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Thursday, March 10, 2011
following and connecting
it seems that there are more and more ways of connecting with other people via one's beloved apple product and the miracle that is the internet. twitter, facebook, flickr, blogs, tumblr, but now also pinterest and instagram. and now even etsy has this circles thing where you can see what those in your circle fave (it was about time on that one). but i have to say it all gets a bit muddy and confused. who am i following where? if people call themselves something different on one social media than on another, can i find them?
there are some sites that attempt to consolidate (hootsuite), but i find it clunky and it doesn't make me want to forget about going to the real site (like flickr stackr does on the iPad - i could never go to flickr again and be perfectly happy - at least for browsing - or tweetdeck, which is way better than the real interface for twitter). plus, hootsuite doesn't let me add everything i'd like to - like pinterest, tumblr, instagram, flickr. it really only consolidates twitter and facebook and linked-in and i'm not that interested in consolidating those. tho' there is a tiny overlap of audiences on those three, largely, i consider them different audiences and i don't want to broadcast the same status updates or photos on all three.
i've never really been that comfortable with the term followers - it has a messianic tone that i'm not that keen on. it also can (in the case of blogger after one is named blog of note) place an undue (and perhaps artificial and only in one's own head) pressure to lead. and to be honest, i'm blogging mostly for the sake of my sanity (tho' i do love that there are people reading and commenting on it, don't get me wrong), so i don't always want to have to post cheery, motivational, leaderly things. i'm mostly thinking out loud here.
i think we are moving towards the one set of followers world because more and more sites let you log in using your gmail or twitter or facebook account. i like that, because then i don't have to remember oodles of different log-ins and passwords. that said, it also feels a little bit like the borg are taking over and it's only a matter of time before we're assimilated into the giant hive mind that is the internet. that whole notion of assimilation grows increasingly touchy here in denmark what with our new "integration" minister wanting us all to assimilate (but that's the stuff of another post).
and what affect does all of this opportunity to social network have on the blogging world? i read recently a pessimistic piece on the future of the blog. it had actually appeared in the new york times, so it must be true, right? and i would say that i think the blogosphere has changed since i began blogging in earnest in 2008. a lot of the blogs that i followed back then are now dormant. a lot of the circle i interacted with has drifted away (thankfully not all of it) and i have drifted as well. i read less blogs and comment less, possibly because i'm busy browsing tumblr, which doesn't prompt comments in the same way, or pinning pretty things on pinterest. maybe my bloggy social circle has moved to flickr. and i'm getting the interaction i once got through blogging over there.
or maybe because blogs feels a bit more commercial and like they're trying to capture the attention of those who might award fabric lines or book contracts and less real, nitty gritty and personal these days. and on some instinctive level, i'm turned off by that. i think there is a place for commercial interests in blogging - i guess i love blogs where people share their handmade work and encourage you to visit their etsy shop - because i think there's still something honest and good about that kind of individual creative interest. but there's an awful lot of showing off going on out there.
however, i'm beginning to ramble and this is just the beginning of some thoughts on this whole thing that i've had tumbling in my head for awhile.
and if you want to find me any of the aforementioned places, just look for julochka. i'll probably be drooling over beautiful things on pinterest.
14 comments:
- Elizabeth said...
Need to keep reading your blog just to get an update on what is happening in blogosphere, haha!!!!
About this integrations stuff. Maybe these very polite Danes should learn that integration is a TWO way street. No one is able to integrate when they keep the door locked for those who are knocking!!!! - March 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM
- Barb said...
Hi J, I agree that I'm not at all interested in the more commercial blogs. The ones I like to visit most are the personal ones with real life stories. I don't really care if they like this product or that product.
- March 10, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- Unknown said...
FlipBoard (for iPad). It will literally change the way you view everything on the Internet.
- March 10, 2011 at 2:16 PM
I recently returned to blogging after a 3+ year hiatus. I agree that it is entirely different now than when I left the blogosphere. So much more filling a niche/advertising, so much less personal thoughts/spontaneity.
