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Q: Guidance needed: Backend SQL logic for dynamic selection of a field by users in frontend I have a dataset as follows:
Country,Commodity,Year,Type,Amount
US,Vegetable,2010,Harvested,2.44
US,Vegetable,2010,Yield,15.8
US,Vegetable,2010,Production,6.48
US,Vegetable,2011,Harvested,6
US,Vegetable,2011,Yield,18
US,Vegetable,2011,Production,3
Argentina,Vegetable,2010,Harvested,15.2
Argentina,Vegetable,2010,Yield,40.5
Argentina,Vegetable,2010,Production,2.66
Argentina,Vegetable,2011,Harvested,15.2
Argentina,Vegetable,2011,Yield,40.5
Argentina,Vegetable,2011,Production,2.66
Bhutan,Vegetable,2010,Harvested,7
Bhutan,Vegetable,2010,Yield,35
Bhutan,Vegetable,2010,Production,5
Bhutan,Vegetable,2011,Harvested,2
Bhutan,Vegetable,2011,Yield,6
Bhutan,Vegetable,2011,Production,3

Given:

*

*If any one country has n number of years in the data, all other countries shall too have same n number years. Eg: If US has data for 2011 and 2012, then all other countries will have data for 2011 and 2012.

Conditions:

*

*Aggregation only happens at multi-country selection. Grouping will be by Commodity and Year.

Eg: If a user in the frontend tool selects US and Argentina, we have to show -
The Amount for Derived Yield = (Harvested of US + Harvested of Argentina)/(Production of US + Production of Argentina), i.e., (2.44+15.2)/(6.48+2.66), similarly for three countries it will be addition of three harvested value divided by addition of three production value and so on. That has to be populated in a new row.
Note: The users in the frontend can select any combination of countries. The sole purpose of doing it in the backend rather than dynamically doing it in the frontend is because AWS QuickSight (our visualisation tool), even though can populate sum on selected column filters but doesn't yet support calculation on those derived summed fields. Hence, the entire calculation of all combination of countries has to be pre-populated (very naive approach) in order to make it available in report.
Two of my question to all SQL experts is:

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*How can I populate the rows of all combination of countries grouped by year and commodity so that it has data for all possible combination.

*Given that I could populate all combination of rows, how will the reporting tool understand which derived row to select depending on users choice of countries, as there is marking as to this row is US+Argentina that row is US+Bhutan, etc.

Any solution is extremely welcome.
SQL Tool preferred: Spark SQL or Athena SQL (runs on Presto) or HiveQL.
Less preferred: Oracle, PGSQL
Note 2: The sole purpose of posting this question, even though I've elaborated the same in another one is because I don't want to impose my naive approach on somebody trying to solve the problem, so here, I've defined the problem with more clarity than asking for help in solution. Whereas, in the other question I have given my approach for the expected result. In case if you want to see the other question, here it is.

A: you can start with something like this:
select * from
(
    select c.Country, y.Year
    from
    (select distinct Country from table) as c,
    (select distinct Year from table) as y
) as cy
left join table as t on t.Country = cy.Country and t.Year = cy.Year

this will give you all rows with all combinations of Country/Year and optionally data from main table, so you can now add filter/grouping

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THE DARKNESS (2021)
May 13, 2021 Bat Drama, Fantasy, HCF Reviews, Horror 0
Directed by: Tharun Mohan
Written by: Tharun Mohan
Starring: Adam Bond, Amelia Eve, Cyril Blake, John Sugden, Katherine Hartshorne, Mary Drake
Written and Directed by Thaurun Mohan
Author Lisa and husband David decide to spend some time at David's grandmother's old cottage in Ireland. Struggling to find inspiration to pen her next novel, Lisa roots around the attic to find out about the history of the cottage and comes across a diary belonging to a former inhabitant, Niav. Reading about Niav's life intrigues Lisa but the deeper she delves into Niav's experiences, the more she begins to lose herself as a century-old darkness takes hold…
THE DARKNESS blends modern with period as two worlds collide at a sleepy village in Ireland in this folk horror chiller by writer and director Tharun Mohan.
The Haunting of Bly Manor actress, Amelia Eve, stars as Lisa, whilst Cyril Blake makes his debut feature film performance as her perpetually cheery husband, David. Both characters are looking to crack on with their day jobs whilst enjoying the rural retreat but being stuck in the middle of nowhere with a poor signal means contact with the outside world isn't the easiest. Not that it bothers Lisa and David too much. The loved-up pair certainly take advantage of the break away but when Lisa starts acting strange and seeing shapes outside the property, David begins to grow concerned for his wife. Her obsession with an old journal intensifies and it isn't long before villagers start to share stories about the property his grandmother has left to him. What is the secret of the cottage and what happened to its former inhabitants?
Splicing modern day Lisa and David with flashbacks of Niav and husband Brian works well as we get to know the character of Niav who's tale Lisa has become infatuated with. These scenes are quite ethereal at times, and makes for a fine contrast between the two different periods a century apart. Katherine Hartshorne plays orphan Niav with such optimism and innocence whilst Adam Bond's Brian plays her husband as the strong, silent type. The snippets of the diary read throughout the film help to push their story along and as Lisa becomes more obsessed and troubled, the intensity of Niav's story increases. The blend of the two 'worlds' works rather well as each story stand alone isn't enough to keep the interest, but together gives an intrigue and mystery of what happened in the past and how it's affected the present.
It's quite easy to get involved in the film's storyline, despite there being a mixed bag of performances in regards to quality. A bit of humour here and there lightens the mood of Lisa and David's stay in Ireland whilst a creepy old priest called George, played by John Sugden, adds a quirkiness and threatening menace (when he's not slurping someone else's coffee or eating all their cake slices, that is). It's not a frightening film, but it has chilling elements thanks to the story toying with witchcraft, folk rituals, revenge, the connection between life and death, and the possibilities of resurrection. There's lots going on and it tries to touch on all this within its running time, which it manages to do adequately even if it doesn't go into full detail.
THE DARKNESS is committed to delivering a story but some of the production, dialogue and character development hold it back from achieving its full potential. It often feels like a light version of what it wants to be and doesn't wholeheartedly commit, like a boxer pulling its punches. There's definitely flourishes of an interesting plot embedded within but the whole package is a bit underwhelming, particularly when the folk horror angle opens up so much opportunity. Despite its engaging plot ideas, the execution just lacks the impact needed to effectively convey it.
Amelia Eve
Trailer Revealed For British Horror THE DARKNESS Starring Amelia Eve
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Brand new British horror The Darkness, from director Tharun Mohan (Baby, Purgatory State of Mind) is set to chill you to the bone. This darkly gripping thriller follows a young couple whose escape to Ireland […]
Bly Manor's Amelia Eve Returns To The Screen In Simon Kay's Action Horror SHADOWLAND
February 18, 2021 Bat News 0
Genre film specialists Evolutionary Films will release the action horror SHADOWLAND, which stars AMELIA EVE (The Haunting of Bly Manor) and BEN KEENAN (The B@it), on all major digital platforms in the UK on 1st […]
SHADOWLAND (2021)
March 24, 2021 Bat Action, HCF Reviews, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller 0
SHADOWLAND (2021) Written and Directed by Simon Kay Out now on digital A group of private security guards are ambushed whilst escorting an ambassador and his family to an event in rural Scotland and are […]

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The biggest surprise in the Steve Rothman vs. Bill Pascrell grudge match wasn't the victor, but the margin.
Despite having a slight territorial disadvantage, Pascrell racked up a huge 90 percent edge in his home base of Passaic County to cruise past his Democratic colleague by more than 20 points districtwide, winning 61 percent to 39 percent.
The crushing margin wasn't one either Democrat's supporters expected. The former friends had excoriated each other in the race's closing days. Rothman even waded into the expensive New York City media market to make the case that Pascrell wasn't liberal enough, attacking his environmental record.
Pascrell argued throughout the campaign that the district was rightfully his, painting Rothman as a carpetbagger who cowered from a fight with Republican Scott Garrett after the state's independent redistricting commission drew them into the same district. Rothman's rationale was that he represented more of the new 9th District anyway (about 54 percent), and as the former Englewood mayor, he moved back to his home turf and believed his Bergen County base would make him victorious.
Turnout didn't prove that gamble right, though -- Rothman only won 73 percent in Bergen, nowhere near what he needed to cut into Pascrell's commanding lead in Passaic, which ended up making up half of the primary vote. Strategists had assumed Passaic would make up only about a third of the vote yesterday.
Pascrell's victory follows a similar narrative of other incumbent-incumbent victors so far this cycle -- rack up huge margins on your home turf, plus an endorsement from Bill Clinton certainly doesn't hurt. The former president headlined a rally for Pascrell last Friday, and Clinton is now 2-0 when he's picked sides in member vs. member races, backing Mark Critz over Jason Altmire in last month's Pennsylvania primary, even when Critz, like Pascrell, represented less of the redrawn district.
Pascrell will now face Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in the general, but the race won't be competitive.
In the other competitive Garden State primary, Newark City Council President Donald Payne Jr. won both a special election primary and the regular Democratic primary to succeed his late father, Donald Payne Sr., who passed away in March after a battle with colon cancer.


