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What kind of sorcery is this?
Not to worry, still fake news. At the end Ms. Harlow says Paul Callan has an Op-Ed at the CNN Website. I looked, it's not there.
Not to worry, still fake news. At the end Ms. Harlow says Paul Callan has an Op-Ed at the CNN Website. I looked, it's not there.
Paul Callan did make one excellent point. When asked where the line should be to disqualify someone from participating in an investigation, he went straight for the money McCabe's wife took from Terry McAuliffe. That is the bright-line right there. Nice job, Mr. Callen
This guy to his credit was being honest and using common sense! The woman was mortified that it was happening on her show. She tried a couple of times to reign him in but to his credit he remained honest. She tried to somehow drag Christopher Wray into the conversation and he pointed out that he wasn't around during any of that time. She tried to say that Rosenstein said you can have a political opinion and still be able to do your job. He said he uses common sense and Andrew McCabe's wife receiving $700K from Terry McAuliffe for her campaign would have crossed the line for him.
This man will not be brought onto her show or any other show going forward! He has swallowed the "Red Pill" and must be terminated!
Well it looks like the dike, with all of the small holes getting plugged with a finger or a thumb here & there, is awfully close to bursting.
Both sides can play 3D chess, read a couple of days ago about some kind of unbeatable A.I. chess machine that had taught itself or somesuch, nothing would surprise me.
One thing notably missing was the " Oh dear we seem to have lost the feed"., they wouldn't say helpful things lest it was helpful to themselves.
Not really connected to this but I feel that sorting out the FBI is not an end in itself but more a stepping stone that must be in place before other things can be corrected.
Great analogy on the chess. As big as this is, it comes down to being the Endgame…I can't see the traitors just raising their hands, surrendering and going to jail. This exposure is more than likely something they have planned for. Obama definitely put his pieces in place with the enemy refugee immigrants, the gun and ammunition buyups, the little talks he's been having with world leaders as he has shadowed the POTUS, his message to Putin about flexibility. My guess would be that when it goes down we will get hit from multiple fronts at once….with the silent coup appearing to have failed I can imagine simultaneous escalation of issues with Russia, China, Korea, Iran and our own immigrant refugees, in an attempt at a violent coup. The Clintons and their comrades are very good at staying out of jail. I only hope that President Trump has prepared for this worst case scenario and that is the reason he has surrounded himself with Generals.
American Bulldog, your reference to O's trips to talk with current world leaders is extremely important, and rare! There should be SO much more out there questioning what the hell he thought he was doing, and why any of those valid leaders took time to meet with him! Why did they? Are you saying it ties in with the attempted take down if President Trump? Is O back in the states now? Why hasn't this issue even been examined by Sundance or Sean? It has to be one of histories strangest stories!
It's a card they can't play. They have no power to do any of that anymore. Gitmo has been prepped and is now being stocked with fresh inmates, some from America circa 2008-2016. POTUS has the military on his side. They asked him to run.
The FBI/DOJ/Mueller/Flynn/Russia show is the retail front of swamp draining to prepare the public for what's coming in the next year. It's necessary while Trump/Flynn/Sessions/MI/NSA/white hats quietly run a military operation, as prescribed by our Constitution, for use when the rot runs wide and deep into every branch of our government and globally.
Apparently General Mattis visited GITMO in recent days.
A violent coup: That is my only worry. They could also target his family and then easily declare him psychologically/emotionally inept. It's the only card they have left.
BTW: I never believed Hillary really wanted to run the country. I think she agreed to be a figurehead while Obama surreptitiously undertook his third term (behind the curtain). That would explain why Obama lives so close to the White House and is visiting foreign nations while denigrating Trump. Obama hasn't lost hope.
TO consider this supposed "expert" is just now waking up a couple of problems we all have been talking about for over a year , disgusts me. It's not hard to be informed, you just have to push outside your comfortzone.
If your job is to "inform" one would think you would work to "be" informed.
Our media thinks we are stupid. Just let it sink in – they consider our source of information "fake and dangerous news". While their source is sacred.
We can never stop fighting.
The stage is being set for the standard defense and grand explanation: "What we have here are good people in government with good intentions doing bad things."
That will be followed by official reports from IGs in every involved agency, along with committee reports from Congress, that include the statement: "We are putting procedures and policies in place to ensure this doesn't happen again. It's now time to turn the page."
We've seen this too many times before to think it will not be tried again.
Congress does not have the prosecutorial power: that is not under the powers of Legislature that is under the powers of the Administration.
The most they can do is "put LAWS in place to see that this does not happen again."
And make strong recommendations/demands to prosecute to the POTUS and ATTNY GENERAL.
Of course Congress doesn't have the prosecutorial powers you describe. My point was to point out the likely defense and the next PR move. The goal is to tire the public of seemingly endless investigations, and then to rapidly change the subject.
Simply add up the number of times you've heard "Good people did bad things…." and "It's time to turn the page…." so that crimes of government officials go unpunished.
I suspect the current lot is wishing for one more bite at that apple.
Yep. Same old crap sammich served up to the peasants while the elites continue the pillage and the march towards making us all slaves. Flood the country w/illegals who are uneducated, unskilled, criminals who come from a culture of where government and public officials being corrupt is the norm, and voila, you have taken over the republic w/o even firing a single shot.
Try them and then hang 'em high!
Woke up this morning and it's cold enough for hell to freeze over. Then I saw this video and I guess it did.
Where has CNN been…….I learned all of this and more….. 4 weeks ago on this very website………?
Watch the imbedded MSNBC interview clip with Senator Francis Rooney starting at 1:47. What's up with the MSNBC interviewer at 2:06? Her reaction is very odd. Did Rooney say something that made her uncomfortable?
It feels like we're going to experience a before and after like life, like we feel about JFK's murder, 9/11, what the time before and after the Civil War must've been like for Americans, and for those old enough to remember Pearl Harbor, once this treasonous debacle totally breaks open for ALL the world and our citizens to finally see.
I feel we'll remember our 'normal, every day' life before and live a chaotic, unsettling, possibly civil war-esque like existence after. I hope I'm wrong. I feel it's going to take years, if not decades, to prosecute, mete out Justice and put it all behind us. And it will be turmoil with the dims encouraging their ilk to fight in the streets in protest.
I think it will be world changing. Definitely life changing here in the US. Eventually, for the better, but tough to live through in a 'normal, every day' kind of way for a period of time.
If it cleans up the swamp, it's a price we HAVE to pay for our progeny and future generations. But sadly, I think it might be a dark time. Praying I'm wrong. God is in control, and I'm hoping this is NOT part of His Will.
God bless us, every one, ESPECIALLY President Trump. 🙏 Thank you, Mr President.
Maybe the CNN "objectivity" is somewhat like our side and thoughts (comments on other sites) are pushing into the "main stream" and some people on their side are starting to ask embarrassing questions. Like, "I heard something on some harebrained conspiracy site 2-3 weeks ago, and now it turns out to be true?…….."
