South African music superstar Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been announced as the Headline Artiste for this year's Vodafone African Legends Night organized by Global Media Alliance.
Yvonne becomes the first female singer to headline the show since it started last six years.
Yvonne, also known as the Princess of Africa, is expected to mount the stage of the African Legends Night alongside other Ghanaian music stars to thrill audience to some of her popular songs such as “I am in love with the DJ”, “I am Burning Up”, “Thank You Mr. DJ”, Umqombothi (featured in the Hotel Rwanda movie) among others.
With musical beats spanning afro-traditional to a world sound imbedded into several tracks, the power of the music equals the power of Yvonne's clear social and spiritual advice to her audience.
The multiple award-winning Yvonne has been in the music industry for more than 25 years. She has shared the stage with megastars such as Bono, Angelique Kidjo, Annie Lennox, Youssou N’Dour, Johnny Clegg, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela.
Onetime named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 40 most powerful African celebrities, Yvonne has performed for the Queen of England Queen Elizabeth, former US President Bill Clinton, Ex-South African President Thabo Mbeki, and many other world leaders.
For the past six years, African Legends Night has celebrated musical icons. Notable performers include South Africa's legend and first headliner of the concert, Hugh Masekela, Femi Kuti, Freddy Meiway, Gyedu Blay Ambulley, Amakye Dede, Ghanaian ace Saxophonist Steve Bedi, Ben Brako, among others and a blend of artistes across Africa.
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Yvonne Chaka Chaka headlines African Legends night


South African music superstar Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been announced as the Headline Artiste for this year's Vodafone African Legends Night organized by Global M


An elderly man floated in Devils Lake for 12 hours in a fight for his life , mostly under the shadow of darkness.
It was his wife of more than 40 years who called police, but she says it was prayers that helped her husband get to shore.
They're calling it a miracle.
73-year-old LeRoy Throlson’s small fishing boat started taking on water on Devils Lake, Friday night about an hour before sunset.
Eventually, the lake would take his boat, but his family says it was because of his determination the lake would not take him too.
Eunice Throlson, wife: “Praying and hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.”
LeRoy's a retired farmer, who went fishing on Friday and didn't come home that night.
Eunice Throlson, wife: “He's usually home by dark and usually out of the water by dark. 10:30 I was getting quite concerned, but then I thought, maybe he helped someone out.”
But, it was LeRoy who needed help. Strong southern winds caused some waves to crash over the side of his small fishing boat. He dropped anchor to try to stabilize the boat and bail the water, but it was too late.
LeRoy was in the water.
Eunice Throlson, wife: “We came over here and saw the pickup and the trailer, and that was the hardest.”
They knew something was wrong, and called authorities.
Steven Rohrer, sheriff: “You know I felt just terrible, but there's really nothing I could do at 12:30 in the morning. So, I told them I'd be out at the lake at about 5:30, 6 o'clock right at daylight I'd be paging search and rescue and game and fish.”
His wife says he doesn't always wear life jacket, but did on Friday and when his boat started going down.
LeRoy made one other important move as well.
Eunice Throlson, wife: “He saw the gas can floating. It was half full, it was floating and he thought this might come in handy. So he grabbed it and, basically, he floated and swam with that all night.”
They're estimating LeRoy battled the cold night in the 330 square mile lake for around 12 to 14 hours.
Eunice Throlson, wife: “Well he was watching the stars he said and I know he said he prayed the night wouldn't last real long.”
Thankfully, for LeRoy's sake, mother nature was on his side.
Steven Rohrer, sheriff: “If this was even two or three weeks down the road the water temperature is going to start changing real quick.”
Shortly after day-break, LeRoy hit highway 19 several miles away from where he launched his boat.
Eunice Throlson, wife: “I mean, I just, I screamed. My sister said she knew it was a good scream, or, yelled or something. It was what we all hoped and prayed for, but, probably not, I wasn't thinking that'd be the outcome.”
They say it's a miracle, and wasn't a bad fishing day either.
Eunice Throlson, wife: “He lost some walleyes and he likes walleyes.”
Eunice says this won't keep him from fishing in the future, he'll just need a new boat.
Officials say the man was very cold and dehydrated when he came out of the water, but is recovering well.

Wife recounts 73-year-old husband's Devils Lake survival story


(CNN) A barrel bomb killed at least 15 people, including children, in one of two deadly attacks Thursday in the Syrian city of Aleppo, two groups monitoring the situation say.
There was a discrepancy in the number of children reported killed in the airstrike in the rebel-held Bab al-Nayrab neighborhood. The activist group Aleppo Media Center reported five children were among the dead; the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 11 children had died.
The AMC posted several harrowing videos online following the barrel bombing, including one showing two boys covered in dust, desperately clinging to each other and crying after learning their brother had died.
"My brother is gone," one sobs.
Amnesty International says barrel bombs are a common tactic of the Syrian regime. The strikes came amid Russia's agreement to a 48-hour ceasefire and the United Nations' emphasis on a need for one.
The group also reported eight people were killed Thursday, including two children, when rebels fired mortar rounds into regime-held areas in western Aleppo.
Omran being rescued from the rubble has been circulating on social media.
Last week a video posted by the Aleppo Media Center captivated the world and was another stark reminder of the toll of the war in Syria. It showed a boy, Omran Daqneesh -- no older than five years old -- bloodied and covered with dusk, sitting silently in an ambulance awaiting help after his family's house was destroyed by an airstrike.
'I lost five children'
A Syrian woman reacts following a reported barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nairab neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
Activists posted videos of the barrel bomb attacks online. CNN cannot independently verify their authenticity.
The videos purportedly taken in the rebel-held area in southern Aleppo show rescuers helping survivors and searching for the missing. Residents dig through rubble, looking for loved ones.
Men and women carry dead children covered with dust, sobbing and crying. In one of the videos, a man sits outside his demolished house, visibly upset. "Don't step over them," he says, referring to his family members. "I lost my five children, oh God."
Mother speaks to dead child
A woman mourns her dead son after a barrel bomb in Aleppo, Syria.
Another video posted by activists in Aleppo shows a woman speaking to her dead child.
"Hassan, it's your mom," the mother says as she looks at the child whose eyes are still open.
"He is my son ... he is gone," she screams. "My sons, your brother is dead, your brother is dead."
She touches his face and closes his eyes.
As the stories of death and destruction come out of Aleppo, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry will hold talks in Geneva on Friday that will focus on Syria.
"Unless fighting stops inside, unless those pauses first happen and then become permanent, there's millions of people that are trapped inside the country and I hate to think what their fate is if we cannot reach them very quickly," said Filippo Grandi, the UN High commissioner for refugees.
'Don't look'
Videos purportedly taken in the rebel-held area in southern Aleppo show rescuers helping survivors.
Another video purportedly shows a chaotic scene at the hospital as women, men and children frantically search for their loved ones.
A child lies on a hospital bed in shock as he looks around, covered in dust. Two girls on the ground cry for a lost family member as their father tells them not to look at the carnage.
"Don't look, turn your eyes away," he implores.
Residents evacuate besieged city
Meanwhile, about 200 miles south of Aleppo, residents are preparing to evacuate the city of Daraya, which the Syrian regime has pounded, monitoring groups say, with barrel bombs.
A convoy of Red Crescent ambulances arrived early Friday at the city, which is just southwest of Syria's capital, Damascus.
The Local Council of Daraya has said civilian families will be brought to western Ghouta in the Damascus province, while Free Syrian Army fighters and their families will be moved towards Idlib, in northern Syria.
In a series of tweets, residents are seen carrying their belongings along the streets of the heavily damaged town, which has faced food and water shortages.
Last Journey to the exile, #Daraya the last hope
just gone pic.twitter.com/InZECznYkW — Ahmad alkhatib (@AhmadAlkhtiib) August 26, 2016
Others took the time to say goodbye by posting selfies.
Good bey #Daraya, oh our Souls,
We will come back, Some day we will take you back from the monster @DarayaCouncil pic.twitter.com/zZ7OTf6YH4 — Ahmad alkhatib (@AhmadAlkhtiib) August 26, 2016
Chemical weapons
The UN report says the Syrian government and ISIS used chlorine and mustard gas weapons.
In addition to barrel bombs, the Syrian regime has been accused of using other forms of weapons.
The White House condemned the Syrian government Thursday after announcing that a year-long UN-backed investigation found President Bashar al-Assad's government and ISIS had used chemical weapons.
"It is now impossible to deny that the Syrian regime has repeatedly used industrial chlorine as a weapon against its own people," US National Security Council (NSC) spokesman Ned Price said in a statement Wednesday.

Children among dead in Syria barrel bomb attack


A barrel bomb killed at least 15 people, including children, in one of two deadly attacks Thursday in the Syrian city of Aleppo, two groups monitoring the situation say.


