Thermal Receipt Printers are a popular printing device for retailers around the world, to generate quick and efficient receipts for their customers. As a cost-effective solution, these thermal receipt printers have enhanced the way retailers do business as they can be connected in a variety of methods.
Hike has partnered with leading retail printer providers Star Micronics and Epson to give businesses more choice and options to get the most out of their receipt printing needs. Furthermore, you can add a Cash Drawer to your receipt printer for seamless connection between the two, where your cash drawer is triggered to open when you complete a sale on Hike POS.
On this page, you'll find step-by-step guides to all compatible printers (and how-to set-up Cash Drawers) on Hike. If you get stuck, or have any further questions, don't hesitate to reach out to our Live Chat Support team who are available to take your questions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Configuring your Star TSP100 USB for PC / Mac Use.
The TSP143III Bluetooth Printer, the latest in Star's TSP100 Series, offers retailers fast connection between their Hike POS and Thermal Receipt printer, using Bluetooth connection.
All that is required of your Printer and Hike POS device is access to a power outlet, and a Bluetooth connection, meaning your TSP143III printer can work on an iPad.
Receipt Paper – 80mm receipt rolls. Load your receipt rolls by opening the latch on the top-right of the printer, place the roll inside, and pull some of the paper through before closing the lid.
To begin, ensure that you have plugged the power cord into your printer and your (AC) power supply.
Once that is completed, turn the power ON for your Bluetooth Printer (power switch located on the left-hand side of printer).
From there you will need to configure the Bluetooth settings on your iPad and Hike POS to connect the printer to the device.
To do this, click on Settings (Gear Icon) on your iPad.
Once you are in the Settings screen, select the Bluetooth option, and make sure that it is toggled ON.
When ON, you will be able to have your iPad find the Star Printer – which should also have Bluetooth on - indicated by the blue light on the device.
Click on the TSP100 Printer once it appears (under My Devices) and wait several moments until it shows that it has CONNECTED.
Note: TSP100 is the series of printers in which TSP143III belongs to.
Once that is completed, login to your Hike store – if you haven't already – to setup the printer with your business.
Begin by drawing up the Hike menu on your iPad and select Settings.
Once selected, click on Hardware to enable your Printer activation.
Here you will find a list of your printers as well as the TSP143III Bluetooth Printer. As it is not yet your primary printer, select Use in Hike?
Toggle this button ON, if you intend to use the Star TSP143III printer as your first point of call for all your receipt printing.
A Packing Slip or Kitchen Docket, is a receipt that the Star TSP143III printer will print out with only the product name and quantity of the item sold. This is primarily used in cafes or food-truck businesses whereby a kitchen docket will be given to staff to make/prepare the order.
By toggling this ON, your Star TSP143III printer will print the kitchen docket after it prints out the sales receipt.
Note: You can also assign a sepearate printer to print out your kitchen docket. Simply return to the Hardware screen, select the printer that you have connected, and toggle this option ON.
Select how many copies of the receipt will be printed after each sale.
Toggling this button ON will automatically print a receipt after every sale, you will not need to select the option in the Enter Sale Screen on Hike.
Toggling this button ON will automatically open the Cash Drawer after ever sale. This may be necessary in instances where you perform gift card sales or sales with coupons, and keep those cards in your cash drawer.
Toggling this button ON will open the cash drawer only on Cash Sales.
Note: Enable Auto-Open Cash Drawer must be toggeled ON as well.
Toggling this button ON will enable Star Micronics' AllReceipts function.
Once you have finished choosing your options for how your Star TSP143III will integrate with Hike, select the BACK button, to return to the Hardware Settings.
Now, you'll see that Primary Printer is named next to your Star TSP143III device. If you need to change any of the options you just selected, click on Primary Printer to return to that screen.
With Bluetooth connection, printing a receipt after a sale is easily done.
Simply draw up a sale, complete the payment transaction, and click Print – though this may be bypassed if you have enabled auto-print after sale, in the Hardware settings.
Your Star TSP143III Bluetooth Printer will then print off a receipt, with the printer's guillotine function allowing for easy removal. Too easy!
The Star TSP100 USB Thermal Printer is for use for USB compatible devices only. This means PC or Mac computers only and does not include iPads.
To begin, ensure that you have plugged one end of the USB cable into your printer and the other end to the USB device you will be connecting to.
The same goes with your power cable, plugging in the cord to your printer and (AC) power supply.
Take note of where the USB port on the printer is located (back, left-hand side), and the power cable (back, right-hand side).
Once you have connected all the necessary cables to your Star TSP100 USB, and have turned the power on (power switch located on the left-hand side of the printer), you can begin configuring your printer with Hike POS.
Note: If you have previously installed the driver on your computer you can skip this step and go directly to printing a receipt on Hike POS with Start TPS100 USB Printer.
Generally speaking your printer driver will be packaged with a CD-ROM that you will install onto your PC in order to install the driver that will make the printer accessible on your computer.
If you do not have the CD-ROM handy or if you're using a MAC that does not have a CD-Drive, then you will need to download the correct driver that will enable you activate the installation.
Check out our article, 'How to find your Star Micronics Printer Driver?' that will give you step-by-step instructions on how to do just that.
Once you have the driver you will need to proceed with the installation. Select on the driver to open the installation screen.
Click on Installation and then select I Accept once you have gone over the Thermal Printer's License Agreement.
Once you have agreed to it, the Install Shield Wizard will commence, guiding you through the installation of your Thermal Receipt Printer.
You will then be prompted to give your Star Printer a User Name and Organization. Click Next to continue.
From here you will be able to choose your set-up type. Select Typical for a normal installation of the printer, or select Custom if you want to specify exactly what files are installed.
We recommend using the Typical setting when installing. Click on Next to continue.
Upon completion of your set-up type, you will be able to click on Install to start the installation. The installation may take some minutes.
Once done, the Installation Wizard will inform you of the completion. Explaining that your printer has successful been installed.
To check that your Star Micronics has been successfully installed as a printer, simply go to your Control Panel, select View Devices and Printers under Hardware and Printers, and in your Printers column, you should see your Star Thermal Receipt printer.
From here, you can select your Star Printer from your Print Preview page setting, when you go to print a receipt for a customer.
Now that your Star TSP100 USB Printer has been added to your list of printer devices you can now print receipts on it.
Simply draw up a sale on your Enter New Sale screen, and conduct the payment transaction as you would do normally.
Once you have completed the transaction, you will be given the option to either Email or Print the customer a receipt. Select Print.
Open your Print Preview settings where you'll be able to select the Star TSP100 USB as your printer of choice.
In the Destination field of your Print Settings, you will need to ensure that you have selected the Star TSP100 printer.
Click on Change, to open a list of your printers and select the TSP100 printer – or whichever you've connected to print your receipt on.
Paper Size – Select the appropriate receipt printer label size.
Margins – Select NONE as your margins, to properly fit everything on your receipt.
Scale – Ensure that your receipt is in line with your receipt template. This may mean that you adjust the scale for a proper fitting.
Headers & Footers – Make sure that the Headers & Footers option box is Not Ticked.
When you've completed the setting, click on PRINT to have your receipt print out. With the printer's guillotine function, you'll be able to easily remove the receipt with just a simple tear.
And that's it! You've now successfully configured your Star TSP100 USB Printer!
The Star TSP100 LAN & Star TSP143 LAN offers retailers around the world an Ethernet solution for printing out fast and efficient receipts for customers.
As a cost-effective solution for your printing needs, the TSP100 & TSP143 connects to your Mac using a LAN ethernet cable, and is completely compatible with your Hike POS.
Note: The instructions are identical for both Star printers, but for the purposes of this article we will refer to the TSP143 LAN only, going forward.
Before we begin to install the drivers required to setup your TSP143 printer with Mac computers, we'll need to first test out the printer and the receipts.
Holding the FEED button down, and turning the power back ON at the same time.
This process will print out two test receipts.
Look at the second receipt that was printed out, and look at the bottom where it says Current IP Parameters Status.
Ensure that you hang on to this page, or make a note of the IP Address, as you will need it later.
Note: Your IP address will be different to the one listed in the picture above.
Next, you will need to download the latest printer drivers for your Mac. These drivers are software, designed to help the Star TSP143 LAN printer working correctly on your computer.
Once you have filled in the relevant fields, scroll down to the Manual section. Click on the Drivers tab to the left of Manual, where you'll see a list of Recommended drivers and previous versions of the driver.
Select the Recommended driver futurePRNT V6.0 Lite - which will begin to download the file.
Once this download has been completed, open the file and extract it.
Note: Your downloaded files will appear in your Finder folder. You can either select Downloads from the Finder screen, or click on the arrow that appears at the bottom of your browser, once it has finished downloading, and select Show in Finder.
Next, open the extracted folder and navigate to Mac -> CUPS -> Documents, and double-click the 'startcupsdrv' file.
This will then create a new folder. Open this folder and go to Drivers. Double-click the .pkg file here, and then follow the install guide instructions.
Once you have completed the installation of the driver, you will need to install the printer on your Mac.
Navigate to System Preferences and open Printers and Scanners.
Click on the + icon on the bottom left corner, and select Add Printer or Scanner.
When that has been selected, it will open a new window where you'll need to put in some information. Select IP along the top, and follow these instructions to fill out the form.
Address:This is where you need to put in your printer's IP address. You will find this under Current IP Parameters Status, located on the receipt your printed out during the testing stage.
Protocol:Select Line Printer Daemon – LPD from the dropdown box.
Name:This is an optional field but if you'd like to customize the name of your receipt, put it in here.
Once you've completed all the relevant fields with the correct information, click ADD. Your printer should now be ready to print out receipts with Hike POS!
Now that your Star TSP143 LAN Printer has been added to your list of printer devices you can now print receipts on it.
Note: You can also test a receipt print by looking at your Sales History tab in Hike POS, and printing a receipt from a previous transaction.
This will take you to the Print Preview screen. If the Star printer that you're using is not your default printer, select Change from the Destination field, and select the correct printer from the list.
Note: If you set your paper size to 72mm – 2000mm without disabling headers and footers, the printer will not auto-cut the main receipt.
When done, print out a receipt to check whether it's to your liking. Of course, if you want to change your receipt template, you can do so in Hike POS as well.
Once you have your printer connected with Hike POS, you may also want to link up a cash drawer. The cash drawer will connect to your receipt printer, and will be triggered to open when you finish a cash or check sale, while the receipt is being printed.
Tip: You can manually open the cash drawer by clicking on Open Drawer on the Enter New Sale screen.
To connect the cash drawer, plug in the RJ12 connector cable (it looks like a phone line) from the cash drawer into the receipt printer.
This will take you to CUPS. CUPS is a networking printing service used by Mac computers. It will allow you to setup your printers on a network, and customize options such as cash drawer setup.
Note: If you receive the following screen (below), you will need to enable CUPS on your Mac computer.
Once in CUPS, select your printer model from the list.
Then, select the drop-down menu Set Default Options.
From here, select Cash Drawer Control, choose Open Drawer 1 and 2, under Cash Drawer, and click the Set Default Options button below.
Your cash drawer should now be ready to go!
The Star TSP100 LAN printer offers retailers around the world an Ethernet solution for printing out fast and efficient receipts for customers.
