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Does anybody know of a IDS program for mac that I can get, preferably free?
Which OS? Pre-OSX or OS X?
If it's OS X, you might want to look at Snort on Mac. The website this link is at also tends to be heavy for support for various Macintosh Security items and might help narrow your search down to others.
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Kentucky Commonwealth Clean-Up Day
|Author: Nancy Givens
Date: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
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On Saturday, March 24, members and friends of the WKU-Habitat for Humanity Durbin Estate Project participated in a site cleanup, hosted as part of Commonwealth Cleanup Week. A large portion of the site-the future home to a model mixed-income, mixed-use green affordable housing community-is a large detention basin that collects stormwater from a 270 acre city streets catchment area. Following heavy rains, new trash is carried to and deposited at the site. With EPA funding awarded by the Kentucky Division of Water, an integrated green infrastructure is being developed at the site to address this problem. Until it is implemented, regular trash cleanups are needed. It is wonderful to have community members and friends of the project volunteer their time to make a difference. Eleven people participated, and fun was had by all. Thanks goes to the City of Bowling Green Solid Waste Division for providing supplies for the event. Click here for photo galery.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — President Ollanta Humala has decided not to grant a humanitarian pardon for jailed former leader Alberto Fujimori, the nation's justice minister said Friday.
Justice Minister Daniel Figallo announced that Humala had accepted a presidential commission's recommendation to not issue a pardon because Fujimori's health problems are not serious enough to merit one. Figallo said that Fujimori does not have a terminal or "grave, incurable, degenerative" condition.
The 74-year-old Fujimori is serving a 25-year prison sentence for human rights violations.
The former president, who governed Peru from 1990-2000, has been seeking a pardon on humanitarian grounds since October. He says he suffers from cancer of the tongue and other ailments including chronic gastritis and hypertension. However, a report by a medical team that evaluated the former president indicated that he did not have cancer.
Fujimori was convicted of authorizing military death squad killings of 25 people in two early 1990s massacres.


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Not that this WON'T be Aizen's last stand. But it's not ending Bleach.
|2010-08-19, 00:39
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Location: In your mom's pants
|2010-08-19, 00:54
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hiyori's still alive, she still has to reconcile with hikifune
whats the purpose of aizen having his own hyougoku beforehand honestly? Just for the sake of taking something from matsumoto?
Is matsumoto going to become relevant to the plot? Very confused about the purpose of this plot device, and whether it will even be relevant to the future plot
welcome bacj badass ichigo, we've missed you for the past... 7years? Dx
kubo -can- design badassery when he wants
i guess he just wanted to godlyfy aizen... In a non badass way
lets cross our fingers and hope ichigo makes a butterfly joke
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You know, with how things had turn out recently, I couldn't help myself to notice that there are a lot of similarities between Gin and a character named Ash Crimson from the King of Fighters series and here are the reasons why:
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Everyones favourite character will eventually meet their fate (if they're a bad guy).
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I liked the early spoiler more.
No more Gin ;_;
Even if he stays alive. He has some talk left with Rangiku then he will be just another of Kubos 46435653745746848 good guys. Don`t except much screentime for him anymore.
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I seriously laughed so loud when I read the post about Rangiku's virginity.
Anyways, maybe they could've taken her family.
I mean Aizen did say he sacrificed citizens of Rukongai or whatever as well as Shinigami.
So maybe a sister or a brother or something.
I'm 50/50 on Gin's death though.
On one hand, the way he died, it was so lame IMO.
But the reason he died makes him a hero in my book.
No you know what I don't want him to die damn it.
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Aizen: Hey, Tousen. I need you to do something for me.
Tousen: Yeah, sure Aizen. What do you need me to do?
Aizen: I need to feel fear in order to complete my transformation, so after I use the Hougyoku to turn into the mullet form, I need you to scare me.
Tousen: Scare you? How do you expect me to do that? Nothing scares you...
Aizen: Don't worry about anything too flashy. Doesn't take much. Just jump out from behind a corner and say "Boo!" or something like that. I'll wipe my memory of this conversation, so I won't be expecting it (for once).
Tousen: Oh, okay. I can do that. I'll even turn into my Resureccion form first so it's extra scary.
Aizen: Ah... Oh... On second thought, maybe this isn't such a good idea... Don't worry about it; I'll manipulate Gin into doing it somehow...
