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Traveling Players Ensemble performs Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Norfolk Botanical Garden.
Traveling Players Ensemble is a summer theater camp for teens, whose mission is to bring great theatre too the great outdoors. Much Ado About Nothing is presented by the camp's most advanced program: the Traveling Troupe. This group rehearses a full-length Shakespearean play for five weeks, then hits the road for a two-week tour throughout Virginia, camping, hiking and performing outside.
Other stops on the tour include Lubber Run (Arlington, VA), Clifton Forge Masonic Amphitheatre (Clifton Forge, VA), Kimball Theatre (Colonial Williamsburg, VA), and The Madeira School (McLean, VA).
Traveling Players Ensemble was founded in 2003 with the mission to enhance problem-solving skills, self-reliance, self-expression, and a heightened appreciation of both challenges and beauty by bringing great theatre into the great outdoors. The program reflects the origins of theatre, when troupes of actors roamed the ancient and medieval countryside, relying on the barest props and boldest imagination to convey their art. Traveling Players performers follow this tradition by touring by bus and backpack, performing Shakespeare outdoors in beautiful and historic places.
The camp was hailed as a "little-known summer gem…for the budding actor" by The Washington Post. Traveling Players was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as a Summer School in the Arts, one of only 25 in the nation to receive this honor. In 2005, Traveling Players performed Much Ado About Nothing at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage.
Traveling Players is supported in part by the Arts Council of Fairfax County, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Traveling Players Ensemble is based at The Madeira School in McLean, VA. Throughout the school year, the company offers weekend classes in classical acting, improvisation, mask, and movement.
Running time 2 hours plus one 15 minute intermission. This event is included with regular Garden admission. Appropriate for children age 8 and up.For more information, visit www.travelingplayers.org or call 703-987-1712.
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As many of you likely have noticed--as more and more posts have been added to the forum, I have taken a less "front and center" role. Wonderful things have happened--lots of great volunteers have stepped forward, our executive board has grown and the PF can truly say that it is thriving.
For so many reasons--both personal and professional--I am shifting my role within the PF and at least for the foreseeable future will not be "the Executive Director" but one of the founders and the chair of the PF Development committee. My role will be to continue to do much of our writing, outreach into the community, help guide the organization but others have stepped forward and to be honest--their energy has been what I have needed to keep going. I can step into this new role secure in the fact that the PF has amazing people running the ship.
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There are so many more--Pat Dignan, Tom Easterling, Jeff Ridgeway, Leslie Weeks, to name a few and our great medical board. We are just so lucky to have such a committed and energized team of people. It is inspiring.
So please do not feel that I am "stepping down" but rather--letting others step up and join me. It seems silly to have the big title when in fact--I am just one of many active and focused volunteers.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2013 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of 14 members to the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. Thirteen appointees will serve 3-year terms and one will serve a 2-year term.
"These appointees represent a cross section of the dairy industry and I am confident that the industry will be well served by them" said Secretary Vilsack.
Newly appointed members are: Carol L. Ahlem, Hilmar, Calif. (Region 2); Christopher J. Brazil, Escalon, Calif. (Region 2); Brian O. Medeiros, Hanford, Calif. (Region 2); Lisa Vander Eyk, Pixley, Calif. (Region 2); Eddie S. Schaap, Clovis, N.M. (Region 4); Sarah E. Lloyd, Wisconsin Dells, Wis. (Region 6); Cheryl L. Chapin, Remus, Mich. (Region 9); and Joseph M. Kelsay (term ending on October 31, 2015), Whiteland, Ind. (Region 9).
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's tennis team returns home for a Southern Conference match against UNC Greensboro on Saturday, March 16. Action begins at 1:00 p.m. (E.D.T.) on the UTC Tennis Courts and a link for live scoring is available on the men's tennis schedule page on GoMocs.com.
The Mocs are currently 6-5 overall and 1-1 in SoCon action. UTC is looking to snap its only two-match losing streak of the spring while the Spartans are 7-1 overall. UNCG dropped its first match of the season on Thursday, a 4-3 defeat at No. 61 Samford. The Spartans are 2-1 in SoCon action.
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Senior Manuel Barroetavena (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is currently 8-3 in spring action and has seen time in each of the top three singles slots. He has settled in at No. 2 where he is 3-2.
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Here is why... (Got 7 days in my email checked it out.)
1. The UI bug that has been there since launch, not sure if it effects all resolutions, but for those with 19-21 inch monitors after uninstalling/playing the game for the first time you have to spend about 20 minutes fixing your UI to look perfect with scale and stuff. Enmasse was notified of this on launch/beta they still have not fixed months later.
2. Pay 2 Play + Cash Shop, When I purchased TERA I expected to be getting everything for FREE with my monthly subscription I expected free customizations, recustomization etc. Instead I am told after I buy the game we are going to have a cash shop selling exclusive skins, and charge you $9.99 to change any little detail on your character each time. This drove me away immediately I subbed 1 month after to get the skins and quit.
