well, this was the one of the first tries to understand the shutter speed,

Model: Archie.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General and Luo Zhaohui (virtual), Chairman, CIDCA, signs the Memorandum of Understanding Agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) on Exchanges and Cooperation at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 14 October 2021. 2021.

 

Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA

 

CIDCA (Virtual):

Luo Zhaohui, Chairman, China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA)

HE Mr Wang Qun, Resident Representative of China to the IAEA

 

IAEA:

Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General

Hua Liu, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation

Jane Gerardo-Abaya, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation

Shota Kamishima, Senior Coordination Officer, Director General Office for Coordination

Diego Candano Laris, Senior Advisor to the Director General

Ruzanna Harman, IAEA Chief of Protocol

 

"Weeee! I love bubbles!"

Orthodox Christianity became the established church of the Ethiopian Axumite Kingdom under king Ezana in the 4th century through the efforts of a Syrian Greek named Frumentius who later became its first bishop.

 

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Raleigh, NC - On November 18, NC Vision Zero hosts the third annual World Day of Remembrance (WDR) event at the State Capitol. A memorial display featuring thousands of shoes will be open to the public from 10am-5pm. The press event at 3pm will include remarks from Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey, NCGHSP Director Mark Ezzell, and Tammy Garlock, who lost her son in a distracted driving crash.

The WDR memorial exhibit will display thousands of shoes, each pair representing a victim of traffic crashes on NC roads. Visitors to the exhibit can place yellow paper flowers on shoes to remember lost loved ones and honor their memory.

The annual exhibit is one of several WDR events around the globe, each focused on honoring the lives lost on our world’s roads and spreading awareness about preventable traffic violence.

About World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

The third Sunday of every November, the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims calls attention to the suffering and heartache felt by millions as a result of preventable traffic violence. Hundreds of events honoring the lives lost are hosted all over the world.

About NC Vision Zero

Last year, 1,412 people were killed another 4,500 were seriously injured on North Carolina roads. NC Vision Zero is a collaborative, data-driven program aimed at eliminating these preventable roadway deaths and serious injuries. For more information, visit ncvisionzero.org.

 

NC Vision Zero Task Force Mission & Vision

Background

1,412 people were killed on North Carolina roads in 2017. Year after year, traffic

violence destroys an unacceptable number of lives in North Carolina: North Carolinians

clearly face a public health crisis. People of conscience naturally resent paying such an

unnecessary and unjust price for mobility. Every death from traffic violence is

demonstrably preventable.

Motor vehicle crashes are also financially costly, as one of the leading causes of Years

of Productive Life Lost due to unintentional injury for all age groups below 65 (CDC). In

one year, crash-related deaths cost North Carolina residents $1.71 Billion in medical

costs and work loss costs (CDC).

Resolved that losing even one life to traffic violence is unacceptable, the North Carolina

Executive Committee for Highway Safety (ECHS) passed a resolution adopting a Vision

Zero initiative in May 2015. The NC ECHS concluded that overcoming the challenges

connected with transforming traffic safety culture and drastically reducing serious injury

and death on our roadways would require a sustained collaborative effort. It therefore

established the NC Vision Zero Task Force to facilitate collaboration and lead the zero

tolerance charge for the state.

The NC Vision Zero Task Force consists of public and private-sector stakeholders, as

well as experts in the fields of engineering, law enforcement, education, emergency

response, and public engagement from across North Carolina. Its intent is to assist with

the implementation of North Carolina’s statewide Vision Zero initiative. It provides an

adaptive ecosystem, in which all participating safety initiatives can share information

freely and fluidly.

NC Vision Zero Principles:

1. No loss of life on North Carolina roads is acceptable.

2. All road users deserve safe streets.

3. North Carolinians should not incur risk of death or serious injury in exchange for

mobility.

4. A safe systems approach is required to eliminate fatal and serious injuries.

What is Vision Zero?

Vision Zero is a transportation safety paradigm conceived in Sweden in the late 1990s

to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by means of systemic interventions.

Through its Vision Zero efforts, Sweden has reduced traffic fatalities by half, making it

one of the safest places to travel in the world. A central tenet of Vision Zero is that

people should not be killed or seriously injured as a consequence of mobility. Vision

Zero recognizes that humans make mistakes and, therefore, that the transportation

system should be designed to minimize the consequences of those errors.

Vision Zero is based on a Safe Systems approach , equally reliant on safer roads,

safer vehicles, and safer road users to achieve zero roadway deaths.

Safer Roads

Roadways should be designed to protect their imperfect, human users by physically

limiting the range of possible dangerous acts those users can perform.

Safer Vehicles

Vehicle technology should be designed to compensate for natural human deficiencies of

attention, perception, reaction speed, etc. to prevent or mitigate crashes.

Safer Road Users

Outreach should be designed to encourage a sense of shared responsibility in all

road-users, motivating them always to make intelligent, courteous, and safe decisions

on the road.

NC Vision Zero Task Force Vision, Mission, and Goals

Vision: To eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries through collaborative,

data-driven interventions.

The purpose of the NC Vision Zero Task Force is to eliminate deaths and serious

injuries on all modes of ground transportation using data-driven prevention strategies

(with emphasis on a safe systems approach) in collaboration with local, regional, and

state partners.

Mission: To supply all safety stakeholders in North Carolina with effective resources,

tools, and information, enabling them to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries.

The NC Vision Zero Task Force mission includes the following goals:

● Serve as a clearinghouse for North Carolina safety data, research, and

resources.

● Provide a bridge for collaboration by facilitating communications between traffic

safety stakeholders across the state.

● Encourage and promote safe systems designs, which prioritize safety over

speed.

● Inspire and encourage, support and amplify local, regional, and statewide Vision

Zero initiatives.

● Facilitate access to information regarding safety initiatives operating and

developing in North Carolina.

● Advocate for processes and outcomes which promote public health equity,

engage with populations disproportionately killed or seriously injured on North

Carolina roads, and protect the most vulnerable road users.

● Serve as conduit for advocates, concerned citizens, and traffic safety

professionals to present research, efforts, and proposed solutions for statewide

consideration and implementation.

● Provide updates and recommendations to ECHS.

● Establish criteria/guidelines/best practices for local Vision Zero initiatives.

● Promote policies and practices to account for the safety of all road users

regardless of mode of transportation, age, ability, race, or income.

● Promote a culture of traffic safety in North Carolina, in which roadway violence is

not tolerated or socially acceptable.

● Provide research, crash data, and stakeholder engagement for proposed

policies.

Long Term Goals

● Cut fatalities and serious injuries in North Carolina in half by 2030, as established

in the North Carolina Highway Safety Plan.

● Improve access, transparency, and public understanding of crash causes and

data.

● Educate and empower North Carolinians to speak up if someone is being unsafe

on the road.

● Engage researchers, practitioners, and invested community members toward

developing a deeper understanding of the contributing factors involved in road

user safety, and investigating ways to effectively implement proven

countermeasures and community-based interventions.

 

Contact: Miracle King, NCDOT Communications Specialist 919-814-3657 miracleking@ncdot.gov

The local historical understanding is that this is the oldest Episcopal church in the Northeast US, built in 1707. A more modern church is about two blocks away and is the one primarily used by the local Episcopal congregation. Small headstones, mainly from the 18th and early 19th century, dot the churchyard.

BC is committed to maintaining leadership on climate change and clean energy by ensuring the cleanest LNG

facilities in the world. As part of the LNG in BC conference, panel of international experts discussed the impact LNG will have on reducing global

emissions.

 

The Honourable Mary Polak, Minister of Environment, was the moderator.

 

The second annual international LNG in BC conference provides an opportunity to develop responsible government policy and industry best practices.

 

READ MORE: engage.gov.bc.ca/lnginbc/lng-conference/

Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his address to the International Trade Centre (ITC) Joint Advisory Group on 21 May 2012, cited ITC as a key WTO partner in trade capacity building, and urged it to focus on trade facilitation, Aid for Trade, least-developed countries, and regional integration in its future work. This is what he said:

Equipping ITC for the Priorities and Challenges of Today.

Secretary-General Supachai,

Executive Director, Patricia Francis,

Ambassador Francis Pirez Gordillo,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

Thank you for inviting me to address the JAG.

 

I have often remarked that the WTO and UNCTAD are your parents. With ITC’s growing maturity as an organization that delivers for developing countries, I may have to slightly reformulate that argumentaire and cast the WTO and UNCTAD as your older siblings! Irrespective of the family lineage, ITC is one of the WTO’s key partners in trade capacity building. And we all know that it is precisely trade capacity building, more than flexibilities or preferences, that is the main lever to make trade work for development.

 

We therefore have a stake in ensuring that ITC succeeds as an organization both in terms of its internal operations and in the delivery of its services and products.

 

Let me focus on four priority areas where I believe ITC can play a key role in the coming years.

 

I will start with trade facilitation. There is general agreement that a multilateral deal simplifying customs and border measures is a win-win deal. It would improve the cost and efficiency of doing business. And this is why many countries — developed and developing alike — are already taking measures in that direction. Because it increases customs productivity, it improves trade tax collection and helps attract FDI. According to one recent study, implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement would halve the total trade costs which today amount to 10 per cent of world trade, and which is a bigger handicap for small countries and small traders.

 

ITC has a valuable role to play here by helping SMEs to better understand and address the trade facilitation related barriers they may face in exporting and in importing, which is essential to help these smaller players integrate into regional and global production chains. ITC’s work in the area of market knowledge, through its surveys for example, is an important element in ensuring that the actual barriers faced by companies are made known to policy makers. And these barriers are not just trade facilitation. Or indeed not necessarily related to tariff barriers. Non-tariff barriers are now one of the most commonly identified barriers to trade. And this is why the WTO’s 2012 World Trade Report will be devoted to non-tariff measures.

