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A close coherence between home and collections, between rooms and works of art contained in it: this is the backbone of the rigorous collection and living project that the brothers Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi pursued in their home, inspired by the mansions of the sixteenth century Lombard.
For their palace they made use of numerous sources of inspiration: they cited and reworked examples of excellence to create a filtered Renaissance of nineteenth-century sensibility. In the rooms of the Bagatti Valsecchi house, under the watchful direction of Fausto and Giuseppe, the Renaissance took shape not only through the construction of the fifteenth and sixteenth century collections, but also through the accurate stylistic attunement of which every room in the house was the object. In the fixed furnishings period fragments were inserted (wall friezes, fireplaces, decorative elements, wooden ceilings) while to remedy any gaps present in the settings one intervened with the remaking in style.
In June 2015 the Museum inaugurated a new room: thanks to the design contribution of the Lissoni Associati studio, the meeting room was transformed into a multi-purpose space. From the wardrobe of the spouses Carolina and Giuseppe to the management's office, the room has changed its use several times finding now a setting that allows it to host exhibitions, meetings, events.
Until March 10th 2019, the room hosts a digital installation of the signature. Stories and characters from the Bagatti Valsecchi guestbook
This room, adjacent to the master bedroom, was the bedroom of Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi, who, according to the use of the aristocratic families of the time, also had his own private room. On the tables are set up, among others, some liturgical objects such as monstrances and sixteenth and sixteenth-century relics, which combine to reinforce the refined and precious atmosphere of this bedroom.
In the double bedroom of Carolina Borromeo and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi stands the large Sicilian wrought iron bed decorated with gold leaf. The sumptuous ensemble of the room offers the backdrop to the beautiful collection of fourteenth and sixteenth-century tables arranged along the walls: among these, the Santa Giustina by Giovanni Bellini stands out, dating back to around 1470. Among the furnishings of this environment we note a group of antique furniture for children, as if to hint at the five children born of the marriage of Giuseppe and Carolina.
Sala della Stufa Valtellinese
The room represents the first room of the apartment of Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi and his wife Carolina Borromeo; it served as a drawing room and owes its name to the wooden cladding applied along the walls belonging to a room in the stove of an ancient house in Sondrio. Above the fireplace, an inscription in Latin freely inspired by a sentence of St. Augustine warns those who thought they could take advantage of a halt before the fire to make gossip: Those who love to speak ill of the absent, know that this hearth is precluded to them.
Bagatti Valsecchi Cabinet
This small room accessible from the Galleria della Cupola is not part of the historic apartments of the Bagatti Valsecchi house, but is a modern arrangement. The room is furnished like a wardrobe, where you can browse through photographs and open drawers containing memorabilia and simple everyday objects to
get acquainted with Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi and with the descendants who continued to inhabit the rooms until 1974.
Dome Gallery
The Galleria della Cupola owes its name to the dome with a skylight above it. Like the parallel Galleria delle Armi, this environment flanks the great Hall and acts as a link between the two bodies of the Palace, linking Fausto's apartment with that of his younger brother Giuseppe. On the long tables leaning against the walls are set some of the most important ceramics of the Bagatti Valsecchi collection, among which stands a large vase signed by Ippolito Rombaldoni and dated to 1678.
Passage of the Labyrinth
This environment owes its name to the decoration of the ceiling, inspired by the sixteenth century Stanza del Labirinto in the Ducal Palace of Mantua. On the octagonal table there is a collection of small tools and antique objects, including keys, padlocks and cutlery. The attention of the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers towards applied art objects arose from the conviction that these everyday objects were particularly suitable for their collectibles of domestic character and that they could offer valid reasons for inspiration to modern nineteenth-century artisans.
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a historic dwelling located in the heart of the Montenapoleone district , in the center of Milan , in the building called "Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi", purchased by the Lombardy Region in 1975. It is among the most important and best-preserved museum houses in Europe and it is part of the " Case Museum of Milan " circuit since October 2008.
Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi reviewed the typological richness of works of art and artifacts collected together with his brother Fausto, motivating the variety by virtue of the domestic cut of their collecting project to recreate a Renaissance residence. In this context, the same ancient artifacts collected from the passion of the two brothers became everyday objects, used in domestic and everyday life, losing the connotation of historical object.
Preserved in the respect of the nineteenth-century setting, the collections unfold from room to room: in the enveloping rooms of the museum house the antique tables of authors such as Giovanni Bellini, Bernardo Zenale, and Giampietrino find their place next to boxes in tablet, with wooden furnishings, in glass or ceramic artifacts. Beyond its intrinsic value, each work constitutes a piece of the coherent Bagatti Valsecchi project and contributes to defining its spectacular together.
Alongside the four-sixteenth-century artifacts, there are some exceptions to the rule: exemptions perhaps imposed by the limits of the antiquarian market or perhaps, in the case of particularly high-quality artifacts, from the understandable desire not to deprive oneself of works that would have been well figured within the Bagatti Valsecchi house.
With few exceptions, the collection of Bagatti Valsecchi paintings is composed of works on wood from the sixteenth and sixteenth century, mainly referring to the Tuscan, Lombard and, to a lesser extent, Veneto. The sumptuous domestic set-up complements works by great authors – the most famous of which is undoubtedly the Santa Giustina by Giovanni Bellini – to paintings by minor masters, sometimes referable to secluded areas such as the lariana area or the Bergamo valleys. The Neo-Renaissance frames are able to harmonize the works set up in the rooms and transform the doors of dismembered polyptychs – a typology well represented in the collection – into paintings that can be enjoyed by themselves, attenuating the identity of the compartment already inserted in a more articulated work.
Walled reliefs in the courtyards of the Palace or inserted as fixed furnishings inside the dwelling make up the most important nucleus of this collection. Despite the small group of works, problematic artifacts are not lacking both from the attributive point of view and from their chronological definition. The degree of awareness of the two Bagatti Valsecchi brothers with regard to works of which the nineteenth-century realization is still evident, as in the case of the Flagellation of Christ by Alceo Dossena.
The rich collection of furnishings is a fundamental component of the Bagatti Valsecchi collection and living project. Without any foreclosure the two brothers flank reconstitutions with antique fragments or period furniture with four-sixteenth-century furnishings, creating an environment where the overall effect is more important and convincing than the originality of the single piece.
This collection center is composed of liturgical objects and domestic artefacts: crosses, reliquaries, eucharistic vases are placed side by side with enamelled caskets or ancient cutlery, covering a period of time ranging from the Three to the Seventeenth century. The intent of the collection, which is not intended to be complete either from a chronological or typological point of view, is entirely functional to the decoration of the rooms, in which the various artefacts are expertly arranged.
The core of the Bagatti Valsecchi ceramics is mainly made up of sixteenth and seventeenth-century artefacts, although later works are not lacking. Many production centers are represented in a sort of mapping of the main Italian manufacturers: among others, Venice, Pavia, Ferrara, Faenza, Pisa, Montelupo, Urbino, Casteldurante, Pesaro, Deruta, as well as Rome, Gerace, Trapani, Burgio. Numerous pottery came from kits of ancient pharmacies dismembered during the nineteenth century. Compared to the Italian character of the collection, a group of lustres dating from the sixth to the seventeenth century, referable to Valencia and Manises, is an exception.
The collection of ivories by the Bagatti Valsecchi brothers, while collecting heterogeneous objects in chronology, origin and function, includes a compact nucleus of artefacts referable to the Embriachi, a workshop that dominated the production of bone and ivory objects in Italy between the 14th and 15th centuries. Fausto and Giuseppe's intent was above all to create an antiquarian collection that was also an instrument for the reconstruction of the environment.
Inside the Bagatti Valsecchi residence, the collection of scientific instruments is set up in the Library, an environment for study and reading. In this room, measuring instruments, armillary spheres, an ivory microscope are displayed on the central table, while the superb pair of sixteenth-century globes stands out on their pedestals in style.
This rich collecting nucleus is entirely set up in the Galleria delle Armi, an environment of great impact, where the artifacts are arranged on ancient caissons while the arms in the auction and the swords make a fine show of themselves in the racks along the walls. Style and original artifacts stand side by side in the name of a spectacular ensemble effect.
In line with the domestic cut of the Bagatti Valsecchi stand, the glass collection is set up in the windows of the Dining Room; the artifacts are arranged alongside ceramic plates and risers creating a dense score, where works from different eras are freely combined with decorative efficacy. The two brothers' predilections are oriented towards the Murano production, represented by glasses that are arranged along a wide chronological arc, from the four to the nineteenth century.
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The best FM radio
August 1, 2016 in radio | 4 comments
Somebody in Quora asked "Which is the best FM radio?"
So far, mine is the only answer. It's tops with a whopping 3 upvotes, out of 139 views. Not a lot of box office there. So I've decided to duplicate the answer here,, for whatever additional good it might do. I also added a bit, because I can't stop doing that. So read on…
Here's your rule of thumb: The best FM radios today are in cars. And, since most car radios use identical or similar chipsets, many of them are tied for the distinction. (Though there are a few dogs. I once met a Toyota RAV-4 with a truly sucky radio. Other Toyota radios have been fine.)
