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Race Differences in Behavior
Remembering a Scientific Pioneer—Arthur R. Jensen (1923–2012)
November 5, 2012 /48 Comments/in Featured Articles, Race Differences in Behavior /by Cooper Sterling
Jen-sen-ism (jen'se niz'em), n. the theory that an individual's IQ is largely due to heredity, including racial heritage. [1965-1970]; after Arthur R. Jensen (born 1923), U.S. educational psychologist, who proposed such a theory; see -ism]—Jen'sen-ist, Jen'sen-ite', n., adj.
— The Random House and Webster's Unabridged Dictionaries
Arthur Jensen's death on October 22 is a pathetic reminder of the strangehold of political correctness on our society. To the extent that it has been mentioned at all, Professor Jensen's death has been contextualized in such a manner that leaves little doubt among readers that Jensen was wrong about his ideas on race differences in IQ. Thus the New York Times obituary mentions Stephen Jay Gould's critique of IQ testing, despite Gould's well-established track record as a leftist activist who likely engaged in fraud to support his views (see also here). The obituary also gives far less prominence to Jensen than to one Sonja C. Grover, an educational psychologist at Lakehead University in Ontario who feels that "you cannot separate social science from human rights."
However it also quotes Prof. James Flynn whose work has indicated rising intelligence over recent decades and has taken the rather cautious view that "The best we can say is that it is more probable that the I.Q. gap between black and white is entirely environmental in origin."
"Jensen was a true scientist, and he was without racial bias," Professor Flynn added. "It never occurred to Arthur Jensen that people would use his data to argue for racial supremacy. Now, to be fair to his critics, over time he became more and more convinced that the evidence did show a genetic component."
I suppose we should be grateful for the statement that Jensen was a true scientist, but how in the world are his critics supported by the simple fact that Jensen continued to believe that racial differences were genetically influenced when his own views are hardly a ringing endorsement of environmentalism? Read more
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Race realism: Breaking into the mainstream
August 29, 2011 /125 Comments/in African Americans, Media Bias, Race Differences in Behavior /by Kevin MacDonald
A friend and I were talking about Arthur Jensen–the psychologist who reignited the race and IQ debate with his 1969 paper "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?" published in the Harvard Educational Review. My friend said that starting with that paper there had been a huge amount of supportive research published in reputable academic journals like Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences. There have also been major works like The Bell Curve that provoked a national discussion in newspapers and intellectual media. And there have been major works by J. Philippe Rushton and Richard Lynn published by academic presses.
The thrust of my friend's comments was that it was just a matter of time before it becomes standard wisdom, informing all respectable discussions of the issue, even among politicians and the mainstream media. Read more
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How Jewish is The Social Network?
January 6, 2011 /165 Comments/in Featured Articles, Jewish Ethnic Networking, Race Differences in Behavior, White Victimization /by Matt Parrott
The Jewish Social Network
A recent article in The Jewish Chronicle asks, How Jewish is Facebook?
Very.
The basic idea of Facebook, creating a simple and exclusive alternative to MySpace, isn't Jewish. But the project was hijacked when the gullible Winklevoss twins entrusted Mark Zuckerberg and his accomplice, Eduardo Saverin, to help execute the project. (See also Kevin MacDonald's review.) The movie adaptation of this true story is a fevered Jewish revenge fantasy against their hapless arch-enemies, the reviled WASP "insiders." Both the book, by Ben Mezrich, and the screenplay, by Aaron Sorkin, wallow in defeating the earnest brothers, heaping these two iconic American Christians with humiliation after humiliation.
The schadenfreud reaches hysterical proportions in this scene where they narrowly lose a rowing competition…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdDeui011iA
And what did these honest and trusting twins do to deserve this antipathy? Better yet, what did White America do to deserve this antipathy? How, when the President of Harvard himself is a powerful Jewish oligarch who laughed the twins out of his office, can Mezrich see himself, his people, or Zuckerberg as the sympathetic underdogs in this context? It's simple: he's Jewish and sympathizes with his own. To ask why he hates them is to make the same mistake the Winklevii made: grasping for a universal honor code in a tribal universe.
Mezrich explains why he hates them… Read more
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Too Hot to Miss: Above the Law Debates Race and Intelligence
April 28, 2010 /13 Comments/in Race Differences in Behavior /by Christopher Donovan
Legal blog Above the Law posted a Harvard law student's e-mail suggesting that race and intelligence might be linked — and it set off a highly unusual debate between the original poster, Elie Mystal (who is partly black) and the blog's founder, David Lat (who is partly Asian). The comments are a must-read.
In a rare move, Lat, a former federal prosecutor, posts in the comments and backs the Harvard Law student:
Let me play devil's advocate for a second….
If we accept "race" as a biological concept — which I realize is questionable, becoming diluted through intermarriage, etc. — is it really so insane to suggest that some races might, ON AVERAGE, possess certain qualities to a greater or lesser degree than other races?
For example, would it be racist to say that, ON AVERAGE, African-Americans are taller than Asian-Americans? Or that Caucasians are more likely to have blond hair than Asian-Americans?
Mystal provides a lengthy response, summing that it's "insane" to believe such a thing. But of course.
A great point from Lat — made by race realists for years — is that it's impossible to deny that race exists while maintaining affirmative action policies at the same time.
I for one am encouraged that 1) a Harvard law student is at least aware of — and doesn't reject out of hand — a race/intelligence link, and 2) that an Internet pundit like Lat would put in a cautious defense and 3) that the entire business is now spilled over onto the Internet for robust consideration. Is the Internet helping to dismantle one of the biggest myths of the 20th Century?
Christopher Donovan is the pen name of an attorney and former journalist. Email him
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The Dissolution of the Family among Non-Elite Whites: Review of "Red Families v. Blue Families" by Naomi Cahn and June Carbone
April 9, 2010 /40 Comments/in Evolutionary Psychology, Featured Articles, Jewish Influence, Race Differences in Behavior, White Anger /by Kevin MacDonald
I heard Naomi Cahn and June Carbone talk about their book, Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (Oxford, 2010), on Commie Radio Pacifica, so you can be sure there is a "progressive" message. As summarized in their op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor, the idea is that families in Blue State America are thriving, while families in Red State America are failing because they are too hung up on old fashioned ideas like sexual abstinence.
There is an obvious dishonesty in this approach because it completely ignores race in the analysis in an effort to pin the blame on traditional sexual beliefs and customs. Blacks and Latinos who live in urban areas and in very Blue States exhibit high rates of teenage pregnancy, non-marriage, and dropping out of the education process — much higher than Whites in Red State America.
So what they are really trying to explain is variation in family patterns among White people. And there they have a point. Red State White America is in a crisis. (Indeed, it's no accident that Red State America is where most of the much-commented-on White anger is coming from.) The data they are summarizing really relate to some of the correlates of education which are in turn linked to IQ. But we have known at least since The Bell Curve that higher IQ people not only are more likely to go further in the educational system, they are more likely to have stable marriages, they don't have babies outside of marriage, and they begin child bearing later. These people are more likely to live in large urban and suburban areas where there are jobs for educated people.
