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Singin', prayin', and parlayin'
Last week, Laura from Eastlake sent me this note:
You often talk about Smooth Jazz and I must admit that I have been jealous. I would LOVE for the ride home to be to some music. So I thought I would send you a quick email to tell you about a great driver I had the other day coming home. It was on Wednesday night on the 70 at about 6pm. The bus driver sang a song to the entire bus about "humoring your bus driver so he doesn't leave you at your stop while waiting." It was really funny, …
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Category: Uncategorized Tagged Real Change, Smooth Jazz
Category: Uncategorized Tagged Real Change, Smooth Jazz
The things she carried
For some reason I have yet to understand, Bus Nerd has entirely too much change. Everywhere he goes, change follows. It is in his pants pockets, in his coat pockets, in his busnerd bag. If you're ever short bus fare, search the cushions of a couch he has recently sat on; you're sure to find at least a couple of trips' worth. And don't get me started on his (former) bedroom. His spare-change jar filled up at least a year ago, subsequently overflowing onto his nightstand and into …
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Category: Uncategorized Tagged living the life
Category: Uncategorized Tagged living the life
Transportation in the news
• Today is the first day of school! It's also the first day of the Metro transportation pilot for Franklin and Ballard students. Wonder how it's faring…
• Speaking of schools: There's a new elementary in Redmond Ridge that's named after my all-time favorite bus chick, Rosa Parks. Ironically, Rosa Parks Elementary doesn't currently offer bus transportation. (This is not necessarily a bad thing, since all students live within a mile of the school, and there are organized groups of walkers. But still.)
• A couple of the major travel websites have
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Category: Uncategorized Tagged Rosa Parks, schools, You should know...
Speaking of love…
On Saturday, I received a surprise in the mail from my future mother-in-law (too cool for that title and so to be known henceforth as "my Gail"). My Gail lives in Detroit, a city that, despite plans for a fabulous new Rosa Parks Transit Center, is not known for its buses. It is, however, a city known for its cool t-shirts, and my Gail managed to find me the coolest one of all. It has a picture of a vintage 53, a route that travels the length of Woodward Avenue, one of the longest of Detroit's very …
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Category: Uncategorized Tagged Detroit, my Gail, People, Reviews
Category: Uncategorized Tagged Detroit, my Gail, People, Reviews
A bus chick by any other name…
A couple of months ago (yes, I have a serious backblog), a reader e-mailed to point out the irony of my first name (which, for those who don't know, is Carla). As surprising as it might sound, I haven't thought about my name's association with automobiles since elementary school. Back then, the class clown (incidentally, the only other kid in my grade who rode the 2 to school) got a kick out of making fun of it. "Truckla! Trainla!" he'd tease on our morning ride. Later, on the way home, he'd pick up where he left off: "Boatla! Planela!" And …
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Category: Uncategorized Tagged back in the day, People
Category: Uncategorized Tagged back in the day, People
At least he didn't get on my bus
This evening, I stood next to an actual skinhead at the stop in front of Benaroya Hall. I recently learned that not all skinheads are racist neo-Nazis, but I'm thinking the fact that this one had the letters H-A-T-E tattooed on the fingers of his right hand is an indication that he's probably not one of the "other" kinds.
Who knows? Maybe his left hand said something nice.
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Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do
Last night, I reminisced with my friend Aileen about the days when the Madrona Ale House was a corner drugstore, the same corner drug store that she and her neighborhood playmates frequented for candy fixes, the same one I passed every day on the 2 on my way to school. It was at this drug store that Aileen bought her very first tube of lipstick–a purchase responsible for a lifelong obsession. (I believe her current collection is in the three-digit range.) But I digress.
The Madrona of today bears almost no resemblance to the Madrona of our childhoods. And …
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Category: Uncategorized Tagged Link, You should know...
Speaking of sexy…
Last night I got gussied up and hopped on the 4, headed downtown for a "changing jobs" party for a friend. I love riding the bus at night. There is something about the traffic-free streets, the deserted sidewalks, and the darkness outside the windows that creates camaraderie among those of us who have found ourselves together inside the warm, brightly lit vehicle.
