with features that allow users to watch movies, play games, surf the Internet and get driving directions on a small, sleek device.

That these paragons of high tech have had trouble telling time led to dripping sarcasm Sunday, even from owners who didn’t suffer any problems. One whose clock adjusted just fine called the iPhone revolutionary.

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Bayer beat Mainz to trim Dortmund’s lead Agence France Presse

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

Title race hots up as Barca held by Sevilla

BERLIN – Brazil midfielder Renato Augusto trimmed Borussia Dortmund’s Bundesliga lead to nine points with a superb strike on Sunday to give secondplace Bayer Leverkusen a 1-0 win at Mainz. With the game heading towards a goalless draw, Augusto robbed Mainz’s Danish defender Bo Svensson of possession on the edge of the penalty area and drilled home his shot on 82 minutes to poach three points for his team.

“We found things difficult in the the first half, particularly in midfield,” said Leverkusen coach Jupp Heynckes. “In the second half, the team showed passion, great morale and team spirit, so that we took our chances when they came.” After Dortmund lost 1-0 at Hoffenheim on Saturday, Leverkusen made up some ground on the leaders, while defending champions Bayern Munich are up to fourth, 16 points behind Dortmund, after they hammered Hamburg.

Ex-Germany captain Michael Ballack played the full 90 min-

utes for Leverkusen, but failed to make his mark and the 34-yearold looked short of fitness as he tries to win back his place in the national side after injury.

On Sunday night, Stuttgart hauled themselves out of the relegation zone with a 2-1 win at St Pauli. Substitute Sven Schipplock — making his Bundesliga debut — scored an 88th-minute winner that left St Pauli in the bottom three.

Schipplock, promoted from Stuttgart’s reserves, had only been on the pitch five minutes when he popped up with the winner, which moved his side up to 13th and left the bottom six sides separated by just six points. “We had a pinch of luck today,” admitted Stuttgart coach Bruno Labaddia.

“I must pay a big compliment to St Pauli, they played really well. “We came here under a bit of pressure, because two or three players in my team weren’t quite fully fit.” On Saturday, Dutch winger Arjen Robben netted a hat-trick as Bayern Munich smashed their losing streak with a 6-0 rout of Hamburg.

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MADRID – Barcelona dropped two vital points in the La Liga title race as they could only draw 1-1 with Sevilla in Sunday’s late match. Second-placed Real Madrid, who beat Hercules 20 on Saturday, are now just five points behind with the two sides going head-to-head next month at the Bernabeu. Barcelona completely dominated the first half and took the lead on the half hour mark through Bojan Krkic who came on for the injured Pedro Rodriguez.

Andres Iniesta floated a pass to Diego Alves who found Bojan and he was able to walk the ball into the net. After the break it was a different looking Sevilla who pressed forward and got their reward with Jesus Navas heading in an Alvaro Negredo cross.

Barcelona were on the back foot as Navas and Frederic Kanoute had good chances to score but late on the Catalan side rallied and could have won it when Iniesta hit the post.

“Generally I am happy with the performance, we always looked to control the match but you have to realise that there are other teams playing as well,” said Barca coach Pep Guardiola after the game. “We played against a good side but we deserved more from the first half. In the second half they improved and were strong on the counter-attack.”

Sevilla coach Gregorio Manzano was happy with a point against the champions. “When we scored I felt we could go on to beat Barcelona but at the same time we could have lost.

You have to keep working constantly against them and only Hercules have managed to beat them,” he said.

Earlier, an injury time penalty from Diego Castro gave nine-man Sporting Gijon a surprise 1-1 draw against Villarreal. The home side looked to have moved onto the shoulders of third-placed Valencia, who were beaten 4-0 by Zaragoza, but they conceded a goal following a controversial refereeing call.

Villarreal were far from their best and Sporting dominated possession for long spells but lacked the finesse in front of goal. Sporting gifted the opening goal to Giuseppe Rossi with keeper Ivan Cuellar dropping a cross at the feet of the striker who just had to place the ball into an empty net.

Sporting were reduced to ten men when Jose Angel foolishly received a second yellow card for complaining to the referee and then Rafael Sastre was also given his marching order in the final minute for upending Rossi as last man.

