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High Entropy Alloys VIII
Presentation Title
Atomistic Simulations of the fcc-to-hcp Phase Transformation in the Equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi Alloy under High Compression
Chin-Lung Kuo
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Chin-Lung Kuo
Abstract Scope
We performed the MEAM-based molecular dynamic simulations to investigate the plastic deformation and phase transformation in the CoCrFeMnNi HEA under high compression. Our MD simulations revealed that the stress-induced phase transformations in the CoCrFeMnNi HEA are strongly crystal orientation-dependent. The [001] uniaxial compression can induce significant fcc-to-hcp phase transformation via successive emissions of partial dislocations from the extended stacking faults, twin boundaries and hcp-lamellas created during the early stage of deformation. As for the [110] and [111] uniaxial compressions, however, the hcp atoms can simply form the intrinsic/extrinsic stacking faults. Although the [001] uniaxial compression produced a much lower dislocation density than other systems, it eventually induced much more constituents transformed into the hcp atoms upon the end of phase transformation. Our simulations clearly indicate that the deformation twin boundaries and extended hcp-lamellas play a critical role in facilitating the fcc-to-hcp phase transformation in the CoCrFeMnNi HEA under high compression.
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Atomistic Simulations of Dislocations and Deformation in FCC Ni-based Binary Concentrated Alloys
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Combinatorial Exploration of High Entropy Alloys
Comparison of High-throughput Experimental Results with Thermodynamic Calculations for more than 2000 HEAs
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Connecting Chemical and Structural Order in High Entropy Alloys
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Data-driven Design of High-entropy Alloys
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J-73: A Strategy for Designing Heterogeneous Medium-entropy Alloys with Excellent Tensile Properties
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J-75: Analysis of Irradiation Resistance of Tungsten-based Reduced Activation Alloy for Fusion Plasma Applications
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J-77: Atom Probe Tomography Study of a Fe25Ni25Co25Ti15Al10 High-entropy Alloy
J-78: Atomic Diffusion in Melts of Refractory HEAs
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J-80: Composition Design of Coherent Precipitate-strengthening AlCuFeNiTi Multi-principal Element Alloys by High-throughput CALPHAD-type Calculation
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J-82: Deformation Behavior of the Al0.3CoCrFeNi High-entropy Alloy during Low-cycle Fatigue by In-situ Neutron Diffraction
J-83: Deformation-induced Short-range Ordering and Its Impact on Cryogenic Deformation in Boron-doped High-Entropy Alloys
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J-85: Developing Non-equiatomic Refractory BCC HEAs with Improved Mechanical Properties Using Combinatorial Screening
J-86: Development of Metastable Nanolaminate High Entropy Alloy Overcoming Strength-ductility Trade-off
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J-90: Enhanced Mechanical Properties by Nitrogen Addition in N-CoCrNi and N-CoCrFeMnNi Compositionally Complex Alloy
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J-92: Fabrication and Hardness Behavior of High Entropy Alloys
J-93: Formation and Mechanical Properties of TaNbVTiW High Entropy Alloys Prepared by Powder Metallurgy
J-94: Formation Zone Prediction of the Al-Co-Fe-Ni-Ti t High Entropy Alloys by High-throughput Calculation (HTC) Technique
J-95: Generalized Planar Fault Energies and Twinning in NbMoTaW BCC High Entropy Alloy: A First-principles Study
J-97: High Temperature Creep Behavior of AlZrCrMoNbTi High Entropy Alloy Using the Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) System
J-98: Homogenous Structure Formation in FeCoNiCrMo High Entropy Alloy
J-99: Imaging Short Range Order in The CrCoNi Medium Entropy Alloy
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Machine-learning Driven Efficient Exploration of the High Entropy Alloy Phase Space
Machine Learning for Accelerating the Design of Additively-manufactured Turbine Blades Yielding Ultra-high Energy Efficiency
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Metastability Engineering of HIgh Entropy Alloys
Microstructural Characterizations and Mechanical Properties of CrFeNiMn and NbTaTiV High Entropy Alloys
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Multi-phase CrMnFeCoNiAl0.75 High Entropy Alloy at Intermediate Temperature
Monte Carlo Study on Atomic Arrangement Around Crystal Defect in Multi-principal Element Alloys
Multicomponent and High-entropy Cantor Alloys
Nanocrystalline High-entropy Alloys Made by Electrodeposition
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Non-equiatomic, Multi-phase TRIP/TWIP Multi-principal Element Alloys
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On the Exceptional Mechanical Properties and Effect of Local Order in CrCoN-based High-entropy Alloys
Origins of Excellent Passivation in Multiple Principle Element Alloys
Phase Stability in Refractory High Entropy Alloys
Phenomenological Approach to Multi-principal-element Structural Materials
Pitting Corrosion Behavior of Ni38Fe20Crx(MnCo)42-x High Entropy Alloys
Quantifying Short-range Ordering in Refractory High-entropy Alloys
Quantifying the Effect of Randomness on Vacancy Diffusivity in High Entropy Alloys
Roles of Martensitic Phase Fractions in Mechanical Behavior of TRIP-HEA
Simulation Studies of Grain Boundary Diffusion in a Model HEA Alloy
Simulations and Modeling of the High Temperature Yield Behavior of Chemically Complex Concentrated BCC Alloys
Small-scale Mechanical Behavior of Single Phase and Complex High Entropy Alloys
Speromagnetism and Asperomagnetism as the Ground States of the Tb-Dy-Ho-Er-Tm "Ideal" High-entropy Alloy
Stability of Al-Li-Ti-Sc-Mg High Entropy Alloys from Monte Carlo Simulations
Studies on Microstructure, Hardness and Corrosion Behavior of the Cu-Fe-Ti-Zr-Nix High Entropy Alloys
The Stacking Fault Energies of FCC High-entropy Alloys: An ab initio Study
Theory for Yield Strength of BCC HEAs
Theory of Formation of High Entropy Alloys for Biomedical Applications
Thermal Transport Calculation of High Entropy Alloys for Thermoelectric Applications
Unique Elastic and Plastic Deformation Behavior of a Ductile Refractory High-entropy Alloy at Room and Elevated Temperatures
Unravelling Sluggish Diffusion of High-entropy Alloys through Machine Learning Methods
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Steven Wright,
quoted in The Wall Street Journal
"I don't have a sex 'drive'. I have a sex 'just sit in the car and hope someone gets in'".
C.K. Louis, Comedian
quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but many of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done".
Andy Rooney,
quoted in the Flushing Observer (Mich)
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception".
Groucho Marx,
quoted in The Guardian
"They say hard work never killed anybody, but I say, why take the chance".
Ronald Reagan,
quoted in The FT
"It would have been splendid...if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the duchess".
Winston Churchill, when asked about dinner,
quoted in The Observer
"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money".
Abigail Van Buren,
quoted in The Monterey County Herald (California)
"I believe in the discipline of silence and can talk for hours about it".
George Bernard Shaw,
quoted in The West Australian
"The more I practice, the luckier I am".
Ben Hogan, Golfer,
quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake".
