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Being in touch with your feminine side makes you strong, literally….Welcome to TeTe & Espresso. a CastBox original, I'm TeTe. This is Men's week, and let talk about your feminine side.
Women live, on average, 7 years longer than men. I'v thought about that statistic a lot since I heard it 10 years. Now it makes sense. Macho men create more stress in their bodies, which literally equates to cellular death, and you kill yourself. I say yourself because, I'v had massages by a man (lowers stress background track), had manicures (lowers stress background track), hugged my male friends for 20 seconds (lowers stress background track), danced to Brittany Spears (lowers stress background track), I do yoga many times a week (lowers stress background track)..and my boys…All of these things women do. Do you see the signs? To live 7 years longer, lower the stress, and welcome the femininity you masculine man..Yin and Yang. … Let's let your subconscious mind know what's going on.
My feminine side is as strong as my masculine side. Feminine means strong. I want to live longer and healthier, that's why I choose peace, and femininity. I am feminine in all of the right ways. My discomfort with feminine men was a sign to change, to change towards being a person of 100% love. It is about self love. Loving all of you. Un-train your mind to what society said about you expressing your feminine side. That was society. You are a Man, hold your head high and say. "I love all of me."
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text: Rochester Hospitals Recognized For Outstanding Performance Improvement Wednesday, March 17, 2004 Tweet Strong Health's two acute care hospitals have both made the list of the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals® Performance Improvement Leaders. The first-time ranking released by Solucient lists Strong Memorial Hospital in the Major Teaching Hospitals category, while Highland Hospital made the list in the Community Hospital category. Rochester General Hospital is ranked under the Teaching Hospitals section.According to Solucient, the list of Performance Improvement leaders recognizes organizations that have developed an effective organization-wide culture of performance improvement and have consistently improved over the last five years at a significantly faster rate than their peers. The list consists of five categories that reflect differences in bed size and involvement in teaching new physicians. Solucient's process is based on five-year trend data gleaned from Medicare Cost Reports (forms which hospitals are required to submit to the federal government in order to receive reimbursement from Medicare), as well as Solucient's own hospital database and publicly available Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) information. To measure improvement over time, Solucient studied data from 2,866 hospitals between the years of 1996 and 2001. Based on data from these sources, Solucient measured hospitals against their peer groups, considering eight measurements: mortality, number of complications, average length-of-stay, expense per discharge (adjusted for severity and wages), profitability, proportion of outpatient revenue, productivity (ability to generate capital for renovations and service expansion), and coding specificity rate (a measure of the accuracy and efficiency with which patient care information is gathered). "At every level within the Strong Health system, we are deeply committed to continuous performance improvement," said Robert Panzer, M.D., chief quality officer for Strong Health. "By incorporating new technology, such as computerized order entry systems and failsafe medication pumps, we are supporting our staff in their efforts to create an error-free, high-quality environment.""Performance improvement is practiced at all levels of Highland Hospital. It is a continuous effort that is focused on creating a health care environment that maintains uncompromising service and operational excellence," said Donna Johnston, director of quality management at Highland Hospital. Media Contact Teri D'Agostino (585) 275-3676

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THURSDAY: Happy Life
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I HAVE STOPPED talking to my husband.
I hate seeing the look on his face when I talk to him. He smiles — but nothing registers. I can say: "Jack, I am having both my legs amputated and switched around. That's right, my left leg's going where my right was, and my right's going where my left was." He'd smile and nod, like he was watching TV with the volume turned off.
What have I done? What have I done wrong? I thought I had been good to Erin. I watched Grey's Anatomy and that stupid show where stars danced with real dancers in some stupid competition. I listened to her talk at the breakfast table. I said her suppers were good, great even. Our sex life was good — I thought.
I want my son back. I miss Michael so much. He's waiting for me. I can see him. His arms are ready to hug me. His little nostrils flaring like always just before he buries his face in my sweater. I can hear him breathing and his giggle when I squeeze his rib cage.
I cannot tell this to Jack. He'd get angry. What can I say to my husband? What can I do to make him stop doing what he does to me? How can I get us back?
It's Michael. People say that losing a child puts a strain on a marriage. But I think she blames me for our marriage breaking apart. Christ, I didn't even know we were in trouble! Sure, I miss Michael. I mean . . . I can't even go there. That place is just too . . .
I remember when I first knew I was in love with Jack. It was at one of his hockey games. I went to a lot of his games. I loved to watch him play. So after this one game, the guys were crazy with the win and wanted to get drunk and talk about it. I waited outside the locker room for Jack. I remember the smell of that old arena: stale ice, wet concrete, coffee, hot chocolate, popcorn, sweat. My toes ached from the cold. My breath floated in front of my face and hung there like it, too, waited for Jack.
Bursting through the locker room door, Jack saw me and smiled. I'll never forget his ridiculous, sweaty face. The guys pleaded for him to join them at the bar. Jack walked up to me and kissed my cheek — he smelled of wet leather and Old Spice. He spun around to face the guys, and said, "No can do boys! I'm gonna' spend time with my honey!"
The guys jeered and howled. But Jack paid them no mind. He tucked his hockey gloves and stick under his arm and kissed me again.
I want that Jack back.
She wanted me to be a jack of all trades (no pun intended) when it came to emotions. I wasn't raised that way. My parents never openly showed affection. The love was there; you knew it, you just didn't see it.
Like my dad I was self-taught on the necessary details of being the man of the house. I tinkered and toiled, sat, thought, and drank. I cleaned the gutters, mowed the lawn and tore apart the lawn mower only to never get it to work again. I disliked my neighbours and fell out of touch with my old hockey buddies. I was a typical husband, right?
There were no warnings. No celestial beacon shone in my face and gave me a heads up about something good happening or, as it turned out, something terrible. I did not wake up one day with a voice in my head telling me today is the day your son will die.
There are some days I do not understand living at all. I mean, I go through the motions, put my pants on one leg at a time, so to speak, but still do not understand the meaning behind my existence. And what does it matter if someone you love more than life itself is taken from you? It doesn't. Nothing does.
I want us to talk, but more than that, I want Jack to hold me. I want — need — to be held by my husband, to keep whatever is keeping me alive inside. The tighter he holds me, the safer I'll be.
I have lost my desire to make love to Erin. I still have the need for sex; my body doesn't seem to care about me being emotionally torn to shreds. I'm afraid if I hold Erin, kiss her, I will disintegrate, painfully, rapidly.
If someone were to ask me why I did it I would tell them I was tired of seeing everyone around me happy. There was no happiness for me. I am not about to explain how deep and insidious this feeling of perpetually not being happy was. Like a voracious worm it gnawed at my heart, made its way to my brain and feasted. It did not drive me crazy, on the contrary, once I knew what I had to do my thoughts were clear, sane.
I knew what I had to do to claim happiness for myself. A happy life, that's all I wanted. When they come for me I will pull the trigger. At my happiest it will all come to an end.


