Quality musical instruments will always have decent resale value but here is a story for you: A couple years ago, a customer brought me one of these to sell - I sold it - and that was that. That same customer, who was a professional level player by the way, decided that she wanted to play again - mainly for her father who's health is declining. She just happened to be checking on eBay and found this instrument - from a totally different customer - and went ahead and bought it and picked it up in the store. We're like a neighborhood trading post!
This old cart had never been used and was almost 50 years old - it's the type of thing that's so obscure and most people would send to the thrift store or throw away. And just look at the pattern, we knew it was so awful that someone would love it but it took time and effort to sell.
Even common household and health/ beauty items can have value if they are old enough and in good condition.
As part of our employee 'picker' training program, we sent Kyle to the local thrift store with the intent to buy something and resell it for a profit. He paid $5 for this item and after about a month, it sold. After the eBay fees his profit was around $15 - he quadrupled his investment! Imagine if you could get returns like that in volume, selling hundreds of items a month. All it takes is a little knowledge and effort. Right here on this blog explains to you 80% of what I know - the rest is just instinct and experience which comes in time.
Sometimes, having a 'story' behind a given item not only makes it more salable but also increases it's value. Some pieces from this lot were used by a man who worked at the Mather mine in PA which exploded in 1928. He purportedly didn't feel well that day and stayed home from work while his father went in and was killed in the blast along with 194 other casulties. The person who bought this lot also had a family member who didn't go to work that fateful day either and was preserving the history through artifacts.
These Hallmark decorations typically retail between $10 and $20 each new at the store. As a second-hand dealer, we can't afford to take the time to sell things on the Internet for under $20. In many cases, we have to create 'group lots' like this knowing it will lower the per piece price and the weight and cost of the shipping will cut into the sale as well. These things considered, our timing was apparently good and this lot sold for a respectable price.
This piece was in rough condition but it dated back to the decade Donald was created and was probably one of the first cartoon toy figures made for him. Any markings had been worn off but we were able to find an identical piece that was attributed to the 'Knickerbocker' maker. So many items have changed hands on the Internet in the past twenty years or so that we can easily find almost anything we come across and get more information about it which in turn helps us sell the item.
This awful piece found a new home in Australia! The buyer paid almost as much in shipping as the purchase price! Using buzz words like 'Mid Century' gets eyes focused on items that otherwise wouldn't have a chance of selling. This piece actually had a crack when we found it (shhhhh) but our vendor friend Mary doctor'd it up so no one would ever even know. A chipped item is usually worthless - no one would have spent over $200 to get it and it would have probably ended up in the trash. We are all about preserving things and keeping stuff out of the landfill.
We recently acquired a collection of assorted never-used inventory from a client who was planning to eventually open a B&B. This piece was bought at Homegoods for $39 with a price sticker that said 'compare at $100'. It blows my mind that it sold for $139 plus $12 shipping and not only that but the buyer was a dealer who is planning to resell it for even more! It just goes to show that if you know your P's: Product, Price, Promotion, and Placement - you can make money with just about anything.
Anything Disney puts out has millions of followers but most of these made-in-China porcelain figures are a dime a dozen. This one in particular was a Theme Park exclusive and the collectors drove the price up. The winning buyer was actually in Italy! Immediatly after the sale, the runner up bidder messaged me how upset he was that he lost the bid and suggested that he would pay more if I would sell it to him instead. No amount of money is worth my reputation so I politely declined and wished him better luck next time.
Just sharing some more vintage lighting we found and sold. These weren't the best of quality - they had fake wood trim and were clearly from the 1970's as opposed to being true mid-century - but the style is in demand and the price they sold for proves it. Fortunately they came apart in sections as otherwise it would have been cost prohibitive to ship a pair of eight foot poles.
Movie memorabilia has a great following of collector's - even these seemingly mundane film reels. Not only do they make for a great decoration but it wouldn't surprise me if the person who bought them actually intends to use the reels.
Most anything related to military service is generally collectible with some items having exceptional value - especially true when they are 100 years old or more.
I'll spare you the history lesson but these notes were printed between 1862 -1876 as a way of compensating for the lack of actual gold and silver bullion / coinage. If you ask me, this was just the beginning of sordid banking and treasury practices which have lasted well over a hundred years. With all the screwy 'fixes' Uncle Sam has initiated over the years it's a wonder we're not back to trading seashells and stones. Check out William Meredith - does that guy look shifty or what?
Never underestimate the value of random animal figures. If they have some age to them, be sure that some collector is looking for them. Pieces like these are donated to thrift stores every day and turning them around on-line can put money in your pocket. One of these had a small chip but fortunatley we have a friend that can touch up ceramics and pottery. Damaged items are usually worthless and that's no bull.
We all know older comic books are collectible but coloring books?!!? Really anything that has some age to it with good subject matter will have at least some value !
Movie memorabilia will always have a following - even in less than perfect condition, original pieces are very sought after.
While old pieces like this still have some value, they are usually a chore to sell. While it was posted on eBay, it sat on my shelf for months waiting for a buyer and that buyer was in another country! So while it was worth $100 to me - it's not the type of thing we want to handle on consignment which is why I usually just offer to buy pieces like this for a token price.
We've learned never to underestimate anything and old toys in particular can have surprising value. This little green plastic monster from the 1960's sold in a matter of minutes for $100!
A good picker has to know name brands and anything by Chanel just had to be expensive. We found these in a random box with assorted bathroom stuff at our last storage unit dig. Most people would have thrown them out but we knew there was a Benjamin to be made!


