#Shao-chia Chen

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A few of the things that I am not normal about in today's episode of Kiseki: Dear to Me.

Chen Yi yoinking Eddie into his arms, as always

and then doing a kabedon on him. *fans self*

Eddie smelling Chen Yi's jacket, and then CUDDLING WITH IT TO SLEEP.

Eddie attempting to hit on Chen Yi to make him back off, and it backfiring spectacularly, because Chen Yi is now super dtf.

Followed by a carry (and Chen Yi opening the door with his foot, the smooth motherfucker)

And a bed toss

and Chen Yi making it clear that he 1) sees boss as a boss now, and 2) knows Eddie is lying about not having feelings.

Ok, yeah, pretty much every moment between those two.

Then we have:

Eddie & Zong Yi's friendship

and Eddie running to Zong Yi to confirm that Chen Yi might actually be into him now.

Zong Yi having to immediately write down Ze Rui not remembering him, because otherwise he won't remember it. *sob*

Only Ze Rui does remember and just wants to fuck up the Fans for justice, and also feels like he destroyed Zong Yi's life. *more sobs*

And his brother being an absolute supportive boss about everything, and trying to get him to go back to the man he loves.

Seriously I love everything about An Jun Peng, and where is Lin Chia Wei to come and smooch him because clearly we have a pattern of prior series couples cameoing as a couple (FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GIVE ME TANG YI AND SHAO FEI).

What. an. episode.

*cries quietly realizing I now have to wait for a week again*

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See Your Love has wrapped filming!

From Lin Pey Yu, the screenwriter for HIStory 2 and 3, We Best Love and My Tooth, Your Love and directed by Chiang Ping Chen of Plus & Minus, the show follows the story of Zi Xiang (Lin Yu), a third-generation heir who is trying to escape his responsibilities. However his life takes a sudden turn when he falls in love for Shao Peng (Jin Yu), a nurse with hearing-impairment. It's currently scheduled for a 6-episodes run later this year.

fun fact: Lin Yu (1.78m /5"10) revealed that he needs to tilt his head up when filming with Jin Yu (1.90m /6"3).

fun fact [2]: Lin Chia Yo, who plays Feng Jie, one half of the secondary pair, has a guest role in Beloved In House: I Do

fun fact [3]: Nat Chen (Kiseki: Dear To Me) is expected to have a cameo on the show.

fun fact [4]: To prepare for the role of Shao Peng, Jin Yu spend long periods of time in silent spaces to immerse himself in the character, he also went through an intensive course of sign language.

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Qigang Chen: Er Huang, 2009.

Taiwán Philarmonic Orchestra.

Shao-Chia Lü, director.

Chun-Chien Yen, pianist.

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Lost in Perfection (2023) Movie Review

Lost in Perfection – Movie Review Director: Hsin Yin Sung (On Happiness Road) Cast Yu-Wei Shao (Hello Ghost) Mei-Hsiu Lin (Forever Young) Rhydian Vaughn (Concubine of Shanghai) Figaro Tseng (More than Blue) Tien-Chu Lee (The Golden Years) Chia-Kuei Chen (Ro Sun) Plot: TV anchor life unravels when she discovers her dad become the victim of a romance scam. Making matters worse, the scammer…

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2023 World Baseball Classic Taiwan Roster

Pitchers

#15 Yen-Ching Lu (C.T.B.C. Xiōngdì/Kaohsiung Chéngshì)

#16 Wei-Chung Wang (Wei Chuan Lóng/Taitung Xiàn)

#17 Kuan-Yu Chen (Rakuten Hóuzi/Xīn Běishì)

#21 Chen-Ch’ang Lee (C.T.B.C. Xiōngdì/Penghu)

#29 Kai-Wei Teng (Richmond Flying Squirrels/Taichung)

#32 Yu-Hsun Chen (Rakuten Hóuzi/Taipei)

#43 Chia-Hao Sung (Tohoku Rakuten Gōruden'īgurusu/Taitung Xiàn)

#58 Chih-Wei Hu (Tǒngyī Qǐyè 7-Eleven Shīzi Huì/Taichung)

#59 Kuan-Wei Chen (Wei Chuan Lóng/Taipei)

#60 Jyun-Yue Tseng (Fubon Jiānhùrén/Taipei)

#69 Tzu-Peng Huang (Rakuten Hóuzi/Kaohsiung Chéngshì)

#71 Shao-Ching Chiang (Fubon Jiānhùrén/Hualien Xiàn)

#81 Shih-Peng Chen (Fubon Jiānhùrén/Taichung Xiàn)

#93 Che-Yuan Wu (C.T.B.C. Xiōngdì/Taipei)

Catchers

#4 Kungkuan Giljegiljaw (Wei Chuan Lóng/Taichung)

#31 Dai-An Lin (Tǒngyī Qǐyè 7-ElevenShīzi Huì/Sanmin Xiāng)

#65 Yu-Chieh Kao (C.T.B.C. Xiōngdì/Taipei)

