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Maybe here in Conncticut it is different, but we hold our own FF1 & FF2 classes. We have several state certified Instructors within our department, some of which are also on the faculty of the state academy (90 miles away). We are just finishing up a FF1 class that we hosted that included members of 8 departments from 3 cities. I took my FF2 in one neighboring town, and my Instructor in another neighboring town. My FF1 was in my own department, and my Officer 1 was at another department in my city. We can also contract the state academy to run classes in our station but that is an expensive option. We get an annual calendar with all the contracted classes in the state so we can see if there are any classes being held near by. We also send out faxes to neighboring departments and towns if we have openings in a local class. There are ways to train volunteers locally, at least here in Connecticut.
As for not needing all the segments of FF1, well I can tell you there are some that do not apply to a given department, however the idea of a basic firefighter course includes the basics most firefighting subjects. The examle of a town with no hydrants never needing to learn about hydrants is pure fantasy. My district has hydrants on all but three streets, but we run automatic aid into another district that has large unhydranted areas. As a result I have to know how to deploy the portable tanks and operate from a tanker. In this age of homeland security we are seeing more and more statewide and regional mutual aid plans, which holds the potential for out of area responses. I'm sure all the departments that went to NYC on 9/11/01 never really envisioned that they would be operating there until that day.
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11-18-2004, 09:59 AM #27Originally posted by dmleblanc
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as was mentioned before, NJ doesn't have a state academy, but rather serveral county academies, so there usually isn't a 90 mile drive to class. if your department has the resources and equipment (your own burn buildling, highrise tower, etc) to hold a class, then I would say go for it!!! you got state certified instructors, the courses all teach the same basics, and the hosting department has the proper resources to teach the class, then i say more power to you.
but everyone should know the basics of firefighting operation. you might not use hydrants, but when you go mutual aid to an area that does, then your going to be happy that you know how to.If my basic HazMat training has taught me nothing else, it's that if you see a glowing green monkey running away from something, follow that monkey!
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hey, you got a life? you want to learn how not to lose it while working as a firefighter? That should help put what I said in perspective
I used to work with a guy who tried to volunteer with a neighboring department years ago. He lasted a couple of weeks. When they had to rack a couple hundred feet of hose after a drill one night, he decided that was enough, he only wanted to come when there was a fire. (I never liked that guy much anyway). What, did he think all that hose racks itself? I guess he thought they should be happy with his level of commitment.
What it comes down to is this: Although I agree that everyone, including volunteers, should be trained to FF1 level, in our setting we'd lose too many good people if we made this a hard and fast requirement. I'm sure there are some people out there who are so gung-ho that they'd gladly attend an academy 2 or 3 nights a week for several months after work (if they have a job) to become a volunteer firefighter. God bless 'em. But most folks, no matter how much they'd like to help, won't make this type of commitment. After a few months of not being allowed to do any firefighting or respond to any calls because they're not FF1 qualified, they'll drop out.
I know there are departments out there with long waiting lists to get on. If a new member can't commit 20 or so hours a week to attaining certification, fine, chuck him out the door and take the next guy on the list. We don't have that luxury, we have to hang on to everyone who comes through that door, if we can. We train 'em the best we can and when we feel they know enough to avoid doing something really stupid we let them start responding to calls. We make sure they are paired with an experienced member at fire scenes and they do a lot of their learning on the job. Is this the best way to make a firefighter? I don't think so. But it's what we have to work with, so we make the most of it.Chief Dwayne LeBlanc
Paincourtville Volunteer Fire Department
Paincourtville, LA
"I have a dream. It's not a big dream, it's just a little dream. My dream and I hope you don't find this too crazy is that I would like the people of this community to feel that if, God forbid, there were a fire, calling the fire department would actually be a wise thing to do. You can't have people, if their houses are burning down, saying, 'Whatever you do, don't call the fire department!' That would be bad."
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We had a trustee meeting last night and because there continues to be interest in our local fire department, we decided to increase our membership roster from 25 to 30 members.
We certainly wouldn't be doing that if interest was diminishing.
Fire departments are like kids; if you want to keep their interest, you have to give them a little attention every day.
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Good to see some common sense comments to the required training issue. I started out almost 20 years as a student bunker during college with a combination dept serving a city/town with a population of about 60,000 with urban, suburban and rural parts of the district.
Our basic training was 40 hours before the start of the school year. Since that time I've got my FF1/2, but clearly the initial 40 hrs that I had which was dept run was by far the best basic FF training I've had. As bunkers we were interior qualifed, but we had defined, and to a degree limited roles (ie no apparatus related operations, etc.) We spent the week focused on PPE, equipment, and the tasks required to perform those roles. Also included was reviewing and drilling on fairly rigid SOPs. The dept was highly disciplined, and combined with the SOPs and our training, we were pretty much ready to go out of the box and I never was put in a position that I thought was unsafe or that I wasn't prepared for. If we were working on our own (making a hydrant) or paired up with another bunker, we had the necessary training and drills during our basic class and along with the SOPs we could do our job. If we were working beyond that, then we were supervised, typically under a career officer or driver.
I volunteer to take an engine down to the local county training center for a basic class and I can't believe the amount of time spent on some training topics - 3 hr evening session on hose loads??? Hose loads can be done OJT and stick with your department's loads. We are fairly well-staffed volunteer dept., but I think we have lost some recruits to the current initial training requirements. I don't think it necessarily has to be that way.
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Union's Volunteer Firemen Unavailable to Respond to Calls in Timely Manner
By Sharon MacCorquodale, Union Missourian Editor
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For the second time in two days, Union volunteer firefighters were unable to respond to a potentially life-threatening call.