 

The second area is Aid for Trade and global and regional value chains.

 

Global value chains are not a new concept. What is catching the attention and the imagination of developing countries is how they can use supply chains to move up the value addition chain and create economic growth and jobs.

 

The potential in Africa is immense. The same holds true for the small economies of Central America, the Pacific and the Caribbean where properly functioning regional supply chains could be one important solution to addressing the problem of economies of scale.

 

ITC’s comparative advantage of its vast network of producers, suppliers, and entrepreneurs can be used to gather more and better information about the constraints faced by SMEs and the priority action needed for their better insertion into supply chains.

 

And it is Aid for Trade that can help businesses in developing countries unlock the economic potential of value chains through diversification and specialization in sectors where they can have some form of comparative advantage or niche potential. It is here that ITC can best assist even if governments will have their part to play too. For regional or global value chains to prosper, and indeed for investors to come, gaps in infrastructure, logistics and the business environment must be addressed.

 

The 2013 Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade will have global value chains and the private sector as its focus. This fits with the work that ITC is doing and I suggest that you continue to work closely with the WTO to maximize your contribution to the preparatory process for the Review.

 

The third area pertains to LDC issues. At the 8th WTO Ministerial Conference, a number of decisions were adopted to further assist least-developed countries (LDCs) to better integrate into the multilateral trading system. There are three areas in particular where ITC’s work must continue to be a priority. The first one is accessions. During my recent trip to Ethiopia, I saw first hand the work that ITC was undertaking with the Chamber of Commerce and the Commodity Exchange to help build up the institutional capacity of these organizations to better take advantage of the opportunities which accession to the WTO would offer. I also saw the impressive results already achieved in flower farming. Similar work is being undertaken in a number of LDCs in the accession process and those considering accession. These programmes should be intensified.

 

ITC can also assist LDCs in taking advantage of the flexibilities provided under the services waiver. You have a wealth of information and research on the priority services sectors of a number of LDCs — those that are established and those that have the potential to become competitive, either regionally or globally. This is an area where you can make a concrete difference.

 

The EIF is continuing to successfully evolve into a platform for LDCs to craft their needs and priorities and identify the projects and interventions that would best meet these priorities. ITC’s involvement in the operationalization of Tier 2 projects must be a priority for the next two years.

 

My final point relates to regional integration. The potential for regional integration in Africa, South-East Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, the Pacific or Central America has not fully delivered on its promise of driving diversification. There are a myriad of reasons for this. From lack of regional infrastructure, whether hard or soft, to lack of sustained political will.

 

In Africa, much of the cross-border trade remains primarily informal, mostly because of the high costs of trading across borders. In some African countries, informal regional trade flows represent up to 90 per cent of official flows. Whereas it costs around US$ 900 to ship a container from South-East Asia, it costs almost US$ 2,000 to ship the same container from Africa. Barriers, both tariff and non-tariff in nature, continue to dominate the regional trading picture in Africa. Sub-Saharan African countries impose more non-tariff barriers on trade between themselves than on trade with third countries.

 

One clear impact of the lack of integration of these economies is the limited participation of firms from these countries in global value chains. High fragmentation of markets, high transaction costs and complex regulatory systems are not conducive to such integration.

 

There are growing signs, however, that political support for a more focused approach to regional integration is increasing.

 

The Caribbean’s work on a regional Aid for Trade strategy and the identification of regional priorities and projects is a sign that the small economies in that region are recognizing the importance of regional cohesion.

 

In Africa, the African Union’s recent decision on boosting intra-African trade has set off a series of work focused on operationalizing this decision. ITC has a critical role here. Not in identifying why regional integration is necessary — there is a common understanding of this — nor in creating new structures or mechanisms to implement the decision. Rather, ITC — along with other development partners, such as the WTO, the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the UN Economic Commission for Africa — can help to support African countries in better using the existing frameworks of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) to improve and monitor the implementation of the decision taken by their leaders. This will include identifying the barriers to closer regional integration but also assessing the policy options to overcome these barriers.

 

Support for closer integration of markets helps prepare SMEs for producing and trading abroad. It is a training ground for meeting standards, using distribution systems and manoeuvring through regulatory and legal obligations. Your work with the RECs in this area must be made a priority.

 

Before I conclude, let me turn briefly to two issues that I consider cross-cutting in nature.

 

ITC continues to do exemplary work on women and international trade, which must be seen as an issue within all facets of ITC’s work. Inspired by the existing work on women and micro-finance, we now need to look at women and global and regional supply chains; the impact of effective trade facilitation procedures on women traders, especially in the informal sector; and the opportunities which deeper regional integration can offer to the economic livelihoods of women. Through your extensive network, you can produce a series of evidence-based analysis that will be of great value added.

 

I also want to commend ITC for the work it has been doing, internally, to improve its priority setting and programme delivery. At a time where reports are that ODA is declining, where donors are assessing their support for various multilateral initiatives but where demand from developing countries, especially from LDCs, for the services provided is increasing, there must be concrete efforts to show value for money. Showing impacts and results is a “must”.

 

The implementation of Results-Based Management, including the development of the conceptual framework and corporate log frame, will allow ITC to monitor and evaluate the impact of its projects on the ground in developing countries, as well as to monitor and evaluate its own effectiveness. This is the most convincing tool that you can use for fund-raising in the current crisis — that your programmes and projects deliver and that ITC, as an organization, works.

 

Patricia, the mid-term evaluation of ITC has shown what works and what needs to be amended. This is a useful foundation on which to build a dialogue between donors and partners to begin to design future projects as well as to ensure adequate funding for these projects will be available. I trust that in the year ahead you will devote your energy to this.

 

Thank you for your attention.

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K. L. Thapar Founder and Chairman, Asian Institute of Transport Development, participates during the Session: "Inclusive transport planning for low density rural areas" taking place at the International Transport Forum’s 2016 Summit on “Green and Inclusive Transport” in Leipzig, Germany on 19 May 2016.

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Leipzig Book Fair 2013

Leipziger Buchmesse 2013

 

Cosplayers

 

Fie-of-Doom-xD (Alessandra) 475164 as Paine from Final Fantasy X-2

 

Photos posted are 1024x768 pixels in size. Higher resolution (3000x2000) for models only, sorry.

 

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An attendee at the opening of the White Rabbit gallery REFORMATION exhibition opening tries to get a better view of how the 'drawing machine' works. Sorry no artist information at the moment but will update after getting back to the exhibition. Soon!

 

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There will never be

Another one like you

There will never be

Another one who can

Do the things you do, oh

 

Will you give another chance?

Will you try, little try?

Please stop and you remember

We were together, anyway, all right

 

And if you have a certain evenin'

You could lend to me

I'd give it all right back to you

A how it has to be with you

I know your moves and your mind

 

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April 24, 2010

 

Maryland Day

On Saturday, April 24, 2010 from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, the University of Maryland’s College Park campus was open for Maryland Day, an annual family-friendly event filled with opportunities for learning, exploration, and fun. It featured over 400 interactive exhibits, workshops, and live performances.

 

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center was able to showcase its missions, particularly Goddard’s exciting earth science and space science partnerships with the University of Maryland.

 

NASA Goddard Exhibits Included:

Earth Science/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) – Discussion of Chesapeake Bay research conducted in collaboration with ESSIC. Interactive activity with Goddard interns from University of Maryland and Goddard scientists.

 

Dynamic Response of the Environment At the Moon (DREAM) – Lunar activities led by Goddard scientists.

 

MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) – Unlocking the Secrets of Mercury through hands-on activities led by Outreach personnel and students.

 

Joint Space Science Institute (JSI), International X-ray Observatory (IXO), Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Project (LISA), and the Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization and the Deep Impact extended Investigation (EPOXI) will host exhibits coordinated by UMD.

 

NASA Goddard Missions for 2010

Missions launched or set to launch in 2010 were also highlighted at Maryland Day 2010.

 

Glory – Set to launch in 2010, the Glory exhibit revealed the mission’s role in increasing understanding of the Earth’s energy balance.

 

Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) – Interactive activities designed for kids to inspire understanding of the Sun’s influence.

 

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – Key project personnel interacted with the public, discussed the engineering challenges of building JWST .

 

General Goddard – Activities revealed facets of Goddard, information on NASA opportunities.

 

Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo

 

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.

So many students complain about math and yet do we hear of math being delivered in more engaging and inventive ways to make it more interesting?

Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. MD

By George Baron; Richmond Publishing Co., Slough, 1999; 92 p.; Excellent short introduction into lichenology: anatomy, morphology, physiology, reproduction and dispersal, ecology, classification

Staff Sgt. Andrew Schneider with U.S. Army Europe's 2nd Cavalry Regiment gives first aid to a simulated casualty during the standardization part of this year's USAREUR Expert Field Medical Badge competition, at the Joint Multinational Training Command's Grafenwoehr (Germany) Training Area, Sept. 2. Three hundred candidates, including 40 multinational participants, are competing in the five-day challenge. The test is a rigorous evaluation of mental and physical skills and earning the badge requires a high degree of ability and focus. Passing rates range from 5-25 percent, making the EFMB a distinctive mark in a Soldier's records. The EFMB also provides multinational and U.S. service members the opportunity to train together and to gain a greater understanding of their abilities while building more competent and confident Soldiers. As an interoperable team, we deter and prevent future aggression and instability. (Photo by Gertrud Zach)

Leipziger Buchmesse 2016 / Leipzig Book Fair 2016

2016-03-19 (Saturday)

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2016#235

Sheepcloud (Laura) 739521 as Snowwhite from NoFlutter

 

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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) as well as CTAM, the industry marketing organization, today announced a multi-layered partnership designed to strengthen innovation and collaboration within the organizations’ collective content protection efforts.