Bob Hope,
quoted in The Buffalo News
"In the art world, 'tasteful' is probably a bigger insult than 'tasteless'".
Grayson Perry,
quoted in The Sunday Telegraph
"My relationship with death remains the same. I am strongly against it".
Woody Allen,
quoted in The Times
"Creativity is intelligence having fun".
Albert Einstein,
quoted in Ad Age
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough".
Mae West,
quoted in the Morton Grove Champion, Illinois
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do".
Isaac Asimou,
quoted in The Sunday Times
"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel".
Joe Pasquale,
quoted in The Sun
"If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold".
Warning to users of online services,
quoted in The Independent
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something".
Wilson Mizner,
quoted in the Palm Beach Daily News, Florida
"Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon".
Peter Lynch,
Wall Street investor,
quoted in The Australian Financial Review
"Never go into a room unless you know how to get out of it".
Margaret Thatcher,
as recalled by Michael Heseltine in The Times
"I like work: It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours".
Jerome K. Jerome,
quoted in The Wall Street Journal
"If, on Monday morning you wake up dreading going to work - by Friday you should have done something about it".
Timothy Ian Bradbury,
in Talk of the Town, SA
"When desire comes in the door, judgement jumps out the window and cracks its skull on the pavement".
Yiddish saying,
quoted in The New Yorker
"Wherever my dad is now, he's looking down on me...Not because he is dead, but because he is very condescending".
Jack Whitehall,
quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get".
Warren Buffett,
quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher and cooler".
Thom Yorke, from the band Radiohead,
quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald
"I've learnt one thing, people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest".
Andy Capp, Cartoonist,
quoted in The Buffalo News
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity".
Simone Weil,
quoted in The New York Times
"Fun is like life insurance: The older you get, the more it costs".
Kin Hubbard, Cartoonist,
quoted on Forbes.com
"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now, and we don't know where the hell she is".
Ellen DeGeneres,
quoted in The Observer
"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered".
Edgar Allan Poe,
quoted on Forbes.com
"It takes only one one drink to get me drunk, Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the 13th or 14th".
George Burns,
quoted on BBC News online
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies".
Groucho Marx,
quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"There is only one thing people like that is good for them: a good night's sleep".
Edgar Watson Howe,
quoted on Bookreporter.com
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life".
Rita Rudner,
US Comedian,
quoted in The Observer
"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better. But the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more".
Woody Allen, quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall".
Mitch Hedberg, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
"Be yourself. That's the worst piece of advice you could give an impressionist".
Rory Bremner, quoted in The Times
"When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog, so that someone in the house is happy to see you".
Nora Ephron, quoted in NYTimes,com
"You know you're working class when your TV is bigger than your bookcase".
Rob Beckett, at the Edinburgh Festival, quoted on BBC News online
"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy".
Adage, quoted in the The Times
"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion".
Richard Nixon, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
"What is that unforgettable line?".
Samuel Beckett, quoted on BroadwayWorld.com
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election".
Otto von Bismarck, quoted in The Montreal Gazette
"It is never too late to be who you might have been".
George Eliot, quoted in The Times
"I have never been guilty of method acting, or even any acting".
Roger Moore, (on his career), quoted in the Daily Mail
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning".
Catherine Aird, quoted in the Savannah Morning
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness".
Bertrand Russell, quoted in The Courier-Mail
"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home".
David Frost, quoted in The Washington Post
"Civilisation begins with distillation".
William Faulkner, quoted in the Los Angeles Times
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate".
Charles Dickens, quoted in the Peoria, Ill., Journal
"You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic".
German transport campaign, quoted in The Guardian
"When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose?".
Don Marquis, quoted in Forbes
"The value of an industry is inversely proportional to the number of awards it gives itself".
Blogger David Burge, quoted in The Weekly Standard
"Accentuate the positives, medicate the negatives".
Actress Amy Sedaris, quoted in The New York Times
"He that doesn't tooteth his own trumpet, doesn't get his trumpet tooteth".
Old Tennessee adage, quoted on RealClearPolitics.com
"Man Finally Put in Charge of Struggling Feminist Movement".
Headline in satirical magazine, The Onion,quoted in The Independent
"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than bad memory".
Franklin Pierce Adams, Journalist, quoted on NewYorker.com
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car".
Kenneth Tynan, quoted in The Times
"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realise what's wrong with it".
Rex Harrison, quoted in The Buffalo News
"A journey of self-discovery starts with a single step. But so does falling down a flight of stairs".
Kathy Lette, quoted in The Independent
"Breasts are still our cheapest special effect".
Hollywood saying, quoted in The Guardian
"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet".
Keith Richards, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare".
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, quoted in The Buffalo News
"The only difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets".
Will Rogers, quoted in The Times
"Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing".
William James, quoted in the St Paul Pioneer Press
"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide nothing can be done".
Fred Allen, US Humourist, quoted in the Guardian
"Behind every successful man there is a surprised woman".
Maryon Pearson, quoted in the Chicago Tribune
"There are many things in life that are more important than money. And they all cost money".
Fred Allen, quoted on CNN.com
"The only thing statesmen learn from history's past mistakes is how to make new ones".
A.J.P. Taylor, quoted in The Daily Mail
"Any party that takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought".
Dwight D. Morrow, quoted in The Independent
"All progress is based upon universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income".
Samuel Butler, quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"Education is what's left when what has been learnt has been forgotten".
Psychologist B.F.Skinner, quoted in The Independent
"What is the point in growing old if you can't hound and persecute the young?".
Kenneth Clarke, quoted in The Times
"It just seems to me that the left hand don't know what the extreme left hand is doing".
Gordon Brown, on his left-wing rivals, quoted in The Independent on Sunday
"Learn from others mistakes. We don't have time to make them all ourselves".
Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted in The Huffington Post
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style".
Quentin Crisp, quoted on CNN.com
"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family: there are no massage parlours with ice cream and free jewellery".
Jerry Seinfeld, quoted in the Denver Post
"Being famous is my job. When I leave the house I'm clocking in".
Noel Gallagher, quoted in The Times
"A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air".
Franklin D. Roosevelt,, quoted in The Independent
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level".
Quentin Crisp, quoted on CNN
"Chess doesn't drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane".
Bill Hartston,
Former British Chess Champion,
quoted in The Guardian
"Never eat more than you can lift ".
Miss Piggy,
quoted in The Times
"The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry".
John Jensen,
Danish Soccer Star,
quoted in Forbes
"It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return other dog's phone calls".
Woody Allen, on Hollywood,
quoted in The Spectator
"History is just one damn thing after another".
Arnold Toynbee,
quoted in The Guardian
"A newspaper is a device unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation".
George Bernard Shaw,
quoted in The Independent
"Youth might be wasted on the young but university is definitely wasted on students".
Ian Hollingshead,
quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"Fame is like watching someone ride past very fast on a horse. It looks exciting and you think: 'I want to do that' but the actual experience can be frightening or a substantial pain in the arse".
