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Not About The Food: When Reviews Become War
Dann Albright November 20, 2015 20-11-2015 8 minutes
"You kill a protected lion, we kill your shitty business :)" "Millions will ALWAYS HATE YOU, Walter!" "you should suffer by an arrow! Then die by a bullet to the head!"
These are only three of the dozens of similar comments left on the Yelp page of a Bloomington, Minnesota dentist's office. Online reviews are often a contentious affair Ignore These Five Kinds Of Online Reviews Ignore These Five Kinds Of Online Reviews Online reviews can be a great way to decide if something is worth paying but, even if you avoid the dodgy reviews, there are plenty of other kinds you should ignore. Read More , but what could cause such hatred toward a dentist? What could cause an outpouring of death threats, delivered both on the site and at the office? And what can we learn from it?
The World vs. Walter Palmer
Walter Palmer, a dentist at River Bluff Dental, was an amateur big-game hunter. Before this summer, he'd recorded kills of buffalo, mountain lion, moose, and polar bear. He was a member of the Safari Club, a group dedicated to "protecting the freedom to hunt [and] promoting wildlife conservation worldwide." No one had ever heard of him.
But Palmer made news after he and a hunting guide lured a very valuable lion out of a national park in Zimbabwe before killing it with the intention of bringing the head back to the United States and mounting it (presumably among other trophies in his possession). This lion was named Cecil, and he brought a significant amount of tourist dollars into Zimbabwe every year. When the news got out, the Internet exploded.
Palmer's business, River Bluff Dental, was hit with a seemingly infinite stream of hateful posts on multiple platforms with phrases like "despicable human being," "I hope you die soon you piece of shit," "Don't go to this dentist, unless you want your head cut off," "Anyone that sells him a box, lists' [sic] his house for sale or delivers a pizza, will have Cecil's blood on their hands- Don't become an accomplice. Help him and we come after you." and this rather histrionic paragraph, which is only the first of three in the review:
And that's just on the first page. The death and torture threats to Palmer and anyone connected to him continue to this day. Palmer's home address and phone number were posted What Is Doxing & How Does It Affect Your Privacy? [MakeUseOf Explains] What Is Doxing & How Does It Affect Your Privacy? [MakeUseOf Explains] Internet privacy is a huge deal. One of the stated perks of the Internet is that you can remain anonymous behind your monitor as you browse, chat, and do whatever it is that you do.... Read More , and his vacation home in Florida was vandalized. Placards with more death threats and "#catlivesmatter" hashtags on them, as well as stuffed animals, were repeatedly left at River Bluff Dental before the business was forced to hire a security guard.
Yelp tried — and continues to try — in vain to remove these comments as they're put up, but some of these people are so committed to the cause that they just keep putting their reviews back up. (Obviously many people have left the cause, as there are only 32 reviews at the time of this writing.)
Not the First Time, Won't Be The Last
Palmer may have made the biggest splash in the news, but he's far from the first to receive a lashing via Yelp and other review sites. After Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed, Memories Pizza was the first business to publicly state that it would act under the law and would not cater same-sex weddings due to the owners' religious beliefs. They got slammed with bad reviews, and were forced to close temporarily due to fake orders and threats.
The White Moose Café also received a range of bad reviews after this Facebook post:
After a number of other posts from both sides, the White Moose received over 2,000 one-star reviews in 24 hours, primarily from people who had never been to the café (Stenson subsequently wrote a post thanking the negative reviewers for a huge amount of free publicity).
And of course, you probably remember the Union Street Guest House, which told its guests that they would receive a $500 fine for leaving a bad review—refundable after changing it to a positive one. The backlash was entirely predictable A Hotel Charged $500 For Bad Reviews -- What To Learn From Their Mistake A Hotel Charged $500 For Bad Reviews -- What To Learn From Their Mistake Attempted censorship is the fastest path to bad publicity – a lesson Union Street Guest House wishes they learned earlier. It's also a lesson that other businesses can learn from. Read More .
There are plenty more examples of companies and individuals getting slammed with bad reviews that have nothing to do with the service or product that they provide. In essence, they're about politics. Not in the left-wing, right-wing send of the word, but in the social sense: about whether or not you agree with something that the company has done or said. These negative reviews are out to make a point not about service but about culture.
When I say "politics" here, I don't necessarily mean left- or right-wing views. I'm talking about any views or beliefs that people hold — they could be governmental, economic, environmental, religious, moral, or related to just about anything else. For example, I would support a business that was big on supporting mental health causes, regardless of their liberal or conservative values. That's a political choice in the context of this discussion. (Please remember this before taking to the comments to rage about liberals or conservatives.)
