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This "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" Reunion with Will Smith, Alfonso Ribeiro and DJ Jazzy Jeff is Awesome
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Director Autumn de Wilde documents the ever-changing cultural zeitgeist. Each of her projects is an intimate collaboration between her and her subjects. Through her portraits, music videos, commercials, books and films, she has defined the visual identity of some of entertainment's greatest talents.
The line between art and advertising, is effortlessly blurred by de Wilde. She combines her contemporary pop style with a distinctly cinematic feel, which can be seen in her recent work: a playful movie poster for I-Tonya; an Italian dreamscape for Martini; and an empowering, dance-driven spot for Uniqlo. Last winter, she reteamed with Prada for a second installment of the label's popular branded film series The Postman Dreams. Starring Elijah Wood and featuring Emma Roberts, Sasha Frolova, Amber Valletta, and Natalia Dyer, The Postman Dreams 2 is a humorous and whimsical showcase of branded content for a luxury brand. The series won Gold for Branded Content at this year's Clios Fashion Awards. The first installment, released in 2015, was featured in Vogue and honored by the London International Awards and Berlin Fashion Festival.
de Wilde has also written,directed, and shot brand films for Oliver Peoples entitled Catch a Tuesday, starring Zooey Deschanel, and The Children Are Bored on Sundays, also with Elijah Wood and Shirley Manson.
She has been instrumental in exploring new ground in the visual identity of an ever-expanding pool of well-known actors, musicians and artists including Beck, Elliott Smith, The White Stripes, Childish Gambino, Lena Dunham, Jenny Lewis, Kirsten Dunst, Zooey Deschanel. Her latest music videos include the color coded and intricately choreographed "Big God" for Florence + The Machine and the deeply personal "Once In My Life" for The Decemberists, starring her brother, Jacob.
She has authored the books Elliott Smith, an in-depth look at the late artist through photographs and recorded conversations; Under Great White Northern Lights, documenting the White Stripes on the road during their final Canadian tour; and Beck, a chronicle of her 16-year friendship and creative partnership with musician Beck Hansen.
de Wilde's creative eye extends to fashion, as well. Her photography has graced the covers of fashion and lifestyle magazines, L'Uomo Vogue, BlackBook, New York Magazine, Flare, PAPER, Stylist, FILTER and L'Officiel Italia. For 12 years , she has documented Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the design team behind the couture fashion brand Rodarte.
She is currently working on her feature directorial debut, Emma, Working Title's adaptation of Jane Austen novel, which will star Anya Taylor-Joy (Split, The Witch) in the title role."

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PHILADELPHIA, PA–(October 17, 2016) – Rittenhouse Realty Advisors is pleased to announce the sale of 811-815 North 2nd Street in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia. The property contains eleven units and is five stories high, and is well located on 2nd Street, the neighborhood's hub for restaurants, nightlife, and shopping. Building amenities include ten garage parking spaces and a private deck for each unit.
Northern Liberties shares its borders with trendy Fishtown and Spring Arts as well as historic Old City. Residents of this building enjoy easy access to Center City via the Spring Garden and Girard subway stops, which are within walking distance. The property is also close to Temple University.
"Northern Liberties has been one of the hottest submarkets in all of Philadelphia. We were able to achieve $290,000 per unit which is one of the highest prices per unit in that marketplace," stated Ken Wellar, Managing Partner of RRA.
The property was purchased by a buyer out of New York who used a 1031 exchange to make the acquisition. The buyer saw an opportunity in Northern Liberties as a growing market that could achieve great rent increases year after year.
"Our team has recently closed six different, new construction multi-family sales around $300,000 per unit in the city of Philadelphia. This demonstrates the strength of our current market," stated Mark Duszak, Director of RRA.


Did you ever meet a total stranger, and know ,that you know ,that this individual is someone unique, authentic, organic, a rare breed?
A force to be reckoned with and leaving you wanting to know more about this total stranger ?
How can one be inspired in a happenstance meeting ?
Was it the words she voiced, or the way she delivered her words, the careful words that she choose?
Or the importance of the volume / tone or how she was deliberate and intentional with her hesitation ?
As well as, how she did fire off words with passion and straight from the hip with out any hint of a filter all rolled up into one?
I knew I would see her again because of our now professional ties, I just didn't know when.
A lady , complete stranger, came up to me and said hello, my sister just passed away last month and we had the most amazing woman, God fearing, kind, compassionate, and yes she did shoot from the hip.
But it was not just the care she gave my sister and I, it was the directness, the education, the time she took to prepare us, yes she, I guess spoon feed us, and met us where we were to a point .
Her directness was actually a gift!
It was what we needed to hear, not what we wanted but the conversation had to happen! No easy task i am sure .
Shoot from the hip has a new meaning to me "much appreciated.
This grieving sister Shelia , this new stranger had become a new inspiration for me.
Sheila continued speaking with her experience with Angie . She tearfully and painfully described how her sister had a rough life , lot of regrets and remorse .
When she was only 16 years old she became pregnant and had no choice but to give her son Blake up for adoption.
She was not allowed to have a picture or anything personal related to Blake nor was anyone in this family allowed to speak of Blake .
Pam went on to marry multiple times and unable to have children and / or had a hard time letting people in. Decades of carrying an open wound .
Angie gave Pam the morphine for pain per doctors order but she knew thru years of experience that morphine does not help what she calls soul pain .
Angie thought about Pam and tried to envision how Pam's young life's choices had effected her every day life .
And now at 88 years old and on her death bed it remains with her .
Angie called Shelia and asked her to come over as soon as she could , that she had a gift for Pam , Shelia and yes Blake .
When Shelia arrived she handed a soft blue baby blanket and asked Shelia to give it to Pam .
With shaken hands and tears falling she placed the blanket on Pam's chest and said I love you , and Blake.
Pam opened her eyes, tears rolling gently down her face, she held and patted the little blue blanket , her furrowed brow became no more , her pain was disappearing.
Everyone has been hurt , Everyone has a story .
Are you an inspiring stranger ?
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George look out for that tree!
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Student tries to impress woman jumping from rooftop to another, gets stuck between buildings instead
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A University of Pittsburgh student trying to impress a woman by leaping from one rooftop to another instead fell into a narrow gap between the buildings near campus and had to be rescued, police said Tuesday.
The student, a 22-year-old from nearby Indiana Township, fell awkwardly between buildings in the city's Oakland neighborhood and became wedged in a narrow, debris-filled space. It took rescuers about four hours to free him.
