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Virginia upholds constitutionality of apportionment statute
Joel Waterfield
Metro DC - Arlington
Guinevere Seaward Shore
Chris Tran
Sonia Shaikh
Isabella Kron
Jamie C. Yesnowitz
Lori Stolly
On Feb. 7, 2019, the Virginia Supreme Court held that the Virginia Department of Taxation's use of the state's statutory apportionment formula, and denial of a taxpayer's request to use alternative apportionment, did not violate the Due Process or Commerce Clauses of the U.S. Constitution. In finding for the Department, the Court concluded that the taxpayer could not use alternative apportionment because it failed to prove that the standard formula was inequitable.1
Background The taxpayer, Corporate Executive Board Co. ("CEB"), is a multi-jurisdictional, Virginia-based best practices advisory firm. CEB's "core product" provides clients with electronic access to research and information stored on secure data servers located in Arlington, Virginia. Although most of its employees work at its headquarters and its costs of performance are incurred within the state, relatively few of its sales are made to local clients, as less than 5% of CEB's customers had a Virginia billing address. However, under the statutory apportionment formula, because the costs of business primarily occurred in the state, the sales were sourced to Virginia. Accordingly, for its 2011-2013 tax years, CEB filed original returns in 24 states in compliance with the Virginia statutory method. However, the taxpayer later filed a refund claim and petitioned the Department to use an alternative apportionment method that would better reflect its level of activity and benefits received by its customers in Virginia. After the Department denied the taxpayer's claim,2 the taxpayer filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Arlington County.
In the Circuit Court, CEB had the burden of proving the statutory apportionment method was both unconstitutional and inequitable, and that the proposed method better reflected its Virginia sales.3 Initially, CEB challenged the constitutionality of the statutory method because it was grossly distortive. CEB asserted that although the data and information were generated in Virginia, their actual use was outside the Commonwealth. Accordingly, CEB argued that the Department should apply a destination-based sourcing method using client locations, as the income captured by the statutory method was not "rationally related" to in-state transactions. Specifically, CEB requested two changes to the statutory method: (i) the use of a single sales factor formula; and (ii) the use of a market-based sourcing methodology for sales of items other than tangible personal property according to the location where the benefit of the transaction was received. The Circuit Court rejected the taxpayer's proposed alternative formula, holding that because CEB conducted income-producing activities in Virginia, a rational relationship was apparent and the statutory method was not grossly distortive. CEB filed an appeal with the Virginia Supreme Court.
Virginia apportionment In Virginia, the statutory apportionment method is a three-factor, double-weighted sales formula.4 The statute sources sales of other than tangible personal property to the state if "a greater proportion of the income-producing activity is performed in the Commonwealth than in any other state, based on costs of performance."5 Taxpayers have the right to petition for alternative apportionment if the statutory method does not accurately reflect the taxpayer's in-state activities.6 If the Department determines the apportionment method is "inapplicable or inequitable," the Department is directed to apply a methodology that taxes the portion of income that is "reasonably attributable" to the taxpayer's business and sources within Virginia.7 Under the Department's alternative apportionment regulation, the statutory apportionment method is "inapplicable" if it produces an unconstitutional result for the taxpayer.8 The statutory apportionment method is "inequitable" if: (i) "[i]t results in double taxable of the income, or a class of income, of the taxpayer;" and (ii) "[t]he inequity is attributable to Virginia, rather than to the fact that some other state has a unique method of allocation and apportionment."9
Statutory apportionment method was constitutional The Virginia Supreme Court held that the use of the statutory formula to apportion the taxpayer's income did not violate the Due Process or Commerce Clauses of the U.S. Constitution. The Due Process Clause requires "a 'minimal connection' between the interstate activities and the taxing State, and a rational relationship between the income attributed to the State and intrastate values of the enterprise."10 Under the Commerce Clause, Congress is authorized to "regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States."11 States must also satisfy the Dormant Commerce Clause, which limits "the power of the States to enact laws imposing substantial burdens on [interstate] commerce."12 In Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady, the U.S. Supreme Court created a four-prong test that a taxing scheme must satisfy under the Dormant Commerce Clause.13 The instant case concerned the "fairly apportioned" prong. The same test is used for determining fair apportionment under both the Due Process Clause and the Commerce Clause.14 Under this test, a tax must be both internally and externally consistent.15 The parties in the instant case agreed that the internal consistency test was met, but the Court was required to determine whether the external consistency test was satisfied.
The U.S. Supreme Court has explained that the external consistency test "asks whether the State has taxed only that portion of the revenues from the interstate activity which reasonably reflects the in-state component of the activity being taxed."16 In the instant case, the Court held that the external consistency test was satisfied because the content of the taxpayer's core product was developed by employees in Virginia and the product was stored on servers in the state.
The Virginia Supreme Court acknowledged the existence of double taxation, but focused on the ruling in Moorman Manufacturing Co v. Bair17 that "the existence of duplicative taxation does not, by itself, violate the Constitution . . . [s]o long as the State's method of apportionment is itself fair." CEB conceded that double taxation is not inherently unconstitutional, but claimed that an apportionment regime is unconstitutional when it "wholly disregards the existence of interstate commerce, and that thereby produces a much higher apportionment of taxable income and a substantial double taxation."18 The Supreme Court rejected the taxpayer's more specific interpretation of the law, determining that materiality of the tax burden is irrelevant when Virginia's tax scheme reasonably reflects the economic activity within the state. Accordingly, the Court affirmed the lower court's determination that although such policy statements are relevant when presented to the state legislature, the U.S. Supreme Court has not "embraced" such standards.
Interestingly, the Virginia Supreme Court adopted the same analysis as the Circuit Court by relying on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Western Live Stock v. Bureau of Revenue.19 Western Live Stock, which preceded Complete Auto by nearly 40 years, provided a general framework for determining whether a tax unduly burdens interstate commerce in violation of the Dormant Commerce Clause. However, the case failed to provide specific procedures to conclusively determine when such violations occur. Although Complete Auto was mentioned, the focus of the Court's analysis appeared to be based on the more sweeping conclusion found in Western Live Stock. Similar to the Circuit Court's approach, the Supreme Court opted for a higher level analysis drawing parallels between the circumstances of the taxpayer in Western Live Stock and those of CEB. The Virginia courts summarized that both taxpayers' costs of business were primarily derived from income-producing activities in one state and thus should not be sourced elsewhere. Finally, the Virginia Supreme Court concluded that the apportionment formula did not produce a "grossly distorted" result.20
Taxpayer not entitled to alternative apportionment The taxpayer also argued that it was entitled to use alternative apportionment because the statutory apportionment formula was "inequitable." As discussed above, a regulation provides that the statutory method is "inequitable" when it (i) results in double taxation; and (ii) the "inequity is attributable to Virginia, rather than to the fact that some other state has a unique method of allocation and apportionment."21 The Court held that the first requirement was satisfied because application of the standard formula resulted in the double taxation of a portion of the taxpayer's income. In considering the second requirement, the Court determined that any double taxation was not "attributable" to Virginia because it resulted from the trend of other states adopting single sales factor apportionment. Also, the Court considered whether the sourcing methods adopted by other states were "unique." The taxpayer argued that "[t]he destination-based sourcing method used by these 23 other states . . . can in no sense be considered unique." The Court disagreed, explaining that the taxpayer merely cited other states' adoption of market-based sourcing formulas at a high level. Sufficient evidence disproving the uniqueness of the states' sourcing methods would require a more granular examination of specific allocation and apportionment applications.
