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Colposcopy (cont.)
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In this Article
- Colposcopy facts
- What is colposcopy?
- Why is colposcopy done?
- How is colposcopy done?
- What special tests are done during colposcopy?
- Acetic acid wash for colposcopy
- Use of color filters for colposcopy
- Biopsy of the cervix
- Based on the colposcopy results, what is the approach to treating cervical abnormalities?
- Carbon dioxide laser photoablation
- Cryocautery
- Loop electrosurgical excision procedure
- Cold knife cone biopsy
- Hysterectomy
- Find a local Obstetrician-Gynecologist in your town
What special tests are done during colposcopy?
Three special tests are done during colposcopy: acetic acid wash, use of color filters, and sampling (biopsy) of the cervix tissues.
Acetic acid wash for colposcopy
After the cervix is studied with the colposcope, the cervix is washed with a chemical called acetic acid, which is diluted 3% to 5%. The acetic acid (vinegar) washes away mucus and allows abnormal areas to be seen more easily with the colposcope. Moreover, the acetic acid stains the abnormal areas white. The areas that stain white after the acetic acid wash are called "acetowhite lesions." Sometimes, however, normal areas can also stain white, but these areas have vague or faint borders. In contrast, significant abnormalities, such as genital warts, pre-cancers (dysplasia), and cancers, generally produce acetowhite areas with distinct and clear boundaries.
Sometimes staining with a dilute iodine solution (known as Lugol's solution or Schiller's solution) is also performed to further examine for abnormalities. Normal cells will generally take up the iodine stain (and turn brown) in a uniform manner, whereas severe precancers and cancerous areas will not.
Use of color filters for colposcopy
Another aspect of colposcopy involves the use of color filters. The filters help the physician examine tiny blood vessels (capillaries) in the area of the squamocolumnar junction. Blue or green filtered light can cause abnormal capillaries to become more obvious, usually inside an acetowhite area.
Normal capillaries are slender and spaced out evenly. In contrast, abnormal capillaries can appear as red spots (thickened capillaries seen on end) or can produce a pattern resembling hexagonal floor tiles. The worse the cervical disease, the thicker and more widely spaced out are the capillaries. The abnormal capillary pattern ranges from mild, as with pre-cancer (dysplasia), to severe, as with established cancer. Thus, when cancer eventually develops, capillaries take on odd shapes, like punctuation marks.
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"Conversations With Funders" To Be Held Statewide in March, April
What do Newport, Hillsboro, Oregon City, Eugene, Bend, Burns, The Dalles, Echo and LaGrande have in common?
Yes, they are all in Oregon… And they will all be visited by the Cultural Trust and partners Oregon Heritage, Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Humanities this spring!
This group of statewide culture-focused organizations began touring the state with a workshop entitled "Conversations With Funders: Arts, Heritage and Humanities," on March 6, with a session in Newport. There, the funders shared briefly about their programs; they then broke into groups with local cultural organizations to discuss ways they could add value to the activities of Oregon coast-based nonprofits and individuals.
The partners will be in Hillsboro and Oregon City March 17, serving the Portland Metro Area; Eugene March 19, serving the Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon; Bend April 9, serving Central Oregon; Burns April 10, serving Southeastern Oregon; The Dalles April 15, serving the Gorge; Echo April 15 serving the Eastern Gorge and Northeastern Oregon, and La Grande April 16, serving Northeastern and Central Eastern Oregon. Cultural
Trust Manager, Kimberly Howard said she hopes the introductions and small group breakout sessions will be, "a broad discussion of how our organizations can intersect with each community in a way that has significance. We hope people will make new connections in their conversations."
After adjourning, the funding organizations will have clipboards available, on which potential applicants may sign up to receive additional information about a particular program.
The Cultural Trust will also be scheduling one on one phone consultations with serious applicants in the months leading up to the May 15, 2014, 5pm deadline. The group of cultural partners traveled the state together in 2012, meeting with applicants, but they did their grant workshops by webinar in 2013. Said Howard, "These workshops are a great chance for funders and cultural nonprofits to meet, face to face. This ends up being the most effective way of providing technical assistance and being present to listen for the best possible results."
To register for this free gathering with funders, click here.
-Meryl Lipman, Trust Communications Manager
Good conversation with 17Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:04 — Kimberly Howard
The conversations begin with 17 arts, heritage and humanities nonprofit representatives. When asked to share their big ideas, Tillamook County Coalition Chair, Sue Gabriel said, "I'd like to see a program that translates science in an artistic way. I see a collaboration with the Watershed folks, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Neskowin Chamber Orchestra, the Newport Visual Arts Center, a local composer, a local poet and a historian."
The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts wants to share "America's Music" with youth in the area by creating a jazz education program for the schools. Lauren Craven from Friends of Yaquina Lighthouses wants to see an annual Founders Day event that celebrates the maritime history and Native American heritage of the area. Other big ideas ranged from The Drake Project collaborating with the Community Development Center and Newport Celtic Festival cultivating local master teachers in Celtic language, pipes and dance.
A representative from Newport Samaritan Hospitals talked about ongoing arts + healing programs. Caroline Brooks from Sitka Center for Arts & Ecology said she'd love be able to remove financial barriers to participation in Sitka programs. And Niki Price from Lincoln County Cultural Center would love to see development centers for nonprofits, modeled on the Small Business Development model with coaching and mentoring offered.
Representatives from Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Heritage Programs and Oregon Humanities along with the Oregon Cultural Trust were excited to hear about these ways in which what we do can add value to what the cultural nonprofits are doing to enrich our lives everyday.
Last week we headed toMon, 03/24/2014 - 16:04 — kimberly
Last week we headed to Hillsboro, Oregon City and Eugene to continue the "Conversations with Funders: Arts, Heritage, Humanities". The big idea out of Hillsboro was a match.com for cultural organizations - because, as participants noted, "as statewide funders you know all the players."
Hillsboro participants asked for help connecting to players they don't already know, organizations that may be doing the same kinds of programs, that might be having a similar issue around board development, or that is in need of marketing and development ideas for similar size organizations. They said, "wouldn't it be cool if there was a resource, one place, where they could go to connect with other cultural organizations around similar themes, issues and programs?" Hmm...
In Hillsboro participants from as far away as Tillamook, Columbia, and even, Clatsop County, came together with folks from Washington County to talk about technical assistance around transitions and organizational growth.
Later in the day, after great Thai food in downtown Hillsboro, we headed to Oregon City. The County has a campus of buildings where the Clackamas County Cultural Coalition arranged for meeting space, a flip chart and introductions. In Oregon City, two conversations happened side by side. Big idea emerging from these two conversations - volunteer management training for cultural nonprofits. Participants called for help in bringing unlikely partners to the table - Chambers and Tourism and Main Street managers. Finally, a number of heritage organizations gave kudos to Oregon Heritage for the MentorCorp Program which provides peer to peer mentoring; this year's focus has been on collections management.
