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Ben Stiller's next directorial effort may be the Thomas Edison drama The Current War
Ben Stiller has had a pretty nice run as a filmmaker. Starting with REALITY BITES, he went on to make THE CABLE GUY, ZOOLANDER, and TROPIC THUNDER before completing THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY. The trailer for MITTY premiered this morning and showcased a much more nuanced style than we have seen from the actor. The trailer looks like a combination of Michel Gondry and Wes Anderson, which is one hell of a mix for a director.
But, the dramatic components of MITTY may not be Stiller's last foray into serious filmmaking. The Hollywood Reporter names him as one of the candidates to take over THE CURRENT WAR for producers The Weinstein Company. The Black List screenplay byMichael Mitnick was originally going to be directed by Timur Bekmambetov, but he has dropped out although will remain as producer. The synopsis sounds really intriguing.
The story takes place in the late-1880s and revolves around power titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse's battle over the distribution of electricity. Edison championed direct current (DC) for electric power distribution over alternating current (AC), which was backed by several European companies and Westinghouse Electric.
I am sure Nikola Tesla would figure into the equation somewhere which instantly makes me think of Christopher Nolan's THE PRESTIGE. Before seeing the trailer for THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, I was unsure if Stiller would be a match for the material. Now, I hope he takes the job. I would love to see him stretch his abilities behind the camera and deliver something truly remarkable.
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Minutes of Proceedings
Session: 2012/2013
Date: 12 February 2013
Venue: The Senate Chamber
1.00 p.m. The meeting commenced in Open Session
1. Apologies
The apologies are recorded above.
2. Oral briefing Food Standards Agency, DARD and Local Government Environmental Health: Contamination of Meat Products
The following representatives from the Food Standards Agency, Newry & Mourne Council and DARD officials joined the meeting at 1.01 p.m.
Mr Gerry McCurdy, Director Food Standards Agency
Ms Maria Jennings, Head of Dietary Health, Standards and Incidents, Food Standards Agency
Mr John Farrell, Director of Environment, Health and Building Services, Newry & Mourne City and District Council
Mr Robert Huey, Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, DARD
Mr Alan McCartney, Agricultural Inspector, DARD
Mr Beggs declared an interest that his family are farmers.
Mrs Dobson declared an interest that her husband is a farmer.
Mr Irwin declared an interest that he is a farmer.
1.55 p.m. Mr Beggs left the meeting.
1.55 p.m. Mr McMullan left the meeting.
2.00 p.m. Mr McMullan rejoined the meeting.
2.00 p.m. Mrs Dobson left the meeting.
2.10 p.m. Mr Hazzard left the meeting.
2.15 p.m. Mr Dunne left the meeting.
2.16 p.m. Mr Wells left the meeting.
2.17 p.m. Mr Dunne rejoined the meeting.
2.18 p.m. Mr Irwin left the meeting.
2.24 p.m. Mr Byrne left the meeting.
2.29 p.m. Mr Brady left the meeting.
2.30 p.m. Mr McMullan left the meeting.
2.35 p.m. Mr Gardiner left the meeting.
2.36 p.m. Ms McLaughlin left the meeting.
2.40 p.m. Mr Brady rejoined the meeting.
The representatives and departmental officials briefed the Committee and this was followed by a question and answer session.
Agreed: The Committee agreed to forward the unanswered questions to the Clerk who will submit them to the Food Standards Agency, DARD or Environmental Health for answer.
Agreed: The Committee agreed to write to the Food Standards Agency to request that it is kept fully informed of any further developments.
There was no other business.
The meeting adjourned at 2.46 p.m.
Sue Ramsey, Chairperson, Concurrent Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee for Health, Social Services and Public Safety
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Archive for the "Other Disciplines" category
What Security Folks Can Learn from Doctors
by adam on June 11, 2014
Stefan Larson talks about "What doctors can learn from each other:" Different hospitals produce different results on different procedures. Only, patients don't know that data, making choosing a surgeon a high-stakes guessing game. Stefan Larsson looks at what happens when (…)
Infosec Lessons from Mario Batali's Kitchen
by adam on December 3, 2012
There was a story recently on NPR about kitchen waste, "No Simple Recipe For Weighing Food Waste At Mario Batali's Lupa." Now, normally, you'd think that a story on kitchen waste has nothing to do with information security, and you'd (…)


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If you've stepped outside in a densely populated area at any point in the last few weeks, you've probably seen the latest McDonald's advertising campaign. It involves a series of Emojis which tell stories, usually resulting in a burger and a smile.
Emoji billboard alert pic.twitter.com/SEUDLCnmYV— Jennifer Hassan (@GuinnessKebab) June 29, 2015
But a graffiti artist in Bristol wasn't having any of that.
Haha, sorry @McDonalds but you've been done! #graffiti #Bristol pic.twitter.com/fCnwYXL1g3— Ian Grainger (@Graingeri) July 8, 2015
Turns out those billboard adverts are quite easy to change. Who knew?
All this inspired us to make up some of our own Emoji billboards McDonald's might want to use...
SEE ALSO: Everyone Is Going Nuts Over This Fiendishly Hard Emoji Quiz


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Maybe its finally time for the American soldiers stationed there to refuse to guard the illegal Heroin poppy fields for the Bush cabal, or to die fighting people who are trying to free up their country from the theives who have come steal their land from them and their wealth. Our soldiers have been given the right to refuse illegal orders and that would be an illegal order for them to do what they are doing. Guarding poppy fields for the Bush/Rothschild families, is not what our military is paid to do.
Maybe the foreign occupiers of our country would take over occupying Afghanistan themselves instead of having us do it for them. After all, they killed our Americans on the USS Liberty without batting an eyelash, so maybe its time they did their own dirty work instead of infiltrating our government to have us do it for them. They are the most ungrateful allies, I have ever seen.
Frankly, I am sick of these insane, I mean totally insane, soul-less creatures running our country and culture into the ground with their perversions and wars. If they want a greater Israel, then do it themselves and see how far they get. This is not how Americans would operate. Israel has proven, as has Rothschild, that this is how "THEY" Operate. So do it and leave us out of it.
It really is almost time for us to take a stand, keep our sons and daughters home, and tell them no more money, no more wars, and no more kidnapping our children for any purpose whatsoever, including for their satanic rituals. Don't get me started.
Pentagon urges Kabul to sign deal
Written by Press TV, The Rebel Forum
The US Defense Department has urged the Afghan government to sign a security deal that would authorize an enduring US military presence in the country while a recent poll shows the war in Afghanistan is the most unpopular war in the American history.Despite pressures from Washington, Kabul has declined to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), which will allow thousands of US troops to stay in Afghanistan for up to a decade beyond 2014. (VN: well, If they do not, who is going to guard, protect, and deliver the poppy fields to the drug refiners working for the Bush family? we should create a new saying and logo, "US Soldiers: DYING FOR DRUGS! Heroine specifically. )
"We are prepared to sign the agreement," said Steve Warren, the acting Pentagon spokesman, on Monday.
"We urge the government of Afghanistan to sign the agreement promptly. If we cannot conclude a BSA promptly, we will be forced to initiate planning for a post-2014 future that does not have a US troop presence there," he added.
