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Writer Cullen Bunn and Editor Tom Brennan, an alum of Philadelphia’s Drexel University, said it’s time Philly had a hero of its own, putting it in the same league as Los Angeles and New York, among other real-life cities that populate the fictional world of Marvel.

But is Venom — an alien symbiote bonded to Peter Parker’s one-time high school rival Eugene “Flash” Thompson — the hero that Philly wants or needs? It depends, said Bunn. Flash, who lost his legs in Iraq, has taken control of Venom to be able to walk again and work as a super-powered soldier and spy for the U.S. government. But his alcoholism and habit of lying to his teammates has him at the bottom of a deep hole.

“Now, he’s trying to do the right thing. He’s reassessing what it means to be a

hero. And he’s looking for a fresh start,” said Bunn. “This means a lot of things for Flash. He’s surrounding himself with new people — such as tabloid journalist Katy Kiernan and his new love interest, the Asgardian Valkyrie. He’s changing his approach to being a superhero. And he’s looking for a change of scenery.” That’s where Philly comes in, said Bren-nan, starting Dec. 19 in “Venom” No. 28 in comic shops and digitally, too.

“I worked in public schools in gritty Kensington and tough West Philly. I spent way too many hours in the Con-stitution Center and historical sites of Old City. I lived on Race Street in a less-than-stellar apartment in a creaky old town house,” he said.

“All the while that I lived there, I wanted a superhero for the city of Phila-

delphia, a town full of heart, hustle and hope — and I don’t care what anyone says — some of the nicest people I’ve ever met,” he said. “Sure, they don’t suf-fer fools, and you’ve got to be mindful if you cross against the light, but I found the City of Brotherly Love to be a character in and of itself that I thought more fiction should explore.”

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This comic book image released by Marvel Comics shows the Marvel

anti-hero Venom. Venom, long a nemesis of Spider-Man but most

recently a sanctioned operative of the U.S. government, is pulling up

stakes and looking for a fresh start, in Philadelphia of all places.

Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA — If closing out a two-day festival with an intense two-hour set wasn’t enough for Pearl Jam, then bringing out the man who organized it sealed the deal. Jay-Z joined the group for its second-to-last encore Sunday with a rocking version of his signature hit “99 Problems.”

While Jay closed out the first night of the Budweiser Made in America Festival, he handed the torch to the Seattle-based band grunge rockers and they did not disappoint. Their 25-song set saw tens of thousands of fans jumping, dancing, and singing on the muggy September night to the band’s well-known tracks like “Alive,” ‘’Better Man,” and “Jeremy.”

For the song “Unemployable,” Ved-der told the crowd it was about a hard-working family man who did all the right things in life, but became the victim of job cuts. He said sometimes the so-called job creators are creating jobs outside the United States.

“I want to see more things made in America” Vedder said, to thunderous applause. Vedder also urged people to get out and vote, before a rousing cover of the Clash’s “Know Your Rights.” Fit-tingly, the band ended the show with Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

But Pearl Jam wasn’t the only big

story, as earlier in the day Run DMC per-formed for the first time in over a decade. Taking the stage under a video banner that read “Jam Master Jay Forever,” the Queens, N.Y., natives were well received by fans who danced to the music and sang along, some better than others. Beyoncé and Jay-Z strolled through the crowd flanked by security.

Their 40-minute set included “It’s Tricky” to a sea of flailing arms, and “It’s Like That.” Run even put on a pair of namesake sneakers for “My Adidas.”

But perhaps the most poignant mo-ment came when Run talked about the breakup following the death of Jam Mas-ter Jay. “After his assassination ... we put a silence on the group,” Run said.

Marvel’s Venom pulls up NYC stake for Philly steakAssociated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA — Philly’s getting a new fan in the pages of Marvel Comics, but whether the City of Brotherly Shove takes to anti-hero Venom remains to be seen. Marvel Entertainment LLC says that Venom — a brute with big teeth and an elongated tongue who’s made a habit of sparring with Spider-Man — is leaving New York City to start fresh, and maybe learn to be a hero on the streets of Philadelphia.

Pearl Jam closes 2-day Made In America festival

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Pearl Jam performs at the “Made In America” music festival on Sunday Sept. 2, 2012, in Philadelphia.

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Netanyahu urges international “red lines” to stop Iran Van Persie treble

fires United, Arsenal sink Liverpool

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JAKARTA - Around 1,500 se-curity personnel being deployed to guard Hillary Clinton visits to Jakarta. Clinton arrived in Jakarta through Halim Perdanakusuma airport in the afternoon.

According to Head of Metro Jaya Police’s Human Relations Rikwanto, the personnel that guard-ing the arrival of Clinton come from police officials, army, and Indone-sia’s Foreign Affairs Department. Clinton scheduled to meet with

her counterpart, Minister Marty Natalegawa soon after she arrived in Jakarta. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono also scheduled to meet with Clinton to discuss several matters.

Clinton will be in Indonesia’s capital Monday to offer strong U.S. support for a regionally endorsed plan to ease rising tensions by implementing a code of conduct for all claimants to disputed islands. Jakarta is the headquarters of the Association of South East Asian Nations, and Clinton will also press

the group to insist that China agree to a formal mechanism to reduce short-term risks of conflict and ultimately come to final settlements over sovereignty.

She wants “to strengthen ASEAN unity going forward,” a senior U.S. official told reporters on board Clin-ton’s plane as she flew from the Cook Islands to Australia for a brief refuel-ing stop en route to Indonesia.

Indonesia played a leading role in putting the six-point plan together after ASEAN was unable to reach consensus on the matter in July. The

official said the U.S. is “encouraged” by the plan but wants it acted on — particularly implementation and enforcement of the code of conduct, which has languished since a pre-liminary framework for it was first agreed in 2002. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to publicly preview Clinton’s meetings.

The U.S. has asserted a national security interest in the peaceful resolution to South China Sea dis-putes and hopes for progress to be made before a November summit

of East Asian leaders that President Barack Obama plans to attend.

The U.S. position has riled China, which has become increas-ingly assertive in pressing its territorial claims with its smaller neighbors and wants the disputes to be resolved individually with each country. The U.S. says it takes no position on the conflicting claims but wants to see them resolved between China and ASEAN, which has collective clout that its 10 mem-bers do not have individually.

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Violation against the urban green open space (RTHK) in Denpasar increasingly proliferates. Although various programs have been rolled out by Denpasar Municipality to minimize the violations including the enforcement operations, the efforts have not worked optimally.

In response to this, the circle of legislators of Denpasar House urged the executives to immedi-ately spell out the regional spatial planning (RTRW) of Denpasar. Such elaboration was considered very urgent because although the RTRW had set forth, it was unable to fortify the violation in Denpasar. Chairman of Commission B of the Denpasar House, Eko Supriadi, revealed it.

According to Eko Supriadi, inconsistent imple-mentation of spatial planning in Denpasar, among others, was caused by the absence of legislation specifically setting forth the matter. Regional regulation and rules governing the spatial plan-ning were still in general and did not outline and regulate it in detail. For that purpose, his party urged a more specific regulation, namely the Re-gional Regulation on Spatial Planning in Detail (RDTR). “Denpasar Municipality has not owned it yet,” he said.

This PDI-P politician urged the Denpasar Mu-nicipality to promptly make a regional regulation on the RDTR. He affirmed the regulation had a strategic value in performing the spatial arrange-ment in Denpasar. With the legislation, it would be clearly set forth where people were and were not allowed to build.

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Violation against spatial plan proliferates Bali Post

DENPASAR - Violation against the ur-ban green open space (RTHK) in Denpasar increasingly proliferates. Although various programs have been rolled out by Denpasar Municipality to minimize the violations including the enforcement operations, the efforts have not worked optimally.

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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 con-sidered 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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for September 1 through October 14, 20121 Sep Saniscara Pon Dunggulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

2 Sep Redite Wage Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekarmukti-BalubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi-Badung3 Sep Soma Keliwon Kuningan Pura Dasar Gelgel-KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah/Selemadeg-TabananPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin-GianyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuhan-Busungbiu BulelengPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan.8 Sep Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan Pura Taman Pule Mas-UbudPura Ularan Takmung-KlungkungPura Bukitjati Gulingan-Kawan BangliPura Dalem TegehePura Dalem TahakPura Dalem BatuajiPura Dalem Tegaljaya-BatubulanPura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon-SukawatiPura Dalem Guwang-SukawatiPura Sadha KapalPura Sakenan Sakenan SeranganPura Pekendungan Kediri-TabananPura Pasek Gaduh Grokgak Gede TabananPura Dalem Sanding TampaksiringPura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Puri Tanjung Periuk JakartaPura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang-BangliMr. Dukuh Tetek Peguyangan-DenpasarPura Agung Blambangan BanyuwangiPura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Gelgel -KlungkungDesa Adat Munggu (Mekotekan) Mengwi-BadungPura Panti Paksebali-Klungkung (Perang Jempana)Pura Penataran Agung MargoweningDesa Balong garut Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur2 Oct Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg(Meru Tumpang Sanga) BesakihPura Hyang Tibha i Batuan Sakah3 Oct Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti TabananPura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem.

Pura Aer Jeruk SukawatiPura Dangin Pasar Batuan-SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang-BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-SukawatiPura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Kediri-TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati GianyarPura Kresek Banyuning BulelengPura Puseh Bebandem-KarangasemMerajan Pasek Kubayan-GajiMerajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan.Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga TemagaMerajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan Gelgel BungbunganSad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih-DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem KarangasemPura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag PaguyanganPura Pulasari Sibang Gede AbiansemalPura Batur Sari UbudPura Penataran Agung Sukawati8 Oct Soma Keliwon Krulut Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mngwi BadungMerajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar13 Oct Hari Tumpek Krurut Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan - KlungkungPura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Bebalang BangliPura Benua Kangin BesakihPura Merajan Kanginan Besakih14 Oct Redite Umanis Merakih Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin - LembonganPura Dalem Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar17 Oct Buda Wage Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Banjar Kalah - BatubulanPura Desa Silakarang SingapaduPura dalem Petitenget Kerobokan - KutaPura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan - GianyarPura Kubayan Kepisah Pedungan Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek gelgel Banjar Tanahpegat - TabananPr. Paibon Banjar Bengkel Sumerta - DenpasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPr. Panti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding - TampaksiringPr. Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken Kaba-kaba - Tabanan

This new hotel is situated in strategic location on Jalan Petitenget - Seminyak, adjacent to the Umalas Village. Besides, it is very close to a number of popular restaurants and nightclubs in Bali.

With a total of 121 rooms offering a fun, fresh and friendly concept, the Fave Hotel Umalas follows the measure of Fave Seminyak that has just been opened recently. The facilities provided are like those offered by modern hotels today. They comprise a pool for adults and children, functional and modern meeting rooms, hotel lobby with attractive and contemporary design, free Wi-Fi Internet access and a convenient café facing green fields. “Each guest room is equipped with LED television, safe deposit box, fixtures and first-class bed. It is specially designed to show off a distinctive look of Fave Hotel so that it can provide energetic and modern touches,” said Putu Marione, General Manager of Fave

Hotel Umalas.Meanwhile, Vice President of Sales & Marketing

of Aston International, Mr. Norbert Vas, said that Fave Hotel was a hotel with service and always occupied a trendy location where no surrounding hotels offered an affordable price. His party already had some units of Fave Hotel in attractive locations such as Cenang Beach in Langkawi or Seminyak in Bali and the latest Fave Hotel was located right in the trendy area of Bali. It was a very appropriate location for this brand.

Aston also announced that within the next two months, the group would have 5 additional properties of 9 units of Fave Hotel already operated in Indonesia and Malaysia. Two of which located in Jakarta, namely at Kemang and Pasar Baru, two others in Bali located in Kuta Square and Jalan Bypass Kuta and another in Yogyakarta right on Jalan Kusumanegara, added Norbert.

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Aston Opens the Third Fave Hotel at UmalasIBP

Aston International opened a trendy hotel with selected service, namely the third Fave Hotel in Bali and the fiftieth hotel in Indonesia. The hotel is located at Umalas, Bali. Fave Hotel is a brand with selected services newly launched by Aston International, the largest hotel group in Indonesia. It offers a choice of accommodation at an affordable price as well as attractive and contemporary design for budget travelers.

Negara (Bali Post)—Land landfill area (TPA) at Peh hamlet, Kaliakah, is getting narrower. As

consequence, the rubbish is starting to mount as the land area is narrowing. Heavy equipment used to dredge the rubbish has been out of order since a month. As a result, the daily rubbish coming from every subdistrict in Jembrana accumulates and cannot be leveled.

Actually, it is the only remaining machine used to level and remove the rubbish. One of the officers met recently said the machine had been out of order since last month. As the location was getting higher, chain of the heavy equipment always detached. Therefore, it could not run and operate normally while the rubbish trucks continued to arrive every day. Since being unable to be operated, the operator was finally unable to do its job and left it even though the rubbish kept on coming.

High pile of rubbish at Peh landfill currently reaches 10 meters high. Ac-cording to the operator, the heavy equipment was damaged and its parts should be replaced. If the components could not promptly be repaired or replaced, the rubbish would continue to pile up and could not be leveled. When the machine was not operated within a day, the rubbish could overflow onto the street. The officer told if his party had reported the matter to the Office of Environment, Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (LHKP). Every day, there were about 10 trucks from each subdistrict that brought rubbish to the landfill. Each truck carried averagely three meter cubic of rubbish.

On the other hand, the Head of LHKP Jembrana, Made Widana, when asked for his confirmation on Sunday justified if the heavy equipment at Peh Kaliakah was often out of order. The agency had attempted to repair it, but it was temporarily unable to be used. He added there would be a procurement of new heavy equipment next year used at the landfill. (kmb26)

Head of the Badung Live-stock, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, I Made Badra, said on Sunday (Sep 2) the reclamation would be carried out alongside 400 meters with a depth of about 25 meters. With the rec-lamation, the area of Kedon-ganan Beach would increase to 2,000 square meters. Reclama-tion of the Kedonganan Beach was to expand the location of loading and unloading activi-ties as well as parking space of

fishing vessels.The reclamation, said Badra,

would be worked on after the quay project was completed. It would adjust the current beach condition such as the use of white sand. Reclama-tion project was proposed by central government through the Ministry of Fishery and Maritime Affairs and Director General of Capture, Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Af-fairs when presenting the final

Detail Engineering Design (DED) of the Kedonganan Quay some time ago.

Central government had ap-proved the DED and physical work that would be executed next year. Similarly, the central government also suggested the making of reclamation design. DED of the reclamation would be made in 2013. According to Badra, the coastal reclamation of Kedonganan could possibly be begun in 2014. (kmb25)

Specified as minapolitan zone

Kedonganan Beach to be reclaimed

Fishermen are fixing their boat on Kedonganan Beach

Mangupura (Bali Post)—Kedonganan Beach alongside hundreds of meters will be reclaimed. It poses a conse-

quence of the minapolitan (integrated economic and fishery zone) project of Kedonganan, especially in conjunction with the establishment of quay at Kedonganan planned to be built in 2013.

Peh landfill area getting narrower

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The garbage pilled up in the landfill area, Kaliakah, Negara

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Earlier reports put the quake’s magnitude at 7.9, but after more data from global networks of seismometers arrived, officials at the U.S. Geological Survey downgraded the magnitude to 7.6. “There’s a significant dif-ference, but they’re both really big earthquakes that can generate tsunamis, and if they occur on land they can kill lots of people,” said Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo.

In this case, the oceanic Philip-pine plate shoved deeper below the Sunda plate, a continental plate home to the Philippines, and portions of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The quake ruptured at a depth of about 22 miles (35 km). That’s fairly shal-

low, Caruso said, and shallower earthquakes are more likely to cause tsunamis.

“When you get a really deep quake, a lot of the energy is absorbed before it reaches the seafloor, and what causes a tsu-nami is the seafloor being pushed up,” he told OurAmazingPlanet.

However, tsunami warnings that were in effect for the Philip-pines, Indonesia and Belau were cancelled by the Pacific Tsu-nami Warning Center in Hawaii at around 11 a.m. ET. So-called subduction quakes — those that occur when an oceanic plate suddenly jolts deeper beneath a continental plate — are the most powerful type of earthquakes that occur on our planet.