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A few miles outside Olympia, the capital of Washington, I passed the Sleater-Kinney Road exit on Interstate 5 and, in my excitement at seeing riot grrrls history, completely forgot the band's origins.
According to my revisionist version, civic leaders renamed the street in honor of Sleater-Kinney, the punk group that Carrie Brownstein (who now stars in the TV show Portlandia) and Corin Tucker formed in the 1990s while living in the city. Once in town (specifically, at a ceramics class with craft beer), a local reminded me about the actual order of events: The musicians named the band after the sign, not vice versa.
But the truth didn't shake my faith in Oly pride, which bubbles up like the artesian well water that has been slaking Olympian thirsts for centuries. "Keep Portland in Portland. Keep Seattle in Seattle," said Ned Hayes, founder of Oly Arts, a cultural publication. "We want to do our own thing."
Despite the city's location between two Pacific Northwest juggernauts — Seattle is 60 miles north, Portland 120 miles south — Olympia does not suffer from Middle Child Syndrome. The city has a distinct identity that is more convivial than angsty, although both can exist under one roof. At Encore Chocolates & Teas, co-owner Dean Jones informed me I was standing in the spot where drummer Dave Grohl first performed with the grunge rock band Nirvana. Then he pressed a square of artisanal chocolate into my palm and sent me on my way.
A few doors down, Rainy Day Records general manager Adam Hardaway proudly pointed out the children's play area among the vinyl records and DVD rentals. "We have toys so that little kids will think this place is cool," he said.
Over several days, I gained an appreciation for the community spirit in this city of 52,000 — at the farmers' market and oyster bars, at breweries and coffee roasters, on the capital campus, and along the boardwalk at Percival Landing. When I drove past Exit 108 on the way out of town, I was more convinced than ever that Olympia would have dedicated a piece of the city to Sleater-Kinney if it had thought of it first.
If you can't remember Washington's state number, count the (42) steps to the Capitol Building. The free 50-minute tour covers local and state history, architecture, government operations, and obscured geography.
"Olympia was named after the mountain you can't see because that building is blocking it," our guide, Mark, said of the Olympic Mountains to the northwest, which the Temple of Justice shielded from view.
Inside the Capitol, we learned that the structure contains one of the world's largest collections of Tiffany lights (originally 489 fixtures) and that guns are permitted in most public areas, although metal detectors are not.
"This is the people's house," Mark said. "We don't have security."
He showed us the rotunda, the state reception room, and the two chambers, which varied in decor, down to the floral carpet design: coast rhododendrons for the House and dogwoods for the Senate.
"All good tours end in the gift shop," he said with finality. Then, he left us to browse the shelves for wine, Big Foot, smoked salmon, and other state-endorsed products.
Information: olympiawa.gov/community/visiting-the-capitol.aspx
The Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, 10 miles outside town north on I-5, fills every inch of landscape — riparian forest, estuary, wetlands — with critters. The nature reserve is the permanent or temporary residence of birds (more than 250 species), fish (95), amphibians (7), insects (60), and mammals clawed and vision-impaired (Townsend's mole) and flippered and Betty Davis-eyed (Steller sea lion). The wildlife checklist runs 11 pages, but not all of the animals appear in the pamphlet. I had to write in my discovery, the Pacific tree frog, which materialized before my eyes like a Magic Eye 3-D poster.
Along the milelong Twin Barns Loop Trail and its tributary routes, birds swooped, frogs belched, and blackberries jumped off the bushes and into my mouth. On the Nisqually River, a local hiker and I stopped to try to identify a loud buzzing sound. "We call those bird calls 'fishing boats,' " she said.
Information: fws.gov/refuge/Billy_Frank_Jr_Nisqually
To tap into the unofficial Oly tagline, "It's the water," go to the source: the Schmidt House and Tumwater Falls Park.
In 1904, Olympia Brewery owner Leopold Schmidt and his wife, Johanna, built the three-story, eight-bathroom hilltop mansion, south of downtown, which is open for tours. By the front door, history manager Don Trosper or alternate guide Bob Crim — who worked for the family for 60 years — will point out the company logo embedded in the wall. (Pay attention to the image of the waterfalls, which will return in the second half of the visit.)
A few original pieces remain, such as a buffet, a file cabinet and a velvet hat worn by Clara, wife of the Schmidts' eldest son. At the park, a short drive from the house, a half-mile trail loops around the Deschutes River and falls, which once supported a power station and a paper mill. On the walk, you can see the tower of the old brewery that turned artesian spring water into potable gold. From mid-September through mid-October, watch the salmon swim upstream and navigate the fish ladders like ninja warriors.
Information: olytumfoundation.org
After Olympia Brewery closed in 2003, the hops torch was passed to Fish Brewing Co., open since 1993, and its Fish Tale Brewpub, the city's oldest joint of its kind. In 1996, the beer-making operation moved across the street, but you can still drink to the old days in the Fishbowl, the diminutive taproom that features several India pale ales and Spire Mountain ciders on tap. The menu plays matchmaker with its food and drink: It recommends the Organic Amber with the Fish Tale tacos, for instance, and the Mudshark porter with the bangers and mash. To meet the Fish loyalists, snag an invite to the Mug Club room, an alcove lined with members' drinking vessels engraved with such personal truths as "Beer Me Up! and "I Drink I Swim."
Information: fishbrewing.com
Warning: Dillinger's Cocktails & Kitchen, which was named after the Depression-era gangster and occupies a former 1920s bank, might abscond with your fusty drinking habits. Instead of the same old old-fashioned, try the bar's Oaxaca version, a mix of tequila, mezcal, agave, bitters, and flamed orange oil. You can also expand your cocktail repertoire at the 100-bottle rum bar, which adjoins the speakeasy.
The menu for both rooms defies the illogic of the kitchen, which is set in an old teller station and is equipped with an oven, a griddle, two burners, and a cooler. Imbiber favorites include duck confit, mussels in lemongrass broth, and whiskey doughnut bread pudding. On Tiki Tuesdays, the scene goes South and Pacific, with tropical drinks served in head-shaped punch bowls while the wrestling masks of Mexican luchadores watch from across the bar.
Information: dillingerscocktailsandkitchen.com
Every meal at Spar Cafe should include a glass of water. The restaurant and bar is the only spot in Olympia aside from the Artesian Commons park to offer drinking water collected from an artesian well. (Try a sip at the fountain by the entrance.) The Spar has lived a long and somewhat roguish life as a saloon in the late 1800s; a gentleman's club in the mid-1900s; and a backroom hangout for Nirvana co-founder Kurt Cobain in the '90s. The menu showcases the Pacific Northwest's bounty but also spins the classics. For instance, the kitchen smothers the Take Me to the Moon burger with coffee bacon jam and crowns the truffle fries with black garlic aioli.