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FIRST-LOOK-Inside-the-FEDERAL-RESERVE,-USD,-CASH,-GOLD-monetary-SYSTEM-Americas-Money-Vault-PART-1
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FIRST LOOK Inside the FEDERAL RESERVE, USD, CASH, GOLD monetary SYSTEM – Americas Money Vault, National Geographic Full Episode PART 1
For the first time, National Geographic takes you inside the heart of the money machine to places that you're not allowed to bring a camera …straight into the vaults of some of the world's largest stashes of what you want, need and bust your butt to get: Money.
Hidden deep under the streets of New York City, hundreds of billion dollars in gold bars are tucked away in a bunker that is anchored to the bedrock of Manhattan Island itself.
In the latest in a string of high-profile hacking disclosures, the Federal Reserve confirmed on Wednesday that one of its websites was broken into by cyber hackers in a breach that reportedly leaked the contact information of thousands of bankers.
While the central bank said the incident didn't "affect critical operations" of the Federal Reserve System, the disclosure is sure to fuel concerns about the cyber security of government websites and critical financial infrastructure.
The Fed hack appears to be tied to an Anonymous group that published on Twitter the credentials of more than 4,000 commercial bankers early Monday morning. The group, Operation Last Resort, said it received the documents "via the FED."
Call it the Rick Perry gold rush: The governor wants to bring the state's gold reserves back from a New York vault to Texas.
And he may have legislative support to do it. Freshman Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, is carrying a bill that would establish the Texas Bullion Depository, a secure state-based bank to house $1 billion worth of gold bars owned by the University of Texas Investment Management Co., or UTIMCO, and stored by the Federal Reserve.
"If you think gold is a hedge, or a protection, you always want it as close to the individual and the entity as possible," Paul told The Texas Tribune on Thursday. "Texas is better served if it knows exactly where the gold is rather than depending on the security of the Federal Reserve."
Sadly, most Americans don't even realize that a private banking cartel has a monopoly over all money creation in this country. In recent years they have abused this power by wildly printing money ("quantitative easing"), and by making more than 16 trillion dollars in secret loans to their friends during the last financial crisis. "Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in the debt limit"
remaining alternative to Congress raising the nation's borrowing limit, which would utilize a loophole in federal law to mint a $1 trillion coin to be deposited in the Federal Reserve and ensure the federal government could pay all bills and debt obligations.
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You can thank the reckless money printing that the Federal Reserve has been doing for the incredible bull market that we have seen in recent months. When the Federal Reserve does more "quantitative easing", it is the financial markets that benefit the most. The Dow and the S&P 500 have both hit levels not seen since 2007 this month, and many analysts are projecting that 2013 will be a banner year for stocks. But is a rising stock market really a sign that the overall economy is rapidly improving as many are suggesting? Of course not. Just because the Federal Reserve has inflated another false stock market bubble Barack Obama has been president, 40 percent of all American workers are making $20,000 a year or less, median household income has declined for four years in a row, and poverty in the United States is absolutely exploding. So quantitative easing has definitely not made things better for the middle class. But all of the money printing that the Fed has been doing has worked out wonderfully for Wall Street. Profits are soaring at Goldman Sachs and luxury estates in the Hamptons are selling briskly. Unfortunately, this is how things work in America these days. Our "leaders" seem far more concerned with the welfare of Wall Street than they do about the welfare of the American people. When things get rocky, their first priority always seems to be to do whatever it takes to pump up the financial markets
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14 thoughts on "FIRST-LOOK-Inside-the-FEDERAL-RESERVE,-USD,-CASH,-GOLD-monetary-SYSTEM-Americas-Money-Vault-PART-1"
Eggmond Chad says:
End the fed!!!!
Kevin Harp says:
$KASHrecycling
farhan Mirza says:
You can trust the driver driving the car for your life but can't trust the bankers since they are not riding with us in the same car.
Mr Dude says:
What I've learned today as a whole the real money in this world is Bitcoin, cocaine, and gold
bigboy blue says:
Maybe we shouldn't show criminals how to open the vault
Colonel Snoopy says:
DEVILS SAFE
Ryan Simpson says:
In the end, the money isnt real……Relationships is everything. Be good to those around you
Mr Tracy Selby says:
Look at all that gold plated tungsten our leaders already spit up the real gold
Zilan DJ says:
Good to know security is light
LeifRedErikson says:
What are the bankers gonna do with all the gold they stoled from other countries? Just hoard as many, then look at it on display and not spend one bar to help others? They can't take anything to their grave.
ItzzsNam says:
Where's the professor
Spleens says:
syed Arman says:
What was in 8s ? Illuminati?
Marian Keller says:
Interesting how that place looks like a living museum. But on the other hand, guess there isn't much of a reason for them to change a running system.


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Q: Are normal modes, standing waves, natural modes, acoustic resonances, forced vibrations and room modes the same thing? I am studying the normal modes and I am confused because there are several names that I am not sure if they are the same physical phenomena or they are different things that are related. I would like to know the definitions of each one and how these concepts are related to the resonances of a room. I read the chapter on standing waves in the 9th edition of Serway and Vuille's book and I know that standing waves are waves created by the interference of two waves in opposite directions and produce nodes and antinodes. This book explains this phenomenon with a string model, but this model is a bit different from a room model and doesn't mention normal modes, so how does this relate to normal modes, room acoustic resonances, room modes, and forced vibrations?

A: All mechanical systems (and you could consider an acoustical system as a mechanical one. This is justified in the use of electro-acoustico-mechanical analogies) have at least one preferred way of "behaving" when oscillating. This has to do with their normal response when they are excited too, which is of course the topic of forced excitation. These terms are clarified below.
Quoting Harris' Shock and Vibration Handbook:

Mode of vibration: In a system undergoing vibration, a mode of vibration is a characteristic pattern assumed by the system in which the motion of every particle is simple harmonic with the same frequency. Two or more modes may exist concurrently in a multiple-degree-of-freedom system.

This means that, according to the authors, a mode is the pattern of vibration. This is consistent with the fact that for a specific geometry, you will always (in the linear regime) get the same pattern for a specific mode, regardless of the frequency that excites the mode. For example, the modes of a rectangular plate or a parallelepiped room have the same patterns (different for each case of course) no matter what their scale is. Of course scale does affect the frequency that excites the mode. Based on that and quoting the same book again

Natural frequency: Natural frequency is the frequency of free vibration of a system. For a multiple-degree-of-freedom system, the natural frequencies are the frequencies of the normal modes of vibration.

and the normal mode of vibration is (again quoting the same reference)

Natural mode of vibration: The natural mode of vibration is a mode of vibration assumed by a system when vibrating freely.

Key word here is freely. This means (as mentioned in the beginning) that the natural modes (excited at the natural frequencies) are the ways (at the frequencies) that the system "likes to" (or has the "tendency") to vibrate. Since acoustics, like vibrations can be described by the "unified framework" of oscillations the same principles apply there too.
Now, according to the same authors, there is a specific definition for the normal modes and this is

Normal mode of vibration: A normal mode of vibration is a mode of vibration that is uncoupled from (i.e., can exist independently of) other modes of vibration of a system. When vibration of the system is defined as an eigenvalue problem, the normal modes are the eigenvectors and the normal mode frequencies are the eigenvalues. The term classical normal mode is sometimes applied to the normal modes of a vibrating system characterized by vibration of each element of the system at the same frequency and phase. In general, classical normal modes exist only in systems having no damping or having particular types of damping.