It all looked to have gone against Sporting until deep in stoppage time when Gonzalo Rodriguez was adjudged to have fouled David Barral, and Castro coolly struck the ball home from 12 yards. “I am not going to talk about the referee or give my opinion about the penalty,” said Villarreal coach Juan Carlos Garrido.

“This was a difficult game and it went wrong for us with a debatable decision which I am not going to judge. We should have been able to deal with the game better but the team did as well as they could.”

Espanyol boosted their European hopes with a 2-0 win over 10-man Deportivo la Coruna.

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

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Federer, Clijsters advance at Indian Wells tennis Agence France Presse

INDIAN WELLS, California – Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters both faced tough challenges at Indian Wells on Sunday, but not enough to prevent the world’s second-ranked players from moving on. Federer beat Igor Andreev of Russia 7-5, 76 (7/4) in a second-round match while Clijsters defeated Italy’s Sara Errani 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 in their third round match in the $9 million dollar WTA and ATP Masters 1000 tournament.

“At the moment I feel good. I have had a good last six months, and I guess it’s given me a lot of confidence,” said Federer Federer, a three-time champion at Indian Wells, said he felt confident in the golf cart heading to the main stadium for his afternoon match.

“When I was on the cart driving to the tennis I felt really good,” Federer said. “At the end of the day it is how you start the match and how you finish the match and all the feelings I get before don’t matter too much.

“But I prefer to be relaxed and then play a good match than being all nervous.”

That certainly was the case Sunday as Federer fired four aces and won 92 percent of this first service points. Federer has won all four career matches against Andreev, dating back to 2004 when they met in the final of a clay court tournament in Switzerland.

In the tiebreaker Sunday, Federer set up match point by forcing Andreev hit a backhand long then clinched the win when Andreev pounded a forehand into the net. Federer advances to the third round where he will play Argentina’s Juan Ignacio Chela.

Clijsters has won Indian Wells twice in 2005 and 2003. Against Errani she had six aces but also committed 13 double faults in the one hour, 52 minute match. “It was not my best,” Clijsters said. “You have to be on your tippy toes. She moved me around.

Today my tippy toes felt like bricks.”

Clijsters next faces French 15th seed Marion Bartoli, who beat Andrea Petkovic 6-4, 6-2. “She (Bartoli) is a tricky player,” Clijsters said. “She is a girl who hits the ball on the rise and steps into the court.

“I have had some tough battles with her in the past. Clijsters has reached the final in each of her last five tournaments.

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

Love’s double-double streak ends in Warriors loss Associated Press Writer

OAKLAND, Calif. – Stephen Curry had 24 points and nine rebounds, and the Golden State Warriors ended Kevin Love’s fourmonth run of consecutive doubledoubles in a 100-77 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night. Monta Ellis and Dorell Wright added 16 points apiece for Golden State, which has already won four more games under first-year coach Keith Smart than it did last season.

Love had 12 rebounds but scored only six points on 1-of-6 shooting, ending his streak of double-doubles at 53 games. It was the NBA’s longest streak since Elvin Hayes did it in 55 consecutive games in 1973-74.

Love made his first shot of the game

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Minnesota Timberwolves’ Luke Ridnour, right, drives the ball against Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, March 13, 2011, in Oakland, Calif.

early in the first quarter but couldn’t get much going after that and was held under 10 points for the first time since going scoreless against the Los Angeles Lakers on Nov. 19.

The Warriors, who rallied from 21 points down to beat Orlando in overtime on Friday, trailed early before pulling away from the hapless Timberwolves. Golden State led by five at halftime, went on a 13-2 run coming out of the break, then cruised the rest of the way in a battle of two teams going nowhere this season.

Minnesota had no response and shot just 36.6 percent from the floor while losing for the fourth time in six games. The 77 points were a season-low for coach Kurt Rambis’ team. Love’s streak has been the only thing keeping the Timberwolves (17-51) in the headlines these days. Not anymore.

While Love did his part on the boards, he struggled to do anything offensively against Golden State’s David Lee. Paired against Love most of the night, Lee repeatedly denied the ball in the low post and kept Love from scoring off offensive rebounds, something that had become of staple of the streak.

