One of the questions I get most often is if there are alternatives to using the class of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. In truth, many people who take statins probably shouldn't, because their cholesterol problems are not serious enough to warrant such a strong drug.
The good news is that there are supplements that can treat high cholesterol naturally. The bad news is that none are as effective as statin therapy. But there is one that comes very close. Red yeast rice contains a substance that is chemically identical to the active ingredient in a statin drug.
Unfortunately, quality control is a problem. Red yeast rice is manufactured in China, and there have been instances of the product being laced with a statin to enhance the effect. This is an illegal and dangerous practice.
Niacin (vitamin B3) is also a very effective way to lower LDL cholesterol, boost HDL cholesterol, and transform small, dense LDL particles into a more harmless type.
When taking niacin, you should start off with 250 mg and build up to 1,500 to 3,000 mg daily — which may take up to two years.
Also, be cautious about adding niacin if you already take statins. In a recent study of 26,000 patients, those who took both niacin and a statin experienced an increase in adverse side effects, researchers reported in the European Heart Journal.
Fish oil is my primary weapon for lowering triglycerides, which increase risk for stroke even more than LDL cholesterol. I recommend 2,000 mg daily. Because it is a natural blood thinner, if you notice bruising, quit taking it altogether.
Flaxseed, flaxseed oil, and flaxseed lignans have all been studied for their cholesterol-lowering properties. I find they have a mildly positive effect. Probiotics help maintain good digestive health. These helpful bacteria also help prevent cholesterol from being reabsorbed, and therefore lower the amount of it in the blood.
from McGill University found that participants taking probiotics saw their cholesterol drop by 9 percent. My recommendation is 2 to 4 capsules daily.
Garlic, which is lauded for a number of beneficial cardiac effects, is also a mild cholesterol and blood pressure reducer. I recommend 1 or 2 capsules a day.
Lastly, vitamin C offers a variety of health benefits and has also been found to exert a mild cholesterol-lowering effect. I recommend 2,000 units daily for this purpose.


U.S. oil futures dropped below $64 a barrel on Thursday to mark the lowest settlement since early April. Further signs of growing global production continue to ease concerns over the potential for tighter crude supplies, with the official start of U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil next week. December West Texas Intermediate oil CLZ8, +0.19% dropped $1.62, or 2.5%, to settle at $63.69 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The projected lower bound is: 12.77.
The projected closing price is: 13.44.
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UNTD ST OIL FUND closed down -0.330 at 13.460. Volume was 72% above average (neutral) and Bollinger Bands were 58% wider than normal.
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Royals calling up former first-round pick, local prospect Bubba Starling
Posted 11:28 am, July 11, 2019, by Andrew Lynch, Updated at 06:51PM, July 11, 2019
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Once the fifth overall pick in the 2011 MLB Draft, Royals prospect Bubba Starling will complete his eight-year climb to the big leagues on Friday night, July 12. The club announced on Thursday morning that he's getting the call to Kansas City.
Starling has enjoyed a strong season with the Omaha Storm Chasers. He was a AAA all-star, hitting .310 with seven home runs, 38 runs batted in, and 34 runs scored. He's also stolen nine bases in 12 attempts.
The Gardner Edgerton phenom famously passed up on playing football and baseball at Nebraska. After he was drafted and signed, he was immediately pegged as the Royals top prospect in 2012. His development didn't materialize as fast as many fans had hoped, and he fell out of the top prospects rankings by 2016.
After hitting .185 at AA Northwest Arkansas by the end of the 2016 season, the outfielder turned things around at the plate, hitting .303 at Omaha in 2017, and then breaking out in 2018, where he posted a 1.026 on base + plus slugging percentage for three different Royals minor league affiliates.
The Royals say they'll make a corresponding move to make room for him on the roster ahead of Friday night's game against the Detroit Tigers. First pitch at Kauffman Stadium is scheduled for 7:15 p.m.
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The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Shri J P Nadda said that Government is fully committed to ensure proper delivery of health care facilities to the poor, needy and underprivileged sections of the society in every nook and corner of the country. Delivering his convocation address at the 35th Convocation of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh today, Shri JP Nadda said that Government is coming up with AIIMS like institutions in various parts of the country and expanding the network of the medical colleges in a big way by upgrading district hospitals to medical colleges. Government schemes like Ayushman Bharat will bring a complete change in delivering health care facilities to everyone.
Shri Nadda gave away thirty five gold, ninety-two silver and ninety-five bronze medals and awarded 1886 degrees to students from various specialities.
Prof Jagat Ram, Director PGIMER presented a report about the advancements in the Institute.
Shri JP Nadda also inaugurated three new facilities in PGIMER, Chandigarh. These are a new state of the art Nephrology and Transplant Care Unit (NTCU), Advanced High Energy Linear Accelerator and 11 KV Substation for Research blocks.


