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Tonight I headed out to a Meetup group that I've been wanting to go to - the CLEO (Cincinnati Let's Eat Out) - I mean - it's right up my alley! Meetups are a way for local people to gather in groups based on interests (eating, hiking, reading, etc...).
We headed out to Los Portales - well what USED to be Los Portales. Now it's apparently been purchased by the El Rancho Grande local franchise as seen by the new sign we saw tonight!
Since it was Cinco de Mayo-eve I had to have a margarita! Not quite enough salt for me but good and definitely kinda strong. They had a way huger size that was $5 during happy hour...I was too late for that!
Since we were there for a meetup - the restaurant did a buffet for us! It was great to try different items...
We had a buffet of goodies to choose from...there was chicken & steak fajita meat. Both were really great! Full of onions, peppers, tomatoes and flavorful meat! There was also ground beef for those that wanted that route.
We had rice (pretty good - pretty bland), refried beans (bland - fine) and quesadillas (EXCELLENT!) as well. I have to say - the quesadillas were great - my favorite item of the night. There might have been ranch in them too??? I'm not sure but they were great!
Of course we had all of the accoutrements for a fabulous Mexican fiesta! One person seriously ate a pound and a half of guacamole. He's going to be as green as Kermit for the next couple of days!
In the end - a great Mexican meal and a container FULL of leftovers to take to work tomorrow!!!
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Fans of Murder, She Wrote are often as fascinated by every detail of the opening credit sequence as they are with the actual episodes. In the sequence, Jessica engages in a host of wholesome activities having little to do with staging murders to later solve or writing about those staged murders. The exception is a few scenes providing the audience a glimpse into Jessica's writing process, which involves a lot of focused keystroking, carriage returning and the shuffling of papers into what looks to be a menu from Red Lobster.
The few flashes of manuscript – thought to be from Fletcher's first novel, The Corpse Danced at Midnight – only allow viewers seconds to absorb this particular phrase:
I vacillate between sensing there is more to the Arnold story than twelve seasons worth of episodes and two seconds of screen time reveal to believing Arnold – like the second most famous guest star appearing in any episode of Murder, She Wrote – is just a red herring. As far as I know neither the producers of the program nor Angela Lansbury have ever publicly addressed the issue. In addition, Arnold has never come forward with his own version of the events.
I should point out one of my favorite Murder, She Wrote related activity is coming up with lyrics for the instrumental theme:
- There is a murder, a murder she wrote…Jessica can kill you by bus, bike or boat… Jessica, get out of there (cello solo) Jessica, get out of there…
It's Friday and in some areas of the country – though not here – it's Spring. It's a fluffy open post, which hopefully will stay fluffy and can encompass any range of topics, AS LONG AS IT IS FLUFFY in nature. If you can cuddle it, water it, read it, write it, hot glue it, dance to it in your undies or bake it in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes it's all good. You can even dish Murder, She Wrote. Whatever.
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I recently "came out" as an Atheist to my Christian family. They responded well, though they asked a lot of questions about why I decided to leave the church and reject God. I explained my various grievances with the Church which they all agreed were valid points, yet hey were willing to overlook them, something I could not do.
Then my mother threw me a curveball. she said "If you have no God to hold youself accountable to, why bother being a good person, why not lie, steal and cheat?" I tried to explain how the right thing is still the right thing and how I didn't want to only to make the right choice because out of fear of punishment. I wanted to do the right thing because it was the right thing to do.
She then went on to ask me why it was the right thing to do, who said so? I responded with my conscience told me what was right. She asked me what told my conscience that right was right and wrong was wrong.
And this was where I said something along the lines of: "Uhh...buhhh...meh?"
So my question to you all is: Where do you base your morality from, and how do you defend that morality against people who believe that morality can only be based off of a God?
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I am looking for nothing other than logic and reason. Immorality has negative consequences sure, but most often not for the actor or his/her ilk, but for some others. George W Bush (who both of us agree is a criminal) one a second term in office after obliterating a million lives and is retired and having fun on his ranch. His kin don't seem to be any worse off for his actions either.
If you are saying that being an atheist somehow makes a person abhor the negative implications of his/her actions on everyone else, I would like to know how that logically/reasonably follows.
Since the bible is not an authority for either of us, quoting from the bible is an unnecessary distraction.
That's a good one! Perhaps why anyone cannot trust a person to act morally who believes his/her sins are forgiven once he/she confesses them!
But seriously, George W Bush's confession of sins absolves him only of divine retribution in the after-life, according to his professed faith. Any guilt for such actions is something he still have to live with. If he doesn't have it when he is a Christian, there is no reason to expect he will have it if he were an atheist.
It is quite evident that the possibility of a divine retribution in the after-life is not sufficient grounds for deterring someone from immoral behaviour if it also comes coupled with guarranteed absolution upon confession. At the same time lack of the possibility of divine retribution itself doesn't become a deterrant against immoral behaviour either.
When you quote US prison statistics in support of atheist morality, you are really reaching.
Given the apparent bias against those who call themselves atheists in the general population, I am quite surprised anyone indicted of serious crimes that could lead to a possible conviction and prison sentence ever declaring himself/herself an atheist. In addition prison population reflects only those criminals who were caught and convicted. Smart criminals are most likely to avoid getting caught and convicted. If atheism on a large scale is a recent phenomenon, most would have reasoned their way into atheism rather than never indoctrinated into a religion, which would mean generally smarter than the average person anyway. A claim most atheists make and I find reasonable. So the chances of an atheist criminal getting caught and convicted are significantly lower than a religious one, because he/she represents a group that is smarter than the rest.
