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Today's News: Our Take - Once Upon a Time's Return to Storybrooke Marred by Peter Pan's Deception
Once Upon a Time is finally returning to Storybrooke - but it won't be the joyous celebration that everyone is expecting. That's because our ragtag group of heroes and villains have a stowaway on board in the form of Peter Pan (Robbie Kay), who switched bodies with Henry (Jared Gilmore) before being locked up in Pandora's Box.
Once Upon a Time: Henry's rescue mission comes with a price
"It's really cool that I'm actually able to be Pan," Gilmore tells TVGuide.com from the set of the ABC fairy tale drama. "It's very interesting for me getting to study Robbie; some of his facial expressions and how Peter is very cocky and mischievous. It's very different because I've been Henry for so long and now I'm a completely new person. I was excited because out of all the characters I've ever wanted to be on the show, it was Peter Pan."
After spending the first half of the season in the perilous Neverland, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) can't help but feel the worst is yet to come when they return to Storybrooke - something she's become accustomed to with being the Savior. "In this episode, Emma can't shake the feeling that something's still wrong and a lot of people around her think she's just used to being in crisis," Morrison says. "She's still on guard and doesn't feel like she has the luxury of letting her guard down to be thinking about Neal [Michael Raymond-James] or anyone beyond that."
Lost's Rebecca Mader joins Once Upon a Time
A false sense of security is exactly what Pan wants as the residents of Storybrooke welcome the group back with a party at Granny's. "Because it is such a welcome return to Storybrooke, that's what allows the next set of events to kick off," Raymond-James says. "We are back and we are elated and feel the job is done and it's time to celebrate. We didn't see things that we could've seen. We may have let our guard down a little bit because we feel we've won."
It's Emma who is the first to notice something is off with Henry - which you can read more about here - but not everyone will be as keen to face these tough facts. "Regina's a little blindsided because she's just happy her son wants her," Lana Parrilla says. "She can justify it by saying, 'I saved you, so that's why you want me.' I don't think she knows that he's different or that he's acting different. She's just so elated to have him and for him to want her."
Suffice it to say, the #SaveHenry campaign is not over yet! "[When] all these terrible things start to happen in town, we realize that something's off, that we must not have captured Pan or somehow he's controlling things from the box," Morrison adds.
Once Upon a Time airs Sundays at 8/7c on ABC.
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Appling-led No. 13 Michigan St tops Illinois 80-75
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) ? Keith Appling led a pivotal run early in the second half and finished with 24 points and seven assists to help No. 13 Michigan State beat Illinois 80-75 on Thursday night.
The Spartans (18-4, 7-2 Big Ten) scored the first 14 points of the second half to take their first lead.
The Fighting Illini (15-7, 2-6) lost for the fifth time in six games. They had a chance to be the first team with four wins over currently ranked teams.
Illinois started strong and responded to rallies with shots and stops in the first half. Michigan State played with a lot of energy in the second half. Appling alternated making shots and setting up teammates to score in helping turn a 10-point deficit into a 41-37 lead.
The Spartans started the game without senior center Derrick Nix, finished it without sophomore guard Travis Trice and played much of the second half without freshman guard Gary Harris.
Nix didn't start because coach Tom Izzo said the captain missed some academic appointments. He entered the game midway through the first half and finished with eight points. Trice, a key guard off the bench, was limited to 11 minutes in the first half because of a blow he took to the head on a shot attempt. Trice missed five games after breaking his nose and getting a concussion in the season-opening loss to Connecticut. Harris, a starter, went to the locker room midway through the second half with back spasms and returned to the bench, but not the game.
Harris had 14 points, fellow freshman Denzel Valentine also scored 14, Braden Dawson had 12 points and nine rebounds and Adreian Payne added eight points, including a dunk off an alley-oop pass with 1:45 left to put the Spartans up 72-67.
Appling's spinning, scooping layup put them ahead by six points with 45 seconds remaining to essentially seal the victory that kept Michigan State undefeated at home this season. Appling bounced back from a three-point, no-assist, five-foul performance Sunday in a five-point loss at Indiana.
Tracy Abrams scored 16 points, D.J. Richardson had 14, Brandon Paul 13 and reserve Myke Henry chipped in with 11.
The Spartans led by eight points midway through the second half, but couldn't put away a team that has been talented enough to beat some of the top teams in college basketball.
Illinois has beaten No. 7 Gonzaga by 11 points, No. 9 Butler by 17 and No. 11 Ohio State by 19 points. Since beating the Buckeyes on Jan. 5, the Illini lost lopsided games to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Michigan with their only win during the slump coming against 11th-place Nebraska.
Making five 3-pointers and having only one turnover helped the Illini lead 37-27 at halftime.
After struggling to keep possession of the ball early in the second half against aggressive defense, Abrams made some 3-pointers to keep Illinois within a possession of tying the game, including one with 5:39 left that made the score 63-60.
Early in the game, the Spartans looked rusty playing after a three-day break and Illinois seemed fired up to play.
Michigan State got off to an awful start with four turnovers on its first four possessions, leading to the Illini taking an 8-0 lead.
The second half was much different thanks in large part to Appling who had five points and one assist in the first half.

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Yep, I pretty much fell over.
It is such an honor and privilege to be included with such amazing talent and beautiful homes
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The rail news is the real deal this time
You all know I've been advocating restoration of the passenger rail service in Rockford for many years. I've been skeptical that it would ever happen. Whenever someone has asked Wally Haas or me when the train is coming, we've always given the same answer: "It's five years away."
So of course I was skeptical when I went to Gov. Pat Quinn's news conference Thursday in Davis Park. I knew he would announce a new route for the train on the Union Pacific line instead of the Canadian National line. The CN was impossible to negotiate with; the governor said the Montreal-based rail giant wanted "way too much money" for the state to afford.
What I didn't know was that he would bring money. Lots of it.
