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The three-day, family-friendly festival earned the gold award in the Festival of the Year category at the 2017 ALFiE (Arkansans Love Festivals and Events) Awards Luncheon, which took place Jan. 26 during the Arkansas Festivals and Events Association's annual conference and trade show in Little Rock.
According to AFEA's website, the Festival of the Year award is granted to a festival of any size, regardless of budget, that stands out among all the festivals in the state. Crowd appeal, creative approach, media coverage, and enhancement of community pride were all factors taken into consideration.
"This award not only reflects positively on Toad Suck Daze but on our community as a whole," said Mary Margaret Satterfield, director of Toad Suck Daze and events at the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce. "To be recognized as the best of the best among festivals in Arkansas – where there is no shortage of amazing festivals – speaks volumes. Our sponsors, vendors, committee members, volunteers, and festivalgoers made this award possible. We will work to make the festival even better in 2017."
Other contenders for Festival of the Year included the Main Street Food Truck Festival and the Arkansas Cornbread Festival, both of Little Rock, which won silver and bronze awards, respectively.
Toad Suck Daze also earned gold awards in the T-shirt/Sweatshirt and Souvenir categories and a silver award in the Event Website category.
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The province of Ontario has unveiled dozens of changes — some proposed, some recently implemented — to improve the safety, security and health care at London's troubled provincial jail.
The proposed changes include opening a specialized intake unit for men struggling with mental illness and addiction, improving the screening of all inmates for suicide, creating a new security team with an on-site "intelligence officer," and conducting overall reviews of operations and health care at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC).
Recent changes include the hiring of a health care manager, an addictions counsellor and nurses with specializations in addiction, and expanding doctors' hours.
The changes were posted on the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services website Thursday.
"We developed the EMDC Enhancement Plan to improve staff and inmate safety, and to better support inmates with mental health and addictions issues," Community and Correctional Services Minister Marie-France Lalonde said in a statement emailed to The London Free Press.
"Our plan focuses on delivering improvements in the following priority areas: clinical services, leadership, policy, compliance, management, and infrastructure. We will continue to work closely with our front-line staff to implement these changes, and to achieve our shared goal — the rehabilitation and reintegration of all those in our custody and care. I am confident that with this plan — and our ongoing correctional transformation — EMDC will deliver improved outcomes, and be a safer place for both staff and inmates."
Correctional staff and critics of the jail expressed cautious hope about the plan.
"They are saying good things. That's encouraging," London lawyer and inmate advocate Kevin Egan said.
"I have learned to not become overly optimistic about promised changes until they actually occur. At the same time, I'd like to assume this represents a good faith attempt to address the many serious issues that have plagued the institution for far too long."
The measures come too late for inmates who have suffered and in some cases died at EMDC, Egan said.
"Many of these steps were recommended by inquest juries as far back as 2011. The fact they are now getting around to a "plan" is good news, but I wonder why it took so many deaths and injuries to prompt these initiatives."
Initial reaction from rank and file staff was cautious, with a correctional officer pointing out that no new front-line correctional staff had been hired to handle all the new programs in the plan.
We developed the EMDC Enhancement Plan to improve staff and inmate safety, and to better support inmates with mental health and addictions issuesCommunity and Correctional Services Minister Marie-France Lalonde
"These programs are all needed and welcome, but as usual they have padded the management side but haven't looked at the practical implementation," he said. "I don't see any additional staff to get our daily programming done now."
Some of the changes answer concerns about EMDC expressed by coroner's inquest juries, advocates, inmates, correctional officers and The London Free Press.
Since 2009, there have been 13 inmate deaths at EMDC — five suicides or suspected suicides, four overdoses or suspected overdoses two homicides and two from medical emergencies that coroner's juries determined could have been prevented with proper care.
Many problems start as soon as inmates are admitted because proper information isn't provided to EMDC staff about their health and treatment, staff have told The Free Press and testified at inquests.
Only last year, inmate Justin Struthers was found dead in his cell after being brought to EMDC from Goderich hospital, where he had sought psychiatric care. It's unclear what, if any, information about his psychiatric condition EMDC staff obtained.
The province's plan promises improvements to how information is shared between EMDC staff and police, including information about recent hospitalizations.
Perhaps the most radical change proposed is the opening of a 16-bed intake unit, with help from St. Leonard's Society of Canada, St. Joseph's Health Care and the Canadian Mental Health Association.
As well, the jail's suicide assessment tool will be reviewed with the help of community experts, the enhancement plan states.
The province also plans to increase the number of rooms for methadone and other health care programs.
One of the biggest problems at EMDC — the design that prevents correctional officers from seeing or directly supervising inmates — remains, Egan said.
"There is no mention of actual improvements to the supervision model: the poor layout where guards are stationed away from the living unit, the fact that nobody watches the monitors in real time, understaffing and "more eyes on the guys" — things that would make the place safer," Egan said.

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It all started with Fifth Column. At least according to Kevin Hegge, who has immortalized the queer punk icons in a new documentary.
"I was always talking to people about the way Toronto was during the '80s and how the art community and the queer community and the punk community did and didn't gel and what came out of that, and it all seemed to lead back to Fifth Column and what they were doing," Hegge says.
She Said Boom, Hegge's documentary about those years, is screening as part of this year's Hot Docs festival.
Started in the early '80s by artists GB Jones and Caroline Azar, Fifth Column was a groundbreaking group of musicians dismissed by the mainstream press as too experimental, too feminist and too queer. "There was a really far-out recklessness to their sound, kind of like an experimental space-aged Archies, but there are lots of pop-music elements, too," Hegge says.
Fifth Column stuck out like a sore thumb in the punk scene, thanks to cheeky tracks like "The Fairview Mall Story," which related the true story of the arrest of 32 men in a washroom sex sting and the media's publication of their names. The video featured artistic collaborator Bruce LaBruce go-go dancing.
Jones and LaBruce later created the punk zine JDs in a dingy Queen St apartment in 1985. It became a manifesto for a new scene and genre that would eventually be known as homocore or queercore.
"They created a whole new demographic based on this ideal notion that Toronto had tons of these hot gay punks, bands and filmmakers, but it was really just what they were doing and dreaming up," Hegge explains, noting that the movement was widely imitated, eventually becoming the forerunner for the "out-of-the-box queer culture" that produced events like Will Munro's monthly Vazaleen party.
Shot over three years in Toronto, New York and Berlin, She Said Boom traces Fifth Column's history by employing their edgy, eye-popping films and archival performance footage and photographs. Hegge also speaks with collaborators and artists who've been inspired by the band, including avant-garde performance artist Vaginal Davis and Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna.
Hegge chose to create polished, high-definition pop-art caricatures of his core subjects' personas to contrast the film's otherwise lo-fi complexion. Hegge sat with LaBruce in a gay strip club and even had a late-night exchange with the mysterious Jones in High Park. "We had to drag this generator out there; it was pretty cold and you had to run into the trees to pee," he recalls. "Literally 25 feet away were swarms of men cruising the park, and I remember thinking, This is so appropriate, it's a good omen."