There is an offsetting consideration you should take into account. Our police and judges are almost uniformly (no pun intended) theists, and they discriminate--often quite openly--in favor of those who share their religious convictions (again, no pun intended--well, maybe a little). Furthermore, the religious protect each other in other ways, such as by refusing to tell the truth about what their fellows did or giving the guilty the piece of information they need to silence witnesses.
Mo Traven
It was quite interesting to know how reliable the US "justice" system is! Just another reason why the US prison statistics shouldn't enter a discussion that is supposed to involve critical thinking.
Religious immoral people (in prisons or not) definitely prove that religion is not a deterrant against immorality. However the counter claim is rather funny. You are assuming that people can't live with harming others if there is no God/Church to forgive their actions. People actually have a bigger reason to not even fell guilt in the first place in committing such actions, their personal benefit. I don't find any logic or reason in assuming that godless people automatically become selfless.
As you point out, the primary lesson to be drawn from U.S. prison statistics is that the assertion that religion leads to greater morality appears to be untrue unless and until someone can explain the apparent gross over-representation of Christians amongst U.S. criminals. You are right to say that there is no obvious reason to assume godlessness will lead to greater selflessness. Yet, there seems to be a correlation between those two things for some reason as the crime statistics from godless countries show.
My personal belief is that the "win at all costs" attitude that drives religion is the underlying cause for both religion and the apparent increased crime rate amongst the religious.
everyone's already beat me too it, but show her that morality that comes sctrickly from the bible is flawed and incomplete. ask her were she gets the rest of her morality from, and bingo..that's where your's comes from.
this is a blog post that i wrote on the ten commandments a while ago. It doesnt go over the teachings of jesus, but the comandments are usually the first thing people talk about when they say they get their morality from god. hope it helps!


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"When we bought the Sacramento Kings, we committed to the NBA and to the people of Sacramento that we wouldn't just build a new arena, but that we'd build a world-class entertainment venue, an arena truly for the 21st century," said Kings owner Vivek Ranadive. "Today is another major step forward in that effort."
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The Kings are on schedule to break ground in the Summer of 2014 and to open the venue in October of 2016.
"We set our sights on a design that's never been done before," said Jon Niemuth, AECOM director of sports for the Americas. "Each design element shows that this arena is built for Sacramento. We're aiming for a facility that celebrates the city, strengthens the downtown community, supports the team's success and offers an unmatched fan experience."
"This is a glimpse not only into the new arena, but into the future of downtown Sacramento," said Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. "I applaud the Kings and AECOM for developing a design that achieves so many goals: reactivating downtown, developing an iconic civic space, and promoting our emerging green and agricultural sectors. The extensive public outreach done by the Kings and City has paid off in a design that truly celebrates the best of our community's great past and even brighter future."
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Familiarity with:
-pre-owned (cars)
No; would use "second-hand cars"
-body odour
Yes, or "BO" for short, although this might be rather old-fashioned.
-uncomfortably slow digestion
-fine dryness lines
Just "fine lines", I think.
Yes, but you only see this in catalogues of ladies' clothing.
-to pass away
-period/time of the month
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-sanitation engineer
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In a jocular sense, yes.
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-mature (referring to age)
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-pre-owned (cars) No. Would use "second-hand cars"
-body odour: Yes, or "BO" for short.
-uncomfortably slow digestion: No
-fine dryness lines: Just "fine lines".
-full-figured: No, if I was describing someone I would use "plump" or "big".
-to pass away: Yes, if I was talking to a friend I might say "When did your mother pass away?" rather than "When did your mother die?"
-period/time of the month: Yes, both.
-sanitation engineer: No, I don't know what it means.
-handicapped: Yes -- but this isn't a euphemism, is it? It's the term we used to use. "Disabled" is now more usual, although this isn't ideal. "Person with a disability", perhaps. "Accessible" might be used in certain situations: e.g. "Accessible parking places".
-between jobs: In a jocular sense, yes. It's like an actor saying he is "resting".
-to be expecting (a baby): Yes.
-visually challenged: I think "visual impairment" is used, but it's a bit vague. Personally I'd use "partially sighted", "myopic" or "blind", or whatever the degree of visual difficulty was.
-bathroom(/bath) tissue : No. It's toilet paper.
-mature (referring to age) : Yes, to be polite.
-motion discomfort bag/air-sickness bag: Air-sickness bag, yes. Not the former!
-pre-owned (cars). No. Second-hand cars.
-body odour : Not sure. They may talk generally about "perspiration".
-uncomfortably slow digestion : No.
-fine dryness lines : Fine lines, yes.
-full-figured : No. Adverts would talk about losing weight.
-to pass away : No.
-period/time of the month : Both.
-sanitation engineer : No.
-handicapped : No.
-between jobs : No.
-to be expecting (a baby) : Yes, possibly.
-visually challenged : No.
-bathroom(/bath) tissue : No. It's "toilet tissue" in advertisements, but elsewhere it's "toilet paper".
-mature (referring to age) : Yes.
-motion discomfort bag/air-sickness bag: No.
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Because that's good English. Latin is different. I'm saying "was" in English (not "the perfect/imperfect of 'esse' in indirect speech" in Latin, note). It can help to remember the Latin if you twist your English to suit it, though.Smythe wrote:I have been translating indirect speech as something like "Dracula said that his blood is a beautiful color". This may just be a matter of taste or it may be my lack of understanding, but why would you use the perfect/imperfect of 'esse' in indirect speech?