IF it were additional skins which were added after the games release I would not mind paying for them as long as they are account bound and not like Aion, or GuildWars 2 where I would have to constantly apply to items, or of course expansions I am happy to pay for the artwork and creativity and time it takes for a MMO development team to design. ( As long as I can change and customize as I like with what I already purchased which when I purchased.)
3. Complaint with the BBB.ORG, they threw their stupid TOS in my face saying I agreed, technically I never agreed to any TOS, reguardless of what people might think I registered my account way before the game was ever released was never required to agree, when I purchased my game they gave me an invalid link, so I was never required to review any agreement I knew it was there of course, but they gave the wrong site listed on their retail package manual.
4. Loosing all its customers, Failure to listen... Seriously I asked on the forums many times give these options to consumers I am sure I am not the only one who likes being able to customize and such either, but MINEA the moderator often locks posts whatever they do not like they lock.
What could Enmasse/TERA do different?
1. Fix the UI problems.
2. Give us free recustomization if its a P2P game.
3. add support for Addon mods and skins like Tera Nu** mod and Bikini/Skins.
4. Listen to its consumers do something to prevent Ninja this might have been fixed I dunno I haven't played for a long time but there were a lot of complaints last time I saw not getting fixed for weeks/months.
It is said to say but TERA, as a company is done for. Sure they could make moeny off the subscriptions they currently have and stay open possibly I am sure, however it wil not be a successful MMO, neither will TSW because of their failures at launching the game. Could it boom again absolutely if they can get everyone on board make the right changes give us what we want, and what I want sure I would resub, but if not then the answer is no I am showing enmasse with my wallet and will not be spending another dime might check it out when it goes F2P but beyond that I am done with TERA. TSW for example on launch did the same thing but worse than enmasse giving people shitty clothing and require people to use the cash shop, the real reason I quit besides the slight loading times and lag in certain areas of the game.
There just is no excuse for such a bad game. I admit that GuildWars 2 is not the perfect game, some of the armor designs in GW2 look like crap, but hey at least the game is FREE, and I can customize for free without spending a dime plus while it is nothing ground breaking they have a lot more servers open than Enmasse did anyways.
It is just really sad to see that both TSW, and TERA two games with good potential go down the drain because of bad choices and bad management. Hopefully future MMO companies see what caused these games to derail and avoid doing what they have done .
Take DarkFall Unholy Wars for example.
I bet that on launch there are a lot of improvements, and changes that make it way better than Most current pvp sandbox MMO's. Time will tell.
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Originally posted by Renoaku
i agree with you on everything except the TOS thingy you have said . TOS is written on boxed version you have purchased . logging into the server makes you bound to the agreement .it even shows up when you login for the first time
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Nothing wrong with a cash shop. It generates revenue. Besides if you play TERA it is pretty much free. All you need is about 1800-2200 gold which can be made in about a day and buy a chronoscroll from the broker. I just logged on yesterday after not playing for about 2 months now. My account is still active and free until feb 2013 all from chronoscrolls. I never purchased any game time. TERA was fun while it lasted. The combat was great I hope more games adopt that system. The kill quests got old going quest hub to quest hub. Open world PVP was fun though I did enjoy that.
Can't wait for Darkfall Unholy Wars now. But I agree eventually bluehole studios is going to be done for. I know they just merged to one massive pvp server which was needed but eventually that is going to run dry and they will be going f2p so they do not have to close down the servers. The game did horrible in Korea and if it does bad there it will do worst in the USA. I still had fun for what it was worth. The server did seemed packed when I went on yesterday though which is good for those players. Some servers from launch were still recommended which was a bad sign there too.
They needed to add raids and battlegrounds but they waited too damn long to get that in and that really hurt them as well. I am a firm believer that the game devs need to start working backwards from now on and do max level raids/lands/dungeons/battlegrounds first then work thier way to level 1. We spend most of our gaming career at max level it just makes sense. There just wasn't a lot to do at 60 except grind the same dungeons to get gear for 150+ ratings over and over.
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Meh, it still has hands down the best combat system out of any game out right now. It makes GW2's combat system look wow-like.
My main reason for not playing atm is that I missed the leveling gravy train. The population sucks while leveling up and I only really play games for group content so I find myself sitting around waiting for a dungeon q to pop. I wish I had maintained with everyone else when the game had just been released, but alas I had finals and such to worry about.
Originally posted by Beacker
P2p games generate revenue with subscriptions, f2p and b2p generate revenue with cash shops. Its the double dipping that is wrong.
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Originally posted by Renoaku
You mean the game thats 2 months away and doesn't have an ounce of gameplay video? Yeah, good luck with that.
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Why are you so stupid and paying for the game in general??
I quit 2 months ago after I made my +12 weapon on JC and had not paid a penny since chronoscrolls came out...
I have enough chronoscrolls for my account to be paid for until 2014.
So techincally this is a F2P game just like GW2 as long as you are willing to play at least 2-4 hours a month.
Regarding cash shop item.. please name one p2p game that doesn't have cash shops.
