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Former Today Show presenter reveals horror Hollywood assault
FORMER Today presenter Michele Mahone has opened up about two disturbing sexual assaults she suffered at the hands of Hollywood A-listers.
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MICHELE Mahone is a former Today Show presenter, gossip reporter and make-up artist based in Los Angeles.
Starting her on-air role as an entertainment reporter for The Weekend Today Show on the Nine Network with Leila McKinnon and Cameron Williams, she became a household name for her Kentucky accent and catchphrase "How Do!"
In 2014, Mahone was hired as an entertainment reporter for Network TEN's defunct morning show Wake Up with Natarsha Belling and James Mathison, where she conducted various red carpet interviews and celebrity segments.
Currently working as a radio presenter, a comedian and full-time mum, Mahone has spent more than 15 years working both in front of the camera and behind the scenes in Australia and Los Angeles.
Speaking exclusively to news.com.au, Mahone has opened up about being sexually assaulted while working as a freelance make-up artist by one of Hollywood's biggest actors — Patrick Swayze.
Michele Mahone was a former Hollywood gossip presenter on Channel 9's Today Show.
I WAS working as a make-up artist, which I'd been doing for 10 years.
I was working with Disney and would do make-up when actors came in to do voiceovers for cartoons or for behind the scenes interviews with the stars that were put on to DVD.
I worked with Disney for years as one of their make-up artists, and would work on actors three to five times a month.
Patrick Swayze came in for an interview, and the whole time all he did was talk about how fantastic his wife was.
At the end of his interview, I asked him if he wanted his make-up removed.
I went back to the room, and put my left hand up to lift his fringe off his face, while I removed his makeup with my right hand.
He grabbed my waist and pulled me in and started kissing me. I was completely shocked. He wouldn't let go. His hand moved behind my head, and it was a really forceful kiss.
Michele was let go as a gossip presenter on the Today Show in 2014.
I pushed his shoulder off me. It was like a drunk in the bar grabbing you out of nowhere.
He said, "Oh, this doesn't mean we can't work together," and I didn't know what to say.
I was shaken. I was trembling. It was like an uncle grabbing you and kissing you. I was appalled, because he just said how much he loved his wife. I felt violated. My mouth hurt. I was in absolute shock.
I slowly packed up my kit hoping that by the time I was done, he'd have left the studio.
But when I left, he was still in the lobby. Producers and everyone were still there.
He said: "Well give me a hug goodbye, Michele," and I had to hug him. What else could I do? When he left, I pulled the producer (who was a woman) aside. I told her how he kissed me, and she asked if it had happened before. I said no, but they never hired me again.
I called two or three weeks later, then again a month and two months later and I never heard from them again.
Michele Mahone opens up about being sexually assaulted by two separate A-list actors. Picture: Facebook
They knew this was a problem, it could've potentially caused a lawsuit and in the end it was easier to not hire me again.
Ask anyone and they'd say he (Swayze) had the most rock-solid marriage in Hollywood. It was nauseating. He was on a pedestal. He was Mr Clean. Everyone saw him as one of the good guys, but he was a fricking pig. But who would've believed me?
NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT
After the Today Show days, I got a call and I went to someone's house — whose name I will never reveal — who had seen my work on YouTube, thought I was funny and wanted to work with me.
They said they had a part which they wanted me to be in. So I went to his house.
He offered me a drink, and I said: "No, I don't drink," and joked that if I had a drink, it would be a very different interview and laughed it off.
Michele Mahone says she was sexually assaulted and fired after reporting it.
Instead of sitting across from me he sat next to me on the couch. I remember how I inched my way over until I hit the arm of the chair, before he put his hand up my shirt. I just slapped him. He then grabbed my arm, and it was a full-on fight.
I was there maybe 20 minutes, but it was 20 minutes too long.
I grabbed my purse and said if you don't open your gate I will drive straight through it. I drove out of his driveway, pulled over and bawled my eyes out.
I'd just lost one job — with the Today Show — and was hoping to get another. It was crushing.
Until today, I've never said a word of this to anybody because I thought there was no point. I know people would believe me, but I'd feel the impact more.
And that's what's happening with Harvey Weinstein. Since he's ruined and can't put anyone in a movie or help a career, people have come out and told the world what he's really like.
Michele Mahone, centre, with Cameron Williams, Leila McKinnon, Amelia Adams and Tim Gilbert.
Angelina Jolie is a massive star, and is only just now saying something. She said in her younger days she worked with him and had a bad experience and would never work with him again, but is only saying something now.
Everybody knew about him, but no one said anything because they want to work.
You do not speak out. You don't say anything. Because the person that brings in the most money wins. Period.
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the highlights of the FY 2020 Budget. The Budget, building upon the Governor's 2019 Justice Agenda, delivers comprehensive provisions to ensure social and economic justice for all, protects New Yorkers against Washington's continued federal rollbacks and assaults on the middle class, increases education funding, reforms the state's criminal justice system, supports New York's ongoing commitment to a strong women's agenda, and prioritizes investments in infrastructure projects critical to meeting New York's 21st century needs. For the ninth consecutive year, the Budget is balanced and holds spending growth at 2%.
"As part of this year's budget, we wanted the most aggressive agenda for Western New York ever, and that is exactly what we did," Governor Cuomo said. "This plan builds on the progress and the momentum that we have made all across Western New York. All the arrows are finally pointed in the right direction.People know that this is a different Buffalo, that it's a different economic climate than it's ever been and this plan will fuel the fire of Buffalo's rebirth."
Continues the Phase-In of Middle Class Tax Cuts: The Budget supports the phase-in of the middle class tax cuts. Under these reforms, rates will continue to drop to 5.5% and 6% when the cuts are fully phased in - an up to 20% cut in income tax rates for the middle class - and produce a projected $4.2 billion in annual savings for six million filers by 2025. As the new rates phase in, they will be the State's lowest middle-class tax rates in more than 70 years.
$12.5 million towards pavement renewal in the towns of Cheektowaga, West Seneca, Elma, and Marilla.
$7.3 million towards the rehabilitation of the Route 394 bridge over the Western NY and Penn railroad in the town of Poland.
$7.3 million towards pavement renewal along Route 219, Town of Carrollton.
$4.4 million towards rehabilitation of the spans that carry the Route 93 and 425 bridge over the east branch of 12 Mile Creek, Towns of Porter & Wilson.
CHIPS Local Highway Aid Program: The Budget provides $46.0 million in funding for local roads and bridges in Western New York through the CHIPS program.
PAVE NY Local Highway Aid Program: The Budget provides $10.5 million in funding for local roads in Western New York through the PAVE NY program.
Transit Operating Aid: The Budget provides $58.6 million in funding to NFTA in FY 2020, an increase of $5.1 million from FY 2019.
Invests an Additional $150 Billion in the Nation's Largest Infrastructure Program: Delivering on Governor Cuomo's unprecedented commitment to invest $150 billion in infrastructure projects over the next five years, beginning in FY 2020, these capital projects will begin to rebuild transportation systems, drive economic development, create new green facilities, and support New York's sustainable energy future.
Continues Buffalo Billion Investment: The State is dedicating $50 million to revitalize Buffalo's East Side. ESD worked with the City of Buffalo to develop and inclusionary, community-driven program to deploy this East Side Corridor Economic Development Fund. Funding will be targeted to include:(1) an East Side Main Streets Initiative; (2) mentoring new community based developers to assist with project development and implementation; (3) a building preservation fund to protect and preserve historic structures in the East Side for future reuse; (4) a cohesive appropriate to developing the Michigan Avenue African American Heritage Corridor, including capital funding for building upgrades and improvements; (5) investments in key assets in the east side; (6) direct project funding; and (7) infrastructure and placemaking improvements. Additional outside investments, particularly from local charitable foundations, is anticipated to support complementary community priorities, including capacity- building programming.
