System error

Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/SJG/Configuration/DB.pm line 117.


Trace begun at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Exceptions.pm line 125
HTML::Mason::Exceptions::rethrow_exception('Can\'t call method "prepare" on an undefined value at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/SJG/Configuration/DB.pm line 117.^J') called at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/SJG/Configuration/DB.pm line 117
SJG::Configuration::DB::prepare('SJG::Configuration::DB=HASH(0x7f93c7055028)', 'RESERVED', 'select name from qdata where qname=? and upload_date=?') called at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/SJG/Configuration/DB.pm line 89
SJG::Configuration::DB::sql('SJG::Configuration::DB=HASH(0x7f93c7055028)', 'select name from qdata where qname=? and upload_date=?', 'illq', '2022-06-01') called at /home/www/secure/ill/comps/illcal.mas line 131
HTML::Mason::Commands::__ANON__('sqldate', '2022-06-19') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Component.pm line 135
HTML::Mason::Component::run('HTML::Mason::Component::FileBased=HASH(0x7f93c7088f38)', 'sqldate', '2022-06-19') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 1302
eval {...} at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 1292
HTML::Mason::Request::comp(undef, undef, 'sqldate', '2022-06-19') called at /home/www/secure/ill/ill.html line 150
HTML::Mason::Commands::__ANON__('sqldate', '2022-06-19', 'illuminator', '^J^I^I^I<h1>June 19, 2022: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over</h1>^J^I^I^I<p>^M^J^IDespite what you may see &ndash; especially if you live in Texas, where masks have been relatively &quot;optional&quot; throughout the course of the pandemic &ndash; the world is not &quot;back to normal.&quot; Even today, over two years after the first wave of lockdowns and caution, the world is a wreck and game publishing is still affected in many ways.</p>^M^J<ul>^M^J^I<li>^M^J^I^IShipping, while better than it was a year or so ago, is still slower and more expensive than it was pre-pandemic.</li>^M^J^I<li>^M^J^I^IManufacturing, regardless of where you may be producing games and expansions, is slow . . . and the paper issues are driving up costs.</li>^M^J^I<li>^M^J^I^IConventions have restarted, yes, but they&#39;re far from safe. After members of our team tested positive following conventions earlier this year, <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/May_25_2022/SJ_Games_Not_Attending_Gen_Con_Origins">we&#39;ve made the choice to skip conventions this summer</a>. The health and safety of our team comes ahead of the benefits of showing off and teaching games at conventions.</li>^M^J</ul>^M^J<p>^M^J^INone of these problems will go away soon. And despite chants of &quot;make your games in the US,&quot; we can tell you from experience that doing so isn&#39;t the sole solution. First, not everything <i>can</i> be made in the US. Second, those things that can be made in the US often cost <i>considerably</i> more to produce than manufacturing elsewhere. And third, even the items we can produce in the US are rarely sticking to schedules; the new <i><b>Car Wars</b></i> and <i><b>Ogre</b></i> playmats are being manufactured in the US, and we&#39;re facing delays!</p>^M^J<p>^M^J^IWhile the world will never return to the &quot;normal&quot; we remember from the before times, we can improve the odds by getting vaccinated, getting boosters when we&#39;re eligible, wearing our masks, and doing all we can to reduce the spread of the virus. This includes testing before gathering or after assembling with a large group. If you&#39;re in the US, <a href="https://special.usps.com/testkits">please visit this USPS page </a>to order free COVID test kits.</p>^M^J<p>^M^J^IWe will get through this and, on the other side, I hope we get to attend a <i>giant</i> game convention and spend a weekend having fun with friends we&#39;ve been missing these last few years.</p>^M^J<p>^M^J^I-- <a href="mailto:phil@sjgames.com">Phil Reed</a></p>^M^J^J^I^I^I<br clear="all">^J^I^I^I^J^I^I^I<p id="discussForum" style="float: right;"><a href="http://forums.sjgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=92"><img src="http://www.sjgames.com/img/discuss-on-forums.png" alt="Discuss this post on the forums!" /></a></p>^J^I        ^J<!-- addthis -->^J^J<b><span style="float:left; padding:0 1%;">Share this post!</span></b>^J<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" style="float:left;">^J    <a class="addthis_button_facebook" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_twitter" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_reddit" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_tumblr" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_email" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <span class="addthis_separator">|</span>^J    <a class="addthis_button_expanded" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over">More</a>^J</div>^J^J<div style="margin: 5px 0; clear: left;">^J    <a href="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" class="small">Permalink</a> &bull;^J    <a href="/ill/archive/" class="small">Archive</a> &bull;^J    <a href="/ill/illsotw/" class="small">Illuminated&nbsp;Site&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Week</a>^J</div>^J', 'pagetitle', 'Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over', 'mobile', 0, 'description', 'Despite what you may see &ndash; especially if you live in Texas, where masks have been relatively &quot;optional&quot; throughout the course of the pandemic &ndash; the world is not &quot;back to normal.&quot; Even today, over two years after the first wave of lockdowns and caution, the world is a wreck and game publishing is still affected in many ways. Shipping, while better than it was a year or so ago, is still slower and more expensive than it was pre-pandemic . . .') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Component.pm line 135
