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New York City Opera
The New York City Opera (NYCO) was an American opera company located in New York City. The original company was active from 1943 to 2013, before filing for bankruptcy. However, in order to revive the company, a group of investors has made an offer to the company's board of directors which recommends that the US Bankruptcy Court approve it.[1] An additional incentive to those who had purchased tickets and received no refund has been made.[2]
The company, called "the people's opera" by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, was founded in 1943. The company's stated purpose was to make opera accessible to a wide audience at a reasonable ticket price. It also sought to produce an innovative choice of repertory, and provide a home for American singers and composers. The company was originally housed at the New York City Center theater on West 55th Street. It later became part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts at the New York State Theater from 1966 to 2010. During this time it produced autumn and spring seasons of opera in repertory and maintained extensive education and outreach programs, offering arts-in-education programs to 4,000 students in over thirty schools.
In 2011, the company left Lincoln Center due to financial difficulties, moving its offices and archives to 75 Broad St. in Lower Manhattan.[3][4] In the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons, NYCO performed four operas at various venues in New York City, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[5] On October 1, 2013, following an unsuccessful emergency fund-raising campaign, the company disbanded and filed for bankruptcy.[6][7]
During its nearly 70-year history, the NYCO helped launch the careers of many great opera singers including Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Maralin Niska, Carol Vaness, José Carreras, Shirley Verrett, Tatiana Troyanos, Jerry Hadley, Catherine Malfitano, Samuel Ramey, and Gianna Rolandi. Sills later served as the company's director from 1979–1989.[8] More recent acclaimed American singers who have called NYCO home include David Daniels, Mark Delavan, Mary Dunleavy, Lauren Flanigan, Elizabeth Futral, Bejun Mehta, Robert Brubaker and Carl Tanner.
NYCO similarly championed the work of American composers; approximately one-third of its repertoire was traditionally American opera. The company's American repertoire ranged from established works (e.g., Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, Carlisle Floyd's Susannah and Leonard Bernstein's Candide) to new works (e.g., Thomas Pasatieri's Before Breakfast and Mark Adamo's Little Women). NYCO's commitment to the future of American opera was demonstrated in its annual series, Vox, Contemporary Opera Lab, in which operas-in-progress were showcased, giving composers a chance to hear their work performed by professional singers and orchestra. The company also occasionally produced musicals and operettas including works by Stephen Sondheim and Gilbert and Sullivan.
- 1 The early years: 1943–1951
- 2 Rosenstock and Leinsdorf: 1952–1957
- 3 Rudel: 1957–1979
- 4 Sills: 1979–1988
- 5 Keene: 1989–1995
- 6 Kellogg: 1996–2007
- 7 Interregnum: 2008–2009
- 8 Steel: 2009–2013
- 9 Bankruptcy
- 10 Revival plans following bankruptcy
- 11 Vox, Contemporary Opera Lab
- 12 World premieres
- 13 References
- 14 External links
The early years: 1943–1951[edit]
The NYCO was founded as the New York City Center Opera and originally made its home at the New York City Center on West 55th Street. Laszlo Halasz was the company's first director, serving in that position from 1943–1951. Given the company's goal to make opera accessible to the masses, Halasz believed that tickets should be inexpensive and that productions should be staged convincingly with singers who were both physically and vocally suited to their roles. To this end, ticket prices during the company's first season were priced at just 75 cents to $2, and the company operated on a budget of $30,463 during its first season. At such prices the company was unable to afford the star billing enjoyed by the Metropolitan Opera. Halasz, however, was able to turn this fact into a virtue by making the company an important platform for young singers, particularly American opera singers.[9]
The company's first season opened in February 1944, and included productions of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, Friedrich von Flotow's Martha and Georges Bizet's Carmen, all of them conducted by Halasz. Several notable singers performed with the company in the first season, including Jennie Tourel, Martha Lipton, and Hugh Thompson, who were all immediately poached by the Met after their NYCO debuts. Other notable singers Halasz brought to the NYCO included Frances Bible, Adelaide Bishop, Débria Brown, Mack Harrell, Thomas Hayward, Dorothy Kirsten, Brenda Lewis, Eva Likova, Leon Lishner, Regina Resnik, Norman Scott, Ramón Vinay, and Frances Yeend among others. In 1945, the company became the first major opera company to have an African American performer. This was in the production of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci with Todd Duncan's performance as Tonio.[9] Lawrence Winters and Robert McFerrin were other notable African American opera pioneers to sing with the company during this period. The first African American woman to sing with the company was soprano Camilla Williams as the title heroine in Madama Butterfly in 1946.[10] Winters and Williams later went on to sing the title roles in the most complete recording made up to that time of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, for Columbia Masterworks Records in 1951.
