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DARIEN -- Shooting an impressive 3-under-par 69 in the opening round of the 78th Connecticut Open Championship despite missing several putts was, as Mike Ballo Jr. said, "a good omen."
It could also be bad news for the rest of the field.
Consistently keeping the ball in the fairway at Wee Burn Country Club, Ballo Jr. was atop the leaderboard after Monday's first round and hopes to increase his slim advantage Tuesday.
"I can't be too disappointed with that score, I thought I played great," Ballo Jr. said. "I had a three-putt and I bogeyed two par-5's, which is unusual for me, but my distance was real good. I have given myself an opportunity to win a tournament."
Danny Balin, an assistant PGA Professional at Burning Tree Country Club in Greenwich, carded a 2-under-par 70, defending Connecticut Open champion Frank Bensel of Norwalk is two shots off the pace with a 1-under-par 71, while Dan Powers from Stamford carded an even par 72.
Ballo Jr., a former St. John's University star who represents Woodway Country Club, teed off on the 10th hole in the morning and promptly began his round with a birdie. The Trinity Catholic graduate also holed birdie putts on Nos. 17, 1, 2, 5, 7 and 10.
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"The keys are hitting the fairways and greens," Ballo said. "The course is wet and it's playing as long as it possibly can, and the rough is so thick. Making pars on a challenging course like this is good. I really didn't feel like I putted my best today, so that's a good omen."
Ballo, who turned pro in 2010, has been on a roll. He registered one of the biggest victories of his professional career recently, winning the Westchester Golf Association's 90th Open Championship on the first playoff hole.
"I've had a good summer so far, so I want to keep doing the things I've been doing well. I feel real good going into the next round."
Balin's game has also been in top form. The 30-year-old recently captured the New York State Open title at Bethpage State Park's famed Black Course with a 2-under 211 and earned a spot in the PGA Championship for the third consecutive year.
Starting his round on the 10th hole, Balin sank a birdie putt on the par-5 hole and was 2-under through nine holes. He also birdied the par-4 second hole and the par-3 seventh hole, putting him at 2-under.
"Shooting a 70 is a good start to the tournament, now I feel like I have chance to improve my score tomorrow," Balin said. "The course played a lot longer than expected due to the rain we had over the weekend, but I was able to hit a lot of fairways and greens."
Balin is primed to play in another PGA Championship.
"I feel great about how I've played the last three or four weeks," Balin said. "I've really been tested the past few weeks and I'm very excited to play in another Major."
Bensel, an assistant PGA Professional at Century Country Club, has a pair of Connecticut Open titles to his ledger, winning the tourney last year and in 2009. He finished Monday's round with three birdies.
"I thought the course was fabulous and it was very difficult," Bensel said. "The greens were running pretty fast and the rough was riding high, so you had to keep it in the fairways. Anything under par is good around here."
Like Balin, Bensel will compete in the PGA Championship.
"I'm looking forward to that and feel as though I'm prepared for it," Bensel said. "Playing in events like this where we walk the course gets my walking legs ready."
Andrew Gruss from Trumbull, Dustin Toner (Jupiter, Fla.), Jason Caron of Greenwich, Bobby Gage (Torrington), Tom McCarthy (New York), Sean Gaudette (Hadley, Mass.) and Jeffrey Hatten (Farmington) each shot a 1-over-par 73.
"I started out great out of the box with pars on the first four holes," Gruss said. "Then I had a couple of bogeys and things became a little difficult between the ears."
Gruss regrouped though, sinking birdie putts on Nos. 10, 17 and 18.
"It's not difficult to make bogeys on this course, but it's scoreable if you keep it out of the rough," Gruss said. "I feel good about my round, I just didn't execute a couple of shots. I could have shot a 70 or I could have shot a 76, so I'm happy with a 73."
Ryan Kalista, an Old Greenwich resident and pro at Innis Arden, birdied the first two holes en route to carding a 3-over 75.
"It could have been a spectacular round for me," Kalista said. "I thought I hit a lot of good shots, but a couple of holes were tough for me. This course is in spectacular condition. Every hole is a real good golf hole."
Peter Ballo, Mike's younger brother, is eager to improve upon his first-round score of 76.
"I've played this course enough to put up a good score, so hopefully I'll play well tomorrow," said Ballo, who will play golf at Sacred Heart in the fall. "I'm hitting the ball well, I just need to find my stroke on the putting green and drop a couple of more putts in."
Greenwich High graduate Tomas Agrest also intends to make a strong showing Tuesday after carding an 82.
"I don't expect to win at this point, but my goal is to shoot the lowest score possible," Agrest said. "I only got to play at Wee Burn once in high school, so to get another free round at this course is great."


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George Lopez is usually a stand-up comic, but Thursday night in Canada he appeared to be more of a passed-out-on-the-floor comic — and was subsequently arrested on suspicion of public intoxication, according to reports out Friday.
"Tied one on last night," the comedian said Friday in a statement obtained by Show Tracker. "Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor."
No charges were filed against the comic, according to TMZ, which said Lopez was put in a drunk tank to sober up and later was released.
Before his arrest, the 52-year-old performer was photographed seemingly passed out on the floor of Caesars Windsor, where he had just performed and is scheduled to perform Friday night. The photo was posted on Twitter with the caption, "George Lopez passed out at the casino last night!"
Casino security was alerted to the situation when Lopez was seen on the floor, and security got law enforcement involved around 11 p.m., Gossip Cop reported.
Lopez will be back on TV on March 6 with the premiere of the comedy "Saint George" on FX. It's his first starring role in a sitcom since the show "George Lopez" wrapped its six-season run in 2007. He hosted his own TBS talk show, "Lopez Tonight," which ran three seasons from 2009 to 2011.
He's scheduled to perform two nights at L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl in June.
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Sort of a non-event
Stuff that happened on Friday:
- Little River Days started in downtown Hopkinsville.
- Our cats left a dead mouse on the porch steps for us.
- Keely went back to Murray for the weekend.
- I saw a very large bat flying around a street light at the grocery store.
- Bill Clinton made an appearance at Hopkinsville's Convention Center.
Yes, former President Bill Clinton was in our little town on Friday, campaigning for Hillary. We were on the tail end of Bill's swing through western Kentucky; he had already been to Owensboro, Madisonville, Paducah, and Murray, earlier in the day. His Hopkinsville stop was titled "Solutions for America" and it took place at 7:30 p.m. at the Bruce Convention Center.
I was mildly curious about him coming to town. I took a little poll of my customers at work: "Are you going out to see Bill Clinton this evening?" Not one person said "Yes." A few seized the opportunity to make insulting remarks. Others expressed regret but said their schedules didn't allow them to attend. One lady said she would be at home, but President Clinton was welcome to stop by if he wanted.
I had thought about going to see him myself, simply for the experience. (I am not a Hillary supporter). But after working all day, I decided to get groceries and go home instead. I was too tired to fight a traffic jam, stand in line for an hour, and then spend several more hours tightly packed into a hot room full of noisy Hillary fans.
I imagined a traffic jam, long lines, and a big crowd because of a 1992 event, when George H.W. Bush was running with Dan Quayle. A few weeks before the November election, Quayle made a quick campaign stop at the Hopkinsville High School gymnasium. A fellow at church was handing out tickets for the rally so I decided to go. I thought it would be a good civics lesson for Keely (age 6).
After we finally got through the traffic jam, we sat on backless bleacher seats for a couple of hours before Quayle finally appeared. The gym was so hot and crowded that Keely began to feel sick and dizzy. We had to go outside and get some fresh air.
When Candidate Quayle arrived at last, we were all very glad to see him. He thought we were excited about him. I suppose we were, but we were also happy that the event would conclude immediately after his appearance.
That is what I imagined that the Clinton rally would be like, and I was not willing to go through that for Bill Clinton. However, it wouldn't have been such an ordeal, after all. Only about 300 people showed up for the Clinton event. The room was only half full. It's reported that there was even ample parking room.