This is obviously not why reviews sites were created. Yelp and TripAdvisor have put forth a lot of effort to get rid of reviews that aren't based on actual experience with a provider, and have repeatedly stated that they won't stand for the continuance of this practice. They also lead a fight against reviews being manipulated 4 Ways Online Reviews Are Being Manipulated By Manufacturers 4 Ways Online Reviews Are Being Manipulated By Manufacturers Manufacturers and companies actually manipulate reviews in a variety of ways right here on the Internet. It's all about good press, of course. However, some ways are sketchier than others as you'll soon be able... Read More by the companies themselves, which is an entirely different, albeit related, issue.
In analyzing why this behavior arises, there seem to be two explanations, both of which go hand-in-hand. The first, and more respectable, objective is to provide reviews that enlighten people to the beliefs, motivations, and behaviors of business owners. Many people take this into account when choosing businesses to frequent. Of course, there are plenty of people out there who couldn't care less if their neighborhood gas station owner is an avid hunter, or if the handyman down the street is a Republican – but some people do, in fact, value that information.
For example, there's a conservatively-minded app called 2nd Vote that indicates whether your money might be supporting liberal or conservative causes when you shop at certain places, so users can decide if they want to support a company based on its reported politics. Buycott is a similar app — though generally more liberal — that tells you if specific products are linked with campaigns that you might disagree with. Avoiding companies, organizations, and anything else you deal with in your daily life because you disagree with what they stand for — or what their owners or employers stand for — is totally fine, and some of these reviews do seem to have this idea in mind.
However, there's a more subtle, more sinister goal that could be read into these reviews as well: "Because you don't agree with me, I'm going to destroy you." It sounds drastic, but all you have to do is look at the River Bluff Dental reviews to see it plain in front of your face. These reviews are driven by anger and hate, and they're not meant to engender enlightening conversation. In fact, many of them don't seem like they're meant to be read by the general public at all, and that's quite important.
Why? Because those one-star reviews could dissuade someone from even looking into the White Moose or Memories Pizza when they're scrolling through TripAdvisor, despite how they may or may not feel about the politics of the establishment. If someone doesn't support gay marriage — and they're entitled to that view, at least here in the US — they may want to go to Memories Pizza to support the stance they've taken. Or maybe it's just a pizza parlor that's close and convenient. But when they're looking at pizza options, and they see a one- or two-star average, they're likely to think "this pizza sucks," not "maybe they've said something controversial and are being punished for it," and pass right over it. That's very damaging to a business in a way that's not necessarily fair.
The disgusting vitriol and venom that shows up on these review pages certainly gives a strong indication that many of the people leaving reviews like this aren't doing so to start a conversation or to enlighten potential customers. In many cases, they've never been to that place of business, and they likely know very little about it (see the paragraph above from "Christine N." on Dr. Palmer for a great example). They're doing it in an attempt to destroy someone's life because they did something that reviewer doesn't agree with.
And that's not an acceptable way to behave, even in the nasty world of online reviews.
The Internet is known as a place of free speech Free Speech vs. Harassment: Why Did Reddit Ban Five Subreddits? Free Speech vs. Harassment: Why Did Reddit Ban Five Subreddits? Reddit officially announced the decision to ban five subreddits, due to ongoing harassment problems. Read More , and that's certainly something to be protected. But online reviews have created an entirely new and problematic vector of personal attacks, and it's only likely to get worse until something changes. Whether that's a more widespread agreement to act like adults and treat each other like human beings, stronger enforcement of rules stipulating that reviews must be helpful and based on experience, or an abolishment of the world of reviews as we currently know it, I don't know. But unless there's some sort of change, reviews will continue to be used for personal and political attacks.
Of course, not every review is bad. They're not all motivated by political reasons, and not all of them are fake The Scourge Of The Web: Fake Reviews & How To Spot Them The Scourge Of The Web: Fake Reviews & How To Spot Them "User reviews" are actually a pretty recent phenomenon. Before the prevalence of the Internet, user reviews were called testimonials, and you'd only see them on TV commercials and product pages. Nowadays, anyone can write anything... Read More — there are indeed some really useful reviews out there (and, of course, some really hilarious ones Funny Amazon Reviews: 6 Items That Feature Hilarious User Feedback Funny Amazon Reviews: 6 Items That Feature Hilarious User Feedback Niche products on the Internet are often the subject of ridicule, especially on big retail websites like Amazon where user feedback is encouraged. Often these "reviews" make for a hilarious read, as communities around the... Read More that aren't useful, but provide great entertainment).
