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	Welcome to the Office of Fire Prevention and Control
		This is Fire Prevention Week in the United States, and while I fully support and agree with the concept of getting folks thinking about preventing and surviving fires, I believe we should, and need to be, doing so 52 weeks a year – and not just for one week a year.
		In the ten year period of 1995 – 2005, while tornadoes killed 609, hurricanes killed 226, and earthquakes killed only 3, fire killed 43,900 people in the U.S. The good news is that almost all of the deaths and injuries from fire can be prevented by a few simple behaviors made habits, made a lifestyle.
		Make this the year that we take fire for the serious threat it is. Determine that you will make right choices to prevent fire and survive should a fire occur.
	www.dos.state.ny.us /fire/firewww.html (826 words)

	Encyclopedia: One weekend a month, two weeks a year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One weekend a month, two weeks a year is a (now defunct) slogan used by the Army National Guard.
		The majority are supposed to serve for six months or a year.
		When you enlist in the Army National Guard, you'll typically serve one weekend a month and two weeks a year, usually in the summer.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/One-weekend-a-month,-two-weeks-a-year (1040 words)

	United States National Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is perhaps best known for its slogan used in commercials: "One weekend a month, two weeks a year".
		To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.
		For the 111 years that the Militia Act of 1792 remained in effect, it defined the position of the militia in relation to the federal government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_National_Guard (1640 words)

	USATODAY.com - For Guard recruiters, a tough sell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Two years ago, he stopped at a Jiffy Lube station in Staunton, Va., to have the oil changed in his Dodge Stratus.
		Two years removed from that encounter, though, O'Ferrell is having a tough time.
		Until last year, recruiters could enlist them with the promise of drills one weekend a month and two weeks a year — a typical peacetime workload.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-03-07-recruits-cover_x.htm (930 words)

	STATEMENT OF SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY ON AMERICAN VALUES AND WAR WITH IRAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For many of these soldiers, "the expected one weekend a month, two weeks a year" is merely a slogan, and does not reflect their new reality.
		As CIA Director George Tenet stated last year in testimony before Congress, the greatest danger of their use occurs if Saddam knows he is about to be removed from power and therefore perceives that he has nothing left to lose.
		Sixteen months after the fall of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai is still referred to as "the Mayor of Kabul" — because of the weak and fragile hold of his government on the rest of the nation.
	kennedy.senate.gov /%7Ekennedy/statements/03/03/2003317746.html (3835 words)

	Reserve and National Guard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As a member of the AGR you are assigned a full time mobilization slot or billet in the unit you serve in on that one weekend a month/two weeks a year.
		So after you've had an exciting and fulfilling career in the service of your country, and have reached the 30 year mark, in addition to having an endless supply of stories to impress your family and friends, you will be assigned to one of three categories in the Retired Reserve.
		In many cases, the WOBC-RC course is a correspondence phase and one or two weeks of active duty for training (residence phase).
	djsharpe.tripod.com /TheUSArmedForces/id11.html (3753 words)

	Reserve component - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A reserve component of the United States military is an organization of servicemembers who generally perform a minimum of 39 days of military duty per year and who augment the active duty (or full time) military when necessary.
		They are regionally based and recruited (unlike their active duty counterparts) and, in the case of the Army and Air National Guard, are the organized state militias referred to in the U.S. Constitution.
		This includes monthly drill weekends and fifteen days of annual training (giving rise to the old slogan “one weekend a month, two weeks a year”).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reserve_component (1258 words)

	Off the Kuff
		I can't let the old year pass by without noting with sadness that Ginger Stampley, the person who inspired me to start a blog in the first place, has hung up her spikes.
		Two former associates of Edwin A. Buckham, the congressman's former chief of staff and the organizer of the U.S. Family Network, said Buckham told them the funds came from Russian oil and gas executives.
		Lo and behold, on the weekends when two of the titles -- "The Order of the Phoenix" and "The Half-Blood Prince" -- were released, emergency-room attendance rates for the designated cohort dropped by nearly half compared to "normal" weekends, 36 and 37 kids respectively in need of mending rather than an average of 67.
	www.offthekuff.com /mt (13886 words)

	The Clarion-Ledger: Mississippi's News Source
		Reserve activations have grown more frequent in recent years as active-duty numbers have dwindled, pulling thousands away from their civilian lives and families.
		Last year, these same troops were sent to handle airport security and guard terrorist suspects held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
		But U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has said in recent months that changes might be needed to reduce stress on reservists and their families.
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0303/21/y10.html (904 words)