Halasz had a somewhat tumultuous relationship with the company's board of directors, given his strong opinions about what the NYCO should be. For one, he supported the idea of performing foreign language works in English to make opera more accessible to American audiences. He insisted on offering at least one production in English every season. The area that brought the most tension between Halasz and the board was Halasz's commitment to staging new works by American composers and rarely heard operas at the opera house. The first New York City premiere presented by the company was Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos on October 10, 1946 with Ella Flesch in the title role, Vasso Argyris as Bacchus, Virginia MacWatters as Zerbinetta, Polyna Stoska as the composer and James Pease as the music master. The production was described by the contemporary press as "record breaking",[11] and it put the company "on the map".[12] The NYCO subsequently toured Ariadne to His Majesty's Theatre, Montreal, so giving the opera's Canadian premiere.[11]
The first world premiere at the house was William Grant Still's Troubled Island in 1949. It was notably the first grand opera composed by an African-American to be produced in a major opera house.[9] In the fall of 1949, the NYCO revived Prokofiev's comic opera The Love for Three Oranges, which had not been seen in America since its unsuccessful Chicago premiere in 1921. The new production, directed by Vladimir Rosing, turned into a smash hit and was brought back for two additional seasons.[13]
Also in 1949, Halasz scheduled the world premiere of David Tamkin's The Dybbuk to be performed by the NYCO in 1950. However, the NYCO board opposed the decision and ultimately the production was postponed for financial reasons. Halasz, however, rescheduled the work for inclusion in the 1951–1952 season. Uneasy with Halasz's bold repertoire choices, the NYCO board insisted in 1951 that Halasz submit his repertory plans for their approval. As a result, he resigned, along with several members of his conducting staff, including Jean Morel, Thomas Martin and two of his eventual successors, Joseph Rosenstock and Julius Rudel. Faced with the resignations of most of their creative staff, the board reluctantly backed down and The Dybbuk was given its world premiere at the NYCO on October 4, 1951. But tensions remained high between Halasz and the board and they fired him in late 1951 when Halasz became involved in union disputes.[9]
Rosenstock and Leinsdorf: 1952–1957[edit]
After Laszlo Halász was fired, the NYCO board appointed Joseph Rosenstock, who was already working as a conductor with the company, as the new director. He served in that post for four seasons, during which time he continued in Halász's steps of scheduling innovative programs with unusual repertoire mixed in with standard works. He notably staged the world premiere of Aaron Copland's The Tender Land, the New York premiere of William Walton's Troilus and Cressida, and the United States premieres of Gottfried von Einem's The Trial and Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle.[14] Rosenstock was also the first NYCO director to include musical theatre in the company's repertoire with a 1954 production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat; a production which starred Broadway musical veteran and operatic soprano Helena Bliss. This decision was ridiculed by the Press but Rosenstock felt justified as the musical played to a packed house. Meanwhile, the company's staging of Donizetti's rarely heard opera Don Pasquale that season only sold 35 percent of the house seats.[15]
In January 1956 the NYCO board accepted Rosenstock's resignation, who stated that he left because of too much non-musical work such as bookings and business negotiations. The board appointed Erich Leinsdorf, who had worked as a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Rochester Philharmonic, to take his place.[14] Leinsdorf stayed with the company for only one season, being fired after his ambitious program of contemporary and unusual works for the 1956 season failed to sooth financial problems at the NYCO and drew harsh criticism from the press. The press particularly did not care for his new productions of Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and the American premiere of Carl Orff's Der Mond. However, Leinsdorf did have one major triumph with the first professional production of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah with Phyllis Curtin in the title role, and Norman Treigle as the Reverend Blitch. The production was a critical success with both audiences and critics, and the opera went on to become an American classic.[15][16]
Rudel: 1957–1979[edit]
After Leinsdorf was fired, the NYCO board canceled its 1957 spring season and eventually appointed Julius Rudel as the new general director of the company. Rudel had been hired by the NYCO straight out of college in 1944, and had worked on the conducting staff there for the past 13 years. Under Rudel's leadership, the company reached new artistic heights, drawing critical praise for its performances of both standard and adventurous works. The company became known for its cutting-edge stage direction, largely due to Rudel's willingness to poach renowned directors from the theatre who had not necessarily been involved with opera before. By the mid-1960s the company was generally regarded as one of the leading opera companies of the United States.[17]
During his tenure at City Opera, Rudel displayed a strong commitment to American opera, commissioning 12 works and leading 19 world premieres. He also led a large number of United States premieres, including Alberto Ginastera's Don Rodrigo with tenor Plácido Domingo for the inauguration of the NYCO's new home at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center (now called the David H. Koch Theater) on February 22, 1966. That same season the company presented the New York premiere of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites.[17]
Like his predecessors, Rudel had an eye for young American talent and was responsible for helping to cultivate a couple of generations of American singers. Among the singers whose careers he furthered were Samuel Ramey and Carol Vaness. One of his most apt decisions was in forming an artistic partnership with Beverly Sills, making her the NYCO's leading soprano from 1956 until her retirement from the stage in 1979,[17] although Joseph Rosenstock deserves the credit for hiring her in 1955 for her first performances with the company. With the NYCO Sills had her first major critical success in the first Handel opera staged by the company, the role of Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare opposite Norman Treigle in 1966. At that time Handel operas were rarely produced and the production drew a lot of attention from the international press. Sills was soon making appearances with all the major opera houses around the world. While Sills was busy with her international career, she remained a regular performer with the NYCO until her retirement.[18] In 1970 John Simon White was appointed managing director of the NYCO in order to free up Rudel's schedule for the more artistic side of his job. White remained in that position until 1980.[19]
Sills: 1979–1988[edit]
Upon Sills's retirement from the stage in 1979, she succeeded Rudel as General Director of the NYCO. Initially the plan was for Sills to share the post with Rudel and slowly phase him out. However, Rudel decided to resign in 1979 in order to take a position as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Sills took the post over entirely.[18]