Building on the theme of making connections, on Wednesday in Eugene, participants asked for help with 3rd party endorsement, for greater exposure for culture statewide. Phrases like "bind us all together" and "building awareness of the vibrant cultural landscape" were shared alongside technical terms like sales training, social media training and measuring effectiveness.
We ended the day by reminding each other that we need to meet our community where they are; the work we do is about what the community needs in terms of art, heritage and humanities. Our jobs as funders is to, at the end of the day, add value to the work of Oregon's cultural nonprofits.
More to come. . . April, we hit the road for Bend, Burns, Echo, La Grande and The Dalles.
It has been great to seeTue, 03/25/2014 - 07:16 — Kuri Gill
It has been great to see people connect with others in their own communities. More cards were passing among them than took ours! Also, I'll make a pitch for the Oregon Humanities grant program. When we talked about need, I heard lots of issues come up - artists making a living from their work, communities trapped in past economic models, vandalism of historic places. All of these are ripe for community engagement and Oregon Humanities knows how to do it. Cultural organizations can be the catalysts to help communities face issues and address them!
My favorite part of theseTue, 03/25/2014 - 09:56 — Deb Vaughn
My favorite part of these workshops are the follow ups--people I've sat down with in person who pick up the phone or send an email. Sometimes, they are invitations to return to the community to learn more, sometimes it's a great idea that has percolated as a result of our conversations and sometimes it's a connection to another person with an equally great idea. It makes all the time on the road and the catch-up upon return to the office absolutely worth it!
Thanks for mentioning OregonTue, 03/25/2014 - 16:45 — Jennifer Allen
Thanks for mentioning Oregon Humanities' grant program, Kuri - I too heard a lot of ideas last week that seemed ripe for community conversations. I so enjoyed hearing what Washington County, Columbia County, Clackamas County, and Lane County folks are working on right now, and where different organizations' work intersects. I was also inspired to see just how much great work is happening in the arts and culture sector in Oregon, and how much of it is happening because of dedicated volunteers of all ages.
Reflecting back on the roadThu, 05/15/2014 - 10:48 — kimberly
Reflecting back on the road trip, I'm remembering our overnight trips to Burns, stopping in Bend, and to La Grande, stopping in Echo and Pendleton.
High points of both trips were the people. In Bend participants shared excitement about the new tourism grant passed by citizen vote that will bring an additional $200,000 to arts + culture in the city of Bend. We heard about the challenges of free programming, making competition with multiple events an added challenge to competing with the recreation world of Central Oregon.
We also heard about the success of theatre in Bend, with three theatre companies filling houses on a regular basis. Sisters Quilt Show is in a great transitional time and Nature of Words is poised to begin some excellent collaborations. All of this was shared in the lovely library room at the Des Chutes County Historical Society.
The community of Burns opened their doors the evening before our "Conversations with Funders" with a dinner in the home of Kate Marsh, hosted by the Harney County Cultural Coalition. The community then shared individual artists stories, Burns Paiute initiatives for youth, the continued work on the Oral Histories project in the library's Western History Room.
Main Street projects were big topics in Burns, as were the historic cemetery and the feasibility study for the future performing arts center. We ended our morning with a closing drum circle by students from the Burns Paiute Tribe.
In The Dalles we also heard the value of youth programming, and supporting small communities through arts education and life-long learning. They made a lot of connections in their conversations including community members learning that a Book Mobile (one of the big ideas shared) was already in existence at the public library.
Cultural Tourism was also a big topic in The Dalles.
Later in Echo we talked with the City of Echo manager, a coalition chair from Morrow County and a representative from the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Cultural Coalition about documenting our history, about private investment in community cultural development and how volunteers are extremely important to the success of the county and tribal cultural coalitions.
Later we experienced first hand a successful Main Street project, as City Manager, Diane Berry gave us a guided tour of downtown Echo, stopping in at the local winery, Sno Road, tasting room and event space, to see the great preservation project in action.
After visiting the Pendleton Center for the Arts, to provide some economic impact - purchasing arts and crafts by local artisans - we had dinner on Main Street in Pendleton before stopping for the evening.
The next morning in La Grande we were welcomed by the largest crowd since Burns. The participants that traveled the furthest coming from Nyssa in Malheur County. We enjoyed lively discussions in our small groups that ranged from capacity building through sharing resources to ideas on how to help spread the good news of the Cultural Tax credit.
These outreach trips continue to be a valuable way to reach out to Oregonians around grant-making.


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Skip to comments.Instant view: Obama team to probe oil market manipulation (What a Laughable Deflection)
Posted on 04/21/2011 1:19:52 PM PDT by MissesBush
NEW YORK - President Barack Obama said on Thursday the U.S. attorney general was assembling a team to root out any fraud and manipulation in the oil markets that might be contributing to higher U.S. gasoline prices.
Earlier, the Justice Department announced the working group, which will include representatives from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Justice and Treasury.
Rising fuel costs have raised concerns about the strain on the economic recovery, with U.S. gasoline prices now averaging over $3.80 a gallon. Fuel costs that soared to over $4 a gallon in 2008 set off public outcry in the United States and caused motorists to scale back driving.
U.S. crude oil prices shot to over $113 a barrel this month, the highest level since September 2008, lifted in part by concerns about supplies due to unrest in Libya and the Middle East.
Following are comments from analysts:
"Here's the interesting thing, they are going to have a hard time rooting out speculators when even Dodd-Frank can't determine what a speculator's limits should be.
"Oil is financially a free market so people are expected to make money at some time, so short term gains seems to be odd wording if they are thinking about levying higher taxes on capital gains in oil that may be an avenue, but it would get a bit messy for index funds.
"So an interesting idea, but hard to imagine a smart way to implement it that would make an immediate difference."
"This is political cover for a failed energy policy. People are angry at the prospect of $4 gasoline and Obama needs a scapegoat. Oil companies have been blamed too many times so now it's the turn of the speculators.
"Rather than searching for a boogeyman I can tell the President why oil prices are so high. There are obvious fundamental reasons for it: We've got the biggest threat to oil supplies since the Arab oil embargo while the U.S. dollar has plummeted as a result of the budget deficit and Federal Reserve policy.
"Really, if the president wants to investigate anyone to find why oil prices are so high he should be investigating the Federal Reserve. QE2 has weakened the currency and stoked inflation.
"I am concerned. This isn't the kind of investigation you expect in America, it sounds more like something out of Russia."
"Let it be noted that the 2012 campaign has begun, if there was any doubt."
"Obviously, it's always a good thing to have oversight and competent people looking at these things."
"I would be surprised if there was anything uncovered that was systematically affecting the price of gasoline. I'm not saying they wouldn't find somebody in Northwest Washington, DC charging $5 a gallon and they shouldn't be."
"It's easy and logical for the administration to promise increased vigilance and oversight, but it's not clear to me they will find anything."
"Importantly the AG's memo today admits 'It is also clear that there are lawful reasons for increases in gas prices, given supply and demand.' With the CFTC in a much more aggressive regulatory posture than in 2008, I'm hard pressed to see where the administration will be able to find "speculators" to hang the blame on."