Invests $750 million for Round Nine of the Regional Economic Development Councils: In 2011, Governor Cuomo established 10 Regional Economic Development Councils (REDCs) to develop long-term regional strategic economic development plans. Since then, the REDCs have awarded over $6.1 billion to more than 7,300 projects. This strategy has resulted in more than 230,000 new or retained jobs in New York. The Enacted Budget includes core capital and tax-credit funding that will be combined with a wide range of existing agency programs for a ninth round of REDC awards totaling $750 million.
Invests in Communities Across the State Through the Fourth Downtown Revitalization Initiative: The Downtown Revitalization Initiative is transforming downtown neighborhoods into vibrant communities where the next generation of New Yorkers will want to live, work and raise families. Participating communities are nominated by the State's 10 REDCs based on the downtown's potential for transformation. Through three rounds of awards, each winning community was awarded $10 million to develop a downtown strategic investment plan and implement key catalytic projects that advance the community's vision for revitalization. The FY 2020 Enacted Budget provides $100 million for a fourth round of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative.
Launches Another Round of NYSUNY 2020 and NYCUNY 2020: To build upon the success of the NYSUNY 2020 and NYCUNY 2020 Challenge Grant program, the Budget includes $110 million to launch a new round of grants. Priority will be given to plans that use technology to improve academic success, leverage public-private partnerships, and better connect students to the workforce.
Continues Economic Development Initiatives: The Budget continues the support of various projects, including $1 million for the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, $1 million for the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Materials Information, $960,600 for the Center for Advanced Technology in Big Data and Health Sciences at the University of Buffalo, and $100,000 for Canisius College for NCAA Hockey.
Continues Investment in Tourism: The Budget includes $59.5 million to support the State's tourism campaign and attract visitors from around the world. The program includes a seventh round of $15 million in competitive funding through the Market NY initiative to support tourism marketing plans and projects that best demonstrate regional collaboration among counties to promote regional attractions. Tourism is New York's fourth largest employment sector.
New York State Grown & Certified Program: The Executive Budget continues support for the New York State Grown & Certified initiative. This program is designed to strengthen consumer confidence in New York State products, address food product labeling, and assist New York farmers so they can take advantage of the growing demand for local, high quality foods. Since its launching in 2016, the program has certified over 2,386 farms, representing over half a million acres of farmland.
Taste NY: Launched in 2013, Taste NY highlights and encourages the purchase of New York-made foods and beverages. The Taste NY Initiative has proven to be incredibly successful in raising the visibility of New York's high-quality food and agricultural products. To build on the success of 2018 and further connect New York producers to new markets, the Executive Budget invests $6.5 million to expand the Taste NY program to new welcome centers across the State.
$1 Billion Education Aid Increase: Over 70 percent of this year's increase goes to high-need school districts, and brings the total education funding to $27.9 billion. The FY 2020 Budget increases School Aid in Western New York by $72.9 million, including a $43.6 million increase in Foundation Aid, for a total increase of 3.10 percent.
Higher Education Infrastructure: Western New York Region will receive $35.2 million in capital funding to maintain and upgrade its SUNY higher educational facilities.
Free Tuition at Public Colleges: Approximately 55% or more than 15,600 undergraduate fulltime resident students enrolled in public colleges from Western New York attend tuition free through the Excelsior Scholarship along with other sources of student financial assistance including the generous Tuition Assistance Program (TAP).
As part of this year's budget, we wanted the most aggressive agenda for Western New York ever, and that is exactly what we did.
Reforms Bail and Arrest Procedures to Reduce Pretrial Incarceration: As part of groundbreaking legislation in the FY 2020 Enacted Budget, New York's bail system will be dramatically transformed, significantly reducing the number of people held in jail prior to their trial. Specifically, cash bail will be eliminated for misdemeanors and non-violent felonies, alongside a new requirement that police officers must issue desk appearance tickets to most people charged with misdemeanors and Class E felonies, rather than making a custodial arrest. Together, these reforms will ensure the vast majority- approximately 90% - of cases where people are charged, but not yet convicted of a crime, will remain out of jail before their day in court.
Ensures the Right to a Speedy Trial: Despite principles enshrined in both the United States Constitution and State law, a criminal defendant's right to a speedy trial can - and often does - turn into a drawn-out process leading to people being held in pre-trial custody for excessive periods of time. On average, two-thirds of the people incarcerated in local jails across the state are simply detained waiting for their day in court. These delays have real impacts as people, who have yet to be found guilty of any wrongdoing, often lose their jobs and ties to the community. To address this injustice and reduce the backlog of criminal cases, the FY 2020 Enacted Budget includes legislation that requires courts to increase accountability by reducing unnecessary delays and ensuring all parties are prepared for trial.
Transforms the Discovery Process: To overhaul New York's antiquated discovery process by which prosecutors could withhold basic evidence until the day the trial begins, legislation included in the FY 2020 Enacted Budget will require that both prosecutors and defendants share all information in their possession well in advance of trial. Defendants will also be allowed the opportunity to review whatever evidence is in the prosecution's possession prior to pleading guilty to a crime. Prosecutors will be required to provide the defense with discoverable information and materials within 15 days of arraignment. In addition, the legislation will ensure that victims and witnesses are protected from intimidation and other forms of coercion by providing prosecutors with the ability to petition a court for a protective order, shielding identifying information when necessary to ensure the safety of witnesses and the sanctity of the judicial process.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI): The Budget maintains $103 million in support for RPCI.
Capital Restructuring Financing Program (Enacted FY 2015): The Western New York Region has been awarded $41.95 million in grants to support regional hospitals.
Essential Health Care Providers Program (Enacted FY 2016): The Western New York Region has been awarded $113.8 million in grants to support regional hospitals.
Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program I (Enacted FY 2017): The Western New York Region has been awarded $10.7 million in grants.
Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program II (Enacted FY 2018): The Western New York Region has been awarded $47 million in grants.
Aging: The Budget invests $15 million statewide to address locally identified capacity-needs in NYSOFA support services, managed by county Area Agencies on Aging, targeting the needs of seniors to preserve their community connections and avoid high-cost institutional placements. This investment will result in an additional $1.9 million in funding for Western Region community providers. The Budget also authorizes, at county option, the ability of service providers to offer private-pay services to those that can pay in an effort to enhance service delivery through the reinvestment of these revenues.
Codifies the Affordable Care Act and Health Exchange into Law: As Washington continues to threaten to roll back the historic progress made with the Affordable Care Act, the codification of key ACA provisions and the New York State Health Exchange into law to ensure that no matter what happens at the federal level, these key provisions are protected in New York State.
Funding to Combat the Opioid Crisis: The budget provides approximately $10 million to address the heroin and opiate crisis in Western NY. This funding will be used to support a myriad of treatment programs, including three crisis, 16 residential, nine outpatient and two opioid treatment programs, as well as one State-Operated Addiction Treatment Center. These programs may provide individual and group counseling, medication assisted treatment, educational services, case management, vocational assessment, and training for job skills, employment readiness, parenting, personal, and social and community living skills.
