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Business growth is creating demand for new applications. Nearly three out of four IT participants (71 percent) reported that IT is deploying more applications today than one year ago. This indicates a mutual business understanding of the critical and growing role of the network for application delivery.
IT and the network are increasingly recognized as key business enablers. Seventy-eight percent of respondents stated that the network is more critical for delivering applications than it was at this time last year.
IT-business alignment is improving, but IT is not always involved when decisions are made. Eighty-nine percent of IT leaders collaborate with line-of-business leaders at least on a monthly basis, however 76% claim applications are rolled out without engaging IT.
Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of IT professionals are confident in their ability to respond to the needs of the business. However, 27 percent still equated the visibility of their IT department into their company's business initiatives to a foggy day in London.
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The Federal Program Monitoring and Support Division supports approximately $463,000,000 in federal funds provided to districts and schools each year. The primary role of the Division is to provide grants administration, program monitoring, data collection and reporting, and to facilitate the necessary technical assistance to ensure not only compliance, but quality programs for students. Compliance is the first step toward program quality; monitoring is the springboard to providing technical assistance.
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Monitoring federal programs helps ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education. Compliance monitoring is intended to be a collaborative partnership between the State and local education agencies (LEAs) and public charter schools to ensure compliance with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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State monitoring team members provide technical assistance during the review visit and beyond. It is not the State's intent to tell the LEA HOW to run its title programs, but rather to answer questions, facilitate dialogue, and exchange ideas and information for program improvement while, at the same time, meeting all federal requirements.
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An Ohio man accused of killing a Cross Lanes teenager allegedly met the girl over the Internet — and the girl's father begged other parents Tuesday to make sure they know what their children are doing online.
Ericka Brown, a 16-year-old sophomore at Nitro High School, was reported missing on Aug. 10. Police say Ernest Michael Roach, 36, of Racine, Ohio, killed her.
Roach was charged with murder Tuesday morning by the prosecuting attorney in Meigs County, Ohio, where Brown's body was found by campers along the Ohio River on Saturday.
Federal authorities also charged Roach on Tuesday with traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Roach appeared briefly in federal court in Charleston, wearing an orange jumpsuit with his wrists and ankles shackled.
Brown posted at least one advertisement on craigslist.com looking for men because she wanted money, according to a sworn written statement made in federal court by Kanawha County Sheriff's Detective Ana Pile.
Brown wrote around Aug. 3, "seeking men - w4m I'm looking for $$ ill [sic] do anything for it, I am a girl," according to a criminal complaint on file in federal court. She requested that she be contacted by text message and gave her phone number.
Deputies interviewed many people who corresponded with Brown before cellphone records led to Roach, according to Kanawha County Sheriff John Rutherford. Roach was questioned Aug. 27 after deputies tracked his cellphone number to one Brown had been in contact with. Police found him living in a tent on property that belongs to his relatives. He denied having any knowledge about Brown on Aug. 27, Rutherford said, but agreed to meet with deputies the next day to take a polygraph.
He fled the area and deputies obtained a federal warrant, which was unsealed Tuesday.
On Saturday, Roach was arrested by Ohio State Police in Washington County, Ohio, and brought back to West Virginia. Brown's body was found while he was being questioned by police. It was wrapped in plastic and a ratchet strap, and a concrete block was attached to it.
"When he found out the body had been discovered, he did admit to his role in her murder," Rutherford said during a news conference Tuesday. Cellphone records from Brown and Roach matched up with his confession, police said.
David Wayne Brown, Ericka Brown's father, posted Tuesday on his Facebook page advising parents to find out who their children are talking to online.
"Make sure you know what sites they are on, children can be so private and thats a dangerous place to be, I don't want any other family to have to go thru the pain my wife and me are going thru," Brown wrote.
"Please hug your children tonight and tell them what they mean to you, [If i just] had the opportunity to hug and tell Ericka how much she meant to me one more time."
"My heart goes out to the Brown family," U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said at Tuesday's news conference. "We see circumstances like these happening frequently, where a posting on an online bulletin board or an online relationship is struck up or social media relationship is struck up, and the person on the other end, you don't know who they are.
"It's happening time and again, where individuals connect over the Internet or over the Internet through social media, and from there it gets very ugly very fast," Goodwin said.
Roach told deputies he met Brown in July for sex, according to the federal criminal complaint. On Aug. 9, deputies wrote, Roach again drove to Cross Lanes to have sex with Brown.
Police believe Brown was killed in the Portland area of Meigs County, Sheriff Keith Wood said Tuesday.
Roach is being held by federal marshals in South Central Regional Jail. He will have a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing Thursday, where federal prosecutors will ask that he be held without bond.
Roach has served jail time for offenses in Ohio, such as breaking and entering, receiving stolen property and fleeing from police, according to court records.
On Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Dwane Tinsley told Roach his financial situation allowed him to use the federal public defender's office. Assistant public defender George Lancaster sat beside him.
"Yes sir," Roach said to the judge when asked if he understood the charge against him.
"If convicted of this offense, Mr. Roach, you would be exposed to years in prison," Tinsley said. The offense carries a maximum of 30 years in prison, Goodwin said Tuesday.
Authorities are still deciding how to handle the charges against Roach, Goodwin said, including whether to combine them or which would be prosecuted first.
But "nothing trumps murder," Goodwin said. "Our goal is to prosecute this case in a way and in a jurisdiction that has the best evidence and will yield the most likely conviction and also the most appropriate sentence should we be able to secure a conviction."
Staff writer Erin Beck contributed to this report. Reach Kate White at firstname.lastname@example.com, 304-348-1723 or follow @KateLWhite on Twitter.


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Western's newest jewel: the Visual & Performing Arts Center (VPAC)
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On Sept. 28, 2014, Western Connecticut State University welcomed more than 500 guests to experience the creative process at work at the gala opening of its new Visual and Performing Arts Center. Students, faculty and staff were on hand to "put the building through its paces" in a multitude of spaces, including the Concert Hall, Studio Theatre, Art Gallery, Painting Studio, Recording Studio, Scene Shop, Dressing Rooms, Sculpture Studio, and M.F.A. Studios. In the weeks since the gala opening, the new facility has enhanced the artistic and academic experience for students, faculty, staff and patrons.