NDSU junior linebacker Matt Plank (44) assists teammates Jarrod Tuszka (93) and Pierre Gee-Tucker (47) in stopping Charleston Southern's Saire Davis during the season opener last Saturday at the Fargodome.David Samson / The Forum
NDSU junior linebacker Matt Plank sets his sights on Charleston Southern quarterback Kyle Copeland during the season opener last Saturday at the Fargodome. David Samson / Forum News Service
FARGO—It was one of his first days on campus when Matt Plank saw the North Dakota State defensive playbook. He likened it to the thickness of a college textbook.
To a true freshman, it probably looked more like "War and Peace."
"Coach (Steve) Stanard, who was the original linebackers coach, slapped down a 200-page playbook and I'm like, 'Is this history class?'" Plank said. "What's going on? But it's gotten easier over the years."
The playbook was easy enough for the junior middle linebacker to make a difference in Saturday's 24-17 overtime win over Charleston Southern (S.C.) at Gate City Bank Field at the Fargodome. Plank was pressed into action for the first time in his career when starter Nick DeLuca went out with a shoulder injury on the first play of the second half.
The Bison have not been real generous with backup minutes over the last few years at linebacker, but there was no going back with Plank. He delivered with six tackles, including a critical stop in overtime, combining with linebacker Pierre Gee-Tucker to stop running back Mike Holloway for a 1-yard gain.
"Everybody wants their shot to let everybody know that I may be the second-string guy, but there's not going to be a talent drop-off," Plank said. "I can make the play."
It forced a third-and-9 and two incompletions later, the Bison were celebrating a season opening win on national TV.
It was a reward of sorts for a guy like Plank, now in his fourth year in the program from Gardner, Kan.
"Everybody comes in as a freshman and thinks they're going to start," he said "Who's Grant Olson? That's my spot, I'm taking that spot. It's a reality check when you get here because there are a lot of great players and a lot of great people ahead of you."
Olson was the senior captain when Plank redshirted. Carlton Littlejohn moved to the middle for his senior year in 2014 and DeLuca assumed control last season. DeLuca is questionable for the Eastern Washington game on Sept. 10 and the fact a 6-foot-3, 245-pound linebacker got the shorter end of the stick with contact with a smaller back like Holloway was somewhat surprising.
"It's football. Even the biggest, the strongest, the baddest dudes get hurt," Plank said. "And that's no knock on Nick. We hope he recovers quickly and we know that he's a tough guy."
Plank played in 15 games last season and finished with 21 tackles and one forced fumble, mostly in a mop-up role. His night as a starter against CSU didn't exactly start off with a bang. He and Gee-Tucker did stop Holloway for a 1-yard loss early in the third quarter, but Holloway broke free for a 47-yard touchdown run on the next play.
"The pursuit angles are what cost us that touchdown," Plank said. "But we came to the sideline and everybody was pretty calm. They were all like, 'We believe in you.' The coaches said they believed in me."
DeLuca is being held out of practice this week and his status for next week will be determined at a later date. Meanwhile, that huge-looking playbook as a freshman has shrunk substantially for Plank.
"Sticking it out through that fall camp, I knew this is the place where I wanted to be," he said.

NDSU junior Plank made the most of his opportunity at middle linebacker


By Emily Wagster Pettus
Associated Press
DURANT – A Mississippi prosecutor said she hasn’t decided whether to seek the death penalty for a man charged with killing two nuns who dedicated their lives to helping people in one of the poorest counties in the nation.
Relatives and colleagues of Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill have publicly expressed their opposition to execution. A judge denied bond Monday to Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, who is charged with two counts of capital murder, one count of burglary and one count of grand larceny.
Capital murder under Mississippi law is a killing committed along with another felony. It is punishable by execution by lethal injection or by life in prison.
Held and Merrill, both 68, were found stabbed to death in their home in Durant after they failed to show up to work last Thursday at a medical clinic in nearby Lexington, where they were nurse practitioners.
“We are going to consider the heinous nature of the crime and their wishes,” District Attorney Akillie Malone-Oliver said Monday, referring to the death penalty opposition by families of the sisters and their religious orders.
Sanders has been held in an undisclosed jail since his arrest late Friday. Accompanied by at least seven law-enforcement officers, he made a brief court appearance Monday before Durant City Judge Jim Arnold, who denied bond and said the state will appoint an attorney after Sanders indicated he could not afford one.
Sanders – who had been living about 15 miles east of the sisters’ Durant home – confessed to the killings but gave no reason, said Holmes County Sheriff Willie March, who was briefed by Durant police and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officials who took part in Sanders’ interrogation.
Warren Strain, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, which includes the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, said the organization would neither confirm nor deny that Sanders confessed.
Sanders’ wife attended the hearing and broke down afterward when addressing the family and friends of the nuns.
“I’m sorry. I don’t know what to say to y’all. I’m so sorry. … I’m so sorry. I can’t take this. Oh, my God,” Marie Sanders said, sobbing.
At Lexington Medical Clinic, about 10 miles west of Durant, Held and Merrill often treated poor and uninsured patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions. The clinic and the nuns’ home in Durant are in Holmes County, population 18,000. With 44 percent of its residents living in poverty, Holmes is the seventh-poorest county in America, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Hours before Sanders’ court appearance, Bishop Joseph Kopacz and more than 20 priests from the Diocese of Jackson celebrated a memorial Mass at the small but ornate Cathedral of St. Peter in downtown Jackson, about an hour’s drive south of Durant. Hundreds of people attended, and the front pews were filled by family members and sisters from Held’s and Merrill’s religious orders, the Kentucky-based Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and the School Sisters of St. Francis of Milwaukee.
Punishment, not revenge
The Rev. Greg Plata, who ministers at the church in Lexington, where Held and Merrill led Bible study, praised them for their lives of service. Plata also noted the joint statement against the death penalty released Sunday by the sisters’ orders.
“Justice for a heinous crime demands punishment, but it does not demand revenge,” Plata said.
Records from the Iowa Department of Corrections show Sanders was in prison from June 2004 to February 2011 on a conviction of second-degree robbery. Records show he also was in prison in Iowa from August 1999 to August 2002 on a conviction of theft, and from April to October 1996 for two counts of third-offense drunken driving.
Sanders was on probation after a prison term for a felony drunken-driving conviction in Mississippi last year, said Grace Simmons Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections. He was also convicted of armed robbery in Holmes County, sentenced in 1986 and served six years.

Prosecutor to mull death penalty opposition in nuns’ slaying


2016-08-26 03:00
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Traffic on the streets near the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Taipei was held up for about three hours yesterday morning as hundreds of drivers protested regulations imposed after a deadly tour bus fire last month.
Members of the New Taipei City Tour Bus Drivers’ Union said 200 buses and 400 drivers were mobilized, with buses stopping on Renai and Hangzhou S roads, paralyzing traffic.
Protesters gathered at the front of the building and demanded that the regulations be relaxed.
About a dozen protesters pushed past barriers at the ministry’s main entrance and entered the lobby.
A few protesters went to the 19th floor, demanding to see Minister of Transportation and Communications Hochen Tan （賀陳旦）.
The protest ended after two hours of talks between union representatives and ministry officials.
Union chairman Lee Shih-chia （李式嘉） said it is almost certain that the bus driver killed in the July 19 bus fire was suicidal, but people are focused on the issue of bus operators buying vehicle parts from overseas and having them assembled in Taiwan.
The ministry reinforced that impression by launching a massive crackdown on tour bus operators, Lee said.
Some operators said that the government wants tour buses to pass an excessively high standard of safety, requiring buses to be in use for only a certain number of years.
However, operators cannot get a return on investment if they were to follow the regulations, they said, adding that the government should prevent public bus operators from branching out into the tourism industry.
Transportation Management Center chief secretary Lin Fu-shan （林福山） said the ministry has explained that a tour bus does not equate to an assembled bus.
The union said its members have received 46 tickets since July 23 for failing to follow the new safety requirements.
Lin said 14 of the penalties — fines for not being able to easily open emergency exits — would not be rescinded.
The remaining 34 cases involved locks or other devices on emergency exits, Lin said, adding that drivers need not pay a fine if it could be shown that the devices were factory-installed.
In that case, the manufacturers of the bus’ body would pay the fine instead, he said.
The Directorate-General of Highways said that protesters listed 13 demands.
It promised to hold a meeting within one week to discuss some of them.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES

《TAIPEI TIMES 焦點》 Buses clog Taipei road as drivers rally


By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterTraffic on the streets near the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Taipei was held up for about three hours yesterday morning as hundreds of drivers protested regulations imposed after a deadly tour bus fire last month.


Islamic State has released a propaganda video that appears to show five children, one of whom it identifies as British, murdering Kurdish prisoners.
The footage, released overnight on Friday, features five boys wearing military-type clothing and holding pistols, while standing in a row behind five men who are kneeling in orange jumpsuits.
Each of the children is captioned in the video with names that have been used by Isis before to denote a fighter’s country of origin.
A white boy with blue eyes is labelled “Abu Abdullah al-Britani” (the Briton) but the identity of the child has not been verified.
A child captioned “Abu al-Bara al-Tunisi” (the Tunisian) addresses the men - apparently Kurdish fighters - promising more violence, according to the BBC.
The other children are said to be Abu Ishaq al-Masri (the Egyptian), Abu Fu’ad al-Kurdi (the Kurd) and Yusuf al-Uzbaki (the Uzbek). It is not known where the video was filmed.
In February, Isis released a video purportedly showing a young British boy, thought to be four-year-old Isa Dare, blowing up a car and killing three prisoners inside.
He is the the son of the Muslim extremist Grace “Khadija” Dare, from Lewisham, south-east London, who travelled to Syria in 2012.
The Guardian

Isis video appears to show children killing captives


Footage shows five boys, allegedly including Briton, holding pistols behind a row of men


