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Today was disgusting. So was yesterday. I don't mean I had a bad day. I mean the air was literally disgusting - it made my throat scratchy, my nose inflamed, my eyes sting and my stomach a little upset.
I felt annoyed, ill - literally sick, disgusted and nauseated - but something else too. I felt a deep-seated, wide-ranging anger.
Years ago, I was hanging out with my (adult) students and nuclear power came up. I said that while I agreed nuclear power was a bad idea in Taiwan for a number of reasons, I didn't actually support phasing it out immediately, while Taiwan's energy policies in other areas were so short-sighted. Of course I was aware of the problems with nuclear power: nowhere to store spent fuel rods, "dirty plants" where safety standards were alleged to not be met, especially around cooling/recirculation tanks (despite assurances that they conformed to a high standard of safety), and of course the fears that Taiwan's vulnerability to natural disasters. These include earthquakes, typhoons and tsunamis - could result in a Fukushima-style disaster in Taiwan, where such an event would be even more disastrous given the country's size.
But, what was the alternative? Fossil fuels? That would not only be bad for the environment as a whole, but for Taiwan's air quality in particular. Alternative energy would be best, and we probably have the technology to make that a reality for most of our energy needs, but nobody seemed interested in actually developing it. There has been some investment into wind power, but not enough. Besides, even though I don't think wind is the answer, the same activists who campaigned to shut down the nuclear plants also campaigned against wind farms (sometimes for good reasons, I should add.)
Solar comes with its own set of government cock-ups that are only now being rectified: the government is only now tackling harmful and outdated regulations regarding energy generated through home solar panels (in the past, you had to sell the power you generated to Taipower first at a crummy rate, and have it sold back to you. Hence, nobody bothered to explore solar power for their homes.)
The push to explore solar and geothermal generally was limited and insufficient (given how geothermically active Taiwan is, geothermal is probably our best bet - but not a lot of money being poured into it). Taiwan's buildings would need to be restructured in a huge way, or at least, any new buildings would have to take the country's climate into account, building in cross-breezes, overhangs and using the right materials to reduce how much air conditioning was necessary in the summer. No more stifling concrete boxes.
And I just could not support gunking up Taiwan's air by going back to fossil fuels.
Even when trying to clean up fossil fuel-powered plants, it's a hash. As my friend and Central Taiwan news guru Donovan Smith noted:
In fact, Taipower recently announced they are adding two new gas-fired units to the Taichung Power Plant, bringing the total units up to 12. Many or most people had thought they were going to use those two to replace two of the coal-fired units, but nope. A general rule of thumb is gas-fired units are about half as polluting as coal. That means cumulatively that is effectively adding one more coal-fired unit.
Fast-forward to today. And yesterday. And so many days before.
The left won: the nuclear plants are shutting down. The chances that the fourth plant at Gongliao will be finished and activated are essentially zero - and frankly, bringing it online is a bad idea anyway.
And now the air is filthy. In much of Taiwan it has been for awhile - Taipei folks just didn't notice it because it rarely impacted us. All of those power plants and other industrial waste-producing hellscapes were far enough from us that our air was still relatively clean. Now we're getting a taste of what the rest of the country has been saying for awhile.
The Taiwanese left was unforgivably myopic: they yelled and screamed to shut down nuclear power, but didn't present any sort of push for consistent renewable energy policy. "I guess pushing for renewables isn't as sexy as pushing against nuclear," people who understood my point said. "They're just not going to win the zeitgeist talking about that."
Okay, but if you don't, and you only shout about what is "sexy" enough to get attention, then your push to change society can have unintended consequences. You're nothing but gadflies, not serious policymakers searching for real solutions.
If all you do is push to shut one thing down without thinking ahead to how things will be handled in the future, frankly, that's no more visionary than the KMT building a bunch of crap-ass buildings in the 20th century that are all now falling apart and are so energy-inefficient it's a joke because they couldn't be bothered to spend real money creating sustainable architecture for a subtropical climate, and building most cities in Taiwan without viable public transit which creates vehicular pollution. All you're doing is creating another problem.
Real change means tackling the unsexy things. It means actually writing and pushing policy proposals that solve issues and take future consequences into account. It means thinking through your own freakin' beliefs to see what the outcomes might be, and addressing them. I don't see that that has been done by anti-nuclear activists or the people they've put in power.
Yet, even now, I see few from the anti-nuclear activist camp going to bat over renewable energy. Some of them are protesting air pollution: great - but ultimately ineffective. I'm sick of protests that don't offer solutions.
So what we will have is a ghost island: not just in terms of talent leaving, but also the ghostly pallor of the grey air. The ghosts of good intentions, the ghost of what Taiwan could have been if the right people just thought through what really needs to change and pushed for it in the right ways.
So we have the activists/Third Force/Taiwanese left putting on a great show of wanting to change Taiwan - and I do believe they are sincere. But they're just not thinking their ideas through and it's infuriating.
Then there is the KMT. In the words of New Bloom:
In truth, if there is any one to blame for issues regarding nuclear energy or air pollution in Taiwan, it is the KMT, which ruled over Taiwan's developmentalist state unchallenged for decades during the authoritarian period and built up both the coal-fired power plants that contribute to Taiwanese air pollution and the nuclear power plants which many see as dangerous to Taiwan in the event of environmental catastrophes. There is no political party in Taiwan more beholden to the nuclear lobby than the KMT. Yet the KMT leverages on these issues anyway against the DPP, illustrating not only hypocrisy, but how the KMT truly stands for little else besides rote opposition to the DPP at this point.
However, I disagree with the overly-tidy (and easy) conclusion that we can brush our hands, blame the KMT and move on. As the party who has historically held power, they do deserve most of the blame. However, the left's lack of initiative in finding real energy solutions to make their anti-nuclear rhetoric sustainable also deserves criticism.
Then there's the DPP, who are mostly concerned with staying in power and don't seem to be interested in addressing any of the real issues. Caving to the anti-nuclear activists, leaning more heavily on fossil fuels, and just not doing what needs to be done to make renewable energy a reality.