Infielders

#1 Tsung-Che Cheng (Bradenton Marauders/Pingtung Xiàn)

#5 Tzu-Wei Lin (Long Island Ducks/Kaohsiung Xiàn)

#6 Wei-Chen Wang (C.T.B.C. Xiōngdì/Taipei)

#18 Yu-Cheng Chang (Boston Red Sox/Taitung Xiàn)

#39 Nien-Ting Wu (Saitama Seibu Raionzu/Taipei)

#46 Kuo-Chen Fan (Fubon Jiānhùrén/Taichung)

#83 Li Lin (Rakuten Hóuzi/Shoufeng)

#90 Kun-Yu Chiang (C.T.B.C. Xiōngdì/Taipei)

Outfielders

#2 Tien-Hsin Kuo (Wei Chuan Lóng/Taipei)

#9 Po-Jung Wang (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Faitāzu/Pingtung Xiàn)

#12 Chen-Wei Chen (Rakuten Hóuzi/Taipei)

#24 Chieh-Hsien Chen (Tǒngyī Qǐyè 7-Eleven Shīzi Huì/Kaohsiung Chéngshì)

#35 Chin Cheng (Rakuten Hóuzi/Taipei)

Coaches

Manager Yueh-Ping Lin (Tǒngyī Qǐyè 7-Eleven Shīzi Huì/Kaohsiung Chéngshì)

Bench/catching coach Chih-Kang Kao (Tǒngyī Qǐyè 7-Eleven Shīzi Huì/Taichung Xiàn)

Hitting coach Cheng-Min Peng (C.T.B.C. Xiōngdì/Kaohsiung Chéngshì)

Assistant hitting coach Hao-Jin Tseng (Táiwān Bàngqiú/Taipei)

Pitching coach Ming-Chieh Hsu (Rakuten Hóuzi/Kaohsiung Chéngshì)

Bullpen coach Chien-Ming Wang (C.T.B.C. Xiōngdì/Guanmiao)

1st base/outfield coach Chien-Ming Chang (Wei Chuan Lóng/Hualien Xiàn)

3rd base coach Chiang-Ho Chen (C.T.B.C. Xiōngdì/Taipei)

[jujuhung]

‘Similarities’ (Group exhibition) #似不似 - 六人聯展 ▫️Participating artists 參展藝術家 #王公澤 Gon-Jer Wang #陳建榮 Chien-Jung Chen #趙璐嘉 Lu-Chia Chao #洪郁雯 Julia Hung #陳劭彥 Shao-Yen Chen #陳睿淵 Jui-Wen Tan ▫️Venue 展場 弎畫廊 @san_gallery_tw ▫️Date 展期 2023.2.4(Sat)~3.4(Sat) ▫️Opening Reception 開幕茶會暨講座 2022/02/11(Sat) 15:00-17:00 與談人 #柯應平 x 參展藝術家 Julia Hung’s artworks are presented as the only three-dimensional pieces of this exhibition. Different from conventional and traditional sculptures, she makes her art intuitively without consciously planning the overall shape and structure. As Hung describes, she “uses crocheting techniques which she learned at a young age from her grandmother to carefully weave stiff metal fibers into silky, organic forms. Her net-like creations, which radiate warmth from every knotted strand of bright, translucent copper, exude a unique sense of space, as if encapsulating an entire self-sufficient microcosm. At the outset of the creative process, she simply follows her instincts, without a desired form in mind, weaving over and over in seemingly random fashion until each piece comes to life”. As she meticulously weaves enameled copper wire, she explores through a sensation of familiarity, as if these afterimages from her memories shape the creations of ‘Déjà Vu’. By maneuvering through the construction, reverberation, and reformation of external materials, Hung invokes her inner thoughts and mysterious cosmography into sculptural forms. 洪郁雯的創作，是此次展覽的唯一立體塑造型態的作品。不同於一般傳統雕塑具有骨架與構想草圖，正如她創作自述所言：「透過傳承自阿嬤的編織技法，將金屬媒材宛若作絲縷，以溫潤手感細密勾勒出有機、半透視的銅線雕塑，每件交纏、網狀般的作品，兀自生長出獨特的空間感，宛如自治的微型宇宙。藝術家以零構圖的直覺式創作，在看似沒有計劃性的選擇之下反覆編織，直至作品誕生。」 她利用彩漆銅線的細密編織，探索著具有似曾相識、彷彿記憶殘影的「既視感」造型。藉由外在物質的組織、疊構、扭轉的動態形式，引發極為幽微的內在宇宙圖景與心域。 #juliahung #jujuhung #弎畫廊 #groupexhibition #galleryexhibition #contemporaryart #sculpturenow #taiwaneseartist (at 弎畫廊 San Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CopgHltPQ9U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fyeahcindie]

Killer cut from 眠腦 Sleeping Brain  =D  

This starts out like moody electronica, then it zooms away!

