Lucio Soria is a recorder of the dead in Ciudad Juarez's drug cartel war. "El Sorias," as he is affectionately called by his colleagues, is a photojournalist for the Mexican city's two main daily newspapers, El Diario and El PM. For the last 10 years, his job has been to photograph the bodies and crime scenes left behind after cartel hit men completed their work. "I see the photos of the dead as art, not as dead people. I feel sad for the families, they cry and sometimes I cry too," Soria told CNN in a recent telephone interview. "My record is 16 dead in one shift." A regular shift goes from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., or later if there are any last-minute bodies. The day is spent listening to police scanners and waiting for the code that will send Soria and a reporter rushing through the city's congested streets to a new crime scene. "Z-59 is the code for execution and Z-23 is the code for a dead person," he said. Soria knows that arriving at a crime scene too soon could mean a surprise Uggs Outlet encounter with the killers -- one that could cost him his life. He is part of a group of journalists operating in one of the world's most dangerous cities. Every day the passion for their profession competes with the fear of death. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 26 journalists have been killed since 2005 in Mexico -- most of them while covering the crime or corruption beats. By comparison, 10 journalists were killed in the same time period while covering the war in Afghanistan. "There are challenges to the fulfillment of our mission, challenges we have never faced before," said Rocio Gallegos, the editor of El Diario, the city's main news publication, with a circulation of 55,000. "Any journalist in Ciudad Juarez is at risk," she said. For the paper's staffers, death hit home last year with the murder of veteran crime reporter Armando "El Cholo" Rodriguez. On November 13, 2008, unidentified gunmen shot UGG Tall Metallic Boots and killed Rodriguez, 40, while he was parked in front of his house with his 8- year-old daughter in the car; she was not harmed. Rodriguez had been receiving threats since February, Gallegos said. One year later, no one has been charged in his death, and the two lead federal investigators in the case have also been killed. A spokesperson for the attorney general's office told CNN the case is still under investigation, but local journalists have interpreted this as a grant of impunity for crimes against their profession. "The death of Armando Rodriguez left a clear message for everyone: Mind your own business! 'No te metas en donde no debes,'" said Edgar Roman, director of news programming for Channel 44, which broadcasts more than six hours of news each day. "Our self-censorship began when the war started -- self-censorship to avoid UGG Tasmina Braid Sandals getting our reporters in trouble," said Roman. For Roman, and for several others in his position, investigative reporting has become a casualty of war. "We can't investigate because we become targets. Only that which happens in plain view is OK to report," said Roman. "Everyone knows the rules of the game," said Ricardo Ainslie, professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas in Austin and a member of the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. For the last year, Ainslie has been using Ciudad Juarez as the center for his research on the Mexican war against the drug cartels. "You can report what happens on the street, which is public domain, and sometimes they will get threats if they don't report something," Ainslie said. "They can't report UGG Tasmina Sandals backstories, or make inferences about motives. They are treading lightly because they can not afford to investigate -- this means execution." Tim Crockett, head of the security firm Pioneer Consulting and security adviser for CNN, described Ciudad Juarez as "probably more dangerous for journalists than the Middle East." "There are more armed groups that have no respect for law and order," he said. "What would they do if they captured a journalist? There is no leverage. They will just kill you and carry on with their business." Figuring out how to keep staffers safe from an attack has been an ongoing challenge for newsrooms in Juarez. Armored vehicles and bulletproof vests provide little protection against the .50-caliber bullets fired by the cartels. El Diario has managed to keep some investigative reporting by omitting reporter bylines. For Gallegos, self-censorship is not the answer. "We have kept our investigation, which has cost us because UGG Amelie Suede Sandals we have less access to government sources," Gallegos said. "With the argument of security, authorities have given us less access to information and documents," she said. "The biggest challenge is to carry out our mission to inform the public without renouncing to our independence from the authorities, and without becoming messengers to the cartels," said