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Originally posted by Renoaku
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So pandas are out, even the thickest hype blindfold about gw2 is falling, so now the forum pvp has moved to the tera boards.
I don't know, can we recycle the phrase "you not playing it right" ? You know, a BS reply to a BS post.. apart from UI bug, everything else OP says is unreal like the engine tera runs on. Heck, even the UI bug: I thought it was about the UI killing the game performance (which is indeed been out since launch), not about it's SIZE - lol.
BHS/EmE promised cross server open pvp 1+ year ago, on the north eastern continent: they didn't deliver, not even elaborate on their own press-releases and announcements at PAX 2011 etc. So yeah, best combat system ever but pvp limited to griefing and 1 bg - that is IMO the actual issue, not the "whimsical skin" I would *never* use not even if they were free (and I'm on a 3month "founders" billing cycle).
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Originally posted by Beacker
I kinda agree with OP on the cash shop. Why on earth add those stuff for a rather high price when it's only a skin? On the other hand, I saw on the AH that they're tradeble (not sure though, I'm still on trial account waiting for the box to come from the US). I'd be more bothered if real 'pay2win' items would be implemented to the cash shop...
About the chronoscrolls... At what level can you start to 'play for free'? I saw a chronoscoll on the AH for 2200gold (buy out) and was wondering how on earth I'd get that much gold (level 15 now :p). If you say it can be done in a day, then I assume on higher levels you can get that money easily..?
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The only reason I'm not playing is because I rolled a Mystic for 49 levels and don't feel like going back through old content to try another class that would probably be just as broken or boring. The devs can add a new mount or weapon skins every other week for people to buy, but can't fix a class that's been ruined since launch? Still, I do agree with most of the the OP said.
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Yeah I didn't renew my subscription for Tera and no plans to do such where it be chronoscroll or not.
The game just isn't worth playing even the combat gets boring compared to DarkFall.
See in DarkFall you have to worry about ganks how many people are there really, you step around the corner if someone is going to jump you or not.
In Tera its just like BORING! combat itself is very boring after hours of days of farming mobs in the end you achive nothing just farmed a lot.
Tera needs lots of fixes in my eyes before it will be playable or before I will actually play it again myself same with TSW they were both failures at launch over hyped, TERA has some good artwork such as costumes, clothing, etc but its ashame that they have a bad manager that tried to milk cows and drive consumers like me away from the game. Yes it still has potential but without major changes it will do well as F2P maybe but I wont be playing it most likely even if it is FREE 2 Play because I am tired of putting money into F2P games not to get any monies worth out of it just a giant cash sink except for like GuildWars 2, EVE Online, DarkFall.
LOL Pandas?
Panda's are in my eyes stupid especially in games like World OF Warcraft its just lame to go throw in Panda's, why not Neko's iinstead?
RIFT? Donate $1 to save panda's?
Why not just instead of wasting $30 on their game go donate the $30 directly to save panda's?
Panda's need to be saved but not the way these companies do it to make $$$ for themselves, dont forget that after they donate like a million dollars from a million copies I think they can file Tax donations on it.
They kind of do support nude mods, the patcher/launcher doesn't check the files once the client is downloaded.
So you can overwrite them with the nude/clothing mods.
They're not that good though as nobody can edit models yet.
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Gaming should be about fun, not gender equality.
None of these were issues for me and why I quit the game. It was simply too bland and linear. Great GFX but the game play was so typical ThemePark which is sad because it looks soooo good.


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I know that a lot of academic language and academic ideas, particularly ideas from the world of English and literary theory, are not popular. I've resigned myself to it. Yet I could hardly be prouder of the existence of the postcolonial critique, and the Orientalist critique, having read this. It is, I tell you true, one of the most disturbing things I have ever read on the Internet. I read the whole thing. It was hard, but had to be done.
This guy, this Tim Rogers... . You know, discussions of "whiteness," as a category, as a presence, are tough. They threaten to contribute to the perpetuation of race-as-totality, which is the sad philosophy those oppressed by racism labor under; and they also tend to be had by white people. Like me.
This is troubling because whiteness-as-category has, among many unfortunate characteristics, the status of great assimilator. It takes everything in, co-opts everything, drags more and more into its maw. Every attempt to stand apart from it or away from it or against it can be dragged into it. No matter how angry or defiant or oppositional or adversarial, there isn't anything it can't consume. Jenny from Forrest Gump joining the Black Panthers; Freddie deBoer enjoying egotrip's Big Book of Racism! This is the difficulty of insurgent racial resistance movements in a context of cultural whiteness; well-meaning white people, like me, come with the earnest desire to help, and in so doing slowly, imperceptibly make the gains and victories won by such an insurgent movement just another gift from white privilege. This is why Stuff White People Like is so corrosive; it is an acrid critique of whiteness from a white person, enjoyed overwhelmingly by other white people, in an unmistakeably white Internet narrative. It criticizes whiteness while tightening its grasp on the racial dialogue.