Nick Saban likes to tell all his four- and five-star recruits that if Alabama succeeds, all the individual accolades they crave will come with it.
Good call.
Last season, no players from a team that did not make a bowl game made the AP All-America first team. There was one each from a non-bowl team on the second and third teams.
Of course, there are some excellent players on losing teams, such as New Mexico State running back Larry Rose III. The 185-pound junior was a third-team All-American and ran for 1,651 yards and 14 touchdowns for a team that won three games.
Here are some of the best players in college football playing for teams that did not reach the postseason last year. And it doesn't look particularly promising for those teams to get there this season, either.
Chidobe Awuzie, CB, Colorado
Did you know the Buffaloes had one of the better pass defenses in the Pac-12 last year? Yes, really. Awuzie switches between cornerback and nickel and became the first CU defensive back to lead the team in tackles for loss (13). The senior is a legitimate NFL prospect.
Quin Blanding, S, Virginia
One of the best safeties in the country, Blanding ranked second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with 115 tackles last season. New coach Bronco Mendenhall plays the type of aggressive defense that could set up the 215-pound Blanding to spend a lot of time in opponents' backfields. If Mendenhall had a few more like Blanding, this rebuild would go much faster.
Charles Harris, DE, Missouri
The latest in a recent string of excellent pass rushers for Missouri. The junior had 11.5 tackles for loss, including seven sacks, and 10 quarterback hurries. Harris led a solid defense last season, though Missouri's offense was anemic. Could be more of the same this year.
Brian Hill, RB, Wyoming
The Mountain West's leading rusher at 135.9 yards per game. The Cowboys are still looking for a turnaround under third-year coach Craig Bohl, who led North Dakota State to three straight FCS national titles before coming to Laramie. Wyoming will lean heavily on the 219-pound Hill to break a four-year bowl drought.
William Likely, CB, Maryland
The senior is a solid corner and one of the best return men in the nation. Likely averaged 17.7 yards per punt return last season and led the nation with 1,197 total return yards. He also played some offense late last season and new Maryland coach DJ Durkin has said he expects to use the senior in all three phases of the game.
Mike Warren, RB, Iowa State
Warren should be right at home in new coach Matt Campbell's spread offense. Campbell's Toledo teams ranked either first or second in the Mid-American Conference in rushing the last three seasons. Warren ran for 1,339 yards as a redshirt freshman last season, tops in the nation among freshman. The Cyclones will need a few upsets and some big performances by Warren to get bowl eligible.
EXTRA POINT
Six more players set to star on teams that could struggle to make the postseason: Boom Williams, RB, Kentucky; Jake Replogle, DL, Purdue; Fish Smithson, S, Kansas; Matt Milano, LB, Boston College; Matt Davis, QB, SMU; Devonte Boyd, WR, UNLV.

College Football Pick Six: Blanding, Harris, Likely star for struggling teams


Nick Murray shows where it all began: one of his first brewers, which he and John Schott used to brew beer in his garage before pairing with Lakeside Brewery. The brewer now sits at Lakeside Tavern, and they plan to make small ‘mystery’ beer batches in it. KAYSEY PRICE / FORUM NEWS SERVICE
The fermenters where Nick Murray and John Schott brew the beers for The Lakeside Brewery. KAYSEY PRICE / FORUM NEWS SERVICE
DETROIT LAKES—Beer. It seems to have been around forever, capturing people's interest since the beginning of time. Nick Murray and John Schott, who began manning the Lakeside Brewery back in April, are no exception—for them, brewing the beverage has become an "obsession."
It all began when Murray and Schott, who have been best friends since high school, were working at Zorbaz in Detroit Lakes, and the craft beer scene started growing.
"We were able to taste a lot of (craft beers) that a lot of people weren't able to get," Murray remembers.
From there the ale interest began brewing between the two friends.
"I was like 'well, why don't we start a brewery?'" Murray said, recalling that they bought their first brew kit off Amazon, and "it was really bad," he laughed. "When we bottled it, a couple of the bottles exploded."
But the two kept a positive attitude and took to the books.
"I hate reading" Murray said. "I am a picture person all the way."
But he said once he gets hooked on something, he gets obsessed.
"It's like, 'get out of my way,'" Murray added, saying he and Schott had a "let's keep trying" attitude. Eventually, after much experimenting, they began getting the hang of the brewing process and turned one of their garages into a brewery.
"Once we hit that point, it was kind of frustrating," Murray recalled.
A restaurant wasn't something Murray and Schott wanted to tackle—they wanted to open their own brewery, but "the banks wouldn't even look at you," Murray said.
Murray and Schott had spent time working at local restaurants and had family and friends supporting their obsession. They even earned a few awards for their brew creations, including a Zorbaz Home Brew award and second place in the porter category of an American Homebrewers Association competition.
But it wasn't until Chet Collins, the owner of Lakeside Tavern, approached the two brewers with an idea that their obsession found a home. Collins had the brewery, and Murray and Schott were brewers, so they decided to put the two together.
"It was kind of surreal when we got this deal," Murray said, remembering that they brewed a beer batch at the Lakeside Brewery with Collins, and he was on board within a matter of hours.
With the agreement in place, Murray and Schott were able start "figuring out the nooks and crannies of the new brewery" and continued getting creative with their brews.
"I try to make (brewing) as fun as possible and as interesting as possible," Murray said. "To me brewing is an art—it's a science, but you have to have a creative side."
Murray, who went to culinary school, says the food creativity comes in handy with the different flavors involved in the beer-brewing business, and they do their best to meld the science side with the creative side.
"(We're) not so much on quantity. (We're) more on quality," Murray said, adding that they have five in-house brews as of right now, one of each type of beer: India pale ale, porter, pale ale, lager and shandy, and they are hoping to add a couple more soon.
Their goal is to try "to appeal to everyone."
"My thoughts are more on the demographics of the area," Murray said, since he sees the area as having starkly different taste in beers: the craft beer scene is starting to emerge, but "people are also still drinking Old Milwaukee," Murray said.
They want to respect the differing tastes by making beer that just "tastes great," and their method seems to be working.
"We average about eight kegs a week, so it's going well. The Shaka Shandy is definitely a top seller right now," Murray said, adding that they make the shandy's lemonade in-house.
And the positive feedback from customers is giving the brewers a feeling like they're "not under any pressure," so they're "just trying to take different angles to (brewing)."
Murray and Schott are hoping to start a "mystery tap line" in about a month where customers will blindly test a new beer and try to describe on a comment card what they think the flavors are.
They may also start showcasing local home brewers' recipes, giving other brewers who may still be stuck in their garage a little recognition.
They're even going to try to change a city ordinance in September so they can sell their growlers on Sundays.
But with all the change, the "Brew Boys" still focus on making good beer and staying humble, although some have dubbed them "brewmasters."
"That's a title I feel you have to earn," Murray said, adding that he doesn't feel like they will ever reach that level.


Isaac Dogbe passed the biggest test of his career when he was taken to 12 rounds Tabanao on Friday night.
The Ghanaian maintained the underhand throughout the fight and was deservedly awarded unanimous victory 120-109, 117-113, 119-110.
But many at the ringside believed it was a much closer affair as Tebanao stood toe to toe with Dogbe all fight long, the partisan Ghanaian notwithstanding.
With the victory, Isaac Dogbe added the vacant WBC World Junior Featherweight and Tebana's hitherto Asia Oriental title to the WBO Africa Featherweight belt he already held.
The highly rated Ghanaian boxer currently ranked 12 in the world in the Junior Featherweight division by WBO hopes to rise in the ratings ahead of a possible elimination later this year as he chases the world title.
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Boxing: Isaac Dogbe beats Tebanao by unanimous decision


Isaac Dogbe passed the biggest test of his career when he was taken to 12 rounds Tabanao on Friday night. The Ghanaian maintained the underhand throughout th


Carl Lee Jones, Sr.
61 years ago Carl Reached down and took the hand of the love of his life, Nancy, and on August 27th Nancy reached down from heaven to take his hand and to reunite their love and to guide him home where his valiant battle with cancer was won. The family will receive friends Monday from 6-8 p.m. at East Tennessee Funeral Home or anytime at hte home of the daughter Janice Harvey - 3100 Lucy Place in Kingsport. A masonic service will be held at 8 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with MM Martin lodge #547 officiating Graveside service will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at East Tennessee Cemetery with Pastor Phil Whittemore officiating. To post an online condolence please visit easttnfuneral.com or follow us on Facebook. East Tennessee Funeral Home and Cemetery are honored to serve the Jones Family.


61 years ago Carl Reached down and took the hand of the love of his life, Nancy, and on August 27th Nancy reached down from heaven to take his hand and to reunite their love and to guide him


DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump warned Saturday of a “war on the American farmer,” telling a crowd in Iowa that rival Hillary Clinton “wants to shut down family farms” and implement anti-agriculture policies.
Trump’s speech at the annual “Roast and Ride” fundraiser for Republican Sen. Joni Ernst came just hours after Clinton received her first national security briefing as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Trump skipped the 42-mile motorcycle ride that preceded the event in a state where polls show a tight contest, a rare bright spot for Trump amid a sea of challenging battleground states. Joining him on stage were top Iowa Republicans — among them Ernst, Gov. Terry Branstad, Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Steve King — in a rare show of support for a candidate who has struggled to unite his party.
In a hat tip to Iowa’s agriculture industry, Trump renewed his commitment to continuing a requirement that all gasoline sold contain an ethanol-based additive, an issue important to corn growers. He also promised to cut taxes on family farms, which he called the “backbone” of the country.
“Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms just like she wants to shut down the mines and the steelworkers,” he said in front of a wall of straw bales at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. “She will do this not only through radical regulation, but also by raising taxes on family farms – and all businesses – to rates as high as nearly 50 percent.”
Clinton’s campaign website touts a plan to increase funding to support farmers and ranchers in local food markets and regional food systems, saying she’ll create a “focused safety net to help family farms get through challenging times.” It also says she plans to target federal resources in commodity payment, crop insurance, and disaster assistance programs to support family operations.
Branstad, in an interview with The Associated Press prior to the speech, said he felt that Trump could score points against Clinton by focusing on agricultural issues. Branstad, whose son runs Trump’s campaign in the state, said he also hopes Trump would launch campaign ads there and that he sees the race as “about even.”
“I don’t like that but, hopefully, that’s going to change,” Branstad said.
Speaking to an overwhelmingly white crowd, he again pledged that as president he would help African-Americans living in cities with high crime and low employment. He offered no specifics for how he would achieve that goal. He also continued to criticize Clinton for branding young criminals as “super-predators” in comments more than 20 years ago.
“Remember that? ‘Super-predators,'” he said. “And they were very, very insulted. But now people have forgotten.” Clinton’s primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, had criticized her for the remark, and she has since apologized for it.
Amid his ongoing appeal to black voters, Trump drew an online backlash Saturday for a tweet he sent in response to the shooting death of NBA star Dwyane Wade’s cousin, who was gunned down near the Chicago school where she had planned to register her children.
“Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” Trump tweeted. He later sent a tweet offering his “condolences to Dwyane Wade and his family.”
Campaigning in Florida, Clinton running mate Tim Kaine said, “We just ought to be extending our sympathy to the family,” and added, “That’s the only reaction that’s appropriate right now.”
Clinton met Saturday for more than two hours with intelligence officials at the FBI office in White Plains, New York, for her first overview of the major threats facing the nation around the globe since becoming the Democratic nominee. Trump received his briefing earlier this month, a customary move for major party nominees but one that has been the subject of a political tussle during the campaign.
Trump also previewed his immigration plans at the Iowa event, saying that he was developing an “exit-entry tracking system to ensure those who overstay their visas, that they’re quickly removed.” The proposal echoed the language of Trump’s former primary rival, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is now advising him.
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Thomas reported from White Plains, New York. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin in Washington and Alan Suderman in Miami contributed to this report.
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Warning of ‘war’ on farmers, Trump seeks support in Iowa


Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after the former congressman was accused in yet another sexting scandal.
"After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband," she said in a statement issued by Clinton's presidential campaign. "Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy."
The New York Post published photos late Sunday that it said Weiner had sent last year to a woman, whom it identified only as a "40-something divorcee" who lives "out West" and is a supporter of Donald Trump.
The photos included several shots of Weiner bare-chested and two close-ups of his bulging underwear. In one of the pictures, Weiner is in bed with his toddler son while he is texting the woman, according to the Post.
Weiner told the Post that he and the woman "have been friends for some time."
"She has asked me not to comment except to say that our conversations were private, often included pictures of her nieces and nephews and my son and were always appropriate," he told the newspaper.
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Weiner didn't return a phone call, text or email from The Associated Press. Weiner deleted his Twitter account Monday.
The Post didn't say how it had obtained the photographs and messages.
Weiner, a Democrat from New York City, quit Congress in 2011 after it discovered that he was sending women sexually explicit messages. Weiner ran for mayor of New York in 2013, but that bid collapsed after it was reported that he was continuing to sext women.
Since then, Weiner has remained in the public eye, commenting on politics on a local cable news show. A documentary offering a cringe-inducing inside view of his mayoral campaign and its unraveling played in theaters earlier this year and is set to air on Showtime this fall.

Huma Abedin, aide to Hillary Clinton, leaving husband Anthony Weiner


Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after the former congressman was accused in yet another


North Dakota State's Nick DeLuca and quarterback Easton Stick leave the field after their overtime win over Charleston Southern Saturday, August 27, 2016, at the Fargodome.David Samson / The Forum
North Dakota State senior linebacker Nick DeLuca warms up before kick off against Charleston Southern on Saturday, August 27, 2016, at the Fargodome.David Samson / The Forum
FARGO—The waiting game has started with Nick DeLuca's shoulder. Will two weeks be enough healing time for the North Dakota State middle linebacker to play against Eastern Washington?
The senior captain dislocated his shoulder on the first play of the second half Saturday night, Aug. 27, against Charleston Southern. Bison head coach Chris Klieman said the medical staff was able to pop it right back in and DeLuca spent the rest of the game with his arm in a sling and an ice wrap around his shoulder.
"Our hope and Nick's hope is over the next two weeks that it calms down, tightens up and he can play and that's where we're at," Klieman said.
DeLuca, a senior from Omaha, will not practice this week but the aim is for him to return to the practice field next week and be in the lineup when NDSU hosts the Eagles at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 10, at Gate City Bank Field at the Fargodome. He was hurt when his shoulder took the brunt of a tackle against Charleston Southern running back Mike Holloway.
DeLuca did not miss a game his first three years and reached the starting lineup in the playoff run his sophomore year when starting linebacker Travis Beck was hurt. He led the Bison in tackles last season with 135 and was on several "watch lists" for national awards and preseason All-American teams.
NDSU has a bye this week and the fact DeLuca has a chance to play against the Eagles was good news to the Bison coaching staff.
"It's encouraging right now," Klieman said. "We'll see how it progresses the next two weeks, or if it's three weeks. We'll evaluate it on a week-to-week basis."
Junior linebacker Matt Plank played in DeLuca's absence and was effective with six tackles. Plank was also hurt in the second half, but X-rays on his arm were negative.
Other minor injuries were a sprained ankle to running back King Frazier and a knee ailment to nose guard Aaron Steidl. Frazier's injury happened early in the game, but it wasn't enough to prevent him from a 25-yard scoring run in overtime for the game-winner. Steidl will be OK, Klieman said.
Klieman indicated practice this week may be more physical than it was in the week or two leading up to the Charleston Southern game. Full preparation for Eastern Washington, who plays at Washington State on Saturday, Sept. 3, won't be until next week, he said.
The initial FCS coaches and media polls won't be released until next week, but it's probably a safe bet Charleston Southern did not hurt itself with the 24-17 overtime loss. The Buccaneers, ranked sixth in one preseason poll, had some speed and power on defense that will most likely make it a FCS playoff threat.
"Seeing them on film all summer and seeing them in person, they're as good of a defense as I've seen come to the Fargodome," Klieman said. "I would put them up there with the Northern Iowas. They're athletic, physical and they had a great scheme against us."
It was the second year in a row NDSU appeared on the ESPN FCS Kickoff game, which is played a week before almost every other college football team. The Bison will not be part of the game next year, Klieman said.
NDSU still has one non-conference game to schedule in 2017 before traveling to Eastern Washington on Sept. 16 and hosting Robert Morris University (Pa.) on Sept. 23.
"I like the FCS classic but I'm glad we're not going to play in it next year," Klieman said. "It's a grind when you come into camp in late July. It's a lot of football for these guys."

DeLuca iffy for Eastern Washington game in two weeks with shoulder injury


After last year’s long dry spring and summer led to numerous brush fires around Langley, you’d think people would understand fire safety.
After the infamous case of six dogs dying inside a hot car, their deaths covered up as a theft by their dog walker, you’d think people would know not to leave animals in a car on a sunny day.
And after any of a series of tragedies, you would expect people to not forget their children in their vehicles, either.
But these incidents keep happening. Perhaps we forget, over the cool and rainy months that make up more than half our year. So, with another heat wave inbound, here’s a quick refresher course on surviving and thriving in the heat.
• Water: drink it. Stay hydrated, and keep those around you, especially children and the elderly, cool and hydrated too.
• Cars: Do not leave anyone or anything that breathes in a hot car. You wouldn’t put your dog in an oven, would you?
• Cigarettes: If you are out for a walk, and you must light one, maybe take that butt home with you. Do not toss it onto the side of the road. Likewise, do not flick them from your car into dry beds of mulch or long grass. Those sirens you hear minutes, hours, days later? Those could be your fault.
• Air conditioning: If you are very hot and uncomfortable, seek it out. Head to the library, the community centre, the shopping mall. Sit for a while. Drink some water again. Wait until the temperature drops a bit.
• Fire: Do not set them. Do not build a bonfire, no, not even in a brick-lined pit. Those men in the big red truck will give you a ticket.
The vast majority of our readers know all this already. But if we can remind one person, it’s worth a lecture once a year.
– M.C.


2016-08-30 03:00
By Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
President Tsai Ing-wen’s （蔡英文） “honeymoon” period is ending, the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation said yesterday, citing its latest poll, which found a drop of nearly 20 percentage points in Tsai’s approval rating since her inauguration on May 20.
The telephone-based survey showed that 52.3 percent of respondents expressed satisfaction with Tsai’s handling of national matters, a 17.6 percentage point decline from three months ago.
The percentage of respondents dissatisfied with her performance climbed 24.4 percentage points from 8.8 percent in May to 33.2 percent.
“It appears that a downward trend in Tsai’s approval rating shows no sign of stopping. As such, we can say the president’s honeymoon period is about to end,” foundation chairman You Ying-lung （游盈隆） told a news conference in Taipei.
Respondents gave Tsai a score of 61.28 out of 100 for her performance as president over the past three months, which the foundation said indicates that the public believes there is much room for improvement and could “flunk” Tsai if she does not try harder.
Regarding cross-strait issues, 51.4 percent said they were content with Tsai’s handling of the nation’s relations with Beijing, despite the indefinite stagnation of cross-strait ties, compared with 39.6 percent who felt otherwise.
Comparing the survey with the May poll, which found that nearly 70 percent of respondents approved of Tsai’s refusal to recognize the so-called “1992 consensus,” the foundation said the public’s views on cross-strait ties have apparently changed, adding that Tsai’s administration should not take the matter lightly.
The so-called “1992 consensus,” a term former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Su Chi （蘇起） admitted making up in 2000, refers to a tacit understanding between the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） and the Chinese Communist Party that both sides of the Taiwan Strait acknowledge there is “one China,” with both sides having their own interpretation of what “China” means.
Topping the list of areas in which respondents expressed satisfaction with Tsai’s performance were international affairs with a 56.5 percent approval rate, followed by pension reform （55.9 percent）, national defense （48.8 percent）, judicial reform （48.2 percent）, the economy （45.9 percent） and labor policy （40.7 percent）.
However, respondents were divided on whether the president has lived up to her pledge to have “the most communication-friendly government,” with 47 percent support against 47.2 percent opposition.
The survey also showed a lack of public consensus on the abolition of the controversial Special Investigation Division （SID）, with 43 percent of those polled in favor of keeping the agency, while 37.4 percent called for it to be immediately disbanded.
While Tsai’s honeymoon period is coming to an end, the results indicated that respondents were willing to give the president “the benefit of the doubt,” National Sun Yat-sen University political science professor Liao Da-chi （廖達琪） said.
Chinese Culture University politics professor Yang Tai-shun （楊泰順） attributed Tsai’s declining support rating to swing voters’ generally negative perception of issues to which she has attached great importance, such as abolishing the SID and improving labor conditions.
The poll collected 1,076 valid samples from people aged 20 and older from Monday to Wednesday last week, and has a margin of error of 2.99 percentage points.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES

《TAIPEI TIMES 焦點》 President’s ‘honeymoon’ nearing end: foundation


By Stacy Hsu / Staff reporterPresident Tsai Ing-wen’s （蔡英文） “honeymoon” period is ending, the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation said yesterday, citing its latest poll, which found a drop of nearly 20 percentage points in Tsai’s approval rating since her inauguration on May 20.


