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Fire districts seek voter support
SMOKEY POINT Area firefighting and emergency medical services agencies are seeking support from voters on the Aug. 19 primary ballot to fund their services.
Silvana Fire District 19 bond, levy
Snohomish County Fire Protection District 19 is running two propositions, the first to issue $1.5 million of general obligation bonds to expand and renovate Fire Station 94, and the second to restore its regular property tax levy to the maximum rate of $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed value starting in 2009.
If Proposition 1 is passed, the bonds would cover the construction of additional living and working space for firefighters at Fire Station 94, as well as converting its existing day room and restroom into a public meeting room and community fire training area. The bonds would also pay the costs of acquiring firefighting and lifesaving equipment, installing a vehicle exhaust system, constructing an additional vehicle bay and other capital improvements.
The bonds would be repaid from annual property tax levies in excess of regular property tax levies over a period of 20 years. The district anticipates a tax rate increase of approximately $0.17 per $1,000 of assessed value, or $60 per year for a $350,000 home, for the life of the bonds, over the existing tax rate. Exemptions may be available for homeowners who are 61 years or older, disabled and meet certain income requirements.
If Proposition 2 is passed, the annual levy would be permitted to increase by the rate of inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, but not in excess of the $1.50 rate, from 2010-2014. The 2014 levy would then be used to calculate subsequent levy limits.
Because of the statutory 1-percent limit on property tax increases, the district's current levy rate is $0.82 per $1,000 of assessed value. Passage of the proposition would authorize the district to exceed this 1-percent limit and restore its levy to the $1.50 rate, which voters had previously voted to restore in 2003. This would result in an estimated tax rate increase of $0.68 per $1,000 of assessed value, or $238 per year for a $350,000 home.
"The costs are rising for our district, but tax collection hasn't kept pace," Fire District 19 Chief Keith Strotz said. "We're just plain collecting less, while these services are costing more. The community expects more from their fire department, and we're putting on more volunteers. We're simply unable to keep up with inflation and the costs of doing business."
North County Fire Authority levy
The North County Regional Fire Authority Board of Commissioners is asking local residents to return the current emergency medical services levy rate to its previous rate of $0.50 per $1,000 of assessed value. The board is also asking that this funding source for the community become permanent, but that the tax rate level must always be approved by the local voters.
The current EMS levy helps fund services such as basic and advanced life support services, emergency medical equipment such as defibrillators and aid cars, and training for emergency personnel.
"We feel it is important that the citizens retain these vital service levels and are able to choose what they wish to fund for their community in the future," Fire Authority Chief Dale Fulfs said. Fulfs emphasized that the levy is not a new tax.
Marysville EMS levy
The Marysville City Council is likewise asking for a regular property tax levy for emergency medical services, that would authorize the district to set and maintain a regular property tax levy of $0.50 or less per $1,000 of assessed value starting in 2009.
Marysville Fire District 12 levy
Snohomish County Fire District 12 is proposing a regular property tax levy for emergency medical services, that would authorize the district to set and maintain a regular property tax levy of $0.50 or less per $1,000 of assessed value starting in 2009.
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Developers have to consider turning new IP into a franchise even when games are nothing more than ideas, APB's Dave Jones has said.
Speaking to VideoGamer.com at the Brighton Develop conference, the Realtime Worlds creative director said that developers "have to think of so much these days", even at the early concept stage.
He said: "It's not just the game, it's how do you turn it into a franchise? Where do you go after one? What does two look like? Is there enough scope to turn this into a franchise? Those kind of thoughts you have to have right away."
Jones said that because of this situation a case like Lemmings, which "came together probably in an hour" based on a short animation, wouldn't be possible today.
Jones personally wrote the hugely successful puzzle game Lemmings while at DMA Design, the studio that eventually became Rockstar North. He also created the Grand Theft Auto series.
Jones revealed that if he gets an idea for a game, he typically spends up to a year mulling it over in his mind without mentioning it to anyone.
"For me, if I get an idea for a game, typically I tend to in my mind, I work with it, I mull it over, I go through things, typically for six months to a year.
"If I've given up after three months, it's just like an internal test for me. If I'm not keeping revisiting that and trying to put more flesh on the idea and thinking how will this work, how will that work? It's a great test for me, because if after two or three months I let it drop I know it's not going anywhere.
"But after six months or 12 months it's still there, it's still eating away at me, and I keep saying I can solve this, I can solve that, that'll work – then typically that's how long it takes. I have to incubate an idea."