Tousen: What? Hey, I can do it. My Resureccion is really scary. Remember, when you laughed the first time you saw it, you said it was only because you remembered that joke Starrk told that time...
Aizen: Actually, Tousen, about that... I hate to break it to you, but your Resurreccion form is pretty lame. It's like Man-Bat and the Anti-Spiral guy had a kid, and it didn't survive the birth... But hey, it's totally overpowered, and you're blind anyway, so it doesn't really matter how it looks, right?
Tousen: *sob*
Aizen: You seen Gin?
Tousen: *sniff* He-he's over i-in the East Wing s-sparring *sniff* with Grimmjow... *sob*
Aizen: Thanks, Tousen. Buck up, soldier. You'll be fine... (God, what a pussy...)
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I'm a Tousen fan.
Ichigo looks pretty cool. I was hoping his hair would be shoulder length but then I remembered his hair was orange. :/
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Here's to a water czar with the unlikely name of Chips
Twenty years ago, many car bumpers in Colorado sported a no-holds-barred sticker: "Dam the Denver Water Board." It was easy enough to dislike the agency then. It was big -- Colorado's largest water utility and one of the largest in the West -- and it reflexively used its political muscle and economic sway to realize its goals. While the narrative wasn't quite the same, there were echoes of Chinatown, the story about Los Angeles' dewatering of California's Owens Valley.
Resentment of the Denver Water Board has since shriveled, and one reason was the vision, skill and charm of the late Hamlet Barry III, the executive director of the Denver Water Department. Universally known by his childhood name of Chips, he died recently in a farming accident, just a few weeks before his retirement.
Two things about Barry were apparent even at a first meeting. One was his remarkable walrus mustache. He must have needed garden shears to trim it. The other thing was his good humor, the twinkle that was always in his eye. That twinkle served him, Denver, and arguably all of Colorado, well.
A Denver native and a product of Ivy League schools, he took over Denver Water in 1991. It was a rocky, transitional time for Denver and the other cities at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Water had always been considered a property right, and it still is. But federal and state laws adopted in the late 1960s and early 1970s introduced other values, particularly environmental. Two decades later, Front Range cities got their lunch handed to them when a couple of controversial projects were defeated. One of them –– known as Homestake II –– would have diverted water from around the Mount of the Holy Cross, not far from Vail. Denver Water also pushed hard for Two Forks, a giant dam that would have flooded a treasured trout fishery in the foothills southwest of Denver. It was killed by the elder Bush's administration.
The suburban cities surrounding Denver pushed back, filing a lawsuit to overturn a veto by the EPA's William Reilly. But under Barry's leadership, the Denver Water Board refused to join the suit. Dan Luecke, a hydrologist who had been pivotal in the effort to defeat Two Forks, says that Denver's refusal sent a message -- to the Front Range suburbs, to the Western Slope, which feared more raids on its water, and to the dam-hating environmental groups -- that Barry knew that the water game had changed. But Barry also had to spread that message within the water board, says Luecke. Before Two Forks, Denver Water was an agency of monument builders. But Barry, who was a lawyer and not an engineer, saw the need to build policies instead. Conservation was one such policy, though it had a problem: It wasn't sexy.
"Nobody puts a name on the brick you put in your low-flow toilet," Luecke points out. Denver Water coined a word, xeriscaping, to encourage the idea of climate-appropriate landscaping that didn't need a lot of water. The agency tried to make conservation fun. One advertisement showed a man in a barrel, with the advice to use only the minimum amount of water necessary for showering.
But Coloradans still aren't humming "kumbaya." Seventy-five percent of the state's precipitation falls west of the Continental Divide, especially around ski towns, although 80 percent of the state's residents live to the east. Understanding this imbalance, Denver long ago staked claims on the mountains' more plentiful water supplies. Tempers have flared and old hostilities reignited recently as Denver took steps to divert more of the water it owns near the ski town of Winter Park to the metropolitan region.
Even so, most Western Slope leaders credit Barry with having a broad view: He clearly understood that Colorado consists of more than Denver and its colonies. Barry's sense of respect, which included rural areas, leavened every discussion, as did his good humor. "He was a wonderful person to disagree with," says Chris Treese, the director of governmental affairs for the Colorado River Water Conservation District, based in Glenwood Springs.