"No easy answers there will mean will have to get back to the hard fundamentals - like understanding that oil is global and that as a nation we've chosen to be hooked on it, because we do prefer the easy least cost alternative!"
"President Obama knows there is major outcry about rising oil and gasoline prices, and this group he's setting up is going to be all over the issue. They will have both the prosecutorial expertise and the market expertise to go after the kind of manipulation that may be going on in energy markets."
"I think it's an important step. It should have a deterrent effect on excessive speculation in the market. But it should also be coupled with implementation of Dodd-Frank in a way that strengthens position limits in energy markets."
"There are already several investigations into these markets, but we haven't seen the will or enforcement to accelerate them, and I think now that will happen."
"Brian Hunter, who was fined $30 million today (for natural gas market manipulation), is really the poster boy for the kind of things that may be going on in these markets and could be rooted out by this new group."
"You can almost set your watch on these kinds of things. Every time we see a significant rally in oil prices, people start calling their legislators and encouraging them to launch an investigation.
"Will they find evidence of manipulation? I have no idea. The vast majority of past investigations have found no evidence of wrongdoing. Many times somebody gets hurt by a price move, the CFTC investigates and they find it was a market doing what markets do and someone got caught short or got caught with a long position in a falling market and got hurt that way."
"Strong growth in oil demand around the world and tighter supplies in part caused by the Libyan conflict have produced the higher gasoline prices the administration is about to investigate."
"The administration's own experts in the Energy Information Administration have been saying as much, and the FTC which has been closely tracking gasoline prices and markets for more than a decade has said nothing to indicate fraud is a factor in today's higher prices."
"If the administration wants to help consumers, let it work to turn around the decline in U.S. oil production by eliminating the obstacles to increased development its own policies have created."
Now we will see plenty of Republican politicians jump on the anti-oil prodcution band wagon.
Wait for it . . . wait for it . . .
just the next phase in his War on Energy
BOR the TV idiot is with Obama on this.
This is a joke BECAUSE:
Ships are being used as shadow storage. Unless they are looking into the shadow inventory then Obama is just as complicit.
Need the text and soundbite of Obama stating that the price of fuel MUST go up to make alternative energy more price competetive.
There was some guy on BOReilly last night that explained exactly what Obama could do.
Obama will send a turtle to install a unicorn and spend a zillion doing it.
Odds that there will be a skeptical geologist on this investigation team?
The two single biggest reasons the prices at the pump are rising: speculation and a weakening dollar. That's it.
"There have been 30 or more such investigations, including the one the Obama Injustice Dept launched last month, and none of them have ever turned up price manipulation.
That's just not true.
I am surprised Obama took so long to start this witchhunt. Speculators are a watchword of the left. It is impossible to have any reasonable interaction with the left on energy prices. They see conspiracy everywhere except of course where it actually occurs (labor cartels, Democrats, trial lawyers, Obama, environmental activists, ...). The left is positive that the increase in oil and gas prices is totally due to evil speculators along with Cheney and Bush.
Why not have a geologist skeptical of Saudi reserves / production claims on the team?
Why? Because he'll say DRILL. DRILL DESPERATELY. There is no other hope.
Which is accompanied by a steady beat of "green economy" fraud. Will they be probing this manipulation of the market using fraud?
Wasn't Obama caught stating they had to use price signals, i.e. artificially inflating prices?
Excuse me, but what about the drop in the value of the dollar. Since oil is priced in US Dollars and the dollar has lost value, the price of oil increases. So who is really responsible for the loss of the US Dollar's value, could it be the One who increases our debt?????
So, when do the cuffs go on Ben Bernanke?
He need only look into the mirror to find the manipulator.
Yes, it is true. No Congressional investigation has ever turned out evidence of oil company price manipulation. Sorry. And yes, when you have demand going up but supply remaining stagnant, prices will go up. And demand has been rising with supply remaining stagnant. Speculators wouldn't make a dime off oil if they couldn't bet that demand would increase and supplies would tighten. By the way, the psychological impact of unrest in the Middle East also is enough to drive up the price of oil even if supply doesn't change.
He fights against the evil capitalist oppressors and ushers in a socialist utopia --in his mind only and in the minds of the useful idiots that buy the lies he sells from his telepromptered leftist lemonade stand.
The marxist is an epic failure.
While that may be true, that doesn't necessarily mean the argument is wholly without merit.
In the summer of 2008, in the face of global shrinking economy and at a time of increased oil production, prices continued to rise. How is that possible absent some kind of market manipulation?
Now, maybe that manipulation is just the result of unusual, but honest, market pressures. Or, perhaps it's something else. Personally, in 2008, I thought it was "something else", and I think it's possible it's something else today, especially considering where supplies currently are.
Having said that, I think Obama would be much more likely to find a goblin if he looked at the main reason for price spikes - a falling dollar. Of course, the goblin he'd find in that mess looks him square in the face while shaving every morning.
There is manipulation of the market. It is the FED! They printed a bazillion pieces of paper backed by unicorn farts. And as we all know, unicorn farts don't go as far as they used to.
I would also add, there is money to be made in many other commodities as well as in the equity markets. The incentive to speculate on oil isn't as readily present as it was back in 2006-08. This is a small part of the current problem. The real cause is a recoverying world economy squeezing demand and unrest in the Middle East. If the US had more of its own supply, those factors wouldn't be having such an impact here in the US.
Still waiting for someone to get on Bumma's face, IN PUBLIC and call him what he is, A LYING SACK OF $H-T!
The trading tactics described in your linked article could only affect prices by a fairly small amount for a few days at most. Long term oil pries are determined by current supply and demand, trends in supply and demand growth expected for the next few years, and perceived geopolitical risks to oil supplies. Right now total excess oil production capacity is at most only about 6% of current consumption. In my view, that's the tightest supply/demand balance of any major consumer product in the world.
The main reason for that tight balance is simply that it's so technically challenging and costly to increase oil production in the large quantities that the world needs. In the long term, it's probably going to be much easier to increase the fuel efficiency of motor vehicles and expand production of biofuels than to increase the production of crude oil.
He can solve it by getting the dollar back to health and stop the speculation. In fact take it off the commodities market altogethr.
They've got a whole bunch of oil and Obama promised we'd be their best customers, yet they're not selling us enough and as cheaply as we'd like. It's all their fault.
Maybe that Kennedy guy I saw on T.V. can reach out to Hugo Chavez and get us some crude on the cheap.
Congress should investigate him for how he manipulates the truth!
Who was it on BOR last night that said go to the commodity futures trading commission? I hate BOR's show anymore but Obama's clowns are not smart enough to get out of a paper bag so one of his flunkies stole the idea.
This investigation is so dumb. Speculators actually help to keep the price of oil down by buying it when prices are low (as in early 2009), storing it in oil tankers, and then selling it when prices are higher. That selling into strong oil prices contains the price of oil and prevents event sharper spikes upwards. See my post #24 for the real drivers of long-term oil prices (...which I'm sure you know.)
