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You be the chef: Connecticut restaurants offer creative takeout and delivery options to entertain homebound customers
By Leeanne Griffin
Max's Oyster Bar and Max Fish are offering higher-end family "share packs" with entrees like seafood paella. (Courtesy of Cheyney Barrieau Photography)
With dining rooms shuttered, unemployment skyrocketing and all of Connecticut stuck at home, restaurants are struggling to stay afloat with takeout and delivery orders. To keep revenue coming in while keeping customers engaged and entertained at home, Connecticut food vendors are getting creative. From DIY pizza kits, cocktail kits, toilet paper delivery to cupcake decorating kits, here are a few:
Zuppardi's Apizza, with locations in West Haven and Derby at The Hops Company, offers a pizza kit for DIY at-home pies. (Courtesy of Zuppardi's Apizza)
Be your own pizzaiolo
While you can't currently dine in at Zuppardi's Apizza and enjoy a sausage pie with a Foxon Park soda, you can take it to go — or try your hand at making your own. The renowned pizzeria offers pizza kits for $25, including dough for two medium pizzas, sauce, a choice of two toppings and mozzarella and pecorino cheeses.
Kits are available at the original location in West Haven and at the Zupp's outpost at The Hops Company in Derby, said Zuppardi's Jim Ormrod, who posted a video to the restaurant's Instagram account demonstrating the proper way to toss dough. Customers can call ahead, to give the restaurants a few minutes to put the kits together. zuppardisapizza.com.
Blind Pig Pizzeria in Hartford also offers a pizza kit, with one portion of dough, sauce, cheese, one topping and a side of Parmesan cheese for $10. (Bonus: Kits are fun activities for kids.) Place an order at the restaurant at 860-744-4333. blindpigpizza.com.
Mystic Cheese Company in Groton offers cheese and charcuterie kits, with crackers, toppings and even a bottle of wine if you desire. (Courtesy of Mystic Cheese)
Cheese, charcuterie and wine (and beer)
If your idea of a great dinner is wine and cheese, The Mystic Cheese Company has you covered. Cheese and charcuterie kits ($20 to $40) include a half or full pound of Mystic Cheese and assorted additions like salami, crackers, jam and dried fruit. Higher-priced packages feature a bottle of wine, and Mystic is also encouraging customers to grab beer to-go next door at Beer'd Brewing's new Groton taproom.
"We're trying to do more of the one-stop-shopping idea," said owner Brian Civitello. "Whatever we can get into their cart that's a little more special, that helps them and helps us."
Customers can order through Mystic Cheese's mobile app and pre-pay online, to be picked up curbside at a designated time between 1 and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Mystic Cheese Company is at 225 Leonard Drive in Groton. 860-326-5019, mysticcheese.co.
Capitol Lunch offers kits to make their renowned dogs at home: 12 uncooked hot dogs, 12 buns and a pint of meat sauce. (Nick Caito, Special To CTNow)
Capitol Lunch at home
At the beloved Capitol Lunch in New Britain, $20 gets you a "take home Cappy kit": 12 uncooked hot dogs to grill at home, 12 buns and a pint of its "famous" meat sauce.
Owner Gus Ververis said Capitol Lunch has talked about doing a takeout package for Memorial Day and other grilling holidays in the past, and his oldest son suggested it as a "survival kit" during the restaurant's dine-in shutdown. When they posted a photo to Facebook, "it exploded," he said, with calls coming in from around the state and beyond.
Capitol Lunch is at 510 Main St. in New Britain. 860-229-8237, facebook.com/capitollunch.
Conspiracy in Middletown has been offering cocktail kits with spirits, bitters, juices and other mixers for at-home bartending. (Courtesy of Conspiracy)
With bars dormant for the time being, Conspiracy, a craft cocktail spot in Middletown, first tried its hand at takeout food and a to-go version of its spring cocktail menu, offering "just the mixers" (juices, syrups, bitters) with recipe cards. As Connecticut now allows packaged liquor to be sold with food orders, Conspiracy has put together cocktail kits, providing sealed bottles of spirits alongside the mixers.
Customers can now create Conspiracy's signature "campfire Old Fashioned" at home, for example, with a 200 mL bottle of Woodford Reserve bourbon, smoked maple bitters, an orange for twists and marshmallows for roasting. This kit is $22, and makes three drinks.
"We've tried to basically give them the same experience that they would be getting here, to the best of our ability," said co-owner Mark Sabo. "What we're all about here is fun and whimsy, so we really tried to keep that spirit going."
Conspiracy is also trying to maintain its sense of community, doing virtual events like a DJ set and cocktail classes on Instagram and Facebook Live. "We've really felt that responsibility to keep people's spirits up," Sabo said.
Conspiracy is at 350 Main St. in Middletown. 860-236-0211, conspiracyct.com.
Fork & Fire in Farmington offers a pierogi kit, with handmade dumplings and Martin Rosol kielbasa. (Courtesy of Fork & Fire | Jason Welch)
Pierogi party
At Fork & Fire in Farmington, chef-partner Jason Welch loves turning out handmade pierogi, and the menu has featured his creations with fillings like Maine lobster and Cato Corner cheese. As the dining room shuttered, they began thinking of family-style meals for takeout, and he had the idea to package his Polish dumplings with Martin Rosol kielbasa for a complete meal.
"It's just something different to offer. It's comfort food, it's my favorite thing to make anyways, and people always loved them at the restaurant, so it made sense for me to try," Welch said.
The $39 meal includes two dozen pierogi, two pounds of smoked kielbasa, horseradish, sour cream and Fork & Fire "special sauce." Pierogi fillings include house-smoked brisket and cabbage; "pizza" with potato, garlic, oregano and mozzarella; and a pepperoni version of the pizza option. Flavors can be mixed and matched, Welch said, and he's considering offering pierogi-only package options.
Fork & Fire has also shifted its takeout menu, focusing on a burger bar setup with customizable burgers or chicken sandwiches.
Fork & Fire is at 838 Farmington Ave. in Farmington. 860-255-7674, forkandfire.net.
Cake Gypsy offers cupcake-decorating kits at its Avon location. (Courtesy of Cake Gypsy)
DIY dessert kits
At Cake Gypsy's Avon location, Deanna Damen has been offering cupcake kits, with six unadorned cupcakes in customers' choice of flavors, three buttercream frostings, and assorted decorations like sprinkles and other toppings. She first introduced the kits on St. Patrick's Day, and quickly shifted to add other themes: "spring fling" with pastel frostings and sugar flowers; "Candyland" with rock candy and lollipops and a popular "enchanted unicorn" version with rainbow cupcakes, edible stars, gold sprinkles and sugar unicorn horns.
Damen said the kits have been an instant hit with kids. "It's an activity, and dessert. It serves a dual purpose." Kits are $25, available for pre-order; ask for dairy-free and gluten-free options. Cake Gypsy also offers a "birthday bash to go" for $39.50, including cupcakes, party hats, candles, noisemakers and balloons.