The Whites in non-urban Red State America have a lot to be angry about. The present economic crisis is just the most recent disaster in the long pattern of dispossession of Whites who are less educated. Good jobs in the private sector have pretty much evaporated — the unions are gone and the jobs have been shipped overseas. These people see their communities invaded by racial and cultural aliens, many of them illegal, making a middle class life impossible. They see themselves losing political power to the coalition of minorities and elite Whites that has become the Democratic Party.
As The Bell Curve emphasized, since World War II the cognitive elite are pulling away from the rest of America. Hard economic times only make it worse.
And hard times are always difficult on families. As Cahn and Carbone note, "the latest studies show that as the economy has gone south, teen and nonmarital births and abortions have all increased. … Employment figures also demonstrate that male employment has fallen even further than female employment, making youthful weddings that much riskier."
In evolutionary terms, the high-investment style of reproduction becomes non-viable as men are unable to provide for their families. Women start having babies sooner and don't expect to receive support from males over a long period of time, especially where welfare programs are available.
Being on the left, however, C & C use this opportunity to propose that the real culprit is traditional family values. If we could just get rid of those Bible Belt ideas, all would be well:
Missing from this debate is recognition of the bankruptcy of traditionalist family values as policy for the postindustrial era. …
In the United States, states that emphasize abstinence-only education, limit public subsidies of contraception, restrict access to abortion – and, yes, oppose gay marriage – have higher teen birth and divorce rates.
Yet the failure of the family values movement simply produces another round of moral panic and calls for more draconian restrictions.
Their solution combines typical leftist utopianism with a very real program of lowering the birth rate of people with traditional values.
The solution? As we outline in great detail in our book "Red Families v. Blue Families," there are three critical steps we can take: (1) promote access to contraception – within marriage as well as outside it; (2) develop a greater ability to combine not only work and family, but family and education; and (3) make sure the next generation stays in school, learns the skills to be employed, and cultivates values that can adapt to the future.
This is a nice distillation of the bizarre idea that all Americans have the potential to be college graduates with lots of skills suitable for a post-industrial economy. IQ never enters the equation. But this utopian future is just not going to happen. A far better program would be to provide better economic opportunities for White people, especially White males, whose prospects have been blunted by the present regime.
The fact is that traditional sexual attitudes worked perfectly well in the West to produce a very adaptive culture of high-investment parenting combined with individualist social institutions. C & C attempt to tar traditional values with the stigma of Muslim and African societies where female virtue is prized: "We are entirely sympathetic with those inclined to lock up their daughters from puberty until marriage, but we do recognize that the societies abroad most insistent on policing women's virtue are locked into cycles of poverty."
But there is no reason to suppose that the problem with Muslim and African societies is policing the sexual behavior of women. Other traits of these cultures are far more likely culprits, including low average IQ and social institutions like cousin marriage and clan-based social and political systems.
The reality is that social support for high-investment parenting has always been a critical feature of Western social structure until the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Since then, all of the markers of family stability have headed south — including divorce rates and births out of wedlock for all races and ethnic groups. (Nevertheless, there are very large differences between races and ethnic groups in conformity with Rushton's lifespan theory of race differences.)
But this relative lack of social support for marriage has had very different effects depending on traits like IQ. For example, a well-known study in behavior genetics shows that the heritability of age of first sexual intercourse increased dramatically after the sexual revolution of the 1960s. In other words, after the social supports for traditional sexuality disappeared, genetic influences became more important. Before the sexual revolution, traditional sexual mores applied to everyone. After the revolution, genes mattered more. People with higher IQ were able to produce stable families and marriages, but lower IQ people were less prone to doing so, and these trends have been exacerbated by the current economic climate. Hence the Red State/Blue State dichotomy among White people observed by C & C.
And this brings me to thinking about Jews and particularly Jewish influence on sexual culture. In their book, C & C note that Jews tend to exhibit the Blue State pattern— an unsurprising result given Jewish IQ patterns. A theme of Chapter 4 of The Culture of Critique is that the psychoanalytic assault on traditional Western sexual culture had a disparate impact on different IQ groups and benefited Jews:
Jews suffer to a lesser extent than [non-Jews] from the erosion of cultural supports for high-investment parenting, and Jews benefit by the decline in religious belief among [non-Jews]. As [Norman] Podhoretz (1995, 30) notes, it is in fact the case that Jewish intellectuals, Jewish organizations like the AJCongress, and Jewish-dominated organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union … have ridiculed Christian religious beliefs, attempted to undermine the public strength of Christianity, and have led the fight for unrestricted pornography. The evidence of this chapter indicates that psychoanalysis as a Jewish-dominated intellectual movement is a central component of this war on [non-Jewish] cultural supports for high-investment parenting. …
Although other factors are undoubtedly involved, it is remarkable that the increasing trend toward low-investment parenting in the United States largely coincides with the triumph of the psychoanalytic and radical critiques of American culture represented by the political and cultural success of the counter-cultural movement of the 1960s.
I then go into the academic version of the ideas presented here, especially the greater importance of social controls and traditional religious beliefs for people on the left side of the Bell Curve. (See here, in the Conclusion).
There is nothing wrong with traditional Western sexual codes. C & C are trying to rationalize the destruction of the last vestiges of that culture by noting that people with traditional religious ideas on sexuality increasingly behave in ways that are contrary to those beliefs. But the problem is not the traditional culture. Rather it is the economic dispossession of non-elite Whites combined with a media culture that glorifies expressive individualism and uninhibited sexuality (i.e., drugs, sex, and Rock 'n' Roll) — a media culture that, in my view, was critically shaped by the Jewish intellectual movements reviewed in The Culture of Critique.
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Brain imaging evidence for the genetic basis of IQ and behavioral restraint
March 16, 2010 /32 Comments/in Evolutionary Psychology, Race Differences in Behavior /by Kevin MacDonald
A UCLA study points to very high heritability of IQ and behavioral restraint–probably the two most important traits in the modern world. It also points to the brain mechanisms responsible for differences in these traits. Paul Thompson and his colleagues