 

Derek N. Benner, Executive Associate Director for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which oversees the IPR Center, and Karyn Temple, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel for the MPA, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) during a virtual ceremony to commemorate the partnership.

The exhibition "Understanding AI" shows how neural networks are structured and offers visitors the opportunity to train neural networks themselveswith via interactive stations.

 

Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl

Big data is the hot topic of the year! Understanding how it fits into a our world is as important as ever. How we analyze and utilize this data has opportunity for profound impact if delivered effectively. Join moderator Colin Hill, CEO & Chairman, GNS Healthcare, @gnshealthcare, and panelists Arnab Gupta, Founder & CEO, Opera Solutions, @operasolutions, Sridhar Iyengar, @SridIyengar, Founder and CTO, AgaMatrix, @AgaMatrix, Alistair Jacques, CIO, Medicare & Retirement, UnitedHealth Group, @UHGinnovates, and Derek Newell, @dereknewell, CEO, Jiff, @JiffInc, as they discuss big data.

 

The Digital Health Summit at the 2013 International CES®

bit.ly/DigitalHealthCES - Focuses on the latest products and consumers' growing demand for high-tech health services. See solutions for diagnosing, monitoring and treating a variety of illnesses - from obesity to ADHD, from poor vision to high blood pressure.

 

Learn about games that reinforce healthy behaviors, body sensors that let people take more responsibility for their own health, affordable gene sequencing, real-time medicine monitoring, and more. You'll gain an understanding of the digital health infrastructure and how your organization can capitalize on this hot market.

 

Official Hashtag: #DigiHealthCES News & Press Articles: #DigiHealthCESPress CES Hashtag: #2013CES

 

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Thank you! AARP bit.ly/AARP_DHS for sponsoring Digital Health Summit Live.

 

Social Media Team: www.newmediasynergy.com

 

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"Downtown is much more exciting than I thought."

 

A series of AI-generated pictures of Little Red Riding Hood in different art styles.

To be continued.

Pictures made with Midjourney.

 

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As a part of Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency Program, U.S. Army ROTC cadets visit Ukraine and Rapid Trident 2012, which was held at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv, Ukraine, July 18. Rapid Trident is a multinational exercise held at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center in Yavoriv, Ukraine. It is designed to promote regional stability and security, strengthen international military partnering and foster trust while improving interoperability between participating nations.(Photo by Lt. Col. Taras Gren, Ukrainian Army Public Affairs)

The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) as well as CTAM, the industry marketing organization, today announced a multi-layered partnership designed to strengthen innovation and collaboration within the organizations’ collective content protection efforts.

 

Derek N. Benner, Executive Associate Director for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which oversees the IPR Center, and Karyn Temple, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel for the MPA, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) during a virtual ceremony to commemorate the partnership.

Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.

 

Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, in which he proposed that energy levels of electrons are discrete and that the electrons revolve in stable orbits around the atomic nucleus but can jump from one energy level (or orbit) to another. Although the Bohr model has been supplanted by other models, its underlying principles remain valid. He conceived the principle of complementarity: that items could be separately analysed in terms of contradictory properties, like behaving as a wave or a stream of particles. The notion of complementarity dominated Bohr's thinking in both science and philosophy.

 

Bohr founded the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen, now known as the Niels Bohr Institute, which opened in 1920. Bohr mentored and collaborated with physicists including Hans Kramers, Oskar Klein, George de Hevesy, and Werner Heisenberg. He predicted the existence of a new zirconium-like element, which was named hafnium, after the Latin name for Copenhagen, where it was discovered. Later, the element bohrium was named after him.

 

During the 1930s, Bohr helped refugees from Nazism. After Denmark was occupied by the Germans, he had a famous meeting with Heisenberg, who had become the head of the German nuclear weapon project. In September 1943, word reached Bohr that he was about to be arrested by the Germans, and he fled to Sweden. From there, he was flown to Britain, where he joined the British Tube Alloys nuclear weapons project, and was part of the British mission to the Manhattan Project. After the war, Bohr called for international cooperation on nuclear energy. He was involved with the establishment of CERN and the Research Establishment Risø of the Danish Atomic Energy Commission, and became the first chairman of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1957.

 

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copyright released and/or royalty free.

Chitra, also spelled as Citra, is an Indian genre of art that includes painting, sketch and any art form of delineation. The earliest mention of the term Chitra in the context of painting or picture is found in some of the ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism and Pali texts of Buddhism

 

NOMENCLATURE

Chitra (IAST: Citra, चित्र) is a Sanskrit word that appears in the Vedic texts such as hymns 1.71.1 and 6.65.2 of the Rigveda. There, and other texts such as Vajasaneyi Samhita, Taittiriya Samhita, Satapatha Brahmana and Tandya Brahmana, Chitra means "excellent, clear, bright, colored, anything brightly colored that strikes the eye, brilliantly ornamented, extraordinary that evokes wonder". In the Mahabharata and the Harivamsa, it means "picture, sktech, dilineation", and is presented as a genre of kala (arts). Many texts generally dated to the post-4th-century BCE period, use the term Chitra in the sense of painting, and Chitrakara as a painter. For example, the Sanskrit grammarian Panini in verse 3.2.21 of his Astadhyayi highlights the word chitrakara in this sense. Halls and public spaces to display paintings are called chitrasalas, and the earliest known mention of these are found in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

 

A few Indian regional texts such as Kasyapa silpa refer to painting by others words. For example, abhasa – which literally means "semblance, shining forth", is used in Kasyapa-shilpa to mean as a broader category of painting, of which chitra is one of three types. The verses in section 4.4 of the Kasyapa-silpa state that there are three types of images – those which are immovable (walls, floor, terracota, stucco), movable, and those which are both movable-immovable (stone, wood, gems).[5] In each of these three, states Kasyapa-shipa, are three classes of expression – ardhacitra, citra, and citra-abhasa. Ardhacitra is an art form where a high relief is combined with painting and parts of the body is not seen (it appears to be emerging out of the canvas). The Citra is the form of picture artwork where the whole is represented with or without integrating a relief. Citrabhasha is the form where an image is represented on a canvas or wall with colors (painting). However, states Commaraswamy, the word Abhasa has other meanings depending on the context. For example, in Hindu texts on philosophy, it implies the "field of objective experience" in the sense of the intellectual image internalized by a person during a reading of a subject (such as an epic, tale or fiction), or one during a meditative spiritual experience.

 

In some Buddhist and Hindu texts on methods to prepare a manuscript (palm leaf) or a composition on a cloth, the terms lekhya and alekhya are also used in the context of a chitra. More specifically, alekhya is the space left while writing a manuscript leaf or cloth, where the artist aims to add a picture or painting to illustrate the text.

 

HISTORY

The earliest explicit reference to painting in an Indian text is found in verse 4.2 of the Maitri Upanishad where it uses the phrase citrabhittir or "like a painted wall". The Indian art of painting is also mention in a number of Buddhist Pali suttas, but with the modified spelling of Citta. This term is found in the context of either a painting, or painter, or painted-hall (citta-gara) in Majjhima Nikaya 1.127, Samyutta Nikaya 2.101 and 3.152, Vinaya 4.289 and others. Among the Jain texts, it is mentioned in Book 2 of the Acaranga Sutra as it explains that Jaina monk should not indulge in the pleasures of watching a painting.

 

The Kamasutra, broadly accepted to have been complete by about the 4th-century CE, recommends that the young man should surprise the girl he courts with gifts of color boxes and painted scrolls. The Viddhasalabhanjika – another Hindu kama- and kavya–text uses chitra-simile in verse 1.16, as "pictures painted by the god of love, with the brush of the mind and the canvas of the heart".

 

The nature of a chitra (painting), how the viewer's mind projects a two dimensional artwork into a three dimensional representation, is used by Asanga in Mahayana Sutralamkara – a 3rd to 5th-century Sanskrit text of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, to explain "non-existent imagination" as follows:

 

Just as in a picture painted according to rules, there are neither projections nor depressions and yet we see it in three dimensions, so in the non-existent imagination there is no phenomenal differentiation, and yet we behold it.

— Mahayana Sutralamkara 13.7, Translated in French by Sylvain Levi

 

According to Yoko Taniguchi and Michiyo Mori, the art of painting the caves at the c. 6th-century Buddhas of Bamiyan site in Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban Muslims in the late 1990s, were likely introduced to this region from India along with the literature on early Buddhism.

 

TEXTS

There are many important dedicated Indian treatises on chitra. Some of these are chapters within a larger encyclopedia-like text. These include:

 

Chitrasutras, chapters 35–43 within the Hindu text Vishnudharmottara Purana (the standard, and oft referred to text in the Indian tradition)

Chitralaksana of Nagnajit (a classic on classical painting, 5th-century CE or earlier making it the oldest known text on Indian painting; but the Sanskrit version has been lost, only version available is in Tibet and it states that it is a translation of a Sanskrit text)

Samarangana Sutradhara (mostly architecture treatise, contains a large section on paintings)

Aparajitaprccha (mostly architecture treatise, contains a large section on paintings)

Manasollasa (an encyclopedia, contains chapters on paintings)

Abhilashitartha chinatamani

Sivatatva ratnakara

Chitra Kaladruma

Silpa ratna

Narada silpa

Sarasvati silpa

Prajapati silpa

Kasyapa silpa

 

These and other texts on chitra not only discuss the theory and practice of painting, some of them include discussions on how to become a painter, the diversity and the impact of a chitra on viewers, of aesthetics, how the art of painting relates to other arts (kala), methods of preparing the canvas or wall, methods and recipes to make color pigments. For example, the 10th-century Chitra Kaladruma presents recipe for making red color paint from the resin of lac insects. Other colors for the historic frescoes found in India, such as those in the Ajanta Caves, were obtained from nature. They mention earthy and mineral (inorganic) colorants such as yellow and red ochre, orpigment, green celadonite and ultramarine blue (lapis lazuli). The use of organic colorants prepared per a recipe in these texts have been confirmed through residue analysis and modern chromatographic techniques.

