In the construction hardware industry, the first items that I learn are faucets and its fittings. I was sent to a three days seminar by a faucet manufacturer. All the participants were hardware salesmen out to master all the details associated with the products. We were billeted in a nice hotel and all the lectures were done in one of the hotel’s ballroom. Needless to say, I learned a lot of things aboutbathroom faucets, kitchen hardware, showers and plumbing works in general. One good thing that came out of that seminar is the fact that I can always quit my present job and work as a plumber. I even have a laminated diploma to show as a proof. Gut!
One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s...
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