Washington has repeatedly said if the deal is not signed, it will have to pull its entire force of some 44,500 troops out of the Asian country by the end 2014, warning that the pullout could destabilize the war-stricken country.
Earlier in December, the administration of US President Barack Obama extended the deadline for signing the agreement to January despite an earlier ultimatum that the deal must be signed by the end of December.
The US efforts to force the Afghan government to sign the agreement comes as a recent CNN/ORC International survey shows America's longest war has become its most unpopular one as well. (VN: good, then our people will take a stand against that same agreement. WE ENCOURAGE THE AFGHAN GOV TO NOT SIGN THE AGREEMENT.
The poll, released on Monday, indicates that support for the war in Afghanistan among Americans has dipped to just 17 percent and that a majority of Americans would like to see troops pull out of Afghanistan before the December 2014 withdrawal deadline.
Source: PressTV
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Players have been clamoring for a robust crafting system in
style="font-style: italic;">Dungeons
and Dragons Online and
Turbine has answered their pleas. With the
upcoming Update 9, Turbine not only adds a crafting system that should
not only please players, but still remains true to the pen-and-paper
roots of the game. Not only is there a new crafting system, there is
also a brand new adventure pack featuring the first appearance of a
hideous new creature, new enhancements, tweaks to combat, and a host of
other changes and new things. I was lucky enough to get a hands-on
preview of the new content from Fernando Paiz, Executive Producer, and
Erik Boyer, Producer.
The bulk of my hands-on time was spent in the crafting hall (located in
House Kundarak just inside the entrance to the Marketplace) going over
the new crafting system. There are three schools of crafting: Arcane,
Divine, and Elemental. You are not restricted by having to choose a
particular school as that you can level all three. The crafting process
is comprised of three distinct steps, all of which take place at a
different crafting machine in the hall. The three steps are: item
deconstruction, shard crafting, and item crafting.
style="font-weight: bold;">Step 1 - Item
Deconstruction: This step
allows you to break items down for raw materials. The items used are
the items that you pick up while adventuring and looting from chests,
basically the vendor trash you usually sell off. You have a few options
at this stage. You can strip the enhancement off an item (such as the
+2 enhancement for a weapon), you can remove the prefix or suffix
properties off an item (such as frost, good, evil, etc), or you can
disjunction an item making it a blank item that you can add to later on.
style="font-weight: bold;">Step 2 - Shard Crafting:
This is where you get the bulk of the experience for leveling your
crafting skills. Here you use the raw materials gained from the item
deconstruction stage and other items (such as the shards you pick up
while adventuring) to create shards of various effects. You can make a
bound shard or an unbound shard. An unbound shard you can sell off or
trade, but requires more components to make.
style="font-weight: bold;">Step 3 - Item Crafting:
This final stage is where you take the blank item you created in the
first step and combine it with shards created in the second step to
create a new item. Using a bound shard creates a bound item, while
using an unbound shard creates an unbound item.
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One of the crafting stations
that you will spend a lot of time at.
The crafting is simple and
straightforward, but there is a lot of room
for customization. Basically, you can view the recipes and see what
ingredients are needed. All the drudge work is taken out of the
equation: you do not have to learn, purchase, or scribe any recipes,
and if you click on a recipe, the required ingredients will be
automatically pulled from your backpack. As of right now, items in
storage bags will not be automatically pulled so you will want to move
them from the bags straight into your normal inventory. Erik and
Fernando mentioned that Turbine is working on this and they hope to
have the necessary ingredients pulled from the storage bags in the
Every recipe has a recommended level, but crafters can create items
that are higher level than your crafting skill. For each recipe, the
chance to successfully create the item successfully is listed. You need
at least a 50% chance to create an item for the game to allow you to
make the attempt. If you fail to create the item, you run the risk of
losing components. While that isn't a big deal at lower
levels, it will definitely get expensive as you level up.
In addition to the ease and fluidity of crafting, what especially
struck me was how the crafting system is close to the spirit of magic
items in the pen-and-paper style="font-style: italic;">Dungeons
and Dragons
game, which I've been playing for 30 years. (Yes,
I'm old!) If you want gloves that provide a bonus to Strength
and a bonus to Open Lock and Disable Device, you are now free to do so.
This system puts the power of creation in the players' hands.
We can create the items that we want to use. We can consolidate bonuses
into a single item so we don't have to switch back and forth.
Granted, you'll have to work at it if you want Gloves of Uber
Roguedom, but the components come from adventuring, not grinding away
looking for veins of ore and having some asshat steal your ore while
you're clearing the area.
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Some of the shard recipes for
crafting step #2.
Fernando and Erik took great pains to remind me that this crafting
system is considered an style="font-weight: bold;">open beta.
When Update 9 is released, there will be a level cap for the crafting
schools that will be increased with future patches and Update 10. There
might be some tweaking to the items in future patches, but you will style="font-weight: bold;">not
lose any items that you created or any experience in crafting. So you
can safely craft away to your heart's content.
Other New Features
A new adventure pack, Harbinger of Madness, makes its introduction in
Update 9. You and your fellow stout adventurers will investigate the
disappearance of locals from the Saltire neighborhood and eventually
confront the hideous evil behind the sinister abductions. A new
monster, the Taken, make their gut-wrenching debut in this adventure
pack. I only got to see one part of the adventure pack, the Fear
Factory, but other aspects of the adventure pack were shown to Ethec at
Pax East and can be seen href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/ddo/video/update-9-and-new-crafting-system">here
in this video.
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The hideous foulness of the
Favored Souls and Sorcerers will rejoice to hear that they finally get
a prestige class. Favored Souls can become Angels of Vengeance whilst
Sorcerers can become Earth, Air, Fire, or Water Savants. In addition,
all spellcasters have had the spell points needed for casting spells
reduced. Turbine is striving to make the spell points needed equate to
the usefulness of the spell. With lowered spell costs, spellcasters
will have more choices while adventuring.
Some of the combat animations have been changed for abilities such as
Trip and Sunder, thus making it easier for you to know that your
ability really did go off. There is also a new feat, Shuriken
Expertise, and a host of new enhancements. Some new items have been
added to the style="font-style: italic;">DDO
Store, such as new armor kits (for stylin' and
profilin') and slaying boosts for clearing wilderness areas.
A slayer boost of 25% means that for every four creatures you kill, you
get credit for five. For max level players, there has been a
rebalancing of adventures on epic difficulty. Now, a great deal of the
immunities have been removed, especially from trash mobs, and hit
points have been reduced.
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look at the new spring fashions in
Update 9.
Since DDO
was launched in French and German, there have been a slew of new
players pouring into the game. In fact, any style="font-style: italic;">DDO
client can select French or German as the language. Update 9 is the
first update for style="font-style: italic;">DDO
that launches for everybody around the world at the same time.
Overall, there is a tremendous amount of content coming
players' way in Update 9. A new adventure pack featuring a
new monster, new prestige classes, new enhancements, new armor kits,
and, of course, the crafting system. I can safely predict that the
crafting hall will be overflowing with players when Update 9 launches
Wednesday, April 27th. It's good to adventure in the world of
A sincere thank you to Fernando Paiz and Erik Boyer for taking the time
to show me the new content in Update 9.
