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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Emergency Blender Cupcakes with Fudgy Frosting
14 comments:
- gg said...
That's one yummy looking cupcake. I am a chocoholic so that's my kind of cupcake!
- March 4, 2012 at 7:04 AM
- ohkeeka said...
This cupcake looks incredibly rich and decadent, but I can't get over the fact that you made them in a blender. That's so funny! I wonder if it's possible to do that with other cupcake recipes? I'm a fan of anything that reduces the amount of dishes I have to wash...
- March 4, 2012 at 9:37 AM
- Sweet Posy Dreams said...
What a crazy idea, using a blender. I'm guessing the batter is not too thick. Gorgeous photo of a yummy looking cupcake!
- March 4, 2012 at 12:01 PM
- Tracey said...
Cupcakes I can make in a blender? That is pure genius. I definitely need to give these a try, and soon! And thanks for the heads-up on the frosting, I'll top them with a different one :)
- March 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM
- kitchen flavours said...
Your cupcake looks lovely! And we love the fudgy frosting, I did lessen the amount of condensed milk, which I completely forgotten! These cupcakes are indeed delicious! Wish you a lovely week!
- March 4, 2012 at 5:23 PM
Yum. Your cupcake looks great. I'm on a quest for a perfect cupcake recipe. I'll have to try this one.
- March 4, 2012 at 5:23 PM
- TeaLady said...
Love quick! Love chocolate. Would love these!! Interesting about the frosting. I have never made one with sweetened condensed milk.
- March 4, 2012 at 5:55 PM
- Torviewtoronto said...
delicious looking cupcakes sounds and looks fabulous
- March 4, 2012 at 6:33 PM
- Cindy said...
Who doesn't need a quick chocolate fix. This gem looks delicious!
- March 4, 2012 at 7:58 PM
- Lois B said...
The perfect frosting delivery system!
- March 5, 2012 at 12:10 AM
- Hanaâ said...
Your cupcakes looks beautiful. Weren't these cupcakes great? That's why I've made them at least a dozen times already. Sorry you didn't like the frosting. It sure looks pretty atop the cupcake. I also like your cupcake liner. It didn't become dull during baking but kept its vivid colors!
I finally posted my cupcakes and the different varieties I've made over the last couple years (frostin-wise).
- March 6, 2012 at 8:44 PM
- Nancy/n.o.e said...
I am loving the concept of a "cupcake emergency"! I'm impressed that you're doing the ABC bakers; I got as far as purchasing the book. I'd take one of those cupcakes and would happily render my verdict on the frosting.
- March 6, 2012 at 9:18 PM
They look great, and I just happen to have some frosting in my freezer!
- March 7, 2012 at 3:19 PM
- Janis said...
They look so fudgy...YUM! :-)
- March 11, 2012 at 6:19 AM


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Caaaakes in SPAAAACE!
Did you notice how I artfully blended "pigs in space" with a Portal 2 reference? Didya? That's professional level geekery right there. Do not try at home (without an audience).
I was up 'til 3AM yesterday morning watching the live feeds from NASA as the Curiosity rover touched down on Mars. As many have already pointed out, it's amazing to live in a time when we can get pictures from MARS in only 15 minutes, and live coverage of the Olympics from NBC in only 6 hours. [jazz hands] THE FUTURE!
Anyway, needless to say the sight of all those brilliant people with brilliant hairdos (not joking, for once) celebrating with such joyous, nerdy abandon made me bawl like a baby. Which is to say in an ugly, squealish manner, and with just the right amount of pee leakage.
To celebrate this momentous occasion (the Mars landing, not the pee leakage), I've invited the planet Mars 'round to comment:
Unfortunately, the planet had nothing to add other than a few highly questionable landing suggestions for Uranus. And boy is his face red.
But that's ok, because this AMAZING Mars Rover cake steals the show, anyway:
(Found here.)
This was made back in 2009 in honor of the rover's 5th anniversary on Mars, and that's the baker, Chris Vasilakis, next to it. The Curiosity rover is much larger, of course, but as John says, "They both have six wheels and lots of technical junk on them," so that means they're practically twins
Some details:
"The body of the rover and the high gain antenna were all made of toffee buttercrunch cake with cinnamon buttercream between the layers. The wheels and a few other parts were made of rice krispie treats. Note the fondant birthday candles at the front in the instrument arm. The red stuff at the bottom is all edible homemade mars…shmallow."
Judging by that pun, I'm pretty sure she and I would get along fabulously.
And now, a cool story, bro:
Laurie L., the wreckporter who sent in the rover cake, was actually the MC at the NASA event that hosted the now infamous phallic Space Shuttle wreck.
You know, this one?
She was there, you guys! An actual eye witness!
Laurie writes,
"Believe it or not, it was a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Sally Ride's flight as the first American Woman in Space, and Sally was there. You can imagine how mortified I was when I arrived and saw the cake (which I had nothing to do with ordering…). As if having a cake that said 'We've come along way' wasn't bad enough…! Anyway, as you can tell, I've still got a little PTSD going about the whole experience."
Just remember, Laurie, there's healing through laughter. And lots and lots of dirty puns. (Is it wrong I'm still proud of that post?) (No, don't answer that; I know it is.)
Now, stay tuned for the fabric wreck winning entries from Friday's contest! So much hilarity. And towels. And toys. And random household objects.


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This mission will begin as soon as the Was It Worth It? mission comes to a conclusion. And since you'll get a phone call from Stubbs automatically, and since he'll agree to meet you at the Lost clubhouse on Berner Street, you shouldn't move one inch after you bid Ashley adieu. That way, when Stubbs calls and tells you to meet him, you can turn around and start this mission immediately. Stubbs is good for a favor, as he promised you earlier. And he encourages you to head to the prison at the southern end of Alderney, to take care of Billy, your arch-rival, once and for all. He even promises more help once you get there.
The Alderney State Correctional Facility is located at the southeastern end of the borough. It was a location we visited a handful of times during GTAIV's main quest, but up until now, you've had no reason to think twice about it in Lost and the Damned. The prison is located off of Toggle Avenue. When you arrive, you'll see a cutscene with Billy talking to some of his fellow prisoners in the yard about how he's getting out. You'll then see Johnny on his cell phone, asking for much-needed back up. It's time to take Billy out once and for all.
