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When developing a web barcode reader app in PHP, you can either use some JavaScript barcode libraries to recognize barcode images on client-side or read the barcode images on server-side with some PHP extensions that capable of reading 1D and 2D barcode. In this post, I will demonstrate how to create a PHP barcode reader with DBR (Dynamsoft Barcode Reader for Linux) on Ubuntu 14.04.
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How to Make Python Barcode Extension on Linux
Probably you have read the article – Wrapping C/C++ Methods of Dynamsoft Barcode SDK for Python, which illustrates how to make Python extension on Windows. In this post, I'll share how to make Python barcode extension on Ubuntu with Dynamsoft Barcode SDK for Linux.
How to Make Node Barcode Reader Addon on Linux
If you want to make a Web barcode reader app using node.js, you may find a node barcode module with npm or build it yourself. Node addons are the bridge between C/C++ libraries and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I will illustrate how to create node barcode addon on Ubuntu with DBR (Dynamsoft Barcode Reader for Linux).
Time to Migrate Android Projects to Android Studio
Last week, Android Developers Blog posted an article – An update on Eclipse Android Developer Tools. It announced that Google will end development and official support for the Android Developer Tools (ADT) in Eclipse at the end of the year. Many developers have been using Eclipse to develop Android applications with ADT for many years. Someone may be reluctant to get started with a new IDE from scratch, though, it is worth spending time on the new tool if it is more powerful and efficient than Eclipse. As Google said, they will deliver a great experience on a unified development environment and make developers productive. Since I've been playing Android Studio for a few days, I'd like to share my experiences.
Wrapping C/C++ Methods of Dynamsoft Barcode SDK for Python
Previously, I shared an article – Make Java Barcode Reader with Dynamsoft Barcode SDK – demonstrating how to implement a Java Barcode Reader with Dynamsoft Barcode SDK. In this tutorial, I'd like to share how to wrap C/C++ methods of Dynamsoft Barcode SDK to create a Barcode extension for Python.
New to HTML5
What is HTML5
HTML5 is a markup language based on HTML 4 and XHTML 1. It's goal is to support the latest multimedia and be much more readable and understandable by humans and devices. Also, it is dedicated to reducing the dependency on RIA (Rich Internet Application) such as Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX and so forth, providing more handy APIs for strengthening Internet applications. A generic definition of HTML5 is "HTML5 + CSS3 + JS".
Why HTML5
- Standard
- Cross-platform
- Auto-adapt to the web page
- Update in real-time
- No plugin needed
- Open and free
- Friendly to search engines
What can HTML5 do
For experiencing what HTML5 can do, here are some amazing HTML5 web pages:
Features of HTML5
HTML5 defines some new HTML elements, which makes document description much more precise and readable.
Here are some useful HTML5 elements:
<article> <header> <aside> <hgroup> <figure> <figure> <figcaption> <section> <footer> <time>.
Deprecated elements: <acronym> <applet> <basefont> <big> <center> <dir> <font> <frame> <s> <isindex> <noframes> <frameset> <strike> <tt> <u> and <xmp>
WebSocket provides for full-duplex communication, which makes more possible interaction between client and server, facilitating live content and the creation of real-time games.
Website can push notifications to the desktop via the following code.
if (window.webkitNotifications.checkPermission() == 0) { var title = 'HTML5 notification', text = 'Can you see HTML5 notification?'; window.webkitNotifications.createNotification('', title, text).show(); }
In HTML5, inserting a video or audio is as convenient as inserting an image.
<audio src="sound.mp3" controls></audio> <video src="movie.webm" autoplay controls></video>
3D Graphics Effects
Dynamically draw something on the web page.
<canvas id="canvas" width="300" height="300"></canvas> <script> var ctx = document.getElementById("canvas").getContext("2d"); ctx.fillRect(20, 25, 150, 100); ctx.beginPath(); ctx.arc(220, 110, 100, Math.PI * 1/2, Math.PI * 3/2); ctx.lineWidth = 15; ctx.lineCap = 'round'; ctx.strokeStyle = 'rgba(255, 127, 0, 0.5)'; ctx.stroke(); </script>
Without needing a plugin, WebGL provides some APIs to render 2D and 3D graphics in the web browser. This website helps you check whether your browser supports WebGL. Here are some amazing WebGL samples.
HTML5 vs Flash
- No plugin for web browser.
- Complex
- Low popularity so far
- Cross-platform
- Lacks an engine
- Free development tools.
- Smooth and stunning
- Easy to learn
- High popularity
- High battery cost
- Not open
- Paid development tools
For more specifications, refer to Wikipedia: Comparison of HTML5 and Flash
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Using Git-TFS in Visual Studio 2013 Express
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2013 Preview, and announced the availability of Git for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service. Today, let's go through the new experience of version control in VS 2013 Preview.
Account Creation
Microsoft provides Team Foundation Service Free Plan for up to 5 users. I'm using the service for demo in this article. If you don't have an in-house TFS Server, you can also take advantage of it and sign up for an account here. If you need a TFS Hosting service with good customer service, you may check out Dynamsoft TFS Hosting plans.
After creating an account with Microsoft TFS Service, you will be directed to your TFS page like the one shown below. You can see two options for creating a team project. The account URL is located below "Getting started".
Team Project Creation
Click "New team project + Git" to create a team project using Git as the source control provider.
Specify the project name and select Git for version control.
This is the page for my newly created team project. After creating the team project, we can then push the local repo to remote server.
Local Project Creation
Create a new project in Visual Studio, and do not forget to check "Add to source control".
Choose Git as your source control system.
Now you will be able to view the changes of your source code.
Commit your code.
Right click a file in Team Explorer, you can compare version differences with syntax highlighting.
Also, checking repo history is convenient by right click.
Publish to Remote Repository
Switch to Commits.
Find Git URL on your TFS account.
Copy the URL to remote repository configuration, and click "Publish" to upload your local files to remote server.
Check commits information online.
Import Git from GitHub
Clone Git repo.
Download source code to local disk.
Double-click your repo and click "Open" to mount your project.
That's all about how to simply use Git between Visual Studio 2013 Express and Git remote server. Don't hesitate to email firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any idea to share with me.
How to auto-deploy web application with TFS Build Server
Provided as part of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Build enables developers/managers to manage the projects, from version controlling the source code, running associated unit tests, to releasing builds and publishing build reports. In this article, I'll share with you on how to take advantage of TFS Build to auto deploy a web application to your web server.
1. Install Visual Studio 2010. In this article, we take Visual Studio 2010 for example.
2. Install TFS Build Server.
You can set up a local build server by yourself. If you are using the TFS Hosting service provided by Dynamsoft, you can ask to install the Build Server add-on for your account.
3. Install Web Deployment Tool on your TFS Build Server.
4. Install Web Deployment Tool on your Web Server and set up the site for your web application.
Note: Please change the .NET Framework Version of the site's application pool to v4.0 in IIS and make sure the firewall or any antivirus software doesn't block port 8172.
5. Add the following arguments to the "MSBuild Arguments" of your build definition. Separate them using space.
/p:MSDeployServiceURL=https://<server name>:8172/msdeploy.axd
To edit a build definition, you must have the Edit Build Definition permission. To set the permission, you can choose the target project in Team Explorer, and right-click Builds -> Security. In the Security dialog box, choose the user or group you want to grant the permission to, for instance, [DWT]\Builders. And then confirm the Edit build definition option is set to Allow.
With the above settings, the build result will be deployed to your web server automatically when you perform Queue New Build (Team Explorer -> right-click Builds -> Queue New Build).
It's just a quick review of auto-deployment. Hope the information helps you enable the feature smoothly. If you have any comments, please don't hesitate to leave them below for discussion. You can also reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
How to set up a build server for your TFS Hosting account
In this article, I will share with you on how to set up a build server for your TFS Hosting account.
Assume you have already signed up for a TFS hosting account. If not, you can go to TFS Hosting Sign Up to get one. Now please follow the steps below to set up a build server for your TFS hosting account.
1. Install TFS Build Service.
Download and run Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Setup. Since Dynamsoft has already set up the server side for you, you only need to choose the "Team Foundation Build Service" option. Then Click Install to install the service.
2. Start Build Service Configuration and click Next.
3. Project Collection
Then you'll be guided to Project Collection to configure your Team Foundation Server info. Before configuring the connections, please add "18.104.22.168 TFSServer1" to the hosts file on your build machine (under C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\). 126.96.36.199 is the IP address of TFS server.
Then let's go back to Project Collection. Click Browse… to select your team project collection. Since you haven't connected to any TFS Server before, you can click Add in the "Add/Remove Team Foundation Server" dialog box to add a new one.
Name or URL of Team Foundation Server: tfsserver1
Path: tfs
Port number: 8080
After clicking OK, choose your team project collection. In this sample, we choose 105012.
4. Credential Settings
In the Run Team Foundation Build Service as section, choose "Use a user account" and enter the account name and password.
Please note that the account will be used to run the build service and connect to the Team Foundation Server, so please make sure:
a) The account has the permission to run the build service. Usually you can choose the login user. In this case, I choose 105012_build.
b) The same account exists on the TFS server. To double confirm this, you can log into your web portal and navigate to "TFS Hosted -> User Management". If the user 105012_build is not there, you can click Create User to add the user. Please note that the password for the user should be the same on both machines.
c) 105012_build is in the "Project Collection Build Service Accounts" group. In Visual Studio, navigate to "Team -> Team Project Collection Settings -> Group Membership". You can then choose "Project Collection Build Service Accounts" and click Properties to check the members. If the user is not in the list, please check out Can I add a Windows user to my TFS account for information on how to add.
For the port number, I choose the default one 9191. Please make sure it is not blocked by the firewall or any antivirus software on your build server.
5. Update Local Build Service Endpoint (incoming)
First, you need to stop the build service. To do this, you can open "Team Foundation Server Administrator Console" and click Stop in Build Configuration.
Then, click on Properties to change the value of Local Build Service Endpoint (incoming) from the machine name to your public network IP.
Note: please make sure that your firewall allows Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Build Services to run both privately and publicly.
Done. Now you can get started to use your Build Server. If you have any questions or comments, please add them below or contact me at email@example.com.
How to speed up File Search in version control?
SourceAnywhere is a SQL Server based version control tool designed for distributed teams. Since version 4.0 released on Aug 7, 2012, the tool supports "find in files", which helps you search and navigate the source tree in seconds. In this article, I will introduce you to the basic technologies about the search feature in version control.
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Wildcard Search
Search for a specific document based on the file name. You can go to "SourceAnywhere Client -> Tools -> Wildcard Search" and enter the complete or part of the file name to "Wildcard".
For instance, to search for a file named scanning.aspx, you can type scanning.aspx, scanning or scan to find the file. To narrow down the search result, you can choose the search area, and even filter the files by check-in date and/or file size.
Content Search
Besides Wildcard Search, you can also do the content search. The feature is quite useful when you have a relatively large project and/or have a distributed team cooperating together and working on the same project.
To do Content Search in SourceAnywhere, you can go to "SourceAnywhere Client -> Tools -> Find in Files". In the dialog box, you can enter the keywords you are looking for. For instance, if you want to find the HTTPUploadAllThroughPostAsMultiPageTIFF function, you can enter "httpupload" to "String". If you are not sure which path the file containing the upload function is located in, you can type $/ to "Item" as you can see below.
SourceAnywhere introduces the following techniques to help you narrow down the search range and get a better content search experience:
1. Regular Expression
A regular expression provides a concise and flexible means to match (specify and recognize) strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. This can be used when you only remember part of the keyword you are looking for.
Regular Expression Basic Syntax Reference haracter Value
|Wildcard: any character
|Repeat: zero or more occurrences of previous character or class
|Line position: beginning of line
|Line position: end of line
|Character class: any one character in set
|Inverse class: any one character not in set
|Range: any characters within the specified range
|Escape: literal use of metacharacter x
|Word position: beginning of word
|Word position: end of word
For detailed information, please refer to Findstr.
How to enable Regular Expression
a. Check the "Use regular expressions" option in "Find in Files".
b. Make sure that "Cache file" and "Cache file all versions" are checked, and in the meantime "Encrypt cached file" is unchecked. The options can be found at "SourceAnywhere Service Configurator -> Cache Settings".
2. File Filter
As the wildcard search, you can filter the files by the check-in date and file size. After you give the conditions and request for the search result, you'll get the target file or a list of files that match the given conditions.
Afterwards, you can view the files, export the search result or check out the target file directly.
3. Windows Index Search.
To speed up the search process, Windows Index Search is supported by SourceAnywhere. Together with the cache mechanism supported by SourceAnywhere, the version control tool will add the list of cached files to the Windows Search index. In other words, after you get or search for a file once, you'll have a much faster search experience from the second time.
How to enable Windows Index Search
SourceAnywhere will use Windows Index Search if the "Use regular expressions" option is not checked in the "Find in Files" dialog box.
After you add your projects to the version control tool, you can use Wildcard Search and Find in Files (Content Search) to organize the files and get the target files without any effort.


