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Wherever you look the city streets are full of lean people wearing the insignia of many countries and the streets are whirring with the sound of expensive racing bikes.

It's the world championships of triathlon and that means a huge festival involving more than 3000 age-group competitors taking part in aquathlon and sprint or Olympic distance triathlon.

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It can be a complex business taking part in an event of this size. You have to commit up to a year out and from there it's a continual process of putting your hand in your pocket to pay for an international licence, race entry, uniform, travel and accommodation, not to mention bikes, shoes and other training and racing gear.

On Wednesday we flew up from Nelson. When we booked our flights, the aquathlon was scheduled for 5pm, but somehow it got shifted to 2pm, with race-day registration open until noon.

Landing in Auckland at 10.30am didn't leave much time to get to the registration spot in The Cloud on Queen's Wharf, but with family support from my son Sam we managed with ease.

The next couple of hours were a flurry of activity as we waited for our hotel room, checked in, unpacked, found all the necessary race gear and drifted back across to Queen's Wharf to set up shoes in the designated spot in the transition area.

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Like cattle in a stockyard, we were then herded from pen to pen to ensure each group was ready to go at the prescribed three-minute intervals.

Our group, wearing purple caps, consisted of 60 or so distinguished gentlemen over the age of 60. With numbers racing and the necessity of sticking to the schedule, there was no time for warmups (if you can describe getting accustomed to 15-degree water as a warmup).

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There are lots of ways fungus could have gotten inside the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose steroid medication has been linked to a lethal outbreak of a rare fungal form of meningitis.

The outbreak has killed at least 15 people and sickened more than 200 others in 15 states. Nearly all the victims had received steroid injections for back pain.

Federal and state investigators have been tightlipped about any problems they may have seen at the New England Compounding Center or whether they have pinpointed the source of the contamination.Find guccishoes and dsquared shoes men from a vast selection of Clothing, They did disclose last week that they found fungus in more than 50 vials from the pharmacy.

Company spokesman Andrew Paven said by email that criminal investigators from the Food and Drug Administration were at the pharmacy in Framingham, Mass., on Tuesday. The visit was part of a broad federal and state investigation of the outbreak, FDA spokesman Steven Immergut said in an email.

New England Compounding has not commented on its production process or what might have gone wrong, so outside experts can only speculate. But the betting money seems to be on dirty conditions, faulty sterilizing equipment, tainted ingredients or sloppiness on the part of employees.

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Compounding pharmacies aren't as tightly regulated as drug company plants, but they are supposed to follow certain rules: Clean the floors and other surfaces daily; monitor air in "clean rooms" where drugs are made; require employees to wear gloves and gowns; test samples from each lot.

The rules are in the U.S. Pharmacopeia, a kind of national standards book for compounding medicines that's written by a nonprofit scientific organization. Most inspections, though, are handled by state boards of pharmacy. Massachusetts last inspected New England Compounding in March in response to a complaint unrelated to the outbreak; the results have not been released.

High-volume production of the sort that went on at New England Compounding also raises the chances of contamination, experts said.

Traditionally, compounding pharmacies fill special orders placed by doctors for individual patients, turning out maybe five or six vials. But many medical practices and hospitals place large orders to have the medicines on hand for their patients. That's allowed in at least 40 states but not under Massachusetts regulations.Buy the top quality Swiss cubepuzzlee at replicawatchesswiss,

Last month, New England Compounding recalled three lots of steroids made since May that totaled 17,676 single-dose vials of medicine — roughly equivalent to 20 gallons.

"I don't see it as appropriate for a community pharmacy to do a batch of something preservative-free in numbers in the thousands" of doses, said Lou Diorio, a New Jersey-based consultant to compounding pharmacies. Diorio, who has no connection to the investigation or the company, said it is harder to keep everything sterile when working with large amounts.

To make the steroid, a chemical powder from a supplier is mixed with a liquid, sterilized through heating, then pumped into vials, according to Eric Kastango, another consultant from New Jersey who helps compounding pharmacies deal with contamination problems. He is not connected to the company either.

Perhaps the powder was contaminated, either at New England Compounding or another location. Maybe the fungus was in the liquid, some experts said.

Kastango offered additional possible scenarios, related to the large volume produced: Making thousands of doses at a time can take many hours or days. It's possible that a batch could sit for hours or even a day or so before being placed in vials, making it vulnerable to contamination,Panerai replica watches,cheaprolexwatches,replica omega, he said.

It's also likely a pharmacy worker would take a break to get a snack or cup of coffee, to go to the bathroom or to step outside for a smoke, Kastango explained. If the person hurried back and didn't properly wash up or put on new gowns, masks and other safety garb, that could introduce contamination.

Faulty or misused sterilizing equipment is also a possibility. After a 2002 fungal meningitis outbreak linked to a South Carolina compounding pharmacy, investigators discovered that a piece of sterilizing equipment called an autoclave had been improperly used by the staff.