At 130,000 square feet, this uniquely designed facility is divided into three distinct wings: Theatre Arts, Music and Visual Arts, all connecting together in the stunning lobby with a ramp bridge that appears to float high above.
Students taking courses in the art wing benefit from light shining through double-height, northern-exposed windows in the spacious painting and sculpture studios. They work in photography and graphic design studios equipped with both the latest computer technology and the legacy technology of traditional film development. The Art Gallery features northern-exposed light, a Panelock 200 display system, all atop beautiful maple flooring.
Music students rehearse and perform in the Veronica Hagman Concert Hall, which features a tri-level, in-the-round seating experience for an audience of up to 350; variable acoustics; state-of-the-art performance audio and lighting; 5:1 HD recording and two Concert Grand pianos: a Steinway Model "D" (Hamburg) and a Yamaha CFX, the flagship of the Yamaha concert piano line. A recording studio houses WCSU's new Audio and Music Production degree program and features a Solid State Logic Duality audio console — the finest in the industry.
Theatre students perform on the facility's MainStage Theatre and Studio Theatre — both loaded with technology and functionality beyond many Broadway venues. Two theatre rehearsal studios, both equipped with audio/visual technology and sprung dance floors complement the university's increasingly popular musical theatre program. Dressing rooms, practice rooms and individual Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts studios are all incorporated into the spaces, designed for students so they may experience a professional-quality arts education.
The new facility was designed by an award-winning team of architects and technical consultants, including the architectural firms of Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture and Amenta/Emma as well as JaffeHolden (Acoustics) and Fisher Dachs Associates (Theatre).
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Having bunk beds is every child's dream. Can you blame them? Bunk beds are fun and funky – can come in lots of different designs and colours - and are way cooler to sleep in than a regular bed! They are great for parents too - they can save a lot of space in this age of confined city living, plus buying a bunk is often cheaper than buying two single beds! But bunk beds have their downsides too. Each year about 400 kids are hospitalised due to bunk bed related injuries – often because they are poorly designed or badly put together! Following these safety tips will ensure that your child doesn't become another statistic:
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Wiltshire Council had to make some difficult decisions when creating proposals to slash its 2014/15 budget by £25 million, leader Jane Scott said today.
The council's cabinet, during a meeting held at County Hall, approved the plans which will be voted on by councillors at a full council meeting, taking place on Tuesday, February 25.
If accepted, amongst some of the planned changes, the council will reduce funding for bus services they deem not to be efficient, bring family information services in-house and withdraw 5p per mile support funding to the region's Link bus services, although the groups will still be entitled to apply for grants.
Coun Scott said: "This has not been a very easy budget but there were two things we wanted to ensure.
"The first was that we protected frontline services as much as possible and the second was that we wanted to keep the council tax down as we know people are struggling."
The proposals will see Wiltshire Council's element of the council tax being frozen.
The budget will also see around £18m invested in improving some of their other services. These include investing an extra £10m in highways schemes, £1.3m in health provisions and giving staff a one per cent pay rise.
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Lung cancer is a disease in which cancer cells grow in the lungs. There are 2 types of lung cancer:
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the US for both men and women.
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Cancer occurs when cells in the body divide without control or order. Normally, cells divide in a regulated manner. If cells keep dividing uncontrollably when new cells are not needed, a mass of tissue forms, called a growth or tumor. The term cancer refers to malignant growths. These growths can invade nearby tissues. Cancer that has invaded nearby tissues can then spread to other parts of the body.
The following can cause damage to the cells in the lungs, leading to lung cancer:
Factors that may increase your chance of lung cancer include:
Symptoms may include:
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. The doctor will also ask about:
Tests may include:
Imaging tests evaluate the lungs and other structures. These may include:
The physical exam combined with all of your test results, will help to determine the stage of cancer you have. Staging is used to guide your treatment plan. Like other cancers, lung cancer is staged from I-IV. Stage I is a very localized cancer, while stage IV indicates a spread to other parts of the body.
The goal of treatment is to eliminate the cancer and/or control the symptoms.
Surgery involves removing the tumor and nearby tissue. Lymph nodes may also need to be removed. The type of surgery depends on the location of the tumor, such as:
Radiation therapy is the use of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. This may also be used to relieve symptoms, such as shortness of breath. External radiation is usually used to treat lung cancer. With this treatment, radiation is directed at the tumor from a source outside of the body.
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. This may be given in many forms, including pill, injection, and via a catheter. Chemotherapy is often used to kill lung cancer cells that have spread to other parts of the body.
Researchers continue to study ways to treat lung cancer. The National Cancer Institute considers these potential therapies:
Other treatments that are being researched include:
To help reduce your chance of lung cancer:
The American Lung Association and American Cancer Society both suggest that screening for lung cancer with a low-dose CT scan may be considered if you are a smoker (or former smoker), aged 55-74 years, and have a history of heavy smoking (such as one pack a day for 30 years).
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'Buffalo hardly looked like a team looking to clinch a playoff spot in the final seven games and possibly ascend to seventh, maybe even sixth. Instead, the Sabres played more like the team that had struggled during the first half of the season. Their defense was loose. They surrendered too many odd-man rushes. Their forwards failed to convert. They took silly penalties. Their goaltending wasn't good enough.'
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Former Broward Teachers Union chief Pat Santeramo, pictured above, turned himself in to the Broward County Jail on a slew of criminal charges.
Santeramo has been charged with stealing $165,000 from the union in a kickback scheme involving a Coral Springs construction company, owned by a friend, David Esposito, the former president of the Broward Housing Finance Authority.