It saddens me when I think about how blogging has changed, but it also makes me feel much more free to be me-- do what I want-- be a quiet voice of sanity amid the noise. - March 10, 2011 at 2:54 PM
- Numinosity said...
It is interesting how it's all starting to intersect for me with the networking and blogging. I all but abandoned my Etsy shops in favor or blogging which was so much more satisfying for my facetime on the internet.
Now that I decided to boost up my shops again I found that I have a much better platform for sharing my wares should anybody be interested. I just happened to walk back into the Etsy world as the "circles" were being launched and I must say it's pleasing me and keeping me more engaged in the idea of selling online.
Unfortunately I'll be returning to dial-up in the near future and all this online progress will slide to a screaming crawl.
Meanwhile I ought to check out pinterest and Tumblr while I still can!
xoxo Kim
P.S. Thanks for adding me to your circle :) - March 10, 2011 at 3:27 PM
- celkalee said...
Ditto. I think. I blog to track myself, keep me focused. I entered the realm late, working 60+ hour weeks left only time for sleep and a little laundry. I totally enjoy most blogs, they inspire me. I crave others thoughts and insight. This is the way for me to learn, everyday. In my mind if the activity does not inspire or teach me something, I can find a better way to spend my time. I am less and less inspired by those blogs that have essentially turned into forums for advertising. I found you Julie, quite by accident, because of your photography. You have great talent. My blog name comes off of my old google account so one may see me as celkalee or corrine. Beyond that, I'm just the lady with 12 unfinished quilts screaming from their Ikea storage containers!!
- March 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Char said...
i've moved away from flickr...i don't know why really but it was so much to keep up with that i couldn't do it anymore. i post some - mostly to share just photography and not my thoughts. but i love my blog. tweets are infrequent. as is tumblr ...i have applied for a pinterest, but i'm not sure.
- March 10, 2011 at 4:47 PM
- Lynette said...
This is a thoughtful piece -- thanks for sharing.
- March 10, 2011 at 4:49 PM
- will said...
Dear Borg,
At this time I must refuse joining the many new sharing sites with you and the rest of the Borgettes. Oh, I can see the value of these sites ... if they are artificially important to you, that is.
For now I will continue with my rarely visited blogs and tumblr sites, all of which are eclectically just me and stuff I like. - March 10, 2011 at 5:09 PM
- Sammi said...
I have just been finding it hard lately to find time to blog, and also with a lack of time and only working and sleeping, it seems through the winter months, less to blog about!! I hope to get back into it because I don't want to be updating my life in 140 characters a la twitter or facebook status'... i am trying to get back into using my livejournal (my private blog that i've had for years) and then maybe i'll finally get back into blogger too.
- March 10, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Thanks for this post. I've been thinking about blogs lately too, and questioning whether I need one. It seemed like a good idea in the beginning, a year or so ago, but now... I find myself not so sure.
- March 10, 2011 at 8:14 PM
- Mel said...
Your blog is one that's inspired me over time... I've always loved your tag "an unexamined life..." I didn't feel like I could be really honest with my old blog once it got attached to my real name; too many possible employment repercussions - can't afford the risk while I'm paying off debts and figuring shit out. I'm much more interested in honest process and conversation right now, and I'm happy to have the freedom to do so again - and to see other people doing the same, in spite of the "death of the blog" tho it does seem to be going that way in the knitting blog community.
- March 10, 2011 at 10:09 PM
- Andi said...
I think this is a really insightful post, I don't have anything to add, it just makes me want to think on this further. I get social media fatigue as well in terms of trying to remember who I follow where and would love to have one place to keeps all that info, but then again giving that control over to company X feels scary as well. I can tell you one thing for sure, my blog reading has taken a serious hit since my addiction to Pinterest began!