It's all that Free Fed Money looking for a job.
It can't earn anything sitting on the bank's balance sheet and no borrowers. PLUS the Fed bought every bad debt the Insurance companies and large brokerage houses were holding as well.
All of that money is at the "top" of the system and, due to the consumer being shut down and small business unwilling to invest...it's not gonna go anywhere besides the stock and futures markets.
You had me right until the last sentence. As I said, it's a global oil market. So, even if we obtained our oil only from our own natural reserves, the price of that oil would be entirely dependent on the global oil market.
There are some additional transportation/logistics costs associated with oil importation sure that would be largely eliminated if we only used US oil. But, remember that our two largest foreign suppliers of oil does not come from the middle east, but rather from our neighbors to our direct north & south.
Dunno. Can't stand that show and do not watch it? The Rays won.
If Obama announced his resignation that would probably bring gas to $2.30 within an hour.
Oh, please Barry, do it for us!
But adding that US oil into the world supply mix, esp. being a stable source of production, would help bring down the world price of oil.
Shadow inventory is not the only problem. Nor is illegal activity in the market. Probably the biggest problem (elephant in the room) is the fact that non users like foundations, universities and unions among others can take huge commodity positions for food and fuel they never have any intention of using. This could be corrected by changing the rules on commodity purchases to restrict the size of commodity purchases by non users. Only end users like airlines (oil), cereal manufacturers (grains), etc. should be permitted to buy large dollar amount futures.
In addition, the president could threaten to pull oil out of the Stragetic Petroleum Reserve (and not even do it) to put a scare into the oil speculators.
There's plenty of oil kept off the market all around the world.
Every time crude goes through the roof and people feel it at the pumps, they sing this song.
You want to get to the bottom of the high gas prices? How about allowing off-shore drilling again, or at least announcing that at some point in the foreseeable future there will be off-shore drilling? Or how about ending that incoherent, sad charade in Libya, and letting the people and their government come to terms with each other, either by civil war, negotiations, or their own political processes.
It's more than easy monetary policy. Right now total excess production capacity in the entire world is at most about 6%. Meanwhile consumption is growing at about 1.2% annually, assuming that higher prices have slowed demand growth from rates above 2% in the last two years. You don't need to be a math wizard to figure out that without a substantial increase in production capacity happening very soon, the oil market is going to be super tight in just a few more years...down to perhaps only 2% excess capacity. Those trends in supply and demand, along with the falling dollar, are why prices have been rising and will probably continue to rise for a few more years.
That makes sense. What does not make sense is the quickness of the rise w/o a sudden increase in global market. What nobody sets out is - When gas was $3.00 per gal who was getting the $3 and when it's $4, who is getting the $4.
Isn't it interesting that the off all the quotes in the article, it is the law professor that has the stupidest most unrealistic answer?
But who gets the increase in price, - the wellhead, the oil company or the speculator?
It's been a while since I checked this out, so I wouldn't mind if someone else researches and comments (I have to go to work in a few minutes or I would do it), but I seem to recall the following. In Jan. of 2007 a futures market mechanism was put in place that made it much easier to purchase large positions in oil futures (and perhaps others as well). I think the price was $4 million each. This made it a lot easier for foundations, universities, unions and other institutional investors to buy big and distort the markets. This has to be pared down again. I don't know how it made purchases easier, perhaps someone here knows the answer.
The only probe he will get is maybe by a guy named Larry.
It's my new tag line the other one was old.
When the futures contracts settle, only the end users and investors who actually store physical oil hold the contracts and take physical delivery of the oil. So ultimately it is the end users and investors who determine the actual cash price paid for oil. All those institutions who trade futures only affect the price of futures contracts and have a negligible effect on the cash prices paid for oil.
This investigation is so dumb. It's just a political spectacle to take some heat off the administration and divert blame onto Wall St. and "oil speculators."
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Puerto Rican native Victor "V-Rod" Rodriguez, after a hitch in the US Army, spent 32 years in federal law enforcement.
Vic worked mostly undercover pursuing criminal activity, and death threats were part of his job. He retired in 1998, moved to Lake Placid, and heard about its senior softball.
He had never played organized ball at any level, and knew little about the game.
He has become one of the better hitters in the league, and for years served as its vice-president. Mornings he can be seen riding a tractor to get the fields ready for play. He describes his time as "great fun, win or lose."
On Monday, "V-Rod" had four hits (double), but it was not enough as his Schooni's Restaurant team fell 17-15 to Central Security.
Pacing The Securitymen were owner Dana Hurlbut, winning pitcher JC Brown, and Joe Hedges with a total of seven doubles. Jim Lorne and "Wild Bill" DeStefano joined "V-Rod" in the Four-Hit Club for Schooni's.
Yates Insurance upended Seminole Tire 23-13.
Richard Rucker (two doubles) and Darrell Richards had four hits each, while Bill Gallagher smashed a home run.
Winning pitcher Don Ward slugged two doubles, while first baseman John McCallum turned an unassisted double play to spark the Yates defense.
For The 'Noles, Skip Raller (two doubles), Paul Stephenson, "Wahoo" Stanley (home run), and Ray Wilson had four hits each. Chet Johnson made two fine running catches in the outfield.
On Wednesday, two teams heading in opposite directions saw torrid Central Security (5-3) win its fifth straight by handing Seminole Tire (4-4) its fourth consecutive loss by a score of 17-12.
Manager Dick Cook made several fine plays at shortstop and joined Dana Hurlbut in a back-to-back home run barrage.
Joe Hedges also went deep, while Ross Anderson and Ian McCuaig had four-hit games.
For Seminole Tire, a sextet of hitters had three each, including Paul Stephenson and "Wahoo" Stanley, who each doubled twice.
Schooni's (3-5) toppled Yates Insurance (4-4) 35-24 in the wildest slugfest of the year.
Yates raced to a 15-2 lead in the third inning, only to have The Restauranteurs score 14 to take the lead and never look back.
For Schooni's, Ron Wickman homered twice, while Norm Grubbs hammered a grand slam. "Wild Bill" DeStefano (two doubles) had six hits, and Paul Brand (two doubles) and winning pitcher "V-Rod" had five hits each, while 88 year old World War II Navy vet John Ladensack managed to coax three walks.
"At my age, I've got plenty of time to work the count", quipped the always smiling war hero.
For Yates, Cliff Bluml (double), Brian Heaphy (triple), Richard Rucker (triple), Bill Gallagher (double, home run), and Don Ward (two triples) had four hits each in the losing effort.
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Breast Cancer Patients Can Be Spared Extra Surgery
June 9, 2010 (Chicago) -- For many women with early-stage breast cancer, removing more than just the sentinel lymph nodes may be unnecessary -- even if cancer cells are found.
Breast cancer patients whose cancer has spread to the sentinel lymph nodes live just as long regardless of whether additional underarm (axillary) lymph nodes are removed, researchers report.