The scheme allegedly worked this way: Santeramo gave Esposito's construction firm, Marstan Construction, a contract to renovate BTU headquarters. He then overpaid Esposito, who allegedly returned $165,500 into Santeramo's pocket. Here's a release from the State Attorney's Office:
The Broward State Attorney's Office has charged former Broward Teachers Union president Patrick Santeramo with one count of racketeering and 19 other theft-related and campaign-fraud charges.
Santeramo turned himself in at the Broward County Jail Tuesday morning.
Besides the Racketeering charge, Santeramo was charged with six counts of Grand Theft; five counts of Campaign Contribution Violations; four counts of Money Laundering; three counts of Organized Scheme to Defraud and one count of Conspiracy to Commit Racketeering. The Warrant to Arrest was signed Monday by Broward Circuit Court Judge Ilona Holmes.
The investigation, conducted by the Broward Sheriff's Office and the Broward State Attorney's Office, showed that after Santeramo's election as president of BTU in November 2001, the new union president "began using the BTU as his artifice to organize his scheme to defraud the union and its members."
"Santeramo, while using his unilateral control of the union's business to include contracting, vendor approval, payment authorization and distribution of union assets, manipulated the union's business, accounting and financial operations for his own benefit," according to the Affidavit to Arrest.
Between 2001 and January 2012, Santeramo was able "to systematically divert approximately $165,500 in union funds to himself thorough an invoice-kickback scheme with a construction company.
In one of those 43 instances of racketeering that investigators uncovered, Santeramo had the construction company bill BTU $89,295 for repairing the BTU building elevators. The company gave $20,000 of the union's payment back to Santeramo in cash, investigators found.
Santeramo is also accused of making a series of illegal campaign contributions by having 25 individuals, including BTU members, make donations to a variety of candidates for which he then reimbursed them with BTU funds. Santeramo also improperly collected more than $121,848 by claiming false sick time and vacation time, it was discovered.
The lead investigator for BSO is Det. Michael Johnston. Assistant State Attorney Adriana Alcalde of the State Attorney's Public Corruption Unit is prosecuting the case.
Racketeering and Conspiracy to Commit Racketeering are first-degree felonies punishable by up to 30 years in Florida State Prison.
One Grand Theft charge is a first-degree felony, the other five charges are third-degree felonies.
Four of the campaign contribution violations are third-degree felonies; one is a first-degree misdemeanor.
The four money-laundering charges are third-degree felonies.
One count of Organized Crime to Defraud is a first-degree felony, the second count is a second-degree felony, and the third count is a third-degree felony.
Second degree felonies are punishable by up to 10 years in prison; third-degree felonies are punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
The Broward Sheriff's Office will hold a news conference on the Santeramo case at 12:30 p.m. The case was worked by deputies and the State Attorney's Office.
Even as Santeramo was under criminal investigation and funds were unaccounted for, the Broward Teachers Union new leader, John Tarka, approved a payout of $175,000 to Santeramo in sick and vacation leave. Some $121,000 of that money was improperly paid out, according to the State Attorney's Office.
Several union officials have been charged with violating campaign laws after being reimbursed by BTU for political contributions made to former gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink and Hilary Clinton in a scheme allegedly devised by Santeramo.
Here's a link to previous reporting.
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Follow the Rules!Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
You have four cards on the table:
[ BRAIN ] [ strain ] [ MIND ] [ teaser ]
You know that each card has capitalized letters on one side and lowercase letters on the other. There is a rule that says, "If a card has 'BRAIN' on one side, it must have 'strain' on the other."
Which card(s) must be turned over to make sure that the rule was not violated?
HintRules, rules, rules...
AnswerTwo cards: [ BRAIN ] and [ teaser ].
Let's examine this card by card...
[ BRAIN ] - this must have [ strain ] on the other side or else we would violate the rule, therefore we must turn this card over.
[ strain ] - this "can" have but doesn't require [ BRAIN ] on the other side. If it does, the rule is not violated. If it doesn't, the rule is still not violated. Therefore, we do not need to turn this card over.
[ MIND ] - will not violate the rule since it was stated that lowercase must be on the other side of this card. We do not need to turn this over.
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25 CFR Appendix B to Part 276, Financial Reporting Requirements
A. Purpose and scope. This appendix prescribes requirements for grantee to report financial information to the Bureau and to request advances and reimbursement when a letter-of-credit method is not used.
B. Definitions. 1. Accrued expenditures. Accrued expenditures are the charges incurred by the grantee during a given period requiring the provision of funds for: (1) Goods and other tangible property received; (2) services performed by employes, contractors, subgrantees, and other payees; and (3) amounts becoming owed under programs for which no current services or performed are required.
2. Accrued income. Accrued income is the earnings during a given period which is a source of funds resulting from: (1) Services performed by the grantee; (2) goods and other tangible property delivered to purchasers; and (3) amounts becoming owed to the grantee for which no current services or performance are required by the grantee.
3. Disbursements. Disbursements are payments in cash or by check.
4. Bureau funds authorized. Funds authorized represent the total amount of the Bureau funds authorized for obligations and establish the ceilings for obligation of Bureau funds. This amount may include any authorized carryover of unobligated funds from prior fiscal years.
5. Obligations. Obligations are the amounts of orders placed, contracts and grants awarded, services received, and similar transactions during a given period, which will require payment during the same or a future period.
6. Outlays. Outlays represent charges made to the grant project or program. Outlays can be reported on a cash or accrued expenditure basis.
7. Program income. Program income represents earnings by the grantee realized from the grant-supported activities. Such earnings exclude interest income and may include, but will not be limited to, income from service fees, sale of commodities, usage or rental fees, sale of assets purchased with grant funds, and royalties on patents and copy-rights. Program income can be reported on a cash or accrued income basis.
8. Unobligated balance. The unobligated balance is the portion of the funds authorized by the Bureau which has not been obligated by the grantee and is determined by deducting the cumulative obligations from the funds authorized.
9. Unpaid obligations. Unpaid obligations represent the amout of obligations incurred by the grantee which have not been paid.