Quià est anglicum rectum. Aliter latinè dicitur. Formulam autem latinam meliùs in memoriâ teneri potest si anglicum tuum mutes ad latinum accommodandum.


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Why the Koch brothers' newspaper takeover could impact women's rights
Women's rights, specifically reproductive justice rights, haven't been identified as a front-and-center issue on the Koch brothers' radar. A recent review of their political ideologies and current outcomes indicates that affecting policies about women's healthcare is a high priority for them. Allowing them unbridled access to mainstream media, such as their proposed newspaper buyout, [1] appears to have the potential to create serious setbacks for the reproductive justice movement.
The Koch brothers have never commented publicly about abortion but according to a 2011 report titled, "The Koch Brothers What You Need to Know About the Financiers of the Radical Right" by the Center for American Progress Action Fund [2] the top policy issue on the Koch brothers political agenda is the repealing of health reform. Abortion and access to birth control continue to dominate the healthcare reform debate in this country.
Kari Ann Rinker, a writer for RH Reality Check and former State Coordinator and Lobbyist for Kansas NOW, lives in Wichita, Kan., and believes that because women's healthcare has become so ensnared in the political landscape abortion and access to birth control are just a means to an end for the Koch brothers.
Even if that's true, those "ends" are having a very real impact on women's abilities to make their own decisions about healthcare and access to abortion, in states targeted by the Koch brother's political machinery, as Kansas women can confirm.
Home to the Koch family, Wichita, Kan., has been the site of unrelenting acts of anti-abortion terrorism culminating in the murder of Dr. George Tiller in 2009. The Koch's have never publicly commented about the terrorist activities or groups, but as Catholics [3], their religious affiliation ties them to a very strong anti-abortion ideology.[4] Regardless of their personal beliefs, their current political maneuverings have produced outcomes in Kansas that support the anti-abortion agenda while severely restricting women's healthcare options.
In 2012, moderate Kansas Republicans [5] were soundly defeated by conservatives who were heavily funded by Americans for Prosperity; a group backed by the Koch brothers. These same moderate Republicans had previously blocked a Tea Party led House from passing stringent abortion laws. Former Senate President Steve Morris (R-Hugoton) [6] said that the Koch brothers helped fund the campaign, so they could use Kansas as a testing ground for their ideas. "They said it will be a ultraconservative utopia," Morris said of the Kochs.
In 2013, Governor Sam Brownback, a Koch-backed, pro-life candidate signed into law some of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws [7] in the nation, clarifying women's reproductive rights in the 'ultra conservative utopia'. To learn more about a woman's rights in a ultraconservative utopia refer to the 'Women's Guide' provided below.
Since the New York Times broke the story about the Koch brother's possible newspaper takeover, there have been non-stop discussions both for and against the takeover. The recurring theme in all the discussions is whether or not the Koch brothers will treat journalism and news with respect and objectivity [8]. Ken Doctor, in his article "The newsonomics of the Koch Brothers and the sales of U.S.' top metros" [9] refers to this concern as the "rupture of public trust." Transparency is the key to maintaining public trust.
And transparency has never been the Koch brother's calling card. Jane Mayer's 2010 article in the New Yorker [10] perfectly summarizes the brother's modus operandi; "'The Kochs have long depended on the public's not knowing all the details about them. They have been content to operate what David Koch has called 'the largest company that you've never heard of.'"
Given the Koch brother's carefully cultivated lack of transparency combined with the current political outcomes in Kansas and the ongoing national debate about abortion and access to birth control, the women's reproductive justice movement appears to have little to gain from a Koch-backed newspaper buyout.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/business/media/koch-brothers-making-play-for-tribunes-newspapers.html?ref=media&pagewanted=all
[2] http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/regulation/report/2011/04/04/9399/the-koch-brothers/
[3] http://www.nndb.com/people/707/000170197/; http://www.kapaun.org/pages/publications/quest/archives/Fall2012_quest.pdf
[4] http://www.pewforum.org/Abortion/Religious-Groups-Official-Positions-on-Abortion.aspx
[5] http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/08/14/koch-brothers-and-kansans-life-alliance-that-killed-kansas-moderate/
[6] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/steve-morris-kansas-senate-koch-brothers_n_1757928.html?
[7] http://www.kansas.com/2013/04/19/2769496/brownback-signs-sweeping-anti.html
[8] http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-koch-brothers-20130429%2c0%2c4766912.story
[9] http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/04/the-newsonomics-of-the-koch-brothers-and-the-sales-of-u-s-top-metros/
[10] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?
Resources Women's Guide:
Singular, S., "The Wichita Divide The Murder Of Dr. George Tiller And The Battle Over Abortion". St. Martin's Press, 2011


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TUESDAY, Nov. 3, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Depressed people tend to report more physical symptoms than they actually experience, a new study finds.
The study involved 109 women who completed questionnaires designed to assess their levels of neuroticism and depression. For the next three weeks, they kept daily records of whether they felt any of 15 common physical symptoms, including aches and pains, gastrointestinal problems and upper-respiratory issues.
At the end of the three-week period, the women were asked to recall how often they'd experienced each symptom. Those who had a higher depression score at the start of the study were more likely to overstate the frequency of their symptoms.
"People who felt depressed made the most errors when asked to remember their physical symptoms," psychologist Jerry Suls, a professor and collegiate fellow at the University of Iowa said in a university news release. "They tended to exaggerate their experience."
It's long been believed that a high level of neuroticism -- a general disposition that includes irritability, sadness, anxiety and fear -- is associated with exaggerated reporting of physical symptoms. But the study suggests that a more likely reason is depression.
