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Chambersburg has four contests for council seats in 2017. Barbara Beattie, retired teacher, is running in the Third Ward.
CHAMBERSBURG - Barbara Beattie, a Chambersburg native and retired teacher, is running for election to Borough Council in the Third Ward.
Four of five council seats are contested in 2017. Beattie and Louisa C. Cowles have filed petitions to be listed on the Democratic ballot in the May 16 primary. Beattie said she is also running a write-in campaign on the Republican ballot. No Republicans have filed.
Beattie said she will make decisions based on economic feasibility, people's input and research, and pledges to serve in a bipartisan fashion if elected.
Beattie, 68, is a candidate for the first time. She said she and her family have had a lifelong interest in government and community service. As a 12-year-old, she helped her mother, Adair, in John F. Kennedy's campaign for president. Her brother, Alexander "Zan" Beattie, is a former council member. Her father Alex, co-developer of Coldbrook Meadows, and her brother, Ben, built the iconic water wheel on the Falling Spring and preserved the Chambers Fort building on a site that dates back to the days of town founder Benjamin Chambers.
She said she appreciates the civic pride shown in the community -- including the restoration of the historic fountain on Memorial Square, the flowers downtown, the seasonal festivals and the upcoming construction of a new community pool.
A possible sidewalk mandate is a hot topic in the Third Ward, she said.
A Penn State graduate, Beattie received her master's degree in education from Lehigh University, Bethlehem. She taught elementary school in Northwestern Lehigh School District for five years before she and her family moved to the state of Washington, then western Michigan, where she worked as a substitute teacher and rural letter carrier.
Returning to her hometown of Chambersburg in 1990, she was a substitute teacher for five years, then worked as a teacher and supervisor for Abraxis' Leadership Development Program until 2002. That year, she began teaching English as a Second Language to pupils at Stevens Elementary School, also located in the Third Ward near her Lantern Lane home. She retired in 2013.
Beattie said she looks forward to campaigning door-to-door in neighborhoods where many of her former students and their parents still live.
A mother of three adult children, Beattie also taught parenting classes to migrants through the Lincoln Intermediate Unit and GED, or high school equivalency, classes to adults throughout the community.
"I've tried to give others a lift -- through education – to provide them with more opportunities," Beattie said.
A member of The Presbyterian Church of Falling Spring, Beattie is also a volunteer at Capitol Theatre and a member of the Franklin County Historical Society and the Franklin County Democratic Women's Club. She served as treasurer of the former Chambersburg Area Democratic Club.


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Hot on the heels of announcing a launch in Vietnam only one month ago, Rove have again added to their ever-growing list of destinations with the launch of a new trekking tour through the wilds of Malaysian Borneo.
With 9 destinations now brought together, and Malaysia joining offerings in Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. Rove are getting ever-closer to offerings across the entire Asian continent.
The new 11-day tour is focussed on trekking through some of Borneo's most remote wilderness, with some water-based activities thrown in to add some variety to the itinerary. The tour serves well as inspiration for what Rove can offer within Borneo, in terms of designing tailored adventures that truly escape the more congested areas and take travellers away from the well-beaten track.
Rove's first Borneo adventure is already live on www.rove.travel and they are already accepting enquiries for tailored and private adventures in the region.


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Himmelstadt – miejscowość i gmina w Niemczech, w kraju związkowym Bawaria, w rejencji Dolna Frankonia, w regionie Würzburg, w powiecie Main-Spessart, wchodzi w skład wspólnoty administracyjnej Zellingen. Leży około 10 km na północny zachód od Karlstadt, nad Menem, przy drodze B27 i linii kolejowej Fulda/Frankfurt nad Menem – Würzburg.

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Welcome to the CIHR Drug Safety and Effectiveness Cross-Disciplinary Training (DSECT) Program!
This training program bridges clinical therapeutics, active surveillance, administrative datasets, research methods, health services and policy, pharmaceutical policy, meta-analysis, and knowledge translation to better understand choosing, using, and losing medications within the context of drug safety and effectiveness.
Effective solutions to challenging post-market medication issues are more likely to be generated when looking through a broad lens. Scientists trained in clinical programs require a broader understanding of how drugs are used in real world practice and policy once they take up their posts in academia, industry or government. New approaches in molecular pharmacology, nanotechnology, biomarkers, biotherapeutics, pharmacogenetics and other areas are rapidly changing the way drugs are discovered and used. As drugs become more expensive and more personalized, drug policy decision-making faces new and more difficult challenges. To address these challenges, there is an urgent need to train scientists who can generate research to inform better pharmaceutical treatments, practices and policies related to post-market drug safety and effectiveness.
The program offers opportunities for trainees across a broad spectrum of research areas to learn together and from each other as a key impetus for filling the critical void of skilled, knowledgeable researchers in the area of therapeutics.
DSECT was established through the CIHR Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research program. The Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network (DSEN) assumed responsibility for funding DSECT on August 12, 2011 in recognition that one of DSEN's mandated activities is to increase capacity in Canada to support drug safety and effectiveness research. In Fall 2015, DSEN announced its decision to continue funding DSECT through a Training Grant, which allows the further development of collaborations with the training and research activities of the DSEN funded research teams.


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module Caboose
  class GiftCardsController < Caboose::ApplicationController

    # @route GET /admin/gift-cards
    def admin_index
      return if !user_is_allowed('giftcards', 'view')
      render :layout => 'caboose/admin'
    end

    # @route GET /admin/gift-cards/json
    def admin_json
      return if !user_is_allowed('giftcards', 'view')

      pager = PageBarGenerator.new(params, {
          'site_id'               => @site.id,
          'name'                  => '',
          'code'                  => '',
          'card_type'             => '',
          'total_lte'             => '',
          'total_gte'             => '',
          'balance_lte'           => '',
          'balance_gte'           => '',
          'min_invoice_total_lte' => '',
          'min_invoice_total_gte' => '',
          'date_available_lte'    => '',
          'date_available_gte'    => '',
          'date_expires_lte'      => '',
          'date_expires_gte'      => '',
          'status'                => ''
    		},{
    		  'model'          => 'Caboose::GiftCard',
    	    'sort'			     => 'code',
    		  'desc'			     => false,
    		  'base_url'		   => "/admin/gift-cards",
    		  'use_url_params' => false
    	})
    	render :json => {
    	  :pager => pager,
    	  :models => pager.items
    	}
    end

    # @route GET /admin/gift-cards/new
    def admin_new
      return if !user_is_allowed('giftcards', 'add')
      render :layout => 'caboose/admin'
    end

    # @route GET /admin/gift-cards/status-options
    def admin_status_options
      return if !user_is_allowed('categories', 'view')
      statuses = [
        GiftCard::STATUS_INACTIVE,
        GiftCard::STATUS_ACTIVE,
        GiftCard::STATUS_EXPIRED
      ]
      options = statuses.collect{ |s| { 'text' => s, 'value' => s }}
      render :json => options
    end

    # @route GET /admin/gift-cards/card-type-options
    def admin_card_type_options
      return if !user_is_allowed('categories', 'view')
      types = [
        GiftCard::CARD_TYPE_AMOUNT,
        GiftCard::CARD_TYPE_PERCENTAGE,
        GiftCard::CARD_TYPE_NO_SHIPPING,
        GiftCard::CARD_TYPE_NO_TAX,
      ]
      options = types.collect{ |s| { 'text' => s, 'value' => s }}
      render :json => options
    end

    # @route GET /admin/gift-cards/:id/json
    def admin_json_single
      return if !user_is_allowed('giftcards', 'view')
      gc = GiftCard.find(params[:id])
      render :json => gc
    end

    # @route GET /admin/gift-cards/:id
    def admin_edit
      return if !user_is_allowed('giftcards', 'edit')
      @gift_card = GiftCard.find(params[:id])
      render :layout => 'caboose/admin'
    end

    # @route PUT /admin/gift-cards/:id
    def admin_update
      return unless user_is_allowed_to 'edit', 'sites'

      resp = Caboose::StdClass.new
      gift_cards = params[:id] == 'bulk' ? params[:model_ids].collect{ |gc_id| GiftCard.find(gc_id) } : [GiftCard.find(params[:id])]

      save = true
      params.each do |k,v|
        case k
          when 'site_id'           then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.site_id           = v }
          when 'name'              then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.name              = v }
          when 'code'              then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.code              = v }
          when 'card_type'         then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.card_type         = v }
          when 'total'             then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.total             = v }
          when 'balance'           then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.balance           = v }
          when 'min_invoice_total' then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.min_invoice_total = v }
          when 'date_available'    then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.date_available    = DateTime.strptime(v, '%m/%d/%Y') }
          when 'date_expires'      then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.date_expires      = DateTime.strptime(v, '%m/%d/%Y') }
          when 'status'            then gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.status            = v }
        end
      end
      gift_cards.each{ |gc| gc.save }

      resp.success = true
      render :json => resp
    end

    # @route POST /admin/gift-cards/bulk
    def admin_bulk_add
      return if !user_is_allowed('sites', 'add')

      resp = Caboose::StdClass.new
      i = 0
      CSV.parse(params[:csv_data].strip).each do |row|
        if row[0].nil? || row[0].strip.length == 0
          resp.error = "Code not defined on row #{i+1}."
        end
        i = i + 1
      end

      if resp.error.nil?
        CSV.parse(params[:csv_data]).each do |row|
          Caboose::GiftCard.create(
            :site_id  => @site.id,
            :code => row[0].strip,
            :status => GiftCard::STATUS_INACTIVE
          )
        end
        resp.success = true
      end

      render :json => resp
    end

    # @route POST /admin/gift-cards
    def admin_add
      return if !user_is_allowed('giftcards', 'add')

      resp = StdClass.new
      code = params[:code].strip

      if code.length == 0
        resp.error = "A valid code is required."
      elsif GiftCard.where(:code => code).exists?
        resp.error = "A gift card with that code already exists."
      else
        gc = GiftCard.new(
          :site_id => @site.id,
          :code    => code,
          :status  => GiftCard::STATUS_INACTIVE
        )
        resp.success = gc.save
        resp.new_id = gc.id
        resp.redirect = "/admin/gift-cards/#{gc.id}"
      end

      render :json => resp
    end

    # @route DELETE /admin/gift-cards/:id/bulk
    def admin_bulk_delete
      return if !user_is_allowed('sites', 'delete')

      resp = Caboose::StdClass.new
      params[:model_ids].each do |gc_id|
        GiftCard.find(gc_id).destroy
      end
      resp.success = true
      render :json => resp
    end