Clearly this an attempt to cover Obama's "legacy". The rabbits can sense the fox on their trail. If they suggest a purge its simply to rid those who can shed any light on or lead the fox to the hole that will end up at the White House. No change of heart here, just more evasionary tactics.
I've mentioned before, that members of the "thinking class" who are genuine intellectuals have come to understand the phoniness of the whole Russia business. Not all, but a few. Once you understand that the MSM is pushing a fake narrative, it is a short step to agreement when the legal facts are laid out.
Corrupt is corrupt. Lies are lies. The law is the law.
I just saw their claim about his article on collusion or conspiracy, but could not stand being on their site with so many horrid claims being stated as if they were true about "Trump" as they refer to The President! WHY did I click on your link to them? YUCK!
A definition from Merriam-Webster dictionary:
Definition of purge
purged; purging
transitive verb
1 a : to clear of guilt
b : to free from moral or ceremonial defilement
2 a : to cause evacuation from purge the bowels
b (1) : to make free of something unwanted purge a manhole of gas purge yourself of fear (2) : to free (something, such as a boiler) of sediment or relieve (something, such as a steam pipe) of trapped air by bleeding
c (1) : to rid (a nation, a political party, etc.) by a purge (2) : to get rid of the leaders had been purged
intransitive verb
I am going with [2 c (2)] as my preferred definition. "Get rid of" (with extreme predjudice!)
However it is time to purge the swamp, like in [2 b (2)]to free something of sediment (like a swamp drainhole)
And I feel that fear of prosecutions and nooses is causing many to (2 a) "purge their bowels"
LOL! I had to walk outside and just make sure that there were no chunks of sky laying around in my backyard!
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Yeah. And here's Pat Buchanan weighing in. The information has gone mainstream.
But the significance of what he describes hasn't sunken in with him yet. Buchanan cites Bobby Kennedy targeting Jimmy Hoffa and Hoover targeting Martin Luther King, Jr. But neither Hoffa nor King was a major party presidential candidate in the middle of a presidential election. Here, with Trump, multiple federal employees from multiple federal agencies conspired with each other and coordinated their actions to use their offices to "get" the presidential candidate from the opposing party during the presidential election, and attempted to both prevent him from winning the election and prevent him from governing in the event he did win. Government employees are not supposed to do that.
Federal employees have to fill out a financial disclosure statement every year under certain circumstances which would include top brass at the FBI. Let's find those statements and see if he lied on a disclosure statement. I'm pretty sure the disclosure statement covers family members, especially a wife to some extent.
The video is reported as 'Restricted' when I try to watch it. Now Google finds CNN to be unsafe?
Democrats see nothing wrong mixing politics with their government job. Teach them a lesson they won't forget. Vote. Vote. Vote.
"Not to worry, still fake news. At the end Ms. Harlow says Paul Callan has an Op-Ed at the CNN Website. I looked, it's not there."
It's up now — http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/29/opinions/fbi-leadership-to-blame-for-tarnished-reputation-callan-opinion/index.html


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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Digital Edition > My Day
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Un-American Activities Committee hearings are being carried on in Seattle at the present time, and on Friday most of the front page of the morning paper was given over to the various people who had been called before the committee. Among others there was a young woman lawyer who vehemently denied ever having been a member of the Communist party or having any affiliations with the Communists. In her photograph she looked disturbed and deeply troubled.
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My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt, December 17, 1956
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I have reformatted the sumfile, bottle file and began reformatting of the CTDfiles for this PR06 cruise. Values for TCARBN, ALKALI, DELC13, and O18/O16 are missing values. Sum and bottle file pass diagnostic programs minor bottle errors. CTD files contain station and cast numbers that do not correspond to the sum file and will need to be resolved with the Data originator (Whitney). Files were put online, encrypted until further word from PI. Unformatted doc file has been made from word doc. Following changes were made to files: BOTTLE: Created text file from excel spreadsheet. Aligned columns according to WOCE format. Changed expocode from 18DD9618/1 to 18DD9618_1 Edited stations numbers SU2 through SU8 to correspond to two digit nomenclature of sumfile. (I.E. SU2 changed to SU02, etc.) Edited original missing values of -9.0 to correspond with correct precision for each parameter. (i.e. -9.0 to -9.00 for O18/O16 missing values, etc.) Edited original missing value of -9.0 to -999.0 for DelC13. Ran wocecvt with following errors: BIG pressure inversion on station P20 cast 3 **THIS ERROR WAS PRODUCED FOR EACH CAST OF STATION 26, HOWEVER THE CASTS AND INFORMATION APPEAR TO MATCH THE SUMFILE WITH NO PROBLEMS** fndsum: too many lines of same station. max= 50 stn=P26 sumun1: missing cast type sumun1: embedded blanks in date. sumun1: date string should be 6 digits. sumun1: read err on date iostat= 1015 sumun1: read err on date iostat= 1015 sumun1: embedded blanks in time. sumun1: read err on time iostat= 1015 sumun1: time code is too big. max= 2 sumun1: sumun1: err rtn from rtnfmt. spec= is too big. max=*** sumun1: uncoding latitude string is too big. max= sumun1: err rtn from rtnfmt. spec=(IFA) uncoding longitude string sumun1: parameter list truncated. cdsd2: .SUM warning. SUM: Created text file from excel spreadsheet. Alinged columns according to WOCE format. Changed expocode from 18DD9618/1 to 18DD9618_1 Edited missing time to -9 Edited all dates to contain two digit fields for mmddyy. Month was missing leading zero. Edited incorrect year in date for station P25. Year was 95, should be 96. Ran sumchk with no errors produced. Added name/date stamp. CTD: Removed hard carriage returns. Changed expocode from 18DD9618/1 to 18DD9618_1 certain station files had asterisks for SAMPLING RATE. This was edited to blank space to pass wctcvt. Ran wctcvt. Not all CTD station numbers match station numbers in the sumfile. Cast numbers in CTD files have been numbered sequentially for CTD casts and do not match any cast numbers in sumfile. PI will need to be contacted for course of action for CTD files
Sent all data files to Sarilee Anderson for reformatting. Created data directory and index page for this criuse.
For all Line PR05 and PR06 surveys done for WOCE, I am the only contact regarding making data public. This applies to both CTD and bottle data. As I confirmed by fax last week, IOS consents to making public, all data we have submitted to WOCE so far.


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The holidays for children will be most remembered for the time they spent with family. By taking just a few minutes to create a craft with your preschooler, you are making a lifetime memory for them and a special keepsake for yourself. Most of the 25 crafts shown here can be found on Pinterest.
We'll start off with the classic turkey with colorful feathers. There are so many different variations, but the ones I have listed here stood out to me for various reasons.
