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1988 Playboy Jazz Festival Line-Up
Publicity photo featuring the 1988 Playboy Jazz Festival line-up: Ray Charles, Jay Beckenstein, Timeless All-Stars, Jon Faddis, Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Valentin, Airto & Floria Purim, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby McFerrin., June 19, 1988, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Text on photo border: [logo with text] Tenth Anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival ; Sunday, June 19, 1988, 1988 Playboy Jazz Festival line-up (clockwise, left to right) Ray Charles, Jay Beckenstein of Spyro Gyra (above), The Timeless All-Stars (below), Jon Faddis (above), Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham (below), Dizzy Gillespie, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Valentin, Airto & Flora Purim, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby McFerrin.
Advertising the Cheathams' visit
Display rack with various jazz albums for sale and a hand lettered sign reading "Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham will visit Jazz Record Mart at 3:00 Sat. June 24, Don't miss it!!"., June 24, 1989, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Arthur Mitchell dancing with Suzanne Farrell
Arthur Mitchell & Suzanne Farrell dancing on stage to the song Slaughter on Tenth Avenue during a performance of On Your Toes; other dancers (three men, three Women ) are also on stage with them., 1968?, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Stamped on verso: New York City Ballet, New York State Theater [address]; Slaughter on Tenth Avenue from the Rodgers & Hart musical comedy On Your Toes, music by Richard Rodgers, Choreography by George Balanchine, Scenery by Jo Mielziner, Costumes by Irene Sharaff ; Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Mitchell.
At the Cheatham Jam Session
Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Jim Zollar, Dinky Morris (saxophone), Jimmy Noone Jr. (clarinet), unidentified, Billy (harmonica), in a row at a Cheatham Jam Session; Cheatham is in a hat and is holding his trombone; there's a microphone, music stand, and piano beside the group., No date; likely 1970s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Photographer's stamp on verso: Bill Miller, freelance photographer, [phone number]; Handwritten post-it note on verso: Jimmy Cheatham - Jim Zollar - Dinky Morris - Jimmy Noone, Jr. (unknown) Billy at the Cheatham Jam Session.
Members of the Sweet Baby Blues Band posing for a photo while at an airport (Red Callender, Dinky Morris, Ironman Harris, Clora Bryant, Rickey Woodard. Curtis Pegler, Jeannie Cheatham, an unidentified man, and Jimmy Cheatham; Clora and Jimmy are both wearing t-shirts with the Jazz Showcase's logo on them., June 20-25, 1989, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Babs Gonzales
Babs Gonzales with a cigarette looking to the left of the photo., No date; likely 1960s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten on photo border: Babs Gonzales.
Photo of Babs Gonzales taken from the cover art on his 1967 album "I paid my dues"; set a against a blue background he's resting his chin on a hand holding a cigarette and facing the left., 1967, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on photo border: Babs Gonzales.
Band performing
Members of the Sweet Baby Blues Band (Dinky Morris, Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham, unidentified, Curtis Peagler, Rickey Woodard, unidentified, and Ironman Harris) on stage performing at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago., June 20-25, 1989, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Bassist Jerry Evans
Jerry Evans with hand on the neck of his bass as if playing; he's wearing a suit and leaning in toward the right., No date; likely 1950s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Bernie Hamilton
Publicity photo of Bernie Hamilton with a van dyke and wearing an ascot; facing the camera with a serious look., No date; likely 1960s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Signed by Hamilton on photo recto: Pour les Cheathams my best Bernie Hamilton.
Big Mama Thornton applauding
Big Mama Thornton in a straw hat and seated at a table facing to the left of the photo; she's applauding and there is a bottle, some sort of leafy centerpiece, and a black handbag on the table with her., 1984, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on the bottom right border of the photo: Sean Huxly 84.
Big Mama Thornton at the microphone
Big Mama Thornton singing into a microphone held close to her mouth; she's wearing a straw hat and facing to the left of the photo., 1984, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on the bottom right border of the photo: Sean Huxly 84.
Big Mama Thornton seated on stage
Big Mama Thornton seated on stage during the KPBS Special "3 Generations of the Blues"; she's wearing a jacket and cowboy hat and looking over to the right; behind her an unidentified guitarist and drummer are seen along with partial views of other musicians., 1983, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Photographer's stamp on verso: Photo by Grace Bell.
Big Mama Thornton singing
Big Mama Thornton singing into a microphone; wearing a cowboy hat and sparkly floral patterned shirt; head turned to look over to the right., No date; likely 1980s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton
Big Mama Thornton holding a microphone close to her face; wearing a cowboy hat, pinstripe suit jacket and looking at the camera smiling., No date; likely 1970s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Text on bottom border of photo: Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton.
Bobby Smith playing saxophone
Bobby Smith playing "Tippin' In" on his saxophone at Jam Session in San Diego, California; he's turned to the left of the photo and wearing a white shirt; another, unidentified, person is partially seen behind him playing double bass., No date; likely 1980s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on label affixed to verso: Bobby Smith playing "Tippin' In" at the Jam Session, San Diego, CA.
Bryant Gumbel
Publicity photo of Bryant Gumbel in a suit, facing the camera, and smiling., 1990, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Inscribed by Gumbel on photo recto: To Jeannie & Jimmy- All my best Bryant Gumbel; Stamp on photo verso: © 1990 National Broadcasting Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Bubba Jackson's black drawers
Publicity photo of Bubba Jackson and Jimmy Cheatham performing at the Long Beach Jazz Festival; Cheatham is standing to the right while Jackson is standing in front of a microphone while wearing a pair of black underwear over his white pants; audience members and a police officer are seen along the left hand side of the photo and above them is a banner reading, in part, "Jazz FM 88 K---" (likely meaning KLON-FM 88.1)., No date; likely 1990s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on photo's border: "Bubba" Jackson's black drawers & Jimmy Cheatham at the Long Beach, CA Jazz Festival; photo- Sylvia Gordon.
Buddy Collette and Calvin Jackson
Buddy Collette playing saxophone with Calvin Jackson seen beside him at the Cheathams' Jam Session; Collette is facing the left of the photo., No date; likely 1970s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on photo border: Buddy Collette - Calvin Jackson at the Cheatham's Jam Session.
By a koi pond
Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham standing together with an unidentified Japanese man for a photo beside a large koi pond with tree branches shading them from the sun; in Japan., 1995, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Cab Calloway and Jeannie Cheatham
Publicity photograph featuring a gesticulating Cab Calloway in a white suit, a clarinet by his side, and Jeannie Cheatham, also in white, seated at a piano and looking over her shoulder back towards Calloway., 1984, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., 2 copies; Text on bottom border of first copy: Cab Calloway (left) Jeannie Cheatham (right); Handwritten text on second copy: Jeannie Cheatham - Cab Calloway.
Cab Calloway and Jeannie Cheatham on stage
Cab Calloway on stage directing a band with Jeannie Cheatham playing piano; eleven other band members are shown wearing black and Calloway and Cheatham wearing white; sign on stage behind the band reads "Cab Calloway & orchestra with special guest Chris Calloway; Jeannie is to the left of the photo with her back to the camera and Calloway is to the right turned sideways looking over toward Jeannie; unknown venue., 1984, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Front of photo hand signed by Cab Calloway.
Calvin Jackson playing piano
Calvin Jackson playing piano on stage during the Cheatham Jam Session in San Diego in 1983; he's wearing a suit and tie and facing the right of the photo; the hand of a double bassist and part of the double bass can be seen behind him along with part of a drum set., 1983, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on verso: Calvin Jackson performing at the Cheatham Jam Session San Diego, CA.
Charles McPherson with saxophone
Charles McPherson playing saxophone into a microphone on stage during the Cheathams' Jam Session in San Diego in 1983; behind him Jimmy Cheatham and part of Dinky Morris can be seen., 1983, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on verso: Charles McPherson performing at the Cheatham Jam Session San Diego, CA 1983.
Charles McPherson, guest artist with the Sweet Baby Blues Band, with part of his saxophone visible; he's wearing dark clothes and has a greying beard; looking at the camera., No date; likely 1980s, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on label affixed to verso: Charles McPherson.
Charles Owen laughing
Charles Owen in a black jacket laughing at the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego; looking to the left of the photo., July 5, 1995, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Charles Owen playing saxophone
Charles Owens playing saxophone at the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego; wearing a black jacket and facing the right of the photo; partial views of some audience members in front of him., July 5, 1995, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on verso: Horton Grand 07-05-95 [stylized rose] Jeannie; Charles Owens.
Charles Owen, facing the right of the photo, playing saxophone at the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego; a few audience members can be seen behind him., July 5, 1995, Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections., Handwritten note on verso: Horton Grand 07-05-95 [stylized rose] Jeannie.
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Two Tyrions
As a fan of both the books and the HBO series, I was curious how the television series would portray the facial wound sustained by the character Tyrion Lannister at the end of season 2. In the books Tyrions loses most of his nose to a traitorous axe blow during battle, but on television the character ends up with little more than a dueling scar that actually adds more character to the actor's handsome face. This portrait is meant to detail the differences between the two (beyond the scar, the character of Tyrion in the books is also hunchbacked, heavy browed, and with white blonde hair), and with the near-magical assistance of Photoshop smart objects, it was easy for me to create two versions of the portrait, with each character getting his chance on either side of the glass. Below is the high-res still from the TV show used for the basis of our hero, along with some other found elements used for the lion-accented, gilded mirror.
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Come enjoy the evening with a little Art & Soul at the ICCS PTO Dinner Auction. Proceeds from the event provide a significant amount of income for our school's general fund and special projects. There are many ways to get involved and help make this year's auction a success!
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Welcome to the Opie Research Group's webpage!
You can find us in Lindley Hall 328 on the Bloomington campus.
Thanks to the National Science Foundation for supporting this research under a grant entitled "Compiler Support for Morton-Order Matrices," numbered CCR-0073491.
The goal of the Opie Project is to compile conventional programs in imperative languages like C, C++, Fortran, or Java operating on matrices into equivalent programs. So an Opie compiler merely transforms one program into another.
The difference is how matrices (arrays) are represented.
Traditional internal representation of matrices is in row-major (or, in Fortran, column-major) order. That is, a row (or column) occupies locations that are sequential in memory. Such locality is critical to cache performance. An important alternative is to represent matrices internally in Morton order, illustrated here for a 16x16 matrix, which stores blocks---nested recursively---in sequential memory. An Opie compiler, first, transforms archival code from row-major (analogously, column-major) onto Morton order.
Knowledge of the internal representation affects the programmer's choice of algorithm. An author who seeks fast code has a natural tendancy to honor the hardware in making that choice. Today a big contraint is hierarchical memory of more and more levels: L1, L2, and L3 cache, TLBs, RAM, and paging to disk. Opie does not change the programmer's algorithm! As a corollary, it might even slow a row-traversing program.
But Morton order admits other algorithms, via a different paradigm of programming being developed under the sister Arcee Project. Supported by Morton order internally, that family of algorithms is very fast. But as the new kid on the block, it lacks the infrastructure (libraries) from forty years of row/column-major algorithms. The goal of the Opie compilers is to transform that infrastructure (essentially) intact.
and---generally--- 2d-ary trees representing d-dimensional arrays.
This support will be especially useful to carry the Arcee paradigm into languages like ML, Scheme, and Haskell.
Morton-ordered matrices instrinsically provide excellent locality of reference. In addition, we advocate divide-and-conquer algorithms on these matrices. Thus it is possible to formulate elegant recursive algorithms that, by default, account for performance in the memory hierarchy, and are easy to parallelize.
So you're probably asking yourself, "What's an opie?" Recall that we perceive the compiler performing a transformation from certain styles of code onto another.
The link between Megatron and Fortran is left to the reader.
David S. Wise (homepage) Professor.
Steve Gabriel (homepage), PhD Student.
Fang (Cherri) Liu (homepage), PhD Student.
Jeremy Frens (homepage), Ph.D. Alumnus.
Craig Citro (homepage), B.S. Alumnus.
Steven T. Gabriel. and David S. Wise. The Opie Compiler: from Row-major Source to Morton-ordered Matrices. Proc. 3rd Workshop on Memory Performance Issues (WMPI-2004), 38, (2004 June), accepted. Authors' version .
Jeremy D. Frens and David S. Wise. QR factorization with Morton-ordered quadtree matrices for memory re-use and parallelism. Proc. 2003 ACM Symp. on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, SIGPLAN Not. 38, 10 (2003 Odtober), 144--154. Authors' version.
David S. Wise, Jeremy D. Frens, Yuhong Gu, and Gregory A. Alexander. Language support for Morton-order matrices. Proc. 2001 ACM Symp. on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, SIGPLAN Not. 36, 7 (2001 July), 24--33. Authors' version.
David S. Wise. Ahnentafel indexing into Morton-ordered arrays, or matrix locality for free. In A. Bode, T. Ludwig, R. Wismu"ller (eds.), Euro-Par 2000 -- Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1900, Berlin: Springer (2000 August), 774-784.
David S. Wise and Jeremy D. Frens. Morton-order matrices deserve compilers' support. Technical Report 533. Computer Science Department, Indiana University (1999 November).
David S. Wise. Undulant block elimination and integer-preserving matrix inversion. Sci. Comput. Program 33, 1 (1999 January), 29--85. Math Review 1 653 749. Abstract only: SIGSAM Bull. 29 (1995 June), 28. Author's version.
Jeremy D. Frens and David S. Wise. Auto-blocking matrix-multiplication, or Tracking BLAS3 performance from source code. Proc. 1997 ACM Symp. on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, SIGPLAN Not. 32, 7 (1997 July), 206--216. Authors' version.
E. Elmroth and F. Gustavson. Applying recursion to serial and parallel QR factorization leads to better performance. IBM J. Res. Develop., 44(4):605-624, July 2000.
S. Chaterjee, A. R. Lebeck, P. K. Patnala, and M. Thottenthodi. Recursive array layouts and fast parallel matrix multiplication. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst., 13(11):1105-1123, Nov. 2002.


