![]() ![]() However, not all babies like being swaddled - so if yours doesn’t, that’s OK. Swaddling applies steady pressure, mimics the coziness of the womb, and dulls their startle reflex, which some babies find soothing. You might also want to consider swaddling your baby. If possible, avoid bright colors because they can be stimulating. Just make sure the room is quiet and talk to your baby in a calm, soft voice. This can be the nursery, a dark room in the house, a baby wrap or carrier on your chest, a stroller, or even their car seat. When you notice that your baby is overstimulated, the first step you should take is to change the environment to someplace quieter and darker, says Kathrotia. If you’ve got an overstimulated baby on your hands, there are some steps you can take to calm them down. A child who is coming down with an illness may also become overstimulated more easily. For instance, autistic children have a more sensitive sensory system, so it’s easier for sights, sounds, touch, smells, or tastes to overwhelm them. Although temporary, teething can irritate your baby and make them less tolerant to other stimuli. Getting too cold or warm can play a role in overstimulation. Some babies might like meeting a lot of people, while others will get quickly overwhelmed by new faces or crowds. Babies are creatures of habit, and a schedule change can make them cranky. Being overly tired can quickly overwhelm your baby. There’s a reason toddlers sometimes have a meltdown at the end of their birthday party or a long day outside at a park: Too much activity can overwhelm their senses. That’s why the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends avoiding screen use before age 2 - then limiting exposure to around 1 hour of educational programming a day until they’re 5. ![]() TVs, phones, and other devices can all be too much for a baby’s brain to process before they’re at least 18 months old. Some babies might get overwhelmed by noisy, crowded, brightly lit, or colorful places. Every baby is different, but some of the things that could overwhelm your little one include: ![]()
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![]() ![]() If your grandmother sends a message to your aunt, it ought to be private. Our communications systems ought to be resistant to inexpensive automated large scale mass surveillance. First, we want ordinary people who are going about their business without focusing too much on security to be reasonably safe. I think we want to try to achieve two separate things. No, the concept of TOR is based on providing US (and Israeli, I guess) spooks with a secure network by inviting as many irrelevants as possible, making data correlation hard.Īfter all, a network made for and used by spies would be a pretty bad network if only spies used it. The entire concept of TOR is based on trust. This misleading promotional campaign is causing regular users to put themselves at risk by assuming that TOR is safe. The second problem is that the TOR Project has been repeatedly promoting their service as a secure solution.īut TOR is only one small part of a secure solution. ![]() First, they make no effort to curb illegal activities.Īn unmoderated environment attracts criminals who attract law enforcement and governments.Īnd it has worked perfectly in making people think that TOR is secure.įor “people”, substitute “child pornography consumers” etc. In my opinion, TOR really has only two big problems. TOR does a good job anonymizing the network route. it may need to be a dedicated device - like a KEK perhaps. What we have not addressed is, that for PGP/GPG to work as intended - we need to establish proper 3d party introducers - “for the masses” - everybody.Ĭredit unions, DMV, County Records, - Notary Publics - we already have facilities for authenticating identifications. How do you authenticate your Forms 1040 when you submit to the IRS ? What now in the digital/commercial network? We used to rely on the old ball point pen and handwriting experts for this Remember Whitfield Diffie’s notes in the NewEgg case: when the lawyer takes the document into court the judge can recognize the signature although no one other than the signer could have created it It is certainly well to note the difficulty related to proper use of PGPīut this difficulty is inherent to the commercial/digital network: how ought one establish authenticity ? Well I wish the purists good luck trying to ditch email and even bigger luck required for finding other people who will ditch email. More usable PGP bases solutions are needed. Because of this, Signal will remain a small niche, even if IM were interchangeable with email which it is not.Įmail is and will likely remain in the observable future the only robustly and globally federated messaging system using which people can still control their privacy – using open source PGP. It’s like bad doctors who want to kill the patient to get rid of him.