But it only takes a few bad ones to poison the well. And that's exactly what some of these malevolent reviewers are doing: their attempts to destroy people because they don't agree with a set of political beliefs casts a pall over the entire world of online reviews. And is that really what we want to be happening? Do we want to be complicit with the destruction of this fantastically useful tool? Online reviews are complicated and misleading enough Investigating The Yelp Rating Algorithm: How Internet Memes Spread Investigating The Yelp Rating Algorithm: How Internet Memes Spread Many small businesses on Yelp believe the review service manipulates its rating algorithm. But is it true? We detail that investigation with first person accounts and interviews with Yelp managers. Read More as it is. We need to start thinking twice about how we interact with people and organizations online.
And now, we want to hear from you. Do you leave reviews that are motivated by political views or beliefs? Do you take these sorts of reviews into account? Do you think they should be shared on open review sites, or should they be limited to specific sites with specific issues in mind? Let's have an enlightened conversation about this. Share your thoughts below!
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Online reviews are largely useless. Firstly, happy customers are far less likely to post reviews than disgruntled ones. (Are there are such things as "gruntled" customers?) If you see a 50-50 positive/negative break to reviews for a product or service, the real happy/unhappy customer ratio is probably more like 85-15 or even 95-5.
Secondly, there is a class of human being (I use that term very lightly here) which delights in posting nasty things about anything and everything, including stuff they haven't actually bought or experienced. These people are much more common that you probably think. They apparently get some feeling of importance from their power over other people and companies. These are the bullies of the online world. There is no equivalent creature on the other side posting spurious positive reviews just because they feel like it, so again this behaviour skews heavily negative on reviews.
Thirdly, unscrupulous competitors can do a lot of damage with negative reviews of a business, and often do so. Yelp and companies like it give bad apples a megaphone for undermining their competition at no cost and with complete anonymity.
There is also compelling evidence that at least some of the popular review sites are strong-arming businesses into buying advertising from them by promoting negative reviews and burying positive one unless the company coughs up some money. (Yelp has been accused of this on numerous occasions)
Finally, as mentioned in the article, astroturfing is not unknown either. What it all adds up to is that online reviews are largely useless, often misleading, regularly abused for the reasons mentioned in the article, and all-in-all a crappy way to gauge the quality of a product or service.
Dann Albright
Well, when you put it that way, online reviews do seem rather useless. :-) The point about reviews sites strong-arming companies into paying is one that I've heard before, and it's rather worrying. And I've heard the point about people being much more likely to post negative reviews than positive ones, so that makes it difficult to interpret as well (for example, when looking for apartments, my wife and I chose one that had a 3.2 rating because it was far and away the highest, and we think the apartment complex is fantastic). Also, maybe someone SHOULD start posting spurious positive reviews to even it out. That would be rather entertaining!
Even objective reviews are unreliable because people have different tastes, literally and figuratively. I may like a movie or a book that everybody hates or hate a restaurant that everybody likes.
"In essence, they're (reviews) about politics."
"Politicized" reviews are only a symptom of a much larger problem. The Internet has given voice to every asshole, crackpot, demagogue, ax-grinder in the world. No matter what their position is, there are other assholes, crackpots, demagogues and ax-grinders who either agree or disagree with that position, most of the time vehemently. The anonymity of the 'Net gives everybody the courage to make statements they would not make in a face to face confrontation.
Yes, different tastes certainly do play into how you'd review something. I think what a lot of people are looking for is other people's opinions on whether or not something is a good value, if customer service was good, if there's parking available, if there's wifi, and things like that, which are less subject to personal taste. Obviously people want to know if the food / room / book / product is good too, but reviews can be more useful for other factors.
I do look at online reviews, but if I look for tells also. If there is a group of reviews (good or bad) posted in a short time span, then I tend to discount them because that looks like someone (or a group of people) with an agenda. I also am dubious of reviews that don't provide specifics to back up an opinion. Giving a restaurant a one star review without saying why seems illegitimate to me. If I take the time to leave a review, I'm going to be very specific in my reasons why I liked or disliked something.
Yes, that's a good point; sometimes it's obvious when the reviews are being manipulated. And sometimes it's clear that a reviewer has no experience at all with the product or service being reviewed. Which is infuriating. I'm glad to hear that some people are committed to leaving useful reviews, though!