A hilarious American comedy has come to our cinemas at last. This comedy with a funny name "Our brother idiot" will be screened at the Art Cinema "Kriterion" from the 27th till the 30th December at 20:20 p.m.
The director of this comedy is Jesse Peretz, and the scenario for this film is based on a story about an idealistic man, who tries to distract and introduce chaos into the lives of his three sisters. This director is well known for his work with music bands such as the FooFighters, Jack Black and Lemonheads, with whom he used to perform.
The film had its premiere in 2011 at the "Sundance Film Festival" and since the first screening it has delighted the audience as well as the film critics.


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Unistar Books from India will release Dr. Stephen Gill's novel 'The Chhattisgarh' on the 20th of April, 2015 in hardcover version.
The Chhattisgarh is about the rich mythology of India, the rajas, the macabre rituals of witchcraft, the assassination of Maharaja Pravir, the prophecies concerning Kohinoor, and a legend that connects Kohinoor with Lord Krishna. Above all, The Chhattisgarh is about politics, and Aboriginal peoples, called the Adivasi.
An informative and engaging narrative focuses largely on the exotic nature of the mythologies around the jungles of Chhattisgarh, where the mega players of the Hindu epic Ramayana had ambled, as did Rajneesh Osho, a mystic of today.
The Chhattisgarh is also about love between an Indian married professor, who believes in the five thousand year old theory of detachment that has impacted most Indians, and Reghu, an India-born Canadian writer, who believes that the theory of detachment had sedated citizens to yield to dehumanizing external aggressions, and has resulted in the domestic, political, business and social disconnections.
Reghu questions the theory of detachment, because it also violates the central precept of live and let live. The Chhattisgarh is an evocative story that moves swiftly despite a density of details.


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October 6, 2014 Tony Peters
1969 — Songwriter Ruthann Friedman wrote the hit song "Wendy" made popular by 1960s-70s band, The Association. — Image by © Henry Diltz/CORBIS
Ruthann Friedman wrote "Windy," which became a #1 smash for the Association in 1967. With it, she became only the third woman to write a number one hit on the Billboard charts. This led to Constant Companion, considered by many to be a great lost folk classic, released in 1970. But, that album never took off and Friedman chose to settle down and raise a family instead. Now, some 40 years later – she's back with a new album, Chinatown. We talk the inspiration behind "Windy," what got her out of retirement, and what David Crosby had on the wall of his house that upset his mother.
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The 41st most popular snowboarding destination in Italy.
East of Rome and south of Pescara in the Appennines, the Scanno Monte Rotondo ski area has 8 pistes served by 3 lifts with a maximum vertical descent of 858m.
To reach the snowboarding at Scanno Monte Rotondo by air, you will want to fly into Aeroporto Internazionale d'Abruzzo (PSR) in Pescara on the eastern Adriatic Sea coast. There are several international flights into Pescara and intercountry flights from Rome. While you could fly to Rome and rent a car, those heavy snowfalls make driving unexpectedly difficult. From the airport in Pescara, some of the resort hotels do provide a complementary shuttle bus.
Overall, Scanno Monte Rotondo is the 41st most popular snowboard & freeride destination of all 43 snowboarding resorts in Italy. Several of the better snowboarding resorts are nearby Scanno Monte Rotondo including Prati di Tivo, Prato Selva, Passolanciano - Maielletta, Roccaraso - Rivisondoli, Pescocostanzo and Campo Felice.
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My dear wife, Terri, and I celebrated the 10th anniversary of the day we met by doing the same thing we were doing the day we met, which is fighting for a CURE for muscular dystrophy. Terri was a district director way back then and the Summer Sizzler Car Show was one of her many big events. I was her auctioneer as part of my tour as the newly crowned 2002 Oklahoma State Champion Auctioneer. It was love at first sight, and we've continued to make a point of helping with the event every year.
As I said that day, I am convinced that by the time Dalton is a parent, muscular dystrophy will be something that you can only read about in the history books because of the help of good folks like YOU.
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This thesis is an attempt to study and determine the origin of the names of the counties, towns, streams, townships, and country schools of the North Central Counties of Missouri. These counties include Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Lirin, Livingston, Macon, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, and Sullivan. I have tried in this study to record the reasons why the name was given, and as much of the available history of the place as was pertinent to the origin of the name. This section is not a natural division and is not uniform topographically. The people who settled here were from different states and many foreign countries. --Page ii.