The types of fungus in the latest outbreak are ubiquitous: The first to be identified was Aspergillus, commonly found indoors and outdoors. As more testing of patients was completed, it became clear that another fungus — a black mold called Exserohilum — caused most of the illnesses. Exserohilum is common in dirt and grasses.

Most people do not get sick from ordinary exposure to these kinds of fungus, but spinal injections can provide them a pathway into the brain. Doctors are generally leery of using spinal steroid injections that contain preservatives because of fears the preservatives themselves can cause side effects.

Viewers riveted by feisty presidential debate

At the University of Cincinnati, 200 students were expected to turn out to watch the second debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

But organizers hadn't reckoned on the intense curiosity as to how the president would perform after an admittedly lackluster showing in the first faceoff. The students kept coming, and row upon row of chairs were added at the campus center until more than 500 crammed in. It was not unlike a crowd at a boxing match; many were expecting verbal fireworks, and they weren't disappointed.

"It goes without saying that the knives were out," said Karim Aladmi, a 21-year-old international affairs major from Dayton, Ohio, who wore a suit and tie for the occasion.

"I thought Obama had a strong performance, but Romney made him work for it," Aladmi said. "I was actually impressed by both sides."

Across the nation, interest in Tuesday night's debate was high. Assessments varied enormously, and not everyone was satisfied with the give and take.

"I thought it was a very sloppy debate," said Joe Blizzard, 22, a chemical engineering major from Dayton. "They spent a lot of time cutting down the other person. As someone who is undecided, it was a little disappointing."

In Florida, another critical swing state. Romney supporters at a beer house in Coral Gables laughed and hooted when Obama brought up Big Bird — the public television character ostensibly endangered by proposed Romney budget cuts. And when Obama mentioned how he was raised by a single mother, one Romney backer exclaimed, "Oh, God. Here we go again."

At a nearby coffee shop, Obama supporter Cheryl Lyons watched the debate live on her laptop while wearing headphones. She described Romney as a "chameleon,"

"He doesn't know what he wants to be," she said. "I think Romney is trying to win young people and women. But I also think he says what people want to hear."

At a Coral Gables sports bar, 84-year-old Roberto Francois Carranta said he remained firmly for Romney, depicting him as "the next Reagan." The Obama administration, said Carranta, "is the greatest insult which has ever been perpetrated on the American public."

Romney supporters dominated at a debate-watch party at a casino in battleground Nevada that offered special drinks with political names and a debate-related drinking game.

While some in the crowd at John Ascuaga's Nugget hotel-casino in Sparks watched the debate intently, others caught an occasional glimpse while occupied at slot machines and blackjack tables.

Jerry Frey, 60, a third-generation Nevadan who got his start flying crop dusters and now has a small agribusiness, cheered on Romney and hollered at Obama, "You're taking our freedom away."

"People are realizing Obama is all talk, a good talker, a good speaker," he said later. "After four years, I trust Romney more."

Ballard Larsen, a retired union worker from Sparks, described the debate as "pretty much a draw" but said he came away leaning toward Romney because of the Republican Party's stance against new gun-control laws.

"I'm a union guy and Democrats are pro-union and Republicans are not, so I always give Democrats the edge because that's how I make my money," Larsen said. "But then again, I'm a 2nd Amendment guy and the Republicans are more pro-2nd Amendment and the Democrats are not."

In Colorado, another swing state, viewers included Robert Loevy, professor emeritus of political science at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

He rated the debate "largely a tie, with both candidates speaking effectively but also speaking past each other."

"If that is the case, then Obama is the winner because he needed to make up for his poor performance in debate No. 1," said Loevy,Top brands at low prices in edhardyshoes, who expects the race to remain close both nationwide and in Colorado.

Professor David Key, director of Baptist Studies at Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, also suggested that Obama made up for his lapse in the first debate as he and Romney vied for middle-of-the road voters.

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Emma Coleman Jordan, a Georgetown University law professor, said Obama "completely dominated this debate" while underscoring his fundamental differences with Romney.

"Gov. Romney continued to practice the art of smoke and anecdote to get away from a direct answer on a difficult question where his underlying position was unpopular," Jordan said.

Back at the University of Cincinnati, international affairs student Sierra Faler, 20, had been hoping Obama would improve from the first debate — and said she got her wish.Shop our large selection of authentic buywatches at fantastic.

"He really came off more, for lack of a better word, aggressively, which is good," she said. "He was able to handle Romney very well, who I felt was more scrapping to find things to counteract him."

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"President Obama didn't really answer many questions directly. I was pleased with Romney's answers," he said. "I think the polls are going to be close in the swing states. It could result in a very entertaining third debate."

One championship got away from Rochester Mayo

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Mayo's 28-7 loss to Owatonna on Wednesday on the final night of the high school football regular season left the Spartans without the Big Nine Conference championship they had aimed for since practice started two months ago.

That title belongs to Owatonna, the No. 3-ranked team in the Class AAAAA state poll. The Huskies capped a perfect regular season (7-0 Big Nine, 8-0 overall) with the win, and they locked up the top seed in the Section One, Class AAAAA playoffs.