Information: mcmenamins.com/spar-cafe
Gallery Boom injects the antiques mall model with some youth serum. "I call us a lower-g gallery," said Christine Malek, the owner-artist. "I have people who make knit hats, and then there are chopped-up baby dolls." Malek rents space to about 125 regional artists, who sell their creations for on average less than $100. When I was there, exhibitors included Joelle Montez, who designs ceramic cups in provocative body shapes; the Poshness Monster, a jeweler who incorporates doll eyes and limbs into pendants and rings; Tom Boucher, who refashions clock and camera pieces into LED-lit wall sculptures; and Papa Dick, an octogenarian who sells his 200-plus paintings for $10 each. ("He doesn't want his kids to have to deal with them when he's dead," Malek said.)
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At the Olympia Farmers' Market, a Johnson Berry Farm vendor conducted a short survey before administering a sample to a couple. "Do you like spicy Thai food?" she asked. They answered "yes" and received a spoonful of Golden Raspberry Habanero XXX jam. "My mouth is going to be on fire for an hour," the husband muttered.
Of course, you can find edibles without warning labels at the year-round emporium, open since 1975. Bins and tables overflow with apples, cherries, peaches, homemade sauerkraut, cheeses, potted herbs, breads, mushroom kits, and more. Among the crafts, you can find ply-split braided necklaces and bellowing gourds at Happy Hen Farm, colorful tops and door stops at Wood Loved by Larry, and burlap bags made out of recycled coffee and feed sacks at Healy Originals. On Saturdays, M. Seven Bremner pounds out poems on her Underwood Olivetti. The writer has fielded requests on love, marriage, awkward family conversations, listening to each other, and rain.
Information: olympiafarmersmarket.com
You should consider bringing binoculars on a walking tour of the South Capitol Neighborhood Historic District so you can read the small bronze medallions on buildings without trespassing.
The area is a veritable architectural encyclopedia of 20th-century styles. The city website offers a map that highlights 40 structures, including the Joseph Wohleb House, a 1926 Colonial Revival home built and occupied by one of Olympia's most prominent architects; the George Morris House, owned by a Supreme Court justice and later the founder of a fancy ladies-clothing store; and a section of the Old Oregon Trail. After completing the list, cross the bridge into Wildwood and grab a coffee and slice at the neighborly outposts of Olympia Coffee and Vic's Pizzeria.
"Twenty years ago, downtown was grunge," said Hayes, the Oly Arts founder, "and not just in terms of music." Over the years, the grit of the Olympia Downtown Historic District has receded, with independent retailers and inventive restaurateurs stepping in with, say, Betty Boop-meets-Holly-Golightly threads (Hot Toddy) and vegan Mexican brunch (Hart's Mesa). The area supports four theaters; three bookstores, including 80-year-old Browsers; two kid-approved museums that parents can enjoy in their own right; one cider distillery with a "teeny-tiny taproom"; three chocolate shops; and four breweries. If you like to opine on coffee or art, you can attend a public cupping (or tasting) at Olympia Coffee Roasting or vote for your favorite sculpture on Percival Landing. The winner will earn a permanent pedestal in the city.
Information: olympiawa.gov


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Panel Comments: Bernice Anderson
Thank you. Evaluation is about change and I will share with you how we are changing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) with regard to how we think about evaluation. As the Foundation keeps pushing the envelope about STEM education evaluation, we always need the help of AEA as NSF aims to have a leadership role in evaluation practices in government. Regarding GPRA and PART, NSF has been effective to date. However, we still need input from AEA to help us maintain our high standards with regard to evaluation.
The first question that we had to address is: how is evaluation policy established in their agency? I am from the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and that's the directorate that has the responsibility for STEM education evaluation. Since 1992, EHR has been trying to deal with the mandate that all of its education programs must be evaluated. This Congressional mandate that started with EHR is now impacting the other research directorates at the Foundation because of OMB's PART and ACC activities that we will discuss later.
In addition to Congress asking us to evaluate our programs, the National Science Board (NSB) has taken a close examination of our programs NSB has recommended that NSF evaluate its education investment and develop new strategies to increase their impact on the quality of STEM education. It is important to point out that only do they [Board members] want us to evaluate the investment; but they are hoping that, because of these evaluations, we'll be able to develop some new strategies. This is in line with your 2007 theme of evaluation and learning. We need to learn from these evaluations some insights for moving the frontier of science.
In addition, the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) has examined our programs focused on equity and diversity and recommended that over the next two years the Foundation should assess the outcomes of our programs and determine their impact on broadening participation and transforming institutions. We are also asked to provide some capacity-building activities; CEOSE recognizes that, even as you require evaluation to move to a higher standard, you need to build capacity in the field. There is a need to provide additional information to our grantees regarding the reporting requirements so that the annual and final reports that they submit are evidence-based.
The second question was: what types of evaluation related input would our agency welcome from AEA? As I said, we are about change, so we need you to help us think through what we are doing correctly and what we else we need to do to improve our performance assessment framework.
While we think what we are doing is correct, there are a lot of new things that are happening in evaluation and we need your thoughts about new directions. For example, help us think through our practices of linking evaluation activities for various stakeholders (program staff, OMB, Congress, etc.).
You've already heard about GPRA, you've heard about PART and you've heard about the R&D criteria used by our Committee of Visitors (COVs). The Foundation has used expert panels for over 25 years as an effective means for assessing the quality of our merit review process, its integrity as well as the results of the award portfolio. Greater emphasis is being placed on examining the outputs and the outcomes of our projects. In the area of program evaluation, we need a lot of AEA help, in terms of being available to give advice about program evaluation designs and be willing even to conduct project -level evaluations that are appropriate and rigorous. Again, we need your input about a comprehensive evaluation activity that looks at implementation, advances the knowledge base and meets the accountability reporting requirements.
We fund independent evaluations through contracts and grants. When an evaluation study is funded as a grant, the primary purpose is to advance the field. However, just because it advances the field does not mean that NSF cannot use that same information to justify appropriate use of its resources.
Overall, EHR supports the multiple-method evaluation approach that uses mixed-methods. We fund studies using both qualitative and quantitative data. We also believe that one study won't provide you with all the answers; therefore we have a continuum of evaluation activities that is informed by the program development cycle. Most of our program evaluations are conducted for multiple purposes.
We would like for you to help us reinforce in the field that while it is important to conduct evaluations for compliance purposes, evaluations should help our project directors to understand and explain what they're doing. Also, we want to be better Federal program managers in terms of monitoring; and most of all, we want to learn from project and program evaluations. And then based on multiple evaluations, we should be able to use the evaluation findings to inform our future plans for the efficient use of the program resources. Again, AEA plays a very critical part in evaluation by emphasizing the use of evaluation to advance the knowledge base.