If cancer cells spread from a breast tumor, the sentinel nodes are normally the first place they go. Doctors can find the sentinel nodes and remove them with a small surgical procedure. If no cancer is found, removal of the remaining lymph nodes is not necessary.
When cancer is detected in the sentinel lymph nodes, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) guidelines, which most doctors follow, call for surgical removal of more lymph nodes under the arm to look for additional cancer cells. The procedure is called axillary node breast dissection.
"Our findings suggest that there may not be a benefit to removing more lymph nodes, and that women can avoid the risk of additional side effects that come with more extensive lymph node removal," says study head Armando E. Giuliano, MD, director of the John Wayne Cancer Institute Breast Center in Santa Monica, Calif.
Those side effects include pain, lost sensation, discomfort, and swelling (lymphedema) of the affected arm that can last for years, even decades.
Giuliano presented results of what he called the largest late-stage phase III study of axillary node dissection for sentinel node-positive women to date at ASCO's annual meeting.
No Benefit to Additional Surgery
The study involved 991 women who had lumpectomy, radiation therapy, and positive sentinel nodes. They were randomly assigned to have no more nodes removed or to have 10 more nodes removed.
By five years later, women who didn't have any more nodes removed were doing just as well on every measure:
- 92.5% were alive vs. 91.9% who got additional surgery.
- 83.8% were free of cancer vs. 82.2% of the additional-surgery group.
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Stocks retreat from record highs on Monday as a selloff in health care overshadows a rally in energy.
Stocks pull slightly lower on Monday as a selloff in health care squares off against a rally in energy.
U.S. stocks pulled lower as a selloff in health care soured the jobs-inspired rally that pushed benchmark indices to record highs last week.
Stocks pull lower on Monday morning as a selloff in health care sours the jobs-inspired rally that pushed benchmark indices to record highs last week.
Trade-Ideas LLC identified Dean Foods (DF) as a weak on high relative volume candidate
Dean Foods (DF) posted weaker-than-expected earnings for the 2016 second quarter before Monday's opening bell.
Stock futures are rising again after last week's new market highs. Mattress Firm rockets higher on a buyout.
Dean Foods (DF) is scheduled to post its 2016 second quarter results before Monday's opening bell.
Nation's leading dairy processor honors Buena Park, California, and Braselton, Georgia, plants with annual Dean Foods CEO Quality Award
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After his recent investment problems, the pro golfer should stick with what he knows.
The golf company recently put up its best bottom-line in years.
Pro-golfer Phil Mickelson listed as relief defendant in SEC insider trading case and Businessweek shows the money-trail between big pharma and charities.
A professional gambler and friend of the golfer trafficked in tips on Dean Foods received from a one-time board member.
Pro golfer Phil Mickelson is being investigated in conjunction with insider trading at Dean Foods and Jim Cramer says he would've made more money if he'd just held onto it.
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Kamal Hassan to star in Ramesh's Nam Anna Don remake
Sources say that Ramesh Aravind met Kamal Hassan last week in Chennai. They reportedly discussed about the plans of remaking forthcoming Kannada movie Nam Anna Don. The movie is said to be a laugh-riot and expected to bring them together after Sati Leelavathi, which was remade in Kannada as Rama Shama Bhama, Tamil movie Manmadhan Ambu, etc.
However, Nam Anna Don is actor-director Ramesh Aravind's fifth directorial venture. He had earlier directed Rama Shama Bhama, Accident, Venkata in Sankata, Satyavan Savitri, and Crazy Kutumba. The upcoming movie is produced by his brother Ravi Joshi in the banner of Lav Kush Productions.


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A High Point man is facing charges in the fatal stabbing of his mother Thursday afternoon.
Authorities with the High Point Police Department said they were called to the stabbing in the 300 block of Avery Avenue about 2:50 p.m.
Investigators said the victim, Sandra Buie, 45, of High Point, was found in the street suffering from multiple wounds. They said Buie died of her injuries while being taken to a hospital.
Police said they were able to quickly locate Buie's son, Bracey Allen, 23, of High Point, nearby.
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B1G Recap: Penn State, Illinois win; Iowa falls
We had three Big Ten men's hoops teams in postseason action on Wednesday night. Illinois kicked off the evening with a 66-62 come-from-behind victory over Boston University in the NIT. Penn State followed with a 69-65 win over Hampton in a first round CBI matchup. Iowa's season came to an end after a 78-65 loss to Tennessee in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. Catch up on all the scores, stats and select in-game video highlights in this post.


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Virtual Center Upgrade – 2.0.2 to 2.5 Update 3
Well this weekend I had the job of updating our Virtual Center deployment from 2.0.2 to 2.5 update 3. The primary reason for this was to prepare for the introduction of ESX 3.5 hosts into the Virtual infrastructure.
Due to the importance of our Virtual infrastructure I decided to do as much reading and preperation as possible to ensure it all went smoothly. It's easier to convince our change management team to let us make changes if we get them right first time, so this one was important to facilitate an easier path for future change.
So what did I read to ensure I'd covered everything, here are a few links to get you started
Mike Laverick's Upgrade Experience PDF
vCenter Server 2.5 Update 3 – Release Notes
ESX 3.5 and vCenter Server 2.5 Upgrade Guide
The above PDF is a brilliant guide to the process you should follow, including rollback. You should read this thoroughly so you understand all the pre-requisites and can avoid those silly problems that could cause your upgrade to fail.
Of course vCenter Server 2.5 introduces Update Manager. Although we can't use it as we have ESX 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 hosts ( supports 3.0.3, 3.5 and 3.5i only ) I decided to install it anyway so it's there for the future.
Here are some of the links I used to plan out my update manager deployment.
Update Manager Administration Guide
Update Manager Performance and Best Practice Guide
Update Manager Size Estimator
One of the main mistakes that people tend to make is to not give the SQL accounts the correct permissions on the new update manager database and the MSDB database. Make sure you cover this one or you upgrade will fail.
It all went quite smoothly, I initially had a couple of issues which appeared to be related to me attempting to do a custom install. I wanted to ensure I could go through all settings and customise as required, the install however failed with various MSI error messages. I started the install again and didn't choose the custom setup this time. This however created an issue whereby the Update Manager database appeared to install as SQL Server 2005 Express. I wanted to put it on the same SQL 2000 server as our Virtual Center database but I never got the option as far as I can remember. I have today uninstalled Update Manager and re-installed it using the "use an existing database" option and the SQL 2000 database. It worked fine the second time around.
No immediate problems following the upgrade, I had read some horror stories about issues with the Virtual Centre Agent on the host not updating. Luckily for me it wasn't an issue. Good luck with your upgrade


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Elwyn Church
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013
Elwyn Leroy "Doc" Church was born May 7, 1927, in Norfolk, Neb., to Dr. Harold and Hazel Church. He was raised in Battle Creek, Neb., and attended the public schools there. He played in his high school and college bands and he played in and directed the city band in Battle Creek. He was also a member of the United Methodist Church Choir in Battle Creek.
