Props, Kudos, and all that.
I just want to congragulate Harry Crews on beginning his nonfiction novel, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, with the clap. That takes balls... in more ways than one.
...I would just like to give a big THUMBS UP to your music. I've been listening to Nightmare stuff all week, for some reason. I don't know why, but I CAN'T STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP.
'Cause it's October, and that's what everyone should be listening to?
That's what I think, anyway.


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What if Apollo 11 had failed? Nixon's undelivered speech
In 1969, William Safire was President Nixon's speech writer. He wrote the short speech shown below, and delivered it to Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman. The speech was to be read by Nixon in the event that the Apollo 11 lunar lander failed to launch or that some other problem caused the lander or mothership to crash back onto the surface of the moon.
In 1969, the space race was at full throttle. Russians were first to launch a satellite, send a dog and a man into space,* and perform an extravehicular space walk. America was under great pressure to fulfill John F. Kennedy's promise and beat the Russians in landing a man on the moon. Today, former engineers at NASA acknowledge that they believed the chances of such a catastrophe were more than 50%.
William Safire was a brilliant orator and linguist, known primarily as a columnist and journalist. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (from George Bush in 2006). He died in 2009.
The Apollo 11 disaster speech is pure poetry. It fits Nixon's demeanor, while inspiring the public to continue support for exploration despite such a spectacular failure.
William Safire's speech for President Nixon—in the event of a moon landing disaster:
Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.
These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.
These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.
They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.
In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.
In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.
Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.
For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.
* The US was first to send an animal into space. On June 11, 1948, Albert 1, a rhesus monkey, was launched on a V2 rocket. But this was a suborbital flight. It cleared the atmosphere but could not have sailed away from Earth's gravity, nor even achieved orbit. The first animal to attain orbit was launched more than 9 years later. A dog, Laika, launched on board the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft on November 3, 1957.
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I don't shower everyday. I'm not perfect.
I have a dedicated partner but still get crushes everyday.
But hey, I'm not perfect.
But not a single one of those comes in the form of inciting racialized terror.
To keep Cornwallis enshrined regardless of his abuse.
Do you get what I'm saying or is my argument obtuse?
Than making the donair the official meal of this city?
It's a pity that late night drunk foods get to be classified as today's most current issues.
Anna Mae Aquash, Donald Marshall Junior, or Grand Chief Membertou.
See? They all meet the criteria of not being perfect.
They are a group of real apple tree serpents.
A rebel Catholic and a criminal!
But it's because the world thought an L'nu's words were too brittle to be believed.
Can't you see what I see?!
A proclamation on our scalps.
Because we were seen as animals only valued for our pelts.
Because no amount of hubris can strip us of our resilience.
I can't make that anymore clear.
When you flexed your privileged clout in a bout with a predetermined outcome.
Is this how Halifax chooses to be bold?
On how to rid themselves of the Indigenous beast?
They said that all lice grows from nits.
Is this the legacy you want immortalized in a statue?
Did you want to be the one to explain this to my nieces and nephews?
It's time that our voices are given a lot more respect.
I will not fault you for a change heart on the subject.
Together, we can find a compromise and work it.
I recognized how hard it is to be perfect.
Rebecca Thomas is a Mi'kmaw poet and activist. She is the daughter of a residential school survivor whose family is rooted in Lennox Island First Nation. She is Halifax current Poet Laureate and the first Indigenous person to hold this role. Most of her work focuses on Indigenous peoples and their relationship with Canada.


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Dalit Women Analysis
"The life of a Dalit Woman", Kumud Pawad (1995) argues that for understanding day to day experiences of Dalit women it is to be needed to analyzed and explain the social mobility among them. For understanding those experiences she employed the ethnographic approach to tease out the pluralistic views of the gendered dimensions of their quotidian life. She studied the experiences of Dalit women in different aspects for the representation of socio-cultural and political realm. In her study she highlighted the marginalized status of Dalit women. She also found that the impact of Brahrnanical ethos on gender marginalized on those Dalit women who chose to remain within the Hindu fold. She also added in her autobiography 'Antasphot' that the Dalit…show more content…
Wandana Sonalkar (2015) In her article on "Dalit Women in India: At the Crossroads of Gender, Caste, and Class", She argues about the caste system is based on the division of people into social groups (or castes) in which the civil, cultural, and economic rights of each individual caste are predetermined or ascribed by birth and made hereditary; the assignment of rights among castes is unequal and hierarchical, and this system provides a regulatory mechanism to enforce social and economic organization through the instruments of social ostracism .She also talk about the problems of Dalit women. She also analyzed the multi dimensionalities of the challenges faced by Dalit women. Her analysis shows that the emerging multiple voices demanding group-specific gender policies are closely linked to the uneven gains of economic progress recorded by various groups such as the Dalit women's group. Therefore her analysis becomes more important in order to understand the affect of multiple marginalized group identities (in Dalit women's case, gender-caste-class) on their level of human development and human dignity. Dalit women's access to citizenship rights, normally considered as accruing to every Indian citizen, has thus been examined more closely in regard to both their economic and social conditions as well as the various ways in which they are subjugated in public and private spheres. Wandana Sonalkar's (2004) in her another work "Towards a feminism of caste: Gender and Caste". She explore the Gender and Caste, in a sense, addresses this problem to some extent by bringing together a collection of historical and contemporary analyses, reports, manifestos and testimonies that bear on the theme and tries to align academic inquiry with contemporary political developments. This anthology is an important addition to Kali for Women's series Issues in Contemporary Feminism, particularly because it seeks to exorcise the ghost of 'monolithic identity' which the Indian feminist
Sisterhood In Feminism
The incorporation of transfeminism and Indigenous Feminism broadens the perception of a women's reality, which will be discussed subsequently by first addressing the utilization of sisterhood in feminism. To begin with, Hooks (2014) addresses the flaws of Sisterhood in feminism. The author argues that the creators of Sisterhood coupled with its concentration on a common oppression was inaccurate about women's true experiences. Hooks (2014) states; "The idea of common oppression was a false and corrupt platform disguising and mystifying the true nature of women's' varied and complex reality. Women are divided by sexist attitudes, racism, class privilege, and a host of prejudices" (pp.