But Mayo (5-2, 5-3) still has a chance at a bigger goal — the section championship. The Spartans, the No. 3 seed in the section, begin postseason play on Tuesday, when they play host to No. 6 seed Austin.

"I told our guys that (Owatonna) is a championship football team," Mayo coach Donny Holcomb said. "Now we know where we have to get to to be a championship team ourselves. Every time we have an opportunity to make a play, we have to capitalize on it."

While much of the talk about Owatonna this season has revolved around its new-found aerial attack (senior quarterback Colton Schock has passed for a school-record 1,467 yards), it beat Mayo on Wednesday in traditional Huskies fashion — by pounding the ball on the ground.

Owatonna controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, rushing for 389 yards, while holding Mayo to just 2 net rushing yards.Read Mens watchreplica eBay Review and Guides in the eBay categories. The Spartans ran for 34 yards, but the Huskies sacked Mayo quarterback Eric Manges five times for a total loss of 32 yards.

"We had a good game plan coming in," Mayo senior receiver/defensive back Mike Fix said, "we just have to execute. We have to play four quarters, every play."

Mayo was able to move the ball through the air, as Manges completed 16 of 24 pass attempts for 202 yards. Manges now has passed for 1,278 yards this season, the sixth-best season ever by a Mayo quarterback.

He hit Fix in stride on the first play of Mayo's second drive of the game for a 56-yard touchdown. Jerry Brownell added the point-after-touchdown kick for a 7-0 Mayo lead with 5:52 to go in the first quarter.

"We were able to throw the ball here and there, but their blitz and defensive line got to us a few times," Holcomb said.

It was all Owatonna after that.

The Huskies scored one touchdown in each quarter, starting with Luke Wanous' 58-yard run with 3:55 to go in the first quarter. Aaron Peterson did the rest of the damage. The 6-foot, 160-pound junior ran for touchdowns of 32, 47 and 75 yards. His first scoring run came with 1:52 to go in the second quarter and gave the Huskies the lead for good.

Wanous and Peterson each finished with 180 rushing yards. Wanous also caught four passes for 47 yards.

Mayo must now leave the regular season behind and turn its attention to the playoffs.

"We have to have good practices every day the rest of the week," said Fix, who has 35 catches for 597 yards and five touchdowns this season, "and we need to turn our intensity up 10 notches."

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The prototype leather shoes were handmade by Stamp Shoes, and Becky Stewart developed the technology. The shoes, which were on display at the London Design Festival, are more of a concept, as they are not yet mass-produced. In fact, Wilcox claims they are a “work in progress,” and they are not yet available for purchase.

Students seem to view the shoes as more of a novelty. Freshman psychology major Rachel Beidler said, “The idea is cool, but a little impractical.” She might consider buying the shoes if they actually carried the wearer to the destination.

Lauren Reese, a freshman on a pre-med academic track, agreed with Beidler. “The shoes are completely unnecessary,” because cell phone map technology can serve the same purpose.

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The Eagles lead the league in turnovers

The Philadelphia Eagles are 3-3 and it is time to push the panic button. This team is flying nowhere fast and though the NFC East is winnable, the chances that this team will hold together long enough to not implode, let alone win, is doubtful.Panerai replica watches,cheaprolexwatches,replica omega, But there is nothing like the bye week in the City of Brotherly Love, and the first winds of change came down just two days after Sunday’s loss.

Juan Castillo is out. Temple graduate, Todd Bowles, has replaced the much-beleaguered defensive coordinator who should have been fired during the summer. The talent on the defense has been good enough to compete and a fresh start with the squad would have created enthusiasm. The defense has been good this year except for the Arizona game and two fourth quarters, yet someone’s head needed to be chopped to appease Eagles fans.

The offense is the problem. The Eagles lead the league in turnovers. The offense is confusing even for someone who watches every play. Philly is a passing team one week and a running team the next. There is no rhyme or reason to the game planning as the Eagles never game plan for the team they are facing.

Week after week, Reid chooses one of the multiple weapons and dedicates an entire game to them. The Eagles need to focus on the weaknesses of the opposing team and exploit them with a mixture that insures the best success. Philadelphia is too proud and too enamored by the offensive talent and defensive legacy.Order high quality replicawatches at home.

This is why Reid should go. He has had the talent to win. He has had the players. Fans have blamed the offensive line and the defensive line for the past ten years, but it is the game planning that is sorely lacking.

Reid is arrogant in defeat and befuddled in victory. I do not know how long has it been since a journalist praised the Philadelphia Eagles for a game plan that actually worked. Oh, yea, it is when we had Jim Johnson as defensive coordinator.

The Eagles need to run Shady McCoy. They need to bench Michael Vick because he is not winning football games. His risks outweigh his benefit right now and I would like to see Nick Foles try to run a balanced offense.

It is six games into the season and for all purposes, the Eagles could be 0-6. Michael Vick has been given his chances, but this year he continues to be unpredictable and frustrating.

If the offensive line is not strong enough for a rookie quarterback or someone who cannot run out of trouble, then we are in bigger trouble than we think. That just might be the case and reason for the hesitation.