In recent years, Barry began to tackle the challenge of climate change. In 2004, Denver joined the Rocky Mountain Climate Change Organization, and in 2006, it partnered with other major water utilities in the West in an effort to figure out how best to adapt. In that, Barry had an ally -- and a fan -- in Pat Mulroy, the outspoken boss of the expansionist Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Credit or blame can only rarely be assigned to one person for sea changes in thought. Barry always insisted he was just the lucky guy who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Maybe, but other water agencies clung to their damming past far longer than the Denver Water Board did. Thanks to Chips, an unwieldy institution began to move toward more modest and sustainable goals.
Allen Best is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes in the Denver area.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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The impulse to surprise children, friends or family members with a cuddly puppy or kitten can be a strong one when the holiday season rolls around, but local animal-rescue groups warn that a pet is a lifetime commitment and shouldn't be a spur-of-the-moment decision.
The impulse to surprise children, friends or family members with a cuddly puppy or kitten can be a strong one when the holiday season rolls around, but local animal-rescue groups warn that a pet is a lifetime commitment and shouldn't be a spur-of-the-moment decision.
Some local animal-rescue groups have a policy of turning down potential adopters who say the animal is an intended Christmas or birthday present.
"Getting a pet to put under the tree is cute and nice, but you have to think further down the line to when that puppy or kitten grows up," said Ruth Chiasson, vice president of Hope for Animals, a nonprofit based in Thibodaux.
While dogs and cats can make wonderful companions, animal advocates say it takes a thoughtful search to find the perfect match between pet and family. Many people who adopt on impulse aren't prepared for animals with discipline or health problems.
And puppies don't stay puppies forever. Many dogs can grow up to 50 pounds, and that means lots of food and space to play.
People who receive a pet as a gift don't pay, but the gift is hardly free. It means a long-term commitment of time, money and energy that may exceed their abilities.
Pamela George, president of the Lafourche Chapter of the Humane Society, said that when the rescue takes a cat or dog in, they understand it will automatically cost them $200-$400 in vet and personal-care bills.
And that doesn't factor in the lifetime cost of feeding or caring for the health needs of an animal.
Forbes estimates that caring for a large dog can cost as much as $22,000 over its lifetime. A cat can cost you as much as $16,800.
"When you get an animal, you're taking on a lifetime responsibility," George said, adding that she's caring for a healthy 18-year-old.
"People have to realize that when you take in an animal take it in for a long time," she said.
Chiasson said Hope for Animals always requires potential adopters to fill out a questionnaire before they adopt an animal. That gives rescuers an idea of how serious the family is about adopting and whether they will make a good match for the pet.
Hope for Animals tries to match families with a pet that will suit their lifestyle and home and does so by screening potential adopters. They try to discourage people they believe are adopting on impulse and get them to think about the responsibility they're taking on.
But if the family is prepared, the gift of a pet is a wonderful one for Christmas, George said.
"Who wouldn't want a puppy or a kitten?" she said.
But animal rescue officials said a better option than leaving a squirming puppy or kitten under the tree, where it can be lost in the Christmas shuffle, may be to give an adoption coupon along with a pet bed and other pet-care supplies.
The family can go pick out the animal together at a later date to make sure it is a match for everyone.
"We want to make sure it's the right home, the right time and the right pet for the family," Chiasson said.
Another option, if you find yourself thinking of the plight of homeless animals in Lafourche and Terrebonne, is to donate your time or money to help a local animal shelter or rescue group.
Caring for animals is expensive, and many local rescue groups exist only because of donations. In addition, local animal shelters are understaffed and always need help from animal-loving volunteers.
To donate to the Lafourche Humane Society, send a check made out to the Humane Society. Write Lafourche Chapter in the memo area of the check. Mail the check to P.O. Box 613, Cut Off, La., 70345.
To adopt a pet or find out how to help local animals, contact:
- Lafourche Parish Animal Shelter, 934 La. 3185, Thibodaux. Call 446-3532 or visit www.petfinder.com/shelters/LA179.html.
- Hope For Animals, www.hopeforanimals.com.
- Terrebonne Parish Animal Shelter, 131 Plant Road, Houma. Call 873-6709 or visit www.petfinder.com/shelters/tpas.html.