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If you think about it, looking up a review is pointless. You look up a certain restaurant because you have never been there and have never built up any trust with them. But the same could be said about the reviews you are reading. I've also found that almost all restaurant reviews are outdated anyway. Problem is when you have to choose a hotel. Then you are completely at the mercy of fake/outdated reviews and the stakes are much higher than the price of one dinner.
That's a good point. However, the human brain is wired to value what psychologists call social proof—if someone else says that something is good, our mental estimation of it goes up (in general, this is a good thing, and saves us a lot of time). Messing with online reviews is actually a pretty psychologically sound way of influencing thought. Hm. I hadn't thought of it that way until just now.
Also, I agree that choosing a hotel is much more difficult than choosing a restaurant, especially if you're using reviews to influence your decision.
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At a panel discussion on Monday organized by the national research advocacy group Research!America and hosted at the New York Academy of Sciences, speakers aired their concerns about the proposed 2013 US federal budget, which they say threatens to cut both grants for primary research and spending on foreign aid.
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It's finally happening: Assassin's Creed is going to Japan. After a series of earlier reports and leaks, Ubisoft finally made the news official during Saturday's 2022 gaming showcase.
It was just a short tease, but we got a quick animated glimpse of a ninja slinking through the shadows in feudal Japan. Called Project Red at the moment, Ubisoft confirmed the game will be the next major entry in the series' latest open world RPG turn. Development is being led by Ubisoft Quebec, the studio that previously helmed Assassin's Creed Odyssey. It's also being directed by Jonathan Dumont, one of the many senior figures within Ubisoft to be accused of bullying and other toxic behavior during a workplace reckoning at the company in 2020. The company has previously claimed that anyone accused of misconduct had been thoroughly investigated and sanctioned where appropriate.
Fans have been hoping for an Assassin's Creed game based in Japan for years, and it appears the French publisher has finally relented. How exactly the series' evolving open world RPG formula will play out there remains to be seen, but now it seems like Sucker Punch's critically-acclaimed stealthy sandbox Ghost of Tsushima will officially have some competition.
The rumors around the game, codenamed Project Red, began swirling earlier this summer. Bloomberg later reported that the game would be part of Assassin's Creed Infinity, a new platform intended to incorporate multiple time periods and worlds to help players move between them more seamlessly.
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Project Red is just one of three new Assassin's Creed games coming, however. There's also Assassin's Creed Mirage, which began as a DLC expansion for Assassin's Creed Valhalla before transforming into a smaller standalone game to help fill gaps in Ubisoft's release calendar. Project Neo/Hex, meanwhile, is a third game seemingly set in Europe during the era of witch hunts that is also coming further down the road.
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Ubisoft appears to be banking hard on the continued success of its biggest franchise. The Division 2 and Watch Dogs Legion didn't exactly propel either of those series to new heights, and the French publisher has yet to find a multiplayer live service game that can replicate the success of Rainbow Six Siege. Meanwhile, Assassin's Creed Odyssey and, more recently, Valhalla, were both excellent, and have been multi-year sales juggernauts for the company. Hopefully, doubling down on that formula doesn't run it into the ground.
Earlier in September, Ubisoft announced that Chinese conglomerate Tencent is buying a 49.9 percent economic stake in the investment vehicle that has allowed leaders at Ubisoft to retain control at the company. Everyone, it seems, is betting big on Assassin's Creed.
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MANILA, Philippines - (Updated as of 9:45 p.m. May 14) The long wait is over. The Commission on Election (Comelec) partial and unofficial results of May 2016 national elections - presidential race have been released as voting close on Monday at 5pm (May 9).
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The 16th president of the Philippines and the successor of President Benigno Aquino III will be announced in the coming days once the official canvassing of votes started.
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte maintained a wide lead in the presidential race as of 9:45 p.m. (May 14). The data was sourced from the Comelec transparency server.
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On this page, you will find the updates on latest vote tally for the 5 presidential candidates: vice president Jejomar Binay (UNA), Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago (PRP), Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (PDP–Laban), Senator Grace Poe (Independent) and former DILG secretary Mar Roxas (Liberal).
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In the final SWS pre-election survey, Duterte holds a clear lead over his rivals or 33-percent would vote for him as president. The Davao Mayor has 11 percentage points ahead of his strongest opponent, independent candidate Grace Poe.
On Monday, the candidates casted their votes on their respective polling precinct.
According to Comelec, more than 40 million voters are expected to report to 92,000 precincts across the country to cast their ballots in the country's second automated presidential election.
Based on Comelec rules, the candidate with the highest number of votes wins the presidency. In case when two or more candidates have the highest number of votes, one of them shall be chosen by the vote of a majority of all the members of both Houses of the Congress, voting separately.