    # @route DELETE /admin/gift-cards/:id
    def admin_delete
      return if !user_is_allowed('giftcards', 'delete')
      GiftCard.find(params[:id]).destroy
      render :json => Caboose::StdClass.new({
        :redirect => '/admin/gift-cards'
      })
    end

  end
end


In this course we go over a series of Guides on how to use the Breadcrumb Module on your website.
This course is design for someone who knows how to use Divi Builder and has decided to use the Divi Breadcrumb Module from Divi Framework.
The course is broken into a series of topics.
Each of these lessons has a series of topics to ensure you can understand all the features of this powerful tool.
Once you have completed this you will be able to make some pretty awesome adjustments to your Breadcrumbs.
In this course we have a number of written tutorials and videos on how to use the Breadcrumb Module for your Divi Theme.


Our Triple room in Maria Alm has a double bed and an extra bed. The rooms are comfortable and spacious and have a pleasant ambience.
From your own balcony you can enjoy the wonderful view of the Steinerne Meer.


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an interview with 'Pee-wee's Big Holiday' director John Lee (of 'Wonder Showzen')
The man behind Wonder Showzen / Xavier / The Heart She Holler creator talks adapting his particular style to Pee-Wee's world, getting to work with composer Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, and lots more.
Pee-wee Herman's new movie screening in NYC w/ Paul Reubens in conversation; SXSW premiere next week
NYC can catch 'Pee-wee's Big Holiday' on the big screen followed by a talk with Pee-wee's alter ego.
watch the full trailer for 'Pee-wee's Big Holiday'
After sharing a teaser a few weeks ago, Pee-wee Herman has unleashed the full trailer for his upcoming Netflix movie Pee-wee's Big Holiday...
watch the trailer for 'Pee-wee's Big Holiday,' out in March on Netflix; new Judd Apatow series 'LOVE' premieres in February
Pee-wee's Big Holiday, the first new Pee-wee Herman movie in 28 years, will premiere on Netflix on March 18. As you may recall, the movie is produced and directed by PFFR's John Lee (Wonder Showzen, Delocated)...
new Pee-wee Herman movie coming out via Netflix, produced by Judd Apatow, directed by Wonder Showzen's John Lee
Pee-wee Herman's long-discussed return to feature film is finally happening, with a new movie, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, to start filming in March...
Pee-Wee Herman confirms new Pee-Wee Herman movie
Paul Reubens made a big announcement on Fallon last night. Watch below...
What's going on Saturday?
The Mountain Goats @ Antone's in January (more by Tim Griffin) today in NYC * Nass Gnawa @ Zebulon * Needle Gun @ The Stone * Salamander Wool @ The Stone * Crystal Castles (DJ set) @ Yotel * The Psychedelic Furs @ Maxwell's * D...
The Pee Wee Herman Show is happening (get/win tix)
One of the most personally heartbreaking celebrity descents occurred in the summer of 1991 when Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman was arrested for lewd behavior after being caught allegedly pleasuring himself in a Sarasota Florida adult movie theater...
2010 New Yorker Festival – lineup & ticket info
Regina Spektor at Tibet House Benefit 2010 (more by Chris La Putt) The New Yorker Festival is back (Oct 1-3), and will feature a variety of events including a premiere of The Social Network to Werner Herzog to Pee Wee Herman to the dude from Beetlejuice who yells at his kids, and everything in between...
Pee-wee Herman & others joined Conan O'Brien @ Radio City Music Hall (videos from night two)
Man oh man! ANOTHER kickass show tonight!! How do we do it?! HOW. DO WE. DO. IT. I'll tell you how... By some more help from some great friends...

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HEC Azerbaijan (AIDA) Scholarship Programme are annouced apply now. The Educational Grant Programmes provide an opportunity for selected candidates on annual basis to study in the leading universities of Azerbaijan at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level.
The applicant must fill all the fields of the Azerbaijan Scholarship Application form and HEC application form (Online) and no column or field should be left unfilled.
Have good command of the language of the institution of study and the ability to conduct scientific work in it. Minimum IELTS score required is 5.5 valid score.
Apply online at HEC website: http://eportal.hec.gov.pk/loa. After registering and filling your profile, please select "Learning Opportunities Abroad" under "Scholarship and Grant" menu in left hand side panel of the online portal. After submission of the application, get its printed copy and attach relevant documents with the hardcopy.
Medical Certificate not more than three months old including HIV/AIDS test.
NOTE: There is No Application fee for this programme.
It is the sole responsibility of student(s) applying for any professional degree (viz. Engineering, Agriculture, Medical, Nursing etc.) to first get confirmation of its accreditation from the respective Councils i.e. Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), Pakistan Agriculture Council, PMDC, Pakistan Nursing Council etc. whichever is applicable. HEC shall not take any responsibility in such cases where a student is denied the registration of his/her professional degree(s) from the respective council(s) in Pakistan, even after the completion of degree program(s) from abroad.
In case of submitting false information at any stage, HEC will reserve all rights to cancel and debar for all future scholarships as well as impose penalty, as decided by HEC.
Applications/candidature of only those candidates will be considered who dispatch their application hardcopies along with relevant documents by the close of deadline to address given below.
Each application set should be sent separately in Spiral binding only. The Applications which are not in Spiral Binding will not be accepted.
Each Application set should be separate in Spiral. All three application sets should not be attached together.
Deadline for receipt of application hardcopies, complete in all respects, in HEC is on or before 26th March, 2018.


Occasionally you might have to work split shifts; this may be more common in Latin countries such as Latin America, Spain, or Italy.
Some people hate them and others love them. People who hate them say that they break up their day, but people who love them say it's nice to have a couple hours off in the afternoon to eat, sleep, or run errands.
Have you had to work split shifts? What did you think of them?