used a new type of brain-imaging scanner to show that intelligence is strongly influenced by the quality of the brain's axons, or wiring that sends signals throughout the brain. The faster the signaling, the faster the brain processes information. And since the integrity of the brain's wiring is influenced by genes, the genes we inherit play a far greater role in intelligence than was previously thought.
Genes appear to influence intelligence by determining how well nerve axons are encased in myelin — the fatty sheath of "insulation" that coats our axons and allows for fast signaling bursts in our brains. The thicker the myelin, the faster the nerve impulses.
For example, the connections in the parietal lobe associated with math and logic are 85% heritable, while the connections in the frontal lobe responsible for working memory and for inhibiting impulsive behavior are 65% heritable. Behavioral restraint not really IQ but relate to behavioral control–things like being able to inhibit immediate gratification and plan for the future . These are traits that show important race differences associated with criminality, especially impulsive criminality (as opposed, say, to most white collar crime).
The difficulty for the left will be to convincingly argue that the sorts of interventions they have been championing will really change brain myelination. As noted in my previous blog, they seem to be running out of ideas on how to improve educability of low-IQ populations, and Head Start doesn't work either. They may take comfort in the possibility that genetic engineering could actually do the trick:
And could this someday lead to a therapy that could make us smarter, enhancing our intelligence?
"It's a long way off but within the realm of the possible," Thompson said.
This sort of gene therapy would be socially beneficial because it would increase educability and behavioral restraint. But it certainly would not be a panacea for White ethnic interests. Indeed, it would make these groups more competitive while not making them less ethnocentric.
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When will they finally start talking about IQ?
Diane Ravitch's recent LA Times op-ed ("The Big Idea — it's bad education policy") opposes "Big Ideas" in education policy, but what it is really saying is that the educational establishment is running out of ideas. "We now face a wave of education reforms based on the belief that school choice, test-driven accountability and the resulting competition will dramatically improve student achievement." She argues that none of this is working:
Today there is empirical evidence, and it shows clearly that choice, competition and accountability as education reform levers are not working. But with confidence bordering on recklessness, the Obama administration is plunging ahead, pushing an aggressive program of school reform — codified in its signature Race to the Top program — that relies on the power of incentives and competition. This approach may well make schools worse, not better. …
On the federal tests, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, from 2003 to 2009, charters have never outperformed public schools. Nor have black and Latino students in charter schools performed better than their counterparts in public schools.
When charter schools have performed well, it's because of selection: Better, more motivated children attend them, and this does nothing for the masses of Black and Latino children. Holding teachers accountable doesn't work either.
But if course, Ravitch can't really come to grips with the problem. In pointing to things that could affect student achievement besides teachers, she comes up with this list: "students' motivation, the schools' curriculum, family support, poverty and distractions on testing day, such as the weather or even a dog barking in the school's parking lot."
No mention of IQ — 16 years after The Bell Curve placed IQ and the intractability of changing became front and center for the American public. Coming on the heels of the finding that the Head Start pre-school program has no demonstrable effects on IQ or academic achievement, one would think that at long last it would start to dawn on people that there are no easy solutions because no one has come up with a way to improve IQ. The result is that race differences in achievement are going to be here long into the future. And that means that importing millions of low-IQ people is a long term disaster for the country.
Ravitch herself seems to have given up the fight. There are no Big Ideas that will work, so she advocates returning to a well-rounded curriculum rather than the Obama Administration's focus on math and reading. If you can't teach them to read or do math, you might as well entertain them by having them do art and music.
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Denverites will pay city workers a more livable wage and pay elected officials an even more livable wage
You get a raise, you get a raise, we get a raise, you get a raise.
Unionized workers show their support for the $15 minimum wage for city employees. (David Sachs/Denverite)
David Sachs
Mar. 04, 2019, 8:20 p.m.
On the same night that Denver City Council members voted to give themselves and the mayor higher salaries, the legislative body essentially signed off on a $15 minimum wage for city workers and some city contractors.
The council signaled Monday that it will unanimously pass the new wage for lower-rung city employees next week. Workers will see their hourly rate increase each year until it reaches at least $15 in 2021. Companies that provide service to the city directly or on city property will have to pony up as well.
The new normal comes after a surge of advocacy from local labor unions, a national movement to provide workers with livable wages, and months of negotiations between union leaders, Mayor Michael Hancock's administration and City Councilwoman Robin Kniech.
Later on Monday, with much less fanfare, the Council gave themselves and the mayor the maximum raise allowed — 10 percent over the next four years. The move will push city council salaries to about $101,000 ($113,000 for the council president). The mayor will make about $188,000 when all is said and done.
That new normal comes after, well, the status quo of approving raises for elected officials every four years.
The change doesn't start until July — after the municipal election — meaning current elected officials aren't guaranteed to benefit.
Still, the irony was not lost on City Councilman Kevin Flynn, who voted against the pay hike for politicians. Unlike the 100 or so workers in the crowd at the meeting, council members don't climb the career ladder, he said.
"I haven't checked my messages lately, but the Los Angeles City Council isn't looking to recruit any of us here," Flynn said. "We don't move around from job to job. We are here as temporary placeholders and we are paid very well for it."
City Councilman Rafael Espinoza, City Councilwoman Kendra Black and City Councilman Wayne New also voted against the council raises, which did not receive a public hearing.
The $15 minimum wage, cheered on by a horde of airport workers in the crowd at city hall, overshadowed the raises for elected officials Monday.
Kniech, who ushered the livable wage bill through the city council, said it was "probably one of the most impactful pieces of legislation that we're gonna pass this year."
"They're behind each of these places in our city that are so successful," Kniech said. "And yet, as we know, the story of our nation and our state is that the workers who do that work behind the scenes are not always sharing in the success of our economy."
More than 1,800 city employees, or a little under 14 percent of the workforce, will benefit, according to the Hancock administration, which initiated the bill.
Colorado's minimum wage is $11.10 an hour. Denver cannot change that, but the council asked the state legislature last week to pass legislation that would let cities and towns decide on a livable wage for themselves.
Still, Espinoza was frustrated with the pace of ensuring a livable wage — especially, he said, when the airport, a massive public employer, was spending $14 million on a sign.
"In my book this shouldn't have taken as long as it did or been as much work as it was to get here," he said.
This article was corrected to reflect the fact that Councilwoman Kniech was not the bill's sponsor. Mayor Michael Hancock initiated the bill.