Before you can break into the prison to get at Billy, you have to figure out a way to get in to the prison. This problem somewhat solves itself, however. The Lost's very own arms dealer, who you may or may not have utilized during your DLC experience, shows up on the scene. Better yet, everything you want from his wares is going to be free, this time only. Take advantage by stocking up on everything you could possibly want. Automatic weapons are huge, and having a fully-stocked RPG launcher is a must. Everything else is secondary compared to a trusty assault rifle and some heavy duty explosives.
With your trusty RPG, bust a hole through the front gate of the prison, and begin your assault on the myriad cops, SWAT team members and correctional officers you encounter. You'll need to deal with a strong contingent of enemies directly behind where the entrance gate once stood. Once they're downed, you can then head leftward into a grassy, gated area, where more cops can be eliminated. As you turn the corner rightward, be sure to take out a sniper rifle and deal with the pesky foe atop the roof. That will make your journey forward a whole lot easier.
This thinned out area will lead to a larger gated area ahead. Train your assault rifle on the group of cops ahead and lay into them. Remember that the rampant use of explosives here is recommended. After all, this is the DLC's final mission, and there's no reason not to expend everything you have up to this point to make the fireworks show at the prison especially poignant. When you reach the guard tower in the center of the prison yard, helicopters will show up with heavily-armed SWAT officers within. This is where the prison protectors will make their last stand.
Surviving this final onslaught is as easy as staying put. The crate you're automatically behind after the cutscene finishes gives you an awesome location in which to spring attacks from. As long as you keep your head down, your friends should do a lot of the work automatically. With your supplemental fire, the cops here won't last very long. Remember -- this marks the final fight in the final mission in the game, so everything goes. There's no reason to hold back or reserve good weapons for future use -- you won't need them after this (unless you're doing the myriad DLC side quests, which don't necessitate amazing weaponry.) All cops must be killed here in order for you to get the okay (from an in-game prompt) to go after Billy. Therefore, don't neglect climbing the guard tower itself to waste the well-positioned foes there. The cops are marked by red dots on your HUD (but you likely figured that out ten minutes ago.)
When you've capped Billy, the game will prompt you to get back to your chopper, which has magically appeared in front of the guard tower. While more cops will show up as you and your cronies bike back towards the entrance of the prison, you don't have to stop and deal with them. Rather, you should be able to buzz through them without so much as a gunshot grazing you. When you've reached the streets of Alderney once more, head north and head back to the Lost clubhouse, as you've done so many times before.
We won't say much about what happens after you reach the Lost clubhouse, since the events constitute the abbreviated ending of the DLC content. Congratulations! You've defeated the Lost and the Damned.
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55 What's Your Emergency?
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text: The Real Story of Trading Software Espionage.......... While the 32MB of Goldman Sachs' proprietary algorithmic trading code allegedly stolen by Sergey Aleynikov makes for great news, it also highlights the new significance of high-frequency trading — which is built on this technology — in the marketplace. Much has been made of the 32MB of Goldman Sachs' proprietary algorithmic trading code ("trading secrets") allegedly stolen by Sergey Aleynikov, now portrayed in the financial media as the new Julius Rosenberg, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen and John Walker all rolled into one. That may prove to be true; but while it makes for a great news story at this point in time, it highlights the new significance of high-frequency trading — which is built on this technology — in the marketplace. We are all keenly aware that electronic routing and execution has become the mechanism by which our capital markets operate. Algorithms account for more than 25% of all shares traded by the buy side today — a number steadily rising for several years now. However, the incredible capabilities offered by technology have given meteoric rise to a relative few high-frequency proprietary trading firms that now wield far greater influence on the markets today than most people recognize. The familiar names of Lehman, Bear and Merrill are being replaced by less familiar ones like Wolverine, IMC and Getco. For example, high-frequency trading firms, which represent approximately 2% of the 20,000 or so trading firms operating in the U.S. markets today, account for 73% of all U.S. equity trading volume. These companies include proprietary trading desks for a small number of major investment banks, less than 100 of the most sophisticated hedge funds and hundreds of the most secretive prop shops, all of which operate with one thing in mind — capture profit opportunities by being smarter and faster than the closest competition. They are, as a rule, secretive, stealthy, smart, and relatively unknown. The key to being smarter is their unique technology that enables them to profit on a number of these quantitative strategies, which they will protect at all costs. The Value of High-Frequency Trading Strategies Proprietary trading takes in a number of unique strategies, including market making, arbitrage (ETFs, futures, options), pairs trading and others based on the linked trading of more than one asset class, e.g., futures index and cash equities. In fact TABB Group estimates that annual aggregate profits of low-latency arbitrage strategies exceed $21 billion, spread out among the few hundred firms that deploy them. While we know all the large investment banks such as Goldman Sachs are committed to prop trading profitability, the hundreds of smaller, private high-frequency prop shops extend much greater influence in the marketplace by providing liquidity that keeps activity flowing. While none of us knows the ingredients of Goldman's "secret sauce," we can say that any algorithmic code in and of itself is precious but has limited value until placed in the right circumstances. Those circumstances are not available to just any Tom, Dick or Sergey, but represent the core strategy of the fast-rising high-frequency trading firms. First, strategies that optimize the value of high-frequency algorithmic trading are highly dependent on ultralow latency. The right decisions are based on flowing information into your algorithm microseconds sooner than your competitors. To realize any real benefit from implementing these strategies, a trading firm must have a real-time, colocated, high-frequency trading platform—one where data is collected and orders are created and routed to execution venues in sub-millisecond times. Next, since many of these strategies require transacting in more than one asset class and across multiple exchanges often located hundreds of miles apart, i.e., New York to Chicago, that infrastructure will often require round-trip long-haul connectivity between the data centers. Last and most important, this code has a limited shelf life, whose competitive advantage is diluted with each second it is outstanding. While a prop desk's high level trading strategy may be consistent over time, the micro-level strategies are constantly altered — growing stale after a few days if not sooner — for two important reasons. First, because high-frequency trading depends on ridiculously precise interaction of markets and mathematical correlations between securities, traders need to regularly adjust code — sometimes slightly, sometimes more — to reflect the subtle changes in the dynamic market. The speed and volatility of today's markets is such that the relationships forming the core of our algorithm strategies often change within seconds of our ability to implement the very strategies that exploit them. Second, competitive intelligence is so good across all rival trading firms that each is exposed to the increasing susceptibility of their strategies being reverse-engineered, turning their most profitable ideas into their most risky. As a result, any firm acquiring the "stolen" code would gain benefit from it for no more than a few days before that firm would need to adjust the code to the dynamic conditions. Since these changes build on themselves, in a matter of weeks that code would look quite different from that which was originally "stolen." There's no doubt that Goldman Sachs, or any other proprietary trading firm, could indeed lose tens of millions of dollars from its proprietary trading if their strategies are stolen — and that is very serious. The competitors that obtain access to these trading secrets could (and would) use it to front-run or trade against it, ruining even the most well-planned tactics. This news story contains many very important subplots: trading espionage, the necessity for a trading firm to have sophisticated security systems built around its technology, the requirements for risk management, and even the potential for proprietary trading software to be targeted on a wider scale for terrorist activity; but more than anything else it highlights the critical role played by high-frequency prop trading in this new market.