Last night's ride was better than usual. My favorite 4 driver, the one I call Smooth Jazz, was at the wheel. Smooth Jazz always drives at night, and he's as cool and laid back as they come. Every …
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Category: Uncategorized Tagged living the life, Smooth Jazz
Category: Uncategorized Tagged living the life, Smooth Jazz
Car-free vacation: Vancouver
This weekend, Adam and I took the train to Vancouver for a short vacation. We were in the city for only two days, and though we used TransLink (Vancouver's public transportation system) quite a bit during those two days, we didn't have enough time to get a feel for what it's really like.
For what it's worth, here's my quick and dirty assessment:
What I liked:
• The fare system: One ticket buys you passage on all the TransLink services (the SkyTrain, the buses, and the SeaBus). Tickets are available at convenience and grocery stores, …
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Sniper Elite 3 (PC) - ReviewDaniel Carreras, posted on 25 July 2014 / 2,930 Views
Settling down to work on developing Sniper Elite 3 can't have been easy. Not only were the two previous titles much more acclaimed than many expected, resulting in heightened expectations for subsequent entries, but it also had to be developed for a whole new generation of consoles. Add the need for a new setting for the warfare and the task of keeping the series relevant after the first two games had expended the leeway granted by the series' originality and novelty, and you can see how Sniper Elite 3 had a lot to live up to. Whilst Sniper Elite 3 admirably manages to pull through most of these challenges, it certainly isn't left unscathed, and some essentials such as an interesting story and variety of content unfortunately remain absent for the entirety of the game.
You start out in an allied-controlled town that is being bombarded by Nazis, which is the perfect set-up for running through the game's core mechanics. You're first tasked with taking out the spotters that are ordering the artillery attacks, and it's here you'll learn one of the core tenants of the game: keep your distance and spot everyone with binoculars before going anywhere. Tagging enemies with your binoculars enables you to see them at any distance, and also puts them on your mini-map, ensuring that you're never caught by surprise and know where enemies are at all times.
This first mission also introduces you to the mechanic that Sniper Elite has become renowned for: the graphic detail of a bullet travelling through the air and into the soldier it's meant for. This is one of the draws of Sniper Elite; one of those features you can stick in an advert and gain instant recognition or intrigue from consumers. It's also one that soon becomes tiresome. I found that, for the first hour or so, the intrinsic detail put into each bullet travelling the entirety of the map and finding itself lodged into a Nazi's skull was simultaneously awesome and disgusting. It's a fantastic hook, but spend a few hours watching the same animation played out slightly differently throughout the course of the game and you'll find yourself numbed by it. It's a great feature, but a game needs more than a single trope like this to stand tall.
Eventually you go on the offensive and stealth becomes paramount. You'll sneak around most of the map, killing enemies in silence through fear of alerting the others. When I say fear, I mean genuine terror, as Sniper Elite 3 does not work well when it comes to close range combat. Even from across the length of the map, enemies with simple machine guns will be able to cause massive damage if you're spotted as a result of making too much noise, so stealth and vigilance is paramount to survival. The environment is built to compliment this stealthy gameplay, with engines malfunctioning or storms bellowing, providing plenty of noise to cover your sniper shots, ensuring you don't get caught in most instances.
Finding the right path to get into an enemy base or happening across a sniper nest is possibly one of the best parts of Sniper Elite 3. These features encourage you to find multiple ways through a level. With most games I play quite passively, observing the world from a distance, but the constant worry that I was going to be found or that my position would be revealed kept me on high alert whilst playing Sniper Elite 3. The world is completely built around your ability to stay hidden whilst taking enemies down, and the second you mess this up is the second Sniper Elite 3 becomes messy and annoying to play.
Enemies walk set paths around levels, meaning you can set up shots with relative ease whilst no one's alert, but the second you mess up all hell breaks loose. Enemies seemingly know where you are for miles around, throwing explosives in your direction even when you're sure you're out of site. After a while of going undetected, enemies go about their business as if nothing untoward has happened. This is jarring and lets down an environment that, for the most part, is incredibly well thought-out. It's at this point that you'll also start to notice glaring bugs, with AI soldiers getting stuck on multiple objects around the environment, or outright falling off the edge of the world, which is a shame considering how well the rest of the game holds up to scrutiny.
It could be said that Sniper Elite 3 has a story, and you'd be semi-correct in thinking this, but don't mistake this hollow shell of a narrative for the real deal. Each mission is arbitrarily assigned without context, and the story is then slotted in-between to ensure a fundamentally linear and basic story-telling experience. In the context of the narrative, each level is entirely interchangeable; the story is simply a half-hearted attempt to sell the game as a complete package rather than a collection of separate missions.
