The Fire Board oversees the fire department and has final approval of annual budgets, hiring and firing, expenditures not previously budgeted, and future planning.

During the TPF's ' annual manoeuvres ' on Salisbury Plain, Wolfie, Ken, Tucker and Speed decide to camp down after an evening of heavy drinking, unbeknown to them that they are in the middle of a military live firing area.

Featured events included an annual Toronto Symphony rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, complete with the firing of the guns from the nearby HMCS Haida, and often performances by well established acts, such as BB King, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny and Canadian acts like Lighthouse, Bruce Cockburn, The Nylons, Luba, Men Without Hats, Doug and the Slugs, Parachute Club and Red Rider.

New Boston is home to the annual Hillsborough County Agricultural Fair and the Molly Stark Cannon.

The 40th anniversary reunion, the first after Savio's death in 1996, was held in October 2004, and featuring columnist Molly Ivins giving the annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, followed later in the week by the customary rally in Sproul Plaza and panels on civil liberties issues.

Molly MacDonald helped Katrina come joint second with Archie in the annual Glenbogle Hill Race.

Her legendary compassion led the citizens of Murray, Idaho to name their annual city celebration the " Molly B ' Damn Gold Rush Days " in her honor.

The annual riots on May 1 in Berlin, the Schanzenfest fair in Hamburg, which regularly ends in riots, or other demonstrations, are usually accompanied by water cannon, which support riot police.

The squadron also participated in the annual SANDF force preparation exercises and fired live cannon rounds and dropped live bombs.

* Cannonball run ( Galle Face ) annual run to commemorate the 1845 misfiring of a British cannon on Galle Face Green, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

Present conservation practices regard wildlife, not as an expendable natural resource, but as an annual harvest to be sown and also reaped.

But the really controversial aspect of customer-cost imputation arises because of the cost analyst's frequent practice of including, not just those costs that can be definitely earmarked as incurred for the benefit of specific customers but also a substantial fraction of the annual maintenance and capital costs of the secondary ( low-voltage ) distribution system -- a fraction equal to the estimated annual costs of a hypothetical system of minimum capacity.

The genus also contains several well-known ornamental plants, such as Amaranthus caudatus ( love-lies-bleeding ), a native of India and a vigorous, hardy annual with dark purplish flowers crowded in handsome drooping spikes.

Agricultural needs were also met by increasing knowledge of constellations, whose appearances change with the seasons, allowing the rising of particular star-groups to herald annual floods or seasonal activities.

Pushkar is also famous for its annual Pushkar Fair.

Most of the special interest groups also have an annual conference.

Alexandria is also known as " Small Town USA " and holds an annual festival to honor this heritage.

Athanasius did, however, remain in contact with his people through his annual Festal Letters, in which he also announced on which date Easter would be celebrated that year.

However, many " free " BBSes also maintained close knit communities, and some even had annual or bi-annual events where users would travel great distances to meet face-to-face with their on-line friends.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

Tiffany & Co., for example, pays directors an annual retainer of $ 46, 500, an additional annual retainer of $ 2, 500 if the director is also a chairperson of a committee, a per-meeting-attended fee of $ 2, 000 for meetings attended in person, a $ 500 fee for each meeting attended via telephone, in addition to stock options and retirement benefits.

It is also possible that he agreed to pay an annual tribute in return for the Goths ' promise to respect Roman territory.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

It also gave support to the Cornish language, and commemorated Thomas Flamank, a leader of the Cornish Rebellion in 1497, at an annual ceremony at Bodmin on 27 June each year.

The Campaign also organises an annual Great British Beer Festival in August, in London.

Cairo, like many other mega-cities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic, but its metro – one of only two metros on the African continent ( the other one being the Algiers Metro ) – also ranks among the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1, 000 million annual passenger rides.

Most of the plants in this family are annual vines but there are also woody lianas, thorny shrubs, and trees ( Dendrosicyos ).

Branch churches also sponsor annual public talks ( called lectures ) given by speakers selected annually by the Board of Lectureship in Boston.

There are also clubs in many Universities and Colleges, with an annual Varsity match being played between Oxford and Cambridge.

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

The park also hosts the annual Taste of Chicago festival.

Earnhardt also became the first repeat winner of the annual all-star race, The Winston.

The annual French Festival takes place throughout Acapulco city and offers a multitude of events that cement cultural links between Mexico and France.

An annual Federal Swiss trade fair ( Mustermesse ) takes place in Kleinbasel on the right bank of the Rhine.

The Vectren Dayton Air Show is an annual air show that takes places at the Dayton International Airport.

The remaining constitutional functions of the Monarch are to open the annual session of the Riksdag, to chair the foreign advisory committee, to preside at the special cabinet council when a new Prime Minister takes office, and to be kept informed by the Prime Minister on matters of state.

The annual Mexico Investment Summit takes place in Mexico City covering the development and investment opportunities and challenges across Mexican private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate, agriculture, tourism, energy and natural resources evolving in the country's economy.

The National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Awards weekend is an annual gala event which takes place at a site selected by the President.

Perhaps the most important cultural event in Poznań is the annual Malta theatre festival, which takes place at many city venues usually in late June and early July.

The annual Berlin Marathon, which takes place in the last weekend of September, was first held in 1974 but due to the division of the city was confined to West Berlin up till and including 1989.

Since 1928 Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan has held an annual Winter Carnival in mid-February, during which a large Snow Sculpture Contest takes place between various clubs, fraternities, and organizations in the community and the university.

An annual film festal takes place in the newly built mareel

The novel Murder at the War ( Knightfall in paperback edition ) is a detective story concerning a murder that takes place at the SCA's largest annual event, Pennsic War.

The annual blessing of the graves takes place each summer as it has done since the foundation of the cemetery in 1832.

This international oath of allegiance takes place every year at the annual gatherings of Ahmadis-The Caliph of the community accepts the oath of allegiance.

An annual regatta is held, each May, and a raft race takes place each year for the St David's Foundation.

The second House Shout takes place between Linacre and Meister Omers, and is an annual tradition that is not adjudicated.

Since 1990, Vulcan has hosted the annual Vulcan Tinman Triathlon, which takes place at the beginning of June.

An annual marathon event takes place each year in Limassol the Limassol International Marathon GSO.

* Valletta's Marsamxett Harbour a " Regatta " ( Rowing ) Team, which takes part in the annual traditional Regatta on Victory Day ( 8 September ).

On 14 June 2012 Liza headlined at Hampton Court Palace Festival an annual event which takes place at Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, England

One of the Tate's most publicised art events is the awarding of the annual Turner Prize, which takes place at Tate Britain.

The annual New Year ’ s Day Parade takes place on the streets of the West End.

From 1993, the Budget was preceded by an annual ' Autumn Statement ', now called the Pre-Budget Report, which forecasts government spending in the next year and usually takes place in November or December.

To save costs on the annual rebranding, the name of the festival was changed to " The Number Fest " with an updated " edition " for each year it takes place.

MUCES is the Spanish acronym to The City of Segovia Festival of European Cinema, an annual film festival which takes place in the city since 2006, usually in November.

Athens is home to the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention, an annual event that takes place each October, on the Athens State University campus.