But, white man that I am, I still have to stand against Tim Rogers. Because his post, and its reaction in comments, doesn't just speak to the attitudes of one particularly proud and self-serious exoticist-- and make no mistake, his complaints are all exoticism, negative exoticism, but exoticism nonetheless, because they stem fundamentally from the assumption that he is the only human in his interactions with Japan and the Japanese. It speaks also to our diseased racial dialogue, it's bloat and its pretensions, and the vast, simmering layer of genuine racial animus that resides in the backlash against talk of racism.
Rogers, to be plain, is a perfectly ordinary figure, at heart. He's the classic white Japan fetishist, who just happens to have the rare privilege to actually find himself in the "culture"-- for that is how he experiences it, not as a culture but as a "culture"-- that he has reduced for so long to an object for his appropriation and his interrogation. I'm imagining the origins of his feelings in Japan, back in his days getting totally into Buddhism and stuff, telling people how much cooler a Famicom is than a Nintendo, masturbating into his Sailor Moon pillowcase, elevating Japanese people to the most beloved, harmless object that his mind could comprehend. That's a cruel thing for me to say, and crude stereotyping. Those are the conditions he's laid down in that post, though, and while it diminishes me, I can't help myself. In his mind he builds a temple, an elevated space, an exalted one, where lovely automatons dance for his enjoyment, as alien and inhuman as the surface of the moon. And now he writes his missive from Japan, and every word, every single word, screams with the fact that this is a man whose gaze is the most pure of colonial instruments, because he believes it all exists only for him. Every aspect of his experience in Japan is defined by this solipsism. It's all for him. It's all for him.
Do you, reader, like everyone in your hometown? Everything about your hometown? It's an odd question. It's not fuel for your approval or disapproval. It's a place, and they are people, and they exist with their own subjectivity. Rogers's post writes about a place that doesn't exist beyond the way that he has imagined it and the way that he now interrogates it. When he rides on the train (and doesn't he hate the crowded train, so many alien bodies packed so tightly, jostling him, obscuring his view) he takes it all in and makes it mere fuel for his perception. What he once found delightful in the way it surprised his assumptions he now finds ugly and mannered. This is the limit of dissensus: that in the end, nothing could be more totalitarian than a pure subjectivity. It grinds up all difference.
And, you know, it's an unbearably racist post from an unbearably racist person. This is as clear as such a thing can be, and yet it will tell you everything about our racial dialogue and our racial attitudes that, first, this is a man who could not be more certain or more proud of how inflammatory and yet not racist, in his own mind, his post is; and, second, that the number of attaboys and compliments in the comments are all of them straining around the unspoken accusation of racism, the one they are in fear of but secretly desire so that they can destroy it. That comments thread is a terrifying thing. It is pregnant with the fear of being accused of racism, but daring the accusation. It is filled, of course, with commendations for Rogers-- for his bravery. Bravery, honesty, telling it like it is. These are the constant congratulations that race baiting heaps on itself. Curious to see so much praise for truth-telling from people who have never been to Japan, but you know how that goes; the exoticist's love is always one breath away from hatred, the oddity that attracted in the first place being so easily a target for resentment and misunderstanding. The kudos in that thread! The relief that someone else said it, what they've been thinking, what they want to say! The whole enterprise is sweaty with resentment, real, honest-to-god racial animus. Observe it for awhile. It's educational.
I'm sure Rogers would react to accusations of racism with righteous fury. It's a well wrung pose, at this point, of course. We've seen it all before. "Hey, I'm not racist, I live in Japan, I live here! I've got the guts to really take this place in and judge it!" I bet there's a Japanese girlfriend, too, and a better understanding of Japanese history and news than I could ever hope for, and pride in the friendly rapport with the guy from the corner store. It doesn't matter. The post makes it clear that there's only one Japanese person, and he's not really a person, not the way you and I are. It's all so much ching-chong-China.
What makes it all worse is that it is so clearly a perfect inversion of who he must have been when he first moved. I can imagine the calls home, the breathless emails-- it's so cool here, there's so many interesting things, and the cheap noodle houses, and you feel safe when you walk down the street. I'm sure when he returns home Rogers will become the picture of the proud multicultural American, the kind who let's it slip that he lived in another country so easily, trades on it so cheaply. How quickly the novelty became a source of frustration, how the cultural differences that once seemed at once quaint and exciting became a stand in for all the petty failures and annoyances that are a part of everyone's life-- but then how quickly, again, in the presence of other white people, of other Americans, the experience brings that cache. This is the very nature of assimilation: even the things you think you hate can be bent to your purpose.
I'm sure Rogers knows more facts about Japan and Japanese people than I'll ever know. But still, he's a tourist, no matter how long he lives there, the worst kind of tourist. A culture vulture in the truest sense, taking the parts of "Japan" he likes and gnawing what he likes from the bone, while he eyes with contempt the actual face of the thing itself. Smoking! They all smoke! The category: Japanese, they smoke, the lot of them. What a filthy habit, after all, and how bad for you. This is not the cute strange, not the exotic strange, but the actual feeling of butting up against people who are not like you. When you are in another culture, and you're dutifully taking snapshots, and you come across that one little thing, in the least expected place-- something strange to you, in the pharmacy, about the television, something small-- that uncanny shiver... that's the most valuable of it all, because it reminds you that it really is difference, and not difference-for-you.
