text:
CC2035: West Quadrant Plan March Events
The West Quadrant Plan will provide detailed planning for Central City areas on the west side of the Willamette River. The effort is part of the broader Central City 2035 project to update the 1988 Central City Plan.
Stakeholder Advisory Committee
The West Quadrant Plan work has started and the first meeting of the newly formed Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) is coming up on March 11th. All meetings are open to the public and will have time for public comments. Meeting materials will posted approximately 7-10 days in advance on the project website.
Old Town/Chinatown Sub-area Work
Also coming up in March are two public events for the Old Town/Chinatown area of the Central City. The Community Planning Forum will present perspectives on the future of the area, include a public discussion on issues and opportunities, and generate ideas for the Charrette. The Charrette will follow a week later and will develop land use and urban design alternatives for the area and will inform the larger West Quadrant Plan process.
Project Info
The West Quadrant Plan will be guided by the SAC. A range of land use, urban design, transportation, environmental and economic development issues will be discussed – resulting in policy recommendations to guide future investment and development in the River District (including the Pearl District and Old Town/Chinatown), Downtown, Goose Hollow, University District and South Waterfront areas of the Central City.
Other public events during the West Quadrant Plan will include open houses, community meetings, working groups, and specific efforts targeted at smaller subareas – each of these presents an opportunity for community members to get involved, ask questions, provide feedback, and contribute to shaping the future of the area. To learn more about upcoming events, check out the West Quadrant Plan calendar. We hope to see you in the coming months!
For questions regarding the West Quadrant Plan or any upcoming events, please contact Elisa Hamblin at email@example.com or check out other ways to get involved.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
By Fareed Zakaria
They say it takes two to tango. But two tanks tangoing?
In the video above, tanks do a pirouette and jete in a kind of tank ballet directed by a choreographer from the Bolshoi Ballet. It highlights two of Russia's surviving strengths: military hardware and ballet.
This exposition held recently outside Moscow wasn't about art. It was about commerce. Russia was showing off its military technology and looking to impress potential buyers.
One has to assume Syria's President al-Assad had to decline the invitation, but that's OK because Russia's best customers are not in the Middle East, but rather to the southeast: India, Vietnam and China.
Asia is rising and arming up, and their defense budgets are soaring across the region. Moscow is benefiting, though not as much as Washington, which is, of course, the world's biggest arms seller.
It does indeed. Tanks for the reminder.
What a sinful Planet. Mother Earth is under Two gun points:-
1) Devilish-Human made WMD and
2) Powerful and non-resistance natural disaster.
According to New-York times, as Today, Russia start moving Aircraft carriers and fighter jets into Syria. And who is watching???
The Jewish State also, appointed the General, if war started with Iran.
Iran also planned to blocked the straight of hormus.
U.S already, stand by.
Now, if you add-up the above, the result will be.....
.... Your mother
...that you have watched too much Hannity and forgot to put on your tin foil hat today.
What a load of crap! Russia does not have ANY aircraft carriers! Zero! Zilch!
It takes two fools to spread the rumor: one telling another believing!
... you going back to school to learn how to spell?
Sad that even intellectually mobile nations like India and China have fallen to the trap in the GREAT GAME.
and why blame the Russians and The US.
a person only sells what the buyer wants..........
The buyer ought to say NAY and Enough...............and that is the only solution.
Fortunately mankind the Russian ballet excels the country's arms manufacture. The classical Russian ballet – with the two ensembles the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Kirov in St. Petersburg – is unbeatable and has the most legendary dancers in the history of ballet.
please read: FORTUNATE FOR MANKIND
Paradise Lost
....and according to CBC.ca/news; the Canadian Bank, TD, closed Talibans, I mean Iranians Bank accounts. Some said," How I am going to smoke Shisha?"
My message to the bloggers here, since we had good and bad chatting together for a long time, try to do Two jobs, if you make less than $60,000.00/year. The war with Iran is more likely.
War causes Recession and unemployments. Bad economy is on the way, worst than the last one. Be prepared. Stop panic.
He 100% piece of sh iet.
Go to your window and wave at me.
Taliban is not Iranian: it is Pakistany-US child!
a muslim is a muslim is a muslim...
something does not look right about this vidio,,, where did russia get an american space shuttle to display for there tank show
It's not a Shuttle, that ship is called Buran, similar idea that was developed in Russia
But unfortunately never flew in space. Is its presence an indication that Russia is thinking of re-activating the program?
Dentate: it actually was in space and back without crew: landed on auto-pilot. And it is a part of permanent exibition in Moscow: sure Russia have no plans for resurrecting the program considering that even Americans decided to discontinue it a long time ago. Get youself educated if that kind of stuff is of some interest to you.
Did the space shuttle get hijacked to Moscow?
I think that is a mock up of the old soviet Space shuttle the Buran
Russia needs to start a war. ITS the reason we always start wars, all that money spent and nothing to use it on so start a war to justify spending billions on military and spending nothing on education, or the middle class. Hooray Beer! i mean america
I'm surprised you didn't whine about the "MIC".
These stories are so important. I am tired just imagining the analysis that must go into a story such as this. This is why Matt Lauer has a salary of 17 million dollars this year, and the President of the U.S. less than half a million.
Nothing is wrong people. Move along. Do not even glance over at the little fat man behind that curtain pulling on strings and moving levers.
Have to keep Russia in circulation: the boss had ordered. Not a day without Syria and Russia mentioned: even if there are no news at all!
Well, there's ballet, anyway. I think Russia's military hardware more than "proved" itself in GW1 and GW2.
What was the point of this article? Entertainment or to make a statement? "Washington, which is, of course, the world's biggest arms seller" What did the writer hope to achieve? A collective gasp of realization that the US government lies, cheats, steals and kills. We knew that.
The purpose is to hypnotyse you: think Syria-Russia-Syria-Russia-Syria-Russia... and look at these tanks turning!
Formula 1 drivers are better and faster.
LOL - 23 seconds in, in the background is a Space Shuttle. No, not ours. This is the Russian version, the one they built trying to copy the US .. but it never flew! SO what is Russia trying to show off with that??? That they can build items that never work????
There were four other Buran shuttles named OK-1K2 Ptichka, OK-2K1 Baikal, Shuttle 2.02 and Shuttle 2.03 some of which flew only test flights and were incomplete. The program was cancelled in 1993. In 2002, the Buran was destroyed when the hangar in which it was stored, located at the Baikonur cosmodrome, collapsed
Well, I am against killing People. I believe, people will change from worst > bad > good.
So, killing is not acceptable. How many murderers are regretting, after they got caught and remained in Prison?
I read lots of books written by Jewish authors, criticizing American leaderships.
They wrote the books, to tell their story and also others to hate American leaderships.
Wow. I considered, those books are the seeds of hates. That could cause war among Nations.
Currently, I bought a book:-
"When General Grant Expelled The Jews".
Author: Jonathan D Sarna
The overviews are full of hate on American heroes and its History, on some parts.
Did you even bother to read it. If you had, you would have understood the mentality of the day and how we have learned from this experience.
Did,...if you do,...
Have ..if you had ...
Learnt from ... those ...
100% piece of shyatt is a S T U P I D I G N O R A N T B I G O T!
What a lame montage!
The smaller businesses have to be aired off while big boys get their deals 🙂


text:
The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees has voted to name its newest residence hall after the first African-American teacher at Oak Ridge High School.
The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees has voted to name its newest residence hall after the first African-American teacher at Oak Ridge High School.
Several UT Knoxville facilities are being renamed as they transition to new uses, according to information from UT. All of the names approved will honor families or individuals who have made a significant contribution to the university and its history. One of the names marks a first in UT history.
The new Fred D. Brown Residence Hall is the first building on the UT Knoxville campus to be named for an African-American.
"We are proud that we can carry on the legacy of these individuals who have contributed to UT's rich diversity and inspiring history," stated Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek.
The board approved naming the new residence hall under construction on Andy Holt Avenue to the Fred D. Brown Jr.
Residence Hall in honor of the longtime staff member who created the Office of Diversity Programs in the College of Engineering. The construction project is the first new residence hall to be built in 43 years, and the hall will accommodate 700 men and women when it opens in 2014.
Brown graduated from Hall High School in Alcoa and earned his college degree from the Tuskegee Institute. He did post-graduate work at UT, Tennessee State University, Fisk University and Vanderbilt University. He taught at Hall High School in Alcoa and Oak Ridge High School. He was the first African-American teacher at Oak Ridge High soon after it was integrated and became the first African-American member of the Alcoa Board of Education.
Now in its 40th year, the Office of Diversity Programs has recruited and supported more than 900 students from underrepresented groups who have graduated from the college. Brown founded it with just 17 students, and his work has had a significant impact on the engineering profession.
The former Student Health Center, 1818 Andy Holt Way, will be renamed Temple Hall in honor of Oliver P. Temple and his daughter, Mary Boyce Temple. The new Student Health Building opened last year on Volunteer Boulevard. The former health center is currently being renovated for College of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences programs.
Two previous buildings and a street have been named for the Temples throughout UT history. Temple Hall once served as an assembly center on the Agriculture Campus but no longer exists. The main route through campus, Temple Avenue, was renamed Volunteer Boulevard. Temple Court, which housed Career Services on the corner of Cumberland and Volunteer Boulevard, was razed in late 2012 to make room for a larger Student Union now under construction.
Oliver Temple was a trustee of East Tennessee University, which was later named the University of Tennessee, from 1820 until his death in 1907. He was a Greeneville lawyer and once ran unsuccessfully for Congress against Andrew Johnson. He was a driving force in expanding UT's agriculture programs and its land grant designation.
Mary Boyce Temple continued her father's work by establishing a foundation in 1919 to purchase and breed purebred animals and improve plant breeding. She later gave her library to UT.
The new football practice facility will be called the Anderson Training Center in honor of the Anderson families of Knoxville and Florence, Ala. The families' generosity helped to make the new state-of-the-art facility a reality. This 145,000-square-foot building includes an amphitheater-style team room, coaches' offices, position meeting rooms, a first-class dining facility, players' lounge, a 7,000-square-foot locker room and a 22,000-square-foot multilevel weight room, as well as a new training room and hydrotherapy area. The Anderson Training Center will be central to the physical training and development of all Tennessee athletic teams.
The board also approved a proposal to modify the name of the Frank H. McClung Museum to the Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture to better reflect its mission.
The John D. Tickle Engineering Building's name was also modified to include the middle initial D of its benefactor, a 1965 graduate of the college. The Tickle building will be the new home for the Industrial and Information Engineering Department and is set to open to students in fall 2013.