The band are: 呂尚儒 (Agao 阿搞)-gtr/chorus, 顧孟堯 Raven Gu-Lead voc/synth/chorus (also in Looking Grace 看啊! 葛瑞絲), Ral Chen 陳慶大 (大慶)-bass/keys/chorus (莉莉周她說 Lily Chou-Chou Lied), 李亮瑩 Thrissa Skala-drums (Everfor) 

Producer: 黃少雍 Huang Shao-yong (Dark Paradise Records, 林瑪黛 matelin) Assistant Producer: 林志龍 Lin Linz

Lyrics: Raven. Music: Sleeping Brain

Arrangement: 許家維 Hsu Chia-Wei (aka Waves of Doppler 都普勒浪潮) & Sleeping Brain. Chia-Wei also played synth on the track.

More links: StreetVoice,  Instagram. Their YouTube channel is 黑市音樂  (Black Market Music Production Label)

Dancers: 戴啟倫 Chi-Lun, Tai & 陳秋燁 Chiu-Yeh, Chen

Full a/v credits back at YT!

Sleeping Brain will be at 三創Clapper Studio in Taipei on September 29th.

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Movie #8 of 2019: Opium And The Kung Fu Master

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There’s some spoilers, please skip this post if you haven’t finished the drama ;-) 「最後我想要聊一下….就是圈套這個….我們要給人家的一個….其實很重要…..我想要丟出來的東西，其實很重要就是執念啦．其實我覺得整部戲的代表性的人物就是他（指向陳家逵，飾演陳文浩）跟他（指向吳承洋，飾演唐毅）．因為他們其實，其實父子倆真的…..『你不要犯跟我一樣的錯』、『你不要跟我走一樣的路』，其實真的因為…其實你回頭來看很多東西其實唐毅就是繼承陳文浩的後路，他們都帶著某一種執念，他人生只為了那個執念活下來，你回過頭來看那個執念，其實不見得是值得的，而且可能造成一種遺憾，當你人生走到最後的時候，他連一聲爸爸都沒有叫，這其實真的就是因為執念產生的很大的遺憾，所以其實我相信觀眾朋友還有很多人….我相信很多人現在心中可能都有某一些執念或過不去的東西，真的希望藉由這個故事可以教會大家，如果唐毅他在最後的時候，他終於放下心中的執念、他終於打開心胸，他的人生重新開始，故事的結尾其實是唐毅人生的重新來過，我希望每一個觀眾，如果你們的人生剛好走到某一個關卡，剛好走到某一個執念裡面的時候，也希望你們能夠像唐毅這樣，能夠找到一個點、一個位置重新開始．少飛是一個完美的角色，說實在，我覺得現實生活中不太可能有少飛，我覺得啦，他是被塑造出來一個滿完美的角色，然後其實真的比較真實的角色是唐毅，就是在人生裡面、現實生活中，那我覺得這就是一個很好的…….唐毅因為有了少飛，所以他在這麼執念的人生裡面才能夠被打開，然後才能夠被改變．所以我會很希望現實生活當中的每一個人，如果你是少飛的話，你身邊如果有一個像唐毅這樣的人，不管是愛人，或者是朋友，希望你能多給他一點溫暖．希望你們能夠多鼓勵唐毅，讓唐毅能夠打開心胸、擁抱愛，然後去迎接新的人生．那如果你的生命是像唐毅這樣子的，也很希望你的身邊剛好有一個少飛，然後你就可以很快地打開心胸，然後可以重新過更好的人生．如果還沒有遇到，我希望不要對自己太絕望，也不要對自己太嚴厲，希望大家都能夠稍微對自己好一點，因為有一天你的少飛就應該會出現在你身邊．我覺得現在社會氛圍還有大家的生活有時候不是很容易，有些人可能人生都剛好在一個不是很好的狀態裡頭，很希望我們最後這個戲丟出來很正向的東西，希望戲裡頭每一組的愛情，或者每一組的人生、每一個人的人生，大家…都丟給大家一個比較正向的思考，不管怎麼樣都要勇敢的、努力的去擁抱別人給你的愛，或者你把你的愛帶給別人，大家都要勇敢的往下走．這是圈套其實在後面很重要很重要，想要帶給觀眾朋友的，然後想要鼓勵大家．就像唐毅人生新的開始一樣．這個就是真的非常想要拿出來鼓勵現在所有社會上，不管是任何一個年齡層，你的生活不ＯＫ，希望能夠得到一些鼓勵跟安慰這樣子，謝謝．」—”圈套“導演李青蓉 “Lastly I would like to talk about….what Trapped….what we want to show everyone….the very important thing is “obsession”. Actually the most representative characters through out the whole series are him (pointed at Chen Chia Kuei, starred as Chen Wen Hao) and him (pointed at Chris Wu, starred as Tang Yi). They, really, the father and son….”Don’t make the same mistake as I did.”,”Don’t walk the same path as I did.” It’s really because… When you look back, Tang Yi was actually walking the same road as Chen Wen Hao did. Both of them carried some kind of obsession. They live for that obsession. When you look back, that obsession doesn’t necessarily worth it. And it might cause some kind of regret. When your life came to an end, he (the son) has not even call you father once. This is actually a really huge regret caused by obsession. Therefore, I believe that a lot of the audience/people… I believe that a lot of people might have some kind of obsession or facing some difficulties right now. Really hope that this story could teach everyone that, if Tang Yi, he finally let go of the obsession in heart, he finally opened his heart, his life starts all over again. The ending of the story is actually the restart of Tang Yi’s life. I hope each of the audience that, if your life right now is facing a struggle, is now walking into an obsession situation, (I) hope that you could be like Tang Yi, to find a spot, a place (for you) to restart. Shao Fei is a perfect character, to be honest. I don’t think it’s possible that Shao Fei (this kind of person) exists in real life, I think, he’s modeled to be a perfect character. And actually the character that is more realistic is Tang Yi. (I mean) in the real life, in the daily life. And I think it is a quite good…. Because Tang Yi had Shao Fei, he (his heart/life) then could be opened in this very “obsession” life, and then could be changed. Therefore, I do really hope that everyone in real world, if you’re (like) Shao Fei, and if there’s a person like Tang Yi around you, no matter he/she’s a lover or a friend, Hope that you could give him/her some warmth. Hope that you could encourage (the one who’s like) Tang Yi. So that (the one who’s like) Tang Yi could open his/her heart, and embrace love, then welcome a new life. And if you’re life is like Tang Yi’s, really hope that there’s already a Shao Fei being around you. So that you could open your heart very quickly, then could live a better life. If you haven’t met (someone like Shao Fei), I hope that (you) don’t be too desperate, and don’t be too harsh on yourself. Wish that everyone could treat yourself a little better, ‘cause one day your Shao Fei would eventually show up in your life. I think the social climate nowadays and people’s daily lives are not that easy sometimes. Some people might now be in a not so good situation. Really hope that we threw out some positive stuff at the end of the drama, hope that each couple’s love in the drama, or each of the couple’s life, each of the character’s life, everyone… could give everyone a much more positive thinking. No matter what, to be brave, to embrace the love from others with your best, or to give your love to others. Everyone has to walk down (their own path) courageously. It’s actually the very important message what “Trapped” would like to show the audience at the end, (which is) hoping to encourage everyone, just like the start of Tang Yi’s brand new life. This is what (I/we) really want to encourage people with in this society nowadays. No matter what generation (you are), (if) your life is not OK, hope (you) could receive some courage and comfort. Thank you.