Other bakeries have been offering dessert kits, like Hardcore Sweet in Watertown, with $20 cookie and cupcake decorating packages, and LuAnn's Bakery in Ellington, with cupcake kits featuring "Party Time" and "Under the Sea" themed decorations ($12.) hardcoresweetcupcakes.com; luannsbakery.com.
Cake Gypsy is at 35 East Main St. in Avon. 860-678-2500, cakegypsy.com.
An Everything Everything Bagel, with cream cheese, lox, onions and capers from Olmo's bagel shop. (Melanie Stengel / Special to the Courant)
Restaurant subscription service
At Olmo in New Haven, which opened in the former Caseus space in December 2018, Craig Hutchinson had been toying with a subscription service, "Olmo at Home," featuring multiple meals per week. It was in the "10-year plan," he said, but the current crisis moved up the timeline. Now, more than 70 members have signed up for the option.
The service offers once-a-week no-contact delivery, with three meals a week (breakfast and two dinners, $70 to $140) for families of two or four. Other pickup or delivery items are available on Snackpass, including Olmo's fresh bagels, lunch sandwiches and provisions like cheese and crackers. Hutchinson also plans to add a line of toiletry products.
"This was an idea that's allowed us to stay open, and bring back [team members]," he said. "It was either sit back and fail, or go for it. ... In the restaurant business, the margins are too tight. You have to make those really quick decisions."
Olmo is at 93 Whitney Avenue in New Haven. 203-624-3373, olmokitchen.com.
Ding-a-ling-a-ling takes a creamy garlic base topped with grilled chicken, spinach, onions, tomatoes, bacon, and blue cheese crumbles from Pleasant Pizza. (Lindsay Bukowinski / Hartford Courant)
Pizza with a side of...toilet paper?
Pleasant Pizza in Willimantic has had an online marketplace for about a year, offering toiletries, a small selection of groceries and household items for last-minute deliveries alongside its pizza. But it wasn't always in demand. Dimitrios Provistalis, whose parents Maria and Stefanos opened the pizzeria in 1994, said he was about a month away from taking it offline before the coronavirus began to impact Connecticut.
"People are taking advantage of the grocery aspect of it," he said. "Just anything and everything for us to have a platform for people to not have to either leave their homes, or [where] they can get multiple items in one area."
And yes, toilet paper is "going like crazy," he said, but, aware of shortages in stores, they're mindful not to hold on to too much stock.
Pleasant Pizza is at 413 Pleasant St. in Willimantic. 860-423-5442, pleasantpizzact.com.
Grano Arso's pasta kits include a pound of fresh spaghetti, fettuccine or rigatoni, with sauce, garnishes and cooking instructions. (Courtesy of Grano Arso)
Pasta night at home
At Grano Arso, the Chester restaurant is selling pasta kits: a pound of fresh spaghetti, fettuccine or rigatoni crafted by chef-owner Joel Gargano with an accompanying sauce like marinara, pesto, vodka or parmigiano cream. Kits ($24 to $30) include garnishes like basil and pecorino or parmigiano reggiano cheese, and instruction cards for perfect preparation. (Gargano said customers can even call him in the kitchen if they want him to walk them through it.)
The response to the kits has been positive, he said. "It's something we'd like to carry forward even after all this."
The restaurant is also offering daily family-style meals, sides and desserts, to be pre-ordered online, and Joel's wife and co-owner, Lani, plans a Vietnamese-style pop-up menu on Apr. 2. Pickup times are available at 4, 5 and 6 p.m. each night.
"It's a very challenging time," she said. "Joel and I have to think about ways to be creative to not only stay afloat, but also to continue invigorating the community."
Grano Arso is at 6 Main St. in Chester. 860-322-3143, granoct.com.
Millwright's in Simsbury has shifted to a comfort food menu for takeout and delivery, including burgers and roast chicken. (STEPHEN DUNN / Hartford Courant)
Frozen prepared food, fine dining style
Millwright's in Simsbury, one of the state's top restaurants, has shifted to a menu built for comfort: dinners for four ($40 to $50) like roast chicken, roast beef and glazed baby back ribs, and sides like mac and cheese, grilled broccoli, New England baked beans and roasted Brussels sprouts with pistachio. Want a burger or fried chicken sandwich? Build your own, with up to four toppings.
The restaurant also offers a selection of frozen prepared meals, including various soups and larger entrees (feed 6 to 8) like venison osso buco, braised chicken thighs and beef stew. "There's been a lot of interest [in this], more than I thought," said chef-owner Tyler Anderson, and they'll soon be rolling out similar offerings at his Square Peg Pizzeria in Glastonbury.
Orders are available for pickup or delivery. Millwright's is at 77 West St. in Simsbury. 860-651-5500, millwrightsrestaurant.com/togo
Fine dining at home - wine included
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At Max Restaurant Group, four of its more casual restaurants have continued to offer regular takeout: Max Burger's locations in West Hartford and Longmeadow, Mass.; Savoy Pizzeria & Craft Bar in West Hartford and Max a Mia in Avon. On weekends, Max's Oyster Bar in West Hartford and Max Fish in Glastonbury have joined in, offering "family packs" with higher-end entrees ($28 to $69) feeding two to three people: selections like 24-ounce prime rib, grilled swordfish, seafood paella, surf and turf and twin steamed lobsters.
"We were blown away by how well it was received last week," said Scott Smith, the group's vice president and chief operating officer. With the recent addition of to-go wine sales, Brian Mitchell, Max's director of wine and beverages, has added a list of white, red and sparkling options to pair well with menu items.
The Max Burger locations and Savoy have also added "6 feet apart family share packs" that feed four people, with entrees ($26 to $29) like chicken cordon bleu, meatloaf, ricotta gnocchi and horseradish-crusted salmon.
"They're nice options that aren't [just] pizza and hamburgers," Smith said. maxrestaurantgroup.com.
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A group of 30 anti-logging protesters disrupted a press conference of Labour leader Mark Latham in Tasmania, Australia asking him to reveal his forestry policy. Earlier, Latham had attacked Australian prime minister's John Howard's record on the environment. Howard had said he would like to see an end to the logging of old growth forests but not at the expense of timber workers' jobs or local communities. The Labour candidate argued that the prime minister had ignored the issue for the past eight years.
Meanwhile, Tasmanian aboriginals say they should be consulted in the pre-election debate. Glenn Shaw, of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, says aborginal values have been ignored in the electioneering over Tasmania's old-growth forests. Protecting forests from logging sounds good in theory, but may make it harder for aboriginals to protect heritage values. "Turning forests into national park means another statutory body to deal with and whenever you deal with such bodies, everything becomes cumbersome," he argued.


