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*Archaeolivists? Archivaeologists? Neologise your own preferred term here.
I am one of four trained archaeologists currently working in the University of Glasgow Archive Services: two as researchers and two who also trained as proper archivists. I would be put out at not being the quirky, cool odd one out if I didn't like my colleagues so much. In fact, the longer I work here, the more interdisciplinary intersections I see, from archaeologist colleagues visiting the archives to do research, to archivist colleagues who do archaeology.
Digging in the archives
For the Day of Archaeology 2015, I want to celebrate some of the particularly archaeological highlights that I have (sometimes literally) stumbled upon in the archival collections at the University of Glasgow.
I particularly like the oversize scrapbook of the Glasgow Archaeological Society. The correspondence and minutes of the society date back to 1866, but items in the scrapbook date to the 17th century.
The University Archive includes a collection of posters for past events, including lectures like A.O. Curle's 1922 talk on Traprain Law. Curle was not just the excavator of some amazing sites, but also served as Secretary of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland (1908-13), and the Director of the National Museum of Antiquities (1913-9) – what would become today's National Museum of Scotland – among other posts.
Another highlight is the papers of Leslie Alcock, formerly Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Keeper of the Archaeological and Anthropological Collections of the University's Hunterian Museum. Alcock specialised in Early Historic Britain and the University Archives hold records on some of his excavations.
It goes together like beer and archaeology
In addition to the various records of the day-to-day business of the University, as well as papers of past students and staff, the University of Glasgow Archives is home to the important business collections. My personal favourite is the Scottish Brewing Archive.
It is handy for finds research, like this bottle, uncovered by the Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (SERF) Project, the University of Glasgow's annual field school in Perthshire, Scotland.
Thanks to the Scottish Brewing Archive (Newsletter No. 7, 1986), I learned that WB Thomson and other brewers struggled during the difficult economic conditions of the First World War: the company was liquidated and ceased to exist early in 1915, with its aerated water and bottling interests being bought out by Perth-based John Craik & Co. Suddenly a seemingly mundane artefact could be linked more widely to dramatic socio-economic events.
Perhaps the promise of discovery is what makes archaeologists and archivists such kindred spirits. In autumn of last year a student cataloguing project unearthed previously unseen photos of St Kilda, much to the delight of archaeologists at the University of Glasgow and the National Trust for Scotland. The photographs were snapped by Thomas Patterson, the first Gardiner Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, while on holiday in the 1920s. The photos offer a glimpse of life on the island of Hirta before it was evacuated in 1930.
Thus, the University of Glasgow archives are a vibrant source of research for a number of archaeological projects, from ground-breaking (excuse the pun) research into the history of Glasgow's allotments, to the Heritage Lottery Funded project Digging In, which will recreate First World War trenches in Glasgow's Pollok Park.
Using a wealth of archival material like this photograph from the collection of the University of Glasgow Officers Training Corps (DC099/5) and the notebooks of AA Bowman (DC077), Digging In will compare how troops were prepared for trench warfare at home with data gathered by the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology on excavations of trenches on the Western Front to create a dynamic learning environment in the heart of Glasgow.
So for this year's Day of Archaeology, I am enjoying being an archaeologist in the archives – discovering the past … just with less dirt.
Jen Novotny is an archaeologist employed as a Research Assistant in History who is based in the Archives at the University of Glasgow. She works on Glasgow University's Great War, a WWI centenary project. Follow the project on Twitter @GlasgowUniWW1 and keep up to date on research via the project blog.


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1999 Editors' Choice Awards
Welcome to the 1999 Editors' Choice Awards, brought to you by the same cool cats who bring you Linux Journal. This has been an extremely exciting year for the world of Linux in all areas. We have witnessed an explosion in many areas, and the spirit of open source is stronger than ever throughout the entire community. Last year Netscape brought open source to the masses, and we are stronger now in numbers and spirit. This year saw major improvements to the various distributions, a wildly successful IPO, and more attention from the business world and software firms than for other platforms, not to mention the successes of the kernel developers and the proliferation and growth of projects. As for the Editors' Choice Awards, there were many qualified candidates, and while sometimes the winners were obvious, other times we had to choose the best among peers. Here are our choices, we hope you agree with most (or at least some) of them!
Product of the Year: Caldera Linux 2.3 for LIZARD
Caldera with some help from TrollTech has finally delivered what Linux users and Linux critics have been asking for—easy Linux installation. Not only does LIZARD (LInux wiZARD) make a complete installation with an easy-to-use graphical interface, it automatically probes hardware and installs while you are making configuration decisions about the system. Recent major improvements include automatic detection and support for sound cards, as well as releasing LIZARD as open source under the QPL. LIZARD makes Linux installation practically automatic, setting a new standard across the Linux world. Now Linux is more accessible than ever. And, the Caldera figures who come on during installation are so exciting, we in editorial have been known to install Caldera over and over again on the same machine just to watch what we call "the Ransom dance". Thank you Caldera and TrollTech.
Best New Hardware: VA Linux Systems ClusterCity & VACM
VA Linux Systems has developed the most advanced Linux Beowulf cluster and requisite management software. ClusterCity is the name of the system, and VACM (pronounced "vacuum") is the management software released under the GPL. Not only is the cluster convenient and flexible (rack mounted with easy access to components, as opposed to many clusters which are dozens of desktop boxes stuck together consuming a lot of space), the VACM software represents a major leap forward in cluster management technology. ClusterCity and VACM are to be formally unveiled at SuperComputing 1999. One outstanding (and rather "modern") feature is that VACM allows complete remote access to everything, including the BIOS configuration, RAID control, power, system diagnosis, as well as the usual cluster management activities. As Linux storms the server world and marches across the desktop, VA is leading the charge into commercial supercomputing. ClusterCity is already in use by numerous scientific and Internet organizations.