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This interview was first published in 'King Of The Universe' Fanzine in the summer of 1999.
In this 'King Of The Universe' Fanzine interview, Dave talked about his early days in the music business, the time he spent with ELO, his first ever meeting with Jeff Lynne, his association with the Chantelles, his solo career, the 'Secret Messages' sessions including the unreleased ELO track 'Beatles Forever', and his new album 'Long Way Home'.
Alan Heath:- So Dave let's start at the beginning of your career, where, when and how did your musical career start?
Dave Morgan:- In Birmingham, somebody got a group together and I got dragged into it. And then I kinda discovered I could write songs, I played a song I'd done to somebody and they liked it. In fact the first song I ever wrote, we did it with this group I was in. One thing led to another, people used to have me in groups because of my songwriting, they didn't want me to play, they wanted me because they wanted the tunes!
AH:- I read that Carl Wayne invited you to work in his 'Penny Music Publishing Company' is that correct?
DM:- Yes that's correct.
AH:- Subsequently The Move recorded your compositions 'Something' and 'This Time Tomorrow'. Were these songs your first musical breakthrough?
DM:- In terms of writing yeah, but the first ever record I ever had out was by the Ian Campbell folk group, which was an epic song called 'Private Airman Harris', you'll remember of course Alan! 'Private Airman Harris' by Dave Morgan came out and went back in again! Carl did 'Something' with The Move, that was pretty good, and was on the B side of a number one record 'Blackberry Way'.
AH:- Who were your main early musical influences?
DM:- The Beatles, full stop, followed by The Beatles.
AH:- Good choice.
DM:- I just liked The Beatles. Well my dad used to like Al Jolson, and he used to black his face and pretend to sing although he could actually sing really good. My dad used to really like Al Jolson records. So I heard a lot of those records when I was a kid but I had no musical pretensions, it kind of went past me really. I didn't take much notice.
AH:- Can you remember the first record you ever brought?
DM:- I can't, it may have been The Beatles. No wait a minute, I think it was 'Picture Of You' by Joe Brown, when I heard those chord changes, I thought isn't that fabulous. Have you ever heard that? A to G!
AH:- Yes.
DM:- I'd never heard that before, and I thought that's lovely that, I'm going to nick that and put it in a song. I remember really liking that song, lovely song.
AH:- I remember my older brother buying the record, actually he brought the LP with the song on when we were on a family holiday in Jersey in the sixties. I think the album cost 19s/11d!
Mark Dodsworth:- Were you self taught, did you teach yourself to play?
DM:- Yeah.
AH:- You played with Richard Tandy in both Paradox and The Chantelles. What do you remember about these early days in your career?
DM:- Well both Paradox and The Chantelles had this drummer whose name was Pank, he's now a big advertising executive in a radio station somewhere, but Pank was the only one who had a house where we could rehearse in. He had this house in Marston Green, and we all used to congregate up there. He had a bedroom all kitted out and a garage as well. Today probably that isn't so strange, but then it was, as we all lived in council houses. Cupboards we lived in! But Pank had all this room, and he was in those groups.
AH:- Was Jeff Lynne in The Chantelles at the same time as you?
DM:- Yes he was, I've got a photograph to prove it!
AH:- How did your association with Jeff first start, was it in The Chantelles?
DM:- Yes. As a matter of fact, no! I met Jeff for first time at St. Peters Church, Shard End. We were playing there with a group called Jeff Silvas and The Four Strangers. And in the interval this kid came up and said "Can I play your guitar mate?" and I said "Yeah". When I came back after he was still strumming away, with another mate looking over his shoulder. He was doing a song by Dave Clark 'Bits and Pieces'. I don't think he had a guitar of his own, so he used to have to borrow other peoples to practise on. Anyway, that was Jeff.
AH:- I've heard Jeff mention in interviews, that he went round asking to play other peoples guitars when he was about fifteen, before he actually owned one himself!
DM:- Well, that must be it then, because he came and asked me, and I remembered him then when he came into The Chantelles.
AH:- I have heard mention of the '59 Club' which was going in the mid sixties. Was this some sort of music cellar and Birmingham's answer to Liverpool's 'Cavern'?
DM:- It was yes, it was a bombed out building and underneath it was this horrible damp cellar. We used to run this blues - jazz thing down there, and I can once remember once going there and Richard was playing there in a three piece group with Johnny Finchum singing, and somebody on the drums who I can't remember. No, it was a four piece, they had a sax as well, and Richard played guitar then. He had this great semi-acoustic guitar, and he used to play these chords he'd made up. I remember looking at him, and I had never seen anything like it, you wouldn't believe these chords he used to make up, that's how I first met Richard. I said to him after, "what were those chords you were playing?" I hadn't a hope of learning how to play them without dislocating my fingers.
AH:- You went on to play with Richard in the Uglys as well, and also Stacks?
DM:- Someone else asked me that, I never played with Stacks.
AH:- According to the book 'Unexpected Messages' they have you down as being in Stacks!
DM:- This is incorrect, I've never heard of them!
AH:- You recorded your own solo album 'Dave Morgan' in 1971. This album did not get a release in the UK, do you know the reason for this?
DM:- It got a release in America. It didn't get a release in England because it was crap! I did that record with Lou Reisner. Lou came up to Birmingham and heard my songs, and he was very interested. It was only my songs that ever got me a job doing anything really. He said, "I want to sign you up as a songwriter, and I want you to make a record as well". And that's what happened. And then he got this group called Wishful Thinking to record an album of my songs.
AH:- You wrote two albums.
DM:- Did I? It was only one, wasn't it?
AH:- Again, according to the 'Unexpected Messages' book it was two! The album 'Hiroshima', and the second called 'Wishful Thinking'.
DM:- I'm only aware of the one album, they just recorded about twelve songs. There may be some more tracks.
Mandy Morgan:- Maybe somebody owes you some money Dave?
AH:- When I talked to Trevor Burton a few months ago, he said the 'Unexpected Messages' book had been responsible for him finding out about songs he'd forgot about, and he got some royalties from them!
DM:- Really!
AH:- Maybe you should read it again?
DM:- Yes! Anyway, Lou made this record, but he was really interested in that song 'Hiroshima', and he was quite certain it would be a success that song. He called the album after the song, 'Hiroshima', but he died shortly afterwards, and it was after he died that 'Hiroshima' became a hit in Germany by Wishful Thinking.
AH:- You joined Magnum for a short period in 1972, what can you tell us about that period in your life?
DM:- Well, I was working down this building site. I was absolutely broke, and the people who owned the 'Rum Runner' club, they were building this new night club called 'Snobs', and they got all the musicians that worked at the 'Rum Runner' helping out, there were two groups there then. I went to the 'Rum Runner' one night, so Tony Clarkin said, "Come and earn some money building this new club." So I was down there every day helping them build this thing, this night club, and on the night I used to go down to the 'Rum Runner' just to see the groups. I was in there one night, and to cut a long story short, the bass player with 'Magnum' got thrown out, something happened and he got the sack, and Tony Clarkin said, "Can you play bass?", I said "Yeah", he said, "You got the job!" That was it, I just happened to be there when the guy got the sack, so I got his job!
AH:- In 1977 you joined forces with Jim Cleary to record 'Morgan Cleary' for Jet Records, with Richard Tandy as producer. Do you know why this album was never released?
MM:- Because he's really unlucky!
AH:- I've never actually heard the album, but I know people who have, and they say it's a really good album.
DM:- Some of Jim's songs come out really well.
AH:- The album was with Jet Records who seemed to do some strange things around that time.
MD:- That must have been how you got your connection with ELO through Jet Records?
DM:- No, I already knew Richard and Jeff, as I'd been in groups with them. I knew Don Arden obviously, Sharon and Dave Arden from the days of The Move.
AH:- You had the chance to join ELO in 1981 for the 'Time' tour, can you remember how the invite to join the band came along?
DM:- Yeah, we used to get together and play Beatles songs.
AH:- Privately?
DM:- Yes. We used to go round to someone's house with a bottle of red wine, and we'd end up singing songs. Well I know a lot of Beatles songs, it was a bit like "So Dave how does that one go?", we used to have a lot of fun singing them songs, and seeing how many we could do. And so, when it came to do this tour, Jeff needed someone to help out with the vocals. And that's why he thought of me, because we'd been sitting round singing together, that's how it came about really.
AH:- Your life changed when you joined ELO. I suppose it was nice for someone else to carry all your equipment round for you for a change?
DM:- Great, it was the easiest job you could ever have being in a top group because you just have everything done for you. If you break a string, one of the roadies give you another guitar, you stick it round your neck and just carry on. Well normally you have to go, "Hold on lads, I've bust a string, sorry audience!" But, it's great with somebody to do everything for you, luxury, all you have to do is sing and play!
AH:- You sang on the Secret Messages album, can you remember which specific tracks you sang on?
DM:- I sang on quite a few tracks, I sang on 'Rock 'N' Roll Is King'. I played on that one, but it wasn't called that, it was something about something about working at Austin Longbridge! It was full of car plant sounds, you could hear it going clank, clank, clank, like somebody hitting a lathe with a hammer, and Jeff went away and made it into 'Rock 'n' Roll Is King', wiped off everything we'd done, no, there was still some backing left in there, It was much better how he finished it off than it was before. I think I sang on 'Train Of Gold', 'Loser Gone Wild', I think I was on 'Bluebird'. Of course there was a lot of tunes that we worked on which didn't get onto the album.
MD:- My favourite ELO song is 'Hello My Old Friend'.
DM:- Is that the one with 'Spatch and Mail' in the background?
MD:- It's like two songs, the first one is like electronic drums and goes to a break in the middle with lots of kids singing, a kinda spooky break and then it goes into the second part of the song, it's brilliant.
DM:- You don't come from Birmingham do you?
AH:- No.
DM:- We used to have people standing on the street corners every night shouting 'Spatch and Mail'.
MM:- Dispatch and Mail.
DM:- Dispatch and Mail, that's right. They used to leave the 'D' off and it was, 'Spatch and Mail'. Well we were all doing this one of Jeff's records, I'm not sure which one it was, it was a song about the nostalgia of childhood.
MD:- About cooling towers and factory gates?
DM:- That's the one yes.
AH:- Do you have any knowledge of the track 'Beatles Forever', a track which has never been released by ELO, but was recorded during the Secret Messages sessions?
DM:- Yes, I sang on it. I did my John Lennon take off.
AH:- Kelly Groucutt was once quoted as saying, "this was the best ELO track ever made", do you agree?
MD:- It was quoted as being a cross between 'Strawberry Fields' and 'I Am A Walrus'. It's the only song that ELO fans have never heard.
DM:- I remember it yeah, but it was one of many songs we worked on. I thought it was a daring thing for Jeff to do. I was doing a John Lennon take off on it, and I was saying "Is that all right Jeff? Shall I do this?" That's the way it went, it was a Beatles take off as well as being called 'Beatles Forever'.
MM:- You should start a look-a-like band, you and Jeff!
DM:- Obviously Jeff liked The Beatles he made reference to them in interviews and then there was that song 'Shangri-La' which said, 'Faded like The Beatles on Hey Jude' which a marvellous, marvellous track, so you can tell Jeff likes The Beatles from that. I guess at the end of the day, Jeff probably didn't put it out because it didn't work the way he wanted to.