Now, coming to resonances. As I have already done multiple times in this answer I will, once more, quote the same old reference for a definition of resonance. This is

Resonance: Resonance of a system in forced vibration exists when any change, however small, in the frequency of excitation causes a decrease in the response of the system.

For the sake of completeness I will also quote a term that is not used so often. This is antiresonance and according to the same source it is

Antiresonance: For a system in forced oscillation, antiresonance exists at a point when any change, however small, in the frequency of excitation causes an increase in the response at this point.

As you can see, when we refer to resonances we are already talking about forced excitation of a system. As you may already know, when we are forcing oscillations to a system we can "arbitrarily" pick the frequency of excitation. The frequency at which a resonance exists/happens is called resonance frequency (or frequency of resonance). The same definition from the source is

Resonance frequency: Resonance frequency is a frequency at which resonance exists.

Now, coming to the part we didn't touch so far, the standing waves. According to the reference, a standing wave is

Standing wave: A standing wave is a periodic wave having a fixed distribution in space which is the result of interference of progressive waves of the same frequency and kind. Such waves are characterized by the existence of nodes or partial nodes and antinodes that are fixed in space.

Of course you may already know that, but on the other hand you should consider how would it be possible for a system of infinite extent to have natural modes (free vibrations) or exhibit resonances (forced vibrations). I don't think you could have such a thing (please correct me if I am wrong). This means that in a sense you can think of the standing waves as the natural/normal modes of an acoustical system. These two "things" (modes and standing waves) seem to have similar characteristics (according to the definitions presented above). Both exhibit fixed distributions in the spatial variables which constitutes them, at least for practical reasons, similar if not identical.
Normal Modes
To explain the normal modes (answering to your comment), you first of all have to consider that they are modes. As stated above, a mode is a specific spatial distribution pattern (in the room acoustics case, most often of pressure or displacement but it is not restricted to only those quantities).
Now, to make it clearer, modes are excited at specific frequencies, no matter if we are talking about free or forced oscillations. The only difference being that when a system is freely vibrating it does so only at the normal frequencies (in the stade-state) whereas in forced oscillations it vibrates at the frequency of the external force. Nevertheless, when the frequency of external forcing function coincides with one of the natural frequencies you achieve resonance and you can observe the mode. If those modes (regardless of whether they are excited at a freely or forced vibrating system) are (linearly) independent then we talking about normal modes.
As already mentioned in the answer, the normal modes are the eigenvectors and the frequencies they happen are the eigenvalues of an  oscillating system is stated/modeled as an eigenvalue problem.