The couple apparently got onto the roof by climbing an exterior fire escape. After the man fell, the woman alerted campus police, who called city police.
"The young man met a girl, brought her up to a rooftop and decided to impress her by leaping from one roof to the next," said Sonya Toler, a spokeswoman with the Department of Public Safety.
Crews used a jackhammer and other tools to break through a wall from inside a restaurant on the first floor of one of the buildings. A paramedic was lowered on a rope to check on the man before other paramedics led him to safety, said Emily Schaffer, another spokeswoman with the Department of Public Safety.
The man was bleeding but conscious, and he waved to TV news cameras signaling he was OK as he was wheeled on a gurney to an ambulance. He broke his ankle in the fall and was being treated at a hospital.
Police were considering whether to file criminal charges and did not immediately release the man's name, Schaffer said.
Chad Brooks, the franchisee who owns the Qdoba restaurant whose wall was broken through, said the eatery will probably be closed for a couple of weeks.
This story has been corrected to show that rescuers were successful, not unsuccessful, in reaching the man through the hole in the restaurant.
Harvard students want to revoke Trump supporters' diplomas
Gov. Cuomo threatens NY tax hikes without $15B in federal aid


It has been a few weeks (or so) since I last posted, and since then I have started back at uni for my FINAL semester (yes, I am excited) which so far has been lots of fun. This semester is shaped some what differently, with most of our assignments centring around interventions that are undertaken in our placement classrooms. I am especially excited about my maths intervention which involves working with four grade one students who need extension in maths. At the moment, the classes topic is money, so over the last couple of days I have been assessing the students to see what they can and cannot do, thus identifying where they are conceptually. They are such a lovely group to work with, and they always try to challenge themselves and are not fearful of making mistakes which is refreshing.
When looking for specific activities to engage them, I came across this fantastic kit on teachers pay teachers. It includes some really fun and challenging games which the students have loved. Below is a photo of one of the resources. This cube (which has a different coin on each side) came with no instructions, however I decided that I would make one for each student (I highly recommend laminating them as the students can be a little rough with them). The only instructions that I gave the students was that they needed to roll the dice and record the coins that appeared and then calculate the total. Once they were comfortable, they were encouraged to add extra coins, and this challenge motivated them and pushed them to see what they could achieve. It was intriguing to watch, as they would keep adding more and more coins, continuously push themselves to see how far they could go. Two students even decided to use different operations to see what would happen to the total.
Until now, I have always conducted interventions with students who are falling behind, and I am finding it so different to work with students who are working far beyond the expected level for their age. Instead of trying to 'fix' something, my role is to help the students to challenge themselves, and provide new learning opportunities and this is such an exciting process.
I could write forever about this so I'll stop, but soon I will write about my literacy intervention (focusing on written vocabulary) and also my designing personalised learning project (which is centered around leadership and dance).
Tomorrow I am also going to the TeachMeet in Melbourne at the Immigration Museum, so I will be sure to write a post about that as well.


While most people celebrate their birthdays, this year I barely even noticed mine. In fact, if I'd had my way, I would have postponed it for a while. Maybe a good long while.
It's not just that this particular birthday happened to fall on the same day my husband had shock paddles applied to his chest in order to get his heart rhythm back on track. No, after three days in the hospital, that scary episode took a miraculous turn for the better and he's just fine now.
That's not it. It's just that I've had so many birthdays over the years, I'm getting a little worried that they might not go on forever. I used to look forward to each birthday. At certain points in our lives, everyone feels that way, I know. But now. . .now I approach each new birthday first with surprise and then with dread. I CAN'T be that old! Can I be??
I can't help it that some time shortly after my birth, a clerk, obviously wildly drunk while typing up my certificate, besides spelling my first name wrong, and then spelling my middle name wrong, went on to type September 18 instead of the sensually sibilant September 17.
And all my life, it hasn't seemed to matter. Not any of it. My social security card has my name spelled right. My driver's license has my name spelled right. My marriage license has my name spelled right. For years and years and YEARS I got away with it. Nearly all of my life I blatantly used September 17 as my birth date--mainly because it IS my birth date.
Then, somewhere in the late 80s, after I had used my actual, truly beloved DOB for more years than the DMV clerk had lived on this earth, I made the mistake of chit-chatting while I waited for my license. (Never do that. Don't even look them in the eye.) I thought she'd get a kick out of my story about the drunken clerk and the wrong date. She even smiled a little. But then she put 9/18/ on my license. She was sorry, she said, but that was--didn't I agree?--my LEGAL birth date.
She was heartless and I was heartbroken. Every time I look at my driver's license I feel a little sick. It's wrong. . .so wrong. But the damage is done. Every official document now lists an untruth about me.
But enough about that sorry incident. Who is willing to take this birthday off my hands? I'll go back to having them sooner or later. I'll have to, I guess, or face the consequences.
But please don't ask me for my REAL birth date. September 17 is taken.
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Elon Musk thinks Apple Car will come too late
By Buster Hein • 11:01 am, June 2, 2016
Musk is confident Telsa will beat the Apple Car.
Photo: Recode/Facebook
Apple should have started development on the Apple Car a lot earlier than it did, according to Space X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The real-life comic-book superhero sat down for an interview at Code Conference and said that when it comes to autonomous cars, Google won't be a competitor because they're not a car company, however Apple will be.
Musk thinks it may be too late for Apple to be truly competitive though.
"I'd think there will be volume production no sooner than 2020. Is that too late?" Musk said regarding Apple's rumored car project. "The sheer scale of automotive manufacturing is hard to imagine until you see the plants. The size of the industrial infrastructure is astonishing."
iPhones might be a lot smaller than Teslas, but if any company knows how to orchestrate the production high-tech devices at an unfathomable scale, it's Apple. Musk plans to have 1 million cars rolling off the Tesla assembly lines by 2020, so Apple will have to ramp up fast.
Apple's project titan has been described as a "Tesla graveyard" by Musk in the past. The not-so-secret car project has amassed hundreds of engineers and designers, many from car companies like Telsa, Ford, Mercedes, BMW, and others.
Musk's interview in the red chairs covered a range of topics much more interesting than his impending car battle with Apple. The tech visionary talked about Space X's plans to launch the Falcon Heavy rocket by the end of the year as well as whether or not we're all just living in a simulation.
Watch the full interview below:
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Embarkation at 5.00pm. The cruise will depart Passau at 6.30pm and cruise to Obernzell.