Modern Feminism
Based upon works by Betty Friedan and documents like Declaration of Sentiments, feminism to these "classic feminists" is defined by the oppression faced by upper class, white, heterosexual, cisgendered women. By doing so these groups have hindered the plight of modern feminism. By this historical outdated definition of feminism institutions such as
Intersectionality Analysis
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Social Issues Facing Women
In the Article, am not I a Woman? Revisiting Intersectionality, the author's state, "She enacts dispersal and dissemination both in terms of being members of a historical diaspora, but equally, in the sense of disarticulating, rupturing and de-centering the precariously sutured complacency and self-importance of certain feminisms" (Brahe e t., al 2004 p. 78). Although this may be true in some ways, a woman is considered to be needed at the will of others. All women are diminished not because of their color but by their
Gender Stereotyping And Feminism
2.4 Related Studies Gender stereotype and Feminism One of the related study is Gender Stereotyping in the Third World by Ishita Mukhopadhyay (2011). She claims that Concentration of female employment in specific job types is the phenomenon associated with construction of gender stereotypes. As well, various professions have also been related to severe gender stereotyping. The current paper tries to build an evaluation of gender stereotyping, whilst setting forth its departure from existing segregation measures. The paper then tries to assess and analyze the extent of stereotyping in some countries.
Examples Of Second Wave Feminism
It is the pursuit of women 's rights within the society of India. Like their feminist counterparts all over the world, feminists in India seek gender equality: the right to work for equal wages, the right to equal access to health and education, and equal political rights. Indian feminists also have fought against culture-specific issues within India 's patriarchal society, such as inheritance laws and the practice of widow immolation known as
Social Inequality In The God Of Small Things By Arundhati Roy
Light will be thrown on how women protagonists are victims of the prevalent gross gender discrimination. The paper tries to explore those men and women who have been relegated to the margin of the society and have to pay a price for being born either an untouchable or a woman. Through the character of Valutha, Roy has portrayed that the untouchable is completely neglected in society and is a victim of class discrimination. He remains a 'dalit' and is not a fully privileged of free India. Key Words: Untouchability, inequality, exploitation, domination, society, oppression, gender, caste.
Patriarchy In The Thousand Faces Of Night
Devi, the protagonist, undergoes an identity crisis even after following the norms set by the society. She con- stately faces the problem of tradition versus modernity, dilemma of cultures western versus eastern, dilemma of mind versus heart and dilemma of being a 'good girl' versus 'bad girl', The crisis 'to be or not to be a good girl' haunts her and the agony of identity crisis attains the desired intensity through the use of myths. Through the study of women characters, provides us with a look into the Indian tradition and culture and the position of women in the Indian society. It is about the journey of Indian women through tradition to modernity in search of self-identity. It also discusses the ways
Socio Economic Empowerment Of Women Essay
In this chapter an attempt has been made to analyse the social and economic empowerment of women in both the research areas. A database is analysed to know the different frequency levels of responses generated through a questionnaire. Empowerment of women is basically influenced by the socio-economic status of women. The socio-economic status would therefore, be the ranking of an individual by the society she lives in, in terms of her material belongings and her cultural possessions. Every development programme initiated in our country, has stressed on the importance of raising the status of women.
Women In Dalit Women
The aim of the paper is to show how Dalit women suffer from triple or threefold marginalization, as they unlike Dalit men are not only oppressed because of their caste and class (poverty) but are also victims of patriarchy and therefore have intersectional identities. The paper would also examine the three texts−Karukku (1992), Sangati (1994) and Vanmam (2002), through Spivak's idea of the 'subaltern' to show how Dalit women suffer the worst kind of marginalization (and oppression) and are "dalits among the dalits" (Narayankar, 3). It would discuss Bama's writing as a contribution to Tamil Dalit Feminist literature and how she through her writing also contributes to Dalit Feminist Movement, which unlike mainstream Feminist movements (dominated
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By Jackie Crosby Star Tribune
September 30, 2017 — 11:51am
It's among the most persistent questions to dog workers at or near retirement: What comes next? Phyllis Moen wants to help. The University of Minnesota sociology professor believes too few baby boomers interested in an encore career know how to answer that question. At the same time, too few businesses and communities know how to take advantage of their skills and experience. This fall, Moen, author of the 2016 book "Encore Adulthood: Boomers on the Edge of Risk, Renewal and Purpose," launched a program for those 50 and older to try to bridge that divide. Moen sees the program, called the Advanced Careers Initiative, as part of a broader goal to change the way people think about using colleges and universities as they get older.
Q: What do the participants do in the program?
A: The University of Minnesota Advanced Careers Initiative is a nine-month program that offers time in the classroom, partnerships with undergrads and weekly discussions with experts from across campus. During spring semester, the participants [known as fellows] work at a nonprofit organization as part of a "midternship" — an internship for midcareer professionals. This is the inaugural year for the program, with 10 professionals, most of them from the Twin Cities area. One drives in from Red Wing, one moved here from Vermont and one flies in each week from Virginia. We plan to bring in 20 fellows each year. Some have already applied for 2018-19.
Q: What are their backgrounds?
A: One is a psychologist, two are attorneys, one works in communications, one in marketing and advertising. One had a job in international development and stopped to do long-term care for a family member. Another has been active in the volunteer community supporting her husband in his high-powered job and now she's looking to launch her own career. One was unexpectedly and involuntarily "retired" in a company layoff. They range in age from 50 to 72. A lot of them are seeking paid work that will also provide more flexible and less demanding second acts, that provide a sense of meaning.
Q: What's your vision for the program?
A: I'm very worried about this great pool of talent — this large baby boomer cohort, and those who are coming in their wake — just sitting on the sidelines of society. That's our model of retirement: You exit one time, all at once, and then you go and have fun. Surveys show that 70 percent of older workers say they want to do some kind of engaging work in retirement, but most don't do that because they don't know what's next and don't know how to get there. These people are not young — but they're not old, either. And our society simply has no blueprint for this stage of life, what I call encore adulthood. Many nonprofits and businesses don't know how to hire older workers or young retirees. They're not used to this. My vision is to support boomers who are navigating transitions, provide a talent pool to meet community challenges and build a model for public universities to open their doors to people of all ages, providing transformational intergenerational learning.
Q: How does the internship part of the program work?
A: This is the first program like this in the country. There are academic programs at Harvard and Stanford that are really aimed at top-level executives. And there are phenomenal internship programs that provide hands-on work. We're combining the best of both worlds. I have talked to former fellows from other schools, and they said it was a life-changing experience, but they are left where they began — not knowing next steps. I realized we needed to incorporate some kind of experiential public-engagement learning. We'll help fellows find internships in their communities, even if they're snow birds or live out-of-state. We're looking for particular projects that let the fellows use their talents and expertise in a way that makes a meaningful contribution to the nonprofit.