1. I love this turkey because it is just so unique. A bonus is that manipulating the beans and pasta is great for strengthening small motor skills. If you wanted to take it a step further, you could frame it and display it year after year.
2. This adorable little guy can bring a hint of nature to your Thanksgiving table. You could even write names on a leaf of each one and use them as place cards. What child doesn't love google eyes?
3. & 4. Who doesn't cherish a handprint turkey from their little one? So cute! These next two would both be great either framed or laminated and used as placemats!
5. & 6. Then there's also the classic thankful turkey. These are such a great way to tie in the purpose of the holiday. Wouldn't it be fun to do one every year and see how the things they are thankful for change?
7. If you want something similar to a handprint turkey but with a twist, you can make a footprint turkey. I love this one with the colorful feathers. The feathers add a different texture for kids to manipulate. You can even have a little fun and have a tickle fight with the feathers before gluing them on!
8., 9., & 10. Indian corn brings a remembrance of harvest blessings to the Thanksgiving holiday. Small manipulatives are always great for strengthening fine motor skills in preschoolers. Providing them with a variety of colors and textures also helps to develop their senses. Here, colorful buttons are used to create the pieces of corn.
11 This is by far my favorite corn craft because it combines counting with crafting! They can either glue the candy on as they count, or you could not glue them and use it over and over again for counting practice.
12. This super simple corn shaker is sure to be a hit with the little music-makers! You could even throw in some confetti for a little color. Just remember to glue the lid on so you don't end up having more to clean up than dinner dishes!
13. Here is a colorful wreath to greet your guests. While this craft is a little more time-consuming than most, I love the finished product!The corn is painted using tempera paint and bubble wrap. How fun is that? The simple v-shaped leaves are added, then layered onto a wreath-shaped piece of cardboard. Finish it off with a piece of ribbon or twine for hanging.
14. & 15. This last corn craft may end up being made at my house. Start by attaching toothpicks or corn cob holders onto the ends of a raw ear of corn. Roll through different colors of paint, then roll them onto a sheet of paper. You can either leave their painting "as is," or cut and paste it into another shape as shown above.
Next, I'll move on to crafts that highlight the fall season with leaves and acorns.
16. This is such a great idea for your Thanksgiving table. Go outside and gather some leaves, paint them, and use them to print a tablecloth. You can either use tempera paint and a paper tablecloth, or even better, fabric paint and a real tablecloth!
17. Beautiful sun-catchers are made using torn up tissue paper and cold laminating pouches. Kids will love ripping up the tissue paper! Then you can help them layer it between the top and bottom of a laminating pouch. Press the two sides together and cut into leaf shapes.
18. After spending some time outdoors gathering leaves, hand your preschooler some paint, a larger paint brush, and a large piece of paper or poster board. This type of painting, where an object leaves a void, not only creates a beautiful picture but also shows your child a different perspective. Usually, where they put paint is the picture they are creating instead of where they didn't put paint.
19. These leaf people are just fun and quirky. They definitely allow your preschooler to be imaginative. I encourage you to do a search online for leaf people because there are so many to choose from!
20. & 21. I like this fingerprint tree because it uses the child's hand for branches. But just look what they have done here with the all-season tree! It makes me wish my kids were little again so we could create one!
22. The acorn… I like the idea of an acorn craft because we see so many turkeys and leaves done that the acorn gives you something unique. You or your preschooler can cut out a simple acorn shape, then rip up tissue paper, scrunch it, and glue. These would also make adorable name markers for your table.
23. Now, let's not forget about those Pilgrims! If you haven't already, I would encourage you to tell your kids the story of the "First Thanksgiving." I was taught so many false things about the Pilgrims, Native Americans, and their feast growing up that I seriously thought that was when the Thanksgiving holiday started. There are truly some wonderfully lessons to be learned about that time in our nations history that we tend to think of when we celebrate Thanksgiving.
24. Now, I have seen a lot of cute handprint crafts, but this one is absolutely adorable! These plastic cup pilgrim hats are another great idea for place markers or centerpieces.
25. What a couple of cute faces to greet your guests at the door! Or just a fun way for your child to retell the story to their loved ones.
I hope you've been inspired to grab some paper, paint, glue, and a little bit of nature and make some special memories with you precious little preschooler.
Check out our bonus tutorial of a Thanksgiving turkey hat below!
By: Katie Schnarr, K4 Teacher, Faith Christian Preschool


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Made during a four-year period of recovery following the end of the Second World War, director Jacques Becker's (1906-1960) postwar "Youth" trilogy of Antoine and Antoinette (1947), Rendezvous in July (1949), and Édouard and Caroline (1951) represents one of the most important bridges between pre-World War II realist French cinema and the artistically seismic nouvelle vague (or French New Wave) that emerged by 1959. An assistant director, mentee, and all-around spiritual heir to the great figure of that earlier period, Jean Renoir (A Day in the Country, Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game), Becker's trilogy provided a template for what a cinema about and for young Parisians could look like. These films provided a necessary precondition for the future, Paris-based new wave movement, which was dominated in its earliest years by a group of directors more than twenty years Becker's junior.
Becker's alive and deeply appealing films from the late 1940s and early 1950s—continuing through Casque d'Or (1952) and Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)—were some of the rare signs of cinematic life for the young filmmakers, along with the wealth of Hollywood studio output that belatedly arrived on French screens after the end of the Nazi occupation. Along with the Americans, Becker and a small number of his countrymen, such as Robert Bresson and Jacques Tati, refuted France's arid "tradition of quality," the mode that the future New Wave directors like François Truffaut defined their careers against. Becker's films abounded with authenticity, intelligence, and most of all an authorial voice that could guide France's storied next generation of film artists.
But Becker's cinema must have been more still for these 'Young Turks': it offered a reflection of the young, broke, bohemian, Parisian world in which they all found themselves as they began writing film criticism and dreamt more seriously about their future careers as filmmakers. It was a mirror—and a very seductive one at that for the young, male, heterosexual future directors—on their world, the world that they would take over from Becker at around the same time he passed away prematurely in 1960 (though not without leaving one last masterpiece that same year, the all-time great prison drama Le Trou).
Jacques Becker's trilogy commences appropriately, in Antoine and Antoinette, with a tilt-shot down the Eiffel Tower, the symbol par excellence of the city that will play starring role in all three films. Becker then cuts to a factory floor, with close-ups of the machines being operated by the firm's workers, before switching locations to a popular department store. With these two locations, we are introduced to the first film's two namesakes: Antoine (Roger Pigaut), the factory worker; and Antoinette (Claire Mafféi, later thanked in the credits of Truffaut's The 400 Blows, no doubt for her work in this film), the operator of the passport photo booth at the store. They both work for their meager living—though Antoine in particular dreams of more, in his case a motorbike to replace the bicycle that is run over in the film's opening act. Young and poor, but also very much in love, Antoine and Antoinette exudes the romantic idealism of youth that would be explored in countless varieties by future new wave directors.