MD:- I heard Jeff didn't want it released because around the time of 'Afterglow', where all the 'Secret Messages' tracks were on, like 'Hello My Old Friend' and 'Mandalay', and all those, he didn't want it released because he became friendly with George Harrison at the time.
AH:- He didn't want to upset George.
MM:- Where do you get the sources from?
MD:- It's what people say, it's like Chinese whispers!!
AH:- Internet and magazines articles.
MM:- Does it come from people who speak to Jeff?
AH:- Probably not!
MM:- That amazes me!
DM:- I don't know why it wasn't released but I can only imagine it wasn't up to it in some way.
MM:- Sometimes it's just a personal opinion with your art isn't it. Other people like it but it also depends how you feel about it yourself.
DM:- That's right.
MD:- There's meant to be a special edition Cd of 'Secret Messages' coming out, which is the original double album, whether or not that will have 'Beatles Forever' on it remains to be seen.
DM:- Well I think it was a really daring little song, it was like about The Beatles, and there you are.....
AH:- We may hear it one day you never know!
DM:- I don't know if Jeff's rubbed my bit off or what!
AH:- What were your best and worst moments whilst with ELO?
DM:- The best time was the 81 tour which was really good, 81-82, and the 86 tour wasn't as good, it just wasn't as good.
MM:- For you?
DM:- For all of us I think.
AH:- It was the end of the band as well as it happened.
DM:- To be honest Jeff wasn't really into it. In 81 we had good fun and we all had a lot of laughs. In 86, it was a bit more strained as you got the feeling that Jeff had something better to do.
Paula Morris:- Is there any particular moment in your time with ELO that really stands out?
DM:- I always remember all the laughs we had, we had such a tremendous time. The day Kelly fell off the stage! We practised on this sound stage in LA on a film set, an enormous hanger completely empty with our stage set at one end. The whole reason for us being there was to practice the lighting, so they could do all the movements with the lights. So while they were doing that, we were practising our songs, which we already knew, but we kept going through them. We were at the end of this one song all the lights went off, and the place was completely sealed in such a way that it was pitch black, you couldn't see a thing. And the next thing we heard was this sound like a piano falling downstairs and hit the bottom of the stairs and it gives that lovely chord boinng!!! We were all looking round in the blackness saying "What's that?", and when the lights come back on Kelly is laying off the front of the stage with his guitar and all, on the floor. And for a second we all think he's dead or something, and then he starts moving and then laughing, the sound was just unbelievable, it was really funny.
AH:- It's a pity you hadn't got a video!
DM:- Jeff might have recorded this and called it boinng!!! Anyway I guess you had to be there!
AH:-You recorded with Richard Tandy once more as the Tandy Morgan Band, and completed the brilliant 'Earthrise' and 'BC Collection' albums.
DM:- Brilliant, brilliant, thank you.
AH:- These were really fine albums, are you not tempted to produce a similar type album or has your direction gone away from this type of music?
DM:- It's gone away really, because that was really production music studio stuff which you can't do live very well. I used to really like that sort of music where you craft this piece of art, where you'd spent years tinkering with it in the studio without a thought for doing it live.
MM:- He's a perfectionist, he can work for several hours on something, just one little note.
MD:- It's like ELO, they couldn't do a lot a their studio work on stage.
AH:- Incidentally, what does BC stand for?
DM:- Before Christ. Just to carry on with that question, what's happened recently is that I really enjoy playing live, never used to record songs with the thought of ever playing them, I thought I'd just do this record and make the record as good as I can. So now I try to make the songs things that I play. I'm less interested now in production although I still get involved.
MM:- It's a shame from the listeners point of view that's the only thing, because it doesn't sound as good as the previous stuff.
DM:- Well thank you, a word of encouragement there from my wife!! (Laughter).
AH:- The Tandy Morgan Band also did several tracks for the film Distortions with some incidental music along with 'Catalina', 'Run Little Girl', 'Action', 'Tequilla Moonshot' and 'Zero Zero', all great tracks. I can remember the film 'Distortions' though, it was a pretty dire affair and did not do justice to the music? Was it some sort of B movie?
DM:- 'Zero Zero' was not in the film. Don't have that one as well as all the others, it's very embarrassing. 'Zero Zero' was not included. Where did you get that information from?
AH:- Again, it was included in the book 'Unexpected Messages'.
DM:- Oh yes. The guy did such a great job on the book, but with all that wealth of information you'd expect him to get a few things wrong.
AH:- Moving on to Jeff's 'Armchair Theatre', how did the invite to sing on the album come about?
DM:- I was round his house one day, and Jeff said "While you're here Dave, sing on this will you?" It was like that, anyone who came round was roped into singing! The roadie, anyone. A big gang of us.
MD:- Was that recorded at Walsh Hall?
AH:- Jeff produced 'God's Good Time' which is a really fine song which Jeff really brought to the fore in his production. Was his production involvement a reciprocal arrangement following your work on 'Armchair Theatre'?
DM:- It's correct what you said, I'd done some work on his album, and he said "Would you like me to do a song for you Dave after you've worked on my album?", I said "All Right", and played him all these God songs which I'd got going. He liked a couple of them, but he plumped for that one, he got an idea for that one straight away as I was strumming through, he'd got some production idea's straight away as I was strumming through, so we worked on that one.
AH:- Your album 'Call' was released in 1997 and is a really uplifting and fine album with some strong Christian songs. You became a Christian in the 80's.
DM:- 1988.
AH:- This must have had a big impact in your life, do you feel more fulfilled because of your Christian beliefs?
DM:- I became a born again Christian in 1988 after I had this meeting with the Lord. I had this experience, God tracked me down and made me take notice of him. After that, I kind of felt he wanted me to write songs for him which I found very difficult to do, but he sent a little miracle to help me get started, so now I write mostly God songs. Yes I find what I'm doing now much more fulfilling than what I'd done before yes, because before I could never really sell the stuff I was doing. I could never really get up and sing it to people. I think the reason was, the bottom line was, I didn't really believe I was selling myself and I didn't really believe in myself , but now I'm selling Jesus I find it really easy to do that.
AH:- You are in the throws of recording your new album, is that going to be in the same vein as 'Call'?
DM:- It's going to be in the same cupboard, yeah I guess so, similar.
AH:- Have you got a name for the album yet?
DM:- We are thinking of calling it 'Long Way Home'.
AH:- And when do you hope to have the album out?
DM:- We hoping to have the first cut of it out later this month.
AH:- Are there any plans to release any of your songs not previously released?
MM:- There's about sixteen stacks which we eat our dinner off! Piles of tapes!
DM:- Cardboard boxes that we sit on! I have a few songs that we want to release, they are love songsy. We feel like it's probably better to keep them separate because the people who want to buy the Christian stuff might not want to hear love songs.
MM:- It's more the other way round, I think the people who like to buy the other songs don't want to hear Christian songs.
AH:- Tell us a little about your passion for Flying?
DM:- I told you not to mention that in front of the wife! (Laughter). I learned to fly many years ago and now I work as an instructor part time.
MM:- Tell them how you started flying.
DM:- Oh yeah, this girl let me down.
MM:- She dumped him!
DM:- She let me down flat she did (cue for a Beatles song! Ed), I went to the airport and was going to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, but the parachute club was closed! So there I was at Halfpenny Green airport standing by the parachute club, which was just a little shack with a sign which said closed. Over the way was another sign that said pleasure flights. So I went over there and had a flight. I thought this is good isn't it, and discovered I didn't really want to jump out of one anyway.
MM:- So learning to fly saved his life didn't it.
AH:- You have a great internet site. How do you feel about this new means of communication?
DM:- I think it's really exciting because it's put me in touch with people who I would never have met. Normally when you if you're in a group, you just snatch a few words with people after a gig or something. You don't really get to exchange much information it's not that kind of environment, but with the internet, folk who are interested in my records from all over the world have been able to contact me and it's a much better medium really for speaking to people.
MM:- It's nice that they are not knocking on the door every five minutes, there's a privacy to it as well.
DM:- I think it's great, because it enables an artist like myself to be directly in touch with people who buy records, which really speaking before that did not happen. People could send in fan letters but they would'nt have a dialogue going both ways. My wife maintains that more than I do. I tend to get involved with other things, making records and stuff , but even so, I read everyone that comes in and we discuss the reply, so I'm in the loop there, it's great to hear off these people, the other day we got, this is slightly off the beat and track, but an e-mail from the guy who is the lead singer in Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickenson. So we struck up a dialogue with him which is another thing which we would never have done in a million years.
MD:- It's brilliant for me because when I got on the internet I didn't know anything about ELO, but then the knowledge just expanded, and the people you meet and the memorabilia and stuff you collect is unbelievable, it's brilliant. Even thought it's such a big thing, everyone is so tightly knitted together with similar interests, that it's brilliant.
DM:- I think it's good. I've had good fun doing the web site as well, I think that's good fun, it's like an area of publication or promotion that's taken off. I've been able to use my little cartoons for example which I hadn't done any for years, but I suddenly had a opportunity to use them.
AH:- Do you have any message to the readers of King Of The Universe?
DM:- Like a secret one you mean?
AH:- Why not!
DM:- Like, stop picking your nose! It's good to hear all the people out there are still interested in Jeff's music, even though it's such a long time since there's been any product out. We are all looking forward, myself included to Jeff getting something out, and I'd just like to say a thank you to the people for staying interested.
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The SLO mayor race begins
By Robert A. Mcdonald
San Luis Obispo Mayor Jan Marx has filed papers to seek another term as mayor.
Marx filed with the city clerk on Jan. 25. The move prompted Councilman Andrew Carter to announce that he's also running for mayor. Councilman Dan Carpenter also filed for reelection to the City Council on Jan. 25.
Marx served on the City Council from 1998 to 2002 and returned in 2008. She was elected mayor in 2010. Carter was first elected to the council in 2006. Carpenter was appointed to the council to fill Marx's council seat in 2010.
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the year 1729. This was in the middle of the enlightenment period. During the enlightenment period, literature saw the rise of the novel as a genre and dry wit, sarcasm and satire became popular forms of political, social and religious criticism. Jonathan Swift's Essay, entitled A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country and for making them beneficial to the public focuses on the ills that befell the society. The author uses satire to highlight the issues in the society and he proposes a radical solution. The thesis of…
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Euphemism In A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" uncovers the laxity of British and Irish Gentry towards the increasing poverty in Ireland and the exploitation of the Irish. With its metaphors that depicts cannibalism as an acceptable solution to hunger, 'modest' can only be seen as an euphemism for this egregious suggestion. This satire dictates an economically insightful proposal that alleviate poor parents of their 'bastard children'. As a result of this proposal, the outcome suggests to hinder children…