text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Opinion
- Obituaries
- Features
- Special Sections
- Classifieds
- Public Notices
We're sorry, but you do not have access to this page.
You probably need to register in order to view the page.
Please visit our registration page to learn more.


text:
Don't get us wrong — when done well, the shaky-cam can be a thrill and a half. But we're not 100% sure how the superhero will fare against an all-shaky-cam movie, Chronicle. It's written by famed director John Landis' son.
THR is reporting that Fox is in negotiations to make Max Landis' superhero spec script, Chronicle. What's is about?
The story focuses on the lives of three Portland teens that become exposed to a mysterious substance in the woods, and, as a result, begin to develop incredible powers. They work together to hone their skills for fun, until personal and family problems begin to turn them against one another.
And the entire thing is going to be shot documentary-style. Is this is in hopes of making the film seem more realistic? As to whether it'll work, only time — and the camera worker's hand strength — will tell. Are you ready for another shaky-cam movie, or were Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity plenty?
[Image via Sad Superheroes by Nicolas Silberfaden]


text:
Investors endured another slow trading week with mixed economic data releases on Wall Street, paving the way for another wave of profit-taking. As major equity indexes drifted sideways with a downward bias, several key developments took place on the ETF front; Charles Schwab cut expenses on all 15 of its ETFs while Global X announced it was shuttering the doors on four of its funds. VelocityShares also made a splash on the product development front with its SEC proposal for a basket of ETFs [see also Free Report: 7 Simple & Cheap All-ETF Model Portfolios].
Connecticut-based VelocityShares has filed plans with the SEC to beef up its existing ETN-only lineup with several intriguing ETFs:
- VelocityShares Tail Risk Hedged Large Cap ETF: This ETF will consist of three underlying index ETFs that track the S&P 500 Index, including SPY, VOO and IVV, while the "tail hedge" component will consist of two volatility products: the Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF ( UVXY) and the Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF ( SVXY). The SEC filing also stated that at each monthly rebalance, the portfolio composition will be split 85/15 among equity and volatility holdings, respectively [see also Low Volatility ETFdb Portfolio].
- VelocityShares Volatility Hedged Large Cap ETF: This ETF will feature the same portfolio composition as the fund profiled above, with the distinguishing factor being how much is allocated to each of the volatility ETFs. The "Tail Risk" fund will dedicate 45% to UVXY and 55% to SVXY, while this "Hedged" ETF will dedicate one-third to UVXY and two-thirds to SVXY.
VelocityShares will also look to launch three equity-based strategies [see SEC Filing]:
- VelocityShares Emerging Markets Depository Receipt ETF: This broad-based ETF will features allocations to equities spanning 21 emerging markets. The top three allocations by country in its underlying index are Brazil, Russia and China .
- VelocityShares Russia Select Depository Receipt ETF: This ETF will look to track the performance of depository receipts of companies located in Russia [see also Emerging Market ETFs: 7 Factors Every Investor Should Consider].
- VelocityShares Emerging Asia Depository Receipt ETF: This ETF will target developing Asian nations, including: China, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Follow me on Twitter @SBojinov
[For more ETF analysis, make sure to sign up for our free ETF newsletter or try a free seven day trial to ETFdb Pro]
Disclosure: No positions at time of writing.
Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.
Read more posts on ETF Database »


text:
Rose Publishing - Paperback Publisher: Rose Publishing Subject: Biblical Studies Date published: 10/15/2015 Weight: 0.10 lbs Model: 4085X isbn13: 9781628622980 isbn: 1628622989 sku: 075861
I have seen a couple of timelines before, one showing Jewish history/significant persons and the other world history/significant persons, but I don't recall ever seeing a church history timeline. This is a basic church history timeline with markers telling of key events, Bible development, key persons and church councils. Included are some markers of certain heretical groups coming into being (like Catholicism, Jehovah's Witnesses…etc.). I didn't love the timeline overall, mainly because the arrangement is a bit confusing to me, it is arranged by chunks of centuries (AD 1500, 1600…1900..etc.) and the events are underneath each 'age' but the problem for me is that since the lists of events and people are descending at an angle some of them end up 'in' the section for the next era when they really aren't' in that era(though they do have a year next to each). Also, I would have preferred a format like Adam's World history chart one of the features which I really liked about it was that it had colored lines indicating about how long each person lived and showed if their lives overlapped each other (for instance, who of Adam's descendants were probably alive when Adam was still alive), the events of the times were underneath the timeline of the people and it just made it really neat and easier to understand for me. But I need to keep in mind that this is just a basic church history timeline, and it probably just isn't my 'style', others would probably have a fine time understanding it. Oh, and this church history timeline also colors the various markers/symbols to help differentiate between persons, events, councils…etc. So that's handy. One of the other things I didn't particularly like about this is that it listed some things that didn't seem relevant to me, especially if one is doing a basic timeline, for instance in the late 1900s the timeline has a marker for when Pope John Paul II apologized for the Roman Catholic Church's lack of moral leadership during the Holocaust and there is also a marker for 'Mother' Teresa's death. I don't understand how those things are relevant to Church History (unless you think that Roman Catholicism is biblical). Overall I just thought it could have been better, but some people may really like it. Thanks you to the folks at Rose Publishing for sending me a free pdf review copy of this timeline to review! (My review did not have to be favorable)
Please login to write review.
Copyright © 2019 Faith Gift Store
Powered by TomatoCart


text:
Become a Member
Join a Chapter
Sigma Chi is a men's organization that allows membership based on a process implemented at the undergraduate chapter level called "bidding." The process on each campus and within each chapter varies, but at its heart is an evaluation of potential candidates whereby existing members measure candidates against the Fraternity's minimum set of standards for membership, known as The Jordan Standard.
If a chapter's membership determines that the potential candidate is a good fit for Sigma Chi, the candidate should decide if Sigma Chi is a good fit for him. The commitment to being a Sigma Chi is a lifelong obligation and is not one to be taken lightly. Therefore, potential members should feel encouraged and welcome to ask any questions they may have before making the decision to join.
After the chapter offers a bid to a prospective member and the individual accepts it, the process of pledging begins. "Pledging" quite literally means that the individual is making a promise to live up to the standards of Sigma Chi, and constitutes a trial period for the potential member to try Sigma Chi out before making the full committment required of lifelong membership. Upon the completion of the pledging process, the potential member is initiated into Sigma Chi by partaking in the Fraternity's Ritual.
Requirements for Membership
The health of an organization is determined by the quality of its members. Knowing this, it is helpful to keep in mind that there are two facets of requirements for becoming a Sigma Chi. Firstly, a potential member must possess the qualities and convictions set forth in the The Jordan Standard, which ensures that men who are invited to pledge are worthy of membership. Secondly, potential members must meet the specifications laid out in the Fraternity's Governing Laws.
Click here to view The Jordan Standard.
Pledge Program
Sigma Chi, like many organizations, employs a probationary period for its prospective members before their initiation into full membership. This period, called pledgeship, serves to educate a potential brother about the Fraternity before he decides to join. During pledgeship, men develop and enhance their interpersonal skills through involvement in all aspects of chapter life. They interact with other pledges, undergraduate and alumni members, and develop as leaders in the community.
Sigma Chi enforces a zero-tolerance policy for hazing and cultivates an atmosphere that supports personal growth and leadership development. To read more about the pledge program, click here.
Recommend a Student
Do you know a student who would make an excellent Sigma Chi? Recommend him by completing this form.
Non-Student Initiation Request
At the 2006 Grand Council, Sigma Chi voted on and passed a policy by which non-students may become initiated members of the Fraternity. This is an opportunity for men of good character who may not have had the opportunity to become an initiated member of Sigma Chi. An individual previously found unsuitable for membership is not eligible, but any other males may learn more about non-student initiation opportuniities by downloading the information packet here.