Subway Sandwiches on Highway 50 reported the smell of chemicals to the Union Fire Protection District Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 1:31 p.m., according to Board President Mike Fink.
After three pages to the district's volunteer firefighters, at 1:31 p.m., 1:39 p.m. and 1:58 p.m., no one responded, Fink said.
At 2:07 p.m., St. Clair Fire District was dispatched. They arrived on the scene in 10 minutes, he said.
Early Monday morning, a tractor-trailer backed into a utility pole at Hall Brothers Lumber Company on Independence Drive, causing a transformer fire and a one-hour power outage for 1,341 customers, according to authorities.
The district received the call at 5:30 a.m. and attempted to dispatch volunteer fire staff, said Deputy Chief Kevin Wissmann.
"We tripped the tone four times and only two men were able to respond," said Wissmann. "We were able to arrive at the scene with Pumper 214 at 5:58 a.m. with just the two men. It took 20 minutes to get on the scene."
St. Clair was on the scene in 10 minutes, according to Wissmann.
"People need to know about this," said Fire District Board President Mike Fink. "If we had a paid staff on-site, we could have responded within six minutes."
The problem, he explained, is that Union's all-volunteer firefighters work during the day, many in St. Louis, and, in many instances, cannot respond.
St. Clair has a paid, on-call staff during the day.
The fire district's 39-cent tax levy increase was defeated at the polls Tuesday, Nov. 2, for the third time.
In April, voters defeated a 39-cent tax levy increase and a $2-million bond issue and, in August, a one-time 39-cent tax levy without a bond issue went down.
"It's very disappointing," Fink said at the time. "I just can't seem to convey to the citizens the importance of this issue. I am very concerned about the safety of our citizens and the safety of our firefighters."
Discussion is in progress on when to again ask voters for a tax levy increase to staff Station No. 1 with paid, on-call firefighters.
"It's pretty evident we have to keep trying," said Fink. "We're just not sure when we will do it."
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The fire district's 39-cent tax levy increase was defeated at the polls Tuesday, Nov. 2, for the third time.
Fortunately, both of the above-mentioned calls were relatively minor in nature (an odor investigation and a power outage), and as such did not get much attention. But some day, this community will get "the big one"...Someone will die, or some very large or very important landmark will burn to the ground. Then there will be a hue and cry from every corner of the land, demanding to know why the fire department was unable to provide an adequate response. Then, MAYBE, they'll be willing to pay for the level of service that is needed.
Another thing to consider...It appears that this department does have a mutual aid department that can respond in 10 minutes. I noticed that mutual aid was finally requested at 36 minutes and 28 minutes into these two calls. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating that mutual aid will solve all their problems, but when you get no response should you wait half an hour before calling for help? This department needs to do some work in the recruiting and retention arena, but I think their dispatch has some work to do too. In our area, the standard practice is one page...wait one minute, page again...wait one minute...if still no response after two minutes, hit mutual aid. Better to get 'em rolling and cancel them if not needed than to waste 30 minutes paging 3, 4, 5, 6 timesChief Dwayne LeBlanc
Paincourtville Volunteer Fire Department
Paincourtville, LA
"I have a dream. It's not a big dream, it's just a little dream. My dream and I hope you don't find this too crazy is that I would like the people of this community to feel that if, God forbid, there were a fire, calling the fire department would actually be a wise thing to do. You can't have people, if their houses are burning down, saying, 'Whatever you do, don't call the fire department!' That would be bad."
C.D. Bales, "Roxanne"
Here's an article in today's Sac Bee.
Rural VFD losing members.Politics is like driving. To go forward select "D", to go backward select "R."
And here is one from Al Whitehead several years back.
From the General President's Desk January/February 1999
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There is No Free Lunch
It's time for those communities that still rely on volunteers to face the facts most of them can no longer get fire protection for free and even when they think it's free, it's usually not.
Communities readily recognize that trash collection, water and sewer services and police protection all come with a cost to local taxpayers. For some time, many communities across the U.S. and Canada have resisted the logical need to put adequate fire protection on an equal footing with these other public services.
Though volunteering has a long and honorable tradition, the fact remains that the practices of the past don't always work in the present. And this fact has become readily apparent to those who would, in another time, staff volunteer departments. Not a month goes by that a daily newspaper somewhere across the U.S. and Canada doesn't publish a story noting that it is getting harder and harder for local volunteer fire departments to recruit and retain volunteers.
The stories always cite similar reasons for why people aren't volunteering: they are too busy with their work, their families and the pressures of everyday life to serve as volunteers; the training and the physical stamina required are too exhausting for those who can only give a fraction of their day to the job; the glamour of being a volunteer fire fighter quickly wears off after a few 2 a.m. alarms (followed by a full day of work at a regular job). As small towns grow larger and the number of alarms continues to increase, fewer people want to subject themselves to the dangers and rigors inherent in fire fighting.
These newspaper stories are also beginning to focus on the serious problems faced by communities with volunteer departments. We have all seen news reports detailing the shortfalls: abnormally long response times that put lives and property in jeopardy; and inadequate staffing that leads to no response at all.
In fact, the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) admits that people who live in communities of less than 2,500 people are almost twice as likely to die in a fire as people living in larger communities served by professionals, and rural residents suffer more than twice the property loss from fire each year. New citizens are arriving in these towns and demanding the benefits of full-time fire protection that they had where they lived before.
A recent front-page article in The Washington Post, headlined "Volunteer Firefighters Fading Into the Past," cited the shift from volunteer to professional fire fighters in many smaller communities across the country.