The Irish Famine In 1845-1852
One of the most controversial events was the Irish famine in 1845-1852. This was because of conflicting national pride and lack of sources that made it difficult for either side to state what really happened. This eventually led to the three historic views, nationalist, revisionism and post revisionism. With passing time each view blossomed into a new statement and belief. PART:A Nationalism was the historic view of Irish citizens. They personally told their own reasonings to what actually…
The Modest Proposal And Gulliver's Travels By Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was a famous author whose works greatly influenced society during the Enlightenment period. Swift was a satirist who wrote a lot about the English monarchy, who was confiscating parts of Irish land to sell them to English families. At this time the Protestants and Catholics did not get along. The Protestants did everything they could to prevent the Catholic religion from growing by depriving them of what American's see as basic rights today. This issue was crucial for Swift…
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Without the Iraq war, Islamic State wouldn't exist today, former US special forces chief Mike Flynn openly admits. In an interview, he explains IS' rise to become a professional force and how the Americans allowed its future leader to slip out of their hands.
Islamic State fighters in Raqqa, Syria: "The sad fact is that we have to put troops on the ground. We won't succeed against this enemy with air strikes alone."
Michael Flynn, 56, served in the United States Army for more than 30 years, most recently as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he was the nation's highest-ranking military intelligence officer. Previously, he served as assistant director of national intelligence inside the Obama administration. From 2004 to 2007, he was stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq, where, as commander of the US special forces, he hunted top al-Qaida terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one of the predecessors to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who today heads the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq. After Flynn's team located Zarqawi's whereabouts, the US killed the terrorist in an air strike in June 2006.
In an interview, Flynn explains the rise of the Islamic State and how the blinding emotions of 9/11 led the United States in the wrong direction strategically.
US General Mike Flynn: The Iraq war "was a huge error."
Flynn: Absolutely. There's not some line-and-block chart and a guy at the top like we have in our own systems. That's the mirror imaging that we have to, in many ways, eliminate from our thinking. I can imagine a 30-year-old guy with some training and some discussion who receives the task from the top: "Go forth and do good on behalf of our ideology." And then he picks the targets by himself, organizes his attackers and executes his mission.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Islamic State's leader is the self-proclaimed Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. What kind of leader is he?
Flynn: It's really important to differentiate between the way Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri represent themselves when they come out in public and how al-Baghdadi represented himself when he declared the caliphate. Bin Laden and Zawahiri sit in their videos, legs crossed, flag behind them, and they've got an AK-47 in their laps. They are presenting themselves as warriors. Baghdadi brought himself to a mosque in Mosul and spoke from the balcony, like the pope, dressed in appropriate black garb. He stood there as a holy cleric and proclaimed the Islamic caliphate. That was a very, very symbolic act. It elevated the fight from this sort of military, tactical and localized conflict to that of a religious and global war.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: What would change if al-Baghdadi were killed?
Flynn: We used to say, "We'll just keep killing the leaders, and the next guy up is not going to be as good." That didn't work out that way because al-Baghdadi is better than Zarqawi, and Zarqawi was actually better than bin Laden.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: So killing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi wouldn't change much?
Flynn: Not at all. He could be dead today, you haven't seen him lately. I would have much preferred to have captured bin Laden and Zarqawi because as soon as you kill them, you are actually doing them and their movement a favor by making them martyrs. Zarqawi was a vicious animal. I would have preferred to see him live in a cell for the rest of his life. Their logic is still hard to understand for us in the West.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: What differentiates al-Baghdadi from Zarqawi, who led al-Qaida in Iraq between 2003 and 2006?
Flynn: Zarqawi tried to bring in foreign fighters, but not in the way that al-Baghdadi has been able to do. At the peak of Zarqawi's days, they may have been bringing in 150 a month from a dozen countries. Al-Baghdadi is bringing in 1,500 fighters a month, from more than 100 nations. He's using the modern weapons of the information age in fundamentally different ways to strengthen the attraction of their ideology. The other thing is how they target. Zarqawi was absolutely brutal -- he randomly killed guys lining up for jobs in downtown Baghdad. Al-Baghdadi is much smarter and more precise in his target selection, but still very vicious.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Who is running the military wing of the Islamic State?
Flynn: I think that al-Baghdadi or the current leader of the Islamic State is very hands-on when it comes to parts of the military, but it's a very flat, networked organization. Inside Syria and Iraq in the Levant area, my belief is that he has a couple of subordinates who are responsible for military operations, logistical, financial, etc.; they represent a combination of Egyptians, Saudis, Chechens or a Dagestanis, Americans and Europeans. We know from debriefings that they have actually broken Raqqa down into international zones because of language barriers. They have put interpreters in place in those international zones in order to communicate and get their messages around. For example, the Australians alone have about 200 people. There's even an Australian sector in Raqqa, and they're tied into the other English speakers because not everybody shows up speaking Arabic. This requires a military-like structure with military-like leadership.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: How does IS treat people who volunteer?
Flynn: They document everything. These guys are terrific about it. In their recruiting and in interviews, they ask "What's your background? Are you good with media? With weapons?" It's this kind of well-structured capability they have that then evolves into a very, very unconventional force.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: How should the West fight this enemy?
Flynn: The sad fact is that we have to put troops on the ground. We won't succeed against this enemy with air strikes alone. But a military solution is not the end all, be all. The overall strategy must be to take away Islamic State's territory, then bring security and stability to facilitate the return of the refugees. This won't be possible quickly. First, we need to hunt down and eliminate the complete leadership of IS, break apart their networks, stop their financing operations and stay until a sense of normality has been established. It's certainly not a question of months -- it will take years. Just look back at the mission we created in the Balkans as a model. We started there in the early 1990s to create some stability and we are still there today.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is the Balkans mission a model for the current war?
Flynn: We can learn some lessons from the Balkans. Strategically, I envision a breakup of the Middle East crisis area into sectors in the way we did back then, with certain nations taking responsibility for these sectors. In addition, we would need a coalition military command structure and, on a political level, the United Nations must be involved. The United States could take one sector, Russia as well and the Europeans another one. The Arabs must be involved in that sort of military operation, as well, and must be part of every sector. With this model, you would have opportunities -- Russia, for example, must use its influence on Iran to have Tehran back out of Syria and other proxy efforts in the region.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: For that to happen, the West would have to cooperate fully with the Russians.
Flynn: We have to work constructively with Russia. Whether we like it or not, Russia made a decision to be there (in Syria) and to act militarily. They are there, and this has dramatically changed the dynamic. So you can't say Russia is bad, they have to go home. It's not going to happen. Get real. Look at what happened in the past few days: The president of France asked the US for help militarily (after the Paris attacks). That's really weird to me, as an American. We should have been there first and offered support. Now he is flying to Moscow and asking Putin for help.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: A Western military intervention runs the risk of being seen as a new attempt to invade the region.
Flynn: That's why we need the Arabs as partners, they must be the face of the mission -- but, today, they are neither capable of conducting nor leading this type of operation, only the United States can do this. And we don't want to invade or even own Syria. Our message must be that we want to help and that we will leave once the problems have been solved. The Arab nations must be on our side. And if we catch them financing, if they funnel money to IS, that's when sanctions and other actions have to kick in.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: In February 2004, you already had Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in your hands -- he was imprisoned in in a military camp, but got cleared later as harmless by a US military commission. How could that fatal mistake happen?
Flynn: We were too dumb. We didn't understand who we had there at that moment. When 9/11 occurred, all the emotions took over, and our response was, "Where did those bastards come from? Let's go kill them. Let's go get them." Instead of asking why they attacked us, we asked where they came from. Then we strategically marched in the wrong direction.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: The US invaded Iraq even though Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11.
Flynn: First we went to Afghanistan, where al-Qaida was based. Then we went into Iraq. Instead of asking ourselves why the phenomenon of terror occurred, we were looking for locations. This is a major lesson we must learn in order not to make the same mistakes again.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: ... the Iraq war?
Flynn: It was huge error. As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
1. Human history is full of fatal errors.
Not only the German government appears to have forgotten the blunders made in the last century and is again calling for total war. Wars of prevention – whether against Poland, Korea, Iraq or Libya - are seldom successful. In the end there is much bloodshed for many and huge profits for a few. So why do so-called experts need so much time, to admit their own mistakes? Thousands of lives have been and will be lost before, if at all, the IS can be halted. It is also not understandable for normal citizens, why the EU is giving away tax-payers money to governments which are suspected of encouraging and supporting these religious fanatics.
So dropping bombs worth millions of dollars and killing many innocent civilians did not work but we did not spend enough money nor kill enough people so governments are rushing to spend more money on arms to throw into the mix so that we can FAIL BIGGER as a species? Brilliant.
All major superpowers are responsible for the chaos today in the ME. The way to change that is to cut all funds supporting despots, tyrants and non Democratic governments. First step is for all Democracies to set up a new international organization of Democracies replacing the defunk UN. Stop the silly issue called PC. You all know exactly who is responsible for international terror and that is Islam, Sunni or Shiah, both are culprits of crimes against humanity. Stop being hypocrites.
Yet, by jumping to the rescue of baby ISIS, it seems that what is happening now in Syria was the plan all along. The best strategists money can buy can make mistakes sometimes, but not foreseeable blunder after blunder.