The Court supported its rejection of CEB's argument with specific examples "that each State has adopted is own distinctive method, even if those methods share some [broad] conceptual similarities." The Court expanded its analysis by examining four states that taxed CEB's sales of services during the years in question: California, Wisconsin, Alabama and Illinois. All four states have broadly termed "market based" apportionment methods, but their regimes differ in sourcing approach.22 The sourcing details also vary even when the approach may be the same.23
Furthermore, the Court concluded that CEB's double taxation resulted from "changes adopted more recently by other States in their apportionment formulas," specifically the growing trend of adopting single-factor sales apportionment. Virginia has adhered to its apportionment formula for almost 60 years. Therefore, the double taxation did not result from an inequitable change in Virginia's statute.
Finally, the Court emphasized the lower court's holding that the statutory method is accepted rule and law, and the Commissioner appropriately applied that law to CEB's circumstances. It also affirmed that the proposed market-based sourcing method was properly rejected, as CEB was unable to demonstrate the unconstitutionality of the statutory method. Although there is a growing trend among other states to adopt market-based sourcing, the Commissioner could not be faulted for following the current law.
Commentary The recent trend toward market-based sourcing and single-sales factor apportionment formulas is due in part to the economic shift toward service-based revenue streams. By moving in this manner, states that place less weight on the location of property and payroll for purposes of apportionment and sourcing rules become more attractive to companies from the perspective of the corporate income tax. For some entities headquartered in Northern Virginia, moving even relatively small components of a business "across the river" to Maryland or Washington, DC could serve to significantly reduce their overall Virginia corporation income tax calculation.
While Virginia has conducted repeated studies on whether to change its apportionment formula for services in light of this potential issue, the Virginia legislature has yet to act. Until Virginia makes a legislative change, the state will remain one of the most reliable with respect to its policy on requiring cost of performance sourcing for sales of items other than tangible personal property, even when alternative apportionment would seem reasonable under a certain set of circumstances.
The Virginia Supreme Court's decision did provide an unusually detailed analysis with respect to the manner in which the states have moved toward market-based sourcing, in its attempt to determine whether other states' apportionment methods were unique. While the Court did not conclude either way on the issue of uniqueness, its analysis reflects the differing (and one can imply, unique) methods by which many of the states have adopted market-based sourcing. In other words, while the trend viewed as a whole may not be unique given the number of states that have made the switch, the individual efforts by the states certainly can be viewed as such. These disparate efforts from states shifting to market-based sourcing have occurred despite recent activity by the Multistate Tax Commission to endorse a standardized model approach in this area.
1 Corporate Executive Board Co. v. Virginia Department of Taxation, Virginia Supreme Court, Record No. 171627, Feb. 7, 2019.
2 Because the Department failed to act within three months after the refund claim was filed, the Department effectively denied the taxpayer's claim.
3 Corporate Executive Board v. Virginia Department of Taxation, Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, No CL 16-1525, Sep. 1, 2017.
4 VA. CODE ANN. § 58.1-408.
8 23 VA. ADMIN. CODE § 10-120-280.B.4.a.
9 23 VA. ADMIN. CODE § 10-120-280.B.4.b.
10 Mobil Oil Corp. v. Commissioner of Taxes, 445 U.S. 425, 436-37 (1980).
11 U.S. CONST. art. 1, § 8, cl. 3.
12 South-Central Timber Dev., Inc. v. Wunnicke, 467 U.S. 82, 87 (1984).
13 430 U.S. 274 (1977). The taxing scheme must satisfy the following: (1) there must be a substantial nexus between the taxpayer and the state; (2) the tax must be fairly apportioned; (3) the tax must not discriminate against interstate commerce; and (4) the tax must be fairly related to the services provided by the state.
14 See Container Corp. v. Franchise Tax Board, 463 U.S. 159, 169 (1983).
15 Goldberg v. Sweet, 488 U.S. 252, 260-61 (1989).
16 Id. at 262.
17 437 U.S. 267, 274 (1978).
18 Emphasis in original.
19 303 U.S. 250 (1938).
20 Norfolk & Western Railway v. Missouri State Tax Commission, 390 U.S. 317, 326 (1968).
21 23 VA. ADMIN. CODE § 10-120-280.B.4.b.
22 California and Wisconsin source income where the benefit is received, while Alabama and Illinois source income where the service is delivered. ALA. CODE § 40-27-1, art. IV(17)(a)(3); CAL. REV. & TAX. CODE § 25136(a)(1); 35 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/304(a)(3)(C-5)(iv); WIS. STAT. § 71.25(9)(dh)(1).
23 For example, California sources income to where a customer received the benefit, regardless of billing address, whereas Wisconsin ties received benefits to a physical presence within the state, such as real property, tangible personal property or a place of business. Alabama's three-factor formula distinguishes between whether or not services have a substantial connection to a geographic location (e.g. cleaning services as opposed to accounting services), while Illinois' single sales factor formula limits income sourcing to states where a business has a fixed business.
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AME Golden Dragon Award Finalist Announcements
Author Topic: AME Golden Dragon Award Finalist Announcements (Read 3110 times)
Legacy_AndarianTD
The Academy for Modding Excellence is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2010 Community Contribution Award for Neverwinter Nights!
The Neverwinter Nights Podcast -- The only podcast devoted to the Neverwinter Nights roleplaying games, it does absolutely invaluable work in creating a sense of a community that is still thriving, still producing things, and still worth getting excited about.
NWNCQ by Chico400 -- This amazing piece of work completely revamps most of the default Bioware tilesets. An essentially "drop-in" update, it allows modders to quickly, easily, and radically update and improve the look of areas built using them the default game resources.
The Custom Content Challenge -- This outstanding contribution has breathed new life into the NWN community, inspiring and encouraging both CC veterans and beginners alike to produce custom content on a regular, nearly monthly basis for themed compilations of brand new, high quality work.
Congratulations to all of the finalists! The finals review for this category should be complete and the winners announced at the end of September.
The Academy for Modding Excellence is actively recruiting for new members to help us in our mission to give recognition to the content creators who keep this great community alive. Thanks to those of you who have already answered our Call for Volunteers, four of our NWN1 2010 Awards categories have now been able to enter the finals: Community Contribution, Veteran Author (Modules), Veteran Author (Custom Content), and Best Tileset. In the coming days and weeks we'll be posting the rest of the finalists for those awards, new categories as they are identified, and, of course, the winners.
We do, however, need just a little more help. In particular, we could really use a few more active players of NWN1 modules to reach the "critical mass" of voters and nominators required to get those awards fully back on track again. So if you are an avid NWN1 player, modder or reviewer, and think you might be interested in helping with the AME's mission, then please feel free to contact me (andarian at ame-gda dot net) about joining or learning more about the AME panel.
Andarian
Chairman, the Academy for Modding Excellence (AME)
Modifié par AndarianTD, 03 août 2011 - 11:18 .
The Academy for Modding Excellence is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2010 Veteran Author (Modules) Award for Neverwinter Nights!
Baldecaran -- Author of the highly acclaimed Hall of Fame modules "The Cave of Songs" and "Honor Among Thieves", he's been providing the community with quality modules since 2003. His chef-d'oeuvre, the continueing "Prophet" series, features one of the most clever and intriguing plots ever seen in a NWN module, the equivalent of a perfect page-turner.
Fabien Cerutti -- His genuinely original and extensive series about "The Bastard of Kosigan" (translated from French by Ginni Swanton) steeps in a real knowledge of and appreciation for European history, with lots of complex ideas, roleplaying opportunities and witty dialogue. He's seriously committed to the series and his enthusiasm and dedication shine through in all of his work.
Andarian -- "Sanctum of the Archmage" is not "only" an ambitious story within a rich setting that's heavy on character interaction and believable romance - another of its prominent features is the ongoing support and high level of polish. Although further installments of the series are still in the works, Andarian constantly upgraded and also completely overhauled the available chapters over the years with the inclusion of some of the community's best custom content available.
