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"The Odd Couple" continues its run at the Flat Rock Playhouse Mainstage at 2661 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock. Scott Treadway and Charles Flynn-McIver play the mismatched roommates Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison in this Neil Simon classic. Curtain times are 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays through April 21. Admission is $35, with discounts available. Call 828-693-0731 or visit www. flatrockplayhouse.org for details.
The Drama Department at Blue Ridge Community College is staging Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" through April 20 in Patton Auditorium on campus. Early College High School student Courtney Creasman and professional actor J.J. McCarson play the leading roles of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in a cast of nearly 40 members.
Performances are set for 7:30 p.m.
today, Saturday and Thursday-April 20, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $7; $5 for BRCC students, faculty and staff. Phone 828-694-1849 for more information.
Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical view of a Jewish family in Depression-era Brooklyn, N.Y., "Brighton Beach Memoirs," continues on stage at the Hendersonville Little Theater, 229 S. Washington St., through April 21. North Henderson High School student Dion Mills plays the leading role of 15-year-old Eugene Jerome, who yearns to play for the Yankees, see a girl naked and never eat another bite of liver. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students 18 to 25, and $10 for students younger than 18. Call 828-692-1082 or visit hendersonvillelittletheater.org for details.
The Jeremy Kittel Band, featuring Grammy Award-winning fiddler Jeremy Kittel, will appear in concert at the Tryon Fine Arts Center on Melrose Avenue at 8 p.m. Thursday.
The band consists of Kittel, mandolin master Josh Pinkham, hammered dulcimer artist Simon Chrisman and cellist Nathaniel Smith. Admission is $27 for adults and $10 for students. To reserve tickets, call 828-859-8322 or visit www. tryonarts.org.
The Hendersonville Swing Band's 10th annual concert is set for 3 p.m. Saturday in the Hendersonville High School auditorium. Proceeds will go to college scholarships awarded to Henderson County students by the Kiwanis Club. Directed by trombonist Jerry Zink, the band will perform 14 numbers, including songs from Broadway shows, patriotic melodies, ballads, syncopated swing and music popular during World War II. Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door.
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Giants will be just fine, says unimpressive EliTOM ROCK
August 18. 2014 9:57PM
Eli Manning knows Giants fans are freaking out. He knows that fans are terrified that the starting offense has looked awful with rare exceptions for most of their three preseason games. He knows that the regular season begins in three weeks and the Giants have shown no indication that they are any further along in mastering the new offensive system than they were on the day training camp began.
He knows that even Tom Coughlin on Sunday expressed concern — which can be easily construed as doubt — that the offense will not be fully functioning and able to turn it on for the Sept. 8 opener in Detroit.
His reaction to all of that?
Everybody chill.
The quarterback didn't use those exact words, but it's clear that whatever hand-wringing and worrying that is going on elsewhere is not taking place inside his helmet. He's not so obtuse as to think that everything is great and the Giants are regular-season ready, but from his vantage point, every day the team is making steady progress.
"We're doing good things in practice," Manning said. "There are still mistakes but ... the things we are doing well we have to make sure those carry over to the game."
That's been the problem. Besides a 73-yard touchdown run by Rashad Jennings in the Steelers game and a drive against the Bills' second-team defense in the Hall of Fame Game, there has been no carryover from the practice field to the stadium.
"I don't think we've ever been a great preseason team as far as I remember," said Manning, who seems to go through these summertime stresses every year. "I know how things are going in practice and what we're capable of doing . . . I've seen progress over these weeks in practice. Some of these concepts we're getting better at, getting a better feel for things, better timing for everything. We'll just continue working on those."
Manning even gave a vote of confidence to new offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo.
"It's not the system, it's just the execution," Manning said.
As if the three touchdown drives by the second- and third-stringers against the Colts on Saturday to win the game showed anything other than that.
"That first group, we have to get better," Manning said. "We have to perform better and start doing our job."
Not everyone was as chipper and matter-of-fact as Manning. Justin Pugh and Geoff Schwartz, offensive linemen the Giants are counting on the most to help the offense rebound from last year, both moped about their individual play and performance as a unit on Saturday.
"It was disappointing to see the way we played after all these weeks of our work in camp," Schwartz said. "We have to play well against the Jets (on Friday). We have to show something for all the work we put into camp . . . We should be getting to the point now where we see some progress, so it's kind of disappointing."
"We had been getting better at it," Pugh said, "unfortunately we took a step backwards."
The Giants have two more preseason games, but ideally the starters should rest in the finale against the Patriots. Tom Coughlin has already warned that if the Giants don't improve on Friday against the Jets he is not afraid to trot out his veterans for that fifth preseason game.
Manning said the Giants will spend a little more time game-planning this week than they have earlier in the preseason.
"Hopefully that will help some," he said. "It's just a matter of winning our individual battles and playing smart football."
See? Simple. Eli's got this. You can relax now.

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United States U.S. Military Spanish-American War, 1898
The war between the United States and Spain was largely fought in Cuba and the Philippines. The conflict lasted from April to August 1898. As a result, the United States acquired Puerto Rico and Guam and bought the Philippines. Cuba became independent.
The war was fought by U.S. regular forces and state volunteers. About 250,000 enlisted men and 11,000 officers served in this conflict. Most volunteers came from the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio. Records for this war are listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under:
Service Records
Below is an index to service records:
- General Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served during the War with Spain. National Archives Microfilm Publication M871. (FHL films 1002433–558.)
- A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
- United States, Index to Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers in the War with Spain (FamilySearch Historical Records)
Individual state indexes are also available for:
- Louisiana. National Archives Microfilm Publication M240 (FHL film 0880013.)
- North Carolina. National Archives Microfilm Publication M413 (FHL films 0821907–8.)
The indexes list the soldier's name, rank, and unit. Entries that refer to miscellaneous personal papers have no corresponding compiled service records. The papers themselves follow the jacket envelopes for most units. See the Family History Library Catalog for complete information on film numbers.
The service records of Florida have been microfilmed:
- Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served in the Florida Infantry during the War With Spain. National Archives Microfilm Publication M1087. (FHL films 1314126–38.) See the Family History Library Catalog for complete film numbers.
Other service records are available at the National Archives. You may also find military records at state archives, historical societies, and county courthouses. Some are on microfilm at the Family History Library. To find specific microfilm numbers, look in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under:
A list of volunteer officers is on Vol.2 pages 185–272 of the following:
- Francis B. Heitman's Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, available in two volumes (FHL book 973 M2hh 1994) (FHL film 2229899) (Worldcat). Volume one (Google Books), a register of army officers, provides a brief history of each man's service. Volume two (Google Books) contains a "chronological list of battles, actions, etc., in which troops of the Regular Army have participated.
Pension Records
- General Index to Pension Files, 1861–1934, National Archives Microfilm Publication T288. The index covers veterans of the Civil War, Spanish‑American War, Philippine Insurrection, Boxer Rebellion (1900 to 1901), and the regular Army, Navy, and Marine forces.
- The "Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900" (NARA T289), also called the "Civil War Pension Index" also lists Spanish‑American War veterans including Spanish‑American War nurses. This collection is available online. See Civil War Pension Index Cards.
- Note: This collection is often referred to as the "Organization Index". It covers the years 1861-1917 and includes records for veterans of the Spanish-American War.
Pension Records
The pension records themselves are not on microfilm. Copies can be ordered from the National Archives.
- See also Military Records: Pre-WWI Pension Applications (16 minute online video) FamilySearch Research Classes Online, 2010.
Cemetery Records
Peterson, Clarence Stewart. Known Military Dead during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, 1898–1901. Baltimore: Clarence Stewart Peterson, 1958. (FHL book 973 M23pc; fiche 6051242.) This work includes name, rank, company, regiment, and death date and place.
Census Records
1900 U.S. Federal Census
The 1900 Federal Census (NARA T623) enumerated military personnel stationed overseas in places such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. The census gives the soldier's name, rank, place of residence in the United States, birth date and place, company, regiment, and branch of service.
1930 U.S. Federal Census
The 1930 Federal Censusasked if a person was "A veteran of the U.S. military or naval forces mobilized for any war or expedition" and "What war or expedition" they served in.
1940 U.S. Federal Census
The 1940 Federal Census asked "Is this person a veteran of the United States military forces or the wife, widow, or under 18-year-old child of a veteran?" and "If child, is veteran-father dead?" and "War or Military" served in. These were only asked of persons which were recorded on line 14 and line 29 of the census, which would have covered about five percent of the population.
