By Alastair Macdonald
The European Union grinds back into action this week after its August break, still dazed by Britain’s midsummer vote to quit the EU and facing much the same “polycrisis” as a year ago: a mass of refugees, a fragile economy, hostile Russians and, yes, those Brits, now more awkward than ever.
When President Jean-Claude Juncker makes his annual State of the Union address to Parliament in Strasbourg on Sept. 14, he might easily repeat last year’s warning: the EU had a “last chance” to save itself from a tide of centrifugal nationalisms.
Last week, the EU’s remaining Big Three — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and their host, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi — felt they needed to renew their vows at the wellspring of the union, the island of Ventotene, where in 1941 prisoners of Mussolini wrote a manifesto for a united Europe.
That they met on the deck of the aircraft carrier Garibaldi reinforced the sense of beleaguered leaders rallying to the EU’s defence as they contemplated an obstacle-strewn political calendar for the year ahead.
The EU leaders are first preparing for a summit on Sept. 16 in Bratislava — without Britain — that aims to sketch out a post-Brexit future for the Union.
On Oct. 2, Hungary’s right-wing prime minister, Viktor Orban, is set to deliver another slap to Brussels: a largely symbolic referendum to reject an EU quota system for relocating refugees among member states — a scheme Juncker invested much capital in a year ago, but which has barely got off the ground.
TRUMP
On Nov. 8, Orban is hoping for victory for a man he calls the “valiant” Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election. Few of Orban’s EU peers are so enthusiastic. They see Trump as a disruptive maverick whose endorsement of and by Brexiteer-in-chief Nigel Farage marks him as no friend of the Union.
A Trump win could snap a transatlantic coalition on Russia that is already fraying in Europe, where governments from Paris to Bratislava are seeking a review of Ukraine-related sanctions when measures expire at year’s end. Trump might also inject a new dose of post-Brexit uncertainty for world trade.
At home, all the Big Three leaders face their own electoral challenges from eurosceptics.
It starts with Renzi, today trying to persuade Italians he has the youthful energy for rebuilding after the latest earthquake in the Apennines, unlike the scandal-tainted Silvio Berlusconi at L’Aquila in 2009, when more than 300 people died.
Probably in November, Renzi will put to a referendum the constitutional reforms he says are needed to break a political deadlock that is choking the Italian economy. Polls are tight and the eurosceptic upstarts 5-Star are gunning for the socialist premier, who is expected to resign if he loses.
Hollande is threatened with a drubbing on April 23 at the hands of far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of France’s presidential election.
Her appeal has been enhanced by Islamic State carnage in Paris and Nice and the summer row about burkinis on the beaches, although pollsters doubt she can win a May 7 runoff vote against Hollande or any other survivor from a mainstream party.
As for Merkel, she has yet to confirm she wants a fourth term at parliamentary elections due in just over a year. The biggest threat to her re-election remains her decision last year to welcome a million migrants to Germany as EU borders buckled. That has already weakened support for her conservative party.
HARDBALL
Such threats to domestic survival have often spurred leaders to take potshots at Brussels — even if only the British have taken it to the length of turning most voters against the EU entirely. But even if little has changed in Brussels since last summer, optimists might see reason to hope for more unity now.
While rows go on about how, indeed whether, EU states should share out the burden of asylum-seekers stranded in Greece and Italy, what is new is how few are arriving, at least in Greece.
Rights groups were outraged this year by hard-nosed deals with non-EU Balkan states to bar the routes north from Greece and with Turkey to stop Syrian refugees reaching Greece in the first place. But those deals did slash the numbers arriving.
It’s something EU officials find hard to boast of. Many admit privately to unease at policies that, along with efforts to pay African governments to stop people setting off for Italy, sit uncomfortably with the Union’s lofty humanitarian ideals.
But look again at Merkel, Hollande and Renzi on the Garibaldi, flagship of an EU mission off Libya that is part rescue operation and military deterrent against people smugglers, and a slightly different image of today’s EU emerges.
EU ARMY
All three spoke of Europe getting tougher and more cohesive on security. It is the kind of language that may resonate with sceptical voters dissatisfied with Europe’s struggle to thrive in a globalising world and with the likes of Orban and other eastern leaders alarmed by Merkel’s earlier open-door policy.
Relieved of the need to keep Britons from bolting, Juncker wrung howls of outrage last week from London’s europhobic press when he called national borders “the worst invention ever”. He also renewed his call for a “European army”, which was long just a pipe dream for the Luxemburger as long as Britain had a veto.
The past few days have seen Merkel and a succession of other leaders she has met, including Orban, echo such hopes of joint military structures, indicating one area where EU integration may now forge ahead in response to the British departure.
That still leaves a host of issues dividing European leaders in the coming year: whether to be nice or nasty to Britain once it decides to open negotiations; how to shore up weaknesses in the economic cooperation that underpins the euro; how far to ease sanctions in the hope of better ties with Moscow.
Consensus will be a tall order. Merkel, standing on the deck of the Garibaldi, cited security, investment and youth opportunities as three priorities for a post-Brexit new start for a Europe united and strong. But, she warned: “Danger exists, of fragmentation, of selfishness, of retreating into ourselves.”

Same old "polycrisis" as Europe's summer ends


Sensewhere, an Edinburgh-based provider of indoor-mapping technology, has been awarded £1.4 million by Scottish Enterprise, enabling it to create jobs in the Scottish capital and develop its software.
The company, a spin-out from the University of Edinburgh, is focused on software that offers universal location and navigation data to locate users and devices in dense urban areas like shopping centres and airports, where GPS and other global navigation satellite systems are blocked.
Speaking to Scotland on Sunday, chief executive and co-founder Rob Palfreyman said the funding is “huge” and “significant” for the firm.
The cash injection will be used to support research and development over the next three years to improve its technology; for example enhancing location accuracy, and performance indoors, outdoors and across multiple platforms.
Palfreyman said the financial contribution acknowledges the firm’s “world-class” technology, and will help “drive forward and accelerate” the development of its technology to stay ahead of the market.
As well as helping it add at least a further ten patent applications over the period of the grant, the capital will also enable the business to create seven jobs over the next 12 months at its base on Princes Street, complementing its current workforce at the site of 13 full-time equivalent staff.
“This grant really is going to enable us to continue to add resource in Edinburgh,” he said, explaining that the seven staff will comprise six in technical engineering and one on the commercial side.
He also pointed out that the funding complements a cash injection last year from Chinese internet services group Tencent.
“The value of the company resides in our database, and we are now starting to monetise that database in the form of location-based advertising,” he said, adding that Sensewhere has been working with Scottish Enterprise since the firm’s formation in 2009.
Jim Watson, director of innovation and enterprise services at Scottish Enterprise, added: “Sensewhere is a great example of an ambitious Scottish company that’s developing innovative technology for global markets… it’s really great to see it expand and develop.”
Palfreyman noted that the business is looking to “court” internet giants like Google, and also recently announced a partnership with navigation and mapping firm TomTom. “That’s just starting to yield business for us,” he said of the latter.
As to whether Sensewhere will pursue further funding any time soon, he said: “Never say never, but at this particular point I think we’re secure for the next few years.”