The choice isn't easy, of course, as all candidates deserve to win the award - and every vote counts. So if you're familiar with these module authors and have an opinion who should be the Veteran Author of 2010, you can help us give them their due by joining the AME now!
Olivier Leroux,
Team Leader NWN, the Academy for Modding Excellence (AME)
Legacy_NWVaultQSW
The Academy for Modding Excellence is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2010 Veteran Author CC Award for Neverwinter Nights!
Lord of Worms is widely recognized in the NWN community as one of the finest CC builders in its long and illustrious history. He's a three time GDA finalist for:Undersea Tiles in 2006Seasonal Forest in 2007,
LOW's Creature Pack in 2008, and winner of the NWN 2007 Best Tileset GDA for his legendary Seasonal Forest tileset.
Six_Six_Six –Gavin "Sixes Thrice" Jones is in the forefront of excellence of tileset building in NWN. He works tirelessly and diligently to produce the finest work in NWN and is the author of:
Wildwoods, Wildlands & Wildlands Winter
Undead Redux 2
Colossal Arena / Spectral Woods / Rural Interior
Dwarven Chasms / Catecombs / Dwarven Lands / Deep Dungeon /
Undercity Sewers
Helvene –Helvene has shared her work with the NWN community since 2006 - a lot of it tileset-related (original, reskins, merges and fixes) but also placeables (very nice texture work0. Her 2006 reskins of (and additions to) BioWare's Castle Interior tileset, namely White Marble Castle and Arcanum Castle. Her Maze (2006) is a limited set with few tiles but it's the best looking maze we've seen so far, with beautiful mosaic textured walls, and she also offers a version with a mini map of empty squares that prevents the players from cheating their way out.
Among other things, she is the author of the famous Wood Elven Interiors tileset (2006/07) that's also
part of CEP 2 now and you might have come across the Suspended City (2008/09) tileset, too.
Congratulations to all of our finalists! The finals review for this category should be complete and the winners announced at the end of September.
The Academy for Modding Excellence is actively recruiting for new members to help us in our mission to give recognition to the content creators who keep this great community alive. Thanks to those of you who have
already answered our Call for Volunteers, four of our NWN1 2010 Awards categories have now been able to enter the finals: Community Contribution, Veteran Author (Modules), Veteran Author (Custom Content), and Best Tileset. In the coming days and weeks we'll be posting the rest of the finalists for those awards, new categories as they are identified, and, of course, the winners.
We do, however, need just a little more help. In particular, we could really use a few more active players of NWN1 modules to reach the "critical mass" of voters and nominators required to get those awards fully back on track again. So if you are an avid NWN1 player, modder or reviewer, and think you might be interested in helping with the AME's mission, then please feel free to contact (andarian at ame-gda dot net) about joining or learning more about the AME panel. '>
QSW (Queenilverwing) AME Member.
Modifié par NWVaultQSW, 15 août 2011 - 08:03 .
Wow -- tough crowd. '> No one has any thoughts or feedback? Suggestions for new nominees or thoughts on new categories, perhaps?
We've tried to come up with some new one-time "Special Recognition" categories that open up the field of nominations to works published in previous as well as recent years. After our finalists for Best Tileset are posted (coming soon), We'll share some of those categories with you. In the meantime we'd be interested in hearing suggestions for such categories from the rest of the community. What would YOU like to see as a new "Special Recognition" category for NWN1?
Legacy_FunkySwerve
Well, since you asked...I kept my mouth shut when you posted this, but I was quite surprised that AME considers its own members, which seriously undermines the credibility of the outfit. The Academy would like to thank the Academy... This would be less an issue if voting was by the public, naturally.
FunkySwerve wrote...
Since I did ask for feedback, let me try to address these points.
First, regarding "voting by the public" -- we've never turned down a request from a member of the community to join the AME and participate in the awards process. You could offer to join and participate, for example, and it's not as though we haven't been plastering the forums with calls for volunteers. If anyone thinks the process would be better served by greater participation from the community, then why not participate?
There are plenty of options for what you're probably thinking of as more "public" voting already in the community, including the Vault voting system and the MOTYs. Those systems have both well-known advantages, and also well-known problems, which I doubt that anyone needs me to elaborate on here. The AME was formed was to provide a complementary alternative to those systems, and to the Reviewer's Guild, one in which members who take NWN modding seriously enough to participate in a structured awards nomination and voting process can do so.
Part of the reason I've been posting threads here on the BSN for months now was to solicit -- in addition to new members -- ideas, thoughts, and suggestions from the community regarding possible nominees. Then there are our forums, which have been online for years and on which anyone can post feedback or suggestions as well. Despite those efforts, we've seen little or no activity or feedback at all so far. So I do hope that anyone who thinks that our activities are insufficiently "public" will consider helping us in our attempts to address this.
Regarding the nomination of other members for their work: that's been a feature of the AME since its inception, and we have very stringent procedures in place to prohibit conflicts of interest in that regard. Any of our current or former AME members will tell you that we take those procedures very seriously. (Members may not nominate or vote for themselves, and must immediately recuse themselves from further participation in any category for which they are nominated as soon as they are.) The AME has nominated and awarded individuals who have served on the panel for years, ever since Ragnarok_MR4 won Best Custom Content for his ACP animations back during our very first cycle.
If you soberly consider the fact that our core mission is to try to recognize the best work produced by the modding community, you may see that it would be problematic to try to accomplish this without at least allowing for members to be nominated for their work. The AME panel consists of a synergistic mix of experienced players, builders, and reviewers, all of whom bring their own particular skills, knowledge, and perspectives to the awards process. That is one of the core things that makes the AME what it is, and without which we would not have the experience mix needed to undertake such a mission.
The AME's current and former membership list includes some of the finest builders in the community -- people like BGPHuges, Ragnarok_mr4, Sixesthrice, Pstemarie, Quillmaster, Carlo One, Qkrch, Bannor Bloodfist, nereng, and Estelindis, just to name a few off the top of my head. If such award-caliber builders were not eligible, then what would our awards really mean? "Here's the best Tileset of 2011, except it's not because the really best tileset happened to have been made by someone who was on our voting panel so we couldn't nominate it?" I wouldn't take such an awards announcement seriously, and I wouldn't expect anyone else to do so either.
Legacy_Pstemarie
To Funky...
Having been involved as a panel member for a brief time (leaving only because of time constraints), I can vouch for the AME, when Andarian says they take careful measures to endure that an AME panelist nominated for an award has NO say whatsoever in who receives the final accolade.
Legacy_WebShaman
I can actually understand what Funky is pointing out - I don't think that he was suggesting that the AME is biased, but by allowing it's own members to be nominated and win does leave that open to question, doesn't it?
Sometimes, appearances are more important than what is actually taking place.
It would be like if someone won an Oscar, and was on the panel that decides who wins...not a pretty picture, regardless of whether or not the integrity of the panel is top-notch.
By not allowing such, one is above such accusations, of course. Which tends to lend a more...importance to the award, does it not?
Modifié par WebShaman, 24 août 2011 - 01:34 .
WebShaman wrote...
It would be like if someone won an Oscar, and was on the panel that decides who wins...
Why do you think that a member of the Academy for Motion Pictures can't be nominated for an Oscar?
In any event, let me stress that no one who is nominated for a GDA is allowed to be on the panel that decides who wins. AME members can't nominate themselves, and those nominated are excluded not only from voting for themselves, but from any further participation in the entire category they were nominated for.
I do understand the question, though, which is why the AME has always placed such a strong emphasis on maintaining the integrity of our procedures and our membership, and explaining them to the community when asked.
Legacy_Quillmaster
The Academy for Modding Excellence is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2010 Best Tileset Award for Neverwinter Nights!
Wild Woods by Sixesthrice -- This is a truly extraordinary NWN tileset, both in terms of visual quality and creative use of effects. Wild Woods is gorgeous, effective, and has an efficient design that doesn't try to be everything -- allowing for greater depth to the design as a result.
