If you read our post about Google Panda and Penguin, then you'll remember that one of the goals of these search engine updates was to punish black-hat SEO. In this post, Big Red SEO listed a few black-hat SEO practices you should avoid, but we didn't do very much explaining past that.
So, today we're going to enlighten you. As you continue reading, you're going to learn about several link building no-no's that worked pre-Penguin, but won't work for your website ranking anymore.
Let us distinguish between two different types of blog commenting. There's organic blog commenting, which is when you personally go visit a website, read an interesting article, and then leave a comment. That's fine, and while it won't give you much link-juice, it's still a decent way to get your name out there.
However, automated blog comments are a whole different story. Typically made using a software called Scrape Box, these automatically generated links are now a huge no-no. If Google sees you creating lots of identical or irrelevant blog comments in a short period of time, it will know that you're just trying to build links to your website. It won't work in your favor and you may actually lose rankings instead.
Keyword stuffing is the practice of fitting as many occurrences of a given keyword as possible into a single web page. For example, if you're trying to rank for the term "blue widgets", you would use "blue widgets" twenty, thirty, maybe even fifty times throughout a single page. Literally in every sentence. In extreme cases, some webmasters would plug in a whole paragraph with the phrase "blue widgets" repeated over and over again at the bottom of each page.
Obviously, keyword stuffed content is borderline unreadable. It's made for machines, not for humans. It used to work, especially in the early 2000's, but these days it just looks stupid to both Google and readers. A natural keyword density is 1% to 3%. Beyond that, you're probably being over zealous.
Forum profile links are created when you sign up at an online forum. Most online forums provide you with a profile page where you can put your contact information, including a link to your website. It used to be that you could automatically create thousands of forum profiles at a time all across the web and receive a nice boost to your rankings. Now, you'll just be punished.
Again, this has a similar disclaimer to it as blog comments. Done naturally on only a few forums where you actually participate in discussions, these profile links are fine. Maybe even beneficial. But, when they are created for the explicit purpose of SEO you start running into trouble.
At a time when the biggest ranking factor was the sheer number of links that you had pointing to your website, it's no surprise that paid links were easy and cheap to find. In fact, paid links came in many forms. You could buy single links from high Page Rank websites or you could buy a thousand links from lower-quality websites. You could even sign up for a blog network like BuildMyRank.com or Linkvana.com to drip out a few links every day. But, none of these work anymore. Google wants all links to be organic, and if it looks like you're paying for links – especially links on thin websites with little to no content – you'll be punished.
Social bookmarks date back to before social networks like Facebook and Twitter dominated the Internet. They were the prequel to social networks. You know, in the time of the dinosaurs. With social bookmarks you're not actually sharing anything, you're just aggregating it. Previously, you could use automated tools to generate hundreds, even thousands of social bookmarks to your website. And you'd do well for it, too.
But not anymore. Now, social signals are restricted to actual social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. Social bookmarks no longer have an effect on ranking. In moderation, they can still be useful for notifying Google of new content, but beyond that they're useless.
What SEO Practices Actually Work Post-Penguin?
You've just learned five link building no-no's that could put your rankings in danger. The question is, how do you build links that actually improve your rankings? If you'd like to learn more, check out our recent article about SEO Trends in 2013 and Beyond.
If you have more questions, please feel free to contact us anytime at Big Red SEO, an Omaha SEO Company, and we'd be happy to talk about how to bring your business more customers through SEO and digital marketing. After all, that's what we're good at.


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US October 24, 2018
Nashville gay bar owners say they feel threatened by a picture of a gun on pro-Trump 'LGBT' flyers
Some gay bars in Nashville, Tennessee, have received flyers that they consider to be hate mail. (Image source: WTVF-TV video screenshot)
Some members of the gay community in Nashville, Tennessee, think that flyers featuring the Statue of Liberty, a gun, a beer, and President Donald Trump's face are a threat.
A ... threat?
Yes. A threat.
According to WTVF-TV, at least four Nashville-area gay bars received the flyers, and some people are calling the content of the flyers "targeted hate mail."
Melvin Brown, the owner of Nashville's Stirrup, said that his establishment was one that received the offending postcard-style mailer.
The postcard, as you can see above, follows a red, white, and blue theme and features the letters "LGBT," which, in this case, appear to stand for "Liberty," "Guns," "Beer," and "Trump."
Brown said that the photo of the gun was especially chilling.
"When you put a picture of an assault rifle on there — which was used in the Pulse shooting — and you mail it to every LGBT bar in Nashville, that is coming from a hateful place," Brown said. "To say that it's disturbing is an understatement."
Brown was referring to the 2016 mass killing of at least 49 victims at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
The postcard's front has a "MAGA" stamp on it and a return address that locates to an empty Nashville lot.
Brown said that he feels the flyers are tied to the upcoming midterm elections, although the mailer does not appear to affiliate itself with a particular political party or a candidate.
"The midterms are right around the corner and I think somebody is trying to incite a reaction," Brown explained.
Brown also spoke to NBC News, where he expounded on his feelings that the "disturbing" mailer was sent for a reason.
"We live in a post-Pulse world in the LGBTQ community, especially in the bar scene," Brown explained. "To see somebody send a postcard that had a picture of the weapon used in one of the deadliest assaults in this nation's history, and one that happened at an LGBTQ bar, and to send that image to LGBTQ bars, to me is not a coincidence."
Chris Sanders, who is executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, said the mailers were sent to intimidate, and suggested that the mailers could be politically motivated, since some gay bars in the area host voter registration drives.
"This has a very aggressive tone about it," Sanders warned. "It doesn't use many words, but it uses a lot of images I think are meant to threaten us. The community's message back is, 'Yes this is frightening, but we're going to turn out and vote regardless.'"
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said that while the department is aware of the incident, there is no open investigation at the time of this writing. The spokesperson noted that extra officers were dispatched to patrol the areas in which gay bars are located.
You can watch a video report on the incident here.

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At the grand opening ceremony earlier this month, Metris employees conducted facility tours and product demonstrations to illustrate how products ultimately roll off the production line. Reliable interaction between ultra-precise optics, mechanics and electronics is achieved via "Swiss-precision" assembly performed by specialists in various dedicated assembly rooms, the company says. The new metrology equipment is then tested and calibrated in temperature-change laboratories that are equipped with humidity control.


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Sam Heiney | 08 September 2020
5 Benefits of Secure POS Remote Access
Part 8 of 10 in our Complete Guide to Secure Remote Access in Retail. Point of sale systems (POS) are at the heart of retail…
Part 8 of 10 in our Complete Guide to Secure Remote Access in Retail.