Expands Access to Buprenorphine: Buprenorphine is an important advance in Medication Assisted Treatment, which, like methadone and injectable naltrexone, is used in combination with counseling as appropriate to help people reach and sustain recovery from Opioid Use Disorder. To expand use of buprenorphine, Governor Cuomo will direct the Department of Health to require all hospitals statewide to develop protocols for their Emergency Departments to address Opioid Use Disorder based on the standard of care for treatment or referral for treatment. The Enacted Budget also prohibits health plans from requiring prior authorization for Medication Assisted Treatment.
Expands Access to Medication Assisted Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings: The Enacted Budget includes $4.75 million, an increase of $1 million, to support medication assisted treatment (MAT) in local jails and leverages federal funds to expand MAT to three additional Department of Corrections and Community Supervision facilities. These effective programs will support inmates in recovery and link them to community-based services prior to their release, increasing their chances of success and reducing recidivism.
Makes Substance Use Disorder Treatment More Accessible: The Enacted Budget makes treatment more accessible and affordable by requiring minimum coverage standards of health plans; prohibiting the denial of medically necessary treatment; prohibiting multiple co-payments per day and requiring behavioral health co-payments to be equal to primary care co-payments. These changes eliminate administrative and cost burdens that can stand in the way of treatment for New Yorkers struggling with addiction.
Supports Local Governments: Maintains $212.3 million in support for Western New York municipalities through the Aid and Incentives for Municipalities program and other revenue sharing.
Maintains Video Lottery Terminal Impact Aid: Maintains $1.2 million in Video Lottery Terminal Impact Aid for Western New York municipalities.
Maintains Citizen Empowerment Tax Credit: Maintains $515,799 in Citizen Empowerment Tax Credits for seven village dissolutions.
Provides Aid for the City of Jamestown: Provides $1.0 million in aid to the City of Jamestown.
Ensures Availability of Disaster Assistance: The Budget continues the availability of State and Municipal Facilities funds for reconstruction projects related to Lake Ontario flooding.
Supports the Rural Rental Assistance Program (RRAP): The Enacted Budget provides rental assistance for more than 900 units of low-income housing for rural tenants in the Western New York region.
Supports the Neighborhood and Rural Preservation Programs (NPP/RPP): The Enacted Budget includes more than $2 million for the Neighborhood Preservation Program (NPP) and Rural Preservation Program (RPP) to support community-based not-for-profit groups that provide housing assistance, community renewal activities, and rental subsidies in the Western NY region.
Expands Renewable Energy Investment: As part of Governor Cuomo's Green New Deal, the nation-leading clean energy and jobs agenda that will put the state on a path to 70% renewable energy by 2030 and 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040, the FY 2020 Enacted Budget expands the role of the New York Power Authority to deliver renewable energy and energy efficiency services to its customers.
Invests in Clean Drinking Water: The FY 2020 Budget will invest an additional $500 million in clean water infrastructure, building on the State's historic $2.5 billion investment.
Prohibits the Use of Plastic Bags: The Enacted Budget includes legislation to ban single-use plastic bags provided to customers and allows counties and cities to opt in to a 5-cent fee on paper bags, with 40% of the revenue supporting local programs to buy reusable bags for low and fixed income consumers, and 60% of the revenue supporting programs in the State's Environmental Protection Fund.
Renews Record Funding for the Environmental Protection Fund: The Enacted Budget includes record funding of $300 million, the highest level of funding in the program's history.
State Parks: The New York Works Program includes $110 million to rehabilitate state parks, continuing the infusion of capital dollars for New York's parks.
DEC Infrastructure Investments: $55 million is allocated to the DEC to continue funding the Adventure NY initiative while also addressing a variety of capital needs including: public access projects to connect hunters, anglers, bird watchers and other outdoor enthusiasts to un-tapped State owned lands. This new funding will also provide for investments in health and safety repairs to State infrastructure, including dams, wetland restoration, State lands, fish hatcheries and other State infrastructure.
Environmental Protection Fund: The Enacted Budget includes $300 million for the EPF, the highest level of funding in the program's history. Appropriations include $38 million for solid waste programs, $88 million for parks and recreation, $153 million for open space programs, and $21 million for the climate change mitigation and adaptation program.
Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens Society, Inc.
Pfeiffer Nature Center and Foundation, Inc.
Zoological Society of Buffalo, Inc.
Buffalo Niagara Freedom Station Coalition, Inc.
Springville Center for the Arts, Inc.
Western New York Land Conservancy, Inc.


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Advances in the chemistry of metal-organic frameworks
Nathaniel L. Rosi, Mohamed Eddaoudi, Jaheon Kim, Michael O'Keeffe, Omar M. Yaghi*
An extensive body of research results currently exists from the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), an area that has attracted widespread attention due to the facility with which well-defined molecular building blocks can be assembled into periodic frameworks and the promise that such a process holds for the logical design of materials. The synthesis of MOFs generally involves the copolymerization of organic links and metal ions in a polar solvent under mild temperatures (up to 200 °C) and autogenous pressures (up to 100 atm). Since most products can be considered kinetically driven and lie on local thermodynamic minima, factors such as solubility of the organic link and metal salt, solvent polarity, ionic strength of the medium, temperature and pressure play critical roles in determining the character of products. Indeed, slight perturbations in synthetic parameters have been the basis for the preparation of what seems to be a flood of new MOF compounds. In the spirit of this discussion we advance the following ideas and developments that we believe contribute to the maturity of the field: (I) a conceptual framework that unifies the processes involved in the designed synthesis of MOFs, and which can be extended to other materials with extended structures; (II) a thesis concerning the possible structures that may form from building blocks with various shapes; (III) important considerations for achieving the design and synthesis of frameworks in which it is possible to change chemical functionality and metrics without changing the underlying framework topology; (IV) the inevitability of porosity for designed structures and some factors affecting framework stability; (V) insights on catenation: interpenetration versus interweaving, forbidden catenation, and duals. These points will be presented to an extent that will stimulate discussion - it is not an attempt to be comprehensive or to give a thorough treatment of this rich field.
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Rosi, N. L., Eddaoudi, M., Kim, J., O'Keeffe, M., & Yaghi, O. M. (2002). Advances in the chemistry of metal-organic frameworks. CrystEngComm, 4(68), 401-404. https://doi.org/10.1039/b203193k
Rosi, Nathaniel L. ; Eddaoudi, Mohamed ; Kim, Jaheon ; O'Keeffe, Michael ; Yaghi, Omar M. / Advances in the chemistry of metal-organic frameworks. In: CrystEngComm. 2002 ; Vol. 4, No. 68. pp. 401-404.
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N2 - An extensive body of research results currently exists from the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), an area that has attracted widespread attention due to the facility with which well-defined molecular building blocks can be assembled into periodic frameworks and the promise that such a process holds for the logical design of materials. The synthesis of MOFs generally involves the copolymerization of organic links and metal ions in a polar solvent under mild temperatures (up to 200 °C) and autogenous pressures (up to 100 atm). Since most products can be considered kinetically driven and lie on local thermodynamic minima, factors such as solubility of the organic link and metal salt, solvent polarity, ionic strength of the medium, temperature and pressure play critical roles in determining the character of products. Indeed, slight perturbations in synthetic parameters have been the basis for the preparation of what seems to be a flood of new MOF compounds. In the spirit of this discussion we advance the following ideas and developments that we believe contribute to the maturity of the field: (I) a conceptual framework that unifies the processes involved in the designed synthesis of MOFs, and which can be extended to other materials with extended structures; (II) a thesis concerning the possible structures that may form from building blocks with various shapes; (III) important considerations for achieving the design and synthesis of frameworks in which it is possible to change chemical functionality and metrics without changing the underlying framework topology; (IV) the inevitability of porosity for designed structures and some factors affecting framework stability; (V) insights on catenation: interpenetration versus interweaving, forbidden catenation, and duals. These points will be presented to an extent that will stimulate discussion - it is not an attempt to be comprehensive or to give a thorough treatment of this rich field.
