12/11/2023 0 Comments Yelp reviewers special treatment![]() ![]() On an episode of the animated series South Park last year, elite (and insufferable) Yelpers try to extract special treatment from restaurants, which exact some unsavory revenge. On TV, Yelp’s hefty influence in the ratings world has made it the target of biting satire. An upcoming documentary, Billion Dollar Bully, takes aim at Yelp’s tactics. people eating are the same ones whose snapshots decorate the walls, but they dont get special treatment. On sites such as, business owners and consumers continue to rant about the firm. Yummy and guaranteed to cure any hangover. Responding to reviews is a great way to join the conversation with your customers online. The women of the world are still suffering under the autocratic regime of low-rise denim, and Fergalicious tops the charts. We find ourselves at the Black Bear Diner in Redmond, the year 2007. This includes asking for positive reviews. Craig Fukutomi recalls his first Yelp review with the fond clarity of someone relating the story of how they met their spouse. Yelp’s successes haven’t stymied its critics, though. Yelp specifically discourages solicitation of reviews that may lead to reviews that are not passionate and personal. Everyone is up for review in the age of Yelp. For its part, Yelp says it takes “many steps to prevent gaming of our system and to protect consumers and business owners alike.” For these covertly anointed superusers, reviews are a way of life. Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work. A federal judge dismissed the shareholder lawsuit last year, finding scant signs of “allegedly extortionate practices.” Judges also tossed the local-business lawsuit in 2014, writing that Yelp’s threats of “economic harm” were, “at most, hard bargaining.” The FTC decided last year to close its inquiry without taking any action. Using Yelp restaurant reviews in 6 cities, we found that motivations of status seeking. On average, the study found, treatment facilities in Pennsylvania scored 3. So far, Yelp has batted down all these claims.
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![]() If you go to the right places and work at seeing them over a number of hikes, you can see quite a few species in bloom right now. It should continue to be in bloom for some time. Sanjiv Nanda reports that he and Alan Parks found at least two dozen, perhaps three dozen, plants of pygmy cedar, Peucephyllum schottii, in full bloom, along with dozens of desert tobacco, Nicotiana obtusifolia, in the slot canyon that is north of the end of the middle fork of Palm Wash on 2 March 2022.įishhook cactus, Mammillaria dioica, has been blooming since 29 January 2022, and has been observed in bloom in a number of locations. There are a small number of much bigger plants that germinated from the October rains in a limited number of places, such as a few large rock daisy, Perityle emoryi, plants at Second Crossing and the Box Canyon north of Third Crossing. Even Glorietta Canyon has almost nothing in bloom. The end of the pavement of Di Giorgio Road appears just as desolate. Even in Borrego Springs, there is no germination at all in the hairy sunflower, Geraea canescens, field along Henderson Canyon Road just west of the Pegleg Monument. But it is a very bad year in most of the desert floor east of Borrego Springs, where there aren't any annuals at all, due to a lack of enough rainfall to germinate their seeds. We are grateful that we have species in bloom in places west of Borrego Springs! At least this is not a severe-drought "bad" year there. And in a few places, there is no annual germination at all, but the shrubs are blooming! It is a very odd year in that in many places, there are annuals in bloom at the same time as the shrubs still appear in their summer dormant mode. See plot of the number of species in bloom per trip versus date for seven previous years from 2008 to 2015 (see also additional plots and background information on the plots). This is the least-floriferous "good" year in the last 20 years, with "only" 54 and 60 species in bloom seen on the last two hikes, compared to the ~60 to ~100 species in bloom on a single hike at this time of year in a typical good year. As always, there are a few annual species, such as Chaenactis carphoclinia, that will only begin bloom after most of the other annual species are in seed. Nearly all of the usual annual species have begun bloom at those elevations, although most plants are small, with fewer blooms than they have in good years. We are now at full bloom at the lowest elevations that received a decent amount of rain this year, at about 1,000 feet elevation in the canyon mouths on the west side of Borrego Springs. Latest Summary of Bloom Status Summary as of 15 March 2022 ![]() Click on the pix to go to the full iNat observation. Both pix were taken on 11 March 2022 in the "Canyon north of Henderson Canyon". Right: ghost flower, Mohavea confertiflora. Note the dead stem in fruit from a previous year towering over the plants of this year. Left: Bigelow's monkeyflower, Diplacus bigelovii. Links to Other Webpages on Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Bloomsīackground Information for Bloom Reports from the Anza-Borrego Desertįig. And I haven't had those palo verde in my yard or close to here for a long time.Bloom Reports from the Anza-Borrego Desert: 2021-2022īloom Reports from Individual Hikes This Season "Just around my house, I have all of these palo verde trees that are a foot high. And they will just wait there, they can be there for years and then, you know, they'll take off," said McElhatton. "A lot of desert plants, the seeds can be in the soil for a very long time before they germinate. Seeds lay dormant waiting for flooding rains Only 32% of the state is in "severe drought," which is down from 92% since before the storms. Already the state shed the " extreme and exceptional" drought classifications. Roads washed out, mudslides took homes, sinkholes swallowed cars, and flash flooding claimed over a dozen lives.Īfter so much tragedy and loss, Californians are finally getting a glimpse at the silver lining. Averaged out, that would mean that every square inch of the state received over 11 inches of rain. The intense rain and snowmakers dropped 32 trillion gallons of water across the Golden State. RELENTLESS CALIFORNIA ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS DROP 32 TRILLION GALLONS OF WATER OVER 3 WEEKS Dune evening primrose near Borrego Springs. 12/10/2023 0 Comments Buy obsidian knifeTestingįor testing to be objective, I used the Edge On Up PT50A Industrial Sharpness Tester from our shop. If there is any advice I'd pass along for the first time flintknapping enthusiast, I would say wear safety glasses and work in an area that you don't mind being contaminated with glass like shards. My example wasn't pretty, but I was able to achieve what I thought was a sharp edge. I am definitely not a flintknapping expert so the purpose of this experiment wasn't to test my skills at crafting a fine blade, but rather to see if I could make an edge that would be as sharp or sharper than a steel edge. In practice, flintkanpping involves striking a piece of rock to break it into sharp flakes. Obsidian is very hard, so I tested obsidian. Flintknappingįlintknapping is the technique used to make an edged tool out of stone such as obsidian, flint and chert. I have heard stories that an obsidian edge can be sharper than a steel blade but I can easily sharpen a steel knife to where my thumb will say it is really sharp. My thumb test came up with really sharp, but I wanted to know more. My thumb only has 4 levels of sharpness really dull, dull, sharp and really sharp. While an obsidian edge definitely feels sharp, I needed more granular detail than my calibrated thumb could provide. This made it possible to be objective about the edge. 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It is produced by common home appliances, such as gas or oil furnaces, clothes dryers, ranges, ovens, water heaters or unvented space heaters, fireplaces, charcoal grills, and wood-burning stoves. *Source: Journal of American Medical Assn.Ĭarbon monoxide is a by-product of incomplete combustion, present whenever fuel is burned. As levels of COHb increase, vomiting, loss of consciousness, and eventually brain damage or death can result. Carboxyhemoglobin causes symptoms similar to the flu, such as headaches, fatigue, nausea, dizzy spells, confusion, and irritability. When CO is present in the air, it rapidly accumulates in the blood, forming a toxic compound known as carboxyhemoglobin (COHb). When breathed in, carbon monoxide bonds with hemoglobin in the blood, displacing the oxygen which cells need to function. The greater danger of carbon monoxide is its attraction to hemoglobin in the bloodstream. 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