Senemenelas' Underdark Tileset -- This tileset package brings Terror back to BioWare's tamed Underdark, along with both claustrophobia and agoraphobia. Vast halls and caverns or deep dungeons, large or narrow staircases, well of souls and irradiating mushrooms - Senemenelas' tileset finally offers us a convincing impression of what the Underdark really must feel like.
Roman City Tileset by Zwerkules -- Part of the November 2010 Custom Content Challenge, this tileset looks good and has a number of original features in it. Zwerkules tilesets excel not just in how they look, though, but how well they play. Form and Function are well linked in his work.
Congratulations to all of the finalists! The finals review for this category should be complete and the winners announced at the end of October.
The Academy for Modding Excellence is actively recruiting for new members to help us in our mission to give recognition to the content creators who keep this great community alive. Thanks to those of you who have already answered our Call for Volunteers, four of our NWN1 2010 Awards categories have now been able to enter the finals: Community Contribution, Veteran Author (Modules), Veteran Author (Custom Content), and Best Tileset. In the coming days and weeks we'll be posting new categories as they are identified, and, of course, the winners.
We do, however, need just a little more help. In particular, we could really use a few more active members to reach the "critical mass" of voters and nominators required to get our awards fully back on track again. So if you are an avid NWN1 player, modder or reviewer, and think you might be interested in helping with the AME's mission, then please feel free to contact Andarian (andarian at ame-gda dot net) about joining or learning more about the AME panel.
Quillmaster
Member, The Academy for Modding Excellence (AME)
Modifié par Quillmaster, 24 août 2011 - 06:58 .
Legacy_WhiZard
Then there is also the problem when a great contributor and member of the awards outlet, may, even quite unintentionally, create standards based on his excellent contributions. The greatest parts of these excellent contributions would be looked into for future nominations, and the lesser parts of the excellent contributions may well be ignored or devalued when looking into future nominations. It is easy to evaluate when the standards for quality are locked in stone, but, when they are locked, it is hard to re-evaluate the standards to see if they fairly reflect quality in all circumstances.
Legacy_Bannor Bloodfist
Actually, as a former member of the Academy, we argued this entire subject out for months.
Should a member be allowed to submit his/her own works for consideration? NO, was the final answer.
Should a member be allowed to vote in the category that one of their submissions was considered? NO, was the final answer.
Should a member be EXCLUDED from any consideration for submission? NO, that would be completely unfair to that member. By volunteering to HELP the community,, why should they be excluded from contributing content to that community? Why should their content be excluded?
Higher standards for Custom Content is what the AME is all about. No one gets excluded from those standards simply because their work doesn't measure up either, each bit of content is reviewed, tested, and compared with the general content that is released by the community at large... ALL of them. Do they all deserve a 10? Surely not. Do they all deserve a Zero? Again, surely not.
The purpose of the AME was to help raise the standards a bit, and to congratulate those folks that spend the extra effort to make BETTER content. Shoot, take a real look at CEP. That hak pack is loaded with stuff that no one uses anymore, simply because it was all that was available when the CEP first started. Does all of it deserve a high score? Absolutely not. Does a large portion of it deserve a high score? Absolutely. If we, as a community, were to individually vote on each and every item, placeable, creature, etc, in the CEP, a large portion of it would be removed at this stage of things, since our own standards has risen as a community in general. Our computers are better, they can handle a bit higher poly count etc. Better texture artists have contributed to the vast array of textures available for use by CC folks in general. Most of the stuff being released in the past 2 years far exceeds the quality of stuff that came out when NWN was first released.
The AME is attempting to help alleviate the fanboy vote status on the vault. They have raised the minimum standards by a large extent, but only by the extent that MOST cc folks can accomplish if they actually spend the time to do so.
The AME is a small group of folks volunteering a huge amount of time to review works created by the community, and they have to have certain minimum standards for creations to even be considered. I know I can slap a mod together in just a few hours. It would suck for sure, but it would be a working mod. Would something created that quickly, with the few skills I have in scripting etc, be worthy of a Golden Dragon? Absolutely not. Most especially when there are folks out there that have spent months/years working on a module or series of modules, that have spent the time to create/write an excellent story line, filled in custom NPC comments, spent the time to search for OR create, that special tileset/group/feature to make their story come alive, and give each of us a special joy in playing. THAT person(s) deserves the credit, attention, AND award given by the AME much more than something that was slapped together in a few hours using stock content, dialogs etc.
In my particular case, I stepped down from AME membership when CTP was being considered for the first release we made. To avoid the possible conflict of interest that some would perceive or state. I can tell you though, that the current members of AME are beyond reproach. They stick by their own, internal rules (which have been posted on their forums) and they observe strict, VERY STRICT, adherence to the belief that a member can not vote on the entire category that is being considered, if that member has anything of their own in the submissions list.
Anyway, my fifty cents worth of comments can be taken or left behind, but I do believe, 100%, that the members of the AME are beyond reproach in how they handle things. Most especially considering that no one is getting paid for all the vast amount of time that is spent reviewing content. Heck, I can remember doing spell checking on modules that were being considered. Minor thing, sure, but in the huge amount of dialogs in a given module, it can take a large amount of time. Checking for visible gaps in any given mdl, be it placeable, creature, tile etc, things that are fairly easy to fix, but get ignored by folks when doing things too quickly. These, and many other things are tested, reviewed, and considered in a given submission.
Modifié par Bannor Bloodfist, 24 août 2011 - 11:07 .
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Congratualtions to all the nominees, and yes that is a tough crowd. Not to get into the if, ands, or buts, but I would just like to express my personal thanks to the AME for all the difficult, great work they have done over the years. Maybe you guys should just give yourselves an award. I think you have accomplished, and continue to accomplish, what you set out to do, which is to draw attention to some of the best works done in many areas over the years, by outstanding contributors.
Nothing I've seen posted in response to my remark has much bearing on it. It still looks like self-dealing, unavoidably so.
AndarianTD wrote...
It's not your 'activities' I think are insufficiently public, it's your nomination and selection process. And I *am* helping you to address it, by raising the issue. Simply joining the AME would NOT address the issue, because it'd do nothing to relieve the appearance of self-dealing. Not that I would have any interest in joining an organization that operated in such fashion.
Bannor Bloodfist wrote...
They wouldn't excluded from contributing content. They would be exluded only from giving themselves an award for it. Oh, while we're on the topic: I've decided to start up my own award-granting organization: The Higher Ground Acedemy for Persistant World Excellence. Guess who won this year?
More seriously, I understand the difficulty you face - the skills needed to evaluate contributions overlap those needed to make them in the first place. Still, though, I think the community is perfectly capable of making their own evaluations - unlike you, apparently, based on your remark about correcting for 'fanboy' votes. I guess that's where we fundamentally disagree - you set this up as an alternative voting system NOT for the public. Small wonder that you're having trouble attracting interest or feedback, as Andarian bemoans. Really, though, you've replaced one flawed system - the Vault's - with another. Why not revise the voting system instead, and solicit votes? I once emailed Max about revising their system as a 'vote for' instead of the current setup, by adding the rating, rather than ranking on average rating and max votes. That setup avoids a number of pitfalls of their system, and lacks the self-dealing issue as well. It might well help in drawing more feedback, as well.
Simple reply to the troll post that this actually was.
It has been stated, over and over again, that ANY submission by an AME member EXCLUDES that AME member from beign able to affect the voting in any way. They are completely excluded from voting on ANY content in that particular category.