AB - An extensive body of research results currently exists from the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), an area that has attracted widespread attention due to the facility with which well-defined molecular building blocks can be assembled into periodic frameworks and the promise that such a process holds for the logical design of materials. The synthesis of MOFs generally involves the copolymerization of organic links and metal ions in a polar solvent under mild temperatures (up to 200 °C) and autogenous pressures (up to 100 atm). Since most products can be considered kinetically driven and lie on local thermodynamic minima, factors such as solubility of the organic link and metal salt, solvent polarity, ionic strength of the medium, temperature and pressure play critical roles in determining the character of products. Indeed, slight perturbations in synthetic parameters have been the basis for the preparation of what seems to be a flood of new MOF compounds. In the spirit of this discussion we advance the following ideas and developments that we believe contribute to the maturity of the field: (I) a conceptual framework that unifies the processes involved in the designed synthesis of MOFs, and which can be extended to other materials with extended structures; (II) a thesis concerning the possible structures that may form from building blocks with various shapes; (III) important considerations for achieving the design and synthesis of frameworks in which it is possible to change chemical functionality and metrics without changing the underlying framework topology; (IV) the inevitability of porosity for designed structures and some factors affecting framework stability; (V) insights on catenation: interpenetration versus interweaving, forbidden catenation, and duals. These points will be presented to an extent that will stimulate discussion - it is not an attempt to be comprehensive or to give a thorough treatment of this rich field.
U2 - 10.1039/b203193k
DO - 10.1039/b203193k
JO - CrystEngComm
JF - CrystEngComm
Rosi NL, Eddaoudi M, Kim J, O'Keeffe M, Yaghi OM. Advances in the chemistry of metal-organic frameworks. CrystEngComm. 2002;4(68):401-404. https://doi.org/10.1039/b203193k


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Significance of investing in Fail-Safe features: key to business growth
Venkatesh Sundar 7 months ago June 30, 2022
The paradoxical scenario with technology is that it is constantly refined to prevent failure. Yet, failure is almost inevitable when it comes to digital technology and online assets. For instance, you might be using the most advanced technologies, and commit >99% uptime or even 99.99% uptime to your clients for their websites. However, you can never pledge 100% uptime. Even though there is no mathematical models for predicting outages and all the engineering work is build ground up to not have them, based on precedence of many incidences one can safely Its a mathematical certainty that someday, there would be an incident that would cause downtime to your service and will happen more than once and will be a recurring occurrence no matter how low the frequency is.
No service provider can completely eliminate this risk of failure. neither could Cloudflare. Unfortunately for them, the downtime was hit a couple of days back. Being the gateway to numerous websites all over the world, when the Cloudflare server went offline, it also deprived access to all those clients whose websites are hosted on its platform. Users failed to access apps and websites such as Zerodha, Upstox, Groww, Shopify, Canva, Twitter, and even Amazon Web Services etc., during this outage which saw 19 of the Cloudflare data centers go offline. Even though the problem was solved within hours, and one-by-one all the data centers and websites etc resumed functioning, this incident brought a critical issue to light.
More often than not, when Service Level Agreements are discussed, vendors and buyers share information about the features, capabilities and pricing that is offered. All that is good when the services function smoothly, i.e., for 99.99% of the time. However, as this incident shows, customers need to know what will happen when that 00.01% downtime occurrence hits.
All major service providers including Cloudflare spend huge amounts building infrastructure and also redundancy to cope with outages better, such as the network of data centers that went down today. No ISP or hosting services provider ever wants servers to go offline, but it is essential to prepare for occasions when they do.
It is just like the nuclear bunkers and vast network of tunnels that both Soviets and Americans built during the Cold War era. With thousands of nuclear devices on each side, none of them would have ever wanted to face the day when they had to run to those bunkers and tunnels, and thankfully they haven't needed to. Yet, they prepared for it because that's what prudence necessitated.
Similarly, adopting a 'Design for Failure' approach while building web infrastructure is critical to keep the digital world up and running. When you design for failure, it means you have put in place automated processes in place that will save the day when the main systems fail. Though many invest on redundancy capabilities, a key point to ponder are can we also isolate and reduce the surface area of the impact of the outage. Ideally the outage should cause disruption only to the service providers capability and nothing else for the window of time there is outage, but the bigger failure in this case is it caused outages beyond that including to the availability of the business and not just the security and acceleration features that cloud flare provides
To give a simpler example, the functioning of the 'Designed for failure' infrastructure is similar to the UPS devices that computers have. It is inevitable that there would be a power outage sometime or the other, but the UPS devices though not a permanent and ideal state to be in, keep your computers running without any disruption.
The automatic service bypass features ensure that the websites remain available even when the service provider's server goes down. Building such capabilities takes a lot of resources, time and money, but it speaks volumes about the service provider's resiliency and ability to foresee any risks that customers might face. If Cloudflare's clients had been hosting their websites with a service provider that has Designed for Failure system in place, they would not have experienced any outage. The engineering framework put in by the provider would have automatically switched the system and kept everything up and running without the customer's involvement.
Going forward as we increasingly move to a completely digital infrastructure for utilities, financial services, daily chores, professional tasks, communication, and healthcare etc., even the 00.01% outage would be too big a risk to accept.
There is also another side to such incidents which make them riskier. When a website goes offline, it also becomes inaccessible for the security and monitoring tools that a service provider might have deployed. To prevent getting blind-sided like that, the cybersecurity and solutions providers need to also integrate 'Monitoring for Failure' automation that would continue to monitor and protect websites which remain up and running even when the main systems go down.
As a digital business, you must ask yourself whether you wish to settle for complete outage of your business or ask for what capabilities are built in to isolate the outage scenario only to the service providers scope of services. It will not be a tough choice to make. Next time you choose a vendor, make sure to ask if the service provider has 'Design for Failure' and 'Monitoring for Failure' frameworks in place or not and most importantly do they have a process to minimize the surface area of impact of the outage only to their services and nothing more.
(The author is Mr. Venkatesh Sundar – Co-founder and CMO, Indusface and the views expressed in this article are his own)
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Q: Aligning these items in thead I'm trying to vertically align the column header the carets, but as you can see they are currently misaligned.
What I have so far (this is using bootstrap)

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  <title>Table Test</title>
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It produces this on my chrome:

The "Title" is too high and the carets are too low. How would I align them vertically in the middle of the header.

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A: You can try :

th {
  vertical-align: bottom;
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}

it should align your theads to the bottom center

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Turner Around
by Nate Chinen
"This is the only night this month that I could get these guys together," Chris Lightcap explained before his first set at Barbés. The bassist was referring to his blue-ribbon quintet—tenor saxophonists Mark Turner and Tony Malaby, pianist Craig Taborn, and drummer Gerald Cleaver. As it turned out, he was one short: Turner was double-booked in another borough. So the band, which usually leans on a twin-tenor conceit, resembled a standard quartet instead.
But the repertoire was Lightcap's, and the group dug in wholeheartedly. A loopy 6/4 opener, "Deluxe Version," offered much tillable ground; Taborn started fragmentary and ended fluid, then Malaby did the opposite. "Silvertone," also in six, conveyed the gentle discontent of a Focus Features soundtrack, complete with smartly simple bridge modulation. Things took a more sanguine turn as the polyrhythmic churner "Two Face" skirted the boundaries of tempo and tonality. The rest of the set teetered on that axis, testing the flexibility of the musicians—especially Malaby, who spent the last few tunes crashing through the woods and having a fine time doing it.