- March 11, 2011 at 5:42 AM
- Pia K said...
lots of things here that i have been thinking about too, in brilliant minds...;)
* to be able to keep track on who/where/what at the same place would be a bliss! and what's up with people having different usernames, really? different passwords yes, but in case you have something naughty going on, why have different usernames... that said, i'm with you on the thought of the borg too:)
* i'm totally with you on the follower thing, messianic and i too blog for my sanity. i did back in 2005 when i started, but it took a while to find my voice, i had hiatuses, other commitments so i think one can say i began blogging for real in late 2006. and no i'm not at all proud with a lot of what i wrote back then. i don't think i was really comfortable with the media somehow. but it's still there. it's a work in progress. i know i've discussed this with other bloggers before, the feeling of "having to" be cheerful and inspiring all the time. conclusion then, and i still feel like that, is that you really haven't. the things you write through, whether upbeat or blue, it has to ring true and personal (but not intimate) to be interesting/worth reading.
* gosh, do i hate commercialized blogs or do i hate them, brimming with bling and ads, i so shy away from them and i feel sad when i can't continue reading blogs i've enjoyed because suddenly they're for sale showing all sorts of obnoxious ads i'm not the least bit interested in. and really, i NEVER push an ad button, do i want information i google or follow links in a text. it just makes me sad with blogs up for sale like that. yes i have been known to seel a minor few of margin textlinks ads, for stuff i'm ok with. they don't spoil the layout or make thinks look cheap and for sale. but all and all, so not what i think good blogs are about.
* i do read more blogs now than i did before, but i've always been good at sifting, because i really do not have the time to read more, do more, be more active online i feel. and pinterest, really, the few months i've been there i quickly realised it's too addictive for my sanity. i could spend all day clicking, liking, browsing. so i'm not there that often. at all.
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Eric Schmidt spoke with John Battelle on stage here at the Web 2.0 conference a few hours ago. There were some interesting new tidbits in their interview.
Eric broadly laid out two fundamental shifts that he sees in our near future: online video and software as a service. Online video is a shift toward watching videos on the Web with a focus on discovering related videos and sharing videos with friends.
Software as a service is a twist on the old idea of software moving off the disk and on to the network (a remote cluster of machines). The twist is a focus on reliability from using a large, shared cluster and on sharing and collaborating.
The prediction of an ascendance of online video might justify Google's YouTube acquisition. And, on that point, in response to a question, Eric made the incredible claim that YouTube is not violating copyright; whether objectively true or not, the fact that Google thinks it is true may also explain their willingness to pay an exorbitant $1.65B for YouTube.
Finally, a quick tidbit on hiring. In response to a question about attracting and retaining the best and brightest, Eric said, "People don't work for money. They work for impact." Very true. Money is not always the best motivator.
Update: Other good coverage from ValleyWag and PaidContent. [via Danny Sullivan]
Update: Video of this talk appears to be available.
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2 comments:
- Greg G. said...
I find it hard to believe that they consider YouTube as not violating copyright; if that were true, Google Video would have similar content as YouTube. The fact that it does not is what enabled YouTube to get as big as it did and be able to demand such a high price
- November 8, 2006 at 6:34 AM
- Greg Linden said...
Right, it could be spin, public positioning for the court battles ahead. After all, if Google is trying to argue the DCMA safe harbor clause applies, they have to claim that they do not know about copyright violations.
- November 8, 2006 at 6:54 AM
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Access: Social media, disability activism and community inclusion
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Sacha, in reply to
It looks like they are considering including disability in regular surveys that run far more often - which however gives them fewer questions they can ask, so they need to be the right ones.
Hilary Stace, in reply to
Money. It costs. Government cutting public services.
These people probably don't see themselves as activists....
"Volunteers rally for Tokanui forgotten."
The stigma of mental illness left 450 Tokanui dead in unmarked graves in an unofficial cemetery, that in modern times became part of an Agresearch farm.
This was in today's Courier...that link is to a big file...perhaps in a few days it will be downloadable as an individual article.
I love this story, thanks.