Despite the light turnout at the Hopkinsville rally, local Democrat Senator Joey Pendleton predicts that Hillary Clinton will win Tuesday's Democratic primary in Christian County and in Kentucky.
UPDATE: Michelle Obama will be in Hopkinsville on Monday, campaigning for her husband. Her event is for military wives, by invitation only.
Local reactions to the Clinton visit:
Hoptown Hall thread
Kentucky New Era story and comments (When this story moves to the KNE archives, it will probably require a subscription, but it should be free for a few days yet.)


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HOUSTON — State Farm All-Star Saturday night is minutes away from lift off. Nick Cannon and Rob Nice are hosting the in-arena festivities.
I don't know what everyone else came to see, but for me, All-Star Saturday night is always about the finale. It's a chance for someone to etch their name in All-Star lore with a mercurial performance in the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, much like that fella wearing No. 23 above did back in 1987.
Some of the All-Stars made their own predictions, several of them, assuming that James "Flight" White will rise above the crowd and do the most damage on his way to the title.
But first up we have the Sears Shooting Stars competition. I'm going with Team [James] Harden and the hometown advantage (he's rolling with Sam Cassell, a man anyone would want on their team requires you to make clutch shots. (Team Westbrook should be dangerous, though, with Robert Horry and Maya Moore rocking with Russell Westbrook.)
— 8:37 — Team Westbrook handled business with the fastest time at 29.5 seconds. Team Harden kicked it off with a 37.9 as the West finished their business.
— 8:44 — Dominique Wilkins still has the touch. Knocks down the 3-ball for Team Bosh. They needed 50 seconds to finish, though.
— 8:45 — What's up with Brook Lopez shooting 3-pointers like free throws? 1:07 for Team Lopez. The East is down 20-0 going into the championship.
— 8:47 — So much for prediction. Team Bosh and Team Westbrook squaring advance and ready to square off in the championship round.
— 8:52 — I root for Swin Cash in whatever she does. Too bad she's stuck on a team with Bosh and 'Nique instead of say, myself and John Schuhmann … 1:29 for them in the championship round. The pressure is on Team Westbrook.)
— 8:54 — Team Westbrook can't get it done. Team Bosh gets the win and Nique gets the MVP for knocking down both of his team's half court shots. As my man Randy Moss would say, Straight (Swin) Cash Homie!
— 8:56 — Team Bosh collects the first hardware of the night in the Sears Shooting Stars. Nique is feeling good. Says he wants in on the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, too. (I'm kidding.)
— 8:58 — Gold medal winners from London, both men and women, getting some love on the big stage between events.
— 9:03 — Sounds like the dude from the Price is Right is reading off the rules for this event. I'm ignoring him and checking the shoe game of the contestants. Jeremy Lin kicks are wicked. Need to see an up-close shot.
— 9:05 — Hawks guard Jeff Teague clocks a 49.4, couldn't get his passes or his 3-pointer from the top of the arc down. And he had the nerve to blow his final shot, going for the layup instead of the dunk. Later son.
— 9:06 — Pistons guard Brandon Knight learns from Teague's mistakes and finishes with a dunk and a 32.2.
— 9:08 — Sixers guard Jrue Holiday rocks it with a 29.3. Made it look effortless. One of my favorite young players in the league. West has to beat 1:50.9 to topple the East in the contest.
— 9:12 — Jeremy Lin finishes in 35.8 but could have finished faster. He was stylin' for the home crowd.
— 9:13 — Damian Lillard rips the course in the fastest time of the night so far, 28.8.
— 9:15 — Defending champ Tony Parker bows out with a 48.7. The East picks up 30 points thanks to Lin and Parker. Knight and Lillard move on to the championship round.
–9:17 — Alicia Keys gets some jumbotron love (she's sitting next to Spike Lee). She looks marvelous, of course. We need to get her to do a theme song, "Hang Time is on fire!"
— 9:20 — Holiday with a 35.6, but Lillard snags a 29.8 for the win, 10 more points for the West and a trophy to go alongside that T-Mobile Rookie of the Year trophy he's going to get in a few months. Well done young fella, the first rookie to win the event.
— 9:24 — East leads the west 40-30 after two events. They are playing for $500,000 in cash for charity.
— 9:32 — I had no idea this Phillip Phillips cat (or band, I'm not sure) sang this song. That's my jam. I don't watch American Idol, though, so I didn't connect the dots. He smashed that performance.
— 9:35 — Steph Curry just warmed up from the corner rack and knocked down the first four without even looking at the basket. Ridiculous. Save some for the contest fella!
— 9:40 — Curry started slow but finished like … well, a Curry. He nets 17 points and Ryan Anderson is up next. He goes off from the start but struggles at the end, finishing with 18. Matt Bonner closes out the order for the West. His shooting stroke is awkward. But he finishes with 19 points, for a total teams score of 54.
— 9:46 — These Knicks kid reporters have stolen the show, clowning everyone and Nick Cannon on the big stage. You gotta love the kids.
— 9:52 — Kyrie Irving forgot to take his warm up shirt off and still finished with 18. And as you might expect, he knocked down his money ball on the last rack to beat the buzzer. Paul George is up next. Love this cat but he's in the wrong contest. Maybe he meant to sign up for the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest? Steve Novak has to make up for PG's 10. Novak finishes with 17 and the West wins the 40 points. Bonner and Irving for the title. Who picked those two for the final round? I had Curry and Novak. I'm done with the prediction business tonight.
— 10:02 — Kyrie just put on a show. Knocked down eight of his first nine and 17 of his first 18 shots before finishing with 23, two shy of the record. He even got LeBron James up out of his seat during his wicked stretch. Kid is on his championship grind. Bonner goes for 20. The Cavaliers might still be a lottery team but at least they've got Kyrie!
— 10:07 — Fall Out Boy is on stage and they must be from Chicago because they are wearing their Jordan throwbacks. Rock stars love skinny jeans and tattoos more than NBA youngsters. Now they've got 2 Chainz up here with them and he's singing the hook after doing his rap verse. The Sprite Slam Dunk Contest participants come out while they remain on stage.
— 10:16 — Rudy Tomjanovich, Dikembe Mutombo, Yao Ming, Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler are the judges tonight. Houston's hoops Mt. Rushmore?
— 10:20 — Houston's own Gerald Green kicks off the contest with a perfect 50 on his first dunk, a reverse tomahawk dunk where he had to duck his head or risk a concussion after he bumped his head on the rim. Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— 10:22 — James "Flight" White with the 45 on the two-handed runaway dunk from a step inside the free throw line. He missed his first attempt. Had he made it, the 50 would have been a lock.
— 10:24 — Terrence Ross gets an A for persistence, finally making a behind-the-back 180 after five misses. That was generous for a dude who missed that many dunks.
— 10:26 — Kenneth Faried nets a 39 for a 360 off-the-backboard dunk that looked way better on the replay than it did in real time.
— 10:28 — Eric Bledsoe missed his more aggressive between-the-legs dunk four times before opting for something a little easier to complete. He matched Faried's 39.
— 10:29 — Jeremy Evans bags a 47 with an assist from Mark Eaton, he jumped over the big man's head while the former Jazz center was sitting and holding a ball.
— 10:31 — Kevin Hart and Cannon are doing their stand up routine while clowning the All-Star's baby pictures. I'm going home and burning every baby picture in the house!
Round 2
— 10:35 — Flight White's inability to dribble the ball up the floor is going to cost him the title. He's got all the hops in the world. But he has to go back to the lab and work on the handles. He botched his second dunk attempt and during the allotted 90 seconds and ended up missing his one untimed attempt. That 32 should end his night.
— 10:40 — Green just cut the nets out and is attempting to dunk it twice. Loving the idea. But this is a tough one, even for the cupcake dunker. And now we have to wait for someone to find the replacement nets for this rim. He timed out as well and then missed his untimed attempt for a matching 32. Somebody get Nique some shoes.
— 10:45 — Ross only needs a 33 to represent the East. Just do something normal and you are in. Hang time … he's got a 49 and moves into the final. There is going to be some serious complaining about this format.