C. Standard forms. 1. Only the following forms will be authorized for obtaining financial information from grantees for grant programs:
a. Financial Status Report.
(1) The Bureau shall require grantees to use a standard Financial Status Report to report the status of funds for all nonconstruction grant programs. The Bureau may, however, have the option of not requiring a Federal Status Report when a request for advance or reimbursement (paragraph 2a) is determined to provide adequate information to meet their needs, except that a final Financial Status Report shall be required at the completion of the grant when the Request for Advance or Reimbursement form is used only for advances.
(2) The Bureau shall prescribe whether the report shall be on a cash or accrual basis. If the Bureau requires accrual information and the grantee's accouting records are not normally kept on the accrual basis, the grantee should develop such information through an analysis of the documentation on hand or on the basis of best estimates.
(3) The grant agreement shall determine the frequency of the Financial Status Report for each grant program considering the size and complexity of the particular program. However, the report shall not be required more frequently than quarterly or less frequently than annually. Also, a final report shall be required at the completion of the grant.
(4) The original and two copies of the Financial Status Report shall be submitted 30 days after the end of each specified reporting period. In addition, final reports shall be submitted 90 days after the end of the grant period or the completion of the project or program. Extensions to reporting due dates may be approved when requested by the grantee.
b. Report of federal cash transactions.
(1) When funds are advanced to grantees through letters of credit or with Treasury checks, each grantee shall submit a report of Federal Cash Transactions. The Bureau shall use this report to monitor cash advanced to grantees and to obtain disbursement or outlay information for each grant or project from the grantees.
(2) The grant agreement may require forecasts of Federal cash requirement in the Remarks section of the report.
(3) When practical and deemed necessary, the Bureau may require grantees to report in the Remarks section the amount of cash in excess of three days' requirements in the hands of subgrantees or other secondary recipients and to provide short narrative explanations of actions taken by the grantees to reduce the excess balances.
(4) The Bureau shall accept the identical information from the grantees in a machine-usable format in lieu of the Report of Federal Cash Transactions.
(5) Grantees shall submit the original and two copies of the Report of Federal Cash Transactions no later than 15 working days following the end of each quarter. For those grantees receiving annual grants totalling one million dollars or more, the Bureau shall require a monthly report.
(6) The Bureau shall waive the requirement for submission of a Report of Federal Cash Transactions when monthly advances do not exceed $10,000 per grantee provided that such advances are monitored through other forms contained in this appendix or the grantee's accounting controls are adequate to minimize excessive Federal advances.
2. Except as noted below, only the following forms will be authorized for the grantees in requesting advances and reimbursements.
a. Request for advance or reimbursement.
(1) The "Request for Advance or Reimbursement" form is the standard form for all nonconstruction grant programs when letters of credit or predetermined automatic advance methods are not used. The Bureau, however, has the option of using this form for construction programs in lieu of an "Outlay Report and Request for Reimbursement for Construction Programs" (paragraph 2b) and shall specify in the grant agreement.
(2) Grantees shall be authorized to submit requests for advances or reimbursement at least monthly when letters of credit are not used. Grantees shall submit the original and two copies of a Request for Advance or Reimbursement.
b. Outlay Report and Request for Reimbursement for Construction Program.
(1) The "Outlay Report and Request for Reimbursement for Construction Programs" form is the standard format to be used for requesting reimbursement for construction programs. The Bureau may, however, have the option of substituting a "Request for Advance or Reimbursement" form (paragraph 2a) in lieu of this form when the Bureau determines that the former provides adequate information to meet its needs as stated in the grant agreement.
(2) Grantees shall be authorized to submit requests for reimbursement at least monthly when letters of credit are not used. Grantees shall submit the original and two copies of an "Outlay Report and Request for Reimbursement for Construction Programs" form.
3. When the Bureau needs additional information in using these forms, the following shall be observed:
a. When necessary to comply with future legislative requirements, the Bureau shall issue instructions to require grantees to submit such information under the Remarks section of the reports.
b. When necessary to meet specific program needs, the Bureau shall submit the proposed reporting requirements to the General Services Administration for approval under the exception provision of this appendix.
c. The Bureau, in obtaining information as in paragraphs a and b above, must also comply with report clearance requirements of the Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-40, as revised.


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Facebook and The Huffington Post Headline Day 1 of the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit 2012
Imogen Riley, Digital Marketing Senior Manager, Adobe APAC – LinkedIn @IERiley
What a great start to the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City this week. Over 4000 Digital Marketers, Advertisers and Publishers from around the world, including 90 delegates from Asia Pac representing China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand – up from just 5 customers attending 2 years ago, which to me signifies a massive shift and focus on digital in APAC.
This is my 3rd year attending Adobe Digital Marketing Summit and every year it's been a quantum leap in terms of the content and the incredible new solutions delivered to drive ease, efficiency and effectiveness for digital marketers. Two major highlights for me today were the new Adobe Predictive Marketing and the new Adobe Social Marketing solutions. The comment I overheard most, "when can I get it?" If you were one of those people, you'll find much more here
Social is a major focus at this year's summit, and this resonated in two of today's keynotes. Facebook VP, Grady Burnett, shared best practices for businesses embracing Facebook, with key advice that ads can become stories and several examples of key companies leveraging Facebook really well – Starbucks and American Express. You can read more about how Amex are doing it here
Ariana Huffington, President and Editor in Chief of The Huffington Post, closed out Day 1 discussing how social has changed the world of publishing and provided guidance on how to engage responsibly. Social brought the great conversations from the offline world online and extended the conversation through active engagement and commentary. It can change the world, as seen in Tunisia and Egypt, but it can equally distract us or be negative. We need to engage responsibly, and the key to success here is ensuring our core values as a brand and an individual are in the DNA of our social engagement and commentary.
We have been in a period of adolescence with social – staying up too late, consuming too much "junk food" content. Now in our grown up social lives we are embracing a more curated approach.