The best of the best are in slightly older cars that have a vertical outside whip antenna. FM waves resonate best with antennas about 30 inches long, give or take, which ideally will be removed as far as possible from metal that might obstruct received signals. For practical and fashion reasons, most radios in new cars are compromised by the lack of an outside whip antenna, instead using short stubby rubberized ones on the outside, or thin horizontal ones embedded in rear windows and disguised to look like part of the defrosting systems there. Engineers have found ways to make these perform almost as well as outside whip antennas, but they're still not the real thing.
The best radio I have ever known was the one in my wife's 1992 Infiniti Q45a, which featured a "diversity" antenna system: a very innovative approach that chooses or combines signals from more than one antenna. The radio in the Q45a used both a motorized retracting whip outside antenna and a horizontal one embedded in the rear window, and chose the best reception coming from either or both. AM reception was also outstanding on that radio, featuring C-QUAM, the then-current AM stereo technology. Even when stations stopped broadcasting with that method, the sound quality was outstanding for AM, because activating AM stereo listening also widened the bandwidth, which maximized sound quality for mono stations as well. (When that car died, my wife replaced it with a very similar one three years newer. Alas, that was after Nissan, Infiniti's parent company, had "de-contented" out some features the company thought the owner wouldn't notice. One was the AM stereo feature, and along with it the wider bandwidth. So that radio still pulls in signals (and retains the diversity antenna), but sounds like shit on AM. An automotive engineer at the time told me this move saved Nissan 5¢ on cars that cost upwards of $50k new. Little did Nissan know or care that one reason we chose that first car was the quality of the AM radio. The one we replaced it with was only $5k, so it was a helluva deal at the time.)
The best AM radio I ever heard was the Becker in the 1966 Volvo 122s that my parents brought in Belgium on their only trip to Europe. (It looked a lot like the one above.) The FM dial only went up to 104 in Europe back then, while the U.S. band went to 108, so the radio cutting out stations at the top end of the dial. The radio was also mono, with just one speaker that faced forward from the deck below the rear window. But reception was about as good as it gets on FM and unlike anything I've ever heard before or since on AM. In the daytime, when AM signals travel only along the ground, I could get WNBC/660 (now WFAN) and WABC/770 all the way past Richmond, Virginia, when I drove from New York to North Carolina. Even in Greensboro, I could still hear the faint signals of both stations. (Here's a coverage map for WFAN. No radio today is getting much of a signal outside the farthest line there, at least in the daytime.) And at night I could get listenable signals, bouncing in off the sky, from KFI/640 from Los Angeles, KNBR/680 from San Francisco and KSL/1160 from Salt Lake City. A close second to that was the after-market Motorola AM radio my parents bought in 1965 for their 1963 Chevy Bel-Air. Motorola in those days was perhaps the world's most advanced provider of radio gear for many mobile purposes, and it showed in their radios.
There are two reasons car radios tend to be better than ones you carry or leave plugged in at home. One is their wide range of required operating conditions: from streets in city canyons among signal-reflecting skyscrapers (some topped with FM transmitters that can overwhelm circuitry of nearby radios) to far rural hills, mountains, plains and valleys. The other is that most radio listening these days is in cars.
A problem for both stations and listeners today is that interest in radio has faded in recent years, as more and more listening has moved to computers and mobile devices, and from stations to streams and podcasts. Modern car radios are therefore now entertainment systems that subordinate radio with each new generation of electronics. AM radio is completely gone from some cars, including Teslas. To put it simply, over-the-air radio is slowly fading, if not dying outright.
Still, there are good radios that will help you enjoy what old-fashioned broadcasting still has to offer.
For home or portable radios, you'll find good models from C.Crane, Sangean and Eton/Grundig. I have a Grundig Satellit 800, which has outstanding FM reception, plus an old Sangean (made for Radio Shack), and the C.Crane CC Pocket Radio (there on the left) which are both also outstanding. GE's SupeRadio is also deservedly a legend. Here are some on eBay. All generations of the SupeRadio are good. I have two of them I bought new in the '90s, and they still work fine.
Here in my kitchen I also have the Teac HD-1, which was billed as a clock radio, but really isn't. Instead it's an FM/AM radio that also features an outstanding HD FM tuner, and okay AM HD tuner. No longer made, it's still available on the used market. (I know because I just bought my second one, on Amazon.)
HD produces better sound, plus additional channels. So a station may be two or three in one. For example, WNYC-FM in New York has WQXR (its classical sister station) on its HD-2 channel, and WNYC-AM on its HD-3 channel. More importantly, HD clears up the truly awful multipath interference that afflicts urban radio listening, especially in apartment buildings like mine, which are dwarfed by countless other larger buildings standing in every signals' path while also degrading and reflecting countless "ghost" signals along the way. (That's called "multipath" interference.) If you live in a city and FM sounds like crap on local stations, get an HD radio just to clear up the bad sound. (By the way, your wi-fi and cell phone systems use multipath to improve reception by finding additional paths over which to send and receive streams of data. Digital is hugely advanced over old-fashioned analog FM in that respect.)
For pure reception performance, the best non-car radios I have ever owned or used date from the 60s, and came from European manufacturers. The standout manufacturers were Tandberg, Nordmende and Grundig. I have also used but not owned the Sony ICF-2010, which is legendary and deserves to be. All those are billed as shortwave radios, but do great work on FM and AM.
Bonus links: Why music radio is dying, The Slow Sidelining of Over-the-air Radio, Approaching the end of radio's antenna age.
Ken Keller on August 20, 2016 at 5:13 pm
Magnum Dynalab FT101
I don't have it anymore but in the 90s, my brother got one of these and later gave it to me. I forget now if it was the FT101 or 101A. But it was good. Able to pick up signals from in the centre of a ring of apartment buildings. No other buildings could even be seen yet it delivered very good sounding music. Other radios were essentially unusable.
http://magnumdynalab.com/products.php
At the time, I don't think any retailers sold them nearby (i.e. in Toronto area) but as they were a local company I ended up getting it directly from them.
Doc Searls on August 20, 2016 at 5:57 pm
Ken, I would love to have gotten my hands on a Magnum Dynalab tuner. I never tried one out, but I do know it was the platinum standard in the genre.
FWIW, I just put up a pile of photos from a visit to Mt. Wilson, overlooking Los Angeles from a mile-high vantage:http://bit.ly/wlsnant . I haven't identified all the antennas, but I will eventually.
Caring about this stuff is a bit like caring about steam engines, alas. It's interesting to listen to KPCC, for example, on 89.3, while I'm here, but most of the time I'm listening on the road elsewhere in the world over the Net. Servers are the new transmitters, and "range" is an obsolete concept — unless all you've got is a radio.
Ken on August 23, 2016 at 8:22 am
I spent about half an hour (or maybe more) reading their website after writing my comment. It was kind of fun to see that they're still kicking along and have since introduced new product lines (e.g. amplifiers). A side note on antennas… the one they provide, which I think is called the silver ribbon, really made a difference.
In your photos, are those radio (broadcast variety) or cellular antennas? I used to work for a carrier up here (Rogers – provides cable, wireless, wired internet, landlines, and they have a host of radio stations and magazines) and as I recall, there wasn't any identification on the antennas, and at least within the city, they were always fenced off. Most of the big stations use the CN Tower to transmit from. Although, back in the day, Rogers set up a big wattage transmitter in Rochester, across the lake, because the distance let them broadcast to a wide swath of customers as the signal spread out. Kind of fascinating just how many antennas there are there.
A long time ago, I was playing around with a short-wave radio and was able to pick up multiple baseball games. I keep wondering whether games are still broadcast this way. I use the MLB app to listen to games while I'm on the road but sometimes there isn't a cell signal to take advantage of, and when I cross the border, things get inconvenient.
For the most part, radio in Toronto can be likened to sewage. It's always near at hand but you don't really want to slog through it. For example, in the cafe I'm currently in, Britney Spears Hit Me Baby is playing. So I listen occasionally to CBC Radio using their app, and podcasts/lectures/baseball or my own music. As you suggest, it's a new world. It would be hard to justify buying such a tuner again.
Doc Searls on August 30, 2016 at 3:42 am
Thanks, Ken.
The photos, taken on Mt. Wilson, overlooking Los Angeles, are all of TV and FM antennas. The digital UHF TV ones look like vertical clusters of white boxes, all taller than wide. These resemble cellular antennas, which tend to to be contained in boxes (radomes covering the actual antennas) about the same size and shape, though a little smaller, since the cell bands are on higher frequencies. The biggest difference is power. The TV stations use those antennae to pound up to a million watts down toward the population. Cellular antennas, all located on low towers and buildings, are only a few dozen watts at most, since they only need to cover one small local cell.
The CN tower's spire design, an elongated wedding cake, was made to contain, going up from the bottom, low-band VHF (channels 2-6), FM (which is just above channel 6), high-band VHF (7-13) and then UHF (14 and above). I believe low-band TV is gone, as it is in the U.S., and I'm not sure if high-band is gone too. It's in use in some U.S. locations (e.g. NYC and LA). Not sure about Toronto. UHF TV is used for sure.
FM in Toronto continues to radiate from the CN Tower and buildings downtown.
Three of the AMs (740, 1010, 1050) still radiate from Mississauga. Three other big ones are on the far side of the lake, east of Hamilton. Those are on 590, 640, 680 and 820. All use a bunch of towers, to concentrate their signals at the metro. Go very far east or west and they're gone. I think those are the ones you're talking about.
I'm currently in Helsinki, where AM is completely gone. (Like in Quebec City.) FM sounds like everywhere, with the single exception of 97.5fm, which plays German stuff and the BBC, for some reason.

