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Exhibit 4.1
SIXTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT
This Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement (this "Amendment") is entered into as of June 20, 2019, by and among SILVERCREST ASSET MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Silvercrest"), SILVERCREST INVESTORS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Silvercrest Investors"), SILVERCREST INVESTORS II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Silvercrest Investors II"), SILVERCREST FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a New York corporation ("Silvercrest Financial", and together with Silvercrest, Silvercrest Investors, and Silvercrest Investors II, each, a "Borrower", and collectively, "Borrowers"), and CITY NATIONAL BANK, a national banking association ("Lender").
Borrowers and Lender are parties to that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of June 24, 2013 (as heretofore amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the "Credit Agreement").
As of the date hereof, the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans outstanding under the Credit Agreement is $0, the amount of Letter of Credit Usage is $585,667 and the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans outstanding under the Credit Agreement is $0.
Borrowers have requested that the Credit Agreement be amended, and Lender is willing to agree to such amendment on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the other mutual covenants contained herein, the receipt and sufficiency of which hereby are acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Definitions. Capitalized terms used in this Amendment without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.
Amendment to Credit Agreement. The term "Revolving Credit Maturity Date" set forth in Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
""Revolving Credit Maturity Date" means the earlier of (a) June 19, 2020 and (b) such earlier date on which the Obligations shall become due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents."
Costs and Expenses. Borrowers shall pay to Lender the costs and expenses incurred by Lender in connection with this Amendment, including but not limited to, attorney's fees and costs.
Amendment Fee. In consideration of the agreements set forth herein, Borrowers shall pay to Lender an amendment fee in the amount of $7,500 (the "Amendment Fee"), which fee is non-refundable when paid and is fully-earned as of the date of this Amendment. The Amendment Fee shall be paid in full on the date of this Amendment.
Conditions Precedent. This Amendment shall become effective upon the fulfillment of all of the following conditions to Lender's satisfaction:
Lender shall have received this Amendment duly executed by Borrowers.
Lender shall have received an Acknowledgment and Agreement of Guarantor and Obligor set forth at the end of this Amendment duly executed by the Person set forth in the signature page thereof.
Lender shall have received a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of each Loan Party, dated as of the date of this Amendment, certifying as to (i) copies of the resolutions or the unanimous written consents of the board of directors or other governing body of such Loan Party approving the execution and delivery of this Amendment as being true, correct and complete copies thereof, (ii) the fact that the Governing Documents of such Loan Party that were previously certified and delivered to Lender continue to be in full force and effect and have not been amended or otherwise modified except as set forth in the certificate to be delivered, (iii) the officers and agents of such Loan Party who are authorized to sign on behalf of such Loan Party, and (iv) certificate of status with respect to such Loan Party, dated within thirty (30) days of this Amendment, issued by the appropriate officer of the jurisdiction of organization of such Loan Party, which certificate shall indicate that such Loan Party is in good standing in such jurisdiction.
Lender shall have received the Amendment Fee.
The representations and warranties set forth herein shall be true and correct in all material respects.
All other documents and legal matters in connection with this Amendment shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Lender and its counsel.
Reference to and Effect on the Loan Documents.
Upon and after the effectiveness of this Amendment, each reference in the Credit Agreement to "this Agreement", "hereunder", "hereof" or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the other Loan Documents to "the Credit Agreement", "thereof" or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement as modified and amended hereby.
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The Credit Agreement and all other Loan Documents, are and shall continue to be in full force and effect and are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed and shall constitute the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of each Borrower to Lender without defense, offset, claim or contribution.
The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of Lender under any of the Loan Documents, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of any of the Loan Documents.
Ratification. Each Borrower hereby restates, ratifies and reaffirms each and every term and condition set forth in each Loan Document to which it is a party, in each case as amended hereby, effective as of the date hereof.
Representations and Warranties. Each Borrower represents and warrants as follows:
Requisite Power and Authorization. Each Borrower has all requisite power to execute and deliver this Amendment. The execution, delivery, and performance by each Borrower of this Amendment have been duly authorized by each Borrower and all necessary action in respect thereof has been taken, and the execution, delivery, and performance thereof do not require any consent or approval of any other Person that has not been obtained.
Binding Agreement. This Amendment, when executed and delivered by Borrowers, will constitute, the legal, valid, and binding obligations of Borrowers, enforceable against Borrowers in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability hereof may be affected by: (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally, and (b) the limitation of certain remedies by certain equitable principles of general applicability.
Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties contained in the Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representation or warranty already qualified by materiality in the text thereof) on and as of the date of the date hereof as though made on and as of the date hereof, except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representation or warranty already qualified by materiality in the text thereof) as of such earlier date.
No Default. Immediately after giving effect to the terms of this Amendment, no event has occurred and is continuing that constitutes an Unmatured Event of Default or Event of Default.
Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts (including by facsimile or "pdf"), and by the different parties hereto or thereto on the same or separate counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original instrument but all of which, as applicable, together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Transmission by facsimile or "pdf" file of an executed counterpart shall be deemed to constitute due and sufficient delivery of such counterpart. Any party hereto may request an original counterpart of any party delivering such electronic counterpart.
Governing Law. THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHOICE OF LAW PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN, AND SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROVISIONS OF, THE CREDIT AGREEMENT.
[Signatures follow]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Amendment as of the day and year first above written.
BORROWERS:
SILVERCREST ASSET MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company
SILVERCREST INVESTORS LLC,
SILVERCREST INVESTORS II LLC,
By:SILVERCREST L.P.,
a Delaware limited partnership,
its Managing Member
By:SILVERCREST ASSET
MANAGEMENT GROUP INC.,
a Delaware corporation,
its General Partner
By: /s/ Scott Gerard
Name:Scott Gerard
Title:Chief Financial Officer
SILVERCREST FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a New York corporation
By:/s/ Scott Gerard
Name: Scott Gerard
Title: Chief Financial Officer
[Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement]
LENDER:
By: /s/ Jennifer Velez
Name:Jennifer Velez
Title:Senior Vice President
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT OF GUARANTOR
AND OBLIGOR
The undersigned, being a Guarantor pursuant to a General Continuing Guaranty, dated as of June 24, 2013 (the "Guaranty"), executed by the undersigned in favor of City National Bank ("Lender"), and an Obligor pursuant to an Intercompany Subordination Agreement, dated as of June 24, 2013 (the "Subordination Agreement"), hereby (i) acknowledges receipt of the foregoing Amendment; (ii) consents to the terms and execution, delivery and performance thereof; (iii) reaffirms all obligations to Lender pursuant to the terms of the Guaranty and Subordination Agreement; and (iv) acknowledges that Lender may amend, restate, extend, renew or otherwise modify the Loan Documents and any indebtedness or agreement of the Borrowers, or enter into any agreement or extend additional or other credit accommodations, without notifying or obtaining the consent of the undersigned and without impairing the obligations of the undersigned under the Guaranty or Subordination Agreement.
SILVERCREST L.P.,
By:SILVERCREST ASSET MANAGEMENT
GROUP INC.,