These gripes aside, the level design of Sniper Elite 3 is top notch, with each level offering up multiple ways to traverse the environment. It's not grounded in any way to the reality of African warfare, but that's not too necessary when the developers were clearly aiming for entertainment rather than historical accuracy. The graphics are detailed and polished, with landscapes looking lovely enough for last gen and current gen consoles. There's not much of a soundtrack, which is fine, as it works to the game's advantage when you're sneaking around in silence and need to hear how close enemies are to you. What isn't great, though, is the voice acting, with Nazi and Italian troops repeating the same lines of dialogue over and over again, and even when they do speak English it's with stereotypical accents.
Sniper Elite 3 manages to answer critics of the first two Sniper games with relative success. It's fun to play, and will keep you coming back time and time again to make sure you successfully find the best way through each level. Where it falls apart is where the developers hope players will spend less time: in direct confrontation with enemies. This is no doubt in part a deliberate choice, but when you are caught out the immersive nature of the experience is completely broken. It's a great accomplishment for Rebellion to have made another successful Sniper Elite game, but the occasional jarring bug and a weak story hold Sniper Elite 3 back from being a truly great sniping experience.
This review is based on a digital copy of Sniper Elite 3 for the PC, provided by the publisher.
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Blogging with Normalcy
January 28, 2012
Tonight, I tried to write my dead grandmother … again. To no avail really. (I should say here that I don't mean write a letter to my dead grandmother, but instead literally…write her down. I want her presence on the page). I didn't get much farther than I did last time, except this time I… More Blogging with Normalcy


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Synopsis: Following a mother (Connelly) and her son (Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will grow into being a renowned artist and healer, and he into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths.
To help sift through the number of new releases (independent or otherwise), we've created the Weekly Film Guide. Below you'll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for today's fresh offerings.Read More »
Sony Pictures Classics made the first major deal of the Berlinale, nabbing US and Latin America rights to the competition title "Aloft." The film is the English-language debut of Peruvian filmmaker Claudia LLosa (Oscar-nominated "The Milk of Sorrow") and stars Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Mela...Read More »
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all US and Latin American rights to Berlin competition title "Aloft."Read More »
Forgiveness, faith and falconry are among the motifs that run through Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's first English-language film "Aloft," which premieres at the Berlin Film Festival this week. Like her previous two features—debut "Madeinusa" and Golden Bear-winning follow-up "The Milk Of Sorrow"—...Read More »
The snow-encrusted landscapes of the Arctic Circle provide a sweeping backdrop for spiritual yearning in Claudia Llosa's "Aloft," but the heavy-handed drama at the center of Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's first English language feature can't keep pace.Read More »


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I do not understand the point of "cosplayer in Equestria" (or "Displaced") stories.
Like, okay, let's talk a little about crossovers.
Like, first we have stories like Archives of the Friendquisition or Fallout: Equestria, where it's sort of a blended setting that uses elements from the crossover'd material is used in an interesting way and the thematic juxtaposition makes for some interesting storytelling opportunities. Personally, I think this is the best way to approach a crossover.
Then you have lazier crossovers like, say, "Anti-Mage in Equestria" (which I hope doesn't actually exist) where a character is lazily plunked into the setting for the sake of whatever plot. Hypothetically, this could be used to explore character - how does the character react to this setting? How does this setting react to the character?
But a "cosplayer in Equestria" story isn't either of these. It's just some idiot in a costume and also superpowers farting around. It is a crossover minus literally everything that might make a crossover interesting to read.


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Filner proclaims "new beginning for our city"
Former congressman sworn in as San Diego's 35th mayor
After a decade of crises and cutbacks, Bob Filner said Monday marked a new beginning for San Diego with his inauguration as the city's 35th mayor and his pledge to give a voice to neighborhoods.
Filner, who has been in Congress for the past 20 years, formally assumed control of the city during a swearing-in ceremony inside a Balboa Park Club packed with excited Democratic supporters, local politicians and foreign dignitaries.
He heaped praise on his predecessor, Jerry Sanders, for helping fix city finances and providing his successor with an opportunity to begin planning San Diego's future on firm financial footing.
"For the first time in a decade, we can see the possibility of restoring city services, of rebuilding our neighborhoods and of planning for our future," Filner said. "Because the real heart and soul of our city, of course, are in its neighborhoods. They define our city's character, our residents and quality of life."