Life's events can weaken pelvic muscles. Pregnancy, childbirth and being overweight can do it. Luckily, when these muscles get weak, you can help make them strong again. Pelvic floor muscles are just like other muscles. Exercise can make them stronger. Women with bladder control problems can regain control through pelvic muscle exercises, also called Kegel exercises.
The part of your body including your hipbones is the pelvic area. At the bottom of the pelvis, several layers of muscle stretch between your legs. The muscles attach to the front, back and sides of the pelvis bone.
Two pelvic muscles do most of the work. The biggest one stretches like a hammock. The other is shaped like a triangle. These muscles prevent leaking of urine and stool.
Find the right muscles. This is very important. Your doctor, nurse or physical therapist will help make sure you are doing the exercises the right way.
You should tighten the two major muscles that stretch across your pelvic floor. They are the "hammock" muscle and the "triangle" muscle. Here are three methods to check for the correct muscles.
Don't squeeze other muscles at the same time. Be careful not to tighten your stomach, legs or other muscles. Squeezing the wrong muscles can put more pressure on your bladder control muscles. Just squeeze the pelvic muscle. Don't hold your breath.
Repeat, but don't overdo it. At first, find a quiet spot to practice -- your bathroom or bedroom -- so you can concentrate. Lie on the floor. Pull in the pelvic muscles and hold for a count of three. Then relax for a count of three. Work up to 10 to 15 repeats each time you exercise.
Do your pelvic exercises at least three times a day. Every day, use three positions: lying down, sitting and standing. You can exercise while lying on the floor, sitting at a desk or standing in the kitchen. Using all three positions makes the muscles strongest.
Be patient. Don't give up. It's just five minutes, three times a day. You may not feel your bladder control improve until after three to six weeks. Still, most women do notice an improvement after a few weeks.
You can protect your pelvic muscles from more damage by bracing yourself.
Think ahead, just before sneezing, lifting or jumping. Sudden pressure from such actions can hurt those pelvic muscles. Squeeze your pelvic muscles tightly and hold on until after you sneeze, lift or jump.
After you train yourself to tighten the pelvic muscles for these moments, you will have fewer accidents.
Print out this chart and record your pelvic muscle exercises.


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London has billed itself as being a global city, the biggest financial center in the world and a hub of creativity to rival that of New York City.
Up until now, though, returning home from the city after midnight meant using the bus or calling a cab.
That has now ended. The London Underground has started overnight service for the first time ever, a move leaders of the city hope will make the capital of Britain truly a 24-hour city as well as bolster the local economy.
This new service runs only on the weekends and to start will only be available on a few well-traveled Victoria and Central lines.
However, the initiative reflects the growing population as well as cosmopolitan mentality that marks a coming of age for London that many in NYC regard as sleepy and quaint.
This is also a psychological step due to subways, metros and the Underground always being such totemic parts of any city.
One urban issue expert from the London School of Economics said they are the circulation system of any big city.
Economists like to mention that London already is a 24-hour city, with Michelin starred eateries, theaters in the West End and many trendy nightclubs that attract customers from around the world.
Thousands of doctors, maintenance workers and cleaners also have to work night shifts.
However, the expanded service on the Tube comes during a good time for London, which wants to reassure the rest of the rest of the world that it is open for business while welcoming worldwide tourists despite the recent vote in Britain to exit the European Union.
The efforts to maintain the city going 24-hours per day have produced £40 billion or $52 million in benefits to the London economy, and the service at night on the Night Tube could add an additional £77 million.
Unlike across the Atlantic in New York, where a subway system of four tracks is able to maintain operations while lines are being repaired at night, the two tracks London system previously meant the Tube was shut down from a few minutes following midnight until early morning to make daily changes to maintenance. Sunday has even more limited operational hours.
The managers of the London Underground now believe all the needed maintenance work can be completed on weeknights, giving them time to offer the overnight service on the weekend.
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Viewing 12 of 12 items | View: Sort: Greek Feta Cheese. The perfect cheese for a cheeseboard, it pairs perfectly with seasonal fruits and red wine. Mackerel is a fish high in oils and as it is grilled, it has a hint of a smoky flavour. Feta. An alcoholic beverage, a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of. Greek Feta is well known for its use in salads, but is also a superb table cheese. At this stage, it is perfect for grating over hot pasta. In the 8th Century BCE, Homer's literary masterpiece, The Odyssey even mentions making sheep's and goat's milk Greek Cheese. Graviera: This hard yet mild cheese is made on the Greek island of Crete. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cheese from Greece. A spread or dip of feta cheese, roasted red peppers, and (rarely) garlic. Popular dish on the island of, "Kokkinisto" means 'reddened', and is a family of meat. The all mighty Greek feta. Use it within a few months if you put it in the freezer. Type of omelette found on various islands; from the Byzantine Greek, Boiled greens, usually served with olive oil and lemon. Harder and saltier than Kasseri, Kefalotiri is an ideal table cheese, but is also excellent cooked into main dishes and pastries, or fried in Saganaki. Under protective designation of origin (PDO) rules, graviera must contain at least 40 percent fat, with a maximum moisture content of 38 percent. The version from Crete is known for a burnt caramel taste, and longer-aged graviera tends toward increased nuttiness. Many artisanal hand made cheeses, both common varieties and local specialties, are produced by small family farms throughout Greece and offer distinct flavors. If you want to cook with it, then you would want it hard. For a new search: Enter a keyword, choose the length of the word or name you are looking for, enter any letters you already know, or select the first letter of the word - a second and the answer is in front of you! Cheese is an important part of the Greek diet since beef and pork is mostly imported and therefore expensive. From the Turkish, Kolokythakia Tiganitá (κολοκυθάκια τηγανιτά). For this Greek feta cheese triangles recipe the feta cheese is crumbled and mixed with two different kind of cheese and then wrapped with phyllo pastry, forming a triangle, brushed with melted butter or olive oil and baked until golden and crispy, to perfection.. Many legendary characters have more than one name. The most famous Greek cheese, the all mighty feta has been around for ages. Myzithra can be made from any blending ratio of sheep's, goat's and/or cow's milk. All Rights Reserved | Batter-coated, deep fried squid, served with salt and lemon. Made from pure sheep's or goat's milk or a blend thereof, its creamy texture comes from the addition of milk and/or cream early in the cheese making process.