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January 17, 2018 January 17, 2018 by theoldtvnewscoach
Keith Jackson: And So It Is Done
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"And so it is done. I say goodbye to all of you. God bless and good night."
The 1999 national championship game between Tennessee and Florida State was supposed to be Keith Jackson's final game. He had announced his retirement at the outset of the 1998 football season. Millions of his loyal fans pondered how Saturdays would be the same without the distinctive Georgia accent describing off-tackle breakaways and screen passes.
That one sentence stuck with me on his final signoff: "And so it is done." The final chapter was written in a storybook sportscasting career. My thoughts were "And So It Is Done" would be a perfect title for a Keith Jackson autobiography.
Little did we know we still had seven more years of "retirement" from Jackson. After a series of negotiations, he agreed to an easier schedule of Pac-10 games with Dan Fouts that required less of a commute from his Pacific Northwest home.
Keith Jackson was indeed Mr. College Football before columnist Tony Barnhart acquired that title. Yet, his association with Army-Navy, Alabama-Auburn and Georgia-Clemson left a later generation without an appreciation of the broad expanse of his experience.
The former Marine sergeant covered cliff diving, demolition derbies in Islip, N.Y., auto racing, Olympics, NBA basketball, the World Series, The Superstars and was the original play-by-play commentator of NFL Monday Night Football. Jackson was in that Mt. Rushmore category of versatility encompassing Lindsey Nelson, Curt Gowdy, Chris Schenkel, and Vin Scully.
I will not recap the same litany you will read in the many tributes and obituaries. I will share a few personal memories of telecasts and legends attached to Keith Jackson.
The assorted recaps of Jackson's career have inserted the headline "whoa, Nellie" as his trademark line in a football telecast. That may be the most exaggerated urban legend on his roster. He did use the phrase in a commercial during the tail end of his career. However, he once asserted that he never said "whoa, Nellie" while calling a game; the connection came largely from impersonations of Jackson by comedian/sports interviewer Roy Firestone. Jackson was none too impressed by Firestone's mimicry. One of his routines went something like this: "And it's another eight-yard gain by Leroy Mullis from WAY-cross, Georgia….he motored around right tackle like a four-wheel drive….whoa, Nellie!" Jackson may have used the term at some point but I challenge you to filter through the ABC Sports tape library and find an outing where he did. In the frequent legendary games on ESPN Classic, "whoa, Nellie" is never there.
One of my fondest memories is of something uncharacteristic in Jackson's impeccable delivery. He prided himself on strong preparation and an ability to maintain professionalism under any circumstances. The New Year's Day 1981 national championship game between Georgia and Notre Dame may have been one exception. Jackson was setting up the match, indicating that the Bulldogs had never been so far since the days of Charley Trippi. The producers opted to insert a tape of a short, elderly fellow in a bright red sweater. Jackson said: "Here's just a sample of how the fever had hit Bulldog fans." The gentlemen flashed a big grin and yelled: "HEYYYYYYYY…..HOW 'BOUT THEM DOGS!!!! Hum baby, hum baby, hum baby, hum baby, hum baby, hum baby, hum….." When the director cut back to the press box, Jackson was in hysterics. He had three or four keys to the game remaining. As he attempted to start each one, he could not avoid breaking into more laughter. I don't know if Jackson ever met the man but the little fellow went down in history as the only civilian to ever break up Keith Jackson during a broadcast.
In the mid-1990s, I lived in the country where one required a satellite dish to receive acceptable television reception. I had one of those huge C-band dishes in the days where you could find interesting byplay between sports announcers on the "backhaul" feeds that were not available to over-the-air viewers. Apparently communications in Jackson's headphones were faltering. He was letting the production crew know it. "All I'm hearing is loud ringing in these things! It's so loud, I can't hear anything you're saying or anything anybody else is saying. You better get this thing cleared up or I'm taking these things off and throwing 'em right out the window." One assumes the headphone issue was summarily resolved. I never heard Keith complain about them for the rest of the telecast.
The ABC college football season opener in 1983 was Georgia vs. UCLA in Athens. For years, Jackson was paired with former Arkansas coach Frank Broyles in the booth. This was the game in which Rick Neuheisel was in his senior season and started at quarterback for the Bruins. At least three times during the telecast, Broyles told Jackson how impressed he was with "this Rickheisel." Jackson, who enjoyed Broyles, was amused every time. However, late in the game, with UCLA driving for what would have been a winning touchdown, Neuheisel called a time out deep in Bulldog territory. Then, before running a play, Neuheisel called another time out. "He cain't DO that, Keith! He cain't call two time outs in a row!" shouted Broyles. Jackson said: "I don't know if he can or not but if Frank Broyles is that adamant about it, I would suggest he's about to be penalized." UCLA was penalized. Georgia won. The Bulldogs eventually backed out of the return game in the Rose Bowl the next year.
Only TV sports historians and devotees remember that first season of NFL Monday Night Football when Jackson was the first play-by-play commentator for an innovative experiment. ABC was given 13 weeks of prime time pro football for the bargain price of $9.3 million. That figure is correct. CBS had failed twice with Monday night games, including once with the Green Bay Packers and another with the Dallas Cowboys.
ABC Sports President Roone Arledge's plan to give nighttime football an opportunity for success was to turn it into sports entertainment. Jackson, whose biggest fame was from calling USAC races with Chris Economacki, was given a huge career boost in the role as play-by-play commentator. The pairing of retired Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith and outspoken Howard Cosell was considered the counterpoint to sell the package as something different from the Xs-and-Os tradition of Sunday afternoon.
I was a senior in high school when Monday Night Football began in 1970. Bedtime prevented me from seeing the finish of most of the games except on the eve of one teacher in-service day. While many viewers were either entertained or agitated at the jousting between Meredith and Cosell, the latter of whom actually had been a commentator in the 1950s when ABC had a package of Saturday night NFL games, one line stayed with me well after the season. After every extra point kick, before pitching to a commercial break, Jackson would say: "NFL Monnnnnn-day Night Football…..a great way to spend an autumn evening." The next year, when I commuted home to do public address announcing at my alma mater's games, I admittedly stole the line. After every Bulldog extra point, I said, "Waycross High Friiiiiiii-day Night Football…..a great way to spend a summer/autumn evening." The home fans were amused. The visitors usually were not.
If you rent or buy the made-for-cable movie Monday Night Mayhem, you will see a reasonably accurate account of those early years of Monday Night Football. Jackson was on the package for only one season, though he was given a parachute with NBA basketball (bumping pioneer sportscaster Chris Schenkel, whom Jackson later replaced as the lead voice on college football). He found out he was being replaced by Frank Gifford on the prime time NFL games by reading about it in the trade papers. He made call after call to Arledge, who was notorious for not returning phone calls to his staff. Arledge never answered. In a dramatic scene in the film, Jackson enters Arledge's office with that jut-jaw Marine personality at its firmness. He asked why Arledge wasn't man enough to tell him to his face about losing Monday Night Football. Arledge said: "I was going to, Keith, but I never heard from you." Jackson proceeded to pull out logs detailing every call he made to Arledge's office after learning of the news. Arledge had no answer.
Despite the Monday night snafu—-and one would never agree that Gifford was ever a better announcer than Jackson—-the NFL's loss was college football's gift. He made our Saturday afternoons appointment television with him for more than three decades.
When he finally did make that final call, it was one for the ages. Vince Young dramatically drove Texas down the field for a final touchdown with only seconds left in a spine-tingling Rose Bowl to beat Southern Cal. Jackson, in the same mode as the great Ray Scott on NFL games for many years, backed away from the mike and let the pictures tell the story. He was a master at it. When he finally returned to speak, he told everything with a simple sentence: "It's been a game of drama, of emotions, and great plays—-and the Longhorns are gonna win it."
ABC had a strong stable of announcers but when Keith Jackson was in Athens, in Tuscaloosa, in Jacksonville, in Pasadena, or Ann Arbor, the games seemed larger than life. They usually were. As a commentator and one who could paint a brilliant word picture, Keith Jackson was larger than life.
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Not "Oh My!"….But Oh No!: Dick Enberg, Mt. Rushmore Broadcaster, Leaves Us
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I stayed up past midnight this morning and was making one final flip through Twitter, a dubious exercise some evenings. In the left-hand column of Trends, I saw a name that led me to one of those moments where I knew what I would see if I clicked on it.
My reaction was "oh no!" The man who made "oh my" a cemented phrase in sportscasting, Dick Enberg, died at the age of 82.
Without question, he was my idol in basketball broadcasting. Though he was spectacular at the wide variety of sports he called, he made basketball come alive for me as if it were on an Imax screen. I never even remotely came close to his talent and recognition, though I enjoyed 25 years as an NAIA and NCAA Division II basketball commentator. Yet, Enberg was my role model and the main influence for me to go behind the television mike.
This, however, is not going to be a recitation of all of Enberg's accomplishments. Plenty of obituaries and radio and television reminiscences will do that quite well. As a game show enthusiast, I could wax forever about one of my favorites of the genre of all time, Sports Challenge. The host was Dick Enberg.
Instead, I want to focus on a signature moment that changed the face of one sport. Dick Enberg was a major reason why.
Nearly 50 years ago in January 1968, Enberg played a seminal role in turning college basketball into a national television sport. That is no exaggeration.
At the time, Lyndon Johnson was facing challenges from his own party for re-election which led to his dropping out of the race. Racial strife led to rioting and burning in the Watts district of Los Angeles and Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. Dr. Martin Luther King and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy would both be assassinated only weeks apart. An irreverent satirical hour labeled Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was about to become television's number one show. In a last hurrah, the Green Bay Packers had just won their second straight Super Bowl. College basketball was a non-entity on network television.
In a game that was a precursor of today's college basketball Final Four in domed stadiums, John Wooden's UCLA Bruins were matched against the Houston Cougars of Guy Lewis (who closely resembled Al Lewis, the proverbial Grandpa on The Munsters). The teams would square off at the three-year-old Astrodome. If Barney Fife were describing the plans to Andy Taylor, he would say, "It's gonna be big, Ang."
A 33-year-old sportscaster with Midwest roots was chosen to call the game. He was building a name on the West Coast as the voice of UCLA basketball, as well as the radio voice of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Angels. Dick Enberg would not only make history by broadcasting in the largest venue ever to house a basketball game, as well as the largest crowd, but his work nearly a half century ago pushed the sport to a major transition.
The game was in prime time (9:30 pm on Saturday night in the East). However, it was not on CBS, ABC or NBC, but on a small regional sports syndication network—-TVS, created by television sports entrepreneur Eddie Einhorn.
NBC gave a valiant six-year run to college basketball and the NBA from 1955-61. The network dropped both despite having voices such as Lindsey Nelson, Curt Gowdy and Jack Drees calling the games because the sports just did not click with audiences as an appointment attraction. Advertisers clamored for baseball's weekend games. They gave support to the National Football League a half century before its multi-billion dollar contracts. They were not even lukewarm to sponsor basketball on TV.
In 1964, Einhorn launched TVS with regional telecasts of SEC basketball and Big 8 games, later expanding to three other conferences. The C.D. Chesley Co. began a package of ACC games to stations along the Eastern seaboard.
Still, the networks were not interested in the NCAA tournament or a regular season college basketball package. Fans had to read about the championship game in their morning or afternoon newspapers. When Bob Wiesenhahn and Paul Hoque led Cincinnati to two straight NCAA titles in 1961 and 1962 and the Bearcats lost a thriller 60-58 to Loyola of Chicago in a bid for a third in a row, television was not there.
The UCLA-Houston matchup was the first attempt of Einhorn to go in prime time. The setting of the Astrodome was enough to attract stations as well as the name recognition of UCLA's powerhouse center Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). A surprising 154 stations picked up the game, most of them network affiliates. Media billed the showdown as the Game of the Century. What a cliche that four-word phrase is now.
The decision to assign Enberg, who called UCLA games on a tape delay but was not a national broadcast name, as play-by-play commentator served as an introduction to a wordsmith with the ability to lift a game into an event. Enberg was limited exposure in about 40 TV markets with "The Perfect Match," a "Dating Game" knockoff. In dozens of cities, he was an unknown.
Before the first half was over, viewers knew Enberg was on a level above anyone they had ever heard call college basketball. His spectacular intonation and clarity of voice gave viewers the idea this was a night of sports history and that a possible upset was in the making.
Ironically, this was a game UCLA's legendary coach did not want to play. Wooden did not like his Pacific-8 conference race interrupted by an intersectional game. He felt a non-conference game in January was a distraction to his team's ultimate goal.
UCLA came into the game with a 47-game winning streak. Most sports analysts predicted the Bruins would eclipse San Francisco's 60-game streak set in the 1950s.
The Cougars had other ideas. Houston's Elvin Hayes, who averaged 37.7 points a game, went on a tear in the first half. On his final basket of the first half, Enberg chanted, "ELVIN HAYES HAS 29 POINTS!" Houston led 46-43 at halftime.
The second half was much more defensive. Hayes was held to 10 points but hit two key free throws with 1:54 remaining to put Houston up 71-69. Long before the shot clock era, UCLA worked extensively for a tying shot and possible foul. All-America guard Mike Warren made one of his rare mistakes and threw away a pass with forward Lynn Shackelford wide open.
Houston held onto the ball (this was 15 years before Jim Valvano launched the foulfest on his way to an NCAA title at North Carolina State) and pulled the two-point upset. Enberg could not be accused of being a homer for UCLA. He called the game right down the middle. He built high drama and made the game a larger-than-life experience.
I was watching the game on WJXT in Jacksonville, which pre-empted "Petticoat Junction" and "Mannix" to carry the game. I had a huge fatigue factor with UCLA, though I was a major admirer of Coach Wooden. I celebrated when anyone could knock off the Bruins. I had no doubt this was a college basketball telecast like none I had ever seen. The setting and the exuberant crowd set the tone but Enberg made that game an American classic that paved the way for a much bigger future for the sport.
The ratings were the highest ever for a college basketball game on American television, once all of the markets reported. Advertisers began to take note that, given proper promotion and announcing talent, the college game could draw an audience.
The following year, NBC began carrying Saturday games in the NCAA tournament. By 1969, the championship game and national consolation game became a Saturday afternoon tradition on NBC until they eventually moved to Monday nights.
In the late '70s, after Curt Gowdy left NBC, Enberg became NBC's senior voice. His years of pairing with Al McGuire and Billy Packer were of legend. His calls of Super Bowls and Olympics, as well as the PGA tour, placed him on the Mount Rushmore of sports broadcasters.
Study the careers of the classic sportscasters and you will often fine one signature game that propelled them into national prominence. The great Ray Scott's disciplined call of the Green Bay-Dallas Ice Bowl 50 years ago cemented his legacy. Al Michaels' "do you believe in miracles?" finish of the U.S. Olympic hockey team semifinal win over the Soviet Union in 1980 was a milestone marker. Verne Lundquist was already a distinguished announcer but his 1986 chant of "yes sir!" when 46-year-old Jack Nicklaus hold a 20-foot putt to take the lead at The Masters is on the all-time, all-star list of TV sports memories.
The night of January 20, 1968, was the key moment in Dick Enberg's career that elevated him to the A-list of commentators. Never again would he be regarded as a regional broadcaster. He changed a sport's image in the eyes of America on that Saturday night.
I learned a lot that aided my modest career as a sportscaster by watching everything Enberg did and from his autobiography, "Oh My!" In the book, he wrote that in basketball, many young commentators attempt to call every basket in the first half of a game as if it's a buzzer-beater. "You have to play it calmer early in the game," he wrote. "If you have a real thriller, you want to save the drama for the closing moments."
If we are honest, many of us who have been sportscasters on a much smaller level have patterned our styles after broadcasters we admire. One has to be one's self at the mike to be a quality communicator but in key moments of dramatic and thriller games, I did my dead level best to pump the drama like Enberg during my 25 years as an NAIA and NCAA Division II television sportscaster. He was my absolute role model in basketball commentary.
I periodically look at a women's conference championship game I called 20 years ago in an electrified arena. In overtime and in a record performance by an NAIA All-American, I screamed, "MICHELLE STREET HAS 45 POINTS!" I thought of that UCLA-Houston game at that precise moment. That call was a tip of the cap to my idol.
That game at the Astrodome nearly 50 years ago was a major reason I wanted to be a sportscaster. Dick Enberg was the catalyst for me.
The news came early Friday morning that Enberg passed away Thursday, likely of a heart attack. His loss leaves a gaping hole for those who appreciate the art of sports broadcasting.
As another great commentator who is a friend, Tim Brando, frequently says when we lose legends: "We're not replacing them with people who have half the talent." This morning, Brando tweeted: "(Enberg) was just being himself, a warm human being that brought out only the best in those around him. No one was better!"
A lot of fine broadcasters are out there today. Many young men and women want to go into the field. My two young successors calling NCAA Division II basketball hope they are on a ladder to eventual success. I only wish they all could learn from Dick Enberg. He was one of a kind.


