Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia in older adults, and affects as many as 5.1 million Americans. In Alzheimer's disease, a protein fragment called beta-amyloid accumulates at abnormally high levels in the brain. In the the most common type of Alzheimer's disease, late-onset Alzheimer's, symptoms usually appear after age 65.
Elderly people with visual disorders that are left untreated are significantly more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease — the most common form of dementia, according to a University of Michigan Health System study.
The study appears online ahead of print in the American Journal of Epidemiology and may draw a new picture of poor vision as predictor of dementia rather than as a symptom after the diagnosis.
"Visual problems can have serious consequences and are very common among the elderly, but many of them are not seeking treatment," says lead author Mary A.M. Rogers, Ph.D, research assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School and research director of the Patient Safety Enhancement Program at the U-M Health System and the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center.
For the study, Rogers and her colleague Kenneth M. Langa, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine at U-M Medical School, analyzed data from the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study and records from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
"Our results indicate that it is important for elderly individuals with visual problems to seek medical attention so that the causes of the problems can be identified and treated," Rogers says.
Proper vision is a requirement for many of the activities that previously have been found to lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease. These include reading, playing board games, other mentally stimulating activities, social networking, as well as physical activity such as walking and routine exercising. A visual disorder may interfere with normal mobility and may also hinder a person's ability to participate in such activities.
According to a survey conducted by the National Eye Health Education Program, less than 11 percent of respondents understood that there are no early warning signs for eye problems such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.
However, vision problems and blindness are among the top 10 disabilities among adults and can result in a greater tendency to experience other health conditions or even to die prematurely.
The study was based on the surveys and medical information from 625 people compiled from 1992-2005. Only 10 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who developed dementia had excellent vision at the beginning of the study, while 30 percent of those who maintained normal cognition had excellent vision at the onset of the study.
One in five Americans who are over age 50 report experiencing a visual impairment, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease and the number has doubled since 1980. It is expected to be as high as 13 million by 2050.
Alzheimer's disease patients show a relentless decline in memory over the course of the disease, which is accompanied by both brain atrophy and by characteristic deposits in the brain tissue called amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied a large database, collected in the US, of patients with Alzheimer's or memory complaints who had MRI scans and had spinal taps to collect cerebrospinal fluid, which is in the brain and spinal chord. By examining the CFS they could measure the amounts of the substances that make p plaques and tangles, and related this to brain atrophy.
They found that the amount of plaque and tangle-producing chemicals in the cerebrospinal fluid correlated with brain tissue loss in selective regions of the brain which are typically affected in Alzheimer's disease. The brains in these regions had thinned out suggesting that brain cells had died. These regions are important for memory and are typically active when the brain is at rest.
Using these techniques may ultimately help identify early markers of disease in Alzheimer's, potentially indicating who is likely to develop Alzheimer's before memory loss is critical.
A 20-year study by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center has found that a simple blood test may identify people at risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease. These ground-breaking findings could change the way the disease is treated or someday prevent it.
The findings indicate that people with elevated levels of a certain peptide in the blood plasma, Amyloid Beta 42 (Aß42), are at increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Conversely, a decline of Aß42 in the bloodstream may signal the compartmentalization or "traffic jam" of Aß42 in the brain, which occurs in the brains of people with Alzheimer's.
The study showed researchers that plasma levels of Aß42 appear to increase before the onset of Alzheimer's disease and decline shortly after the onset of dementia. They deduce that Aß42 trapped in the brain could account for the decrease in levels post-dementia. Richard Mayeux, M.D., M.S., professor of neurology, psychiatry, and epidemiology, and co-director of the Taub Institute of Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at CUMC, led the Northern Manhattan study, and compares findings finding to something similar seen in heart attack patients, who typically have elevated lipid levels in their bloodstream prior to a heart attack, but decreased post-heart attack lipid levels.
Dr. Mayeux, the senior author of this paper, reported that, using more specific antibodies developed by the Ravetch Laboratory at Rockefeller University, the research team isolated the most harmful form of amyloid compound, the protofibrillar form of Aß. While the cognitive impairments of Alzheimer's can be monitored throughout the disease course, clinicians have had no reliable way to monitor the pathologic progression of the disease.
Being able to reliably measure Aß levels in the blood could provide clinicians with a tool that forecasts the onset of Alzheimer's much earlier. Earlier detection would of course be an important step in combating the disease, researchers said.
A new study finds that a decline in older people's' mental abilities starts years before death, even if they do not have dementia.
Perceptual speed starts deteriorating some 15 years before death, spatial ability starts failing nearly 8 years before death, and verbal ability about 6.5 years before death. These findings came out of a study using 288 people without dementia, who were monitored from age 70 to death, with an average age at death of 84. Their mental skills were checked up to 12 times over a 30-year period, to ensure they did not have dementia.
Source: Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, August 27, 2008, online edition.
The risk of cognitive decline and stroke in older adults may be reduced by eating tuna and other kinds of fish, according to study by researchers in Finland.
The study used a sample of 3,660 men and women aged 65 or older and subjected them to brain scans to look for silent brain infarcts, stroke or dementia. 5 years later, 2,313 members of the sample were tested again with scans, and all participants were given questionnaires on fish in their diets.
Findings of the study showed that participants who ate broiled or baked tuna or other fish high in omega-3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA) three or more times a week were at a 26% lower risk of experiencing the silent brain lesions that cause dementia and stroke than people who were not regular fish eaters. Even one fish meal weekly reduced the risk by 13%, and the study found that regular consumption of these types of fish reduced the changes of white matter in the brains of fish eaters.
"While eating tuna and other types of fish seems to help protect against memory loss and stroke, these results were not found in people who regularly ate fried fish," said Jyrki Virtanen, PhD, RD, with the University of Kuopio in Finland. "More research is needed as to why these types of fish may have protective effects, but the omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA would seem to have a major role." Types of fish that contain high levels of DHA and EPA nutrients include salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines, and anchovies.
"Previous findings have shown that fish and fish oil can help prevent stroke, but this is one of the only studies that looks at fish's effect on silent brain infarcts in healthy, older people," said Virtanen. Research shows that silent brain infarcts, which are only detected by brain scans, are found in about 20 percent of otherwise healthy elderly people.
The risk of Alzheimer's disease is nearly doubled among people who have had a stroke, and researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have found a process in the brain that explains the connection.
By reducing the activity of cdk5, by either an inhibitor or by genetic manipulation, lead author Karen found a decrease in Aß production in the brain, demonstrating that the p25/cdk5 pathway may be a treatment target for Alzheimer's disease. Specifically, inhibitors of cdk5 are particular candidates for therapeutic development.
"This finding connects the dots between p25 and increased production of amyloid beta, and this p25/cdk5 pathway could explain why the risk of Alzheimer's disease is significantly higher following a stroke," said Dr. Duff, professor of pathology (in psychiatry and in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) at Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. "However, we still need to verify that this pathway is actually set in motion after a stroke; right now the data is still circumstantial."
Dr. Duff's laboratory is currently working on experiments to verify this pathway's involvement using human post-mortem tissue of stroke patients. The specific pathway investigated was shown to be most active in young mice, as compared to older mice suggesting that p25/cdk5 may not be implicated in late-onset Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of this neurodegenerative disease.
The research was published in the March 13, 2008 issue of Neuron.


