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title=SDKMAN
date=2018-10-12
type=post
tags=Java
status=published
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[SDKMAN](https://sdkman.io/) es un gestor de entornos y herramientas Java. Cuando trabajas en un entorno "corporativo" (¿aburrido?) sueles tener claramente fijadas las versiones de herramientas de desarrollo a utilizar, por ejemplo, Java 8 en la versión 1.8.0_121 o Maven 3.2.1, etc...
Sin embargo cuando empiezas a cacharrear y a tratar de instalar cosas nuevas es relativamente normal que acabes con dos (o tres o seis) versiones del JDK: la "buena" (1.8), la de "los módulos" (9), la de "los val" (10) y la "nueva buena" (11). Todo eso puedes gestionarlo a mano, claro, para eso esta JAVA_HOME, pero ¿qué pasa si tienes varias versiones de Maven? ¿Y si son más herramientas? Ya se empieza a hacer cansino. Pues bien, SDKMAN se ocupa precisamente de eso, lo instalas y él te instala las versiones que quieras de las herramientas, te pone unas activas, etc...
Pero mejor enseño un ejemplo.
##Instalación
Pues basta con seguir las [instrucciones](https://sdkman.io/install). Yo como soy un poco particular y maniático, me gusta tener todo lo relacionado con el desarrollo ordenado en carpetas particulares, así que para la instalación especifico primero el directorio en el que quiero que me lo instale y después lanzo el script de instalación:

```prettyprint
export SDKMAN_DIR="/home/agustin/Development/Java/Tools/sdkman"
curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash
source Development/Java/Tools/sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh
```

Con ésto ya esta instalado (en el directorio Development/Java/Tools/sdkman).

##Uso
Vale, pues lo primero es comprobar que esta bien:

```prettyprint
sdk help
```

Una vez instalado, se puede ver todo el software disponible con list:

```prettyprint
sdk list
```

Y todas las versiones de un software concreto con list <software>:

```prettyprint
sdk list java
```

Para instalar Java 11 (OpenJDK):

```prettyprint
sdk install java 11.0.0-open
```

Y con ésto, java -version te debe devolver OpenJDK 11 (es posible que tengas que abrir un terminal nuevo).

##Desinstalación
Si por lo que sea te cansas de SDKMAN, la desinstalación son dos pasos:
1. Borrar el directorio de instalación (.sdkman en tu home por defecto)
2. Repasar .bashrc, .bash_profile o .profile para ver que no haya quedado rastro.

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Dickey County är ett administrativt område i delstaten North Dakota, USA. År 2010 hade countyt  5 289 invånare. Den administrativa huvudorten (county seat) är Ellendale.

Geografi
Enligt United States Census Bureau så har countyt en total area på 2 957 km². 2 929 km² av den arean är land och 28 km² är vatten.

Angränsande countyn
 LaMoure County - nord
 Ransom County - nordöst
 Sargent County - öst
 Brown County, South Dakota - syd
 McPherson County, South Dakota - sydväst
 McIntosh County - väst