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The company that manufactures Apple's iPhone said yesterday it found underage interns as young as 14 working at one of its factories in China.

Foxconn Technology Group said the interns were found by a company investigation at its factory in the eastern city of Yantai and were sent back to their schools.

China's minimum legal working age is 16.

Foxconn, owned by Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, said it was investigating with schools how the interns were sent to its factory.

The company didn't say how many underage interns it had found. "We recognize that full responsibility for these violations rests with our company and we have apologized to each of the students for our role in this action," Foxconn said in a statement.

"Any Foxconn employee found, through our investigation, to be responsible for these violations will have their employment immediately terminated," the company added.

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A labor rights group, China Labor Watch, said in a statement that primary responsibility lay with schools involved but "Foxconn is also culpable for not confirming the ages of their workers."

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The company said that the students were free to leave at any time.

The Fair Labor Association, which was hired by Apple to audit working conditions at Foxconn factories, said in August that improvements it recommended in March were being carried out ahead of schedule.

Watching the debates the old-school way

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I had a summer break. I was free! When "my shows" ended in June, I felt jarred. Sort of lost on some nights because I was so used to the regularity of hurrying through dinner, quickly walking the dogs and generally pinballing around the house so that I would be on the couch when the program began.

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I watch "my shows" as they are happening. Partly it is because I do not trust the technology that my TV will actually have TiVoed the program. Partly I do not trust that I will be able to work the machine. And partly, I like the pressure of getting on the couch on time. When my kids were younger, I ran around screaming that no one was to talk to me for the next hour. If the remote was missing I had a fit.

My children do not understand why I still watch television as it is aired.

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All of this is so inconvenient for me. I cannot discuss a television plot as soon as a show ends because none of us has seen it simultaneously. We used to watch television together, or if not in the same city, call during commercials with "oh my goshes." Now I have to either spoil a plot or wait on their time schedule.

My only child who watches live television is my son when he is watching sports. This makes sense to me. Is there any point in watching a match otherwise? I do not mean sports highlights, but full games. Everything else he also tapes and watches later or just finds online.

The presidential and vice presidential debates have changed the nature of TV viewing for so many people I know. Everyone is back on a television schedule! The last debate was Thursday. The next debate is Tuesday. And the final debate is Monday. People discuss the debates at work, the grocery store and the dog park and are organizing their evenings around getting in front of the TV on time.

Girl sacrifices birthday gifts to get shoes for needy

Instead, the money they would have spent on cake, ice cream, party favors and decorations will be used to buy shoes for needy children around the world. And she won’t have piles of presents to unwrap on her special day. But that’s the way young Charlene Caine wants it. She’s asking all her friends and family to buy shoes for kids she will probably never meet, instead of shopping for her. With the help of her mother and father, Gayle and Charles Caine, she sent them a letter recently, explaining why and how they could make those contributions.

She’s hoping that their donations will make a big difference in the Christmas shoe project she heard about on television this summer.

She learned about it on the program “Life TODAY” with James and Betty Robinson, which focuses in part on mission outreach. As she learned more about poverty-stricken areas of the world, she started asking her mother why these other young people didn’t have adequate food, shoes, clothing or clean drinking water. Her mother explained that, whatever the reasons, all people who can should do their part to help meet those most basic needs.

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She decided against buying a new bag at all, and had her mother send the money for the shoes. She went back to Malone (Fla.) School this fall with her visibly worn bag from the last academic year. She doesn’t mind if someone teases her about the old book bag; she’s feeling too good knowing that 10 more children will be walking in shoes rather than trying to walk barefoot down dirt roads strewn with pebbles and possibly getting sick from cuts to their feet that could lead to infection and disease.

Each of her parents, inspired by their daughter’s selflessness, donated 10 more pairs of the sturdy $4-shoes, for a total of 30 sent by the Caine family at a cost of $120. Soon after, Charlene got a little token of thanks in the mail. It’s a small gold-plated shoe ornament for her Christmas tree. The treasure will be the first ornament hung on the tree this year, the youngster said.What we see and hear enough of, we buy christianlouboutinshoe into – often.

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Her mother calls her “”The princess with a big heart,” in reference to the Miss Serendipity pageant crown she won in recent years, and is clearly proud that, at such a young age, her daughter has embraced the spirit of giving that her parents have always tried to instill in her.

The family is hoping that her participation in the Christmas shoe project will inspire loved ones and strangers to give as well. Donors can send money orders for the shoes to Life Outreach International. To note that it was Charlene who inspired the gift, and to make sure it goes to the right mission project, write “Big Heart Challenge Charlene” in the right hand corner of the money order.

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"It's a major public issue" in those states, he said.

The Maryland PSC's letter of protest focused on the secrecy of meetings between PJM and the market monitor.

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Paula DuPont-Kidd, a PJM spokeswoman, said the proposal created by PJM and the market monitor is just that – a proposal.

"This is the beginning of the process, not the end," she said in an email. "The outcome has not been pre-determined."

DuPont-Kidd said a large group of PJM members "came together around a conceptual proposal to resolve problems" with the minimum-price rule and asked PJM staff and the market monitor to hear the ideas.