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Q: Trying to prepend leading zero and decimal to number Javascript I'm having some trouble trying to prepend a leading zero and decimal in Javascript whilst maintaining the number format. I'm able to do this successfully as a string, but when trying to utilise a parseInt(), it strips the leading zero and decimal and converts to a whole number.
The end goal I'm trying to achieve is the following:

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*0.5000

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And, if less numbers are given:

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I have a function that takes a number, and an optional boolean value to determine whether to do the above, utilising a JS switch:
function formatTrainingDigit(number, decimals) {
  var numberSplit = number.toString().split('')
  if (decimals) {
    switch (numberSplit.length) {
      case 1:
        return '0.0' + number // TODO: this returns string, change to number.
        break;
      case 2:
        return '0.' + number // TODO: this returns string, change to number.
        break;
      case 3:
        return '0.' + number // TODO: this returns string, change to number.
        break;
      case 4:
        return '0.' + number // TODO: this returns string, change to number.
        break;
      default:
        return 0.00
    }
  } else {
    switch (numberSplit.length) {
      case 1:
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        break;
      case 2:
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        break;
      case 3:
        return 0,parseInt(numberSplit[0]),parseInt(numberSplit[1]),parseInt(numberSplit[2])
        break;
      case 4:
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        break;
      default:
        return 0,0,0,0
    }
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I'd be passing values into the function as: formatTrainingDigit(5000, false) or formatTrainingDigit(50, true)
However, when trying to then do a parseInt() on my returned function, it strips everything, e.g:
This works: console.log(formatTrainingDigit(5000, true)) // returns string
This fails: console.log(parseInt(formatTrainingDigit(5000, true))) // returns number zero

A: You can use toFixed method of number. below is an example.

function addZeroes( num ) {
   var value;
    var res;
    if(typeof num== "number")
       {
         value = (num);
         res = num.toString().split(".");

       }
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    }
    return value
}

var ww = '0.01'
var xx = 5
var yy = .5
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console.log(addZeroes(ww));
console.log(addZeroes(xx));
console.log(addZeroes(yy));
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Just yesterday, we showed you how the Bangalore Traffic Police is destroying seized exhausts of motorcycles using a road roller. Today, there's a video that shows the cops using a new contraption to destroy seized motorcycle exhausts. And this one is pretty dramatic. Here, watch it for yourself.
As the video indicates, the cops are using some kind of hydraulic press to destroy seized exhausts, making them unusable. Over the past few weeks, traffic police in Bangalore are cracking down on loud exhausts, especially those run by a lot of Royal Enfield owners. Similar drives are going on in other states including Kerala and Maharashtra.
According to rules in the Motor Vehicle Act of India, vehicle exhausts (popularly called silencers) have to be limited to 80 decibels. Anything more than this limit is considered to be noise pollution, and cops can act against the vehicle making noise. However, most cops in India that stop two wheelers or cars for modified exhausts don't use decibel meters to measure how loud the exhaust actually is. They go by ear, a method that many bikers say is random and unscientific. Unscientific or not, any modification to a vehicle without RTO approval is illegal.
If not for loudness, traffic police can still fine owners and impound motorcycles that have aftermarket exhausts as they are illegal. Royal Enfield owners are the most common offenders, with almost every second Royal Enfield on Indian streets featuring an aftermarket exhaust, meant mainly to make the 'thump' bassier.
Aftermarket exhausts that are sold by accessory shops and Royal Enfield dealers are meant only for 'off-road' use. Off-road here means private roads. So, you can still ride a motorcycle fitted with an aftermarket exhaust in say your apartment complex or perhaps a private township. On public roads though, cops can stop and fine you.


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The results prove that Tribestan influences the serum level of hormones from pituitary-gonadal axis, without changing significantly the concentration of adrenal hormones and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). In women increased follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and estradiol, and in men - luteinising hormone (LH) and testosterone (3). Tribestan turns and hypolipemic action, in men with dyslipoproteinemia significantly reduced total cholesterol and cholesterol in low density lipoproteins (LDL-Ch), without affecting reliably serum levels of triglycerides and cholesterol in high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-Ch) . On rabbit corpus cavernosum has been found to provide protodiostsinat proerektilno action. Admitted to an increased release of nitric oxide from the endothelium and nitrergic nerve endings (6). Tribulus terrestris increases nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in the hypothalamus of rats (14).
When entering testosterone in certain doses of men increases sperm, strengthens the libido, improving erections and reduces total cholesterol (19). Such changes occur and under the influence of Tribestan exercising testosteronopodobno action. Under his influence increased secretion of LH from the pituitary gland that stimulates the secretion of testosterone by the testes, which obyasnnyava positive effect on the libido and physical exercise (22). Not in all cases increases serum testosterone may think that Tribestan influence by the androgen receptor, selectively binding to it and so it mimics the action of testosterone, including the hypothalamus, and is not excluded in other departments brain. (2) In rats it was found that the prolonged effects of Tribulus terrestris increases the expression of the androgen receptor (14). Predominant protodioscine metabolised to dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) (7). Same and its sulphate ester (DHEAS) act on immunity, cell membrane integrity and overall tone (5). Suggests that DHEA counteract aging and extract Tribulus terrestris L., containing phyto-DHEA may be the drug of choice in the elderly (9). DHEA and DHEAS are important links in the conversion of cholesterol into hormones in the normal course of steroidosinteza. Lowering cholesterol levels showed that Tribestan® interfere with metabolism, which explains hypolipemic action. Significance have other active saponins constituting the The extract of Tribulus terrestris L., which modulate the action of protodioscin in the body.
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Nieznana jest dokładna data urodzenia ani śmierci. Wiadomo, że żył w czasach św. Patryka (ok. 385–461).

Jego ojciec, Cormac, był królem Lainsteru.

Abban założył liczne kościoły w dystrykcie Ui Cennselaigh (dzisiejsze Ferns w Hrabstwie Wexford). Jego główny klasztor znajdował się w Magheranoidhe (późniejsze Abbanstown, obecnie Adamstown koło New Ross). Założył również opactwo i szkołę w Rosmic-treoin lub New Ross oraz opactwo w Kill-Abban (Cell Abbáin) w Leinsterze, którego został pierwszym opatem. Pomógł świętej Gobnait założyć jej klasztor w Ballyvourney (ir. Baile Bhuirne) w hrabstwie Cork.

Czczony jest szczególnie w Adamstown.

Jego wspomnienie liturgiczne obchodzone jest 16 marca.

Nie należy go mylić z innym irlandzkim świętym, Abbanem z New Ross zmarłym w VI wieku w Hrabstwie Kildare, wspominanym 27 października.

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Bibliografia
 St. Abban – Catholic Online .
 St. Abban of Magheranoidhe (Murneave or Murnevin) – Catholic Encyclopedia .

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I'm growing embarrassed by my lack of understanding for the sheaf-theoretic approaches to algebraic (and differential) geometry. I've tried to deal with it several times before, and I'm currently reading up on Algebraic Geometry again to fill the void that the finished thesis, soon arriving travels and non-existent job application responses produce.
So, why not learn by teaching? It's an approach that has been pretty darn good in the past. So I thought I'd write a sequence of posts on algebraic geometry, introducing what it's supposed to be about and how the main viewpoints develop more or less naturally from the approaches taken.
If we write our polynomials as coming from the ring [tex]k[x_1,\dots,x_n][/tex], then the corresponding solution points will be points in the vector space [tex]k^n[/tex]. In order to emphasize that we do not care for the vector space structure of this space, we shall denote it with [tex]\mathbb A^n[/tex], or if we want to emphasize the field, with [tex]\mathbb A^n_k[/tex].
The first observation at this point is that if we take the polynomial [tex]x^2+1[/tex], then the solution set over [tex]\mathbb R[/tex] is empty, while the solution set over [tex]\mathbb C[/tex] is not. So, in order to set all solution sets on an equal footing - and also to make the later occurring correspondences work out - we shall require [tex]k[/tex] to be an algebraically closed field. In other words, we can always find a root to any polynomial.
We call the solution sets varieties (or - in order to distinguish from everything else we might encounter, we shall call them affine algebraic varieties).