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Rick Springfield strips down on CD and onstage
By Sarah RodmanGLOBE STAFF FEBRUARY 19, 2015
Rick Springfield fans will be hearing classic songs like "Jessie's Girl" and "I've Done Everything for You" in a new way when he takes the stage at the House of Blues on Wednesday. As part of his "Stripped Down" tour, to support a live CD and DVD of the same name that arrives on Tuesday, the veteran pop-rocker is going it alone, reimagining many of his 17 top 40 hits and a few covers with just his guitars, his voice, and his laptop, and telling a few stories along the way.
And they will also be seeing something different from the high-energy performer who regularly roams the crowd during his performances: Springfield will be sitting down.
It's been a busy few years for the Australian singer-songwriter as he has bounced around various platforms making his mark. His candid 2010 memoir, "Late, Late at Night" and 2014 debut novel, "Magnificent Vibration," both hit the New York Times bestseller list. On television, Springfield had a memorable arc on "Californication" in 2009, playing a comical version of himself, and he reprised his role as Dr. Noah Drake on "General Hospital" in 2013. He is currently shooting the upcoming second season of "True Detective," on HBO and later this year will star opposite Meryl Streep in the big screen dramedy "Ricki and the Flash," directed by Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs") from a script by Diablo Cody ("Juno").
Springfield has also been in the news for a recently wrapped lawsuit in which a fan claimed to have been injured by Springfield's posterior during a concert. The jury found in his favor last month.
We recently chatted with Springfield by phone from LA who says, incredibly, that this is the very first solo tour of his more than 40-year career. "Even when I was starting out I always had a band."
Q. What was the inspiration for "Stripped Down"?
A. I wrote my autobiography, and I realized I had a lot of stories that turned into songs, so that was kind of the genesis of it. And I just worked it up through trial and error. (Laughs.) It's pretty great to play all kinds of different songs. I play the first song I ever wrote when I was 18. I play a blues song that I played in a blues band, and a song I played in a band when I went to Vietnam [to entertain US troops] in 1968. I play different versions of the hits. It's a very different show energy-wise from the band show. It's a lot of funny stories and some serious ones, and a very different set list from the band show, intimate. I can hear the audience and they can call out songs. I really love to play with just me and a couple of guitars up there.
Q. You've been keeping yourself busy the last few years, but when you got the call to play opposite Meryl Streep in "Ricki and the Flash," was that a pretty easy yes?
A. Yeah, I had a tour booked in Australia for the first time since I went solo, and we had to postpone that. It's obviously something you can't really turn down.
Q. What is it about, and who do you play in the film?
A. It's about a woman who leaves her family and comes to LA to make it as a singer, and ends up in a bar band in Tarzana. (Laughs.) I play her boyfriend in the band and Kevin Kline plays her ex-husband. It's a great family story. It's really very clever.
Q. Can you tell us anything about your character on the second season of "True Detective"?
A. It's got the lid really tightly clamped on it. You don't get the script until a couple of days before. One of the makeup people was offered $10,000 to spill the beans because it's such a hot show. It's really run like the CIA. It's run better than the CIA, I should say.
Q. "Magnificent Vibration" got some very positive reviews. . . . Are you working on a sequel?
A. Yeah, I was very surprised, I got better reviews for my novels! We're busy doing a new record right now, but hopefully I will be able to get to it. I love writing – it's my favorite thing to do.
Q. With the lawsuit, predictably people made jokes about "ass-ault" and the like. But I'm guessing this was not really a laughing matter for you since it stretched out over several years?
A. No, it took up a lot of time, and I didn't want to settle because it would've sent the wrong message. So I went to the mat with it, and it was worth it. I think it was a good verdict for every touring artist because it would've set a precedent. It was bogus, what was claimed, it was just wrong all the way down the line.
Q. At least you have fodder for your own jokes now that the case is closed.
A. (Laughs) Yeah, we do mention it.
Interview was condensed and edited. Sarah Rodman can be reached at srodman@globe.com.
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Rick Springfield talks Long Island performance, what's next
By DAVID J. CRIBLEZ david.criblez@newsday.com
Rick Springfield signs copies of his disc "Stripped Down" in West Babylon. Photo Credit: Jay Gilbert
If you grew up in the '80s, it was nearly impossible to avoid Rick Springfield. With hit songs like "Jessie's Girl," "Love Somebody" and "Don't Talk to Strangers" playing in heavy rotation on the radio and MTV and his popular stint as Dr. Noah Drake on "General Hospital," Springfield was everywhere.
Today Springfield, 65, still manages to look youthful and perform with exuberance to doting fans. He will hold an in-store performance, Q&A and album signing at Looney Tunes in West Babylon on Saturday in support of his new live release, "Stripped Down."
Is doing an in-store a throwback for you?
It's pretty old school. I haven't done one in years. Now it's a novel approach to release an album. Fans like it when you come out and do personal stuff. I get the value of that.
What was the inspiration for stripping down some of your older songs?
I realized that there are a lot of stories behind my songs that are fun to tell. I wanted to see if they'd hold up and I could pull it off. If you can't get it across with just a guitar and voice, something is missing.
You were very candid in your 2010 memoir, "Late, Late at Night." How did it feel to have all your personal stuff out there?
I enjoyed writing it, but once I realized other people were going to read it, I got very nervous. I called the publisher and said, "You can't release this book!" They talked me off the ledge and convinced me that it should be out there and not to worry about the dark stuff like my depression. I bit the bullet and went with it. Everyone was very supportive.
"Jessie's Girl" has resonated with fans for decades. Why does that song stand out among the rest?
It's a familiar story told with a bit of humor that was released in the summer. People just picked up on it. I think I've written better songs, but that seems to be the one people know the most.
How do you feel about being considered an icon of the '80s?
I'm comfortable with it in that I get the pigeonholing thing. But I think the best stuff I've done has been outside of the '80s. On the other side of that, I'm glad I'm not completely forgotten.
What kind of impact did being on "General Hospital" have on your music career?
It was both positive and negative, as life always is. I'm a big believer in ying-yang. There's nothing all great and nothing all bad, it's usually a combination of both. It was great in that it added fuel to the rocket ride and it was bad in that some radio stations stopped playing "Jessie's Girl" once they found out I was on a soap opera. There's always been the thought that I'm a one-dimension pop guy. But I'm actually a three-dimensional pop dweeb.
What's your current live show like?
It's a storytelling format. The great thing about it is that I can change it up because there are no other band members to cue. Even in the question and answer session, people can say, "Why didn't you play this song?" and I can just pick up the guitar and start singing it. I love that aspect of it. It's intimate and very free-form.
You seem fan friendly. Do you enjoy meeting them?
I haven't always been like that, but once I realized they were doing it for reasons, I thought it was about time I did, too. I realized the importance and genuineness of real fans. I like to meet them. They come from the same place you did when you first got into music and someone caught your ear. We are all fans of somebody. When I first met Paul McCartney, it was a big deal to me.
When did you start to embrace it?
I took a break in 1985, when things were still roaring. I got very down and had to pull the plug to survive. I was away for a long time. I did my first live gig in the early '90s, and the people who came out were really excited. It was a thrilling experience and I really got that connection.
In the song, "If Wishes Were Fishes," you say, "I wish people would stop calling me Rick Springsteen." Is that something you've dealt with a lot?