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Ever since I saw the recipe for Raspberry Brown Sugar Gratin featured on The Smitten Kitchen, it drove me nuts thinking how simple it looked (only 3 ingredients, yes, THREE) and how delicious, just from the photos! But Deb of SK is in New York, while I am here, all the way in Brunei. Where in heavens name can I find fresh raspberries? There are frozen ones in the posher supermarkets, of course, but they just don't have the same feel, you know.
Never one for coloring inside the lines, I decided that well, there are many other fruits here in the tropics and might as well use what we have in abundance. However what goes with sour cream and brown sugar? Hmm... after a bit of thought (all 3 seconds of it), I had my A-ha moment - I shall use Marang! In Brunei, this fruit with its tender, sweet, white flesh is also called Tarap, and I had written about it a few posts back. So I only made one small ramekin to try this out, and here's a quick pictorial before we get to the recipe.
Hahaha, don't you just love the last picture? It's a clear demonstration of my gluttony - so sinful! Anyway, here are the four ingredients and bear in mind I only made one small ramekin, so just multiply this recipe accordingly if you're serving to guests.
Marang Brown Sugar Gratin
1-2 tablespoons marang flesh, pitted
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 tablespoons soft, brown sugar
Almond slivers, for sprinkling
1. Layer the ramekin as follows (bottom to top): marang, sour cream, brown sugar and almonds.
2. Bake under a hot broiler for about 2-3 until the sugar starts to caramelize. I found that my almonds burnt way earlier than the sugar, but I like the taste of burnt nuts. If you don't, another option is is to add the almonds slightly later in the baking process to have them just browned.
3. Serve immediately and brace yourself for compliments!
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Bryce Morrison
Bryce Morrison is considered among the world's leading authorities on piano performance. A music scholar of the Kings School Canterbury, he later read English at Oxford University before teaching in Canada and America. He is a professor of keyboard literature and performance at The Royal Academy of Music and is a visiting professor at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Chetham's School of Music, The Royal Northern School of Music and The Texas Conservatoire for Young Artists. He has given master-classes worldwide and appeared on television and radio in Canada, America, Poland and Australia. He has been a jury member of over fifty International Piano Competitions where his colleagues have included Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jorge Bolet and Lazar Berman and he has chaired the jury of the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York, The Scottish international Piano Competition in Glasgow and The International Terence Judd Award in London.
He has published extensively in all the major British papers, Gramophone etc. amd has published a much praised biographical study of Liszt with a foreword by Jorge Bolet. He has written over five hundred annotations for all the major and minor record labels (DG, EMI, Decca, Philips etc.) and was instrumental in promoting the work of Terence Judd, Eileen Joyce and, most recently, Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, writing extensively about their lives and bringing their work to public attention on CD. He has also published interviews with most of the world's great pianists (Horowitz, Rubinstein and Sir Clifford Curzon, to name a few).
He has broadcast extensively for the BBC (including thirty contributions to 'Building a Library', a lively discussion of all the current recordings of a particular work), ABC, CBC etc., is a member of The Critics Circle, was Corina Frada Pick's Professor of Advanced Piano Studies at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and in 1999 gave a marathon thirty-two lectures and master-classes at the Mannes School of Music in New York before continuing as a guest Professor at The University of California in Santa Barbara. He has made over fifty contributions to the most recent edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, holds five degrees in music and literature and was recently awarded an honorary ARAM at the Royal Academy of Music.


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|The heroes of the day: The Sagunto Dragoons played a blinder!
Last Saturday meeting's game (2 weeks ago now!) saw me taking on Andrew B. in a game set in 1813 Spain, based on the formations of the Battle of Vittoria. Andrew used the Army of Portugal (minus the dragoons) as the basis for his formation, while I used Hill's 2nd Division plus a healthy smattering of Spanish. We both settled on 2000 points (plus force differential; in my case an extra 200 pts) which provided a fairly crowded battlefield!
From the outset it was obvious I was outmatched in cavalry, but I was hoping that the quality of my cavalry would cancel out his numbers, at least til my infantry had done the job. I kept my heavy dragoons in the centre as a threat to the enemy infantry in an attempt to create a combined arms threat (the old scissor, papers, rock trick, where your enemy has to match you or be crushed!). I gambled leaving the heavies there instead of boosting my cavalry defense on the wing. It almost paid off, but as you'll see, almost isn't really good enough!
I packed my Spanish division on the right, planning to occupy the village on the extreme right flank as an anchor for the rest of the division. My Portuguese brigade provided the link between my British and Spanish contingents.
My plan was to go in aggressively with my best troops, the highlanders and light infantry, using the British line units and Portuguese as a reserve/holding force to protect the line and conform with the Spanish. My light dragoons were to hold the left flank from the French light cavalry force massing there, until the infantry had done their work. Unfortunately, that wasn't how things panned out.
Still, I forced a change in his plans by going on the offensive with my British forces; he'd initially been going to hold my left flank and concentrate on my hapless Spaniards, but my aggressive start changed his plans; he changed to holding the Spanish and countering the British attack. This allowed the Spaniards to live another day and even try a little aggression themselves!
|My hordes. Surely this would be enough to drive off the French?
|The Army of Portugal. Look at all the horseflesh closest to camera!
|The bold Spaniards!
|Britain's oldest ally holds the centre, while the Spanish head towards the village on theright.
|The British fan out into line
|The small rifle detachment leads the way, while my heavy dragoons back up the artillery.
|Things already looking precarious on the left flank. Note the big gap where I assumed the broken ground to be impervious!
|Infantry on the left are already in closed column in case French cavalry get through. Andrew is massing his infantry in the center....
|...so my artillery and cavalry are focused on the threat.
|The Spaniards have taken the village, while the cavalry head on out to threaten the French flank.
|The cavalry dance continues. I thought I was so clever anchoring on the broken ground, but Andrew's limbered guns are about to spring a surprise!
|My cacadore line takes the brunt of the French artillery fire.
|A second battery moves up and the Portuguese line melts under the attention.
|The Spanaish dragoons fan out into line ahead of the village, followed by the grenadiers and light infantry; my best Spanish troops
|The big Spanish guns lend a hand!
The first casualties were the Portuguese cacadores who bore the brunt of Andrew's artillery fire. In the first of several failed morale tests, the cacadores couldn't take the pressure after suffering 30% casualties and retreated, forcing themselves through the reserve line behind them and causing further disorders to both units. However, the Spanish 9lber battery beside the cacadores was also dishing out its own destruction on the French infantry to its front.
|The cacadores have had enough! Run away!
|The reserve steps up, though they've suffered disorders as the cacadores forced their way through in their retreat.
On the left flank, I was finding out what masses of inferior cavalry could do to outnumbered superior cavalry. Trying to use the broken ground as a pivot point, I failed to consider that Andrew's horse guns could traverse it and fire from within it. After suffering a flank shot from his puny 4lber pop-guns, one of my light dragoon units failed the morale test and retreated, exposing my own horse gun battery to the tender mercies of a chasseur charge. They stood to and fired at the attacking cavalry, hoping to knock off a figure and spoil his pre-melee roll, but I missed and suffered the consequences: The battery was ridden over and effectively destroyed! Even though the retreating dragoons would be back, shortly, for the moment it was one against five, and no artillery support!
|Light dragoons can't withstand close range flank fire from artillery!
|My horse gunners look around , suddenly feeling lonely "Where'd the cavalry go?"
|"Here is ze cavalry! Ze Cavalry Francaise!"
