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The 2020 Election: Close-Reading Candidate Announcement Videos

From “Eisenhower Answers America” (1952), the first televised political ad.

Candidate announcement videos can be among the dullest artifacts of an election, usually generic aerial shots of Iowa corn fields and small Midwestern towns, The Candidate striding boldly down a street or onto a stage, their gaze pointed up and outward as they spout via a voiceover various platitudes about freedom and democracy and whatever else happens to be the buzzword of the day. Yet a campaign announcement video can also tell us a lot about how a candidate seeks to frame themselves, what issues they’re going to emphasize (if they emphasize issues at all), how they present themselves to the public, everything from the lighting to the font to the choice of background music suggesting a feeling they’d like associated with their campaign. So in this post, the second in my new “column” on the 2020 election (read my first post for a sense of my biases and why I’m debasing myself by becoming a political pundit), I’m going to close-read the campaign announcement videos of the major 2020 candidates. Because there are now 23 declared candidates, I’m not going to look at everyone’s video (even I don’t have that much time, or interest) and so I’m defining “major candidate” as anyone with a 2% average in the polls — yes, yes, I know, last week I went on about how polls are less important than narratives, but polls have to be useful for something, and if a candidate polling less than 2% now ends up becoming a serious contender for President then polling is even more useless than I argued last week and we may as well do away with the whole charade of it. No, I’m going to take a risk here and gamble that it’s going to be one of the seven candidates below who will end up becoming the Democratic nominee and not one of the other fifteen whose videos I decided not to watch.

So, let’s proceed then, in the order each candidate joined the race:

I’m going to do Warren a favor here and begin with the video that announced her exploratory committee in January and not the unfortunate Native American DNA test video she released back in October (even though the latter issue did to a great extent define the narrative of her early campaign, managing to upset not only people on the right but also the liberal identity politics crowd). To Warren’s credit, since that blunder, she’s redefined herself as the “policy” candidate by regularly releasing bold and substantive proposals (often on this very platform) on everything from breaking up tech companies to student loan forgiveness.

In her announcement video, Warren begins by speaking directly to the camera about how the promise of America means that if you “work hard” and “play by the rules” you should be able to take care of yourself and your family, a general principle that’s layered over clips of Warren’s own kids and grandkids, a clear way to signal that Warren’s aiming her campaign at the honest, middle-class American. She then pivots to a personal story about her own family, complete with black and white clips and photos from over the years, an effective way to simultaneously inform viewers about her working class roots and her own successful career (public school teacher, law professor, Senator). This, though, is all just to set up her primary argument, which she introduces about a minute into the video with a graph of declining middle-class income — while her family was able to achieve middle-class prosperity and upward mobility, families today no longer have those same opportunities. She follows this up with a graph comparing black and white household wealth, adding a racial dimension to her economic argument.

The graphs, I think, are a bold but effective choice in a campaign announcement like this: they’re on screen only briefly but long enough to be understood, as the meaning of the lines declining as the years go on becomes obvious to any viewer, even if you only glance at the x and y axes. The use of a graph also points to Warren’s credentials and reminds us of her ability to understand complex issues like macroeconomic trends. To put it simply, it’s “professorial,” but in a good way. Finally, the somber piano music that plays underneath all of this only adds to this melancholy note — it’s not the upbeat music we’ll see in some other campaign announcements, and while it might feel like a downer, it’s a way to speak emotionally to the Americans who might not be feeling very upbeat about their economic futures.

Warren then turns to describing the causes of middle-class decline, a concise but effective argument about Wall St. greed and deregulation, with clips of Reagan and Bush signing bills to highlight the Republicans’ central role in causing this decline. It’s interesting that she doesn’t show clips of Clinton or Obama, even though their neoliberalism was as deregulatory as Reagan and Bush, Clinton especially, with NAFTA and welfare reform and the elimination of Glass Steagall — but of course, this is how Warren is subtly positioning herself differently than Bernie: she’s a Democratic through and through and while she will push the party on economic issues, she will generally not aim her criticisms at other Democrats.

Warren’s video then continues by describing how she got involved in politics after the financial crash of 2008 and then describes her various successes as a Senator— but here is where, I feel, the video begins to lose me and points to a larger problem with what is otherwise an effective campaign announcement: 4 minutes and 29 seconds is simply too long. The dramatic music that’s been building up as Warren intercuts clips of her in front of crowds with shots of Trump and Steve Mnuchin and talks about the power of working people to fight back starts to lose its tension when you realize there’s still a whole minute and a half to go. Even I skipped ahead at this point, and I’m actually taking the time to watch it and write an article about it. Still, perhaps this can ultimately be an asset to Warren — few people will watch to the end of her video, just as few people will read the full text of her policy proposals, but it’s a comfort to know that the extra minutes and pages are there, a sign that Warren is a thorough politician who will think about the things that you and I don’t have the intellect or attention span to think about.

Thus, close-reading Warren’s video makes clear just how she’s framing her presidential run: economic issues will be the central pillar of her campaign, she’ll lean into her biography and her credentials as a professor and Senator, and she’ll present her ideas with an exhaustive thoroughness.

The next major candidate to announce was Harris, whose video could not be more different from Warren’s: only 57 seconds long, with bright colors, quick cuts, and upbeat music, in contrast to Warren’s somber piano and collage of old clips. Most fundamentally, Harris doesn’t center her video on one issue like Warren but keeps it broad, vague, and about “values,” as she calls them.

She thus begins with these broad “values,” words like “truth,” “justice,” and “freedom” which flash onto a background of shifting colors. The colors are interesting, bright, Millennial-friendly pastels, purple, red, and yellow, signifying a kind of hip youthfulness, rather than the traditional reds, whites, and blues one comes to expect from campaign videos. The font, too, feels modern, a bold all-caps sans-serif. Still, there’s something about the aesthetic of this, the way the words flash around the screen, the poppy musical beat in the background, and the utter substanceless vacuity of the sentiments that makes the whole thing feel too much like a product advertisement, like something I’d see on Hulu that’s about to try and sell me a Toyota Corolla. The words she chooses also aren’t as telling as one would think — most of them are just generic political buzzwords, and the only one that really stands out is “decency,” a clear way to signify opposition to Trump.

Beyond this, the video is just a generic intercutting of The Candidate with “ordinary Americans” and a vague emphasis on “lifting voices” and “fighting.” It feels too focus-grouped and corporate, and it’s ultimately so generic that it tells us nothing about who Harris is and nothing about what issues she’ll make her priority. What it does tell us though is exactly the kind of campaign she will run — an unspecific campaign, full of vague promises, light on the issues, heavy on the polish. The question is, will it really be enough? (Answer: No, and the fact that Warren is doing better than Harris in the polls proves that maybe Americans want something of actual substance).

In fairness to Harris, the video is really meant as an advertisement for her Oakland rally — but still, more people will watch this video than the Oakland rally, and it’s her first video, paired with a tweet of her announcing she’s running, clearly meant to set the tone for her campaign. Is this really the tone that will speak to what Americans need right now?

