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Resolved: Abortion should stay legal in the U.S.
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Hello, here is my challange that you have already agreed to.
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I also wish semantics will not be used.
Abortion- the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
U.S.- A country of central and northwest North America with coastlines on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It includes the noncontiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii and various island territories in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The area now occupied by the contiguous 50 states . http://www.thefreedictionary.com...
Greetings, I would like to take a moment to thank my opponent for his acceptance. I am hoping that this will turn out to be a very good debate.
Contention 1: A fetus and Personhood.
I will begin by first addressing the personhood of the unborn fetus. Now, my opponent is more then likely state that a fetus is a human and therefore, has the right to life and I would agree with him. A fetus is clearly a member of the biological species Homo Sapiens. However, just being human does not intell that one should automaditcally gets rights. I will argue that 'persons' are the ones who are the ones who should be given rights. I will define a person as an entity individual entity,morally conscious being capable of forming a complex thought and possessing the capacity (but not nessasarily the ability) to comunitcate their thoughts through language. This definition includes no animals. All of the said requirements for personhood are far more valuable in determining personhood then apindages. A fetus has none of these, thus it can not be treated like you and I. It can not be treated as the same as a baby that is newly born because a baby has the capabily to do these things and it has the brain capacity to be an individual and form a semi-complex thought. So, since a fetus is not a person then it has no serious right to life.
Contention 2: Self-Ownership
Everyone has self-ownership. To deny it would be to deny your selves, and neither I or my opponent would be in this debate because we would most likely be doing whatever our government told us to do. So with this stated, women have complete dominion over their body's. If something is wrong with it then they have the right to fix it, if they want to make it better or worse in their eyes then that is their choice, and furthermore, if a fetus forms there without their permission then they have the choice on whether or not she is wants to let it stay there whether it be a human/person or not. Despite whatever "right to life" "pro-lifers" may claim it possesses, it has not right to be where it is unwelcomed and invited. Fetus's are not intitled to women's bodies, they do not own women's bodies, and neither do governments.
Contention 3: Overpopulation
I will start out my last contention with a quote by Christ Hedges who is a former "New York Times" correspondent and author of the article "We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction". In it he writes:
"All measures to thwart the degradation and destruction of our ecosystem will be useless if we do not cut population growth," Hedges wrote. "By 2050, if we continue to reproduce at the current rate, the planet will have between 8 billion and 10 billion people. This is a 50 percent increase. And yet government-commissioned reviews, such as the Stern report in Britain, do not mention the word population. Books and documentaries that deal with the climate crisis, including Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," fail to discuss the danger of population growth. This omission is odd, given that a doubling in population, even if we cut back on the use of fossil fuels, shut down all our coal-burning power plants and build seas of wind turbines, will plunge us into an age of extinction and desolation unseen since the end of the Mesozoic era, 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs disappeared." [1]
Now, I am sure that not to many people are actually aware of the population crises in America or the world for that matter, but in spite of the small amounts of media and news coverage the threat is very real. At our current birth rate by the year 2050 the Earth's population will be between 8 million people to 10 million people[1]. The U.S. has nearly quadrupled the number of people within its boundaries in the past century; if our population multiplies by that same amount within the coming century we will hold over one billion people. There are two factors that play a part in this and I will get to my point with this soon after.
1. The first being fertility rates, the U.S. has a fertility rate of 2.1 births per woman. the U.S.'s highest fertility rate since 1971. (For comparison, the United Kingdom's fertility rate is 1.7, Canada's is 1.4, and Germany's is 1.3.)[2].
2. And the next is immegration. Immigration contributes over one million people to the U.S. population annually. The total foreign-born population in the U.S. is now 31.1 million, a record 57 percent increase since 1990 [2].
The following graphs further deminstrates the rapid growth in population in the U.S.
Now immagine an overpopulated disaster in the U.S. Imagine lands that once could be enjoyed for their natural beauty are now concrete jungles, our country's children attend schools that are overloaded and lack the teacher to student interaction we once had, social infrastructures and systems are overloaded, natural resources are being depleted, and our environment is being tasked beyond its limits.
Abortions, though not final solution to this problem can lower the birth rate so we can find a solution to it.
That is all for now, I thank the people who read this.
I will now await my opponent's argument.
I'll start with defining person- a human being, whether man, woman, or child: http://dictionary.reference.com...
So when my opponet states that you have to be a person to have the right to live well my friends I have defined person and the fetus is included. Then my opponet goes on to say it must communicate and I believe all mothers on this site will tell you a fetus will let you know what they like to eat and when they're hungry.
Contention 1.5: Religon
Here our some verse from the Bible that are against abortion.
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Acts 18:10
For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city."
Ephesians 2:8
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God
Contention 2: Ownership
No the fetus isn't entitled to a women's bird it's just sort of renting it for 9 months. To say it doesn't have the right to their mother's body is crazy, because the fetus doesn't stay there for a life time or longer. Who knows that fetus could be the next president or even the person who cures AIDS, but you wouldn't know, because you killed them.
Contention 2.5: Health
Abortion causes post abortion stress that might lead to suiside. http://postabortionsyndrome.org.........,
Wade V. Boggs upheld and prooved abortion should be illegal
abortion raises cancer by 130% after an abortion now I'm sure women don't want breast cancer if I'm wrong please tell me http://www.deveber.org.........
lead to depression and guilt for men, abortion reserch is inacurate (post abortion syndrome.org)
Contention 3. Overpopulation
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The world isn't overpopulated, as a matter of fact the whole world's population can fit into Texas. (if they're given the same living space as New York City) "Did you know"everyone on the planet (7 billion) could fit in the state of Texas (area of 268,820 square miles) at a density 26,040 people per sq. mile. Thats a 1000 less people per square mile than in New York City!" So with my fact here from this year a month ago this outways my opponets whole 3rd contention. http://guerillatics.com...
I thank my opponent for his response.
Defense 1: Personhood
My opponent starts by bringing up his definition of personhood. But does not defend his choice because there are five different diffintions that are attributted to the word 'person'. I have defended the fourth diffinition that my opponent's source had on in. My opponent doesn't even defend his statement that a fetus is a child. I am taking a philosophical approach to the question of what a person is. I have alread made it clear that self-contiousness and the capacity for complex thought are far more valuable in determining personhood then bodyparts alone. A fetus has nothing that could even remotely be used to classify it as a person.
Defense 2: Self-Ownership
My opponent has in no way refutted my second contention. It doesn't matter how long a fetus is in a woman's womb, because the woman that owns the womb always has the final say. Further I will state that the chances of a fetus growing up to become a person who cures AIDs is slim and has the same chance as the millions of babies that are born every year, it doesn't make difference about it's chances or what it will become, the only time it comes valuable is when it reaches that point.