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District wise Assembly Constituciency for Goa
Find the assembly election constituencies / vidhan sabha seats list for all district based on the state
To find the list of assembly constituency in district wise, Select the state from the state list in the form, after selecting the State, the district name for the state will be displayed in the box, from that select the particular district to know the Assembly Constituencies / Vidhan sabha seats list with the reserved status. The allocated reserved status are only displayed along the assembly constituency name. The Reserved Status are SC, ST and others.
You can find the detailed assembly constituencies for all districts based on the Selected States. The State lists are as follows Telangana,	Chhattisgarh,	Daman and Diu,	Bihar,	Manipur,	Tamil Nadu,	Andhra Pradesh,	Madhya Pradesh,	Assam,	Sikkim,	Arunachal Pradesh,	West Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nagaland, Odisha, Meghalaya,	Mizoram, Punjab, Puducherry,	Goa,	Uttarakhand,	Jharkhand,	Maharashtra,	Uttar Pradesh, Kerala,	Haryana,	Karnataka,	Jammu and Kashmir,	Gujarat, Lakshadweep, Delhi,	Chandigarh,	Himachal Pradesh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli,	Tripura and Rajasthan.
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No City Liability for Police-Pursuit Death
By William Vogeler, Esq. on August 17, 2018 3:54 PM
Mark Gamar died when police nudged his car into a street pole during a high-speed chase. He was the passenger.
His mother sued the City of Gardena for negligence and wrongful death, but the city won based on a state law that says police are immune if they receive annual training on police pursuits. In Ramirez v. City of Gardena, the California Supreme Court affirmed.
It came down to the difference between police actually being trained and just saying they are.
Using a "pursuit intervention technique," Officer Michael Nguyen bumped the rear fender of the driver's truck that sent Gamar to this death on Feb. 15, 2015. Irma Ramirez sued in state court.
The Supreme Court said the city was immune under Vehicle Code Section 17004.7. The law gives public entities' civil immunity for personal injury or death in police pursuits, so long as police "certify in writing that they have received, read, and understand" annual training in vehicular pursuits.
Nguyen certified that he received the training, but not every officer did. Lt. Mike Saffell said "some forms might have been lost during the police department's move to a new station."
The plaintiff argued the city should not be immune because not all the officers complied with the training policy. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court said they didn't have to.
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The unanimous panel said the city "does not have to prove total compliance" as a condition of immunity. Writing for the court, Justice Ming Chin said a requirement may exist "even if not every peace officer complies with it."
"We conclude that the agency's policy must require the written certification, but 100 percent compliance with that requirement is not a prerequisite to receiving the immunity," he wrote.
Abdalla Innabi, who represented the plaintiff, said the decision makes people less safe by protecting police no matter "how negligent, how egregious, how reckless" they are.
"The standard is now so low that any department will be immune," he said. "All they have to say is, 'We have a requirement,' and that's good enough."
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Will Texas Grow the Next World-Record Bass?
Texas wants to be the home of the next world record bass — even if it means giving nature a...
By Ben Romans | Published Jul 23, 2014 8:28 PM
Texas wants to be the home of the next world record bass — even if it means giving nature a little push. That's why it created Operation World Record under its ShareLunker program — an effort that encourages anglers to donate any bass weighing more than 13 pounds to the state for spawning purposes. According to a story from the San Antonio Express News, the program is gaining traction.
Oral surgeon Dr. Gary Schwarz said that while no angler has caught anything even close to a new state bass record in years, let alone a world record, he'd like to see Texas as the place anglers come looking for it. He's so enthused he recently signed a 15-year contract with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) allowing it to use his private lake as a nursery.