The right way to understand this, the best way to respect it, is to remind yourself that this is as real and important as what you like. And if you work at it, you might understand, finally, that it is not for you. That it exists in sublime apathy to your frustration, your wonder, your very understanding. Me, I'm a tourist too. We all are, after a fashion. But god save me from letting that tourism devolve into this flat, ugly anger, this pure prejudice. I spent a lot of time in Indonesia growing up. And, yeah, I first remember the gamelan music, my father's friends, the food, the sensory overload. I also take care to remember the most unforgettable memory, which I came to experience again and again, the foul, rotten smell of burning plastic, as the Balinese burned trashed in great piles, anywhere they wanted, mere yards from people, children. For awhile I took this as "the good, the bad," until finally I realized: none of it was for me.
Rogers, meanwhile... at one point, he is describing why Japanese humor is terrible-- and he is, of course, so proud of his sweeping generalizations, so fucking pleased with himself and his iconoclasm, his post-racialism-- and he says "comedians or ex-comedians to whom I express this opinion all sigh, say, 'You know, man, I'd love to get out there and do some edgy jokes, though that's just not how it works here, man. You have to play by the rules. You wouldn't understand. You're not Japanese.'" We're to take it, I suppose, that this is the real racism, that Japan's refusal to bend over and pander to his smug fucking hipster Orientalist persona is indicative of the country's essential lack of class. This coming, of course, from a man who feels that his presence in Japan, in the myopia of his own life, empowers him to understand it all: Japanese mores, Japanese psychology, Japanese people. Because, you see, the Japanese are so Japanese, so situated, so limited in their perspective. He, meanwhile, looks out from outside of any landscape. His whiteness is free of perspective or bias in its perfection. I know this feeling all too well. I rail against it, and then I put it on like armor, my perfect fucking white perspective. I will decry it until I am blue in the face, but I would never, ever give it up. I covet it. I need it. It's a shame, and I'm a hypocrite. The worst kind.
That comments section-- it chills me. When people talk about racial progress, when the talk about a post-racial America, a post-racial world.... . I cannot tell you how often I feel the incredible discomfort of being around white people-- decent white people, by and large, haters of the crude racism that they see as the only kind, resistant to the n-word and lynching but disinclined to see racism in anything else-- the discomfort of being around white people who are engaged in some enterprise that involves race, and are waiting. Waiting for an accusation of racism. Waiting for that moment when they can freak the fuck out that someone had the poor form to make an accusation of racism. It is palpable, you can feel it, this immense resentment at a lifetime of hearing and reading about race and racism, the immense backlash that is growing against movies and TV and magazines about slavery, the Civil War, the Amistad. That's an artifact of the push against antiblack racism, but it informs the way people react to a post like this one. Some of these fetishists, with their Bruce Lee movies and their shrines to Miyamoto and their AZN porn-- yes, they're better than the old school yellowman hater, of course they are. I believe that. But inside some of them, there's a killer, I suspect. I hope I'm wrong. Me, my family... we love a lot of Japanese stuff. Many people I care about do. But where is the line? And how do you understand your appropriation as an appropriation?
Rogers builds to a crescendo:
What I've realized, recently, is that the skeleton of rules of the "game" of "life" is just too visible here in Japan, where multiple perfunctory sentences are required to start any conversation, where you can use a certain positive verb to soften the preconceived impact of a negative verb form, where you can prove mathematically that you are a good person by drinking alongside everyone else, by being the last to go home every day, by ritualistically screaming in the middle of the street after a company party. Oh no! You messed up today! The company lost money. BONUS ROUND: At least you get the opportunity to apologize to the boss. People who can apologize well are respected! Be sure to apologize every time you pick up the phone! Miss one, and you'll lose points! Your score in this game is represented by the balance of your bank account. When you reach the goal, you have earned the right to play a game with much simpler rules.If you think this is that far removed from talking about the essential barbarism of the ooga-booga black man, I think you're very naive. This is where we stand: we have come close to eliminating racist form, but not racist content; we are ruthless in destroying a Michael Richards but recoil at the thought of challenging Tyler Perry; we have conditioned our language but held onto the ideas; we have imagined, finally, that our interrogations of race are wicked if and only if they bear hatred or distaste. If, instead, they are expressed in the language of post-racialism but reflect the most boring, dog-eared racist ideology, they are praised for their honesty, their courage. I don't know if Rogers wrote the headline (Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore); often times, the bloggers don't. Either way, it's perfect. Because it understands, so completely, so accurately, that it was all a joke to begin with. Unlike those Japanese, with their sanitized humor, Rogers, man-- he had guts. He moved halfway around the world for this joke: a man alone, in the one of the largest cities on earth. He walks through crowded streets and, save for that occasional white face, he's the only one there.