Defense 3: Overpopulation
As to my last defense, my opponent brings up a incredibly bias blog that has no scientific or geographic confermation. The two sources I presented were geographically confirmed. We are over populated and even if we weren't, at our current birth rate we would be, and it would be logical to make sure it didn't occur. My last contention still stands.
Rebuttal 1: Religion
My opponent's first point is not even arguing for anything other then abortion contradicts Christianity, but this poses a problem to my opponent since the First Amendment to the Constitution of the U.S.A. forbids the use of religion in government. Therefore, making abortion illegal just on the bases of religion is illegal [1].
Rebuttal 2: Health
The health consequences are the consequences of choice. This does not rule out self-ownership. If a woman knows of these effects and gets an abortion then thats her risk. The government has no right to take away a right on the bases of health risks. We see this in Cigarettes, Alcohol, and even fatty foods. If we were to make abortion illegal for this reason, then we would also have to make a lot everyday things illegal and that is just absurd.
I will now await my opponents next response.
I thank tjose who read this.
Easily a fetus has a beating heart, organs, skin, the ablility to hear, Eyesite, the ability to communicate and you have all these things. Therefore the fetus is a person.
Abortion is killing the future sure not everyone is going to be an astrophyisist, but everyone has a purpose in life and a right to live. 10th amendment states that that everyone has the write to life, Liberty, and the persuit of happiness. We wouldn't end up curing AIDS, HIV, or breast cancer, because the person that was suppose to cure the AIDS.
My friends my opponet brings up a conspiricy blog and he thinks he has the right to say my website is bias! You my friend are the one who is bias.
The 1st amendment also states that we as people have the write to the freedom to worship whatever we want and aplie it however we want otherwise you are a liberal hatin' on religon .
What is absurb is that people are all pro-choice and when people get breast cancer for it they're all like why me and how did this happen, well ladies you brought this on yourself. My opponet also dropps all the health defeats abortion has to offer.
The U.S. federal government is the only thing keeping the U.S.A. together, but if abortion becomes legal permanently then the weight of Federalism vs. states rights will tear the U.S. apart like it did during the 1860s. Only this time it would be the midwest area that is highly pro-life and a U.S. civil war now of days will cause nuclear holocaust.
Defense 1: Personhood
My opponent's next statement is rather absurd. All the things that my opponent has listed common with you and I make it human. Of course I have already said that a fetus is a member of our species, however I have already proved why a fetus can't be considered a person, but my opponent keeps on contending that body parts are the only factor that is used to determine personhood when it is false. A fetus lacks certain charateristics that a person has. It doesn't have a conscious mind, it does not have feelings, it's not even a aware of it's own existence. In one word, the fetus lacks a personality. This is why my opponent is wrong, and this is why a fetus can not be considered a person, and therefore, has no serious right life that would over power the woman's.
Defense 2: Self-Ownership
The first thing my opponent does wrong is state that it is the tenth admendment that says that when it is really the fifth admendment [1], and then goes on to say that it promises life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness when it says that no PERSONS can't be denied life, liberty, or private property without due process under the law.
With that said, I will contend that this admendment is actually in my favor since a woman is a person (a fetus is not) and has these rights, and therefore, has the right to an abortion. Furthermore, the fact that by denying a woman an abortion you make her entire life harder then it actually has to be and you take away her potential for doing the things that the fetus could also do. My second contention still stands.
Defense 3: Overpopulation
The sources I used were from a research website that gave actual geographical evidence. My opponent's was a blog that was totally biased and had not one speck of supporting evidence. Either my opponent must find a more credible source there is no reason to trust his claim here. And my third contention still stands.
Rebuttal 1: Religion
Now on to the rebuttal of my opponent's first contention, he has made a absurd statement that freedom of religion intells that it is kawful to force it on everyone. This is false and i'll start with my opponent's video. He has presented a video that well...it actually supports my case if you watch it all the way through. The commintater explains why freedom of religion does not mean enforcing it on others. I will now quote the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution so my opponent and the voters will know how wrong both he and the Republican official are in this case, as they are on every case.
The First Admentment reads as follows:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." [2].
Now notic in there it says that congress can not pass any laws that respect religion. Now what does that mean? It means the state can not pass laws for religious purpouses. The religious people can assemble and practice it, but they can NOT force it on others.
Rebuttal 2: Health
As for my opponent's last contention. He hasn't rebuttaled, he has just made a ignorant comment about women's choices and says that I dropped something and doesn't even tell me what I dropped. There is no real reason to even read his second defense.
Rebuttal 3: Federalism
My opponent has made what I think is the most absurd claim he has made so far. Not only is the absurdidy unlikely to happen but he puts not even a bit of evidence for it. Abortion is federally legal and it is legal in every single state (even the most conservative ones). My opponent's claim is not even worthy of further discussion.
In conclusion, I have refutted all my opponen't contentions, and defended all of mine. I have proven that a fetus can not be considered a person and therefore doesn't have a serious right to life, I have proven that even if the fetus is a person it has no right to be in the woman unless it be invited, and I have proven that overpopulation is problem and that abortion would helped the problem. All while defending it under the Bill of Rights in the Constitution. And on that note I give it my opponent to do his last round and the voters to well...vote.
Thank You.
My opponet is still being absurd, due to the fact he discarded my definition claim in the 2nd round and claims it was irrelivant. So since he dropped this he obviously dropped this arguement.
This falls under personhood aswell due to the fact that the fetus is alive and a perosn thus giving it the right to life.
My opponet is just tryin' to say the same thing as he did in rd 3. we can argue arguements all day man, but when you just copy and paste an arguement that's just sick.
Then so what my opponet is brining up is a contradiction of itself by saying Congress can't make a Pro or Con religon law.
I did state what he dropped it was breast cancer.
What is absurb is that people are all pro-choice and when people get breast cancer for it they're all like why me and how did this happen, well ladies you brought this on yourself. My opponet also dropps all the health defeats abortion has to offer.
My opponet doesn't even atempt to refute this and the Con has the Burrden of Presumption which is innocent untill prooven guilty which means I can say the sky is green and I'm right until the Pro brings up evidense that it's blue.
My opponet is a highly biased person and he drops several arguements totaly ignoring the Burden of Presumption so in which case I should win. So vote Con.
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Reasons for voting decision: Persuasion: While weak, Pro's arguments are stronger than Con's. Conduct: Con is more insulting, less civil. S&G: Con's spelling is bad, but Pro's is significantly worse.
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Lumber may be the best example of the connection between a builder and his materials.