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Governor launches investigation into Holyoke veterans home where 15 residents have died
March 31, 2020 at 1:09 pm EDT
Holyoke mayor slams manager of veterans home, 13 residents dead The number of residents of a Massachusetts veterans home who have recently died is now 13, and six of those tested positive for the coronavirus, state authorities said Tuesday.
BOSTON — Governor Charlie Baker has hired a lawyer to investigate the Holyoke Soldiers' Home that was hit hard recently by the coronavirus.
The number of residents of the Massachusetts veterans home who have recently died is now 15, and six of those tested positive for the coronavirus, officials told Boston 25 News Wednesday.
"Today, an additional two veterans residing at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, and one resident of the Chelsea Soldiers' Home, died - both testing positive for COVID-19. While every life lost to COVID-19 is a tragedy, these veterans lived long, full lives, and their service to our community will never be forgotten. To immediately stabilize the situation in Holyoke, new leadership has been installed and a clinical command group has been established to provide safe and appropriate care. A full investigation into what happened in Holyoke has been launched, starting today with the naming of Attorney Mark W. Pearlstein as the lead investigator into the matter. We cannot forget that these nursing and assisted living facilities are providing care to a vulnerable population of older residents, many of whom have underlying illnesses. The Chelsea Soldiers' Home has consistently followed appropriate protocols regarding COVID-19 cases. Both facilities are intently focused on prioritizing veteran residents' health during this outbreak."
— Brooke Karanovich, Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Test results for five other Holyoke Soldiers' Home residents who have died are pending, one tested negative and the cause of one death remains unknown, according to a statement from the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
In addition, 10 other residents and seven employees have tested positive for the virus, and tests for 25 other residents are pending.
In response to the deaths, the superintendent of the home has been placed on administrative leave and a new a clinical command structure has been implemented. Medically trained National Guard personnel have been brought in to test all residents and staff for the virus.
"The investigation will focus both on the events inside the facility that led to the tragic deaths of veterans in the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, and on management and organizational oversight of the COVID-19 response in the Holyoke Soldiers' Home," the governor's press release stated.
Holyoke's mayor said Tuesday that the administrator mismanaged the outbreak.
Mayor Alex Morse said the first deaths occurred last Wednesday, but officials at the home failed to disclose the deaths until Sunday. Morse said he'd called Bennett Walsh, the facility's then-superintendent, directly after receiving an anonymous complaint.
"I was incredibly disappointed," Morse said. "There was a clear lack of urgency and we were repeatedly told that these were folks with underlying health conditions. That's certainly not an excuse for not isolating the folks that did test positive."
The mayor also said he was concerned about the lack of urgency from the state Secretary of Veterans' Services Francisco Ureña, who Morse said also joined in Sunday's call at one point.
Walsh and Ureña didn't respond to calls and emails seeking comment.
Walsh was placed on leave Monday. Val Liptak, CEO of Western Massachusetts Hospital, was tapped to administer the facility.
The home has about 250 long term care beds and a separate 30-room residence for veterans who need less-intensive care. It was established in 1952.
Morse says since the news broke out, he's been in touch with some of the heartbroken family members. Loved ones told Morse there has been a lack of communication with leadership at the facility about how their relatives were doing.
"Family members who haven't heard from their family members, that live there for three days," said Morse. "They try to call, no one has information for them."
Morse says they all live in a small community where there are hometown hero banners, and pictures of veterans. The flags will remain at half staff to honor the heroes who served for our country.
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Q: Store a large PHP array, plain php, or gzipped serialized data? I have a static large array-of-arrays, witch represents tree structure with about ~100k nodes, this array is only read-only reference for value lockups.
Now, witch of this methods will perform better?
First, simply array definition in pure PHP file, for including in requests
Second, serialize this array, gzip serialized output, and load gzipped file and unserialize for every request
Or convert array to SQLite or somethin' similar, but storage must be capable of fast lockup of long "ID path" ie. 1->5556->123->45->455->Node_name (With actually PHP table doing very good)
Memory limit on server is not a problem

A: You'll need to turn the array into a PHP value a some point anyway, so gzip is out.
So if you are going to decide between keeping it on disk using something like sqlite, or just let php load it in every time (preferably having APC enabled), the real question is whats more important to you, memory or CPU. If you don't know yet, you're probably suffering from a case of premature optimization.
When it does become relevant to you to either cut down on memory or cpu, (or io) the answer will be more obvious, so make sure you can easily refactor.