But he cautioned early in his speech that there "are still plenty of big financial challenges ahead," noting the loss of redevelopment revenues, the potential loss of state construction funds and the costs associated with overhauling the city's pension system.
The city's independent budget analyst recently reported that depending on circumstances and city policy, San Diego could face a deficit of up to $84 million next year, rather than the $5 million surplus projected by Sanders.
Filner emphasized his campaign promises to expand the port, create 50,000 good-paying jobs by 2020, make the city more bike and pedestrian-friendly, implement a voter-mandated overhaul of the pension system and foster a robust economy. He also briefly mentioned several projects he had once opposed, such as the financial plan to expand the convention center and a makeover of Balboa Park.
"A healthy economy is obviously important to our quality of life and we're going to seize every opportunity to grow that economy," Filner said. "We're going to expand the convention center to strengthen our visitors industry. We're going to support our military bases and defense industries in the face of threatened federal cutbacks. We're going to make sure that the Chargers stay in San Diego. And we're going to have a wonderful celebration of the crown jewel, in which we sit now, as we celebrate Balboa Park's centennial anniversary in 2015."
Filner, a Democrat, bested Republican City Councilman Carl DeMaio in the Nov. 6 election after they ousted two other high-profile rivals — Republican District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and independent Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher — in the June primary.
All three former opponents attended Monday's ceremony and each offered their well wishes and assistance to Filner. Dumanis said it's time for everyone to pull together.
"I will help Bob in any way I can," said Dumanis, who was limping slightly as she recovers from foot surgery. She joked that she tells people "Bob did it" when they inquire about her foot.
At age 70, Filner is the oldest elected mayor in San Diego history and only the second Democrat to hold the office in the past 40 years. A former history professor at San Diego State University, he served on the San Diego city school board — including a stint as its president — and the City Council.
Paul Carasik, an 82-year-old retiree who lives downtown, voted for DeMaio but left the inauguration impressed with Filner's remarks.
"The guy can really communicate," Carasik said. "I thought it was the most enlightening experience in the 11 years I have been in San Diego. If he can do half of the things he says he wants to do that would be wonderful. There's hope for the future."


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"…I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all." – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye


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wouldn't you like to own an item hand crafted or signed by one of your favorite musicians? crafts for a cause is an online charity auction organized by binki shapiro of the band little joy. she gathered together a bunch of fellow musicians to craft items like tshirts, totebags, and artwork, or contribute photos and (…) Read more
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friday to-do listMar 19, 2010
this cute little to-do list was found on the streets of philly… relax and dream…always a good idea. source. (…) Read more
hand-stitched bloggingMar 17, 2010
another fp girl told me about this awesome embroidery by brooklyn artist iviva olenick. she describes her work as small-scale, semi-autobiographical pieces that make up a hand-stitched blog. what a neat idea! the pieces include signs she sees on the street, maps of brooklyn and little quotes or things on her mind, and she also (…) Read more
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a couple of girls from our visual display team setting up for an event in building 543…pretty! *update – the umbrellas are from a market in india :) (…) Read more
arts & crafts on wheels in austinMar 12, 2010
if you live in austin or are heading there for sxsw, be on the lookout for the wondercraft! it's a vintage airstream trailer (named "stella") stocked with arts & craft supplies! the wondercraft is the brainchild of four creative ladies who had a goal of bringing supplies to wherever there was a need for artistic (…) Read more
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at first glance, these look like really pretty ceramic vases, right? take a closer look… these vases are crafted by german artist markus linnenbrink out of recycled objects (recognize that gatorade bottle now?) and colorful resins. you can buy these pieces at artware editions in manhattan. but i'm wondering how hard this would be to (…) Read more
cozy coffeeMar 03, 2010
one of our readers, jessica, makes these adorable hand-knit coffee cup cozies with decorative felt flowers- a cute and eco-friendly alternative to disposable paper sleeves. nice work! check out more cozies in jessica's etsy shop. (…) Read more
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you may remember i posted some photos not too long ago giving you a little sneak peak at a fun new video we did for the blog that follows one of our fp girls around at work for a few days to give you a little glimpse into her world. well today i've got the (…) Read more
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i know you've all been asking and waiting for it…well here it is! the march calendar for you to download! just click the image to go to our flickr page and get the large size. enjoy :) oh and in case you missed january and february, you can find those on our flickr page (in (…) Read more
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i first heard about jewelry designer eric saeter when i spotted one of his rings on another fp girl and i instantly fell in love. now that we're carrying a couple of his pieces i asked eric some questions about his work and inspiration. what did i learn? that in addition to making rad jewelry- (…) Read more
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Festival Cruises newest ship -- European Vision -- has achieved quite a coup at the annual three-day G8 summit in Genoa. The 1,500-passenger ship is serving as a floating hotel for seven of the eight free-world leaders (everyone but U.S. President George Bush, in fact), from France and Italy to Australia and Japan.