Gallegos. Cartels have begun to time their executions to coincide with live newscasts, journalists say. Channel 44 evaluates its programming by holding bimonthly focus groups. Roman said his audience has gone from being spectators to being the victims. "People are asking us to show a city with hope, and not a city of desolation and destruction. People are tired of living like this. Despite all the violence, there are people who want to keep living a normal life," he said. El PM is the paradox. The newspaper has a daily circulation of 70,000 to 75,000, and normally sells out within two hours of hitting the stands. The main cover picture is UGG Bailey Button Boots usually a bloody crime scene. Some describe it as a "listing" for the day's dead. "You cannot cover the sun with one finger; we say it like it is. We give it a human side and the raw side," said editor Alejandro Tellez. "We live in a city where you go to the streets and you walk into yellow tape and then you come to us to find out what has happened," said Tellez. Ainslie said his research has shown that violence is part of the fabric of daily life in Ciudad Juarez. "Everybody is living it," he said. "Everybody is seeing it. It is in every part of the city. ... Do you not report it because people are worn down and there seems to be no end?" Ainslie added that he was also struck by the difference in the reporting across the border in Ciudad Juarez's U.S. sister city, El Paso, Texas. On one day, he recalled, El Diario carried 15 cartel-related stories, including "three or four on the front page. The El Paso Times carried three cartel stories. Angela Kocherga is one of the few American journalists reporting from UGG Classic Cardy Boots Ciudad Juarez on a weekly basis. She said the coverage of the cartel war by American news organizations has been sporadic at best. "Afghanistan, Iraq are important stories, but Mexico gets lost in the mix day in and day out. The impact on the border is ignored. There is an entire generation being wiped out. ... It's just festering and festering and it's out of control. Ignoring it is not going to make it go away," she said. For some journalists in Ciudad Juarez, it has become a life's mission to tell the world about this war and to write their country's history. Soria feels he left his mark when, on October 20, he photographed the 2,000th victim of the cartel war. His shift was nearly over that day, and the body count stood at 1,996. "I told my reporter, 'Well, I guess I'm not going to get the 2,000.' Then I heard on the scanner that there were three dead and the address was really close to where we were. That day we reached 2001 dead," he said. "When I arrived, the military and the police where putting up UGG Classic Mini Boots the crime tape. The parents were hugging and holding each other. I wanted to record history, so that everyone would remember that moment. We are the ones keeping a log of the dead. I want to be remembered as the one who took that photo," said Soria. Soria's photo tells the story of hundreds of families in Juarez. It shows two family members hugging and a third one crying over the body of one of the men killed, with the police as onlookers.

WICHITA, Kan. – Defiant and unapologetic, a man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider confessed to the slaying Monday, telling The Associated Press that he killed the doctor to protect unborn children. Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., spoke to the AP in a telephone call from jail, saying he plans to argue at his trial that he was justified in shooting Dr. George Tiller. "Because of the fact preborn children's lives were in imminent danger this was the action I chose. ... I want to make sure that the focus is, of course, obviously on the preborn children and the necessity to defend them," Roeder said. "Defending innocent life — that is what prompted me. I mean, it is pretty simple," he said. Roeder is charged with one count of first-degree murder in Tiller's death and two counts of aggravated assault for allegedly threatening two ushers who tried to stop him during the May 31 melee in the foyer of the doctor's Wichita church. Roeder has pleaded not guilty and buy ugg boots is scheduled to go to trial in January. Tiller family attorney Lee Thompson and groups that support abortion rights decried Roeder as a terrorist who used violence to achieve his political agenda. "It is precisely this unrepentant domestic terrorism — and those who fund it — that must be stopped or else we will see more clinic violence and people will be killed," the president of the National Organization for Women, Terry O'Neill, said in a statement. Thompson has said allowing Roeder replica watches to use a so-called necessity defense would "invite chaos and be tantamount to anarchy." Courts have prevented others accused of killing abortion providers from using the same argument. "It is my view legally that it is an absurdity and simply reflects he is doing nothing more than trying