Story highlights Gene Wilder was the kind of movie star who could have only come into being during the 1970s, when movies themselves were in flux, writes Gene Seymour.
Seymour: He made the transition from character actor to leading man, showing that he could be zany and still make an emotional connection to audiences
Gene Seymour is a film critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and the Washington Post. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.
(CNN) Gene Wilder, who died Monday at 83 after a long illness, was the kind of movie star who could have only come into being during the 1970s, when movies themselves were in flux.
For American film, especially, it was a decade of creative upheaval and ferment; when leading men weren't just in the traditional good-looking guy mode, such as Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, but also regular-looking guys with strong-if-quirky personalities, such as Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman and a bespectacled polymath named Woody Allen.
Wilder's leading man capital was every bit as strong as these performers' -- and his range was, likely, even broader.
He could be nerdy and needy, as he was in his first two notable screen roles, the diffident newlywed undertaker in 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" and the explosively neurotic accountant in 1968's "The Producers."
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He could be winsome and enigmatic, as he was in the 1971 version of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (one of those box-office flops that later became a cult classic). He could be implacably cool (the fast-drawing Waco Kid in 1974's "Blazing Saddles") or unaccountably weird (the doctor in love with a sheep in 1972's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask").

A new kind of Hollywood star: Gene Wilder


He was the kind of movie star who could have only come into being during the 1970s when movies themselves were in flux, writes Gene Seymour. Gene Wilder died Monday at 83 after a long illness,


A family were given an £8,000 handout in order to leave their home ahead of a huge flats demolition.
The family, who live in Addison Crescent, close to the site of the former tower blocks at Queens Park, Layton, were given the cash by demolition firm Lovell.
In secret documents seen by The Gazette, the pay-out was for “ongoing disturbance” and to vacate their property during the explosive demolition of the three blocks on July 31. While many residents in nearby homes agreed to move out temporarily without fuss, one family complained to the firm about the impact on them with Lovell agreeing to pay the £8,000 to settle the row.
In one letter, the company said: “Further to our recent correspondence regarding the ongoing demolition work at Queens Park, Blackpool, I would confirm that Lovell is prepared to make an ex-gratia payment to you in recognition of the disturbance you have experienced and more particularly in lieu of your confirmed willingness to vacate your home at Addison Crescent throughout the operation of the temporary demolition exclusion zone at Queens Park during the ‘blow-down’ of the three remaining tower blocks.
“Specifically it is hereby agreed that Lovell will pay you the sum of £8,000 in two instalments; £4,000 on receipt of receiving your signed acknowledgement and acceptance of the terms set out in this letter, and the balance of £4,000 to be paid immediately after the event.
“The terms set out in this letter are confidential between ourselves and you undertake to us not to disclose any of these terms to any third party save with our consent or if compelled to do so by any court or authority of competent jurisdiction.
“They also represent a full and final settlement in respect of your ongoing complaints.
“If the above terms are acceptable to you, please sign, date and return to us the enclosed copy of this letter. Upon receipt we will make arrangements to process the first payment to you.”
It is signed by Bruce Lister, Lovell’s regeneration manager who worked on the £22m project. In a second letter, which again uses Mr Lister’s name, Lovell said: “A payment of £8,000 has today been made into your current account, as per your requirements. I now await confirmation that you will comply with the terms of our agreement and also seek reaffirmation that this agreement will remain confidential between us.”
Today, a Lovell spokesman refused to confirm that the payment was made and said: “We won’t be commenting on this, apart from to reiterate that – as the company has previously publicly stated – the earlier postponement of the demolition was entirely because our specialist demolition subcontractors advised that more time was needed to ensure the safe demolition of the blocks.”
Blackpool Council paid a set fee to Lovell to carry out the operation, with the cost of the £8,000 pay-out being met by Lovell and not the town hall.
The family refused to comment when approached by The Gazette.
The July 31 demolition operation was hailed a success on the day with residents only out of their houses for a few hours.
It was the final clearance phase of the scheme which had begun in March 2013 with the removal of the Healey Street maisonettes.
Two other tower blocks Ashworth Court and Charles Court, were taken down gradually to make room for new houses, but it was decided it would be better to blow up the final three.
Residents were asked to evacuate the area at 8.15am and four special support centres were set up where people could get free hot breakfasts and refreshments.
Hundreds did so without serious complaints although some people said that the dust cloud which enveloped spectators downwind had caused alarm.
Lovell called in teams to clean up the dust from the area and clean residents’ windows after the event and said all harmful material had been removed from the towers before the blasts. The demolitions had been originally scheduled for May, but had to be delayed due to more work needing to be done to weaken the structures and to give time for lessons to be learned from a similar demolition in Liverpool at Seaforth which failed to bring the buildings down.
The day after the demolition Mr Lister said: “It was well planned but there’s a great sense of relief that everything appears to have gone well.
“It couldn’t have been done if people hadn’t been prepared to move out for a few houses while the work was done – so my thanks to them.”
The rubble from the three flats, twenty-three storey Walter Robinson Court and 16-storey Elizabeth and Churchill Courts, will be used to provide foundations for 99 new homes to be built on the site which should be completed by Spring 2018.
It is the second phase of the development carried out by Lovell. The first phase involved the gradual dismantling of the Ashworth Court and Charles Court tower blocks and the construction of 92 new homes.
The demolition was shown live on the Gazette’s Facebook page and was seen by 2.5 million people around the world.

Family offered £8k for moving out on flats’ demolition day


A family were given an £8,000 handout in order to leave their home ahead of a huge flats demolition.


China wants a successful G20 but suspects West may derail agenda
By Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina
BEIJING, Aug 29 (Reuters) - China is hoping to cement its standing as a global power when it hosts leaders from the world's biggest economies this weekend, but suspects the West and its allies will try to deny Beijing what it sees as its rightful place on the international stage.
Ensuring that this does not happen will be one of President Xi Jinping's priorities, and a key mark of how successful China will judge the G20 summit to be.
Beijing wants to use the Sept 4-5 meeting in the tourist hub of Hangzhou to lay out a broad strategy for global growth, but talks are likely to be overshadowed by arguments over everything from territorial disputes to protectionism, diplomats said.
"From where China sits, it looks like the Americans are trying to encircle them," said a senior Western envoy, describing conversations with Chinese officials ahead of G20 as being dominated by the South China Sea row and an advanced U.S. anti-missile system to be deployed in South Korea.
In recent months, China has been incensed by a ruling against its claims in the South China Sea by an international court, a case initiated by Manila but blamed by Beijing on Washington.
While China wants to make sure its highest profile event of the year goes off successfully, Xi will be under pressure at home to ensure he is strong in the face of challenges to his authority on issues like the South China Sea, going by reports in state media.
China has already made clear it does not want such matters overshadowing the meeting, which will be attended by U.S. President Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and other world leaders.
State media has given great play to the idea that G20 is for China to show leadership in shaping global governance rules and forging ahead with sustainable global growth, with the official People's Daily saying this could be one of the G20's most fruitful ever get-togethers.
"Let's make cooperation ever higher," it wrote in a commentary last week.
But the state-run Study Times wrote in mid-August that Western countries were trying to deliberately exclude a rising China and deny it a proper voice on the world stage with schemes like the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership.
"Trying to get back their right to global governance, they are forging a new 'sacred alliance', striving to establish new rules," the influential paper, published twice a week by the Central Party School, wrote in a G20 commentary.
"These new rules will exclude China."
ANGERED BY BRITAIN, AUSTRALIA
Overseas, China has been angered by questions raised by Britain and Australia over strategic Chinese investments in their countries, saying it smacks of protectionism and paranoia.
Australia has blocked the A$10 billion ($7.7 billion) sale of the country's biggest energy grid to Chinese bidders, while Britain has delayed a $24 billion Chinese-invested nuclear project.
But Western officials have their own concerns about access for their companies in China and are increasingly not afraid to talk about it.
Joerg Wuttke, the President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, said there has been a change in tone as European officials having been expressing more dissatisfaction with China's overcapacity problems and a lack of reciprocal market access for European companies.
"It has reached the point where people are not afraid to speak up any more. They feel like they have to be tougher in front of their own constituencies," Wuttke told Reuters.
A European official involved in trade issues with China expressed exasperation at China's attitude on protectionism.
"The Chinese would shut you down at once if you said you wanted to buy one of their grids. You wouldn't get to the end of the sentence," the official added.
None of this will make for plain sailing at G20.
"China is angry with almost everyone at the moment," said a second Beijing-based Western diplomat familiar with the summit.
To be sure, China does want G20 to go smoothly, said a third Western diplomat.
"It's very important from the stance of national pride," said the diplomat, pointing out it was not uncommon for G20s to be hijacked by issues other than economics.
"It's a minefield for China."
JAPAN WORRIES
Then there is Japan, a country with which China has been embroiled in disputes for much of the last decade over their wartime past and a spat over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.
Last week, China's top diplomat called on Japan to be "constructive" at G20, with the deeper fear in Beijing that Japan is angling to become involved in the South China Sea dispute as well, at the behest of its ally the United States.
Wang Youming, the head of the developing countries programme at the Foreign Ministry-backed China Institute of International Studies, wrote in the widely-read Chinese tabloid the Global Times that the closer G20 got, the more Japan was trying to cause trouble.
"Japan is getting entangled in the South and East China Sea issues, cosying up to the Philippines, and urging China to respect the result of the so-called 'arbitration' case," Wang wrote.