 

THEORY

The Indian concepts of painting are described in a range of texts called the shilpa shastras. These typically begin by attributing this art to divine sources such as Vishvakarma and ancient rishis (sages) such as Narayana and Nagnajit, weaving some mythology, highlighting chitra as a means to express ideas and beauty along with other universal aspects, then proceed to discuss the theory and practice of painting, sketching and other related arts. Manuscripts of many these texts are found in India, while some are known to be lost but are found outside India such as in Tibet and Nepal. Among these are the Citrasutras in the 6th-century Visnudharmottara Purana manuscripts discovered in India, and the Citralaksana manuscript discovered in Tibet (lost in India). This theory include early Indian ideas on how to prepare a canvas or substrate, measurement, proportion, stance, color, shade, projection, the painting's interaction with light, the viewer, how to captivate the mind, and other ideas.

 

According to the historic Indian tradition, a successful and impactful painting and painter requires a knowledge of the subject – either mythology or real life, as well as a keen sense of observation and knowledge of nature, human behavior, dance, music, song and other arts. For example, section 3.2 of Visnudharmottara Purana discusses these requirements and the contextual knowledge needed in chitra and the artist who produces it. The Chitrasutras in the Vishnudharmottara Purana state that the sculpture and painting arts are related, with the phrase "as in Natya, so in Citra". This relationship links them in rasa (aesthetics) and as forms of expression.

 

THE PAINTING

A chitra is a form of expression and communication. According to Aparajitaprccha – a 12th-century text on arts and architecture, just like the water reflects the moon, a chitra reflects the world. It is a rupa (form) of how the painter sees or what the painter wants the viewer to observe or feel or experience.

 

A good painting is one that is alive, breathing, draws in and affects the viewer. It captivates the minds of viewers, despite their diversity. Installed in a sala (hall or room), it enlivens the space.

 

The ornaments of a painting are its lines, shading, decoration and colors, states the 6th-century Visnudharmottara Purana. It states that there are eight gunas (merits, features) of a chitra that the artist must focus on: posture; proportion; the use of the plumb line; charm; detail (how much and where); verisimilitude; kshaya (loss, foreshortening) and; vrddhi (gain). Among the dosas (demerits, faults) of a painting and related arts, states Chitrasutra, are lines that are weak or thick, absence of variety, errors in scale (oversized eyes, lips, cheeks), inconsistency across the canvas, deviations from the rules of proportion, improper posture or sentiment, and non-merging of colors.

 

LIMBS OF THE PAINTING

Two historical sets called "chitra anga", or "limbs of painting" are found in Indian texts. According to the Samarangana Sutradhara – an 11th-century Sanskrit text on Hindu architecture and arts, a painting has eight limbs:

 

Vartika – manufacture of brushes

Bhumibandhana – preparation of base, plaster, canvas

Rekhakarma – sketching

Varnakarma – coloring

Vartanakarma – shading

lekhakarana – outlining

Dvikakarma – second and final lining

Lepyakarma – final coating

 

According to Yashodhara's Jayamangala, a Sanskrit commentary on Kamasutra, there are sadanga (six limbs)[note 5] in the art of alekhyam and chitra (drawing and painting):

 

Rupa-bhedah, or form distinction; this requires a knowledge of characteristic marks, diversity, manifested forms that distinguish states of something in the same genus/class

Pramanani, or measure; requires knowledge of measurement and proportion rules (talamana)

Bhava yojanam, or emotion and its joining with other parts of the painting; requires understanding and representing the mood of the subject

Lavanya yojanam, or rasa, charm; requires understanding and representing the inner qualities of the subject

Sadrsyam, or resemblance; requires knowledge of visual correspondence across the canvas

Varnika-bhanga or color-pigment-analysis; requires knowledge how colors distribute on the canvas and how they visually impact the viewer.

 

These six limbs are arranged stylistically in two ways. First as a set of compound (Rupa-bhedah and Varnika-bhanda), a set of joining (middle two yojnam), and a set of single words (Pramanani and Sadrsyam). Second, states Victor Mair, the six limbs in this Hindu text are paired in a set of differentiation skills (first two), then a pair of aesthetic skills, and finally a pair of technical skills. These limbs parallel the 12th-century Six principles of Chinese painting of Xie He. {refn|group=note|The Hua Chi of Teng Ch'un, a 12th-century Chinese text, mentions the Buddhist temple of Nalanda with frescoes about the Buddha painted inside. It states that the Indian Buddhas look different from those painted by Chinese, as the Indian paintings have Buddha with larger eyes, their ears are curiously stretched and the Buddhas have their right shoulder bare. It then states that the artists first make a drawing of the picture, then paint a vermilion or gold colored base. It also mentions the use of ox-glue and a gum produced from peach trees and willow juice, with the artists preferring the latter. According to Coomaraswamy, the ox-glue in the Indian context mentioned in the Chinese text is probably the same as the recipe found in the Sanskrit text Silparatna, one where the base medium is produced from boiling buffalo skin in milk, followed by drying and blending process.

 

The six limbs in Jayamangala likely reflect the earliest and more established Hindu tradition for chitra. This is supported by the Chitrasutras found in the Vishnudharmottara Purana. They explicitly mention pramanani and lavanya as key elements of a painting, as well as discuss the other four of the six limbs in other sutras. The Chitrasutra chapters are likely from about the 4th or 5th-century. Numerous other Indian texts touch upon the elements or aspects of a chitra. For example, the Aparajitaprccha states that the essential elements of a painting are: citrabhumi (background), the rekha (lines, sketch), the varna (color), the vartana (shading), the bhusana (decoration) and the rasa (aesthetic experience).

 

THE PAINTER

The painter (chitrakara, rupakara) must master the fundamentals of measurement and proportions, state the historic chitra texts of India. According to these historic texts, the expert painter masters the skills in measurement, characteristics of subjects, attributes, form, relative proportion, ornament and beauty, states Isabella Nardi – a scholar known for her studies on chitra text and traditions of India. According to the Chitrasutras, a skilled painter needs practice, and is one who is able to paint neck, hands, feet, ears of living beings without ornamentation, as well as paint water waves, flames, smoke, and garments as they get affected by the speed of wind. He paints all types of scenes, ranging from dharma, artha and kama. A painter observes, then remembers, repeating this process till his memory has all the details he needs to paint, states Silparatna. According to Sivatattva Ratnakara, he is well versed in sketching, astute with measurements, skilled in outlining (hastalekha), competent with colors, and ready to diligently mix and combine colors to create his chitra. The painter is a creative person, with an inner sense of rasa (aesthetics).

 

THE VIEWER

The painter should consider the diversity of viewers, states the Indian tradition of chitra. The experts and critics with much experience with paintings study the lines, shading and aesthetics, the uninitiated visitors and children enjoy the vibrancy of colors, while women tend to be attracted to the ornamentation of form and the emotions. A successful painter tends to captivate a variety of minds. A painter should remember that the visual and aesthetic impact of a painting triggers different responses in different audiences.

 

The Silparatna – a Sanskrit text on the arts, states that the painting should reflect its intended place and purpose. A theme suitable for a palace or gateway is different from that in a temple or the walls of a home. Scenes of wars, misery, death and suffering are not suitable paintings within homes, but these can be important in a chitrasala (museum with paintings). Auspicious paintings with beautiful colors such as those that cheer and enliven a room are better for homes, states Silparatna.

 

PRACITICE

According to the art historian Percy Brown, the painting tradition in India is ancient and the persuasive evidence are the oldest known murals at the Jogimara caves. The mention of chitra and related terms in the pre-Buddhist Vedic era texts, the chitra tradition is much older. It is very likely, states Brown, the pre-Buddhist structures had paintings in them. However, the primary building material in ancient India was wood, the colors were organic materials and natural pigments, which when combined with the tropical weather in India would naturally cause the painting to fade, damage and degrade over the centuries. It is not surprising, therefore, that sample paintings and historic evidence for chitra practice are unusual. The few notable surviving examples of chitra are found hidden in caves, where they would be naturally preserved a bit better, longer and would be somewhat protected from the destructive effects of wind, dust, water and biological processes.