Cycle the great Danube loop of the Schlögener Schlinge, one of the most beautiful and traditional segments of the Danube with its small villages and cosy taverns. Reboard the ship in the charming village of Aschach.
Start your cycle trip just outside Vienna in the Danube Floodplains National Park, one of the last unspoilt floodplains of Europe. Today's destination is Bratislava a lovely Old Town with its impressive castle.
Enjoy panoramic views of the Danube bend's stunning landscape. Entering Budapest by boat is overwhelming as many of the famous tourist features are situated directly on the river banks. Guided city tour at night (optional) to experience Budapest illuminated.
Sail from Budapest north to Visegrad with its landmark crag top fortress and ruins of the former palace. Begin your cycle route to the Danube Bend, very picturesque but slightly hilly. Visit the artist town of Szentendre and continue to Esztergom, known for its magnificent basilica.
Discover Vienna by bike or take an optional tour by bus. See the most famous sights up close; the imperial Palace Hofburg; St. Stephen's Cathedral; the gorgeous boulevard "Ringstraße" with the State Opera House; the Burgtheater and the Town Hall; as well as the colourful "Hunderwaßerhaus" and the Giant Ferry Wheel, located in the Prater amusement park. End the day with a Waltz and Opera Concert at the Kursalon (optional) or a traditional wine tavern (optional).
Small dreamy towns, apricot trees, vineyards, castles, monasteries and ruins are the charateristics of the hilly landscape of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Wachau. Arrive Melk with its splendid baroque Benedictine monastery. After a farewell gala dinner the crew presents an entertaining show.
Arrive in Passau late morning. Disembarkation 12.30pm.
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Q: Missing push data on Android's PWA but not on Desktop UPDATE: Updating Chrome from 58 to 76 has resolved the issue. According to this link Chrome v50+ supports payload which has not been the case here. Either there's a bug / issue with Chrome 58 or there's a bug somewhere in the code. Still interested to learn which.
I'm following the same procedure to send my push message for both Mobile and Desktop.
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In the Fight Against Native American Poverty, Tribal Enterprises Are a Big Part of the Solution
Tribally owned businesses allow Native American communities to flourish in their own way
Jordan K. Lofthouse May 4, 2022
The Seminole tribe's Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Involvement in gaming, hospitality and other industries can help tribal governments raise needed revenue and promote economic development on Native American reservations. Image Credit: Zak Bennett/AFP
Native American tribes have long fought to assert their sovereignty as self-governing communities. And since the 1970s, the federal government has granted tribal governments much more autonomy to make their own policies and provide their own public services. But even with more self-determination, many reservations still struggle with high levels of unemployment and low standards of living.
Good governance is one of many important factors that will help promote Native American flourishing. But to govern well, tribal governments must first have enough revenue to provide basic goods and services. However, for reasons I'll explain below, most tribal governments cannot generate sufficient funds through the traditional routes of taxation and federal grants. To raise the money they need, tribes must look to tribally owned businesses. These public-private partnerships are a way for tribes to exercise their self-determination more fully and provide opportunities for their people.
Generating Tribal Revenue and Promoting Economic Development
Tribes use federal grants and other federal moneys to fund a variety of basic government services, such as public housing, transportation and behavioral health support. Grants also fund economic development programs, such as broadband internet access, energy development and tourism promotion. However, this funding is often in short supply and usually covers only a fraction of tribal operating costs.
Tribes also generate revenue through taxation, including sales and excise taxes, but a limited tax base means that they usually can't raise enough to meet their needs. For example, tribes take in only limited revenue from property taxes because much of their land is held in trust by the federal government and is thus exempt from these taxes. Likewise, most tribal governments often don't levy income taxes on the reservation because unemployment and poverty rates among residents are relatively high and the potential tax base is low.
With this in mind, federal and tribal policymakers should increase tribes' freedom to experiment with different kinds of entrepreneurial ventures by removing confusing and uncertain legal and regulatory barriers. Streamlining and simplifying federal and tribal laws and policies would increase the number of reservation-based enterprises, thus increasing tribal revenue as well as employment opportunities and standards of living.
On many reservations, the foundation for this development already exists. Indeed, tribal business ventures already span a variety of sectors, including tourism, energy, agriculture, forestry, manufacturing, telecommunications and, most notably, gaming. Tribally owned casinos not only directly generate income for the tribe, they also provide employment opportunities for reservation residents and increase traffic at other local businesses. On average, gaming improves the economic standing of reservations that invest in it. However, casinos don't cure all economic woes, and their impact varies widely from tribe to tribe. Some reservations that have built casinos have experienced incredible economic growth, while others, especially those in remote areas, have seen only modest benefits.
The variability of gaming means tribal governments must establish alternative entrepreneurial ventures to boost local economies. One emerging business type is financial technology, or fintech, which provides customers with short-term loans, portfolio management and other online financial services. Some tribes, such as the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, have created successful fintech firms. Their online lending businesses make money for the tribe, create jobs and supplement gaming income. The Otoe-Missouria Tribe's fintech and gaming companies fund most of its government operations. Without these businesses, the tribe would depend heavily on inadequate federal funding.
Other tribes have successfully expanded into a variety of other businesses. For example, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation created a profitable electronics company that produces circuit boards and cables. The tribes also own and operate several other businesses in sectors such as gaming, banking, aircraft component repair and hydroelectric power generation, among others. These enterprises help finance the tribal government and provide employment for both tribal members and nonmembers.
Simplifying Federal and Tribal Policies
There are a number of potential barriers to creating and growing tribal enterprises that need to be removed. A good place to start is double taxation. Federal, state and tribal governments have overlapping, poorly defined limits on who can tax what and when on reservations, which makes the taxation of tribal businesses a complex, confusing and often unpredictable process. The potential of being taxed twice disincentivizes investment in reservation businesses and takes away from tribal revenue.
Tribal enterprises often contract with non-tribal enterprises, which state governments can tax. Tribes may also want to tax non-tribal enterprises, but they typically forgo these taxes to ensure double taxation doesn't drive off-reservation businesses away. This means that the state government benefits from double taxation at tribal governments' expense.
Additionally, the U.S. Supreme Court, by holding that state governments can tax minerals mined on reservations, has created an explicit dual taxation regime. This system causes tribes to lose billions of dollars in tax revenue. States can also tax wind and solar facilities on reservations, which similarly limits tribal revenue.