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Goldberg Variations, Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Bach-Busoni
Fairy Tale, Op. 51 no. 3, Medtner
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dukas-Nacar
Barcarolle, Chopin
La Valse, Ravel
Christmastime 2014
Polka de W. R., Rachmaninoff
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C, Bach-Busoni
French Suite no. 5 (complete), Bach
Symphony no. 6 (1st movement), Beethoven-Liszt
Fünf Klavierstücke, R. Strauss
Marche Militaire, Schubert-Tausig
Fall 2010 (Community MusicWorks Bach Marathon)
French Suite no. 5 - Gigue, Bach
More from Fall 2010
Partita no. 4 - Allemande, Courante, Bach
Sonata no. 28 (1st and 2nd movements), Beethoven
Valse-Caprice no. 7, Schubert-Liszt
Etude, Op. 2 no. 1, Scriabin
Carmen Fantasie, Bizet-Horowitz
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Goldberg Variations
Compilation from live recordings
Live recording
Complete concert playlist
Johann Sebastian Bach/Ferruccio Busoni:
Introductory remarks here
Nikolai Medtner:
Fairy Tale, Op. 51 no. 3
Paul Dukas/Benjamin Nacar:
See Transcriptions page
Frederic Chopin: Barcarolle
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
S. Rachmaninoff: Polka de W. R.
Bach-Busoni: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue
J. S. Bach: French Suite no. 5, complete
Beethoven-Liszt: Symphony no. 6 ("Pastoral"), 1st movement
R. Strauss: Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 3
Schubert-Tausig: Marche Militaire
Beethoven-Liszt: Symphony no. 5, 1st movement
J. S. Bach: French Suite no. 5: Gigue
Bach-Busoni: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
J. S. Bach: Partita no. 4: Allemande, Courante
L. van Beethoven: Sonata no. 28: movements 1 and 2
Schubert-Liszt: Valse-Caprice no. 7
A. Scriabin: Etude, Op. 2 no. 1
Bizet-Horowitz: Carmen Fantasie
The Blue Danube, Johann Strauss Jr.
Symphony no. 9 (fourth movement), Ludwig van Beethoven
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Paul Dukas
Coronation Mass (Kyrie, Gloria), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Les Préludes, Franz Liszt
New World Symphony, Antonín Dvořák
1812 Overture, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Strauss-Nacar: The Blue Danube
This is a (highly embellished) solo piano arrangement of Johann Strauss Jr.'s popular waltz medley "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" which, thanks to the capriciousness of Stanley Kubrick, has become forever associated with gently rotating spaceships and space stations. I wrote this arrangement for the occasion of the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the first manned moon landing (July 20th, 1969), in commemoration of which I gave three piano recitals. Also on the program were Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata, the F-minor Nocturne and the Barcarolle by Chopin, three different moon-themed pieces by Debussy, the Largo from Dvořák's New World Symphony, and the Sousa/Horowitz Stars and Stripes Forever. This recording was made at Brown's Cogut Institute on July 15th, 2019, the day after the last performance.
Beethoven-Liszt-Nacar: Symphony no. 9, movement IV
When writing his transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies, Liszt was highly doubtful whether the choral finale of the Ninth could ever be effectively rendered on the piano, and his publisher had to goad him into finishing it at all. The task of translating the majesty and power of the "Ode to Joy" movement into pianistic terms is not, I think, an intractable problem. However, the arrangement of the Finale of the Ninth that Liszt eventually produced has always seemed to me less convincing than the other movements of the Ninth (or the other eight Beethoven symphonies), which led me to undertake the revision presented here. Many passages I have kept unaltered, to others I have added extra notes, and some I have rewritten entirely, which I rather think is in keeping with Liszt's own take-other-composers'-material-and-run-with-it approach.
This recording was made at Brown's Cogut Institute for the Humanities, following three performances of this movement on December 10th, 2018 (at the Cogut Institute) and December 15th and 16th, 2018 (at the RISD Museum), the last performance falling on Beethoven's 248th birthday. Preceding it on the program were Mozart's Sonata in C major, K. 330, and the Schubert-Liszt Valse-Caprice no. 7 from Soirees de Vienne.
Dukas-Nacar: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
On October 31st, 2016 I gave a Halloween concert at Brown's Cogut Center for the Humanities. The preceeding day I also gave a semi-Halloween-themed Children's Concert at the Providence Public Library. Both events featured my arrangement of Paul Dukas' tone poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice. This is the live recording from the Cogut performance.
Mozart-Nacar: Coronation Mass
(Kyrie, Gloria)
In December 2014 I presented a Christmastime program at the RISD Museum and at Brown's Cogut Center for the Humanities, which opened with my transcription of the first two movements of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Coronation Mass. This is a live recording from the last performance at RISD.
Liszt-Nacar: Les Préludes
In November 2014 I gave a few concerts at the RISD Museum and at Brown's Cogut Center for the Humanities, The program featured Bach's Partita no. 6, Chopin's Ballades nos. 3 and 4, and my transcription of Liszt's Les Préludes. In between performances I made this "studio" recording of the Liszt at the Cogut Center.
Dvořák-Nacar: Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95, "From the New World"
In June/July 2014 I performed my own transcription of Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony at the RISD Museum and at Brown's Cogut Center for the Humanities; also on the program was Vladimir Horowitz's transcription of John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever". Following those concerts I made a "studio" recording of the Dvořák at the Cogut Center.
Playlist with all four movements
I. Adagio; Allegro molto
II. Largo
III. Scherzo: Molto vivace
IV. Allegro con fuoco
Tchaikovsky-Nacar: 1812 Overture
In July 2013 I gave a few concerts at the RISD Museum and at Brown's Cogut Center for the Humanities, featuring Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (all movements) and my own transcription of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Following those concerts I made a "studio" recording of the Tchaikovsky, as well as the first movement of the Beethoven (see Other Videos), at the Cogut Center. As of two years later this has turned out to be my most popular video ever.
These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License.
All content copyright 2019 Benjamin Nacar, licensed CC-BY-SA v4.0 unless otherwise noted


Thank you Cindy! I'm so glad I could give that to you. I send you my love.
Your writing, "Winds," evoked feelings in me. Beautifully said. Thanks.
As I have been feeling alone lately and stranded without my sister. I miss the companionship of our shopping trips together. We loved to decorate our homes and it was fun to go on the hunt for treasures together. I'm waiting for new ideas to fill the void.
Yes, Lotta's words always bring something out in all of us.
I feel your loss and pain. Have gone through it.
We just lost another brother within a short time.
Praying the "Winds" will soon blow new ideas your way, even though I know that they are in your heart as well, waiting to come out.
Even if this poem did not have your name, I would know it was yours!
You certainly "understand tears" and you have a way of drying them out.
I can imagine how thankful the woman next to you was for letting her share!
I miss sharing with you! I just don't want you to cry.
Katina I would cry with you any day for the rest of my life! I miss you too, so much. And I thank you so much for seeing me, that is a gift you have, and a gift you share. I love you forever.
BTW, I read the four volumes of Vilhelm Moberg's Emigrant series and WOW!
Nice! Have you found out anything more about your ancestors??
Unfortunately, no. Perhaps I shall try to build a story around the pages I have? The books were a treasure and I passed on the author's name and book titles to my father's cousin who will also love them. Amazing!
Yes, you write very nice stories! You could absolutely do that!
Lotta so nice to read your words. you express such deep thought with your art. I know we all feel this way in certain times of our lives. Hope you are having a wonderful day. Sorry it has taken me this long to read your poem.