They’re also very good at shov-

ing the seafloor, and the sheer area of the seafloor that is thrust up-ward — the length of the rupture, and its horizontal and vertical displacement — determines the size of the tsunami that follows.

Data from sensors in the ocean near the site of the quake indicate a tsunami was generated, and waves are coming between 10 and 14 minutes apart, but it appears the waves aren’t packing so much energy that they’ll take a signifi-cant toll once they reach land.

In deep water, tsunami waves appear small, and only reach a massive size once they make it into shallower waters close to shore. So, although today’s quake was a significant one, it appears it didn’t move the seafloor enough to cause a large tsunami.

About 1,000 northern hairy wood ants are expected to have tiny radio tags, about 0.04 inches (1 millimeter) long, attached to their bodies, allow-ing researchers to track their move-ments on a protected English estate.

The wood ants, which get their name from the “eyebrows” visible through a microscope, live in colonies housed within nests connected by trails worn into the ground by years of ant traffic. The biologist doing the work, Samuel Ellis of the University of York, intends to examine how the ants interact with one another.

The results are expected to help staff at the Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire manage the estate — a natural and archaeological site —with the ants’ needs in mind.

“I think this is a world first. It has not been done in the wild before,” said Ellis in a video produced by the U.K. National Trust, which manages the estate. [See Photos of the Tagged Wood Ants] Ellis is not certain how long they will stay attached to the insects.

“The tags act like a bar code,” he said in the video. “It gives each ant an individual identity and what this means is you can see which ants are going where and how individual

A new tool for advertisers lets them target ads to customers who have already used their services. Facebook plans to roll out a new advertising tool that will let companies target their ads to existing customers based on their phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

The social network is launching the new tool next week and touts it as a way for businesses to reengage with customers who have already used their services, according to a Facebook spokesperson.

For those who may have privacy concerns over this exchange of personal information, the social network said the process is secure.

What this means is Facebook isn’t giving any of your data away, it’s taking existing numbers and addresses from businesses and letting those businesses use the information to target its ads.

On the flip side, Facebook won’t be gaining any new data from businesses. When advertisers give Facebook your data, it is hashed -- a security technique that scrambles your data -- before it is fed into the advertising machine. Once the ads are placed, Facebook dumps the hashed data, so that if an advertiser wants to do another ad, the process starts over again.

The new method was available briefly in the Facebook Power Editor, a vir-tual toolbox used by advertisers to create ads, according to InsideFacebook.

Why Philippines Earthquake Tsunami Warning Was Cancelled

The large earthquake that struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines today (Aug. 31) at 8:47 p.m. local time sparked tsunami warnings across a large swath of the neighboring Pacific region, yet those warnings were canceled not long after. The magnitude-7.6 earthquake hit about 58 miles (63 kilometers) from shore along a tectonic boundary known as a subduction zone, where an oceanic plate is diving beneath a continental plate.

Facebook ad targeting to use e-mails, phone numbers

1,000 English Ants to Receive Radio Tags

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A radio tag, the metallic rectangle, has been attached to the back of this ant.

ants interactions work together to make the colony long behaviors.”

An estimated 50 million hairy wood ants, Formica lugubris, in-habit the estate. They are the largest species of ants native to the British Isles with workers reaching up to 0.4 inches (10 mm) long. To get food for their young, the ants gently stroke sap-sucking aphids, which

then produce honeydew; in return, the ants protect these aphids.

The ants defend themselves from predators by spraying smelly, vinegar-like formic acid. Some birds, like Jays and Green Wood-peckers, use the formic acid spray as a cleansing agent to get rid of parasites, according to the Univer-sity of York.

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UBUD - On Monday, September 24, 2012, Alchemy Bali raw food cen-ter and restaurant will host a special one year anniversary grand celebra-tion at its headquarters in Penestanan, Ubud. The event will be free and open to the community and include an eclectic program of speakers and live entertainment.

“It will be a special evening of ecstatic food, friendship and festiv-ity,” said Alchemy’s Co-founder and Principal Owner, Anthony Dunkley, “After a successful first year, we’re offering this celebration as a way of saying thank you for the support we’ve received from the community.”

September’s one year anniversary event is presented as an expanded version of Alchemy’s monthly “Sexy Chocolate” Celebrations, and will include a wider selection of free raw chocolate samples, hors d’oeuvres, and juices.

Each of Alchemy’s free community events showcases a different monthly speaker, an ecstatic dance DJ and other entertainment activities. The anniver-

sary party will also feature a Mayan cacao ceremony, fire spinning and other surprises, according to Dunkley, who opened the raw food and health center after a life threatening disease almost claimed his life.

“I believe the human stories behind Alchemy’s creation can inspire others to make conscious choices and follow their dreams.” Dunkley said.

In less than one year, Alchemy’s groundbreaking success has im-pressed local and international re-viewers. A recent article by “Yogi Times” International praised the raw food center for its pioneering achievements: “There seems to be a raw’volution in the air and Alchemy is definitely at the cutting-edge fore-front of creating fresh approaches to raw food, education and sustainability whilst being active in their commu-nity…going raw has never been so much fun or exciting,”

The June, 2012 edition of Indone-sia’s “Let’s Eat” magazine describes Alchemy as “a café that reflects a healthy approach to life by using pure and natural ingredients, just like nature intended.”

The garden that supports the statue and pond was also not maintained, where a number of plants have gone dry and its garden lamps not functioning. Meanwhile the electricity cable has been left around nearby the statue and it could cause any danger to those stepping around the area.

One cleaner, Made Nortiasa, stated the area was never maintained since it inaugurated by Buleleng government. Once, workers only put blinking lights upon the statue and created beautiful scenery at night. Yet, later one by one the lights go off, and no longer can be seen.

It seemed that Buleleng government is ignoring this statue when actually this has been the mascot of Lovina Beach for years. “Every morning and afternoon, we clean up the rubbish that filled the pond and visitors keep on throwing rubbishes there. I think it’s due to pond being dry so they ignore that the fact it’s a pond,” Nortiasa explained.

For that condition, Nortiasa and other tourist work-ers in Lovina hoped the technical institute of Buleleng government will seriously fix this dolphin statue that was inaugurated by Bali Governor, Ida Bagus Oka. Moreover the statue has been a mascot known by foreign tourists also to protect Lovina tourism image. (kmb)

Unmaintained, Dolphin statue at Lovina damaged

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The condition of the dolphin statue at Lovina Beach, Buleleng seemed worrying as the tourism mascot got seriously damaged since it was inaugurated at 1996.

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SINGARAJA - The condition of the dol-phin statue at Lovina Beach, Buleleng seemed worrying as the tourism mascot got seriously damaged since it was inaugurated at 1996. The damage consists of parts missing and broken. Its pond also left drying and became a rubbish bin instead.

Raw food center celebrated one year anniversary

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lchemy Bali raw food center and restaurant will host a special one year anniversary grand celebration at its headquarters in Penestanan, Ubud.

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Clinton will be in Indonesia’s capital Monday to offer strong U.S. support for a regionally endorsed plan to ease rising tensions by implementing a code of conduct for all claimants to disputed islands. Jakarta is the headquarters of the Association of South East Asian Nations, and Clinton will also press the group to insist that China agree to a formal mechanism to reduce short-term risks of conflict and ultimately come to final settlements over sovereignty.

She wants “to strengthen ASE-AN unity going forward,” a senior U.S. official told reporters on board Clinton’s plane as she flew from the Cook Islands to Australia for a brief refueling stop en route to

Indonesia.Indonesia played a leading role

in putting the six-point plan to-gether after ASEAN was unable to reach consensus on the matter in July. The official said the U.S. is “encouraged” by the plan but wants it acted on — particularly implementation and enforcement of the code of conduct, which has lan-guished since a preliminary frame-work for it was first agreed in 2002. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to publicly preview Clinton’s meetings.

The U.S. has asserted a national security interest in the peaceful res-olution to South China Sea disputes and hopes for progress to be made

before a November summit of East Asian leaders that President Barack Obama plans to attend.

The U.S. position has riled China, which has become increas-ingly assertive in pressing its ter-ritorial claims with its smaller neighbors and wants the disputes to be resolved individually with each country. The U.S. says it takes no position on the conflicting claims but wants to see them resolved between China and ASEAN, which has collective clout that its 10 mem-bers do not have individually.

Clinton will travel to China on Tuesday to continue talks on the South China Sea and a number of other issues, including the crisis in Syria and ways to deal with Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programs.

Clinton will be in Indonesia on the second stop of an 11-day, six-nation tour that will take her to East Timor, Brunei and Russia’s Far East after her stop in China.

Agence France Presse

Australia Monday flatly rejected comments from Afghan President Hamid Karzai that a recent night-time raid which left two men dead was car-ried out without the approval of local authorities.

Kabul had slammed Australia over the mis-sion, carried out in the wake of last week’s killing of three Australian troops by a rogue Afghan soldier, describing it as a “unilateral military operation”.

“The president condemns the operation as a breach of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Afghanistan and NATO on the special military operations,” Karzai’s office said in a statement.

But Defence Minister Stephen Smith said the operation in restive Uruzgan province had

full authorisation, was conducted jointly with 60 Australians and 80 Afghan troops, and had followed the established rules of engagement.

“The statement that has been issued by President Karzai’s palace over the weekend in Kabul that this operation was not authorised is wrong,” Smith said.

“That is not factually correct, and this point has been made strongly by Australia’s ambassador to Afghanistan to palace and presidential officials.”

Smith said Australia was “disappointed” by Karzai’s comments, describing the situation as a “misunderstanding”.

The operation, which was authorised by the governor and police chief of Uruzgan where some 1,500 Australian troops are based, was aimed at capturing the Afghan accused of kill-ing the three Australian soldiers, he said.

Reuters

AMMAN - Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army’s General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising.

Syrian state television said four people were wounded in what it called a terrorist attack on the General Staff compound in the highly guarded Abu Rummaneh district, where another bomb attack killed four of Assad’s top lieutenants two months ago. “The operation targeted of-ficers in the Assad army who have been planning and giving the go ahead for the

massacres against the Syrian people,” said a video statement by the Grandsons of the Prophet brigade, a division of the Free Syrian Army.

“Bombs were planted inside the army headquarters,” said the video statement, which was broadcast on Arab satellite channels. But as the rebels demonstrated they could strike at the heart of the security apparatus, residents said army bulldozers moved on al-Zayat and Farouk neighborhoods to the west, and destroyed at least 20 buildings in the Sunni Muslim areas that have sheltered the insurgents.

In the eastern Damascus neighbor-hood of Hazza, footage taken by activ-ists on Sunday showed several buildings on fire.

Clinton to urge ASEAN unity on South China Sea


BRISBANE, Australia — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for Southeast Asian states to present a united front to the Chinese in dealing with territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a joint press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the New Zealand high commissioner’s house in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012.

Australia says Karzai ‘wrong’ on Afghan operation

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai at

an extraordinary summit of the

Organisation of the Islamic Con-ference in Mecc

in August. Kabul had slammed

Australia over a recent night-time

raid, describing it as a “unilateral

military opera-tion”

Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus

REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover after Syrian forces fired a mortar in the El Amreeyeh neighborhood of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo August 30, 2012.

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Paul Antony Coniber (44), the man from New Zealand, now has to stay at Kuta Police as this naughty tourist just left the hotel without paying the rent. Not only one hotel, but two hotels and so he was reported because millions of rupiah has been lost as Head of Kuta Police, I Putu Dedi Ujiyana, when asked for confir-mation last Sunday (2/9) confirmed.

The report first came from Palm Beach Hotel & Resort Hotel at Jeng-gala Street No. 1, Banjar Segara, Kuta who stated the passport no. EB027778 holder has been staying from 24th August 2012 and did not pay the charges as he checked out without anyone knowing.

Turns out he looked for another staying place at Artemis Vila & Ho-tel, Camplung Tanduk Street, Puri Kubu Alley 63, Kuta and in this hotel he also escaped without paying. “Pal m Beach admitted to have loss IDR 10.5 million while Artemis loss IDR 17 million. Not satisfied with those places, he moved to Popies II Street, Kuta where he also did not pay which so then reported to Kuta Police. Ac-cused was captured at a hotel still in the area of Kuta,” Ujiyana explained. (kmb21)

Headman of Wangaya Gede, Ketut Suriastra, affirmed that his party often got questions from his residents related to contribution of the cultural heritage inclusion. “Until this moment, we have never received a clear explanation re-lated to the world cultural heritage. Residents only know if the region includes in the cultural heritage,” he said recently.

This official expected there would be prompt response from relevant authorities to answer the questions of residents. So far, Su-riastra said the residents adequately vivacious in preserving the forest of Mount Batukaru and became the supporting devotees of Batukaru Temple. The ban was not only ap-plied to dry land, but also to wet land existing in the region. The

spirit was set forth in the conven-tion or prarem of customary village bylaw where the outsiders were prohibited to do development and deforestation in the area of Batu-karu slopes. “With the inclusion of Batukaru in the world cultural heri-tage there should be a contribution. It is often questioned by residents,” he affirmed again.

According to Suriastra, ex-pectation of his residents related to the cultural heritage was not grandiose. As farmers, residents expected a special attention to the infrastructure improvement that supported the agricultural activities ranging from the irrigation channel to road access to their farmland area. Thus, residents would feel comfortable to do their farming

activities, while preserving the na-ture in the Batukaru area. Suriastra wished the contribution of world cultural heritage could really reach the people. As a result, his residents could continue to eagerly run their activities as specified in the world cultural heritage.

So far, he said the Batukaru area had become a destination of foreign and domestic tourists. After inclu-sion of the world cultural heritage, he hoped that tourist visit would continue to soar. Ultimately, the residents could enjoy the benefits of such prestigious international reward. “Most importantly, the subak members directly getting in touch with the agriculture can get serious attention,” he concluded. (kmb30)

Included in WBD, Wangaya residents question about contribution

Singaraja (Bali Post)-

Forest area in West Buleleng was again hit by great fire which it still goes on from Friday (31/8) up to Saturday (1/9). Around 15 hect-ares between Penyabangan Village and Banyupoh Village, Gerokgak burnt. It was stated the fire started 10 kilometer to the south of Pura Kerta Kawat and got bigger due to the strong wind. Meanwhile, Buleleng Natural Disaster Board

(BPBD) effort in turning off the fire was no use. With the far loca-tion and unsupportive roads it’s hard for fire brigades to reach it and so it has been taken care manually done by forest police personnel from West Bali Forest Management.

Head of Buleleng BPBD, Ko-mang Sumertajaya, when con-tacted last Sunday (2/9) stated the incident was known through public reports. A number of fire

points have been managed to be turned off last Saturday (1/9) while others gone by itself. “We receive reports that there has been a fire in the peak of a hill which can’t be reached by the fire brigade. Huge trees in the middle of the forests were not burnt and only grasses were burnt, same as previous fire. The cause of this third fire is still unknown but it seemed to be residents ignorant in littering remaining of cigarettes or remains

of making fire is still around. Not only that, there are those who purposely burn grasses so by rainy season new grasses grew and can be used as cow food,” Sumertajaya explained.

This has been the third time fire took place at Banyupoh Village. The first fire happened south to Pura Kerta Kawat with 10 hectares burnt while second one happened 200 meters to the west of Pura Pu-laki with 5 hectares burnt. (kmb)

Amlapura (Bali Post) –

A junior high pupil from Germany named Benedikt Johnn (14) died while snorkeling at Jemeluk Beach, Purwakerti Village, Abang, Karan-gasem last Saturday (1/9) afternoon. Victim sunk around 3 pm local time due to victim’s and parents lack of awareness as stated by Head of Karangasem Police Public Relation Section, APC Wartama, as permitted by Head Police last Sunday (2/9).

At the time victim was with his parents snorkeling. While his parents have gone up, victim still wanted to look at the great undersea view yet later on Johnn was no longer seen. The father, Jonhukly (40), dove to where he saw his son last time and found him at the shallow base of the sea, no longer conscious. Johnn’s parents did try gave him help yet it was useless.

