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Below are all the Focus articles related specifically to our support services. All Focus articles are also available.
December 02, 2014
October 15, 2014
The Chemo Diet: When Every Calorie Counts
August 25, 2014
Proutying 5,000 Miles from Home
June 30, 2014
June 09, 2014
May 27, 2014
The Prouty: "A Good Way to Do Good!"
May 19, 2014
May 06, 2014
Golf to Support Cancer Research and Care
April 28, 2014
Cancer Treatment: Making the Hard Choices
April 21, 2014
Gift to Palliative and Hospice Care
April 07, 2014
Art Offers a Refuge to Cancer Patients
Rich Perry brought rotating art exhibits to NCCC to offer cancer patients a contemplative refuge that might help them find perspective on their experiences. He's found that these exhibits also stimulate people to engage with each other and with life.
January 13, 2014
Quit Smoking for Good This Time
Ninety percent of people who try to quit cold turkey can't, and for those who do quit, "slipping" is common. Accepting that slips are part of the process, and learning about addiction and nicotine replacement products can help you stay tobacco-free.
January 06, 2014
Oncology Nursing: Communication, Connection, Compassionate Care
May 06, 2013
New Tool Measures Secondhand Smoke
April 22, 2013
How do I Find a Good Cancer Doctor?
April 08, 2013
Advance Care Directives: Do it for those you love
April 01, 2013
Managing Cancer Related Fatigue
February 19, 2013
Poetry, Meditation, and Massage. You Call That Cancer Care?
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December 31, 2012
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November 26, 2012
The Road to Recovery. Coming Together. Moving Forward.
They had driven from Keene, Nashua, Manchester, and Springfield, Vermont, for this gathering. This group of seventeen cancer survivors and spouses had never met before, but they shared a common experience of losing an esophagus to cancer.
November 20, 2012
On November 12th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Auditorium G, 4th floor atrium, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center will host the second annual Poems of Illness and Healing for the public. Patients, family members, and staff will read original work, sharing insight into how their lives have been touched by cancer and other life-limiting illnesses.
October 15, 2012
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Elkhart police, residents meet to discuss how to better relationship
Friday night meeting brought together both sides following concerns about harassment.
ELKHART — After two weeks of heated accusations that put a spotlight on strains between police and a south side neighborhood, representatives from both sides came together Friday night.
And after more than 90 minutes of discussion, police and about 80 or 90 people stood together, hand-in-hand, and prayed for better relations.
The Friday night meeting, called by members of the Elkhart Area Ministerial Association, resulted in what many believed was a badly needed dialogue between representatives of the police and a predominately black community after a chaotic Fourth of July weekend in the 100 block of Garfield Avenue.
Four representatives of the police department, including Assistant Chief Laura Koch, spoke during the meeting at Agape Missionary Baptist Church and tried to explain their perspective. They also urged residents to file complaints when they think it is warranted.
But much of the meeting was left for representatives of the community to talk about the situation.
Some people, including a man who was cited for jaywalking, gave examples of what they considered to be harassment.
A captain in the police department said he believed those types of citations are used across the city and that he didn't consider it to be harassment.
Only a few people even mentioned the July 3 fight that left an officer injured and led to accusations of police harassment in the following days.
Complaints and concerns were outnumbered by calls for respect from both sides.
One woman urged police to undergo training to better understand different ethnic characteristics.
City councilman Brent Curry called for residents to form an active neighborhood association and "step out of their comfort zone" by including police in meetings and activities.
The discussion ended with a request from volunteer police chaplain Jim Bontrager to come together for a closing prayer.
Bontrager said the meeting itself "was a great start."
Pastor Dannell Brown, of the Agape Missionary Baptist church, said he believed the meeting exceeded expectations.
Mayor Dick Moore thanked the crowd for their input and pledged to consider changes to improve relations between police and the community.
What happened on Garfield, Moore said, was simply an effort to keep things under control as quickly as possible.
Ultimately, he said, "We've got to seek some way to make a connection."

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Pittsfield Township police are hoping a public tip can lead to the identification of a man who held up an area Best Bank outlet Friday morning. The suspect made off with an amount of cash, only to have a dye pack the teller included blow up on him.
The criminal episode occurred at about 10:30 a.m. Friday at a Best Bank located in a Kroger store in the 3200 block of Carpenter Road.
The suspect handed a teller a note demanding cash. The teller turned over an undisclosed sum of money, slipping in the red dye pack.
The suspect fled, getting into an older white car. Then the dye pack exploded, covering the bills, the car's interior, and the suspect. Police think the suspect's hands may have been burned. Even so, responding officers could not find the robber.
Police did release a rough description of the suspect. He is black, has a slender build, and is between 5'4" and 5'8" tall. He was wearing a fake beard as a disguise.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Pittsfield Township Police at (734) 822-4911, or their tip line, (734) 822-4558.


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Republicans: Two Voices, One Message
Some Republicans worried that two rebuttals to the president's State of the Union address Tuesday night might weaken the party's message on the heels of his big speech.
But GOP leaders can breathe easy because the messages from Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan were largely the same: President Barack Obama has driven up the deficit while failing to stem unemployment – and his new health-care law is bad.
There was a sharp difference in tone between Mr. Obama and the two Republicans. While the president employed lofty rhetoric and repeated references to the future to encourage bipartisan cooperation, both Republicans deconstructed his first two years in office to make the case that his policies had failed the country.
Mr. Ryan said the president has heaped trillions of new debt on the government and made the case that his new health-care law failed to do what Mr. Obama promised it would: lower costs. Ms. Bachmann called on the president to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing new regulations on electric utilities and oil refiners, a move she likens to "imposing a job-destroying cap-and-trade system."
She also called on him to support a balanced budget amendment, increase domestic energy production and roll back some of the regulations his administration has enacted since coming to power. And, of course, she asked him to "repeal ObamaCare and support free market solutions like medical malpractice reform and allow all Americans to buy any healthcare policy they like anywhere in the United States."