Point of sale systems (POS) are at the heart of retail operations, from printing receipts to storing data, and everything in between.
For many retailers, managing common POS problems can be a challenge, including:
Quickly troubleshooting
Preventing and identifying data breaches
Protecting personal information
Remaining compliant with payment card standards
Updating software
As the shift to cloud-based POS system continues, and retailers are expanding their operations nationally and globally, the need for remote access is crucial. Without it, organizations are unable to effectively grow, may experience increased downtimes that lead to lost sales, and put themselves at greater risk for security issues.
The advantages of remote access are numerous and we're here to share five important reasons to make sure your organization chooses the most secure remote access solutions to protect and enhance your POS system.
1. Support for Legacy POS Systems
Many large organizations manage retail operations with older equipment and operating systems that may lack the necessary security to safely function in today's fast-moving, regulated retail environment. While cloud-based POS systems have replaced many legacy POS systems, it is costly and time consuming to make the switch, leading some retailers to remain with their legacy systems.
Legacy POS systems manage data collection and storage on local servers through a closed, internal network. Because of this storage method, legacy systems can often be less secure and experience technical issues that may leave organizations scrambling to quickly troubleshoot and get back online. It's difficult to keep legacy systems compliant with regulations like PCI DSS.
While cloud-based POS technology is useful, not all organizations are prepared to invest in an entirely new POS system–yet, they still need the POS benefits and security to keep business running.
That's when secure POS remote access software is useful. By integrating with legacy POS systems that run software like Windows Mobile or Windows CE, remote access tools can offer organizations assurance that they are compliant, secure, and running at maximum efficiency.
2. Quickly Troubleshoot to Avoid Losing Sales
Sending technicians onsite to troubleshoot problems is a considerable expense. An advantage of remote access is the immediate reduction in troubleshooting costs. A technician can login to a retailer's network to:
Identify problems
Take control of screen
Make updates to operating systems and applications
Detect changes that may indicate data leakage or security gaps
This is particularly important because retailers need their POS systems to conduct transactions. Any delay in service is money lost–and the longer that delay continues, the more costly it becomes. If a technician needs to travel to a location to troubleshoot, retailers not only lose time, but incur travel expenses. They can also use remote access to fix a machine remotely or push patches ff-hours when the machines are unattended.
Remote access for POS systems ensures that transactions can continue without interruption, software updates are made regularly, and that any security gaps are identified and/or addressed before they cause problems that could interrupt daily operations.
3. Single Solution for Variety of End-User Machines
Within retail environments, especially large organizations, there are a vast array of end-user machines and technologies being used. And not just by the retailer, but by their vendors who need specific access to their network.
This can present a challenge: how do retailers keep all these different aspects of their network secure and running efficiently?
By integrating with legacy POS systems that run older versions of Windows or Linux, remote access tools can offer organizations fast, flexible, secure access. It also means that users can easily connect to any devices from a single user support interface.
Additional benefits of remote access solutions that are consolidated into one tool are:
Customized security credentials
Granular user access for vendors
Decrease overall costs of maintaining multiple solutions
4. Manage Security of Personal Identifiable Data (PID)
While primary account numbers (PANs) are still most valuable to attackers, they are increasingly interested in gathering PID from POS machines. With personal data, attackers can exploit information or sell it for profit.
Information like PANs are PCI-regulated, so cloud POS systems typically provide excellent security already–but PID information is often less secure because it is not PCI-regulated. That means that PID is more vulnerable to attack and needs additional security.
One of the benefits of remote access is that it minimizes security vulnerabilities related to PID in addition to existing security found in cloud POS systems. More specifically, secure remote access tools can offer the following encryption measures that enhance security:
Encryption and decryption keys needed to access data
Encrypted connections
Encrypted data from end-to-end
The highest levels of encryption include those that use 256-bit AES, which is particularly effective at preventing brute force (trial and error) attacks. The 256-bits means that there are 2256 possible combinations, which would take an immense amount of time to crack, even with the most advanced technology. With secure remote access, retailers can feel confident that both PAN and PID are safe from attackers.
5. Extensive Logging for Efficiency and Compliance
One of the many advantages of remote access is the ability to log everything, whether it be for analysis or auditing purposes. This gives context to what's occurring on a network at any given time and also allows for thorough reporting.
In particular, video logging can be incredibly useful for retailers to identify patterns, problems, data breaches, and opportunities for training. If remote access solely relies on text-based logs, there may be gaps in information, especially if there is screen sharing involved.
Retailers are under strict regulations because they process credit card and personal data. Regulations like those included in PCI DSS have logging requirements that are critical in preventing, detecting, and minimizing access to data.
Relying on a fully compliant remote access solution can help retailers avoid violations and ensure compliance throughout their POS system. Compliance is a constant effort, and particularly important as organizations grow and expand into new geographical regions.
While remote access software does not guarantee compliance everywhere, it's a valuable tool to make the logging process more efficient and give administrators the information they need to protect retail POS environments.
Benefits of Remote Access in One Solution
Finding one remote access solution that offers all the benefits above is pivotal for efficient business operations they can be found in Impero Connect.
The advantages of remote access that Impero provides, include industry-leading platform support for a variety of operating systems and advanced security features that help manage vendor access, an important aspect of retail operations.
Learn more and get a free trial of Impero Connect and see all the benefits that a secure remote access solution can provide.
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I like cottage cheese. That's why I want to try other dwelling cheeses, too. How about studio apartment cheese? Tent cheese? Mobile home cheese? Do not eat mobile home cheese in a tornado.
I went to the airport, I put my bag in the x-ray machine, I found out my bag has cancer. It only has six more months to hold stuff.
That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.
I want to get non-aerosol mace, you just rub it in. "Dude who is attacking me - come a little closer!"
Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!"


Edgetech Instruments recently attended the 2018 Sensors Expo & Conference held in San Jose, CA on June 26th through 28th. The Sensors Expo is the industry's largest event dedicated to sensors, connectivity and systems. Edgetech Instruments is represented by SensorPros, of La Jolla, California and shared space in their booth where we exhibited our line of chilled mirror hygrometers, P2O5 trace moisture transmitters, relative humidity probes, and the recently introduced "AcuDew" Aluminum Oxide Moisture Transmitter. The show was very well attended and generated many great conversations with attendees. We thank Tom Dugan of SensorPros for all his efforts in making this exhibition a success for Edgetech Instruments.