Grayson Perry,
quoted in The Observer
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see".
Arthur Schopenbauer,
quoted in The Boston Globe
"I support gay marriage because I believe they have the right to be just as miserable as the rest of us".
Kinky Friedman,
quoted in The Times
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse".
Henry Ford,
quoted in The Guardian
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way".
Albert Camus,
quoted in the Daily Mail
"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?".
Tony Hancock,
quoted in The Independent
"Thanks to my devoted wife, without whose unquestioning faith and support this book was nevertheless written".
Rupert Morgan, a dedication in one of his novels,
quoted in The Guardian
"Winston has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches".
F.E. Smith,
quoted in The Times
"If it weren't for the fact that the TV and the fridge are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all".
Joey Adams, Comic,
quoted in the New York Post
"Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell".
Jean Paul Richter, German Writer,
quoted in The Independent
"Politics is an honest effort to misunderstand each other".
Robert Frost,
quoted in the Los Angeles Times
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm".
Winston Churchill,
quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"When asked what wine he liked, Diogenes replied:'That which belongs to another' ".
quoted in The Times
"Don't be afraid not to follow the herd - because where the herd's gone, the food is already eaten".
Bob Dylan,
quoted on OpenDemocracy.com
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy you the wag of his tail".
Henry Wheeler Shaw,
quoted in The Times
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
The adage know as Hanlon's Razor,
cited in The Daily Telegraph
"What you have to remember is that civil servants use vagueness and ambiguity with razor-sharp precision.".
Senior Civil Servant,
quoted in letter to The Times
"Whenever I date a guy, I think:'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?".
Rita Radner, US Comedian,
quoted in The Times
"If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, "That's because everytime I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit".
Clement Freud,
on combating 'fat-ism' on Radio 4's Just a Minute
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you; it's the things you know that ain't so".
Mark Twain,
quoted in The Wall Street Journal
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific".
Lilly Tomlin,
quoted in the Calgary Herald
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness".
Bertrand Russell,
quoted in The Independent
"I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will".
Warren Buffett,
quoted in The Mail on Sunday
"Men are always asking what women want in bed. The answer is breakfast".
Kathy Lette,
quoted in The Times
"The man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything".
Theodore Roosevelt,
quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you more than he knows".
Dwight Eisenhower,
quoted in the Illawarra Mercury
"I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves".
Nick Helm,
Most popular joke at the Edinburgh Fringe
"If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth".
African Proverb,
quoted in The Observer
"The thankless task of drowning other people's kittens".
Cyril Connolly's definition of book reviewing,
quoted in The FT
"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's just too much fraternising with the enemy".
Henry Kissinger,
quoted in the Illawarra Mercury
"I hate housework. You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again".
Joan Rivers,
quoted in The Independent
"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes".
Oprah Winfrey,
quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"Other players are involved in tennis, but I'm committed. It's like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed".
Martina Navratilova ,
quoted in The Times
"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old".
Writer Jean Kerr ,
quoted on WashingtonPost.com
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
Elizabeth Taylor, quoted in the Guardian
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time"
W. Somerset Maughan, quoted in the Herald, Monterey County, Calif
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant".
Charles de Gaulle, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
"Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells".
Elizabeth Taylor, quoted in the Guardian
"Economists have predicted nine out of the last five recessions".
Old Joke, quoted in the Times
"The art of diplomacy is letting the other fellow have your own way".
Anonymous Indian
diplomat, quoted in the Times
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Sorry to hear about the DNF Hazel. Hope you're not too down about it.
Nice post race treat to get 1st class Westy!
Great photo SQ.
Great reports so far, as Macca says at least we can say we were there! I see results are up on Runbritain now, and it has a SSS score of 3.1 - the highest of any race I've ever done (although that's partly because I never do hilly races lol).
My legs are more beaten up than I hoped they would be, but definitely better than they were at this stage after Manchester. Unlike after a big full race effort, I feel keen to get going again now, but will give it at least a few more days before I start easing back in to things.
I totally symaphasize with you , I have had a shit winter, been ill for 2 months, 2 crap marathons and London was hell, I should probably have pulled out as you did rather than get a shit time and hate every mile!
I Think its at time like these we need a bit of time off to reflect and see how we feel in better days.
All i can say is that Berlin is my no 1 marathon. great city and great marathon.
That was the toughest thing I've ever done! I've never struggled in heat that way before and so I put it down to not having had time to acclimatise since the winter.
Already I was feeling hot – I took a frozen bottle of water with me and I tipped a few bottles over my head before the start but I had a bad feeling before we even got off. Told myself to start running at 7:20-30 per mile and see how that feels (7:00/mi had been the plan but that was off the cards because I didn't want to risk a DNF with all the sponsorship I'd raised £4,146 and counting!).
5km – 22:36
I was fairly close to the front of pen 1 which meant I didn't have much trouble running at my target pace to start with. Checked my heart rate and it was already up at MP levels so I knew things were bad and told myself to slow down.
10km – 23:03
My legs felt good because they were fresh but my heart rate was really troubling me so I continued to try and slow down but the legs wanted to keep going (normally it's the other way round, right?!). By then end of this section my HR was getting to HM levels and I was beginning to fall apart mentally a bit. I knew any thoughts about time were out the window and this was going to be about finishing the race. Never had I experienced anything like this so early in a race.
15km – 23:26
I was constantly looking at my watch, thinking I was slowing down a lot because I was telling myself to, and because it felt so tough. However, the splits were still around the 7:30/mi pace, I guess because we were running through Cutty Sark which was brilliant. I was getting loads of shouts already because of my Macmillan vest – there weren't any others around me which helped. This began to feel a bit hard – why so hard so early? It should feel like this 15 miles in, not 7-8mi in.
20km – 23:49
10 miles in and I'm thinking this is way too hard, I can't sustain this, how am I going to finish this bloody thing! It was here I decided to totally forget about my watch and only look at it to check my HR occasionally – this is going to take everything I have just to finish. I also decided this would give the chance to enjoy the crowd, really take in the sights and somehow revel in the spectacle of this day without any pressure.
When I knew Tower Bridge was coming up I told myself to look up and take it in. The Bridge was pretty special and I was now starting to interact with the crowd – I would clap them or fist pump and they would react by shouting my name even more and I loved it. I also realised this would help get me to the end.
Halfway 1:38:01
25km – 24:46
By now the wheels were starting to come off but I didn't really care. I heard a noise down the road and assumed the leaders were coming up the Highway so positioned myself on the left to get close to them. Saw Kipchoge fly through and gave him a good cheer, then I heard a wall of noise behind him and assumed it was Mo so started doing the MoBot when I saw him (ridiculous I know!). The water stations were now becoming a scrum and the constant slowing and accelerating was getting more and more difficult.
The Macmillan cheer points were coming into their own now as well – as they weren't many other vests around they would spot me well down the road and be chanting my name by the time I got there – it felt truly amazing and I was revelling in it.
Having had a few cramp twitches from 10 miles in I was now getting proper cramp in my left quad and right hamstring, so this stopped me from being able to push at all and in hindsight probably saved my race from total detonation.