By breaking new ground a mixed team from Volvo Group truck plants in Europa, Volvo Group Trucks Operations, has eliminated ergonomics and safety hazards at several sites.
Improve ergonomics and safety has managed to prevent employees being affected by future work related cumulative trauma disorders.
The team included members from the truck plants in Blainville and Bourg-en-Bresse in France, Ghent in Belgium and Tuve in Sweden. Together they found a new way of integrating safety and ergonomics in a big project.
They studied what could be done to improve ergonomics and safety in production within the plants in Europe and has managed to prevent employees being affected by future work related cumulative trauma disorders. Not only by improving workstations but also to create common tools that can be used further on.
"The project contributed strongly to reduce the manufacturing cost. The approach, now implemented in the plants in Europe will be implemented also within the rest of the truck plants in the world, and ultimately within the whole Volvo Group", said Maria Rosenkrantz, Senior Vice President, Human Resources Group Trucks Operations.
One example from the project was the installation of an engine lift in the assembly in Ghent. The operators don't have to push the engine forward in the line anymore, nor do they have to crouch to reach it during assembly.


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Q: No bay correct size when installing SSD with mounting bracket I've purchased a refurbished Dell desktop and am trying to install an SSD as an additional drive. I have a 2.5" to 3.5" mounting kit, SATA cable and there's already a spare power cable.
However, I can't seem to find a place that the 3.5" bracket actually fits - there's a bay underneath the hard drive and the spare power cable is hanging there ready for another drive.
The problem is the mounting bracket is just not wide enough to attach here. The hard drive itself is inside a plastic pinch-to-remove casing - perhaps I need one of these to fit the drive inside the mounting bracket?
There's also a spare bay underneath the DVD drive and another, smaller one underneath that. However they are not as easily accessible and no power cables are nearby.