	911... We remember. A Delaware State News special section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When Lt. Milhoan joined the Army Reserves five years ago, they were required to fill out powers of attorney and wills and specify who would be responsible for the care of their children.
		For the next three weeks, Lt. Milhoan was on 12-hour shifts at the base with much of the communication with her family begin done by telephone.
		In 16 years of marriage, they have only spent four of their wedding anniversaries together and their reserve weekends rarely coincide.
	www2.newszap.com /911/911h.html (774 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Guard recruiters lose 'weekend warrior' pitch
		The U.S. military's continued reliance on the National Guard for duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world means the old recruiting pitch of "one weekend a month and two weeks a year" is no longer an option.
		The Southern Nevada quota for new Air and Army national guard recruits is 247 enlistments by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
		Charles Wilson, second in command of the Army's reserve forces, said at last week's Guard and Reserve national convention in Salt Lake City that the heavy reliance on reserve soldiers requires a change in the culture and identity of the armed forces.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/lv-other/2004/jun/17/517034891.html (772 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Maine / Maine Guard recruitment down one-fifth so far this year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Nationally, the Guard says it hit its recruiting goal last year, but many of those are shipping out and the prospect for future recruitment is not as promising.
		Giving up one weekend a month and two weeks a year used to be enough to serve your country.
		Today, traveling overseas is the norm in the first couple of years.
	www.boston.com /news/local/maine/articles/2004/03/06/maine_guard_recruitment_down_one_fifth_so_far_this_year (367 words)

	CBS News \| Reservists Called Up, Or On Notice \| November 5, 2003 17:04:08
		Pending and possible call-ups create stress and problems galore for reservists, many of whom thought being in the Reserves was a one weekend a month, two week a year deal in exchange for numerous home front benefits.
		Beth Fightmaster has two preschoolers, she's pregnant, and she's wondering whether her husband will be around to help out with the next round of late-night diaper changes.
		Soldiers who thought being in the Reserves was one weekend a month, two weeks a year, should come to grips that those days are over, he said.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/09/27/iraq/main575441.shtml (904 words)

	One Guardsman's Spiel
		By the end of the month I had made some huge improvement and was back at mission and completed February's mission by the 9th.
		A week later that relief, that happiness was torn away by some low-life thug.
		About a month ago, Luke was spotted by a police officer, who told him he had a military warrant for his arrest.
	sgtguardsman.blogspot.com (6792 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Two video documentaries -- "Gunner Palace," about a group of young soldiers who camped in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces following the fall of Baghdad, and "Operation: Dreamland," about the fight for Fallujah -- recently opened in the United States.
		Craig was studying anthropology at the University of Oregon when his brother, a graduate student at Columbia in New York, told him of an internship he was doing at DCTV under the tutelage of award-winning documentarian Jon Alpert.
		The Renauds still have a lot of work to do, but with the 39th scheduled to rotate out this month, the most dangerous part seems to be behind them.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fd20050323pb.htm (1977 words)

	Techdirt.
		However, for the past two and a half years, all three properties missed out on tremendous opportunities to establish themselves as superior brands, since they took themselves out of the conversation.
		NTP continues to try to put a positive spin on this, as they drag their feet and hope that the judge in the case sticks by his announced plans to make a decision without paying attention to what the patent office is saying.
		Nearly a year and a half ago, we wrote about a lawyer who was upset at being mocked on some Yahoo message boards -- and tried to organized a class action lawsuit against the company and some of the posters.
	www.techdirt.com /index.shtml (4312 words)

	Ventura County Star: County News
		After three years in the Air Force, Tamara Watkins enlisted in California's Air National Guard so she could get a nursing degree while continuing to serve her country.
		Terrorists attacked in New York and Washington, D.C. Watkins was activated during her first weeks of school and deployed to Afghanistan, where she helped evacuate wounded soldiers and prisoners from dangerous areas.
		Unless they were federalized to handle national issues, these Guard members were the heroes who held down important private-sector jobs while also calming riots, rescuing flood victims and putting out wildfires in their state.
	staging.insidevc.com /vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_2994507,00.html (1656 words)

	The Western Herald - State names WMU student Airman of Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lucas Freudenburg, a senior airman for the 110th Fighter Wing based in Battle Creek, Mich., was recently named Michigan Airman of the Year for 2003.
		After training, Freudenburg enrolled full time at WMU, was an active member in his fraternity and reported one weekend a month and two weeks a year for his military duties.
		Freudenburg is now being considered for National Airman of the Year, and Oliveira thinks his chances of winning are high because of his war experience.
	www.westernherald.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/29/4067901367214 (644 words)

	One weekend a month, two weeks a year - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		However, you are welcome to continue editing this article and improve it, especially if you can address the concerns of those who believe the article should be deleted.
		Other forces have used this slogan as something against which they can contrast their own dedicationhttp://alguard.state.al.us/20th/soldier.htm, showing that, as members of the special forces, they are not mere "weekend warriors".
		The slogan has now become known in a changed form, One weekend a month my asshttp://utterlyboring.com/archives/2003/09/30/one_weekend_a_month_my_ass_a_followup.php as a comment on the treatment of the national guard reservists.
	education.music.us /O/One-weekend-a-month,-two-weeks-a-year.htm (1201 words)