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New COVID-19 case count in S. Korea stays below 200 for 3rd day
By Ock Hyun-ju
Published : Sept 5, 2020 - 11:24 Updated : Sept 5, 2020 - 16:52
South Korea's daily count of new COVID-19 cases stayed below 200 for the third consecutive day on Saturday, though health authorities are on alert over untraceable cases, sporadic outbreaks and the high number of critically ill patients.
Korea reported 168 new COVID-19 cases Saturday -- 158 locally transmitted and 10 imported -- posting fewer than 200 for the third consecutive day. The total caseload rose to 21,010, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There are "positive" signs, Kwon Jun-wook, the KCDC's deputy director, said at a briefing Saturday, referring to a downward trend in the number of new COVID-19 cases, cases with untraceable infection routes and those under quarantine.
With tightened social distancing rules in place, the "explosive" spread of the virus was contained and the country's daily new COVID-19 case tally stayed below 300 for the seventh consecutive day on Saturday.
But health authorities also said it is not yet time to let our guard down, calling on members of the public to abide by the government's tightened social distancing guidelines.
"While (new cases) are coming in at around 200 and are on a decline, we should not let our guard down yet," Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said Saturday in a pan-government meeting on the country's COVID-19 response.
"Until the (number) of patients substantially falls to a level that does not pose a burden on (the country's) quarantine and health system, we need more understanding and a bit more patience from citizens," Park said.
On Friday the government announced that it was extending its toughened social distancing guidelines for another week, since there was no definite slowdown in the infection rate.
The Level 2.5 social distancing rules, which were to end Sunday, will remain in place until Sept. 13 in the Greater Seoul area -- home to nearly half of the country's population -- with restrictions to apply to more businesses.
Under the Level 2.5 social distancing campaign, operating hours were slashed for restaurants, bakeries and bars, with only takeout and delivery services allowed after 9 p.m. Dining in was banned at franchise coffee chains, with only takeaway and delivery services allowed. Private cram schools and indoor sports facilities were shut down. One-third of all employees working at government bodies, state-run agencies and public institutions are required to work from home.
Franchise bakeries and ice cream shops were added to the list of establishments where customers are not allowed to eat. Only delivery services and takeaway will be allowed.
Social distancing in the Seoul metropolitan area was raised to Level 2 on Aug. 16 and to Level 2.5 on Aug. 30. Other parts of the country have had Level 2 social distancing guidelines in place since Aug. 23.
Level 2 social distancing rules were extended across the country until Sept. 20. Under the rules, 12 types of high-risk businesses including nightclubs and karaoke rooms have been shut down and indoor gatherings of more than 50 people are banned along with outdoor gatherings of more than 100 people, among other measures.
Korea has consistently posted triple-digit rises since Aug. 14 due to two massive infection clusters tied to the Sarang Jeil Church and an anti-government rally in central Seoul on Aug. 15.
COVID-19 cases linked to the Seoul-based church and the protest rose to 1,156 and 510, respectively, as of Saturday at noon.
While the massive anti-government rally became a source of the large outbreak here, far-right-wing civic organizations again reported to the police that they would hold another mass rally on Oct. 3, Korea's National Foundation Day, according to the police. The police refused to allow the rally, given the stricter social distancing rules.
Other clusters of infections were traced to a business event, an office, a kimchi factory, a logistics center, churches, hospitals, hotels and a public sauna.
Amid the rise in COVID-19 cases, the number of COVID-19 patients in serious or critical condition hit a record high of 159 as of midnight Saturday, up two from a day earlier, raising fears of a possible shortage of hospital beds. This marks a 17-fold increase from only nine people on Aug. 18.
Most of the critically ill patients were in their 60s or over -- 23 percent were in their 80s, 42 percent in their 70s and 20 percent in their 60s. Another 9 percent were in their 50s, and 6 percent were in their 40s.
Some 22.4 percent of the new cases reported from Aug. 23-Sept. 5 had unidentified transmission routes, according to the KCDC, a slight decrease from the peak of 24.4 percent during the two-week period ending Thursday.
Saturday's daily tally marks a fall from 198 cases on Friday.
Of the locally transmitted cases, the vast majority were still registered in the Seoul metropolitan area -- 51 in Seoul, 14 in neighboring Incheon and 47 in Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds the capital.
Outside the Seoul metropolitan area, 10 cases were reported in Busan, eight cases each in South Gyeongsang Province and Gwangju, five cases in Daegu, four cases in South Chungcheong Province, three cases in Gangwon Province, two cases each in North Chungcheong Province, North Jeolla Province and Daejeon, and one case each in Ulsan and on Jeju Island.
Of the 10 imported cases, six were identified while the individuals were under mandatory self-quarantine in Korea, with the other four detected during the quarantine screening process at the border. One case came from China, four from other parts of Asia and five from the Americas. Four of the newly diagnosed people were foreign nationals.
So far, 16,009 people, or 76.2 percent, have been released from quarantine upon making full recoveries, up 226 from a day earlier. Some 4,668 people are receiving medical treatment under quarantine.
Two more people died of the coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 333. The overall fatality rate amounted to 1.58 percent. Some 97.3 percent of those who died had preexisting illnesses.
The country has carried out 2,037,045 tests since Jan. 3, with 52,077 people awaiting results as of Saturday.
By Ock Hyun-ju (laeticia.ock@heraldcorp.com)
S. Korea extends Level 2.5 social distancing campaign in Greater Seoul area
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BBC Arts announces Secrets Of The Museum series two
Wednesday, 13th January 2021
Kimono ensemble for WAFRICA by Serge Mouangu (credit: BBC)
BBC Arts will return to the Victoria and Albert Museum for the second series of Secrets Of The Museum.
As part of the BBC's Culture In Quarantine initiative, audiences will once more be taken behind the scenes of the world famous museum of art, design and performance.
The V&A holds over 2.3 million objects spanning over 5000 years of human ingenuity and many different categories, from fashion to photography, sculpture to ceramics, and theatre to architecture.
Series two will tell the hidden histories behind more of these objects, while continuing to follow the day-to-day lives of the curators, conservators and technicians caring for the priceless artefacts on our behalf.
Many are fragile and most are extremely rare, such as Michaelangelo's wax models and Winston Churchill's despatch box, presenting the team with new conservation challenges at every turn.
Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A, said: "At a time of renewed lockdown and enforced separation from our great cultural centres, we are even more delighted to invite audiences back for another behind-the-scenes look at the V&A.
"Though the museum remains closed, Secrets Of The Museum continues to uncover untold stories from our dedicated teams and the fascinating objects stored within one of the nation's best-loved museums."
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Artist Spotlight: Edith Match (Edith Was Here)
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We interview Edith Match — a visionary filmmaker, creator, storyteller, and makeup artist with a love of history and the beautifully macabre.
Edith Match is the Creatrix. She has an amazing array of talents, which she uses to create some truly unique and compelling video shorts combining historical retelling and artistic flair. The shorts are all written, acted and directed solely by her. In addition, she conceives the costumes and makeup for her productions — and even includes tutorials to help others recreate her inspired looks. I've been a fan for quite some time, and it was an honor to be able talk with Edith about her inspirations, her love of the classics, and how she brings her own passionate vision and uncompromising style to each of her creations.
INTERVIEW WITH EDITH MATCH
1. I first discovered you on Instagram, and then your "Edith Was Here" YouTube Channel, and I found myself hooked. How would you describe yourself as pertaining to your artistic creations and occupation?
Thank you for watching my short films! I use the term "Creatrix" for what I do. It's an all-encompassing title, as I do a little of everything. A one-woman show.
2. Your videos are a tour de force; you write, direct and act, and create the music and do all your makeup and special effects, and you create all of your wardrobes in your videos (If I am ever married, you will design my dress). Where and how did you pick up these skills?
Over the years, I taught myself these things as I needed them for whatever project I was working on [at the time]. For me, the best way to learn is to just throw myself into it and keep going until it (!) works. I've been toying with filmmaking and sewing since I was young and began in theatre while still in my teens. My interest in special effects happened around age ten when I checked out Dick Smith's Do-It-Yourself Monster Makeup Handbook from the library. I've been doing it myself ever since! Music is the newest, and I admit I'm a complete novice to composing. But I'm sneaking little bits in here and there.
3. You present your videos/creations with a dark view of history, but with a Victorian, or an older time frame sensibility. It is also macabre. Where did your fascinations come to develop?
I credit Silent and Pre-Code era expressionism and also 50s Hammer for inspiring that sensibility. There's an otherworldly quality to those films. One that's their own universe. I also set characters in other time periods to avoid the banality of modern attitudes. Things are too clever for their own good and I base most on an emotional detachment, creating a false sense of superiority to the characters in the viewer. If you aren't drawn in and find yourself attached to the characters, you're only a casual spectator. If my films included the comforts of modern tech and culture…well, look at Oliver in Jacqueline Ess.
The story was set in the 1980s originally, and were I to put it in the modern day, he'd have texted her a hundred times, stalked her Instagram and maybe posted a few broken heart memes after she'd left him — and that would be that. To push the setting all the way back to the 1930s, he has even fewer avenues to contact her than the 1980s, and the world feels so much smaller. With the world smaller (and the economic and social fear of the decade), things mean more and you give more of yourself. Oliver can be realistically led by a passionate heart in the 1930s that 2019 doesn't offer him.
4. You love the oldies (Buster Keaton, Frederic March), but I know you love old horror films as well. What horror films stand out in your mind, and what type of horror genre are you partial to (slasher, psychological, monsters, ghosts)?
I always recommend 1931's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde directed by Rouben Mamoulian. I've never seen a film so ingeniously put together and one that shows the progression of the characters after each transformation. The story doesn't exist in a vacuum. Each time he transforms, Jekyll appears wearier and Hyde more grotesque. It was a logical choice for story progression, but it's rarely handled in this clear way. It's important to show that each decision and action has a lasting effect than one cannot undo.
I feel Dark Fantasy sums up my personal taste in horror. Films like Jekyll and Hyde and 1920's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Curse of Frankenstein from 1957 is more bloody than those two, but another favorite shifting between fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Body Horror is a genre I find fascinating as well and work within subtlety. Both the 1958 and 1986 versions of The Fly are wonderful examples of the real life and lasting ramifications of turning into a "monster."
5. In your mind, what does horror represent to the fan? Is it our escape from the cruel realities of life, or is it the safe dance we do to imagine how we cope with horrifying situations? What do horror archetypes mean to you?
I suppose it depends on one's particular taste in horror. Some prefer horror comedies — you can laugh at your fears while experiencing them. A thrill-seeking mentality. One I don't exactly share, but respect. My favorite horror stories involve outsiders. Frankenstein's Monster, Caligari's Somnambulist, etc. It's not that they don't have dangerous aspects to them, but the world in which they exist doesn't allow them much of a chance for anything else.
6. Now I know you know how to use a makeup brush (there is an understatement). What films stand in your mind as the pinnacle of makeup magic and perfection? What are your thoughts about CGI and digital processes in filmmaking, and do you feel an art form is fading?
I'll mention 1931's Jekyll & Hyde again for a perfect example of makeup transformation. Rick Baker for An American Werewolf in London. Rob Bottin for everything. I don't feel that the art form in its most basic expression is fading away, in that I have seen modern filmmakers using practical effects as a draw to watch their films, but I do feel we're losing characters to gore and wounds only. Though these creations are important, the work of pioneers like Lon Chaney, Jack Pierce, Dick Smith, and Millicent Patrick drew me in by their ability to create living (sometimes dead) breathing beings to connect with. Gunshot wounds and viscera are impressive creations, but without a person or reason, it doesn't mean anything. As far as CGI, it works when it's used to smooth out some practical effects, but solely CGI makeup doesn't hold my interest.