Results following completion of Round 6 matches in the Central Coast Cricket Association 1st Grade competition played Saturday 17/11/2018.
A stunning performance from Matt Sunshine and Dave Mitchell has seen Brisbane Water record not only an upset win over Kincumber-Avoca but an outright win to headline Round 6 of the CCCA 1st Grade competition.
Heading into Day 2 at Adcock Park, Kincumber Avoca were seemingly heading for a comfortable victory and this was confirmed when they took their score from 3/48 to 3/71 in chase of Brisbane Water's first innings total of 141. Bluetongues paceman, Matt Sunshine had other ideas however and in the space of five overs, Sunshine claimed five wickets which resulted in Kincumber Avoca being dismissed by 82, a deficit of 59 runs.
Batting a second time, Dave Mitchell showed his undoubted talent scoring 73 runs on a wicket that was difficult to bat on following overnight rain. His innings went for just 63 balls and included four fours and six sixes and enabled Brisbane Water to declare at 5/137 with a lead of 196 runs.
Searching for an outright win it was the Sunshine brothers who combined with Ben removing the Kincumber Avoca's openers, before Matt tore through the middle order claiming another five wickets, whilst fellow paceman Dane Crocker picked up the important wicket of Kincumber Avoca skipper Steve McCabe who made 20. Kincumber Avoca were eventually dismissed in their second innings for 100 giving Brisbane Water a thoroughly deserved, and much needed outright victory, their first win of the year.
Matt Sunshine was superb using the seamer friendly conditions to his advantage finishing with the match figures of 10/48.
It was a nail biting finish at Gavenlock Oval, where Narara-Wyoming claimed the Alan Davidson Challenge Trophy by inflicting The Entrance's first loss of the year, albeit that The Entrance were able to thwart off an outright loss by just one wicket.
Resuming their second innings with a 22 run lead on an inconsistent wicket, Narara-Wyoming were able to declare their second innings 6/166 on the back of an unbeaten 79 run seventh wicket partnership Bharath Ganapathy 50not out and Andy Ryan 36 not out. The Entrance left armer spinner, Adam Taylor took three wickets in the second innings giving him 10 wickets for the match.
The Entrance required 188 runs and Narara-Wyoming ten wickets off 31 overs to get the maximum points.
The Seagulls set off after the target in spritely fashion with Taylor (45 of 27 balls) setting the tone, however the introduction of spinner James Smith and surprise bowling option, Peter Gallichan changed the game. Following Gallichan removing the dangerous Taylor wickets fell at regular intervals and had The Entrance batting for survival as the overs counted down. In the end The Entrance last two wickets, Grant Miller, Mitch Starkey and Kobe Allison were able to survive the last eight overs (the last wicket surviving eight balls), with almost all players around the bat to avoid an outright loss. Gallichan finished with 4/21 and Smith 4/26.
Wyong moved to the top of the table with an easy outright win over Southern Spirit at Col Gooley Oval.
With 1st innings points already in the bag after Day 1, Wyong through Hayden Murphy 86 and Kaleb Daley 52 not out pushed their score to 8/264 before declaring with a lead of 159 runs.
Batting a second time Southern Spirit were dismissed for just 99 with Zac Smith the only highlight with an excellent 50, Murphy round out an excellent day by taking 5/26.
Northern Power routed the strong Warnervale batting line up on their way to a 250 run win at Woongarah Oval.
The Wildcats had no answer to the pace of Dave Molan 4/43 or the spin of Chris Archer 3/18 as they were dismissed just 98. Simon Keen topscored with 24.
Despite having 52 overs still to play Northern Power opted not to push for the outright win.
Terrigal-Matcham rebounded quickly from their last start loss with a convincing 111 runs over Lisarow Ourimbah.
After putting 266 runs on the board on Day one, the Bellbirds bowling attack went to work dismissing the Magpies for 155. Josh Bridge (2/23) did the early damage taking the first two wickets before Jaime Brien (5/45) cleaned up the lower order. Lisarow-Ourimbah import Connor Crane looked good in making 49 with veteran allrounder Mitch McBeath also producing 33 runs with the bat.