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The governor said he's committed $223 million in capital funds to the project and that work to improve the tracks and install signals will start "this spring and summer."
Is this finally, at long last, real? I say yes, because the president of the largest railroad in the U.S. doesn't show up in your town to speculate. There's got to be a done deal, and Fritz is not a politician looking for votes. He's a businessman.
Quinn's Republican opponent, Bruce Rauner, tried to pour cold water on the news. His campaign said: "Pat Quinn held the exact same press conference four years ago, and four years later this train line is just another broken promise to the people of Rockford."
No, that's not true.
Quinn deserves the credit for sticking with this project in the face of a railroad that seemed determined to keep passenger trains off its track through northern Illinois.
He made service to Rockford a top priority and followed through, even though it took much longer than envisioned.
Is it also good politics? You bet. It's good for Rockford, Belvidere, Huntley — Elgin, too.
Rauner needs to say whether he supports passenger rail in Illinois, including the train to Rockford. Illinois and 18 other states support passenger rail service. Ridership on state-backed trains is at record levels — 2.2 million riders last year.
UP already has a big presence in northern Illinois; one of its main lines goes through Rochelle, where local leaders persuaded the railroad about 10 years ago to build an intermodal hub, Global III. But the UP's branch line to Rockford has been little-used past Belvidere's Fiat-Chrysler factory for years. The first line into the city in 1852, the year Rockford was incorporated, sees few freight trains now, and the line west of town was torn out more than 30 years ago.
So this project is a good deal for UP because the railroad gets a smooth track capable of 79 mph and modern signaling, which it hopes will lead to more freight traffic.
Will the train will be successful?
Times have changed in the 33 years since Amtrak's Black Hawk made its last run. Traffic on Interstate 90 has gotten worse, and widening a road always leads to more congestion. Chicago parking rates are through the roof, so it's better to take public transport to get there. With Wi-Fi, trains provide a relaxing working environment.
Now, here's some friendly advice:
Having the old station at Seventh Street and Sixth Avenue serve as an interim station could inhibit ridership growth unless there's adequate parking in a high-fenced, well-lighted lot and a security guard present when the train comes and goes.
Having one train a day at first limits riders' choices. Two trains are promised in 2016. Three or more would provide the flexibility people want.
When the permanent station is constructed downtown, maybe on Cedar Street across from the U.S. courthouse, that, too must have adequate, secure and well-lighted parking.
Still, those of us who were promoting The Black Hawk in the 1970s discovered that the biggest problem was convincing people who wanted to go to Chicago to drive west to get the station. Most Black Hawk riders were east-siders who were not keen on driving several miles to downtown.
The solution would have been to build a park-and-ride station between South Alpine and South Mulford roads. That's still good advice.
Finally, people to the west of Rockford, who hoped that they, too, would see the train in their communities, are temporarily out of luck. It's not Quinn's fault. Extending the train to Freeport, Galena and Dubuque, Iowa, would have to be agreed to by the recalcitrant CN, because it owns the only tracks west of Rockford through northwest Illinois.
Sacre bleu!
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Or, perhaps, from a brand like Coach's actual past. The shape and finish of the leather remind me a lot of both the Coach bags my mom carried when I was a kid and the highly-prized classic Coach finds you can occasionally uncover in a vintage store. The long shoulder strap, the medium-tone gold hardware, the glossy-but-not-shiny finish of the leather – it's all exactly right. Tory even did herself a favor and omitted her signature logo hardware, opting instead for a block T built into the bag's turnlock closure. (Turnlock! Another classic Coach-esque thing.)
Coach doesn't capitalize on interest in vintage-looking bags like this quite as ardently as it could, so, to be perfectly frank, I'm glad someone is. At Burch's price point, this is what heritage looks like, and this bag does a great job pretending that it has a carefully cataloged predecessor from decades past sitting in an archive somewhere. Buy through Neiman Marcus for $495.
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Friday Philosophy – Is the CBO becoming way too complex? October 19, 2012Posted by mwidlake in Friday Philosophy, performance.
Tags: explain plan, perception, performance
I was at the SIOUG annual conference in Slovenia this week (and a very good conference it was too) and I was watching a presentation by Christian Antognini about how the CBO learns by it's mistakes. This was of course mostly about adaptive cursor sharing and cardinality feedback. Chris was also able to share a few tid-bits about 12c enhancements in this area. I can't go into details, but basically it looks like the CBO is going to not only enhance those two features but there is a new one where the CBO can change the plan on the fly, as the same query progresses.
As I watched the presentation I found I was in two minds about this. Part of me was thinking "Yes, these features do help in the CBO realising it has chosen a poor plan and improving things for the next execution – and it will get better at it". The other part was thinking "Oh dear, yet another source of confusion and of performance of queries changing when 'nothing has changed'".
It also solidified an idea I have for a new presentation, about how what you see in the execution plan may well not be what is actually executed. ie there are optional bits in there that do not get run at execution time, depending on the results of prior steps.
But I digress. What I ended up wondering at the end of Chris's talk was this. Is the CBO getting just too complex? It is all very good that extra abilities are being added so that there is a better chance of a good plan being chosen in the first place and the various ways we can control the choice of the plan grows and grows. But we are long past the point when you could write even a simple sql statement and know what the plan will be before you explain it – let alone run it, check the plan and then run it again a few minutes later and be sure the plan will be the same.
Why does this bother me? For three reasons:
1) Performance will not be stable, so the user experience will not be consistent – and so they will be unhappy. Users will generally be happy if they run a report and it takes one minute, if it takes one minute each time. If it takes one minute and then it takes 5 seconds, they want it to always run in 5 seconds, else they fell cheated or that the system is broken. In fact, I am pretty sure a user will be happier if a report always takes 2 minutes rather than it take 5 seconds or 40 seconds but they never know which! (So long, that is, that they never, ever see it run in less than 2 minutes).