Mr. Ryan delivered the official Republican response, so his speech was broadcast on all the cable networks. Ms. Bachmann was speaking on behalf of a loosely affiliated group of tea party activists, so channel surfers had to flip to CNN to catch her remarks, which, for some reason, she delivered while staring just to the right of the camera.


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Tennessee Peach
Serves: 2 14-oz. cocktails
5 ounces canned peaches in heavy syrup (from a 15-ounce can)*
2 fresh limes
3 ounces (1/4 cup, plus 2 tablespoons) Tennessee whiskey
2 tablespoons sugar
Whipped cream for garnish (optional)
In a blender, purée entire can of peaches. Transfer peach purée to a separate bowl/pitcher. Rinse blender bowl and return to base.
To make 2 cocktail drinks: Juice two limes, and pour juice into blender. Add whiskey, peach purée and sugar. Fill serving glass with ice, add ice to blender and repeat, adding another glass of ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into cocktail glasses. Garnish with whipped cream.
*Note: One 15-ounce can of peaches in heavy syrup makes 6 drinks.
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People who come to Panama experience all sorts of new foods, some of which even vary by region. People often write to me, upon returning to their home country, and ask for recipes.
The following recipe is commonly prepared by local Panamanian families and this breakfast staple is enjoyed by guests at La MICA Biological Station. This recipe, and the ones to follow in the upcoming articles, were written down as the Panamanians prepared the meals as they do not measure anything, but simply cook to taste. Experiment with the recipes to find the exact taste that best suites you and your family!
This fried bread is served for breakfast throughout Panama. Typically the dough is prepared the night before and allowed to set, but here is a quick recipe that will have the hojaldre on your table in minutes.
Serves: 2-4 Prep & Cooking Time: 20 minutes
- Cooking oil
- 2 cups cake flour
- ¼ cup flour
- Pinch of salt
- 1-1 ½ teaspoon of baking powder
- Water
- Mix 2 cups of flour, salt, and baking powder in a bowl. Add water slowly and mix with your hands until the flour forms a ball that is not too wet or too dry.
- Add extra flour to keep it from sticking to your fingers. Break off a portion about the size of a golf ball, knead in your hands, and flatten to about ¼ inch thick.
- Heat vegetable oil in a small frying pan until it pops. Place the flattened dough into the oil and turn until barely golden brown.
- Repeat until all dough has been used.
- Add yellow cheese when warm or serve with sausage or other breakfast meats.
- Enjoy!
This quick bread is filling and something different from the typically toast and biscuits you are used to!


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If these dresses could talk...
The stories that are hidden inside those amazing couture gowns. Many this year were right off the runway! And worn by some of the most talented actresses of our times. The most popular colors were vibrant. not quiet milquetoasts by any impression. Colorful gowns scorched the runway last night. An array of fashion forward choices made for a Red Carpet filled with couture designs fit for a supermodel.
Most of us just can't rock the stark white like some of these starlets managed to do at the Emmy's. I wasn't sure which was more impressive, the dress or the amazing figures wearing them! Of course, Sofia Vergara's star turn in her column dress made more than a few guys forget all about what that Emmy guy was announcing. What a funny, beautiful woman wearing a gown, not the other way around. And the gown was Roberto Cavalli.
Another comedic standout Kristin Wiig is also very much the fashion plate. Nothing about her gown was silly at all, but a masterpiece of couture proportions! She wowed in a simple white slip dress from designer Vera Wang. White is tough to wear, but oh so easy with Wiig's great figure. Plus that coveted lob (or long bob) was chic without being overpowering.
Remember when women of "a certain age" weren't the toast of the evening? Thankfully this was back in the "olden days"( pre FB or Instagram.)... They resigned to wearing granny looks. No more of that nonsense in 2014, ladies! The glam celebs were all about the awe and wow value. Halle Berry's ethereal Elie Saab creation was part princess and part tigress, combining a thigh high slit with tons of flowy fabric. What a stunning look for an ageless beauty! She always does Hollywood proud with her Red Carpet choices. And the hair is always just so pixie cool. (Bring on the scissors, please!)
Who is the gorgeous new mommy rocking the runway in an eye popping orange hue? That is "Scandal" star Kerry Washington. Fearless in Prada, the amazing details as well as stylish hair fit her take charge on-screen role to perfection. This was a couture look that felt current and bold.
This year's Emmy Awards proved to be a feast for any fashionista's eyes.


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These TSA porn photos would be alarming — if they were real
Earlier this month, Gizmodo and the Drudge Report posted the images below. The first is supposed to be from the TSA's whole body imaging machines, and the second is supposed to be the image after it's been "inverted" and "tinted" using Photoshop. Redacted version below, and original pornoriffic version here [NSFW].
I missed the Gizmodo post with these images when it was originally published on January 8. My brother-in-law directed me to it this weekend.*
When I saw the photos, my first reaction was to rethink my acceptance of the full body scanners. (I am not the only one who has voiced acceptance. A USA Today poll has 78% of respondents saying they approve.)
My second reaction was, "Dude. That's gotta be fake."
The second reaction was the right one. Gizmodo and Drudge Report have been caught with their pants down. Photos debunked, after the jump.
The first clue to this being a hoax is that people don't usually assume the Jesus pose while being checked out by TSA personnel. In fact, the woman is not a frequent flyer. She's a nude model; this photo comes from this shoot [NSFW]:
Here's that particular shot [NSFW].
So yeah…. the image that Drudge Report and Gizmodo linked was hot and made TSA images seem like they could be hot. But most images look like this. Not hot.
There are certainly reasons to be concerned about these scanners, including how horrifically expensive they are. But these photos were misleading and not reflective of what can actually be done with TSA porn.
Neither Gizmodo nor Drudge have acknowledged that the photos they posted were fake, though Gizmodo commenters have pointed it out.
Gizmodo titled its post: "Is It This Easy to Pull Straight Nude Pics From Airport Scanners?" The answer is, "No."
(A German site has also debunked the photos, though I can't read the article.)