When Buttigieg announced his exploratory committee, he was still relatively unknown outside of Democratic fundraising circles, and so his campaign announcement video is perhaps a lesser-known introduction to him than his CNN town hall clips. The video is pretty standard political campaign fare, a quick minute and 44 seconds, beginning with somber piano and a camera drifting by a row of middle-class houses (I imagine it’s South Bend, Indiana, where Buttigieg is mayor, so the Midwestern aesthetic here feels less calculated than in other campaign videos). We then get Mayor Pete himself, looking broodingly out a window as he pontificates about the corruption in Washington, and then a shot of him in a suit going up what looks like a freight elevator.

Buttigieg has this uncanny ability to say things of very little substance but in a voice that makes it sound like he’s articulating something incredibly profound. Case in point, in this video he gravely intones that “there’s no such thing as again in the real world” and “we can’t look for greatness in the past” — just a simple refutation of Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan, but spoken like he’s giving us some profound and hard truth. Buttigieg then goes on to discuss his role as South Bend’s mayor and how he saved the city from economic ruin — it’s a good choice, given that few know who Buttigieg is at this point, and it’s similar to Warren giving us a video overview of her resume (Harris, I think, could have benefited from giving us more of her background, since she’s not exactly a household name at this point).

But then we get my favorite and possibly the worst shot in any of the campaign videos: Buttigieg in a suit walks through a ruined factory, with broken wood floors and a gray view out the windows, and after he passes a pillar, the factory becomes a sleek corporate office, with glass windows, a metal staircase, fake-wood floors, etc. It’s not only a somewhat clumsy transition, but the new office doesn’t exactly speak of a renewed America so much as of gentrification and a bland, sinister corporate aesthetic that will take over the American landscape — not exactly an inspiring vision for the downwardly mobile average American voter.

Buttigieg’s video concludes with a shot of him and his husband, some photos of him in combat attire, and clips of his speeches, all a good summary of his experience and who he is. But unlike Warren, who centered her campaign on the issue of economic decline, Buttigieg’s video never focuses on an issue and remains generic in its emphasis on a “fresh start.” It’s meant to signify that Buttigieg is a millennial and of a new generation — but I don’t think the appeal really works, especially not to other millennials, most of whom still prefer the 77-year-old guy. I think the main reason is that Buttigieg isn’t really like other millennials — most of us didn’t end up working at McKinsey. No, Buttigieg’s “millennial” references are actually, I think, coded appeals to older voters, a way to show them that millennials aren’t just the avocado-toast-eating socialists they read about it the news but hard workers not that different from them. As someone on Twitter once put it, Buttigieg appeals to boomers who wish their own son was more like him.

I didn’t really want to put Booker on this list, because I don’t think he’ll do very well in the campaign — he’s barely at 2%, and in some polls he’s doing worse than Andrew Yang, but he has a bunch of endorsements, and it’s possible he’ll catch fire with some soundbite during the debate, at least enough to be on someone’s VP list. Still, to me he’s quite obviously the Marco Rubio of the field, someone who looks good on paper but can’t seem to put it all together the way someone like Warren can.

His announcement video has a high school marching band theme, which is perhaps a good aesthetic for connecting his personal story of growing up in a low income community, something he highlights throughout the video, to his political vision. But whereas he does a good job introducing us to who he is and focusing on a central issue, in this case housing and how it intersects with race, and even connects it nicely to the Civil Rights Movement with black and white clips of Martin Luther King and the Selma protest, he sort of drops the ball by the end of the video, which becomes a series of generic platitudes about “coming together” and overcoming “common pain” and achieving a “common purpose,” all of which is vaguely but very unclearly connected to the slogan “We Will Rise.” It’s a little more personal and interesting than Harris’s video, but still, you wonder why Booker doesn’t talk more about issues or center his campaign more emphatically on one idea, like Warren. Instead, he’s like someone trying to navigate this middle line between a corporate friendly vagueness and the inspiring personal story that’s made him into an “activist” (although, his history of voting with the pharma lobby makes his appeals to “activism” a little suspect).

So, now we come to Bernie, who I’ve said last week is my unabashed favorite. I’ll do my best to look at his announcement video as objectively as possible, but as I mentioned, I don’t believe objectivity is possible. I can’t help it — Bernie inspires me. I find his videos moving and his ideas and the way are argues for them powerful. His campaign ad from last year, “America,” is I believe the one of the best campaign videos ever produced, conveying a ’60s idea of hope for a 21st-century audience.

His 2020 announcement video is more traditional than the “America” ad — at first, you’ve got the background piano, you’ve got the Midwestern landscape, you’ve got Bernie’s voice talking about “real change.” But then the video pivots to something more interesting, and Bernie’s voice becomes intercut with news reporters describing the way Sanders’s ideas have transformed the country’s discourse since 2016, while headlines appear over clips that take us through a range of his key issues — Medicare for All, free college tuition, climate change, income inequality, minimum wage, campaign finance, the war in Yemen, civil rights, mass incarceration, women’s rights, immigration. What I love about this video is that, of all the campaign announcements, it’s the only one that actually details major issues — Bernie doesn’t just rely on platitudes like Harris or Buttigieg, and he doesn’t focus on one issue at the expense of all others, like Warren. He reminds us that his campaign is about changing all these things. For those of us who’ve followed Bernie since 2016, nothing here is new or surprising. But seeing it all laid out like this, and in the words of a media class that has often been hostile to him, is pretty damn inspiring.

We then get references to some of Bernie’s victories, specifically getting Amazon and Disney to raise their minimum wages, and then a quick montage of Bernie shaking hands with people. We get a few buzzwords like “Fierce,” “Vision,” and “Leader,” but because they’re once again quotes from the media, they don’t have the canned corporateness of Harris’s video. They also come across as more powerful given the key issues the video has already emphasized — “vision” in particular then, is the most interesting word, because it summarizes the style of Bernie’s campaign. He won’t run on generic campaign platitudes like Buttigieg and Harris and he won’t just be a single issue candidate like Warren’s video makes her appear, but instead he’ll offer a broad swathe of changes, a new “vision” for the country. And unlike other “visions,” this one is actually specific.

Overall, Bernie’s campaign announcement is clearly the best, better even than Warren’s. It’s concise but detailed and it gives us an idea of exactly what Sanders believes in and wants to change. More broadly it points to the kind of campaign he wants to run. Unlike Warren or Buttigieg or Booker, he doesn’t talk about his background at all. He focuses on the issues. For better or worse, Bernie doesn’t want the campaign to be about him as an individual. After all, except for his voice, he himself is barely in the video. Perhaps this is a mistake, and perhaps voters do want someone who they can connect to as a person — but I think a large group will respond to his issues-oriented campaign and specifically to how it’s clear that all these issues will benefit them, giving them healthcare, college, higher wages, fewer wars. It’s rare to see a politician talk this much about specific issues, and I think that will make him stand out.