2) If performance of a particular SQL statement is absolutely crucial, I need to know how the CBO can and probably will satisfy it so that I can work that into my solution. Otherwise I am reduced to trying out informed options (or maybe random changes 🙂 ) in order to find the optimal solution – and I cannot be sure that the plan won't suddenly swap later unless I fix the plan. OK, it might swap to be faster, but I only notice when it swaps to be a lot slower.
3) I've said this before, but I am starting to really wonder how anyone new to this starts understanding oracle performance tuning any more. Reading blogs and books about how Oracle works and what impacts the CBO teaches you a lot about what is possible but it only makes sense when you do little tests and proofs of concepts. ie you actually run simple examples and see what happens. But with all these options, considerations and now on-the-fly alterations to plans by the CBO, it is very confusing. Even I, after 20 years of doing performance tuning on and off, am constantly finding myself looking at relatively simple SQL and having to work out why the plan is as it is and satisfying myself that it has not changed. I started with the CBO when it was a lot simpler and I've been introduced to the complexities gradually, as they have been introduced, so learning about it has been easier for me.
Perhaps I should not worry about this. I mean, the CBO is getting better at doing what it does, that is good. It is getting hard for those younger and smarter than me to learn about it, so my career is protected. And there is more stuff to talk about so I can keep going to conferences and talking about them.
And with that happy idea, I'm off to start the weekend. Where was that cork screw?
- 1. oraclebase - October 19, 2012
To paraphrase a notable Oracle employee, the optimizer team are always looking for the "best" plan, when the rest of us just want a consistent plan!
On the positive side, tuning has now become, "Just run the query 10 times in a row and the plan will be perfect!" 🙂
Note. You can turn off adaptice execution plans and I guess you can also prevent plan changes using SQL Plan Management, although not being on the beta, I've not tested either in the context of 12c.
- 2. Steve C - October 19, 2012
There is always SPM if you are looking for stability. This change appears to be directly aimed at OLAP use cases. I personally am looking forward to solutions for what I call the "Nested Loop Ascension of Death" nested loops are done and hash should have been used.
- 3. Martin Preiss - October 19, 2012
Hi Martin,
when I first heared about this "real-time optimization" in 12c I remebered a sentence from Cost based Oracle: "Of course, an optimizer that changes its mind every five minutes because of the ongoing acitivity could be more of a threat than a benefit – I think I might favor predicatbility and stability to intermittently failing perfection" (p. 3). I think that in current versions even the most simple join can bring strange costing effects if you hit some special conditions. Oracle has done a great job creating instrumentation for the analysis of SQL operations (I love the sql monitor in 11g). Since I have worked a little bit with MDX and SQL Server Analysis Services the last few years – where you have no execution plan and the path to optimization is trial-and-error – I value these options extremly high: it's a lot of fun to be able to unterstand the work that is done by the CBO and the runtime engine and to be able to correct some errors. But with "real-time optimization" things could become quite strange – "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", as Arthur C. Clarke wrote. Perhaps it will be a feature to be deactivated – but of course we all need to take a look at it, before there is any judgement.
- 5. Andreas Buckenhofer - October 22, 2012
Regularly I'm confronted with "DBA make integration environment the same as production environment so we can reproduce performance issues". It's difficult to explain "non-Oracle people" why there will still be different plans in integration (or different statistics as soon as production and integration environment continue to gather statistics or any other differences). It's getting now more difficult.
- 8. Noons - October 22, 2012
The best thing Oracle could do to improve the optimiser is to remove DISTINCT from SQL.
The number of times I've seen that keyword being used as a substitute for good join technique – thereby activating the consequent performance disaster – defies any quantification or description!
- 9. Christian Antognini - October 23, 2012
Hi Martin
First of all I'm pleased that my talk gave you something to think about 😉
About your question… IMO the CBO is not getting too complex. Really. If you look back at its first 20 years, the key concepts didn't change so much. In fact, for costing an execution plan, only an handful of features where introduced (star transformation, bind peeking, dynamic sampling, extended stats, feedback-based optimization). All other features are related to either plan stability or new objects.
IMO other components were improved much more than the CBO.
CBO Days 2012 – http://www.trivadis.com/cbo
- 10. Dominic Brooks - October 26, 2012
It seems to me that much of the complexity is caused by two (incompatible) features – bind variable peeking and histograms – and the constant ebb and flow of enhancements to deal with that.
Even in 11gR2 the auto stats job will occasionally come up a histogram on a sequence-generated primary key… Why would I want such a thing?
And bind variable peeking… whoever thought that was a good idea? Especially as default behaviour?
Once upon the time the world was simple.
If you wanted reusable SQL and estimates/plans suitable for all supplied values, you used bind variables.
If you wanted specific estimates/plans for specific values, you used literals.
But BVP comes along and now all your carefully crafted, deliberate shareable SQL behaves as if you've passed it literals.
And then you need ACS to sort it all out on the nth execution, etc.
And frankly, isn't this all just bollocks? 🙂
So all our environments start looking like:
– bind variable peeking off
– auto stats job off
– adaptive cursor sharing off
– cardinality feedback off
– any new feature off
And have you looked at the sheer number of wrong results bugs in Metalink? It's a horrific testament to this complexity.
It's as if Oracle cannot be trusted to give you the right data – the bread and butter of what it's there to do.
- Noons - October 29, 2012
That's all very well, Martin. But I can't help be in agreement with Dom.
Thing is: these changes (and changed defaults) are sprung on us, without any warning. It may come as a surprise to Oracle but not everyone is called Jonathan or Chris and spends all their time investigating the inner workings of the very last detail of a query.
We simply cannot afford to run databases in that fashion, when there are dozens or even hundreds of the beasts around!