Källor

Stater och territorier bildade 1881

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A potential bride for The Grand Duke Georgi
duke of poliganc
Location: cairo, Egypt
actually maria's position wouldn't change if her son married a commoner because her argument has always been that the other romanovs couldn't succeed to the headship of the imperial house because they had contracted or are the children of a marriage that wasn't approved by the head of the house she can declare the marriage of her son as dynastically because she is the head of the imperial house the same argument that he father made when he married princess Leonida he said as the head of the house at the time he approved his marriage as dynastically .
Originally Posted by Stefan
But that was the marriage of a Grand Duchess and her children had no succession rights in Russia. What i meant is that there was never a marriage of a GRand Duke to a member of a mediatized House where the marriage was approved as dynastic.
True, but it was not an impossible marriage, unlike the marriage with a non-mediatized noblewoman or commoner which would be impossible from the start. The marriage between Imperial and mediatized family would have to have only Emperor's approval, while with others it would be fail from the start.
So, since Maria sees herself as the Head of the family, if her son would find a mediatized Princess or a Countess, it would be "good enough".
Similar situation was with former Prussian heir, Prince Louis Ferdinand, father of Prince Georg Friedrich married daughter of only "mediatized" Prince zu Castell-Rüdenhausen. It was seen as equal, but was somewhat considered a misalliance, because Louis Ferdinand was the heir.
maria-olivia
It would be sad to do as his Mother did marring a Royal have a Child and then Divorce!
I think such a Wedding happened in the Bragration Famliy ?
Duc_et_Pair
Location: City, Netherlands
Well, Maria and her mother Leonida were not the easiest persons to handle with, I think. Maria's formidable shadow hangs over Georg(y) and that will not be helpful. But Georg(y) is still much younger than Albert de Monaco and Philippe de Belgique when they engaged into marriage, so he still has plenty of time to make his own choice... ;-)
The Bagration-Bagration marriage indeed did reunite the two branches of the family. Judging from pictures that was also the aim of the marriage. Rumours stated that Princess Anna Bagration divorvced her first husband to marry Prince David Bagration only for the sake of the union of the two rival branches in the royal family, so apparently especially Anna was willing to take quite a few steps (to divorce, to remarry, to divorce) for her House's aspirations.
In the meantime the couple's son is the only Prince in the whole House of his generation. His father Prince David has an elder brother, Prince Irakly, but he is not married and seems to have given up his dynastical claims in favour of his younger brother, seen the re-unification of the two branches.
Originally Posted by Duc_et_Pair
What is most interesting is that Princess Anna's first husband is also descendant of the Bagration Kings of Georgia:
Grigoriy Malania is a descendant of the last King of Georgia...here is his line:
King Giorgi XII of Georgia,lived from 1746-1800
Princess Nina of Georgia,lived from 1772-1847
Princess Mariam Dadiani of Mingrelia,born in 1794
Princess Elizabeth Shervashidze of Guria
Giorgi Mgaloblishvili
Akaki Mgaloblishvili
Nana Mgaloblishvili
Grigory Malania,born in 1970 = Princess Anna Bagration-Gruzinska,born in 1976
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L'air
Cet air chanté par Tamino sert à exprimer les sentiments du personnage.

La musique
La musique de cet air décrit l'amour que ressent Tamino à la vue du portrait de Pamina.

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Le texte est tiré du livret en allemand de l'ami de Mozart, Emanuel Schikaneder, qui jouait aussi le rôle de Papageno lors de la première représentation.