Doc attended Kansas State College at Manhattan, Kan., and earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1949. He met Jacqueline Joyce Vaughan in college and married her on Sept. 5, 1949, in the Wichita, Kan., Baptist church.
They made their home in Battle Creek, where Doc practiced veterinary medicine in partnership with his father. He remained in practice there for 18 years, then accepted a position as veterinary medical officer with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and was stationed in Dickinson, N.D., where he served the western area of North Dakota for 21 years.
Doc became a foreign animal disease diagnostician and served on task forces in eastern North Dakota working on Hog Cholera outbreaks and in Riverside, Calif., on Exotic Newcastle Disease in poultry, which was brought into the state with smuggled pet birds from the far East. He worked on another task force on hog cholera in the Rio Grande area of Texas and another in New Hampshire.
Duties in North Dakota involved the eradication of Tuberculosis, Brucellosis, Hog Cholera and other diseases in cattle, horses, hogs and poultry as well as some import-export inspection duties along the Canadian border. Doc was also very adept at suturing his childrens' injured stuffed animals.
Doc loved to hunt pheasants with his bird dogs. He also enjoyed hunting deer, antelope, elk and moose. In later years, his target practice assisted in the eradication of many prairie dogs.
He was an artist, tooling leather belts, chairs, clocks, purses and quivers. He also created jewelry through his lapidary hobby. Doc had a wonderful sense of humor and had written several entertaining poems and short stories.
Doc survived polio as a teenager and cancer as an adult, but succumbed to diabetes and heart complications. He was a member of AKSARBEN, was a Master Mason for over 57 years and a member of the Pringle United Methodist Church. He was also a member of the Battle Creek and Dickinson archery clubs, Taylor Trap Club and the National Rifle Association for many years and firmly believed that freedom isn't free.
Upon retirement in February 1988, Doc and Jackie moved to Custer, S.D., where they enjoyed their quarter horses, bird dogs and a cat. Doc loved the Black Hills and the Forest; it was a sacred place to him. It was his paradise.
Doc died Thursday, June 27, 2013, at the Fallon County Medical Center in Baker, Mont. He was 86.
He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 63 years, Jackie; parents, Harold and Hazel Church; brother, Marlon Church; and great-grandson, Elijah Bartz.
Doc is survived by his children, Craig of Fargo, N.D., Barbara (Dave) Lupo of Dickinson and Carol (Doug Perry) Bartz of Beach, N.D.; grandchildren, Rob (Amber) Bartz of Richardton, N.D., Kate (Brian) Stephens of Libby, Mont., and Christopher Lupo and Michael Lupo both of Rapid City, S.D.; great-grandchildren Eden, Robert, Ava and Harper Bartz and Sadie Stephens; and brother Dr. Douglas Church of Salem, Ore.
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The weather here in Wisconsin is still a bit bleak, but the calendar confirms it : Spring has sprung. I figured I'd better get a small set of goals written up before I turn around and find out it's summer, huh? So here are the things I'm hoping to do this Spring:
- Buy a house – I am hoping this one is a no brainer. We've been in the process of buying a house for awhile and the closing date is right around the corner. My biggest goal for this spring is to get that house, move in and get settled in our new home.
- Bake up a storm – I want to learn more about bread baking and make some cake, cookies and anything else my waist line can stand. I also want to involve the kids more in these projects.
- Play outdoors – go to the playground, collect wild flowers, spend as much time as possible in our back yard – when I'm not in the kitchen, I want to be outside.
- Decorate easter eggs with MM – like real, potentially breakable Easter Eggs. Hold me.
- Edit my novel. I wrote it – now I need to get off my butt and make that thing pretty and, if possible, publishable.
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If you are a owner of a Wii request for the success of House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return. According to Sega, if the title sell well around the world the editor would plan to offer to the console house of the Dead 4.
The arcade games House of the Dead 2 & 3 come packaged together on one Wii disc in a set. In the game players can target creeps and creatures easily with the Wii remote or Zapper. The two titles will feature more than six gameplay modes, including Arcade Mode and Time Attack.


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Bridgend Cottage
Situated on the South end of the Isle of Skye, within the heart of the village of Broadford, Bridgend Cottage is a charming traditional stone built cottage which is well over one hundred years old. It has been recently upgraded to provide modern facilities and comfort and is in an enviable position with uninterrupted beautiful sea views across Broadford Bay and the mountains of Wester Ross and beyond - spectacular at sunset. Bridgend will sleep 4 people and has one king size bed and a twin room.
Broadford is on the south side of the island and only eight miles from the bridge. It is the second largest settlement on this lovely island and offers a variety of pubs, restaurants and takeaways, along with a supermarket, selection of smaller tourist shops, bank and a petrol station - all within easy walking distance of the cottage.
Guests should be aware that Bridgend is non smoking throughout,
however a pet may be welcome if agreed when booking.
Off road parking for 2 vehicles.
Linen/ Towels will be provided and all electricity is included in the weekly price.
On arrival your hostess Norma will provide you with a welcome tray to ensure you have the basics for your first night! She will also be on hand throughout your stay to provide you with any assistance and local advice.
For prices etc, see the info page.
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Local comic hopes to spread 'Stever Fever'
RAGHAV MEHTA | Updated 6/13/2013
Standup comedian Steve Gillespie is promoting his new album Saturday at the Comedy Corner Underground.
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Steve Gillespie seems a little more anxious than usual.
"You shouldn't even fucking watch this set," he said self-effacingly prior to taking the stage at Acme Comedy Club.
It's the night of Acme's weekly open mic and, after featuring for a weekend at Rookies Comedy Club in Sioux Falls, S.D., Gillespie needs to work out some new material. If you've attended Acme's open mic more than once, you probably remember seeing him. Seven years into his career, the wild-eyed Wisconsin native and Acme emcee is one of the more engaging and genuinely hysterical members of the Twin Cities comedy scene.
"OK, that premise isn't quite thought out all the way," Gillespie admitted after one of his punchlines evoked more groans than laughter halfway through the notably stiff set.
This Saturday, flanked by local stalwarts that include Isaac Witty ("Late Show with David Letterman") and Kjell Bjorn ("Live at Gotham" and feature comedian at Acme), he'll be headlining the Comedy Corner Underground to promote his debut album, "Stever Fever," which was released by Rooftop Comedy earlier this year.
Most nights Gillespie can't stay still. He spends the majority of his sets pacing the stage - sometimes frantically - bouncing between one sordid punchline to another. It's just one of many things that distinguishes Gillespie from his peers, and a key element of his comedy that's lost on his album.
"People will say 'We listened to your CD, but we kind of wish it was a DVD because we've seen what you're like live," Gillespie said in a recent interview.
That's not to say "Stever Fever" is a dud. It's an album that effectively showcases the his twisted perspective and intrinsic knack for timing and delivery. Gillespie has been performing full time around the country for three years. And while his album - recorded at the Skyline Comedy Cafe in Appleton, Wis. - isn't catapulting him to fame or fortune, he stressed how it's helped with exposure.