Let's talk about hierarchy of study designs used by the Academic Competitiveness Council (ACC). The top two tiers (experimental and quasi-experimental designs), according to ACC, define rigorous evaluation. We don't argue with that, as it relates to an impact study of an intervention. Our issue is that not all of our programs are interventions. Not all of our awards are implementation projects/studies. Because we have different types of projects supported by the Foundation, we need your help to identify a framework that goes beyond the ACC model.
For example, when a program is funding research and development (R&D) projects, should the evaluation framework differ from the ACC model? When do you use or what is the role of the randomized control trials (RCT) in the early stages of development of R&D projects? Our AEA President was most recently at a conference at the Foundation where the discussion focused on projects going through various phases of development and that it was important to not inappropriately use RCTs. We are not saying we're against using experimental/quasi-experimental designs. They have an appropriate place, but we need to know when the RCT is appropriate in terms of the maturity of the project, as well as the type of the project. We need your support in helping us to define the various types of STEM education projects that we have and what are the appropriate ways to document and assess that a particular project or program has been successful and effective.
The last question was about the way that you can provide input. Whenever we contract a program evaluation, we ask for the contractor to have an advisory group. When you get calls to serve on the advisory panel for a particular program evaluation, I would encourage you to say yes because it would be an opportunity for you share your expertise and to advance the field of evaluation. You may get a call serve as a member of a COV, the Committee of Visitors, as EHR takes a more careful examination of the evaluation effort and the results of an award portfolio. Some of the COVs will have a need for more evaluators to serve on the review team. Whenever we have evaluation planning workshops, I will be encouraging the program officers as well as the evaluation staff to look at AEA as a source for identifying evaluation experts to attend these workshops and/or serve as major presenters. When we begin our next series of evaluation seminars, we'll be reaching out to you again, hoping that you will be willing to share what you're learning - how you are advancing the field of evaluation.
This sums it up in terms of the assessment cycle for EHR. Compared to 1992, EHR is in a different place in evaluation with different programs and different needs, but we do think that AEA provides the foundation, the richness, the scholarly information that undergirds the evaluation demands for today and the future. NSF looks forward to your help as we think about innovative evaluation designs, ways to improve our monitoring systems, and increased use of evaluative research and longitudinal studies.
Finally, let's work with the community of practitioners/managers in terms of building their capabilities to help shape designs and use evaluation results. We often think of evaluation in terms of program change and success. It is important to note that at the Foundation, regardless of the results, a part of a successful evaluation is making certain that program managers know as much about evaluation as they should and know how to use the data/results for multiple purposes. This is a new area and NSF wants your help so that we can be at the forefront of the evaluation/accountability discussion.


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The Benefits You Stand to Enjoy in an Online Marketing Drive
The business environment today has made the need to embrace a digital marketing campaign as an alternative for the businesses growth kind of a must option. There are several benefits that have come with digital marketing. Let us take a look at some of the benefits a business will have accrued to it as a result of embracing digital marketing as an alternative model of marketing.
You will be able to compete in the market with a digital marketing initiative. With the traditional marketing models, the established brands often had an edge above the upcoming brands competing them. However with the digital marketing campaigns, even the yet to establish brands can effectively compete against the other brands which seem to enjoy the momentum of practice over time. All a digital marketing campaign will demand from you are the strategies for effective competition. Forget about the bills for billboard hiring! All you need is an effective search engine and a proper website to place your adverts on. The advantage attached to this is the fair pricing for placing the marketing campaign message. Consider the economics in all this! Digital marketing platforms are quite cost effective.
The next benefit a digital marketing campaign will bring one is the measurability of the results. The results in this kind of a campaign can be measured on a real time basis. This allows the business to do the necessary adjustments and make timely changes to their strategies. This is quite unlike the traditional forms of marketing which were dependent on the financial aspects of the efforts before they could do any necessary adjustments and changes to their campaign efforts. In adopting a digital marketing campaign you can track your conversions and any lesson so learnt will be a lesson to carry and use to do any consecutive campaign.
Businesses have today appreciated the need to engage their customers on real conversations. This is often in an effort to ensure that their services and products are of top notch quality and a preference over other suppliers. This is the factor behind the creation of a customer relations desk in a business practice. This interest is well also served with a digital marketing campaign which will allow the business to engage their customers on real conversations enabling you to formulate goods and services to meet the very demands of the customers.
The other benefit coming with a digital marketing campaign is the coverage extent of the digital marketing campaigns. You will certainly be reaching out to the whole world in a digital marketing campaign.
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I went to high school in the age of busing. Mine was an "integrated school", meaning whites and hispanics and blacks were all sent here so they could gather with their other compatriots in their separate groups while attending the school with other groups. Now, I wasn't raised with that kind of thinking. My two best friends were a legally-blind black guy and a Colombian kid. They used to call us "the United Nations". But I was walking out of the locker room after P.E. one day and a small group of black guys were gathered at the door I was approaching. They spoke among themselves loudly about how they would love to ... do damage to a white guy. I ignored them; not my concern. But as I got to the door the smallest and loudest of them struck out at me, missing my face by an inch. "Boom!" he said to his friends and they laughed about how they'd love to really hurt me. Nothing more. It was over. I went on. But I was thinking, "Wow, I never knew it, but black people really hate white people, don't they?" That didn't last long. "Oh, wait ... my friend is black and he doesn't." And I realized that this kind of thing -- on both sides -- is the kind of thing that creates racial hatred. Sad how a very small group of malcontents can reflect so badly on an entire group of people.
I was reading the news items of the day and came across (multiple times) the ridiculous story of "an evangelical Christian" who was "outraged" with Starbucks for "hating Jesus" because they didn't have Christian items on their Christmas cups. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid because it wasn't true. Stupid because the media played it to the hilt. Stupid because the other side was quick to say, "See? You Christians are lunatics!"
I think perhaps we don't think much about what we are saying when we are not speaking. Paul told the Jews who verbally claimed to follow the law while living a different set of choices, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." (Rom 2:24) We may say the right things, but when our lives don't reflect the love Jesus said we should (John 13:35) or the truths and values we claim, there is a different message being reflected and it can be much louder than our words.
One time I was required to spend some time in the company of a coworker who claimed to be a Christian. He liked to chat, so he went on and on about the girls he was bedding and the drinking he was accomplishing and ... well you get the idea. At some point he stopped, appearing to expect my admiring response. I said, "Look, I have nothing to say about what you do with your life. I'm not your commander, your mother, your god. I'm just another guy. So if that's what you want to do, I have nothing to say. I just have one request. Please, please, don't tell anyone you're a Christian."
"Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." (Matt 5:16)That's what Jesus said.


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The government has moved the Supreme Court seeking correction in a paragraph of its judgement in the Rafale deal case which refers to a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report regarding the pricing details of the deal being examined by the Parliament's Public Account Committee (PAC). The request from Defence Ministry comes as a controversy has started to brew over Supreme Court's statement that the PAC has examined the CAG report on Rafale deal's pricing details.