The Post article quoted the lobbyist for the NVFC admitting that the volunteer fire service is in trouble. In the article, the volunteers spokesperson said the lack of volunteer staffing is a huge problem, and we're seeing it all over the country, and admitted, It's basically an unsafe situation for a lot of communities.
With these serious problems becoming so prominent in communities with volunteer departments, citizens may begin to realize that their local politicians are taking a gamble. This may prompt some citizens to question why their community is willing to put their lives and property at risk, and they may learn that in some volunteer fire stations, the lights are on, but nobody is home.
Often, citizens learn about the deficiencies of their volunteer fire department the hard way; when tragedy strikes and the volunteer response to the incident was limited or nonexistent.
The Post article pointed to Prince William County, Virginia, where officials are slowly adding full-time professional fire fighters to its historically volunteer fire department. A recent report found that volunteer fire stations were often unstaffed, and that it took the fire department 18 minutes to respond to a fatal house fire.
Obviously, there are some cases where volunteer departments don't have this problem, such as the Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Maryland, Rescue Squad, but they are few and far between. This is something the IAFF has been saying for years, but the volunteer chiefs have never admitted it before.
Because they know their departments come up short, the NVFC and volunteer fire chiefs have fought hard to scuttle our Union's efforts for the NFPA to create a comprehensive standard to evaluate fire department deployment, staffing, and operations. And it is why they protested so strongly when the NFPA decided to establish a standard for professional, career fire departments without including the volunteers. The NFPA is now moving forward to put together a committee that will adopt meaningful standards to make fire departments more effective and protect the health and safety of professional fire fighters.
Other factors are working against the volunteers, including the hidden costs of volunteer departments and the loss of professionals who volunteer in their hometowns. The Washington Post and other news media are beginning to look at the true cost of the volunteer fire service. It is not free. Today, most volunteers receive hourly, monthly, or annual cash payments, pensions, tax breaks, or other perks and benefits.
For example, in Orange County, California, volunteers received $8 per hour for responding to calls until the end of 1998 when the county ended the payment program. Today, Orange County volunteers receive only $5 per call and most of them have dropped off the volunteer rolls.
And many volunteer fire departments are losing some of their most highly trained fire fighters; professionals who work in one city but volunteer in their hometown on their days off. More cities and counties are outright prohibiting their professional fire fighters from volunteering, or are offsetting their pensions and benefits if they do volunteer and are injured. Their reasoning makes good sense. How can a city or county be expected to provide benefits under heart, lung, and cancer presumption laws when their professional fire fighters are volunteering for a neighboring jurisdiction that contributes nothing to their worker's compensation costs or pension plans? Many occupational diseases that strike professional fire fighters are the result of cumulative exposures to toxic substances on the fire ground and in other incidents. Professional fire fighters who volunteer are subjected to additional exposures that further jeopardize their health. This is only one of the reasons that the IAFF Constitution and IAFF policy opposes our members working as volunteers. While it is admirable that some of our members are willing to devote time to their local volunteer fire departments, it is a dangerous practice and it is not fair to the jurisdiction they regularly work for.
I am not trying to demean the volunteers. Most of them are dedicated individuals who try their best. But I do believe it is time for communities; and those organizations that purport to represent volunteers; to come to terms with today's realities.
In a perfect world, the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker would still live and work around the town square and would be available at a moment's notice to run to the local volunteer fire station and respond to a fire or other emergency. In a perfect world, volunteers would have the same training as professional fire fighters and show up in adequate numbers at every fire or other emergency incident in their communities. But the world is not perfect and that is not happening.
Many fire chiefs admit privately that their volunteers don't want to spend the time necessary to train to the levels of professional fire fighters, and the dwindling number of active volunteers is going to decline further as more states and communities direct volunteers to meet the same requirements as professionals. As the demands and duties placed on fire departments continue to increase and become more complex, fewer volunteer fire departments are going to be able to provide an appropriate level of service. While the volunteer fire service has a rich history of tradition and service in this country that deserves recognition, times are changing. The shift will continue from volunteer to professional fire fighters because citizens will demand it and the trend will accelerate when community leaders finally admit that there is no free lunch.
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Just what would anyone expect from the General President of the I.A.F.F, which position Mr. Whitehead held at that time. I don't see the I.A.F.F. out recruiting Volunteers, and I don't expect to. Communities that have those problems need to fix them. Period. Volunteering CAN be made into something worth spending your time on, but being protected by a Volunteer Fire/Rescue organization is not free, by any measure. More than a few states need to remove archaic laws that regulate Fire and Rescue Services. The Post above about the voters turning down a tax increase can't happen in my jurisdiction, and it shouldn't happen anywhere else. Our tax monies come from County Government's General Fund, which is where ALL revenue goes, and then is budgeted out again. I don't have to convince 500,000 voters that I need more money, just 10 politicians, who are working WITH us when we need something. Perfect? Of course not. Better than the alternatives? Damn right.
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You miss the point of both my posts.
I will admit Whitehead has a professional slant in his commentary. His point, along with the link to the article in the SacBee state the same issue confronting VFD's. The time committment to remain current in training coupled with emergency responses are too time consuming for a significant part of the labor pool. Once upon a time in America people lived and worked in the same city. That isn't the case anymore. When you link training obligations to the hours worked plus commute times, prospective volunteers are going to choose to spend time with their families or other more relaxing activities. And while you believe that regulations should be lessened regarding VFD's, I argue just the opposite. I believe VFD's should be held to the same standards of training and skill level. I would like examples of your claim regarding archaic laws.
Here in OC we had an extensive Paid Call program. It was discovered to be in violation of the FLSA. When it was forced to come into compliance with FLSA a majority of the volunteers quit. At some of the busier houses, 'volunteers' were making $30,000 a year. That number was impacted dramatically downward and as such few could afford to remain active.