text:
Place your favorite pictures of footwear here.
Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
Allows you to choose the data by which the thread list will be sorted.
Order threads in...
Note: when sorting by date, 'descending order' will show the newest results first.
Forum Rules


text:
Watch us on Vermont's premiere (and only?) TV station, WCAX tonight. We'll be on the 5:30 or 6pm news and perhaps again at 11pm.
I was traveling around to meet with various furniture makers throughout the state today and I stopped at the I-89 Williston Welcome Center to catch up on emails and make a few phone calls. Gina Bullard was there. She's the reporter who does the Made in Vermont series on WCAX.
Gina was interviewing people in reference to the near loss of FREE WiFi access at the welcome centers due to state budget cuts. She saw me working on my laptop and interviewed me about the importance of free WiFi for small Vermont businesses (VERY important!).
Gina was also interviewing Al Levy of Route 802, a WiFi company that generously stepped in to donate WiFi to the Welcome Centers so we can continue to use it for free.
Check out Route 802's mobile apps for Vermont travelers where you'll find all the latest in Vermont events, restaurants, coupons and other travel and tourism tips and advice.
Watch the WCAX-TV clip here.


text:
EMC finally puts Symmetrix line on thin provisioning diet
Distracts truancy with a FLASH!
Any magician worth his salt knows about distraction. A grand movement with the left hand while the right hand lifts your wallet and keys is Hocus-Pocus 101.
EMC issued a pair of announcements today, employing marketing shenanigans along the way. The company barked about flash-based storage for its Symmetrix hardware line - look over here! - while it rather quietly slipped under the door news of an overdue thin-provisioning feature for the arrays.
EMC calls its flavor of thin provisioning, "Virtual Provisioning," but it's mostly the same technology under the label. In a virtual environment, the traditional method of allocating storage is dedicating large portions of storage capacity to applications even if a good chunk of it goes unused. Thin provisioning makes it so that physical disk capacity is used only as needed for virtual volumes. The benefits of "streamlining" the capacity include better overall system utilization and power savings by having less disks spinning all the live-long day.
Good stuff, yes, and certainly a welcome addition to EMC's high-end Symmetrix arrays. But it should be noted that mainstream vendors such as 3Par, Hitachi, NetApp and HP already offer thin provisioning on their big boxes. EMC previously only offered thin provisioning with its Celerra line. It expects to add the feature to its Clariion arrays this summer.
EMC's director of storage marketing Bob Wambach says the slower start is all about implementation. Virtual Provisioning will work across all Symmetrix storage tiers, including the so-called tier 0 flash storage drives EMC announced today. It will also work on internal and external storage as well as replicated volumes. Wambach said rivals such as Hitachi didn't have that at launch. (Note: Hitachi added external support last November).
Wambach said some of elements for the new technology were implemented in last year's annual Symmetrix update. While certain speed-up elements were available, other features such as capacity utilization and over-provisioning were in the code but couldn't be turned on.
That changes in March, when thin-provisioning is expected to hit. Pricing is dependent on the amount of provisioning in the box — so you'll need to give EMC a ring to get the pricing dope. ®


text:
What is ILF's Vision?
The Islamic Learning Foundation is an institute that has been developed to provide a solid foundation of knowledge, direction, and a fusion of classical learning and modern Islamic activism for Muslims in North America.
Considering the myriad of needs that our community and our society faces, ILF has been created to give American Muslims the tools of knowledge they need to face contemporary religious and social problems, the ability and confidence to convey the message of Islam to a wider audience, and to give direction towards the various social, family, and community issues which we face.
ILF has been designed with young adults in mind and offers part-time, evening, and weekend classes to familiarize students with fundamental Islamic topics, and then build upon that foundation to provide a solid grounding and literacy in Islamic Knowledge.
What Sets ILF Apart?
ILF not only wishes to ground the student a strong literacy of classical Islamic subjects such as Fiqh, Hadith, Aqeedah, Quran/Tafsir, History, and Hadith/Sunnah studies, but to provide the student the ability to implement, teach, and benefit his or her community by supplementing the classical courses with workshops and classes on issues facing present-day societies relating to families, education, poverty, community issues, and da'wah and relations with other faiths. Another part of ILF's mission is to provide education specifically for New Muslims and their families and help them grow in their understanding and practice of their new faith.
ILF, being a part of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), also has a wide range of opportunities available for students through its numerous da'wah activities, youth work, programs for women, local and national relief work to actualize their Islamic knowledge by becoming involved in benefiting the community.
Thus ILF creates a unique fusion of solid Islamic literacy and Islamic activism to help the community and society while producing students who have a strong understanding of Islamic sciences and how to benefit their families and communities with it.
What Has ILF Done So Far?
Islamic Learning Foundation has been successful in New York, NY and Chicago, IL in setting up classes for Muslim who have recently converted to Islam, as well as classes on Quran, Aqeedah, Sunnah, Seerah, Mustalaha al-Hadith, and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, some of which were streamed live on the internet.
ILF has set up dedicated a state-of-the-art classrooms with multimedia and streaming capabilities in Chicago, IL and New York, NY and plan to open classrooms in other cities across the United States.
ILF also has an Bridge to Quranic Arabic program where it has sent students from the U.S. to study with experts in Arabic instruction and Quran in Egypt. Some students have chosen to continue their studies at Al-Azhar University and ILF has set up a track for them with the rigorous studies required to gain admission to the University.
ILF plans to create a unique Quran memorization program to provide hifz students with not only the opportunity to memorize the Quran with rote memorization, but a solid understanding of the themes, messages, and meanings of the Quran. In addition, there are many more projects we aim to bring to life through ILF.


text:
40 Cal Interview Says Dipset Is Not Over, Just Jim & Cam Bumpin Heads & Wants To Battle Any Signed Rapper!
40 Cal Interview By Doggie Diamonds&IP=126.96.36.199
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
Is memory management in the Linux Kernel done using paging or segmentation or both?
migrated from stackoverflow.com Mar 12 '11 at 23:14
This question came from our site for professional and enthusiast programmers.
Linux uses both. It uses segmentation to map all the available address space while giving different access rights: basically a kernel and a user space view. You can grep the Linux source code for KERNEL_DS (kernel data segment) for some examples.
Paging is then used for implementing virtual memory (Grep for "struct gdt_page" in the kernel, for a starting point)
Memory management under Linux works exclusively by paging.
Linux supports both "small" (usually 4kB) and "large" (2M) pages. The former "just work" without you knowing or doing anything special, and the latter need special treatment (have to be reserved at boot time and mapped via a special device).
The only context in which "segment" appears under Linux is the brk() syscall which is used to increase the data segment of a process (you will not normally need this, malloc does it without you having to care). But either way, the memory comes in pages and is managed in pages, and it has nothing to do with x86 segmentation.
X86 segmentation was obsolete when the i386 came out. Linux has never used segmentation for memory management. Some derivatives like ELKS and (possibly) uClinux might. – LawrenceC Mar 12 '11 at 23:55