	Musings
		Two days ago, we had interesting discussions about "physical" situations where even the probabilities are unknown.
		After writing my two previous posts on approaches to quantum gravity, various people asked me to write something about Causal Dynamical Triangulations, a lattice model that has enjoyed a certain amount of favourable ‘buzz’ recently.
		The corresponding quiver gauge theories are known to be supersymmetric to all orders in perturbation theory, but to dynamically break supersymmetry at the nonperturbative level (see also Berenstein et al and Bertolini et al).
	golem.ph.utexas.edu /~distler/blog (6717 words)

	88.5 WFDD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Over the past two months, the Commission has conducted public hearings where some 400 audience members listened to varying accounts and perceived impacts of November 3rd, 1979.
		The plant was constructed in just eight months after their announcement to locate in Winston-Salem in November 2004 - and as WFDD's Jennifer Curry reports, the morale on the scene was up.
		They were called Weekend Warriors because they trained one weekend a month and two weeks per year when not on active duty.
	wfdd.org /local_features.php (1145 words)

	reddit.com: How to Quit Drinking Caffeine (comic)
		Two liter Pepsi products have gotten a lot more expensive this year, but my usual plan was to wait until there was a sale of 89 cent or 99 cent two liters, and then buy a hundred of them.
		That's like a month of beverage, and some place local was having such a sale every 5-6 weeks, so it wasn't all that bad for a long time.
		I'm missing two molars, but one of those was from before that level of Dew.
	reddit.com /info/2pgn1/comments (3339 words)

	Fallen Heroes Memorial: Army Sgt. Keith L. Smette
		How you did it in 25 years is beyond me. Someone posted that you were touched by God and we all knew it I can never deny the truth of that statement.
		one year ago today in western iraq, close to the syrian border, my friend and fellow soldier, curtis petrick, and i were working in an old weapons bunker filled with 120mm and 82mm mortars.
		It's been a year, and yet it still seems like yesterday that I saw you.I miss you and kick myself every time I think of the last time I saw you for not hugging you.
	www.fallenheroesmemorial.com /oif/profiles/smettekeithl.html (12480 words)

	kingcountyjournal.com - Air Force background keeps Fisher grounded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While his Seahawks teammates will go about finding places to live and shop and hang out when the team breaks camp and returns to Kirkland later this month, Fisher will be the one with the additional task of working out arrangements with the National Guard reserve unit in Seattle.
		Fisher spent his two years of active duty as a transportation officer at Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville, N.C., and he's still a member of the National Guard.
		But he had the speed to record 8½ sacks for the Rams last year and the discipline to fit into Ray Rhodes' scheme.
	www.kingcountyjournal.com /sited/story/html/214713 (916 words)

	Iraq resistance strong, popular anger growing
		Most of these part-time soldiers were recruited under the slogan, “One weekend a month, two weeks a year.” Few ever ex pect ed to be deployed halfway around the world, much less to be on the front lines.
		The U.S. soldiers, who had spent months training Iraqi soldiers, tried to persuade al-Ekabi to send his troops, saying it was likely that weapons were hidden in the fields and alongside an irrigation canal.
		In the months leading up to Wash ing ton’s “Shock and Awe” campaign, the government of President Saddam Hus sein had distributed arms and provided training to the civilian population, among other preparations for long-term resistance.
	www.workers.org /2005/world/iraq-0616 (1381 words)

	Robert Ferringo Handicaps at Doc's Sports - Free NFL & MLB Picks
		The primary likeness is that since teams play multiple times a week, momentum and the roller coaster of public opinion become so much stronger in these sports than they do in something like football.
		We have posted a profit in in two of the first three months of football and according to my past history I believe we are destined for a very profitable November.
		Again, the Victory Train runs year round and November, December, and January are the prime profit months.
	www.docsports.com /cappers.html?cap_id=20 (1709 words)

	News 14 Carolina \| 24 Hour Local News \| TOP STORIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This year, North Carolina has the largest mobilization of its Guard since World War I. The N.C. Guard has retained enough soldiers to surpass its goal for the fiscal year, with nearly 10,200 soldiers serving.
		Even though five North Carolina Guardsmen have died in the war on terror this year, others say they are not wavering in their commitment.
		Still, even though five North Carolina Guardsmen have died in the war on terror this year, Lee said he is not wavering.
	www.news14.com /splash.asp?domain=www.news14charlotte.com&ArID=80714&RegionCookie=12 (330 words)

	Busy Weekend For Local Reservists
		On August 18 the local Coast Guard Reservists arrived at the station for their monthly drill weekend.
		Not being exposed to the daily routine at the station and the constant cases that occur there, it is easy to forget what information has been taught, but one weekend a month and two weeks a year the reservists are in training for one year's worth of information and changes that may have been made.
		Boating Safety Tip of the Week: Before leaving for a boating trip make sure that on board the vessel is an updated chart of the area you are going to be visiting that day.
	boothbayregister.maine.com /2001-09-06/coast_guard.html (618 words)

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