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Passenger Roberto Fusco said events unfolded quickly as the plane broke up and seawater rushed in. |
"They told us they had to make an emergency landing. Then there was panic. Everyone struggled to get their life jackets on," Fusco said from his bed at Villa Sofia Hospital, where he was being treated for minor arm and leg injuries. |
He said he took a deep breath, released his seat belt and plunged into the water. When he surfaced, a fellow passenger helped him and his girlfriend onto a wing. |
"I saw the pilot on the wing," Fusco said. "He was in a terrible state. He had blood all over his face." |
On Sunday, a coast guard boat, helicopter and half-dozen motorboats searched for the missing. The bodies might be in part of the plane that is still submerged — either the tail or the front end, which sank after impact, said Gaspare Prestifilippo, a division chief at the Palermo port. |
Overnight, authorities hauled the mangled fuselage out of the sea with at least one of its wings still attached. Rescue crews had not found the flight data recorder, Prestifilippo said. |
"We did all that we could in a very short time," Cuffaro said Sunday outside Palermo's Civic Hospital. "But you know the dynamics of the disaster, so the result is what it is, unfortunately." |
Of the 23 survivors, 16 were being treated at the Civic Hospital, but none suffered life-threatening injuries, said Dr. Mario Re, head of the hospital's intensive care unit. The most seriously injured were the pilot, co-pilot, a flight attendant and two passengers. |
Relatives of the victims were flown overnight to Palermo to identify the dead, said Michele Gandolfo of the morgue at the Giaccone University Polyclinic. |
Another flight with more relatives of the victims was arriving Sunday, and Cuffaro said all loved ones would be put up at hotels around Palermo. |
"We're trying to help as best as possible those who are in need and accompany with our prayers those who are unfortunately no longer with us," Cuffaro said. |
Pope Benedict XVI (search) said Sunday he was praying for the victims, the vast majority of whom came from the Bari area. |
"I share in the mourning of the families and of the entire ecclesiastic and civil community of the city," he said during his traditional Sunday blessing at the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo in the hills south of Rome. |
Palermo Prosecutor Piero Grasso said authorities had ruled out terrorism. The plane apparently hit the water intact, but the tail broke off from the main wreckage hours later, rescuers said. |
The crash will be investigated by ENAV, Italian prosecutors and Tunisian authorities. |
The ATR-72, which was built in France, has a two-person crew and seats up to 74 passengers. Its maiden flight was in 1988. |
The plane was delivered to Tuninter in 1992 and had flown 29,710 hours, ATR said in a statement. |
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U.S. President Donald Trump has granted a pardon to former Arizona lawman and political ally Joe Arpaio, less than a month after he was convicted of criminal contempt. Grace Lee reports. |
A controversial presidential pardon for the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America". "I have fought on the front lines to prevent illegal immigration." U.S. president Donald Trump granting a pardon to Joe Arpaio on Friday evening, less than a month after the former Arizona lawman was convicted of criminal contemp... |
Revelers at today's St. Patrick's Day Parade will see hundreds of familiar marchers, but they won't see the mayor or City Council, who are boycotting the event because it excludes LGBT groups. This is the first time in the parade's 252-year history that both the mayor and City Council as a body will not take part in th... |
Gay rights activists say this move sends a major message. |
"By gestures, city leaders can help us consider the meaning of cultural events," said Brendan Fey, who has organized his own St. Patrick's Day Parade in Queens that allows LGBT groups to march openly. |
Aside from the council and LGBT groups, two beer companies -- Heineken and Guiness announced over the weekend they would drop their sponsorship of this year's parade. . |
Although individual members can march on their own, the vast majority of council members said they would stand by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito's boycott. The last mayor to not march in the parade -- for the same reason -- was David Dinkins in 1993. Other city agencies, such as the NYPD and FDNY, will part... |
City Councilman Danny Dromm, who is openly gay and a Catholic, said the parade's organizers are behind the times since attitudes toward LGBT groups have changed, even within the Vatican. He added that Dublin's St. Patrick's Day Parade changed its policies toward LGBT members,who can openly march. |