As a cost-effective solution for your printing needs, the TSP100 connects to your Windows PC (or laptop) using a LAN ethernet cable, and is completely compatible with your Hike POS.
The Star TSP100 LAN Windows printer is the best-selling printer across the globe, and is the first software-driven thermal POS receipt printer, to provide immediate plug and play application.
Before we begin to install the drivers required to setup your TSP100 printer with Windows computers, we'll need to first test out the printer and the receipts.
Next, you will need to download the latest printer drivers for your Windows computer. These drivers are software, designed to help the Star TSP100 LAN printer working correctly on your computer.
Once this download has been completed, open the file and extract it. You can do this by going to your Downloads folder, right-clicking on the file and selecting Extract All.
Note: Your downloaded files will appear in your Downloads folder in File Explorer. You can either select Downloads from the File Explorer screen, or click on the arrow that appears at the bottom of your browser, once it has finished downloading, and select Show in Folder.
Once you have extracted the file, a folder will open. Double-click on Autorun, and follow the on-screen installation guide instructions.
Once you have completed the installation of the driver, you will need to install the printer on Windows. This process can be somewhat complicated, so ensure you take care in performing the various steps.
Navigate to Program Files (x86) > Star Micronics > Star TSP100 (which will be a dated folder) > and select Ethernet Setting.
As this is quite far down, it may be easier just to search for it instead. If you have Windows 8 or above, simply select the search bar at the top-right hand corner of the sidebar, and type Ethernet Setting.
If you have Windows 7 instead, navigate to the bottom-left corner of the screen and click on the Windows Start icon. This will prompt a menu to pop-up that contains a search bar at the bottom. You will then see the following icon appear, and clicking this will open the Ethernet Setup page, where you'll be able to install the printer.
Once you have the Ethernet Settings opened, you will need to select Search LAN for TSP100 LAN.
Once you see the Star TSP100 LAN on the list, confirm that the IP address matches the IP address on the printed test receipt, that you printed earlier on.
From there, you will need to click Add Printer Queue.
At this time a warning message may appear, like the one seen below.
If you receive this message it means that your IP address is not fixed, and may potentially change in the future. When this happens, your printer may become disconnected, and you will need to set-up your Star TSP100 LAN printer again in the future.
Hike POS strongly recommends that you contact your local IT technician to get a static IP address. Until that point comes however, you can click YES to proceed with the installation and start using your printer immediately.
When that has been completed, a new pop-up box will appear asking you to specify the queue and the port names of your new printer.
Leave the port name unchanged, but if you would like your printer to be called something specific, then feel free to do so.
Once you're happy with the settings, TICK the checkbox Perform Test Printing and select Complete.
Your printer should now be set-up and ready to start printing receipts for your customers on Hike POS!
Now that your Star TSP100 LAN Printer has been added to your list of printer devices you can now print receipts on it.
Note: You can also test a print by looking at your Sales History tab in Hike POS, and printing a previous receipt.
When completed, print out a receipt to check whether it's to your liking. Of course, if you want to change your receipt template, you can do so on Hike POS as well.
Following this, go to Devices and Printers from your Control Panel.
Right-click on your receipt printer, select Printer Properties and then Device Settings.
From here, you will need to change the Peripheral Unit Type to Cash Drawer, and set the Unit 1 and Unit 2 options to Document Bottom.
Note: If you want your cash drawer to open before the receipt starts to print, you can choose to set the Unit 1 and Unit 2 options to Document Top instead.
Save the settings, and perform a quick test by clicking on Open Drawer on your Enter New Sale screen.
The Star TSP100 & TSP143 LAN Printers offers retailers around the world an Ethernet solution for printing out fast and efficient receipts for customers around the world.
As a cost-effective solution for your printing needs, the TSP100 & TSP143 LAN printers, both connect seamlessly with your iPad, and is completely compatible with Hike POS.
Note: These are the instructions for setting up your Star TSP100 LAN Printer. The Star TSP100 USB model is not compatible with iPads.
Note 2: The instructions are identical for both Star printers, but for the purposes of this article we will refer to the TSP100 LAN only, going forward.
To begin, ensure that you have plugged in the ethernet cable to your router, and have connected the other end to the receipt printer. The Ethernet port is located on the back left-hand side of the printer.
Also ensure that you have plugged the power cord into your printer and your (AC) power supply.
At this stage your printer should be connected to your network. Hold down the FEED button and turn the printer ON. This will print two receipt slips, with the second slip showing the printer's IP address if successfully connected.
On your iPad, connect to the WiFi connection of your store.
Open your Hike iPad app, and draw up the menu by selecting Settings.
Here you will find a list of your printers as well as the TSP100 printer. As it is not yet your primary printer, select Use in Hike?
Note: Ignore the printers listed on the above screenshot, your Star TSP100 will be listed instead.
Toggle this button ON, if you intend to use the Star TSP100 LAN printer as your first point of call for all your receipt printing.
A Packing Slip or Kitchen Docket, is a receipt that the Star TSP100 LAN printer will print out with only the product name and quantity of the item sold. This is primarily used in cafes or food-truck businesses whereby a kitchen docket will be given to staff to make/prepare the order.
By toggling this ON, your Star TSP100 LAN printer will print the kitchen docket after it prints out the sales receipt.
Toggling this button on, will enable Star Micronics' AllReceipts function.
Once you have finished choosing your options for how your Star TSP100 LAN will integrate with Hike, select the BACK button, to return to the Hardware Settings.
Now, you'll see that Primary Printer is named next to your Star TSP100 LAN device. If you need to change any of the options you just selected, click on Primary Printer to return to that screen.
You can run a test sale to ensure that your set-up is succesful.
At the top, you'll see a checkmark next to the connected Wi-Fi network.
If this network is different to the router your printer is connected to, tap the blue "i" on the same line as that network.
Now connect to the correct network and open HikePOS.
CUPS (formerly known as Common UNIX Printing System), is a network printing system that allows Mac OS devices to connect to various printers on a network, including Cash Drawers.
As the CUPS Web Interface may be disabled by default on your Mac, you will need to enable it in order to have your Thermal Receipt printers appear on the network.
A screen will then appear saying Web Interface is Disabled. An indication that CUPS has been disabled on your particular Mac device.
Select and copy 'cupsctl WebInterface=yes' from the page.
Then, use the search box in the top-right hand corner of your screen, and search for Terminal.
Once you are in Terminal, paste (Ctrl + V) in 'cupsctl WebInterface=yes' and hit Enter.
Now, once you go to http://localhost:631/printers/ you will see your installed printers.
To change the settings for your printer (or the cash drawer) click the desired printer.
How to find your Star Micronics Printer Driver?
Printer software, otherwise known as drivers, are essential for your PC to be able to communicate with your Star Micronics printers. Only once they have been installed, will you be able to print your receipt labels directly from Hike.
Whilst in most cases a CD-ROM will be included in the packaging of these thermal printers, and you will be able to install the driver directly from there, if you don't have access to the CD there is an easy solution.
Here you will be able to search for exactly the type of printer you will be connecting to Hike, and download the driver.
Note: Here will be selecting a Star USB Thermal printer on Windows.
Using the drop-down boxes select the relevant fields for your thermal printer. Remember to indicate whether it is a USB or LAN printer, and whether it is on a Windows or Mac OS X operating system.
Select the first option in the Driver Backlog – futurePRNT V5.5 Lite - which will begin to download the file.
Note: Always select a Version of the futurePRNT software, i.e. do not download an app that does not have a 'V' in it.
As this will download as a zipped file, right click on the folder (in your Downloads) and select EXTRACT ALL.
You will then be asked to set a Destination for the newly created file. If you don't specify a new location it will automatically set it at the same place it currently is. Click on Extract once you're done.
Once the extraction is completed, you can click on the file folder of the Thermal Printer. Double click on the file icon, not the zipped file.
When opened, double-click on the Autorun icon – which should be displayed with a CD.
This will then bring up the Installation screen for the driver, so that you can connect it to Hike. Click on Installation and then select I Accept once you have gone over the Thermal Printer's License Agreement.
To check that your Star Micronics printer has been successfully installed, simply go to your Control Panel, select View Devices and Printers under Hardware and Printers, and in your Printers column, you should see your Star Thermal printer.
The Epson TM-T88V is a highly reliable and easy to use POS printer that meets the strict ENERGYSTAR® guidelines set by the European Commission. This means that it is not only better for your budget, but it is also better for the environment.
Fully compatible with Hike, the Epson TM-T88V provides a fast and efficient receipt printing solution for all your retail needs, and best of all its fully compatible with Hike POS!
Unfortunately, Epson printers aren't configured to automatically connect to your network. Instead, you will need to change the network settings on your computer by configuring DHCP.
It can be a little bit daunting, particularly if you aren't that confident when it comes to technology. If you have a friend or family member who is, we recommend asking them to take a look for you, to ensure that you have set up DHCP correctly.
Once your DHCP is set up (and you are breathing a sigh of relief!), you will need to create a test receipt as this contains the IP address you will need later.
To get this, hold down the push button on the back of the printer for approximately 4 seconds. Then printer should come to life, printing out the network settings, with an IP address clearly listed up the top of the text.
Note: If the IP address on the settings receipt says NONE, then your printer is not properly connected to the internet. Quickly check the cable connecting the printer and the router as it can sometimes come loose, and then try again.
Printer software, otherwise known as drivers, are essential for your PC to be able to communicate with your Epson printer. Once it has been installed, you will be able to print receipts directly from Hike.
Next, click on the Download Page on the latest files, and simply scroll down and click to confirm the download.
Note: You will see the download progressing in the left-hand corner of the window.
Once the download has finished, right-click on the file and select the option Extract All.
Note: Your downloaded files will appear in your File Explorer. You can either select Downloads from the Explorer screen, or click on the arrow that appears at the bottom of your browser, once it has finished downloading, and select Show in Folder.
Once you have extracted the file, a folder will automatically open. Double click on the install file, and follow the instructions.
Once you have completed the installation of the driver, you will need to install the printer on your Windows PC so that it recognizes it.
Navigate to Program Files (x86) > EPSON > EPSON Advanced Printer Driver 5 > and select PrinterReg.
Alternatively, you can just search for it on your computer by entering PrinterReg, using the Search Apps function.
IP Address: Here is where you will need the IP address which you saved earlier on. If you have lost it, you can simply repeat the procedure and run a test print to retrieve it.
Once you have filled out the fields listed above, click Save Settings and another test receipt will print out to confirm that everything has been set up correctly.
Now that your Epson TM-T88V Printer has been added to your list of printer devices you can now print receipts on it.
This will take you to the Print Preview screen. If the TM-T88V is not your default printer, select Change from the Destination field, and select the correct printer from the list.
When done, print out a receipt to check whether it's to your liking. Of course, if you want to change your receipt template, you can do so on Hike POS as well.
Right-click on your receipt printer, select Printing Preferences and then Peripherals.
Once in here, change the peripheral unit type to Cash Drawer.
Now you will need to select End of Document and click Open on both Cash Drawer #1 and Cash Drawer #2.
Apply these settings, and test it out by performing a test sale.
Once completed, your Cash Drawer and Epson TM-T88V should be ready to go!