Best New Application—Software Development: BXPro & Code Fusion
This award goes jointly to ICS's BXPro (Builder Xcessory Pro) and Cygnus Code Fusion for their cooperative effort to coordinate their two development products to provide what is essentially the first Visual
Best New Application—Embedded Systems: Lineo Embedix
Lineo, which recently branched off from Caldera, has delivered Embedix, an embedded Linux OS based on Caldera OpenLinux. Contrary to the trend of making enormous distributions with more packages than the competitors, Lineo concentrates on packing more Linux into smaller packages. The modular kernel is designed for OEMs to have an easy time adding the software they need, and Lineo provides EmbedixSDK as an embedded software development platform for writing and testing software before embedding it. Currently, Lineo and Caldera are working with Motorola, with others to come in the near future. Embedded systems are going to be a major frontier, and one might speculate how far embedded Linux will go? Could it become even more successful as an embedded product than as a desktop OS? Very likely, exciting times are ahead. Check out our October 1999 issue for an interview with Lineo's Lyle Ball (hint: it's the issue with Lyle Ball on the cover with a Motorola box).
Best New Application—End User: Loki's Civilization: Call to Power
Congratulations to Loki Entertainment for its excellent port of the current incarnation of what is probably the ultimate world-domination game. Civilization is the first commercially available, high-quality Linux game (with possible exceptions depending on your point of view), which hopefully will usher in a new era in Linux—the proliferation of games. Nothing makes a better "killer app" than a killer game. Loki has already delivered more ports of top-quality games, including Myth II and Railroad Tycoon and is at work on Heavy Gear II and Heretic II. Linux Journal interviewed Scott Draeker (founder of Loki) and Sam Latinga (lead programmer) in the August 1999 issue. "Civilized gentlemen" was the verdict.
Best New Gadget: Empeg Embedded MP3 Player
Empeg Ltd. of the UK has developed an mpeg player for your car, embedded with Linux. Why Linux? Because they "like it a lot, and worship Linus on a daily basis at our own personal shrine," says their tech page. Empeg uses a StrongARM processor and a big hard drive and has a toolkit for Linux and an interface so that Windows users can load their favorite mpegs (depending on the model, up to 500 albums) into the player. Linux hackers, we're sure, can figure out what else to do with it. The system features 18-bit DACs, 5-band EQ for each of the 4 channels, an FM radio, bass, treble, loudness, balance and fader controls, and gold-plated connectors, among other things. Although the Windows interface is more full featured than for Linux, the developers use the Linux interface. Empeg proves the viability of Linux in small, embedded gadgetry.
Best New Book: Open Sources: Voices of a New Revolution
Open source is the revolution, a movement which could restructure and reshape the digital-information age the way the 1960s revamped Western society. Despite its occasional factual inaccuracies (which have a charm all their own), this book collects several essays from the important figures at the head of the GNU/Linux Open Source scene. Although many excellent technical manuals were introduced this year, a comprehensive collection of open-source insights and philosophy means more to the community at large than any one, single technical manual. We are in the midst of a revolution, a period in the history of computers which hopefully we can appreciate before it is over and we look back on it. Open Source is a movement which runs much deeper than many of us appreciate, encompassing those who are concerned with the capability of producing high-quality, powerful software, and those who uphold freedom, community and principles as the core of the philosophy. This book helps us to appreciate the true meaning of our movement.
Best Business Solution: Burlington Coat Factory
Inspired by summer interns who wanted Linux on their workstations, Burlington Coat Factory installed 1,250 Linux machines from Dell in its 264 stores. In spite of popular allegations that Linux is unsupported and has no software, Red Hat is providing the Red Hat Linux distribution and technical support, while Applixware is providing the business software and additional support. Burlington Coat Factory CIO Mike Prince has long been known for his ability to pick up on technologies early; his track record includes adopting UNIX and Java long before everyone else, for example. Once again, Linux is proving itself in an extremely successful company, with Red Hat and Applixware showing that Linux firms are enthusiastic to provide software and support. More people may come to embrace Linux not only as a moral alternative to proprietary software but as a practical business solution, viable even for businesses that aren't high-powered computing firms crawling with engineers.


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I love this cheeky photo of Ethan. Journalling says: "he gets into all sorts of mischief, annoys his brother and sister relentlessly, runs through the house like crazy, pulls the dog's tail and all while looking angelic. xx" Describes him perfectly at the moment.
Tahlia and Liam in front of the bigger Ferris wheel at the Ekka this year. When we were at the top of the ride, Tahlia was terrified and Liam was quite casual about it all! It was the opposite while we were still on the ground! lol!!
Ethan picking newly planted flowers. This was a trial run for the weekly challenge at the Boxx. Patterned background paper and three photos of different sizes.
I got this great shot of Ethan and Jack. This boy loves this dog sooo much, and he lets me know it all the time. "Love me... love my dog!"
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Brandon Stephenson and Shane Stephens blend in perfectly at the Sand Del Lee race track, their summer stomping ground as amateur motocross riders. On this special August weekend, the motocross park on the outskirts of town is teeming with teenage boys who, like these kids, are sporting gear that carries the logo of their favourite energy drink as they watch a round in the Monster Energy Motocross Nationals.
"When you're racing, an energy drink gives you the extra boost to get you to the front of the line. Pop is good, but there's something they put in Monster," Brandon, 15, says of his habit of downing a can or two during his weekend practice runs. "It's not like a drug, but it's good," chimes in his cousin Shane, 13.
Back in 2004, when Health Canada approved the sale of another energy drink, Red Bull, as a natural health product for adults — the first in Canada — the regulator may not have anticipated this scene.
Red Bull's elevated levels of caffeine meant the Austrian company could make a health claim that its drink provides an energy boost or, in the words of its tagline: "gives you wings."
Applications from other energy drink makers, such as the Monster Beverage Company, started flooding Health Canada's natural health products directorate. Each sought approval to sell its own therapeutic drink, relying on high-caffeine content to make the same claim: The product temporarily restores mental alertness and wakefulness if you're feeling tired or drowsy.
By 2005, Health Canada had acknowledged the growing popularity of energy drinks, and explained it was trying to figure out if the department needed to revisit how it regulated the drinks, given the product's attraction for teenagers and children. Today, six years later, Health Canada is struggling to sort out what to do about energy drinks, now dubbed internally as one of the department's "hot issues."
