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Few things are more striking to a thoughtful reader of the life of our Lord than the power he possessed of laying bare the secret character of those who approached him. He not only "knew what was in man," he revealed men to themselves, and compelled them, in spite of themselves, to betray themselves to others. And he did this, not by elaborate arguments or vehement appeals, but by a word, sometimes it almost seemed by a look. The power seemed to lie, not so much in what he did or said, as in himself, in his own divine purity, truth, and love. He was well called "the light," for darkness could not keep its secrets in his presence. Whatever was in a man came out, involuntarily, as soon as he stood face to face with Christ. Hypocrisy was stripped of its disguise, and slunk away to hide its nakedness ; dishonest sophistry found itself detected and exposed by one glance of his eye or one word of his lip; the self-righteousness which lurked in the heart of more candid inquirers was revealed and rebuked, and the sores of the spiritual lepers who came to him were uncovered and probed, that they might be tenderly and effectually healed. This searching, revealing power of Christ over the hearts of men is one of the deepest and mightiest proofs of his deity. It was this that made Nathanael cry, « Rabbi, thou art the Son of God," and drew from the Samaritan woman the wondering testimony, "Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did ; is not this the Christ ?." We feel, as we read such passages in the life of our Lord, that It will not be merely by the process of a formal judgment, but by the power of a living discrimination, that "we shall all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ,"
Our Lord never possessed this power more fully, or manifested it more wonderfully, than when he hung upon the Cross. Never was he, by this token, more thoroughly himself, more unmistakably divine, than when he seemed most utterly conquered and helpless. No outward weakness or shame could despoil him of this symbol of his divinity, this mark that he was the Son to whòm all judgment had been committed by the Father. The motley crowd that gathered round the Cross were all discriminated and divided into classes, as the character of each betrayed itself beneath the Ithuriel touch of the strange scene on which all were gazing. Nor is it a mere fancy which sees in the disposition and relation of men towards Christ, as shown in their different conduct upon Calvary, a type of their disposition and relation towards him, as shown by their treatment of Christ crucified. As the character and spiritual condition of men was discrimimated and revealed by the actual spectacle of the Cross, so might we expect, so do we find, their character and condition to be discriminated and revealed by thatGospel, which is but the spectacle of the Cross rehearsed, expounded, and enforced. Still the life and words, but most of all the death, of Christ, try and judge men, becoming by the very force of this discrimination, to some "a savour of death unto death," and to others, "a savour of life unto life." It is the purpose of this brief series of papers to illustrate this thought by a few instances, selected on the ground of their adaptation to usefulness from the many which present themselves to us in our study of the story of the crucifixion. And it seems not unnatural to begin with those two who were in closest neighbourhood to the divine sufferer, being, outwardly at least, the fellows of his sufferings ; those in whose association with him in his death we are bidden to see the fulfilment of the prophetic words, "He was numbered with the transgressors." ..
How clearly the evidences of a true conversion to God show themiselves in the conduct and language of the penitent thief! His words are few indeed ; but his was no state, and that was no hour, for long speeches. The very urgency of his case forbade this ; what was to be said and done must be said and done quickly. And words spoken at such a consummate crisis of a man's history have a depth and a sincerity about them, a concentration of meaning and truth, which words uttered on common-place occasions are too apt to lack. We may be sure that the heart of the speaker is in every syllable he utters. See, then, how spiritual and full is his acknowledgment of guilt. It is not of mere crime and crucifixion that he speaks, but of sin and its desert in the eyes of a holy God. "Dost not thou fear God ?" This is language like his who cried, " Against thee, thee only have I sinned, and done evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest." For he, too, vindicates the justice of his condemnation, and owns the sovereign claims of God and his law, which by his sin he had set at nought. And how wonderful is his discernment of the greatness and the saving power of Christ! Whether he had ever known Jesus before, we cannot tell; but evidently this is his first real,
spiritual recognition of him as the Saviour. And I think it is well nigh the greatest marvel in that scene of marvels, this faith, born at such an hour in such a heart, and able at once clearly to recognise and firmly to lay hold of the Redeemer, just when the rejection and contempt of men had reached its climax, and when the trust of the disciples themselves was numbed and paralysed by disappointment and grief. This eye that sees the glory and royalty of Jesus right through the shame that hides it from others, this heart that trusts his redeeming power even while the taunt is ringing in his ears, " Himself he cannot save," can be from none other than the Spirit of God. And the spirituality of his faith is evinced in its lowliness and simplicity. "Remember me"-that touching, comprehensive plea—bespeaks how utterly he has renounced all other hope. "If thou forget me I am lost." It útters his deep sense of unworthiness ; "I ask not, am not worthy to ask, great things, but let me have a place in thy recollection, do not forget me, even me, when thou comest into thy kingdom." And yet, in another view, it illustrates the boldness and directness of simple faith. Why should he wish to be remembered ? Sarely, we might think, after such a life as his, to be forgotten by the Judge was the more natural prayer. But faith, renouncing all dream of worthiness, is not daunted by sense of unworthiness. Apprehending the love of Christ, casting itself on His mercy and grace, it dares ask to be remembered, assured that to be remembered by Him is to be saved.
Have we not here, then, the authentic marks of the regenerating work of the Spirit of God ? You and I, my brother, need wish for no brighter evidence of grace, no clearer witness of the Spirit, than this poor man had in his deep and bumbling consciousness of sin, his clear discernment of the glory and power of the crucified Saviour, his lowly, self-renouncing, unhesitating trust in that Saviour's love, his courage to confess the Lord when all else forsook and despised him. Let us learn not unduly to distrust sudden and remarkable conversions; but rather to rejoice that there is present in the midst of a sinful world a power which can thus, "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye," change and reverse the whole current of a life, transform the sinner to a saint, and make the man who seemed ripe for Hell a meet candidate for Heaven.
Space will not permit us, as we could have wished, to dwell upon the answer of our Lord. Let us only notice, in a few hasty words, the undisturbed consciousness of divine royalty which it reveals—a consciousness as calm and full on the Cross as on the Throne ; a royalty so entirely spiritual, so completely his own, as to be supremely independent of all outward ignominy. Mark, too, how prompt and full is Christ's response to the appeal of penitence. No hesitation ; no upbraiding ; no putting on probation ; the very prayer is almost stopped on the lip of the suppliant by the immediateness of the Saviour's answer. And after what a generous fashion that answer interprets the penitent's modest plea, doing for him exceeding abundantly above all he asked or thought. "Remember me," is all the request : " Thou shalt be with me in Paradise," tbno overwhelming reply. " Remember me when thou comest," is the


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Piper nigrum on tree support in Goa, India.
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What is the binomial of Black pepper?
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Sicalis columbiana
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Piper nigrum
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He got out of bed and opened the curtains, letting the sun spill in and blanket him in its warm glow. Closing his eyes, he bathed in its splendor. His breath was calm and deep as he got down onto his knees and spread his arms heavenward, giving thanks for not just another day but for the blessing of life. Not his, but what would be the beginning of another offering.
He remained there in a meditative state, letting his consciousness drift to the other realm, a place far too few visited or were even aware of. But it was in this stillness that he found his true self, his identity, and his purpose, where he became centered and focused on the seriousness of his mission.


Russia's absorption of the Crimea region in early 2014 continues to be a source of friction between Washington and Moscow. The issue was illustrated recently by several US firms which cut ties with the disputed territory altogether.
Due to sanctions placed on the region last year by the US authorities, which include an export ban of US goods, technology, sales and services to Crimea, Apple and Valve are the latest companies to blacklist Crimea, in addition to payment operators Visa, MasterCard and PayPal.