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities in the Cincinnati area said Monday that an unprecedented spike of drug overdoses seem to be leveling off, although still at higher than normal levels, after a stunning wave last week.
Newtown Police Chief Thomas Synan, who heads the Hamilton County Drug Coalition task force, said reports show heroin overdoses dropped to 10 to 15 a day over the weekend. Just Friday, emergency rooms reported 174 overdose cases over six days, for an average of 29 per day, although Synan said some likely were not from heroin. But he said 20 to 25 overdoses in a week would be more typical.
“We’re not seeing anything like we did last week, but it’s still a little elevated,” he said.
He said authorities have samples of heroin that was being sold and they will test it, hoping to determine the source. They suspect it was mixed with another drug, such as the powerful painkiller fentanyl or the elephant tranquilizer carfentanil.
“I think it shows the callousness of those who are dealing this drug,” Synan said. “They do not care about the person they are selling to, they do not care about the communities they affect.”
Communities in the neighboring states of Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia also saw overdose spikes last week. Meanwhile, Tennessee state officials on Monday urged increased public awareness of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that’s also being mixed with other drugs or as cheap counterfeits, and the increased risk of overdoses and fatalities.
Ohio health authorities reported last week that fentanyl helped fuel a record number of overdoses in 2015, when accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in the state. A record high of 47,055 people died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2014, according to the latest figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Overdose death tolls likely would be even worse without naloxone, a now widely available overdose antidote that many first responders carry. In Ohio alone, emergency medical personnel last year administered nearly 19,800 doses of naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan.
The state pharmacy board said Monday that 1,000 Ohio pharmacies, or about 47 percent of them, now offer the overdose antidote naloxone without a prescription. Expanding access to it beyond emergency responders has been a major part of Ohio’s strategy to curb the increasing overdoses and deaths.
However, authorities say use of fentanyl, which the CDC says is 50 to 100 times more potent that morphine, and even-stronger carfentanil, makes reviving users more difficult. Cincinnati first responders used multiple Narcan doses to save some users last week.
Authorities said three to five deaths are believed connected to the overdose wave last week in the Cincinnati area.
Synan praised “astonishing work” by Cincinnati firefighters and other first responders for saving as many people as they did during an exhausting wave, while adding there are rarely any calm days in the anti-drug effort.
“This has been an event, a spike,” Synan said. “But this is a continual battle that we have every single day throughout the region.”
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Associated Press writer Kantele Franko in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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Unprecedented overdose spike slows in Cincinnati


Twelve years without sugar. That has been the response of a very dear friend of mine to a meeting he had with his doctor 12 years ago. As the doctor stood before him, he delivered news that no one wants to hear; he was borderline diabetic and would need to start treatment.
But my friend is a man with two qualities everyone needs — wisdom and discipline.
He told the doctor to give him a month and let him see what he could do with diet and exercise alone. After a month of no sugar and daily exercise, his numbers were far more normal. And thus it is that, 12 years later, he has not put another drop of sugar in his system, continues to work out every day and remains healthy.
Please pay close attention at this point. I am not a medical doctor, I am not giving any advice on diabetes or any other medical condition, and this column has nothing at all to do with diabetes, really. The situation my friend has been through and handled is, to me, merely an excellent illustration of how to deal with a pressing societal issue.
In previous years, there was a near-universal acknowledgment of the sin nature of man, and people were wise enough to act and even govern accordingly. Romans 3:10 says, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” In Romans 7:18 Paul said, “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.” These and a multitude of other verses give testimony to what should be an obvious fact: every human being has a sin nature, a propensity to do wrong.
For a variety of politically correct motivations, the fact of man’s sin nature is often denied in our days. Those that do so, do so to their detriment, and that of society as a whole. When people recognize that everyone has a sin nature, they can behave and govern in such a way as to mitigate the effects, much like my friend has managed his diabetes by refraining from all sugar.
Since everyone has a sin nature, wise parents, rather than allowing their children to do whatever they want, set careful boundaries, checks and balances and safeguards around those children.
They do not allow unchecked internet access, they monitor who their kids are hanging around, they set curfews, they have rules as to what destinations and activities are acceptable, and which ones are off limits.
Since everyone has a sin nature, wise husbands and wives make themselves accountable to each other. They do not have online accounts that the spouse does not have knowledge of or access to, they give each other full access to their smart phones, and they know each other’s passwords.
Since everyone has a sin nature, a wise minister never counsels alone behind closed doors with a child or a member of the opposite sex, does not travel and stay in hotels alone, and is willingly accountable to others.
Since everyone has a sin nature, wise lawmakers put laws in place carrying consequences for wrongdoing, provide for police officers to patrol the streets, and even place limits and oversights on the officers themselves.
If there were no sin nature, there would be no need for laws or rules or officers or curfews or accountability or societal barriers or a host of other often inconvenient things. But since there is a sin nature in every man and woman and boy and girl of every race and background, it must be accounted for and dealt with on a practical level. Denying the Bible truth that man does have a sin nature promises Utopia and delivers the Maelstrom.
As we go about our days, let us do so with three things: The sobering realization that man does have a sin nature, a willingness to put up safeguards against it, and the joy of knowing that since Jesus came and died to save sinners.
And all of us are sinners. We all qualify for the opportunity to be saved.
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By Bo Wagner Contributing Columnist
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, N.C., a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. Dr. Wagner can be contacted by email at 2knowhim@cbc-web.org.
Bo Wagner is pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, N.C., a widely traveled evangelist, and the author of several books. Dr. Wagner can be contacted by email at 2knowhim@cbc-web.org.

Benefits of acknowledging the sin nature


SINGAPORE: A US software firm which chose Singapore for the world’s first public trial of driverless taxis hopes to be operating in 10 Asian and US cities by 2020, an executive said Monday.
Doug Parker, nuTonomy’s chief operating officer, said the firm is eyeing tests by early next year in three other Asian countries which he declined to name.
He said an announcement of the test venues would be made within the next month or so.
The company last week kicked off the world’s first driverless taxi service in a limited trial for invited people in a Singapore research campus.
Parker, 41, said nuTonomy was also considering trials in the Middle East, the United States and Britain.
More than a dozen people in Singapore have already experienced a ride in the “robo-taxi” within the confines of one-north, an enclave of technology and science research institutes outside the central business district.
“I think people are pretty excited that the car is driving itself. I would say they start apprehensive and scared but by the second block they start to enjoy it,” Parker said.
The current test car — a modified Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric vehicle — plies a 2.5 square mile (4.0 square km) area with set pick-up and drop off points. Trips must be booked through the company’s smartphone app and are currently by invitation only.
Five other test cars — Renault Zoes — will be added to the fleet next month.
Data from the experiment will feed into the rollout of driverless taxis across Singapore in 2018, said Parker, adding that by 2020 “we would like to be in 10 cities in Asia, the United States and maybe Europe.”
He also said a number of real-estate developers from Asia and the United States have contacted the company “about how they can use autonomous cars in their eco-friendly communities.”
Parker said the vehicle, equipped with sophisticated laser, radar and cameras, has so far experienced navigating among buses, slowing down at pedestrian lanes and adjusting to unplanned street scenes.
“One day we pulled out of here and literally five buses of schoolchildren pulled up on this very narrow street. And the buses were trading positions,” he said
“We’ve seen forklifts, we’ve seen people with wheelbarrows just right here on this one street.”
Parker said nuTonomy chose Singapore for the public tests rather than Silicon Valley because of the presence of a “loyal technical talent” — including people with doctorates in robotics — whom it does not have to share with other companies like Ford and Apple.
The company also has the full support of the Singapore government and the city-state’s flat terrain, well-marked roads and disciplined drivers make it well suited for driverless cars, Parker said.