Q: How does this benefit the University of Minnesota?
A: As a public, land grant university, we have these values of both community engagement and solving social challenges. I'm aiming to transform the university so we think of learning as something that happens across the life course, so that people come back to colleges and universities at different points in their lives to retool.
Q: It's early, but what have you learned so far?
A: We're charging $7,500 for this inaugural year, but that is well below the fixed costs. Right now, we're benefiting from the largesse of existing organizations at the university, such as using the space of the Life Course Center. Eventually, we'll have to pay for rooms. We've hired an executive director, support staff, student researchers; there's lunches, printing out materials, maintaining a website. It's all adding up. Our goal is not to charge $62,000 like they do at Harvard or Stanford. We hope to work with corporations that might sponsor their retirement-eligible employees as a way of helping them move into post-career activity. We'd also like to partner with employers, foundations and alumni to create fellowships for those who can't afford the cost.
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Buying Ice cream? Press on the top of the container. If it's solid, it has been properly stored. If it depresses, it has been thawed and refrozen.
That makes perfect sense, but I never gave it a thought. Thanks for passing along this tip Elijah!
Elijah, you are just a fount of good information! Keep posting!
Elijah, I eat ice cream all the time and never wondered why some packs were depressed. I thank you for the tip.
Thanks for the info, Elijah. I get frozen items last and pick from the back or middle. We shoppers have every right to be picky...and not get sick.
We were in Hawaii recently for a fantastic trip. We didn't try the Hawaiian shaved ice, but I would have liked to. We did have the Dole Whip from the Dole Plantation. It was so delicious and refreshing!!
That whip was amazing good and refreshing, wasn't it? Still remember the taste! I'm only sorry we couldn't walk the maze - much too hot for us northerners.
Looks pretty - wonder what it tastes like?


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using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
public class StageSelectButtonList:MonoBehaviour {
    [SerializeField]
    private StageSelectButton[] stageSelectButtons;

    public void ListStages(int worldIndex)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < stageSelectButtons.Length; i++)
        {
            stageSelectButtons[i].SetInit(0,i);
        }

        Vector2 buttonLocalPos=Vector2.zero;
        for (int i = 0; i < stageSelectButtons.Length; i++)
        {
            if (StageList.IsUnLocked(0, i))//잠겨있음
            {
                buttonLocalPos = stageSelectButtons[i].GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition;
            }
        }
        this.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition = -buttonLocalPos;
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}

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Big Screen in the Big Apple
I'm back East in New Haven spending the Thanksgiving weekend with my wife's sister and her family. We had a lovely snowfall on Wednesday and the kids have been having a blast with their cousins. Tomorrow we'll take the train to New York City so that I can tape my World News Now segments on Sunday night and do Live! with Regis and Kelly on Wednesday. We're going to see The Lion King and we'll go ice skating at Rockefeller Center and do all the usual touristy Christmas in New York things. I'll try to do some video blogging while we're there.
I've brought the Piano Avanti DLP projection TV with me. It's a dictionary sized projector that can handle DVI, RGB, HDTV, S-Video, and Component signals in native 780p. It's not the brightest projector in the world at 400 lumens, but with a 700:1 contrast ratio it looks darn good in a relatively dark room. I was able to get a good looking movie screen sized picture projected on white walls and sheets. We've screened Lord of the Rings, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Zoolander, and had a great time. I'll be showing it on WNN and Regis, but I wish I could keep it. At $3200 it's pricey, but I prefer it to a similarly expensive big screen TV, especially since you can pop it in a drawer when you're through. Wouldn't be very good for daytime TV viewing, though.
Last week's pilot went very well. Thanks to those of you who called, emailed, and faxed. It was great to have all that material for the show. Morgan and Kevin were stars, and Steve Gibson was his usual fun and informative self. We put about 90 minutes on tape which Ken Marquis is now editing into a 12 minute highlight reel. I think everyone involved felt pretty good about what we got – even Paul Block liked it. It's a good representation of what I'd like to do, anyway. I forwarded a number of messages of support from you all to our new VP Programming. That should help. Now we'll just have to wait and see. I'd love to get started in early January. The Screen Savers officially goes back to an hour December 30, so that would be a good time to put another show into production, at least for me.
We fly home Thursday and I'll be back on The Screen Savers Thursday evening. I'll be taking more time off for Christmas, December 16 through January 1. Maybe when I come back I'll have two shows to do. Wouldn't that be nice?
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Bullets And Sausage
Claudia Serea
Group of Romanian revolutionaries celebrating the downfall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Source: www.flickr.com/photos/Romania mea http://www.flickr.com/photos/32417027@N08/3126478032/.
ome of my memories resemble black and white photographs, while others are in color. Some are blurred and out-of-focus, others are clear and vivid. Most of my memories growing up in Communist Romania are in shades of gray, probably because all the photos and TV images from that time are black and white. My parents didn't own a color TV until the 90s. They had an old black and white Venus model that had a lamp in the back. When the TV was turned on, the lamp glowed red and it could overheat. With only two hours of TV programming available per day, the danger of overheating was minimal, though. My mom sheltered the TV set beneath a cloth cover that she sewed and decorated with handmade lace and two brown embroidered bunnies.
I was twenty years old, in my third year of studying chemical engineering in Bucharest. I lived in girls' dorm P1 on the Regie campus, which was as gray and drab as all other Socialist buildings in Bucharest. I shared a room with three other girls and we were busy preparing for the end of the semester. The winter break was near and there were last minute projects due, papers to write and technical drawings to draft.
It was the evening of December 18, 1989. We had a small radio in our room. It was pocket-sized, white, with a black wheel we turned to search the waves. The options were limited, since the radio didn't have FM. We listened mostly to Radio Romania Actualitati broadcast of the official, censorship-approved news.
Rumors circulated in the dorm that something was happening in the western Romanian city of Timisoara. At school, a colleague had told me she heard from someone who listened to Radio Free Europe that people were protesting in Timisoara and the army and militia troops were shooting at the protesters. I didn't know if it was true and I was reluctant to talk about it with any of the girls for fear word would get out and someone would report me. So I kept quiet and concentrated on my school projects.
The next day, we were told at school that winter break, set to start at the end of that week on December 22, would start a few days early. Later, I found out that the government was afraid of student-led riots and decided to send everyone home earlier for the holidays and close the dorms. We didn't ask questions. We were happy to go back to the dorm, pack and leave.