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Dan Gilbert and 100 El Bravo Way (Credit: Getty Images and Realtor)
A company tied to Quicken Loans and its chairman Dan Gilbert bought a Palm Beach mansion for $24.5 million, marking the entity's second home purchase this week.
EL Sueno LLC, managed by Michelle M. Porter, sold the 10,843-square foot estate at 100 El Bravo Way for $2,259 per square foot, records show. Golden Crate LLC, which lists its address as the Detroit, Michigan offices of Quicken Loans, purchased the house. A document filed with the city of Palm Beach is signed by Matthew Rizik, the CFO of Gilbert's holding company, Rock Ventures.
The home was last purchased for $20.3 million in 2017. It was built in 1922. The house has seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
Suzanne Trapani Frisbie of Premier Estate Properties listed the property.
Earlier this week, Golden Crate LLC purchased another home in Palm Beach at 670 Island Drive for $18.8 million.
Quicken Loans is a mortgage company based out Detroit, Michigan. In 2017, the company became the country's largest residential mortgage lender. It is also the country's largest lender of FHA loans and has dominated the residential mortgage market as banks have retreated from the market.
Gilbert is also the majority owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Kenya: Pneumonia Scourge - Poverty a Leading Cause of Deaths Among Children
The Nation (Nairobi)
By Delfhin Mugo
It's a disheartening picture of a mother and daughter at the children's hospital room.
The grandmother holds on to the hands of the unconscious grandson as if willing him to please rise up from the hospital bed, and be as naughty as he has never been - he won't be punished this time.
The boy's mother looks away, stares into space with a face clouded in misery. Not even her bright red dress can light up the moment. Pneumonia has made sure of that.
Her son, 11-year-old Daniel Esimit, lies helplessly at Lodwar County Referral Hospital (LCRH), where he is admitted.
Esimit has severe pneumonia that has posed a serious threat to his life. Dorcas Akedo's firstborn was referred to the hospital after medics at Kakuma Mission Hospital were unable to restore his health.
"I feel bad as a mother. It's so stressing when your child is sick; there is not a single day you live in peace," she says. "And yet there is so little you can do to help."
The young boy, the mother say, began discharging a thick mucous substance through his nose and his body started to feel hot.
"I knew something was seriously wrong with my child and decided to take him to hospital," says Akedo. On arrival at the hospital, the child was diagnosed with severe pneumonia.
When we met Esimit, it had been three days since he got admitted to the hospital. He lay unconscious in bed receiving oxygen from a machine next to his bed.
The mother says he had not been able to eat in the previous three days.
Esimit's illness is among thousands of cases of pneumonia, which is a prevalent problem in Turkana County.
Across the country, many other children are suffering from the disease as a result of a bacterial or viral infection, which is largely preventable through vaccination.
Linda Misiko, Save the Children's child health technical adviser, defines pneumonia as an infection of the lungs, saying it is most often bacterial or viral, though it can also be caused by a fungus.
"The mucus created in the lungs provokes coughing, shortness of breath and fever, among other symptoms. As the lungs fill with fluid, their ability to intake oxygen decreases," says the doctor.
At Esimit's ward, for instance, two other children had been admitted, also suffering from severe pneumonia.
But it's in the adjacent ward where pneumonia had reared its ugly head. Here, a mother had lost a child to pneumonia a few minutes before we arrived, sending shock waves across the whole paediatric ward.
CHILD KILLER
In October alone, John Ngasike reveals that the paediatric ward admitted 157 children for various illnesses, top among them pneumonia.
"Pneumonia is one of the major reasons why we admit children here. This being the only referral hospital in the county, we also receive severe cases from other health facilities," he says.
According to Save the Children, a global child welfare organisation that has been battling the infection in the county since 2014, in the surrounding rural areas, about seven out of every 10 children contract severe pneumonia at some stage during their childhood.
For Ngasike, the clinical officer in charge at the Lodwar hospital, what worries him most are the deaths of children from pneumonia.
In October, for instance, he says that out of the 19 fatalities recorded in the paediatric ward, four of them were as a result of pneumonia, the highest a single disease caused.
"When you look at mortality, pneumonia features greatly as one of the causes. Most of these cases are brought to the hospital when the condition is very severe, to a point that they need oxygen support," says Ngasike.
And yet, he decries, this community harbours a negative attitude towards administering oxygen in the sense that it is seen as akin to sending the child to their death.
WEAK CONTROL MEASURES
In Kenya, as is the situation in the countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the burden of pneumonia is big and, experts say, the pace at which we are reducing its mortality is wanting.
Speaking to DN2 at the UN Complex in Gigiri, Peter Okoth, a health specialist at Unicef Kenya said: "In Kenya, there isn't a mechanism that focuses on pneumonia; it is not visible. It does not have that high profiling. We know there is intervention and government support for immunisation, which goes toward addressing pneumonia deaths. But the care and treatment for children who have suspected pneumonia is an area which requires additional investment."
To put it simply, an accident that kills 25 passengers hits the headlines instantly and remains in the news for days, yet an equal number of children die of pneumonia every day but do not receive as much attention, medical experts note.
Worse still, this happens when the healthcare system is working at an optimum level.
A new analysis by a coalition of international organisations, including Save the Children and Unicef, showed that in 2018 more than 9,000 children under the age of five died from the disease in Kenya -- equivalent to more than 24 every day or a child every one hour.
The report, "Fighting for breath in Kenya", was released during World Pneumonia Day, celebrated on the 12th day of November, with calls for more action towards eliminating the pneumonia scourge.