A: Dell and other companies who ship fully built computers generally don't provide the parts to easily add extra drives yourself (as in this case you are missing the drive 'rails' they use to easily insert a drive and this is why your kit doesn't 'fit').
However SSD's are very versatile and so you can mount them in a number of 'non-traditional' ways. In a case where you're sure it won't accidently get moved, you can simply lie the SSD in the correct place and leave it there, as they are so light the cables will hold it in the correct positon unless you've moved the PC or something (and in which case you should be checking everything inside anyway).
Also you can use double sided sticky tape, or velco backed tape to more securely attach it in a particular area.
You can mount it where ever you'd like as long as the cables fit, but in my experience the cables from cases such as this will only just fit to the 'normal' location, not giving you much choice. Just make sure not to block any air vents.

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While in Singapore, the percentage of technology companies that plan to hire aggressively increased to 4.9 percent, in India it jumped to 21.1 percent in Q3 2018.
As per the latest report from Radford, a division of the rewards solutions practice at Aon plc, the fast-growth, developing markets of China and India report the highest increases in pay at 7.8 percent and 10.5 percent, respectively, while for Singapore, salary budgets are expected to remain flat at 4.0% in 2019. However, for technology companies, both the pay hikes and hiring plans look positive in most of the APAC countries.
In Singapore, the percentage of technology companies that plan to hire aggressively increased for the second consecutive quarter to 4.9 percent and India witnessed the biggest jump with an increase from 16.8 percent in Q2 2018 to 21.1 percent in Q3 2018.
As tech companies plan for robust salary increases in 2019, they continue to battle in maintaining low employee turnover rates.
Displaying high attrition rates, the Voluntary employee turnover is up for the past quarter in six out of eight markets with percentage being highest in Australia at 13.8 percent followed by China (13.7 percent), Singapore (13.2 percent) and India (12.6 percent).
Clearly, tech companies are still struggling to engage and retain talent. Therefore, highlighting that the forecasted increase in salary budgets in several markets alone won't be enough to hire, engage and retain talent in a hot labor market.
"Companies must assess what jobs are needed for future growth and hire for those roles in a competitive marketplace while also engaging and retaining their current talent when many other job opportunities exist. Businesses with a voluntary turnover of above 10% should evaluate their employee value proposition and talent practices carefully" says Alexander Krasavin, Partner and Radford Leader for Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa.


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BusinessMay 7th 2005 edition
Boards and bids
Down to the wire
MCI sells itself to Verizon for less than Qwest offered
"NOT the greatest day for corporate governance," says Bruce Berkowitz, the boss of Fairholme Capital Management, which owns around 3.5% of MCI, a floundering telecoms firm that on May 2nd decided to accept a purchase offer from Verizon that is 13% less than a bid by Qwest. "The MCI board," says Leon Cooperman, the head of Omega Advisors, which owns over 3% of MCI, "cost all the shareholders some money."
After four months of bids, counter-bids and vitriol, MCI for a fourth time spurned an offer from Qwest, the latest worth $9.8 billion, in favour of one from Verizon, which had been forced to increase its original offer by 25% to $8.5 billion. Qwest then withdrew its bid, citing a "process that seems to be permanently skewed" against it by MCI, and an "example of that board's failure to accept the offer that maximises shareowner value".
In opting for the lower offer, MCI cited two main reasons: the relative financial strengths of the suitors, and that large customers (unidentified, even to big shareholders) said they preferred Verizon and might quit MCI if it were owned by Qwest.
MCI, formerly called WorldCom, emerged from bankruptcy protection last year after an $11 billion accounting fraud, the biggest in corporate history. Verizon is a less risky partner. It has a market capitalisation of around $96 billion, is profitable and has a lucrative wireless unit. Qwest, meanwhile, has a market capitalisation of around $6 billion and a massive $17 billion of debt, and lacks a wireless arm. In its quarterly earnings this week, the firm's revenue declined and it only eked out a small profit because of asset sales.
Together, Verizon and MCI are well placed to compete against a combined SBC-AT&T, as America's telecoms market consolidates. MCI's chairman, Nicholas Katzenbach, acknowledged that the board chose "from the standpoint of risk versus reward." Yet in so doing, it implicitly placed what it considered the long-term interests of the firm ahead of the immediate interests of owners. This may seem to represent an enlightened form of business strategy, but it raises thorny questions.
MCI shareholders are hardly widows and orphans; anyone with the stomach to invest in an unprofitable firm emerging from bankruptcy in an ailing industry is clearly willing to assume risks in return for rewards. Going with Qwest would be just another tummy-churning swerve on the roller-coaster ride—something many big shareholders said they wanted.
The deal must still be approved by MCI shareholders; a vote is expected this summer. Even if linking up with Verizon makes good business sense, the MCI board's refusal to take seriously alternative options reflects poorly on it. After all, if it were not for the persistence of big shareholders and of Qwest, MCI's board would have accepted a far lower price than shareholders will now receive. As Mr Berkowitz says, "the board obviously feels responsible to all stakeholders, whereas it is my opinion that the board is serving at the pleasure of the shareholders." Quite so.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "Down to the wire"
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5. A filename (with extension .FDL) and folder are supplied. To create a different filename or extension, type in the new name. To select a different folder to store the file, use the Browse button.
6. Click FDL options... to set options for FDL export.
When generating FDL forms it may be necessary to save fonts and images. A folder is created to contain any download fonts saved during FDL form generation (usually \RedTitan\FONTS\PCLDLOAD). For fonts a name is made based on the font name, point size etc, and a check is made to see if it is the same as a previously encountered font to avoid duplicates. Because some drivers only download the characters they need, the downloaded characters may be merged into an existing font if it has the same characteristics and shares some characters with the new font and there are no discrepancies. Images are given names based on hashing the image data and stored in the IMAGES subdirectory of the library root directory (usually \RedTitan\FONTS\IMAGES). Each image is only saved once, so before saving the image a check is also made to see if it exists already. To save fonts and images in specific library paths see Changing font and image libraries.
To avoid problems when you are reusing the form, you can set EscapeE to recalculate the characteristics of download fonts. See Setting general export options.


Raffle tickets will be on sale in the gathering space beginning the weekend of September 8-9! Tickets are also available from the Business Manager during office hours. Parishioners can also check out raffle tickets to sell! The parishioner who sells the most raffle tickets will win five free raffle tickets. Tickets must be sold, and money and stubs turned in by Sunday, October 14, 2018 at 11 am to qualify. See the Raffle Rules for details.


The fib supports CO2STO2019, which will take place from 24-26 June 2019 in France, near Paris.
Decreasing natural resources of sand and gravel and increasing problems with waste management support the recycling of the accumulating waste materials. If the vision of sustainable material flow is to be realised, the amount of recycled waste has to be increased. The building industry, in particular, is a major consumer of materials as well as a major producer of waste and CO2 emissions by the production of Portland cement which represents 5 to 8% of CO2 emissions worldwide. CO2STO2019 "CO2 storage in concrete" focuses on the ability of concrete to store CO2 during its life cycle. Concrete undergoes natural carbonation during the service life of structures.
Submit your abstract until 31 October 2018. Please visit the official website for more information and to submit your abstract.


Many student ministries struggle with experiencing the unity the Bible teaches us about. This one-off message from 1st John 4 teaches students about how God's love transforms us so we can love one another.
Did You Know That You Are Love?
Jordan Floro is married to Melissa and together, they have two awesome kids! He has served at Hibernia Baptist Church since 2018. He grew up in Ohio, played college football in South Carolina, and now lives in Florida.


Our Free Science Classes are off to a great start this winter! Liza has written the curriculum for two free classes geared toward third graders: Orca Communication and Underwater Sound. Both classes last about an hour and cover a variety of exciting topics.
The Orca Communication class, taught in the NHE (Natural History Exhibit), teaches about how Orcas actually vocalize, family groups, inherited vs. acquired traits, differences between transient and resident Orcas, and how changes in the natural environment can affect populations.
The Sound Underwater class, taught in the ME (Marine Exhibit), teaches how sounds are made by vibrations that travel in waves, that sound produced in water is louder and travels faster than sound produced in the air, that sound can be described by frequency and intensity, an introduction to hydrophones, and that underwater sound can have an effect on marine animals that rely on echolocation/vocalization to communicate.
Although our classes are full of information and cutting edge scientific data, they are interactive and fun for the children! Lucy and I spent a few days painting the life size Orca and Seals to put up in the NHE classroom.
Sound, like other waves, is measured by frequency (f) and amplitude (A), as well as wavelength (L) or velocity (v). Some of these are related by this equation: v=f*L. So, in water where the speed of sound is about 1500 m/s, a wave with a frequency easy for us and killer whales to hear, say 10,000 Hz (or oscillations per second), would have a wavelength of 0.15m or 15cm.
Thanks for the correction Scott! I inadvertently typed pitch instead of intensity but have changed it in the post.