Driverless taxi firm eyes operations in 10 cities by 2020


SINGAPORE: A US software firm which chose Singapore for the world’s first public trial of driverless taxis hopes to be operating in 10 Asian and US cities by 2020, an executive said Monday.Doug Parker, nuTonomy’s chief operating officer, said the firm is eyeing tests by early next year in three other Asian countries which he declined to name.He said an announcement of the test venues would be made within the next month or so.The company last week kicked off the world’s first driverless taxi service in a limited trial for invited people in a Singapore research campus.


A storm system off of Cuba remained poorly organized Friday and was not expected to pose a threat to the Gulf Coast this weekend, though it continues to bear watching, forecasters said.
Invest 99L was traveling west-northwest about 10 mph and could cross Florida late Sunday or Monday and enter the Gulf as a tropical wave, according to the National Hurricane Center.
“If it does get into the Gulf, then conditions could be a little more favorable for development late this weekend and early next week,” WWL-TV meteorologist Dave Nussbaum said in a Friday blog post.
Until there is an actual closed center of circulation, forecast models will continue to have a hard time showing where the system will go, Nussbaum said.
The system, which was producing increased showers and thunderstorms Friday, continues to fight wind shear and dry air, the Hurricane Center said. If it continues west, it could fizzle as it gets ripped apart over the mountains of Cuba.
The Hurricane Center gave the storm a 60 percent chance of developing into a tropical system over the next five days.
Forecast models show Invest 99L could go anywhere between the tip of Florida and south of Houston.
“Needless to say, there is still plenty of uncertainty of where it could go,” Nussbaum said. “This forecast will continue to change each day, so stay aware of the changes.”
Meanwhile, a new storm system developed over the past day just off the coast of Louisiana and could bring an inch of rain to the Houma-Thibodaux area this weekend. The Hurricane Center gave the weak disturbance a 10 percent chance of becoming a tropical system before it reaches southeast Texas by Sunday.
Area water levels are generally higher than normal, and that increases the chance for flooding if there is heavier rainfall, said Windell Curole, South Lafourche Levee District general manager. Previous rains, an El Niño weather pattern and an increase in southerly winds have caused the higher water levels, he added.
Curole said the smaller storm off the coast demands more attention now because it could impact the area soonest.
“We need to pay more attention to that one than the one farther away,” Curole said. “It's one day away versus a week away. … We're giving (the farther one) more attention than it needs right now.”
Hurricane season began June 1 and continues through Nov. 30.
-- Staff Writer Emma Discher can be reached at 448-7636 or emma.discher@houmatoday.com. Follow her on Twitter @emmadischer.

Two storm systems bear watching, forecasters say


A storm system off of Cuba remained poorly organized Friday and was not expected to pose a threat to the Gulf Coast this weekend, though it continues to bear watching, forecasters said.


SPICER -- A 38-year-old Lake Lillian man was arrested early Sunday after shots were fired outside Zorbaz restaurant in Spicer.
According to a news release from the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy heard numerous gunshots in the area of Zorbaz a few minutes after 2 a.m.
Zorbaz’ bouncers and other witnesses told the deputy that a white male in a vehicle had displayed a handgun and fired shots into the air while leaving the parking lot.
Deputies found the vehicle a few miles south of Spicer on County Road 8, and the man was arrested on weapons and assault charges and for driving under the influence.
The man is in custody at the Kandiyohi County Jail, and formal charges are expected this week, according to the release.

Shots fired outside Zorbaz in Spicer early Sunday


Beyonce on Sunday dominated the MTV Video Music Awards as she won a near-record award haul and awed the audience with a fiery dance medley with an unstated political message.
The pop superstar won Video of the Year for “Formation,” the most controversial work of her career, as she took home eight of the 11 awards for which she was nominated.
“Formation,” the first single off her intertwined film and album “Lemonade,” was shot in New Orleans and inspired by the city’s Creole culture, its bounce hip-hop scene and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“I dedicate this award to the people of New Orleans. God bless you guys,” Beyonce told the gala at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Beyonce stole the spotlight by performing for more than 16 minutes songs from “Lemonade,” managing even to change outfits in a set that culminated in the stage erupting in fire.
In one of the most striking moments, a series of gun-shots rang out as her dancers, in angelic white dresses, each dropped to the ground in a red fog.
The video for “Formation,” directed by Melina Matsoukas, had offered solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality with officers portrayed raising their hands as if under arrest.
Beyonce invited to the show, broadcast to more than 120 countries, the mothers of four young African American men whose deaths have galvanized the United States — Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin.
Martin, 17, was killed in 2012 by a white neighborhood guard, a catalyst moment for Black Lives Matter. Brown, Garner and Grant were all killed by law enforcement.
Singer Alicia Keys offered another of the night’s powerful moments as she recited a poem inspired by civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. who delivered his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington 53 years ago Sunday.
In a year marred by global conflict and a bitter US presidential race, Keys, moving seamlessly from spoken word to a cappella, said: “If war is holy and sex is obscene, then we got it twisted in this lucid dream.”
“Maybe we can love somebody / instead of polishing the bombs of holy war.”
– Kanye talks Kanye –
At eight awards, Beyonce tied her contemporary Lady Gaga and Norway’s a-ha- a sensation in MTV’s early years — for the second biggest win in a single night.
Peter Gabriel retains the record, set in 1987 after his animation-driven “Sledgehammer.”
In one of the night’s most anticipated moments, rap superstar Kanye West — who last year used the occasion to declare his intention to run for president in 2020 — delivered a nearly stream-of-consciousness speech about empowerment.
As the audience chanted his stage-name Yeezy, West likened his creative talent to that of Apple founder Steve Jobs and entertainment pioneer Walt Disney, and said that unnamed wealthy white people had warned him not to make the comparison.
He defended his “Famous,” also up for Video of the Year, which depicted clean-cut pop star Taylor Swift naked in bed with him despite her complaints about the song.
Also seen naked with West in the video are Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, known for his hardline anti-immigration stance, and fashion editor Anna Wintour.
“We came over in the same boat. Now we all in the same bed,” West said, before clarifying that the on-screen lovers arrived on “maybe different boats.”
West then presented a racy new video for his song “Fade” featuring actress and singer Teyana Taylor, who moved her body sensually in a gym before a steamy shower scene.
The video marked a theme in the evening, if accidental, of sexualized exercise.
Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj received roars of crowd approval for a sensual take on a workout, with the pop singer and rapper dancing together in a stage transformed into a gym full of highly physical young men.
– Drake smitten with Rihanna –
Drake won in the rap category for “Hotline Bling,” one of the most popular songs of the year.
But Drake did not appear to accept the award. According to the presenter, rap icon Puff Daddy, the Toronto star got stuck in New York traffic.
Drake however did show up to present the Video Vanguard Award — named after late King of Pop Michael Jackson — to Rihanna, in recognition to her contributions to pop culture.
Drake gushed that Rihanna was “someone I’ve been in love with since I was 22.”
The 28-year-old Rihanna put on four medleys of her songs throughout the show in outfits that began with a snug white T-shirt.
In an acceptance speech, Rihanna pledged never to forget her native Barbados.