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The 1984-85 Indoor Track and Field Team captured UMass Boston's first indoor NCAA III title, as well as its first national team title of any kind and boasted eight All-America performances and three individual champions during its championship run. It was an improbable feat considering nine freshman, two sophomores and a pair of juniors made up the roster, which included virtually no one competing in the field events. The squad also won the ECAC indoor crown, paced by five first place finishes and two meet records, and finished third at the New England Championships, while taking three first place finishes.
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Mali mission signals brief, passing moment of co-operation as Commons returns
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair rises during question period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, on Monday January 28, 2013. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
The Canadian Press
Published Monday, January 28, 2013 6:39PM EST
OTTAWA -- For a brief moment Monday, the House of Commons was in harmony.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair began the first question period of 2013 with an inquiry that was not partisan or snide, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded in kind.
"Can the prime minister please update the House on Canada's involvement in the ongoing mission in Mali?" said Mulcair.
"As I think most parliamentarians will know," Harper responded, "the government has been very clear that it will not undertake a Canadian combat mission in Mali....
"Of course, through this chamber and through committees, we will be consulting with parliamentarians on any further steps that need to be taken."
And with that, the ray of parliamentary sunshine had passed.
Few had expected it to last.
Following a six-week Christmas adjournment, MPs are back in the capital for a winter run that will include a federal budget, ongoing native protests, more criminal justice legislation and lots of partisan posturing.
Monday dawned benignly enough, with the prime minister posting a picture of himself on Twitter having breakfast, his family cat sitting nearby.
As Conservative marketing measures go, Harper's day-in-the-life social media exercise -- which included his drive to work and a high-five for up-and-coming MP Michelle Rempel -- was a welcome slice of humanity.
But by mid-day, the same familiar caricatures were emerging.
The Bloc Quebecois debated its bill to repeal the Clarity Act on Quebec succession, a transparent effort to goad New Democrats, who rose to the bait by promising their own bill that would make any vote on Quebec separation a matter of 50 per cent plus one.
Peter Van Loan, Harper's House leader, held a news conference to report the government's "top priority is creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity."
Asked if Conservatives would revisit their omnibus legislation opposed by First Nations, who feel it puts resource development ahead of the environment on their lands, Van Loan was unmoved.
"Among the greatest beneficiaries of those changes will be First Nations," he said.
Outside, a cold huddle of a couple of hundred Idle No More protesters on Parliament Hill's windy, snow-swept front steps served as a dispiriting metaphor, the words of over-amplified speakers echoing off surrounding buildings to an audience of no one but the protesters themselves.
As the clock wound down to the start of the afternoon question period, three Conservative backbenchers in a row got to their feet to reprise a phantom opposition non-policy that was thoroughly debunked last fall.
"Over the past six weeks I have had the opportunity to speak and consult with hundreds of constituents and hard-working Canadians, and one thing is very clear," intoned Conservative Costas Menegakis. "They do not want to see the NDP's $21-billion carbon tax."
No such NDP carbon tax proposal exists.
Following Harper and Mulcair's brief Mali mission detente, question period returned to its pre-Christmas harangues, with a new emphasis on First Nations relations being the only notable departure.
"We will continue to work with those positive partners who seek to make progress," the prime minister noted.
Alleged Conservative mismanagement, changes to employment insurance, the virtues or faults of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, even Defence Minister Peter MacKay's long-past helicopter ride to work were flogged around the Commons.
Relatively late in the proceedings, New Democrat Alexandre Boulerice asked a question that somehow segued from Senate abolition to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's problematic lobbying of the CRTC.
Conservative Pierre Poilievre's response meandered through Boulerice's past donation to a separatist party, "Gangnam Style" and the Mayan apocalypse -- prompting another NDP MP to blow a valve.
"Even when he does have his clown nose on, he still does not really make any sense," Charlie Angus spat at Poilievre, earning a gentle rebuke from the Speaker.
And with that, Parliament had returned to last fall's lowest common denominator.
Afterwards, NDP House leader Nathan Cullen sounded almost wistful when asked about the Mali co-operation.
"Wouldn't it be nice if the government would set that tone for so many other issues that the country is facing?" he said. "Parliament is meant to be a conversation, where you struggle with ideas and come to the best idea you can possibly find."
Cullen said New Democrats will present the House with ideas Tuesday for giving the Speaker more power to curtail unparliamentary language and behaviour.
But what about the Angus outburst?
"There's nothing saying we want this place to be quiet as a library," Cullen responded. "There's moments where you go to the line, and maybe cross over.
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For much of the 20th century and well into the 21st, much of popular music — rock and roll, R&B, hip hop — has banked on the appeal of the rebel, the outsider and even the straight-up criminal to sell records and provide a kind of cartoonish "cred"to what is, at heart, a business and entertainment enterprise. (Death Row Records, anyone?) But arguably no single label in the history of music had as many true hell-raisers and genuine pioneers as Sam Phillips' Sun Records. Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and, of course, Elvis Presley were all early Sun stars, and the music they made — as well as the personae they perfected — possessed the one quality that's always vied with sex for the almighty dollar: danger.
But another Sun act, signed to the label in the early 1950s, was comprised of five men who made Sun's more famous bad boys look like proverbial choir boys. The doo-wop group the Prisonaires was not comprised of miscreants occasionally jailed overnight for misdemeanors. They were not musicians who performed in prisons. They did not play hell-raisers in the movies. The Prisonaires were actual prisoners, all of them doing hard time for serious offenses. Here, on the 50th anniversary of the closing of one of America's most notorious prisons — Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary — and the anniversary of the date when Alan Freed held what's widely considered the first-ever rock and roll concert in 1952, LIFE.com reflects on the nexus of crime and the creative impulse, while offering a series of unpublished pictures of the Prisonaires from 1953.