Veterans and Lineage Society Records
The United Spanish War Veterans was established in 1899. Its membership includes veterans with service in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection to 4 July 1902. The following sources contain information on their members who were veterans of the two wars.
- United Spanish War Veterans Camp Index, ca. 1890–1984 (FHL film 1765853-54, 1766000-6003)
- United Spanish War Veterans Master Index, ca. 1890–1984 (FHL film 1765850–52)
- United Spanish War Veterans, Department of Utah. Muster Rolls of Members, 1929–1957. (FHL film 1666085) Lists the veteran's name, age, residence, final discharge date, and unit. Some entries may contain additional data.
Sources for Further Reading
Dyal, Donald H. Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Gabbert, Howard Markland. The Rough Riders: A Brief Study and Indexed Roster of the 1st Regiment U.S. Volunteer Cavalry 1898. Tucson, Ariz.: Arizona State Genealogical Society, 1992. (FHL book 979.1 M2g.) Includes the name of the soldier, rank, place of residence, death date, muster out date, and discharge date.
Kelly, Thomas E., III. The U.S. Army and the Spanish-American Era, 1895–1910. Special Bibliography 9 in 2 parts. Carlisle Barracks, Pa.: U.S. Army Military History Research Collection, 1974. (FHL book 973 B4ua no. 9.) An inventory of the manuscript and published holdings of the U.S. Army Military History Research Institute. The collection has material gathered from veterans and widows, including questionnaires completed by veterans in 1968 as part of the Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion research project.
Livingston, Rebecca. "Sailors, Soldiers and Marines of the Spanish-American War: The Legacy of USS Maine." Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration 30. (Spring 1998): 62–72. (FHL book 973 B2p.)
Venzon, Anne Cipriano. The Spanish-American War: An Annotated Bibliography. Vol. 11 of Wars of the United States. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. (FHL book 973 M23b v. 11.) Contains sections on the U.S. Army and Navy which identify sources on regular and volunteer units and vessels. Also covers Black Americans in the war, relief efforts, and medical and sanitary conditions.


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Experience and Advice After Taking the Virginia Bar Exam in 2010
4 Comments | Posted by gimme-five in Advice, Law, School
On July 28, 2010, at around 5:00 p.m., I walked out of Roanoke Civic Center a happy man. I had just spent approximately sixteen hours—over the course of two days—in a gigantic room with strangers. We had frantically typed away at our laptops and meticulously filled in bubbles on a scantron sheet. We had to wear suits despite the sweltering temperatures in Roanoke. Mechanical pencils were banned. On top of all of this, the months leading up to the bar exam required quite a bit of studying, too. Ah, it was good to be done with the Virginia Bar Exam.
I am writing this post to try to provide some guidance to future bar exam takers, whether taking the bar in Virginia or in other states, and to share my experiences about the bar exam. I hope this post is useful and will help its readers have a realistic view of what the bar exam and the studying prior to the bar exam will be like.
First, a little background about myself so that readers realize that neither Albert Einstein nor Pee Wee Herman is writing this. In 2010, I graduated from a state law school (top 50 in US News, but not much better than top 50). As far as grades go, I did well in law school. I am clerking for a federal district judge, and I have a job at a firm after that. I consider myself to be a pretty conscientious student. However, I'm not some supergenius that can pass the bar after studying for a week. I didn't pass law school due to brilliance, just a lot of hard work. I did not work during law school, and I entered law school immediately after college. I had a girlfriend/fiancee throughout law school as well as during bar prep. Now she is my wife. OK, enough about me.
To prepare for the bar, I signed up for Barbri as well as the PMBR three day prep course. I have heard that other bar courses are fine, too, but my firm was willing to foot the bill for these two courses, so I took them. If you're paying for bar courses on your own, I'd recommend signing up for Barbri and skipping PMBR. More on these later.
Prior to taking the bar, I'd heard widely divergent stories from prior bar takers. Some people told me that they only studied for two weeks and passed. Many told me that they didn't do anything except go to bar prep classes until July 4, and then started studying. Others told me they studied like crazy for two months and failed. Some graduates who finished near the bottom of their class passed. Some near the top failed. Some got up during the bar exam and ran out, never to be heard from again. And more.
I tried to extract some commonalities from all of this "bar-lore." First, most people started studying much harder on July 4 than they did prior to this date. Second, most went to all of their bar prep classes (or watched them online). Third, most took Barbri as their bar prep course. Fourth, everyone studies in different ways. Fifth, the month of July, whether you studied hard in June or not, is pretty miserable, but June is not. Sixth, in general, if you take the bar exam seriously, you will pass.
The first step in preparing for the bar is deciding whether you want to take a bar preparation course. I strongly advise doing so. Let me explain.
The choice between taking a bar prep course and not doing so is not like deciding whether to use a commercial outline for a course in law school. While you could decide not to use a commercial outline and get a high grade in a course (perhaps higher than if you used the commercial outline), that is because the amount of material you need to learn for a course is far smaller than what you need to know for the bar exam. The bar exam, at least in Virginia as well as a number of other states, will test you on a broad number of topics. For example, Virginia tests something like 22 areas of law on the bar exam. While you might remember your criminal procedure class from law school, do you know any Virginia law on the issue? Do you know anything about Virginia wills or domestic relations law? If you don't, are you just going to read Virginia treatises and try to determine what is testable and study that? Are you going to study it all?
The bottom line is, it would be overwhelming for all but the smartest bar-takers to just learn all the law on your own. A bar exam prep course will help you by determining the law that is frequently tested or is testable on the exam and will teach you that. You'll know that important information well, and you won't be bogged down in stuff that is rarely going to appear on the exam. While there is of course a chance that something unusual could appear, since bar exams are curved, it's not going to hurt you much not to know the answer to a totally random question.
If you decide to go without taking a bar prep course, you should, at the very least, buy some old Barbri books on eBay or from a friend. These books will likely contain all of the information you need to pass the bar exam, so long as they are not more than a year or two old (cutting edge law rarely makes its way onto the bar exam). Just remember that buying the books is not enough – you need to put in the time and learn the material from them — be disciplined!
As for which bar prep course to take, I can't say I'm an expert on the topic. Most people—myself included—take Barbri. One advantage of taking Barbri is that you'll learn the same material as a large percentage of test-takers in the state. Since in Virginia, for instance, the pass rate is around 70% for summer bar takers, so long as you learn most of what Barbri teaches you, you should finish in that top 70% threshold. In other words, Barbri provides you safety in numbers. While Barbri is pretty expensive, failing the bar and potentially being unemployed for months while you study again is pretty expensive, too.
Some people also supplement Barbri with PMBR. Basically, the word on the streets is that PMBR is better at teaching the "multistate" portion of the bar exam than Barbri. After taking the three-day version of PMBR, which consists of one sample multistate exam and two days of video review (I only took the exam on the first day and reviewed on my own, which I recommend if you do PMBR), I did not find PMBR to be critical to my bar study. Personally, if my firm didn't pay for it, I would not have signed up for it.
Speaking of "multistate," let me quickly mention the difference between the multistate and state portions of the bar exam. In most states, such as Virginia, there are two portions of the bar exam. The first day is generally the state testing day, in which state law is tested in essay and/or short answer form. In Virginia, the first day includes two three hour blocks, separated by a lunch break. In the first block of time you have to answer five essay questions. In the second block of time you have to answer four essay questions and twenty short answer questions. You can take this part of the exam on a laptop (which I highly recommend). The second day is generally the multistate testing day, where you have two three hour periods to take a 200 question multiple choice exam on multistate law (generally this means the majority rule in most jurisdictions) on the following topics: torts, contracts, constitutional law, criminal law/procedure, and real property.
My law school graduation was in mid-May, just two days after I turned in my last final exam. Freedom – for a short while. However, according to Barbri, I was supposed to start studying for the bar exam two days after graduation.
Barbri (as well as most other bar courses) assigns students a study program that tells them what they should be studying at certain times during the summer. Barbri calls this the "Paced Program." I don't think it is necessary to follow the Paced Program exactly, though it is useful to follow most of it. For example, the Paced Program may ask you to write four sample essays and take two multiple choice tests on a given day as well as outline your previous day's notes. If I became too busy with other stuff (e.g. COA clerkship applications), I would shorten this by only taking one of the multiple choice tests and only two or three of the sample essays.