- My Heart's Desire, 246 N. Hollywood Road, Houma. Call 226-4693 or visit www.myheartsdesireministry.org.
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Rain postpones 150-mile ARCA race at Kentucky
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- September 20, 2013 - 6:15 PM
SPARTA, Ky. — The ARCA series' 150-mile race at Kentucky Speedway has been postponed because of rain that washed out qualifying.
Friday's race has been rescheduled for Saturday at 1:45 p.m. with the grid was set on owners' points.
Standings leader Frank Kimmel will lead the 32-car field to the green flag in a backup Toyota after wrecking his primary car in practice. Erik Jones will start beside Kimmel in another Toyota, which has six of the top 10 spots on the 1.5 mile oval.
Corey LaJoie's Ford posted the top practice speed (171.679 mph) with Jones second (169.438) before rain canceled Friday's schedule, including final practice for Saturday night's 300-mile NASCAR Nationwide Series race.
The ARCA race will precede qualifying for the Nationwide headliner scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.
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President Barack Obama's re-election in the United States elicited strong feelings — from optimism to skepticism — around the world. A sampling of global reaction:
"One of the first things I want to talk to Barack about is how we must do more to try and solve this crisis (in Syria). Above all, congratulations to Barack. I've enjoyed working with him, I think he's a very successful U.S. president and I look forward to working with him in the future."— British Prime Minister David Cameron, on a visit to Syrian refugees on the Jordanian border.
"Your re-election is a clear choice in favor of an America that is open, unified, completely engaged in the international scene and conscious of the challenges facing our planet: peace, the economy and the environment." — French President Francois Hollande.
Pope Benedict XVI sent a message to Obama expressing hope that "ideals of liberty and justice, which guided the founders of the U.S.A., may continue to shine on the road ahead for the nation." — Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
"When you were elected in 2008, you inspired the world with a call to take responsibility for the problems we face as global citizens. Since then, you have made earnest efforts to live up to that great hope and trust placed in you by the American public. I believe you have been re-elected now in recognition of that effort." — the Dalai Lama.
The United Nations said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "warmly congratulates" Obama on his victory and looks forward to continuing to work with his administration on the many global challenges ahead that range "from ending the bloodshed in Syria, to getting the Middle East peace process back on track, to promoting sustainable development and tackling the challenges posed by climate change."
"The bond between Europe and North America, based upon the shared values on which our alliance was founded over 60 years ago, remains as strong, and as important to the preservation of Euro-Atlantic peace and security, as ever. President Obama has demonstrated outstanding leadership in maintaining this vital bond." — NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
"I will continue to work with President Obama to preserve the strategic interests of Israel's citizens." — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has had a strained relationship with the American president over Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"During the last four years when Obama was U.S. president, no breakthrough happened in relations between Iran and the US. At the beginning of his first term the situation was a bit better, but as he went on the relations got much worse, with the sanctions being imposed. So I think the outcome of the elections that was just held will not make any difference for Iran." — Amir Karimi, a resident of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
"As a mother and as a grandmother who raises boy children, I think that the symbolism of having a black man occupy the highest office is something that can make my children very aspirational to know that this is possible, you know, in their lifetime" — Zindzi Mandela, daughter of former South African President Nelson Mandela.
"If both parties try to overcome the accumulated distrust and turn over a new leaf, if America comes to realize that it needs to work with Vladimir Putin instead of thinking that it doesn't like the Russia that we live in, then we could achieve results." — Alexei Pushkov, chairman of the Russian Duma's foreign affairs committee, calling for a new start to U.S.-Russia relations.
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The trust that the American people wanted to renew in you will allow the international community, Europe and Italy to benefit from your leadership without interruptions. ... With your confirmation at the White House, Italy knows it can count on a strong and united America." — Italian Premier Mario Monti.
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Minnesota Hunters Register 45 Wolves Since Saturday
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota hunters have killed at least 45 wolves since Saturday when the state opened its state's second wolf season since the animals came off the endangered list.
The Department of Natural Resources says hunters registered 30 wolves in the northwest zone and 15 wolves in the northeast zone as of Monday morning.
Much of the northeast zone is forest and is considered prime wolf country. The harvest target there is 33 wolves for the early season, which runs concurrently with the firearms deer season. The northwest zone is more agricultural. The target there is higher at 73 wolves. The DNR will close each zone separately if a target is reached or nearly met.
