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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
F is for Falling
My 81-year-old mother fell coming into her house last week. My sister who lives with her says she's fine, and that's good news, of course.
Even before hearing that news, I was thinking about the topic. On one hand, the fall is the lifeblood of physical comedy. Watch out for that banana peeeel! The role of the comedian, going back generations, perhaps millennia, was to take a tumble.
One of my all-time favorite TV shows was The Dick van Dyke Show. As you can see here, Dick would either trip over the ottoman, stumble over it, or neatly evade it.
And YouTube is chock full of people taking a tumble.
Conversely, One in three adults 65 and older falls each year in the United States. In 2005, 15,800 people 65 and older died from injuries related to unintentional falls; about 1.8 million people 65 and older were treated in emergency departments for nonfatal injuries from falls, and more than 433,000 of these patients were hospitalized, again in the U.S. And that doesn't even touch on falls from elevation.
This brings me to LifeCall. From the Wikipedia: The motivation behind the systems is that subscribers, mostly senior citizens, would receive a pendant which, when activated, would put them in immediate contact with a dispatch service, without the need to use a phone or other household device...
So far so good.
In 1989, LifeCall began running commercials which contained a scene wherein an elderly woman, identified by a dispatcher as "Mrs. Fletcher" uses the medical alert pendant after having fallen in the bathroom. After falling Mrs Fletcher speaks the phrase "I've fallen and I can't get up" after which the dispatcher informs her that he is sending help.
Taken at its face value, the commercial portrays a dangerous situation for a senior, with perhaps dire consequences...
The "I've fallen and I can't get up" ad had the double misfortune of being unintentionally campy and appearing often on cable and daytime television. The fact that the commercial was a dramatization (as clearly stated in the beginning of the commercial) using rather mediocre acting also contributed to the humor. The combination made "I've fallen... and I can't get up!" a recognized, universal punchline that applied to many comedic situations. All of these factors made the ad memorable, ensuring the line's place in pop culture history.
The commercial's punchline has also been appropriated by members of faith communities.
My final falling reference (briefly) will be falling in love. One could discuss ad nauseum what that really means. But I've had stuck in my head a song by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers called "Falling in Love with Love."
"Falling in Love with Love is falling for make-believe!
Falling in Love with Love is playing the fool!" Here's Julie Andrews singing Falling In Love With Love.
Falling Creek, GA
Note: I had a bunch of photos put aside for the post which I CANNOT FIND. Photos taken from government websites.
33 comments:
- RuneE said...
I can't comment on the TV shows etc. since I live in Europe, But I can say that I'm, impressed by that first picture. I have tried the technique and you have done it very well
- 11:01 AM, August 25, 2009
- mrsnesbitt said...
Falling in Love with you! Elvis lives!
- 11:04 AM, August 25, 2009
- Ackworth born said...
I've never cared for slapstick comedy and falling is rarely very funny but I love waterfalls except for the rain that is falling again outside my window!
- 11:16 AM, August 25, 2009
- foto CHIP said...
Cool and great pictures :)
- 11:38 AM, August 25, 2009
- Squirrel said...
You have made some very good points about Seniors falling. Well done.
- 11:58 AM, August 25, 2009
- Sylvia K said...
The first shot is truly breathtaking! Just hoping I don't become another "falling senior statistic"!
Have a great day!
- 12:06 PM, August 25, 2009
- Janie said...
So true that a fall by a senior citizen is no joke. My mother at 88 falls all too often, and we worry.
On the other hand, Dick van Dyke did slapstick so well, I had to laugh at his ridiculous falls.
Beautiful waterfall photo!
- 1:17 PM, August 25, 2009
- anthonynorth said...
Falling from the serious to the funny. Good slapstick is excellent, but it can so asily be bad. Whereas Julie Andrews is never bad.
Enjoyed your post.
- 1:21 PM, August 25, 2009
- photowannabe said...
Very impressive choices for the letter F, from serious to humorous. Thanks for an interesting and by the way, great shots, post.