There are a number of ways Congress could solve this problem. For one, they could clarify the double tax burden legislatively. For example, Congress could grant exclusive tribal authority to tax natural resources derived from development on Indian lands. Alternatively, Congress could offer federal tax incentives to businesses operating on reservations. Any approach that Congress takes will have distinct benefits and tradeoffs, but regardless, policymakers need to realize that double taxation harms tribes already in economically vulnerable situations.
Another complicating legal factor is sovereign immunity, although here the situation has viable workarounds. The common-law sovereign-immunity doctrine insulates tribes from being sued unless Congress allows the suit to go forward. The courts have determined that tribal governments and their directly related entities, such as tribally owned businesses, have sovereign immunity—even if the businesses' operations take place partially or completely off the reservation. Not surprisingly, some off-reservation entrepreneurs hesitate to engage with tribally owned businesses because they might not be able to sue if a contract is breached.
To remedy issues surrounding sovereign immunity, tribal leaders can choose to waive it, or negotiate its limitations, on a case-by-case basis. Many tribal officials choose to forgo immunity for tribal businesses to signal that they are trustworthy and reliable partners. But waiving immunity is controversial. Some tribal leaders believe it erodes the sovereignty they have been working toward, while others see the choice to waive as a sign of true self-determination.
Even if a tribe partially or fully waives immunity, there's uncertainty regarding where a lawsuit would be adjudicated. In recent decades, many off-reservation businesses avoided interactions with tribal businesses because they perceived tribal courts as biased or untrustworthy. In more recent years, tribes and off-reservation businesses have worked around these perceptions by innovatively using neutral arbitration provisions. In these agreements, each side selects a party arbitrator, and the two arbitrators, in turn, select a third neutral arbitrator to adjudicate. The combined use of immunity waivers and arbitration agreements helps tribal officials, tribal businesses and off-reservation businesses cooperatively engage with each other.
Avoiding the Entanglement of Politics and Business
Tribal enterprises are not a panacea for the unemployment and poverty problems on reservations, and in some cases can do more harm than good. If business decisions and day-to-day politics aren't carefully separated, tribal enterprises can become costly boondoggles that don't benefit and even hurt the tribes they are meant to serve. When elected politicians make tribal business decisions, conflicts of interest and, in the worst cases, blatant corruption arise—as in 2020, when the former chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council was arrested for bribery related to plans for building a tribally owned resort and casino.
Tribes should maintain separation between day-to-day business decisions and tribal politics. One way to do this is by establishing boards of directors and corporate charters that limit politicians' power to interfere in business decisions. For example, many tribes have created their own laws and consumer protection policies for their companies, as well as gaming commissions to oversee casinos. Many successful tribal companies have their own boards that are separate from tribal councils to insulate business decisions from politics.
Finding long-term solutions to poverty on reservations requires curiosity and experimentation. There's no simple recipe for economic development, and not every experiment will succeed—some tribal businesses will fail and must be allowed to do so. Regardless, tribal businesses, and the revenue they provide, are an undeniably important part of any plan to end poverty on reservations. Federal and tribal policymakers should do everything they can to facilitate a legal and regulatory environment that allows Native American communities the freedom to experiment with new types of economic ventures.
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"Every poll shows two-thirds or more of the American public sides with President Obama and House Democrats on our agenda, and it's Republicans who are on defense in the suburban and exurban communities that are critical to winning in 2014," said Jesse Ferguson, deputy executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
At the very least, Democrats say, Obama's shift leftward has created an opportunity for their candidates running in conservative districts to distinguish themselves from the president. For a contender running in a red district, being able to say they part ways with the White House on one or two issues could allow them to show independence.
If there's one issue that Democrats worry could become sticky in 2014 races, it's gun control. While party strategists believe that the president's forceful advocacy of immigration reform and gay marriage tracks with shifts in public opinion, opposition to new restrictions on guns is palpable in many conservative pockets of the country.
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Q: React component failing to update state The code I'm talking about can be found in this codesandbox.
I'm currently working on a clone of a memory game called Indefinite Interrogation. The way it works is you're asked questions; you have to always answer the same questions with the same answers. The first time you're asked each question, your answer doesn't matter; but every time you're asked that question again, you must answer with whatever you chose the first time.
What's supposed to happen in my code is that questionList (the list of questions be asked) gets updated via the getNextQuestion() function every 10th question, and the Game component is supposed to continue displaying questions. What actually happens is my website crashes after answering the 10th question correctly, because it "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '10')"; the questionList logic somehow returns undefined (the error occurs on line 512).
I'm not sure why, but state variables such as currentListIndex (the current index in questionList) don't seem to be getting updated by getNextQuestion(). Even after that function gets called, the old value of currentListIndex seems to still be getting used, and that breaks the game every 10 questions (each questionList is 10 elements long so the max index is 9; currentListIndex seems to become 10 at some point for unknown reasons).
questionsIndices (basically an array of indices to determine which lists of questions can be used to generate questionList) also seems to fail to get updated by that same function.
My only guess is that I'm using useEffect() incorrectly. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I appreciate any assistance I can receive to resolve this issue.
EDIT: use the console output to see the correctAnswer to each question. Game overs will cause the game to reset itself back to score 0 (this may take a few seconds).


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Explained: Low Solar Activity And A 'Meridional' Jet Stream Flow
All 2,000 of my electroverse.net articles (my previous website–that was heavily censored and eventually demonetized) have mysteriously and suspiciously vanished; I cannot locate them, and neither can my hosting service.
Thanks to the Wayback Machine I am still able to read a good number of them, and will, over time, be updating a few of the most pertinent and re-publishing them on electroverse.co.
This is one (dated June 30, 2022):
Unusual summer chills have been gripping Western Europe over the past 7-10 days.
Spain and Portugal have witnessed a drastic cool down, with even rare summer frosts suffered in the highlands.
Remarkable minimums for the time of year have been registered, including yesterday's 4C (39.2F) at Burgos; the 10C (50F) at Bilbao Airport; the 10.5C (50.9F) at Granada; the 9.7C (49.5F) at Beja and the 2.3C (36.1F) at Xinzo de Limia.
Contrastingly, we note the anomalous heat simultaneously sweeping more central regions of the continent.
Tuesday, June 28 was a historic day in the "eternal city" of Rome. The MSM is raving about a reading of 40.8C (105.4F) logged at Rome Macao, which is said to be the highest "reliable" temperature ever recorded in downtown Rome. Additional record highs were also set across Italy on Tuesday, including Campobasso's 37.4C (99.3F) and Ronchi dei Legionari's 36.7C (98.1F).