— 10:47 — Faried with a 50 for his between the legs jam after just two steps. Is it me or do the 50s get tossed around rather liberally these days.
— 10:48 — Bledsoe with a 50 of his own for the sick reverse windmill off the bounce.
— 10:49 — Evans dunks two balls but with no authority whatsoever, collects his 43 and advances from the West. There won't be a whole lot of debating about what went on here.
— 10:53 — Judging by the looks on the faces of former dunk champions sitting around the floor, they're not impressed with what they have seen tonight. Power used to be a dunk contest staple. Now the apparent degree of difficulty has trumped raw power. I'm trying to be diplomatic tonight. I'm going to need some time to digest what we've seen tonight before I start shredding these performances.
— 10:56 — Evans goes over a the cloaked painting of himself jumping over a cloaked painting of himself dunking and then he signs it. Nice touch but I'd have been more impressed if he snatched the cloak off the painting on his way up.
— 10:58 — Ross throws down a grimy leaning reverse jam that Rockets forward Terrence Jones bounced off the side of the backboard. Arguably the second best dunk of the night behind Green's first attempt in Round 1.
— 11:01 — Evans has outlandish hops. Jumping over Dahntay Jones and doing his own version of the Jumpman pose showed off just how ridiculous his vertical is folks. RIDICULOUS!
— 11:03 — Ross trumps him with a between-the-legs, jump over the ball boy dunk that should seal the crown for the Raptors rookie.
— 11:06 — Ross takes the title. He made up for his rough start to the competition by bring out his best when it matter most. The West won the night, though, finishing with 140 points to the East's 125.
Let the debate rage on about the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, though. Because no one leaves the Toyota Center tonight feeling like we saw the absolute best of the best ply their trade in this contest. Someone out there, someone hungry and creative, needs to step up. MJ and Nique aren't walking through that door!


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Alaska stories, if you can imagine such a thing.
Kick the chairs out of the way, shoot the top off the bottle of whiskey, crank up the rock and roll tunes, light the cigars, run the pitiable government chaps back into their hole, and this aint no bullshit...
Oh, stories are being added from time to time, albeit not many or often. The story guy, with gobs of outrageous not-sure-if-he-survived stories in the files, is busy with other websites, harassing the government with questions for which you want the answers, much to the anger of the government folks who perceive themselves to be above question. He is also slaving away to fix up the new AlaskanAlpineClub.org headquarters, drinking cheap wine for lack of money for better wine, keeping his rusted-out 35 year old jeep running to get to town, scrounge the dumpsters for useful things, haranguing colleagues with rhetorical theatrics over their failure to protect your rights for you, toiling at certain public benefit projects, and whatever else he claims to be doing as an excuse for the moment. But be patient. Something new may show up here. There are plenty of other websites to surf, equally boring. Now, wisely abandon the computer, and get back to something more productive.
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May 19, 1947 - Feb. 7, 2012
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For those of you who never had the pleasure of meeting Doug
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Doug was raised on a farm in Selah, WA, the youngest of 7 children. He found life to be exciting and interesting. His many hobbies included building model airplanes of balsa wood with engines that allowed him to let them fly as long and far as the fuel lasted. During Boy Scouts he was selected for the Order of the Arrow. This began a never ending exploration of NW Indian activities and art. He began chipping arrow heads and spear points; he captured birds and used their feathers in making dance costumes. He used to go to dance competitions at the local Yakama pow wows and succeeded in winning some, much to the chagrin of the Native Americans. He began climbing in Washington and found it filled a need for adventure. After high school he attended Washington State University, earning a degree in Wildlife Biology and a Regular Army commission as a graduate of ROTC. He ended up in Viet Nam as a platoon leader and helicopter pilot. After Viet Nam he was assigned to Ft. Wainwright in Fairbanks. He resigned his commission in Fairbanks and remained a resident for the remainder of his life.
He was a dedicated bachelor, finding that his need for adventure precluded the time and financial commitment required to maintain a long term relationship. He stated "there is only time enough for three hobbies in life" for him that was climbing (his primary activity in the winter), kayaking (summers in SE Alaska) and skydiving (all year round).
He believed in the freedom of the hills and railed against the National Park Service and their regulations restricting public access to public lands. In that light he founded the Alaskan Alpine Club, a club for climbers and a political platform for freedom in the hills. On this website you will find great stories from almost 40 years of Alaska adventures. If you follow some of his links you will find pages where he espouses his political ideas.
Please enjoy these stories he published of his adventures.
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Aint this e-book thing great. The author keeps adding to the book, without charging you for another book or even the first one if you can't afford it. There was once a famous painter whose paintings were in museums. He kept getting caught in the museums with his paints and brushes, improving his paintings. These stories may become more accurate from time to time, when I brush in a few adjectives or events.
Ah, and if you have a government job, like I had in the past, and if you don't have a genuine sense of humor, find a government source for Alaska stories, because this site does not flatter the delicate egos of the poor sad sorts who have fallen victim to government jobs. It could be no other way and be written by an Alaskan.
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The memoir "You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness" by Dr. Heather Sellers of the Hope College English faculty is one of only two books by emerging authors in the Midwest chosen for recognition by the Friends of American Writers (FAW).
The memoir "You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness" by Dr. Heather Sellers of the Hope College English faculty is one of only two books by emerging authors in the Midwest chosen for recognition by the Friends of American Writers (FAW).
The Chicago, Ill.-based FAW will present Sellers with a 2011 "Adult Literature Award" on Wednesday, April 13, during the group's awards luncheon. The award is a second major honor for Sellers's memoir, which was named a 2011 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan in December.
The FAW award is for authors who are residents or previous residents of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota or Wisconsin, or for books set in the same region. The books can be fiction or non-fiction of literary quality, as opposed to a collection of poetry, and the author must not have published more than three such books under his or her own pen name. The other author being honored this year is Christie Hodgen, who wrote "Elegies of the Brokenhearted," a book of linked short stories.
Published in October by Riverhead Books, Sellers's memoir has been highlighted in publications ranging from the "New York Times," to "Psychology Today," "Elle" and "People." Since the book's release, she has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered," ABC's "Good Morning America" and "Rachel Ray," among others.
Sellers, who has taught at Hope since 1995, has a highly unusual neurological condition known as face blindness, or prosopagnosia. The disorder, which is believed to affect about two percent of the population to some degree, prevents the brain from interpreting the information that it receives from the eyes, with the effect specific to the section or process that deals with face recognition. The eyes function correctly, but the brain can't store any image of the human face.
In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Florida, and how the strange circumstances of that upbringing made it impossible for anyone to realize she had the bizarre, troubling condition. She was working on a memoir about her family when she discovered she had the condition after coming across the term "face recognition" in an article about five years ago. She eventually connected with the Prosopagnosia Research Center at Harvard University, where researchers confirmed that she had a severe degree of face blindness.
The book is about her experiences coming to terms with the disorder and explores how the apparent handicap turned out to be a remarkable gift that allowed her to "see" people as they truly were and gave her unexpected insights into the nature of family, forgiveness and love.
Copies of "You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness" are available through the college's Hope-Geneva Bookstore as well as through other area book sellers and online.
Sellers's other publications include three volumes of poetry, three books on the writing process, a children's book and a collection of linked short stories titled "Georgia Under Water." Her poems, short fiction, memoir and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and magazines, including "O," Oprah's magazine, and "Best of the South." She was one of only 41 writers nationally to receive a National Endowment for the Arts grant for 2000-02 to create original work or translate work, through which she completed "Georgia Under Water," which was named a Barnes and Noble Discover pick.
The FAW was established in 1922 to study American literature, to encourage high standards and to promote literary ideals among American writers. Among the emerging adult authors that the association has honored since 1928 are Sara Paretsky, Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Harry Mark Petrakis and Carl Sandburg; the 2010 awardees were Nick Reding and Bich Minh Nguyen. Since 1960, FAW has also presented awards for juvenile fiction.