- 1:26 PM, August 25, 2009
- Demeur said...
From my doctor I learned that most seniors don't fall and break their hip. Their hip breaks and then they fall.
Biggest problem here is seniors getting confused and getting lost when going for walks.
Gee don't we have great things to look forward to in the coming years.
- 1:53 PM, August 25, 2009
- Sistertex said...
Beautiful photos and a very nice take on 'F'. Great job.
- 2:31 PM, August 25, 2009
- Paula Scott said...
Wow! Thanks so much for all the info! What a great post! Great images even if you didn't take all of them.
We had gotten my mother in law one of those gadgets. She would conveniently forget to wear them (too stubborn to admit that she needed it). The falling continued. Too many trips to the hospital later and sadly, she is now in a nursing home.
A most Fascinating post.
- 3:53 PM, August 25, 2009
- Beverley Baird said...
Geat post with lots of good info!
- 4:17 PM, August 25, 2009
- Carol said...
What a good post...enjoyed reading this...Dick Van Dyke is one of my faves also...and I never tire of Julie Andrews...
- 4:51 PM, August 25, 2009
- Rinkly Rimes said...
You covered the topic wonderfully well. I fear falling. So many old people die soon after a fall!
- 4:54 PM, August 25, 2009
- James said...
Very F friendly post and I'm ashamed to say that the old "I've fallen and I can't get up" ad used to crack me up. Another great comedic faller was John Ritter aka Jack Tripper.
Well done!
- 6:46 PM, August 25, 2009
- Amy said...
Since I'm known for my falling and as I'm only a few years away from the advanced age of 65, I'll try to heed your timely warning; then, once again, "Oh no, I think I've fallen and I can't get up!" But, usually I do manage to get up by myself and I've only broken one bone so far - my hand last year walking our giant dog...I think just being conscious and paying attention is key.
Thoroughly enjoyed the Dick Van Dyke clip as well as Julie Andrews - very sentimental!
- 7:36 PM, August 25, 2009
- Leslie: said...
What a wonderful post! I remember that commercial and the consequent fun we had with the punchline. Also enjoyed hearing Julie Andrews sing. :D
- 8:24 PM, August 25, 2009
- Tumblewords: said...
Glad to hear your mother wasn't injured in the fall. The photos are gorgeous...Dick Van Dyke offered some very funny falls, for sure! Good post...
- 10:16 PM, August 25, 2009
- kikamz said...
a very fascinating post! too bad you couldn't FIND your own set of FOTOs!
- 10:22 PM, August 25, 2009
- April said...
I'm glad your mother is okay. This is quite an interesting and broad topic. The photos are great.
- 11:39 PM, August 25, 2009
- Grace and Bradley said...
Wow, an well written essay for FALL and nice pictures to go with it.
- 11:48 PM, August 25, 2009
- Reader Wil said...
Your fall photos are all very great! The waterfall is gorgeous and the autumn leaves are very colourful. Funny that autumn is called fall in the States. But fall is actually a better name.
Falling in the middle of the night is bad. My mum fell in the bathroom and crawled to her bed, but we urged her to wear that pendant you mentioned, but she didn't like the thing. How is your mum? I hope she'll be better now.
- 3:52 AM, August 26, 2009
- Your EG Tour Guide said...
You covered the word FALL very well in photos and in words!
- 6:19 AM, August 26, 2009
- jay said...
You might not have been able to find those photos, but you did a wonderful job without them!
I thoroughly enjoyed this one - both entertaining and informative, and with both a funny and a serious message! And I love the picture of the fallen leaves. Just beautiful.
- 6:42 AM, August 26, 2009
- Rose said...
Great choices for the letter F! I remember the commercial you mentioned, and it's so true. It unintentionally made a joke of what is a very serious situation for many seniors. I hope your mother is doing well.
- 10:30 AM, August 26, 2009
- Joy said...