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Museums and Transparency
by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 17, 2008
Eyes may be the windows to a person's soul, but to me, it's a website. Well, at least into the soul of an institution. Everything put online is a choice, and that says a lot about the beliefs of that particular museum. What do they choose to emphasize and just as importantly – what don't they? How is the information organized? Do these decisions mirror their mission as an institution? What drew me to museum blogging in the first place was the idea of information transparency. Museums didn't have to be mysterious shadowy places, where the only discussions allowed were in hushed whispers in the galleries. Visitors could read the behind-the-scenes details of what goes into an exhibition and could engage in discussions with those involved. A few museums take this idea to the next level, by letting visitors not only see into every aspect of the institution but actively interact with it.
One museum that does this particularly well is the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In an interview on the Indianapolis-based blog On the Cusp in 2006, then newly appointed director Max Anderson made a statement which has proven to be true in a very short period of time: "I foresee making the IMA a model of transparency in revealing the collections, exhibitions, programs, and life of a great museum".
I interviewed Robert Stein, Chief Information Officer and Director of MIS, to ask him about the decision to move in this direction and where they see it going from here:
Unlike many, your museum embraces the idea of transparency of information. How did the decision to do that come about?
We've been encouraged all along by our Director, Max Anderson, and the museum's senior management, about being open and honest about where we are succeeding and failing as an institution. Every large organization has certain things that it excels at, and others at which it does not. Museums talk a lot about mission and vision, we feel that it's important to be able to track and demonstrate those areas in which we are meeting the goals of our mission and those in which we are not. Being very open and public about these statistics does two things. First, we hope that it engenders trust within our local community that we are using our resources and non-profit status appropriately and wisely. And Second, it acts as a motivator to staff members who know that the trends of our performance are on display for anyone who cares to look.
Did you meet any resistance?
I wouldn't say that we've encountered much resistance to the publication of these statistics. We have certainly gone through a learning process around which statistics should be published and how they should be maintained. It would be very easy to dump a slew of numbers onto the site and let the visitors figure it out. From a maintenance perspective, it can be a lot of work to keep a huge array of statistics accurate. It's our current thinking that it is most valuable to publish statistics which we feel are valuable to ourselves as professionals for tracking our progress towards the museum's mission related goals. This allows us to share with the public, those things that are vital to our success as an organization, and allows the staff a mechanism of following the trends of our own performance. We have debated the cost benefits of automating many of these statistics and come down on the side of using staff members to process the updates. Automation can be expensive and hard to integrate with some commercial products. It also frequently does a poor job of handling "exceptions to the rules", which as we all know are more common than we'd like them to be. We do automate some of the statistics that make the most sense, but have designed the tool to make the staff maintenance of these statistics a cut-n-paste operation. Keeping staff involved in the process also keeps the statistics we care about on the top of our minds. Our experience is that it is easy to ignore automated statistics because they are repetitive and don't require our intervention.
How have your visitors responded?
The Dashboard has been really well received by the press and bloggers, and by our Board of Governors. I think the approach we chose of being light-hearted and accessible rather than overly analytical has been something fresh. Huge website traffic numbers were never our goal for this site, and we've anticipated that these sorts of statistics appeal mostly to other museum professionals or journalists. That being said, we've recorded over 20,000 unique visits and 80,000 page views in a little over 1 year since the Dashboard launched. A quick search of Technorati will turn up dozens of bloggers who have written about the Dashboard from around the world.
Do you have plans to take this idea further?
We've recently released the source code for the Dashboard under an open-source license as a Google Code project. We'd love to collaborate with other interested institutions in making this Dashboard tool something that can work inside of a lot of organizations. It would be a real benefit to have a common set of metrics which museums can agree are the basics of running a responsible non-profit institution. Being really detailed about the way we calculate these things, like attendance, and web traffic will allow us to compare apples to apples. It would really help us understand the ways in which we can improve, rather than guessing at why these statistics, when reported, tend to be all over the map.
Rachel Gagnon
Rachel Gagnon is a writer and editor based in San Francisco, CA. A contributor since 2009, she previously edited "Flash Points," an ART21 Blog series that explored the relevance of current issues to thinking about contemporary art.
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I've always loved the IMA's dashboard and am very happy to see that it was blogged about here. I also had no clue that they released this project as open source!
I can't agree more with their last statement. I'd love to see this implemented on more and more museums.
For anyone who is interested, the project can be found on google code here: http://code.google.com/p/museum-dashboard/
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Nolan King
MMA Junkie
It's official: Dominick Reyes is next.
After much speculation and debate, Reyes (12-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) solidified himself as the number one contender for Jon Jones' UFC light heavyweight title. The two fighters are expected to square off at an event expected to be UFC 247 in Houston on Feb. 8.
After picking up a win over Chris Weidman in his first main event at UFC on ESPN 6 on Oct. 18, Reyes told the world he believed he deserved the next title shot. But beyond viability, Reyes didn't worry about its probability. The decision was out of his control, after all.
"You never really know, to be honest with you," Reyes told MMA Junkie. "You can only control things you can control. That's all I really focused on. I can control what I do in this fight. I can control how I live my life. I can control how I react. But I can't control what other people do or say.
"I tried not to concern myself too much with the goings-ons of other people. I just focused on what I can do and fight the best I possibly can."
When it became most difficult for Reyes to stay true, he gambled and remained so. Facing criticism he wasn't "interesting enough," "promotable enough," or "different enough." Reyes elected not to stray from the recipe which got him to the dance: letting his fighting do the talking.
Throughout his career, the pressure has always been there for Reyes to get the masses on his side. In search of an identifiable medium, Reyes discovered knockouts were successful in gaining fans.
"I'm a good fighter, I'm a good athlete," Reyes said. "I'm where I'm supposed to be. I'm in the upper echelon of the fighters. For me, the hard part in my career has been finding that thing that makes me relatable to the fans. Finding that thing that is going to get people really excited about. I've found that knocking people out helps."
It's not just fans and media who have questioned Reyes' ability to be more than just a foil to Jones (25-1 MMA, 19-1 UFC). The UFC light heavyweight champ himself has helped build that narrative. Various tweets posted by Jones over the past month have been critical of Reyes. But when it came time to "decide" who we wanted next, Jones chose Reyes.
In response, Reyes tweeted at Jones calling the matchup "an honor." Jones wasn't a fan of Reyes' compliment in the midst of their usual bickering and let him know. "You started this whole thing talking about party favors and now you're going to show this fake ass respect?" Jones wrote.
"I think his comments are that he's just confused," Reyes said. "He doesn't know how to take me. He hasn't met me, I've never met him. He doesn't know whether I'm being cocky or what. I have a tremendous amount of a respect for Jon – a huge amount of respect for Jon. Especially in the cage as a fighter and as a champion. As a person? Not as much.
"But he's still Jon Jones. He's still the greatest ever. Pound-for-pound number one, right now. If I fight him, it's huge. It's this huge opportunity to fight the best fighter ever. I'm aware of what he is. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. It doesn't mean when I get in the cage I don't have a tremendous amount of respect for him. We're fighting. You're not my friend.