Cincinnati Council Member Chris Seelbach and his staff are following up on the information they gathered last month during a series of public safety listening sessions.
He estimated he met with about 75 residents during open office hours held around the city. Seelbach also talked with about 60 police officers and 60 firefighters.
He said one common theme during the meetings with residents concerned loitering and curfew violations among young people.
After the open sessions, Seelbach and his staff are working on several issues residents brought to them. Those include a dangerous curve on Glenway Avenue between East and Lower Price Hill and problems with overgrown trees and trash on Gray Road in College Hill.
Seelbach said the officers he spoke with are worried about the number of retirements in the police department.
"They're very concerned about the lack of a new police class in the last 5 years and that's something they could very specifically show me was having an effect on safety in our city," Seelbach said.
City firefighters expressed similar concerns about retirements.
He also said the sessions will likely continue in the future with residents and other city employees.


I tell myself stories. Like the one about my son and how he needs me as a fortification against the rest of everything. When I was 30, I needed this story. It may even have been true – one part of me hung onto his baby self and the other part of me plugged into being alive. That's the difference he made. Before him, I hung onto the possibility of death when things were hard in the ways things used to be hard, when youth and all that accompanied it made me suffer for love or justice. My personal out button: that's how I thought of it. After my son was born, I grieved its going.
Now I'm older and I spend less time cradling the idea of death, less time blocking my son's view of the rest of his life with mine. I tell myself another story: that I moved across the country because he wouldn't leave home. It is true that I left him in our house with the date when new owners would arrive, left him with his two cats and his father's presence across town, and drove two thousand miles to these three rooms next to the ocean. Maybe closer to the truth is that I moved across the country because I loved him too much, loved myself too little.
Maybe I did it because I wanted to practice separation from him, from everything I had made of my life for the twenty years of his. Some old, familiar stories would explain it differently. In those tales, the mother dies and so sets the child out on his quest for life and himself. I tell myself half that story.
The new town by the sea unfolded around me on a map from behind the wheel of my car. The big green blob in the middle was a nature area, up a hill and through trees that don't grow where I'm from. These trees were tall and old, history trees surrounded by ferns and shade. I had seen some of these kinds of trees, but the green blob on the map promised more.
I passed the road twice because it was unmarked until I was almost upon it, no help to tourists or others who wanted to take in the forest. Three walkers veered off into the trees on a narrow path at the bottom of the hill as I passed, my flatland car making loose tapping noises under the hood as the road became steep. Ahead, a fairy tale arch of trees ushered me in and I drove under it slowly, watching the light go green. A minute or two on and the sighing of pines surrounded me, whispered its way through my half-open windows.
After a sharp left turn, I drove into a parking lot where three other vehicles were parked. I pulled in and found the wooden sign burned with the symbols. A hiker with a stick pointed one way, and a series of horizontal lines crossing two verticals capped by an inverted V pointed the other. I took the path toward the tower.
The cool under the trees was new. Where I came from, August was on fire with sun and drought. People here carried jackets with them, able to adapt to changing sun and shade, wet and dry. I had not yet formed the habit, so I followed the yellow arrow into the trees bare armed. No human sounds followed. Whoever belonged to the cars must have gone the hiker's way. Long fern fronds dipped into my path, and a small dark bird fluttered to the ground ahead of me, then hopped up onto the hillside. I heard its small rustle as I passed. Fairy tales are my first stories, maybe even still the most important ones, and I set out into the dim woods alone, a Hansel-less Gretel wearing Nikes with a cell phone in my pocket.
My eyes were used to looking at the horizon of the plains, my body accustomed to enervating heat in summer and bone-cracking cold in winter and springs and falls so short you could miss them if you were having a bad week when all you wanted to do was stay in bed and read British mysteries. When my friend suggested her old town, her mid-life leap back to graduate school, I decided her idea was better than any I'd had lately, and so I leapt. No more horizons.
I could have moved to a place more like the one I came from where I would recognize the birds, but I had not. I chose a place on the edge of the continent after living for so long in Kansas, the land-embraced vast center of things. If this was the crust, then I had left the soft, doughy middle of the loaf in favor of something chewier, more friable, harder to come by. And I could have chosen an apartment farther inland where the birds would have sounded more like the ones I missed – cardinals and sparrows, finches and bluejays. Instead I spent the days in my new place, windows open on the cool, listening to crows' raucous cries and the insistent overlapping voices of gulls.
Open windows where I was born invited mosquitoes and flies, biting gnats and even wasps. Here, an occasional small moth or spider wandered in through screenless windows, and disappeared back out. I chose this particular place with its saltwater smells, islands and ships, the horizon (when not covered by low, smoke-gray clouds) ringed with irregular ridges of mountains blocking my view. I still expected definite edges of things – flat blue sky meeting flat yellow land, a long, unbroken horizontal out there that the rest of this was hiding.
In the forest I had no horizon but only the trail under my feet and tree silence. The forest whispered a private conversation that had been going on much longer than I could imagine. The trees seemed to murmur that if I kept moving, they would let me pass. Then, to my left, through a scrim of pine branches, the tower came into sight. It glowered over the path, an unnatural thing ascending from the undergrowth. A turn in the trail took me to a flat place, gray gravelled, where the lookout tower's timber legs were anchored. A flicking, mechanical sound stopped my approach.
A man stood at the base of the tower, lighting a cigarette. I caught the sharp burning scent of tobacco before he saw me, turned his red face toward me, startled but blank.
A loose mist-gray pack hung on his back, weighted only at the bottom. He was tall and slender, and he had combed several long strands of hair over his forehead. His eyes were large and flat, a color I couldn't detect. I was too far away to tell. He dragged on his cigarette and then moved off the concrete pad where the ascent to the tower began. Back home, we would have been expected to say hello, exchange a word or two about the weather, the view, the hike up to this point.
And everything in me knew that speaking to him was the wrong thing to do. I've read Flannery O'Conner, Joyce Carol Oates, the Brothers Grimm. In place of a smile, I bared my teeth at him, fear stretching my mouth, the one so used to politeness. It was my intention to go up the tower. The whole morning had been about finding the road in, following it up, walking through the forest and finally climbing the broad wooden steps to see the view from the top, a height that somehow promised it would show me the place I sought – a receding plane of land meeting a bigger sky.
The landscape we grow up with shapes our expectations. In Kansas, the tallest things are wind turbines and airport control towers. Neither needs to be very tall because it is unnecessary to rise above or clear anything in order to see or catch the wind. In the countryside where few trees grow, you can watch someone coming for miles and miles, the shimmering dot getting larger and larger until you see separate legs, the color of a shirt. After a snow once, in a town paralyzed by cold and ice, a friend and I decided to set out for each other's houses to meet in the middle and share a thermos of hot chocolate. We waved at each other for blocks and blocks and blocks. I could see her coming toward me for at least fifteen minutes, both of us crunching into the silence of the snowy street.
This new landscape has its own rules, and I did not yet know them. In a sort of slow motion dance, I moved toward the tower as the man moved away, a bubble of distance between our bodies maintained by my wary approach and his languorous withdrawal. I began the climb, asking myself what I was doing at each level, stupidity or a lifetime of safety or something else pushing me forward. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw him disappear down the trail the way I had come. The interior monologue I had been having, a narration of each moment as it happened, shifted and now sounded like my mother's voice telling me don't be so silly, so fearful, so dramatic. I paused at treetop level, looked out at the canopy a little closer to the sunlight screened by the dense trunks and branches. I rested my arms on the broad wooden timber and breathed.
A silent movement below and he reappeared, heading toward the tower. Slowly as he had left, he entered again the broad gravel and concrete place that surrounded the structure. He did not look up. He was still smoking that cigarette. From above, his forehead and eyes – eyes that I imagined had seen things I had never pictured for myself, flat eyes with flat lids – were all I could see of him.
That, and the top of his head with the strands of hair parted and placed over it, his florid skin between each piece. Out from the center of my chest and without my consent, I felt my life fly over the tips of the trees and straight on toward the sea. It did not feel like my breath going, but that went, too, I realized as I tried to inhale.
He disappeared beneath the tower where I couldn't see him, and I waited, still.
Men who are supposed to save us arrive differently. In tales, they dash in, assess the danger. They act decisively, swiftly. Sometimes they ask us to put our dainty feet into impractical shoes, or to let down our hair. I kept mine in its knot, did not lean out to look down, tried to make myself silent as trees.
A minute – or an hour – later, he passed out from under the tower toward a small trail leading into the woods on the left. Half of me watched him turn into the shade of the path. My body turned toward the stairs and continued to climb. Three more flights and I landed under the roof, looking out to the ocean, almost the same view I had from my apartment window, this one partly obscured by taller trees to the left: trees below, a disc of ocean, masts of sailboats tiny as eyelashes moored at the distant marina. On the log ledge where I rested my arms was chalked one long line in capital letters: LONG WAY DOWN.
And long way out. The horizontal I had traveled away from my son might have been continents. I was by myself up there, within a cell phone's call of no one near, no one who could do anything to save me. And it was my son I pined for then, the way his birth had rooted me, uncentered me, sent me to this moment far away from him and yearning toward a view of the old horizon so I could tell myself he was still close.
In the story I was telling myself, I imagined the man was waiting on the trail. I pictured the weight in his pack as a gun, and the silence of taking its smooth metal heaviness from the soft fabric bag. The stairs were narrow and my feet found each one on the way down and along each step of the trail – the same one I had used to come up to the tower, the one he had abandoned – each step carrying its load of flesh, its burden of blood and breath.
In the shower that night, my shoulders and arms soapy, my hair wet against my neck, I wanted my life back. I called to it through the open window, but the empty place in my chest felt like nightmare, like violence, every single thing I thought was mine abducted, flown. How easily I gave it, that thing I had forgotten I carried.