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Baggett Lecture 3: Elissa Newport (Georgetown)
Distinguished psycholinguist Elissa Newport – Professor at the Georgetown University Medical Center, Director of its Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, and Principal Investigator within theLearning and Development Lab – will be giving a series of three lectures, generously supported by Dave Baggett.
Distinguished psycholinguist Elissa Newport – Professor at the Georgetown University Medical Center, Director of its Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, and Principal Investigator within the Learning and Development Lab – will be giving a series of three lectures, generously supported by Dave Baggett.
Psycholing Lab: Kate Harrigan, Ellen Lau (double header)
Psycholinguistics Lab meeting. Fridays, 12:00 - 1:30. Linguistics Dept seminar room, 1108B Marie Mount Hall.
On October 10th we'll have a double-header featuring Kate Harrigan, discussing her work on how children learn and understand very-hard-to-observe words, such as "want", "think", and "hope". Then Ellen Lau will talk about some of her recent work on ERPs and predictive processes ("Events vs. Entities with ERPs").
LSD marked the 1-year anniversary of the Maryland Language Science Center, showcasing many ideas and initiatives launched over the past year.
HESP Researchers Create BITTSy
The Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences creates a freely-available, standardized and economical infant testing system.
Our weekly lunch talk series provides students and faculty with the opportunity to present their in-progress work to a supportive, interdisciplinary audience.
The Infant and Child Studies Consortium studies how little learners think, hear, and speak.
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National security challenges demand leaders who can speak in uncommon languages.


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Tokyo holds the status of most populous metropolitan area in the world--a fact you'll find tangible as you walk the bustling streets and explore its diverse neighborhoods and cultures.
Take a break from Tokyo with a short trip to Tokyo DisneySea in Maihama, about 30 minutes away. There's much more to do: discover the magic at Tokyo Disneyland, get great views at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, don't miss a visit to Meiji Jingu Shrine, and ponder the world of politics at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Buildings.
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I was recently in a car accident in Brooklyn. I was rear ended. The other driver was at fault. My car repair was totaled. I was rushed to the hospital. Due to my injuries I missed time from work. The other guys insurance has been on touch offering to pay for my car and settle with me for about 3K.
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Dennis Rodman Shows Up In Rome To Check Out Election Of Pope
posted 13 Mar 2013, 12:37 by Mpelembe [ updated 13 Mar 2013, 12:39 ]
Former U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman appears in Rome's St. Peter's Square and hopes that the next pope will be black.
ROME, ITALY (MARCH 13, 2013)(REUTERS) - Former U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman appeared in Rome's St.Peter's Square on Wednesday (March 13) and and called for a black pope to be elected.
The ex-NBA man said he flew straight to Italy when he heard there was a chance a black man could be picked as the next pontiff.
"You know he's going to be the first black pope so basically hey I'm here to support," he said.
Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson has been named a possible contender for the position of pope.
"They're trying to elect a new pope and surprisingly enough he's a favourite and he's black. That's what I mean, just to support that. I don't want to people to get it all twisted where it's like just because Obama's black, this guy has to be black. I think the guy that's going to be successor of the last pope, he should be more of an improvement instead of a hindrance," he added.
But Rodman said the most important thing was that cardinals sequestered inside the Sistine Chapel picked the right man for the job.
Sporting a garish flowery jacket over a white T-shirt, Rodman was surrounded by onlookers and reporters braving the rain outside the Sistine Chapel where 115 cardinals were choosing a successor to Pope Benedict.
Mobbed by journalists as he made his way to St. Peter's Square, Rodman said he hoped to fly back to Rome shortly after the election of the new pope to meet him.
Rodman played on five NBA championship teams during his basketball career, which ran from 1986 to 2000. He played for five teams and in his peak years he was the league's top rebounder and one of its best defenders. He was chosen for the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.
Rodman's basketball skills were matched by his flamboyance - party lifestyle, multi-coloured hair, blankets of tattoos, piercings in his ears, nose, lips and eyebrows and showing up in a wedding gown, complete with veil, to promote his autobiography.
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Alrighty! Well it took me a couple of days but I am ready to tackle this.
I will be putting info in here periodically as I test it, this is my only computer so I will need to do reboots and what not.
I have downloaded the 32-bit Vsido live cd and also the 64-bit (which I will be testing asap) and have come across what I assume to be a video error. When I try to start the regular live option on the boot menu it just goes to a black screen, everytime.
Now with the live safe mode option I can get to the desktop! (woo! heh) Now, that tells me this can potentially run great on here so this is why I am here. I have been in #VSIDO on IRC and have been helped by VastOne and JedsDesk thus far and am going to try some things they suggested here in a moment.
EDIT: Alrighty, I am in safe mode as per the screenie attachment.
(File too large so embed it goes!).
Ok so being in safe mode, I have tried to do an install (regardless if it would boot or not, it is easier to work with something installed and tangible I think) BUT! When I tried the install I get hung up on the partitioning step. It seems the installer will not recognize any swap partitions I make, even newly made right in Gparted.
Alright! I am back with some more info and after a long period of procrastination hah.
Here is an update, I have successfully install vsido! Woo! For starters, the live cd decided to start working on its own without a kernel panic and booted right into the reg. boot instead of safe mode! So good going on that front, BUT! I was greeted with a problem while installing as the installer could not find or recognize my swap partition!
Now this was due to a partition format problem, the HDD needed to be in an MS-DOS format to be recognized! Weird huh? WellI assume it is because of the UEFI boot on this macbook. So mac users, keep this in mind!
I found a solution to this problem VERY easily because it was provided by our very own statmonkey! Thank you so much statmonkey for this awesome tutorial and fix!
He basically explains that you need to format the entire drive to an MS-DOS format using gparted before you can continue. It worked great!
NOW! After that is done, and while it loaded the CORRECT grub options, it booted and was recognized perfectly by my EFI! Awesome!
BUT! I know I know, there is a BUT, I received the SAME kernel panic I was receiving with the livecd before hand.
As you can see I am getting a kernel panic for the intel chipset in this macbook which is the i915 chipset, here is an excerpt of my LSPCI output.
Now to fix this, I needed to add an extra boot option to my grub, and after a few attempts with the knowledge from JedsDesk I was able to get it booted in no time!
Upon boot in the grub menu you will want to select 'Advanced boot options for Vsido' in the menu. It will bring you to a standard grub menu with 2 choices of kernels to boot into one normal and one safe mode, lets go with normal.
After this hit ctrl+x to boot with these new commands.
Success! Now what this does it is turns off the nouveau video mode so as not to override my default intel video card.
Here is also a low res problem I am having with it, so this will be the next problem I fix!
So I have been working on the low res fix for this macbook with JedsDesk's help we had a good path going. It wasn't recognizing my LCD screen so it wasn't able to use the native resolution! So we needed to find the name given to the monitor, I booted into ubuntu, did a quick xrandr in terminal and viola! LVDS1 was the key!
Now this is where it gets weird! Which has happened a couple of times throughout this process, it fixed itself upon my nest boot of vsido! xD I have not rebooted to see if it retains its shape but I am weirded out and surprised, I am liking VSIDO!
Anywho that does it! Hopefully this helps someone with this same macbook or maybe even another mac period!
Now let me enjoy my VSIDO! /me installs xmonad muahaha!
I HAVE booted into safe mode! So I DO know what it looks like and I love it! If only I could get it going real time heh.
Anywho! I love linux/unix and computers in general as well as other hobbies.
Not really big into forums afte a long running site shut down after years of service but, I think I can manage to be apart of one again.
I hope you'll have me!