If you want to predict what's better for you, do a benchmark.
Update I just saw memory is apparently not a concern. Go for the PHP array and include the file. Easy. Keep in mind though that if the total data size is 10MB, this will be 10MB per apache process. At a 100 apache processes this is already 1GB.

A: those load times actually look pretty good considering you are loading the whole file on every request. gzip may help (by reducing the amount of data it has to read from disk)
if you want it faster or if that file is likely to get much bigger perhaps consider looking into ways to extract what you want without loading the whole file - pointers to tree nodes/fseek/hashtables/etc.
If you can work out a way to fseek to the data you actually want and just load that rather than loading the whole file that would speed things up a lot.

A: My benchmarks are telling everything:
Pure PHP file size: ~5 MB
Pure PHP file import: avg load time: ~210 ms
Pure PHP file import with APC: avg: ~60-80 ms
Unserialize(gzuncompress(file_get_contents()) : almost const, every request: ~ 40 ms

SQlite i've not tested, because lack of time, to port this tree structure into SQL DB
~host is on 4 core Intel Xeon with HT, and hardware RAID 5


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Be easy to discover – such a strategy will increase the number of your app downloads. Do you have Facebook? Instagram? Twitter? If yes, great. If not – better create accounts there. Using social media will allow you to keep in touch with your target audience and inform them about all updates. You can also go for paid advertisement.
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The quest for pyramids is hungry business. Fortunately there is a lot to eat in New York. There is so much to eat that the city of New York has had to enlist the entire population to eat it. The exact chain of food supply, distribution and waste management is not well understood. In 2010 Columbia University published a brief study trying to identify the basic elements of food supply for New York City. City Harvest collects 35,000kg of leftover food a day and redistributes it to New York's hungry.
Our contribution to consumption was modest. For those who appreciate vegan food, I recommend Ozu's almond cream, azuki mousse, chocolate tofu pie and jasmine tea; Peacefood Cafe's peanut butter cheesecake, chocolate ganache, dumplings, soup and Daiya 'cheese'; Wild Ginger's menu in general and; Quantum Leap's Big Leap Burger. Happiness indeed for the vegan in New York City.
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We arrived in New York at 9pm on 3 December. We rode a shuttle bus to the International Student Center (the cheapest hostel in Manhattan) on 38 West 88 Street. A slight administrative error had resulted in our accommodation being booked for the 4th, not the 3rd. The slight administrative error may or may not have our reading of the calendar. The International Student Center graciously found us a reasonably priced bed at the Chelsea Star Hotel (302 W 30th Street). This hotel had narrow aluminum corridors with burgundy floor runners, yellow walls and brassy mirrors. It was loud. Some might say fun. The reasonable price was due to the lack of heating in the room. I checked for bed bugs. There were none. We got dinner at Amadeus Pizza across the road. The Hawaiian pizza was good and cheap. A homeless person got Matt's mushroom burger as the mushroom burger comprised less of mushroom and more of beef. We walked passed Penn Station to Times Square at midnight. It was as loud, busy and garish as television suggested.
Lunch at Cafe Zoetroppe – the cafe of Coppola. We entered through old wood and glass rotating doors. The floor was a mosaic of warm red, green, yellow and white tiles. The walls were lined with wine racks. The labels of the wine bottles were rich colours too – purples, burgundy, dark greens. The tables were dark green and white marble. Bottles of balsamic and olive oil sat on the tables. Matt had pasta, I had Pizza Regina. A nice treat to start our trip.
I was surprised to find something a lot like a pyramid in San Francisco. I wasn't even looking for one there.


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Farid Jattin has been doing pretty well lately, and his 2020 had an amazing start. Apart from landing several six-figure scores in Australia, Jattin also managed to give us an amazing poker performance in partypoker MILLIONS South America, where he took place in the $10,300 High Roller.
He managed to successfully beat the field of 84 players and ended up with $200,000 in his pocket.
This is a big win, but not as big as his previous one that took place in the Land Down Under when he managed to win the A$25,000 Challenge that was part of the Aussie Millions poker tournament.
His prize for taking part in it was $680, but that was not his only cash in Australia as he also won an event in the Australia Poker Open, where he cashed another $200,000. To sum up, Jattin is having an amazing period as a poker player, and we're probably going to see more of him in the future.
Only 12 players made money in this event, and only eight managed to make it to the final table. It was Kevin MacPhee who bubbled the final table as he hit the rail as the ninth-placed player. Let's take a look at some of the actions that took place during the tournament.
