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Two men were charged today for their role in a $200 million investment fraud that targeted members of the Orthodox Jewish community, according to the FBI and federal prosecutors in New Jersey.
A purported New Jersey real estate investor was charged in an indictment with leading a $200 million Ponzi scheme that initially targeted fellow Orthodox Jews.
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When David and Rivka Wietchner bought a home in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Har Bracha, they swooned over the mountain view, the embracing community and the 375,000-shekel ($106,000) price of a six-room apartment.
Israel deployed 3,500 police officers to handle a demonstration in Jerusalem today by ultra- Orthodox Jews protesting a proposed law that would reduce the number of military draft exemptions for seminary students.
What's in a name? In 2008, supporters of a state ballot measure convinced a majority of California voters that there was a meaningful difference between extending full domestic partnership rights to gay couples and calling their relationships marriage.
Hundreds of thousands of Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews rallied at the entrance to Jerusalem in a prayer vigil, protesting a proposed law that would cut the number of military draft exemptions for seminary students, police said.
Eliyahu Weinstein, a New Jersey man charged with leading a $200 million Ponzi scheme that targeted fellow Orthodox Jews, was granted $10 million bail today by a U.S. judge.


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Bath prop David Wilson has been drafted into England's elite player squad in place of Matt Stevens.
Saracens prop Stevens opted to call time on his international career back in August claiming that he was unable to commit to the World Cup in three-years time and England boss Stuart Lancaster has promoted Wilson from the Saxons to the main squad.
Wilson won the last of his 19 caps for England back in September 2011 against Romania and was a part of their World Cup party the same year. He was included in Lancaster's England squad for the 2012 Six Nations but failed to make a single appearance.
Wilson's promotion to the main squad has resulted in Sarries prop Mako Vunipola getting the nod into the Saxons after a barnstorming start to the season that saw him scoop the man-of-the-match award in their first two matches.
Lancaster is now focused on preparing England for their four match November Test series and he will journey to South Africa next month to watch the Springboks play the All Blacks. "The three sides we are playing from the Rugby Championship all play very differently," Lancaster said. "We are going to have to have a different gameplan to suit each side we play and adapt from game to game.
"New Zealand are the form side but they have been pushed, not only in the summer by Ireland, but also Argentina and South Africa in the last Test. There are some great challenges coming around the corner and it is great to benchmark ourselves."
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During the episode the two discussed Bischoff firing Austin from WCW in 1995. Austin had suffered a triceps injury while wrestling on a Japanese tour, and was fired over the phone by Bischoff.
Austin and Bischoff both gave their take on the firing on the show. Austin noted that he was about 3/4 healed when he was fired. Austin acknowledged that they wanted for him to appear at a TV taping and cut a promo, and that he had volunteered to do something prior to that but was told not to worry about it, which got up his "crawl a little bit."
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To compensate for the effect of external parameters on piezoelectric sensors connected to a charge amplifier, a small portion of this sensor is used to form the feedback capacitor of the amplifier. These parameters then have the same effect on the sensor and on the capacitor, thus making it possible to provide compensation to hydrophones made of piezoelectric polymer material.
1. A compensating device for a charge amplifier circuit used in piezoelectric hydrophones comprising:
a first insulating piezoelectric layer having a first side and a second side;
a first external conducting electrode and a second external conducting electrode, said first electrode interfaced with the first side of said first insulating piezoelectric layer and said second electrode covering the second side of said piezoelectric layer such that a capacitor is formed;
a differential operational amplifier having an output, a negative input and a positive input, the first and the second external electrodes being connected to the positive input of said differential amplifier;
a feedback capacitor connected to the output of said differential operational amplifier;
said feedback capacitor comprising a first isolated portion of said first external conducting electrode and a second isolated portion of said second external conducting electrode, said first isolated portion and said second isolated portion being connected to the output of said differential operational amplifier.
2. A compensating sensor device according to claim 11, wherein:
said first isolated portion is centered on said first piezoelectric layer and said second isolated portion is centered on said second piezoelectric layer.
3. A compensating sensor device according to claim 1, wherein:
said first piezoelectric layer is cylindrical and hollow.
4. A compensating sensor device according to claim 1, wherein:
said first piezoelectric layer has a rectangular shape.
5. A compensating sensor device according to claim 1, wherein:
said first piezoelectric layer is made of a piezoelectric polymer.
6. A compensating sensor device according to claim 1, further comprising:
a second insulating piezoelectric layer;
a central electrode sandwiched between the first piezoelectric layer and the second piezoelectric layer, said second external electrode being interfaced with said second piezoelectric layer;
said first isolated portion and said second isolated portion being connected in parallel and positioned in a face to face manner.
7. A compensating sensor according to claim 6, wherein:
said first external electrode and said second external electrode are connected in parallel.
8. A compensating sensor according to claim 7, wherein:
said central electrode is connected to the negative input of said differential operational amplifier.
9. A compensating sensor according to claim 6, wherein:
a surface area of said first isolated portion and a surface area of said second isolated portion are identical.
10. A compensating sensor according to claim 9, wherein:
the surface area of said first isolated portion and the surface area of the second isolated portion determine the capacitance of said feedback capacitor.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to charge amplifier circuits having compensating characteristics. It is especially suited to circuits used to amplify the signals of piezoelectric hydrophones, especially signals of hydrophones using a piezoelectric polymer material.