BELOW TARGET
Though Kenya has achieved massive reduction in pneumonia mortality among children under the age of five, the report says, this has been happening at a steady but slow pace of six per cent per annum since the year 2000.
"It's coming down, all right, but not at the rate that will lead us to achieving the target of three deaths per 1,000 lives by 2025," says Okoth, referring to Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD) targets, which compel countries such as Kenya to ensure that not more than three deaths per a 1,000 live births are caused by pneumonia.
"Six per cent is the average annual rate of reduction in pneumonia mortality between 2000-2018, and at the same rate, Kenya is expected to reach the 2025 GAPPD target in 2029," reads the report.
According to Misiko, a range of effective strategies does exist to control the disease and considerably reduce its deadly impact. First off is vaccination.
"There are two types of bacteria that account for a large proportion of cases of pneumonia, and vaccines exist to protect from both: PCV (pneumococcal conjugate vaccine) and Hib vaccine for the haemophilus influenzae type b.
Both vaccines have been around for decades and repeatedly proven their ability to protect from pneumonia," says Misiko.
But even if a child were to contract the disease, the treatment exists and is cheaply and widely accessible.
According to Misiko, antibiotics are the most effective form of treatment for pneumonia. She adds that Amoxicillin DT represents the single greatest chance of survival for children sick with pneumonia.
She adds that a number of risk factors can be mitigated through improved family practices that can prevent children from getting ill in the first place.
These include exclusive breastfeeding to strengthen children's immune system, systematic hand washing with soap to limit the circulation of germs in families, improving family nutrition and HIV prevention.
But for a disease that experts concur is largely preventable and easily curable using antibiotics, how comes it is still killing so many children? We ask.
While hailing the government for improved vaccination, nutrition and a general rise in the living standards for Kenyans, Misiko, however, notes that despite the good national outlook, it is not until you go down to the counties that you start to see the discrepancies.
"It's the poor households that are worst hit," Misiko says. "Despite being largely preventable, poor families have less access to interventions that prevent pneumonia, such as immunisation. They also lack access to better hygiene and sanitation, education to enable them understand the disease and seek care, not to mention lack of access to health facilities."
Through the Unicef data, DN2 wanted to find out the top five counties that are greatly contributing to the burden of pneumonia in the country.
To begin with, the "Fighting for breath in Kenya" report revealed that the national average under five mortality rate due to pneumonia in 2018 was six per 1,000 live births.
MORTALITY RATE
A review of the data however reveals startling findings, reaffirming that pneumonia is largely a disease for the poor.
For instance, it is in 12 counties where children are more likely to die of pneumonia, with the counties having a mortality rate twice the national average.
Mandera County leads the pack at 18 per 1,000 live births, followed by Migori and West Pokot counties at 15 per 1,000 live births.
Kisii, Nyamira, Turkana, Kakamega, Siaya, Tana River, Wajir, Bungoma and Busia had an under five pneumonia mortality rate of between 12 and 14 per 1,000 live births.
"Most of these counties have other conditions that weaken the children such as HIV or malnutrition," says Okoth.
On the other end, 23 counties fell below the national average - including Kajiado and Nyeri - with two per 1,000 live births, under five mortality rate due to pneumonia in 2018.
According to the health experts, this means that a child born in Mandera - where pneumonia mortality rate is 18 per 1,000 live births - is nine times more likely to die of pneumonia as compared to one born in Nyeri.
Dr Okoth believes there is a strong relationship between the wealth and standards of living in these counties and the pneumonia outcomes.
"If you look at these counties, you find that there is better access to health services, so families seek care earlier. Also, health systems tend to be a bit stronger, and the immunisation coverage is better."
As regards immunisation, the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2014 backs this up.
The survey pointed out that the country's vaccination coverage increased from 77 per cent in 2008/2009 to 79 per cent in 2014, with central Kenya leading at 90 per cent.
North Eastern, however, was found to be lagging behind at 51 per cent.
For regions plagued by perennial droughts such as the arid and semi-arid lands (Asals), one of the reasons pneumonia morbidity and mortality remain high is prevalence of malnutrition, experts say.
According to Misiko, there is a strong link between malnutrition and pneumonia. She says: "The presence of severe acute malnutrition can increase mortality from pneumonia 15-fold."
In an earlier interview, Regina Mbochi, a nutritionist who has monitored children's dietary needs in the northern counties for 10 years now, told DN2 that by weakening the body's immune system, malnutrition opens the floodgates for other diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria, which are likely to send a child to an early grave.
So for a county such as Turkana, where the "Kenya Food and Nutrition Situation Seasonal Assessment Report" (March, 2019) found that 54,264 children under the age of five years were suffering from acute malnutrition, solving malnutrition is akin to killing two birds with one stone.
Oxygen availability across health facilities is yet another gap in combating pneumonia.
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Children who suffer from the disease quite often require oxygen support because they develop a breathing problem.
Notably, in the last two years, the country has seen significant investment in oxygen generating machines, but experts say the country still has a long way to go.
"Oxygen availability is still very low despite the efforts in improving access in the last two years. That is an area where the country needs to scale up. No child should die because of lack of oxygen," says Okoth.
One of the biggest impediment to provision of health services has got to be its financing.
It is for this reason that the World Health Organisation (WHO) came up with global targets to help countries effectively finance health services.