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package com.redhat.repository.validator.impl.version;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Named;

import org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.IOFileFilter;
import org.apache.maven.model.Model;

import com.google.common.collect.ArrayListMultimap;
import com.google.common.collect.ListMultimap;
import com.redhat.repository.validator.Validator;
import com.redhat.repository.validator.ValidatorContext;
import com.redhat.repository.validator.internal.ValidatorSupport;

@Named
public class VersionAmbiguityValidator implements Validator {

    @Inject @Named("versionAmbiguityValidatorFilter")
    private IOFileFilter fileFilter;
    @Inject
    private ValidatorSupport validatorSupport;

    @Override
    public void validate(ValidatorContext ctx) {
        ListMultimap<String, File> ga2filesMap = ArrayListMultimap.create();
        ListMultimap<String, String> ga2versionsMap = ArrayListMultimap.create();

        collectVersions(ctx, ga2filesMap, ga2versionsMap);
        validateAmbiguity(ctx, ga2filesMap, ga2versionsMap);
    }

    private void collectVersions(ValidatorContext ctx, ListMultimap<String, File> ga2filesMap, ListMultimap<String, String> ga2versionsMap) {
        Iterator<Model> modelIterator = validatorSupport.effectiveModelIterator(ctx, fileFilter);
        while (modelIterator.hasNext()) {
            Model model = modelIterator.next();
            if (model != null) {
                String ga = model.getGroupId() + ":" + model.getArtifactId();
                ga2filesMap.put(ga, model.getPomFile());
                ga2versionsMap.put(ga, model.getVersion());
            }
        }
    }

    private void validateAmbiguity(ValidatorContext ctx, ListMultimap<String, File> ga2filesMap, ListMultimap<String, String> ga2versionsMap) {
        for (String ga : ga2versionsMap.keySet()) {
            List<String> versions = ga2versionsMap.get(ga);
            if (versions.size() > 1) {
                Exception e = new VersionAmbiguityException(ga, versions.toArray(new String[] {}));
                for (File pomFile : ga2filesMap.get(ga)) {
                    ctx.addError(this, pomFile, e);
                }
            }
        }
    }