At the time Sills assumed her position, the NYCO was in a bit of a slump, being burdened with a three million dollar debt and coming off a few seasons with less than favorable reviews. On the business side, Sills proved to be a godsend to the company, showing a prodigious gift for fund-raising. By the time she retired from her post in early 1989, she had grown the company's budget from $9 million to $26 million, and left the company in the black with a $3 million surplus. She was able to achieve this while still reducing ticket prices by 20 percent with the hope of attracting new and younger audiences.[18]
Keene: 1989–1995[edit]
Sills retired as General Director in 1989 and was replaced by conductor Christopher Keene, largely due to Sill's strong recommendation. Keene had previously worked as a conductor at the NYCO since 1970 and had served as the NYCO's Music Director from 1982 to 1986. He held the position until his untimely death from lymphoma arising from AIDS at the age of forty-eight. His last performance, at the City Opera, was of Hindemith's Mathis der Maler in September 1995.[20]
Yet for all his challenges, Keene consistently presented innovative opera seasons that were successful with critics during his tenure. His last season with the company alone included the United States premieres of Toshiro Mayuzumi's Kinkakuji [The Golden Pavilion] and Jost Meier's Dreyfus Affair. Just a month before his death Peter G. Davis wrote in New York that "Keene is one of the few authentic cultural heroes New York has left, thanks to his many recent acts of courage, personal as well as artistic."[20]
Kellogg: 1996–2007[edit]
Keene was succeeded in 1996 by Glimmerglass Opera's general and artistic director, Paul Kellogg. Under his leadership, the NYCO added 62 new productions to its repertoire, including several world premieres by American composers, and inaugurated the series, Vox: Showcasing American Composers. He was also instrumental in establishing the NYCO as an important producer of operas by baroque masters such as Handel, Gluck, and Rameau, sparking a renewal of interest in these long-neglected works. A particular triumph was a highly lauded production of Handel's Orlando in 2007 in a modern production by Chas Rader-Shieber that starred countertenor Bejun Mehta and the soprano Amy Burton.[21][22] In keeping with NYCO's "people's opera" tradition, Kellogg inaugurated NYCO's "Opera for All" event, with reduced priced tickets, in 2005. Kellogg announced his retirement in 2007. Anthony Tomassini, in The New York Times, commented that Kellogg had "a record of innovation and achievement to be proud of. Few leaders of performing-arts institutions have been as effective at defining and carrying out a company mission".[23] Tomassini called Kellogg's decision, at the urging of Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to open its season on September 15, 2001, "the most meaningful day of music in 2001" and later used NYCO's opening day in 2001 and its 2009–2010 season as symbolic bookends for New York's music scene in the first decade of the 21st century.[24][25]
Interregnum: 2008–2009[edit]
A note of uncertainty about the company's future emerged in November 2008, when Gerard Mortier, who was scheduled to begin his first official season as General and Artistic Director of the company in 2009, abruptly resigned. The company announced that "The economic climate in which we find ourselves today has caused us both to reconsider proceeding with our plans." Mortier had reportedly been promised a $60 million annual budget, which was cut to $36 million due to the economic climate. Michael Kaiser was appointed to advise the board on a turnaround strategy, including the recruitment of a new general director.[26]
The David H. Koch Theater (previously known as the New York State Theater) underwent major renovations during the 2008–2009 season. During the construction the company did not stage opera in its home at Lincoln Center.
Instead, New York City Opera presented a concert version of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra at Carnegie Hall in January 2009, as well as other concerts and programs around the city, and it continued to make classroom presentations in New York City's public schools.[21] The company presented three concerts at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 2009, I'm On My Way: Black History at City Opera, One Fine Day: A Tribute to Camilla Williams and a 60th Anniversary concert production of William Grant Still's Troubled Island.[27]
In June 2009 Bloomberg reported that the company had incurred a $11 million deficit for the year ending June 2008. Revenue fell 23 percent to $32.9 million, expenses rose 11 percent to $44.2 million.[28]
Steel: 2009–2013[edit]
In January 2009, the company announced the appointment of George Steel as general manager and artistic director, effective February 1, 2009.[29]
Under Steel during the 2009/10 season, the company returned with an opening night program called American Voices consisting of excerpts from American opera. The season also included a revival of Hugo Weisgall's Esther and a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni directed by Christopher Alden. The spring season opened in March 2010 and included Emmanuel Chabrier's L'étoile directed by Mark Lamos and Handel's Partenope directed by Andrew Chown; original production directed by Francisco Negrin. The company also continued to collaborate with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Opera Noire of New York to highlight the role of opera in African-American history including the programs Opera at the Schomburg, A Tribute to Robert McFerrin, and X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X.[30] In 2010 NYCO's VOX Contemporary Opera Lab featured new works of emerging and established composers at New York University in late April.[31]
The company's 2010–2011 season included a new production of Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place directed by Christopher Alden; Richard Strauss's Intermezzo directed by Leon Major; and a new production titled Monodramas which consisted of three solo one-act works: John Zorn's La Machine de l'être, Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung, and Morton Feldman's Neither. The company also staged the American premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon, the first opera by Stephen Schwartz, the veteran composer of Broadway musicals.
In addition, the company presented several concert performances that included: An Evening With Christine Brewer; Lucky To Be Me: The Music of Leonard Bernstein; John Zorn & Friends (with Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Mike Patton, Marc Ribot, Dave Douglas and Uri Caine); a family opera concert of Oliver Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are with a libretto by Maurice Sendak; and Defying Gravity: The Music of Stephen Schwartz with Kristin Chenoweth and Raúl Esparza.[32][33] In May 2011, the company announced that it would leave Lincoln Center to conserve costs and present its upcoming season in different venues throughout the city.
On October 1, 2013, the company announced that it would file for bankruptcy, citing an inability to raise sufficient funding to continue the 2013/14 season.[34][35][36] The company's last production was the U.S. premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole.