Abang Police straight away in-vestigated the case. The family has been in Karangasem for a few days and stays at Galang Kangin Villa, Banjar Lebah, Purwakerti Village, Abang. (013)

Again, forest in west Buleleng burnt

Not paying hotel charge, a tourist held

Snorkeling, German student died

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Disturbance related to contribution of the world cultural heritage (WBD) inclusion by UNESCO continued to expand in Tabanan. Most recently, it happened to Wangaya Gede village, Penebel, becoming the supporting devotees of Batukaru Temple, where residents questioned about the contribution of UNESCO. Moreover, the residents took part in preserving the environment around the forests and mountains in the local area.

IBP/file

The beautiful scenery of Batukaru Mountain

Mannequins display-ing fashion dresses

for sale get shade from umbrellas at a shop

along a Hutong alley in Beijing Monday, Sept.

3, 2012. China’s manu-facturing decelerated

further in August while construction and ser-

vices grew at a slow rate, according to two surveys Monday, add-ing to conflicting sig-

nals about whether the country’s slowdown is

bottoming out.

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Agence France-Presse LONDON - British Prime Minister David

Cameron vowed Sunday to “cut through the dither” and breathe new life into the nation’s recession-mired economy with a series of new initiatives.

With lawmakers returning to parliament on Monday after their summer break, Cameron also pledged that he would continue cutting debt amid the ongoing eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

“We will return (to parliament) this week with new goverenment bills for economic development,” he wrote in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

The premier said his Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government would put forward measures to boost growth by relaxing planning rules for new homes.

“A key part of recovery is building the houses our people need, but a familiar cry goes up. ‘Yes we want more housing; but no to every development -- and not in my back yard’.”

“Frankly, I am frustrated by the hoops you have to jump through to get anything done -- and I come back to parliament more deter-mined than ever to cut through the dither that holds this country back,” he said.

Britain remains mired in recession amid painful state austerity cuts and ongoing fallout from the debt crisis in the eurozone, a key trading partner.

German parliament already voted in favour of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European fiscal pact with a two-thirds majority at the end of June.

But Gauck held off from com-pleting the ratification process in face of a number of legal challenges filed by the far-left Die Linke party, a citizens’ initiative group called “more democracy” and a well-known eurosceptic from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CSU Bavarian sister party, Peter Gauweiler.

They argued that the ESM -- the

EU’s permanent 500-billion-euro ($627-billion) rescue fund -- and the fiscal pact were incompatible with Germany’s “Grundgesetz” or Basic Law because they are effectively forcing Germany to surrender its budgetary sovereignty without the necessary democratic backing.

By committing Europe’s big-gest economy -- and already its effective paymaster -- to the ESM, parliament was essentially expos-ing Germany’s public finances to unlimited risks should one eurozone country after another topple under

the debt crisis, they argued.And that meant German voters’

basic democratic rights were being infringed upon.

In addition, the critics argued the ESM breaches the “no bailout clause” of the EU’s Maastricht Treaty, under which Germany agreed to relinquish its revered Deutschmark on condition there would be no direct or indirect shar-ing of eurozone members’ debt.

The ESM, which will replace the temporary European Financial Sta-bility Facility, should have been up and running by July 1. But it needs Germany’s share of the rescue money to function and has thus been held up pending the Constitutional Court’s ruling.

On September 12 the court will

not yet rule on the constitutional-ity of either the ESM or the fiscal pact.

It will simply decide whether to grant temporary injunctions sought by the plaintiffs that will prevent President Gauck from signing the legislation into law until a final rul-ing can be made next year.

If the court dismisses the plain-tiffs’ case, everything will be hunky dory: Gauck can sign the legisla-tion and the ESM can at long last become operational, much to the relief of the financial markets.

But if it grants the injunctions, it could trigger fresh financial turmoil as markets will take this as a sign the court believes that the ESM and the fiscal pact are incompatible with Germany’s constitution, effectively

killing off the ESM at birth.The court was already assured

by experts back in July that a delay would not cause major problems because the ESM’s predecessor, the temporary EFSF, is still in place.

But it could put a question mark over rescue money for Spanish banks, noted Diron at Ernst & Young. Look-ing ahead to the final ruling, which is not expected until 2013, the court’s judgement will be crucial as to how quick and effective the eurozone’s cri-sis tools are, according to diplomatic circles in Paris.

Mattias Kumm, a law professor at Berlin’s Humboldt University and a constitutional expert, saw a 25-30 percent chance that the court will rule the ESM is uncon-stitutional.

Agence France-Presse BEIJING - China’s manufacturing

activity fell to its lowest level in more than three years in August as the global economic slowdown continues to weigh on the world’s largest exporter, HSBC said Monday.

The final reading of the British banking giant’s closely-watched purchasing manag-ers’ index (PMI), which gauges nationwide manufacturing activity, slid to 47.6 last month from 49.3 in July, HSBC said in a statement.

This was the lowest since March 2009

and marked the tenth consecutive monthly fall, the bank said. It chimed with the of-ficial PMI figure released Saturday, which hit a nine-month low of 49.2.

A PMI reading above 50 indicates expansion, while one below 50 points to contraction. HSBC economist Qu Hongbin said the figures showed China’s manufac-turing sector faced “intensifying downward pressure” and urged the government to step up easing measures.

“China’s exporters are facing increasing difficulties amid stronger global head-winds,” he said, adding new export orders contracted last month at the sharpest pace

since March 2009 while employers cut jobs at the fastest rate in 41 months.

Authorities have tried to boost the economy with interest rate cuts and by lowering the amount of reserves that banks must keep on hand in a bid to spur the kind of lending that could stimulate a rebound.

However, Qu said the latest manufactur-ing figures indicated the previous stimulus efforts were not sufficient and more was needed. China’s economic expansion slowed to 7.6 percent in the second quarter to the end of June, the worst performance in three years and the sixth straight quarter of slower growth.

Judgement day looms for euro Agence France-Presse

FRANKFURT - When the history books come to be written about the euro, September 12, 2012 could well prove one of the most signifi-cant dates in the life of the embattled single currency.

Cameron vows to ‘cut through dither’ to help British economy

China manufacturing at more than 3-year lowAP Photo/Andy Wong

Chairman of the Regional Disas-ter Management Agency (BPMPD) of Karangasem, I Komang Sutir-tayasa, said at Kedampal if his team was helpless. It happened because location of the hotspots was on the steep slope of the mountain with a height reaching 800-2,500 meters above sea level. The fire in the protected forest on Mount Agung had reached Tanah Aron hamlet or southeastern to southern slopes above Bebandem subdistrict. At least, eight big and small hotspots were seen. At noon, they were invis-ible from a distance, but people only saw billowing smokes. But when it had been getting darker, the flames

looked clearly. As observation made by Bali Post last Sunday from Wates Datah, Abang subdistrict, most hotspots were seen above the ham-let of Tanah Aron, Nangka, Poh, Nyelukid and Kedampal.

Location of the hotspots was very steep, while the highest hotspot lo-cated near the top of the Mount Kedampal or on the eastern peak of Mount Agung. A great hotspot was seen at Bangkyang Jaran where its mound resembled a back of horse near the peak of Mount Kedampal and Mount Agung.

Sutirtayasa said the team leader of firefighter was deployed from National Military led in person by

1623 Karangasem District Military Commander, Lt. Col. CZI Aji Jaya, who was seen last Sunday passing through the road section of Wates hamlet to Kedampal. Military (TNI) personnel came down to location together with volunteers.

Sutirtayasa said the fire break-ing trench made by the team on Saturday (Sep 1) was in fact not effective. Apparently, the fire kept on spreading widely, while the fire breaking trench was ineffective and skipped. Presumably, the fire reached 4 meters high. Likewise, the team was unable to get near the fire with huge flames because it was very hot and could hazard the team members. Besides, any time the large fire could confine due to burning high forest and strong wind gusts whose direction occasionally changed.

The team only monitored in

order the fire could not approach the temple like the Pasar Agung both the eastern Pasar Agung above Sibetan village and Pasar Agung at Sebudi. It was also to anticipate so as the fire would not approach the residential areas.

Meanwhile, farmer group leader of Batudawa Kaja, I Wayan Putra, expected the government to give serious attention to the fire on Mount Agung. Similar incident almost occurred every year during the dry season. The current fire was the greatest. People living below the slopes of Mount Agung where the fire occurred estimated the fire started in the forest north of Mount Agung or above Daya hamlet and Pucang hamlet, then expanded to eastern slopes. Up to these days, ap-proximately thousands of hectares of protected forest had burned out on the southern slopes.

Putra was apprehensive because all residents both living at the slope of mountain and at the bot-tom would lose out. Residents of Batudawa Kaja had felt irritation in the eyes and stinging heat beyond the normal days before a great fire hit the forests of Mount Agung. Allegedly, the smog coming down with fire ashes had caused the irri-tation in the eyes of the Batudawa Kaja residents.

He asked residents who lived on the slopes of mountain to preserve the protected forest, so they would not suffer a loss and drought as well as not be hit by flooding during the next rainy season. Putra asked not to let unscrupulous people burn the bushes in the field or discard the remaining fire after looking for honey that even could trigger for-est fire in the mountain resulting in fatal impact. (013)

Antara

DENPASAR - Two provincial governors respectively Fauzi Bowo of Jakarta and Alex Noerdin of South Sumatra received the 2012 Inclusive Education awards from the Ministry of Education and Culture here on Sunday night.

The awards for the governors and another 18 persons were handed by the deputy minister for education affairs Prof Dr Musliar Kasim.

The Inclusive Education awards were pro-vided in cooperation with the Helen Keller Inter-national agency with the support of USAID.

A total of 20 persons, namely two governors, regents, mayors, university, school teachers and individual obtained such awards as the results of a tight selection, he said, adding this is the second of its kind. Musliar expressed an appre-ciation over the struggle of the Inclusive Educa-tion awards receivers on their assistance for the education of children with special needs.

The awards were also handed to the regents of Lembata in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Suka-bumi (West Java), Payakumbuh (West Sumatra), Aceh Besar (Aceh), Enrekang (South Sulawesi) and Sidoarjo (East Java)

Three rectors who received such awards are from the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) in Bandung, the Universitas Negeri Surakarta Sebelas Maret, Central Java, the Universitas Negeri Surabaya, East Java. The awards were delivered at the opening ceremony of the Na-tional Science Olympiad 2012.

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Firefighter team of Mount Agung was really made helpless by nature. After four days of forest fire, the fire could not be ex-tinguished. Even, the fire tended to continuously spread out.

Forest fire in Mount Agung

Fire breaking trench ineffective, temple guardedBali Post

AMLAPURA — Firefighter team of Mount Agung was really made helpless by nature. After four days of forest fire, the fire could not be extinguished. Even, the fire tended to continuously spread out.

Two governors receive Inclusive Education awards

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Recent heightened Israeli rhet-oric has stoked speculation that Israel might attack Iran before the U.S. elections in November, believing that President Barack Obama would give it military help and not risk alienating pro-Israeli voters. “I believe the truth must be stated: The international com-munity is not placing a clear red line for Iran and Iran does not see international resolve to stop its nuclear programme,” Netanyahu told his cabinet.

“Unless Iran sees this clear red line and this clear resolve it will not stop moving forward with its nuclear programme, and Iran must not have nuclear weapons,” he said, repeating his view that

sanctions so far have not curbed Tehran’s atomic ambitions.

Although Netanyahu did not single out Obama in his criticism, Israeli officials have said they hope for stronger language from the president about possible U.S. military action. Obama, who has had a frosty relationship with Netanyahu, has insisted he will not allow Iran to build atomic weapons and that all options are on the table.

Israel’s popular YNet news website described the prime minister’s latest comments as a stinging rebuke of Obama. In a U.S. election year, Republican candidate Mitt Romney has also sharply criticized Obama’s han-

dling of Iran as not being tough enough.

And in another sign of a rift with Washington, Israeli officials voiced disappointment over recent remarks by the United States’s top general signalling reluctance to intervene on Israel’s behalf if it attacked Iran. Tehran says it is refining uranium to fuel a planned network of nuclear power plants so that it can export more of its oil and gas. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of a covert bid to develop the capability to make nuclear bombs.

Israel, believed to have the only atomic arsenal in the Middle East, views a nuclear-armed Iran as a threat to its existence.


NEW YORK — A man hurled acid in his daughter’s face in a gruesome attack that sent her into a street screaming for help as her skin peeled and her clothes disintegrated, police and wit-nesses said.

As his 49-year-old daughter sat on his couch in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, Jerome Lynch abruptly left the room, returned with a cup of what she thought was water and doused her with it, she later told a cousin, according to the Daily News.

Then the corrosive burning started, and Darlene Lynch ran out-side as her clothes disintegrated and her skin fell from her face, witnesses said.

“You could see the smoke coming off her body,” Clarissa Shakespeare told the newspaper. “Everyone was just traumatized and scared. Her skin looked like melting wax.”

Bystanders poured water on the victim, helped pull away her clothes and covered her with a sheet, witnesses said.

Her 69-year-old father was arrested on an assault charge. In-formation on his arraignment and lawyer weren’t immediately available Sunday.

Darlene Lynch is the main caregiver for her father, who uses a wheelchair and has been deteriorating mentally in recent years, said a cousin, Dominique Goodwin, who was in Brooklyn on a visit from her home in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The daughter was taken to a hospital in critical condition, po-lice said. The hospital declined to give an update on her condition Sunday.

Goodwin, told the Daily News that Darlene Lynch may lose her left eye because of the attack.

“(Darlene is) asking why her father did this. She doesn’t un-derstand,” Goodwin said.

Shakespeare said Jerome Lynch sometimes poured bleach and ammonia in his building’s hallway to deter children from playing there. But another niece said he generally welcomed spending time with relatives.

“He’s usually laughing, smiling, telling jokes,” Celeste Lynch told the Daily News.

REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem September 2, 2012.

Netanyahu urges international “red lines” to stop IranReuters

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers on Sun-day to set a “clear red line” for Tehran’s atomic program that would convince Iran they were determined to prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms. Netanyahu’s remarks suggested a grow-ing impatience with Israel’s main ally, the United States, and other countries that have been pressing him to give diplomacy and sanctions more time to work and hold off on any go-it-alone strike on Iran.

Police: NY man, 69, throws acid in daughter’s face

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

Muslim women pray during a protest against a visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. Clinton is scheduled to arrive in the most populous Muslim country on Sept. 3 as part of her six-nation tour.

The consumer price index (CPI) came in at 4.58 percent last month, up from 4.56 percent in July, the Central Statistics Agency said.

“Food is the biggest driver of inflation... August inflation is due to the Muslim fasting month and Lebaran (Eid celebrations),” said agency chief Suryamin, who goes by one name.

Month-on-month inflation also

edged up to 0.95 percent in August, from 0.70 percent in July.

Core inflation, which excludes volatile food prices, was 4.16 per-cent in August, easing from 4.28 percent the previous month.

The country’s central bank, Bank Indonesia, has left its bench-mark interest rate unchanged at a record low of 5.75 percent since February.

AntaraJAKARTA - The Cent ra l

Statistics Agency (BPS) said Indonesia`s imports were valued at US$16.33 billion in July, up 0.75 percent year-on-year .

The country`s imports in the same month last year were worth US$16.21 billion.

BPS chief Suryamin said here today imports in July included oil and gas worth US$2.73 billion and other commodities valued at US$13.36 billion.

This agency also reported the country`s inflation was 0.95 percent in August higher than 0.7 percent-0.8 percent predicted by the central bank earlier.

Indonesia`s import of capi-tal goods in the first semester of 2012 rose 34.9 percent to US$19.4 billion year-on-year, ac-

cording to the Trade Ministry.Indonesia`s imports in the first

half of 2012 meanwhile reached US$96.4 billion, a 15.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said on Friday.

Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said in a press conference on Fri-day that the import of consumer goods rose by 6.5 percent to US$6.8 billion from a year ear-lier. However, the import of raw and auxiliary materials increased 11.8 percent to US$70.3 billion year-on-year, he said.

The strong growth in the im-port of capital goods and raw materials was attributed to grow-ing investment inflows and rising demand for industrial products, he said.

He said the import of capital

goods recorded the highest growth due to rising demand for imported products such as airplanes and spare parts which rose 73.7 percent and motor vehicles and spare parts (45.3 percent), iron and steel prod-ucts (43.3 percent) and mechanical appliances (25.4 percent).