text:
We return tonight to our study of 1 John, and this has been such a wonderful, wonderful study, I think, for all of us and particularly for me. I benefit more than anybody else because of what goes into each message, each lesson. We come to the end of the second chapter and actually flowing into the third chapter. Breaks in the epistle of John are sometimes hard to figure out and I know they made an effort in putting the chapter where they thought it should be when they put together the Scriptures, but those...those editors, I think, in this particular case may have served us better if they had not put a chapter heading between verse 29 and the next verse because I do think that there's one section here from verse 28 to verse 3, let me read it to you.
First John 2:28, "Now little children, abide in Him so that when He appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him. See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called children of God and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies Himself just as He is pure."
Now just that reading identifies for you why I think this section needs to be taken together. Verse 28 begins referring to the appearing of Jesus Christ. And then down into chapter 3 and verse 2 we have further reference to the appearing of Jesus Christ. Then verse 3 says we are to have this hope. This entire section is about our hope in the appearing of Jesus Christ. Our hope for the return of Christ for those who are His beloved children.
The word "hope" in verse 3 really sums up our responsibility We have this hope and we are by virtue of this hope to be purified even as He is pure. The word"hope" then really sort of opens up this section for us and because it's not a word that we deal with a lot, it's not a word that we take time to explain, I want to do a little of that by way of an introduction tonight. Don't know how far we'll actually get in the passage but I would like to address this word "hope."
There are three great words, a kind of triumvirate in evangelical terminology: "And now abides faith, hope and love." Plenty of discussion occurs in the Bible with regard to faith. In fact, we're doing some of that even now in our series in the mornings in Luke chapter 9. And there has been and shall be abundant discussion of the subject of love in Scripture because it is the greatest of those and is a dominant theme in many portions of the New Testament.
On the other hand, hope goes begging a bit and it would serve us well, I think, to understand something of this wonderful, wonderful spiritual privilege, wonderful provision, wonderful gift called hope. The very word "hope" is like turning on a light in the darkness. It's like bringing joy into a sorrowful situation. It's like introducing life into a scene of death. Hope is a word that immediately brightens, lifts, produces joy. Life without hope is bleak. First Corinthians 15 verse 19 Paul says, "If in this life only you have hope, you are of all men most miserable." The severest misery, the severest reality of misery is when your hope is only in this life. If you don't have anything to hope for beyond this life, that is the supreme misery because this life is a vapor that appears for a little time, vanishes away. This life is at best very, very brief and full of trouble. And if all your hope is tied only to what happens here, that is a severe misery.
But that's how it is for most people. That's how it is for the vast majority of people in the world. There is a bleakness to life because there is no sure hope in the life to come. There are some wishes, there are some fantasies, there are some religious promises that are made that are false hopes, but for most of the world, for most of humanity throughout its history there has been no real hope, no hope that could be described in the language of Hebrews 6, "Hope that is an anchor for the soul," a real hope. And, of course, death immediately brings the realization of the fact that any hope outside of God was a false hope. Job 8:13 says, "The hypocrites hope will perish." Job 27:8 says, "For what is the hope of the hypocrite when God takes away his soul?" Job 31:24, "If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence,' then I have denied the God above." Proverbs 10:28 says, "The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the hope of the wicked shall perish."
It's a terrible thing to have all your hope in this world, all your hope in a false religious system of this world, or all your hope in gold, or money, or whatever it is in this world. This is virtually to have no hope. In Ephesians chapter 2 in describing the plight of lost humanity, the Apostle Paul says, "They have no hope, being without God in the world." If you don't have God, you have no hope. And, in fact, many people in Paul's day actually acquiesced to that. Unable to find anything that they could anchor their soul on, unable to find anything that was a sure and true hope, they came themselves to the conclusion that life was in itself futile. There were philosophies extent at the time that believed that there was no hope for the body, that the soul was somehow imprisoned in the body. Some day when the body died the soul reluctantly would leave the body with the last breath of the individual, leaving through the mouth of one who died of illness or through the open wound of one who was killed. And the soul at that time, philosophers said in one way or another, that that soul would depart into the shade world where the dead bemoans their existence without comfort. One writer, Diogenes, said, "I rejoice, I play in my youth, long enough beneath the earth shall I lie, bereft of life, voiceless as a stone and shall leave the sunlight which I loved. Good man though I am, then shall I see nothing more." Now that, I suppose, is the hope of the atheist, or the hope of the godless philosopher, that is the hopelessness of those without God who have nothing they can be sure of in the life to come. And so they have hope only in this world and are therefore truly most miserable. They drown their misery in alcohol, they drown their misery in sex, they drown their misery in entertainment, they drown their misery in acquisition. They drown it in sequential relationships. Somehow, some way they try to make something out of their hopelessness. Very different from those who know God.
In Romans chapter 8 and verses 23 to 25 there is a wonderful section that looks at our hope. Verse 23 says, "And not only this but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves," and I love this phrase, "waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body for in hope we have been saved. But hope that is seen is not hope. Why does one also hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see with perseverance, we wait eagerly for it."
What this is saying is we have a salvation, the greatest part of which is as yet unrealized. And that is all bound up in our hope. It is wonderful to experience the joys of salvation presently, but they cannot be compared with that which God has prepared for us when our hope becomes reality. The true benefits of salvation are as yet unrealized. We hold to them by hope. They are yet to be ours in their fullness. And he says in verse 23 that we are waiting eagerly for that realization, we are waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons and the redemption of our body. We have the redemption of our souls, we have received new nature within, we have been transformed by the renewing regenerating power of the Spirit of God. We are new on the inner man but we have the same old unredeemed human flesh and we eagerly wait until our hope is realized in the redemption of our body. That is, to receive the new body which God has prepared to go with the already redeemed soul when we will be made into the image of Jesus Christ, as we just read in 1 John, when we are made like Him because we see Him as He is. We live in hope.
That is why death for us is not an ending. It is the loosing, that is the very Greek word that is used, it is loosing us from our bondage. We're in bondage now, our redeemed inner person, our redeemed man, the inner man, the redeemed nature, the life of God that has been granted to us in a transforming manner is incarcerated in unredeemed and fallen flesh and longs to be liberated so that for us death is liberation. It is indeed the spirit being freed from the debilitating effects of sinful flesh. This is our great hope. And as I said earlier, and I say again so you don't ever forget this, hope will become reality and when it does we will know for sure that the greater elements of our salvation were in this life unrealized. It is good to know and experience the forgiveness of sin and the ministry of the Spirit of God that affirms that. It is good to have the indwelling Holy Spirit. It is good to experience the fruit of the Spirit; love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. It is good to be led by the Spirit. It is good to experience answered prayer. It is good to know Christian fellowship, to enjoy worship, etc., etc. It is good to be engaged in serving the Lord. It is good to see His hand of sovereign direction in our lives. All of that is good but none of that comes close to what it will be when hope becomes reality. We have a salvation then that is in its fullness as yet unrealized.
And so, verse 24 then says, "In hope we have been saved." And hope then is the major component of our salvation in the sense that we will only when that hope is realized participate in the very fullness of God's purpose in saving us in the first place.
Now the Bible says a lot about hope. And I want to give you a little hopeology here, if I can. Take you through some of the things that the Bible says about hope just because I think it's good to have a foundation. Our hope comes from God and that's where we want to start. And I might even give you a dozen things as they roll around in my brain up here. But I want to start with the idea that our hope is in God, it is in no less than God. It is not in men, it is in God. It is in the unchanging God, the God who is never ever subject to alteration, the God who has spoken and has spoken the truth and cannot speak anything other than the truth. Our hope is in God. And that's why Psalm 43:5 says this, "Why are you in despair, O my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God." Things aren't what they should be. Things aren't what you'd like them to be. Things aren't the way you would plan them if you were in charge. And so you become despairing and you become disturbed and the psalmist says, "Stop that and hope in God." Remember that God is your help. He is your help, he says, and your God. Our hope then comes from God. It is because God has made promises of care and concern and protection and guidance and direction and sustenance that we can trust Him for a better tomorrow.
Psalm 78 again emphasizes much the same things. Verse 7, "You should put your confidence in God." Put your confidence, or hope in God. "He is the one worthy of our hope." It is God Himself who has committed to us the promise of care, the promise of meeting all our needs and the promise of eternal life.
The Bible also says about hope, and it's important to note this, that it comes from God, He is the source of our hope, but it is a gift of grace. It is not something you can earn. This is tucked into a little verse in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 at the end of verse 16. It's really a benediction. "Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word." Never let it be said that we did anything to earn our hope, it is a gracious gift. God is the source of that gift. God is the one who gives us something to hope for. God is the one who gives us everything to hope for. And He gives us this good hope by grace.
Now where do we find the essence of this hope? Where do we find the information about this hope? Where do we learn what this hope means? And the answer to that you would expect that we would turn to Scripture and indeed we do. Look at Romans 15 verse 4, here again just following our little bit of a study on hope here, we find that whatever was written in the Scripture, Romans 15:4, Paul referring here, of course, to the Scripture the people were familiar with, the Old Testament at that time but it certainly refers to all God's revelation, whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have...what?...hope. Our hope comes from God by grace and is dispensed to us in the Scriptures. It is as we know what the Scripture says that we have hope. Just as our faith is believing God for what He said just because He said it, so our hope is believing God for what He promised just because He promised it.
In Psalm 119 the psalmist says, "May those who fear Thee see me and be glad because I wait for Thy Word." Here is a man who understood that what God said was true and there were times in his life of severe trial and difficulty where he had to wait until the realization of what he had hoped for came to pass. He learned to live in that expectation. He says it again in Psalm 119 verse 81, "I wait for Thy Word, I will wait, God, until the time is right for You to deliver what You promised me in hope."
Because then this hope from God by grace is given through the Scripture, it is something that is reasonable. Look at 1 Peter 3:15 and we're building our case here. "Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts," 1 Peter 3:15, "always ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you." And it says then, "Give this with gentleness and reverence." You can defend your hope. That's what Peter is saying. Your hope is defensible. It is reasonable. It is not pie in the sky. Our hope in eternal life, our hope in heaven, our hope in ultimately being made like Christ, our hope in a redeemed body wed together in indivisible oneness throughout all eternity with our redeemed spirit by which we will praise and serve the Lord is a reasonable hope. It is a hope that is defensible.
You say, "How is it defensible? How is it that it's not just pie in the sky?" It is defensible because it comes from the Word of God. And God's Word is true. Any faithful study of Scripture, any honest study of Scripture will allow Scripture itself to unload on an open-minded reader its own truthfulness. The Bible can defend itself to anyone who studies it.
So, we have a hope that comes from God. We have a hope that is given us by grace. We have a hope that is laid out for us in Scripture. We have a hope therefore that is objectively defensible. I want to add to that. Our hope promised us in Scripture has already been secured for us. And how was it secured? By the resurrection of Jesus Christ...by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Again Peter helps us with this. First Peter 1:3, "Blessed," writes he, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, our Lord Jesus Christ who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again unto...what?...a living hope that is a hope in life." We have the hope that we're headed toward eternal life. It's a living hope in the sense that it's a hope in eternal life. And we bless God because He's caused us to be born again to this hope which truly lives through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. There is the securing of our living hope. If Jesus didn't rise, guess what? We don't rise either. John 14 Jesus said, "Because I live, you will live also." We died in Him and we rose in Him. We have risen to walk in newness of life in the very resurrection of Jesus Christ. When Jesus went to the cross there might have been some question about whether our hope was valid. There might have been some reason to wonder whether the promise of the Old Testament, "That will not allow Thy Holy One to see corruption," would really be true. We might have wondered whether Job could honestly say, "Though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." Did Job have a reason for that hope? Did the psalmist have a reason for that hope? When Jesus was saying, "Whoever believes in Me though he were dead yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die," when He said that the home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary was a reason to believe that, well it was at least open to question until one monumental event and that event was the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And at the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our eternal life was secured. And so, we have a living hope secured in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
But that doesn't end this amazing treatment of hope in the Bible. Turn back to Romans 15 again and this is...by the way, this is just a long introduction to this passage, but it gives me a good excuse to deal with this hope because this is, as I said, goes begging as a subject very often. There's another benediction in Romans 15:13, I love this. "Now may the God of hope," do you ever call Him that? As I say, it goes begging. "The God of love" is often a term or a descriptive to refer to God. Very rarely do I hear people call Him the God of hope, that simply means He is as we've already learned the source. The God who is the source of hope, the God who has graciously given that hope to us and laid it out for us in Scripture and secured it by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, "Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope...listen to this...by the power of...whom?...of the Holy Spirit." Isn't this interesting? Our hope is then confirmed, energized in us by the Holy Spirit. Granted by God through grace, by means of the Scripture, secured by Christ, confirmed in us by the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who stirs up that hopeful attitude in the heart in response to the promises of God revealed in Scripture. This is a marvelous hope. This engulfs all of redemptive purpose. This encompasses the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Father gives the hope, the Son secures the hope, the Spirit confirms the hope. We are to live with hope. We are not a people who have hope only in this world, we have hope in the world to come and it is a living hope. It is a hope for real life guaranteed and secured for us because Jesus conquered death not only for Himself but for all who are in Him.
That's not all about this hope, that would be enough, but there's more. The Bible makes more of the magnificence of this hope. In Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians, he in chapter 5 discusses the Christian's armor, as he does also in Ephesians 6, but here in 1 Thessalonians 5...1 Thess. 5, in verse 8 there's an abbreviated treatment here of spiritual armor and he talks about having to put on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. What he means there is very, very important to understand.
As a Christian I assume that I'm going to be attacked by Satan. I assume that. I assume if I sort of slide over to Ephesians chapter 6 that I'm going to be engaged in a battle not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies against the rulers of this world, against the forces of darkness. I'm going to be engaged in a real battle with the forces of Satan. And that battle is going to come on many, many levels. One of the attacks, one of the avenues, one of the angles that Satan uses is to try to crush us with doubt. Every Christian who has ever lived has experienced doubt. Doubt is not an indication that you're not saved. Doubt is a sin. But like all other sin in the life of a believer, it's forgivable. And by the Scripture and the work of the Spirit, we overcome it. And so here we find that we are protected by a helmet. Satan wants to come in with crushing blows of doubt, smashing us in the head, as it were, but we have on the helmet which is the hope of salvation. Hope then defends us against Satan's attacks.
That's where the battle often is waged. There are times in your life, I'm sure, where you wonder whether you're really a Christian. Maybe you have the fleeting thought, "I don't even know if this whole gospel business is true, I wonder if I'm believing in a fantasy." Maybe your thought is, "I don't know whether the Lord has really saved me. I'm so sinful I'm not sure I'm worthy. I don't know whether I'm in or out. Maybe the Lord has decided to let me go. Maybe I only thought I was a Christian." And all those battles go on and on and where do you go to be anchored? You go back to the hope of salvation which is given you in Scripture by grace, guaranteed by the resurrection of Christ and confirmed by the wonderful internal witness of the Holy Spirit who continues to affirm that you are the child of God.
Hope defends us against Satan. It's understanding the glorification aspect of salvation that is a defense. It's not just a comfort. It is a comfort, it's a very great comfort, our hope, isn't it? Cause no matter what goes wrong in this world we know there's a better life to come. No matter what trouble and trial and struggle and illness and disease and disaster and death comes, we know that there's something better to come. And we eagerly wait for that. But it's more than just a positive hope, it's a defense because when Satan is hammering and hammering and hammering with doubt, we go back to the revelation of our hope. The psalmist over and over again says, "I have hope in Your Word...I have hope in Your Word...I have hope in Your Word." That's where you go and you read again what God has prepared for them that love Him, as much as has been revealed. So our hope defends us against Satan.
Our hope also, and this might be a bit surprising, is confirmed through trials. Our hope is confirmed through trials. Look back at verse 8 there. We have as a helmet the hope of salvation. We go back and remember, as we read the Scripture, verse 9 that God has not destined us for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us that whether we're awake or asleep, we may live together with Him. Therefore encourage one another and build up one another just as you're also doing.
In other words, what he is saying is in the middle of a trial when you're pounded by doubt, you go back, you re-grip the Scripture, you are reminded that God has not destined us for wrath, but rather has given us through Christ the salvation that is ours that has been obtained for us through Christ. And by that you encourage one another. You build up one another so that even through the struggle of doubt, even through the trial itself you come out stronger.
I think Paul is affirming that in Romans 8 again, this is such a great chapter, Romans 8. He says in verse 31, "If God's for us, who will be against us?" Do we know that God is for us? Is that revealed? Is that part of what Scripture constitutes as our hope? Absolutely. We know that. We know that He who didn't spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all will also freely give us all things necessary. We know that no one can bring a successful charge against God's elect because God has already declared us righteous. No one can successfully condemn us because Christ has already died for us. No one can separate us from the love of Christ. How do we know that? Because Paul would say in personal testimony, I've been through tribulation, I've been through distress, I've been through persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword and I'm telling you in all those things we are conquerors. And out of all those experiences he is convinced that there is nothing that can separate him from the love of Christ. Trials actually have a way of affirming our hope, of strengthening our hope, and certainly of making our hope brighter.
Our hope is the source of our joy, really. That's another element of hope. It is what defends us against the onslaught of Satan when he hits us with doubt. It is confirmed and strengthened through our trials because we see the protective preserving hand of God and we suffer the pain that makes us long even more for the bright reality of our eternal hope. But even while living in this life, hope is the source of our purest joy. I can...that's such a practical thing it hardly needs explanation but if you're writing down a lot of verses and you want another one, here's one for you. "How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God." How blessed is he? That's the source of our greatest blessing, consequently our greatest joy that our God, the true and living God, has committed Himself to be our help. Blessed is the man, Jeremiah 17:7, whose trust is in the Lord, blessed is that man. When you have your trust in Him, when you have your hope in Him, there's the source of your truest and purest and highest joy because you know your God is a rock, you know your God is unchangeable, you know your God is a covenant-keeping God, you know your God is sovereign and rules over everything and no one can hinder His unfolding purpose. All these things are components of our hope.
One other thing that I need to say, maybe a couple beyond it, but this for sure. It is hope that removes the fear of death. It is our hope that removes the fear of death. We've already hinted at that, of course. We have this hope from God, it is a gracious gift, it comes to us from the Scripture, secured for us by the resurrection of Christ. It is defensible because it is in the pages of God's holy Word which is true, confirmed to us by the Holy Spirit. It defends us against the doubts that Satan would bring. It is the source of our ongoing blessedness and joy. It is strengthened and confirmed through trials and it removes the fear of death...it removes the fear of death.
What is there to be afraid of if all death does is release you into the fulfillment of your hope? When you came to Jesus Christ and you acknowledged Him as Savior, what did you want? You say, "I wanted forgiveness for sin." Why did you want that? Because I didn't want to go to hell. I wanted to go to heaven. You didn't come to Christ and say, "I want to be saved so I'll be a better wife. I want to be saved so I'll be a nicer husband. I'll be a better kid. I want to be saved so I can have God working in my corner to make my life more successful, full of peace and joy and happiness." That's not what was really in your mind because when you were truly saved what was overwhelming you at the time was the reality of your...what?...your sin. It wasn't about your circumstances. You had to get beyond that to your sin and so you were coming as a sinner and you were saying, "O God, deliver me from my sin and its consequences into the blessedness of that eternal life which You provide." You were very much aware, anybody is who comes to salvation, that you were engaging God in a matter that had eternal consequences, right? This wasn't just a temporal deal. You were looking all the way down into eternity and realizing the path you were on had immensely frightening eternal consequences. It wasn't about fixing your marriage, it wasn't about fixing your family or your career, or making life easier to tolerate, you weren't thinking that. Nobody does when they're genuinely saved. You were overwhelmed with sin as to its reality and its severity and its permanent eternal consequences. When you came to Christ then you were given eternal life, you were given the hope of that eternal life. It should have been immediate that you lost the fear of death.
Now I didn't say the fear of dying. There are normal things to be afraid of. I would just as soon not be in a car wreck and have my body mangled and be lying somewhere in pain and agony. I would just as soon not suffer some debilitating illness that makes everybody around me have to stop their entire life and pay attention to me while I slowly pass away, even though God has reasons to allow those things to happen. I would just as soon not make a hasty exit into heaven for my own benefit because it might be better for me to stay here and be with you, as the Apostle Paul said. I don't look forward to pain. I don't look forward to suffering. I'm not a masochist. I don't welcome that. I would like to avoid it.
I was talking to my Dad because it was on January 14 th four years ago that my mother died. And she sat down on the bed and she put a teacup on a little table and she went to heaven, just about that fast. And people said to me, "You know, you might have that same potential, you might have that same potential problem of an aneurism in the brain and you could go that quickly. You ought to get that checked." And I said, "I hope I have that tendency, I hope that's how I go, I just want to sit down and be in heaven, no muss, no fuss and that's it." If I have my choice, I'm not asking now to do that, but I mean, that's...the only better way to go than that would be in the Rapture. But that isn't how it is. I don't look forward to the dying, it's normal to fear the dying, it's normal to fear pain, that's natural. God built that into us. But that's not fearing death.
And you remember I mentioned about Larry King. Larry King off the air said to me, "Do...are you afraid to die? Do you have a fear of death?"
I said, "I have no fear of death."
And he asked me again, "You...you really mean that, you have no fear of death?"
I said, "I have no fear of death." I said, "I have normal anxiety about the way you might suffer prior to death, but I have no fear of death because of my hope in Christ. That's...that's the fulfillment of everything that matters to me."
And then he said, "I wish I could have that faith."
And I said, "Oh you could. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the truth of Jesus Christ, the Word of Christ."
And so, when you have this hope, the sting of death is gone. It disappears because death simply ushers into the presence of the Lord and that's why the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 looks forward joyfully to death. He says, "O, death, where is your victory? O, death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, the power of death is the law, but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." We've already...we're victorious over sin. We're victorious over the indictment and punishment of the law. So we can look at the future and we have a hope. Colossians 1:5, "A hope laid up for you in heaven."
There's no fear of heaven. Anybody afraid of heaven? Anybody afraid of heaven? Anybody afraid to the presence of Jesus Christ? Anybody afraid to go into the New Jerusalem? The heavenly city, the capital of the eternal state, anybody afraid of holy angels? God the Father? Anybody afraid of the saints? Nothing about heaven frightens me and death is simply the door. So Paul, Colossians 1, says we have a hope laid up for us in heaven and he says of which you previously heard in the Word of truth. Again it goes right back to the Scripture, you know about this hope because it's in the Word, it's been revealed by God in the Word. And you have this hope. And over in verse 23 of that same chapter he says, "If you just continue in the faith, firmly established and steadfast and not moved away from the hope of that gospel, you're going to realize it." Verse 27 he calls it the hope of glory.
So, we don't have anything to be afraid of when it comes to death. Death is our releasing, freeing us up to be what we were redeemed to be. This hope is sure. It is an absolutely fixed hope. In fact, Titus 1:2 refers to the hope of eternal life which God who cannot lie promised before time began. Don't you just love that? God who can't lie promised this hope of eternal life before time began and He promised it to His elect and He wrote their names down in a book and before you were ever created, before Adam was ever created, before the universe was ever created God had already written down the names of those who would receive the hope of eternal life. And God cannot lie. And that is why Hebrews 6 says, "We have this hope, strong words, we have this hope as an anchor of the soul, a hope...verse 19...sure and steadfast." And he says, "It's tied to one who enters within the veil, even Jesus." This is amazing language. We have a hope that's anchored to Jesus who is inside the veil in the very throne of God interceding for us. This is our hope.
Now, all of the glories of our hope will be fulfilled when Christ comes. It's not really until He comes that we enter into the fullness of our hope. If you're to die now, your spirit would go to heaven but your body would remain in the grave, right? Until Jesus comes back, until He returns and the dead in Christ rise, 1 Thessalonians 4. So it's not until Jesus comes that we have the full realization of our hope. When He comes, everything comes together. So, Titus 2:13, "We are looking for the blessed hope." And what is the key to that? "We're looking for the blessed hope even the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus." Isn't that great? Titus 2:13. Our hope realizes its fullness at the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus. Then the one who gave Himself for us, the one who redeemed us from every lawless deed will purify for Himself a people for His own possession in the purest sense possible. This is our hope. What an amazing reality it is at the very heart of our Christian faith.
Quickly to review, our hope comes from God. It is a gift of grace. It is explained to us in the Scriptures. It is reasonable and defensible because the Scripture is true. It is secured by the resurrection of Christ. It is confirmed by the work of the Holy Spirit in us. It is a hope that defends us against the blows of doubt that come from the enemy. It is strengthened through our trials as we see the hand of God continually delivering us and protecting us and preserving us unto that hope. It is the source of our greatest blessedness and joy. It removes the fear of death. It is absolutely secure and steadfast. It is an anchor that is tied to Jesus Christ Himself who is inside the veil in the throne room of God interceding for us. And all of its elements will be fulfilled when He appears. This is our hope.
Now let me close with having you go back to 1 John and at least make a brief reference to this text. Go down to verse 3. This hope has immense ethical implications. This hope, verse 3,"Everyone who has this hope," now I had to explain what this hope was, didn't I? And I did. "And everyone who has this hope...and this is the hope I've been talking about...fixed on Him purifies himself just as He is pure." It is then finally a hope that affects our conduct. It is a hope that purges and purifies. This becomes then the primary thrust of John's writing. John is concerned with the ethical implications of this hope because it is, listen carefully, the ethical implications of this hope that verify whether we're truly Christians. We already know. John is concerned about giving tests and standards by which a person's spiritual condition can be determined. There are doctrinal tests that he's given in his epistle, such as one's view of sin and one's view of Christ. There are moral tests such as obedience and love to which we have addressed ourselves in the months passed. And here he expands that moral category, that ethical category and says, "A true believer, one who really has this hope in Christ purifies himself." It's demonstrable. Proof of being a Christian is what you believe about sin, what you believe about Christ. Proof of being a Christian is obedience, love and purity. And personal pursuit of purity, personal pursuit of holiness is an evidence that you're living in the light of a true eternal hope. John is going to help us understand that when we get into this passage next time.
Father, we can only say thank You for this hope that You've given us, this hope of eternal life which we do not deserve, could not earn and cannot forfeit because it is anchored within the veil to the exalted interceding perfect High Priest Jesus Christ. We thank You for our eternal hope. We thank You that we live in hope, that we have laid up for us an inheritance in heaven that fades not away. We live in hope, we're saved in hope, we long for the realization of that hope and all its fullness at the appearing of Jesus Christ and can say then with John, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Until that time when our hope becomes reality, when what we long for becomes what we are, may we be faithful in living in the light of that hope in self-purification as we prepare ourselves for Your eternal presence. Help us to be faithful in that. We pray in Your Son's name. Amen.
This article is also available and sold as a booklet.
This sermon series includes the following messages:
Please contact the publisher to obtain copies of this resource.Publisher Information