Anyway, right after graduation, Barbri told me that I was supposed to spend five days studying on my own, with each day taking a practice test (without studying for it) and then watching a video about the practice test. The idea of this week was to help prepare students for the types of questions they would see on the multistate portion of the bar exam and to give them a benchmark of where they would stand without studying. I figured that would only take a few hours per day, so I decided to do it. While taking the practice tests and reviewing my answers was helpful, watching videos where a professor discussed every single question and answer possibility was not, in my opinion, worth my time. So I took the practice tests and ignored the videos. On the sixth day, Barbri told me to take a practice 1/2 day of the multistate exam. I took the practice exam and reviewed my answers. That was the end of my first week of studying.
Overall, I'd say that it's not critical to follow Barbri's plan for the first week of studying on your own. While it provides some exposure to multistate questions, you're going to get plenty of exposure over the next two months. So if you have time to do some studying that week, go for it. If not, it's not a huge deal. You'll be taking plenty of multistate practice questions over the next couple of months.
One week after graduation, Barbri classes began. While law school classes, in my opinion, were both fun but often confusing, Barbri classes are super-boring (with some exceptions) but far from confusing. To put it another way, law school professors often hide the ball, whereas Barbri professors spoon-feed you the law.
Bar prep classes such as Barbri teach you all of the subjects you'll need to know for the bar exam—both the state and multistate portions. However, while you'll learn something about all of the subjects on the bar exam, the quality of the professors is not consistent. Some professors are clearly better than others at teaching the testable material. However, despite the fact that some professors are not so good, I do not recommend supplementing your Barbri (or whatever course you're taking) with outside material.
Why shouldn't you supplement what you learn in Barbri with outside material? There is certainly a temptation to try to learn as much as you can before the bar exam. In law school, if you know more about the tested materials than anyone else, you'll get a higher grade. Why not the same rationale for the bar? Well, first, the bar is a minimal competency exam. Your goal is to show the bar examiners that you are a reasonably competent lawyer, not show them that you know tons and tons of trivia about the law. In other words, you write the four-part test that you learned, you analyze it, and you move on. Don't give legislative history, don't explain why the rule is coherent with legal theory, don't throw in extra stuff. Second, the bar is pseudo-curved, as I mentioned before. If you learn all of the stuff that Barbri teaches you as well as the average person that took Barbri, then you'll pass the bar, since so many people take Barbri. In fact, if a lot of people miss a question on the multistate exam, the examiners will often throw out the question so you get no credit for it whether you got it correct or incorrect. Thus, if you just answer the questions in the way the average Barbri student would answer, you'll likely get sufficient credit for your response. Third, you are going to have to memorize a ton of information to pass the bar exam. If you try to cram extra stuff in your head, it's going to be even more difficult to memorize the information that is frequently tested. In short, don't supplement your bar prep course materials (unless you're taking a really sketchy bar prep course… but if you are, that's another problem).
Should you go to (or watch online) all of your bar prep course's classes? In my opinion, yes. While not all of the professors for Barbri (or other bar prep courses) are of high quality, hearing the information presented to you in class will help you start the memorization process. And if you can't make it to the classroom for the course, Barbri, along with many other bar prep courses, allow you to watch the lectures online. During 2010, Barbri posted videos online for students to view at noon on the day they were to play in class. I'm sure this schedule might differ upon the state that you have Barbri, but that was how it worked in Virginia.
Also, if you're watching a professor that really sucks, there is a trick you can use if you are on a Windows computer. According to this Abovethelaw post, you can watch lectures at 1.5x speed if you do the following:
1. Start the lecture.
2. Double click on the video to make it full-screen.
3. Hold down control + shift + G, and it will play at a faster speed. To put it back to normal speed, hit control + shift + N.
Although I have a Mac, I did use Boot Camp to run Windows for this trick on two particular lecturers whom I found to be less than effective.
UPDATE: In 2011, some have reported the Barbri 1.5x speed-up trick as stated above does not work. As I am no longer studying for the bar, I don't know whether this is true or false. If you happen to know more about this issue, or how to fix it, please post a comment below.
In law school, I spent 1 to 1.5 hours after each class outlining the material from class so that I could comprehend how everything fit together and so I could really understand the law. The two main purposes of outlining, to me, were to deeply comprehend the material and to memorize the material (and, for open book exams, as a reference for the exam). However, in law school, when I really needed to memorize material, I made flash cards to drill the information into my brain.
For the bar exam, Barbri suggests that each student outline the material after each class. I don't think that is a great idea, so I didn't do it. This is because the material really isn't hard to learn; as I mentioned before, it's spoon-fed to you. Moreover, Barbri provides you with two outlines for each area of law, a long outline and a condensed outline, and for some subjects, a super-condensed outline. As a result, the main thing that you need to do for the bar is memorize the material. Thus, I went straight to making flashcards.
The first two days of class, I made physical flashcards on 3×5 index cards. That was a mistake. My wrist really hurt, and I used an entire pen worth of ink in making the flash cards (seriously). It also took four hours per day to make the flash cards.
After that, I decided to make digital flashcards that I could review on my old 1G iPod Touch. The program I used was called iFlash. iFlash works on a Mac and an iPhone or iPod Touch. I'm sure that there are windows programs and programs that work for Android phones as well. iFlash cost $14.95, but it was well worth it.
iFlash allows you to type up flashcards on your computer, import them to your iPod Touch or iPhone, and review them on there or on your computer. iFlash is a gigantic upgrade from making paper flashcards for several reasons: (1) typing is much faster than handwriting, so typing up flashcards saved me over an hour per day; (2) you can share digital flashcards with others easily, so if you decide to study with friends, iFlash makes it easy; (3) digital flashcards are far easier to carry around than the 1,000+ flashcards you'd have to carry around if you made paper cards, and you can review them anywhere; and (4) you can make audio versions of your flashcards to review while you're in the car if you have them in a digital format.
My recommendation for studying is to basically just try to follow the Barbri paced plan. Go to class, make flashcards for that class, try to do a couple state essay questions or Multistate Practice Question ("MPQ") question sets each night. Then, every weekend, try to review all of your flashcards. I never actually got through memorizing all of my flashcards in a single weekend. I was able to scan through them all if I wanted, but if I tried to actually memorize each one, it wasn't happening, even the week before the bar. Also, once again, while it's important to try to follow the paced plan, it's not necessary. I didn't finish all of the assignments on it, but I still passed.
Although I think that reviewing flashcards is the most important part of the bar studying process, I think that reviewing essay questions is important. Some areas of law are hard to get a good grasp of without actually writing out an answer, so taking a crack at a number of essay questions can be helpful.
No matter how much you study during the early part of the bar exam process, you're probably going to be worried about your situation in July. Some of the sample essay questions you'll do will include information that you've never seen before (that's normal – learn it but don't freak out about it), your MPQ scores might not be as high as you'd like, your friends might be freaking you out, whatever. In any event, July will become a much busier and more stressful month. While it's not a bad idea to work harder in July to get ready for the exam, know that everyone is feeling freaked out just like you. Although you feel like you're going to fail, it's not nearly as inevitable as you might think (I wish I could say that you're not going to fail, but there's no guarantee everyone will pass the bar, but the chance of failing is not nearly as certain as you'll think in July).
That said, DON'T PROCRASTINATE. If you skip a bunch of your classes and try to learn subjects on the bar exam from the ground up the week before the exam, it's going to freak you out and hurt your studying on other subjects. At the very least, go to all of your classes or watch them online so that you have exposure to all of the subjects before the last days before the exam. I know it's not "cool" to study hard for the bar exam, but it's also not cool to fail. Just take it seriously and you'll be fine.
Through the bar study process, in May, June, and even July, you should not give up your life for the bar exam. Throughout the process, I made sure to keep exercising six days per week for about one hour per day. I took time off each week to see my then-fiancee and to plan a wedding. I'd say that during May and June, I really only studied—class included—for about 40-45 hours per week. Of course, in July, that number increased quite a bit, but on average, I did far less studying than I did in law school.
I think that it's totally possible to study way less than I did and still pass. However, that might also be a very good way to lose a lot of nights of sleep prior to the date the bar results come out. I'm much happier studying harder and being confident of passing than fudging my studying and hoping that everything works out. That said, I'm glad I didn't live in the library during the summer. There's no reason to put in 80 hour weeks when studying for the bar, unless you overly procrastinate and force yourself to do that.
To be frank, taking the bar exam really sucks. If you take the Virginia bar exam in July, you'll take it in Roanoke, Virginia, a town in southwest Virginia that's not very close to the population centers of Virginia. It's about four hours from Northern Virginia, for instance. Roanoke is not a terrible town, it's just sort of out of the way.
The exam experience starts by driving to Roanoke. I advise listening to lots of relaxing or loud music, whatever is best for calming you down. Don't just sit in silence or try to listen to audio study tools or anything like that; it will just make you nervous. I think you should just drive down and try to have the best time you can.