Another one that still rattles my cage to this day is the change to the optimizer that assumed a high value of a column (like a date set to 31/12/4000) implied a linear population up to that value! There is simply no reason whatsoever an optimizer should EVER assume something like that!
Assumptions about value ranges are completely wrong in the context of a CBO. Of course the problem is easily solved by using histograms on that column! But it shouldn't have been there in the first place: a CBO must NOT make ANY assumptions about data distribution unless we ask it to via histograms, end of story, period!
If said distribution becomes important for good performance then make a histogram of it, not an assumption!
(off the soap box and back to checking table growth…)
- 11. Noons - October 29, 2012
I think Joel has it in a nutshell: "sufficiently advanced". Really like that one – I might get a wider bumper!
Not sure about Oracle asking customers on new features to add. AFAIK, it never did – it's always been what the marketing folks think is the "new black" that gets added!
That's why we got that monstrosity called OO in Rel 8. Then later on native Java and XML.
Obviously – there are sooooooo many customers out there coding Java *inside* the db to access SQL! (facepalm)…
Look, I'm all for progress and new features. But for once ASK the correct people what those should be: the DBAs, the SQL and PL/SQL coders and designers. NOT the "kewl" brigade – they couldn't care less!
No, *new* is not a synonym for *good*, last time I looked in the dictionary.
As for the data distribution: the CBO should either do nothing – carry on with *no* assumptions about linear distribution – or (*if* the DBA or designer ask it to) then use histograms. The killer here is the "assumption". Not the result.
The number of apps and dbs I've seen with broken performance because the CBO assumed the wrong thing when looking at "special values" is staggering. And quite frankly, the old "fix the app" nonsense just does not gel at all.
I'm all for facilitating the life of those who have to run applications on dbs. Not hindering it. As such, I fail to see the value of blaming the dba for an app that he/she is forced to run and over the design of which they can't possibly have a say…


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Kansas was the epicenter of the winter storm, with parts of the state buried under 14 inches of powdery snow, but winter storm warnings stretched from eastern Colorado through Illinois. Freezing rain and sleet were forecast for southern Missouri, southern Illinois and Arkansas. St. Louis received all of the above — a treacherous mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain.
Several accidents were blamed on icy and slushy roadways, including two fatal accidents. Most schools in Kansas and Missouri, and many in neighboring states, were closed. Legislatures shut down in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
"Thundersnow" rumbled through Kansas and Missouri earlier Thursday. National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Truett said that's the result of an unstable air mass, much like a thunderstorm.
"Instead of pouring rain, it's pouring snow," Truett said. And pouring was a sound description, with snow falling at a rate of 2 inches per hour or more in some spots.
Topeka got 3 inches of snow in one 30-minute period, leaving medical center worker Jennifer Carlock to dread the drive home.
"It came on fast," Carlock said as she shoveled around her car. "We're going to test out traction control on the way home."
Snow totals passed the foot mark in many places: Monarch Pass, Colo., had 17½ inches, Hutchinson, Kan., 14 inches and Wichita, Kan., 13 inches. A few places in far northern Oklahoma saw between 10 to 13½ inches of snow. The National Weather Service said up to 18 inches of snow were possible in central Kansas.
With that in mind, Kansas transportation officials — and even the governor — urged people to simply stay home.
Drivers were particularly warned away from the Kansas Turnpike, which had whiteout conditions. Interstate 70 was also snow-packed and a 90-mile stretch of that road was closed between Salina and Hays.
"If you don't have to get out, just really, please, don't do it," Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said.
Travelers filled hotels rather than skating across dangerous roadways. At the Econo Lodge in WaKeeney, Kan., assistant manager Michael Tidball said the 48-room hotel was full.
But there were a few that came down with cabin fever, like Jennifer McCoy of Wichita. She loaded her nine children — ages 6 months to 16 years — in a van for lunch at Applebee's.
"I was going crazy, they were so whiny," McCoy said. They planned to build an igloo after lunch.
Just south of Wichita near the small community of Clearwater, Scott Van Allen had already shoveled the sidewalks and was on his tractor clearing the driveway of the 10 inches of snow. For once, he didn't mind the task.
"I kind of enjoyed it this time," he said. "We were certainly needing the moisture terribly."
The storm brought some relief to a region of the country that has been parched for nearly a year, engulfed in the worst drought in decades. Climatologists say 12 inches of snow is equivalent to about 1 inch of rain, depending on the density of the snow.
Vance Ehmke, a wheat farmer near Healy, Kan., said the nearly foot of snow was "what we have been praying for."
"The big question is, 'Is the drought broke?' " Ehmke asked.
Near Edwardsville, Ill., farmer Mike Campbell called the snow — or any precipitation — a blessing after a bone-dry growing season in 2012. He hopes it is a good omen for the spring.
"The corn was just a disaster," Campbell said of 2012.
In Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service planned to take advantage of the snow to burn piles of dead trees on federal land.
Near the Nebraska-Kansas border, as much as 8 inches fell overnight, while western Nebraska saw about half of that amount, National Weather Service forecaster Shawn Jacobs said. Areas in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle also had up to 8 inches of snow.
Elsewhere, Arkansas saw a mix of precipitation — a combination of hail, sleet and freezing rain in some place, 6 inches of snow in others. Forecasters warned northern Arkansas could get a half-inch of ice.
Two fatal accidents were attributed to winter weather on Wednesday. In Oklahoma, 18-year-old Cody Alexander of Alex died when his pickup truck skidded into oncoming traffic and hit a truck. And in Nebraska, 19-year-old Kristina Leigh Anne Allen of Callaway died when a SUV lost control, crossed the median and struck her car.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Thursday morning. Kansas City International Airport shut down by midmorning; more than 320 flights were canceled at Lambert Airport in St. Louis.
The University of Missouri canceled classes for one of the few times in its 174-year history. At a nearby Wal-Mart, some students passed the ice scrapers and snow melt, heading directly to the aisles containing sleds and alcohol.