the director of History3: Trapped, Lee Ching Rong (IG: @gialee2010), livestream on IG/FB on Jun. 13th 2019

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2019 Golden Pin Design Award Open from Bito on Vimeo.

2019 金點獎頒獎典禮開場影片｜23:59的饗宴

以17SDGs聯合國永續發展目標為題，結合金點獎LOGO和多元風格，創作出17幅與人類景況息息相關的海報圖像。

開場影片即是運用這17幅圖像為材開展出的故事。

輕盈的青鳥就像人類，承受地球環境日漸嚴峻的反撲壓迫，23:59 已然逼近。設計師是否還有創造改變的機會？

The concept of Golden Pin Design Award this year is “Gala @ 23:59,”which raises awareness about the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Bito wants to inspire the design community to take urgent action for sustainability by following #SDGs. We believe that positivity is essential to overcoming this apocalyptic challenge we all face together, and therefore he calls it a “Gala”, linking it together with the time “23:59” to signify the last moment before a new dawn.

The blue bird is like human, undertaking the pressure by severe changes on earth. “23:59” is ticking, do designers really have a chance to change this?

Opening Film Directed by Bito Client：台灣創意設計中心 Taiwan Design Center Creative Director：劉耕名 Keng-Ming Liu Copy Director：黃心怡 Vicki Huang Design Director：莊宜蓁 Jen Chuang Art Director：蘇暉凱 Hui-Kai Su Producer : 劉妤暄 Tammy Liu Assistant Producer : 林妍欣 Freda Lin

Ideation：劉耕名 Keng-Ming Liu/ 黃心怡 Vicki Huang / 蘇暉凱 Hui-Kai Su / 王璿甯 Hsuan-Nin Wang /呂秉真 Binbin Lu / 謝鎮璘 Chen-Lin Hsieh /邵偉豪 Wei-Hao Shao / 蔡易廷 Eating Tsai

Design：蘇暉凱 Hui-Kai Su/ 王璿甯 Hsuan-Nin Wang/ 呂秉真 Binbin Lu/ 謝鎮璘 Chen-Lin Hsieh/ 邵偉豪 Wei-Hao Shao/ 蔡易廷 Eating Tsai/ 郭怡辰 Yi-Chen Kuo/ 賴又綺 Lai-Yu Chi