The group was led by Johnny Bragg who, by the time LIFE's Robert W. Kelley was photographing the quintet, had been an inmate at Tennessee State Penitentiary for a solid decade; he was convicted at the age of 17 on six charges of rape. The other Prisonaires included convicted murderers Ed Thurman and William Stewart, Marcell Sanders (involuntary manslaughter) and John Drue Jr. (locked up for for larceny). One of their very first singles, "Just Walkin' in the Rain," written by Bragg and fellow inmate Robert Riley, was a solid hit for Sun Records in 1953 — and three years later was an absolute smash for Johnnie Ray, his version eventually reaching #2 on the Billboard chart and #1 in England.
The Prisonaires never became megastars, but even while incarcerated they definitely had fans, sold records and were often allowed out of Tennessee State (under guard, of course) to perform at VFW halls, in churches, on TV and, frequently, at the prison warden's home, where they'd sing for the warden, James Edwards, his wife and their two kids, Joyce and Jim.
Read more about the Prisonaires — and other legendary R&B and rock and roll acts — on the Sun Records site.


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Dallas OBserver (March 14, 2013): Larry Brown Just Can't Stop
The white board that runs the length of the room is filled with plays mapped in Xs and Os, arrows flailing in every direction, the pseudo-mathematical scribblings of a mad scientist.
By David Hopkins
Dump trucks, upended concrete, chain-link fencing and security tape block every logical path to the Crum Basketball Center, making it nearly impossible to penetrate SMU's practice facility. The university is remodeling nearby Moody Coliseum, where the Mustangs play their games; soon the musty building will be transformed into a shiny arena worthy of the school's moneyed reputation. It's hard not to see the construction as some overwrought metaphor: SMU is changing. But on this mid-December morning, there's still a lot of work left to do.
The program has long been mired in mediocrity, with only 10 NCAA tournament appearances in its long history and none in the last two decades. A mere 10 SMU alumni have gone on to play professional basketball. Demons like these can be exorcised with new buildings, new conferences and new coaches. By next season's opening tip, the Mustangs will have all three.
It's the last of the three that has the program buzzing like it's 1956, when someone named Jim Krebs took the Mustangs to the NCAA semifinals.
Larry Brown, by every possible criterion, is among the greatest basketball coaches of all time: Coach of the Year in both the NCAA and NBA; the only coach to win the NCAA and NBA championships; the only coach to lead eight NBA teams to the playoffs. At 72, he could easily be living out his retirement alongside his family and America's finest caddies. But coaching is a habit Brown can't quit, so instead he's here.
At first SMU wasn't sure they even wanted him here. This time last year, Steve Orsini, then the school's athletic director, was looking to revamp the basketball program in anticipation of its move to the Big East. His basic strategy: find a big name, no matter the cost. The strategy worked when Orsini found SMU's football coach, June Jones, who's led that struggling program to four bowl games in as many years.
"I wasn't high on their list," Brown says. It wasn't until Maryland coach Mark Turgeon called Orsini, practically begging on Brown's behalf, that the school started to come around. "Steve Orsini had other ideas. June Jones kept me involved, told me not to give up."
It helped that Brown promised to bring along a first-rate staff. Tim Jankovich, who'd also applied for the top job, joined as an assistant coach. Brown has a reputation for leaving teams early; Jankovich, the former head coach at Illinois State, could serve as an insurance policy in case Brown absconded.
"They wanted a guy with head coaching experience," Brown says. "Because of my 'track record,' they figure it'd be nice to have someone there in place."
Eventually Orsini relented, hiring Brown last April. And for the first time in a long time, the media were interested in SMU basketball. Several months later, on this December morning, that interest lingers. Once they find an entry point and descend into the bowels of the Crum Center, a small group of reporters surround Brown, peppering him with questions about upcoming games, key match-ups and of course his former glories.
Brown's dressed for a workout, in a red long-sleeve shirt, black jogging pants and white sneakers. He obliges their questions, but his posture suggests the desire to escape. He stands slightly turned toward the court, ready to break free. Eventually, he comes out and says it: "Do you mind if I coach now?"
Brown may have a nicer office elsewhere, with framed certificates and medals displayed in shadow boxes, but today his command center is a conference room inside Crum — a long table with a desk calendar, a telephone, a plastic basketball pen holder, an assortment of paper stacks and Post-it notes to make sense of the paper stacks. It's poetic, really: a coach with a reputation for transience grinding away in a workspace that could be broken down in a matter of minutes.
He's watching soccer, a Premier League match between Manchester United and Real Madrid. He turns the volume down and shifts his attention between his interviewer and the television, answering questions while watching the game. "Cristiano Ronaldo is maybe the best, second best, soccer player in the world," he says. He's been to Italy, but never to a game on this scale, what he called "real soccer."
The white board that runs the length of the room is filled with plays mapped in Xs and Os, arrows flailing in every direction, the pseudo-mathematical scribblings of a mad scientist. He could probably just erase it and scribble "The Right Way," the capitalized philosophy he developed from his predecessors that focuses on deeper values found in the game. Brown's coaching lineage is rooted in myth and folklore: Dr. James Naismith, the bespectacled creator, prophet and lawgiver of basketball, coached in Kansas. He mentored Forrest Allen, who mentored Dean Smith, who would be Brown's coach and most enduring inspiration for The Right Way.
"Basically, play hard and play together, play unselfishly, try to rebound and defend," Brown says of the philosophy. "I've tried to do that. And I've found out kids want to be taught on every level, and guys want to play the right way generally. I haven't met many who didn't."
The Right Way prevailed through the early part of the season. The Mustangs started 9-4; to the laity, it signaled a new era. But the wins were against non-conference teams, scheduling leftovers from a less ambitious time, the likes of Hofstra (whom the Mustangs beat by 26 points) and Malone (by 34). In a few weeks they start conference play, and Brown's demeanor hints at the hard times ahead. A sense of urgency pervades in practice.
"Remember what I told you the other day about dribbling for speed?" Brown asks one player. "What did you just do?"
Brown observes their half-court drills. His praise punctuates the noisy gym. "Good! Good!" His criticism takes a longer form and silences the practice.