text: Cars Teams Series Partners History News Contact 2014 Race Reports 2013 Race Reports Aston Martin GT4 Challenge 2012 Race Reports GT4 Challenge Partners 1 - Silverstone 2 - Oulton Park 3 - Donington Park 4 - Brands Hatch 5 - Centenary Festival 6 - Spa 7 - Snetterton Round 7 Snetterton - 28th September 2013 For further information please contact: Andrew Williamson Customer Programmes Manager Tel: +44 (0) 1295 273 355 Email: email@example.com Race Report & Results Qualifying Following a summer break after the three Spa rounds, the GT4 Challenge field was keen to get back in car and see the year out in style at the Snetterton 300 circuit. Qualifying got underway at 11.16am in glorious Norfolk sunshine. The drama began even before the session started, with the #24 Vantage Racing car trailing fluid down the pit lane. The issue was traced to an oil cooler pipe, which prevented the car from taking part in the session. Tom and Chris would have to start from the back of the grid in 10th place as a result. GT4 Challenge newcomer Craig Dolby, sharing with Andrew Jarman set the pace in the #12 Stratton Motorsport car with a brilliant time of 2:01.653, a great effort on his first GT4 Challenge weekend. Having competed in Superleague Formula in the past, Craig is classified as a gold level driver, so would have a 30 second penalty added to his pit stop. Tim Eakin and Richard Taffinder continued their impressive run of qualifying results, taking 2nd with a time of 2:04.013 in the Hills Racing #56 car. Desmond Smail and Richard Meins (who shared the car with Des at the Brands Hatch festival weekend) took 3rd place, narrowly beating Adrian & Clare Johnson by 0.170s. Mike Brown & Paul Cripps ended the session in 5th place, posting a time of 2:07.142, just ahead of Paul Bartley & Mark Walker in 6th for Stratton Motorsport. John Dickson & David Tinn took 7th, 1.995s ahead of Kevin Norville & Calum Lockie in the #27 Track Club car with Kevin setting the time. Clare Johnson & Peter Snowdon qualified in 9th, Clare who would be driving both cars #14 and #66 during the race, so had a busy afternoon in prospect. Race The GT4 Challenge race was the final race of the day getting underway at 16.49. This was a great effort by the organisers as a significant amount of oil was dropped in the penultimate race, leaving the marshals very little time to clean the circuit. At the start it was pole sitter Craig Dolby who made the break, with the remainder of the field filing through Riches cleanly, no mean feat given the slippery surface. At the end of the first lap, Craig had pulled a gap of 4.571 seconds to the chasing pack. Tim Eakin was holding 2nd, just ahead of Adrian Johnson in the #14 car. Tom Black in the Vantage Racing #24 car made a brilliant start and jumped up to 6th after starting in 10th place. Craig continued to build his lead at roughly 4 seconds per lap, ahead of a great fight for 2nd. The pack, involving Tim Eakin, Adrian Johnson, Richard Meins and Mike Brown were all setting lap times in the 2:09s a great display of how evenly matched the cars were. Technical issues struck the #46 Mardi Gras car of Richard Meins & Desmond Smail, with Richard suffering a loss of power, dropping the car down the field. On lap 10, Adrian Johnson suffered a spin at Oggies, but was able to continue. Tom Black driving the #24 overtook Mike Brown under the yellow flags that were brought out by the spin at Oggies. This meant that Tom had to serve a drive through penalty for the offence, undoing some of the great work that he had done earlier in the stint. Four laps later, Adrian suffered a second spin, managing to get going again; however this incident dropped him to 5th place. 30 minutes in to the race the pit window opened, with the cars filing in for their mandatory stops over the 40 minute period. All the cars completed their mandatory stops within the time allowed. The pit crew working on the #56 Hills Racing car did a tremendous job on their stop, with the stop time only one tenth of a second over the minimum permissible. The leading #12 car of Dolby and Jarman further lost time during their stop in additional to the time penalty applied to Craig's gold driver status due to a slow wheel change. On lap 20, the #17 car of Dickson & Tinn spun on the entry to the Brundle, resulting in a glancing blow with the barrier, the car was able to continue, however a hand full of laps the car suffered a second spin, with fluid appearing to be leaking from the underside of the car. This turned out to be a water pump failure, which unfortunately resulted in retirement for John & David, a sad end to their final GT4 Challenge race of 2013. Technical issues resulted in retirement for the #47 pairing of Mark Walker & Paul Bartley, with smoke pouring out from under the bonnet, the car was wheeled in to the garage, where unfortunately it would stay. Having lost time in their stop, Andrew Jarman set off to chase down Richard Taffinder, who was now leading the race, on lap 32, Andrew was able to pass Richard and start rebuilding his lead. The running order was #12 Jarman, with #56 Taffinder 2nd and #14 Clare Johnson in 3rd. Chris Kemp was holding 4th in the #24, ahead of Paul Cripps in the #7, just ahead of a charging Calum Lockie in the #27 car, having taken over driving duties from Kevin Norville. Peter Snowdon in the #66 Adrian Johnson Racing car was 7th, ahead of Desmond Smail, who was still managing to circulate having suffered a loss of power earlier in the race. On lap 35, Chris Kemp in the #24 passed Clare Johnson in the #14 car, with Chris clearly happy with the car's handling as his stint progressed. With the low sun now fading, the drivers had to deal with what was remaining of the light, shining through very dirty windscreens, a real challenge for the whole field to overcome. Calum Lockie, set fastest lap of 2:02.817 as he charged through the field caught and passed Chris Kemp to take 3rd place with a move at Corum, however Chris was able hold on to Calum, with the gap stabilising at 1.2 seconds. Both Calum and Chris were catching Richard Taffinder in the Hills Racing car; however the gap proved too wide to bridge. At the flag Andrew Jarman and Craig Dolby took an emphatic win ahead of Richard Taffinder & Tim Eakin in 2nd, a great result for them, after some bad luck this year. Calum Lockie & Kevin Norville took 3rd place, ahead of Tom Black & Chris Kemp in 4th, and Mike Brown & Paul Cripps in 5th and Adrian & Clare Johnson in 6th. Clare also took 7th place with Peter Snowdon thanks to her double stint, with Desmond Smail & Richard Meins taking the final place in 8th. Enter GT4 Challenge Driver Training 2013 - Snetterton GT4 Challenge


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CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND CHAPTER HOUSE AND CLOISTERS, CATHEDRAL GREEN (east side)
Mr John H. Sparkes
Date Photographed:
11 August 2007
Date listed:
12 November 1953
Date of last amendment:
12 November 1953
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662-1/7/32 (East side)
12/11/53 Cathedral Church of St Andrew,
Chapter House and Cloisters
Cathedral Bishopric established in 909. Saxon cathedral built,
nothing now visible (excavations 1978/79).
See transferred to Bath in 1090.
Church extended and altered in 1140, in Norman style, under
Bishop Robert Lewes; part of this lies under south transept of
the present church.
Present church begun, at east end, in 1176 and continued to
consecration in 1239, but with substantial interruption from
1190-1206. Designer ADAM LOCK, west front probably by THOMAS
Nave, west front (but not towers), north porch, transepts, and
part of choir date from this phase.
Bishopric becomes Bath and Wells in 1218.
Central tower begun 1315, completed 1322. Designer THOMAS
Lady Chapel begun 1323, completed c1326. Probably by THOMAS
WITNEY. At this stage the Chapel a free-standing structure to
the east of the original (1176) east end.
Extension of choir and presbytery in 1330 to connect with the
new Lady Chapel. Designer THOMAS WITNEY, but presbytery vaults
by WILLIAM JOY.
Following signs of dangerous settlement and cracking under the
new tower, the great arches and other work inserted to prevent
collapse in 1337; designer WILLIAM JOY. (The St Andrew's
arches known as strainer arches).
South-west tower begun in 1385 to design of WILLIAM WYNFORD,
completed c1395.
North-west tower built 1410. Tracery added to nave windows in
Central tower damaged by fire in 1439; repair and substantial
design modification (designer not known) completed c1450.