In an article in the New York Times, music critic Anthony Tommasini notes one of the reasons for the company's failure (as well as relating it to other failed arts organizations):
In short, artistic excellence is not enough. Any institution, big or small, old or new, must have a clear artistic vision, a purpose that connects with audiences and the community. But the performing arts have never been profit-making endeavors. It is more important than ever that all institutions, from a fledgling string quartet to the lofty Metropolitan Opera, have an effective business model.[37]
Revival plans following bankruptcy[edit]
An organization called New York City Opera Renaissance purchased the company's few remaining assets in 2015. The group announced plans to relaunch New York City Opera in 2015. The proposed new home for a revived NYCO is the 1,100-seat Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center.[38]
Vox, Contemporary Opera Lab[edit]
Vox, Contemporary Opera Lab (also known as Vox: Showcasing American Composers) was an annual concert series dedicated to the development of contemporary American operas. Founded by New York City Opera in 1999, the festival offered composers and librettists the opportunity to hear excerpts of their works performed with professional singers and musicians. Up to twelve excerpts of previously un-produced operas were performed at each festival.[39] Many of the operas that were presented at Vox went on to be presented in full production by New York City Opera and various other opera companies, including Richard Danielpour's Margaret Garner.[40] From 2006, the Vox performances were presented at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.[41]
World premieres[edit]
- William Grant Still – Troubled Island (1949)
- David Tamkin – The Dybbuk (1951)
- Aaron Copland – The Tender Land (1954)
- Nevit Kodallı – Van Gogh (1957)
- Mark Bucci – Tale for a Deaf Ear (1958, first professional production)
- Robert Kurka – The Good Soldier Schweik (1958)
- Hugo Weisgall – Six Characters in Search of an Author (1959)
- Norman Dello Joio – The Triumph of St. Joan (1959, the premiere of the third version)
- Robert Ward – He Who Gets Slapped (1959)
- Douglas Moore – The Wings of the Dove (1961)
- Robert Ward – The Crucible (1961)
- Abraham Ellstein – The Golem (1962)
- Carlisle Floyd – The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962)
- Jerome Moross – Gentlemen, Be Seated! (1963)
- Lee Hoiby – Natalia Petrovna (1964)
- Jack Beeson – Lizzie Borden (1965)
- Ned Rorem – Miss Julie (1965)
- Vittorio Giannini – Servant of Two Masters (1967)
- Hugo Weisgall – Nine Rivers from Jordan (1968)
- Gian Carlo Menotti – The Most Important Man (1971)
- Thea Musgrave – The Voice of Ariadne (1977)
- Leon Kirchner – Lilly (1977)
- Dominick Argento – Miss Havisham's Fire (1979)
- Stanley Silverman – Madame Adare (1980)
- Thomas Pasatieri – Before Breakfast (1980)
- Jan Bach – The Student from Salamanca (1980)
- Leonard Bernstein – Candide (Opera House Version) (1982)
- Anthony Davis – X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (1986, first staged production)
- Jay Reise – Rasputin (1988)
- Hugo Weisgall – Esther (1993)
- Ezra Laderman – Marilyn (1993)
- Lukas Foss – Griffelkin (1993, premiere of revised version)
- Deborah Drattell – Lilith (2001, first staged production)
- Charles Wuorinen – Haroun and the Sea of Stories (2004)
- ^ Jennifer Smith and Sara Randazzo, "Investors Seek to Revive N.Y. City Opera", Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2014
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- ^ "2011–2012 Season and Tickets". New York City Opera. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
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- ^ Tommasini, Anthony. "Beverly Sills, All-American Diva With Brooklyn Roots, Is Dead at 78", The New York Times, July 4, 2007. Retrieved November 6, 2007.
- ^ a b c d Allan Kozinn (October 31, 2001). "Laszlo Halasz, First Director Of City Opera, Is Dead at 96". The New York Times. Retrieved May 18, 2009.
- ^ Southern, 417
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External links[edit]
- New York City Opera official website
- New York City Opera's channel on YouTube
- New York City Opera collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Biography of Laszlo Halasz


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OCONEE COUNTY - Oconee County public school officials handed out report cards Friday and gave the county's legislative delegation an overall grade of A-plus.
The annual breakfast meeting between school district officials and the South Carolina lawmakers also included the county's new administrator Dale Surrett, who cautioned the lawmakers to keep a close eye on the recent changes in property taxes.
This year will see the school operations portion of property tax on owner-occupied homes replaced with the 1-cent sales tax increase that took affect in June.
"We're not completely certain how that will work out," Mr. Surrett said Friday. "We need to communicate and communicate early."
Revenue generated by all six cents of sales tax collected in South Carolina is used for purposes of education, Mr. Surrett said.
Some concern exists, particularly in Oconee County, where there are vacation and second homes, he said. Some could claim more than one house as their owner-occupied residence, he said.
"We need to close that hole in the bucket," Mr. Surrett said.
The sales tax increase and the break for taxpayers in owner-occupied homes are expected to help fund poorer school districts in the state.
Some fear, however, that Oconee County and other school districts that are doing a good job of managing their money and educating the children will not receive as much money as they have in the past. There also is some concern among school officials about future increases in funding that the Oconee district would have gotten based on the increase in the number of new homes in the county.
Sen. Thomas Alexander, R-Walhalla, assured the school officials, including all the school board members, that the legislators would be watching where the sales tax money goes and said money alone cannot solve some problems school districts in other parts of state face.
"We're not going to support something that pulls us down just to pull someone else up," Sen. Alexander said. "Money itself will not solve that problem."
School board member Ken Poston of Walhalla said, "We don't want to get hurt because we are doing a good job."
Rep. Bill Whitmire, R-Walhalla, said, "I'm not going to Columbia and let Oconee County get shortchanged."
The state is experiencing some problems, he said, along the Interstate 95 corridor which was featured in a documentary titled "Corridor of Shame," which pointed out poverty-stricken areas and the problems school systems there face.
"We've got to keep our standards high," Rep. Whitmire said.
School board chairman Harry Mays said because Oconee County schools rank high in the state and nationally in testing, it helps to draw industry and encourages existing industry to grow.
"That's an ace in your pocket when you recruit an industry that could invest $20 million to $30 million in an operation," Mr. Mays said. "The school district of Oconee County won't let you down."