30km – 25:52
I was still surprised by my pace as it felt like 9-10 min/mi but was around 8mm. I saw some mates around Isle of Dogs or Canary Wharf which gave me a boost and then another Macmillan cheer point – mentally I was just self-talking myself through the distances till the next cheer point and water stop. The problem with the cheer points was that the adrenaline would kick in and when I passed them I was out of breath and cramping badly again. The electrolyte gels did give me a bit of respite from the cramps but only for about a mile.
35km – 26:12
I saw my sister going back up the Highway and now I was beginning to believe I could get to the finish in some kind of decent shape without having to walk as I was managing the cramps OK (so long as I didn't get carried away with the crowds).
I was now moving into the middle of the crowd so people would stop shouting my name (it got a bit much), and then move back out when I needed a boost. It was also at this point where I recognised the carnage around me – there seemed to be people everywhere walking, struggling and a few laid out with St John's Ambulance with them.
Now my pace had slowed my heart rate had dropped as well so whilst I was really hurting I was also in decent shape to keep running properly to the end and I really wanted to run the whole way despite how bad it felt. I remembered back to how awful the early miles felt mentally and also to my long runs and told myself I can do this.
40km – 26:16
Coming up Embankment was great and I was almost sad the race was ending as I was running at a fairly comfortable 8:30/mi which kept the cramps relatively at bay. I wanted to drink this atmosphere and the sights in – I didn't want it to end. I realised that I was having an amazing day. Not in the way I expected beforehand but in a new, surprising way I realised that running was about more than just running PB's every race (make no mistake though – I would give it all up for a 3:10!).
Finish – 11:50
I tried to run fast up the Mall but the cramps were awful now – both quads, right hammy, calves, so it was everything to just keep going. I noticed everyone was struggling along, heads down and the stands were really quiet so I got over to the side and started clapping and fist pumping the crowd and they reacted really well, getting involved and cheering a bit louder. So I crossed the line, arms aloft in relief more than anything else and then collapsed with cramp and had to be helped off to the side.
Halfway 1:38:01
2nd half: 1:49:46
Finish: 3:27:47
Final Thoughts
Not the marathon I expected, nor the one I hoped for but it surprised me in many ways and I thoroughly enjoyed the day. And when I look around at how badly some people slowed or DNF'd then on reflection I think I handled the race pretty well for only my second sub 3:30 marathon and 7 mins slow than my PB from Abingdon.
Ramjet – I'm pleased you seem to be recovering well. I agree with your thoughts – today's weather is perfect(!) and you've got to enjoy the training when weather/injury/just a one off shit day can ruin the race.
Jooligan – sub 3 will come if you stick with you high mileage easy mid week runs. Have faith. Impressive array of recent PBs.
Andy I have done both Chester and Abingdon before. I have really enjoyed both – indeed they are my two quickest marathons. Chester is not flat, but is still a fast course. Abingdon is flat, but not the pancake described. Chester probably a bit slicker and flashier (in a good way), Abingdon a bit more traditional. Both excellent marathons in my opinion and gave me just enough big race edge, whilst remaining relatively low key. 'traumatic portaloo stop'!!! And don't be too hard on yourself – it was bloody hot.
Impressive, Charlotte. Well done. So… you need to do P&D for an Autumn marathon!
Hazel your training certianily won't be wasted. If you are motivated to do the marathon in three weeks then go for it. Just run easy until then. Hope you feel ok soon.
JohnOz there was no decision to back off – it was forced upon me!
AWC you've racked up an impressive amount of sponsorship – well done. Great report and I think you ran really well.
I've definitely got Tuesday legs – sorer than yesterday.
Interesting to look at the results analysis. In the first half I overtook 1660 and was over taken by 160, in the second half it was 270/170. Do people start too fast (I did!), are they in the wrong pens at the beginning? Not really sure.
Good luck Reg. Hope things are ok. I'm hanging on in my
current job but am still looking for something more secure.
Good read as always Joe. I'm already looking forward to seeing how you get on in 12 weeks in Bolton.
Hazel - Sounds like a tough couple of days. I would try to not get too negative about it all, it's meant to be fun right? I've needed to remind myself of that a few times over the last few years. As someone said, it sounds like a set of circumstances that won't happen again, so no reason to let it put you off next time. I'd just try to get back to doing what you enjoy. I think the decision to race again in a few weeks depends on how you feel. If you're raring to go in a few days, go for it, but if it's just something you think you should do so you don't waste your good training, maybe not. I certainly wouldn't worry about wasting fitness you built, just think of it as a base for the next campaign.
Well done everyone else, sounds like quite a familiar theme through lots of reports. I like SQ's precision timing and Westy's endless optimism. Judging from the number of people passed stats, as a group, we fared much better than a lot of people out there.
Here's my report:
Build up
In a word - terrible. After a great November / December a new job in January meant a new routine. With about 10 extra hours a week at work, my wife busier with work also and a calf injury in mid January I really failed to build on the great base I had coming into the new year. The calf injury took ages to clear and even when I did string together some training my legs felt fragile, like either of the calves or hamstrings could go at any moment. This was a bit demoralising too and really affected my motivation and enjoyment of running. It was a real contrast to last autumn where, despite a bad race, in training I felt indestructible, pushed really hard and loved every minute of it.
With 5 weeks to go I managed to put together 4 solid training weeks, averaging about 65 miles. However there was no time for proper long runs, with my biggest days being 12 mile each way commutes, which I did 3 times. Also no big MP sessions so I didn't really have an idea of what shape I was in. Fortunately in the last week I started to feel pretty good. I'd seriously thought about running around with Joe in about 3 hours but, even if I wasn't going to run a good time, I had no reason not to push as hard as I could. Also I wasn't sure I could spend 3 hours in close proximity to those obscene swimmers.
Race Day
Got the club bus which makes things really easy on race morning. Just a few minutes down the road to get the bus and they deliver me right at the start. I catch up with Joe and we have a good chat before the start. Also said g'day to ML84 who'd had issues with various niggles and planned on dropping out at halfway. Didn't bother with a warm up and lined up towards the back of the champs group with Joe and his pants.
The first mile was pretty congested, not too bad though and I didn't worry about the pace. I'd decided to run purely on feel, with my watch only showing total time and lap time, and only take laps at the 5km intervals. First mile in about 6:30 and I start to feel alright. I speed up over the next mile and down the hill through mile 3. First 5km in 18:45, a bit faster than I thought given the slow start but it felt good.
The next 15km were completely uneventful. I must've maintained the speed from the downhill as the second 5km was 18:32. A bit after 5km I latched onto a group and just decided to stick with them. I remember hearing some advice that the first half of a marathon you should just feel like you're sitting on a couch watching the race without thinking, so that's what I'd decided to do. The group fell apart after a while but I just stuck to the guy on the front till it was just the 2 of us. He seemed to know what he was doing, keeping a steady pace and the effort felt right. I took a drink at most of the water stops, just a sip, then poured some over myself. It was warm but I didn't feel like I was struggling at all with the heat.