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Rui Teixeira, Commander of the Maritime Zone of Madeira and the National Maritime Authority, revealed to JM that "the death of the tourist" can now be confirmed, dragged by a wave in Jardim do Mar and which was confirmed by the health delegate of Santa Cruz ".
The also Captain of the Port of Funchal revealed that the "Maritime Police are helping the family and friends" of the victim, and that they were at the scene of the tragedy. Rui Teixeira revealed that the body was detected in the "sea of Calheta, having been rescued by the Portuguese Air Force helicopter and then "transported to Madeira Airport, where the health delegate "confirmed the death". The corpse was then taken to the Legal Medicine Service of Hospital dr. Nelio Mendonca.
The search and rescue operations were coordinated by Rui Teixeira in the theater of operations, where the Portuguese Air Force, the Navy and the Port of Funchal, the Maritime Police, Madeira Operational Command and the Calheta Volunteer Firefighters were operational.
The Maritime Police took care of the incident.


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5 Ionawr 2016 · 12:28 am
Carwyn Jones – Mr Anonymous
There was a time when Carwyn Jones was regarded as an asset to the Labour Party in Wales. Regard the party political broadcast for the 2011 election which was basically the Carwyn show. And who could overlook the analyses by Roger Scully, which for some reason use polling data, rather than the revolutionary new method we're about to reveal. Roger noted in December 2014 that:
Carwyn Jones remains by some way the most popular party leader in Wales
Let's consider that Carwyn has been First Minister since December 2009, a full six years. That would be a decent length of time for someone to make their mark. But I get the feeling that Carwyn's star has fallen a long way since its ascendency in 2011. Perhaps he's taken everything (and everyone) for granted for so long that people just don't care about him – or his opinion – any more. I'd be astonished if Carwyn gets the airtime in this election that he enjoyed in party political broadcasts last election. What leads to this radical conclusion?
It's the New Year Twitter test.
As First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones' new year message of good will was retweeted a grand total of 4 times (up to the end of 4 January), one of whom is a candidate in the coming election, and another Wayne David, MP for Caerffili. To be fair, his Welsh language version was retweeted 5 times. But two of these had already retweeted the English language version. Grand total? 7 retweets.
How did other First and Prime Ministers do? Nicola Sturgeon only managed 419 retweets. Pathetic really for someone who's been in post a shade over one year. David Cameron managed 1,300 for the cheesy 'Happy New Year' tweet, with a more modest 363 for his actual message.
How about the other party leaders in Wales? Kirsty Williams didn't get a single retweet for her message, Andrew RT Davies netted 12 retweets, Alice Hooker Stroud got 7 (not bad for a month's tenure!) and Leanne Wood achieved 34.
But we're not really comparing like with like. It's hardly a fair contest to pit opposition leaders – of varying tenure – against the profile of someone who until recently was Wales' most popular party leader. Nor is it fair to pit the leaders of England and Scotland – both much bigger countries – against that of Wales. So here goes, with a quick look at some equivalent leaders.
Panama – population 3.8 million – President Juan Carlos Varela 158 retweets
Jamaica – population 2.7 million – Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller 11 retweets (great message, by the way… "May 2016 see your dreams come true. May you shine as never before, believe as never before and soar as never before")
Macedonia – population 2.1 million – Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski 19 retweets
To be fair, there are plenty of mid-size countries whose leaders aren't on twitter or didn't bother with a new year's greeting. My personal favourite is the Prime Minister of Lebanon, who clearly hasn't managed his settings to avoid every post he makes on Facebook appearing in his twitter feed.
But there's a bit more of a serious point here. If the First Minister of Wales can't get a single elected politician in Wales other than Wayne David to retweet his new year message, maybe it's not just the plebs who are losing faith in Carwyn. Perhaps the rot has set in within his own party.
By the time 2016's out, there's going to be another leader of the Labour Party in Wales, which of course means a new First Minister.
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17 Tachwedd 2015 · 7:30 pm
The Suppurating Reality of Public Life in Wales
Keir Hardie would be turning in his grave. This is what the Labour party has become. A party until recently wholly committed to austerity, that repeatedly fails to vote against the wilful savagery inflicted on the poor by their Conservative-cut-accomplices in Westminster, a party that delights in lavishing untold billions on weapons of mass destruction.
And in Wales, Keir's adopted country, a Labour machine brimming with lickspittles and toadies who want to import those nuclear warheads to Pembrokeshire, a party morally and politically spent, acting only in the interests of whatever it takes to retain its tired grip on power.
This paragon of socialist success, Wales, the victim of the longest-running one-party government in Europe.
A Labour party so replete with failure, incompetence and listlessness that its 52-page programme for government contains only the tiniest handful of measurable targets*.
A Labour party that stuffs the institutions that govern our daily lives with party apparatchiks. And the Welsh Government's defence? That most appointees "did not declare" an affiliation with the Labour party. What they don't mention? That you only need to declare an affiliation if you've been a candidate at election, an agent of a candidate, or a branch Treasurer, Secretary or Chair. That means there are potentially thousands of Labour party members quietly filling up positions in public life with a nod and a wink. What proportion of the 90% of appointees "unaffiliated" to a political party is comprised of Labour party members? We don't know – and the Welsh Government will never tell us.
A Labour party ruthlessly determined to reduce opportunities for scrutiny and accountability. Using feeble excuses for halting publication of Ministerial decision reports. Consistently fail to meet one of the few targets you yourself invented? Not a problem for Labour. Change, or delete, the target.
So who's to hold the Welsh Government to account? Not the NGOs. If the environment sector is a representative sample, then the Welsh Government and its agencies apparently use the threat of reduced funding to eliminate criticism.
The media? Well, for a country overly dependent on public service broadcasters such as the BBC, don't hold your breath. This is a media that treats Carwyn Jones with the sickening reverence usually reserved for the monarchy. Not that all politicians are treated with kid gloves. Jason Mohammad's pillorying of Leanne Wood for sticking to her principles and not singing the national anthem of another country was astonishing. But then, Leanne's not an establishment figure, royalty or from the Labour party – goodness knows the backroom deals Labour has done to ensure favourable treatment.
The political opposition? It's pretty difficult to get your message across if the media is Labour supplicant.
Cai Larsen has pointed out in the past that if your desire is for you and your offspring to get unfair advantage in life, then you stand a much better chance of doing so through membership of the Labour party than through being a mason.
This is what the Labour party in Wales has become. A club for sharing out the spoils of victory to its anointed brethren. An apparatus for stifling dissent, for strangling criticism, and for ensuring its own continuation. The lofty ambitions, the socialism, the ideals, the beliefs, all tossed aside. You don't need ideals when your status in society is ideal.
Remember this, dear readers, when you flock to the polling booths next May.
Leanne Wood – in that same interview – told Jason that 'we're not in North Korea'. And she's right, we're not. Yet. But we're a country that's been crushed under a Labour administration that's been in power for 16 years, with another 5 in its sights.
This is the suppurating reality of Welsh public life.
Keir Hardie would be turning in his grave.
* Our inspection revealed just two measurable targets in 52 pages. But do let us know if you can find a few more squirreled away.
Increasing spending on Wales' schools by at least 1% over our block grant, and raise the amount delegated by local authorities to schools to 85%.
Fund and facilitate the employment of 500 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in Wales.
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Filed under Democracy, Elections, Labour, Plaid Cymru, Welsh Government, Westminster
Tagged as Cai Larsen, Carwyn Jones, Jason Mohammad, Leanne Wood, Trident
6 Gorffennaf 2015 · 8:29 am
The Price of Dependence
We already know the cost of dependence. Or at least, we don't know the exact cost, but we do know that our dependence on the UK state costs us untold billions.
Every which way, the people of Wales are getting shafted.
But what price do we pay for our dependence?
Something of that nature was revealed by Andy Burnham a few weeks ago:
I conducted the last spending review of the last Labour government and I looked in detail at the Barnett formula, and concluded that it wasn't fair to Wales and there would need to be changes to it to ensure a much fairer funding settlement… I believe Wales has been short-changed.
As Cai Larsen points out, this means that the Labour Party has known since 2007 that Wales is underfunded. Of course, it's an open secret that everyone has known for donkeys' years that Wales has been underfunded. But here's the first open acknowledgement by a serving Minister, and one in the Treasury at that, that his party has known.
