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Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity
Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions
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"What a gift Robin Jensen has given us in this book, a gift she is uniquely qualified to give. A scholar of Christian liturgy, doctrine, and art, Jensen presents the history of early Christian initiation the way it was experienced--as a unified whole. Integrating image with practice and interpretation, Jensen offers a deep and insightful look into early Christian baptism. Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity is so clear and direct it can easily serve as a solid introductory text; at the same time it is so thoroughly researched it will serve scholars of early Christian history, liturgy, and art for years to come. This much-welcome and much-needed volume is not to be missed."
Todd Johnson, William K. and Delores S. Brehm Associate Professor of Worship, Theology, and the Arts, Fuller Theological Seminary
"To examine how early Christians enacted, experienced, and reflected upon baptism, Jensen utilizes an array of sources for her work: ritual texts, theological treatises, various genres of ancient literature, and most importantly for this study the visual arts and the design and decoration of the ritual space. By drawing together the different types of textual and nontextual evidence, Jensen offers the reader a fuller picture of the sacrament's complexity, particularly as considered through the theological motifs of cleansing, initiation, enlightenment, death and resurrection, and the eschatological restoration of creation. This richly illustrated volume, with many of the images photographed by the author herself, advances our understandings of Christian baptism in antiquity and of the role played by the visual image in expressing and transmitting the meanings of the sacrament."
Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, professor of worship, Boston University
"Through her engaging exploration of the images, language, and symbols of early Christian baptismal rites, Robin Jensen invites readers to consider anew the theological meaning and power of baptism for contemporary worshipers. Jensen's clarity of expression and the striking photos bring to life ancient ritual practices as well as illuminate some of the intriguing peculiarities of early Christian art and worship. Jensen states early in the book her desire to appeal to the reader's imagination. She does just that even as her presentation of baptism through five core motifs offers historical and theological insights about baptism that are valuable for historians and theologians as well as ministry students and pastoral leaders."
Jill Crainshaw, associate professor of ministry studies, Wake Forest Divinity School
"Robin Jensen brings her scholarly acumen and aesthetic sensibility to the interpretation of the principal motifs of the early Christian baptismal ritual. Adding to her impressive writings on the subject of baptism, Jensen addresses this book to a more popular audience but with solid scholarly support. These thematic studies elucidate the effects and meaning of the baptismal liturgy as a sensory, symbolic, and spiritual experience for its recipients."
Everett Ferguson, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Abilene Christian University
"This volume illumines the multiple biblical metaphors that evoke the meaning of baptism, offers a lucid and richly attested account of early church baptismal practices, and awakens the imagination of readers to engage in contemporary celebrations of baptism with renewed vitality. The book demonstrates that metaphor, architecture, visualization, and liturgy are not mere applications of theology but rather help constitute theology, and it does so in a way that is both accessible to students and instructive for veteran pastors and theological educators."
John D. Witvliet, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary
"True to our social-human natures, we Christians have an insatiable desire to dig into the treasures of our past to discover the world of ancient beliefs and practices behind the images, names, texts, and symbols comprising the biblical-traditional faith we practice today. Robin Jensen has taken the vast and varied array of treasures comprising early Christian baptism and organized them into a theologically enlightening exhibit, leading the reader through a series of 'rooms' through which one may marvel at the rich and varied elements comprising the sacramental whole."
Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, professor of theological studies, Vanderbilt University
"Robin Jensen's attention to art and architecture is an important addition to existing scholarship that focuses primarily on texts. This fresh approach to the topic is carefully researched and amply illustrated. Christians concerned with a renewal of baptismal practice today will find a rich trove of biblical stories and metaphors that inspired and informed early Christian communities."
Ruth A. Meyers, Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics, Church Divinity School of the Pacific
"This new study of baptism may be unique in exploring the early history of Christian initiation not through authors or ideas but symbols. Drawing material and literary evidence together in a deft and unprecedented way, Jensen reveals how early Christians themselves experienced their rite of initiation. The book, like the rite, is rich and diverse; it demonstrates the variety of baptismal images and understandings that could coexist and catalyze one another. Washing, community membership, illumination, rebirth, and new creation are all vividly drawn in word and image. This array of fundamental images and their ritualization provides new insight not only into baptism but also into the ways Christian identity itself was created and expressed."
Andrew McGowan, warden, Trinity College, The University of Melbourne
"Those who are designing baptisteries and fonts and those involved in preparing the elect for baptism will be grateful for this book. It is a brilliant synchronization of rich resources: Scripture, early Christian documents, poetry, and initiatory customs. Its many illustrations show how the languages of art, architecture, and ritual behavior complement and sustain one other. The people who may have experienced these ancient places and liturgies come to life. The book will kindle your senses."
Richard S. Vosko, PhD, Hon. AIA, designer and consultant for sacred spaces; author, God's House Is Our House: Re-imagining the Environment for Worship
2013 Catholic Press Award Winner
"[An] enjoyable book. . . . This book is very well written and well researched. Jensen does a magnificent job of presenting [the] five core motifs of baptism in early Christian documents and art. Her excellent knowledge of ancient literature is evident and her analysis of art forms very enlightening. I appreciated her thorough survey of what various ancient authors said about these motifs and their understanding of the biblical texts and imageries. Thus the book can serve as a good resource about baptism and provide fresh, new insights into the practice of baptism in the early church. Any student of early church history and theology will appreciate its value. Jensen's explanations of the biblical, theological, and ritualistic foundations of each motif of baptism are very well done."
Review of Biblical Literature
"[Jensen is] one of the most impressive of current scholars in early Christian art. . . . [She] has produced a succession of fine studies of early Christian art in recent years. . . . This latest volume is packed with little/lesser-known information about early Christian baptismal imagery, architecture, and ritual practices."
"Jensen's new book is a treasure-trove of reflective discussion and suggestive juxtaposition of imagery anciently associated with baptism. . . . Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources, biblical and post-biblical, she does not underscore chronological or regional variations, but seeks to draw out the complexity of the sacrament by exploring its imprint on text, art, and ritual. The volume is richly illustrated in black-and-white. . . . The focus on sensual, liturgical, and theological dimensions of baptismal imagery draws the reader into the mind and heart of early sacramentalism, helping to open up a view from within. . . . Jensen offers a rich fund of intriguing details and connections between art and text, theology and practice. She is a master of pace, combining breadth with detail, vivid vignette with insightful analysis. As enjoyable as it is informative, this is a book that is likely to be treasured by a wide audience, specialist and non-specialist alike."