"It may not be immediate but I think [the council's decision] pushes the issue to the forefront and applies presser to the organizers and increases the call for them to change," he said. |
William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, however, felt that the council and mayor's decision ruins the spirit of the parade. |
"That some want to deny Irish Catholics their constitutional rights, when no one is stopping them from having their own parade, is a sad commentary on the state of our culture," he wrote in an op-ed last week. |
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who supports LGBT equality measures, criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision not to march contending that he needed to show support for the city's Irish community. |
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, who is openly gay, disagreed and said fighting to change the policy will result in a St. Patrick's Day parade that is more enjoyable for all New Yorkers. |
"The St. Patrick's Day Parade is a fun and opportune way to celebrate the Irish American culture. They may be the last ones to the party but eventually they will come around," he said of the LGBT policy. |
The team behind the watch stopped taking pre-orders on Thursday, after pre-selling 85,000 devices and raising more than $10 million on Kickstarter. |
The Pebble smartwatch, a smartphone-connected watch that recently became the most-funded Kickstarter project ever, is sold out. |
The team behind the watch stopped taking pre-orders on Thursday, after pre-selling 85,000 devices and raising more than $10 million on the crowd-sourced funding platform Kickstarter. |
The Pebble team earlier this week updated its Kickstarter page to say that it would limit the number of pre-orders to 85,000. As of Thursday, the project had raised more than $10.1 million from 66,550 backers, with eight days left. |
You can still pledge $1 to get exclusive Pebble updates, but advance ordering of the watch is now closed. The Pebble smartwatch will eventually go on sale again at getpebble.com for $150. |
"We've thought a lot about this decision, and we feel it's time," an update on the Pebble Kickstarter page reads. "You, our backers, were the first group of people to believe in Pebble, and we want to return our focus to creating the most awesome watch possible for you." |
The project was posted on Kickstarter last month with the goal of raising $100,000 during the 40-day funding period. After just a week, the Pebble smartwatch had already raised more than $3.5 million, making it the most-funded Kickstarter project ever. |
The watch is water-resistant and sports an electronic-paper (e-paper) display that is easily readable outdoors. It can be customized with several apps designed for cyclists, runners, and golfers. Another app lets users control music on their phone, and Pebble said more apps are in development. |
Last week, the much talked-about watch got its first app partner. When the watch becomes available this fall, it will be integrated with he popular workout-tracking app RunKeeper, allowing cyclists, hikers, walkers, and skiers to track their fitness right from their wrist. |
Another Kickstarter project making headlines is Etcher, which will turn the iPad into an Etch A Sketch. It has raised about $10,000 with 29 days to go. |
For more, see PCMag's "The Digital Watch: A Brief History" slideshow below. Also check out our recent interview with Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler. |
A hero of our time, a victim, or a criminal? RT re-visits Joel Tenenbaum – a student who is being sued by major U.S. record companies for downloading several songs off the Internet without paying for them. |
The record labels who are going after Joel are about to hit a key stage in their court pursuit, which has been going on for the last 6 years. |
“My life is derailed because of this. I should be working, doing my research as opposed to fighting the 4 biggest record companies in the country for money that we really don’t think I owe them,” says Joel Tenenbaum. |
Joel’s legal team is a group of Harvard law students and a professor, who are helping the music fan fight back. To them, winning the case is as important as having the people of America being aware and speaking up for their rights. |
“If we’ve already won partway in the court of public opinion, then at least we’ve won part of the battle,” says Debbie Rosenbaum, one of Joel's lawyers. |
Over the last several years, more than 30 thousand people have been pursued by the music industry for illegally downloading music off the web. The majority of the cases stay secret, since people don’t want their private information disclosed in an endless legal procedure. |
“There’s a whole lot of room for abuse. I have personally been what I would call abused. They have been at my home at 6 in the morning, trying to serve me papers. They have called me at all hours of the day, trying to talk to me. They have tried to harass me, they have done this to Joel and this is regular and repeated... |