text:
On October 20th I attended the AgileTour Toronto 2010 conference with a colleague. Well, calling it "conference" is a bit generous but I'm not unhappy about it. It was warm and cozy. I'll explain more in details in some other posts.
For me, the big highlight of the day was Martin Fowler's keynote. Let me rephrase: Fowler gave 3 keynotes in one, which is nice because it's not too boring and it flows smoothly.
The essence of Agile
In the first keynote Fowler wanted to clarify his view on Agile, talking about its essence. His motivation was to steer clear of a phenomenon that he calls Semantic Diffusion: when you start being successful at innovating and modulating a message, people try to copy you without deeply understanding what you're doing, just by mimicking your work and distorting your ideas badly. There's not a lot that we can do about it, with the exception of reminding people about the core principles at the root of what we are doing.
So he wanted to characterize Agile first of all by difference, talking about traditional plan driven methods. In a plan driven method, success is achieved when you do something according to the plan. This is not absolutely impossible per se, but it requires at the very least that the requirements are stable. The bad news is that outside of very limited and insignificant niches, there is NO such thing (and we all know it very well).
So Agile methods are characterized by adaptive planning, which means continuous planning and release early and often. These qualities together constitute an evolutionary design approach, which I'd prefer to define differently and at the software design level in terms of responsive design, but that's fine, I can take this.
Fowler also briefly mentioned a quote from the Poppendiecks, which sounds more or less like this: being able to deal with a lot of changes in requirements is a competitive advantage. This is a fairly powerful tool in your hands, so use it wisely.
Another fundamental quality of Agile is its focus on people. We all know that after the industrial revolution the way we intend work has been shaped too much and for too long by Taylor and his stopwatch, the so-called system process. This has greatly slowed down the evolution of knowledge work and it has taken a long time and great minds like Deming and Drucker to correct these problems and show a different path. As Deming said, "A bad process would beat a good person every time". So Agile methods are characterized by putting that good person at the core of the method and allow her/him to shine and do great things, rather than suffocating her/him with bureaucracy.
Because of this, Agile methods need to be adapted to the specificities of the people and their organization, while maintaining the other characteristics mentioned above (while this is fundamental, it is also another contributor to Semantic Diffusion, but again we can't do much about it). So, Agile methods are characterized by self adaptivity. As Kent Beck says, "In software development, "perfect" is a verb, not an adjective". This means that the process is never static, but it is continuously verified and improved, always striving for perfection (but of course never achieving it fully).
Continuous integration & delivery
In the second keynote Fowler focused on continually adding value to a system.
He started by describing an experience so common if you have developed software for a living in the previous millennium: if you have worked in an environment that doesn't adopt continuous integration then you know that a project can be easily doomed, staying in integration mode for a very long time.
The idea is simple:
- Individual developers work on their own code, that is they develop feature independently
- Towards the end of the project they put everything together and of course nothing works
The metaphor is having 2 teams digging a tunnel into a mountain from 2 opposite sides and failing to meet in the middle. I actually have seen something like this happening in big construction work in Italy. It's scary.
Even when versioning systems became popular, people tended to do feature branching more than anything else:
- Every developer has his/her own branch, defined for the feature that he/she is developing
- Because integration is difficult and painful integrate less often
- Because integration happens less and less, when it actually happens is more difficult and painful
This brings to what Fowler calls big scary merges, where you merge together a lot of files, even through sophisticated tools that do that automatically for you and from a text perspective the code seems good, but what about the semantics? You need tests to tell you whether the merge was good or not. And you have a lot of red bars for a very long time, because no tool can automate a slight change in the semantics of the protocol between two classes, for example.
The amount of pain that a team gets grows exponentially with the amount of time that incurs between integrations. I mean, more pain = more time & more bugs = more costs & fewer opportunities to generate revenues.
In the Agile world, typically when something hurts you wanna do it more often. What does this mean? It means that when something is problematic, we want to make it simpler, less expensive, so rather than hiding our head in the sand and try to procrastinate the pain as much as possible, we prefer to tackle it right away and make it better before it's too late.
So, we want to do continuous integration many times a day, which is exactly what happens at my main gig (my beautiful day job) and in many other companies. I'd say that continuous integration has become more or less mainstream these days, which is good. For example, yesterday we have integrated our code something like 30 times. Integrating means compiling, building all the artifacts, running various kind of checks and thousands of tests. All this is entirely automated.
A bad consequence of feature branching, by the way, is that it encourages avoiding code/design improvement (because it's painful). So the code quietly rots, day after day, to the point where it becomes a big steaming pile of PUT HERE YOUR FAVOURITE EXPRESSION. Been there, done that, never want to do it anymore in my life.
En passant, Fowler recommended Paul Duvall book on continuous integration.
Towards the end of this part Fowler spoke about continuous delivery, which is a big topic. For the non technical people out there the basic idea is to stretch continuous integration into the actual deployment. How can you do that? By building a pipeline of machines where:
- The code is automatically compiled and unit tested => this should take less than 10′
- Artifacts are generated into a repository
- Artifacts are taken and deployed in a different environment where all functional/acceptance tests are executed in a timeframe that can be measured in hours for complicated systems
- The next stage is typically the one where performance tests are executed to ensure that the system is still executing in an acceptable way and again it can take hours, even more than the previous stage
- If everything is fine the code can be automatically deployed in production in a controlled way, where you do smoke tests to see that nothing is horribly broken
Fowler emphasized that while the last step can be typically controlled manually, and it may vary a lot from org to org (eg: you can't do it automatically if you have to ask for permission to a committee in a bureaucratic organization), the infrastructure should be in place to do it automatically, with a simple click of a button. As Fowler said: "There should be no technical reasons impeding an automated deployment, while it's perfectly reasonable that there are business reasons to batch many commits in a single deployment controlled manually".
Of course Fowler recommended Jez Humble book.
Effort, quality and feature development
This third part can be summarized with the following quote: We need to put less effort on quality to put more effort on feature development
At a first glance, this seems sacrilegious, but if you think about it, it doesn't talk about results, it talks about effort. Hence, it's actually good to achieve high quality without putting into it much effort, so that we can concentrate on devoting this effort to more labour intensive feature development. Or anyway let's put effort where our labour is more likely to pay us back directly.
Fowler started by mocking Uncle Bob and his preaching attitude towards quality. It was actually very funny and I think that Fowler is right. Nevertheless, in all fairness Uncle Bob makes the point that all effort devoted to quality pays you back in terms of sustainability and efficiency over time. But certainly he deserved to be mocked, even though with a great deal of sympathy.
Fowler wondered whether quality is tradable. He makes the distinction between internal and external quality:
- Internal => It's not visible, it's about software design, cohesion and coupling, code, architecture, etc. It's like the engine of the car, it's a kind of magic, hidden under the hood, if it's not in order all of a sudden the car will break and you'll be left counting on your feet only
- External => It's the classic concept of quality in terms of visible behaviour or features of a system, what customers and end users experience out of it
Fowler's point, and I can't agree more, is that while external quality is tradable, internal quality is not. Now, we should open a big parenthesis here, related to the differences between startups and sustainable development, the cost of missing opportunities, but for now bear with me. Let's just say that in the long run, internal quality is overall not tradable. I think that we would all agree on that.
Fowler goes on with his Design Stamina Hypothesis, in order to explain what I just briefly synthesized. The graph from Fowler's article says it all I suppose.
The idea is that beyond a certain critical mass, the only way to have your system growing linearly with your effort is to keep things in order in the house. Otherwise, development slows gradually.
Then Fowler talks a little bit about the Technical Debt metaphor, that I will explain more in details when talking about another session. Just think that every bit of cruft that cripples into the system is going to sediment and accumulate and you'll have to pay it back like accrued interest on the principal. It's a very powerful metaphor that explains well certain phenomenons happening on aging code bases.
Lastly Fowler put up a nice table that tries to classify the different ways in which a team can get in Technical Debt.
|no time for design
|ship now and deal with consequences
|what is layering?
|now we know how we should have done it
I think that he was being nice, because I would have used Incompetent instead of Inadvertent. Anyway, the only quadrant where eventually can be temporarily acceptable to be is Deliberate/Prudent, but you don't wanna stay there for very long. Certainly never Reckless.
So, in the end, the conclusion is that to put more effort into feature development you have to put more continuous effort into internal quality, without compromising in the long run, or this will slow you down more and more and more. I don't remember if Fowler explicitly said that but that was clearly the whole point.
To recap, an enjoyable keynote, or series of keynotes if you prefer, delivered by Fowler in a very pleasant way. For me, they keynote alone was well worth attending the conference.