In paragraph 25 of its verdict, the apex court said that the CAG has examined the pricing details of the Rafale deal, and its findings were then tabled before and have been examined by the PAC. This comment by the Supreme Court came from misinterpretation of a note submitted to the top court, the Defence Ministry said in its application for correction.
One of the points on the note in question had said: "The Government has already shared the pricing details with the CAG. The report of the CAG is examined by the PAC. Only a redacted version of the report is placed before the Parliament and in public domain."
The Defence Ministry had submitted the note along with the pricing details of Rafale deal to the Supreme Court in two sealed covers in compliance with an order by the court.
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The Supreme Court statement in reference to the CAG report suggests that it has already been examined by the PAC. In the application, however, the government has said that while the pricing details of the fighter jet deal have been shared with the CAG, the CAG report is yet to be presented to the PAC for examination.
"The submission by the Union of India, to the effect that the report of the CAG 'is' examined by the PAC, was a description of the procedure which is followed in the normal course, in regard to the reports of the CAG. The very fact that the present tense 'is' is used would mean that the reference is to the procedure which will be followed as and when the CAG report is ready," the government said in the application to the Supreme Court.
The application also sought correction in Supreme Court's statement that a redacted version of the report has already been tabled before the Parliament. The government tried to clarify that only a bridged version of the CAG report will be presented before the Parliament and in public domain, as and when it comes.
Congress had cried foul after Supreme Court referred to a CAG report being examined by the PAC in its enquiry of the Rafale deal while dismissing all petitions challenging the propriety of the deal. Senior Congress leader and PAC chairman Mallikarjun Kharge had accused the government of "misleading" the Supreme Court by presenting wrong facts about the CAG report on the Rafale deal.
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On October 28, the BCTA hosted a friendly co-ed competition for participants of BCTA's Season 3 and 4 signature Learn, Practice & Play programs. Athletes competed in three divisions—Red Ball (10-and-under), Orange Ball (11–13), and Green Ball (teens/adults).
BCTA's Laura Canfield noted, "Athletes were recommended by their coaches for this invitational event. The emphasis was on participation, fun and sportsmanship—the first introduction to competition for most players. At first, many of the athletes were uncertain about scoring and line calling, but by the end they were keeping their own scores and confidently making line calls."
In the Red and Orange Ball division, athletes were divided into two teams and played both singles and doubles. The Upper/Central Bucks teams in both divisions included athletes from Doylestown, Perkasie, Newtown, Warrington, and New Hope, while the Lower/Southern Bucks teams in both divisions included Langhorne, Levittown, Yardley, Bristol and Bensalem. Players in the Green Ball division competed in a round-robin singles event. Teams and athletes were awarded the coveted BCTA Gold, Silver and/or Bronze bag-tags as well as MVP honors to the athletes who scored the highest number of points for their respective team.
In the Red Ball division, the Upper/Central Bucks Blue Eagles narrowly edged out the Lower/Southern Bucks Red Racqueteers by a score of 259 – 240.
The Orange Ball division, an even more closely contested competition, created a lot of excitement as just one point separated the two teams—the Upper/Central Bucks Icy Spiders and the Lower/Southern Bucks Lightning Bolts—midway through play. Regular play ended in a tie,
59–59, which was a first in the history of team tennis challenges. This opened up the opportunity for an exciting "Team Singles" tie-breaker during which players on each team took a turn to keep a ball in continuous play. If the ball was missed, the player left the game while teammates carried on…until there was one. Central Bucks teammate Gwyneth Fedus ended up being the "last player standing," helping the Icy Spiders to earn the gold medal.
Athletes in the Green Ball division competed in a singles round-robin tournament. The players enjoyed meeting other tennis enthusiasts across the county as they tested their skills against others of similar skills.
Sportsmanship was strongly stressed with all matches beginning and ending with a handshake, and a sportsmanship award was given to one athlete on each team as well as an athlete in the Green Ball division. Canfield said, "The competition for the sportsmanship honors was very difficult as all of the players were just terrific!"
Congratulations to all the athletes who participated in this fun event.
Red Ball athletes: Mac Bruneti, Thomas Caputo, Christopher De Marino, Lily Esmay, Ryan Friemann, Dominic Gennetti, Bruce Marcucci, Anya Priyolka, Wayne Robotim, and Alexander Zebro
Upper/Central Bucks Blue Eagles: MVP —Mac Bruneti; Sportsmanship—Dominic Gennetti
Lower/Southern Bucks Red Racquetters: MVP—Lily Esmay; Sportsmanship—Anya Priyolkar
Orange Ball athletes: Charlie Batman, Keira Calista, Ryan Caputo, Sofia Carafa, Gwyneth Fedus, Alex Hoang, Julia Hobson, Lauren Mawson, Mathew Monical, Laasya Muppala, Braedon Owen, Sheridan Owen, Aiden Pustay, Ava Ren, Rylee Russell, Jack Sheridan, Ritvik Sindia, Jayden Williams
Upper/Central Bucks Icy Spiders: MVP – Jack Sheridan; Sportsmanship—Gwyneth Fedus
Lower/Southern Bucks Lightning Bolts: MVP –Aiden Putsay; Sportsmanship¬—Jayden Williams
Green Ball athletes: Ryan Baker, Adrienne Bolinder, Eric Lang, Mereck Epperson, Makenna Swasey, Michael Donohue
Gold Medal—Mereck Epperson; Silver Medal—Michael Donohue; Bronze Medal—Makenna Swasey; Sportsmanship—Adrienne Bolinder
A huge thank you to Bucks County Parks and Recreation for hosting the event at Core Creek Park, to the U.S. Tennis Association for the participant "giveaways"; to the BCTA volunteers and coaches: Tim Donney, Arden Williams, Jim Dalo, Laura Canfield, Barb Long; student helper Emily Johannan and the various parent volunteers.


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In 2017 the World Health Organization declared that the UK had eliminated measles. However, that elimination status has not been maintained. In this blog, we take a look at the reasons for the change in the UK's status, and ongoing efforts to protect the population from measles.


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JUST ANNOUNCED: Fort Washington's Rayshun LaMarr, who finished in the top 10 on this season of the VOICE will be co-Grand Marshal of the City's First Corvette Parade along with Virginia Ali-co-founder of the iconic Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington, DC.
If you like fast, high performance cars, make plans now to view the Corvette Parade in Laurel on Friday, July 13, 2018.
Mayor Craig A. Moe says the City has teamed up with the Negro League Legends Hall of Fame for this first annual Community Partnership Day event.
There will be a brief, pre-race rally at 10:45am at Laurel High School, 8000 Cherry Lane, which is also the starting line. And then 100 of the very best "vettes" will take off for a cruise through Laurel beginning at 11:00am.
