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When Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" opened on Broadway in 1983, it featured two virtually unknown actresses, Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak, which allowed you to focus on the play. (It won the Pulitzer Prize that year.)
The current production has two stars, Brenda Blethyn and Edie Falco. Both are wonderful actresses, but they do not necessarily help what is in fact a deeply flawed play.
Shortly after "'night, Mother" begins, Jessie Cates informs her mother, Thelma, that she is going to shoot herself in the head in an hour and a half, at 9:30 p.m. We learn that she has selected this time because her brother and sister-in-law, who tend to go to bed early, will still be up and won't have to waste time getting dressed to come over and help her mother cope.
Jessie's decision seems unalterable. One of the play's faults is that there is nothing to counterbalance the negatives in Jessie's life: She is epileptic. She has a lousy ex-husband and an even lousier drug-addicted son.
Her life, devoted to looking after her hapless mother, is clearly joyless. A better play might have given Jessie some reasons not to call it quits.
Since there is no question that she will pull the trigger, the only question is if she will be able to adhere to her timetable. Happily, she does, but the evening seems to last far longer than its supposed 90 minutes.
Part of the problem is that both actresses seem so "together." Blethyn does not seem in any way helpless or dithery. Her inability simply to phone for help when her daughter leaves the room makes no sense.
Similarly, Falco, though she has camouflaged (with the help of costume designer Michael Krass) her natural elegance, does not suggest someone utterly lacking options or hope.
The script stresses how carefully she has planned her "departure," and Falco executes the steps in such a chipper manner it's hard to believe she couldn't just move to a larger town.
Nor do we get any sense of their subtextual feelings. Is Jessie prolonging the moment to torture her mother? Is Thelma so ineffectual at stopping her because she doesn't have any deep feelings for her?
The text doesn't go into these issues, but the acting (and directing, by Michael Mayer) might have fleshed it out.
Each of the women has powerful moments, but the overall feeling is flat and mechanical, an exercise in facile nihilism.
The curtain has been up hardly more than a minute on Marsha Norman's " 'night, Mother,' which opened last night at the Royale Theatre, when a daughter asks her mother, 'Where's Daddy's gun?"
Aha! you think.
And when a few moments later the daughter announces, with casual determination, "I'm going to kill myself, Mama," you realize you were right.
These two people are acted with masterly skill and exquisite finesse by Brenda Blethyn as the cool, calculating Mama and Edie Falco as her equally cool but differently calculating daughter, Jessie.
But with that early revelation of her intentions, the play's action is all over, right then.
There cannot even be any real tension of the will-she/won't-she? variety, because if she doesn't, what on earth could be the point of the play?
When " 'night, Mother" was first produced on Broadway in 1983, it was, I thought, singularly lucky in some of its reviews - and even luckier when it won the Pulitzer Prize.
Yet the play's fatal flaw should be clear enough.
What the playwright needed to do was slowly disclose an Ibsen-like back story, making the obvious engrossing and, more important still, the final act tragically inevitable, rather than the throwaway stuff of everyday journalism.
When, at the end of "Hedda Gabler," Ibsen's Hedda shoots herself, and the odious but shocked Judge Brack whispers, "But people don't do things like that," we have been made to understand by Ibsen that Hedda could and would.
But Norman's Jessie is no Hedda. And the gunshot ending of the play moves us only toward the exit.
Not that Jessie hasn't had a hardscrabble life. She suffers from epilepsy, her beloved father is dead, her brother doesn't care for her, her husband has left her, her son - a serious criminal in development - is a dope addict, and she spends her days babysitting her demanding mother.
It's all decent, detailed material - yet it's somehow made no more interesting than the case history of a figure in a supermarket tabloid.
This is by no means the fault of the actors. Ironically enough -despite the curiously shoddy setting, designed as if on a tight budget by Neil Patel - Michael Mayer's smoothly rhythmic staging is, like the acting, rather better than the 1983 original's.
Falco makes Jessie's one note of wan but chirpy resignation resonate most wonderfully - it's like a concerto played on a one-string fiddle - while Blethyn turns technical cartwheels in the more varyingly textured role of the mother.
There are times when superior acting doesn't save a play, but simply exposes it.
As your grandmother or therapist probably told you, there is something to be said for staying busy in a time of crisis. Playing a pair of women whose shared life is about to be torn asunder, Edie Falco and Brenda Blethyn have an ocean of household chores to swim through in the strangely uninvolving new production of Marsha Norman's '''Night, Mother'' at the Royale Theater.
Putting candy in jars, cleaning out the refrigerator, bagging garbage, folding towels, making cocoa: such tasks are sometimes enough even to eclipse the harsh awareness of Thelma Cates (Ms. Blethyn) that her daughter, Jessie (Ms. Falco), has announced that she will be killing herself in a couple of hours.
On the other hand, all that domestic industry only rarely disguises our suspicion that these two first-rate actresses are never quite at home in their roles. Or the uneasy realization that Ms. Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, which opened in revival last night under the direction of Michael Mayer, is looking more artificial than it did two decades ago.
It was Ms. Norman's careful presentation of everyday routine in the shadow of an imminent suicide that so stunned critics and theatergoers in 1983. Today, you can still appreciate the work's ingenious construction. In setting her mother's house in order one last time -- counting out pills and going over grocery lists and laundry instructions -- Jessie is defining the suffocating, sterile existence of the years she has lived there since her marriage ended.
Some reviewers in the 1980's saw in '''Night, Mother'' an indictment of the spiritual emptiness of middle-class American lives glutted with television and junk food. But what lent such disturbing force to the stage production (unlike the fatally stagy film version from 1986, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek) was the clash of temperaments embodied by Anne Pitoniak and Kathy Bates. Ms. Pitoniak's Thelma had the fierce, flailing instincts of a woman who clings to life because it's all she knows.
Ms. Bates, by contrast, emanated the chilling conviction and centeredness of someone who has definitively decided to get off the bus, as she puts it. There wasn't much doubt as to the outcome of this contest of wills. I thought of Ms. Bates's performance recently when I saw ''4:48 Psychosis,'' a devastating internal monologue of reasons not to live by the British playwright Sarah Kane. In other words, I was braced to be harrowed all over again by '''Night, Mother.''
So I was surprised to find myself feeling more detached and impatient than anything else. And the principal reason for that seems to be the same reason I was especially looking forward to this revival: Ms. Falco's interpretation of Jessie. Best known as Carmela, the enameled Mafia matriarch of the HBO series ''The Sopranos,'' Ms. Falco has established herself as one of the most lucid yet subtle chameleons of the American stage and screen.
Her performance as a commitment-shy waitress in the 2002 revival of Terrence McNally's ''Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune'' was a model for finding a theater-filling presence in a self-effacing character. (It was also, for the record, another role created by Ms. Bates, and in this case Ms. Falco firmly staked her own claim to the part.)
As Jessie, Ms. Falco is as admirably free as ever of a star's vanity. Wearing a limp mouse-brown wig and speaking in a singsong twang that scrapes the nerves, she makes no bid for the audience's affection or even sympathy. Certainly, you can imagine this plain, middle-aged woman having lived the barren, bruising life she describes.