"The study of early Christian worship has tended to focus almost exclusively on the testimony provided by written sources, relatively few though these are, and to neglect the evidence offered by physical remains, and especially artistic representations. What Robin Jensen does in this very valuable work is to marry the one with the other, skillfully juxtaposing the literary images that were used in homilies, catechetical lectures and other works with their counterparts in the rites of initiation themselves and in the mosaics and other visual decoration of the liturgical space. . . . The book is firmly undergirded by her specialist academic knowledge of the subject. . . . This is a very welcome volume."
Paul F. Bradshaw,
"In this engaging and scholarly exploration of baptismal imagery in the first six Christian centuries, Robin Jensen offers a rich portrait of how early Christians practiced, portrayed, and interpreted baptism. . . . Jensen builds on the significant scholarship of the past 50 years regarding the history of baptismal practice and preaching in the early church. Liturgical scholars will appreciate her careful reading and measured conclusions regarding specific debates in the field. . . . However, the book is intended primarily for non-specialists, and requires no prior knowledge of sacramental history. The writing is clear and lively, and provides a wealth of material for anyone wishing to teach, preach, or simply learn more about baptismal imagination in both East and West in the early centuries of Christianity. The visual images are particularly valuable as illustrations of her points."
"Robin Jensen offers a new approach to the complicated study of baptism during the first five centuries. . . . Jensen is rare among scholars of ancient Christianity in bringing astute analysis of Christian visual art to patristic evidence. Her book reveals a deeper significance to the Fathers' texts on baptism because she interprets the contribution of the material evidence, long-forgotten and neglected. . . . The book exhibits the linguistic skills and magisterial tone of a seasoned scholar unencumbered by trendy academic jargon. In command of a wealth of patristic authors, Jensen succeeds in showing the diversity of practices and meanings of baptism in the first centuries."
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
"Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity is an extensive catalogue of early Christian baptismal images with attention both to their historical contexts and to their 'ritual, visual, and theological dimensions.'. . . Jensen draws on her expertise in early Christian art and texts to guide neophytes into an appreciation of these varied dimensions by introducing relevant biblical passages, patristic texts, inscribed sarcophagi, ornamented baptisteries, and other iconography. . . . [This book] is an attractive, accessible, and affordable introduction to key baptismal motifs in early Christianity, and Jensen has thus rendered a great service to students and scholars of early Christian art, liturgy, and theology."
Daniel L. Smith,
Journal of Early Christian Studies
"What makes Jensen's book so helpful is how it looks beyond the textual evidence to survey early baptismal iconography. A manifold and complex understanding of this ancient rite soon emerges--which may disturb those for whom baptism is a simple practice with univocal meaning. . . . Jensen has written an accessible overview of early Christian baptismal imagery. . . . [The book] offers a valuable reminder that baptism was originally a rich and variegated practice."
Southeastern Theological Review
"This volume is remarkable for its lightly worn erudition and affordable price. It will be much appreciated by scholars and students alike."
Scottish Journal of Theology
"Preachers and catechists frequently seek orienting resources to assist in the subtle art of mystagogical formation. In Robin Jensen's Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity, one discovers such a source. . . . What sets Jensen's work apart is the delicate interweaving of early Christian art, analysis of ancient ritual practice, and mystagogical texts next to one another. . . . Jensen's volume is especially strong when treating the role of specific biblical motifs in Christian art, as related to early Christian rituals of baptism. . . . The preacher and catechist who works his or her way through Jensen's text will discover a rich resource for performing a post-baptismal mystagogy in both a parish and university context. The work would also serve as a very fine introduction to early Christian baptism for pastoral ministers. And lastly, all those charged with church architecture, particularly baptisteries or fonts in parishes would benefit from a careful reading of Jensen's baptismal typologies."
Timothy P. O'Malley,
Church Life: A Journal for the New Evangelization
"[A] lucid introduction with many black/white illustrations by [an] acclaimed expert."
"[This] book by the world's leading expert on early Christian worship and art offers a way for more of us to experience baptism as a lifelong conversion to God's wide, long, high, and deep love. . . . Robin Jensen has devoted her life to discovering the rituals, symbols, art, and architecture in early Christians' lived experience of faith. . . . Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity enlivens the biblical, historical, and theological texts about baptism with photographs of art from early century catacombs, stone coffins, mosaics, baptismal fonts, and baptisteries."
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (worship.calvin.edu)
"[A] very impressive book. . . . What is particularly illuminating about this book is the way in which the author has illustrated the sacramental character of baptism by relating it to the Old Testament anticipation of the sacrament. . . . One of the most important aspects of this very instructive book is that it underlines the many elements in the sacrament. . . . This is a remarkable and valuable book, not only for the illustrations it offers of ancient rites, but also for the accurate accounts it offers of the way in which baptism was addressed by early Christian writers from the New Testament to the fourth century, making great use of Cyril of Jerusalem and John Chrysostom in the east and Ambrose and Augustine in the west."
Anthony Meredith, SJ,
"In five straightforward and well-written chapters, Jensen guides the reader through five primary motifs associated with baptism as understood by early Christians. . . . The work is not overburdened by excessive footnoting, rather the ancients freely speak for themselves--a valuable element of this book--as most pages feature citations from or summaries of church fathers. . . . This book serves well as an introduction and sourcebook of the theology and practice of the early church with regard to baptism. Not only does the reader encounter the literary evidence of baptismal thought among early Christians, but also samples the 'imagery' of baptism as well, something missing in most treatments on the topic."
Benjamin J. Snyder,
"Scholarship of some breadth and depth is presented accessibly, and this book will be appreciated by readers with some diversity of interests."
Nicholas H. Taylor,
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
"[This] book drew me into its pages. Jensen's knowledge of texts, art, architecture, and liturgy manifested themselves in a finished product with superior organization and highly-readable prose. As a result, reading Baptismal Imagery was a pleasure. . . . Throughout the volume, Jensen deftly employs her knowledge of art, architecture, and ritual to reinforce the understanding of baptism presented in the primary source texts. In so doing, she persuasively presents her case that in the early church, exegesis, theological interpretation, artistic representation, and ritual symbolism all worked together to convey meaning."
Miles S. Mullen II,
The Anxious Bench blog (Patheos)


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Actor and businessman Mohamed Ali has re-broadcast videos criticizing the Egyptian regime and President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, this time focusing on the issue of the Renaissance Dam, which is being built by Ethiopia, which threatens Egypt's share of water.
Ali, who had worked as a contractor with the Egyptian army for several years before finally starting to uncover corruption cases involving Sisi, his family and some army commanders, blamed Sisi for wasting Egypt's rights.He called for the terms of the agreement Sisi signed with the leaders of Ethiopia and Sudan on the Renaissance Dam in 2015.
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Three days ago, Mohamed Ali sent another video message to Egyptians, promising Sisi and the ministers of defense, interior, irrigation, housing and senior army leaders to be hanged after the removal of the military rule of the country, because of the crisis in the construction of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the consequent lack of Egypt's share of Nile water.