"Look at this." He points to a place along the baseline. "Go back. Where do you think you should be right now? This shit happens."
A player loses control of the ball. "You're better than that!"
Brown walks the team through a sequence to cut off the passing lane and steal the ball. In a display of precognition, during the next play, it happens.
They practice for hours. Larry Brown is in the middle of it all.
"Don't make a horse shit pass."
"No, Jay, that sucks. You gotta be here, not here."
"Let's walk through it again."
"You're letting a 5-9 guy post your ass up."
"Disrespectful as shit!"
"That's a bullshit shot. Shoot it right."
"You look at me like I'm crazy? I could run a clinic on stopping you."
"We can do it your way. Your way sucks."
"Who's the point guard? Are we going to flip a goddamn coin?"
"We've got to be better than that."
He gets crankier as practice continues. He ends most of his sentences with "a'ight," which is to say: Did you hear me? Then, in certain moments, he bursts with encouragement: "That's a basketball play!" He praises every selfless decision that moves the Mustangs closer to playing as a single unit, The Right Way.
Later, Jalen Jones, a 6-foot-7 guard, describes how it feels to be on the receiving end of Brown's rapid-fire instruction. "He's taught me a lot," Jones says. "He continues to teach me every day. He's a great leader. All the players look up to him."
Jones smiles.
"Your best bet is to not argue with him. He's a Hall of Fame coach — pretty sure he knows what he's talking about. I don't think anyone tries to get in an argument with him."
Coaches can generally be analyzed and plotted onto a quadrant graph. Along the x-axis are the ones who sit (John Wooden) and the ones who stand (John Thompson). Along the y-axis are the calm ones (Dean Smith) and the animated ones (Bobby Knight).
Larry Brown is an Animated Sitter — a powder keg trying in earnest to not explode at every injustice on the court. He is perpetually annoyed because he can't help but see every small miscalculation and poor on-court maneuver. At practice, he's in control. He can stop and readjust where and how his players are standing, and he does so often. In games, he looks helpless.
His opponent today, Tulsa head coach Danny Manning, is a Calm Stander. He exudes confidence, quietly observing and scheming. The game is being televised nationally on Fox Southwest Network. For the first time, Brown's Mustangs are playing Manning's Tulsa Hurricanes, dredging up nostalgia for both coaches and certain basketball nerds. Manning played for Brown in 1988, when their Kansas team won the NCAA Championship. Manning was the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Brown was named college Coach of the Year.
Brown's path from there to here has yielded a healthy mix of success and failure, triumph and pseudo-scandal, which helps explain how he wound up in Dallas. He took UCLA to the Final Four in 1980, only to have the appearance vacated because two players were ineligible. The year after he and Manning won the title, in 1989, the NCAA banned Kansas from the postseason because of a recruiting violation that amounted to Brown buying a plane ticket so a student could visit his dying grandmother. In 2004, Brown and Greg Popovich coached the men's Olympic basketball team. When the team only got the bronze, Brown was blamed for sitting LeBron James.
Brown brought an improbable title to the Pistons that same year, but his time in Detroit was marred by rumors of him fleeing to Cleveland. He was fired after one year with the Knicks. A few years later, Michael Jordan asked Brown to shepherd the aimless Charlotte Bobcats. Although Brown guided them to the playoffs, he was let go after a few seasons.
"Look around our profession now," Brown says when asked about his itinerant career. "Everybody leaves. I've had reasons to leave, and they've all been different. Some were my choosing and some weren't."
After Charlotte, Brown took a two-year sabbatical from coaching. Like a wandering prophet, he visited college programs to share whatever wisdom he had at the ready. "I didn't go to any pro games because I thought if I walked into a pro game people would speculate, one way or another here," Brown says. "But I went to so many college practices. I was in Kentucky, and Kansas, and Maryland, with Ted Boyle, and Jay Wright every day. I'd go all around."
He remained hungry to coach. He says he passed on Stanford and interviewed for Princeton but it didn't work out. He was searching for a great academic school in need of redemption, he says, which led him here, to Dallas, down the sideline from a kid he coached a quarter-century ago.
The Mustangs are losing badly, on their way to a 17-point halftime deficit. Brown throws his hands up at a traveling call. When a player dribbles out of bounds, he sinks further into his chair. A woman in the crowd yells, over and over: "Fix it, Mustangs! Fix it!" They would if they could. To enliven the crowd, SMU's horse mascot Peruna runs past the court-side seats, soliciting high fives. They are reluctantly given.
In the second half, SMU grinds its way to a one-point lead with 22 seconds left. Guard Nick Russell is fouled. He misses the first, makes the second. Possession changes. Tulsa hits a three pointer, giving them the lead. Brown calls a time out.
The crowd is now a unified force of energy. Two shirtless fans, one painted blue with a red Afro wig and suspenders, the other painted red with a blue Afro and suspenders, stand vigilantly, praying to the basketball gods for mercy.
Russell takes the final shot and misses. SMU loses, 48 to 47. Afterward, Brown sets up shop in a makeshift press area, in front of a blue SMU backdrop on the team's practice court.
"The first half, we were selfish," he says, summarizing the game. "We never moved the ball, took bad shots, got out hustled, out worked. Second half, we defended as well as we have all year, played with a lot of energy, but we can't put it on a couple of guys to get us over the hump."
He is calm now and slouches over the table, tie loose. He smiles with a slight shrug: What more do you want to know?
"I'm not crazy about games," Brown says. "I love being at practice with the players and I love being around my staff."
Born in Brooklyn, Brown lost his father young. After moving with his mom to Long Island, he was raised by a collective of men on his mother's side and coach after coach. For him, basketball is not warfare; it's a big, dysfunctional family. He loves his vocation because he extends the definition of "family" to his wayward players.
Every day the young Brown would lace his Converse and go across the street from his grandfather's bakery to the basketball court next to the ocean, where some great young players, including his older brother Herb, played pick-up games. When those players went home, Brown stayed, practicing his shot over and over, lost in some mix of his thoughts, the repetitive beating of the bouncing ball and the rhythmic crashing of the nearby waves. He practiced until the sun set and he was called back inside.
New York City was his basketball mecca. He and his brother took the subway to Madison Square Garden, where they watched the Harlem Globetrotters play. "We went to a double header," Brown says. "That's when they used to play the College All-Americans. You know, they'd fool around, but it was a highly competitive game. Just blew me away the things they were capable of doing with the ball. I was in awe of everything the game was about, both teams."