Rosemary McDonald, in reply to
Thought you might. ;-)
Angela Hart, in reply to
These people probably don't see themselves as activists….
that's one heck of a story Rosemary, my Dad was Polish.
Just to show that there is disability activism in all sorts of places here is a story about the brother of the first woman jockey to win the Melbourne Cup today. Her brother with Down Syndrome was employed to prepare the horse for the win.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-02/strapper-with-down-syndrome-prepares-for-melbourne-cup/6905710 -
The original post contained a link to the IHC's Hot Issues. Here is the latest http://www.ihc.org.nz/hot-issues/ihc-hot-issues-october-2015/
We are going to get more experiments I fear:
http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/business/qoa/51HansQ_20151105_00000004/4-budget-2015%E2%80%94beneficiariesOf course it cannot be compared with what happened in Germany in the past, but nevertheless, some slight resemblance to trends may show:
Dr Bratt must be one of the best paid propagandists for government, we have now been waiting since 2013, for the MSD and Ombudsman to make his salary available, under the OIA. Yes, another cover up and hatchet job, this country is full of lies and manipulation, I have NO trust in NZ government and institutions.
Under Hitler also most in the middle class and so were totally happy with the way things were going, they had a great time. I am reminded of that when I look at NZ now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_PartyNZers are wrapped into rugby and other entertaining great news, and excitement, but seem to forget other matters of concern.
Marc C, in reply to
Of course, New Zealanders would never fall for demagogery and brainwashing, right?!
All is well in NZ is what I hear every day in the media, cleansed of certain known critics, and disability and so are swept under the carpet, when it comes to discussion and challenges of the status quo. We cannot compare the NZ situation with the German 1930s situation, but there are some resemblences in propaganda, I fear.
Now you're in Godwin territory.
As an historical side note, Campbell Park, mentioned in John McRae's Becoming A Person as one of the former institutions where the remarkable Robert Martin was incarcerated, is up for sale.
On the subject of the 3rd Reich...this...."Bruce Gladwin: audiences and disability."..
well worth a listen.
Kim Hill at her very best.
Disability activism and community inclusion are both affected by income.
I get quite grumpy when I see articles like this one http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/73758616/Retirees-need-more-than-the-pension-gives-them-research-showswhich I suppose are legitimately trying to encourage people to save more, but which completely overlook those permanently seriously disabled and unable to work people who subsist, often for their adult lifetime, on what is now called Supported Living Payment. Their weekly income is in the region of a $100 lower than National Super and that's a hell of a difference at these levels.
It's too easy to ignore this reality.
Rosemary McDonald, in reply to
Their weekly income is in the region of a $100 lower than National Super and that's a hell of a difference at these levels.
Peter on the Super now, after over a decade of Invalids Benefit and SLP. With me attached as his spousal carer.
And you're right...it works out at $100 pw ($50 pw each) more. Retail sector....make room in your tills...we're on our way! ( Peter say's ..."we haven't got it yet!", He's right ballsup at WINZ...surprise surprise!)
Actually...its the dentist reaping this bounty. $2000 (ouch) worth of work on 'is teeth. A service that used to be provided for free at the local hospital...more for access and handling issues rather than low income. But that was stopped about 20 years ago...and unfortunately community infrastructure had not responded with alacrity.
Has anyone noticed how many dentists operate out of converted houses?
And the ones operating out of new buildings tend to be the ones who don't do youth work, and don't do WINZ quotes....they aim for the high end of the market.
Anyway....had to be done, and the extra $100 pw week will make all the difference.
What would have facilitated earlier treatment for 'im would have been me having an income. Like what the Courts said I should 'ave. Could have done the teeth AND been putting some by for 'retirement'.
Those 'save for your retirement stories' make me very angry.
