Using this mobile innovation, he was able to practice the tea ceremony wherever he went, powerfully projecting his unrivaled power and status upon his arrival.

The double-ring ceremony, or use of wedding rings for both partners, is a relatively recent innovation.

* October 13, 2009: Polish Wikipedia received a " special recognition for social innovation " at the 2009 Jan Łukasiewicz Award ceremony, which recognises the most innovative Polish IT companies.

The radical nature of the innovation in the Congo was not emphasized in the official announcements.

this was the point at which he finally took the lead in Cubist innovation away from Braque, never again to relinquish it.

This innovation was not introduced without a struggle, ecclesiastical dignity being regarded as inconsistent with the higher spiritual life, but, before the close of the 5th century, at least in the East, abbots seem almost universally to have become deacons, if not priests.

In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation.

Salieri would also write several bravura aria's for a soprano playing the part of a middle class character that would combine coloratura and concertante woodwind solos, another innovation for a comic opera that was to be widely imitated.

The 5200 also featured the innovation of the first automatic TV switchbox, allowing it to automatically switch from regular TV viewing to the game system signal when the system was activated.

A key innovation required for the BBS was the Hayes Smartmodem.

The use of letter " i " prefixes and suffixes to denote information technology or interactivity was very much in vogue at this time, notably with the launch of the iMac and the iPod by Apple Computer ; according to the BBC, the " i " in BBCi stood for " interactivity " as well as " innovation ".

This was a time of innovation as electric lighting was introduced in the Reading Room and exhibition galleries.

Robinson notes that this was an innovation in comedy films, and marked the time when serious critics began to appreciate his work.

William Aspdin's innovation was counterintuitive for manufacturers of " artificial cements ", because they required more lime in the mix ( a problem for his father ), a much higher kiln temperature ( and therefore more fuel ), and the resulting clinker was very hard and rapidly wore down the millstones, which were the only available grinding technology of the time.

The theme of the fair was technological innovation over the century since Chicago's founding.

It was Renaissance in Italy, in the late Middle Ages, that started a movement of hostility to caste hierarchy, and then a shift towards ideas of equality, merit, freedoms, skepticism, innovation, judge people by their talent and not by their birth, and such concepts.

An innovation at the Council was that instead of voting as individuals, the bishops voted in national blocks, explicitly confirming the national pressures that had fueled the schism since 1378.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was an explosion of innovation in dance style characterized by an exploration of freer technique.

The innovation of lossy audio compression was to use psychoacoustics to recognize that not all data in an audio stream can be perceived by the human auditory system.

In 1997 he was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize of $ 500, 000, the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, and the ACM Turing Award.

Although the very act of codification was a radical innovation, given the precedent-based design of the Roman legal system, the jurists were generally conservative, and constantly looked to past Roman practice and theory for guidance.

These models also featured an innovation with a generator that doubled up as a self-starter, which was mounted directly on the crankshaft.

* In the mid-1930s, Runyon persuaded promoter Leo Seltzer to formally change his Roller Derby spectacle from a marathon roller-skating race into a full-contact team sport, an innovation that was eventually revived in a DIY spirit seven decades later.

The Taika era innovation of naming time periods – nengō – was yet to be initiated during her son's too-brief reign.

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

Strauss argued that the unavoidable nature of such arms races, which have existed before modern times and led to the collapse of peaceful civilizations, provides us with both an explanation of what is most truly dangerous in Machiavelli's innovations, but also the way in which the aims of his apparently immoral innovation can be understood.

Trading was the main facility of prehistoric people, who bartered goods and services from each other before the innovation of the modern day currency.

Eating fresh " garden " peas before they were matured was a luxurious innovation of the Early Modern period: by contrast with the coarse, traditional peasant fare of pease pottage, Potage Saint-Germain, made of fresh peas and other fresh greens braised in light stock and pureed, was an innovation sufficiently refined that it could be served to Louis XIV of France, for whose court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye it was named, ca 1660-80.

The resulting pressure to release new features quickly and grab " mindshare " before one's competitors had disastrous effects on software quality, but resulted in an unprecedented rapid pace of innovation.

There was great respect for the engineering innovation that came out of Dresden — before the war the world's first 35 mm single-lens reflex camera, the Kine Exakta, and the first miniature camera with good picture quality were developed there.

Most industry leaders see new product development as a proactive process where resources are allocated to identify market changes and seize upon new product opportunities before they occur ( in contrast to a reactive strategy in which nothing is done until problems occur or the competitor introduces an innovation ).

Cape Town based female artist Verity has been recognized internationally for innovation in the music industry for selling 2000 copies of her album Journey before it was actually recorded.

1. 6 million years ago, the line of H. erectus diverged some 200, 000 years before the general innovation of Acheulean technology.

Desilu's innovation was to use a multi-camera film setup before a live studio audience.

He spoke at about fifty international conferences a year before becoming GPC leader, and conducts strategic planning sessions with executive teams on leadership, change, CRM, eLearning, innovation and creating learning organizations.

" I am dying ," Ken had written, " In the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West ; and, more particularly, in the Communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from both Papal and Protestant innovation, and adheres to the Doctrine of the Cross.

Many of the stylistic elements in the representations of the Buddha point to Greek influence: the Greek himation ( a light toga-like wavy robe covering both shoulders: Buddhist characters are always represented with a dhoti loincloth before this innovation ), the halo, the contrapposto stance of the upright figures ( see: 1st – 2nd century Gandhara standing Buddhas and ), the stylized Mediterranean curly hair and top-knot apparently derived from the style of the Belvedere Apollo ( 330 BCE ), and the measured quality of the faces, all rendered with strong artistic realism ( See: Greek art ).

The reasons for this lack of German musical innovation were the suppression of " degenerate " forms of music by the Nazis and / or the traumatic effects of the war — while Germany was a center of several forms of modern music before the Nazi era, it had difficulty developing its own music culture after its occupation.

Alongside the Great Depression, many musicians from poor, rural Southern states like Louisiana moved to the north, especially New York City and Chicago, Louis Armstrong was among them, and he helped make Chicago the center for musical innovation in the country before moving on to New York, where clubs like Cotton Club, Village Vanguard and Minton's were flourishing.

In an interesting innovation, solids ( sludge ) could be removed before entering digesters and burned into a gas that could be used to run engines.

Material innovation, whether through entrepreneurialism or technological advancement, all but ended long before the final dissolution of the Empire.

I wanted to see a story play out that was more in line with the way real innovation takes place than I had seen on film before.

Canavalia ensiformis agriculture and similar topics in Venezuela, before working in the United States on innovation diffusion under the direction of Everett Rogers at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication.

The development of intraocular lenses brought an innovation into the optical world as before they could be used ; patients would not have their natural lens replaced and as a result, they had to wear very thick eyeglasses or some special type of contact lenses.

Neo-Luddism holds the belief that we were better off before its advent and is the opposite of technophilia, the belief that technological innovation will remedy all ills.

His great innovation was not the printing itself, but instead of using readily-carved plates as before, he used separate letters ( types ) from which the printing plates for pages were made up.