He accused El-Sisi of misleading Egyptians over the Nile waters, and also accused him of responsibility for the spread of tyranny, rampant price rises and the destruction of the economy.


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Deana Lawson has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022 for her series of portraits that “reframes and reclaims the black experience.” The foundation awarded her £30,000 (about $37,400) for her work.
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation is a commitment from the Deutch Börse group to culture and art. The foundation is based in Frankfurt, Germany, and since 2015 it has coordinated photography activities, including exhibitions, competitions, and funding with the aim to promote young talent.
The prestigious award was presented to Lawson — from Rochester, New York — for her exhibition Centropy which is of a series of staged portraits that reflect the language of a family photo album.
“Deana Lawson is a deserved winner of this year’s prize not least for the sheer inventiveness and complexity of her approach to image-making. Her work, which reframes and reclaims the black experience, harnesses the traditional and the experimental and opens up a very unique connection between the everyday and the mystical,” says Brett Rogers OBE, Chair of the Jury.
The judging panel was impressed by the boldness of her vision and the empowered sensibility she brings to her protagonists. Lawson’s images explore intergenerational relationships and their effects within black culture.
The photographs are set in familiar domestic settings, however, Lawson uses unsettling elements which function as what the artist calls “portals” into other worlds.
“Her subject matter sits somewhere between the ‘here and now’ and the past, a person and a people, the staged and the naturalistic, in a manner which is not didactic or issue-driven, but genuinely radical. The boldness of her vision and the empowered sensibility she brings to her protagonists is clearly the result of a carefully nuanced collaboration with her cast of ‘family’ members, which places her in a rare position of partner or narrator rather than auteur,” explains Rogers.
Anne-Marie Beckmann, the director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, said that while Lawson was grounded in the traditions of photography and in many ways quite classical, her images offered up new possibilities for the medium and its reception.
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The three other finalists were Anastasia Samoylova, Jo Ratcliffe, and Gilles Peress who submitted striking and thought-provoking images and were also acknowledged by the jury.
Image credits: All photos by Deana Lawson and provided courtesy of The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.

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Issues between the African American community and law enforcement run deep, so deep in fact that members of Congress are revealing their own encounters with police and by doing so placing emphasis on a longstanding problem.
Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican who represents South Carolina stood before the House chamber this week to describe his own interactions with police and to urge reform. “I have felt the anger, the frustration, the sadness and the humiliation that comes with feeling like you’re being targeted for nothing more than just being yourself,” Scott said.
Other lawmakers also recounted times when they were accosted by police and agreed across the aisle that change is necessary.
“I am absolutely convinced that most African-American members of Congress, particularly the men, have encountered some form of a hostile police encounter over the years,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
Jeffries, 45, recalled twice when he was younger being pulled over by police and searched along with African-American friends. No reason was given for the stops. Several other black male lawmakers told similar stories.
South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, the No. 3 Democrat in the House and a veteran of 1960s civil rights marches, said he was once being driven in South Carolina in his car with congressional tags. A policeman stopped the car and asked the driver, “Where’s the congressman?” while staring directly at Clyburn sitting in the back seat.
“He doesn’t see a congressman, he sees a black face,” Clyburn said.
Click “play” below to watch Rep. Scott’s speech to Congress.
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For the first time under head coach Bob Davie, New Mexico is having an identity crisis on offense. With the offensive line in a state of flux since the beginning of the season, and quarterback play being passable at best, UNM hasn’t been able to establish its triple-option offense. Instead, the Lobos have tried to throw more passes than they’re comfortable with, and the results haven’t been positive.
There wasn’t much of a rhythm to New Mexico’s offense at Arizona State on Friday. The issue was at a key position: quarterback. UNM’s Lamar Jordan and Austin Apodaca both struggled, resulting in a 34-10 loss to the Sun Devils in Tempe, Arizona. Jordan, who started the game, went just 4-11 for 22 yards. Apodaca did slightly better, going 8-18 with 89 yards and an interception. Both quarterbacks took the same number of snaps, leading the Lobos to just 295 yards of total offense.
The city of Tempe, Arizona hasn’t been kind to New Mexico. In the history between UNM and Arizona State, the Lobos are 1-12-1 all-time in Tempe with that lone victory coming in 1934. If UNM is able to garner a win in Sun Devil Stadium this Friday it will be a big upset. The Sun Devils are a 28-point favorite over the visiting Lobos.
Shaky play in UNM’s 40-21 loss to Tulsa on Saturday night left New Mexico’s offense exposed. Things started out just right for New Mexico as the squad strutted down the field on a six-play, 75-yard drive in under three minutes. However, not many drives after that went as smoothly as the first series of the game. Part of the problem for the Lobos was at the line of scrimmage, head coach Bob Davie said. The dive play was not working, which limited how much his offense could do after Tulsa took away a major component of New Mexico’s ground game.
Now it’s time for the real season to begin. A week after New Mexico dismantled Football Championship Subdivision member Mississippi Valley State 66-0, the Lobos will get their first real taste of competition when they host Tulsa on Saturday at University Stadium.
New Mexico’s defense showed no growing pains showcasing its new nickel defense in a 66-0 rout over Mississippi Valley State on Saturday night at University Stadium. UNM sent consistent pressure throughout the night in the season opener against MVSU’s dual quarterback system, never allowing any kind of rhythm for the Delta Devils. Head coach Bob Davie said he doesn’t take anything for granted after his team blew out the visiting Delta Devils, but said it was hard to tell how well his defense actually performed.
New Mexico sophomore running back Daryl Chestnut didn’t need much time to show off his skills. In the third quarter Chestnut took his first career handoff up the middle and used his speed to outrace the defense for a 64-yard touchdown.
Back when Bob Davie was an analyst for ESPN, there was one aspect of the job that he disliked: making predictions. Davie, entering his fourth year as head coach for New Mexico, said he wasn’t fond of acting like he knew what was going to happen five months into the college football season. Davie was paid to give his opinion much in the same way that he gives his opinion as a head coach. Well, the time for making predictions is over.
It takes time to instill a physical mentality. It’s something New Mexico’s defensive coordinator has been working on. Kevin Cosgrove, who is in his second year at UNM, said one of his goals was to get the Lobos to play a more physical style of football. So far, the team has shown a more aggressive attitude with Cosgrove at the helm.
Bob Davie has always spoken about how vital walk-ons are to New Mexico’s program. On Tuesday the head coach awarded scholarships to redshirt juniors and former walk-ons John Russo and Michael Walsh, both of whom are Albuquerque natives.