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Don't talk to police without an attorney? For some, that's hard advice to take, blogger writes
Popehat blogger Ken White thinks that it is always too risky to talk to police before seeking a lawyer's counsel. "If you talk to them, it is somewhere between possible and likely that you will incriminate yourself, whether or not you have done anything."
And this week, White was praising pop star Justin Bieber for doing just that after Bieber's home was searched following an accusation that he had thrown eggs at a neighbors' property and caused thousands of dollars in damage. White wrote that he "joked that criminal defense attorneys could shame clients into better practices by asking why they aren't smarter than Justin Bieber."
But upon reflection, White realized how much easier it is for someone like himself or Justin Bieber to follow that advice. "We're affluent and fortunate. This privilege makes us better able to endure the potential downside risks of shutting up. If we get arrested on a petty or bogus charge by a pissed-off cop, we can make bail. … That's a privilege. Poor people don't have it. Poor people live on the razor's edge, and a bogus retaliatory arrest can destroy them. … I maintain my advice to shut up. But I acknowledge it's easier and safer for me—and for most of the people reading this blog—than it is for the people who most frequently encounter the police."
Felony filming?
At the Volokh Conspiracy, University of California-Los Angeles law professor Eugene Volokh noted a proposed South Carolina law that would make it a felony to film a crime in progress.
"The law is supposedly aimed at people who 'go out there with the people committing the violent crime for the purpose of videotaping it and then putting it up on the Internet,' " Volokh wrote, quoting bill sponsor state Sen. Sen. Vincent Sheheen from a WSPA story. "But it's not written that way—there's no requirement, for instance, that the person doing the videorecording be complicit with the criminal." He links to a draft of the proposed law.
There are stated exceptions for security cameras, private investigators conducting their work, those who accidentally capture a crime on film and those taking part in "bona fide news gathering." But someone who filmed a crime in progress with the intention of later turning it over to the police or the media would not be covered by the law as it is now written. And camera operators assisting criminals can likely already be charged with aiding and abetting without this law being enacted, Volokh writes.
FaceTime faking
Will the latest advance in live video transmissions have a harmful effect on video depositions? At New York Personal Injury Law Blog noted the an Apple Insider report about the issuance of a patent regarding video transmissions in low-bandwith areas, where "video communication over cellular data is spotty," with dropped frames, low-resolution images and dropped audio. The technology "replaces frames dropped during a low-bandwidth FaceTime call with pre-recorded or doctored images, thereby creating the illusion of a seamless feed," according to Apple Insider.
Turkewitz notes that in a video deposition, "you can see facial expressions, assess the tone of voice, and evaluate delays in answering." But this Apple technology would tamper with that. "In other words—and this is the part that would interest lawyers and judges—the visual cues from the speakers' faces' may not match with the words that are actually being used."
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In October, Phoenix solo Ruth Carter, who'd had virtual office for years, wrote that she was considering renting office space, and that one of her primary requirements was that her dog be allowed on-premises.
This week at Attorney at Work, she notes that the took the plunge. And her new shared office space—"seven attorney offices that share a receptionist and a conference room"—does allow dogs. And it's worked out well so far.
"I do have to remember to ask potential clients if they're OK with having a dog in the room … even though once she says hello, she just curls up and goes back to sleep," Carter wrote. "I leave her at home when I haven't asked someone about being OK with a dog—and every time they've been bummed to see the dog stuff in my office but no dog."
She also feels she's more productive now that she has the office space. "When I'm at work, I'm working. I can't procrastinate by doing the dishes—or watch TV over lunch and find myself still sitting there two hours later," Carter wrote. "When I go to the office, I'm usually in by 9 a.m., and most days I've cranked through my to-do list by mid-afternoon, if not sooner."


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Power of Parents Put to the Test in Chicago Reform Experiment
CHICAGO--The sentiments expressed by the above diarist, one of 20 anonymous council members recording their experiences for Catalyst, reflects the seriousness with which most parents and community members have approached their new roles as overseers of this city's schools.
A little more than a year ago, few of the more than 3,000 parents elected to 540 local school councils had more than a passing familiarity with Robert's Rules of Order, let alone the complexities of allocating a multimillion-dollar budget or planning school improvements.
Yet, most observers agree, the nation's most ambitious attempt to empower parents to supervise their public schools has gotten off to a remarkably smooth start.
"Under the circumstances, with so little preparation, a lack of training, and changing deadlines, it has gone exceedingly well," said Linda Lenz, editor of Catalyst, an independent publication established to document, analyze, and support the reform efforts.
"My quick response would be that it's been an enormous success," said William Ayers, professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"It's not perfect," he said. "But 6,000 citizens now sit down once or twice every month to look at their schools' problems and worry about how to correct them."
"The parents and community members on our council are family-oriented, hard-working immigrants who have a sincere desire to better the educational opportunities for their children and their neighbors' children. I see no egos at work here. I see no power struggles, no desire to manipulate or control the situation."
"What I see is a lack of information, a lack of awareness of the responsibilities involved. They are intelligent people who will have little trouble grasping concepts once they are presented. But there is so much they need to know."
Late in 1989, each school council--made up of six parents, two teacher representatives, two community representatives, and the principal--was given $1,500 to pay for training.
The district's central administration provided little of the training. Indeed, its largest training effort was a daylong session held last May that brought in experts from around the country, but occurred after the councils had made many of their most important decisions of the year.
"Shouldn't that have occurred in October?" asked Delia Torres, a member of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, one of dozens of community groups that offer training and support to the school councils. "It was too little, too late."
Dozens of community and business organizations rushed to fill in the gap.
"There was some good training, and there was some that was very marginal," said Coretta McFerren, coordinator of the People's Coalition for Educational Reform, one of several groups born during the 1987 teachers' strike and subsequent turmoil that led to the Illinois legislature's adoption of the reform plan. "But the bottom line was that there wasn't enough of it."
Ms. McFerren works for the Community and Managment Assistance Program, a business-funded venture that has placed 65 corporate volunteers in 80 schools to offer their expertise in such matters as developing a budget and selecting a principal.
Communications problems were readily apparent at a training fair organized by the district last June at Clemente High School.
More than a dozen organizations had set up information tables in a dimly lighted corner of the school's auditorium. To all appearances, the school was closed, and there were no signs directing visitors to the fair. Fewer than 10 council members showed up during a two-hour stretch.
"Local school-council people have two complaints: The first is that they have not been trained to do the job adequately, and the second is that they've been trained to death," Mr. Ayers of the University of Illinois said.
"Some people will say both simultaneously, and both are true," he said. "The resolution isn't more training, it's a different type of training. The way to learn how to govern a school is to govern it."
"As we learn, it has become more challenging," said Louise Phillips, a parent representative on the Jensen Academy and Miller School council.
"We've learned that no one is going to give us power, " she said. ''We have to earn it for ourselves."
"At City Hall, it's business as you usually find it. At Pershing Road [the district's headquarters], it's old wine in new bottles. On many [local school councils], people have put in a great deal of time and energy and been frustrated to the point of desperation by the demands, challenges, and responsibilities of school reform while being obstructed by design or effect by the public education leadership. ... I think a showdown is near."
