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The blame game over the disaster is playing out even as Italy mourns the victims and rescue workers pressed on with their search for survivors.
Authorities said one more body had been found and another victim had died in hospital, bringing the known death toll to over 40. Three more people who had been travelling in a car which was unearthed from the rubble on Saturday are still officially missing.
Saturday’s Mass for 19 of the victims was held at Genoa’s Exhibition and Trade Centre and was led by the city’s Archbishop, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco.
Some of the victims’ families boycotted the event. Instead they held their own private services as a protest against the state, accusing it of negligence in overseeing safety on the bridge.
The government declared Saturday a national day of mourning and declared a state of emergency for Genoa. The city is one of Italy’s largest ports and Rome has allocated just over €30 million for the city’s immediate needs.
Members of the fire brigade, rescue teams and the police force were welcomed with applause as they entered the exhibition centre, where the caskets, including a small white one for a child, were lined up before a temporary altar.
“These things should not happen but unfortunately they still do. Now they’re looking for someone to blame, but dead people cannot come back,” said Giuseppe Rondinelli, a friend of one of the victims, who was among the mourners.
Players of the city’s two soccer teams, Genoa and Sampdoria, sat among the crowd, having cancelled matches this weekend in sign of respect. Relatives of the dead stood beside the coffins, adorned with white and yellow roses, some with their hands on the caskets.
“The collapse of the bridge was a gash in the heart of Genoa, it’s a deep wound,” the archbishop said in his homily.
Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella and prime minister Giuseppe Conte attended the ceremony as well as minister for transport Danilo Toninelli.
A Genoa court will attempt to establish exactly why the 51 year-old bridge collapsed. But experts said problems with concrete-encased cable stays were a possible cause.
Italy’s populist ruling coalition launched the formal procedure aimed at revoking Autostrade’s concessions on Friday.
“Evidently someone did not do their job well in terms of ordinary and extraordinary maintenance. The concessionaire has faults that appear very grave,” Mr Toninelli told La Stampa on Saturday, adding that it was up to investigators to establish who was responsible.
Mr Toninelli said he would deploy all necessary resources to avoid further disasters and said he was preparing contingencies in case the concessions were revoked.
Virginia’s state-supported schools will lose about $194 million, or 13 percent to 15 percent of funding, under cuts proposed last week by Gov. Tim Kaine.
Some schools are already looking to bridge the gap. The College of William & Mary, the second-oldest college in the nation, is considering stepping up the push for gifts, grants and alumni donations.
“We’ve got to be allowed by the state to earn more money. We’ve also got to do a better job of attracting gifts and grants,” William & Mary President Taylor Reveley said at a campus forum. “We have over 85,000 alumni who received splendid William & Mary educations and have a great loyalty to the university.
• Virginia Commonwealth University, $25.1 million.
• Virginia Tech, $21.8 million.
• University of Virginia, $19.2 million.
• George Mason University, $17.6 million.
• Old Dominion University, $14.2 million.
• James Madison University, $9.9 million.
• Radford University, $6.4 million.
• College of William & Mary, $6 million.
• Norfolk State University, $5.2 million.
• Virginia Tech Cooperative Extension, $4.5 million.
• Christopher Newport University, $3.5 million.
• Longwood University, $3.5 million.
• University of Mary Washington, $3 million.
• Virginia Institute of Marine Research, $2.8 million.
• Virginia Military Institute, $1.8 million.
• Richard Bland College, $683,772.
• Virginia State Cooperative Extension, $108,484.
'A different job' for Fred Thompson?
Thompson met with Connecticut Republicans Thursday night.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- There are two things Fred Thompson can't escape these days: his role on "Law and Order" and questions over whether he'll run for president. So he got them both out of the way in the opening moments of his address to the Connecticut Republican Party's Prescott Bush Dinner Thursday evening.
"All right, let's get the announcement out of the way," he told the crowd in Stamford. "'Law and Order' will return for an 18th season."