The concept of domains have been with CLARiiON and (later) VNX arrays since the early part of the 21st Century. The configuration is fairly simple, and, in keeping with the idea that you can do anything with naviseccli, I thought I'd do a quick post on using naviseccli to join SPs to a domain. This assumes you have security setup with your naviseccli environment, and you know the IPs of the SPs you're trying to add to the domain.
You can the set the master node for a domain with this command. Note that the nominated node can't be a member of another domain at the time.
If a node is a problem, or you're about to remove an array from your environment, it's a good idea to remove it from the domain before you rip it out of the rack.
You may also wish to add another couple of nodes, particularly if you have a number of arrays in the environment.
And that's it. I recommend you check out EMC's white paper – Domain Management with EMC Unisphere for VNX (p/n h8853.4) – for more information on VNX domain management.
Many moons ago I wrote a brief article about accessing RemotelyAnywhere on the CX4. This was prompted by changes in Release 29 of FLARE that changed the access mechanism for remote console access on the SPs. I've been working on some VNX2s recently (or VNX with MCx – as EMC really would like them to be known), and I was curious as to whether the process was the same.
Nowadays there are a few ways to access RemotelyAnywhere on the VNX SP. There are a few different ports on the array that can be used, depending on your circumstances. In some environments, where you're not allowed to touch the customer's network with your own gear, the service port may be more appropriate. Here's an image of the ports from EMC. The model of VNX you're using will dictate the layout of the ports.
the SP's serial port: https://192.168.1.1:9519 (this assumes you're connected via serial already – more on that below).
This is fairly straightforward, and you'll need to be on a network that has access to the management ports.
If you want to connect via the serial cable, you'll need to setup a PPP connection on your laptop. The following steps assume that you've got a USB to serial adapter and you're using a Windows 7 machine.
The COMM number will be the one you will select during the configuration of your PPP connection.
Click Start -> Control Panel -> Phone and Modem.
Click the "modem tab" and click Add.
On the Install new Modem Pane, select the Don't detect my modem box, then click Next.
Select Communications cable between two computers, then click Next.
Select the COM port from the previous step, then click Next.
Highlight the new modem and click Properties.
Select the "modem tab" and adjust the max speed to 115200 then click OK.
Click OK again to exit the Phone and Modem screen.
In the Computer Management window, disable and then re-enable the USB Serial connection in Device Manager. Do this by right-clicking on it.
Click Start -> Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center, click Set up a new connection or network (at the bottom).
Click Next, select Set up a dial-up connection and click Next.
This screen should list modems and select the Communications cable between two computers created above.
On the next screen put in a random phone number. This is required in order to complete this step. You need at least one digit, but you'll remove it later. Next put in the username and password and give it a name. Then click on Connect. This connection will fail displaying: Connection Failed with error 777. Click on Set up the connection anyway.
You will get: "The connection to the Internet is ready to use". Select Close.
The above connection should now appear in Network Connections. Open Control Panel and select Change Adapter Settings.
Right-click on your new Modem connection and select Cancel as Default Connection.
Right Click on your new Modem connection again and select Properties.
In the General tab, remove the phone number entry and leave it blank.
In the General tab, click configure and set Max speed to 115200 and select enable hardware flow control.
In the Options tab, click PPP settings and check that the top two boxes are selected (LCP extensions and SW compression).
In the Security tab, check Data Encryption is Optional Encryption (connect even if no encryption) is set.
In the Networking tab, check Internet Protocol Version 4 is selected and click on Properties.
In the Networking tab, choose Internet Protocol Properties, then the Advanced button. Uncheck Use default gateway on remote network.
Here's what it looks like when you log in – enjoy.
I had a question about this come up this week and thought I'd already posted something about it. Seems I was lazy and didn't. If you have access, have a look at Primus article emc311319 on EMC's support site. If you don't, here's the rough guide to what it's all about.
When a Storage Pool is created, a large number of private LUNs are bound on all the Pool drives and these are divided up between SP A and B. When a Pool LUN is created, it uses the allocation owner to determine which SP private LUNs should be used to store the Pool LUN slices. If the default and current owner are not the same as the allocation owner, the I/O will have to be passed over the CMI bus between SP, to reach the Pool Private FLARE LUNs. This is a bad thing, and can lead to higher response times and general I/O bottlenecks.
OMG, I might have this issue, what should I do? You can change the default owner of a LUN by accessing the LUN properties in Unisphere. You can also change the default owner of a LUN thusly.
But what if you have too many LUNs where the allocation owner sits on one SP? And when did I start writing blog posts in the form of a series of questions? I don't know the answer to the latter question. But for the first, the simplest remedy is to create a LUN on the alternate SP and use EMC's LUN migration tool to get the LUN to the other SP. Finally, to match the current owner of a LUN to the default owner, simply trespass the LUN to the default owner SP.
Note that this is a problem from CX4 arrays through to VNX2 arrays. It does not apply to traditional RAID Group FLARE LUNs though, only Pool LUNs.
If you're trying to do an OE upgrade on a VNX you might get the following error after you've run through the "Prepare for Installation" phase.
Turns out you just need to upgrade USM to the latest version. You can do this manually or via USM. Further information on this error can be found on support.emc.com by searching for the following Primus ID: emc321171.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Stormons, and I've not been compensated for this post. I just think it's a cool product that is worth checking out.
Didier from Stormons recently got in touch to let me know there's now a Professional version of the software available now as part of a subscription deal. I've previously covered Stormons here and here and think it's pretty good stuff – and definitely worth checking out – particularly if you have a large environment to work with. Apparently EMC in Bangalore are heavy users of the product as well. The Professional Edition is offered on a subscription basis, and they're running a discounted rate until May to celebrate the release. Find out more about it here. You can also still access the free edition from the downloads page.
Mat has come up with a few new scripts – FlipFASTTiering and ReplicationCapacity. They're PERL scripts that you can use to list / modify FAST Tiering scheduling and report on MirrorView replication data respectively. Hopefully you'll find them of some use. Further information can be found on the Utilities page.
EMC have also breathlessly announced the introduction of "Multi-Core Everything" or MCx as an Operating Environment replacement for FLARE. I thought I'd spend a little time going through what that means, based on information I've been provided by EMC.
Active / Active data access.
As I mentioned in my introductory post, the OE has been redesigned to spread the operations across each core – providing linear scaling across cores. Given that FLARE pre-dated multi-core x86 CPUs, it seems like this has been a reasonable thing to implement.
EMC are also suggesting that this has enabled them to scale out within the dual-node architecture, providing increased performance, at scale. This is a response to a number of competitors who have suggested that the way to scale out in the mid-range is to increase the number of nodes. How well this scales in real-world scenarios remains to be seen.
ensuring the cache is working in the most effective way regardless of the IO mix. Interestingly, cache is dynamically assigned, allocating space on-the-fly for reads, writes, thin metadata, etc depending on the needs of the system at the time.
The larger overall working cache provides mutual benefit between reads and writes. Note also that data is not discarded from cache after a write destage (this greatly improves cache hits). The new caching model employs intelligent monitoring of pace of disk writes to avoid forced flushing and works on a standardized 8KB physical page size.
MCR introduces some much-needed changes to the historically clumsy way in which disks were managed in the CLARiiON / VNX. Of particular note is the handling of hot spares. Instead of having to define disks as permanent hot spares, the sparing function is now more flexible and any unassigned drive in the system can operate as a hot spare.
The "Recommended" policy implements the same sparing model as today (1 spare per 30 drives). Note, however, that if there is an unused drive that can be used as a spare (even if you have the "No Hot Spare" policy set) and there is a fault in a RAID group, the system will use that drive. Permanent sparing also means that when a drive has been used in a sparing function, that drive is then a permanent part of the RAID Group or Pool so there is no need to re-balance and copy back the spare drive to a new drive. The cool thing about this is that it reduces the exposure and performance overhead of sparing operations. If the concept of storage pools that spread all over the place didn't freak out the RAID Group huggers in your storage team, then the idea of spares becoming permanent might just do it. There will be a CLI command available to copy the spare back to the replaced drive, so don't freak out too much.
What I like the look of, having been stuck "optimising" CLARiiONs previously, is the idea of "Portable drives", where drives can be physically removed from a RAID group and relocated to another disk shelf. Please note that you can't use this feature to migrate RAID Groups to other VNX systems, you'll need to use more traditional migration methods to achieve this.
According to EMC, MCF is all about increased efficiency and performance. They've done this by moving MCC above the FAST Cache driver – all DRAM cache hits are processed without the need to check whether a block resides in FAST Cache, saving this CPU cycle overhead on all IOs. There's also a faster initial warm-up for FAST Cache, resulting in better initial performance. Finally, instead of requiring 3 hits, if the FAST Cache is not full, it will perform more like a standard extension of cache and load data based on a single hit. Once the Cache is 80% full it reverts to the default 3-hit promotion policy.
Real symmetric? Not that busted-arse ALUA? Sounds good to me. With Symmetric Active/Active, EMC are delivering true concurrent access via both SPs (no trespassing required – hooray!). However, this is currently only supported for Classic LUNs. It does have benefits for Pool LUNs by removing the performance impacts of trespassing the allocation owner. Basically, there's a stripe locking service in lpay that's providing access to the LUN for each SP, with the CMI being used for communication between the SPs. Here's what LUN Parallel Access looks like.
And that's about it. Make no mistake, MCx sounds like it should really improve performance for EMC's mid-range. Remember though, given some of the fundamental changes outlined here, it's unlikely that this will work on previous-generation VNX models.


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Q: Why is .object_id in ruby sometimes returning positive or negative numbers? I get this for a nil object in Ruby (irb):
nil.object_id # => 4

But for a string, I get negative results:
"abc".object_id # => -570954278
"abc".object_id # => -570956148

I am confused about the negative part. Is this proper or have I done something strange?
My ruby is:
ruby 2.3.0p0 (2015-12-25 revision 53290) [i686-linux]

A: The number effectively is a signed integer, with one bit used for sign and the rest used for data. See here for a discussion on some finer points of its implementation, mentioning the positive and negative storage.
But to be short, no, there isn't anything to worry about.