Jattin Plays Aggressively to Amass Chips
Jattin had a decent stack of chips during the final table, with slightly above 12 million at 125,000/250,000/250,000. However, he was definitely not the leader, as Rodrigo Seiji had almost twice as more chips — approximately 24 million, that equaled almost 100 big blinds.
Jattin decided to play aggressively, as he almost always does, and one of the most important hands in the tournament happened against Mike Del Vecchio when Jattin managed to double up. The hand saw Del Vecchio putting in a three-bet in the small blind.
Moreover, he even decided to make a cold four-bet from Jattin. The flow cards were turned face up and displayed a six of hearts, a ten of spades, and a five of clubs.
At that moment, Jattin did a little trick by making a tiny bit, but Del Vecchio decided to check-show with a jack of diamonds and a ten of diamonds in his hand. Jattin, on the other hand, had the bullets in his pocket and waited until Del Vecchio increased his bet by a lot, only to win the hand in the end.
Soon after him, Jack Sinclair followed him to the rail as he managed to lose all his chips with ace-king against a pair of jacks. The similar destiny befell Marvin Rettenmaier, who wasn't lucky enough to beat Rodrigo Seiji's king and seven suited with an ace-king.
Seiji and Jattin Make it to Heads-Up Play
As soon as Hilario Quijada was out of the game for $95,000, Seiji and Jattin had an opportunity to meet in the heads-up play. Both players took turns when eliminating other players who made it to the final table, meaning they had a similar amount of chips.
In fact, both of them had a bit more than 40 million at 200,000/500,000/500,000.
The last part of the event had everything to last for hours, but it was actually much shorter as Seiji managed to lose a monster pot after several hands. He fell down to 3.4 million, managed to double up twice, but that wasn't enough. In the end, he had to settle for second place and the prize of $129,800.
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I hired a car Emily and it was fine. The roads are good but road markings are sporadic. Just take your time and get your mom to act as look-out! I found towns were a bit hairy because the Greeks tend to stop at a moment's notice. Just remember to use your hazard lights liberally.
Where are you staying, we go in sept, be brave and hire a car, you soon get the hang of it. We always get a jeep more fun.
Emily do not worry, you will do just fine I am sure.
The roads are ok, just drive carefully, use the horn and go easy, do not mind the cretans, at least not on the roads.
It will be my 3rd year at Marni, and 4the in Koutouloufari. 5th in Crete... Love the place!!
Welcome back Emily. Nice to see you back in the Forum. As that great bard Bill Shakespeare once said, 'keep on posting'.


We are so excited to be welcoming a baby boy, due on August 12, 2019!
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HomeArtistsArtist News and UpdatesMarvin Sapp Gets Soul Train Music Award Nomination
It's beginning to look a lot like award show season, and Marvin Sapp has landed his 7th Soul Train Music Award nomination just weeks after celebrating his single "All In Your Hands" reaching the #1 position on Billboard's Gospel Airplay Chart. He is nominated in the Best Gospel/Inspirational category.
6Marvin Sapp is a two-time Soul Train Music Award winner, and remains excited anytime his name is announced as a nominee. "I love that the Soul Train Music Awards continue the great tradition of celebrating Black joy through song," says Sapp. "It is an honor and a privilege to be among those considered to have released music this year that made people smile and gave people a sense of hope."
2022 has marked numerous firsts for Sapp, including the first album released on his own record label, the TVONE premiere of the biopic Never Would Have Made It: The Marvin Sapp Story, and being officially crowned a "Billion Spinner" on Pandora. Still, the "preacher who happens to sing" has remained a consistent, in-person presence at The Chosen Vessel Cathedral where he is Senior Pastor. Currently celebrating three years at the Fort Worth, Texas based church, Sapp and his pastoral team recently oversaw a mass baptism of more than 100 people.
"I began pastoring at a new church in a new city just months before the height of the COVID19 pandemic. We had virtual services for almost two years, so this year has been one of renewed focus and revitalization at the Chosen Vessel Cathedral. The mass baptism was a time of refreshing for all of us."
Sapp is nominated for his 15th album, Substance. The album debuted #1 when it was released, making it the singer's seventh consecutive number one Gospel album debut. It also debuted #3 on the Top Christian/Gospel Albums sales chart.
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AEM 6.4 Release – Have You Upgraded?
With the release of AEM 6.4, it is time to start thinking about upgrading to this latest offering. And while businesses might be asking themselves "why should I upgrade?" and "when should I upgrade?", there are a few factors to consider when answering these questions. Let's take a look at what AEM 6.4 has to offer as well as the pros and cons of upgrading right away.