The most common complaint heard from both council members and community leaders is that the district's central board and administration have been slow to respond to the needs of the school councils and continue to adopt rigid policies and practices that are often viewed as an attempt to reassert centralized authority.
"The central administration is probably the one entity that has the most responsibility for improving the schools," said Daniel Solis, executive director of United Neighborhood Organizations of Chicago. "Yet, they're actually the single strongest obstacle to reform."
A school-reform hot line established in the central office often gave confusing, and sometimes contradictory, responses to queries from council members, several said.
And the deadlines imposed on the councils by district officials often seemed arbitrary and allowed very little time for substantive deliberations, they said.
District officials said the deadlines were the product of inflexible state and federal mandates, and they did not penalize schools that missed them.
"The councils aren't rolling over and playing dead when the central office does something that they feel ties their hands," Ms. Lenz, the editor of Catalyst, said.
"Before people just grumbled; that was all they could do," she said. "Now they're fighting back."
District officials have taken several steps to address other criticisms that have been leveled: They lifted a freeze on discretionary funding that had been imposed earlier this year, they established a computerized information center to provide quick answers to basic queries from council members, and they agreed to test a system that will provide money directly to schools for support services previously provided by the central office.
But several other board and administrative actions have stirred controversy among council members who feel that their autonomy is being challenged.
Council members feel they should have been consulted, for example, before the administration decided to replace security guards with more costly uniformed policemen, forcing a cutback in the number of schools they could serve.
The board also imposed strict staffing ratios on schools. "Some were overstaffed," acknowledged Donald Moore, executive director of Designs for Change, a research and advocacy organization that played a key role in drafting the Chicago reform plan. "But there was no appeals procedure, and a number feel that their staffing was unjustly cut."
The board also reignited one of the most heated controversies of the reform debate when it negotiated an agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union that will allow district officials to assign teachers who lose their positions due to enrollment declines to another school.
The reform law guarantees such teachers continued employment with the district, but the statute also explicitly grants principals the right to control the hiring of all employees for their building.
"Schools are starting now to get together and beginning to organize to fight these actions," Mr. Moore said. "Their other tasks are not as overwhelming this year, and people are much better prepared to contest the central administration's actions."
"The question of whether the pyramid has actually been inverted is still contended; it's still not settled," Mr. Ayers said. "Every issue becomes a fight about who gets to decide."
"There is the case of the interim principal who is bent on his [local school council] offering him a permanent contract. To this end, Mr. Fly Catcher spreads the honey. It is quite open, common knowledge that several times a week he wines and dines [council] parents and community reps. The staff of his school is livid, but what can be done?"
Critics of the reform law predicted upon its passage that the councils--faced with tight deadlines for developing three-year school-improvement plans, adopting school budgets, and, at half of the schools, deciding whether to retain their current principal--would be paralyzed by political infighting and that the system would quickly degenerate into chaos.
So far, only about 20 schools have experienced the kinds of disputes that escalated into protests or required intervention from outside the school.
"And if you look at the schools that have had major conflicts, some are still going on, but a number have really gotten beyond that," Mr. Moore said.
The Wells High School council--which split into two factions in March, during debate over whether to renew the contract of the school's longtime principal--is one that remains mired in a rancorous political battle that has prevented consensus and diverted attention from the school's real problems, including a 70 percent dropout rate.
At their last meeting before the summer break in June, for example, members argued about the need to approve minutes from their previous meetings, and even over whether they have each others' phone numbers.
The council at Whittier Elementary School also weathered some "rough times" after deciding not to renew its principal's contract, said Alejandro Chaparro, a parent and the council's president.
"We don't blame him for every problem," Mr. Chaparro said of the principal. "Before reform, it was hard for principals to make changes. But we felt he could have done better."
"A number of parents ... objected that the plan talked about a 'happy atmosphere' for learning and so on. Parents wanted academic emphasis and not so much 'happy' sounding things. ... This is all very interesting because I think it points to a conflict within the parents' minds. The idea that learning can be fun and happy children can be orderly and behave well seems to be a foreign idea."
The reform law was primarily designed to restructure the district's governance system, which had come to be perceived as unresponsive to students' needs and slow to implement needed changes.
The law's architects hoped that the newly empowered parents and school staff members would work together to make bold changes that would have a more direct impact on student achievement.
The law contains two provisions intended to act as the driving mechanisms for local innovation: a requirement that schools develop a three-year improvement plan that is to be monitored and revised annually, and the councils' authority to write specific goals into the contracts that they offer to their principals.
It also gives local councils the authority to approve local budgets. At many schools with high proportions of compensatory-education students, a redistribution of state funding mandated in the law has provided schools with millions of dollars to allocate locally.
Some school councils have indeed begun to tackle issues of curriculum and instruction in their school-improvement plans and budgets.
For example, at Jensen Academy, a K-8 school with a 99.7 percent black enrollment, the improvement plan adopted last year calls for expanding the "whole language" approach to the upper grades, emphasizing critical-thinking skills, and integrating African-American history into all areas of the curriculum.
Other schools have moved to abolish student tracking or eliminate testing for students in kindergarten through the 2nd grade.
But a majority of councils focused their attention on improving support services and the school environment, fixing longstanding facilities needs, improving food services, creating security patrols, and adopting new discipline policies.
"They're focusing on glaring problems that basically speak to safety in schools and the working and living conditions for the staff and kids," Mr. Moore said. "Many have made significant improvements in these areas, but it's only a precursor to dealing with the bigger issues."
Some observers said one of the biggest weaknesses in the reform law may be that it assumes that parents will be less cautious, and more willing to make radical changes, than the leaders of the old system.
Chester E. Finn Jr., professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University, said he is concerned that "there is a lack of heroic vision at the building level."
"Their notions of what to change are more incrementalist than I think the situation warrants," he said.
"As long as most people think the immediate situation is basically O.K.," he said, "empowering people is not going to change very much; nobody has the impulse to be different."
"My [local school council] is mostly Hispanic, mostly women. Working with them has been an inspiration. Accommodation. Consensus. ... As the full implication of these terms washes over me, I felt the release of an energy deep inside that would sustain me through the late night hours reading, preparing, typing agendas and other materials needed for the next meeting."
The parents serving on school councils have learned to sympathize with the work of other elected officials, and that they do not always get their own way.
Council members talked of learning how to strike a balance between representing their constituents and voting their conscience.
For instance, Maria Dodinez, president of the Kanoon Magnet School council, which serves many non-English-speaking families, said she tries to avoid taking positions that would divide the school's monolingual and bilingual constituents.
But "on very important issues," she said, "I would vote my conscience."
Council members must still battle perceptions among school staff members that their efforts will prove to be harmful, rather than helpful.
A survey in June of teachers in 10 schools, for example, found that 70 percent believed schools would become politicized, and 52 percent predicted parents would interfere with school operations.
Forty-four percent reported that parent involvement was up, and 37 percent that teachers were more involved in making decisions, but only 16 percent said teacher morale had improved.