The parade will head east on Cherry Lane, turn onto 4th Street, move onto Montgomery Street and will end at McCullough Field. From there, the fun will begin!
Come talk with the owners about their special vehicles, listen to musical entertainment by Marvillous Beats, an electric violinist, and enjoy a quick lunch from one of the food trucks in the parking lot at 8th and Montgomery Street.
Travelers through Laurel will need to be aware that streets will be temporarily closed along the route to accommodate the parade participants, so avoid the areas of Cherry Lane, 4th Street and Montgomery Street from 10:00am - 1:00pm and 8th Street will be closed from 10:00am - 3:00pm for the Community Partnership festivities at McCullough Field on July 13th.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Act Three
By Dennis Abrams
Act Three: the duel between Caius and Evans fails to occur when the Host of the Garter sends them to different places; reconciled, the two men agree to be revenged on him instead. In the meantime, Ford grows more jealous, unaware that the wives plan to humiliate Falstaff by hiding him in a laundry basket (on the pretext of Ford's sudden arrival) and dumping him in the Thames. When Ford does finally arrive home, expecting to find Sir John, this is exactly what happens. Recovering at the Garter, Falstaff is persuaded by Mistress Quickly that the whole thing was a mistake and that Mistress Ford actually wants another meeting. Unfortunately, Ford (as Brooke) finds out about it. Meanwhile Fenton has been competing for Anne's hand, and though she is tempted by his offer, her father still favors Slender.
So even though jealousy plays a prominent part in the play (and a preview of darkening jealousy in later plays), fortunately Mistresses Page and Ford never allow affairs to become all that serious: they are as well-equipped to deal with Ford's jealousy as they are to neutralize the great Sir John Falstaff. The process of the two men's re-education, by way of a mounting sequence of comic emasculations, takes up the rest of the play. While allowing Ford's ludicrous suspicions to build, they first engineer a scene in which both men are shown up to be the fools they really are. Scheduling a romantic tête-à-tête between Mistress Ford and Falstaff, both wives arrange for Master Ford to make a surprise entrance, forcing Falstaff to hide in a conveniently placed laundry basket – which is then emptied into the nearby Thames (exposing him to household drudgery first-hand, as it were, as well as administering a well-deserved soaking). Satisfyingly, all goes to plan: Ford is duped, Falstaff dumped, and neither are any the wiser. But this is just the start of Falstaff's sufferings, as he discovers to his dismay when he reschedules a meeting with Mistress Ford and Page.
Not surprisingly, Harold Bloom is not happy about the events taking place:
"This is about the best that the False Falstaff can manage:
O, she did so course o'er my exterior with such a greedy intention that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! Here's another letter to her, she bears the purse too: she is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will be cheaters to them both, and they shall be exchequers to me: they shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade them both. Go bear this letter to Mistress Page, and thou this to Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.
Is this the Immortal Falstaff? Or is this:
Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in't. [Exit Bard.] Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a barrow of butcher's offal, and to be thrown in the Thames? Well, if I be served such another trick, I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give them to a dog for a New Year's gift. The rogues slighted me into the river with as little remorse as they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies, fifteen i'th'litter; and you may know by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking: if the bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had been drowned but that the shore was shelvy and shallow – a death that I abhor: for the water swells a man; and what a thing should I have been when I had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy!
No longer either witty in himself or the cause of wit in other men, this Falstaff would make me lament a lost glory if I did not know him to be a rank imposter. His fascination, indeed, is that Shakespeare wastes nothing upon him. The Merry Wives of Windsor is Shakespeare's only play that he himself seems to hold in contempt, even as he indites it. Scorning the task, he tossed off a 'Falstaff' fit only to be carried in a basket and thrown into the Thames. Such a diminishing is akin to reducing Cleopatra to a fishwife (in a recent British production brought to New York City) or giving us Juliet as a gang girl (on screen). You can cram any fat man into a basket and get a laugh. He does not have to be Falstaff, nor need his creator be Shakespeare. By the time that Falstaff, disguised as a plump old woman, has absorbed a particularly nasty beating, one begins to conclude that Shakespeare loathes not only the occasion but himself for having yielded to it. The final indignity is a horned, chained pseudo-Falstaff, victim of sadomasochistic farce, and perhaps even a quick burst of Shakespearean self-hatred."
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"The love plot, centering on the desirable Anne Page (called Mistress, like all adult women of her era and social class, whether married or unmarried), pits two very unsuitable suitors against each other in time-honored and familiar Shakespearean fashion. The rattle-brained Slender, the nephew of the equally well-named Justice Shallow, is persuaded to offer himself as Anne's partner in marriage, though he seems to think that he is doing her a favor rather than the other way around. ('Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?' asks Shallow, and Slender replies, 'I will marry her, sir, at your request.' Her other approved suitor is Doctor Caius, a French physician, whose mangling of the 'King's English' is manifestly meant to be comical, and who fares as poorly, and as amusingly, as those other French manglers of the language, Alice and Catherine in Henry V. Slender is Anne's father's choice – as she laments in an aside to the audience, 'O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults/Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!' – and Caius is her mother's:
Slender, though well landed, is an idiot;
And he my husband best of all affects.
The Doctor is well money'd, and his friends
Potent at court; he, done but he, shall have her.
Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.
Mistress Quickly sees the quandary ('Nay,' said I, 'will you cast away your child on a fool and a physician?'), though she is in fact an even-handed abettor to all parties. Anne's own choice is the Host's candidate, 'young Master Fenton,' whom the Host describes in memorable, indeed irresistible terms:
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth; he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
In a play in which smells, including the unsavory smell of the buck-basket full of dirty laundry, play a recurrent part, this account of the favored young man makes him seem, indeed, like a breath of fresh air. Page (the father) regards him as too highborn and as a fortune hunger, and vows that if Fenton marries Anne it will be without a dowry. Indeed all three suitors take aim at her fortune (as, in Merchant, a play with far more 'romantic' pretensions, the fortune-hunger Bassanio does with Portia, not to mention Petruchio and the other suitors in Taming). But Fenton's love scene with Anne in act 3 makes it clear that he has changed in the course of his courtship. Allowing for differences of literary mode, he sounds, in fact, not unlike Bassanio:
Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth
Was the first motive that I woo'd thee, Anne,
Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value
Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
And 'tis the very riches of thyself
That now I aim at.
From Tanner:
"The main incidents [in the play] are all to be found in earlier European and English stories and farces. The themes of the presumptuous suitor punished; and the jealous husband fooled; and, indeed, the forbidding parents foiled, are all old and familiar. Shakespeare, of course, infuses new life into them, and weaves them together brilliantly, even if there are some bits left hanging out. The play opens with some comical talk of coats of arms, old family lines, prerogatives and titles – suitable enough for a Garter entertainment, quickly moving on to talk of 'pretty virginity' and family inheritances , and soon settling into its central bourgeois concerns – marriage, money, and class. A speech by Fenton (a Gentleman, and thus out of his class with the Pages and Fords) brings these matters together. He is explaining to Anne Page why her father disapproves of him:
He doth object I am too great of birth,
And that my state being galled with my expense
I seek to heal it only by his wealth.