After approving the sale of nine energy drinks and allowing another 157 products such as Rip It Energy Fuel, Monster Nitrous Killer-B and N.O-Xplode Igniter Shot on the marketplace, Health Canada has spent the past 20 months wrestling with whether to rein in the fastest-growing category in the beverage industry.
Caffeine, a main active ingredient in energy drinks, isn't illegal. But it is a stimulant that, in high doses, can have serious side effects, such as seizures, heart problems and changes in mood and behaviours. Children and teens with underlying health problems, or those taking certain kinds of medications, can be especially susceptible to high amounts of caffeine.
Health Canada won't talk about its plans for dealing with the issue of energy drinks and children and teens, or discuss the recommendations of an expert panel convened last year by Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq. But thousands of pages of internal records released under access to information legislation offer a glimpse at the conundrum in which the federal regulator finds itself.
Are energy drinks simply getting a bad rap based on public pressure rather than science, as the beverage industry says? Or are there enough signs of health risks for young people to warrant new warning labels on the cans and perhaps even more drastic restrictions considered by Health Canada?
The stakes are high. Even though carbonated soft drinks continue to dwindle in overall sales, pop still thumps energy drinks in terms of market share. For every case of energy drinks sold, an estimated 36 cases of carbonated pop are sold, according to the U.S. trade publication Beverage-Digest.
But editor and publisher John Sicher said the value of energy drinks comes in profit margins, not in the number of cases sold.
"Energy drinks are important because they are premium priced. They are very profitable for the beverage companies and for the retailers," Sicher told Postmedia News.
Young people form an important segment of the energy-drink market, even though the industry says the beverages are formulated and recommended for adults only. Canadian data are unavailable, but according to U.S. research, children under the age of 12, teenagers and young adults ages 19 to 25 make up half of the energy-drink market.
Health professionals have become increasingly vocal about energy drinks, with a particular focus on how young people are drawn to them. The drinks are sold in flashy cans as big as 550 ml loaded up with 235 mg of caffeine.
For comparison purposes, a regular 355 ml can of cola contains 44.94 mg of caffeine. A tall cup of brewed coffee at Starbucks contains 260 mg of caffeine.
Marketing slogans such as "Amp Up," "Unleash the Beast, and "Bigger. Better. Faster" are complemented by energy-drink companies' high-profile sponsorship of motocross, skateboarding, and wakeboarding competitions — always big hits with younger people.
"They're where the kids are," says Dwayne Killeen, who attended the August motocross championship sponsored by Monster with his three children, ages 12, 10 and six.
Last year, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published an editorial, saying "caffeine-loaded energy drinks have now crossed the line from beverages to drugs delivered as tasty syrups." The editorial called for more prominent labels listing total caffeine content and an end to advertising targeting children.
The American Academy of Pediatrics went farther in June, when it published a clinical report, saying energy drinks pose potential health risks because of the stimulants they contain. The products should never be consumed by kids and teens, the report concluded.
"We wouldn't tell kids, 'Why don't you just drink two large cups of coffee because you have a test today and you need energy, or have a couple of cups of coffee so you can play better at soccer,'" said Dr. Holly Benjamin, co-author of the U.S. academy's report and professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago, in an interview.
"The bottom line is it's a stimulant drug. It's addictive and it can have serious side effects."
It's unknown whether Health Canada finds these arguments persuasive because the department has declined multiple Postmedia News requests to interview departmental experts about energy drinks.
What is clear from internal records is the file is very active and senior departmental officials have been fully engaged in it, including the minister's office. The records also indicate significant measures have been on the table, including product recalls, but Health Canada has so far stopped short of implementing any of them as it considers feedback from the beverage industry and weighs the recommendations of its own expert panel.
For example, in February 2010, senior officials met to discuss the "potential for recall, stop sale vs. sending of Section 16 notices," according to a senior adviser to an assistant deputy minister in health.
Section 16 of the natural health products regulations, which has only been used nine times and never for an energy drink, is a tool used when the health minister "has reasonable grounds to believe that a natural health product may no longer be safe when used under the recommended conditions of use."
Once notices are issued, manufacturers are required to provide any adverse reaction and consumption data within 15 days to illustrate the products "are indeed safe" when used properly.
Aglukkaq agreed to issue Section 16 letters in June 2010 on the recommendation of departmental staff, but Health Canada opted instead to make the request on a voluntary basis, a measure with which companies complied.
Justin Sherwood, president of the Canadian Beverage Association, said the request yielded very few reports, emphasizing this is an indication of the product's strong safety record.
Health Canada had also planned to announcenew cautionary labelling rules by March 2010, requiring energy-drink makers to add a risk statement on cans about how "irregular heart rate or rhythm have been known to occur, in which case discontinue use and consult a health care practitioner." (Companies are already required to state on cans sold in Canada that the drink is not recommended for children, pregnant nor breastfeeding women, nor caffeine sensitive persons, and that it is not to be mixed with alcohol.)
The labelling proposal, considered alternately as "high priority" and "extremely high priority" in internal correspondence, is now stalled after the industry group questioned the scientific basis for the cardiac statement.
The association provided two reports commissioned by independent experts challenging Health Canada's analysis of 59 adverse reactions reported to the department. The list includes 32 incidents classified by the department as "serious," of which 15 involved the cardiac system.
Seven of these cardiac-related incidents involved teens ages 13 to 18, all within the recommended use. But Health Canada's own assessment could only make a "probable" link to the energy drink in one of these cases, the records show. And in the two most serious cases — involving the deaths of teen boys in 2006 and 2008 — Health Canada classified the cause as "unclassifiable" — meaning the information was insufficient or contradictory, and could not be supplemented or verified.
"The levels of caffeine in energy drinks are generally equal to or less than the amount found in a typical serving of coffee. There is no effort being made by the federal government (or anyone else) to regulate the labelling of coffee- and tea-based beverages, or other sources of caffeine. Energy drinks should be addressed in a non-discriminatory manner," the industry association wrote to Health Canada in March 2010.
Raising the spectre of a likely challenge at the World Trade Organization, the association also accused Health Canada of being "completely out of step with the way these products are labelling in rest of world, and will result in total lack of harmonization with other major regulatory jurisdictions that are also Canada's major trading partners."