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10 Canary Islands Plants
The Canary Islands plants are part of the nature side of this Spanish region located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean just 100 kilometres off the northwestern African coast right in the Macaronesia, a collection of four archipelagos: Cape Verde, Madeira, the Azores and the Canaries itself.
These islands have a unique biogeography, and are home to many distinct plants. As none of the Macaronesian archipelagos were part of a continent, the native flora reached the islands via long-distance dispersal.
For instance, laurel-leaved forests called laurisilva once covered most of their area. These forests resemble the ancient forests that covered the Mediterranean basin and northwestern Africa before the cooling and drying of the ice ages.
In addition, trees of the genera Apollonias, Clethra, Dracaena, Ocotea, Persea, and Picconia, which are found in the Macaronesian laurel forests, are also known from fossil evidence to have lived around the Mediterranean before the ice ages.
Leaving aside the Macaronesia plants, the Canary Islands flora comprises about 2,600 species of plants, of which about 500 are endemic, another 500 are native to the Macaronesian region and the rest were probably introduced in modern times, after the conquest of the archipelago in the 15th century.
Canary Islands Flora
The Canary Islands plants are varied, even though it's a small archipelago covering 7,493 km2 (2,893 sq mi). Thus, it's home to a surprising ecological diversity thanks to its special environmental conditions: the archipelago's abrupt topography affects its local weather conditions, leading to a great variety of microclimates.
Such an abundance of microclimates results in many different natural habitats, and this is clear to see in the Canaries' vegetation. The flora here is so rich and varied that, in spite of the archipelago accounting for just 1.5% of Spanish territory… it houses more than half of the country's endemic species!
One of the archipelago's main peculiarities is that the vegetation changes radically in areas that are barely a few hundred metres apart. This is because of the difference in altitude and the microclimates the relief creates, giving rise to different ecosystems.
The trade winds (also called easterlies) make the north side of the islands more humid, which of course makes its forests lusher and greener. The trees growing here are like living fossils.
1. Granadillo (Hypericum canariense)
Granadillo (Hypericum canariense) is a species of Hypericum known by the common name Canary Islands St. John's wort. It is the sole member of Hypericum sect. Webbia. It is one of the endemic Canary Islands plants and grows in low-moisture scrub and forested slopes of the five westernmost islands from 150 to 800 metres.
The species is a flowering shrub growing 2–3 metres in height. Its many stems bear waxy lance-shaped leaves 5–7 centimetres long. The plentiful flowers each have five bright to deep yellow petals each just over a centimetre long and many yellowish whiskery stamens. It reproduces via the seed in its dehiscent dry fruits and also vegetatively via rhizome.
2. Retama del Teide (Spartocytisus supranubius)
Spartocytisus supranubius (supra = above; nubius = the cloud) is a white-flowered species of broom endemic to the Canary Islands and known there by the common name Retama del Teide. Spartocytisus supranubius is a high mountain species, occurring at about 2000 metres altitude on mountain tops on La Palma and on Tenerife in the Teide National Park.
3. Flor de mayo leñosa (Pericallis hadrosoma)
The plant Pericallis hadrosoma, locally known as Flor de mayo leñosa is endemic to Gran Canaria. This species is found within rupicolous communities in cracks with little soil and high humidity. The species is classified as Critically Endangered because of its highly restricted and fragmented distribution, and small population size.
4. Tajinaste rojo (Echium wildpretii)
Echium wildpretii is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It's one of the Canary Islands plants that grows up to 3 metres in height. The herbaceous biennial plant is endemic to the Canarian Islands, and is found mainly in Tenerife. The subspecies E. wildpretii subsp. trichosiphon occurs at high altitudes on La Palma. Although common names are tower of jewels, red bugloss, Tenerife bugloss or Mount Teide bugloss, the preferred one in the Canaries is Tajinaste rojo.
5. Cresta de gallo (Isoplexis canariensis)
Cresta de gallo (Isoplexis canariensis) or Canarian foxglove is an evergreen shrub with dark green lance-shaped and almost leathery leaves in whorls around the branching stems. From early summer onwards it has tall flowering spikes clothed with remarkable tubular golden flowers.
6. Turmero de Inagua (Helianthemum inaguae)
Tumero de Inagua (Helianthemum inaguae) is a small straight-stemmed shrub, not too dense and about 40-60 centimetres in height, although occasionally up to one metre in some cases. It's exclusively endemic to Gran Canaria with one sole known population within the limits of the Roque Nublo Rural Park and the Inagua Nature Reserve.
7. Oro de risco (Anagyris latifolia)
Oro de risco (Anagyris latifolia) is a long-lived arborescent dicotyledon and hermaphrodite. Populations are very isolated and fragmented, composed of a small number of individuals, fewer than 400, in 37 localities. It is one of the Canary Islands plants with a high economic importance as a forage plant, as well as to the recent destruction and fragmentation of the laurel forest in the Canary Islands.
8. Madroño canario (Arbutus canariensis)
Madroño canario (Arbutus canariensis) is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing up to 10 metres tall. The fruit is gathered from the wild and used locally as a food. The plant is grown as an ornamental, valued for its evergreen leaves, flowers and fruits. The tree is known from approximately 10 subpopulations, probably containing no more than 10,000 individuals.
9. Piña de mar (Atractylis preauxiana)
Piña de mar (Atractylis preauxiana) is found exclusively in stony habitats at the southeastern fringes of the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria. It's an extremely local endemic species and is also very endangered.
10. Digital de Canarias (Digitalis canariensis)
Digital de Canarias (Digitalis canariensis) is an evergreen, sparingly-branched shrub, to 1.5 metres in height, with serrated, oval, dark green leaves. Flowers are foxglove-like with a flattened appearance, reddish-orange or apricot in colour and held on upright spikes to 30 centimetres in length.
As you can see, the special geographical conditions of the archipelago make the Canary Islands plants unique in the world. Surely, hiking through the endless paths found here is a great way to discover beautiful species that can't be found in other parts of the world. Be sure to visit Villa Gran Canaria's blog to find more about this unique archipelago.
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Kościół św. Ducha w Warszawie – kościół na Nowym Mieście w Warszawie przy ulicy Długiej 3.

Historia
Pierwszy kościół został zbudowany z drewna wraz z miejskim szpitalem św. Ducha w XIV wieku. Był to zapewne pierwszy tego typu szpital na Mazowszu (ulokowany został za murami Starej Warszawy, ufundowany przez księcia Janusza Starszego i przekazany miastu w 1388 r.).

Przy istniejącym małym kościółku św. Ducha rajcy i obywatele Warszawy chcieli wtenczas założyć szpital i na ten cel podobno Mikołaj Panczatka jeden z ich grona podarował kościołowi trzeci denar z jatek, kramów i straganów, to jest trzecią część wójtostwa warszawskiego. Szpital w aktach urzędowych był różnie nazywany: domem gościnnym dla ubogich (1425), oraculum (kaplica) św. Ducha łącząc kościółek ze szpitalem (1473), xenodochium (pokój – pensjonat w klasztorze do przejściowego zakwaterowania gości lub pielgrzymów), wreszcie uważając kościółek "dodatkiem" do szpitala nazywano go klasztorem cenobium (1473). Faktem jest, że proboszcz św. Ducha był z urzędu prowizorem (zarządcą) szpitala. Pierwszym proboszczem kościoła, znanym z nazwiska był Jędrzej Pronobis w roku 1473 (prepositus oraculi S. Spiritus ad cenobium extra muros Varsavienses). W kronikach znacznie częściej czytamy o szpitalu św. Ducha, niż o kościele i praktycznie większość otrzymanych przywilejów (np. od Zygmunta Starego i Bony) dotyczyło szpitala. Wymienia się także proboszczów: Jana Szeligę (1574), Wojciecha Pruszczyńskiego (1579) i Wojciecha Badowskiego (1633). W 1629 biskup poznański Maciej Łubieński połączył parafię Św. Trójcy, której zabudowania oddano, na polecenie króla, ss. Brygidkom (dzisiaj nie ma tego kościoła i zabudowań klasztornych, mieściły się one na ul. Nalewki na wprost wylotu ul. Bielańskiej) z parafią św. Ducha.

Świątynia ucierpiała w czasie potopu szwedzkiego. Na mocy uchwały magistratu z 22 sierpnia 1664 r. kościół z dochodami, tytułem probostwa, ze wszystkimi dobrami, użytkami, zyskami i wygodami oddany został paulinom.

Odłączono wtedy szpital od kościoła. Kronikarz zanotował (pisownia oryginalna)

Ofiarę przyjmował ówczesny prowincjał zakonu paulinów w Polsce o. Augustyn Kordecki.