Some council members also reported that other parents have been critical of their efforts.
"I've been stopped on the street and told that 'what you are doing is nothing but junk,"' said Bertha Ruiz, a parent member of the Kanoon school council, who attributes the ill will to "misinformation."
But the bottom line, Mr. Ayers said, is that, after a little more than a year, "all of the heat and energy of the governance change has not yet translated into actual reform at the classroom level."
"That's the challenge of the second year," he added.
The councils, he said, "are going to have to reach out and try something new and stop asking permission. If they make mistakes, they can correct themselves. But being passive will get them nowhere."
The changes wrought in the first year of reform have impressed Lourdes Flores, a community representative on the Whittier Elementary council.
"Before parents couldn't even enter into the building," she said. ''Now you look around, and it's amazing. Where did they get all these parents?"
Still, Ms. Flores acknowledged, there is a growing awareness among council members that substantial improvements will not come easily.
"This year we didn't actually go all that far," she said, "but when you plant a seed, you don't get a tree the next day."
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This one is a huge price drop. Just a few days ago this was $550 on Amazon (although it has been down around $450 a few times, like back at the beginning of April), but right now Huawei's Jewel/Pearl model of their OG smartwatch is $220. Huawei's Android Wear device is one of the best from the last generation. The style might not be for everyone, but the price certainly is. And the deal is at Amazon with no 3rd party seller or code needed. The only disadvantage is a slight delay in shipping.
If you are on the fence, I recommend taking another look at our review of the device. There are newer units out there, but most of the feature sets these days are pretty interchangeable. It might not have one of the fancy new Wear 2100 platforms, but it's still a good little unit and would be near the top of my list if I was to get a new Android Wear device. It even got Android Wear 2.0 a couple days back, so it hasn't been left behind yet.
I kind of want this, and I'm seriously considering ordering one, but I am really into ostentation. The over-the-top jeweled appearance and faux alligator band might not be for everyone, but I like to try to make a statement when I can. If you tend towards that direction and have $220 set aside for a smartwatch, it might be time to saunter over to Amazon and pick this up.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in his opening keynote address at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference on Tuesday that his company has passed 1.74 billion monthly active users just on mobile, and is taking advantage of that by bringing those users more of what they want such as augmented reality.
In a call to action for mobile developers, Facebook is opening its AR features to third parties to speed innovation in customizing the filters and masks it's been rolling out via its Facebook Camera, Effects, Stories and Direct tools in a comeback to Snapchat's popular filters.
"I think people look at this stuff and think: OK, that's kind of fun, kind of primitive, this is just what kids like doing today," Zuckerberg explained to the Wall Street Journal. "But we look at that and we see the beginning of a platform."
Major brand partners so far include Nike, Electronic Arts and Warner Bros.
"We're going to make the camera the first mainstream augmented reality platform," Zuckerberg told attendees. "It's going to take a while for this to develop. Over time, I think this is going to be a really important technology that changes how we use our phones and eventually all of technology."
Zuckerberg addressed its race with Snapchat to replace common screens with glasses and contact lenses. Snapchat chose F8's opening day to announce World Lenses — a 3D filter and AR feature that adds special effects not just to faces, but to scenes in photos and videos captured on mobile.
On the virtual reality front, day one of F8 also saw the beta launch of Facebook Spaces as a VR hangout for Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch users. The tool lets users create a digital avatar based on their Facebook profile photo and interact in a virtual world, meeting-up with other real-world friends. The app, available via the Oculus Store lets users: draw with a virtual marker; view Facebook content including 360-degree photos and videos; use Messenger calling to invite friends; and of course, take advantage of the app's selfie stick.
"It's easy to create an identity that represents the real you in Facebook Spaces," said Facebook head of social VR Rachel Franklin. "This helps people recognize you and makes VR feel more like hanging out in-person. You can change your eye color, hairstyle, facial features and more until your look fits your identity. It's all about being yourself."
Marketers will be pleased to note improvements to Facebook Analytics—formerly known as Facebook Analytics for Apps—a powerful, free product for accessing rich audience demographics, and measuring customer behavior across channels. Facebook "announced new capabilities designed to help you understand and optimize your complete customer journey across the channels you use to interact with customers, such as your app and website. Our new Automated Insights tool uses advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to bring valuable insights directly to you. With this new feature, you'll see insights such as changes in purchases for a new version of your app, or variations in engagement across people in different cities."
Other F8 sessions of interest to brands (with links to session videos):
• The future of monetizing with Audience Network
• Facebook Spaces and early lessons in social VR
• Boost your business with Messenger
• Explore the power of the Places Graph
• Imaginative ways to do research.
The company also unveiled Chat Extensions, a new type of Messenger bot that lets users access developers' bots in pre-existing conversations. AI-powered "Smart Replies" are designed for SMB's to create an auto-response to common inquiries like business hours, directions, contacts or restaurant menu choices.
As noted in its press announcement,
The experiences being built in Messenger are inherently social. Now with Chat Extensions, we enable multiple people to chat with the same business at the same time. If you are excited to share the newest song you love, you can now add a bot directly in a group thread and share the conversation and experience with your friends. We think that this will enable people to virally share bots. You can currently find favorite brands like Spotify, TheScore, OpenTable, Food Network, NBA, Wall Street Journal and Kayak — with many more on the way.
Facebook also announced new brand partnerships including a Subway Facebook Messenger order bot for more than 26,500 Subway restaurants in the U.S., along with bots for FreshDirect and The Cheesecake Factory, all powered by Mastercard's Masterpass.
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Zuckerberg stressed open collaboration on developing these new mobile tools as it's "an important time to work on building a community."
He also briefly addressed the need for community standards in the wake of last weekend's murder video posted on Facebook Live for two hours before it was pulled down "We have a lot more to do here. We're reminded of it this week with the tragedy in Cleveland. Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Robert Goodwin Sr. We will keep doing what we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening."
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The Sandman lives in the Land of Dreams located in the Realm of Fairies in the potentially imaginary world known as Nowhere. He ruled over his realm, placing a blanket over it daily. Those who grabbed a dream from the dream tree would have a dream based on whatever they grabbed from the tree and awaken again when the Sandman removed the blanket over his land. Those who did not get a dream from the tree would be stuck in an eternal dreamless sleep.
Jimmy Jupiter, Fairy Delight, and Knobby all narrowly avoided the Sandman's blanket when the dream tree ran out of dreams before they could claim their own.[1]
The Sandman's blanket causes those covered by it to sleep. The effects would be temporary if they managed to collect a dream from the dream tree in his realm; otherwise, they would be stuck in an eternal, dreamless sleep.
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Happy Tuesday, everybody: And welcome new readers, including Vinny, Barry, Andrew, Brian, Gavin and Jim.
Happy Birthday Debra Halpert and Steve Davies.
Also born on this day: Muddy Waters, who took southern bottleneck blues guitar to Chicago, electrified it and went on to inspire everyone from Keith Richards to Eric Clapton and Johnny Winter.