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Phnom Penh, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian police arrested 64 people from mainland China and Taiwan on Tuesday, accusing them of taking part in an internet scam, officials said.
Initial information shows that at least 12 of the suspects are from Taiwan, while the rest are mainland Chinese, said Gen. Ouk Haiseila, chief of the Cambodian Interior Ministry’s Immigration Investigation Bureau.
The general said the suspects were arrested in a rented house in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. They are accused of defrauding victims in China using phone calls made over the internet, he said.
“These suspects are now detained by immigration police for questioning and then we will deport them back to China,” Gen. Ouk Haiseila said.
In June, Taiwan protested after Cambodia deported 25 Taiwanese internet scam suspects to rival China in the latest snub of the self-ruled island. Cambodia regards Taiwan to be part of China.
Although Taiwan’s constitution formally decrees that it and the mainland are part of a single Chinese nation, Taiwan functions like an independent country and does not acknowledge Beijing’s claim of authority over it.
Rights activists and Taiwanese authorities say such deportations reflect the great influence China exercises over Cambodia through aid and investment.
China is a key ally and economic partner of impoverished Cambodia. It has provided millions of dollars in aid and investment over the past decade, agreed to write off debts and granted it tariff-free status for hundreds of items.
Kenya and Malaysia have also deported Taiwanese internet scam suspects to China despite protests by Taiwanese officials.

Cambodia nabs 64 from China, Taiwan in alleged internet scam


Cambodia nabs 64 from China, Taiwan in alleged internet scam
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian police arrested 64 people from mainland China and Taiwan on Tuesday, accusing them of taking part in an internet scam, officials said.
Initial information shows that at least 12 of the suspects are from Taiwan, while the rest are mainland Chinese, said Gen. Ouk Haiseila, chief of the Cambodian Interior Ministry's Immigration Investigation Bureau.
The general said the suspects were arrested in a rented house in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. They are accused of defrauding victims in China using phone calls made over the internet, he said.
"These suspects are now detained by immigration police for questioning and then we will deport them back to China," Gen. Ouk Haiseila said.
In June, Taiwan protested after Cambodia deported 25 Taiwanese internet scam suspects to rival China in the latest snub of the self-ruled island. Cambodia regards Taiwan to be part of China.
Although Taiwan's constitution formally decrees that it and the mainland are part of a single Chinese nation, Taiwan functions like an independent country and does not acknowledge Beijing's claim of authority over it.
Rights activists and Taiwanese authorities say such deportations reflect the great influence China exercises over Cambodia through aid and investment.
China is a key ally and economic partner of impoverished Cambodia. It has provided millions of dollars in aid and investment over the past decade, agreed to write off debts and granted it tariff-free status for hundreds of items.


PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian police arrested 64 people from mainland China and Taiwan on Tuesday, accusing them of taking part in an internet scam, ...


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KINGSPORT - Terry Arnold Begley, 48, Kingsport, TN was welcomed into the arms of our Father in Heaven on Wednesday, August 24, 2016. The family will receive friends from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Saturday, August 27, 2016 at the Gate City Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted at 7:00 p.m. in the Gene Falin Memorial Chapel of the funeral home with Evangelist Kenneth Neeley officiating. Graveside services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, August 28, 2016 at Brickey Cemetery in the Wood Community of Scott County, VA. Greg Parker, Steve Laney, Ronnie "MacDow" Stallard, Herman Soares, Sean Javens, Tommy Sawyer and Matt Begley will serve as pallbearers. In lieu of flowers, the family request donations to be made to Gate City Funeral Home to help with final expenses. Family and friends are asked to meet at the funeral home at 1:15 p.m., Sunday, August 28, 2016 to go in procession to the graveside service. An online guest register is available for the Begley family at www.gatecityfunerals.com. Gate City Funeral Home is honored to be serving the family of Terry Arnold Begley.


KINGSPORT - Terry Arnold Begley, 48, Kingsport, TN was welcomed into the arms of our Father in Heaven on Wednesday, August 24, 2016. The family will receive friends from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.,


Dozens of locally-transmitted Zika virus cases in Singapore outbreak
JOSUE DECAVELE/REUTERS Zika virus is transmitted through bites from the same kind of mosquitoes that can spread other tropical diseases, like dengue fever, chikungunya and yellow fever.
Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus, mostly among foreign construction workers, and said it expected more cases to be identified.
All but seven of those infected have fully recovered, the health ministry and the National Environment Agency (NEA) said in a joint statement on Sunday. Those seven remain in hospital.
On Saturday, authorities had confirmed a 47-year-old Malaysian woman living in southeastern Singapore as the city-state's first case of a local transmission of the virus - which in Brazil has been linked to a rare birth defect.
The authorities said they tested 124 people, primarily foreign construction workers employed on a site in the same part of Singapore.
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That site has been ordered to halt work, and workers' dormitories are being inspected. Seventy-eight people tested negative and five cases were pending. Thirty-four patients had fully recovered.
Four Singaporean men had developed symptoms of the virus in the past week and were hospitalised on Saturday. It was not clear where the foreign workers were from or when their cases were detected. Singapore hosts a large contingent of workers from the Asian sub-continent.
None of those infected had travelled recently to Zika-affected areas. "This confirms that local transmission of Zika virus infection has taken place," the statement said.
The ministry "cannot rule out further community transmission since some of those tested positive also live or work in other parts of Singapore," the statement said. "We expect to identify more positive cases."
Singapore, a major regional financial centre and busy transit hub, which maintains a constant vigil against the mosquito-borne dengue virus, reported its first case of the Zika virus in May, brought in by a middle-aged man who had been to Brazil.
CLEAN-UP
Singapore deployed around 200 NEA officers to clean drains and spray insecticide in the mainly residential area early on Sunday to counter mosquito breeding grounds, and volunteers and contractors handed out leaflets and insect repellent.
Zika, carried by some mosquitoes, was detected in Brazil last year and has since spread across the Americas. The virus poses a risk to pregnant women because it can cause severe birth defects. It has been linked in Brazil to more than 1,600 cases of microcephaly - where babies are born with small heads.
All medical services in Singapore had been alerted "to be extra vigilant" and immediately report any Zika-associated symptoms to the health ministry.
Local residents welcomed the NEA clean-up on Sunday.
"I'm very scared of mosquitoes because they always seem to bite me, they never bite my husband," Janice, 31, who gave only her first name, told Reuters. "This concerns me because maybe in a couple of years I want to have another (child)."
REGIONAL RISK
Singapore said there were "ongoing local transmission" cases in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Other countries in the region to have detected the Zika virus since 2013 include Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives and the Philippines, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Malaysia said on Sunday it stepped up surveillance at main transit points with Singapore - handing out leaflets on Zika prevention and having paramedics ready to handle visitors with potential symptoms of the virus.
In Thailand, where close to 100 cases of Zika have been recorded across 10 provinces this year, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) was screening athletes returning from the Olympic Games in Brazil, but was not otherwise changing its prevention measures.
"Every country in this region has Zika transmission cases," said Prasert Thongcharoen, an adviser to the DDC. "Thailand has, however, managed to contain the problem through early detection."
A foreign ministry spokesman said Indonesia was "following developments". Oskar Pribadi, a health ministry official, said there had been no recent Zika cases in the country.
Vietnam has to date reported three cases of locally-transmitted Zika infection.
The current strain of Zika sweeping through Latin America and the Caribbean originated in Asia, where people may have built up greater immunity.
The WHO has said there is strong scientific consensus that Zika can also cause Guillain-Barre, a rare neurological syndrome that causes temporary paralysis in adults.
- Reuters