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Aviation And Democracy – The Hong Kong Protests
In: China Editorial feature Hong Kong Ruwantissa Abeyratne
Aviation And Democracy – The Hong Kong Protests Sri Lanka Guardian 8:45 AM
The words "aviation is a symbol of freedom around the world" resonate with the aviation community as, at its core, that is what aviation is.
by Dr Ruwantissa Abeyratne
Writing from Montreal
"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Asia Times of 8 August 2019 reported: "On July 26, about 15,000 protesters, many from the aviation sector, staged a sit-in at Hong Kong International Airport in a bid to win international support for the movement against the extradition bill. They also called for an independent inquiry into the alleged excessive use of force by police at recent anti-extradition bill protest". The report went on to say that according to information widely circulated online, protest organizers have called for a "tourist reception by 10,000 protesters" at the Arrival Hall in Terminal 1 at the airport starting from 1pm on Friday the 9th August.
Protest in Hong Kong
The street protests, seemingly peaceful but with sporadic clashes between the Hong Kong Police and citizens who are protesting an extradition bill which has since been "withdrawn" by the Hong Kong executive arm of the State, have gone on for some time. The bill purported to give powers to the Hong Kong authorities to extradite alleged offenders to mainland China. The opposition to the bill was grounded on the fact that such legislation would empower the authorities to extradite persons to mainland China who were considered as posing a threat. The protesters are relentless in demanding that the bill be killed instead of being just withdrawn. They are also demanding universal suffrage – the right of Hong Kongers to elect leaders of their choice to the Hong Kong legislature without influence or interference from mainland China. Both these claims are grounded on the fact that the authorities are behaving in an anti democratic manner which is eroding the rights of the citizens who are subjects of a democratic system of government and justice system of Hong Kong.
Flight attendants joined the protesters at the arrivals hall of the airport when the protesters first "sat in". The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) – the global body representing flight attendants – issued a communique on 25 July 2019 fully supporting the flight attendants: "Aviation is a symbol of freedom around the world. As aviation's foremost ambassadors, Flight Attendants have a unique voice in our society and role in the promotion of our core values including freedom of movement and expression. Those values are threatened by Hong Kong's Extradition Bill, and by the subsequent government crackdowns and prosecution of peaceful protestors. On Friday, July 26, Flight Attendants and aviation workers will protest at Hong Kong International Airport, Terminal One, to demand: Complete withdrawal of the Extradition Bill; retraction of the 'Riot' characterization of the June 12 protest; release and exoneration of the arrested protestors; formation of an independent Commission of Inquiry, and; immediate implementation of universal suffrage. AFA-CWA stands with our aviation sisters and brothers working through non-violent protest and direct action to stop regressive laws and move Hong Kong and every nation toward a just, equitable future."
On 5 August 2019 CNN reported that more than 2,300 aviation workers joined the strike, leading to the cancellation of 224 flights.
The words "aviation is a symbol of freedom around the world" resonate with the aviation community as, at its core, that is what aviation is. It connects the world and helps people move freely around the globe in friendship and understanding with one another and with nations of the world. The Preamble also says that it is desirable to avoid friction and to promote that cooperation between nations and peoples upon which the peace of the world depends.
This concept has been endorsed by the Chicago Convention of 1944 in its Preamble. In general terms, the Preamble to the Chicago Convention leaves no room for doubt that, being a post war instrument, its overall theme is on aviation and peace, which has its genesis in the Chicago Conference that led to the adoption of the Chicago Convention.
Aviation is not only the symbol of freedom, but it is also the symbol of solidarity. The essence of solidarity is enshrined in the notion of equality of opportunity – another phrase appearing in the Preamble of the Chicago Convention. In other words, the Preamble concludes that aviation should be conducted in a safe and orderly manner, soundly and economically and with equal opportunity for all involved. These are all basic principles of democracy. Democracy is freedom and solidarity embodied in a form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of citizens directly or indirectly through a system of representation. Put simply, the above definition means that democracy is a system where ordinary citizens have a meaningful and compelling role in the affairs of the State, including the formulation of policy and the development and implementation of legislation. Democracy is government for all - in equality and unity.
The abovementioned policy enunciated by the Chicago Convention promotes the protection of the social and economic rights of a person. These rights are not merely concerned with material well being and economic affluence, but covers in a broad sense all forms of human progress and a better quality of life. In this sense, the development brought about by an honest democracy would be measured by the peoples' political and economic freedom and their equal enjoyment of the fruits of growth.
Glaring evidence of the fact that aviation is not merely the carriage of persons and goods by air from one point to another is reflected in the universal recognition of aviation as a personification of democratic principles. For example, in 1971, at the 15th Session of the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization, member States adopted Resolution A15-7 (Condemnation of the Policies of Apartheid and Racial Discrimination of South Africa). The Assembly Resolution went on to say inter alia: "bearing in mind that the apartheid policies constitute a permanent source of conflict between the nations and peoples of the world; and recognizing, furthermore, that the policies of apartheid and racial discrimination are a flagrant violation of the principles enshrined in the Preamble to the Chicago Convention…The Assembly urges South Africa to comply with the aims and objectives of the Chicago Convention".
Two years later, the ICAO Assembly, at its 19th (Extraordinary) Session (New York, 27 February–2 March 1973) adopted Resolution A19-1 which condemned Israeli action which resulted in the loss of 108 lives.
Evaluating the quality of governance of a democratically elected regime should not only be a preoccupation of the public sector but should also constitute a necessary prerogative of the people being governed. Overall public interest in good governance is now a common feature in the modern state and is not restricted to the academics and practitioners who bore the burden of evaluating governance in the past. The increasing concern and interest in good governance may be attributed to the public being more educated and aware than before, which is now popularly known as "civic literacy", coupled with the proliferation of complex issues that have emerged with globalization and an international awareness that has spread to national boundaries.
This is where aviation and democracy meet.
Dr. Abeyratne is the author of War and Peace: The Aviation Perspective.
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The Mighty Eighth may refer to:

The Eighth Air Force, a numbered air force (NAF) of the United States Air Force
The Mighty Eighth, the reported working title of an upcoming Apple TV+ miniseries based on a book by Donald L. Miller
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th, a combat flight simulation videogame published in 2000