Non-oil/non-gas imports in the first half of 2012 increased 16.5 percent to US$74.9 billion from the same period last year.

Oil/gas imports in the January-June 2012 period reached US$21.4 billion, an increase of 11.4 percent compared to the same period last year, fueled by rising gas demand which surged 149.8 percent to US$1.8 billion, he said.

“Our total imports in June 2012 reached US$16.7 billion, down by 2.1 percent from a month earlier,” he said.

AntaraPEKANBARU - The value

of trade between Indonesia and Malaysia in 2011 was recorded at 55.92 ringgit or 18.30 billion dollars, or equivalent to Rp180 trillion, a Malaysian consul said.

“The value of trade between the two nations increased by 8.42 billion ringgit or about Rp24 tril-lion if compared with that in 2010 which was 47.5 billion ringgit or about Rp156 trillion,” Malaysian Consul Azizan Ismail said here on Sunday.

In the trade and stock invest-ment Malaysia always considered Indonesia a good partner with a big contribution. Indonesia is an important partner in economy, trade and investment for Malay-sia.

He said Indonesia would con-

tinue to develop that could con-tribute progress to the two neigh-boring nations.

Malaysia is now the eighth biggest investor in Indonesia, particularly in 2011 when many Malaysian companies made in-vestment in various parts of Indonesia. That’s why the values of Malaysian investment in In-donesia continued to increase in 2011.

In the meantime, Azizan said on Saturday that the number of Indonesian visitors to Malaysia totaled 2.134 million or the second largest after Singaporean visitors that reached 3 million last year.

The number of the Indone-sian visitors declined from 2.506 million in 2010 after rising from 2.405 million in 2009, Malaysian consul Azizan Ismail said.

Indonesia inflation rises to 4.58% in August Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia said Monday that inflation edged

slightly higher in August as food prices rose during Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday celebrations.

RI, Malaysia bilateral trade reaches Rp180 trillion

Indonesia`s imports up 0.75 percent yoy

“In the Sanur tourist resort, for instance, will be described where people may and may not build a hotel. If the regulation has been made, it can suppress or minimize the violations against the spatial planning in Denpasar,” he said.

Based on data of Regional Development Planning Board (Bappeda) of Denpasar, the green open space (RTH) in Denpasar reduced ap-proximately 78.1 hectares every year. Violation against the green open space occurred virtually in all subdistricts in Denpasar where the most violations occurred in West and North Denpasar. It covered the area of Panjer, Renon, Jalan Gatot Subroto and Ubung. Meanwhile, West Den-pasar had 524.20 hectares of green open space of the total area reaching 2,413 hectares and North Denpasar had 1,042 hectares of green open space of the total area reaching 3,112 hectares. (kmb13)



In Indonesia, the official said, Clinton would also raise human rights concerns, including a recent uptick in mob violence against religious minorities.

The official described the incidents as “disturbing” and said Clinton would be asking Indonesian authorities how they intend to deal with them. The U.S. has championed Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, as a model for a moderate Islamic democracy,

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NEW YORK — Thanks in part to a little pep talk, Maria Sharapova returned to the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time since winning the title in 2006.

Shrieking loudly during points, scream-ing and pumping her fist after winning them, Sharapova grabbed control after a coaching confab during a 75-minute rain delay, coming back to beat 19th-seeded Nadia Petrova 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 on Sunday night.

Sharapova improved to 11-0 this season in three-set matches. She trailed 2-0 in the final set against Petrova, but took five of the next six games following the resumption in play.

Coaching is not allowed during matches, but players can meet with their entourages during a weather-related break in the action. Asked during an on-court interview what her coach, Thomas Hogstedt, said to her, Sharapova recounted: “He told me to get my act together, first of all. That was quite important.”

“He just told me to fight,” Sharapova added. “I talked to my dad. He was like, ‘Got to keep fight-ing. Got to keep fighting.’ That’s what I did.”

The third-seeded Sharapova will face 2007 Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli of France for a semifinal berth. The 11th-seeded Bartoli beat No. 5 Petra Kvitova, who won Wimbledon last year, 1-6, 6-2, 6-0.

In another quarterfinal, top-seeded Victoria

Azarenka will play No. 7 Sam Stosur, the defend-ing champion. Azarenka defeated 73rd-ranked Anna Tatishvili 6-2, 6-2, while Stosur ended the run of 18-year-old Laura Robson 6-4, 6-4.

“She has a very different style of game,” Sharapova said about Bartoli. “We haven’t played against each other in a long while. That was a huge win over Kvitova, who’s been play-ing well this summer. It’s just a great stage to be at.”

And one she hasn’t visited in a while in New York.

Since winning the second of her four career Grand Slam trophies, Sharapova hadn’t enjoyed much success at Flushing Meadows. She lost in the third round in 2007 as the defending champion, again in 2009 and last year, too. She exited in the fourth round in 2010, and missed the 2008 tournament shortly before having right shoulder surgery.

This has been an eventful year for Sharapova, on and off the court.

She ended her engagement to former NBA player Sasha Vujacic. She won the French Open for the first time to complete a career Grand Slam and briefly return to No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She made it to the gold-medal match at the London Olympics, only to get walloped by Serena Williams 6-0, 6-1. And then, right before heading to New York, she pulled out of hard-court tuneup tournaments at Cincinnati and Montreal with a stomach virus.

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Starting from the eighth pole position of his career and his first for the McLaren team, the 32-year-old Briton produced a consummate display of dominant driving from start to finish. It was his first victory on the spectacular and historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit.

His victory was his first since the season-opening race in Australia and came in his 50th outing for McLaren and 220th overall as Formula One resumed after a month off for the tra-ditional European summer break.

Button, the 2009 champion, came home 13.624 seconds ahead of second-placed defending champion German Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull with Finn Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus completing a podium of champions by coming home third.

Championship leader Spaniard Fernando Alonso of Ferrari crashed out of the race at the first corner where he was he was an innocent victim of a multiple collision triggered by aggres-sive driving by Frenchman Romain Grosjean in the second Lotus.

Grosjean swerved into Briton

Lewis Hamilton of McLaren caus-ing a pile-up that eliminated both drivers, along with Alonso and Mexican Sergio Perez of Sauber.

This gifted Red Bull men Vet-tel and Australian Mark Webber a perfect opportunity to close ground in the title race.

Webber finished sixth behind a dazzling display by German Nico Hulkenberg, who was fourth for Force India, and Brazilian Felipe Massa, of Ferrari.

Michael Schumacher, in his 300th Grand Prix and back at his favourite circuit where he made his debut in 1991, finished seventh for Mercedes ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne and his Toro Rosso team-mate Australian Daniel Ricciardo with Briton Paul Di Resta taking the final point in 10th place in the second Force India.

Vettel’s opportunism saw him rise to second behind Alonso in the drivers’ standings with 140 points to the Spaniard’s 164.

After a morning of welcome warm sunshine, the race started like

a storm with Button easing clear at the front ahead of a chaotic pile-up behind him at Eau Rouge where Grosjean swerved his Lotus into Hamilton’s McLaren.

The Frenchman’s mistake, in forcing Hamilton off circuit and on to the grass, triggered a multiple collision as Hamilton lost control and ran into Alonso’s Ferrari while Grosjean rammed across the luck-less Perez’s Sauber.

All four were eliminated from the race in a spectacular and expensive incident that led to the immediate introduction of the Safety Car as ana-lysts pointed initial fingers of blame at Grosjean, for his ill-judged and aggressive change of direction.

This led to a four laps delay at controlled pace behind the Safety Car as the track officials cleared the debris of an F1 scrap-yard left strewn across the circuit and drivers’ bickered over the causes.

Button was out in front ahead of Raikkonen at that stage, following Kobayashi’s slow start from second on the grid, with Maldonado third, after an amazing start from sixth in his Williams.

Luckily, nobody was injured in the opening lap pile-up which brought Alonso’s run of 11 succes-sive points finishes to an end.

Button back on top with win for McLarenAgence France Presse

Jenson Button claimed his second win this year and 14th of his career on Sunday when he drove to a comprehensive victory in an incident and accident-packed Belgian Grand Prix.

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McLaren Mercedes driver Jenson Button of Britain reacts, after winning the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany came second and Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland was third.

Sharapova gets past Petrova in 3 sets at US Open

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Maria Sharapova, of Russia, pumps her fist as she wins a point against Nadia Petrova, of Russia, in the fourth round of play at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012, in New York.

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NuNGNuNG waterfalls have in-creased in popularity for French and German visitors to Bali. The waterfalls are located near the village of Plaga in the area of Petang, Northern Badung, The way down to the source of the water is about 50 meters and used to be very difficult and steep. But now it can be easily reached through hundreds of concrete stairs. The idea to build these stairs was initiated by the people who live in the neighborhood in cooperation with the government. It takes about 60 minutes (40 km) from Denpasar to get to the location of the waterfalls by bus. Walking up and down the stairs is not as tiring as it sounds, thanks to the cool air in the mountain which makes the body fresh, as does the surrounding panorama.

While having a rest we can breathe the fresh air and enjoy the beautiful scenery,

which soon drives away all feelings of fatigue. Not far from the waterfalls, visitors can see the process of making wooden statues in Banjar Kerta, and in Banjar Sekarmukti, Plaga. They can observe traditional and modern painters in Banjar Batulantang or gold and silver handicraft artists and songket weavers in Carangsari Village. If visitors want to take a rest or spend a night, they can make use of the bungalows in the village of Plaga. The weather in Plaga village is cold, It is geographically similar to Kintamani and Bedugul since the village is located next to the two resorts, which have been famous for a lot longer. Food, drink and bathing are not a problem in the Plaga bungalows since everything is available, Alter having a rest visitors may continue the trip from Plaga village to Kintamani in the east or Bedugul in the west.


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Van Persie looked like ruining Ferguson’s landmark celebrations when he missed a penalty with United trailing 2-1 midway through the second half at St Mary’s.

But the Dutch forward showed why Ferguson splashed out £24 mil-lion to sign him from Arsenal last month with two clinical finishes in the final three minutes to snatch the points from Southampton’s grasp.

Rickie Lambert had headed South-ampton into the lead from Jason Puncheon’s 16th minute cross, but van Persie equalised seven minutes later with a fine strike after Nathaniel Clyne slipped while trying to reach Antonio Valencia’s cross.

Southampton, who are bottom of the table after losing their first three matches back in the top-flight after a seven-year absence, regained the lead 10 minutes after half-time when midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin directed a diving header past United goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard.

Van Persie won a penalty when Jos Hooiveld fouled him in the 69th minute, but Kelvin Davis saved the Dutchman’s chipped spot-kick.

Determined to make amends for that blunder, van Persie bagged the 87th minute equaliser with a close-range finish before heading the winner from Nani’s corner in stoppage-time.

Earlier on Sunday, Arsenal had ended their goal drought in emphatic fashion as Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla inspired an impressive 2-0 win at Liverpool.

Arsene Wenger’s side had drawn a blank in their first two Premier League matches as they strug-gled to adapt to life without van Persie.

But the Gunners, held to goalless draws by Sunderland and Stoke, were back on target at Anfield thanks to two of Wenger’s pre-season signings.

Germany striker Podolski netted


Champions Juventus underlined their Serie A title credentials by going top as Inter Milan were humbled 3-1 by a Francesco Totti-inspired Roma at the San Siro on Sunday.

AC Milan, who finished run-ners-up to Juventus last season but stuttered against Sampdoria last week, got their scudetto campaign back on track Saturday when Gi-ampaolo Pazzini struck a hat-trick in a 3-1 win away at Bologna.

In Sunday’s earlier match Ju-ventus produced a similarly com-manding performace in a 4-1 win away to 10-man Udinese which included a brace from Sebastien Giovinco and gave them two wins from two.

The bulk of the Serie A pro-gramme was held over for Sunday night, and while there were de-served wins for Napoli and Lazio, Roma’s humbling of Inter Milan at the Olympic stadium was the talk of the night.

After 15 minutes former Italy marksman Totti was given space on the left and delivered a perfectly-weighted cross for Alessandro Florenzi to head superbly past the outstretched Luca Castellazzi and into the bottom corner.

Inter striker Diego Milito twice

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BANGKOK - Former Eng-land manager Sven-Goran Er-iksson was unveiled as technical director of Thai club BEC Tero Sasana on Monday, the first venture by the Swede into Asian soccer in his colourful 35-year coaching career.

Eriksson, 64, will oversee strategic planning and support coaching staff of the two-times Thai champions, who become his latest club after stints in charge

of some of the biggest teams in European soccer.

“I believe the players are eager to learn from

a world-class expert,” Robert Procureur, the club’s general manager, said in a statement prior to Eriksson’s arrival.

“Apart from the improve-ment of the team, I believe that his arrival will draw positive international attention to the Thai Premier League.”

The former AS Roma, Man-chester City, Benfica and Lazio coach takes over a Bangkok-based club currently fourth in the league table and struggling to regain their form since win-ning back-to-back champion-ships in 2001 and 2002 and finishing runner up in the two seasons after.


Paris Saint-Germain registered their first win of the new Ligue 1 season on Sunday night as a first-half double from Zlatan Ibrahimovic helped the capital club to a 2-1 triumph at Lille.

PSG’s Qatari owners must have been getting restless after seeing their expensively-assembled team limp to three draws in their opening three games, but their signature summer signing Ibrahimovic was the star of the show at Lille’s impressive new Grand Stade.

Coach Carlo Ancelotti responded to an impotent attacking display in last Sunday’s goalless home stalemate against Bordeaux by restoring Marco Verratti and Jeremy Menez to his starting line-up, and the latter provided a fine assist for the opening goal, which arrived after just 27 seconds.

His cushioned pass allowed Ibrahimovic to slot past Lille ‘keeper Mickael Landreau from the left-hand side of the area to give the visitors a dream start.

However, Lille responded like a side whose confidence had been buoyed by their midweek win against FC Copenhagen which took them into the Cham-pions League group stage, and they were level 11 minutes later when Aurelien Chedjou stole in front of Ibrahimovic to head home a corner.

But the super Swede beat the outrushing Landreau to a Javier Pastore through ball and fire PSG back in front midway through the first half for his fourth goal in Ligue 1, and the capital club held on to their 2-1 lead for the remainder of a keenly-contested encounter.

“We were well organised in defence, there was a good attitude, a great counter-attacking game and the fantastic skill of Ibrahimovic,” said Ancelotti. “It’s a massive win, we were victorious on a tough pitch (to win) against a strong team.” The Italian added: “To build a team like we want is not easy. But I don’t think that all the problems are solved. Naturally, a win can lend us a lot of confidence. We can use this match and victory to build a better team.”

PSG are six points adrift of leaders Marseille, however, after OM continued their perfect start to the campaign thanks to a 3-1 home victory against Rennes at the Stade Velodrome. New signing Joey Barton watched on as Andre-Pierre Gignac’s magnificent 84th-minute volley flew past Rennes ‘keeper Benoit Costil to put the home side 2-1 up after Julien Feret had cancelled out Jeremy Morel’s first-half opener.

Rennes captain Romain Danze then turned a cross into his own net in stop-page time to seal the points for Marseille, who are two points clear of Lyon at the summit thanks to their best start to a season since 1932.

“It was a goal of great class,” said Marseille coach Elie Baup of Gignac’s crucial strike. “But the team as a whole pushed for the win. I could feel that the players were not willing to accept a 1-1 draw. “I have lots of confidence in the players who are in the dressing room, a group of players who have shown a desire to surpass themselves and to succeed. “It’s great to see their enthusiasm and the pleasure they take from playing the game.”

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MADRID - Real Madrid notched their first victory of the La Liga campaign at the third attempt when Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice in a 3-0 win for the champions at home to 10-man Granada on Sunday. Jose Mourinho’s side badly needed a good performance after taking only a point from their opening two games and Ronaldo stepped up with his 149th and 150th goals for the club on his 149th appearance in all competitions.

The victory left Real five points adrift of arch- rivals Barcelona, who won 1-0 at home to Valen-cia thanks to a screamer from

fullback Adriano and are the only team to have a perfect record after three games. Mourinho voiced rare public

criticism of his Real players after last weekend’s shock 2-1 defeat at Getafe and he was still not satisfied after Sunday’s success.