More than 40 people infected in locally-transmitted cases, including 36 foreign construction workers.


Dozens of locally-transmitted Zika virus cases in Singapore outbreak


The city and a rail company are struggling to keep homeless camps from settling near a Newton rail line.
It's a relatively new phenomenon in Surrey.
About three months ago, Southern Rail of British Columbia (SRBC) noticed homeless camps along it's rail line through Newton, particularly from 64 Avenue and 152 Street to 72 Avenue and King George Boulevard.
A large camp was also found by the South Fraser Perimeter Road.
J. Singh Biln, director of community relations for SRBC said it's of great concern to the railway because people could get hurt.
"It's really just the last three months that it's really, really increased significantly," Biln told The Leader Wednesday."It's so dangerous to be near trains."
He said it's too frequent that it happens where people throughout the world are injured or killed by trains.
Just last fall, near Old Yale and South Fraser Perimeter Road, there was such a tragedy.
"We had some young people who had been partying up by the (Fraser) river, and they went for a joyride on a train," Biln said. "And a young lady – 16 years old – lost her arm above the elbow."
Railway staff are all too aware similar injuries or worse could happen any time.
He is at a loss as to explain why the homeless population has become an issue on the tracks in the last few months.
"We're going to be working with the City of Surrey to find out what's happening," Biln said. "Maybe they have been moved out of some public area and end up on our private property."
SRBC has hired RECYCLE IT to keep the track clean, and he says the company is finding truckloads of garbage, metal, "and of course, lots of needles."
Another issue for people living around the track is extended train whistles through the night.
"At times we've had people right on the tracks, right on the right of way, and we have to sound the whistle, so that's what's been happening," Biln said. "Trains can't just stop on a dime."


Southern Rail is having to sound whistles more often to alert campers of coming trains


Yemen’s rebel-run news agency says airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition have killed 11 civilians and wounded others in the northern city of Saada.
The agency, SABA, which is under control of the Shiite rebels known as Houthis, reported on Friday that the airstrikes destroyed two houses located in the district of Baqam in the city of Saada — a Houthi stronghold.
It says women and children are among the dead, and that subsequent flyovers of coalition planes delayed the rescue operation. Some of the wounded are in critical condition, which may lead to a higher death toll.
The strikes came a day after the United Nations demanded an international investigation in the killings of civilians in Yemen.

11 civilians killed in airstrikes in northern Yemen


Yemen's rebel-run news agency says airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition have killed 11 civilians and wounded others in the northern city...