I went back to my hometown of Târgoviste, two hours north of Bucharest. That night, when I listened to Radio Free Europe, I heard the real news for the first time in months. They broadcast a tape recorded in Timisoara and smuggled out of the country. It was harrowing. Alone in my room, I cried as I listened to the voices of men and women chanting for freedom and pleading with the soldiers: "You are our children! Don't shoot us! You are our sons! Don't shoot!" followed by the noise of many gunshots.
"Run! Run!" someone screamed. I could hear people crying out in pain.
"The Army is on our side!" some people chanted in an effort to persuade the soldiers to join them. Others started singing "Romanians Awake," a patriotic song banned since 1947. On December 16, the protests broke out when the authorities targeted Lászlo Tökés, a Hungarian pastor in Timisoara. His congregation gathered around his house to protect him from harassment and forced eviction. Spontaneously, many passers-by joined in and the crowd defied government orders to disperse. The people began calling for an end to the Communist regime. When President Ceausescu found out about the protests, he ordered the use of deadly force to stop the demonstrations and then left on a three-day trip to Iran. The tapes I heard on Radio Free Europe and Voice of America were recorded when unarmed protesters clashed with the army, Securitate (secret police) and militia (police), in downtown Timisoara. The confrontations tore the city apart with wild shooting, fights, cars burned, and scores of victims. That night, lying on my stomach with my ear pressed against the speaker to catch every word, I held my breath and listened for hours, turning the volume up when the signal was fading.
My aunt and uncle lived in Timisoara. My father called to make sure they were okay. It's bad. It's very bad. They are criminals, my uncle said. A long silence followed. Fearing the phone was tapped, my father didn't ask for any details.
"They're fine," he said when the short conversation was over, but I could see worry in my parents' eyes. We didn't discuss it. My brother and I didn't comment: we were used to not knowing much, being protected from the truth. My father went to the living room, where he had another radio on, and closed the door.
Alone in my room again, I was certain a bloodbath would follow in Timisoara. All the protesters and their families would be arrested and severely punished.
My brother and I spent the following days helping my mom prepare for the holidays. His high school was also on winter break. At that time, there were severe food shortages in Romania. Bread, sugar, oil, and flour were rationed. Meat was impossible to find, as were other common necessities, such as gasoline, toilet paper, batteries, and pretty much anything useful. For two months, my mother saved sugar and wheat flour so she could bake some goodies for Christmas. While Mom was at work, my brother and I scoured the neighborhood's grocery stores and waited in long lines for hours to get eggs, yeast, and butter.
My parents were fortunate enough to have bought a house near Târgoviste and raised a pig and some chickens in the yard. Everyone who had a house or relatives living in a nearby village or small town raised a pig. They loved the pigs and fed them scraps from the table. Some even had names, like Gica, Florica or Costica. All our successive pigs were called Ghita. Each year, like all the other pigs, our Ghita was sacrificed when it reached about 250 pounds.
Slaughtering the pig about a week before Christmas is an old Romanian custom, probably dating to before Christianity. Four or five men walk in the pigsty and catch the animal. One cuts the pig's throat with a big, sharp knife while the others hold the animal down so the blood won't spatter around the yard. Then, the pig's body is covered with straw, which is set on fire to bake the skin and remove the hair. My father, however, places the pig's body on a metal bed and uses a small gas burner instead of burning straw. When the skin is blackened, it is scraped and scrubbed until it's white again. My father likes to cut small pieces of skin and eat them right away with salt. It's called sorici, a little tough and chewy, with a roasted taste, the perfect companion for hot homemade plum brandy, tzuica fiarta, spiced with black peppercorns and cloves. The women cut and portion the meat, slice it, grind it, and prepare it for various uses. The hostess throws some fresh steaks in a pan right away and serves them to the men. It's called "the pig's funeral feast." Everyone eats and drinks homemade red wine. They toast the pig's soul, grateful for the plentiful meat.
My father and a few neighbors had sacrificed the pig just before I came from Bucharest and now my mother and I had to prepare all the meat. It was a lot of work, but we were glad to have it.
"Here People Died for Freedom Plaque" in downtown Bucharest.
I spent a lot of time in the kitchen because it was the only warm room in the apartment. I helped my mother portion the meat as we followed the news broadcast by the forbidden foreign radio stations. I had brought the Phillips radio from my room and made an improvised antenna from a long copper wire wound around the cold radiator pipe until it almost reached the ceiling. We kept the volume low, for fear the neighbors downstairs would hear it and would rat us out to an informer.
The news was grim. After coming back from his visit to Iran, Ceausescu found the situation deteriorating rapidly. He gave a speech on December 20, calling the protesters "fascist elements" and "hooligans" and spoke of "acts of external aggression against Romania's sovereignty." Soon after the speech, we switched to Radio Free Europe and listened to reports about trains loaded with workers armed with clubs being sent from plants in other regions of the country to help with the repression. The turning point came later when these workers and the army joined the protests. We couldn't believe our ears.
It was a mild December and the kitchen was filled with sun. My mother and I spent half a day grinding meat for the homemade sausage. Every year, my mother uses the same meat-grinding machine. It's very heavy, made of cast iron and painted with red enamel. The inside is white. She clamps it on the table and rotates the handle, proud of her muscular strength.
My job was to feed the meat into the machine's open mouth, careful not to catch my fingers inside. I alternated the pieces: red, lean meat, followed by chunks of white fat, then red meat again.
"If anyone finds something crunchy on their plate, it's probably the fingernail I broke," I joked.
Next, I peeled the garlic cloves while my mother ground the pepper. The black powder teased our noses and made us sneeze. My mother sneezed many times in a row; she couldn't stop. She had a sensitive nose that reacted to any strong smell. We laughed.
It was December 21. On the radio, the only broadcast available was that of Ceausescu's meeting in Bucharest, supposedly to condemn the events from Timisoara. As with all the official meetings, it was staged to perfection. Thousands of workers from various plants were equipped with party slogans, red flags, and Ceausescu's portraits. They were bused to the square in front of Bucharest's Central Committee Building. Ceausescu addressed the crowd from the balcony, talking about the "great achievements of the Socialist Revolution." The speech was televised and broadcast live on the radio. I turned it off.
"Claudia, Mom, come quickly!" my brother yelled as he burst into the kitchen.
"Come! Mom, Claudia, you gotta see this!"