The Portuguese said he had been hoping to see the same intensity they showed in the opening 20 min-

Van Persie treble fires United, Arsenal sink LiverpoolAgence France Presse

Robin van Persie hit a dramatic hat-trick as Manchester United fought back to win 3-2 at Southampton in Sir Alex Ferguson’s 1,000th league game in charge, while Arsenal piled on the misery for struggling Liverpool with a 2-0 victory at Anfield on Sunday.

his first goal for the club in the first half to end Arsenal’s barren run of 211 scoreless minutes.

Then Spanish midfielder Cazorla bagged his first Gunners goal in the second half with a low shot that Liverpool goalkeeper Jose Reina should have saved.

That was more than enough to clinch Arsenal’s first win of the sea-son and leave struggling Liverpool with just one point from their first three matches.

After Liverpool missed out on long-term transfer target Clint Dempsey and failed to make any other signings on deadline day, this lacklustre display was a painful end to a dispiriting week for Reds man-ager Brendan Rodgers.

“The sharpness gets better from game to game. O v e r a l l w e looked solid,” Wenger said. “We missed opportunities on the counter-attack at the s t a r t o f the game but we had a convinc-ing team per-formance.”

Rodgers added : “ I am disap-p o i n t e d

with the scoreline and the goals we conceded.

“We have things to work on, needing to keep the ball better and Arsenal did that well in the final period.

“Giving the ball away has nothing to do with the style of play. There is a long way to go.”

In the day’s other game Aston Villa earned their first point under new boss Paul Lambert with a 1-1 draw against Newcastle.

Villa had lost the first two matches of Lambert’s reign, but they took the lead at St James’s Park through Cia-ran Clark’s 22nd minute header.

French midfielder Hatem Ben Arfa salvaged a draw for Newcastle with a brilliant strike in the 59th minute.

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Manchester United’s Robin Van Persie celebrates his third goal against South-ampton during their English

Premier League soccer match at St Mary’s sta-

dium, Southampton, England, Sunday,

Sept. 2, 2012.

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Udinese goalkeeper Zeljko Brkic, top, of Serbia, jumps for the ball with Juventus’ Mirko Vucinic of Montenegro, right, during a Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Juventus at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012.

Juve go top as Roma stun Inter at San Sirocame close with a header on the half hour and an angled shot five minutes before the interval that was blocked by a defender.

And after the restart Inter, who hammered promoted Pescara 3-0 away last week, got back on level terms albeit in somewhat fortuitous fashion.

Antonio Cassano, who until last week had been AC Milan’s main striker, latched onto a a long ball from Dutchman Wesley Sneijder, turned while holding off two de-fenders and saw his deflected shot rise high and drop into the goal.

His celebrations, less than an hour after being left out of Casare Prandelli’s most recent Italy squad, were exuberant but were soon overshadowed.

Roma striker Daniel Osvaldo, who was red-carded for a second bookable offence late in the match, missed two great chances to put Roma ahead while in prime posi-tion to score.

But his vision and sense of good timing finally paid off when he beat Inter’s failed attempt to spring the offside trap and ran onto a Totti long ball to chip the onrushing Castellazzi.

Inter’s hopes of launching any kind of fightback were extin-guished nine minutes from time when Osvaldo’s chip with the

outside of his right boot from the left flank allowed second-half substitute Marquinho to somehow beat the diving Castellazzi from the tightest of angles.

Earlier, Juventus capitalised on the early expulsion of goal-keeper Zelijko Brkic to hit four past Udinese in a 4-1 win at the Stadio Friuli.

After Brkic was sent off for a foul on Sebastien Giovinco, Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal slammed the penalty past replace-ment ‘keeper Daniele Padelli.

Montenegrin Marko Vucinic made it two just before the interval after scoring from Ghanaian debu-tant Kwadwo Asamoah’s square ball on the edge of the area.

Giovinco then produced a dou-ble in the latter stages while the Bianconeri grabbed a consolation goal through Andrea Lazzari after a mix-up in the Juventus defence.

While Antonio Conte’s side sit top on six points, they are being trailed closely by Napoli (6) and Lazio (6), while Sampdoria’s 2-1 win over Siena left the Genoese in third with five points.

Czech midfielder Marek Ham-sik opened the scoring for Napoli after heading home a free-kick and Swiss defender Blerin Dzemali made it two with 15 minutes re-maining.

Fiorentina grabbed a goal back in the final minutes when Stevan Jovetic produced a superb strike.

Germany international Miroslav Klose, meanwhile, turned in a sub-lime performance scoring a brace either side of a superb goal by Ital-ian midfielder Antonio Candreva to give Lazio in a 3-0 home win over Palermo.

Zlatan to the double as PSG register first win

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PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic goes on to score against Lille during their French League One soccer match in Metropole stadium in Villeneuve d’Ascq, northern France, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012.

Ronaldo gets Real back on track, Barca win

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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ron-aldo from Portugal reacts after receiving an injury dur-ing a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Granada at

the Santiago Bern-abeu stadium in

Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012.

utes of Wednesday’s Spanish Super Cup against Barca, when they scored twice and held on for a 2-1 success. “Today the team had little ambition, little rhythm, little intensity and I did not like it,” Mourinho told a news conference.

“It’s not enough just to get the points, the team has to play more and work more,” he added. Ronaldo’s opening goal came in the 26th minute when his deflected left-foot strike from a narrow angle arrowed between the legs of Granada goalkeeper Tono. Tono saved Ronaldo’s first-time shot nine minutes into the second half and he tapped the rebound into an empty net before limping off after he was felled by Borja Gomez.

Gomez was booked for the chal-lenge, a second yellow card for the Granada defender that left the Andalu-sians with 10 men. Substitute Gonzalo Higuain added a third for Real 14 minutes from time when he was set up by

strike partner Karim Benzema.

HEAD-SCRATCHERRonaldo left reporters scratching

their heads after the match when he said he had not celebrated his goals because he was feeling “sad” for “professional” reasons. He refused to elaborate and added that he should have recovered from Sunday’s knock in time for Portugal’s World Cup 2014 qualifiers against Luxembourg and Azerbaijan next week.

Barca saw off Valencia with a dominant but uninspired display at the Nou Camp distinguished by Adriano’s brilliant 23rd-minute strike.

World Player of the Year Lionel Messi had a quiet night and Cesc Fabregas, who has failed to produce his best form this season, fluffed two chances either side of halftime.

“It was important to win this game as well before the international break,” midfielder Andres Iniesta, who re-placed Fabregas midway through the

second half, told Spanish television.“We probably should have scored

more goals given the chances we had but we’re happy with the win and this is the path we have to follow,” added the Spain international, who presented the Best Player in Europe award he won on Thursday to fans before the game.

Former England boss Eriksson joins Thai club BEC Tero


NEW YORK — Thanks in part to a little pep talk, Maria Sharapova returned to the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time since winning the title in 2006.

Shrieking loudly during points, scream-ing and pumping her fist after winning them, Sharapova grabbed control after a coaching confab during a 75-minute rain delay, coming back to beat 19th-seeded Nadia Petrova 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 on Sunday night.

Sharapova improved to 11-0 this season in three-set matches. She trailed 2-0 in the final set against Petrova, but took five of the next six games following the resumption in play.

Coaching is not allowed during matches, but players can meet with their entourages during a weather-related break in the action. Asked during an on-court interview what her coach, Thomas Hogstedt, said to her, Sharapova recounted: “He told me to get my act together, first of all. That was quite important.”

“He just told me to fight,” Sharapova added. “I talked to my dad. He was like, ‘Got to keep fight-ing. Got to keep fighting.’ That’s what I did.”

The third-seeded Sharapova will face 2007 Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli of France for a semifinal berth. The 11th-seeded Bartoli beat No. 5 Petra Kvitova, who won Wimbledon last year, 1-6, 6-2, 6-0.

In another quarterfinal, top-seeded Victoria

Azarenka will play No. 7 Sam Stosur, the defend-ing champion. Azarenka defeated 73rd-ranked Anna Tatishvili 6-2, 6-2, while Stosur ended the run of 18-year-old Laura Robson 6-4, 6-4.

“She has a very different style of game,” Sharapova said about Bartoli. “We haven’t played against each other in a long while. That was a huge win over Kvitova, who’s been play-ing well this summer. It’s just a great stage to be at.”

And one she hasn’t visited in a while in New York.

Since winning the second of her four career Grand Slam trophies, Sharapova hadn’t enjoyed much success at Flushing Meadows. She lost in the third round in 2007 as the defending champion, again in 2009 and last year, too. She exited in the fourth round in 2010, and missed the 2008 tournament shortly before having right shoulder surgery.

This has been an eventful year for Sharapova, on and off the court.

She ended her engagement to former NBA player Sasha Vujacic. She won the French Open for the first time to complete a career Grand Slam and briefly return to No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She made it to the gold-medal match at the London Olympics, only to get walloped by Serena Williams 6-0, 6-1. And then, right before heading to New York, she pulled out of hard-court tuneup tournaments at Cincinnati and Montreal with a stomach virus.

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Starting from the eighth pole position of his career and his first for the McLaren team, the 32-year-old Briton produced a consummate display of dominant driving from start to finish. It was his first victory on the spectacular and historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit.

His victory was his first since the season-opening race in Australia and came in his 50th outing for McLaren and 220th overall as Formula One resumed after a month off for the tra-ditional European summer break.

Button, the 2009 champion, came home 13.624 seconds ahead of second-placed defending champion German Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull with Finn Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus completing a podium of champions by coming home third.

Championship leader Spaniard Fernando Alonso of Ferrari crashed out of the race at the first corner where he was he was an innocent victim of a multiple collision triggered by aggres-sive driving by Frenchman Romain Grosjean in the second Lotus.

Grosjean swerved into Briton

Lewis Hamilton of McLaren caus-ing a pile-up that eliminated both drivers, along with Alonso and Mexican Sergio Perez of Sauber.

This gifted Red Bull men Vet-tel and Australian Mark Webber a perfect opportunity to close ground in the title race.

Webber finished sixth behind a dazzling display by German Nico Hulkenberg, who was fourth for Force India, and Brazilian Felipe Massa, of Ferrari.

Michael Schumacher, in his 300th Grand Prix and back at his favourite circuit where he made his debut in 1991, finished seventh for Mercedes ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne and his Toro Rosso team-mate Australian Daniel Ricciardo with Briton Paul Di Resta taking the final point in 10th place in the second Force India.

Vettel’s opportunism saw him rise to second behind Alonso in the drivers’ standings with 140 points to the Spaniard’s 164.

After a morning of welcome warm sunshine, the race started like

a storm with Button easing clear at the front ahead of a chaotic pile-up behind him at Eau Rouge where Grosjean swerved his Lotus into Hamilton’s McLaren.

The Frenchman’s mistake, in forcing Hamilton off circuit and on to the grass, triggered a multiple collision as Hamilton lost control and ran into Alonso’s Ferrari while Grosjean rammed across the luck-less Perez’s Sauber.

All four were eliminated from the race in a spectacular and expensive incident that led to the immediate introduction of the Safety Car as ana-lysts pointed initial fingers of blame at Grosjean, for his ill-judged and aggressive change of direction.

This led to a four laps delay at controlled pace behind the Safety Car as the track officials cleared the debris of an F1 scrap-yard left strewn across the circuit and drivers’ bickered over the causes.

Button was out in front ahead of Raikkonen at that stage, following Kobayashi’s slow start from second on the grid, with Maldonado third, after an amazing start from sixth in his Williams.

Luckily, nobody was injured in the opening lap pile-up which brought Alonso’s run of 11 succes-sive points finishes to an end.

Button back on top with win for McLarenAgence France Presse

Jenson Button claimed his second win this year and 14th of his career on Sunday when he drove to a comprehensive victory in an incident and accident-packed Belgian Grand Prix.

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McLaren Mercedes driver Jenson Button of Britain reacts, after winning the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany came second and Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland was third.

Sharapova gets past Petrova in 3 sets at US Open

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Maria Sharapova, of Russia, pumps her fist as she wins a point against Nadia Petrova, of Russia, in the fourth round of play at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012, in New York.

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NuNGNuNG waterfalls have in-creased in popularity for French and German visitors to Bali. The waterfalls are located near the village of Plaga in the area of Petang, Northern Badung, The way down to the source of the water is about 50 meters and used to be very difficult and steep. But now it can be easily reached through hundreds of concrete stairs. The idea to build these stairs was initiated by the people who live in the neighborhood in cooperation with the government. It takes about 60 minutes (40 km) from Denpasar to get to the location of the waterfalls by bus. Walking up and down the stairs is not as tiring as it sounds, thanks to the cool air in the mountain which makes the body fresh, as does the surrounding panorama.

While having a rest we can breathe the fresh air and enjoy the beautiful scenery,

which soon drives away all feelings of fatigue. Not far from the waterfalls, visitors can see the process of making wooden statues in Banjar Kerta, and in Banjar Sekarmukti, Plaga. They can observe traditional and modern painters in Banjar Batulantang or gold and silver handicraft artists and songket weavers in Carangsari Village. If visitors want to take a rest or spend a night, they can make use of the bungalows in the village of Plaga. The weather in Plaga village is cold, It is geographically similar to Kintamani and Bedugul since the village is located next to the two resorts, which have been famous for a lot longer. Food, drink and bathing are not a problem in the Plaga bungalows since everything is available, Alter having a rest visitors may continue the trip from Plaga village to Kintamani in the east or Bedugul in the west.


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Recent heightened Israeli rhet-oric has stoked speculation that Israel might attack Iran before the U.S. elections in November, believing that President Barack Obama would give it military help and not risk alienating pro-Israeli voters. “I believe the truth must be stated: The international com-munity is not placing a clear red line for Iran and Iran does not see international resolve to stop its nuclear programme,” Netanyahu told his cabinet.

“Unless Iran sees this clear red line and this clear resolve it will not stop moving forward with its nuclear programme, and Iran must not have nuclear weapons,” he said, repeating his view that

sanctions so far have not curbed Tehran’s atomic ambitions.

Although Netanyahu did not single out Obama in his criticism, Israeli officials have said they hope for stronger language from the president about possible U.S. military action. Obama, who has had a frosty relationship with Netanyahu, has insisted he will not allow Iran to build atomic weapons and that all options are on the table.

Israel’s popular YNet news website described the prime minister’s latest comments as a stinging rebuke of Obama. In a U.S. election year, Republican candidate Mitt Romney has also sharply criticized Obama’s han-

dling of Iran as not being tough enough.

And in another sign of a rift with Washington, Israeli officials voiced disappointment over recent remarks by the United States’s top general signalling reluctance to intervene on Israel’s behalf if it attacked Iran. Tehran says it is refining uranium to fuel a planned network of nuclear power plants so that it can export more of its oil and gas. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of a covert bid to develop the capability to make nuclear bombs.

Israel, believed to have the only atomic arsenal in the Middle East, views a nuclear-armed Iran as a threat to its existence.


NEW YORK — A man hurled acid in his daughter’s face in a gruesome attack that sent her into a street screaming for help as her skin peeled and her clothes disintegrated, police and wit-nesses said.

As his 49-year-old daughter sat on his couch in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, Jerome Lynch abruptly left the room, returned with a cup of what she thought was water and doused her with it, she later told a cousin, according to the Daily News.

Then the corrosive burning started, and Darlene Lynch ran out-side as her clothes disintegrated and her skin fell from her face, witnesses said.

“You could see the smoke coming off her body,” Clarissa Shakespeare told the newspaper. “Everyone was just traumatized and scared. Her skin looked like melting wax.”

Bystanders poured water on the victim, helped pull away her clothes and covered her with a sheet, witnesses said.

Her 69-year-old father was arrested on an assault charge. In-formation on his arraignment and lawyer weren’t immediately available Sunday.

Darlene Lynch is the main caregiver for her father, who uses a wheelchair and has been deteriorating mentally in recent years, said a cousin, Dominique Goodwin, who was in Brooklyn on a visit from her home in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The daughter was taken to a hospital in critical condition, po-lice said. The hospital declined to give an update on her condition Sunday.