At the present time, the remants of the Paid Call still function in a support role. And it has manifested itself in both a 40% response rate and a turnover rate of 30% per year. If the program were being run by a private corporation it would have been axed long ago. It is being kept alive by dinosaurs who yearn for the good 'ole days at taxpayer expense. Elected officials actually. One of whom is still bitter and blames the professionals for taking away his volunteer BC status back in the 70's!!! Instead he pulls out the flag of Americana and demands that valuable taxpayer dollars be wasted on an anachronistic entity.
No one is bashing the spirit of volunteerism. What is questioned is the continued viability of an effort that has outlived its usefullness. This might be more relevant in urban and suburban locales than rural areas.
The last company that made buggy whips probably made the best buggy whips ever built. But the world had changed and no longer needed buggy whips. So it is with the volunteer ranks. The people who were able to fill its ranks are a dying breed. And communities that depended upon individuals to fill those ranks may have to adjust to the reality that a full time status is both necessary and inevitable.Politics is like driving. To go forward select "D", to go backward select "R."
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Hey; I got a great idea.
Let's pass a law that requires small communities to have full-time, paid departments if they cannot meet minimum staffing on their first out engine during a day time call!
Am I being sarcastic? Of course I am.
Communities will continue to roll the dice rather than have their cost for fire protection skyrocket with a paid department. I can see our village of 800 with a 15 person paid department. It would cost more than our entire village and district annual budget combined, then tripled.
I don't see it happening.
I think that once people get past all the selfish reasons that they have for NOT joining their volunteer fire department, volunteerism will be back. As a nation, we have placed entirely too much importance on recreation and not enough about community service. It's people too damned selfish to give up some of their time, plain and simple.
There needs to be an overhaul of our values in order to get back to where we once were with regards to caring about our fellow human beings and helping to make our communities better places in which to live.
Yeah, I know; it's pretty idealistic, but if we don't go out in our communities and set an example and make our organizations worth someone's time to join, then our numbers will continue to shrink, instead of grow.
We don't have the problem NOW, but I expect it if we don't continue with what we are doing.
11-21-2004, 02:50 PM #38Originally posted by ChiefReason
I think that once people get past all the selfish reasons that they have for NOT joining their volunteer fire department, volunteerism will be back. As a nation, we have placed entirely too much importance on recreation and not enough about community service. It's people too damned selfish to give up some of their time, plain and simple.
I went to Catholic school for 12 years. That is how we ended our morning prayers every day.
We have become a consumption driven society. And if popular culture is defined through the marketing I observe in the media there doesn't appear to be any changes happening soon.
The simple fact is that people have very little 'some of their time' to give after the obligations of earning a living, raising a family, and having some recreation.
And then there is the aspect of the duties performed by firefighters. While we all know there are thousands who get in line for few jobs, not everyone else is willing to do the duties of firefighters. Not everyone relishes the opportunity of running into burning buildings. And few people I know outside the fire service have any desire to perform EMS functions like pulling people out of cars or other predicaments when the victims are either covered in blood or in pieces.
Those are the realities of our profession whether professional or volunteer.Politics is like driving. To go forward select "D", to go backward select "R."
11-21-2004, 07:27 PM #39i see some of the volunteerism diminshing locally, but thats cause there aren't that many people that like the chief and the way he became the chief. for the most part the people that are still with the department do it cause the community needs a fire dept. i think with some attitude changes or administrative changes we would have our rosters full again.
That is the problem with our Dept's low attendance and numbers; it's the management.
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In the battle of the new series CBS' Eleventh Hour actually grew viewers versus last week while ABC's Life on Mars dropped by more than three million viewers to 8.47 million and went from first to worst. Last week it was second among 18-49 year olds, this week it was last. I liked the first episode, and last night's is on the DVR, but I suspect like most people, I don't get around to watching shows from the 10pm hour on DVR the same night. Regardless the DVR numbers beyond last night (which are baked in already) won't really matter, and ABC has to be disappointed with these results.
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Fox's whole lineup for the night may be filler. There's nothing to say about Hole in The Wall, but how long will it be before they nix Kitchen Nightmares in favor of doing TWO installments of the successful Hell's Kitchen a year? It seems to work well for Survivor.
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8:00 | CBS | Survivor: Gabon | 12.88 | 4.2/12 | 2.4/8 |
ABC | Ugly Betty | 8.21 | 2.6/8 | 2.3/7 | |
NBC | My Name is Earl | 6.54 | 2.6/8 | 2.2/6 | |
CW | Smallville | 4.15 | 1.7/5 | 1.7/6 | |
FOX | Hole in the Wall | 3.62 | 1.4/4 | 1.5/5 | |
8:30 | NBC | Kath & Kim | 6.01 | 2.5/7 | 2.2/7 |
ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 14.57 | 5.9/14 | 5.8/16 | |
NBC | The Office | 8.07 | 4.1/10 | 4.6/13 | |
FOX | Kitchen Nightmares (R) | 3.45 | 1.4/3 | 1.2/3 | |
CW | Supernatural | 3.06 | 1.2/3 | 1.0/3 | |
9:30 | NBC | SNL: Weekend Updata | 8.61 | 4.1/10 | 4.0/11 |
10:00 | CBS | Eleventh Hour | 12.04 | 3.2/9 | 2.1/6 |
ABC | Life on Mars | 8.47 | 2.7/7 | 2.1/6 |
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Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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The time spent with the game up through the 3rd world was enjoyable, but I quickly found out that if you did not purchase more gems or download some of their partner offers for additional gems you would end up getting crushed, over and over. After getting a few partner offers, I was able to upgrade all three of the castle defenses and unlock the three additional groups of deployable units. (Fire Mage – 80 Gold Deployment Cost, Poison Bow Elf – 90 Gold Deployment Cost, Paladin – 70 Gold Deployment Cost)
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Snowboarding Games.