W 1699 położono kamień węgielny pod nowy kościół, który został zbudowany w latach 1707-1717 w stylu baroku według projektu Józefa Pioli i Bellottiego. Jeden z przyjaciół króla Augusta Mocnego, wojewoda chełmiński Rybiński, zaproszony jako główna osobistość na uroczystość położenia kamienia, przeznaczył na budowę bardzo znaczną, jak na owe czasy, kwotę 40 000 złp. Najwięcej na budowę łożyło jednak istniejące przy kościele Bractwo Pana Jezusa Pięciorańskiego, do którego należeli głównie mieszczanie warszawscy. Duszą budowy i wystroju kościoła był przeor Innocenty Pokorski (w czasie drugiego najazdu szwedzkiego był przeorem na Jasnej Górze). Prace wykończeniowe, budowa ołtarzy trwały do roku 1746, wtedy to wybudowano kaplicę Najświętszej Panny Częstochowskiej. Za J. Bartoszewiczem (cytowanym w przypisach, pisownia oryginalna):

(niektóre osoby wymienione w cytowanym wyżej tekście: królowa Maria Józefa, Sołtyk kanonik gnieźnieński, biskup Kobielski i biskup Szembek.)

Kronikarz notuje, że 12 marca 1800 księży było wtenczas 9-ciu,... nowicyjatu nie było, ale znajdowało się studium teologiczne w klasztorze, a w niem dwóch professorów i czterech uczniów, którzy słuchali teologii spekulacyjnej i dogmatyki, oraz ćwiczyli się w rozwiązywaniu wypadków sumienia i znajomości ceremonij kościelnych.

W styczniu 1807 wojska Napoleona Bonaparte podeszły pod Warszawę a klasztor został zajęty na koszary francuskie. I choć po wojnie na krótko paulini odzyskali klasztor (przeorem był o. Teodor Fortuński), to w lipcu 1819 biskup administrator nakazał by księży swoich w cztery tygodnie najdalej przewiózł do Częstochowy i żeby sprzęty wszystkie zostawił na miejscu, bo za uronienie ich był odpowiedzialny... a w sierpniu kościół oddano bractwu niemieckiemu (bractwu św. Benona). Kolejnymi rektorami byli księża pochodzenia niemieckiego, tak można domniemywać z nazwisk: Lűdicke, Amman, Gueldre, Ballach.

W klasztorze popaulińskim 22 września 1825 otwarto seminaryjum główne, które z uniwersyteckim wydziałem teologicznym tworzyło jednę całość. Pierwszym rektorem seminarium był ks. Żółtowski, drugim, aż do 1836, ks. Jan Onoszko – kanonik mohylewski, w którym to roku podniesiono je do rangi akademija i przeniesiono do franciszkanów. Pozostałą część klasztoru wynajmowano jako mieszkania. Miejsce seminarium zajęła szkoła obwodowa a potem powiatowa, wreszcie w 1852 rozdzielono murem to co z klasztorem miało się zostać dla kościoła i to co szło na użytek publiczny.

Po powstaniu styczniowym w 1863 umieszczono przed kościołem figurkę Matki Bożej.

W czasie powstania warszawskiego na skutek bombardowania kościół został zniszczony przez Niemców, a w jego podziemiach zginęło kilkadziesiąt osób. Po wojnie zniszczenia budynku oszacowano na ok. 50%. Paulini wrócili do kościoła i klasztoru w 1948. Odbudowano go w 1956.

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Thank everyone for the kind comments. Katie was just warming up before her music lesson. She has played bass guitar and now is taking lessons on the 6 string guitar. She was just practicing the scales, or chords I guess.
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She was just practicing the scales, or chords I guess.
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God often is presented as father, judge, potter, redeemer or companion. How would believers' thinking and speaking be transformed if God was described as a gardener?
Editor's note: Faith & Leadership offers sermons that shed light on issues of Christian leadership. This sermon was preached on March 20, 2011, at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Durham, N.C.
For so many of the psalms, understanding what they are about depends upon our getting ready to enter into them. The words of the psalmist are not simply bits of information that help us learn something that we didn't know before. They are, rather, invitations to enter deeply into the world and ourselves so that we can more clearly see how God is at work in the middle of our pain and joy, our frequent confusion, even our desperation.
The psalms operate at a visceral and elemental level, at the raw points of our lives where we are encouraged to see and then come to grips with the deepest fears and yearnings of our hearts. Reading them, we are invited to let our lives be enfolded and transformed by the meaning they communicate. If we are attentive and honest, we may find God in surprising places. We may even be astounded by the God we find there, and thus introduced and called into a faithful life we never thought possible or important.
Psalm 121 begins with a profound sense of human need. It doesn't say what the particular need is, perhaps suggesting that we don't often appreciate the nature and extent of our own need. All we know, when we are honest, is that we need help.
Notice how often the psalmist says that God will keep us. The God who holds us close and protects us does not slumber or sleep. Instead, this God watches over us constantly -- is our protective shade by day and night -- so that no evil can strike us. God keeps our life, watches over all our movements so that we do not come to ruin. God does this because God is the maker of heaven and earth. We can count on God to help us, and know that his help is precisely the kind that we most need, because the Lord created us. As our creator, God's desire is forever that we flourish together and be well, sharing in the divine nurture that makes this world a place of so much beauty and joy.
But to settle on an angry or vengeful God is to miss the pathos in God's disappointment and frustration. God's grief wells up not out of anger but out of a love that exceeds all our comprehension. This is why God says after the flood that never again will he destroy the whole world. Watching it once was simply too painful. We can only imagine what it must be doing to God now to watch the destruction of the earth at our own hands. We have to imagine God keeping our life and our world as a mother holding her child who is deeply wounded and slowly dying. The water that flows now is the rain of tears rather than the rain of destruction.
If we want to understand this God, the one who loves us despite all our wrongdoing, we need to recover a rich sense of God as the creator and sustainer of our lives. This is not as simple as it may at first seem, because many of us operate under a very shallow understanding of God's creativity.
The standard picture of creation is that a long time ago God made the heavens and the earth. It was all very grand and beautiful, but essentially God's work is now done. Nature operates according to its own laws, only sometimes these laws are interrupted so that God can re-enter the world and perform a miracle. This picture of God and creation is deeply flawed, because it assumes that for the most part, God is unnecessary in our world. It does not at all acknowledge the psalmist's insight that "the Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore" (Psalm 121:8). We need a richer and more biblically faithful rendering of God's relation to the world.
How many times have you heard God described as a gardener? I have sat through many sermons where God has been presented in a variety of ways -- as father, judge, potter, redeemer or companion. I have yet to hear one where God is described and developed as a gardener. This is a bit puzzling. After all, we are early in the biblical story, trying to figure out who this God is that creates the world.
We know that other images and settings could have been used to demonstrate God's character (the Babylonians, for instance, preferred warrior imagery). But the Israelites set the foundational stage by naming God the gardener of the world. First impressions matter! Viewed biblically, God is the first, the best, the essential and the eternal gardener. The day God ceases to garden is also the day we all perish. I have never heard a preacher say that, but it is true.
So, hear it again: God the Gardener. Picture it. What do you see? Enter into the paradise of delight. What do you smell? What do you taste? What do your fingers touch?
There is a good chance we won't know what to imagine or sense. Many of us do not have gardens, and so lack a daily acquaintance with the work of planting, weeding and nurture. Do we know the patience of waiting and hoping for new life to emerge and flourish? Have we felt the pain of vulnerability associated with a creature's disease or death? Have we tasted the delectable flavor of a freshly picked raspberry, or been overwhelmed by the fragrance of a lilac in June?
Should we not be more astounded by a world that tastes incredibly good? How many of us, perhaps aware of degraded or collapsing ecosystems, believe that the world we are in really is a "paradise of pleasure"?
Several years ago I entered into gardening work with fairly romantic notions. I envisioned multiple neat rows of lettuces, carrots, peas, beans and tomatoes growing steadily into their succulent, ripe potential. In my gardening vision there was no room for blights or bugs, and no danger of stray dogs or soccer balls. Rain fell when I wanted it. Days were uniformly pleasant, never too hot or too cold. My job was simply to plant, admire and pluck.
I remember in particular my first attempt to grow strawberries. I grew especially excited as I saw the berries form on the stem, gradually turning from green to pink and then red. Imagine my horror, then, when I arrived on the morning of harvest only to discover that slugs and ants had already helped themselves to what was supposed to be mine to enjoy.
In a mild rage I went to my lawn and garden center and purchased a bottle of poison. Before applying it -- and in a rather unmanly fashion! -- I read the directions, which said (in effect), "Do not allow children or pets near the sprayed area for three days," and "Burn all clothing that comes into contact with this 'pest management solution.'" This was no solution. It was an act of war! The green bottle I held in my hand defined me as a "gardener" who bullies, burns and sprays a way through life. Does God garden with Roundup?
Without realizing it at the time, I had come to think of gardening as a form of shopping, and my garden as a store. I wanted to have fruits and vegetables without having to work with plants. I wanted to enjoy the good taste of food without having to care for a garden that makes it possible. In other words, I wanted all the garden had to offer without having to "till and keep" it. I did not want to participate in God's garden-keeping of the world by being a faithful and patient gardener myself.
As food consumers, we expect that the stores will be filled with cheap produce, all beautifully packaged and without blemish. We elect political leaders who promise that those stores will stay full. All we have to do is show up, perform the credit card swipe, and then carry home the goods. What could be easier and more convenient, but also more ignorant?
So, hear it again: "And the Lord God planted a garden …" The God we worship does not purchase the world. God plants it, and in planting it, keeps it. Eden is a "Garden of Delight" precisely because we find God there, on his knees, hands in the dirt, fashioning the first adam out of the ground. God can be said to keep us because, like a gardener, God holds the soil of our lives in her hands, rolls it between her fingers, sensing and promoting the soil's vitality and freshness.
The God we worship dwells among us as a gardener who holds the soil of our lives in his hands, showers it with rain and blesses it with fruit that gladdens our hearts and satisfies our stomachs. This gardening God never slumbers or sleeps, because there is simply too much to do and too much beauty, fragrance and good taste to enjoy. This God is the provider of grain who then also in the body of Christ becomes our bread so that together we can enter into the life of communion, practicing the generosity and hospitality that mark God's own gardening work.
I have taken to wondering how our thinking and speaking of God would be transformed if we appreciated, however inadequately, God's gardening character. Would we any longer be able to consider God as absent or distant, perhaps even uninterested in our affairs? Would we obsess with worry that God is forever angry, always looking for opportunities to strike us down? Would we not need to rediscover our God as delighting in the goodness and beauty of what he has made, and ever vigilant and responsive to the world's pain?
And on it goes. God the Gardener has his hands in the dirt -- is lost in a kind of revelry, really -- because the garden is so lovely and so interesting that there is no other place that God wants to be. It can be a Sabbath delight because it is a place that has been made fragrant and delectable by him. For God the Gardener, time disappears into an eternal now.
Listen again. "The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it" (Genesis 2:15). Is this verse not an invitation to participate in God's own gardening work in the world, work that nurtures and enjoys the gifts of creation? Is it not an indication that our most fundamental vocation is to exercise the detailed care, and know the particular delight, of a Brandywine tomato or a Cascade Dawn raspberry? Is it not the revelation that our identity rests in the image of God the Gardener? In this verse we find the invitation to join in God's keeping of us by becoming keepers of each other.
We know that for the most part we have refused our divinely appointed identity and vocation. Speaking from my own experience, I often choose a comfortable chair and a good book rather than go out in the heat to weed the wire grass that is a plague upon the earth. I neglect the study of soils and plants, which means that I don't know how to take care of them as I ought. I like my food cheap and attractive, even though I have learned that its cheapness comes at a high cost to agricultural workers, animals, fields and waters. Meanwhile, the garden of creation languishes under our assault and neglect.
But God continues to dig and plant, water and weed. In the psalmist's words, "The Lord is your keeper; … the Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life" (Psalm 121:5, 7). That we are here today is the proof of that. The good news is that he takes the refuse of our mistakes, sloth and belligerence and turns them into compost that can fertilize his garden kingdom of life.
When we take flight from the garden, shirk our gardening responsibilities, God remains faithful and merciful, hands in the dirt, delighting in a world made delectable and beautiful, always inviting us to join him in the gardening work that heals and sustains the world. Hear the words of the psalmist: "Taste and see that the Lord is good!" (Psalm 34:8).