2. Description of the Prior Art
There are many known ways of making acoustic antennas with piezeolectric sensors. The material of these antennas is a piezeoelectric polymer or co-polymer such as PVF 2.
FIG. 1 shows a sectional view of the structure generally used for a sensor of this type.
This sensor has two polymer layers 10 and 11, separated by a conducting electrode layer 12. These two layers are biased in the direction of their thickness, and in opposite directions. Their outer side is covered with conducting electrodes 13 and 14. The electrical output signal Ve is taken between the central electrode and these two external electrodes which are connected together.
Each of these sensors, called surface sensors, may have the shape of a rectangle of considerable size, with an area that may exceed 100 cm2.
There are known ways to connect these sensors in parallel to make a large-sized, flat acoustic antenna.
Owing to their flexibility, these sensors can also be given other shapes. For example, they may be given a cylindrical shape, by being placed inside or outside an insulating cylinder.
A common way of amplifying the output signal Ve of the sensor is to use a charge amplifier, the diagram of which is shown in FIG. 2.
The sensor 20 is connected by one of its electrodes to the input of a differential amplifier 21 with very high gain and very high input impedance. This type of amplifer, called an operational amplifier, is quite common. The + input of this amplifier is connected to the ground, like the other electrode of the sensor.
The output of the amplifier 21 is connected to its- input by means of a feed-back capacitor 22 with a capacitance Cr.
From the electrical point of view, the sensor 20 is a capacitor with a capacitance Ch. The output signal Vs is therefore given by: ##EQU1##
Owing to the dimensions of the sensor, the capacitance Ch is relatively great and, by choosing a value Cr which is very small compared with Ch, the amplification of the assembled unit is substantially equal to: ##EQU2##
The sensor 20 not only reacts to the sound signals that it receives by delivering a variable signal Ve, bu is also sensitive to several external parameters, especially hydrostatic pressure and temperatue, which cause the capacitance Ch to vary. This causes considerable variation, as regards both amplitude and phase, in the transfer function Vs /Ve. The result of this is a high degree of measuring uncertainty. This disadvantage is especially great for acoustic antenna mounted on vehicles, such as submarines or towed sonar devices, with varying depths of immersion.
To remove this disadvantage, the invention proposes to replace the capacitor 22 by a small portion of the sensor 20 itself, thus automatically compensating for the action of external factors.
Other features and advantages of the invention will appear more clearly from the following description, given as a non-exhaustive example and made with reference to the appended figures, of which:
FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a piezoelectric sensor;
FIG. 2 is a diagram of a charge amplifier for a sensor of this type.
FIG. 3 is a diagram of a charge amplifer provided with a sensor modified according to the invention;
FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the sensor 13 of FIG. 3; and
FIG. 5 is a view of a cylindrically shaped sensor according to the invention.
FIG. 3 shows a sensor 300 modified according to the invention and connected to a charge amplifier 310, and FIG. 4 shows a section of this sensor.
As in FIG. 1, this sensor 300 has two piezoelectric layers 30 and 31 biased in opposite directions, one central electrode 32 and two external electrodes 34 and 35.
The external electrodes are parallel-connected to the + input of the amplifier 310, and the central electrode is connected to the - input.
To form the feedback capacitor, cuts are made in the external electrodes to form two small identical portions 36 and 37, which are insulated from external electrodes 35 and 34, respectively, and face each other. In the figure, the cut 38, forming the portion 36, is square-shaped, but it may have any shape. For example, it may be circular.
Each of these portions 36 and 37 forms a small capacitor with the central electrode. The behaviour of these small capacitors with respect to the external parameters is the same as that of the big capacitors formed by the remaining portions of the external electrodes and the central electrode. To make it even more certain that the behaviour of these big and small capacitors will be identical, it is preferable to locate the portions 36 and 37 at the center of the sensor. However, especially to make it easier for the connections, these portions may be located near the edges while, at the same time, preserving a very satisfactory level of operation.
The feedback capacitor is obtained by connecting the two portions 36 and 37 in parallel to the output of the amplifier 310, the central electrode being connected to the - input as has been seen above. The capacitance of this feedback capacitor is therefore twice that of the two small capacitors which are thus connected in parallel. The same is true for the capacitance of the rest of the sensor, i.e., the sensor capacitor, which is equivalent to that of the big capacitors connected in parallel. It will be observed that, since the central electrode is common to the sensor capacitor and the feedback capacitor, it must be connected to the - input of the amplifier in order to actually get a feedback. For, according to the usual conventions, the gain of the amplifier is positive for the + input and negative for the - input.
In this way, the feedback capacitor has the same behaviour as the capacitor formed by the sensor, and only the values of the capacitances differ, their ratio being equal to the ratio between the areas used. It will also be noted that it is then no longer necessary to adjust the value of the feedback capacitor according to the actually used sensor, the capacitance of which may vary from one sample to another, since the desired ratio is obtained automatically by construction. There is, therefore, automatic compensation regardless of the disturbance-casing parameters applied to the sensor provided that (and this is the most usual case) these parameters are uniform throughout the sensor and are not localized in one part of it. Another result of this is considerable improvement in the reproducibility of the sensor/preamplifier sets which constitute the antenna since, in most embodiments, a certain number of sensors, provided with an amplifier, are associated together as in FIG. 3. In this case, this amplifier plays the role of a preamplifier.