"For 30 years, the hypothesis has been that neuroticism is behind inflated reports of symptoms," Suls said. "We're saying no -- depression appears to be the big player. We discovered that people high in neuroticism but low in depression are not likely to mis-remember symptoms."
The findings, published online Oct. 15 in Psychosomatic Medicine, are important, Suls said, because symptoms reported by patients play a major role in doctors' diagnosis and treatment decisions.
"Depressed individuals and their physicians shouldn't discount common symptoms because they can indicate serious problems," he said. "However, since we now know that depressed individuals tend to over-remember the frequency of symptoms, it wouldn't hurt to encourage patients to write down their symptoms as they're happening. That way the patient and doctor have an accurate record of what has been going on, rather than relying on memory."
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NBC, Google preparing for hackers for Olympic games 2012 in London
NBC and Google are conducting ?war games? in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online streaming of the? Summer Olympics Games in London, which start this month.
For the past nine months the network?s online team, together with Google, which is managing the streaming of the games, have simulated hundreds of disruptive scenarios, some lasting eight hours. They have simulated a range of problems from broken broadcast encoders to traffic overloads and hacker assaults on the systems, NBC staff told CIO Journal.
?We have it very well-scripted, so we know that when a problem occurs who is on point and what steps we need to take,? said Eric Black, vice president of technology for NBC Sports and Olympics. ?At some point during the games there?s likely to be an outage, but the goal is for us to be on top of that and have no end-user impact.?
The roll-out, if successful, will represent the largest-ever online offering of a sporting event. NBC called the Beijing Olympics, which offered 2,200 hours of streaming events, a ?billion dollar lab,? which helped the company to innovate its sports coverage.
For example, some feared that an online broadcast would cannibalize TV viewership, said Rick Cordella, senior vice president for digital media at NBC Sports and Olympics. But NBC found that streaming online content actually created ?pre-air buzz? and encouraged more people to watch a taped broadcast on television. The improvements made in the Beijing Olympics allowed NBC to stream a Super Bowl for the first time last February, reaching 2.1 million viewers.
The simulations aim to head-off disruptions as NBC, partnering with Google?s YouTube, plans to offer live, online coverage of 3,500 hours of events scheduled for the end of the month, with the goal of making the summer games the most watched online event in history. ?If there is a camera on it we?ll stream it,? Cordella said.
NBC is hoping to beat its online viewership for the Beijing Olympics, which drew around 52 million unique visitors to its site. Those viewers watched 75.5 million video streams.
NBC staff declined to talk about specific security preparations, but NBC spokesman Chris McCloskey confirmed that the war games did include preparing for the possibility of hacker attacks.
The 17-day games will be captured in London and then sent to NBC?s New York and Stamford, Conn., offices, where advertising will be inserted. The footage will then go to Google?s offices in San Bruno, Calif., where it will be prepped for online and streamed across the search giant?s networks to several NBC sites. Cable or satellite subscribers will be able to go online to watch the entirety of the games live or in replay.
But streaming so much content?more than any other sporting event in history?presents complex risks during the high-profile games. NBC will be monitoring for unexpected traffic spikes or hardware failure. And even if a local disruption occurs as the result of an event unrelated to NBC or Google, the network knows it could still be blamed.
?One of the inherent things with streaming is there are things outside of our control,? said Cordella. ?Journalists and writers and guys that tweet will blame NBC but it?s hard to diagnose for sure where the issue is coming from.?
Analysts say it?s likely that hackers will attempt to disrupt the video streams, and NBC and Google are taking steps to harden their defenses, according to the network. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a bulletin in May warning companies that hackers, motivated by ?ideological or financial objectives,? may attempt to disrupt coverage of the games.
Companies and individuals in China were subjected to 12 million hacker attacks a day during the 2008 Olympics, the report said.
As Black spoke to CIO Journal, last week, he said NBC, Google and other teams were conducting a ?war game? that spanned Zurich, Switzerland; Turin, Italy; Stamford, Conn., and San Bruno, Calif. The simulation was designed to help the teams adapt if a broadcast encoder, the hardware that transfers video into a digital format for on-air broadcast, went down.
In that war game, NBC?s New York office took the lead in re-routing the television feed through a back-up encoder.
Google teams in San Bruno and Zurich and NBC teams in Stamford monitored the feeds to make sure that as the encoder was changed in the midst of the war game, the hardware swap did not disrupt footage elsewhere as the video moved through the system, according to NBC. A Google spokesman declined to comment.
NBC?s teams are also preparing for the remote possibility that a systems failure or bandwidth overload will overwhelm Google?s ability to deliver content. NBC has contracted with other vendors to serve as alternates in that unlikely event, Black said. He declined to name those back-up vendors.
NBC and Google are also likely preparing to defend themselves against distributed denial of service attacks, in which hackers attempt to overload sites with high volumes of traffic, said John Kindervag, a security analyst with Forrester. DHS, in last month?s report, singled out this method as a potential disruptor of this year?s games.
The simulations would allow NBC and Google staff to see the effects such an attack would have on the network, and to calculate how quickly they could rebound, Kindervag said.
?The tests show you weak points you didn?t anticipated,? Kindervag said. ?You make the assumption there is going to be a failure and you learn how to react.?
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LONDON, March 12 (UPI) -- The second of three Brazilian navy ocean patrol vessels ordered from BAE Systems is on its way to South America from Britain.
The journey of the APA is 10,000 miles and will make show-the-flag stops along the way.
"We're very proud to watch APA sail off and begin her important role in providing maritime security, search and rescue and humanitarian relief," said Nigel Stewart, commercial director of BAE Systems Maritime.