Labels aside, the industry could have bigger problems coming down the pike, even though it says energy drinks are already more tightly regulated in Canada than in any other country.
The energy-drink sector is fretting about what Health Canada's expert panel report recommended to Aglukkaq in November.
Health Canada is mum on both the panel's membership and its recommendations, but the group tackled the idea of placing strict parameters on how energy drinks can be displayed and sold at convenience stores.
Companies say they only market their products to adults, but kids such as Brandon and Shane have certainly taken note of the marketing campaigns for energy drinks, often placed next to soft drinks, juices and sports drinks at corner stores.
"It's a pretty cool-looking design and it's got a nice taste to it," Brandon, sporting his Monster T-shirt, says of the Monster brand at the Monster motocross competition.
For Jim Shepherd, he just wants to see some progress on the energy-drink file at Health Canada.
Shepherd's 15-year old son, Brian, died in January 2008 after competing in daylong paintball tournament at which a Red Bull representative came and handed out samples of energy drinks. Witnesses reported seeing Brian drink one of the samples during the company's noon-hour visit. Around 7:20 p.m., while waiting for the awards ceremony, Brian collapsed and later died in hospital.
The coroner ascribed Brian's death clinically to Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS), but offered no plausible explanation for the cause of that arrhythmia, given he had no genetic markers demonstrating a pre-disposition to an arrhythmic event.
Health Canada reviewed Shepherd's adverse reaction case, but concluded it was "unclassifiable" because "the time and amount of Red Bull ingested could not be confirmed."
"We didn't know what an energy drink was. We had conversation with the kids about alcohol, cigarettes and sex. But we never had a conversation about energy drinks, and that's just as important," Shepherd told Postmedia News.
He's equally adamant that Health Canada step up and do its job to protect families. In addition to his concerns about marketing and labelling, Shepherd said energy drinks should not be regulated as natural health products.
"Truly, if you look at the definition of a natural health product, it's to mitigate disease, it's to improve a condition. I don't think you'd find any doctor that would take the recommended dosage of this product over the years and expect to be healthier."
At the Monster Energy national motocross competition, Brandon offers his own words of wisdom. "Everything in moderation. There's a limit to everything," says Brandon, who has his own energy-drink rule during his weekend riding day.
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My question has to do with the significance of Sunday school teachers. Chapter 9 of the Book of Church Order mentions teachers. I think that it is connected with the Westminster Confession regarding the officers of the church, that would be derived from passages like Ephesians 4:11-16.
The question is then, does the OPC recognize the gift of teaching apart from the office of Pastor-teacher? And if not, than what would be the point of Sunday school, if the Sunday school teacher is not an officer of the local congregation? The implication seems to be that that individual has no authority to teach.
The Form of Government of the OPC (FG), Chapter III ("The Nature and Exercise of Church Power") has this to say in section 1:
"The power which Christ has committed to his church is not vested in the special officers alone, but in the whole body. All believers are endued with the Spirit and called of Christ to join in the worship, edification, and witness of the church which grows as the body of Christ fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working in due measure of each part. The power of believers in their general office ...."
So, yes, the OPC does recognize that unordained members may properly engage in actions whose purpose (or some part of it) is the edification of the church. This has been referred to in our Reformed churches as "The General Office of Believer". I think it is vital to distinguish between gifts, which Christ distributes to all within the church in varying ways (e.g., Rom. 12:4-8, 1 Pet. 4:10, 11). The passages cited are addressed to church members in general, not to officers in particular. To these may be added passages which tell believers to encourage, exhort, admonish, etc., one another (e.g., Rom. 15:14, 1 Thess. 5:12-14 which distinguishes the work of officers [vv. 12f] and the work of all members [v. 14], Heb. 3:12, 13, 10:24, 25, etc.)
The Spirit gives various gifts to all within the church to be used for the common good of the church (1 Cor. 12:7; although this refers in context to special charismatic endowments, I think the principle applies to all gifts given in the continuing, post-apostolic life of the church). But the gifts given to some are of such a nature and such a degree that the church recognizes that these persons ought to be set apart for the use of their gifts in office (Acts 6:3, 4, 20:28).
It is the nature of the office of elder/overseer that all other ministries and activities in the church are subject to the oversight of the Session (FG XIII.7). So a congregation's elders may certainly all be involved in teaching in one way or another (they are to be "apt to teach", 1 Tim.3:2). But others also may be involved in teaching (whether in a Sunday School, or small group fellowships or neighborhood Bible studies), so long as their activities are under the oversight of the elders of the church (and subject to any other biblical restrictions, such as 1 Tim. 2:12).
There is not a specific command for churches to have Sunday Schools, but there is a general command to make the gospel known as widely as possible outside the church and to provide instruction to those inside. The Lord leaves it up to the local session to determine how best to carry out these mandates, and that may certainly include putting members to work teaching in various waysalways under session oversight. It is in this way, by the way, that gifts needed for teaching and preaching become known. As men are put to work in various ways, we see them develop those gifts which may eventually lead to their being ordained as elders or preachers.
In short, many may have sufficient gifts to teach in various ways, under the oversight of their elders, but some may be so gifted that they are set apart to devote their lives to the work of study and teaching (1 Tim. 5:17) and to do so with authority as officers in Christ's church (FG chapters 6-10).
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Unless you've been living in a cave for the last twenty-plus years, you've heard of the world-famous rock band U2.
And unless you haven't paid a lick of attention to the news of the world in the last 10 years, you're likely aware of all the work U2's lead singer Bono has done to try and encourage the world to help eliminate poverty and AIDS in Africa. With his popularity and his heart for social change being what they are, it only makes sense that he would have been invited to speak at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. last year.
On the Move is a transcription of his speech that day, a speech that was presented to individuals of various faiths. In this little book—it barely reaches sixty pages, and that's with pages of photos and an average of about one hundred words per page—Bono raises an issue that many of us probably don't think a whole lot about, though we are aware of it: how the laws of man and "higher" laws—be it to God, Allah or whomever you choose to worship—rarely are in line with each other.