The "Fighting for breath in Kenya" report shed some light on how Kenya is performing against the world targets.
For instance, WHO recommends that the government should spend at least $86 (Sh8,751) per person per year to provide essential health services, yet the Kenyan government spent $78 on health per person in 2018.
It also spent an equivalent of two per cent of the GDP on health in 2018 against a minimum recommendation of five per cent.
Additionally, while the government surpassed the minimum expenditure on primary healthcare of 57 per cent by 10 per cent in 2016, the out-of-pocket expenditure on health remains high at 33 per cent, against a WHO ceiling of 25 per cent meant to avert catastrophic OOP expenditure.
Acknowledging that pneumonia morbidity and mortality is a public health concern in Turkana County, Gilchrist Lokoel, the county director of medical services says:
"As Turkana County, we have come up with a programme that brings together all partners who are doing any work related to child and adolescent health, with a clear focus on innovation and research to help reduce the under-five mortality,"
He also takes pride in the fact that the county is among the few counties that have formulated and operationalised Community Health Services Bill.
"This bill gives community health volunteers (CHVs) the impetus and confidence to operate in the community. And the county government has committed resources to pay them monthly," he says.
He told DN2 that the 1968 CHVs operating in the villages have undergone a mandatory six-week training and have to adhere to continuous refresher courses.
"We have trained them on how to detect pneumonia using the bead technology and the use of Amoxicillin to treat pneumonia. This has yet to be operationalised because the policy must come from Nairobi. So for us, we have already done the ground work and the CHVs are ready."
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This is definitely more of a character driven novel than I was expecting, and honestly, the town of Tenney's Harbour, the coastal Maine community setting, is really the most impressive character any way you look at it. When the summer rolls around again and the rich people start doing whatever rich people do in the summer (which I guess is infiltrate coastal towns and become country club zombies in white shorts,) I was immediately transported to a state I've never visited before, but I felt like I had.
It was such a heightened, romanticized idea of Maine that Gillian French painted, that I could feel every colour used to bring it to life.
Pearl, the main character, is from "the other side of the tracks." Her father, a single father and a drunk, is a maintenance man for rich people, but he isn't getting very much work since the fire – he's one of the Have Nots under suspicion. Pearl serves rich people as a waitress at the country club. The setting is created in such a way that as Pearl fluctuates between these two worlds, you really feel the shift. From the country club grounds where rich people are wearing boat shoes probably, to the backrooms where the employees can be found, being all resentful and shit. From yacht parties with no adult supervision back to Pearl's little house where she supervises her drunk ass dad.
This is honestly the best part of the whole book. It's A+, next level setting. And nothing else in the book lived up to this.
The idea is that Pearl is going to become friends with Tristan's group of cliquey, polo-wearing dudebros to get the inside scoop on the fire so that her father will stop drinking and get his life back on track.
But Pearl is kind of a boring main character. The Haves she befriends are stereotypes we've seen in every other teen story since the beginning of time. The girls are snotty and vapid. The guys are one unattended drink away from becoming another white boy who's given probation because "he's a really good swimmer" after pulling a Weinstein.
The mystery of who started the fire, and killed the Garrison family, is answered almost immediately, the culprit being completely obvious. So much of the novel felt like a bad teen soap opera – who likes who? and who wants to sleep with who? and who has already slept with who? – as it plodded on towards an ending I could see coming since the prologue.
It was billed as a thriller. I was expecting some goddamn thrills.
Instead, I got loafers and champagne and some snotty bitches pointing out that clearly, Pearl doesn't belong because she is just a waitress, while Pearl quietly thinks to herself "who set the fire" and planning to Molly Ringwald her way into a dress she hopes will help her fit in among designer labels.
So while the setting and the class divide was done to perfection, the rest of this novel felt flat to me. It's definitely a sweaty, atmospheric novel. But it's hardly a thriller, barely a mystery. It's probably better categorized as contemporary YA. And that's just not my thing.
THE BLURB IS A LIE.
This was a letdown, overall. That cover though.
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With shades of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars and Gayle Forman's I Was Here, this dark and twisted mystery will be the page-turner of the year.
Everyone in Tenney's Harbor, Maine, knows about the Garrison tragedy. How an unexplained fire ravaged their house, killing four of the five family members. But what people don't know is who did it. All fingers point at Pearl Haskins's father, the town drunk, who was the caretaker of the property, but she just can't believe it. Leave it to a town of rich people to blame "the help."
With her disgraced father now trying to find work in between booze benders, Pearl's future doesn't hold much more than waiting tables at the local country club, where the wealthy come to flaunt their money and spread their gossip. This year, Tristan, the last surviving Garrison, and his group of affluent and arrogant friends have made a point of sitting in Pearl's section. Though she's repulsed by most of them, Tristan's quiet sadness and somber demeanor have her rethinking her judgments. Befriending the boys could mean getting closer to the truth, clearing her father's name, and giving Tristan the closure he seems to be searching for. But it could also trap Pearl in a sinister web of secrets, lies, and betrayals that, once untangled, will leave no life unchanged . . . if it doesn't take hers first.
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Oh, that cover is right! But thank you for saving me from this read, Krystin. On to better reads for you, asap!