Ah Beto — the man who the media fell in love with and then out of love with. What a cautionary tale of hubris — a modern Greek fable, a political Daedalus. Maybe Beto can bounce back into the spotlight at some point and recapture some of the energy of his Senate run against Ted Cruz (I actually think we might see Beto and Cruz in a Lincoln/Douglas style Presidential rematch some time in the future). But for now, Beto’s numbers seem to be plummeting like the graph in Warren’s announcement video — and his own video isn’t doing him any favors.

He begins with an awkward sentence: “Amy and I are happy to share with you that I’m running to serve you as the next President of the United States of America.” First of all, there are just too many prepositions in that sentence, too many “of” phrases that create an odd, drumbeat rhythm. It’s also the way Beto says it, with a weird forcefulness, like someone nervously reciting lines he’s clearly practiced a bunch of times in front of a mirror, leading to an odd anti-naturalness. His hand gestures also feel a bit much.

He then spouts a bunch of platitudes that mean absolutely nothing, talking about “peril” and “promise” and “fixing our democracy” — except unlike Harris, he doesn’t seem to realize that he should intercut his generalities with shots of crowds or background music to make it palatable. Instead, he just keeps going and going, talking at the camera and giving us nothing of substance, except a small discussion of paths to immigration. There’s also the awkwardness of his wife sitting there staring at him through this whole speech, blinking a few times, but otherwise unmoving.

I kept waiting for the video to change, to pivot to the standard fare that even Sanders indulged in, the crowds, the music — but no! Nothing! Just Beto talking at us for 3 and a half minutes! It’s so laughably awkward and earnest that I feel bad critiquing it like this — but the man is running for President, and as young as he is and looks, we shouldn’t treat him with kid gloves. So I have to say: his video was quite possibly the worst of all of these and told us nothing about who he is and what issues he stands for.

Finally, we come to Joe Biden, the frontrunner (for now). If you read my piece last week, you know I’m not a fan of him. But the truth is, his video is actually very good, mainly because it’s perfectly calibrated in its appeal. First of all, it’s just Biden talking, looking old but dignified, no tie, American flag pin, gray hair nicely combed — older voters will like this image of an old person who can look put together (a sharp contrast to Bernie of the rumpled suits and hair). Meanwhile, Biden’s is a face America has seen before, for eight years, and seeing it again for 3 minutes 30 seconds is meant to be comforting, something underscored by the piano music, which here isn’t somber as in Warren’s video, but melancholy and a little nostalgic.

Biden then delivers a very coherent and articulate (to use a favorite word of his) argument about how Charlottesville, Virginia, home to Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, whose iconic words about equality we all know “by heart,” has sadly become a symbol of the neo-Nazism of twenty-first century America after the white supremacist march that took place there back in 2017. Biden then not only connects this resurgent fascism to “Europe in the 1930s” but also implicitly to Trump by criticizing him for praising “very fine people on both sides.” Biden goes on to say that the “threat to this nation was unlike any [he’d] seen in [his] lifetime,” a savvy way of making his age an asset rather than a liability, suggesting his own wisdom and all the history he’s witnessed.

It’s actually quite a brilliant political move to frame his campaign around the events of Charlottesville. We could critique Biden for co-opting the death of Heather Heyer, an activist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, for a presidential campaign that is most definitely not going to be socialist. But Biden smartly recognizes the horrifying symbolism of Charlottesville and knows that an anti-Trump campaign should be centered on the threat of resurgent fascism. The words he uses, from “threat” to “battle” to “soul,” are intense and dramatic, but they serve to underscore the gravity of what Trump represents. Biden then concludes his announcement with images representing the historic defeat of fascism (storming the beaches of Normandy, raising the flag at Iowa Jima) and reinforcing American values of democracy, freedom, and equality (the Statue of Liberty, MLK) — though unlike Harris’s video, these values don’t come across as vague platitudes but emphatic rejections of the neo-Nazism of Charlottesville.

Thus, when he concludes with the phrase “America is an Idea,” something that in other contexts might sound cheesy, it actually means something, because he’s articulated a vision of what that idea is — and even I, Biden skeptic that I am, felt something when he said it in his gruff, gravely voice.

What this announcement video makes clear is the type of campaign Biden is going to run. First, he is going to make the campaign about himself, not on a biographical level (since Biden’s political background, from an opposition to busing to the 1990s crime bill, is likely too conservative to sit comfortably with even moderate Democrats), but instead simply his face, his voice, him there as a comforting presence to remind us of the Obama years. Second, he’ll make it about Trump, about the threat he represents, and about defeating him and returning things to the way they were. He’s not running a campaign of ideas, and he certainly doesn’t have the broad social vision of Bernie Sanders. No, as he says quite literally in the video, he “hope[s] that history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time.” Sanders and Warren might think America’s problems go beyond Trump, and that Trump is a symptom and not the disease, but Joe Biden does not. Now, I obviously think Sanders and Warren are right — but many Americans don’t. Many Democrats, especially the wealthier, older ones, think everything was perfectly fine under Obama and have no problem with neoliberalism or imperial wars. Biden’s announcement is meant to appeal to those voters, not millennial leftists like me.

Overall then, from these seven examples, I think it’s pretty clear what makes an effective announcement video and what doesn’t. Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, and Beto O’Rourke — their videos all failed largely because they lacked specifics, a specific vision of the problems in this country, and a specific vision of how they would fix them. Instead, they fell back on generic platitudes and vague buzzwords, even if most of them (Beto being the strange exception) clearly had the money to make their videos polished and professional (Beto, of course, had plenty of money, having raised more in one day than Bernie and just a little less than Biden, which makes you wonder why his announcement video wasn’t better). In contrast, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden, each in their own way, offered specific visions of what ails the country and specific visions of how they would fix it and framed their ads to make these visions clear. Bernie’s video was the best of these I think, better than Warren’s because it offered a more comprehensive vision, but Biden’s was well crafted and effective at what it was meant to do, and I acknowledge that even though it wasn’t meant to appeal to me, I still found it effective.

Ultimately, the election will come down to these two very different kinds of Democratic party voters — those who Bernie and Warren are appealing to, who want significant change, and those who Biden is appealing to, who simply want to get rid of Trump and go back to the Obama years. Which appeal will draw more voters we have yet to see.

Debut novel PORTRAIT OF SEBASTIAN KHAN (2019, 7.13 Books). Writes about politics and literature.

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The girls favorite Christmas card, the music one from Gma and Papa.

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Abi has a fabulous swim teacher which makes it that much more fun for her.

I attended Sheila's first annual Cookie exchange. It was good time and I brought home many good cookies. So good that Avri threw herself on the floor over one. Yep, only a few fights over who got which cookie.
Hello friends and family. As you can probably relate,the holidays added to our already busy schedule. So I haven't been so great on keeping you up-to date on events around our place.

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Christmas Baking at the holidays- Anyone that knows Abi, knows she LOVES to bake with mommy! And she is so good at it too!