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On Tuesday eves a few months ago, the West Berry bar was screening decent Hollywood comedies, like Super Troopers and Team America. Then, to my elation, the joint had nothing going on. (I may be old, but I'm still as solitary as any misanthropic alt-rocker born after 1980.) Then, several weeks ago, the bar started hosting live jazz – just like in the old days, a couple of years ago before Moon ownership changed hands. On the plus side: A) Cowtown can always use more straight-ahead live jazz, B) some of the performers (mostly young dudes) are – no shit – exceptional players, and C), since the show draws a crowd, my heart warms at the thought of a small-business owner doing well.
The not so good: Occasionally, the hosts of the show – two young male vocalists, Myles and James – get onstage and croon. I'm partial to Myles, an apparent honors graduate of the Perry Como School for Lounge Singing. His voice is masculine yet airy and smooth yet not too cheesy (but cheesy enough to delight the kitsch-lover in me). James, with his slightly flat, slightly-straggling-a-beat-behind, and slightly emotionless readings, strives to achieve infinity in subtlety as only Mel Torme can – obviously, young James comes up short. He'd probably be better off in the studio or a less-crowded, more adult-friendly bar, some place where delicate, highly stylized singing is afforded the sonic breathing room to resonate more clearly and deeply.
At the Moon, the crowd – mostly TCU students and newbies to jazz who can't tell their Kenny Burrell from their Kenny G – couldn't care less. They love the show, and, merely out of the joy that comes with seeing young people and old music sharing the same space, I unreservedly recommend stopping by. Until the new Black Dog Tavern gets up and going in its new spot near the Cultural District, the only place where young Cowtown and jazz will be a-mingling is the Moon.
… Next door at the Aardvark this Fri. is an example of what happens when a youthful musician finally gets out of music theory class. Young Joe Kirkland, the frontkid of the pop-radio-friendly Joe K Experience, is a burgeoning heartthrob. A tousled-hair graduate of the John Mayer School for White Boy Soul, Joe K can excite the ladies by either turning his fresh-face from them and singing angrily toward the heavens or looking deep into their eyes and petting his guitar as if he were polishing a Grammy award.
The guy really shouldn't be trapped in a classroom chair – he's got energy and decent pop songs and, so far, one great pop number, "Guilt Trip." Joe K has five Metroplex shows over the next month and is releasing Climbing Towers, his full-length debut on which he plays every instrument. (He's been a musician since childhood.) With a backing band, he plays with Committed, Old-School Demi, and Armanda the Beat, at 2905 W Berry St, FW (817-926-7814). Visit www.myspace.com/joekmusic.
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The race, which is 8.5 miles long, starts from the Aloha Tower, here, and ends at Aloha Stadium. Participants of all ages are encouraged to attend.
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TAYLOR DEUPREE : ONE SOUND EACH DAY, 2009 On january 1st, 2008 I began a project where I would take one polaroid picture every day of 2008. It was a fun, challenging, and sometimes frustrating endeavor, but I now have 365 polaroids portraying the ups and downs and travels of a year in my life. And 2009 is upon us... The most rewarding aspect of this project has been the fact that every day I have been forced to look. Oftentimes, though, I'd pass over what turned out to be a great photographic opportunity in the hope a better one would be around the corner, resulting in a mediocre photo for the day. However, the project was not about the "best" photography but rather simply of a diary of seeing for a year. As 2008 drew to a close I set my sights to 2009. A picture-a-day was very challenging, do Igive myself a break, freedom from carrying the Polaroid with me every day, freedom from having to constantly be on the lookout? Or, was the forcing of this creative project on me every day a priceless exercise? Never one to rest, I have decided that in 2009, starting on January 1st, of course, I will carry a small digital audio recorder with me every day of the year and record one sound per day. As a musician I rarely work with "field recordings" although I am familiar with them enough as a sound source and have used them in my compositions from time to time. However, I am always listening and find beauty and serenity in many of the everyday sounds that surround me. This exercise will not only force me to listen more carefully every day, but expand my own sound palette. Like my polaroids, it will not be about capturing a "perfect" sound, but be a simple audio diary of each day. Undoubtedly, there will be many wonderful sounds that I capture, but that is not the primary focus of the project. I will not set a time limit on each day's recordings, but rather make each recording as long as it needs to be to capture whatever it is i'll be recording. Along with the recorder I will carry a small notebook and make a note of date and time as well as location and "subject." These recordings will be featured on my blog (12kblog.wordpress.com) and, of course, this web page. If 2008 was a year of seeing every day, 2009 will be a year of listening. The death of Polaroid's instant film market has made the Polaroid-a-day difficult to continue... My project was timely. Needless to say, as a photographer, I will never stop looking, nor will I rarely be caught without a camera, but to form a year's worth of living and travelling with an audio diary will be a new way for me to experience each day. - Taylor Deupree JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC
JANUARY 31 Norwalk, CT, around 12:30pm sounds of children in a curved hallway at the Norwalk Aquarium.
JANUARY 30 Pound Ridge, NY, around noon outside of the post office after mailing some packages. a lot of small birds in a large bush.
JANUARY 29 Danbury, CT, around 3pm at my friend's vinyl cutting studio. this is the sound of the vinyl lathe as it cuts the first 12k 7" record. the song can be heard in the background. the lathe is the high-pitched noise.