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Coorg(Kodagu), Karnataka, India
Coorg lies in southwestern Karnataka, at the southern end of the Western Ghats. Its name is probably a corruption of the Kannada kodagu ("steepness"). Its 4,104 sq km area is rugged and hilly with a high rainfall and a climate tempered by its altitude. The thickly forested hills often exceed 5,000 ft. Notable summits, all above 5,300 ft, include Tadramol, Pushpagiri, and Kottebetta. Coorg is drained by the upper Cauvery River and its tributaries, which in legend have some of the life-giving properties of the Ganges. Rice is cultivated on the valley floors. Coffee plantations occupy hillside clearings. Other crops are tea, cardamom, rubber, pepper, and millet. There are orange groves in the south and evergreen timber forest in the west.
Coorg was an independent kingdom from the 9th century. A Hindu dynasty ruled almost continuously from the late 16th century until overthrown by the British in 1834. The region became a province (a state after 1950) of British India and because of its ruggedness was sometimes referred to as the "Wales of India." Administered by the chief commissioner of Mysore from 1881 to 1947, Coorg was absorbed into Mysore in 1953. The main towns are the district headquarters, Madikeri, Somvarpet, Virarajendrapet, and Ponnampet. A local hero is the former Field Marshal in the Indian Army, General KM Cariappa. [Adapted from Encyclopedia Britannica]
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ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- In a rare Fortune interview several years ago Warren Buffett warned that America was "selling the farm" to live "high on the hog." Forget the hog: that dream's gone, and the farm may not be far behind.
The next few years will rival the 2000-2002 bear-recession. Here's why. And how you can avoid sinking with it.
"Selling the farm" was a perfect metaphor for the coming downturn. During the recent bull, Wall Street became totally addicted to easy credit, junk mortgages and snake-oil derivatives. The Fed and Treasury loved it, too, denying the massive bubble buildup, adding fuel to Wall Street's greed. Deja vu the 90's "irrational exuberance."
Now the crisis is metastasizing: Hundred of billions of dollars in write-offs reducing shareholder equity, hundreds of millions of dollars in severance pay to CEO losers. Worse yet, Wall Street's insiders rubbed salt in their shareholders wounds by passing out $38 billion of the shareholders' profits in bonuses, averaging more than $600,000.
Now the biggest of all insults: Our capitalist system is so dysfunctional that lately the market has taken to cheering as Wall Street's incompetent bankers hide their mistakes by selling huge chunks of America's equity to China, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and other sovereign funds -- with more sell-offs coming.
Not long ago these same foreign buyers were happy to reinvest their accumulated trading reserves in safe, cheap U.S. Treasurys. No more. The dollar's credibility stinks. And yet, America's leaders continue running up huge trade deficits to feed our insatiable addiction to oil, cheap toys and outsourced jobs. No wonder foreigners don't want our IOUs, they want equity ... just as Buffett warned us:
"We were taught in Economics 101 that countries could not for long sustain large, ever-growing trade deficits. Our country has been behaving like an extraordinarily rich family that possesses an immense farm. In order to consume 4% more than they produce -- that's the trade deficit -- we have, day by day, been both selling pieces of the farm and increasing the mortgage on what we still own."
Unfortunately, our leaders just don't get it: America's high-on-the-hog, deficits-don't-matter lifestyle is unsustainable. Wall Street knew this would happen, but was in total denial, self-absorbed in its greed-is-good world milking the subprime-credit bubble.
This follows an all too familiar historic pattern that fits all bubbles. Burton Malkiel summarized it in his classic "A Random Walk Down Wall Street:" "Greed run amok has been an essential feature of every speculative boom in history. In their frenzy for money, market participants throw over firm foundations of value for the dubious but thrilling assumption that they too can make a killing by building castles in the air. Such thinking can, and has, enveloped entire nations."
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Foreigners see our problems, even if our "nation" cannot: "The adjustment in the U.S. housing market has just begun," Kazuo Mizuno, chief economist of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities tells Bloomberg. "It will probably bottom out in three or four years. Meantime, this will keep buffeting consumption, employment and the dollar. ... Now is the beginning of the end to dollar standard system." They get it: America's excesses put the entire "farm" on the auction block.
Similar warnings come from Europe: Peter Spencer, chief economist of ITEM Club ("Independent Treasury Economic Model"), a leading British economic forecaster, says, "the central banks are rapidly losing control ... they are allowing the money markets to dictate policy." A scary scenario: Another major policy error by the central banks and "this could make 1929 look like a walk in the park."
2008 is troubling not just because the total incompetence of Wall Street and Washington is likely to carry forward. More worrisome is their callous, near hostile opinion of average Americans. Something Trader Daily said a week ago summarizes their opinion: "Never underestimate the power of the superpsycho, hyper-spending American consumer. Where there is no cash, they will sell their soul. Or just charge it."
If you want to rise above this low opinion they have of you, here are our Top 10 New Year's resolutions to prepare you to win in the coming 2008-2010 bear-recession:
1. Go contrarian: Wall Street is biased, trust no one
The vast majority of business, economic and stock-market forecasters are not looking out for your interests. They're biased, favoring their employers on Wall Street, Corporate America and Washington. The past few years they made huge bucks hyping the credit/subprime bubble. Witness their bonuses. In 2008 their rosy forecasts will continue. They can't help misleading you, it's in their DNA: "Greed is good."


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The colours have gone a bit off in the giff, they are abit subtler than this on the hi res
it needs something else to make it look like meat... and i don't really get it.
A fork would help and also maybe a t-bone and/or circle bone you see in cartoons on steaks in a few of the continenets.
looks like meat to me. but then...
Man, the south pacific is all fat and gristle.
delicious. $5
same concept as this one:
I like meat. I like countries made of meat, but I like rivers made of fat marbling. I would lose the country outlines, and replace them with major landmarks, like river and mountain ranges. It doesn't look too meaty right now.
as a vegan, i dislike.
Yep, needs more reenforcement that we're looking at meat.