Ariana's parting advice – take the time to unplug, disconnect and re-charge. People who are sleep deprived may still be smart but not so wise. Take the time to re-connect with your wisdom and thrive.
For more detail on the keynotes, see my colleague Anne Russell's blog post and www.CMO.com. You can also follow us on twitter #Adobesummit
Signing off now to head to the Summit concert with Foster the People!


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The Perfect Actor
In Barney's Version, Paul Giamatti makes the leap from a career of offbeat roles to the romantic lead as a cigar-smoking ladies' man
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"My friends never know what the hell I'll look like when they see me," Giamatti says with a laugh. "I've always done things like that to change my appearance. At this point, I've done so many strange things to my appearance that the idea of shaving my head doesn't freak me out. You try to change yourself physically so that even if I can't achieve what I need to, character-wise, at least I did it physically."
It can be disconcerting for his family and friends, particularly the ones who don't see him regularly. He may show up with his head shaved—or with long hair and a lavish beard.
"I remember when I went to the Oscars (when he was nominated for 2005's Cinderella Man), I was making this movie, Shoot 'Em Up, and I had this crazy comb-over," Giamatti says. "People thought I was a freak. It can be hard to explain sometimes."
Even harder to explain: the fact that Giamatti, 43, who has the ability to grow a rich, lush beard—whose beard, in fact, is a prominent feature in his new film, Barney's Version—is clean-shaven just days before beginning to play the amply bearded Bernanke. The problem, Giamatti explains, is that Bernanke's beard is mostly white, while Giamatti's is brown with patches of gray.
Even harder to explain: the fact that Giamatti, 43, who has the ability to grow a rich, lush beard—whose beard, in fact, is a prominent feature in his new film, Barney's Version—is clean-shaven just days before beginning to play the amply bearded Bernanke. The problem, Giamatti explains, is that Bernanke's beard is mostly white, while Giamatti's is brown with patches of gray.
"You can't bleach facial hair, the bleach won't take," Giamatti says. "I even grew a beard and they said it wouldn't work. So I have to wear a fake beard."
The beard, no doubt, will be the only false thing about Giamatti's performance. In a movie career that spans almost 20 years—but which really kicked into gear in the past decade—Giamatti has developed a reputation as an actor who almost never strikes a wrong note.
"Paul doesn't fake it," says actress Laura Linney, who played his wife in The Nanny Diaries and Abigail Adams to Giamatti's title role in the "John Adams" miniseries that swept the 2008 Emmy Awards. "He goes there. He's not phony in any sense. He's a great acting partner because he knows how to give and how to receive—and how to listen."
Says Tony Gilroy, who wrote and directed Duplicity in which Giamatti acted, "He's a director's gift. He's all-singing, all-dancing, all-talking. He comes prepared, and he gives you all kinds of things you hadn't expected."
Giamatti's latest leap into the unknown is Barney's Version, a year-end film based on a semi-autobiographical novel by the late Mordecai Richler. Giamatti has received a Golden Globe best actor nomination for playing Barney Panofsky, a TV producer in late middle-age forced to defend himself against an attack in a newly published book, which charges him with escaping justice for the murder of his best friend. As he tells his story, Barney looks back on his life—from his early 20s until shortly before his death in a story that features behavior ranging from the passionate to the outrageous, through three wives and professional highs and lows.
The film offers Giamatti something of a rarity for his career: the chance to play a ladies' man who cuts a swath through the female population—the guy even hits on the woman who will be his third wife at the reception for his second wedding.
It's a tough mix, because Barney is the protagonist of the story, but he's nobody's idea of a hero.
It's a tough mix, because Barney is the protagonist of the story, but he's nobody's idea of a hero.
"Barney is someone with a gruff exterior, as Mordecai was in life," says Robert J. Lantos, who spent a dozen years trying to get his friend Richler's novel made into a movie. "He's someone with whom you fall in love very gradually, especially if you're a woman. This is someone who has to work really hard at making women fall in love with him. And Paul not only captures Barney's character but Mordecai's. Without ever having met Mordecai, he captured Mordecai's essence. He walks like Mordecai, he talks like Mordecai, he even wears his glasses like Mordecai."
Richard J. Lewis, who directed Barney's Version, says, "Paul was the only actor I could think of who could pull off both the age range and the emotional complexity—and the comedy. He finds a balance between the scoundrel and the good guy. You have to like the character and root for him. You don't have to like what he does, but you have to like him. And Paul makes that happen."
Giamatti has been so solid playing loners—whether they're cranks, villains, neurotics or down-on-their-luck good guys—that it's something of a revelation to see him woo actresses Rachel Lefevre, Minnie Driver and Rosamund Pike (as Barney's three wives) in Barney's Version. As Barney, Giamatti is aggressively seductive, a guy who's definitely got game because he knows he doesn't have good looks.
"This character could not be played by a conventional matinee-idol-looking actor," Lantos says.
It's a side that Giamatti has barely had a chance to show in his previous work, because he doesn't have the profile associated with romantic leading men: "When they see a romantic movie, people want to project themselves on to Cary Grant or someone like that," he shrugs. "I've played leading roles but certainly not a lot of romantic leads.
"This guy is difficult, but he's a romantic underneath it all. So is the guy in Sideways and, in a way, American Splendor. The romantic is buried underneath. If I'm playing someone romantic, I'm able to transcend what he looks like."
Indeed, Giamatti says, it wasn't until American Splendor (2003) that he played a character who was romantically involved in any way: "That was the first time I actually had to kiss somebody on camera," he says. "I guess I was romantically involved in Sideways. In this one, I get some great women."
Why has it taken so long? "I guess it's because I've played a lot of supporting character parts, a lot of sidekicks, guys like that," Giamatti says. "A major part of it is what I look like."
Ask some of the women who have worked with him, however, and you'd get an argument. Writer-director Sophie Barthes, who directed him playing a character named "Paul Giamatti" in the surreal comedy, Cold Souls, says, "There's something very touching about Paul. A lot of women have told me they find him very charming. Beauty is not just about appearance for me; Paul has a soulfulness that's very moving. He carries a lot of humanity; there's something happening on his face all the time. It would be interesting to watch him look at the Yellow Pages because he's extremely human."