It is quite possible to make the sensor in other shapes, and FIG. 5 shows an example of a cylindrical sensor modified according to the invention, wherein the feedback capacitor is formed by a small ring 56, demarcated on the external electrode 55 by two circular cuts 58 and 59. A connection 60 connects the two parts of the electrode 55 separated by the ring 56. In this embodiment, there is only one layer of piezoelectric material and two electrodes, of which the one inside the cylinder (but outside the piezoelectric layer) is not cut out. The operation of this sensor is, nevertheless, absolutely similar to that of the previous embodiment and of course, it is possible to use a cylinder with two layers and three electrodes.
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Appleton was brought in to replace Gary Waddock on Friday, and incoming chairman Darryl Eales has agreed to make funds available to strengthen the playing squad.
While it will not be a spending spree, several new faces are expected.
Appleton, who began work yesterday, will assess the players this week, but has an idea of where improvements can be made.
He said: "I think we've got a very young squad.
"Youth will certainly take you to certain areas of where you want to get to performance-wise.
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"If we can get that balance and mix right then hopefully it will bode well."
The 38-year-old has targets in mind, although at this stage he does not have an idea how many players are needed.
"Who knows, that's for me to sit down with the staff over the next couple of days and identify as soon as possible the main areas we need to strengthen quickly," he said.
"Once we get the main areas sorted out we might even look to add even more.
"Obviously I have a list of certain players, but I'm sure the football club have a list as well that they've been identifying over the summer.
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which kind of oxalis are you talking about? describe leaf color and shape, size and flower color for us, and we can be more helpful. some are indoor plants that can summer outside, some are pretty but can get weedy and others are downright weeds. yet others are nice, behaved plants for the garden.
i love oxalis woods sorrel - the mound is pretty much evergreen in the winter and it makes the cutest little flowers - pink and white is what I have. I have no idea how to separate them but I am going to dig them up this spring and see whether they have formed little bulbets.
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Hope and Nonthings books has published a volume of Oobleck works entitled More If You've Got It: Five Plays From Theater Oobleck.
The book is available from fine booksellers everywhere, or online via the little yellow button at the top of this page. Yes, that one right there, that entreats you to "Buy Now!""
More If You've Got It features works by five Oobleck founding members, each currently active with the company: Ugly's First World by Jeff Dorchen, in which a singing zombie, seeking revenge against T. S. Eliot, becomes a pawn in a battle to overthrow God; Innocence and Other Vices by Dave Buchen, a half-true, half-blasphemous screwball comedy about the mildly unhealthy relationship between charity and capitalism; Letter Purloined by David Isaacson, a whodunit comedy about war atrocities and a handkerchief; There Is a Happiness That Morning Is by Mickle Maher, a play in rhymed verse, about the poetry of William Blake and having sex in public; and Necessity by Danny Thompson, a bloody and historically inaccurate bio-drama of Thomas Alva Edison. See what audiences around the world have come to know as uniquely Oobleckian: irreverent, vexed, impossibly funny, and unexpectedly transcendent.
"For my money, there is no other theater company in America that has so consistently created original, excellent, principled theater." – Greg Kotis, from the preface to MORE IF YOU'VE GOT IT
posted 07/04/2012
The Hunchback Variations Opera (re-christened The Hunchback Variations: A Chamber Opera for its stay on the East Coast) has just completed a very fun and successful month-long run at the wonderful 59E59 Theater in Manhattan. This New York run of the show was produced by Brian W. Parker Productions, in association with Theater Oobleck and 59E59. Thanks Brian! Thanks 59E59!
Mark Blankenship did a wonderful interview with the singers, George Andrew Wolff and Larry Adams, in TDF Stages, linked here, and Playbill covered the gala opening night party here.
The audiences were wonderful, the reviews were terrific. Here are excerpts from and links to some of them.
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Adam Feldman writes in his 4 out of 5 star review in TimeOut New York
"Engrossing… Maher's witty libretto … has been set to deliberative music by Mark Messing that draws out its mysteries in cunning shifts of style, tempo and tone… The Hunchback Variations scores a haunting success while exalting a space for failure."
Andy Propst in Backstage
"Thoroughly riveting … A remarkably poignant exploration of the painfully ephemeral nature of the artistic process and life itself… Paul Ghica (cello) and Christopher Sargent (piano) play it with beautiful delicacy, while the graceful tenor Wolff and the commandingly powerful bass-baritone Adams glide with precision over some exceptionally tricky melodic lines."
Trish Vignola in Broadway World
"Larry Adams as Quasimodo and George Andrew Wolff as Beethoven were great… As usual, Chicago leads the way with some of the most innovative original theatre in the United States today. The Hunchback Variations is an exploration of the artistic process and the tragic humor that often befalls an artist. I'm glad it made its way to New York."
Susan Hall in Berkshire Fine Arts
"It is easy to understand why theaters around the world have produced revivals of Oobleck's plays. The originality and the profound talent of the actors and musicians are alone worth a visit. That your mind tangles and dissects the fun and the conundrums as both actors sing beautifully is an added treat. In this take in New York, the absurd situation is full of touching and rollicking humor. And the opera is curiously and absurdly moving."