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Q: How to upload multiple file under 1 http request Using HTML5 chunking, I could do file upload with smaller piece. But the problem starts when it started using multiple http POST request which will cause the computer slowing down, or probably crash. Is there anyway to have the splitted file under one http request.. so if I have 5 files it would be only 5 http request eventhough I use html5 split chunk
e.g: if I upload 5 files, each file will be split to 1mb chunk, so if first file is 10mb, then it will become 10 pieces of 1mb chunk. And the problem is, each chunk will be under 1 http request so just the first file it will be 10 HTTP request.
Imagine if I have 1gb files, it will become 1000 HTTP request and slow down the computer.
This is example code:

        //Prepare element progress after the page load completely
        var uploaders = [];
        var totalChunks = 0;
        var progress;
        var bars;
        $(document).ready(function() {
            //progress = document.querySelector('progress');
            //bars = document.querySelector('#bars');
        });

        //function for after the button is clicked, slice the file
        //and call upload function
        function sendRequest() {
            //clean the screen
            //bars.innerHTML = '';

            var file = document.getElementById('fileToUpload');

            for(var i = 0; i < file.files.length; i++) {
                var blob = file.files[i];
                var originalFileName = blob.name;
                var filePart = 0

                const BYTES_PER_CHUNK = 10 * 1024 * 1024; // 10MB chunk sizes.
                const SIZE = blob.size;

                var start = 0;
                var end = BYTES_PER_CHUNK;

                totalChunks = Math.ceil(SIZE / BYTES_PER_CHUNK);

                while( start < SIZE ) {
                    if (blob.webkitSlice) {
                        //for Google Chrome
                        var chunk = blob.webkitSlice(start, end);
                    } else if (blob.mozSlice) {
                        //for Mozilla Firefox
                        var chunk = blob.mozSlice(start, end);
                    }

                    uploadFile(chunk, originalFileName, filePart, totalChunks, i);
                    filePart++;
                    start = end;
                    end = start + BYTES_PER_CHUNK;
                }
            }
        }

        function uploadFile(blobFile, fileName) {
            var fd = new FormData();
            fd.append("fileToUpload", blobFile);

            var xm = $.ajax({
                url: "upload.php"+"?"+"file1="+fileName,
                type: "POST",
                data: fd,
                processData: false,
                contentType: false,
            });
        }

        function uploadFile(blobFile, fileName, filePart, totalChunks, divBarsSelector) {
            if(filePart == 0) {
                bars = document.querySelector('#bars' + divBarsSelector);
            }

            var progress = document.createElement('progress');
            progress.min = 0;
            progress.max = 100;
            progress.value = 0;
            bars.appendChild(progress);

            var fd = new FormData();
            fd.append("fileToUpload", blobFile);

            var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
            xhr.open("POST", "upload.php"+"?"+"file="+fileName + filePart, true);

            xhr.onload = function(e) {
                //make sure if finish progress bar at 100%
                progress.value = 100;

                //counter if everything is done using stack
                uploaders.pop();

                if (!uploaders.length) {
                    bars.appendChild(document.createElement('br'));
                    bars.appendChild(document.createTextNode('DONE :)'));
                    //mergeFile(fileName, totalChunks);
                }
            };

            // Listen to the upload progress for each upload.
            xhr.upload.onprogress = function(e) {;
                if (e.lengthComputable) {
                    progress.value = (e.loaded / e.total) * 100;
                }
            };

            uploaders.push(xhr);
            xhr.send(fd);
        }

and the server part for receiving will be upload.php

$target_path = "uploads/";
$tmp_name = $_FILES['fileToUpload']['tmp_name'];
$size = $_FILES['fileToUpload']['size'];
$name = $_FILES['fileToUpload']['name'];

$originalName = $_GET['file'];

print_r("*******************************************\n");
print_r($originalName);
print_r("\n");
print_r($_FILES);
print_r("\n");
print_r("*******************************************\n");
$target_file = $target_path . basename($name);

//Result File
$complete = $originalName;
$com = fopen("uploads/".$complete, "ab");
error_log($target_path);

if ( $com ) {
    // Read binary input stream and append it to temp file
    $in = fopen($tmp_name, "rb");
    if ( $in ) {
        while ( $buff = fread( $in, 1048576 ) ) {
            fwrite($com, $buff);
        }
    }
    fclose($in);
    fclose($com);
}

A: After reading your motivation in your comment I would like to point out a few 'misconceptions'. First of all, it's not advisable to split a file up and next upload all the splitted parts at once. The entire point of splitting a file up is not to bypass the PHP upload limit (which, if applicable, should be changed and that may be a real solution*), but rather by doing the different part sequentially this allows the load on the client computer to be minimal, especially if you are considering uploading 1GB of content. Either way, there is seriously no reason to split a file up and next combine it in a single request (although this would be theoretically possible with XMLHttpRequest2, but if you can use XMLHttpRequest2 then you shouldn't worry about splitting the file up either way, as it provides the necessary controls to upload multiple files cleanly).
*Please note that in case you do that you will have to make sure your php memory settings are correctly set up (to prevent php trying to load it entirely into memory before writing it to a temp file, but this shouldn't happen on recent versions of PHP with the default settings I believe). (I feel obliged to add that I haven't worked with PHP and PHP uploads for a few years, so I might be very well mistaken with this last comment)
Either way, chunking the files to about 5-25MB (depending on how good you expect the connection to be :P ) + sequential uploads (plus a nice progressbar if XMLHttpRequest2 is available, otherwise a progressbar per chunk) seem a sensible way to go whilst preventing the browser from getting overloaded. (Oh and, if you need to support older browser I would really advise you to look into flash uploaders, because despite Apple preaching flash to be evil, on the majority of (outdated) computers it will give the best experience by far)

A: Java uploaders [namely, JumpLoader] - I am not saying "use them", but learn how they work. So far, the best upload practice I have seen is: 1) split files to chunks of certain size, 2) upload chunks sequentially (additionally by providing hashes of chunks, if data is sensitive), 3) unite chunks at server-side (but verify data-integrity through hashes, if you are using them).
Thus you will bypass PHP's max_upload_size restriction. Otherwise, I personally don't see any merit why someone should split the data into chunks at first place.

A: Try this:
<script type="text/javascript">
    //Prepare element progress after the page load completely
    var uploaders = [];
    var totalChunks = 0;
    var progress;
    var bars;
    $  (document).ready(function() {
        //progress = document.querySelector('progress');
        //bars = document.querySelector('#bars');
    });

    //function for after the button is clicked, slice the file
    //and call upload function
    function sendRequest() {
        //clean the screen
        //bars.innerHTML = '';

        var file = document.getElementById('fileToUpload');

        for(var i = 0; i < file.files.length; i++) {
            var blob = file.files[i];
            var originalFileName = blob.name;
            var filePart = 0

            const BYTES_PER_CHUNK = 10 * 1024 * 1024; // 10MB chunk sizes.
            const SIZE = blob.size;

            var start = 0;
            var end = BYTES_PER_CHUNK;

            totalChunks = Math.ceil(SIZE / BYTES_PER_CHUNK);

            while( start < SIZE ) {
                if (blob.webkitSlice) {
                    //for Google Chrome
                    var chunk = blob.webkitSlice(start, end);
                } else if (blob.mozSlice) {
                    //for Mozilla Firefox
                    var chunk = blob.mozSlice(start, end);
                }

                uploadFile(chunk, originalFileName, filePart, totalChunks, i);
                filePart++;
                start = end;
                end = start + BYTES_PER_CHUNK;
            }
        }
    }

    function uploadFile(blobFile, fileName) {
        var fd = new FormData();
        fd.append("fileToUpload", blobFile);

        var xm = $  .ajax({
            url: "upload.php"+"?"+"file1="+fileName,
            type: "POST",
            data: fd,
            processData: false,
            contentType: false,
        });
    }

    function uploadFile(blobFile, fileName, filePart, totalChunks, divBarsSelector) {
        if(filePart == 0) {
            bars = document.querySelector('#bars' + divBarsSelector);
        }

        var progress = document.createElement('progress');
        progress.min = 0;
        progress.max = 100;
        progress.value = 0;
        bars.appendChild(progress);

        var fd = new FormData();
        fd.append("fileToUpload", blobFile);

        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.open("POST", "upload.php"+"?"+"file="+fileName + filePart, true);

        xhr.onload = function(e) {
            //make sure if finish progress bar at 100%
            progress.value = 100;

            //counter if everything is done using stack
            uploaders.pop();

            if (!uploaders.length) {
                bars.appendChild(document.createElement('br'));
                bars.appendChild(document.createTextNode('DONE :) '));
                //mergeFile(fileName, totalChunks);
            }
        };

        // Listen to the upload progress for each upload.
        xhr.upload.onprogress = function(e) {;
            if (e.lengthComputable) {
                progress.value = (e.loaded / e.total) * 100;
            }
        };

        uploaders.push(xhr);
        xhr.send(fd);
    }
</script>


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