Adds Laura Linney, "Movie stars come in all shapes. So if people say he's unconventional looking, I say: Compared to what? Paul is fantastic. When you've got talent like that, it's undeniable."
Barney's Version offered Giamatti the chance to wear a variety of wigs and beards to capture Barney at different ages. One thing, however, remained constant from start to finish: the cigars that Barney inevitably was smoking in most scenes.
"Richler was a big cigar smoker," director Lewis says. "We had a whole design to the cigar and cigarillo use in the film, as they pertained to different parts of Barney's life. Richler smoked Montecristos, and Romeo y Julietas; Barney smokes Montecristos."
Giamatti isn't a cigar smoker in his everyday life, but he's played a number of roles that called for him to smoke cigars on camera. None of the characters, however, indulged in the intense cigar use that Barney's Version offered.
"I was amazed because I was smoking cigars in pretty much every scene," Giamatti says. "For a guy like this, it's kind of a neurotic thing. I decided he was a guy who smells like cigars all the time. That gives you a texture and a feel to the character. He was also drinking the whole time. He lives in that cocoon of smoke and booze.
"It's not necessarily a power thing, like with some of the guys I've done. On the other hand, you see some of those guys who look like they smell like cigars and they do well with the women. They've got some sort of charm. I left it up to the actresses to find the reason to like my character."
For an actor, having a prop like a cigar can be revealing about a character. Giamatti relishes the opportunity to latch on to something quirky—like the way a character deals with the everyday objects of his life—to help him give the character added depth.
"They're wonderful props to have," he says. "Cigars have a lot of paraphernalia—all that clipping and poking—so you've got to get up on that. It can become such a ritual.
"The guy in Cinderella Man was a cigar smoker. And I smoked cigars in 'John Adams.' He chain-smoked what were considered cigars at the time, ones from Holland. It was an eccentric thing to do. They were these intense, dark little cigars. Those were great. That whole culture of smoking was fascinating, because they had no ashtrays. John Adams would just throw the butts on the floor—in the White House! There was no nicety about it. They were probably a Victorian thing, ashtrays."
Giamatti looks at different smoking options as keys to the characters that use them: "Everybody associates contemplativeness with smoking a pipe," he says. "I smoked a pipe in The Illusionist. I chose a pipe because I was playing a Victorian-era detective, so I had to smoke a pipe. I loved that. I was tempted to take that up myself, but smoking a pipe, that's a tough one to pull off. You have to have a certain gravitas.
"Cigarettes seem more neurotic. Smoking cigarettes for a role made me take it up briefly as a habit. But the cigar thing didn't seem to take with me. I don't know why.
"I've never had somebody get worked up about me smoking a cigar in a movie, the way I have with cigarettes. There's something more in-your-face about cigars, something a bit more aggressive. It's that whole Groucho Marx thing—that attitude seems to go along with it."
Giamatti says his own associations with cigar smoking aren't necessarily pleasant: "I associate it with making me nauseous, probably because, in Cinderella Man, it got to me a couple of times. We were working in an enclosed space for long periods, where I had to blow through about 10 cigars."
Giamatti grew up the youngest of three children of A. Bartlett Giamatti, a Yale University professor of comparative literature who went on to become Yale's president and, later, commissioner of Major League Baseball until his death in 1989.
Acting wasn't a particular passion when Giamatti was a kid: "I went through all kinds of phases," he says. "I wanted to be an admiral—I wanted to be in the Navy. I remember being quite serious about that. And I was very interested in archaeology; that was a boyish enthusiasm. Acting was not something that occurred to me."
When he thinks of his parents (his mother was also a teacher), "the first thing I think of is an interest in learning," he says. "They had an intellectual curiosity about everything—the love of that kind of thing, the love of the intellect and the mind."
Not that it rubbed off on Giamatti, at least initially.
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The NCSL's Fall Forum 2013 will be held December 4-6 at the Marriott Wardman Park. The Fall Forum is where legislators and legislative staff come together to tackle the critical issues facing states. Attendees will also develop the States' Agendas for Capitol Hill. There will be the opportunity to discuss policy with national experts, champion for states on Lobby Day and be actively engaged in discussions and special briefings for legislative staff.
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After Anderson exits with injury, A's can't recover
ST. PETERSBURG -- A's starter Brett Anderson called his performance on Friday night "embarrassing."
"It's disheartening to go out there and throw one inning and put your bullpen in jeopardy for the rest of the road trip," admitted Anderson, who was forced to leave the A's 8-3 loss to the Rays after the first frame when he sprained his right ankle on his second-to-last pitch with his team already trailing by two runs.
A's manager Bob Melvin said after the game that he doesn't know whether Anderson will be able to make his next start.
"We'll know more tomorrow," Melvin said. "I really won't know until then."
Anderson wasn't sure how the injury occurred.
"I don't know if I just landed on it wrong or what," said Anderson, who was treated to a 2-0 lead in the top half of the first inning but left the game trailing 4-2. "I know when I landed, it didn't feel great. Then when I came into the dugout it started to stiffen up."
Both Anderson and Melvin thought he pitched better than the scoreboard indicated.
"I thought he was a little more aggressive today," the A's manager said.
"My stuff actually wasn't too bad," said Anderson, who yielded four runs on four hits with two walks before he was forced to leave the game. "Now we'll have to go back to the drawing board."
Friday's loss, before a Tropicana Field crowd of 15,115, snapped the hot-hitting A's latest winning streak at three. It was just their third loss in their last 15 games.
The A's threatened to make things interesting when they loaded the bases with nobody out in the ninth inning, before Tampa Bay closer Fernando Rodney got the final three outs.
"You always want to keep grinding -- that's kind of who we are and who we want to be," Melvin said. "Not go down quietly."