text:
- About us
- Blogs
- Funding/Donations
- Challenges
- Chapters
- Papers
- Projects
- Code of Conduct
- Google SoC
- Recent posts
- Security Workshops
Created in November of 2009, the Chapter is conformed by highly motivated individuals focused on research of drive-by-downloads attacks and application of the deception theory on honeypot research. The Pacific Northwest Chapter is based in Seattle, Washington.
Members: Chiraag Aval, M.S.
Chuck Costarella
David Dittrich
Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Ph.D.
Dennis Charles Grant
Ashish Malviya
Julia Narvaez
Raymond Pompon
Lucas Reber
Michael Schweiger
Christian Seifert, Ph.D.
Mike Simon
The Honeynet Project
2014 Annual Chapter Report
Pacific Northwest Chapter Read more »
Pacific Northwest Chapter Status Report For 2013
ORGANIZATION Read more »
Our chapter has grown significantly since the 2011 Annual Report, with a majority of members having less than one year tenure. We have instituted regular face-to-face chapter dinner meetings to facilitate collaboration and on-boarding of new members. These will gradually increase in frequency (from every two months) to become a regularly scheduled monthly chapter meeting.
Chiraag Aval, M.S.
Chuck Costarella
David Dittrich - Transferred from Global Chapter.
Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Ph.D.
Dennis Charles Grant - New Chapter Lead Read more »
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Read more »
In 2011, we held our Honeynet Project Security Workshop in Paris, France, hosted by our friends ESIEA. This was the first time we opened up one day of our annual workshop to the public. Thanks to our excellent hosts and Julia Cheng from our Taiwan Chapter all went very smoothly and we had an excellent day.