No worries Lotta I am not worried if you do not get over to my space. I know how busy we all get. Love Ireland such a beautiful place.


Hale Resources, LLC has been the property manager of the Putnam Block since 2015. With the purchase of the Putnam Block by Bennington Redevelopment Group; consisting of local entities and other private investors, it only made sense that Hale Resources owned the one building not included in the Putnam Block purchase, and it was up for sale. On September 1, 2017, Hale Resources, LLC purchased the Drysdale Building in a 1031 Even-Exchange. We purchased the building to prevent any outside investors from negatively impact the 53 million-dollar project at the Putnam Block. The Putnam Block is a great opportunity for our community. Hale Resources, LLC backs the economic development it will soon bring to Bennington County.


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Actress nabbed after a hit-and-run incident
By Meta Mphahlele - 27 January 2019 - 12:28
Khanya Mkangisa got the taste of a holding cell after a hit-and-run chase in Joburg.
TV presenter and actress Khanya Mkangisa spent a night in jail after she was arrested following a high- speed car chase drama in the streets of Joburg.
The Randburg police finally cornered Mkangisa, who made her debut as Akhona on Mzansi Magic's telenovela The Queen this week, and charge her with failing to stop after an accident.
Her hit-and-run incident started after she allegedly bumped another car in Bryanston on Sunday.
Mkangisa tried to vanish from the scene but she became bewildered noticing that the cops were giving chase. After her arrest, she spent the Sunday night behind bars and was released on Monday after she had appeared in the Randburg magistrate's court.
However, the 30-year-old actress denied the allegations against her, saying "the story is completely false".
Police spokesperson Lungelo Dlamini confirmed that a case of hit-and-run as a result of an accident was opened against Mkangisa in Randburg.
Dlamini said Mkangisa was arrested and released after spending a night in custody after the police had discussed the matter with the National Prosecuting Authority in the Randburg magistrates' court.
He said the docket was still being reviewed by the prosecutor.
According to police records seen by Sunday World, this was not the first time Mkangisa was accused of breaking the law while behind the wheel.
She was arrested by the Sandringham police for driving under the influence of alcohol in 2009. The sultry actress was nabbed by Parkview police officers for a similar charge a year later.
mphahlelema@sundayworld.co.za
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For the sake of productivity, effectiveness, and frankly, my own sanity, I have adopted several resolutions and practices regarding the way I approach communications. This affords me the time and energy to communicate more effectively and to serve more faithfully in the other areas of my life.
All communications—email especially—should be clear, succinct, and purposeful.
All messages should be appropriate for the medium. For example, don't send a fifty word text message or one presupposing a lengthy response.
Rather than placing an unnecessary burden on your recipient, it is polite to filter yourself before sending a message.
Chances are, your issue has been addressed somewhere already, and therefore it's a good idea to do a Google search before asking a question or seeking general forms of assistance.
If you have a question for me that is theological in nature, please search reformedforum.org. If it pertains to information about my church, please search hopeopc.com.
I aim to be prompt and helpful in my responses.
My family and church receive the highest priority in my inboxes.
I resolve not to respond to every message I receive. Sending a message does not automatically entitle someone to a response.
I regularly go "communications dark" in the evening until the middle of the next morning.
I check my email once or twice per day.
I process my inbox to zero.
I turned off email and text message sounds and notifications on my smart phone.
I deleted Facebook and Facebook Messenger from my smart phone.


NEWARK, N.J. – A Jersey City, New Jersey, police officer today admitted paying bribes in order to obtain compensation for off-duty work he did not perform, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
Michael O'Leary, 35, of Jersey City, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez in Newark federal court to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery.
Private contractors and utility companies sometimes needed the services of off-duty Jersey City police officers for certain projects, including work in Jersey City that could obstruct the flow of traffic. O'Leary was an officer who was eligible to perform off-duty work.
From November 2013 through April 2016, O'Leary engaged in a conspiracy in which he made bribe payments to another Jersey City officer who was authorized to assign off-duty work, in exchange for that officer's official assistance in submitting phony vouchers to Jersey City indicating that O'Leary had completed certain off-duty assignments. As a result, O'Leary was compensated for work he never performed.
O'Leary faces a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense. Pursuant to the plea agreement, he must also forfeit $39,587 he made as part of the conspiracy. Sentencing is set for Jan. 3, 2018.
Acting U.S. Attorney Fitzpatrick credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Timothy A. Gallagher in Newark, with the investigation.
The Jersey City Police Department is cooperating with the investigation.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna of the U.S. Attorney's Office Criminal Division in Newark.


In a prior post on Choice of Law in Texas Noncompete Litigation, we discussed the need for a well-thought-out choice of law provision in noncompete agreements. The courts have again highlighted the importance of this, but this time, it is within the context of temporary injunctions.
Cameron International Corporation v. Guillory, a recent Texas Court of Appeals case, approaches the issue of whether to make a choice of law analysis in an injunction hearing. While working for Cameron International, Guillory entered into a non-compete agreement. However, Guillory "signed" this agreement by means of an online prompt stating that he read and understood the agreement. The agreement also stated that it would be governed by Delaware law. On application for a temporary injunction, the trial court applied Texas law to decline enforcement of the non-compete.
The problem was that Texas law does not favor online "click" agreements like Delaware. On appeal, Cameron International argued that Delaware law should have been applied during the injunction hearing. Conversely, Guillory contended that choice of law is a merits question, so deciding it at the temporary relief stage was premature and improper. The Court of Appeals held that choice of law must be established before addressing the propriety of temporary relief.
The court then applied the standard from Exxon v. Drennen—discussed in the abovementioned blog post. After analyzing the facts in Cameron International, the court determined that the choice of law provision was enforceable, and as a result, it granted the temporary injunction.
A well-drafted choice of law provision can make a big difference when enforcing your non-compete at the critical temporary injunction stage. In Cameron International, it was the primary factor in the granting of a temporary injunction. Not only can a well-drafted choice of law provision prevent potential pitfalls and costly litigation, it can help determine the protections afforded at a very early stage. At Lindquist Wood Edwards LLP, our lawyers take great care when drafting your non-compete agreements to ensure the maximum likelihood of enforceability.


Papa, Stella M.; Boldry, Robert C.; Engber, Thomas M.; Kask, Anne M.; Chase, Thomas N.