The passing game is starting to look like the real deal for New Mexico. After three years of not being a threat in the air, the Lobos showed off their new aerial attack in their third and final scrimmage of fall camp. Both the quarterbacks and the receivers made several plays throughout the scrimmage, including a couple of nice plays by sophomore wide out Delane Hart-Johnson.
An ideal physical specimen Jake Rothschiller is not. However, being one of the shortest safeties for New Mexico hasn’t stopped the 5-foot-7 Rothschiller from getting plenty of reps in during this fall camp.
It didn’t take long for Patrick Reed to realize there wouldn’t be much playing time as quarterback for him. All Reed had to do was take one look at the depth chart to see that he was behind incumbent redshirt sophomore starter Lamar Jordan, redshirt junior transfer Austin Apodaca and redshirt freshman JaJuan Lawson. That prompted Reed to propose a position switch during spring football practice: He told head coach Bob Davie that he wanted to go from quarterback to wide receiver. Davie accepted Reed’s proposal, and the redshirt freshman has proven that he’s a capable wideout thus far.
It’s hard to imagine that anyone would doubt Dakota Cox’s talent, but there’s been little mention of New Mexico’s best linebacker in the preseason. Cox wasn’t named in any major watch lists, nor did his name appear on the Preseason All-Mountain West Team. The main reason Cox’s name hasn’t been appearing often is because the junior linebacker is coming off a torn left ACL. He missed the final three games of the 2014 season and still led UNM in tackles with 116. “I would say yes, I was definitely frustrated, but it gives me something to play for,” Cox said after Sunday’s practice. “Every season you’ve got to go in with the mindset that you can be on any list that you want. That’s one thing I’m playing for, is to prove people wrong and that I’m back.”
Time has almost run out for most of Bob Davie’s first recruiting class.The 2015 season will most likely be the last for eight of Davie’s first 24 recruits. During the last three years, those players haven’t had much success on the field, with a record of 11-35.
Expectations are still low for New Mexico. At the Mountain West Media Days in Las Vegas, Nevada, the conference announced the preseason polls for the Mountain and West Divisions.


UK mosques take day to raise awareness on climate change
Making the announcement on their social media pages, the Muslim Council of Britain - the UK's largest umbrella body for Muslim-led organisations – said they teamed up with the Muslim Charities Forum for the Great Big Green Week, or The Big Green Jummah, which began on 18 and will finish on 26 September.
♻🕌 Calling all Mosques: Big Green Jummah!— MCB (@MuslimCouncil) September 23, 2021
❇This Friday 24th September we are asking mosques across the UK to dedicate Friday Khutbah to raising awareness about the environment
👉🏼 Check out our Friday Eco Khutbah herehttps://t.co/xKeZIi8ZMU@muslimcharities pic.twitter.com/qTGf96WpZS
"As Muslims, we have a religious duty towards protecting and preserving this Earth, and all that’s in it," the MCB wrote.
Verses from the Quran were shared to stress from a theological point of view the importance of preserving the environment and tackling climate change.
There are over 2.6 million Muslims of different ethnicities living in the UK, with over 1,800 mosques.
A landmark United Nations climate science report in August warned that human activity has already locked in climate disruptions for decades - but that rapid, large-scale action to reduce emissions could still stave off some of the most destructive impacts.
So far, governments do not plan to cut emissions anywhere near fast enough to do that.
The UN said last week that countries' commitments would see global emissions increase to be 16% higher in 2030 than they were in 2010 - far off the 45% reduction by 2030 needed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.


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A female goddess with a castle on her head (representing an Earth goddess or Geometry) holds up a tablet engraved with faces from which a man copies; two angels and a swan sit with them in the clouds. Engraving by T. Holloway, 1810.
- Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
Two roundels: above, a man supported by his wife and children prays before an altar of Aesculapius; below, a garland of medicinal plants, and angels representing pharmacy and botany. Coloured engraving by P. Lenormand, ca. 1830, partly after N. Guérin.
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INTENSE WEATHER TURNS SKI RESORT INTO ICE KINGDOM IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SLOVENIA
Nature and weather photographer Marko Korošec is used to capturing nature at it’s finest. On this particular day, he wasn’t sure what to expect. What he did know was the last 10 days of strong winds, low temperatures and freezing fog would make for quite the winter display.
After trekking to the top of mount Javornik In Slovenia, Korosec was amazed to find some of the most unique ice formations that had completely overtaken the mountaintop ski resort.

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Oily fish are an especially rich source of Omega-3’s. These fatty acids have a positive influence on molecules in the brain linked to thinking and learning.(1)
Recent studies have added another great benefit, too. Research reveals Omega-3’s have beneficial effects on your vision.
As you get older, structural abnormalities can develop in the back of your eyes, and slowly rob you of some – or all – of your vision. Not long ago, a group at the National Eye Institute looked at this situation in mice.
When they added Omega-3’s to the diets of mice suffering these abnormalities, the researches saw a slow-down in the problem. And, in some mice, they saw improvements.(2)
Omega-3’s appear to provide similar support for human vision, too.
Back in the early 1990’s, there wasn’t much information about Omega-3’s and vision. But a large Australian study – the Blue Mountains Eye Study – collected a lot of information about eye health and diet. They also collected 5-year and 10-year follow-ups on 2,454 study participants.
Last year, a team went back and sifted through the information. One group of nutrients that stood out was the Omega-3 fatty acids.
The researchers discovered that people who ate at least one serving of fish per week were 31% less likely to develop common structural problems in their eyes. And people who ate one or two weekly servings of nuts had a 35% lower risk.(3)
Fish and nuts are two of the richest sources of Omega-3’s, so researchers naturally made the connection.
Looking back at old data can provide valuable information. But it can also be misleading. That’s why a large new US vision study couldn’t be more welcome.
This study looked at more than 2,500 people aged 65 – 84. And it focused on Omega-3’s and vision.
The researchers discovered that people who ate less Omega-3-rich fish and shellfish had a much higher risk of the same eye problems the Australian study reviewed.(4)
In other words, the Australian team was right. Eating more Omega-3’s could help you see better, longer.
Oily fish are the best source of two important Omega-3 fatty acids: EPA and DHA. Herring, salmon, sardines and oysters are all rich in these Omega-3’s.
Flaxseed oil, walnuts and other tree nuts are good sources of another powerful Omega-3, called Alpha-linolenic acid.
These studies didn’t look at Omega-3 supplements. But I’ve seen many studies that show fish oil provides many of the same benefits as eating fish. So if you don’t care for the taste of fish, fish oil capsules could be a good alternative for you.
If you aren’t already getting plenty of Omega-3’s in your diet, supporting better vision is a great reason to get started. It may help you preserve your independence – and add to your enjoyment of life – for many years to come.