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Singidava este o cetate dacică de pământ situată pe culoarul Mureșului, în orașul Cugir județul Alba. În anul 106 după Christos, cetatea a fost cucerită și distrusă de romani.

Descoperiri arheologice
1868 - s-a descoperit un tezaur dacic de monede de argint (cca 200 piese).

1955 - s-a găsit un alt tezaur, alcătuit dintr-un mare număr de monede greco-macedonene și dacice (cca 2000 de piese).

1977 -  descoperirea necropolei cetății dacice - mormânt princiar

Mormântul princiar
Morânt de incinerație. - Inventarul său funerar conținea oasele incinerate ale unui bărbat matur și a trei cai, un coif, o armură din zale, un scut, o sabie lungă, un pumnal și o lance, toate din fier; piese de podoabă din argint și aur și anexele din bronz ale unui car de luptă. Alături de resturile cinerare așezate în groapa sepulcrală s-a mai depus o situlă de bronz și o fructieră din lut nears. Mormântul a fost atribuit unui nobil războinic dac din sec. I î.e.n, probabil conducătorul unui trib din zona văii Cugirului.

Multe din obiectele descoperite  în mormântul princiar sunt expuse la Muzeul Unirii din Alba Iulia

Alte mentiuni
Potrivit coordonatelor date de Ptolemeu (Geografia, III, 8, 4) Singidava a fost o localitate în Dacia, situată undeva în vestul României. Dupa unii cercetători numele Singidavei ar fi o coruptelă, el fiind de fapt Sangidava. Prima parte a numelui ar putea fi pusă în legatura cu tribul singilor.

Ultimele cercetări permit ipoteza că această importantă dava ar fi fost ridicată pe dealul "Cetate" de la Cugir.

Legături externe

Enciclopedia Dacica
Dacoromania

 Cetăți dacice

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Agile and social models are changing performance management, rewards, coaching, goal-setting and development. How you engage with your workforce will directly correlate with how to maximize the productivity of employees whilst giving the best possible opportunities for development.
New research reveals four trends driving successful programmes.
The mobility industry is constantly evolving to meet company goals and employee needs, especially in the midst of globalisation, tight labour markets, technology innovations, and multiple generations in the workforce.
This entry was posted in Relocation and tagged Global Mobility, Global-Winter-2019, mobility, Relocation on March 12, 2019 by Audrey Roth.
The 2018 iTalent Competition winner empowers organisations to act on worker feedback in real-time to make a real difference.
In the past few decades alone, human resources has evolved from an administrative function to a growing industry arguably centered around the most important department in an organisation. The workforce has transformed to accommodate advancements in technology and the work-life balance expectations of the up-and-coming generation of workers. Out of this change comes the race to not only retain top talent, but to maintain an organisation's current workforce. What better way to keep top performers than going to them directly to find out what works and what doesn't? Whilst asking employers for feedback on current business practices sounds like a straightforward task, James Anderson, co-founder of Peachy Mondays, began to see otherwise.
This entry was posted in Enabling Technology, Engaged Workforce, Innovation, Talent Retention and tagged Employee Engagement, Global-Winter-2019, HR Tech, HRO Today Forum, HRO Today Forum EMEA, iTalent Competition, Technology on March 12, 2019 by Audrey Roth.
Empower employees by embracing a feedback-based culture.
What is a feedback-focused culture? It's one where all employees feel confident voicing their perspectives. One where relationships are grounded on trust and respect. One where positivity and openness are the norm, and even people who aren't skilled in giving or receiving feedback are happy to participate.
This entry was posted in Engaged Workforce, Performance Management & Rewards and tagged Case Study, Corporate Culture, Employee Engagement, Feedback, Feedback-Based Culture, JanFeb-2019, Recognition on February 12, 2019 by Audrey Roth.
By following these four key principles, organizations can build strong teams to reduce turnover.
People and organizations thrive in relationally rich environments. When organizations put people above profits, their priorities produce rich dividends both culturally and economically. The heart of any business is its people, and the best organizations serve people well, both internally and externally.
This entry was posted in Engaged Workforce, Talent Retention, Workforce Management and tagged Collaboration, Corporate Culture, Culture, JanFeb-2019, Leadership, Relationships, Teams, Teamwork on February 12, 2019 by Audrey Roth.
BOK Financial develops key soft skills in younger workers to encourage retention and career growth.
Like older workers, younger employees greatly value many of the traditional aspects of a high-performing workplace: competitive compensation and benefits, a friendly atmosphere, and the chance to grow and develop. But with their unique circumstances, background, and relative lack of experience, young employees possess different skill sets and tend to approach workplaces with different perspectives compared to their older peers.
This entry was posted in Engaged Workforce, Learning, Talent Retention and tagged JanFeb-2019 on February 12, 2019 by Audrey Roth.
In the #MeToo era, employers are taking a proactive approach to harassment policies and training.
By Jonathan D. Ash, Esq.
By now, employers should be aware that a comprehensive anti-harassment policy and annual anti-harassment training are critical components in preventing and defending against claims of harassment. A new year means a new opportunity to review existing employee handbooks and to map out a plan to provide harassment training for employees and supervisors.
This entry was posted in Learning, Risk and Compliance and tagged #MeToo, Anti-Harassment policy, Harrassment, JanFeb-2019, Workplace Safety on February 12, 2019 by Audrey Roth.
HR leaders will be most effective when aligning people strategy with business goals.
As a company charts a path toward rapid growth, it's important that sales and marketing are aligned. But when it comes to effective change management and empowering employees to navigate the digital transformation and actually meet lofty business goals, HR is just as important of a function.
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This quote attributed to Communist leader Joseph Stalin, "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes", reflects the sorry state of our nation's elections, which does not bode well for the future of this nation.
It is a shock when anything is reported in "mainstream" sources that hurts those who wield the power. Time and again during the mid-term elections the mainstream media insisted there was no corruption or fraud, but this all depends whether the news concerns Democrats or Republicans.
Many Trump supporters are bereft over the results of the mid-term elections. They are apoplectic over the phony recounts which seem to happen every time a Republican wins the election by a narrow margin. Every new mysteriously found batch of uncounted votes always supports the Socialist Democrat and destroys the Republican winner.
Shame on Department of Homeland Security Director Kirstjen Nielsen when reporting there was no vote fraud in this election and that it was the most secure in history. Vote fraud has been happening for decades in this nation. One need only remember John F. Kennedy's election in 1960 where his father, old Joe Kennedy had Mayor Daley's Illinois Democrats make sure enough dead voters cast their ballots for his son. And Daley's son won by just 8,800 votes, largely due to margins in Chicago where Mayor Daley tightly controlled the Cook County organization. In Texas, home of Kennedy's running mate Lyndon Johnson, he won by a margin of 46,000. Had Nixon carried both states, he would have won the electoral college, 270 to 252.
The dead, the moved, the illegal and just plain phony voters use the easiest form of fraud, the mail-in ballot. As James Bradley, a U.S. Senate candidate from California, stated . . . "the state has passed a law allowing for mail-in and provisional ballots to be machine counted. Previously, the signatures on such ballots had to be individually verified for the ballots to be counted. Since the safeguard of signature verification was nullified, Democratic mail-ins and provisional ballots have vastly increased.
Things have gotten so obvious even Democrat outlets like Politico are commenting on election fraud, as is this alternative site that isn't pro-Republican at all.
Might vote fraud even be encouraged by government because the resulting crisis can be used to justify real ID cards to solve" this problem, which some elected leaders believe could be the start of the surveillance state and the end of federalism.
It's interesting that the Supreme Court is suddenly in a hurry to take up whether citizenship should be asked on the census. Might there be this push because the Court needs an Obamacare like majority before Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies? Hopefully John Roberts isn't going to stick the knife in the Republicans like he did with Obamacare.
What is being talked about is 10-20 House and Electoral votes switching from Democrat to Republican states if illegals balk at lying and risking criminal charges on the census form.
No wonder the Democrats are desperate to get rid of Trump! Six more years of Supreme Court and other federal judicial nominations could be the end of them, despite some Republicans who are not allies of Trump.
Illegal immigration killed the California Republican party, but Republicans urged Reagan to do amnesty in 1986 to get more slave labor. It was Reagan's biggest blunder. However, Arnold Schwarzenegger killed the California Republican Party long before Trump came along with his "me, too but very slightly less" toxic brand of Republicanism that is now found among crazed California Democrats like Senator Kamala Harris, who compared ICE to the Klan.
It's ironic that "San Fran's Nancy Pelosi" is now having trouble getting votes from those who pledged to not vote for her to beat Republicans or fellow Democrats who weren't socialist enough as Democrats struggle over Pelosi's bid with no end game in sight. Since California is now the center of the Democrat Party, might it be difficult for Democrats not to nominate Kamala Harris in 2020, no matter how awful she will play with swing voters?
When considering Trump's "support" from D.C. Republicans, the media, and Silicon Valley bias and censorship, we might know very soon if Florida Republicans don't get something major done to end the voting farce in the next few months. Inexcusable is Nelson's swung 2,570 votes after the recount, definite illegal shenanigans with the "cured" VBM ballots and overseas ballots. Rick Scott also lost 779 votes during the recount that should have gone his way; that is, until Broward and Hillsborough decided to throw out their machine recount totals when the result was better for Scott. Broward also "lost" 2000 votes that no one can now find.
Now that the GOP has full control over Florida, it needs to fix its election system in the next two years. There is absolutely no excuse for this debacle.
The Florida GOP needs to come in and clean house on its election process. The GOP also needs to remove CCW oversight from the Agriculture Commissioner.
The biggest reason to expect a Trump reelection is that, unlike House races, but more like the 2018 Senate races, it will be impossible to hide the weak, radical nature of Trump's opponents. The field is so pathetic, that Beto O'Rourke is being touted as a presidential candidate for 2020.
Will traditional values take back seat?
Democrats are no longer pretending, nor are members of the Republican establishment that they believe in traditional values. According to a Pew Research Center survey, there are 1.5 million Wicca or Pagan in the U.S. That means there are more Wicca or Pagans than there are Presbyterians.
Like Europe before World War I, America has considerable surface Christianity but underneath many don't believes in the Golden Rule.
Just seize the boodle, sexual or monetary, and use anything, including witchcraft, to get what you want. It will be interesting to see if the 2020 election, like the 2016 election, offers some reprieve from the downward spiral in American economic, political and moral power.
Let's hope for some justice in this life, even as this nation and its people are turning away from their Creator. Recognized by our Founding Fathers as important and necessary, they bequeathed to us our Constitutional Republic to keep and safeguard for coming generations. Are we up to it? Our survival depends on it.