Īs to Signal, Moxie Marlinspike refuses to federate (and made sure LibreSignal die because of this). The disastrously and irreparably UX-oblivious security techies totally failed in this task (except maybe Protonmail, but they are full of other flaws like being a walled garden and not supporting IMAP) and from time time they wake up and say – let’s ditch email altogether. What is needed are solutions that make using PGP easier and less error-prone. ![]() Their usage is totally different and they are not intergchangeable. ![]() The idea of using Signal instead of PGP does not hold water. It’s funny how security puritans periodically pop up to attack PGP. Such practices actually encourage expanding the attack surface by making backups of the key.īoth he and I favor encrypted messaging, either Signal or OTR.ĮDITED TO ADD (1/13): More PGP criticism. Worse, long-term key patterns, like collecting signatures and printing fingerprints on business cards, discourage practices that would otherwise be obvious hygiene: rotating keys often, having different keys for different devices, compartmentalization. USB devices would get plugged in.Ī long-term key is as secure as the minimum common denominator of your security practices over its lifetime. Offline keys would sit in a far away drawer or safe. Yubikeys would get exposed to hotel rooms. The more time passed, the more I would feel uneasy about any specific key. I never felt confident in the security of my long-term keys. Valsorda has a different complaint, that its long-term secrets are an unnecessary source of risk:īut the real issues, I realized, are more subtle. More generally, e-mail is inherently difficult to secure because of all the different things we ask of it and use it for. It’s hard to use correctly, and easy to get wrong. I have long believed PGP to be more trouble than it is worth. Filippo Valsorda wrote an excellent essay on why he’s giving up on PGP. ![]() ![]() ![]() “But I know that the outcome is so important, but also the process. “I personally worked through a lot of anger and some days (I felt) somewhat helpless because I wonder why I choose to do this work because it’s so painful,” Podemski said. According to a note at the end of each episode, “Today there are more Indigenous children in custody than ever before.” Obviously, there is an emotional weight to telling this kind of story - especially since the seizure of Indigenous children is an ongoing concern. “We even spoke with the person who coined the term Sixties Scoop”: Patrick Johnson, who wrote a 1983 report on Indigenous children and the child welfare system. “I think I can say that we are presenting something that is truly authentic from all perspectives,” Podemski said. To get the nuances of the story right - which jumps between 1968 when Bezhig, her sister Dora and brother Niizh are taken, and 1985 when Esther leaves law school and her fiancé behind in Montreal to search for her birth family in Regina - Podemski and her team did tons of research. “Learning about being taken by the government and being put into a family that she didn’t necessarily have to go to, it’s just really difficult for Esther.” “Her upbringing by her Jewish mother puts her in a complicated place of ‘I really want to respect my mom and respect the culture that I grew up in.’ But I feel just this longing for my origin. ![]() “What draws people to storytelling is when we see a character we relate to.”Īlthough Bezhig/Esther’s story is anchored in a specific experience, “there are many elements that are relatable to everybody about identity, about family, about who you are and where you come from,” she added.Ĭontois said Esther is in “this constant tug of war.” With “Little Bird,” “our job was to elevate this to a premium or prestige sort of level of storytelling,” said Podemski, who’s also known as an actor for “Dance Me Outside,” “Moccasin Flats” and other series and movies. It’s a co-production from Crave and specialty channel APTN, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.įor Podemski, that added only marginally to the usual pressure of making a TV series and hoping you did enough to get people to watch it. “Little Bird” is also one of the rare scripted TV shows with an Indigenous focus to make it onto a mainstream Canadian network or streaming service. This is the first time, as far as Podemski knows, that the Scoop has been the subject of a drama series. “So I’ve been deeply invested in bringing that story to light.” And many of those people were Sixties Scoop survivors. “My first TV series that I did in my early 20s was called ‘The Seventh Generation’ and we were travelling across the country telling stories about Indigenous youth who were overcoming barriers and accomplishing incredible things against the odds. Part of what made the experience magic for Contois was working with “all these incredible Indigenous women storytellers,” including Podemski, who is part Jewish and part Ojibwe director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, who is Blackfoot and Sámi, and director Zoe Hopkins, who is Heiltsuk and Mohawk.