1 “Scientists Learn How Food Affects The Brain: Omega 3 Especially Important,: ScienceDaily.com/releases
2 Tuo J, et al. A High Omega-3 Fatty Acid Diet Reduces Retinal Lesions in a Murine Model of Macular Degeneration. Am. J. Pathol. 2009 175: 459-460.
3 Tan JSL, et al. Dietary Fatty Acids and the 10-Year Incidence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Archives of Opthalmology, Vol. 127 No. 5, May 2009.
4 Swenor BK, et al. The Impact of Fish and Shellfish Consumption on Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Opthalmology, Volume 117, Issue 12, Pages 2395-2401 (December 2010).
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Eugene Moloney, the 55-year-old journalist who died after being attacked as he was walking home after a night out in Dublin, will be laid to rest in Fahan tomorrow.
His funeral Mass takes place at 10am this morning in the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Merrion Road, Dublin. This will be followed by removal to Donegal for burial alongside his mother at St Mura’s, Upper Fahan tomorrow at 3pm.
Mr Moloney was a very well known and highly respected reporter who covered the Troubles at their height and also wrote extensively about music.
He died after being attacked in Camden Street at around 4.30am on Sunday, June 24 as he was walking to his home in Portobello.
Twenty-one-year-old Gary Burch of Kennington Close, Templeogue has been charged with manslaughter.
Mr Moloney is survived by his brother Sean, sister Roisin and girlfriend Chichi Tran.


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The fiscal markets have witnessed an influx of traders searching for possibilities to increase their investments. Two prominent investing possibilities that have acquired substantial acceptance are Foreign exchange and Binary Choices. Although the two revolve all around predicting price tag movements, they differ tremendously in their mechanics and appeal to different investing types. In this comprehensive guidebook, we will check out the important attributes of Forex trading and Binary Possibilities, delivering worthwhile insights to aid you make informed decisions and navigate these dynamic buying and selling worlds.
Fx Trading: The Global Currency Trade
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The Forex market provides huge versatility, enabling traders to go prolonged or quick on currency pairs. The availability of leverage also makes it possible for traders to management larger positions with a scaled-down money outlay, perhaps amplifying each revenue and losses. To be successful in Forex buying and selling, traders utilize various analysis techniques, which includes technical evaluation, essential evaluation, and industry sentiment examination, to make knowledgeable conclusions.
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Binary Choices give an different approach to trading, focusing on short-term cost movements. In contrast to Fx, Binary Possibilities traders do not purchase or promote the underlying asset. Instead, workshop forecast whether the price of an asset will rise or fall within a specified timeframe, which can selection from a number of seconds to minutes. This simple “all-or-practically nothing” nature of Binary Alternatives tends to make them suitable for traders who favor distinct-minimize threat-reward situations.
In Binary Possibilities trading, traders know the potential revenue and reduction upfront, permitting for much better threat administration. Even so, the trade-off is that prospective gains are set, irrespective of the extent of value motion in the predicted course. Traders can choose from various asset classes, which includes currencies, shares, commodities, and indices, growing their investing possibilities.
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1 of the most important distinctions in between Foreign exchange and Binary Options lies in their threat and reward profiles. In Foreign exchange trading, prospective gains and losses are limitless, relying on market place actions. Whilst this provides a lot more flexibility, it also needs a disciplined approach to chance management to protect your funds from substantial downturns.
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Both Foreign exchange and Binary Choices trading need a deep knowing of market place dynamics and powerful approaches to be profitable. Forex traders typically use different complex indicators, candlestick patterns, and financial info to make educated choices. On the other hand, Binary Options traders target on limited-term value movements and could make use of methods like price tag action, momentum, or information buying and selling.
Irrespective of the trading option you choose, continuous training and exercise are vital. Numerous reputable brokers and instructional methods offer valuable insights, buying and selling classes, and demo accounts to assist you sharpen your expertise and produce profitable techniques.
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As a trader, it is vital to identify your buying and selling fashion, danger tolerance, and long-time period goals to determine which selection suits you very best. Remember that success in trading demands discipline, constant finding out, and prudent risk administration. Armed with knowledge and a properly-defined method, you can navigate the intricacies of Foreign exchange and Binary Options and potentially attain your monetary goals in the interesting world of trading.

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The Brain of Google: Knowledge Graph
Google’s new algorithm, which is based on semantic search, mainly works on the concept of Knowledge Graph, and enables websites and people to be discovered through the new Google search. It can be considered as the brain of semantic search.
Now let us find out what this Knowledge Graph really is and how it works:
The term Knowledge Graph has been used to define a group of linked data nodes. It gathers not just knowledge represented by facts but also collects data about how these facts are connected to each other and what these connections actually mean. So now our new Google Knowledge Graph has the ability to understand the typed queries, and so it delivers results that are approximately the kind of answers that a human might give. Knowledge Graph has now overcome the ambiguities that the conventional search used to face. Google’s new search engine offers search results in a structured way that makes sense of possible choices and then helps us to select the most likely answer. This is possible with the help of several mathematical expressions on imprecision and fuzzy logic.
Now, in the Knowledge Graph, every time someone types a search query, Google’s index checks for all indexed content associated with the query. These indexed contents will be very large, so to narrow these contents to the most likely ones, it checks the partial truth value of each content and starts to narrow down the choices.
There are a set of filters used to develop the results. The search programming checks our personal search history, and guesses our intent behind the search. Based on this the results of a search query will be different for different people based on their search history. This is again possible due to fuzzy logic. Additional layers of filtering are possible from the user’s perspective, thus making the results even more accurate and personalized.
Don’t you want to know how this all works???
Knowledge Graph uses cross-referenced information collected from all over the Web before creating the list of results associated with any query. It then makes the necessary deductions using mathematical rules, and thus all sorts of questions can have now become answerable. Each time answers are given for any query, then and there itself on the right-hand side of the result page we can see the true workings of the Knowledge Graph as below.
Semantic search offers computational answers rather than just the top sites where you need to go inside and look for answers yourself. The new search engine can also recognize where you are in the world and answer the search query accordingly. If you just type “nearest restaurant without specifying your place, it still show the required results. Google has got the ability to pull out different pieces of data together like your Geo-location, GPS signal of your phone, and the address of all restaurants near you.
Isn’t it mind blowing??
The new search engine is more like an answer engine or a prediction engine, which predicts what you are going to search. Now onwards only the best information would ever surface on the search. Only the best businesses will grow. The traditional way of doing business has all gone. Now, one can use search to capture and hold the attention of the audience.
Now let us know the mechanism of the new search box....