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The most recent round of white-tailed deer antler measuring conducted by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources revealed 257 new records, including two Boone and Crockett qualifiers.
Each spring the department's Wildlife Section personnel make a concerted effort to measure deer racks throughout the state, with a major session during the Palmetto Sportsmen's Classic in Columbia. Of the 601 sets of antlers measured this spring, 257 met the minimum score for entry on the state records list including 246 sets of typical and 11 non-typical racks.
According to Charles Ruth, Deer/Wild Turkey program coordinator for DNR, the number of successful entries into the records list this year is the highest number of entries in more than 15 years. Although all of the records were not taken during the 2011 season, 209 were taken during the 2010 or 2011 season.
Racks must score a minimum of 125 points typical or 145 points non-typical to qualify for the South Carolina state records list. Records are based on the Boone and Crockett Club scoring system, which measures the mass and symmetry of deer antlers in typical and non-typical categories.
Top bucks
The top typical buck was a 169 2/8 inch buck taken by David Elrod in Pickens County in October of 2008. Elrod's buck qualifies for the Boone and Crockett Club's Three Year Awards Period List and ties for fifth among South Carolina's all-time typical deer. The second highest scoring typical was a 153 6/8 inch Calhoun County buck taken by Gayle Shuler last November.
Find out just how big that buck is by measuring his tracks!
Netting 187 7/8 points, the top scoring non-typical buck was found dead by Jennifer Mixson and Allen Mole in Berkeley County in November of 2010. This buck also qualifies for the Boone and Crockett Club's Three Year Awards Period List and is the new number 4 among South Carolina's all-time non-typical deer.
State outlook
South Carolina's deer herd is in good condition, and after many years of rapid population growth the herd stabilized in the mid-1990s followed by a decreasing trend since about 2002, according to Ruth.
Statewide population estimates put the deer herd at about 750,000 animals with an estimated harvest of approximately 225,000 each of the last few years. Although the total deer harvest in South Carolina has been down the last few years, indications from the antler records program are that deer quality remains good. This would make sense because fewer deer in the population would benefit from increased nutrition.
Aiken County was this years' top producer of State Record entries with 23. Other top counties included Orangeburg (19), Anderson (14), Kershaw (11), and Calhoun (10), These results come as no surprise as these counties have historically produced good numbers of record entries.
Although some of the top counties have relatively high deer populations, some of these counties have more moderate numbers. It is important that hunters and land managers understand how the density of deer in an area affects the quality of the animals. Areas with fewer deer typically have better quality animals because natural food availability and nutritional quality is higher. Good nutrition is important in producing good antlers, but deer reproduction, recruitment and survival are also directly tied to nutrition.
As far as all-time leaders at the county level, Orangeburg County remains at the top with 428 sets of antlers on the list. Rounding out the top five counties Orangeburg is followed by Aiken 387, Fairfield 250, Colleton 239, and Anderson with 222 entries.
South Carolina hunters should recognize that harvesting potential Boone and Crockett bucks is not a common occurrence anywhere in the country. This is particularly evident if you consider that there are only about 7,000 white-tailed deer records listed by Boone and Crockett, which includes entries dating to the 1800s. Similarly, the harvest of deer in the United States in recent years has been about 6 million per year.
Essentially, the average hunter stands a better chance of being struck by lightning than harvesting one of these record deer. As for the South Carolina Antler Records List, about one in every 800 bucks harvested makes the State Book.
Currently 5,915 sets of antlers (5,690 typical and 225 non-typical) are included on the South Carolina antler records list.
Source: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
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I saw two eagles on the sky
in strength stirring
protean penetrating pure
dark tresses of the beloved
fashioning the bright scarves of wind.
I saw a karacal leap
dancing with air
lean grace
turning like a feather on the wind.
Lens of Mind
Tears drop as honey from a jug.
Leaves fall, and sun.
I said,
I did not say:
these chameleons are with me always.
Past's prism, future's mirror
with present's lens of mind form last light from dark eyes
different every time
what is there.
What is there? What message, knowledge,
yearning chasm-vast; regret
I am mistaken.
Every time the last light leaving
dark eyes
is the same
music fading from a road.
The fine fabric of distance cannot bear
it lessens and is gone.
without wind
sifting it this light is not
physics or philosophy.