"The big thing for me is it's on Pandora, it's on Spotify, it's on satellite radio," Gillespie said. "At least once a week someone will come up to and tell me they found my album online and decided to come to the show."
Despite burgeoning success, Gillespie, who holds a graduate degree in social economics from the University of Minnesota, hasn't entirely avoided pitfalls. Earlier this year, he received a call-back audition in New York for Montreal's prestigious Just For Laugh's festival. He didn't get accepted into the festival, but, like most comics, he hasn't let it discourage him entirely.
"Every week when I'm driving, it's so easy to get in your head that I could just make a decision not to do this anymore and maybe I would be a lot happier," Gillespie said. "But where are you going to find that rush that standup gives you. You're not getting that. There's nothing else in life that's even fucking close."


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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Theme of Home
Sherman Alexie dedicates The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to his two hometowns: Wellpinit and Reardan. Like Alexie, Arnold Spirit, Jr. has two hometowns as well. There is his family's home on the Spokane Indian Reservation, and then there's his place at the white high school in Reardan. Though he should be at home in both places, sometimes Arnold feels like a complete stranger. In the end, Arnold stops thinking of home so much as a specific place, and instead learns to be at home among many different people. As Rowdy tells him, he is a "nomad" (30.182). (For more, see our section on "Setting.")
Questions About Home
- How is Rowdy's home different from Junior's?
- Why does Mary hide in her parents' basement? Why does she leave home and go to Montana?
- How are the homes of the white basketball players different from those of the Indian basketball players? Does this change how they play?
- Why does Arnold call the reservation both a prison and a place of great beauty? Can it be both?
- Is being a nomad a good thing? Is it a good thing according to Rowdy?
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Winnipeg 2 - Buffalo 1
Monday, April 22, 2013
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Winnipeg hasn't been an easy opponent for the Buffalo Sabres of late. The Jets showed why Monday night.
Fighting for their playoff lives, Winnipeg skated into First Niagara Center and extended its winning streak against the Sabres to six games with a 2-1 win. Buffalo has scored just one goal in each of those six games, a streak that dates back to the beginning of last season.
Jhonas Enroth was the game's first star, stopping 37 of 39 shots, but took the loss in net. Enroth falls to 4-1-1 in his last six starts while maintaining a .956 save percentage and a 1.47 goals against average. Thomas Vanek scored the Sabres only goal, his 18th of the season, and with it moved into sixth place on the Sabres all-time scoring list, passing Mike Foligno with 248 career goals.
The Jets sit just one point back of the idle New York Rangers for the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff spot with two games to go following the win. The Rangers eliminated the Sabres from contention Friday.
Buffalo will close out its season Friday at home against the New York Islanders following a trip to Pittsburgh tomorrow night.
1st Period
Both teams went scoreless in the first period. Enroth, however, was kept busy, making a handful of big saves throughout to keep the Jets off the board. His biggest save came with five minutes left when he turned aside Evander Kane on a penalty shot. Winnipeg outshot Buffalo, 14-4.
2nd Period
After Winnipeg's Aaron Gagnon broke the scoreless tie at the 12:18 mark, Thomas Vanek's 18th goal of the season pulled the Sabres even again five minutes later. The play started from the left corner, where Drew Stafford slung the puck cross-ice to Tyler Ennis, who then found Vanek in the slot with a perfect pass for the power-play goal. The Sabres were outshot 14-10 in the period.
3rd Period
Antti Miettinen scored the eventual game-winner with 7:36 remaining in the period. Buffalo held an 11-10 advantage in shots.
Vanek's power-play goal was his ninth this season, tying him for third-most in the NHL. ... Tyler Ennis extended his point streak to four games (1+4) with an assist on Vanek's goal; Drew Stafford pushed his to three games (1+2). ... Mikhail Grigorenko accumulated 15:18 in ice time, his second-highest total this season. ... This was the 51st game all-time between Buffalo and Winnipeg/Atlanta; Buffalo leads the series, 21-19-11. ... The Sabres are 14-8-4 all-time at home against Winnipeg/Atlanta.
Mikhail Grigorenko played in his first NHL game since March 12 after sitting out two games following his recall last week. ... Patrick Kaleta (hand) missed his 12th game this season.
Time on Ice: Christian Ehrhoff, 23:38
Shots: Thomas Vanek, 6
Blocked Shots: Six tied with 1
Hits: Mike Weber, 5
Faceoff Wins: Mikhail Grigorenko, 9
Total Faceoffs: Cody Hodgson, 18 (8-10)
When opponent scores first: 5-17-2
Tied after the second period: 8-6-0
When outshot by opponent: 15-15-2
Game decided by one goal: 12-9-6
Power Play
Today: 1/1
Overall: 23/160 (14.4%)
Home: 13/79 (16.5%)
Penalty Kill
Today: 3/3
Overall: 135/171 (79%)
Home: 59/75 (78.7%)
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ASPEN - Back in the 1980s, the Aspen Music Festival did not want Robert Spano. An aspiring conductor at the time, who had studied at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Curtis Institute of Music, Spano applied to be a summer student at the Aspen Music School. He was rejected.
A quarter century later, the Aspen Music Festival is welcoming Spano with a full embrace. The Music Festival has announced that the 49-year-old is the organization's next music director, filling a post that had been vacant since last April, when David Zinman resigned from the position he had held for 12 years. According to Alan Fletcher, the president of the Music Festival, Spano was the first choice of the selection committee, which was made up of board members and Music School faculty.
"It was an easy selection. He had very strong support," Fletcher said.
Spano is set to spend seven weeks in Aspen this summer, during which he will hold the title of music director-designate. He is set to conduct four concerts this season, and, like last summer, will be one of three conductors leading the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen. He will move into the role of music director in 2012. Spano will continue serving as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which he has led for a decade. His contract in Aspen, which runs for a five-year term, began on Saturday, coinciding with meetings here of the board of trustees and the national council.
"I've been there eight summers over maybe 20 years, and every time is fantastic," Spano, speaking from his home in Atlanta, said of his experience with Aspen. "The kids are fantastic, the music, the place is fantastic. It's a joy to make music there. It's all pretty exhilarating."
Fletcher said there were four essential requirements the Music Festival was looking for in its new music director. "The profile we established last summer was: a renowned performer, a renowned teacher, a commitment to new music, and an understanding of what Aspen is," he said. "There wasn't just one person who had that, but Spano's name kept coming up. When we'd speak to musicians, festival leaders all over the world, and ask, 'Who do you think we should be looking at?' and in every conversation, he came up."
Jonathan Haas, a longtime Aspen Music School faculty member who heads the percussion department, was optimistic upon hearing of the hiring. Haas, who lives in New York, heard much about Spano when the conductor led the Brooklyn Philharmonic, from 1996-2004.