Dopaminoceptive system alterations in the basal ganglia have been implicated in the pathogenesis of wearing-off fluctuations that complicate levodopa therapy of Parkinson's disease. To evaluate the contribution of glutamatergic mechanisms to the associated changes in striatal efferent pathway function, we examined the ability of N -methyl- d -aspartate (NMDA) receptor blockade to modify the motor response changes produced by chronic levodopa administration to hemiparkinsonian rats. Unilaterally 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned rats, given levodopa/benserazide (25/6.25 mg/kg) twice daily for 3 weeks, developed a progressive shortening in the duration of their motor response to levodopa similar to that occurring in parkinsonian patients with wearing-off phenomenon. The acute systemic administration of MK-801 (0.1 mg/kg) to these animals completely reversed the decrease in turning duration ( P < 0.01). Intrastriatal injection of the NMDA antagonist was even more effective in prolonging the levodopa response ( P < 0.01), while intranigrally injected MK-801 produced no statistically significant change in the duration of levodopa-induced rotation. Rotational intensity was unaffected by all routes of MK-801 administration. These results suggest that drugs capable of blocking NMDA receptors, especially in striatum, may help ameliorate motor fluctuations in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease.
Albin, R.L.; Makowiec, Z.R.; Hollingsworth, L.S.; Dure, L.S.; Penney, J.B.; Young, A.B.
Bergman, H.; Wichmann, T.; DeLong, M.R.
Bravi, D.; Mouradian, M.M.; Roberts, J.W.; Chase, T.N.
Brotchie, J.M.; Mitchell, I.J.; Sambrook, M.A.; Crossman, A.R.
Crossman, A.R.; Peggs, D.; Boyce, S.; Luquin, M.R.; Sambrook, M.A.
Druhan, J.P.; Jakob, A.; Stewart, J.
Engber, T.M.; Marin, C.; Susel, Z.; Chase, T.N.
Fabbrini, G.; Mouradian, M.M.; Juncos, J.L.; Schlegel, J.; Mohr, E.; Chase, T.N.
Gandolfi, O.; Rimondini, R.; Dall'Olio, R.
Graham, W.C.; Robertson, R.G.; Sambrook, M.A.; Crossman, A.R.
Greenamyre, J.T.; Eller, R.V.; Zhang, Z.; Ovadia, A.; Kurlan, R.; Gash, D.M.
Jenner, P.; Boyce, S.; Marsden, C.D.
Löschmann, P.A.; Lange, K.W.; Kunow, M.; Rettig, K.J.; Jahnig, P.; Honore, T.; Turski, L.; Wachtel, H.; Jenner, P.; Marsden, C.D.
Marsden, C.D.; Parkes, J.D.; Quinn, N.
Mouradian, M.M.; Juncos, J.L.; Fabbrini, G.; Schlegel, J.; Bartko, J.J.; Chase, T.N.
Papa, S.M.; Engber, T.M.; Boldry, R.C.; Chase, T.N.
Pycock, C.; Dawbarn, D.; O'Shaughnesy, C.
Rupniak, N.M.J.; Boyce, S.; Steventon, M.J.; Iversen, S.D.; Marsden, C.D.
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so now we have an abundance of toilet paper and alcohol. Feel free to pop by anytime you need to go potty or need a shot of tequila. We're all stocked up.
We went to a fancy spa-like place for Michelle's birthday. It's up the coast in a beautiful "off the beaten path" type area surrounded by gorgeous redwood trees and babbling brooks. It was one of those get aways where your goal is to leave the modern day behind and sort of get back to nature. Oh we got back to nature all right. In fact, nature cozied right up to us. We decided to go in the hot tub even though it was cold and raining. We grabbed a bottle of red and a couple plastic glasses, put on our swimsuits and robes and ran to the hot tub. We jumped right in! Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! fun!! I popped the cork and poured a couple glasses. Aaahh... nice. Super warm bubbly water in the middle of a rainstorm. What could be better? Loved it. Until.. i noticed we weren't alone. Apparently the local amphibian residents of the spa had the same idea. And we discovered we had busted in on a partying bunch of frogs that had already claimed the hot tub. Now here's the question? Leave the hot tub to the frogs? or stay and enjoy a glass of wine in the rain with our new friends?
Today is Michelle's birthday! Yay!
I've decided to let myself obsess over one thing per day. Today you might think i would be obsessing about that guy on the other side of my cubicle wall who keeps sniffling and clearing his throat. While that IS very worthy of obsession. And increasingly annoying... No. Not today. Today I'm obsessing over the size of my head. My GIANT noggin. I've mentioned my giant head to Michelle and she very nicely tells me that it means I'm very smart...that there's plenty of room for a lot of brain power. But the fact that she agrees that my head is larger than normal means my head is GIGANTIC and much too large for my body. So.. as a result of my obsessing about it for hours...I've come up with a solution. I can not decrease the size of my humongous pumpkin head. That is not an option. BUT! What i CAN do is make my body of equal proportion. Sooooo... bring on the cookies! I've got some catching up to do!
Last night Michelle and i went to Oakland's "First Friday Art Walk." Lots of local artists to check out in trendy art galleries, street vendors selling cool stuff and musicians doing their thang in the alley ways. I wore my super cool new cream colored leather jacket. Needless to say...i felt cool. Super cool. I put on my "art collector" persona and slowly strolled the avenues looking for a treasure. I kept feeling people rub up against my back. Michelle said she thought they were feeling how soft the leather of my super cool new cream colored leather jacket was. I didn't really give it a second thought. It was VERY crowded. No biggie.
When we got home i took off my super cool new cream colored leather jacket...and realized there was a huge SALE tag hanging on the back.
So much for being super cool.
Michelle and i went for a walk around the neighborhood today and noticed that one house down the street has a really fancy garden. Most houses in Berkeley have fancy gardens so its not that unusual to see some amazing stuff. But this house in particular had TONS of gorgeous things sprouting from every inch of their front yard. We stopped for a moment to take it all in. mmm...lovely. We looked at each other and suddenly sprouted horns on the tippety top of our heads. Little devils. We spoke in hushed voices. We'll come back after dark with some snippers and SNIP some of their plants to replant in our OWN garden. Hee hee hee... sneaky. They'll never know! We'll be quiet as church mice.
As we walked away i noticed something out of the corner of my eye. A man. Oh no! The owner of the house was standing on his porch hidden from view! He'd heard the whole conversation. We quick stepped as fast as we could back to safety. Checking behind us the whole way for his Berkeley Garden Society posse coming to round us up. I was imagining them in their giant rubber boots, garden gloves and big floppy hats holding pitch forks and searching for us on horseback in the night.
needless to say... we wont be stealing any plants tonight.


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Rebirth of the Waverley Bowling Club begins with ground breaking ceremony
Mirvac is not letting the grass grow under its feet. Barely four months after sentering an agreement with Easts Group to redevelop the Waverley Bowling Club, the company today celebrated the start of construction with a ground breaking ceremony.
Mirvac is not letting the grass grow under its feet. Barely four months after entering an agreement with Easts Group to redevelop the Waverley Bowling Club, the company today celebrated the start of construction with a ground breaking ceremony.
The renewal of the site to create two new bowling greens, a new community venue and 55 luxury apartments for those aged over-55 is proceeding at a cracking pace to be completed in time for the bowlers to celebrate their 130th anniversary in 2023 on their home greens.