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Internal Notification System, rather than emails
I think some sort of internal notification system alerting you to when someone comments on or likes a review of yours would be much preferred to getting emails. This way I won't have to check my emails to review letterboxd activity.
Also, similar to this idea, allow me to follow my favorite people - meaning anytime one of my favorites logs another movie I am notified by the above mentioned system.
Phase one of notifications support is done (push support in our apps). Next step is to improve the web experience to show an equivalent list and indicator.
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Coco commented
We should be able to look at our incoming Activity feed and see whenever someone mentions (@) us in a comment or review. This is a vital part of maintaining communication on a social media platform.
Ben commented
Apparently this is already a thing but i just cant get them to work
Josh Gardner commented
I like this, I'm on the site enough that I'm not gonna miss anything, not that there is ever anything time sensitive.
and the less email the better in my book.
Jóckisan commented
It would be interesting a notification tool on the site itself, so you know when someone followed or commented on your review, without having to open the email. And it would be good if these notifications also appeared when someone was like your reviews, so you can go on his//her profile and also see your opinion about the movie and maybe also like his/her review, and thus increase the engagement.
Wesley Clapp commented
get notifications for when users follow you
Andrerseits commented
This really needs more priorization! I am a really heavy user and I comment and discuss a lot with people in the comments section of reviews. But without a notification feature on the website/in-app it's very hard to keep track of all the discussions. I don't have time to check every comment section I'm active in every 3 hours for new answers.
The concept "Anonymous" posted on February 22th 2017 would be perfect. A notification bell, an alarm that alerts you whenever you receive a new comment or a like, etc.
It would be helpfull, if you get a notification in the Income-tab when someone comments on a list or a review you also comment, especially if he replies to your comment using @user. I often miss those, it's hard checking the list/review everyday waiting for an answer. The more active you are, the harder it gets to even find the list/review again.
To avoid spamming your Income, it may be useful, to switch the notification on or off for specific lists/reviews.
Hayden MacDonald commented
This is criminally underrated feature on most social media sites and should probably be given more attention/priority, given that it would greatly improve the amount and coherence of discussions in film/list comment sections (which is a cornerstone of this website).
Paul Bulger commented
Instead of receiving notifications exclusively by email, I'd love to see something along the lines of a facebook notification tab that lets me know whenever I log in that I've received "likes" or comments on my reviews, and when there's comments on conversations I participated it.
just realized that a bright red icon might be too jarring and a more subtle "new notification" indicator like this: http://s9.postimg.org/4huycvejj/notif.png would better.
At the moment there is no real point in following someone, since you don't get any notifications about their activity. Why not implement a notification bell that opens up a small drop down menu that shows the latest movie someone we follow has watched or the latest review they have made.
Here is a concept: http://s9.postimg.org/bjsvz2i5b/letterboxd.png
As well as the drop down menu, there will be a dedicated page to view all notifications that havent been deleted yet.
Adding this would really make the community stronger and set letterboxd apart from other movie tracking sites. Thanks.
hulashakes commented
I'd really like to be notified when someone I follow adds a new review. Email, app notification, on site. Something so I can see it immediately.
Phips commented
so…..how about this?
Phips commented
an internal notification system like FB would be SOOO much better. i get fed up with the email notifications but then if i unsubscribe ill never know if someone mentions me in one of those comments or comments on my question or something.
related to that, also like FB, i think itd be cool if you implemented Mentions into this internal notification system. and when a user is typing a comment on a review/list, if someone types "@phi", "phips" would pop up and then they could click it to mention me and then i could see that in my notification system. but this is secondary to the internal notification system which is crucial.
the Incoming tab is helpful but thats only if people comment on my stuff. everyone basically wants all the email notifications to be internalized on Letterboxd.
JC commented
Just curious as to how this is going with adding an internal notification system.
I love the activity stream (and the various ways of sorting it) but having to sift through sometimes hundreds of emails a day can be tiresome. At the same time I don't want to turn them off or I'll maybe forget which films/lists I've participated in.
Love this site and the constant work done to continually improve this site (like the edit button)
Antonomasia commented
What I would really like to get in a notifications box are replies to discussions on other people's reviews or lists I've commented on.
The Incoming tab only covers comments on my own posts.
We are planning an email digest to notify you of friends reviews. If you're on the site, so you cna use the Incoming activity tab to see what actions have been performed on your content. In-site notifications are on the drawing board.
Matthias commented
A small notifier about new notifications next to "activiy" on the top page would be nice, since when I am somewhere on the site it would be nice to be alerted (by a small number maybe) how many new activities are there since I last time visited the page.
peter commented
Cool thanks!
Mike Imboden commented
Could we filter the activity? Or instead of showing a whole review, just have the movies listed (Mike Just reviewed/watched "Bambi") and we could click it to expand it. This would make it quicker to scroll through activity to find reviews, comments, etc.