"I had taken this featureless, barren mudhole and turned it into bass mecca," Schwarz said. "It was chock full of nutritious things to eat because of the diversity in water depths and edge effect I had created in the main lakes where the bass lived."
While the doctor was surprised at the length of the contract, Allen Forshage of the TPWD's Freshwater Fishing Center said it's the standard term because big bass don't grow overnight.
"All of our contract lakes where we're monitoring the max size are for 15 years because that's how long it takes for them to get at least that size," Forshage said. "They can get there in as short as eight years, but the average lunker is 11 years old. We designed the length of the study to go beyond that."
Schwarz is no stranger to raising bass. In fact, he's footing the bill for most of the project and plans to lend some of his expertise in the future and said by creating the pond from scratch and having control over variables that affect fish health, they're in a good position to accomplish their goal -— create bigger fish.
"He was willing to build the lake the way we wanted it built," Forshage said. "He manages the lake. What we did is we stocked it with some of our operation world record fish. He signed the contract and is going to follow our recommendations for the next 15 years."
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You never know what gem of an information nugget you will unearth when conducting an interview, or, as in the case of my chat with Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt, before the formal interview began while I was checking the sound levels on my recording equipment on May 2, 2015. I had spoken to Ponsoldt a few years ago for his sublime film, THE SPECTACULAR NOW, and during that set-up, he mentioned a place he like to stop for pie when driving between Los Angeles and San Francisco. I asked him what kind of pie he would be getting on his next drive, which led to a discussion about berries, which led to Segel revealing his extensive knowledge about the hybridization of same, and that when not acting, he's a gentleman orange farmer.
Agriculture discussed, we turned to the topic at hand, the career changing role Segel has as David Foster Wallace in THE END OF THE TOUR. I wanted to know about the pre-conceived notions both men had to toss aside about Wallace in order to make the film. They were then kind enough to get philosophical with me about the nature of hero worship, and how it gets us off the hook (or as Segel put it, lets us stay on the couch) before moving on to listening to the actual cassettes David Lipsky recorded of his conversations with Wallace, what they both felt was the best way to serve both Wallace and his fans, and the adventure of filming in a car. Never mind the revelation that Segel gave up watching television, though his reasons might make you question your TV watching habits.
They were also kind enough to humor an off-topic question about doing Shakespeare, which proves that they are not only smart and witty, they are true gentlemen, in or out of the orange orchard.
THE END OF THE TOUR, a story about hero worship, professional jealousy, and the perils of pleasure. Segal plays writer David Foster Wallace who has opened his life up to novelist and Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky for the last days of Wallace's 1996 book tour for Infinite Jest, hailed by critics as the book of his generation. During that time, Wallace is both open and wary, friendly and prickly, and both men play many parts as they get to know one another while interacting with friends and fans. The film co-stars Jessie Eisenberg as Lipsky, as well as Anna Chulmsky, Mamie Gummer, Mickey Sumner, Ron Livingston, and Joan Cusack as the publicist. Ponsoldt directed from a script by his former college professor, Donald Margulies, his previous work includes the sublime THE SPECTACULAR NOW, and the visceral SMASHED. Segal's previous work includes nine seasons on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, superbly reviving THE MUPPETS for fans old and new, not taking credit in THIS IS THE END, baring even more than his soul in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, being, according to Mr. Ponsoldt, the emotional core of television's Freaks and Geeks, and being part of the cast of the sadly underrated SLC PUNK. He is also the author of Nightmares, co-written with Kirsten Miller and composer of the song Dracula's Lament.