Antoinette, meanwhile, is subject to an unending series of sexual propositions, from store patrons, the couple's boxer neighbor, and most consistently, by the smarmy local grocer, M. Roland (Noël Roquevert, an actor with a very long and varied resume), who attempts to ply the young doe-eyed beauty with the promise of material riches. In this sense, Antoine and Antoinette establishes an anxiety that will come to govern the entirety of the trilogy: a younger, poorer man will struggle with the attention that his wife or girlfriend receives from all the other many suitors who can give her everything the protagonist cannot—whether that's money or in the case of Rendezvous in July, professional advancement and a more erudite existence; the latter proves the more difficult challenge.
In Antoine and Antoinette, Becker momentarily resolves this anxiety with the couple's accidental discovery of a winning lottery ticket, before reinforcing and deepening Antoine's fear with the subsequent disappearance of the ticket. When Antoine wanders the streets after discovering that he has the lost the ticket in the Metro station, his crushed demeanor expresses his failure to find a solution to his great problem—namely, to having the resources to keep his very beautiful wife. For her part, Antoinette seems to understand her husband's psychology as she sets out to find and console her desperate husband. Antoine and Antoinette confirms the power of their love, but not without cinema's magical intervention one last time.
Ultimately, it is the life that Becker's actors give their characters that provides Antoine and Antoinette with its truly extraordinary warmth and charm, qualities in as short supply then as now. The film's very concrete Parisian setting, meanwhile, lends the film its enduring material interest: we glimpse a newly revitalized city, teeming with life, from the arched underground tunnels to the leafy boulevards. We see a lived-in city, filled with life in the years immediately following the Occupation.
The second film in the trilogy, Rendezvous in July, once again returns to the Eiffel Tower for its opening shot—a horizontal panning take this time—before a series of cuts from end of a phone line to another stitches together the film's community of young, jazz and theatre-loving bohemians. Positioned once more against the wealthy—embodied, in this case by young Africanist Lucien's (Daniel Gélin) rigid and insensitive father—Rendezvous in July moves on from the two-person focus of Antoine and Antoinette to a more panoramic portrait of a generation, to the generation again that the future nouvelle vague directors, unlike Becker himself, belonged. As a portrait of a generation or social group, the second film in the trilogy confirms the influence of Renoir, and in particular the older director's mid-1930s Popular Front cinema—on which Becker collaborated—that construed societies and social relationships through the use of moving camera and depth of field.
Perhaps the most vivid dimension of Becker's style in Rendezvous in July are the real-world locations and use of non-professionals that once again establish an extraordinary degree of authenticity, a sense that we are seeing Paris as it was inhabited in 1949. From the amphibious vehicle that plunges into the Seine as if it were Renoir's Boudu to the jazz clubs, filled with dancing twenty year-olds, where American trumpet player Rex Stewart makes a cameo, we are introduced to an open and free Paris that is playground for the postwar generation.
Of course, that both of these examples reveal America's liberating presence is by no means accidental: Paris, though still defined by the Eiffel Tower, was being remade by a young, deeply American-influenced generation; Lucien's father, by comparison, very pointedly prefers French cigarettes to American ones. Combating the cinema du papa, it was Lucien's generation who would develop a cinema that would be emboldened by the energy of American genre and "b"-cinema, while processing the best of its own past (that Becker seemed to uniquely carry forward, in its fullest spirit, into the postwar period, from his trilogy to his own Gallic take on the American crime noir, Grisbi).
In Rendezvous in July, Lucien plans an ethnographic film with the help of his friends—including a graduate cinematographer who complains that the French are not making any films. In this observation and in the new model at which Becker hints with his amateur filmmakers, we see a film that is not only itself trying something new and particular to its postwar moment in time—in its expression of a generational ethos and the free and playful structure that seems to mirror its jazz soundtrack; we also see a film that is aware of the paucity of postwar French film and the necessity of new models. Rendezvous in July is its own "certain tendency" (to reference Truffaut's anti-tradition of quality diatribe).
As much as Rendezvous in July is remembered for its jazz score and performances, theatre—glimpsed in a series of rehearsals that alternate with the jazz gigs, and conceived in the tradition of the name-checked Sacha Guitry, the theatre and film director who was another essential figure of prewar French cinema—plays as essential a role in the lives of the film's young subjects. A production authored by the older brother of the film's focal beauty, Christine (Nicole Courcel), becomes a site of fantasy and anxiety for the women and men respectively, as well as a source again for young male anxiety. In this case we have Christine and her more talented actress friend Thérèse (Brigitte Auber) suddenly the subject of the playwright and director's attention, much to the consternation of their student boyfriends. While happy endings are not unambiguously forthcoming for all the director's protagonists, as always, Becker stands on the side of the young in this exquisite generational portrait and city symphony.
Concluding the trilogy, Édouard and Caroline returns to the young-married subject of Antoine and Antoinette, albeit with Lucien's Gélin returning as the film's concert pianist groom. In the third film's opening scene, Becker contrasts the couple's labor with Édouard behind the keyboard and the comely Caroline (Anne Vernon) scrubbing a toilet. Becker now seems to sympathize more with his female rather than his overly fastidious male lead who soon complains that his wife touched his dictionaries. Of course, we discover that this is true in one of the lightly comical scenes to follow with Caroline using the books as an aid as she works on a dress for the evening's posh dinner party.
Caroline's preparations for the party provide not only much of the film's light comedy, but also facilitate its most surprising visual moments. As she dresses and later ingeniously mends her dress in advance of her very wealthy uncle Claude's party, she occasionally looks directly into the camera, primping as if she were staring into a mirror. There is a real playfulness in these moments that suits the director of Antoine and Antoinette perfectly, a youthful sense of visual experimentation that we needless should be reminded was adopted by a forty-five year old director less than a decade before his death. Then again, we also see the director's personality in precisely these moments, in his predilection for actions and gestures that don't advance the plot, but which merit our attention nonetheless. Becker's cinema is one that needs to be seen in the truest sense—just like Renoir's; it lives in the authenticity of actors performing gestures with their own human specificity, in real, recognizable places.
We also see Becker in the film's politics. Reminiscent of Renoir's urban interiors in The Rules of the Game, Claude's posh, well-appointed apartment contrasts strongly with the title couple's meager flat. Becker therefore reestablishes the wealthy vs. poor dynamic that enlivens all three films. Caroline, in this instance, comes from the better family—having married below her station, to an artist—with her love struck and relentless cousin Alain serving as Édouard's romantic foil. However, in this case, the male lead has his own admirers to match those of the wife. Wealth attacks their loving marriage from both sides in this ultimate offering in the director's postwar trilogy. With Édouard and Caroline it does feel that Becker is pushing out of sociological observation and more into biography.