Kotaku is a part of Gawker media, a consortium of blogs run by well meaning liberals from New York City. It is populated by bloggers and commenters who couldn't dream of themselves as anything other than enlightened, and I'm sure I would be proud to call many of them friend, had I the opportunity to get to know them. But many of them are both terrified and delighted by the idea of being accused of racism, fearful of the repercussions but bitterly desiring the opportunity to unleash their fury at the very idea-- and out would pour all the resentment, the anger, the built-up tension at being asked, for so long, to understand, and in their minds, at being subtly accused. This post, as far as I can tell, from a prominent, high-traffic blog, passed through the blogosphere without a whisper. This is post-racial America.
At the center of it all is Tim Rogers. I have some sympathy for the guy. He has merely mistaken his dissatisfaction with his life for dissatisfaction with those around him, I'd wager. But while he cannot control his attitudes, he is responsible for his words, and they are ugly business. I wonder how his day went. He walked among Japanese people. Worked with them. Probably ate with them. Every moment, I imagine, he sees as a statement of his enlightenment. How could he possibly be anything less than perfectly righteous? That's the thing, about him, about all of them. They'll never, ever consider it. The idea that they aren't the best to judge, well... it puts the burden of judgment on people who aren't people, people who are an empty set of customs and mores and etiquettes, as capable of judgment as the video games and cartoons that set it all off in the first place.
Where to go, from here? I don't know. I have just put my shoulder to the wheel and winnowed away the space for critique of whiteness that is free from whiteness-in-fact, my whiteness-in-fact. And I kind of feel like a bastard for saying these things about this Rogers, because he's just some dude. See I have fury for his repugnant attitude, and am sickened by the praise for his bravery, but he is real to me, in some way, and the Japanese I am ostensibly defending are merely a class. A fairer vision of a class than his, I do think, a friendlier one, a more just one. But the truth is, they aren't any more real to me, right now, than they are to him. I must learn all of my lessons the hard way.


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If you live in Los Angeles, you can't fail to notice that a new frozen yogurt shop is popping up on almost every corner. The wave has been led by the lightning-fast expansion of the Pinkberry chain. Various competitors like Red Mango, Kiwiberry, and Cefiore have also been multiplying like rabbits across strip malls, shopping centers, office complexes, and even casinos and hotels across the country. If they haven't hit your town yet, don't worry, they likely will. Starbucks founder Howard Schultz recently invested in Pinkberry and plans to make it as omnipresent as the coffee chain. Low in calories, with lots of healthy flora for your intestinal health, this new yogurt trend seems too good to be true—but is it?
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
One of Summerville High School's top softball players and scholars will attend Charleston Southern University next school year.
Green Wave senior Taylor Powell, on Nov. 15, signed a national letter of intent to play for the Buccaneer softball team.
"I really like that CSU is faith oriented," Powell said. "I feel like it is a place where I can develop my Christianity and remain close to family. It should be a great foundation for the next step in my life. I love their coaches and the girls on the team and just the school in general."
Academically, Powell is the top-ranked student in her class. She plans to major in mathematics with an applied physics minor and eventually go to grad school to study biomedical engineering.
Her accomplishments on the softball field are also impressive.
"CSU is getting an all-around great," Green Wave coach Heather Tucker said. "Tay is a solid outfielder. She reads the ball off the bat well and has good speed. She does a great job of sacrificing her body to dive for balls. Offensively she is a triple threat from the left side of the plate … she can bunt, slap, and hit away. Tay is also a smart, quick base runner."
Powell has been a starter for the Green Wave team for the past two seasons. As the team's centerfielder last season, she earned All-region honors and the team's Amp Award based on her team spirit.
"She's the kid that stays late after almost every practice to get a little extra work in and she is always willing to stay with a teammate after practice to help them work on skills," Tucker said. "She is respected by her teammates because of the discipline and work ethic she displays."
Last season she had 48 hits, which tied her with leadoff batter Sarah Windham for most on the team. Powell was second only to Windham in the plate appearances (136), doubles (7), runs scored (21), batting average (.407) and on-base percentage (.444) categories.
Powell is the leadoff batter for her Carolina Fire travelball team, which qualified and played at nationals this year. She is also an FCA member.
She is hoping to see action with the Bucs as a freshman.
"Coach (Shane) Winkler's primary focus is offense so I feel like I can step in and compete for a starting spot, but I will have to put the work in and earn it," Powell said.
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Jefferson City, MO Secretary of State Jason Kander today released the following statement on the Missouri House of Representatives passage of House Committee Substitute for House Bills 48 & 216:
"I am disappointed that the Missouri House decided to once again pass an overly restrictive piece of legislation that would disenfranchise thousands of eligible Missourians. Throughout the process this year, even supporters of this legislation admitted there has not been a reported case of voter impersonation fraud in our state," Kander said. "Instead of spending time working on solutions for a problem that might not even exist, I ask the Senate to put aside the House's legislation and work on a bill to take on the true fraud in our elections, our campaign finance laws. We are the only state in the nation that has the combination of allowing unlimited campaign contributions and unlimited lobbyist gifts. There is bipartisan agreement in the Senate to take on this issue, so I hope they get to work to end that unfortunate distinction."