Bono discusses how from early on in his childhood, he noticed how religion oftentimes got—and still gets—in the way of God. Growing up the son of a Catholic mother and Protestant in war-torn Ireland, Bono admits at one point that religion was so offensive to him that he stopped caring to a degree:
"Seeing what religious people, in the Name of God, did to my native land . . . and in this country, America, seeing God's second-hand salesmen on the cable TV channels . . . I must confess, I changed the channel. I wanted my MTV. Even though I was a believer. Perhaps because I was a believer."
His speech is well crafted. At times he is comical ("I will try to keep my homily brief, but be warned—I'm Irish."), at others he is quite serious ("History, like God, is watching what we do."). There are times when he does right to mention the lives that have been changed by the relief efforts that are and have been taking place, and yet he wisely reminds the audience that there is still much to be done. And it's our responsibility to make sure the work keeps getting done, especially in America. The notion that is stressed here is the fact that we are blessed in order to be a blessing to others, and each and every one of us—regardless of age, sex, race, creed or religion—is going to play a part in ending or prolonging the aids and hunger crises in this world, either through our action or inaction.
Some have groaned that Bono is a self-righteous megastar who has about as much business telling people to affect change in the world as Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have protesting the war. It's that long-standing argument: are entertainers only supposed to be entertainers? I would argue they are not supposed to be merely entertainers; and what's more, I would say anyone who thinks otherwise needs to have their head examined.
Where would the Christian community be if they only had pastors in charge and if all they did was give a sermon on Sundays and nothing else? What would our schools look like if parents—who have all sorts of careers they engage in—didn't go to PTA and city council meetings to voice their support or concerns about issues facing their children? The fact is we're not called to have tunnel vision with regard to our abilities and how we are supposed to affect the world around us, and Bono is right to remind us of this.
On the Move is a breezy read in the sense of how quickly you can read and absorb the message. I'm a slower reader, and I read through the entire book in about half an hour. The work even begs to be re-read. I've read it four times in the last few days, and I have to say the message sticks with you if you let it take root in your heart. The pictures that are included (from trips Bono has taken to Africa over the years) make these situations seem a bit more real, but they fall short of tugging at your heart strings in a manipulative fashion.
Bono is using the celebrity status and fame God has blessed him with to try and change the plights of many in Africa. Because of his efforts and the efforts of others who have come alongside him in these struggles, lives have been saved, but many have not. And that's what drives Bono to keep working for change and relief aid—the fact that there are so many people in Africa who still are not being reached. These aren't just people in picture books to him, and this speech isn't just words on a page to him—and they shouldn't be for us either.
Beyond our faiths being whatever they are, Bono reminds his audience—and you, the reader—that we all have a responsibility as human beings to reach out and help the rest of the world, be it in Africa or somewhere else. The world is dying and we're given a chance—daily—to come to its aid. The question is: will we?
Bono believes we will, and history will remember if we don't.
© 2007 Infuze Magazine. All rights reserved. Used with permission.


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Carton Wheel Flow Options
- Entry guide
- Entry guides form the lanes.
- Full length guide
- Full length guides maintain loads in the lane axis.
- Fixed at the unloading side on the wheel tracks, the brake clip reduces the impact of loads on the unloading beam.
- Fixed at the loading side on the wheel track, the back stop avoids loads to fall out of the lane at the rear if the operator pushes back the loads from the unloading side.


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Sunday, February 16, 2014
3 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
Love it.
- February 17, 2014 at 7:25 AM
- Cullan Hudson said...
My hometown representin'! Aw yeah!
- February 17, 2014 at 8:04 AM
- Damian Michael AKA HalloweeNut said...
People can be such weenies. In the context of the fake tombstones and cobwebs, it should be pretty obvious that it's just a dummy. Especially when you consider that people are always pulling similar pranks with cloth dummies in car trunks, windows, garbage cans, etc.
- February 17, 2014 at 5:10 PM
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Oprah Winfrey made a surprise appearance Tuesday night at the premiere of Beyonce's HBO documentary, 'Life is But a Dream,' posing with the star and speaking of the candour she showed in making it.
The film takes a no-holds-barred look at moments in the 31-year old singer's life, including her miscarriage, reports of faking her pregnancy, and firing her father as her manager.
While the revelations Beyonce makes about herself in the film are comparable to the results Winfrey usually gets from her tough style of interviewing, the talk show host gave kudos to the singer.
Winfrey said Beyonce did a "much better job" of telling her own story. "I wouldn't have been in the bedroom and in the closet and in the car and on vacation," she said.


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Stripping To Pay Your Way Through Med School Definitively A Real Thing
ABC News points us to an editorial that claims nearly 10% of medical students in the UK, up from 6% in 2006, know someone who has participated in sex work in an effort to pay off the rising cost of medical school.
Prostitution is legal in the UK, though soliciting for sex and brothels are forbidden. The article also notes:
Past surveys have noted that pole and lap dancing are the most popular type of sex work of which students participate. Stripping is second and prostitution came third, according to the report.
Couldn't it just be one reallllly popular sex worker who gets to know everyone? Why not simply do a study on people who have worked in the sex industry instead of those who know someone who has? Either way, don't forget to tip your stripper. He or she might save your life one day.


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Update: The Google Glass sale is now live. For $1,500, you can get one Glass headset in Charcoal, Tangerine, Cotton, Shale, or Sky (read: black, red, white, grey, or blue), and you can also select one set of frames or shades to go with your purchase. Orders are currently slated to ship within five to seven days.
Original story: To date, Google's Glass headset has only been available to people as part of the invite-only Glass Explorer program. Now, the company appears to be expanding that program to a second wave of early adopters. At 9am EDT on April 15th, anyone with a little time and a lot of money will be able to purchase Glass for a limited time. Google has posted a sign-up page here that will send you a reminder when the sale goes live.
The news was first broken by The Verge, which uncovered a proposal that outlined the Glass Explorer program expansion. That proposal suggests that Glass will be offered to the general public for "about a day," and one headset with a free frame for lenses will cost you about $1,500. The announcement on Glass' Google+ page indicates that quantities will be limited, so if you're interested, it would probably behoove you to buy early. For now, the offer is only available in the US.