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Posted 7:58 AM, April 25, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 10:47AM, April 25, 2019
The FBI and criminal investigators from the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday executed court-authorized search warrants at the home of Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and Baltimore City Hall, FBI spokesman Dave Fitz said.
Investigators are also searching a second residence belonging to the Democratic mayor — who has taken a leave of absence amid a scandal over the sale of a children's book she authored — as well as the Maryland Center for Adult Training, a non-profit the mayor has worked with, Fitz said. The home of Gary Brown, a former Pugh aide, is also being searched.
The FBI said they have made no arrests at this time in connection with the raids. Pugh was home when authorities arrived at her house shortly before 7 a.m. ET, a law enforcement official said.
While Pugh was a board member of the University of Maryland Medical System, the medical system spent $500,000 to fund the purchase of some 100,000 books from Pugh's company Healthy Holly LLC, a spokesman for the medical system has confirmed.
Baltimore's mayor was paid $700,000 for a self-published book. Now her city council wants her out
Pugh apologized in March for having "done something to upset the people." Baltimore's city council has called for Pugh to resign, and Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican who earlier this month asked the Office of the State Prosecutor to investigate the scandal, echoed those calls shortly after the raids Thursday morning.
"Now more than ever, Baltimore City needs strong and responsible leadership," Hogan said in a statement. "Mayor Pugh has lost the public trust. She is clearly not fit to lead. For the good of the city, Mayor Pugh must resign."
The UMMS spokesman, Michael Schwartzberg, has said UMMS never had possession of any Healthy Holly books, nor did it distribute books. Book distribution was managed by Healthy Holly LLC.
Pugh recently returned $100,000 to the medical system and canceled her book deal. She has also resigned from the hospital's board, according to Schwartzberg.
Pugh also received about $114,000 from Kaiser Permanente for some 20,000 books from 2015 to 2018, according to the health care provider. Kaiser Permanente said it delivered the books to back-to-school fairs, elementary schools, communities of faith and early childhood education and care centers.
Additionally, Associated Black Charities, a public foundation that works to encourage healthier and more prosperous communities, said it spent approximately $80,000 between 2011 and 2016 to buy some 10,000 copies of Pugh's books — a project the organization learned about while she was still a state senator.
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Needing a Mothers Day Gift?
Hi everyone, Lots of shoppers out today at Metcalfe Farmers Market were able to buy their gifts for Mothers Day. Now if you didn't make it there… Da Artisti Studio Gallery is open tomorrow Check out http://daartisti.com.Lots of my products available and perhaps a glass workshop!
Thanks and Happy Mothers Day!


Today is officially the first day of summer vacation here at our homes. (School ended yesterday!!!! HOORAY!!!) So we are busy planning out both lazy days and adventures for the days ahead.
Which reminds me…yesterday I said we'd tell you all about the adventure Elizabeth and I were going on today…but plans have changed…we'll explain over on Facebook later this afternoon.
Over at Simple Simon and Company we blog daily about our sewing, crafting, and homemaking adventures. And today we are excited to be here sharing our latest PVC creation for the upcoming summer season.
We love to build with PVC pipe. It's lightweight, easy to put together, easy to store, and…when it comes down to it…it's just a lot of fun to build with. (It's like a giant set of Tinker Toys for adults!) And, this year we wanted to make something to use during our almost daily, non-stop Slip and Slide, running through the sprinklers, water parties…so a PVC cabana seemed like a perfect choice!
Not only will it give the kids a shady place to cool off with drinks and Popsicles but it also gives them a private place to change in and out of swimsuits (with parental supervision nearby of course!) that doesn't require running in and out of the house a million times. It's perfect!
The cabana was really easy to construct.
It's simply 4 legs with a roof!
As for the covering we simply measured each flat side of the cabana, then took that measurement and added one fourth of an inch to each side for seam allowance. After that we cut each piece out and sewed them together.
We used some of Riley Blake Designs fun striped and solid fabrics for the covering and then added a little pop of yellow with a polka dot scallop across the front. And to finish the whole thing off we added a bird to the roof and ribbon ties to the curtains.
We look forward to this cabana getting lots and lots of use in the summer months ahead.
Thank you Jen for having us here today!
… come visit us over at Simple Simon and Company!
Seriously so cute. Love it.
Too cute! I'm watching for throwback black bathing suits next. Great work!
that's absolutely great! a really brilliant idea.
Hi! I love this and plan on making it myself. How big is this one? (Height and width).
Anyone have a cost estimate on this project?


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Watch Famed Test Driver Valentino Balboni Take the Lamborghini Urus Off-Road
The fancy SUV can still get dirty.
By Talon HomerJanuary 28, 2019
DailyDrivenExotics - Youtube
Valentino Balboni is one of the most significant figures in Lamborghini's history. Starting as a mechanic's apprentice in the late 1960s, Balboni rose to become the company's chief test driver for decades, wringing out every notable performance machine to leave the gates of Sant'Agata Bolognese. So what does he think of the Lamborghini Urus?
A recent upload from the YouTube channel DailyDrivenExotics has the show's host, Damon Fryer, meet up with Balboni to ride shotgun as the legendary driver puts a brand-new Urus SUV through its off-road paces.
Balboni helped develop so many important models during his time at Lamborghini; his mark is left on everything Countach to the Murciélago. Though Balboni is no longer a full-time employee of the manufacturer, his name is still synonymous with it. Lamborghini officially honored him in 2009 by creating the Valentino Balboni edition Gallardo. The Balboni edition was significant in being the only rear-wheel-drive variant of the Gallardo, and production was capped out at 250 units.
During the interview, Balboni comments on the Urus' electronic assists. Although he cut his teeth on the raw supercars of the '70's and '80's, he does appreciate the convenience of modern technology. He also mentions that these assists can allow a professional driver and a less-skilled one to get similar levels of enjoyment out of the car.
Balboni also admires how easily the Urus is able to navigate rough terrain compared to the company's old LM002 SUV. Throughout the video, the Lamborghini rolls over loose dirt and splashes through sloppy mud without even hinting that it might get stuck.
Whether it's a Countach on the track, or an Urus on an off-road trail, it's clear that Valentino Balboni is a man who just loves driving, and he's not done spreading that joy to Lamborghini owners and admirers.
This Crashed Lamborghini Urus With 752 Miles Can Be Yours for $115K
The front end is a total loss, but the interior and rear end could be worth saving.
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With its engine borrowed from the Huracán Performante, this new version of the "Baby Lambo" is anything but immature.
Redesigned 2019 Lamborghini Huracan Teased With Photos of Detailed Design Elements
Expect a bigger frown, and most likely extra horsepower.
Next-Gen Lamborghini Aventador Will Get First-Ever Hybrid V-12 in 2020: Report
The Aventador's successor will be preceded by a limited-run hypercar due out next year.
This $38M Miami-Area Penthouse Includes Lamborghini Aventador and Rolls-Royce Cullinan
The two best things about this opulent beachside condo are the cars that let you drive away from it. And the pool.


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The inauguration of the Sri Lanka Trade Center, Dubai
under Premadasa General Trading, Dubai reactivated the
dormant Premadasa Agencies Ltd, since which its activities have diverse and plenty. Such an alliance, instigated communications between thee company and other local operators towards persuading local companies to exhibit their products in Dubai and procure export orders from Sri Lanka.
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In Livin' la Vida Google: A Month-Long Dive Into Web-based Apps, Wired news editor Michael Calore describes his experiment to ditch desktop programs in favor of Google's offerings.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets are my answer to "I left the file on my home computer" excuses.
Students can easily work on a paper at school and at home without getting into email or USB drives to move stuff around. Students could even get at their paper while doing research at the library.
Collaborative (but still private) work! Teachers could review drafts online or students could write a paper together.
There's a PDF output option.
Version tracking. Google allows you to open prior versions of docs — handy when revising frequently and you zealously chop a necessary paragraph or two.
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So are you doing it yet? At school? Anyone?
Several of my students use Google Apps on their own. I haven't started using it in any classes mostly because not everyone has a Google Account.
Last week, though, a 10th grader came up to me after class to say the word processor "rocks" but that it doesn't handle Open Office docs as well as he would have liked.
I just came across your blog and I love it. I love the fact that you've written about Google Apps. I'm a technology coordinator for a small K12 in western New York State. I'm trying to get our administration to give us the go-ahead to sign up for Google Apps. I'm going to add you to my blog roll and I'm subscribing to your feed. I want to read more of what you're doing with Linux too. I'm a Linux user myself and we're using it i our school to some degree.
Don — getting the go-ahead to sign up is where I'm feeling a new challenge. My users so far have been teens who already had Google accounts. As I push this stuff down to younger grades, I'll have to deal with all the questions that come up with pre-teens using the web.