Turner, at the Jazz Standard the following night, was more of a navigator, charting precise and ingenious courses. He was playing with drummer Billy Hart, and his cohorts Ethan Iverson on piano and Ben Street on bass. Another standard quartet, only this one actually did standards, including Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" and Miles's "Milestones"—vehicles for chromatic calisthenics, at least in the hands of Iverson and Turner. Iverson was less emphatic than his Bad Plus self, but his personality remained intact; in a solo preface to "These Foolish Things," he tossed off a handful of steel shavings and a resolute bass-clef harrumph.
Hart's rubbery yet grounded sense of time could well have influenced Cleaver. He took the occasion of his own gig to dedicate one song to his mother (the Afro-ballad "Irah") and another to his wife (an impressionistic "Charvez"). Both were winsome, sleek, and uncomplicated; they sounded, in fact, not unlike Lightcap tunes.
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Italy and immigrants
Re "Italian provincial," editorial, May 10
You do not state whether Italy's harsh crackdown on immigrants is on illegal ones or not. However, Italy and other European nations seem to be waking up to problems created by the lack of immigration control of past leftist governments. There is a lesson to be learned from the extreme reaction of the Italians, but before we condemn them, we would do well to note what gave rise to those measures.
William Ethan
Your alarm at the inclusion of rightist parties in the Italian government is seven years too late. Both the National Alliance and the Northern League were in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition from 2001 through 2006. The statement that you cite from Umberto Bossi -- the navy should fire on immigrants crossing the Mediterranean -- was made while he was a senior minister in Berlusconi's government. Gianfranco Fini, head of the National Alliance, became deputy prime minister in 2001 and minister of foreign affairs in 2004.
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John Stonehouse, the Labour MP who faked his own death, spent months rehearsing his new identity, according to newly released official papers.
He pretended to have drowned off Miami Beach in 1974, but was later found in Australia with a false passport.
He claimed to have had a breakdown, but a psychiatric report, released to the National Archives, reveals he had been using a dead man's identity for months.
Mr Stonehouse had fled to start a new life with his mistress.
The, MP for Walsall North, a former minister, left a pile of clothes on Miami Beach on 20 November 1974, to make it seem as if he had drowned while swimming.
This followed the collapse of a series of fraudulent businesses he had established.
He began to dislike the personality of Stonehouse and came to believe that his wife, colleagues and friends would be better off without him.
But on Christmas Eve, he was picked up by police in Melbourne, where he had gone in an attempt to establish a new life with his former secretary, Sheila Buckley.
He was found to be carrying a false passport in the name of Joseph Markham - the dead husband of a constituent - and claimed to have suffered a "brainstorm".
However, the newly released psychiatric report reveals he had been using Markham's identity for months.
It says: "He spent short periods posing as Mr Markham, a private and 'honest' individual, which apparently led to reduced tension.
"He began to dislike the personality of Stonehouse and came to believe that his wife, colleagues and friends would be better off without him.
"He therefore devised his escape to get away from the identity of Stonehouse.
"He thought of suicide but, deciding that this was not the answer, devised a 'suicide equivalent' - his disappearance from a beach in Miami."
Mr Stonehouse consulted a psychiatrist to support his claim that he had suffered a mental breakdown as part of his fight against extradition back to the UK.
However the findings - which the psychologist presented to the Australian authorities - were secretly passed by officials to the British High Commission.
After a legal battle, which saw Mr Stonehouse invoke his right as a Privy Councillor to present a petition to the Queen, he was finally returned to Britain in June 1975.
In August 1976, he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment after being found guilty of 18 counts of fraud, deception and theft.
He was released after three years on grounds of ill health.
The files, released on Thursday, include a letter he wrote to Commons leader Ted Short, in which he angrily blamed the press for his downfall.
There is also a letter from his brother, William Stonehouse, to Home Secretary Merlyn Rees, lamenting the conditions in which he was being held at Blundeston Prison, such as cleaning out lavatories.
Following his release, Mr Stonehouse married Ms Buckley. He died in 1988.


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My horse is herd bound, I am pregnant and I'm worried about our safety.
"Stacy, this is Drummer. He has such a great personality and is very willing to learn…our issue is that he is herd bound. If he cannot see his 2 buddies, he gets filled with anxiety and it seems like he loses his brain! How do we get through this? We are working on ground work, but as soon as his friends aren't around he wont pay attention. I'm worried about our safety. I am 5 months pregnant and I am not riding at the moment. Just lunging and doing those simple things for now."-Victoria H.
I recently wrote a blog answering the question, "How long did you ride while you were pregnant?" but I didn't go into detail on the groundwork side. You are dealing with two separate issues here; a herd bound horse and pregnancy.
The short answer on your herd bound horse is that he isn't viewing you as a leader, at least not under pressure. The issue may seem like it is the buddies but what Drummer is telling you is that he isn't willing to listen to you at that time. This could be happening because Drummer needs more training. If he doesn't really understand the groundwork cues then he will seem to ignore them. If you go back and watch Episode 3 of Stacy's Video Diary: Jac you will see an example of a horse that didn't understand the groundwork cues…and wasn't very interested in sticking around to learn them…which brings me to the next part of my answer.
In your question you mention that you are 'Just lunging and doing those simple things for now.' As you can see by watching Episode 3, the horse will play a large part in how 'simple' the groundwork will be. When I am training a horse I consider myself to be the teacher and the horse to be the student. Some students ask tough questions and the teacher needs to be able to answer them. Many problems horses have can be traced back to a time when they were accidentally rewarded for bad behavior. For example, if a horse almost runs you over because it is frantic about being separated from his buddies and you move, to avoid the possibility of injury while you are pregnant, the horse may learn two things. The horse learns that you don't have a clear plan and he also learns that when push-comes-to-shove, he is able to shove you out of the way.
The herd bound issue is one that can be fixed, the question is…are you the best person to do it at this time? If it were me, I would stay safe and make a plan to get in shape after the baby is born. Needing to train your horse will be the perfect excuse to go to the barn for a break!
← Connecticut Supreme Court ruled horses as "a species naturally inclined to do mischief or be vicious"
It is good safe advice, but I know when I was 5 months pregnant I wasn't willing to sit on the shelf.
But here there is a fear of injury. I looked up some statistics on fetal trauma death, 0.03% to 0.09% of pregnancies (3 – 9 in 10,000 pregnancies or in other words 9997/10000 did not die of fetal trauma). Car crashes and domestic violence lead the causes of pregnancy trauma, with about half of those including substance abuse. Of pregnant women who went to the hospital because of traumatic accident in one hospital (1994-2002) 79% had no complications, 12% had contractions that abated, no complications, 3% had placental abruption with successful C-section, 6% fetal or fetal/maternal death. So yes there is a risk, but it's pretty darn small especially if you remove the substance abuse. Skip riding in a motor vehicle and pick your male partner carefully, you're 90% risk free of having a traumatic accident (note another about 9% were suicides) – pretty sad all in all.
But lets go on, 4 out of 5 = 80% of accidents happen while riding (she already isn't riding). Ground work is safer, and it can be even more safe depending on what's done or 'not' done. I don't know if she has a separate stall area or pen so she could be outside the fence – a lot can be taught using clicker training even outside the fence – politeness around food, lowering their head, come, directionals, haltering/bridleing, tricks, etc. and these can build the relationship. A fence will mostly eliminate the risk of kicks or any kind of shoving or being stepped on.