JANUARY 28 Pound Ridge, NY, around 9:52pm wind storm after today's snow, ice, and rain. wind chime designed by Paolo Soleri.
JANUARY 27 Pound Ridge, NY, around 9pm more studio roomtone, 9pm.
JANUARY 26 Mt. Kisco, NY, around 6pm waiting in line at the grocery store. a symphony of beeps.
JANUARY 25 West Nyack, NY, around 7pm a video arcade in the Palisades Center Mall.
JANUARY 24 New York City, 7pm crowd ambience from an art opening for Zimoun & Pe Lang's audio works at Bitforms Gallery in Chelsea.
JANUARY 23 Pound Ridge, NY, around 11pm the hum and quiet sounds from the tv.
JANUARY 22 Pound Ridge, some time after 2pm my cat Pixel sleeping and snoring on my desk. i was working on a new piece of music while he was doing it and believe it or not it fit so well with the song (really!) that i recorded him and added it in (but not the loud parts at the end). i love listening to him snore... it makes an already very human-like cat all the more "human."
JANUARY 21 Pound Ridge, 2:09pm room tone in my studio. recorder placed on stack of external hard drives.


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Digital Collage * Photomontage * Photography * Altered Art * Fine Art * Photo Fusion * Color Merge * Experimental Photography * An art and photography blog with something for every interest. I use Paint Shop Pro X and Paint Shop Pro X2, as well as Adobe Photoshop CS4 to create my digital collages. Please do not copy the images on this blog without permission. For further information please email me. All of my artwork is Copyright Peggi Meyer Graminski 2005-2014; other images remain the copyright of their original owners.
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4 comments:
- Susan Tuttle said...
This is such a feel-good photo - we could use a little sun around here.
Your banner is awesome!
xo - February 18, 2008
- HannahMade said...
I wish I was that bird!
Beautiful photo! - February 19, 2008
- Peggi Meyer Graminski said...
Hi Susan,
Thanks for commenting =) It's cold and gloomy here now - just trying to stay warm ... brrrr =(
Hi Hannah,
Thanks for dropping in and for your sweet comment! - February 21, 2008
- Pondering Pig said...
Absolutely infinite, Peggi. Beautiful beyond belief.
- February 28, 2008
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December 30, 2013, 04:33 AM | #1 |
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Any info on this beyonet?
I have found a few beyonet blades in the countryside in UK, i would really like to know the history if there is any at all? just as much information about it as possible. I know nothing about guns or weapons, just after any help or advice from you guys. Any dates or ideas on the gun it was used?
The only marking I can see says AM86, but I could do with giving it abit more of a clean up to see if says anything else. I appreciate your help ImageUploadedByTapatalk1388395785.528690.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1388395804.944723.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1388395891.913857.jpg |
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They appear to be unfinished forgings for SLR or possibly Lee-Enfield No.5 bayonets. Some context of where you found them might be useful.
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L1a4 bayonet ?
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L1A4 looks like a good match, does it look like the bayonet is not fully manufactured?
I have some others abit more manufactured ImageUploadedByTapatalk1388432516.389985.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1388432529.855537.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1388432704.855013.jpg They where manufactured by a company in London, England Rough guess around 35 years old, I maybe completely wrong though |
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86 on the blade... Am I right in saying that's year of manufacture?
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I've been reading up the past few hours, trying to find out exactly which model, I've thought all along that it's the L1A4, but now I've read on other forums it could be L1A3, I'm trying to find the differences between the 2, also the "C" stamped in the grip, what's that mean?
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It sounds like my hours of research i have not found out very much.. Not very good at this am I
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personally, that looks like a standard Kabar combat knife without the handle.
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There is no sign of any wood/plastic, a guard, or any screws/pins to hold scales or any way to hold it onto a rifle. I think it is as Mk VII says, a blade for a partially finished bayonet or combat knife. Those are frequently found in an area where such weapons were made, either carried off by the workmen or left when the factory was closed down and maybe demolished.
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I think it's a pretty safe bet these are partially finished L1 bayonets of some variety.
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L1A2 was a production alternative, in that the pommel was flush riveted on instead of brazed or heat shrunk on. It was not, in the event, made in England although Australian and Canadian production used this method.
The L1A4 used this method as well. Hopkinsons (code SM) made this version which was not actually produced until the 1970s. H, R and C are markings known to be cast on the pommel; they probably represent sub-contractor's ident. A large quantity of semi-finished parts came on the market about 20 years ago, they probably represent the leftovers after Hopkinson closed down. |
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Variety reports that production on the new Comedy Central episodes has been restarted now that the principal voice talent has been coaxed back to the studio. This means that the show will be able to meet its 2010 target date.
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It's confirmed! Bender is back! And his banjo! And so is the rest of the Futurama crew!
What was once just internet gossip that spread across the web like a persistent skin rash has now become confirmed fact.
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Variety also reports that actors Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio have also signed up to once again provide the voices for Fry, Leela and Bender. I believe that sound you just heard was the universe being ripped open by this awesome time loop.
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The story begins with Leo Wong, wealthy entrepreneur and father of Amy, who is trying to build a bigger and better Mars Vegas. This would include an interplanetary golf course that uses a black hole as one of its, er, holes. Over time, we learn that he's trying to destroy a planetoid that is growing indigenous life at an accelerated rate in order to build this.
Fourth Futurama movie gets release date and title
Reading the synopsis from the press release, it sounds good. The plot sounds a little haphazard, but I think you'd say the same thing reading a synopsis of the plots from any of the DVD movies. One can only hope that this will not be the last we see of the Planet Express gang, but if it is, I hope they are sent off with the respect and dignity they deserve (provided we don't count Fry and Bender).