įor her part, Podemski, 49, wasn’t part of the Scoop - although she had a close call when she was briefly taken from her Ojibwe mother as a baby - but “the work that I have done in my career as a writer, producer, director has intersected with the story of the Sixties Scoop since the beginning,” she said in a phone interview. And for some reason, I just could not let that feeling go of this role is meant for me.” “As an actor, they tell you, like, don’t get attached to any roles you do the audition and then you forget about it, you let it go. ![]() “It was just like magic, it was literal magic,” Contois said over the phone. But her friend Devery Jacobs, the Mohawk actor who stars in “Reservation Dogs,” mentioned Contois to Toronto-born Jennifer Podemski, the co-creator of “Little Bird.” The Winnipeg resident was on the verge of quitting acting for a more stable job since she wasn’t getting a lot of parts. It’s a role that Contois, a mother herself, felt was meant for her when she first auditioned. Taken from her home on a reserve in Saskatchewan at age five and adopted by a Jewish family in Montreal, the character begins a frustrating search for her birth family in her 20s. The series, which debuts on Crave and APTN Friday, is chiefly Bezhig’s story. Esther Rosenblum, in “Little Bird” and whose own father was part of the Scoop. There is not one of us who hasn’t been affected,” said Darla Contois, the Cree-Saulteaux actor and playwright who portrays Bezhig Little Bird, a.k.a. “Every Indigenous person in this country was affected by the Sixties Scoop or by residential schools. ![]() ![]() ![]() Diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, dermatitis, and deep tiredness have also been described. The most common side effects are mild to moderate pain, swelling and redness at the site of injection, chills, tiredness and headache. The nucleoside-modified RNA vaccine (BNT162b2), which encodes the full-length SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, is the first COVID-19 vaccine approved by the FDA and distributed in the USA. All the symptoms, the time of onset, and duration are summarized in Table Table1 1. This was followed by 3 days without side effects. Nausea manifested without vomiting, started about 1 h after his lunch.īefore the onset of this plethora of symptoms, he only reported low-grade fever and chills the night after the injection. He also reported decreased orientation and awareness of his surroundings. He took ibuprofen and eventually after a long rest, the symptoms, including ophthalmologic manifestation, disappeared. The severity of symptoms was such to require taking a sick leave from work. Hours after the onset of the ocular symptoms, he reported light confusion, asthenia, and profound nausea. The patient, a white adult middle-aged male had no history of ocular problem or migraine, and he had never experienced visual acuity reduction previously. The morning prior to showing visual symptoms, he reported unilateral, oppressive headache, mainly in his parietal to frontal lobe, without associated symptoms (noise or motion sensitivity, osmophobia, photophobia). However, the subjective nature of the ophthalmic symptoms was not better investigated since the symptoms disappeared on the same day and the patient preferred not to undergo instrumental evaluation. After 3 days, on February 5 late morning, he reported a sudden onset of darkening of the visual field, described as subjective reduction of visual acuity associated with visual distortion. Moderna expects to seek emergency authorization late this year or early next after expanding its trial size, while Johnson & Johnson’s clinical trial for kids is still underway.The patient received the 2nd dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on the morning of February 2, 2021. So far, the CDC has authorized only the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for emergency use in children. “But systems are in place to detect even very rare adverse events.”įirst lady Jill Biden plans to travel around the country in the coming weeks to visit schools and urge parents to get their children vaccinated, NPR reports. “Of course, we always need to keep our eyes open ,” Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center, a program led by the World Health Organization to provide accurate and up-to-date information about vaccines, told Fortune in an email. The American Academy of Pediatrics has said that there is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine leads to a loss of fertility or affects puberty. Around two-thirds of the 1,519 adults surveyed expressed concerns that the vaccine may affect their child’s future fertility. Meanwhile, 30% said they will definitely not get the vaccine for their child. Research by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 27% of parents are eager to get a vaccine for their younger children. According to the CDC, side effects should go away a few days after receiving the vaccine. Other