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China wants a successful G20 but suspects West may derail agenda


Carlos Creek Winery is the first in the Midwest to be able to bottle wine in single-serving plastic miniatures. (Lowell Anderson / Echo Press)
ST. PAUL—When the puck drops for Minnesota Wild games at the Xcel Energy Center this season, fans can sip on wine from Alexandria's Carlos Creek Winery as they watch.
The winery has signed a contract to be the sole provider for wine at the St. Paul arena's hockey games and other events, such as concerts.
The deal was made possible when the winery added equipment so it could bottle single-serving plastic bottles. The winery is first in the Midwest to be able to offer this type of bottle, according to Tami Bredeson, president of Carlos Creek Winery.
The sports venue is a first for Carlos Creek, but may not be the last, if things go well at the Xcel.
"We may be able to parlay that into other opportunities," said Tyler Bredeson, vice president for operations for Carlos Creek.
The opportunity became available when Barefoot wines opted not to renew as the Xcel 's wine vendor.
Based on Barefoot's sales, Michelle Bredeson, vice president of sales, said that the "low-end of expectations" is to sell about 30,000 single-serve bottles per year at the Xcel. Each serving is 6.3 ounces, about one-fourth of a bottle.
The winery will be selling its Minnescato, Trinity and Chardonnay brands and its Minnesota Nice line of wines — Wobegon White, Hot Dish Red and You Betcha Blush, which has a label featuring two moose playing hockey.
The sales at the Xcel will start with the beginning of the Wild's season in October.
If hockey and wine may seem an unlikely pairing, Carlos Creek also has other new outlets:
-- Minnesota State Fair: Minnesota Nice single-serve miniatures are available at the French Creperie restaurant that started this week.
-- Guthrie Theater: Carlos Creek wines will be the exclusive wines available in the VIP Kitchak Lounge of the Minneapolis theater, to be served at some special events. The winery is working on getting its wines served at all bars in the Guthrie, offering a changing selection of wines served from full-size bottles.
-- Ordway Theater: While a deal is not yet finalized, Carlos Creek wines should soon be available at all the bars in the St. Paul theater and will be the exclusive wines available in the private donors lounges. Like the Guthrie, the wine selection will change and be served from full-size bottles.
While selling wine at the new venues is a good opportunity for the winery, the ability to build up the Carlos Creek brand in the Twin Cities metro area makes the deal even more attractive.
"If all goes well, it should make Carlos Creek more at the forefront of people's minds when they are buying wine in the Twin Cities," Tyler Bredeson said.

Wild about wine: Carlos Creek expands into Xcel Energy Center, other Twin Cities venues


CLEVELAND (AP) _ These Ohio lotteries were drawn Friday:
Estimated jackpot: $76 million
9-2-8
(nine, two, eight)
4-5-4
(four, five, four)
9-5-3-5
(nine, five, three, five)
1-9-2-8
(one, nine, two, eight)
1-1-3-8-8
(one, one, three, eight, eight)
7-5-5-7-9
(seven, five, five, seven, nine)
Estimated jackpot: $142 million
03-13-21-24-26
(three, thirteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-six)


CLEVELAND (AP) _ These Ohio lotteries were drawn Friday:
Estimated jackpot: $76 million
9-2-8
(nine, two, eight)
4-5-4
(four, five, four)
9-5-3-5
(nine, five, three, five)
1-9-2-8
(one, nine, two, eight)
1-1-3-8-8
(one, one, three, eight, eight)
7-5-5-7-9
(seven, five, five, seven, nine)
Estimated jackpot: $142 million


Parsons, Gerald Lee “Gerry”
Died August 17, 2016, peacefully, surrounded by his beloved family. His final words were “I love you, hon.”
Born June 17, 1922 in Hatfield, Missouri. His parents Sylvia & Orville Parsons instilled in him a passion for life, love of nature, respect for all people, a great sense of humor and values of fairness, honesty, integrity and compassion that he carried throughout his life. He loved and treasured his friends and adored his family. Gerald married his childhood sweetheart Roberta Richardson, they had a 65-year long love affair… the kind of love that people write poetry and music about. Together they provided a marriage blueprint for the relationship we all hope for… but may be too human to achieve. Gerald fulfilled his childhood dream of flying by serving his country during WWII as a Navy pilot. He became an aeronautical engineer, a rocket scientist. He was key in development of the anti-ballistic missile that is used all over the world for defense. He was a pioneer in the missile and space industry. His job moved the family all over America and around the world.
Gerald and his family had a passion for travel. He was always up for any adventure. Always! In spite of many admirable accomplishments in his life, he remained humble, he saw himself as a Missouri farm boy. Throughout his life he continued to own and operate a farm in Missouri near his childhood home. He will be buried in Missouri with his beloved wife. He was known for his loyal friendship, a ready smile, positive approach to everything, universal kindness, joy for life, a great laugh…he loved ice cream, hummingbirds, good views, boats, old cars, golf, his pecan trees, gardening, woodworking, saltines & soup, and more ice cream.
He enjoyed a long and wonderful life, he will be profoundly missed by his two daughters: Barbara Gallagher (Mike Gallagher) and Sandra Thompson, his adoring grandchildren: Sean Gallagher (Roxann), Ryanne Tezanos (Jose), Meghan Thompson (Stephen Bassett), and twins Caroline Thompson & Robert Thompson. He cherished his great grandchildren: Lovey & Elliot Gallagher, Riley & Michael Tezanos and Liam & Annabelle Bassett. Arrangements entrusted to Whitney & Murphy Funeral Home.


SUDOKU 8-23-16
Fun By The Numbers
Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!
Here’s How It Works:
Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9×9 grid, broken down into nine 3×3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
See solution in next week’s edition.


Ohio’s small game hunting season begins Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, with the advent of squirrel and mourning dove seasons, and this should be the year that you check it out or reconnect with your hunting roots.
Don’t overlook small game hunting. Deer and turkey hunting is a multi-million dollar industry in this country, with entire industries and organizations geared towards separating avid hunters from their hard-earned paychecks, and encouraging the pursuit of animals like white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and elk.
These pastimes have put millions and millions of dollars into conservation funds and through the Pittman-Robertson Act, have funded numerous state wildlife agencies allowing the purchase of land and education programs that benefit all wildlife species. That’s a great thing.
With all of that going on though, it might be easy to forget what it was that attracted you to the outdoors in the first place, and I am willing to bet it had a lot more to do with crisp autumn air and crunching leaves beneath your feet than it did with hunting leases and deer herd management.
In the spirit of helping people reconnect with their roots, I have compiled a top-10 list of reasons that hunters should get into, or back into, small game season.
One: if you are more concerned about deer season, small game hunting is a great way to do some pre-season scouting for the upcoming deer seasons.
Two: small game hunting is relatively inexpensive compared to big game or waterfowl hunting. No special permits are required, and there is very little in the way of special equipment; you don’t need a stand, special clothing, trail cameras, scents or feeders. Utility grade shotguns and rimfire rifles are cheaper than their big-game counterparts, and cartridges and shells are relatively affordable.
Three: higher success rates – it’s not very often you come out of the woods without at least an opportunity for success.
Four: you don’t need to check in your game afterwards – and you don’t need a four-wheeler or UTV to haul it out of the woods. For that matter there is no deer processor to pay, or hours to spend cutting, grinding and packaging.
Five: small game hunting helps hone the woodcraft you’ve lost over the past nine months. Everything you learn in the woods hunting small game can be applied to other types of hunting, from moving quietly and learning to pay attention to your surroundings.
Six: the exercise you get cruising through the woods and fields, it just does a body good.
Seven: the weather in September or October is usually pretty awesome, a little cool in the mornings and pleasant during the day, with plenty of daylight for afternoon hunts.
Eight: Rediscover some of your old wild game recipes, or consult the internet for something new.
Nine: with all of the different small game seasons going on, small game hunting can literally add months to your hunting season.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, small game hunting is a great way to introduce a youngster or a new hunter to the outdoors, to teach them the basics and to hunt safely.
I’m not knocking big game hunting, but between new guns and bows, deer stands, trail cameras, hunting leases, permits and months and months of preparation, feeders and food plots, UTVs and pickup trucks, utility tractors and planters, not to mention all of the paraphernalia that goes along with it – bow and gun accessories, ammunition, etc. – all for the chance, just a chance, of harvesting that one special buck, it is easy to lose sight of what you really love about the outdoors.
So leave all of those thoughts and distractions at home, leave the four-wheeler in the barn, grab some old clothes and fill the pockets with shells and hit the woods. Take along a youngster or a new hunter.
I promise you won’t regret it.
Jim Freeman is the wildlife specialist for the Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District. He can be contacted weekdays at 740-992-4282 or at jim.freeman@oh.nacdnet.net
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Getting back to basics: Small game season starts Thursday