When you get to your hotel / bed and breakfast / etcetera, I recommend getting in, then going for a walk or something. Don't sit around and study for the night. Studying the day before this exam is really just going to freak you out. I went to dinner with a few friends. I was too nervous to eat much. After eating dinner, I went for a short walk. The walk helped calm my nerves a bit, as did talking on the phone with family and friends. I tried to stay away from as many law students as I could except for calm ones. I advise not hanging around students who are going to quiz you on exam topics or be amazed when you haven't memorized all of page 37 of Barbri's civil procedure outline.
Try to go to bed early. You'll be nervous, so it's not a bad idea to take sleep medicine or drink some herbal tea if that works for you. I surprisingly slept very well the night before the first day of the bar exam.
In the morning, do whatever relaxes you. I went for a 45 minute run and showered. I tried to eat some breakfast, but could not get much down due to nerves. Then I drove early to the convention center so I would not have to worry about being late.
Once you get to the convention center, you'll wait in a gigantic line before being "checked-in" and sent to your seat. Most people will be in a gigantic room with hundreds of other bar takers. When you get there, get to your seat, sit down, and get your computer booted up (assuming you're using your computer to take the exam; I think you'd be a fool not to type it). Then, await your instructions, and get ready for the test.
The first day of the exam is essay questions. You'll have half of the questions in the morning session, then lunch, then half of the questions in the afternoon. I was most nervous for the essay exam because I feared that there might be questions I knew nothing about. As it turns out, there was only one question I had never heard of. For the others, I answered them confidently, just like I had answered my Barbri practice questions. For the question I knew nothing about, I just made up the law, applied my made-up law, and came to a conclusion. E.g. "X should prevail in this motion. In the Commonwealth, to do A, X must satisfy (1) L; (2) M; and (3) N. Here, X satisfied each element [explanation]. Thus, X will prevail." Note: YOU WILL GET POINTS for analysis if you do this. If you write nothing because you don't know the law, you will get zero points. You want points, so if you get stumped, just make something up and provide good analysis.
Another note: Virginia is really proud of the fact that it is the "Commonwealth" of Virginia, not the "State" of Virginia. Don't call it a state, refer to it as "the Commonwealth." I've heard you actually may lose points for using the word "state" instead of "Commonwealth."
After the first day is over, you will likely be much less nervous. Have some dinner. I pigged out a bit after the first day, as I was famished from not eating much in the morning or at lunch. Feel free to hang out with friends, but I recommend staying away from types that will quiz you on how you did on the essay questions. That will only shake your confidence and make you worried about how you did on the first day. Then, go back to wherever you are staying, go for a walk, and do whatever relaxes you, and then go to sleep.
Day two is multiple-choice, multistate questions (the MBE). Some people prefer the essay questions over the multistate questions. I'm not sure which I preferred, but I was much less nervous by the time I got to the MBE, so I enjoyed it more. Like the state essay questions on day one, the MBE is divided into two parts: one in the morning, then lunch, then one part in the afternoon.
The MBE is full of easy questions, and it is also full of trick questions. The only advice I can give on the MBE is as follows. First, you'll likely be fine as long as you drilled lots of sample MBE questions during your study time. Second, DON'T freak out about missing one or two questions. You can miss nearly half of the questions and receive a passable score on the MBE. That means you should KEEP MOVING, and don't spend lots of time on one question. Read the question, answer it if you know it, and guess if you don't. You can mark your pages to come back and think about hard questions later if you finish early (I finished about 30 minutes early and checked over a number of questions I was uncertain about).
Another thing: lots of people thought it was just swell to leave the exam early. On the MBE, many people left the exam an hour or more early. I don't understand why someone would find this to be a good idea. You can, and should, spend your extra time checking over your answers (or taking your time on the questions you are answering to avoid trick questions). Imagine if you fail the exam because you missed a couple of MBE questions that you did not read carefully so that you could leave the exam early. Are you going to be glad you had an extra hour to drive home? The bar is really important to pass – it's worth one final hour of your time.
I wish you all the best of luck preparing for the bar exam. It's a stressful experience, but so long as you don't procrastinate, and you take the exam seriously, you will be fine.
Osama Bin Laden Killed – How the Right and Left Will Spin the Death
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If you haven't heard yet, Osama bin Laden was killed this past weekend (see WaPo, WSJ, NYT, CNN, NPR). This is a positive development for the United States, and the world, in my judgment. But right now, the real work has began: the political spin machines on both the right and left are working hard to spin this story the way they want it. I'll make predictions now (9:50 am eastern time on 5/2/2011, about 10 hours after bin Laden's death was announced) about how the spin machine over the next week will treat this story. I predict by 5:00 pm eastern time on 5/3/2011, we'll see most of these spin stories emerge.
From the left:
- Death of Osama is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Death of Osama cures cancer, stops climate change, makes everyone in the world love the United States.
- Death of Osama shows that President Obama is the greatest commander in chief ever; President Bush had absolutely no hand in killing Osama.
- When a commentator slips and accidentally says "Obama" instead of "Osama," (I already heard someone slip on NPR this morning) he or she is labeled as a racist.
From the right:
- Congratulations to President George W. Bush / "our military" while deliberately avoiding mentioning President Obama's name.
- The death of Osama could have occurred earlier, but President Obama waited until recently to improve his election prospects.
- "Killing Osama doesn't matter. Who cares?" (if this happened while GWB were in office, the left would be saying this, obviously). Or, alternatively, "why are we celebrating someone's death? How cruel are we!"
From Donald Trump:
- That wasn't Osama. Where is the birth certificate?


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1. Re: Temperature Sensorsjheld Oct 8, 2010 1:33 PM (in response to devendra.rai)1 of 1 people found this helpful
There is no ACPI support for SCC, nor a way to get absolute temperatures from the experimental sensors on the SCC without special lab equipment and elaborate procedures to calibrate each sensor since its values vary by individual sensor (across dies and within a die) and voltage. It is just intended to provide an indication of relative thermal changes.
The SENSOR_GATE_PULSE_CNT_RANGE indicates how long to sample the sensor for, expressed as number of tile clocks. For example, to sample for 1 microsecond while running at 400MHz (remember to include any divider value you set for the tile), enter 400. Then read the sensor registers, say every x milliseconds. One sensor is near the mesh interface, the other is near core 1.
Though you can't convert the value to degrees C, you can establish a calibration by putting the processor into a known state and collecting the readings. Lowest power (and hence lowest temperature after settling) will be with cores in HALT (in RESET will be slightly higher). You can read the CRB register from the MCPC using sccKit to see the value without disturbing the cores, e.g., using the memory widget in sccGui. Then put the cores into a highly compute intensive loop (in L1 cache, with code that pairs in the pipelines) for some time and again read the values.
2. Re: Temperature Sensorsdevendra.rai Oct 18, 2010 3:18 PM (in response to jheld)
Hello All,
Coming back to the question of temperature sensors. I understand that the hex value in bits 12:0 determine the time for which sensor needs to be sampled. But, I still am not clear on what difference does sampling for 1us or for 0.5us mean? Does sampling for longer period give out a better (meaning more representative) values? I would understand that longer sampling time is better if there is some kind of statistical averaging done in the sensors, if longer periods are used. Also, I understand that if I have to read the sensors every x seconds, setting the configuration (for example bits 12:0) should be set only once (assuming that the sampling period is smaller than x), and I can read them over and over again, by reading the associated CRB addresses.
So, in nutshell: how should I decide how long should the sensors be sampled?
Just to make my point complete, I extracted sensor values for tile (0,0): 10 readings, 1 second apart, sampling period set to 3FFF. The text is attached.
Thanks for your patience
Tile0_0_Core0.txt.zip 213 bytes
3. Re: Temperature Sensorsjheld Oct 20, 2010 3:58 PM (in response to devendra.rai)
The sensor integrates over the sampled interval and so will smooth out short term variations.
I don't know how "noisy" the signal will be. Seems like a good set of experiments.
4. Re: Temperature Sensorstedk Dec 7, 2010 6:43 PM (in response to jheld)
Are you still working with the sensor registers? Do you have any results you can share? Are you reading them from the MCPC or from a core program?
We're interested in putting together some guidelines for using thse sensor registers, and I think you have had tehmost experience. Thanks.
5. Re: Temperature Sensorsandrea.bartolini Jan 13, 2011 9:34 AM (in response to devendra.rai)
I have a question. I read the ReadSensor.pdf documents and I was worried by the dependency of the voltage supply and the temperature relations between temperature sensor reading and real temperature. My question is if do not change the voltage value explicitly is the tiles voltage changing anyway? Should I consider it or I can forgot about it.