However, rather than serving as an illustration of 'catastrophic climate heating', as proponents of the AGW Party would have you believe, Europe's stark temperature divide –between summer frosts and record June heat– is the result of a slumberous Sun.
Low solar activity impacts Earth's climate via a number of different mechanisms. The most notable of which is the reduction of energy entering the jet streams — this reverts the jets' standard straight ZONAL flow to a weak and wavy MERIDIONAL one:
In times of meridional flow, a region's weather is determined by which 'side' of the stream it's on. If it is located 'above' the stream (in the NH) then it's in for a spell of unseasonably cold conditions–open to influxes of Arctic air; while conversely, if the locale is 'under' the jet stream then it is set for anomalously hot conditions–subject to air masses dragged up from the tropics.
A wavy jet stream flow also increases the prevalence of swings between extremes. That is to say, intense bursts of heat will linger in one area, while a teeth-chattering chill will dominate nearby. These regions are also then open to flipping on a dime.
Staying in Europe, Portugal experienced a burst of intense heat in early/mid-June, while central nations were noted to be freezing. But now, barely a week later, record lows are being challenged across the country with summer frosts gripping the highlands, while central Europe bakes in an early-season heatwave.
And looking ahead, yet another 'swing' is forecast to take place, when these regions once again 'switch':
Currently, Western Europe is cool while Central regions are anomalously hot.
But next week, Western Europe will be hot while Central regions will be unusually cold.
Proponents of the global warming hypothesis are very confident at explaining Rome's record heat: "rising CO2 levels increase the global temperature making heatwaves more likely". However, when it comes to the record cold currently infecting Western Europe, the official explanation turns murkier and rather lackluster: "climate change" is the blanket terminology used, with no mechanism offered to explain it.
Given the prevalence of this meridional flow in recent years, the AGW Party have, at times, attempted explanations that still maintain their CAGW juggernaut. Depressingly, this is how modern science works, findings are reverse engineered. Powerful entities (multinational conglomerates/governing bodies) identify their desired results and task (pay) researchers to fit the pieces together in order to obtain the 'correct' outcome. This can often see scientists jamming square pegs into round holes. However, as soon as that outcome has the branding 'science says' slapped upon it, then it can't be touched, it's as good as Gospel.
Still, today's scientific 'consensus' –not a scientific word by the way– has pulled together a weak explanation for this observed uptick in meridional flows; one that isn't widely agreed upon, but one that is still used by the MSM to explain-away those pesky and increasingly-regular polar outbreaks.
The 'consensus' states that "because the Earth's polar regions are warming more quickly than the rest of the world, the temperature contrast that drives jet streams has decreased (making for weaker streams)".
'Polar Amplification' is the theory, but for it to work BOTH poles need to be warming, which simply isn't the case.
Official data reveals that East Antarctica, which covers two thirds of the continent, has cooled 2.8C over the past 40-or-so years, with West Antarctica cooling 1.6C. Climate alarmists love long-term trends, and to them, forty years is regarded as a long-enough time-frame from which to draw significant climatic conclusions. But the evaluation of the past 4-decades can result in only one summation: that Antarctica is cooling simultaneously with a weakening of the southern jets, blowing apart that mainstream explain-away.
Moreover, this Antarctic cooling has actually been intensifying in recent years.
As discussed in more detail here, between April and September 2021 the South Pole's temperature averaged a penguin-hugging -61.1C (-78F) — the locale's coldest six-month spell ever recorded, and a period that comfortably usurped the South Pole's previous coldest 'coreless winter' on record, the -60.6C (-77F) from 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20).
Furthermore, the entire year of 2021 (not just the winter) was also a record-breaker.
The South Pole averaged just -50.5C (59F) throughout 2021, making it the continent's coldest year since 1987 (solar minimum of cycle 21) and also the third coldest on record in weather books dating back to 1957.
The unusual chill has extended through 2022, too.
For more on that, see the links below:
Antarctica's Latest -60C (-76F) Reading Ever Recorded; NOAA: 'Cold Pool' Returns In Bering Sea; + Sun
Yesterday, Greenland Gained Enough Mass To Bury Central Park Under 9,000 Feet Of Ice; Antarctica's Coldest Month Of November Since 1987; China's Big Freeze Intensifies–Beijing's Lowest Nov Temp Since 1970; + Quiet Sun
Frigid Decembers For North America, Australia, Parts Of Europe, And Asia; Cold 2022 For The South Pole; Historic Snowfall In SD And MN; Twin Cities' Snowiest Start To Winter In 30-Years; + More To Come
So to conclude, the establishment's explain-away theory that warming poles are to blame for a weak and wavy jet stream flow –and in turn the correlated violent swings between extremes in the weather (dubbed 'climate change' by the establishment)– is, to put it mildly, complete and utter BS.
Antarctica is undoubtedly COOLING, and so are the regions surrounding the continent.
The southernmost tip of South America, for example, has in "the most recent decades" seen its climate deteriorate to the coldest sea surface temperatures of the last 10,000 years (Bertrand et al., 2017); while additional studies show that not only has the sea ice around Antarctica been advancing in recent decades –in tandem with Southern Ocean cooling (Fan et al., 2014)– but also that the entire Southern Hemisphere's sea ice extent has been creeping northwards since the 1970s (Comiso et al., 2017).
And now, a new study (Salame et al., 2021) reports that Southern Hemisphere sea ice has been creeping so far northwards since 2000 that it now extends well into the 54°S southern Chilean fjords, or up to 100 km further north than the NSIDC's previous extension limit estimates (55°S).
I'll leave you with my favorite image of the past few years, which serves as a powerful example of dirty mainstream media tricks, obfuscations and outright lies: everywhere is warming twice as fast as everywhere else:
Reject the politicized cries of "climate emergency!", they are not rooted in science.
Instead, prepare for the next big freeze: climate is cyclic, after all, never linear, and the COLD TIMES are returning…
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California's Snowpack Highest In 40 Years; Heavy Snow "Causes Chaos" In Oslo; Extreme Freeze Begins Across Vast Areas Of Russia/Asia; + X-Flare Watch
Siberia's Coldest Temperature Since 2002, Host Of Records Felled ACROSS Transcontinental Russia; + X1.9-Flare 'Jerks' Earth's Magnetic Field
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Just don't let the bastards grind you down – Karma comes in the form of SC26
Right on DB!!!
I myself have two experiences with disappearing articles & videos. Memory is actually cheap, so I pulled the articles from the site published on, but now find them in a format I can't open.