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Packing slips, proof of services and point of sale documentation.
Packing slips, proof of services and point of sale documentation are all pieces of documentation that provide confirmation that a good or service was received. In general this should be attached to every eRequest. However it is especially important for those buying tools that are direct billed without additional approvals for payment. In other words...
Packing slips, proof of service and point of sale documentation is required for all Internal Orders over $75 and all PCard purchases over $75
- Internal vendors are purchases that you make from an OSU department such as rental of space at the 4-H Center or the purchase of lab services on campus.
- PCard purchases are things that are purchased with a university procurement card and are often shipped goods.
- Packing Slips - Are used by vendors that mail items to show what was in the package you received. They may be loose paper or taped to the box itself.
- Proof of Services - Are used by vendors at the time a service is complete. This usually entails the signing of a quote or invoice.
- Point of Sale - A receipt from a purchase or service you receive at the time of payment in person. The best way to document this is to write "received" on the invoice or receipt before uploading to the eRequest OR type in this comment: Point of Sale: POS- Goods picked up at retail store
Process: Scan your documentation and attach to the associated eRequest within 30 days of the transaction completion.
In some cases you may not have a packing slip or proof of services received. In those instances you must go into the eRequest associated with the transaction and make a comment that the goods or services were received.
Don't forget to click SAVE after making any changes to an eRequest.
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The Wisdom to Let Go: A Timely Proverb
Some parents are good at holding onto their children, but they have a harder time letting go. While there is a time and a season for both, the latter is a reality all parents have to face as children transition to young adults. In a season when college-age and adult children are returning home due to the coronavirus pandemic, balancing adulthood while living under the same roof as their parents can be even more elusive.
2 Statistics That Prove Anxiety is an Issue We Can't Ignore In Our Church Community
Mental health concerns are escalating dramatically among young people. And despite the "code of silence" many churches take around anxiety, Christian families are not exempt from this mental health issue.
More Common Myths That Breed Anxious Parenting
More of our children today are being diagnosed with anxiety than ever before. One of the most common causes? Anxious parenting
The Most Widely-Held Beliefs That Lead to Anxious Parenting
Three of the most common myths that lead to anxious parenting and the universal truths to combat them
The Type A Parent: 7 Ways to Avoid Over-Pressuring
Raise resilient children, aware that life can present challenges but confident they can cope.
The Helicopter Parent: 5 Ways to Avoid Over-Protecting
Tips to raise resilient children, aware that life can present challenges but confident that they can cope.
Anxiety-Free vs Anxiety-Aware -- Knowing the Difference in Parenting
Studies show anxiety among students keeps rising with more and more seeking help, with much of that anxiety passed down from anxious parenting.
3 Straightforward Ways Parents Can Ease Anxiety in Kids
Here are three straightforward ways to ease anxiety — in ourselves, and in turn, our kids.
Teaching Kids to Bounce Back: Physical, Social, Cognitive and Spiritual Strategies for Coping
Learning to regulate emotions is an important life skill that must be developed. Like a muscle, the more you work at it over time, the stronger, more capable you get.
The Lion in the Room: Modern Causes for the Increase in Anxiety in Our Kids
Many young adults today live with anxiety that behaves like a lurking lion, leaving their brains in a state of hyperarousal that makes it hard to work, sleep, eat or concentrate.


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Perth Respite Care for Children
At Perth Healthcare and Support Enterprise (PHASE), we provide are committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for people of all ages and abilities. We provide a range of services to support those with disabilities, including respite care for children and young adults based at the HBF Arena, Joondalup.
Are you looking for respite care for your child in Perth?
Our support workers dedicate their time to understanding the emotional state of each child so that they can work out the best support plan for them. PHASE has Emotion Intelligence built into its training program, meaning that all of our staff will know how best to treat and work with each individual that comes through our doors.
How our person-centred respite program works
Children who attend our respite program receive individual care and attention from our staff, whilst enjoying engaging and enjoyable activities. We tailor these activities to the needs and wants of each individual child, for example, if your child loves LEGO, we can include this in their respite support plans, as well as helping them to work with others in a team setting. Each activity works in line with the goals we have discussed to make each plan work and to benefit the child in the best way possible.
We know that caring for someone with a disability can be tough, so our Weekend Respite Program offers primary carers a chance to have a well-needed break to recharge and relieve stress. It gives them the opportunity to do things they may not be able to do while caring, such as seeing other friends and family, running errands, or just relaxing, knowing that we are taking good care of the child.
Our Access and Inclusion strategic plan summaries our methodology for providing better access and inclusion for people living with a disability.
We run a respite care school holiday program too
Not only do we offer respite at the weekends, we also offer lots of activities during the school holidays. This allows young people to access activities they may not otherwise be able to and to make new friends along the way. Feedback from parents and health professionals show that it is often hard for young people with special or complex needs to join mainstream programs, as they are often not equipped to cope and offer the best support.
Where can you find us?
You can find our respite care for children and young adults at the HBF Arena at Joondalup between 9am and 5pm every weekend. Or, if your child isn't feeling up to a full day, we also offer half days from 9am to 1pm.
We chose the HBF Arena as our centre as it offers a range of different amenities, including:
- Swimming pool: the 50m pool has 10 lanes and kept at a temperature of 26.5 degrees.
- Pristine grounds: the surrounding grass areas make the perfect location for activities and games in the warm weather, allowing the children to enjoy the outdoors.
- Well preserved facilities: the arena is well equipped, well maintained and has everything that's required for maximum comfort.
- Easy access: the train station and shops are easily to reach from the arena for inclusion support and community access.
Have a question about getting respite care in Perth WA?
If yes, all you have to do is reach out to us today and we'd be happy to help you. Call us know on 0148750524.
We are PHASE. As an NDIS service providers, we pride ourselves on providing disability support and respite services to disabled & autistic children and people with special needs. Our in-home respite care will provide you and your loved one with peace of mind.


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IN THE CASES that we have analyzed thus far, investors exhibited substantial diversity. They held different initial portfolios and had different marginal utility functions. On the other hand, they were alike in a number of respects. Most important, they all agreed on the probabilities of future states of the world. Moreover, none had sources of consumption outside the financial markets. Finally, none favored any future state over another—more specifically, for each investor the marginal utilities of consumption in future states with the same consumption were the same.
In this chapter, we investigate cases in which investors are more diverse. First, we consider the impact of outside sources of consumption, which we term investors' positions. Then we examine the possible impact of differences in investor's preferences for consumption in different possible states of the world— differences that may also reflect the influence of outside positions, broadly construed. As before, we retain the assumption that all investors agree on the probabilities of future states of the world, leaving for Chapter 6 the analysis of the possible effects of disagreement concerning future prospects.
For most people, investments are only one source of consumption. Other sources include wage and salary income and consumption obtained from durable goods and physical assets such as owner-occupied housing. To keep matters simple we will divide all non-investment sources of consumption into two categories: salary and collateral. Collateral includes items such as houses and cars that can be pledged to borrow money and to take other positions that require payments in some or all future states of the world. Salary cannot be used in this way, primarily because of bankruptcy laws. In many countries if one's debts exceed one's assets it is possible to declare bankruptcy, default on debts that exceed one's asset value, and keep income from subsequent labor services.
Of course there are gray areas. People can take some uncollateralized loans, since bankruptcy may involve social stigma, difficulty in obtaining future credit, and so on. The cost of borrowing may also be greater the greater a person's debt as a percentage of the value of assets posted as collateral. But these aspects can


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Leadership Styles – Important Leadership Styles
All leaders do not possess same attitude or same perspective. As discussed earlier, few leaders adopt the carrot approach and a few adopt the stick approach. Thus, all of the leaders do not get the things done in the same manner. Their style varies. The leadership style varies with the kind of people the leader interacts and deals with. A perfect/standard leadership style is one which assists a leader in getting the best out of the people who follow him.
Some of the important leadership styles are as follows:
Autocratic leadership style: In this style of leadership, a leader has complete command and hold over their employees/team. The team cannot put forward their views even if they are best for the team's or organizational interests. They cannot criticize or question the leader's way of getting things done. The leader himself gets the things done. The advantage of this style is that it leads to speedy decision-making and greater productivity under leader's supervision. Drawbacks of this leadership style are that it leads to greater employee absenteeism and turnover. This leadership style works only when the leader is the best in performing or when the job is monotonous, unskilled and routine in nature or where the project is short-term and risky.
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Ruderstallgassen 4 Gilgenberg am Weilhart, Oberosterreich, Austria
|Ruderstallgassen 4. Gilgenberg aW, Gilgenberg am Weilhart, Oberosterreich, Austria
|Ferias en las que participa con OBRA :
|Art Madrid'20, JustMad X - 2019
|Con obra de:
|Bernhard Müller, Edin Mustafic
|Artistas que representa:
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Actualizadoel 23 dic de 2019


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As is typical, though, not all reviews were roses and sugarplums.
Per the suggestion of my better half after reading the first draft of what's below, let me say up front:
No excuses – pay like a champion…
In a calm and rational tone:
If you're thinking, "I don't make enough." – Go make more.
"I spend too much." – Spend less.
Thanks for reading!