text:
You can see more of my work on the following site's: 500px & Instagram. You can also purchase a selection of prints in my RedBubble Shop. If you see an image which isn't available in the shop, just get in contact with me and I'll make it available.
StreetStreet photographylondonUrbanPeopleFashionMenWomenworklife


text:
Internet Marketing for Banks in East Sheen, SW14
The Internet has radically changed the landscape of the fund industry over the last few years.
With so many people online, it has never been easier for clients to register for checking account, ask about loans, and educate themselves about their financing.
That is why it's so crucial for each bank in East Sheen, SW14 to have an online marketing plan. The requirement for Internet-compatible banking in East Sheen, SW14 is overwhelming and you need to supply the answers.
Digital marketing designed to attract customer development.
But if your group has not yet made this change, it is vital that you get your name out there and compete.
You can do that by establishing your own online marketing strategy one that will bring in new customers and earn revenue month after month.
To begin, here is what a frequent online marketing strategy looks like to get a bank in East Sheen, SW14.
1.Content marketing
Content marketing is the process of creating visual, text, and interactive components for your site.
For banks East Sheen, SW14, that means providing ways for your clients to learn about banking in East Sheen, SW14, in addition to create, access, and control their account.
An internet interface gives your clients a better sense of control over their finances. While you might be using a part of their money for investments, each bank in East Sheen, SW14 client wishes to see their existing balance, deposits, withdrawals, and other important information.
And it is not just about doing a favour for your clients you are giving them the capacity to track their spending.
Your lender has a tremendous opportunity to offer customers something they can not get anyplace else control over their own finances.
So once you give clients the ability to keep an eye on their own cash, you are helping them sleep through the night.
This goes a long way when it comes to customer satisfaction and acceptance.
2.Search engine optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of enhancing your site so Google and consumers can understand it better.
This implies properly coding the main pages of your website so that they appear in Google search results.
Your prime pages for SEO work are probably your homepage, accounts login page, and any informational pages which help users register for an account with your bank in East Sheen, SW14.
You might also optimize pages which discuss the benefits of savings account, how mutual funds work, and other services you provide.
Optimizing these pages makes it possible to compete with the other regional banks East Sheen, SW14, in addition to larger banks East Sheen, SW14 which have dominated the American financial landscape since the turn of this millennium.
And as you might not have the brand recognition that the large banks East Sheen, SW14 do, you are able to succeed by creating pages according to the neighborhood area, local companies, and other aspects unique to your own bank in East Sheen, SW14.
3.Pay-per-click advertising
Pay-per-click advertising (PPC) is a paid advertising system used by search engines and social networks which lets you draw visitors to the top pages of your website.
In search engines, PPC results exhibit above regular search results, which means that you can pay to make a much better position and more visibility than large banks East Sheen, SW14 make organically.
This is a common strategy employed by smaller companies hoping to get an edge over a significant competitor. They will create new content, optimize it for search engines, and promote it through PPC to obtain some early traction with customers.
The best part is that PPC lets you maintain complete control over your finances, ad placement, and targeting.
On search engines, PPC works on a bidding system. You and your opponents place bids (in dollars) on specific key terms, and then the PPC provider decides how to rank you based on what you bid.
You and your opponents have complete control over the price of any keyword based on how hard you need to fight for it.
On top of that, you do not pay unless someone clicks your ad. That means you only get rid of money when you have an chance to convert a new client.
Because even though someone does not click your ad now, they could still recall your organization's name later.
4.Social media marketing
Like PPC, social media marketing provides you the opportunity to build brand awareness and bring in new customers.
That means it takes a bit longer to begin than PPC, which is instantaneous.
To begin, you may make completely free profiles on popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Then, you can begin sharing content from your website to draw free traffic just like with natural SEO.
After you do so, you can share your webpage online and get followers from each social network.
That lets you talk to your followers, providing your lender a more accessible internet presence and immediately engaging the users most likely to convert into consideration holders.
You may also use social websites for client support, responding to compliments and criticisms as you go. That shows that your followers that you are dedicated to their pride as a tech-savvy, contemporary, and trustworthy company
5.Reputation management
Reputation management is the practice of handling online reviews and talks about your brand to be certain they are as positive as you can.
This partly occurs on social media because some outlets allow your followers review your organization right on their website.
Additionally, it occurs on search engines, like Google, because they also encourage users to assess your company.
You then also have review websites such as Yelp and Yellow Pages, which have become incredibly popular over the last ten years.
Reputation management enables you to regain control of your own bank in East Sheen, SW14's public image by asserting any applicable profiles, responding to criticisms, and thanking satisfied clients for compliments.
The same is true for any account holders using your mobile program, if you have one.
It reveals your bank in East Sheen, SW14's perceptions of responsibility and ethics, too.
To put it differently, reputation management is the most recent edition of public relations.
SEO4 Website is the bank in East Sheen, SW14 marketing partner
SEO4 Website is the nation's premier performance-based digital advertising agency, and we always work with our customers' results in your mind.
We have earned outstanding ROI for banks East Sheen, SW14 in years past and now we will do it for you!
Contact us to get a customized online marketing plan for your bank in East Sheen, SW14!