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Some things are simply fundamental to a process. When it comes to building homes in this country, certain things come to mind for anyone who has been involved for any length of time. For instance, if you've ever experienced the excitement of breaking ground on a new project you'll most likely never forget it. There is just something about the methodical preparation of the excavation equipment and the deliberate movements of the operators that build up to that moment when dirt is actually being moved. Then there is the smell of newly opened earth. There is no other experience I can think of that is quite the same as that.
There is the pouring of a concrete slab in the early morning chill. The warm vapor rises like steam from the mix. Then there is the sound of the trucks and the workmen as they move intently about, making sure that the proper procedures are followed each step of the way.
Getting a slab placed and finished is one of the large benchmarks of a project. It means that an awful lot of work has already been accomplished and that the next stages are just now about to begin.
Most of us, though, might agree that no step in the process quite compares with opening that first bundle of lumber and beginning to bring a project "out of the ground". In this country, most homes are still built with wood, and I'd venture to say that the majority of home builders even today consider themselves to be carpenters in one way or another.
In his classic volume, "A Sand County Almanac," naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote that the two "basic" tools are a shovel and an axe. He contended that a shovel is all anyone needs to plant a tree and an axe is the only thing needed to harvest one. He wrote of his pleasure in sinking a freshly file-sharpened shovel blade into the earth. (How long has it been since you saw anyone sharpening a shovel with a file?)
It is unlikely that a person can plant a tree and end up harvesting that same tree in one working lifetime, at least harvesting a tree with any meaningful usable lumber. Building material, specifically dimensional lumber from trees, takes longer to grow and produce than the average span of most home builders' careers.
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Fortunately, it doesn't have to work that way when you go the other direction in time. We recently worked on a project that allowed us the opportunity to use vintage timbers; lumber that had been harvested and milled more than a century ago.
When trying to decide what to use for some of the architectural and structural wood elements in the project we came upon a source of reclaimed timbers right in our own backyard in Santa Fe. The owner makes available an assortment of timbers from around North America that are salvaged from a variety of structures being torn down.
The yard is a builder's playland. It features a huge band saw and forklift and there's a nice showroom/office with lots of samples on display. The real attraction though, is the piles and stacks of big timbers. They may be cedar pilings from the bridges of the Great Salt Lake, or some special variety of poplar or pine or some other conifer from as far away as Alaska.
The timbers we selected needed to be very sound structurally so we chose old growth West Coast Douglas fir. The particular pieces came from a salvaged lumber mill in British Columbia and were apparently added to the mill structure sometime in the last half of the 1800s. Since they were protected from the elements they have essentially been seasoning ever since. Even though they were in use all those many years, doing the structural jobs for which they were originally chosen, they have only become stronger and more beautiful with the passage of time.
Any movement to which they may have been inclined took place decades ago, resulting in timbers whose stability and quality can be appreciated by even the most demanding carpenters. There is probably no new harvest timber on the continent that can favorably compare.
Eric Sloane, in "A Reverence for Wood," writes lovingly of the white cedar that was "mined" from the swamps of New Jersey during the 19th century. It was valued beyond any other material for wood shingles and was used on uncounted thousands of roofs and north facing walls throughout the eastern United States. The practice apparently prospered all the way up until the time of the Civil War.
Sloane writes about the dismantling of his barn in order to salvage the lumber, and in the process gives us incomparable insights into the understanding that the early carpenters of America had of the various species -- oaks, chestnut, pine, birch, walnut, cedar, spruce, ash. The list goes on and on.
Building vs. Producing
Lumber may very well be the best example of the connection between a builder and his materials. Even the simple act of crowning a set of studs for a partition links every modern-day framer with the generations of carpenters who came before. And it may be the best way to express what is missing in so much of the building that goes on around us. Have we as builders lost that sense of being connected -- being a part of -- the buildings we erect?
There is more to building than simply producing. I would argue that no one puts more of himself into his product than a real builder does, and that traditionally, no one has a greater appreciation for the materials needed for that product. It doesn't matter whether it's a lumber product, a masonry component or metal, whether it's milled, manufactured, engineered or fabricated; everything that goes into the construction of a building -- a home -- began as a natural resource, be it renewable or not. Each part needs to be considered as valuable.
Our salvaged fir timbers are run through the big band saw to clean a thin layer off each face, ripped to the prescribed dimensions and then trucked down to the job site where they are matched, cut to length and installed. We will finish them by lightly sandblasting the exposed surfaces to raise the grain and remove any remaining stains before applying any color and sealants to them.
Ultimately, our objective is to end up with an element in the house that brings more than a visual aesthetic to the project. It also contains a deliberate thread of history -- a connection to earlier values that runs through the fabric of the house. To reuse a material in a modern structure, when it has already had a century of service to its credit, is somehow very satisfying to us as builders, and to our customers.
I began counting growth rings on one twelve by twelve from the center of the heart outward toward one corner and quit after 150. For at least a century and a half that fir stood on some Cascade mountainside before falling to the axe. It is about to enter a second century of bearing a structural load, and of bringing beauty and pleasure to those who observe it.
Someday in the future, I hope someone will recognize its value and once again reclaim it for use in yet another capacity. Who knows, maybe it will be sawn into planks for flooring or for stair treads, or maybe even used in a piece of furniture.
Meanwhile, I might just go find a file and try sharpening a shovel. Then I may plant a nice tree. Not for me, you know, but for some home builder in the future who has an eye for nice lumber and a soft spot for old timbers.


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Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 08/19/07 10:46, Anssi Hannula wrote: >> Udo Richter wrote: >>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>>> VDR's locale files are named like "de_DE" (language_COUNTRY). >>>> There's no "@euro" or other stuff added to the names. VDR needs to >>>> know which files it actually has at its disposal, in order to >>>> present to the user a list of all available languages. It makes >>>> no sense to present a language that in the end isn't available. >>> I guess the working way would be to parse (or build) the list of locale >>> -a, as they are definitely the present locales, and then check which one >>> of them matches a VDR translation file. In my case, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uses >>> the >>> existing translation de_DE as fallback, and would be a valid selection. >>> >>> Such a solution still has obstacles, like multiple possible locales for >>> one real translation, and things like 'C' locale for English. >> Well, AFAIK it doesn't matter which one of the multiple possible locales >> you select, it won't affect the translation, so this is not a problem :) >> >> And for the C locale, I don't see the problem. Actually, >> I18N_DEFAULT_LOCALE should be "C", as "en_US" is invalid in many >> systems. Dunno if "en_US" causes problems somewhere, but it might. >> >> AFAICS the solutions to the current problems would be: >> >> (1) Put all VDR translation *.mo files in $LOCDIR/xx/LC_MESSAGES, where >> xx is the language code without territory et al. LOCDIR can be whatever, >> /usr/share/locale, ~/vdr/locale etc. >> >> (2) Check all the directories in $LOCDIR for vdr.mo. >> >> (3) (a) Build a list of possible system locales by listing the system >> locale dir (could be /usr/share/locale, /usr/lib/locale, >> /usr/lib64/locale, depending on system; note that >> /usr/share/locale may still contain the translations and they >> are used even if it is not the system localedir). >> or (b) Build a list of system locales by running "locale -a". >> or (c) Hardcode a list of locale names to be tried. >> >> (4) Of the listed locales, select one that matches xx*, with xx being >> the language code of the VDR translation. If (3a) or (3c) was used, we >> need to test if they really work, as not all subdirs in those dirs are >> valid locales. >> >> (5) Use iso-codes as pointed out by Wolfgang for the language name >> translations. >> >> I also sent a message to gettext developers about the issue. > > From everything I've read in this (unfortunately badly subjected) thread > I can only come to one conclusion: setlocale/gettext is *broken*! > > I can't believe that every program would have to fiddle around with > all these different directory localtions and stuff. As much as I like Linux, > but I hate the fact that every distribution has its files somewhere > else. Couldn't there for once be a *standard*?