Rolling Stone magazine, which, like Richards' band, took its name from a Waters tune, has billed him as the seventeenth greatest performer of all time. He died in 1983. Here, a 1966 look at Got My Mojo Workin.'
And now, this: The FDA has been making changes to the nutrition labels on U.S. food packaging to better reflect American eating habits, including acknowledging that a half-cup of ice cream is not, as it has suggested since 1993, a normal serving.
(It's now two-thirds of a cup, which stills sounds stingy, especially since the agency does not appear to have made any allowance for sprinkles.)
Servings of all products that fall between sizes will now be labeled to reflect how people are most likely to consume them. Although a serving of soda is defined as 12 oz., for example, a 20 oz. bottle will henceforth be labeled as one serving because you're most likely to drink it all after you open it.
The agency is also redesigning the label itself, significantly increasing the type size of the calories per serving information – it will all but shout at you in the future – and providing information you don't really want to know, such as the amount of Added Sugars.
The agency is redefining what fiber is, and also demanding more data from manufacturers and documentation on how their nutritional numbers were arrived at.
The changes present challenges and new costs for food manufacturers, especially small incubator-based startups like those in the Innovate LI fold. To help, Nixon Peabody is hosting a breakfast roundtable for the foodtech sector, including entrepreneurs, established manufacturers, nutritionists and suppliers. April 19, 8 a.m., Melville Marriott, panel, registration and other info here.
We promise oversized portions at the breakfast buffet.
Hofstra's student pitch competition goes down April 18, with 10 teams vying for $40,000 in awards, including a $20,000 top prize.
Judges include Mike Seiman, Hofstra grad and crazily successful software executive who writes the big checks for the program, plus WorkRails CEO Jeff Leventhal, JuiceTank founder Mukesh Patel, Magna CEO Josh Sason, former Northwell COO Charles Trunz and Janet Lenaghan, vice dean of Hofstra's Frank Zarb business school.
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Reminder: You have until 4 p.m. today to submit your Phase I proposal to build the Mexican border wall.
Ruh-roh: Credit card use is up significantly in the United States, according to the latest Consumer Financial Literacy Survey by Harris for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. More disturbing trends here.
+ Long Island entrepreneur Jonathan Gilbert has wrapped funding on a five-year, $12 million U of Miami study on cannabinoid-based treatments for concussions.
+ A way to check out the relative value of other e-health apps? Yep, the Feinstein Center is building an app for that.
+ Stony Brook University will confer honorary doctorates on Michael J. Fox, Shutterstock founder Jonathan Oringer and two alums who already have the real thing – neuroscientist Arthur Kramer and astrophysicist Frank Shu.
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HARTFORD, Conn. – The legal ordeal of four Boston men wrongly convicted of murder by a cabal of gangsters and corrupt FBI agents apparently ended Friday with a decision by the U.S. Department of Justice not to appeal their record wrongful-imprisonment verdict to the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers involved in the case said Friday.
The government had not appealed by a 5 p.m. EST deadline Friday, which lets stand an August 2009 decision by the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upholding what is believed to be the largest verdict ever awarded in a wrongful-imprisonment case: $101.7 million.
The four men spent decades in prison after FBI agents, in a scheme to cultivate mob informants, allowed the fabrication of evidence that led to the wrongful convictions for a 1965 murder.
The Justice Department's decision not to pursue another challenge of the verdict — awarded in July 2007 in Boston by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner — is the latest in a half-century of legal developments arising in Boston about mob violence and shocking corruption by key figures in law enforcement. In its opening lines, Gernter's decision spoke of "egregious governmental misconduct" and the FBI's "callous disregard" for the four victims, referred to throughout as "the scapegoats."
Barring unexpected legal developments, the judgment will be divided among Joseph Salvati, Peter Limone Sr. and the estates of the other men, Henry Tameleo and Louis Greco Sr.
All were convicted in 1967 of the 1965 murder of Edward "Teddy" Deegan, a small-time thug killed in Chelsea, Mass.
A sensational series of legal developments starting in the late 1990s proved that the men had been framed by mob turncoats with the knowledge of agents at the highest levels of the FBI.
Three of the victims were reputed organized crime figures in Boston and are believed to have been framed to settle old disputes. Salvati, who had no links to organized crime, was wrongly implicated in the murder because he borrowed $400 from one of the turncoats and did not repay it quickly enough.
The FBI agents named in the wrongful-imprisonment case were the same figures implicated two decades later in what became a sensational attempt by members of Boston's notorious Winter Hill gang to take over a significant portion of the U.S. parimutuel gambling industry.
Oklahoma tycoon Roger Wheeler was one of those shot to death in a conspiracy by then-current and retired FBI agents and mobsters in the takeover attempt.
Salvati's lead attorney in his lawsuit against the federal government was Hartford lawyer Austin McGuigan, who said Friday he was encouraged by the government's decision not to appeal.
The bench trial before Gertner in 2007 amounted to a painstaking recreation of events that began with the murder of Deegan.
Salvati and the other victims produced as evidence hundreds of previously secret FBI reports showing that their innocence was known to the FBI within minutes of Deegan's slaying.
Deegan's real killers were the mob turncoats that the FBI was trying to recruit as informants: Joseph "The Animal" Barboza and James Flemmi.
After Deegan was killed, FBI agents allowed Barboza to implicate the innocent men on the condition that he become a cooperating witness in a series of mob prosecutions. Barboza agreed on the additional condition that his partner be kept out of the Deegan case as well.
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Just a few short months after Iggy Azalea took to social media to quash rumours of an alleged breakup, the Aussie rapper has announced that she and fiancé Nick Young have officially broken up.
Azalea posted a statement on Instagram, outlining that her NBA star partner had broken her trust one too many times. "It's become apparent in the last few weeks that i am unable to [trust him]," she wrote.
Despite that, she wished him the best, saying "I love Nick and have tried and tried to rebuild my trust in him… I genuinely wish Nick the best."
She continued "It's never easy to part ways with the person you planned you're entire future with, but futures can be rewritten and as of today mine is a blank page."
Young took to twitter to confirm the breakup, tweeting one word; "single".
— Nick Young (@NickSwagyPYoung) June 19, 2016


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Guild Recruitment: We Want You!
With the summer doldrums fully upon us and people taking extended breaks due to the coming expansion for World of Warcraft (Cataclysm, not to mention Starcraft 2, some in guild may be feeling that we need more to fill in the gaps. But what if your plans may be 10 mans in Cataclysm? What if all the folks who went on break come back and you have too many for 25 man raids?
These can be difficult choices especially if you are a guild like mine thats more casual and focuses on the close knit comradery of not that many people having to sit during raids, and people playing with one another for several years in some cases.
So as a guild leader or officer, what do you do, well I have some thoughts (I know shocker)…
What is Your Current Focus?
If your current focus is 25 man or 10 man raids, and you just lost a bunch of folks due to whatever the reason (not showing up, account cancelled, work, family, etc.) then you should find some alternatives.
1. Identify the lost members class/benefits. Decide which other classes can bring the same buffs etc. That you just lost. If you lost a boomkin, perhaps an unholy death knight is an easier find on your server. Take the inventory and figure out what you can recruit.