This weekend is the Hughes UMC Rummage Sale. All Wednesday & Thursday classes will be moved to Glen Echo in the Bumper Car Pavilion. All class times remain the same. SATURDAY 10/22 classes will be held on SUNDAY 10/23 from 1-7pm. Individual emails were sent regarding these changes. Grace Episcopal & Rockville have NO changes.


CLARENCE AUGUSTUS CHANT (1865-1956) grew up in a village near Toronto. A school book entitled Geography Generalized, by Robert Sullivan, first aroused his interest in astronomy. After high school, Chant taught for a couple of years as a means of earning some money, then entered the University of Toronto and graduated in mathematics and physics in 1890. After a short stint working for the Finance Department in Ottawa, he accepted a position as Lecturer in Physics at the University of Toronto. Soon, as he recalled, he joined the A&P Society where he "met a number of practical observing astronomers who further stimulated my interest in astronomy."
Though his Ph.D. was in Physics (earned during a year's leave of absence at Harvard in 1901), Dr. Chant became a highly respected and influential teacher of astronomy at the University of Toronto. For thirty years, nearly all Canadian astronomers were trained by him. Ironically, though, his heroic efforts to obtain an observatory for Toronto were only realized with the opening of the David Dunlap Observatory on the very day of his seventieth birthday and his official retirement from the university.
Chant's connection with the Society spanned sixty-four years, and for fifty of these he edited the Journal and the Handbook, building them into internationally recognized publications. He was national President for four years and Librarian for sixteen years. He contributed countless papers to the Journal, the last being published when he was ninety-one. He was a great popular educator and in the words of J.F. Heard, "lived for the public lecture platform." Chant's introductory book Our Wonderful Universe, was translated into five languages. He co-authored physics texts which sold in the hundreds of thousands. Undoubtedly, royalties contributed to his large estate of $250,000 which he left to his daughters and to the David Dunlap Observatory.
RASC 2018—the Podcast, Episode 2: C.A. Chant—Communicating Astronomy.
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RESTON, VA — JULY 14, 2018 Cors Productivity Solutions, Inc. (CorsPro), a leader in sales process and document automation software, announced today the integration between Microsoft SharePoint and CorsPro's SalesDoc Architect (SDA).
CorsPro has developed a set of SharePoint automation features and functions that leverage SharePoint's API, including automating the saving/uploading of quote and output files, SharePoint site auto-creation, and the upload of file-related metadata. All these features and functions are provided at no additional subscription charge to CorsPro clients.
"We've automated much of the remaining human-required work to spin up SharePoint sites and save/upload files. This complements SDA's ability to configure and quote complex technology solutions and generate deal-winning proposals and expectation-setting statements of work that can be saved and managed in SharePoint," said Brian Cors, President and CEO.
SharePoint is a collaboration and document management platform that users access via a web browser. It can be installed on an internal company server (the so-called "on premise" version), but the most feature-rich, modern, collaborative, integrated and cost-effective version is hosted by Microsoft as a component within its Office 365 subscription plans.
CorsPro is known for its ability to automate the pre-sales and post-sales processes, bridging sales and operations. SalesDoc Architect (SDA) helps CorsPro's clients configure, quote and propose technology solutions to their customers. SDA allows its clients to sell more in less time at higher profit margins and with increased customer satisfaction.
"Integrating with SharePoint is a natural evolution for SDA given SharePoint's robust collaboration features and file handling capabilities," says Cors. "File handling is an important aspect of SDA since it is deeply integrated with Microsoft Office and generates outputs, including proposals and statements of work, as Word and Excel files.
Because Microsoft has developed a deep, feature-rich application programming interface (API), it allows third parties to create applications that integrate with SharePoint. SDA generates – and auto-saves into SharePoint – outputs such as proposals, statements of work, work authorization documents and contracts, all requiring signatures.
For more information about CorsPro's SalesDoc Architect and its SharePoint integration, visit "Turbo-charge Collaboration with SharePoint and SalesDoc Architect" to view a recorded integration demonstration.
Founded in 2003, Cors Productivity Solutions, (CorsPro) is the maker of SalesDoc Architect™, document automation software that enables project-based technology resellers to produce differentiated proposals, statements of work and other sales documents with just a few mouse clicks, helping them to sell more in less time.
For more information about CorsPro, SDA or any of our integrations, please contact our team today at https://www.corspro.com/contact-us/.


BRUSSELS - Euro zone inflation hit 2 percent for the first time in more than a year in June due to surging energy and food costs, offering some comfort to the European Central Bank as it seeks to rein in its exceptional economic stimulus.
Inflation in the 19 countries sharing the euro rose to 2.0 percent from 1.9 percent in May, EU statistics office Eurostat said on Friday. The figure was in line with market expectations as energy prices in particular spiked.
Inflation was last at 2 percent in February 2017.
Excluding volatile energy and unprocessed food prices, inflation was 1.2 percent, just below the average forecast of economists for no change from the 1.3 percent in May.
Another core inflation measure, also excluding alcohol and tobacco prices, was 1.0 percent in June, from 1.1 percent in May and in line with expectations.
Energy prices were up 8.0 percent year-on-year, while unprocessed food was 3.0 percent more expensive.
The ECB has a mandate to keep inflation below but close to 2 percent, a task that has proven challenging, even with economic growth on its best run in a decade.
The ECB decided earlier this month to end its 2.6 billion euro ($3.0 billion) bond purchase programme by the close of the year but said interest rates would stay unchanged at least through summer 2019.
But the threat of a global trade war and the unclear budget policies of the new Italian government present major risks for the euro zone economy.
Eurostat's flash estimate for the month does not include a monthly calculation.