But -- and this is an overwhelmingly important but -- you are seldom persuaded that Jessie is ready to give up that life. There's a sly spark of intelligence and even malice in Ms. Falco's performance that reminds you that this is indeed the same actress who created Carmela Soprano. You can sense Ms. Falco's Jessie trying to will herself into a sort of zenlike placidity. Yet anger and score-settling satisfaction flicker betrayingly across her stark features as she itemizes the long list of minuses that make up her life: her failures as a wife and mother, her epilepsy, her lack of professional skills, the death of the father who appears to have been the only person she truly loved. Though Jessie says she doesn't blame Thelma, it's hard to avoid the impression that she really does. The play's title starts to sound less like a sad, exhausted farewell than a petulant cry of revenge. And it feels as if it would be more appropriate for the drama to end with the sound of a slamming door than with a gunshot.
Ms. Norman's script is not enriched by this approach. Without the inexorable, gravitational pull of Jessie's will to die, '''Night, Mother'' assumes the pedestrian aspect of yet another family drama of confrontation and revelation. And under Mr. Mayer's laissez-faire direction, it's hard even to believe that these two women are related.
Ms. Blethyn, the British actress who appeared to such fine advantage in (and received an Oscar nomination for) the Mike Leigh film ''Secrets and Lies,'' has the requisite fretful voice and fidgety mannerisms down pat. But it's as if she is doing a technically perfect impersonation in a vacuum. Going through their repetitive cycles of resentment and recrimination against the anonymous backdrop of Neil Patel's generic suburban set, she and Ms. Falco sometimes suggest performances that have been spliced into a single frame from different films.
There could be an intellectual argument made for this interpretation, especially given that Jessie speaks about how people never really know one other. And there are several genuinely haunting moments of silence from both actresses, in which their features register an unfathomable loneliness. But without the sense of an umbilical cord, however frayed, that still binds Jessie and Thelma, the emotional stakes aren't as high as they must be.
This means that all those household chores that Jessie performs stand out in ways they shouldn't, like the tasks assigned to students in acting class to help them sink into the moment. In an ideal production of '''Night, Mother,'' everyday activity should be part of a persuasive, hypnotic spell woven by a woman who, for the first time in her life, knows exactly what she wants. That this version is less than hypnotizing is painfully signaled by your wondering, whenever Jessie leaves the stage, why Thelma does not hide the gun or simply call the police.
It seems just another Saturday night in the nondescript house where Thelma Cates and her grown daughter, Jessie, have lived since Jessie's husband left her. Jessie cleans her mother's reading glasses, organizes her favorite cheap candies in canisters and prepares, as she does every Saturday, to manicure the older woman's nails before disappearing into her room.
But as most everyone knows by now about "'night, Mother," Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of 1983 and movie of 1986, this is no ordinary evening. Early into the comforting ritual, Jesse goes to the attic to find her late father's gun and, soon after; calmly announces, "I'm going to kill myself, Mama." It should surprise no one that, when our allotted 90 minutes with the women are over, Jesse bids her conflicted mother goodnight, opens the waiting door and locks it behind her forever.
We never really bought the case for suicide when the remarkable duo Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak were first making audiences weep over the presumed inevitability of the offstage gunshot. Twenty-one years later, with the very different but equally powerful Edie Falco and Brenda Blethyn at the Royale Theatre, we're afraid we are even less caught up in the momentum of the unstoppable act.
There is still much lean, intelligent, clear-eyed writing. Michael Mayer has directed his uncompromising actresses with all the tough emotional elegance the script demands. But there is a mawkishness to the unsentimentality. We feel more manipulated than devastated, more impatient than persuaded.
Of course, it is always a pleasure to watch Falco transform herself into yet another character with no resemblance to the wife of Tony Soprano. Here, she has long, oily, mousy hair, a defeated hunch under her lumpy cardigan and an almost unrecognizable lack of Carmela lilt in her voice.
Falco, last seen during HBO hiatus re-creating the Bates role on Broadway in "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," has such a kind, open quality. Even as she recounts the disappointments of Jessie's life, she seems too vital and competent to snuff out her light without a fight.
Blethyn, a major force on the English stage, is better known in America for unforgettable performances in such smart films as "Secrets and Lies" and "Lovely and Amazing." One can certainly quibble about her Midwestern accent - "cahfee" and "dahg" are hard to take seriously. But she creates a marvelously detailed Thelma, a vaguely disabled, undeniably selfish woman who loves to be waited on - even while convincing herself that her helplessness gives her daughter a sense of purpose.
Neil Patel's set is a depressingly cheerful home of burnt colors and veneer. Michael Krass' costumes help damp down the light under both women's skin. Indeed, Jesse's dead-end life - garnished with epilepsy and a troubled teenage son - may not be a happy one. But even as she says, "I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse," a voice in our head is screaming, "Try another job .... Feed the homeless .... Save the Alaskan wilderness."
Despite the appreciative sobbing around the theater, we feel more and more dispassionate about Jesse's passion for ultimate quiet. The world is needier than she is.
Part of loving someone, we're often told, is learning to let go. This is especially true of parental love, ideally the most complete and least selfish kind.
The limits of that theory were tested to scalding effect 21 years ago in Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Night, Mother. The Broadway revival of 'Night (* * * ½ out of four), which opened Sunday at the Royale Theatre, proves that time has not diminished the play's power to provoke and unsettle.
Veteran character actress Brenda Blethyn and The Sopranos' Edie Falco play Thelma Cates and her nearly middle-aged daughter, Jessie, who share a comfortable home and an almost comically tedious existence.
When we meet them, it is Saturday night. And as Jessie, a divorcee, searches for old towels, her mother rattles off various items for a shopping list.
The atmosphere of droll listlessness is shattered when Jessie tells us she also is looking for a gun, and after being pressed by Thelma, tells us why. In the 90 minutes that follow, the two women review - with varying degrees of humor, affection, sorrow and rage - the trajectories of their lives, and Thelma desperately tries to figure out what has driven her grown child to a dire decision.
Norman's mercilessly naturalistic dialogue demands a pair of stringent performances unfettered by vanity.
Under Michael Mayer's vigorous, disciplined direction, both stars deliver the goods, and then some. Falco, who has proved her range with a series of interesting stage and screen roles, plays Jessie as a woman weighed down by so much emotional armor that she can seem numb, or callous. Pacing the stage in a succession of menial chores, she exhibits a manic but somehow contented sense of purposefulness. And the matter-of-fact manner in which she relays her horrific intentions to Thelma is cruelly convincing.
What, we wonder, could have made this woman so insensitive to the person who should be most concerned about her welfare?
The script gives us a few clues, revealing that Thelma isn't entirely the warm, maternal figure that she seems at first blush. But just as Falco doesn't let us forget the pain underlying Jessie's resolve, Blethyn's magnificent portrayal never obscures Thelma's vulnerability. As it becomes plain that Jessie won't be swayed by her mom's protests, Blethyn projects a desperation that's both unbearable and captivating.
Frankly, I don't envy either actress for having to relay this story nightly, twice on matinee days. But selfishly speaking, I'm glad that they're putting themselves through it.