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Q: multidimensional nearly equidistant points My colleagues and I like sitting all together. But as the team grows this is becoming difficult. I thought the solution will be to leave the flat floor plan and add more dimensions so we can grow the team, ensure each member has his/her space and yet we remain close together.
If we want everyone to be exactly the same distance from each other we can only put $n+1$ people in $\mathbb{R}^n$ (euclidean distances).
This seems rather expensive, needing to add so many dimensions to our office as the team grows(Especially as I have yet to find an architect willing to work with more than 3).
If we are willing to have some variability in distances between team members we can do better. For instance if we place our desks on a hypercube we can put $2^n$ points with a maximal distance ratio of $\sqrt(n)$.(Distance between two nearest vs two farthest).
Is this optimal?
Can we improve? This is a multi objective, lower distance ratio or more points, so I'm interested in anything on the pareto optimal front.

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Teacher facilitation in the classroom is widely recognized as one of the main factors affecting student learning outcomes in formal face-to-face settings. However, the orchestration load that such facilitation represents for the teacher, within the constraints of an authentic classroom, remains under-researched. We are investigating new methods to estimate the cognitive load of teachers during lessons, combining mobile eye-tracking and post-hoc video analysis techniques.
Initial studies so far provided several insights about classroom usability challenges: the increased load of class-level facilitation, or the real-time monitoring of students' progress. This new instrument in the researcher's toolkit can help focus our attention in critical, fine-grained classroom usability episodes, to make more informed technology design decisions.
Luis P. Prieto, Kshitij Sharma, Yun Wen and Pierre Dillenbourg. The burden of facilitating collaboration: Towards estimation of teacher orchestration load using eye-tracking measures. Accepted at the 11th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2015), Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2015.
This project is part of the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship MIOCTI, whose goal is to study and model classroom orchestration, and to propose and evaluate solutions to enhance such orchestration, using tangible user interfaces and paper computing.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF project no. 327384.


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Q: Sharepoint 2010 : not able to deploy new sharepoint solution I was working on Sharepoint visual solution, all my webparts works fine, I don't know what happened but when I create new visual webpart (with label in it)I was not able to deploy
error message :
Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': The process cannot access the file 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\ch-dev80\web.config' because it is being used by another process.

I didn't open my web.config, and I am the only one working on the server.
I tried an IISreset, app pool retsart with no luck,
I went to the Central admin delete the solution, and I create new sharepoint project with an empty webpart (just a label to test) but when I deploy from VS or central admin I have this message in central admin :
 CH-xx : http://ch--dev/ : Portal : Error: The web.config could not be saved on this IIS Web Site: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\ch-dev80\web.config.
The process cannot access the file 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\ch-dev80\web.config' because it is being used by another process.

I don't know what to do.
Help please


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Q: Changing value of cell in one dataframe based on comparision another cell to another dataframe's cell - pandas I've got two dataframes which looks like:
df1

col1            col2         col3
20              John         Positive
21              Kate         Negative
22              Nick         Another

df2

col1            col2         col3
21              message      white
22              text         black
20              nothing      orange,yellow
19              excel        blue

And I want to make them to look like:
df3

col1             col2         col3
20               John         orange,yellow
21               Kate         white
22               Nick         black

I want to change the value from df1 in col3 to value from df2 from col3 if the number from col1 of both dataframes matches. (In df2 in col1 I've got more values than in df1 col1, but it includes all numbers from df1 col1)
I've made solution which looks like:
for i in range(len(df2)):
    df1.loc[df1.col1 == df2.col1[i], ['col3']] = df2.col3[i]

And my solution is working, but it's really time consuming. I hope that using pandas I can improve my code. Do you have any idea how to do that?

A: Use DataFrame.merge with left join DataFrame.fillna:
#column fo join with all columns for replace, here col3
cols = ['col1','col3']
df = df1.merge(df2[cols], on='col1', how='left', suffixes=('_','')).fillna(df1)[df1.columns]
print (df)
   col1  col2           col3
0    20  John  orange,yellow
1    21  Kate          white
2    22  Nick          black

Or use Series.map by Series with df2 if want replace only one column:
df1['col3'] = df1['col1'].map(df2.set_index('col1')['col3']).fillna(df1['col3'])

Or:
df1['col3'] = df1['col1'].replace(df2.set_index('col1')['col3']).fillna(df1['col3'])


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Al-Dżabin (arab. الجبين) – miasto w zachodnim Jemenie, stolica muhafazy Rajma i dystryktu Al-Dżabin.

Al-Dżabin w 2004 roku stał się stolicą nowo utworzonej muhafazy, wydzielonej z muhafazy Sana. Położony jest na szczycie urwistego wzgórza o wysokości 2438 m n.p.m., górującego nad okolicą. Ze względu na położenie miasto ma dwa zbiorniki na wodę deszczową, którym tradycja przypisuje pochodzenie jeszcze sprzed czasów islamu. Zachowane na nich inskrypcje przywołujące deszcz pochodzą prawdopodobnie z XIII i XIV wieku. Okolice Al-Dżabinu są terenami rolniczymi, na których prowadzi się uprawy tarasowe.