Ed Malin in NYTheatre.com
…a hilarious evening… the text itself blew me away."
And Kenneth Jones, Managing Editor of Playbill, wrote on Twitter:
"Loved Hunchback Variations … An absurd and often touching musical rumination on the sisyphean work of artists."
posted 05/28/2012
We got great press for Baudelaire in a Box, Episode 4: Bad Luck, which premiered in North Carolina. Here's links to the previews, with some choice quotes:
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"You get handed a whole book of poems, of beautiful poetry about bars and opium and prostitutes and all the sins and beauties of life," says Roberto Confresi of the New Town Drunks about adapting Baudelaire's odes. "Each one is more incredible than the last."
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Theater Oobleck's "Hunchback Variations Opera" is coming to NYC. The rumors are true. The ink is on the paper, the tickets are ready for sale.
Brian W. Parker and Theater Oobleck presents
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posted 05/06/2012
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posted 03/06/2012
The Chicago Stage Review liked The Hunchback Variations Opera so much that a second reviewer has weighed in with a second rave review.
J. Scott Hill writes:
"…The Hunchback Variations Opera is a modern masterpiece.
"The premise of The Hunchback Variations Opera is like the beginning of a joke told at a Mensa meeting. Beethoven (who is deaf) and Quasimodo (who is deaf) hold a series of panel discussions about their failed attempts to create a unique sound that neither of them could hear anyway (because they're deaf)… This is one level of the genius of playwright/librettist Mickle Maher: combining incompatible elements in ways that are absurdly plausible, and readily accessible to a broad audience.
"Enter the musical magnificence of Mark Messing. This is not Maher and Messing's first dance together; notably, they provided the script and the score for Redmoon Theater's signature show, The Cabinet. Messing's score for two voices, piano, and cello allows for the interpretive power of these four voices to be fully realized without the fetters of over-orchestration. There are the clear influences here of Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, and Philip Glass, without seeming derivative. Pianist Tim Lenihan and cellist Paul Ghica are less like musicians and more like puppeteers, making their instruments sing and emote in voice and in silence.
"George Andrew Wolff's… tenor is round and full and robust.
"Larry Adams's bass is sonorous yet subdued. He is pitch perfect in delivering what becomes increasingly cynical counterpoint to Wolff's useless persistence.
"The Hunchback Variations Opera is funny and frustrating and absurd and poignant. The Hunchback Variations Opera is the most unlikely confluence of heterogeneous incompatibilities to ever work perfectly together onstage. Without doubt, The Hunchback Variations Opera is the DO NOT MISS production of the year in Chicago.
Full review here.
posted 02/21/2012
Oobleck's recently extended production of The Hunchback Variations Opera continues to get rave notices from Chicago's theater bloggers. Here we feature J.Scott Hill for the Chicago Stage Review and Rebecca Green from Chicago3Media.
Chicago Stage Review writes: "Enter the musical magnificence of Mark Messing… Messing's score for two voices, piano, and cello allows for the interpretive power of these four voices to be fully realized without the fetters of over-orchestration. There are the clear influences here of Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, and Philip Glass, without seeming derivative. Pianist Tim Lenihan and cellist Paul Ghica are less like musicians and more like puppeteers, making their instruments sing and emote in voice and in silence.
"George Andrew Wolff's… tenor is round and full and robust… Larry Adams's bass is sonorous yet subdued.
"The Hunchback Variations Opera is funny and frustrating and absurd and poignant… Without doubt, The Hunchback Variations Opera is the DO NOT MISS production of the year in Chicago. The Hunchback Variations Opera should be extended and re-extended for months, but you cannot take that chance. BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW."
Full review here.
Chicago3Media writes: "Maher and composer Mark Messing bring us the inconceivable, side-stitching story of a doomed collaboration in this gem of new musical theater… Theater Oobleck has struck gold with this absurdist romp through time and space and reality and fantasy… I haven't laughed so hard at the theater in a long time."
Full review here
posted 02/21/2012
The website ChiILmama.com (dedicated to adventures in urban-odd ball-off the wall-alternative-eco-punk parenting in Chi, IL) highly recommends Oobleck's The Hunchback Variations Opera, saying it "is truly a masterpiece that's been percolating for the 23 years of Oobleck's existence, waiting to see the light of day. It's quirky and deep, hilarious and moving… This piece is right on so many levels; intellectual without being intimidating." (Full review here.)
ChiIL Mama also interviewed Mark Messing about his concurrent musical project, The Houdini Box, an adaptation of Brian Selznick's book at Chicago Children's Theater. (Selznick is also the author of The Invention of Cabret ; the production is directed and designed by frequent Oobleck collaborator Blair Thomas.) During the interview Mark discussed the experience of writing the score for both shows simultaneously. Click here for the video excerpt of that interview.
posted 02/16/2012
Andrew Patner, reviewing The Hunchback Variations Opera for classical musical station WFMT-FM:
"Oobleck [is] a company that works without a director — some of their shows have one or two people, and some have fifty, and yet somehow they come together as finely-tuned, choreographed, and presented as an orchestra concert led by Ricardo Muti… These guys are afraid of nothing…
"Mark Messing has created a musical world with Paul Ghica, cello; Tim Lenihan, piano; a wonderful tenor, George Andrew Wolff, as Beethoven; and an excellent mature basso, Larry Adams as Quasimodo… You will hear music that challenges and pleases, that questions and underscores the debate and discussion."