Much of the rest of the brilliance of the third film in the trilogy—and there is no shortage of brilliance—resides in the simplicity of its structure: Édouard and Caroline unfolds comically over a single evening as the pair prepares for a dinner party that could prove professionally advantageous for Édouard. Mishap follows mishap, misunderstanding succeeds misunderstanding as the most minor of problems grow into insurmountable marital issues. By the time they reach the party, there is talk of divorce—absurd in the context of the film, yet an unavoidable conclusion for the offended parties. Suffice it to say that Becker will not allow this romantic injustice to stand.
Following Édouard and Caroline, Becker moved away from the romantic comedy-drama toward two gangster subjects, Casque d'Or and Touchez pas au grisbi, which became more direct inspirations for Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player (1960) and Jean Luc-Godard's Breathless (1960), in particular. However, it is this earlier trilogy that feels closest to, if not the films themselves, the very spirit of a movement that French journalist Françoise Giroud would name in 1957, two years in advance of the new wave's watershed year. Giroud, as it happens, co-wrote Antoine and Antoinette ten years earlier.
Jacques Becker's trilogy screens over three successive Thursdays: Antoine and Antoinette plays Thursday, November 1 at 7:30 pm; Rendezvous in July screens Thursday, November 8 at 8 pm; and Édouard and Caroline plays Thursday, November 15 at 7:30 pm.


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Before the internet became a simple fact of everyday life, dentists reached their prospects via newspaper ads, outdoor boards, the occasional TV or radio spot, and postcard campaigns.
You might think that in this internet age "offline marketing" is no longer a viable way to attract new patients. You'd be wrong. It's not an "either-or" question. It's a question of what's right for your practice and your market.
Today's Offline Media
The sound-and-sight aspects of the internet can be very compelling for getting your marketing messages to your dental prospects. Your offline marketing needs to step up its game to be equally compelling.
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This could make one a believer in a conspiracy to commit murder on 9-11-2001. Whether one chooses to believe this report or not is not irrelevant. The crime was committed and who did it is still a question on everyone's mind, especially now as Joe Biden threatens us with speeches about following ISIS to the Gates of Hell. (Who the hell does he think he is? His son is sitting on the board of directors for a natural gas company named Burisma operating in eastern Ukraine. His son will not be sent to the front lines with Joe the Plummer's kids.)
Our entire foreign policy since 9-11-2001 has been about engaging in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim terrorist hoax (otherwise known as the "religious holy wars"), and this time ISIS has more advanced weaponry than Israel, and they are out of control, corporate toy soldiers, pirates, and mercenaries.
What's important to realize is that many of us world citizens believe in following the law, and that's precisely but not exclusively why we as a nation are so concerned about the cost of living, yet we do nothing about it until it's too late.
Meanwhile, mind games like the one depicted in the short film below and sick and evil. Their use of psychological warfare, chemical weapons, and media propaganda machines exposes their "soft power" as it was referred to many years ago.
Anyway, pay attention and keep digging. Think about the best way to fight this power and make public suggestions online for all to see.
Hey, maybe it's me. I'm just noticing a random coincidence. Right? Look again. Probably so. Hindsight is 20/20. Without seeing the original script and asking the directors, producers, and actors any questions, we cannot ascertain whether there was supposed to be any likeness to a future event.
If good ole Michael J Fox were to say to you "Hey Doc, I got to tell you something about the future." Would you listen?
I guess I need to look into synchromysticism. Looks like a bunch of random coincidences to me.


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Known as the gateway to the North, the capital of Lapland, Rovaniemi has 60 000 inhabitants. Its an edgy culture and university city, which has started to entice more and more city tourists. It's a great place to spend an arctic city weekend.
Art lovers will find interesting galleries, museums, theatre art and classical music concerts. Shoppers will enjoy the second hand and design stores. The city has plenty of good hotels and restaurants.
Rovaniemi is also the official home town of Santa Claus. Santa's workshop in the arctic circle is open all year round, and Santa himself is present every day of the year.
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Some ladies surfing with their high heels in Bali few weeks ago. Paddle, standing, and viola! They made it. This clip made us smile when we watch it, they do the great job, give us diversity in the surfing world, and one thing they showed us how fun is surfing.
Video: Anna Lazar on Vimeo


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April 3 is the day that these three students from TL Kennedy Secondary School will never forget. That was the day when Laetitia Chang, Elizabeth Michez and Aditi Soin were invited and officially recognized at the Legislative Assembly at Queens Park by Member of Provincial Parliament for Mississauga East – Cooksville Kaleed Rasheed, for representing Canada at the upcoming DECA International's International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Orlando, Florida from April 27 to 30.
It all started when the students requested to the MPP for Canadian pins to share with fellow delegates at the competition as part of the DECA tradition to trade pins from their home countries. Once MPP Rasheed heard about the students' work in DECA, he knew he wanted to do something special to recognize their accomplishment.
Laetitia Chang, grade 11 student from TL Kennedy Secondary School
Elizabeth Michez, grade 11 student at TL Kennedy Secondary School
Aditi Soin, grade 9 student at TL Kennedy Secondary School
MPP Rasheed invited the girls to Queens Park for a guided tour of the Legislative Assembly and presented them with an Honourary Award of Achievement. To top it all off, MPP Rasheed officially recognized and congratulated these "bright", young students for their hard work and dedication in the House of Commons Chamber.
Throughout the year, students at TL Kennedy's DECA club participate in a variety of competitions to showcase their leadership and communications skills. Soin also made school history by being the first grade 9 student represent her school in DECA Internationals.
"We're very proud of all our students in the DECA club. It's so exciting to see all their hard work and dedication come to fruition at these events, and watching them shine," said Dolly Mehra, teacher at TL Kennedy.
Chang, Michez and Soin will be among 180,000 students from around the globe who will be competing at DECA Internationals this month.
Watch MPP Rasheed congratulate these students in the House of Commons Chamber on Twitter.
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The New Savages
The New Savages play their own kind of blues. It's a familiar but original sound, somewhere between Jim Morrison playing in an electrified delta blues duo, with a dash of Johnny Cash. They never spend much time in the same place, constantly playing festivals, halls and bars across the continent.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc3uJIRHDqA
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What I would like to see is a freezing (or reduction) of the share count. FFH would better serve me by chopping the dividend back to their nominal $2/sh, and retain an additional $8/sh or $160m/year which it could then use for the various acquisitions that might otherwise result in the issuing of new shares (eg, Zenith).SJ
Funny how people react. Down $10. so what has changed between yesterday and today. Everyone already knew the dividend was coming.


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Computer Repair
Your business needs a reliable computer repair service
Anyone who uses computers can agree that there are a lot of different things that can go wrong with them. Computers made in the last decade tend to have fewer separate parts than those built in the 1980s or early '90s, but many new problems have arisen since that time – none more serious than the threat of virus or malware (malicious software) infection. Diagnosing whether or not you have a hardware or software problem can be key in helping the professionals at computer repair shops specify the problem and go about fixing it.