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IP Martinez to be Voice of Federal Contract Workers at State of the Union
by joyce | Feb 5, 2019 | iMail | 0 comments
Machinists Union International President Robert Martinez Jr. is attending the State of the Union address as a guest of U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ-01) to sound the alarm on securing back pay for federal contract workers after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
Norcross recently introduced the bipartisan Fairness for Federal Contractors Act (H.R. 824) to retroactively pay up to $1,400 per week to the more than 1 million federal contractors who were impacted by the 35-day long shutdown. The IAM highly supports this legislation.
READ: We're attending the State of the Union to fight for federal contractors The Hill
"For over a month, I've been speaking with thousands of federal contractors who have to catch up on mortgages, student loans, school tuition, car loans, health care premiums, daycare and many other financial obligations because of this painful shutdown. It's heartbreaking," said Martinez. "The Machinists Union proudly represents thousands of federal contractors, many of whom are veterans, who provide critical services to several government agencies from NASA to the FAA. We wholeheartedly support the Fairness for Federal Contractors Act introduced by U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross to make sure these workers receive the back pay they deserve."
TAKE ACTION: Use our online form to tell your member of Congress to co-sponsor the Fairness for Federal Contractors Act (H.R. 824)
Approximately 5,000 out of the nearly 35,000 federal contractors represented by the Machinists Union lost wages or paid leave because of the recent government shutdown, including IAM members who work as contractors at NASA, the FAA, HUD, the U.S. Air Force and more.
"Federal workers and their families endured incredible hardship during this government shutdown at no fault of their own – and it's clear they should not have to lose their paychecks," said Norcross. "During my career as an electrician, we often worked hand-in-glove with government entities and President Martinez, a former aircraft assembler, did too. As President Trump addresses the state of our union, we're hoping he talks about making all hardworking Americans whole who were negatively impacted by the reckless shutdown he caused. Contractors and employees work side-by-side and their pain is just as real."
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Japan: Champions Nagoya prevail in Super Cup
Posted in Asian Football by peterbein on February 26, 2011
J-League champions Nagoya Grampus Eight and Emperor's Cup holders Kashima Antlers began the season in Japan on Saturday with the traditional curtain raising Super Cup match.
Nagoya won their maiden league title in 2010 having beaten nearest challengers Gamba Osaka by ten points whilst Kashima Antlers, the team deposed as league champions by Nagoya, had the consolation of winning Japanese football's main knockout tournament defeating Shimuzu S-Pulse 2-1 in the final. Kashima were hoping to win their third consecutive Super Cup whilst Nagoya were hoping to win a second Super Cup crown fifteen years after their first.
The game was a tight affair in the first half and, to nobody's surprise, remained goalless at the break. Thankfully the game opened up in the second half when Takahiro Masukawa headed home to break the deadlock nine minutes into the second half and this gave the game the spur it needed. Twelve minutes later the game was back on level terms following Takuya Nozawa's free-kick and this was how the game would end up following 120 minutes of action.
Therefore a penalty shoot-out was needed and it was looking bad for the champions after Australian international Joshua Kennedy missed with the first spot-kick but Kashima were unable to capitalise as captain Daiki Iwamasa also failed to convert his opportunity. Nagoya scored from three of their remaining penalties as Jungo Fujimoto, Alessandro Santos and Yoshizumi Ogawa were all successful whereas Kashima could only watch in despair as Alex and Toru Araiba had their kicks saved by Nagoya keeper Seigo Narazaki. This allowed the champions to prevail by a 3-1 scoreline in the shoot-out and meant that Nagoya could savour their second triumph in this competition.
Tagged with: Japan, Kashima Antlers, Nagoya Grampus Eight
CONCACAF: Old rivals to meet in U-17 Championship final
Posted in North and Central American Football by peterbein on February 26, 2011
The United States will meet their neighbours and old foes Canada in the final of this year's CONCACAF Under-17 Championship final in Jamaica on Sunday. The Americans defeated the hosts in order to gain their berth in the final whilst Canada scraped a slender one goal win over Panama to reach their first ever tournament final.
The Americans are the favourites to lift the CONCACAF Under-17 title following their 2-0 triumph over Jamaica on Friday night. Marc Pelosi opened the scoring after just ten minutes but the USA team would have to wait until two minutes into second half stoppage time before they could celebrate the win. Andrew Oliver made sure of the win after striking the second goal of the game to ensure that his team would face the Canadians who had, earlier in the day, beaten Panama in their semi-final match.
The Canadians had it tougher in their last four encounter and the game was decided by an eighth minute goal from Luca Gasparotto. This made sure of Canada's first ever appearance in a tournament final at this level. The best that Canada had done in this competition was a quartet of 3rd place finishes in the former Under-16 tournaments held in 1985, 1988, 1992 and 1994. The United States, on the other hand, have plenty of experience in this tournament winning it outright in 1983 and 1992 as well as a couple of group wins in the 1990s.
The 3rd/4th place play-off between losing semi-finalists Panama and Jamaica will take place on Sunday at 16:00 local time whilst the final between United States and Canada kicks off at 19:00.
Tagged with: CONCACAF
CONMEBOL: Funny "cheat" video is a big hit (+video)
Posted in South America Football by peterbein on February 25, 2011
This is the latest video doing the rounds on the internet and it involves Chilean defender Bryan Carrasco in the recent South American Youth Championship. He is in a tussle with Ecuador's Edson Montaño and the Chilean is so desperate for the ball back that he uses Montaño's hand to hit himself in the face in order to win a free-kick. For those of you who hope that cheats never prosper you'll be pleased to hear that Carrasco ended up on the losing side as Ecuador held on to their 1-0 lead.
Tagged with: Bryan Carrasco
Germany: Can Dortmund finish off Bayern in Munich?
Bayern boss Louis Van Gaal (left) will face off against Jürgen Klopp this weekend
This weekend sees this season's biggest match in the Bundesliga so far. Rekordmeister FC Bayern München play host to Tabellenführer Borussia Dortmund on Saturday hoping to claw back three points in the chase to win the 2010-11 German championship.
Dortmund, coached by the charismatic Jürgen Klopp, have defied the critics this season by maintaining the impressive form that has seen them rocket up the table. Following their opening day defeat at the hands of Bayer 04 Leverkusen the Schwarzgelben have lost only one game – away at Eintracht Frankfurt in round 17 – and remain undefeated in six games since the resumption of the league after the winter break. With only Leverkusen separating Dortmund from their hosts this weekend the game takes on increased importance to the powerhouses of FC Bayern who aren't used to having to chase teams down.
In saying that FC Bayern did make a success of hunting down Leverkusen last season. Following a slow start to the 2009-10 season Van Gaal eventually got to grips with the task facing him and overturned a deficit of six points into a lead which saw the Bavarians win a record extending 22nd title by five points over eventual runners-up Schalke 04. This time, though, FC Bayern face a much more difficult task against the league leaders who are, without doubt, the most organised and efficient team in the league. Whereas Bayern have more stars and players of greater individual quality, Dortmund have a much more effective unit who know how to kill teams off when it matters.
This weekend's match isn't just anticipated because of the current plight of the two teams but also due to the fact that this is one of the country's top fixtures. In fact if Germany is to have a fixture to rival some of the other Clasicos of world football then this is it. Although Borussia Dortmund may lag some way behind their Bavarian adversaries in the honours stakes (e.g. Bayern 22 league titles to Dortmund's 6; Bayern 4-times European champions to Dortmund's one triumph in 1997) this is a match-up which had the seeds of a real rivalry sown in the early to mid 1990s when Dortmund was a regular challenger to FC Bayern for the Meisterschale (championship trophy). Sadly, after the club celebrated its most recent title in 2002, Dortmund's flirtation with the stock market and subsequent financial difficulties saw the club have no choice but to get rid of good quality players and sell the stadium, thus ruining all of the good work, allowing Bayern to reclaim their virtual monopoly of German football.
Thankfully, though, Dortmund are back and are leading the way under coach Klopp who has steadily guided a young, talented team up the table in his first two seasons in charge of the Ruhrpott club and go into this game having won three and drawn three of the last six games. Louis Van Gaal can, at least, be thankful to the fact that Arjen Robben is now back in the team following a six month absence through a hamstring injury and the form of the Münchener has taking a turn for the better as a result. FC Bayern go into this match on the back of a fantastic UEFA Champions League victory away at European champions FC Internazionale, the team who defeated the German champions in the final last May, and have the advantage of playing in front of a sell-out Allianz Arena crowd in Munich on Saturday evening.
FC Bayern still have Ivica Olic out through injury whilst Dortmund will still be without the services of players such as Florian Kringe and Shinji Kagawa. Despite this both clubs will be able to field strong teams this weekend and one can only hope that a classic match awaits.
Tagged with: Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Bundesliga
CONCACAF: Cruz Azul cement first leg advantage, review (+video)
It's the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Champions League, North and Central America's elite football competition, and the first legs have been completed over the last few days and each tie still remains in the balance.
Featuring prominently in the last eight line-up are two all-Mexican ties. Cruz Azul, runners-up in the last two years, started the knockout phase of this year's competition on a winning note getting the better of compatriots Santos Laguna. The tournament's top scorer so far, Javier Orozco, bagged his eleventh strike of the competition in fortunate fashion when giving Los Cementos the lead after 58 minutes. It took just ten minutes for Cruz Azul to double their advantage thanks to Christian Giménez and that was how the match finished up. In the other all-Mexican clash CF Monterrey were ultimately grateful to Osvaldo Martínez for scoring the only goal of the game against their hosts Deportivo Toluca with eight minutes remaining.
WATCH CRUZ AZUL v SANTOS LAGUNA GOALS HERE:
Another fascinating clash took place in the United States with 2008 MLS Cup winners Columbus Crew playing host to 2009 MLS Cup champions Real Salt Lake and with both teams preparing for a new domestic season to kick off this was the perfect opportunity for either team to gain on a notch on their rivals. Sadly, for neither team, opportunities went begging and the game petered out into a goalless draw. In the final game, played on Thursday night, Costa Rican record champions Deportivo Saprissa took away a slender 1-0 advantage from their home tie against Honduran opponents C.D. Olimpia with Armando Alonso scoring the only goal after 23 minutes.
WATCH COLUMBUS CREW v REAL SALT LAKE HIGHLIGHTS HERE:
Tagged with: CONCACAF Champions League
UEFA: Four nations enjoy majority success; Europa League Review
The Round of 32 stage has been completed in the UEFA Europa League and there was no shortage of action as well. It was an especially good time for clubs from Russia, Portugal, the Netherlands and Great Britain whose teams make up 75% of the remaining sixteen teams. Stoppage Time – International Football Blog reviews the Round of 32 and details the draw for the next round.
This week's action began on Tuesday where CSKA Moscow, the 2005 UEFA Cup winners, got Russian clubs off to a great start by progressing with thanks to a late Sergei Ignashivech goal helping his team to a 2-1 aggregate win over Greek side PAOK Thessaloniki. Fellow compatriots Spartak Moscow and Zenit Saint Petersburg also progressed, getting the better of Swiss opposition with 4-3 aggregate wins over FC Basel and Young Boys Berne respectively. Only Rubin Kazan failed to make it a 100% success rate for the Motherland having failed in their quest to overturn a 2-0 first leg deficit at the hands of Dutch champions FC Twente Enschede who ultimately came through 4-2 on aggregate.
Wednesday night saw FC Porto, 2003 UEFA Cup winners, claim their place in the last sixteen on away goals following an entertaining match against two-time UEFA Cup winners Sevilla FC. The Spanish side won 1-0 on the night but had lost the first leg at home 2-1 thus allowing FC Porto to go through. Benfica and Sporting Braga made it a great round for the Portuguese having overcome the respective challenges of German side VfB Stuttgart (4-1) and Polish champions Lech Poznan (2-1).