As fall approaches, millions of moms and dads are scrambling to prepare for the first day of school, excited to support their children’s success.
But are schools ready to receive our kids and foster that success? Increasingly, the answer is no.
In at least 18 states, local government funding levels are declining, according to an analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. And as a result, many schools will open with fewer teachers than last year, among other detrimental losses.
As lawmakers throw up their hands and say, “sorry, there’s just not enough money,” we must ask: Where has all the money gone?
State and local governments give away at least $70 billion a year to business subsidies, most of it in foregone tax revenue. Local property taxes are the most significant tax most corporations pay. In most communities, they’re also the backbone of local school finance.
So when subsidies slash corporate property taxes, our schools often get hurt the most.
In Chicago, for example, we already have a glimpse into the unsavory relationship between tax subsidies and school finance. Last year, one subsidy program alone cost public services $461 million. Meanwhile, the city’s schools are facing a budget that is $140 million less than they had last year.
When cities line the pockets of powerful interests with subsidies while short-changing children, they harm everyone — including businesses that depend on a well-educated work force.
Unlike Chicago, in most cities it’s difficult to calculate exactly how much state and local tax subsidies drain from a given school district. But that’s about to change.
Starting next year, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board will require more than 50,000 government bodies to report how much tax revenue they’ve lost to economic development tax breaks given to developers and corporations.
Though school districts, library districts, and other special purpose districts seldom have a role in awarding these subsidies, they too will be required to report how much revenue they’ve lost lost—even as a result of tax breaks handed out by other governmental bodies.
This new data will also shine a light on inequities in education, allowing new critical examination of whether tax breaks that fill corporate coffers come disproportionately at the expense of the most disadvantaged school districts.
This way, we can say no to deals that pad the profits of the already wealthy at the cost of denying opportunity to those looking to get a foot on the first rung of the economic ladder.
Some states are already following the logic of this new common sense standard. In a 2011 budget deal, California decided to phase out an expensive subsidy granted by redevelopment agencies, and as a result, paved the way for local property tax revenues to rise by 10-15 percent in coming years. These added revenues will allow cities and towns throughout California to increase funding for local priorities—including schools.
Soon, we’ll all have a much better idea about where the funding for schools throughout the nation has gone. Parents and teachers clamoring for smaller class sizes and more support services will have the data to back their demands.
And taxpayers will be able to debate whether costly, long-term tax breaks that often go to the most prosperous businesses in town have been worth the cost of struggling schools.
As we look ahead to the new school year, it’s time to hold our governments and schools accountable to meet student needs. The data is coming soon that will help us get there.
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BIDWELL, Ohio — On a scorcher of an opener, new River Valley starting quarterback Patrick Brown had the hot hand.
That’s because Brown, engineering the Raiders’ up-tempo fast-paced offense as the graduated Dayton Hardway’s replacement, threw for a hefty 303 yards and four touchdowns in River Valley’s 51-27 rout of the visiting Eastern Eagles on Friday night at a steambathed River Valley High School.
The contest marked the 2016 football season opener for both teams, as the Raiders registered their third consecutive lid-lifting victory over the Eagles.
In fact, Eastern remains winless in season openers since 2004.
Last season, River Valley blanked Eastern 57-0 in Meigs County — and appeared, early on, on its way to doing that once again.
The Raiders raced out to a 27-0 lead with eight minutes and 15 seconds left in the second quarter, and opened up a 37-6 advantage at the 3:46 mark before halftime.
Finally, with 7:25 remaining in the third quarter, Chris Parsons’ six-yard touchdown run made it 51-13 — as a pair of Jett Facemyer touchdown passes in the final 15:49 made the score much more respectable for Eastern.
The Raiders needed only a minute and 47 seconds into the third period to enforce the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s running-clock rule, when Jacob Campbell picked off Facemyer on the third play of the half — and returned the interception 55 yards for a touchdown.
But Brown’s four first-half touchdown tosses, and 278 yards through the air in the opening 24 minutes, allowed the Raiders to set the tone.
River Valley, after graduating 15 seniors from last season’s first-ever state playoff squad, is reloading under sixth-year head coach Jerrod Sparling.
Sparling said that although there is plenty of work yet to be done, it was a fast start — especially offensively — for his Raiders.
“For the most part, we’re a veteran football team, and I was really on these guys in practice this week to start fast tonight,” said Sparling. “It was a point of emphasis. Tonight was the fastest I think we have ever played on offense, and that’s a good thing. I’m really proud of the kids and their effort, but we have a long way to go before we are finished product. However, I think our guys handled our business pretty well. I thought playmakers made big plays and our quarterback played very, very well. He had a really good start taking over.”
Exactly what did Brown do for the Raiders?
They scored 37 first-half points, totaled all (377) but 34 yards and nine of their 46 plays from scrimmage in the first two quarters, and rushed for 65 yards on 20 carries.
Brown completed his opening 10 pass attempts, finishing the first half 12-of-17 with 278 yards.
“That’s not a bad start taking over,” said Sparling of his junior signal-caller, with a smile.
His only attempt in the second half was River Valley’s first play — a 25-yard completion to Layne Fitch to set up Parsons’ touchdown run at the 7:25 mark.
The Raiders wasted little time taking it right to the Eagles’ defense, receiving the opening kickoff and marching nine plays and 54 yards.
Brown completed three passes of six yards or more on the drive to Tre Craycraft, as Jacob Campbell carried five times — — including a walk-in three-yard touchdown run only two minutes and 48 seconds in.
Campbell finished with a team-high 40 yards on 11 carries.
After Eastern opened by driving 32 yards and nine plays prior to punting, Brown connected with Craycraft again — only two plays later at the 4:44 mark.
Craycraft crossed over the middle and made an in-stride reception, stiff-armed an Eastern defender, then outmaneuvered Eagle defenders along the sideline in dashing to the end zone.
The pitch-and-catch went for 60 yards, as Devin McDonald made the first of his five extra-point kicks — in addition to his 24-yard field goal that put the Raiders up 37-6.
“We came in and got shell-shocked,” said Eastern coach Pat Newland. “We were back on our heels and not playing football. We didn’t quit, but they (Raiders) continued to make plays because they are a good team. But when they make a big play, we can’t be like ‘oh my gosh we have to watch out for this and that.’ We have to read our keys and play fast right with them. We played real slow at first. We were playing open zones and not finding the receivers in those zones. We had a couple of blown coverages like we were lost in no man’s land.”
Craycraft caught eight passes for 175 yards, as Jacob Dovenbarger made two receptions for 66 yards — both touchdowns.
Sparling spoke highly of his wide receivers’ play.
“Our wideouts made plays. I can’t think of a wideout that didn’t make a play at one point in time tonight,” he said. “When you have that and you have momentum, that’s good.”
The other wideout which was involved was Jarrett McCarley, who capped the Raiders’ next scoring drive with a minute-and-a-half left in the opening period.
After Eastern endured a three-and-out possession, River Valley drove 58 yards in five plays — capped by Brown completing a deep pass to McCarley towards the corner of the end zone.
McCarley made the reception just inside the 5-yard-line, turned his shoulders to the outside once contacted, and stretched towards the goal-line for the 22-yard score.
McDonald made the extra point for the 20-0 lead, as the Eagles then ran five plays before punting once again.
The Raiders’ two second-stanza scores were a pair of touchdown completions from Brown to a downfield Dovenbarger — with the second coming off a flea-flicker from 48 yards away.
McDonald made both extra points, extending the River Valley cushion to 37-6 with six minutes remaining in the half.
Both teams finished with 18 first downs, although Eastern was forced to throw once trailing by 31 points.
The Eagles only rushed for 104 yards on 23 attempts, but Facemyer threw for 254 yards — and a pair of touchdowns in the final 15:49.
He completed 19-of-29, and rushed for two second-quarter TDs, making it 27-6 and 37-13.
Facemyer also rushed for game-highs in carries (13) and yards (63), but his final pass of the first half and his opening attempt of the second sealed the deal.
On the first half’s final play, Dustin Barber picked off Facemyer in the end zone, before Campbell came up with the pick-six to enforce the running clock.
Jeremiah Martindale made seven receptions for 102 yards, while Blaise Facemeyer caught eight aerials for 61.
“We are proud of our kids for not quitting after getting down early like that,” said Newland.
Blaise Facemyer caught a 12-yarder and Martindale a nine-yarder for Eastern’s second-half scores.
“Give credit to Eastern. They fought back in a couple of circumstances and had a bounce go one way or the other and they are back in the game. Their kids played hard,” said Sparling. “But we were able to do some things up front and be aggressive there and on the perimeter defensively. When you are playing bump-and run or man coverage, sometimes they (opponent) are going to win. We made a couple of mistakes here and there and we weren’t crisp all the time, but overall I thought we still had a good effort on that side of the football.”
As for Eastern’s defense, Newland admits it needs work, as the Eagles host Miller on Friday night (Sept. 2) for their home and Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division openers.
“We have to be able to switch up and know exactly what the coverages are every time we line up and play aggressively,” he said. “We can’t play passive or indecisive.”
Playing aggressive, and fast, is what propelled the Raiders to another season-opening triumph.
River Valley visits arch-rival Gallia Academy on Saturday night (Sept. 3) for its next game — the second annual Ohio Valley Bank Community Bowl.
“We have a lot of older players on this team that are hungry to make their own mark on this program and carve their own legacy,” said Sparling. “I’m excited about this group and this coaching staff, and tonight was a good start for what we want to ultimately accomplish.”
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River Valley’s Tre Craycraft (42) avoids the tackle of Eastern’s Jeremiah Martindale during Friday night’s season-opening football game at River Valley High School. http://mydailysentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_8.26-RV-EHS-Craycraft.jpg River Valley’s Tre Craycraft (42) avoids the tackle of Eastern’s Jeremiah Martindale during Friday night’s season-opening football game at River Valley High School. Paul Boggs/OVP Sports