The audio of the full review and can be streamed or downloaded here
posted 02/06/2012
Jonathan Abarbanel gives The Hunchback Variations Opera his "Pick of the Week" during the "Dueling Critics" segment on WBEZ's 848 program:
"It is a dark comedy which has the delicious premise of having two stone-cold deaf people discussing the glories and wonders of sound. And the two people are Ludwig van Beethoven… and the fictional bell-ringer Quasimodo…
"Messing's music preserves all of the wit of Maher's original play, and deepens the characters…
"Beautifully performed: two wonderful singers, piano and cello accompaniment."
Your link for listening (we're discussed in the last three minutes of the broadcast).
posted 02/06/2012
Kris Vire writes for TimeOut Chicago:
"Mucca Pazza maestro Mark Messing, using Maher's text as libretto, sets Beethoven and Quasi's nettlesome forensics camp to a spiky score for piano and cello…
"The result is as serious as it is silly, with Messing's music amping up the stakes with its contrapuntal vocals… Wolff and Adams find a remarkable range from glib comedy to soulful sorrow in their characters' variations. Maher's text, while reveling in its own absurdities, slowly becomes a worthy meditation on the irresistible and often frustrating character of the creative impulse—and the subsuming nature of creative failure. Though the staging is simple, the operatic sweep feels apropos."
posted 02/06/2012
Albert Williams writes in the Chicago Reader:
"In The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov's melancholy comedy about a family of Russian aristocrats who lose their estate, there appears one of the most famous passages in dramatic literature. It's not a speech or a bit of dialogue but a stage direction: "Suddenly there is a distant sound, as if from the sky: the sound of a breaking string—dying away, sad." This odd, abstract, almost metaphysical sound effect, symbolizing the imminent end of a way of life, has challenged directors and designers since the play's 1904 premiere, a few months before Chekhov's own death from tuberculosis.
"The Hunchback Variations Opera takes its inspiration from that enduring dramaturgical koan, What is the sound of one string breaking? The 75-minute one-act from Theater Oobleck posits an attempt by two well-known musical artists to produce the ultimate aural embodiment of Chekhov's elusive noise. The setting is an academic conference at which the pair are presenting the result of their labors.
"The effort seems to have been doomed from the start. For one thing, both collaborators are deaf. For another, it's hard to imagine how they could ever have met. One is Beethoven, the composer, who's been dead since 1827. The other is Quasimodo, the hunchbacked, 15th-century bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris—and a fictional character invented by Victor Hugo in an 1831 novel.
"The setup is quintessential Oobleck—smart, eccentric, unpredictable, thought-provoking, and very funny. Since they arrived in Chicago 23 years ago, the itinerant ensemble—which takes its name from a Dr. Seuss book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck—has specialized in original works based on incongruous cultural cross-references…
"Written by composer Mark Messing and librettist Mickle Maher, and based on a 2001 play by Maher, The Hunchback Variations Opera is just what the title says it is: an opera, albeit a small one. It takes the form of 11 variations on the theme of artistic experimentation and failure, each of which Messing skillfully couches in its own musical style. The score is generally atonal and mildly dissonant, but there are some simple, lovely, melodic passages.
"The singing is beautiful. George Andrew Wolff's bright tenor contrasts effectively with Larry Adams's round, chesty bass, and both singers have first-rate diction so the text is always clear. The counterpoint between Wolff's cheerful, well-groomed Beethoven and Adams's morose, grotesque Quasimodo is mirrored by the bold give-and-take of pianist Tim Lenihan and cellist Paul Ghica…
"What's never made clear is how exactly the experiment failed. The omission, of course, is deliberate. Maher and Messing make clear that, in art, failure itself is a failed notion. In the manner of other fringe theaters—and contrary to an increasing emphasis on competition in the performing arts, as the media celebrate the "winners" and "losers" of meaningless talent contests and mindless awards shows—Oobleck renders the concept of failure and success moot. The Hunchback Variations Opera, like The Cherry Orchard, is a meditation on futility. But Hunchback celebrates its characters' aspirations, prizing process over product and championing the quixotic urge to create and to collaborate in a world that's inhospitable to both."
Full review is here — but spoiler alert, if gives away a few of the jokes.
posted 01/31/2012
John Dalton writes: "This is a masterful work. Chicagoans should feel greatly privileged to have such artists in our midst. It would be very easy for this show to get overlooked amidst the flood of winter offerings from innumerable theater companies occupying innumerable black boxes about the city. Though I hate to encourage you to ignore any of them, please think about making this show a priority. Theater Oobleck shows are rare, but they are all gemstones; this is no exception. Please see it while you have the chance."
posted 01/27/2012
"Maher and Messing set off to create that impossible sound and in detailing a failed fantastical project they have realized an unmitigated, surprisingly endearing and impossibly successful masterpiece…
"Messing has composed a score for two voices, a piano and a cello that takes on more scope and achieves more musical depth than many works created for a full orchestra and chorus…
"Two geniuses have joined together to realize impossibility and it takes as much genius to bring it to life on stage. George Andrew Wolff is perfectly darling as Beethoven, holding the audience transfixed in his very cleverly subtle camp… Larry Adams is also a gold standard on the musical theater stage… Together with Wolff, Adams makes this impossible combination completely captivating. Their voices are wonderful and their performances are incredible.