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Novo Nordisk springs to mind for engineers when mapping out their future (photo: Pixabay)
June 15th, 2018 12:26 pm| by Christian W
A new image survey compiled by Epinion on behalf of Ingeniøren newspaper has ranked Novo Nordisk as the most favourable place to work in Denmark among engineers.
Lego came second, followed by Novozymes, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Rambøll, with Grundfos, Danfoss, Vestas, Oticon and Cowi completing the top ten.
Novo Nordisk is the undisputed champ, leading the way 18 years in a row.
"We had hoped to be ranked highly, but we are quite humble to have won top prize, because it's a close race every year and one can never be sure to win," Michael Hallgren, the head of production at Novo Nordisk, told Ingeniøren.
"There are lots of very sound companies in this survey, and coming first or sixth is close to being identical."
READ MORE: Denmark facing huge engineer shortage in the near future
Historic DTU
DTU's fourth-place ranking was its highest ever on the annually-published list, which ranked the university number 73rd back in 2004.
Other notable companies in the ranking were Haldor Topsøe (12), Maersk (21), Ørsted (26), FLSmidth (31), Arla Foods (42), the University of Copenhagen (69) and TDC (105). National rail operator DSB finished rock bottom.
The ranking listed 111 places of work across 11 different parameters based on the responses of 4,242 newly-educated engineers and 1,391 engineering students.
See the entire ranking here (on page 80).
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We hope you had a fabulous time ringing in 2016 last night! Today we're going to share with you our outfit details from New Year's Eve, as well as our New Year's resolutions for 2016!
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Serviceability in Australian banking is the ability of a debtor to meet loan repayments. In the 1990s debt serviceability criteria had been relaxed, but nowadays it's harder to get finance. Every creditor has own serviceability model.