To give meaningful results, semantic search, uses three things:
• Uniform Resource Indicator (URI)
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Then Knowledge Graph collects all the information for improving the list of answers from:
• Social and professional networks
• Google Search itself
Then it uses inference rules to group the information together and decode its meaning. These rules are activated through:
• Social networks
• Web platforms (like forums)
• Google Search and queries
The data generated by
• Social networks having shared content
• Social networks having comments and interaction
• Commercial websites having reviews and opinion
• Website platforms with content
The way we use Web
• Personal data
• websites we visit and what we with it
• Personal search patterns
And our offline behavior:
• GPS signal of our mobile device
• Geo-location based on IP address
• Data attained from connected devices
New search also learns from our activities, thus refining its understandings the way we do.
Business and Knowledge Graph
The search result for your potential customers is now precise and is based on your reputation, authority and trust. Only if your business delivers value, keeps on improving and evolving only then you can improve sales.
Hope you understood the new search....
So, promote your content everywhere regularly... Knowledge Graph will do the rest!!!
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KILLEEN, TX — In December of 2021 holiday shopping was in full swing at the Killeen mall and then gunfire echoed through the stores.
Shoppers and mall employees ran for their lives.
Killeen police immediately responded reports of an active shooter and Killeen Police Chief Charles rushed to the scene.
”I was thinking, active shooter with multiple victims. So, I knew a certain protocol had to happen. I left, I was getting updates, it was only one victim, I thought that was odd.” said Charles Kimble, Chief of Police for Killeen Police Department.
Police quickly realized that this was notanother mass shooting event but rather, a targeted attack.
”It wasn’t against the citizens of Killeen, it wasn’t against the mall, it wasn’t against a group of people, it wasn’t a random attack. This was one person that had an issue with another person who happened to work at the mall,” said Kimble.
It was a targeted attack with only one victim that led one witness who might know who pulled the trigger.
”So, we had to talk to our victim. At this point, the victim has helped us the best he could and he doesn’t know who may have wanted to hurt him.” said Kimble.
Left with only surveillance footage to go by, KPD hit another roadblock trying to identify the shooter.
”The suspect was literally covered from head to toe. It was hard to even find out a person’s race or skin complexion from the photographs.” said Kimble.
KPD thought they finally caught a break when they zero on a possible suspect but, it was a break in the case that was short lived.
”We had a working lead. We thought we had a subject of interest but, that person that we thought had been involved has since been cleared as a person of interest.” said Kimble.
KPD doesn’t have another suspect in their at this time but Chief Kimble said, the case has not gone cold.
”We have many investigative techniques. We thought we had a strong on but, we’re still working on it.” said Kimble.
Kimble says, without more cooperation, they’ll have to find other ways to solve the case.
Anyone with information that can lead to the identity or apprehension of the shooter can contact reach out to the Killeen Police Department or contact Bell County Crime Stoppers.
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Niger: School vegetable gardens as a branch of learning
Within the framework of the project devoted to Education in Emergency financed by AICS (the Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development) in the Diffa Region in Niger, head of project Floriana Bucca met the principal of Cherif Bello school (N'Guigmi- Diffa), who explained the benefits of realizing school vegetable gardens within teaching/learning activities (see previous article).
First of all, we want to thank the NGO COOPI as it continues to support us in our activities aimed at improving the quality of education in the schools for which we are responsible. Owing to the AICS project, training sessions were organized for teachers on various topics with the aim to improve our know-how in the teaching-learning activities we carry out every day in class with our students. Besides, this project also provided our school with a vegetable garden.
Gardening falls within the practical and productive activities (PPA) introduced in the education system in Niger as of several years now. Currently, though, these activities are being neglected by most of the school institutes, also due to the crisis that the Diffa Region is undergoing.However, these activities are indispensible because they enable teachers to introduce new concepts and develop practical skills among students. COOPI’s project enabled us to restart and support this wonderful activity. Teachers use the vegetable garden to combine the theory studied in class with practical demonstrations and observations. This broadens the children’s lexicon and develops their reading skills. Gardening is like a living Geometry book: our children learn to distinguish the various geometrical figures and calculate areas and perimeters.
Floriana Bucca concludes:
It’s wonderful to see them «play» in the garden, spend their time outside cheerfully while watering and taking care of plants. They asked me “Would you like to see our garden? We’ve been good at it!” True, they have been very good. Now the garden is full of lettuce and tomato plants. The education promoted by COOPI is also based on this, young boys and smiling girls that feel that the school is theirs, helping them cultivate their future.

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Charis Atkinson. Nail Ideas. June 19th , 2019.
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Hyundai has just launched the Aura compact-sedan, and interestingly with a 1.0L turbo-petrol motor. Now, it is just a matter of time that the smaller hathback sibling also benefits from this higher performance motor. We can now confirm that Hyundai will be launching the Grand i10 Nios with the same 1.0L turbocharged petrol motor in Q1 of 2020, so expect the car to hit showrooms by February or March 2020. This performance spec Grand i10 Nios could also be revealed at the 2020 Auto Expo which is scheduled in the coming weeks. Be advised, this is not an all-out N Performance version, just a more powerful motor under the hood.
Just like the Hyundai Aura, the Grand i10 Nios with this turbo-petrol engine could be available only in a single variant, and most the Sportz trim. The Aura is also sold in the SX trim with the 1.0L turbo-petrol engine, so the Sportz trim for the Grand i10 Nios makes sense. In terms of pricing, the 1.0L T-GDI version of the Grand i10 Nios could ask for INR 7.5 lakh ex-showroom. Of course, this motor is BS6 compliant.
The 1.0L, 3-cylinder, turbocharged, T-GDI petrol motor produces 100 PS of power @ 6000 RPM and 17.5 Nm of torque @ 1500 – 4000 RPM matched to a 5-speed manual gearbox only. The engine will come with 250 BAR pressure and laser processing injectors. The brand claims a mileage of 20.50 kmpl with this engine on the Aura compact-sedan, and the Grand i10 Nios could drive a kilometre or two further than this. Apart from the engine, the car could get some tuning differences to the suspension, even though the overall components remain the same to keep costs in check.
With the Maruti Suzuki Baleno RS now off the shelves, it makes perfect sense for Maruti Suzuki to introduce a sporty hatchback for the masses. As is, the Hyundai Grand i10 Nios prices range from INR 5.04 lakh to INR 8.04 lakh across petrol and diesel variants.


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Vallastaden is both a symbol and a prediction. A brand new, densely populated district within the city of Linköping in southern Sweden, Vallastaden is the focus of a vision in social, environmental and economic sustainability. It is an incarnation of the community of the future based on a new green way of living, consisting of over 1,000 residences that are built from environmentally-friendly construction materials.
