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Huizinga and Caillois

For this post I’m doing summaries of Johan Huizinga’s Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon – a chapter from his book Homo Ludens (1938); and Roger Caillois’s Classification of Games – a chapter from Man, Play and Games (1958). For Huizinga I made a flowchart that helps one define whether something is play or not, as my main takeaway from his chapter was that it’s hard to come up with a workable definition of play, but it’s possible to discuss various qualities that play possesses that makes it a distinct phenomenon.

For Caillois I made a very simple Twine game with a nod to personality surveys extremely popular on tumblr and elsewhere on social media. It can be found here.

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UNION THUG ARRESTED AT"RIGHT TO WORK” EVENT IDENTIFIED

http://DaylightDisinfectant.com Dateline Thursday September 12, 2013 – Portland Oregon: The union thug who disrupted a"Right to Work” event held on the campus of Clark College in Vancouver WA last Thursday has been identified. According to Vancouver Police, Wyatt McMinn, age 34, of Portland was put under arrest and charged with Criminal Trespassing. As clearly seen in the video (embedded below), McMinn refused to leave the building and move to the sidewalk. Several women in the audience are clearly frightened by McMinn and three other union perps who disrupted the event. In accordance with Vancouver Police policy no mugshot was taken or in any case would have been released. My screen shot will have to suffice. daylightdisinfectant.com/union-thug-arrested-at-ri...ified

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Right-To-Work Means Freedom To Choose Where Your Dues Go!

Union Protesters Disrupt Event Leave In Handcuffs. The Thursday night event, co-sponsored by the Portland, Ore.-based Cascade Policy Institute and the Olympia, Wa.-based Freedom Foundation, featured labor policy expect Vinnie Vernuccio from Michigan’s Makinac Center for Public Policy. At some point during the meeting, the protesters, carrying signs and shouting pro-union slogans, disrupted the event.

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Right-To-Work Means Freedom To Choose Where Your Dues Go!

As a civil rights advocate who grew up in a racially segregated town, I'm always up for a good debate, but I do appreciate factual accuracy and logical consistency. It isn't entirely clear that the governor has even read the measure. The Public Employee Choice Act explicitly states that any public worker in Oregon is free to join a union if he or she chooses. By the same token, it says that any public worker in Oregon is free to not join a union if he or she chooses -- and, if the latter is his or her choice, he or she isn't required to make compulsory payments to the union. It's that simple. IP9 is about individual freedom and a public employee's right to choose. By Jill Gibson Odell http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/09/paying_dues_should_be_a_worker.html