Only Sporting Lisbon failed to make it a perfect night for Portugal as they went out on away goals to Scottish champions Glasgow Rangers thanks to a stoppage time Maurice Edu strike giving the Gers a 2-2 draw (3-3 aggregate). This proved the highlight for the British clubs with Rangers also joined in the next round by Liverpool FC, who just survived a tough tie against Sparta Prague thanks to a late Dirk Kuijt winner, and Manchester City who did the damage early against Greek side Aris Thessaloniki, Edin Dzeko bagging a brace in a 3-0 win.
Dutch clubs also fared well with PSV Eindhoven and Ajax Amsterdam, who have two UEFA Cup victories between them, joining FC Twente in the Round of 16 having seen off Lille OSC (5-3) and RSC Anderlecht (5-0) respectively. Amongst the rest of the competitors Italian side SSC Napoli went out of the competition losing 2-1 to sole Spanish representatives Villarreal CF. Bayer 04 Leverkusen maintained a German presence in the tournament by easily brushing aside the challenge of Ukrainians Metalist Kharkiv (6-0). It was better for Kharkiv's Ukrainian rivals Dynamo Kyiv who had the result of the round when hammering Besiktas with an 8-1 scoreline whilst Paris Saint Germain were fortunate to go through with an away goals win over Belarussian champions BATE Borisov.
ROUND OF 16 DRAW
Benfica v Paris Saint Germain
Dynamo Kyiv v Manchester City
FC Twente v Zenit Saint Petersburg
CSKA Moscow v FC Porto
PSV Eindhoven v Glasgow Rangers
Bayer 04 Leverkusen v Villarreal CF
Ajax Amsterdam v Spartak Moscow
Sporting Braga v Liverpool FC
All ties to be played on March 10-17
Tagged with: UEFA Europa League
UEFA: Champions League awaits four more ties in Round of 16
After the first four ties opened the Round of 16 phase in the UEFA Champions League last week it is the turn of the remaining four ties to take centre stage.
CHELSEA FC (England) v FC KØBENHAVN (Denmark)
It's all going wrong for Chelsea at the moment; fifth in the English Premier League and effectively out of the title race along with a dismal elimination at home to Everton FC in last weekend's FA Cup match means that the Blues from the King's Road only have the UEFA Champions League left to play for. Even a clash against Danish champions and runaway Superliga leaders FC København seems a daunting prospect despite the fact that the Danes haven't played a competitive fixture since their last group stage match against Panathinaikos in early December. FCK, who hold a nineteen point advantage over Odense Boldklub domestically, will hope that they can gain revenge on Chelsea after the London side knocked them out of the now-defunct Cup Winners' Cup in the 1998-99 season.
FC BAYERN MÜNCHEN (Germany) v INTERNAZIONALE (Italy)
A repeat of last season's final and a chance for German giants FC Bayern to gain revenge on the Italians who no longer have coach Jose Mourinho to inspire them to victory. Indeed a lot has changed since Internazionale became European champions last May; FIFA Club World Cup champions in December, two coaches have followed in the Special One's footsteps and current occupant Leonardo, who replaced Rafael Benitez at the turn of the year, is doing a steady job and has guided the Nerazzurri to third in Serie A lying five points behind local enemies AC Milan. FC Bayern have also recovered in recent months after a less than impressive start to the season but the Muenchener still trail league leaders Borussia Dortmund by thirteen points. But having scored thirteen points in the six games played since the resumption of league action following the winter break, as well as reaching the domestic cup semi-final against fellow Champions League participants Schalke 04, the Bavarians are finding their form at the right time.
MANCHESTER UNITED (England) v OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLE (France)
It is a surprise that these two clubs have hardly ever faced each other in European competition so it will be intriging to see who comes out on top in this showdown. The last time these teams crossed paths was in the 1999-2000 group stage when both teams emerged triumphant in their respective home ties. English league leaders United are still in the hunt to emulate their 1998-99 Treble winning season and when the draw was made many saw this as a tie that the Red Devils could easily negotiate their way through. However the French side are in good form, winning four and drawing one in their last five Ligue 1 games, and lie in third place just three points behind leaders Lille OSC. With the Stade Velodrome being one of European football's most intimidating arenas Sir Alex Ferguson's men cannot afford to take this one lightly.
REAL MADRID (Spain) v OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS (France)
Yet another episode in the continuing saga between Real Madrid, still hunting for a record extending tenth title in this competition nine years after winning their last, and Olympique Lyonnais who have been the scourge of los Blancos in recent years. The French side knocked Real Madrid out of the tournament at the same stage last season but hopes are high amongst the Spanish faithful that this is the time to finally break their duck against a team they've failed to beat in six attempts. Both clubs come into the match in good form with Real Madrid winning nine of their eleven league matches since suffering a heavy 5-0 reverse at the hands of arch-rivals FC Barcelona. Olympique Lyonnais have only lost once in their last seventeen matches in Ligue 1 (a 2-1 defeat to Valenciennes) but, with numerous draws in that run, the club lies only in fourth place.
Tagged with: UEFA Champions League
CONCACAF: Mexicans favourites again as Champions League resumes
The CONCACAF Champions League resumes this week with an interesting fixture list as the competition commences its knockout stages. There are two all-Mexican affairs as well as an all-American encounter and an intriging match-up involving the record champions of Costa Rica and Honduras. Stoppage Time – International Football Blog looks ahead to the last eight clashes.
With Mexican clubs dominating this tournament in recent years the odds are very favourable that this pattern of events will continue this season although one big relief for the rest of the opposition is that the Mexican contingent will be cut by half in the quarter-final stages. Group B winners Santos Laguna, who came top of a group containing Columbus Crew, Municipal CSD and Joe Public FC, will meet compatriots Cruz Azul who have not enjoyed their fair share of luck in this tournament in recent years. The last time Los Cementos won this tournament was in its former guise of the Champions Cup in 1997 but since then have lost the last two Champions League finals against Atlante FC (2008-09) and Pachuca CF (2009-10). If they are to make it third time lucky then they will have to get the better of a Mexican side in both the next two rounds.
That's because the winners of this game are due to meet the winners of the other all-Mexican clash between Deportivo Toluca and current Mexican champions Monterrey CF. Deportivo Toluca, at the time of writing, have the fourth best record in the current Mexican Clausura championship and are in good form coming into their quarter-final against Apertura champions Monterrey who are hoping to win the continent's biggest prize for the first time in thier history. Monterrey finished top of Group D ahead of Deportivo Saprissa, CD Marathón and Seattle Sounders with the best record of 5-1-0 in the group stage whilst Toluca had to be satisifed with second spot in Group C behind Olimpia.
The all-American affair between Columbus Crew and Real Salt Lake will be much anticipated especially as the competition is awaiting its first winner from Major League Soccer. 2009 MLS champions Real Salt Lake finished ahead of Cruz Azul at the top of Group A and will prove a stern test for 2008 MLS champions Columbus Crew who had to contend with second spot in Group B behind Santos Laguna. But, with the 2011 MLS season not beginning until March 15th, both teams will want to lay down a marker ahead of the new domestic season with success on the international stage. The final quarter-final sees Costa Rican giants Deportivo Saprissa, three-time winners and the last team from outside Mexico to win this tournament in 2005, face up to the challenge of Hondurans CD Olimpia who won the second of their two continental titles to date in 1988. Saprissa finished six points behind Monterrey in their group whilst Olimpia pipped Toluca to the top in Group D by three points and the winners of this quarter-final will meet the victors of the all-American clash.
The first legs of the quarter-finals will be played on February 22-24 with the second legs following on March 1-3.
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINAL DRAW (All two-legged ties – team on left at home in 1st leg)
1. Deportivo Toluca v Monterrey CF
2. Cruz Azul v Santos Laguna
3. Columbus Crew v Real Salt Lake
4. Deportivo Saprissa v CD Olimpia
SEMI-FINAL DRAW
5. Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 2
South Africa: Ajax back in the hunt as title race hots up
Posted in African Football by peterbein on February 20, 2011
Thulani Serero scored both goals for Ajax Cape Town this weekend
South African football's biggest clubs and arch-rivals Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs lead the way in the ABSA Premiership with Ajax Cape Town close by hoping for them both to slip up in what could be one of the country's most exciting title races for years. There are nine games to go and just two points separating Orlando in first place from Ajax in third.
SuperSport United, champions for the previous three seasons, are nowhere to be seen this time languishing in thirteenth place in the sixteen team league and have, thus, left it to the country's big two and Ajax Cape Town to dream of lifting the championship trophy. Ajax were the big winners this weekend after closing the gap following their 2-1 win away on Saturday evening at local rivals Vasco da Gama Cape Town. Ajax, who are owned by the famous Dutch club of the same name, had the lead at half-time through a Thulani Serero goal in the 26th minute but Vasco da Gama, named after the famous Brazilian club although not connected to them, restored parity six minutes after the break with Francois Adams scoring the equalizer. The winner for Ajax came with thirteen minutes to play as Serero bagged his second of the game to gift the three points to his side.
Orlando Pirates, who were most recently South African champions eight years ago, could only muster a 1-1 draw at home on Sunday to 11th place AmaZulu Durban with all the excitement coming in the last three minutes of the match. Lehlohonolo Majoro thought he'd won it for AmaZulu when he struck in the 87th minute but the home side deprived the visitors of victory with a stoppage time equalizer through Happy Jele. The dropped points could've proven costly to the Pirates but they were let off after closest challengers Kaizer Chiefs allowed their hosts Santos FC, another club from Cape Town with a famous name, to steal a march twice in their game before securing a 2-2 draw. Kaizer Chiefs, who last won the championship in 2005, were behind after 23 minutes after Santos Wana gave his side the lead but Knowledge Musona equalized from the penalty spot seven minutes before half-time. Santos FC, who lie sixth in the standings, re-took the lead on 52 minutes through Jurie Basie only to see Sthembiso Ncobo secure the point for the Chiefs with quarter of an hour remaining.
With 21 of the 30 rounds played Orlando Pirates lead the table with 45 points, two ahead of both Kaizer Chiefs and Ajax Cape Town. Kaizer Chiefs are in second place thanks to a goal difference of +15, three better than Santos FC. The next round of games could go some way to determining the destination of the trophy with the country's biggest game to feature in Soweto as the Chiefs have home advantage against the Pirates next Saturday afternoon. Before that on Friday Ajax Cape Town will hope to leapfrog over their two title rivals, even if it's only for a few hours, with a win at home to eighth place Free State Stars.
Tagged with: ABSA Premier League
Australia: Brisbane enjoy 1st leg win; Adelaide and Gold Coast progress (+video)
Posted in Asian Football, Oceania Football by peterbein on February 20, 2011
The post-season Play-Offs have got under way in Australia and for Minor Premiers Brisbane Roar the Grand Final is just 90 minutes away after enjoying a first leg win over Central Coast Mariners. In the straight knock-out phase, played between teams finishing from third to sixth in the regular season standings, Adelaide United and Gold Coast United saw off the challenges of Wellington Phoenix and Melbourne Victory respectively.
In a game of many chances Brisbane Roar kept up their long unbeaten streak with a 2-0 win away at Central Coast Mariners. Costa Barbarouses gave the Roar the lead in the 52nd minute but the Mariners were very unlucky in their attempts to claw something back as they hit the woodwork twice before Brisbane sealed the first leg victory thanks to Matt McKay's 73rd minute headed goal. Should Brisbane defend their lead in next week's home second leg then they will host the 2011 Hyundai A League Grand Final for the first time in the club's history.
WATCH CENTRAL COAST MARINERS v BRISBANE ROAR HIGHLIGHTS HERE:
In the knock-out phase of the Play-Offs two-time Australian champions Melbourne Victory were knocked out courtesy of a 90th minute Dino Djulbic goal which allowed Gold Coast United to set-up an elimination tie against Adelaide United who, in turn, were triumphant in their match against New Zealand side Wellington Phoenix. Adelaide, who finished third in the regular season standings, went through thanks to a Travis Dodd goal twenty minutes before full-time and they now look ahead to a home tie against Gold Coast next Sunday.
HYUNDAI A LEAGUE PLAY-OFFS DRAW
1. Central Coast Mariners 0-2 Brisbane Roar
2. Brisbane Roar v Central Coast Mariners
Winners of two-legged tie through to Grand Final; losers to play winner of Match 5
3. Adelaide United 1-0 Wellington Phoenix
4. Gold Coast United 1-0 Melbourne Victory
5. Adelaide United v Gold Coast United
6. Winner Match 5 v Brisbane Roar/Central Coast Mariners
Tagged with: Hyundai A-League