Reyes continued, "I don't care – I don't care who you are or what you did before that. This moment is all that matters and your past means zero to me."
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"Accolade's momentum in the third quarter continued what has been a transformative year for the company. Across the business, we have expanded in all aspects – growing our customer base across all segments, engaging with a member population that now exceeds two million people, and extending our platform into new offerings and with new ecosystem partners. We are raising our outlook for the full year based on our continued success and our belief that Accolade has never been better positioned to compete in the market," said Rajeev Singh, Accolade CEO.
Mr. Singh continued, "The healthcare system continues to be too complex and too costly, and consumers have never had a greater need for high touch, empathetic benefit navigation and advocacy services to help them negotiate this increasingly complicated marketplace. We believe the future of healthcare must be integrated, collaborative, and driven by an obsession for the member experience, and that the best way to bend the cost curve is by focusing on total population health to ensure everyone gets the right care and realizes the best health outcomes. Our strategy, built on these fundamental principles, ultimately delivers better outcomes and lower healthcare costs. We are excited about the future of healthcare, and our 1,200+ employees are motivated every day to help our members live their healthiest lives."
Financial Outlook
Accolade provides forward-looking guidance on Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA.
For the fiscal fourth quarter ending February 28, 2021, we expect:
Revenue between $51.0 million and $54.0 million
Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure, between $(2.4) million and $(5.4) million.
For the full fiscal year ending February 28, 2021, we are revising our guidance and now expect:
Revenue between $162.0 million and $165.0 million, up from the previous range of $159.0 to $162.0 million
Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure, between $(32.0) million and $(35.0) million
We have not reconciled guidance for Adjusted EBITDA to net loss, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, and have not provided forward-looking guidance for net loss, because there are items that may impact net loss, including stock-based compensation, that are not within our control or cannot be reasonably predicted.
Quarterly Conference Call Details
The company will host a conference call today, Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. E.T. to discuss its financial results. The call can be accessed by dialing 1-833-519-1281 for U.S. participants, or 1-914-800-3853 for international participants, referencing conference ID #3964843; or via a live audio webcast that will be available online at http://ir.accolade.com. A replay of the call will be available via webcast for on-demand listening shortly after the completion of the call, at the same web link, and will remain available for approximately 90 days.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding our future growth and our financial outlook. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and are based on potentially inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or implied by the forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted, and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance.
Important risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others, the following: (i) changes in laws and regulations applicable to our business model; (ii) changes in market or industry conditions, regulatory environment and receptivity to our technology and services; (iii) results of litigation or a security incident; (iv) the loss of one or more key customers or partners; (v) the impact of COVID-19 on our business and results of operation; and (vi) changes to our abilities to recruit and retain qualified team members. For a detailed discussion of the risk factors that could affect our actual results, please refer to the risk factors identified in our SEC reports, including, but not limited to our prospectuses filed with the SEC on July 1, 2020 and October 19, 2020, respectively, and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended November 30, 2020 expected to be filed with the SEC on or about January 7, 2021. All information provided in this release and in the attachments is as of the date hereof, and we undertake no duty to update or revise this information unless required by law.
About Accolade, Inc.
Accolade provides personalized health and benefits solutions designed to empower every person to live their healthiest life. Using a blend of cloud-based technologies, specialized support from Accolade Health Assistants® and Clinicians, and integrated data and programs across mobile, online and phone, Accolade navigates people through the healthcare system with trust, empathy and ease. Employers offer Accolade to employees and their families as the single place to turn for all health, healthcare, and benefits questions or concerns, increasing their engagement in benefits and connecting them to high-quality providers and care. By empowering members to make better decisions about their health, Accolade can support members in lowering the cost and complexity of healthcare while achieving consumer satisfaction ratings over 90 percent and an NPS of 60.
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YouTube pays on average $2 per 1,000 views if you run ads on your videos, but there are many other factors involved in payment. For example, not all clips have commercials on them and different genres on YouTube have different payouts, depending on popularity. Maria says she doesn't think she could sustain a family with her ASMR videos, while Paul, who does have a wife and child, points out that a YouTube career doesn't cover additional costs like health benefits.
She made her first ASMR video in February 2011, filming herself as she leafed through a journal and played with seashells. The video logged just two views in a month, and Maria was so disappointed that she deleted it. A few months later, she tried again; this time, there were a few encouraging comments. She kept at it, and by the end of the year, she had 30,000 subscribers. Nearly three years later, she has more than 300,000.
"I just tried it because I thought it would help out my channel and it did, yeah," Kelly says of her honeycomb video. When she started her channel in March 2018, Kelly made more traditional YouTube videos – filming herself applying make-up and eating different foreign snacks. "It was exciting," she says of going viral, "because I was like, this could actually be my dream, I've always wanted a lot of subscribers."
Unfortunately I fall asleep faster with "weird" personal attention asmr. Basically my playlist is comprised of me getting kidnapped by two different Yandere (anime trope), 3 different vampires, dating a pop idol, having a maid that cooked over 30 food items for 2 god damn people, working for an alchemist water spirit, getting murdered by a serial killer, some reiki ASMR, and one video with tapping. It is weird but it knocks me out.
I am 69 female and have gotten a tingling in scalp in certain situations since I was a child. Just love it although it doesn't happen as often as when I was younger. Unfortunately, none of the videos did it for me and I don't ever remember seeing any youtube, etc that did it. Has to be real life. Someone comes to vacuum my office once a week. I get the tinglin feeling every time she's there. Of course, someone combing or styling my hair does it (more likely to happen if it's random and informal vs a haircut at the salon). Or someone giving me instructions and showing me how to do something (a simple, physical task) will trigger it. I try to hold onto it but it is so often too fleeting a sensation.
Yang Haiying is a soft-spoken Asian woman with thousands of videos uploaded to her Youtube account. The videos cover a whole bunch of topics ranging from painting to cooking to the making of tea. I've only seen her tea-related videos, but she has the kind of voice that will shiver you right up—and she knows it, too. Some of her videos are titled and tagged as "Inadvertent ASMR," so she definitely knows the power of her sweet voice.
I also happen to be able to trigger asmr at will pretty much instinctively; the intensity sometimes is weak though if i cant concentrate due to interference. The intensity is far greater than when it is caused by external stimuli though. Anyone alse capable of directing the feeling (always starts at the base of the skull for me) to parts of their body at will??
Best Satisfying ASMR: Though this channel was established less than a year ago, it has almost 2 million views. Their most popular video involves pressing a metal grate (akin to a cooling rack bakers use) into colored slime and pulling up. The stretching and drawing up produces a sound slightly different than the crunchy slime, but still sensational to some.