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It is 1922. All of England is shrouded in a mysterious black fog and horrors stalk its forests, fields and cities.
You awaken in the dark knowing only one thing: you must reach the Horns. Your journey will take you through a twisted post-apocalyptic nightmare world, gathering survivors and scavenging for objects on your way.
The Horns is a choice-based, horror text adventure where no two journeys are the same.
What are you prepared to do in the name of survival?
New icon. More challenging combat. Clearer Survivor moods. Many typo edits and bug fixes.
Let me know if you enjoy this version more!
A big difference between this game and the last game I played by Flutterminds - Incoboto. Both appeal to me in different ways. This one reminds me of my D&D days and reading Lovecraft. Check it out!


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Harvard captures the imagination like few other institutions. World leaders from President Barack Obama to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon are Harvard graduates. Business titans like Jamie Dimon Jamie Dimon , chief executive of JPMorgan Chase , A.G. Lafley of Procter & Gamble and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs are too. I've found the academic training I received at graduate school there invaluable--but I learned even more outside the classroom than in it. Here are three key lessons that helped my career that Harvard didn't teach me in the classroom.
I learned the first lesson from my own students. I was a teaching fellow at the time, educating them on China's modern history and political system. I probably learned more from them than they from me.
Every day students would come to my office overlooking Harvard Yard, and we'd usually end up talking about more than just China. We'd discuss their hopes and, more often than not, their fears. They were afraid of not keeping up with their peers and not living up to their parents' expectations.
They felt this way pretty much across the board. Rich kids and legacies thought they'd gotten there because of their families; minority students worried they were there because of their skin color; brains from humble backgrounds worried they weren't rich enough to be there. As their teacher I could see that they all deserved to be there for different reasons. But they themselves couldn't easily gauge how their work measured up against others', and this fed their insecurities.
The most brilliant of them, though, didn't let their fears stop them from thriving. They did the opposite. They had plenty of fear in them, but rather than let it dominate them they used it to motivate them to prove those fears wrong. They worked harder to confirm for themselves that they really did belong. Often the most insecure of them were also the most brilliant.
Businessmen need to conquer their fears too. They need to know how to control their worries and see opportunity where others don't. Too many businessmen have been letting fear rather than rational thinking determine their decision-making ever since Lehman Brothers collapsed, and too many investors have been making hasty, panicky decisions. Many equity investors sold all their holdings out of fear and missed the bull market of 2009. Many companies alienated and hurt their workforces by cutting too much. Others stopped investing even in high-growth areas.
PepsiCo and Disney are two companies that didn't let fear paralyze them. They looked coolly around and found opportunities while others were too terrified to make big moves. They announced multibillion-dollar investments in China and other emerging markets in the depths of the financial crisis. Now that we are in the beginnings of a worldwide recovery, those investments are putting them ahead.
The takeaway: Harness fear and use it for positive results, as my most brilliant students did and as the best businessmen do. You can make money in good and bad times if you keep your head on straight, as hedge fund investors like George Soros and John Paulson know.
The second thing I learned was to do my own due diligence and not blindly trust so-called experts. Harvard professors are impressive people who are generally thought of as experts in their fields. I found it hard not to regard them with awe. But I remember a meeting with one professor who was famous for advising governments about the inner workings of the Chinese government. One day he told me about two senior Chinese leaders, one a vice premier and the other of a similarly high rank. The professor told me that the two hated each other so much they would do anything to hurt each other as they competed to become the next president of China.
I asked him, "Did you know that the vice premier is married to the sister of the man you say is his enemy?" The professor's face turned red, and he tried to backtrack. When I told the vice premier's family, they laughed and told me to tell that Harvard professor that the two men had just bought adjoining villas.
Finally, I learned that young people need to take stepping-stone positions when they start their careers. Something like 70% of Harvard graduates start out in consulting or investment banking, not just for the money but because those jobs provide good training. If you narrow your focus too early, you risk being pigeonholed. For that reason I am critical of specialized programs in subjects like financial engineering or e-commerce. You're better off getting a more well-rounded degree.
Young people sometimes ask me what kinds of jobs they should take right out of college. My advice: Do something that won't limit your opportunities as your career progresses. Don't worry about money until you're 30. Until then, find great mentors and make sure you do things that give you exposure to different industries--and, importantly, a little sales experience.
In my own career I would have been stopped from advancing had I not learned how to overcome my own fears--I had a lot of them, believe me--and how to take expert opinions with a grain of salt and how to look for opportunities that provided great training and broad exposure. I learned all those things while I was at Harvard, but I didn't learn them in the classroom.


Mexico–US border is a wall between two states. It's very bad.
Peace lines / Peace walls - fencing lines separating Catholic (usually Irish) and Protestant (British) areas in Northern Ireland, the first of which were built during the height of the Conflict in Northern Ireland (some of which was built already in 2008) to minimize the contact of these two groups.
Cryptocolonial administrations use the same methods as their metropolises.
Вдогонку к постингу про Великую европейскую стену (великую - потому что возведенную по всему сухопутному периметру Африканской Европы).
В комментах к тому постингу мне вспомнилась другая европейская стена. Не такая великая, конечно, но несколько более длинная и уж заведомо более сюрная.
Это даже не стена, а комплекс стен. И разделяют эти стены не соседние страны, а соседние городские районы одной и той же западно-европейской страны.
Называются эти стены очень утешительным, возвышающим и вдохновляющим именем - "Стены мира", Peace Lines.
@Kathie, i agree with you. Fencing yourself with walls is normal for a civilized humans. I wonder why suddenly so many Democrats are attracting such attention to this topic. Like are they not civilized, behave like not empowered heathens. For example, the Labor Party in the UK (an analogue of Democarts in the metropole) does not attract so much attention to the walls in the cities of Northern Ireland. This indicates their high culture and gentle. A self-respecting gentleman understands the inevitability of enclosure from savages.
I'm not sure I agree with the inevitability of enclosure from savages.
By the way, i also do not agree. But i understand that in the civilized world - this is the norm. After all, i was born in a culture fenced with similar walls and trade embargoes with the Western world about 70 years.
As far as i understand the current English culture, savages are those who have not undergone empowerment, categorically do not accept this, but at the same time try strive to live alongside with civilized multicultural people of the knowledge society on one land. One of the most prominent examples of the modern savage is homophobic-traditionalist.
Fences are necessary, no matter their purpose.
I would even clarify, not fences but divisions (fences just a form of divisions). Division, separation is the basis of a humanistic civilization.
But to call one motive "good" or another "bad" is completely subjective.
Yes, so i don't understand why the majority of Democrats in the fediverse of recent months have been actively promoting the position "Trump's Fence Is Very Bad". After all, the fence in Northern Ireland is not so bad, civilized European Walls in Africa too...but no one attracts attention to it.
Is it really only in semantics? And if Trump calls his fence for example the Fence of Peace, will everyone calm down at once and stop drawing attention to it?
@Kathie I think it is possible to revise this concept, i do not think it is optimal.
The building of the fence is associated with proprietation: the desire to part of the system to become closed. Closed systems are not viable in natural environment. Therefore, there is always a gate (door). And sometimes some back-doors. If a special pass mode is working, a catapult or Trojan horse will appear. This is the natural order of things - there is always someone who is interested, and what is there - behind this fence.


Is there a trick to get the older 173 nVidia driver to work with newer distros? I read that version of the nVidia driver is the newest/last one that supports my card. I tried following two sutbly different sets of directions, no good. I reinstalled the OS after each - unfortunately, I lost my notes by doing so.
I think I might(?) have read that the older nVidia drivers do not work with some part of the newer distros. Seems like it was the newer... X? Xorg? I think I might be getting a little dumber every time I look at a computer, lol.
I realize that I won't get a great deal of 3d acceleration and graphics prowess even if I can put things to right... But it will almost certainly be far better than stock.
I need to keep Mint 14 Xfce (32-bit, if it makes a difference for the graphics setup) for now, because I promised my new-to-computers friend that I'd run what he has until he feels comfortable using a computer. And, all things considered, it would probably set him back if I tell him that I am switching his computer to Ultimate Edition before he gets the basics down.
I am looking forward to the time when I can get back to Ultimate Edition. UE3.4 Lite seems like it might run acceptably on my cranky old computer. Although if TheeMahn decides to create... an [i]Extra[i]-Lite Ultimate Edition which runs Xfce and starts out with only the simple Xfce compositor and not much in the way of "candy," that would be awesome.
In the meantime, I am hopeful that one of the geniuses that visits this website can talk me through getting my graphics working (to the best of the system's limited ability). It'd be nice to play a game (SuperTuxKart, lol, I'm not greatly ambitious) and view videos via the Internet again. I last used Ultimate Edition 2.7 on that computer and I somehow managed to get the graphics to work okay, but I cannot seem to do so now.
Compiz and spinning cubes should work fine if you have a somewhat compatible older monitor.
128megs is pretty powerful(for basic tasks).
Once upon a time i had a pentium 3 with 8meg agp ati rage that spun compiz and ran supertuxkart with judder(not playable).