Yeah, it looks like a map. It needs meaty texturing. Also, why doesn't Australia have state borders?
Descrimination I say!
hmmm, nice but put some of those circle bone things in some of them. dont know what theyre called...


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Foundation Coal is a major U. S. coal producer with 13 mines and related facilities in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wyoming. The company employs approximately 3,000 people and produces 72 million tons of coal annually.
Borla has been the technical services Ssuperintendent for Foundation Coal's affiliate in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming centered in Gillette. He has an undergraduate degree in mining engineering and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Utah. He also has his Professional Engineer license. Prior to entering the University of Utah, Borla attended Snow College and Southern Utah University where he was active in football and baseball.
Borla has been with affiliates of Foundation Coal and its predecessor companies since 1981. He has extensive experience in the industry, starting with Plateau Mining in Carbon County, the Willow Creek mine at Castle Gate, a year at the company mines in Australia as well as the underground and open pit mines in Wyoming.
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The initial signing of Michael Nylander had the makings of everything the Caps looked for on paper, but went against virtually most reports of GM George McPhee's stance of taking on long term contracts to players over 30.
The Contract:
Nylander at the age of 34 signed a 4 Yr $19.5M deal with a no trade clause in 2007 which years earlier (a no trade clause) was denied to Peter Bondra. All the pieces for a potential disaster in the making were set to occur. For a team with aspirations of becoming Stanley Cup Champion, it's Nylander's salary cap hit impacting personnel moves that's proving the most devastating.
It's not the player or agent's fault for getting the most money over the most number of years during contract negotiations. The Caps earned the right to another bad contract the hard way and signed the deal themselves. Two years into Nylander's contract it's easy to see the disappointment on both sides.
The contract situation should have been resolved well before the draft and free agency period. Now the Caps have let another offseason year go by with a significantly high salary cap hit that's hand cuffing potential roster moves.
The Solution: Take Action Like Dan Snyder
It's time for the Capitals to pull a Dan Snyder move. That's right! Redskins fans probably recall the infamous shot heard 'round the metro area after Laveranues Coles requested a contract extension that put the Santana Moss trade on hold. Snyder let him know that he'd send him a flat screen TV to watch games because he wouldn't be wearing a Redskins uniform the remainder of his contract. Eventually Coles was dealt for Moss.
A similar stance wouldn't hurt with Nylander. If Nylander wants to play hockey in the NHL then he has the power to remove the no trade clause, if he wants to play in Russia he also has the ability to make that happen, and if he refuses to take any action then he can file for retirement because the Caps need to let him know he's not in their plans - at all. The decision would then fall squarely on Nylander's shoulders and force a resolution. Where Nylander's career takes him is up to him, but the Caps shouldn't continue to wait for Nylander to have an epiphany for someone already out of favor with Coach Boudreau.
The Initial Plan
Washington hoped Nylander could be the offensive playmaking center that had been lacking in recent years, as well as provide the leadership for a young team. With Backstrom starting his NHL career in Washington all the pieces made sense with Ovechkin and Backstrom already on board. It's easy to confuse a mentor with true leadership. It didn't take long to find that Nylander's style of play didn't fit well with the players already in place and by the end of the 2009 playoff season he found himself barely playing.
A trade in the previous year's deadline brought the true leader onto the Capitals in Sergei Fedorov. The bond and kindred spirit Backstrom and Nylander share makes perfect sense. Nylander may make Backstrom feel more at ease in his new surroundings but leadership takes a stronger presence that never appeared from the high priced center. Leadership takes on the quality of lifting up a team and moving the players as a group into a certain direction or sometimes taking on a more difficult responsibility of calling players out to perform at a higher level or providing the steadying influence on a young team.
Nylander's salary cap space could have been used to acquire a defensive minded defenseman or to provide help along the top two forward lines. The longer the situation drags out the more embarrassment it becomes on both parties and prevents the Capitals from moving closer to their 2nd Stanley Cup appearance.


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Baked Ham with Mustard and Marjoram
- 1 1/2 cups whole-grain Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons dried marjoram
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 9- to 10-pound fully cooked bone-in ham (shank or butt end)
- 2 1/2 cups Madeira
- 1 cup orange juice
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh marjoram or 2 teaspoons dried
Preheat oven to 400�F. Mix first 6 ingredients in medium bowl. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate)
Line large roasting pan with double layer of foil. Trim any tough rind and fat from upper side of ham, leaving 1/4-inch-thick layer of fat. Using long sharp knife, score fat in 1-inch-wide diamond pattern. Place ham in prepared pan. Pour Madeira and 1 cup orange juice into bottom of pan. Bake ham until heated through, about 45 minutes.
Remove pan from oven. Increase oven temperature to 450�F. Spread mustard mixture generously over top and sides of ham. Return to oven and continue to bake until mustard coating is golden brown, about 35 minutes.
Transfer ham to platter. Skim fat from pan juices and discard. Pour pan juices into medium saucepan. Add marjoram and bring to boil. Season sauce to taste with salt and pepper. Slice ham into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Serve with sauce.
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"Yesterday, we witnessed the White House 'jobs summit'- a high profile event that unfortunately looked more like a shiny object meant to distract the American people from the Administration's failed stimulus and unprecedented spending policies. But this morning we are faced with the stark reality that 10 percent of Americans still don't have a job.
"And even though the President has promised to look at each and every opportunity to create new jobs, he continues to turn a blind eye to all-of-the-above energy development. It's time for the Administration to replace the summits, endless rhetoric and fuzzy stimulus statistics with proven policies that will grow our economy and create ALL kinds of new jobs. Republicans have proposed the American Energy Act, a bill that will create new green jobs, oil and gas jobs, and nuclear jobs. If the Administration is really looking for positive ways to spur economic growth, they'll consider this bill and support all-of-the-above energy development."