One of the problems using inter-universal gateways to scavenge resources is finding the resources.
Never expected to hear that, did you?
So, here's the deal. Diogenes opens up small gateways, sticks a long, thin rod through. A bunch of sensors unfold from the rod. He looks, he listens, and we get a lot of data on the world. Is there radio traffic? AM? FM? WiFi? Is there radiation of the more unpleasant sorts—neutrons, gamma rays, overwhelming ultraviolet, and so on? How hot or cold is it? What's the cloud cover look like? Is the air even breathable? Is there pollution, and what sorts? Is the Sun out? Can we get a spectrographic analysis of the upper atmosphere by analyzing the light from the Sun? All that sort of stuff, taken together, can paint a rough picture of the world he's found.
Some of them are not fun places. One leaps immediately to mind: Axis, an alternate timeline of Earth. From what we've managed to piece together, Hitler was successfully assassinated. At first glance, you'd think this was a good thing. Trouble is, while he was a charismatic leader, he was a terrible general. When real military thinkers took over the war, things… went badly for the Allies. Also, instead of allowing Jewish scientists to escape, they imprisoned and used them, greatly advancing their atomic energy program. The Axis powers got the first fission weapons. You can imagine from there, I'm sure.
So, when Diogenes reports he's found a world with people in it, Mary and I get to scout it. Uninhabited worlds get an aerial scouting drone. The objective, as always, is to gain resources, preferably with less effort than having Diogenes dig them up and process them. In a world where they have solar power, we sell things Diogenes can make cheap and easy, and we buy panels. In places where they make high-quality steel, ditto. It's all a matter of what gives us the best bang for our buck.
As a result, here I am in a post-nuclear-war scenario, trying to find out if there is enough stuff lying around to be worth salvaging. After all, recycling a thousand tons of aluminum is easier than digging it out of the ground and refining it. There are indications there are still people around, so, rather than display a lot of high technology, I'm riding a horse, a big, black horse, genetically engineered and cybernetically enhanced, but I'm not telling anyone that, and trying to blend in. Ironically, a horse is actually a good choice in a post-apocalypse scenario. It may not blend in perfectly, but it makes sense if mechanical transport is less available or not reliable.
Diogenes opened a gateway to a random location. I still haven't figured out how to let him target specific destinations, and I rode through. We try to do this sort of thing at night, especially when there's a risk of radioactivity or witnesses. Either one is easier to deal with in the dark.
There was nobody around, so I was pleased. According to the forearm-mounted gadgets Diogenes whipped up for me, the radiation level was fairly high for the long term, but tolerable for a few days. No doubt it would vary from location to location, but I planned to avoid any glowing craters or heavy fallout zones.
The immediate area was a small town, obviously not close enough to a major city to be in a blast radius. We emerged from someone's garage-barn conversion. When the gate closed, I turned in the saddle and saw a car sitting in the barn. From the condition of the car and the general styling, my guess was this world corresponded to the 1960's or thereabouts. It was certainly no earlier than the 50's, based on those tailfins, but it was only a rough estimate. Once you nuke the place, the date becomes less important.
I roamed around the town for a while, checking out the local technology. We wouldn't be downloading any ground-breaking new information, obviously. But the cars were refined metal, the hardware store full of nuts and bolts, and copper wire was all over the place. It was worth sending through a platoon of scavenger robots. I called Diogenes on the Diogephone and told him so.
The local gas station had free maps. Well, they were free now. I took one, found the name of the town—Taylorville, Iowa—and wondered whether to head toward Springfield or Decatur. Either one might be a valid missile target. I finally decided on Decatur, but in a roundabout way. By going southeast through Owaneco and Millersville to Pana, then north through Dunkel, Assumption, Radford, Moweaqua, Macon, and Elwin, I could check out lots of little towns even if Decatur was concave and glowing.
As a note, cybernetically-enhanced horses are not as fast as Bronze, but the plutonium power pack lets them run about as far. I do not like them, for two reasons. The first is they aren't Bronze. The second reason is I'm sitting on a plutonium power pack. You work with what you have, though, and Diogenes whipped these up for me, thinking to replace Bronze. I didn't have the heart to tell him it was not what I needed. I'm not sure what I need, but a new horse isn't it.
The night was starting to wane, which meant I needed to either head back to Apocalyptica or find a spot to hide from the sunrise. Things were looking pretty profitable here, so I decided to hole up in downtown Assumption and continue my explorations during the day. I parked the Black—that's what Diogenes calls his enhanced horses; not imaginative, but an accurate descriptor—out in front of a men's clothing store, picked the lock with a psychic tendril, and checked for a basement. No such luck, but I did find a windowless toilet room. I carry a light-proof body bag of an ultra-thin, super-strong material, but I hate using it.
The toilet didn't smell too great when I was done with my transformation, but I didn't plan to use it again, either. I made my escape from the room, fired off the cleaning spell in my amulet, and sighed in relief. I also closed the toilet door. The smell would go away, eventually, but I wasn't going to stick around.
I started for the front door and paused. Visible through the store window, the Black was standing there, as usual. Beside it, a small person was petting it. The Black stood there and took it. That's part of the behavioral programming. Whoever it was didn't rate as a threat, so the electronic implants in the horse-brain didn't trigger a defensive response.
I was mostly interested in the fact someone about ten years old or so was still in town.
Rather than exit the shop and potentially frighten her off—I presumed it was a her; she was wearing a brown, somewhat dirty dress—I whistled a tune, hung my cloak on a hook, and tried on some jackets. After a few minutes of this, I was certain she knew I was present. I threw a jacket over my arm, swung my cloak over my shoulders again, and, still whistling, went out the front door of the shop.
She wasn't surprised. Good for me. All she did was nod at me as I came out. She was a skinny little kid with slightly dusty, light-brown hair. A smudge covered part of her left cheek. She had more of a tan than I would have expected, but I tend to think of urban settings, not agricultural ones. She probably spent more time outdoors than I did. Her dress was also somewhat dusty, but her clothes were otherwise in good shape. I noticed she wore the leather equivalent of high-tops, tightly laced. Ankle boots? Farm shoes, I suppose.
I folded the jacket and stuffed it in a saddlebag. I didn't really want it, but it was my excuse for being in the store.
"That's a problem," I agreed.
"Thank you." I tried to ignore the pang that went through me at her statement. The reminder hurt, but I suppose any reminder always will.
"Do you have anything to eat?" she asked, hopefully.
I checked my saddlebags, knowing I did. I handed her one of Diogenes' high-power ration bars. He formulated them, or copied the formula from somewhere, for maximum nutritional value. They're like Tolkien's elvish waybread, but much less tasty. They remind me of shredded cardboard with a drop of honey and a hint of lemon. I hate them, but they beat starving.
I handed the bar to her. She peeled it open, took a bite, and her expression told me she agreed with my assessment.
"It is?" she asked, looking at it suspiciously.
"I was hoping it wouldn't come to that," I admitted, and accepted the bar. I took a bite, chewed and swallowed. I made a face and she nodded solemnly. I handed her the bar again and she dutifully ate it.
"What's your name?" she asked, around a mouthful.
"Patricia it is, then," I agreed.
She swallowed another mouthful and took a bite by sheer willpower.
"Do you want to come visit our house?" she asked, grimly chewing.
"Not especially." I fished out my map and unfolded it.
I sat down on a nearby bench and she sat down next to me, still chomping.
"We're here," I pointed out, "and Decatur was there. I came up this way," I traced on the map.
She held up the last bite of the nutrition bar.
She shook her head, continuing to chomp the bar.
Mentally, I cursed Oppenheimer, Khrushchev, Werner von Braun, and Foucault for related but dissimilar reasons.
"That's probably the radiation. It's not too bad, but…" I trailed off. I was going to add, but you don't want to stay here. Then again, where were they going to go? Avoid the craters, sure, but fallout is invisible. Follow the trail of green, living things to avoid radiation zones? That might work. But how do you do that when you don't have any food at all? Eat grass and leaves? Hope there's game and hope the game isn't contaminated?
"Do you have any water?" Patricia asked. Not an unreasonable question. I know those damned ration bars. They're dry as a dead politician.
Apocalyptica has some radiation zones, but there's been a lot of time for the half-life to halve a lot. The radiation in the vast majority of places is negligible, and Diogenes has robots scooping up and processing the hot spots, one cubic foot at a time. In another century, most of the leftover toxins should be safely stored. The bigger problem is the wildlife, not the radiation. And, believe it or not, even the mutant elephants are technically edible.
I helped her up on the Black and mounted behind her. She pointed the way, and she was correct. It wasn't too far. The town was literally surrounded by farms. Once we left downtown, it was less than a mile to their driveway.
What does it say about a place when a child gets up before dawn because she's hungry, trudges into town, and starts searching for anything to eat? Nothing good.
As we rode along, I saw a number of people working the fields. Most of them were hauling buckets. I couldn't imagine the scraggly, ugly weeds counted as crops, but I'm no farmer. For all I know, they're supposed to look like that, but I doubt it. Nobody tried to talk to us, but a number of people did pause to rest and watch us go by. They all had something of a lean and hungry look to them.