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Tony and I recently attended an Indianapolis Colts vs Steelers game. We had a good time and the new Lucas Oil Stadium was awesome! We walked around before kick off and there was so much to see! Even a live band playing- very cool!

My company has a Lower Level Suite that we sat in- we were very thankful for the opportunity!

This would be a quick snapshot of the pass we were given as Tony and I were asked if we would like to go down on the field-Heck yeah! We were taken fast through a basement type with lots of security and out onto the field..sidelines, almost in front of the cheerleaders- yeah Tony loved that!
Thank you to the Company I work for and thank you to my family for taking such good care of the girls and making it a worry less trip!!!
It was a beautiful day and a nice time with my husband!


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This would be Abi's school picture.So pretty.  She is still enjoying Kindergarten so much.  Amazing what she has learned in the first quarter.  She now knows 8 sight words and loves to have Tony and I read her books and let her read the sight words.  We had our first parent/teacher conference and to no surprise rec'd a great report.

Mickey Mouse 3rd Birthday Party

We always let the girls pick what kind of party they want and Avri kept going back to Mickey Mouse.  So a Mickey Mouse party was had!  Avri, our baby, turned three.  Not so much a baby anymore...sniff, sniff.

I let Abi pick out her own gift to give her sissy.  After about an hour and half of up and down the aisles  at Target ( she was putting MUCH thought into her gift)...she decided on the Playdough Ice Cream Sundae maker.  GOOD CHOICE! The girls have had a ball playing it with it! Although- we've made some that look good enough to eat....and well..... we caught Avri trying one out.  I'm sure she was disappointed it didn't quite taste as good as it looked!
Avri is the ONLY three yr old I know to get soo excited about a new robe!  She immediately modeled for everyone at the party and wears it all the time!!

HER FIRST BIKE!  It was time. She has tried climbing up on Abi's a few times ready to ride....  so we picked out a cute turquoise and pink one with Doggy Foot prints.

Avri and one of her best buds from school.... Connor D.

Connor D checking things out outside.  This is my birthday present from Tony and the girls~ a fire pit!

LOOK at this face! :)

It was a great party-  it was a beautiful day and Avri had fun!  Thanks for all Avri's birthday wishes!
Hopefully time will slow down .....I love the ages the girls are at right now.

First School Field Trip

Yep! you guessed it! Yet another trip to the Pumpkin Patch this season.  This one was special- it was Abi's school field trip.  All the kindergarten classes went.  I met them out there and I am so glad I did.   Another mother and I had 4 girls to watch over and help pick out pumpkins. They had a lot of fun!

This would be Abi's class. ALL SMILES!! She has a great teacher!

Arthur Pumpkin Patch VIsit

Yes, we may visit Pumpkin patches more than any other family you know. :) Like I said in a previous post, the girls love them and mommy does too.  The weather on the Saturday we went to the Arthur patch was just amazing!  Actually hot enough for Abi to be in shorts and to even enjoy ice cream!!

Abi's pick-  that she could barely carry..

I LOVE this one!! They are so sweet...

This would be Abi saying Statue of Liberty in front of the ship

Another awesome trip to the Pumpkin Patch!


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In a bowl were white peaches, green apples, bananas,
on the dresser a vase held red roses displayed.
The small timber cottage had wisteria rambling
across the verandahs’ where small children played.
Black coffee was bubbling, you heard ironbark crackling
away in the wood stove – split red logs, well dried.
The stallion and mares were grazing near the old bridge,
she noticed sunlight reflecting on their shining hides.

This place was their sanctuary far from the city
they chosen together - a last minute change
where the air was clean and the scenery pretty
they were clearing the clutter, felt it fair exchange
for removing the stress from their lives – gaining freedom
from lifestyles where all seemed bent out of shape.
They had time to spend now drinking fresh brewed coffee
as their children played ‘neath vines laden with grape.

Summer in the city was now just a memory
the heat reflecting back from pavements and walls.
Those streets always busy with cars, trucks and buses
and tiny backyards with no room to kick balls.
Out here they had acres and acres of paddock,
four horses, two dogs, one brown calf and a lamb.
Some chickens for eggs and a pig they called Bacon
though doubtful it was that he’d ever be ham.

All was right with their world though they’d not the convenience
of movies, and swimming pools, beaches or bars,
but now they'd a free and unfettered relationship
each day with nature and at night with stars.
The kids health was better- no trace now of asthma -
and bored they were not, for they had room to play.
The fact they must drive for one hour to the corner store
they both thought was really such a small price to pay.
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Sounds perfect ... a tree change!
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How to Enjoy the Amazing View from the Top of Burj Khalifa?

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The imperious sight of the world’s tallest building is unmistakable. Towering above the Dubai landscape at 829.8 meters (2,722 feet), the Burj Khalifa is a breathtaking sight and can be seen up to 95 kilometers (59 miles) away. But if you are a modern-day architecture lover like I am, there will be only one thing on your mind – getting to the summit to admire the amazing view from the top of Burj Khalifa!

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When you consider the height of the Burj Khalifa, it certainly makes many of the world’s other leading structures look pretty small. We have been fortunate to experience many in the Western Hemisphere, such as the Willis Tower in Chicago and of course, the Empire State Building in New York City which was once the world’s tallest building (I know that may surprise you but it held this accolade until 1972).

burj khalifa from shangri la hotel

History of Burj Khalifa

Let’s take a look at the history behind the world’s tallest building in comparison to other leading landmarks around the world so hopefully, it will provide a better perspective about the views that you will see once you climb to either the 125th or 148th floor of the Burj Khalifa.

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The above graphic immediately gives a clear indication as to the size of Burj Khalifa in comparison to other iconic structures around the world. It is over twice the size of the Empire State Building and literally dwarfs this skyscraper along with many of the world’s other “super skyscrapers”.

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I think it’s fair to say though that in the present day super skyscraper talk, the Burj Khalifa is on a completely different level to other structures.

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Until the completion of the Jeddah Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, expected in 2020, there is going to be nothing else close to this structure that is well acclaimed as the pride of Dubai.

burj khalifa dubaiThe history of the Burj Khalifa dates back to 2004 when construction first started on this mega skyscraper. The structure was finalized in 2009, at least in terms of the exterior and is made primarily of reinforced concrete.

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Neo-Futurism – a corollary to technology, being the structures built today byproducts of new materials to create previously impossible forms. (Jean-Louis Cohen)

In terms of architectural design, this has a unique ‘neo-futuristic’ design, stereotypically associated with the modern day era and an idealistic belief in the need to embrace technology. What was once deemed to be impossible, is now the future of architecture.

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What You Need to Know

It’s critical that you are well prepared before heading to the Burj Khalifa. We suffered the experience of having to wait for quite a long time to collect our tickets at ‘will call’ but if you are purchasing tickets on the day rather than online, we encourage you to get there as early as possible. However, before purchasing tickets, it’s worthwhile knowing exactly how to reach the entrance to the Burj Khalifa.