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Congratulations to CAIRO Academy graduates!
June 15, 2019 Karina Lopez
We are so excited for our wonderful CAIRO Academy graduates! They are SO ready for kindergarten! We thank their parents for supporting our teachers and sharing such wonderful children. We will miss the beautiful community that was built with them, but we also look forward to hearing about their next adventures in school.
UNID@S for Oregon is recruiting!
You're invited to attend our informational session this upcoming Tuesday, June 18 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm at Latino Network - to learn more about our leadership program, what makes UNID@S unique, and all the information you'll need to apply and be part of a thriving network of Latino Leaders in Oregon.
This transformational leadership program is designed for mid-career and established Latino leaders around the state. Listen to UNID@S Alumni share their experience and meet staff to learn more about this transformational program.
Beverages and heavy hors d'oeuvre provided. Reach out to Joaquin Lopez for any questions, joaquin@latnet.org
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LCSNW Annual Citizenship Day
The LCSNW Citizenship Program will be hosting our annual Citizenship Day on Saturday, June 15th from 10am-2pm. Attendees will get a free consultation with an immigration attorney or accredited counselor; and if eligible, will receive help filing their N-400 application for citizenship. Please share these flyers with your clients or anyone in your network/ community who may be interested in this opportunity.
Citizenship Day is best for clients who have strong English language skills, or who will apply for an age or medical waiver which exempts applicants from the English language requirements. Click here for more information on requirements and exemptions. Please note that Citizenship Day is NOT for students currently enrolled in our classes. Clients must have also had their green card for 5 years or 3 years if they are married to a U.S. citizen.
Class of 2019: For refugee, Corvallis High 'felt like home'
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Refugees Welcome Act
URGENT! OREGON'S REFUGEES NEED YOUR HELP. The Oregon Legislature is considering House Bill 2508, also known as the Refugees Welcome Act.
HB 2508 would secure state funding for refugee and asylee services for the first time, offering extended case management to up to 1,800 refugees in Oregon. These services are critical to our refugee communities' ability to thrive.
We need your support and your actions! Please call your State Senator today and urge them to support refugee communities in Oregon.
"Hello My name is ______. As your constituent, I am urging you to support Oregon's refugee communities by passing HB 2508, the Welcome Refugees Bill."
Here's a video explainer from IRCO's Legal Services Manager, May Low, on why HB 2508 is so important for Oregon's refugees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFD-stUWoWw&feature=youtu.be
State Data on Adult Education
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Street Roots
Tway Hit,18, was born in Thailand's Mae La refugee camp. He came to Portland in 2011 and started participating in the Portland World Cup Soccer Tournament in 2015.
This week, he graduated from David Douglas High School.
Join us in congratulating, Tway!
Read his full story in Street Roots news (2017)- https://news.streetroots.org/…/young-immigrants-refugees-bu…
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Welcoming a refugee family
We joined community members at PDX Airport in welcoming a refugee family of 8 from DRC to Oregon. Want to help ensure that Oregon can continue to resettle refugees despite cuts from the Trump administration?
Call your state senator TODAY and say: "I am your constituent and I am urging you to support HB 2508, the Welcoming Refugees Act."
Don't know who your state senator is? Type your address here to find out: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/findyo…/leg-districts.html
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Congratulations Escalera 2019 graduates
Congratulations to our newest Escalera 2019 graduates for finishing high school last week!
You did it! 🎓
Bipartisan, Bicameral Group of 92 Lawmakers Urge Support For Civilian-Led Transitional Government in Sudan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, a bipartisan, bicameral group of 92 lawmakers led by Representative James McGovern (D-MA) andSenators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Todd Young (R-IN), along withRepresentatives Ann Wagner (R-MO), Karen Bass (D-CA), and Chris Smith (R-NJ), sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin expressing deep concern about the current situation in Sudan and urging support for a rapid transfer of power to a civilian-led transitional government.
Their letter comes as Sudanese organizers continue their nation-wide pro-democracy protests against a Transitional Military Council which many say creates the appearance of change while maintaining many of the elements and structures of the old regime.
"The Sudanese people are demanding real democratic reforms – not a reshuffling of players or a new regime that mirrors the oppression and injustice felt under Omar al-Bashir," said Representative McGovern. "This is a crucial time for the people of Sudan. The United States must make clear that international credibility and partnership will only come through credible civilian leadership. We urge Secretaries Pompeo and Mnuchin to use the full weight of American diplomacy to encourage a rapid and peaceful transfer of power to a civilian-led government in Sudan."
"People everywhere need to have the right to self-determination," said Senator Merkley. "After enduring a devastating civil war followed by over two decades of a brutal regime that has been internationally indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the Sudanese people took to the streets to voice their demand for a fair government that represents them. Now it's time for the United States to support their call for real democratic change and accountability, and ensure that is handed over to a civilian-led government without delay."
"The ongoing political turmoil in Sudan demands our attention. We must stand with the Sudanese people who are striving to bring democracy to their land. I am encouraged by their resolve and want to see a swift transition away from military leadership and to a true democratic, civilian-led government," said Senator Young.
"A civilian-led government is critical to a free society where democratic reforms can foster a more prosperous and safe nation for its citizens. This is a pivotal moment for the Sudanese people and they need our support as they work to implement a true democracy that works for the people," said Representative Wagner.
"This is a critical moment for the Sudanese people and also one for the United States, as it is imperative we support Sudanese citizen's demands for real democratic change. I will continue to support the people of Sudan in their demand for a peaceful and democratic Sudan led by its people and fully expect the United States will as well," said Representative Bass.
"Sudan is at a crossroads, and the U.S. needs to be a leader in ensuring a peaceful transition of power to a civilian-led government. I am deeply concerned about the current situation in the country. We cannot settle for a mere change that maintains the same governing structures and corrupt and repressive practices of the former al-Bashir regime. I call for a civilian-led government focused on helping the country toward a future of democracy, freedom, and respect for universally-recognized human rights," said Representative Smith.
The full text of the letter is copied below:
Dear Secretary Pompeo and Secretary Mnuchin,
We write to express our deep concern about the current situation in Sudan and our support for a rapid transfer of power to a civilian-led transitional government committed to laying the foundations for democracy in the country. This is a critical moment for Sudan, one that came about because the Sudanese people took to the streets to demand it. It is also critical for the United States to support Sudanese citizen's demands for real democratic change.
We welcome the April 18th statement by the State Department supporting "a transition to a peaceful and democratic Sudan led by civilians who represent the diversity of Sudanese society," and expressing support for the "will of the Sudanese people" for "a transitional government that is inclusive and respectful of human rights and the rule of law." We appreciate the efforts of the Africa Bureau to update congressional offices about the changing situation in Sudan. We also acknowledge the African Union's condemnation of the military takeover as a coup d'état and its demand that the military "step aside and hand over power to a transitional civilian-led political authority, in accordance with the will of the people" by June 30th. We also welcome U.S. efforts to bring together like-minded nations and donors to emphasize international support for a civilian-led transition.
The military leadership who have taken power are attempting to create the appearance of change, but elements and structures of the old regime remain. The Transitional Military Council (TMC) does not meet the aspirations so clearly articulated by months of peaceful pro-democracy protests that demanded an inclusive, civilian-led democratic change. A government dominated by the military is not the goal of the Sudanese people and the longer the protestors' demands remain unfulfilled, there is increased probability of conflict like the violence against protestors, deaths and injuries that occurred this week.
We support your decision to continue Sudan's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST) and to suspend Phase II discussions. Congress also has a role to play in law regarding changes to Sudan's status as a state sponsor of terrorism. We encourage close consultation with and the consent of Congress should the Administration seek to alter the SST designation or provide further economic relief to Sudan, actions which at the current moment would be inappropriate and premature. We understand that rapidly changing events on the ground might require a corresponding change in U.S. policy and we are ready to work as equal partners in decisions that advance civilian democratic governance, respect for human rights, including religious freedom, and rule of law.
The United States must send a clear message that the path to international credibility and American partnership will only come through credible civilian leadership. We encourage you to use all mechanisms and leverage to facilitate, as quickly as possible, an inclusive civilian-led transition to democratic governance. The United States should make clear to foreign governments that have expressed support for the TMC that a civilian transition that reflects the will of the Sudanese people is non-negotiable.
In this regard, we are dismayed by the announcement from the Governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that they intend to provide Sudan with $3 billion in budget support and aid. We urge you to use all appropriate diplomatic and political channels to discourage such a transfer of funds. If funds are disbursed, this will likely encourage the TMC to delay a civilian-led transition.
The Sudanese people will rightly determine matters of justice regarding the crimes of the previous regime, given the millions of people who suffered and perished under its deliberate and repressive actions. It is important for you, Mr. Secretaries, to emphasize that former President Bashir and other officials and military officers of his regime are internationally indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide. It is an urgent matter of international law that they face trial and judgement on these charges.
There are additional actions that we strongly encourage you to take in your respective capacities as Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury:
When a civilian-led transitional council is established – one supported by the pro-democracy movement and the Sudanese people – it is vital that the United States press for unimpeded access by international humanitarian aid agencies so that they may finally deliver, without interference or conditions, emergency relief to populations in conflict areas such as South Kordofan, Blue Nile and northern Darfur. We understand this is also a current priority for the U.S. and other aid donors, but unobstructed delivery of humanitarian aid to these regions is likely to remain stalled until inclusive civilian rule is established.
To support and increase the capacity of civilian leadership and civil society, the United States should provide transitional civilian authorities and entities with technical and capacity-building assistance.
The United States, in consultation with Congress, should signal its willingness to engage with and support international financial institutions in aiding Sudan once civilian-led transitional authorities are in place and functioning.
The State Department should not issue visas to any Sudanese official to travel to the United States until credible civilian-led government is in place and functioning independently. Nor should any Sudanese or TMC official be issued a visa who has been internationally indicted, or who might be subject to justice in Sudan for war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.
Treasury, in consultation with the State Department and relevant congressional committees, should continue to use the sanctions authorities provided under the Global Magnitsky program to target key Sudanese individuals, officials, entities and networks.
Recognizing Sudan's extensive corruption, money-laundering operations and theft of state resources, it is critical for the United State to provide leadership on preventing funds from being moved out of the country during this period when the former Bashir regime is being pushed aside but current regime structures remain in place. The Treasury Department should issue public advisories to banks and other financial institutions regarding the risk of such capital flight and other high-risk transactions from Sudan, such as the gold trade. This would be an action like the one taken by Treasury in 2014 related to Ukraine. It is also critical that the Treasury Department continue to track and respond aggressively to similar transfers of funds that occurred prior to Bashir's downfall.
Thank you for your attention to these urgent concerns and recommendations. We look forward to working together and developing a new policy framework consistent with American values and the aspirations of the Sudanese people.