Goodwin, told the Daily News that Darlene Lynch may lose her left eye because of the attack.

“(Darlene is) asking why her father did this. She doesn’t un-derstand,” Goodwin said.

Shakespeare said Jerome Lynch sometimes poured bleach and ammonia in his building’s hallway to deter children from playing there. But another niece said he generally welcomed spending time with relatives.

“He’s usually laughing, smiling, telling jokes,” Celeste Lynch told the Daily News.

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem September 2, 2012.

Netanyahu urges international “red lines” to stop IranReuters

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers on Sun-day to set a “clear red line” for Tehran’s atomic program that would convince Iran they were determined to prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms. Netanyahu’s remarks suggested a grow-ing impatience with Israel’s main ally, the United States, and other countries that have been pressing him to give diplomacy and sanctions more time to work and hold off on any go-it-alone strike on Iran.

Police: NY man, 69, throws acid in daughter’s face

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Muslim women pray during a protest against a visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. Clinton is scheduled to arrive in the most populous Muslim country on Sept. 3 as part of her six-nation tour.

The consumer price index (CPI) came in at 4.58 percent last month, up from 4.56 percent in July, the Central Statistics Agency said.

“Food is the biggest driver of inflation... August inflation is due to the Muslim fasting month and Lebaran (Eid celebrations),” said agency chief Suryamin, who goes by one name.

Month-on-month inflation also

edged up to 0.95 percent in August, from 0.70 percent in July.

Core inflation, which excludes volatile food prices, was 4.16 per-cent in August, easing from 4.28 percent the previous month.

The country’s central bank, Bank Indonesia, has left its bench-mark interest rate unchanged at a record low of 5.75 percent since February.

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Statistics Agency (BPS) said Indonesia`s imports were valued at US$16.33 billion in July, up 0.75 percent year-on-year .

The country`s imports in the same month last year were worth US$16.21 billion.

BPS chief Suryamin said here today imports in July included oil and gas worth US$2.73 billion and other commodities valued at US$13.36 billion.

This agency also reported the country`s inflation was 0.95 percent in August higher than 0.7 percent-0.8 percent predicted by the central bank earlier.

Indonesia`s import of capi-tal goods in the first semester of 2012 rose 34.9 percent to US$19.4 billion year-on-year, ac-

cording to the Trade Ministry.Indonesia`s imports in the first

half of 2012 meanwhile reached US$96.4 billion, a 15.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said on Friday.

Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said in a press conference on Fri-day that the import of consumer goods rose by 6.5 percent to US$6.8 billion from a year ear-lier. However, the import of raw and auxiliary materials increased 11.8 percent to US$70.3 billion year-on-year, he said.

The strong growth in the im-port of capital goods and raw materials was attributed to grow-ing investment inflows and rising demand for industrial products, he said.

He said the import of capital

goods recorded the highest growth due to rising demand for imported products such as airplanes and spare parts which rose 73.7 percent and motor vehicles and spare parts (45.3 percent), iron and steel prod-ucts (43.3 percent) and mechanical appliances (25.4 percent).

Non-oil/non-gas imports in the first half of 2012 increased 16.5 percent to US$74.9 billion from the same period last year.

Oil/gas imports in the January-June 2012 period reached US$21.4 billion, an increase of 11.4 percent compared to the same period last year, fueled by rising gas demand which surged 149.8 percent to US$1.8 billion, he said.

“Our total imports in June 2012 reached US$16.7 billion, down by 2.1 percent from a month earlier,” he said.

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of trade between Indonesia and Malaysia in 2011 was recorded at 55.92 ringgit or 18.30 billion dollars, or equivalent to Rp180 trillion, a Malaysian consul said.

“The value of trade between the two nations increased by 8.42 billion ringgit or about Rp24 tril-lion if compared with that in 2010 which was 47.5 billion ringgit or about Rp156 trillion,” Malaysian Consul Azizan Ismail said here on Sunday.

In the trade and stock invest-ment Malaysia always considered Indonesia a good partner with a big contribution. Indonesia is an important partner in economy, trade and investment for Malay-sia.

He said Indonesia would con-

tinue to develop that could con-tribute progress to the two neigh-boring nations.

Malaysia is now the eighth biggest investor in Indonesia, particularly in 2011 when many Malaysian companies made in-vestment in various parts of Indonesia. That’s why the values of Malaysian investment in In-donesia continued to increase in 2011.

In the meantime, Azizan said on Saturday that the number of Indonesian visitors to Malaysia totaled 2.134 million or the second largest after Singaporean visitors that reached 3 million last year.

The number of the Indone-sian visitors declined from 2.506 million in 2010 after rising from 2.405 million in 2009, Malaysian consul Azizan Ismail said.

Indonesia inflation rises to 4.58% in August Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia said Monday that inflation edged

slightly higher in August as food prices rose during Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday celebrations.

RI, Malaysia bilateral trade reaches Rp180 trillion

Indonesia`s imports up 0.75 percent yoy

“In the Sanur tourist resort, for instance, will be described where people may and may not build a hotel. If the regulation has been made, it can suppress or minimize the violations against the spatial planning in Denpasar,” he said.

Based on data of Regional Development Planning Board (Bappeda) of Denpasar, the green open space (RTH) in Denpasar reduced ap-proximately 78.1 hectares every year. Violation against the green open space occurred virtually in all subdistricts in Denpasar where the most violations occurred in West and North Denpasar. It covered the area of Panjer, Renon, Jalan Gatot Subroto and Ubung. Meanwhile, West Den-pasar had 524.20 hectares of green open space of the total area reaching 2,413 hectares and North Denpasar had 1,042 hectares of green open space of the total area reaching 3,112 hectares. (kmb13)



In Indonesia, the official said, Clinton would also raise human rights concerns, including a recent uptick in mob violence against religious minorities.

The official described the incidents as “disturbing” and said Clinton would be asking Indonesian authorities how they intend to deal with them. The U.S. has championed Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, as a model for a moderate Islamic democracy,

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Mannequins display-ing fashion dresses

for sale get shade from umbrellas at a shop

along a Hutong alley in Beijing Monday, Sept.

3, 2012. China’s manu-facturing decelerated

further in August while construction and ser-

vices grew at a slow rate, according to two surveys Monday, add-ing to conflicting sig-

nals about whether the country’s slowdown is

bottoming out.

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Agence France-Presse LONDON - British Prime Minister David

Cameron vowed Sunday to “cut through the dither” and breathe new life into the nation’s recession-mired economy with a series of new initiatives.

With lawmakers returning to parliament on Monday after their summer break, Cameron also pledged that he would continue cutting debt amid the ongoing eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

“We will return (to parliament) this week with new goverenment bills for economic development,” he wrote in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

The premier said his Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government would put forward measures to boost growth by relaxing planning rules for new homes.

“A key part of recovery is building the houses our people need, but a familiar cry goes up. ‘Yes we want more housing; but no to every development -- and not in my back yard’.”

“Frankly, I am frustrated by the hoops you have to jump through to get anything done -- and I come back to parliament more deter-mined than ever to cut through the dither that holds this country back,” he said.

Britain remains mired in recession amid painful state austerity cuts and ongoing fallout from the debt crisis in the eurozone, a key trading partner.

German parliament already voted in favour of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European fiscal pact with a two-thirds majority at the end of June.

But Gauck held off from com-pleting the ratification process in face of a number of legal challenges filed by the far-left Die Linke party, a citizens’ initiative group called “more democracy” and a well-known eurosceptic from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CSU Bavarian sister party, Peter Gauweiler.

They argued that the ESM -- the

EU’s permanent 500-billion-euro ($627-billion) rescue fund -- and the fiscal pact were incompatible with Germany’s “Grundgesetz” or Basic Law because they are effectively forcing Germany to surrender its budgetary sovereignty without the necessary democratic backing.

By committing Europe’s big-gest economy -- and already its effective paymaster -- to the ESM, parliament was essentially expos-ing Germany’s public finances to unlimited risks should one eurozone country after another topple under

the debt crisis, they argued.And that meant German voters’

basic democratic rights were being infringed upon.

In addition, the critics argued the ESM breaches the “no bailout clause” of the EU’s Maastricht Treaty, under which Germany agreed to relinquish its revered Deutschmark on condition there would be no direct or indirect shar-ing of eurozone members’ debt.

The ESM, which will replace the temporary European Financial Sta-bility Facility, should have been up and running by July 1. But it needs Germany’s share of the rescue money to function and has thus been held up pending the Constitutional Court’s ruling.

On September 12 the court will

not yet rule on the constitutional-ity of either the ESM or the fiscal pact.

It will simply decide whether to grant temporary injunctions sought by the plaintiffs that will prevent President Gauck from signing the legislation into law until a final rul-ing can be made next year.

If the court dismisses the plain-tiffs’ case, everything will be hunky dory: Gauck can sign the legisla-tion and the ESM can at long last become operational, much to the relief of the financial markets.

But if it grants the injunctions, it could trigger fresh financial turmoil as markets will take this as a sign the court believes that the ESM and the fiscal pact are incompatible with Germany’s constitution, effectively

killing off the ESM at birth.The court was already assured

by experts back in July that a delay would not cause major problems because the ESM’s predecessor, the temporary EFSF, is still in place.

But it could put a question mark over rescue money for Spanish banks, noted Diron at Ernst & Young. Look-ing ahead to the final ruling, which is not expected until 2013, the court’s judgement will be crucial as to how quick and effective the eurozone’s cri-sis tools are, according to diplomatic circles in Paris.

Mattias Kumm, a law professor at Berlin’s Humboldt University and a constitutional expert, saw a 25-30 percent chance that the court will rule the ESM is uncon-stitutional.

Agence France-Presse BEIJING - China’s manufacturing

activity fell to its lowest level in more than three years in August as the global economic slowdown continues to weigh on the world’s largest exporter, HSBC said Monday.

The final reading of the British banking giant’s closely-watched purchasing manag-ers’ index (PMI), which gauges nationwide manufacturing activity, slid to 47.6 last month from 49.3 in July, HSBC said in a statement.

This was the lowest since March 2009

and marked the tenth consecutive monthly fall, the bank said. It chimed with the of-ficial PMI figure released Saturday, which hit a nine-month low of 49.2.

A PMI reading above 50 indicates expansion, while one below 50 points to contraction. HSBC economist Qu Hongbin said the figures showed China’s manufac-turing sector faced “intensifying downward pressure” and urged the government to step up easing measures.

“China’s exporters are facing increasing difficulties amid stronger global head-winds,” he said, adding new export orders contracted last month at the sharpest pace

since March 2009 while employers cut jobs at the fastest rate in 41 months.

Authorities have tried to boost the economy with interest rate cuts and by lowering the amount of reserves that banks must keep on hand in a bid to spur the kind of lending that could stimulate a rebound.

However, Qu said the latest manufactur-ing figures indicated the previous stimulus efforts were not sufficient and more was needed. China’s economic expansion slowed to 7.6 percent in the second quarter to the end of June, the worst performance in three years and the sixth straight quarter of slower growth.

Judgement day looms for euro Agence France-Presse

FRANKFURT - When the history books come to be written about the euro, September 12, 2012 could well prove one of the most signifi-cant dates in the life of the embattled single currency.

Cameron vows to ‘cut through dither’ to help British economy

China manufacturing at more than 3-year lowAP Photo/Andy Wong

Chairman of the Regional Disas-ter Management Agency (BPMPD) of Karangasem, I Komang Sutir-tayasa, said at Kedampal if his team was helpless. It happened because location of the hotspots was on the steep slope of the mountain with a height reaching 800-2,500 meters above sea level. The fire in the protected forest on Mount Agung had reached Tanah Aron hamlet or southeastern to southern slopes above Bebandem subdistrict. At least, eight big and small hotspots were seen. At noon, they were invis-ible from a distance, but people only saw billowing smokes. But when it had been getting darker, the flames

looked clearly. As observation made by Bali Post last Sunday from Wates Datah, Abang subdistrict, most hotspots were seen above the ham-let of Tanah Aron, Nangka, Poh, Nyelukid and Kedampal.

Location of the hotspots was very steep, while the highest hotspot lo-cated near the top of the Mount Kedampal or on the eastern peak of Mount Agung. A great hotspot was seen at Bangkyang Jaran where its mound resembled a back of horse near the peak of Mount Kedampal and Mount Agung.

Sutirtayasa said the team leader of firefighter was deployed from National Military led in person by

1623 Karangasem District Military Commander, Lt. Col. CZI Aji Jaya, who was seen last Sunday passing through the road section of Wates hamlet to Kedampal. Military (TNI) personnel came down to location together with volunteers.

Sutirtayasa said the fire break-ing trench made by the team on Saturday (Sep 1) was in fact not effective. Apparently, the fire kept on spreading widely, while the fire breaking trench was ineffective and skipped. Presumably, the fire reached 4 meters high. Likewise, the team was unable to get near the fire with huge flames because it was very hot and could hazard the team members. Besides, any time the large fire could confine due to burning high forest and strong wind gusts whose direction occasionally changed.

The team only monitored in

order the fire could not approach the temple like the Pasar Agung both the eastern Pasar Agung above Sibetan village and Pasar Agung at Sebudi. It was also to anticipate so as the fire would not approach the residential areas.

Meanwhile, farmer group leader of Batudawa Kaja, I Wayan Putra, expected the government to give serious attention to the fire on Mount Agung. Similar incident almost occurred every year during the dry season. The current fire was the greatest. People living below the slopes of Mount Agung where the fire occurred estimated the fire started in the forest north of Mount Agung or above Daya hamlet and Pucang hamlet, then expanded to eastern slopes. Up to these days, ap-proximately thousands of hectares of protected forest had burned out on the southern slopes.

Putra was apprehensive because all residents both living at the slope of mountain and at the bot-tom would lose out. Residents of Batudawa Kaja had felt irritation in the eyes and stinging heat beyond the normal days before a great fire hit the forests of Mount Agung. Allegedly, the smog coming down with fire ashes had caused the irri-tation in the eyes of the Batudawa Kaja residents.

He asked residents who lived on the slopes of mountain to preserve the protected forest, so they would not suffer a loss and drought as well as not be hit by flooding during the next rainy season. Putra asked not to let unscrupulous people burn the bushes in the field or discard the remaining fire after looking for honey that even could trigger for-est fire in the mountain resulting in fatal impact. (013)

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DENPASAR - Two provincial governors respectively Fauzi Bowo of Jakarta and Alex Noerdin of South Sumatra received the 2012 Inclusive Education awards from the Ministry of Education and Culture here on Sunday night.

The awards for the governors and another 18 persons were handed by the deputy minister for education affairs Prof Dr Musliar Kasim.

The Inclusive Education awards were pro-vided in cooperation with the Helen Keller Inter-national agency with the support of USAID.

A total of 20 persons, namely two governors, regents, mayors, university, school teachers and individual obtained such awards as the results of a tight selection, he said, adding this is the second of its kind. Musliar expressed an appre-ciation over the struggle of the Inclusive Educa-tion awards receivers on their assistance for the education of children with special needs.

The awards were also handed to the regents of Lembata in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Suka-bumi (West Java), Payakumbuh (West Sumatra), Aceh Besar (Aceh), Enrekang (South Sulawesi) and Sidoarjo (East Java)

Three rectors who received such awards are from the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) in Bandung, the Universitas Negeri Surakarta Sebelas Maret, Central Java, the Universitas Negeri Surabaya, East Java. The awards were delivered at the opening ceremony of the Na-tional Science Olympiad 2012.

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Firefighter team of Mount Agung was really made helpless by nature. After four days of forest fire, the fire could not be ex-tinguished. Even, the fire tended to continuously spread out.

Forest fire in Mount Agung

Fire breaking trench ineffective, temple guardedBali Post

AMLAPURA — Firefighter team of Mount Agung was really made helpless by nature. After four days of forest fire, the fire could not be extinguished. Even, the fire tended to continuously spread out.

Two governors receive Inclusive Education awards

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Clinton will be in Indonesia’s capital Monday to offer strong U.S. support for a regionally endorsed plan to ease rising tensions by implementing a code of conduct for all claimants to disputed islands. Jakarta is the headquarters of the Association of South East Asian Nations, and Clinton will also press the group to insist that China agree to a formal mechanism to reduce short-term risks of conflict and ultimately come to final settlements over sovereignty.