side effects like diarrhea, joint pain, and vomiting were reported in less than 10% of young children. The study showed no serious side effects, including myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle that occurred extremely rarely in adults after receiving an mRNA vaccine. Fewer than 10% of children experienced fever and muscle pain. After receiving the second dose, 39% of young children experienced fatigue, and 28% reported headaches, compared with 65% and 61% of trial participants ages 16 to 25. Pfizer’s clinical trial showed that the most common was pain at the injection site, similar to vaccine recipients in other age groups. In general, younger kids, who receive a one-third dose of the adult shot, can expect fewer side effects. Another 700,000 have appointments scheduled at major pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens, plus an unknown number who have appointments with pediatricians or at hospitals. In the first week of availability, around 900,000 children received their first doses, or around 3% of those eligible. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are some no bake options here as well, low calorie blueberry desserts, and delicious treats to meal prep for the week (like healthy blueberry muffins, and a few vegan options). From crisps made with oats to crumbles, oven baked pies, to tarts, sauce, and bars, check out irresistible classics and new twists you’ll love. Here are a ton of healthy blueberry desserts for you to try. Gluten Free Blueberry Crisp Recipe (one of my favorite desserts).Vanilla (vanilla bean or vanilla extract)īe sure to check out some of my favorite healthy blueberry recipes here on Randa Nutrition:.Herbs and spices that go well with blueberries In a large bowl, whisk together the cake flour and baking powder. Spray the parchment with nonstick cooking spray. Lemons (lemon juice and lemon zest brightens up a recipe) Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. Line a 10×15-inch sheet pan (jelly roll pan) with parchment paper, including up the sides.Strawberries (the last three berries actually make up mixed berries when paired with blueberry). ![]() Fruit that goes with blueberries in dessert: Have a ton of fruit from the farmers market and looking for some blueberry pairings? Here are some flavor enhancers to give your desserts a boost and satisfy your sweet tooth. Depending on the dessert, topping your treats with almonds (or any nut like walnuts, pecans, or pistachos) gives it a boost of protein and fats. I put it on overnight oats, waffles, coffee, I put it on everything. I always have a container in the freezer. As Hayley teams up with her BFFs Liddy and Mona to clear her mother's name, Sheila reunites with Liddy's mom Celeste and Mona's mom Jane for their own amateur sleuthing. The taste is dead on to regular whipped cream. The victim is Sheila's old high school rival, Caskie Lemon-Hogg, known for her homemade blueberry pies and her home-wrecking flirtations. You can find it in the freezer section at your local grocery store. It may not be front page news, but Island Times food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is now happily married. If you’re dairy free or can’t have lactose I love the So Delicious Coco Whip. You can health it up by either adding less sugar, no sugar, or substituting sugar with monk fruit/ertythol blend like Swerve (they also have a substitution for brown sugar that’s incredible). This boosts the protein intake, keeps you full, and helps stablilze your blood sugar levels (meaning you won’t crash in a few hours…or crave more sugar right after). Here’s what I like to serve with healthy blueberry desserts: If you’re looking to reduce your sugar intake, a scoop of vanilla ice cream alongside your blueberry cobbler can add up your calorie intake and make you feel that you overdid it. Whether it’s a pie, a blueberry crumble, or pancakes toppings can make or break the dish. Pin Blueberry Protein Muffins Healthy Toppings for Blueberry Desserts ![]() ![]() ![]() The thicker the squiggly line is, the more intense or wide the vibrato will be. With a squiggly line over a note, you can tell the intensity of the vibrato. Vibrato: When you repeatedly bend and release note over and over, we call that a vibrato. This brings us to our last tip: "Legato" is another word used to refer to hammer-ons and pull-offs. I'm pretty sure you will get the whole idea. It gets better the moment you start to familiarize yourself with a variety of musical scenarios. ![]() If this is a bit difficult for you to interpret, do not worry. ![]() Hammer-ons and Pull-offs: you will use a little arc between two or more adjacent notes to identify hammer-ons and pull-offs. That is to say: the line will be slanted up if you are sliding from a higher pitch and low if you are sliding from a lower pitch. In most cases, depending on your sliding pitch, the line will be slanted up or down. Sliding: remember a fret number we talked about earlier? The presentation of a fret number, a line, and another fret number will signify sliding. In the same context, a half bend will require you to bend up half a step. This brings us to our next tip, which is the bending tip: A full bend means bending up an entire step. It will also be essential to mention that the bend can be "full" or ". Next to the shaft, you should see an indicator showing the distance you are to bend the note. The upward-pointing arrow will be next to one or more numbers. This often occurs in strumming patterns or raked parts of lead lines.