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BY BRIAN MASONUW Athletic CommunicationsSTAR OF THE GAMEEven when he wasn't scoring, Jordan Taylor was making his presence felt on the offensive end for Wisconsin. The senior guard struggled to a 1-for-8 start from the floor but had no trouble finding teammates who could score, dishing out a career-high 10 assists without committing a single turnover. Taylor turned up his offensive game late by hitting each of his last four shots from the floor -- including a 3-pointer deep in the shot clock -- to finish with a game-high 15 points.PLAY OF THE GAMETaylor started the night's top play, but it was junior forward Mike Bruesewitz that finished it. With just under five minutes to play, Taylor swiped the ball from Green Bay's Kam Cerroni on the Phoenix end for one of the Badgers' eight steals on the night. He quickly turned up floor and fired a pass to a streaking Bruesewitz, who threw down a dunk off the breakaway to bump the Badgers' lead to a 64-38 edge.TURNING POINT OF THE GAMEWisconsin got out to an early 6-0 lead after Ben Brust and Rob Wilson splashed early 3-pointers, but it was when the Badgers got their inside game going that they began to pull away. Green Bay drew within a single point, at 12-11, near the midway point of the first half, but then Jared Berggren connected on a layup that began to turn the tide. His basket opened a 14-1 run that saw five UW players score on the interior over the next five minutes. Freshman Frank Kaminsky's hoop with 4:01 to play in the half made it a 26-12 Badgers lead, and UW's advantage never dipped below double digits again.STAT OF THE GAMEThe Badgers forced Green Bay into 16 turnovers -- the second-most by a UW opponent this year -- and converted those giveaways into a 21-0 edge in points off turnovers. Wisconsin finished with eight steals, including a career-high four by Berggren.
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Ga. - The Camden County Sheriff's Office is hoping you recognize a man on their most wanted list.
Antwon M. Brown is facing charges of theft by taking, simple battery, fleeing, obstruction, driving without a license and speeding, according to a Facebook post by the CCSO.
Brown, 28, is described as a black male, with black hair and brown eyes. Brown is said to be 5-feet-11-inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds, the post detailed.
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Road in Superior closed due to sulfuric acid spill
TUCSON, Ariz. — Federal authorities have closed a southern Arizona road until June 15 due to illegal dumping of sulfuric acid.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say the dumping was recently discovered near the Battle Axe Road trailhead parking area in Superior.
They say the spill created a public health hazard near the junction of Battle Axe Road and State Route 177.
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Dolly doubles down: Country music legend and Sevier County native Dolly Parton told a packed auditorium at Dollywood on Wednesday that she plans to invest more than $300 million in her community over the next 10 years as she expands her Dollywood properties.
A 300-room resort and a new roller-coaster are planned, but more additions to the theme parks are in the works, she said.
In a News Sentinel interview after the event, Parton indicated her ultimate vision for Dollywood might include other theme parks around the country or the globe. Parton said she has had inquiries from other countries about opening Dollywood parks there.
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Groundbreaking is underway for The Village, a $4 million four-phase project that would house 24 units, ranging from two- to four-bedroom units on the six-acre site off Robinson Road in West Knoxville. The site would also include five offices, a work room, a community building with a computer lab, a play room, an exercise room, a teen room and a multipurpose room with a kitchen.
To date, $1.8 million of the $2.8 million needed for the project has been raised, according to Daniel Watson, the charity's co-counder and executive director.
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The nonprofit Aslan Foundation made the grant public Monday. The money, spread over five years, will help underwrite the cost of the KSO Chamber Classics series at the Bijou Theatre, allow the hiring of five full-time musicians and subsidize lower-priced tickets to make performances more accessible, said Jeff Mansour, the foundation's executive director.
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Students unprepared: Tennessee's high school graduates fell short of national results for ACT college readiness benchmarks this year, according to results released Wednesday. In English, reading, mathematics and science combined, 18 percent of Tennessee's Class of 2013 achieved college readiness, compared with 26 percent nationally. The results were released in the ACT's yearly report.
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A successful Independent Study Student mom and grandmother of independent study Fame students. Has been on Fame Board for last two years.
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The Charter School is operated by a California 501(c)(3) non-profit public benefit corporation, Bay Area School for Independent Study, Inc. The Articles of Incorporation of BASIS, Inc., include the operation of FAME and are filed with the California Secretary of State. The Charter School is governed pursuant to the BASIS, Inc. corporate bylaws, which are consistent with this charter.
Non-Profit Board of Directors BASIS, Inc., a five-to-seven-member Board of Directors, governs the School. The Board's major roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- monitoring the aggregate academic achievement of FAME students;
- establishing and approving all major educational and operational policies (a "major" policy is one that fundamentally determines how FAME operates or educates its students);
- overseeing the School's fiscal affairs;
- approving the School's annual budget;
- approving contracts consistent with the School's fiscal policies;
- selecting an independent auditor;
- selecting and evaluating chief executive officers;; and
- meeting corporate requirements.
Vacancies are filled as follows:
Vacancies on the Board of Directors may be filled by approval of the Board of Directors or, if the number of directors then in office is less than a quorum, by (1) the unanimous consent of the directors then in office, (2) the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office at a meeting held according to notice or waivers of notice complying with Corporations Code Section 5211, or (3) a sole remaining director. Please see our bylaws for more information.
Notices of board openings are posted to the FAME website and at school sites. The postings describe the time period and method for interested candidates to present their interest in joining the Board. Board members will consider interested applicants for Board membership and vote to approve any new member as an item on the agenda of an open meeting that has been noticed according to California Corporations Code Section 5211 and Brown Act requirements. Only current Board members vote for new members, as defined in Article VII, Section 11 of the bylaws.