Third 5km in 18:51 and forth in 19:01. I could feel my guide was slowing a bit here and I had a burst of motivation with Tower Bridge in sight so I moved ahead and started making the pace myself. I was feeling good and think I got a bit carried away with thoughts of a big negative split. Halfway in 1:19:01. I reined it in a bit but the fifth 5km was 18:38. I was still feeling good here but a couple of miles down the road, I knew that I was starting to struggle. I was still holding pace with those around me but I was starting to work harder, sixth 5km in 19:12.
I held on pretty well until 20 miles but then I definitely slowed and people started coming past me. It wasn't a complete detonation and I felt I could still finish well under 2:45, even if sub 2:40 was gone. Seventh 5km in 20:01. It was getting harder and my hamstrings threatened to cramp. More people were passing me now. I did consider stopping to stretch once but after hobbling a bit for a few 100m the cramps settled a bit and I could run again. Eighth 5km in 21:45 and very thankful to come around the corner at Big Ben. Struggle on to the Mall and put in a bit of a fast finish to pass a few and finish in 2:44:17.
I didn't feel great but it wasn't the worst I've felt after a marathon. I'm not sure how much the weather affected me but I didn't feel I struggled with the heat, just with lack of fitness. Overall I really enjoyed the day and the slow down at the end wasn't bad enough to ruin things. I'm glad I went out a bit faster than I was capable of as I felt I wasn't too far away from running a good race.
Saw Millsy and had a quick chat while he was trying to find his bag. Had a bit of lie down in the shade of a tree before making my way across horse guards to the Red Lion. Saw Joe on the way and had a good chat with his mum, the same as last year. It was nice to end the day with a beer and debrief with SQ and Spoon, before getting the train home.


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Pure Dancing With The Stars Happy New Year Media
Hello All and Happy 2014!!! And for our first post of the year, how about some new photos of Dancing With The Stars Derek Hough and Mark Ballas? For New Years Eve, they attended Beacher's Madhouse New Year's Eve 2014 Celebration At the MGM Grande Hotel. The pic above is courtesy of Shirley Ballas' Facebook. The person in the middle is Mark's Grandmother. Be sure to see Getty Images and Pure Derek Hough for lots more coverage.
Also, below are some pictures from Karina's party in Tampa, Florida and Cheryl's party at Hooray Henry's in Hollywood, CA. What a fun time they must had too.
ETA: You can also see some high quality takes of Karina at her party at Gossip Center. She looks dazzling!!


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Sigh... CXT, your faith in your opinions and how much better they are than all the prison authorities in the country is ... um... perhaps just a sign there's point in arguing (it's deja vu all over again). You don't really have the information necessary to discuss jail diets and you don't have the experience necessary for an informed opinion on jail exercise. You seem to think that jails LET their prisoners have drugs, as if they could wave a wand and stop it all, like we do with the national drug problem. You apparently didn't read my comments about how our $ isn't going towards TV; the inmates pay for them. And your comments about sedating prisoners (um, why?) is, well, without any foundation in the real world.
So I'll stick to your questions:
"Don't we own THEM some kind of duty to protect them from being assaulted and raped even killed?"
Yes, I believe we do. There are no 100% guarantees but if a jail tolerates a situation like that and does nothing, they're complicit. The sentance doesn't include rape (or crappy medical care).
"You also ducked the question---why should a seriel [sic] rapist be give such "basic amenites [sic]" when there are law abiding, tax paying citzens that can't afford them."
Because you've deprived them of their freedom and their ability to obtain these things on their own. Jail is about the loss of liberty. People are sentanced to time. They are not sentanced to starvation diets. They are not sentanced to chemical comas. They are not sentanced to 120 degree heat. They are not sentanced to deprivation of healthcare. You take their freedom but you don't get to say "not all americans have health insurance, so you won't get blood pressure pills." That doesn't follow.
Two other points:
--If you can't afford water you sure as heck don't pay taxes.
--Spellcheck is one of those amenities denied to prisoners that you, tax paying law abiding citizen that you are, have access to.


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by MICHAEL DASHIELL
Sequim Gazette
The only thing standing between Sequim and a return trip to the class 2A state tournament was a familiar foe.
With a five-set win against the Olympic Trojans at the West Central District consolation finals Saturday, the Wolves are headed back to a familiar tournament, too: state.
Sequim survived a big comeback in the fourth set to oust Olympic to secure one of the final two district berths to state, then won a coin toss to pick up a No. 5 seed.
Sequim will open the class 2A state tournament against No. 1-seeded Anacortes at 8 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 12. The winner of that first-round match takes on the winner of the Grandview/Tumwater match in the quarterfinals, while the losers of those two matches play each other in the consolation bracket.
This is Sequim's second appearance in the past three seasons.
"I know they're really excited to go, that they want to do well," Sequim coach Jennie Webber Heilman said of her rather young team that features just two seniors.
"Jessica (Lauritzen) and Maddy (Zbaraschuk) have been there before; we're not complete newbies. I just hope they go there and play well."
Play well is exactly what the Wolves did at the district tourney in Tacoma last weekend, opening with a three-set win against Sumner on Nov. 5.
In the second round, however, Sequim dropped a three-set decision to White River. The Hornets won 25-12, 25-7, 21-25 and 25-18, and went on to finish second to Fife in the tournament.
Dropped into the consolation bracket, Sequim needed two wins for a state berth. The Wolves got their first in a three-set win (25-16, 25-21, 25-18) against Evergreen.
That set up a match against Olympic in the consolation semis. In the regular season, Olympic topped Sequim in four sets on Sept. 21 and the Wolves reciprocated on Oct. 21, topping the Trojans in four sets.
At districts, Sequim had the Trojans' number once again – but it wasn't easy. The Wolves held a two-sets-to-one lead (25-16, 27-15, 22-25) and came within a point of closing the match out in the fourth set.
Olympic got on a streak, though, and forced a fifth and final set.
"I don't know if it needed to be that close," Webber Heilman said. "We should have had the game won in the fourth game. At least when we went to the fifth, (our players) weren't defeated."
The Wolves jumped out to a modest lead and got to 13 points before Olympic rebounded. Needing two points to win, Sequim sophomore Haleigh Harrison hit past an Olympic blocker for the 14th point, then stuffed a Trojan attack for the 15th and final point, winning the set 15-13.
Webber Heilman credited Harrison, Lauritzen, Kyla Martin and Marissa Haner for pacing the offense, and Taylor Balkan for superior setting.
It's Sequim's fifth state berth since 2000.
"I really wanted them to make it," Webber Heilman said. "I know our team is kind of on the young side. From knowing how we played during to the season, I thought, 'I know we can make it (to state).'"
She said her team will need to focus on blocking and passing to succeed in Kennewick.
Reach Michael Dashiell at email@example.com.


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It's the time of year for resolutions and one of mine is to update the ol' blog more regularly than I managed in the second half of last year. So, without any further ado, here is a brand new feature – The Choob Chart.