īending: Whenever you see an arrow pointing upwards, you will be expected to bend a note. In addition, you should play the note to completely mute the pitch. Every time you see a muted note, you are expected to soften the note using your right or left hand. Muted Notes: Also known as the dead notes, muted notes are symbolized by an "X" on a particular string. For the little dashes, those are the number of times you should continue palm muting the notes. ![]() Palm Muting: If you can see a P.M marker, that's the palm muting. Having understood the basics of a Tab layout, it is time to look into the common elements you are likely to see when trying to play your favorite song. They will signify a harmony of some kind. The chords are the stacked numbers on a piece of tablature. The notes are the single numbers from your right to left on a piece of Tab that will represent a melody line or perhaps a solo you might play. So what exactly are they, and do they do? I have mentioned notes and chords before. In case they are all stacked on top of the other, then that is the only time you can simultaneously play multiple notes. This brings us to our first Tab tip: Always read Tab from your left to your right. In other words, the uppermost line will be the thinnest, and the bottom-most will be the thickest. The topmost line is the high E guitar string, and the bottom line will be the low E string of the guitar. You are also likely to see six horizontal lines of the Tab that will represent the six guitar strings. In most cases, you will notice some standard notation on the top and bottom of the Tab. That is to say the thinnest will be the first and the thickest the sixth. The lines are arranged in numerical order from the thinnest to the thickest. Strings: The strings make the third numbering system.To make the right chords, you will need to know where to place your fingers. Fingers: From your fretting hand, your index finger is your first finger, your middle finger is your second, your ring finger is your third, and lastly, your small finger will be your fourth finger.They will come in handy when you start learning the chords and scales. Starting with the first fret all the way to the last one. Depending on your preferred hand, the pieces appear in numerical order. Frets: These are the metal strips that lie along the neck of the guitar.To fully understand how to read Tabs, you will first need to be familiar with the 3 basic numbering systems. What's more, we are going to go the extra mile and go over the common elements you see when you pull up a tab. The process can get quite overwhelming, but thanks to this class, everything you need to know is well elaborated. As a new guitar player, you will need to learn how to effectively read the guitar Tab if you want to play chords, melodies, and songs. ![]() ![]() The 3rd series edition (1994) incorporates the new themes introduced in Friend Like Me, Circle of Life]], Collection of All Time Favorites, and Honor to Us All.The 1994 edition does not have the remixed closing theme music at all. The 1993 edition includes the remixed closing theme, which was also heard in Friend Like Me, Circle of Life, and Collection of All Time Favorites."Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" was also cut from the 19 prints, but is retained on the Spanish version."The Siamese Cat Song" was cut from the 1994 print, but returns in Honor to Us All and is retained on the Spanish version.Footage of Pirates of the Caribbean in the song "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" was taken from Disneyland: From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow, which aired January 21, 1968.The 1993 edition features a preview for all eleven numbered volumes to date.The names of the seven dwarfs are in the Magic Mirror after "The Silly Song".When Professor Owl introduces "Up, Down, Touch the Ground", clips from Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day are shown.There is extensive use of footage from Adventures in Music: Melody, and Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom throughout the entire program with a new script synced to the old video.Though designated in 1990 as Volume One (just as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is "Animated Feature #1"), Sing-Along Songs: Heigh-Ho was the second release, preceded by Sing-Along Songs: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (1986).Released in 1987 to promote the theatrical re-release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on the film's 50th anniversary.Disney Sing Along Songs Theme Song (Regular but closing is remixed). ![]()