Storyboard：蘇暉凱 Hui-Kai Su/ 呂秉真 Binbin Lu/ 邵偉豪 Wei-Hao Shao

Cel Animation： 呂秉真 Binbin Lu/ 林晉葦 Allen Lin/ 黃耀邦 Huang Yao Pang/ 蔡易廷 Eating Tsai / 盧丁衣 Ding-Yi Lu

Painting Artist：王璿甯 Hsuan-Nin Wang/ 蕭惠心 Huei-Sin Xiao/ 蔡香蘭 Hsiang-Lan Tsai/ 周依汝 Yi-Ju Chou

Animation: 蘇暉凱 Hui-Kai Su/ 黃省元 Olaola Yuan/ 黃鈺凱 Steve Huang/ 邵偉豪 Wei-Hao Shao/ 王璿甯 Hsuan-Nin Wang/ 謝鎮璘 Chen-Lin Hsieh

3D animation: 蘇暉凱 Hui-Kai Su/ 邵偉豪 Wei-Hao Shao/ 黃鈺凱 Steve Huang/ 高慶和 Chin Ho Kao/ 游家廳 Chia-Ting yu/ 張雅惠 Ya-Hui Chang/ 詹游丞 Yo-Cheng Chan/ 賴姮鳴 Henmi Lai

Editing：蘇暉凱 Hui-Kai Su

CG Character Animation CG Supervisor: 黃思豪 Triston Huang Pipeline TD: 賴大維 David Lai Rigging: 許博翔 Skywalker Xu Animation: 石均宇 Stone Shih Modeling & Texturing: 林哲孝 Tommy Lin

Music & Sound Design: 韓承燁 Cheng-Yeh Han Special thanks: 陳世霖 Shih-Lin Chen (Cellist)

[evoldir]

Fwd: Graduate position: TunghaiU_Taiwan.2.Biodiversity

Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@web.rhpcs.mcmaster.ca > Subject: Graduate position: TunghaiU_Taiwan.2.Biodiversity > Date: 18 November 2021 at 06:34:48 GMT > To: rdmpage@gmail.com > > > > Dear all, > > As the partner of the TIGP Biodiversity Program > (https://ift.tt/2JPJdwc), we would like to advertise 2-3 > Ph.D. scholarship position opportunities for Biodiversity, Ecology, > and Evolutionary Biology in the Center of Ecology and Environment, > Tunghai University (THU) in Taiwan. The deadline is 1st February every > year. The TIGP Biodiversity Program offers a unique opportunity for > aspiring young scientists to receive multidisciplinary training with > at least three-year scholarship (approximately 1,200-1,400 USD monthly > stipend upon the ranking among applicants; living expanse in Taiwan > approximately 600-1,000 USD per month). In Taiwan, the diverse terrestrial > (https://ift.tt/3nrGWNd) and marine ecosystems > (https://ift.tt/3nrGXkf) that harbor > rich biodiversity are attractive resources for the study of biodiversity, > ecology, and evolutionary biology. > > If you are interested in applying for a Ph.D. scholarship of TIGP > Biodiversity Program, please do first contact a suitable advisor, > who may fit your research interest, with some research ideas (e.g., > one-page research proposal), your CV, a sample of your original writing > (e.g. peer-reviewed paper or thesis), and your transcripts. Here is the > list of the potential advisor for the PhD positions in THU: > > 1.Algae, Biomonitoring, and Conservation with eDNA (Dr. Shao-Lun Liu; >  email: shaolunliu@gmail.com; Info: https://ift.tt/3HAqHoU) > > 2.Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functions, & Ecosystem Services (Dr. Jyh-Min >  Chiang; email: jyhmin@thu.edu.tw; Info: > > https://ift.tt/3wXu84c) > > 3.Conservation and Ecology of Coral Reef Fishes (Dr. Colin Wen; email: >  ckcwen@thu.edu.tw; Info: > > https://ift.tt/3qQ4iy2) > > 4.Ecology of Fungi (Dr. Pi-Han Wang; email: phwang@thu.edu.tw; Info: > > https://ift.tt/3qMLpMo) > > 5.Ecology, Physiology, and Behavior of Frogs (Dr. Yeong-Choy Kam; email: >  biyckam@gmail.com; Info: > > https://ift.tt/30FAdXh) > > 6.Forest Dynamics & Plant-Animal Interactions (Dr. Yi-Ching Lin; email: >  yichingtree@gmail.com; Info: > > https://ift.tt/3CuVfVr) > > 7.Geospatial Analysis & Landscape Ecology (Dr. Chuan-Te Chang; email: >  changchuante@gmail.com; Info: >  https://ift.tt/3x0m4Qo) > > 8.Intercontinental Disjunction of Butterflies & Mitochondrial Meta- >  genomics (Dr. Li-Wei Wu; email: liweiwu@thu.edu.tw; Info: https://ift.tt/3wYr4Vl >  Wu) > > 9.Spider Behavioral Ecology and Silk Biomimetics (Dr. I-Ming Tso; email: >  spider@thu.edu.tw; Info: > > https://ift.tt/3nonXmC) > > 10.Visual Adaptation & DNA barcoding (Dr. Chia-Hao Chang; email: >   chiahao0928@thu.edu.tw; Info: > > https://ift.tt/3DwN9gu) > > 11.Wetland Ecology & Environmental Physiology of Crustaceans (Dr. Hui- >   Chen Lin; email: hclin@thu.edu.tw; Info: >   https://ift.tt/30BcAP3) > > The TIGP Biodiversity Program is a joint program from the following > three institutes: Academia Sinica, National Taiwan Normal University, > and THU. If you cannot find a suitable advisor from THU who fits your > research interest, please also visit the TIGP Biodiversity Program website > (https://ift.tt/2JPJdwc) and contact other advisors to explore > different topics that may fit your interest. > > For more information, please contact: > > Shao-Lun Liu, Ph.D. > > Professor > > Department of Life Science, Tunghai University > > Taichung, Taiwan > > E-mail: > > shaolunliu@gmail.com > > > via IFTTT