Be sure to check out the rest of the revealing interview, where Jones dishes the dirt on his design philosophies and the development of APB.

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We report on the infrared properties of the 70um-selected sample of sources in the Spitzer extragalactic First Look Survey. As a whole, about 90% of the population show infrared colors that are consistent with the spectral energy distributions of the local IRAS population of luminous infrared starbursts, while approximately 10% of the sample show warm infrared colors consistent with AGN activity. The mean redshift for the population is about z=0.2. For galaxies detected in 70um at z>0.5, the fraction of sources with warm infrared colors increases significantly. This work is based in part on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under NASA contract 1407.
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Dallas Stars left wing Ray Whitney (13) congratulates Dallas Stars defenseman Alex Goligoski (33) on his goal in the third period of NHL Hockey action against the Colorado Avalanche at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
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text: Georgia O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch\nThe Artist's First New Mexico Home Is Faithfully Restored\n"To me it is the best place in the world," O'Keeffe (at 94) said of Ghost Ranch. "It has always been secluded and solitary. When I first went there, it was only one house with one room—which had a ghost living in it.\nBluffs rise to the north of the house, which is partly obscured by piñon trees.\nFor more than 40 years Georgia O'Keeffe spent her summers at Ghost Ranch, some 60 miles northwest of Santa Fe. "I loved it immediately," she said of her first visit to New Mexico. "From then on I was always on my way back." O'Keeffe would climb the ladder to the roof, where she often slept.\nO'Keeffe at her dining table in 1967.\nThe kitchen and breakfast room feature viga-and-latilla ceilings and windows that open onto the high-desert landscape. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center has restored the house to its 1940s appearance.\nAs elsewhere in the house, rocks, shells and bones collected by the artist on her walks line shelves in the dining room. Chinese chairs surround the plain plywood table. The simple, U-shaped adobe structure was built in the 1930s; it now sits on approximately 12 acres.\nFrom the breakfast room, O'Keeffe could look north to the pump house.\nHer Untitled (Red and Yellow Cliffs) dates from 1940, the year she bought the property. In 1949 she settled permanently in New Mexico, dividing her time between Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu.\nA ledge displays bones and other objects found by the artist. "The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even though it is vast and empty and untouchable—and knows no kindness with all its beauty," she once said.\nThe studio at Ghost Ranch remained an austere space with few furnishings. O'Keeffe also painted outdoors, and her Model A Ford functioned as a kind of mobile studio. "I thought the ranch would be good for me because nothing can grow here and I wouldn't be able to use up my time gardening," she said.\nThe Le Corbusier–style lounge chair in the studio is original to the house. Small items were given to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe by her friend and associate, Juan Hamilton. The house is now used for research activities.\nThe house, with Cerro Pedernal in the distance. "I suppose I could live in a jail as long as I had a little patch of blue sky to look at," O'Keeffe said. "The kinds of things one sees in cities . . . it's better to look out the window at the sage."\nThe ladder to the roof.


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AUSTINTOWN - In a situation the superintendent calls "a first," a school board member has asked for a police presence at today's Board of Education meeting.
"This is the first time in the history of Austintown schools, from what I've been told," Superintendent Vince Colaluca said of the request.
The special work session will include an executive session to discuss employment of personnel, according to a school release, and no action will be taken.
Harold Porter, who requested someone from the police be at the meeting, said in an email that his concerns revolve around the hiring of a new head principal for Austintown Fitch High School.
Among his concerns are that five of the 10 members of a selection committee are residents of Boardman. He also said of the two remaining candidates, one is from the Mayfield Heights School District. He feared it might stir concerns.
Dave Schneremberger, board vice president, said in a call late Wednesday night that police will not be present for the meeting. He said there are times police are present for open meetings, but this is an executive session.
"We really don't want to set a precedent by having police at a workshop," Schneremberger said. "It is always our desire to keep things calm and remain productive."
Schneremberger said no threats have been made regarding the meeting.
"We've consulted other board members and the superintendent about it," Schneremberger said. "We've also talked to Mr. Porter about his concerns."
The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the district's central office, 700 S. Raccoon Road.


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Look at her shes got cookies under that top.
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The lower part of a girls ass mostly seen when a short tight dress is worn
dam! I can see her cookies
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orgasm, gettin' a nut, cummin' like a rabbit
Like right after sex when your girlfriend asks "did you get your cookies?"
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partially digested food....
I think I'm gonna toss my cookies
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Cookies are cool points( as used in North Carolina), props that u lose when u get embarressed, no one i know calls any drugs cookies.