"This highly capable and versatile ship performed extremely well during training with the Brazilian navy, which is a great credit to all those who designed, built and delivered her."
The Amazonas class vessels are based on the British navy's River Class Offshore Patrol Vessels. They are 295 feet in length and are armed with a 30mm cannon and two 25mm guns.
BAE delivered the first of three vessels under the $198 million contract last year. The third OPV will be delivered in June.
Under the contract with Brazil, BAE systems is providing ancillary support services and also providing a manufacturing license for future Amazonas OPVs to be built in Brazil.


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Founder explains moving to S.F., plans for expansion
Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia created and edited by the masses, is picking up its St. Petersburg, Fla., roots and replanting them in San Francisco, where it plans to grow its operation.
It already has found office space in the city's South Park neighborhood, a hub for Web 2.0 development, and is hiring about half a dozen new employees. San Francisco, picked in part for its high-tech community, also will be the scene of the next act for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia.
Founded by Jimmy Wales in 2001, wikipedia.org has grown into the Web's sixth-largest site, with 244.5 million visitors in October, according to comScore, a firm that tracks Internet traffic.
It has also changed the nature of online reference tools. By its own count, it now comprises more than 9.1 million articles in 252 languages, all produced by its users. The English version alone includes some 2.1 million entries, from the plot and details of Walt Disney's latest film, "Enchanted," to an analysis of the geology of the Death Valley area.
Wiki software lets people automatically make changes, encouraging anyone from around the globe to contribute to a Wikipedia article. It means that experts in a wide range of fields can collaborate to create a catalog of up-to-the-minute data. But it's also criticized for inaccurate information and for pranksters who purposefully insert nasty or inappropriate comments.
Wales, who in 2004 also co-founded Wikia Inc., a for-profit wiki company in San Mateo, is philosophical about the process. In an interview with The Chronicle this week, Wales - who commutes between his family home in Florida and an apartment in the city - shared his plans for Wikipedia, which include testing a program to help protect the site from repeated vandalism.
Q:Why is the Wikimedia Foundation growing?
A: The volume of stuff going on continues to increase. We need more tech staff, for example, to drive the software forward faster and to help manage and keep the Web site running. We've never done a really good job of raising money because we don't need that much money. But we have a lot of ambitions as a charity to expand our support for people working in the languages of the developing world, and basically trying to bring Wikipedia to more people around the world.
Q:Are we going to see changes to Wikipedia?
A: There are ongoing efforts to introduce WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") editing, but it's a really tough problem. It's always been our intention that (the editing experience) is approachable, that anyone can do it. As we've added more features, it's a little more complicated for newcomers to edit. An editing experience that's much more like what people would be familiar with like Microsoft Word - we want to make that happen.
Q:Do you plan on adding more audio and video features?
A: There's not a lot of demand for that from the community. An encyclopedia is inherently textual. Audio or video is a little tricky because it's hard to collaboratively edit it. People can just submit stuff, but if you don't like it, you can't fix it, so it doesn't really fit our style.
The biggest change is going to be tried out in German Wikipedia first. Right now we have to protect articles if someone is causing trouble. But what we would rather do is leave everything to editing at all times. Instead of protecting so people can't edit, we'll have it so newcomers' edits don't go live immediately if we don't know them as part of the community. They only go live once the community has looked at it.
Q:Why Germany?
A: It's a stereotype, but Germans are really fetishists about quality. They really wanted to move forward in the direction for solving the problem.
The incentive to vandalize Wikipedia is people will see it and think that's funny. (But) if you know no one is going to see it except some Wikipedia volunteer who just ignores it, maybe people will vandalize less.
On the other hand, we don't know what it'll do to the participation. People like the instant feedback. You edit and it shows up live on the site immediately. That's really exciting to newcomers, so if newcomers don't have that experience, will they be dissuaded? So we're going to try it out.
The other reason is (the German Wikipedia) is the second-largest Wikipedia. It's big enough to serve as a representative for if we did it in English, French and other big languages.
Q:Do you worry that the process will not be as democratic?
A: Some people are idiots and some aren't. You have to acknowledge that and empower the good people to control the quality. But we've always been very flat and open to participation and new people joining. We know the current system works, and we also know it has certain weakness and certain strengths. We want to address the weaknesses without killing the strengths.
Q:Do you plan on adding other Web 2.0 elements, such as ranking entries or users or offering user profiles?
A: Probably not. Metrics for rating users is not under consideration because we don't see anything useful there. If you imagine that you took a job someplace where you're required to wear a name badge, but on that badge it says how many people like you and don't like you, this is not a healthy social environment. (When) you have a point system ... people start to do whatever they can to increase the points they are getting, which may or may not be the right behaviors.
Q:Do you think we're in a Web 2.0 bubble?
A: This boom feels a lot more sane so far than the previous boom. There are business models that are functional and work now. Companies can actually see how to get to profitability. Some of them, not all of them, will. I've seen some criticism of some companies, which I think is valid. If you're building a company and your business model is to get enough traffic to sell to Google, you probably have a problem.
Q:Wikipedia started the wiki movement, which enables a community of users to create and edit Web sites. What do you think of your copycats?
A: I think it's kind of cool. I would like to see a lot more. I think we're still very much in the beginning of user-generated content. You can think of tons and tons examples of things that people could collaborate and build together. Some of that stuff is going to be very obscure, but just like in a bookstore ... books about birds (are not) No. 1 best-sellers. They're steady things. To me that's the kind of thing the amateur birding community could easily build together, a bird-watching guide, and keep it updated, modified and make it useful and more comprehensive. I don't think we've seen nearly all that we're going to see.