Ohio’s small game hunting season begins Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, with the advent of squirrel and mourning dove seasons, and this should be the year that you check it out or reconnect with your hunting roots.
Don’t overlook small game hunting. Deer and turkey hunting is a multi-million dollar industry in this country, with entire industries and organizations geared towards separating avid hunters from their hard-earned paychecks, and encouraging the pursuit of animals like white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and elk.
These pastimes have put millions and millions of dollars into conservation funds and through the Pittman-Robertson Act, have funded numerous state wildlife agencies allowing the purchase of land and education programs that benefit all wildlife species. That’s a great thing.
With all of that going on though, it might be easy to forget what it was that attracted you to the outdoors in the first place, and I am willing to bet it had a lot more to do with crisp autumn air and crunching leaves beneath your feet than it did with hunting leases and deer herd management.
In the spirit of helping people reconnect with their roots, I have compiled a top-10 list of reasons that hunters should get into, or back into, small game season.
One: if you are more concerned about deer season, small game hunting is a great way to do some pre-season scouting for the upcoming deer seasons.
Two: small game hunting is relatively inexpensive compared to big game or waterfowl hunting. No special permits are required, and there is very little in the way of special equipment; you don’t need a stand, special clothing, trail cameras, scents or feeders. Utility grade shotguns and rimfire rifles are cheaper than their big-game counterparts, and cartridges and shells are relatively affordable.
Three: higher success rates – it’s not very often you come out of the woods without at least an opportunity for success.
Four: you don’t need to check in your game afterwards – and you don’t need a four-wheeler or UTV to haul it out of the woods. For that matter there is no deer processor to pay, or hours to spend cutting, grinding and packaging.
Five: small game hunting helps hone the woodcraft you’ve lost over the past nine months. Everything you learn in the woods hunting small game can be applied to other types of hunting, from moving quietly and learning to pay attention to your surroundings.
Six: the exercise you get cruising through the woods and fields, it just does a body good.
Seven: the weather in September or October is usually pretty awesome, a little cool in the mornings and pleasant during the day, with plenty of daylight for afternoon hunts.
Eight: Rediscover some of your old wild game recipes, or consult the internet for something new.
Nine: with all of the different small game seasons going on, small game hunting can literally add months to your hunting season.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, small game hunting is a great way to introduce a youngster or a new hunter to the outdoors, to teach them the basics and to hunt safely.
I’m not knocking big game hunting, but between new guns and bows, deer stands, trail cameras, hunting leases, permits and months and months of preparation, feeders and food plots, UTVs and pickup trucks, utility tractors and planters, not to mention all of the paraphernalia that goes along with it – bow and gun accessories, ammunition, etc. – all for the chance, just a chance, of harvesting that one special buck, it is easy to lose sight of what you really love about the outdoors.
So leave all of those thoughts and distractions at home, leave the four-wheeler in the barn, grab some old clothes and fill the pockets with shells and hit the woods. Take along a youngster or a new hunter.
I promise you won’t regret it.
Jim Freeman is the wildlife specialist for the Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District. He can be contacted weekdays at 740-992-4282 or at jim.freeman@oh.nacdnet.net
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Pope Francis meets Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, at the Santa Marta residence, the guest house in Vatican City where the pope lives, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke says a topic of discussion at Monday’s meeting was “how to use communication technologies to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and make a message of hope arrive, especially to those most in need.’’ (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has met with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, at the Vatican.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke says one topic of discussion at Monday's meeting was "how to use communication technologies to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and make a message of hope arrive, especially to those most in need."
The atmosphere appeared informal, with the chat taking place in the Santa Marta residence, the guest house in Vatican City where the pope lives.
Zuckerberg wore a dark suit and tie for the occasion while Chan wore a black, knee-length dress.

Pope Francis chats in person with Facebook CEO Zuckerberg


Pope Francis has met with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, at the Vatican. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke says one topic of discussion at Monday's meeting was ...


It’s from one self-declared lover of baby panda snuggles to another.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for Ottawa’s help in defraying the considerable cost of housing the critters at Calgary’s zoo in two years.
“As a fellow lover of cute cuddly panda cubs, and having observed with envy your recent opportunity to hold Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue in Toronto during their naming ceremony, I trust you can understand my own desire to embrace these pandas with open arms here in Calgary,” Nenshi wrote to Trudeau in a May 27 letter.
The word “envy” is underlined twice, followed by two typed exclamation points, and circled in purple ink with another handwritten exclamation point thrown in for good measure.
“I am writing today to request a federal government contribution towards investments required in Calgary to host both the panda family and the large number of new visitors the zoo expects. The decision for Calgary to host the pandas was supported and encouraged by the previous federal government in 2012, but no funds were provided,” the mayor writes.
Trudeau’s June 21 response thanks Nenshi for his “enthusiastic” letter and opens by telling the mayor that holding the pandas was a “once in a lifetime event” for the prime minister that “made me the envy of many, including my own children.”
But Trudeau rebuffed the funding request and suggested that the Calgary Zoo explore programs offered by the federal Western Economic Diversification agency. Trudeau said he forwarded Nenshi’s letter to Navdeep Bains, the minister in charge of that organization.
“The city of Calgary’s generosity of spirit, as most recently evidenced by welcoming Syrian refugees and those displaced from the Fort McMurray fires, leaves little doubt the giant pandas will be made to feel at home,” Trudeau writes.
Both letters were provided to The Canadian Press by Nenshi’s office, which declined to be interviewed.
Two giant pandas, Da Mao and Er Shun, were loaned to Canadian zoos for 10 years as part of a 2012 deal with China. Since 2013, the pair has been at the Toronto Zoo, where the cubs were born and later famously photographed in the arms of Trudeau.
The pandas and their progeny are to arrive at the Calgary Zoo in 2018 for a five-year stint. The exhibit is expected to prompt an influx of visitors and provide a much-needed economic boost, but the upfront outlay is sizable.
Calgary Zoo president Clement Lanthier said the “Pathway to Panda” project has a price tag of about $30 million. Renovations need to be made to the building where the creatures will live and expanded parking lots, washrooms and restaurants are required to accommodate more visitors.
Lanthier said it’s fantastic to see the mayor advocating on behalf of the zoo and it will look into what Western Economic Diversification can offer.
Calgary has committed about $8.2 million and the Alberta government is kicking in $10 million. Sponsorship deals, fundraising and the zoo’s capital reserve could make up the remainder, said Lanthier.
“I think fiscally we are very comfortable with our ability to deliver on this.”
In his letter, Nenshi said attendance at the zoo is expected to increase by 600,000 visitors a year to 1.8 million because of the pandas.
Lanthier estimates the pandas could mean an $18-million economic boost for Calgary annually.
Upgrades at the Toronto Zoo for the pandas were far less extensive.
About $3 million that was on the books to renovate a tiger exhibit was instead directed toward the pandas, said spokeswoman Jennifer Tracey. The spruced-up enclosure can be used for the tigers once the pandas leave and the big cats return.
The Toronto Zoo already gets some city funding for its capital budget and received $500,000 from the Ontario government for a panda interpretive centre. There was no federal contribution.
The city’s animal park is already large, so no other facilities needed to be expanded for increased visitors, said Tracey.
“We were fortunate in that we didn’t have to do any major upgrades aside from renovating the exhibit where the pandas would actually be.”

Nenshi seeks federal funding for Calgary Zoo panda exhibit


It’s from one self-declared lover of baby panda snuggles to another.


CALGARY – It’s from one self-declared lover of baby panda snuggles to another.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for Ottawa’s help in defraying the considerable cost of housing the critters at Calgary’s zoo in two years.
“As a fellow lover of cute cuddly panda cubs, and having observed with envy your recent opportunity to hold Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue in Toronto during their naming ceremony, I trust you can understand my own desire to embrace these pandas with open arms here in Calgary,” Nenshi wrote to Trudeau in a May 27 letter.
The word “envy” is underlined twice, followed by two typed exclamation points, and circled in purple ink with another handwritten exclamation point thrown in for good measure.
“I am writing today to request a federal government contribution towards investments required in Calgary to host both the panda family and the large number of new visitors the zoo expects. The decision for Calgary to host the pandas was supported and encouraged by the previous federal government in 2012, but no funds were provided,” the mayor writes.
Trudeau’s June 21 response thanks Nenshi for his “enthusiastic” letter and opens by telling the mayor that holding the pandas was a “once in a lifetime event” for the prime minister that “made me the envy of many, including my own children.”
But Trudeau rebuffed the funding request and suggested that the Calgary Zoo explore programs offered by the federal Western Economic Diversification agency. Trudeau said he forwarded Nenshi’s letter to Navdeep Bains, the minister in charge of that organization.
“The city of Calgary’s generosity of spirit, as most recently evidenced by welcoming Syrian refugees and those displaced from the Fort McMurray fires, leaves little doubt the giant pandas will be made to feel at home,” Trudeau writes.
Both letters were provided to The Canadian Press by Nenshi’s office, which declined to be interviewed.
Two giant pandas, Da Mao and Er Shun, were loaned to Canadian zoos for 10 years as part of a 2012 deal with China. Since 2013, the pair has been at the Toronto Zoo, where the cubs were born and later famously photographed in the arms of Trudeau.
The pandas and their progeny are to arrive at the Calgary Zoo in 2018 for a five-year stint. The exhibit is expected to prompt an influx of visitors and provide a much-needed economic boost, but the upfront outlay is sizable.
Calgary Zoo president Clement Lanthier said the “Pathway to Panda” project has a price tag of about $30 million. Renovations need to be made to the building where the creatures will live and expanded parking lots, washrooms and restaurants are required to accommodate more visitors.
Lanthier said it’s fantastic to see the mayor advocating on behalf of the zoo and it will look into what Western Economic Diversification can offer.
Calgary has committed about $8.2 million and the Alberta government is kicking in $10 million. Sponsorship deals, fundraising and the zoo’s capital reserve could make up the remainder, said Lanthier.
“I think fiscally we are very comfortable with our ability to deliver on this.”
In his letter, Nenshi said attendance at the zoo is expected to increase by 600,000 visitors a year to 1.8 million because of the pandas.
Lanthier estimates the pandas could mean an $18-million economic boost for Calgary annually.
Upgrades at the Toronto Zoo for the pandas were far less extensive.
About $3 million that was on the books to renovate a tiger exhibit was instead directed toward the pandas, said spokeswoman Jennifer Tracey. The spruced-up enclosure can be used for the tigers once the pandas leave and the big cats return.
The Toronto Zoo already gets some city funding for its capital budget and received $500,000 from the Ontario government for a panda interpretive centre. There was no federal contribution.
The city’s animal park is already large, so no other facilities needed to be expanded for increased visitors, said Tracey.
“We were fortunate in that we didn’t have to do any major upgrades aside from renovating the exhibit where the pandas would actually be.”