With National Drowsy Driving Prevention Week running from November 12 through 18 and Thanksgiving quickly approaching, Maryland residents should be fully aware of the dangers faced on the road. While dangers such as drunk driving or winter weather-affected roads are often spotlighted by safety organizations, drowsy, or fatigued, driving can present just as serious a danger.
Those who drive fatigued are at a greater risk of not only falling asleep at the wheel, but making poor and even dangerous choices while on the road. In accordance with National Drowsy Driving Prevention Week, the National Sleep Foundation and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety have released a new survey documenting the dangers and unfortunately common nature of fatigued driving.
According to the survey, one in 10 drivers of all ages admitted to having fallen asleep at the wheel within the past year. However, of those between the ages of 16 and 24, this rate increased to one in seven. Fatigued driving is incredibly dangerous. The AAA Foundation found that approximately one in every six fatal car crashes involves a drowsy driver and a previous study by the National Sleep Foundation found that 52% of drivers have driven drowsy before.
With many making long trips to see family and friends on Thanksgiving, it is important that every Maryland resident prevent themselves and their loved ones from driving drowsy. Get a full night's sleep the night before the trip, use a driving buddy to swap duties when tired, take a break every two hours, and take naps when needed.
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Nichols suffers knee injury while playing receiver
David Nichols playing status for Fridays game against Hughson is still uncertain as he recovers from a knee injury. Nichols suffered the injury at East Union last week. - photo by Courier file photo
Ceres High's varsity football team suffered a double-whammy during Friday night's 47-14 loss at East Union.
The Bulldogs lost the non-league game and a key player to injury.
Senior receiver David Nichols was injured on a non-contact play, head coach Bret Durossette said.
Nichols tweaked his knee while running a route in the second half.
"Hopefully, we can get him back on the field as soon as we can," Durossette said. "We want him to get well."
Nichols caught two passes for 40 yards before exiting the Ceres High-East Union game.
A transfer from Waterford, Nichols caught seven passes for 140 yards and one touchdown during his varsity debut with Ceres High on Aug. 25.
Nichols led the way on defense as well, blocking and returning a punt for a TD.
He also collected one sack.
The Bulldogs opened the 2017 season with a 48-42 victory at Weston Ranch.
David attended Ceres High his sophomore and freshman years.
"He (Nichols) does a lot of things well," Bulldogs offensive coordinator Brandon Moring said. "He's a versatile kid. He has a good football IQ."
Ceres High (1-1) will battle unbeaten Hughson (2-0) this Friday at Bulldog Stadium.
"It will be a game-time decision," Durossette said while talking about Nichols' status for the non-conference game. "We have other kids that have been working hard. Hopefully, they can rise to the occasion if David can't play."


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Home » Region » Kagame steps down, Egypt's Sisi takes helm at African Union
Kagame steps down, Egypt's Sisi takes helm at African Union
By AFP - Feb 10,2019 - Last updated at Feb 11,2019
This handout photo released by the Egyptian Presidency shows Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi (right) shaking hands with the Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the African Union summit on Saturday (AFP photo)
ADDIS ABABA - Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who led an active, reformist tenure as African Union (AU) chair, on Sunday passed the baton to Egypt, seen as more likely to focus on security issues than expanding the body's powers.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi officially took over the rotating post of ceremonial head of the AU at the start of a two-day summit in Addis Ababa.
The meeting highlighted the ''links between the Mediterranean and Lake Victoria'', as a metaphor for sub-Saharan Africa.
''Egypt has an interest in Africa, they want to strengthen their position on the African continent and they don't want to be seen as a country only focused on the Arab world,'' said Liesl Louw-Vaudran, an analyst at the Institute for Security Studies.
Kagame's leadership of the AU focused on institutional and administrative reforms. Sisi, however, is expected to focus more on security, peacekeeping and postwar reconstruction, issues closely tied to the AU's 2019 theme of ''Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons''.
''The road is still long'' in terms of reaching the AU's goal of ''silencing the guns'' by 2020, Sisi, told delegates on Sunday. He announced he would hold a ''forum for peace and development''in the town of Aswan, southern Egypt, in 2019.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that peaceful elections in DR Congo, Mali and Madagascar, peace deals in South Sudan and Central African Republic and the truce between Ethiopia and Eritrea, were however signs of a ''wind of hope'' on the continent.
Guterres also hailed the solidarity shown in Africa, where countries house nearly a third of refugees and displaced people in the world.
''Despite the continent's own social, economic and security challenges, Africa's governments and people have kept borders, doors and hearts open to millions in need,'' he said.
''Unfortunately, this example has not been followed everywhere'.
The chairmanship of the AU rotates between the five regions of the continent, and South Africa will take over from Egypt next year.
Reforms and resistance
While multiple crises on the continent will be on the agenda of heads of state from the 55 member nations, the summit will also focus on institutional reforms, and the establishment of a continent-wide free trade zone.
While the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) was agreed by 44 nations in March 2018, only 19 countries have so far ratified the agreement. It requires 22 to ratify it for it to come into effect.
The single market is a flagship of the AU's ''Agenda 2063'' programme, conceived as key to transforming the continent's economies.
Cairo is backing the initiative, but analysts say it will be less likely to focus on the financial and administrative reforms pushed by Kagame.
Kagame, who has been leading institutional reforms since 2016, pushed for a continent-wide import tax to fund the AU and reduce its dependence on external donors, who still pay for more than half the institution's annual budget.
But member states have resisted both this and moves to strengthen the powers of the AU Commission, its executive organ. In November 2018, most states rejected a proposal to give the head of the AU Commission the power to name deputies and commissioners.
Egypt, like fellow regional heavyweights Nigeria and South Africa, is not keen on a powerful AU, one African diplomat told AFP.
Cairo has ''never forgotten'' its suspension in 2013 after Egypt's army deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who had in 2012 became the country's first democratically elected president, the diplomat said.
''Traditionally, leaders of big powers have not really helped the position of AU chairperson, as they don't want an AU which is too strong or too intrusive,'' said Elissa Jobson of the International Crisis Group.
Kagame suffered a setback after expressing "serious doubts" on behalf of the AU about the results of the Democratic Republic of Congo's recent presidential election, which was officially won by Felix Tshisekedi.
The country's Catholic Church had also questioned the result.
But the DRC's constitutional court validated the results anyway and continental heavyweights South Africa, Kenya and Egypt acknowledged Tshisekedi's victory.
''This whole thing was an embarrassment for the AU, it showed the limitations of what the AU chairperson can do,'' said Jobson.
Amnesty International expressed fears that Egypt's chairmanship could undermine human rights in the AU.
''During his time in power President Abdel Fattah Sisi has demonstrated a shocking contempt for human rights,'' said Najia Bounaim, Amnesty's North Africa Campaigns director.
''Under his leadership the country has undergone a catastrophic decline in rights and freedoms,'' she added.