This is our Monthly Mood Board and second part of our How to create a tone-on-tone color mood board series dedicated to Violet shades. I was very intrigued to see if our color forecast on violet would be confirmed in Milan. At a certain moment I stopped taking pictures of the many evidences I saw, but I have to admit, in Italy deep violet is a cultural question dating back to garments that were exclusively worn by those in charge of a higher ecclesiastical office. Whether they are trending or not, you will always find pops of red and violet design at any Salone del Mobile edition.
If you are a regular reader, you will have noticed how many posts we have published on tone-to-tone color palettes. It was about time to translate these into mood boards.
For this mood board, I decided to work on violet but include also wine, purple and lilac what means these color have more or less blue or red added.
Violet is historically a color of power and wealth, represented on the board through semi-precious stones (amethysts), swatches of fur and velvet.However, I was interested in giving it a different less baroque edge, looking for imagery from Vogue from the 1970's as a counterpart. Textures are represented through elements such as fabric and color swatches, amethysts and a texture photography.
If you are interested in learning how to put a mood board together for professional projects, I have uploaded a new and last date for a masterclass in 2017. It's going to be in October and I would love to share with you some of the most effective techniques I use.
We have created a free ebook on how to set up your own trending tone-on-tone mood board.
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Restrictions on girls' education across South Asia highlights rising authoritarianism
A few weeks ago, on 23rd March, the Taliban in Afghanistan announced a U-turn in their previous commitments to allow girl children to continue studying in secondary education. This regressive move came on the same day that high school-age girl children were supposed to be allowed back into classrooms after the Taliban's earlier prohibition. Girl students across the country had packed their school bags, put on their uniforms, and travelled to their schools, only to be turned away again.
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Education has long-been inaccessible for many girls in Afghanistan, and repeatedly used as a political pawn in various powers' reimagining of the governance of the country. In the 1990s, when the Taliban was previously in power, women and girls were prohibited from accessing nearly all levels of education. In 2001, a US-led military intervention toppled the Taliban and installed a new government ostensibly committed to improving the education and life prospects of Afghanistan's women and girls. Yet, a decade later, 66% of secondary school aged girls were still out of school, compared to 40% of boys. Two decades later – after a disastrous withdrawal of Western forces and the collapse of the Afghan government – the country is back in the hands of the Taliban, whose rural, tribal, and deeply conservative base dictates policy. Once again, secondary schools for girls are suspended, and tertiary education hangs in the balance.
Afghanistan is not unique in the region. Education prospects for girls, and for all children from marginalised groups, is worsening across many parts of South Asia.
Bangladesh, for example, is hosting the largest refugee population in the world. More than 800,000 Rohingya refugees are living in coastal Cox's Bazar after fleeing atrocities committed against them by Myanmar's military forces. While Bangladesh is giving Rohingyas refuge from persecution and genocide, the government has simultaneously gone to great lengths to restrict Rohingyas from exercising the fundamental right of receiving a basic education.
Specifically, Bangladesh has prohibited Rohingya children from enrolling in schools outside of the camps, barred humanitarian organisations setting up schools that offer Rohingya children formal education, and banned informal schools set up by Rohingyas themselves. In recent weeks, the government has also threatened to confiscate Rohingya identity documents and ship them to the remote, prison-like (and dangerously flood-prone) island of Bhasan Char if they defy the ban.
Bangladesh's denial of education to all Rohingya children is the denial of a basic human right – and for young girls, this situation poses additional risks. Girls outside of education face heightened risk of child/early marriage, decreased social mobility, limited access to information, decreased participation in decision-making, increased dependence on family, and an increased risk of gender-based violence. Despite these discriminatory (and generation-long) impacts, Bangladesh maintains tight restrictions on Rohingya children's abilities to learn, as the government seeks to coercively push Rohingyas to repatriate to Myanmar as soon as possible.
In neighbouring India, the situation is also worsening for many girls. In recent months, Muslim girl students have become a flashpoint for growing Islamophobic intolerance across the country.
In September 2021, a school in the southern Indian state of Karnataka banned several Muslim girl students from entering their classrooms while wearing their hijabs. The students and their parents objected to this sudden infringement of religious freedom and dignity, and the situation escalated as the school maintained its position. In February, the Karnataka state government upheld the ban by supporting a school's right to dictate uniforms. Other schools followed suit in the prohibition.
When students attempted to continue to attend schools wearing hijabs and were still denied entry, protests ensued – and these were met with counter-protests by Hindu students that escalated into violence in some areas. The Karnataka government shut down schools and colleges across the state for three days. Then, in March, the High Court of Karnataka further upheld the ban of hijabs in classrooms – sparking fears that other state governments across the country would follow in-step.
In these regressive and ideological moves to ban the hijab, school leaders, government officials, and the courts in Karnataka have negatively impacted the learning progress of the students turned away from classrooms – and indeed the whole state with the state-wide shut down of colleges. These moves could be seen to invite further discrimination and violence against Muslim school girls in the coming weeks and months as these students try to restart their learning. Moreover, Karnataka authorities have fundamentally undermined the sense of safety that Muslim girl students, and other marginalised students, are entitled to feel in classrooms across the country.
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and India are all committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which includes SDG 4: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all". Part of what sits behind this goal is the recognition that girls' education is more than individual learning, it "strengthens economies and reduces inequality. It contributes to more stable, resilient societies that give all individuals – including boys and men – the opportunity to fulfil their potential". And yet, despite these three South Asian nations professing in different ways to aspire to growing economies and resilient societies, their adherence to regressive ideologies seems to come first – whether it's the ingrained misogyny of the Taliban, exclusion of non-citizens from fundamental rights in Bangladesh, or rising Islamophobia in India.
It is not a coincidence that these repressions of girls' education are occurring with impunity at the same time in different countries in the region. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, they signal the region's entrenchment of authoritarian styles of governance. As campaigner Laura Thornton wrote in the Washington Post last year, 'the steady drip of authoritarian attacks related to gender is a strategy, not a series of one-off events. Authoritarians are fanning existing embers of intolerance and misogyny by targeting women [and girls] in public life'. Women and girls from marginalised communities are particularly at risk.
Wherever they occur, restrictions of girls' education and other forms of gender-based discrimination shouldn't be treated as singular news items; if they are to be resisted effectively, they need to be contextualised, analysed, and condemned as part of regional and global authoritarian strategies to stoke fear and wield power. A society where girls cannot access education at all, or where their dignity and religious freedoms are undermined while learning, is not a progressive, inclusive, or resilient society - with these recent events, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and India fall into that category.
Dr Jessica Field is a Co-Investigator on the GRRIPP project at University College London, and an independent researcher and educator. Jessica's research focuses on humanitarian history and refugee protection, particularly in South Asia.
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Leverage is Here!
The Leverage RPG went live yesterday! You can buy the PDF now, or if you order the book through the MWP Store you get the PDF with your order (Physical books are probably a few weeks out - shipping is a bear). I've already got my PDF, and it's absolutely lovely, and I'm loving it as I read.[1]
This is a great game of capers and unconventional justice by a great team masterminded by Cam Banks (try his novel!) with Matt Forbeck (try his novel too!) and Clark Valentine casing the joint, Tiara Lynn Agresta and Stephanie Ford distracting the guards, Fred Hicks and Laura Anne Gilman taking out the security system and Ryan Macklin and Amanda Valentine making off with the goods. With a crew like that, it's hard not to rock out, and I'm super-pleased I got to be a part of it.