[lesser-known-composers]

Qigang Chen [陈其钢]: Enchantements oubliés (Shao-Chia Lü, Taiwan Philharmonic)

[freenewstoday]

New Post has been published on https://freenews.today/2021/02/26/intercity-commuters-are-a-puzzle-for-chinese-officials/

Intercity commuters are a puzzle for Chinese officials

FEW CHILDREN grow up dreaming of being a commuter. But there is a logic to a life spent between a city job and a home in some quiet, affordable spot. The first modern suburbs sprang up to greet trains puffing out of Victorian London. As countries such as Japan, France and Spain invested in high-speed trains, travelling at 250kph or more, new pairs of cities found themselves an hour or so apart, allowing for previously unthinkable commutes.

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Now it is China’s turn. Planners did not have commuters in mind when they began building the world’s largest high-speed rail system just over a decade ago. They started with national trunk lines and regional spurs, to bind together a vast country and boost growth. Now, with more than 35,000km of lines laid, planners are building more intercity routes, creating conditions for fast, short hops. One study in 2018, using mobile-phone data to track movements, found tens of thousands of people commuting from neighbouring cities into Shanghai, a megalopolis of 24m. Most of them came from Suzhou, a historic city half an hour away by fast train.

Last year the Journal of Transport & Health, an international outlet, published a survey of such pioneering riders. The typical respondent was a married man with one or two children, a middling-to-high income and a university degree. Three-quarters became long-distance commuters only after the arrival of high-speed rail. More of them describe intercity travel as a route to a better job than to a higher quality of life. Indeed, many call commuting stressful, and something to do “when they are young”, notes a co-author of the survey, Chia-Lin Chen of the University of Liverpool. China’s high-speed railways do not sell season tickets to commuters, who must often scramble to secure daily tickets on trains meant for long-distance travellers. Moreover, to promote newly built districts, high-speed railway stations are often built far from existing city centres, obliging commuters to travel long distances from stations to workplaces. All this exacts a toll on marriages and families, says Ms Chen.

The Xiao Langfang housing complex is a cluster of apartment blocks in the small, nondescript city of Langfang, 60km from central Beijing. It is an excellent base for commuting—a seven-minute walk from a high-speed railway stop that is, in turn, a 21-minute ride from Beijing South station. The one-way fare is 28 yuan ($4.33). It is a friendly spot. On a mid-week afternoon, its landscaped grounds are thronged with children flying kites, yapping lapdogs and old women playing cards in the winter sun. Above all, here in the northern province of Hebei, just outside Beijing’s city limits, property is cheap. Apartments in Xiao Langfang sell for 15,000 yuan a square metre. A comparable flat in Beijing could easily cost six times as much.

Shao Zeyu, a young father playing with his five-year-old son in the compound’s gardens, met his wife in Beijing and rented a home with her there for years. They left the capital after their child was born. Mr Shao’s legally registered hometown is Langfang, while his wife is from Tianjin, a nearby coastal city. Mr Shao’s mother lives in Langfang, so she can offer both love and free child care. But the family faced constraints, too. It is very hard to obtain a new household-registration permit, or hukou, from Beijing, a city that Chinese leaders consider full. Without a Beijing hukou, the Shao family could not easily gain access to many public services in that city, including school places. So they left.

The train has been a boon. Initially, his wife carpooled from Langfang to her job in northern Beijing. She left at 5:30am and reached her desk before most colleagues, allowing her to return home early to see her son. In bad traffic the journey could take three hours each way, and left her exhausted. The fast train to Beijing enables her to leave home at seven. That makes the Shao family lucky. Many friends work such brutal hours, until nine or ten each evening, that they come home only at weekends. Mr Shao himself used to work similar hours for a computer-games firm in Beijing, and is now looking for a job he can do locally. Because Tianjin is affordable and offers better schools and an easier route to university, the family expects to move there when their son is older. Mr Shao’s wife plans to commute by train from Tianjin.