The essence
Under the Consumer Credit Code, before creditors can approve borrower's application, they must carry out an assessment of his ability to service any loan without financial hardship. Creditors refusing to extend loans to people whose repayments exceeding ⅓ of their gross income (such persons are considered to be "mortgage stressed").

Calculation
Lenders establish the maximum amount of debt that borrower can afford to take on given his current income by applying a debt-to-income ratio. Every creditor sets his own ratio, however, most lenders set a maximum debt service ratio of between 30 and 35%. Also, some creditors apply number of measures to "protect" borrower from any changing circumstances (interest rate rises, income reduction etc).

Income
In some industries (police, fire services and nursing, for example), overtime is an integral part of income and is considered for serviceability criteria. But for other professions, a reduced proportion of overtime income is used. In which case, the creditor will only apply a reduced amount of the borrower's overtime in calculating serviceability.

The income from a second job is considered if the job has been held continuously for at least one year.

When calculating serviceability, creditors consider rental income from investment properties. But a lot of banks will only use 75% of rental income.

Liabilities
Existing or potential debt reduces the amount for a new loan. In the case of credit cards, most creditors set a minimum repayment obligation of 2.5 – 3.0% of the approved credit limit. So, usually, creditors require account statements to confirm monthly repayments.

Other factors
Some creditors not consider property investors' tax benefits they receive if their loan is negatively geared.

Creditors add a margin (today is around 2,5% and more) to the variable rate, to arrive the "assessment rate", when calculating repayments for a new loan. This means that creditors want to know whether borrower would be able to repay his debts if interest rates reach 7.5% and higher.

References

Banking terms
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A few weeks - months? - ago, we decided we needed a new couch. The couches we'd bought previously, a year or so ago, turned out to be a real piece of junk (to borrow Ed's phrase); the loveseat we didn't really use, so that was still in good shape, but the larger one, which included two sections that extended out, had parts that broke (one side multiple times), which means the couch had to be rigged so we could still extend the thing. Plus one side's cushion got completely crushed merely by sitting on it.
So we finally decided that we had had it, and we did some couch shopping. We went to Crate and Barrel, and IKEA, and probably a few other places I can't remember anymore, but we kept mentally going back to one of the first couches we'd seen at Crate and Barrel, a sectional that we could customize by choosing the fabric and configuration we'd like. We were told it would probably come in late January or February, that it would take about 12 weeks, since each couch was made by individual craftsmen.
We were surprised to get a call about two weeks ago, telling us that our couch would be delivered this past Saturday, which meant we had to figure out how to get rid of our old couches. They're big and heavy and there's no way I could even help, but unfortunately, there was no one else could help, either - Alex was off flying and we don't have any other guy friends in the area. Renting a moving van and/or a couple of moving guys simply to help us move the couches from the living room to the garage, or to the local charity drop off, would have cost nearly $400, and for about 30 minutes of work, that seemed a bit ridiculous. Fortunately, with some finegeling and the hand cart, Ed was able to move the couches out of the house.
We're leaving the couches in the garage until such time that we can arrange for either Catholic Relief Services or Deseret Industries to come pick them up. Whomever we can get to pick them up will probably want them on the sidewalk, but I'm hoping that we can either slide them out of the garage to the sidewalk (perhaps ten feet), or, even better, they'll just come in to the garage to get them.
Meanwhile, for a night or two, our living room looked really empty. We felt like newlyweds (more than we already are), moving into our first house and getting our first furniture. At least we were able to vacuum up all the crumbs and dirt that had been collecting under those couches for over a year, but for two nights we were relegated to watching TV while sitting on our dining room chaits, which are comfy for dinner, but not for watching TV.
But bright and early Saturday morning, our beautiful new couch was delivered! We'd been told to expect the delivery men between 9 and 11 a.m., but at 8:15 a.m. they called telling us they were on their way, and 15 minutes later, they had arrived. They were really friendly and professional and effecient, and we're really pleased with our new couch, which includes a sofa bed. It's really comfortable, and we're happy with how it looks (the floor model had a different fabric). Slowly we're developing our own sense of style - such as it is: Simple, clean lines and colors, and comfortable.
The couch could be all one piece, but we left a little space open so that a table and one of the speakers could be between them.