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Before You Watch
Queue gears up for what's next.
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Millions of royal watchers' patience will be rewarded on November 15th, when the highly anticipated fourth season of The Crown premieres. The year is 1979, Margaret Thatcher has just been elected prime minister, and a young woman named Diana Spencer is set to marry her prince.
The fourth season reunites an award-winning cast that includes Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II, Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret, and Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip, as well as Josh O'Connor and Erin Doherty in the roles of Prince Charles and Princess Anne. The season also introduces two new stars to the mix: Gillian Anderson arrives as Thatcher, and Emma Corrin plays Diana.
As ever, The Crown Season 4 focuses on both political events and private moments behind palace walls. This time around, that balance is embodied by the relationship between two of the world's most powerful women: Thatcher and the queen.
Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher
Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II
"On the face of it, Elizabeth and Margaret should get on," says Colman. "They are the same age, have the same drive, the same devotion to their fathers, the same work ethic. Yet they don't. It's not the beautiful friendship that the queen hopes it will be at the beginning." Adds Anderson: "Where the queen leans back, Thatcher leans in; where the queen does nothing, Thatcher takes action." It is this conflict, says Crown creator Peter Morgan, "that is at the heart of Season 4."
Central for the actors is the knowledge that this will be their last hurrah as an ensemble. Since the series' genesis, Morgan has been clear about the importance of rotating in a new cast every two seasons. "The choice is simple," he explains. "You can put lines on someone's face or maybe digitally age them, but you can't breathe the fatigue and bruises of life into a face."
"It's like a relay race," he continues, describing this changing of the guard, "and you pass the baton."
The cast isn't getting weepy just yet. Says Colman: "I have enjoyed this job so much, and I will miss sitting with and laughing with everyone on set so much. But we really are having the time of our lives."
In anticipation of all the upcoming fun, we're taking a look at what it means to join the cast of The Crown, remembering some of the best moments from Season 3, and possibly getting a little ahead of ourselves.
Emma Corrin as Princess Diana
Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles
HOW THE CAST GETS INTO CHARACTER
It's not easy being a princess. That's why an etiquette adviser is present on the set of The Crown and the actors are given hundred-page protocol "bibles" to study. In addition, a department of five researchers makes sure that the scripts and performances stay true to history. "As soon as you're on board, they fill up your inbox," Colman summarizes.
"The main part of being a member of the royal family is being seen," says Bonham Carter. "If your one job is to get from a car to the door at whatever public event, you must go as slowly as possible. You have to maximize the amount of people who are going to see you. Hence, the royals move so slowly. That was the first thing we all had to get right."
Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret
Even before they made their unhurried entrances on set, the stars had their work cut out for them. To play Princess Margaret, Bonham Carter pored through books and interviewed Margaret's friends. Hair and makeup designer Cate Hall even arranged an educational meeting between Bonham Carter and Margaret's former hairdresser, who treated them to a "tiara-application master class."
Anderson, for her part, admits to "watching and reading everything I could." She worked with movement and voice coaches to perfect Thatcher's signature walk and manner of speech. "I listened to her voice a lot in private," she says, "and spoke in that voice out loud when no one could hear."
Corrin also had a movement coach, who counseled her on the minutest details, including how to stand in a doorway as Diana. Dance lessons helped the actor tap into the princess's joy, and a meeting with the royal's former private secretary, Patrick Jepson, revealed not only how much Diana suffered in her unhappy marriage, but also her essential effervescence: "He said she had a sense of fun that was contagious," reveals Corrin.
As for Menzies's study of Prince Philip? "I started by listening and watching him loads, which was kind of fine," he says. "And then your eyes and your ears start to bleed a bit."
Erin Doherty as Princess Anne
The biggest stumbling block for some of the cast was their lack of horse sense. "I had that classic chat in my first audition where I just said, 'Yes, I can ride!'" remembers Doherty. In reality, she had never been on a horse in her life, though that didn't stop her from trying out for the role of Anne, who was an Olympic equestrian. "I wasn't going to take myself out of the running," Doherty says with a laugh. "For the first year I got away with it, and then they said they would give me lessons."
O'Connor likewise learned to ride in order to be convincing as Prince Charles. But Andrew Buchan got a free pass when it came to portraying Andrew Parker Bowles on horseback. "Andy had just had a new baby and wasn't in any kind of state to be learning to play polo," explains director Sam Donovan. Instead, production had a contraption built that looked like a horse and rested on top of a quad bike, enabling Buchan to look like he's riding in close-ups.
Zooming out, any Crown fanatic would be hard-pressed to find fault with this meticulous and marvelous world. "It's the most childlike thing when you come onto the fantastic sets, like being in a play" says Menzies. "That's been a particular joy."
REASONS TO
REWATCH SEASON 3
A RUNDOWN OF STANDOUT EPISODES
All that research pays off across Season 3, which spans an especially tumultuous period in British history and in the royal family. As if you needed any encouragement, here are some outstanding moments that will convince you to go back and live the drama all over again.
EPISODE 2: "MARGARETOLOGY"
Bonham Carter shows her comic wit when Princess Margaret travels to the U.S. to attend an official dinner with President Lyndon B. Johnson and the first lady. She ends up in a drunken competition with the president, spitting dirty limericks and winning hands down by working both "vagina" and "asshole" into a rhyme. She also kills it style-wise, thanks to a red and white floral ball gown created by costume designer Amy Roberts.
EPISODE 3: "ABERFAN"
Princess Margaret breaks the news of the tragic 1966 Welsh mining disaster to the queen. Colman was unable to stop crying as they filmed the scene, and producers ultimately gave her an earpiece through which, Morgan remembers, "We were reading the shipping forecast to her." Director Benjamin Caron cites this as his favorite episode of the season.
Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip and Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II
EPISODE 5: "COUP"
At the end of Episode 5, there is a rare romantic moment between Elizabeth and Philip, when he kisses her. "I love that scene with Tobias, and that moment of lightness," says Colman. The kiss wasn't originally in the script, but director Christian Schwochow explains that when Menzies improvised it in rehearsal, "We were like, 'This is how the scene needs to end!'"
Henry Pettigrew, Felix Scott, and Andrew Lee Potts as the Apollo 11 astronauts
Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip
EPISODE 7: "MOONDUST"
It's impossible not to sympathize with Philip when his fear of failure is brought to a head in a meeting with the Apollo 11 astronauts. "Philip is going through a midlife crisis," Menzies explains. "I've also come up against those feelings of, What have I done with my life? Have I done enough?" This is Morgan's favorite episode of the season.
EPISODE 8: "DANGLING MAN"
A dying Duke of Windsor (Sir Derek Jacobi) meets with the queen and talks about his decision to abdicate the throne for his love of Wallis Simpson (Geraldine Chaplin). "You knew this was going to be the last meeting between the two of them," remembers director Sam Donovan, who describes "the regret, and, in a weird way, the respect they have for each other." When Jacobi said the line, "The crown always finds its way to the right head," Donovan says there wasn't a dry eye among the crew, "and Olivia really had to fight back the tears."
Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret and Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II
EPISODE 10: "CRI DE COEUR"
In the season finale, Queen Elizabeth and her sister have a moment of striking intimacy. The queen visits Princess Margaret, who has taken to her bed following an argument with her husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones (Ben Daniels). "Of all the people everywhere, you're the closest and most important to me," Elizabeth quietly tells her. Colman says of the scene: "I think that's one of my favorites. Once there's a bit of emotion, I find it quite hard to do it daintily."
SEASON 4 BY THE NUMBERS
Without revealing any spoilers, numbers alone betray the sheer scope and ambition of the upcoming season. Consider these stats:
The number of locations involved in filming, with on-location shoots accounting for about 75%.
The number of silver-framed photos of the characters that are arrayed about the various sets.
The number of different cigarette holders used by Helena Bonham Carter. Her favorite is one made from thick horn. She also has eight different antique cigarette cases.
The number of wigs per character. Each wig took three weeks to make.
The number of scenes depicting official "audiences" between the queen and Thatcher. These meetings were historically held every Tuesday and numbered 200 in all.
The number of costumes made by hand. Some 120 of these are for the queen, and 80 of them are for Diana. There are an additional 1,500 uniforms.
HEIRS TO
IN SEASON 5
It's never too soon to prepare yourself. Here's who will be storming the palace in Season 5:
will be played by Imelda Staunton (Downton Abbey, Vera Drake).
will be played by Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, Game of Thrones).
will be played by Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, Another Year).
will be played by Elizabeth Debicki (Widows, Tenet).
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that's a wrap: re-hashing davis cup
By Benjamin Snyder