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I have a Rufous visitng for the past week or so. He does not let anyone else into my yard when he is guarding, which is most of the time. He guards all 3 of my feeders from high above in a tree and then swoops down on any other hummers that come to eat and chases them away. The others are Broadtail and Calliope, which seem to get along just fine with one another, however, they are hungry and Rufous won't let them eat - what do I do? |
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- Posted by standard65 z6/7 nashville (My Page) on Tue, Jul 26, 05 at 18:29
it might help to place a feeder or two on the other side of the house so that everyone can eat wherever the rufous isn't. is it possible to place your feeders where they cannot all be seen at once from any vantage point? |
Just move one of the feeders out of sight. |
- Posted by catwhiskas z5 Denver, CO (My Page) on Tue, Jul 26, 05 at 18:43
Yes, I currently have all 3 in the backyard - I can place one in front of the house ...but I hope they will find it! Thanks |
- Posted by Bob_n_Bernie_WA z4/5 WA (My Page) on Tue, Jul 26, 05 at 21:02
We have feeders on the front and back of our house. We use to have a TV antenna on the roof just about the same distance from all of them. The male Rufous would set on the antenna and guard all the feeders with ease..lol |
- Posted by TexasPuddyPrint Z9 S Tip of TX (My Page) on Tue, Jul 26, 05 at 23:09
Too funny Bob...but so true! ...and yes to all of the above...spread the feeders around your front yard and backyard and on the sides too. Then you can have fun watching your bully rufous fly back and forth over your roof trying to guard them all :o) ~ Cat |
- Posted by Amy_z6_swPA (My Page) on Thu, Aug 4, 05 at 18:24
What if I only have one feeder, and everything was great until today, when one "bully" male is now fiercely driving ALL other hummers away from the feeder? He himself hardly even drinks from it. But he drives all others away, young and adult, and he has even bashed into them while doing it. This all began today. Very frustrating for me, because I know I have to let nature take its course. But just yesterday I had nine hummingbirds all sharing the feeder, even males with the females. |
Amy It won't last long. Mister bully bird will be gone all too soon in my opinion! You can put a bunch of feeders up but I guarantee he will still chase everyone away including the bees. At least that's what happens here. The other day I went outside to water some plants and the chase was so low I almost stepped on two little hummies. Sarah |
- Posted by catwhiskas z5 Denver, CO (My Page) on Thu, Aug 4, 05 at 18:45
Putting up more than one feeder usually eases the situation a little bit. The non-bully will usually get to sip out of the second feeder every now and then. It's good to be sure the extra feeder is out of sight of the first one. *After taking the advice from the great people on this forum, this seemed to have worked well for me! |
- Posted by Amy_z6_swPA (My Page) on Thu, Aug 4, 05 at 22:27
Thanks! I just can't help but "feel bad" for the others because we're in such a horrible drought, and my little yard with the wildflower garden and nectar is pretty rare in this neighborhood. I've had the hummer feeder up since spring and it's done really great. Last month I was making a new cup of nectar every single night, they went through it so fast. And then yesterday I had the most birds at one time so far. :) |
Amy I have a question are you near West Virginia? Sarah |
- Posted by Amy_z6_swPA (My Page) on Fri, Aug 5, 05 at 9:23
Hi Sarah, from where I live it takes about an hour to drive to the West VA line. We are about 40 or so miles south of downtown Pittsburgh, in a pretty rural area. |
Hi Amy, I was just curious because I was reading on the Pa listserv all about the tons of hummingbirds that scott weidensaul along with the sargents catch and band and teach prospective hummingbird banders the first two weeks of august It sounded so neat! Sarah |
- Posted by Amy_z6_swPA (My Page) on Fri, Aug 5, 05 at 12:45
Oh I know what you mean, I'm on the Listserv too. What a sight that would be!!! :) |
Yeah really awsome! Sarah |
- Posted by wineandviolin 4 MN (My Page) on Sat, Aug 6, 05 at 0:04
A few years ago Smithsonian magazine had an article about hummingbirds. Under social behavior, they listed none observed. Wish I could remember which month/year it was for you. The article also commented that if hummers were the size of crows, it would be dangerous to go outside. Agressive behavior is the norm. Now if hummers were the size of crows, how big would the feeder have to be, and wouldn't they knock on the door to remind you when it got empty? |
There's definitely social behavior for hummingbirds, at least some (most? non rufous -.-) species. The Smithsonian needs to observe harder :P If I could get rid of any hummingbird species, and hole them up on a deserted island away from any feeders, it's the rufous. From their horrible shrieks to constant sniping of more friendly species to the way they flare their tales and do a 360 in place while yelling at intruders, it all just upsets me. I had about 10 hummingbirds sharing the feeder a few weeks ago (before the third nesting season started here in California and all the hummers became little egg-balls) with about 4-5 black chinned females (which are adorable, curious and really friendlu), two males at a time, a couple of anna's, and a couple of allen's females in all. One day after the feeder ran a little low and the birds got agitated because they didn't have nectar, I refilled the feeder and one horrible little rufous female (which had shared nicely before with everyone :/ or at least tolerated sharing of the feeder) emerged as the dominant bird. She's very flightly and afraid of me but aggressive as anything to any flying creature near the feeder. I think this traumatic nectar event upset the hummingbird balance in the backyard and gave the rufous the upper hand :( |
Can someone please advise! We have a bully and do not have another spot to hang a second feeder out of sight. Do they stay very long? Should I take the feeder down for a while to discourage him? I am very frustrated..... |
- Posted by susan so. calif(firstname.lastname@example.com) onWed, Mar 2, 11 at 16:31
I live in an apartment and I have had 10 or 12 hummingbirds last year. This year I only have one male hummingbird and it is bullying all the other hummers a way. What do you do to stop the bullying or get rid of it. He has been here months. I want birds back! Await hearing from you. Thank you, Susan |
I had an immature male Rufous all winter and he wouldn't let any Ruby-throated feed in the back yard at all. In the past years I had a male Ruby who kept the back yard to himself but I don't know if the Rufous scared him away this year or if he just didn't return. My female Rufous from last year returned and she kept the side yard to herself. So I ended up with just the two this year. Two weeks ago I had 4 Rubys show up to feed and the Rufous was not in the yard at those times. I am thinking he has now left as Monday was the last day I saw him. he's probably headed northwest now. Watch out for Rufford. "Ruthie" the female left on Feb. 13th. |
I'm not an expert by an means, but these are wild animals who are doing their best to survive. They need to protect any food source they can to try to save it for their own kind/family. It's just nature's way. If you have the ability to plant flowers that provide nectar sources or attract insects for the hummers to prey upon, you might be able to spread the food sources around in such a way that more birds have access and the bullies aren't able to guard it all. I know it makes a lot more work for you/us, but it also provides more diversity of food sources for more types of animals. I think I read somewhere that hummers need insects to feed their young because of the need for high protein food for rapid growth. Another very unpopular option would be to eliminate the bullies permanently. But, I don't think very many here would consider that acceptable. Good luck to all. Happy Saturday. Martha |
I have done everything that has been posted regarding "the bully". He is relentless...I have three feeders and I put them where Mr. Bully cannot see the other two...or so I thought! Now he has found a perch where he can see two and seems to have radar on the third. He swoops up and over the house to all of them. I wish I had that much energy. Anywho, he absolutely will not share, period. I have the Hummzingers which seem to be the most attractive to them, and I have tried them all. I keep them clean and filled and there is plenty of sap and plenty of room, but he just chases everyone away. I guess there is just no trick or answer. He did it last year too...only once did I see three happy together drinking out of the same feeder until Mr. Bully appeared. If anybody knows of any tricks, would love to hear them. |