Q:Do you worry that people at some point will feel like their work here is done?
A: I used to worry. Part of the appeal in the early days of Wikipedia (was that) you could click on Africa and there (would be) nothing there and you (could be) the first person to type, "Africa is a continent." Whereas now to write a brand new article on something that does not already exist is kind of hard in English. You're writing about fairly obscure topics. But we haven't seen participation decline at all. It continues to grow.
Q:Do you worry people will suddenly decide they don't want to contribute for free and demand to be paid?
A: We haven't seen anything remotely like that ... because it's fun. One of my rants is against the term "crowdsourcing," which I think is a vile, vile way of looking at that world. This idea that a good business model is to get the public to do your work for free - that's just crazy. It disrespects the people. It's like you're trying to trick them into doing work for free.
What you're really in the business of is providing a nice place for people to come and do what they want to do. We're going to use advertising to build this social place, and people will come only if we provide them with tools and the social environment they need to have fun. If the by-product of that is some amazing work, that's great, too.
Wikipedia by the numbers
Founder: Jimmy Wales
Founded: 2001
Web site:wikipedia.org
Audience: 244.5 million
Articles: 9.1 million
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2006 Hummer H3 Arizona Trails & Tents Tour - In Search Of Obscurity
Part 3: We Find The Road Less Traveled
(Editor's Note-This is part three of a three-part series documenting the travels and adventures of Four Wheeler Technical Editor Sean P. Holman and Senior Editor Ken Brubaker as they 'wheel a bone-stock '06 Hummer H3 on a five-day adventure on obscure trails in Arizona.)
2:50 p.m., Coconino National Forest, south of Flagstaff: Firefighters peer at us through the smoky haze as we slowly pick our way down the trail in our H3. Late afternoon sunlight filters through the smoke and trees, adding even more eeriness to the scene. The smoke permeates our rig causing the interior to smell like someone had a bonfire in the backseat. Off to the east an ominous, colossal brown cloud of smoke hovers over the forest like the alien spacecraft in the movie Independence Day (anyway that was Holman's enthusiastic observation). The firemen are still staring at us. Their vibe says "leave now." We get that a lot. We decide it would be in our best interest to scram, so we head back to the highway.
3:25 p.m., somewhere on Highway 17: Brubaker verbally notes that we're traveling parallel with Rattlesnake Canyon. Brubaker also points out that yesterday we were on Rattlesnake Road and Rattlesnake Mesa, which runs alongside a different Rattlesnake Canyon. Holman pretends to be asleep even though he is driving.
4:05 p.m., Highway 17, exit 320: We still have a couple of hours of daylight left, so we plot a course to Sedona via Schnebly Hill Road, which is also known as FR 153. This dirt road is known for its incredible views even though it is relatively short at less than 10 miles in length. As we exit from the highway the first sign we see warns that it's only recommended for trucks or off-road vehicles. This doesn't deter the rental car in front of us.
4:15 p.m., Schnebly Hill Road: The road is graded and well-packed but rocks protrude from the surface making it a somewhat rough ride. Still, it's nothing a stock rig (or a rental car) can't easily traverse. It's more than 6,000 feet in altitude, and we see ice on the first waterway we cross. Beach-boy Holman begins to make noise about it being too cold to camp.
4:30 p.m., still on Schnebly Hill Road: We stop to admire the fantastic views of the nearby mountains as they're bathed in the late day light. We meet Chris Halsted who is driving a Pink Jeep Tours rig out of Sedona. He enthusiastically proclaims that "Life is good. I get paid to four-wheel." We like his attitude so we give him some Four Wheeler stickers.
5:05 p.m., Sedona, Arizona: It's almost dark, so we hook up to Highway 89 and sprint for Flagstaff. The inside rearview-mirror-mounted thermometer in the H3 is showing that the outside temperature is dropping fast. Holman is becoming uncharacteristically quiet as he ponders setting up camp in well below freezing temperatures.
5:40 p.m., Flagstaff, Arizona: It's dark, there's patchy snow and its 15 degrees Fahrenheit. After an eternity of dead silence Holman forcefully states that he is not camping tonight and that is not negotiable. Brubaker scoffs out loud but even he realizes that the temperature is still dropping and single digit temps are not far away. The Holiday Inn Express becomes the nights lodging.
9:35 a.m., Highway 180 north of Flagstaff: We've driven 1,039 miles so far. Per our original plan, we have no plan. Today we're heading north towards the Grand Canyon. Brubaker is wearing camo pants yet again. Holman is aghast to learn he brought five matching pair.
10:05 a.m., somewhere near Slate Mountain: The beauty of not having a plan is that we can explore on a whim. As we head north we began to see an abundance of forest roads branching enticingly off the highway. The lure was just too strong. We chose one at random, which happened to be FR 191. This dirt trail took us across an open expanse before depositing us into woods thick with pinyon pine, ponderosa pine, and mixed conifer. Because this area was at 7,300 feet in altitude there were several inches of snow covering the trail. Speaking of the trail, it varies between mostly smooth dirt, rutted dirt, and dirt laced with small rocks. Dirt is the common denominator. Even so, it's clear that this area is perfect for a family backcountry outing in a stock rig.