Tampa Bay's Evan Longoria belted his fourth home run of the season and Ben Zobrist and Jose Lobaton also knocked in two runs apiece for the Rays, as the A's lost on the road for the first time this season. The A's are 0-5 when scoring fewer than four runs
The Rays' Alex Cobb (2-1), who departed to a standing ovation with one out in the eighth, is now 9-2 over his last 13 starts and 3-1 in four career starts against the A's.
The A's jumped out to a 2-0 first-inning lead, thanks to RBI singles by Jed Lowrie and Brandon Moss after Coco Crisp began the game with a double, extending his Major League-leading hitting streak to 12 games.
"He's been about as consistent as you can be," Melvin said of Lowrie, who matched a career high by going 4-for-4 on Friday and is now batting .413. "Right-handers, left-handers, it doesn't seem to make any difference."
Lowrie entered the game hitting .151 for this career against the Rays, his lowest mark against any American League team.
The Rays responded with four runs of their own in the bottom half of the first inning, batting around against Anderson, who was facing the Rays for the first time since August 2010.
Crisp, who owns a .455 career average against Cobb, homered in the seventh, his fifth home run and 13th extra-base hit of the year. Last year, Crisp didn't hit his fifth homer until July 25.
Jim Hawkins is a contributor to MLB.com This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Will you be active in your golden years or dependent on others for physical assistance? The answer greatly depends on how physically active you are.
Many older Americans do not get enough exercise to maintain good health. This presents a problem as the normal aging process slowly takes its toll. With each passing decade after age 50, we lose muscle strength and heart function. These losses come from a combination of factors, like poor nutrition, hormone changes, and declining muscle and nerve cells. But the main cause of dwindling independence as we age is usually a sedentary lifestyle.
The good news is that —no matter what age you are—you can still make gains in cardiovascular and musculoskeletal fitness. So, it is never too late to start reaping the rewards of more exercise.
At any age or level of ability our bodies need regular physical activity to function well. Here are just a few of the major benefits of exercise:
Exactly how much exercise do older adults need to achieve good health? The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the American Heart Association (AHA) and the United States Department of Health & Human Services makes the following general recommendations on the types and amounts of exercise for healthy adults aged 65 and older:
Also, if you have a chronic condition, work with your doctor to find out how you can safely incorporate exercise into your life.
Since physical activities can stress your body and heart, check with your doctor before starting a program. For sedentary or minimally active older adults who plan to start a vigorous exercise program, some experts advise an exercise stress test. But many doctors reserve exercise tests for people with chest pain or major risk factors for heart disease.
Besides getting your doctor's advice, it is wise to do what you can to guard against injury. Here are some simple safety measures you can take while exercising:
If you take sensible precautions to avoid injury, exercise can give you the strength and energy to do the things you enjoy as you age.
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beeblebrox wrote:Maybe I missed something, but isn't the point of jhana is to create an ideal condition for yourself from which you can do the vipassana, i.e. to see clearly the characteristics of anicca, dukkha and anatta... and also to see the unfolding of the paticca sammupada... which leads to liberation? Practicing the jhana for its own sake just seems pointless to me. It's not samma-samadhi... just a wrongly directed concentration.
Yes, you are right. "No jhana, no wisdom. No wisdom, no jhana." I think we all know that quote from the Dhammapada, plus the many more quotes that point to this. The two are like two sides of a coin.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- As capital markets activity picks up, the IPO space is sure to heat up in 2013. But is it always a good idea? Everyone thought Facebook's ( FB) IPO was going to be "the next big thing," especially for those who missed out on Google's ( GOOG) IPO. Turns out, Facebook's IPO was a flop, and day one investors are still underwater on their investments.
Recent IPOs haven't fared as well as past IPOs, and perhaps that's because these technology companies are coming to public markets later in their growth stage than they have in years past. Facebook went public after being a company for eight years, and many IPOs in recent years have produced negative returns over the first 15 days of trading as markets worry over sustained growth over the long haul.
Below is an infographic of Facebook, Google, LinkedIn ( LNKD) and other hot tech IPOs and how shareholders have fared over both the short- and long-term. As the results show, sometimes it pays to hold onto "the next big" for more than just a few weeks. The best example provided is Microsoft ( MSFT). A $100 invested in Microsoft's 1986 IPO would be worth nearly $38,000 today, compared to just $17.13 if one had invested in Facebook.
Infographic by Maxwell Systems --Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Commodity_Bull
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200 workers from Thruway Authority to lose jobs
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:06:21 GMT —
About 200 employees of the New York state Thruway Authority are expected to lose their jobs as part of layoffs announced by the Cuomo administration earlier this year.
The Times Union of Albany reports the toll takers, maintenance employees and clerical workers will be laid off Wednesday. Thruway officials announced in January that 234 workers across the state would be laid off this year to save the authority $20 million. Some of the targeted workers have retired since the announcement.
The Thruway Authority operates the statewide toll highway and New York's canal system. The authority has nearly 3,000 employees.


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I have done Yoga a couple times before, in class situations, but right now I am lacking in funds. I thought about getting started again with a dvd, but I am not sure what to select and again price is a concern. I don't want to spend so much money and get a dvd that I can't follow.
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— June 2003
By Ben Ellison
Panasonic Toughbook MDWD
Wireless Monitor
While not specifically designed for boats, this innovative addition to the Toughbook line will interest navigators who want flexible access to a yacht's PC system. It weighs only 1.5 pounds, and its 8.4-inch, 800x600 pixel, color touchscreen LCD is both transflective and powerfully backlit. All of this adds up to an exceptionally vivid display. The Wi-Fi connection to the mother PC seemed nearly as fast as a wired monitor/keyboard, though it slowed toward the edges of its 300-foot range. A stylus is included, but a finger will often do the job, especially with software like The Cap'n (shown below), which has extra-large screen buttons. The unit is reportedly water-resistant and able to survive a drop of four
feet to a concrete surface, but I didn't have the heart to subject the little dear to such testing. It's priced at $1,500.