I have feeders in the front and the back of the house. The roof is such that those in the front cannot see those in the back. It works. Mr. Rufus sits in the back on a tree branch scouting like mad, but he cannot see the party going on in the front. If he does do a check somehow the others know to go to the back. It's nature. If you are providing two different hummer feeder places, well, you are doing all you can. And by the way, when I travel and go by homes with hummingbird feeders up, I always think, "Nice people live there!" :) |
Do not despair. The fact they show up everyday indicates they are getting fed somewhere. I have seen the dom bird chase and others come in to feed. Also, at the end of the day the dom bird will go to sleep and the others will have a chance to fill up before nightfall. |
For the 1st time I had a bully that I fought with the water hose. It left and then another took over. I did not know what to do. I took down the feeders but then I felt bad for the others. It is time to take them down but I will miss them I had over a dozen at a time at one feeder such a sight. One feeder used 30 oz and one with 16 oz. I kept making a gallon every other day. I once had a nest with 3 eggs and I could feed the Mother with a spoon when she came in to roost. I took a picture with my camera inches away. I saw her teach and wing her babies. Got under them and would not let them land and force them way up in the sky and then leave them, they had to fiy and she did it to all 3, 2 years in a row. |
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I thought I had a website saved and apparently I don't. A long time ago a woman from Florida (I think) answered questions about her stained concrete...she had a website w/ pics of her front entrance, concrete around a large fountain in her drive, and an enclosed swimming pool that had concrete she had stained...all after her husband sawed a design she created into them...they were really cool and I wanted to show it to a friend who wants to do something similar. For what it is worth, she also had another page that was linked from her concrete project page that was pics of her dining room ceiling...very formal (and large) that had 4 foot square pieces of plywood with zodiac signs on them that she used two different colored stains to do. If you could help me, I'd really appreciate it!! Thanks,
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Hello Wendy, I believe that this is the website that you are looking for. The specific concrete page is here. They go by the username "punamytsike." Hopefully this helps! -Audric |
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I got my floating raft system setup in the basement this weekend. I also have the lettuce seeds started and hope to transplat them into the hydroponics system soon. My pH is high. Like 7.8pH and 250ppm at 59 degrees. I used our tap water and i know it is pretty hard. I got some pH down from the aquarium store (was easier then driving an hour to the nearest hydroponic store) and added some of that (said two drops per gallon). It seems to bring the pH down to 7.5 last night, but when i checked it again this morning it was back up to 7.8. Do i go buy bottled water and not use our tap water?
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I would definitely let the tap water sit out for at least one if not two nights. I also aerate the water with a air pump/stone while it sits out. While there may be similar or better products, I use Ionic Grow Hardwater as it seems to keep the PH stable. By the way, my tap water is around 300 ppm 7.8 PH. I do use half reverse osmosis and half tap water. Using the Ionic nutrient, I don't have to add any PH down. |
Thanks for the infromation! I read up on the Ionic Grow Hardwater and it appears to be a really good product. I will pick some up and give it a shot. |
You can use ordinary white spirit vinegar to lower the pH. Use a 5cc syringe to dose at ▒ 1cc/g for a full point down. This may vary depending on the composition of the water. So try it out first. |
Vinegar, lime juice and etc do not control Ph well in nutrient solutions. |
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willard3 / anyone, Do you know how PH is controlled in an "organic" system? Is it just a matter of keeping up with it more often by using citric acid or something, or how is this done? I'd love to compare and see how this is done without a chemical in hydroponics. I know that Earth Juice has a PH adjuster but I haven't used it and the guy at the hydro shop said you'd need to use a lot of it - I don't know, I have no experience with this but would like to know for the future. Also I am currently using phosphoric acid and it seems like I have to add more than the bottle says per each point drop - I don't know still trying to figure it out. Here are some links about the Earth Juice products: The PH adjuster (Natural Up and Down): Hydroponics: Hydro-Organics: |
The Earthjuice pH adjuster is probably an organic acid (such as: vinegar, citric acid or tannic acid). Tannic acid is sometimes obtained from oakleaf extracts. Phosphoric acid is excellent as a hydro pH adjuster, but in my country it is difficult to obtain in smaller quantities, hence I use bicarb and vinegar as up- and down-adjusters. Been doing this for 6 years now. |
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After posting on a couple of topics tonight it dawned on me that I should introduce myself. LOL Anyway, I'm Mammie and not too crafty, but boy I love seeing and hearing about all your neat stuff. Maybe I'll learn something from you all. :) |
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LOL Minnnie, I'm not very creative but love seeing what the rest of you do. Thanks for the welcome! |
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Hi there, Mammie! :-) Cheers from Pittsburgh! -Jenn |
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I know....it's probably too much to ask for. But, "oh" this looks like a beauty I must grow. Pleassssssssssssse. Thanks, Elaine |
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I just found out Obsession doesn't do well in our climate. If you have something else that has the very dark green mixed with the light green. Let me know. Thanks, Elaine |
Elaine - I just saw your post, and I have to agree that H. 'Obsession' does VERY poorly in our climate. Out of my 250+ hostas, it's one of the very few that I wish I had never paid money for :( Another one like it that does very very poorly is 'Lakeside Looking Glass', gorgeous in other areas of the country but not here, unfortunately. Andi |
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We shouldn't be upset about the shrill cries of the muckrakers.
They give us such great material!
Perhaps in self-defense, The Atlantic website has now posted links to other articles about Churchill from its archives.
For the list of articles, follow this link.
The cover story on the April issue of
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- "Churchill Takes A Fall: The Revisionist Verdict: Incompetent, Boorish, Drunk, and Mostly Wrong," by Christopher Hitchens - was not so bad as the title suggests.
Hitchens, a paid iconoclast who regularly skewers phonies of the left and right, takes proper aim at the politicians who've wrapped themselves in Churchillian rhetoric since September 11th. The pols are still at it, and unless they begin seriously to mobilize the citizenry it's going to take another attack to make us realize what we're up against. Instead of frisking dowagers at airports and showing us colored disks to define the current threat level, they should have declared a state of war with "the nation of terrorism," financed it with War Bonds, plugged porous borders, invaded Iraq, and started discriminating against Middle Easterners boarding airplanes. Call it racism - or call it survival. Take your pick.
Unfortunately, Hitchens larded his 10,347 word critique with every accusation against Winston Churchill except the one about how he caused the stock market crash in 1929. As Churchill once remarked, "I have never heard the opposite of the truth stated with greater precision."