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In a New York launch, the partners involved outlined features of the phone that will appear shortly. In the US, the commercial launch date is Oct 22. Next up is the UK, with availability promised for "early November", with the rest of Europe following in Q1 of 2009.
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Features of the phone include:
- Size: 117.7 mm x 55.7 mm x 17.1 mm (LxWxT)
- Weight: 158 grams
- 3.2in Touch screen
- Drag and drop UI
- Slide out (full QWERTY) keyboard
- HSDPA/WCDMA: Europe: 2100 MHz, US:1700/2100 MHz
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
- Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11b/g
- 3.2 megapixel camera
- Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate (headset, hands-free profile)
- Processor: Qualcomm MSM7201A, 528 MHz
- Memory: ROM: 256 MB, RAM: 192 MB
- Talk time: Up to 350 minutes for WCDMA, 406 minutes for GSM
- Music support (one-click ordering through Amazon)
- Compass mode (location awareness)
- Support for Push email
(The full specification of the phone – and details of its features – can be found on the G1 pages of the HTC site.)
Android Market will be the place to obtain third-party applications that take advantage of the open platform.
In terms of pricing, only details have been revealed for the US where it will cost $179 (for the limited numbers available). Two data pricing plans will be available – $25 for unlimited Web usage with limited messaging, and $35 for both unlimited Web browsing and messaging.
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Rajasthan is a state of India rich with history. It is the home of the Maharayas and the powerful Rajasthan armies. The Moghuls invaders from Persia knew better then to fight them off so they allied with them and allowed them to keep regional control. It worked for a few centuries until some of the Maharayas rebelled and took over full control of their princely states. Most were to remain in control until the Indian Independence in the late 1940's. At that time, all the princely states and territories of the union gave up their sovereignty in favor of a unified India. As a tourist today, you can wonder among the many magnificent fortresses and palaces scattered throughout the state. There are so many things to see and do in Rajasthan that I was obliged to build a VT page to share my trip with you.
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What a fantastic VTpages you got! I very much enjoyed reading about your travels and your photos are beautiful! I'm off to South of India in November. Greetings from West Cork.
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Fifty-two years ago, the young radio astronomer Frank Drake wrote an equation that organized many factors, almost all of them unknown, that determine the abundance of civilizations that we could potentially detect with a radio telescope. The Drake Equation has survived all these years, and appears in astronomy textbooks. I would type up the equation here, but I'm unsure how to make the little subscripty thingees. Oh, heck, I'll take a stab at it (the Wikipedia version is much more elegant):
N = R* x Fp x Ne x Fl x Fi x Fc x L
You start with the rate of star formation – a number known for a number of decades (our galaxy has at least 200 billion stars). What fraction have planets? What's the number of planets in each of those star systems that is potentially habitable? On those "habitable" planets, how often did life actually arise? And then how often did that life evolve into complex organisms that gained the adaptive trait of intelligence? And how many intelligent civilizations develop communications technologies and beam signals into space, either intentionally (because they're garrulous and want to chat) or unintentionally (because they've got big TV antennas broadcasting "I Love Lucy")? And finally (cue the ominous music in a minor key) how long do intelligent civilizations survive, on average?
That final "L" in the Drake Equation, the longevity of a communicative civilization, has always been rather haunting. [Here's the Achenblog item on that, inspired by a Krauthammer column.]
Now comes the latest analysis of data from the Kepler Space Telescope, and what's fascinating about it, to me, is that it can be plunked directly into the Drake Equation. It's n subscript e in the equation — the number of stars with habitable planets, or, as Drake puts it, in the ecosphere of the star.
When I say "as Drake puts it" I mean as he said to me yesterday when I called him about the news.