We ran to the living room, where the TV was on. We saw a pale, disconcerted Ceausescu trying to control the protesting crowd beneath the balcony: "Hello! Hello! Stand quietly in your places!"
The masses below were moving and shouting something I couldn't understand. The TV camera was shaking, as if the wind was blowing.
Suddenly, the broadcast was interrupted and we realized this was the sign we all had been waiting for. We looked at each other in silence.
"This is it. It started in Bucharest, too," my brother said.
My mother mixes the ground meat with both her hands. She puts all the ingredients in a large plastic tub. She adds salt, the crushed garlic, the pepper, sweet paprika and a mix of spices. To this day, I don't know what is in that secret mix sold in the market as "sausage spice."
Her hands are contorted by arthritis and reddened by the cold meat. They look like roots, as they sink and lift, turning the red and white meat mixture. Roots, deeply veined red roots.
Târgoviste is an industrial town, population about 100,000. Very little is left from its past glory: the castle's ruins, a tower, several churches. It was a former capital of Wallachia, the southern Romanian country where princes such as Vlad The Impaler ruled. The town is quiet and gray, with sprawling residential areas of Socialist apartment blocks whose dust engulfs the few historic buildings. It's the kind of town where nothing ever happens.
On the night of December 21, while we ate dinner, less than two hours away in the streets of Bucharest, young people faced the mayhem of Communist repression. I went to my room and listened to the radio late into the night. Afraid and hopeful, I felt close to those who were fighting in the streets. I fell asleep with the radio on while tanks crushed the unarmed protesters who built barricades that stood until after midnight. The intense shooting continued until 3 a.m. Early the next morning, sanitation trucks washed the blood from the pavement of downtown Bucharest.
On December 22, I woke up to bright sunlight. My father was already at work, and my mom was waiting in line at the store to get bread. The radio announced that martial law was in effect, and any gathering larger than five people was banned. Later that morning, an official communiqué on TV stated that the minister of defense, Vasile Milea, was found to be a traitor and had committed suicide. Then, the broadcast was interrupted.
My brother and I were very excited. We sensed that the situation was changing rapidly, yet Târgoviste was as quiet and gray as ever. Bucharest seemed so far away. Not knowing enough was unbearable, almost painful. We searched the radio waves for foreign stations' broadcasts, but we couldn't find any.
My mother came home. "Calm down," she said.
The radio suddenly announced to stand by for an official communiqué for the country. We ran to the TV and turned it on. It took forever for the red lamp to heat up. The images were unbelievable: no news anchor, no desk. A group of unknown people in gray sweaters and unkept hair talked rapidly, excitedly, all at the same time.
The dissident poet Mircea Dinescu came to the front and said: "Brothers! God will thank you! We are free! The dictator has fled! We won, the Revolution has won!"
We jumped for joy. Mom had tears in her eyes. We cried and embraced. We listened to the people on the TV screen who were as happy as we were. They were making victory signs, crowding in front of the cameras to say who they were, what they had been through. "Romanian brothers, we won, we are free."
The phone rang and my father's voice was emotional, but firm: "Stay calm. Don't go anywhere until things clear up. Wait for me to get home."
But who could stay calm and wait? We couldn't.
"Mom, I'm going out to see if I can find any newspapers," I said. My brother met a couple of high school buddies, and we all headed for the center of the town, but we got separated in the thickening crowd. Later, he told me how they stopped to watch the Revolution on the TV screen in the window of a repair shop. They started singing "Romanians Awake," but went silent when a group of militia recruits passed by in their gray uniforms.
When I got to the center square, the crowds were gathering: young men, high school students, women, even kids about ten years old. Some people waved red-yellow-blue flags with the Communist symbols cut out from their center. There was chaos, shouting, people crying from joy.
I was trembling inside, watching the crowd's reaction. People climbed on top of the cars and drove around honking and cheering as if their team had won a soccer game: "Olé, olé, olé, Ceausescu is no more!"
As they left work, more trucks loaded with workers came to the square. The crowd swelled by the minute. On a balcony, someone put a TV set with the volume turned to maximum. We listened to the broadcast of the Revolution in Bucharest. A man in a gray sweater read "The Declaration of the People's Unity Front," and the crowd quieted, listening.
It was announced the Ceausescu couple was caught near Târgoviste. The crowd gave a howl of joy. They danced and chanted "Death to the Dictator! Death to the murderer!" At first, I was afraid, and I looked around to see if anyone was watching us. Then I felt protected by the others. I raised my fist along with them and felt I was part of a huge tide. This wave of energy and hope made me high with excitement. I was at a turning point in my life. For the first time, I was ready to take matters in my own hands.
Groups of people marched toward the military barracks where the dictator couple were supposedly being held. I watched as others broke into the County Party Committee Building and started trashing it. Out of the windows they threw Ceausescu's portraits, writings and banners. Soon, a large mound of propaganda materials was gathered in front of the building and someone set it on fire. The flames licked the Communist slogans, happy to rise. The crowd cheered and danced. A guy with a bullhorn announced the army was on our side, that it had joined the Revolution. A wild, exhilarating celebration followed.
I ran home to find my brother and tell Mom the news. My brother and I were shouting instead of talking. We wanted to eat something quickly and go back to the crowds in the square.
"Oh, no, you're not," my mother said. "You're not going anywhere. You're staying home to help me make the sausage. When father comes, he'd better find you here."
Cakes for the soldiers fighting against the terrorists, December 1989. By Denoel Paris.
At nightfall, we heard the first gunshots. Who was shooting, we wondered, since the army was on our side? No one thought much about that until later; there were too many things happening.
Soon, the media reported heavy attacks from a new faction quickly labeled "terrorists," an elusive enemy, loyal to Ceausescu. Fierce gunfights broke out in all the major cities. In Târgoviste, rumors circulated among the neighbors that the "terrorists" were trying to free the Ceausescu couple and that the local army unit was under attack. On TV, there were calls for citizens around the country to arm themselves and come to the areas of conflict to help in the fighting. The public television, radio, the airports, many locations reported they were under attack. The population was advised to stay inside, turn off the lights, cover the windows and stay away from them, and boil the water before drinking it, for fear it was poisoned. No one verified the rumors. It was total chaos.
My father didn't come home that night. He called to tell my mom he was okay, he just had to stay at work. He was a chemical engineer in Romlux, an electric bulb factory. He was in charge of the section that housed the glass-melting ovens and the assembly lines that dripped the glass, blew air inside it, rotated the drops until the bulb was formed, then cut and cooled it. The ovens and lines worked 24-7. If they stopped, the glass would "freeze" into a block and would render the lines useless. My father always worked long hours. Some workers didn't show up for their shifts and he had to be there.