I spoke to Dr Emma Blakey, Giulia Poerio, Tom Hostler and Theresa Veltri, who as graduate students at the University of Sheffield, are part of the new generation of ASMR researchers trying to do just that. They're currently working on a study that will aim to see whether people who subjectively report the experience of ASMR also produce consistent physiological measures – for example, changes in heart rate, breathing rate, or skin conductance.
She has invested in her craft, upgrading to top-notch binaural microphones that carry every exhale into a listener's ears as if Maria is standing beside them. Her videos, like most ASMR recordings, are undeniably intimate. But the intended response — although often described as "brain orgasms" — is not sexual, ASMR enthusiasts insist. (Unsurprisingly, a few of the creepier online comments insist otherwise.)
Seven years later, ASMR is having a pop culture moment—even if many of those who use it don't know what the acronym stands for. The phenomenon's most popular practitioners have more than half a million subscribers, and the doyenne of ASMRrtists, Maria of Gentle Whispering ASMR, has been so successful that she's been able to quit her job to role-play soothing cosmetologists, librarians and flight attendants full-time. But what is ASMR? What function does it serve, who is drawn to it, and why? Or, as researcher Craig Richard puts it: "Why are millions of people watching someone fold a napkin?"


Soon after the violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville — and while the President was, for the first time in his political career, carefully moderating his words against those whom he was expected to denounce — opinionators began the usual drudgery of fitting the events into their preferred narratives, regardless of how square the circle. Conservative Sylvia Thompson declared that the entire fiasco had been staged by "fascist leftists" who had infiltrated the Unite the Right movement with "Deep State operatives" to sow racial animus.
That long shadow has tainted the hearts of those who cling to America's Satanic side. White supremacy. Hatred of rule of law. Violence.
"The church should call white supremacy what it is: terrorism, but more than terrorism. White supremacy is Satanism. Even worse, white supremacy is a devil-worship that often pretends that it is speaking for God.
As the co-founder of, and spokesperson for, The Satanic Temple, my irritation at such comments shouldn't be surprising. However, to the unaffiliated there seems to be a tendency to view Moore's comments as a triumph of progression among prominent American Christians. He is clearly denouncing the terrorism of the White Supremacists and, while I may identify non-theistically with a Miltonic Satan that defies all subjugation, exalts scientific inquiry, and promotes Humanistic, pluralistic values, I must also recognize that there is a general colloquial understanding of "Satanic" as synonymous with evil, cruelty, and abject depravity. What Moore is really saying is that Christians, and Christian Churches, should be clearly opposed to the mindless tribal thuggery of White Nationalists and they should also be clear that no such philosophy enjoys any of their support. While it may be thoughtless to ignore that self-identified Satanists very actively fight for individual and civil rights, is it not a relatively small crime given the overall picture?
No. In fact, Moore's characterization of the situation is no small offense and, I would argue, one should be at least as offended by Moore's assertion that White Supremacy is Satanism as they may be over Dinesh D'Souza's implication that the violence in Charlottesville can be blamed on the Democratic Party, or Michael Savage's unsurprisingly asinine speculation that the Southern Poverty Law Center was involved. There is more at stake here than a semantic battle over who defines "Satan." Moore's article, and the various comments from Christian leaders seeking to attribute Charlottesville to Satan or Satanism are nothing short of their Declaration of Refusal to confront the Protestant roots of the American Racist Right. Further, their invocation of the eternal adversary as a scapegoat comes with darker implicit assumptions that should be confronted and rejected outright.
In allowing the colloquial use of "Satanic" to stand unopposed as a blanket term to describe all that is reprehensible and morally corrupt, one also tacitly affirms the implied opposite, that Christianity defines — and has defined — all that is just and morally sound. Correcting this assumption is more than a matter of embittered punitive nitpicking, it's a matter of maintaining fidelity to historical facts so that we might more appropriately confront the dire issues of the present. It's a matter of undermining the destructive certainty of moral authority held by the superstitious.
Slavery in the United States was traditionally — and rather credibly, from a theological perspective — justified on scriptural grounds. The Ku Klux Klan is as much a religious Protestant sect as the Taliban or Al-Qaeda are Muslim. The doctrine of the Christian Identity Movement, with its spurious scholarship and militant apocalyptic urgency, forms the ideological backdrop of "virtually all white supremacist and extreme anti-government movements" in the United States. Allowing Christian leaders to merely disown Protestant radicalisation by fiat absolves them of having to confront the problem of radicalisation from amongst their own. It's one thing to disagree with the scriptural interpretation of a movement, it's entirely another to deny that the movement had any foundations in scriptural interpretations at all. Facing the problem of Protestant racism from within means acknowledging its existence and dedicating a certain amount of energy to maintaining a non-racist Church, not merely claiming that no such element exists only when politically convenient.
It's well past time we stopped allowing religious authorities to pretend that their doctrines have guided the Rights Revolution, while in reality they've traditionally stalled and crippled it. Without a moment's introspection, we find American Christian religious leaders claiming the glory of the 1960s Civil Rights movement while simultaneously fighting to prevent and undo any advances in LGBTQ rights. Believing they've never been wrong, and failing to be corrected by those who know better, they carry on assuming that "right" is not defined by that which is equitable, increases happiness, or reduces suffering, but rather "right" is defined by (their interpretations of) what is stated as such in their archaic yet allegedly infallible laws.
Further, blaming "Satan" for any misdeeds, whether real or imagined, has never been a victimless crime. Moore's words are the very stuff of witch-hunts inspired by a guilty desire to purge one's own sins in a conflagration the scapegoated "other." In fact, Trump's own conspiracist scapegoating, his cozy relationship with deranged paranoia-mongers, and his near-unanimous support among Evangelicals are all unquestionably factors that have contributed to the increasing flagrance of the Racist Right. Blaming Satanism for Charlottesville only adds fuel to the growing flames of conspiracist unreason while shifting responsibility from where it properly belongs.
Finally, it must be said that nothing could be more antithetical to Modern non-theistic Satanism than racist ideologies. We embrace a large diversity of individuals from a wide spectrum of political and cultural backgrounds, but we're all unified by our respect for individual rights and pluralism. It is axiomatic within Satanism that individuals must be judged for their own actions and for their own merits. To unfavorably relegate individuals into arbitrary categories, or to take credit for the achievements of another based upon a shared classification, is to defy the very foundational principles of our ethics. We simply have no place for simple-minded Supremacist, Nationalist ideologues and, what's more, it's impossible to interpret our tenets otherwise.