Directions to the Burj Khalifa

If you are utilizing the Dubai Metro system (it’s a great service and we strongly encourage you to use this!), you will alight at Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall. The entrance to the Burj Khalifa to visit the ‘At The Top’ viewing platform(s) is located on the lower ground floor of the Dubai Mall.

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What you won’t realize after deboarding the metro is that you will be required to walk at least 10-15 minutes along above ground skywalks/tunnels until you reach the Mall. Head to the Lower Ground floor and hopefully you won’t have too long to wait!

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Admission Prices

The first choice you will need to make is to decide whether you want to visit level 124/125 or go all the way to the highest viewing platform at level 148. There is a dramatic difference in the ticket prices so ultimately it will be down to personal preference. I think either option you choose, you can certainly claim that you have been “on top of the world” at least in Dubai anyway!

I think either option you choose, you can certainly claim that you have been “on top of the world” at least in Dubai anyway! ***Please note, the admission prices below are accurate as of December 31, 2016, and subject to change. We encourage you to check the At The Top Burj Khalifa website for the latest prices.***

Level 124/125 (Adults) – AED 125 (Approximately $34 USD)
Level 124/125 (Children 4-12 yrs) – AED 95

Level 124/125 and Level 148 (Adults) – AED 350 (Approximately $95 USD)
Level 124/125 (Children 4-12 yrs) – AED 350

Also, please note the above prices are for ‘non-prime’ hours. There is a surcharge on all ticket prices if you choose to visit between the hours of 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM daily. Prices are also substantially more expensive if you want ‘immediate’ entry access so again, it’s beneficial to go ahead and book your tickets in advance!

The View from the Top of Burj Khalifa

As with all tall structures, patience is a virtue when it comes to heading through security and waiting for the elevator to take you to the top. There is plenty of information to keep you occupied, providing an in-depth history of the Burj Khalifa construction and exactly what it takes to build a structure over 2,700 feet tall.

view from the top of burj khalifa

After about 20 minutes, our journey to the top started. We had tickets to levels 124 and 125 and the elevator takes you all the way to level 125 after which you can take the spiral staircase to level 124. The moment we left the elevator a staff member greeted us and said, “Enjoy the views!” She wasn’t lying!

view from the top of burj khalifa

Superlatives like awe-inspiring, breathtaking, panoramic and stunning spring to mind. I could go on but none of these will ever do the 360-degree views around Dubai justice from the top of Burj Khalifa.

view from the top of burj khalifa

Whether you are keen to find your favorite Dubai landmark or simply want to admire the scenery, you could easily spend hours at the top. Time literally gets away from you but that’s ok because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to admire beauty from the world’s tallest building.

view from the top of burj khalifa

Dubai is an incredible city at street level but from a birds-eye perspective, it’s even more mesmerizing. The gorgeous Burj Al Arab hotel stands proudly in the distance while in the other direction you can appreciate the gold/spice souks that provide a more authentic feel to Dubai.

view from the top of burj khalifa

I love the inclusion of various telescopes that offer full HD displays and high zoom capabilities. From such a high vantage point, it’s imperative that visitors have the opportunity to pinpoint certain landmarks at ground level and these new telescopes offer this with ease.

view from the top of burj khalifa

Six of these telescopes are on level 125 and another six one level down. The beauty of these telescopes is that they are FREE to use! All too often when you are in viewing observatories, there is an additional charge to zoom in on your favorite attractions around the city.

Words will never do enough justice to the view from the top of Burj Khalifa. Hopefully, some of our pictures will inspire you to visit Dubai because the Burj Khalifa alone is enough of an attraction to make this a city you need to add to your bucket list.

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We had an amazing couple of hours admiring the views around Dubai and even though we ‘technically’ didn’t visit the highest viewing platform, I don’t think anyone can argue that even at levels 124 and 125, the views are breathtaking.

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I think Dubai is one of those cities that you cannot help but fall in love with. There are so many reasons to encourage visitors to explore this city, none more so than the Burj Khalifa. Even though it’s a relatively new attraction, it’s an iconic reflection of Dubai and one that you HAVE to sample whenever you visit the United Arab Emirates.

view from the top of burj khalifa

We were incredibly fortunate to stay in the gorgeous Shangri La Hotel in Dubai and have a suite overlooking the Burj Khalifa. It’s just one of those landmarks that you can never tire of staring at. The design may be quirky and not necessarily to everyone’s taste but no one can take away the fact that it is an architectural marvel.

Disclaimer – We received a complimentary ticket and a discounted rate on the second ticket at the Burj Khalifa for consideration of a blog post. The views contained within this post are entirely our personal opinion/experience and we received no final compensation for this.

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  1. The building itself is a beauty. However, the views from the top are beyond incredible. I have been to the top of the Empire State and thinking how this building in Dubai is double its size gives me chills. I would be a bit scared to the top but I will not loose the opportunity. #WeekendWanderlust

  2. Very informative and thorough guide of what seems like a must-see attraction in the UAE. Fantastic photos, where are the first ones taken from? Certainly an iconic building, can’t wait to visit one day. #weekendwanderlust

  3. I had a similar experience in Shard in London. Not half as high as Burj Khalifa, I already there got vertigo ha! The telescopes with brilliant zoom and LDC displays were an awesome addition too. If I am ever in Dubai, I’ll make sure to plan my visit ahead with your guide!

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Through the Impact Foundation… Impact Foundation, the banner under which the Campus Ministry runs, is an offshoot of the Youth Ministry of the ACA Church, Avadi.

In the year 1998, under the leadership of Michael Thomasraj (the 2nd son of Ps. Thomasraj) a special prayer meet titled “VICTORY” was organised by the Youth of the church for students appearing for their Annual Government Board Exams. The meeting was arranged in a rented marriage hall. Lot of doubts and fear was in the air regarding how many would turn up for the meeting with the minimal advertisement. But to the amazement of everyone around 600 students turned up for the first meeting. The seeds for a more massive work among students was sown in that humble beginning.

Gabriel Thomasraj (the eldest son of Ps. Thomasraj) had just returned from Bible College to eventually join his father for full time service in the church. This was mid-1998.

He was invited to temporarily replace the Scripture Class Teacher in the school he once studied (Nazareth Matriculation School in Avadi), since the lady had gone on a Maternity Leave.

After finishing the first class, the Lord impressed a great vision to reach out to the school children in a bigger scale. The rest is history.

What started as 30 students who attended his first class began to flourish and expand to other schools and the organization IMPACT FOUNDATION was born.

Today he visits several school campuses every day and addresses to around 10,000 students per week on a regular basis through his DESTINATION:EXCELLENCE program.

Previously, schools had one class hour per week for Moral Education which looked like another academic grind. The monotonous teaching and outdated Syllabus left students totally uninterested and thus, ineffective. Christian Schools had separate Scripture classes for Christian students.