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The unit consists of 11 modules built around the integrative nature of the marketing process and its role in achieving corporate objectives. Topics include the marketing process; the marketing environment; market research and information systems; segmentation; targeting and positioning; buyer behaviour, pricing consideration and approaches; integrated marketing communication; products and new product development; distribution; international marketing; marketing strategy and planning and the implementation and control of marketing programs. Emphasis is placed on the management decision-making process through the use of case studies. The unit not only introduces participants to core marketing concepts and techniques, but also encourages the application of these within the context of the participants' work environment.
Assessment 1 (individual) - Case study exercises x 2 - 25%
Assessment 2 (group- 2 students) - Blogging (2500 words) - 25%
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August 26, 2014
Health Services provides pet-assisted therapy and activities services free on-campus. Pet-therapy is an evidence based activity proven to help reduce stress and anxiety.
Hamilton (aka Hammy) is a 4 year old Great Dane mix and a certified Canine Good Citizen, a certification offered through the American Kennel Club. He is also a nationally certified therapy dog through Pet Partners. He works out of Health Services with his owner and handler Maria Caplan MS, RD Nutrition Counselor/Educator.
Hamilton will visit Dimond Library and Engineering, Math, and CS Library in Kingsbury Hall this fall on the following days:
Monday, October 20 at Kingsbury: 12:30-2pm
Monday, October 27 at Dimond: 12:30-2pm
Monday, November 3 at Kingsbury: 12:30-2pm
Monday, November 17 at Kingsbury: 12:30-2pm
Monday, November 24 at Dimond: 12:30-2pm
Monday, December 1 at Kingsbury: 12:30-2pm
August 20, 2014
Multimedia has put together a small display of films to honor Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall, who sadly passed away this week.
Check out these movies in the Multimedia Room on Level 2 of Dimond Library.
August 20, 2014
The cost of print textbooks are outrageous, and librarians are trying to help! Join us for a two part webinar exploring e-books for education and first event in the Faculty Brown Bag series.
Electronic Textbooks: Plug in and Learn
September 10th, 1:00-2:30 in Dimond 352
The session will explore the notion of just what an electronic textbook is. Are e-textbooks an interactive "courseware" website, an application for mobile devices and tablets, or self-contained digital files? Or is there a place for all of these and if so, how do they fit together and combine with a course syllabus? Also addressed will be issues of affordability and usage.
Topics and speakers are:
- Advocating for Change: Open Textbooks and Affordability – Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
- Open Your Books and Turn to Page 10: Getting Students to Use Their E-Textbooks – Reggie Cobb, Biology Instructor, Nash Community College
- A Proof of Concept Initiative: The Internet2/EDUCAUSE Etextbook Pilots – Monica Metz-Wiseman, Coordinator of Electronic Collections, University of South Florida Libraries
Open Textbook Initiatives
September 17th, 1:00-2:30 in Dimond 343
This session will focus on the efforts to make textbooks electronically available under free open copyright licenses as part of the broader open educational resources movement.
Topics and speakers are:
- The Library Publishing Landscape for E-Textbooks – Faye Chadwell, Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian and Press Director, Oregon State University
- Student-Funded Textbook Initiative at Kansas State University – Brian Lindshield, Associate Professor, Human Nutrition, Kansas State University and Beth Turtle, Associate Professor/Head, Scholarly Communications & Publishing, Kansas State University Libraries
- Using Open Resources to Expand Access to Education – Molly Lindsay, Vice President of Content, Boundless
Faculty Brown Bag Series: Improvements to Ebrary
This series from Academic Technology starts on September 18. Join us in Dimond 352 from 12-1:30pm with a brief talk from collection management librarian Jen Carroll about recent improvements to the ebrary ebook system available to all faculty. Open discussion to follow.
We hope you can join us to learn more about this important topic!
August 20, 2014
Have an extra copy of your course textbook? Need your students to view a movie outside of class? Want to give them online access to previous exams, specific articles, or a book chapter? The UNH Library can help.
We will get materials on reserve for you at one of our campus libraries. Learn more or submit your reserve requests online.
August 20, 2014
We are pleased to announce access to several new databases, including upgrades to current resources.
- Academic Search COMPLETE (Upgrade from Premier) - Provides access to indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications, and full-text access to over 5,000 journals. Covers many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and more.
- Business Source COMPLETE (Upgrade from Premier) - Offers comprehensive full-text coverage plus indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals.
- Education Source - Offers a collection of full-text education journals, encompassing an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, and more. Covers all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
- Environment Complete - Offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study.
- Library Literature and Information Science Full text - Provides access to information about trends in the evolving field of library studies; covers subjects ranging from automation, censorship, government aid, public relations. and more.
- Marquis Complete Who's Who - Provides access to directories containing short biographies of individuals from all fields of endeavor.