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Low concentrations of lipopolysaccharide synergize with peptides to augment human T-cell proliferation and can prevent the induction of non-responsiveness by CTLA4-Ig.
Goodier, MR; Londei, M; (2001) Low concentrations of lipopolysaccharide synergize with peptides to augment human T-cell proliferation and can prevent the induction of non-responsiveness by CTLA4-Ig. Immunology, 102 (1). pp. 15-23. ISSN 0019-2805 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2567.2001.01147.x
We investigate how lipopolysaccharide (LPS) could influence antigen-specific T-cell responses as well as tolerance induction. Using the recall antigen tetanus toxoid for primary in vitro T-cell stimulation, we observed that LPS synergized with peptides to augment proliferation, particularly when used at low concentrations (as little as 100 pg/ml), and that interleukin-12 (IL-12) was partially required for this synergistic effect. Because of the clear enhancement of in vitro peptide-specific responses we then tested whether LPS could influence antigen-specific tolerance driven by coincubation of antigen (tetanus toxoid; TT or immunodominant peptides) with human CTLA-4Ig fusion protein. As expected, CTLA-4Ig treatment inhibited responses to peptides. LPS (100 pg/ml) induced a partial recovery of primary in vitro proliferation under these conditions and the presence of LPS during the primary stimulation prevented the induction of tolerance normally observed on re-stimulation with the same antigen alone. Contrary to the synergistic effects on peptide proliferation this action was not caused by release of IL-12. In addition, the neutralization of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) during the primary stimulation did not inhibit proliferation on re-stimulation with peptide. LPS could therefore exert dramatic effects on antigen-specific proliferation and CTLA-4Ig-induced non-responsiveness in human T cells, although via distinct mechanisms. These results reinforce the evidence that LPS influences T-cell function, most likely as a consequence of myeloid cell activation.
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EQT Credit provides financing to support the acquisition of Studienkreis, a leading player in the German tutoring market
#Press Release #EQT Mid-Market Credit #Studienkreis
The EQT Mid-Market Credit fund ("EQT Credit") today announces that it has provided a tailored financing solution to support IK Investment Partners' investment in Studienkreis Holding GmbH ("Studienkreis" or the "Company"), a German private tutoring service provider.
Studienkreis was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Bochum. It operates a network of over 1,000 learning centres and offers small group tutoring to 60,000 primary and secondary school students across Germany. It also offers online tutoring and has developed the Studienkreis app for homework support. The Company has a strong growth profile, driven by expansion both through acquisitions and opening of new centres. Studienkreis has opened 150 new locations since 2013, when previous owner Aurelius acquired the group, and today has 160 full time employees.
EQT Credit is providing a unitranche facility to back IK Investment Partners' acquisition of Studienkreis. The drawn debt consists of a super senior package by Berenberg Bank and an Unitranche facility. The parties have agreed not to disclose the terms of the transaction.
Paul Johnson, Partner at EQT Partners' Credit team, Investment Advisor to EQT Credit, commented: "EQT Credit has a strong history in providing financing to the education sector. We are looking forward to supporting Studienkreis to further facilitate growth and expansion of the Company".
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Q&A with Steve Martin and Martin Short, who will perform Sunday in Ames
Steve Martin is the yin to Martin Short's yang, or vice versa.
Q&A with Steve Martin and Martin Short, who will perform Sunday in Ames Steve Martin is the yin to Martin Short's yang, or vice versa. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://dmreg.co/2xfINKo
Kelley Simms, ksimms@registermedia.com Published 9:42 p.m. CT Sept. 17, 2018 | Updated 11:23 a.m. CT Sept. 19, 2018
Steve Martin, left, and actor Martin Short will perform in Ames on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018.(Photo: Jason Merritt, Getty Images)
Martin's suave and cool demeanor is expressed in his deadpan manner, whereas Short's maniacal flair is articulated in every whacky gesture he demonstrates.
However, each one's different comedic approach compliments the other. They'll appear together Sunday at Stephens Auditorium in Ames.
Martin has appeared in such classic films as "Roxanne" and "The Jerk," while Short's stardom began on the Canadian hit sketch comedy Second City Television and then Saturday Night Live.
Martin, 73, and Short, 68, have aged gracefully — like a vintage bottle of Dom Perignon.
The movie-star friends met more than 30 years ago while working on 1986's "Three Amigos," and subsequently shared the screen in two "Father of the Bride" films.
The musical-comedy revue the duo will be presenting on Sunday will be loosely based on this year's hit Netflix show, "Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life," which was nominated for four Emmys.
DMR: After watching the Netflix show, it's easy to see that you both play off each other so well. It almost seems like one is the yin to the other's yang.
Short: At times, I think it does.
Martin: I don't think of it as yin and yang. Abbott and Costello are yin and yang. You have one who's crazy and the other one's kind of sane. But this just feels like we're peers bouncing off each other. So, it's a little bit different than yin and yang.
Short: My thing is pure ying and yang.
Martin: I think of it as yang/yang.
DMR: It seems like you're genuinely having fun on stage with this act. What is it about the chemistry between the two of you?
Short: It's called acting.
Martin: I think we really enjoy comedy. And I'm not talking about comedy on stage — we like that, too — but we like comedy off stage. So we're always joking, and we like funny people, so we have a lot of funny friends. I'll give you this little antidote that I'll take up the entire time with it.
Short: Heard it!
Martin: I did a movie about 15 years ago. There were two 3-year-old twins on the show, and they were so happy. And I asked the parents, 'The children are so happy; what do you do?' The father looked kind of blank and he thought about it, 'Well, we use humor.' I just think that story means that humor is such a great way to communicate. The end.
DMR: How much spontaneity and off-the-cuff situations versus scripted is there in the show?
Martin: It changes from night to night, but ad-libbing is how we get new material a lot of the times. So you ad lib something one night and the next night it's just in.
Short: You literally walk out on stage and you're discussing that line with really great set-ups for the next joke and you remember that and you go to an assistant and they put it down and that's how it works.
DMR: Out of all the movies you have done, is this live show the most fulfilling?
Short: I think we started off that way. We started off by doing live work with great satisfaction. I don't think either of us left live work; we always did something.
Martin: I like that we have this entire career that is under the radar, except for Netflix. But when we're live, we're analog. It's not analyzed 65 different ways after it's done. People are just there to enjoy it.
DMR: Looking at your tour itinerary, you have a lot of dates booked. What are you looking forward to the most?
Short: I would say 40 to 50 percent of the new material in the show is already from Netflix. And I think that's what exciting. The urge to develop new material that's exciting to perform in front of audiences that get what your instinct in comedy is — it's so much fun doing this show, that's why we do it.
DMR: You first met on "The Three Amigos" set. Is this when your friendship began?
Martin: The movie is not a big part of our life. It's a part of our life, but it's not like we go have drinks and say, "Wow, how about 'The Three Amigos?'" We laugh about all the good times we've had and are continuing to get around and have a lot of fun. For me, I'm 73, so I feel fantastic that we're out there selling out theaters at my age. Marty's the baby boy.
DMR: During the show, Steve's bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers perform a few numbers. Steve how did the band form?
Martin: I had made a bluegrass record and my agent said, 'You need a band to tour with.' There was only one band that I knew — it was a band I had met with my wife in North Carolina on vacation — so I asked them if they wanted to do it, and it's been over 10 years, and they've come a long way just on their own.
DMR: Marty, you also do a few solo numbers with pianist and musical director Jeff Babko; what type of music do you like to perform?
Short: I love music and I love singing and all that, but I do think that you make an agreement early on in your career that they have signed on to you — not because you're singing, but because you are funny. So I tend to do music at times, but the dominant element is the comedy.
DMR: What's in store for the Ames crowd on Sunday night?
Martin: Our goal, whenever we do a show, is for the audience to have laughed as much as possible. Sometimes I'm, like, 'Wow, they laughed the whole show.' And I think that's what makes me happy and I assume that's what makes Marty happy. We're not relying on greatest hits or anything like that; we're doing new material for us and it makes us really happy.
Short: Yeah, I agree. It's amazing the level of how you judge a joke — and a certain element that's a great joke, and you want the energy to just continue — and that's to laugh throughout the show.
What: Steve Martin and Martin Short
When: Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Stephens Auditorium, 1900 Center Drive, Ames
Tickets: Starting at $85
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Q: Decrypt PBKDF2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1e I need to decrypt a document with openssl:
Method : PBKDF2WithHmacSHA256
Salt : saltexample
Passphrase : mypassphrase

I tried the command :
 openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -salt -md sha256 -pbkdf2 -in file.csv.enc -out file.txt

but i get the following error :
unknown option '-pbkdf2'

Does any one knows the correct command for this version of openssl  : OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb ?2013

A: That is an old version of OpenSSL which does not include it (well it does support RFC2898, but it is pretty poorly documented and it's not possible to specify on the enc command line)
I don't have that version handy on me (appears RHEL7 has it by default) to man it but if you check the respective online manpages - it shows this bought into 1.1.1:
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/man1/enc.html
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man1/enc.html
So it should now be apparent, upgrading OpenSSL is the easiest fix for this.
Download/Wget the appropriate tar from here:
https://www.openssl.org/source/
Then make install:
# cd $openssl-version-you-downloaded
# ./config
# make
# make test
# make install

Then:
# mv /usr/bin/openssl /root/
# ln -s /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl

Then run your command again.

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The cast of the show.
The music of ska band Madness provides the backdrop for this musical about the choices we make – and the consequences we must live with.
Our House – by playwright Tim Firth – explores the themes of love, family values, and growing up.
The musical will be at the Priory Centre, St Neots, on July 18-19, where the Riverside Theatre Company will perform its production of the Olivier Award-winning show.
It tells the tale of Camden lad Joe Casey who makes a life-changing decision on the night of his 16th birthday.
In an effort to impress the girl of his dreams, he breaks into a building development overlooking his home. When the police turn up, his life divides – there is the Joe who stays and gives himself up, and the Joe who flees and leaves her to take the blame.
The audience is shown the two paths that his life could take after that fateful night – one leading to a criminal record and one causing him to lose the girl he loves.
Over a period of seven years and two alternative lives, he faces the consequences of his actions, watched over by his dead father who unites the two realities.
INFORMATION: Starts 7.30pm on the Friday and Saturday, with a 2.30pm Saturday matinee. £10 for adults, £8 concessions and £33 for a family ticket, on 01480 388922 or www.riversidetheatrecompany.co.uk.


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Born in 1946, Philip Heselton is a geographer and retired local government officer who has written extensively on Earth Mysteries and our spiritual relationship with the landscape. He has also carried out extensive research into the story of the modern witchcraft revival, chronicled in his books, Wiccan Roots and Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration. Hutton has described him as being the most interesting, valuable and enjoyable author who has yet written on what is becoming one of the greatest riddles in the history of modern religion: the origins of pagan witchcraft. Nobody has ever done more than Philip Heselton to reveal the world of magic, paganism, naturism and faerie that lay behind the garden gates of inter-war English suburban villas; and perhaps only he could have done it at all.