* People continue to seek out the Gizmodo post. When I started writing this post on Wednesday morning, the post had 170,000 views. When I completed writing and published my post Wednesday evening, the Gizmodo post's view count had surpassed 200,000. That's 30,000 views in a single day, almost 3 weeks after the post was published. So it would be wise for Gizmodo to add a "this is a hoax" update.
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fancy globe ornaments
how i just love those cheap, clear glass ornaments you can get at michael's (or practically anywhere!) there are so many fun things you can do with them. last year we swirled metallic paint inside of them. this year, we decided to do it up fancy-style by stuffing them with all sorts of fun things!
N and i got our ornaments ready by labeling each one with one of her classmate's names on the tray where it sits, so we could tell them apart since they were soon to be personalized.
then we got out a bunch of stuff from our art cabinet, such as feathers, seed beads, sequins, glitter, foam letters, tinsel, and fuzzy pom-poms. (tiny toys, figurines, shredded paper, leaves, dried flowers, etc could be great in here, too — let your imagination run wild!)
N found the first letter of the name of each of her classmates and we put the foam letter in the ornaments first.
then she carefully considered the colors and things that each of her friends would like, and we went through the materials type by type until each person's ornament was full of fancy holiday cheer!
a tip for adding glitter, seed beads, or other tiny items – use a small funnel.
i tied ribbons to each one so they can be hung on a tree (or in a bedroom windown year-round, perhaps.) we will package them up safely and give them out at preschool when winter break nears. (hope this didn't spoil it for any of you parents in her class. sorry 😉 )


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BOSTON -- The ending was certainly not what Philadelphia Flyers General Manager Paul Holmgren envisioned when his team entered the Stanley Cup Playoffs this spring.
Being eliminated in a four-game sweep by the Boston Bruins in the second round? It's unacceptable. Particularly for a team that came within two wins of winning the Cup one year ago.
It wasn't too long ago the Flyers were winning 17 of 24 games in December and January to move atop the Eastern Conference standings. Somewhere along the way and just prior to the postseason, however, they lost something. Call it whatever -- magic, karma, the fight -- but it suddenly expired.


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The PayDay, First Time, 3 Kings and Bonanza and the two conveyor lifts located in the "Learner Zone" are open. The resort has received 41 inches of snow to date and has seven runs open (five groomed), along with one park. The base has a snow depth of 24 inches. Current lift-ticket prices are full day: adult ($68), youth ($45) and seniors ($50). Half-day prices are adult ($47) and youth ($28). Go to www.parkcitymountainresort.com or call (435) 649-8111 for more information.
The Waldorf Gondola and Sweet Pea, Short Cut, Saddleback Express, High Meadow and the Red Pine Gondola are open for the start of the winter season at Canyons. The resort reported 42 inches of snow to date, with an 14-inch base depth at mid-mountain. For more information on lift-ticket prices or any information on the Canyons, visit www.thecanyons.com or call (435) 888-CANYONS.
The opening day for the 2012-13 season is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 8. For more information and a schedule of upcoming events, call (435) 649-1000 or visit www.deervalley.com .
The Utah Olympic Park is open daily, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Guided tours on the hour from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Museums are free to explore. The winter Comet Bobsled Rides and Rocket Skeleton Rides are now open for the winter season.
For more information on cross-country skiing at Soldier Hollow, call (435) 654-2002 or visit www.soldierhollow.com.
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By MortazaviBlog on Jun 12, 2007
In the modern, high-pressure work environment of places like the Silicon Valley, many of us work hard and sleep little. People often speak of "making up" lost sleep, but Charles A. Czeisler, sleep and fatigue researcher at Harvard Medical School, reminds us that potential to sleep only grows with every waking hour (HBR, Oct. 2006):
Most of us think we're in control of sleep -- that we choose when to go to sleep and when to wake up. The fact is that when we are drowsy, the brain can seize control involuntarily. When homeostatic pressure to sleep becomes high enough, a couple of thousand neurons in the brain's "sleep switch" ignite, as discovered by Dr. Clif Saper at Harvard Medical School. Once that happens, sleep seizes the brain like a pilot grabbing the controls. If you're behind the wheel of a car at that time, it takes just three or four seconds to be off the road.
So, getting enough sleep should become a high-priority commitment.
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By MortazaviBlog on Feb 03, 2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up by WMO and UNEP to "assess scientific,
technical and socio- economic information relevant
for the understanding of climate change, its potential
impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation." The fourth assessment of the IPCC will be released under Climate Change 2007. You can also consult IPCC's February 2, 2007 Paris conference webcast for a preview.
These assessment reports do not come out haphazardly. The third assessment was called Climate Change 2001. So, 6 years of further work and data has gone into the new assessment.
David Adam of The Guardian reports from Paris, summarizing some of the highlights of the recent report releases by IPCC's Working Group I, focused on "Physical Science Basis" of climate change.
Average temperatures could increase by as much as 6.4C by the end of the century if emissions continue to rise, with a rise of 4C most likely, according to the final report of an expert panel set up by the UN to study the problem. The forecast is higher than previous estimates, because scientists have discovered that Earth's land and oceans are becoming less able to absorb carbon dioxide.
You can also listen to Guardian's interview with its reporter, Mr. Adam.
The working group has made available The IPCC Working Group I Fourth Assessment Report Summary for
Policymakers (SPM). Page 15 of the report contains green house gas concentration measures based on examination of ice-core going back to 10,000 years.
Tuesday Aug 22, 2006
Hard Talk on Multi-Verse
By MortazaviBlog on Aug 22, 2006
It may be worth to watch Michio Kaku's interview with Hard Talk. Here's my very, very quick summary of the ideas discussed there.
Monday Apr 10, 2006
Parallel Worlds
By MortazaviBlog on Apr 10, 2006
Finally, in part 3, I discuss the big freeze and what scientists now see as the end of our universe. I also give a serious though speculative, discussion of how an advanced civilization in the distant future might use the laws of physics to leave our universe trillions of years from now and enter another, more hospitable universe to begin the process of rebirth, or to go back in time when the universe was warmer.
From the preface of Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku.