"Tim Lenihan's piano accompaniment is excellent and Paul Ghico interprets Messings unconventional cello compositions with evocative intuition…
"Theater Oobleck's world premiere is a production the likes of which you cannot imagine. Mark Messing and Mickle Maher's THE HUNCHBACK VARIATIONS OPERA is a staggering contemplation on the profundity of the unattainable. In peering into the void, they create a seemingly pointless exercise of thought that yields a transformation from the impossible to the sublime. Do not miss this singular masterpiece."
posted 01/25/2012
A video preview of the opera, exploring the curious collaborations between Beethoven & Quasimodo, and Maher & Messing, respectively.
posted 01/25/2012
"Theater Oobleck, easily the most cerebral absurdist theater company (or absurdist cerebral company) in town, presents one of its most unlikely aesthetic and formal pairings of the company's history… Mickle Maher's The Hunchback Variations takes as its premise a panel discussion between the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Ludwig van Beethoven…
"And if The Hunchback Variations, which consists of 11 vignettes in which Quasimodo and Beethoven meditate on their failure, wasn't heady enough, the play… has found a new incarnation as Oobleck's first opera, opening this week at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre. The A.V. Club spoke with playwright Mickle Maher, author of the now-libretto, and composer Mark Messing (of Redmoon and co-founder of Mucca Pazza) about their own artistic collaboration and why opera suddenly seems to be so popular."
posted 01/20/2012
Mia Clarke writes:
Two friends hatch a plan for a new kind of opera while at a birthday party for a billionaire.
"A billionaire's birthday bash is not the most likely place for a pair of offbeat artists to have a meeting of creative minds. Yet, in 2008, when real estate magnate and Tribune owner Sam Zell threw himself a party, two of Chicago's leading fringe creators found themselves mingling."
posted 09/16/2011
The Chicago Reader has listed Our top five theater picks for fall, including Baudelaire in A Box, Episode 3: Death and Other Excitements.
Tony Adler reports:
Buchen and Schoen plan to have all 126 poems boxed and ready by 2017, the sesquicentennial anniversary of Baudelaire's death. You can gauge their progress this fall when they present cantastoria performances of the six poems that make up the "Death" section of Les Fleurs plus the magnificent "Anywhere Out of This World."
Full article from the Reader
posted 09/07/2011
We are pleased to announce the July 27, 2012 publication date for a new book of Oobleck scripts.
The five plays, all written by Oobleck founding members, will be published by Hope on Nonthings, which previously published Mickle Maher's Oobleck plays An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening and The Hunchback Variations in 2001 and The Strangerer and Spirits To Enforce in 2008.
More If You've Got It: 5 Plays from Theater Oobleck will include, in the order they were produced by Oobleck:
Ugly's First World, by Jeffrey Dorchen
Necessity, by Danny Thompson
Innocence and Other Vices, by Dave Buchen
Letter Purloined, by David Isaacson
There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, by Mickle Maher.
There will be an introduction by Terri Kapsalis and a forward by Tony Award-winning playwright Greg Kotis.
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President Barack Obama has nominated Christopher Hart as the next chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).Hart is currently a Member of the NTSB where he has served since 2009. He is also Vice Chairman of the NTSB, a position he held since October 2013 and previously from 2009 to 2013.
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Prior to joining the NTSB, Hart was the Deputy Director for Air Traffic Safety Oversight at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from 2005 to 2009 and was the Assistant Administrator for System Safety at the FAA from 1995 to 2005.
From 1994 to 1995, Hart was Deputy Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. He was a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board from 1990 to 1993.
Hart, who has received degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, is a licensed pilot with commercial, multi-engine, and instrument ratings.
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Wichita County Precinct 3 Commissioner Barry Mahler will have the longest row to hoe of any local candidate in the upcoming political season. Mahler drew an opponent Friday in the May 12 Democratic primary. Michael Davis, a former county employee, also is seeking the nomination. Davis lost a primary bid to Mahler in 2008. Davis filed in a second filing period made necessary when legal disputes over redistricting forced delays in the primary election.
The winner of the Precinct 3 Democratic primary will face Republican hopeful Gordon Griffith in the November general election. Griffith served as a Democrat for many years in the Precinct 3 seat before Mahler beat him in the 2008 party primary.
Also facing a couple of opponents is longtime Wichita County Tax Assessor Collector Lou Murdock, a Democrat. Clay Glasgow, a tax office employee, and Wichita Falls police officer Tommy Smyth both filed to run for the Republican nomination Friday. Murdock will meet the winner of that contest in November.
Statewide, the redistricting battle did not affect the biggest race in the state to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Kay Bailey Hutchison. The candidates for that seat include several Republicans, with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, former Mayor Tom Leppert, former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz and former football analyst Craig James leading the race. On the Democratic side, veteran lawmaker Paul Sadler faces newcomer Sean Hubbard.
There will be greater than usual turnover in the Legislature in 2013, with at least four out of 31 senators retiring and at least 19 out of 150 representatives not running for re-election. All of the departing senators and 11 of the House members departing are Republicans.