HTML::Mason::Component::run('HTML::Mason::Component::FileBased=HASH(0x7f93c7054d58)', 'sqldate', '2022-06-19', 'illuminator', '^J^I^I^I<h1>June 19, 2022: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over</h1>^J^I^I^I<p>^M^J^IDespite what you may see &ndash; especially if you live in Texas, where masks have been relatively &quot;optional&quot; throughout the course of the pandemic &ndash; the world is not &quot;back to normal.&quot; Even today, over two years after the first wave of lockdowns and caution, the world is a wreck and game publishing is still affected in many ways.</p>^M^J<ul>^M^J^I<li>^M^J^I^IShipping, while better than it was a year or so ago, is still slower and more expensive than it was pre-pandemic.</li>^M^J^I<li>^M^J^I^IManufacturing, regardless of where you may be producing games and expansions, is slow . . . and the paper issues are driving up costs.</li>^M^J^I<li>^M^J^I^IConventions have restarted, yes, but they&#39;re far from safe. After members of our team tested positive following conventions earlier this year, <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/May_25_2022/SJ_Games_Not_Attending_Gen_Con_Origins">we&#39;ve made the choice to skip conventions this summer</a>. The health and safety of our team comes ahead of the benefits of showing off and teaching games at conventions.</li>^M^J</ul>^M^J<p>^M^J^INone of these problems will go away soon. And despite chants of &quot;make your games in the US,&quot; we can tell you from experience that doing so isn&#39;t the sole solution. First, not everything <i>can</i> be made in the US. Second, those things that can be made in the US often cost <i>considerably</i> more to produce than manufacturing elsewhere. And third, even the items we can produce in the US are rarely sticking to schedules; the new <i><b>Car Wars</b></i> and <i><b>Ogre</b></i> playmats are being manufactured in the US, and we&#39;re facing delays!</p>^M^J<p>^M^J^IWhile the world will never return to the &quot;normal&quot; we remember from the before times, we can improve the odds by getting vaccinated, getting boosters when we&#39;re eligible, wearing our masks, and doing all we can to reduce the spread of the virus. This includes testing before gathering or after assembling with a large group. If you&#39;re in the US, <a href="https://special.usps.com/testkits">please visit this USPS page </a>to order free COVID test kits.</p>^M^J<p>^M^J^IWe will get through this and, on the other side, I hope we get to attend a <i>giant</i> game convention and spend a weekend having fun with friends we&#39;ve been missing these last few years.</p>^M^J<p>^M^J^I-- <a href="mailto:phil@sjgames.com">Phil Reed</a></p>^M^J^J^I^I^I<br clear="all">^J^I^I^I^J^I^I^I<p id="discussForum" style="float: right;"><a href="http://forums.sjgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=92"><img src="http://www.sjgames.com/img/discuss-on-forums.png" alt="Discuss this post on the forums!" /></a></p>^J^I        ^J<!-- addthis -->^J^J<b><span style="float:left; padding:0 1%;">Share this post!</span></b>^J<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" style="float:left;">^J    <a class="addthis_button_facebook" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_twitter" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_reddit" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_tumblr" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_email" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <span class="addthis_separator">|</span>^J    <a class="addthis_button_expanded" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over">More</a>^J</div>^J^J<div style="margin: 5px 0; clear: left;">^J    <a href="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" class="small">Permalink</a> &bull;^J    <a href="/ill/archive/" class="small">Archive</a> &bull;^J    <a href="/ill/illsotw/" class="small">Illuminated&nbsp;Site&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Week</a>^J</div>^J', 'pagetitle', 'Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over', 'mobile', 0, 'description', 'Despite what you may see &ndash; especially if you live in Texas, where masks have been relatively &quot;optional&quot; throughout the course of the pandemic &ndash; the world is not &quot;back to normal.&quot; Even today, over two years after the first wave of lockdowns and caution, the world is a wreck and game publishing is still affected in many ways. Shipping, while better than it was a year or so ago, is still slower and more expensive than it was pre-pandemic . . .') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 1302
eval {...} at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 1292
HTML::Mason::Request::comp(undef, undef, 'sqldate', '2022-06-19', 'illuminator', '^J^I^I^I<h1>June 19, 2022: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over</h1>^J^I^I^I<p>^M^J^IDespite what you may see &ndash; especially if you live in Texas, where masks have been relatively &quot;optional&quot; throughout the course of the pandemic &ndash; the world is not &quot;back to normal.&quot; Even today, over two years after the first wave of lockdowns and caution, the world is a wreck and game publishing is still affected in many ways.</p>^M^J<ul>^M^J^I<li>^M^J^I^IShipping, while better than it was a year or so ago, is still slower and more expensive than it was pre-pandemic.</li>^M^J^I<li>^M^J^I^IManufacturing, regardless of where you may be producing games and expansions, is slow . . . and the paper issues are driving up costs.</li>^M^J^I<li>^M^J^I^IConventions have restarted, yes, but they&#39;re far from safe. After members of our team tested positive following conventions earlier this year, <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/May_25_2022/SJ_Games_Not_Attending_Gen_Con_Origins">we&#39;ve made the choice to skip conventions this summer</a>. The health and safety of our team comes ahead of the benefits of showing off and teaching games at conventions.