As said multiple times before, the other programs *do not use* setlocale() to switch languages nor list languages, but rely on environment variables. That is why they do not need to do anything, and thus have not faced this problem. Note that KDE does provide the user a list of languages, but it does not use gettext, but instead uses its own glibc-derived implementation for translation, with file format being the same. > And why isn't setlocale() smart enough to try "de" when the program > requests "de_DE" and there is no "de_DE" lcoale? It would be the reasonable > thing to do, wouldn't it? I think the reverse would be more useful here, i.e. not smart enough to try "de_DE" when "de" is called for. > I was hoping to make things simpler and easier when going to gettext, > but now it looks like I've traded one nightmare for another. Yes. > Isn't there perhaps a way to tell gettext *explicitly* which files > to use, completely bypassing this whole broken setlocale stuff? > In that case VDR could collect it's list of *.mo files and decide > by itself which one to use. I'm not aware of such a way. -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list email@example.com http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr


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Walter Pall's main blog about bonsai and his work with trees from day to day. Lots of good pictures of good trees and lots of valuable information about bonsai.
I always am surprised when I see a human for scale and realise just how large some of your trees are.
the pot is just sublime, complimenting the changing colours so well. it's perfect!
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The first GOP debate of 2016, as told by a Democrat
Happy first debate of the new year! It's another evening of... these guys. So have a seat, grab your chips, and I'll take you through the big moments as I saw them.
(Neil Cavuto is dressed like an American flag. We're off to a good start.)
Moderator: Let's start by talking about jobs.
Cruz: I'd love to talk about those, but I'd rather talk about the image of American sailors on their knees after they were captured by Iranian forces. The president didn't even mention them in the State of the Union. When I'm president, no service man or woman will ever kneel unless they're on a date with Donald Trump's mom.
Christie: Yeah, the president acted like the world is great when in fact we are all burning and on a collision course with doom.
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Bush: Totally. We are living in a world of shit.
Moderator: How do we attack ISIS, which is a network, and not a country?
Carson: Let me paint a picture for you: ISIS cuts off our electrical grid, conducts a cyber-attack and sets off dirty bombs. Can you even imagine? It would be chaos. Thank you.
Moderator: In the State of the Union, President Obama introduced a refugee like he was a human being. What do you think about that?
Trump: That one "human being" is not representative. They are sending over young, virile, powerful men, not women and children. Look at what that married couple did in California — they killed 14, probably soon to be 16 people.
(Everyone wounded in that attack had better lock their doors tonight. Trump knows something.)
Moderator: Mr. Cruz, how do you explain a recent article in The New York Times that says you didn't disclose a large donation from Goldman Sachs?
Cruz: Well, Maria, that is easily explained. You see, I needed the money.
More: What answers does Donald Trump owe women?
Moderator: How about Trump's claim that you are not qualified to be president because you were born in Canada?
Cruz: The birth issue is invalid. If the standard is that not only do you need to be born on American soil, but both your parents have to be as well, then Donald Trump wouldn't be qualified either because his mother was born in Scotland.
(That's a right burn, laddie.)
Trump: If he becomes the nominee, the Democrats will sue because there is that question mark about whether or not he is qualified to be president. He needs to prove it through the courts. He owes it to the party. Facts are for wimps.
Moderator: Governor Haley of South Carolina, in her response to the State of the Union, said that we should resist the call of angry voices. She was talking about you.
Trump: I am angry. Our country is the moldy end of a banana festering at the bottom of a trash can at Disney World that gets eaten by one of those feral cats that lives at the park and then pooped out next to Splash Mountain.
Bush: I think we need to focus on the fact that it doesn't matter who is nominated; we all have to vote for the Republican. Any one of us would be better than Hillary but especially me.
Carson: Right? If a progressive gets in the White House, this country is over. Over.
Moderator: Kasich, what do you think about the fact that Bernie Sanders, a socialist who loves taxes, could be the Democratic nominee for president?
Kasich: I know Bernie, and trust me, he will never be president of the United States; that guy eats soup with a fork if you know what I mean. No offense, Bernie.
Moderator: Is Bill Clinton's past an issue in this election?
Carson: Absolutely. Whatever happened to standards of behavior in this country? I mean, have you read the comments section of any online article? We need to stand up for what's right and wrong, and the spouse of someone running for president is fair game. Except for ours. And also, maybe we should ignore the philandering part. I'm just saying.
Moderator: Let's talk about guns. What is the harm in tightening the standards of who buys and sells guns?
Bush: We don't need to create more laws, we need to enforce the ones we have.
Moderator: Trump, do you believe in any kind of gun regulation?
Trump: Nope. Give them all guns. Gun gun gun, gunny gun gun. People pull triggers, not guns. Protect the second amendment. Shoot shoot shoot, pew pew pew.
More: Donald Trump is winning... at being compared to the worst things ever
Rubio: The second amendment is not a suggestion or an option — it's a constitutional right. I think Obama would take all of our guns and get rid of the second amendment. That wouldn't help, because you know who doesn't go to gun shows? ISIS.
Moderator: Do you have any proof that he wants to take away everyone's guns?
Rubio: Oh, sure. Look, this is Obama: "Hey guys, I want to take away everyone's guns. I can't wait to get rid of all those guns." He says it all the time.
Moderator: Really?
Rubio: Yes.
Moderator: Okey-doke.
Christie: I hope Obama is watching because he should know that he is a petulant child and we are going to kick his booty out of the White House.
Cruz: THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE YOUR GUNS!
Moderator: Cruz, you said that Trump embodies "New York values." What are "New York values?"