"I think all such calculations based on the Kepler data are still very preliminary. Theyr'e still analyzing the data, and there may be problems with the way they do the analysis," Drake said. But he added, "It's encouraging, it gives us a number and it's a number we can stick into the equation."
Since Drake first wrote out his equation, a number of developments have made him more optimistic that there are plenty of planets out there with intelligent life. First, it's now clear that most stars have planets — that planets are common. Scientists didn't know that in 1961.
"It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In the very beginning we thought at best half."
In the old days, astronomers assumed that binary star systems wouldn't be able to have planets. Now we're seeing planets around binary stars. So that's a big boost for planetary abundance.
Also, Drake and his colleagues used to worry that planets couldn't be habitable around red dwarf stars, because these planets would have to be close to the parent star to be in the habitable zone, and presumably they'd get locked into a synchronous rotation with one side always fried and the other side freezing. But now it appears such rotations are not the law of nature after all, and, moreover, an atmosphere would serve to distribute heat around the planet even if one side was usually in the dark.
But there's one factor that makes Drake slightly more pessimistic about detecting intelligence out there: In 1961, human beings had huge TV and radio towers broadcasting to all points of the compass. We've switched to cable and satellite TV.
"We've been detectable for about 100 years by our radio transmissions, but now what's happening is that Earth is becoming less visible," Drake said. "The earth is fast becoming invisible."
Here's my story on the Kepler results.
Roughly one in every five sunlike stars is orbited by a potentially habitable, Earth-size planet, meaning that the universe has abundant real estate that could be congenial to life, according to an analysis of observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
Our Milky Way galaxy alone could harbor billions of rocky worlds where water might be liquid at the surface, according to the report, which was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and discussed at a news conference in California.
If the estimate is correct, the nearest ocean planet might be just 12 light-years away, which, though extremely distant for all practical purposes (such as sending a robotic space probe), is just around the corner in our galactic neighborhood.
"When you look up at the stars in the night sky, how many of them have a planet like the Earth?" asked Erik Petigura, a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley and the lead author of the paper. "We're able to start answering this question."
The best estimate is 22 percent of stars like our own, with an error margin of plus or minus eight percentage points.
"Earth-sized planets having the temperature of a cup of tea are common around sunlike stars," said planet hunter Geoff Marcy, a Berkeley astronomer and a co-author of the study. He said the finding "represents one great leap toward the possibility of life, including intelligent life, in the universe."
Kepler, launched in 2009, is no longer able to search for "exoplanets" — outside our solar system — because it has been unable to point with precision after the failure of a steering mechanism this year. But the telescope amassed more than three years of observations before going on the blink. Kepler mission scientist Natalie Batalha said there is still another full year of data to rummage through.
The telescope's original mission was to obtain an estimate of the percentage of stars with potentially habitable planets, and this latest analysis comes close to meeting that goal. This is still an extrapolation of data and is not the same thing as taking a careful census of these Earth-size planets directly, said Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at MIT who was not directly involved in the new analysis.
"Earth-size" doesn't necessarily mean "Earth-like," Seager noted. But she said this result will boost efforts to build telescopes that could obtain direct imagery of one of these extremely distant worlds.
"Earth-sized planets are not rare, so we'll know we'll have stuff to look at," Seager said. "It's reassuring for us."
Jill Tarter, a pioneer in "SETI," the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, said in an e-mail: "We haven't yet found Earth 2.0, but these statistics suggest that it should be forthcoming, and soon. When we can point to Earth 2.0 in the sky, it will seem completely natural to ask 'Does anybody live there?' and 'Can we go there?' I think Earth 2.0 will concretize SETI as nothing else has."


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Immediately following Saturday's Bedlam rout, Oklahoma State women's basketball coach Jim Littell said he never knows which version of his team is going to show up on any given day.
He stressed again Monday that he wasn't joking or lying about that fact.
Perhaps the best way to describe these Cowgirls is consistently inconsistent. That nature has largely defined this season, making Wednesday night's matchup against Texas Tech in Lubbock a virtual mystery for coaches and players alike.
"It's kind of like we're going on a roller coaster for no reason," junior point guard Tiffany Bias said. "We see how much potential we have and how hard we play, especially on Saturday.
"And it's like, 'Where does that team go some games? Who's gonna show up?'"
OSU has won back-to-back conference games only twice this season, with its longest streak being three consecutive victories against Kansas, at Texas and against Iowa State in January. But all eight of the Cowgirls' Big 12 victories have come by double digits.