Good job, team America. Andy "The Closer" Roddick pulled through against Chile under the guidance of new Davis Cup captain Jim "The Rock" Courier. And a new American frat squad has been born.
The real story, however, lies in the following five moments that mattered most. Sorry, Judy Murray, this weekend's high intensity was a far cry from your beef with a future tie being in "Eazzzztbourne."
Step aside Gilles, you aren't French Davis Cup's winner this week — actually far from it. Instead, Jeremy Chardy came out on top (and without drama), winning the deciding fifth match against Austria's Martin Fischer 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-3, 6-3. Chardy can now say he not only helped France advance (although Tsonga, Monfils and Gasquet had to be hurt to give him the chance) but he also won in an airplane hangar: number three to be exact.
How about some Serbian success? Ilija Bozoljac, who tested Federer at Wimbledon last year, backed up his funky game — he plays two-handed on both wings — with a big win in a four-set doubles thriller against India with partner Nenad Zimonjic. Plus, he looked really good doing it.
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stay, don't go
By Jonathan Scott
Another brand of March Madness is upon us: With the unisex goodness that is the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells tournament, the 2011 pro tennis campaign kick-starts into high gear. This 1-2 punch of Cali and Miami makes for a full month of top-notch tennis. Indeed, spring's done sprung.
Now a curious trend seeped into tennis again in 2010: jumpy observers of the sport seeking to retire players -– good, even great stars who reaped some solid results -– before they themselves are ready to hang up their racquets. The guilty parties: too many tennis writers and other observers and "personalities" involved to various degrees. Their victims? Among them, Andy Roddick, Venus Williams, and even Roger Federer, proving that not a single star is exempt from these hasty calls to exit.
But Roddick won Memphis last month, dousing the ballyhooed, raging fire that is young Milos Raonic and coming up with possibly the best championship-point winner ever. He also ignited his fellow Americans' effort on the Chilean clay in Davis Cup, punctuating his clinching win with a scissor kick (Video: here) that would make Sally O'Malley salivate. Too many quickly forgot that Venus seized some early 2010 titles and vaulted to no. 2 in the world before injuries in part derailed both her autumnal and 2011 Aussie exploits. (Oddly, she's now singing 311 karaoke on a MIA-to-Turks cruiseship and showing off some fly dance moves for someone with chronic knee issues.). Fed himself ran the table at the London year-end championships in December, outdoing even Rafael Nadal in the final, and snagged an early 2011 title before a taking-all-comers Novak Djokovic rolled over him in Melbourne.
Still, retirement happens. It's inevitable. Justine Henin's departure has itself turned into a piece of music with multiple movements, the strings swelling and falling at different points. Henin has been like that lover who breaks it off and then loiters for attention: Mercy. And merci.
All of the brouhaha catalyzed a thought: Who or what in the sport truly needs to go?
Without further ado, a few items –- persons, peccadillos, and other pesky minutiae –- that best get gone. Now. Conversely, some other talents and trends are welcome to get comfy. So there it is: Stay, or Go.
GO: Foremost, let's be done with the freak injuries. Some stars are making the maladies on TV hospital dramas seem realistic: Victoria Azarenka scarily passed out on court after bopping her head during a warm-up run, and then Anna Chakvetadze did her best Vika impression. Meanwhile Andy Murray strained his hand by playing video games excessively (okay, that one proved a fib). It seems a few players just need to be grounded.
Granted, Serena's recent pulmonary embolism/hematoma scare is more than legit. Anyone who relishes compelling tennis, even if no fan of hers, whether onlooker or media, can only hope she makes it back into the mix again. Tennis needs her fight and her bite. Not every player needs to be Mama Kim Clijsters, portrait of civility.
Speaking of, GO: Can we just be done with all the talk about Clijsters' motherhood? Cute turned to precious in a hurry there, and not in a good way.
GO: That hand-strain hoax aside, Murray might want to consider tempering his video gaming: Girlfriend Kim Sears reportedly already broke up with him once over the habit. Word to the wise, young gun: the lady has you on watch.
Judy Murray, we heart thee.
GO. STAY. Good dog: Not to pick on the Murray familia too much (see below), but what of these tweets from the family's resident cur, this Maggie? So let it be written, so let it be done: No more Murray mutt tweets, at least not until Andy bags that virgin Major. It's no less lame to put your pet on Twitter than it is to fashion a Facebook profile for it.
STAY: Judy Murray, British tennis coach and mom to Andy and Jamie. Yes, she advises her son. She also isn't afraid to shoot a witty retort at a former player who yaps about her spawn's chances at winning big with her on board.
GO: Boris Becker. Just let it be, Boorish. You were a fine player, a flame-maned, serve-and-volley stud on grass. Then you knocked Murray and his mum for his underperforming at Slams, chiding him for his closeness to Judy and (good grief!) for standing by his girl at age 23. So a former player cheats on his pregnant wife with a Russian model (in a closet), resulting in a lust child, and then doles out unsolicited relational advice? Laughable. Not content to merely stand by his statements from the fall, BB waxed on again after Murray's mopey, one-sided loss to Nole in the Aussie final. Sigh. Everyone's a Carillo. Click to read more, kids. You don't want to miss these musings.
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short balls: australian open edition
Aussie Open in trouble?: A report published by Tennis Australia recommends much-needed upgrades to Melbourne Park. TA is asking for $300 million in funding for capital improvements so they can stay competitive with other tournaments that could soon vie for major status. As you may know, there have been grumbligs about a Grand Slam in Asia, the Middle East or Central/Eastern Europe. (Herald Sun)
Flipping out: It's a story all-too familiar in the life of Mark Philippoussis: he is making his way through the Aussie Open qualies but could have his journey ended by his nagging knee injury. And it's probably not helping his psyche that some juniors are writing him off. (ABC, The Age)
Prodigal Aussie: And the once-estranged Jelena Dokic, who earlier this year decided to accept help from Tennis Australia, is on track to nab the women's wild card for the Australian Open (The Age)
With a little help from my friends: Hotlantan Robby Ginepri is none closer to the Aussie Open wild card, even after his Davis Cup buddies (Andy Roddick, James Blake, et al.) sent a letter to the USTA asking for them to grant Ginepri the spot. Unfortunately, the governing body's age-limit rule — wild cards can't go to guys over 22 years of age — took him out of the running. He'll make his way down to Melbourne for qualifying, with coach Jose Higueras in tow. (Florida Sun-Sentinel)
R.I.P. Fellow Socal blogger Kat, aka Lady Hooligan, will take down her 18-month-old webzine at the end of the year (you can browse it 'til then.) Thankfully, she hasn't given up on publishing completely. She'll continue to blog here.
Andy and Serena: A write-up on Andy Roddick's homecoming exhibition in Omaha. (via Craig)
More tattered jeans: Andy really loves his beat-up denim. He wore it out taking Brooklyn Decker to Manhattan. (JustJared via DTL)
Judy Murray at the LTA: The Evening Standard checks in with super tennis parent Judy Murray and how she's slowly revamping the LTA's junior program.
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LTA nat'l tennis centre: bat- and badger-friendly
The LTA National Tennis Centre opened today in Roehampton. Greg Rusedski and Judy Murray, among others, were on hand to greet the Queen Mum, who paid visit to the Centre. She looked absolutely cute in her purple skirt suit (photos here).
This hopefully will be a boon to UK tennis. They seem to be in the process of righting some wrongs, at least with their juniors program — problems that have resulted in having only a handful of men (two, and no women) briefly occupy the top 10 in the last 30 years. And by visiting the Centre on Thursday, perhaps the Queen is reaching out. She still has a way to go, though: she has met neither the former (Tim Henman) nor current (Andy Murray) hopes of UK tennis. And both have been playing tennis for a very long time. WTF? Get your handlers on it. Now.
But back to this wonderful complex designed by Hopkins Architects. Give them thumbs up for taking steps to ensure the safety of animal habitat (bats, badgers) and to minimize the effects of rainwater drainage on nearby Beverley Brook.
And kudos, too, to the Centre's Deuce Cafe, which prepares food using fair trade, organic, and local ingredients. They also recycle, and choose biodegradable products when possible.
(photos from the LTA website)
>> jamie murray is no 'haylie duff', and other stories
>> makeover at wimbledon
Posted in andy murray, architecture, Erwin Ong, greg rusedski, judy murray, lawn tennis association (LTA), tennis, tim henman | 1 Comment »
short balls: serena 2.0, mother murray, henin
Serena's leveraging her Aussie Open win: Having only earned $10 million in endorsement money last year (vs. Maria Sharapova's $19 million), Serena Williams is eager to add to her coffers. Her team will be announcing a deal for skin-care products in the coming weeks. While we're talking about her endorsements, here's my two cents: drop McDonald's. A woman of her influence should not be promoting the Supersize Me lifestyle. (via Oxford Press)
The Murray series continues: Now that we know about both Andy and Jamie Murray, we should bone up on the mother hen, Judy Murray. She has harnessed her passion for tennis and her children into a service website, britishtennisparents.com (sage advice: "Tennis does not define who your child is, or your relationship with them."); lobbying for funding of national tennis, and endorsing Head's AirFlow rackets (alongside Steffi Graf). (via The Sunday Herald)
Not that we didn't know about it already…: We get more insight on the total emasculation of Justin Henin's ex-husband, Pierre-Yves Hardenne, in this article from The Independent. Poor guy.
>> Jamie Murray is no Haylie Duff, and other stories
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Q: assign multible lines into a json dictionary in flask I have a model deployed with flask.i name it
hope4.py