Hearing after hearing, Joel’s only hope is that a win in court will set a precedent for other music lovers. Attempts to have the trial webcast for the first time in U.S. history, to get millions of people involved, have been denied by the court. |
This case of a regular Boston university student has dragged on for years. Its eventual outcome may make Joel and his family bankrupt. Still, he and his team just want this nightmare to end. |
For now, the trial is expected to take place in July. |
Fast horse racing results: Who won the 3.15 at Ayr live on ITV? |
QUEEN OF BERMUDA toughed it out at Ayr to land the Group 3 Firth of Clyde Stakes. |
Shumookhi cut out much of the running but Joe Fanning cut him down as he pulled nicely clear in the last furlong. |
The 9-2 favourite got the job done as William Haggas doubled up on the day after Young Rascal's win earlier on at Newbury. |
The next race is the 3.30 Group 3 sprint back at Newbury. Can Take Cover bow out in style? |
Don't miss out on all the latest news with Sun Racing. |
Check out each-way bets for the racing today at Ayr and Newbury. |
The Western Balkans are no stranger to conflict. Successor states to the former Yugoslavia fought a series of nationalist wars that spanned the 1990s, and today the region (which typically includes Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, and EU members Croatia and Slovenia) is seeing ren... |
WORLD POLICY JOURNAL: Could you provide an overview of the state of democracy in the Western Balkans? |
JASMIN MUJANOVIC: The state of democracy in the Western Balkans is rough. It is in decline. It is arguably even coming apart. We can see this in a number of ways and by a number of metrics. It doesn’t matter all that much whether we are talking about the states that are formally part of the EU, like Slovenia or Croatia... |
WPJ: What have been the roadblocks to democratization in these countries? |
JM: I think the biggest factor is the lack of elite transition in a lot of these countries, as well as the lack of popular participation in politics. There are elites across the region who have been in power for generations—people who were one time avowed Marxists and communists, then transformed overnight into imperia... |
WPJ: Looking at this protest and opposition, you’ve argued that we may be seeing a turning point for genuine democratization. Can you tell me more about that? |
JM: What we have seen in happen Macedonia over the last year or two, I think, is a good indicator of what I’m talking about. There’s an entrenched authoritarian regime that refuses to play by the constitutional rules; they engage in all kinds of vulgar manipulations and attack the rights of citizens in a free society. ... |
WPJ: You describe these activists and organizations as leading the way. In what areas can they generate the most political change? |
JM: It varies. That’s sort of the irony. The Western Balkans have had established “professional NGOs” for decades now, and they’ve done valuable work. In particular, for people in various marginalized communities, such as LGBT people or the Roma, basic social services have come from foreign-funded NGOs. But the real is... |
WPJ: To reshape the question, what issues can grass-root organizations focus on to create political change from a local perspective? |
JM: Corruption, and the ways we can see corruption manifested. It’s a bit of a catch-all term, but we’re talking about clientelism, cronyism, and all the ways that the everyday experience of authoritarianism profoundly affects people’s lives and work. This includes the daily humiliations that all citizens experience, u... |
WPJ: We’re seeing a rise of nationalist groups around the world. Is the Western Balkans experiencing a similar trend? |
JM: If the Western Balkans are known for anything to the international audience, unfortunately, they’re known for nationalism. I think it’s a bit of a caricature, though, and we have to understand the purpose of nationalism in the Balkans. It is, to my mind, a top-down, engineered politics, and it serves the function o... |
WPJ: Croatia is the only Western Balkan state that’s a member of the European Union, and Montenegro joined NATO just last year. Serbia is also looking to join the EU. At the same time Russia has been invested in maintaining relationships with the Balkan states. How do you expect the international community at large to ... |
JM: We’ve reached a point where similar things are happening in the Balkans and the international community more broadly. They just may be more vulgar and acute in the Balkans because of the historical and social context. But the stability and integrity of the democratic project in the Balkans is profoundly related to ... |
WPJ: What would that legwork look like? |