Vallastaden’s unique residential building mix, encompassing a range of contrasting unit sizes and architectural styles, is gaining an international profile. It is becoming an emblem for a clean break with the past in its rejection of fossil fuels. The entire project has moved from vision to completion in only five years. The core of the philosophy behind the development is in prioritising the needs of the inhabitants. Embracing innovation is the means to fulfil this.
This new mode of urban planning, described as the Vallastaden Model, was celebrated throughout September 2017 by the Vallastaden housing and community Expo. The Expo’s mission, in part, was to convince visitors that the alternatives provided by the natural world can replace the reliance on old ‘dirty’ energy sources. Linköping’s new district is held up as an ideal to emulate; the hope is that its example will inspire and empower entire communities worldwide to significantly reduce their carbon footprint.
Vallastaden's living area is a community of the future based on a new green way of living.
More Efficient Waste Recycling Benefits the Whole Residential Community
Vallastaden's innovations confront the unsustainable way in which traditional cities are built and serviced. The twin drivers of increasing population and urban construction are increasing the pressures associated with waste. Investment in the disposal of household waste is one of the most explicit examples where Vallastaden is challenging the prevailing culture. The development aims to deliver efficient waste recycling that will produce viable alternative energy sources as significant by-products which benefit the lives of residents and the local environment.
MariMatic’s PAYT-Enabled Waste Collection Solution
MariMatic® Oy's contribution toward achieving Vallastaden's project aims is fundamental. Partnering with their client, Tekniska Verken in Linköping AB, MariMatic supplied and installed their MetroTaifun® Automatic Solid Waste Collection System (AWCS). MariMatic has been at the forefront of the development of vacuum waste conveying systems since 1983, having delivered more than 1,000 systems across various industries in over 40 countries. The installation of MariMatic's pneumatic conveying system commenced in the fourth quarter of 2013 - the first phase completing in the summer of 2017 - with work climaxing prior to the Vallastaden Expo.
This is a case of a technology whose time has come. Pneumatic solutions have long been acknowledged as a very efficient and sustainable way of transporting solid waste. The principles of the system were originally conceived in another era; when the environmental pressure for recycling waste was in its infancy. The method was viewed as an expensive alternative to traditional ways of handling household waste. Now the imperative for sustainability has considerable momentum.
Consequently, the philosophy has come out of the margins of waste management debates and caught up with the technology.
The expectations for MariMatic’s MetroTaifun AWCS at Vallastaden are high. As a unique project for the city of Linköping, the region and also for technical sciences; a suitably bold and imaginative solution for waste management was a key part of the initial brief for the project. MariMatic’s PAYT-enabled waste collection solution with scales in the inlets brings a number of benefits to Vallastaden: it allows for waste levels to be tracked and for detailed analytics to be recorded, enabling city authorities and waste service managers to maximise the efficiencies of their services. This information can reduce operational costs, and help to deal with the environmental issues associated with inefficient waste collection. Also, energy is saved because of the MetroTaifun piping functionalities; comprising small DN 300 pipe size and corrosion resistant composite material. Compared to traditional AWCS using DN 500 pipe size, MetroTaifun reduces overall energy consumption up to 75 per cent and installation of smaller and flexible pipes is easier.
MetroTaifun is equipped with the new technology, which enables measuring the weight of waste.
Vallastaden's waste problems are no different to those in the rest of the city, or any typical, urban residential areas. However, the solution employed, as Liselott Myrbråten - the Business Area Manager in Linköping for Tekniska Verken explains, had to satisfy very specific demands: "We wanted the residents in Vallastaden to be offered the possibility to recycle in the same way as other local residents: what was critical here in this project is that it needed to be done without introducing heavy traffic to the area."
The Concept of Pay-As-You-Throw
The installation of MariMatic's MetroTaifun includes three distinctive features that are set to deliver benefits to this unique residential district for years to come. The first - the concept of Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) - is intrinsic to the
system. This creates the opportunity to exploit the current and future data possibilities which arise from integration of the waste system's functionalities with the Internet of Things (IoT). Completing this innovative trio, a 'world first' has been achieved due to the containment of the pneumatic waste collection pipe in Tekniska Verken's utility infrastructure Infra-tunnel (Infrakulvert). These features are a winning combination for Vallastaden: Liselott Myrbråten considers MariMatic's MetroTaifun AWCS: "The best-suited and most cost-effective solution in the public procurement process instigated for this exciting landmark in sustainability."
The MetroTaifun's energy efficiency is outstanding in comparison to other waste collection systems in terms of consumption and operating costs. Using less air volume means smaller equipment – a saving on valuable space that is superior by a third to competitor's specifications; explicit in lower investment costs. The composite piping material enables fast and economical installation, with 50 per cent less installation time than conventional alternatives.
Waste collection inlets with scales in Vallastaden.
Pay-As-You-Throw Making Consumer Habits More Responsible
The MetroTaifun AWCS encourages a high degree of social, environmental and economic responsibility amongst Vallastaden's residents - in line with the overall vision of the development. MariMatic's TurnKey system (from development to manufacturing; installation to operational) is equipped with new technology; consisting of waste collecting inlets which employ scales to measure the weight of waste at the radio-frequency identification key (RFID) opening.
As Liselott Myrbråten stresses: "The system itself is very convenient and easy to use. Every bag is weighed and the weight is registered on the RFID key used to open the system inlet. Every flat or house has its own key, this means that residents only pay for what they discard with the Pay-as-you-throw system." The PAYT system reflects the polluter pays principle and has an educative function, clearly showing a household the scale of their waste habit. The direct cost correlation encourages a more responsible attitude, which has repercussions throughout the complete consumer cycle. Vallastaden residents will be made more aware of what resources are involved in the products that become their waste through the separation of the constituent parts. This may influence their buying choices in the future – when, for example, the quantity of packaging appears excessive - and may encourage them to recycle items rather than casually consign them to the waste system.
PAYT-Enabled Waste Collection Increases Sorting of Waste
This separation is described by Liselott Myrbråten: "Green bags with food waste are put into the bio waste inlet; the rest - also tied up in 20 litre bags - goes into the mixed waste inlet. It is all in the same pipe system, but the different inlets are emptied at different times." These bags containing different waste fractions are easily sorted and collected. Once deposited, they are "sucked away" using the MetroTaifun's strong vacuum air flow. The system transports them over
distance underground to two large containers in the waste transfer terminal, which is positioned to prevent any direct impact on Vallastaden's residents - for whom the system requires minimal effort. The process takes place out of sight: the waste is picked up from the waste transfer terminal and not from the residential area itself. The waste is treated at local waste treatment plants in Gärstad, Linköping. Waste of up to 1,100 residents - amounting to 460 tons per year - is dealt with by 15 waste collection stations; with 30 waste inlets feeding a pipeline of 1.5 kilometres in length.