"This isn't our usual Thursday noon routine," Lauren Ottenger, a senior economics major from Denver, said as she stockpiled supplies.
Alex Sosnowski, a meteorologist for Accuweather, said the storm will push off into the Great Lakes and central Appalachians, and freezing rain could make it as far east and south as North Carolina. He also said a "spin-off" storm was expected to create heavy snow in New England on Saturday, and could push Boston to a February record.
Accuweather said that by the time the storm dies out, at least 24 states will be affected.


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email@example.com — Olivia Jones stepped up on the big stage for the Hillsdale Academy girls basketball team.The junior lead all scorers Tuesday as the Colts continued their impressive season with a 46-36 victory over the Pittsford Wildcats in the Class D regional semifinals at Mendon High School.Hillsdale Academy (22-1) advanced to Thursday regional final against Athens. After making its deepest postseason run in 13 years, Pittsford (16-6) saw its season come to an end."We are one of 16 teams left, and we're going to have to play our best game of the year," Hillsdale Academy coach Kevin Reed said. "I don't think we've seen our best game yet, and hopefully that comes Thursday."The playoff matchup between the outright Southern Central Athletic Association champion Colts and the SCAA Red Division champion Wildcats lived up to its billing. Hillsdale Academy held a four-point lead entering the fourth quarter, but Pittsford didn't go quietly. The Wildcats scored the first four points of the quarter to make it 31-31 and force the Colts to burn a timeout with 6:40 remaining.Hillsdale Academy turned the ball over on the ensuing possession, but came up with a defensive stop. The Colts took over from there, outscoring Pittsford 15-5 down the stretch."The girls played hard tonight and it was a good game like a regional should be," Pittsford coach Chris Hodos said. "Hillsdale Academy played super defense against us. We had to foul at the end and had some turnovers in the last two minutes that hurt us."The teams played an even first quarter, which ended in an 8-8 tie. Hillsdale Academy used a small run to gain the lead in the second quarter, but the Wildcats kept themselves within striking distance. The Colts took a 20-17 lead into halftime.The teams exchanged baskets again throughout the third quarter, and Hillsdale Academy entered the fourth up 31-27. Momentum appeared to shift to the Wildcats after consecutive baskets tied the score early in the fourth."We knew playing them a third time Pittsford would be ready, and they were really ready to go tonight," Reed said. "Pittsford had a big crowd, and when they tied the game the gym got loud. We could've folded, but the girls pulled together."Jones finished with a game-high 17 points to lead Hillsdale Academy. Elyse Lisznyai added 11 points, three assists and three steals, while Lyndee Wonders had 10 points and seven rebounds. Michaela Biegner grabbed five rebounds and Christina Craig handed out four assists."Olivia had an incredible game for us and presented matchup problems," Reed said. "I told her before the game that she was the X-factor because they hadn't prepared for her."Laura Clark scored 11 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Wildcats. Laura Smith added six points, while Lyndsey Billington and Kristin Belcher both scored five points. Emily Poling forced three steals.Pittsford finished third in the SCAA behind the Colts and Climax-Scotts, then caught fire in the playoffs. Victories over Camden-Frontier and Lenawee Christian on their home court gave the Wildcats their first district championship since 2000."This was a successful season and the community really got behind us," Hodos said. "We had about 50 people on a fan bus today and had a loud student section. We came together as we went along, and I can't wait to start summer basketball. We're really looking forward to next season."


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Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers' playboy owner who shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships from the '80s Showtime dynasty to the Kobe Bryant era, died Monday, his assistant said.
Buss died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said Bob Steiner, his assistant. He was 79.
He'd been hospitalized for cancer, but the immediate cause of death was kidney failure, Steiner said.
Under Buss' leadership since 1979, the Lakers became Southern California's most beloved sports franchise and a worldwide extension of Hollywood glamour. Buss acquired, nurtured and befriended a staggering array of talented players and basketball minds during his Hall of Fame tenure.
Few owners in sports history can even approach Buss' accomplishments with the Lakers, who made the NBA finals 16 times through 2011 during his 32 years in charge, winning 10 titles between 1980 and 2010. The Lakers easily are the NBA's winningest franchise since he bought the club.
Few owners have ever been more beloved by their players than Buss, who always referred to the Lakers as his extended family. Working with front-office executives Jerry West and Mitch Kupchak, Buss spent lavishly to win his titles despite lacking a huge personal fortune, often running the NBA's highest payroll while also paying high-profile coaches Pat Riley and Phil Jackson.
Always an innovative businessman, Buss paid for the Lakers through both their wild success and his own groundbreaking moves to raise revenue. He co-founded a basic-cable sports television network and sold the naming rights to the Forum at times when both now-standard strategies were unusual, adding justification for his induction into the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
Magic Johnson and fellow Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy formed lifelong bonds with Buss during the Lakers' run to five titles in nine years in the 1980s, when the Lakers earned a reputation as basketball's most exciting team with their glamorous Showtime style.
Jackson then led Shaquille O'Neal and Bryant to a threepeat from 2000-02, rekindling the Lakers' mystique, before Bryant and Pau Gasol won two more titles under Jackson in 2009 and 2010.
Although Buss was proudest of his two hands full of NBA title rings, he also was a scholar, Renaissance man and bon vivant who epitomized California cool - and a certain Los Angeles lifestyle - for his entire public life.
The father of six rarely appeared in public without at least one attractive, much younger woman on his arm at USC football games, boxing matches, poker tournaments - and, of course, Lakers games from his private box at Staples Center, which was built under his watch.
Buss earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at age 24 and had careers in aerospace and real estate development before getting into sports. With money largely from his Santa Monica real-estate ventures, Buss bought the then-struggling Lakers, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and both clubs' arena - the Forum - from Jack Kent Cooke in a $67.5 million deal that was the largest sports transaction in history at the time.