A woman in the back yelled, "But we need you in a different job!" Thompson smiled and said, "Can you speak a little louder?"
In his speech, Thompson criticized Democrats as he discussed terrorism, Iraq and national security. "Our choice is not whether or not we're going to fight. Our choice is where we're going to fight," Thompson said. "And the only debate going on right now with regard to this most important issue facing our country on the...
He added, "My friends, I don't think that the American people are going to turn the keys of this country over to a party that invests their political capital in defeat."
But Thompson also stressed his own party returning to their key issues and warned his fellow Republicans to "get nervous if they go the wrong way."
"Someone once said that a cat won't sit on a hot stove twice, but he won't sit on a cold stove ever," Thompson said. "Here we had an election that was traumatic for some people, and the media blamed it on Iraq. I think it had more to do with pork barrel spending and corruption than it did Iraq."
SAO PAULO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Two Brazilian airlines, Azul SA and Avianca Brasil, are targets for expansion in the new alliance between United Continental Holdings Inc, Avianca Holdings and Copa Airlines on U.S.-Latin America routes, an Avianca executive said.
There was little reference to Brazil, by far Latin America’s largest market, when the joint venture was announced on Friday, but Avianca Holdings’ Executive Vice President for Business Units, Gerardo Grajales, told Reuters on Monday that the partners already had in mind Azul and Avianca Brasil, which operates independe...
The Open Skies agreement between Brazil and the United States was signed into law in May, when discussions among the three airlines were already advanced, he said.
The airline agreement mimics a partnership between American Airlines and Chile’s Latam Airlines which has been mired in regulatory scrutiny.
The announcement between the United Airlines parent, Avianca and Panama’s Copa capped off almost two years of negotiations. United will loan Avianca’s majority shareholder almost $500 million to be spent on ventures outside of the airline.
Depending on how it is repaid, United could end up owning a large chunk of the Colombian carrier. United is making no monetary investment in Copa or its affiliates.
United already owns an 8 percent stake in Azul, and has a codesharing agreement with Avianca Brasil, formerly known as Ocean Air.
The world’s largest asset manager BlackRock disclosed late on Friday that it had sold a stake in Azul’s preferred shares and kept a 10 percent participation. Hours earlier, the carrier said in another securities filing that it sought to double in size in the next five years.
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While we have made considerable investment in this area we are aware that it is only the beginning of transformational change over the next few years. As a leader in this area, Russell McVeagh is helping to shape the NZ FinTech agenda through membership in FinTech NZ and the wider New Zealand technology alliance of NZT...
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“Geezer Bandit” Continues to Frustrate FBI and Locals in Calif.
As serial bank robbers have done over the the many decades, the man dubbed the “Geezer Bandit” continues to frustrate the FBI and local authorities.
On Friday, the “Geezer Bandit” held up his 13th bank in southern California, this time on Friday at a Bank of America branch in the town of Goleta in Santa Barbara County, the La Times reported.
The bandit got his name because he appears to be about 70 or so. He started holding up banks in August of 2009. Most of the robberies have been in San Diego County, but he’s also done stick ups in Kern County and Riverside County.
Recently, authorities have raised the possibility that the man has been using a Hollywood-quality mask to appear older than he actually is.
Posted: 1/31/11 at 9:36 AM under FBI, News Story.
A GROUP is prioritizing the creation of Samar Island Medical Center in Eastern Visayas to “further serve” the healthcare needs in the three Samar provinces.
“The greater burden of Eastern Visayas is the unavailability of adequate hospitals, particularly for its poor patients,” said Jude Acidre, the second nominee of Tingog party-list.
Acidre said the region has only two nationally-funded hospitals: Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVRMC) in Tacloban City and Schistosomiasis Hospital and Research Center in Palo, Leyte.
These two national hospitals are not enough to serve the region’s over four million population, Acidre added.