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Wednesday 20 February 2019 by Gary Stanton
Government to punish those who chose to live under a brutal Tory regime by revoking their EU citizenship
Millions of Britons who chose to live in a country under Tory control are to be brutally stripped of their EU citizenship.
The news comes after it was revealed that IS supporter, Shamima Begum, faces a similar fate and will have her UK citizenship withdrawn, meaning she will likely miss out on the chance of a blue passport.
Though Islamic State has lost much of its territory in recent months, militants still control an area roughly the size of Wales, but without Tom Jones or a Tom Jones equivalent.
Meanwhile, millions of UK residents, many of whom are pregnant or thinking about it, have discovered their EU citizenship will be similarly revoked.
Their freedom of movement to France and other shit is about to end, despite never having spent roughly twenty minutes laughing at severed heads in a dustbin.
Simone Williams, a "poster girl" for working in a petrol station, insists she has done nothing wrong and poses a relatively low risk to the EU mainland.
"I may have chosen a shit career, but I've never blown up a checkpoint while raping my Uncle. Nor have I beheaded anyone in a Syrian refugee camp, then distracted people from my atrocities by playing frankly awful acoustic guitar around a campfire," she told us.
"Now, they're calling me a 'traitor to the nation' just for wanting a better life and a well-paid job in one of the twenty-seven
EU member states, which doesn't involve strapping explosives to myself in a London-bound train toilet cubicle, while some handsome Scottish bloke tries to talk me out of it.
She added, "The only dodgy group I've travelled overseas to support is U2, so I really think I deserve some sympathy.
"As for Shamima Begum, she may be a stupid cow, but I now know exactly how she feels."
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The Verifone terminal is configured for integration with a till system*.
The Verifone terminal is set up with a Static IP address.
You know how to find the IP address of the terminal - as you will need this address to connect posBoss to the terminal.
If they are unsure, Here's all the Technical Jargon you need to send through to your eftpos terminal provider to make sure they have done the following: They need to set the terminal up for an IP interface listening on port 20001. Do this by creating a record on the TMS (terminal management system) which is called Vericentre. They then download this into the terminal which completes the terminal piece.
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You will see the following. Click inside the button where it says None.
and finally, click Save. You will see some links below to help you get set up.
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Locate the IP address from your Eftpos terminal and enter that IP address into the field at the top called Verifone Terminal IP Address, replacing any default text.
5. Press the Continue button and if all is set up correctly, you will receive a success message. As a final test, press the settings button at the top right of the window to access the Verifone Admin Functions. Press Logon. The terminal will run it's tests and should then print out a success message.
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History, music, fairy tales on week's calendar
Donna Isbell Walker
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It's not every week that you can see a historic document up-close, watch a snowman on ice skates, hear from Hollywood's elite, and listen to twanged-out versions of Grateful Dead songs. But it's that kind of week in Greenville, when the word "eclectic" is an understatement. Here's a look at what's on tap:
* Bluegrass Jam. Tuesday means picking and grinning at Gottrocks. This week's Bluegrass Jam features The Grass is Dead, a band that puts a bluegrass spin on the music of the Grateful Dead. If you've always wondered how "Truckin'" would sound with a banjo and dobro, this is your chance. The event begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5. Call 864-235-5519.
* Disney on Ice: Frozen. Elsa, Anna, the talking snowman Olaf, and one of the catchiest movie theme songs in a few hundred years glide into Bon Secours Wellness Arena this week. That's right, you'll be singing "Let It Go" for the next two weeks, even if you don't go out to see the ice-skating live version of the uber-popular animated film. The Disney on Ice production of "Frozen" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday; 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; and 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Sunday. For ticket info, visit www.ticketmaster.com.
* Ordinance of Secession. Catch a glimpse of South Carolina history on Friday. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History is bringing to town the 1860 Ordinance of Secession, the document that split the United States and helped start the Civil War. It's coming to the Upcountry History Museum on Friday, the second time the historical document has visited the museum. It will be on display beginning at 5:30 p.m. Admission is $5. For more info, visit www.upcountryhistory.org.
* Piedmont Natural Gas Downtown Alive. TJ Lazer and the New Detroits bring in the funk at this week's Piedmont Natural Gas Downtown Alive. The Greenville band plays a mix of rock, funk and soul, complete with horn section. Downtown Alive goes on from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at NOMA Square. Admission is free. Call 864-467-5741.
* "Sleeping Beauty." In case you have a hard time keeping your fairy tale princesses straight, "Sleeping Beauty" is the one about the girl who pricks her finger on a spinning wheel, falls deeply asleep, and can only be awakened by a kiss from her true love. South Carolina Children's Theatre brings "Sleeping Beauty" to life, beginning Friday at 7 p.m. at the Peace Center. Other weekend performances will be at 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. Saturday, and 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The production runs through June 21. For more info, visit www.peacecenter.org.
* Greenville Chautauqua History Alive Festival. This year's Greenville Chautauqua Festival says hooray to Hollywood; the theme is "America at the Movies." This year's interpreters will portray film icons like Walt Disney, Orson Welles and Mary Pickford. The festival opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Greenville Tech with a look at Walt Disney. There are shows every day through June 21 at a variety of locations around town. Admission is free. For schedules and more info, visit www.greenvillechautauqua.org.