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by James Grippando
Pub Date: Jan. 8th, 2013
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
The courtroom verdict is only the beginning of the fireworks in Jack Swyteck's 10th appearance before the Miami bar.
"There's no such thing as a perfect client," reflects Jack (Afraid of the Dark, 2011, etc.), and he should know. Against all odds, the jury has found hard-partying Sydney Bennett not guilty of murdering her toddler daughter Emma. But even before the Shot Mom, as TV commentator Faith Corso has dubbed her, is released from prison, a crowd Corso has stirred into a frenzy has mobbed the prison gates in the dead of night, and coed Celeste Laramore, who's made herself up to look just like Sydney, is mistaken for her, attacked by someone in the crowd and sent into a coma. The Shot Mom herself, secretly released shortly thereafter, is spirited off in a private jet after warning Jack not to write the tell-all book he's urged her not to write either. After Celeste's parents persuade Jack to file lawsuits against the prison and the Breaking News Network, he finds himself up against BNN's fearsome hired gun Ted Gaines, who uses every trick in his legal arsenal to counterattack. Jack, who's taken on the work pro bono, is slapped with a gag order, threatened with stiff legal sanctions when he's accused of violating that order and beaten by a dark figure who tells him that he'll retaliate against someone Jack loves if Jack doesn't flush Sydney from wherever she's hidden herself. When the jury foreman confesses to taking a $100,000 bribe in return for freeing Sydney, Miami-Dade County prosecutor Melinda Crawford joins the legion of people who really want to know where Sydney is and are sure they can press Jack to tell them.
The criminal behind this fine mess is a cipher, but Grippando turns the screws on Jack so comprehensively that exhausted readers, turning the last page long after midnight, won't mind.


Design theorist, consultant, author Hans Höger (* 1960), Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, teaches theory and history of design and communication at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He studied art history, romance philology, folklore and empirical cultural sciences at the Universities of Bonn, Perugia, Tübingen and Quimper. In 1996 he was appointed Commissioner of the German participation at 19th Milan Triennale ("Identity and Differences: The Future of Urban Living Spaces"). In the same year he was responsible for the programme "Attitudes for the New Millennium" within the IDCA International Design Conference in Aspen/Colorado. He was associate lecturer at the Bocconi University (Milan), as well as visiting and guest professor at Würzburg, Saarbrücken, Zurich and New York. In his work as a consultant for companies and design studios, he focuses his attention upon design topics in the context of economics, culture and society. Numerous publications, amongst others two monographs on the work of Michele De Lucchi and Ettore Sottsass jr. The topics of his most recent publications regard Design & Politics, Designing with Light, Experience Design, Cultural Engineering and Zurich-Milano: graphical encounters between 1945 and 1970.


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Q: How to translate Kernel space VA to PA in Linux, inside a driver code? Is it possible to do a simple page-walk translation to a Kernel-space VA, from a driver code that I write? I'm trying to use virt_to_phys(), but the translation doesn't look correct to me. Is there any other API that can do that?

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Ahh! It's good to be young, sexy, beautiful, and "connected". What began as a small show about prejudice, sexuality, and substance abuse, typical issues to be dealt with in today's society, took a twist and began displaying the darker side such as irresponsible behavior and immaturity among a group of friends. Ben Lewis (Ryan Hansen from Superhero Movie, Housebroken) a bachelor who is carefree and constantly on the lookout for his kind of woman, one who meets the impossible standards he holds. Then we have famous "bromances" between Aaron and Ben that prove friendships can stand the test of time. Ben and his gal pal, Sara know how well a third party can shake up the mixture that romantic life can create. Friends with Benefits revolves around five friends with love issues. Seems they have set their standards so high they can't find the right mate so eventually have to settle for something somewhat less than they'd hoped for. But sometimes less is best and ultimately proves to be more.
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El gran sello del estado de Dakota del Sur fue diseñado mientras que la zona fue un territorio, en 1885. La corona circular del sello contiene el texto State of South Dakota (Estado de Dakota del Sur) en la parte superior y Great Seal (Gran Sello) en la parte inferior, así como el año de su condición de Estado, 1889. Dentro del círculo interno del sello contiene el lema del estado, Under God the People Rule (Bajo Dios, la ley del pueblo). La imagen presenta colinas, un río con un barco, un agricultor, una mina y el ganado. Los elementos de la imagen son para representar el comercio, la industria y los recursos naturales del estado.