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U.S. asks WTO to step in over China tariffs on American-made cars
Michigan Radio | By Tracy Samilton
Published July 5, 2012 at 5:40 PM EDT
Tracy Samilton
Michigan Radio
A Chevy dealership in Shanghai, China
The United States has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against China over tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles.
The Obama administration says China unfairly placed duties of up to 22 percent on U.S.-made vehicles that are exported to China.
The tariffs apply to larger passenger cars and SUVs.
Vehicles that have been hit with the extra duties include two cars made by General Motors, the Cadillac CTS and Buick Enclave. Chrysler has also been affected. The company exports American-made Jeeps to China.
The administration says the value of the exports is more than $3 billion. U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow says the duties are widely seen as retaliation after the U.S. prevailed in a separate WTO dispute over Chinese-made tires being "dumped" into the U.S. market at below cost.
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Tracy Samilton covers energy and transportation, including the auto industry and the business response to climate change for Michigan Radio. She began her career at Michigan Radio as an intern, where she was promptly "bitten by the radio bug," and never recovered.
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Our trip to Essex over half-term involved a strong mix of emotions and this picture sums it up entirely – bright spots of joy on an otherwise dreary beach.
We were visiting my grandmother who is very poorly but it was lovely to go out for some interesting day trips and see cousins and relatives that we don't see as often as we would like. As well as visiting the beach at Holland-on-Sea, we got to see Jimmy's Farm and Clacton Pier. We also had some lovely meals and fun exploits in my aunt's garden with lots of cousins; a house with six children who are five and under is never dull!
Even though the beach was not at its best for photos in the overcast weather, I really like something about this shot. Littlest was absolutely delighted by every single pebble on the beach and lifted them all up for inspection, in between trying to eat several.
Biggest, as is often the case, was in his own world, whirling about in the distance, dawdling behind, staring out at the sea with his great big blue eyes and quizzical expression.
This photo somehow catches those moods and their different reactions so well.
It is getting harder and harder to pick pictures to be featured for #SaturdaySiblings. There were so many that I loved. However, here are this week's chosen four pictures.
First up is Jane from The Wrong Kind of Snow Blog who you can also find on Instagram as pearliejqueen. I just love the relationship that can be seen in this shot. Even though we can't see faces, I think the adoration of the younger sibling and the guidance and maturity of the older sibling shine through. Thanks for sharing with us.
Next up is Shaney from i Mummy Blog who you can also find on Instagram at imummyimummy. This is such a cute photo. I love the little sofa they are sitting on and the way Big Sis is whispering something conspiratorially… hopefully not up to mischief! Adorable.
Then we have this gorgeous shot from Louise at Little Hearts Big Love who you can find on Instagram at littleheartsbiglove. The pictures that Louise shares of her two girls are always gorgeous. I love the selective focus on this shot – it really emphasises the two of them in their own little world, holding hands. Just perfect.
Finally, we have Natalie from memeandharri who you can also find on Instagram at memeandharri. The blurred focus in this shot is also so effective. Somehow it gives the atmosphere of those hazy Summer days that seemed to last forever when you were a small child. There's a sense of nostalgia and perfectly captured childhood adventures. And the matching hats and dresses are just beautiful.
Thanks to all our featured #SaturdaySiblings posters and to everyone who took part last week. Looking forward to seeing the pictures from this week over the next few days.


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Action Comics: Rebirth – Year 1 Complete Recap
So when I made our first Rebirth Year 1 video, I put a Patreon poll up asking what series people would like me to go over for Rebirth's first year yet. The series that won, and the comic line most requested by our viewers in general, was easily Action Comics, which pretty much outpaced everything else with ease.
At the time, it was easy to understand why. I was already familiar enough with the Action Comics of the Rebirth era and their outstanding quality, so I figured it would be an easy experience going through these comics in more depth. Indeed it was, and even though I already kind of new what to expect, I was still impressed by just how good this series has gotten in the time of Rebirth.
There's so much Action Comics gets right that it's very easy for me to understand why a lot of our viewers and comic book readers in general have started to really take an interest in this almost 1,000 issue long comic book line. I almost don't know where to begin. Both the story and art are well done throughout the first year of Action Comics. Dan Jurgens handled the writing during this period, while more artists worked on this thing than I can count or go through individually.
Yet the art does deserve a metric ton of praise. In spite of a lot of different people being involved throughout these comics, the artists and colourists do an amazing job at keep a certain consistent quality to this series. Everything is so realistic that every facial expression registers well. I don't think there's a weak penciller, inker, colourist, or even letterer on the team, though two people stand out that I want to give a special shout-out to. First is Doug Mahnke, who's special level of detail is nothing quite like what I've ever seen before. It's got this iconic Jim Lee quality too it but has this level of detail I cannot compare to any other comic book artist… ever. It's pretty amazing and just impresses me over and over again. The other shout-out I want to give is to Robert Leigh, who does some pretty fantastic lettering for the series. Near the end of Revenge, he does this thing where any dialogue spoken in Mandarin is done in blue text. It's a very simple, small detail, but one I thought was very effective at showing the New Superman was speaking a different language as well as a handful of other characters who can also speak Mandarin, like Superman when he is talking to Kong or when Blanque is able to telepathically communicate with the young hero.
It's a very little point but one I really appreciated, and looked a little better than what comics usually do to denote a foreign language through the use of brackets or subtitles. The massive art team behind Action Comics is full of competent, clever, and simply beautiful work throughout this entire first year of issues, and really, it's one of the best features of this comic.
It's not the only feature, though. When I started making this video I stumbled on a Reddit discussion about the series before it had premiered. Remember at the time we were at the tail end of the New 52, deep into the half-baked, half-Marvel style soft reboot known as DCYou, and the content at the time was less than impressive. DC hadn't shown it's hand yet, so we only had announcements to go by and well, doubt was deeply ingrained in the comic book community. It still is, by the way, as to this day I meet many would be comic book fans that haven't heard the good word of Rebirth yet, and assume comics have been the same mediocrity they have been for the last several years. Yet things have changed, and Rebirth really is showing that you can meaningfully progress superhero stories in fun, interesting, and most importantly, new ways.
Yet before all this we were skeptical, as was this Reddit thread talking about Action Comics. The sentiment at the time was doubt for this series, too, and I understand why. It was cool that they were going back to this long-running series' original numbering, but with the announcement Dan Jurgens was writing this series,and the first story arc was about Doomsday, people were understandably worried.
Dan Jurgens is an interesting fellow and a choice that surprised a lot of people, but when we consider his career and the fact they very much lined him up to be the writer in the build-up to the historic milestone of Action Comics #1000, it all makes quite a bit of sense. This is an old school writer who first started out in the 80s and has a long history of writing for Superman. You likely know him best as the guy who wrote Death of Superman, but he's done a lot more than that. He created Cyborg Superman, wrote a couple of really cool crossovers with various other companies, and has been responsible for several other comic book gems over the years. He's a cool guy, but I'm not going to pretend he was ever one of my favourite writers.
I'm not afraid to admit that Death of Superman is not a story I enjoyed or look back on fondly. I've heard that story described as the Micheal Bay movie of comic books, and I'm inclined to agree with that sentiment. It's not bad, strictly speaking it's just… boring. Superman and Doomsday fight… and they fight… and they fight, until eventually, Superman just sort of… dies, for a while, at least, before some really weird, confusing nonsense happens and pretty soon he is back.
In the modern age, Jurgens had been making a lot of comics I'm afraid I really can only describe as mediocre at best, and, to be honest, more often than not, were just plain awful. I did not care for his time on Green Arrow and Future's End just sucked, but he did alright with some of his Superman comics and did a straight up good job with Batman Beyond. All this set the stage for Rebirth, and a lot of people, myself included, were pretty ambivalent about him taking on Action Comics. Add in the fact this first story arc was about Doomsday, even though we just had a major story arc featuring the villain less than a year before Rebirth began, and you should be able to at least understand why I and others were so skeptical about this thing before we started.
Of course, healthy skepticism is fine, so long as you approach the material in question with an open mind. I and many others did, and boy, were we rewarded from it. Let me make something clear, having just gone out of my way to underlie just how ambivalent I was about Dan Jurgens before reading Action Comics – this series is a brilliant read and one of the best written runs to ever come out of this particular series. Obviously, in almost a thousand issues, there are plenty of great runs throughout the history of Action Comics. The Rebirth era is easily one of my favorites, though, and for many reasons.
The central points of Action Comics in the Rebirth Era are twofold. First, there is a concrete focus on action. This is to be expected out of something called Action Comics, but the creative team here do a good job at not only writing out lots of high-stakes action with Superman and associated characters, but the art team delivers on Jurgen's strongly paced action issue after issue. Secondly, Action Comics has a huge, consistent focus on solid character work.
From major characters like Superman, Lois Lane, and Lex Luthor, to more minor but important figures like Lana Lang, the God Slayer, and even Mr. Mxyzptlk, every character is written with not only a surprising degree of nuance but also with a lot of depth to them. I singled out Lois, Clark, and Lex in particular because they are both well written but provide the bulk of the comic's narration. It's so well done, getting into these character's thoughts and feelings about the world around them. It delivers on little moments, like Lois and Clark figuring out Doomsday's behaviour at the same time, due to their heavy level of experience and Lois' incredible familiarity with all things Superman. Lois in particular really stands out in the comics. She constantly has interesting stuff to do and is often very directly involved in the plot in important ways, and not once did I ever feel like she was forced into any comic. Lex Luthor is great too, and his time in these comics are filled with great little moments as well. His narration is super interesting, like when we learn that he had no idea Superman had thoroughly investigated him long ago, or the gradually building of trust between these two, after Lex explains, with quite a bit of sincerity, that the New 52 Superman taught him the value of being a hero during the events of Forever Evil. That's smart, and the sort of follow-through from events and character development that superhero stories lack far too often.
We learn a lot about these characters through the story and Dan Jurgens deserves so much credit for writing these characters so well. He really lays it all out nicely in the first story arc. Superman is changed from the man who first fought Doomsday at the cost of his own life. Kal-El learned from that experience and fights smarter, but also with a sense that he cannot die like he did last time – after all, unlike then, it would now mean that he'd be leaving his family all alone on this strange new world.
In spite of me not really liking Death of Superman, this first story arc nicely followed up on that content in an informative and creative way. Jurgens shows early on that he's gotten a lot of polish in his storytelling these days, and he keeps delivering one high-quality story after another after this. I initially thought the Godslayer arc might get boring or just wind up being filler, but the villains were very compelling, rounded out characters, while the story itself was not only super interesting but also a direct follow-up to the events of the Darkseid War.
Then we got Superman: Reborn, which not only paid off the Clark Kent mystery quite nicely, but also resolved any potential confusion over the two timelines in one fell swoop. Revenge, the last story arc of Action Comic's first year of Rebirth, shows us the potential of having a Superman merged with his New 52 version, and also the sheer, astounding fun we can have with this crew of various Supermen that is put together to face Zod and the others.
It's all good. Time and time again, we are delivered entertaining content with characters who are presented in a way I could pretty much follow indefinitely. I suspect, looking over the career with Dan Jurgens and the struggle he had with various editors from Marvel and DC, and thinking about the type and quality of stories we are getting out of Rebirth, that a huge part of this is that the editorial gloves really are off for most of Rebirth. By and large, it seems like the writers have a sense of creative freedom they simply did not enjoy during the New 52 era. It's hard to tell if this is the case for sure, but it would explain why writers like Dan Jurgens suddenly started making these phenomenal comics the second that Rebirth started, and the palatable shift in tone and quality Rebirth seemed to kick off.
Whatever the case, whatever happened behind the scenes that led to this, whatever DC has had to do to deliver content like this, it was worth it. These were amazing comics I am so glad I read, and I highly recommend you check them out for yourself. It's a wonderful result of many story threads and ideas – in fact, that might be the one thing holding this series back. You kind of need to read a lot of comics both inside and out of this series to fully appreciate Action Comics, but if you do, well, the pay-off is very much worth it.
Superman has changed but only for the better. His family grounds him, while his many allies and enemies give his story colour and life. I'm not going to lie to you, if Action Comic stays at this level of quality, they could easily go for another 1,000 issues.
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Q: Multiple references within a single citation with bibtex What I would like to do is to have a single citation that contains multiple references. Something like:
    \cite{reference1}