In China working nine-to-five is a luxury

Such hyper-mobility is new in China. The government is promoting a new form of urban development that embraces multi-city clusters, including one uniting Beijing and Tianjin. But the aim is to make it more appealing to live in a wider range of secondary cities and new towns, not to create alternative routes to work in central Beijing. In 2016 the Communist Party boss of Hebei said that Langfang “absolutely cannot become a dormitory town for those who work in Beijing”. Indeed, China’s tax system currently punishes commuter towns. Someone who works in Beijing pays taxes and social-security contributions into the capital’s coffers, even when sleeping each night in Langfang. Locals murmur that officials in Langfang blocked moves to call a housing development “Shouzhan”, meaning “First Stop” on the line from Beijing.

The authorities in Langfang want new residents to live and work in their city. They recently eased restrictions on outsiders buying property there, allowing them to invest if they make six months’ worth of social-security payments to Langfang’s fund (on top of payments made elsewhere). But Langfang should be realistic, suggests a local property-salesman. He calls his home town a place where newlyweds and those starting families will choose to live until they can afford to move on.

In truth, Langfang’s greatest asset is being a convenient stop on the way to bigger places. That is a puzzle for officials rewarded for developing the place under their charge, not for facilitating the restless ambitions of individuals. China’s high-speed railways are a spectacular economic achievement. Their impact on society may prove as dramatic, if officials allow it.■

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[nuc7ear]

DOOMSDAY from Bito on Vimeo.

It's the first time to mix news report and Chinese typography with graphic design to represents interesting discussion among juries in serious topics.

2019金點設計獎以聯合國17項全球永續發展目標 #SDGs17 作為關注的主軸，延續去年「自然知道」點出環境永續的理想，拓展更為宏觀的格局，希望設計師能從這些主題發揮正面的使命感，讓即將來臨的23:59，擺脫無能為力的沈重，成為值得圍繞在創新與共享的宏大盛宴。

The Golden Pin Design Award 2019 Grand Ceremony follows on from its previous year’s theme (Nature Knows) and supports the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals in an effort to bring designers together and champion design for sustainability.

首度混用寫實報導風格和中文typography 和平面圖像，在嚴肅話題間延展有趣的討論空間。

It's the first time to mix news report and Chinese typography with graphic design to represents interesting discussion among juries in serious topics.

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Directed by Bito Client： 台灣創意設計中心 Taiwan Design Center Creative Director：劉耕名 Keng-Ming Liu Associate Art Director：鄭楷 Kai Cheng / 蔡易廷 Eating Tsai Producer : 劉妤暄 Tammy Liu Ideation：鄭楷 Kai Cheng / 黃心怡 Vicki Huang / 莊宜蓁 Jen Chuang Storyboard：鄭楷 Kai Cheng / 蔡易廷 Eating Tsai / 王璿甯 Hsuan-Nin Wang Design：蔡易廷 Eating Tsai / 謝鎮璘 Chen-Lin Hsieh / 王璿甯 Hsuan-Nin Wang / 邵偉豪 Wei-Hao Shao Editing：鄭楷 Kai Cheng Animation：蔡易廷 Eating Tsai / 鄭楷 Kai Cheng ----------------- Filming Crew： Director：鄭楷 Kai Cheng Producer : 江函儒 Han-Ju Chiang Assistant Producer：林妍欣 Freda Lin Director of Photography：劉書銓 Shane Liu Second Camera：鄭楷 Kai Cheng Lighting : 許鈞筌 Chun-Chuan Hsu Lighting Assistants：王彥傑 Yen-Chieh Wang / 羅煒 Wei Lo Make Up：Ruby Ng Boom Operator：猴子電男孩影藝有限公司 Monkey Boys Club Interview Host：莊宜蓁 Jen Chuang / 鄭楷 Kai Cheng Interviewee：Louisa Bocchietto / SPREAD / Tony Chi / 比爾賈Bill Chia / 阮慶岳Ching-Yueh Roan / 官政能 Cheng-Neng Kuan / 胡湘雲Jennifer Hu / 陳禧冠 Shikuan Chen / 鄒駿昇Page Tsou / 龔書章Shu-Chang Kung Music & Sound Design : 韓承燁 Cheng-Yeh Han Audio Mixing：傳翼錄音製作 Pixelfly Digital Sound

[jujuhung]