Yeah, I have, but it's really a joke. There is some confusion, and I get it with the name. It couldn't be much closer. I heard Bruce gets that occasionally, too, so I don't feel so bad. But I've actually never met him.
Your live shows are known for their high energy. What keeps you so pumped on stage?
I absolutely love playing live. It's like you are throwing your best party and everybody is there for the right reason. I totally get my energy from the audience. I can go up there not as pumped as normal and the fans just lift me up.
You are going to be in "Ricki and the Flash" with Meryl Streep. What was it like acting opposite her?
We shot it in New York last fall. I play Meryl's boyfriend. She's the singer in a band. The story, written by Diablo Cody, is amazing. Kevin Kline plays her ex-husband. Jonathan Demme directed it. It was a great experience and I learned a lot.
Last year you celebrated 30 years of marriage. How do you balance your personal life and being in the entertainment business?
I'm actually away less than a regular hardworking person. I found a great balance. I don't go away for six months at a time. The longest I go away is for two weeks. Home life has always been important to me. My family is No. 1 and it helps that it's my focus.
You often use dogs on your album covers. What do dogs bring to your life?
They are Prozac covered in fur! I've had as many as three, but I have one at the moment, a Norwich terrier called Bindi. I've always had dogs in my life. They are the greatest invention.
You are 65, but you look far younger. How do you pull that off?
I watch what I eat and work out. I realized that it didn't matter if I was rich and famous or married happily if I wasn't well.
What is coming up next for you musically?
I'm in the middle of recording a new record. I have 15 new songs filled with great hooks and lyrics that say something about certain moments in my life. I even wrote a song with Jay DeMarcus from Rascal Flatts. It will be coming out later this year.
RICK SPRINGFIELDWHEN | WHERE Noon, Saturday Looney Tunes, 31 Brookline Ave., West Babylon
INFO Must purchase CD (sold out, check for last-minte availability), 631-587-7722, ltcds.com
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He's Back Rick Springfield records, tours and nabs movie, TV roles
Rick Springfield records, tours and nabs movie, TV roles
By JULIA ANN WEEKES
NH Weekend Editor
Rick Springfield has 17 Top 40 hits, a Grammy Award and sales of more than 25 million albums, but at 65,
the versatile performer is racking up some career firsts — including jamming with a guitar-toting Meryl Streep and shooting scenes for the new season of HBO's hit "True Detective" series.
Springfield, known for tunes including "Jessie's Girl," "Affair of the Heart," "I've Done Everything for You" and "Don't Talk to Strangers," brings his "Stripped Down" tour to New Hampshire for a show Sunday night at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.
Coinciding with the winter road trip, a CD/DVD to be released Tuesday, Feb. 24, focuses on some of the pared-down performances he's been doing as of late. The more intimate shows include behind-the-scene stories, Q&A segments with the audience and fan favorites, including the comedic tune "If Wishes were Fishes." (Among the things he lists as his own wishes are that his neighbor would choke on his yappy dog, that he'd never seen Miley Cyrus twerk and that people would quit calling him Rick Springsteen.)
Springfield recently shared some thoughts about expanding his acting resume, releasing one disc and working on another, and sacrificing some sleep to fit it all in between ongoing full-band and solo-show gigs.
NH Weekend: I understand that (in addition to releasing the "Stripped Down" CD/DVD), there's another new disc in the works. Where are you in the process, and what kind of vibe are you exploring?
Springfield: We've just finished recording the basics for 15 new tracks and are hoping to be done pretty soon ... maybe a month. I'm touring a lot in February so I'll have to work around that. The vibe is positive, upbeat songs mostly with big hooks and lots of guitars. (This disc is slated for release late this year or early next year.)
NH Weekend: You've played some interesting versions of yourself from "Californication" to "Family Guy," and now you're sharing screen time with Meryl Streep for the film "Ricki and the Flash" and appearing in the second season of HBO's gritty crime series "True Detective" with Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn. What do these two latest roles bring to the table for you? Are they tapping into certain aspects of your own career and life?
Springfield: Yes and no. Every actor uses what he can from personal stuff in a role, but it has to go further than that, otherwise you're just playing yourself all the time. The writing on both projects is so great and the casts amazing, so it's kicking up my acting game — playing with the big boys and girls.
NH Weekend: Your performance schedule over the years seems consistently jammed with solo shows, full-band performances and concert cruises, yet you've somehow found time to pen books (a memoir, "Late, Late Night," and a novel, "Magnificent Vibration"), pursue acting gigs, and contribute to projects like Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl's "Sound City — Real to Reel" project in between all that. How do you find the energy, motivation and enthusiasm? And do you ever sleep?
Springfield: I do sleep — Mondays from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. I love what I do, so the energy is there naturally. It's not always fun. Sometimes (there's) a lot of pressure, but over all I get very high from doing different things.
NH Weekend: During the Q&A last spring at your show at The Colonial Theatre in Keene, I got a kick out of seeing how loyal your fanbase remains, with audience members waving album covers of 1981's "Working Class Dog," telling stories of how your music has impacted their lives, and, of course, asking for birthday hugs, autographs and cell phone pix. I would imagine that over the decades, you've gotten used to these reactions, but are there moments when it's surreal? Any instances recently that stick in your mind?
Springfield: There are times when I sit back and say, 'What the eff happened?' Most of the time, it's just life.
The number of years some folks have been fans is pretty humbling.
As far as surreal moments, certainly walking into a rehearsal room and seeing Meryl Streep with a guitar strapped to her and knowing we were going to jam was pretty up there.
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'It was pretty intimidating:' Rick Springfield on making out with Meryl Streep
By Larry Getlen
Photo: Jay Gilbert
Here was a time when Rick Springfield really did not want to talk about himself.
As the "Jessie's Girl" singer prepared to release his 2010 memoir, "Late, Late at Night," he became so nervous about the book that he tried to shut it down.
"I finished writing it, and about six weeks before release, I called the publisher and said I don't want this released, because I suddenly realized that people would be reading it," says Springfield. "They talked me off the ledge."
Since then, Springfield has concocted a concert format in which he plays songs and tells stories that span his 65 years. He was scheduled to perform at the Concert Hall at New York Society for Ethical Culture on Saturday; "Stripped Down" — a CD/DVD version of the show — hits stores Feb. 24.
"The song I wrote when I was 15, 'Painted Girl,' I pulled out of the closet for a laugh," says Springfield. "I tried to make it sound like The Beatles, but it didn't work, because I was a 15-year-old kid. Now I play it as it sounded in my head, very Beatles-like, and it's kind of cool."
In his 30s, Springfield joined the soap opera "General Hospital," but it's now, at an age when most are
easing into retirement, that he's really getting some Hollywood cred.
In the film "Ricki and the Flash," he plays the love interest of none other than Meryl Streep. And on Season 2 of the HBO hit "True Detective," Springfield has a top-secret role. Both are due this summer.
In "Ricki," Streep stars as an aging rock star looking to make amends to the people left in her wake over the years. Springfield was cast for a touch of authenticity. "I was on the road, and I got a call saying they were looking for an actor who can play guitar for real," he recalls.
Streep, meanwhile, only picked up a guitar two months before filming. Still, Springfield insists, "I've seen photos from the set and she looks more comfortable with a guitar on her than I do! It's pretty amazing. I saw how brave she was — and she didn't need to be because she's who she is, but she was experimenting. She learned it all — not just playing the guitar, but playing and singing [at the same time]."