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123RF has launched 123RF Stock Footage. Clients can choose from over 75,000 high definition video clips at www.123rf.com/stock-footage/ in addition to Royalty-Free Stock Photo and Illustrations.
Will the stock photo market generate $5 billion annually in revenue by the end of 2012? Don't You Believe It.In its recent S-1 filing Shutterstock quoted BBC Research as saying the "market for pre-shot commercial digital imagery is expected to exceed $5 billion in 2013." I think the market for stock still photos, illustration and footage will generate no more than $2 billion by the end of 2012.
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), along with the Professional Photographers of America (PPA), has submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office in response to proposed new registration fees. In formulating the Copyright Office comments, ASMP surveyed its members about copyright registration and received nearly 900 responses.
A three-judge panel of the Washington State Court of Appeal has substantially affirmed a trial court judgment against Corbis Corporation for Fraud, Breach of Contract, Breach of the Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing, Misappropriation of Trade Secrets and Unjust Enrichment over the ownership of Infoflows' Fedmark technology. The original jury awarded $36 million in damages. Following trial the judge reduced the damages to $12.74 million.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, "KKR"), today announced a $150 million growth equity investment in Fotolia. In addition, KKR, TA Associates and Management worked with KKR Capital Markets and a number of relationship banks to put in place a $150 million senior financing for the Company.
In March it was reported by Moody's and Standard & Poors that the gross revenue for Getty Images in calendar 2011 was $945 million. This figure, and how the various lines of business break out, provide some interesting insights into the state of the stock photography business.
The stock photography industry has to face the challenge of becoming relevant in an economy that has no patience for inadequate business models. Today the vast majority of photographs are used without any contact with the traditional photo industry, which has completely lost control of production and distribution. But the industry continues stubbornly to apply old rules to this new landscape. It does not see, or purposely wants to ignore, that their model does not fit current needs and thus is chasing customers away.
An Australian company called ImageBrief, has developed a way for buyers to submit briefs directly to photographers for the images they need. This cuts out the stock agency middle men, and eliminates the need for buyers to wade through massive online databases of images.
The U.S. Copyright Office is proposing to increase the registration fee for filing an online application from $35 to $65, and the fee for using a paper application from $65 to $100. They are requesting a fee increase because in 2011 fee receipts only covered 59.5% of the cost of providing the service. The rest comes out of the taxpayers pockets.
Four non-disclosed sources have told Reuters that Shutterstock is looking for underwriters for an initial public offering (IPO). A Shutterstock spokesperson refused to comment on the report or to supply financial details about the company.
Bigstock has announced a partnership with the Freelancers Union, a non-profit membership organization for independent workers. The partnership will provide the union's nearly 200,000 members with creative assets and inspiration.
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Q: Find a subsequence $\{\eta_{n_k}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ and $\eta$ with finite moment s.t. $\lim_{k\rightarrow \infty}\mathbb E[|\eta_{n_k} - \eta|]=0$? Let $X_1 ,X_2, X_3, ...$ be a sequence of iid Poisson random variables with parameter $\lambda > 0$, and let $\eta_n = \prod_{k=1}^{n}X_k$. Is it possible to find a subsequence $\{\eta_{n_k}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ and a non-zero random variable $\eta$ with finite moment s.t. $\lim_{k\rightarrow \infty}\mathbb E[|\eta_{n_k} - \eta|]=0$?
So far, I can show the sequence $\{\eta_{n_k}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ converges to zero in probability, but how to use this to show the above question? Thanks.

A: I presume the $X_k$'s being independent. Then
$$ E \eta_n = \prod_{1\leq k \leq n} E X_k = \lambda^n .$$
So we need $\lambda\leq 1$.
As I see no absolute signs in the condition $\lim E (\eta_{n_k}- \eta)=1$:
For $\lambda=1$ take $\eta=1$ (const).
For $\lambda<1$ take $\eta$ any non-zero random variable with average
zero (and finite moments).
The sequence $\eta_n$ converges to zero a.s.: To see this note that on the set $\Omega_N=\{ \prod_{1\leq k\leq N} X_k=0 \}$ the sequence $\eta_n$ vanishes for $n>N$, whence converges to zero on that set. And $\cup_N \Omega_N$ has probability 1.
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If we wish to ensure $E|\eta_{n_k}-\eta| \rightarrow 0$ then this is impossible not only for $\lambda>1$ (clear) but also for $\lambda=1$: This is because $\eta_n$ converges to zero a.s. and implies $\lim_n E|\eta_{n}-\eta|= 1 + E|\eta| \geq 1$. For $\lambda<1$ we must have $\eta=0$ (a.s.) wbut this  was excluded by hypothesis. So the answer is no, there is no value of $\lambda$ for which such $\eta$ exists.


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Yes! That time of year has arrived again; time for peace groups, schools, mosques, churches and concerned citizen around the world to dust off your kites and launch them into the sky in an act of resistance to weaponised drones, and solidarity to those living under drones. This global event coincides with Nao Roz, Persian New Year (21st March), a traditional time for kite flying in Afghanistan.
Killer drones have fast become the preferred weapon of choice for politicians who use them daily to conduct assassinations, execution without trial. A drone pilot is thousands of miles away, at the touch of a button and without judge or jury: people are executed. No right to a fair trial, no opportunity for legal defence or a chance to present evidence.
weaponised drones, as clear bright days are ideal for drones to see people on the ground, from thousands of feet ahead.
Volunteers, they would say that the children in their villages are now too afraid to fly kites because of the threat of being struck by missiles from weaponised drones.
And here is our very own Ghulamai (of the Afghan Peace Volunteers) showing you how to make an Afghan kite!
Get Crafty and make your own kite!
Here are some easy kite making instructions.
This year we are running a competition for participants of our international ACTION!
Prizes are beyond your wildest dreams!
by peace activists visiting Kabul.
Invite a Voices for Creative Non Violence workshop facilitaor to lead workshops with young people.
We have received kind funding from Trust Greenbelt to run Fly Kites Not Drones workshops with young people, we are happy to travel across the country.
Ellis Brooks (soon to be visiting Kabul) will demonstrate some of the conflict resolution and peer mediation workshops he facilitate with the 100 Kabul street kids currently enrolled at the Borderfree school.
Henrietta Cullinan will talk about her recent trip to Kabul, what the Afghan Peace Volunteers are currently up to, and her eyewitness experience of living as an ordinary Afghan.
Maya Evans (soon to be visiting Kabul) will give an overview on the current political and social situation in Afghanistan.
On 5th August 2016 Black Lives Matter activists and supporters took part in coordinated action across England, blocking the M4 road to Heathrow Airport, Princess Parkway in Manchester, the main tram lines of Nottingham City Centre and the A45 into Birmingham Airport, to draw attention to racial injustice in the UK.
Last Thursday the nine M4 protestors were found guilty of s.137 of the Highways Act - causing a wilful obstruction of the highway for our action. The protest drew significant media attention to deaths in custody in the United Kingdom, migrant deaths off Europe's coasts and racism faced by black people in Britain every day.
The fact that the media is reporting about Black Lives Matter and racism in our country today shows that protest works. This protest worked. A conversation around the violence of institutional racism has been reignited, but a simple conversation is not enough. Whether through non-violent means or otherwise, the conversation must be made a reality from curb to workplace.
The verdict is disappointing but predictable. We remain undeterred in taking militant action on all issues of injustice faced by poor and black people, which continue to be unaddressed in this country. The black struggle has long used civil disobedience, and militant action, as a tactic, in the US civil rights movement, in anti-colonial struggles or as Black Lives Matter activists - those convicted today or last November in Nottingham.
Alongside an unfurling campaign of local organising and a consciousness of black radical militancy we will continue to use our ability to take non-violent direct action as a means to constantly fight for a better society. 2017 is setting in, and things will be heating up.


Here are all the caravans we have located at Lydstep Beach Village. Either click on a photo or follow the "View This Private Caravan Rental" link to view a full page listing of the caravan rental. Details in the full listing include photographs of the holiday caravan, a full more detailed description of the static holiday caravan, the rental rates, availability, any special offers or last minute discounts and of course the contact details for the holiday rental caravan owner.