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GetResponse makes it easiest to start an email newsletter compared to Aweber and MailChimp
Content Marketing Email Marketing Mobile Marketing	Posted on July 21, 2015 —by Chris Abraham 667 0
If you can't use a tool you won't use a tool. Gmail is so much easier to use than even Hotmail, AOL mail, Yahoo Mail, and especially Eudora, Thunderbird, and Microsoft Outlook. Playing around on Facebook is much easier and nicer than slogging into Google+ and while YouTube might be easy to consume, becoming a YouTuber still isn't as easy as it could be. It's not that we're stupid, it's just that we need to make things work for us seamlessly without our needing to becoming expert in something else — no matter how much it might benefit our lives. DropBox is so easy, FTP is too hard.
Sophisticated Email Marketing Campaigns Shouldn't Be So Hard
Same thing is true when it comes to implementing one of the most important killer apps that the Internet offers when it comes to building a business, be it online or as an extension of your brick and mortar store. That killer app is the email newsletter, also known as email marketing. Unfortunately, two of the top tools, while exceptionally powerful, are not nearly as intuitive as elegant online apps like Paperless Post or Evite or Pinterest or even setting up a company Facebook Page. But GetResponse is.
Are AWeber and MailChimp Intentionally Being Obtuse?
I once joined AWeber. And paid for it. And didn't use it. It was developed for developers and marketing experts, obviously. I box full of metric spanners and gizmos the type of which you'd see at the dealership repair shop. Yes, something did look like a webmail form but other than that, I bailed. I didn't have time to learn a new language. MailChimp feels similar but it's a little easier but MailChimp has a MailChip on it's shoulder and I have had to console innumerable former-Chimps who were drummed out of the Zoo for being good-hearted-but-too-excited first time marketing emailers who's white-hot passion for their new communications platform behave almost exactly like a spammer in the eyes of MailChimps mail-Nazis.
The Story of Goldimail
There were once three email marketing platforms. Goldimail was excited about keeping in touch with her customers and prospects. First she tried AWeber.
"This email marketing service is too hard!" she exclaimed.
So, she tried MailChimp.
"This email marketing service is too soft," she said
So, she tried GetResponse .
"Ahhh, this email marketing service is just right," she said happily and started setting up her list.
Headbutting with MailChimp
I have been recommending GetResponse a lot lately mostly to people who have butted heads with MailChimp and AWeber for too long and are desperate of where to go and what to do. People butt heads with MailChimp because the MailChimps are really fickle and will evict you first and ask questions later if you're too aggressive or or make learning mistake — they seem to assume bad intent.
Keep Is Simple (and Elegant) Stupid
People butt heads with both MailChimp and AWeber over user interface and user experience, never quite sure how to start, what to do next, which template to use, and how to start using some of the cooler features of a modern email marketing platform such as responsive templates for mobile, autoresponders that allow you to automate follow-up automagically, which is to say that you can put together an entire year-long series of content-rich emails that a visitor can sign up to receive that you've pre-written and pre-canned, such as "an SEO trick you can use today" weekly email.
Everyone Should Be Leveraging the Power of Autoresponders
When the visitor signs up, they'll initiate the first tip and then receive each subsequent tip and activation message for that year. It's very cool. What's more, GetResponse makes it easy to try out A/B testing, to actually give segmentation (and even advanced segmentation) a try. These are advanced features, similar to setting up and using autoresponders, that spook new users.
It's hard enough, and enough trouble, to put together a weekly newsletter on it's own, how would anyone have time to put together one or more pre-populated and pre-written autoresponder. Well, GetResponse makes it easy to develop and deploy both time-based autoresponders (sent out every week or month after the initial signup, for example) or the action-based autoresponders, which is sort of like those Choose Your Own Adventure books back when we were kids. Same thing with A/B Testing and segmentation.
Everyone Should be Doing A/B Testing and Segmentation
What's A/B testing? Well, in an A/B test you set up two variations of your email newsletter and send them to a small subset of your list. Half is sent Version A and the other half gets Version B. The winner is measured by the most opens or clicks. You can change copy or you can try out different subject lines.
It's very cool and very powerful. And GetResponse makes it much easier then AWeber and MailChimp do.
GetResponse isn't perfect, though, but it's everything anyone needs to easily and effortlessly start and maintain even a very sophisticated "if this then that" autoresponder script and any level of list chopping, otherwise known as list segmentation, to sort your unwieldy Big List into smaller lists based on previous behavior, recent choices, and a number of other things such as location and whatnot.
Developers Shouldn't Have All the Fun
Both AWeber and MailChimp currently are integrated with more 3rd party apps such as Google and SquareSpace and so forth, though Zapier has a tool that connects GetResponse to Squarespace and you can easily add your GetResponse sign up form on your Facebook Page — what more do you need?
And though MailChimp is free to use with up to 2,000 subscribers and up to 12k emails/month, this is a blessing and a curse because if you're doing your job you'll very soon need much more than that but you'll feel compelled to stay small in order to fit yourself into free-is-free land, and that's a disservice to you and your community.
Repeat after me: email marketing is the real killer app. Email's not going anywhere. Social media marketing is just the widest part of the funnel and you should be bring each and every casual follower along the conversion pipeline and short of a big sale, converting a casual follower or Like into an email record is sometimes second best but often worth more that that single sale over the long term if you can convert a single drive-by sale into a committed friend, family, fan, and customer.
One thing I haven't tried is GetResponse's landing page tool. Unlike AWeber and MailChimp, GetResponse has a WYSIWYG solution to creating and hosting a campaign-dedicated landing page that you need to be able to best track the full cycle of response to your email marketing built in and not bolted on. You can host the landing page on GetResponses subdomain or map your own domain on there and then you can really be able to get the sort of metrics you really need to see how effective your email marketing campaign really is by keeping everything in the same email marketing biodome.
GetResponse is sort of like the Macintosh of email marketing services: you can easily learn 80% of what you could ever need to do with an email marketing campaign — even a complex one, this isn't a Mickey Mouse tool — in only 20% of the time. MailChimp is like Windows and AWeber is like Linux — and even though they've taken it form feeling like a command line experience to an X-Windows Gnome/KDE facade, it's still the playground of coders, geeks, nerds, and email marketing specialists and pros.
When Something Doesn't Work Even Cheap is Too Expensive
When you're getting a strong return on investment (ROI) on your email marketing campaigns, you'll be happy to pay a proportionate monthly fee; and, as your list grows, you'll presumably have even more money to grow your list form a paltry 1,000 ($15/month) to a formidable 100,000 ($450/month). The reason why so many folks are unwilling to move past the free version of MailChimp is because they've never quite sorted out how to make email marketing work for them so MailChimp ends up being worth what they and I are paying for it: nothing.
A persistent, responsive, generous, and engaging email marketing campaign is as essential to any company, be it service, charity, professional, sales, or widgets, as rent. If you've ever wanted to give email marketing a try, try GetResponse. If it doesn't work out for you and you still want it to work — and you really should — and not even GetResponse makes is easy and fun enough to just get it started and get it done — you really need to hire someone to help you because email marketing is not an option, it's mandatory. And you really should be doing smart email marketing using A/B testing, sophisticated autoresponder email scripts, and landing pages.
Homework for Your Summer Vacation
Your summer vacation is coming up. Instead of reading yet another bodice-ripper, set up an email marketing campaign instead. And since GetResponse has a no-credit-card-required 30-day trial, you can do it all for free until you get your email marketing sea legs.
OK? Motivated? OK! Now, Go git 'em, Tiger!
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Chris Abraham, digital strategist and technologist, is a leading expert in digital: search engine optimization (SEO), online relationship management (ORM), Internet privacy, Wikipedia curation, social media strategy, and online public relations with a focus on blogger outreach, influencer engagement, and Internet crisis response, with the digital PR and social media marketing agency Gerris digital. [Feel free to self-schedule a 15-minute call, a 30-minute call, or a 60-minute call with me] A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, web strategy consultant and adviser to the industries' leading firms. Chris Abraham specializes in web technologies, including content marketing, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr, and top-10 social media influencers by Marketwire; and, for what it's worth, Chris has a Klout of 79 the last time he looked. Chris Abraham started doing web development back in 1994, SEO in 1998, blogging in 1999, influencer engagement in 2003, social media strategy in 2005, blogger outreach in 2006, and Wikipedia curation in 2007. Feel free to self-schedule a 15-minute call, a 30-minute call, or a 60-minute call. If you want to know the services that Chris offers check out Services If you want to work with Chris use the Contact Form You're welcome to follow me via Social Media You can learn more about Chris over in About Chris writes a lot so check out the Blog Chris offers webinars so check Events
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Ecomorphology is primarily concerned with analyses of the adaptiveness of morphological features and all dependent, correlated topics such as the comparisons of adaptations in different organisms, modifications of adaptive features due to competition and other causes, structure of ecological communities, diversity within taxa, etc,Bock, 1990.
↑ Bock, W.J. 1990. From Biologische Anatomie to Ecomorphology. Neth. J. Zool. 40:. 254-277.
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Our flights from Delhi to the Maldives were such that we had to stay overnight in Bengaluru so this place fitted the bill since it's only 10-15 minutes away from the airport and we didn't have to contend with the infamous traffic jams of the city. But location apart, it was a quite spectacular stay. It was great to be glamping in seriously comfortable and beautiful tents in a setting that was sustainably designed and truly evocative of the old 'Garden City' of Bangalore. The hotel makes it a point to ensure reasonable labour conditions for all the staff and we could experience the difference this makes in terms of genuinely enthusiastic and pleasant service. The hospitality industry is notoriously exploitative, and more hotels should realise how positively guest experience is affected if they were to treat their staff right. At Olde Bangalore, staff are not strung along on temporary contracts and they recruit disabled persons for gardening jobs. It is obvious that the staff take pleasure in their work, and this immediately makes guests feel welcome and wanted.