He admits that co-starring — and making out — with Streep had its nervewracking moments.
"It was pretty intimidating at first, but she was incredibly welcoming," he says. "We're playing boyfriend and girlfriend, and she scanned that from the get-go. She was very affectionate, welcoming and warm. [But] it was hard for me, when doing a scene with her, not to stop myself and go, 'Wow.' "
As for "True Detective," he can only say that he shot one episode of the show so far and might be shooting more in March, and that this is a "very different" role than people are used to seeing him in.
"[HBO] wouldn't even acknowledge that I was in the cast, initially," Springfield says. "They have a CIA clamp on. Someone offered one of the makeup people like 10 grand to spill the beans on the new season!"
Original Article http://nypost.com/2015/02/14/it-was-pretty-intimidating-rick-springfield-on-making-out-with-meryl-streep/
Stripped Down shows announced
"Stripped Down" shows just added to the tour schedule:
March 21 - Lakeside Casino - Osceola, IA
April 10 - Texan Theater - Greenville, TX
April 19 - Lincoln Theater - Washington, DC
Photo by Jim Distin
Texas shows cancelled
Due to scheduling conflicts, two Texas "Stripped Down" shows have been cancelled:
March 5 - Corpus Christi
March 6 - El Paso
Interview: 'Rick Springfield' Talks His Tour, General Hospital And Working With Meryl Streep
Rick Springfield is out on tour and doing stripped down shows. Just him with a guitar playing and telling stories to the audience. He's also in a new movie with Meryl Streep "Ricki and the Flash" and we talked a little about General Hospital. He's coming to Texas for shows in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. You can listen below to the interview.
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Novel Transistor Design Blasts Single Electrons Through Circuits
Computer engineers at the University of Rochester have thrown out the rulebook on transistor design and put together a prototype nano-scale transistor that is radically different from any other type of semiconductor. Christened the "Ballistic Deflection Transistor" (BDT), the new device works by bouncing individual electrons off deflectors, something akin to a game of billiards played at the atomic scale at unimaginable speeds.
Rochester's Quentin Diduck, who came up with the radical new design, believes the BDT is the next evolutionary step in semiconductor physics. "Everyone has been trying to make better transistors by modifying current designs, but what we really need is the next paradigm," said Diduck.
Driving the development of the BDT is the quest for more speed and better efficiency. While current transistor designs are still viable, the amount of heat they generate and the electrical "leaks" created by their size have already begun to limit their speed. Some other research groups around the world are working on BDT-like single-electron transistors, but these other designs still compute by starting and stopping the flow of electrons just like conventional transistor designs. The Ballistic Deflection Transistor differs significantly in this functionality, as it works by bouncing the electrons into their chosen trajectories – using inertia to redirect for "free," instead of wrestling the electrons into place with brute energy. This means the BDT produces far less heat and runs far faster than standard transistors.
The BDT resembles a roadway intersection, except in the middle of the intersection sits a triangular block. From the "south" an electron is fired, as it approaches the crossroads, it passes through an electrical field that pushes the electron slightly east or west. When the electron reaches the middle of the intersection, it "bounces" off one side of the triangle block and is deflected straight along either the east or west roads. In this way, if the electron current travels along the east road, it may be counted as a zero, and as a one if it travels down the west road.
Diduck says a chip using BDTs would use very little power, create very little heat, be highly resistant to "noise" inherent in electronic systems, and should be easy to manufacture with current technologies. And they would also be incredibly fast. All of which was good enough for the National Science Foundation to tip in over $1 million in funding to develop a prototype.
The team is now busy fabricating a prototype although much of the infrastructure needed to create the prototype will have to be built from scratch as well. "We're talking about a chip speed measured in terahertz, a thousand times faster than today's desktop transistors" Diduck said. "We have to figure out how to test it because there's no such thing as a terahertz oscilloscope!"
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A report was recently out saying that up to 25% of all the money flowing around the country is under the table, dinero negro, as they say in Spanish, and even the biggest companies are culpable of such dastardly deeds. That's right, 25% of Spain's GNP is hidden somewhere out of reach from governmental hands. That's about the same percentage that represents, according to official sources, the level of unemployment in this country. Of course, that figure is also under scrutiny, as anyone can tell you. Just how it's possible for a country to survive this crisis with 1 and every 4 out of a job, let alone have time to frequent tapas bars, is beyond belief. And it is. That's why we shouldn't be startled when we discover that as many as 1,000,000 of the reported 6,000,000 workers on the dole are actually receiving wages on a regular basis. On the side. This isn't just the result of slyness on the part of the employee, though some may be collecting unemployment benefits and then tacking some on surreptitiously, but it is also a testament to the pitiful practices performed by companies where if you want social security and other basic labor rights coverage, you'll just have to find a job elsewhere. I can personally attest to the fact that services will continually give you the option to pay with or without IVA (sales tax).
One thing is for sure, if economic recessions trigger anything, it's cunning behavior as people, fearful of their situation getting worse, try to horde as much cash as possible without anyone knowing.
Regardless, the underground economy is nothing new to this country, and if anything, was probably even more rampant years ago. When I first started out, language schools habitually paid you on an official level for far fewer than you were ever making. I am writing this with the full knowledge that I am confessing to fiscal misconduct, but hoping that Spain's statute of limitations does not extend beyond 20 years here.
"I'll pay you for ten hours a week."
"But I teach thirty. What about the rest?"
"I said I'll pay you for the ten hours a week, if you get me."
I got the message. "Won't the Treasury find that suspicious?"
"Nah! Don't you worry them."
And no one did. Especially when Spain was just entering the digital age and it was a lot easier to make things just kind of disappear. Plus, when you were young and didn't care about those things, the way you didn't care about smoking, drinking, graying, aging, dying, etc. You didn't care about pensions or unemployment benefits. Moreover, you were an English teacher in Spain, and English teachers are never out of a job. They are like the professional antithesis of an actor.
The school I work at now has its own language school which was a separate entity back then, and conditions were hazardously similar. As a young man, I didn't fret about those matters, but it was a reckless way to live and irresponsible on everyone's part. But one little perk entailed an invitation by the business officer to a Christmas dinner in the lunchroom. That may not have had an appealing ring to it, but bear in mind that drinking and smoking were still permitted on school property back then, so a full-fledged adult meal was allowed. In fact, and this will surprise more than a number of readers, wine was served at lunchtime. The staff table was in the same room as with the students and large 1-liter bottles of standard wine stood like mortar shells on the surface. And teachers were known to stroll through the halls during breaks with smoking a butt casually and telling kids to go out to the playground to get some fresh air, for the love of God. "It's good for you!"