2. Determine how many you want to recruit. If you were doing 25 man raids, and you lost 5 people, and you have 3 who typically sit on overflow, you might be inclined to recruit 2 people, I would say recruit the 5 you lost, and try for a bit more. This is not the time to be stingy. Your most loyal members will most likely continue to show up, but the newer recruits may not stick around. So get more than you need and sort through it later
3. Are you going to be doing hard modes or stopping at the end of normal modes? This is a decision that you need to understand to be open and honest with new recruits and your members. Some members may just want to see the content and not care about the extra challenge of hard modes. If thats the case see number 1 and 2. You may need to recruit more to get you where the majority of your guild want to be.
What is Your 'Clysm?
This is essentially what your focus for cataclysm will be. Do you want to have a diverse population that will help the guild level faster, which if you are a PVE focused guild, maybe include more PVP to get those guild achievements? Remember only your top producers right now will help you level the guild, and the question becomes do you have 10 or so very active members that are going to push your guild's level?
Find those who want to get in on a guild right when Cataclysm kicks off. Guild rep is going to be a big thing, changing guilds resets that rep. Tell folks to get in on the ground floor of it all and help build the guild up.
For raiding, in Cataclysm expect many guilds to go the 10 man route. Less coordination and same loot. However do not underestimate the power of starting a 25 man and splitting it up to up to 3 10 mans. Do the 25s for extra badges then split up for progression perhaps. Either way keep the plan and be able to answer questions for new recruits
How to Recruit?
There are many ways to recruit.
1. Invite members to pug raids, if they are unguilded and whisper them after the raid if they would be interested in joining your guild. Don't poach existing members unless they inquire about your guild first. This is a great way to meet new folks and build some relationships and spread the word about your guild even if you don't get anyone to join based on it. Inviting pugs together also lets you evaluate folks without bringing them into your guild first.
2. Create a macro to use in game. Make sure to join the in-city guild recruitment channel. Unguilded people are in this channel by default, if you are guilded you can join by typing "/join guildrecruitment". Now you can specifically target those that are not guilded and looking. Also you may need to fight through the trolls but don't be afraid to also broadcast in trade chat or general chat. Both are inhabited by many people some of who are already considering making a change.
Things you want to include in your macro:
- Raid Times (if you raid) if you don't raid identify guild event times. For example: Raids Tue/Wed/Thur 8pm-11pm EST. Immediately when seeing this I can decide if those raid times meet my needs
- Classes/Specs Needed. List what classes, specs, roles you need. This is to not waste people's time. Example: LF5 Spriest, Boomkin, Tank, 2 Heals. Here you know someone is looking for a shadow priest, a boomkin, 1 tank assuming any class and 2 healers also assuming any class.
- What your guild does. Say what your guild's current focus is. Example: Working on ICC10/25 & RS10/25. This tells prospective members that "oh this guild is doing Icecrown and Ruby Sanctum and they do both 10 and 25 mans).
- More information. End with a PST for more info or see www.guildsite.com. This give the prospective recruit a place to ask additional questions if necessary.
You may also include a blurb about your guild if you have space, remember your macro can only be 255 characters long and at least 3 of those are reserved for the channel and a space afterwards (i.e. "/2 "). Do not make a double macro, double macros are 2 macros together that tell the whole story, but guess what its too much reading, too much spam in a channel, don't get yourself reported, ignored. Getting ignored by folks definitely is not the path you want in order to recruit.
Remember your macro is a brief advertisement, the best advertisements are short, succinct and give the information about the product, in this case your guild.
3. Realm Forums. Post up something on your server's forum. The chances for spam are far less than the WoW at large recruitment forums. Here you can be a bit longer, but you should include all the points from the guild macro.
- Raid Times
- What you need (Classes/Specs)
- What your guild is currently working on
- More information
DO NOT respond to trolls, if you absolutely must respond to anyone who posts something negative, report the post and simply post "thanks for the bump". NEVER feed the trolls. This goes for when recruiting in-game via macros as well, ignore them, most good recruits you get ignore them anyway. Fighting with them just makes you look as immature and less desirable as them anyway. You don't want that.
4. Twitter. Even with only 140 characters you can try to recruit here, especially if you have a good followership, chances are maybe someone is interested in joining. Say what you are looking for, perhaps raid/event times and put "DM for more info".
Conclusion (TLDR)
- Identify what you need, classes and specs
- Know what your current goals are in Wrath of the Lich King
- Know what your goals are for the next expansion if asked
- Plan out your recruitment strategy along different mediums
- Keep your message short and to the point
Self Promotion Time!
If you are looking for an EST guild that raids 8pm-11pm. Alliance side. We are looking for:
- Feral Druid Tank
- Warlock
- Holy Paladin
- Holy Priest
- Resto Shaman
Visit http://phalanxofnod.com for more information. Be part of a guild with long history (5+ years old), get in on the ground level for an epic guild experience in Cataclysm!


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When the Baptist came neither eating nor drinking but demanding repentance, people instead wanted to make merry: "We played the flute for you, and you did not dance." When Jesus came, preaching good news and celebrating, people demanded that he fast: "We wailed, and you did not mourn" (cf. Matt 9:14-17). It is hardly possible to decide with confidence which of these two interpretations is the better. But whichever one we opt for, there is one constant: God's appeal came to the Jewish people of the first century in at least two diverse ways. In this lies a lesson for us. We may sometimes be tempted to suppose that God is at work primarily or even exclusively in those who look like us. In the present text, however, God is at work in John and Jesus, and they did not look like each other. The two men had different ministries with different emphases. One celebrated the kingdom by eating and drinking at table; the other chose an ascetical lifestyle out in the wilderness. The differences between the two were indeed so great that John could wonder whether Jesus was really the one his inspired imagination had foreseen (Matt 11:2-4). And yet the same God was after all active in both. The circumstance reflects the largesse of God, who meets human diversity with divine diversity. That is, because people are different, effectively communicating with them requires more than one approach, which means more than one speaker or one sort of speaker. The disparate ministries of John and Jesus are cause for us to recognize that whatever ministry we have can never be comprehensive or meet the needs of everyone. We will not reach all, and so we must respect and be generous toward those with the ability to reach people who will forever remain deaf to us. Instead of presumptuously and vainly imagining that what we say and do should be sufficient for all, we should rather be confident that God will raise up voices other than our own, voices for different ears with their different needs. As John and Jesus show us, there is more than one means to the great end that is God. If the tone of 11:16-19, which analyzes the response of "this generation," is negative, the tone of 11:25-30, which concerns the "infants" who receive the divine revelation in Jesus, is positive. The passage has a specific background in the Old Testament. The declaration that the Father and the Son know each other in an exclusive fashion harkens back to Exodus 33, where God knows Moses and Moses prays that he might know God. In the Exodus passage, we also find the promise of rest (Exod 33:14: "I will give you rest"). Moreover, in deeming himself to be "gentle" (v. 29), Jesus is taking up a chief characteristic of Moses (see Num 12:3), and in speaking of his "yoke" (v. 29), Jesus is using a term often applied to the law given through Moses. So Matt 11:25-30, like so much of Matthew, presents the second redeemer, Jesus, as being like the first redeemer, Moses. Matt 11:25-26 is first of all a Christological treasure. It reveals that Jesus is the revealer, it teaches that he is the source of spiritual rest, and it tells us that he is humble and gentle. But Christology cannot be reduced to doctrine, or to facts about Jesus. It is rather an invitation to redirect our lives. When Jesus says, "learn from me," he is calling us not just to read further in the Gospel or to mull over theological ideas but to incarnate for ourselves the virtues demanded by his speech and exhibited in his actions. One learns of Jesus by doing, by adopting his spirit and living his imperatives. The truth of our Christological faith is in the living. To read about feeding the hungry is one thing; to feed them is quite another. As 28:16-20 has it, disciples are "to obey," that is, to do what Jesus has commanded. Among the characteristics of Jesus in this passage is his being "gentle" or, as the older translations had it, "meek." Exactly what this means here and in the beatitude in 5:5 ("Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth") has been much discussed, especially among modern commentators, for whom "meek" sounds like such a bad thing. Who wants to be timid or ineffectual or of weak character? But it is crucial to observe that Jesus, who exemplifies this virtue according to 11:29 and 21:5, is very far from being a doormat. He enters into arguments, speaks harshly about opponents, and overturns the tables of the money changers in the temple. So whatever exactly this sort of humility may require, it cannot mean, without further ado, submissiveness or lack of spirit.Dale Allison | 3 CommentsFacebook-twitter-g+-LinkedIN-EmailPrint


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I've had several conversations recently with a common theme: "knowledge" and the management of it. I want to suggest that the game is already moving on from simply managing it – to weaponizing it. I can hear the shudders at the use of that expression but law is not a game and business is about buying and selling. If legal knowledge can only be accessed in 6 minute increments, customers will increasingly turn to that which has been "productized" into convenient bundles, packages or subscriptions.