from flask import Flask, request, jsonify#--jsonify will return the data
from keras.models import load_model
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

#creates the web service running on port 127.0.0.1:12345 and answer post requests on address of the machine/api
app = Flask(__name__)

model=load_model('modelfordeploy.h5')

@app.route("/")
def hello():
    return "machine learning model APIs!"

    @app.route('/api', methods=['GET','POST'])
    def predict():

        # get the json send from the post as data
        data=request.get_json(force=True)
        print (data)

        # i want 6 variables to make the prediction
        #i expected jason to have the following values
        predict_request=[data["accx"], data["accy"], data["accz"], data["gyrx"], data["gyry"], data["gyrz"]]
        print (predict_request)

        predict_request= np.array(predict_request)
        print (predict_request)

        predict_request = np.asarray( predict_request).reshape(-1, 1, 6)

        pred= model.predict(predict_request)
        print (pred)

        output=[pred[::]]
        print (output)

        #take a list of dictionaries and convert them to json
        return jsonify(results=output)

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        app.run(port=8000, debug=True) #threaded=False)

I want to take input from the client and bring back the category to him. More specific my initial model is receiving 1401 windows of data (50hz* 2 sec). I want to send one window of data (100 rows) and take back the prediction. Below is the request.py. Do I have to make the changes in hope4.py or on the request.py?
import requests, json
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

# #with request a make  a json call in the below adress and i post the following

url="http://127.0.0.1:8000/api"
r = requests.post(url,json={"accx":0.660583, "accy":0.454468, "accz":-0.585022, "gyrx":32.366615, "gyry":27.206556, "gyrz":-23.471800})

print(r.json())

my model expects 100 rows and 6 features and not 1 rows and 6 feature. How to send 100 rows without explicitly write by hand like above?

A:
# You can either

r = requests.post(url,
    json=[
        {"accx":0.660583, "accy":0.454468, "accz":-0.585022,
         "gyrx":32.366615, "gyry":27.206556, "gyrz":-23.471800},
        {"accx":0.660583, "accy":0.454468, "accz":-0.585022,
         "gyrx":32.366615, "gyry":27.206556, "gyrz":-23.471800},
        ...
    ])

# Or
r = requests.post(url,
    json={
        "accx": [0.660583, ...],
        "accy": [0.454468, ...],
        "accz": [-0.585022, ...],
        "gyrx": [32.366615, ...],
        "gyry": [27.206556, ...],
        "gyrz": [-23.471800, ...]},
    ])

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5. Board to discuss continuing disclosure obligations.
6. Board to receive bids for the $895,000 General Obligation Building Bonds of this school district and award bonds to the lowest bidder.
7. Board to consider and take action on a resolution providing for the issuance of General Obligation Building Bonds in the sum of $895,000 by this school district, authorized at an election called and held for such purpose; prescribing form of bonds; providing for registration thereof; providing for levy of an annual tax for the payment of principal and interest on the same; and fixing other details of the issue.
8. Board to consider and take action of a resolution designating the general obligation bonds of 2017 as "Qualified Tax-Exempt obligations" pursuant to Section 265(b)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
9. Public hearing to present Frederick Public Schools 2017-2018 Budget.
10. Vote to approve Frederick Public Schools 2017-2018 Budget.
11. Vote regarding FHS Bomber Band and Varsity Choirs request to attend competition in St. Louis, Missouri with a tentative date of March 16 – March 17, 2018.
12. Vote to approve a sign for the City of Frederick ball complex on baseball gate entry.
13. Vote to approve improvements to the baseball field as presented.
1. Minutes of Regular Meeting of May 8, 2017 and Special Meeting of May 31, 2017.
2. The Center for Education Law contract for the 2017-2018 school year.
3. Precision Testing Laboratories contract for the 2017-2018 school year.
4. Cipafilter contract for the 2017-2018 school year.
5. OPSUCA contract for the 2017-2018 school year.
6. Kellogg & Sovereign Consulting, LLC for the 2017-2018 school year.
8. Encumbrances within the 2016-2017 General Fund.(Approval of original encumbrances #282 through #291 and changes in encumbrances #3, 6, 12, 14, 27, 49, 53, 57, 58, 61, 80, 85, 94, 103, 215, 261).
16. Discussion and approval of instructional days to hours of 1128.42 and early release days for the 2017-2018 school year.
17. Vote to approve Statutory Waiver/Deregulation for the Tillman Alternative Placement School for the 2017-2018 school year.
18. Vote regarding O.S.A.G. Workers Compensation Insurance for 2017-2018.
19. Vote to approve Keystone Food Services bid for the 2017-2018 school year.
20. Vote to declare 1990 Thomas/International VIN #1HBBCFN6LH691123, 1983 Ford Club Wagon VIN #1FMDEL11F9DHB89195, Allis Chalmers riding lawn mower serial #2162/Model 5030, John Deere riding lawn mower #002844 and computers with list attached.
23. Vote to approve the appointment of Jenna Nuncio as Clerk of the Board/Encumbrance Clerk for the 2016-2017 school year.
24. Vote to approve the appointment of Jenna Nuncio as Minutes Clerk of the Board for the 2016-2017 school year.
25. Vote regarding authorization of co-signature by Jenna Nuncio, Business Manager for checks written in the Frederick Public Schools Activity Fund for the 2016-2017 school year.
26. Vote to approve the appointment of Jenna Nuncio as Clerk of the Board/Encumbrance Clerk for the 2017-2018 school year.
27. Vote to approve the appointment of Jenna Nuncio as Minutes Clerk of the Board for the 2017-2018 school year.
28. Vote regarding authorization of co-signature by Jenna Nuncio, Business Manager for checks written in the Frederick Public Schools Activity Fund for the 2017-2018 school year.
A. Consideration of employment of a Secondary Teacher for the 2017-2018 school year.
B. Consideration of employment of Elementary Teacher for the 2017-2018 school year.
31. Acknowledge the Board has returned to Open Session.
A. Vote regarding employment of a Secondary Teacher for the 2017-2018 school year.
B. Vote regarding employment of a Elementary Teacher for the 2017-2018 school year.
This agenda was posted on June 8, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. on the door of the Administration Office and the District Web Site.