}

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It's not an art contest... it's a way to keep me focused. I have a hard time making foot prints, but God knows what my blobs mean... and I do, too.
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It started out on a shaky note and didn't get a whole lot better from there.
"What was the moment in which you decided to run for mayor?" Metro Morning host Matt Galloway asked candidate Olivia Chow.
"…ummm, it's not that one moment…"
Oh, god. *sigh*
That is the one question any candidate needs to have a pat answer down for. Why do you want to be mayor? Why should people vote for you? What was the moment you decided to run for mayor?
Campaign school 101.
I was fighting desperately to give Ms. Chow the benefit of the doubt since she was the first one in the series that will be playing throughout the week, featuring the 5 leading mayoral candidates. It's a tough slog, right out of the gate. Breaking trail. New ground.
She recovered when asked about her pledge to re-institute the long planned Scarborough LRT instead of the new fangled subway council approved last summer. Four more stops in four less years for a lot less money. A nice, precise sound bite that is hard to refute especially by those touting their fiscal cred and business acumen.
And then Mr. Galloway teed one up for her at which point I realized, no, going first could actually work to Chow's advantage. She'd be able to establish the terms of the debate, at least as far as this one happening this week on Metro Morning. Her answers and responses would serve as the scale by which her opponents' performances might be measured.
"Do you think tax has become a four letter word?" Galloway asked Chow.
"Of course it has, Matt. To the detriment of this city. We cannot even begin to talk about the things we need, the infrastructure, both physical and social, the services, the programs, without having a rational discussion about taxes. About taxes, user fees and other sources of revenue Toronto needs to access if we hope to build the liveable, affordable, functional city one of my opponents claims to want."
No, no. That wasn't what she said at all.
Just a bunch of humming and hawing, refusing to budge any further than her already stated claim of property tax increases of 'around inflation'.
Galloway even threw her a lifeline, pointing out that the city manager, Joe Pennachetti has gone on record as saying that Toronto cannot hope to continue growing in any sort of healthy fashion without serious consideration of more revenue. We do not have a spending problem. We have a revenue problem. Cover has been provided for all you closeted tax-and-spending politicians.
But Chow didn't take that path, choosing instead to circle back to the savings that would come from putting the brakes on the Scarborough subway plan. That's all it's going to take, Matt. Just better decision making, smart investment, a modest inflationary annual property tax increase and together, we can build a better city.
We know how this movie unfolds.
Olivia Chow plays it safe into the mayor's office, inevitably to be confronted with worse looking books than the outgoing council will ever admit to. We know they're going to be worse, worse certainly than the $350 million operating budget surplus the supposed fiscally reckless David Miller administration bequeathed Rob Ford as a mayoral-warming gift. Having just scratched the surface dealing with last year's announcement from the province that it was shortening the time frame in which it was going to cease its Toronto Pooling Compensation support of social services in the city, the bulk of the nearly $150 million loss is going to be faced by the new council.
And that's just one example.
Oops, our new mayor will say. We didn't see this coming. (We did.) We're going to have to raise taxes more than I pledged in order to deal with this unexpected turn of events.
All followed by cries of 'I told you so', 'tax-and-spender', and everybody retreats back to their ideological corners. Myths and misconceptions reinforced. She wasn't given a mandate by the voters of Toronto to raise taxes.
And they'll be right. By not tackling this issue head-on now, the Olivia Chow team is simply delaying the inevitable battle they will have to have if their candidate is elected in October. Their short term gain will lead to a longer, extended battle that will invariably create fertile ground for another Rob Ford-like assault on the governance of Toronto. Proper, healthy city-building will come under threat once again.
The Chow campaign has ceded ground right off the bat to the anti-taxers, giving more credence to the mindless incantations from the likes of John Tory's Nick Kouvalis. It is defensively reacting to the terms of the debate laid down by the mayor and all the right wing contenders for his job. There was an opportunity to seize control this morning, redefine the framing. They fumbled it.
It is a long campaign. Plenty of time to re-shape the messaging as you go along. It just gets harder if you pass up chances Olivia Chow was given today to set the agenda in her favour.
— frustratingly submitted by Cityslikr
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Lost in Asia?
Murray Hunter, Guest Contributor - 06 Nov, 2012
The Australian government's white paper Australia in the Asian Century has been "wowed" by the Australian media. The white paper basically affirms that Australia's future lies with Asia and consequently immense economic opportunities exist for Australia to grab.
The paper hinges the nation's strategy of becoming a competitive force within the region through skills development, innovation, infrastructure, the tax system, regulatory reform, and environmental sustainability. However before a nation can become a competitive force, it must have an accepted place in the region.
On this key strategy the White paper does little more than make a "rally call" to Australians to come out and make it happen. The paper also reeks of Austro-centrism where most of the points made in the document are written with the expectation that Australia will win out of closer ties with Asia without necessarily giving much back in exchange – such as Australia having closer ties with Asian universities in order to attract students and skilled workers. Rather one-way to say the least.
In fact the report has probably missed the growing strategic importance of aid in the region as an instrument of gaining influence and trade. China is aggressively using this lever as a source of influence where for example, it is financing the Thai Government's purchase of tablets for all school students.
The Australian China US relationships
Not surprisingly, the document still goes out to reaffirm Australia's loyalty to the United States. This could be seen as Premier Julia Gillard's metaphoric statement of "all the way with LBJ".
Historically the US is seen as a savior from invasion by the Japanese during WWII and consequently there has been a total commitment from successive Australian governments through the cold war until the present time for US foreign policy. The ANZUS Treaty that embodied these commitments has brought many foreign policy mistakes to Australia and probably cost Australia in South-East Asia its own persona of identity.
In addition, although Australia could be considered a rich multicultural society today, some people in Asia still have a negative impression because of the old white Australia policy, treatment of indigenous people, Pauline Hansen, and the latest policies on boat arrivals of asylum seekers.
In contrast, China is now so important to Australian trade, investment, and tourism, yet Australia is unconsciously niggling China with its staunch loyalty to the US. China saved Australia from a deep recession with demand for minerals whereas the US brought the Australian Government anguish over the involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, it appears the US had a different rule to Australia than other allies. The Australian Government has been expected to follow US foreign policy in an unquestionable manner. Each Australian Prime Minister since Curtin has kowtowed to the US, seeking a close presidential relationship in the belief that this was in the best domestic and foreign interests. Certainly a close personal relationship with the incumbent US president has been seen as something of importance. Conversely, Kevin Rudd's prowess at speaking Chinese was not good enough to develop the relationship with China, as the relationship is much more complex than mere small talk.
China would prefer to deal with an Australia with a mature and independent foreign policy rather than an enthusiastic supporter of US foreign policy. Precedent shows that China does not necessarily expect blind allegiance but would like to see Australian decisions more in line with its own realities rather than someone else's. However looking today at both major parties in Australian politics this is highly unlikely. In addition the punishment dished out by the US Government to the David Lange Government in New Zealand in the mid 1980s is a deep lesson about what happens to those disobedient to the US.
From the US perspective, Australia is a nice ally to have, one it can rely upon on the international stage, which will be important as Australia takes up a temporary security council seat at the UN. With the Obama visit to Canberra and Darwin last year and the stationing of troops in Australia, the country has some importance to the US until it can establish much more substantial bases closer to China.
China as an ally presents less of a dilemma than the US, as China has historically always allowed some deviation from the official Chinese foreign policy. For example China does allow Australia and other nations to have a separate relationship with Taiwan, and different approaches to regional issues without making these differences major issues. Maybe Australia can learn from the Indonesian approach of dynamic equilibrium, a doctrine where Washington and Beijing would agree to co-exist rather than compete for supremacy in the region.
Australia is also finding it difficult to accept that there are other views in the world other than the occidental position on detente and human rights that it expects within the region. For example, many Australians cannot understand why so many Chinese people so strongly support the position of the Chinese Government on many issues like Tibet, and how people can accept a communist system.
Australia's relationship with the Asian Region