Amidst this circus, the electorate acknowledges it's a problem but only ever blame the party in charge, or the party they don't like. I'm sure many do look more deeply at the bigger problem of nobody in charge having the faintest idea what they are doing or when they do, using it for their own gain, but I don't see it. I have to hope their are better people working behind the scenes, but I don't see that, either.
I don't know what else to say. I'm mad and disappointed, and I can't breathe. Those in power don't seem interested or able to really fix the problem. The opposition is, if anything, worse. The Third Force activists don't think through what they fight for nearly as often as they should. Taiwan has smarter people than this. We can do better.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still a leftie liberal bleeding heart bastard. But, I support doing the difficult, unsexy work that I feel the Taiwanese left is not doing - the stuff that's not always so wonderfully idealistic. I'm still pro-independence and pro-Taiwan. I still think this country is worth fighting for. I just can't support half-baked activism anymore. We can't trust the KMT or DPP to get us out of this mess, which means we have to look to the left, but the left needs to be smarter. It needs to start tackling unsexy issues.


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MELBOURNE, Australia — Casey Dellacqua, a former top-10 player and major finalist in women's doubles and a Grand Slam champion in mixed doubles, is returning to tennis this week at the Australian Open after nine months away because of a concussion.
While concussions have become a hot topic in recent years in contact sports like football, hockey and rugby, the injury is much rarer in tennis, even if it is a sport where balls can whiz past the head at speeds around 100 miles per hour. Doubles players, in particular, take hits all the time, but not usually to their heads.
Concussions in tennis gained attention when Eugenie Bouchard, the former Wimbledon runner-up from Canada, sustained a concussion after a fall in the locker room at the United States Open in September 2015, an episode that is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit.
A few weeks later, at the China Open, a WTA Tour event in Beijing, Dellacqua, playing with Yaroslava Shvedova, took a fall that ended up costing her a place in the season-ending WTA Finals, the 2016 Olympics and most of last season.
"Slava took a ball that I thought I might take," Dellacqua said in Melbourne on Saturday, referring to Shvedova. "To cut a long story short, I ran backwards, fell over and knocked my head.
"There were only a couple of points to finish the match, but I still have no recollection of that 10 minutes post-falling. The first thing that comes back to me is actually being in the hospital in Beijing."
What followed was a now familiar story of postconcussion recovery. Dellacqua, a 31-year-old Australian who will play doubles and mixed doubles at the Australian Open, was kept in the hospital overnight. After a few days of rest, she was allowed to fly home, and she expected to be ready for the season-ending finals in Singapore at the end of October.
But any hope of a quick comeback vanished when she began to feel side effects.
"The doctor kind of made the call for me and said, 'It's actually not safe for you to go away and think you can play,'" she said. "I spent the next few months at home, recovering. I couldn't do anything, couldn't focus, couldn't read, watch TV, wasn't on my phone. I couldn't focus having a conversation with anyone. I was in this constant world of drowsiness.
"Then I started not being able to sleep properly. I kept asking the doctor, 'When am I going to feel better?' They said it was all normal, all part of concussion. It was a really hard injury for me to understand mentally, because it wasn't like I had a sore shoulder, it was just to do with concussion."
Bouchard was back on tour regularly about three months after sustaining her concussion, but Dellacqua shelved a brief comeback attempt in early 2016. She found day-to-day life frustrating.
"I never felt sad, feeling like I don't want to get out of bed, but I just really struggled and felt like I couldn't cope with anything," she said. "We had the two kids at home, and I felt quite debilitated just being me — not tennis or anything — just not being able to do the small things in life. It had really affected me."
Dellacqua — who has a young son and daughter with her partner, Amanda Judd — said she drew comfort from speaking to Sarah Borwell, another tennis player who had sustained a concussion. A British doubles player, Borwell was struck in the back of the neck by a ball hit from about six feet away during a match in July 2010.
"I felt like I could connect with her and she could understand," Dellacqua said. "It was good because she made me feel like it was going to be O.K., it was just going to take time. She kept telling me, 'It's O.K., your brain will eventually reboot and you'll eventually get there.'
"It was difficult, but she was right, the doctors were right, and you do feel fine, eventually. But it was a horrible experience, concussion, and I'm glad I play a sport where you don't get multiple ones, because I don't know how those footballers go back on the field."
Borwell suffered serious bruising to her brain, and though she returned to the tour in 2011, she retired in early 2013.
"I couldn't speak very well," said Borwell, who now runs Tennis Smart, a program that helps promising junior players choose the right college in the United States. "If I was walking in a straight line and tried to talk to someone, I would veer off — if someone was on my left and I talked to them, I would veer off to the right. It took me about a year to feel normal again."
Both the WTA and the ATP have protocols in place when a concussion is suspected, including a gradual return to play and consistent monitoring and testing. Elaine Brady, the director of the WTA's sports science and medicine department, said the tour averaged one concussion per year between 2006 and 2010, but that the count had risen to two a year since then.
"We have annual physicals which the athletes go through, across the domains of sports medicine, and we do the SCAT 3 — the sports concussion assessment tool — so every athlete on the WTA has a baseline SCAT test," Brady said. "So should they have any concussion issues in the future, they've had a baseline SCAT, and they're educated on the purpose of it and the symptoms to look for."
Dellacqua, a former top-30 player in singles, considered quitting tennis on several occasions while she was struggling to recover, but a feeling of unfinished business kept her going. She is undecided about playing singles in the future, but plans a full schedule in doubles. She will partner with Ashleigh Barty, who is amid a comeback of her own after taking more than a year off to play professional cricket.
"There were plenty of times I'd thrown away my tennis bag, my sweatbands, my rehab stuff because I knew it was a long way back," Dellacqua said. "I feel very unique to a lot of other players. I know that my life at home is great, and 110 percent when I finish, I'll be so happy. But you're a long time retired. I have had a great career, things I can be proud of, but from now on in, it's not about how many Grand Slam finals I make or my ranking. I'm out here to make my family proud and set a good example, and enjoy my tennis and go from there."


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A holistic food specially formulated for kittens, this balanced recipe has high-density lean protein to help build strong muscles, DHA for cognitive development and a unique blend of 20 nutritious superfoods to promote overall wellness. Give your little angel the proper nutrition to support them into their prime!