In January 2011, Forbes estimated the Lakers were worth $643 million - the second-most valuable NBA franchise.
Buss also helped change televised sports by co-founding the Prime Ticket network in 1985, even receiving a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 for his work in television. Breaking the contemporary model of subscription services for televised sports, Buss' Prime Ticket put beloved broadcaster Chick Hearn and the Lakers' home games on basic cable.
Buss also sold the naming rights to the Forum in 1988 to Great Western Savings & Loan - another deal that was ahead of its time.
Born in Salt Lake City, Gerald Hatten Buss was raised in Wyoming and attended USC for graduate school, eventually becoming a chemistry professor and working as a chemist for the Bureau of Mines before his life took an abrupt turn into wealth and sports.
The former mathematician claimed his fortune grew out of a $1,000 real-estate investment in a West Los Angeles apartment building with partner Frank Mariani, an aerospace engineer.
Buss purchased Cooke's entire Los Angeles sports empire in 1979, including a 13,000-acre ranch in Kern County. Buss' love of basketball was the motivation for his purchase, and he immediately worked to transform the Lakers - who had won just one NBA title since moving west from Minneapolis in 1960 - into a star-powered endeavor befitting Hollywood.
"One of the first things I tried to do when I bought the team was to make it an identification for this city, like Motown in Detroit," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2008. "I try to keep that identification alive. I'm a real Angeleno. I want us to be part of the community."
Buss' plans immediately worked: Johnson, Abdul-Jabbar and coach Paul Westhead led the Lakers to the 1980 title. Johnson's ball-handling wizardry and Abdul-Jabbar's smooth inside game made for an attractive style of play evoking Hollywood flair and West Coast cool.
Riley, the former broadcaster who fit the L.A. image perfectly with his slick-backed hair and chiseled good looks, was surprisingly promoted by Buss early in the 1981-82 season after West declined to co-coach the team. Riley became one of the best coaches in NBA history, leading the Lakers to four straight NBA finals and four titles, with Worthy, Michael Cooper, Byron Scott and A.C. Green playing major roles.
Overall, the Lakers made the finals nine times in Buss' first 12 seasons while rekindling the NBA's best rivalry with the Boston Celtics, and Buss basked in the worldwide celebrity he received from his team's achievements. His womanizing and partying became Hollywood legend, with even his players struggling to keep up with Buss' lifestyle.
Johnson's HIV diagnosis and retirement in 1991 staggered Buss and the Lakers, the owner recalled in 2011. The Lakers struggled through much of the 1990s, going through seven coaches and making just one conference finals appearance in an eight-year stretch despite the 1996 arrivals of O'Neal, who signed with Los Angeles as a free agent, and Bryant, the 17-year-old high schooler acquired in a draft-week trade.
Shaq and Kobe didn't reach their potential until Buss persuaded Jackson, the Chicago Bulls' six-time NBA champion coach, to take over the Lakers in 1999. Los Angeles immediately won the next three NBA titles in brand-new Staples Center, AEG's state-of-the-art downtown arena built with the Lakers as the primary tenant.
After the Lakers traded O'Neal in 2004, they hovered in mediocrity again until acquiring Gasol in a heist of a trade with Memphis in early 2008. Los Angeles made the next three NBA finals, winning two more titles.
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The Intuitive Approach to Training
Widely accepted among advanced athletes and used and loved by many climbers, "periodization" is the structured approach to training that involves manipulating intensity, volume and rest over time, in organized cycles of different lengths.
Widely accepted among advanced athletes and used and loved by many climbers, "periodization" is the structured
approach to training that involves manipulating intensity, volume and rest over time, in organized cycles of different lengths. However, not only is
periodization still attracting doubt from those who study it most, it's often the case that its shaky and poorly supported methodologies cause more
problems for climbers than they solve.
Although there is little data, coaches like myself notice the rates of finger injuries growing and an increasing tendency for large imbalances in the levels
of different component skills among climbers—perhaps as a result of novice and intermediate climbers taking on training regimes that are both
advanced and unproven.
So the question is, should you be using periodization to train for climbing? And if so, where should you start?
First of all, periodization might not even be desirable; the research is still inconclusive. Sports scientists' uncertainty over the training regimen lingers
because some world-class athletes, such as African distance runners, apparently don't use it. In our sport, many of the world's strongest, highest-achieving
climbers don't follow any structured training regimes—instead they tune into what their bodies are telling them, and use those messages to focus
their "training." However, this doesn't mean these climbers couldn't improve by adopting a more periodic approach—perhaps they could. The point
is, at least as of today, it's still perfectly possible to reach a world-class level in any climbing discipline without an extensive and exact pre-planned
training regime.
You can climb hard without charts, plots and a rigid lifestyle.
The first part of this article will show you how to approach training intuitively, while in the second part, I'll lay out periodization's basics if you
think a more rigid approach is right for you.
The Intuitive Approach of training periodization may be technically unstructured, but it is still deliberate and requires that you stick to certain principles
to be effective.
The Intuitive Approach basically involves holding up every training decision you make to the fundamental laws of human adaptation in sport: progressive
overload, specificity, reversibility, variety and individuality. Knowing these simple guidelines, and applying them logically and objectively, will
help you take the right course in training and athletic development. Of course, humans are not always logical or objective, so it's equally possible
to go badly wrong and lose direction. Talking about all the ways in which climbers can err would be a different article; in fact, it could be an entire
book … in fact, I've already written that book. (See: 9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes.)
Following these fundamental laws of human adaption, you can take a more intuitive approach to your training.
Progressive overload: More than before. Whatever your body is used to, it will no longer respond to. The stimulus must get stronger, longer
or more frequent to continue working.