I really loved Bender's Big Score . I liked but didn't love The Beast With A Billion Backs. I caught Bender's Game, which on my likability scale was between the first and second movies. I'm hoping to really love this fourth one. At the very least, at least they've dropped their penchant of using the letter "B" in the title.
Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs - DVD Review
The second direct-to-DVD release of Futurama is a fun movie with loads of extras that make the purchase worth it. They include outtakes, deleted scenes, commentary tracks, and an extra I particularly enjoyed: a "Lost Episode" made from a Futurama video game (which was a bit like watching a video game demo, but with jokes). The DVD also comes with a preview of the next Futurama DVD release which looks to be a satire of Lord of the Rings. Guest voices include Brittany Murphy as Fry's new girlfriend, David Cross as the planet-sized Yivo and Professor Stephen Hawking as himself.
Spoilers after the jump...
New Futurama DVD advance review
Disclaimer: TV Squad will soon be posting its own review of this Direct-to-DVD Futurama movie. Rather than keep our loyal readers in suspense, we'll be directing you to another review site until the DVD finally arrives in the mail.
Screen Jabber was able to grab an advance copy of the second Futurama DVD release, The Beast With A Billion Backs (lucky bastards). As a result, we are treated to a review by them.
The story takes place about a month after the events of Bender's Big Score. It seems that there has been a rip in time and space and a giant mutli-tentacled alien is reaching through to try and have sex with everyone on the planet (if two people having sex are the beast with two backs, then...well, you get the idea).
Adult Swim airs every Futurama episode starting tonight
Believe it or not, Futurama has been airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block for about five years. During that period, fans of the show have probably watched every single episode at least once, or twice, or fifteen times. Now, those same fans will get the chance to watch every single episode one more time as Adult Swim begins a Futurama marathon.
Starting tonight at 11:00 PM, and continuing until 11:30 PM on the last day of the year, there will be nothing on the schedule but Fry, Leela, Bender, and the rest of the team from Planet Express. On December 31st Adult Swim will air the show's first episode, 'Space Pilot 3000' and the last episode, 'The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings' (great episode, by the way) at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm respectively. This is all in preparation of Futurama moving from Adult Swim to Comedy Central starting on January 1st.
Futurama: Bender's Big Score - DVD review
When I first heard that Family Guy was returning to the airwaves, I was wondering if/when other cancelled Fox animated shows would similarly rise from the dead. Then I heard Futurama was returning to Comedy Central (with a brief stop on DVD beforehand). Futurama can best be described as The Simpsons for sci-fi/fantasy fans (which makes sense consider that Matt Groening created both and uses the same animation style for both). I then thanked the gods of comedy for returning this gem.
The plan for Futurama is to release four direct-to-DVD movies which would make up a complete season of 16 half-hour episodes. "Bender's Big Score" is the first release and consists of the first four episodes (although I hear the individual episodes will contain extra footage not in the DVD release when they are eventually broadcast. How's that for a reversal of precedent?).
Matt Groening talks about Futurama's comeback
Groening gives the show's loyal fans all the credit in the world for helping the show come back. "The continued devotion of the fans, chiefly on the Internet, kept us thinking that maybe we could bring this back," he said.
David X. Cohen talks about the new Futurama
- The entire original cast is returning
- You'll find out some of Nibbler's secrets
- Al Gore is back
[Thanks, Justin and Jeff]
Futurama: I, Roommate
There were a bunch of interesting tidbits from the DVD commentary to this episode. One was the admission from Matt Groening that the storytelling in Futurama was more linear than it was on his other show, The Simpsons, mostly due to the fact that there's so much going on in the background of a typical Futurama epsiode. Well, with all due respect to Groening's genius, duh. I've always equated the storytelling on Futurama to what the early years of The Simpsons were like before the pop-culture asides and other wackiness started to dominate. This episode, where Fry and Bender become rommates, is a perfect example of the show's storytelling prowess; an episode like this would have been told completely differently on The Simpsons, or at least on the show from it's third season onward.
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Ictal asystole (IA) has been implicated as a preventable cause of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy presumably provoked by a direct autonomic effect of the electrical stimulus on the heart. An electronic database search of patients with IA was performed comparing heart rate (HR) characteristics to a group of patients with vasovagal asystole. IA was seen in eight patients, all with temporal lobe epilepsy. No statistical difference was found in duration of asystole, bradycardia, and baseline HR characteristics except of a higher HR acceleration postasystole in the controls. None of the six patients with IA who underwent pacemaker implantation had recurrence of asystolic events during mean follow-up of 5 years. This study in a small group of patients suggests that the epileptic activation leading to IA is possibly mediated through a transient increase in vagal tone and not by a direct autonomic effect on the heart. |
Stephan U Schuele; Adriana C Bermeo; Eduardo Locatelli; Richard C Burgess; Hans O Lüders |
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Re: Star Trek spinoff movies
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Why even reboot anything. Why not make films to other Trek related (Starfleet-) content, without using the enterprise, but within the established politics of the 24th century?
They could make up a crew year after year till they hit one with a good review and stay with it for some films. This way we could explore the Trek Universe more and see how other people (besides the well trained super starfleet soldiers) work in the future. There are other points, like more freedom when it comes to continuity.
Thanks! I agree completely.
The 24th century post NEMESIS and post XI is a very interesting time to place a story.
You have a broken Empire (Romulans) a galaxy which is after a devastating war a decade ago (Dominion).
There is no need to follow the adventures of the Enterprise-E or any other known crew for that matter. That's the beauty of TREK in the first place, it does NOT depend on the same names over and over again.