Mr. Stewart succeeds Kim Bolduc of Canada, who completed her assignment on 22 November. The Secretary‑General is grateful to Ms. Bolduc for her strong leadership and perseverance over the course of her tenure.
Mr. Stewart brings to the position demonstrated management and leadership, with more than 25 years of experience in peace and security and international affairs. Most recently, he served as Deputy Head and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) in Addis Ababa.
He has held appointments in a number of United Nations field missions, including as Acting Chief of Staff and Chief of Political Affairs at the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor‑Leste (UNMIT) (2007‑2009). From 1999 to 2004, he served successively with the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET), the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET). From 2004 to 2006, he represented The Carter Center in the West Bank and Gaza and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was a Canadian diplomat and foreign service officer from 1990 to 1997.
Born in 1961, Mr. Stewart obtained his bachelor's degree from Laval University in Canada.
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La Vestale
Tragédie lyrique in three acts by Gaspare Spontini on a libretto by Étienne de Jouy, premiered on 15 December 1807 at the Académie Impériale de Musique, Salle Montansier (Paris) and dedicated to the Empress Joséphine.
Guilty of having let the sacred fire of the Temple of Vesta go out while she was declaring her love to the Roman general Licinius, Julia is to be buried alive. At the hour fixed for her execution, divine intervention sets the altar alight once more and pardons the young Vestal Virgin. The libretto aims for simplicity of plot and concentrates on achieving psychological depth in its portraits of the protagonists and on transparent political allusion. In this opera dedicated to Joséphine, how can one not assimilate the character of the victorious general Licinius with Napoleon Bonaparte? But, thanks to Spontini's score, La Vestale is more than a simple propaganda work and provides one of the links between the tragédie lyrique of the Ancien Régime and the grand-opéra genre. The linking of the successive numbers and the lively treatment of the scenes testify to the greater density of stage action characteristic of Gluck's successors at the Paris Opéra. The work focuses heavily on the role of Julia, which calls for an exceptional soprano. Caroline Branchu (1780-1850) – 'tragédie lyrique incarnate', as Berlioz later described her – made a lasting impression on her contemporaries when she created the part. And it was thanks to Maria Callas that the work found its way back onto the stage in the twentieth century (at La Scala in 1954).
LES TALENS LYRIQUES
FLEMISH RADIO CHOIR
Christophe Rousset conductor
Julia Marina Rebeka
Licinius Stanislas de Barbeyrac
Cinna Tassis Christoyannis
La Grande Vestale Aude Extrémo
Le Grand Pontife Nicolas Courjal
Concert performance
Co-production Palazzetto Bru Zane / Théâtre des Champs-Élysées / Les Talens Lyriques
Critical edition by Ricordi (1994)
Recording for the 'French Opera' series of the Bru Zane label
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Another CEO has thrust himself into the race relations debate, though with the ubiquity of smartphone cameras, it's getting harder for leaders to avoid speaking out on the issue as more disturbing incidents are captured on film.
An analysis of some of their recent statements can provide insight into how others can handle a touchy subject, without being guilty of political grandstanding or alienating a portion of their customer base.
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure recently issued a statement condemning the actions of a female customer caught on camera racially abusing another customer in a Sprint store. The incident, which went viral on social media, had nothing to do with the conduct of Sprint staff. A "disgusted" Claure nevertheless felt compelled to comment.
Claure then took the opportunity to showcase the company's commitment to diversity.
His approach contrasts that of GrubHub CEO Matt Maloney, who reacted to Donald Trump's election by implying that anyone who agreed with the president's more incendiary remarks about minority groups should resign from the food delivery service company. "Had [Trump] worked here, many of his comments would have resulted in his immediate termination," Maloney wrote in comments that sparked a near 10% fall in the company's shares.
Claure's forceful, yet more nuanced statement, is reminiscent of comments made by AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. In a September speech to employees, he claimed that "tolerance is for cowards" following a spate of shootings that cost many African American citizens and police officers their lives.
"Being tolerant requires nothing from you but to be quiet and not to make waves, holding tightly to your views and judgments without being challenged," Stephenson said.
He urged staff, no matter what their views, to "move into uncertain territory" and reach out to people with opposing viewpoints to establish mutual understanding and respect. And, as far as Stephenson was concerned, it was the CEO's duty to take the lead. "If this is a dialogue that's going to begin at AT&T, I feel like it probably ought to start with me," he said.


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Ryan, Sally and John have been summoned to return and assist their old friend Mel in putting an end to the Empress's treachery. However, this time they are not alone. John's sister Becky, an outspoken rebel with her own cause, joins them and discovers firsthand the strange and mysterious world hiding beneath the depths of their hometown.


Troubles always make us look to God. The rain falls on the righteous and unrighteous. Christians go through floods, they lose precious things. Christians get displaced and dislocated. They are forced to reside in shelters. We all go through tough, tough seasons because we are all living on the same battlefield. Believing in Jesus doesn't exempt us from tumultuous times. No matter how many things are pressing in, press on, fight through it.
We must be determined to keep our view of God righteous. Don't get distracted with the mirage of thinking God is against you or that He is punishing you. This kind of thinking becomes a hindrance to trusting in God fully. As circumstances continue to be more chaotic, narrow your focus in your heart, mind and body. When the enemy comes in like a flood, God is faithful. Simplify your focus, look only at Jesus.
We are never free from the recurring waves of adversity. The concerns of food, shelter, clothing, money, friends, family, when any or all these things come flooding in, we must lift up Jesus over our thoughts and emotions. Jesus knows our circumstances better than we do. No matter what you're battling, continue to keep your relationship with Jesus first. What will today, tomorrow, next week or next month hold? We do not know, just keep looking at Jesus.
Upon return to Bethlehem, Naomi asked that her name be changed. Her reason was that God had made her life bitter. Naomi had allowed her circumstances to define her concept of God. She blamed God for all her loss, struggle, and heartache. She believedGod was showing displeasure with her because of the misfortunes she had encountered.
We must guard against circumstances determining our view of God. When the waters rise, my faith in Him will continue to rise. With the problems weighing on you, look to Jesus, and then you will see Him there, standing in the midst of the storm saying, "peace be still," and the peace of God will be your guard. Lay everything before Him – all your confusion and sorrow, and there you will find He is good, He is kind, He is there and He is faithful.
Thank you Lord, for being in this mess with me.