This because if I execute sccBMC -c status with all the core running linux in idle, i see small fluctuation on the voltage level. Is this one significant in therm of error on the temperature sensor value meaning?
6. Re: Temperature Sensorstedk Jan 13, 2011 11:26 PM (in response to andrea.bartolini)
Are you running remotely? It's very difficult even when running locally to get quantittive results from this calibration. You have to calibrate with the chip in a temperature-controlled environment.
The voltage changes do afffect the calibration, but I think it's small compared to other effects. Random changes in the ambient temperature of the data center may even be more significant. When you are working remotely, the sensor registers are useful, but mostly in a qualitative sense.
Are you also using the performance counters? Are you using PAPI? Did you make a new kernel with PAPI included? If you have information to report about how to use the performance counters, that would be much appreciated .Did you go back in the PAPI archives for the last version which supported P54C?
7. Re: Temperature Sensorsandrea.bartolini Jan 14, 2011 7:40 AM (in response to tedk)
First of all, thanks for all the useful information and all the well done documents and suggestion you keep posting in this community.
We have access to a local SCC system. Probably as you suggest, in order to avoid surrounding temperature changing it could be useful to probe the temperature inside the case. Do you know if there is any temperature sensors already built in in the rocky lake board that could be used for this purpose? I will make few test on the thermal sensors in the following weeks, actually our research topic is in thermal and energy management. So using the thermal sensors in a reliable way is of primary importance for us.
Regarding the performance counters, now I'm tring to use it from inside the Linux kernel. I'm patching it to create a kernel module that throught a set of IO control can start, stop it and read it. Now still end debugging it. Unfortunately I'm not an expert on PAPI, actually I never use it before. In the past I had always worked with self made modification on the linux kernel to use the performance counters. I like to have low level control in what i see.
8. Re: Temperature Sensorstedk Mar 4, 2011 11:22 AM (in response to andrea.bartolini)
There are no temperature sensors on the SCC chip or board. We do have counters on the chip that are temperature sensitive. You have to do the calibration yourself. The file "How to Read the Thermal Sensor Registers" describes how to use and read these counters. It also provides a link to an sccTherm program that we used internally. Is there any additional information we can provide?
9. Re: Temperature SensorsYang Mar 7, 2011 9:04 PM (in response to tedk)
I am wondering if the reading of one temperature sensitive counter is comparable to that of other temperature sensitive counters? For example, if the sensor readings on tile 0 are smaller than readings on tile 1, can I say tile 0 is hotter than tile 1?
10. Re: Temperature Sensorsdevendra.rai Mar 8, 2011 2:37 AM (in response to Yang)
Yes, I guess so. The count is sort of inversely proportional to temperature. When you read the count, make sure that other parameters like your register refresh rate remain constant. Else, you will have to compare apples to oranges.
11. Re: Temperature SensorsYang Mar 8, 2011 9:39 AM (in response to devendra.rai)
Thank you very much for your reply. I read the counters when all tiles run at the same frequency and use sccTherm –initTherm to initilize refresh rate first, so I think the settings should be same for all tiles. I have this question because I found the difference between the readings of two counters can be very large. For example, the difference of the two counters on tile 0 can be as large as 500 when there are no programs running on tile 0 (the frequency is 533 MHz and the sampling rate is 2.56 us). On the other hand, the sensor reading difference between a tile running two frequencies is not that significant. For example, the difference of sensor readings when tile 0 runing at 533MHz and 100MHz is less than 50. It is a little bit strange to me that the temperature difference caused by power change is much less than location difference. I was wondering if someone has similar experience.
12. Re: Temperature Sensorsdevendra.rai Mar 14, 2011 4:35 PM (in response to Yang)
Hello Everyone,
Partly to help others who are trying to make sense of temperature sensors, and partly to get a quick sanity check on the results, I am attaching some graphs that I printed while measuring the thermal response of the system.
(1). All cores were cooled by resetting the SCC and not booting for about 20 minutes. (I know there is a better way to do it, I am working on it).
(2). Assuming that the cores reached a stable temperature, I ran a CPU-intensive application on cores00 and core01 (Tile 00). The application consistently consumes ~95% CPU for about 20 minutes or so.
(3). Measured tiles sensors (or rather, counts).
We know from the documents elsewhere on marc that count is sort of inversely proportional to temperature. So, a lower count will mean a higher temperature.
(4). Measurements were started 3 minutes before the application was activated, to capture the background noise. The measurement continuted till after the application finished.
(5). We do not have any control on sensors, and each sensor will have a bias and a noise. Can someone help in how to model this noise?
I have still not done any cleaning of data, and what I present is just quick graphing of the sensor reads. In each graph, there are two plots, one for the sensor close to the cores (the upper one) and the other one is for sensor close to the network switch. The graph colors are *not* consistent. Again, before putting lot of effort into this, I will like a sanity check on what I am doing.
In the attachment, there are several jpeg plots, with the name Tilexy.jpg, where x and y are the co-ordinates of the tile where the sensors are located. Again, the load is running only on tile 00 (cores 0, 1). The load starts executing exactly at the same time, in both cores.
So, here are my questions:
(a). I see an observable difference in the counter readings only for Tile 00. Also, I had expected the "difference" to be rather large.
(b). How large, would "large" be? Ah, The Intel document explains how to set the starting point for calibration, but I will need at least one more co-ordinate to determine the slope. So, I have no idea on how "large" large actually is.
(c). Can someone , who has more experience tell me if the results are sane? The readings were done by a script that I wrote, and I compared my results to Intel provided "sccTherm". sccTherm does not provide time-stamps, nor does it provide any control on frequency of observations recorded, also it used PCIe connection, which I think is best not used.
If you need numerical data, please drop me a line.
Thanks for any help.
Devendra Rai
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13. Re: Temperature Sensorsandrea.bartolini Mar 31, 2011 3:13 AM (in response to Yang)
Hi Yang and Davendra,
in university of bologna we had worked extensively in the last months in try to characterize and reverse ingeenering the thermal sensors of SCC.
First of all from our tests, for uniform stress condition and same sensors settings, we see high difference in the sensor output. The difference is not clusterized and so it could be supposed to be noise. Nonetheless a series of readings shows a high noise in the output of the sensors.
We then execute a series of stress test and we recognize a negative sensibility with the temperature.
Thus considering a linear dependency we have that the sensor output is SO = A+ BT, where T is the temperature and A,B are coefficient. A is positive B is negative.
Said that we performed a test on the sensor time windows (a.k.a integral time) of each sensors. What we discoverd that increasing the time windows, keeping constant the core stress, the counter value increses then overflow, then increase, then overflows. Nonetheless incresing the time windows increases the errors but also increase the absolute value of the reading (if you manually account the overflow) thus higher time windows improves the signal-to-noise ratio.
We are also currently developeding a strategy to characterize the thermal sensors by using a combination of stress patterns and least square optimizzation. We are trying to make it consistent and soon we will let it be pubblic to the marc community.
The main objective of this strategy is to override the problem of the two point characterizzation, suggested in the ReadingSensor.pdf, indeed with this streategy you are forced to impose at maximum power consumption the temperature of all the cores to be equal within each other to a maximum values. We cross checked it with hotspot simulation and we see that center cores in this case should have higher temperature leading to loose of accuracy.
Just as early results we assembled a set of videos of the thermal response of SCC under different stress patterns. Here the link:
Of course still work in progress and this is why we still not have released it.
14. Re: Temperature Sensorsjheld Mar 31, 2011 9:15 AM (in response to devendra.rai)
Looking at the quick and dirty plots you attached, I see that the noise level looks consistent (the scale of the plots varies so it only seems to be wider on some) and magnitude and noise that are not surprising. I believe that you'll find the noise is Guassian white noise, you can run a statistical normality test adn an FFT to confirm. You report the higher value as the one closer to the core which is as expected.
What are you using as the workload? Workloads that access memory beyond the cache will impact routers on the path to the iMC and will stall the pipeline waiting for memory. Also, how are you observing the value of the sensor? Since you were not reading from the MCPC, how were you capturing the values?
The comment by Andrea from Univ Bologna shows a systematic approach to characterizing the sensors. I look forward to their result.


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Jimmy Fallon Discusses Bruce Springsteen Collaboration on 'Blow Your Pants Off' Album
Jimmy Fallon continues to work with some of the top music talent in late night, and it's paying off as the comedian-turned-talk show host has just issued a new album called 'Blow Your Pants Off.'