My man got his cookies took when he got slapped by his girl.
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A big black dude in his twenties that wants to beat you up because you stole his beer. (also he wants to be a pro wrestler and looks like Mr T.
OH shit cookies is gunna kill us
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cookies - other word for Crack Cocaine because u bake it like cookies.
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An accused rogue Philadelphia police officer, who was charged in June on federal drug and gun counts, was indicted today on additional charges of a Hobbs Act robbery and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence.
Jonathan Garcia, 23, was on-duty as a patrolman when he allegedly tried to rob a suspected drug dealer of $2,030 and prescription pain medications. The suspected drug dealer turned out to be an informant for the FBI.
Garcia, said federal prosecutors, used his patrol car and all his police trappings on June 19 to illegally stop and arrest the suspected drug dealer and searched the man's car. Garcia confiscated $2,500 and 100 oxycontin pills, but when he returned to his 17th district headquarters, Garcia submitted paper work showing he seized only $420 and 90 pills.


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Another pet you can adopt from Venetopia; the evil villian of Venetopia; a mix between a dragon and snake.
The Flamoro and Malacan are nearly the same thing, they have different colors though.
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On Aug. 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened as the SS Ancon crossed the just-completed waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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- 1483, the Sistine Chapel was consecrated by Pope Sixtus IV.
- 1812, the Battle of Fort Dearborn took place as Potawatomi warriors attacked a U.S. military garrison of about 100 people. (Most of the garrison was killed, while the remainder were taken prisoner.)
- 1939, the MGM musical "The Wizard of Oz" opened at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
- 1945, in a radio address, Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced that his country had accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II.
- 1947, India became independent after some 200 years of British rule.
- 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York.
- 1989, F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as acting president of South Africa, one day after P.W. Botha resigned as the result of a power struggle within the National Party.


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The need to simplify and optimize processes continues to be a key agenda item for all organizations and sales is ripe for improvement. Sales organizations of most midsized business are especially in need for automation and improvement in this area that is still dominated by the use of spreadsheets, presentations, documents and email. These personal productivity tools were not designed for sales compensation processes and have been inflicting delays and frustration in sales and finance with scattered and unreliable information. Recently at Salesforce Dreamforce conference, Callidus Software unveiled new sales compensation software products for those using Salesforce. The two solutions Callidus Plan Communicator and Commissions Manager help organizations off-board from using dedicated spreadsheets onto a solution that uses software designed for the process and for management to ensure accurate and fair commission and incentives are paid.
Callidus Plan Communicator helps with the rollout of compensation plans to the sales force but integrated in with the use of salesforce sales force automation software simplifying the access and review of an individual's plan. Callidus is also including an enablement service that provides consultation for transforming from spreadsheets into the solution easing the knowledge and resources needed to make improvement. I believe this is the type of support that especially mid-size organizations with 15 up to 100 sales representatives on compensation plans need to automate this process. This new software as a service based application has been in use and is now generally available. The solution is not intended for complex sales plans but will meet the majority of mid-sized organizations that have defined products and services with set commission rates and accelerators.
The focus of the new announcement at Dreamforce was on Commissions Manager which is also a native application developed on the Force.com platform that helps sales operations work with sales management and representatives that need to track, claim and resolve commission credit. In addition the application provides performance dashboards for managers and representatives to assess performance to quota, commissions paid and status of credit for sales closed across teams where disputes can typically arise. The application provides critical workflow and approval routing to streamline the commission process that is typically dragged into emails and phone calls. In addition for those in finance or CFO of organizations can readily review sales commission and progress to determine impact to the monthly and quarterly financials which has traditionally been more of a secret to the last moment than transparent on a daily basis. Our benchmark research on sales organizations identified this need for managing commissions as a top priority for sales operations teams along with sales representatives and management.In addition Callidus Software announced they will be expanding their entire suite on top of the Force.com platform to further embrace the cloud computing advancements at Salesforce that we also assessed (See: "Salesforce Chatter Brings Social Collaboration and Media into Business" and my colleagues assessment "Salesforce Dreamforce: The Business Focus of the UnSoftware") . This announced expansion goes beyond other suppliers for sales compensation and sales performance management that have just released one application that is natively built on the Force.com platform or just integrate data from Salesforce.com. This advancement by Callidus Software and others will also make it easier for organizations using salesforce to try and buy the solutions on the salesforce AppExchange platform designed for customers to find complimentary solutions. Callidus is taking a large step forward to build native applications on Force.com platform to embrace the Salesforce environment while also maintaining their enterprise class sales performance management suite that is more typically used in large and very large sales forces. Callidus customer Brocade presented at Salesforce Dreamforce conference to discuss how they are using Callidus for supporting over one thousand payees and new plans every six months. Brocade has streamlined their sales compensation processes by integrating the data across systems into the process and simplifies the single point of communications on plans and commissions.