Przypisy

Miasta w Jemenie

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How do I know how many teams to assign to each judge?
Here is a link to a spreadsheet that walks you through the process of determining how many teams should be assigned to each judge.
What's the optimal number of evaluations per team?
Valid Eval's platform allows you to measure the impact of your event holistically. Each additional judge that evaluates a team adds value. (More thorough triangulation. More comments and recommendations from different perspectives.) However, the volunteers you count on to do this work are not a free resource. When we account for (1) the diminishing returns for adding incremental judges, and (2) the opportunity cost for the judges' participation, we find an optimum around 7 or 8 judges per team.
A little more detail. The difference between 2 judges evaluating a performance and 3 judges in the value of feedback to an entrepreneur is huge. The different between 21 and 22 judges looking at the same performance is pretty tiny. When we account for the time of the judges at $200 / hour, the value to the community, net of the cost of the judges' time, peaks around 7 to 8 judges looking at a given team.
What's the minimum number of judges that should look at each team?
If 7 to 8 judges is the ideal (as discussed in another FAQ), but I cannot ask my limited pool of judges to do that much work, what should I do? We think it's helpful to think about 7 to 8 as hitting a "home run." Most of our clients' events are not blessed with enough volunteer-power to get coverage that deep for each and every company. Valid Eval's experience is that you want to wind up with a minimum of 3 judges who actually followed through and completed those evaluations. Of course, every event winds up with a handful of judges who -- despite their good intentions -- flaked out and didn't complete all of their evaluations. Accounting for this attrition, we think that an average of just over 4 judge*looks per company will get you good results.
Automatically matching judges to teams.
How do I un-recuse a Judge?
On v4.0 of our platform, this is not possible. Judges must not only click "Recuse" but confirm their desire to do so via a pop up modal window. Please encourage them to recuse thoughtfully and with intention. Should an erroneous recusal create a serious issue for you, please reach out to Valid Eval to seek a manual solution.
Should I show the Judge Analysis report to my judges?
It's up to you. Valid Eval thinks it is the best practice to openly and transparently show the judges how they all did relative to their peers. Our "Awesomeness" algorithm blends their effort (number of evaluations, % of feedback clicks), their inter-rater reliability* (measured three ways), and their helpfulness (number of comments, length of comment text, recommendations made). If part of your mission is to build capacity within your community, we think closing the loop on the expert evaluators is a good way to do this. If the judges are warned that they'll be measured, you can use their competitive nature to help get better engagement with the companies and more thoughtful assessments.
* Inter-rater reliability is a term from the field of Assessment. It measures the distances between one judge's scores and the scores of her peers on the same companies.
When should I disable the relative performance feedback for companies?
This question refers to the "Show relative performance information" toggle setting you control for each phase of the evaluation. The best practice here is to leave this toggle "ON" in almost all cases. It's incredibly helpful to entrepreneurs to see where they stand relative to their peers on each and every dimension of the rubric you've chosen for this event. Many of the entrepreneur end-users we've spoken with have said the "box plot" visualizations Valid Eval providers were the most useful aspect of the feedback they got.
So, when do you turn it "OFF?" If you are doing a mentoring phase where there are no decisions being made as to who wins, who advances, etc., then it's appropriate to have the toggle set to OFF. Why? If you aren't making decisions and are using a particular phase of your event for mentoring or practice feedback, evidence of a poor showing can hurt motivation.
In other words, someone will come in last during those evaluations. The knowledge that they were last (when we aren't making a decision anyway) can be very discouraging and keep the innovator from focusing on improving for whatever comes next. In some cases, we've seen innovators drop out of programs when they learned that they ranked at the bottom of a consequence-free "mock judging" exercise. So, best practice boils down to this: If you're making decisions based on the results from a phase, keep the "show relative performance information" toggle ON. If you're purely in teaching more, set the toggle to OFF.
How do I change the judging windows a.k.a. the phases?
To make those changes, you need to contact Valid Eval here: info@valideval.com.
The art of fake deadlines -- for applicants.
Everyone is incredibly busy these days. The vast majority of the applications for your event will come is the day of -- if not the last couple of hours before -- the deadline. The same of true of your volunteer experts: They all wait until the last minute.
Happily, you can use this to your advantage with a bit of prior planning.
For applicants, plan an extra few days, if not an extra week, after your published deadline to gather late-coming applications. Here's the key, do not extend the deadline until the initial deadline has passed. This way, you'll capture the initial crop of procrastinators and get an idea of how many applications you will have. If you extend the deadline while there is still time left, a large group of the procrastinators will happily delay without tipping their hand and you won't get any indication of how you are doing in recruiting applications.
Please remember that the application window is opened and closed by you. The top toggle on your Settings page, "Team sign-up" is set to "ON" by default. You are in control of turning the application off and back on, should someone reach out with a terrific "dog ate my homework" excuse.
Similarly, you control whether existing teams have the ability to edit their profiles once it's been established. Even when the "Team sign-up" toggle is off, teams may still edit their profiles, including uploading new documents, if the "Teams can edit profiles" toggle is set to "ON."