The trouble with this sort of bunk is that unless it is refuted, after awhile people believe it. That's already started, with columnists bearing IQ's no higher than their body temperature going "slack-jawed" at Hitchens's "revelations" (see "Around and About" on the preceding page). So here is a response - only to
The Atlantic's
most egregious errors:
1. Actor Norman Shelley's ridiculous notion that he delivered Churchill's war speeches over the BBC has been laid to rest by eyewitness testimony for years. What Shelley recorded, apparently in 1943, was an obscure, unpublished Churchill speech, the origin of which has eluded even the Churchill Archives. Neither the Prime Minister's 13 May speech ("Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat") nor his 4 June speech ("Fight on the Beaches") was even broadcast by anyone purporting to be Churchill. Sir Martin Gilbert's official biography does quote a letter by Vita Sackville-West of 4 June, implying that at least part of that speech was repeated by the BBC announcer (
Winston S. Churchill
, London: Heinemann, 1983, VI:469). Shelley may have recorded the "Beaches" speech later, possibly for the BBC overseas
service, but no one has ever been able to track this.
2. Amusingly, Hitchens even gets the lie wrong: Shelley's role in "The Children's Hour" was "Dennis the Dachshund," not "Winnie the Pooh." Poor Mr. Shelley can't win.
3. Undoubtedly the "military and economic support of Canada, Australia, India, and the rest of a gigantic empire," not to mention the fighting Greeks, comprised a monumental consolation to the British during the Blitz. "Keep low, men, we still have the Greeks with us."
4. But Hitchens wants Greece both ways. He condemns Churchill for trading Greek freedom for Stalin's dominance of the Balkans; then he rabbits on about Greece's resistance to tyranny. A more rational view is that saving Greece was the best Churchill could make of a sorry situation, allowing Greeks to enjoy postwar the liberties they defended in 1941.
5. The first air force to bomb civilians was the Luftwaffe over Warsaw (and later Rotterdam) - not the RAF over Berlin. In March 1945, Churchill was the first to question the carpet bombing of Dresden and other German cities (see Christopher Harmon, "Are We Beasts?", Newport: Naval War College, 1991).
6. The silly charge that Churchill ran and hid in the country when warned in advance of air raids on London is almost as old as the accompanying canard that he let Coventry burn rather than tip the Germans that he'd read their codes. On the night of the Coventry attack Churchill, headed for the country, turned round and returned to London after reading decrypts which incorrectly held London the target. There he sent his staff to safety and mounted the Air Ministry roof to await the bombers that never came.
Hitchens has "never seen [this] addressed by the Great Man's defenders." Really? It was addressed in
The Times
by John Martin on 28 August 1976; by John Colville (
The Churchillians
, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981). Norman Longmate, Ronald Lewin, Harry Hensley, and David Stafford - none of them whitewashers - are just four historians who, as early as 1979, dismissed the Coventry story for the myth it is. Yet it lives on, a dark seam of treacle emerging regularly from the fever swamps and conspiracy nuts.
7. In cabinet discussions in May 1940 Churchill said at one point (not "more than once") that he'd considered whether it was part of his duty "to enter into negotiations with That Man [Hitler]." On this slim thread Hitchens assures us that Churchill did not want to fight! Numerous historians (e.g., Sheila Lawlor,
Churchill and the Politics of War
, Cambridge University Press, 1991) conclude that at that point, Churchill's political position was too unfirm overtly to dismiss Halifax's cry for negotiation. By the end of May Churchill had convinced his cabinet to fight on. History turned on that achievement.
8. Churchill did not skip Roosevelt's funeral out of "pique at Roosevelt's repeated refusal to visit Britain during the war"; in fact he agonized over missing it. Mr. Hitchens forgets that there was a war on. The Allies were closing on Berlin, the end might come any day. There were more pressing things than funerals to occupy heads of government.
9. "Unless fresh information comes to light," Mr. Hitchens will believe the fable that Churchill set up the
sinking to entice the Americans into World War I. Well, okay, if he wants to...but that particular red herring was exploded 20 years ago by Harry V. Jaffa (
, Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1981), and by others since.
10. There is not a shred of evidence that Churchill knew in advance about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and this, again, has been broadly rejected, most recently by David Stafford (
Churchill and Secret Service
, London: Murray, 1997).
Mr. Hitchens is an able pot-stirrer, but he should be reading the more balanced historians: Norman Rose, Henry Pelling, Warren Kimball, Paul Addison, Robert Rhodes James.
Churchill's faults were on a grand scale, and Mr. Hitchens has managed to list almost all of them, including the imaginary ones, which continue to impress the irrational. The overriding point is that the virtues outweighed the faults. If his "lapidary phrases" and "gallows humor" have reacquired renown, it is because Churchill crafted words to express what free people were thinking - and because last September those words proved starkly relevant.
In the 1930s - the period when Hitchens finds him particularly contemptible - Churchill said: "The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within...They come from a peculiar type of brainy people always found in our country, who, if they add something to its culture, take much from its strength."
Brainy people have been celebrating Churchill's feet of clay (and they were big feet) for half a century. Theirs is an error of proportion. They forget that at the key moment in the 20th century, as Charles Krauthammer wrote, one man proved indispensable. How sad to find a good writer like Christopher Hitchens suffering from the same amnesia.
From the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge
1. There is no proof that any of Churchill's famous broadcasts were made by Norman Shelley. This claim is made by David Irving in the first volume of his book,
Churchill's War
, based apparently on conversations with Shelley [although Irving's footnote for said conversations is dated after Shelley's death! ‹Ed.]
As far as I can establish, Shelley did claim to have recorded as Churchill during the war, but (in public at least) never claimed that he broadcast the famous 1940 speeches contemporaneously. He may have claimed to have broadcast the June 4th "Beaches" speech at a later date. The only proof that his family have been able to offer is a BBC recording of Shelley speaking as Churchill and delivering an address that seems to relate to 1942, and does not seem to equate with the text of any Churchill speech held here.
There is no doubt that Churchill delivered the speeches in the House of Commons (at least there are hundreds of witnesses to that). However, where the argument really falls down, is that the speeches of 13 May and 4 June were only delivered by Churchill in the Commons and
were not broadcast by him or anyone else at the time
(although after the war WSC recorded them for Decca). The speech of 4 June was repeated by the BBC radio announcer.
2. We have the evidence that Churchill's speeches were set out by his private office secretaries in the blank verse style that they referred to as "speech form" or "psalm style," so this did not originate with William Manchester's books. Anyone can come to the Archives Centre and consult the original speaking notes.
3. It is not really my place to comment on the "revisionists" as the Archives Centre exists to provide access to all, and to make the Churchill Papers available for this type of historical debate. But I think it is fair to say that some of these works are much better researched than others.
--Allen Packwood, Keeper, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge
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The names of some of Mr. Bijan's well-known clients are engraved on the front window of the boutique and an appointment is the only way to gain access into this exclusive world, where a pair of socks will cost you $50. A suit, $50,000. In 1981, Bijan created the first perfume for men, the 6 oz. bottle is now priced at $3,000. The Bijan perfume bottle is a featured exhibit at the Smithsonian! Mr. Bijan's exclusive designs now include suits, shirts, ties, shoes, scarves, jewelry, and watches, briefcases, luggage and, of course, fragrances.
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Every fan and media member and most NFL players loathe the fourth and final preseason game. Most of the players you care about either play a series or sit out completely. Anyone with a nagging injury? Take seat. Nothing beats spending four hours pondering "Why hasn't the season started already?"