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*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Cat Food Nutrient Profiles.
Calories - Metabolizable Energy (calculated) - 3540 kcal/kg - 430 kcal/cup
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This is Day 1 of the 2013 Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade – a part of the CME Group, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers.
After weather-related stops and starts, the 2013 Kansas wheat harvest is officially underway in several south central Kansas locations, with test cutting as far north as McPherson County in central Kansas and as far west as Clark County.
Harvest traditionally begins near Kiowa, where a few isolated fields of wheat were harvested last week. On Tuesday, however, the harvest campaign really got underway, according to Steve Inslee, general manager of the OK Co-op in Kiowa. So far, about 350,000 bushels have been taken in by the elevator. Test weight averages 59 pounds per bushel, and protein ranges from 12 to 15.6. Despite a rain earlier this week, the wheat is dry and Inslee says weather-permitting, the area harvest could be complete in a week.
Cowley County Extension Agent Jill Zimmerman says farmers in Sumner County began harvesting mid-afternoon Tuesday, after fields had dried out from a one-inch shower on Sunday night. Zimmerman's family started on a field of the variety Everest; test weight was 61 pounds and yield is about 45 bushels per acre.
Wheat began trickling into the Anthony Farmers Co-op over the weekend, but harvest activity geared up on Tuesday. Test weights average 60 pounds per bushel, but no yields have been reported so far. About 305,000 bushels had been taken in the Anthony location as of Wednesday morning. Kari Nusz at the cooperative's Harper location says the area has taken wheat since Saturday, 57,000 bushels so far. Test weights have ranged from 59 to 62 pounds per bushel. It is too early for yield estimates, but Nusz reports farmers are pleased with field results up to now. Weather permitting, harvest will be in full force by the weekend.
Kansas Wheat Commissioner Scott Van Allen started harvest Tuesday evening on a patch of Everest wheat near Conway Springs. Moisture was 13.4%, and test weight was 61 pounds per bushel. He estimates the crop was yielding about 50 bushels per acre. Van Allen received a quarter-inch of rain Tuesday night, which could pre-empt harvest until Thursday.
The 2013 Harvest Report is brought to you by the Kansas Wheat Commission, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and sponsors Kansas City Board of Trade – part of the CME Group, and the Kansas Grain & Feed Association.
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Cambridge Education Group has announced its first pre-bachelor's pathway in Sweden and a partnership with Kristianstad University.
Cambridge Education Group has announced its first pre-bachelor's pathway in Sweden and a partnership with Kristianstad University.
CEG's ONCAMPUS pathway school in Lund will give international students access to study a bachelor's degree at Kristianstad or Lund University from September 2018.
The Pre-Bachelor's Preparation Program is targeted at science students and will take one year to complete.
"Sweden's status as a leader in innovation and a home of trendsetters has been long held"
The partnership with Kristianstad University offers guaranteed places to all successfully completing students from a business pathway onto MSc Business Administration degrees. Kristianstad University is the only Swedish university that offers work-placement-based learning in all its undergraduate programmes.
Students seeking to progress to Lund University will have to meet additional conditions – with options including BSc Mathematics, BSc Physics and BSc Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science.
Jonathan Harms, managing director of ONCAMPUS UK & EU, said the partnership in Sweden will give the company's students more options.
"Sweden is an already popular destination for international students and our new partnership with Kristianstad University enables us to offer more options for students seeking to study in this great European city."
In the past, master's degrees in Engineering and Science at Lund University were open to CEG students, after CEG's ONCAMPUS pathway opened in 2015.
According to Nicola Pegram, marketing manager at CEG, agents recruiting for Sweden have said it is a growing destination for rankings conscious, high achieving students.
"[Sweden] is ranked among the top five countries in the world at providing higher education (Universitas 21 Ranking 2017)," she said.
"Swedes themselves have the second highest proficiency in English as a second language (2017 Education First English Proficiency Index) with many degrees being taught in English."
Students are attracted to the style of teaching, she added.
"They are encouraged to think independently, creatively and critically and question what they are being told. Sweden's status as a leader in innovation and a home of trendsetters and early adopters has been long held. Students find this a real point of differentiation."
CEG now has 16 pathway centres across the UK, the EU and the US.
In 2018 over 26,000 international students are studying in Sweden.
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thanks to TotallyArielMoore here's an interview with Sara. you can also hear her sing acapella.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Sara Diamond interview!
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A lot of places sell a variety of electronics to fit the needs of their customers. You will then find that there are also the really popular types of the home theater systems if they are watching movies. However, this is something that is actually completely wrong to even think about. This is not something that is just saying that they will need to keep better track of all of the things that are actually going on.
In many cases, the best thing about the movie watching process is who you are all with during that particular movie. Alongside of this you would also be able to see that there usually going to be a much better experience as well if you are using the any of the locations home automation systems. These are going to be a lot of people who will need to have something really good stick out to them in order for them to continue to use it.
A lot of the people are so worried about getting people who really care about their home. This would mean that they are going to be willing to spend whatever kind of money that seems to be affordable for them. They will be able to buy some extra things for their homes that will make it have an entirely different type of atmosphere than some of the others. You will see that some people are going to have a home theatre system that they would be interested in at that time.
The people who will decide to go with some of these things are the ones who really care about the quality of a movie. However, this is actually something that goes much further and beyond the ideas of the things that they will need to do for their job. It is actually pretty common that a lot of people are not really sure about what company would sell some of the more common types of products for this particular type of experience.
However, you would be the first one who would be able to realize that a lot of the people who are going to have to go through their own process of purchasing a really good system are going to be the ones that are better off staying home to watch a television show's episode or your favorite movie. There are going to be some really high demands for the people who are actually using their home automation system from any of the locations that seem to be the most helpful with you.
There are then the home automation systems in place of their own speakers that they have built into their television sets. The times that people try to take on the challenge of getting everything hooked up the proper way there is always going to be that one spot for errors. In the large majority of the time there are actually going to be people who will need to be able to refer to their most important pieces of the world.