So, that wasn't an issue. Nor was the food itself. It was one thing what they slopped on your plate on a daily basis, and another thing what the school business officer was going to tolerate at Christmas. And I tell you he wasn't going to foot for meatloaf. Normally there were huge platters piled with seafood, with a representative of nearly every major kind of shellfish: baby shrimp, shrimp, jumbo shrimp, Swedish lobster, clams, mussels, crabs, even the coveted goose-neck barnacles. Yes, these black rubbery species of what is scientifically known as a pollicipes has the appearance of what I imagine the toe of a three-toed sloth would look like, and is one of the most highly prized fruits of the sea. Part of this has to do, once again, with the scarcity of existence at the market, because this is not something you can scrape off your neighbor's schooner at the marina, but rather an unusual delicacy which is harvested by brave if not temerarious fishermen who reach remote surf-battered rocks on the coast and scour them off the stone between crashing waves. The percebeiros, as they are known up in Galicia, risk life and limb to ensure your holiday is a little more festive. And they do it because they are paid handsomely for it. Which is also why a kilo can cost up to $100.
At least that's the way they used to be done. Now they are also cultivated in controlled conditions. But the real pricey ones, the ones they say taste the best and that, if you ask me, is seasoned by the perverse thought that some poor sod has nearly been killed in order to see to it your Christmas is complete.
In any event, once that business officer retired, the seafood fests disappeared. At least as we knew them. Our salaries were finally made official, which meant we made less monthly but were contributing to social welfare and earning points towards our retirement down the road. The Christmas dinner moved off campus to a nearby restaurant, and was no longer compliments of the school. This new variety continued for a few more years until it finally fizzled out altogether. With a new boss at the helm of the language school, the custom was reinstituted, and with the added bonus that the meal was courtesy of the company. Life was good again.
Life wasn't lobster. But it was good again. We went to a nearby family Italian restaurant called Pinocho which featured tables with beer taps in the center so that the customers could serve themselves. Consumption was displayed in tenths of a liter on a TV screen above for all to see, and this playful addition is a source of plenty of jokes. We were also served freshly made pizzas, mussels cooked in sauce, chopitos (tiny fried squid), cheese, white asparagus, and some jumpo shrimp called langostinos. Pinocho, in addition to Italian food, is also known for its sliced beef which is heated on a hot stone, but we didn't go that far. It was an informal, easy-going affair. I guess we were happy that we had jobs with salaries and full coverage. I guess we were happy to have jobs at all.
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Today in history… tense gun siege grips nation
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A six-day armed siege in the centre of London gripped millions of TV viewers after it began on December 6th, 1975.
The 'Balcombe Street Siege' involved four members of the IRA who burst into a flat and took its two occupants hostage to escape police officers who were pursing them across London. Unwilling to jeopardise the lives of the hostages, armed police surrounded the building and sealed off nearby streets, beginning the tense stand-off.
The day's events began outside Scott's restaurant, in Mayfair. Almost a month earlier, on November 12th, the IRA had thrown a bomb through the restaurant window, killing one and injuring 15 others. It was part of an organised campaign of gun and bomb attacks targeted on London in 1974 and '75.
Police noticed a pattern in which some targets were attacked more than once, so after the November 12th attack they mounted surveillance on Scott's. It paid off on December 6th when an undercover officer saw a Ford Cortina slow to a halt outside the restaurant before its occupants opened fire on its front window.
A radio alert immediately went out and two other plain clothes officers flagged down a taxi as the fleeing gunmen approached their position, telling the driver to follow the stolen Cortina. Despite being unarmed, the officers – Inspector John Purnell and Sergeant Phil McVeigh – tailed the terrorists for several miles across central London. They used their radios to bring other officers into the chase, with the IRA men firing shots at their pursuers
As the net closed around them, the increasingly desperate gunmen abandoned their car and forced their way into a block of council flats in Balcombe Street, Marylebone. When the occupant of 22b, Sheila Matthews, opened her door to see what all the commotion was, the gunmen barged past her, barricading themselves in her flat and taking Sheila and her husband John as hostages.
Holed up in the flat and surrounded by police, the IRA men demanded a plane to fly both them and their hostages to Ireland. The police refused, beginning several days of protracted negotiations by phone and loud hailer, all watched from a distance by TV crews, press photographers and reporters. Millions of people followed the real-life drama through regular news bulletins.
Psychological pressure was used against the hostage takers, including broadcasting some misinformation in news bulletins which the police knew the gang could hear on a radio. They finally gave themselves up and were arrested on December 12th, after hearing a BBC radio broadcast which suggested elite soldiers from the SAS were planning to storm the building and release the hostages.
The gang – part of a six-man IRA 'Active Service Unit' (ASU) based in London – were charged with 20 bombings and seven murders, including that of co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, Ross McWhirter. He was assassinated after publicly offering a £50,000 reward for information on IRA activists in London. At the conclusion of their trial in 1977, they were each handed multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.
In the end they served 23 years behind bars before being freed in April 1999 under the terms of the previous year's Good Friday Agreement, the multi-party peace deal for Northern Ireland. Several of the police officers involved in the chase across London and subsequent siege were decorated for bravery, including Insp. Purnell, who was awarded the George Medal.
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China Eastern loves special liveries and no matter your thoughts on their plain new scheme you can be sure a significant number of the fleet will be wearing much brighter colours. China as a growing world economic power has been keen to highlight its progress in recent years and in 2011 hosted the International Horticultural Exposition, which gave China Eastern the opportunity to paint three members of its fleet in support of the event.
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Cross-connection means any actual or potential connection between a potable water supply or system and any source of pollution or contamination and includes any by-pass, jumper connection, removable section of pipe, swivel or changeover device and any other temporary connecting arrangement through which backflow may occur.
Backflow prevention ensures that potable water is protected against the entry of contaminants, pollutants, infectious agents or other materials or substances. This is achieved through the installation of an appropriate backflow prevention device at the water connection where this potential exists. The main water supply must also be isolated by installing a backflow prevention device at or near the meter.
Backflow occurs as a result of either back siphonage, back pressure or both. Back siphonage is a reversal of normal water flow in a system caused by a negative pressure in the water line. Back siphonage is induced when there is a reduction in, or stoppage of, the main water supply pressure due to nearby fire fighting, repairs or breaks in watermains. Backflow can also occur when there is an increase in the downstream water pressure above that of the supplied water pressure (back pressure) or, when there is a direct cross-connection between the potable water supply and another process line which has the potential to transmit a contaminant into the potable supply.
While the possibility of such events occurring and contaminating potable water supplies may seem like an industrial or institutional problem, backflow can occur in any water supply line including individual residential units. The potential for contamination and fatal illness due to accidental poisoning does exist in every home. Therefore there is a need to raise awareness of this issue with all residential, as well as, all industrial, commercial and institutional water customers in Guelph.
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Q: how to replace duplicates in row 2d array I have an 2d array with chars 6x6 and looks something like this and Im trying to create an method witch needs to replace duplicates in row with '@' character
 a b a a
 a a b c
 a a a b
 a a a a