On a recent trip to DC, I walked past 5 or 6 of the largest law firms – at both 8am and 8pm. Beautiful sleek, glass offices at prestigious locations so go figure the rent is high. Not a soul in sight aside the security guards and the occasional person watering the lobby plants. I'm not suggesting that everyone should be working at 8am or even 8pm – I'm an advocate of smarter, not harder. But the economics of law firms are shifting and fixed assets and identifiably capped billings will take a huge toll over time. It is overheads that most often kill businesses, not lack of business.
One disconnect, aside a few good exceptions I've seen, is the failure to craft sellable product from the vast IP warehouse that is the modern law firm. Lack of focus, lack of energy, lack of participation, lack of energy – who knows – but few have grasped the real urgency of taking knowledge and turning it into product. Others have. So while the office is empty, their products are making money. This is one of the lessons of the tech industry. It's an important one and it has direct application.
It's time to weaponize law, specifically, it's time to weaponize knowledge – the largest asset of most law firms by far – yet so often overlooked and mis-understood. Difficult? Maybe. Timely? Yes. Now is the time to get out in front of the competition. No question.
A client may not buy your services but why not sell them your knowledge product? Just a thought.


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The Devil in the Details
Do you know what I think it is I love about video games? What I find myself most enthralled by, that no other medium could give me? I think it's the difficulty, or more accurately, the ways in which a game can challenge a player. I absolutely adore a game that can find ways to continuously challenge you to think and do better. But on the flipside, I am not a fan of games wherein the only challenge is the sheer level grind. What's interesting about Shin Megami Tensei IV is how it holds a hefty serving of both of these things. But what comes out on top, the light of clever design or the shadow of mediocre overpowered enemies? Let's jump into the devil's den.
Shin Megami Tensei IV opens with your avatar as a new recruit into the ranks of the samurai inhabiting an eastern kingdom called Mikado. At first, you might think this game takes place in feudal Japan, but all is not as it seems. The special gauntlet you receive as a mark of the samurai is said to hold a spirit inside it. Upon activating the gauntlet, it becomes apparent to the player that this "spirit" is, in fact, an A.I, and the gauntlet is a small computer that behaves like a smartphone. This is the first hint into the truth of Shin Megami Tensei IV's unusual world. A huge tunnel called Naraku leads down from the top of Mikado castle, reaching deep underground and yet somehow leading you into the middle of modern-day Tokyo. That's right, it's one of those kinds of games. Things will only get more unusual from here, I assure you. After a mysterious black samurai begins spreading information that sparks an uprising among the people of Mikado, it's up to you and your fellow samurai to pursue and capture her.
You descend into Tokyo in a state of panic. The entire city is encased in an enormous dome created by the sudden appearance of Naraku, manifesting itself as a large black tower in the center of the city. I think it goes without saying that the general community of Tokyo hasn't exactly reacted kindly to its newfound isolation, and the addition of thousands of hostile, territorial demons in their midst has driven most of them underground. Modern-day Tokyo would be strange enough to a medieval samurai under normal circumstances, but the characters handle it shockingly well.
Writing in Shin Megami Tensei games has always been extremely hit-or-miss. Characters are usually well-written, but sometimes at the cost of the overarching plot, or sometimes the opposite. In this case, both character writing and story writing are good, but not exceptional. Your fellow samurai fall into predictable, but not overly stereotypical, archetypes. Johnathan is the do-gooder who tries to hold out hope for his fellow man, while Walter is a bit less trustful. The two act as pretty good foils to each other, and create various divides throughout the game where you must side with one or the other. This escalates and affects things later in the game, creating what essentially becomes the predictable good and evil paths we've seen in many games. It doesn't feel all that out of place here, though, as it is well-veiled by the legitimacy of both characters' opinions and standpoints. There's also Issabeau, who acts as the group's cool-headed neutral party most of the time. If you need a non-biased opinion to help you decide who to side with, chances are Issabeau will have something to say to give you some direction.
One important aspect of the Shin Megami Tensei series' legacy is it's difficulty. JRPGs have something of a two-sided reputation, and often get viewed as either punishingly hard breakers of brains, or cushy, boring, drawn-out fan-service. I'm happy to tell you that Shin Megami Tensei IV, like it's predecessors, fits snugly into the former. The game pulls no punches, giving you a daunting but not unfair challenge from the get-go. Staying on your toes is a must, as mashing the attack button will get you nowhere fast. The game rewards you for being smart with your attacks, as each successful super-effective hit on an enemy gains you an extra attack for your turn, stacking up to four total extra moves. You can coax demons to your side, a skill which takes practice but is very necessary. Persuasion tactics differ with each demon you attempt to talk to, and can be kind of annoying when you've just given a demon 300 coins as incentive only to have it turn around and start attacking you. But don't you think it's worth it when you eventually amass a dream team of superpowered Yokai and Eldritch abominations? I sure do. The ability to fuse your demons also allows for more expansion, creating even stronger creatures with uniquely tailored movesets.