Republicans currently make up a 102-48 super majority in the Texas House, but that likely will change under the new maps. Republicans can count on retaining at least 85 seats and Democrats appear to have 50 sewn up, leaving 15 seats in play. A super majority, which requires that one party control two-thirds of the House, allows that party to operate and pass laws without the minority party even showing up.
One important factor will be the role of the Tea Party and conservative activists in the Republican primary. Groups such as the Conservative Texans Political Action Conference, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and Americans for Prosperity have endorsed conservative challengers to incumbents they feel are not conservative enough, including House Speaker Joe Straus.
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Nothing's Happening From The Agents
I'm a FSBO but I recently listed my property with a flat fee agency to get it on the MLS. I've "sold" my property three times in six months, once for the full asking price, the others pretty close, but the deals kept falling through because of loan problems. Everyone was telling me that AGENTS would have buyers who could actually perform. So I bit the bullet and paid to have it put on the MLS. I am offering a 3% commission, the same as an agent would get if they brought a client to any listing other than their own. I thought for sure the phone was going to ring off the hook, at least with agents trying to get my listing. But I've gotten nothing. Nada. Not one call. Not one inquiry. By the way, I've also sent out about fifty information packets to local agents letting them know I'm offering them 3%, it's priced under appraisal, it sold a number of times already, etc. Granted, it's only been a couple of weeks. But in the same time period I've gotten six inquiries from my own advertisements. Two are hot, two are serious, one would love to have my place, can't sell her own house yet but is hoping mine is still available when she does, and I'm unsure of the last one. My point of writing this is I've sometimes felt attacked by some real estate agents trying to blame me for my house not being sold yet. Some even said my website is crappy and it drives me crazy because I get nothing but compliments on it. I know there are good agents out there. I love my buyer's agent. I think NCRealEstateGuy is great. But sometimes FSBO's do a fine job.
I've been researching FSBO in preparation for selling my house, too. I wish I had something helpful to offer. I think the right buyer is out there. They just haven't made their way to their new home yet to fall in love with it at a time that all the planets align in a way that will be helpful with their financing!
I remember you saying that there were two local MLS's in your area. Are you in both of them?
Have you actually seen the MLS listing? If not, you need to.
Agents will not be trying to get your listing, because once it is in the MLS as Active, it is highly against the regs to go after another agent's active listing.
Another thought love... agents are going to bring you ready, able and willing buyers... not peospects that have to sell their home first, not unemployed people, not lookie loos. (Hopefully) There are a lot less of these type of prospects out there than the former.
One more thing... once it gets into the MLS, it sometimes takes two weeks for all of the third party vendors to index the listing and for the listing to start showing up on their sites.
Whatever you do, get proof that it is in the correct MLS.
"But sometimes FSBO's do a fine job."
Yep, they do. However, about 80% of potential buyers go through an agent. If you don't pay to get on the MLS (flat fee or full service) you'll have a much harder time reaching that 80%. All things being equal, you have a much better chance finding a good buyer in 80% of the pool than you do in 20%. Of course that is just an average. You don't want to be 80% sold with all buyers, you just need to be 100% sold to 1.
I also did FSBO and listed the home in MLS via a discount broker. At first, I wasn't getting action from the MLS. I was priced similar or better to the other comps 'for sale'. The only 2-3 recent sales sold as-is and needed fixing up/updates, but recently sold for cheaper. Nothing else was selling.
Then I lowered my asking price 10% to be in line with the sold comps sales price (even though my place was newly remodeled, new roof, etc). The market was falling and buyers wanted value. My new price made the property a good deal. The new price brought showings from agents immediately, and also got a pretty quick offer from an agent's buyer.
At the same time, I was doing my own FSBO marketing via several different channels. Ended up selling pure FSBO and was juggling that offer at same time as the offer from the agent and then even got another FSBO offer while the home was under contract.
The home sold with no issues. Other homes that were For Sale at same time stayed on the market for over a year or two, chasing the market down and down and down.


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Consider this: You exist because I exist.
i beileve in my religion alot and i just have to say there are some things i dont agree with about it, but am i defying it?
can you defy your religion though?
read the history of the Luthran church
we can defying our religion though but sometimes we just cannot win tho arguing with that because religion though and our though are very different (in gap of time). I mean that the tough (any religion) are older and more "ancient" than our modern thingking (you know...modern) which make us just cannot win with our though...
the things we though its true..could be the real truth or just approval?
i believe thre's a very powerful strengh that ruled everything but itsn't God...
This is just one example of something that to them was not just a disagreement of a few words but a doctrinal issue. Don't get me wrong I am not saying that Catholicism states you can't read the Bible but that you aren't (because you haven't totally devoted yourself to God) capable of complete understanding of the Bible.Quote:
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15
Further differences between this and the Bible:
These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 1 John 2:26-27
A reference for basic differences: Comparison Chart: Catholic vs. Protestant Theology - ReligionFacts
back to my though (yes..its my though)...is the bible the truth..(the supreme truth)? I think not..must some of its part there's aproval to something...
there's only one verse of bible, isn't there? so how could it became so many verse...(I'm sorry i'm dont have bible because i'm not christian so i cant fully answer yours)..