She wants “to strengthen ASE-AN unity going forward,” a senior U.S. official told reporters on board Clinton’s plane as she flew from the Cook Islands to Australia for a brief refueling stop en route to

Indonesia.Indonesia played a leading role

in putting the six-point plan to-gether after ASEAN was unable to reach consensus on the matter in July. The official said the U.S. is “encouraged” by the plan but wants it acted on — particularly implementation and enforcement of the code of conduct, which has lan-guished since a preliminary frame-work for it was first agreed in 2002. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to publicly preview Clinton’s meetings.

The U.S. has asserted a national security interest in the peaceful res-olution to South China Sea disputes and hopes for progress to be made

before a November summit of East Asian leaders that President Barack Obama plans to attend.

The U.S. position has riled China, which has become increas-ingly assertive in pressing its ter-ritorial claims with its smaller neighbors and wants the disputes to be resolved individually with each country. The U.S. says it takes no position on the conflicting claims but wants to see them resolved between China and ASEAN, which has collective clout that its 10 mem-bers do not have individually.




Australia Monday flatly rejected comments from Afghan President Hamid Karzai that a recent night-time raid which left two men dead was car-ried out without the approval of local authorities.

Kabul had slammed Australia over the mis-sion, carried out in the wake of last week’s killing of three Australian troops by a rogue Afghan soldier, describing it as a “unilateral military operation”.

“The president condemns the operation as a breach of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Afghanistan and NATO on the special military operations,” Karzai’s office said in a statement.

But Defence Minister Stephen Smith said the operation in restive Uruzgan province had

full authorisation, was conducted jointly with 60 Australians and 80 Afghan troops, and had followed the established rules of engagement.

“The statement that has been issued by President Karzai’s palace over the weekend in Kabul that this operation was not authorised is wrong,” Smith said.

“That is not factually correct, and this point has been made strongly by Australia’s ambassador to Afghanistan to palace and presidential officials.”

Smith said Australia was “disappointed” by Karzai’s comments, describing the situation as a “misunderstanding”.

The operation, which was authorised by the governor and police chief of Uruzgan where some 1,500 Australian troops are based, was aimed at capturing the Afghan accused of kill-ing the three Australian soldiers, he said.

Reuters

AMMAN - Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army’s General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising.

Syrian state television said four people were wounded in what it called a terrorist attack on the General Staff compound in the highly guarded Abu Rummaneh district, where another bomb attack killed four of Assad’s top lieutenants two months ago. “The operation targeted of-ficers in the Assad army who have been planning and giving the go ahead for the

massacres against the Syrian people,” said a video statement by the Grandsons of the Prophet brigade, a division of the Free Syrian Army.

“Bombs were planted inside the army headquarters,” said the video statement, which was broadcast on Arab satellite channels. But as the rebels demonstrated they could strike at the heart of the security apparatus, residents said army bulldozers moved on al-Zayat and Farouk neighborhoods to the west, and destroyed at least 20 buildings in the Sunni Muslim areas that have sheltered the insurgents.

In the eastern Damascus neighbor-hood of Hazza, footage taken by activ-ists on Sunday showed several buildings on fire.

Clinton to urge ASEAN unity on South China Sea


BRISBANE, Australia — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for Southeast Asian states to present a united front to the Chinese in dealing with territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a joint press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the New Zealand high commissioner’s house in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012.

Australia says Karzai ‘wrong’ on Afghan operation

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai at

an extraordinary summit of the

Organisation of the Islamic Con-ference in Mecc

in August. Kabul had slammed

Australia over a recent night-time

raid, describing it as a “unilateral

military opera-tion”

Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus

REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover after Syrian forces fired a mortar in the El Amreeyeh neighborhood of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo August 30, 2012.

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Paul Antony Coniber (44), the man from New Zealand, now has to stay at Kuta Police as this naughty tourist just left the hotel without paying the rent. Not only one hotel, but two hotels and so he was reported because millions of rupiah has been lost as Head of Kuta Police, I Putu Dedi Ujiyana, when asked for confir-mation last Sunday (2/9) confirmed.

The report first came from Palm Beach Hotel & Resort Hotel at Jeng-gala Street No. 1, Banjar Segara, Kuta who stated the passport no. EB027778 holder has been staying from 24th August 2012 and did not pay the charges as he checked out without anyone knowing.

Turns out he looked for another staying place at Artemis Vila & Ho-tel, Camplung Tanduk Street, Puri Kubu Alley 63, Kuta and in this hotel he also escaped without paying. “Pal m Beach admitted to have loss IDR 10.5 million while Artemis loss IDR 17 million. Not satisfied with those places, he moved to Popies II Street, Kuta where he also did not pay which so then reported to Kuta Police. Ac-cused was captured at a hotel still in the area of Kuta,” Ujiyana explained. (kmb21)

Headman of Wangaya Gede, Ketut Suriastra, affirmed that his party often got questions from his residents related to contribution of the cultural heritage inclusion. “Until this moment, we have never received a clear explanation re-lated to the world cultural heritage. Residents only know if the region includes in the cultural heritage,” he said recently.

This official expected there would be prompt response from relevant authorities to answer the questions of residents. So far, Su-riastra said the residents adequately vivacious in preserving the forest of Mount Batukaru and became the supporting devotees of Batukaru Temple. The ban was not only ap-plied to dry land, but also to wet land existing in the region. The

spirit was set forth in the conven-tion or prarem of customary village bylaw where the outsiders were prohibited to do development and deforestation in the area of Batu-karu slopes. “With the inclusion of Batukaru in the world cultural heri-tage there should be a contribution. It is often questioned by residents,” he affirmed again.

According to Suriastra, ex-pectation of his residents related to the cultural heritage was not grandiose. As farmers, residents expected a special attention to the infrastructure improvement that supported the agricultural activities ranging from the irrigation channel to road access to their farmland area. Thus, residents would feel comfortable to do their farming

activities, while preserving the na-ture in the Batukaru area. Suriastra wished the contribution of world cultural heritage could really reach the people. As a result, his residents could continue to eagerly run their activities as specified in the world cultural heritage.

So far, he said the Batukaru area had become a destination of foreign and domestic tourists. After inclu-sion of the world cultural heritage, he hoped that tourist visit would continue to soar. Ultimately, the residents could enjoy the benefits of such prestigious international reward. “Most importantly, the subak members directly getting in touch with the agriculture can get serious attention,” he concluded. (kmb30)

Included in WBD, Wangaya residents question about contribution

Singaraja (Bali Post)-

Forest area in West Buleleng was again hit by great fire which it still goes on from Friday (31/8) up to Saturday (1/9). Around 15 hect-ares between Penyabangan Village and Banyupoh Village, Gerokgak burnt. It was stated the fire started 10 kilometer to the south of Pura Kerta Kawat and got bigger due to the strong wind. Meanwhile, Buleleng Natural Disaster Board

(BPBD) effort in turning off the fire was no use. With the far loca-tion and unsupportive roads it’s hard for fire brigades to reach it and so it has been taken care manually done by forest police personnel from West Bali Forest Management.

Head of Buleleng BPBD, Ko-mang Sumertajaya, when con-tacted last Sunday (2/9) stated the incident was known through public reports. A number of fire

points have been managed to be turned off last Saturday (1/9) while others gone by itself. “We receive reports that there has been a fire in the peak of a hill which can’t be reached by the fire brigade. Huge trees in the middle of the forests were not burnt and only grasses were burnt, same as previous fire. The cause of this third fire is still unknown but it seemed to be residents ignorant in littering remaining of cigarettes or remains

of making fire is still around. Not only that, there are those who purposely burn grasses so by rainy season new grasses grew and can be used as cow food,” Sumertajaya explained.

This has been the third time fire took place at Banyupoh Village. The first fire happened south to Pura Kerta Kawat with 10 hectares burnt while second one happened 200 meters to the west of Pura Pu-laki with 5 hectares burnt. (kmb)

Amlapura (Bali Post) –

A junior high pupil from Germany named Benedikt Johnn (14) died while snorkeling at Jemeluk Beach, Purwakerti Village, Abang, Karan-gasem last Saturday (1/9) afternoon. Victim sunk around 3 pm local time due to victim’s and parents lack of awareness as stated by Head of Karangasem Police Public Relation Section, APC Wartama, as permitted by Head Police last Sunday (2/9).

At the time victim was with his parents snorkeling. While his parents have gone up, victim still wanted to look at the great undersea view yet later on Johnn was no longer seen. The father, Jonhukly (40), dove to where he saw his son last time and found him at the shallow base of the sea, no longer conscious. Johnn’s parents did try gave him help yet it was useless.

Abang Police straight away in-vestigated the case. The family has been in Karangasem for a few days and stays at Galang Kangin Villa, Banjar Lebah, Purwakerti Village, Abang. (013)

Again, forest in west Buleleng burnt

Not paying hotel charge, a tourist held

Snorkeling, German student died

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Disturbance related to contribution of the world cultural heritage (WBD) inclusion by UNESCO continued to expand in Tabanan. Most recently, it happened to Wangaya Gede village, Penebel, becoming the supporting devotees of Batukaru Temple, where residents questioned about the contribution of UNESCO. Moreover, the residents took part in preserving the environment around the forests and mountains in the local area.

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The beautiful scenery of Batukaru Mountain

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Earlier reports put the quake’s magnitude at 7.9, but after more data from global networks of seismometers arrived, officials at the U.S. Geological Survey downgraded the magnitude to 7.6. “There’s a significant dif-ference, but they’re both really big earthquakes that can generate tsunamis, and if they occur on land they can kill lots of people,” said Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo.

In this case, the oceanic Philip-pine plate shoved deeper below the Sunda plate, a continental plate home to the Philippines, and portions of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The quake ruptured at a depth of about 22 miles (35 km). That’s fairly shal-

low, Caruso said, and shallower earthquakes are more likely to cause tsunamis.

“When you get a really deep quake, a lot of the energy is absorbed before it reaches the seafloor, and what causes a tsu-nami is the seafloor being pushed up,” he told OurAmazingPlanet.

However, tsunami warnings that were in effect for the Philip-pines, Indonesia and Belau were cancelled by the Pacific Tsu-nami Warning Center in Hawaii at around 11 a.m. ET. So-called subduction quakes — those that occur when an oceanic plate suddenly jolts deeper beneath a continental plate — are the most powerful type of earthquakes that occur on our planet.

They’re also very good at shov-

ing the seafloor, and the sheer area of the seafloor that is thrust up-ward — the length of the rupture, and its horizontal and vertical displacement — determines the size of the tsunami that follows.

Data from sensors in the ocean near the site of the quake indicate a tsunami was generated, and waves are coming between 10 and 14 minutes apart, but it appears the waves aren’t packing so much energy that they’ll take a signifi-cant toll once they reach land.

In deep water, tsunami waves appear small, and only reach a massive size once they make it into shallower waters close to shore. So, although today’s quake was a significant one, it appears it didn’t move the seafloor enough to cause a large tsunami.

About 1,000 northern hairy wood ants are expected to have tiny radio tags, about 0.04 inches (1 millimeter) long, attached to their bodies, allow-ing researchers to track their move-ments on a protected English estate.

The wood ants, which get their name from the “eyebrows” visible through a microscope, live in colonies housed within nests connected by trails worn into the ground by years of ant traffic. The biologist doing the work, Samuel Ellis of the University of York, intends to examine how the ants interact with one another.

The results are expected to help staff at the Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire manage the estate — a natural and archaeological site —with the ants’ needs in mind.

“I think this is a world first. It has not been done in the wild before,” said Ellis in a video produced by the U.K. National Trust, which manages the estate. [See Photos of the Tagged Wood Ants] Ellis is not certain how long they will stay attached to the insects.

“The tags act like a bar code,” he said in the video. “It gives each ant an individual identity and what this means is you can see which ants are going where and how individual

A new tool for advertisers lets them target ads to customers who have already used their services. Facebook plans to roll out a new advertising tool that will let companies target their ads to existing customers based on their phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

The social network is launching the new tool next week and touts it as a way for businesses to reengage with customers who have already used their services, according to a Facebook spokesperson.

For those who may have privacy concerns over this exchange of personal information, the social network said the process is secure.

What this means is Facebook isn’t giving any of your data away, it’s taking existing numbers and addresses from businesses and letting those businesses use the information to target its ads.

On the flip side, Facebook won’t be gaining any new data from businesses. When advertisers give Facebook your data, it is hashed -- a security technique that scrambles your data -- before it is fed into the advertising machine. Once the ads are placed, Facebook dumps the hashed data, so that if an advertiser wants to do another ad, the process starts over again.

The new method was available briefly in the Facebook Power Editor, a vir-tual toolbox used by advertisers to create ads, according to InsideFacebook.

Why Philippines Earthquake Tsunami Warning Was Cancelled

The large earthquake that struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines today (Aug. 31) at 8:47 p.m. local time sparked tsunami warnings across a large swath of the neighboring Pacific region, yet those warnings were canceled not long after. The magnitude-7.6 earthquake hit about 58 miles (63 kilometers) from shore along a tectonic boundary known as a subduction zone, where an oceanic plate is diving beneath a continental plate.

Facebook ad targeting to use e-mails, phone numbers

1,000 English Ants to Receive Radio Tags

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A radio tag, the metallic rectangle, has been attached to the back of this ant.

ants interactions work together to make the colony long behaviors.”

An estimated 50 million hairy wood ants, Formica lugubris, in-habit the estate. They are the largest species of ants native to the British Isles with workers reaching up to 0.4 inches (10 mm) long. To get food for their young, the ants gently stroke sap-sucking aphids, which

then produce honeydew; in return, the ants protect these aphids.

The ants defend themselves from predators by spraying smelly, vinegar-like formic acid. Some birds, like Jays and Green Wood-peckers, use the formic acid spray as a cleansing agent to get rid of parasites, according to the Univer-sity of York.

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UBUD - On Monday, September 24, 2012, Alchemy Bali raw food cen-ter and restaurant will host a special one year anniversary grand celebra-tion at its headquarters in Penestanan, Ubud. The event will be free and open to the community and include an eclectic program of speakers and live entertainment.

“It will be a special evening of ecstatic food, friendship and festiv-ity,” said Alchemy’s Co-founder and Principal Owner, Anthony Dunkley, “After a successful first year, we’re offering this celebration as a way of saying thank you for the support we’ve received from the community.”

September’s one year anniversary event is presented as an expanded version of Alchemy’s monthly “Sexy Chocolate” Celebrations, and will include a wider selection of free raw chocolate samples, hors d’oeuvres, and juices.

Each of Alchemy’s free community events showcases a different monthly speaker, an ecstatic dance DJ and other entertainment activities. The anniver-

sary party will also feature a Mayan cacao ceremony, fire spinning and other surprises, according to Dunkley, who opened the raw food and health center after a life threatening disease almost claimed his life.

“I believe the human stories behind Alchemy’s creation can inspire others to make conscious choices and follow their dreams.” Dunkley said.

In less than one year, Alchemy’s groundbreaking success has im-pressed local and international re-viewers. A recent article by “Yogi Times” International praised the raw food center for its pioneering achievements: “There seems to be a raw’volution in the air and Alchemy is definitely at the cutting-edge fore-front of creating fresh approaches to raw food, education and sustainability whilst being active in their commu-nity…going raw has never been so much fun or exciting,”

The June, 2012 edition of Indone-sia’s “Let’s Eat” magazine describes Alchemy as “a café that reflects a healthy approach to life by using pure and natural ingredients, just like nature intended.”

The garden that supports the statue and pond was also not maintained, where a number of plants have gone dry and its garden lamps not functioning. Meanwhile the electricity cable has been left around nearby the statue and it could cause any danger to those stepping around the area.

One cleaner, Made Nortiasa, stated the area was never maintained since it inaugurated by Buleleng government. Once, workers only put blinking lights upon the statue and created beautiful scenery at night. Yet, later one by one the lights go off, and no longer can be seen.

It seemed that Buleleng government is ignoring this statue when actually this has been the mascot of Lovina Beach for years. “Every morning and afternoon, we clean up the rubbish that filled the pond and visitors keep on throwing rubbishes there. I think it’s due to pond being dry so they ignore that the fact it’s a pond,” Nortiasa explained.