Stillington's chapel built 1477, (off east cloister) designer
WILLIAM SMYTH, who also designed the fan vault to the main
crossing. The chapel was demolished in 1552.
MATERIALS: Doulting ashlar with blue Lias dressings, partly
replaced by Kilkenny marble, some Purbeck marble internal
dressings, and pink rubble outer cloister walls. PLAN:
Cruciform plan with aisled nave and transepts, N porch,
cruciform aisled chancel with transeptal chapels and
retrocuire. E Lady Chapel, NE Chapter House (see item 33) NE
Chapter House and S cloister (see item 34).
EXTERIOR: Early English Gothic style, Decorated Gothic style
Chapter House, Retroquire and Lady Chapel, Perpendicular
Gothic style W and crossing towers and cloister. Early English
windows throughout, mainly filled with 2-light tracery c1415,
with a parapet of cusped triangles added c1320 to all but the
Chapter House and W front. 5-sided Lady Chapel has angle
buttresses, drip and a parapet of cusped triangles, with wide
5-light windows with reticulated tracery of cusped spheroid
triangles; a late C14 flying buttress with a square pinnacle
to the SE. N chancel aisles: the E bay has a shallow 2-centre
arched 5-light window with Decorated tracery, steeper 3-light
windows to the W bays, the transept chapel window of 4-lights
with reticulated tracery. The early C14 E end of the chancel
has flying buttresses to the gable and 3 E bays; the E end has
a 5-light window with Decorated tracery, including 2 mullions
up to the soffit, and a raised surround beneath a shallow
canted parapet, with the coped gable set back and lit by 4
lozenge windows divided by a wide Y-shaped mullion; the N
clerestory windows of 3-lights, the 3 to the E have ogee
hoods, the 3 late C12 W and 2 N transept windows linked by a
continuous hood mould. For Chapter House-see below. N transept
and nave aisles have a plinth, sill band, corbel table and
parapet, with wide buttresses separating aisle lancet windows
with inserted early C15 2-light Perpendicular tracery, and a
clerestory with similar moulding and fenestration. Transept
gable in 3 stages, with clasping buttress turrets and sill
bands: 3 lower-stage windows and one to the end of W aisle,
middle stage has a blind arcade of 6 lancets, the middle 4
truncated beneath 3 tall stepped lancets to upper stage, with
similar blind panels paired to the turrets, and medallions to
the spandrels; a weathered band beneath an arcade of stepped
blind lancets, and panelled turret pinnacles with octagonal
caps, a third to the flanking aisle; the right-hand turret has
a good c1475 clock with paired soldiers above striking 2
bells, and a crenellated canopy. 9-bay nave aisle, 10-bay
clerestory, of which the 2 windows flanking the transept
re-entrant cut off above a mid C14 relieving arch.
Fine N porch 2 bays deep with blue Lias shafts and C18 outer
doors: entrance archway of 5 orders with alternate paired
banded columns with stiff leaf capitals to the W, carved
showing the martyrdom of King Edmund to the E, and a
roll-moulded arch, including 2 orders of undercut chevron
mouldings with filigree decoration over fine doors of c1200;
clasping buttresses with octagonal pinnacles as the transept,
and a gable with 6 stepped lancets beneath 3 stepped parvise
lancets with sunken panels in the spandrels. Inside of 2 bays,
articulated by banded vault shafts with stiff leaf capitals to
a sexpartite vault; side benches are backed by arcades of 4
bayed seats with stiff leaf spandrels, beneath a string bitten
off at the ends by serpents; a deeply recessed upper arcade of
3 arches to a bay, with complex openwork roll mouldings
intersecting above the capitals, on coupled shafts free
standing in front of attached shafts, enriched spandrels, and
openwork Y-tracery in the tympanum beneath the vault. The S
end decorated after the front entrance, including a moulded
arch with a chevron order, and containing a pair of arched
doorways with a deeply-moulded trumeau and good panelled early
C13 doors with C15 Perpendicular tracery panels.
S elevation is similar: the chancel wall of the 1340 extension
is recessed for the 3 E bays with flying buttresses, the
windows to the W have uncusped intersecting tracery. Crossing
tower has a c1200 blind arcade to a string level with the roof
ridge; upper section 1313, remodelled c1440, has ribbed
clasping buttresses to gabled niches with figures and
pinnacles with sub-pinnacles; each side of 3 bays separated by
narrow buttresses with pinnacles, a recessed transom with
openwork tracery beneath and louvred trefoil-headed windows
above, gabled hoods and finials. Corbels within for a spire,
destroyed 1439.
W front screen is a double square in width, divided into 5
bays by very deep buttresses, with the wider nave bay set
forward. The towers stand outside the aisles, the design of
the front continued round both ends and returned at the rear.
Statues of c1230-1250, to an uncertain iconographic scheme.
Divided vertically into 3 bands, beneath a central nave gable
and Perpendicular towers; arches with originally blue Lias
shafts, now mostly Kilkenny marble, and stiff leaf capitals. A
tall, weathered plinth, with a central nave entrance of 4
orders with paired doorways and quatrefoil in the tympanum
containing the seated Virgin with flanking angels, and smaller
aisle entrances of 2 orders. Above is an arcade of gabled
hoods over arches, containing paired trefoil-headed statue
niches with bases and 15 surviving figures; 2-light
Perpendicular tracery windows between the buttresses outside
the nave; sunken quatrefoils in the spandrels, which cut
across the corners of the buttresses. The third and principal
band contains 3 tall, slightly stepped nave lancets, paired
blind lancets between the outer buttresses, with narrower
arches flanking them and to the faces and sides of the
buttresses, all with banded Lias shafts and roll-moulded
heads; the 3 arches to the sides and angled faces on the SW
and NW corners have intersecting mouldings as in the N porch.
All except the window arches contain 2 tiers of gabled statue
niches with figures, taller ones in the upper tier, and across
the top is an arcade of trefoil-headed statue niches with
seated figures and carved spandrels. The nave buttresses have
gabled tops containing cinquefoil-arched niches, and tall
pinnacles with arched faces and conical tops; above the nave
is a 3-tier stepped gable with a lower arcade of 10
cinquefoil-arched niches containing seated figures, a taller
arcade of 12 niches with c1400 figures of the Apostles, and a
central top section with outer trefoil arches, corner sunken
quatrefoils; the central oval recess with cusped sides and top
contains a 1985 figure of Christ in Judgement beneath a
pinnacle, with crosses and finials on the weathered coping.
The Perpendicular towers continue the buttresses up with
canopied statue niches to their faces and blank panelling to
the sides, before raking them back into deep angle buttresses;
between are a pair of 2-light W windows, louvred above a
transom and blind below, with a blind arcade above the
windows, and a low crenellated coping.
INTERIOR: Lady Chapel: An elongated octagon in plan, with
triple vault shafts with spherical foliate capitals to a
tierceron vault forming a pattern of concentric stars, with
spherical bosses and a paint scheme of 1845; the 3 W arches
with Purbeck marble shafts onto the Retroquire have blind
arched panels above; beneath the windows is a sill mould with
fleurons, and a bench round the walls. Stone reredos has 6
statue niches with crocketed canopies and smaller niches in
between, with 4 C19 sedilia with ogee-arched and crocketed
canopies and a C14 cusped ogee trefoil-arched S doorway; C19
encaustic tiles. The Retroquire extends laterally into E
chapels each side and transeptal chapels: all with ogee-arched
piscinae with crockets and finials, with a complex
asymmetrical lierne vault on Purbeck marble shafts and
capitals. The 3 E bays of the choir added early C14, and the
high lierne vault of squares extended back over the 3 late C12
W bays, on triple vault shafts, Purbeck marble with
roll-moulded capitals for the c14 and limestone with stiff
leaf capitals for the C12; above the 2-centre aisle arches and
below the clerestory walk is a richly-carved openwork grille
of statue niches with canopies, containing 8 early C20 figures
across the E end; clerestory walk has ogee-arched doorways.
Rich canopies over choir stalls on Purbeck marble shafts, and
5 sedilia with enriched canopies. Ogee-arched doorways with
crockets and pinnacles each side of the choir give onto the
aisles, which have lierne vaults forming hexagons.