"The ad hoc group's ideas are now being brought into the formal stakeholder process where they will receive full discussion and vetting," she said.

But the Maryland commission's letter called it a "fully formed proposal" and said the plan was to submit it in less than two months for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval.

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“Hear the new sound in my bossa nova/ …You know it’s time now to learn Portuguese/ It’s time now to learn what I know and what I don’t know,” accordionist Autumn Harrison sweetly coos on “Baby,” as chunky guitars, shakers and keyboards swirl around her. It’s a melodic highlight of Salt Petal’s recently released EP “Tip of the Sunfish,” a breezy companion to its more elaborately arranged 2009 full-length “Say-So.” The five “Sunfish” tracks meld elements of ’60s rock, ’80s pop, cumbia, Argentinean folk and surf twang. In rhythmic contrast, the sultry “Sabotage” is grounded by guitarist Rodrigo Gonzalez’s fluid leads, and “Songs I Used to Love” sounds a bit like the Bangles gone tropical. The video for “Songs I Used to Love” is typical of Salt Petal’s disarmingly creative approach, with pantomime, impressionistic artwork and cartoonish animation embellishing the band’s performance in a house. Colorful visuals are a hallmark of their live shows as well.

Salt Petal should be familiar to locals who head-bobbed and danced during their sets when they played the Make Music Pasadena festival and Old Towne Pub, or anyone who caught their pre-show performance before Lila Downs’ concert at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex last month. Wear your dancing shoes and expect some goofy good humor at their performance Sunday.

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"It's a regular thing," said Carranza, 31, of Chicago, who is entered in her fourth Bank of America Chicago Marathon. "I have a lot of knee, back and shoulder pain, so I look at Tylenol in the same way as protein bars and Gatorade."

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The medications can be a godsend when taken as directed: for headaches, fevers or acute injuries, such as a twisted ankle. But both ibuprofen and acetaminophen pose well-documented health risks, especially when they're consumed in large amounts or for an extended time.

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I didn't do that much actual flying, as most of my time was spent in airports or on the tarmac while delays and alleged mechanical issues kept me grounded.

As irritating as that trip was, though, I found myself empathizing with the employees who have to cope with this chaotic environment every day. Yes, you can argue that a few might be helping make a bad situation worse, but I got the impression that most were as frustrated as I was.

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He was just one of many longtime employees who could remember when American was the world's No. 1 carrier.

"It is disheartening to see what has become of this once-proud airline," wrote an AA flight attendant with four decades in the air. "We are all so sick and tired of saying 'I'm sorry.' (But) it's difficult to do a good job when we don't have the tools; i.e, food for the passengers during delays, seats that work, video systems up and running..Shop the latest monclerjackets handpicked by a global..Find brand-name watchesat your fingertips with fast,. We feel your pain."

One reader, a veteran AA flyer, warned that American employees who are deliberately disrupting flight schedules are tarnishing the airline's image.

"While I sympathize with the employees of AA, there is the other side of the coin," he wrote. "As a businessman who has been on at least two flights a week and has traveled on AA since 1965, the 'slowdown' (has) cost me a lot of time and, as I bill by the hour, money.

"Have a little concern for the guy who makes his living using the airlines and helps to pay the salaries of the employees."

An American pilot emailed me to say he was concerned about losing such longtime passengers. But the pilot also touched on the complexity of the current situation and said the airline's problems have been building for a long time.

"The last decade has been one of uncertainty, broken promises and breached trust," he wrote. "It has been stressful for both employees and our families. An aging fleet, the selling of spare parts and gutting of maintenance staff has led to a perfect storm."

Still, he continued, "Please don't give up on us. We want to be a world-class airline and provide you with the product you're accustomed to and deserve."

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Abu Hamza al-Masri was surrounded by several marshals in a Manhattan courtroom as he faced charges he conspired with Seattle men to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon and helped abduct 16 hostages, two of them U.S. tourists, in Yemen in 1998.
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Al-Masri, 54, exposed both of his arms through his short-sleeved prison shirt. His court-appointed lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, asked that al-Masri, indicted under the name Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, have his prosthetics immediately returned "so he can use his arms."

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Al-Masri — jailed since 2004 in Britain on separate charges — was flown overnight to New York from London along with four others accused of U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa and with helping terrorism operations in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

The five men, who all could face life in prison, have been battling extradition for between eight and 14 years.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called the extraditions "a watershed moment in our nation's efforts to eradicate terrorism."

"As is charged, these are men who were at the nerve centers of al-Qaida's acts of terror, and they caused blood to be shed, lives to be lost, and families to be shattered."

In New York's federal court, Khaled al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary entered not-guilty pleas to charges they participated in the bombings of embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. They were indicted in a case that also charged Osama bin Laden.

In New Haven, Conn., Syed Talha Ahsan, 33, and Babar Ahmad, 38, entered not-guilty pleas to charges they provided terrorists in Afghanistan and Chechnya with cash, recruits and equipment.