Moving up the 92nd Highlanders and the 50th Foot behind a skirmish screen disjointed the line, which was linked only by the foot artillery battery. I used the heavy dragoons to dissuade any attack on the battery, but things went a bit awry when I provided a flank shot to the French artillery when I pivoted my battery to fire on the advancing enemy infantry when I really didn't need to, as they were in the battery's arc of fire anyway.
|Skirmishers make way for the line and a firefight ensues. I was betting on superior firepower against superior numbers, but it was a long odds bet!
|The fateful maneuver of my artillery: Unnecessarily exposing their flank to their counterparts!
|The result: fleeing the field with only 50% of their guns intact
In an attempt to plug the resulting gap in the line from being exploited by the French infantry, which was advancing on the flank of the 92nd's line in closed column, I charged my heavy dragoons. Against an advancing closed column, a cavalry charge is rarely successful, but I was just aiming to bounce against them, ending up where I started from, but stopping the infantry for the moment. What I wasn't expecting was the worst eventuality: knocking one figure off in a lucky piece of supporting fire and then rolling poorly resulted in me disastrously failing my pre-melee. The dragoons broke to the rear in panic. For shame! At least the object of the attack was achieved; Andrew's momentum was checked for that move, but at great cost.
|Andrew's lucky die roll which spelled doom for my charge
|The charge falters as it goes in...
|To paraphrase Monty Python:
"The Brave dragoons ran away
Bravely ran away away
When danger reared its ugly head
They bravely turned their tails and fled"
Since the light dragoons had recovered their composure after their encounter with French artillery on their flank, they launched a balls-out, death-or-glory charge from near maximum range on Andrew's most threatening cavalry unit. My charge was outside the target unit's charge arc as well as that of his supporting unit, so my charge got in without being counter- or opportunity charged. Very satisfying! Still, it left my victorious light dragoons hard up against the broken ground, blown and with disorders, while Andrew's remaining chasseur unit was able to easily manoeuvre into my exposed flank.
|"Yoicks and away! Tally ho!"
|"Oh, bugger!"
While that was happening, the 50th Foot and 92nd Highlanders were getting into a tight spot, entering into firefights with the opposition, but taking the brunt of it, as the British infantry didn't have the numbers to absorb the punishment. even though I was inflicting more casualties, I couldn't afford those I received in return. Coupled with close range artillery, the pressure was too much: The 92nd were forced to retire, while the 50th broke and ran! While the 92nd soon rejoined the line, the reserves had to called up to protect the flank and fill the gap left by the routing 50th. A shaky line was re-established, but with only a couple of Portuguese line battalions left in reserve, things were looking dicey!
|The 50th blaze away in woods, whittling the enemy, but being whittled in turn.
|Artillery at close range causes the 92nd some grief
|They are forced to retire after just failing their morale test caused by 30% casualties.
|The opening allows the French to charge into the open flank of the suddenly isolated 50th
|It's all a bit much for the beleaguered Dirty Half Hundred and they break for the rear!
|Time for the Buffs and the 71st highlanders to do the heavy lifting
|A line is re-established, but there's no reserve left!
The Spanish, however, had been enjoying a dominance out on the right flank. In a surprising turn of events, I managed to pull off the holy grail of horse and musket era warfare; the combined arms assault using infantry, artillery and cavalry against an enemy unable to counter all ramifications of the triple threat. Go into square to counter the cavalry leaves you at the risk of artillery fire and infantry attack. Stay in line, you can counter infantry, but suicide in front of cavalry. Andrew chose to protect the flank of his artillery by moving up infantry in closed column. But when he attempted to form square I took the opportunity charge, passed the requisite dice roll and charged his column in mid-maneuver. The Spanish cavalry engaged, forcing the French infantry to flee! That's how my much better British dragoons should have done it! The French artillery lay open to a flank shot from the Spanish light infantry, who, underwhelmingly, couldn't persuade the artillerists to budge. Meanwhile the Spanish grenadiers protected the cavalry's right flank by engaging the lurking French infantry.
|WHAM! Take that, Frenchie!
|"Viva Fernando, el Deseado!"
|My combined arms formation (guns, infantry and cavalry) keeping Andrew pinned (for the moment!)
|"Arriba! Andele!"
|Andrew's flank is threatened, but his infantry columns are just winding up. I should've moved my guns to face the danger!
|Grenadiers engage in firefight to keep the French from attacking the cavalry's flank.
The cavalry situation on the left went to pot now, with the blown cavalry charged in the flank to flee to the edge of the board, awaiting rallying by the busy cavalry general who had only just managed to rally the fleeing heavy dragoons. My infantry square on the far left flank stopped any further advance by Andrew's victorious chasseurs, but it was now time for my last light dragoon regiment to earn their salt. Andrew hoped to capitalise on his momentum by charging his other chasseur regiment at my light dragoons. I beat them, but only just, and ended up right where I didn't want to be: with my flank exposed to his hussars! He flubbed his charge, rolling a 1, while I couldn't do any better than my 6! Instead of being wiped off the table, I retired to my starting point, plus disorders and a blown marker.
|My blown cavalry are in all sorts of bother!
|The result after Andrew charges. Run away!!!!
|His victory leaves his cavalry unable to fit between the broken ground and the square...
|...so he turns to threaten the square.
|Meanwhile, Andrew charges the remaining British cavalry. With friends breaking and enemy in flank and rear, it was a fairly good bet that my cavalry would run...
|...but they didn't! To everyone's surprise, they saw off the chasseurs, but ended right in front of the hussars...
|...who charged into the flank of my blown and disordered cavalry. Surely this time...
|But wait! Things are looking up! I rolled a 6 for my melee score...
|...while Andrew rolled a 1!
|What should have been total disaster for my cavalry ends up a draw! My cavalry live to fight another day!
I need to make a sacrifice to the Dice Gods in thanks for that one.
Andrew wasn't going to let a little thing like a threatened flank cramp his style and unleashed his infantry on the hapless Spanish. His approach brought his charge outside the guns' arc of fire, so the gunners scattered, leaving his charge to clip the Portuguese line. The Portuguese rolled abysmally for their pre-melee and fled, so the charge carried it's merry way into the Spanish columns. Because they has a couple of friends fleeing around them, their shaky morale was even more brittle, resulting in their disintegration as the French contacted. Andrew followed this success with another charge on the other Portuguese line; Same story! Their shaky morale couldn't withstand the French charge with so many friends running screaming to the rear. Suddenly there was a big hole in my centre with nothing to plug it!