The following is a list and description of the new features that implement the vision Adobe is trying to achieve with AEM 6.4, and they offer a compelling reason to upgrade.
Adobe has expanded the capabilities of Experience Fragments by adding a new feature called Building Blocks. Each component of an Experience Fragment (e.g. image, text, video) can be turned into a Building Block. Users can add this component to a new Building Blocks menu for reuse.
The power of this shows when creating new variations of an Experience Fragment. Content authors can easily reuse the Building Block component in the new variation, which is ideal for when there is common content for each variation. Additionally, Building Block can be edited once and cascade to all of the variations.
Experience Fragments can now be leveraged by Adobe Target, adding more power to personalize experiences.
AEM developers and designers have been creating Style Systems to help ease the authoring load. These systems allow content authors to easily reuse components in different themes. Adobe recognized the fact that this was being done repeatedly, and made a standard way of creating components that can easily use different themes and layouts.
Adobe's Style System is currently available with the latest service pack in AEM 6.3; however, it is officially announced with the 6.4 release. The Style System allows for defining styles and themes at the component level, giving content authors style options for the component. For example, an author could use the dialog to define exactly how an article teaser should look (e.g. showing an image or date, hiding a description, or modifying text colors).
A key to getting started with the Style System is Adobe's Core Components library. This library has pre-built components that are a great reference for building your own Style System components.
Adobe Sensei is an AI and machine learning tool that Adobe has developed to create new experiences in AEM. The following new features take advantage of this technology.
Smart Crop is a Dynamic Media offering that uses Sensei to make cropping suggestions for image assets. Authors can easily review and edit the suggested crops, and Sensei learns from previous decisions so as to make better suggestions in the future.
Smart Layout takes data from Adobe Analytics and leverages Adobe Target to decide the best order for grouping and laying out content. Powered by Adobe Sensei, this creates a way to automatically give personalized experiences, removing the need for a content author to create an experience for each new user segment. An example of this is a grid of items that reorder depending on who is visiting, thereby offering them the most relevant content.
Translation engines typically have a translation memory store or cache. These caches make it so common phrases or pieces of language are more quickly translated in subsequent translations. This cache is generated on by the translation service. In the past, content authors have had no ability to affect that cache. However, with AEM 6.4, Adobe has added the ability for content authors to push translations to the translation memory from AEM.
Prior to 6.4, Content Fragments were created using a standard WYSYG editor. Adobe had added the ability to create more complex Content Fragments by adding content models, which allow for the creation of Content Fragment templates using text-based form fields. For example, a Content Fragment can use a model that has fields for a title, date/time, or tags. While Content Fragments still remain text-based, they now have structured content in them.
Single page applications that leverage technologies such as Angular and ReactJS have been difficult when it comes to managing and updating content for them. Adobe has created a way to edit such applications using the standard AEM drag-and-drop interface. Existing single page apps can be brought into AEM and made authorable with required development changes.
Adobe has added new tools to help manage code and deployments. This is specifically an Adobe Managed Services offering. The goal of the new services is to help customers deploy more frequently and rapidly. The offering adds tools in AEM for managing deployments using CI/CD. In addition to these tools, the cloud manager offers code quality tools for unit testing, code scanning, security testing, and performance testing.
New viewing options for the list and card view.
Addition of content navigation tree for improved navigation of assets.
Better search filtering options (facets).
Ability to search in different languages and get the same results.
Adobe Stock integration into AEM. Authors can search Adobe Stock assets and license them directly from AEM.
Smart tags via Adobe Sensei. Sensei learns from previous decisions and image data and can automatically tag assets.
Adobe Asset Link. AEM integrations in the Creative Cloud products have been added so designers can easily check out/in assets from Adobe Assets.
There are a few things to consider when deciding a time to upgrade. Perhaps you have an older version that Adobe is not continuing to support, and it is necessary to upgrade. If that is the case, upgrading to 6.4 quickly makes sense.
Is there a business objective that the newest version solves? Again, upgrading sooner may be the best answer.
AEM 6.4 is a very stable release, and it is definitely one of Adobe's best yet. The only thing that might hold a user back from upgrading quickly is whether there are features introduced in 6.4 that the user intends to leverage immediately. Oftentimes, when new technology is added, there can be bugs, and while the majority of bugs are worked out when the first service pack is released, this usually is about 6 months after the release of a major version.
This version of AEM has many new great features and a lot of potential. This is an exciting new chapter for AEM.