The very idea of parallel universes was once viewed with suspicion by scientists as being the province of mystics, charlatans, and cranks. Any scientist daring to work on parallel universes was subject to ridicule and was jeopardizing his or her career, since even today there is no experimental evidence proving their existence...But recently, the tide has turned dramatically, with the finest minds on the planet working furiously on the subject.
From chapter one of Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku.
Here, you can find a list of other books by Michio, and here, some of his papers and articles.
Monday Jan 09, 2006
Food as Medicine
By MortazaviBlog on Jan 09, 2006
Last Thursday, my family and I went to a Chinese restaurant recommended by my daughters' piano teacher.
We ordered a course for four, and I chose a mushroom dish as one of the four dishes which we could order as part of the deal but I didn't touch the mushrooms until my wife served me a large piece of the top, which looked like two round pieces attached together. I ate it with little thought but in about half-an-hour, I experienced an amazing, almost overwhelming change. After a long, tiring day, I had suddenly become more clear and alert. My eyes, which are usually equiped with glasses, seemed to be viewing a further and wider scope, and I seemed to be present in the moment with a pleasant sensation throughout my body. When I talked about this to my wife and daughters, they dismissed it with a laugh but after some insistence on my part, we started looking at the table to search for what had affected me. Other than the duck tongues, I had had everything else before in some setting. The only thing new was the mushrooms. We summoned the floor manager, and asked him about the mushrooms.
They were Reishi mushrooms (Ganoderma Lucidum / Ling Zhi). On our return home, my wife looked up the Net for information on these and found a wealth of material refering to their medicinal effects.
And this morning, just before departing home, I spotted a Wall Street Journal article on Dr. Akira Endo, a Japanese scientist who has cultivated fungi for their medicinal, anti-cholesterol and other effects since the 1960s. ("Stalking Cholesterol: How One Scientist Intrigued by Molds Found First Statin — Feat of Japan's Dr. Endo Led To Heart-Care Revolution But Brought Him Nothing — Nature as a Drug Laboratory" Peter Landers, WSJ, January 9, 2006; Page A1.)
Returning to Reishi, much useful information can be found on the web. For example, see references by Dylan Kosma and Daniel J. Royse. It is also mentioned by the Taoists as the "Elixir of Life". People interested in Reishi might also be interested in Lichens. UC Davis, where I spent 7 years doing graduate work, offers a course in edible mushroom cultivation.
Friday Oct 28, 2005
Isotherm Contours on Earth
By MortazaviBlog on Oct 28, 2005
NASA's World Wind application can produce isotherm pictures for the earth's surface.
Wednesday Sep 21, 2005
Satellite Images for Rita
By MortazaviBlog on Sep 21, 2005
In the next few days, you should be able to view Hurricane Rita off the Gulf Coast on the satellite images available at the website of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Weather Service. (Click the "Satellite" tab on that website.) The image below may or may not have Rita on it depending on when you visit. There are a great number of other fantastic atmospheric images provided by NOAA. To me, it all shows the amazing power of the earth and its atmosphere. In a multitude of ways, the earth seems like a living creature and it might be understood far better if viewers saw it in those terms.
By the way, in case you're wondering why I've written so much about hurricanes, I should add that I have more than just a common curiosity that moves with the news. After all, a good portion of my engineering Ph.D. dissertation (completed in 1989-1990) was devoted to the theoretical and computational study of vortex-vortex interactions at high Reynolds numbers.
Tuesday Aug 30, 2005
Being in the World vs. Being in the Mind
By MortazaviBlog on Aug 30, 2005
At the end of his little book On the Internet, one of the leading contemporary philosophers, Hubert Dreyfus, laments
In sum, as long as we continue to affirm our bodies, the Net can be useful to us in spite of its tendency to offer the worst of a series of asymmetric trade-offs: economy over efficiency in education, the virtual over the real in our relation to things and people, and anonymity over commitment in our lives. But, in using it, we have to remember that our culture has already fallen twice for the Platonic/Christian temptation to try to get rid of our vulnerable bodies, and has ended in nihilism. This time around, we must resist this temptation and affirm our bodies, not in spite of their finitude and vulnerability, but because, without our bodies, as Nietzsche saw, we would be literally nothing. As Nietzsche has Zarathustra say: 'I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies—and thus become silent.'
Simpler (possibly indirect) indications of these claims are scattered everywhere for us to see. For example, consider this little note on the importance of physical being and exercise to the health of one's memory, the quintessential aspect of mind, or read the report in today's Wall Street Journal on "Exploring the Bicycle-Brain Connection: How Exercise Boosts Cognitive Function." (The Journal requires a paid subscription for access to its online edition.)
Of course, examples such as these are simply reminders of something more significant. What Dreyfus says in his various writings, including those on Heidegger and on artificial intelligence, is actually much deeper. The claim is that the understanding of (and coming to terms with) our status in the world is impossible without our physical interaction and being in it. In fact, there is a tight connection between the two. For example, we learn quite differently (in quality and experience) as we shake a hand in a meeting room, leaf through a book on a coach or write in a note book under a tree using the pen held by our fingers than when we do something similar to all these things through the use of different physical environment such as the screen of a VDT, a mouse and a keyboard. The state of physical being and the form of interaction is actually not immaterial despite what some might like to think.
Internet, Philosophy, Body, Mind.
Monday Aug 22, 2005
Efficient Attack on SHA-0
By MortazaviBlog on Aug 22, 2005
Xiaoyun Wang is the lead author of a recent paper on a new attack on SHA-0 (and others regarding similar methods of attack on SHA-1). John Markoff of The New York Times tells the story of how she was unable to make it to the Crypto 2005 conference due to visa restrictions that slowed her application.
Friday Aug 19, 2005
Circadian Oscillator
By MortazaviBlog on Aug 19, 2005
Yesterday, I wrote a little entry on jet lag prevention.
Genome Informatics ( 15(1): 3-12 (2004)) has published an interesting paper by researchers at Humboldt University, Berlin, on the cricadian oscillator, or the biological clock of mammals (Becker-Weimann, S., Wolf, J., Kramer, A. and Herzel, H. "A Model of the Mammalian Circadian Oscillator Including the REV-ERBα Module").