Al-Masri, a one-time nightclub bouncer, entered no plea, saying only "I do" when he was asked by U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas whether he swears that his financial affidavit used to determine if he qualifies for a court-appointed lawyer was correct.

Shroff told Maas that al-Masri needed use of his arms. "Otherwise, he will not be able to function in a civilized manner."

She also asked for a dictating machine, saying he can't take notes, the return of his diabetes medication, and special shoes that prevent him from slipping. She said he will need a special diet and a full medical evaluation in prison.

Al-Masri peered through glasses as he consulted with Shroff and another court-appointed lawyer, Jerrod Thompson-Hicks, in a proceeding that lasted less than 15 minutes.

Al-Masri has one eye and claims to have lost his hands fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. His lawyers in England said he suffers from depression, chronic sleep deprivation, diabetes and other ailments.

Al-Masri faces 11 counts relating to the hostage taking in 1998, calling for holy war in Afghanistan in 2001 and participation in the failed 1999 effort by Seattle resident James Ujaama and others to create the terrorist-training camp on a Oregon ranch in Bly. Ujaama's testimony led to the indictments against al-Masri.

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Four others who were tried in 2001 in the August 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania are serving life sentences.

Ahsan, 33, and Ahmad, 38, were kept detained while they await trial in Connecticut, where an Internet service provider was allegedly used to host a website. Their lawyers declined to comment.

Ahmad made efforts to secure GPS devices, Kevlar helmets, night-vision goggles, ballistic vests and camouflage uniforms, prosecutors said.

Al-Masri is not the first Egyptian-born preacher to be brought to Manhattan for trial. A blind sheik, Omar Abdel-Rahman, is serving a life sentence after he was convicted in 1995 in a plot to assassinate then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and in another to blow up New York landmarks, including the United Nations and two tunnels and a bridge linking New Jersey to Manhattan. Abdel-Rahman has various health problems, including heart trouble.

Details emerge about South Tampa teens

The house on W Van Buren Drive was a not-so-secret illicit emporium. Neighbors knew it as a place they could get tattooed, or choose from dozens of designer watches, or buy high-grade marijuana and cocaine.

Its notorious reputation brought two drug customers to the doorstep at 5 a.m. on June 5, 2011. When they knocked, a 16-year-old girl, home that night with just her 13-year-old brother, answered.

"Who is it?"

"It's me," one of the men answered.

In that moment, everything changed. A drug purchase became a home invasion. One of the men pulled a gun and told the other, "I'm going to rob them."

When the girl, Kiara Brito, opened the door, the man opened fire on her and her brother, Jeremi, shooting both in the head.

Such was the brutal scenario the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office described Thursday in hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed witness interviews and other documents that describe the killing of two children.

Among the new disclosures — a neighbor who heard shots engaged in a furious gun battle with one of the men, then later threw his gun off the Gandy Bridge. The would-be hero was a convicted felon who feared the cops would arrest him, but he gave a tag number to detectives that led to the arrests.

Two suspects — youth football buddies Tavari Grant and Charles Waits, now both 20 — are each charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Waits claims that Grant was the one who pulled the gun and started shooting. Grant says he knows nothing about the killings.

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Last week, Gilberto Nieves, 38, of 225 Edgewood St., Stratford, was charged with first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny. Bond was $150,000. Nieves was product repair manager at Victorinox/Swiss Army.

According to police, Bancroft was the owner of Village Billiards on Success Avenue in Stratford and Nieves would sell Bancroft the stolen Swiss Army watches in bulk “every couple of months” for Bancroft to then re-sell.

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The Human Cost of the Second Amendment

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With the hope of presenting the issue of guns in America in a novel way, I’m going to look at it from an unusual vantage point: the eyes of a nurse. By that I mean looking at guns in America in terms of the suffering they cause, because to really understand the human cost of guns in the United States we need to focus on gun-related pain and death.

Every day 80 Americans die from gunshots and an additional 120 are wounded, according to a 2006 article in The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Those 80 Americans left their homes in the morning and went to work, or to school, or to a movie, or for a walk in their own neighborhood, and never returned. Whether they were dead on arrival or died later on in the hospital,Provides enterprise data solutionshublotreplica, real-time data distribution, 80 people’s normal day ended on a slab in the morgue, and there’s nothing any of us can do to get those people back.

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I also learned something I thought I already knew: death is scary. I expected my focus in the lab to be on acquiring knowledge, and it was, but my feelings about these cadavers intruded also. I had nightmares. The sound of bones being sawed and snapped was excruciating the day our teaching assistant broke the ribs of one of them to extract a heart. Some days the smell was so overwhelming I wanted to run from the lab. Death is the only part of life that is really final, and I learned about the awesomeness of finality during my 12 weeks with those two very dead people.

Of course, in hospitals, death and suffering are what nurses and doctors struggle against. Our job is to restore people to health and wholeness, or at the very least, to keep them alive. That’s an obvious aim on the oncology floor where I work, but nowhere is the medical goal of maintaining life more immediately urgent than in trauma centers and intensive-care units. In those wards, patients often arrive teetering on the border between life and death, and the medical teams that receive them have fleeting moments in which to act.