Cruz: Everybody knows what New York values are.
Moderator: I'm from New York, and I don't know.
Cruz: Well, if you're from New York, then maybe you wouldn't know. Trust me, they rest of us know.
Trump: You know what, Ted? 9/11.
Cruz: Good point.
Moderator: Let's talk ISIS so everyone gets a chance to flop down their respective balls. How do we get rid of ISIS?
Carson: Bomb them. I know they say, "Oh, don't bomb that truck because there might be people in it." So what?! If you don't want people bombed, don't put them in trucks!
Moderator: Trump, do you still think we should ban all Muslims?
Trump: Yes. We need to stop being politically correct and start being racist.
Bush: You know that some of our allies are Muslim, right? Listen, I'm not saying that all the wonderful prospective voters who agree with Trump are as unhinged as he is, but we're talking about the job of president of the United States, here, not the manager of your local Sam's Club. I may have just made this worse.
Christie: You know who we should ban? Radical Islamic jihadists. When I'm president, there will be no bad guys coming into the United States.
Cruz: When I'm president, we will not accept refugees from countries controlled by ISIS. If they are trying to flee ISIS, then they can't come here. And we will destroy them. All of them. Now if you'll excuse me, I think someone just came in my pants.
Moderator: Let's talk about taxes. Anybody here going to raise them?
Candidates: No.
Moderator: Anybody going to increase spending?
Candidates: No.
Moderator: Great. Moving on.
Christie: Just one more thing — seniors. Look at me. Hillary Clinton is going to raise social security tax and leave you homeless and starving.
(It's 7:57. It doesn't look good for an 8:00 finish, folks.)
Moderator: What would you do to address the crime rate and the fact that cops feel unsupported?
(PROTESTERS!! They're yelling, "Need more bread!" No, that doesn't seem right. Damn. Sorry, protesters.)
I apologize, folks, but after all these debates I have found that two hours is the most my soul can stand. After that, all I can do is look at them and hiss, and that is bad for writing. So I'm calling it a night now.
More: 5 Things parents must do if they own guns
The Democratic debate coming up on the 17th. Should be a well, behaved, soundly-reasoned snooze fest.


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Letter from J. T. McWilliams (Good Springs, Nevada) to J. Ross Clark (Los Angeles), February 1, 1903
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|Yep it's that time of the year again. I put away the tomato cages and start dreaming about what my garden will look like next season. Of course, before I can do any of that I have to actually clean up my garden area from this season.
|My garden is no different than anyone elses. By the end of the season, the dying plants and pesky weeds have worked their way into my landscape, sparking the end of the spring/summer gardening season. It also signals me to get going in cleaning everything up.
|Over the course of a couple of days, me, my wife and two kids will hit the garden areas. We pull all the dead plants and get them into the compost pile. We then pull weeds and throw them out in the trash. I try not to put weeds in my compost pile. This helps cut down on weed seeds germinating over there, making less work for me.
|Once all the debris is removed from my garden I will then load up the garden beds with compost. Some feel this is not necessary since I am not growing anything in certain beds over the fall and winter months. But for me I like to keep working my soil as early and as often as possible. This also helps me get a bit of a jump start on my garden for the spring since I will be loading up my soil with good nutrients all fall and winter long.
|I then give my garden beds a good tilling to help mix in all that compost and aerate the soil. Some people like to till the garden, others don't for fear it will bring low lying weed seeds back to the top. I have had great success with tilling my soil so I stick with it.
One of the most important things to remember when it comes to gardening is to have fun. Sure there is work, but if you can make the work a family event like I do, it won't really feel like work.
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As you plan your visit to The Casitas, consider taking advantage of our Gifts for Guests. Select the perfect welcome present or celebratory gift from our selection of specialty items. You can order for yourself or for a loved one's stay at The Casitas.
Gift Certificates, redeemable for the recipient's current stay at The Casitas, can also be purchased. Simply complete the form below, including the message you would like featured on the photo gift card, and we'll take care of the rest.
with Rose and Chocolate Covered Strawberries
"There may be many flowers in a man's life, but there is only one rose." Source Unknown
Robbins Family California Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Italian Balsamic Vinegar
Set of two.
Light weight. One size fits most.
Terry cloth. One size fits most.
We are happy to customize a beautiful gift certificate for your friend, family or business associate. Giving them a Casitas gift certificate is giving that lucky someone time to relax, rejuvenate and discover how beautiful Central Coast of California and the Central California wine country are. You can be sure that Tony and Pat will take great personal care of your guest when they visit.
Please contact Tony at 805.473.1123 or email@example.com to discuss a gift certificate that suits your needs–we can even email to you if time is short!
We are happy to offer our guests a special evening right here at the Casitas! Now there is no need to drive to dinner after you arrive — you can enjoy your a relaxing meal in the comfort of your casita or our dining room (especially with groups) in the heart of the Arroyo Grande Valley/Edna Valley wine region. With a minimum one week advance notice, we will make arrangements to secure the services of one of several excellent caterers offering local farm to table fare. Personally consult and plan your special four course meal with in season, locally grown produce, meats and fish. What better way to spoil yourself and that special someone?
Smoked salmon Carpaccio, or
Fresh gazpacho, or
Hog Island Oysters on the half shell presented with three sauces
Watercress salad with pear, walnuts and Dijon vinaigrette with passion fruit, or
Salad of grilled spaghetti squash, wild California cactus pears and Cacique cheese with guava cilantro vinaigrette, or
Salad of endive and Fennel with caramelized spicy nuts, blue cheese and mango vinaigrette
Portobello mushroom roasted and stuffed with caramelized yam, shallots, spinach and broccoli rabbi in a moonshine cream sauce, or
Roasted tenderloin of beef with roasted fingerling potatoes and green peppercorn sauce, or
Wild king salmon with asparagus and balsamic reduction
Vanilla bean panna cotta with a rhubarb and stone fruit compote, or
Chocolate mousse cake with berry coulis and fresh berries, or
English triffle with crème anglaise and raspberry coulis
Contact Tony to confirm availability and to coordinate with the caterer. Please note that in some cases even with advance notice we may not be able to secure one of our staff based on their previous commitments or other local events. Consider treating that special someone to this additional gastronomic event the next time you visit The Casitas of Arroyo Grande! Note: alcoholic beverages are not included with the meal, no liquor license on premise.
Take your romantic stay to the next level, with an hour or 1.5 hour long massage in the warmth and comfort of your own casita. Tony and I have vetted out several wonderful massage therapists and based on availability, we are happy to organize and book a massage for you right here at the Estate! If you prefer to head to a spa, we can also offer suggestions but please let us know a few days in advance. The more notice the better chance of getting you in room experience of course! We think we have negotiated a wonderful rate for a massage to come to you!