In the introduction to the paper, we read:
It was interesting to me that jeg lag actually manifests in the body through the autonomous oscillations in proteins and mRNA concentrations. This paper points to other research that examine "extensive and divergent circadian gene expression in liver and heart" (Nature, 417:78-83, 2002).
The paper also points to a book, by Leon Glass and Michael C. Mackey, which seems worth a thorough study: From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life. In fact, I think I'll be ordering it very soon as the topic continues to fascinate me whether it concerns the importance of certain temporal rythms in religious rituals or my own personal experience and scientific background.
One thing I've noticed in my personal life. In the last five years, my family and I have travelled across 11 to 12 time zones and back, every summer, and I've observed that my youngest daughter has always taken the longest to get over her jet lag and that the older members of the family have suffered from more severe lingering oscillations in attempting to re-adjust their biological time.
For those interested in further study, McGill University hosts a multi-university Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine.
Tuesday Jan 18, 2005
Numerical Simulation of Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004
By MortazaviBlog on Jan 18, 2005
Cornell University researchers have released a video rendition of a numerical simulation for the recent Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004:
. . . 7 MB version of the multigrid coupled tsunami simulation.
. . . 43 MB version of the multigrid coupled tsunami simulation.
According to Cornell's news release:
Thursday Jan 13, 2005
Tsunami Waves 7,000 Kilometers from Epicenter
By MortazaviBlog on Jan 13, 2005
The BBC reports today of the effect of 3 meter high tsunami waves as far away as the fishing settlement of Hafun, in north-east Somalia, which is located more than 7,000km (4,000 miles) from the epicenter of the earthquake.
Pictures from Hafun are available here, and a simple tsunami wave diagram can be found here.
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, has a short note on tsunami waves and the factors affecting their rate of travel and dispersion. However, the focus of this elementary note is on storm-generated waves.
The University of Washington, Seattle, maintains a page on general tsunami information, including a multi-media documentation of recent tsunami events, but no readily available information appears there for calculating the speed and rate of dispersion from a single observation of the wave at a known distance form the epicenter. From what I know about the physics of water waves it should be possible to come up with rough but very useful speed and dispersion estimates based on such (single point w.r.t. epicenter) information. There is a link to tsunami research centers in the U.S. which I didn't have time to pursue in detail.
The USC Tsunami Research Center seems to be the most web-friendly and promising online source of material on tsunami research. It is worthy of further exploration. See, for example, video clips of some simulations for a tsunami event off the coast of California. (If the video simulations included wave amplitude and time progression (or relevant non-dimensional numbers), some non-dimensional analysis could allow rough extensions to similar cases.) Some of the research publications of this center on the analytics of tsunamis should be useful for extracting a simple model to compute speed and dispersion rates. For example, this paper may be start but it considers the case of shallow water wave amplitude evolution. The reference in the paper to "Lamb" is probably to Sir Horace Lamb's seminal work Hydrodynamics of 1879, chapter VIII of which is devoted to the analytical study of tidal waves of various kinds. (I believe Ludwig Wittgenstein studied with Sir Lamb before starting his work with Bertrand Russell.)
While the more fancy analytics and high-compute simulations taking account of coast-line land formations may be of great interest to property insurers and pure scientists, conservative back-of-the-envelope estimates for speed and dispersion of tsunami should still be possible for any middle-schooler to perform and for any fluid dynamics student to explain.
Friday Oct 15, 2004
Will People Be Burried With It?
By MortazaviBlog on Oct 15, 2004
Tuesday Sep 07, 2004
What Edison Helped Take from Us
By MortazaviBlog on Sep 07, 2004
Inventions in science and technology are not all about progress.
Every technical invention seems to take something from us in return for what it gives.
With the invention and propagation of basic electric lighting, ultimately brought to every office and home in every city and small town, something sacred was taken from most people--a serene night's sky, which most urbanized people can now see only through the sanitized and limited version that comes to them as images telescopes have viewed, processed and recorded according to their own limitations.
No longer do we need to feel, on a nightly basis, a deep wonder about our place in the universe. The problem has been solved and put to rest.
Saturday Jul 03, 2004
Structural Analysis of Proteins
By MortazaviBlog on Jul 03, 2004
In a recent paper, computer science professor Yuan-Fang Wang of UC Santa Barbara, describes a tool based on 3-D Java for fast protein visualization.
The 3-D structure of proteins determines their biochemical operation.
For example, a great deal of effort was used to map the 3-D structure of Hemoglobin, the main ingredient of our red blood cells, in order to discover and explain how it fixes oxygen.
Computer visualization is only one aspect of structural analysis. In fact, it is one of the last steps in the the geometric analysis of a protein. (The ultimate goal being the actual biochemical function and relationships.)
Another important (and more fundamental) aspect is the actual determination of the geometric structure given a protein's amino acid sequence.
Such determination involves an optimization problem which searches for geometric positioning of protein backbone such that the lowest potential energy state is attained.
This procedure follows from the basic physical principle that all structures prefer the geometry that leads to the lowest potential energy.
The potential engergy can be determined by adding all potential energies due to interactions among the amino acid molecules that have been strung together in a protein.
There is a whole separate art in writing the potential energy equation as a function of molecular positioning and solving it for its lowest value in the hyperdimensional space of the molecular distances. The optimization problem can be solved in a number of ways. Since this is a large-dimension problem, it is important to use some heuristics to start the problem with the protein geometry in a realistic initial state. Following this initial state, the computation searches for neighboring states that have lower potential energy. This sequence is repeated until lowest potential energy "neighborhood" in the hyper-dimensional space of molecular distance vectors is found.
Saturday Jun 26, 2004
RoboCup--Robotic Soccer
By MortazaviBlog on Jun 26, 2004
Robotic soccer has many converts, including Iran, which won the 2nd place in the 2004 German Open's Middle Size league.
There were many German entries, and the first winners come from Osnabruck, Germany, the city of my sister-in-law's family.
RoboCup itself is a larger organization.
At one point, when I was studying with Hubert Dreyfus, I planned to write an essay on whether it was possible for robots to play real soccer.