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This is just one article from CAM's Summer Reading Special! Click the link to read the entire section.
When Cornell opened America's first university press back in 1869, the enterprise had dual missions. One was to publish scholarly work in the vaunted tradition of the university presses of Europe. The other—following the vision of the ever-practical Ezra—was a tad less lofty. "The founders wanted to have students apprentice and learn to use the printing equipment," Mahinder Kingra, the press's director of marketing, says with a grin. "It was considered vocational training."
Nearly a century and a half later, the press's wares are no longer churned out by ink-stained undergrads—and some 10 percent of its revenue comes from e-books, a figure that's expected to grow. But Cornell's academic publishing house is still going strong, putting out more than 100 books a year on a variety of subjects, from narrowly focused academic works to releases for a more general audience that can tally sales in the tens of thousands. Take last April, when the press published both Unbuttoning America—an exploration of the cultural significance of the novel Peyton Place, with a rather racy cover featuring a woman wearing gartered stockings and a come-hither look—and Subterranean Estates, a collection of scholarly essays on the hydrocarbon industry. ("By accounting for oil as empirical and experiential," the catalog explains, "the contributors begin to demystify a commodity too often given almost demiurgic power.") 'Where you used to focus on sending out tens of thousands of pieces of direct mail, now you focus on making sure your titles can be discovered.'
Top sellers of recent years include an updated edition of The Birds of Costa Rica, which Kingra calls the definitive field guide to the world's most popular birding destination. Behind the Kitchen Door, a 2013 exposé of unfair labor practices in the restaurant industry, became the focus of a Unitarian social justice campaign and wound up on the best-seller list at Powell's, the influential indie chain in Portland, Oregon. "Commercial concerns are not our first priority, so we're able to publish more serious books that can take a deeper look at their subjects," says Kingra. "Finances are important to us, but we don't need to publish 100,000 copies in order for it to work, so that frees us up to publish books on a broader range of topics."
While CU Press—which is head-quartered in Sage House, the stately Queen Anne villa that was home to early University benefactor Henry Sage—is indeed the oldest in the nation, there's a bit of an asterisk. It hasn't been operating continuously, having been suspended between 1884 and 1930 due to lack of funds. But it can claim a couple of other distinctions: in 1955 it was the first university press to release works in paperback, and in 1999 it became the first publishing house in the world to print on paper certified as sustainably harvested. The press began publishing e-books in 2010; now nearly all new titles (except for the heavily visual) are available for e-readers like the Kindle and Nook, and the backlist is being digitized. The overall shift toward digital media and online sales has meant a sea change in how the press markets its titles, says director Dean Smith. "We've become experts at social media, at metadata and discoverability," he says. "Is Google finding your books? Is the metadata correct on Amazon? That's a huge issue. Where you used to focus on sending out tens of thousands of pieces of direct mail, you now focus on making sure your titles can be discovered."
Smith knows the online landscape: he came to Cornell in April from Project MUSE, a digital publisher of humanities and social science scholarship based at Johns Hopkins. (He succeeded John Ackerman, who directed the press for a quarter-century.) His future plans, he says, include releasing more Cornell-oriented titles, such as volumes devoted to Big Red sports. But he stresses that in the acquisition process, "nobody gets rubber-stamped." A rotating board of about twenty University faculty has the final say on what gets published, and the press is no house organ: over the past decade, only 7 percent of its books were written by Cornell professors. Each manuscript is vetted by independent experts chosen by the publishing house—not the author—and they weigh in anonymously to ensure candor. "Even within the university press world, Cornell is known for the amount of time and effort we put into helping authors shape their manuscripts," says Kingra. "We don't just hit 'print.' "
Fit to Print
Highlights of CU Press's fall catalog
Hear My Sad Story Richard Polenberg An emeritus professor of history at Cornell investigates the true tales behind such classic American folk songs as "John Henry," "Casey Jones," and "Frankie and Johnny." His topics include one notorious 1895 murder—a crime committed over "seventy-five cents and a hat"—that inspired "Stagolee."
A Sense of Power John A. Thompson An emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge explores the roots of the U.S.'s position in world affairs—one that has been extensive and costly over the past century. He quotes Thucydides: "Of the gods we believe and of men we know that it is a necessary law of their nature that they rule wherever they can."
Fossils: The Key to the Past Richard Fortey About to be released in its fifth edition, this introductory text comes from a paleontologist at London's Natural History Museum, whom Bill Bryson calls "without peer among science writers." Fortey covers the formation and identification of fossils, as well as their importance as guides to the planet's history. "The overall impression is one of a comprehensive tour through the heart of the earth sciences," wrote a reviewer in a geology journal, "delivered in an accessible way with passion and enthusiasm."
Buttoned Up Erynn Masi de Casanova "The first pebble in the avalanche that toppled the suit as the everyday dress of the white-collar warrior was the introduction of Casual Fridays," declares deCasanova, a sociology professor at the University of Cincinnati. Here, she takes on "clothing, conformity, and white-collar masculinity," investigating how corporate dress has changed since the days of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
Gangs of Russia Svetlana Stephenson A London-based sociologist explores how Russia's gangs have become entrenched since the Nineties. While some members are dead or in prison, she says, others have joined the ranks of the nation's elite. "The gang is almost by definition an example of the shadow society," she writes. "But far from being a group of isolated misfits and criminals, it responds to larger historical processes and can, in certain periods, move from the shadows onto the central stage."
Winter in the Wilderness Dave Hall with Jon Ulrich This field guide offers tips on obtaining basics like fire, shelter, food, and water. From its description of a "leaf crib": "Like our rodent kin who use nests to stay warm, we too can benefit from creating large piles of dry vegetation and crawling inside."


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Taffy is a sweet 2 year old lurcher
Taffy is a 2 year old lurcher, a sweet boy who adores human company. He does suffer with separation anxiety so needs a new home with someone around for most of the time.
Taffy is a 2 year old lurcher, a sweet boy who adores human company. He does suffer with separation anxiety so needs a new home with someone around for most of the time.
Beautiful Willow came out of her cage along with hundreds of other hens all looking quite tatty and missing lots of feathers.
Bouncy Tigger is a 2 year old playful yet sensitive lad who loves to bound up to greet new people, as he is really friendly. A huge fan of fuss and attention, he has lots of friends at the rehoming centre.
Handsome eight year old black and white shorthair Rupert is a friendly lap cat who will make someone a lovely companion.
Troy is a 5 year old big red boy looking for an experienced Boxer home, with someone who has time to work with him .
Timmy has been in foster care for over a year but is a gorgeous cat with a sweet, gentle nature.
Thoroughbred Cross Alabama is looking for a new home as a ridden horse. Nine-year-old, 15hh bay mare Alabama was rescued, alongside her companion Zola, by Redwings Horse Sanctuary in 2013.
Chance is a two and half year-old American Bulldog and he has been with Wadars Animal Rescue in West Sussex for a few months now, which is quite surprising as he is very social, well-mannered dog and ..
Bouncer is a 1 year 6 month old Boxer. Bouncer is everything his name suggests and more.
My name is Ailey and I am a very cute 10 year old black spayed female cat. I arrived at The Centre in May 2017 as my owner was moving home and couldn't take me with them.
Kai is a very handsome 2 year old male Greyhound who arrived at Lincoln Farm when he was retired from racing.
Duchess has been at Cats Protection on the Isle of Wight for over six months. She is a lively energetic 3 year old female cat who loves to play.
Lara is a nine-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier who adores people.
7 year old Taylor is a sweet, sensitive girl who finds kennel life difficult. She needs experienced owners in a rural location with a garden.
Sammy is a 10-year-old one-eyed cat who was abandoned by his previous owner when they moved and is now on the lookout for a new home.
Sue is only 11 months old and a young bundle of fun looking for experienced owners willing to put in some basic training to help her settle and gain confidence.
Handsome Zen is looking for a best friend. A 7-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Zen is full of beans and loves the great outdoors.
Rescue pony Shalamar from Redwings Horse Sanctuary is looking for a new home as a non-ridden, companion pony. Six-year-old 13.