Angela Hart, in reply to
that used to be provided for free at the local hospital…more for access and handling
Middlemore still provides a dental service, either free or low cost depending on whether you go through their referral system or not
Hilary Stace, in reply to
I agree. I am really looking forward to having a regular income like this in a few years' time (if it is still there). No money in research these days, and I missed years of regular full-time employment through caring responsibilities.
Talked to my submission to the Education and Science Select Committee this morning. In my supplementary I suggested that educational exclusion for disabled kids will keep happening until we address our fear of disability and dislike of children.
Most the submissions should be available through this link now. http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/sc/business-summary/00DBSCH_INQ_64710_1/inquiry-into-the-identification-and-support-for-studentsMany of them make similar points. I stayed for a couple of hours and heard several others - all well informed and addressing serious issues. A group of students from Kapiti College were very impressive talking about earlier experiences of bullying and humiliation due to dyslexia and related conditions.
Sacha, in reply to
A group of students from Kapiti College were very impressive talking about earlier experiences of bullying and humiliation
RNZ Checkpoint item here.
There was a really good piece of investigative journalism by Kirsty Johnston in the Herald this morning about the government forcing ERO to rewrite a report about the early childhood sector. She linked to OIA material. I even posted it on Facebook. However, during the day is was removed completely from the Herald website. The link now goes to a picture of John Key cycling. Fortunately Education Aotearoa had captured it before it disappeared
http://www.ea.org.nz/what-happened-to-the-nz-heralds-front-page-story/ -
Rosemary McDonald, in reply to
Yep....we might be at the stage where a journalist's worth is measured by how quickly their work is suppressed.
Good work Kirsty!
Sacha, in reply to
Scan of the 'correction' notice from today's Harold. Guess the editor must have been lawyered, or threatened with exclusion from the next eastern-suburbs garden party.
Rosemary McDonald, in reply to
Scan of the 'correction' notice from today's Harold. Guess the editor must have been lawyered, or threatened with exclusion from the next eastern-suburbs garden party.
I don't do twitter...but the tweets following the scan read like "Yes, Prime Minister"...my bedtime reading this week.
Sacha, in reply to
tis what twitter is best for
Kirsty has tweeted the correction and said she can't say any more. But it says volumes. This is what journalists are supposed to do, not get squashed for revealing unethical processes and politics. The trail revealed in the OIA says enough. Not blaming the Ministry of Ed spin people as they are just doing their jobs. The fault is obviously higher up.
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Tools and infrastructures for CPS/IoT testing, analysis, or verification
Using simulation to support testing for CPS/IoT
Bug characteristics study for CPS/IoT
Testing as a service for CPS/IoT
Modeling techniques for CPS/IoT to support testing and verification
IoT middleware testing
Empirical study on any of the above topics
Papers are to be submitted via the hotcrp TAV-CPS/IoT 2018 submission website. They must be written in English, provided as PDF documents, and follow the new ACM Master Article Template with the sigconf option.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers and all accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Thu 19 JulDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
11:00 - 12:30 | |||
11:00 60mTalk | Computing Paradigms for Emerging Pervasive & IoT-based Applications TAV-CPS/IoT Archan Misra Singapore Management University, Singapore | ||
12:00 30mResearch paper | Analysing The Effect of Uncertainty in Airport Surface Operations TAV-CPS/IoT Heron Yang Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Morris MIT, Corina S. Păsăreanu NASA Ames Research Center |
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 60mTalk | Conformance Testing as a Tool for Designing Connected Vehicle Functions TAV-CPS/IoT Mohammad Mousavi University of Leicester, UK | ||
15:00 30mResearch paper | A Pattern-based IoT Testing Framework TAV-CPS/IoT Pedro Martins Pontes Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC, Bruno Lima Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC, João Pascoal Faria Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC |
There is a new wave of pervasive computing applications, which synergistically fuse the sensing and analytics capabilities of personal wearable/mobile devices and cheap IoT platforms to capture fine-grained human and environmental context. In this talk, I will first describe and review recent/ongoing work on a diverse set of such wearable and IoT-assisted applications, including smartwatch-based diet monitoring, Bluetooth beacon-based in-store shopper behavior analytics, VR smartglass-based empathetic accessibility testing of mobile applications and wearable-based remote monitoring of factory machinery. Through these applications, I shall distill some of their common characteristics that distinguish them from conventional desktop/mobile "productivity" applications, such as: (i) the use of multi-sensor processing pipelines & supervised machine learning, (ii) real-time requirements to support interactive and immersive interfaces, and (iii) distributed cross-device execution of application components. The combination of physical sensing, wireless communication and computationally intensive processing in such applications leads to novel forms of application failure and non-performance. I shall conclude with some early thoughts on new testing capabilities and paradigms needed to tackle such wearable/IoT based cyber-physical systems and applications.