Some notable, major surviving examples of historic paintings include:

 

Murals at Jogimara cave (eight panels of murals, with a Brahmi inscription, 2nd or 1st century BCE, Hindu), oldest known ceiling paintings in India in remote Ramgarh hills of northern Chhattisgarh, below on wall of this cave is a Brahmi inscription in Magadhi language about a girl named Devadasi and a boy named Devadina (either they were lovers and wrote a love-graffiti per one translation, or they were partners who together converted natural caves here into a theatre with painted walls per another translation)

 

Mural at Sitabhinji Group of Rock Shelters (c. 400 CE Ravanachhaya mural with an inscription, near a Shiva temple in remote Odisha, a non-religious painting), the oldest surviving example of a tempera painting in eastern states of India

 

Murals at Ajanta caves (Jataka tales, Buddhist), 5th-century CE, Maharashtra

Murals at Badami Cave Temples (Hindu), 6th-century CE, Karnataka (secular paintings along with one of the earliest known painting of a Hindu legend about Shiva and Parvati inside a Vaishnava cave)

Murals at Bagh caves (Hallisalasya dance, Buddhist or Hindu), Madhya Pradesh

Murals at Ellora caves (Flying vidyadharas, Jain), Maharashtra

Frescoes at Sittanavasal cave (Nature scenes likely representing places of Tirthankara sermons, Jain), Tamil Nadu

Frescoes at Thirunadhikkara cave temple (Flowers and a woman, likely a scene of puja offering to Ganesha, another of Vishnu, Hindu), Travancore region, Kerala-Tamil Nadu

Paintings at the Brihadisvara temple (Dancer, Hindu), Tamil Nadu

Manuscript paintings (numerous states such as Gujarat, Kashmir, Kerala, Odisha, Assam; also Nepal, Tibet; Buddhist, Jain, Hindu

Vijayanagara temples (Hindu), Karnataka

Chidambaram temple (Hindu), Tamil Nadu

Chitrachavadi (Hindu, a choultry–mandapa near Madurai with Ramayana frescoes)

Pahari paintings (Hindu), Himachal Pradesh and nearby regions

Rajput paintings (Hindu), Rajasthan

Deccan paintings (Hindu, Jain)

Kerala paintings (Hindu)

Telangana paintings (Hindu)

Mughal paintings (Indo-Islamic)

 

CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

Kalamkari (Hindu)

Pattas (Jain, Hindu)

 

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Tianliang Ma

 

~ a Taiwanese social reformer, philosopher, photographer and film director

 

“Touching Fairness and Justice”

  

馬天亮

 

~ 臺灣的社會改革者，哲學家，攝影師，和電影導演

 

《感動的公平與正義》

  

TianLiang Maa, alternative spelling: Tianliang Ma, also known as Theophilus Raynsford Mann; Ma, Tianliang; Chinese: 馬天亮; 马天亮.

  

SUMMARY

 

TianLiang Maa is a naturalist, occultist, Buddhist and Taoist. In 1982, Maa developed a technique for abstract photography, applied “Rayonism” into photographic works. Maa staged 32 individual, extraordinary exhibitions around Taiwan, who was the first exhibitor around Formosa. Maa’s works is the beginning of modernization in the modern abstract arts in the world. At the University of Oxford, Maa’s attractive topic was “A View of Architectural History: Towns through the Ages from Winchester through London Arrived at Oxford in England”; also an author at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan in the United States; an alumnus from Christ Church College at the University of Oxford in England, the University of Glamorgan in Wales, and National Taiwan University in Taipei on Taiwan. Maa’s works have been quoted by the scholars many times, making Maa one of the highly cited technological, artistic, and managing public administrators in the academia. Maa was listed in “Taiwan Who’s Who In Business” © 1984, 1987, 1989 Harvard Management Service.

  

Early Life and Record of Genealogy

 

TianLiang Maa possesses both Taiwanese and German surnames from birth. Usually, whenever anyone asks Maa about where he comes from, he would reply “Formosa” as he grew up and was educated in the Far East and lives in Taiwanese and Japanese lifestyles. Moreover, he often teaches and educates younger generations based on the methods of the Far Eastern teaching he experienced when he was young, though he does not oppose the Western ways of teaching and thinking. Maa takes great pride in his roots, which go back 150 years (since 1864); Maa’s ancestry originates and creates generations, and prepares younger generations to succeed their personality and ethical standards and integrity.

 

Education in Taiwan and a Brief of Latest Generation of History in Taiwan / Formosa

 

In 1980, Maa obtained his postgraduate certificate from the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University in Taipei; successfully completed another graduate studies in Information dBase III Plus and Taiwanese Traditional Chinese Mandarin Information System at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung in 1989.

 

In history, the Portuguese explorers discovered and called the island (Taiwan), “Formosa” (meaning “Beautiful Island”) in 1590. They are non-Chinese people; it was long a Chinese and Japanese pirate base. Fighting continued, between its original inhabitants of Taiwanese and the Chinese settlers, into the 19th century. In 1894-95 first Sino-Japanese War that ended in Manchus of the Qing (Ching) dynasty defeat, the late Manchu Qing Government forced to cede Formosa to Japan. This result was made by the Treaty of Shomonoseki in 1895 and remained under Japanese control until the end of the Second World War. Early on, Taiwan was conquered by the Qing in 1683 and for the first time became part of older China dynasty. However, today, the home country of Maa’s origin has around 165 institutions (93 universities) of higher education, which now has one of the best-educated populations in Asia. Among the major public (state) ones are the National Taiwan University (NTU) at Taipei, and National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU) at Kaohsiung. NSYSU is also called National Chun-Shan University; according to Times Higher Education 2010-2011, NSYSU ranks as the 3rd university in Taiwan, 21st in Asia, and 163rd worldwide. National Taiwan University is ranked 51 to 60 ranks on Times Higher Education World University Rankings - Top Universities by Reputation 2013, the United Kingdom (see www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/...); King's College London (KCL) (21st in the world and 6th in Europe in the 2010, QS World University Rankings), the University of London, and University of Southern California (is one of the world's leading private research universities, located in the heart of Los Angeles), afterward.

 

Backing to Maa’s early school-time of Taiwan Provincial Kaohsiung Industrial Senior High School (Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Industrial High school), the professional technical education, which is equivalent to Advanced Level General Certificate of Education, commonly referred to as an A-level in the United Kingdom; China Electronic Engineering College, the distance learning programme, which is in equivalence as UK’s Diploma of Higher Education / Undergraduate Diploma (as an Associate Degree in the United States). An additional, his middle education was taught by the Kaohsiung Municipal Chihjh (Ci Sian) Junior High School; and Kaohsiung Municipal San Min Elementary School was his first school in Taiwan.

  

Early Career

 

In 1989, Maa instituted Maa’s Office of Electrical Engineer, he settled himself in electrical technology and industries as a chief engineer in his early years. He put his professional and precise knowledge to good account in business management. A formal business management with business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other commercial transactions and deed. He had many customers having a business and credit relationship with his firm then he was a successful engineer.

  

Study Abroad and Immigration into the United Kingdom

 

In 1998, Maa studied abroad when he arrived in Great Britain; he studied at School of Built Environment, the University of Glamorgan (Prifysgol Morgannwg) in Merthyr Tydfil, Pontypridd, Wales for a master of science in real estate appraisal. Until the summer of 2000, Maa completed an academic course on “Towns through the Ages” from Christ Church College at the University of Oxford (is ranked the 2nd place worldwide on The Times Higher Education, World University Rankings 2012-2013

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/...) in England. Afterward, Maa immigrated into the United Kingdom in the early year of 2004.

  

PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS

 

Maa is a naturalist; he trusts spiritual naturalism and naturalistic spirituality, which teaches that “the unknown” created this wonderful world. “The unknown” arranged the nature with its law so that everything in nature is kept balanced and in order. However, human beings failed to control themselves, deliberately went against the law of nature, and resulted in disasters, which we deserved. He also is an occultist, a Taoist, and a Buddhist; but in Britain, he frequently goes to Christian and Catholic churches, where he makes friends with pastors and fathers as well as churchgoers. In his mind, he recognizes “Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart”. He is always a freethinker, does not accept traditional, social, and religious teaching, but based on his ideas: a thought or conception that potentially and actually exists in his mind as a product of mental activity - his opinion, conviction, and principle. If people have not come across eastern classics and philosophy, we are afraid that people would never understand TianLiang Maa. People cannot judge an eastern philosopher based on western ways of thinking. He studies I Ching discovering eastern classics of ancient origin consisting of 64 interrelated hexagrams along with commentaries. The hexagrams embody Taoist philosophy by describing all nature and human endeavour in terms of the interaction of yin and yang, and the classics may be consulted as an oracle.

 

Back in the 1990s when Maa just arrived at England, he had been offered places to do Ph.D. and LL.M. degrees (degree in Law and Politics of the European Union) by several western professors in the Great Britain. He has met all the requirements for postgraduate admissions to study at UK’s universities.

 

During his time at Oxford, he learnt a lot of British culture and folk-custom while carrying out research with many British and Western professors, experts, and archaeologists. This proves that Maa understands various aspects in British society, culture, and lifestyles. Of course, he does not fully understand about the perspectives of thinking of a typical British. For example, what would be the most valuable in life for a British person? What would a British want to gain from life? What is the goal in life for a British? Is it fortune or a lover? Alternatively, perhaps honour? On the other hand, maybe being able to travel around the world and see the world?

  

FAIRNESS and JUSTICE

 

As TianLiang Maa’s (馬天亮) saying are:

 

“Touching Fairness and Justice”

 

Feel good about themselves, but do not know the sufferings of the people...

Who can get easy life like them?

What is profile of modern society?

What type and style is truly solemn for this society identify?

Where “the characterization” is? Who can see? Did you see it?

 

《感動的公平與正義》

 

自我感覺良好, 不知民間疾苦...

誰能得到安逸的生活如同他們一樣？

這是個什麼樣子的社會？

這個社會認定什麼樣的類型和風格是真正莊重的?

「特徵」在那裡？誰可以看到？你看到了嗎？

  

Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy and Perspectives

 

Maa ever studied judicial review and governmental action, the impact of law and legal techniques, constitutional mechanisms for the protection of basic rights, and ensuring the integrity of commercial activity, the impact of law and legal techniques on government, policymaking, and administration, as well as the creation of markets. He tries to understand these critical trends in the political development of modern state. Maa will combine both theoretical and empirical approaches, and the conditions for democratic transition and the nature of state development in the ‘post-industrial’ era of globalisation and economic integration.