Brown excelled on that seaside court and on his high school team. Frank McGuire, the famed coach, invited him to play for the University of North Carolina. It was there that Brown learned The Right Way from McGuire and, when McGuire was forced to resign in the wake of NCAA violations, Dean Smith. Brown made the men's national basketball team in 1964 and won gold. The next year, Baltimore wanted to sign him.
"Buddy Jeannette was the GM," Brown says. "He came to see me. I met with him in Coach Smith's office and he told me I was smaller than he thought. Coach kinda laughed. He said to Coach Smith and me, How's Larry going to guard Oscar Robertson or Jerry West or John Havlicek? They were all like 6-4, 6-5 or better. I was a smart ass and I told him, 'Last I looked in the paper, they were all averaging about 30 a game. I didn't think anybody was guarding them.'"
He turned Baltimore down, he says, because they couldn't guarantee a full contract. Instead, Brown played another year in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) program with Goodyear's Akron Wingfoots. Then Smith asked him to return to North Carolina as a coach.
"They were both a huge part of my life," Brown says of McGuire and Smith. "I don't think anybody could of been as fortunate as me, to be involved in that kinda situation."
Talking to his current players, it's obvious Brown is trying to pass down that fortune and that mentorship.
"You can go up and talk to him about anything," says Shawn Williams, SMU's most reliable perimeter shooter. "He's approachable. He's not like some coaches who are too arrogant. He's pretty cool."
He's also available. Brown's family is back in Philadelphia; he's here alone, with only his routine to keep him occupied. "I go from here to eatZi's, get some dinner, to my apartment to here in the morning to Starbucks to practice to eatZi's," he says. "And God forbid I don't have it on my GPS or I'm in trouble."
In the evenings, if he's not at SMU, he attends high school games. In January, it was DeSoto and Duncanville.
"It was great. Double overtime. It was unbelievable," Brown says. "Two great coaches, I mean, those guys could coach. I love watching kids and being out in the community. DeSoto kids lined up. A'ight? They were all dressed basically the same. But all of them tucked their warm-ups in their pants. One kid had his warm-up out, and they were lining up for the national anthem. And the coach patted him on the ass, and said tuck it in right away. He had me, then and there."
Mostly, though, Brown keeps returning to the practice court and its familiar dimensions, lines and hardwood surface. He knows the routine and the cadence, the rituals of preparation. It's far from home, but it is home.
Brown has his team running fast-break drills. They start two-on-two, then add a player back and forth until it's five-on-four. Predictably, Brown grows annoyed.
"Where does our ball belong?" This is not a rhetorical question. He waits for an answer. The players are silent. Brown gives up. "In the middle! We do this everyday."
Nic Moore is a transfer student. Because of NCAA rules, he's ineligible to play this season. They could certainly use him. One of Brown's first actions as a coach was to cut several members of the team, players he thought would never see time on the court. The roster was depleted with hopes set on next season. Moore will be an impact player. He led his previous team, Illinois State, in assists and was a capable scorer. In practice, Brown likes what he sees.
"The pick was great," Brown says. "The roll was great. The finish just has to be better."
Moore, who wears a smug expression as a default, offers his hand to the coach. Brown gives him a low five.
Now Brown is pleased with another player, one of his bench guards who finally played defense. The coach opens his arms to the sheepish freshman, in a move that's thoroughly, embarrassingly dad-like. "Give me a hug!" Brown says. The player pretends to be unsure but goes in for one anyway.
The head coach of Southern Miss is the quintessential Animated Stander. He's doughy, no neck, with short spiky hair that's given an unhealthy coat of gel. He paces and shouts, waves his arms at his players and pleads with the refs. His face turns bright red and he forgets to breathe. He has plenty to be in a huff about, too: His team is down 19 to SMU, thanks to some solid three-point shooting from Shawn Williams.
The Mustangs are 11-7 heading into this game and doing some things well. They have strong talent among their starters, who all return next season. They haven't been blown out in any of their losses, which may bode well for a future that will include tougher opponents both inside and out of the Big East. But the essential truth of this season is that SMU is in transition. They don't have enough good players to carry them from the opening buzzer to the final second, to close out close games. They need Moore on the court. They need next year's recruits now.
In the second half, Southern Miss employs a full-court press. SMU doesn't have a serviceable bench; Brown's starters play 30-plus minutes every game. They're tired when Southern Miss goes on the attack, and they lose, 74 to 70.
"I knew this year would be real difficult," Brown says. "As long as we try — try to get better, come to practice every day, respecting their teammates, I can handle what happens in the games. We've invented ways to lose games, but we're in every game just about, and that's something I'm proud of. I know with our transfers and with our recruiting class, and our potential, we're going to get better quickly."
At the end, the band plays the mournful school song and the students, coaches, players and alumni raise two fingers — pony ears, their collegiate hand sign, but today it looks like an acknowledgment: We're not quite No. 1. Over the next two months, they'll watch their team's winning record evaporate, as the Mustangs struggle and finish 5-11 in the conference and 15-16 overall. They've been stronger in their losses, more determined in defeat than in years past. Still, too many of their victories have been of the moral variety.
After Southern Miss, though, Brown's players remain hopeful. When asked about the season, they adopt their coach's message to keep practicing, to play as a team. They may not realize it, but they've internalized the tenets of The Right Way.
"Keep going," Jalen Jones says. "Keep going hard in practice. Coach has been supportive of the losses we took, but he continues to build and coach us up, and prepare us for our next games."
"Right now is a horrible time for us to break apart and get mad at each other," Nick Russell says. "We just have to stay with each other."
Brown returns to the post-game press area, to address a group of reporters that's waned from earlier in the year, when everyone wanted to know what this old coach was doing in SMU.
Basketball is all about time — each possession cut short by a shot clock, each game determined by the score when the clock runs out. For Brown, especially, time sets the boundaries of expectations: How good can SMU be in one season, or two, or however many he stays in Dallas?
Brown has always made good use of his time, and he sounds optimistic he can do that again: "It's a miracle we were in the game," he says, and "I can deal with games like this." He thinks about Southern Miss, about a blown 19-point lead, about another conference loss, and he smiles. "That's probably the happiest I've been with our team all year."