And the Labour Party, during its tenure of the UK Government after 2007, did precisely nothing to secure fair funding for Wales. So that's at least £300 million per year (some say £540 million) every year since 2007 that the people of Wales have paid the rest of the UK, via the Labour Party, for our pathetic obedience to our Labour masters.
But of course, if Andy Burnham knew about it in 2007, then there's no way his successors in the Treasury could have been ignorant of our underfunding. So the Lib Dems and Conservatives, from 2010 to 2015, and the Conservatives going solo since May, have been totally complicit in this asset-stripping of Wales.
The price we pay for praying at the altar of unionism is likely to be somewhere in the region of £400 million per year. This is when we start to realise that we're not just having a fun political kickabout. We're talking about people's lives.
£400 million a year goes a very long way. Over the last 8 years, that would have meant a cash injection of £3.2 billion into Welsh public services. So let's not pull our punches. People have died in Wales because Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem politicians have conspired to funnel money rightfully destined for Wales' NHS elsewhere. The life chances of our children are directly damaged because our education system is underfunded as a result of Unionist largesse on the establishment. Our arts and cultural services that bring joy and delight to our lives are being pared to the bone because Unionists consider Wales to be a political irrelevance.
So the next time someone like Baroness Jenny Randerson busily tries to convince the people of Wales that we're doing just fine and dandy, thanks to Barnett, notch it up as another Unionist lie.
And commit to never vote for a Unionist party again.
Filed under Conservatives, Democracy, Education, Elections, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, Westminster
Tagged as Andy Burnham, Cai Larsen, Jenny Randerson
16 Mai 2015 · 10:47 pm
Labour's Choice
Wales is one of the poorest countries in western Europe. That's Labour's choice.
Wales is the poorest constituent country of the UK, by a considerable margin. That is a choice made by the Labour party.
We are kept poor because there are other priorities than Wales for Labour. In fact, Wales is close to the bottom of the priority list.
Thus it will always be.
So where's the evidence for these outrageous statements? You don't have to look further than this document. It's the Labour manifesto, of course. Wales gets less than half a page of this manifesto. Page 65, by the way. That's where the scintillating "all-Wales policing plan" gets an airing.
"This is all fine and dandy, but it doesn't prove that Labour chooses to keep Wales poor", I hear you say.
Political parties make policies that distribute opportunities and wealth around the UK. Is it random chance that greater London's GVA per capita is £40,000 while Wales' is £16,900? Of course it's not. Political parties have, over a period of many decades, made policies that promote high-income jobs in London (and to a lesser extent in south-east England, east England, Scotland etc) and to hell with Wales.
Policies like locating the highest-earning civil servants in London – for centuries – and chucking a few crumbs to the provinces. Policies like subsidising – via Welsh taxpayers' money – massive redevelopment of east London, extravagant new transport schemes and the like. Policies like vacuuming cash from low-earners (of which a much higher proportion live in Wales) via VAT and council tax and tossing it away on vanity schemes like national ID cards and Trident (you'll find that on page 78 of the Labour manifesto, although they call it a "continuous at-sea deterrent", presumably to try to throw people off the scent).
How could it be otherwise? London has 73 MPs, Wales has 40. One-fifth of Labour membership is in London, 31% in London plus south-east England. 6% of its membership is in Wales. There are 34 constituency Labour parties in London with membership greater than 500. There is not one in the whole of Wales.
This negligence of Wales isn't restricted to the Labour party, of course. The Conservatives couldn't give two hoots about us either. You want proof? How about David Cameron's whirlwind trip to the Celtic fringe this past week. In Wales, he visited a brewery in Gower. His visit to Scotland was more like a visit to an independent country's prime minister, reported in every broadsheet. What a stunning snub to Carwyn Jones, poor dab.
The big difference is that Labour pretends to stand up for Wales. The Conservatives have never pretended to.
So Wales is poor because the Labour, Conservative and (most recently) Liberal Democrat parties choose it to be so. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Filed under Conservatives, Democracy, Elections, Independence, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Westminster
Tagged as Carwyn Jones, David Cameron, Nicola Sturgeon
14 Mai 2015 · 7:40 pm
Vampires and Blood Banks
Well, the chickens have really come home to roost. In the blood bank, with a vampire as the overseer.
Remember how the ranks of unionist Labour politicians sallied forth to hold back the devolution of further powers to Wales? Well now they, and the rest of us, are going to be on the receiving end of some of the worst excesses of a Conservative ideology.
Let's take this back to the Silk Commission. This was the Commission established by the Lib Dem-Conservative government to determine the scale of devolution that should be offered to Wales. It was – according to its author – going to bring a stable devolutionary settlement to Wales "for a generation, let's say… 25 years". I don't know why anyone involved in the devolution process bothers making these ridiculous statements, or why they're taken seriously. After all, I've shown that Peter Hain and Owen "end-game" Smith have got it humiliatingly wrong in the past. At any rate, Paul Silk's 'generation' lasted all of 11 months, by which time its devolutionary limits had already been surpassed by the St David's Day Agreement, which promised yet greater powers over, for example, electoral arrangements and energy.
But the Silk Commission was a work of compromise. The party representatives on the Commission (Part 2 – policy) were as follows:
Plaid Cymru – Eurfyl ap Gwilym
Liberal Democrat – Rob Humphreys CBE
Conservative – Lord Nick Bourne
Labour – Jane Davidson
One can only guess that these political appointees were carrying out the wishes of their respective parties. And given the Plaid aim of full independence, and the Liberal Democrat objective of 'home rule', it's fair to assume that the hopeless policy recommendations of the Silk Commission were made so restrictive by a combination of Labour and Conservative intransigence.
So a combination of factors have conspired to leave Wales at the mercy of Conservative malignance. Firstly, a consistently feeble Assembly – not Parliament – with a devolved – not reserved – model of powers that left it wide open to constant legal challenge. This all put in place by the Labour party. Second, a risible selection of powers devolved. No police, no criminal justice, no taxation, no decent powers over energy, no broadcasting, the list goes on. This all put in place by the Labour party. Third, any chance to radically increase the scope of devolution to approximate Scottish powers consistently thwarted by the Labour and Conservative party. And now, fourth, a Labour party that promised to protect Welsh communities from the onslaught of Conservative policies falling apart in an election it couldn't lose. Thereby leaving Welsh communities defenceless against that onslaught in all those policy areas that unionist Labour politicians fought tooth and nail to keep the preserve of Westminster.
It's a classic case of Labour duplicity, incompetence, self-interest and downright malice. I should at this point state that although visiting right-wing policies on the Welsh people is a joint preserve of Labour and Conservative, I don't blame the latter. They're totally explicit about their chosen path. People who vote Conservative know what they're getting.
So what lies ahead?
Ripping up the Human Rights Act. Michael Gove (who in 1998 was all for bringing back hanging people) will take sheer delight in making the UK (and Wales as the unhappy corollary) join Belarus as the sole European states unbound by the European Convention on Human Rights. This could have been avoided by the Labour party, if only they'd pushed for the devolution of criminal justice on the Silk Commission.
Dismantling the BBC. John Whittingdale, new Culture Secretary, believes the BBC licence fee is "worse than a poll tax"… "we are potentially looking at reducing a proportion of the licence fee". This happens, of course, with Labour's blessing. Because the Labour party could have prevented this happening in Wales through full devolution of broadcasting.
Caroline Dinenage is the new Equalities Minister. She voted against gay marriage in 2014. Equalities legislation could, of course, be the preserve of the National Assembly for Wales. If only the Labour party had pushed for it to be part of the devolution settlement.
The new Disabilities Minister, Justin Tomlinson, voted against protecting benefits for disabled children and cancer patients. He's now in charge of the Access to Work Fund, which provides money to help people with disabilities get work. Any damage this man will bring to people with disabilities in Wales could have been avoided by the Labour party, if only they'd pushed for the devolution of benefits to Wales.
Which begs the question, who's the vampire – and whose blood is being drained? Is it Conservative Ministers draining British institutions? Or is it Labour hegemony sucking dry the people of Wales?
Filed under Conservatives, Equality, Labour, Welsh Government, Westminster
Tagged as Caroline Dinenage, Eurfyl ap Gwilym, Jane Davidson, John Whittingdale, Justin Tomlinson, Michael Gove, Nick Bourne, Owen Smith, Paul Silk, Peter Hain, Rob Humphreys
2 Mai 2015 · 9:12 pm
The Social Media Battle: Llanelli
Synopsis: One candidate is a jedi master. The other is an ewok.