 

According as Maa’s legal experiences, he comprehend that “the knowledge of the law is like a deep well, out of which each man draught according to the strength of his understanding”, and, law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity. He is also sure law and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate like clocks; they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.

 

The government issues a decree - an authoritative order having the force of law, which charged with putting into effect a country's laws and the administering of its functions. Any of the officials promulgate a law or put into practice relating to the government charged with the execution and administration of the nation's laws then they announce and carry out the creation of any order or new policy that will be responsible for the people.

 

Maa had knowledge in connexion with construction law; he also understands architectural arts, and as well learnt the forms by combining materials and parts include as an integral part concerning modern construct. I ever built urban buildings and rural architecture in different styles under new housing and building projects by the governmental administration and construction corporations.

 

Right now, Maa studies the problems caused by ethnic disputes and human armed conflicts in the modern society resulted code of mixed civil and criminal procedure. He wishes an agreement or a treaty to end human hostilities - the absence of war and other hostilities around the world. The interrelation and arrangement of freedom from quarrels and disagreement become harmonious relations living in peace with each other. Actually, erect peace in more friendly ways of making friendships for modern human society is comfortable in my ideal. It is like building monolithic architecture: houses and buildings for the people. Maa would like to do “something beautiful for `the unknown`”.

 

In the ethnic disagreement and armed conflicts as concerning the poor people and children notwithstanding they live through a bad environment on any of poor or crowded village or town in a particular manner - lived frugally. However, after years of industrialisation as a more educated population, becomes more aware of global plenum, continuing to be alive. Environmental groups are increasing and lobbing government will legislate to stop bad environmental and social practices. The establishments of human rights’ wide and untiring efforts will be alleviated people’s suffering. And as well the poor people shall meet and debate sustainable development and for a concerted government led action towards sustainability is an example that the younger generation are concerned for the future. It shall be making the younger easier for their life and make better on their lives, and help them to build a better future.

 

In present world, Maa really knows the full meanings of “Fundamental Human Rights and Equal Opportunities for the People”. He thinks ethics is the moral code governing the daily conduct of the individual toward those about him / her. It represents those rules or principles by which men and women live and work in a spirit of mutual confidence and service. Without going into the question of how an ethical code was formulated or why anybody should obey it, we can look at the matter in a common-sense fashion with reference to its influence upon our legal affairs. In brief, from the law point of view, a reputable ethical code embodies the qualities of accuracy, dependability, fair play, sound judgement, and service. It is based upon honesty.

 

No person can have an ethical code that concerns him / her alone. Living in society, as he / she must, a person encounters others whose rights must be respected as well as his / her own. An honest regard for the rights of others is an essential element of any decent code of ethics, and one that anyone must observe if anybody intends to follow that code. After all, ethics is not something apart from human beings. Indeed, there is no such thing apart from our actions and us. It is the duty, therefore, of every man and woman in legal affairs to see that his daily associations with others are truly in conformity with the plain meaning of the Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt not barratry, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not receive illegal fee and the rest”.

 

The knowledge Maa has, in connection with legal affairs, was usually come from his precious experiences of his past over ten year’s law and political careers. In an interval regarded as a distinct period of 1980s, he studied mixed civil and crime, and the code of mixed civil and criminal procedure for the problems caused by ethnic disputes and human armed conflicts in the modern society. He was especially one who maintains the language and customs of the group, and social security in Taiwan.

 

Since 30 July of 1988, Maa settled himself in law as a chief executive and scrivener at Central Legal, Real Estate, and Accounting Services Office; it is in the equivalent to a solicitor of the United Kingdom. The Office provided full legal, accounting, real estate, and commercial services to the public. He did his job as a person legally appointed by another to act as his or her agent in the transaction of business, specifically one qualified and licensed to act for plaintiffs and defendants in legal proceedings and affairs. Over and above Maa was a chairman and executive consultant at Taiwan Credit Information Company®, founded in 1994. The company offered services to the public in response to need and demand in the area of credit information.

 

Maa had excellent experiences in political and law work was pertaining to mixed civil and crime, the code of mixed civil and criminal procedure, construction, and commercial law abroad. The experiences of legal services related to the rights of private individuals and legal proceedings concerning these rights as distinguished. In the criminal proceedings, he did many cases for the defendants. Although an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction; but he also laid legal claim, required as useful, just, proper, or necessary to the defendants under the human rights in the meantime. This provision ensures to the defendant a real voice in the subject.

 

The men whose judgement we respect are those who do not allow prejudices, preferences, or personalities to influence their decisions. Profit and self-aggrandisement are likewise ignored in their determination to reach an equitable and fair settlement. What are the basic principles upon which good judgement is founded? A keen intellect, a normal emotionally, a through understanding of human nature, experience of law work, sincerity, and integrity.

  

Developed a Technique for Abstract Photography and Abstractionist

 

In 1982, Maa developed a technique for abstractive photography, which applied “rayonism” to the photographic works. In November of 1984, Maa was 26-year-old, he instructed many professors and students of National Taiwan Normal University in photography of abstract impressionism and rayonnisme in Taipei, Taiwan. The word “rayonnisme” is French for rayonism - a style of abstract painting developed in 1911 in Russia.

  

Photographic Exhibitions

 

TianLiang Maa (Theophilus Raynsford Mann) Photographic Exhibition of “Rayonnisme / Rayonism” Tour - Invitational Exhibition of Taiwan 1983-84.

一九八三〜八四年中華民國臺灣 馬天亮攝影巡迴邀請展

 

TianLiang Maa (Theophilus Raynsford Mann) Photographic Exhibition of Rayonnisme / Rayonism (32 individual exhibitions) 1983~1985.

馬天亮『光影』攝影特展（個人展32場）1983〜1985年.

 

Maa staged 32 individual, extraordinary exhibitions and annual special exhibitions on photography of abstractive image and Rayonnisme around Taiwan / Formosa. Maa was the first exhibitor around the country. All of the invited displays were by the Chinese Government, cultural and artistic organisations, and sponsors. Maa’s earliest exhibition took place in the National Taiwan Arts Education Institute (Museum) on 19 December 1983 when Maa was 25 years old; Maa was the youngest exhibitor in the history of the Institute in any solo exhibitions. The Institute that was opened in March 1957, kept a collection of Maa’s work. It is currently updating the Institute’s internal organisation and strengthening co-operation with leading institutes and museums around the world. Meanwhile, it widened the institute’s scope to increase its emphasis on Taiwan’ regional culture and folk arts.

  

Modernization in the Modern Abstract Arts of Taiwan

 

Maa’s works is the beginning of modernization in the modern abstract arts of Taiwan, China and greater Chinese society in the world. The use of “modernisation” as a concept that is opposed to “Traditional” of “Conservative” ideas began with the approach of the 20th century. It spreads rapidly through academic circles, and was broadly accepted as a means to reform society. Chinese Manchu Qing (Ching) dynasty’s first steps toward modernisation began in the Tung-chih era (1862-1874) with the “Self-Empowerment Movement”. During the late 19th century, as late Manchu dynasty was confronted on all sides by foreign aggression, voices throughout society debated the most effective means to reform and strengthen the country. Some advocated “combining the best of East and West”, while others went so far as to call for “complete Westernisation”. Taiwan was at the centre of these waves of reform. Faced with direct threats against the island by foreign enemies, the Chinese Ching dynasty court took special steps to push Taiwan’s modernisation.

 

In a role just like that of a gardener wanting to create a rich and fertile environment for the seeds of culture, one in which Maa may sprout, grow and bloom. Maa aims to provide an educational stimulus for society by introducing his works - Maa can express the neo-romantic spirit deftly from various creations and supporting international artistic exchanges. Maa believes that the first step in creating such a new and independent state is the real emergence of culture and arts, for which the art and science of designing and erecting buildings, and fine arts (including photography and motion picture) of the civilization is a good measurement of success. For the foreseeable future, Maa should be continuing to forge ahead, working diligently and unceasingly towards its mission of raising China and Formosa / Taiwan’s culture in his spare time.

  

Became an Author and a Scholar

 

In 1980, TianLiang Maa completed his first book - scenario original “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”, also named: “Hun Yun : Jin Qi Tu Rui” 電影原著《魂韻》(衿契吐蕊) then Maa was at the age of 22. In 1983, The General Library of the University of California, Berkeley in the United States of America, collected and kept Maa’s writings - scenario original 「魂韻 : 衿契吐蕊」“Hun Yun : jin qi tu rui”, included a musical composition of his own – “Sonate Nr. 1 C-dur op. 3 für Klavier (piano)”, composed on 3rd April 1977 then Maa was 18 years old. The works were published in 1980; the theme was based on “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”. Another masterpiece was an Album of Academic Work for News Publication “TianLiang Maa (Theophilus Raynsford Mann) Photographic Exhibition of Rayonnisme / Rayonism”, published in 1985. The Hathi Trust Digital Library, the University of Michigan also collected and kept Maa’s writings.

  

Authorship

 

Maa’s articles and writings were published in more than 200 different kinds of domestic and foreign magazines, newspapers, and periodicals, in the period between May of 1972 and 1990s. It was all started when Maa was just 13-year-old. Many of which have been very influential. These have been quoted by Western and Eastern scholars many times in the last few years, making Maa one of the highly cited technological, artistic, and managing public administrators in the world in the late 20th and early 21st century. The Ministry of the Interior in Taiwan had registered Maa’s professional writings and given him two certificates of copyright. The numbers are 33080 and 33081 on 4th July of 1985; and Taiwan’s Gazette of The Presidential Office issue No. 4499, featured his writings on 4th September 1985.

  

Became an Academic and Film Director

 

Today, Maa is a professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, and a photographer, film director, and computer engineer now live and work in London.