Diagnosing Computer Problems
Here are some tips to help you determine if the problem you're having with your computer is hardware- or software-related. First, does the computer boot up normally? If the system fails to reach the desktop, chances are there's either a power failure or hard drive issue, meaning the system will need to be opened up and inspected by a computer repair technician. However, even a damaged hard drive can sometimes make it to the desktop and perform one or two basic functions before slowing to a crawl and then crashing altogether. Other hardware issues might include the loss of video or audio, problems that aren't typically related to software corruption or viruses.
Software issues are often easier to identify. If you're being bombarded with advertisements for strange or adult-oriented products, then your computer has probably become infected with a virus, spyware or other potentially harmful programs. These can dramatically slow the performance of an Internet browser, but they can also affect the speed of a system in all of its processes, since they often attack the computer's registry. While anti-virus programs can sometimes prevent these problems from occurring, they're hardly brick walls for hackers who are constantly devising new ways to infect unprotected computers.
Leave It to the Computer Repair Service Pros
Whether you need desktop or laptop computer repair, a computer repair business can typically fix both hardware and software problems. However, a crashing hard drive or infected registry can sometimes mean the permanent loss of some or all data stored on the system, so regular backup sessions using portable hard drives, USB flash drives, or other data storage devices are also highly recommended.
If your company works with a computer consulting firm, then that's who you should probably contact first in times of trouble. But unless you have in-depth computer knowledge and the proper computer repair tools, it is never recommended that you open up your computer and try to fix a problem yourself.


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Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, on Tuesday said that a Task Force has been formed by the government for identifying areas for use of space technology in improving border management. The task force will be headed by joint secretary and will have members from Border guarding forces (BGFs) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).The newly formed task force has consulted all stake holders including BGFs,ISRO, National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) and Ministry of Defence (MoD) before finalising the report."The project will strengthen island and border security by providing observation, communication and navigation capability to border guarding and internal security forces in remote areas." Kiren Rijuju said in his reply to Lok Sabha.The areas identified for use of space technology are island development and security, border surveillance, communication and navigation,GIS and operation planning system and Border infrastructure Monitoring.The report will be implemented in phases and a short, medium and long term plan have been prepared for the same.Under the short term plan, the Centre has planned to allocate 130 crores rupees for the establishment of network infrastructure and computing requirements for all CAPFs, hiring of transponders and procurement of satellite data for immediate operational use of the forces.Under the medium term plan, the Centre will allocate 80 crores rupees for Launch of one satellite for exclusive use of MHA by ISRO and establishment of ground segment to receive input from satellite Under the long term plan, Rs 70 crores will be provided by the Centre in five years for launch of additional satellite, upgradation of ground segments and capacity building of CAPFs for using space technology.


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The master plan, created with collaboration between Highland, University Hills Optimists sports group, PARD and Norris Design, is an exciting vision of a beautiful green space we can share with our family, friends, and neighbors.
The planning process included Site Analysis and Data Collection to create Existing Conditions, Opportunities and Challenges Report; Public Outreach to develop the plans, including preliminary design concept options, a final master plan, implementation strategy, budget estimates and funding strategies. It worked within the parameters set forth by a City Council resolution from July of 2014. All those fancy words resulted in a much fancier plan for Highland Neighborhood Park.
Below are the links to the presentation of the final plans. The same links are available on the City page for the Highland Neighborhood Park Master Plan
THANK YOU to Norris Design, PARD, and all the Highland residents who have taken part in the master planning and all the hard work leading up to it! Enjoy!


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Mackenzie | Matoaca High School Class of 2019
I'm so excited to show off Mackenzie's Senior Portraits! I knew when I was shooting it would be my new Senior Album Promo and I think you'll see why! I first met Mackenzie MANY years ago when she was a flower girl in a wedding! Over the years I've been blessed to capture more weddings and milestones for her family including her sister's senior portraits!
Mackenzie chose her Aunt's waterfront home on Lake Chesdin and Matoaca High School as backdrops for this once in a lifetime session! Each location holds a lot of sentimental value and history for both her and her family and I was excited to be a part of it. Through texts we picked the perfect outfits and at Mom's suggestion we included her prom dress! Mackenzie is cute as a button in a dress and heels but transitions easily into a volleyball jersey or can slide on cleats to take her place on the ball field without a second thought. I was excited to combine all of her interests into one image to remember this special time. Thank you Mackenzie and Shelly for choosing me capture this milestone! Mackenzie, I don't know what the future holds for you but know I'll be cheering for you on the ball field, on the court, through graduation and beyond!


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Hi, welcome to the Warriors Fanfiction Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Warriors: Silverpaw's Destiny page.
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Welcome to the wiki! I'm Artimas Hunter, one of the wiki's admins. If you need anything please let me know. I really hope you have a great time here, and I can't wait to read your fanfics! :D --ArtimasHunter 17:13, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
You have the same user pic as another user, do you know her? On The Edge Of Glory Don't Push Me Off 21:10, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
well, she changed it but anyway. Have you read any stories? On The Edge Of Glory Don't Push Me Off 22:38, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
any of mine? On The Edge Of Glory Don't Push Me Off 22:41, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
oh okay. Do you want me to make you a siggie? On The Edge Of Glory Don't Push Me Off 22:44, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
what do you want it to say and what colors? On The Edge Of Glory Don't Push Me Off 22:46, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
Here it is, do you know how to use it? Hollyleaf Of Thunderclan On The Edge Of Glory Don't Push Me Off 23:09, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
if you dont ask arti, she's better at explaining it than me On The Edge Of Glory Don't Push Me Off 23:18, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
Go to 'Preferences' by scrolling over your name/avatar from the home page. There should be an area for signatures. Put the coding in the box and save. --ArtimasHunter 00:22, August 20, 2011 (UTC)
Oh yeah, I forgot. Sorry. xD Ask Blood for the codes, he's the one who made it for you, right? He'll know the coding. Then you can just copy and paste the code onto the preference thing. :) --ArtimasHunter 17:07, August 21, 2011 (UTC)
Hey Holly, for the coding click the source mode botton and find where the siggie was there will be this loog thing is [[ ]] and another one right next to it copy those and then do what arti said On The Edge Of Glory Don't Push Me Off 17:37, August 21, 2011 (UTC)
awesomeo holly :D Good Is Good But Great Is Better 21:51, August 29, 2011 (UTC)
Hey holly, whats up, i saw you were on Bloody The Awesomest Cat Around 00:27, September 15, 2011 (UTC)
Oh coolieo, so whats up?...besides that XD Bloody The Awesomest Cat Around 00:30, September 16, 2011 (UTC)
ive been in school for a month Bloody The Awesomest Cat Around 21:38, September 16, 2011 (UTC)
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Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB) began with a 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) recommendation that resulted in congressional legislation ordering the consolidation of Naval Support Facility (NSF) Anacostia and Bolling Air Force Base (BAFB).