to get publicity," Thompson said Monday. Troy Newman, president of anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, said Roeder's statements do not reflect the sentiments of most people who oppose abortion. "The pro-life Piaget-Watches standard has always been to protect the dignity of human life, all human life, from the moment of conception until natural death," Newman said. In his more than 30-minute interview with the AP, Roeder did not apologize for the slaying. "No, I don't have any regrets because I have been told so far at least four women have changed their minds, that I know of, and have chosen to have the baby," Roeder said. "So even if one changed her mind it would be worth it. No, I don't have any regrets." Asked if he would do it over again, Roeder replied: "We all have a sense of duty and obligation to protect innocent life. If anybody is in a situation where they can, I think it is their obligation." Tiller, 67, had been the target of relentless protests for most of the 36 years that he performed abortions at his Wichita clinic, where he practiced as one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions. He was shot in both arms in 1993 and his clinic was Zenith Watches bombed in 1986. Roeder's confession came on the same day several strident abortion opponents released their "Defensive Action Statement 3rd Edition" that proclaims any force that can be used to defend the life of a "born child is legitimate to defend the life of an unborn child." The statement's 21 signers demand Roeder's jurors be allowed to consider the "question of when life begins" in deciding whether lethal force was justified. Among the signers are Eric Rudolph, James Kopp and Shelley Shannon — all serving prison time for targeting abortion providers. One signer, New Jersey anti-abortion activist Joe Provone, said Kopp, Rudolph and Roeder are "worthy of admiration, gratitude and respect." "Not everyone possesses their courage or ability as we are all endowed by our God with different gifts and talents," Provone wrote in an e-mail to AP. "Please rest assured I will continue to protest the killing of the unborn in the way I deem appropriate given my own self-appraisal."

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SEOUL: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on cheap NFL jerseys Wednesday expressed regrets on its abrupt release of dam water on September 6, the Republic of Korea's (ROK) Unification Ministry said. The DPRK's expression came during a meeting held between the two Koreas on river flood prevention at the DPRK's border city of Kaesong, the ministry said. "Literally speaking, the North (DPRK) expressed regrets and condolences," an official from the ROK's Unification Ministry said at a background briefing. "But in the general context, we can think of it as an apology by the country with San Diego Chargers jerseys regard to this incident," he added. The working-level meeting between the two sides kicked off in the morning of Wednesday, a day after Pyongyang accepted Seoul's proposal to hold government-level talks on related issues. Starting at 11:00 local time (0200 GMT), the morning session lasted one and a half hours, ending for a recess. On September 6, the DPRK's abrupt discharge of its dam water led to death of six ROK citizens who had been camping near the Imjin River. Although the ROK asked for an apology for the discharge, the DPRK kept saying it was San Francisco 49ers jerseys forced to open the floodgates to lower the water level, which Seoul did not consider "sufficient."

ATHENS: George Papandreou, head of the Greek socialist's PASOK NFL jerseys party which triumphed in Sunday's general elections, was sworn in Tuesday morning as Greece's new prime minister, and he announced new cabinet late afternoon. Papandreou was sworn in by Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, in the presence of President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias. A few moments later, the new premier paid a short and moving visit to his predecessor, Costas Karamanlis at the Maximou mansion, which is the official government headquarters, for the official handover. They exchanged a warm handshake amid the cheers of PASOK's followers and Pittsburgh Steelers jerseys Karamanlis congratulated Papandreou and wished him "all the best for the benefit of the country." The new prime minister replied with the best wishes for the recovery of Karamanlis' mother, who was admitted to the hospital yesterday. Late afternoon, Papandreou announced the composition of his cabinet - 14 ministries, with nine women included.The new government will be sworn in on Wednesday morning. George Papandreou chose new faces in politics, as well as experienced veterans, and Philadelphia Eagles jerseys fulfilled his promise for "a lean and effective government" which will be sworn in and take office Wednesday morning. The new prime minister kept for himself the portfolio of the Foreign Ministry. Papandreou has served as a