But the D.E. Program changed all this! Now, every student in the school is brought under this program irrespective of the religion they hold. The focus is: ‘Be Your Best’ with a sublime yet inoffensive Biblical teaching.

Meanwhile the VICTORY meeting saw great growth too. From 600 students who attended the first meet in 1998, the growth became steady and phenomenal to a record attendance of around 5000 students from 120 institutions in 2007.The STUDENTS HOUR weekly TV program is for aired students on Angel TV network, one of India’s fastest growing Christian Television Channel through this ministry. Bro. Gabriel Thomasraj, who speaks in this weekly half-hour program captivates his audience with his calm demeanor and contemporary style in simple English. This program is widely watched and well-received among Young people. This program deals with issues students face today and answers life’s tough questions in a practical, no-nonsense manner.

Service Timings

Sunday Services: 5am, 8.30am, 6.30pm
Youth Services: 11am (2nd & 4th Sun)
Family Revival Meeting: 06 pm (1st Sun)
Bible Study: Thurs @ 6.30pm
Sisters Prayer: Wed @ 10am
Fasting Prayer: 10am (Tues, Fri, Sat)
Youth Revival Meet: 6pm (2nd Sat)
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Texas' Congressional Delegation doing NOTHING as Holder plots next round of redistricting lawsuits

"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
Matthew 10:28

While we were making this point yesterday...guess who was in Dallas doing what:
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met Tuesday with Latino grassroots organization leaders in North Texas to offer political and financial support for their efforts to mobilize Latino voters in the coming years.

Holder stopped in Dallas to attend a roundtable discussion and offer the backing of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a group formed in January 2017 that raised more than $10 million during its first six months of active fundraising.

The committee's focus around the country is on breaking the Republican Party's control on how congressional district maps are drawn.
Translation: Holder's helping all of the usual suspect groups, who call every redistricting map Texas ever passes racist, raise more money than ever heading into the 2020 census.  This means more (and more ridiculous) redistricting lawsuits than ever.  That's the present trajectory.

But it's completely preventable.  Congress has jurisdiction to shut this down.  Unfortunately, the Texas Republican delegation is silent.  Likewise the candidates.

Bottom Line:  This is an obvious and predicable mess.  It's completely preventable.  Unfortunately, Texas' Republican Congressional delegation doesn't have the will to prevent it.

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After delay, Israel allows vaccines into Hamas-run Gaza

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel allowed the Palestinian Authority to deliver the first coronavirus vaccines to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday despite objections from Israeli lawmakers who suggested they be used as a bargaining chip for the release of captives held by the territory's militant Hamas rulers.

Israel has faced international criticism for largely excluding Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza from its highly successful vaccination campaign. It held up the shipment for two days as the government faced questioning from a parliamentary committee before ultimately approving it.

The dispute highlights the Palestinians' reliance on Israel even as they struggle to combat the pandemic on their own. It's also a potent example of global inequality in the rollout of vaccines, most of which have been scooped up by wealthy countries.

The shipment finally arrived midday Wednesday at the Kerem Shalom crossing. Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila said the PA sent 2,000 doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine — enough to inoculate only 1,000 people in an impoverished territory that is home to 2 million Palestinians.

Gaza has been under a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade since Hamas, an Islamic militant group, seized power from PA forces in 2007. Gaza's Health Ministry has reported more than 53,000 cases and at least 538 deaths since the start of the pandemic, and authorities have been reluctant to impose widespread lockdowns because the territory is already mired in poverty.

Israel and Hamas have fought three wars and numerous skirmishes since the militant group took control of Gaza.

In an interview Wednesday with Israel’s army radio station, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was working on bringing captive Israelis back from Gaza, but did not link the issue to vaccines. He noted the vaccines were from Palestinian supplies, and said it was important that Palestinians be vaccinated because the virus can easily cross into Israel.

“This is not from Israeli supplies,” he said. “I am committed to bringing back the prisoners and the missing in action at any price. We are working on this these days, but the epidemiological issue is not connected.”

During Monday’s parliamentary debate, Zvi Hauser, chair of the foreign affairs and defense committee, argued that the vaccine delivery should be linked to progress on the release of two Israeli captives held by Hamas and the remains of two Israeli soldiers killed in a 2014 war. He also expressed concern that vaccines would go to Hamas members rather than medics.

Ahmad Tibi, an Arab member of parliament, called the discussion “shameful,” saying: “In 20 years, your children will also be ashamed of this position of vaccination prevention.”

The Palestinian Authority said the first doses would go to front-line medical workers. But Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman for the Gaza Health Ministry, said they would be administered in two phases, first to vulnerable patients and then to health care workers.

“The amount is very small and not enough to cover all 12,000 medical workers," he said. “We think it’s better to first inoculate vulnerable patients, such as organ transplant and dialysis patients.”

The ministry said vaccinations would begin Sunday due to inclement winter weather that could make it dangerous for patients to travel to hospitals.

Israel has launched one of the world’s most successful vaccination programs, inoculating more than a third of its population of 9.3 million since December after securing millions of doses from pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Moderna.

Rights groups say it has an obligation as an occupying power to share its vaccines with the Palestinians. Israel captured east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 war, territories the Palestinians want for their future state.

Israel denies having such an obligation and says its priority is its own citizens. It is vaccinating Palestinian residents of annexed east Jerusalem, which it considers part of its capital. Israel withdrew troops from Gaza in 2005, and it says the Palestinian Authority is responsible for health care in the territories it administers according to interim peace agreements.

The Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the occupied West Bank, has not publicly requested vaccines from Israel and says it has secured its own supply through the World Health Organization and agreements with drug makers.

Still, Israel provided 2,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine to the PA earlier this month, allowing it to begin vaccinating medical workers, and the PA says it independently acquired 10,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine.

Hamas is believed to be holding two captives, an Israeli of Ethiopian descent who entered Gaza shortly after the 2014 war, and an Arab Bedouin citizen of Israel. In exchange, Hamas is likely to demand the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, including individuals implicated in deadly attacks.

Krauss reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Josef Federman and Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem contributed.

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Apparently We’re Ignoring the Cure for Most Childhood Cancers

Today I read an opinion piece that was simply mind-boggling. Gregory Anderson, the Founder and CEO of Cancer Recovery Foundation International Group of Charities-Texas Division, wrote an op-ed, “We Can Prevent Most Childhood Cancers,” claiming that “environmental carcinogens,” chemicals in food, drugs, cosmetics, and pesticides cause childhood cancer and calling for a revamp of the way the Environmental Protection Agency looks at chemicals.

Let’s take a moment and think back to the time before we had modern farming to prevent most famines, reliable medicine to treat illnesses, effective cleaning products to help curb the spread of disease, or any number of modern luxuries that have helped dramatically reduce our childhood mortality rate. Now, thanks to Mr. Anderson and other environmental activists, these very same advances are being targeted for causing cancer in children.