Buyers will still be getting the "Explorer Edition" prototype, which has gone through a couple of hardware revisions but is still not indicative of what the final hardware will look like. The consumer edition of Glass is expected at some point this year, and we're expecting to hear more about it at the Google I/O developer conference in late June.


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A study of the University of Parma compares drum motors and gear motors in the food industry. The results speak loud and clear.
Under a research contract, a far-reaching comparison along six evaluation criteria was conducted.
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Brown, Hallie Q.
|FANNIE JACKSON COPPIN -- 1835-1912 -- Teacher and Moulder of Character
On the fly leaf of "Hints on Teaching," by the subject of this sketch is the following dedication: "This book is inscribed to my beloved Aunt Sarah Orr Clark, who, working at six dollars a month saved one hundred and twenty-five dollars and bought my freedom."
The woman thus redeemed rose from the depth of slavery and became one of the most eminent educators of this country. The hardships of her childhood, the struggles for an education are sad to contemplate but a ray of sunshine here and there brighten the path and lighten the burden. In her short biography, for she was too busy teaching the race to write at length concerning herself, she tells us somewhat of herself. Fanny Jackson was born in Washington, D. C. The children called their grandmother "Mammy." One of Fanny's earliest recollections was when about three years old, she was sent to keep Mammy's company. It was in a little one-room cabin. They used to go up a ladder to the loft where they slept. Mammy was accustomed to make long prayers in which she asked God to bless her "offspring." Only one word was remembered by Fanny and that was offspring, for she wondered what offspring meant. Mammy had six children, three boys and three girls. The father bought his own freedom and then that of four of his children, her Aunt Sarah being one, but Lucy, her mother, remained in slavery.
Sarah went to work at six dollars a month, saved one hundred and twenty-five dollars and bought little Frances.
After the aunt saved the one hundred and twenty-five dollars and bought her, she was sent to live with another aunt at New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was put to work at a place where she was allowed to go to school, when not at work. But she could not go on wash days, ironing days, nor cleaning days, which interfered with her progress.
When fourteen years old she decided that she ought to take care of herself. She soon found a permanent place at Newport, Rhode Island, in the family of Mr. George H. Calvert, a great grandson of Lord Baltimore who settled in Baltimore, Maryland. His wife was Elizabeth Stuart, a descendant of Mary, Queen of Scotland. Every other afternoon in the week Fanny was given one hour to take private lessons. Mrs. Calvert taught her many useful things, how to darn, to take care of laces and to sew beautifully. At the end of several years she was prepared to enter the examination for Rhode Island State Normal School, located at Bristol, Rhode Island, under Dana P. Colburn. Here her eyes were opened to the subject of teaching.
Having finished the course of study there she felt she had just begun to learn. She heard of Oberlin College and made up her mind to try to get there. She had learned a little music while at Newport and had mastered the elementary studies of the piano and guitar.
With the assistance of her aunt she found herself at
Miss Jackson, speaking of her college life, expressed her lasting gratitude to Bishop Daniel A. Payne, of the African Methodist Church, who gave her a scholarship of nine dollars a year upon her entering Oberlin. She further states that her obligations to the dear people of Oberlin can never be measured in words. When she first went to Oberlin she boarded in the Ladies' Hall. She began to run down in health and was invited to spend a few weeks in the family of Professor H. E. Peck which ended in her staying several years until independence of the Republic of Haiti was recognized under President Lincoln and Professor Peck was sent as first United States Minister to that interesting country; then the family was broken up and she was invited to spend the remainder of the school year in the home of Professor and Mrs. Charles H. Churchill. These two christian homes, where she was regarded as an honored member of
She tells us that she never rose to recite in her classes, but that she felt she had the honor of the whole African race upon her shoulders. At one time when she had won a signal honor in Greek, the Professor in Greek decided to visit the class in Mathematics and see how they were getting along. She had heard it said that the race was good in languages, but stumbled when they came to mathematics. Being always fond of demonstration she was given the very proposition she was well acquainted with and so "went that day with flying colors." French was not in the Oberlin Curriculum, but under private tutelage, she completed a course and graduated with a French essay. She went to Oberlin 1860 and was graduated in August, 1865, after having spent five and a half years. She was elected Class Poet for the Class Day exercises and carried away the kindest remembrances of the dear ones who were her classmates.
When Miss Jackson was within a year of graduation an application came from a Friend's School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a colored woman who could teach Greek and Latin and higher Mathematics. The answer returned was: "We have the woman but you must wait a year for her." The years 1860 and 1865 were of unusual historic importance and activity. In 1860 the immortal Lincoln was elected, and in 1865 the Civil War came to a close but not until freedom for all the slaves in America had been proclaimed and that proclamation made valid by the victorious
In the year of 1837 the Friends of Philadelphia established a school for the education of colored youth in higher learning, to make a test whether or not the Negro was capable of acquiring any considerable degree of education. For it was one of the strongest arguments in the defense of slavery that the Negro was an inferior creation; formed by the Almighty for just the work he was doing. No doubt they had in mind the remark made by John C. Calhoun, that if there could be found a Negro that could conjugate a Greek verb, he would give up all his preconceived ideas of the inferiority of the Negro. "Well, let's try him and see," said the fair minded Quaker people and for years this institution, known as the Institution for Colored Youth was visited by interested persons from different parts of the United States and Europe.
It was here that Miss Jackson was given the delightful task of teaching her own people and rejoiced to see them mastering Caesar, Virgil, Cicero, Horace, Xenophon's Anabasis, and also taught the New Testament Greek. At one of her examinations, when she asked a titled Englishman to take the class and examine it, he said, "They are more capable of examining me, their proficiency is wonderful." When she began her work at the Institute, Ebenezer Bassett had been Principal for fourteen years. In 1869 Mr. Bassett was appointed United States Minister to Haiti by President U. S. Grant, at which time Miss Jackson was elected Principal and held that important office for nearly forty years. During that long period she wrought many changes to better the condition of the school and pupils.