So many meanings you managed to get in this post. Waterfalls are always lovely and your photo capture this well. Falls can be funny, I say this as a person whose had a fair share, but falls for the elderly are always a worry and can effect their confidence.
- 1:59 PM, August 26, 2009
- ~JarieLyn~ said...
Falling......Chevy Chase seems to tumble quite a bit in his comedic stints. Great post. Very interesting, and your first picture is phenomenal. I love water falls.
- 6:05 PM, August 26, 2009
- Q said...
Creative f post. Now am thinking about the many falls I have taken.
Glad your Mother is okay.
- 8:16 PM, August 26, 2009
- Lin said...
Great post! At my age, I'm afraid of falling and breaking a bone. Have fallen down the stairs, backwards, tripped and fell on the open dishwasher, breaking the door. Last summer fell off my bike and ended up overnight in the hospital with a concussion and 3 stitches in my eyebrow. Not funny to fall!
- 12:12 AM, August 27, 2009
- Ann said...
Hope your mum is fine despite the fall.
I love the water fall. I go to a lot of them because I fell in love with a water engineer.
- 1:04 AM, August 27, 2009
- Irene Toh said...
Thoughtful F. Good to know your mum's fine.
- 6:06 AM, August 27, 2009
- Martha in PA said...
Thanks for stopping by! Love Dick Van Dyke! I'm glad your mother is okay! Mine is 85, and we are now living together - 3 generations of girls... anticipating the time that there may be falls! I can't wait for fall after living in FL for 6 years. Fall in Albany is beautiful!
- 11:38 AM, August 27, 2009


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North Carolina State University scientists have figured out one reason why pregnant yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti), one of the most important disease transmitters worldwide, choose to lay their eggs in certain outdoor water containers while eschewing others.
In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the NC State researchers show that certain chemicals emanating from bacteria in water containers stimulate the female mosquitoes to lay their eggs. The female mosquitoes sense these chemical cues and decide that the water container is a preferable environment for their larvae to develop.
The findings could have implications for devising lures and traps that might help control yellow fever mosquito populations in equatorial locations around the globe, which would go a long way toward preventing important global diseases like dengue fever and yellow fever, say the study's lead authors, Dr. Charles Apperson and Dr. Coby Schal, professors of entomology at NC State. Postdoctoral researchers Dr. Loganathan Ponnusamy and Dr. Ning Xu and senior researcher Dr. Satoshi Nojima also co-authored the paper.
The study shows that yellow fever mosquitoes are particularly motivated to lay eggs in water containers that have just the right amounts of specific fatty acids associated with bacteria involved in the degradation of leaves and other organic matter in water. The chemicals associated with the microbial stew are far more stimulating to discerning female mosquitoes than plain water, for example, or filtered water in which the bacteria once lived.
The study used a combination of approaches, including one in which the NC State scientists presented female mosquitoes with different types of bacteria and bacterial extracts, and, in Schal's words, figured out "what turned the mosquitoes on" to lay their eggs.
"Some water-filled containers are rejected by the female mosquito," Apperson says. "If we filter the bacteria out, the mosquitoes want no part of the water container. But put the filtered bacteria back in the water container, and the mosquitoes will be stimulated to lay eggs."
Female mosquitoes are choosy when it comes to finding the proper egg-laying habitats. They do not normally lay all their eggs in one location, but instead exhibit a behavior called "skip-oviposition," distributing eggs in multiple water-filled containers.
Once the NC State scientists discerned the specific chemical compounds that stimulated increased egg-laying – a blend of fatty acids and methyl esters – they exposed the mosquitoes to varied concentrations of the chemical brew. High concentrations of the brew gave the mosquitoes pause, causing them to withhold their eggs. Lower concentrations were more convincing to mosquitoes than high concentrations, but still not as convincing as the proper amount – found to be only 10 nanograms in 30 milliliters of water.
Mosquito larvae depend on microbes in their new homes for growth and development, so it is important for mothers to be discerning when it comes to living arrangements for their young, the researchers say.