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Mary-Anne Gontsana
Toilet topples over, trapping woman inside
A concrete public toilet in a Cape Town informal settlement fell over while a resident was using it.
Vuyiswa Nofuma had to be rescued from this concrete toilet when it toppled over with the door side face down. Photo: Thandi Jolingana
"I screamed for dear life," said Vuyiswa Nofuma. The resident of Taiwan informal settlement was trapped in a toilet when the concrete structure toppled over on Monday morning with her inside.
"The toilet had fallen face down leaving me trapped. Luckily, there were some neighbours sitting nearby drinking. They heard me, saw the toilet, and quickly fetched spades to dig around the toilet in order to turn the toilet to its side and get me out," she said.
Nofuma says she has been using the flush toilet, which is a few metres from her home, for five years.
"When the toilet fell I landed on my left arm, hurting my shoulder, and the toilet pot broke falling on my leg. I had seen that it was not properly attached to the ground, but I had no idea that it was completely loose. When I was done and turned around to flush, I felt it tipping over. I tried holding on, but couldn't. I crouched, covering my face and head with my arms and hands."
Community leader Thandi Jolingana said, "Most of the toilets that we use here are unstable and are not pinned properly to the ground. We have reported this to the city of Cape Town since last year, along with toilets that leak or that are broken. But it seems that our reports go unheard because the toilets have not been fixed yet. Even cleaning them, we have to do that ourselves.
"What happened to Vuyiswa was so unfortunate and dangerous, she could have been badly hurt. I am really worried about the children who play around and next to these toilets."
When GroundUp visited, a toilet nearby stood skew, seemingly on the verge of falling over.
GroundUp reported in June this year that Taiwan informal settlement was to get new flush toilets and a new sewer pipeline. The city had budgeted R6.6 million.
Mayoral committee member for informal settlements, water and waste services councillor Xanthea Limberg said the city was unaware of the incident but it would be investigated, and that there were no "complaints on record related to the issue of unstable toilets in Taiwan".
On the new toilets, Limberg said, "Progress is slow due to challenging conditions on the ground. The anticipated start date for installation is February 2019 after the bulk sewer main has been completed."
"Regarding the installation of full flush toilets, the city's informal settlements department will engage with community leaders, the ward councillor, the sub-council, and other role-players to identify and finalise the positions of the proposed toilets. We can only determine the quantity after consulting with the community and ward councillor to identify possible locations. Our plan is to install as many toilets as possible depending on the space available."
Limberg said due to a change in ownership of the company which provided inoculations of janitors, the city had to terminate the tender, which meant there were currently no janitors to clean the toilets.
Monday's incident left Nofuma with a painfully bruised and swollen left arm: "I work in a factory and my duties include carrying boxes. I cannot manage that now because I cannot use my left arm; it's too painful. I also limp when I walk because my right leg got hit by the toilet pot."
With the toilet she normally used broken, Nofuma was using a bucket at night. She emptied it in the morning in the blue Mshengu portable toilets which were quite a distance from her home. She said the other flush toilets were locked by other residents.
Republished from GroundUp. Read the original article here.
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'These are awesome': These $46 faux leather leggings are trending on Amazon
Kate Mendonca
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December 22, 2021, 10:42 a.m. ·3 min read
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These faux leather leggings are topping Amazon's Movers & Shakers list.
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Samuel Faux Leather Leggings. Image via Amazon.
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