She instituted normal training with a Preparatory Department to give ample practice in teaching and governing under daily direction and correction. The Academic Department of the Institute had been so splendidly successful in proving that the Negro youth was equally capable with others in mastering a higher education, that no argument
At the Centennial in 1876, the foreign exhibits of word done in trade schools of Europe, opened the eyes of the directors of public education in America as to the great lack existing in our own system of education. If this deficiency was apparent as it related to the white youth of the country, it was far more so as it related to the colored. Richard Humphrey, the Quaker, who gave the first endowment to found this school stipulated that it should not only teach literary studies, but that a mechanical and industrial department, including agriculture should come within its scope.
Miss Jackson now began an eager and intensively earnest crusade to supply the deficiency in the work of the Institute. With the great thought of bettering the condition of her people she spoke before literary societies, churches in Philadelphia, New York, Washington, anywhere, every where the opportunity presented. The minds of the colored people needed enlightment upon the necessity of Industrial Education. The money was forthcoming, the work advanced and finally in 1879 the Industrial Department was fully established and the following trades were being taught to boys; brick laying, plastering, carpentry, shoemaking, printing, and tailoring. For girls; dressmaking, millinery, type writing, stenography and classes in cooking, including both boys and girls. Stenography and typewriting were also taught the boys as well as the girls. As a means of preparation for this work, which she called an Industrial Crusade she studied Political Economy for two years under Dr. William Elder, who was a disciple of Mr. Henry C. Carey, the eminent writer on the doctrine of Protective Tariff. In the year 1878 the Board of Education of Philadelphia began to consider what they were doing to train their young people in the industrial arts and trades. Before the directors and
Such was the argument used in her appeal to the public for funds to start the wheels of industry in Philadelphia. Having taught the trades it now became necessary to find work for those who had learned them which was no easy work. She saw building after building going up and not a single colored hand employed in the construction. Nor was she comforted by what the Irishman said, that all he had to she was to put some brick in a hod and carry them upon do building and there sat a gentleman who did all the work. The said she was determined to know whether this industrial and business ostracism was "in ourselves or in our stars" so from time to time she knocked, shook, and kicked up those closed doors of industry. A cold metallic voice from within replied, "We do not employ colored people." Ours not to make reply, ours not to question why." "Thank Heaven," she said, "we are not obliged to do and die, we naturally prefer to do"--with this heroic motive she established the Woman's Industrial Exchange, where the work on various departments could be exhibited. In 1881 Miss Jackson was married to Reverend Levi J. Coppin, who in 1900, was elected one of the Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and assigned to South Africa. This was most fortunate and came as a culmination to a long and useful life to finish her active life in Africa, the home of the directors of those whose lives she endeavored to direct.
In 1888 as president of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the A. M. E. Church, she was
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Events Calendar
Craft Discussion and Poetry Workshop
Naomi Shihab Nye will offer a discussion on the craft of writing poetry.
Date: October 4, 2019 - October 4, 2019
Time: 12:45 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Location: Cleary Family Auditorium, Kearney Hall
Event sponsored by Dean of Arts & Sciences and Dean of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. School of Education
Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning author who gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. Nye served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2010 to 2015, and is the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate from 2019-2021. Nye's newest book of poems, The Tiny Journalist (BOA Editions, 2019), will be for sale at the event.
Nye requests attendees bring a poem written by someone else--"a few lines that shine for you."
Snacks will be provided.


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It was a nice warm Saturday morning at the state-wide Ripley Rendezvous last weekend. The sun was shining, There was a nice breeze. It was turning out to be a great day for this Scouting event. Little did we realize that nature had a little surprise in store for us.
There were three program areas for the Boy Scouts. Two of them were for the boys thirteen and older. Those Scouts went to the northern parts of the Camp Ripley National Guard Base to participate in shooting sports, an obstacle course, and other activities. The 11 and 12 year old Boy Scouts stayed near our campsites and toured the 60 stations in the Action Program. I had one Scout who was in the Action Program so I decided to stay in camp to be with him. A neighboring troop also had one Scout that age and asked if he could join us for the day. Of course he could.
The morning stations went without a problem. The boys and I picked up our bag lunches and headed back to our campsite to join Eymard, my assistant scoutmaster. The skies were still clear, but the temperature was getting hot and the wind had picked up. The four of us sat around the table under our 10'x10′ dining fly. We had to hold on to our potato chip bags to keep them from blowing away.
Our campsite was about 50 yards or so from the gravel road. (The campsites were located to the east of this road.) The four of us had almost finished lunch when we spotted a dust devil spinning on the gravel road collecting dust and lose sand. As we watched it began to move in our direction, growing in size, and gaining strength.
Within seconds, this dust devil had grown to nearly 30 feet or more in diameter. Our campsite was hit dead center. It was like being caught in a very small tornado. The mini-twister lifted our staked-to-the-ground dining fly off the ground and threw it 30 feet to land on top of one of the boy's tents. A tent pole snapped, the tent went down, and the dining fly rolled a little further.
Each of the troops to the north and east of us were using 10′ x 20′ 'carports' as their dining flies. The mini-twister picked up the carport to the north of us and dropped it upside down onto the side of our two-room leader's tent. One of the poles from that carport glanced of my back as the boys and I were ducking for cover. The carport in the camp to the east of us was also picked up and moved from its spot.
Within 10 or 15 seconds the whole thing was over. Boy Scouts from nearby campsites came running over to see if everyone was alright and to help us clean up the mess. None of us were hurt but there was damage to the equipment. Our dining fly was laying on its side, about 40 feet from were it had been. It's frame was twisted. Some of the joints had been broken. We were able to set it back up but it is a piece that will need to be replaced.
The boy's tent that was hit was laying on the ground due to the broken poles. The tent fly was also ripped. We used a branch and duct tape to create a splint to hold the poles together so the boys could still use it one more night. We will cannibalize the tent for parts needed in the future.
Our adult leader's tent was leaning to one side. It was standing, but the poles had been bowed when the carport had hit it. A hole had been ripped into the back wall, near the floor. The troop had recently purchased a new tent to replace this nearly twenty year old shelter. I was glad I had not taken the new tent along on this outing. The old tent will now be "put out to pasture."
The dining fly/carport of the camp to our north had to be completely taken apart. At least four of the heavy metal poles had been bent. Luckily, the troop had another set of poles along with them. The carport to the east of us did not seem to be damaged. It did not take long for the troop to set it up again once they arrived back in camp after their activities.