After sitting the final 2 minutes of the third quarter and the first 3plus minutes of the fourth, Love returned in the fourth but scored just one point as Minnesota struggled to get him the ball. When Love checked out of the game for good with 4:08 left to play, a section of Warrior fans chanted “Your streak’s over.” None of the Timberwolves did much either and Minnesota lost to Golden State for the third time in four games this season.

The Warriors, who set a franchise record with 21 3-pointers in Friday’s win over Orlando, cooled off considerably from beyond the arc — though it hardly mattered. Golden State led by as much as 24 and got a lift off from reserve Lew Amundson.

Amundson had 11 points and seven rebounds, helping overcome center Andris Biedrins’ sluggish night.

Biedrins had just six rebounds and was held scoreless.

Wright made a 3-pointer and a fast-break layup on consecutive possessions to give the Warriors a 6246 midway through the third quarter. Curry later added a pair of 3pointers in the fourth when Golden State led 92-70.

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

Pedrosa set his 1m56.271s with just over two hours to go, beating Stoner’s previous benchmark by 0.143 seconds. Aoyama was within 0.03s of Stoner’s time.

Three Yamahas completed the top six, with works riders Ben Spies and early pacesetter Jorge Lorenzo

ahead of Colin Edwards on the Tech 3 bike. Andrea Dovizioso was seventh on the final factory Honda. It was another difficult night for Ducati. Valentino Rossi had an early fall at Turn 9, and though he was unhurt and able to continue, he could only manage eighth, just ahead of

team-mate Nicky Hayden.

Randy de Puniet recovered from two minor accidents to take 10th place on the Pramac Ducati, while Sepang test star Marco Simoncelli (Gresini) was back in 11th this time - though he was under a second off the pace in the closely-matched field.

Hamilton: ‘I’m positive, not frustrated’ LEWIS Hamilton insists he is not frustrated at the prospect of McLaren having to start the season playing catch-up again. The Woking team has lacked both pace and reliability in winter testing so far, but Hamilton says he remains optimistic that improvements will not take long.

“I’m positive. I love racing, I’m looking forward to racing,” he said.

“I’m always hoping for the most optimistic improvement. I’m always hoping that all of a sudden they’ll say ‘okay, we’ve got this coming’ and we’ll arrive there and the day before we’ll have something new.

“You never know when that could happen so let’s keep our fingers crossed and try to keep an eye on what the guys are doing. I know everyone’s working as hard as they can. No one’s slacking or sitting back. We know we have a bit of a hill to climb, but we can do it.”

He added: “I don’t like to use the

word ‘frustrating’ because I’m not frustrated. It’s tough on everyone in the team because everyone puts so much work into it, and you see it come out and look so beautiful, and... it’s not a disaster, it just doesn’t have as much performance as we’d like at the moment. But it’s a foundation that we can build on, and that’s all that really matters.

“It means that we can get there.

If you look at last year, we didn’t have the fastest start at the beginning but we were there or thereabouts and second in the constructors’ championship. It’s a long, long year and I have no doubts that we can compete with these guys.”

Hamilton believes McLaren’s long-run pace is looking more promising that its single-lap form - though reliability also remains a concern.

“I’ve done some long runs on the tyres on previous days, and I think the car’s feeling a lot better,” he said.

“So I think our race pace doesn’t

seem so bad. “Whether we can finish the race is the next thing. But our race pace doesn’t look so bad compared to other people’s.”

He admitted that he does not think McLaren can currently compete with the pace teams such as Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull displayed on qualifying-style runs this week. “Yesterday I looked at the times and everyone’s done a 1m21s,” said Hamilton. “I couldn’t get into the 1m21s the other day. I just got into the 1m22s.

“So based on my times compared to them it looks like we’re two seconds off, but we’re not two seconds off. Yesterday Jenson [Button] didn’t do any light-fuel runs or decent tyre runs, so it’s difficult to know exactly where we are.

“I’m assuming they did qualifying runs. 1m21.2s is very competitive. I would guess that we could get down to a low 1m22s maybe, but that’s just a guess.”

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Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes’s British Lewis Hamilton drives during a testingsession on March 12, 2011 at Catalunya’s racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona.

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