Ironically, much of what Moore and other preachers of superstition claim to know about Satanism is derived of a mythology constructed from libels against minority out-groups by Christian majorities. Pagans and Jews were early victims of violent purges, their practices deemed Satanic and intolerable. Native Americans and black slaves were often suspected and accused of Satanic activity in early America. In fact, the vision for a "Christian Nation," persistently fought for by Evangelical Theocrats, with its refusal to accept cultural diversity, holds that there is but one right way to live our lives, one lifestyle for all households, only one acceptable religious outlook that should be dictated to the nation at large, one god for one people. Is it really so mysterious that some among them might decide there's a "right" race as well?


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example from specs:
```ruby
class My < Struct.new :objects
  def format
    objects.map { |x| choose x }.compact
  end

  include Variant

  class Num < Variant
    accept Numeric
    returns { |x| {numeric: x} }
  end

  class Str < Variant
    accept String
    returns { |x| {string: x} }
  end

  class Other < Variant
    accept :all
    returns nil
    # returns { |x| raise "... #{x.inspect}" }
  end
end

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```

## Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

    gem 'variant'

And then execute:

    $ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

    $ gem install variant

## Usage

TODO: Write usage instructions here

## Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create new Pull Request

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Patients told to 'stay away' from Lincoln A&E THIS weekend unless it is serious
Health bosses say they are struggling to fill rotas
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Lincoln County Hospital
Lincoln County Hospital has warned people to stay away from A&E this weekend unless it is an emergency due to staff shortages.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (ULHT) has said the department will provide a full service overnight on Friday, July 28, as well as on Saturday and Sunday.
However, health bosses have told people to expect delays.
The trust said they are struggling to fill rotas due to a reduced supply of agency doctors.
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Pilgrim Hospital in Boston is also experiencing difficulties, although it is currently meeting minimum staffing requirements.
Dr Neill Hepburn, medical director at ULHT, said:"We are working hard to make sure we maintain a safe service for our patients by releasing senior staff from other specialities to help out in A&E over the weekend, for which we thank them for. We also continue to need help from members of the public too.
"Please stay away from Lincoln A&E unless you need emergency health treatment – if it's not serious or life threatening, please do not attend. Please visit your local pharmacy, call 111, or visit your local GP out of hours service, or attend a walk in centre or a minor injuries unit wherever possible."
ULHT said it is working closely with NHS Improvement and senior leaders in surrounding hospitals, but in order to continue to provide a 24/7 emergency service it is having to take extra measures to keep services running safely.
A&E consultants will remain at the department overnight to act as coordinating doctors, alongside physicians, surgeons and paediatricians to see patients and to arrange the appropriate investigations and treatments as quickly as possible.
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A few days ago you'll remember I featured a bright and colourful apartment styled by Myrica Bergqvist. Today I have a few more shots of this "hundreds and thousands" home from Myrica's website. Love the apartment. Love Myrica's work. It's fun and relaxed, packed with personality and if not quite perfect it's always perfectly lovely. It can be real life and even a little larger than life as in what I'll call the "cat house" and the "pool house" will show. Come back tomorrow and I'll have even more Swedish fab and funky styling as we take a look inside Myrica's own tiny home.
Amazing space and fantastic art collection.
Wow! What an amazing home! Those light-up tiles in the bathroom are my favorite!
I'm with Marth and Tricia Rose: I love those lights in the bathroom, and how did they do it?? Beautiful home!
Love those lights also – how to do them?
she's not danish, she's swedish! the phone # on her website gives that away.
Wow, the total absence of a mono-style limitation makes this really cool without trying too hard. Although, it has to much feminine appeal for me, you surely can adapt this ingenious creative wildstyle to more bolder levels.
I have to clarify if anyone has misunderstood, Bella Goldman has furnished and styled the apartment all by herself, including the lights in the bathroom. I work as I stylist, which means I find these fantastic homes and I style them for the pictures for the magazines. That's my part of it, nothing more nothing less.
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D&P's first-ever conference has come and gone. Not only will the party held along with Sun Microsystems and i2 be long remembered, but the speakers provided some outstanding insights into issues they are grappling with. So if you weren't there, here's some of what you missed.
Customer home/office. This takes into account not only GM's BuyPower Web site, but also financial services through GMAC, entertainment through DirecTV, and aftermarket parts.
Customer Auto. Simply put: OnStar.
Supplier. This exchange is Covisint.
Dealer. Which means working with dealers from the standpoints of both bricks and mortar as well as the 'Net.
Employee. There is the Socrates Web site that provides the user with information at large as well as employee-related tools.
GM Processes. The focus is on order-to-delivery.
While today these aspects are essentially established as an array of satellites with the first five around the sixth, what Vanzura sees in the future is an arrangement wherein the six are morphed into a single element, with the Internet serving as the means through which there is linkage.
The "plumbing" that has long served to connect OEMs with key suppliers has been a dedicated EDI arrangement, a costly private network service. Which begins to seem rather cost ineffective in this age of nearly ubiquitous telecom and Internet connections. But whereas it may be one thing to order a book from Amazon.com with one's credit card number, it is an entirely different issue when the issue is advanced shipping notices and the like from the OEM to the supplier. Complicating things a bit is that with the increased responsibility that the Tier One suppliers have with regard to design, engineering and manufacturing, they need to communicate with their suppliers. And as has long been known, some of these lower-tier suppliers are lacking the communications infrastructure that is analogous to the private network between the OEMs and the Tier One supplier.
The public Internet may be a useful tool, but as Doug Buchanan, management consultant withANXeBusiness Corp., which is part of SAIC, the firm that acquired what was then the Automotive Network Exchange from the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) in December, 1999, (it is now, Buchanan pointed out, the "Advanced Network Exchange," because there are non-automotive industries that are interested in this resource), there are some issues when it comes to using the Internet as a business tool. As in iffy performance, unpredictability, decentralized administration and inconsistent support, and inconsistent security. ANX is a business-strength version of the Internet, providing, Buchanan said, guaranteed performance, reliability, centralized admin and support, and standards-based network-level security.
According to Buchanan, companies are building what are described as virtual private network tunnels through ANX, which is allowing secure transfer of things including EDI, e-mail, and CAD files to multiple companies via a single ANX link.
Buchanan believes that a key benefit of the ANX structure is one that will facilitate supply chain development in that it provides a flexible, cost-effective means through which there can be confident, secure communication between trading partners in the supply chain. And whereas ANX was once an expensive proposition, he noted that there is now an offering that provides ANX for a monthly fee of $199, certainly a modest sum by nearly any measure (save that of AOL).
Kelly Knepley, IS Director, Suspension Components Business at Hayes Lemmerz International (HLI), spoke at length about the physical backbone of the company's electronic efforts—the Wide-Area Network (WAN).