- OECD iLibrary - the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. Also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).
- iPOLL (Roper Center) - Provides access to a collection of poll data; all US polling firms, broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. International datasets are available for immediate download.
If you have any questions, please contact our Collection Management Librarian.
August 20, 2014
UNH IT has changed the names of our wireless networks. This change began on August 5, but the existing networks will remain until October 7. These changes are being made based on user feedback and should better reflect their intended function. This will impact all UNH students, faculty, staff and non-affiliates.
The networks formerly known as "unhwireless" (non-secure wireless) and "unh-highspeed" (secure wireless) will become "UNH-Public" and "UNH-Secure" respectively. UNH IT encourages all users to connect to the UNH-secure network to better protect personal and institutional data.
For more information, read the article in the UNH IT newsletter, Signals, contact the UNH IT Service Desk at 862-4242 or via their online form.
July 29, 2014
Due to the core campus reconstruction taking place this summer, a water main has to be redirected and will require an all-day water shutdown on Friday, August 1. Dimond Library and the Physics Library in DeMeritt Hall will be open but there will be no water or bathroom facilities.
This shutdown will also impact Conant Hall, Murkland Hall and Thompson Hall.
Bathrooms will be available in James, Spaulding, Hewitt, and Hamilton Smith halls as well as others buildings on campus.
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding.
July 23, 2014
The old VPN sites, vpn.unh.edu and ecgvpn.unh.edu, have been retired by campus IT. VPN users now use connect.vpn.unh.edu and an application called Junos Pulse.
If you are a VPN user and access library resources from off-campus, you will need to use the alternate "all traffic" Junos Pulse configuration. This option sends all traffic (not just UNH traffic) through the VPN. When configuring your Junos client, the Server URL or URL field should be set to
If you do not use the UNH VPN, off-campus access to library resources remains the same. The VPN is not needed for remote access to these resources, but does add a level of security for the user.
If you have any questions about or problems with the UNH VPN, please contact the UNH IT Service Desk at 603-862-4242, Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 5:00pm or visit them online.
July 23, 2014
Government Information presents its newest featured resource: Pan Inuit Trails Atlas.
Viewers of this atlas can explore the source maps to better understand Inuit mobility patterns and the cultural importance of their trails and place names.
Place names and trails are integral parts of Inuit culture and heritage. Inuit have used place names to describe different features of the land, water, and ice since time immemorial. Place names are often (but not always) descriptive of the features they are associated with, including lakes, hills, rocks, caribou passes, ice ridges, bays, islands, etc. The names are linked to places of significance, often denoting important fishing and hunting areas and camps. They are also used to describe routes of travel, and in that sense many of them are connected to well-established trails and routes.
July 22, 2014
The UNH Library has pulled together a selection of movies for your viewing entertainment this summer. Movies from many genres are in the display including action, romance, horror, thrillers, and even educational documentaries. For the days you can't get to the beach, come borrow one of these movies.
They are available for circulation from the UNH Library Multimedia Center.
American Hustle
Blue Planet
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Bourne Ultimatum
Brave Little Toaster
Dog Day Afternoon
Endless Summer
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Jurassic Park
King Kong
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Stand By Me
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Reading Endorsement Program
The Graduate School of Education will discontinue offering degree, licensing and endorsement programs at the end of the 2013-14 academic year. We are no longer accepting applications for admission to the Reading Endorsement Program. Please contact us for more information.
The Graduate School of Education Reading Endorsement Program is designed for those interested in providing reading program leadership within their building or district. This program leads to an endorsement that uses a wide range of instructional practices, approaches and methods; including technology-based practices for learners at different developmental levels and from differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It is based on scientific research of successful practices to prepare and train high-quality teachers. All reading courses align with International Reading Association (IRA), TSPC and NCATE guidelines.
All Reading endorsement coursework is offered online, with the exception of the 90-hour required practicum.
Candidates enrolled in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) may complete one course, ENDR 544 (3 credits), toward the Reading Endorsement during their MAT.
Program Completion
- Six courses required including practicum for a total of 16 credits.
- Candidates must follow all policies and procedures as outlined in the candidates handbook.
- Passing of Praxis II Reading Specialist exam. Click here for test information.
- TSPC updates testing requirements periodically. Please check the TSPC website to be sure you are taking the correct exam.
- 90-hour practicum in school with Reading endorsed professional
- At least three months BEFORE the anticipated start of the endorsement practicum, candidates must download, complete and submit this form. Once the form has been received, a practicum placement will be secured, at which time the candidate will be enrolled in practicum hours (2 credits).
Click here for scheduled course offerings.
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|ENDR 542 - Literacy Assessment, Diagnosis, and Instruction PK-12
|ENDR 543 - Culturally Responsive Instruction and Literacy Leadership
|ENDR 544 - Integrated Literacy Methods Across the Curriculum
|ENDR 545 - Leadership & Innovation in School Literacy Programs
|ENDR 580 - Literacy Leadership Practicum and Portfolio