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Impact Announces Opening of Singapore Office to Further Extend Global Footprint
By Impact - November 7, 2018
Antoine Gross appointed to lead growth of Impact across Southeast Asia
SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Impact, a natively-integrated suite of products for fraud protection, marketing attribution and analytics, and performance partnership management, announces the opening of a Singapore office. With this new expansion, Impact further extends its global footprint in APAC; providing digital marketers from global Fortune 100 brands who operate there, as well as regional brands, access to a leading global marketing platform.
Impact also announces the appointment of Antoine Gross as the region's first Country Manager for Southeast Asia (SEA), reporting to Adam Furness, APAC Managing Director, Impact. Antoine joins the organization with over 15 years of experience across several marketing and digital companies. Prior to joining Impact, Antoine served as Vice President of Sales APAC at Synthesio, a leading social listening platform, where he led the expansion of the APAC business with a particular focus on SEA.
Adam Furness said: "The appointment of Antoine and Impact's further expansion throughout APAC demonstrates our commitment to servicing brands with localised success infrastructure across a global footprint. Think global, act local is our mantra. Antoine has a passion for technology, solving problems, driving business outcomes and building high performing teams, and we're thrilled to welcome him to the team. There is so much demand and opportunity in SEA for our offering that opening an office in Singapore was a very natural next step. Antoine, will be joined by Yuci Xu in the position of Customer Success Manager SEA, and he has his eye out for more exceptional talent. I envisage the Singapore office will be 8 to 10 people with-in 6 months."
"Mobile usage in Southeast Asia is set to continue growing at a phenomenal rate," said Antoine Gross, SEA Country Manager, Impact. "In such context the digital marketers of the region are in constant need of technologies which tackle the new challenges this trend brings. At Impact we strongly believe the whole local marketing ecosystem will greatly benefit from our integrated platform across ad fraud protection, unified marketing measurement, performance partnerships® and our ability to embrace the mobile revolution currently in progress across Asia."
"Impact has experienced phenomenal growth internationally, having just announced the opening of our Nordics office earlier this month, and now Southeast Asia with our newest office in Singapore," said David A. Yovanno, CEO, Impact. "At Impact, we're committed to growing our clients' businesses globally and that means supporting our customers everywhere they conduct their business. This is why we continue to invest in our leading marketing technology platform and people around the world. Antoine's rich experience in martech will provide strong leadership and support to our partners throughout Southeast Asia."
Impact is a marketing technology company helping brands grow by optimizing their paid marketing and media spend. The Impact platform was designed to respond to marketers' demands for simplicity, transparency, performance, and confidence to drive growth through marketing. Impact's platform is the first native integration of leading solutions to stop ad fraud, enable more confident decisions through media measurement, attribution, and mix optimization, and create new performance partnerships, including with influencers and strategic partners.
Founded in Santa Barbara, CA in 2008, Impact has grown to over 375 employees and ten offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. To learn more visit www.impact.com.


After the ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Ninaj put her fashion journalism assignments on hold to answer a call by the U.S. Justice Department for Creole interpreters to go to Guantanamo Bay and translate the 20-minute interviews refugees there were granted to establish their legitimate fear of persecution. Ninaj returned to Guantanamo Bay again and again, working 12-hour, 7-day weeks and gaining the trust of the refugees. Mediating among the refugees, the I.N.S. representatives, the U.S. military, and a team of law students, Ninaj helped to defuse the explosive atmosphere in the camp. She played a pivotal role in the success of a precedent-setting lawsuit that established the right of HIV-positive refugees to apply for asylum in the U.S.
Back in Brooklyn, overwhelmed by calls from the refugees to whom they had given their phone numbers, Ninaj and two fellow translators, Nicole Payen and Marie Cerat, opened their homes to women who were released in their final months of pregnancy and flown to New York with no resources or any notification of relief agencies. Scrambling to meet the needs of these women, Ninaj and Marie went to see President Aristide, then in exile in the U.S. Put on the spot when they were asked for the name of their organization, the two women founded Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and immediately began a volunteer effort to supply the new arrivals with housing and public assistance.
In May 1993, their first grant enabled HWHR to acquire classrooms in a church and hire teachers to help non-English speaking and illiterate immigrants meet the initial 90-day deadline to apply for asylum or refugee status. Forging alliances with the Coalition for the Homeless, Housing Works, and AIDS healthcare providers, Ninaj mobilized a community of activists and volunteers. Working on a shoestring budget, she introduced information about social services into her literacy classes, provided care for the children of her adult students, and worked with the New York Immigration Coalition and the NYC Commission on Human Rights to translate legal advice into Creole. HWHR volunteers teamed up with a network of physicians, the Italian Women's Foundation, and Women's Outreach Network to sponsor health fairs and to provide free tuberculosis vaccinations and mammograms.
Ninaj went to a 1994 Haitian women's conference to exchange ideas with those working on behalf of refugees in Florida, the Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. While attending a workshop on community television in 1997, Ninaj co-produced "Disorderly Conduct," a 30-minute documentary on police brutality. In the wake of Hurricane George in 1998, Ninaj traveled to the Dominican Republic to deliver emergency supplies to Haitian plantation workers. That same year, Ninaj joined those who lobbied Congress to gain passage of the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act, which allowed about 50,000 Haitians with political asylum claims to apply for permanent residency status.
Propelled by the needs of her constituents, Ninaj Raoul organizes the community to improve working conditions for domestic laborers and to reform discriminatory police policies and practices. Ninaj also encourages others to use HWHR as a platform to launch their own initiatives. A former client who organized cab drivers in Haiti is now putting his skills to work in New York and a volunteer is using HWHR computers to help high school students research and apply to college.


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Biografies:
 Sant Benet II, papa del segle VII
 Sant Benet d'Aniana, benedictí, reformador de l'orde benedictí al segle IX
 Sant Benet d'Avinyó o Benet el Pontífex
 Sant Benet Biscop, abat benedictí britànic del segle VII
 Sant Benet Menni, frare de l'orde dels Germans de Sant Joan de Déu (1847-1914)
 Sant Benet de Núrsia, fundador de l'Orde de Sant Benet al segle V
 Sant Benet de Palerm, o Benet el Negre, germà llec franciscà al segle XVI
 Josep de Sant Benet (Signy l'Abbaye, 1654 - Abadia de Montserrat, 1723), escriptor i escultor benedictí
 Toponímia:
 Sant Benet de Bages, monestir del Bages
 Sant Benet (Susqueda), muntanya a Susqueda
 Ermita de Sant Benet i Santa Llúcia, ermita d'Alcalà de Xivert (Baix Maestrat)
 Sant Benet de Mataró, cenobi desaparegut de la ciutat de Mataró comunitat que s'integrà al monestir de Sant Benet de Montserrat
 Monestir de Sant Benet de Montserrat comunitat de monges benedictines al municipi de Marganell (Bages)
 Miscel·lània:
 Orde de Sant Benet
 Regla de sant Benet


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President Trump on his social media habits: 'They want to take my voice away'
Christina Gregg
President Trump has used Twitter with both frequency and gusto, and -- despite the pleas of many -- he has no intention of scaling back.
He considers it his 'voice,' and that's something he's determined to hold onto. Trump recently stressed that view and resolve in a brief, impromptu interview with Mark Leibovich, the New York Times Magazine's chief national correspondent.
Not long after greeting Leibovich with a reminder that the Times is "failing" and was "so unfair" during the election, Trump talked about tweeting.
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Trump said, "It's my voice. They want to take away my voice. They're not going to take away my social media.''
Those comments, recently published in the New York Times Magazine piece, 'This Town Melts Down,' are part of a recurring theme for Trump.
In March, he said to Fox News' Tucker Carlson, "...let me tell you about Twitter. I think that maybe I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Twitter. Because I get such a fake press, such a dishonest press."
Trump continued, "...when I have close to 100 million people watching me on Twitter, including Facebook, including all of the Instagram, including POTUS, including lots of things...I have my own form of media."
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It's one he often uses to cast doubt upon the reliability of traditional news sources.
For example, just days after receiving broad and bipartisan criticism for making disparaging comments about the hosts of 'Morning Joe,' Trump noted in a series of tweets, "The FAKE & FRAUDULENT NEWS MEDIA is working hard to convince Republicans and others I should not use social media – but remember, I won...the 2016 election with interviews, speeches and social media. I had to beat #FakeNews, and did..."
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Does anyone remember that the first Tea Partiers were thousands and thousands of Ron Paul supporters who dumped a record-breaking $6 million into his presidential campaign on December 16, 2007, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party?
Since then, the Tea Party "wave" has swept across the country; a wave that Ron Paul's own son has ridden and credited with helping him land a seat in the United States Senate. Rand Paul ran for Senate in Kentucky as a Republican, keeping the more libertarian and "liberal" views he shares with his father under the sheets: a non-interventionist foreign policy, end the drug war, abolish the Patriot Act, and so on.
1) No one knew who the heck he was until November 5, 2007, when internet supporters dropped the first "moneybomb", unloading a record $4.3 million dollars into his campaign.
3) He was ridiculed as a crazy kook, nut job, racist, and conspiracy theorist, who was out of touch with reality and the practical world.
4) He wants to end the drug war in a party that believes the best way to promote morality is to force one's idea of morality on others; a party that associates smoking a joint with immorality.
5) Even though his support was strong and widespread on the internet and on the streets, he never got mainstream media attention. As a result, his message was largely contained to political junkies and activists.
Ron Paul's message runs into a brick wall in the Republican Party. The party is heavily filled with supporters who are focused on religion, abortion, war, and hate for liberals. Even so, in a Rasmussen poll last year, Ron Paul was nearly tied in a hypothetical head-to-head race with Obama, even beating him by 19% in the independent voter category. The very reason Rand Paul, Senator-elect of Kentucky, was forced to temper his foreign policy and quiet his less "liberal" views, is the very reason Ron Paul should tap into the stream of voters on the left who have yet to hear his message.
1) Paul would start off from day one with more than $10 million and an enormous base of support. His supporters don't care about what party-label is by his name. They just want to support Ron Paul.
2) The war issue, lost in the 2010 debate, will make a comeback for a reason that only Ron Paul has articulated for the past '748 years': one of the main ways to rein in the huge deficit spending is to bring our troops home and stop policing the world. Democrats are ready to embrace this message after Obama's record military spending and escalation in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen.
3) Some pundits will still call him a kook, but it should be noted that he was the ONLY person running for president who recognized the extent of the economic recession before it officially commenced. He voted against the Iraq War and introduced Letters of Marque and Reprisal to execute a more focused and constitutional war in Afghanistan, warning that they would create chaos and cost trillions of dollars. Right again. Finally, most political commentators, whether they support him or not, now recognize that he has been a lot more right than he has been crazy.
4) Ron Paul is often called a part of the "far right", although his views often find support from the "far left": For example, he believes that families, friends, and churches are the proper role models in society, which means family, friends, and churches should not use the government to institutionalize religious beliefs. He believes that you cannot use force to bring about a change, that setting a good example is more powerful than starting wars, whether against terrorism, drugs, or even poverty. And, he is an ardent supporter of civil liberties. He has opposed FISA courts, the National ID card, the Patriot Act, torture, Guantanamo Bay, rendition, and the suspension of habeas corpus.
5) Ron Paul is now one of the most sought after guests on cable news. He is widely recognized as a man who speaks honestly. Therefore, if Ron Paul raised credible money, he would likely receive more attention from the media this time around.
Ron Paul and his supporters call him a "real conservative." Yet, he is just as equally a "classical liberal." And now that Ron Paul has grabbed as many "real conservatives" as he could in the Republican Primary in 2008, 2012 is an opportunity for him to win the support of "classical liberals" on the left.
And when he loses the Democratic Primary, he should bring all his supporters together and run as what he truly is: an Independent.