Now, the NC State scientists hope to use this choosiness against female mosquitoes. Stimulating females to lay eggs in water containers that have lethal chemicals or insect growth regulators could be another tool in the overall strategy kit to control mosquitoes – and dreaded diseases like dengue fever.
"We want to use the mosquito's egg-laying behavior against itself for control purposes," Apperson says.
The research was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the Blanton J. Whitmire Endowment and the W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology."Identification of bacteria and bacteria-associated chemical cues that mediate oviposition site preferences by Aedes aegypti"
Published: July 7, 2008, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online
Abstract: The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, the global vector of dengue and yellow fever, is inexorably linked to water-filled human-made containers for egg laying and production of progeny. Oviposition is stimulated by cues from water containers, but the nature and origin of these cues have not been elucidated. We showed that mosquito females directed most of their eggs to bamboo and white-oak leaf infusions and only a small fraction of the eggs were laid in plain water containers. In binary choice assays we demonstrated that microorganisms in leaf infusions produced oviposition-stimulating kairomones, and using a combination of bacterial culturing approaches, bioassay-guided fractionation of bacterial extracts, and chemical analyses, we now demonstrate that specific bacteria-associated carboxylic acids and methyl esters serve as potent oviposition stimulants for gravid Ae. aegypti. Elucidation of these compounds will serve not only to better understand the chemical basis of egg laying behavior of Ae. aegypti, but these kairomones will likely enhance the efficacy of surveillance and control programs of this disease vector of substantial global public health importance.
Tracey Peake | EurekAlert!
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-Nuggets on the Wild Horse have been reported up to 1.112 kg.
-Records show 1186.65 kg. gold produced from the Wild Horse River to 1950 plus substantial unrecorded production.
-Road access directly to and through the property and underlain 100% by crown land; camp anywhere.
-Gold occurs with an average fineness of 878
The property is comprised of BC placer tenure 1049829. 41.68 hectares / 102.99 acres. The property is situated 24 km. north-northeast of Fort Steele British Columbia. From Fort Steele, drive northeast on Wild Horse Forest Service Road for approx. 35 km. directly to the property. The claim centre is at latitude 49.829150° longitude -115.485400°.
From Minfile 092GNW099: The Wild Horse (Wildhorse) River flows south-southwest from its head waters near Mount Ruault to its mouth on the Upper Kootenay River near Fort Steele. The river has been known by a number of names since its discovery in 1863, including Stud Horse Creek, Lone Horse Creek and Wildhorse Creek. A recreational panning reserve is located on the lower Wild Horse River for a distance of approximately 3 kilometres inland from the river mouth.
Placer gold was discovered on the Wild Horse (Wildhorse) River in 1863 and by 1864 approximately 1500 prospectors were encamped in the area. Over the next three years an estimated 7874.9 to 31 500 kilograms of gold was recovered (Halladay, L.B. (1979-04-27): Re: Maus and Wildhorse creeks placer leases). No official records from this time are available.
During 1874 through 1950, it is recorded that a total of 1186.65 kilograms of gold was produced from the Wild Horse River (Bulletin 28). The largest nugget was reported to be slightly more than 1.112 kilograms (Barlee, N.L. (1972-07-01): The Guide To Gold Panning In British Columbia).
In the 1930's, hydraulic mining operations were performed by Mr. Drayton. Around the same time, a miner is reported to have drifted on bedrock for two years, yielding an average gold grade of 2.5 grams per cubic metre and totalling 1332.5 grams of gold (Halladay, L.B. (1979-04-27): Re: Maus and Wildhorse creeks placer leases).
In 1963, churn drilling and seismic surveys, by Veezay Minerals, identified a deeply buried channel of pay gravels east of the river, near the south western slopes of Lone Peak.
The bedrock geology at the headwaters of the Wildhorse River shifts from Cu Skarn to Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au. Both are amongst the top economic deposit types in BC for copper and gold and may account for the source of residual placer gold.