The joint base is one of 12 formed in the country, consolidating 26 installations.
With NSF and BAFB sharing a common boundary, military and congressional leaders recognized the opportunity to reduce duplication of efforts and facilities requirements; better utilization of facilities and infrastructure and consolidation and optimization of existing and future service contract requirements, capable of generating financial savings.
Years of planning, followed by a gradual transition of installation management functions performed by civilian, military and contract personnel culminated in the smooth transition of base operating support management under a single, Navy-led joint military command.
Since the BRAC legislation was enacted, Air Force and Navy planners, support personnel and leaders steadfastly worked to ensure a smooth transition to JBAB. The transition began with an initial operating capability on Jan. 31, 2010, when certain installation support functions began to transfer to the joint base construct and reached full operational capability on Oct. 1, 2010.
A DOD asset since 1917
JBAB's property has been a Department of Defense (DOD) asset since 1917. From its beginning, the installation has included the Army Air Corps (predecessor to today's Air Force) and Navy aviation and support elements. It began as a single installation, known as the Flying Field at Anacostia, then renamed Bolling Field a year later.
Not long after its acquisition by the military, the single installation evolved into two separate, adjoining bases; one Army (later Air Force) and one Navy. In the late 1940s, Bolling Field's property became Naval Air Station Anacostia and a new Air Force base; named Bolling Air Force Base was constructed just to the south in 1948.
Over the years, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and National Guard units, as well as DOD and federal agencies also found the installation to be an ideal place to operate from.
Rich History of service to the country and world
From the start, the installation served an important role in service to the country and the world, including many aviation and humanitarian developments and missions.
In 1918, pilots from the installation were dispatched by President Woodrow Wilson to create the first permanent airmail route from Washington, D.C. to New York, N.Y.
Navy seaplanes were first tested and Air Force aerial refueling techniques were developed by installation-based personnel and military commands.
Following its successful transatlantic flight in 1927, Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" returned to the installation. Soon after, the aircraft was utilized for Lindbergh's goodwill flight to Mexico and South America.
Air Force Lt. Col. Henry "Hap" Arnold led a bomber flight from Bolling Field on a 4,000-mile journey to Alaska in 1934, to demonstrate the capabilities of long-range strategic bombing missions.
Throughout World War II, the installation served as a training and organizational base for personnel and units going overseas. It also served as the aerial gateway to the nation's capital.
The Air Force's first headquarters was established at the installation, as Army Air Forces Headquarters in 1941 and with the creation of the United States Air Force, Air Force Headquarters in 1947.
The Sacred Cow, President Harry Truman's initial official aircraft and Franklin Roosevelt's only official aircraft, retired from service on the installation in 1961. The aircraft was the predecessor to Air Force One. The aircraft's presidential and VIP support missions were significant. The desk inside of the aircraft is where President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which created the United States Air Force.
In 1962, fixed-wing aircraft operations at the air force and naval installations ceased, due to congested airspace around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, on the opposite shore of the Potomac River.
With fixed-wing aircraft operations ceased, the installations continued their important service to the country and the world, serving in many capacities, including service with the Military Airlift Command (MAC); the headquarters for the Air Force District of Washington; the Air Force 11th Wing; Commander, Naval Installations Command, Naval Media Center (now, Defense Media Activity-Navy) and many other military commands and federal agencies.


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In Search of Panther Creek
We were only guilty of trespassing on private land. We hadn't damaged anything. We hadn't broken into any buildings. We could have turned around right then and left no evidence of our transgression.
But we had passed through a quarter mile of scrub oak and hawthorn trees—they had left us cut and bleeding—and we wanted to find another way back to our campsite, back to the other side of the lake.
The canoes were stacked near the waterfront, stranded like so many turtles—upside down—beckoning to us to free them, or just one of them. Summer camp hadn't started yet. No one would miss a canoe until we were long gone from the place. Camp staff could retrieve it from the far shore.
The paddles, we reckoned, were inside the shed. We discussed our plans, in whispers, and gave furtive glances across the dam, toward the barracks that held a hundred girls for a week at a time through the summer. Our trespassing felt a heavier sin than it had on other lands; we were two boys now crossing land owned by the Girl Scouts of America. Our presence there alone was proof of some delinquency.
Four small screws held the hasp and padlock to the weathered plywood door. The hasp had been installed backwards, with the screws exposed. We could simply unscrew them. No need to break anything to get to the paddles.
David and I had walked out the back door of my house three days before. The first mile was covered with scrub and blackjack oak forest, cut by river bottoms full of sycamore trees, sandstone boulders, snapping turtles and water moccasins.
The woods gave way to rolling pastureland, to a cattle ranch that stretched beyond the horizon. Sometimes I'd stand on a knoll under a blue sky flecked with rising clouds, and I'd wonder if anyone had ever walked there, if anyone had stood alone in that place. Then I'd stumble onto a horseshoe or a bottle or a glove.
I guessed at the history of that place—mostly from what I found by accident: a spent rifle shell, a broken shovel handle, the decaying remains of a truck chassis. These were the edges of a jigsaw puzzle, but just the edges. Whose horse kicked off a shoe or whose truck chassis coasted into oblivion—these people remained strangers to me.
Even the land remained hidden; I only knew what I had seen, what was visible. I didn't know where the open country gave way to woods again, where I might find cliffs, where a creek was born or even which river it finally found.
I had speculated about the source and fate of the creek. I had crossed it once, at midwinter. But I had never known more, not even its name. I sent a cashier's check to the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, and in return they gave me Panther Creek.
I showed the maps to David, and that spring we stepped off my parent's back porch in search of Panther Creek and whatever else might be hidden in the Osage Hills of northeastern Oklahoma. We crossed Panther Creek on the first day. On the second day, around mid-day, we came to Strike Ax Road. I had not known that a road bisected that land. Next to the road stood a line of charred fence posts, black against the green spring grasses, betraying a history of lightning strikes or of a cigarette butt carelessly tossed in the late summer. The rusted barbed-wire strands lay on the ground, long fallen from the armature of burned posts.
We had seen a lake on the map, just a mile from our road crossing. In open country we could have covered this mile by early afternoon. But the woods were thick with undergrowth, and we didn't arrive at the lake until just before nightfall. Rain had fallen all afternoon; we were soaked through even as we gathered damp firewood. We coaxed a smoky fire at the edge of a rock outcropping and hung our clothes to dry.
The next morning we found that we were not alone in that place. At the north end of the lake, a quarter mile away, we saw a small wooden shed. No house, no people, no dogs. Just a shed. We dismantled camp and stashed our packs between two boulders.