Thanks to TV shows such as The Big Bang Theory and stars such as 30 Rock's Tina Fey, Geeks have never been so cool. So my first choob chart is my list of the 10 geekiest rock and pop songs ever recorded.
Now, there are a few ways of defining geeky music. For the purposes of this chart, the songs must be inspired by, be celebrations of or, at the very least, substantially reference, geek-friendly subject matter. They must NOT have been specially composed as part of a larger geeky project. So, for example, Still Alive, the song from the closing credits of the video game Portal was written for the video game and therefore exists solely as an integral part of something uber-geeky to begin with.
Also, the songs must be the work of established and (to some extent) commercial acts. This means no songs by self-publishing internet amateurs or YouTube stars, no matter how good they are.
10. Mutants In Mega-City One – The Fink Brothers
I Am The Law by Anthrax is the best known song about 2000AD's legendary future lawman Judge Dredd. But I'm opting for the more obscure Mutants In Mega-City One by The Fink Brothers (which was a one-off side project of Madness members Suggs and Chas Smash) for two reasons. First, I'm not really a fan of Anthrax. Secondly, and more importantly, I bought the 12-inch single back in 1985. It came with cover art and a free Dredd poster by Brian Bolland.
It's far from zarjaz, musically, but the guys do know their Dredd lore and the lyrics are full of references to Mega-City life and characters. After the music video below there is a brief appearance by Suggs and Chas in costume as Fink Angel and his brother Mean Machine.
Which brings me to two geeky gripes. First, they should really be called the Angel Brothers since Fink was the christian name of one of the Angel gang, not their surname. And second, the song repeatedly has Dredd referring to citizens as "Earthlets" which, of course, is a word 2000AD's alien editor Tharg The Mighty uses, not Dredd. Tut!
9. Doctorin' The Tardis – The Timelords
Again, musically, this mish-mash-up of the Doctor Who theme tune, Gary Glitter's Rock And Roll (Part Two) and Blockbuster by Sweet is far from brilliant (though this didn't stop it reaching the top of the charts in the UK in 1988). But its geek credentials are impeccable.
Quite apart from Whovian-cred, The Timelords was an alter ego of The KLF, the anarchic acid house legends whose origins and philosophy were heavily inspired by one of the all-time great works of geek literature, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. So the Timelords and their 23-year-old song have more than earned their place in this chart. Or, to put it another way, they're justified and they're ancient…
8. Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me) – XTC
A Sgt. Rock movie has been in the works for years now. Years ago, Arnie was lined up to play the non-superpowered DC Comics WWII hero of Easy Company. More recently, Bruce Willis has been linked to the role, with Guy Ritchie directing. The latest rumour has the action being rather ridiculously moved from WWII to a future war. Don't hold your breath. If non-comics geeks are aware of the character at all, it's probably thanks to this fine track from new wavers XTC, released in 1980.
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7. In The Garage – Weezer
Although this song – from Weezer's self-titled 1994 debut album – is more about a young geek's appreciation of his safe haven, where he can geek out away from prying eyes, without being judged or ridiculed, there are some great references at the start to the X-Men's Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler, along with Dungeons and Dragons and 12-sided die. Pretty good song, too.Vodpod videos no longer available.
6. The Prisoner – Iron Maiden
Several years before I ever saw an episode of The Prisoner on TV (it was rarely repeated on TV when I was growing up, in the days before video and DVD box sets), I knew the show's opening dialogue off by heart thanks to this classic Maiden track from their legendary 1982 album The Number Of The Beast. You're spoiled for choice, really, when looking for geeky references on Maiden songs through the years (for example: The Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner, The Wicker Man, Lord Of The Flies, A Brave New World, Murders In The Rue Morgue) but this is one of the earliest and, given the cultish nature of the TV show that inspired it, this is arguably the geekiest. They revisited The Prisoner two years later with Back In The Village, on the album Powerslave.
5. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt. I – The Flaming Lips
Now, you can read this song (and, in parts, the 2002 album of the same name it comes from) in a number of ways, from an anime-inspired futuristic tale of a young woman fighting to save the world from robots in revolt, to a more thoughtful, allegorical meditation on the importance of individuality and creativity in the face of pressure to conform and be subservient in the corporate rat-race.
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4. The Eighth Day – Hazel O'Connor
Talking of revolting robots, here we have the plot of The Terminator neatly summed up in a song – four years before James Cameron's movie was released! Okay, so the idea of a war with sentient machines was a sci-fi staple long before 1980, but still. The song qualifies for my chart because although it was written for a film – 1980's Breaking Glass – it's not a sci-fi film and so the song is not self-referencing (Hazel O'Connor plays a pop star struggling to cope with sudden fame and The Eighth Day is simply one of her character's songs).
Adding to the geekiness of the song, note the costume that O'Connor wears while performing the song in the film. Tron wasn't released for another two years.
3. History Of Everything – Barenaked Ladies
Yes, I'm bending my own rules ever so slightly here, since this song was written to be the theme song for every geek's favourite sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. However, it does not reference the show or characters and is a great standalone song that crams the creation and 14billion-year history of the universe so far into one minute 45 seconds PLUS its future and ultimate destruction. It also has a great video, about which I have written before.
2. Hanging Out With Halo Jones – Transvision Vamp
Transvision Vamp singer Wendy James had a great voice and there were some great songs on the band's first two albums. Most interesting from a geek perspective was the song Hanging Out With Halo Jones, from their 1988 debut album Pop Art.
The Ballad of Halo Jones was a much-loved story that appeared fairly early on in the life of 2000AD and is still regarded as one of the comic's finest strips. Unusually for the macho, testosterone-fuelled 2000AD, in an attempt to make the comic more female-friendly, the main character was an ordinary teenage girl (albeit from the 50th-century Earth) and the storyline was a lot more thoughtful and philosophical than most of the other strips of the day.
It was written by Alan Moore before he hit the big time working for the big American comics publishers and I think it surpasses much of his later, better-known work, including Watchmen. The strip was beautifully illustrated by Ian Gibson, one of my all-time favourite 2000AD artists.
Sadly plans for a nine-volume storyline, following Halo Jones all through her life from youth until old age, fell apart when Moore fell out with the then publishers of 2000AD over creators' rights and the series stalled after three volumes were published. It's well worth getting hold of the reprinted collected editions if you've never read the story.
Transvision Vamp were clearly fans and this song was great homage to the character:
Since there is no video or live performance for the song I can find, here are a couple of bonuses. They all come from the late, lamented (by me, if nobody else!) Night Network, circa 1988. ITV's first attempt at through-the-night programming, it aired on Friday and Saturday nights and was aimed squarely at a young audience staggering home from the pub.
The first two videos feature the cast of a Halo Jones stage play performing a couple of scenes plus an interview with 2000AD founding father Pat Mills and acclaimed artist Kevin O'Neill (Nemesis The Warlock, Marshall Law, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen).
And here are writer Peter Milligan and artist Brett Ewins talking primarily about their 2000AD strip Bad Company.