Later that afternoon we saw a couple other tents in other campsites that had also been damaged in the brief strong winds. Another scoutmaster told me their dining fly had also been knocked down. There were no injuries reported.
It was quite an experience being caught in the middle of a mini-twister. Thankfully we were able to laugh about it. I told the two Boy Scouts that were in our campsite that they now had a story to tell their grandchildren. Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures. I did not even think about the camera until we had things cleanup and back in order.
The picture above shows our campsite and the two neighboring camp's carports before the mini-twister. The pictures below show a couple of damaged tents from other campsites. Clicking on the pictures will bring up a larger photo.


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ALDEX C-800 Series Resins
C-800 LT UPS Water Softening Resin Sodium Form
Aldex C-800 LT UPS is a high capacity, high quality, gel-type cation resin capable of meeting the most exacting requirements of household, farm, commercial, institutional and industrial water softeners. It is supplied in the sodium form as gold colored translucent beads in 1 cubic foot bags and larger bulk packages.
Download Aldex C-800 LT UPS Technical Bulletin (PDF)
Physical Chemical Properties
|Resin Composition:
|Sulfonated styrene / divinylbenzene copolymer
|Ionic Form as Shipped:
|Sodium (Na+)
|Physical Form:
|Golden color,
translucent beads
|Moisture Content:
|45 to 49.9%
|Total Capacity:
|1.9 meq/ml minimum
41 kilograins as CaCO3 per cubic foot
|Odor and Taste:
|Specific Gravity:
|Net Weight (as shipped):
|51 lbs per cubic foot
|Particle Size:
|20 to 40 mesh - Less than 0.5% through 50 mesh
Recommended Operating Conditions
|Influent pH:
|No restrictions
|Maximum Temperature:
|Bed Depth:
|Minimum 24"
Normal 36"
|Service Flow Rate:
|1 to 5 US GPM per cubic foot
|Backwash Flow Rate:
|See Fig. 2
|Sodium Chloride (NaCl) or Potassium Chloride (KCl)
|Regenerant Strength:
|5 to 15%, usually 10%
|Regenerant Flow Rate:
|0.3 to 1.0 US GPM per cubic foot of resin
|Regenerant Contact Time:
|15 to 60 minutes
|Regenerant Dosage Level:
|2 to 15 lb per cubic foot
|Slow Rinse (Displacement) Flow Rate:
|0.3 to 1.0 US GPM per cubic foot of resin
|Slow Rinse Volume:
|20 USG per cubic foot resin
|Fast Rinse Rate:
|1.0 to 5.0 US GPM per cubic foot resin
|Fast Rinse Volume:
|30 USG per cubic foot resin
C-800 LT UPS Features
Very low color, taste or odor
Aldex C-800 LT UPS meets the requirements for paragraph 173.25 of the Food Additive Regulation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
High Capacity
30,000 grains of softening capacity when regenerated with 15 lbs of NaCl per cubic foot and 20,000 grains with 6 lbs of NaCl per cubic foot ensuring high efficiency and low operating costs.
Long Life
Strong and durable beads insure long service life.
Aldex Chemical has over 34 years of field usage by thousands of customers demonstrate the reliability of Aldex ion exchange resins, zeolites and other water treatment media.
Safety Information
A material safety data sheet is available for Aldex C-800 LT UPS. Copies can be obtained from Aldex Chemical Co., LTD. Aldex C-800 LT UPS is not a hazardous product and is not WHMIS controlled.
Caution: Acidic and basic regenerant solutions are corrosive and should be handled in a manner that will prevent eye and skin contact. Before using strong oxidizing agents in contact with ion exchange resin, consult sources knowledgeable in the handling of these materials.
C-800 LT UPS Operating Suggestions
Aldex C-800 LT UPS will remove most of the dissolved iron, can filter much of the suspended iron and may or may not remove organically bound iron from water. When softeners are used to remove iron from the water, periodic cleaning of the bed mechanically or with a chemical iron cleaner may be necessary.
All cation exchange resins are affected by chlorine and suffer degradation and swelling. Is its recommended that the chlorine in the water be maintained below 1.0 ppm when using Aldex C-800 LT UPS.
Backwash Characteristics
Aldex C-800 LT UPS should be backwashed for at least 10 minutes after each service cycle in a conventionally down flow regenerated softener. To reclassify the beads and remove suspended solids from the top of the bed, the resin bed should be expanded at least 50% according to Fig. 2.
In the case of non-conventional or upflow regenerated softeners, it may not be necessary to follow the above procedure since the backwash and brine injection are incorporated in the same step.


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Siteimprove partners with Denmark's leading web accessibility consultants
touko 19, 2016
COPENHAGEN, MAY 19, 2016 – In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2016, Siteimprove is today proud to announce a partnership with Diversa, a Danish digital accessibility consultancy firm. This collaboration allows Siteimprove's Danish users to draw upon Diversa's unmatched skills and expertise of helping organizations improve their website accessibility.
Automatic checks and personal experience
Diversa's vision is to make the digital world accessible to all regardless of abilities. The firm is founded by Lars Holm Sørensen and Christina Nahnsen, both of whom have impaired vision and therefore know from personal experience how poor web accessibility can have an excluding effect.
"By combining Siteimprove's automated web accessibility reports with Diversa's many years of experience advising companies and organizations, digital accessibility suddenly becomes much more surmountable," said Anne-Marie Feilberg, Siteimprove Director of Sales for the Nordic countries.
Like Siteimprove's Accessibility tool, Diversa's work is based on the WCAG 2.0 global web accessibility guidelines. They however also utilize their own first-hand experiences, making them capable of advising which solutions work best in practice.
"Siteimprove's tool is great for automatic checks in regards to complying with large parts of WCAG, but web accessibility also requires manual testing, which is why the combination of our services is invaluable," said Lars Holm Sørensen.
"Furthermore, we also offer consultancy to web teams that are about to build a new site, so that they can consider accessibility up front and not wait until they are being made aware of potential issues afterwards," Sørensen said.