After decades of successive government foreign and trade policy, Australia still does not have any embedded position within the Asian region. In fact Australia has been historically viewed as occasionally condescending and arrogant towards the region with attitudes towards human rights, where Australia's own practices in matters like the detention of boat people are seen by some as hypocritical.
The influence of Australian business and financial institutions in the region is minor, nowhere near the critical mass needed to become a competitive force in the region. Australia at this time has only a very low profile in the Asian banking and finance sector with no brands out there. The only exception is in the mining sector, which to all intents and purposes has made the Australian economy very dependent upon demand in Asia, particularly China.
Back in the 1990s the then Prime Minister Paul Keating stated that Australia is part of Asia and together with the then foreign minister Gareth Evans made a concerted effort to embed Australia within the region. This had some positive effect with Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, and East Timor with Australian policy working towards enhancing peace and prosperity within the region. But they had their setbacks over the recalcitrant remarks about Malaysia's former Premier Mahathir Mohamed which soured relations with that country for a number of years. However perceptively, all these gains were lost when John Howard came to power in 1996 reaffirming the Canberra-Washington link, earning the label for Australia as the US's deputy sheriff in the Asia.
The Australian relationship with the region is one where Australia needs the region more than the region needs Australia. The Australian market is small compared to other markets and of little interest to regional exporters who prefer to put their efforts into the larger markets of China, Japan, EU, and the US. Other hubs in the region are more conducive to becoming corporate HQ hubs than Sydney or Melbourne. The only real interest Australia has for Asian investors been in rent seeking activities like real estate. Australia is the gateway to nowhere, so cannot play the role as a hub like Singapore and Hong Kong have successfully done. However the concept of Darwin as a gateway to Asia has been formally recognized but it remains to be seen what will actually be done about it.
With the rapidly changing nature of the region and the shifting balance between the US and China within Asia, the Austro-centric view of the region needs urgent revamping. The Australian economy in the short and medium term is dependent upon China, and Australia perceives itself rightly or wrongly to be dependent upon the US for security. Australia's acceptance of the wide array of Asian views within the region that Australia can one day become an equal partner in the region.
Though Australia has some deeply historical links with many parts of the region due to some heroic actions of troops during the Second World War and the Malayan Emergency after that, tragically these opportunities to further develop relationships were not capitalized upon, due to Australian mesmerization with Washington. White papers aside, it will be action and not words that are important and China and the region will be surprised to see any real change, although the intention and realization of the need is present within the foreign policy Australian agenda. However with Australia, old habits die hard. And just as Julia Gillard had an unfortunate fall the other week in India in front of the media, Australia also has a track record of falling over itself in Asia.
It will take much more than a massive investment in skills and education to be able to engage the Asian region, let alone be "competitive". One of the paramount barriers Australia has to overcome is the deep set belief that its own cultural values are not necessarily universally accepted across the region. It's not about learning Asian languages but about understanding different points of view, approaches, and 'mindsets'. Austro-centrism must take a back seat in relationships around the region for Australia to be seriously considered a member of the region. Currently it's not.
The white paper is still haunted by Australia's past. Maybe it's time for Australia to release the US security blanket a little and become a mature and independent nation within the Asian region. However one fears with the promise of a rise in real incomes from the "Asian Century" initiative, that the whole thing is just a pander to the domestic electorate. As the report itself aspires, Asia is seen only as a means for Australian incomes to become one of the top 10 per-capita ones in the world.
Rather, Ken Henry the principal author of the white paper appears to have placated the Australian Government's wishful thinking for a positivist instrument that can be sold to the electorate, which he may have done well. The White paper has turned it into a promissory note for a better future within Australia based upon the misconception that internal capacity building will make Australia more competitive in Asia, being too "fuzzy" about developing a real strategy to engage the region. Building up capacities are only building capabilities. They are not strategies within themselves.
One worries about the quality of actual analysis undertaken about the region when the paper has not even mentioned the emerging Muslim/Halal market opportunities. This developing market is worth USD 400 Billion per annum and growing exponentially. Malaysia and Thailand are spending massive amounts of money on developing supply chains to the world market. There are more than 400 million Muslims in the Asian region, and the report has not identified this potential.
On initial reading of the 312 page report there appears to be little new in it, and one could argue that existing ALP policy was used as a template. If this is correct then it will be difficult for this white paper to garner bipartisan support, and maybe fated to become another relic of a former government tossed out of office.
Presence and accommodation of Asia to what Australia really has to offer is the vital key. This implies showing the region that an independent Australia is truly willing to put its lot in with Asia and not with the US.
Asian suspicion may arise to the issue Ms Gillard herself talked about Australia being a winner in Asia, and this implies there must be losers.
It's highly doubtful if anybody in the region is looking at Australia with any more interest today.
Ohn
Clear vision and insightful analysis. Minor points. Deputy Sheriff was John Howard's own words. John Howard of "Truth Overboard" affair.
The Asian grudging togetherness is not going to happen until at least most Australians learn to say "Darwin" without sniffing.
But all is not lost as in the article. Today's world is not about people to people connection. It is the decision making elites one has to capture. with money , politely called "development", as a unting call, and Asia firmly under oligarchy and washed and painted dictators as in Burma for example, any thing can happen yet.
Please don't say "Human Rights" is a real word.
The White Paper fails to address how business people should handle, and how students are to be educated about, Asia's endemic corruption.
Yian
The White Paper was written for Australians living in Australia and contradict many of the policies of the current government as Greg Sheridan has pointed out. There seems to have been negligible input from the many Australians who actually live in the region (some for many years ( not counting the Australian diplomats who live behind high walls for a couple of years). The only way to get students interested in the region is to take them to Asia for 3-6 months to study-work etc. Also re-introduce the Columbo plan in a more sophisticated way. This plan was axed by Gough Whitlam in a lamentable display of ignorance of Asia. Fortunately the mostly retired people on the Columbo Plan still have influence in Asia – to our advantage and to their countries as well.
6 November 2012 at 10:57 pm
Some Asians living in Australia "have a negative impression" perhaps as a result of dealing with Australia's great institutions such as the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, the Australian Passport Office or their agents Australia Post.
Don't suppose they don't go home and tell their relatives.
7 November 2012 at 10:15 am
Remedy starts by recognition of the disease. Continued denial makes it festers.
Yes, there will be more Asians knocking on the doors.
No, Australia as a country today cannot function without the Asians already there.
It's laughable that Australians are Asians, or should even aspire to be. We're 10 hours flights from anywhere for a start, and our western liberal-democratic cultural, social and political structures are a world apart from anything in Asia.
Has Gillard actually asked Asians how they feel about Australians calling themselves as such? She will find their answers discouraging.
Asian nations are well along the path to developing workable systems that appear to be resembling our own, at least in part. Perhaps they will end up with solutions that straddle both traditions, and which are unique to them. Until then, Australia is best advised to stand off a touch, make the best of the economic opportunities where it can, and set an example of a typical western system that Asians can borrow from as they see fit.
That's sage advice.
But may be off a little bit.
Sole idea is to get "resources" my be even some labour and consumer market for necessary dumping.
Imitating Yanks is always on the Aussie Psyche.
Not really getting together as you have in mind.
Chris Beale
Stu-art – wot's all this "not Asian" bizo, mate?
Are ya some Down South drongo ?
"10 hours" mate !! It's ONE hour here from Darwin to Dili. An' last time I gave it a geeza, ET was "part ov Asia".
Wot's with it with you drongos Down South ? Here in Darwin – I can fly to Bali, in two and a half hours – that's Asia, i'n it ? "
Singa's only a few banana's more.
"10 hours mate" – ya oughta get a life !!
Greg Lopez
Will Australian values change in the Asian Century?
"…The man who could be Malaysia's next prime minister has attacked Julia Gillard and other Labor leaders for failing to support the country's democracy movement…"
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/malaysian-leader-hits-out-at-australias-lack-of-support-20130426-2ik82.html#ixzz2RbUvny4t
Murray Hunter, Guest Contributor