I seek it like the well in the desert.
In silence.
return to


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I WAS rather intrigued to discover that the Cardiff-based musician elected to represent St Julians has moved from his home in Rhiwbina to take up residence at the Civic Centre. Is the Civic Centre now being used as temporary accommodation, a type of halfway-house, so that councillors can avail themselves of the very comfortable facilities?
I wasn't aware that the Civic Centre had bedrooms, although there is a very comfortable, if overcrowded members' room, with a kitchen off it and bathroom facilities adjacent. I wonder what the rent is on this very superior property?
Carmel Townsend, St Julians Road, Newport


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FLORENCE, Italy (CNN) -- The latest chapter in Amanda Knox's long legal battle began Monday in Florence, Italy, with a retrial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.
But Knox, 26, who has expressed concern about returning to a country where she spent four years behind bars, was not in court.
Neither was Kercher's family, which said in a statement submitted by their lawyer in court on Monday that they would be following the new trial closely from the United Kingdom.
Knox was convicted in 2009 of murdering Kercher, a 21-year old British exchange student who was found stabbed to death in November 2007 in the villa the two young women rented in the central Italian university town of Perugia.
The convictions of Knox and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were overturned in 2011 for "lack of evidence."
After her acquittal, Knox returned to her hometown of Seattle, where she has been living since.
But Italy's Supreme Court decided last year to retry the case, saying the jury that acquitted Knox didn't consider all the evidence, and that discrepancies in testimony needed to be answered.
The retrial's opening day Monday was dominated by procedural items. The presiding judge, Alessandro Nencini, read out the facts of the case, including the conviction of Ivory Coast native Rudy Guede for his role in Kercher's murder.
The defense teams asked for several items of evidence to be retested for DNA, and Nencini agreed that a knife found in Sollecito's apartment would be re-examined. The court also agreed to hear testimony from Luciano Aviello, who served time in jail with Sollecito and claims that his brother killed Kercher.
Also absent from the proceedings Monday was Giuliano Mignini, the Perugia prosecutor who won the original conviction and then lost the appeal.
However, Patrick Lumumba, the Congolese bartender Knox originally accused of Kercher's murder was in court. Lumumba spent several weeks in jail after Knox accused him, and he won a defamation suit against her, for which she was ordered to pay €22,000 ($29,800) for his court costs. Also in the gallery were Perugia residents who attended the original trials.
Court was adjourned until Friday, when Aviello will testify. A verdict is expected by the end of the year.
Afraid to go back
Knox has said she's scared to return to Italy.
"I'm afraid to go back there," she said in an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo in May. "I don't want to go back into prison."
The high court also said evidence could support prosecutors' initial argument -- that Kercher was killed in a twisted sex game gone wrong.
Knox has said such claims are "a bombardment of falsehood and fantasy."
"No one has ever claimed that I was ever taking part in deviant sexual activity. None of my roommates, none of my friends, none of the people who knew me there. This is simply coming out of the prosecution," she told CNN in May. "I was not strapping on leather and bearing a whip. I have never done that. I have never taken part in an orgy. Ever."
The Supreme Court's decision to send the case back to the appeal court for retrial "may be interpreted by the American authorities as double jeopardy -- twice tried for the same fact or the same case," said Riccardo Montana, a law lecturer at City University in London. "In Italy it's not like this, because this is still the same trial."
Sollecito, Knox's former boyfriend, said he plans to stay in the Dominican Republic with a friend. He said he has no immediate plans to return to Italy.
Watching from afar
If the court convicts her, Knox will be ordered to return to Italy. If she refuses, Italy could request her extradition from the United States. But it's not clear if American authorities would comply.
Knox has said she would be willing to take a lie detector test.
"I'd do anything to prove my innocence," she told CNN affiliate ITV earlier this month. "I don't think that is necessary. But like I said, I'm doing everything to prove my innocence. It's just very sad that's what it has come to."
Knox isn't the only person watching the retrial from afar.
Citing health reasons, Kercher's family said in a statement that they decided not to return to Italy for the beginning of the trial after speaking "at great length."
"It is an extremely stressful time for us all and we desperately want to find truth and justice for Meredith, who was so brutally and unnecessarily taken from us, and so we have decided to support each other in the UK and follow closely here," the statement said.