foreign minister in the past. Former Foreign Minister Theodoros Pagalos was appointed vice president of the government. Member of Parliament Louka Katseli is the new minister of economy, competitiveness and shipping, while the ruling party's spokesman Giorgos Papaconstantinou takes over the separate Finance Ministry. Economy dominated the campaign and will be top priority of the new government, as Greece has been badly struck by the global financial crisis. Marking his will for cooperation with other political parties and Oakland Raiders jerseys emphasis on 'green economy,' Papandreou proposed the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change to Nikos Chrisogelos, the head of the Ecologists-Greens which didn't enter parliament, but he denied. Among others, former Justice Minister Evangelos Venizelos is the new minister of defense, former European Commissioner Anna Diamantopoulou is the new minister of education, while former actress and member of parliament Angela Gerekou is the new undersecretary in the ministry of culture and tourism. In the meantime, in the main opposition party of New Democracy, Thessaloniki's prefect Panagiotis Psomiadis said this New York Jets jerseys morning that they will contest the leadership of the party. It's the first candidacy for the role.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: A bus packed with Afghan civilians hit a cheap NFL jerseys roadside bomb near the southern city of Kandahar on Tuesday, killing 30 people and wounding 39, underscoring the dangers civilians face as the eight-year war turns increasingly violent. Nine women and seven children were among the dead, said provincial police chief, Sardar Mohammad Zazai. "The enemies of Afghanistan are planting mines on the main highway and killing innocent women and children," Zazai said. The bus was traveling along a main road when it encountered a NATO team clearing roadside bombs. Fearing more bombs ahead, the driver steered onto a parallel dirt road but struck an explosive device planted there, according to local official Niaz Mohammad Sarhadi. The bus hit the bomb on the western outskirts of Kandahar city, in a San Francisco 49ers jerseys militant- controlled district called Maiwand. Among the 39 wounded, some severely injured passengers were taken to a NATO base for treatment, said Bismullah Khan, the police chief in Maiwand. Others were taken to the main hospital in Kandahar. "An explosion hit the bus. I don't know what happened. When I came to, I got out of the bus and saw that the bus was totally wrecked," survivor Lal Jan said in Kandahar's hospital. Another survivor, an elderly woman named Zulaikha Bibi, cried over the Seattle Seahawks jerseys death of her daughter-in-law. Two of her nephews were wounded. The bus had been traveling from the western province of Nimroz to Kandahar city, a trip that winds through some of the country's most dangerous districts in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. US and NATO troops have long come under criticism for the civilian deaths they have caused, often in airstrikes. But US military officials say they believe the Taliban will also face a popular backlash for all the civilian deaths caused by militant-planted roadside bombs. A UN report issued Saturday said August was the deadliest month of the year for civilians because of violence from the insurgency. A total of 1,500 civilians died in Afghanistan from January through August, up from 1,145 for the same St. Louis Rams Jerseys period of 2008.

NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama will broker his cheap watches first summit of Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Tuesday but is given little chance of achieving a breakthrough toward relaunching long-stalled peace talks. Obama will make his most direct foray into Middle East diplomacy when he brings together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in New York a day before making his U.N. General Assembly debut. With the two sides entrenched in their positions, the meeting -- the first between Netanyahu and Abbas -- could yield just a three-way handshake instead of the diplomatic coup White House aides had once hoped for. All parties have sought to lower expectations about the Dior watches results. "We have no grand expectations out of one meeting except to continue ... the hard work, day-to-day diplomacy that has to be done to seek a lasting peace," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. Obama's best prospect for salvaging something more than symbolism from the talks is if he can find a way to narrow the gap between Israel and the Palestinians or wring out even modest good-faith concessions. Hopes that this would be a breakthrough summit dimmed after George Mitchell, Obama's Middle East envoy, left the region on Friday without reaching a deal with Israel over limits on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Each side has blamed the other for the failure of IWC watches Mitchell's mission.

