War progressed, often his function was to coordinate an effort with the allies, british or canadian, and that was one of the things he did at dday. Ford asked if stevens would not mind working with the british to help shore up their filmmaking effort, and i believe the ships that stevens arrived on the ship that stevens arrived on was a british ship. He was kind. His greatest blunder was this. He thought he could break up our partnership, but we are bonded together by fighting for one great cause in one great team, a team in which you were an indispensable and working member. That spirit of free people working, fighting, and living together in one great cause has served us well on the western front. We will pray that that spirit of comradeship will persist forever among the free people of the united nations. The world war ii dday invasion of normandy took place 70 years ago on june 6, 1944. Coming up in one hour at 1230 historianuthor and symonds looks at his book. Then in one hour, ou
Done, and Gets Things Smart
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Everyone knows and quotes Joel s old chestnut,
Smart, and
Gets Things Done. It was a blog, then a book, and now it s an aphorism.
People quote Joel s Proverb all the time because it gives us all such a nice snuggly feeling. Why? Because to be in this industry at all, even a bottom-feeder, you
have to be smart. You were probably the top kid in your elementary school class. People probably picked on you. You were the geek back when geeks weren t popular. But now smart is fashionable.
Gazing at this made me quite thoughtful. I used to be a freelancer in Washington D.C., and went everywhere in the city in my ratty little Mazda on a tremendous motley of assignments of all sorts, and I ve photographed both inside and outside that temple on numerous occasions. It was the location of one of my biggest embarrassments as a photographer (ran out of battery power at the exact wrong moment in a Senate hearing room) and, on a separate occasion, of one of the only times I ve been stopped by the police in the process of taking a picture. Of course it has deep meaning to me as an American citizen as well.