1. DC Comics and Chocolate Milk Shake – Art Brut
I've featured this song on the blog before. Art Brut's frontman is the very geeky Eddie Argos, comics reviewer and the world's biggest Booster Gold fan. The song is about embracing your inner geek and refusing (or being unable) to grow up and leave childish, geeky things behind just 'cos that's what's expected of you. Amen, brother!
And as a special post-festive bonus, here are three more geeky songs that don't really fit the rock/pop requirement but deserve to be included as companion pieces to the main list.
i. The Galaxy Song – Monty Python
Some excellent astronomy-based geekiness courtesy of Eric Idle. this is probably my favourite song from Monty Python's 1984 film The Meaning Of Life, although Every Sperm Is Sacred certainly does have its charms…
ii. Elements – Tom Lehrer
The periodic table, in song, from the great Tom Lehrer. Quite the feat of memory, never mind extreme geekiness.
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iii. Star Trekkin' – The Firm
The Choob has already spotlighted this one. Possibly the most annoying geeky song. Yet we all love it. Um, don't we…?


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Pirates to keep giving Grilli chances to find form
PITTSBURGH -- Right-hander Jason Grilli's rough return from the disabled list continued Friday night as he gave up Anthony Rizzo's game-winning two-run home run in the seventh inning of the Pirates' 5-4 loss to the Chicago Cubs.
The Pirates will continue to try and get Grilli back on track.
"He's human," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said of Grilli. "He is a veteran and it's the first turbulence he's had this year, so you weigh that in and talk to him like a man. Sometimes a how-to and a want-to don't match up. He's helped put us in the position we're in and he wants to get back to that spot, and there's a process that we're going to need to work through to get there, and it's more pitches and at least a couple more innings to see the development continue, and obviously the stamina to finish 20 pitches strong rather than 12 or 15 strong.
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Third Facebook-related complaint from Palghar
Police receive complaint that yet another Facebook account of a Palghar resident has reportedly been hacked and abusive comments posted against late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray.
In yet another case emerging from Palghar town in the district, police here have received a complaint about some "objectionable" matter relating to late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray posted on a "fake" Facebook account of a local newspaper.
Mohammed Hussain Nadi Sarwar Khan (30), editor of "Palghar Mirror", a fortnightly newspaper in Hindi and Marathi, complained to police that a fake Facebook account had been opened in his newspaper's name and objectionable photo and comments were posted against Thackeray.
"Last night, I was told that objectionable comments and photo were posted against Thackeray in my Palghar Mirror account on Facebook. When I saw it, I realised that my original account was not used but the hacker created another account in my newspaper's name. At about 3.30 am, I went to the police station and gave a written complaint," Khan told PTI. But now, the fake account could not be seen as it appears to have been deactivated by the hacker, Hussain added.
"We have received an application mentioning about the objectionable comments and photo against Thackeray on fake Facebook account. We are inquiring into the matter," an officer at Palghar police station said.
This is the second complaint at the police station involving "objectionable" content against Bal Thackeray. Earlier, two girls Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Shrinivasan, both 21, were arrested after Dhada had criticised in a Facebook post the November 18 the shutdown due to Thackeray's funeral. Shrinivasan had 'liked' the post. The two were later granted bail after they were remanded in 14-day judicial custody. Though Dhada did not name Thackeray, a local Sena leader complained against the girls and police arrested the duo on November 19, sparking an outcry.
A 19-year-old boy Sunil Vishwakarma from Palghar was also detained by the police on suspicion of posting an "objectionable" Facebook comment against MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Wednesday and let off the next day after police found that a "fake account" had been used by some persons in the teenager's name.
Maharashtra government had on Tuesday suspended the two police officers, SP (Thane rural) Ravindra Sengaonkar and senior police inspector Shrikant Pingle, for arresting the girls. A bandh was observed at Palghar town in adjoining Thane district on Wednesday following a call by Shiv Sena against the suspension of the two police officers.
Maharashtra Police had on Thursday decided to drop charges against the two girls.
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THEATER: Cameron Mackintosh doubles down on 'Les Miz'
NEW YORK -- Win or lose at the Academy Awards, Cameron Mackintosh is happy to keep all things miserable.
The film and stage producer behind the blockbuster movie version of "Les Miserables" is also planning to take a currently touring stage version of the musical to Broadway next year.
But he doesn't think the movie will depress interest in the box office on the Great White Way version. In fact, he thinks the opposite.
"There's no evidence at all of that happening," he said this week by phone before making his way to Los Angeles for the Oscars. "The proof in the pudding is quite frankly what's happening with the American tour at the moment, which has been doing phenomenally well."
The U.S. tour of "Les Miserables" -- which began in 2010 and hits Florida, Virginia, Maryland and upstate New York in coming weeks -- has been making more than $1 million a week in the past six months, boosted by interest in the film, Mackintosh said.
He points out that filmed version of "The Phantom of the Opera," `'Chicago" and "Mama Mia!" haven't cooled interest in their stage cousins, either.
When "Les Miserables" arrives in March 2014, it will mark the third time the show has made it to Broadway. The original landed in 1987 and played 6,680 performances, ranking as the third-longest-running musical in Broadway history. A revival was mounted in 2006 but closed in 2008.
Hugo's story about a decades-long manhunt, social inequality and redemption features the songs "I Dreamed a Dream," `'On My Own," `'Do You Hear the People Sing?" and "One Day More."
It has been seen by nearly 65 million people worldwide in 42 countries and in 22 languages. There is a production based in London, and versions upcoming in Japan and South Korea. Mexico and Brazilian shows are being worked on.
The Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway has been hailed for bringing the camera very close and for having the actors to sing live.
While Broadway fans might hope that some of the movie's stars will want to jump aboard the stage version next year on Broadway, Mackintosh thinks otherwise.
"Anne Hathaway will never do that on stage -- nor should she. You couldn't do that kind of performance of `I Dreamed the Dream' onstage," he said.
"The intimacy of of how that song is done is so cinematic and the scale of performance and the way we re-orchestrated for that performance -- it's almost an intrusion when you watch what she does with it. And isn't the nature of doing a musical on the stage."
Online: http://www.LesMis.com -- Follow Mark Kennedy on Twitter at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits.


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California Grape And Tree Fruit League Changing Its Name
Beginning Aug. 12, the California Grape and Tree Fruit League will be known as the California Fresh Fruit Association.
The last name change for the Fresno-based group was in 1936, originally formed in 1921 as the California Growers and Shippers Protective League, according to its website. The association will continue operations from Fresno with new name, according to a news release.
The group's strategic planning committee suggested changing the name last year after finishing a 5-year strategic plan, according to the release.
"Members were approached by the board to consider a new name which would encompass more of the commodities it represents, including fresh grapes and blueberries, plus deciduous tree fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, pears, apples, cherries, figs, kiwis, pomegranates, and persimmons," according to the release.
The organization has about 350 members. Its mission is to represent growers, shippers and marketers of "permanent fresh fruit crops," except for citrus and avocados (which have their own trade organizations), by working with the state and federal governments, according to the release.
"While undergoing a name change is no easy task, little has changed as we've made sure to continue with our responsibilities as usual," president Barry Bedwell said in the release.