  

Director Works:

FILMS:

Experimental Film “New Image for the Spring” © 1982

Documentary Film “Rayonnisme” © 2011

“The Soul's Sentimentalizing” of the feature film is based on the scenario original “The Soul's Sentimentalizing” (preparation)

 

FASHION SHOWS:

New Image for the Spring of Shapely Models International © 1982

High Lights on the Summer and Fall Fashion of Shapely Models Int’l © 1982

 

ART EXHIBITIONS:

The Cadillac Club International Fine Arts Exhibition © 1981

The Cinematic & Photographic Arts Salon and the Hall of the Arts, Pegasus Academy of Arts © 1981

  

Musician Work:

MUSIC COMPOSITION:

Sonate Nr. 1 C-dur op. 3 für Klavier (piano) © 1977, © 1980, © 1981, © 1983, the theme was based on “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”.

  

PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS:

Portrait and Landscape in France © 2000

Portrait and Landscape in Scotland © 2001

Portrait and Landscape in England © 2009

Portrait at Queen Mary, University of London © 2010

Rayonism of London © 2011

Portrait at The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom © 2011

Snowy London © 2012

Portrait at King's College London © 2013

  

BOOKS:

Scenario Original「魂韻」(衿契吐蕊) “Hun yun: jin qi tu rui” © December 1980, © 1981, © 1983 (Date of First Publication: 31 December 1980, Second Edition on 29 July 1981, Date of Revision: Revised Edition on 8 May 1983), Languages: Chinese (traditional), and English language.

“Album of the Cadillac Club International Fine Arts Exhibition” © 1981

“Album of the Cinematic & Photographic Arts Salon and the Hall of the Arts, Pegasus Academy of Arts” © 1981

“Album of New Image for the Spring of Shapely Models International” © 1982

“Album of High Lights on the Summer and Fall Fashion of Shapely Models Int’l” © 1982

“Romantic Carol” © 1982

Album of Academic Work for News Publication: “TianLiang Maa (Theophilus Raynsford Mann) Photographic Exhibitions of Rayonnisme” © May 1985

新聞出版之學術著作專輯「馬天亮『光影』“Rayonism” 攝影展」© May 1985

New version of scenario original “The Soul's Sentimentalizing” (to be published)

「曾經輝煌到頂天立地」 “The Indomitable Spirit Was Brilliant to Upright” (individual biography, to be published)

“My Life, My History, and My Love” (based on a legend, to be published, a film scenario will be developed later)

「感動的公平與正義」“Touching Fairness and Justice” (political science and social studies, to be published)

  

Research Interests:

 

University of Oxford

Research Studies in Archaeology:

Maa’s attractive topic was “A View of Architectural History: Towns through the Ages from Winchester through London Arrived at Oxford in England”.

 

National Taiwan University

Graduate Certificate,

Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering:

Maa’s monograph of seminar was “Applied the sequence control in the electric power distribution engineering”.

 

University of Glamorgan

M.Sc. Course,

Master of Science in Real Estate Appraisal:

Maa’s thesis - major subject, with relevant construction law was “The Assignment is under Economics of Construction Management in Architecture”.

 

National Sun Yat-Sen University

Postgraduate Certificate,

Postgraduate Studies in Computing:

Maa’s required subject was Information dBase III Plus and Taiwanese Traditional Mandarin Chinese Information System. He combined academic course work and practical laboratory sessions in “Applied Mandarin Phonetic Symbols into Traditional Taiwanese Personal Computer and Its Information System”.

  

Associations:

 

Since 1980, a member of Chinese Taipei Film Archive (CTFA, National Film Archive, Taiwan; founded in 1978), The Motion Picture Foundation, R.O.C. (member of Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film, FIAF; The International Federation of Film Archives was founded in Paris in 1938 by the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Cinémathèque Française and the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin.)

 

Commissioner of the cinema, photography, radio, and television committee of The Culture and Arts Association (Chinese Writers and Artists Association) of Taiwan ever since September 1983.

 

Classic member, the membership is equivalent to a doctorate membership of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering since 23 March 1984.

 

On 15 March 1989, Maa promoted and founded the Consortium Juridical Person Mr. TianLiang Maa Social Benefit Foundation 財團法人馬天亮先生社會公益基金會 in Taiwan. near.archives.gov.tw/cgi-bin/near2/nph-redirect?rname=tre...

 

Classic member, the membership is equal to a professor or associate professor of The Chinese Institute of Engineers since 30 September 1991.

  

Honours:

 

Listed on ‘Taiwan Who’s Who In Business’, © 1984, © 1987, and © 1989 Harvard Management Service.

中華民國企業名人錄編纂委員會, 哈佛企業管理顧問公司.

 

On 26 August 1985, Maa was awarded a professional certificate of the Outdoor Artistry Activities issued by Education Bureau, Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan. He acquired awards and certificates of honour about twenty times from National Taiwan Arts Education Center (Museum) on 24 December 1983; Kaohsiung Municipal Social Education Center on 17 March 1984, Kaohsiung Cultural Center, Taipei Cultural Center (Taipei Municipal Social Education Hall); and Taiwan Province Government, Taipei City Government, Kaohsiung City Government, and many cultural centres and art galleries, and so on.

  

Careers:

 

Honorary Professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, 7 June 2012 to present; Professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, 1 September 2011 to 1 June 2012 in London, United Kingdom:

Academia,

Teaching and Research:

business management and consultant, political philosophy, Chinese classics, Chinese humanities, modern Chinese language and literature, photography (portrait, fashion, commercial, digital, architectural, abstract photography), visual arts and film production.

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教學與研究：

企業管理及顧問、政治哲學、中華經典 (古典漢學、文學、藝術、語言) 、中華人文、中華現代語言與文學、攝影 (人像、時裝、商業、數位/數碼、建築、抽象攝影) ，視覺藝術和影片製作。

 

Consultant and Translator at Eternal Life Consultants of Immigration and Translations Services, 10 March 2004 to present in London, United Kingdom:

consultants of immigration, translations, and legal services.

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永生移民顧問翻譯服務社的移民諮詢顧問和翻譯：

移民事務，翻譯和法律服務。

 

Computer Hardware & Networking Engineer at Maa Office of Electrical Engineer, 8 March 2004 to present in London, United Kingdom:

Computer Engineering and Network Services. Repairing of Motherboards, Monitors, Power Supplies, CD-ROM Drives; UPS, Hard Disk Drives, H.D.D Data Recovery; BIOS Programming, and all types of Computer Hardware and Software Solutions.

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計算機工程和網絡服務。維修主機板，顯示器，電源供應器，光碟機/光盘驱动器，不斷電系統，硬碟/硬盘，硬盤數據恢復，基本輸入輸出系統編程，以及所有類型的電腦/計算機硬體/硬件和軟體/軟件解決方案。

 

Film Director & Photographer at Photographer and Film Director (Shapely), 2 April 2007 to present in London, United Kingdom:

1) Photo, Video and Film Production; 2) Graphic Design, Web Design, Social Networking, Social Media and Advertising; 3) Architectural Design and Interior Design.

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Reformer and Philosopher at Taiwanese Social Reformer and Philosopher, 7 April 2012 (location: Los Angeles, California) to present in London, United Kingdom:

Social Reform in Taiwan

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《魂韻》(衿契吐蕊) - 馬天亮22歲寫的電影原著。TianLiang Maa (Theophilus Raynsford Mann) wrote “Hun Yun” (Jin Qi Tu Rui), scenario original “The Soul’s Sentimentalizing” © 1980, 1981, 1983, was at the age of 22.

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Sonate Nr. 1 C-dur op. 3 für Klavier (piano) by Theophilus Raynsford Mann (TianLiang Maa 馬天亮) © 1977, © 1980, © 1981, © 1983. The Sonate composed on 3rd April 1977 then Maa was 18-year-old. The work was published in 1980; the theme was based on “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”.

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October 2015 CreativeMornings/Raleigh event (global theme: Shock) with guest speaker David Hambridge.

 

David Hambridge is a commercial and documentary filmmaker based in NC. His interest lies in honest, intimate storytelling that focuses on the simplicity of human nature. His style relies heavily on an intuitive approach towards filming his subjects—with the principle of giving time and respect to gain it. The mediums he uses range from 4K digital cinema production to Super 8mm film. He is most interested in understanding how digital media/video is consumed in the modern age and experimenting with those trends.

 

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Viollet-le-Duc was the first architect since the Middle Ages to reach a profound understanding of the principles of Gothic construction and he devoted his careful scrutiny to the structure of Notre-Dame. The tall, monolithic and incredibly thin colonettes which support the apse vaults he describes as "splender pins, as strongs as if they were of cast iron, thanks to the quality of the stone employed".

The building dates from the second quarter of the thirteenth century. A rather unusual anecdote related by the Dominican Etienne de Bourbon gives the date of 1240 for near completion. A certain usurer of Dijon, walking beneath the west façade, was killed by the fall of one of the gargoyles. The other usurers of the city clubbed together and obtained the removal of all these dangerous objects, of which the Dominican was an eye-witness. The present gargoyles were placed in the façade only in 1881. They are none of them gargoyles in the proper sense of the word, for they play no part in the water drainage system. They form the most striking and original feature of the church, for the west front takes the unusual form of a vast screen of masonry.

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A cathedral without a bishop: St. Stephan in Vienna

In order to fully fulfill the function of a capital in its medieval understanding, Vienna lacked a decisive factor: Vienna was indeed a major city, but not the seat of a bishopric, but was subordinate to the Prince-Bishop of Passau in ecclesiastical matters. St. Stephen, the most important church in the city, had only the rank of a parish church.