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The BBC asked me to write some blogs to accompany Jerry Jackson's cartoons a while ago. They didn't really specify what they wanted, so I made up some nonsense in the style of a newspaper style help column. I delivered this last one a little late and they didn't get round to publishing it. So here it is.
Don't burn your fanny on a candle, it's Dr. Firth with some wise shapes.
Letter from Walter Ribbon:
Last year I quit my life due to a financial misunderstanding and I've been regretting it ever since. Give me second chance Doc!
If we could project our regrets, then the majority of life would be dull and quite withdrawn, wouldn't you agree Walter? I once sodomized a knackered bulldog, and I still feel pretty bad about it. He was absolutely helpless and I took advantage, but I don't regret one second of it. I wouldn't do it again, but if I went back in time I wouldn't NOT do it again either. The reason being is that, on my way to the police station, following the supposedly illegal buggery, I found sixty pence and a soggy box of cigarettes that someone must have dropped. They dried out fine, and the money came in useful. I wouldn't have happened upon this fortunate care package of delights if it weren't for my brazen, sinful bestiality. But back to your problem. No, I cannot bring you back to life.
Dean in La Rochelle says: I recently quit smoking, but then quit quitting, which didn't last for long and now I'm thinking of changing my mind again.
Letter from Curly Sue:
I'm a huge success. I'm a big champ and I'm on top of the world. Should I quit while I'm ahead, or should I have quit just before I was ahead? I mean I probably could be further ahead, but feel I may slip down to slightly less ahead, but still considerably ahead if my recent form were to continue. What I mean to say is: "When is the right time to quit?"
Well Curly, there is a time and a place for everything, but also a time and a place for nothing. The remaining times and places are generally for something, but exceptions can be made. Having said all that, if you don't quit before it's too late, you could end up impotent, with the face of a tobacco chewing, weather-beaten fishing enthusiast. It depends what you're after in life.
Mason Critch says: I once said the word "quit" repeatedly until it lost all meaning. I was worried that it would last forever, but it didn't.
Letter from Shaggy:
Is age just a number? I heard that it's also a sound and a smell.
You're an idiot. You really don't qualify to see my response. Stop reading now. Everyone else can continue. The answer is yes. Age is just a number. That is the excuse you're supposed to use in court. "She said she was 17 and I am very gullible". Putting yourself down is good for pity. Age is definitely just a number, but a massively important one for some record holders, myself included. For you see, I was once the youngest person in the world, but my record didn't last long enough for me to cash in. I was beaten 4.2 seconds later by a young chap in Ecuador. He didn't grow up to be a famous doctor though, he actually just died in a war or something along with his ugly brothers.
Thanks for the memories. That's enough work for now.
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Virunga, Africa's oldest national park, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List for its exceptional biodiversity in 1979. Home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas, it is situated in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
In 1994, Virunga was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger, largely due to the conflict in the Great Lakes region. More recently, prospective projects from the oil and gas industry have also been posing threats to the park.
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A warm embrace on a cold Winter day, this voluminous Apple Pie Oatmeal will remind you of that delicious apple pie, but will leave you feeling energized and ready to tackle the day ahead.
Apple Crisp
This is my no-fail recipe for sweet & festive Apple Crisp.
Apple Pie Baked Oatmeal
Approximate nutrition (per serving): 175 calories, 3 grams fat, 32 grams carbs, 6 grams protein
Apple Pie Baked Oatmeal
This baked oatmeal is so delicious! It truly does taste like apple pie thanks to the butter extract and cinnamon. The chunks of baked apple give it an incredible texture. It's also good with a smear of peanut butter on top (and the additional protein helps keep you full even longer!). Happy breakfasting!
Apple Pecan Oatmeal Breakfast Bars
The perfect grab and go snack - especially good for breakfast!
Apple Oatmeal Scones with Caramel Glaze
Apple Oatmeal Scones with Caramel Glaze
Apple Pie Oatmeal
Warm, sauteed apples top a generous bowl of filling and healthy oatmeal. The perfect breakfast to help satisfy your fall food cravings.
Apple Pie Oatmeal
Per 1 cup - Calories:184 Fat:2.1g Carbs: 40.8g Fiber: 6.4g Sugar: 9.4g Protein: 4.8g


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Apr 12, 2013 (CIDRAP News) – A new analysis of H7N9 genetic sequences from the first Chinese patients infected with the virus and from poultry markets found more signals that the virus can attach and replicate efficiently in the airways of humans and other mammals, raising concerns about the virus's pandemic potential.
The new findings, published late yesterday in Eurosurveillance, are the first detailed comparison of both the human and market sequences. Results are similar to the genetic details of samples from the first three cases reported by Chinese scientists yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The new results also affirm early observations from some experts that the novel virus has adapted to infect mammals, yielding more information that health officials need to gauge the pandemic threat from the new virus.
The research team from Japan includes Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, PhD, who heads a group at the University of Wisconsin that has done extensive genetic studies on the H5N1 virus, and Masato Tashiro, MD, PhD, director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Influenza at Japan's National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo.
Their look at sequences from influenza databases included human samples from the first two patients from Shanghai, as well as from a woman from Anhui province and a man from Hangzhou province. All of the patients died.
Samples from a market in Shanghai include isolates from a pigeon, a chicken, and an environmental sample.
Phylogenetic analysis of the four human samples suggest they have a common ancestor, with the hemagglutinin (HA) gene part of the Eurasian avian influenza lineage and closely resembling HA genes of low-pathogenic H7N3 viruses detected in 2011 in Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai. The group reported that the neuraminidase (NA) gene closely resembles a low-pathogenic H11N9 virus found in the Czech Republic in 2010.
Internal genes of the H7N9 virus were closely related to H9N2 avian flu viruses that recently circulated in poultry in Shanghai, as well as Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, according to the report. Researchers said the findings strongly suggest that the new viruses are reassortants that got their HA and NA genes (the H7 and N9) from avian influenza viruses and the rest of their genes from recent H9N2 poultry viruses.
When they compared the nucleotides from the four human specimens, they found that one of the Shanghai samples and the ones from Anhui and Hangzhou were 99% similar, despite the fact that they came from cities that were several hundred kilometers apart. They found differences between the two Shanghai samples and noted other patterns with the human and market samples that suggest five of the viruses came from a closely related infection source, while one of the Shanghai samples and the one from the pigeon came from different sources.
The Japan group's findings appear to echo the report from Chinese researchers yesterday that there have been at least two introductions into humans.