This 7" is power surf at a quick tempo and plenty of punk/metal drumming. They have a little fun with the self-titled opening track, relaxing into a standard surf beat for a sec before the guitars squeals into a frenzy. I think my favorite of the bunch is the more anthemic "Black Coffin Board" which conveniently happens to be on bandcamp as a free download.


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Home Private Equity News & Analysis BoA, Credit Suisse, UBS back private exchange(3)
BoA, Credit Suisse, UBS back private exchange(3)
Credit Suisse, Bank of America and UBS have joined Citi, Lehman, Merrill and Morgan in sponsoring the OPUS-5 private exchange.
Bank of America, Credit Suisse and UBS have joined the Bank of New York Mellon's Open Platform for Unregistered Securities, or OPUS-5, a private exchange for privately offered securities traded under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933.
Citi, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley were founding members of the exchange, which was launched last month.
"The addition of Bank of America, Credit Suisse and UBS will further promote liquidity and efficiency for qualified institutional buyers who trade 144A equity securities and enhance issuers' capital raising efforts", the banks said in a statement.
OPUS-5 and platforms like it make it possible for private equity groups to monetise their management companies and realise additional capital from sophisticated institutional investors, without the additional disclosure and reporting demands of the public markets. It may also serve as a "test-run" prior to a public listing.
Goldman Sachs established the first such private exchange, GSTrUE, this May. Oaktree Capital Management listed 15 percent of its management company on GSTrUE in May, raising $880 million, and Apollo Capital Management followed suit in August, raising $828 million (€595 million).
Financial institutions have been eager for market share in this new space: OPUS-5 and Bear Stearns' Best Markets were established soon after GSTrUE, while Nasdaq's PORTAL was turned from a review and approval system for 144A securities into an online marketplace last month. Los Angeles- and New York-based financial services holding company Zealous Holdings has also created a private electronic marketplace dubbed ZATS.
The initial scramble might be a response to high demand on both the buy side and the sell side, said Michael Littenberg, a business transactions lawyer at Schulte Roth & Zabel.
"I think the way some platform operators are looking at this is that it's better to have a toe in the water and get some market share," Littenberg said. "You can always combine with another platform down the road if it makes sense."


Here's our guide to Music Venues, Gigs, Bands and Live Music in York. York has a long history of performance, a cosmopolitan city of culture. From street performers, buskers, pub bands through to large live concerts and theatre stage show productions - York is the place to be for live music and entertainment. York has produced such screen stars like Keith Drinkel and actress Dame Judi Dench, comdedians Dustin Gee and Frankie Howerd, composers like Joseph Barnby - and a huge list of Rock bands and artists like Shed Seven, Elliot Minor, Glamour of the Kill, The Seahorses, Asking Alexandria, Mostly Autumn and One Night Only - you get the idea!
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The bridges constructed in Ansel's memory cost about $3,000 to $4,000 and allow students to attend school year-round.
Local couple finds relief in charity
News Old - DO NOT USE - The Coast News
by Ellen Wright September 25, 2014 0140
CARLSBAD—Grief can be debilitating, and nobody knows this more than Dr. Hai Le, who practices internal medicine at Scripps Coastal Medical Center in Vista and his wife, Loann.
They lost their 15-year-old son Ansel two years ago in an accident at their home in Carlsbad.
However, the two are finding a way to heal by honoring his memory through "A Bridge to School," a charity program benefitting school children in their homeland of Vietnam.
The couple started the Ansel Foundation to raise funds to build bridges for poor villages in Vietnam.
During monsoon season, children get stuck at home because poorly constructed bridges collapse or wash away, leaving them without a route to school.
The two find solace in helping others with the bridges they build on the Mekong Delta.
The bridges are built under the umbrella of Compassionate Service Society, a larger charity based out of Orange County.
If there is a surplus of donations after the bridges are constructed, the Le's use the money to construct much-needed wells in the village.
The couple chose the project because the dollars go farther in the country.
"We want to be able to use the limited money for a lot of people," said Dr. Le.
The couple is from Vietnam but left in the late 1970's, after the fall of Saigon.
Dr. Le spent time in Malaysia while waiting to come to America. It was there his inspiration to become a doctor solidified after witnessing the good two doctors did for Doctors Without Borders.
"They truly inspired me as a teenager," said Dr. Le.
One doctor, who he called Dr. Martin, would work all day with the refugees on a hospital boat. Afterwards, he would boat to shore to clean up the beaches, to keep cholera from spreading.
"I was so amazed and shocked to see someone so different from us, come from a part of the world that is so comfortable, come to this remote island, Pulau Bidong, Malaysia and do far more than we could've asked him to do," Dr. Le said about Dr. Martin.
About 43,000 refugees were housed on a square mile island, said Dr. Le.
"I look back now and it's really lucky that we survived that," he said.
He came to Long Beach as a teenager, which is where he met his wife six years later.
The two haven't been back to Vietnam since, but hope to visit the bridges they've funded through the Ansel Foundation.
Their son dreamed of becoming a doctor, like his father, as his way to help people.
His parents described him as an extremely studious child who was an old soul.
Ansel volunteered his lunch hour to help tutor other students, which Dr. Le was completely unaware of until Ansel's friends spoke at his funeral.
Ansel Le was a studious teenager who enjoyed competing on Carlsbad High School's Speech and Debate team.
He was active in school, getting straight A's, taking mostly AP classes and competing in speech and debate at Carlsbad High School.
Trophies from his time on the speech and debate team still dot his room, which his mother said, she still has a hard time passing.
He also was one of the youngest tutors at the Carlsbad City Library Learning Center, volunteering his free time after school to help students with math.
Organizers of the program were so impressed with his tutelage, they were willing to pay him for his work, which would've been his first paying job.
Loann said two years may seem like a long time since losing Ansel, but it's still extremely difficult, as if it happened yesterday.
Loann also finds relief in reaching out to an online community. She said she never used Facebook but after Ansel's passing, a friend suggested she start an online foundation.
Her page, Loving Wellness – Mind and Body, combines her knowledge as a dietician with inspirational and encouraging phrases. She started the page to honor Ansel and it now has close to 100,000 followers.
It has helped her connect with people as far away as the Netherlands and Brazil, who she believes she never would have met otherwise.
Ansel used to help her do anything online so she feels he would be proud of her efforts managing such a popular Facebook page.
The couple said it's difficult for people to relate to their loss, so seeing words online from others who have experienced similar pain "is like a hug," said Dr. Le.
The couple plans to continue the program in honor of their son, who would have been 17 in May.
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