As sturdy as it is, he iterated it can't handle infinite traffic. The company, therefore, is continually looking at ways to keep traffic to a minimum so the really important things that need to move through the WAN can do so.
HLI is not alone in its information flow struggles. Most companies wrestle with the issue of WAN traffic. To the uninitiated, this issue doesn't sound like much…why not just build a better backbone? That's incredibly expensive and would remain so, since the backbone would have to be rebuilt every couple of years or so. Knepley, though, like other IS directors around the globe, knows the amount of and fullness of the data flowing through the WAN will continue to grow, so they are continually finding new ways to both fortify it and limit traffic on it without breaking the budget.
To keep business moving over the WAN at HLI, Knepley says, they've done a combination of things. First and foremost, a proxy server limits what employees can do on the Internet, and a firewall prevents unwanted traffic from sneaking in. There's also a lot of teleconferencing going on, as well as voice-over IP and the use of compressed data packets. The company has also recently upgraded all circuits to 256k, speeding things up considerably.
Infrastructure—including the people in the organization, as well as the hardware and software, such as the corporate wide-area network and ERP systems.
Product data management—an important tool for shortening product development time; they're currently evaluating a Web-centric approach and anticipate implementation by the end of 2001.
Intranet strategy—facilitating document management and workflow.
EDI—working from the standpoints of OEM customers (implementing brain North America software for robust FTP and e-five capabilities); suppliers (using it for releases and ASNs), and even banks.
Procurement—determined to be a source of immediate payback; to undergo a pilot program.
Supply chain management—looking for process improvements (e.g., no phone calls and faxes) by automating and streamlining the supply chain. Knepley called it "an easy win in e-commerce."
Radecki explained that Delphi is running a series of pilot programs in order to comparatively quickly determine viability. Speed is essential. As Radecki said that many auto industry veterans have "had the luxury of a mature industry." He went on to explain, "For the most part, we've been able to look at the successes and failures of those before us and apply what we know to make the best decisions for our companies. Our choices haven't always been right, but they were logical...and had some basis in precedence. Right now, automotive suppliers and manufacturers are on a journey that has no map. There is no industry history on which we can base decisions. There isn't a lot of that reliable data or proven results on which we've always relied. So those of us working at automotive suppliers and manufacturers today are faced with navigating our industry into a new era."
"Everybody wants to do e-business, but nobody knows what the heck to do," remarked Paul DeHart, plant manager, L&L Products, which is a supplier of automotive sealing products, both directly and via Tier Ones.
But what was particularly vexing to DeHart is not the issue of people wanting to be de rigueur, but with what tended to happen at the end of the week: There would be a suddenly identified production shortage, which led to overtime over the weekend. The old way of dealing with an issue of this type might have been to just stock up on large inventories, which, DeHart explained, was unacceptable, in that they are working to be a lean supplier.
One of the limitations was that of communications with the various suppliers, which range from small Tier 2 and 3 suppliers to large chemical companies: phone, fax, and EDI. It was a tough administrative approach to deal with.
What DeHart was looking for, he said, was a pull-based system (they are working lean, after all) that would provide real-time information flow, not require a whole lot of data entry, would work with suppliers large and small, not require a "huge up-front investment," be easy to implement, and not have a "Big Bang" effect on operations. And evidently they found it in the i-Supply direct material fulfillment package fromSupplySolution, which is a subscription-based, Internet-delivered package that is allowing L&L and its suppliers to communicate such that the suppliers can see what their inventory levels are (there are red and green zones) so that there are no surprises.
The implementation occurred in four weeks. Eighty-nine percent of the suppliers L&L works with are on the program. The IT impact, DeHart noted, "is minimal: You only need a web browser." So far as results go, there has been a more than 50% reduction in inventory, admin costs for supplier material scheduling is down by 70%, and the whole issue of emergencies and expediting is greatly reduced.
In L&L's case, they certainly know what the heck to do when it comes to e-commerce.
That's Ford's supply chain. Stephen Harley, manager, Global Logistics Planning at Ford, explained that the vehicle manufacturer has 500,000 tons of freight in transit at all times. Furthermore, one of the big issues that they're facing in the logistics arena is that the shipments are complicated by issues relating to going to the right places at the right time, which is why they are driving to have an optimized supply chain, which means that there is both synchronous material and information flow. As for the material flow, they are looking to have the right material, quantity, container, location and time—every time. As for information: stable and accurate info flow; data formatted to enable transformation to knowledge and then to predictability—and, of course, it has to be the right info at the right time, every time.
What they are doing is to create an e-supply chain that will allow them to achieve these goals such that there is a coordination between what a customer wants all the way through the suppliers, vehicle assembly, and to the dealer/distribution network. The goals that they are aiming to achieve are minimal inventory, minimal expediting, optimized logistics cost, minimal leadtime, and the total lowest cost.
As Harley put it, "At Ford, we believe that e-business must be the business." Accomplishing what is required vis-à-vis the logistical supply chain will not only require adept transportation methods, but also an infrastructure that provides the timely transport of information.
Greg Avesian, vice president, Information Systems, Textron Automotive, admitted that one of the trying things about all of the developments that are occurring in the e-business space—both technological and market-driven—is that there is so much, so fast, that it becomes seemingly overwhelming. But Avesian counseled, "Things are never going to stabilize. We're going to have to learn to deal with it."
That is the way success is found.
According to Avesian, there are plenty of good, useful tools available for e-business implementation. Getting people to deploy those tools in an effective manner is what really makes the difference to success.


Trendsetting Los Angeles juice and raw food bar Moon Juice is leading the way in educating consumers on healthy, under-the-radar ingredients and specialty foods with the recent launch of its online apothecary and pantry. We spoke with founder Amanda Chantal Bacon, who has traveled the world carefully sourcing the site's selection, to find out which items she thinks every healthy kitchen should stock. Here's why you need bee pollen in your pantry now.
Discovering this whole food protein was life-changing for me. It's hard to find plant-based mega doses of protein that aren't high in sugar, carbs, fat and aren't soy-based. Make sure you find one that's organic, raw, sprouted and bio-fermented. This whole body nourisher is made from whole grain brown rice, which helps support healthy muscle growth and recovery.
There isn't a day that goes by that I don't have maca. Maca is an Andean root dried and ground into a nutty and complex caramel-flavored powder. It's a very potent adaptogen, which means it helps the body adapt to stress by countering the negative effects of tension and anxiety, while boosting the endocrine system. Maca delivers abundant energy, mental stamina, hormonal balance, enhanced libido and an elevated mood.