There are two very different types of collaboration; Intentional and Accidental. Intentional collaboration is focused by a defined team with a shared purpose. Interactions are marked by introductions, updates, "take a look at this", "please review…" etc. Most "collaboration" technology fits this category. It is boring, line cook kitchen model collaboration. Read the recipe. Gather the ingredients. Cook, plate and serve. There is efficient repetition but little or no innovation.
So where do new recipes come from?
The answer is Accidental Collaboration. Accidental collaboration is time and context shifted. It subverts or ignores original intent (of authors, findings, content or audience). It finds new uses and applications for old information. It is disruptive, innovative and amazing. Examples in technology include re-blgging (tumblr, pinterest), reporting, content curation, re-use, re-purposing, re-search. When information is available and accessible new insights can occur. This is because each new re-combination of content allows different features to emerge. A collection of events in a city becomes a holiday schedule. A collection of medical journal articles reveals a new drug delivery pathway.
A thread of an idea that started in 1676 with mathematician Leibniz can be traced through history to David Hilbert (1882), Alonzo Church (1936), John McCarthy (1958), Dean & Ghemawat (2004), and finally Doug Cutting (2006) who stands on the shoulders of these giants to create Hadoop. Hadoop is at the center of the "Big Data" buzz. Big data is all about deriving insight from huge amounts of disparate data. It is accidental collaboration.
The original intent of the data is largely irrelevant. It's the data, and the availability of that data that is important. Leibniz wanted to create a language that could prove or disprove any proposition. Hilbert came along to challenge that idea. Church created Lambda calculus to prove that Hilbert's challenge was actually unsolvable. McCarthy used Lambda calculus to create LISP. Dean and Ghemawat used LISP programming ideas to create MapReduce. Cutting read their research and combined MapReduce with Lucene to create Hadoop.
Just as McCarthy never worked on a project team with Church to create LISP, the content Church created for Lambda Calculus was indispensible in helping McCarthy create the programming language. Similarly, the ways in which LISP was created directly influenced Dean and Ghemawat at Google to create the map & reduce capabilities that allow massive distributed problem solving. From that inspiration, a lot of hard work, and some help from Yahoo!, Hadoop was born.
The men involved, the content and approach were all in different eras, but they came together to create something special, innovative and impactful. If that information was not available or accessible, Hadoop (and all the applications that rely upon it) would never have happened.
Accidental collaboration throughout history has been incredibly slow. Modern information management technology like hadoop or active content archives can speed it up and deliver to us amazing insight in incredibly short periods of time.