JM: That’s the million-dollar question. I think we have to start with small steps and build on them. One of the things I’ve been pushing hard for is making sure that law enforcement agencies and networks in Europe and the United States are better plugged in with law enforcement in the region. It’s also something that w... |
WPJ: Going back to the local roots of these problems, what ethnic tensions are at play in local organizations and movements? |
JM: In some ways it’s the elephant in the room, especially when you’re talking about Bosnia and Kosovo, which were most directly affected by war, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. When you still have these deeply fragmented and deeply traumatized communities, it’s obviously a significant political factor. But it’s a fact... |
WPJ: On that note, what are the prospects for democracy moving forward? |
JM: I do think I’m an optimist. At the very least, I put a lot of stock in the possibility for social transformation coming on the back of social mobilization and protest. I think the region has a genuine shot at rebooting the democratic project on its own terms. At times that will be messy and acrimonious. It may have... |
Runners can learn from the humorous saying attributed to the great Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, “Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical." |
The great Yogi Berra, an 18-time all-star catcher with the New York Yankees, is probably better known for his wordsmith phrases and quotes, although he once stated he never said half the things he said – another Berra-ism. |
“Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical,” has been attributed to Berra. And he has no idea how accurate that statement really is. |
As a runner, how do we go about gearing up that 90 percent mental thing? Running unto itself seems like a pretty easy thing to do. Other than some footwear and appropriately placed clothing (and there are those who will tell you both of those items are optional), isn’t it just left foot, right foot and repeat? |
Well yes, the ACT of running is pretty simple and straight-forward. But have you ever seen the shirt that reads, “My sport is your sport’s punishment”? Based on just that statement alone, perhaps it isn’t as simple as it seems. Truth is… the running is easy but the TRAINING is hard. And this is what Berra meant. |
Most of you know I am a morning runner. I like getting up before dawn and running in the solitude of darkness and the quiet of morning. And most days it’s a pretty easy thing for me to do. But like anyone, there are days when my motivation is challenged and the mind has to tell the body what to do. On those mornings, I... |
Self-help “experts” will tell you that there are all sorts of “positive speak” mantras and chants that you can use to “will” yourself to do whatever it is you seek to do. But I would remind them that I’m 5-feet-7-inches tall and no mantra is going to allow me to dunk a basketball into a 10-foot hoop. What you aim to do... |
So why exercise the mind? Because the mind is quite a powerful muscle. As a catcher, Berra threw out 49 percent of base-runners attempting to steal, according to the website Sports Reference. As a professional catcher of 19 seasons, I wonder how often Berra practiced throwing out baserunners? And how often did he pract... |
So why do I awaken at 4:30 most days? Well, quite frankly if it matters to you, you will do it. If it doesn’t matter, you won’t. It mattered to Berra to work on that aspect of his game (along with being an 18-time all-star he played in 10 World Series by the way). And it continues to matter to me, more than 40 years af... |
Former standout Lock Haven University runner Andy Shearer is a member of the Middletown Athletic Club, the Greater Philadelphia Track Club and USA Track and Field. |
Chevron Pipeline Co., one of two companies accused in a federal lawsuit of contaminating soil beneath the La Mirada Auto Center, has agreed to pay the city $95,000. |
The site, purchased in the mid-1980s by the city's Redevelopment Agency for construction of the auto mall, was contaminated with gasoline and tetrachloroethylene (TCE), a toxic degreasing agent, said John Di Mario, a city redevelopment officer. |
A Chevron pipeline beneath the property may have transported TCE or have been treated with the substance, Di Mario said. Chevron was not linked to the gasoline contamination, he said. |
Jean A. Martin, Chevron's attorney, said there is no direct evidence showing that the company ever transported TCE or used it to treat the pipeline. Martin would not comment on why the company settled. |
The primary defendant in the lawsuit by the city's Redevelopment Agency is BET Plant Services, a British equipment rental company that occupied the site. The suit, which seeks $700,000 damages, is scheduled for trial in June. |
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