I was alone with my mother. My brother had left us to see the Revolution on TV with the neighbors downstairs. My mother covered the kitchen window with a blue wool blanket with white stripes. We had the radio on low and kept the lights off. We could hear gunfire outside, though far away. My mother lit two long red candles and set them on the table. "Now, let's roll out some sausage," she said.
My mother was a French teacher, petite, but a strong-willed woman who believed nothing could stop her. She designed and sewed clothes for herself and all of us, as well as curtains, table linens and bed sheets. She was a great cook. She knew all about pickles, preserves and canning any fruit or vegetable. She taught herself masonry and could build a house and plant a garden around it, complete with grapevines, apple trees, and a strawberry patch. She could most certainly butcher a pig and prepare all the meat. She didn't always let me help with cooking because I slowed her down. But she loved having company, so many times I ended up hanging out in the kitchen. I used to sit on the broken couch and read aloud novels I had borrowed from the library, anything from Jules Verne to Raymond Chandler mysteries to Gone With the Wind. She would stir the food on the stove, give me a taste, and I'd read. When the suspense thickened, I'd stop reading aloud and silently leap ahead.
"Hey! Go back, go back, I wanna know what happens next," she'd say, when she noticed my long silence.
We lived at the edge of the town. From the kitchen window, the view was unobscured by any other apartment building. Right across the street, was the parking lot of the local public transportation company, full of buses. Behind it was a cement factory, with mountains of sand and rusty mixing towers. Farther away was a field edged by the forest Priseaca. To the right, I could see the lights from Romlux, where my father worked. To the left, more apartment buildings stretched toward the steel plant that was always shrouded in a reddish dust cloud. That's where the gunfight was going on. The entire neighborhood was dark, small lights blinking only around the industrial areas. Behind the steel plant, the night sky was intermittently lit, as if by lightning. We could hear the guns talk, sometimes with isolated shots, punctuated by rapid fire or larger booms. "Get away from the window," my mother said. "Here, help me with this."
The meat-grinding machine was now equipped with a long spout that had what looked like a white rolled pantyhose on it. Looking closer, I discovered it wasn't pantyhose, but a thin, almost transparent intestine. My mother used sheep intestines and the pig's own to make the sausage. She had washed them inside out, first with warm water, then with a vinegar solution. She rolled the intestine over the spout like a sock and tied the end with cotton thread.
"I'll push the meat into the machine," she said. "You hold the sausage and make sure it's even, with no air pockets inside."
Mom started rotating the handle. Outside, the gunfire seemed to get closer. She rotated faster and faster. I could see the white tracers through the blanket in the window.
"Look at what you're doing," she said with her stern voice. The meat pushed into the casing and it suddenly looked alive.
"Mom, this is gross," I muttered.
"It's food," she replied. "Make sure the sausage is firm and full. Take the air out with your hand." I cringed, but complied.
The elongated shadows were dancing around us on the yellow walls. "We look like two ghosts," I said. "The entire town is dark. We are the only ones working." "If anyone could see us," I continued, "how we are making sausage in the candlelight, with a blanket over the window and gunfire outside. It's pretty funny, Mom."
"Better making sausage than waiting for Godot," she smiled.
A large boom rattled the window. The candles shook on the table.
"What was that?" I asked. "It sounded really close."
"An explosion," she said. "Maybe a grenade." We stopped to listen, but nothing followed. "Maybe it's not so close," she said.
Our laughter disappeared. We rolled the sausage in silence, listening to the noises outside. Coiled in the plastic tub in its own reddish juice, the sausage looked naked. Helpless, a newborn. My mother tied the cotton string at the end. "Done. Now, I have to hang it to air on the balcony."
"Are you crazy?" I shouted. "No, no, I won't let you! There might be stray bullets. Don't do it, please don't! Let's leave it for tomorrow, maybe it will be quieter."
She looked at me calmly. "Don't worry. I'll be quick. And besides, the fighting is far away."
I watched as she opened the balcony door. The cold night air rushed in. The shooting sounded far away, a storm at the edge of the town. She hung the sausage on wooden bars across the shelves in the outside pantry. "Tomorrow, your father will take them to the smoker," she said. She had built a smoker at the country house. "Smoked, they'll be great to eat with beans and cabbage. They will be enough for the entire winter." She beamed proudly, closing the door: "Don't they look good? Just like in the store, if the store had any food."
"They look great, Mom," I said.
Over the next few days, the shooting continued in various parts of the town. My father heard from someone at work that a militia sergeant started the shooting in the apartment buildings near the steel plant. The sergeant went on the roof with his gun and opened fire at every light he could see, yelling "Death to the enemies of the people!" until an army unit and some neighbors went on the roof and disarmed him. That could explain the gunfight my mother and I heard, but not the explosions and machine-gun rapid fire. The next day, Mom heard news about Mrs. Coman, an elementary school teacher, who was hit by bullets while hanging wash on the balcony. My father, too, came into crossfire in broad daylight while he was driving to work in his old, white Skoda car. Someone was shooting from an apartment building, aiming at all the moving targets on the street. My father told us he stopped the car and curled down until the gunfire stopped. Then, hands shaking, he quickly drove off.
Claudia Serea's mother cooking squashes stuffed with ground meat filling in tomato sauce, a summer favorite.
On December 25, the Ceausescu couple was summarily tried, sentenced to death and executed by firing squad inside the army barracks in Târgoviste. We watched an edited tape of the trial and execution on TV. Soon after that, the shooting stopped.
Twenty years later, the identity of the "terrorists" remains a mystery. No one knows who shot my mom's colleague or who opened fire at my father's car. Some journals wrote about a conspiracy theory in which rumors and gunfire simulators were used to frighten the population and cause chaos. In Târgoviste, there were 13 deaths during the Revolution. Country-wide, 1,104 deaths were reported. 942 of them occurred after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu.
Târgoviste soon returned to being a gray, dusty provincial town, where nothing ever happened.
I never made homemade sausage again, although my mother, still in Romania, makes it every Christmas. After the Revolution, change happened at a rapid pace and I ended up immigrating to the U.S. in 1995.
The Christmas of 1989 stuck in my mind not only because of the Revolution, but because it was a time I felt so close to Mom. On that occasion, I learned from her that even in uncertain times, when bullets fly down the street and everything around comes apart, I can still pick up the pieces, grind them to a paste and make the tastiest sausage ever.