$100 for a 60 minute massage
$130 for a 90 minute massage
Note: due to room constraints, couples' massage is not available but most of our massage therapists would happily take you in succession and allow the other to relax by our pool or with a good book in our great room or deck. We would be happy to keep you company if desired or allow Kona to take you for a walk or game of frisbee!
One of the things we hear most from our guests is "where did you get those sheets"? One of the things that we really work hard on is giving our guests a good nights sleep and a great breakfast in the morning. We can't send you our breakfasts but we can send you our sheets. These sheets from "Comphy Company" are comfortable, easy to care for and long lasting. Microfiber does not have a "thread count" # that cotton sheets tout, it just has comfort.
Sets include a fitted sheet, flat sheet and two pillow cases and come in twin, double, queen, standard (eastern) king and Cal King. Sheets are shipped directly to you. – Call for 805.473.1123 for pricing
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Savor a traditional Swiss Fondue delivered to your suite so you can fully enjoy your fireplace or the great outdoors, sitting on your private deck at sunset. Our fondue is made with Gruyere and Emmenthaler cheeses and served with crusty artisan french bread, grapes, and sliced crisp apples for dipping. It's the perfect way to stay in and end a day of wine tasting or for a light dinner after your drive after checking into The Casitas. There is not better way to enjoy our country setting. It's a romantic touch and all you need to add is a great local bottle from one of our local vintners or a selection from one of your own library wines. – $100
Individuals, couples and small groups, 10 or less, this wine tour is for you and an amazing value with round trip shuttle to and from the Casitas! Travel county roads discovering the familiar to hidden local favorites of the Paso or San Luis Obispo wine regions. No extra charge for new friends made along the way!
5-7 hr. tour visiting up to 4 Wineries
Unique & Varied Itineraries
Yummy Winery Picnic Lunch included
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Friendly, Knowledgeable Guides
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Door-door Service
10:00/10:30 – 3:30/4:30 (or customized to your needs, based on availability)
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Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence
On the Lago di Garda
5. The Dance
Maria had no real licence for San Gaudenzio, yet the peasants always called for wine. It is easy to arrange in Italy. The penny is paid another time.
The wild old road that skirts the lake-side, scrambling always higher as the precipice becomes steeper, climbing and winding to the villages perched high up, passes under the high boundary-wall of San Gaudenzio, between that and the ruined church. But the road went just as much between the vines and past the house as outside, under the wall; for the high gates were always open, and men or women and mules come into the property to call at the door of the homestead. There was a loud shout, 'Ah--a--a--ah--Mari--a. O--O--Oh Pa'o!' from outside, another wild, inarticulate cry from within, and one of the Fiori appeared in the doorway to hail the newcomer.
It was usually a man, sometimes a peasant from Mugiano, high up, sometimes a peasant from the wilds of the mountain, a wood-cutter, or a charcoal-burner. He came in and sat in the house-place, his glass of wine in his hand between his knees, or on the floor between his feet, and he talked in a few wild phrases, very shy, like a hawk indoors, and unintelligible in his dialect.
Sometimes we had a dance. Then, for the wine to drink, three men came with mandolines and guitars, and sat in a corner playing their rapid tunes, while all danced on the dusty brick floor of the little parlour. No strange women were invited, only men; the young bloods from the big village on the lake, the wild men from above. They danced the slow, trailing, lilting polka-waltz round and round the small room, the guitars and mandolines twanging rapidly, the dust rising from the soft bricks. There were only the two English women: so men danced with men, as the Italians love to do. They love even better to dance with men, with a dear blood-friend, than with women.
'It's better like this, two men?' Giovanni says to me, his blue eyes hot, his face curiously tender.
The wood-cutters and peasants take off their coats, their throats are bare. They dance with strange intentness, particularly if they have for partner an English Signora. Their feet in thick boots are curiously swift and significant. And it is strange to see the Englishwomen, as they dance with the peasants transfigured with a kind of brilliant surprise. All the while the peasants are very courteous, but quiet. They see the women dilate and flash, they think they have found a footing, they are certain. So the male dancers are quiet, but even grandiloquent, their feet nimble, their bodies wild and confident.
They are at a loss when the two English Signoras move together and laugh excitedly at the end of the dance.
'Isn't it fine?'
'Fine! Their arms are like iron, carrying you round.'
'Yes! Yes! And the muscles on their shoulders! I never knew there were such muscles! I'm almost frightened.'
'But it's fine, isn't it? I'm getting into the dance.'
'Yes--yes--you've only to let them take you.'
Then the glasses are put down, the guitars give their strange, vibrant, almost painful summons, and the dance begins again.
It is a strange dance, strange and lilting, and changing as the music changed. But it had always a kind of leisurely dignity, a trailing kind of polka-waltz, intimate, passionate, yet never hurried, never violent in its passion, always becoming more intense. The women's faces changed to a kind of transported wonder, they were in the very rhythm of delight. From the soft bricks of the floor the red ochre rose in a thin cloud of dust, making hazy the shadowy dancers; the three musicians, in their black hats and their cloaks, sat obscurely in the corner, making a music that came quicker and quicker, making a dance that grew swifter and more intense, more subtle, the men seeming to fly and to implicate other strange inter-rhythmic dance into the women, the women drifting and palpitating as if their souls shook and resounded to a breeze that was subtly rushing upon them, through them; the men worked their feet, their thighs swifter, more vividly, the music came to an almost intolerable climax, there was a moment when the dance passed into a possession, the men caught up the women and swung them from the earth, leapt with them for a second, and then the next phase of the dance had begun, slower again, more subtly interwoven, taking perfect, oh, exquisite delight in every interrelated movement, a rhythm within a rhythm, a subtle approaching and drawing nearer to a climax, nearer, till, oh, there was the surpassing lift and swing of the women, when the woman's body seemed like a boat lifted over the powerful, exquisite wave of the man's body, perfect, for a moment, and then once more the slow, intense, nearer movement of the dance began, always nearer, nearer, always to a more perfect climax.
And the women waited as if in transport for the climax, when they would be flung into a movement surpassing all movement. They were flung, borne away, lifted like a boat on a supreme wave, into the zenith and nave of the heavens, consummate.
Then suddenly the dance crashed to an end, and the dancers stood stranded, lost, bewildered, on a strange shore. The air was full of red dust, half-lit by the lamp on the wall; the players in the corner were putting down their instruments to take up their glasses.