Transepts: 3 bays deep and 3 wide, with cluster columns and
stiff leaf capitals, including some fine figure carving in the
SW aisle, paired triforium arches between the vault shafts;
the chancel aisles entered by C14 ogee-arched doorways with
cinquefoil cusps and openwork panels each side; the N transept
has a doorway from the E aisle with a depressed arch and
moulded sides with a panelled Perpendicular ridge door, and
Perpendicular panelled stone screens across the arcade; the S
transept has an early C14 reredos with cusped ogee arches. The
openings to the crossing contain inserted cross ogee strainer
arches with triple chamfered moulding, on the W one an early
C20 raised crucifix and flanking figures on shafted bases, and
the roof has late C15 fan vaulting with mouchettes to the
Nave: 10-bay nave has compound columns of eight shafts with
stiff leaf capitals enriched with figures, a continuous hood
mould, with carved stops until the 4 W bays, which also have
more richly-carved stiff leaf; a continuous triforium arcade
of roll-moulded lancets with moulded rere arches, 3 to each
bay, with enriched tympana and paterae in the spandrels above,
carved corbels and springers to vault shafts above to a
quadripartite vault without ridges; vault painted to a scheme
of 1844. A panelled c1450 gallery in the S clerestory window 6
from the W; aisles vaulted as nave, with enriched stiff leaf
corbels. The W end has a trefoil-headed blank arcade on blue
Lias shafts and a central stilted depressed-arch doorway,
beneath the 3 W windows; the aisles end with a lateral rib
from the vault to the W arcade. Chapels beneath the towers
have sexpartite vaults with an enriched hole for the bell
ropes; the SW chapel has a shallow arch to the cloister
beneath 3 cusped arched panels. The parvise over the N chapel
contains a rare drawing floor. 2 chantry chapels set between
the E nave piers have fine openwork Perpendicular tracery and
cresting, the S chapel of St Edmund c1490 has a fan-vaulted
canopy over the altar and 2 statue niches with canopies, and
an ogee-arched doorway, the N Holy Cross chapel c1420 has
quatrefoil panelling to the E canopy, distressed statue
niches, and 4-centre arched doorways.
FITTINGS: Lady Chapel: Brass lectern 1661 has a moulded stand
and foliate crest. Retroquire, NE chapel: fine oak C13 Cope
Chest with a 2-leaf top doors; panelled C17/C18 chest; N
transept chapel: C17 oak screen with columns, formerly part of
cow stalls, with artisan Ionic capitals and cornice, set
forward over chest tomb of John Godilee; C14 floor tiles; SE
chapel: Bound oak C14 chest for Chapter Seal.
N transept: Very fine c1390 clock, considered the second
oldest in the world after Salisbury Cathedral (qv), the face
with heavenly bodies represented and 4 knights riding round
above, and a quarter jack in the corner striking bells with a
hammer and his heels; pine chest with bowed top.
Choir: Very fine stalls with misericords, c1335; Bishop's
Throne, c1340, restored by Salvin c1850, wide with panelled,
canted front and stone doorway, deep nodding cusped ogee
canopy over, with 3 stepped statue niches and pinnacles; C19
pulpit opposite, octagonal on a coved base with panelled
sides, and steps up from the N aisle; organ within the chancel
arch rebuilt and new case 1974.
S transept: Round font from the former Saxon cathedral, wit an
arcade of round-headed arches, on a round plinth, with a c1635
cover with heads of putti round sides.
Nave: Pulpit and tomb of William Knight, mid C16, built out
from the Sugar chantry, with panelled buttresses, curved sides
and a cornice. Library: Good shelves and desks with panelled
ends, cornices and scroll crests, and benches with ogee ends
with ball finials of 1686.
MONUMENTS: Quire Corpus Christi N transept chapel: marble
chest tomb of Robert Creyghton d.1672, an alabaster effigy on
a sarcophagus with bowed sides; chest tomb of John Middleton,
d c1350, effigy set beneath the window; chest tomb of John
Middleton, d c1350, effigy set beneath the window; chest tomb
of John Godelee, d.1333, effigy on a chest with open ogee
N Quire aisle: chest tombs of Bishop Giso, d.1088, Ralph of
Salisby, d.1463, alabaster, and 2 further c1230 effigies of
Saxon Bishops, on mid C20 plinths; panelled chest tomb with 3
heraldic panels and moulded top; SE Chapel of St John the
Baptist: chest tomb encloses N side, with arcaded sides, thin
mullions to a good openwork top with cusped gables and a
canopy to E end.
St Katherine's transept chapel: Chest tomb of John
Drokensford, d.1329, a painted effigy on a chest with open
ogee arcade, as that for John Godelee; chest tomb of John
Gunthorpe, d.1498 with 5 heraldic panels and moulded top. S
chancel aisle: effigy of John Bernard, d.1459 on a mid C20
plinth; fine chest tomb of Bishop Bekynton, d.1464 but made
c1450, a cadaver within the open lower section with enriched
shafts and angel capitals, with a painted marble figure on
top, surrounded by a fine C15 wrought-iron screen with
buttress stanchions; raised, incised coffin slab of Bishop
Bytton d.1274, blue Lias; large chest tomb of Bishop Harvey
d.1894 with 5 trefoil panels and an effigy with putti to the
head; 3 c1230 effigies of Saxon Bishops on mid C20 plinths;
chest tomb of Bishop Harewell d.1386, a marble effigy on a C20
N transept, E aisle: Enriched marble chest tomb of John Still
d.1607 with black Corinthian columns to entablature,
sarcophagus with alabaster effigy; chest tomb to Bishop
Kidder, d.1703 marble with an enriched naturalistic reclining
figure of his daughter in front of 2 urns of her parents. S
transept: Chapel of St Calixtus, fine un-named chest tomb of
c1450, with carved alabaster panels and effigy; Chapel of St
Martin, chest tomb of William Bykonyll c1448 with an arcaded
front, cusped shallow arch over the effigy, panelled ceiling
and a rich crested top; C15 wrought-iron gates to both
chapels; in the S wall, good monument to Bishop William de
Marchia, d.1302, 3 cusped cinquefoil-headed arches on moulded
shafts, ogee hoods and pinnacles to a crenellated top, with an
effigy within, with a 3-bay segmental vaulted canopy, and
decorated with 6 carved heads beneath.
STAINED GLASS: Original early glass is mainly in the choir and
Lady Chapel; the Parliamentarians caused extensive damage
generally in August 1642 and May 1643. Earliest fragments are
in 2 windows on the west side of the Chapter House staircase
(c1280-90), and in two windows in the S choir aisle
(c1310-20), but of principal interest is the Lady Chapel
range, c1325-30, the east window including extensive repairs
by Willement, 1845, and the others with substantial complete
canopy-work, otherwise much in fragments. The choir E window
is a fine Jesse Tree, including much silver stain, flanked by
2 windows each side in the clerestory, with large figures of
saints, all these of c1340-45; a further window each side is
late C19. The chapel of St Katherine has interesting panels of
c1520, attributed to Arnold of Nijmegen; these, in the S and E
windows were acquired from the destroyed church of St John,
Rouen, the last panel was bought in 1953. The large triple
lancet to the nave W end was glazed at the expense of Dean
Creyghton at a cost of »140 in c1664: repaired in 1813, but
the central light largely replaced to a design by A K
Nicholson between 1925-31. The main N and S transept end
windows are by Powell, 1903-05, and the nave S aisle has four
paired lights of 1881-1904, with a similar window at the W end
of each aisle. (Full details, to a numbered window sequence,
in Colchester L S: Stained Glass in Wells Cathedral: 1952


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Cancer treatments and medicines can cause your bowels to move much more often and become very loose. Three or more loose or watery stools a day is called diarrhea. Uncontrolled diarrhea can lead to fluid loss (dehydration), weight loss, poor appetite, and weakness.