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Since the Republic of China national flag was deleted from Taiwan-related pages on certain US government Web sites, members of the opposition pan-blue camp have been jeering the government and accusing it of failing to uphold the nation's dignity.
However, this incident can be seen in the wider context, including the US' 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which recommends resuming port-of-call visits between the US and Taiwanese navies, and the Taiwan Travel Act, which proposes lifting restrictions on interactions between the US and Taiwan.
Taken in this broader context, it could be seen as a signal that the US, prompted by China's increasingly forceful military threats to Taiwan, is seeking to clarify its "one China" policy. It is worth considering what signals the move, at this particular time, is meant to send to Taiwan and China.
There has in the past few months been more discussion, both in Taiwan and abroad, about possible Chinese aggression against Taiwan. The direct reasons for this are, of course, various things that have been happening since the Chinese Communist Party's 19th National Congress in October last year. These include circumnavigations of Taiwan by the Chinese aircraft carrier the Liaoning, harassment of Taiwan by Chinese fighter jets and China's unilateral activation of northbound air traffic on the M503 flight route.
There is nothing new about China's refusal to renounce using military force against Taiwan. It is just that this policy tends to be obscured by the smoke screen of China's peaceful "united front" policies and because peace is an important foundation of China-US relations.
However, in 2005, China enacted its "Anti-Secession" Law, which provides a basis in Chinese domestic law for taking military action against Taiwan. Taiwan must treat the possibility of armed aggression or invasion as a constant in cross-strait relations and take that into account when deciding on its national security policies, and our armed forces must be prepared for all eventualities, no matter how peaceful the situation might seem. It is perfectly reasonable for Taiwan to think along these lines.
If China were to attack Taiwan, it would not be a Chinese internal affair, as China claims. On the contrary, it would most definitely be an international affair. One reason to say so is that the country with the most influence over Taiwan's sovereignty, namely the US, does not recognize Taiwan as belonging to the People's Republic of China, and because the Taiwan Relations Act, which the US Congress drew up at the same time as the US established diplomatic relations with China, lays down in black and white the US' commitment to assist in defending Taiwan's security.
The US has been implementing the terms of the Taiwan Relations Act for 40 years without China being able to do anything about it. When China threatened Taiwan over its first direct presidential election in 1996, then-US president Bill Clinton ordered two aircraft carrier battle groups to sail close to Taiwan and remain there on standby, thereby demonstrating the US' strength of will regarding Taiwan's sovereignty.
Taiwan-friendly figures have been appointed to Taiwan-related departments in US President Donald Trump's administration, while Taiwan's strategic role has been defined as part of Trump's "free and open Indo-Pacific" plan, thus reaffirming the US' will to support Taiwan's sovereignty.


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I've learned so much over the past five years, and enjoy nothing more than finding a new blogger & reading their journey end to end. There are so many amazing stories out there, and I love reading the tips & tricks everyone else uses for frugal fun, cost savings, meal planning, etc.
So, what have I learned exactly?
- I've realized that my current job/career is costing me a lot, even though it pays well. This has been part of a larger realization that earning a bunch of money isn't the end goal in my life. It's enjoyment, having enough money to take care of my family, but not working so hard I don't get to enjoy it. This has been a *journey* rather than a wake up & understand it moment. ;-) More details on this in the future, but this is something I've wrestled with for quite some time now.
- I previously thought I was reasonably frugal & I definitely wasn't! What an eye opener once I started tracking my spending.
- I'm highly motivated by goals, tracking & measuring progress. My favorite time of the year is the end of December/beginning of January. I get so excited to track my progress for the year & set new goals!
- I still love to travel - our budget has always reflected this.
- We've grown our net worth from $680K (October, 2011) to $2.35M (today). This has been the result of many changes, but the highlights would be: paying off all debt (minus the mortgages). We didn't have much to start with, but had taken a loan from our 401K to refinance into a smaller mortgage. It's also due to many, many smaller changes. Additional principle payments, reducing our expenses, and focusing on the big picture. It's also fair to say that our income has grown pretty drastically in the past few years. But, with that has come much higher housing expenses.
- During the five years, I've had quite a journey with my health. I started running, fell in love with running, started doing distance events (half marathons), & then found out I had lupus. I'm still adjusting to life with a lot less energy. I weigh 6 pounds more than I did 5 years ago.
- The kids are growing up too quickly. Looking back on the pictures, I can't believe how fast it's gone. I really need to do a better job of stopping to enjoy along the way.


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Specifically, Megan specialises in corporate litigation, bankruptcy and insolvency, shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, contractual disputes, breach of confidence and restraint of trade, banking matters, and Australian Consumer Law.
Megan has advised companies in relation to restructuring and work-outs, contracts, trade mark applications and business sale agreements, and advised liquidators on a range of matters including drafting deeds of company arrangements.
- Advising a minority shareholder in relation to a claim in the Supreme Court of New South Wales for oppressive conduct and recovery of a loan repayable at call.
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'Outlander' Sneak Peek: Jamie and Claire Arrive at River Run (PHOTOS)
We're only on the second episode of Outlander's fourth season, and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) have already been robbed and beaten.
After surviving Stephen Bonnet's (Ed Speleers) attack, the crew on the river boat arrives at River Run, the estate/plantation owned by Jamie's Aunt Jocasta (Maria Doyle Kennedy). But they will encounter more foes than friends in North Carolina.
'Outlander' Season 4 Premiere: Fan Reaction & Changes From the Book
The premiere's final scene had a different outcome in Diana Gabaldon's 'Drums of Autumn.'
There's already friction between Jocasta and Claire because the Bostonian doctor voices her contempt regarding slavery, which in 18th century Colonial America, was a major part of life.
In the clip below, they disagree politely but the tension still hangs in the air.
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'Duties and Rights', the two juxtaposing assemblies have been impugning each other in a democratic system for a long time. On one hand, the channelizing machinery blaming the citizens and on the other hand the citizenry blaming the system for repeatedly being meretricious in appearance but mere lackadaisical in its methodology. But in this warfare of constant blamegame, are we losing the vivacious mettle of realization of our very own duties ?