That would show on text like this:
Here we are citing reference1.1
But in the References section would be like this:

*

*a) Paper 1; b) Paper 2; c) Paper 3; and so forth.

Any help is much appreciated!

A: With biblatex/biber, sets can be defined without problem in the bib and dynamically:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[subentry]{biblatex}
\defbibentryset{set2}{shore,doody}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{set}, \cite{set2}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

A: For 'traditional' BibTeX, the mcite and mciteplus packages both offer this ability with suitable-set-up .bst files. An example using my own rsc bundle:
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{Arduengo1992,
  Title                    = {Electronic stabilization of nucleophilic carbenes},
  Author                   = {Arduengo, III, Anthony J. and H.~V.~Rasika Dias and Richard~L. Harlow and Michael Kline},
  Journal                  = {J. Am. Chem. Soc.},
  Year                     = {1992},
  Number                   = {14},
  Pages                    = {5530--5534},
  Volume                   = {114},

  Doi                      = {10.1021/ja00040a007},
}
@Article{Arduengo1994,
  Title                    = {Low-coordinate carbene complexes of nickel(0) and platinum(0)},
  Author                   = {Arduengo, III, Anthony J. and Siegfried~F. Gamper and Joseph~C. Calabrese and Fredric Davidson},
  Journal                  = {J. Am. Chem. Soc.},
  Year                     = {1994},
  Number                   = {10},
  Pages                    = {4391--4394},
  Volume                   = {116},

  Doi                      = {10.1021/ja00089a029},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{mciteplus}
\begin{document}
Some text \cite{Arduengo1992,*Arduengo1994}.
\bibliographystyle{rsc}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}


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Taipei Biennial announces its artists
Today Taipei Fine Arts Museum announced the provisional list of artists who will participate in the 2008 Taipei Biennial.
Curated by Vasif Kortun and Manray Hsu and due to open on September 13, 2008, the exhibition will present a constellation of correlated themes in a gesture that addresses the chaotic states of things in this time of globalization.
The exhibition will engage with the city of Taipei in various ways and as well as in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, it will also utilize the urban spaces. One of the venues will be the Beer Brewery and while the factory's history may represent a classical example of a post-industrialized city anywhere in the world, the exhibition is interested in seeking the nuances and specificities within the general. The brewery's daily operation will go on during the exhibition period, and its space will be utilized as a real place rather than an insular exhibition zone. In addition, the curators plan to utilize a number of advertising boards in the city, spreading around, and coming into view when you least expect it.
The exhibition focuses on issues such as globalization and its resistances, the neoliberal habitat, mobility, borders, divided states and micro-nations/states, urban transformations, informal economies, and the war condition. However, each focus comes with many other questions, and to this end, the Biennial has been commissioning as many new works as possible and/or asking the artists to rethink and adapt previous projects for the Taipei context. There will be existing works juxtaposed against the new ones.
List of the Participating Artists in progress (as of March 28, 2008):
Lara Almarcegui (Netherlands); Yochai Avrahami (Israel); Matei Bejenaru (Romania); Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova (Romania); Democracia (Spain); Didier Fuiza Faustino (Portugal); Mieke Gerritzen (Netherlands); Shaun Gladwell (Australia); Nicoline van Harskamp (Netherlands); Oliver Ressler (Austria) & Zanny Beggs (Australia); Mario Rizzi (Italy); Katya Sander (Denmark); Saso Sedlacek (Slovenia); Superflex (Denmark); Bert Theis (Italy); Nasan Tur (Germany); Wong Hoy-cheong (Malaysia).
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Aaron Rodgers has not looked like himself this year. For starters, he is dealing with a nagging injury that won't fully heal until the offseason. Rodgers has been working with a lot of new receivers and guys like Randall Cobb have been out a lot. Today's game will be in the snow which I always think helps the offense, but the wind is what hurts an offense. The Forecast calls for 20mph high winds. I also wanted to play the OVER, but it had to be scratched due to the wind. Arizona is not a great football team, but they do have a great running back in David Johnson who went to college in this very type of weather in the Missouri Valley. I also like that the Cardinals are stacked with talent in the secondary. Great coverage gets even better in windy conditions. The Packers are very thin in the secondary today as both starting safeties are out of this game and a few corners are banged up as well. With Mike Daniels and Nick Perry now on IR this defense is even more vulnerable at all three levels. Lambeau Field is a tough place to play, but just I don't think the Packers are a worthy enough football team to be favored by this amount. Josh Rosen is a young guy, but he does have the arm to push the ball downfield in this wind. Take the Cardinals.


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\section{Introduction}

We consider the problem of finding the densest packings of congruent, non-overlapping, spheres in a cube.
Equivalently, we can search for an arrangement of points inside a unit cube so that the minimum
distance between any two points is as large as possible.
The maximum separation distance of $n$ points in $[0,1]^{3}$ we denote by $d_{n}$.

To our knowledge, the optimality of $d_{n}$ is proved for $n=2,3,4,5,6,8,9$
\cite{schaer}, $n=10$ \cite{schaer_10} and $n=14$ \cite{joos}.
Optimality of $d_{n}$ was conjectured for an infinite family of packings
where $\lceil p^{3}/2\rceil$ spheres are arranged in a cubic
close-packed (ccp) structure \cite{goldberg}. We denote by $g(p)=\lceil p^{3}/2\rceil$
the number of spheres in these packings, with a maximum separation
distance denoted by $d'_{p}=\sqrt{2}/\!\left(p-1\right)$.

In this paper, we examine arrangements when $n$ is close, but less
than $g(p)$. For this family of packings $d_{n}=d'_{p}$ is often
assumed, to mean that the densest known arrangements are derived from
ccp by omission of a certain number of spheres without changing the
initial structure. Limiting values though were not provided. It was
conjectured that $d_{n}$ is constant in the range $12\leq n\leq14$
\cite{goldberg} and $29\leq n\leq32$ \cite{gensane}. A better
packing was found for $n=12$ \cite{gensane}. Similarly, previous
search results showed the same trend for $60\leq n\leq63$, $103\leq n\leq108$,
$\ldots$, $817\leq n\leq864$ \cite{wenqi,locatelli_de,packomania}.