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Family matters! - The caregivers' perspective of Mental Healthcare Act 2017
Mental health continues to fight for acceptance in health care all over the world. The need for a separate act for mental illnesses proves this fact even more. The very nature of the mental illness has necessitated legislation to aid the service providers and service users. The Mental Healthcare Act 2017 has taken great initiatives in terms of protection of human rights for people with mental illness such as the inclusion of mental illness in health insurance, stress on informed consent, decriminalization of suicide, and introduction of advance directives (ADs) and punishment to those who violate the law. However, in a country like India where the family as a unit has more significance than personal autonomy, the new act emphasizes the patient's rights and, in doing so, may make the doctors more defensive and fearful in making clinical decisions, thus shifting the burden to the shoulders of the family members. There is a need for suitable amendments to include the family's concerns as well; otherwise, the present act would stand as an alien Western law enforced on Indian cohesive family dynamics. Qualitative studies are required from the family's perspective to illustrate the hindrances that the patients' families are facing. In the context of Indian family structure and dynamics and working in the Indian community, we feel that without suitable amendments to include the family's concerns, the present act would stand as an alien Western law enforced on Indian cohesive family dynamics.
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Since a few years, second hand booksellers have appropriated the Ajuinlei (Onion quai ) in Ghent on sunday mornings to display the titles of tomes looking for new owners. It is a lovely iniative, for on a fine sunny day, it offers a pleasant walk, browsing along the bookstalls in a timeless scenery.
Today, my wife and I cycled to the center of the city for our sunday morning stroll and picon vin blanc. Not looking for anything special, my eye was caught by a spotless Pleiade edition of Stendhal. It was the second part of "Romans et Nouvelles" which included the famous "La chartreuse de Parme", which I wanted to read since Daniel Mendelsohn lauded it in one of his reviews.
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All Pleiade books offer a similar high quality appearance—leather bound, with gold lettering on the spine and bible paper, and they have a practical small format which makes them look like small Bibles. The use of bible paper allows the books to contain a high number of pages; it is common for a Pléiade book to contain at least 1500.
The leather covers of the books are also colour-coded according to period: 20th century literature comes in tobacco leather, 19th century in emerald green, 18th century in blue, 17th century in Venetian red, 16th in Corinthian brown, the Middle Ages purple, Antiquity green, spiritual texts grey, and anthologies red. The books are sold in a transparent rhodoïd dust jacket, and inserted in a white printed cardboard slipcase, although multiple volumes are often sold in a single slipcase.
The books are critical editions, with annotations, comments, manuscript and editorial variants and accompanying documents. The preparation of these critical editions can take many years for a team of specialists, which accounts partly for the books' generally steep cost. For works written in languages other than French, new French translations are usually created.
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Have you heard that there is a perfect alternative to an extended stay hotel if you need temporary housing for a period of 30 days or longer? Some of you most likely have, but for those who have not, the alternative I am talking about today is Tampa corporate apartments.
So you ask, what exactly are Tampa Corporate Apartments? Well, like I said above, it is a perfect alternative to a hotel or extended stay hotel because it provides much larger space and is usually much cheaper for longer periods of temporary living. In fact, the Corporate Housing Providers Association (CHPA) says that Tampa corporate apartments could provide a cost savings of up to 50% when you consider all of the costs associated with a temporary living situation.
Many people don't tend to consider all of the costs when looking at temporary lodging solutions such as extended stay hotels or Tampa corporate apartments. Costs such as the daily price tend to be the only thing most people pay attention to, but there is much more to consider, which makes the quoted price quite a bit deceiving. Make sure you consider all of the costs of every option you look at.
For example, in a hotel, you most likely will not have a washing machine and a dryer in your room with you which means you either need to send all your laundry out through a service, or spend time in the basement with the laundry machines at the hotel. The first option is very expensive and the second option is very time consuming. With Tampa Corporate Apartments, you always have a washing machine and dryer, which means both cost and time savings.
Another example is food. In a hotel or extended stay hotel you either have no kitchen at all or maybe just a kitchenette with a hot plate, a few dishes and possibly a couple of pots and pans plus a small refrigerator. Whereas, in Tampa corporate apartments you always have full size and fully equipped kitchens with a stove, oven, full refrigerator, microwave, full sets of dishes pots and pans. This means that in Tampa corporate apartments you can cook full meals, bake a pizza or even a cake and save a bundle of money.
Imagine spending $10-$15 per meal twice a day every day of the week, or over $200 per week on basic meals in a hotel. Now imagine how much groceries that amount of money could buy. You could probably buy enough food for the whole month with 7-10 days worth of eating out. If my math is correct, this adds up to great savings here by choosing Tampa corporate apartments over hotels.
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Q: Flatten Spark DataFrame Sub Schema Given a nested schema I want to flatten a sub-struct while maintaining the other schema structures. In this example I want to flatten the columns contained within product.spec so that I end up with product.sid & product.desc.
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
import spark.implicits._

case class Spec(sid: Int, desc: String)
case class Prod(pid: String, spec: Spec)

val df = Seq(
  (101, "jenn", Seq(1, 2), Seq(Spec(1, "A"), Spec(2, "B")), Prod("X11", Spec(11, "X")), 1100.0),
  (202, "mike", Seq(3), Seq(Spec(3, "C")), Prod("Y22", Spec(22, "Y")), 2200.0)
).toDF("uid", "user", "ids", "specs", "product", "amount")

df.printSchema
>>>
root
 |-- uid: integer (nullable = false)
 |-- user: string (nullable = true)
 |-- ids: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: integer (containsNull = false)
 |-- specs: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
 |    |    |-- sid: integer (nullable = false)
 |    |    |-- desc: string (nullable = true)
 |-- product: struct (nullable = true)
 |    |-- pid: string (nullable = true)
 |    |-- spec: struct (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- sid: integer (nullable = false)
 |    |    |-- desc: string (nullable = true)
 |-- amount: double (nullable = false)

Desired new schema:
root
 |-- uid: integer (nullable = false)
 |-- user: string (nullable = true)
 |-- ids: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: integer (containsNull = false)
 |-- specs: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
 |    |    |-- sid: integer (nullable = false)
 |    |    |-- desc: string (nullable = true)
 |-- product: struct (nullable = true)
 |    |-- pid: string (nullable = true)
 |    |-- spec: struct (nullable = true)
 |    |-- sid: integer (nullable = false)
 |    |-- desc: string (nullable = true)
 |-- amount: double (nullable = false)

Sadly the default SQL interface doesn't not allow this to be done easily because it takes the column names litrally.
//incorrect result
df.withColumn("product.sid", col("product.spec.sid")).withColumn("product.desc", col("product.spec.desc")).drop("product.spec.desc").drop("product.spec.sid").printSchema
>>
root
 |-- uid: integer (nullable = false)
 |-- user: string (nullable = true)
 |-- ids: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: integer (containsNull = false)
 |-- specs: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
 |    |    |-- sid: integer (nullable = false)
 |    |    |-- desc: string (nullable = true)
 |-- product: struct (nullable = true)
 |    |-- pid: string (nullable = true)
 |    |-- spec: struct (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- sid: integer (nullable = false)
 |    |    |-- desc: string (nullable = true)
 |-- amount: double (nullable = false)
 |-- product.sid: integer (nullable = true)
 |-- product.desc: string (nullable = true)

A: You can reconstruct the product struct column:
val df2 = df.withColumn("product", struct("product.pid", "product.spec.sid", "product.spec.desc"))

df2.show
+---+----+------+----------------+------------+------+
|uid|user|   ids|           specs|     product|amount|
+---+----+------+----------------+------------+------+
|101|jenn|[1, 2]|[[1, A], [2, B]]|[X11, 11, X]|1100.0|
|202|mike|   [3]|        [[3, C]]|[Y22, 22, Y]|2200.0|
+---+----+------+----------------+------------+------+