Therefore, the first attempts to found a diocese in Vienna date back to the time of the Babenbergs. Also the under Ottokar II Přemysl after the fire of 1258 begun generous new building of the Saint Stephen's church in the late Romanesque style pursued this goal.

The Habsburgs' representational aspirations also focused on St. Stephen after they had taken control of Austria. Albrecht I began in 1304 with the construction of a new choir. The highlight, however, was reached under Duke Rudolf IV. This ambitious Habsburg wanted to turn Vienna into an important royal residence and St. Stephen as the "Capella regia Austriaca" into the court church of the Austrian sovereign princes, the sacral center of the country.

The background for this lay in the competition with the dynasty of Luxembourg: Emperor Charles IV was just about to expand his residence Prague to a metropolis of European importance. One of his measures was the elevation of Prague to the Archbishopric of 1344, which prompted the great expansion of St. Vitus' Cathedral on Prague's Hradcany.

Rudolf's plan to make St. Stephen the seat of a bishop failed because of the resistance of Passau, because the bishop rightly feared a reduction of his diocese. Nevertheless, Rudolf found a way to give St. Stephan a special rank. In 1359 he obtained the papal confirmation for the founding of a collegiate, an association of 24 dressed in cardinal red robes priests, which was headed by a provost in a bishop-like costume. By subordinating the collegiate directly to the Pope, it was beyond the Passau influence. Thanks to complicated ecclesiastical chess moves he finally succeeded in 1365 to transfer his foundation to St. Stephen, which increased the importance of the church.

This was also reflected in the structural design of the church. In 1359 Rudolf IV began with a large-scale expansion, which was to bear all the symbols of a ruling church: a princely gallery above the west portal was framed by two-storey Duke's chapels, in which the relic treasure was kept. A princely tomb was erected as the tomb of the rulers of the country and finally four towers were planned, which was actually a building prerogative of a bishop's church. By integrating parts of the late Romanesque predecessor building (the main portal and the westwork called "Giant Gate") into his concept, Rudolf gave his building program historical depth.

With the death of Rudolf, the interest of the Habsburgs in St. Stephen palpably came to an end, and the citizens of Vienna took the initiative for the further expansion of the church. Only with Frederick III., who saw his example in Rudolf IV, did a Habsburg take part in the expansion of the church. Friedrich ordered the beginning of the work on the north tower. However, his high tomb in the Apostle Choir of the Dome, which is another notable example of the dynastic program of the Habsburgs in the late Middle Ages, is particularly reminiscent of this Habsburg.

Frederick III. finally managed to bring the prestige matter of his ancestor Rudolf to a successful end: 1469 Frederick III succeeded in to bring about the Pope to elevate Vienna to a diocese. Although the Viennese diocese initially had only a minimal extension - it was smaller than the current urban area - but the Habsburgs had imposed their own will: The Cathedral of St. Stephen had finally a bishop.

 

Eine Kathedrale ohne Bischof: St. Stephan in Wien

Um im mittelalterlichen Verständnis die Funktion einer Hauptstadt vollends zu erfüllen, fehlte Wien eine entscheidende Sache: Wien war zwar eine bedeutende Großstadt, aber nicht Sitz eines Bistums, sondern unterstand in kirchlichen Belangen dem Fürstbischof von Passau. St. Stephan, die wichtigste Kirche der Stadt, hatte nur den Rang einer Pfarrkirche.

Daher datieren die ersten Versuche einer Bistumsgründung in Wien bereits in die Zeit der Babenberger. Auch der unter Ottokar II. Přemysl nach dem Brand von 1258 begonnene großzügige Neubau der Stephanskirche im spätromanischen Stil verfolgte dieses Ziel.

Auf St. Stephan konzentrierten sich auch die Repräsentationsbestrebungen der Habsburger, nachdem sie die Herrschaft in Österreich übernommen hatten. Albrecht I. begann bereits 1304 mit dem Bau eines neuen Chores. Der Höhepunkt wurde jedoch unter Herzog Rudolf IV. erreicht. Dieser ehrgeizige Habsburger wollte Wien zu einer bedeutenden Residenzstadt und St. Stephan als “Capella regia Austriaca”, als Hofkirche der österreichischen Landesfürsten, zum sakralen Zentrum des Landes machen.

Der Hintergrund dafür lag in der Konkurrenz mit der Dynastie der Luxemburger: Kaiser Karl IV. war gerade dabei, seine Residenz Prag zu einer Metropole europäischer Geltung auszubauen. Eine seiner Maßnahmen war die Erhebung Prags zum Erzbistum 1344, was den Anstoß gab für den großartigen Ausbau des Veitsdomes am Prager Hradschin.

Rudolfs Plan, St. Stephan zum Sitz eines Bischofs zu machen, scheiterte zwar am Widerstand Passaus, denn der Bischof fürchtete zu Recht eine Verkleinerung seiner Diözese. Dennoch fand Rudolf einen Weg, St. Stephan einen besonderen Rang zu verleihen. 1359 erwirkte er die päpstliche Bestätigung für die Gründung eines Kollegiatstiftes, einer Vereinigung von 24 in kardinalsrote Gewänder gekleideten Priestern, denen ein Probst in bischofsähnlicher Tracht vorstand. Indem er das Kollegiat direkt dem Papst unterstellte, war es dem Passauer Einfluss entzogen. Dank komplizierter kirchenrechtlicher Schachzüge gelang es ihm schließlich 1365 seine Stiftung auf St. Stephan zu übertragen, was die Bedeutung des Gotteshauses erhöhte.

Dies schlug sich auch in der baulichen Gestalt der Kirche nieder. 1359 begann Rudolf IV. mit einem groß angelegten Ausbau, der alle Symbole einer Herrscherkirche tragen sollte: Eine Fürstenempore über dem Westportal wurde von doppelstöckigen Herzogskapellen eingerahmt, in denen der Reliquienschatz verwahrt wurde. Eine Fürstengruft als Grablege der Herrscher des Landes wurde angelegt und schließlich waren vier Türme geplant, was eigentlich ein bauliches Vorrecht einer Bischofskirche war. Indem Rudolf Teile des spätromanischen Vorgängerbaues (das als “Riesentor” bezeichnete Hauptportal und das Westwerk) in sein Konzept integrieren ließ, gab er seinem Bauprogramm historische Tiefe.

Mit dem Tod Rudolfs erlosch das Interesse der Habsburger an St. Stephan spürbar, die Wiener Bürgerschaft übernahm die Initiative für den weiteren Ausbau der Kirche. Erst mit Friedrich III., der in Rudolf IV. sein Vorbild sah, beteiligte sich wieder ein Habsburger am Ausbau der Kirche. Friedrich veranlasste den Beginn der Arbeiten am Nordturm. An diesen Habsburger erinnert vor allem jedoch sein Hochgrab im Apostelchor des Domes, ein weiteres bemerkenswertes Beispiel für das dynastische Programm der Habsburger im Spätmittelalter.

Friedrich III. gelang es schließlich auch, die Prestigeangelegenheit seines Ahnen Rudolf zu einem erfolgreichen Ende zu bringen: 1469 erreichte Friedrich III. beim Papst die Erhebung Wiens zum Bistum. Die Wiener Diözese hatte zwar zunächst nur eine minimale Ausdehung – sie war kleiner als das heutige Stadtgebiet – aber die Habsburger hatten ihren Willen durchgesetzt: Der Dom zu St. Stephan hatte endlich einen Bischof.

Martin Mutschlechner

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Social transformation due to artificial intelligence is already in full swing. In order to get our bearings with it, we need a basic understanding of this technology. Understanding AI presents the most important technical aspects of artificial intelligence as well as concrete examples of how they are used. Here visitors can discover how machines and their sensors “perceive” the world in comparison to humans, what machine learning is, or how automatic facial recognition works, among other things. They can also learn about various social and ethical issues such as deep fakes (deceptively genuine-seeming pictures or videos made automatically using neural networks), the effects of using digital methods for profiling, and the hidden side of our everyday electronic devices such as smartphones.

 

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Understanding Keratoconus with Dr. Niteen Dedhia

Keratoconus is a condition where the cornea starts abnormally bulging outwards and effects the normal vision of a patients if we look at the eye this is the front transparent media called cornea and it has a particularly curvature to it but due to certain eye related problems which could be a genetic this cornea starts bulging outward.

 

Causes of keratoconus

Keratoconus is genetic in origin in some individual and in some occur due to excessive eye rubbing as the result excessive eye rubbing cornea tissue tends to become weak and tends to affect vision. So what they do for that.

 

How to avoid Keratocouns

What we advice would be that children should avoid excessive eye rubbing and if there is frequently change in their eye glasses then it is important to consult an eye doctor immediately and certain Test to Detect keratoconus this is what we called corneal mapping or corneal topography and this is done by specialized cornea specialist who will detect Keratoconus.

 

Treatment of Keratoconus

Once keratoconus is detected then there is different treatment option: In the early day contact lenses was the only option but now there are other treatment option which are surgical in nature and we are able stop the progress of keratoconus and even improve the vision. This is carried out by Collagen Cross Linkage Treatment and implants which are implanted in the corneal Tissue for as Intacs.

 

Advice on Keratoconus

The problem of keratoconus is progressive so if detected early it is always better however some individual may even go up to teen age that it is detected at 14th years or 18th years or even later but it should be treated as soon as detected more awareness needs to be created about this condition and this can be created only if the individual or a person goes to eye doctor for consultation whenever there is dimension vision so if you have been detected with the condition of keratoconus please do not be dishearted you can be sure that you will have the best treatment possible not only stop the progress of this condition but also improve vision. You need to visit to proper consultant who is the cornea specialist and who can take care of your eye problem.

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