![]() ![]() Shared Horizons celebrates the continued contribution by the ESA to space exploration and will also be a free update for all players. An update for consoles is planned but won’t be until later this year. This new partnership is for an update to Kerbal Space Program, titled Shared Horizons, planned for PC from July 1. Phenixx Gaming is proud to be a Humble Partner ! Purchases made through our affiliate links support our writers and charity! □2.Private Division and Squad has announced a partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). Īlso, if you’d like to join the Phenixx Gaming team, check out our recruitment article for details on working with us. Follow us on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Next week I’ll have to find a way to talk about the multiplayer party title First Class Trouble, a Who Dunnit with a slight hint of The Ship about it. ![]() Moving on to next week, hopefully, it stays as a single game to cover because otherwise, I’m making one of those rockets and hoping for my usual success rate. ![]() Instead, you should have been a data entry drone so you could understand the magic numbers and letters of physics like your brother.Īll this week, you can pick up both Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice and Kerbal Space Program on the Epic Games Store until the 12th of January. KSP is the confirmation of what your teacher said all those years ago, that rock (or any music, entertainment, or recreation) will rot your brain. We’re all content if the tin can of farts doesn’t explode on reentry from an orbital flight, never mind spending probes to Duna in hopes of sending the Kwitter CEO home. That’s what Kerbal Space Program is for us mere mortals unable to have the knowledge of a lovely Scottish bloke named Scott Manley. I haven’t seen his attempts to escape the atmosphere, but I assume both of them will be a slapstick comedy as a 50-year-old man wonders why the contained explosion in a can fell over. That was something I had to laugh at as (like most) I’ve killed more Kerbals than residents of Los Santos and I don’t for one second believe my own dad would be able to work out this whole rocket science business. I was also told by that person that they wanted to give it a go. It was actually earlier this week I was told about it being free despite already being aware. Moving on to something that I’ve got a lot to talk about, we have Kerbal Space Program. It is still an isometric shogun ’em up, so those looking for something different won’t find it here. The gameplay of espionage, sabotage, and assassination doesn’t change. However, back in December of 2021, a standalone expansion would add five new missions to new maps under the name Aiko’s Choice. Isometric stealth-action game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a real-time tactics title that was released back in 2016 and tried to recapture the Desperados gameplay of the early 2000s. Moving on to this week’s double bill on the Epic Games Store because coming back to work means being thrown into the deepest end, and we’ll start with the standalone expansion. Thursday, it was revealed if you get Hitman 3, you’ll finally get a full game that could possibly rival Blood Money in terms of the number of levels but maybe not quality. Wednesday, Prime Gaming has some interesting games for January, and Stranded Deep was added to Game Pass. Tuesday, Payday 3 was given a Steam page and a 2023 release window. Though last week we covered that Dishonored 2 is available with Prime. Monday, nothing happened because it is the first week in January and everyone is still sending out-of-office emails before they can be bothered to deal with people. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, it’s the only way I do it these days. Yes! You absolutely can cook frozen tater tots in an air fryer. Weight Watchers Trader Joe's Shopping List Ever panic and wonder what to eat at your favorite restaurants? Well, I do too! That's why I created and LOVE my restaurant guides.Can you cook frozen tater tots in an air fryer? You simply MUST try my ZERO points Cheesecake RecipeĢ Ingredient Dough Empanadas Make sure you check out and grab our printable shopping lists below to make it easy when you are in store to grab the best WW FreeStyle friendly foods and snacks! Weight Watchers Meal Plan Week 4 + FREE Download and Shopping List! Loading your fridge and pantry with these ZERO point foods is tip #1 for weight loss success. We are a community of people who post recipes, share tips and ideas and inspire one another every day! We can't wait to meet you!! Check the bottom of this page to Download my FREE WW Cookbook & Tips Guide. We all know how hard it is to do it alone. Come find me and JOIN my Weight Watchers Air Fryer & Instant Pot Facebook Recipe Group. We recommend verifying the information