In Section 2 we show that most of the listed packings can be improved
by proving that $d_{n}>d'_{p}$ for all $n\leq g(p)-2$. We also provide
a lower bound for these improvements. In Section 3, we introduce an
optimization method and improve the lower bound for
$4\leq p\leq21$. We show that the described procedure can be used as a good packing method
when $n$ is slightly smaller than $g(p)$. We run search to
determine improvements for other packings when $n=g(p)-r$,
for $3\leq r\leq6$, $r<p$ and $4\leq p\leq12$.

\section{Existence of improved packings}

To simplify our notation, we will assume that the radius of all spheres
in the packing is 1 and that our task is to determine the smallest
size of a cube that contains all spheres.

We denote the family of all finite
sets of points such that the distance between any two points is at least 2 by
\[
\mathcal{F}=\left\{ S\subset\mathbb{R}^{3}:\Vert s_{1}-s_{2}\Vert \geq 2\text{ for all distinct } s_{1},s_{2}\in S \right\}.
\]

Let $S_{n}=\left\{ s_{1,}\ldots,s_{n}\right\} \in\mathcal{F}$ and
let $D_{c}(s_{i},s_{j})$ be the Chebyshev distance between any two
points $s_{i},s_{j}\in S_{n}$. The smallest edge length of a cube,
with edges parallel to the axes, such that it contains all points
$S_{n}$ is equal to
\[
D(S_{n})=\max\left\{ D_{c}(s_{i},s_{j}):1\leq i<j\leq n\right\}.
\]

We notice that the maximum separation distance $d_{n}$ can also be
given as
\[
d_{n}=\max\frac{2}{D(S_{n})}.
\]

\begin{theorem*}
The maximum separation distance of $n$ points contained in a closed
region bounded by a unit cube is larger than $\sqrt{2}/\left(p-1\right)$
for all $n\leq\lceil p^{3}/2\rceil-2$.\end{theorem*}

\begin{proof}
Let $C_{p}$ be a closed region bounded by
a cube with an edge length $D_{p}=2/d'_{p}=(p-1)\sqrt{2}$, where $C_{p}$ is defined by
$C_{p}=\left[0,D_{p}\right]^{3}$.
Let $G_{p}$ be a set of $g(p)$ sphere centers in a ccp arrangement, such that
$G_{p}\in\mathfrak{\mathcal{F}}$,
$G_{p}\subset C_{p}$ and $\langle0,0,0\rangle\in G_{p}$ (see Figure 1).

\begin{figure}[ht!]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{.45\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{./G_2.pdf}
  \caption{$G_{2}$}
  \vspace*{10mm}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.45\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{./G_3.pdf}
  \caption{$G_{3}$}
  \vspace*{10mm}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{.6\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{./G_4.pdf}
  \caption{$G_{4}$}

\end{subfigure}
\caption{An illustration of arrangements $G_{2}$, $G_{3}$ and $G_{4}$.}
\end{figure}

For two sets of points $A,B\in\mathfrak{\mathcal{\mathcal{F}}}$ let
\[
h(A,B)=\min\left\{ \Vert a-b\Vert-2:a\in A,b\in B\right\}
\]
and let $L_{p}=G_{p}\setminus G_{p-1}$ (see Figure 2(a) for an example). We denote the improved packing
of $g(p)-2$ points by $P_{p}=\left\{ s_{1},\ldots,s_{g(p)-2}\right\} \in\mathcal{\mathcal{F}}$
such that
\begin{equation}
P_{p}\subset C_{p}\label{eq:p_subset},
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
h(P_{p},L_{p+1})>0\label{eq:p_separation}.
\end{equation}
Equations (\ref{eq:p_subset}) and (\ref{eq:p_separation}) directly
imply that if these statements are true, then $D(P_{p})<D_{p}$.

\begin{figure}[ht!]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{.5\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{./L_5.pdf}
  \caption{$L_{5}$}
  \vspace*{10mm}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.5\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{./L_51.pdf}
  \caption{$L_{5,1}$}
  \vspace*{10mm}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{.5\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{./L_52.pdf}
  \caption{$L_{5,2}$}
  \vspace*{10mm}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.5\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{./L_53.pdf}
  \caption{$L_{5,3}$}
  \vspace*{10mm}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{An illustration of arrangements $L_{5}$, $L_{5,1}$, $L_{5,2}$ and $L_{5,3}$.}
\end{figure}

Let $T_{p}=\tau(L_{p})$ be a set of points created by the translation
of points from $L_{p}$ by the function $\tau$ such that

\begin{equation}
T_{p}\in\mathcal{F},T_{p}\subset C_{p},h(P_{p-1},T_{p})\geq0\label{eq:tp_validated},
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
h(T_{p},L_{p+1})>0\label{eq:tp_separated}
\end{equation}

\noindent for all $p>2$. If such a set $T_{p}$ exists, then we can state that
\[
P_{p}=P_{p-1}\cup T_{p}\text{, for all }p>2.
\]

We can easily show that $P_{2}$ exists by constructing it explicitly.
If we want to give $P_{2}$ in such a way to maximize the capability
to translate points from $L_{3}$ and thus produce a better packing $P_{3}$,
we have to find the positive root of the polynomial
\[
a^{4}+4a^{3}+8a^{2}-8=0,a>0\Longrightarrow a=0.818425\ldots
\]

\noindent then $P_{2}$ is given as $P_{2}=\left\{ \langle0,0,a\rangle,\langle b,b,0\rangle\right\}$,
where $b=\sqrt{2-a^{2}/2}$.

While $P_{p-1}$ and $L_{p}$ are separated (\ref{eq:p_separation})
, we can try to translate all points from $L_{p}$ and keep (\ref{eq:tp_validated}),
and (\ref{eq:tp_separated}) true. We split $L_{p}$ into three subsets,
and perform the translations on each of them while maintaining the
given conditions.

Let $L_{p}=L_{p,1}\cup L_{p,2}\cup L_{p,3}$ such that
\[
L_{p,1}=\left\{ \langle l_{1},l_{2},l_{3}\rangle\in L_{p}:l_{i},l_{j}\leq(p-3)\sqrt{2}\text{ for some distinct }i,j\in\left\{ 1,2,3\right\}\right\},
\]
\[
L_{p,2}=\left\{ \langle l_{1},l_{2},l_{3}\rangle\in L_{p}\setminus L_{p,1}:l_{1},l_{2},l_{3}>0\right\},
\]
\[
L_{p,3}=L_{p}\setminus L_{p,1}\setminus L_{p,2}.
\]

For an illustration of sets $L_{5}$, $L_{5,1}$, $L_{5,2}$ and $L_{5,3}$, see Figure 2.

Now we can give $T_{p}$ as
\[
T_{p}=T_{p,1}\cup T_{p,2}\cup T_{p,3},
\]
\[
T_{p,i}=\left\{ \langle l_{1}-u_{i,1}\tau_{i}(p),l_{2}-u_{i,2}\tau_{i}(p),l_{3}-u_{i,3}\tau_{i}(p)\rangle:\langle l_{1},l_{2},l_{3}\rangle\in L_{p,i}\right\},
\]
\[
u_{1,j}=\begin{cases}
1 & \text{if }l_{j}=\left(p-1\right)\sqrt{2}\\
0 & \text{otherwise}
\end{cases},u_{2,j}=1,u_{3,j}=\begin{cases}
1 & \text{if }l_{j}\neq0\\
0 & \text{otherwise}
\end{cases},
\]
where $\tau_{1}(p)$, $\tau_{2}(p)$ and $\tau_{3}(p)$ are small
numbers such that $\tau_{1}(p)>\tau_{2}(p)>\tau_{3}(p)$ and conditions
(\ref{eq:tp_validated}) and (\ref{eq:tp_separated}) hold. If we
additionally state that $h(P_{p-1},T_{p,1})=0$, $h(P_{p-1}\cup T_{p,1},T_{p,2})=0$
and $h(P_{p-1}\cup T_{p,1}\cup T_{p,2},T_{p,3})=0$, we can give explicit
solutions for $\tau_{1}$, $\tau_{2}$ and $\tau_{3}$ as follows
\[
\tau_{1}(3)=2\sqrt{2}-2-a,
\]
\[
\tau_{2}(p)=\frac{\sqrt{2}}{3}\left(\frac{\tau_{1}(p)}{\sqrt{2}}+2-\sqrt{-\tau_{1}(p)^{2}+2\sqrt{2}\tau_{1}(p)+4}\right)\text{, for all }p\geq3,
\]
\[
\tau_{3}(p)=\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}\left(\sqrt{2}\tau_{2}(p)+1-\sqrt{-\tau_{2}(p)^{2}+2\sqrt{2}\tau_{2}(p)+1}\right)\text{, for all }p\geq3,
\]
\[
\tau_{1}(p)=\sqrt{2}+\tau_{3}(p-1)-\sqrt{-\tau_{3}(p-1)^{2}+2\sqrt{2}\tau_{3}(p-1)+2}\text{, for all }p>3.
\]

We notice that $D(P_{p})=D_{p}-\tau_{3}(p)$, hence the maximum separation
distance can be given as
\[
d_{n}\geq\frac{2}{\left(p-1\right)\sqrt{2}-\tau_{3}(p)}\text{, for all }n\leq g(p)-2
\]
and while $\tau_{3}(p)>0$, then $d_{n}>\sqrt{2}/\!(p-1)$.
\end{proof}

We denote the lower bound of improvements by
\[
I_{p}=d_{g(p)-2}-d'_{p}.
\]

By performing the calculations, we get particular values such as $I_{3}>8.235\cdot10^{-11}$,
$I_{4}>1.276\cdot10^{-79},\ldots$.
This is a rough approximation while condition (\ref{eq:tp_separated})
needs to remain true for all $p$ and does not allow us to further improve
the packing for particular $p$. In the next section, we show
that $I_{p}$ is usually above this approximation.