And the dancers sat round the wall, crowding in the little room, faint with the transport of repeated ecstasy. There was a subtle smile on the face of the men, subtle, knowing, so finely sensual that the conscious eyes could scarcely look at it. And the women were dazed, like creatures dazzled by too much light. The light was still on their faces, like a blindness, a reeling, like a transfiguration. The men were bringing wine, on a little tin tray, leaning with their proud, vivid loins, their faces flickering with the same subtle smile. Meanwhile, Maria Fiori was splashing water, much water, on the red floor. There was the smell of water among the glowing, transfigured men and women who sat gleaming in another world, round the walls.
The peasants have chosen their women. For the dark, handsome Englishwoman, who looks like a slightly malignant Madonna, comes Il Duro; for the 'bella bionda', the wood-cutter. But the peasants have always to take their turn after the young well-to-do men from the village below.
Nevertheless, they are confident. They cannot understand the middle-class diffidence of the young men who wear collars and ties and finger-rings.
The wood-cutter from the mountain is of medium height, dark, thin, and hard as a hatchet, with eyes that are black like the very flaming thrust of night. He is quite a savage. There is something strange about his dancing, the violent way he works one shoulder. He has a wooden leg, from the knee-joint. Yet he dances well, and is inordinately proud. He is fierce as a bird, and hard with energy as a thunderbolt. He will dance with the blonde signora. But he never speaks. He is like some violent natural phenomenon rather than a person. The woman begins to wilt a little in his possession.
'E bello--il ballo?' he asked at length, one direct, flashing question.
'Si--molto bello,' cries the woman, glad to have speech again.
The eyes of the wood-cutter flash like actual possession. He seems now to have come into his own. With all his senses, he is dominant, sure.
He is inconceivably vigorous in body, and his dancing is almost perfect, with a little catch in it, owing to his lameness, which brings almost a pure intoxication. Every muscle in his body is supple as steel, supple, as strong as thunder, and yet so quick, so delicately swift, it is almost unbearable. As he draws near to the swing, the climax, the ecstasy, he seems to lie in wait, there is a sense of a great strength crouching ready. Then it rushes forth, liquid, perfect, transcendent, the woman swoons over in the dance, and it goes on, enjoyment, infinite, incalculable enjoyment. He is like a god, a strange natural phenomenon, most intimate and compelling, wonderful.
But he is not a human being. The woman, somewhere shocked in her independent soul, begins to fall away from him. She has another being, which he has not touched, and which she will fall back upon. The dance is over, she will fall back on herself. It is perfect, too perfect.
During the next dance, while she is in the power of the educated Ettore, a perfect and calculated voluptuary, who knows how much he can get out of this Northern woman, and only how much, the wood-cutter stands on the edge of the darkness, in the open doorway, and watches. He is fixed upon her, established, perfect. And all the while she is aware of the insistent hawk-like poising of the face of the wood-cutter, poised on the edge of the darkness, in the doorway, in possession, unrelinquishing.
And she is angry. There is something stupid, absurd, in the hard, talon-like eyes watching so fiercely and so confidently in the doorway, sure, unmitigated. Has the creature no sense?
The woman reacts from him. For some time she will take no notice of him. But he waits, fixed. Then she comes near to him, and his will seems to take hold of her. He looks at her with a strange, proud, inhuman confidence, as if his influence with her was already accomplished.
'Venga--venga un po',' he says, jerking his head strangely to the darkness.
'What?' she replies, and passes shaken and dilated and brilliant, consciously ignoring him, passes away among the others, among those who are safe.
There is food in the kitchen, great hunks of bread, sliced sausage that Maria has made, wine, and a little coffee. But only the quality come to eat. The peasants may not come in. There is eating and drinking in the little house, the guitars are silent. It is eleven o'clock.
Then there is singing, the strange bestial singing of these hills. Sometimes the guitars can play an accompaniment, but usually not. Then the men lift up their heads and send out the high, half-howling music, astounding. The words are in dialect. They argue among themselves for a moment: will the Signoria understand? They sing. The Signoria does not understand in the least. So with a strange, slightly malignant triumph, the men sing all the verses of their song, sitting round the walls of the little parlour. Their throats move, their faces have a slight mocking smile. The boy capers in the doorway like a faun, with glee, his straight black hair falling over his forehead. The elder brother sits straight and flushed, but even his eyes glitter with a kind of yellow light of laughter. Paolo also sits quiet, with the invisible smile on his face.' Only Maria, large and active, prospering now, keeps collected, ready to order a shrill silence in the same way as she orders the peasants, violently, to keep their places.
The boy comes to me and says:
'Do you know, Signore, what they are singing?'
'No,' I say.
So he capers with furious glee. The men with the watchful eyes, all roused, sit round the wall and sing more distinctly:
Si verra la primavera Fiorann' le mandoline, Vienn' di basso le Trentine Coi 'taliani far' l'amor.
But the next verses are so improper that I pretend not to understand. The women, with wakened, dilated faces, are listening, listening hard, their two faces beautiful in their attention, as if listening to something magical, a long way off. And the men sitting round the wall sing more plainly, coming nearer to the correct Italian. The song comes loud and vibrating and maliciously from their reedy throats, it penetrates everybody. The foreign women can understand the sound, they can feel the malicious, suggestive mockery. But they cannot catch the words. The smile becomes more dangerous on the faces of the men.
Then Maria Fiori sees that I have understood, and she cries, in her loud, overriding voice:
The men get up, straighten their bodies with a curious, offering movement. The guitars and mandolines strike the vibrating strings. But the vague Northern reserve has come over the Englishwomen. They dance again, but without the fusion in the dance. They have had enough.
The musicians are thanked, they rise and go into the night. The men pass off in pairs. But the wood-cutter, whose name and whose nickname I could never hear, still hovered on the edge of the darkness.
Then Maria sent him also away, complaining that he was too wild, proprio selvatico, and only the 'quality' remained, the well-to-do youths from below. There was a little more coffee, and a talking, a story of a man who had fallen over a declivity in a lonely part going home drunk in the evening, and had lain unfound for eighteen hours. Then a story of a donkey who had kicked a youth in the chest and killed him.
But the women were tired, they would go to bed. Still the two young men would not go away. We all went out to look at the night.
The stars were very bright overhead, the mountain opposite and the mountains behind us faintly outlined themselves on the sky. Below, the lake was a black gulf. A little wind blew cold from the Adige.
In the morning the visitors had gone. They had insisted on staying the night. They had eaten eight eggs each and much bread at one o'clock in the morning. Then they had gone to sleep, lying on the floor in the sitting-room.
In the early sunshine they had drunk coffee and gone down to the village on the lake. Maria was very pleased. She would have made a good deal of money. The young men were rich. Her cupidity seemed like her very blossom.