Our benchmark research examined sales operations and found the troubling reality that 47 percent of sales operations teams are reliant on spreadsheets. In fact our research shows only 41 percent have positive level of confidence in their existing sales operations and performance processes. Adopting dedicated systems for sales compensation like that from Callidus Software can help address these current technology and confidence limitations in organizations. The need for these dedicated applications are part of what is called Sales Performance Management that is dedicated to helping sales organizations manage performance and operations which we recently assessed in what is called the Value Index for Sales Performance Management. Our research into sales organizations shows that only 38 percent of organizations are satisfied with sales force automation (SFA) for addressing the needs of sales operations and management indicating the larger opportunity for suppliers like Callidus Software to advance their efforts into sales organizations. They are addressing this management and process gap in sales organizations with solutions like these now available that are quite useful for small and medium sized sales organizations using Salesforce or for enterprises looking for a dedicated solution suite that Callidus already offeres for sales performance management.
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I wonder if there is such a thing as a good addiction, because I am addicted to music. Without music, my day is completely empty and boring. I wake up to music, I go to school listening to music, I analyze it in my music theory class, I perform it in my
and and orchestra classes, my own father is my music teacher, and after school I practice or go to Fayetteville Symphony rehearsals. My life literally revolves around music. But it is making music that means the most to me.
In our orchestra, we know that a performance is the culmination of hard work and long hours of practice. Much time and effort is put into every little detail, every rest and every note. The cut-offs must be clear and together, and when there is a rest,
very instrument must be completely silent in unison for the right effect. The rests in the music are as important as the notes. Over and over we practice the notes so that they sound not only clear, precise and in tune, but have just the right quality a
well. The members of the orchestra must properly use dynamics throughout the composition to convey the emotion the composer wrote into it. Put together, all these details become music- music that may bring joy or tears to the listeners during a performa
Music is not just performing on one night, however. It is the result of not only the efforts of individuals, but individuals together as a whole. Much cooperation and teamwork are needed to bring the ensemble together so that each individual knows ever
part of every piece of music inside out and upside down. This is quite an accomplishment. The ensemble has to think as one mind and concentrate on the conductor who is at the front of the orchestra, guiding with his slender baton. All of these details t
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No need to book, just come along on the day at 10.30am with your tablet or smartphone (or even just some curiosity). Coffee will be provided. Everyone is welcome, with or without a device.
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Elise has been teaching Autodesk and SolidWorks software for the past decade. She is an Autodesk Certified Instructor and teaches at an Autodesk Authorized Training Center in San Francisco, CA. She is a regular speaker at SolidWorks World and leads the Laney SolidWorks User group in Oakland, CA. She works as a mechanical engineer and designer in Silicon Valley.
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The evolution of educational technology has seen a shift from hardware and software to tactics and techniques, as the 2010 edition of the Educational Media and Technology Yearbook makes abundantly clear. As in previous years, it offers the reader a snapshot of the moment and a look ahead to issues most likely to shape the immediate future--an array as varied as the use of social networking sites in learning, new collaborations between media specialists and non-teaching school personnel, and the emerging discipline of Human Performance Technology. Here are ideas that are not only intellectually intriguing but also practical and practice-building, inspiring educators using computer technology to move beyond traditional teaching roles toward learning design. Included in the 2010 Yearbook: Salient issues in learning, design, and technology, such as the critical part school leadership plays in instructors' acceptance or rejection of technology, New trends in library and information science, including the role of school library media centers in preventing cyberbullying, This year's leadership profiles: Jerrold Kemp, author of Designing Effective Instruction; W. Michael Reed, accomplished, dedicated, and recognized educator in instructional technology, A worldwide directory of current professional associations and organizations in learning design, technology, information, and library science, Up-to-date listings of graduate program in these fields, rated using a variety of criteria, Special mediagraphy section featuring journals, ERIC documents, and media-related publications in specialized areas, including distance education, simulation/virtual reality, artificial intelligence, special education, and professional development. Academics in learning design and technology, and information and library science will welcome the latest edition of the Educational Media and Technology Yearbook as a reference, idea book, and a panoramic study of where we are now.