Well, here is RoboCup's goal: By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.
It's a lofty goal, and to what degree it will be accomplished is worth watching.
Unless the robots are allowed to injure people, I doubt they'll win . . .
Now, it is time for me to run for my weekend soccer game on the Stanford compus!
Have a wonderful JavaOne and watch for those robots and don't let them beat you ! ! !
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First Half Run Leads Stony Brook Past UMass 71-58 In NIT First Round
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A 17-point run to close the first half gave Stony Brook a halftime lead and the Seawolves never looked back as they defeated the UMass men's basket all team 71-58 in the NIT First Round on Wednesday night at the Mullins Center.
The Minutemen finish the 2012-13 season with a 21-12 overall record, while Stony Brook improves to 25-7 and will face the winner of Iowa/Indiana State in the NIT Second Round.
UMass was led by Freddie Riley who scored 16 points on 6-of-13 shooting as he finished his career as a Minuteman with 1,006 points. Fellow senior Terrell Vinson also hit double figures with 11 points and five rebounds.
The Seawolves received 20 points from both Anthony Jackson and Dave Coley. Jameel Warney had 16 points to round out the top scorers.
Stony Brook closed the first half on a 17-to-0 run holding the Minutemen scoreless for the final seven minutes, five seconds. The Seawolves hit nearly 52 percent of their shots, while holding UMass to just 30 percent from the floor. Outside shooting was also problematic for the Minutemen going just 1-for-12 from beyond the arc.
Jackson's 14 points led all players in the first half.
The Minutemen led 25-21 with 7:05 remaining in the first half after a turnover led to a Riley alley-oop lay-up. That proved the last time UMass scored in the half as the Minutemen had five turnovers and went 0-for-5 from the field.
UMass opened the second half with a quick 8-to-2 run thanks to a pair of three pointers from Riley and Vinson. The Minutemen cut the lead to 40-33 just 1:15 into the stanza forcing a 30-second timeout from the Seawolves.
Riley went over the 1,000 point mark at the 17:07 mark of the half with a three-pointer from the left wing making the score 42-36.
Three minutes later, Chaz Williams was knocked out of the game with a should injury leaving an already thin rotation of guards to play the balance of the game. Williams finished the game with two points and six assists.
Despite the loss of the Minutemen's venerable point guard, UMass was able to keep close to Stony Brook thanks in part to a quick five-point swing off a Maxie Esho three-pointer followed by a Riley steal and lay-up at the 7:44 mark.
Stony Brook answered on the ensuing possession, however, as Jackson hit a fade-way jumper from the right wing to extend the lead back to eight, 59-51, quieting the Minutemen's momentum.
The UMass line-up took another blow at the 4:33 mark when Terrell Vinson fouled out finishing the game with 11 points and five rebounds.
The Seawolves pushed the lead back to 11 points but Riley gave the Minutemen another spark of hope with a three-pointer with 1:53 to go making the score 66-58.
Stony Brook answered with a lay-up, forced a UMass turnover and then hit two free throws on the next possession to push the lead 13 points, 71-58, with 1:24 to go effectively sealing the win.
For the game, Stony Brook shot 51.8 percent from the floor, while UMass was just 36.7 percent. The Minutemen struggled from beyond the arc the entire game hitting just 6-of-26 three-point attempts.
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Practicing Compassion Increases Happiness and Self-Esteem
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The current study examined the effect of practicing compassion towards others over a 1 week period. Participants (N = 719) were recruited online, and were assigned to a compassionate action condition or a control condition which involved writing about an early memory. Multilevel modeling revealed that those in the compassionate action condition showed sustained gains in happiness (SHI; Seligman et al. in Am Psychol 60:410–421, 2005) and self-esteem (RSES; Rosenberg in Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1965) over 6 months, relative to those in the control condition. Furthermore, a multiple regression indicated that anxiously attached individuals (ECR; Brennan et al. 1998) in the compassionate action condition reported greater decreases in depressive symptoms following the exercise period. These results suggest that practicing compassion can provide lasting improvements in happiness and selfesteem, and may be beneficial for anxious individuals in the short run.
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As we get tantilizingly close to the 30th April UK release of Iron Man 2, Marvel can whet our collective appetite with these four really cool clips from the film. I particularly enjoyed the bombardment of sexual inuendo in the final clip. Tony still has it. You can also enjoy a bit of the brilliant Sam Rockwell (Moon, Choke, The Green Mile) as Tony Stark rival, Justin Hammer.
Whiplash (Micky Rourke) rudely interrupts Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr) day at the races so Tony whips out the Iron Man Mark V brief case suit.
Whiplash reveals his anti-Stark vendetta.
Stark and Pepper Potts oggle a potential "candidate".
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Carlton Gebbia is already preparing herself for the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" reunion show. When she was warned by a fan via Twitter to be wary of Kim and Kyle Richards at the reunion, she responded with a reply that shows she's ready to fight back if needed.
On Saturday, Jan. 18, Carlton told a fan that the reunion will be filming at the beginning of February.
This prompted another fan to write, "Good luck filming sweetie! Just remember Kyle & Kim ALWAYS plot against the other housewives before the reunions!"
"Good to know. I will have a few things up my sleeves too," Carlton replied.
Carlton has made no secret of her dislike of Kyle Richards. Carlton has said that she finds Kyle fake and manipulative. Kim, being loyal to Kyle, will likely back up her sister at the reunion if the two get in a fight.
Carlton may want to stir up the pot as much as possible at the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" reunion not only to fight off the Richards sisters but also to secure her role on the show. Radar Online has reported that producers are planning on firing Carlton after only one season because fans don't find her appealing. Interestingly enough, Kim and Kyle may not be returning as well, leaving Lisa Vanderpump, Yolanda Foster, Joyce Giraud, and Brandi Glanville to be the remaining returning housewives for next season.
Out of Carlton Gebbia, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards, who do you think will come out on top during the reunion?
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The funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases will support a research collaboration between PTC and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. This partnership is based on previous research and discovery work supported by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) under an initiative known as Project Catalyst.