Other angle; If you're not attached to the horse you're safer (in general) = free lunging. Or if anxiety is the big fear, why not work in the presence of the other horses (near, but not loose). With herd-bound horses I often do stuff in close proximity to the other horses, building the distance progressively so that the anxiety is below thresh-hold. There is no rushing and you build trust. I think there are lots of ways to be safer and still do training, just think differently – we don't have to cowboy up, but we also don't have to magnify fears.
"Great personality and willing to learn". Your words. You lack experience. You do however have desire and probably a great deal of passion. Cut the strings and sell this horse. Do an honest assessment of your abilities. Your pregnant, kid on the way your going to be a mommy. You probably do not have and will not have the time to work this problem out. The risks are not worth it.
One thing you should ask yourself, would you ever be able to trust your baby around or on this horse when he or she is three, four, five, six years old. All my kids were on horses when they were that age, and these were horses I enjoyed riding also. Go out find a been there done that type horse, they are out there you just have to hunt, once the hunting over all ya gotta do is ride and enjoy.
I would urge Victoria to not take a chance on injury at this time. Horses can be very dangerous at any time and doing anything can lead to an accident. The stakes are even higher if a person is pregnant!


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Darling in the FRANXX Review
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Dan Rizzo May 13, 2019
Beautifully Animated
Intriguing first arc makes for a great series
Relatable Characters that make you care
Second arc falls flat
Pay-off? Or no Pay-off?
Will your lips taste the kiss of death?
Darling in the FRANXX tells a tale of two stories intertwining into one heartbreaking climax. Lightyears into the distant future, the human race now survives in separate hoards known as "Plantations", a wasteland town-like way of living. Adolescents are no longer referred to as Children, nor Christian/given/birth names. Now branded with distinct barcode like labels, they are trained to become what are known to be "Parasites", and congregated into groups, and trained to be soldiers for the survival of their race against massive mecha-terrorist like creatures known as "Klaxosaurs". Old school human values are completely abandoned, and are frowned upon, even by law. The Parasites are trained to co-pilot their own mechanical combat machine called a FRANXX. Each FRANXX must be co-piloted by members of the opposite sex to work, traditionally with the male as the stamen, and the female as the pistil. Compatibility is where this story begins with Hiro (aka Code 016), training his whole life to become a Parasite, only to be incompatible with all female members, namely his training partner Naomi (Code 703) he questions his worth to the group, and decides that he will be leaving "Plantation #13". In this time, we see the arrival of "Special Forces", who oversee the Parasite's training and induction, also the arrival of Zero-Two (Code 002), a soldier S.F. have raised, born half human with Klaxosaur blood, who's main mission is to find someone compatible with her not only in trying to fly her FRANXX "Strelitzia", but a compatible soulmate which she refers as "Her Darling".
While Anime's come dime-a-dozen out of Japan on the weekly, we do see a range in animation from each series. You can definitely tell when there is real love and devotion put into animation, and Darling in the FRANXX is one of the best animated series to come out of Japan this year. From the vibrant color's displayed in each scene, to the silky smooth animated action scene's, we're definitely getting Studio Trigger's (Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia) finest here. The design of not only the post-apocalyptic world we see, with the beautiful visuals of Plantation #13, it's cast of characters, and their uniquely designed futuristic uniforms to designate, not only which plantation they come from, but are also designed with X & Y's one their chest to represent male and female.
Something a dictated, and mundane world would definitely place, and also, worldly enemies that lie on the outskirts really do make for a beautifully sad environment for our school of outcasts to live in. Zero-Two is designed to be a character in question of whether we're looking at a human, or demon, which comes into play as the series rolls on. Segregated against her will, Zero-Two's design is different to the Parasites, as she is made to wear a band over her red sharp horns, with a much slender aesthetic to the rest of the female cast, made to make her stand out from the rest, along with her gazing cyan colored eyes, with rings around her pupils, and eyeliner, which would also boldly represent her vein-ish side.
It's rare that Anime's are commissioned to a full 24-Episode run, and while plot wise this may have been a questionable cause for this series, it's understood visually why the series may have had a lengthy run rather than the standard 12-Episode seasonal run we see in a lot of Anime's these days. Adapting from the original source material, the Manga is still an ongoing series, releasing it's 43rd chapter in April, 2019. While Anime series had to wrap up it's own arc in it's lengthy, yet questionable run. Without spoiling, or going into detail first 18 episodes of the series we're and incredibly fun ride, with action, romance, comedy, and a sad story of growing up without guidance, forging your own path.
The following episode felt a little over the hill, or lost at times of where the story was going. There were questionable creative decisions made here, but that may be my own personal bias here. I felt the series creatively was falling flat near the end, and kind of felt a little relieved when it ended. Was I satisfied with the endings outcome? Maybe? Could there have been a better way to conclude this series? Definitely. I feel as the series could have easily been commissioned to a shorter run, with a the possibility of a second season. Giving writers more time, and leeway to creatively write a perfect ending here. Did it come off forced? Yes. It was eneivitable that the series was ending, and it almost felt like a scramble at points of the show, where the plot-line had completely fallen off, making me question out loud at times "Where are we?" or "What has happened?". Regardless, that's limited to six out of the 24 episodes we have here, in which 18 were incredibly well done.
I watched the series twice over, with both the Japanese and English voice cast, which I will say both do a tremendous job of exhuberating total emotion from all our beloved cast of characters throughout the series. Personally, one of my favourite characters is Ichigo (Code 015), who plays the polar opposite of Zero-Two, and one point love interest of Hiro, who now falls into a world torn between two women. Dangerous ground, I know. But the emotions that play through each of these three characters here, are incredibly intense, and send you through a spiral of who's side you're really on. We see this peek through in Zero-Two's bi-polaristic side, where she can't decide to either trust Ichigo, or be against her.
The same goes to Ichigo, to trust Zero-Two, or to try and turn a blind eye, and convince Hiro and the others to stay wary around Zero-Two, and understandably so. While Zero-Two has no intention of hurting Hiro, her "Darling", she will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who comes between them. The VO performances by Yuuto Uemura & Matt Shipman as Hiro, Kana Ichinos & Brittany Lauda as Ichigo, Haruka Tomatsu & Tia Ballard as Zero-Two are outstanding. Some of the best original and dub work you will find in any animated action series out there. Moments of suspense and wonder, definitely tugged on my heart strings here.
Darling in the FRANXX is definitely responsible for reigniting my love for Anime. As a fan of series with similarities like Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, and Elfen Lied, I can understand why I resonate so strongly towards it. Despite my critiques towards the end of the series second arc, it still holds a high distinction as one of the best Anime's to come out of Japan this year, if not the best Anime that Studio Trigger has produced in recent memory. Staying true to it's adaption from the original manga, even lifting certain scenes frame by frame, and beautifully animating them, bringing them to life, is definitely something not a whole lot of Anime's do. It's attention to detail, in not only it's sleek action scenes, beautifully crafted mecha designs, it's cast of characters, and fantastic first arc, will have any Anime fan loving this amazing series, and referring to as incredible for years to come.
Darling in the FRANXX (2018)
– Madman Entertainment
The survivors of a catastrophic war against monsters cluster inside mobile fortress cities and train youngsters to defend humanity by piloting large battle robots called Franxx
Series Run: January 13 – July 6, 2018 (Japan)
Directed By: Atsushi Nishigori, Toshifumi Akai (co-director)
Studio: CloverWorks, Studio Trigger
Distributed by: Madman Entertainment (Australia)
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What the infamous burn looked like as of Monday. Via my phone's camera. It's not that bad looking, and it's not a close-up, but you can see the extent and why it has been contributing to my being over-tired of late.