For that condition, Nortiasa and other tourist work-ers in Lovina hoped the technical institute of Buleleng government will seriously fix this dolphin statue that was inaugurated by Bali Governor, Ida Bagus Oka. Moreover the statue has been a mascot known by foreign tourists also to protect Lovina tourism image. (kmb)

Unmaintained, Dolphin statue at Lovina damaged

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The condition of the dolphin statue at Lovina Beach, Buleleng seemed worrying as the tourism mascot got seriously damaged since it was inaugurated at 1996.

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SINGARAJA - The condition of the dol-phin statue at Lovina Beach, Buleleng seemed worrying as the tourism mascot got seriously damaged since it was inaugurated at 1996. The damage consists of parts missing and broken. Its pond also left drying and became a rubbish bin instead.

Raw food center celebrated one year anniversary

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lchemy Bali raw food center and restaurant will host a special one year anniversary grand celebration at its headquarters in Penestanan, Ubud.

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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 con-sidered 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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Calendar Event for September 1 through October 14, 20121 Sep Saniscara Pon Dunggulan Pura Segara JembranaPura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung

2 Sep Redite Wage Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekarmukti-BalubulanPura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi-Badung3 Sep Soma Keliwon Kuningan Pura Dasar Gelgel-KlungkungPura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah/Selemadeg-TabananPura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin-GianyarPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuhan-Busungbiu BulelengPura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan.8 Sep Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan Pura Taman Pule Mas-UbudPura Ularan Takmung-KlungkungPura Bukitjati Gulingan-Kawan BangliPura Dalem TegehePura Dalem TahakPura Dalem BatuajiPura Dalem Tegaljaya-BatubulanPura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon-SukawatiPura Dalem Guwang-SukawatiPura Sadha KapalPura Sakenan Sakenan SeranganPura Pekendungan Kediri-TabananPura Pasek Gaduh Grokgak Gede TabananPura Dalem Sanding TampaksiringPura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Puri Tanjung Periuk JakartaPura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang-BangliMr. Dukuh Tetek Peguyangan-DenpasarPura Agung Blambangan BanyuwangiPura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Gelgel -KlungkungDesa Adat Munggu (Mekotekan) Mengwi-BadungPura Panti Paksebali-Klungkung (Perang Jempana)Pura Penataran Agung MargoweningDesa Balong garut Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur2 Oct Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg(Meru Tumpang Sanga) BesakihPura Hyang Tibha i Batuan Sakah3 Oct Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti TabananPura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem.

Pura Aer Jeruk SukawatiPura Dangin Pasar Batuan-SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang-BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-SukawatiPura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Kediri-TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati GianyarPura Kresek Banyuning BulelengPura Puseh Bebandem-KarangasemMerajan Pasek Kubayan-GajiMerajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan.Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga TemagaMerajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan Gelgel BungbunganSad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih-DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem KarangasemPura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag PaguyanganPura Pulasari Sibang Gede AbiansemalPura Batur Sari UbudPura Penataran Agung Sukawati8 Oct Soma Keliwon Krulut Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mngwi BadungMerajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar13 Oct Hari Tumpek Krurut Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan - KlungkungPura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Bebalang BangliPura Benua Kangin BesakihPura Merajan Kanginan Besakih14 Oct Redite Umanis Merakih Pura Parangan Tengah Banjar Ceningan Kangin - LembonganPura Dalem Celuk Sukawati - Gianyar17 Oct Buda Wage Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Banjar Kalah - BatubulanPura Desa Silakarang SingapaduPura dalem Petitenget Kerobokan - KutaPura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan - GianyarPura Kubayan Kepisah Pedungan Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek gelgel Banjar Tanahpegat - TabananPr. Paibon Banjar Bengkel Sumerta - DenpasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPr. Panti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding - TampaksiringPr. Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken Kaba-kaba - Tabanan

This new hotel is situated in strategic location on Jalan Petitenget - Seminyak, adjacent to the Umalas Village. Besides, it is very close to a number of popular restaurants and nightclubs in Bali.

With a total of 121 rooms offering a fun, fresh and friendly concept, the Fave Hotel Umalas follows the measure of Fave Seminyak that has just been opened recently. The facilities provided are like those offered by modern hotels today. They comprise a pool for adults and children, functional and modern meeting rooms, hotel lobby with attractive and contemporary design, free Wi-Fi Internet access and a convenient café facing green fields. “Each guest room is equipped with LED television, safe deposit box, fixtures and first-class bed. It is specially designed to show off a distinctive look of Fave Hotel so that it can provide energetic and modern touches,” said Putu Marione, General Manager of Fave

Hotel Umalas.Meanwhile, Vice President of Sales & Marketing

of Aston International, Mr. Norbert Vas, said that Fave Hotel was a hotel with service and always occupied a trendy location where no surrounding hotels offered an affordable price. His party already had some units of Fave Hotel in attractive locations such as Cenang Beach in Langkawi or Seminyak in Bali and the latest Fave Hotel was located right in the trendy area of Bali. It was a very appropriate location for this brand.

Aston also announced that within the next two months, the group would have 5 additional properties of 9 units of Fave Hotel already operated in Indonesia and Malaysia. Two of which located in Jakarta, namely at Kemang and Pasar Baru, two others in Bali located in Kuta Square and Jalan Bypass Kuta and another in Yogyakarta right on Jalan Kusumanegara, added Norbert.

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Aston International opened a trendy hotel with selected service, namely the third Fave Hotel in Bali and the fiftieth hotel in Indonesia. The hotel is located at Umalas, Bali. Fave Hotel is a brand with selected services newly launched by Aston International, the largest hotel group in Indonesia. It offers a choice of accommodation at an affordable price as well as attractive and contemporary design for budget travelers.

Negara (Bali Post)—Land landfill area (TPA) at Peh hamlet, Kaliakah, is getting narrower. As

consequence, the rubbish is starting to mount as the land area is narrowing. Heavy equipment used to dredge the rubbish has been out of order since a month. As a result, the daily rubbish coming from every subdistrict in Jembrana accumulates and cannot be leveled.

Actually, it is the only remaining machine used to level and remove the rubbish. One of the officers met recently said the machine had been out of order since last month. As the location was getting higher, chain of the heavy equipment always detached. Therefore, it could not run and operate normally while the rubbish trucks continued to arrive every day. Since being unable to be operated, the operator was finally unable to do its job and left it even though the rubbish kept on coming.

High pile of rubbish at Peh landfill currently reaches 10 meters high. Ac-cording to the operator, the heavy equipment was damaged and its parts should be replaced. If the components could not promptly be repaired or replaced, the rubbish would continue to pile up and could not be leveled. When the machine was not operated within a day, the rubbish could overflow onto the street. The officer told if his party had reported the matter to the Office of Environment, Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (LHKP). Every day, there were about 10 trucks from each subdistrict that brought rubbish to the landfill. Each truck carried averagely three meter cubic of rubbish.

On the other hand, the Head of LHKP Jembrana, Made Widana, when asked for his confirmation on Sunday justified if the heavy equipment at Peh Kaliakah was often out of order. The agency had attempted to repair it, but it was temporarily unable to be used. He added there would be a procurement of new heavy equipment next year used at the landfill. (kmb26)

Head of the Badung Live-stock, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, I Made Badra, said on Sunday (Sep 2) the reclamation would be carried out alongside 400 meters with a depth of about 25 meters. With the rec-lamation, the area of Kedon-ganan Beach would increase to 2,000 square meters. Reclama-tion of the Kedonganan Beach was to expand the location of loading and unloading activi-ties as well as parking space of

fishing vessels.The reclamation, said Badra,

would be worked on after the quay project was completed. It would adjust the current beach condition such as the use of white sand. Reclama-tion project was proposed by central government through the Ministry of Fishery and Maritime Affairs and Director General of Capture, Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Af-fairs when presenting the final

Detail Engineering Design (DED) of the Kedonganan Quay some time ago.

Central government had ap-proved the DED and physical work that would be executed next year. Similarly, the central government also suggested the making of reclamation design. DED of the reclamation would be made in 2013. According to Badra, the coastal reclamation of Kedonganan could possibly be begun in 2014. (kmb25)

Specified as minapolitan zone

Kedonganan Beach to be reclaimed

Fishermen are fixing their boat on Kedonganan Beach

Mangupura (Bali Post)—Kedonganan Beach alongside hundreds of meters will be reclaimed. It poses a conse-

quence of the minapolitan (integrated economic and fishery zone) project of Kedonganan, especially in conjunction with the establishment of quay at Kedonganan planned to be built in 2013.

Peh landfill area getting narrower

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The garbage pilled up in the landfill area, Kaliakah, Negara

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Writer Cullen Bunn and Editor Tom Brennan, an alum of Philadelphia’s Drexel University, said it’s time Philly had a hero of its own, putting it in the same league as Los Angeles and New York, among other real-life cities that populate the fictional world of Marvel.

But is Venom — an alien symbiote bonded to Peter Parker’s one-time high school rival Eugene “Flash” Thompson — the hero that Philly wants or needs? It depends, said Bunn. Flash, who lost his legs in Iraq, has taken control of Venom to be able to walk again and work as a super-powered soldier and spy for the U.S. government. But his alcoholism and habit of lying to his teammates has him at the bottom of a deep hole.

“Now, he’s trying to do the right thing. He’s reassessing what it means to be a

hero. And he’s looking for a fresh start,” said Bunn. “This means a lot of things for Flash. He’s surrounding himself with new people — such as tabloid journalist Katy Kiernan and his new love interest, the Asgardian Valkyrie. He’s changing his approach to being a superhero. And he’s looking for a change of scenery.” That’s where Philly comes in, said Bren-nan, starting Dec. 19 in “Venom” No. 28 in comic shops and digitally, too.

“I worked in public schools in gritty Kensington and tough West Philly. I spent way too many hours in the Con-stitution Center and historical sites of Old City. I lived on Race Street in a less-than-stellar apartment in a creaky old town house,” he said.

“All the while that I lived there, I wanted a superhero for the city of Phila-

delphia, a town full of heart, hustle and hope — and I don’t care what anyone says — some of the nicest people I’ve ever met,” he said. “Sure, they don’t suf-fer fools, and you’ve got to be mindful if you cross against the light, but I found the City of Brotherly Love to be a character in and of itself that I thought more fiction should explore.”

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This comic book image released by Marvel Comics shows the Marvel

anti-hero Venom. Venom, long a nemesis of Spider-Man but most

recently a sanctioned operative of the U.S. government, is pulling up

stakes and looking for a fresh start, in Philadelphia of all places.


PHILADELPHIA — If closing out a two-day festival with an intense two-hour set wasn’t enough for Pearl Jam, then bringing out the man who organized it sealed the deal. Jay-Z joined the group for its second-to-last encore Sunday with a rocking version of his signature hit “99 Problems.”

While Jay closed out the first night of the Budweiser Made in America Festival, he handed the torch to the Seattle-based band grunge rockers and they did not disappoint. Their 25-song set saw tens of thousands of fans jumping, dancing, and singing on the muggy September night to the band’s well-known tracks like “Alive,” ‘’Better Man,” and “Jeremy.”

For the song “Unemployable,” Ved-der told the crowd it was about a hard-working family man who did all the right things in life, but became the victim of job cuts. He said sometimes the so-called job creators are creating jobs outside the United States.

“I want to see more things made in America” Vedder said, to thunderous applause. Vedder also urged people to get out and vote, before a rousing cover of the Clash’s “Know Your Rights.” Fit-tingly, the band ended the show with Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

But Pearl Jam wasn’t the only big

story, as earlier in the day Run DMC per-formed for the first time in over a decade. Taking the stage under a video banner that read “Jam Master Jay Forever,” the Queens, N.Y., natives were well received by fans who danced to the music and sang along, some better than others. Beyoncé and Jay-Z strolled through the crowd flanked by security.

Their 40-minute set included “It’s Tricky” to a sea of flailing arms, and “It’s Like That.” Run even put on a pair of namesake sneakers for “My Adidas.”

But perhaps the most poignant mo-ment came when Run talked about the breakup following the death of Jam Mas-ter Jay. “After his assassination ... we put a silence on the group,” Run said.

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PHILADELPHIA — Philly’s getting a new fan in the pages of Marvel Comics, but whether the City of Brotherly Shove takes to anti-hero Venom remains to be seen. Marvel Entertainment LLC says that Venom — a brute with big teeth and an elongated tongue who’s made a habit of sparring with Spider-Man — is leaving New York City to start fresh, and maybe learn to be a hero on the streets of Philadelphia.

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Pearl Jam performs at the “Made In America” music festival on Sunday Sept. 2, 2012, in Philadelphia.


Netanyahu urges international “red lines” to stop Iran Van Persie treble

fires United, Arsenal sink Liverpool

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JAKARTA - Around 1,500 se-curity personnel being deployed to guard Hillary Clinton visits to Jakarta. Clinton arrived in Jakarta through Halim Perdanakusuma airport in the afternoon.

According to Head of Metro Jaya Police’s Human Relations Rikwanto, the personnel that guard-ing the arrival of Clinton come from police officials, army, and Indone-sia’s Foreign Affairs Department. Clinton scheduled to meet with

her counterpart, Minister Marty Natalegawa soon after she arrived in Jakarta. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono also scheduled to meet with Clinton to discuss several matters.

Clinton will be in Indonesia’s capital Monday to offer strong U.S. support for a regionally endorsed plan to ease rising tensions by implementing a code of conduct for all claimants to disputed islands. Jakarta is the headquarters of the Association of South East Asian Nations, and Clinton will also press

the group to insist that China agree to a formal mechanism to reduce short-term risks of conflict and ultimately come to final settlements over sovereignty.

She wants “to strengthen ASEAN unity going forward,” a senior U.S. official told reporters on board Clin-ton’s plane as she flew from the Cook Islands to Australia for a brief refuel-ing stop en route to Indonesia.

Indonesia played a leading role in putting the six-point plan together after ASEAN was unable to reach consensus on the matter in July. The

official said the U.S. is “encouraged” by the plan but wants it acted on — particularly implementation and enforcement of the code of conduct, which has languished since a pre-liminary framework for it was first agreed in 2002. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to publicly preview Clinton’s meetings.

The U.S. has asserted a national security interest in the peaceful resolution to South China Sea dis-putes and hopes for progress to be made before a November summit

of East Asian leaders that President Barack Obama plans to attend.

The U.S. position has riled China, which has become increas-ingly assertive in pressing its territorial claims with its smaller neighbors and wants the disputes to be resolved individually with each country. The U.S. says it takes no position on the conflicting claims but wants to see them resolved between China and ASEAN, which has collective clout that its 10 mem-bers do not have individually.

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Violation against the urban green open space (RTHK) in Denpasar increasingly proliferates. Although various programs have been rolled out by Denpasar Municipality to minimize the violations including the enforcement operations, the efforts have not worked optimally.

In response to this, the circle of legislators of Denpasar House urged the executives to immedi-ately spell out the regional spatial planning (RTRW) of Denpasar. Such elaboration was considered very urgent because although the RTRW had set forth, it was unable to fortify the violation in Denpasar. Chairman of Commission B of the Denpasar House, Eko Supriadi, revealed it.

According to Eko Supriadi, inconsistent imple-mentation of spatial planning in Denpasar, among others, was caused by the absence of legislation specifically setting forth the matter. Regional regulation and rules governing the spatial plan-ning were still in general and did not outline and regulate it in detail. For that purpose, his party urged a more specific regulation, namely the Re-gional Regulation on Spatial Planning in Detail (RDTR). “Denpasar Municipality has not owned it yet,” he said.

This PDI-P politician urged the Denpasar Mu-nicipality to promptly make a regional regulation on the RDTR. He affirmed the regulation had a strategic value in performing the spatial arrange-ment in Denpasar. With the legislation, it would be clearly set forth where people were and were not allowed to build.

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Violation against spatial plan proliferates Bali Post

DENPASAR - Violation against the ur-ban green open space (RTHK) in Denpasar increasingly proliferates. Although various programs have been rolled out by Denpasar Municipality to minimize the violations including the enforcement operations, the efforts have not worked optimally.

edisi 4 september 2012 | international bali post

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