</li>^M^J</ul>^M^J<p>^M^J^INone of these problems will go away soon. And despite chants of &quot;make your games in the US,&quot; we can tell you from experience that doing so isn&#39;t the sole solution. First, not everything <i>can</i> be made in the US. Second, those things that can be made in the US often cost <i>considerably</i> more to produce than manufacturing elsewhere. And third, even the items we can produce in the US are rarely sticking to schedules; the new <i><b>Car Wars</b></i> and <i><b>Ogre</b></i> playmats are being manufactured in the US, and we&#39;re facing delays!</p>^M^J<p>^M^J^IWhile the world will never return to the &quot;normal&quot; we remember from the before times, we can improve the odds by getting vaccinated, getting boosters when we&#39;re eligible, wearing our masks, and doing all we can to reduce the spread of the virus. This includes testing before gathering or after assembling with a large group. If you&#39;re in the US, <a href="https://special.usps.com/testkits">please visit this USPS page </a>to order free COVID test kits.</p>^M^J<p>^M^J^IWe will get through this and, on the other side, I hope we get to attend a <i>giant</i> game convention and spend a weekend having fun with friends we&#39;ve been missing these last few years.</p>^M^J<p>^M^J^I-- <a href="mailto:phil@sjgames.com">Phil Reed</a></p>^M^J^J^I^I^I<br clear="all">^J^I^I^I^J^I^I^I<p id="discussForum" style="float: right;"><a href="http://forums.sjgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=92"><img src="http://www.sjgames.com/img/discuss-on-forums.png" alt="Discuss this post on the forums!" /></a></p>^J^I        ^J<!-- addthis -->^J^J<b><span style="float:left; padding:0 1%;">Share this post!</span></b>^J<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" style="float:left;">^J    <a class="addthis_button_facebook" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_twitter" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_reddit" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_tumblr" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <a class="addthis_button_email" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over"></a>^J    <span class="addthis_separator">|</span>^J    <a class="addthis_button_expanded" addthis:url="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" addthis:title="Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over">More</a>^J</div>^J^J<div style="margin: 5px 0; clear: left;">^J    <a href="http://secure.sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_19_2022/The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over" class="small">Permalink</a> &bull;^J    <a href="/ill/archive/" class="small">Archive</a> &bull;^J    <a href="/ill/illsotw/" class="small">Illuminated&nbsp;Site&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Week</a>^J</div>^J', 'pagetitle', 'Daily Illuminator: The Global Pandemic Is Not Over', 'mobile', 0, 'description', 'Despite what you may see &ndash; especially if you live in Texas, where masks have been relatively &quot;optional&quot; throughout the course of the pandemic &ndash; the world is not &quot;back to normal.&quot; Even today, over two years after the first wave of lockdowns and caution, the world is a wreck and game publishing is still affected in many ways. Shipping, while better than it was a year or so ago, is still slower and more expensive than it was pre-pandemic . . .') called at /home/www/secure/ill/index.html line 4
HTML::Mason::Commands::__ANON__('month', 'June', 'day', 19, 'year', 2022, 'u', 'The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over.html') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Component.pm line 135
HTML::Mason::Component::run('HTML::Mason::Component::FileBased=HASH(0x7f93c700e828)', 'month', 'June', 'day', 19, 'year', 2022, 'u', 'The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over.html') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 1302
eval {...} at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 1292
HTML::Mason::Request::comp(undef, undef, 'month', 'June', 'day', 19, 'year', 2022, 'u', 'The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over.html') called at /home/www/secure/ill/archive/dhandler line 3
HTML::Mason::Commands::__ANON__('u', 'The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over.html') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Component.pm line 135
HTML::Mason::Component::run('HTML::Mason::Component::FileBased=HASH(0x7f93c6ffc6d8)', 'u', 'The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over.html') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 1297
eval {...} at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 1292
HTML::Mason::Request::comp(undef, undef, undef, 'u', 'The_Global_Pandemic_Is_Not_Over.html') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 481
eval {...} at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 481
eval {...} at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 433
HTML::Mason::Request::exec('HTML::Mason::Request::ApacheHandler=HASH(0x7f93c6f7dba8)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm line 168
HTML::Mason::Request::ApacheHandler::exec('HTML::Mason::Request::ApacheHandler=HASH(0x7f93c6f7dba8)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm line 825
HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler::handle_request('HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler=HASH(0x7f93c6f621d0)', 'Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x7f93c4d66b58)') called at (eval 29) line 8
HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler::handler('HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler', 'Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x7f93c4d66b58)') called at -e line 0
eval {...} at -e line 0