Looks plenty ouchy. Do you have Silvadene or something to dress it? That stuff saved my hide when I (while canning) ladled boiling jam over one of my thumbs.
Yep, silver sulfadiaza-whatsis to the rescue. Although not without some rigmarole, of course: doctor says it's over-the-counter, pharmacy says it isn't. Telephoning ensues - but the result was I did actually manage to obtain some. It does seem to help, as does the ciprofloxacin oral antibiotic.
Somehow I missed the post on exactly what happened here, and I'm trying to find it... wow, it looks serious and I'm glad it's mending!
The short version: I believe I spilled rubbing alcohol while cleaning an ingrown toenail too close to some incense I was burning. However, I was blacked out from drinking at the time, so I'm not entirely certain what really happened. It concerned me enough that I checked myself into the psych hospital for a week, ending last Friday.
I'm glad to hear you're O.K., at least O.K. enough to be dealing with this, I mean. That's scary.


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Gamification stuff we love: Parliament Games
In the interactive learning game MyUK, you take on the role as prime minister in a five year term. The purpose of the game is to teach about the parliamentary houses and how bills are passed. When you open the application, you get to dress up your avatar the aka the prime minister, then a slot machine look-alike selects the rather original political party, after which you are ready to go and select your cabinet.
Then you set out to work on selecting bills to look into, you are given some background information about the bill and the views of some key cabinet members. The names of the bills are hilarious and some of the content even more so, which I would say is appealing for the younger teenage market for whom the game was built. When you then push a bill through you get instant feedback on how the bill has been received by your citizens, you get a bit of guidance as to who is in favour and who isn't. The news headlines then follow with feedback from both sides of the population. My abandonment of the boring bong bill, was rather ill-received as you can see from the screenshot.
I have to say, I thought the language and interactions was relatively age appropriate and it would take a few run throughs for me to truly understand the process. Based on some of the statistics the game is mainly played during school hours, so teachers are actively bringing it into the class room. The fact that you are in first person learning mode is a positive thing, the naming of all things in the game and rather funny styling you can opt for does give additional fun when done in groups.
What game have you recently played to learn from?
Categories Gamification Tags game based learning, Gamification, gamified learning, Houses of Parliament, learning games, MyUK, Prime minister
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Early Orchestral Works by Miguel Kertsman
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Amazonia, Symphonic Poem
Chamber Symphony No. 1, Acorda!
Sinfonia Concertante Brasileira for flute and orchestra
Composer Miguel Kertsman beckons the listener to join him on a journey. Undoubtedly, the three compositions Chamber Symphony No. 1 "Acorda!" (1995/6), and the earlier works Sinfonia Concertante Brasileira for Flute and Orchestra (1989), and Amazônia, Symphonic Poem (1987) not only are journeys for Kertsman, but also for the listeners as they are enveloped by the sounds, and the images the pieces evoke.
Miguel Kertsman Bio
Chamber Symphony No. 1 "Acorda!" transports us to a beautiful seascape in Brazil. Acorda! means "Wake-up!" in Portuguese and in this case the music calls its audience to wake-up to the world. The gentle sounds of the seashore and the populace awakening are unmistakable. The first section of the Chamber Symphony is in fact called "Awakening," and is followed by "The Journey." "Awakening" calls to mind the physical reactions of the senses, including gratitude for the new day, and "The Journey" is earthly in nature recalling everyday activities – the rumble of an automobile engine, traffic noises, a siren. The sonic picture is quickly transformed by the hustle and bustle of a lively beach. In "Sun and Ocean," the third part of the symphony, the composer is recalling his own experiences: roasted peanuts; vendors walking the beach selling everything from fruit salad and ice cream to oysters and beer; the scent of suntan lotion; beautiful sights, and a symphony of sounds including the surf, a small airplane flying above, and voices of the beachgoers.
The symphony progresses to its fourth part, "Silent Meditation, Ascension." The two female voices we hear create a wordless multi-rhythmic flow transcending the worldly setting of the beach, and transporting the listener to that spiritual place of inner exploration and contemplation. Kertsman is encouraging the listeners to engage their own sensibilities and journey to greater self-awareness. The same music that once represented "the rumble of a car's engine" during part II, "The Journey," is now transfigured, note by note, into a peaceful and blissful meditation in ascending harmonic cycles. The ordinary sights and sounds of our surroundings take on a new meaning. The listener's opportunity to consider the Chamber Symphony No. 1 and its parts: the temporal, the spiritual, all of our senses called to action, opens the composer's appeal of waking-up to our universe – Acorda! The work is scored for a "dark orchestra" without violins or higher range wood winds: two viola sections, celli, basses, oboe, clarinet, bassoon / contrabassoon, percussion, organ, contralto and soprano.
Chamber Symphony No. 1 "Acorda!" is followed by Sinfonia Concertante Brasileira for Flute and Orchestra, composed in 1989 while 23 yearold Kertsman was living in New York and writing progressive chamber jazz pieces for his ensemble, "Amazonica Universal Orchestra." Influenced by both Brazilian music, and a not atypical young composer's infatuation with lush 19th century Romantic repertoire, the piece begins with a quiet solo flute cadenza followed by a rhapsodic first movement developed as an interweaving set of variations on two principal themes.
Written as a cyclical work, Sinfonia Concertante Brasileira for Flute and Orchestra is performed without pause. Thus, the second movement, Largo, in the form of a traditional Brazilian Choro (meaning "cry"), immediately transports us to an introspective, somehow sad movement written on a hot summer night in New York. Kertsman was inspired to write the movement by a song he had heard as a child from his father. The words "so he sang, my beloved father, now he sings from heaven" would make their way into the score nine years later, at which time the composer's father had passed away. During that night, in 1989, while composing the piece friends were calling and interrupting the creative process as a party was in progress, but Kertsman could not let go of the music, composing the entire second movement that evening.
It was not until over a decade later, during a summer stay in the Austrian Alps, that Sinfonia for Flute and Orchestra was completed. The third movement, "The Dumb Donkey Called Jackass," in Rondo form, is comical in nature. Imagine a donkey, loaded with pots and pans, refusing to budge. There they are, master and donkey at a stalemate in the Brazilian "Sertões", or backlands.
A combination of native Brazilian instruments and artifacts, the full orchestra cum Brazilian Big Band sound, some vocal work by the orchestra's musicians, and a soloist doubling on piccolo and shouting "hey!," all contribute to the lively and picturesque feeling of the movement. The composer seamlessly marries the symphonic world with jazz using the orchestra to participate in the comedy of the donkey, and the following introspective recollection of the previous slow movement. "The Dumb Donkey Called Jackass," also recalls the main musical themes from the work's first movement bringing Sinfonia Concertante Brasileira for Flute and Orchestra full circle, ending with the same opening solo flute cadenza. One can actually hear the soloist walk away from the concert hall fading in the distance. Sinfonia Concertante Brasileira for Flute and Orchestra is scored for a full orchestra (woodwinds in two) with piano and additional percussion including assorted Brazilian instruments. Chronologically, Amazônia, Symphonic Poem is the earliest of Kertsman's three compositions presented on this album. As the title suggests, the setting is South America, specifically the Amazon, Selva Amazônica. The seeds of inspiration for this musical tribute were planted when the 21 year-old composer was flying over the rainforest. True to its title, Amazônia is an ecological call, a warning aimed to help increase awareness about the great forest and its vital importance to humanity. The piece also depicts the landscape. As the composer says, in his own words, "the music is to evoke feelings and impressions one would have by experiencing the Amazon."