and after replacing with method should look like this
a b @ @
a @ b c
a @ @ b
a @ @ @

I have tried this method but no results "I need to make this work without libraries"
 public  void RemoveDuplicates(char[,] array)
    {
        char symbol = '@';

        for (int i = 0; i < array.GetLength(0); i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < array.GetLength(1); j++)
            {
                int temp = array[i, j];
                int next = ++temp;

                if(temp == next)
                {
                    next = symbol;
                }

            }
        }
    }

A: You can use Hashset (or list also) collection (docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/concepts/collections)  to store your duplicates as follows:
    var hash = new HashSet<char>();

    for (int i = 0; i < array.GetLength(0); i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; j < array.GetLength(1); j++)
        {
             if(!hash.Add(array[i,j])) array[i,j] = '@';
        }
        hash.Clear();
    }

Or list as follows:
    var list = new List<char>();

            for (int i = 0; i < array.GetLength(0); i++)
            {
                for (int j = 0; j < array.GetLength(1); j++)
                {
                    if(!list.Contains(array[i,j])) list.Add(array[i,j]);
                    else array[i,j] = '@';
                }
                list.Clear();
            }

A: Probably not the fastest solution but pretty simple to understand
Considering this input
var data = new char[,]
        {
            { 'a', 'b', 'a', 'a' },
            { 'a', 'a', 'b', 'c' },
            { 'a', 'a', 'a', 'b' },
            { 'a', 'a', 'a', 'a' },
        };

With this code it will take each row, one by one, then replace duplicated values
        //for each row
        for (int i = 0; i < data.GetLength(0); i++)
        {
            //for each cell
            for (int j = 0; j < data.GetLength(1); j++)
            {
                //for each cell compare all next cells
                for (int k = data.GetLength(1) - 1; k > j; k--)
                {
                    if (data[i, j] == data[i, k])
                    {
                        data[i, k] = '@';
                    }
                }
            }
        }

Result:
a b @ @
a @ b c
a @ @ b
a @ @ @

PS: You can improve a bit the code by iterating "data.GetLength(1) -1" as the last cell cant have a duplicate.
And skip the loop if the value of the cell is '@', in the current code you will replace some '@' by another '@' :D

A: The goal should be to keep track of all previously seen characters. So you need some kind of 'set' data structure for this. The easy way would be to use an HashSet. This has an add method that adds the value to the set, and return false if the value was already in the set.
var seenCharacters = new HashSet<char>();
for (int j = 0; j < array.GetLength(1); j++)
{
    if(!seenCharacters.Add(array[i, j])){
         array[i, j] = symbol;
    }
}

HashSet is part of the framework, so would not normally be considered a "library".
If that is now allowed you could provide similar functionality with an plain array.
var seenCharacters = new bool[(int)char.MaxValue];
for (int j = 0; j < array.GetLength(1); j++)
{
    var c = (int)array[i, j];
    if(seenCharacters[c]){
         array[i, j] = symbol;
    }
    seenCharacters[c] = true;
}

But I would probably not recommend such a solution since it uses much more memory compared to the hashSet.