We did not find a way to improve the packings when $n=g(p)-1$, and
we conjecture that in this case $d_{n}=d'_{p}$.

\section{Optimization Approach}

Most of the existing packing methods focus on searching for a completely new arrangement of spheres,
usually performing a search from a randomly given initial position of spheres.
Such approach assumes that the packing of higher density can be reached
after a certain number of iterations and multiple runs of the search procedure using different
initial parameters \cite{gensane,wenqi,locatelli_de}.
The large number of iterations often limits the search procedure to the use of
double or quadruple floating-point precision, to maintain computation speed.
This precision is insufficient to detect improvements in many packings. Many of these approaches are
adapted and modified from widely known procedures for packing congruent
circles in a square or a circle \cite{csq_graham,cic_locatelli,csq_markot,csq_markot_2,csq_book}.

The method we suggest is based on a hypothesis that an improved packing
can be reached just by the omission of two or more spheres from the
ccp and by performing a translation of spheres using the available
space made after we remove the spheres.

The initial positions of the sphere centers we denote by $S_{p,r}\subset G_{p}$,
as a set of $g(p)-r$ points such that at least one sphere with a
center $s_{i}\in S_{p,r}$ can be continuously translated inside a
cube container without overlapping with other spheres. More precisely,

\[
\bigcup_{i=1}^{g(p)-r}\left\{ q\in C_{p}:q\notin S_{p,r},(S_{p,r}\setminus\left\{ s_{i}\right\} )\cup\left\{ q\right\} \in\mathfrak{\mathcal{\mathcal{F}}}\right\} \neq\varnothing.
\]

We can see that the construction of $S_{p,r}$ is possible for $r\geq2$,
and we experimentally determine solutions based on improvements
reached for certain arrangements. To simplify the search procedure,
instead of trying to figure out the best performing arrangements $S_{p,r}$
for each pair $(p,r)$, we find removal patterns $R_{r}=G_{p}\setminus S_{p,r}$
and use them to search for improvements for any $p$.

Table 1 shows patterns in a simplified notation where $R'_{r}=\left\{ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}s:s\in R_{r}\right\} $.
We notice that only $R_{2}$ is the most likely an optimal pattern for
all $p>1$.

\begin{table}[H]
\begin{centering}
\begin{tabular}{cl}
$r$ & $R'_{r}$\tabularnewline
\hline
2 & $\left\{ \langle0,1,1\rangle,\langle1,1,0\rangle\right\} $\tabularnewline
3 & $\left\{ \langle0,0,0\rangle,\langle1,0,1\rangle,\langle2,0,0\rangle\right\} $\tabularnewline
4 & $\left\{ \langle0,1,1\rangle,\langle1,1,0\rangle,\langle1,1,2\rangle,\langle2,1,1\rangle\right\} $\tabularnewline
5 & $\left\{ \langle0,1,1\rangle,\langle1,0,1\rangle,\langle1,1,0\rangle,\langle2,0,0\rangle,\langle2,1,1\rangle\right\} $\tabularnewline
6 & $\left\{ \langle0,0,0\rangle,\langle0,1,1\rangle,\langle1,0,1\rangle,\langle1,1,0\rangle,\langle2,0,0\rangle,\langle2,1,1\rangle\right\} $\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\par\end{centering}

\caption{Experimentally determined patterns $R'_{r}$}

\end{table}

Using the initial arrangement $S_{p,r}$ we try to perform
the translation of each sphere using the limited set of translation
vectors denoted by $T$. This algorithm can be described
as follows:

\newpage
\begin{itemize}
\item For a given initial set $S_{n}\gets S_{p,r}$ repeat until $D(S_{n})<D_{p}$:

\begin{itemize}
\item \vspace{-3mm} For each $s_{i}\in S_{n}$ do:

\begin{itemize}
\item \vspace{-1mm}Randomly choose $t\in T$,
\item Let $v=\left\{ s_{i}+kt:k\in\left[-1,1\right]\right\}$,
\item Let $v_{i}=\left\{ q\in v:(S_{n}\setminus\left\{ s_{i}\right\} )\cup\left\{ q\right\} \in\mathcal{F},D(S_{n}\cup\{q\})=D(S_{n})\right\}$,
\item Find endpoints $a$ and $b$ of the largest line segment $\overline{ab}\subseteq v_{i}$ such that $s_{i}\in\overline{ab}$,
\item New position of $s_{i}$ is given as $\ensuremath{s_{i}\gets(a+b)/2}$.
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

After we try to move all points from $S_{n}$, we say that we completed one iteration.
Because of the very limited space to which we translate the spheres, and in order to
minimize the number of required iterations, we usually set
$T=\left\{ 0,1\right\} ^{3}\setminus\left\{ \langle0,0,0\rangle\right\} $.
We also tested performances when $T$ takes different values such
as $\left\{ -1,0,1\right\} ^{3}$, more or less reduced sets, but
the improvements gained were always slightly worse.

In practice, $D(S_{p,r})$ is slightly larger than $D_{p}$ while
coordinates are given with finite precision. The described procedure
stops when the first improvement is detected, but if we continue the
search, we can improve the packing even more. It is also important
to set the precision above the expected value of $D_{p}-D(S_{p,r})$,
otherwise the improvement cannot be registered. Choosing the higher precision
enables us to reach an improvement with less iterations, but only
up to a certain level. We usually set the precision 1.5 times higher
than the expected improvement. If the precision is too high, the search
can be very slow, thus often we have to guess the range of possible
improvements using a lower precision at first, and increase it if
an improvement cannot be reached.

This approach is different from the procedures used for sphere packing
in the past, as in \cite{gensane,wenqi,locatelli_de,packomania},
while we focus only on tiny changes/improvements in the high density
structure. We cannot consider this approach as a good general packing
method for $r\geq p$. Its main weakness is that, because of the small
available space where spheres can be moved, random perturbations are
hard to implement, or at least we did not find any good method to
do it. Still, this method allows us to find improved packings in less
than one second for some well examined cases even when high precision
is not required, as for example $n=29$, 59 or 60.

The improvements attained are shown in the Tables 2 and 3.
Table 2
lists values obtained for $I_{p}$ with $4\leq p\leq21$. Because of the
slow computation times for $p\geq13$, we ran a search with approximately
5000 iterations when improvement gains started to slow down. Table
3 lists other improved packings for $3\leq r\leq6$, $r<p$ and $4\leq p\leq12$
using $R_{r}$ patterns described in Table 1. The results are listed
as the best known values performed after a large number of
iterations and multiple runs of the search procedure.

\begin{table}[H]
\centering{}\textsuperscript{}%
\begin{tabular}{lll}
$n$ & $p$ & \quad $I_{p}$\tabularnewline
\toprule
30 & 4 & $7.34\cdot10^{-68}$\tabularnewline
61 & 5 & $7.18\cdot10^{-80}$\tabularnewline
106 & 6 & $2.26\cdot10^{-314}$\tabularnewline
170 & 7 & $9.09\cdot10^{-622}$\tabularnewline
254 & 8 & $3.74\cdot10^{-629}$\tabularnewline
363 & 9 & $7.51\cdot10^{-629}$\tabularnewline
498 & 10 & $5.00\cdot10^{-2584}$\tabularnewline
664 & 11 & $9.67\cdot10^{-2563}$\tabularnewline
862 & 12 & $1.76\cdot10^{-4988}$\tabularnewline
1097 & 13 & $1.70\cdot10^{-5020}$\tabularnewline
1370 & 14 & $2.01\cdot10^{-5044}$\tabularnewline
1686 & 15 & $1.29\cdot10^{-5076}$\tabularnewline
2046 & 16 & $1.78\cdot10^{-5116}$\tabularnewline
2455 & 17 & $3.30\cdot10^{-5047}$\tabularnewline
2914 & 18 & $1.47\cdot10^{-10118}$\tabularnewline
3428 & 19 & $4.20\cdot10^{-10121}$\tabularnewline
3998 & 20 & $1.16\cdot10^{-20344}$\tabularnewline
4629 & 21 & $2.46\cdot10^{-20582}$\tabularnewline
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}\caption{Improved values of $I_{p}$}
\end{table}