The development of Leverage was pretty interesting because a lot of it happened in parallel to the work Josh Roby's team was doing for Smallville, but neither team had any visibility into what the other was doing. Even so, there are some similarities between the games that sprung from similar inspirations, but they are definitely very different games designed to serve very different purposes. And I'm happy about that. Don't get me wrong - Smallville is freaking brilliant, but if we had just made a different version of it for Leverage, I think it would have hit the wrong note. Smallville is a relationship based action-drama, Leverage is a caper. There may be similar elements of relationship and action, but the emphasis is very different in ways that I think the two games reflect.
Now, obviously, I'm biased in favor of the game (though the one review I've seen so far was pretty positive so maybe it's not just me) so I absolutely think you should pick it up. But knowing that it takes more than that, let me note 3 different awesome things.
1. Distinctions
Distinctions are like aspects in that they are free form descriptors like "Crazy" or "Sterling Always Wins" which might be good or bad for the character in any given roll, but unlike aspects, their application is in the player's hands. When a player uses a distinction, they decide if it helps (in which case they roll an extra d8) or if it gets in the way (in which case they get a plot point and roll an extra d4). Why do they roll a d4 rather than take a penalty? I'm glad you asked!
2. The Rule of 1
So, the basic mechanic is roll some dice, add together the best two. The base two dice are one for an attribute (Agility, Alertness etc,.) and one for a role (Hitter, Hacker etc.) with other dice being thrown in by props, distinctions and other circumstances. Pretty simple, and given that characters are quite capable, it's not had to succeed within your sphere. But there's a catch.
See, 1's are problematic. Dice that come up 1's (even if unused) on a player's roll introduce complications into the situation, while dice that come up 1's for the GM create opportunities for the players, and many abilities trigger off this. The net result is that you can get very nuanced outcomes to rolls, with clear success at the task at hand, but all manner of trouble spinning off from it.
Because of this, d4s are dangerous[2]. Sure, any die can throw up a 1 at a bad time, but d4s just invite it. Adding a d4 to a roll is unlikely to help much but it greatly increases the chances of something going wrong without increasing the chances of failure, and that's a very important distinction. It is far more in keeping with the spirit of the show to have things go wrong than to have the characters suck.
3. Caper Generation Tables
Yep. Roll up a caper. I mean, yes, there's also advice for fleshing it out and running it, but random tables to roll up a client, a mark and a situation? How is that not super fun?
There are other awesome things. Cha0s's distinctions (page 153 of the PDF). The fact that you could really get away with index-card sized character sheets. That the book looks REALLY frickkin' sweet. But you get the idea.
I admit, I'm really curious to see reactions to the game. Part of that is normal egoism, sure, but there's a bit more to it. See, if you had asked a year ago, I think it would be safe to say that the Cortex system would have been described as workmanlike. It was a solid little stat + skill generic system, and while it had evolved through iterations[3], the system was very much second fiddle to the licenses it accompanied. With Smallville, I think this dynamic shifted - the Smallville mechanics are so good that the game has a lot of appeal for gamers who are not fans of the show.
My hope is that Leverage will have a similar mechanical appeal (though I love the show, so I'm also all for bringing in the fans), and that between the two games, we'll have helped create the idea that Cortex Plus (and by extension, MWP games under the guiding hand of Cam Banks) is a great system, one that makes for games as good as the licenses they support.
And, well, more shallowly, I love this game, and I hope other people love it too.
1 - I always need to read things I've written for, in part because my the time they come out I have usually totally forgotten what I wrote or, more problematically, I remember every version of it and can no longer recall which was the final one.
2 - Hat tip to Dogs in the Vineyard, for the roots of this idea.
3 - If your instinctive reaction to this is to tell me how badly it was a mismatch with Firefly, I'll ask you to hold on for a second. Yes, boating, I know. But the Big Damn Heroes supplement really put some polish on it, and is well worth a look. Of course, now that there's Smallville and Leverage, I'd probably use one of those, depending on how I wanted to emphasize things.
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gamefiend November 11, 2010 at 10:23 AM
hot shit. I must buy.
Knowing who was working on Leverage got my attention, but it was picking up smallville that really made my eyes open to power of cortex. Looking forward to what you guys did. Will be picking up the PDFs ASAP!
Congrats! It sounds really exciting.
R2R November 11, 2010 at 11:15 AM
The book is awesome!
I've got it today as a gift (a friend bought PDF for me), and what a great gift it is! :)
JesterOC November 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Sweet. I picked up the PDF via drivethroughrpg. I am most interested in the create a caper tables, and help fleshing it out.
I ran a GURPS espionage game once and realized I had no idea how to setup a caper that was fun, and the players had no idea how to break into a building with even minimal security features. Hopefully the book will help doing both.
"Workmanlike" is spot-on for how I described Firefly. It had parts I recognized from many other systems, but nothing it did stood out as being exceptionally good or bad. The only oddity I noted when I came out was the fact that you could always roll crappy (even when you were exceptionally good at something), but when I modeled the dice math, it turned out that in contests of skill, it didn't impact things nearly as much as my gut told me. :)
I've already got Leverage fired up on the iPad and I'm really looking forward to digging in.
The Leverage RPG is great!
I had a chance to play the Indy 500 Job at Gen Con, and it was made of awesome. I wanted more right away! The Quickstart Job was disappointingly linear, but you make compromises for a teaser book like that. Fortunately there was enough there to extrapolate enough of the rules to run my own version of The Indy 500 Job. I've run it 3 times now, to positive reviews each time. It went so well that one session convinced a non-roleplayer that she'd like to try another game, while another session left someone new to Leverage eager to see the show.
I'm very excited to finally have the PDF in my hands. Sadly, the PDF is very, very nice looking, which translates into being very, very slow on my poor laptop. Given my other gaming commitments, I'll probably put off reading it until I have the print edition in my hands. But what I've seen so far looks great!
Jim White November 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM
Nice. It's on my wish list.
I love the Dogs in the Vineyard complication mechanic - glad to see it getting some airplay in a different system.
Looking forward to diving into the caper creation section.
Geeky Traveler November 11, 2010 at 4:02 PM
So Rad.
Tommy Brownell November 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM
As the guy that wrote the review linked above, I think everyone involved is justified in being proud.
I *literally* did nothing except read - and then review - the book yesterday because I was so pumped...and glad that it lived up to (exceeded, actually) my expectations.
Oh, yeah, seriously...randomly rolling up a Job is awesome.
Any RPG including (good) random roll tables wins many points with me.
Wow. Reading my Leverage pdf gives me a reason to keep putting my imagination & creativity to use. Thanks!
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is a horizontal platform video game created in 1987 by Sega and released on the Master System. It is a sequel to the game Zillion.

Plot
A faint distress transmission, barely understandable, was received at the headquarters of the White Knights. Sent from a distant outpost at the extreme edge of the Planetary System, the garbled message told of a new, gigantic Norsa Battle Fortress at the edge of the Norsa Galaxy. Apple and Champ, two members of the elite White Knight special peacekeeping
force, immediately set out on a reconnaissance mission to investigate the Norsa Fortress. The last words which anybody heard from Apple and Champ were: "Help us J.J.! Baron Ricks has...". JJ is now up against the new Norsa Empire facing Olivion Platoon Captain Radajian Defense Leader, the Alleevian Supreme Commander. His mission is to stop the force from invading their planet and to rescue Apple and Champ.

Gameplay
There are eight side scrolling levels in the game. The previous adventure format has been changed to a level-based format. The player can no longer explore the base in any direction. Instead, stages such as riding a motorcycle called "Tri-Formation" have been added to increase variety. Just like the previous game, JJ carries a gun, which was used as a design model for the Master System's Light Phaser. With the right equipment, the three-wheeled motorcycle becomes the Armorater flying suit of armor.

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