The funny thing was, though, that Andrew's French couldn't press home the attack as they failed their pre-melee check and stopped short in confusion! He luckily didn't have a lot of reserves in the vicinity to exploit his success, and a quick flank fire from my remaining Portuguese saw them on their way.
|The head of Andrew's columns charge at the Spanish guns...
|...whose gunners have fled behind the infantry.
|After seeing off the Portuguese line, the French columns send first one...
|...then two Spanish battalions packing.
|Another French charge at the remaining Portuguese line
|Even though their pre-melee failed, so did mine.
|The result... a big gap opening in the centre with 4 routing units fleeing to the rear!
|Back on the left, Andrew piles on the pressure
|My valiant Spanish cavalry succumb to flank fire from an approaching French infantry column.
|THis was followed up by a charge on my Spanish light infantry, who crumbled under the pressure.
|Andrew has successfully extracted his left flank from danger. No Spaniards to be seen besides the grenadiers, still blazing away on the right.
|My cacadores return to pour some flank fire into the columns which attacked the Spanish, putting the nearest one to flight!
|The remaining battalion, however, ploughed on into the luckless Spaniards on their next turn
|The remaining Portuguese line troops also put the nearest French column to flight with a little flank fire.
|Out on the left flank, the infantry square advanced on the cavalry, blocking its approach and firing away. I think I actually managed to inflict a casualty!
|The Buffs under pressure from close range artillery.
|The main pressure was still applied to the 92nd and its neighbour. Two French lines advanced and engaged in a firefight.
|One of the French lines failed their morale test and fled, but note the reserves at the rear. My troops won't be able to cope with this pressure in the long run!
I ended the game in typical fashion: tripping over my own feet! In an example of bad judgement, I formed one of my infantry squares over on the left flank into line, right behind my remaining light dragoon regiment. It now had nowhere to go as Andrew closed in for the kill, but forward. In Andrew's last charge, his hussars fought me to an inconclusive draw, which was a surprise for both of us, but his follow-up with the chasseurs did the trick and smashed my cavalry, which blundered through my infantry, causing disorders. That doomed the infantry in the face of Andrew's breakthrough, which took the chasseurs straight through the line and into the rear of my line. Game over!
|Andrew's horse-guns come into action again at close range against my remaining light dragoons.
|In a final act, Andrew's hussars charged my light dragoons.
|When one of Andrew's many chasseur regiments then charged my worn out light dragoons, the result was a foregone conclusion!
|After dealing with the cavalry, it was now on into the infantry line and victory!
In a strange turn of events, it would have been up to the Spanish to form the rearguard in an attempt to cover the routing British. The majority of the Spanish were still in good order, while my Anglo-Portuguese were in a bad way.


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All That Is Solid Melts into Air
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All That Is Solid Melts into Air, a solo exhibition of SHI Qing, will be presented in ShanghART H-Space on May 26th, 2012. The exhibition title is a sentence which is frequently quoted from Karl Marx's work. And it is a series of artist's practical clues about art productions and exhibitions in recent years, as well as intervention and criticism for today's art consumption system. In exhibition, artist displays work materials from studio, experimental models, semi-finished works, and reproduced exhibited works together. All these are mixed in the space and partly covered by some green plants. Through paths across the exhibition, every viewer becomes a referee to identify and redefine the art works. The work forms come from landscape images in different historic time or from public experience. Using a stage like setting, it pushes the background display to the front desk after the subject of work was taken away.
SHI Qing was born in 1969 in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, currently lives and works in Shanghai. A selection of major exhibitions in which SHI Qing has participated includes: Santa Fe Biennale (U.S.A, 2008), The Second Guangzhou Triennial (China, 2005), Prague Biennale (Czech Republic, 2005), Busan Biennale (Korea, 2004).


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Halloween is starting to become one of my favorite holidays. When I was growing up, my family would turned OFF the lights on Halloween, no dressing up and no trick-or-treating. Since going off to college, I started to include Halloweeny culture in my life. Honestly Halloween specials on tv are the best and hilarious! Black cats are so cool and come on…FREE candies, especially chocolate! I love pumpkins too! The main thing that really got me into celebrating Halloween is how crafty and creative everyone gets with their costumes.
I have to admit, I am an extremely last minute person when it comes to dressing up for Halloween. Usually, it's sort of whatever in the closet/play it safe kind of costume. But I do make up for the lack of scary spirit with awesome cat costumes. That is Halloween costume for my cats! Can't get cuter than dress-up pets:D
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Little Red Riding Hood Kitten
Cat with Wings
Bumbe as the White Rabbit, Yun Yun as Alice
Alice in the Wonderland- Cat Version
Pumpkin Hats
This year I thought of the perfect costumes for my cats. It is still in process, I will manage to get it done and carved a jack 'o' lantern too by Oct 31st. Come back to see what Bumbe and Yun Yun are dressed as!


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In a report released Oct. 3, the SIA said that in August, worldwide sales of semiconductors edged up to $25.03 billion, an increase of 0.7 percent over the July level and 2.2 percent more than they were in the same month in 2010.
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Premier Inn's parent company Whitbread PLC is soberly celebrating Q3 growth in a challenging U.K. market and more noisily its 275th birthday as rooms expansion continues domestically and internationally.
DUNSTABLE, England—United Kingdom group Whitbread PLC, which has in its portfolio economy hotel brands Premier Inn and Hub by Premier Inn, saw total sales growth company-wide rise 5.6% for the 13 weeks up to 30 November, 2017, and 6.8% year to date, according to its executives.
Its hotel division saw third-quarter sales increase 5%, up 6% year to date, which executives said was due to investment in new hotel capacity.
Like-for-like sales growth was more muted. Q3 numbers were completely flat numbers for the hotel division, increasing 2.4% for the full year, and up 0.3% for the entire company. That is evidence, according to CEO Alison Brittain, of tough market conditions, a euphemism for Brexit and the fall in the strength of the U.K. pound sterling.
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Over its entire U.K. portfolio, occupancy was down 1.4% to 83.3%, according to the news release accompanying the results.
Whitbread's mood during the analyst call sounded buoyant, as executives said the company still remained confident of meeting full-year expectations.
Nicholas Cadbury, group finance director, said while Whitbread did not yet wish to state numbers for any financial guidance for full-year 2018, revenue per available room, in his view, tends to move in tandem with gross domestic product growth.
"(In 2017), we saw £70 million ($97 million) to £80 million ($110.9 million) in terms of inflationary headwinds, with £55 million ($76.2 million) of that being in Premier Inn, and we expect 2018 to have similar inflationary pressure," Cadbury said.
"But we will continue to grow in our core markets for Premier Inn. It might be a little tougher out there, but we will continue to invest," Cadbury said, who added investment will occur in China next year.
"GDP is still looking good," Brittain said.
Maturity over supply
Brittain added that despite Premier Inn adding many rooms, its hotels matured rapidly.
"One of the reasons for that is our recent refreshed network planning model, which allowed us to see what our pipeline would be, where growth can come from. It can pinpoint growth almost to a postcode capacity, and it has shown us that there is good runway beyond 85,000 rooms," Brittain said, referring to the brand's pipeline goal of that many keys by 2020.
"We're not driving for numbers (of keys) but maximum returns. There will be continued expansion of the hotel business. Whether that happens internationally or in the U.K., or both," Brittain said.
Cadbury said Premier Inn had opened 3,200 rooms in the first nine months of 2017.
Brittain said the pipeline of hotels in Germany was now 10, with the recent signing in the city of Dortmund.