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Bonjour My Lovelies,
I don't know if i've ever told you guys this before, but pink and blush tones are steadily becoming one of my absolute favourite colours. And something I've recently started doing is having a little more fun with my outfits…..I think that fashion should be fun and its always good to mix and match your style every now and then! That's why I put together this outfit the other day when I was getting ready for a business meeting. My thoughts being just because I was dressing professionally was no reason not to incorporate a vibrant print, a little pink, and a fab heel. Perfect for this time of year, made me feel feminine but also ready to work. Today I'm challenging the classic 'florals for spring' stereotype by proving that florals can be great at any time of year.
I've styled this look with minimal and neutral accessories including my current obsession: this pink beret! I am so over wearing dark colours during winter that its time to start incorporating some colour into my ensembles now that Spring is officially here. I'm loving this newfound chicness! What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments below!
Glam Meets Girl x


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Today, I'm going to eat a huge slice of humble pie and talk about all the mistakes I've made as an authorpreneur. Hopefully, someone can learn from my mistakes. Lord knows it took me forever to learn from them. So, without further ado, all the mistakes I've made.
Not using an editor. Hangs head in shame. How could I have been soooo stupid? I was convinced I didn't need an editor (and couldn't afford one) when I started out. It took me three (3!) books to realize what a colossal mistake I'd made. Don't be like me. Use an editor from the get go. There are plenty of affordable ones out there.
Formatting. As someone who is detail-orientated, I'm ashamed to admit I didn't really notice formatting when reading. Since I didn't notice it, it didn't matter, right? Um, no. Who cares if readers complained about margins and such? No one pays attention to that stuff. Amazing how much we can lie to ourselves.
Pen name. This is a big one. I write in several different genres: historical fiction, romantic comedies, and cozy mysteries. In the beginning, I even wrote more genres – military suspense and suspense. I didn't think it was a big deal. After all, I read anything that catches my fancy. *Pounds head against table* Stop thinking like a writer and think like a reader, Dena. Because readers are extremely faithful to their genre. I should have created a pen name for each genre. (More about this in a future blog.)
Newsletter. More head banging. I wish I would have taken my newsletter seriously from the beginning. I've been writing for several years now and instead of having a large newsletter following, I'm only now building one. Plus, I didn't pay any attention on what to put in a newsletter. So, I still have a ton of subscribers who are inactive. I'm only now starting to glean the benefits of newsletter swaps.
Genre specific covers. I was listening to a podcast yesterday that described my problem to a T. Your cover shouldn't be about the story but about what readers of the genre expect. Why oh why didn't I hear those words earlier in my writing career? Because that is exactly what I did in the past – I found a cover to match the story. This mistake cost me sales. By changing the covers in my Death by Cupcake series, I've been able to increase sales without doing extra marketing.
Marketing courses. As a writer, I check the tiniest details in my books. What time does the sunrise in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 15th? Hold on. I'm checking. But I didn't do any research about marketing or take any marketing courses until I was years into my writing journey. WHY? Sure, some of the courses are expensive but podcasts are free. What was wrong with me?
I've made a ton more mistakes, but the above are the big ones – the ones that cost me sales and readers.
This blog post is part of the #AuthorToolboxBlogHop. This is a monthly blog hop hosted by @raimeygallant. Make sure to stop by the other author blog posts in this month's blog hop to fill up your author toolbox! Just click on the graphic to take you to the list.


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Wynne urges elementary teachers to accept same deal as high school colleagues – Toronto
TORONTO – Elementary teachers escalated their work-to-rule campaign Monday and threatened one-day strikes as Premier Kathleen Wynne urged them to accept essentially the same deals as their colleagues in high schools and the Catholic system.
"I'm not happy about the fact there's increased disruption in our public elementary schools," said Wynne. "I don't think kids should be caught in the middle."
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The government is offering the elementary teachers virtually the same deal that was ratified last week by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation and the Catholic Elementary Teachers Association, added Wynne.
READ MORE: Elementary teachers union threatens rotating strikes in October if deal not reached
"The fact is we have been able to come to agreements with all of the other teacher groups," she said.
The two other large teachers' unions voted to approve agreements that included a one per cent bonus and a 1.5 per cent pay increase, while the union representing teachers in Francophone schools also reached a tentative contract.
There are special situations in elementary schools that will be addressed, but teacher must be willing to accept what their colleagues have accepted, said Wynne.
"Obviously it will be a similar agreement to the other teachers because…the parameters are set," she said. "So my hope is that we'll be able to get there quickly."
The Elementary Teachers' Federation said its members will not take part in parent-teacher meetings or class trips and will not fill in for absent colleagues. Teachers may also wear shirts or buttons protesting the lack of a contract, and the union warned it would start one-day rotating strikes within two weeks if there's still no deal.
READ MORE: Elementary teachers' union reject Wynne's 'cookie-cutter' approach to deal
"Despite what the government is implying, it has not offered our members the same conditions as secondary teachers," ETFO president Sam Hammond said in a release.
Hammond said there is "a significant disparity" in how elementary and secondary schools are funded.
"That funding gap results in larger class sizes, fewer student supports and poorer working conditions in our elementary schools," he said. "The deal the government insists ETFO accept does absolutely nothing to close that gap."
Wynne insisted she was not concerned by the union's decision to call the one-day rotating walkouts "Wynne Wednesdays," insisting it's never personal for her.
"It's being personalized because that's a political tactic," she said. "It's not about my personal feelings. It's about how do we get an agreement that's in the best interests of kids in this province."
Wynne said she was prepared to explain to her granddaughter why a teacher may have the premier's picture or name across the front of a T-shirt.
"What I'll say to her is: 'Livvy, we're trying to get this agreement in place, to work with the teachers so that you can have the best year possible in Grade 1,"' she said.
Hammond said ETFO's last contract expired in August 2014, and no new negotiations have been scheduled.
"If the Liberal government had stayed at the table and not walked away, it's possible we could have reached a deal by now, and the escalation of ETFO's work-to-rule could have been avoided," he said.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees is also trying to negotiate a new contract for 50,000 non-teaching staff in Ontario schools.
©2015The Canadian Press


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Cindy Sheehan disrupts and forces Capitol Hill news conference to be cancelled with no arrests.
Contact: Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director, Christian Defense Coalition, 202-547-1735, 540-538-4741 cell
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 /Christian Newswire/ -- Political correctness runs wild on Capitol Hill D.C. with new congressional leadership in place. Anti-war protestors spray-paint the United States Capitol with no arrests. Cindy Sheehan disrupts and forces Capitol Hill news conference to be cancelled with no arrests.
Meanwhile, pro-life activists detained by United States Capitol Police for using children's sidewalk chalk on Capitol Hill public sidewalks. And, pro-life leaders denied entrance to Speaker Pelosi's Open House at the Cannon House Office Building by police officers.
It now appears with Nancy Pelosi as the new Speaker of the House anti-war protestors will be given immunity while those who disagree with the Speaker and the new leadership will be targeted.
Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Coalition, comments, "It is essential that all Americans be treated with equality and justice regardless of their political viewpoint. Sadly, it seems this is not the case with Speaker Pelosi and the new democratic leadership. Anti-war protests are allowed to spray paint the United States Capitol and disrupt news conferences with impunity and no fear of reprisals. At the same time, pro-life activists are treated in a completely different manner.
"Does anyone believe if a pro-life or Christian activist had spray-painted the United States Capitol or disrupted a news conference that they would not have been immediately arrested? The message that Speaker Pelosi is sending is a tragic one. If you are anti-war and agree with Speaker Pelosi's agenda, you will be protected. If you disagree with that agenda, you will be targeted. No American should be treated like a second-class citizen or intimidated by their government because of their political beliefs."
For more information or interviews call:
Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney at 202.547.1735 Cell: 540.538.4741