Avoid high-fiber foods, which might make diarrhea worse. These include nuts, seeds, whole grains, legumes (beans and peas), dried fruits, and raw fruits and vegetables. You should avoid high-fat foods, like fried and greasy foods, too, because they can also make diarrhea worse. After stomach or bowel surgery, some people may be sensitive to very sweet or high-carbohydrate foods as well. Stay away from gassy foods and carbonated drinks, too. Be sure to sip fluids during the day to prevent dehydration. Once the diarrhea has stopped, slowly start eating foods with fiber.
What to do
- Drink plenty of mild, clear, non-carbonated liquids during the day. Drink liquids at room temperature. This may be easier to take than very hot or cold drinks.
- Eat small, frequent meals and snacks during the day.
- Avoid greasy, fried, spicy, or very sweet foods.
- Limit milk or milk products to 2 cups a day. Yogurt and buttermilk are OK.
- Avoid drinks and foods that cause gas, like carbonated drinks, gas-forming vegetables, and chewing gum. (A list of foods that might cause gas is in the section on constipation.) Allow carbonated drinks to become slightly "flat" before drinking by pouring them into a glass and letting them sit at least 10 minutes.
- Drink and eat high-sodium (salt) foods like broths, soups, sports drinks, crackers, and pretzels.
- Drink and eat high-potassium foods like fruit juices and nectars, sports drinks, potatoes with the skin, and bananas.
- Increase soluble-fiber foods like applesauce, bananas, canned peaches and pears, oats or oatmeal, and sweet potatoes.
- Drink at least 1 cup of liquid after each loose bowel movement. Try water, sports drinks, or bouillon.
- Do not chew sugar-free gum or eat candies and desserts made with sugar alcohol (i.e., sorbitol, mannitol, or xylitol).
- Call your cancer care team if diarrhea continues or increases, or if your stools have an unusual odor or color.
What to eat or not eat when you have diarrhea*
|Foods that may cause problems
|High protein
Baked or broiled beef, pork, chicken, turkey, veal, fish
Eggs, buttermilk, cheese, yogurt
Fried meats, high-fat cuts of meats, meats with gristle
Dairy products other than buttermilk or yogurt
|Breads, cereals, rice, and pasta
Bread, rolls, and pasta made from refined, white flour; converted or instant rice
Refined cereals like farina, Cream of Wheat, Cream of Rice, oatmeal, cornflakes
Pancakes, waffles, cornbread, muffins, graham crackers
Whole-grain breads and cereals like whole wheat, oat, and rye; bran
Shredded wheat
Wild rice
|Fruits and vegetables
Soups made with vegetables listed here: cooked asparagus tips, beets, carrots, peeled zucchini, mushrooms, celery
Tomato paste, tomato puree, tomato sauce
Baked potato without skin
Canned, frozen, or fresh fruit
Fresh, unpeeled fruit; pears; melon
All other vegetables
|Drinks, desserts, and other foods
Butter, margarine
Mayonnaise, salad dressing, vegetable oil
Cake, cookies, flavored gelatin desserts, sherbet
Decaffeinated beverages
Salt, pepper, spices, and gravy as tolerated
Desserts with nuts
Coconut, dried fruit
Chocolate, licorice
Foods with a lot of pepper, chili seasoning, or taco seasoning; hot sauces
*Adapted from Eldridge B, and Hamilton KK, Editors, Management of Nutrition Impact Symptoms in Cancer and Educational Handouts. Chicago, IL: American Dietetic Association; 2004.
Nutrition for the Person With Cancer During Treatment
- Benefits of good nutrition during cancer treatment
- Cancer and cancer treatment affect nutrition
- Before treatment begins
- Once treatment starts
- Managing eating problems caused by surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy
- For people with weakened immune systems
- How to cope with common eating problems
- Appetite changes
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Fatigue
- Mouth dryness or thick saliva
- Mouth or throat pain or sores
- Nausea
- Swallowing problems
- Taste and smell changes
- Weight gain
- Nutrition after treatment ends
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Title: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol 1
Author: Naoko Takeuchi
Publisher: Kodansha
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Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon, Usagi must fight evils and enforce justice, in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess. She meets other girls destined to be Sailor Senshi (Sailor Scouts), and together, they fight the forces of evil!
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This version of Sailor Moon will be completely true to original. Join us as Sailor Moon returns to the U.S. for the first time in years!
I was excited when Kodansha announced that they would be releasing Sailor Moon, with new translations, unflipped. This is one of the series that got me interested in anime and manga in the first place (Ranma 1/2 is the other). When Tokyopop's version of Sailor Moon was released, I was more than a little disappointed with the final product. The books weren't constructed to last for more than a reading or two, and all of the names had been changed to match those of the hacked up TV version that was being shown on the Cartoon Network. Ugh.
After reading this introduction to the series, I am looking forward to reading more. The translation flows effortlessly, and Usagi's adventures are fun to follow. She will never be Ms. Motivated, and that's why I love her character. She is a normal 14 year old, more interested in playing video games and goofing around than in doing her homework. Napping is a hobby for her, as is stuffing her face. She is clearly a girl after my own heart. I can instantly relate to Usagi, and her lack of ambition had me totally engaged in the plot. How is this slacker going to save the world from evil?
With Luna, the talking cat there to offer guidance, Usagi slowly accepts the mantel of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. One of my favorite shoujo tropes is the magical girl story, and Sailor Moon is one of the best. I don't know what I find so engaging about girls yelling ridiculous phrases like "Moon Prism Power! Makeup!!" and "Jupiter Thunderbolt!" while having magic wardrobe changes, but I do. While Usagi's transformations have nothing on Sakura's (or Kero's for that matter), her costume swaps are still entertaining. I want a magical tiara and Moon scepter, too! Perhaps Santa will bring me one for Christmas. I have tried to be especially good this year.
It's hard to write a review about a franchise as well known as this one. It's like writing up my thoughts about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Everyone has seen it, and everyone has their own opinion of it. It's hard to offer new insight about it. So I'm just going to tell you why I love these books, as each volume is released. I am very familiar with the beginning half of the series, but the ending is kind of foggy for me, so I am looking forward to getting reacquainted with Usagi, Mamoru, and the Sailor Scouts. I knew that Kodansha would do a good job with SM, given the author's dissatisfaction with the previous version that was released here. Also, the translator, William Flanagan, rarely veers off-course. He doesn't here.
If you haven't read Sailor Moon, now is the time to pick up this series. This release is fresh and fun. Plus, it's a classic!
Grade: A-
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Weber's opera Der Freischütz was a breakthrough in the history of music. Considered by many to be the first German Romantic opera, it influenced composers including Richard Wagner. The work's Overture contrasts lilting pastoral serenity with moments of drama and suspense.
Few can resist Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2, a work which overflows with aching emotion, communicated through a piano part ranging from gentle poignancy to glittering display.
Brahms was unsure of his Second Symphony, writing to a friend expressing 'I don't know whether I have a pretty symphony.' Its lyrical beauty however makes it one of his most popular works, with soaring melody, pastoral imagery and a blazing brass fanfare to close.
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1972: Mary Jo Morgan served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea in Ch'un An beginning in 1972
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Tech Grad Student Garners Best Poster Award at LANL Meeting, Sept. 23, 2005
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., Sept., 23, 2005 – New Mexico Tech graduate student Yang Lu garnered the top award for "best student poster" at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center User Group Meeting VII, which was held earlier this month in Santa Fe and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Lu's poster presentation, titled "Microstrain Evolution in a Single Crystal Superalloy using Neutron Diffraction — A Case of High-Temperature Tension," details his recent research work on the development of a neutron diffraction technique used to investigate the nano-scale structure of a single crystal superalloy.
Lu, who is working toward earning a master of science degree in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, also conducts research in superalloy creep behavior and deformation mechanisms at the university. His faculty research advisor is Tech materials engineering professor Bhaskar S. Majumdar.
Lu previously made a similar presentation on his research work earlier this summer at the 17th Annual Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials in Albuquerque.