10:40 a.m., somewhere on FR 736: For no particular reason we decided to head west on FR 736. The terrain has run a gamut from open meadows to thick woods. We've seen no other vehicles, but tracks in the patchy snow indicate that the area has had visitors. At N 35 28.000 W 112 04.380 we took a break at an old ranch that was sitting forlornly in the middle of nowhere in Spring Valley near Spring Valley Wash. This is the first structure we had seen in a long time. We sat under the warm Arizona sun and enjoyed almost dead silence. We decided that we had in fact discovered yet another obscure trail.
11:05 a.m., locked gate: We've been exploring unmarked two-tracks that branch from secondary trails. These have been quite fascinating and they've taken us even further into the backcountry. Many have ended at gates marked with "no trespassing" signs, but we're still having fun. We're delightfully off the grid because there is no cell phone service. We've seen no other travelers and free range cattle roam everywhere. Thanks to our GPS and Gazetteer we have a basic idea where we are, but it's clear that this hodge podge of two-tracks can quickly cause you to lose your bearings if you don't have the proper navigational tools. One of the challenges has been that while the Gazetteer shows roads, it doesn't differentiate between roads that are closed and roads that are open.
1:30 p.m., Planes of Fame Air Museum: After a few hours of exploring two-tracks, FR 736 bisected Highway 64. We headed north toward the Grand Canyon but our travels temporarily halted when we spotted the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Valle, Arizona. Second to our love of 'wheeling is our love of aircraft. Holman sprung for the admission fee and we spent the next hour drooling over the planes parked in the hangar. Some surprises included a Douglas RB-26C Invader attack bomber, a bullet-riddled Yokosuka D4Y Suisei (Judy) dive bomber recovered from a jungle a few years ago, and an authentic German Messerchmitt ME-109 fighter.
3:30 p.m., Grand Canyon National Park: It would've been wrong to be this close to the Grand Canyon and not stop in for a visit. We did the tourist thing, and visited a few of the overlooks to view the incredible scenery. However, we quickly found that after two days of exploring two-tracks and remote backcountry, the paved, tour-bus-laden park didn't quite feel right, so we split. We had big plans of continuing north to explore the utterly desolate North Rim and points west of that, but then cold deadline-laden reality set in and we realized we had to start heading back to the office in Los Angeles.
11:20 p.m., Needles, California, KOA Campground: Brubaker went to take a shower, but before he left he locked the doors on the H3. Unfortunately he left a door open. Holman closed the door which triggered the alarm. The resulting loud, unceasing racket of the horn blowing woke up all but the heaviest sleepers in the campground. Since Brubaker had the only set of keys, it took Holman a few minutes to find the tools to disconnect the battery cable to disable the alarm. Yup, we were makin' friends fast.
2:45 a.m., KOA Campground, Needles: It's our last night on the road and it's a beautiful winter night in the desert. The temperature is in the low 50's and Brubaker has the rainfly removed from his Coleman Evanston tent so he can see the moon. He's sleeping in his Coleman Diamondback summer sleeping bag and he's hot. Holman has his Sundome tent all buttoned up and is sleeping in his Coleman Big Game -5 F. winter sleeping bag with his ProCat PerfectTemp Catalytic Heater on high.
7:45 a.m. KOA Campground, Needles: It could be our imagination, but it seemed like a bunch of campers wanted to dismember us this morning.
9:40 a.m., Highway 40 crossing the Mojave Desert: We pass more roads leading off into the desert but we have to quell our urge to explore as we make a beeline to the office.
12:20 p.m., Primedia headquarters, Los Angeles: As we ride the elevators to our floor, Holman witnesses a prissy L.A. chick and her cronies make fun of Brubaker's camo pants behind his back. Nonetheless, Holman and Brubaker have pity on the poor girl. Obviously this city girl has never 'wheeled deep into the backcountry, cooked over an open fire, or slept under the stars. If she had, she would respect what camo represents and she'd understand the Trails & Tents Tour.
Our goal was to 'wheel obscure trails, and thanks to Arizona's thousands of miles of forest roads, it was an easy goal to achieve. These trails harbored a surprise around every bend and they were measured not in extreme obstacles conquered, but miles explored. The trails we traveled were perfect for a family adventure when you want to explore desolate backcountry and still have your rig carry you home under its own power.
Days on the road: 5
Miles traveled: 1,753
Tires destroyed: 1
Javelinas encountered: 1
Days we wished we were in the office: 0
All total we explored three distinct trails during our trip to Arizona. Here they are:
Rattlesnake Road-Head east out of Phoenix on Highway 60. Continue east on Highway 70 past Globe to Klondyke Road. Head south for approximately 26.9 miles. Trail begins at N 32 48.041 W 110 17.363.
Rating: First 8.3 miles 1, last 2.5 miles 3.5 on a scale of 1-5.
Schnebly Hill Road (FR 153)-This trail can be accessed via Highway 17 at exit 320 or in Sedona via Highway 179 (look for FR 153 signs). Rating: 1
FR 191/FR 736-Head north from Flagstaff on Highway 180. A few miles north of Kendrick Park and FR 191C turn left on FR 191. In approximately less than 5 miles FR 191 will merge with FR 736. Rating: 1 (higher if snowy or wet)
Yup, the boys did daily blogs. You can log on to http://blogs.fourwheeler.com/page3.html and read about the Trails & Tents Tour as it happened. There are also more photos from the trip.


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When shares in Netflix rose dramatically on Friday, many were left scratching their heads wondering what could've caused such a sudden change, especially as it came only days after the online video subscription service posted a weak set of financial figures for its third quarter.