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If Mike Kafka is indeed the Eagles' backup quarterback, odds are he'll start a few games this season.
The message boards have been up in arms over this possibility. Despite a small sample of throws, the third-year quarterback continues to fight the perception that he doesn't have an NFL arm.
"It depends on who's saying it. You know what I mean?" Kafka said Friday at the NovaCare Complex. "I don't really look that far into it because there's been plenty of great quarterbacks that couldn't throw the ball through a wall if they wanted to.


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Ryan Moore holds a one-shot lead at the Travelers Championship, after consolidating his strong week in Connecticut.
Moore began Sunday's final round at 13 under overall years after a 4-under 66 at TPC River Highlands on Saturday. He has won in each of the past two seasons.
LEADERBOARDS: U.S. Women's Open | Travelers | Irish Open
Moore has been inside the top 10 at the end of each day at the PGA Tour event, and is a stroke clear of Australia's Aaron Baddeley.
Baddeley moved to 12 under courtesy of a 5-under 65, as the 33-year-old eyes his first win since February 2011.
Spains' Sergio Garcia headlines a group of four a further shot back on 11 under, after his round of 65 thrust him into contention and left him alongside South Korea's KJ Choi and Americans Scott Langley and Michael Putnam.
Further back at nine under are Americans Kevin Streelman (64), Nick Watney (65), Chad Campbell (67), Bud Cauley (68), Jamie Lovemark (70); Sweden's Carl Pettersson (66) and New Zealand's Tim Wilkinson (67).
Streelman's round of six under was the best of the day, and included seven birdies.
Champion in 2012, Australia's Marc Leishman rocketed up the leaderboard to seven under overall —and a tie for 20th —courtesy of a 65, while defending champion Ken Duke (71) is well back at two under in a tie for 55th.
World No. 3 and 2010 winner Bubba Watson (67) and the seventh-ranked Jason Day (67) are tied for 34th on four under overall, while Matt Kuchar — ranked fifth — is one stroke better but faltered with a 72 on Saturday.


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During the past ten to 15 years, maternal-fetal medicine has seen the publication of several books aimed at providing the subspecialist with a comprehensive text/reference work. These attempts, however, have more often than not missed the mark because of incomplete content, inadequate depth beyond that found in textbooks of obstetrics, excessively specialized chapters by multiple contributors focused on their own research, or a nonobstetric perinatal perspective. Contrary to their predecessors, Creasy and Resnik have masterfully encompassed the boundaries of the subspecialty in their textbook, Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Principles and Practice.
This work is logically separated into four parts: early fetal development and the environment, diagnostic modalities in maternal-fetal medicine, maternal and fetal pathophysiology, and the neonate. Each part is subdivided into chapters written by leaders in the field, many of whom are both scientists and practicing academic obstetric perinatologists. The flavor is, therefore, distinctly practical with as firm a basis in
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This section describes the REST API to access Prismic.io. It is useful to get an in-depth knowledge on how Prismic.io works, but most of the time you will be using a development kit; for that reason it is recommended to get familiar with the developer's manual before proceeding on this section.
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The API exposed by prismic.io is at the same time very powerful, allowing you to query and manipulate your content as you wish, and very easy to use, with concepts and tools that help you do things efficiently.
The main things that you need to know and remember:
- /api is the single endpoint of your content repository, you can learn and browse everything else from there. In your code, you should never forge any API URL, as they're all described in /api as forms; this flexible RESTful way to expose our API's capabilities lets us free to add new forms later as we roll out new features
- Forms are basically the ways the API can be used; you can compare a form to browsing a webpage, and getting data; then you request another form, and get some other data, etc. You can specify extra filters to apply on top of your form, using predicates (we'll get back to that!). Today, available forms through the prismic.io API are the one called "everything" (to query within all the repository, potentially filtering with additional predicates), plus one form per collection defined in the writing-room (to query within the collection, potentially filtering with additional predicates).
- a content release is something writers create in your writing-room, and that symbolizes an event in the future that will impact your content (for instance, "Our new product goes public"). Writers can then make changes to your documents, and push those changes to the proper content release, to publish it all at once later. Through the API, you can wish to query either the master release (the documents that are live now), or any other upcoming release your writers have created. They all have a release ID, which doesn't change when new changes are pushed to the release.