Cadbury said Premier Inn added 2,500 rooms in London in the last two years, a 25% increase in capacity, "while maintaining occupancy."
In the U.K., its room count now numbers 71,282.
"We front-loaded. Usually that (type of room openings) happens at the end of the year," Cadbury said, who added he believed that that expansion had a 1.5% drag on 2017 like-for-like sales.
"But, again, our demand matures fairly quickly, so these openings will give us good returns," Cadbury said.
That happens despite increased supply, Cadbury said.
"In London, this year supply (growth) was approximately 4.5%, and 1.5% regionally. In 2018, in London, we expect (supply) will moderate to approximately 3% to 3.5%," Cadbury said.
Brittain and Cadbury referred to the hotel division's strategic investment program that they said would leverage strength to permit growth in a more focused manner internationally, notably in Germany and China.
Like-for-like U.K. numbers for Q3 also showed average daily rate down 0.2% to £64 ($88.69) and RevPAR down 1.6% to £53.30 ($73.87).
Split sides
They also referred to chatter about one activist shareholder, believed to be hedge fund Sachem Head, which, according to reports, is urging Whitbread to split its coffee and hotel divisions.
"We have open and regular conversations with our investors, who look to us to increase shareholder value. We are always open to discussion as to the best way of doing that," Brittain said.
According to the London Stock Exchange, Whitbread PLC has a market capitalization of approximately £7.07 billion ($9.76 billion).
At press time, Whitbread PLC shares spiked 1.9% on release of its latest numbers. The Baird/STR Hotel Stock Index was 4.5% for the same time period.


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Eight people died and twenty others were injured on Wednesday in a stampede which occurred in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott during a distribution of alms to the poor.
According to a source at the hospital where the bodies were transferred, the dead victims were all older women and about two dozen injured people had already been discharged from the hospital, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The stampede occurred in a walled yard in central Nouakchott, where hundreds of people flocked to receive Zakat – a form of tax in Islam given as alms to the poor – distributed by businessmen who own the yard.
"It is a group of Mauritanian businessmen, Zein El Abidine Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who organized the Zakat ceremony in accordance with the laws of Islam. The activity was permitted and the organizers fulfilled all the necessary administrative procedures," another source told AFP adding that "the lack of organization and the low wall in front of the venue are among the factors behind the tragedy.
The interior minister of Mauritania, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, is reported to have immediately gone to the scene to inquire about the situation when it happened, the undisclosed source said without giving further details.
Until Wednesday night, no official comment was made and the businessmen who into general trading and real estate development, had not made any statements as well.
According to witnesses, those receiving the envelopes of cash were mostly needy people from poor areas of Nouakchott.
The security guard at the venue of distribution said he saw people being evacuated by ambulances to the main hospital in the capital.


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Detective Mania ! Nipped in the bud
The recent slingshots to nail the controversy about Bill Cosby and his romps with women seems to be dated almost two decades ago when women preferred to bury the shame under the carpet. I am neither a fan of this stand-up comedian nor a die-hard feminist but when humour reaches sublimation and the best outlet for some men is to try a hand at molestation. Since women who like ---men with a good sense of humour— is rare, soon the devil enters the man's head and he leaps at his most vulnerable target. This controversy is getting sloppy as B.C.'s shows are being cancelled in the US. Such a controversy happened in India when the boss of a leading publishing house was caught on CCTV, so-called misbehaving with a colleague, which backfired on him and the man landed behind bars. Today he is out of jail but the case is not yet solved.
How do people view such characters? Yes, through tinted glasses, but the tint gets darker if you are closer (in proximity) to the wrong doer. Now you know why we need detectives, to keep an eye on misbehaving men who drool over the 'w' of the word Woman. In India women are still considered as playthings before and after marriage. Our culture has a lot to contribute and shatter the female psyche.So women should only be seen and not heard--- as good as domestic animals? Times are changing but the pace is dodgy if we compared ( the rural and urban statistics) from hearsay or stories narrated by reliable friends.Do our men learn to be civilized from past mistakes, go soul searching or bear punitive actions?
Transvestite on roll call
In my opinion, eunuchs are best suited for the 'detective'job as they have that impartial touch to the profession of unearthing facts quite undesired. Unless they have this urge to grab quick money as it is an ingratiating job. It is impossible to catch hold of a eunuch who can build a firewall to shoo away nosy characters and conduct the investigation discreetly.Then you can get one who will just target that cash inflow. Now come on he/she is human , even Sherlock Holmes would not offer a guarantee to a cash-crazy detective.
The female boss prefers a female assistant as a detective so there I am, who has weathered the sun's piercing rays, insults uttered by onlookers or unabashed neighbours with clenched fists and hot snorts, ready to pounce during my visits.My sole purpose is not to pull the carpet from under the feet of
my client(femme fatale) but her perpetrator.The first is Rasika who swears till today that day when she married that bank officer……
The banker who could never make her smile
Rasika married a bank officer with the usual pomp & gaiety. The only fact she and her relatives brushed aside was that her husband lived in a small house (Mumbai after all) that was run by his overbearing (unemployed) siblings. Lo! tragedy struck Rasika like lightning with her twin role as wife and cook. The harrowing experience for a city born bride was pointless to argue and defend. The daily bouts of verbal arguments led to avoidable spats, slaps and tears. The next stage is mental torture that compelled her to rush toa police station. Now the fight turned public coupled with glares and jeers. And here 'I' enter the arena as witness-cum- detective. Rasika was stalked by 'me' thereafter to check out on her vulnerability to build up a police case. On reaching her home,to my surprise I noticed there seemed to be a different Rasika within those four walls. She behaved more like a tyrant than a comely wife. But I had to report to my boss (Fatima) and construct a real case. The tables had turned ,to top it all I discovered that the client for Fatima was Rasika's sister-in-law. Where am I? Do not call me a two-timer but the situation demanded it.Here I was fighting for Rasika and Fatima was against her.
What a plight to be between the devil and the deep sea and I sincerely tried to ease out of this dilemma. As fate would have it we had to re-locate to another house so the geographical distance helped me relinquish my duties from this complicated assignment. When last heard about Rasika, she had gone through a tough divorce proceeding and is in another city down south.
Case 2 less complicated
Suneeti looked like any other happily married woman, unexpectedly met me in the neighborhood, She was soft spoken which made me cringe….why ? Soft spoken persons in our country usually have a story to tell. She found my ears convenient, so we decided to meet at my place. On the pretext of chiselling her spoken skills in English she volunteered to take a few classes in Conversational English. My ears were more pricked…she was a mother to two cute children and whenever her son was discussed she would exclaim –Oh he is like his father-What did that mean. Slowly and steadily I started peeling the Orange, oh I am on the threshold of a sour story--Marriage turned sour. She referred to her husband now turned lover and needed some investigation…Oooh I sprung to the idea after all I am an unemployed detective now. Must inform my ex-boss Fatima. She let me do the grovelling first. Facts came to light, that man (husband) on the pretext of going on business trips was away on all weekends with his cute friend. Obviously this mistress kept him busy. I did manage to spill the beans to Suneeti who was keen on discussing this matter with her husband's relatives. Talks over. The man admitted to indulgences that linked to his business as well. So to atone for his past sins, which may tread into the future, he took the family on a holiday. There appeared a glint of joy in Suneeti's eyes. They must have spent a month or so in utter bliss when suddenly the husband vanished for a few days after the vacation. The so-called mistress had fled with another man and Suneeti's husband was left high and dry. This was a bitter lesson he had learnt after his escapade. But Suneeti welcomed him again in the hope that he would never be a wayward husband again. Not all escapades end up like this. But my job of investigation ended here.