Archan Misra is a Professor, and the Associate Dean of Research, in the School of Information Systems at Singapore Management University (SMU). He is also a Director of two major research centers at SMU: the Center for Applied Smart-Nation Analytics (CASA) and LiveLabs. Over a 20-year research career spanning both academics and industry (at IBM Research and Bellcore), Archan has worked extensively on a broad set of technologies spanning wireless networking, mobile & wearable computing, and data analytics. His current research interests lie in applying mobile & wearable sensing, IoT technologies and real-time analytics to understand human activities and ambient context for a variety of urban-computing applications. Archan holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, and chaired the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) from 2005-2007.


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Introduction to Apologia de Fuga
The date of this Defence of his Flight must be placed early enough to fall within the lifetime, or very close to the death (§1. n. 1), of Leontius of Antioch, and late enough to satisfy the references (§6) to the events at the end of May 357 (see notes there), and to the lapse of Hosius, the exact date of which again depends upon that of the Sirmian Council of 357, which, if held the presence of Constantius, must have fallen as late as August (Gwatk. Stud. 157, n. 3). Athanasius not only refers to the lapse of Hosius, but by the quotation he makes from Gal. ii. 5, appears to know of its merely temporary nature (see D.C.B. iii. 173). How early, then, does the first-named condition compel us to place the `Defence?' Upon the news of the death of Leontius reaching Italy (Soz. iv. 12), Eudoxius obtained the leave of Constantius (who was in Italy, April 28 to July 3, 357, and again, Nov. 10 to Dec. 10, Gwatk. p. 292), to repair to Antioch. There he got himself elected bishop, assembled a council (Acacius and other Homoeans), and wrote a synodal letter, expelling from the Antiochene Church those who dissented. Some of the latter repaired to Ancyra with a letter from the semi-Arian George of Laodicea; at Ancyra, Basil assembled a small council (before Easter, April 12, 358, see D.C.B. i. 281, Epiph. Haer. 73), which wrote to the Emperor protesting against the proceedings of Eudoxius. To gain room for these events, at the very least five months, and probably more, must be allowed to elapse between the death of Leontius and April 12, 358. Leontius must therefore have died in the summer (Gwatk. p. 153, note), or at the very latest in October, 357. We cannot, therefore, place the Apology much after this date, for the reference to Hosius shews-in addition to many other indications-how quickly Athanasius in his hiding-place was informed of current events.
The Apology was drawn forth by the charge of cowardice circulated against him by the Arianising party, especially by the three bishops named in1. After a preamble upon the motives of his accusers (1, 2), he shews that his own case is but part of a general system (3-5) of expatriation directed against orthodox bishops. He then refers to the circumstance of the attack upon himself, and dwells at length upon the tyranny of George (6, 7) and the banishment of Egyptian and Libyan bishops. This brings him to the argument (8-22) which gives its name to the tract. After pressing the point that if flight be evil, those who persecute are the responsible cause (8, 9), and hinting at the real motive of their mortification at his escape (10), he defends his flight by the example first (10, 11) of the Scripture Saints, secondly of the Lord Himself (12-15). From the latter, he returns to the conduct of the Saints, who, unlike the Lord (16), were unaware of their appointed time, yet fled or not (17) as circumstances and the direction of the Spirit required them to do. The Saints if they fled were not moved to do so by cowardice, else how could their flight so frequently have been the occasion of divine communications (18-20), and how could such good (21, 22) have resulted from it? As a pendant to this vindication of flight on principle comes a short (23) but weighty rebuke of persecution as inherently devilish to de diwkein diabolikon estin epixei/rhma. From principle, Athanasius now passes to fact. He gives a graphic description (24) of the night attack on the Church of Theonas, and shews (25, 26) how fully his action on that occasion is covered by the examples of the ancient Saints of God. He concludes (26, 27) with a somewhat exasperated denunciation of his opponents, and a prayer for the frustration of their intrigues.