But this final week, where roster spots Nos. 48-53 were up for grabs, always seemed to be more important for the Arizona Cardinals because that fifth running back or third quarterback always seems to show up on the field before Halloween.
You hope Carson Palmer holds up. You hope Rashard Mendenhall's preseason injuries are as minor as they seem. But this is a franchise that has fought and lost the war of attrition so many times, that has seen their best-laid plans carried off the field like Jonathan Cooper, that has seen three months of preparation decimated in three weeks.
So when Cardinals fans watch Ryan Lindley and Ryan Williams fighting for roster spots against the Broncos – and both played pretty well — they know that history says we'll be seeing more of them sooner than later. The same might not be said for former Sun Devils' Brock Osweiler and Gerell Robinson, regardless of how well they played against Arizona.
The most impressive part of Bruce Arians' first Arizona training camp is the depth he appears to have found at several positions. I expect to see more players brought in as more attractive players hit the waiver wire. While he, too, has a history in Pittsburgh, he doesn't restrict his attention to ex-Steelers, which is quite refreshing.
We'll take a longer look at the Cardinals next week, along with a fearless season prediction.
Quick Hitters
• It's historically been the other way around, but the Cardinals appear to have gotten rid of a big name at the right time.
When Adrian Wilson was signed by New England last spring, there was a lot of talk about it being a coup for the Patriots. But Wilson has been everything he was at the end of his Cardinals career — a step slow, a poor tackler now that the league has outlawed everything he does best, bad angles to the football, etc. — and Wilson was reduced to special teams in the final preseason game.
After the long succession of Dexter Manleys, Jim McMahons, Emmitt Smiths and Joey Porters, it's nice to see the Cardinals enjoy the fruits of a Pro Bowl player and part ways before the bitter end.
I look forward to Adrian Wilson's jersey retirement day in Glendale. No one deserves it more.
• After Justin Upton set baseball on its ear in April, Martin Prado has more RBIs in August than anyone other than Miguel Cabrera. But that doesn't even the scales on this trade, which also included Chris Johnson — who at .329 entering this weekend could win the National League batting title.
I've said it before and stand by it — the D-Backs needed to move Upton. The relationship was broken and the player is flawed. But they didn't get nearly enough for him, and watching an outfield full of munchkins all season (Prado, Gerardo Para. Adam Eaton, A.J. Pollock) combine for 20-some homers makes the deal look even worse.
• The Suns might say that trade Caron Butler to Milwaukee has nothing to do with the impending jettison of Michael Beasley. But the numbers say otherwise.
The Suns save almost as much in salary cap space ($5.65 million as they will owe Beasley ($6 million) this season. That keeps you from having to spread out the $9 million they still owe their 6-foot-9 forward/poor driver/chemist over more years. I would have like to see Butler play here — he has some real positives to his game and for a young team — it's better to just rip off that band-aid and clear the books of this giant blemish.
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Her hit show "Mad Men" is coming to a close just in time, as Jessica Paré is pregnant with her first child.
The "Hot Tub Time Machine" stunner (33) and her Canadian punk rock musician boyfriend John Kastner will be parents in 2015 after having begun a relationship last year.
Stepping out for a memorable evening, the cast of "Mad Men" showed up at the Landmark Theatre in Los Angeles for a screening of their hit show.
Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks both garnered plenty of attention as they arrived at the shindig, hosted by Deadline and Awardsline.
Gearing up for another year of excellence from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, Jessica Paré was in the house for the 2014 Met Gala tonight (May 5).
Fans and shutterbugs alike clamored to catch a glimpse as the "Mad Men" star meandered around the arrivals area, chatting with other famous folks. Jessica is wearing a Michael Kors gown.
Gearing up for the season premiere of "Mad Men," Jessica Paré headed over to " Jimmy Kimmel Live" in Hollywood on Monday (April 7).
The "Standby" starlet was gorgeous in a form-fitting floral dress teamed with a pair of black leather booties as she flashed her legs and scurried inside for her interview.
With the final season of her hit AMC series "Mad Men" set to premiere on April 13th, Jessica Pare scored herself a feature in the April 2014 issue of Esquire magazine.
The 33-year-old Canadian actor donned sexy lingerie and swimsuits for the sultry Zoey Grossman-shot spread, while she shared details about her first experience on the "Mad Men" set and revealed green card issues that almost cost her the job.
Building up the hype surrounding the premiere of "Mad Men's" seventh season, three new teaser images featuring characters Don Draper, Peggy Olsen, Megan Draper and Roger Sterling waiting patiently at an airport have just been released by AMC.
The images themselves tell us very little about what we can look forward to in the seventh and final season of AMC's fantastic drama, and that's just the way series creator, Matthew Weiner wants to keep it.
With the final season of her hit AMC series "Mad Men" set to premiere April 13th, Jessica Pare garnered herself a little added exposure by covering the March 2014 issue of Fashion magazine.
The 33-year-old actress looked gorgeous in a white Kaufmanfranco dress for the Gabor Jurina and Zeina Esmail-shot front page while opening up about the show and her feminist views.
Following up music's biggest night of the year, Warner Music Group hosted a star-studded bash at their Los Angeles headquarters on Sunday evening (January 26).
"Serendipity" actress Kate Beckinsale showed up for the shindig, as did fellow actresses Kat Graham, Ariel Winter, and Jessica Pare.
With award season officially underway, Morena Baccarin, Lena Headey, Anna Gunn and Jessica Pare garnered themselves a little added exposure by covering the latest issue of Net-a-Porter's The Edit.
During their interview with the publication, the ladies opened up about everything from relating to their on-screen roles and rising to fame.
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Joined by boyfriend Mick Jagger, Ms. Scott herself greeted guests like "Mad Men" babes Christina Hendricks and Jessica Pare.
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Twelve-year-old Andrew Stevens and his best friend are looking forward to the start of a new semester. After mediation with the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Andrew's parents have worked out an arrangement that will allow Andrew and his seizure-alerting service dog, Alaya, to attend classes. The school's refusal to allow Alaya in class garnered much media coverage including an article in Paw Nation. But after going through mediation with Andrew's father, Angelo Stevens, as well as Alaya's service dog trainer, the school's administration has agreed to a three-week trial period in which the Stevens family can prove that Alaya the service dog can get straight A's in conduct. Andrew's parents will take off work and alternate duties, accompanying Andrew at school over the next few weeks to supervise the adjustment.
"It's definitely a major victory. If even only in a trial setting," Angelo Stevens tells Paw Nation. "It shows that the ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] laws apply, and it also shows that we're willing to put in the work."
Alaya's Gift
Andrew suffers from a rare but severe form of epilepsy that causes him to experience as many as 20 potentially fatal seizures in a single day. Because of his condition, Andrew's parents, Nancy and Angelo, monitor him around the clock to make sure he is safe at all times.
Just before Thanksgiving, they got Alaya. This extraordinary German shepherd was trained by Seizure Alert Dogs for Life to detect oncoming seizures and even prevent them when possible. According to Angelo, Alaya's services have been invaluable. "It really is a huge victory to go from 15 to 20 seizures a day to 8 or 10," he says.