Last week best illustrated the up-and-down road. The Cowgirls didn't score in the final five minutes of a one-point loss against a TCU team that was winless in conference play, then blew out the rival Sooners three days later.
The Bedlam performance ranked with the 29-point dismantling of a now-ranked ISU squad as the Cowgirls' best of the season. But the TCU loss dropped OSU out of The Associated Press' Top 25 — and is all but inexcusable for a team fighting for an NCAA Tournament berth.
Littell and his coaching staff have tried various tactics to establish that consistency this season. Situational drills in practice. Wind sprints serving as the price for making a mistake or lacking focus.
But, ultimately, the players have to make that choice, he said.
"It's the time of year that they've got to come highly motivated to practice and get better and prepare," he said. "We don't have the luxury of benching people, so they've got to do a lot of things to hold themselves accountable."
And with just three games remaining in the regular season, including road contests at Tech and ISU, if that consistency is going to come, it needs to happen soon.
"We've gone from it being a marathon to a sprint now," Littell said. "You've got to finish strong. There's not time for mistakes now, not time for not showing up to play."
Consistently inconsistent
Oklahoma State's 2012-13 season has been uneven, with all eight Big 12 victories coming by double digits, yet perplexing losses against some of the conference's worst teams. Here's a breakdown of the Cowgirls' resume.
Record: 19-7 (8-7 Big 12)
Big 12 standing: Tied for fifth
Big wins: vs. Iowa State (71-42), vs. Oklahoma (83-62), vs. Kansas (76-59), at West Virginia (64-54), at Kansas (65-52)
Bad losses: at Kansas State (76-70, OT), at TCU (64-63), at Oklahoma (80-61)
Regular-season games remaining: Wednesday at Texas Tech, Saturday vs. Texas, March 4 at Iowa State
Compiled by Gina Mizell
Oklahoma State at Texas Tech
*When: 7 p.m. Wednesday
*Where: United Spirit Arena, Lubbock, Texas
*Radio: KGFY-FM 105.5
*TV: None
Three things to know
*Texas Tech won the first meeting between these teams, 64-59 in Stillwater in the Big 12 opener for both squads. OSU last won in Lubbock in 2010.
*OSU's Toni Young is averaging 17.8 points and 14.8 rebounds over the Cowgirls' last four games.
*Texas Tech, which threw OSU a heavy dose of full-court press and trap defense in their last meeting, leads the Big 12 in steals (10.7 per game) and turnover margin (plus-5.5)


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Steak Sandwiches With Brie
- 1tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2pound flank steak
- kosher salt and black pepper
- 1 baguette, cut crosswise into 4 pieces
- 8ounces sliced Brie
- 1cup baby arugula
- 1/4 small red onion, sliced
- Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Season the steak with ½ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Cook, 4 to 5 minutes per side for medium-rare. Let rest for 5 minutes before slicing.
- Split the baguette quarters and form sandwiches with the steak, Brie, arugula, and red onion.


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Belgium-Led Cartel Routes Trillions in Wire Bank Transfers: Minimal Regulation Spells Huge Profits
Poirier, Bernard W., The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
PARIS - A Belgian-led international cartel called SWIFT now controls most wire bank transfers between one U.S. business account and another, and in 1998 made $425 million for its services.
Critics say U.S. banks are taking advantage of the lack of regulations to reap huge profits off international transfers.
"There are few areas of finance where service costs to the customer are more inflated in relation to transaction costs to the service than in the field of wire transfers," said Rep. Jim Leach, Iowa Republican and chairman of the House Banking and Financial Services Committee.
During 1998, the last year of record, SWIFT - an acronym for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications - transmitted more than 937 million messages for its 6,635 member banks and financial institutions around the world.
The coded messages order the secure transfer of bank funds. The total worldwide value of these funds was $750 trillion.
For providing these services for its customers, SWIFT's revenues for 1998 were $425 million.
With operating units in 20 countries, SWIFT has its world headquarters with 700 employees at La Hulpe, Belgium. SWIFT's key technology center, where its 200 employees develop proprietary software and cryptography, is in Manassas, Va.
At U.S. banks, charges for wire transfers range on average from $30 to $50.
Unlike a check that travels 3,000 miles between Los Angeles and Boston, a wire transfer is like e-mail, which costs no more to travel 5,000 miles than 50 miles.