\vspace*{-\baselineskip}

\begin{table}[H]
\begin{centering}
\begin{tabular}{llll|llll}
$n$ & $p$ & $r$ & $d_{n}-d'_{p}$ & $n$ & $p$ & $r$ & $d_n - d'_p$  \\
\hline
29 & 4 & 3 & $2.23\cdot10^{-12}$ & & & & \\
\hline
59 & 5 & 4 & $1.95\cdot10^{-11}$ & & & & \\
60 & 5 & 3 & $2.09\cdot10^{-20}$ & & & & \\
\hline
103 & 6 & 5 & $3.38\cdot10^{-14}$ & & & & \\
104 & 6 & 4 & $9.98\cdot10^{-47}$ & & & & \\
105 & 6 & 3 & $1.34\cdot10^{-76}$ & & & & \\
\hline
166 & 7 & 6 & $3.08\cdot10^{-21}$ & 494 & 10 & 6 & $4.77\cdot10^{-57}$\\
167 & 7 & 5 & $7.72\cdot10^{-31}$ & 495 & 10 & 5 & $6.96\cdot10^{-199}$ \\
168 & 7 & 4 & $1.59\cdot10^{-87}$ & 496 & 10 & 4 & $1.72\cdot10^{-310}$ \\
169 & 7 & 3 & $8.49\cdot10^{-148}$ & 497 & 10 & 3 & $1.28\cdot10^{-605}$ \\
\hline
250 & 8 & 6 & $2.98\cdot10^{-28}$ & 660 & 11 & 6 & $2.83\cdot10^{-119}$\\
251 & 8 & 5 & $1.99\cdot10^{-43}$ & 661 & 11 & 5 & $1.99\cdot10^{-173}$\\
252 & 8 & 4 & $3.11\cdot10^{-102}$ & 662 & 11 & 4 & $1.40\cdot10^{-407}$\\
253 & 8 & 3 & $6.02\cdot10^{-153}$ & 663 & 11 & 3 & $3.47\cdot10^{-615}$\\
\hline
359 & 9 & 6 & $3.84\cdot10^{-28}$ & 858 & 12 & 6 & $8.40\cdot10^{-248}$\\
360 & 9 & 5 & $6.45\cdot10^{-44}$ & 859 & 12 & 5 & $2.68\cdot10^{-404}$\\
361 & 9 & 4 & $2.05\cdot10^{-101}$ & 860 & 12 & 4 & $7.74\cdot10^{-745}$\\
362 & 8 & 3 & $1.08\cdot10^{-152}$ & 861 & 12 & 3 & $2.91\cdot10^{-1212}$\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\par\end{centering}
\caption{Improvements reached using patterns $R_{r}$}
\end{table}

\bibliographystyle{plain}

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By Robert Meisner
Frequently, the association will be called upon to determine whether or not a modification to the common elements, be it general or limited, should be approved by the board of directors. The condominium bylaws normally provide the standards under which the board should operate in approving the modifications. Generally speaking, the provision provides that the modification must not impair the soundness, safety or appearance of the condominium. The board is generally given wide latitude in either approving or disapproving modifications so long as the person seeking the modification is not a disabled person, as defined in the Michigan Civil Rights Act, or does not have someone who regularly visits the condominium unit who is disabled, in which case the standards are different.
The important thing for an association to understand in reviewing modification requests is whether, in the first instance, the board of directors has the authority to grant the modification. Indeed, many times the board is asked to allow modifications which are really an expropriation of common elements to the exclusion of other co-owners, which is beyond the authority of the board to grant. Assuming, however, that the board has checked with counsel to determine that the modification is within its scope of responsibility and authority to approve or disapprove, the modification agreement should be prepared by the association's attorney to be used by the association and co-owner to set forth the terms and conditions of the modification. Recording the agreement with the county Register of Deeds will ensure that future purchasers of the condominium unit will know what the terms and conditions of the modification approval were, as all purchasers will then at least have constructive notice of the agreement. The modification agreement should also provide adequate protection to the association by way of indemnity and hold harmless for any damage suffered by the association to the common elements or other premises or elements of the condominium occasioned by the modification. The cost of the modification agreement, including its preparation, should be borne by the co-owner, as well as any other financial requirement which the association requests. In addition, the plan setting forth the modification should be attached to the modification agreement so there is no question as to the detail and specifications which will be used in connection with the modification.
In short, it is important that the association document approvals given in connection with modifications and that a comprehensive agreement be utilized to ensure that the parties are protected and that the terms and conditions of the approval are clearly set forth.
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I had a whole bunch of things to do yesterday that I couldn't send greetings to my friends on Friendster. Besides, I always get up late when I'm free from work. But guess what I'd been busy about. I prepared the traditional Filipino dishes for our Christmas Eve dinner. I've been engrossed in doing Crispy Pata these past few days that I couldn't wait till hubby and I found the Pata (pig's hind leg) we needed. It's not easy to find this sort of legs because normally it's lightly salted (rimmad). Then I thought of doing Pansit to make it more Filipino and good thing, I still have those Lumpia in the freezer that I made a month ago, lol!
While the Pata was in the oven crying for help (sorry, it needed to be roasted), hubby and I were busy watching Kalle Anka (Donald Duck). I guess millions of Swedish were doing the same thing, hehee!
I have left-over so come on over, hahaa!
Kakagutom naman mga pics mo fren (as usual). Happy New Year fren. Pwede bang padala mo sa kin yang isang pata? Aabot pa sa January 1 yan. lol!


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Created: August 16, 2016 | Last Updated: September 21, 2021 | Category: W&J News | Tagged: alumni success, theater
Alumna Takes Dating Advice to Stage in New Musical Comedy
WASHINGTON, PA (Aug. 16, 2016) - What does it take to be the perfect "wingwoman"? Dara Gold '12 has a song or two about that.
The Washington & Jefferson College (W&J) alumna is the author of "How To Be The Perfect Wingwoman," an original, new musical that debuted during the Washington D.C. Capital Fringe Theatre Festival in July.
"I've been obsessed with musicals for a very long time," Gold said. "I grew up outside of New York City, and we'd go see Broadway shows for a couple of my birthdays. I've always enjoyed watching and performing musicals, and lately have played around with writing songs."
Gold's passion for writing plays reignited after she attended a show by the Washington, D.C. theatre group Next Day Theater. The group's performances are similar to W&J's Theatre Slam, a project in which theatre enthusiasts come together to write, rehearse, and produce a play in 24 hours. She got more involved with D.C.-area theatre groups, and focused on her own writing.
"Wingwoman" is Gold's first independently-produced piece, and features a female-led cast. The musical comedy is about the trials and tribulations of dating in the modern age, as one group of friends take advice from a 1950s book on dating to a new level.
Gold worked with Director Merancia Noelsaint and co-composers Justin Paschalides and Janani Ramachandran to bring the show to life. The Capital Fringe Festival accepted the project, and it ran for three nights in July at Tropicalia Lounge.
The experience of being in W&J's theatre community was a major reason for the play's success, Gold said. The difference between observing a director's work and leading the show herself became clear while producing "Wingwoman," but she was able to take on the challenge because of what she learned in Olin Fine Arts Center.
"The thing that was great about W&J was that you could always pursue your passions, even if it wasn't in line with your major path," she said. "Theatre and law worked
well together. Public speaking and problem solving are part of both. Some of those theater skills helped me focus during my bar exam."
When she's not contributing to the theatre community, Gold is preparing for a career as a lawyer. She recently graduated from the University of the District of Columbia – David A. Clarke School of Law, and currently works for the DC Council Committee on Business, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs. Although she wants to pursue law as a full-time job, she doesn't plan to give up theatre.
"I'm looking at the logistics of making an album of music from 'Wingwoman' to distribute, and I'm interested in entering into the YouTube sphere of entertainment," Gold said. "I'll stay involved in D.C. theatre for as long as I can."
About Washington & Jefferson College
Washington & Jefferson College, located in Washington, Pa., is a selective liberal arts college founded in 1781. Committed to providing each of its students with the highest-quality undergraduate education available, W&J offers a traditional arts and sciences curriculum emphasizing interdisciplinary study and independent study work. For more information about W&J, visit www.washjeff.edu, or call 888-W-AND-JAY.
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