Tocotrienols is a creamy powder derived from rice. It's a super-concentrated source of vitamins E, D and antioxidants, and has tissue-regenerating, inflammation-taming, immunity, muscle-boosting and toxin-removing powers that directly reach the brain, liver, heart, lungs and kidneys.
I love eating bee pollen straight out of the jar as an energy-boosting mini snack. Bee pollen is a mystical dance between flowers and bees, yielding a predigested, easily assimilated, alkaline food dense with antioxidants, minerals, vitamins, 22 essential amino acids and bio-available proteins. Its high levels of vitamin B combat acne and wrinkles, while also soothing allergies. It's a potent aphrodisiac, blood nourisher and muscle food that supports fertility and stamina, muscle growth and definition and recovery from exercise.
Perhaps the most important thing in my kitchen are live and active, quality probiotics. Not only do I use them as digestive support, but I'm always creating fermented foods and using them. Probiotics nurture intestinal microflora, heal the gut and recolonize intestines with organisms that defend against disease, viruses and yeast. They boost nutrient potency and help with assimilation of all the other healthy foods you're eating, while helping to decrease sugar cravings. A healthy gut is truly the key to success; you'll immediately start to notice smoother digestion, increased energy, elevated mood, glowing skin, stronger immunity and potent liver cleansing.
I throw a teaspoon of cordyceps into every morning smoothie I make. I'm always looking to support my adrenals and thyroid for truly sustainable energy. The cordyceps mushroom exponentially increases cellular oxygen absorption, boosting the immune system and making a powerful tonic for strength, stamina, energy, lung and brain function.
Raw, organic cacao has my favorite flavor on the planet; this and green juice are the only things I truly crave consistently. My preference is always a raw, shade-grown, heirloom Arriba Nacional cacao that's fermented and sun-dried. Cacao's divine mineralizing medicine is powerful, intoxicating and high-functioning. I use its rich flavor in smoothies with other powerful herbs and in all types of healthy desserts and treats to feel the rush of blissful endorphins, mood-boosting hormones, increased brain flow, boosted metabolism and sparked libido.
One of my favorite fats to gently heat or even add into coffee or warm tonics for an extra boost is ghee. The value of pure ghee is in its vibration and nourishing influence. When ghee is made properly from cultured butter, it provides very deep nourishment to all of the tissues of the body and the brain.
I keep dried organic petals on hand to throw into tea blends, chocolate cakes, use in a steamed rice dish with pistachios and to throw into cocktails and syrups. It's the most beautiful pantry staple. Rose is highly recommended as it's known to be cooling and soothing to the heart and mind in stressful situations. It also enhances and supports overall metabolism and rejuvenates the digestive tract, colon and liver.
This uniquely silken butter is a pantry staple mostly because of its insane deliciousness that begs to be eaten from the spoon as a snack, but also because it makes an amazing almond milk when blended with water — it's very different than using even a raw almond butter. This raw, bio-available miracle food is enzyme-rich, provides an alkaline, mineral-dense, complete protein, is loaded with vitamin E, omega-3s, calcium, B vitamins and is a powerful antioxidant that nourishes your skin, nervous system, muscles, bones and heart.


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ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech to invest $150 million in carbon capture project
PageOne June 11, 2018
ArcelorMittal has started the construction of new premises at its site in Ghent, Belgium.
The plant will convert carbon-containing gas from its blast furnaces into bioethanol.
The company said in a statement tha the new concept has the potential to revolutionise blast furnace carbon emissions capture and support the decarbonisation of the transport sector.
The technology in the gas conversion process was pioneered by Chicago-based company, LanzaTech, with whom ArcelorMittal has entered a long-term partnership. The technology licensed by LanzaTech uses microbes that feed on carbon monoxide to produce bioethanol. The bioethanol will be used as transport fuel or potentially in the production of plastics.
This is the first installation of its kind on an industrial scale in Europe and once complete, annual production of bioethanol at Ghent is expected to reach around 80 million litres, which will yield an annual CO2 saving equivalent to putting 100,000 electrical cars on the road. The new installation will create up to 500 construction jobs over the next two years and 20 to 30 new permanent direct jobs. Commissioning and first production is expected by mid-2020.
The application of this microbial gas conversion system significantly advances ArcelorMittal's carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) capabilities and enhances steel's role in the circular economy. ArcelorMittal's long-term aspiration is to become a zero-waste business, with all materials used or generated during steel production recuperated, treated and reused in the production chain or becoming the raw materials for other industries.
"We are excited that after several years of research and engineering, we are now progressing with the largest project of its kind within the ArcelorMittal group. This is the first application of a viable new business case where re-use of carbon is possible at large scale. We will achieve significant carbon reduction and we hope that this will lead us to a lower carbon economy," says Carl De Maré, vice president of Technology Strategy at ArcelorMittal. "This new Carbon Smart technology illustrates ArcelorMittal's commitment to transforming steel production and it will also further strengthen steel's standing in the circular economy, particularly compared to other higher carbon metals like aluminium."
"Single use carbon must become a thing of the past," said Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech. "In order to succeed in decarbonizing our economy, we will need the commitment of large companies and governments from around the world to ensure carbon reuse is part of the solution. This facility in Europe embodies the key principles of the circular economy and drives to a zero-waste steel production world. We are excited to work with ArcelorMittal and are grateful for the support of the European Commission."
ArcelorMittal will work with specialized partners to roll out this bioethanol technology. Funding was obtained from various sources, including the European Union's Horizon 2020 program, to carry out further research and development and scale up the project.
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Can Policy Changes Be Treated as Natural Experiments? Evidence from State Excise Taxes
Jeffrey D. Kubik, Syracuse UniversityFollow
John R. Moran, Syracuse University
design of experiments, empirical analysis, public policy analysis, political endogeneity
An important issue in public policy analysis is the potential endogeneity of the policies under study. If policy changes constitute responses on the part of political decision-makers to changes in a variable of interest, then standard analyses that treat policy changes as natural experiments may yield biased estimates of the impact of the policy (Besley and Case 2000). We examine the extent to which such political endogeneity biases conventional fixed effects estimates of behavioral parameters by identifying the elasticities of demand for cigarettes and beer using the timing of state legislative elections as an instrument for changes in state excise taxes. In both cases, we find sizable differences between these estimated demand elasticities and the fixed effect estimates cited in Evans, Ringel, and Stech (1999). We conclude that the use of fixed effects estimators in environments where policy interventions are endogenously determined may lead to large biases in the estimated effects of the policies. This paper was revised July 2002.
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Kubik, Jeffrey D. and Moran, John R., "Can Policy Changes Be Treated as Natural Experiments? Evidence from State Excise Taxes" (2001). Center for Policy Research. 118.
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