By David Fong
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TROY — On a steamy August afternoon several weeks ago, Susan Dankworth and her teenage daughter, Taylor, were putting the finishing touches on her classroom at Hook Elementary School. The Dankworth family was getting ready to leave on vacation and Susan wanted to make sure he classroom was in order before they departed.
She was getting ready to leave the building for the day, but the fifth grade math and social studies teacher had one last task she wanted to accomplish.
Little did she know opening her email would change her life.
“It was 3:31 p.m. on Aug. 12, exactly,” Dankworth said, the memory of the moment causing a warm smile to stretch across her face. “I was shutting down and getting ready to go home. I happened to pull up my email and saw it …”
It was an email letting Dankworth know she was one of two educators from Ohio — and one of 213 from across the nation — who had been selected as a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The award is given to outstanding K-12 mathematics and science teachers from across the country. The winners are selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians, and educators following an initial selection process at the state level.
“When I saw it was from them, I was afraid to open it,” Dankworth said. “When I opened it, my daughter started yelling and I started crying. It was overwhelming.”
Dankworth, a 1985 Troy High School graduate and a graduate of The Ohio State University, will receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation and will attend an awards ceremony, as well as educational and celebratory events, Sept. 7-9 in Washington, D.C. She’ll have the opportunity to tour the White House and, if he’s available, meet with President Barack Obama or members of his administration.
“The recipients of this award are integral to ensuring our students are equipped with critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are vital to our nation’s success,” President Obama said in a press release. “As the United States continues to lead the way in the innovation that is shaping our future, these excellent teachers are preparing students from all corners of the country with the science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills that help keep us on the cutting-edge.”
One of the reasons Dankworth was honored was because of her collaborative approach to teaching mathematics to students.
“I decided I wasn’t going to do things just from the textbook,” she said. “I want students to see why something works and how something works and not just be told what to do. I don’t want them to just memorize facts — memorization doesn’t work.”
The honor has been a long time coming for Dankworth. She was initially nominated by Hook Elementary School principal Penny Johnson in March of 2014.
“I had watched her give presentations at Wright State University, plus I had seen her in the classroom,” Johnson said. “When I saw what she could do and the way she reached students, I thought, ‘Other people need to see this.’ We are so fortunate to have her here at our school.”
From there, Dankworth had to fill out an eight-page application, three letters of recommendation, a resume, a complete lesson plan and a 45-minute uninterrupted video of her teaching in her classroom.
“They actually had webinars we had to watch to make sure we were submitting all the materials, because it was such a long process,” Dankworth said with a laugh. “At one point, I began to wonder how many people actually follow through with the whole process.”
In July of 2014, she learned she had been named one of five finalists for the state of Ohio. The process would continue for more than two years — with updates along the way — before Dankworth finally found out she had been selected as one of the winners.
The wait, however, was more than worth it. Since it was announced one week ago she had been named one of the recipients of the award, Dankworth said the response from family, friends, colleagues, media members and the community has been non-stop.
“I’ve been overwhelmed by the response,” she said. “It’s been extremely overwhelming. It’s kind of funny, because I obviously never got into teaching to ever win any awards. I love coming here. I laugh every day I’m here. I’ve always told people that I don’t really consider this work. I’m fortunate to have this opportunity.
“Now every time I open my Facebook, I see between 30 or 40 notifications from people congratulating me. It’s been a very humbling experience. I’m so thankful to have the opportunities I have here at Hook and in the Troy City School District.”
Anthony Weber | Troy Daily News Susan Dankworth a fifth grade mathetmatics and social studies teacher at Hook Elementary School in Troy, recently was named a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. She was one of two teachers selected from Ohio and one of 213 selected from across the nation. http://dailycall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_160825aw_Dankworth_3158.jpg Anthony Weber | Troy Daily News Susan Dankworth a fifth grade mathetmatics and social studies teacher at Hook Elementary School in Troy, recently was named a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. She was one of two teachers selected from Ohio and one of 213 selected from across the nation. Anthony Weber | Troy Daily News Hook Elementary School fifth grade math teacher Susan Dankworth helps Alex Helphinstine with long division as Zach Roades looks on Thursday at the school in Troy. http://dailycall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_160825aw_Dankworth_3183.jpg Anthony Weber | Troy Daily News Hook Elementary School fifth grade math teacher Susan Dankworth helps Alex Helphinstine with long division as Zach Roades looks on Thursday at the school in Troy. http://dailycall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_NextDoor-2.jpg


South Shields and Westoe Cricket Club has paid tribute to one of its most prolific batsmen.
A special charity day was held yesterday to honour Bill Parker and to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society.
Bill was a very big character in the club Jim Elliott
Bill, a former teacher in South Shields and then at Bow School in Durham, died in February aged 68.
He had suffered from Alzheimer’s for the past five years.
It had been hoped yesterday’s event would take the form of two 20/20 matches, with a team made up of past players from South Shields and Boldon taking on a Durham over 50s/60s team before South Shields went head-to-head with Boldon for the WBP Parker Memorial Trophy – one of Bill’s old bats, in a glass case.
The bad weather put paid to the veterans match, but South Shields ran out winners of the main event, posting a total of 126 to Boldon’s 121.
Cricket section chairman Jim Elliott said it had been a fitting match to remember Bill: “It went right down to the last ball – it was a fantastic game.”
Bill had been an enormously popular presence at the club, said Jim.
He added: “He was the club’s second ever leading run scorer, with 16,100-and-odd runs over something like 30 years, and he was one of the very last players who captained both first teams at rugby and cricket.
“These days the two are completely separate sports but the 70s and 80s when Bill played, there was more cross-over.
“The seasons allowed it and it wasn’t as demanding as it is now.
“Bill was a very big character in the club and as a teacher he coached both rugby and cricket.
“He put a lot of effort into everything he did.
“It was very sad that we lost him this year, but now we have got the trophy and we are going to play for that every year.
“Bill did have an association with Boldon – he played third team cricket there – so maybe next year we will play at Boldon.”