Besides these, other bars he lays before me:
My riots past, my wild societies;
And tells me 'tis a thing impossible
I should love thee but as a property.
Here is a defining bourgeois wariness – suspicion of the upper classes as dissolute and wasteful; belief that they are after middle-class daughters to get at their money. The defining word is 'property.' Anne, refreshingly, replies by saying 'May be he tells you true.' Good for her! Though with a very small part, Anne is one of those independent young women who very definitely refuse to behave like property when men – or parents – try to treat them as such. (Anne's reaction to the proposal that she marry Caius shows commendable spirit and that gay inventiveness which is the hallmark of the Shakespearean comic heroine: 'I had rather be set quick i'th'earth,/And bowled to death with turnips.' But the possession of property is what the bourgeois live by, and live for, and by this reckoning wives and daughters are a form of property. Being robbed, being cuckolded, and being duped are all forms of that great bourgeois dread – theft. And there is a great deal of stealing and cheating going on, or being attempted, in this play, both by the visitors and among the locals. Marilyn French pointed out that 'everyone in the play cozens, is cozened, or both' (except Page's son, William – too young for it.) Certainly, the words 'cozen,' 'cozened,' 'cozenage' [MY NOTE: Cozened means to trick or deceive] are heard more frequently in this play than in any other. 'I would all the world might be cozened, for I have been cozened and beaten too' is a late cry from Falstaff. Shakespeare has found his integrating master-theme.
Once settled in his room at the Garter Inn, where he doubtless feels most at home, Falstaff is soon talking about 'filching' and theft with his ruffianly followers. As he later admits to Pistol (whom he nicely addresses as 'thou unconfinable baseness' – given his size, a perfect self-description) – 'I, I, I myself sometimes leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch' – three words for cheating and pilfering. He soon makes clear his intentions concerning two local wives, candidly revealing his venal, commercial motives.
I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's wife. I spy entertainment in her; she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of her invitation…the report goes she has all the rule of her husband's purse…I have writ me here a letter to her; and another to Page's wife, who even now gave me good eyes too…She bears the purse too. She is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will be cheater to them both, and they shall be exchequers to me. They shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to them both.
He has lot none of his expansive opulence of language, his gift for the fecund phrase ('the leer of invitation' is marvelous). The images of trading banking, and exotic foreign lands to be explored and exploited for their riches have, of course, a contemporary aptness. By one of those tricks whereby language has it both ways, 'cheater' demonstrates both an escheator, an official who looked after lapsed estates which were forfeit to the crown; and someone who defrauds. Momentarily, looking after becomes indistinguishable from taking away – and indeed, you can't always tell guardianship from theft, or protection from subtraction. Falstaff aims to be every way a 'cheater.' For this, and for the shameless fatuity of his vain assumption that the two respectable wives are consumed with lust for his grotesque body, he must and will be punished.
The details of the plots or schemes whereby – out of fear of the madly jealous Ford – Falstaff is inveigled, first, into a laundry basket full of filthy clothes which is then emptied in a muddy ditch near the Thames, and secondly, into wearing the gown of the fat woman of Brainford, to be cudgeled from the house by an irate Ford ('Out of my door, you witch, you rag, you baggage, you runnion!', this is Punch and Judy stuff) – these details require no comment. They are part of the unambiguous, depthless fun of the play."
And finally, for the weekend, from William Hazlitt:
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR is no doubt a very amusing play, with a great deal of humour, character, and nature in it: but we should have liked it much better, if any one else had been the hero of it, instead of Falstaff. We could have been contented if Shakespear had not been "commanded to shew the knight in love." Wits and philosophers, for the most part, do not shine in that character; and Sir John himself, by no means, comes off with flying colours. Many people complain of the degradation and insults to which Don Quixote is so frequently exposed in his various adventures. But what are the unconscious indignities which he suffers, compared with the sensible mortifications which Falstaff is made to bring upon himself? What are the blows and buffettings which the Don receives from the staves of the Yanguesian carriers or from Sancho Panza's more hard-hearted hands, compared with the contamination of the buck-basket, the disguise of the fat woman of Brentford, and the horns of Herne the hunter, which are discovered on Sir John's head? In reading the play, we indeed wish him well through all these discomfitures, but it would have been as well if he had not got into them. Falstaff in the MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR is not the man he was in the two parts of Henry IV. His wit and eloquence have left him. Instead of making a butt of others, he is made a butt of by them. Neither is there a single particle of love in him to excuse his follies: he is merely a designing, bare-faced knave, and an unsuccessful one. The scene with Ford as Master Brook, and that with Simple, Slender's man, who comes to ask after the Wise Woman, are almost the only ones in which his old intellectual ascendancy appears. He is like a person recalled to the stage to perform an unaccustomed and ungracious part; and in which we perceive only "some faint sparks of those flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the hearers in a roar." But the single scene with Doll Tearsheet, or Mrs. Quickly's account of his desiring "to eat some of housewife Keach's prawns," and telling her "to be no more so familiarity with such people," is worth the whole of the MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR put together. Ford's jealousy, which is the main spring of the comic incidents, is certainly very well managed. Page, on the contrary, appears to be somewhat uxorious in his disposition; and we have pretty plain indications of the effect of the characters of the husbands on the different degrees of fidelity in their wives. Mrs. Quickly makes a very lively go-between, both between Falstaff and his Dulcineas, and Anne Page and her lovers, and seems in the latter case so intent on her own interest as totally to overlook the intentions of her employers. Her master, Doctor Caius, the Frenchman, and her fellow-servant Jack Bugby, are very completely described. This last-mentioned person is rather quaintly commended by Mrs. Quickly as "an honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant shall come in house withal, and I warrant you, no tell-tale, nor ho breed-bate; his worst fault is that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish that way; but no body but has his fault." The Welch Parson, Sir Hugh Evans (a title which in those days was given to the clergy) is an excellent character in all respects. He is as respectable as he is laughable. He has "very good discretions, and very odd humours." The duel-scene with Caius gives him an opportunity to shew his "cholera and his tremblings of mind," his valour and his melancholy, in an irresistible manner. In the dialogue, which at his mother's request he holds with his pupil, William Page, to shew his progress in learning, it is hard to say whether the simplicity of the master or the scholar is the greatest. Nym, Bardolph, and Pistol, are but the shadows of what they were; and Justice Shallow himself has little of his consequence left. But his cousin, Slender, makes up for the deficiency. He is a very potent piece of imbecility. In him the pretensions of the worthy Gloucestershire family are well kept up, and immortalized. He and his friend Sackerson and his book of songs and his love of Anne Page and his having nothing to say to her can never be forgotten. It is the only first-rate character in the play: but it is in that class. Shakespear is the only writer who was as great in describing weakness as strength."