Social media engagement is important. It helps energise people, it gets people involved, it makes people feel that they have a stake, and it enables politicians to reach sections of society that traditional media and door-knocking might not be able to reach.
Nia Griffith has 554 likes on her Facebook account, which means she's attracting likes at a rate of 111 per year. It's hardly surprising the recruitment rate is so poor; it's little better than Kim Jong Un in its capacity for regurgitating state propaganda (in this case, it's a feed from Nia's 'blog'). Still, she somehow manages to get 56 on Likealyzer. Nia posts less frequently than once every two days and averages 23 engagements per post – in total about 10 engagements per day.
Vaughan Williams has only 364 likes on Facebook, but his recruitment rate is 182 per year, or about 63% better than Nia's. He's posting a good variety of memes, videos and images, along with lots of links to articles. Likealyzer rates Vaughan at 73, which is pretty good. He's posting 1.8 times per day with 18 interactions per post: 32 interactions per day.
Nia comes across as relatively novice using twitter. She's got 2,638 followers despite tweeting just 640 times in the last three years. That's an average of one tweet every other day, although she has upped her frequency to 2 per day recently (Riffle). 153 of her folllowers are in the Llanelli area, with a further 50 in the vicinity of Swansea. So she has about 200 or so followers in the constituency. Far more important to Nia is London, which provides 498 followers. Mind you, a quarter of the accounts following Nia have been inactive for at least 3 months. There's almost no engagement going on with Nia: a very small proportion (8%) of her tweets are 'contact' tweets (those that begin with someone's twitter handle (name)). Over the last month she's had 2,127 mentions on twitter. Llanelli ranks at number 5 in the list of locations used by Nia's followers. Numbers 1 and 2? UK and London, of course. The median number of followers of people who follow Nia's twitter account is 396. The most frequently mentioned accounts by Nia are @llanellyhouse, @colegsirgar and @fmwales (Riffle). Nia's best ever tweet got 80 retweets, which is pretty impressive… until you learn that it was posted back in 2012. Her best tweet this year received 35 retweets, with 5 tweets this year getting more than 20 retweets. Nia's Klout score is a remarkable 57; she also has a LinkedIn account but no google plus presence. As we've seen (above), Nia has her own website.
The Twitterati won't be surprised at some of the stats relating to Vaughan. Vaughan's got 2,086 followers and has a humungous 27,200 tweets to his name, with a phenomenal 89 tweets per day (Riffle). That's 45 times as much as Nia. And it's not just quantity. 14,347 mentions over the past month tells you that people are massively engaged with Vaughan. 118 of Vaughan's followers are in the Llanelli area, with 33 or so in Swansea. But unlike for Nia, Llanelli is much more important to Vaughan than London (which only provides 85 followers for his account). There's a good proportion of contact tweets with Vaughan, and given the total number of tweets, that's a lot of contact. Median followership of Vaughan's followers is 465, so they're more influential than Nia's followers. They're more active, too, with a quarter of them having tweeted in the last hour (at the time of writing). Nia had five 20+ retweet tweets since the start of the year. Vaughan has had five over the course of 24 hours (2 May)! Vaughan's top mentions are @plaid_cymru, @plaidllanelli and @seanllanelli. I don't know what algorithm Riffle uses, but Vaughan's Klout rating of 61 seems rather low. Vaughan doesn't appear to be on LinkedIn, but my word has he got to grips with google plus, where he's had 33,158 views! He also has his own blog here.
The scores on the doors?
Nia 12.3/30
Vaughan 19.4/30
Filed under Democracy, Elections, Labour, Plaid Cymru, Westminster
Tagged as Nia Griffith, Vaughan Williams
The Social Media Battle: Ceredigion
Synopsis: Mike Parker edging ahead of his LibDem rival
In the Ceredigion Facebook dual, Mark has 2,461 likes. It looks pretty engaging stuff – decent images, lots of local stories and so on. That's reflected in the Likealyzer score of 81. Mark averages 49 interactions per post, but has a response rate to people of just 26%. Still, you can't argue with the stats. 8.1 marks for Mark.
Mike's site has gathered 1,567 likes. Given that Mark's been an MP for 10 years, Mike's total is pretty good in comparison. Mike's content is focused on policies rather than engagement. Presumably that's because he leaves his engagement principally for twitter? Mike gets 89 interactions per post, and a response rate of only 3%. See previous sentence. But despite having fewer likes and poor response rate, Mike's Likealyzer score is 85. Way to go.
Let's have a look at the Twitter battle. Mark's following is 4,810, which is pretty good by the standards of politicians in Wales (bearing in mind that the Deryn graphic is 18 months old). But fascinatingly, just 301 of them are from Ceredigion. 654 are from Cardiff and 832 from London. The median number of followers of Mark's followers is 321. And the two most frequently named places in the 'location' field of Mark's followers are "UK" and "London". Ceredigion – since you ask – is 7th in the list. Mark tweets 6 times per day (Riffle), and it's mainly images of various groups of people (largely the same people, looking at them) taking selfies or chowing down on food. Which is fine if you're on holiday, but not really engaging in a political sense. Mark's top mentions (from Riffle) are @nuswales (could it be he's looking towards the student vote?!), @youtube and @kirsty_williams. No place for Nick Clegg in there. Just three of Mark's tweets have been retweeted more than 20 times, with a top mark of 40. Mark has a Klout score of 59 – although with just 6% of his followers being geographically eligible to vote for him, a lot of that Klout is misdirected. Mark's not on LinkedIn nor google plus.
Mike has 2,485 followers, with 167 from Ceredigion. I suspected that Mike uses twitter to engage, and boy was I right. A very, very high proportion of his tweets are 'contact' tweets – conversations with people. Ceredigion is 8th on Mike's list of 'location' for followers, but instead of UK and London, Mike's two first-placed locations are "Wales" and "Aberystwyth". These followers are likely to be considerably more useful to Mike than his London-based fans will be to Mark, and the median following of Mike's followers is 343 – slightly better than Mark. Mike's tweeting 12 times per day, including the entertaining 'canvassing competition'. It's an altogether more engaging fayre than the offer from his rival. Intriguingly, Mike's top mention is also @nuswales, with @plaidcymru and @penrijames following. Although given that the official party account is @plaid_cymru then either Riffle or Mike is getting unstuck. His top tweet has been retweeted a whopping 708 times, with an additional five gathering more than 20 retweets. Mike's Klout score is 58, and with a shade under 7% of his followers based in Ceredigion he's hitting a marginally higher proportion of potential constituents (but fewer in absolute terms). Mike doesn't appear to be on LinkedIn or google plus.
So the verdict is a nail-biting:
Mark 14.0/30
Mike 14.3/30
Filed under Democracy, Elections, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, Westminster
Tagged as Mark Williams, Mike Parker
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A Very Married Christmas Synopsis:
Cookbook author Marley Chambers can't think of a more festive way to spend Christmas than at a friend's holiday wedding in her hometown of Magnolia Bay. If only her soon-to-be ex-husband, all-star pitcher, Beckett "Beck" Chambers wasn't bringing his new girlfriend—and if only he wasn't still the sexiest man to ever walk out onto the mound…
Beck never wanted the chaotic life of a sport star—especially not at the cost of his marriage to the only woman he's ever truly loved. But his career is a runaway train—and he's afraid it's too late to hit the brakes.
But when a mix-up leaves Beck and Marley stranded together for Christmas Eve on the barrier island where Beck proposed years before, old memories burn bright—and sparks fly hotter than a bonfire on the beach.
Could the magic of the season bring the gift of a second chance, just in time for Christmas?
This is a fun contemporary holiday romance. Not too sweet or too spicy, it tells the story of Marley & Beck Chambers - a couple who grew up and fell in love in Magnolia Bay. They've returned to celebrate the weddin gof their friends, but Marley & Beck are now separated. Returning to Magnolia Bay is bound to affect them, but will it be enough to bring them back together? I really enjoyed this fun holiday read.
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Erika Marks is a women's fiction writer and the author of LITTLE GALE GUMBO, THE MERMAID COLLECTOR, THE GUEST HOUSE and IT COMES IN WAVES (July, 2014). On the long and winding road to becoming published, she worked many different jobs, including carpenter, cake decorator, art director, and illustrator. But if pressed, she might say it was her brief tenure with a match-making service in Los Angeles after college that set her on the path to writing love stories (not that there isn't romance in frosting or power tools!) A native New Englander, she now makes her home in Charlotte, NC, with her husband, a native New Orleanian who has taught her to make a wicked gumbo, and their two little mermaids. For more on Erika's books, visit her website at http://www.erikamarksauthor.com
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Q: Surface Integral calc 3
I am having difficulty setting up this problem. I know the bounds must be 0 to pi/2 for both theta and phi but I am unsure as to how to calculate the integrand. I know it must be the double integral of F*ds, but I do not know how to get F or ds. If anyone can help me set up the integral or give steps to follow so I can solve the problem I would greatly appreciate it.