Fighting demons is hard. Different types of attacks affect different foes in various ways, and can really change the tide of battle. If you encounter a new demon, you want to try every element in your arsenal to find what will land a super-effective attack. You'll find yourself having to change your roster up depending on what kind of demons you're facing, and doing so is gracefully easy, and necessary given the difficulty. Some bosses are quite honestly unfairly overpowered given the areas you find them in, but finding a way around insatiable rage isn't too hard once you know what to look for. Don't get too attached to any of your demons, because you might have to sacrifice them for the greater good at any time.
The one true downside of the gameplay is that it just isn't particularly innovative. The Shin Megami Tensei series has always had very solid RPG gameplay, and this game is certainly no exception, but there's really no new twist to be found. Does there need to be? Not really. But the fact remains that if I thought about it, I could name a bunch of other RPGs that play a lot like Shin Megami Tensei IV. Again, not a bad thing, but some more new ideas into a long-existing franchise are never a bad thing, right? You can customize your stats and armor, get new "apps" through Burroughs that give you bonuses and open up more slots for powers and demons, and fuse your creatures to get stronger ones. All good things, but not new things. But this doesn't distract from what is, at its heart, some of the most solid and enjoyable gameplay in any modern RPGs. The difficulty wall seems high at first, but can be scaled, and once it is you might find yourself thirsty for more. Once you've risen to meet the challenge of the game, finding more of the challenge becomes it's driving force. One could call it video game Stockholm syndrome.
The game's presentation is a real mixed bag, ranging from the music, full of atmosphere and energy, to the voice acting, which goes from decent at best to unintentionally hilarious at worst. The story is interesting but somewhat silly, and dialogue often follows suit. I was quite surprised by the lack of any cinematics in the game, instead getting 2D cutouts of the characters speaking. This is fine when we're dealing with normal dialogue, but when what's intended as an extremely dramatic reveal is presented as a single image scrolling slowly from left to right, some of the intensity is lost.
However, the minimalism in terms of presentation is outweighed by what's actually being presented. The art is gorgeous, bringing to life both the verdant plains surrounding Mikado and the dark city of Tokyo in equal measure. The design of each demon is unique and inspired, though some suffer from re-used art from previous games in the series, bearing somewhat different art styles. But really, this is a nitpick that I only bring up because everything else about the game's creatures is so perfect. Chimera-esque abominations, transylvanian winged beasts, and monsters straight out of Japanese Yokai folklore are just a few of the things you will see in the treasure chest of horrors the game has in store.
Shin Megami Tensei IV is a lesson in perseverance and diligence. It's early hours can be frankly brutal, but with time, you and the game will reach an understanding. Once you climb over the frustration wall, you'll find that the rest of the game comes not as frustration, but as a fierce, intense, enjoyable challenge the whole way through. The game is not without its faults, such as questionable presentation and voice acting, but the meat of the game is a great example of RPG gameplay done right in an age where it feels like not a lot of games get that anymore. The enormous world, interesting story and creative demon designs will suck you in and make you love them. Exploring Tokyo and meeting new creatures is an absolute joy, once you finally get to it. Overall, Shin Megami Tensei IV surpasses it's unfair moments and is demonically fun, getting 4 demon-hunting samurai out of 5.
Final Verdict: 4/5
Available on: 3DS (Reviewed) ; Publisher: Atlus ; Developer: Atlus ; Players: 1 ; Released: July 16, 2013 ; MSRP: $39.99


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Nine Brickell, Nine at Mary Brickell Village,Brickell
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About Property
Nine at Mary Brickell
Located in the heart of Miami's dynamic Brickell neighborhood, Nine at Mary Brickell Village offers peerless access to an exceptional and growing array of dining, shopping and entertainment destinations. Residents also enjoy extensive personal services and expansive indoor and outdoor amenities, including an exquisitely landscaped one-acre pool and recreational terrace as well as exclusive spaces for socializing. Luxury Condos in Miami appointed one- to three-bedroom residences feature contemporary floor plans and custom designed interior details.
Building Features
- • 34-floor luxury condominium tower with 390 one- to three-bedroom residences
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- • Elegant double-height marble-clad lobby
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- • Pet-friendly services and amenities
- • Secure residential storage facilities
- • Conveniently located adjacent to the Brickell Metromover and Metrorail stations
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Nine at Brickell Exclusive Services and Indoor Amenities
- • Concierge available to provide a variety of services* on demand, including access to Miami's most exciting restaurants and entertainment venues, and arrangements for housekeeping, laundry, dry cleaning, personal fitness trainers, poolside massage, and pet care
- • Multilingual staff
- • Mail and package handling
- • Clubroom with lounging and dining areas, wide-screen televisions, a coffee bar, and a wall of floor-to-ceiling folding glass doors that offer seamless access to the Pool Terrace
- • Residents' Lounge with refreshment bar overlooking Secret Zen Garden, billiards and
- poker tables, and a media area with a wide-screen television
- • Light-filled, state-of-the-art Fitness Center with custom sound system offers a wide range of Precor equipment, including cardio machines with integrated touchscreen
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- • Dedicated Yoga Studio designed with hardwood floors and an integrated sound system
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The Incomparable Nine at Mary Brickell Outdoor Amenities
Located on the 11th floor, Nine at Mary Brickell extraordinary one-acre private park has been designed as a series of linked terraces offering intimate views of Nine at Mary Brickell Village, as well as inspiring views of the Brickell skyline and Biscayne Bay. Beautifully landscaped and furnished, it provides areas dedicated to lounging, swimming, dining, socializing with friends, and enjoying quiet moments alone.
- • Pool Terrace with expansive resort-style swimming pool, chaise lounges, and intimate cabanas for lounging or poolside massage therapy*
- • Dining Terrace with two oversized barbecue grills, canopied tables surrounding a central courtyard, and a fire pit with water feature
- • Lounge Terrace with comfortable living room-style seating areas, private lounge nooks, and a central fire pit
- • Secret Zen Garden with lushly landscaped walking paths, intimate seating areas, and dining tables
- • Enclosed Dog Run
- • Direct elevator access to The Shops at Nine at Mary Brickell Village
Nine at Mary Brickell Contemporary Residential Interiors
- • A variety of sophisticated floor plans, some with open-plan kitchen and living spaces, and others with separate kitchens, all offer private balconies
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- • Oversized bathrooms with designer lighting feature white lacquer vanities, dual vanities in most master baths, and a custom white lacquer linen closet or cabinet
- • Fine bathroom details include quartz countertops with under-mount sinks, chromefinish hardware, oversized deep soaking tubs and/or semi-frameless glass-enclosed showers with soothing rainfall showerheads
- • Spacious walk-in closets in most bedrooms and oversized walk-in closets in all master bedrooms
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Residents of Nine at Mary Brickell Village enjoy VIP access to the exclusive Grand Bay Club on Key Biscayne.
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- • Indoor and outdoor dining overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and complimentary continental breakfast every day
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- • Exciting social events and activities for adults and children
- • Complimentary valet parking Wednesday through Sunday
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999 SW 1st Avenue
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- Cofee pot
- Computer
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- Relexation Room
- Roof terrace
- Smoking allowed
- Spa
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