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When we began building bows in the 70's, our intent was to build a pure hunting bow that embodied all the characteristics we believed important. First, it had to shoot exactly where you looked and pointed, and secondly it had to be smooth and quick... "shootability" we ended up calling it. We also thought it should be beautiful and that it should surpass the quality of any bow ever built. We spent a lot of time --- both in the shop and in the woods --- bringing all those characteristics together.
What became immediately obvious to us was, what was a perfect bow for one hunter was not necessarily perfect for another. We're all different. Individual draw length, bow length, draw weight, and individual shooting style and individual preference play a part in what we each desire/ prefer. A generic bow to fit "the average" shooter will likely please no one exactly. So, what is the answer? It is what is has always been; the only way to incorporate shootability into each and every bow is to custom build each and every one of them.
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Q: Is Love $\subseteq$ Person $\times$ Person an equivalence relation, partial order or total order? Is the predicate Love $\subseteq$ Person $\times$ Person a equivalence relation, partial order or total order?
Love $\subseteq$ Person $\times$ Person is valid if $x$ loves $y.$
My conclusion so far: Love $\subseteq$ Person $x$ Person is not reflexive or irreflexive because we don't know if the person loves himself.
It can be a partial order as it contains minimal and maximal elements (in case $x$ do or don't love $y$).
It's hard to say if it's transitive because theres only two elements.
Can anyone help me out and describe why/why not it's an equivalence relation, partial order or total/linear order?