This is true whether the amount to be transferred is $1,000 or $100,000.
However, international transfers will usually cost the receiving bank account a handling charge because the different currencies must be exchanged.
Until a few years ago, American banks arbitrarily sat on check deposits for an excessive length of time and prevented the customer from using his own money in a timely way. …


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LBSU 2005: Played in 14 games with one start, scoring her lone goal as part of the team's 4-2 win over Hawaii on September 10 in the 54th minute. Central Florida 2004: Appeared in 15 games off the bench with one goal and two assists... her first career goal came in a 5-0 win over South Florida, while both of her assists came in a 5-0 triumph over Belmont on October 2.
High School: A 2004 graduate of Green Mountain High (Golden, CO), after spending three years at Faith Christian... first team all-conference as a freshman and senior and second team accolades in 2003... three-time league champions, and won the state in 2002... injured her sophomore year.
Club: Played for the Colorado Rush, which won the Youth National U15 national title.
And Finally: Daughter of Steve and Carole Whiteaker... father, Steve, ran track at Denver and sister, Cristy, played soccer at Covenant College in Georgia... majoring in communications with a merchandising minor.
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He lost everything and for what? For breaking his vow of celibacy? No, because he was a hypocrite. And a nasty one, too
The new Pope will be given the task of investigating the resignation of Cardinal Keith O'Brien - but the findings made never be made public
His admission came after more details of allegations against him emerged, with accounts of long parties known as "ragers".
Colleagues said he and knew neither what he is alleged to have done nor who had made the allegations that led to him quitting
His resignation, following allegations the Cardinal made advances to young priests, couldn't be more shocking for Britain's four million Catholics
The snap, taken six years ago, emerged after Cardinal Keith O'Brien quit amid allegations of "inappropriate acts" towards fellow priests
His resignation followed a series of recent allegations against him dating back to the 80s by three priests and one former priest
The leader of the church in Scotland denies claims of inappropriate behaviour
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Stress Damages Brain; Medicine, Natural Aids Can Stop, Reverse Harm
Byline: Gabriella Boston, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
So stressed out you can't think straight? Well, it turns out that's not just a figure of speech.
Long-term stress damages the brain, impairing everything from emotion and impulse control to certain big-picture analytical thinking.
In essence, with chronic stress, you become more primitive, says Amy Arnsten, professor of neurobiology at Yale University.
But before you stress out about that, consider Ms. Arnsten's recent findings, published in the Sept. 7-11 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her new research highlights ways in which this type of chronic-stress-induced brain damage can be not only stopped but reversed.
Turns out that when we have chronic stress, the brain gets flooded with an enzyme that effectively breaks down part of the structure (the dendritic spines) of the neurons in the prefrontal cortex, Ms. Arnsten explains.
So if we got rid of the enzyme (aka protein kinase C) - either by medication or natural stress reduction - the neurons would recuperate, right?
At least in otherwise healthy individuals, says B.J. Casey, director of the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Cornell University's Weill Medical College.
Ms. Casey and a student, Conor Liston, tested the hypothesis on 20 medical school students. Scanning their brains during and after the students took their medical board exams (a very-high-stress period), the Cornell team saw that the damage to the prefrontal cortex done during the exams was completely mended a month later.
A little bit of stress is good, Ms. Casey says. You can better focus on the task at hand.
But that focus - and stress - comes at a cost, she explains, because while it enables us to better hone in, it also makes it much harder to shift our attention or even to notice our surroundings. We miss the bigger picture - the forest for the trees.
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First, please let me say that i absolutely love everything about this story. Everything. It captivated literally from the very first chapter. However, I cannot claim to have been a faithful follower of this story, as I began reading it....like yesterday. Still brilliant job so far. Cant wait to see how it ends. Now, like the others who have replied here, I wish to provide my own conspiracy theory. Mine is about Stephanie. I think she is being vastly overlooked, mainly because she is a minor character. Still, I think she is going to be important, and I feel like she is hiding something about her intellect from Pearl. Maybe this is just me reading into things too much, but I think that, based on the fact that she earlier seemed to know exactly what Pearl was thinking, in regards to the essay, and that just seemed vastly suspicious to me. I have been seeing a sort of Ashley-esque intelligence in her. Still, this might just be me reading into things too much. Still, fantastic story.
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