Mirvac Head of Residential Stuart Penklis said the company was determined to deliver this project to Mirvac's high standards creating a new community venue and greens worthy of the club's rich history.
"Today marks the turning point for both the Easts Group and Waverley Bowling Club when we begin construction of what will be a magnificent new facility to be enjoyed by Club members and the wider community," said Mr Penklis.
"We are extremely proud to be entrusted with the delivery of such a historic site and look forward to working with Easts to build a new legacy."
The delivery agreement was only signed with Easts Group in December last year and construction begins before the commencement of sales, scheduled for the second half of this year.
"Easts Group and Waverley Bowling Club worked closely with the community for many years to finalise a proposal that has won broad support," said Mr Penklis.
Waverley Bowling Club President Patrick Fitzsimons said that after eight years of negotiations, to see the redevelopment finally begin was a moment for the history books.
"We are the sixth oldest bowling club in Sydney and there is a lot of history attached to the Waverley Bowling Club," said Mr Fitzsimons. "Once history is gone, it's gone forever whereas this is the Phoenix rising from the ashes, coming back better than it ever was.
"It will be the best bowling club in the eastern suburbs. I already have people asking when it will open, not just bowlers but families and people in the community. This has always been a little oasis in the eastern suburbs where people can come and play barefoot bowls or just sit outside and watch the competition bowlers."
Waverley Bowling Club Lady President Marilyn Eccles said the club was now in a 'very good place'.
"There is a sense of coming full circle," said Ms Eccles. "When the club was formed in 1893, we were based in Bondi Junction near Easts and we share the same red white and blue colours as the Roosters so there is a feeling of truly coming together.
"We are a club that has always been prepared to chart new territory. We were the first to integrate men and women bowlers into the one club and the first after Paddington to introduce barefoot bowls. The local community wanted us to stay here and that is exactly what we plan to do. This is our home and home is where the heart is."
"The redevelopment of the club secures the future of the Waverley Bowling Club and delivers a valuable community asset to be enjoyed by people old and young," said Mr Politis.
"The fact that construction is beginning only four months after signing the agreement with Mirvac is a good sign that we have the right partner and the future is looking brighter than ever."
Mirvac has not yet begun marketing but has already started fielding enquiry from locals looking to secure a new Mirvac quality home.
"Not surprisingly there has been quite a rush of enquiry about purchasing in the development," said Mr Penklis. "Mirvac's first apartment development was in Rose Bay back in 1972 and the eastern suburbs was our favoured location for many years, earning us a lot of extremely loyal customers.
"Our last residential project was The Moreton in Bondi which sold out in a single weekend. With only 55 apartments in this project and development sites as good as this one so rare in the east, we are anticipating healthy demand." The 55 apartments will be dispersed across four buildings including the Birrell St corner apartments with the new club facilities at ground level overlooking the greens. This building offers some of the best ocean views, and will also have a landscaped rooftop with residential communal facilities such as barbecue and outdoor dining for the private use of the residents.
In a touching reminder of the site's earlier history as St Gabriel's School, President of the Old Girls' Union Glen Barnwell entrusted Mirvac with an etched glass panel, the only known remnant to have survived demolition. "We are all still emotionally invested in the school and it is the wish of the Old Girls that this last known bit of the school finds a permanent place on the site," said Ms Barnwell.
The project's integration of the public and private realm is similar in concept to Mirvac's highly successful Marrick & Co development in the inner-west suburb of Marrickville which is located alongside the new Marrickville Public Library.
Waverley is Mirvac's second recent project in Sydney to begin construction ahead of a sales launch, underlining the company's confidence in the market and ability to secure sales.
"Mirvac's fully integrated model means we are designing and constructing the development which enables the confidence in dealing with one party. As a result, we are one of the few development companies in Australia with the capacity to get new projects out of the ground, knowing that our reputation for quality will stand up well in any market," said Mr Penklis.
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Committee & Contact
10th European School on Molecular Nanoscience
5th Workshop on 2D Materials
El Escorial (Madrid, Spain) 7th to 12th May 2017.
El Escorial (Madrid, Spain) 7th – 12th May 2017
FIRST CIRCULAR: Announcement and pre-registration.
The molecular region of Nanoscience is still a region that has been scarcely explored in Nanoscience, maybe because the larger structural and electronic complexity of molecules, compared with that found in simpler atom-based nano-objects and nanostructures, make them more difficult to study at the nanoscale with the currently available instrumental techniques. Albeit, it is in this molecular region where molecular chemists, biologists, physicists and engineers working in Nanoscience may find the best opportunities to interact and to converge. Areas like supramolecular chemistry, molecular electronics and molecular magnetism are expected to converge in this region.
The tenth European School on Molecular Nanoscience (ESMolNa2017) intends to provide a suitable framework to show and extensively discuss the state-of-the-art in these multidisciplinary areas. Lectures are aimed at the post-graduate level as they will be presented to an audience primarily formed by post-graduate, PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. In fact, the School will be the last part of an intensive Advanced Course of three weeks organized in the frame of a European Master in Molecular Nanoscience. This meeting also intends to be a forum where the active European scientific groups working in these areas will have the opportunity to meet and informally discuss with the younger generations.
This training school is organized by the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol) of the Universitat de València, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the COST Action MOLSPIN: Molecular Spintronics (Action Number: CA15128).
The fifth Workshop on 2D Materials (W2DM2017) will take place on May 11st and 12th, having the first day a joint program with ESMolNa2017.
Graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials represent one of the priority areas of the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission for the next ten years, as shown by the 'Graphene flagship'. Due to the exceptional mechanical and electronic properties of graphene, research about this material has been at the forefront of this area during the last years. However, since graphene is not a semiconductor, its electronic applications are limited. For that reason, other 2D materials, like metal dichalcogenides or layered coordination compounds, are starting to be studied. In these materials a wide range of properties can be insulated, including superconductivity and magnetism. The research community exploring graphene and other 2D materials is increasing recently, due to the incorporation of researchers from a variety of fields like materials science, physics, chemistry and electronic engineering. Moreover, there is a big interest in the construction of functional devices based on 2D materials, including their integration with graphene. During the W2DM2017 collaboration among participant researchers will be promoted, in order to face the huge scientific challenges encountered in this field, both from an experimental and theoretical point of view.
The talks will be held at the 'Real Centro Universitario Escorial-María Cristina' in San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid, Spain) where attendants will be also hosted.
The School is structured in three different blocks:
General_lectures (50 min+ 10 min discussion): This part will deal with the essential aspects of Molecular Nanoscience on the topics i) Supramolecular Chemistry in Nanoscience; ii) Concepts, materials and applications of Molecular Electronics; iii) Single-Molecule Electronics; iv) Molecular Nanomagnetism; v) Molecule-based Spintronics.