Fallon, who is known for his musical impersonations, caught up with Tommy Griffiths from Washington D.C.'s Big 100.3 and discussed how he managed to get Bruce Springsteen to do a performance of Willow Smith's 'Whip My Hair' for the show.
He recalls, "I got to talk to Springsteen on the phone and he was coming on to promote a new CD that he had and I said, 'I was thinking about maybe doing a duet with you if you don't mind where I play Neil Young and you are you and we sing 'Whip My Hair' from Willow Smith.' And he goes, 'I am not familiar with that song.'"
But after a crash course over the phone from Fallon, Springsteen not only said he was in, but also had some ideas for the performance. Fallon recalls, "He says, 'I like it, I like it, but I've got an idea … I wanna dress like me from the '70s … I'll wear like a floppy hat.' I said, 'Do you want us to get you like a beard and a wig?' and he's like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.'"
Fallon says he never imagined that Springsteen would even agree to do the performance, but was amazed when he offered his services plus added suggestions. The talk show host admits that Springsteen was so good as his younger self that some of the audience members were fooled. Fallon says, "We did it once in front of a live audience and at first you can hear the people like, they don't realize it's really Bruce Springsteen … People think it's an impersonator."
The 'Late Night' host concludes, "The guys amazing and the fact that he did that opened the door for me to get a lot of people, a lot of other people – Paul McCartney and all those guys."
Jimmy Fallon's 'Blow Your Pants Off' album, which also features guest appearances from McCartney and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, is out now.
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Vermonter wrote:I would laugh every day if we could have this little grumpy cat in there:
She would have to say grumpy things randomly. Like if your character dies, she says "Good."
That would be so awesome.
Also - A Tribble would be nice.
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|2011-07-08, 10:05
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What is this crap talk about girl's bust size? They are awesome, I don't see any flaws. Maybe they are shaped strangely but I find them quite attractive nevertheless. Guess the biggest problem to some is that they are somewhat out of place cuz' everything around has relatively realistic shape. But yeah, I find the girl to be overly cute as well.
Anyway, I found the first episode to be somewhat interesting. I'm hooked up to it even if I didn't find anything amazing that I can say it's innovative. The show just kept me hooked up for no reason... maybe it's the atmosphere. Gonna stick with it and see where it goes.
|2011-07-08, 19:51
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|2011-07-08, 20:07
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Me at work
I couldn't care less about the breast size,if anything,I'm happy I actualy like Kayano Ai's voice for once.
Solid episode for me,looking forward to more.
The OP might be my favorite so far this season
|2011-07-08, 23:18
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Try me! <3
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Germany
Age: 35
These melons however, oddly shaped on top of it, rather freaked me out than anything else
Wft were they thinking?
While watching, with that haphazard story-telling and abrupt changes and all, I asked myself several times: "Just what are you watching here!?"
|2011-07-09, 00:13
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The Chaotic Dreamer
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: In a cruel yet beautiful world
Age: 27
The rest was sort of a trainwreck of anime stereotypes, oddly clunky/lazy animation here and there, ugly/boring/generic character design save for the dolls (or inconsistent character design if you consider how everyone else's design leads towards realism and Utao looks like she belongs in a bad kiddy comedy anime), and overall randomness. Just a sloppy, sloppy episode. And both the OP and the ED are utterly forgettable.
I might give the second episode a chance if I'm bored, but right now it's really at the bottom of the list for me. Don't get me wrong, there's way worse out there, and there's something about this show that kind of me wants me to like it, but I just can't right now. I'm more disappointed than usual because I think concept has some potential, but if they're going to execute it like some cheap Saturday morning cartoon that actually makes me feel STUPID while watching it (which this episode DID halfway in -- which caused me to grab my laptop go, "Wtf is this? What am I watching? Why is this so bad?!"), then I say to hell with it.
|2011-07-09, 05:05
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I think the reason why Yamamura drew Hibino the way he did was to actually balance out the fact that Utao is a very big part of the series. She's everywhere and is always making crazy cute faces and there are some mighty good ones later on. Besides, it's just kind of Hibino's thing really, I don't recall Yamamura actually doing much to exploit her assets.
|2011-07-10, 17:28
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
This show is a mixed bag. On the one hand, I think the underlying concept is decent, and the "gods" are pretty neat. I particularly liked the weird music/sound effects that go with them. I also liked the OP.
However the show has too many bad points. For me the most glaring thing is the dreadful incidental music. It's the sort of thing you might get in a bad kids TV show, primitive, no subtlety and overly synthesized. The only good sound element in this show is the neat sounds the "gods" make. Other problems include:
- Overly big breasted main girl, I mean it's really offputting. It's not Boobanaut levels but...
- Flat voice acting, particularly with secondary parts (On par with some bad H-games I once sullied myself with)
- Boring, cliché male lead
It's just generally pretty bad.
It's a shame because Brain's base often has such a great output. That said they have a pretty crowded schedule this season, both Penguindrum and Natsume Yuujinchou, both of which seem to be top notch. 2 out of 3 isn't bad.
|2011-07-10, 17:54
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I really don't get anime audience today. I checked the thread of Mayo Chiki! and I've seen nothing but praise. But after watching the first episode it's cleared that the show is the usual generic ''guy falls on a girl and his arm is on her breast'' anime that people will watch because of fanservice and characters and what not. But when anime shows up with a ''normal'' plot and no fanservice the people are complaining about one girl's boobs. It's alright to have a preference, thank God for that, but please don't cut the score of entire show solely because of girl's chest. That's absurd.
|2011-07-10, 22:25
|Link #95
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Germany
Age: 35
You mean that randomly jumbled-together trainwreck, which is all over the place?
Thankfully, that's anything *but* normal.
For the fanservice: there's no possibility there could be any, with this show. Seeing fanservice with Utau would just make me feel awful, and seeing fanservice with Miss Boobanaut would be very offputting and disturbing
|2011-07-10, 23:18
|Link #96
Join Date: Dec 2006
Too bad whether (you think) the plot is a wreck or not, a plot is still a plot. And normal probably refers to how the plot isn't something absolutely abnormal/silly like, to use an extreme example, Manyuu Hikenchou.
Let's watch a few more episodes before you decide whether it is a trainwreck or not. A train that hasn't started to move won't wreck, unless an outside force decides to make it so. In the first place, the term trainwreck is used later in the story, when something is built up and crashes, not when the first episode was bad.
|2011-07-10, 23:49
|Link #97
Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 26
|2011-07-11, 01:27
|Link #98
Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
Now this was a very enjoyable first episode in my books, probably the best i have seen this season has to offer (with Ikoku Meiro a very close second). It felt to me like the episode was over a minute after I sat down to watch it, which I find a good indicator usually of how much I enjoy something - nothing says that you are having fun like time flying by without one noticing, and this is probably the fastest fly-by I have experienced since Shiki.
The markings of a deeper plot (with things potentially going bad on a big scale, if the flashback is any indication of the destruction these "gods" are capable of), actually not shying away from the darker themes, an enjoyably nutso (or is he?) antagonist in the form of Aki, suitably atmospheric enhancement with the 'songs' playing in the background when the kakashi are acting - I liked it all.
What I liked a good deal less was Kyouhei's personality, his inability to string three words together without stuttering being like nails-on-chalkboard for my senses, but thankfully Aki's entrance and the following events didn't leave him too much time to showcase this. Hopefully he pulls himself together as time goes on, especially around Hibino.
Speaking of Hibino, I liked her personality, but ugh - those breasts. Ignoring the part to what point bigger can be considered better, the way those balloons are drawn simply don't fit her character design and stand out in a bad way. As much as big breasts are typically used for fanservice, I think the result this time is more of a jarring distraction rather than eye candy.
Kyouhei's stuttering and Hibino's breasts aside though, the rest was highly enjoyable. For once we have a male lead who is actually involved with the happenings to his ears, rather than the typical setting of him being an unwilling bystander who somehow gets pulled in. I can also give a nod of appreciation for the fact they proceeded to explain things to Hibino straight away, rather than try and keep her in the dark despite living under the same roof as the usual trope would go.