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Many years back yonder, some friends and I had a weekend camping trip planned to the coast. A hurriance warning scared us off, and we ended up car camping at an empty field in the middle of an old farm owned by the grandfather of one of my friends. It was so comfortable compared to our usual outings that we started referring to it as The Weekend of Gracious Living.
That's how our weekend felt. Earlier today, while still at the resort, I said to Mr. Four, "So, did you forget you lived in Cairo?" and he said yup. The both of us, for a little while, were so immersed in relaxation that we totally forgot about our regular lives.
The resort was fantastic, and, to our delight, very accommodating of kids. The lagoon-like pool with its multiple graded entries and large shallow areas was great fun for the boys. And the beach was perfect too, with a playground, lots of clean sand, and a shallow swimming area with lots of little fish to chase. Mr. Four and I sat on our comfortable beach and pool recliners and read novels while the boys dashed around, swam, and played.
And there were tons of other (mostly European) families there as well, so our kids weren't the only ones running around and having fun, which meant we didn't have to worry about them bothering anyone.
The other day I mentioned that I feel like I'm a day ahead, not just six hours ahead, of the east coast. I still do: at 4pm today, we were back home and getting ready for our last evening before work and school resume tomorrow, while in the US, it was 10am and time to start the weekend. Very odd.
Anyway, I have more to say about our beach trip (with photos!), plus I'll start answering your great questions soon, so hang tight and check back.
In addition to being six-seven hours ahead of the East Coast (depending on daylight savings), it also feels like we're a day ahead because of our Sunday-Thursday work week. So right now, as I'm about to start packing for a weekend trip, folks in the US are in the midst of a Wednesday, halfway through their work week.
It's also really weird on Sunday morning when I get to work and realize, even at noon, that my friends and family back home are probably still sleeping on their day off.
So we're going to a resort at the Red Sea this weekend, a place only about an hour and a half from Cairo, and we're all excited. Giggle, as far as we know, has never seen the sea up close (though he's flown over the Atlantic twice), and he talks about it constantly. The sea there is very shallow, so very kid friendly, and this place has a beautiful shallow/ramp entry pool (a colleague went last weekend and was raving about it). Plus the very reasonable rate includes breakfast and dinner buffets.
It'll be great to get out of the city, which we've been half-planning to do for a few weeks. I'm glad we're finally making it happen.
And the resort is very western-oriented. What does that mean? Alcohol! And shorts and skirts that don't cover the knees! In fact, guests aren't even allowed to cover up too much. One of their few rules goes as follows: "Only proper swim wear is allowed. No cut off jeans, pants, long costumes dresses & long swimming suits are allowed in the pool." I suspect they added in the part about cut off jeans so it didn't look like they were targeting Muslim women. Or maybe not.
We're on a tight timeline tomorrow as I have an early afternoon meeting at work, and then I'll dash home so we can leave and our taxi driver can back to Cairo for his family's iftar. So I'm packing tonight and won't have much time for blogging.
I probably won't be checking in much and I won't be posting any entries for a few days. In the meantime, please ask some questions (the first few are great and merit some thinking on my part).
Of course I have more to share about life in Egypt, the boys, Mr. Four, and lots of other things, but I'm wondering what my faithful readers want to know.
Last Friday we went to the Pyramids again. Why? Well, that's a question I've been asking myself for days, but unfortunately myself is being uncooperative and won't explain a thing.
Actually, I know why we went. We wanted to go to the beach, but we futzed around with planning and it didn't happen. (You actually have to make these kind of plans in advance here! Can you believe it?!) And some friends had a group trip planned to Giza, so along we went. It was nice the first time, but that trip was all about the camels. This time, I wanted to learn something.
Friends, I'm here to tell you that learning is overrated. What's underrated is the debilitating combination of heat, general crankiness (I had worked late the night before and Mr. Four hadn't slept well himself), and being on a trip not planned with children in mind. Plus add in really aggressive peddlers of made-in-China Pharonic crappola.
I've been in Egypt six weeks and already I've decided that any friends who come to visit are going to have to go to Giza by themselves. That's right: I'm already sick of the remaining wonder of the ancient world. Thank goodness the rest have disappeared!
Mr. Four is chiming in here that the trip wasn't that bad. And the kids say they liked it, though Giggle was quick to add he wants to go to the beach this next weekend.
In any case, I am pleased with some of the photos.
And we did see the very cool Solar Boat (so named not because of its energy source but because of a poor translation of something that seems really to mean Sun Boat), which was found in pieces buried next to a pyramid, and then carefully reconstructed over several years. The boat was buried, we were told, so that the souls of the dead Pharoahs could catch a ride if need be.
At some point I hope to forget how crabby I was that day and only remember the good parts.
Oh, and this weekend? We're going to the beach.
Oodles more photos are on my flickr site (the latest photos are the last ones).
Not really, but we are making friends. Or at least people are being nice to us.
Mr. Four was invited to play golf last week with a stay-at-home dad at his country club. It was still pretty pricey, even with a discount, but Mr. Four had a good time. You'll have to ask him to comment on the golfing. Oh, wait, I just did. He said, "It was good" and "it was nice." So there you go.
Also, I was invited to lunch by a nice American woman colleague.
Plus we had another playdate with our friends with the daughter who is also from Ethiopia. The boys really like her. They even gave her kisses and hugs when we said goodbye. And she cried when she realized we weren't going with her! How sweet (except for the part where she was sad).
And-because there's more!-we were all invited to dinner on Friday night! I don't want to go into details, but the people we visited have a certain access to a massive quantity of American goods. I walked into their apartment and felt like I stepped through a worm hole back to the US. I practically swooned at the sight of Breyer's ice cream. They had candy corn! And Hershey's kisses! It all seemed so incredibly normal.
The best part is that they liked us! So maybe we'll be invited back.
The worst part is that now I'm homesick. A very wise friend (ha, really I'm talking about one of three people total when I say "friend in Cairo") said it was a very dangerous time to visit the other friend's house. I was just starting to forget about some of the comforts of home.
Ah well. The brownies, French vanilla ice cream, and warm hot fudge were so worth it.
I worked late on Thursday, til 9pm, and took a taxi home in lieu of the metro. I hear it's quite safe even at night, and Cairo is considered a safe place for women to walk alone most times of day or night (you may get verbally harassed, but you won't get mugged or assaulted), but I decided to forgo experiencing this for myself.
So I hailed a cab downtown, and almost right away the driver asked me, a couple of times, "Are you krees – tee – un?" before I finally understood he was asking me if I was Christian, a pretty safe bet to make of a white foreigner.
But it's not a question I hear very often, and I was flummoxed. Technically, no. And in the US, I would answer no. But why was this guy asking me this? Because in the sense of how I was raised, I am Christian (Catholic, actually). So, tentatively, I said (much to my own surprise), "Yes." Then he told me he was Christian.
He also asked me how much I'd pay for him for the ride. That's a big no-no in Cairo's taxi-land. The passenger is expected to know a fair fare (ha ha) for the ride, and that's what the driver expects to be paid. No meters, no conversation, nothing. I knew a fair price for my ride was about 25LE, or even 18-20LE at non-busy times. So I offered, "20?" I should have been more confident. He said no, so I fussed and grabbed the door handle and said I was getting out. He found this amusing and retorted, "25." Deal!
That was pretty much the entirety of our conversations. But he was a nice guy. He didn't know my part of town very well, and I was having a hard time recognizing landmarks in the dark, so we went a round-about way to get to my building. I actually paid him 30LE, about $5.35. Not shockingly generous, but money goes a long way here. And he was a really nice guy. I was glad I fibbed my way through his original question.
Fast forward to Friday night. Our family was invited to a (new) friend's house for dinner. She lives near us, but in a different area of town. She gave me directions, when usually I just tell the driver our destination. The other complication was that it was just before dusk, meaning just before iftar. Meaning there was a good chance most drivers hadn't eaten for over twelve hours. The roads were already pretty empty, as most folks were home for iftar, and we felt lucky to get a taxi at all.
In attempting to direct the taxi, however, we got close but missed the street. And, surprisingly, the driver didn't know how to find the street we wanted, a pretty significant one. He got increasingly frustrated, as did we. We own mobile phones here, but they're not set up yet (two different processes here), so we had no way of calling our friends for clarification. Plus we couldn't really talk to the driver. As he grew even more agitated, Mr. Four suggested we got out of the taxi and go home. The driver was a little bit scary.
Finally, we did get out. But not before the driver was swearing and yelling at us. I have never been so glad not to understand a language. His message was coming through loud and clear, even sans details.
I also knew that whatever we paid him (because I had the small bills at that point) would not be enough. So when we were all out of the cab and firmly on the sidewalk, I told Mr. Four to start walking with the kids, and I gave the driver 7LE, a more than fair fare. He yelled and screamed and swore (we recognized some choice English words) and then he drove off.
Ugh. Mr Four and I were a bit stressed. But we finally oriented ourselves and started walking, only to discover we were about two blocks from our friend's apartment. And they were so great, we got over it. But, wow, I really hope never to see that man again.
Now, I'm going to cheat and tell you about a third driver, the one who attempted to teach me basic navigational Arabic on the short ride from the metro to my house (3LE). I can't remember any of it now, but he had me practicing left, right, stop, etc. He was an excellent ambassador.
Ho, ho, ho, Merry Ramadan!
How does one decorate for Ramadan? Why, with Christmas lights, of course!
And how do I know they're Christmas lights? Because I saw some for sale today, and the boxes had some lovely pictures of Santa in the snow with his reindeer.
Earlier in the week, I completely forgot. I bought a sandwich and drink and went outside and ate it. Then, after I finished, I realized how obnoxious that was, as I had been sitting in a busy area, surrounded by Egyptians.
The strangest part of Ramadan has been how empty the streets are at iftar, as I mentioned in a previous post. Last night, I worked a bit later than usual, to about 5:15, and the metro was empty. It was glorious. I had an actual seat!
And how much do they get for driving me the few minutes to my house from the metro? A whopping 3 LE, which is about fifty cents. And keep in mind I'm paying the inflated foreigner rate!
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Bug thinks Ramadan is a person. More specifically, a man who stands in the street outside our apartment and pops balloons.
The boys are enjoying our evening walks, new for Ramadan. If we leave our apartment right around dark, at 6:30pm (we've set the clocks back here already), the streets are empty of cars (think: Christmas morning, but warm, so more like Christmas morning in Florida), perfect for a casual stroll. Plus the Ramadan lanterns are lit up, and the decorations are lovely.
Mr. Four: Why do they need a whole month?
Me: Well, the internet was really slow back then. And the Koran is a big book. It probably took that whole month to download.
So Ramadan has not been nearly as challenging as expected for this family of non-observers. More on this in future posts.
On a typical workday, I walk up two sets of stairs and down one to get to my train. Downtown, I walk down one set of stairs and up three to get to the street level. At my office, I walk up one set of stairs to get to the main entrance. And this doesn't include stepping up or down curbs, which are about eight feet tall. Okay, maybe more like eight inches. Or maybe even twelve. Suffice it to say they are high.
On a non-typical day, I might have to walk up three flights of stairs to get to my office, and up and down several flights to get to my apartment (though fortunately the elevator has always worked when we've needed to go up).
All these stairs are good for me, but woe is me if I ever have a limp or crutches. This is not a city for the disabled.
And speaking of elevators: my building has two elevators, side by side. The ground floor is zero. Neither elevator stops on the first floor. One of the elevators stops at every floor from two up.
But the other elevator? It only stops at the odd numbered floors. Lucky for us, we live on an odd floor. But we are perplexed. Why the (sorta) exclusive elevator? Is rent higher on these floors? I need answers!
Most of you readers, I suspect, are people who actually know us or are folks who have some connection to Ethiopian kids or Egypt or something or other.
First off, for some of my colleagues, how about that natural language searching?
Next, ethiopian corn? I can't imagine that searcher found what they wanted here. And to answer the camel question: very big. And to answer the last question: yes, move to Cairo.
Next, a few folks have asked about the pseudonyms. (Confession: my children's names are not actually Giggle and Bug.) My kids' names are unusual and I don't want them to hate me even more as teenagers, so I'm trying to keep things a bit private.
The cat had a pseudonym because I didn't want to leave him out. And, yes, our nanny has a pseudonym, though careful readers will note I have given her a new Ethiopian name. How culturally sensitive of me.
Mr. Four's name has drawn some comments. I was following a pretty common convention amongst women bloggers of called their partners Mr. NameoftheBlog.
I'm open to suggestions for new psedonyms. If I pick yours, you win! I'll send you a postcard from Egypt. As soon as I can figure out where to buy postcards.
Finally, another interesting note: have you ever used Google News alerts to send you an email when something is published in an area of interest? A friend of mine here in Cairo gets alerts when something about "Egypt" is published online. And she gets feeds from my blogs. That's right. Google News is aggregating this very blog.