Alaya wears a magnet around her collar and has been trained to lick Andrew in the face when she senses a seizure is imminent. As she does, this magnet activates a stimulator in Andrew's chest that can decrease the severity of an oncoming seizure or even stop it altogether.
Even when she isn't able to activate Andrew's stimulator, Alaya plays a critical role in Andrew's safety by warning others. "She'll stand up and start sniffing, licking, making eye contact when the seizures are coming on," Angelo explains. "She's my son's version of a guardian angel."
Policy Showdown
The root of the Stevenses' long battle with the school system lies in the Fairfax County service dog policy. Under the current rules, service dogs must be trained by the nonprofit Assistance Dogs International. Unfortunately, the waiting list for many such nonprofits can be 5 to 10 years long.
That's why the Stevens family chose to raise the money and obtain Alaya from Seizure Alert Dogs for Life, a for-profit organization with no ties to the ADI. According to Fairfax County officials, this means that Alaya's behavior is suspect — a misconception the Stevenses mean to dispel during the three-week trial period. "She's a service dog, but she's still a dog," Angelo explains. "So we'll have to supervise the integration process."
After battling the school administration for weeks, the Stevenses know how tough it can be to gain acceptance for service dogs — and school hasn't even started yet. "We're all very tired," Angelo tells Paw Nation. "It's been a very busy week. Even Alaya's a little worn out."
To provide resources to other families who may find themselves engaged in a similar struggle, the Stevenses have set up the Andrew Gordon Stevens Foundation. Now that Andrew's dog is fully paid for, the goal of this foundation is to help military families obtain service dogs of their own.
To learn more about Andrew and Ayala and their battle to go to school together, watch the "Today" segment below, which was taped before this trial attendance was approved.


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Their eight Tony awards are still warm, but ''Hairspray'' bigwigs are already teasing their next project: ''Cry-Baby.'' Producers Adam Epstein, Allan S. Gordon, and Elan V. McAllister will join big-haired Hollywood honcho Brian Grazer in bringing the 1990 John Waters pic to Broadway. As with ''Hairspray,'' ''John will be my creative conscience,'' says Epstein. A '50s-set flick with a rock & roll heart, ''Cry-Baby'' features such colorful creations as dreamy delinquent Wade Walker (Johnny Depp) and hideous hottie Hatchet-Face. ''I write the kind of characters that are begging to sing,'' says Waters. ''No matter how perverted, how insane, they're all joyous.''
Epstein envisions a two-to-four-year gestation period for his ''Baby''; he still needs a director, choreographer, and composer-lyricist. Despite speculation, it appears that ''Hairspray'' writers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman are not ''Cry-Baby''-bound. ''Scott and I wish the best for 'Cry-Baby','' says Shaiman, ''but we're waiting for 'Pink Flamingos,' 'Female Trouble,' or 'Desperate Living.' Singing a--holes and lesbians cutting off penile implants -- that screams 'musical' to us.''


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Leslie K. Day, PDS Director, Buffalo State College
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The Buffalo State College PDS Consortium is a learning-centered partnership supporting the development of students, teacher candidates, faculty and all PDS partners through inquiry-based practice. One important aspect of this shared vision for developing a learning community is our commitment to action research in our PDS schools. The department of Elementary Education and Reading in collaboration with the Center for Excellence in Urban and Rural Education (CEURE) offers mini-grants to its more than 45 PDS Partner Schools each school year. These mini-grants are used by college faculty, PDS schools, and our teacher candidates to design action research projects that will have an impact on our PreK-6th grade learners. Each year many PDS partnerships apply for these grants and at least seven PDS schools are awarded these annual grants. At our fall PDS Consortium Retreat, these mini-grant awardees share their action research through both a poster session and formal group presentation. Each project is highlighted on the Buffalo State College PDS website, often with photographs, abstracts, and a link to the actual power point presentations. The website availability of this research encourages other PDS partners to consider some of these best practices for their own schools. Recently, results from some of the action research projects have been submitted and accepted for publication in educational journals. The action research grants and annual retreat have given our PDS partnerships a systematic forum for the celebration of their joint work. Join us to hear and see in "action" how the mini-grant supported action research projects support our learning community mission.
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Hi everyone,
My mom is going for a colonoscopy on Tuesday (she's been having bad abdominal pain for the past few weeks). I've been trying to find information for her about the procedure, and while she's not too worried about the actual colonoscopy, she's kind of dreading the prep. I was hoping someone here who has gone through this process might be able to give me some more information on the experience. My mom is supposed to be on a clear liquid diet on Monday morning, and then she has to start taking the medicine at 1:00 PM that day (well, they told her 1:00, but she's not able to start til 2:00). The drug she has been prescribed is PEG-3350. She has to drink 4 liters of it, 1 cup every 10 minutes. The package says that the liquid will cause a bowel movement within about 1 hour. The first question we have is, does that mean one hour after taking the first dose? So will she be taking 5 or 6 doses before anything starts happening? The next question is, how long does the whole process last? Four liters is about 17 cups, and if she drinks 6 cups per hour (1 cup every 10 minutes) that means it would take about 3 hours to drink all the liquid. Will she continue to feel the effects of the medicine even after it's all gone, or will the process be over in about 3 hours? She's going to start taking the medicine at 2:00 PM, so is it possible to estimate at about what time she'll be done "purging"? Question number three: As far as the actual "purging" is concerned, does it basically happen that one dose causes one BM, or is it sort of an on-going thing? When you feel the need to "go", do you have enough time to get from the bedroom to the bathroom, or should you just stay in the bathroom the whole time? Question number four: The powdered medicine mix is unflavored and the package says not to add any kind of flavoring or sweetener. The package says that you can rinse your mouth with mouthwash after drinking it, but it doesn't say if you're allowed to drink anything in addition to the medicine. I know my mom is only supposed to drink clear liquids prior to the prep, but is she also allowed to sip tea, apple juice, sprite, or water in between doses of the medicine? What about after the prep is complete; is she allowed to drink anything else for the rest of the evening? Would it be OK for her to eat mints or hard candy (sucking on them til they dissolve, not chewing & swallowing them)? Question five: I read online that you are not supposed to drink anything, even water, for 4 hours prior to the colonoscopy; however, those instructions were not given to my mom by the doctor, nor were they printed on the medication. Should she go ahead and avoid drinking anything on the morning of her colonoscopy anyway (the procedure is scheduled for 9:00 AM Tuesday)? Thanks very much for any info that you can give me! |
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- Posted by michelle_phxaz (My Page) on Sun, Jul 19, 09 at 8:40
Oh, I am feeling for her! I have been through this twice, you are right, the prep is the worst part, the colonoscopy is a breeze compared to the day before. First off, everyone is different, so she may start having to go to the bathroom within a few minutes or a few hours, it just depends on her metabolism. She will be purging for quite a while and quite often. Again, it differs with everyone, but she shouldn't plan on going out anywhere once she starts the meds. Mine lasted about 4-5 hours total, towards the end it will all be clear liquid coming out. I went through about a roll of toilet paper, probably used the bathroom about 20-25 times during the course of the purging. Tell her to get books and magazines at the ready, she will be spending a lot of time in the bathroom. As for the powdered medicine mix, I would call her doctor. I used a liquid that I could mix with Gatorade or clear liquid the first time, it was the most vile thing I have ever drank. The second time I asked about getting the dosage in pill form, that is an option not many people know to ask for, but if you can get it by all means it is the kindest way! I wouldn't have her eating any mints or hard candy, but I was allowed to have all the clear liquids I wanted. Again, ask the doctor, but I think what the candy is made of might have a negative effect. Gatorade was my drink of choice, it provides electrolytes that your body needs and really quenches your thirst. Yes, she should stop drinking at least 4 hours before the procedure, longer if possible; this will prevent them from having to insert a catheter to relieve her bladder during the procedure. I stopped at midnight (my procedures were at 8 am and the other at 10am) and took tiny sips of water during the night, the purging medicine is salt based so it makes you really thirsty. So basically I would get ahold of the doctor on Monday and see if they will prescribe the pills. The liquid is so nasty I don't wish it on anyone and the after effects are bad enough so any way to make it less miserable is the way to go! Best of luck with the procedure and results, and I hope this info helps! |