So take note to save in a known format.
The second was a set of very, very unusual videos over a period of months done by a researcher of quite some skill. These covered a phenomena never seen anywhere else.
One day the computer was hacked and vids deleted. Fortunately I had downloaded them with 4K Free vid downloader, saved on a computer Not connected to the net.
Now a similar thing is happening to our earthquake friend Dutchsinse. His harassment is way off the charts, above it all with no real apparent reason for it. I loved his exposure of earthquake sites connected to electric grid transmission lines and electric power generating plants. It started with noticing hot spots in the data sources. One site in the middle of NE Florida was investigated by a viewer who on going to the site discovered the power lines. Dutch followed up on this with absolutely amazing results. One just takes the quake location, run it on Google earth zooming in to find the power connection. This helps support my theory the electric grid is de-magnetizing the planet. This could then let in more cosmic rays causing more cloud cover and global cooling!
One more nail in the coffin of CO2 based AGW!!!
Jopeckj
Snow cover on northern hemisphere way below average for this time a year. But you wont reqd about it here. Only when its above average.
https://globalcryospherewatch.org/state_of_cryo/snow/fmi_swe_tracker.jpg
Looks above average on this up-to-date chart planet earth.
What planet are you on?
Cap Allon
Don't post such easily controvertible comments, Jopeckj — it gives away your score, and stupidity.
Nice try Comrade! The Party is pleased with your effort. Please go stand by that wall to receive your reward
Terry Shipman
This is what I like about the comments section of an article. When a mindless troll spews its nonsense an informed reader can come back with the truth. We can all learn then. So trolls actually provide a useful service but not in the way they imagine. Thanks for the link.
At the pole of cold -59°C.
An extensive anticyclone, established over Yakutia, contributes to the cooling of the air.
For Yakutia -40°C and even -50°C in winter is a common occurrence. But now the air temperature in the Republic of Sakha is below the climatic norm by 8-10 degrees. Another record was recorded on January 8 in Yubileinaya. Here the frost got stronger to -52°C, the record of 1982 (-49.9°C) was left behind.
And at the Pole of Cold, in Oymyakon, in the early morning hours of January 9, thermometers showed – 59.3°C. But this value did not become, the record was set in 1966, when the frost was even more severe, -61.5°C.
Frosty weather will continue in Yakutia, the air temperature is still below the climatic norm. The temperature anomaly reaches 10 degrees. At night, frosts are again expected to -45..-50°C, and somewhere up to -60°C.
Meteonovosti: http://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=230109134936
https://www.gismeteo.ru/news/weather/moroznoe-carstvo-ot-ladogi-do-kamchatki/
https://news-ru.gismeteo.st/2023/01/R-640×363.jpg
-Another interesting article…it's not warming…or Fake Jopeck Warming…
During analysis, we found that the solar cycle 25 will start in the year 2021 (January) and will last till 2031 (February) with its maxima in year 2024 (February) while the solar cycle 26 will start in the year 2031 (March) with its maxima in 2036 (June) and will last till the year 2041 (February).
-Predictions for Solar Cycles 25 & 26 – a substantial weakening trend in solar activity:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021cosp…43E1044S/abstract#:~:text=During%20analysis%2C%20we%20found%20that,the%20year%202041%20(February).
Last Sentence:
"This is a clear indication of substantial weakening trend in solar activity which may lead to the speculation of other minima and cooling global climate."
Now officially in the records of ADS –
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.
The ADS maintains three bibliographic collections containing more than 15 million records covering publications in astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and general science,"
Mystic's Mystic
You may have seen this already but at the beginning of this solar cycle Space Weather Live had the predicted sunspot numbers way above SC24.
Just noticed they now predict something equivalent to SC24.
Solar Cycle progression | Solar activity | SpaceWeatherLive.come
You climate deniers will get a wake up call once storms begin to be named after childhood, fantasy land, and olde time sailor folklore monsters.
Imagine ex tropical storm Kraken coming to get you. Seriously terrifying. Ahhhh.
(satire)
Seattle's new hockey team is Kraken and home rink is Climate Pledge Arena named by Jeff Bezoz, he bought the rights. It was Seattle Center Coliseum, part of Seattle's World Fair in '62 home to the Pacific Science Center, Space Needle and Monorail and also former home to Super Sonics Basketball, concerts like Led Zeplin. Bezos has got to be one of the biggest CO2 polluters ever everything is made overseas and delivered to homes by Amazon ICE vans. Those vans are everywhere I go in convoys of 20, 30, 40 out of the distribution centers all fed by fossil fuels airliners off super tankers from Asia. Free transit to Climate Pledge Arena now and then they can write off the carbon credits. https://komonews.com/news/local/climate-pledge-arena-seattle-free-public-transit-storm-kraken-concert-music-king-county-metro-bus-link-light-rail-monorail-water-taxi-sound-transit-streetcar-ticket#
Oh goody.
I warned you Cap, not to trust Patreon. They will shut you down.
When you see the melding of the state with corporations you all should realise that that is the beating heart of fascism. The state and big business working together to control the people. Classic Mussolini. Our future looks ever bleaker as progressivism tightens its grip. Where are we going? Well look at the great progressives of history. Mao Zedong, who called the party the progressive party. Stalin who called himself progressive. Castro, the list goes on. But the most progressive of all was Pol Pot, who introduced the world to the "great reset".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_(Seattle)
Rockerfeller sent Lenin to Baku to take down Russian oil industry and BP ended up with the Caspian, products sent through Turkey.
https://www.amazon.com/Oil-Glory-Pursuit-Fortune-Caspian/dp/0375506144
https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/news-and-insights/reimagining-energy/inauguration-tanap-pipeline-turkey.html
We must somehow unite against the enemy that wants to kill us all.
How can we overcome this wickedness?
Religion has had more than 2000 years to solve these problems.
We must find another solution.
Don't be totally sure about that. I have been chatting with the God of the universe. Since I'm convinced they the US government may attack South America at the equator during this GS minimum. I have asked for a way to stop them. The answer is any services member planing to use any form of mechanism will feel the tormenting heat of hell. If that doesn't discourage, advancing to the searing heat of hell will. Zero mechanical assistance, not even a moped. Good luck!
Will high solar output have the same effect on the jet stream as low solar output?
Thanks for reposting. I've got to start saving these articles too. Bureau going to manipulate figures in Australia. Have to keep an eye on.