There was a time when a farmer would save a lot of the harvest for himself, living off the farm and selling whatever excess he produced. Modern farms are more specialized, producing, for the most part, one crop and selling it to buy everything else. The first sort doesn't like being cut off from the machinery of civilization, but it carries on. The second sort, not so much. It needs a new harvest, and needs it before the people starve to death.
Looking at the people, I wasn't sure they were going to pull it off.
Patricia showed me to her house. It was a typical wooden structure with a front porch, a barn in back, and a lot of screens over the windows and doors. I doubted it had central heat, much less air conditioning. I wouldn't be surprised to find a wood range in the kitchen. In fact, it would be distinctly useful, considering the power was permanently out.
Sure enough, her mother was in a field with a bucket-sized watering can, walking along with the thing cocked to one side, spilling a constant stream on the row beside her. Patricia waved. I waved. Her mother waved and headed for the house. We met by the rear door and Patricia introduced us.
"Can Mom have the food bar, now?" Patricia asked. I found it in a saddlebag and handed it to her mother. While she tore it open and sniffed at it, I handed Patricia down and followed.
Mrs. Ross took a delicate bite and agreed it wasn't too yucky to eat, but her face was a study in conflict. Not something she'd choose to eat, but food is food.
While Mom gnawed on the ration bar, Patricia showed me around the farm. They were out of animals; I saw a pig pen, but no pigs. I saw a chicken coop, but no chickens. I didn't see a milking parlor, so maybe they never had a cow. They also had a combination storm cellar and root cellar, a cellar door set in the side of a low hill, leading down into an underground space. There were no jars of preserves or cans of food, either.
Unless the kitchen cabinets were absolutely stuffed, I was prepared to believe they were starving, or right next door to it.
Patricia brought me back to her mother on the back step.
"Have you seen anywhere that isn't… isn't…" she trailed off, waving a hand out toward the fields.
Mrs. Ross wouldn't let go of the hope, though.
"Sure!" She hurried off. I turned to Mrs. Ross.
"I see," she said, quietly. Patricia was headed toward us, lugging the watering-can bucket with both hands. "Could you take her with you?" she asked, softly.
I didn't get a chance to answer. Patricia set the bucket down with a sloshing clunk.
So I watered plants, thinking about how sickly they looked, how thin Mrs. Ross and Patricia looked, and the logistics of food, starvation, and radiation.
"What did you do before?" Patricia asked.
"I don't think there's any magic left," she told me.
Something within me rebelled at her tone. This is a ten-year-old girl who doesn't believe in magic. Why? Because somebody pushed a Big Red Button ™ and destroyed it all. I have a streak of contrariness in me. I know it. I admit it. Doesn't mean I can do anything about it.
She did so, lofting it as high as she could. I focused on it and drew it back to me, floating it over my outstretched palm. Patricia's eyes went round.
"I know where to look." I didn't try to explain the differences between psychic energy and magical energy. It's technical, like the difference between electricity and magnetism. They're related, but not the same thing. For most people, one is like the other and the difference is negligible.
Patricia almost answered, checked herself, and considered it. That was surprising, at least to me. Most children don't pause to think it over, they just snap out the first answer.
I tossed aside the dirt clod as we finished our bucket of water and went back to the pump. She worked the handle while thinking. I took the full bucket and we went back out to water more of the row.
Damn it. Kind, generous, and thoughtful children will be the death of me.
"I suppose so," I allowed, grudgingly.
"I'd really like to move stuff by looking at it," she admitted.
"It's really hard to do," I warned her.
I went back to the house. Mrs. Ross was still sitting on the step, watching us.
Patricia was pleased to have me as a playmate for the day. I helped pump water for washing and sent her to bed. Later, Mrs. Ross left me alone in the barn, along with her puzzled looks.
I unfolded a portable gate. It's nothing fancy, just a big loop of wire with a power crystal. I hesitated, considering. If I used the portable gate, it would stay behind. I could scribble a gate spell around the barn door, though, and use the power crystal in the portable gate… On the other hand, could I brute-force the portable gate? If I made it appear in Apocalyptica, could I step through, and then close it in such a way it remained in Apocalyptica? I might be able to bring it with me, but the power cost would be prohibitive.
I decided on a gate spell on the barn door. I scribbled and scratched for a bit, charging it from the power crystal. Once it was ready, I flipped open my Diogephone and took a walk around the barn, scanning it. Really, it was just a video feed to Diogenes. He did the actual work of measuring everything, not the phone.
When Diogenes informed me he had a suitable three-dee rendering of the barn, I transferred the connection from the built-in micro-gate to the temporary gate spell, and Diogenes transferred the connection on his end to the main gate in our Niagara facility. I stepped through, closed it, and put a lot of things in motion.
I went back once to leave a few things. For one, I left Patricia and her mother a note, explaining I would be back in a week. I also left a lot of ration bars and bottled water in the root cellar, packing the shelves full of supplies. They wouldn't starve, that much was certain.
While they waited, Diogenes re-tasked a whole lot of construct-o-bots, surveyed a few hundred locations, diverted a sizable percentage of his reconstruction budget, and built a village. He cleared land and built defensive pylons around it, mostly as a fence against the migration routes for those damned elephants, but we scattered others elsewhere as monitoring outposts. The whole place took shape remarkably quickly. School, town hall, housing, all of it. Most of the stuff went up quickly because I didn't care if it was anachronistic. Extruded plastic? Plasticrete? Ceramic foam? So what? It was never leaving Apocalyptica.
One of the barns was as exact a duplicate as we could manage of the one I scanned. This is important if you're going to build an interuniversal shift point, even if it's just a one-shot spell and not a permanent enchantment.
When I went back to Patricia's world, I targeted the gateway personally. Diogenes can't aim for a specific point; his best targeting only gets the correct universe. I think it has something to do with his inability to actually work the spell. He only plugs in pre-enchanted ideograms, kind of like dialing a telephone. I have a real consciousness and can picture a specific doorway, like the one I scratched on their barn.
I opened it, checked the time—daytime here, daytime there, no sudden and unpleasant transformations—and stepped through. I turned around, dismissed the gate, and opened the barn door.
Yep. Daytime. At least I got that right. The house was quite lively. I heard a dozen voices, at least. It sounded like a party. That suited me fine since I had things to do to the barn. I brought a lot of prepared spells from Apocalyptica, but it still took time to tie everything together into the structure of the barn. Shift-booth technology—thaumology? Magical technology?—has come a long way in my years of tinkering with it, but I've only been tinkering, not hammering on it with serious, full-time research. Someday, I'll get motivated, maybe. My martial arts teacher says I have great talent, but I'm a poor student due to my lack of motivation and focus. He may be right.
With the barn prepped and ready, I circled around to the front. There was one tractor with a flatbed trailer, as well as several bicycles and a couple of home-made scooters—presumably, the best forms of transportation still available.
I knocked. The house went quiet. That wasn't creepy at all. Mrs. Ross opened the door. She her dress was clean, her hair brushed, and she smiled at me. Patricia crowded past her mother and hugged me.
"I told you! I told you!" she repeated. I patted her head and her back.
I guided Patricia into the house since it was either that or trip over her. Over twenty people were present, most of them still looking somewhat like the second reheat of fast-food French fries—thin, dry, and barely warm. I wondered how many were only alive because the Ross family shared their good fortune. Patricia tried to drag me over to the room with the kids—another fifteen or so people, I decided—but I instead went to one knee and let her sit on the other.
"I'm guessing this is a going-away party?" I asked.
"Oh. Is everyone expecting to leave right now?" I asked, surprised. Everyone traded glances and nods.
Maggie? Oh, right. Margaret Ross, Patricia's mother. I patted Patricia's back and sent her over to her mom.
Heads bobbed up and down. They grasped the idea immediately. I don't know why I was surprised. They've lived in this environment.
"We like?" Roger asked, looking around the room. Everyone nodded. Mrs. Ross—Maggie—opened a door to another room and revealed quite a lot of luggage. People started collecting their things. I noted a few guns. I didn't say anything about them. Apocalyptica is mostly wilderness and the critters are not tame.
This drew a great deal of attention.
"What sort of arrangements do you have?" Mrs. Ross asked.
There was a little in the way of puzzled looks, but the man who feeds you when you're starving gets a lot of leeway, it seems. They milled about a bit, but people and things migrated to the barn. They opened both doors to let the tractor in and left them open as they slowly filled in around it. Once we were inside, I climbed up on a hay bale.
We all waited for a few seconds while the doors were closed. I triggered the shift.
The walls of the barn changed color. At least, that's what it looked like. Various implements and tools hanging on pegs in the walls shifted and rattled a bit as everything in the barn changed places with the empty barn Diogenes built. The straw on the floor, the hay bale I stood on, the people, the tractor—everything. We moved without moving, between blinks, and were no longer in their world.
They did so to the tune of much wondering and "Ooo"-ing and "Ahh"-ing.
So many details, so much to do. I resolved to let them sort it out as much as possible. Diogenes and I would arrange for robots to salvage whatever they could from the refugee world, but we probably wouldn't gain enough to offset the cost of building and maintaining a village. Still, salvage from their world would help.
I guess, overall, it was a good thing to do. If I have a karma balance, I suppose I earned some credit.
It's not easy being the nicest monster I know.
A nice addition to the books!
Interesting premise … (you had me at Talbot !) Love the gotcha statement at the end.