And since all Auden had to say about the play was this: "The Merry Wives of Windsor is a very dull play, indeed. We can be grateful for it having been written, because it provided the occasion of Verdi's Falstaff, a very great operatic masterpiece. Mr. Page, Shallow, Slender, and the Host disappear. I have nothing to say about Shakespeare play, so let's hear Verdi." Now while I disagree strongly that it is "a very dull play, indeed," I have no problem taking him up on his suggestion that we listen to Verdi:
So what do you all think of the play so far? Is it Falstaff, or isn't it?
Our next reading: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act Four
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PATRICK FEENEY, APPELLANT (DEFENDANT),v.THE STATE OF WYOMING, APPELLEE (PLAINTIFF).
Appeal from the District Court of Laramie County The Honorable Peter G. Arnold, Judge.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Voigt, Chief Justice.
Before VOIGT, C.J., and GOLDEN, HILL, KITE, and BURKE, JJ.
[¶1] After conditionally pleading guilty to a controlled substance offense, Patrick Feeney (the appellant) challenges the district court"s denial of his motion to suppress evidence discovered during a search of the vehicle he was driving. He maintains that he was detained in violation of his constitutional rights. Concluding the highway patrol trooper had reasonable suspicion to justify detaining the appellant after the original purpose of the traffic stop had ended, we affirm.
[¶2] The sole issue presented for our review is whether the appellant"s right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution was violated so as to require suppression of evidence and dismissal of charges.
[¶3] On March 20, 2007, at approximately 11:45 a.m., Trooper Jeremy Beck of the Wyoming Highway Patrol noticed a vehicle travelling eastbound on Interstate 80. The trooper locked his radar onto the vehicle and confirmed that the vehicle was travelling 80 miles per hour in a 75 mile per hour zone. The trooper pulled the vehicle over at approximately mile marker 354, a few miles outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming. The appellant rolled down his window as the trooper approached his vehicle and the trooper immediately smelled the overwhelming scent of dryer sheets. The trooper also noticed that the only luggage in the vehicle was a backpack in the back seat. The trooper told the appellant he had pulled him over for speeding and the appellant provided the trooper his Massachusetts driver"s license and the rental agreement for the vehicle.
[¶4] The appellant then accompanied the trooper back to the trooper"s vehicle where the appellant sat in the front passenger seat. The trooper informed the appellant that he was going to write him a warning for speeding and began to review the rental agreement. While reviewing the agreement, the trooper asked the appellant where he was travelling. The appellant stated he was going home to Massachusetts from Oakland, California, where he had been visiting friends. The rental agreement, however, required the appellant to return the vehicle in California. Despite the discrepancy between appellant"s statement concerning his travel plans (returning home to Massachusetts) and the terms of the rental agreement (return the vehicle to California), the trooper issued a warning ticket and told the appellant he was free to go.
[¶5] As the appellant returned to his vehicle the trooper reinitiated contact as the appellant was getting in the driver"s side door. The trooper asked the appellant if he would be willing to answer a few more questions about the rental agreement before he left. In response, the appellant stated that he was in a hurry and asked why the trooper wanted to ask more questions. The trooper explained to the appellant his concern that the rental agreement showed that the appellant was to return the vehicle to Oakland, California, and the appellant had told the trooper that he was taking the vehicle to Massachusetts. The appellant responded that he had called the rental company and changed the destination to Massachusetts. Upon the trooper"s request, the appellant told the trooper he could call the rental company to verify the change in the final destination. The trooper called the rental company and asked about the change; however, the company had no record of any change in the agreement. When the trooper asked if there was any way the destination could have been changed and not entered into the computer system, the rental company representative stated that any change is updated immediately throughout all of the rental company"s computers. The trooper concluded his phone call to the rental company and told the appellant that they had no record of any changes to the rental agreement. The appellant responded, "that"s weird because I did call." The trooper then asked the appellant if he was initially planning to bring the vehicle back to California when he first rented the vehicle and the appellant responded "no."
[¶6] After this conversation concerning the rental agreement, the trooper asked the appellant if there were any illegal drugs in the vehicle. The appellant responded that there were not. The trooper then asked if the appellant would consent to a search of the vehicle. The appellant refused. The trooper then told the appellant that he was going to detain him until a K-9 unit arrived to perform a "free-air" sniff around the vehicle. The K-9 unit arrived a short time later and alerted in the vicinity of the back door and trunk of the appellant"s vehicle. The trooper searched the vehicle and found a duffle bag containing airtight packages of what was ultimately confirmed to be marijuana.
[¶7] On March 21, 2007, the appellant was charged with one count of possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver, in violation of Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-7-1031(a)(ii) (LexisNexis 2007). On May 25, 2007, the appellant filed a motion to suppress, asserting that the search of his vehicle and seizure of the marijuana was in violation of his constitutional rights under both the Wyoming and United States Constitutions and thus the marijuana evidence should not be admissible. A hearing on the appellant"s motion was held on August 8, 2007, and the district court entered an Order Denying Motion to Suppress on August 24, 2007.
[¶8] The parties filed a Plea Agreement for Recommended Disposition wherein the appellant entered a guilty plea to the charged crime and reserved his right to appeal the district court"s ruling. As part of the plea agreement, the state agreed to dismiss the felony possession charge and to recommend a sentence of three to five years incarceration, with the sentence to be suspended in lieu of four years of supervised probation. The appellant was sentenced as described above and then timely filed a notice of appeal.
[¶9] When reviewing a district court"s ruling on a motion to suppress, this Court does not disturb findings on factual issues made by the district court unless they are clearly erroneous. State v. Evans, 944 P.2d 1120, 1124 (Wyo. 1997) (citing Bravo v. State, 897 P.2d 1303, 1305 (Wyo. 1995)). At the suppression hearing, the district court has the opportunity to assess the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given the evidence and to make the necessary inferences, deductions and conclusions; therefore, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the district court"s determination. Evans, 944 P.2d at 1124 (citing Wilson v. State, 874 P.2d 215, 218 (Wyo. 1994)). On those issues where the district court has not made specific findings of fact, this Court will uphold the general ruling of the court below if supported by any reasonable view of the evidence. Neilson v. State, 599 P.2d 1326, 1330 (Wyo. 1979). The issue of law, whether an unreasonable search or seizure has occurred in violation of constitutional rights, is reviewed de novo. McChesney v. State, 988 P.2d 1071, 1074 (Wyo. 1999). A district court judgment may be affirmed on any proper legal grounds supported by the record. Robinson v. State, 11 P.3d 361, 367 (Wyo. 2000); see also Chapman v. State, 638 P.2d 1280, 1286 n.7 (Wyo. 1982); Jones v. State, 602 P.2d 378, 382 (Wyo. 1979).
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