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at replica Watches former President George W. Bush was released Tuesday after nine months in prison, and he said Iraqi security forces tortured him with beatings, whippings and electric shocks after his arrest. Muntadhar al-Zeidi, whose stunning act of protest last December made him a hero around the Arab and Muslim worlds, said he now feared for his life and believed that US intelligence agents would chase after him. "These fearsome services, the US intelligence services and its affiliated services, will spare no efforts to track me as an insurgent revolutionary ... in a bid to kill me," he told a news conference at the TV station where he works. "And here I want to warn all my relatives and people close to me that Cartier Watches these services will use all means to trap and try to kill and liquidate me either physically, socially or professionally," he said, wearing a scarf in the colors of the Iraqi flag draped around his neck. The 30-year-old reporter's act of protest deeply embarrassed Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who was standing beside Bush at a Dec. 14 news conference when al-Zeidi suddenly shot up from his chair had hurled his shoes toward the podium. Bush, who was on his final visit to Iraq as American president, was unhurt but had to duck twice to avoid being hit. Al-Zeidi was wrestled to the ground by journalists and Chopard Watches al-Maliki's security men. The reporter said Tuesday that he was abused immediately after his arrest and the following day. He said he was beaten with iron bars, whipped with cords and was electrocuted in the backyard of the building in the Green Zone where the news conference was held. "In the morning, I was left in the cold weather after they splashed me with water," he said.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Mike Duvall's second term as a member of the replica Watches California Assembly was progressing pretty much like his first — in relative obscurity, with few notable legislative accomplishments. The Orange County Republican is now a YouTube hit after his racy comments about his sexual conquests were caught on an open microphone in a Capitol hearing room. He resigned Wednesday. California's legislative leaders have been trying to focus on a number high-profile issues -- from water policy to prisons to renewable energy -- during the waning days of their legislative session. On Wednesday, they instead found themselves answering questions about a lawmaker who bragged about a spanking fetish, the type of underwear worn by a mistress and his apparent ability to carry on two extramarital affairs at once. Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, called it "a Omega Watches very sad day." "We have such big issues before the Legislature and to have this become a distraction, he felt his responsibility was to step aside," she said. Duvall, 54, lives in Yorba Linda with his wife when he is not in Sacramento, and has two adult children. He made the comments about the affairs to Assemblyman Jeff Miller during a break in a committee meeting inside the Capitol on July 8, apparently unaware that the microphone at the desk was on. "I'm getting into spanking her," Duvall is heard saying on the videotape, which was made as a matter of routine by a legislative office. Miller asks if she likes it too. Duvall responds: "She goes, 'I know you like Raymond Weil Watches spanking me.' I said, 'Yeah, that's 'cause you're such a bad girl.'" Duvall also describes the woman's "eye-patch underwear" and the age difference between himself and his mistress, identified in some media reports as a lobbyist for an energy company. He tells Miller, a fellow Republican from Corona, that the woman's birthday was two days earlier. Duvall said he joked with the woman that she was getting old after turning 36 and told her, "I am going to have to trade you in." The lawmaker then brags about an affair he is having with another woman. "Oh, she is hot! I talked to her yesterday. She goes, 'So are Tag Heuer Watches we finished?' I go, 'No, we're not finished.' I go, 'You know about the other one, but she doesn't know about you!'" Duvall can be heard saying in an apparent reference to his affair with the lobbyist.

TOKYO: Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, told US replica watches President Barack Obama in a telephone call that close relations with the United States would remain a fundamental part of Japanese policy. "I told him that we think the US-Japan alliance is the foundation (of Japanese diplomacy) and that I would like to build US-Japan relations with eyes on the future," Hatoyama told reporters after speaking with Obama by telephone early on Thursday. "I told him that we will make efforts to improve each other's economy through cooperating closely," Hatoyama added. In the call that Obama made to Hatoyama, specific issues, such as the Concord watches future of US military bases in Japan, were not discussed, he said. Hatoyama, whose decade-old Democrat Party of Japan (DPJ) beat the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) by a landslide in Sunday's general election, will be voted in as premier on Sept 16 and should form his cabinet soon after. Hatoyama's party said during the election campaign that it wanted to chart a course more independent of Washington. Hatoyama will head to the United States soon after forming his Dior watches cabinet to make his diplomatic debut at a United Nations General Assembly meeting and a G20 summit in Pittsburgh. Japanese media said he would also hold talks with Obama. The US-educated Hatoyama raised eyebrows in Washington with a recent essay in which he attacked the "unrestrained market fundamentalism" of US-led globalisation. He sought to play down those comments on Monday, saying he was not anti-American.