"This grant supports promising preclinical research on a number of targets believed to be medically relevant for DMD," says H. Lee Sweeney, Ph.D., professor and chairman of the department of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, scientific advisor to PPMD, and principal investigator on this NIH grant. "Over the course of this grant, our goal is to have Project Catalyst compounds ready for advancement into clinical trials for patients with DMD."
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Dec. 20, 2010
The Fall season is over, it's officially winter break, and all that my teammates and I have left to do is wait for our grades to arrive and pray that we passed. UCLA women's tennis is on hiatus for a few weeks, until January 3rd to be precise, but we've done a lot these past few weeks that I want to catch everyone up on. And don't worry, we have all been keeping up with our training since official practice ended and I'm sure that our hard work will only increase with finals being over. However, we have had some time for a few extracurricular activities.
Although Thanksgiving is traditionally a family holiday meant to be celebrated by relatives, here at UCLA my teammates decided to create a feast of their own, and I was fortunate enough to be invited despite my nonexistent cooking abilities. We all contributed to buying the groceries, planning the dinner, and decorating the apartment, but it was just four of my teammates who successfully pulled off cooking a legit Thanksgiving dinner. Even though we kind of cheated by getting a "turkey in a bag" the rest of the meal was prepared and included dishes like sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, butternut squash soup, stuffing, roasted vegetables, and about four different kinds of bread. My only true contribution was baking the Pillsbury Doughboy crescent rolls, but at least I can say I did something other than pig out. Dessert was not to be neglected and we had homemade apple pie and pumpkin pecan pie to choose from, and everyone obviously had a little bit of both.
Thanksgiving was quickly followed by preparations for another exciting holiday...a Secret Santa gift exchange. Every team member was involved in this tradition and we all struggled to find the perfect "under $20" gift to present to a fellow teammate at our Secret Santa dinner held at an amazing Italian restaurant in the Pacific Palisades. Secret Santa was a huge hit and gifts included everything from hot cocoa mixes and cookies, to jewelry, make up, and clothing. I have a feeling that we will all someday be amazing mothers and wives with all this cooking talent, generous gift giving, and delicious baking skills, not to mention our athletic ability. Over these past few weeks we have seen gingerbread cookies, sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, French macarons, pumpkin pecan pie, apple pie, candy canes, and cake all made by the hands of teammates. It's good that we're all such hard-working athletes or I think we'd be severely overweight.
With tennis winding down for the year we've all clearly had a lot of time on our hands to cook, shop, eat, and study. And with our new locker room finally finished, we have even had time to dabble in arts and crafts. With the new renovation came a spacious, carpeted area of wood lockers, huge showers, and matching wooden stools. Like children at summer camp we set up a painting station and got down to business decorating the stools in mostly blue and gold decor. In case you're unaware, the UCLA women's tennis team is also artistically talented to go along with all our cooking and shopping skills. By the end of the day each stool reflected each girl's personality and it's going to be a treasure we hold onto for the rest of our lives. Since we had our arts and crafts party outdoors, the men's tennis team was able to see what we were doing. And even though they judged and laughed at us, I'm sure they were all just jealous that their locker room has a long, boring bench instead of stools.
Finally, I witnessed my first UCLA-USC football game this year with a bunch of teammates at the Rose Bowl. I must say that the atmosphere was amazing! Bruin fans arrived early to tailgate and entered the stadium full of energy, and it's moments like those that I feel lucky to be part of the Bruin program. Luckily for me, I only saw the first half and didn't have to witness the loss but I still am blown away by how energetic Bruins are. Despite the loss, the Blue and Gold definitely overpowered USC in the cheering and spirit department and I can only hope that even a little bit of that fan spirit will attend our USC home match on March 2. On that note, the season starts January 19th with a match against Saint Mary's. Happy holidays and see you next year!


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College Hockey:RPI Honors Juneau With 4-1 Victory
Ornelas Scores Two Third-Period Goals To Down Princeton
TROY, N.Y. — Jonathan Ornelas did Joe Juneau and the No. 9 Rensselaer jersey proud Saturday night at Houston Field House.
Ornelas, who wears the number that Juneau wore with distinction from 1987-91, scored two third-period breakaway goals to help the Engineers to a 4-1 ECACHL victory over Princeton.
Juneau had his name and No. 9 hung at the west end of the field house in a ceremony during the first intermission.
"[Ornelas] certainly honored the number in fine fashion," RPI coach Dan Fridgen said.
Ornelas may get his name and number up in the rafters some day if he continues to improve like he has during his sophomore season. After collecting five goals and four assists in 34 games last season, Ornelas has eight goals, which leads RPI (6-4-1, 2-1-1 ECACHL), and three assists this year. He is tied for the team lead with two game-winning goals.
"It's a great coincidence, to honor Juneau and score two goals on his night. Not too bad," Ornelas said. "I wish we honored him every night."
Ornelas' first goal came at a critical time for RPI. Despite outshooting the Tigers (2-4-0, 1-3-0), 21-11, through two periods, the Engineers had just a 1-0 lead. The Tigers came out swarming in the third, and tied it 66 seconds in on Brett Wilson's goal.
Princeton continued to keep up the pressure, and it had a faceoff in RPI's left circle just under eight minutes into the period.
But the game changed on that faceoff. Oren Eizenman, who scored RPI's first goal, won the draw and got the puck to defenseman Ryan Swanson. He then srpung Ornelas on a breakaway.
Ornelas skated down the slot and beat goalie Eric Leroux to his right side at 7:45.
"It took a great draw by Oren," Ornelas said. " 'Swannie' executed the play perfectly. I touched the guy's stick, and he missed [the puck] and I was on my own. [Leroux] was giving me the low blocker, so I went there. Luckily, it went in."
It was a play that RPI tried earlier in the game, and just missed. This time, it worked.
"We kind of laughed when I called it again," Eizenman said. "After we scored, we looked at each other. It was a little strange that it happened. I think we caught them napping a little bit because no one really expects offense to come from your zone. But offense can come from anywhere."