Some may call it the process, I call it stressful, but I'm having so much fun teaching my two boys Mason 6 and Noah 4 how to be safe and controlled dirt bike riders. Before I was a Dad I didn't know if I wanted my kids to ride dirt bikes because of the highs and lows that I have had in my racing career. Once Mason "my 1st son" was old enough to watch Dad ride and see my bike in the garage I think I was more excited for him to enjoy riding then he was. I didn't know when I was going to pull the trigger on purchasing a PW50 for Mason but at some point I knew I wanted to.
With out knowing I started the process with Mason riding his bicycle at 2 years old with out training wheels. He loved riding his bicycle but never really pressed me for a dirt bike so we just enjoyed riding bicycles in the park and the pump track that I had built. Fast forward a year and my good friend Mike Diorio tells me to come get his sons old PW50 or he was going to sell it. I was torn because my plan was to present Mason with a PW50 for a birthday or Christmas present but it wasn't going to work out that way because it was June and Christmas and Mason's birthday were months away. Sarah and I had already got Mason pants and jersey for his 3rd birthday so when I brought the bike home for him he was quickly jumping into his gear and I was left going Uh OH!!! I didn't know how I wanted to teach him how to ride yet so I thought the best thing to do would be to take him to my neighborhood park and let him ride around the grass paddock so when he had a tip over he would be safer. I turned in the throttle limiter as far as I could so Mason couldn't go very fast, but to be honest it's almost harder to ride when the bike is slow because the kids balance really has to come into play when they are going slow.
We spent a few days in the park before I took him to the dirt and when I say dirt I didn't take him to the track. In my opinion the track is very overwhelming with jumps, deep soil and other riders at all levels. Before I hit the track I rode in a turn track and oval in a field behind my house, so Mason could really understand how to use the throttle and brake. He was catching on very quickly but he was scared to go fast and at the speed he was going it was almost harder because he had to balance on his own. To get his speed up so it would be easier on him I took him to a larger field that we could go in a straight line for a longer period of time to understand that going faster made it easier. This worked like a charm and the next step was track. I took him to Pala raceway on a Friday afternoon where he rode the 50 track for hrs with a grin on his face and mine! Mason is 5 years old at this point and he was going faster and faster and this is where things get tricky. The PW50 in my opinion the best motorcycle to learn to ride but it quickly becomes scary due to suspension limitations.
This is when my Dad comes into the picture. I started my racing career on PW50's and back in the 80's when Dad's had to hand make modified 50's to stand the abuse when kids got faster and more aggressive. Did Mason need more power? No! but some more suspension would be nice. My Dad purchased a blown up PW50 off Craigslist stripped it down and ordered some parts from PW50only.com that he thought would build the next step for Mason to be a safer better rider. The chassis was first so he purchased the single shock kit, aftermarket front forks, wider foot pegs, top triple clamp, and renthal bars. For the motor my Dad put a FMF pipe, QT70cc big bore on it utilizing the stock carb with a aftermarket uni filter to help it breathe. One of the biggest things you can do to a PW50 is put Dunlop 3s tires on the bike. After getting the bike on its wheels we noticed that the forks were way to stiff and since these forks are not the latest in technology we just took a fork spring out to help balance the bike out. This seemed to be a good fix as the balance was better and it would give Mason good comfort. Mason loves his "mod bike" and his confidence went through the roof as soon as he got on it. Mason hadn't raced yet and I thought the best place for his 1st race would be the mini TT at The Day In The Dirt Thanksgiving weekend 2016. The track had no jumps, no bumps and lots of entry level riders. Mason had an absolute blast, rode his little heart out and was smiling for hours after he finished raced. Months later Mason rides maybe once a month and hasn't raced since his 1st race, but when he wants to ride we go to the track and share his moto stories while his little brother Noah that is 4 years old is riding Masons 1st stock PW50.
If you are reading this you are probably wondering why I didn't just buy Mason a KTM mini 50sx for his 2nd bike? Well the 50sx mini is an amazing bike and I cant wait for Mason to transition to it, but for a 5 and 6 year old it's a massive gap from the PW50. The KTM has a strong hit off the bottom and enough power to jump a sx triple if the young rider were to whiskey throttle. I'm not saying there aren't 5 and 6 year olds that make that bike work, but my 5 year old needed more time to develop and Dad needs to save his pennies. At the end of the day I think I think riding motorcycles with your son is one of the coolest things I've ever done. Will my kids have the same passion for dirt bikes that I do? I don't know, but if they want to ride I want to make sure that they are prepared, safe and understand that riding like an idiot does nothing for you. If you are getting your son or daughter into moto I hope my experiences will help you enjoy in what my opinion is the best sport ever.


When you search for people on LinkedIn, you might not see the search results you're looking for. This is because results can be restricted based on your membership level.
The majority of LinkedIn profiles are indexed on Google.
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Send out your tweet just like normal, ending it with a (…) or a cliffhanger.
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The Internet can be a rowdy place, especially in social media. But if you go to the Page Moderation section of Page Settings, you'll get some relief.
Simply enter common inflammatory words such as "unlike," "clickbait," "idiot" and so forth.
Then when a banned word is used, the comment will be hidden from the general public.
The comment still appears to the person who left it who is none the wiser. And their friends will be able to see it as well, but no one else.
You can also hide comments from trolls after they're posted. The troll will still see the comment, so unless he compares his account with someone else's he'll never know the comment is hidden.
And it's better than deleting the comment and banning the troll, since they'll then email you and complain you're stepping on their freedom of speech.
It can be difficult to move viewers off of YouTube and onto your website.
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Share for Share or Shoutout for Shoutout (S4S) is basically forming mutually beneficial partnerships with other people in your niche.
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Pick your favorite and start using today.


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