The family said they would remain in close contact with their lawyer, who was in the courtroom Monday.
"We trust that the evidence will be reviewed and any additional testing requested to be granted so that any unanswered questions can be clarified and the court can clearly decide the next steps in this tragic case," the statement said.


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But pro wrestling could give us one
All eyes were on the US Supreme Court this week when arguments were heard in American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. While an interesting legal exercise, it's hard to imagine any outcome that would upend the broadcast television industry as we know it is highly unlikely. The court that gave us the Citizen's United ruling is not predisposed to ruling against large business interests. The justices' questions hinted they were looking for a way to rule against Aereo without affecting other cloud business models, and they appeared to find it. Don't expect the vote will be close. It might even be unanimous.
In the unlikely event the court were to rule in favor of Aereo, the broadcasters have threatened to power down their transmitters and morph into cable networks. Virtually no one watches television over the air these days, so few prime time viewers would notice. David Carr of the New York Times explains the numbers and the disruption to local broadcasters' business models. For viewers tuning in to local broadcasters for news, weather, and sports, the TV world will look very different. But no one seems to be concerned about that right now, though they should. Do we really want the large swaths of the populace being informed solely by cable news outlets?
Even assuming Aereo goes away, for broadcast and cable television the status quo remains untenable. The sea change has begun. "Cord cutting" and "binge viewing" are now part of the vernacular. Netflix and Amazon Prime are established players already going at it for top spot in the post cable universe, but unless each becomes a content owner in its own right, they are fighting today's war with yesterday's weapons. You either own the content or the infrastructure that delivers it to the end consumer, or you are relegated to a shrinking role. This is because content owners like Major League Baseball (MLB.tv) and the WWE Network (soon to be launched) have decided to cut out the middle man and go directly to customer.
After seriously considering launching its own cable network, WWE changed course.
From Forbes April 14, 2014:
[WWE CEO Vince McMahon] roostered onto the stage at Las Vegas' Consumer Electronics Show in January to announce a bold new venture: the WWE Network. McMahon told the cheering audience that the WWE Network would not be broadcast on cable television, where Monday Night RAW has consistently been a top-rated program each week, nor would it be another pay-per-view (PPV) play. Rather, the WWE network will stream content 24/7 directly to viewers on the Internet or what's known in the entertainment industry as going over the top. It's a move that directly endangers both WWE's PPV revenues ($82.5 million) and its potential new TV deals, a huge gamble that according to some estimates could double the size of the WWE's business in two years–or fall flat on its face…
WWE estimates it needs a million subscribers at $10/month to reach breakeven. Considering that watching all 12 WWE pay-per-view events each year costs over $600, another $120 per year for the complete WWE archive will seem like a bargain to its rabid fanbase.
An over the top, a la carte future is what consumers have been pining for. Content owners salivate over the opportunity to sell directly to customer, letting the customer pick up the tab for a good portion of the delivery costs through wireless and broadband access fees. What's not to like? Well, for both the content owner and the consumer it can start with the FCC's decision to abandon the concept of net neutrality. With so many Americans receiving broadband services from the cable providers, the cable providers will have the pricing power to keep themselves in the game for a while to come. If they have to pony up for access to the Internet's express lane, the barrier to entry into the new over the top world will be prohibitive to all but the largest content owners. Plus ça change…


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With Sony PlayStation's huge upcoming February 20th press conference looking more and more likely to be the official announcement of the PS4, we here at Good Game ANZ have put together a list of what we want and don't want to see in the next generation of PlayStation, along with some questions we would like answered by Sony at the big event.
You know what I want? I want Sony to play the first 2 min 30 sec of this song along with a gameplay compilation of all the PlayStation games over years. From Spyro to Crash to God of war and so on. Aww a man can dream can he? But no kidding if this actually happened I'd jizz in my pants.
We want:
Backward Compatibility
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all ps1-3 games playable on the system. Ability to play all games purchased on ps3 in online store.
I wan't this guys announcing the PS4 on the 20TH it will be epic! lol
I know he charges a lot but it's worthy! it will be epic!!!
Every Playstation went to lengths to have BC intergrated.
Why wouldn't Sony make the option available this generation.
There are bound to be different versions in stores, it isn't hard to see a BC version being made available for a certain price, if not with a PS3 trade in? which is a long shot but whatever.