“Region VI (Western Visayas) has four nationally-funded hospitals and Region VII (Central Visayas) has six, while in Region VIII (Eastern Visayas), we only have two,” Acidre said.
“It is imperative that Samar Island gets its own tertiary, level 3 hospital to cater to the healthcare needs of the people in the area and free them from the inconvenience of traveling even for hours just to be admitted to EVRMC in Tacloban,” said Acidre in a statement.
Samar Island is composed of Samar, Northern Samar, and Eastern Samar provinces, with a combined population of more than 1.8 million people.
According to Acidre, they will establish the Samar Island Medical Center in an area proximate to Catarman, Northern Samar and Calbayog City in Samar.
Meanwhile, Acidre said the opening of Samar Island Medical Center will “complement” the passage of Universal Healthcare Act.
“With the building of a new hospital, the Universal Healthcare Act signed by President Rodrigo Duterte will now have the right machine. What will be the use of PhilHealth coverage and free hospitalization if the patients don’t have an accessible hospital during an emergency situation,” said Acidre.
“The establishment of this hospital will also decongest EVRMC,” he said.
“We will work hard not only to upgrade the bed capacity of EVRMC but to also transform it into a multi-specialty tertiary hospital serving as an apex hospital for the eastern part of the country,” Acidre said.
Acidre said they will also improve the hospitals under the local governments in Eastern Visayas.
Ebony Harris, a cashier at a Walmart store in Burton, Michigan, offered to paint Angela Peters' nails on her break. The nail salon reportedly turned Peters away because her hands sometimes shake, and "she moves too much," bystander Tasia Smith shared on Facebook.
After a woman with cerebral palsy said she was denied service at a nail salon, a Walmart employee stepped in to help.
Ebony Harris, a cashier at a Walmart store in Burton, Michigan, offered to paint Angela Peters' nails on her break. A nail salon reportedly turned Peters away because her hands sometimes shake, and "she moves too much," bystander Tasia Smith shared on Facebook.
Peters, who uses a wheelchair, is a regular customer at the store, and Harris has helped her shop before, she told ABC News.
"I just wanted to do her nails and I didn’t want her day to be ruined," Harris told ABC.
Harris helped Peters select a nail polish color at the store and the two set up a DIY manicure station at a cafe table. Tara Aston, a spokesperson for Walmart, said the company couldn't be more proud of Harris.
"Ebony simply wanted to make sure our customer’s day was special, and that’s the kind of person she is — someone with a wonderful attitude who goes the extra mile each day to make those around her feel important," Aston said in a statement on behalf of Walmart. "We’re not surprised at her act of kindness."
Smith, who works at a Subway inside the Walmart, captured the interaction in two photos she shared on her Facebook.
Smith said Harris was "so patient" with Peters, who "barely moved" and "was just so sweet."
She also vowed not to return to Da-Vi Nails, the salon she said turned Peters away. The nail salon is also located inside the Walmart. The business' phone line was temporarily disconnected as of Tuesday morning.
Peters said she doesn't want anyone at the business to be fired, but she does want people to know people with disabilities enjoy getting their nails done like anyone else.
"I forgive the nail people for not doing my nails ... I don't want anyone fired at the nail salon, I just want people educated," Peters said in a statement posted on Facebook on Thursday.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- When Grand Rapids businessman and philanthropist Peter Secchia attends former President George H.W. Bush's funeral on Wednesday, he'll pay tribute to an "honorable" man who was a strong leader and a "kind and gentle" friend."
"He thought things through, he handled them with elegance and class, and that's what he was known for," said Secchia, 81, who was appointed U.S. ambassador to Italy by Bush.
The former president's invitation-only funeral service is being held at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C. Secchia says he and his wife are attending the 11 a.m. ceremony, which is being broadcast on C-SPAN and other networks.
The Grand Rapids man is planning to attend the former president's state funeral on Wednesday.
Secchia, who served as chair of the Kent County Republican Party and Vice Chairmen of the Republican National Committee, says he first met Bush in the late 1970s.