Trudeau rebuffs Nenshi's request for federal funding for pandas


The Toronto Zoo's pandas are to arrive at the Calgary Zoo in 2018 for a five-year stint at a cost of $30 million


Quake damaged roads threaten access to Italy town
AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — Strong aftershocks damaged two key access roads into quake-struck Amatrice on Friday, threatening to isolate the tiny hilltop town as hopes dimmed that firefighters would find any more survivors from the earthquake that killed at least 267 people.
Some crumbled buildings in Amatrice cracked even further after the biggest aftershock of Friday morning struck at 6:28 a.m. The U.S. Geological Service said it had a magnitude of 4.7, while the Italian geophysics institute measured it at 4.8.
The shaking ground also damaged one key access bridge to Amatrice, forcing emergency crews to close it. Mayor Sergio Pirozzi said he was working with authorities to find an alternative bypass also to another damaged bridge. "We hope to God it works because otherwise with the damaged stretch of road, we are without any connection" to the main roads.
Rescuers work amid collapsed building in Amatrice, central Italy, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. Rescue crews raced against time Thursday looking for survivors from the earthquake that leveled three towns in central Italy and Italy once again anguished over trying to secure its medieval communities built on seismic lands. (Italian Firefighters Vigili del Fuoco via AP)
Even before the roads were shut down, traffic into and out of Amatrice was horribly congested with emergency vehicles bringing hundreds of rescue crews up to Amatrice and dump trucks carrying tons of concrete, rocks and metal down the single-lane roads.
The aftershock was preceded by more than 50 overnight and was followed by another nine in the next hour — part of the nearly 1,000 aftershocks that have rocked Italy's central Apennine Mountains since the original 6.2 magnitude quake early Wednesday.
Premier Matteo Renzi has declared a state of emergency and authorized 50 million euros for immediate quake relief.
The Italian government also declared Saturday a day of national mourning and scheduled a state funeral to be attended by President Sergio Mattarella.
Rescue efforts continued through the night and into Friday, but more than a day and a half had passed since the last person was extracted alive from the rubble. While Renzi hailed the fact that 215 people had been rescued after the quake, authorities reported a steadily rising death toll that had hit 267 by Friday morning.
Civil protection operations chief Immacolata Postiglione still insisted Friday that the rescue effort hadn't yet switched to a recovery mission. Rescue workers have noted that a person was pulled out alive 72 hours (three days) after the 2009 earthquake in the Italian town of L'Aquila.
"I confirm, once again as we have from the start, that the units that are doing the searches and rescues, including with dogs looking for other people trapped in the rubble, are absolutely fully active," she said Friday.
On the ground, authorities were still struggling to account for all the missing, since that number is still uncertain given the large number of visitors for summer holidays and an annual food festival.
"There is still hope to find survivors under the rubble, even in these hours," Walter Milan, a mountain rescue worker, said Friday. But he conceded: "Certainly, it will be very unlikely."
The vast majority of the dead were found in leveled Amatrice, the medieval hilltop town famous for its bacon and tomato pasta sauce.
The other dead hailed from nearby Accumoli and Arcquarta del Tronto.
Flags will fly at half-staff Saturday on all public offices and a state funeral will be celebrated by a bishop in a gym in Ascoli Piceno for the victims of nearby Arquata del Tronto — to date, 49 of the dead have come from the tiny town and its hamlet Pescara del Tronto.
The first private funerals were scheduled for Friday, including one in Pomezia south of Rome celebrated by one of Pope Francis' closest collaborators, Bishop Marcello Semeraro.
Across the area, thousands have been forced to abandon their homes, either because they were destroyed or they were determined to be too unsafe. Overnight some 2,100 slept in tent camps, nearly 1,000 more than the first night after Wednesday's quake, in a sign that a significant number had found nowhere else to go.
"I have no idea what I'm going to do now, because I had renovated the house two years ago," survivor Umberto Palaferri said, showing a photo of his collapsed home on his phone. "It was all new and now I don't know what to do. I'm 76 and don't know if I can rebuild it."
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Winfield reported from Rome.
Rescuers carry away a body of a woman found in a collapsed house, in Amatrice, central Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors from Wednesday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A family looks as rescuers recover a body of a relative from a collapsed house, in Amatrice, central Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors from Wednesday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
An earthquake survivor is carried on a wheel chair in a tent camp set up as a temporary shelter following an earthquake in Pescara Del Tronto, Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Rescue crews rattled by aftershocks dug through crumbled homes Thursday looking for earthquake survivors as donations began pouring into the area and Italy again anguished over its failure to protect ancient towns and modern cities from the country's highly seismic terrain. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A man and woman comfort each other in front of a collapsed house, in Amatrice, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Rescue crews have raced against time since a devastating earthquake leveled three towns in central Italy last Wednesday Aug. 23, leaving hundreds dead. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A volunteer takes some rest in a makeshift camp set up inside a gymnasium following an earthquake, in Amatrice, central Italy, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. Rescue crews rattled by aftershocks dug through crumbled homes Thursday looking for earthquake survivors as donations began pouring into the area and Italy again anguished over its failure to protect ancient towns and modern cities from the country's highly seismic terrain. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Earthquake survivors walk in a tent camp set up as temporary shelter after an earthquake in Pescara Del Tronto, Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Rescue crews rattled by aftershocks dug through crumbled homes Thursday looking for earthquake survivors as donations began pouring into the area and Italy again anguished over its failure to protect ancient towns and modern cities from the country's highly seismic terrain. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
This combination of two satellite images provided by DigitalGlobe shows tents in a field, top, in Amatrice, Italy on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 following an earthquake, left, and April 21, 2014. Aftershocks in central Italy rattled residents and rescue workers alike Thursday, as crews worked to find more earthquake survivors and the country anguished over its repeated failure to protect ancient towns and modern cities from seismic catastrophes. (DigitalGlobe via AP)
A man is given personal belongings after rescuers recovered the body of a woman from the collapsed house, in Amatrice, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Rescue crews have raced against time since a devastating earthquake leveled three towns in central Italy last Wednesday Aug. 23, leaving hundreds dead. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Sister Marjana Lleshi gets emotional during an interview with the Associated Press in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. Sister Mariana, a 32-year-old from Albania, was one of three nuns and an elderly woman who survived the earthquake that hit central Italy early Wednesday when she escaped a collapsing convent in Amatrice, a medieval hilltop town. When the quake struck, half of the convent collapsed, three nuns and four elderly women are still missing. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
People look at a family photos that were found by rescuers in a collapsed house, in Amatrice, central Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors from Wednesday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Rescuers line up to have breakfast, in Amatrice, central Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors from Italy's earthquake . (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A group of rescuers from China arrives in Amatrice to take part in search and rescue operations two days after a deadly earthquake hit central Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors from Wednesday's earthquake. (Flavio Lo Scalzo/ANSA via AP)
This picture taken on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016 shows the crumbling hulk of the Hotel Roma in Amatrice, central Italy, where a strong quake had hit a few hours earlier. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors from Italy's earthquake. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP)
Aerial view of the village of Saletta in central Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, where a strong quake hit early Wednesday. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors as donations began pouring into the area and Italy again anguished over its failure to protect ancient towns and modern cities from the country's highly seismic terrain. (AP Photo/Localteam)
Aerial view of the village of Saletta in central Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, where a strong quake hit early Wednesday. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors as donations began pouring into the area and Italy again anguished over its failure to protect ancient towns and modern cities from the country's highly seismic terrain. (AP Photo/Localteam)
Aerial view of Accumoli in central Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, where a strong quake hit early Wednesday. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors as donations began pouring into the area and Italy again anguished over its failure to protect ancient towns and modern cities from the country's highly seismic terrain. (AP Photo/Localteam)
Aerial view of the village of Saletta in central Italy, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, where a strong quake hit early Wednesday. Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors as donations began pouring into the area and Italy again anguished over its failure to protect ancient towns and modern cities from the country's highly seismic terrain. (AP Photo/Localteam)


AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — Strong aftershocks damaged two key access roads into quake-struck Amatrice on Friday, threatening to isolate the tiny hilltop town as ...


Quake damaged roads threaten access to Italy town


A suicide bomber killed at least 45 people when he drove a car laden with explosives into a compound run by local militias in Aden on Monday, Medecins Sans Frontieres said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the southern Yemeni port city.
The official said at least 60 other people were brought into a nearby hospital run by the medical charity in Aden’s Mansoura district.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but it resembled previous suicide bombings which Islamic State said it carried out in the city.
A security source said the attack targeted a school compound where conscripts of the Popular Committees, forces allied to the internationally recognised President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, were gathered for breakfast.
The blast rocked the area and sent debris flying, sending residents fleeing, one witness said.
Islamist militants have exploited an 18-month-old civil war between the Houthis and Hadi’s supporters and launched a series of attacks targeting senior officials, religious figures, security forces and compounds of the Saudi-led Arab military coalition which supports Hadi.

'Suicide bomber kills 45 in Yemen Aden attack' (Updated)