The following invited lecturers have confirmed their attendance:
AGRAÏT, Nicolás - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid- IMDEA-Nanociencia	(Spain)
CLÉRAC, Rodolphe - Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal-CNRS (France)
DE FEYTER, Steven - KU Leuven (Belgium)
HAGFELDT, Anders - EPFL de Lausanne- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques (Switzerland)
LOTH, Sebastian - Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Germany)
NAAMAN, Ron - Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
PANÉ, Salvador - ETH Zurich - Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Switzerland)
POBLET, Josep Maria - Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
VAN DER ZANT, Herre - Delft University of Technology- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience (The Netherlands)
Specialized_lectures (25 min + 5 min discussion): In this part, short tutorial lectures showing some relevant scientific advances in the above topics will be presented by the most representative European research groups active in Molecular Nanoscience.
Oral_communications (10-min communications): With the aim of encouraging discussion and communication among all the participants, the students will have the opportunity to present short communications about their research results, including those that, although incomplete, can promote debate.
W2DM 2017 talks will deal with:
General properties of bidimensional laminar materials.
Preparation of bidimensional materials atomic layers by exfoliation.
Synthesis of bidimensional materials.
Structural, mechanical and optical characterization of 2D materials.
Electronic band structure, theoretical model of transport in 2D crystals.
New chemical and physical properties of bidimensional materials.
Applications of electronic devices based in bidimensional materials in energy, optoelectronics, flexible electronics, catalysis, etc.
DATES AND STRUCTURE
The ESMolNa2017 will be opened on Sunday May 7th in the afternoon (at 4 pm) and it will finish on Thursday May 11th in the evening (departure date May 12th after breakfast).
On Friday 12th in the morning will take place the last session of the W2DM2017.
The registration fee to for students, including accommodation from 7th to 12th May in double-room and full board is 375€.
The registration fee for doctors is 85€/night in single-room and full board, or 75€/night in double room.
For students members of the Specialized Group on Nanoscience and Molecular Materials of the Spanish Royal Societies of Chemistry and Physics is 300€ (membership fee is 39€/year)
For students members of the Master in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is 300€.
Attendance will be limited to about 100 participants, of which 60 will be European students chosen on the basis of their interest and contributions to the subject area. Those interested in participating in the School should fill in the pre-registration form available at the following WEB page:
http://www.icmol.es/esmolna2017
Pre-registration is mandatory for students and convenient for those participants that wish to present a short specialized lecture.
PRE-registration: March 31st 2017, or until sould out.
Final Registration: April 12th, 2017, or until sould out.
Payment: April 21st, 2017
Abstracts submission: April 26th, 2017
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Once again, the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris has given French opera critics a case of the vapors — but this time, two British new wave pop stars are at the center of the uproar. Since Jean-Luc Choplin became director in 2006, the historic opera house's repertoire of classic opera has increasingly taken a back seat to newer, bolder commissions in a bid to make the Chatelet stage a true crossroads for the arts. From a Bollywood-style remake of the 1923 opera-ballet Padmavati, to a stage mutation of the sci-fi horror film The Fly, the Chatelet has had opera purists hyperventilating as it seeks to tear down walls between genres.
Indeed, the opera Welcome to the Voice, which premiered Nov. 20, doesn't demand feats of coloratura of the pair. Rather, they lend their rock timbres to improbable duets with such brilliant sopranos as Sylvia Schwartz to "hopefully make harmony," as Sting says.
The work is the fruit of a genuine romance between the opera's composer, longtime Costello keyboardist Steve Nieve, and the writer and psychoanalyst Muriel Teodori, who wrote the Franco-English libretto. First released as a Deutsche Grammophon recording in 2007, the opera recounts the story of Greek immigrant steelworker Dionysos (played by a bearded Sting), who falls in love with an opera diva, much to the consternation of his blue-collar buddies. His stalker-like obsession nearly gets him incarcerated by the police commissioner (a hulking, black-robed Costello), but with a little supernatural intervention by the ghosts of operas past, all ends well.
The title of the opera refers to the transcendent and reconciliatory power of the human voice, whether scared or profane. However, in the ears of critics at the French dailies, the experiment has proved to be less than pitch-perfect. Le Figaro, for example, declared Welcome to the Voice "rock and opera's wedding gone wrong," slipping into "platitudes." Meanwhile, the daily Liberation, criticized the libretto's "naivete."
Teodori rejects the characterization. "When you're not cynical people say you're naive, and our message is simple and without cynicism," she says. "It's the belief in the virtue of hybrids, of mixing what at first wouldn't seem to go together." Teodori weaves her tale by drawing on age-old themes — the clashes between high and low culture, and the upper and working classes.
For Sting, a singer who grew up delivering milk early mornings with his father in the coal mining and shipbuilding town of Wallsend, England, those themes of class struggle drew him to his character. "There's the Dionysos archetype from Greek mythology, and then there's this communist steelworker who falls in love with the opera — that's the story I'm telling really," he says. "I know what it's like to be an outsider, I know what it's like to be working class and entering the halls of the bourgeois. It's our story really."
The tenets of tragic opera would naturally hold a dire fate for lovers from disparate worlds like Dionysos and Lily. But when the ghosts of Carmen, Butterfly and Norma visit Dionysos in his sleep singing "Opera always kills its lovers," Dionysos brushes off their calls for a proper opero-tragic suicide. "He doesn't want anything to do with that Valhalla tradition celebrating tragedy, pain and death," says Teodori. "And neither do I." It's one of the opera's more effective conceits, and Nieve's arias shine with what one applauding critic called "a true musicologist's reflection on the themes of Bizet, Bellini and Puccini."
Directed by Wolfgang Doerner, the production is self-assuredly modern — not by strident atonalism, but rather through the fertile mixing of jazz, opera, rock and electronica, punctuated by moving, ethereal intermezzos by onstage jazz instrumentalists improvising over the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. While Le Monde had little appetite for this musical "soup", the Journal de Dimanche was eager for more. "In the breach between rock-pop and opera, [Nieve] invented something new," said the paper's critic. "Despite its faults, this innovation, far superior to all the musical comedies in the works, deserves to be saluted."
Costello and Sting's performances had their faults — including a good handful of wayward notes. But while commissioner Costello stormed around stage brazenly belting his lines, and Sting swooned in the arms of Schwartz's delicious diva during their final stirring — and harmonious — duet, they were clearly reveling in this escape from the confines of the pop-rock genre. "For me it's always good to put yourself outside your comfort zone," says Sting. "As an artist, it's vital to have that kind of experience to grow, otherwise you're trapped in a box. Being in the box is never really interesting — I like to step outside of it, even at the risk of personal failure." The French critics may not agree, but with its easy juxtaposition of styles and obstinately hopeful narrative, Welcome to the Voice does make for a decidedly modern opera. And judging from the packed houses and endless ovations during its five-night Paris run, it seems the vox populi, at least, has declared it a success.