The spike saw Netflix shares hit $69.58 at the close of trading, marking a significant 13 percent rise. A Forbes report over the weekend claimed that rumors on Wall Street of a possible acquisition by Microsoft caused the excitement, stoked by the announcement earlier this month of the imminent departure of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings from the Microsoft board. If such a takeover was in the pipeline, Hastings would, of course, have to put some clear blue water between himself and Microsoft to avoid a conflict-of-interest situation, hence news of his departure.
Forbes noted that "buying Netflix would be in keeping with Microsoft's revamped philosophy on the Xbox 360, which treats the device more like an entertainment device and less like a video game console," and added that Steve Ballmer's firm appears to have a penchant for Web brands, demonstrated by its purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011 as well as an earlier attempt to acquire Yahoo. It would also enable it to better compete with other giants in the online video market, such as Google and Apple.
Microsoft is certainly flush with cash at the minute ($66 billion in cash and investments, to be precise), so a buyout of Netflix – which has a market cap of $3.7 billion – would be like a trip to the candy store for the Redmond-based company.
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Change is inevitable in the world of SEC football.
It's as much a part of the league as fierce rivalries that divide families, championship teams that rise to legendary status and tradition-soaked Saturdays at such iconic venues as Tiger Stadium, Bryant-Denny Stadium and most recently, Kyle Field.
Four new head coaches will take to the field this spring in the SEC -- Bret Bielema at Arkansas, Butch Jones at Tennessee, Gus Malzahn at Auburn and Mark Stoops at Kentucky.
Of the 14 head coaches in the SEC, eight have been in their jobs for two seasons or fewer.
They say that NFL stands for "Not For Long." Well, the same could be said about the SEC.
The one thing that hasn't changed, at least recently, is that Alabama keeps on winning national championships. The Crimson Tide have won two in a row and three of the past four.
Their 42-14 rout of Notre Dame in the Discover BCS National Championship placed the Tide in rarefied air. Not since Notre Dame in the late 1940s had one team won three outright national titles in a four-year span.
The worst-kept secret in college football is that the SEC has produced the past seven national champions. That drumbeat has become all too familiar for everybody outside SEC Country.
But within the league, an equally familiar question is beginning to circulate with increasing fervor: Can anybody catch Alabama?
And probably more precisely, how wide is the gap between Alabama and everybody else in the SEC?
Back on national signing day, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier probably summed it up best.
"We're all chasing them, everybody in college football is … but they can be beat," Spurrier said. "I know we're not going to out-recruit them here at South Carolina, but it doesn't always get down to [recruiting]. Sometimes, you just have to play better than the other guy, and Alabama has been super in the big games."
That's the challenge for the other 13 SEC teams, figuring out a way to unseat the Crimson Tide.
It starts all over again this spring. Georgia and Texas A&M are the first to crank up workouts this Saturday. South Carolina is up next the following Tuesday.
Speaking of the Aggies, who knocked off the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa last year, they get Alabama at home the third week of the season.
Both teams face similar questions this spring, starting with retooling a pair of offensive lines that were two of the best in the country a year ago.
Texas A&M left tackle Luke Joeckel left early for the NFL, but Jake Matthews elected to return for his senior season and will move from right to left tackle. The Aggies also have to replace underrated senior center Patrick Lewis. Cedric Ogbuehi is expected to move from guard to right tackle.
Alabama is losing three starters in its offensive line, including three-year starter Chance Warmack and four-year starter Barrett Jones. But Cyrus Kouandjio returns at left tackle. Kouandjio and Matthews will be two of the best left tackles in college football next season.
If you don't think offensive line play is crucial in the SEC, go back and find an offensive line on any of the past seven national championship teams that wasn't outstanding, and in most cases, didn't feature a couple of future pros.
The quarterback crop should again be strong in the SEC, and Alabama and Texas A&M have two of the best. The Aggies' Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy in 2012 with one of the best individual seasons in college football history, while the Tide's AJ McCarron threw 30 touchdown passes and only three interceptions and led the country in passing efficiency.
Right behind McCarron in passing efficiency last season was Georgia's Aaron Murray, who returns for his senior season and is on track to break virtually every SEC career passing record.
One of the other interesting storylines this spring involving quarterbacks is at South Carolina, where Dylan Thompson will get the first-team work with Connor Shaw rehabilitating his surgically repaired left foot.
Nobody in the SEC has a better one-two punch at quarterback than the Gamecocks with Shaw and Thompson.
Quarterback will be a central theme at Auburn this spring as well, as Malzahn reintroduces his hurry-up, no-huddle offense and tries to find the guy best suited to run it. Kiehl Frazier and Jonathan Wallace will get first shot until three new signees arrive in the summer.
Ole Miss and Vanderbilt both will be looking to continue their momentum. The Commodores closed the season with seven straight wins and won nine games for the first time since 1915. They have to replace a couple of key leaders, namely quarterback Jordan Rodgers, running back Zac Stacy, offensive lineman Ryan Seymour and cornerback Trey Wilson.
The Rebels, who won seven games in Hugh Freeze's first season, have one of the top signing classes in the country arriving this summer and return most of their key personnel from last season's 7-6 team.
If you're looking for new faces, the practice field at LSU will feature plenty of them. The Tigers lost 10 underclassmen to the NFL draft, and six of those were starters on defense.
This spring will also be Cam Cameron's debut as LSU's offensive coordinator. Getting that offense "fixed" will be paramount for the Tigers, especially after losing so much talent on defense.
There are always new stars and new leaders emerging in the spring.
This time a year ago, Damontre Moore, Dee Milliner, Mike Gillislee, Jordan Matthews, Tre Mason, Ace Sanders and Manziel weren't exactly household names.
We'll find out who the next wave of those guys are over the next several months.