The Japanese researchers also detected mutations increase binding to human receptors, a key marker health officials use to gauge the infectivity of new flu viruses. They found that the two Shanghai strains and the Anhui strain had mutations that increase the binding of H5 and N7 viruses to human-type receptors.
One was the Q226L mutation, also flagged by Chinese researchers yesterday. It has been linked to the spread of respiratory droplets in ferrets and was a finding in two controversial studies—one by Kawaoka's group—in 2012 involving lab-modified H5N1 strains.
"The finding of mammalian-adapting mutations in the RBS [receptor-binding site] of these novel viruses is cause for concern," the investigators wrote.
The isolate from the Hangzhou patient had a genetic marker (isoleucine at position 226) found in seasonal H3N2 flu viruses.
All seven of the viruses had an HA substitution seen in other recently circulating H7 viruses that has been linked to increased binding to human-type receptors, according to the report.
In the polymerase PB2 protein, they found a marker in the human samples that is essential for efficient replication and has been seen in H5N1 viruses and in an H7N7 sample that was isolated from a fatal case in the Netherlands in 2003.
When they looked for mutations that influence sensitivity to antiviral medications, they projected that all of the human H7N9 samples should be sensitive to neuraminidase inhibitors, except for one of the Shanghai samples. The exception has a R294K mutation in the NA protein that has been linked to resistance in N2 and N9 flu subtypes, which is concerning, the team wrote.
Neuraminidase inhibitors are the most common types of flu antiviral drugs prescribed and include oseltamivir (Tamflu) and zanamivir (Relenza).
Researchers also found some virulence markers, including one at the NA stalk and the other in the PB1-F2 protein; however, they said the human sequences so far lack the N66S mutation that was associated with increased pathogenicity of the 1918 pandemic virus and the H5N1 virus.
The mutation they saw at the NA stalk can occur when the virus adapts to terrestrial birds, which suggests the novel H7N9 virus or their ancestors may have circulated in terrestrial birds before infecting humans. So far, the host of the virus has not been identified, and health officials are considering a range of animals.
The H7N9 virus sequences also showed an NS1 protein sequence pattern that might attenuate the viruses in mammals.
Taken together, the findings present a somewhat clearer picture of the threat the new virus could pose, the group concluded.
"These viruses possess several characteristic features of mammalian influenza viruses, which are likely to contribute to their ability to infect humans and raise concerns regarding their pandemic potential," they wrote.
Kageyama T, Fujisaki S, Takashita E, at al. Genetic analysis of novel avian influenza A (H7N9) influenza viruses isolated from patients in China, February to April 2013. Eurosurveill 2013 Apr 11;18(15) [Full text]
See also:
Apr 11 CIDRAP News story "CDC airs H7N9 worries as report profiles early victims"


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JOHNSON COUNTY– Hip fractures sustained in falls can be the first slippery step in a downward decline for the elderly.
People who fall and break bones can become dependent on others for food and doctor visits. If confined to bed or unable to get around, overall health can quickly deteriorate when someone's seemingly small injury affects general health, mobility and independence.
Seniors are especially vulnerable to the effects of falls, often cracking wrists, legs and hip bones that can break more easily as bones become more brittle with age.
Iowans 75 and older are four to five times more likely to check into long-term care after a fall, and falls are also the leading cause of injury-related deaths for older Iowans.
What can be done to help prevent falls and protect those susceptible to fall-related injuries?
A Johnson County coalition called Sure Steps has some answers. The group grew from a volunteer action team of the Johnson County Livable Community for Successful Aging Policy Board (JCLC).
In the aftermath of a fall, said Program Coordinator Mary Willie, family members have to pick up a lot of caregiving, and the effects of injuries can quickly expand to the community.
The average cost for older Iowans after a fall for injury-related hospitalization is over $19,000, she noted.
Preventing falls is serious work; Willie, an Aging Specialist with JCLC, wrote a grant to The Wellmark Foundation that was awarded in 2010 and will run until December 2012.
The funding has helped Sure Steps educate and increase awareness of the personal and direct costs of senior injuries from falls by helping people make their homes safer and motivating seniors to increase physical fitness that can help with an individual's balance and recovery.
Exercise is one of the most important steps to reduce the risk of falling.
Falling has a high cost for the senior, she said, that can impact families, employers, community members and the health care system.
Willie is working to get the word out, and will visit area groups to present information to seniors, make health assessments and train care providers to reduce the risks of falls for seniors.
One test she conducts is called the "Get up and go." It measures the time it takes to get up from a chair, walk a short distance and sit back down. A person's time is an indicator of balance and agility. "The longer it takes," Willie said, "the worse your balance is."
Willie said injuries from falling can result in "a huge cost emotionally, psychologically, and financially" for seniors and families.
Therefore, she's sharing some low- and no-cost things people can do to prevent falls or minimize their impact, such as moving a washer and dryer from basement to main level to avoid climbing stairs. If stairs are unavoidable, make sure hand railings are secure inside and out.
She advised that medication and poor vision can contribute to risk of falling. Medications, or combinations of medicine, can cause dizziness or sleepiness and should be reviewed. Poor lighting, wearing the wrong glasses, or eye conditions can also be hazardous.
In winter, she recommended putting salt or cat litter inside the home to skip a trip to the garage.
Wearing gloves will keep cold hands out of pockets and give more balance when it's icy.
Footwear should have sensible treads without a heel. Canes and walkers can be fitted with sharp, icepick tips to grip slippery sidewalks.
Mary Willie and the Sure Steps team will be on hand at the Aging Expo held at the Coralville Marriott Convention Center on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to answer questions and advise seniors, families, caregivers and service providers on ways to prevent fall injuries.
On Thursday, Nov. 10, she'll give a Sure Steps presentation on home safety at First Presbyterian Church in Iowa City from 10-11:30 a.m.
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IFCS provides an open, transparent and inclusive forum for discussing issues of common interest and also new and emerging issues in the area of sound management of chemicals. IFCS plays a unique multi-faceted role as a flexible, open and transparent brainstorming and bridge-building forum for Governments, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations including from the private sector. This role has facilitated consensus building on issues and actions addressing the sound management of chemicals. By its efforts it contributes to the implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) and the work of other chemicals-related international organizations and institutions.
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Chemical safety is the prevention of the adverse effects, both short- and long-term, to humans and the environment from the production, storage, transportation, use and disposal of chemicals.
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