Well, that settles it. Climate fraud. Don't worry, Klaus/Harari WEF Buttclowns will turn humans into batteries, and we can all heat our homes to a cozy 77°.
For Cap – ref to "early/mid June" a few lines above the GFS 2m pic – should not this read "early/mid January"?
https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=186077
https://www.spaceweather.com/images2022/13jun22/cme_c3.gif
https://www.spaceweather.com/images2022/26jun22/cme_anim.gif
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We love the flying snow Shyla but we REALLY LOVE the trio!
Shyla sure looks like she is enjoying the snow but that last picture really melts our heart. It is just too sweet to see little Hachi snuggled between his siblings.
We envy you the snow. That third photo - what a beautiful portrait. How Hachi has grown!
I love the action shot, but all three of your babies on the couch is my favorite.
Action packed and heart warming... I'd love to be sandwiched right there with the Trio.
We got a nice load of snow yesterday and will get another tonight and tomorrow. Love the fresh snow. I bet your pups will have fun too.
oh they have their "pack" now, look at how happy they are!
Stay warm. LOVE the trio huddling together pic!
Love the trio together! They look so comfortable and content.
Happy Wordless Wednesday to you all. That is such a wonderfully cute photo of the trio together. We hope you are enjoying the warmth inside today. Thanks for the share. Have a wonderful day.
The 3 of you sharing the same bed is just precious! Your snow is so beautiful, Shyla!
The 3 of them make me squee!
Can't get enough of those three together!! So cute.


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I touch on one example of play trauma, which Gene also mentions in passing in his post, in my post about Monopoly:
Monopoly is… as legendary for spawning bitter family fights and for dragging on interminably even though it's obvious who's going to win as it is for being widely played.
It's also notorious among tabletop enthusiasts for making some people loathe the entire medium of board games…
It's easy to take this as a joke – families fight over board games, oh well, It's Only A Game – but if you dig even slightly into this, you find that some of these experiences are genuinely traumatic, as one would expect might be necessary to give someone a lifelong aversion to an entire medium.
Sore losers who turn genuinely vicious if defeated, or even if defeat seems imminent, and punish other players for playing well – or just bad luck on the dice. Controlling bullies who insist everyone play their way, forcing people to make deals they don't want and to keep playing even when they aren't having fun. And worst of all, a combination of the two, where other players essentially become supporting cast for a scripted victory that is neither earned, nor fun, nor remotely playful – a psychodrama rather than a game, toying with their victims rather than playing with them.
As COVID-19 lockdowns unfolded around the world, and sales of games, puzzles, toys, and other playful artforms spiked, a friend asked me if I felt a sense of validation. I replied that I felt a sense of dread. Most people are still stuck with a limited canon that includes Monopoly as the iconic board game, and, while I would avoid judging people's taste in fun[1] and the right context and group can make anything subjectively enjoyable, insofar as a game can be objectively antifun, Monopoly fits that bill:
It was actively designed, as an educational tactic, to be unpleasant to play unless you are winning – and eventually, even if you are.
Winning requires behaving in greedy, destructive, zero-sum ways.[2]
These two things strongly lend themselves to the kind of bullying and coercive "play" mentioned above.
As of 10 July 2020, it has received 26,436 ratings on BoardGameGeek, an international reference site with crowdsourced game scores. Its rating ranks it at #19133 out of the 19139 rated games, and #1988 out of 1989 family games.
And yet, thanks to network effects, the notocratic advantage of a massive marketing warchest, and other issues discussed in that Monopoly post, Monopoly has a stranglehold on the form. Its own obnoxiousness driving people away from the entire medium only exacerbates this grip; people get a taste and never make it to the good stuff. That means that when sales are up, more people are playing this and other older, less-fun games instead of games with the advantage of more than a century's advancements in the art and science of play, including co-operative games, social games, nomic games, and more.
That matters because more of those obnoxious and potentially traumatic interactions are taking place, and are doing so in contexts heightened by social isolation, economic anxiety, and cabin fever. We were rightly concerned that the containment lockdowns would heighten the risk to individuals in abusive domestic situation; this is a clear risk factor.
Now, Monopoly and its ilk aren't primarily responsible for the harm done in those contexts – that rests squarely with (a) the people behaving in dysfunctional and harmful ways, and (b) the overlapping broader systems that are simultaneously putting intense existential pressures on people and spreading toxic propaganda that legitimises and encourages abusive entitlement, control, violence, and so on, rather than fixing those systems to be more beneficial.
But they are a risk factor (as well as arguably contributing to the propaganda side of the equation; Monopoly's role in normalising winner-take-all economics, and concomitant habits of self-congratulatory rationalisation and relations of mass-subjugation, dominance, and control, is a fascinating topic), and one that can be avoided or mitigated.
A small increase in risk of harm, replicated many times on a massive scale, means harm is certainly occurring. The fact that family game night might, as Gene remarked, be a source of trauma is primarily an indictment of the state of those families – but given play's links to health and the fact that games can heal and promote bonding and caring, it seems unwise to ignore the qualities of the games they are playing.
Play and recovery
I've already talked about the links between play and health as part of my Talking Points series – twice, in fact, given that resilience is a key element of mental health.
But I haven't posted here since a fascinating conversation I had with the staff at the Foundation House for Survivors of Torture in 2019 (or at all in the last couple of years, for somewhat related reasons we might get to in a later post).
I was attending professional development aimed at helping library staff support families from refugee backgrounds, and we were discussing the role that libraries and childcare staff (mostly the latter, based on the mix of the group) can play in helping often highly traumatised communities.
One principle came out strongly: that simply by doing our jobs in an inclusive, compassionate, empowering way that centres and is deeply responsive to the community and specific individuals we are serving, we are giving survivors of traumatic experiences space and resources to start to heal themselves. We don't have to give people everything they ask for; we just have to visibly do our best, care about the result, and be reasonable and respectful about it.
Given my views on play, you won't be surprised to learn that I asked the presenters about whether play experiences could qualify as the kinds of responsive, positive, engaged, and empowering interactions they described. And, also unsurprisingly, they said that this was absolutely the case. This certainly accords with the rise of therapists using games as therapy – a web search for "Dungeons & Dragons therapy" shows the recent explosion in ways in which people are finding healing in play. There's plenty more research if you want it.
Which leads me to add to my wholehearted endorsement of Gene's call for libraries to make allowances for people to avoid play and games. Of course, people with trauma associated with those things must be supported to avoid them if they are unable to cope. But given how central play is to human nature, how harmful play deprivation is, and how culturally important games increasingly are, support for people with associated trauma should also include giving them opportunities to explore play and games in non-retraumatising ways.