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DJ Money Jumps "In the Mix" Exclusive Interview
DJBooth just unleashed a Vol. 7 of our Best of the Booth mixtape series - thanks to everyone who made Vol. 6 such an enormous success, - and this time around we have the honor of working with DJ Money, a staple of the DMV hip-hop scene and the youngest member of D.C''s number one urban station WKYS 93.9 FM's mix squad.
Now that Best of the Booth Vol. 7 is coursing through your headphones we thought we'd take a step back and get to know the man behind the boards. In addition to DJ gigs ranging from the Howard University Homecoming to P. Diddy's Birthday party, DJ Money is a recording engineer, producer, writer and MC, a contributor to XM/ Sirius Satellite Radio with the Gomez Brothers, and tour DJ for Raheem DeVaughn and Phil Adé.
You started DJing your first parties at the incredibly young age of 12. How's you get such an early start? Did you grow up in an especially musical household?
My father used to DJ as a hobby...and I really loved music then so i did my homework crazy when I was younger. When some kids couldn't watch TV when they got in trouble i couldn't play my records lol. My parents were definitely into music and I guess I picked up the passion even heavier than them.
From your work on 93.9 to DJing the Hip-Hop Presidential Inauguration you've become a large part of the DMV's growing hip-hop scene. What does the DMV have to offer the world that nowhere else can?
I feel that the DMV is way more original and artistic then a lot of people know. There are so many styles and different forms of hip-hop here; outside of go-go there is no one definitive sound for the DMV. Five years ago I wouldn't have thought we would be here. Our lack of talent wasn't hurting us...our lack of support for each other was, but we have gotta so much better. That's why we got on the radar so fast with the Wales, Bear Witnez', Phil Ades, Tabi Bonneys etc. We are now supporting talent that are making moves.
For you, what's the difference between a professional and an amateur DJ?
That's tough because there is a "amateur" DJ who may be as good but hasn't had the looks that another DJ had. But if you just bought Seratos yesterday with no music and are about to do a party, you're definitely an amateur DJ lol. U used to carry crates on my own, and for other people, so my come up is different, but all DJs just need to do their homework. You should be able to rock parties anywhere.
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If you don't have I'm a Hustler by Bear Witnez or Stupid Dope Moves by Phuture find those records right now!!! Also Rocko Goin' Steady is my dope. My personal favs right now are Rick Ross' John Doe, H.A.M. by Kanye and Jay-Z and We Made It by Big Sean and Drake..
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If hard work is not paying off for you WORK HARDER, don't stop. Find me on twitter (@DJMoneyDMV) and my site MoneySwingOnline.com will be up soon. Check out Moneyswing.bandcamp.com for other mixtapes. Shout my 368 fam, Dre the Mayor for bookings, shouts to Phil Ade, Raheem DeVaughn, Sunny, Phuture, Liz, Dee Boy, Mark Henry. My yM fam Bear witnez, LFame ..my ruling class fam DJ Analyze, Ben Hameen, pleasedontstare.com, oKun, DJ Harry Hotter, DJ Quicksilva and the Party Boys!
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Mohammad Ismat, the Manipuri boy who has topped the all-India CBSE Class XII Board examinations in the science stream, is nurturing a dream to top the Civil Services Examinations, too.
By way of preparation, he plans to join St. Stephen's College, Delhi, to do B. Sc. (Honours).
Ismat hails from Lilong Haoreibi in Thoubal district, 15 km from Imphal. The village has very poor electricity supply and no internet connection.
"I also want to become a topper in the Civil Services Examinations conducted by the UPSC. I want to serve my country for peace and communal harmony. For now, I want to take admission to St. Stephen's College to do B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics," he told The Hindu.
He brought laurels to his school, Zenith Academy in Imphal, where he joined after completing Class X at Sainik School, also in Imphal. "I studied Class IX and X in Sainik School and passed the Class X board examinations with 92.4 per cent. I left Sainik School because of financial constraints," he said.
Ismat's mother died when he was only 18 months. His father, Maulana Bashirur Rahman, is a teacher in a primary school. He is the seventh child and only son of the family; six elder sisters are all graduates.
After school hours, Ismat had to study mostly in candlelight, as electricity is available for hardly three-four hours a day in the village. Ismat scored 495 out of 500 marks, securing centum in mathematics, chemistry, fine arts and home science and 98 in English and 97 in physics.
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The return of manufacturing?
May 3, 2012
The GOP candidates and President Obama all have plans to boost manufacturing, but commentator Robert Reich says they're mostly wishful thinking.
The economy's looking up, but can Obama take credit?
Feb 16, 2012
Commentator Megan McArdle says no president has that much control over the economy.
What Americans think about President Obama's budget
Interview with
Feb 16, 2012
Do Americans agree with President Obama's latest budget proposal? Gallup's editor-in-chief Frank Newport explains what Americans want the government to cut and spend more money on.
The problem with Obama's carrots and sticks plan
Feb 1, 2012
President Obama plans to build much of his election-year policy agenda around carrots and sticks. But commentator Amity Shlaes that plan could backfire.
The Obama push?
Jan 27, 2012
Barack Obama's rendition of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" has boosted sales for the 1972 hit.


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12 CFR 1253.8 - Availability of new product to an Enterprise after it has been approved for the other Enterprise.
If the Director approves a new product for one Enterprise or the new product is otherwise available to that Enterprise under § 1253.4, the other Enterprise may also undertake that new product, subject to submitting a request to the Director in the form of a Notice under § 1253.3 and approval by the Director.
The Director may require such further information from the requesting Enterprise as he or she deems necessary to approve or deny the request. Approving the request does not require public notice and comment.
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