Specificity: What you do, you become. Your abilities are explained by what you do day in, day out. If you pull on evenly spaced plastic
blobs 90 percent of the time or just campus, you won't be getting any better at anything but this activity. In fact, you'll be getting worse at everything
else. Which brings me to…
Reversibility: Use it or lose it. That goes for every last detail of your climbing game. If you lost it, remember that the stimulus needed
to start gaining it again will be smaller. However, if you jump in with the same schedule you held at your peak, you get wasted in double-quick time.
Variety: Whatever you've been doing recently in your training is now wrong. What worked before won't work again, at least for a while.
Move on. Think of what you normally do in training and do the opposite. It will probably work.
Individuality: The thing that works for that other guy is unlikely to work for you. Your weaknesses are different.
You cannot break these laws. But you can break yourself against them.
Other considerations
The most important element in the Intuitive Approach's success is your ability to listen to your body. Hearing its messages takes the keen ear of experience,
but once you're tuned in, the body helps guide everything, from whether to do one more set/route/boulder, to future goals. The success of the approach
comes in avoiding many of the gross misjudgments of how much or what type of training to apply that come from pre-planned schedules.
Even experts (researchers and coaches) in formal periodization recognize that their discipline is fraught with failures to avoid over- or under-training,
or to adapt quickly enough to the changing needs of athletes as they develop and gain both new abilities and injuries. So the most pertinent question
for any athlete making any short- or long-term decision about training is, "What is my body telling me?"
Answering that question takes a great deal of attention and memory, which is why all the training books encourage a diary where you record how your body
is responding to specific combinations of intensity, volume or mode, also giving details about fatigue, soreness, stiffness, appetite, mood, warm-up
time, session endurance, or problems like injury or plateau. All of these channels must be recorded in great detail.
Once in the habit of listening to your body over increasing amounts of time (preferably years), you can start to use that keen sense as a tool to make
effective assessments of your training capacity, both right now and over the long term.
Mainstream sports are slowly developing a good knowledge base about how athletes respond generally to a given program, with physiological and psychological
tests that let coaches know if a training load is too low or dangerously high, but climbing is nowhere near that stage. For climbers, striking the
correct training load and content still require a lot of guesswork and a heavy reliance on monitoring progress closely. Very few climbers have a coach
watching continuously with an objective eye. We only have our own monitoring, about as biased as a witch trial, especially if you're getting close
to sending a prized route or taking a big trip.
Approaching performance peak is a prime time in which bias can lead to problems. You've been training hard for a long time, or on a trip for several weeks
and feel great. The routes are going down and you feel stronger on a long-term project every session. You've just had four days off due to work or
rain and feel paranoid about losing ground. So you jump straight back in with three hard days in a row. On the first day you feel brilliant, everything
feels easy. The next two days, performance is also excellent, despite some soreness in the morning and poor sleep at night. This is where the coach
and amateur diverge in their interpretation of the situation. The amateur looks only at the last week and dismisses the soreness as a loss of form
in the days off, feeling that more training is needed to catch up. The coach is totaling the number and intensity of the training sessions in the past
six weeks and comparing those numbers carefully to the season before. The coach sees that a lot of training has been done. Some extended rest has brought
about a jump in performance. Resumption of the training is causing some symptoms of overtraining. The coach suggests a week of one day on, two off,
then a week of going for the big send, then a whole week off. The amateur can't understand the logic because performance is still great and getting
better. Keep training! But the coach explains that the body is on the point of exhaustion and the extended rest is lifting the burden of training stress.
More rest is needed to peak and the climber should take a break.
By introducing pre-planned periodization into your short and long-term training, you are just as likely to introduce error as to improve the effectiveness
of the training, unless you have a systematic and reliable method of measuring how your body is responding.
Part II: Periodization fundamentals
Again, be aware that by introducing pre-planned periodization into your short- and long-term training, you are just as likely to plateau or become injured
as you are to improve. Monitoring your response to the training is crucial; the more objective you are, the better. That might mean hiring an experienced
coach or mentor, or at the very least keeping a daily journal of all your observations and feelings about your training over time.
Two very different ways to organize long-term training load have emerged as effective: complex training and concentrated loading.
Complex training relies on the theory that it's OK to mix up your training and work on "conflicting" components of fitness at the same time. To give an
example, this could mean working on bouldering strength all winter, with one endurance session per week. But sport-climbing season is six weeks away,
and you will need endurance, so you gradually replace bouldering time with more endurance work until eventually that is the focus of your training
load. In general, in complex training, you are likely to be working simultaneously on aerobic and anaerobic endurance, strength, technique and flexibility
all year long, but it will be your general focus that changes.
This wave-like oscillation between different components of fitness was one of the first periodization methods used. The theory is that the body never reaches
an acute state of fatigue, and the gentle variation from one focus to another results in a gradual, steady increase in overall ability.
Concentrated loading, however, is more common in professional athletes these days, and despite some similarities to complex training, involves quite a
different approach. Essentially, concentrated loading features a sustained block of focused heavy loading for about a month or two. It's similar to
complex training in that the specific focus oscillates in smooth waves rather than abrupt block changes, but concentrated loading's intensity might
not actually be that high, while volume is high.
With a high volume of work, the athlete generally feels quite tired and worked throughout the period; overall performance is likely to plummet and remain
down even after the volume is reduced. What the first experimenters with this method (probably post-war Russian weightlifters) noticed was that over
the following couple of months of light loading, the body recovered and demonstrated a large rise in ability, even though the current training was
much lighter. There would be two periods of concentrated loading in the year, and two distinct peaks of performance.
So which should climbers use? The current thinking is that only elite, highly specialized/experienced athletes, under the close supervision of coaches,
should use concentrated loading. Why? Because it's dangerous. Even expert coaches tend to underestimate how light the post-concentrated loading phase
needs to be, and to misjudge the quality of restoration activities. The result can be a bunch of overtrained, injured athletes.