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What do Apple I creator Steve Wozniak, Microsoft inventor Bill Gates and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg all have in common? Before being known as visionaries, entrepreneurs and even millionaires, they were known as something else: computer programmers. But you may wonder what the life of a programmer looks like, and you're not alone.
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Q: Implicit WPF syles in non-WPF Application I have a couple different applications where this would be helpful, but for the sake of a concrete example, let us suppose I have a WinForms application.
This application makes use of WPF controls within ElementHost objects.  I now would like to define an implicit style for all WPF Buttons (System.Windows.Controls.Button) so that every ElementHost does not need to merge in the resource dictionary nor does every Button need to explicitly specify the style.
Where do I define said style?
I have tried creating the resource dictionary Themes\Generic.xaml in the project root and specifying
[assembly: ThemeInfo(
    ResourceDictionaryLocation.None,
    ResourceDictionaryLocation.SourceAssembly )]

in the AssemblyInfo.cs.  This did not work and I am under the impression that that styles there are only for custom controls defined in the same assembly, where as Button is defined in a foreign assembly.
Examples place implicit style code in <Application.Resources>; however, that node is with-in App.xaml, which (the project not having started its life as a WPF application) does not exist.  Is it possible to add an App.xaml or is there some other place to put <Application.Resources> such that they are recognized?

A: Dr WPF has several suggestions:
http://drwpf.com/blog/2007/10/05/managing-application-resources-when-wpf-is-hosted/
Some relevant parts quoted below:

Create an Application Instance and Add Resources in Code
Below is a very simple function that will create the Application object if it does not exist and then load some resources:
public static void EnsureApplicationResources()
{
    if (Application.Current == null)
    {
        // create the Application object
        new Application();

        // merge in your application resources
        Application.Current.Resources.MergedDictionaries.Add(
            Application.LoadComponent(
               new Uri("MyLibrary;component/Resources/MyResourceDictionary.xaml",
               UriKind.Relative)) as ResourceDictionary);
    }
}

Now you just need to make sure that you call this function prior to parsing any XAML files that contain static resource references to application-level resources. To do this, simply add a call to the above function in the constructor of your markup-based classes before any call to InitializeComponent():
public Page1()
{
    EnsureApplicationResources();
    InitializeComponent();
}

Define the Application Class in XAML and Create It on the Fly
First, we do not want MSBuild to generate an application entry point for our Application class. So instead of declaring the App.xaml file as an ApplicationDefinition element in the project file, we need to declare it as a Page element:
<Page Include="App.xaml" />
<Compile Include="App.xaml.cs">
  <DependentUpon>App.xaml</DependentUpon>
  <SubType>Code</SubType>
</Compile>

Next, we need to make sure that our App.xaml markup is parsed. Typically, this is done as part of the entry point function (which we just eliminated). Instead, we can simply define a constructor for the Application class and call InitializeComponent directly:
public App()
{
    InitializeComponent();
}

Now all our resources and merged dictionaries can be declared in App.xaml and our static function to load the Application instance can be as simple as this:
public static void EnsureApplicationResources()
{
    if (Application.Current == null)
    {
        // create the Application object
        new App();
    }
}

Manage a Collection of Resource Dictionaries in Code and Merge them at the Element Level
In this scenario, we do not leverage an Application object at all. Instead, we dynamically load each ResourceDictionary at runtime and selectively merge it into pages or windows or specific elements, as necessary.
public static class SharedResources
{
    public static readonly DependencyProperty MergedDictionariesProperty =
        DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("MergedDictionaries",
            typeof(string), typeof(SharedResources),
            new FrameworkPropertyMetadata((string)null,
                new PropertyChangedCallback(OnMergedDictionariesChanged)));

    public static string GetMergedDictionaries(DependencyObject d)
    {
        return (string)d.GetValue(MergedDictionariesProperty);
    }

    public static void SetMergedDictionaries(DependencyObject d, string value)
    {
        d.SetValue(MergedDictionariesProperty, value);
    }

    private static void OnMergedDictionariesChanged(DependencyObject d,
        DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(e.NewValue as string))
        {
            foreach (string dictionaryName in (e.NewValue as string).Split(';'))
            {
                ResourceDictionary dictionary = GetResourceDictionary(dictionaryName);
                if (dictionary != null)
                {
                    if (d is FrameworkElement)
                    {
                        (d as FrameworkElement).Resources
                            .MergedDictionaries.Add(dictionary);
                    }
                    else if (d is FrameworkContentElement)
                    {
                        (d as FrameworkContentElement).Resources
                            .MergedDictionaries.Add(dictionary);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    private static ResourceDictionary GetResourceDictionary(string dictionaryName)
    {
        ResourceDictionary result = null;
        if (_sharedDictionaries.ContainsKey(dictionaryName))
        {
            result = _sharedDictionaries[dictionaryName].Target;
        }
        if (result == null)
        {
            string assemblyName = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(
                Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().ManifestModule.Name);
            result = Application.LoadComponent(new Uri(assemblyName
                + ";component/Resources/" + dictionaryName + ".xaml",
                UriKind.Relative)) as ResourceDictionary;
            _sharedDictionaries[dictionaryName] = new WeakReference(result);
        }
        return result;
    }

    private static Dictionary<string, WeakReference> _sharedDictionaries
        = new Dictionary<string, WeakReference>();
}

This would allow us to merge in shared resource dictionaries to the Resources collection of any framework element, by simply doing this:
<Grid dw:SharedResources.MergedDictionaries="ApplicationBrushes;ButtonStyles">

A: I was able to get the Dr WPF App.xaml method to work mentioned in the previous answer. I added a new page to my WPF User Control assembly that is loaded by my WinForms app from a hosted control.  I copied the real App.xaml.cs from my other WPF client application that loads all the same resources.  I copied it's contents into this new "page", updating the namespaces and references as necessary.  I added the EnsureApplicationResources static method into the new App.xaml.cs App class.
It looks like this:
public static void EnsureApplicationResources() {
            if (Application.Current == null) {
                // create the Application object
                try {
                    new App() {
                        ShutdownMode = ShutdownMode.OnExplicitShutdown
                    };
                }
                catch (System.Exception ex) {
                    Debug.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
                }
            }
        }

The trick was figuring out the right place to call it to instantiate the app. My WinForms app launches WPF windows from several places, so my first attempt which involved calling the Ensure... method from within the root window's constructor did not work because there may actually be more than one "root window" instantiated.  It also wasn't disposing of the WPF App reliably so it subsequently threw exceptions when it tried to re-create the same app again even though Application.Current appears null.
Instead I added it to my startup routine in the WinForms app.  I don't use a start up object in that project. Instead I opt for the explicit control that a Main() subroutine gives.  The WinForms app is in VB.NET by the way.
Public Module MyWinFormsApp

    Public Sub Main()
        MyWpfApp.App.EnsureApplicationResources()
        Application.Run(New frmWinFormsMain())
        System.Windows.Application.Current.Shutdown()
    End Sub
End Module

This approach works perfectly. The WPF App is created when the WinForms app starts up and shut down when it shuts down and is available with any App scoped resources to all of my hosted WPF controls including implicit styles, etc.

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