The focus on preserving life and alleviating suffering, so evident in the hospital, contrasts strikingly with its stubborn disregard when applied to lives ended by Americans lawfully armed as if going into combat. The deaths from guns are as disturbing, and as final, as the cadavers I studied in anatomy lab, but the talk we hear from the gun lobby is about freedom and rights, not life and death.

Gun advocates say that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. The truth, though, is that people with guns kill people, often very efficiently, as we saw so clearly and so often this summer. And while there can be no argument that the right to bear arms is written into the Constitution, we cannot keep pretending that this right is somehow without limit, even as we place reasonable limits on arguably more valuable rights like the freedom of speech and due process.

No one argues that it should be legal to shout “fire” in a crowded theater; we accept this limit on our right to speak freely because of its obvious real-world consequences. Likewise, we need to stop talking about gun rights in America as if they have no wrenching real-world effects when every day 80 Americans, their friends, families and loved ones, learn they obviously and tragically do.

Many victims never stand a chance against a dangerously armed assailant, and there’s scant evidence that being armed themselves would help. Those bodies skip the hospital and go straight to the morgue. The lucky ones, the survivors — the 120 wounded per day — get hustled to trauma centers and then intensive care units to, if possible, be healed. Many of them never fully recover.

A trauma nurse I know told me she always looked at people’s shoes when they lay on gurneys in the emergency department. It struck her that life had still been normal when that patient put them on in the morning. Whether they laced up Nikes, pulled on snow boots or slid feet into stiletto heels, the shoes became a relic of the ordinariness of the patient’s life, before it turned savage.

So I have a request for proponents of unlimited access to guns. Spend some time in a trauma center and see the victims of gun violence — the lucky survivors — as they come in bloody and terrified. Understand that our country’s blind embrace of gun rights made this violent tableau possible, and that it’s playing out each day in hospitals and morgues all over the country.

Before leaving, make sure to look at the patients’ shoes. Remember that at the start of the day, before being attacked by a person with a gun, that patient lying on a stretcher writhing helplessly in pain was still whole.

Criminal harassment results in house arrest

A Savona man who conducted a two-year campaign of criminal harassment against his ex-wife will have to follow strict conditions after he was sentenced Monday to four months of house arrest.

Paul Hommel, 50, was given a conditional-sentence order in the form of a custodial sentence to be served in the community as well as two years of probation.

“I regret my behaviour and look forward to moving on in a constructive fashion with my life,” Hommel told Judge Sheri Donegan at the start of Monday’s sentencing hearing.

Between May 2009 and March 2011,Provides enterprise data solutionswatchreplica, real-time data distribution, after his ex-wife had started a new relationship, Hommel distributed booklets and letters that frightened, harassed and embarrassed the woman, the judge noted.

“It appears this new relationship unleashed an angry, unnerving and frightening series of events,” Donegan said.

The first incident was on Mother’s Day 2009, when Hommel presented his ex-wife with a copy of the book 101 Lies: Lies Men Tell Women and Why Women Believe Them. He then spat in her face and provided her with a box containing her wedding shoes — they’d been separated since 2008. The word “slut” was written in black marker on the shoes.

Later that year, when the woman was attending a wedding in Alberta, Hommel left disturbing messages on her cellphone. On Christmas Eve that year, while dropping off their daughter,Top brands at low prices in ladiesshoes, he gave her a “memoir” replete with vulgarities. Hommel’s writing indicated a belief that he was the victim of a grand plot to undermine him. He delivered more offensive material on New Year’s Eve.

Hommel also distributed copies of the the same booklet he’d given his ex-wife to a local business and to her fellow employees at work,Replica replicaomega cheap price. with additions and derogatory remarks penned in.

After Hommel’s ex-wife told him she’d be moving in with her new partner, he took the letter, smeared his own feces on it and posted it on her the door of her residence.

The acts continued, even after her lawyer sent Hommel a letter demanding that he stop his harassment. Hommel sent disparaging letters to the couple’s new neighbours.

Crown prosecutor Kate Bouchard asked for the maximum sentence allowable — six months’ imprisonment to be served in the community and three years’ probation with a firearms ban.

Calling that excessive, defence lawyer Jeremy Jensendsquaredshoesfor the entire family. sought one year of probation. Jensen argued that Hommel has no prior criminal history, aside from an aged drunk driving conviction. He suggested that the ordeal of the man’s trial and conviction, as well as counselling before and after his offending acts, have helped to heal him.

Donegan said the courts are supposed to send a specific message of deterrence to offenders and general messages of deterrence to the community in sentencing for criminal harassment. This is to be upheld even when physical violence is not involved, recognizing the psychological trauma wrought by the offence.

“I find a jail sentence is clearly appropriate,” she said.

Aside from work and two hours for personal needs each day, Hommel is to be confined to his home by a curfew for the next four months. He is not to have any contact with his ex-wife or members of her family with the exception of supervised visits with their daughter.