This piece should be an eye-opener for all those men who believe in the paradigm that women should only be seen and not heard. I have no advice for any young woman except that Marry only if you need a companion. Marriage cannot be a two act play---Marry then Divorce. Not worth it.


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Sunday, September 18, 2011
A Bittersweet but Perfect Wedding
52 comments:
- Kristin said...
What an incredibly moving story. My heart aches for your brother but I'm sure his friend was certainly standing there by his side. Michelle, you take the most beautiful photos. Makes me long to visit!!!
- September 18, 2011 at 8:42 PM
- Carmel's Closet said...
Beautiful Wedding. The old house is just whimsically magic. Sorry to hear of your sad news.
- September 18, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- Carolyn@SweetChaos said...
What a gorgeous setting for a wedding! I'm so sorry to hear about the passing of his best man. It's so hard to know what to do when there is an unexpected death, but it looks like they did a lovely job of remembering their friend during the ceremony. I'm sure it was just as he would have wanted it to be.
- September 18, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- beachcomber said...
the wedding looks lovely and simple! so sad about your brother's loss.
- September 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- At The Picket Fence said...
Oh Michelle! That truly is bittersweet. I'm so sorry for the loss of your brother's friend and know that must have been so hard on many levels. The wedding looks like it was absolutely beautiful and truly a celebration of life, love and family! Thanks so much for sharing it all with us! :-)
- September 18, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- Desire Empire said...
Wow what a week. Glad it was a lovely day but very sorry to hear the sad news. Life is so short and wonderful all at the same time. I think your week is a true example of that.
- September 18, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- Cassie @ Primitive & Proper said...
wow- that is tragic. what a young age to pass away at, too- my parents are 55, so it is scary to think it could happen, no matter how healthy you are. the wedding looked like it was beautiful in the end- the bride is stunning, and the couple look very sweet together!
- September 18, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Joyce - Quilted Nest said...
Oh I've been known to not have my camera at eventful times - so I guess we're 'dorks' together. And I've no camera phone! So sorry for the sad part of the wedding...
- September 18, 2011 at 9:33 PM
- Finding Home said...
I am so sorry that your brother lost his dear friend, what a tragic loss, but at least he has someone, now his wife, to help him through - along with an amazing family support as well. Hope you are well and glad you were still able to enjoy your brother's day. Oh, and I have an Em story for you later this week! Hope you are well - Laura
- September 18, 2011 at 9:33 PM
- Brandi said...
such a beautiful wedding, Michelle. i am so sorry to read that your brother's friend passed away. that was very special of him and his bride to honor him during the ceremony.
PS. i love the river runs through it too. Meryl Streep is so beautiful. i loved her in that movie. enjoy your evening!
- September 18, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Cathy M~(checkitoff) said...
what a week Michelle!! This is such a great post and I know that your brother's friend is smiling down on all that commotion at Glen Lake. What a gorgeous bride, it looks like your brother and the kids are really happy, too. Just amazing. I love this post and all the familiar spots!! The fishing photos really add to the reality of what happens before a wedding~so cool!
- September 18, 2011 at 9:36 PM
- ANNE said...
oh Michelle, so many things to comment on! The beautiful setting for the wedding, the delight of finding love a second time around... your lovely SIL... that fabulous salmon and how kind that it was put back in its home... and all mixed with that sadness... but maybe it made the sweet things seem extra sweet...
- September 18, 2011 at 9:54 PM
- Karena said...
Oh Michelle, what a beginning to what was to be a very poignant and memorable event for your family. I am so very sorry about your brothers friend. So happy that he found his love though...
Art by Karena
- September 18, 2011 at 10:21 PM
So sorry to hear about your brothers friend. As Karena said, a very poignant and memorable time. The photo's are gorgeous. They are a lovely looking couple.
- September 18, 2011 at 10:24 PM
- Yanet @ 3 Sun Kissed Boys said...
I'm glad the week had a happy ending. Happy for your brother and keeping his friend's family in my prayers.
I hope yall have a more subdued week.
- September 18, 2011 at 10:25 PM
- Tricia said...
Oh my, what a week. It must have been so hard for your brother to have one of the happiest weeks of his life also be his sadest. The wedding sounds like and looks like it was beautiful. What a goregous setting.
- September 18, 2011 at 11:30 PM
- Sandra said...
Hey Michelle,
It was so nice to talk this morning! You are such a sweet soul! Your pics are gorgeous, apparently when you have talent you don't need a fancy camera! The photographer's shots are amazing, I especially like the one of your brother and his wife in the field in front of that unbelievable white barn....Wow! I'm sure his friend was there in spirit, cheering him on to his bright future with his lovely new wife and family. My heart goes out to his family as well as to you and yours.
Love ya Girl!
- September 18, 2011 at 11:31 PM
- Lynda @ Happenstance Home said...
Wow. So many different emotions for one week. I am so sorry to hear about your brothers best friend. That is so very sad. I am sure he was there in spirit and happy to see that the wedding went as planned. Beautiful photos - love that old house!
- September 18, 2011 at 11:41 PM
- Sizzle and Zoom said...
So sorry to hear about a loss at such a happy time. Your photo of the sunset is one of my favorite photos. Spectacular.
- September 19, 2011 at 12:18 AM
- tinajo said...
I´m so sorry about your brother´s friend - but glad that it turned out in a good way during the circumstances.
- September 19, 2011 at 1:33 AM
- Best Wedding Gifts said...
Great time invested in wedding day !!! Fishing was very creative idea to enjoy the day. Boy caught a big fish for dinner :)
- September 19, 2011 at 1:34 AM
- simone said...
Hello my dear, so sorry to hear about your brothers friend. What a week it must have been. I'm glad the wedding went on and they are beautiful pictures and I love blue hydrengas.
- September 19, 2011 at 6:54 AM
- Jessie said...
My prayers go out to your brother and his friend's family. What a tragic loss.
What a gorgeous weekend it was! I LOVE all your pics! I am so getting an i-phone. Then I can take awesome pics and play with the apps:) AND...love the chai (and that you got some quality time with your daughter) and walk ON THE BEACH! So jealous!!
Have a great week:)
Big hugs:)
- September 19, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- Lisa @ Fern Creek Cottage said...
So sorry to hear of the loss of your brothers best man. That is really tragic.
Your brother and sis in law look really happy and beautiful. Looks like it was a really lovely wedding.
I love simple beautiful hearfelt weddings. So much nicer than over the top tacky weddings.
- September 19, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Fabiana ~ Ciao! Newport Beach said...
What a bittersweet day. The photos are really idyllic and so beautifully personal. Thanks for sharing.
Stop by for a visit soon...
- September 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM
- Chrissy...The Apothecary Shop said...