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Tony Blair has finally said sorry for the Iraq War – and admitted he could be partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State.
The extraordinary confession by the former Prime Minister comes after 12 years in which he refused to apologize for the conflict.
Blair made his dramatic 'mea culpa' during a TV interview about his and George Bush's decision to oust Saddam Hussein.
In the exchange, Blair repeatedly says sorry for his conduct and even refers to claims that the invasion was a war 'crime' – while denying he committed one.
Blair is asked bluntly in the CNN interview, to be broadcast today: 'Was the Iraq War a mistake?'
He replies: 'I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong.
'I also apologize for some of the mistakes in planning and, certainly, our mistake in our understanding of what would happen once you removed the regime.'
Challenged that the Iraq War was 'the principal cause' of the rise of Islamic State, he said: 'I think there are elements of truth in that.
'Of course you can't say those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015.'
In the 'trial by TV', US political broadcaster Fareed Zakaria accuses him of being President Bush's 'poodle' over the conflict. Blair's confession comes a week after The Mail on Sunday published a bombshell White House memo revealing for the first time how Blair and Bush agreed a 'deal in blood' a year before the invasion.
A 2002 briefing note from US Secretary of State Colin Powell to the President showed Blair had secretly pledged to back the conflict – while telling MPs and British voters that he was seeking a diplomatic solution.
In his CNN interview, Blair candidly asks for forgiveness for his blunder in not realising 'what would happen once you removed the regime'.
The admission makes a mockery of the statement in the Powell memo that Blair would 'demonstrate [to Bush] that we have thought through "the day after" ' – a reference to the consequences of invasion.
Read more at THE DAILY MAIL.
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Lamps Trophy: The Saga Continues
So, once the parents had left and the Scout Leaders had been shooed away, we reported for duty at the Desk Sergeant's table. We were Group 7 of 18, so that meant that at least 10 different Scout packs were represented, quite an administrative challenge. We got mugshots done and had to make our own ID badges and stick the photos on, with our Group #, and emergency phone # etc, much like 'if found, please return this bear to Peru'. A big blue bus arrived and delivered fish and chips for the Leaders, but not for us. Because he was 20 minutes late, the big blue bus driver sped us down country lanes in a mad rush to Base #1, which was the tunnel 'Harry'. It was a tunnel under tarpaulins with a trolley and we had to pull ourselves through the tunnel on the attached rope. Then Guard #1 told us to follow the trail of glowsticks to a field. Right in the middle of the field was a bloke with a torch and a stiff bot because he'd been waiting for an hour. We had to give the passphrase "The snow in Warsaw is very early this year" and he told us to take a heading of 168 degrees on our orienteering compass, 800 metres to the gate. We all had a wee and Dorito break. A further 600M away was a hay bale, the next checkpoint. The task was 'Blind in the Town'. There was a maze of ropes, and one of us was blindfolded and he had to make his way through the maze following shouted instructions from us. The Checkpoint Guard had a series of commands in Polish and we had to use a translation card from Polish to English: our blind man only hit one rope.
The Guard gave us the clue "Use Wayfarers' Walk" and we went off through a hedge tunnel to a field where the path split. There were hidden Explorer Scouts in various bushes along the route to make sure we didn't go TOO wrong and we remembered the Wayfarer clue and went the right way unlike the other Group who got lost. We passed a cow sleeping while standing up, and a bull so we turned off our red light so as not to enrage it. Hopping stiles in the fence, we saw bunnies in the moonlight.
There was a queue of 3 Groups at the next task and Group 6 got told off for destroying the farmer's property when they broke sticks off trees and attacked each other.
For this task, we had to make a stretcher out of 2 poles and a rope and carry our Team Leader 200 yards on it, and he had to remain silent the whole time as he was playing the role of injured soldier. The pathway took us through the woods to Stop #4, after 4 hours. It was midnight so we all went aaargh it's school tomorrow. A super-bumpy pathway next to a cliff popped out in a real ghost village and Stop #5 was in the churchyard. There was a tea station so I had a cup of tea, for I am English. You get an Explorer Scout escort through the deserted streets and Group 5 managed to lose their escort. Nearby was a tiny field with such a slope, there were ropes to help you get up.
On the next stop we had to show our forged ID badges at 0100 and were sent across 3 more fields. It was dry, dark and very uneven underfoot which makes the yomping treacherous and tough. Base #7 was in a ditch between fields. The task was to broadcast a request to the Bridge Troll asking to use the bridge, in Morse code, with a box with one button and a light-up bulb on top. I was stabbed by a plant at 0200.
Base #8 was hidden behind some trees and it was a minefield, which of course meant we were blindfolded and followed shouted instructions, but at least in English this time. Nobody died apart from some passing German soldiers on leave who had had too much Schnapps. We met Group 6 in the forest and they were lost so they followed us, even though we told them not to. At the crossroads, we went straight over by the electric fence, but Group 6 did not, then someone jumped out screaming from behind a bush to scare them, we were wise to this because of the forewarning and didn't jump or go to the toilet in our trousers. Base #9 was in a small graveyard, at 230 in the morning, just before Halloween. Without torches, we had to find 3 war memorial graves and record their names.
Then we were by a car park and we reached the Scout Hut at 3 o'clock, after 7 hours of hiking! Because there were so many Scouts on this nocturnal mission, we only had 2 square yards of floor each but it was enough. I got 3 1/2 hours sleep because we were woken by reveille at 0700 for some pretty extensive tidying, the lost property roster, and massive bacon sandwiches with 5 slices in each. The winning Scout group got 162 points and we came 6th out of 18 with 149. Luke dropped me home at 1030 and I was totally hyper and babbled and jumped and gradually calmed down and was quiet on the sofa for the rest of the day, trouserless but in a blanket-poncho. Eventually the tablet had to be prised from my stiff little fingers.


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The copy we are selling is similar to the one pictured above.
Sonic Grade
Side One:
Side Two:
Vinyl Grade
Side One: Mint Minus to Mint Minus Minus
Side Two: Mint Minus to Mint Minus Minus
- This SUPERB pressing boasts Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound from start to finish
- Big and rich, with correct tonality from top to bottom, strong bass and plenty of space - this copy sounded just right to us
- Stunning sound for the album's biggest hits, including With Or Without You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, and Where the Streets Have No Name
- 5 stars: "With the uniformly excellent songs... the result is a powerful, uncompromising record that became a hit due to its vision and its melody. Never before have U2's big messages sounded so direct and personal"
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The soundstage is huge, and the overall quality of the recording is big and bold. Most copies of this album are either thin, shrill and aggressive -- like most U2 albums -- or thick and veiled. This one is smooth and natural sounding, with the added benefit of some deep punchy bass!
What the best sides of The Joshua Tree have to offer is not hard to hear:
- The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space
- The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing. CDs give you clean and clear. Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1987
- Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low
- Natural tonality in the midrange -- with all the instruments having the correct timbre
- Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space
The recordings of the Eighties are often tricky when it comes to sound, and U2 is not a band we have ever associated with audiophile-quality sonics. We've been through a number of their albums now, including this title, War and October, and while Demo Quality Sound may never be in the cards for these guys, we have at least found pressings that do a much better job communicating the music than others.
Bottom line? While this may not be a record that's going to blow anyone's mind, it does do a very good job of bringing this music to life in a way that most copies, the CD, and of course any Heavy Vinyl pressing cannot begin to.
If you're a fan of U2, we guarantee you simply cannot find a better sounding copy than this (unless you trade up to one of our even hotter stampers).
By the way, the British copies we played were awful. Perhaps there are good ones out there but we sure didn't hear any.
What We're Listening For on The Joshua Tree
- Energy for starters. What could be more important than the life of the music?
- Then: presence and immediacy. The vocals aren't "back there" somewhere, lost in the mix. They're front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt would put them.
- The Big Sound comes next -- wall to wall, lots of depth, huge space, three-dimensionality, all that sort of thing.
- Then transient information -- fast, clear, sharp attacks, not the smear and thickness so common to these LPs.
- Tight punchy bass -- which ties in with good transient information, also the issue of frequency extension further down.
- Next: transparency -- the quality that allows you to hear deep into the soundfield, showing you the space and air around all the instruments.
- Extend the top and bottom and voila, you have The Real Thing -- an honest to goodness Hot Stamper.
One More Thing
If you have the time and like the album I recommend you watch the DVD on the making of The Joshua Tree. It's not only entertaining but, if you're like me, you'll come away with a whole new appreciation for the effort that went into the recording of it. There is a lot going on in these mixes and it would have to be a very special stereo indeed that could manage to bring even half of what's on the tape out into the open where it could actually be heard and appreciated.
Vinyl Condition
Mint Minus Minus is about as quiet as any vintage pressing will play, and since only the right vintage pressings have any hope of sounding good on this album, that will most often be the playing condition of the copies we sell. (The copies that are even a bit noisier get listed on the site are seriously reduced prices or traded back in to the local record stores we shop at.)
Those of you looking for quiet vinyl will have to settle for the sound of later pressings and Heavy Vinyl reissues, purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic of these wonderful originals.
If you want to make the trade-off between bad sound and quiet surfaces with whatever Heavy Vinyl pressing might be available, well, that's certainly your prerogative, but we can't imagine losing what's good about this music -- the size, the energy, the presence, the clarity, the weight -- just to hear it with less background noise
Side One
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
With or Without You
Bullet the Blue Sky
Running to Stand Still
Side Two
Red Hill Mining Town
In God's Country
Trip Through Your Wires
One Tree Hill
Exit 4
Mothers of the Disappeared
It's a move that returns them to the sweeping, anthemic rock of War, but if War was an exploding political bomb, The Joshua Tree is a journey through its aftermath, trying to find sense and hope in the desperation. That means that even the anthems — the epic opener "Where the Streets Have No Name," the yearning "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" — have seeds of doubt within their soaring choruses, and those fears take root throughout the album, whether it's in the mournful sliding acoustic guitars of "Running to Stand Still," the surging "One Tree Hill," or the hypnotic elegy "Mothers of the Disappeared." So it might seem a little ironic that U2 became superstars on the back of such a dark record, but their focus has never been clearer, nor has their music been catchier, than on The Joshua Tree.
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There has been ample press of late about the plight of Australian first home buyers, and their struggle to make property ownership a reality. With so many fundamentals underpinning the East Coast's house price surge, first home buyers are more than ever, having to get creative to secure their first home. So what solutions exist to tighter borrowing conditions and huge deposit hurdles?
Low deposit owner occupier loans:
Whilst the major banks will generally be quite happy to lend up to 80% of the property's value, there are banks that will lend more, sometimes up to 95%. The benefit of this is that the deposit required (the money you need as a down payment) to purchase the property can be as little as 5% of the purchase price. This could significantly decrease the amount of savings you need to get on the property ladder. It is important however, that you speak to a good mortgage specialist about the costs associated with lenders mortgage insurance (LMI) and serviceability requirements.
Gifting a deposit:
It's an odd reality that a first home purchase generally occurs when you will be earning the least in your career. To make that deposit hurdle just a bit easier, it is becoming an increasingly common trend in Australia for first home buyers to have a portion of, or their entire deposit funded by their parents as a financial gift. A deposit gift could mean you don't have to spend the years required these days to save the entire deposit, and can instead begin making the regular mortgage repayments – just like paying rent! It is important however that the gift giver speak to their accountant to work out any potential tax and government benefit implications.
Parents as guarantors:
For first home buyers where parents have over time created equity in their own home, you may be in a position where your parents can act as guarantor on your first home loan. A guarantor loan has the benefit of increasing borrowing capacity. So how do they work?
For first home buyers, a guarantor loan can often enable the borrower to borrow more than 100% of the purchase price of the property they wish to buy. This can help decrease the size of the deposit required and provides funds to pay for buying costs and other expenses. The guarantor, who is usually the first home buyer's parents, will provide a guarantee for the home loan which is secured against a portion of their property's value. Once the FHB has paid off part of their loan or the property has increased in value, then the guarantee can be removed. The benefits of a guaranteed home loan are:
- The deposit required to enter the market is reduced substantially
- Generally, no requirement for lenders mortgage insurance (LMI)
- Flexibility around the size of the guarantee
The boring option:
Buying a first home can be both one of the most daunting but also most exciting rite of passages and something genuinely worth working hard for. Prior to making that first purchase, there are a few additional steps first home buyers can take to sure up their borrowing position:
- Save save save: There is often no substitute for genuine savings– whether that means moving back home, cancelling memberships and discretionary expenses, a solid saving pattern for at least 12 months proves to prospective lenders that you have the discipline and track record to repay a loan once committed.
- Pay down existing debts: In the eyes of the banks, the cleaner your credit history – the better. Clearing those existing credit card, car or consumer debts will ultimately improve your borrowing capacity
At the end of the day, being well informed and armed with up to date information can provide clarity and options when looking to enter the real estate market for the first time. This is where having a relationship with a quality and reputable mortgage broker is of huge value. The best thing is, their services are at no cost to you and could save thousands over the life of your property loan. If you wish to speak to an award winning finance team, contact red and co by email on [email protected] or call 1300 88 73 28.