"As we began the process, we wanted to proceed with a name that accurately represents our members and the commodities they provide. We couldn't be happier with our selection. The California Fresh Fruit Association is exactly who we are and what we represent."
Association officials are scheduled to present the new name to state officials in Sacramento during its annual Fruit Delivery on Aug. 12. An evening reception for association members and government officials is scheduled that day.
Source: The Packer, Coral Beach


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Every year, between Pentecost and the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the lectionary takes us through week after week of "Ordinary Time," a seemingly endless stretch of Sundays in green during which there are few special celebrations, no Advent or Lenten introspection and expectation, no thrilling Christmas, Easter or Pentecost celebratory remembrances, just a bunch of green week after week after week. A friend of mine once claimed that Ordinary Time is her favorite part of the liturgical year. I told her she was nuts.
But I've learned over time to appreciate Ordinary Time. Each year, for instance, the gospel readings during Ordinary Time take us through one gospel writer's version of Jesus' adult ministry–this year it has been John, but my favorite is Mark. I like Mark's style–he's brief, direct, and to the point. One week, Jesus calms a stormy sea with a simple "Peace, be still." Another week he raises Jairus's daughter from the dead. Another Sunday, he not only heals people and casts out demons, but he also empowers his disciples to do so.
As Simone Weil wrote, "the stories of miracles complicate everything." And they do. Ever since my youth I have asked "What are we supposed to do with such stories, especially since we don't see people raised from the dead or storms dispersed by a voice command today? Did these things really happen? If so, why don't they happen now?"
The religion I was raised in explained some of this by dispensational theology, meaning that the dispensation of miracles, for some unexplained reason, ended with the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Now that we have the Holy Spirit and the Bible, apparently miracles are old hat. I don't buy it. But a stroll through the gospels raises the complications of miracles for me in a new way.
While riding in the car not long ago, Jeanne and I talked briefly about what it must have been like to be with Jesus and witness the miracles. How could anyone who observed such events have been as confused and often unbelieving as the disciples apparently were? Were the miracles daily events? Or does it just seem that way because the gospel writers are only hitting the high points, Jesus in miracle-working mode?
Maybe the gospel versions of Jesus' ministry are like a ninety-second trailer for a movie. The trailer makes the movie seem like a "mus see," but when you see it you find out that the only funny, dramatic, or poignant parts are the moments you saw in the trailer. Maybe life with Jesus during his ministry involved lots of down time with a few high points.
Just when you think you've got this guy figured out and have rationalized an explanation for what must have happened when he calmed the sea several weeks ago, just when you've decided that he's a very interesting and charismatic guy but nothing more, then he randomly raises someone from the dead and the confusion starts all over again.
The real confusion for me, I think, if I had been a disciple comes into sharp focus as Mark's gospel proceeds and he tells the story of the capture and beheading of John the Baptist. If there's anyone who deserves a miracle from Jesus, it's his relative John. John's whole ministry was to "prepare the way" for Jesus, to connect Jesus to Old Testament prophecies, to baptize Jesus, to identify him as "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world," then to step back.
But John has a big mouth; he runs afoul of paranoid and crazy Herod Antipas and finds himself in prison. How hard would it be for Jesus to open the prison and set John free? Jesus wouldn't even have to be there—he could have done it from a remote site, sort of like a first century wireless connection. But Jesus doesn't work that miracle or any other, and John's head is soon presented to Salome on a platter.
The randomness of the miracles must have struck Jesus's followers then as powerfully as their apparent absence strikes us now. Miracles were no more predictable or formulaic in Jesus's day than they are now. I suspect this is one of the reasons Jesus frequently used to tell those who received or observed miracles not to tell anyone (a directive that was usually disobeyed immediately). Following Jesus in the flesh would not have clarified the miracles confusion any more than following Jesus now. So the question remains—what to do about the miracles (or absence of them)?
A recent rereading of Marilynne Robinson's beautiful novel Gilead reminded me of a much healtheir and less stressful space concerning miracles, a space that I've begun learning to occasionally occupy over the past few years. In Gilead, a rural Congregational minister in his late seventies is writing a memoir for his young son, an only child unexpectedly born to Rev. Ames and his much-younger wife when Ames is seventy.
Ames expects to die long before the child is grown, and Gilead is his love letter to his son containing as much guidance and wisdom as Ames can muster. One of Ames' greatest continuing insights concerns the sacredness of all things. As he nears the end of his life, he pays close attention to the mystery and miracle of things most of us dismiss as "ordinary." Toward the end of the novel, Ames writes:
It has seemed to me sometimes as thought the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance–for a moment or a year or the span of a life. And then it sinks back into itself again, and to look at it no one would know it had anything to do with fire, or light. . . . But the Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than we think. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who has the courage to see it?
Good question. It takes a lot more courage to embrace this world with all of its imperfections and disappointments as a spectacular and continuing divine miracle than to step back and bemoan the fact that it seldom is the miracle we would have performed if it were up to us. It isn't up to us—the power and glory of our created, sacred world is far above our pay scale.
Every week at my Episcopal church during the prayers of the people, the leader says "We thank you for all the blessings of this life. This week we are especially grateful for (individuals share personal thanksgivings)." It is always striking how few of us share our personal thanksgivings. Often at that point of the prayers, I often flash back over the week just past and conclude quickly that "nothing special happened." That's the attitude of someone who is unaware or chooses to be ignorant of the fact that everything is a blessing, that it's all a miracle.
If I started expressing my thanks for everything that is truly miraculous—Jeanne, my sons, my dachshund Frieda, my love of my work, the beauty of autumn weather, and so on—I'd be filling in the blanks for several minutes. Some Sunday I'd like to be surprised at that point in the prayers as the congregation fills in the blanks for at least a full minute with our personal thanksgivings. As Rev. Ames writes, "Confusing as this world is, it is remarkable to consider what does abide in it."


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Hoes still getting acclimated to new club
HOUSTON -- Astros outfielder L.J. Hoes, acquired from the Orioles a week ago in the Bud Norris trade, had never stepped foot in Houston prior to Monday's series opener against the Red Sox. Needless to say, the trade has thrown his life upside down off the field.
"There's a lot going on, just like still trying to get out of my lease [in Baltimore] with my apartment I had and paying rent," he said. "The Orioles are supposed to reimburse me for that. I'm also trying to get all my stuff from over there, getting my car shipped out here. I have to sign new papers with my new team. There's a lot that goes into being traded. It has its ups and downs, but the ups outweigh the down."
Hoes said he'll probably spend the rest of the season in a hotel in Houston, which makes sense considering the amount of time he'll spend on the road with the club. He said his future plans depend on how the rest of the season goes.
"I don't know what the outlook is for next year, but I'll maybe try to find a place here and stay," he said. "Just have to go out there and not worry about all that stuff and get on the field."
Hoes, who grew up in Bowie, Md., as an Orioles fan, has taken notice of how oppressively hot it can get in Houston in the summer.
"I enjoy the hot weather," he said. "It may be a tad too hot, but it's better than the cold."


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