Please note! I'm not advocating for forcing people with game-associated trauma to get better from it by playing games, any more than I'd treat folks with hospital-associated trauma in a hospital. (Though I'd note that games take a huge variety of forms, and play is sneaky and present in a great many contexts outside formal games in a way that hospitals are rarely present outside hospitals. What's more, play is arguably not present in some of the simulatory activities Gene mentions in his post, which are more performative than playful – indeed, some play-related trauma may be more about being forced to perform rather than play.)
But offering people opportunities to explore games and play in a safe, non-abusive, self-directed context like a library seems to me to matter, and for folks who are more likely than most to have social anxieties, finding those opportunities can be extremely hard. And as we've discussed above, simply offering the kind of safe, supported opportunities to play that we'd want to offer anyway is enough to create that space for healing. (Just a space, not a guarantee – even though there's a lot of merit to the idea of making it an active focus of our work in all collections.)
The role of GLAM
Our job is to intelligently curate and share the worlds of culture and information in service to our communities, helping people find context and vocabulary for their engagement with the wider world.
The sorts of issues outlined above are exactly the sort of thing we should be identifying and acting on. Not by running "don't play Monopoly" campaigns, any more than we run "don't read mass-produced paint-by-numbers genre pulp that robotically replicates toxic social norms" or "don't watch reality exploitation TV" campaigns. Rather, we should be – you guessed it – intelligently curating and sharing the more pro-social alternatives, and giving people context and vocabulary for their engagement with culture. What you might call "positive culture curation".
That curation isn't only about having collections available for loan or in the library space; it's also about making actual play experiences available. That means running programs, preferably having staff who can teach the games, having services that help people find others who can teach and/or are interested in playing, and establishing norms for play in the library space in the hopes of (a) offering that safe, and potentially healing, interaction; (b) having those norms spread.
Those norms need to revolve around four things:
Given that playing games means voluntarily adopting a set of rules of behaviour and meaning, it should always be an experience of consent, freedom, and ideally pleasure, of not only "no means no" if people don't want to play, but also "yes means yes", in Friedman & Valenti's insightful framing of consent as not just acceptance but exuberance, enthusiasm, and delight. In fact, one of the great, almost pre-verbal lessons of play is precisely that the magic circle of play exists only with, is in large part comprised of, the willing participation of everyone in and around it. As above, play without consent, treating others as toys without independent will rather than as fellow players, is oppression and abuse.
Respect and gratitude follow logically from the understanding that the experience one is enjoying is contingent on the active, volitional participation of others. But these principles are important to call out and model because they are easily lost, especially in moments of frustration – or even triumph – under competitive and hierarchical social norms. Conversely, having abundant experience of respect and gratitude for fellow players can help us develop habits of moderation, perspective, self-control, and empathy when it comes to non-game frustrations.
Fun seems self-evident, but I would just gently remind readers that fun is non-trivial; is in fact the active face of joy, as beauty is the passive.
This feels like one of those posts where if I had more time I could make it shorter… but I don't. I also don't have time to make it any longer. In fact I still have a ton to say, about play anxiety and devaluation of play, which I'll have to put into separate posts over the next few days. So let me sum up.
Games and play are absolutely potential sites of trauma.
That means we need to support people to avoid them. Full stop. Play without consent is not play. Games without play are contests or performances, or both – but not true games.
We also need to offer opportunities to explore games and play in safe, supportive ways that make room for recovery and healing – whether or not the trauma being healed is associated with games and play.
And we need to take seriously that, just as people's literary diet matters, so does their ludic diet. Games are also a potential catalyst for abusive behaviour, and one which we know is increasingly common under the pressures of COVID-19.
That means the GLAM sector needs to be conscious of what they curate and how. We need to be promoting better-quality games that do more to help people have fun, and we need to be modelling and making room for healthy play that promotes pro-social behaviour.
More to come, I hope.
[1] Not per se, anyway. While I wouldn't judge, I'm happy to argue questions of taste. And of course someone's sense of fun does not shield them from judgment on other dimensions of the act, such as whether their fun is harmful to others.
[2] See Allan G. Johnson, pioneering sociologist, and his discussion of Monopoly embedded below. Fascinating for many more reasons than just this, but a crucial illustration of the point.
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Fed report on economy doesn't always match local perceptions (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The economy has been shuffling along this summer, and Atlanta's story was not much different from that of the nation, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Federal Reserve Bank. Known as the Beige Book, the latest periodic report includes snapshots from a dozen Fed branches and discussion of key economic sectors. What it doesn't have is a lot of upbeat chatter.
Yosano Says Shouldn't Be Pessimistic About Japan's Economy (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Kaoru Yosano , who's running to become Japan's next prime minister, said people shouldn't be pessimistic about the economy because the corporate sector is strong.
Fed officials see soft economy; point to rate hold (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Senior Federal Reserve officials on Thursday said the U.S. economy seems on the verge of another slowdown while the most severe inflation threats may have passed, hinting that the central bank could keep interest rates at current levels for some time.
Economic Report: Services side of U.S. economy expands in August, ISM says (Market Watch)
Activity in the nonmanufacturing sectors of the U.S. economy shows slight expansion during August, says the Institute for Supply Management in its latest report.
Fed's Yellen says U.S. economy faces subpar growth (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
U.S. economic growth will be "subpar" in the second half of the year and interest rates must be set at levels that reflect the "substantial headwinds" facing the economy, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen said on Thursday.
Jobless claims jump is bad omen for economy (AP via Yahoo! News)
Jobless claims rose unexpectedly last week, the government said Thursday, while companies responded to the slowing economy by producing more with fewer workers.
Iraqi economy strong, IMF says (UPI)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The International Monetary Fund said the economy in Iraq has improved and inflation has declined, though fiscal management remains a concern.
Economy worries hit world markets (BBC News)
European and US shares fall on more fears over the state of the economy and the prospect of slower Eurozone growth.
Weak US Economy Could Derail GOP Hopesâ??Again (CNBC via Yahoo! Finance)
With the US economy likely to remain weak before the presidential election, the issue may be the Republicans' Achilles heel.
Small caps sink as investors fret about economy (SmallCapInvestor.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Small-cap stocks went into freefall mode through midday trading as investors fretted about the state of the U.S. economy and even the global picture ahead of Friday?s key employment report.


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