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Creative Voices
Artist Elle Luna on Her Path and Her Journey
Inspiring designer, artist, and writer Elle Luna has an amazing story filled with dreams, art, nature, and voices from above.
Elle Luna was working as the lead designer at a San Francisco startup when she started having a recurring dream—night after night, for months. It was a vision of a white room with large windows. She didn't know what it meant, but the dream was so powerful that she decided to try to find the white room. She did (on Craigslist, of course) and moved in. But once she'd moved in to the room of her dreams, her next thought was "Why am I here?" And in a loud voice, the room answered her, "It's time to paint." So—for the first time since college—she began to paint.
Torn between a demanding full-time job and painting at night, Elle was having difficulty committing to either fully. She decided to take a huge leap of faith—to follow her bliss and begin painting full time. Unsure of what was going to happen, she nonetheless felt that she was on the right path.
Elle published an essay on her experience; titled "The Crossroads of Should and Must," it quickly went viral, and she decided to extend the post into an illustrated book with the same name. In the book, she lays out her theory of the paths of Should and Must. She explains, "Should is what we feel we ought to be doing, or what is expected of us. Must is the thing we dream of doing."
Elle followed her Must, and after some very productive time in her studio craved some solitary time outside in nature. She bought a Westfalia VW camping van, packed up a few of her favorite things (including her dog Tilly), and hit the road. Her experience has proved to her that the studio of her dreams is not a physical place but a place within, and she can go there whenever she needs to.
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So apparently some kind of Star Wars trailer dropped last week? I live in the future, so I'm not sure, but since I could do two whole PAs just on The Force Awakens questions, I feel pretty good about making the assumption. But don't worry, we still have time for Marvel movies, DC TV, Evangelion, and, of course, fictional characters' genitalia.
Rude Awakenings
What did you think of The Force Awakens trailer? I loved it, but I'm trying to keep a level head about it. Do you think it has any chance of living up to the hype its already built up for itself?
I loved it, but please understand I honestly have no ability to temper my emotions when it comes to Star Wars. Oh, I may think I do; I may have thought the prequels have allowed me some emotional distance from the franchise, that I can accept the series has its flaws, that my expectations have been tempered by disappointment and experience. I honestly have spent most of the last decade thinking this. And then the goddamned Force Awakening trailer comes out and ruins me.
There's a lot to love about the TFA trailer — the fact that it has practical effects and sets, that the Star Wars universe looks used and dirty and real again, that it focuses on new characters as opposed to shoving classic characters like Artoo and Chewbacca in our faces — but I personally know that there's no way the movie can live up to the hype in my head, because the hype in my head is insane. As it turns out, I'm still the Star Wars-obsessed kid I was growing up (and in college), just trapped in a bloated, ever more decrepit body. I see the trailer, notice no immediately discernable problems (and if you're about to bring up the hilt, please see the next letter) and suddenly I think The Force Awakens is going to be that perfect Star Wars movie I've been waiting for pretty much since Empire Strikes Back came out.
I'm afraid way too many Star Wars fans are exactly like me — we want this upcoming Star Wars movie to reach a level of perfection that only 33% of the film franchise has managed to achieve in our eyes. We know how insane this is, but we can't help ourselves. Our brains understand the odds against J.J. Abrams making a Star Wars movie equally as great as Empire Strikes Back are outrageous, even if Abrams had somehow made Star Trek movies that Trek fans universally loved (which he didn't). But our hearts — well, our hearts scream "Never tell me the odds!"
So no, The Force Awakens will not live up to the hype, because anything other than perfection will be criticized — remember, we Star Wars fans didn't get over the Ewoks until Jar Jar came around to bear the brunt of our scorn. By looking so damned good, The Force Awakens trailer gave us… well… a new hope. Too much hope, in fact. If I were a more sensible person, I would merely cross my finger that TFA would be a better-told story in a universe more recognizably Star Wars-y than the prequels. I am not a sensible person. We're all doomed.
There'll Be Hilt to Pay
I'm going to take a wild guess that if you're upset about the claymore-saber in The Force Awakens trailer and are writing a fake post-apocalyptic mailman about it, you've heard the theory that it isn't in fact a crossguard, but two small energy exhaust ports, needed because of the poor construction of the lightsaber. Moreover that you don't buy it. I don't begrudge you refusing to accept theories that aren't backed up by the film (although since the film hasn't come out yet, we're all flying blind). But I would like to point two things out that hopefully will allow you to get to sleep tonight.
1) No one in any of the six Star Wars movies has ever needed a crossguard. Seriously. Not a single lightsaber as used one, and of all the hands that have been cut off, a guard would not have prevented any of them. Maybe it's just the accepted style of lightsaber dueling, maybe it's a technique that lightsaber wielders learn early so they don't have all their fingers cut off. Either way, if no one ever needs them, it implies that this dude doesn't either.
So what are these little light-nubs, then? I think it could well be a small offensive weapon — a small pointy bit with which to stick the enemy just in case. It's exactly like an axe may have a sharp tip up top, on the very off chance you need to stab instead of chop. If you're wielding a lightsaber and need to punch somebody — which definitely happens — and you have what is essentially a small light-dagger in your hands, you're better off than someone with out it.
Or it could just be decorative. Maybe this dude likes 'em because he thinks it looks badass. That's a perfectly valid reason to me.
2) It looks badass. I don't particularly care what the reason is. Guard, not a guard, whatever. It looks awesome and I don't need to get bogged down in the actual "science" of lightsabers to think so. You do realize that Luke's lightsaber in Return of the Jedi basically cut nothing, right? It's wasn't a bade on Jabba's Sailbarge, it was a baseball bat. No one just sliced in the slightest. It was like Luke had it on "bludgeon" or something. Compared to that, this "handguard" is nothing.
Look, if you want to freak out about the lightsaber, by all means. I'm sure there's shit I'm going to freak out about when I see the movie. But I've seen The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, and I know what actual Star Wars problems are. This lightsaber is not one of them.
Take a Kree
I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy for the 3rd time this past week. I picked up on something that I didn't really think about too much before. Nova Prime mentions that Star-Lord's dad is from an ancient species. Given the goings on in AoS and the announcements of the Inhumans movie, could Quill's dad be an Inhuman?
I don't think so. The Kree — the blue guys whose juice helped resurrect Coulson on Agents of SHIELD — did experiment on early homo sapiens, thus creating the Inhuman race. But the Inhumans are pretty strictly earth-bound, and it said quite specifically that Star-Lord's dad came from space. Thematically, it would be weird for Quill to be half-human, half-Inhuman when his destiny is supposed to be somewhere in the stars, don't you think?
Justice for Some
Bruce O.:
Mr. Postman,
You recently answered a question about the possibility of the CW spinning off the Atom into his own show. I am wondering what you think of the possibility that the CW might be working toward a Justice Society show? The Golden Age Flash, Atom, Black Canary and Wildcat were all Golden Age members of the JSA. Plus, the Justice Society could differentiate from the Justice League movie universe, giving the TV universe an additional Earth-2 kind of feel?
At the very least make the Atom the main character of a Brave and the Bold or Showcase team-up show with a rotating cast of the other heroes we've met. It would give a spotlight to some of the introduced characters outside their tangential relationships to Barry and Ollie, plus allow for some TV versions of as yet un-introduced characters.
I'd say a Justice Society show is possible in the sense that the DC/WB/CW might not feel the Atom is a big enough draw to support his own hour-long superhero show. A team show might be the way to go, but the members would have to have some very mild-looking powers to make the sfx cost of such a show feasible.
But say they have the budget and want to do a team of lesser-known DC heroes like the Atom. They absolutely wouldn't do the Golden Age Flash, because that just screws up their already successful Flash TV series. Black Canary is an Arrow character and important part of the mythos going forward, so she's off-limits. I can see Wildcat moving from Arrow to a Justice Society show, and he basically just punches people, so he'd be cheap. Limit Stargirl's power to her staff and she'd be a shoo-in. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Mr. Terrific would be a good option — he's like Tony Stark without the Iron Man armor, which wouldn't be hard to portray onscreen.
Hmm… maybe Doctor Fate? Doctor Mid-nite? Maybe Sandman, although it's possible that the potentially upcoming Sandman film would cause a WB movie executive to forbid a TV Sandman, even if they were totally different characters.
Skull and Bones
Haha, amazing answers, Rob. I'm now curious about why Skeletor's head is a floating skull, though.
It's because Skeletor used to be Prince Adam's uncle Keldor, the brother of King Randor, but was denied the throne because of his bue skin and Gar heritage (Racists of the Universe!). Already a bitter, evil dude, he tried to toss a bottle of acid on his brother Randor's face, who deflected it back onto his own. With his face effectively melting off, Skeletor ran back to his mentor Hordak, who merged him with an extradiensional demon named Demo-Man, as is a completely normal thing to do in these circumstances. While Keldor didn't die, exactly, this did form a new being who was sorely lacking any part of a face — Skeletor.
If you're wondering how his disembodied skull works, well, I can only answer as a He-Man fan who has thought way too much about this. Neither Skeletor's jawbone nor the skull proper are attached to anything, but they are connected to his torso and each other thanks to the magic of being merged with Demo-Man. This is also how he speaks. Although one could run his hand in the space between Skeletor's jaw and clavicle and pass through it unobstructed, for all intents and purposes his skull is as firmly attached to his body as any head is.
Rebuild Me Up, Buttercup
I hope this letter finds you well and your geiger counter silent! My question is this: do you think that the Rebuild of Evangelion movies represent Anno's authoritative reimagining of his original masterpiece, a stealth-sequel, a cash in, or somehow all of the above?
Mostly a cash-in. I guarantee Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno only cares tangentially about the four movie remakes of his beloved series, if he cares about it at all. The rumors were that he was over Evangelion even before the End of Evangelion movie, which popular legend he made depressing as hell specifically to spite the fans that bitched about the end of the TV show (when he and Studio Gainax basically ran out of money for the last two episodes).
I don't know if that's true, but I know that if Anno was really concerned about the artistic integrity of the Evangelion franchise he wouldn't have made these new Rebuild of Evangelion movies, which are pretty and different, but haven't come close to improving on the original series. And if he meant them to be his "perfect" rendition of Evangelion, then I think he'd probably have chosen to direct the four movies himself, instead of handing off it to others and merely writing the movies.
I have heard some theories that the Rebuild of Evangelion movies are in fact a sequel to the original series — that after the world ends in the show, something happens to restart the events, but with a slightly different outcome. I'm not sure I buy that, but even if that's what Anno intends, I still don't think it's making the original Evangelion series any better. But remember, I'm also the dude who prefers the TV ending to the movie ending.
Crisis on Multiple Box Offices
B. Vega:
Mr. Bricken,
Long time, first time. Love the show.
After reading about the rumors of how Fox is driving the FF franchise into the ground. I'm sorry, I meant grounding it in reality, I wondered aloud if a Convergence style event would ever happen/work for a cinematic universe?
Follow me here. Disney/Marvel get the film rights back to all their characters. We're talking Spiderman, FF, X-Men, Man-Thing... the whole kit & kaboodle. They then work in an after credits scene at the end of Infinity Wars numero dos, where you see, I don't know, Kang looking out at different monitors aboard his ship (does he have a ship?) On these monitors are clips from various other studio films showing all the different versions of these characters. Then Kang gets all expository (does he do that?) and he (along with Disney/Marvel) tells the audience, "Just kidding about all these other shitty versions, we're blowing this mofo up and making it right." Maybe not exactly that, but along those lines. Humor me. I'm not as smart as say... Kang (he's smart, right?).
I guess it's more a solution to re-booting franchises the "Marvel Way" after so many failed attempts and getting people excited about seeing another Spiderman, FF, X-Men, Man-Thing movie. I also guess that I can't ask a focused question.
Thanks for taking my call. I'll hang up and listen off air.
It could work — kind of — but I wouldn't happen. While it's feasible, it's just too much work for too little benefit. Say somehow Marvel gets all those rights back on the same day and can do your crisis on multiple Earths scenario. What's the benefit of trying to link the Marvel Cinematic Universe to these other movies?
With the exception (X-ception?) of the X-Men movie franchise, they're all kind of crap — and even if you're an Amazing Spider-Man apologist, surely you admit that Marvel would certainly prefer to create their own take as opposed to continuing Sony's. And as regards the X-Men, yes, they've been doing well, but wouldn't it be easier for Marvel to start the franchise over, planning for it to be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from the beginning than suddenly bringing Kang in and having him try to explain why all these movie franchises suddenly co-exist even though Spidey and the Avengers have never acknowledged each other?
God I Love My Job
do the people in tron have dicks and pussies
Yes, but they're just USB 2.0 dongles and ports. Unfortunately, they're in-scale to their bodies, by which I mean they're the size of an actual USB as compared to our bodies, which is why Tron and Clu and the rest don't have giant rectangular boxes sticking out of their crotches.
Also, when two programs from the Grid fuck, the points they've scored appear over their heads so they both know who won.