Everyone seems more palpable than the other when the cause for the deliverance of our proper right comes. How many of us go for the deliverance of our very own duties ? The stream of the situation is to learn to avoid blaming others and becoming accountable. The acerbic friction between the system and the citizens is due to the paucity of synchronization between the two. Right to have clean localities is attainable when people stop disposing of waste in unwanted places, littering the trash on the road, near street stalls, open restaurants, burning the plastic wastes, etc. The system on the other hand, should rise above the inadvertence and should provide a proper waste management strategy in every city with an effective implementation. The holy requirement regarding right to 'Privacy' will be conserved only when tourists are abstracted from being molested one day or the other. India-Gargantuan processions either in elections or in religious fanaticims should not interrupt the machinery of the system. Percussions, abraded temper and unusual strikes bring a suspension against the synchronicity of our own rights. Our duty should be to avoid the malfunctioning of the machinery by contributing our little cooperation in the situation of morass.
The torpor and trammel of duties will incarcerate the rights in some form and substance in an improvident manner. The transmutation of tragedies in a solution-oriented positive note will categorically ensure our invincible rights. But the insipid spirit of our sense to perform duties cripple the entire effort to sustain such notion. The need of the situation is to propound such amenable positive insurrection against our own odds of torpid actions, abrogations, suspension and insouciant behaviour that hinder the impetus pathway of development and thus deprive us of our monumental rights. A positive approach is a desirable one.
Many people in the gush of jingoism forget what actually our duties are towards the nation and the society. Even the description of an utopian civilization expresses the quality of an effective duty performance. Every individual, irrespective of caste, age, gender, qualification and mental ability, when performs his or her duty, which is lawful and non-discriminating, which is unbiased and truly at last which is established by its very foundation on the grounds of brotherhood, corresponds the unification of a magnanimous nation. Such a nation will never outbreak a brouhaha over the impartial treatment and enforceability of rights, since such a nation irrespective of different levels of abilities, will never hinder the upliftment of any sector, rather it will cooperate and will bring a vivacious synchronization in the channelizing wheels of the nation which was once moving in a discursive manner.
Today our spasmodic expression is renegading the bounds of inhumanity. Today we feel so reluctant to help others. Have we become so inhumane to shatter the ambience of defunctionalization ? Actually we are on a digressive path, where we have shattered veneration, questioning each other's obligations and accountability. Today we are looking for videos that justify the belittling morals in the society, in order to kickstart our effort, our duties, our conscience, our humanity ! It is high time for all of us irrespective of all segregations to inculcate the forgotten cognizance of benevolence.
But today, we are living in society, where we have participation in our own governance. With this governance, comes a responsibility too, to follow the didactic dictum that will establish a debonair nation. Many of us are becoming captious to inquire others' accountability. But this should not be the notion of a nation which is aspiring for an august apotheosis. Yes, a congenial vantage is waiting for us to realize a candid epitome that when we take care of our duties, rights take care of themselves !
—K.L. Surekha
"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight." —Bob Marley
There will be a never ending debate between Duties and Rights—which should take the precedence ? If rights could take care of themselves, why do we need to stand up and fight for our rights ? Will there be any need for us to run and knock the door of High Courts and Supreme Court to get our rights ?
Rights are fundamental rules in existence which are allowed of people or owed to people as granted by a country's Constitution or Laws. Rights form the basis of civilisation and are regarded as the pillar of society and culture. On the other hand, Duty is the one we are morally (or) legally obligated to do.
There is always a notion to say that one's right becomes another's duty. Point of debate is which takes precedence ? Our constitutional makers have thought a lot and referred to many other Constitutions, to make Indian Constitution the best. If Duties take precedence, they might have incorporated them in our original Constitution itself.
People, in general, are duty-bound. May be there could be few who neglect their duties as a citizens of a country. Infact, those few people will always exist in any country. Supreme Court made it mandatory for everyone to stand up in theatres when national anthemy is played. Infact we are forced to display our duty towards a nation.
We have Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. But still our Rights do not get fulfilled. Say, we were granted Right to Freedom of speech and expression under Article 19. But still there were many cases that were filed in courts at different levels every single day. If Rights could take care of themselves, why would I need to prove my Right to freedom of expression ?
Example : Kushboo Case.
Several Rights got legal sanctions, say Right to Education, Right to Food etc. If Rights could take care of themselves, why would people die of starvation in Jharkhand when there is Right to Food ? Even today several children can be seen on any road, working as child labour and not getting proper education. Whose fault is it ? It is nothing but admitting of the failure on the part of Govt. in performing the duties of a welfare state ? Not just we as a citizen have duties, Government too has duties that are to be followed.
Take the case of Right to Privacy, in Aadhar issue. Even though the issue is in court, Government is making it mandatory for almost all of its services. Then how will Right to privacy be established ? In todays cyber world, we cannot ensure that our data-base is strong enough and can never be hacked. Eventhough Aadhar issue is not fully resolved, ration was rejected for few people in Jharkhand, resulting in deaths. If Rights could take care of themselves, then should there be any deaths as we have Right to Food and Right to Privacy.
Rights are several—Legal Rights, Fundamental Rights, Human Rights, Child Rights, Corporate Rights and so on. For example, Child Rights are so important that if they don't get such Rights, one generation will be lost, About 263 million children and youth are out of school, according to UNESCO, Institute for Statistics (UIS). Then can we say that children are getting their Right to Education ? We, as humans have certain rights. But such Human Rights are mostly neglected. Ex. Sri Lankan Civil War—where thousands of people were killed and several missing and Rohingyas Muslims refugees issue. Every year the count of refugees is increasing. They are the people with no country and no rights.
"Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities." —Pope Francis
Economic inequalities are such that in India richest 1% own 58·4% of wealth. This shows the exploitation of society.
We have moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. We have rights to live in a better way.
In my opinion, there always exists a delicate balance between Duties and Rights. As far as majority is concerned, we follow our Duties as a citizen of this country. But sometimes we need to fight for our rights, through Judiciary—which is a time-consuming as well as a costly affair.