Panasonic Phone: (800) 662-3537. www.panasonic.com.
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ByAlexandra Scaggs
We knew that crossing the Graysons wasn't going to end well for the fake Amanda Clarke.
The moment Amanda used "Emily's" (well, the real Amanda's) laptop to blackmail Conrad, it was pretty apparent that, according to the laws of television and crossing the Grayson family, she had signed somebody's death warrant. But as we start the episode, which takes place on Labor Day, it seems like Jack Porter is going to be the one to pay the price.
A team of scuba divers comes across The Amanda, Jack's boat, at the bottom of the ocean. And in the Amanda, there's the hand of a man wearing a wedding ring.
We flash back to dry land, where the Grayson family is coming to terms with their latest misdeed: Victoria's murder of Helen Crowley, their Initiative contact. Her murder was inconveniently timed, as Victoria turned homicidal right as Conrad was set to announce his candidacy for Governor–he was also in the middle of his plot to end the newlywed bliss of the Porter family. But as anyone knows, it's a law of socially prominent Hamptons families that if anyone breaks their WASP-y reserve and obsession with appearances, the terrorists win (in this case, quite literally). So they decide to go ahead with their plans, and speed up the date of Conrad's announcement to the family's yearly Labor Day party.
Daniel is mopey, burdened as by the knowledge of just how much he's screwed up by engaging with the Initiative, and also his struggles as CEO of the family hedge fund that he seems to have no qualification whatsoever to run.
Elsewhere on the island, Emily, Nolan and Aiden continue their separate plotting against the Initiative with three-way video chats, nice cars and other spy stuff. Then social-climber Ashley arrives to let Emily know that Amanda has found her way to the wrong side of the Grayson family. Emily also realizes this bodes poorly for the couple, who are cuddling on The Amanda, unaware of the doom they're set for.
Until, that is, Jack goes into the boat to find one of the sinister Ryan brothers holding a gun at Amanda, demanding to get whatever leverage that she has against Conrad Grayson.
The evil Ryan brothers were in cahoots with Conrad to something, er, develop-y. It's not entirely clear what. But seriously, what is Conrad going to do? It's not like they'd ever be able to put in casinos or mega-hotels in the Hamptons, the NIMBYs would have a conniption. And if he was going to do anything, he'd keep Jack around and double the prices, because the Hamptonites would love any fake quaint working-class blue collar environment.
But we digress. The evil Ryan brother on the boat–who, entertainingly, also played Robin's overly emotional boyfriend on How I Met Your Mother–continues to threaten them, as the Revengers (Aidan, Nolan and Emily) struggle to track their location. Emily figures out that it's one of the Ryan brothers because he was creepily lurking right by the window as Amanda and Jack were taking their honeymoon pictures.
As soon as Emily gets a location, she and Nolan are off to attempt a rescue. Aidan remains at The Stowaway to meet Padma, in a relatively boring side-plot about how the Initiative is holding her father hostage, just like they did with Aidan's sister. This is one of the best ways for the Revengers to keep ties to the Initiative, though, since Emily has mostly lost her in with Daniel since he got involved in his mother's murderous plot.
Back in Manhattan, Daniel and Victoria set their plot into motion to cover up Victoria's death. They put on a show for the cameras in his office, pretending that Helen left the Grayson house unharmed and that Daniel is still on the Initiative's side. The Initiative is seeming less and less scary as the episodes progress–with just Emily working against them, they were a formidable foe, but with her and the Graysons plotting against them? We'd watch our backs.
On the open sea, the evil Ryan brother is proving himself to be a challenging opponent, as Jack and Amanda try all sorts of schemes to wrest back control of the boat. Amanda only-sort-of-lies, saying that Jack was her cover to get revenge against the Graysons, and tries to get the Ryan brother on her side. Jack hears, and with some playacting and some real hurt feelings, gets into a fight with his new wife. This is where we learn that the evil Ryan brother is most likely unhappily married, as he says lots of angsty things about how wives ruin you and such. The couple's plot comes to fruition though, as they're able to lock the evil Ryan brother in the boat and blow up a life raft to boat to safety. But as they're boarding the raft, Jack is shot–Amanda pushes him onto the boat and stays behind to protect him.
Emily and Nolan come across a barely-conscious Jack as they get close to the boat, and Emily sends Jack back with Nolan, setting out on the life raft herself to save Amanda.
As this all is happening, the Graysons are in their element, having their Labor Day party. We meet our new Initiative baddie, who looks vaguely like the villain in Casino Royale, who demands to know where Helen is. But the Graysons are able to wrap this one up in a neat little bow (only Conrad knows just how neatly), as they frame Amanda for the murder.
Back on the boat, the evil Ryan brother is just about to do Amanda in when Emily appears. The two fight it out in the boat. Amanda had already started letting water in, and then a gas line gets hit. While the boat Amanda clearly isn't going to make it, Emily gets the upper hand and it looks like the fake Amanda will be safe. But then, the evil Ryan brother decides to blow the whole thing up, in an uncharacteristically self-sacrificing act of pure evil.
Amanda gets the worst of it, and dies in Emily's arms, after making her promise to take care of Jack and their baby. She's the biggest character to die in the show to date, and the only one that Emily has really gotten upset about other than her father.
When Emily finds out this is Conrad's fault, we can only imagine he's going to pay a steep price.
But Conrad, unaware that Amanda has Emily on her side, is busy announcing his candidacy for Governor (wearing a red tie, which signals Republican to us. Of course.) That occurs over a flashback of the Graysons' "handling" of the Helen situation, as they bury her under the new children's hospital the family is paying for. In Revenges' Hamptons, charity always comes with a side of crime.
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Manchester superintendent Tom Brennan sent a letter to Hooksett administrators saying the neighboring town's decision to formally file a notice of breach left Manchester no option but to respond formally.
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Brennan said Manchester intends to address Hooksett's claims after reviewing the matter with the district's legal counsel, then give a written response disputing there is any breach of contract.
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