NANJING: An antiwar cartoon exhibition displaying works by replica watches 110 Japanese artists opened in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing Saturday to mark the 64th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. The exhibition, jointly organized by the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre and the Japanese non-governmental association of "My August 15," will last three moths. About 160 cartoon works will be displayed, the first time the Baume Mercier watches exhibition is held outside Japan, the organizers said. Most of the authors of the cartoons were born before August 15, 1945 and had deep memories about the war. In addition, many of them lived in different parts of China with their parents at that time and learned of the news of Japan's surrender in China. Many years later, they produced a group of works with the theme of "My August 15," conveying their condemnation about the war atrocities and reflection on the militaristic brutality. The exhibition was divided into four parts according to the Bregue watches authors' ages when Japan surrendered, "above 16," "8-15," "5-7" and "below four." Nine prestigious Japanese cartoonists, along with about 100 people from several Japanese NGOs, attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition Saturday. "It tells a true story," said 70-year-old artist Kenji Morita, pointing to his own work "Thanks to Adoptive Chinese Parents." "Although Japan was an invader, many Chinese parents still helped raise Japanese children orphaned by the war," he said. Leading Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba also recalled the Corum watches war past he experienced in China. "I was in Shenyang (capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province) the day when Japan's surrender in World War II was announced by the late Emperor Hirohito over radio. I was only six then, and I couldn't really understand what happened," Chiba told Xinhua. "I didn't manage to return to Japan immediately, so I spent a very hard year in China after Japan's surrender. But I met a very nice Chinese couple, they gave me food even when they didn't have enough to eat. When we separated, they gave me a blanket. I kept the blanket for years until I met their offspring," he said. "August 15 is a meaningful day for both China and Concord watches Japan, whether to mark the victory or to introspect the war. The day reminds us to be against wars," he added.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer Sunday because of a flooded toilet. One of two commodes aboard the replica watches international space station broke down, right in the middle of complicated robotic work being conducted by the two crews. The pump separator apparently flooded. Mission Control advised the astronauts to hang an "out of service" sign on the toilet until it could be fixed. In the meantime, the six space station residents had to get in line to use their one good toilet. And Endeavour's seven astronauts were restricted to the shuttle bathroom. There have never been so many people — 13 — together in space. The toilet repair work fell to Belgian Frank De Winne and A Lange & Sohne watches American Michael Barratt, who had to don goggles, gloves and masks. They ripped apart the compartment, working well into the evening. Mission Control finally instructed them to call it a day and resume the effort Monday morning. Flight director Brian Smith declined to speculate whether overuse caused the toilet trouble. "We don't yet know the extent of the problem," Smith told reporters. "It may turn out to be of no consequence at all. It could turn out to be significant. It's too early to tell right now." Teams of specialists in Houston and Moscow hurriedly convened to discuss the Raymond Weil watches problem. The Russian-built, multimillion-dollar toilet flew up on a shuttle last November. Smith said there is no urgency to the bathroom situation, at least for now. But he said if the toilet remains out of action for several days, "then we'll readdress the situation and see what we have to do." Going into this mission, NASA wanted at least four of Endeavour's crew to use the space station's bathrooms, so the shuttle waste water tank would not fill up. As long as Endeavour is docked to the space station, it cannot eject any waste water. The Piaget watches nozzle is located near the newly installed porch on the Japanese lab; the attach mechanisms for experiments could corrode if sprayed by water. Two bathrooms ultimately are needed for a full station crew of six. Smith said he did not know how long six occupants could rely on a single toilet. Both the shuttle and station are equipped with other ways for the Breitling watches astronauts to relieve themselves, Smith said, including Apollo-era urine collection bags. Much of Sunday — the eve of the 40th anniversary of man's first moon landing — was spent using a pair of robot arms to move a large cargo carrier, loaded with batteries and spare parts, from the shuttle to the station. It was a relatively quiet day sandwiched between spacewalks. The 13-by-8-foot platform holds an antenna, pump and engine for the Tag Heuer watches station's rail car, all of which will be removed and secured to the space station during a spacewalk Monday. NASA wants to store as many big spare parts as possible at the space station, before shuttles stop flying at the end of next year. Also on the carrier are six batteries that will be plugged into the Gucci watches station by spacewalking astronauts later in the week, replacing old batteries. In all, five spacewalks are planned during Endeavour's 1 1/2-week space station visit. As for the Apollo 11 anniversary, Smith noted that the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs contributed to today's international space station. He observed that he wasn't born when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Louis Vuitton watches moon July 20, 1969; neither were two of the 13 spacefarers.

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