Marius Morstad, a renowned Scandinavian climbing coach, says, "There are no climbers in the world who have to concern themselves with this discussion [of
concentrated loading]." It's really for athletes who have built up enough training time over enough years to handle it, and even with a lot of support,
many athletes get injured or stagnate. Yet some climbers at an advanced level are arranging their training like this with consistent results. If you
think you are ready to apply a concentrated loading regime on yourself, you'll need to arm yourself with either a good elite coach or a large stack
of books and a thorough understanding of what you're getting yourself into.
I'm always nervous about looking too closely at case studies of other climbers when I discuss training. It's just too tempting for people to try to copy
the case study rather than absorb the principle of why it worked for that individual. Copying someone else's training regime is one of the finest ways
to blow it, and break yourself against one or more of the fundamental laws mentioned earlier. Why? Because you never hold complete information about
why someone's schedule worked for that person—especially if you heard it straight from the horse's mouth (and hence with maximum bias and minimum
objectivity). Climbers often attribute the success of training plans to entirely the wrong things.
An example from my past: When preparing for my hardest route, Echo Wall (5.14c R/X) I unwittingly applied a concentrated loading pattern. From
February 2008 onward I trained like never before. I knew I would need to be careful in making a rapid increase in my training load and trying to sustain
it for several months. So I cut down the volume of work I did and made sure I slept really well and took good general care of my health. By June I
had made great progress. I was at my fighting weight and feeling fit and strong, if a little jaded. Then the weather in Scotland turned awful, with
six weeks of rain. My efforts to stay on real rock only resulted in carrying heavy packs of gear up mountains in the rain and growing some nice heavy
quadriceps. Then as I was losing hope, a work trip for a few weeks prompted yet more barriers to regular climbing. I snatched the odd route here and
there. But I was doing a fraction of the volume I had been and I thought it was over. What I was missing on the work trip was a reference—a familiar
climb to measure my fitness on. All I had to go on was feeling kind of flat and frustrated.
On returning to Echo Wall in mid August I couldn't believe what had happened. I'd made a huge jump in my level and was suddenly ready to lead
it. It didn't make any sense: nearly seven weeks of training at half my previous volume, and yet I was feeling invincible. I took my opportunity and
nailed the route a few days later. In hindsight I realized that my earlier training volume was unsustainable. The poor weather and the work, which
I felt had gotten in the way, were in fact crucial ingredients. Even though I was really tuned into my training, I was still getting periodization
wildly wrong. I was trying to increase my training load too significantly. My intention was to apply this in a complex loading protocol—maintaining
the high load until close to the send window. But circumstances saved me from the error and all ended well, that time. Since then, despite the lesson,
I've overcooked my training and gotten injured several times. Every time, I've worked too closely to my desired schedule, and not paid sufficient heed
to the subtle signs from the body.
So given that the complex approach applies to most of us, here are some crucial details:
Everyone else's schedule is wrong (for you). Make up your own, from scratch, from first principles and within your own constraints of time, resources,
stage of development, and weaknesses.
Use smooth, undulating transitions of focus from one fitness component to the next. Sudden changes from heavy training in one area to another (e.g., doing
long routes all summer and then suddenly switching to hard bouldering or campusing) are too stressful on the body, and quickly result in injury. Phases
of five to eight weeks, focusing on a particular aspect, seem to work well for athletes with a set competition season in the year. Climbers might need
to use slightly shorter phases to cover everything if they want to have several peaks in the year.
Overall volume and intensity should be inversely related to each other. A common method is to start a training season with high volume and low intensity,
and progress over several months to high intensity/low volume just before you want to peak.
In the early stage of a season of training—let's say it's December and you want to peak in April—focus on the basic elements such as core strength
and basic finger strength. Early on is the time to tame the hangboard and put in the long, high-volume bouldering sessions in the gym. As the training
season goes on, shift your focus progressively toward technique, with less time in gyms, more time on rock or the exact medium you want to peak for,
and more specific work. This might mean spending time working moves on the actual project you want to send.
Although your overall volume and intensity are changing in slow, smooth curves over weeks or months, constantly vary your individual sessions in both intensity
and volume. Mix both variables up in different combinations and light, moderate or heavy sessions. For example, a long session of onsighting newly
set problems at an unfamiliar wall might be heavy volume, light intensity. But going for it on your hardest problems on your home board is heavy intensity,
light volume. Too many of one type of session in a row and injury is around the corner.
Big problems for climbers using periodization:
Climbers are awful at separating training from performing. They try to perform all the time: on the campus board, in the gym and at the crag. In short,
the body never gets a good run at proper training. It's always trying to recover.
Climbers want to peak all year long. We want and expect to be able to climb our grade at the crag with 100 percent consistency. When our bodies are tired
and can't manage it, we get annoyed and do exactly the wrong thing—try even harder. Adopting a periodization approach means thinking ahead about
when you want to be in peak form and accepting that otherwise you'll see some depressed or unpredictable performances.
Climbers who are "into" training enough to think about periodization tend to forget about training technique and tactics and get hung up on the basic stuff
like campus/hangboard/circuit routines. Imagine if Roger Federer did nothing but an elaborate arrangement of periodized weights and running sessions
all year and never went out and played a match. Would he be in winning form?
If you are up for the work, or have a coach who is, periodization could help you go places with your climbing. But be aware you are entering a minefield
of chances to get yourself injured, be frustrated or just not be as good as you would if you'd only gone climbing and done what felt natural. Lots
of athletes still think periodization is a skill of planning. It's actually a skill of measuring. Get better at measuring what's happening with your
body and its performances. If you're listening, your body will give you the best information on what to serve it up next.
Dave MacLeod is considered one of the best all-around climbers in the world, with difficult sport, trad, boulder and alpine routes under his belt. He is the author of 9
Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes, which can be found at www.davemacleod.com.


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