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20480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
Exams Included & Administered During Camp:
70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
What's Included
- Airfare - Your Location To Tampa, FL*
- 1 Microsoft Test Vouchers
- 1 Microsoft Official Courses
- 4 Nights of Lodging
- 1 Retake Voucher (if needed)
- Microsoft Study Labs & Simulations
- Ground Transportation
- Onsite Pearson Vue Test Center
- Instructor Led Classroom Training
This camp is a part of the MCSA Web Apps boot camp.
The 20480 Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Course Description boot camp is a 3 day comprehensive deep dive into Web Apps covering topics such as writing programming, developing and creating. This instructor led face to face training camp will teach you the skills needed to support a Web Apps environment.
This 20480 Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Course Description boot camp incorporates Microsoft Official Course -
20480 Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Course Description
Topics covered in this technical training:
Explain how to use Visual Studio 2012 to create and run a Web application
Describe the new features of HTML5, and create and style HTML5 pages
Add interactivity to an HTML5 page by using JavaScript
Create HTML5 forms by using different input types, and validate user input by using HTML5 attributes and JavaScript code
Send and receive data to and from a remote data source by using XMLHTTPRequest objects and jQuery AJAX operations
Style HTML5 pages by using CSS3
Create well-structured and easily-maintainable JavaScript code
Use common HTML5 APIs in interactive Web applications
Create Web applications that support offline operations
Create HTML5 Web pages that can adapt to different devices and form factors
Add advanced graphics to an HTML5 page by using Canvas elements, and by using and Scalable Vector Graphics
Enhance the user experience by adding animations to an HTML5 page
Use Web Sockets to send and receive data between a Web application and a server
Improve the responsiveness of a Web application that performs long-running operations by using Web Worker processes
Certification Camps has developed a comprehensive training / delivery format focused on learning beyond the generic book content (accessible to any Microsoft training provider). Our program incorporates interactive demonstrations and detailed real world explanations. When possible - additional content, videos, labs & demonstrations are provided to expand on advanced topics - providing additional insight and perspective. Certification Camps training is not the typical book & PowerPoint presentation found at any local training center.
As a Microsoft Certified Partner with Gold Learning Competency - we adhere to the strict guidelines, standards and requirements to use Microsoft's exclusive curriculum. More over - our standards go beyond the "minimum requirements" set forth by Microsoft Learning.
We leverage our partnership benefits of courseware customization to build end to end technology training solutions. Students gain practical skills which can be implemented immediately.
At most training centers - learning starts on the first day of class and ends on the last day. Our boot camp training program is designed to offer resources before, during and after the training.
CAMPUS - Certification Camps built a state of the art training center with spacious classrooms, no sound transference between rooms, large individual desk, Herman Miller Aeron chairs & great common areas.
CLASSROOM SERVERS - Students work on a dedicated Dell 8700 / 8900 with an Intel i7 (6th generation), 32GB memory with 512GB SSD drives.
CAMPUS INTERNET - The campus is connected with a 300Mbs Verizon Fios Business Connection which provides complete internet (including VPN) access for students.
COMMON AREA - Unlike any training facility ever - break room with Mame Arcade, high end "kitchen" with snacks, drinks (Starbucks Coffee, 100% juices, sodas, etc) and breathtaking terrace.
LODGING - We use the Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites Lakewood Ranch. This "upgraded" hotel offers extremely comfortable beds, great breakfast and very fast (Verizon) internet access.
NEARBY AMENITIES - Many shops, restaurants and grocery options are available within walking distance. Additionally - the hotel provided scheduled shuttle services. Restaurants like Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, Panera Bread, Bone Fish Grill, Ruby Tuesday's, Five Guys, Chipotle, Quiznos, Chili's and over 20 additional choices in the immediate area. All of these options are offered in a pedestrian walking village.
Certification Camps provides an in-depth hands on learning environment. Our instructors teach using demonstrations and explain concepts beyond the scope of the courseware. The best instructors are contracted from all across the US. These professionals are real world consultants who actually implement these technologies. Certification Camps knows our clients work in the "real world" and it only makes sense to have an instructor with the experience in the real world.
Facilities - Many of our competitors over-crowd classrooms by placing 2 to 3 students per desk and 20+ students per instructor. Often these companies "extend" the life of very old equipment with slow performance on the software used today. Our average class size is 8 students. Our facilities have the best equipment with the most comfortable, focused environment for learning.
Instructors - Our CEO, Chester Flake holds one of the rarest Microsoft Certifications - the Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant (MCLC) Certification. This certification reflects a commitment to make sure our instructors are also actively engaged in real world consulting projects. Students expect a professional who can answer questions and demonstrate the technology.
Face to Face Training - We believe the best way to interact and learn is face to face training. Many of our competitors which offer local training are simply providing students with headphones/mic to attend class with an instructor at a remote location.
Test Pass - We offer a free retake voucher (if needed) for each of the exams required for certification. Any training center offering a "100% pass guarantee" would have to use unethical practices or unlimited test vouchers (which is not likely or practical).
Distractions - Students often look for a "local" training center so they can be close to home and work. Boot camp requires a tremendous time commitment during the program. Long class hours combined with self study each evening. The goal of boot camp is to achieve certification in a fraction of the time. We strongly recommend students attend camp away from home and work in a focused, distraction free environment.
Boot Camp - Boot camp is an accelerated training focused on teaching technology and testing students on the official exams. Most training providers "added" boot camps to the existing standard training classes they offer. These training centers think a boot camp is just a regular class where you send the student home with a voucher on the last day. Certification Camps administers exams throughout the camp. Equally important - not every trainer can teach a boot camp and not all courseware is designed for boot camp format. Our trainers know the boot camp format and our courseware is designed for accelerated learning.
Florida - Certification Camps has one of the most scenic locations boasting some of the best weather in US. We believe students should have a comfortable and inviting atmosphere while attending these otherwise intense programs. We place our location, facilities and amenities up against that any competitor.