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at the check-in the lady looked at my passport and told me i could not fly out of the country because i have a damaged passport.
just to let you know, i got an small tear on the first page on the top right. that happend in India because the immigration officer was not careful at all.
i could still travel in india and nepal without problems.
in the end we missed our flight, they told me its my fault because my passport is damaged and i cant get a refund on it. we spend 5 hours in the airport and had to book a hotel in kuala lumpur.
is this even possible that they can avoid a check-in because of a passport that has a small tear in it?
by the way, the ground staff from air asia were very rude, unfriendly and did not help us in any way. that was the last time we fly or book with them!
yea it's tough but passport damage is non-negotiable in most cases.
Not your fault, but inconvenient anyway.


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Narom language, sometimes spelt Narum, a Malayo-Polynesian language
Narum (group), a Norwegian folk/country group

Persons
Bill Narum (1947-2009), American artist, illustrator, and Texas counter-culture icon
Buster Narum, (1940–2004), American baseball player

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Most often, it is nudged in the back corner: the plus-size section, where women who are a size 14 or larger are forced to shop.
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I would really like to know your opinion on why you feel it is so hard to take the time to schedule a portrait session for you and your family. This has nothing to do with my business, this is a general question. I understand our world moves a thousand miles an hour, I get it!. You know that saying "Stop to smell the Roses"? well it means to relax, take time from you busy schedule and enjoy or appreciate life.


but what would have been the cost of my soul?
but then who would have showed my soul how to fly?
but we'd have thinner blankets of laughter to shield us on impact.
so easy that we sometimes forget the happiness of the moments as we lived them.
as we gaze back over it all.
and console each other when we need.
Thanks, bro. I liked it myself. I almost didn't publish it here; I thought about submitting it somewhere, but I didn't feel like looking for a market. I got enough stuff going on.
I appreciate you reading and commenting always, bro.
That opening paragraph man. World class.
Quite kind, sir. So pleased you dig it like I did.
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Tafari Smith, né le  à Charlestown, est un footballeur international anguillan évoluant au poste de défenseur central.

Biographie

En club

En sélection

Il joue son premier match en équipe d'Anguilla le , en amical contre Sint Maarten (score : 1-1). Toutefois, ce match n'est pas reconnu par la FIFA. Il reçoit finalement sa première sélection face à une équipe FIFA le , contre le Nicaragua. Ce match perdu sur le large score de 6-0 rentre dans le cadre des tours préliminaires de la Ligue des nations de la CONCACAF. Il inscrit son premier but le , en amical contre Saint-Martin (victoire 2-1). Toutefois, une nouvelle fois, ce match n'est pas reconnu par la FIFA.

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Footballeur international anguillan
Naissance en mars 2000
Naissance à Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès


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I make it regularly within the winter and freeze some for later … do not leave off the avocado salsa—it makes it even better!" You won't miss the meat in this hearty vegetarian chili. I followed the recipe exactly, except that I used a little over 2 ibs of beef and it still turned out great.
My fiance and I both enjoyed it, only subsequent time I will use a little less chili seasoning (used nearly the whole packet, woops!) and I added onion and franks crimson hot.. Next time I will add green pepper too. Simmer chili at least 30 minutes, stirring sometimes in order that it does not stick.
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