A: If we supposed that Love was a partial order then we immediately run into issues with anti-symmetry. To be precise; if $x$ loves $y$ and $y$ loves $x$ we have the equations $x \leq y$ and $y \leq x$, thus by the anti-symmetry axiom we have $x=y$ and so $x$ and $y$ are the same person. Assuming that you don't take the narcissistic view that people only love themselves I would say this does not hold always. A total order would also run into the same problem.
As for it being an equivalence relation I would say no as it fails on all 3 criteria:

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*Reflexivity: This assumes that everyone loves themselves, something I would say is unfortunately not true for everyone

*Symmetry: This says that if you love someone then that person must love you back. If this was true life would indeed be more simple.

*Transitivity: This states that if $a$ loves $b$ and $b$ loves $c$ then $a$ loves $c$ also. If this was true then love triangles wouldn't be so much of a big deal and Hollywood would have an even smaller list of plot lines to draw from.

If I had to categorise I would say your best bet is to think of Love being a directed graph with People as the vertices and an edge from $a$ to $b$ representing $a$ loves $b$.

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Categories: power tools, construction, fasteners	February 11, 2019 By Star Sales
Contractor Smackdown: A Comparison of Cordless Impact Drivers
Let's get ready to rumble! When it comes to getting the job done quickly, your impact driver makes a huge difference on the work site. A second or two difference in drive time means you're getting a few more screws in every minute, a few more panels every hour and the entire job done fast enough to make a better profit. But which cordless impact driver is best for your job, work style and situation? Here's a look at four top competitors in the market.
Bosch 25618-02 18V Lithium Ion:
When you need a small driver that delivers a serious punch in a limited space, the Bosch wins, hands-down. It has one of the smallest power-heads in the lineup, allowing it to get into some of the tightest angles your job site can throw at you. It's neither lightweight nor heavy, falling towards the middle of the class, and provides middle-of-the-road torque at 1,500 ft-lbs. One area that is a deal-breaker for many contractors, however, is the limited 1-year warranty, when many in the same class are at the industry standard of a 3-year warranty. However, for a solid basic impact driver when you need superior maneuverability, the Bosch wins.
DeWalt DCF885C1 20V Max:
There's something about the two extra volts in the DeWalt system that just does more. In a recent roofing project, my dad and I were running the Makita mentioned below and this driver, respectively. The DeWalt battery lasted longer and drove faster than the Makita, to the point that you could hear the difference in speed while we were working. But beyond personal experience, the DeWalt Driver also delivers a small profile to fit into those tight spaces, a lightweight 2.8lbs design and plenty of torque to get the job done, while the 3-LED light has a 20-second holdover, making it my go-to tool to grab to figure out exactly where that screw fell.
Makita XDT12Z 18V LXT:
So as I mentioned, Dad's a Makita man. He's done contracting in northern Minnesota for over 40 years using Makita products and swears by them for durability and long useable lifespan. His Makita driver had four different speeds, offering a range of options while delivering about 150 more ft-lbs of torque than the DeWalt. However, that additional push comes at a price, specifically a slightly lower driving speed and another half-pound of weight, coming in at 3.3lbs.
Milwaukee 2753-20 18V Fuel:
If you tend to go through tools quickly, the 5-year warranty on the Milwaukee provides some extra peace of mind. The Milwaukee M18 FUEL™ Impact Driver also delivers the highest torque among the entire class compared here at 1,800 ft-pounds, delivering strong performance when it's needed most. It's also light-weight, coming in at a svelte 2.6lbs for all that power. However, it also has a larger power head, making it harder to get into small spaces or tight angles.
As you can see, all of these tools have particular benefits and drawbacks, so deciding exactly which one is the best fit for your situation is entirely up to you. But that doesn't mean we'll just leave you on the ropes! The experienced associates at Star Sales are standing by to tag in on your next project. Please feel free to contact us today for more information, with any questions or to get a quote on one of these high-performance, contractor-grade cordless impact drivers.
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