"When he was in Brooklyn, he was very well-liked by the musicians. The musicians were very, very positive," Haas said.
Haas also worked on a concert with Spano last summer, and came away with a good feeling. "He's clear, he's concise, he knows what he wants and he's pleasant in the way he communicates it," he said.
The hiring takes place against a background of some organizational turmoil. When Zinman resigned last spring, it was unexpected, and came amidst conflict between Zinman and Fletcher. There were divisions in the Music Festival that were expressed in extreme ways. Over the course of a few months, Fletcher was fired and rehired, given a vote of no-confidence and granted a contract extension. Much of the tension stemmed from the downsizing of the festival season - from nine weeks to eight, and the cutting of 11 faculty positions - in 2009.
So in addition to artistic and pedagogical duties, Spano will be expected to do some organizational healing.
"Absolutely," Fletcher said. "That's one of the exciting things about this weekend. It's a turning point for the organization, and we can all have enthusiasm about it."
"As far as what this will do for the festival, I think this is nothing but good," Haas said.
Spano said that his dealings to date with the Music Festival led him to believe that the organization was already on its way to closing the divisions. "It sounds to me like there's a lot of positive change and they're growing out of the difficulties and coming into the next phase," he said. "I certainly think I'm a part of that. And there are some things I don't have to know, and probably shouldn't know."
If Spano might be able to sidestep dealing with the past, he will definitely be counted on to bring the Music Festival into the future - or at least, the present - on the musical side. Spano's career has been marked by a dedication to new music, and he will be expected to continue putting contemporary composers in the spotlight in Aspen.
"No doubt, I'll be moving in that direction," he said. "Because it's such a big passion of mine and such a big part of my life. I'm sure they knew that about me - my passion for living composers and American composers. They must want it, or they wouldn't have hired me."
The Music Festival wanted it. According to Fletcher, the new music director "had to really bring a significant engagement with the music of the future. I think he's a great fit with that. It's always been true of Aspen that we've had a leader who cares about new music. But this emphasizes and renews it."
Fletcher said the hiring of Spano is about a new chapter for the Music Festival as much as it is about new music.
"David [Zinman] did great things for Aspen and created a real legacy," he said. "Now it's Robert's turn, and he'll create his own legacy. That's the nature of succession."


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Gamescom 2011: NBA 2K12 Preview - For the Love of the Game
Written Sunday, August 28, 2011 By Richard WalkerView author's profile
As far as we're concerned, 2011 was the year when the NBA 2K series really made its mark, slapping Michael Jordan on the cover and slamming home one of – if not the – finest basketball games ever made. That said, 2K Sports has been the purveyor of great basketball titles for years and we've been sucked into checking out every year's instalment since NBA 2K7 strolled out onto the virtual court.
One thing has remained consistent in every annual iteration of NBA 2K, and that's a commentary without equal, great TV-style presentation and a horrible front end menu. The first thing we notice as we're lead through some of the new features being wheeled out for NBA 2K12, is the presence of a brand new main menu, which seems to have dispensed with the hideous layered directional navigation from previous NBA 2Ks. It's a small change, but one that had us quietly whispering "yes!" under our breath.
From this welcoming opening screen, you can head into the Association Mode or Build a Dynasty, have a quick game, play a game based upon the current ones being played in the actual NBA or jump right into the NBA's Greatest Mode, which is the main thrust of 2K Sports' Gamescom showing of NBA 2K12. Where NBA 2K11 had His Airness on the cover and a few Jordan Challenges to partake in, 2K12 steps it up with a total of 15 NBA legends to choose from and the ability to relive some of their best moments in the NBA.
Where 2K12's representation of the modern game is all razzle-dazzle with even more attention on replicating the look and feel of a TV broadcast with a pre-game montage, flashy overlay graphics, half-time shows and cheerleaders – all of which is amped up to another level during the NBA playoffs – the NBA's Greatest goes for period details. So when we're shown a game from Bill Russell's era in 1965, the presentation is grainy monochrome, the overlays are basic and the audio is crackly. Authenticity is clearly the watchword here, so every period gets the same treatment, with 1991 Magic Johnson getting the appropriate graphics and presentation you'd expect. The same goes for all 15 NBA legends, who also have their own 'Signature Styles'.
In fact all of the game's star players – and an array of other players - have their Signature Style, which covers the detail of the player model and all of their unique moves and animations. "We've tried to give as many players as possible their Signature Style," says 2K Sports' Director of Marketing, Chris Snyder, and it's evident that extra effort has gone into improving the likenesses and really nailing each player's unique moves, whether it's Magic's baby hook or Dirk Nowitzki's fadeaway shot. In fact, a lot of player's models have been completely re-done to ensure that the looks of star players are as authentic as possible.
On the court, Snyder tells us that there's even more control on the right analogue stick, enabling you to effectively pull off pretty much every basketball shot or manoeuvre you can care to think of. You can even change direction in mid-air, weave around an incoming block during a lay-up or just generally alter your shots. There's even an all-new collision system, which is becoming increasingly de rigueur in the sports genre these days. In NBA 2K12, the collision system ensures more accurate foul calls and less interruption in game flow... or something like that anyway. 2K12 also steps up the defensive AI too – for both your fellow players and opposing defenders – but you can now quickly set up plays using the d-pad, which is handy.
As ever, increased realism is also on the agenda too, and this year you can interact with the entire first row of the crowd. It sounds strange, but it means you can make the extra effort to keep a ball from going out of bounds, jumping over the score table or diving into the cheerleaders. A neat touch. And NBA 2K12 still looks like a million bucks too, with suitably shiny hardwood, detailed players (even with their real tattoos and all that jazz), accurately rendered arenas and more besides. Add to that new offensive and defensive moves, which makes for an "open canvas" in gameplay terms, and 2K12 has all of the key features to make for a worthwhile update.
NBA 2K12 looks like more than just an update though, and the NBA's Greatest section could almost be considered a separate game in itself, with 30 teams from various periods with their respective players all present and correct. There's 15 legends to choose from, but all 30 teams have their stars even if they're not listed among the 15. So, in the LA Lakers versus Portland Trailblazers game we're shown from Magic Johnson's challenge, we get to see Blazers' star Clyde Drexler looking just like he did in 1991, as well as Magic's fellow teammates receiving similar attention. The game will even play more like it did during that period, so a 1965 game will have less shooting from range due to the lack of a 3-point line and dunking will be less prevalent. It's also worth noting that completing NBA's Greatest challenges unlocks classic teams to use in the rest of the game.
"Our number one focus with NBA 2K12 is to outdo last year," says Snyder, and from what we've seen so far, it certainly seems poised to deliver on that remit. With 2K Sports bringing the NBA's Greatest mode, as well as working hard on bolstering the online features and fleshing out My Player, alongside the modes and features we've come to expect from the franchise, NBA 2K12 will surely be a winner when it launches later in the year. You might even say it'll be a slam dunk... Ahem.
NBA 2K12 is out on October 4th in North America and October 7th in Europe.