I even enjoyed Utao's antics and facial expressions, irregardless of how contrary to the serious mood they seemed to run - characterizes her nicely as an awkward, impulsive brat at heart who doesn't seem to understand the seriousness of the situations she gets in. All in all a very solid start with a good deal of potential to explore, definitely looking towards more of this.
|2011-07-11, 01:39
|Link #99
Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
Whereas the people on the Mayoi chiki thread are going in with the full expectation it's a fanservice fest.
|2011-07-11, 04:43
|Link #100
To me, it's much more logical to dislike the show based on the first episode in fanservice anime (you already expect the fanservice and if you don't like the art and/or the characters you will not stick to it), then anime which is mostly about the story that will slowly move on and explain itself for the next few episodes. Maybe this show will be good and maybe not, but I would give more episodes a go before forming a definite opinion on the entire show.
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John DiStaso's Granite Status: New conservative advocacy group sends direct mail in Manchester Ward 2 special House electionBy JOHN DiSTASO
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 08. 2013 5:42PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 8: NEW CONSERVATIVE ADVOCACY GROUP. A group of conservative activists have filed an issues advocacy group with state.
Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire, Inc., is a 501 (c)(4) self-described "diverse, nonpartisan grassroots coalition of concerned citizens, community leaders and other stakeholders concerned with promoting and preserving strong families and a strong economy for New Hampshire."
It says on its Facebook page it supports jobs creation, limited government, lower taxes and efforts to "improve the economy" and to "lead to a better social welfare" in the state.
Its board members are veteran activists Chris Wood, Maureen Mooney and Bill Boyd, as well as Lino Avellani and Glynis Citarelli.
RightOnStrategies, headed by Mike Biundo, Derek Dufresne and Kory Wood, have been hired as consultants for the organization.
The group has become involved in the special election campaign for the open state House seat in Manchester's Ward 2 between Republican Win Hutchinson and Democrat William O'Neil with direct mail issues pieces critical of O'Neil. The election will be held March 19.
"We will be active educating the citizens of New Hampshire on the issues we believe benefit a strong New Hampshire," said a source close to the group. "We highlight those that stand with us on these issues and point out those who don't."
(The full March 7 Granite Status follows.)
THURSDAY, MARCH 7: DINING WITH BARACK. President Barack Obama's new effort to personally reach out to Republican U.S. senators includes New Hampshire freshman Kelly Ayotte.
Ayotte received a call from the President Tuesday afternoon and was invited to be among about a dozen GOP senators slated to have dinner with Obama on Wednesday night.
"I enjoyed the dinner with the President and appreciated the discussion we had about how we could work together to address the fiscal challenges facing the country," Ayotte said in a written statement. "I hope we can continue this important dialogue."
The Washington Post reported dinner was scheduled for The Jefferson Hotel. It described the series of Obama calls as a new "charm offensive" to bypass leadership and go to the rank-and-file. In his calls, the Post reported, the President has expressed a willingness to reform health and retirement programs if they agree to raise taxes to address the national debt.
Other GOP senators invited: John McCain of Arizona, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Dan Coats of Indiana and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
But even as Obama invited the GOP out to dinner in the snowstorm hitting D.C., his political committee, Organizing for America, was being anything but conciliatory.
Its email to supporters charged that "Republican obstructionism in Congress" had forced "devastating" and "destructive" automatic budget cuts.
OFA set up an online petition called "Tell GOP to Act."
The dinner was criticized for going on as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) led a filibuster in the Senate over the nomination of John Brennan as director of the CIA. Paul said he had questions about the Obama administration's definition of civil liberties, specifically its authorization of drone strikes. His office earlier this week released a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder saying the U.S. government had the legal authority to kill a U.S. citizen on American soil.
The Campaign For Liberty, which has Rand Paul's father, Rep. Ron Paul, as its chairman, criticized the senators who dined with the President, naming three, one of whom was Ayotte.
"Rather than choosing to 'Stand with Rand,' a small group of GOP senators are dining with the President this evening. According to ABC News, this includes John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte," wrote Tim Shoemaker, the Campaign for Liberty's Director of Legislation, in a blog post on the organization's web site.
"The only good that could come out of this dinner, rather than support Senator Paul in his 8+ hour filibuster, would be if they return with a sworn written statement signed by the President himself saying, 'No President has the authority to carry out lethal drone strikes on American citizens on U.S. soil,' " Shoemaker added.
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BROWN HEADED TO NH. Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, and summertime Rye resident, will cause a buzz in the first-in-the-nation primary state next month.
He will headline the Grafton County Republican Committee's Lincoln-Reagan Luncheon on Saturday, April 20, at the Hanover Inn.
Committee Vice Chair Tyler Drummond said that "Republicans and independents from all across New Hampshire and Vermont are encouraged and welcome to attend."
Since losing a Senate reelection bid last November to Elizabeth Warren, Brown has been mentioned among possible presidential candidates in 2016.
He has also been rumored to be eyeing a bid for Massachusetts governor next year.
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TILLE WORKING FOR CAIN. Veteran Republican political strategist and organizer David Tille of Concord has landed a key role in the expansion of the pro-small business Job Creators Network.
The Granite Status has learned Tille has been named Northeast regional director of the free enterprise group founded last fall by Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and former presidential candidate Herman Cain. JCN is officially a "C" corporation for tax purposes.
Tille has served on the congressional staffs of former U.S. Reps. Frank Guinta and Jeb Bradley. He was state political director of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign in 2007 and part of 2008, and worked on Cain's presidential exploratory committee last year.
JCN says its role is to "counteract what big government proponents and their big labor friends have long been doing for years - educating their workforces as to the politics that benefit their own special interests, which are regularly counter to free enterprise, private sector prosperity."
The group says it helps business owners communicate the benefits of free enterprise to their employees.
JCN says small businesses make up more than 96 percent of employers in New Hampshire, employing nearly 51 percent of the private sector workforce.
"That's an even larger share of the labor force than the nation as a whole," Tille said. "That's why it's so important that our small businesses know they can count on Job Creators Network to help them communicate free enterprise values to their employees in simple, kitchen-table terms.
"Even though the Granite State has no income or sales tax, plenty of challenges remain on the state and federal levels that call for vigilance from our employers," he said.
Tille said he hopes to help preserve "the small business climate we are fortunate to have now, and build upon this solid base by helping our business leaders educate our state's hard working employees on how bad policies harm good people."
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VULNERABLE INCUMBENTS? It seems that regardless of who occupies our two U.S. House seats, and no matter which party they are in, they are politically vulnerable.
It illustrates the current political "color" of the state these days. New Hampshire is a purple state.
While it keeps electing Democratic governors, other offices tend to swing between the parties.
Just four months after Democrats Carol Shea-Porter and Annie Kuster defeated Republicans Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass (who had been previously, and accurately, classified as vulnerable), the two Democrats are already viewed as vulnerable for 2014, by their own party.
And that's despite the fact that there are only rumblings of potential Republican challengers to Kuster in the 2nd District and not a word about a challenger to Shea-Porter.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has enrolled both women in its "Frontline" "incumbent-retention'' fund-raising program focusing on its most vulnerable members.
Shea-Porter and Kuster are on the list of 26 "Frontliners." The only other New Englander listed is Massachusetts' John Tierney.
Even before the list was announced, the National Republican Congressional Committee continued its relentless attacks on the two New Hampshire Democrats with web ads criticizing "their failure to address cuts to wasteful government spending as an alternative to the sequester."
Kuster's campaign immediately responded to the Republicans' "dishonest and vicious online attack" with a fund-raising email.
"We need to stand up and fight for our shared progressive values," the Kuster email says. "If we don't, the GOP will silence us, and America's middle class families can't afford for us to be silenced."
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PUSH POLL PROPOSAL. A bipartisan state Senate bill seeks to address an outcry from national pollsters and certain in-state campaigns over New Hampshire's tough anti-push poll law.
Senate Bill 196, sponsored by Republican Jeb Bradley and Democrat David Pierce, tries to distinguish push polling as negative telephone calls made under the guise of polling - as opposed to "bona fide survey and opinion research."
It does that by focusing on the length of the call and how many people it goes to.
Push poll calls are usually brief and often go to thousands of people, while opinion research calls are fairly lengthy and normally go to a few hundred people.
The bill gives a new definition to push polling, calling it "part of a series of like telephone calls that consist of more than 2,000 completed calls that last less than two minutes, and conducting such calling for purposes other than bona fide survey and opinion research."
It then defines bona fide survey and opinion research as "the collection and analysis of data regarding opinions, needs, awareness, knowledge, views, experiences, and behaviors of a population, through the development and administration of surveys, interviews, focus groups, polls, observation, or other research methodologies, in which no sales, promotional, or marketing efforts are involved, and through which there is no attempt to influence a participant's attitudes or behavior."
It adds, "Bona fide survey and opinion research includes message testing, which is the study for research purposes of how individuals react to positive or negative information on a candidate, elected public official, or ballot question."