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Q: How to do one hot encoding in Pandas and Pyspark I have a dataframe as follows:
   id  country    amount    city
    1  France       4         Paris
    2  Italy        9         Naples

I want to convert it to
   id amount    city    France   Italy
    1  4        Paris     1        0
    2  9        Naples    0        1

How can I achieve this using Pandas and Pyspark respectively?

A: In pandas you can use pd.get_dummies().
df = pd.get_dummies(df, columns=['country'])


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Q: Open Related List custom button in new window or close VisualForce page after export I have a standard page layout for Account.
On that page layout I added a related list of my custom object.
I want to have an 'export' button to export that related list.
I added a VF custom controller that creates the CSV as a string and then I created a VF page as a List Button on my custom object.
This works but unfortunately open in New window is not available for List Button in SF, so the current behaviour is that the user clicks my button they get the csv download but they are staring on the weird white screen.
What can I do to either open my VF page in a new tab or close it/go back after export?


Yakimono in Japanese refers to a "fired thing." A reverence for nature has historically been part of Japanese art since ancient times. Interestingly, the evocation of the respect for nature has been as strong in ceramics as it has in painting, calligraphy, sculpture, and architecture. There has traditionally been a strong spiritual element to Japanese ceramics because of their connection to Zen and tea. This is just as true today as it was centuries ago. We just added an image of this gorgeous work to our digital collection and, yes, it was a "Wow!" moment. This artist is awesome.
The oldest art form to survive from Japan is ceramics. As in China, ceramic arts are an honored art form even above sculpture. Until the eighth century CE, the predominant ware in Japan was unglazed stoneware. Intentional high-fire glazing of stoneware did not occur until the Kamakura period. Japan did not successfully produce porcelain until the early seventeenth century. Up until that time the famous Chinese porcelains were highly prized by the imperial household and nobility.
Ceramics production never reached the scale that it did in China. Japanese art encouraged the emergence of strong personalities and distinctly individual styles in ceramics. There is a tradition of celebrated artist-potters in Japan. The tea ceremony, popular from the Momoyama (1573–1615) through the early Edo periods, influenced a great period of ceramics activity. The tea ceremony had a preference for simple wares. Ceramics continue to be a significant art form in Japan. It is evident that strong personalities, such as Sugiura Yasuyoshi, still have significant influence in ceramic art in Japan.
Yasuyoshi's works definitely carry on the Japanese tradition of ceramics and the reverence for nature. The artist carries the significance further, in asserting that his flower pieces also emphasize the texture of the clay, another aspect of the respect for nature. Yasuyoshi's work of the 1980s and 1990s was dominated by large installations of ceramic "megaliths" in series called Ceramic Stones and Ceramic Boulders.
This camellia piece comes from a later series called Ceramics of the Natural World. Although we in the west would look at this as sculpture since it is non-utilitarian, the artist calls all of his forms "vessels." He regrets that many ceramic artists in Japan need to produce utilitarian wares to make a living rather than persevere in ceramics as artists.


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von: David Palfreyman, Dennis Farrington
OUP Oxford, 2012
Preis: 230,69 EUR
Written by two leading practitioners, this comprehesive and practical guide to the law of higher education in the UK provides extensive analysis of the complex legal framework in which universities work and the remedies which may be sought in the event of disputes. The Law of Higher Education has been fully updated to take account of the many legislative changes which have come into force since the publication of the first edition in 2006. The impact of new charity law, changes in governance structures, developments in the law of employment, academic freedom issues, and the increasing presence of academies and other private Higher Education Institutions are all dealt with in detail, with reference to and analysis of the relevent case lawthroughout. Although focussing on UK laws, the new edition includes expanded material on the international context, which has become particularly important as institutions are increasingly involved in international exchanges and collaborations, as well as being subject to the increasing globalisation of highereducation. The text is linked to the updating service on the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies website, ensuring that readers are kept up-to-date with developments, even after publication.


The Cash Flow Index is the Fastest Way to Wipe out Your Debt… PERIOD.
Today we take a closer look into the Cash Flow Index and see how it can accelerate your loan repayments in the most efficient way possible.
The average American household has $16,883 of debt in credit cards and $137,063 in total debt.
Even more alarming is that many people, motivated to pay off their debts more rapidly, take on debt-reduction methods that negatively affects their cashflow.
The Cash Flow Index (CFI) is a ranking system to help you identify the score(or efficiency) of each of your loans. This allows you to pay off the most inefficient loans first. Then you will know exactly which loan to pay off next to maximize your results.
How you go about paying off your debt can have a incredible effect on your financial security and wealth building potential.
I've found out over the years that a strategy that favours cash flow always wins.
That's why the Cash Flow Index works so well. It pays off your outstanding debts from a cash flow perspective first. Then it systematically eliminates debt one by one while still allowing you to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
The Cash Flow Index I will show you today will not only help you erase debt safely and quickly, it also allows you increase your cash flow and live to the fullest today.
A high number (90+) means the loan is efficient. A low number (under 50) means it is inefficient.
So whichever loan has the lowest CFI number is the one you should focus on paying off.
99% of people will focus on the highest interest loan but that is not the fastest way to do this.
It doesn't matter what the interest rate is on the loan. The most important thing is how efficient it is, which is what the Cash Flow Index allows you to figure out.
In fact, most financial advisors will always tell you to focus on the highest interest rates first.
I've discovered that ignoring the interest rate and using the Cash Flow Index gives you superior results.
By taking out the inefficient loans first, you free up a ton of cash flow to work on other loans. This has the intended "snowball" effect of eliminating them in order, in the most efficient way.
So if you have extra cash to put towards that, put it all toward that loan first.
Next up would be retiring the auto loan (CFI of 37) which then frees up $450 per month. This can then be applied toward the credit card balance (the third lowest CFI).
Once you've payed off your inefficient loans (those with a Cash Flow Index under 50), it's time to look at the remaining debt.
Any loan with a CFI between 51-100 is a good target for restructuring. Look at last week's article for tips on how to do that.
For example, you may be able to negotiate a lower interest rate, lengthen the payment schedule, or consolidate the balance into a more efficient loan.
In fact, trying to pay down efficient loans (like making double payments on a home mortgage with a high CFI) instead of saving or investing that money could negatively impact your cash flow. More on that in the next post.
The best part is that once you have all your inefficient loans paid off or restructured, you can start making extra investments with the freed up cash flow.
And in the next post, I'll show you exactly how to do that with the Investment Cash Flow Index.
Apply the Cash Flow Index formula on all of your loans.
Rank the other loans in order, from lowest score to highest. Consider restructuring loans with a score of 50-100. Loans over 100 are efficient and don't need any attention.
Celebrate your debt-reduction victories along the way. Be sure to put a percentage of your newly created cash flow into enjoying the fruits of your labor and treat yourself.