‘Similarities’ (Group exhibition) 似不似-六人聯展 ▫️Participating artists 參展藝術家 #王公澤 Gon-Jer Wang #陳建榮 Chien-Jung Chen #趙璐嘉 Lu-Chia Chao #洪郁雯 Julia Hung #陳劭彥 Shao-Yen Chen #陳睿淵 Jui-Wen Tan ▫️Venue 展場 弎畫廊 @san_gallery_tw ▫️Date 展期 2023.2.4(Sat)~3.4(Sat) ▫️Opening Reception 開幕茶會暨講座 2022/02/11(Sat) 15:00-17:00 與談人 #柯應平 x 參展藝術家 Julia Hung’s artworks are presented as the only three-dimensional pieces of this exhibition. Different from conventional and traditional sculptures, she makes her art intuitively without consciously planning the overall shape and structure. As Hung describes, she “uses crocheting techniques which she learned at a young age from her grandmother to carefully weave stiff metal fibers into silky, organic forms. Her net-like creations, which radiate warmth from every knotted strand of bright, translucent copper, exude a unique sense of space, as if encapsulating an entire self-sufficient microcosm. At the outset of the creative process, she simply follows her instincts, without a desired form in mind, weaving over and over in seemingly random fashion until each piece comes to life”. As she meticulously weaves enameled copper wire, she explores through a sensation of familiarity, as if these afterimages from her memories shape the creations of ‘Déjà Vu’. By maneuvering through the construction, reverberation, and reformation of external materials, Hung invokes her inner thoughts and mysterious cosmography into sculptural forms. 洪郁雯的創作，是此次展覽的唯一立體塑造型態的作品。不同於一般傳統雕塑具有骨架與構想草圖，正如她創作自述所言：「透過傳承自阿嬤的編織技法，將金屬媒材宛若作絲縷，以溫潤手感細密勾勒出有機、半透視的銅線雕塑，每件交纏、網狀般的作品，兀自生長出獨特的空間感，宛如自治的微型宇宙。藝術家以零構圖的直覺式創作，在看似沒有計劃性的選擇之下反覆編織，直至作品誕生。」 她利用彩漆銅線的細密編織，探索著具有似曾相識、彷彿記憶殘影的「既視感」造型。藉由外在物質的組織、疊構、扭轉的動態形式，引發極為幽微的內在宇宙圖景與心域。 #juliahung #jujuhung #弎畫廊 #groupexhibition #galleryexhibition #contemporaryart #sculpturenow #taiwaneseartist (at 弎畫廊 San Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CopgHltPQ9U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[manukyan]

DOOMSDAY from Bito on Vimeo.

It's the first time to mix news report and Chinese typography with graphic design to represents interesting discussion among juries in serious topics.

2019金點設計獎以聯合國17項全球永續發展目標 #SDGs17 作為關注的主軸，延續去年「自然知道」點出環境永續的理想，拓展更為宏觀的格局，希望設計師能從這些主題發揮正面的使命感，讓即將來臨的23:59，擺脫無能為力的沈重，成為值得圍繞在創新與共享的宏大盛宴。

The Golden Pin Design Award 2019 Grand Ceremony follows on from its previous year’s theme (Nature Knows) and supports the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals in an effort to bring designers together and champion design for sustainability.

首度混用寫實報導風格和中文typography 和平面圖像，在嚴肅話題間延展有趣的討論空間。

It's the first time to mix news report and Chinese typography with graphic design to represents interesting discussion among juries in serious topics.

--

Directed by Bito Client： 台灣創意設計中心 Taiwan Design Center Creative Director：劉耕名 Keng-Ming Liu Associate Art Director：鄭楷 Kai Cheng / 蔡易廷 Eating Tsai Producer : 劉妤暄 Tammy Liu Ideation：鄭楷 Kai Cheng / 黃心怡 Vicki Huang / 莊宜蓁 Jen Chuang Storyboard：鄭楷 Kai Cheng / 蔡易廷 Eating Tsai / 王璿甯 Hsuan-Nin Wang Design：蔡易廷 Eating Tsai / 謝鎮璘 Chen-Lin Hsieh / 王璿甯 Hsuan-Nin Wang / 邵偉豪 Wei-Hao Shao Editing：鄭楷 Kai Cheng Animation：蔡易廷 Eating Tsai / 鄭楷 Kai Cheng ----------------- Filming Crew： Director：鄭楷 Kai Cheng Producer : 江函儒 Han-Ju Chiang Assistant Producer：林妍欣 Freda Lin Director of Photography：劉書銓 Shane Liu Second Camera：鄭楷 Kai Cheng Lighting : 許鈞筌 Chun-Chuan Hsu Lighting Assistants：王彥傑 Yen-Chieh Wang / 羅煒 Wei Lo Make Up：Ruby Ng Boom Operator：猴子電男孩影藝有限公司 Monkey Boys Club Interview Host：莊宜蓁 Jen Chuang / 鄭楷 Kai Cheng Interviewee：Louisa Bocchietto / SPREAD / Tony Chi / 比爾賈Bill Chia / 阮慶岳Ching-Yueh Roan / 官政能 Cheng-Neng Kuan / 胡湘雲Jennifer Hu / 陳禧冠 Shikuan Chen / 鄒駿昇Page Tsou / 龔書章Shu-Chang Kung Music & Sound Design : 韓承燁 Cheng-Yeh Han Audio Mixing：傳翼錄音製作 Pixelfly Digital Sound