"I am deeply proud to be a graduate student here at New Mexico Tech," Lu says, "and feel lucky to be able to study and live here. All the faculty, staff, and students in Tech's Department of Materials Engineering have been particularly helpful in getting me started in a new research career and making a smooth transfer into what is a new area of study for me."
Lu came to New Mexico Tech at the start of the 2004 Fall Semester, after having graduated with a bachelor of science degree in physics from Nanjing University in China.
In addition to his academic and research pursuits at Tech, Lu also currently serves as chair of the New Mexico Tech Chinese Students and Scholars Association and is a member of the local student chapters of The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society (TMS) and ASM International, the Materials Information Society.


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Galaxy Cluster 'El Gordo' with Mass Map
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the most massive cluster of galaxies ever seen to exist when the universe was just half of its current age of 13.8 billion years. The cluster, catalogued as ACT-CL J0102-4915, contains several hundred galaxies swarming around under the collective gravitational pull. The total mass of the cluster, as refined in new Hubble measurements, is estimated to weigh as much as 3 million billion stars like our Sun (about 3,000 times as massive as our own Milky Way galaxy) – though most of the mass is hidden away as dark matter. The location of the dark matter is mapped out in the blue overlay. Because dark matter doesn't emit any radiation, Hubble astronomers instead precisely measure how its gravity warps the images of far background galaxies like a funhouse mirror. This allowed them to come up with a mass estimate for the cluster. The cluster was nicknamed El Gordo (Spanish for "the fat one") in 2012 when X-ray observations and kinematic studies first suggested it was unusually massive for the time in the early universe when it existed. The Hubble data have confirmed that the cluster is undergoing a violent merger between two smaller clusters.


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Maybe we're crazy, but my husband and I recently let 20 third-grade girls move into our house for an over-night slumber party. We spent lots of energy on the party but very little money. The best part: my daughter and her classmates had a great time.
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1. Play a movie: Pick out a parent-approved, kid-friendly movie from either the library or the rental store. Or show a movie from your own collection. We saved money by showing a film (Babe) that we already owned. The girls were reading Charlotte's Web in school and "Babe" --a movie about a pig--was a big hit at the party.
2. Play Bingo: The girls enjoyed rounds of bingo. We had a spirited competition, with the girls picking and calling out the numbers.
3. Low-cost arts & craft project. We took digital photos of the girls, then downloaded and printed out the photos. Using low-cost art supplies from a craft store, the girls made and decorated picture frames. Our party goers enjoyed every step of the process, especially the picture posing phase.
4. Let them bake the cake: Pushed for time, we didn't bake the birthday cake in advance. Instead, measuring, mixing and baking became a party activity that the girls enjoyed.
5. Offer fireworks: On the gated roof of our apartment building, my husband offered a mini-fireworks show with the girls at a safe distance. They enjoyed the color and smoke. This activity worked because we followed all safety procedures, with lots of adult supervision.
6. Do Yoga. A few meditative poses and stretches were great for chilling out a room full of high-energy and party-happy girls. They thought it was fun and I pretended to be a yoga teacher.
7. Skip the pizza and serve pasta: It would have cost over $75 to serve pizza and fries to over 20 girls on a Saturday night. Our homemade baked ziti and fries cost less than $7 for the entire party. And the girls loved the food. We had a plain-pasta option for those who were allergic to dairy products.
8. Keep breakfast simple: We just served cereal and milk. At another sleepover, we offered strawberries, waffles and whipped cream for breakfast.
9. Curtail party hours: Our guests arrived Saturday evening, with a Sunday @ 11 am pickup time. By ending the party before lunch, we limited the amount of meals that we had to serve. We were tapped out after serving Saturday dinner and Sunday breakfast.
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Gerard Butler runs some errands after landing back on the west coast on Wednesday (February 6) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 43-year-old actor spent the last week taking in the nice weather and hanging out with his friends in sunny Miami.
A new poster for Gerard's highly anticipated new film Olympus Has Fallen was just released!
The flick is about a former Secret Service agent (Butler) who works to save the President (Aaron Eckhart) after he is captured in a terrorist attack on the White House. Catch the film in theaters on March 22.


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Six days after turning in a GIF-worthy performance at the Golden Globes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus once again delivered the hilarious moment of the night at Saturday's Screen Actors Guild Awards.
While accepting the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actress in a comedy series, the Veep star took a page out of her character Selina Meyer's book, with a shambolic acceptance speech that went wrong in so many brilliant ways.
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June 7, 2013
ALBANY-Fourteen new section chairs of the New York State Bar Association took office on June 1.
The 25 sections of the State Bar publish material dealing with their fields of expertise, much of which is not available through commercial publishers. Sections also sponsor conferences, seminars and institutes, monitor legislation and conduct studies. Each of the sections contributes to policy-making, both in subject areas and Association-wide.
The new section chairs are:
Jay L. Hack of Manhattan (Gallet Dreyer & Berkey), chair of the 4,118-member Business Law Section. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Boston University School of Law, Hack provides full-range legal services to banks and other financial institutions.
Gregory K. Arenson of Manhattan (Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer), chair of the 2,273-member Commercial and Federal Litigation Section. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago Law School, Arenson is a business litigator who represents clients in a variety of areas, including antitrust, securities, and employee termination.
Hon. Mark R. Dwyer of Brooklyn (New York State Court of Claims), chair of the 1,408-member Criminal Justice Section. A graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, Dwyer is a judge of the New York State Court of Claims, as well as an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court.
John H. Wilkinson of Manhattan (Fulton, Rowe & Hart), chair of the 1,596-member Dispute Resolution Section. A graduate of Williams College and Fordham University School of Law, Wilkinson is an arbitrator and mediator resolving complex commercial disputes.
Frances M. Pantaleo of Purchase (Walsh, Amicucci & Pantaleo), chair of the 2,732-member Elder Law Section. A graduate of Brooklyn College and New York University School of Law, Pantaleo concentrates her practice in elder law and trusts and estates law.
Kevin A. Reilly of Manhattan (New York State Supreme Court), chair of the 1,070-member Environmental Law Section. A graduate of St. Joseph's College and St. John's University School of Law, Reilly is a senior staff attorney at the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department.
Lewis F. Tesser of Manhattan (Tesser, Ryan & Rochman), chair of the 2,151-member General Practice Section. A graduate of Queens College and George Washington University Law School, Tesser concentrates his practice in litigation and mediation.
Kathleen M. Burke of Manhattan (New York Presbyterian Hospital), chair of the 1,266-member Health Law Section. A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and the University of Virginia School of Law, Burke is the vice president - board relations, secretary and counsel to New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Glenn G. Fox of Manhattan (Baker & McKenzie), chair of the 1,764-member International Section. A graduate of Cornell University and Albany Law School, Fox represents domestic and foreign clients with worldwide assets in estate, trust, tax and tax-exempt matters.
Hon. Rachel Kretser of Albany (Albany City Court), chair of the 307-member Judicial Section. Judge Kretser was appointed to the Albany City Criminal Court in December 2005 and was elected to that position in November 2006.
Jonathan Ben-Asher of Manhattan (Ritz Clark & Ben-Asher), chair of the 2,358-member Labor and Employment Law Section. A graduate of Columbia University and New York University School of Law, Ben-Asher represents parties in employment disputes, including those involving employment contracts, executive compensation, whistleblowing, retaliation and employment discrimination.
Mark Davies of Manhattan (New York City Conflicts of Interest Board), chair of the 1,006-member Municipal Law Section. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, Davies is the executive director of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board.
Benjamin Weinstock of Uniondale (Ruskin Moscou Faltischek), chair of the 4,263-member Real Property Law Section. A graduate of Yeshiva University and Brooklyn Law School, Weinstock is co-chair of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek's Real Estate Department.
Lisa R. Schoenfeld of Garden City (Schlissel Ostrow Karabatos), chair of the 3,943-member Young Lawyers Section. A graduate of Cornell University and Hofstra University School of Law, Schoenfeld practices matrimonial and family law.
The 76,000-member New York State Bar Association is the largest voluntary state bar association in the nation. It was founded in 1876.