- Posted by agnespuffin (My Page) on Sun, Jul 19, 09 at 21:52
That's about it. As the previous poster says, everyone is different. I had my last trot to the bathroom after they had started the IV for the procedure the next morning. It's vile. Some say drinking it through a straw is easier on the taste buds. she will be clean, clean, clean when she gets finished. We have pictures of my husband's colon. It's real nice and pink. |
Thanks a bunch for all the info, Michelle - that was very detailed and informative! We didn't have time to get the pills, but the liquid went down OK - my mom said it was gross but drinkable. She did use a straw (thanks, Agnes) and drank as much as possible in each dose (the instructions said she could drink 8-10 ounces per dose, so she drank 10 ounces at a time so that there would be fewer doses). She'll be going for the procedure at 9:00 AM tomorrow (well, technically I think it's already Tuesday right now). Thanks again for all your information! |
- Posted by michelle_phxaz (My Page) on Tue, Jul 21, 09 at 5:56
My first time I had to drink two bottles about 12 oz each, I could mix them with something if I wanted to. The first bottle I mixed into a bottle of Gatorade, it just prolonged the agony, the second I just chugged like a shot and then gulped down a whole bottle of Gatorade to kill the taste. I never thought about the straw thing, but the chugging was quick a less foul. Like I said, to anyone getting ready to do this, ask for the pills! Best of luck to her, it is always good to have as much info going in to something like this so I am glad we could all help. Let us know how it goes! |
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New Dialysis Equipment at St. Anthony Thursday, 27 January 2011 St. Anthony recently installed all new dialysis machines to better serve patients who undergo the lifesaving treatment. Hemodialysis is a medical procedure that cleans the impurities from the blood and removes unwanted fluid when the kidneys have lost the ability to properly function on their own. Once the blood has been filtered and fluid removed by dialysis, the blood is returned to the patient's bloodstream. Dialysis treatments allow individuals to live productive and useful lives, even though their kidneys no longer work adequately. Fifteen state-of-the-art dialysis machines were purchased and installed to provide treatment for the 36 patients currently receiving treatment at St. Anthony. The unit currently operates three shifts of twelve patients each, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Each patient receives a treatment that can last from 3 to 4 ½ hours. Preparation to put the new machines into use took nearly two weeks and included processes to flush, sterilize and complete cultures to assure infection control prior to the first use. The staff of dialysis nurses also received special training on the new technology before beginning treatments. St. Anthony recognized a need for dialysis services nearly 20 years ago. The service was established so that patients and family members wouldn't need to make the trip to Des Moines or Omaha for treatment. "The number of patients we serve continues to grow, in part because of earlier diagnosis of kidney disease." said Lynn Riesenberg, dialysis director. |


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I chose two thin enigmatic female figures as my center piece, carrying food upon their heads in the heat of the sun. African women walk for miles with heavy jugs of water or pots of food balanced on their heads to conserve energy. I wanted this daily ritual to capture the ghostly image of hunger, and famine that occurs daily across our planet through. The work of women carrying out each task simply to survive.
The women seem to be gazing straight forward and seemingly blank with emotion. Their body language is stoic, gaunt, and standing fast, as if another day will pass and their story remain untold.
The tall grass has been topped with a symbol of hope in the shape of hearts that grow all around them. I wanted this image to coincide with the palette of orange standing for joy, warmth, and most important optimism that things will indeed get better; that change is coming.
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Selection Jury
Selection Jury members are appointed by Harold Hamm Diabetes Center representatives with priority given to individuals who have served in international capacities in the field of diabetes research such as editors of major diabetes journals or recent leaders of major diabetes-related organizations.
Members of the 2015 Selection Jury
Members of the 2015 Selection Jury will be announced in the Fall of 2014.
Members of the 2013 Selection Jury
Timothy Lyons, MD, FRCP, Selection Jury Chairperson
Dr. Lyons holds the position of Director of the Diabetes Research Program and Professor of Diabetes and Translational Medicine at the Queen's University of Belfast. He is also Professor of Research at the University of Oklahoma and a Member of the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center at the University of Oklahoma. He has served as the past Chair of the American Diabetes Association's Research Policy Committee and was a member of the American Diabetes Association's 71st Scientific Sessions Planning Committee.
John Buse, MD, PhD, CDE -- Dr. Buse received his MD and PhD from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina before training in internal medicine and endocrinology at the University of Chicago. He is currently a professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he also serves as the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Director of the Diabetes Care Center and Executive Associate Dean for Clinical Research.
Edwin Gale, MD -- Prof Gale is Emeritus Professor of Diabetic Medicine and former Head of the University Department of Clinical Science in North Bristol. His major research interests have been in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes, but he has written reviews and opinion pieces on many aspects of diabetes, and was Editor of Diabetologia from 2003-2010. He has chaired the Special Advisory Group on diabetes and endocrinology for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the past 5 years. He is currently engaged in setting up Diapedia, an online open-access living textbook of diabetes.
Barbara Howard, PhD -- Dr. Howard is the Senior Scientist and former president of MedStar Health Research Institute. She received her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Pennsylvania and currently holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University. Dr. Howard serves on several Data Safety Monitoring Boards for federal studies and on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals. She has chaired the Nutrition Committee and The Council on Nutrition Physical Activity and Metabolism of the American Heart Association. Dr. Howard also chaired the Nutrition Study Section of the National Institutes of Health and served as a member of the NTH Expert Panel on Obesity that developed guidelines for the treatment and prevention of obesity.
Paul Robertson, MD -- Dr. Robertson received his MD from Creighton Medical School before training in endocrinology at the University of Washington, where he is currently a Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology. Dr. Robertson has served as the American Diabetes Association President for Medicine and Science; Editor-in-Chief of Translations in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Endocrine Reviews, and Diabetes.
Charles Stanley, MD -- Dr. Stanley is the medical director of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a professor emeritus of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published numerous articles in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Pediatrics, Diabetes, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and The Journal of Biological Chemisty. He was recently co-editor of Monogenic Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia Disorders, volume 21 of "Frontiers in Diabetes."