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Post by Gaidin on Nov 5, 2014 13:59:52 GMT -5
I received intel from a poster who wished to remain anonymous that they received an email from Bob today. This is what they told me:
"I just got an email from Bob and it has 2 of my gal cities on it, but they are not any of the gal cities that have been previously posted. They are Newark NJ and Lansing MI. The start dates are the same as the recent dates (end-January 2015) and the interviews are supposed to be mid-November. I got a call to set up an interview yesterday but haven't connected with the scheduler yet. FWIW a couple of the other cities previously listed as part of the November cert were in my GAL but I did not get notified that I was being considered for them (although there are scores lower than mine reported in your previous poll). Thanks!"
So dear friends has anyone else gotten anything like this? Has there been a supplemental set of certs? If you want to send it anonymously please do so. Any additional confirmations or information would be hugely helpful.
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Post by owl on Nov 5, 2014 15:10:17 GMT -5
Just got my email with all the forms, and it shows I am on a cert for Valparaiso, IN - which I do not believe was reported as being among the initial set of cities.
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Post by gary on Nov 5, 2014 15:18:34 GMT -5
This is interesting. We've got enough high scoring wide open GAL folks that I would expect we would also hear from people who were previously informed that they are on the certs for the cities we knew about with news that they are also on the certs for the new cities.
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Post by cheesy on Nov 5, 2014 15:24:06 GMT -5
This is interesting. We've got enough high scoring wide open GAL folks that I would expect we would also hear from people who were previously informed that they are on the certs for the cities we knew about with news that they are also on the certs for the new cities. I think Gary gets the Run-on Sentence Award for the day! . For what it's worth, I agree. Just enough uncertainty to keep hope alive for the Trifectas. Just enough.
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Post by zepplin on Nov 5, 2014 15:29:41 GMT -5
It would be interesting to know scores, insider vs outsider, GAL size, anything to fuel the fire of speculation. : )
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Post by gary on Nov 5, 2014 15:29:54 GMT -5
This is interesting. We've got enough high scoring wide open GAL folks that I would expect we would also hear from people who were previously informed that they are on the certs for the cities we knew about with news that they are also on the certs for the new cities. I think Gary gets the Run-on Sentence Award for the day! . For what it's worth, I agree. Just enough uncertainty to keep hope alive for the Trifectas. Just enough. Some of my ancestors were German. They'd be very proud.
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Post by Gaidin on Nov 5, 2014 15:35:47 GMT -5
So over in the Polls people are reporting Pennsauken, NJ and Creve Couer, MO in addition to Newark, NJ and Lansing, MI listed above.
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Post by JudgeRatty on Nov 5, 2014 15:39:46 GMT -5
So over in the Polls people are reporting Pennsauken, NJ and Creve Couer, MO in addition to Newark, NJ and Lansing, MI listed above. And a report of Harlingen TX as well. So this is very interesting! We are getting more than the original 28! Most excellent.
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Post by Gaidin on Nov 5, 2014 15:43:18 GMT -5
At this point it would be awesome if somebody who has already gotten a cert email with the 28 or some of the 28 on it would report that they also got an email with these new cities on it?
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Post by hopefalj on Nov 5, 2014 15:46:28 GMT -5
At this point it would be awesome if somebody who has already gotten a cert email with the 28 or some of the 28 on it would report that they also got an email with these new cities on it? It would be awesome. If they're looking for volunteers, I will volunteer to receive an updated list.
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Post by gary on Nov 5, 2014 15:48:29 GMT -5
Assuming they have certed additional cities, perhaps they are emailing those who were not on the earlier certs first to get them started.
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Post by zepplin on Nov 5, 2014 15:55:44 GMT -5
I have 28 but no supplemental cert email. Will report if it comes.
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Post by orchid on Nov 5, 2014 15:56:40 GMT -5
I have 28 but no supplemental cert email. Will report if it comes. Ditto
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Post by gary on Nov 5, 2014 16:09:02 GMT -5
Also I think I recall from Supplemental Saturday that first certers with additional cities got to re-rank their cities. It may take Bob, et al., time to prepare those forms. Rather than wait on sending emails to the new people on the certs they may have sent the new people their emails now and will send emails with the new forms to the "old" people later.
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Post by JudgeRatty on Nov 5, 2014 16:13:00 GMT -5
Also I think I recall from Supplemental Saturday that first certers with additional cities got to re-rank their cities. It may take Bob, et al., time to prepare those forms. Rather than wait on sending emails to the new people on the certs they may have sent the new people their emails now and will send emails with the new forms to the "old" people later. Good point. Considering we have until the 10th to return paperwork, that may take a while.
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Post by northbend on Nov 5, 2014 16:14:15 GMT -5
Going to check my spam folder now.
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Post by luckylady2 on Nov 5, 2014 16:15:08 GMT -5
Some of my ancestors were German. They'd be very proud. Don't forget put nounsallthe on one side verbsallthe on the other of the sentence!
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Post by Missundaztood on Nov 5, 2014 16:17:23 GMT -5
Maybe these certs came from OPM later because these are additional cities not just additional names on existing certs?
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Post by luckylady2 on Nov 5, 2014 16:19:38 GMT -5
Except weren't most of these supplemental cities on the 1st round? Maybe they didn't close out some of the 1st round certs and just requested more names? Is that even possible?
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Post by gary on Nov 5, 2014 16:20:14 GMT -5
Maybe these certs came from OPM later because these are additional cities not just additional names on existing certs? It sounds like they are additional cities. I wonder how much after the first bunch of second certs this second bunch of second certs were requested.
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