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EduxBrain: Telling Brain Fact from Brain Fiction
Recording: EduxBrain: Telling Brain Fact from Brain Fiction, Mar 4, 2019
These days, the brain is on everyone's mind—there are even neuroscience-based beverages on the market. But when it comes to learning and the brain, what can neuroscience really tell us about education? Is there anything to that left-brain right-brain thing? Can phone apps actually help boost your short-term memory? In this conversation-based session, we will separate brain myths and brain truths about human learning from infancy to adulthood.
Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.
Format: Future20
Event Type: Session
Track: Science of Learning
Level: Basic Understanding


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When it comes to the holidays, my husband finds great value in trying to look his best. There are company Christmas parties, dinners with family, Christmas shopping date nights, and Holiday church services…. [read more]
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I have always had a love/hate relationship with cleaning. I dislike cleaning but then again, there are times when I like cleaning. I like to keep our home sanitized and clean. I am all for a cleaner home! So I am always on the lookout for cleaning products to try! I was never into using harsh products with chemicals and fragrance. I am more concerned with clean and sanitized surfaces. I don't need our home to smell like chemicals or fake fragrances to feel clean.
When I am shopping for new products for my home and family, there are a lot of different factors that play into my decision. For starts, any added benefits and if the product is all natural contains fillers or contains ingredients that may cause more harm than good. While browsing around for beauty products and lotions that I could use as well as my daughter who has very sensitive skin, I came across Real Purity. At Real Purity, they want you to celebrate your beauty with natural products that will enhance your skin and make you feel beautiful from the inside out. Their products contain only the highest quality botanical and plant-derived ingredients.
For the last few months, I've been dealing with a small eczema breakout on my face. It was odd. Why, you ask? First, I've never had an eczema breakout. In the past, my son has had eczema breakouts. I was always told to use lotion and keep his skin hydrated. It would make an appearance when I used different makeup or skincare products. Then it would go away after using natural products for a bit.
I'm a fan of cruelty-free products–and even more of a fan if they're also vegan–so I was pretty excited to try some products from BOOM! by Cindy Joseph. This excitement motivated me to do a little preemptive research into the brand (aka clicking through the BOOM website), and my excitement only increased. Cindy Joseph places an enormous emphasis on women's "natural beauty", and has created a line of products that specifically focus on enhancing your individual features.


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Islamabad [Pakistan] Feb 4 (ANI): Islamabad and Kabul have decided to continue holding discussions to reach an agreement on the entire Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity">Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS).
A joint statement read: "The meeting was held in a cordial environment and both delegations made some progress on the APAPPS", reported the Dawn.
"An Afghan delegation held talks with Pakistani leadership in Islamabad on security cooperation amid the highly volatile security situation in their country. Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua led the Pakistani delegation at the talks while Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai was leading the Afghan side," it reported.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of a series of deadly attacks in Afghanistan allegedly by Pakistan.
Kabul has also accused Islamabad of harbouring the Taliban.
In a televised speech to the nation, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani recently alleged that the "centre of Taliban terrorism is in Pakistan" and demanded that authorities in the neighbouring country "show some concrete action to rid their territory of insurgents."
After the three major militant attacks that took place in Kabul in the past two weeks, the pressure on the country's government has intensified to beef up the security.
The APAPPS is a joint action plan for cooperation in the areas of counter-terrorism and reduction of violence, peace and reconciliation, refugees repatriation and joint economic development. (ANI)


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Wrong Question, Right Answer
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: Elle Casey
Narrated By: Sophie Amoss
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Date: August 2016
Duration: 11 hours 4 minutes
As a member of the Bourbon Street Boys private security firm, Antoinette "Toni" Delacourte is one strong woman, but despite her reputation for being tough as nails, she is haunted by her past mistakes. Now they're catching up to her, and throwing her for a loop.
Ten years ago, Toni kissed Lucky, her brother's best friend. Worried it would break apart the group she'd come to see as family, she walked away-straight into the arms of Charlie, and an abusive relationship.
For the past decade she's tried to keep her feelings for Lucky platonic-he's her friend, her colleague, and he's got his own past to deal with. Free of Charlie but unable to shake his memory, Toni finds herself feeling vulnerable and unable to deny her attraction to Lucky any longer.
She's always thought that kiss was her first mistake, but now she's wondering whether the real mistake was running away.
Toni may not be able to undo the mistakes of her past, but can she finally face up to them?


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A Yerevan court today released Toros Torosyan and Vardan Geravetyan, Sasna Dzrer members now on trial for the armed seizure of a Yerevan police station in 2016, from detention while the trial continues. They both have health issues.
|Vardan Geravetyan
Torosyan had to pay a bail of half a million drams, and Geravetyan - one million drams.


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Having had no particularly outlandish travel or events in the past couple of weeks, I figured a miscellaneous post of funny stories and cultural tidbits would be appropriate. As a disclaimer, I realize many of the cultural things I mention are generalizations and might not be accurate outside my village/marz.
-First Bell: school started on September 1st, the highlight being the "First Bell" ceremony in front of the school, where the recent kindergarten graduates showed up to be sorted into classes on the spot; they will remain in these classes, with the same classmates, for their entire twelve years at the school, so First Bell is sort of like Hogwarts' sorting without the talking hat. The kids dress to the nines for the whole first week; to escort his older brother to school, my four-year-old neighbor Manvel wore a formal vest, black slacks, bowtie, and white polished fake alligator-skin shoes.
-Animal drama: one of my favorite things about village life is keeping up with the lives of my favorite local animals. Pumpkin, our favorite stray, just had a pair of puppies! She had foolishly stashed them in an old shed right by the road, so was chasing every passing car and barking like a maniac. I was certain she'd be run over, but thankfully Karen transplanted her and the pups to a bucolic hay-filled shed behind his papik's house. In other news, Pushok (Karen's family's cat) is now a grandmother, as her daughter had a litter of four kittens who congregate around the family's door and dash away as soon as you approach.
-Saying hello: one of the smaller cultural points that most interests me is that you only say "barev" (hello) to someone once a day, when you first see them – in subsequent meetings you either ignore them if just passing in the street, or dispense with the greeting if you're having a conversation. I've had a hard time adapting to this, but everyone keeps saying "barev" back to me when I forget and greet them for the fifth time of the day; according to Karen no one cares much, they just think it's slightly goofy. My host family and I have settled on the custom of using an English "hello" for greetings later in the day.