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When Glory came out in 1989, movie audiences were excited to see a relatively unknown side of the Civil War that highlighted the sacrifices of the Massachusetts 54th, a "colored" volunteer regiment. Gripping as the story that unfolded on the screen was, there was much more to it, of course. In real life, other people's stories became part of the regiment's history as the Civil War gripped the nation.
John Mercer Langston, along with Frederick Douglass, acted as a recruiter for the 54th. As an abolitionist and orator, he was an excellent choice, and this task was just one of Langston's civic accomplishments. Although he had spent most of his life in a free state, John was familiar with plantation life. His father had been a white plantation owner in Louisa County, Virginia—not far from Spotsylvania. His mother had been his father's slave. But his parents' story was not a common one for the era. His father freed his mother, and, although they were not allowed to marry for legal reasons, they lived together as man and wife for the rest of their days, their children considered to be freeborn.


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NEW YORK (CNN) — If she had been at the scene of the crime, forensic evidence would prove her guilt, but Amanda Knox says there is nothing — no DNA, no hair, no footprints, no handprints — to show she was there.
Knox spoke in an exclusive interview with CNN on Thursday, two days after an Italian court released an explanation of her conviction.
In a retrial, Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, her then-boyfriend, were found guilty in the 2007 death of Meredith Kercher, Knox's onetime roommate.
"I did not kill my friend. I did not wield a knife. I had no reason to," Knox said.
"In the month that we that we were living together, we were becoming friends. A week before the murder occurred, we went out to a classical music concert together … We had never fought."
Knox struggled to speak at moments in the interview, seemingly overcome by emotion and thoughts of Kercher. But, for the most part, she was calm, collected and methodical in how she broke down arguments in the case.
In its more than 300-page document, the Florence appeals court said a third person convicted in the murder, Rudy Guede, did not act alone, and cited the nature of the victim's wounds.
Ruling Judge Alessandro Nencini, who presided over the second appeal in the case, said Kercher and Knox disagreed over the payment of the rent in the house they shared in Perugia and that "there was an argument then an elevation and progression of aggression."
Knox dismissed those allegations out of hand.
"If I were there, I would have traces of Meredith"s broken body on me. And I would have left traces of myself around — around Meredith's corpse," she said.
"And I — I am not there. And that proves my innocence."
The Florence court in January said that Knox, who also was convicted of slander, was sentenced in absentia to 28 1/2 years in prison. Sollecito's sentence was 25 years.
Claudio Hellman, the judge who tossed their convictions, lashed out at colleagues.
"The Florence Appeal Court has written a script for a movie or a thriller book while it should have only considered facts and evidence. There is no evidence to condemn Knox and Sollecito," said the judge in a scathing statement obtained by CNN.
Knox's conviction has raised questions about her possible extradition to Italy to serve her sentence, since she was in the United States and did not attend the retrial. She gets one more appeal — to Italy's highest court.
They were first convicted of murder in 2009, but the verdicts were overturned on appeal in 2011.


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One longstanding piece of code that, last time I checked, was still in the installer and dpkg-reconfigure, makes this goal explicit. The code gives users three ways to configure their monitor. These range from the simple one of selecting the monitor size from a drop-down list; through the medium one of selecting the desired resolution; to the expert one in which users enter the exact Horizontal Sync Range and Vertical Refresh Rate. Users can choose the method they are most comfortable with, though results may vary.
In much the same way, Debian benefits from the steady improvements in the KDE and GNOME desktops. However, unlike many modern distributions, it doesn't neglect command line tools, and it comes with the most heavily commented configuration files I've ever encountered. While beginners using many distros are hard-pressed to expand their knowledge beyond the desktop, Debian users who want a more hands-on experience are given the tools they need to learn.
Moreover, just as users can choose their level of expertise, Debian offers choices in other aspects of computing. For instance, its package repositories are divided into three sections: main, which contains only free software; contrib, which contains software that is free but dependent on non-free software; and non-free, which contains such non-free items as Adobe Acrobat.
The project strongly encourages you to use only the main section -- Debian installs without contrib and non-free enabled, and a vocal minority in the project would like to do away with them altogether -- but the point is that users can choose their level of software freedom. Even though I tend to stick with main, I appreciate that the choice is mine, not some anonymous developer acting unasked on my behalf.
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The more cautious can use Testing, which is often a reasonable compromise between dependability and cutting edge versions. And for those for whom dependability is the main issue -- for instance, those building a server -- Stable is available, supported as needed by security updates.
While this system is organized largely for building the distribution, it also allows users to balance their desire for dependability against their desire for the latest software. By looking up the packages on the Debian web site and seeing all the dependencies for a given package, users can determine how dangerous an upgrade may be to their computers.
(The system also explains why official releases tend not to matter -- new packages are constantly passing through the system, regardless of whether the project is gearing for another official release or not.)
As a free software supporter, another reason I favor Debian is the structure of the community. Other distributions such as Ubuntu may have invented a code of conduct -- partly out of a wish to avoid some of the rudeness found on Debian mailing lists -- but just about every other component of free software communities was done first by Debian, and probably on a larger scale at first.
You would be hard-pressed to find a more thoroughly democratic community than Debian. What other free software project votes for leaders using the Condorcet method of counting ballots in order to maximize the effectiveness of every vote? Or can vote on general resolutions about the project's direction? Or attempt to impeach the project leader, as happened with Anthony Towns last year?
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text: Working with mixed media and collage, local artist Lisa Nesmith hopes that her artwork will "invite the view in slowly, to experience rather than analyze". References to time, place and memory occur frequently in her work, as she layers otherwise mundane images and symbols to create a sense of atmosphere and recollection. Running now through the end of September, the NCAR Library invites you to view Nesmith's work in the Foothills Library.


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Barbara Murphy was a great runner, wife, mother and friend. She passed away last December from lung cancer that was initially diagnosed in 2007.
This past July, her family launched the Barb's Beer Foundation. Working with brewmaster Chuck Hohing and the Northsound Brewery in Mt. Vernon, Washington, they developed a recipe for Barb's Beer and began selling it at a single restaurant in Bellingham called La Fiamma. Proceeds from every sale benefit the Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE).
On Thursday, October 2nd, the Foundation will present GRACE Founder and Board Chair Dr. Jack West with the first money raised since that launch. They will also announce their plans for the expansion of beer sales to other venues in the Seattle area.
The Foundation and GRACE invite you to join the celebration as the Barb's Beer Foundation salutes Dr. West and the work of GRACE (and also enjoy some great brew)!
When: Thursday, October 2, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Where: La Fiamma, 200 E Chestnut St, Bellingham, WA 98225
Our thanks to Barbara's family and the Barb's Beer Foundation for their support of GRACE. If you live in the Seattle area, please support La Fiamma and other restaurants that will soon start selling Barb's Beer.


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