So tragic....I am sorry.I do have to say that I am glad I found your blog,its just lovely.
- September 19, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- michele said...
so much love and inspiration here! so sorry to hear the news and can't imagine how that complicated the feelings of your brother on his special day. that fish!! wow! i wanna eat him.
and that house -- man i'd love to own something like that and fix it up inside.
love to you.
- September 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Corn in my Coffee-Pot said...
What a week.
This story is sure to be told again and again...Your brother will surely cherish his friends memory.
Congrats to the bride and groom-- this bond can only grow stronger now.
thanks for sharing it.
(good pictures by the way with your phone)
- September 19, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- A Cottage Muse said...
Oh my Michelle...what a week indeed!
So happy the day went well...I'm sure they felt his presence. Keeping both families in my thoughts and prayers.
- September 19, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- Burlap Luxe said...
Hi Michelle, you need to place a warning on your comment when you visit, adding bring with you a hankie on your return visit :( tear!
Really sad to hear that your brother had to wed with such a loss of a dear friend, and such a shock to him. I am so happy that he was able to have some happiness come of it with a beautiful eventful wedding day, casual or not its the best way to go, casual so your heart is on the day and not all the big bucks one could spend, I think the casual weddings have soul and in most cases a deeper meaning to them!
Thank you for sharing the Iphone photo's they really look great!
looking forward to seeing more of the wedding.
Tell your brother we all in blog land feel for his loss and enjoyed seeing what he has gained in a new life with his bride.
Blessings to your Brother and his family.
see you soon dear friend.
- September 19, 2011 at 1:18 PM
- Paula ~ castleandcottagesigns said...
Oh Michelle how sad that he lost his best friend ...and to have it happen before the wedding~ I'm so sorry. It looks like they made the best of it, which is good and I'm thinking it makes their bond more special. Big hugs,
- September 19, 2011 at 1:43 PM
- Tanya said...
You said it best-Bittersweet! So sorry about your brother's friend, but congrats to him & may he have many years of happieness with his new wife. Thank you so much for always leaving such sweet comments on my blog :)
- September 19, 2011 at 2:25 PM
- Martina said...
Such a dramatic story Michelle! Life can be so strange sometimes, laughter and tears are neighbours often! Beautiful photos - love the one with the little boy sitting by the water. Happy start to your week - take care!
- September 19, 2011 at 3:20 PM
- Passionate for White said...
Bittersweet yes but everything looks like it turned about beautifully.
- September 19, 2011 at 3:31 PM
- NauticalCottageBlog.com said...
Well, I know why I kept thinking about you last week - I guess I could feel that something was going on. I'm so sorry for your brother's loss. Sounds like a real roller coaster of emotions. The photos from your phone are so great - I'm amazed at the quality! Glad everything worked out and I love the simplicity of the decor, dress and everything....my kind of wedding.
Love to you and your family.
- September 19, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- ~Lavender Dreamer~ said...
What a beautiful wedding and a lovely couple! I'm so sorry for the death of his friend! How terrible! I'm glad he was surrounded by family and friends. I love to fish...fly fishing was something that brought my hubby and I together! ♥
- September 19, 2011 at 8:07 PM
- erin said...
i am terribly sorry for the loss of your brothers friend...so sad. but it looks like the wedding was beautiful and the fishing fantastic!!
- September 19, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- Green Willow Pond said...
My condolences to your brother for his loss. That had to have been a bitter pill to swallow. It looks like it was a beautiful wedding and the surroundings are stunning.
I hope you are having a better week. Here's a hug for you...{{{hug}}}!
- September 19, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Castles Crowns and Cottages said...
Oh Michelle,
What an awful week you had indeed; but things came together, and your family looks great. I am so sorry to hear of your brother's friend....only 55? that is way too young....it was so nice to see your comment tonight my friend and thank you for your kind words and encouragement. Blogland is full of such wonderful people like you....have a peaceful week my dear, Anita
- September 19, 2011 at 8:55 PM
- Heaven's Walk said...
The sweet beautiful simplicity of their wedding day speaks volumes about the love in their hearts, Michelle. ♥ My heart breaks for them in their loss, while at the same rejoices as they step out on a new journey together...
xoxo laurie
- September 19, 2011 at 9:32 PM
- Kirsty said...
The sunset looks amazing!
- September 19, 2011 at 10:46 PM
- Tonya said...
So sorry to hear about your brother's friend! So sad! Looks like your week of unplugging was well spent with family & friends! Great pictures!
p.s. I'm pretty sure I've never seen "A River Runs Through It"...gonna have to check it out! :)
- September 19, 2011 at 11:31 PM
- Libbie said...
Love is in the air :) I love the casualness of the wedding! If I got married again :) I would do it that way too!
I can't believe you took those on your iphone! when I take shots with mine....not so great :) Your..can't even tell! Now THAT is talent :)
Thanks for sharing the wedding, so much emotion that day, love & loss. I'll say a little wedding blessing right now for your brother & his BEAUTIFUL bride as well as a prayer for those hurting over the loss of his friend. Hopw you have a good week Michelle!
- September 20, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- Jenni said...
Oh Michelle, I am so sorry about your brother's friend. That would have been so hard.
I can tell it was a beautiful wedding, and what a cute couple they are! And I love the place they held the wedding at, too~ so gorgeous!
I hope this week is going well for you, and that you are doing okay after all that happened last week.
- September 20, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Carmie of the Single Nester said...
Oh my word. How heart-breaking but I am sure your brother's friend would've wanted the ceremony to take place. This has happened to two people I know - losing a parent a week before their wedding. Blessings to all.
- September 20, 2011 at 1:26 PM
- Sylvia said...
I love the simplicity of the wedding ...charming and honest ...I am happy for your brother and his lovely wife ! So sorry about the lost of his friend ...a righteous man will be remembered forever !
- September 20, 2011 at 9:00 PM
- Tammy@Beatrice Banks said...
So sorry for your brother's tragic loss but happy that he has found the love of his life. Gorgeous wedding! Glad to know I'm not the only one who forgets a camera. I'm sure you had a lot on your mind. Looks like everything turned out exactly as it was supposed to. Lovely!
- September 21, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- koralee said...
Oh my friend...sorry about the loss...you are right it was bitter-sweet. The wedding looks like it was a charming event anyways. Hugs for a great week. xoxoxo
- September 21, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- Anita @ GoingALittleCoastal said...
What a roller coaster of emotions that week. So sorry to hear about the loss of his friend.
The wedding looked wonderful. I love the shot he took of them with the barn! Just beautiful. :)
- September 21, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Marie said...
I'm so sorry to hear about your brother's friends. It sure is bittersweet to hear that sort of thing during a special occasion.
The wedding however looked beautiful and perfect in every aspect. Wow! And love the bride's gown!
- September 21, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- ral said...
We don't know what tomorrow holds and must turn to the ONE who holds tomorrow. Sound's like you were able to support your brother and new sister and pray the Lord has shown the new couple to cherish each other.
- September 23, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- Rose West said...
Sounds like it was a crazy week full of good times and bad times. Congrats to your brother! It must have been a bittersweet week for him.
- September 23, 2011 at 6:40 PM


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