-Naming conventions: family names don't pass directly between generations here, but rather skip one. For instance, Karen's mom and his niece are both Anna.
-Notable fashion items: Yankees hats are everywhere in my town, and plenty of other places I've been to. I'm always wearing my Red Sox hat and tried to explain to the apparent Yankees supporters that our teams are bitter enemies, but I don't think I got the point across. No one seems to know about baseball, it's just an American culture statement along the lines of wearing a Los Angeles shirt, which you also see a lot of. In the bigger cities, Jack Daniels shirts for men are absolutely everywhere.
-Comparison/competitiveness: an extremely common question as soon as people find out you're from America is "is here or there better?". Usually I respond with a simple, "they're both good, just different". Also, I'm not exaggerating when I say that maybe 75% of initial conversations include getting asked "Hayastana lav na?" (literally "is Armenia good?", which I'd translate less awkwardly to "how do you like Armenia?"). There's obviously no proper response but, "It's great, the fruit is the best in the world, the churches are beautiful, etc.".
-Exciting air traffic: being less than 25 miles from Gyumri and 60 or so from Zvartnots (Yerevan's airport, which I recently learned means "celestial wings"), we get a lot of planes overhead. Every day we have standard commercial civilian air traffic, but randomly a couple of times a week we also get Armenian and Russian fighter jets flying low overhead from their respective military bases outside Gyumri. Anyone outside generally stops and watches anytime this happens (and it is pretty cool, as sometimes they'll fly over in groups of four to six in tight formation); there's also a pilot from our village (naturally we're relatives – I think he's my host brother-in-law's cousin) who likes to fly extremely low to say hello; the first time I experienced this it was so loud I thought we were being bombed or shelled and ducked inside the doorway of Karen's house for cover. Naturally as I finished this sentence four more jets flew over.
-Car safety: seatbelts, especially in older cars, are pretty rare, and almost unheard of for back seat passengers. A common setup in the villages is husband driving, wife in back seat holding baby, and anywhere from one to three little kids standing on the floorboards in front of the front passenger seat with their faces pressed to the window and windshield. I'd be curious to see if carseats are a thing in Yerevan.
-A very Armenian afternoon: after a great weekend visiting my friend Mary up in Torosgyugh (a bustling metropolis of 250 on a good day), we hitch-hiked into Gyumri, the only way out of her village if you're not carpooling with someone you know, so that I could catch my marshutni home. We got picked up by an older man who proceeded to whip out his smartphone to show us pictures of his grandchildren while weaving back and forth in the road down the treacherous mountain pass into the plains surrounding Gyumri. Later, after exiting a bookstore in Gyumri, a young blond-haired man followed us out; my first thought was, "wow, that guy's jacked", my second, "wait a minute, that's Armenia's first gold medalist since 1996, Artur Aleksanyan"; pictures naturally ensued. Finally, I got into a good conversation with some older guys at the Gyumri bus station later that afternoon. After the usual discussion about family, are you married, where is your son serving in the military, etc., one of the men asked me simply, "do you like old things?". When I responded that yes, of course I like old things, he climbed up into his shortly-departing bus, rummaged around in his bag, and came back with a beautiful old mini-jazzve for me (see picture below). I promised I'd take it back to the States for single cup coffee-making and think of him whenever I brewed up a cup of Armenian coffee.
-Holidays with little warning: yesterday, on the 9th, we received an email from our country director: "You are all probably already aware, but we wanted to make sure that you knew that it was recently announced by the Armenian government that Monday, Sept 12 will be a national holiday and all schools, banks, etc. will be closed on this day. Schools will be expected to 'make up' this day on Saturday Sept 17." Apparently this sort of thing is quite common, and luckily for TEFL volunteers they are not expected to work on Saturdays, so they get random three-day weekends.
Language note
Armenians are generally more direct in speech than Americans, not hesitating to say "I'm bad" when you ask them how they are, and preferring to say "I am sick" over the less definite English "I feel sick". I was fascinated to learn the word զգալ, zgal, "to feel", the other day – you can only use it to say "I feel bad" or "I feel good" – it's a binary with no other allowed usages. I have nothing profound to follow this, I just think it's fascinating that those are the only two adjectives you can use with this verb.


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Today, we're sharing a beautiful winter stylized shoot at the historic Rand-Bryan House in Raleigh, NC.
The house began as a 3,000 acre farm – a land grant from the King of England. The farm was passed through six generations of Rand's and was eventually renovated in 2009 as the Rand-Bryan House. It is now a perfect venue for intimate indoor or outdoor weddings.
The house offers two bridal suites and a beautiful open area with warm wood floors. There is so much natural light to offer both indoors and out. The Rand-Bryan house has acres of beautiful areas to enjoy and evening ceremonies provide perfect photo opportunities for the bride and groom as the sun slowly sets between the trees.
Photography by TSM captured the styled shoot below, choosing a regal and rich color palette of maroon, cream and gold with a hint of green. They aimed to create a sense of warmth on a chilly day by incorporating warm colors and accents like fur throws.
The naked cake is on trend and offers a touch of modern day style with its matching maroon cascading flowers.
Greenhouse Picker Sisters' vintage prop rentals were perfect for setting up a cozy sofa and outdoor lounge, creating a warm and intimate seating area. They also styled the beautiful sweetheart table with inviting colors of grey, cream, and a pop of red. The beautiful china fit in perfectly with the historic era of the venue.
The formality of the groom's uniform represents honor and history and the entire look of the shoot weaves a hint of a history with a modern twist – the perfect theme for a venue like the Rand-Bryan House. Enjoy the images captured by Photography by TSM below.
VENUE Rand-Bryan House | PHOTOS Photography by TSM | PLANNER & FLORALS Unveiled Designs & Events | MAKEUP Sunshine Make-up Artistry | GOWN Watters Mila by Blush Bridal | RENTALS AND DECOR Greenhouse Picker Sisters | CAKE T-Tuttlecakes | INVITATIONS Seahorse Designs