The Attorney General has taken civil action against an alleged push poll by former Rep. Charlie Bass's 2010 campaign. Bass's camp, fighting the allegations in state Superior Court, says it was a bona fide research series of calls, not push polling.
Bass's calls, which lasted about 15 minutes and went to only about 400 people, would not have fallen under the definition had this bill been law.
The bill was the subject of a public hearing Wednesday.
The Attorney General's Office was not expected to take a position on the bill since it may have to defend it as a law in the future, according to Associate AG Anne Edwards.
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GUN POLL. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, co-chaired by Michael Bloomberg of New York and Thomas Mennino of Boston, hired pollster Douglas Schoen to survey 600 Granite Staters on gun questions Feb. 18 to 21.
Results show 77 percent of those polled said it was important for Obama and Congress "to support the rights of gun owners but also advocate for stronger gun laws to reduce gun violence." And 85 percent favored "reasonable restrictions on gun ownership to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and other people who are already barred from having guns," while 89 percent favored "requiring all gun buyers to pass a criminal background check no matter where they buy the gun and no matter whom they buy it from."
But at the same time, the poll by the gun control group found that "gun violence prevention" was far down the list of issues those surveyed identified as "most important" to how they will vote in next year's congressional elections.
On top was the economy, with 65 percent, followed by the federal budget deficit, health care and taxes.
"Gun violence prevention" was ninth on a list of 12 issues, with 6 percent, behind even "not sure" at 8 percent. Those polls were asked to name their first and second choices.
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A QUIET MEETING. The Democratic State Committee will meet on Saturday at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics to elect officers for the next two years, and as we've reported, none running is facing opposition.
The party announced in January that only one candidate filed for each position when its filing period closed.
It means Raymond Buckley will win a fourth term as state chairman, tying the record held jointly by his predecessor, Kathy Sullivan, and by J. Murray Devine, who was chair during the early- and mid-1960s.
State Sen. Martha Fuller Clark is unopposed for a fourth term as first vice chair, while Dorothy Solomon will be elected to a third term as second vice chair.
State Sen. Bette Lasky will win her second term as party secretary, while Brian Rapp will win his first full term as treasurer, having been first elected to the post last August.
Attorney Dan MacKenna will win his first term as party legal counsel.
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-- Shea-Porter announced that Ben Wakana has joined her office as press secretary. She said he is the former deputy press secretary for the Obama campaign in New Hampshire.
-- Mario Piscatella is House Speaker Terie Norelli's new communications and policy director. Her office says his past experience includes "campaign management, communications consulting and training, speech writing, event planning and execution and field organizing Iowa, Utah, Washington, Florida, Virginia, Connecticut, and Vermont."
John DiStaso is senior political reporter of the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. He can be reached at email@example.com. Twitter: @jdistaso.


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Brent A. Owings, 45, of Bloomington, died unexpectedly on Monday, April 4, 2011 at his residence. He was born in Bloomington on September 13, 1965 the son of Roger and Charlotte A. (Hall) Owings and attended Bloomington High School South. He previously worked at General Electric Co. in Bloomington and also had worked in roofing and for the Indiana State Highway Department.
Brent was an avid sportsman. He loved and lived to deer and turkey hunt, to prepare for the different seasons. Just recently, he took his grandson to scout the woods for the upcoming turkey season, teaching the art of responsible hunting. He loved to garden, to spend time with his family and always had a big heart, always a smile.
Survivors include his wife, Tracy (Duvall) Owings; two daughters, Megan Owings of Bloomington and Nicole (husband Curtis) Dubois of Poland; his father, Roger Owings of Bloomington; two brothers, Rick (wife Jami) Owings and Steve Owings, all of Bloomington; two grandchildren, Kennedy Dubois and Braxton Owings; his mother and father-in-law, Robert and Lois Duvall of Spencer; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by mother, Charlotte Owings in 2009; one nephew, Jonathan Owings; and his grandparents, Frank and Opal Owings and Floyd and Hazel Hall.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Friday, April 8, 2011 at Allen Funeral Home with Bro. Steve Baker officiating. Burial will be at Salt Creek Cemetery. Friends may call on Thursday from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
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Pablo Zabaleta might have bailed Manchester City out of a hole at Stoke in the FA Cup last weekend, but to ask him to repeat his goalscoring feat two weeks running was a stretch, even for their best performer this season.
The Argentine right-back came closest to breaking the deadlock at Loftus Road, hitting the bar with a diving header, but it rather summed up the glum fortunes of the Premier League champions as they handed Manchester United another boost in the title race.
"It's difficult for me because I lost one striker and that could be important in the next 14 games," Mancini warned, as he dissected the failings of his front men. His three remaining forwards are woefully out of form and although Harry Redknapp claimed the trio of Edin Dzeko, Sergio Aguero and Carlos Tevez had him on the edge of the seat for the duration, in reality, they posed very little threat to Cesar's goal. Dzeko and Aguero have just three goals between them in their last five games, while Tevez has netted just once in his previous 11 outings.
Nevertheless Mancini opted to pair his two Argentine forwards together from the start, before replacing the consistently underwhelming Samir Nasri with Dzeko in the second half as they sought a way on to the scoresheet. Tevez was anonymous throughout, Aguero had a goal rightfully disallowed for offside just before half-time and Dzeko failed to take his chance as he let James Milner's intelligent through ball slip out of his range.
Predictably, the spark came from David Silva, the Spanish magician, playing at the tip of City's midfield but even he seemed flustered in possession with such predictable and well-marshalled movement in front of him. That said, the 27-year-old may well have snatched a late winner were it not for the "world-class" goalkeeping of Cesar, as Redknapp described the Brazilian's sprawling close-range save.
Some will point to the absence of Yaya Toure – currently playing and scoring for the Ivory Coast in the Africa Cup of Nations - as a missing link, but until this point, the Premier League champions had won every game without the giant midfielder. Any club would miss his presence but with the wealth of resources City have, they should have planned for days like last night.
Instead, Mancini could only turn to Jack Rodwell and Scott Sinclair as 'impact' substitutes – two summer acquisitions that seem increasingly pointless as the season rolls on. Mancini claimed that any transfer business would be "difficult" in the final two days of the window, but did hint at reinforcing a defence that has succumbed to injuries.
But it is not the defence Mancini should be addressing; they have not conceded a goal in their last six matches. His side regularly struggle to cut through teams they were routinely defeating in their title-winning campaign. Whether his players are resting on their laurels, or the nature of the game has changed – City lack the flash of ingenuity and drive that supplemented their hunger for that maiden Premier League crown.
There is also the lingering debate regarding Mancini's gameplan. City smothered QPR at times, hoarding the ball for huge spells in their hosts' half, and yet so little was conjured. His star men, the creative cogs of his team – Silva, Nasri, Aguero and Tevez – were dumbfounded at times, seemingly unsure of where to move and who to pass to.
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Mancini recently pointed a finger at the club's ambition, blaming their failed pursuit of Robin van Persie as the difference in this year's title race, and it is impossible to argue against him looking at the fortunes of the two clubs. City are out of Europe entirely and sit four points behind their cross-town rivals who face Southampton at Old Trafford on Wednesday night.
The acquisition of Txiki Begiristain hinted at a change in strategy this January, but the richest club in England still look unlikely to bolster their squad. Though Balotelli's exit will be deemed sensible and good business by his detractors, it further chops away at a team struggling to cope with the pressure a Premier League crown bestows. They do not even need a marquee signing, just someone to help ease the burden on Silva and inject a touch of panache and vigour to a team in a penalty box coma.
It may just be a blip, after all, City have won the six games prior to Tuesday night but it is an unavoidable truth that they are stumbling through the season. Ask the most regular observer to name a sustained 90 minute performance of quality this year and they would struggle. Perhaps only the home and away victories over Fulham stand out.
City face an uphill battle and with only 14 games left to catch Sir Alex Ferguson's side you wonder if it is at all possible. City could barely afford a slip-up before Phil Dowd kicked off proceedings on a wet and windy night in west London. Another would be terminal.
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Evil Dead
This reboot of the 1981 cult classic follows five friends into a isolated cabin where they're relentlessly attacked by a sinister force. Tree rape, mutilation, amputations and chainsaw-centric carnage will follow. Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, and Lou Taylor Pucci co-star; Fede Alvarez directs.
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So a new South Park video game is coming next year.
The trailer was released a few days ago, and in my opinion, it looks pretty awesome:
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It's expected to be released March 5 2013.
So what do you guys think?
Do you think it looks any good? Will you buy it?