independently. Nutritional information is provided as a reference, using an online calculator. Serving: 3 oz | Calories: 130 kcal | Carbohydrates: 13 g | Fat: 8 g | Saturated Fat: 1.5 g | Sodium: 430 mg | Fiber: 2 g | Sugar: 1 g It doesn’t affect the cooking and it makes it come out as a mist instead of a steady stream. If your oil spritzer seems clogged, add some water into the oil.So if the basket isn’t breathable your food will not come out as crisp. The hot air (convection) has to have room to blow around in order to cook the food. If your tater tots come out soggy or not crispy, either they need more cooking time and/or you overloaded the basket. If you use parchment liners, don’t put these in until after it preheats. For a little fasting cooking time, preheat your air fryer.So if you are worried be sure to sit your air fryer on silicone mat or cutting board to get it off the counter. I did see that some people were having trouble with their air fryer getting really hot and cracking granite countertops.If you want to purchase these make sure you look to see the size and model so they will fit. They already have slotted holes in them so you don’t have to worry about them affecting the cooking time. ![]()
![]() It's completely up to them and they totally line up with whether or not a company pays for Yelp's "services". Since every single one of those terms is subjective, they can change what constitutes a "recommended" review and be completely subjective about why one review is "trusted" and another isn't. They claim that these reviews are hidden behind this wall because they're from users whose reviews are biased or who don't have enough patterns to be "trusted" but this is literally just their way of hiding the reviews that people don't pay for. If you look at any Yelp business page, you'll see a tiny little link at the bottom that says "See reviews that aren't Recommended". What they're doing is sorting by "Yelp Sort" and listing "Recommended" reviews. Yes, they can say that they're not "deleting" or "altering" reviews because that's not what they're doing. This is where the nuance of their scumminess comes in and where you're either ignoring or are ignorant of it. You will even find my original 5 star review, so perhaps they made a copy of it to get it to show. Go have a look for yourself, scroll to the bottom of that shop and click the "x Reviews that are currently not recommended" link in gray at the bottom. A few other reviews have been accepted since. However, within a day my review was the only recommended review, and the barber shop was live on the site instead of gray. They assured me that an algorithm decides what reviews are recommended for protection of customers and that's all that's happening. I wrote Yelp support to ask why this review was censored, despite my other reviews for other businesses being accepted. I wasn't the first to review the shop, the other reviews were hidden. After carefully reading the site, I found that the keyword is "0 Recommended Reviews." At the bottom is a gray link that leads to more than a dozen reviews that are "Not Recommended", all 5-star, including my own. Upon checking Yelp, I noticed that the shop was still gray with 0 reviews, despite having left one a month ago myself. I heard the same story about Yelp pressuring for sales, and mentioned that I had already written a 5-star review. A month later, I returned for my second haircut and asked about business. Great little shop, I was surprised that it had zero reviews and was gray in Yelp. Having said that, I have firsthand experience in having my own review of such a business censored:Ħ months ago I wrote a review for the RazzleDazzle Barber Shop in Riverview, FL. I think the challenge with finding firsthand reports on HN is that the owners of small brick-and-mortar businesses that Yelp is alleged to exploit are not well represented in this community. I'm looking at a fully expanded review in mobile safari right now. ![]() ![]() You literally do not need the mobile app or even render the desktop site to read full reviews. I despise mobile apps as much as the next person but I hardly see how Yelp is unique or even worse than others here. I can't say the same of Twitter, Tumblr, and most major other sites. On the mobile experience, what are you referring to? The mobile site is fully functional with reviews, search, ratings, etc. I suspect, at worst, that they either misunderstood the sales pitch or were contacted by a scummy SEO-like company. I've kind of gotten tired of diving into the whole "yelp extorted my brother's cousin's friend's coworker's business for better ratings" anecdotal story schtick so I'm just going to link the above - or are you suggesting they're getting away with lying on official communication? If yelp is altering reviews for paying clients, please show the evidence as I have yet to see anything but anecdotal stories about some folks getting a phone call from someone allegedly from yelp allegedly having the power to do this. ![]() |