At the Hot 1 showing, minor copper mineralization occurs as fracture-fillings associated with the intrusion of monzonitic to syenitic alkali feldspar porphyry stocks and dykes. These rocks intrude and alter Upper Cambrian-Middle Ordovician carbonate and shale units of the McKay Group, Middle-Upper Cambrian Jubilee and Middle Ordovician-Silurian Beaverfoot formations. Chalcopyrite is associated with quartz veining and silica flooding and is accompanied by up to 5 per cent disseminated pyrite. Copper-rich zones are geochemically anomalous in gold, arsenic and mercury.
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uncountable noun
Confectionery is sweets and chocolates.[written]
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noun plural -eries
sweets and other confections collectively
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DODOMA, May 22 Residents of a gas-rich region of Tanzania rioted on Wednesday to protest that they would not benefit from a government budget proposal to construct a pipeline from their territory to the capital, senior officials said
Tanzania estimates it has more than 40 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable natural gas reserves. Discoveries off east Africa's seaboard have led to predictions the region could become the world's third-largest exporter of natural gas.
Residents of the southern Tanzanian Mtwara region are opposing the construction of a 532 km (330 mile) pipeline - financed by a $1.2 billion Chinese loan - until they get a bigger share of the benefits from gas development.
Tanzania's deputy home affairs minister, Pereira Silima, said riots had erupted in Mtwara but could not give details. Local media reported that police fired teargas, several buildings were torched and one person was killed.
The government first announced a plan for the pipeline last year. The riots took place shortly after Tanzania's energy and minerals minister, Sospeter Muhongo, presented his ministry's 2013/14 budget proposals in parliament including the pipeline project.
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The state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) said Mtwara was one of two regions in southern Tanzania where onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants will be built.
Norway's Statoil, Brazil's Petrobras, Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil Corp are among energy companies exploring for oil and gas in Tanzania.
British gas firm BG Group said earlier this month it would present the Tanzanian government with proposed locations for a big LNG terminal in the next few months.
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Birmingham, AL, 35233
Dog Boarding, House Sitting, Drop-In Visits, Dog Walking
About: Not only do I love animals, but I have experience with my own pets. You will not have to worry about the type of care your pets are receiving while... (more)
Showing up to work each day is easy
Birmingham, AL, 35209
House Sitting, Drop-In Visits, Dog Walking
"Jessica did a great job!! We will definitely call on her again. (more)"
Experienced, I work at a pet resort
Vestavia Hills, AL, 35243
House Sitting, Drop-In Visits, Dog Walking
"Sam is a competent, reliable and incredibly kind dog sitter. I think my dogs love him more than they love me! Happy to be a reference in any way possible for... (more)"
Energetic & Responsible Young Woman
Birmingham , AL, 35203
Dog Boarding, House Sitting, Drop-In Visits, Dog Walking
About: My name is Courtnee. I've always loved dogs, getting my first family member at 5 years old. Ever since, I have always loved being around dogs, taki... (more)
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Rover also offers pet setting & drop ins in:
|Acton, AL
|Birmingham, AL
|Cahaba Heights, AL
|Hoover, AL
|Midfield, AL
|Mountain Brook, AL
|Shannon, AL
|Vestavia Hills, AL
|Wine Ridge, AL
|Woodford, AL
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The next time you head out of town and need someone to take care of your pets - and check in on you home - turn to Rover. It's easy to find a loving pet sitter on Rover who'll give your pet one-on-one attention while you're away, and take care of your home. Search from hundreds of trusted pet sitters near you, read sitter profiles, and reach out to sitters who seem like a good fit for you and your pet(s). We know it can be tough to leave your pet, which is why we encourage every pet parent and sitter to have a Meet & Greet before booking the stay. Then, when you're ready, book and pay for your house and pet sitter all through Rover - it's easy, safe, and cashless. You'll have the peace of mind knowing that your sitter has free premium insurance, a team of safety experts available 24/7, and will send you cute photo updates throughout the stay. Rover is the easiest way to find trustworthy pet sitters and avoid the kennel.