Waldhoff began the seventh with two strikeouts

Jordan Waldhoff and Ben Hecht saw to it that Friday’s baseball game between Teutopolis and St. Anthony lived up to the hype.

So much so, that there will be an encore.

Teams that have combined to win three state titles in the past three sesasons, and who were a combined 25-1 on the season coming into Friday’s clash, were engaged in a classic pitcher’s duel.

Teutopolis came out on top, 1-0, by scratching across a run without the ball leaving the infield, and improved to 14-0 on the season.

The Bulldogs dropped their second consecutive one-run decision and are 12-2.Jildor niketn, Since 1949 has been providing women with designer shoes from all the top names.

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“Both pitchers just did a great job,” Wooden Shoes coach Justin Fleener said. “I was just proud that our hitters stayed postive and kept battling the entire game.”

With one out in the sixth, Teutopolis catcher Alex Goldstein hit a sharp grounder to the left of St. Anthony shortstop Neil Williams.piagetwatches are beautiful additions for custom necklaces or bracelets. The ball took a high bounce and glanced off Williams’ arm for a single.

A wild pitch and passed ball had Goldstein perched at third, and Bobby Wenthe at second after drawing a walk.

Facing a 1-2 count, the Shoes’ Kyle Pruemer hit a grounder that St. Anthony third baseman Sean Rentfrow dove for but could only knock down as Goldstein scored the game’s lone run.

“That’s just the way the game goes,” Bulldogs coach Kenny Miller said. “We played well and they played well. It was just a good high school baseball game and we came up on the short end.”

St. Anthony’s best shot against Waldhoff came in the top of the sixth. After the first two Bulldog hitters grounded out, Hecht drew a walk and went to second when Eli Dasenbrock reached on an error. But Waldhoff induced a routine popup from Austin Bushur to escape trouble.

The Bulldogs also got a leadoff walk from Jacob Lorenz in the third, but Waldhoff got out of that when Hecht bounced into a 6-4-3 double play.

Teutopolis left the bases loaded in the second, and standed runners at second and third in the fifth.

Jewish fans torn between God and the Orioles

Fifteen Yom Kippurs have come and gone since 1997, when the Orioles last finished a season with a winning record and in first place in their division. Called simultaneously to the synagogue and the ballpark, television, computer or Droid, Jewish fans may once again find themselves torn.

This is, after all, the Day of Atonement, a day set aside for reflecting on the previous year's transgressions and committing oneself to more virtuous living next year, praying God's patience with our imperfect efforts.

The strictest observers abstain for 24 hours from working, eating, bathing, using perfume, wearing leather shoes and having sex. Even more liberal traditions encourage taking the day off from work, fasting and attending religious services — certainly not following baseball.

"We're supposed to focus on our own spiritual path," says Rabbi Daniel Burg, of Beth Am Synagogue in the city's Reservoir Hill neighborhood. That said, Burg, who moved to Baltimore from Chicago two years ago, is a lifetime Cubs fan, and well understands the excitement of a winning season after a long drought.

"The pennant race is no small matter," says Burg, who presides over a Conservative congregation. Asked what advice he would have for a member of his congregation who wants to attend services and follow Tuesday night's game, he gives a simple answer: "Three letters: DVR."

If congregants are going to check on the game during services, he says, he imagines they'll be discreet about it.

Baltimore congregants/Orioles fans have been known for discretion in these matters.

Rabbi Mark G. Loeb, who presided at Beth El before his death in 2009, liked to tell a story about conducting a High Holy Days service when the Orioles were in the playoffs, and sensing a particular buzz in the room. He noticed many of the men had white wires running out of their ears into their jackets, as they were listening to the game on transistor radios.

Loeb's successor at Beth El, a Conservative congregation, Rabbi Steven Schwartz, included that anecdote in his sermon a little over a week ago for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, adding that Loeb eventually started announcing game scores during services.Wholesale monclerjackets,Semi precious agate gemstone beads,

"It guaranteed a rapt audience," Schwartz told his congregation, according to a sermon text.hublotreplica are become more and more popular at watch "When he stepped to the mic, people didn't know if he was going to give a score update or say something about what was being read from the Torah."

Schwartz says in an interview that he announced the game score that Sunday, Sept. 16, as Rosh Hashanah was beginning and the Orioles were beating the Oakland Athletics, but he doesn't plan to do so for the Orioles-Toronto Blue Jays game Tuesday night. He knows that many of his congregants will leave the evening service, go home and switch on the game.

"It's not ideal, it's not what the holiday should be about," Schwartz says. "That's Jewish life today. My personal feeling is we should not pretend otherwise. Let's acknowledge what the reality is. We can still find meanings in the day."

One member of his congregation,dsquaredshoesfor the entire family. Bruce Friedman, an avid Orioles fan, says he'll be in synagogue Tuesday night and won't be checking on the score. When he goes home, he won't turn the television on, but he says he lives in a house full of sports fans. It's possible either of his two teenage sons or his wife could switch on the game, although "they know how I feel about observing, they know how I feel about religion.Find shoxshoes women's fashion at ShopStyle."