Such convenience improves the quality of life. There is no need for residents to remember collection dates; no vehicles producing exhaust emissions - and it is also much safer without having to negotiate around heavy collection vehicles in
constricted city streets. The bio waste derives maximum environmental benefit; the bio gas produced is used as fuel for the city buses and the waste trucks in other parts of Linköping under the council's authority. Mixed waste will be
turned into heat, cooling and electricity.
Waste collection inlets with scales in Vallastaden.
Urban waste collection typically features predefined schedules that are undertaken on certain notified days, regardless of the volume of waste in the bins to be collected. The growth of IoT connected smart solutions will reduce this
inefficient use of assets and fuel. The technology involved in the MetroTaifun is flexible and provides the considerable economic, hygienic and social benefits of recycling.
Internet-enabled devices is an increasing trend in the waste industry and allows for flexible and smart waste collection. One example of this is the scale system implemented in MariMatic's MetroTaifun system in Linköping. Tekniska Verken will make use of the statistical waste data that the MetroTaifun AWCS collects. The data enables new invoicing methods based on PAYT, whereby long-term trends in waste collected from each building can be monitored; or the results can be used in targeted information campaigns that increase recycling.
The automation system controls and monitors the entire operation of MetroTaifun installations. The remote monitoring enables the system to run without intervention from maintenance staff and give alerts if something is wrong.
A World First
Tekniska Verken's Infra-Tunnel is a unique prefabricated construction, involving a combined site for all underground infrastructure. The Infra-Tunnel is a significant innovation; a smart alternative, and an investment in the future - creating new possibilities for the employment of an AWCS in urban areas around the world. Waste pipe with the green stripe Pneumatic waste systems are not normally built into these Infra-Tunnels. Here, it significantly reduces the costs for both operation and maintenance. Liselott Myrbråten contends that: "The combination of plastic tunnels and concrete chambers is quite unique for us as a project. The pneumatic waste system is not a new technology. What makes it a 'world first'
is how the system is built into the Infra-Tunnels, combined with the implementation of the PAYT system."
MetroTaifun waste pipe installed to the infra-tunnel.
The Infra-Tunnel has a predicted lifespan of at least 100 years. All service pipes including; electricity, fibre broadband, heating, sewage and water can be collected in a 2.5 metre diameter culvert. Considerably less space is taken and all services involve processes that are 100 per cent sustainable. The patented, prefabricated Infra-Tunnel makes more valuable land available above ground and the 1800 metres of culvert beneath Vallastaden's streets provides easy accessibility to all technical installations for maintenance, supervision and repairs; meaning little excavation in future.
MetroTaifun composite waste pipe can be easily installed, because it bends to the space required. Picture: Uponor.
The Vallastaden district is a beacon which illuminates the significant benefits and improved quality of life that the defining vision of a sustainable future is set to provide for its residents. Yet it also shines equally brightly on the prospects for the installation of smart automated urban waste collection systems as an essential and integral part of that vision. A technology that is already delivering the future today.


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What do you call a love triangle, plus one? Well, whatever it is, Jackie is involved with one of those. But that’s the least of her worries in the new season, because her daughter Grace is doing all those awful things that teenagers do, but even worse. Let’s just say that Grace may or may not pick up one of her mom’s habits.
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Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.


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Ahead of the General Election, the Chartered Management Institute is calling on the next government to drive forward three key policy priorities: Embed employability at every stage of UK education, drive-up management and leadership skills and make the UK No.1 for Inclusive Workplaces.
The Liberal Democrats’ Ed Davey won a clear victory among freelancers at IPSE's 2019 General Election Hustings, where the panel included Trade Secretary Liz Truss, and Labour’s Bill Esterson.
The next Government has a responsibility to rebuild confidence in the British economy by placing skills and training at the forefront of its agenda. The Chartered Management Institute is today calling on all political parties to address the skills gap in the UK economy - which will need 1.9 million new, effective managers by 2024, according to CMI research.
Today, diversity and inclusion are issues discussed in many businesses at all levels, from the staff room to the boardroom, as is the need to make a step change improvement to boot.
Jeremy Corbyn has accused five major firms including Amazon and Asda of having "exploited and dehumanised" their workers.
IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has welcomed Sajid Javid’s commitment to review the changes to IR35. However, it has warned parties must also pledge to halt the April 2020 roll-out of the changes.
IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) is hosting a debate in Glasgow on 4th December on what the main parties in Scotland will do for the self-employed. It will also feature a talk from Professor John Curtice.
With the General Election campaign in full swing, Europe’s largest engineers’ body calls for the political parties to recognise and harness the importance of engineering and technology.
Freelancers’ confidence in the economy is the lowest on record because of their concerns about the economy, Brexit and IR35. They are, however, working more and charging higher day rates – seemingly to prepare for hard times ahead.
Liz Truss, Bill Esterson and Ed Davey are among five speakers setting out what their parties will do for freelancers and small businesses at a hustings event on Monday 25th November.
The Liberal Democrat manifesto, published today, has adopted a raft of measures from the IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) manifesto to support freelancers – including reviewing the changes to IR35.
The next Labour government will aim to close the gender pay gap by 2030, the party has announced.
IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has responded to new research by Robert Half UK, warning that it shows the extent of business anxiety about the changes to IR35 due in April 2020.
UK employment has suffered its biggest quarterly fall in four years ahead of the general election, according to new figures.
IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has launched #5millionvotes, a manifesto for the 2019 General Election.
IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has raised concerns about the credibility of HMRC to oversee compliance with the changes to IR35 in the private sector after its latest tribunal defeat.
The British Safety Council welcomes the government’s efforts to encourage inclusion in the workplace, but there must be clarity for employers and employees as to what is expected.
The Government is encouraging employers to think differently about disability, aiming to achieve inclusivity and equal opportunity for disabled people in the workplace, writes Therese Coffey MP.
Millions of older workers are joining and benefiting from the freelance sector, new research from IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has found.
At a critical juncture for the UK, we need self-employment and our flexible labour market to be firing on all cylinders. IPSE’s Manifesto sets out policy recommendations on Brexit, taxation, benefits and broadband that would enable us to do just that.
The government has not done enough to prepare businesses and the self-employed for the changes to IR35 coming into force next April, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has warned.
Documents shared by ministers this week indicate that the government is planning to deviate from some EU environmental regulations and workers’ right, despite its pledge of a “level playing field”.
IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has welcomed a government announcement revealing the News Enterprise Allowance (NEA) has helped over 200 new businesses launch each week.
While the Queen’s Speech was broadly positive for the self-employed, the government still faces hurdles in getting the agenda passed through the House of Commons, writes IPSE.


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