So what does the American Cancer Society say about these “environmental carcinogens?” In the group’s words:

Very few environmental factors, such as radiation exposure, have been linked with childhood cancer risk. Even then, in many cases exposure to radiation may be unavoidable, such as if the child needs radiation therapy to treat another cancer. If your child does develop cancer, it is important to know that it is extremely unlikely there is anything you or your child could have done to prevent it.

Mr. Anderson attempts to make his case with seemingly damning statistics, such as: “Incidence of leukemia in 0-14 year-old U.S. children increased from 3.3 per 100,000 in 1975 to 5.1 per 100,000 in 2005, a 55% increase. Acute lymphocytic leukemia increased in the same years from 2.2 to 4.0 per 100,000, an 81% increase.”  However, if you look at the actual numbers for both leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia the absolute increase is for both categories is only 1.8 more children with those cancers—much too low to conclude the increase is due to anything other than random chance. The same data cited by Mr. Anderson actually shows that cases of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma actually decreased in children over the same time period—a fact that Mr. Anderson conveniently omits.

Mr. Anderson is correct in one fact–cancer is the second leading cause of death for children under the age of 15. But that’s because we’ve eliminated or greatly reduced diseases that used to kill children.

Thanks to scientists’ innovation, vaccines routinely protect children from dying of whooping cough or measles and improved sanitation has eliminated deaths from cholera in many areas of the world. Scaring parents into thinking that danger lurks all around them with sweeping statements such as “Today, hundreds of thousands of children are being inadvertently exposed to hazardous chemicals at a time in their lives when they are uniquely sensitive to the long-term, detrimental effect” doesn’t lead to a productive conversation about the best way to improve children’s health.

There are certainly things parents can do to keep their children safe. Motor vehicle accidents remain the leading cause of death for children, killing over 9,000 children from 2002-2011. Parents should worry a lot more about driving safely, putting their child in age-appropriate, correctly installed car seats, and ensuring older children buckle up than whether shampoo or a strawberry might possibly increase their child’s cancer risk.

I’m all for revisiting and reforming our current federal chemical law—the Toxic Safety Chemical Act of 1976—but scaring the public into thinking the outdated law is killing their children is simply irresponsible, unproductive, and wrong.


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Jessica Alba’s Company Sued for Being Not-So-‘Honest’

A few weeks ago, we highlighted the problems with sunscreen sold by Jessica Alba’s Honest Company—despite being “all natural,” many consumers reported it didn’t actually stop them from getting sunburned. Now, the Honest Company is being sued for its ineffective products and misleading marketing.

The company is currently fighting two lawsuits. One alleges the company changed the formula of its sunscreen, decreasing the amount of zinc oxide, which caused consumers to be sunburned. Another class action suit mentions the company’s ineffective sunscreen, and also claims the Honest Company is deceiving customers by using “all natural” in advertising when most of the company’s products contain synthetic additives. Both lawsuits are seeking $5 million in damages.

Alba has responded to the lawsuit, saying: “The allegations against us are baseless and without merit. We strongly stand behind our products and the responsibility we have to our consumers. We are steadfast in our commitment to transparency and openness.”… “I know my children, Honor and Haven, are growing up in a safer home because of our products.”

But there’s not much actual evidence showing Honest Company’s products make Alba’s children any “safer.” In fact, these lawsuits highlight a key problem: the label “natural” doesn’t really mean anything. You can read more about how unregulated “natural” marketing labels are in our primer here.

While Alba and others who charge higher prices for “all natural” household, baby, and personal care products profit from scaring consumers about the safety of common chemicals, there’s little evidence to support such fearmongering. Until the U.S. government sets standards determining what “natural” really means, consumers will continue to be burned by bogus marketing claims from “green” companies like Alba’s.


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Thanks for stopping by Actin' Up with Books as part of the Splash Into Summer Giveaway Hop hosted by BookHounds. For my giveaway, I have a copy of BE TRUE TO ME by Adele Griffin.

BE TRUE TO ME by Adele Griffin
Published by Algonquin Young Readers
Publication Date: June 13, 2017

How far is too far to go for love?

: Could it be true? Instead of a summer playing handmaiden to Daphne, was I being delivered something entirely different—a summer in the spotlight? A summer starring Gil Burke and me?

Summer flings and sexy romances were Daphne’s territory. Not mine. I was the one you didn’t pick.

I swatted off my hope like a bumblebee, knowing it was already too late. I’d been deliriously stung.

Fritz: People always joked about summer romances because they didn’t last. Summer romances were made out of ice cream and cotton candy, intensely sweet before they melted into nothing. But I’d never thought of Gil as a summer thing.

Gil was my real love, my real first. We were outsiders together, we had each other, we didn’t care that we didn’t belong.

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Blackjack, formerly referred to as Black Jack and Vingt-Un-Vien, may be the original American avatar of an international family of casino games called Twenty-One, which includes origins in Europe and its derivatives, the Italian game Caracteristica. It has 넷마블 포커 a unique feature in that it really is purely card-based, where all the strategies and tricks are incorporated within the handmade cards. Therefore the playing environment is completely non-mathematical in structure. Probably the most well-known variant is Caribbean blackjack. The reason for this being is that lots of people in America have a tendency to learn the game in casinos, rather than being taught it in the home or by other means. The American version tends to be less expensive as well, meaning that American players have a readymade income if they start.

As Caribbean blackjack is not a traditional card game, there is absolutely no specific house strategy. The players are anticipated to adopt their own style and adjust to whatever dealers might do. Which means that players can end up surprising their own dealers. This will make the game much more unpredictable, and this can be exciting and challenging.

There are several basic fundamental rules that every player should know about. In blackjack, the ball player that raises probably the most hands and bets (with the exception of multi-buy) as the dealer bets the least is considered the player with the best hand, or blackjack player. In multi-buy, the dealer bets on several cards for the same price, while the player makes one single bet. As such, the ball player with the highest total bets wins, and the blinds are kept adjusted in the blackjack software.

Every card in the deck is illustrated with lots printed on the facial skin. The five of spades is the strongest card in the deck. Clubs represent probably the most valuable card, accompanied by diamonds. Ares a rank between aces and queens. As such, it really is rare and valuable. Ace stands for the best value card in the deck, accompanied by the king, queen and Jack.

In online blackjack games, the rule is the same as in land-based casinos. The first person to raise a bet and call, with no raised a bet previously, is declared the winner. Another round of betting occurs, and the dealer counts the raised bets, before raising the third highest bid. Once all bets have already been made, the deal is final and blackjack is turned off. As soon as the final card is dealt, the dealer flips the cards over and reveals the effect, revealing the very best hand.

Every basic strategy in blackjack should be carefully applied, in order to make the perfect chances at winning. The initial step is to study the cards which are being dealt. This includes looking into the jokers which may be small or large, and watching the way the dealer deals these cards. In order to be able to use this kind of strategy, one must be in a position to judge the way the deck is laid out, as well as how the other players are likely to play. If the dealer is utilizing an early bird strategy, where they focus on ten big cards and end with five or six, it would be best to count the number of players who are playing, in addition to the number of jokers that may come out.