A: So after a lot of help from Bye_World I was able to come up with the correct answer:
$\int_0^{2\pi} \int_0^{\pi /2} \left[576\sin^2(\phi) \sin(\theta)+4096\sin^3(\phi) \cos^2(\theta) \cos(\phi)\right] d\theta d\phi$ which equals to $1024\pi$.


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Ali urges newly sworn in Chair & Vice Chair of Reg. 8 to continue to represent the people
President Dr Irfaan Ali earlier today said that Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) will see tremendous investments and improvements in health care, education and social services.
The Head of State made these remarks at the Office of the President as he administered the oath of office to Mr Headley Pio and Ms Claris Francisco as the elected Chair and Vice-Chair of the Regional Democratic Council in the region.
"I wish to congratulate the new Chair and Vice Chair of the Potaro/Siparuni Region, in taking their oath of office today. I wish them well in their service to the people of Region Eight. Of course, they come from a region which has the smallest population in our country, but a region that is extremely rich in natural resource, a region that plays a key part in our ecosystem, our biodiversity system and of course, an important part of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS)."
President Ali noted that Region Eight will continue to play a pivotal role in the advancement of the LCDS, while functioning as a core component of national development.
"This region therefore plays an integral part; it's a centrepiece in our national development. As you're aware of already, we announced that our development trajectory will be based on an expanded Low Carbon Development Strategy.
The President noted that while the region will see tremendous investments and improvements to the lives of residents; Government will also be working closely to ensure that it builds viable communities through sustainable livelihood programmes and sustainable employment opportunities.
Towards this end, the President said that Central Government will engage the region in the diversification of its localised economy with particular attention to food security and agriculture.
REDUCING THE COST OF TRAVEL
President Ali pointed to the high cost of travel to the region which he said is an "inhibitive" factor in terms of regional development. He also committed to ensuring that the region attracts the necessary investments to remedy the situation.
"As you know, access to many of the communities within this region is very expensive, it requires air travel… So we're also working on greater investment to bring ease in the transportation network, and ultimately to reduce the cost of transport within the region itself."
In closing, the Head of State encouraged the newly sworn-in regional representatives to fully integrate themselves into the national development framework while serving the people of the region.
"We hope that you will continue to represent the people, represent their interests well as we work towards building a strong partnership and taking our country forward, congratulations."
The Regional Chair and Vice-Chair for the other nine Administrative Regions were administered their oaths of office on January 15.
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Australian criminals link up in NZ
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Crimes already committed include sexual offending against a child and armed robbery, documents obtained by the Herald under the Official Information Act reveal.
At least 1000 deportees from Australia are expected over five years after a hardline law change in late 2014 saw a surge in people being kicked out for criminal histories or on character grounds.
Police have conservatively estimated the cost of crimes that will be committed by deportees over the next six years at $126.5 million – although Police Minister Judith Collins says reoffending has not been nearly as bad as projected.
In a recent case, a deportee left Australia on a charter flight with seven security staff after Qantas refused to take him on a commercial flight. Fewer than 10 days after arriving in New Zealand, he had committed an aggravated assault and robbery with another deportee from Australia.
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