Match honours South Shields and Boldon cricket stalwart Bill


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New tans, same old "polycrisis" as Europe's summer ends
By Alastair Macdonald
BRUSSELS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The European Union grinds back into action this week after its August break, still dazed by Britain's midsummer vote to quit the EU and facing much the same "polycrisis" as a year ago: a mass of refugees, a fragile economy, hostile Russians and, yes, those Brits, now more awkward than ever.
When President Jean-Claude Juncker makes his annual State of the Union address to Parliament in Strasbourg on Sept. 14, he might easily repeat last year's warning: the EU had a "last chance" to save itself from a tide of centrifugal nationalisms.
Last week, the EU's remaining Big Three -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and their host, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi -- felt they needed to renew their vows at the wellspring of the union, the island of Ventotene, where in 1941 prisoners of Mussolini wrote a manifesto for a united Europe.
That they met on the deck of the aircraft carrier Garibaldi reinforced the sense of beleaguered leaders rallying to the EU's defence as they contemplated an obstacle-strewn political calendar for the year ahead.
The EU leaders are first preparing for a summit on Sept. 16 in Bratislava -- without Britain -- that aims to sketch out a post-Brexit future for the Union.
On Oct. 2, Hungary's right-wing prime minister, Viktor Orban, is set to deliver another slap to Brussels: a largely symbolic referendum to reject an EU quota system for relocating refugees among member states -- a scheme Juncker invested much capital in a year ago, but which has barely got off the ground.
TRUMP
On Nov. 8, Orban is hoping for victory for a man he calls the "valiant" Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election. Few of Orban's EU peers are so enthusiastic. They see Trump as a disruptive maverick whose endorsement of and by Brexiteer-in-chief Nigel Farage marks him as no friend of the Union.
A Trump win could snap a transatlantic coalition on Russia that is already fraying in Europe, where governments from Paris to Bratislava are seeking a review of Ukraine-related sanctions when measures expire at year's end. Trump might also inject a new dose of post-Brexit uncertainty for world trade.
At home, all the Big Three leaders face their own electoral challenges from eurosceptics.
It starts with Renzi, today trying to persuade Italians he has the youthful energy for rebuilding after the latest earthquake in the Apennines, unlike the scandal-tainted Silvio Berlusconi at L'Aquila in 2009, when more than 300 people died.
Probably in November, Renzi will put to a referendum the constitutional reforms he says are needed to break a political deadlock that is choking the Italian economy. Polls are tight and the eurosceptic upstarts 5-Star are gunning for the socialist premier, who is expected to resign if he loses.
Hollande is threatened with a drubbing on April 23 at the hands of far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of France's presidential election.
Her appeal has been enhanced by Islamic State carnage in Paris and Nice and the summer row about burkinis on the beaches, although pollsters doubt she can win a May 7 runoff vote against Hollande or any other survivor from a mainstream party.
As for Merkel, she has yet to confirm she wants a fourth term at parliamentary elections due in just over a year. The biggest threat to her re-election remains her decision last year to welcome a million migrants to Germany as EU borders buckled. That has already weakened support for her conservative party.
HARDBALL
Such threats to domestic survival have often spurred leaders to take potshots at Brussels -- even if only the British have taken it to the length of turning most voters against the EU entirely. But even if little has changed in Brussels since last summer, optimists might see reason to hope for more unity now.
While rows go on about how, indeed whether, EU states should share out the burden of asylum-seekers stranded in Greece and Italy, what is new is how few are arriving, at least in Greece.
Rights groups were outraged this year by hard-nosed deals with non-EU Balkan states to bar the routes north from Greece and with Turkey to stop Syrian refugees reaching Greece in the first place. But those deals did slash the numbers arriving.
It's something EU officials find hard to boast of. Many admit privately to unease at policies that, along with efforts to pay African governments to stop people setting off for Italy, sit uncomfortably with the Union's lofty humanitarian ideals.
But look again at Merkel, Hollande and Renzi on the Garibaldi, flagship of an EU mission off Libya that is part rescue operation and military deterrent against people smugglers, and a slightly different image of today's EU emerges.
EU ARMY
All three spoke of Europe getting tougher and more cohesive on security. It is the kind of language that may resonate with sceptical voters dissatisfied with Europe's struggle to thrive in a globalising world and with the likes of Orban and other eastern leaders alarmed by Merkel's earlier open-door policy.
Relieved of the need to keep Britons from bolting, Juncker wrung howls of outrage last week from London's europhobic press when he called national borders "the worst invention ever". He also renewed his call for a "European army", which was long just a pipe dream for the Luxemburger as long as Britain had a veto.
The past few days have seen Merkel and a succession of other leaders she has met, including Orban, echo such hopes of joint military structures, indicating one area where EU integration may now forge ahead in response to the British departure.
That still leaves a host of issues dividing European leaders in the coming year: whether to be nice or nasty to Britain once it decides to open negotiations; how to shore up weaknesses in the economic cooperation that underpins the euro; how far to ease sanctions in the hope of better ties with Moscow.


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MOSCOW: At least 16 people died in a fire that broke out at a Moscow warehouse on Saturday morning, Russian authorities said.
“When the fire was being put out, a room that had been cut off by the flames was discovered,” TASS news agency quoted the regional branch of the emergency ministry’s press service as saying.
“Firefighters tore down the wall and found 16 dead.”
Emergency workers arrived at the scene at 0500 GMT to put out a blaze that had engulfed 200 square metres of a warehouse in an industrial zone in the Russian capital’s north.
The fire was extinguished at around 0700 GMT, authorities said.
A police source told Russian new agencies that the victims were likely migrants from former Soviet republics and that the warehouse belonged to a local printing company.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Twitter that the city would probe the incident.
The cause of the blaze remains unknown. A criminal investigation was launched to determine whether it erupted due to arson or negligence.

At least 16 dead in Moscow warehouse fire: ministry


MOSCOW: At least 16 people died in a fire that broke out at a Moscow warehouse on Saturday morning, Russian…


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KINGSPORT - Teresa Morrison Aesque, 59, Kingsport, passed away Monday, August 22, 2016 after a brief illness at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105. The family will receive friends on Thursday from 5 to 7:00p.m. at Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home, Kingsport. The service will follow at 7:00 p.m. with Rev. Jack P. Weikel officiating. A private family graveside will be conducted with Pastor David Salley officiating. Pallbearers will be Ed Ragsdale, Eddie Ragsdale, Joe Franklin, Ron Puckett, David Horne and Matthew Puckett. Please visit www.hamlettdobson.com to leave an on-line condolence for the family. Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home, Kingsport is serving the family of Teresa Morrison Aesque.


KINGSPORT - Teresa Morrison Aesque, 59, Kingsport, passed away Monday, August 22, 2016 after a brief illness at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. In lieu of flowers, memorial


NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard officials say one person has been rescued and crews are searching for two others after a small plane crashed into a lake near a New Orleans airport.
Multiple media reports say Coast Guard personnel responded to the scene Saturday night after the aircraft crashed in the vicinity of the Seabrook Bridge near New Orleans Lakefront Airport. The airport is located adjacent to Lake Ponchatrain, about 10 miles northeast of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.
Coast Guard officials say the Cessna training flight crashed about 8:30 p.m.
The person rescued was transferred to a New Orleans hospital in unknown condition.
No further details were immediately available.

1 rescue, water search ongoing after New Orleans plane crash


Filipino militants free 8 comrades, 15 others in jail attack
CAGAYAN DE ORO -- Muslim extremists supporting the Islamic State group freed eight fellow militants in a daring attack that also allowed 15 other inmates to escape from a provincial jail in the southern Philippines, police said Sunday.
About 20 heavily-armed fighters of the Maute militant group stormed the Lanao del Sur provincial jail in Marawi city before nightfall Saturday, disarmed the guards and rescued their eight comrades. The attackers also seized two rifles from guards, police said.
The eight who escaped were arrested a week ago when they were caught with a homemade bomb in van at a security checkpoint.
The others who escaped, apparently to divert the attention of authorities, were facing murder and illegal drugs charges.
The Maute group is a new band of armed Muslim radicals, who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and use black flags with logos of the Middle East-based extremists.
Based in Lanao del Sur's Butig town, the militants have attacked army troops and beheaded a soldier and two kidnapped workers earlier this year. Before being killed, the two workers were made to wear orange shirts similar to beheading victims of the Islamic State group.
A number of Muslim armed groups in the country's south, including some commanders of the violent Abu Sayyaf, has pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group. The military has tried to play down their action, saying there has been no evidence of an active collaboration between the foreign extremists and Filipino militants who are aiming to prop up their image and secure badly-needed funds amid years of battle setbacks.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who was sworn in in June, has pursued peace deals with two large Muslim rebel groups but has ordered troops to destroy the Abu Sayyaf and other militants.


Muslim extremists supporting the Islamic State group freed eight fellow militants in a daring attack that also allowed 15 other inmates to escape from a provincial jail in the southern Philippines, police said Sunday.


Filipino militants free 8 comrades, 15 others in jail attack


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