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SFPD Stepping Up Security, Implementing "Zero-Tolerance" Booze Policy For Pink Saturday
by Bay City News | June 24, 2011 12:33 pm	| in News | 0
Related: Think Globally, Come Locally: Violet Blue's Sexy SF Pride Guide 2011
Weekend Traffic And Transit Disruptions: Critical Mass, Triathalon, Pride Events, Lots More
Today's Trans March To Commemorate 45th Anniversary Of Compton's Cafeteria Riot
Castro's Pink Saturday Celebration Bans Booze In Effort To Re-Focus On LGBT Community
New security measures will be in place at this weekend's Pink Saturday pride celebration in an effort to prevent another incident such as the fatal shooting that rocked last year's event, a San Francisco police spokesman said.
Attendees of the unofficial Castro District street party will not be allowed to bring alcohol this year, police Officer Albie Esparza said.
Security officers will also be checking bags and using wands to search individuals for weapons after 19-year-old Stephen Powell was killed last year when an unidentified man opened fire into a crowd, Esparza said.
"We want to provide a safe environment," he said. "You don't come to Pride expecting to be caught in the crossfire. It's a celebration–come enjoy it–but we don't want any crime."
Esparza said the Police Department will have a zero-tolerance policy for alcohol consumption at Pink Saturday, which will be held on Castro Street between 19th and Market streets; 18th Street between Diamond and Noe streets; and Market Street between Diamond and Noe streets.
Officers will also be citing at their discretion any intoxicated or aggressive individuals, and patrols were increased starting today to cover the weekend revelers, Esparza said.
SF Pride official celebrations begin on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the city's Civic Center Plaza with music, booths and large crowds and will continue with the parade on Sunday. This year's theme is "In Pride We Trust."
Tonight the "Trans March" will begin from San Francisco's Dolores Park at 6:30 p.m. to United Nations Plaza near City Hall. The march intends to "inspire all trans and gender non-conforming people to realize a world where we are safe, loved, and empowered," according to group organizers.
At 8 p.m. the 33rd annual pride concert kicks off at the Everett Auditorium at Church and 16th streets, pride concert spokeswoman Heidi Beeler said.
The concert features the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Golden Gate Men's Chorus and other local groups. Commander Zoe Dunning, the first openly gay naval officer, will be honored at the concert.
The Pride Parade is then expected to attract 1 million people onto the streets of San Francisco on Sunday morning, starting in the Embarcadero and ending at Civic Center Plaza, but the celebration of the lesbian, gay, transgender, queer and bisexual community goes beyond the annual parade.
Another visible sign of pride weekend will be the pink triangle displayed on the hillside of Twin Peaks. The triangle has 200-foot-long sides and is made with 175 pink-painted tarps, said organizer and co-founder Patrick Carney.
This year marks the triangle's 16th year and represents the pink triangle German Nazis forced homosexuals to wear during World War II, Carney explained.
After 120 volunteers install the triangle on Saturday from 6 to 10 a.m., city officials and SF Pride marshals will christen the homemade flag. Mayor Ed Lee, Supervisor Scott Weiner and other city officials are expected to attend the ceremony at the top of Twin Peaks.
Carney said the triangle can be seen from 20 miles away. On Saturday night spotlights will illuminate the triangle.
On Saturday afternoon the annual Dyke March will head from Dolores Park into the Castro District where the Pink Saturday party takes place, shutting down the heart of the famously "gay" neighborhood.
The pride activities will close streets, affecting Muni and other transit routes tonight through Sunday night, said SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose. Golden Gate Bridge District spokeswoman Mary Currie said ferry service would be added from Larkspur into the city for the parade on Sunday.
Bus service through Golden Gate Transit will be disrupted today through Monday, she said.
Janna Brancolini/Sasha Lekach, Bay City News


As we celebrate the Holiday Season with our families and friends, we think of those who are less fortunate or who have come into hard times. Whether battling a disease; going through persecution, wars or financial burdens; or trying to conquer stress or manage depression, finding a support network can make all the difference. Here is where kindness and caring can be demonstrated all over the world in different shapes and forms. By being kind and compassionate to those who are in pain or experiencing difficulty, we can foster a global community of compassion that will give hope to those who need it the most. Let's remember them in our thoughts, words, and in our deeds.
The road to peace goes through compassion and hope. And as we prepare to say farewell to 2017, we thank you for your empathy and wish you success and happiness. Our ultimate goal is peace on earth! It is our hope that all peoples will evolve into believing that peace on earth will become a reality one day if we all work towards it together.
Personally, I have much to be grateful for as I reflect on 2017 and much to look forward to as we embark on 2018. Thank you!


The Kranks have always celebrated a picture-perfect Christmas. But with their only daughter, Blair (Julie Gonzalo), away from home on her Peace Corps assignment, Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther (Tim Allen) are suffering from empty nest syndrome and decide to skip Christmas in favor of a Caribbean cruise. But their neighbors, led by Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Akroyd), take Christmas very seriously and are none too happy about the Kranks' boycott. In this neighborhood where every house is decorated to the hilt and has a Frosty on the roof, skipping Christmas is virtually a crime. And just as the Kranks are preparing for their Christmas Day departure, they get a call from their daughter who announces that she is coming home for Christmas after all. Suddenly, all systems are go for their annual Christmas Eve party and a normal--highly festive--holiday. Will the Kranks be able to pull together a perfect Christmas for Blair in just a few hours, or will she discover their plan to skip Christmas? Directed by Joe Roth (AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS) and based on a John Grisham novel, this film also features appearances by Cheech Marin, Caroline Rhea, and Felicity Huffman.


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It's Katie from Made to be a Momma here again and todays recipe is a winner! This orange jello fluff is a delicious side dish or party treat. We like to add mini marshmallows to our fluff but you can leave them out if you prefer. This creamsicle fluff has a few steps but it's well worth the time put into it. You only need a few simple ingredients and you may already have the stuff on hand.
I like to let this jello sit for at least one hour before serving. You can most certainly make this recipe the day before a gathering. I brought this creamsicle fluff to a morning playdate and everyone loved the recipe!
You can top individual servings in ramekins with a little mandarin orange and mini marshmallows to make a perfect Easter or Mothers Day brunch place setting.
1 Cool Whip 8 oz.
In a large bowl combine orange Jell-O and boiling water. Whisk until Jell-o is dissolved. Add cold water and allow to chill for 15 minutes in refrigerator. Slowly whisk in vanilla pudding mix until smooth and chill for another 15-20 minutes or until it becomes slightly thickened. Fold in Cool Whip, mandarin oranges and marshmallows. Chill for at least 1 hour.
I hope you will try this recipe! It's definitely one of our favorites!
It's a pretty big bowl, i'm guessing it would serve 10 or so people!
Loved it. I used cheesecake flavor pudding instead of vanilla. Love that pudding. Gonna try pineapple next time. Thanks for the share.
Ooh that's a great idea!!! Glad you loved it!
Ooh I love pineapple! Great idea!
Sounds yummy! Just wondering if you can you fat free ingredients or low fat?
Yum ???? loves this! I added pecan chips and crushed pineapple! So delicious!
That sounds amazing! Good idea!!
This is so good. I added sliced Bananas too. That took it up a notch. Thank you.
Oh that sounds delicious! Definitely will try that next time! Thank you so much!
Can this be made into a jello mold, like a tupperwARE mold?Does it get firm enough? Maybe adding sime gelATIN wiuld Makeit firm to get out if mold.
which size box of jello?????
Small or large jello and pudding ??
I made this for sunday dinner as our dessert. It was very easy to make. Was very tasty too. My famIly loved it. I will be making this again.
this is a great easy side dish for parties and the kids love it too!
How much (for how many people) does this make?
I make this for almost every family party or get together, everyone loves it!
Large or small box of pudding?
This was SO good! I'll be making this again soon! It's very light and refreshing and using the pudding mix instead of cream cheese made this a treat hubby could eat without guilt! Thank you for sharing!
Wooo hoooo!!!! So so glad you loved it!! Thank you for letting us know!!
My kids are going to love this recipe! It's a combination of all their fave snacks. <3 it!
Yay!!! We are so glad!
Do you small or large box of jello?