Ornelas put the game away with 3:53 left. He picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone, and broke in alone on Leroux. This time, Ornelas tired to beat Leroux to his left side.
Leroux got his glove on it. But the puck had enough momentum to trickle over the goal line.
"I was feeling a lot of relief," Ornelas said. "I was coming down the whole time, thinking I was going to get low blocker again. But he wasn't giving that to me, so I went low glove. Luckily, it sneaked in."
Keith McWilliams scored an empty-net goal with 48 seconds left to complete the night's scoring.
Ken Schott covers college hockey for The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, N.Y.
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ABC hopes to replicate the delirious magic of Kathie Lee and Hoda.
If your grandma keeps loudly wondering why they had to cancel One Life to Live, we finally have an answer: It's all part of Good Morning America's never-ending battle with the Today show. ABC confirmed today that it's filling the 2 p.m. slot once occupied by the likes of Blair and Starr (and then Tim Gunn's short-lived confection The Revolution) with a Good Morning America spinoff.
In the last two months, ABC finally ended NBC's morning TV ratings domination, and the network has an ingenious plan for maintaining its momentum: Copy whatever NBC's been doing right. Just five years after the Today show was extended to four hours, ABC is launching Good Afternoon America.
The morning show's third (non-consecutive) hour will be hosted by GMA alums Lara Spencer and Josh Elliott. ABC is giving the show a nine-week trial, from July 9 to September 7. After that, the network will decide if it's worthy to serve as the lead-in for Katie Couric's syndicated talk show, which debuts on September 10.
As for the format, it sounds like Good Afternoon will provide more of the usual fluff preferred by the motley crew of daytime TV viewers. According to the press release, the show will feature "celebrity appearances, musical performance, pop culture news and original entertainment, lifestyle, health, workplace and consumer reporting," as well as "special appearances" by GMA regulars Sam Champion, Robin Roberts, and George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos didn't know how right he was when he told New York recently that anchoring a perky morning show has forced him to "stretch in some ways, sometimes awkwardly, sometimes not." It's a long road from the West Wing to making Spanx-related jokes while sipping an early afternoon glass of pinot grigio.


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As a result, Stratasys can now offer a deeper breadth of services outside of its core prototyping business. In the future, it's expected that manufacturing applications will grow to represent a greater share of the 3-D printing industry, meaning that Stratasys' management was also likely motivated by longer-term factors when it decided to buy Solid Concepts.
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I want a gold badge with Yosemite Sam on it.
Back off ya va'mint afor ah fill ya full a holes!
There is a solution but we are not Jedi... not yet.
We have deep thinkers and stinkers in this group that could come up with a solution...
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No, those cartoons were great but sadly not pc for today because they might disturb someone.
Elmer Fudd has to be banned too.
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Absolutly not ..........
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Betty Boop's got my vote. ie, Minnie The Moocher. Violence, sexism, borderline (and sometimes not-so-borderline) mysogeny, "short shorts" garters and spike heels on a young'n (Boop) ... and more creativity in a couple of minutes than a lot of shows have in a whole season.
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The whole video game, movies, cartoons, etc. stuff is very problematic for the anti's. On the one hand, they don't want it there. But then something called the FIRST AMENDMENT starts coming into play and so that may play to some sort of advantage as that is something to lose which many will have less desire for. And then if we can only get them to make the associaton that the 2nd protects everything else, maybe some sanity will prevail. But I'm not holding my breath because I'd most likely turn purple and die.
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Well they already sort of are banned. Cant find classic lcartoons anywhere on TV. If you do find it, you wont find any yosemite sam. or speedy gonzales. or any of the episodes with smoking in them
Yosemite Sam is my hero.
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Now there's a stunning idea.
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Hell no, we can fix the problems by not raising pansy kids and whoopin some adults who need it and didn't get it as a kid.
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My mom never made us Brussels sprouts when I was growing up. I'm pretty sure this is because she came from that era when those bitter little balls were blanched flavorless and forced down gagging kids' throats along with liver and onions. Since she didn't want to have to set a good example by finishing her veggies, our plates remained blissfully sprout-free.
Maybe that's why I never even flinched when Brussels sprouts suddenly began enjoying a culinary fashion heyday on menus around town and the country. I've got no negative associations, so I was eager to try the many manifestations, particularly because a lot of those manifestations also involved bacon or some other form of pork product. I've eaten my way through a number of dishes that include the vegetable at many of Boulder's restaurants, and I've decided on a couple of favorites that highlight this D-student of the produce aisle.
Mateo Restaurant: Brussels Sprouts Gratin. I'm not sure it still counts as a vegetable when that much gruyere is involved, but the Brussels Sprouts Gratin is the highlight of Mateo's impressively-priced happy hour menu. The whole sprout is used here, presumably blanched, and then coated in gruyere rue and baked until a cheesy layer on top is crispy and delicious. It's so good I end up dragging bread through the remnants, being stared at awkwardly by my group of fellow diners. (Mateo, 1837 Pearl St, 303.443.7766)
Happy Noodle: Fried Brussels Sprouts Leaves. Admittedly, I'm usually only drinking at the Bitter Bar when I'm at Happy Noodle. But if I am ordering food, it's a heaping pile of these little leaves, which are fried crispy and salted to the point of bar-snack perfection. It's beyond me why no other place has thought to do this. Lighter than peanuts but salty enough to make me thirsty, there's no drinking nibble I'd rather have. And Happy Noodle fries those babies particularly well. (Happy Noodle, 835 Walnut St, 303.442.3050)
So, eat 'cher sprouts. Thanks, don't mind if I do.


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Reading your story reminded me of my beloved grandmother who died@96 years of age. I never heard her complain, & she never sat down. When she was in her 90's, she finally started to slow down. Concerned, I would ask her how she was feeling. She would say to me,"it's a terrible thing to grow old. My mind tells me yes,but my body tells me no". My grandmother was never one to complain,so her those words really struck a chord for me. 2 weeks before she died, she was weak& bedridden. That was the first time I had seen her confined to her bed. I am grateful she died in her sleep.
She was remarkable in every way. 20 years later, I still miss her & think of her daily.