- at a given time, each content release has a content ref ID, which is the revision ID on which the content release is currently. If you change any content in the content release, its content ref ID changes, since this is a new revision of content. To keep our API calls immutable (which means the call itself has to be different if the result is expected to be different), the information that is passed in API calls is not the release ID, but the content ref ID. A table of correspondence between the two is in the /api endpoint.
- since /api is the only way for you to know if your information about your content is up-to-date, you shouldn't cache your calls to /api (we've made it especially performant, and our development kits make sure you don't call it more than once every 5 seconds); but you may cache any other request virtually forever (and all of our development kits come with caching out-of-the-box).


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She has told stories for The Moth Mainstage at the Museo del Barrio in New York City, the Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square in Oakland, and at the Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Oregon. She has given talks at the SOCAP Conference, Seattle Chefs Collaborative, the California Academy of Sciences, SXSW eco among many other places. Usually she is asked to speak about fish, but sometimes about gardening edibles or why everyone should dance more.
She is currently the Director of Marketing for Real Good Fish, a community supported fishery. Prior to this, she was Artist-in-Residence at Autodesk. You can read about her project there at Fast Company or Food Tank. Other recent residencies include Writing Between the Vines, The Marin Headlands Center for the Arts and Mesa Refuge.
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In Brief: Series for families of addicted adults
Glenbeigh Outpatient Center of Erie, 4906 Richmond St., will host a three-week discussion series for people concerned about a loved one's use of alcohol or other drugs.
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Millcreek Community Hospital has been accredited as a primary stroke hospital by the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program.
The Millcreek Township hospital is now an accredited place where patients can be treated and stabilized if they develop stroke symptoms such as trouble speaking, walking or seeing; sudden numbness; or a severe headache.
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Allegheny Health Network bans tobacco from grounds
The seven-hospital Allegheny Health Network will ban smoking and all other tobacco use anywhere on property it owns starting Jan. 1.
Saint Vincent Hospital and Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills already ban smoking anywhere on their properties. The network's five other hospitals, including flagship Allegheny General and West Penn, both in Pittsburgh, had long banned smoking in the buildings but will now ban it outside, too.
The new rules won't be as strict as those imposed by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, western Pennsylvania's dominant hospital network. UPMC has banned smoking on its properties since 2007, but earlier this summer it also banned workers from smoking during their shifts -- even off hospital grounds.
Allegheny Health won't do that, but it is offering smoking cessation courses to its workers.
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AT THE END OF THIS YEAR ALBUQUERQUE WILL HAVE NO POLICE CHIEF, AND NO FIRE CHIEF. JAMES BREEN ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT THIS WEEK. ACTION SEVEN NEWS REPORTER REGINA RUIZ SPOKE TO HIM ABOUT HIS DECISION. After 23 years its time for me to write a new chapter in my life, It's been a great ride. AFTER FOUR YEARS AT THE HELM OF THE ALBUQUERQUE FIRE DEPARTMENT--- CHIEF JAMES BREEN WILL RETIRE AT THE END OF THE YEAR. Being in the Fire Chief position, there is a tremendous demand on your personal time, tremendous effort and it creates new opportunities for you as well. CHIEF BREEN EXPLAINS HE LEAVES WITH MIXED EMOTIONS. HE SAYS HE WILL PURSUE OPPORTUNITIES WITH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORPORATIONS---BUT ISN'T READY TO DIVULDGE SPECIFICS YET. BUT, HE WILL TALK ABOUT THE STRIDES THE DEPARTMENT HAS MADE. when I took over in 2009 there was a number of off-duty conduct issues that had to be addressed, what we have done over the years, we've trained our people on the appropriate behaviors both on and off duty. NOW THE MAYOR WILL CHOOSE THE NEXT FIRE CHIEF. as for that next chief, Breen feels they are right here in the department and says he will encourage the Mayor to promote from within. THIS YEAR ALBUQUERQUE IS LOSING A POLICE CHIEF AND A FIRE CHIEF TO RETIREMENT.... WE ASKED CHIEF BREEN IF THAT SHOWS INSTABILITY WITHIN THE CITY...HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT DOES.. SOT The fire service has a career cycle and I have simply reached mine.Most Chiefs only serve for four years to begin with and it's because of the great demands of the position. AND WITH THAT.... CHIEF BREEN SAYS IT'S TIME FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES--- RR7N. THE MAYOR IS OUT OF TOWN. BUT, A STATEMENT FROM HIM SAYS BREEN IS CREDITED WITH HELPING MAKE ONE OF THE FINEST FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN THE COUNTRY. A NEW REPORT SAYS NEW MEXICO
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