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Is it a pretty good book? Yes if you exist on another planet. Did Ms. Bair do everything she could have to fully perform in her position when she was with the FDIC? Many of us believe not! Unfortunately, writing a book after the fact may serve as a quasi mea culpa or apologia, but doesn't really help anything. [Will you learn any really important details on the meltdown from the former head of the FDIC? Surprisingly, NO.]
As head of the US Federal Insurance Deposit Insurance Corporation the author saw first hand the moral depravity and laxity of those in regulatory authority, and witnessed the results of the sustained effort to desparage and demoralize dedicated civil servancts mandated to protect the consumer.
Even at the worst, at least one bank CEO was more concerned about his 'bonus' than the health of the whole ecomony. She calls on main street to harness wall street -- unfortunatly, she kind of forgets its the US Congress which has seemingly turned rogue and forgotton any, but their own interests.
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Feds: New laws, oversight needed after Texas blast
WEST, Texas (AP) — The Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people a year ago could have been prevented — and agencies at all levels haven't done enough to change the circumstances that led to the catastrophe, federal officials said Tuesday.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board presented its preliminary findings about the blast in West, Texas, in front of a packed room of residents and town officials still rebuilding after the April 17, 2013, explosion leveled part of the tiny town and injured 200 people.
Even though several investigations have not determined the exact cause of the fire, the board says it's clear the owners of West Fertilizer Co. failed to safely store hazardous chemicals or prepare for a potential disaster. The board also said several levels of federal, state and local government missed opportunities to prevent the tragedy.
Investigators said the firefighters who rushed to an initial fire at the plant didn't know enough about the dangers they faced inside: 40 to 60 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in fertilizer that detonated due to the blaze.
But experts on a panel convened by the safety board said Tuesday night that even if the firefighters had known more, there still isn't clear guidance on what to do in that kind of situation.
Glenn B. Corbett, a professor at the City University of New York, faulted guidelines that suggest firefighters should try to douse such a fire until it becomes "massive," a term he said was too vague to determine in an emergency.
"It is best to simply move everyone back and let the fire burn itself out," Corbett said.
There was also a gap between U.S. and Texas agencies on whether the fertilizer plant needed to comply with federal guidelines on disaster preparedness due to its stores of ammonium nitrate, safety board investigator Rachael Gunaratnam said. That disconnect "left emergency responders and residents unprepared for April 17," she said.
Despite investigations that have yielded information about safety deficiencies at the plant and voluntary safety steps taken by the nation's fertilizer industry, not a single state or federal law requiring change has been passed since April 17, 2013.
West Mayor Tommy Muska thanked the board for holding its meeting in the still-rebuilding city, but questioned whether investigators needed to focus more on the production of ammonium nitrate — a chemical that was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — and ways to add additives to make it safer.
"It seems to me that it would be more effective and easier to regulate if you had a mandate for a safer product," Muska said.
John Crowder, the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of West, said the firefighters who responded to the fertilizer plant deserved credit for doing the best they could. He cited Corbett's testimony about the potentially confusing guidance for when to pull away from the fire.
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I'll be the first to admit, I know nothing about maintaining a nice lawn. In the years past, I really haven't cared and have neglected it. It shows this year. We have large areas of dirt and rocks, then areas of nothing but crabgrass, areas of lush Bermuda, and areas of fescue. My husband spread some fescue and Bermuda seed and I've been watering it often. With the weather we have been having (approaching 100 for a couple weeks now) I'm not sure we'll get enough to take at this point. I'll get to the point. What needs to be done at this point to make it presentable for the rest of the year? What else should we due in preparation for next year's lawn?
Hey OKGirl80, I am from Green Country myself :-)
Well I would say that first of all its to late for any seeding this year and right now you just need to work on what you got. Next year will be a different story. This summer for you should be all about weed control. Start spraying to eliminate all of your weeds starting as soon as possible. When you water only do it once a week for a period that you water the lawn where there is 1 inch of water dumped on it. This should help your already established lawn and get rid of your weeds which probably is your main problem outside of watering.
Next year, you need to decide Bermuda or fescue, one or the other. If you already have nice areas of bermuda, I would go with the bermuda, it grows very good in Oklahoma. You will want to seed or sod bermuda starting in early spring and find the Bermuda Bible on this site for fertilization/watering/weeding recommendations.
Thank you.
+1 for the Bermuda Bible.
+1 on watering advice - once your lawn is established. Until your seed comes in, you should be watering morning noon and night for about 10 minutes.
It is not too late for more bermuda seed, but once you have seeded bermuda, you really do not need more. Just water what you have until it comes in. It will spread to fill the yard if you water and mow (low).
Watch for weeds. Pluck the new ones where you can. Spot spray individual weeds. General spraying when temps are above 85 degrees will cause problems across the lawn, so spot spray only.
Thank you! The whole yard used to be full of bermuda, but after they put new water lines in a few years ago, it hasn't come back in some areas. Add to that the extreme heat and drought we've and the lack of watering on my part, its become a mess. The yard has also been ravaged by gophers over the winter. Hopefully we can get it to fill in, and cover some of the rocks and dirt.
I'll keep watering to see if I can get some of the seed we already spread to germinate. Should I fertilize and if so, when and with what?
Any recommendation on a weed spray? We live on a lot of land and are surrounded with pasture and hay meadows so weeds will be a constant battle around here.


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