CLAUDIA SEREA grew up in Romania and moved to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Mudfish, Main Street Rag, Oberon, The Comstock Review, Harpur Palate, Exquisite Corpse, The New Verse News, and in various other anthologies and journals. She also writes creative non-fiction, most recently published by The Rambler Magazine. Her chapbook Eternity's Orthography was selected as a contest finalist and was published in September 2007 by Finishing Line Press. She lives in New Jersey and works in New York for a major publishing company.
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Q: Flutter not run I am having problems with initializing the flutter project and running it for the first time and it does not work and shows the following error message. Hope someone helped me. Thanks everyone
Flutter 1.0
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.Aapt2InternalException: AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows Daemon #0: Daemon startup failed
  This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does.

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Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 2s
Finished with error: Gradle task assembleDebug failed with exit code 1

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Xidhí är en ort i Mexiko.   Den ligger i kommunen Cadereyta de Montes och delstaten Querétaro Arteaga, i den sydöstra delen av landet,  km norr om huvudstaden Mexico City. Xidhí ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Xidhí är huvudsakligen kuperad, men åt sydväst är den platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är Cerro El Aguila,  meter över havet,  km norr om Xidhí. Runt Xidhí är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Tecozautla,  km söder om Xidhí. Trakten runt Xidhí består i huvudsak av gräsmarker.

Ett tropiskt höglandsklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är maj, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är december, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är september, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är januari, med  mm nederbörd.

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Career Options: What To Do After B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Enid Judith D'Souza
Many students are off the opinion that Art faculty has very less career opportunity options than commerce or science. However, it's not true.
Many students are off the opinion that Art faculty has very less career opportunity options than commerce or science. However, it's not true. Arts is a vast stream in itself and offers a variety of career options and is one of the best fields to pursue a future career. The subjects like English Literature, Foreign Languages, Sociology, Psychology, History, and Economics are now a days into main stream.
Many of the biggies of different industries hold a Bachelors degree in Arts and are now the people who have changed the face of the country and have brought about different changes.
Here are a few Career Options After BA for successful profession…
BA in ENGLISH LITERATURE
English is a beautiful language in itself and gives an individual to broaden his/her horizons and challenge the person within them. If you hold a BA degree in English, you can choose a career in content writing, teaching, politics, etc. You can get to express your thoughts through your pen. You can also pursue a career as a journalist and write for newspapers, magazines, etc. Apart from this, you can also choose to start off your career in the film industry and attain success.
BA in PSYCHOLOGY
While most people say to become a doctor, you need to study science; psychology proves that theory wrong as psychology is the study of the human mind and body. It teaches you on the various behavioral trails and characteristics of every individual. So since you have almost studied ¾ of the human traits, it's time you put it into practice. Once you complete your degree, you can do an internship in any of the fields like childhood psychologist, environmental psychologist, criminal psychologist, etc. Psychologists are in demand as a doctor can only subscribe medicines where as a psychologist studies the reason behind a person's behavior and help to bring about a change in the individual.
BA in HISTORY
Many people detest history as it is considered boring. But there are many people who find history as an interesting subject as they get to study the past and dig into the happenings in the past. History is not only about the human who lived in that era but it's based on the places of visit and the significance involved behind the mysteries of that particular place. If you have a keen eye to study and know the past of the world, you can surely have a successful career as an Archaeologist.
With the increase in technology and advancement in the world, people are becoming closer and countries and joining hands and there are many student exchange programs taking place in colleges and universities around the world. Due to this, people are interacting with people of various cast, religions, lingual, etc. It becomes difficult to communicate especially if the other person doesn't speak the same language. So a career in foreign languages will surely help many people are keen to study different languages and you too would get to learn something new and different.
It is not necessary to study commerce to pursue a career in banking and finance. A 3year arts degree course will well do the trick. A degree in economics is a gateway to the Administrative Services in India and is also given higher preference. You could very well enter a career in banking and financial services. You could also pursue a writing career for economic news columns in leading newspapers.
Arts is a vast stream and a variety of subjects to offer and gives an individual an opportunity to choose from a variety of industries.
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Our core purpose is to improve and enhance the lives of others in the community, both locally and in other areas of the World. The Lamson Paragon Group supports and participates many charitable causes and events. This focus is the basis of the culture of our entire group.
We would like to share some of the causes closest to our hearts and urge you to get involved where you can.
Supporting Women in the Print Media Industry
There are a lot of great people in our industry and indeed within The Lamson Group. We are honoured to be involved in this collaboration which acts as a support team, offering opportunities to network while benefiting women from all walks of life, in and around the industry.
Raising funds and awareness for the Australian Homeless Community
The Vinnies CEO Sleepout began in 2006 as a local community venture in Sydney's Parramatta. Since then, the event has raised over $60 million in support of Vinnies homeless services. The aim of the Vinnies CEO Sleepout is to not just raise funds, but also raise awareness and remove the stigma of the homeless community. Our Group CEO, Mr Rodney Frost, has taken part in this event since 2009.
Education and training in Personal Safety and Child Protection
Our Vision is to make Australia the safest place in the world to raise a child by 2020. To achieve this we depend on business, government and community support. It is only through increasing general awareness, increasing skills and capacity building for those working and living with children, preventative strategies, education and strong policies and legislation that we can accomplish Our Mission - to stop child sexual assault in society. The Lamson Group support this great cause in a large variety of ways.
In Partnership with Certe Wealth Protection
St Vincent De Paul offers range of different events to raise money and positive experiences. Every year The Lamson Paragon Group partner with Certe Wealth Protection to hold homeless BBQ's in the city. The Lamson Groups team have been outstanding being out until late at night providing a warm dinner for the many homeless in the CBD.
Donations for Great Cause
Alfa Distributions is located in Bankstown NSW. However, its Fijian-born owner, Ambika Prasad, now spends most of his time residing in Fiji, where he contributes to the care of local children by providing them with accommodation and schools. Companies are invited to assist with Mr Prasad's efforts by donating computers to Alfa Distributions. The Lamson Group donates all its used PCs and monitors to this great cause.
In Partnership with Upskills Foundation
We have found an opportunity to help the needy in the Philippines, particularly in Tondo, Manila. It is here that a community is surrounded by heaps of trash and dump sites. Many families gather together, living in make shift shanties without running water, sanitation or a stable electrical supply. The majority of the community are disenfranchised, unregistered for Government benefits, in debt, often unskilled and trapped in a cycle of poverty without the means to enjoy a better life. The Lamson Group together with the Upskills Foundation, work with families and the wider community by building the capacity and resources of local people in such a way that they will be able to continue their efforts independently and sustainably in the future.. Read more...