The listener experiences the composer's vision and the recurring theme of duality – a symmetry of sounds and the expanse of the rainforest: the colors, the sounds, and the majesty that is all around. At the same time, there is delicateness in the details. One can imagine the sounds of a butterfly's wings or a gentle rain.
Duality is also inherent in the message conveyed by the piece. Greed threatens to destroy our fragile planet – indeed a world which could easily transform itself from fragile and perfectly in harmony, to a devastating and hostile one as a result of mankind's own doing. No one can better express the emotion of Amazônia than the composer himself:
Flying over the great Amazon in a clear day dawning is a fascinating experience. By looking down, your eyes are granted with a marvelous sight: A smooth, grandiose green carpet of life overwhelms you. If you meditate about it for a few moments, you shall soon experience a peculiar sensation of peace and inner happiness. You are, for at least a few minutes, in harmony with nature.
The majestic forest is one of Earth's lungs renovating and purifying our air. The mighty Amazon River and its tributaries create a dazzling network of aquatic life while irrigating the so-called "Emerald Forest."
The wealth of life in the Amazon still puzzles scientists and makes us all wonder – there are so many societies and cultures coexisting there, making the human element another extraordinary factor. The Amazon is an entire world in itself waiting to be truly discovered. Who knows, we may yet find some of the answers to our most persistent questions in the heart of where nature fully celebrates itself.
It is not my intention to accord a fixed program to the composition. However, I would like to point out a few facts about the music and what it represents. Rather than merely rendering a musical picture of physical events and geographic locations, the music evokes feelings and impressions one would have by experiencing the Amazon. Transcending oneself into its immensity and all-enveloping horizon: The "music of overwhelming colossal areas," the mysterious sounds of the valleys, the frenetic rhythms of its inhabitants, storms, the ecstasy and inner peace one would feel by witnessing nature's celebration, the singing of birds, and the sounds of the great river all contribute to the impressions flowing throughout the work. The listener can compose her/his own trail of thoughts and imagery.
Man's destructive behavior and attitude towards the Amazon create a threat not only to that environment, but also to mankind itself. Exploring new places and progress are of course important, and valid endeavors. Unfortunately, much of that is often carried out in careless, shortsighted, unsustainable ways. If our fate is to witness our planet's continuous destruction, or an increase in mankind's awareness and common sense – for that the conductor shall cut off the orchestra before the answer is given: Both sides are fighting and hoping for victory – the bells shall be heard … We must have hope – we cannot lose faith.
The Amazon is a true gift to mankind. Then again, not always a child, even the brightest one, knows how to make good use of a gift.
© 1987 by Miguel Kertsman
Reproduced by permission of Amazonica Music, NY
ASCAP Aurua Sounds, Ltd.
And the tolling bell which ends the piece? Is it a warning of what the future portends? Is it a plea for action? Is it a call for hope and maintaining faith? The composer asks you the listener to decide. Amazônia, Symphonic Poem is scored for a large symphony orchestra (winds in three) including an extended percussion section, piano, and organ. Adrienne Lentz


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The task seems nearly impossible—in fact, it is impossible on our own. How do we reach more than 120 million people living in Japan with the good news of Christ and His soon return? In Japan, about 1 percent of the population is Christian, and of that, only 15,000 are Seventh-day Adventist. What is that among millions?
Nevertheless, Adventist leaders in Japan decided to move forward boldly, praying and planning to hold more than 160 evangelistic series across the country. Most of the meetings were held in May 2018, with several focusing on Tokyo, the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million people. The three angels' messages were proclaimed nightly in venues ranging from large churches to small groups. Most of the presenters were native to Japan.
Much planning and preparation went into this first-ever event for that country. An evangelism field school was offered, and a pilot program with 29 evangelistic meetings was conducted. From this successful experience, leaders confirmed that holding evangelistic meetings was still an effective method of evangelism, even in modern Japanese culture.
Adventist World Radio (AWR) planned to broadcast special health programs, including announcements of upcoming health seminars. Several large radio stations in Tokyo were approached, but all refused to broadcast the programs if they mentioned a Seventh-day Adventist church or hospital. In Japan, radio stations are strict about broadcasting programs with religious content, even if it is just the mention of a church's name.
But God opened another door. The Adventist church had a small radio program that had been broadcast on Radio NIKKEI, a shortwave station, since 2000. Leaders at the Japan Union Conference decided to approach Radio NIKKEI about the possibility of broadcasting the health programs and announcements.
To their delight, Radio NIKKEI accepted, even creating a Web site for the programs at no cost! Furthermore, broadcasting from Radio NIKKEI was significantly cheaper than on the radio stations that refused to carry the programs.
In November 2017 the first Health for Every Day program was broadcast on Radio NIKKEI. Just two months later seven community FM stations in Tokyo were broadcasting the programs as well. Since that time, the listening audience on NIKKEI's Web site has grown to more than 30,000, not counting additional listeners from the FM stations. These health programs played an active role in breaking down barriers leading up to the evangelistic meetings.
While these events were taking place in Japan, excitement was building half a world away in the state of Connecticut. Located in the northeast part of the United States known as New England, this area is recognized as being somewhat challenging for evangelism.
Nevertheless, combining passion and planning, mission and members, Seventh-day Adventists in the Southern New England and Northeastern conferences came together to reach their communities for Christ.
Through a lay-developed ministry called CHAT (Community Health Advocate Training), members are trained to work together with their churches in a sustained cycle using Christ's method of evangelism.
Area pastors, local church leaders, and conference officials were invited to join lay members for the initial training event held earlier this year at the Connecticut Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Windsor, located just north of the state capital of Hartford.
Even the city's mayor, Saud Anwar, attended. During his remarks Dr. Anwar, a medical doctor who entered politics to improve the health of his community, appealed to the Adventists for help.
Dombrowski explained that they are following a plan based on Scripture, the Spirit of Prophecy, and statistics provided by sociologists about cities. He plans to have a continual, sustainable work to accomplish the mission of reaching the metropolitan area.
Currently more than 100 Seventh-day Adventists from 22 churches in the Southern New England and Northeastern conferences are actively involved in reaching their urban communities through healthy lifestyle evangelism.
Whether in Japan, New England, or in other places around the globe, one of the strongest factors for uniting God's believers is members, churches, conferences, and union conferences having a clear vision of their calling—a special calling of proclaiming God's last-day three angels' messages to the world—and combining that proclamation with health ministry. This is the winning combination that Jesus used, and we are guaranteed success when we, submitting ourselves to the Holy Spirit's guidance, follow it.
Whether it is large evangelistic meetings, health education programs, Bible studies, literature distribution, community outreach, or sharing your faith with a neighbor or coworker, there is a place for all to be involved in winning souls for Christ.
"The leaders in God's cause, as wise generals, are to lay plans for advance moves all along the line. In their planning they are to give special study to the work that can be done by the laity for their friends and neighbors. The work of God in this earth can never be finished until the men and women comprising our church membership rally to the work and unite their efforts with those of ministers and church officers.
1 As reported by Sandra Dombrowski, communication liaison, Connecticut Valley church, in the Atlantic Union Gleaner, April 2018, p. 16.
2 Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church (Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press Pub. Assn., 1948), vol. 9, pp. 116, 117.
Ted N. C. Wilson is president of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church. Additional articles and commentaries are available from the president's office on Twitter: @pastortedwilson and on Facebook: @PastorTedWilson.