My heart pounded as we opened the shed. I found two of the longest wooden paddles and set them softly in the canoe. We carried the canoe to the shore and pushed off. My arms shook as we paddled. Trespassing was no longer our greatest crime. We were now guilty theft. A chill ran up my back as we hugged the shoreline.
I turned us slightly into the open lake, beginning a long arc that would point us toward our camp. We paddled hard as we approached the shore. The aluminum hull scraped bottom. My legs were weak as soon as we jumped from the canoe. The landing had made more noise than we had wanted.
We crouched between the boulders again, deliberating the fate of the canoe. It wouldn't sink; camp staff would eventually find it. We pushed it into the lake, toward the shed.
We hiked out of the thick woods and away from the suffocating feeling of being caught. That night we made camp in the open, under a clear blue-black canvas of stars, and built a fire. We talked of our misdeeds, and we assured ourselves that everything would be made right; the camp staff would find the canoe, they would re-attach the hasp. We consoled ourselves with this.
We knew someone would wonder what happened there—what story was to be told of an abandoned canoe and a breached hasp. They might look into the woods and wonder who had skulked around that shed, and who had broken into it, unseen, unheard, unknown.
But they would never know. The canoe, floating aimlessly in the lake or jammed by the wind into overhanging branches, would never reveal a week-long hike across Panther Creek. Those who found the canoe would never know this.
I hope the camp staff laughed when they discovered the canoe, laughed at a story they would never know. I hope they have forgiven us.
I once found a truck axle in that remote country, miles from any road. When I found it, I laughed—laughed at what bizarre story might explain an axle there.
On the cattle ranch that bordered our property—on fall afternoons—my father and brother and I shot clay pigeons. We would then search the tall, dry grass for shells and boxes and whatever else we had brought with us—to clean up any evidence of our visit. Our father encouraged us to pay attention that way, to care for the land. We went to that place many times, over many summers. Sometimes we would stay there until sunset and then walk home in the dark. We knew the land well enough to cross it in the dark.
I could easily find the place again—by small landmarks: a cow's scapula, the rusted end of a steel barrel, the domed top of a boulder that grew smaller each year as the grass and soil encroached. I remember the cow's scapula was half buried, oriented north-south, like the gnomon of a sundial.
That entire country was too large to know. But that hillside, where my father and my brother and I had returned so often, was small enough that I could know every detail of it—what kind of beetle bred there, where the fire ants lived, which grasses carried ticks, how long ago a fire had charred the land, how the hailstones collected in gullies during a thunderstorm.
In other places, the land would continue to disclose her secrets little by little, by chance, by some insoluble geometry of luck. But not there. Not in that place.
I had been there so often, nothing remained hidden. I was sure there were no secrets left in that place.
The year after I left home for college, my father called me on the phone. He told me he had taken a group of boys to the same place, to shoot clay pigeons. One of the boys had found a stone ax head there.
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On a case record I create a meeting using the create button on the subpanel. When the new meeting is saved an advanced workflow process creates a new task related to the case record.
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By James C. Fontana Contributing Writer
Federal government agencies have traditionally used some form of past performance review (i.e., references of an offeror's performance record with other government and non-government customers) as a part of the competitive evaluation process. In federal government contracting, past performance was often one of several key measures of an offeror's ability to provide the government with quality services.
In an era of procurement reform, and considering the government's sweeping changes in the way it procures information technology, past performance is rapidly becoming the predominant non-cost evaluation factor.
In 1994, as part of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act, or FASA, Congress established the use of past performance as a routine contract award evaluation factor. This basic principle has been implemented in the Federal Acquisition Regulations, or FAR, which require past performance ratings as one of two mandatory evaluation criteria (in addition to cost/price) for most competitively negotiated procurements. Factors that a procuring agency looks for in assessing past performance include the quality of the product or service provided in previous contracts, timeliness of performance, cost control and customer satisfaction.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy, which implements the president's agenda on federal procurement reform, has proposed that, at minimum, past performance should be rated at 25 percent or more of the total award evaluation. It also recommended that it should be at least equal in significance to any other non-cost evaluation factor, such as technical and management abilities.
The FAR had originally envisioned that past performance would be evaluated for all solicitations issued on or after July 1, 1997, on contracts expected to exceed $500,000 in value, and the Defense Department had even considered accelerating that date by 18 months. But the DoD has since reconsidered its position in light of a recent government-sponsored study which criticized the effectiveness of past performance reviews, especially on smaller-dollar contracts. As a result, the government has suspended, at least temporarily, the use of past performance evaluations on contracts below $1 million.
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2019 KTM 690 SMC and Enduro | Manufacture News | News | Spied
KTM's 690 LC4 single-cylinder engine has been one of the firm's cornerstone components for years but for the 2018 range it looks like it's going to be limited to just one model, the 690 Duke.
These spy shots show it's not on its way out, though – instead the latest version of the engine is spreading to revitalised supermoto and enduro versions into 2019.
Back in 2016, the 690 Duke gained a massively redesigned version of the engine to help it comply with the latest European emissions limits. Its bore stretched from 102mm to 105mm while the stroke shrank from 84.5mm to 80mm. Its capacity remained the same, but as well as the new piston and crankshaft there was a new cylinder head. An extra balancer shaft, unconventionally positioned inside the head, helps make it uncannily smooth for a single.
On the Duke, the changes gave a seven per cent power boost to 54kW, and a six per cent torque increase to 74Nm. Numbers particularly impressive for a single.
While this spy shot, which show the revamped 690 SMC supermoto (and there were images we spotted of the 690 Enduro, too) that will both debut in KTM's 2019 range, doesn't give us much technical detail, it's virtually certain that they're using the Duke's Euro 4-spec engine, with all the benefits that carries.
Engine aside, the bikes appear to be using much the same frames as the old 690 SMC and Enduro models, which have disappeared from the line-up this year. With the usual KTM steel trellis design, they're proven to be light and rigid, so there's little reason to alter them.
As on the old models, the plastic fuel tank doubles as the subframe, saving even more weight and eliminating the need for separate, cosmetic bodywork. The 2019 machine's tank is clearly reshaped, though, giving a new look and potentially increasing fuel capacity. Similarly, there's new front bodywork including reshaped radiator shrouds and a new, 690 Duke-style headlight unit.
The SMC supermoto version of course gets road-going wheels and tyres, 17-inches at both ends.
The WP suspension, Brembo radial brake caliper and the wheels themselves all look unchanged from the outgoing model.
What about the enduro?
The Enduro, in contrast, has a 21-inch front and 18-inch rear wheel, again carried over from the old model.
The bikes are just two of a bewildering number of upcoming KTMs that have been spied testing in recent months, ranging from additional models using the new 790 RC8c twin to an all-electric version of the Duke.
If you can't wait for 2019 to get on a new supermoto or enduro, you're in luck. Sister firm Husqvarna already offers the 701 Enduro and 701 Supermoto models, using exactly the same engines, frames, suspension and brakes.
By Ben Purvis