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ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Domino's American Legends(TM) may be inspired by tastes found throughout the country, but Domino's Pizza was curious if consumers would vote their "regional" pizza their favorite pizza. Via Domino's exclusive Pizza Tracker poll, Domino's asked consumers to vote for their favorite Domino's American Legend pizza. With over 14,000 total responses, Domino's divided the results into four U.S. regions, East, West, South and Midwest, to find that Philly Cheese Steak took home the prize in three out of the four regions.
Consumers in the East, South and Midwest may prefer Philly Cheese Steak pizza but consumers in the West voted Honolulu Hawaiian their favorite, which came in second place overall. Out of the 14,000 total responses, 3,374 consumers voted for the Philly Cheese Steak, 2,657 voted for the Honolulu Hawaiian and 2,040 voted for the Cali Chicken Bacon Ranch.
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Tea Party time? Breakdown shows dozens of candidates have a shot to win in November
By SEAN ALFANO
Daily News Staff Writer
Will Election Day turn into Tea time?
With crucial midterm elections less than three weeks away, Tea Party candidates are running strong in enough races to give Congress a taste of their anti-government political flavor.
According to separate analyses of the Congressional races by The Associated Press and The New York Times, up to 41 Tea Party-backed politicians have a solid shot at winning in November.
Tea Party kingmaker Sarah Palin has helped the upstart movement gain traction, with her endorsements helping 25 candidates win primaries.
Senate hopefuls Marco Rubio, Sharron Angle, Joe Miller and Ken Buck are leading their races, recent polls show.
A deep-seated anger at Democrats has fueled the Tea Party's rise.
"It's taken a different turn now that the Democrats have the White House," Larry Grisolano, a media consultant to President Obama's campaign, told the AP. "Now they have something to be against."
That outrage could translate into millions of voters turning out to kick Democrats from office.
"There is nothing that will keep them from turning out," Democratic pollster Andre Pineda said.
"The real enthusiasm gap is between Tea Party folks and everybody else," Pineda said. And, on Election Day, he said, "They will be there."
Republicans need to win 39 races to take over the House, and 10 races to win the Senate.
A Bloomberg National poll this week shows four out of five Tea Party supporters want to vote for Republicans next month.
The poll also showed that 80% of backers think the recently unveiled Republican agenda, "Pledge to America," is a good idea.
While the party has no official platform, slashing taxes and government spending, along with reversing Obama's health care overhaul, are popular stances.
The Times's analysis shows South Carolina, Massachusetts and Arizona have the highest number of Tea Party candidates.
Of course, not every Tea Party politician is having a successful run.
Christine O'Donnell, whose shocking upset over longtime Republican Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware's GOP primary made her a Tea Party darling, is trailing her Democratic opponent by double-digits and has become the butt of many late-night TV jokes.
Still, the Tea Party's steam is a force. Just ask Bob Bennett, the conservative Utah senator who lost his primary.
Bennett's campaign manager, his son Jim, told the AP the Tea Party wants to "burn down anything that had anything to do with Washington."
"The Republican Party in Utah doesn't exist anymore."
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Sign of the times? Simonson receiving positive feedback on report
by jmaloni
Sat, Jul 6th 2019 07:00 am
Pictured is the Center and South Fifth streets' "spider web" of utility wires. (Image courtesy of Lee Simonson)
By Joshua Maloni
Signs, utility wires and the notion of visual clutter in a historic village have been the talk of the town in Lewiston over the past three weeks. Lee Simonson's report was featured in The Sentinel on June 22 and, since then, "All the feedback I'm getting is positive on the sign/wire report."
Simonson's 36-page document emphatically states the barrage of overhead objects on Center and Water streets is detracting from Lewiston's character, obscuring its landmarks and frustrating visitors. In his report, Simonson methodically identifies problem areas and suggests ways to find funding to implement his proposals.
The Historic Preservation Commission is the first village entity to publicly support the report's findings. At the board's June 24 meeting, Chairman Ken Slaugenhoupt said, "I think he's got a good idea."
Slaugenhoupt said he would write a letter to the Board of Trustees stating, "We feel that, as an HPC board, we are in favor of giving consideration to the points that Lee proposes, and creating a plan of action, focused first on signs and to be followed up with other issues."
Simonson said the clusters of green signs and pole wires have created "one of the most serious issues that faces Lewiston right now, in terms of its future." Though he offers several ways to scale back, there are two ideas that seem to have the most traction thus far: reducing the number signs by 15%, and removing or relocating utility wires on Water Street.
Architect and HPC member Jim Fittante said, "They've actually proven when they take the overhead wires and put them in the ground it saves on maintenance – especially with our winters and storms. …
"But a lot of the signage he's talking about is state-regulated. So, that's going to be a battle."
Center Street is under the auspices of the New York State Department of Transportation.
"A lot of the signs come from the state, because we're on 104. The state is putting up these monstrous signs that don't necessarily fit within a historical village. I think that's where we need to argue with them," HPC Vice Chairwoman Loretta Frankovitch said.
Her board agreed with Simonson that many signs – particularly those meant to direct people to Lewiston and its attractions – are improperly placed or just plain misleading.
Simonson's reports lists areas like Lewiston that function with less signage and noticeable utilities. In fact, the author says people need only look across the Niagara River. Niagara-on-the-Lake is a town with historic roots and a strong tourism base – and it's a clutter-free community.
Simonson wrote, "Niagara on the Lake wasn't named 'The Prettiest Town in Canada' by accident. The leaders and citizens there have worked for decades to make sure their historical town was preserved and protected from the ravages of signs and wires. The only poles you see on the main street in Niagara on the Lake are street lights.
"Moreover, NOTL has at least 10 times the pedestrian traffic Lewiston has, and yet, outside of crosswalks at one intersection (Queen and King Streets) it has no designated crosswalks, crosswalk signs, and no utility poles or wires crowding the street. Local officials say there are NO plans to include any pedestrian warning signs in the future, and there are no plans to create designated crosswalks.
"In addition, in the entire length of the historic district, there are no stop lights or stop signs. Pedestrians are expected to be careful and look both ways before they cross the street."
In an email to The Sentinel, Niagara-on-the-Lake Chamber of Commerce and Tourism NOTL President Eduardo R. Lafforgue explained, "Niagara-on-the-Lake relies more in the civilized manners of its resident and the ambiance that this transmit to our visitors than in strict directions and excessive signages and utility poles that would overwhelmed the urban landscape (this keep the night light level low, create shadows and charm); we keep the heavy bus transit to town limits at Fort George tourism parking station to avoid too much signage, encourage walking and keep the human and urban scale; we enforced urban and behavioural rules discreetly and put the responsibility on the community to respect and enforce respect to the town and its environment."
He said some of the policies are "consciously enforced" while others are "the result of tradition."
"All this requires savvy management and discretion to keep the charm of Niagara-on-the-Lake intact. There is no perfect recipe, ours is a daily challenge to preserve and growth simultaneously," Lafforgue wrote.
As more and more Lewiston residents read the sign and wire report, Simonson said he hopes elected leaders will begin to take action.
He said, "I think the top three priorities at the present time are take down or relocate the utility poles on Water Street; having the village and town adopt a sign policy of 'one up, one down,' (and) convincing the state to take down the gantry at the Lewiston entrance."
HPC member Peter Coppins said, "No matter how long it takes, if there's an opportunity for it, I hope that our Village Board absolutely embraces it."
In the meantime, Simonson said he would continue his public awareness campaign.
"There are so many aspects of this whole topic that it's going to take years to discuss and implement," he said. "As mentioned before, the first thing is just to get people to open their eyes and recognize the challenge Lewiston faces and the impact on our local heritage and culture."
Simonson plans to include a link to the sign and wire report in the next Historic Lewiston News email newsletter. The document also can be downloaded from the link below.
Sign of the times? Lee Simonson issues report calling for less clutter in Lewiston
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Actor Nithiin to be part of F2 sequel?
Dil Raju had recently announced F2 sequel is definitely on the cards and will be planned to be released during the 2021 Sankranthi season.
The success of the film has encouraged everyone in the team to make things even better the second time around.
The sequel will see Venkatesh & Varun Tej reprising their respective roles and director Anil Ravipudi will certainly holding his spot firm. The lead actresses, Tamannaah and Mehreen, aren't confirmed to be part of it yet.
The exciting news, however, was of including another star actor to make things bigger. Many reports around suggested that Ravi Teja would be the needed support but recent ones have denied this claim. The makers too hadn't said anything to confirm or deny.
The latest update now is that it indeed isn't Ravi Teja but actor Nithiin who is being considered for the key role. Both Dil Raju and Anil Ravipudi haven't spoken in this regard yet but the rumors seem to be quite strong.
F2 sequel is still in its earliest stage and there's a lot ahead to be dealt with. It is definitely a matter of time before any official announcement is made as each key member is busy with a different project.