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We encourage the development of a parent/teacher organization (PTO) at each location made up of parents and guardians of FAME students and FAME teachers whose primary role is to provide support and feedback regarding site activities. The PTO operates independently from the school. The PTO holds meetings throughout the year allowing parents to hear how the School operates, how it provides educational service, and how it is accountable to the community. The School also promotes parent participation by supporting and strongly encouraging parents and guardians to contribute a minimum of 20 hours per year of volunteer work, of which at least five (5) hours occurs in their child's classroom. The PTO also may plan special events and fundraisers for the School, coordinate teacher appreciation week, and School celebrations.
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The Governing Board schedules monthly meetings based on an annual calendar. The meeting dates and times as posted are subject to change within the limits of the Brown Act but are memorialized each year as an annual calendar for planning purposes. The meetings are typically held at FAME's main administrative offices in Newark, but may also be scheduled at FAME Public Charter School site based locations or resource centers on occasion. Meeting agendas are posted at the main office and all school sites as well as distributed directly to our parent-teacher organization leadership. FAME staff, parents, students and members of the community are encouraged to attend to keep abreast of school operations. Each meeting allows for public comment on items both on the agenda and off of the agenda.
The Chief Executive Officer is responsible for oversight of the day-to-day operations of the school. The CEO recommends policy and procedure to the board and in collaboration with the school's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), develops the annual operating budget for approval. The Parent-Teacher Organization and FAME's Leadership team serve as advisory bodies to the CEO presenting the interests of FAME's education community contributing ideas, addressing matters of concern, and introducing prospective projects or "wish list" items that help the CEO and CFO make critical decisions regarding the development of the budget and programs.
FAME's Parent-Teacher organization acts as a communication channel between parents, teachers, students, and groups both within and outside of the school community by means of regular meetings and special events. The meetings serve as a forum for the discussion of matters of interest and concern to the parents and teachers of the school in regard to the school programs and community. The PTO is given time during each board meeting to provide feedback to the board and as wells as to provide an update on their activities and meets regularly with the CEO to provide input about the school community.
The leadership team is comprised of the school's directors and principals. The team has been formed to facilitate shared governance and to serve as an advisory group to the CEO in the development of school programs. The leadership team meets regularly with their staffs and solicits input regarding matters of concern to the school employees and represents the concerns to the CEO and the Board during monthly meetings.
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Periodontal or gum disease is a serious gum infection that can lead to tooth loss and might prevent you from achieving the nutritional goals set by your doctor. If not detected by a dentist or hygienist or if left untreated, periodontal disease can cause an infection that destroys the bone supporting your teeth. As the gum disease progresses, symptoms might include tooth loosening or shifting, bad breath, or bleeding gums. Periodontal disease can worsen blood glucose control and vice versa. If your blood glucose is high or fluctuates, you are at risk of developing severe periodontal disease.
- Red and swollen gums
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- White or yellow pus around gums
- Teeth that are longer and gums that have pulled away from teeth
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- Have you ever noticed blood (red) on your toothbrush, on your food, or in your saliva?
- Do you have any loose teeth or teeth that have shifted on their own?
- Have you ever been told you had gum disease or had a tooth pulled because of gum disease?
- Do you use any tobacco products?
- Has it been over two years since you last saw a dentist?
- Is your hemoglobin A1c level greater than 7.0?
One or more responses of "yes" warrants a dental examination for periodontal disease. With proper oral hygiene and regular dental visits, periodontal disease is preventable. So visit your Vancouver area general or cosmetic dentist and dental hygienist regularly to help prevent periodontal disease!
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Because diabetes reduces the body's resistance to infection, the gums are among the tissues most likely to be affected. Periodontal diseases are infections of the gum and bone that hold your teeth in place.
Periodontal disease is often linked to the control of diabetes. For example, patients with inadequate blood sugar control appear to develop periodontal disease more often and more severely, and they lose more teeth than persons who have good control of their diabetes. It is possible to have periodontal disease and not have all of the warning signs. If you notice any of the warning signs of gum disease, see your dentist immediately.
Because of lowered resistance and a longer healing process, periodontal diseases often appear to be more frequent and more severe among persons with diabetes. That's why good maintenance of blood sugar levels, a well-balanced diet that meets your needs, good oral care at home, regular dental checkups and periodontal examinations are very important. At our Vancouver practice we enjoy an excellent referral relationship with the area's top periodontists should specialized treatment be warranted.


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While it's not lacking competitors, Amazon's Web Services remains the premiere cloud service. It's also got the biggest selection of services and, this being Amazon, some of the lowest prices.
They're getting lower too, in yet another price reduction, Amazon has cut the hourly rates for its standard instances.
But that's for its first-generation instances, it is now introducing an updated set of instances, the second generation which it marks as m3 as opposed to m1 which are the first-generation ones.
This is the second big announcement, Amazon has beefed up CPU and memory for the new instances, while keeping CPU/memory ratios the same.
"We launched Amazon EC2 with a single instance type (the venerable m1.small) in 2006. Over the years we have added many new instance types in order to allow our customers to run a very wide variety of applications and workloads," Amazon said.
"Today we are continuing that practice, with the addition of a second generation to the Standard family of instances. These instances have the same CPU to memory ratio as the existing Standard instances," it added.
"With up to 50% higher absolute CPU performance, these instances are optimized for applications such as media encoding, batch processing, caching, and web serving," it said.
The old-generation instances are still being maintained, probably to make it possible for existing users to continue running their current configuration.
But the new instances, which are debuting at its US East in Northern Virginia region, will eventually be rolled out to all other regions, in early 2013, and will become the default and possibly the only option at some point.
There are only two second-generation instances for now, the m3.xlarge comes with 15 GB of memory and 13 ECUs (EC2 compute units) on four virtual cores. The m3.2xlarge is exactly double that in every aspect.