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Greener Childhood, Happier AdulthoodBy Heidi Wachter
Access to green space during childhood may lower the incidence of mental-health issues later on, according to a recent study.
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New research suggests that killing off neurons in our aging brains might prevent, rather than invite, Alzheimer's. Personal experience suggests it may be more complicated than that.
Pioneering pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris is transforming how public-health advocates respond to the toxic stress created by childhood adversity. Here, she shares her prescription for healing.
Seasonal affective disorder can make a stressful time of year even harder. Here's how to offset the symptoms of SAD.
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Sometime, a burst of anger can be productive and have health benefits.
How releasing past hurts can be helpful.
Go behind the scenes with mindfulness teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn to learn more about the effects of mindfulness on your health.
Many of our digital devices — including cell phones — emit electromagnetic radiation, which may be harmful to our health. Here are tips on reducing your exposure risks.
Amid news of a potential breakthrough in Alzheimer's research, experts bemoan the daunting task of finding enough qualified patients to continue the search for a cure.
Memory issues are common here in Geezerville, but I'm not sure loading up on sugar is the answer.
A new study suggests that life in an empty nest may be bad for the brain.
Katherine Reynolds Lewis talks about her new book and why we need a new approach to parenting and discipline.
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The benefits of physical activity are more than muscle-deep. Moving your body builds and conditions your gray matter, making you smarter, happier, and more resilient.
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Born in Almansa (Albacete) on December 6, 1926, one of his most notable facets is his contribution to contemporary sacred art and participated in the introduction of avant-garde art in churches from the mid-twentieth century. Undoubtedly, one of the great sculptors of the twentieth century, with a rich career as reflected in his works in museums and in public spaces, churches and streets. Pioneer of abstraction in sculpture and in the use of materials, which always determined his work, plaster, marble, bronze, steel, cement or glass mud.
His work has been shown in various exhibitions, including the National Fine Arts of 1954, where he won the Third Sculpture Medal. He also participated in the XXVII Venice Biennale in 1954 and in 1957; and in the Third Hispanic-American Biennial, held in Barcelona in 1956. In 1981 a retrospective of his work was exhibited at the Crystal Palace of the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid. With more than 50 individual exhibitions, among its artistic production, the aluminum reliefs for the Ensidesa complex, in Avilés; the stone reliefs for the New Market of Segovia; the sculptural groups and figures for the La Rosa Sanatorium and the Madrid Labor Residence; ceramic or iron decorations for the Campo del Madrid Fair; or the Tangier Cathedral. Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando since 1987 and named in 2009 the favorite son of La Mancha, Sánchez's work is impregnated with notions close to architecture. The artist's work can be found in various parts of the world, as well as in national museums.


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