text:
Noodle Tuesday: Mimasuya
Uni pasta
The barrel-aged Negroni is one of the (few) highlights at Mimasuya. It's normally aged 10 days; the particular batch we're drinking from has been hanging out in a barrel for over a hundred, according to our server. I suspect it's not because Mimasuya is interested in mellowing the gin-vermouth-Campari cocktail to the perfect roundness, but that it's been pretty slow ever since the restaurant opened at the end of last year. It's in Uraku Tower, where neither the combination of Donato Loperfido and Philippe Padovani, nor each on his own, could make the space work for much longer than a year.
And from the looks of it, Mimasuya may not either. Cursed with slow nights, the staff had been stripped to a "skeleton crew," according to our over-sharing server.
Parma ham "peperoncino"
I can see why it's slow: The pastas aren't very compelling, from the uni pasta ($24) that somehow tastes more of sauce swiped from mac 'n' cheese than uni, to the Parma ham pasta ($16), the prosciutto too salty and cut too thick.
"I could make this at home," a friend says, pulling on strands of slightly overcooked store-bought spaghetti. I think she'd actually do better. Sure, Italian food is about simplicity, but it's also about ingredients impeccably prepared and sourced. I'm not sure that's the case here.
As an Italian restaurant by way of Kyoto, Japanese influences crept into a kaiseki-meets-Italian presentation of assorted appetizers ($28): ten bites, beautifully presented, ranging from pretty good (prosciutto-wrapped mango, seared scallops) to ho-hum (dry slices of cold, curried chicken) to inedible (gorgonzola on stale toast). Better, though less visually dazzling: the deep-fried yuba-wrapped "crab cakes," presented like spring rolls. The tempura batter overwhelmed the delicate yuba, though the crunchy contrast between it and the sweet crab stuffed inside justified this inspired treatment.
The highlights were at the beginning (the cocktails) and the end, with a kabocha flan that our server took off our check because he felt he had "pressured us into it." He hadn't, and it was one of the best things we had all night: smooth and rich with kabocha's sweet earthiness.
1341 Kapiolani Blvd., Ste 101, 951-9000, mimasuyaitaliano.com


text:
For $199.95 each list consists of 500 retail buyers including store name, address, phone, buyers name and buyers email address.
Once purchased, the Retail Buyer List you've selected will be emailed to you at the email address you registered with FindFashion.com.
You will be taken to PayPal.com to complete your secure transaction.
"Made In The USA" - Is it glamourous, patriotic or just good business sense?
Nanette Lepore has been on the forefront and dedicated to this movement. Is this reinvigorating the NY and LA garment districts? Are more & more designers moving toward this movement? Even more importantly, are consumers looking at the labels or are they just interested in the retail price?
The Row, Rag & Bone, Oscar de la Renta, Lela Rose, J. Brand, Jason Wu, Racquel Allegra, Lauren Moshi & Velvet by Graham & Spencer are some the the dedicated Made In The USA designers.
What are fashion designers legal rights for protecting their designs?
Here is a small piece of the copyright law explained on http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat072706.html
Design Protection Available under Existing Law
"Past proposals for sui generis design protection legislation have sprung from a perceived lack of adequate protection at the federal level for the designs of useful articles. All three branches of federal intellectual property protection - copyright, patent and trademark - protect certain aspects of useful articles. In the aggregate, however, they provide only limited coverage(10) for the following reasons:
First, copyright protection for the designs of useful articles is extremely limited. The design of a useful article(11) is protected under copyright "only if, and only to the extent that, such design incorporates pictorial, graphic, or sculptural features that can be identified separately from, and are capable of existing independently of, the utilitarian aspects of the article."(12) According to the House report accompanying the copyright revision bill, the test for separability can be met by showing either physical or conceptual separability.(13) The purpose of the test is "to draw as clear a line as possible between copyrightable works of applied art and uncopyrighted works of industrial design."(14) In keeping with this congressional intent, courts have applied the separability test in a way that excludes most industrial designs from copyright protection.(15) The Copyright Office has been similarly restrictive in its registration practices.(16)
Second, design patents are difficult and expensive to obtain, and entail a lengthy examination process. An applicant for a design patent must meet the generally applicable standards of invention(17) - e.g., novelty and non-obviousness.(18) Many original designs that provide a distinguishable and appealing variation over prior designs for similar articles will fail to meet these standards. Even under the reduced fee schedule for small entities, the filing fee for a design patent is $100, the issue fee is $400, and the maintenance fees over the life of the patent are $3,500. This does not include attorneys' fees for prosecuting the application. It is our understanding that the process of applying for a design patent can take several years, which exceeds the life expectancy of the market for many designs.
Third, trademark law does not provide general protection for designs as such. Rather, it protects certain product configurations that serve to identify the source of the product.(19) Aspects of product design that do not serve to identify source are not protected.(20) Even to the extent that a product configuration qualifies for protection under trademark law, the protection is only against uses of the design that confuse or mislead consumers, or create a substantial likelihood of such confusion.(21)"
The Fashion Retail Buyer List from FindFashion.com offers five categories of lists. Women's Jewelry & Accessories, Women's Contemporary & Designer, Women's Updated Contemporary & Bridge, Men's, and Children's.
Each list consists of approximately 500 retailers, Men's is under 400. All stores are better specialty boutiques throughout the United States. Along with all Nordstrom buyers. The information provided is name of buyer, address, phone and buyers email address.
All stores are researched and compiled into the correct category. All retail data is reviewed annually.
Connecting with the correct retail buyers is critical to establishing a brand. Selling to better boutiques when pioneering a line is less challenging vs. trying to sell to department stores and large retailers when launching a line. Getting exposure and establishing traction and history with smaller stores first, will eventually open the doors to large fashion retailers. When emailing buyers, always attach a professional look book with sharp images or a link to the company website.
Always recommended before looking to hire independent sales reps is to first establish a nice handful of accounts that have been shipped on time. Independent sales reps are hesitant to represent new lines without a shipping history. Reps want to represent lines that have a history of shipping quality goods on time.
PLease check your spam folder if you have not received the list within 15 minutes of purchasing.
You have been logged in. Please wait while you are redirected...
Please wait while you are redirected...
findfashion offers Designers and Fashion Professionals access to:
Already a member? Click to sign in.
25 credits each month for $39.95/month
With your FindFashion.com subscription, you will receive 25 credits every month for as long as your subscription is active. Credits are used to purchase reps complete contact information. This is a recurring subscription payment until the subscriber cancels. There is no mandatory subscription length and the subscription may be canceled at anytime. The subscriber must cancel either directly with Paypal or email [email protected]. Once recurring payment has been made no refunds will be granted.
You may cancel at any time.
Upon clicking Subscribe, you will be taken to PayPal.com to complete the payment process. When you finish, you will be returned to FindFashion.com.


text:
Shop Home | Sign In | Visit the Museum
Impress your friends
with your classical style—pick up one of the pens in the shape of Corinthian
columns, evocative of the columns in our very own Great Hall!
Code: 74483
Member price: $5.40
This item can only be shipped within the United States.
You might also consider:
National Building Museum Great Hall Pen
401 F Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
10 am–5 pm
Sunday: 11 am–5 pm
Have a question? Contact our staff.