In our basic strategy article, we discussed the significance of being able to count cards. Now, we will look at the need for the same concept in another form. In any casino blackjack game, there are particular decks that are more prone to have a particular card combination. For example, in a game with a full house, you will find a greater chance of seeing an Ace of Pentacles or an Ace of hearts. In case a player is looking to identify whether or not they are up against a specific card combination, they should keep an eye out for the suit that the dealer is using. This allows the player to identify a possible trap or bluff.

When looking at casino blackjack games, it is very important to keep these tips in mind. While it is impossible to learn which cards are going to come out, analyzing just how that each player plays can provide one an advantage on the game. By following a strategies given in this basic strategy article, it is easy to understand why some people are better at playing than others, along with what sort of expected loss one is willing to accept. With these ideas, anyone can become a professional blackjack player.


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Things To Watch For When Playing In A Live Casino

Things To Watch For When Playing In A Live Casino

A question that I get from the lot of different people, is how they can look for a live casino. They state it’s hard because quite often they end up in some kind of spam website. There is a reason for this and it’s really not because the live casinos are bad. Actually, most of the best ones online are actually quite clean. The only reason that 온라인 카지노 사이트 it could be difficult to find them, is because they’re not advertised.

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A better way to do things would be to look at a forum. Most of the bigger forums will have things such as “topic about casino”. This can bring up a whole list of topics on casino games. You can begin by checking on this and see how many other people have said. It will be easy to get an idea of set up casino you are thinking about playing at is live.

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Engaging our students with forms is a useful way to collect a wide variety of data relating to our students' learning. However there are limitations to when forms can be used - and by their very nature they tend to be relatively laborious to complete. Whilst Microsoft Forms can be embedded within Team drives, or sent independently, their functionality often sits outside of other learning events. In order to optimise student engagement, we would encourage the use of much shorter interactive events such as polling - either before, during or after your learning event. Live polling has the benefit of being visibly dynamic to the students, and there are some very intuitive platforms available that stand alone or intergrate with the Microsoft Office suite. One example is Mentimeter, which offers a platform that is accessible to any students with access to a mobile device. Mentimeter also offers a range of quantitative and visual options for displaying data. Help for integrating this with PowerPoint is available here.

The use of online portfolios is encouraged by the Graduating European Dentist Curriculum - and their use is becoming more widespread. Some schools build their own in-house solutions, whilst others purchase access or licenses for commercially available software. Either way, an online portfolio can faciltiate a number of important functions:

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If portfolios are used within a clinical environment it is important to ensure that the IT infrastructure is available to support this - for example with devices that allow free access to the portfolio pages, and good internet connectivity. It is also important to ensure that adequate time is allocated during the session for grading, feedback and reflection within the system. Access to portfolios online means that it is tempting for students and teachers to delay entering information until later - but this should be avoided as it interrupts the dialogue between teachers and learners, and increases the risk of inputting errors into the system.

Tracking attendance and taking notes

Most of the main web platforms for learning events allow attendee tracking and analysis - including who has logged on, for how long, and even how attentive participants have been. Only certain platforms that require sign in with a recognised email address or using a secure link, will allow accurate verification of attendee identity so we would caution over using attendee data for platforms where users can input their own screen name.

Taking notes

Microsoft Teams offers live transcription of the event, including who has made which comment(s) - and this can be a very powerful tool for taking meeting notes or creating minutes. Of course, most meetings can also be recorded in their entirety - although it can be troublesome to work back through live recordings to find relevant parts of conversations - and so we would recommend transcriptions as the default in the first intance (although these should be checked carefully to ensure that the transcription has identified words correctly).

It is also possible to take notes during Microsoft teams meetings and you can find out more about how to do that here. It is worth remembering that meeting notes aren't available in Teams meetings with more than 20 people, and only people who are invited to a meeting before notes are created will have access to them. People invited later won't have access.

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It seems so obvious, doesn’t it? “White Pride” is a slogan beloved by the worst of the worst: Neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and their ilk. Of course it’s racist.

And yet, I see the same argument pop up over and over: “If Black Pride and Indigenous Pride are okay, White Pride should be too! It’s racist if people say otherwise!”

This argument is incorrect. It is used out of ignorance, disingenuousness, and vitriol. White Pride will never carry the same positive connotations as Black Pride and Indigenous Pride. Why? The answer lies in the history of scientific racism.

Im currently reading a book by Angela Saini, an incredible science journalist. It is called Superior: The Return of Race Science, and it delves deep into the formation of “race” as a concept. At the very outset of Europe’s colonisation efforts, there was a widespread belief that physical and mental race depended heavily on climate. Racism certainly existed, and lighter skin was valued while darker skin was seen as evil and impure – but the concept of ‘white’ as a fixed racial state of being was absent. Instead, when Europeans discriminated against people based on differing physical traits, they viewed those traits as impermanent and ‘fixable’. Europeans assumed that dark-skinned people who relocated to cold, elevated areas would turn white-skinned (I lived in Michigan for 4 years and did go blonde once, but that was more due to a really ill-advised attempt to bleach my bangs than any wibbly-wobbliness regarding my ethnicity). Conversely, 17th century Dutch colonists in Indonesia were regarded as having “gone native” by people back in Holland, since white-skinned people who moved to the tropics would turn into indolent, dark-skinned “Orientals”.

But in the 18th and 19th centuries, these ideas underwent a drastic shift. As colonialism spread like a genocidal virus throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas, Europeans began classifying people into distinct – and permanent – races based on skin colour. They ascribed traits to each race, and ‘white’ came out on top as the most ‘intelligent’ and ‘civilised’, both of which are vague and very hard to pin down with specific definitions. How convenient for Europeans colonisers – who collectively formed the ‘white’ race. Their alleged intelligence and civilisation were used as justifications for putting brown and Black bodies on display in human zoos, instituting brutal slavery on Indonesian plantations, creating the Atlantic slave trade, and criminalising entire Indigenous tribes in South Asia.

So why is White Pride racist, while Black Pride and Indigenous Pride aren’t? Simple: because colonisation was one centuries-long, murderous, morbid celebration of white pride. White as a racial term was created solely to vault colonial European forces above the people they were slaughtering, sexually assaulting, and enslaving. There is no scientific distinction which makes people white. There is no ‘white’ culture, apart from a legacy of ‘white’ being used as a weapon against people termed ‘Black’, ‘brown’, ‘red’, and ‘yellow’ – classifications which were often forced upon culturally distinct groups of people in an effort to shoehorn every non-white person into racial boxes. Black Pride and Indigenous Pride developed in direct response to colonialism. They were, and are, ways for people who have long been denied access to their ancestral cultures to band together and rejoice at their strength and resilience in the face of colonialism’s evils. White Pride has nothing of these qualities. It is a party thrown by and for people who gained their power through conveniently classifying themselves as the race most deserving of power. It is a victory cry founded on a baseless sense of superiority.

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