The Apology is a locus classicus on the duty of Christians under persecution. Athanasius was not the first great bishop who felt called upon to defend his conduct in retreating `until the tyranny be overpast' (see Cyprian, Ep. 20. August. Ep. 228). His principles are laid down with regard to the common welfare. Rashness must be avoided, with its tendency to a reaction (17, end), and its presumption in forestalling the time appointed by Providence for our death. But neither must that time be evaded. When our end must come, we must face it quietly. Accordingly (22) it is a duty to escape when we can, and to hide when sought for rather than to follow the exceptional (ib.) action of certain martyrs in courting death.
It is uncertain to whom the `Defence' was addressed: it was perhaps a `memorandum' to be circulated wherever opportunity offered. The tract has always been justly admired for its lucidity, force, and dignity. It is quoted largely by Socrates (ii. 28, iii. 8) and by Theadoret (H.E. ii. 15).


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Choosing Cabinet Hardware
Your cabinets' finishing touch
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Knobs or Pulls?
Maybe a combination of both. When making these selections, consider the profile of the door and drawer fronts. For example, while you may love a bin-style pull, it may not function well on a 5-piece drawer front, which is better accented by a straight-bar type of pull.
What About Positioning?
- For wall cabinets with a raised center panel style door, set the knob or the bottom of the pull (top of pull on a base unit), directly across from the flat of the center panel
- For a flat center panel door, 2" to 2-1/2" is a good starting point — hold up the hardware piece and let your eye make the final choice
- With a mitered door, never position the hardware in the lower corner where the mitered joints meet
- For drawers, if the hardware is of average size—3" to 3-1/2" wide— a good rule of thumb is to position one piece of hardware on drawers that are less than 24" wide, and two pieces per drawer front on those that are over 24" wide
Finishing Touches
When it comes to finishes, let the rest of the components in the home be your guide. If you are selecting an oil-rubbed bronze artisan faucet, select the matching hardware. Interested in mixing finishes? In today's home, anything goes. Mixing brass with black iron might be over the top, but pairing brushed nickel with polished chrome can offer a dynamic and attractive contrast.


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"Young Women Classes and Symbols," Young Women Personal Progress (2009), 4
"Young Women Classes and Symbols," Young Women Personal Progress, 4
Young Women
Classes and Symbols
Beehive, ages 12 and 13
The beehive was a symbol of harmony, cooperation, and work for the early pioneers of the Church. Beehive was also the first name by which young women were known. Beehives today learn to work together in cooperation and harmony as they strengthen their faith in Jesus Christ and prepare to stand for truth and righteousness. This is a time to "arise and shine forth" (D&C 115:5).
Mia Maid, ages 14 and 15
The name Mia Maid refers historically to the Mutual Improvement Association, which adopted the emblem of the rose as a symbol of love, faith, and purity. Mia Maids today learn about love, faith, and purity as they strengthen their testimony and accept and act upon the Young Women values.
Laurel, ages 16 and 17
For centuries the laurel wreath has been a crown woven from the leaves of the laurel tree. It is given to someone who finishes a significant achievement as a symbol of honor and accomplishment. Laurels today are finishing their preparation to make and keep sacred covenants and receive the ordinances of the temple.