Trossen Robotics Community > Other > Off Topic > Wall-e; What Did You Think Of It?
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Nice vid Matt, my Wall -E is very popular on Instructables, Full time answering emails about him.
Just saw it. It was good...definitely for kids, but still good.
Great movie, Went to see it with my daughter today. Cant wait till the DVD comes out so I can buy it.
I loved it! Very very cute!
I loved it! Sure, it was more for the kids, but it still an awesome movie. I don't want to give away any spoilers, so just go watch it, if you're on the fence about it!
Wife and I went to see it on Saturday, definitely an enjoyable film.
It was awesome! I think that is now my favorite movie! I saw it at 12:01 a.m. the night before the official day it came out.
Shannen Coffin: From the first moment of the film, my kids were bombarded with leftist propaganda about the evils of mankind. It�s a shame, too, because the robot had promise. The story was just awful, however.
Greg Pollowitz: It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment. � Much to Disney�s chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade.
Glenn Beck: I can�t wait to teach my kids how we�ve destroyed the Earth. � Pixar is teaching. I can�t wait. You know if your kid has ever come home and said, �Dad, how come we use so much styrofoam,� oh, this is the movie for you.
"Dirty Harry": Have we lost Pixar? Have we lost the wonderful studio who brought us The Incredibles and Ratatouille to Bush Derangement Syndrome? Here you have a winning streak going back ten-years, enormous amounts of public goodwill, equal amounts of credibility as serious storytellers, and they stop things cold, yanking you out of the story with the liberal nonsense. Quite a disappointment.
I tend to flat out ignore idiots like these, otherwise I'd live a very miserable and unhappy life.
I actually think they're at least 55% accurate here. But I generally suspend my annoyance at the stupidly obnoxious liberal rhetoric in movies in the same way that I suspend disbelief and haven't thrown a hissy-fit about Wall-E's power source or the power source behind Eve's weapon. Some movies take it waaay too far and aren't watchable. Wall-E was far from that, imho.
I've reserved my thoughts about the power sources as well;) I try to keep on the light-hearted side and put my mind in "child mode" when I see things so obviously wrong and unbelievable like that in movies.
Absolutely. It'd be really hard to go to movies expecting them to be anything approaching factual representations - and that's just referring to "documentaries".
I try to keep on the light-hearted side and put my mind in "child mode" when I see things so obviously wrong and unbelievable like that in movies.
Amen to that. Gotta keep an open mind.
Dammit... i have to wait 'till the 13th of august to watch it here.
I only saw the first 15 minutes of it and then my totally legal uh, non downloaded version failed..
It looked pretty good though from what I saw.
Am I the only one who was not completely thrilled with it?
I mean it was decent, and I don't regret paying the outrageous $9.50 per ticket for my fiancee and I to go see it, but I thought that most of the story was a bit lame. At least the love story part.
The social commentary was definitely funny, even if it was liberal propaganda (i am quite conservative).
Given the pervasiveness of the liberal propaganda, I found the love story part to be the sheer reason for suspending annoyance and enjoying the movie. What else was there?
Ok...just to chime in, I'm not sure that the liberal propaganda everyone is referring to is actual liberal propaganda. At least in the sense that everyone is putting it. I went to calarts, and having lived in Valencia, and gone to calarts...there is a very contentious relationship between the calartians and the valencians. I had a neighbor whose kids weren't allowed to talk to me and my roommates because she believed that all calarts students were gay and had aids.
Then again...we thought all our neighbors were wannabe redneck hick suburbanites.
Spend about 20 minutes at the walmart in valencia, and you will understand where the makers were coming from.
I did not like the overall story either, but I thought the robots were good.
Not 5 stars for the movie, but I'd give the "robotics" 4 stars.


I have large pores on my nose, but i wash my face, and exfoliate, and grown, so i my pores look smaller. Luck to those of you who can't get rid of them! may one day the god of pores …... Today, we would be talking about remedies to get rid of large pores on face, nose and cheeks. Large pores can be easily visible on the face and it especially occurs on the oily T zone area . Nose and cheeks are some among the common places to spot large pores on the face.
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Today, we would be talking about remedies to get rid of large pores on face, nose and cheeks. Large pores can be easily visible on the face and it especially occurs on the oily T zone area . Nose and cheeks are some among the common places to spot large pores on the face. how to find the radian measure of an angle A chemical peel is also an effective way to get rid of dead skin cells and dirt that might be clogging your nose pores. During this procedure, your dermatologist will apply a strong chemical solution to your skin.
A chemical peel is also an effective way to get rid of dead skin cells and dirt that might be clogging your nose pores. During this procedure, your dermatologist will apply a strong chemical solution to your skin.
On the side of my nose I have these big pores. I do tend to have a lot of black heads, but this is different. These are just pores that you can see very well, and they never become blackheads or pimples.
Wash your nose twice daily with an astringent cleanser that contains benzoyl peroxide or glycolic acid, followed by a water-based moisturizer. Once a day, apply any facial product -- like an exfoliant, facial wipe or cleanser -- that contains salicylic acid.


How would you like to sign a petition to recall an elected official and then get a knock on the door from a supporter of that official, asking if you'd like to reconsider?
That's what could happen if Sacramento Democrats succeed in their effort to quickly pass changes to the state's long-standing procedures for recall elections.
Newman narrowly defeated Republican Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang in November to win the seat, which had been held by termed-out Senate Republican leader Bob Huff.
Under existing law, the Secretary of State's Office receives signed recall petitions from county elections officials and then has 10 days to transmit a certificate to the county showing the total number of signatures collected by the proponents.
Under the proposed law, the secretary of state would transmit a notice instead of a certificate, and voters who signed the petition would have 30 business days to withdraw their signatures.
That sounds an awful lot like voter intimidation. Soon canvassers could be knocking on the doors of everyone who signed the recall petitions and interrogating the surprised voters about where they signed and what they were told.
In addition to the door-knock provision, the bill designated as SB96 in the Senate and AB112 in the Assembly would build in long delays in the certification process to make it more likely that the recall could be consolidated with a regularly scheduled election, when turnout is higher than in special elections. Higher turnout typically favors Democrats.
The bill would also repeal the provision in election law that requires the Secretary of State's Office to use a random sampling technique to verify signatures. For recall petitions only, the new law would require the verification of each and every signature.
Combined, the provisions of SB96 could effectively eliminate the possibility of recall elections in California. A change of this significance deserves due consideration in the legislative process.
Instead, the measure has been introduced as a last-minute amendment to a budget trailer bill, one of dozens of pieces of blank legislation passed in May. These so-called "spot bills" contained no language other than a single line expressing an intent to write something later. Once "amended," the bills come back to the floor of each house for an up-or-down vote with no committee hearings, debate or further amendment.
Whatever the merits or motives of the effort to recall Newman, the attempt to stymie the recall with legislation that will suffocate grassroots political activity is far worse. Lawmakers should reject it.


*Load a tablespoonful in little patty cases, refrigerate.
Thoroughly mix all the ingredients in a bowl, then make balls or patties and roll them in the shredded coconut, sesame seeds or carob powder.
Raw organic nuts, a handful each of whatever kind you prefer, I used hazelnuts, cashews and almonds. Chop them up carefully. Also I added a good handful of raw organic ground almond (bulk at supermarket).
Add dried fruits. I used raw organic raisins, golden raisins, dried apricots, 4-6 figs, 4-6 medjool dates.
Add fresh fruit. blend up two fresh apricots, a few strawberries, or a banana and add.
On a piece of wax paper (kitchen parchment paper) form the mixture in the shape of a log.
Sift raw organic carob powder through a tea strainer over the log and sprinkle ground almond over it, too.
Voila! there's your Yule log (or raw vegan xmas fruit cake).
Here's a delicious all raw desert or snack that will satisfy your sweet tooth.
The recipe is taken from Rhonda's Hallelujah Holiday Recipes from God's Garden book (page 200) where it is called "Raw Sugar Plums." Don't know how it got the name "Sugar Plums", because there is no sugar or plums in the recipe. But I do believe you will find this recipe yummy.
*Organic ingredients are always recommended.
Check out this amazing site for gourmet desserts!!


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Victoria Anna Eva Tiblom, tidigare Martinsson, född 21 oktober 1969 i Sköns församling, Västernorrlands län, är en svensk politiker (sverigedemokrat). Hon är ordinarie riksdagsledamot sedan 2022, invald för Skåne läns södra valkrets.

I riksdagen är hon suppleant i försvarsutskottet, justitieutskottet, konstitutionsutskottet, utbildningsutskottet och riksdagens valberedning.

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