Supporting Cancer Research in Memory of Mr. Peter Hicks
In January 2019 The Lamson Group sustained a devastating loss via the passing of Mr Peter Hicks to Cancer. We immediately wanted to grow our support for Cancer Research and decided to support both The Cancer Councils Relay for Life event and Avners Foundation with all of the great work that they continue to do.. Read more...
"Please accept this email as a token of my appreciation in support of the high end digitally printed and bound report this week.In reviewing our archives this project is arguably the most important and high profile job that the business has undertaken, which would not have been a success had in not...
"We have been working with Lamson Paragon for a number of years and have always been impressed by their commitment to quality, service and personal attention in meeting our print requirements. We value their expertise which has allowed us to lower our print costs and consequently improve service to...
"We have been using Lamson Paragon for more years than I can remember. In this time the team there has always exceeded my expectations. My questions are always answered in a prompt manner and I am yet to find better value for money from any other supplier. I would happily recommend Lamson Paragon...
"Having dealt with the Lamson Group for the best part of 20 years I can attest to theirexcellent levels of service,quality and professionalism"
"We have been a customer of Lamson Paragon for many years. The people at Lamson's have always been accessible, helpful and professional in their dealings with our company. As a trade only supplier we have found Lamson's to be reliable, affordable and able to handle the inevitable challenging...
"I have been a customer of the Lamson Group for over twenty years. During this period a solid partnership has been established that far exceeds the normal supplier and customer relationship. The extensive industry experience of Arthur and Rodney Frost provide a real competitive advantage when you...
"We have used Cheque-Mates for overflow work on a number of occasions. We have established a comfortable working relationship and Cheque-Mates have never let us down….we have even recommended them to other mail houses that have come to us looking to outsource their overflow work."
"The Cheque-Mates team has been providing us with excellent quality service, fast turnaround times and always happy to accommodate request even at the last minute. They are a much valued partner in our busy industry."
"Our industry is crowded with people who make wild claims about what they can do – we've found that only Cheque-Mates actually does the job, quietly and efficiently week after week."
"An absolute pleasure to deal with Rodney & his team. Over the short period (12 months) dealing with them they have actively helped increase Sales for 2 of my major clients (one of them by about 50%) & I haven't yet scratched the surface. Timely response, forward thinking company with a...
"I just wanted to thank all at Cheque-Mates printing for their valuable service as a supplier to us. The service provided is generally greater than expected and has remained professional and proactive over the time I have been dealing with them. Many an improvement has been made to our business as...
"I would like to say that Cheque-Mates have the mindset that "nothing is impossible" and that they will complete a job (be it laser, inkjet, mail process, shrink wrap or handline) within tight timeframes. Nothing is a problem and nothing is too hard for them. They process our jobs quickly with...
"Cheque-Mates provide a fast, efficient service and always provide advice on how best to execute a job to fulfill style and budget requirements. The team at Cheque-Mates are always willing to provide assistance whether it is attending meetings with clients to further explain applications or...
"I would like to say a very big thank you to the whole team at Cheque-Mates for the massive effort put in on our client's current promotion which launches this Monday. Jobs arrived this afternoon, a day early! It's very much appreciated. A great service and commitment."
"Paper Rolls are the number one paper specialists.We have been dealing with them for many years.Their quality products and friendly CustomerService are the qualities that make our relationship great."
"It is with great pleasure to say that the level of service is above and beyond from the time that an order is placed to the time of delivery and the experience has been exemplary. I would highly recommend Paper Rolls Australia Pty Ltd to anyone that requires the use of their products."
"Paper Rolls Australia provides a very reliable service tailored to the needs of our business. We've been customers for many years and have always appreciated the customer focus and professionalism."
"I can't say enough about the staff at Paper Rolls Australia. The service they've provided our business is the absolute best. Always prompt, always professional and always proactive."
"Friendly, well informed staff who are able to respond quickly and efficiently to all inquiries, quotes and orders. They make a point of trying to get to know the individual demands of your business and to accommodate these needs to the best of their capacity."
"Bingo Australia has been a customer of Paper Rolls Australia Pty Ltd since June 2006 and we have nothing but praise for the way they run their business which is with a very curious and professional nature.The Staff know their products and quick to help out with any queries that we may have. ...
"Bardalla Business Forms has been using Lamson Group for over 19 years now for all our print requirements plus more! The team at Lamson Group continually focus on our business needs with a service offer and flexibility that is second to none. At Bardalla Business Forms we have a wide variety of...
"We have been a customer of Lamson Paragon for many years.The people at Lamson's have always been accessible, helpful and professional in their dealings with our company.As a trade only supplier we have found Lamson's to be reliable, affordable and able to handle the inevitable challenging...
"After 23 years Lamson are still the ones I trust with my business.The Lamson team are honest, enthusiastic and loyal.Whatever your concern they tackle it head on, no problem is too great and no issue too trivial. As a customer, they continually look for new ways to improve their offering to you,...
"Having dealt with Arthur & his team for something like 13 odd years now I have always found the quality of print jobs & customer service to be absolutely exceptional am looking forward to continuing that involvement with the opening up of other markets in what they offer"
"DMC Group is one of Australia leading print managers and has been operating in this space for 18 years.We have had a long standing professional working relationship with Arthur Frost and Lamson Paragon for all of those years.Arthur was the pioneer and leader of our industry and for that we relied...
"We have been in business for 29 years and for the last 20 years have dealt with Lamson Paragon. They are a pleasure to work with and we appreciate and value the long and mutually successful relationship. I would highly recommend partnering with Lamson."
"To whom it may concernI have found Lamson Paragon to be a quality, cost effective, print partner with an excellent rate of achieving or bettering the requested delivery date.Their system confirms the details at every stage of the order process.Their customer service and follow up is second to...
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GonzoFest loomed on our horizon well before This Craft Nation even began, so we were pretty excited to make it to Louisville and realize that we had made it to a significant landmark. It was great to make contact with people that were devoted to sharing the deeper insights from Hunter S. Thompson's work, well beyond the most dramatic features he's known for. We got to speak to the founders of GonzoFest, hear about its history, purpose and vision looking forward. Check out ActsI & II of GonzoFest in three acts, by listening to TCN7, from Hunter's Louisville!
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