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Staples Players showcases "The Trojan Women" as first studio production of year
March 19, 2019
Whether it's the childhood fables about the devious surprise attack of the Trojan Horse or tales from the heroic Odyssey, most people have heard the Greek side of the Trojan War. But few have encountered the story about the tragic aftermath of the bloody battles of Troy. Travelling back to ancient Greece, the Staples Players brought to life "The Trojan Women" as their student-directed, first studio production of the year this weekend from March 1 to March 3 at Toquet Hall.
Written by Athenian playwright Euripides around 415 BCE, "The Trojan Women" is a tragedy that is historically based on the Greek seize of the island Melos. This final trilogy centers around the fates of widows Hecuba, Andromache, Cassandra, Helen and the surviving women of the kingdom. The modern adaptation used by Staples Players, created by Ellen McLaughlin, continues to blend both Greek myths as well as emotions of grief and sadness.
This completely student-run production was directed by Josh Horowitz '19 and Violet Cooper '21. In the early stages of choosing what plays they wanted to put on, "The Trojan Women" stood out as an incredibly touching story.
"The core of the material was written 2400 years ago," Horowitz said. "And I was just floored by the prescience of the whole thing and how applicable it was today."
While many Staples Players plays are lighthearted and comical, the smaller studio productions allow the cast to explore deeper, more emotional genres of production.
The play also allowed opportunities for underclassmen to gain experience delving into their characters. "I got to really create a character that I could call my own," Anushka Rao '22 said, who was a member of the Greek Chorus in her first Staples Players studio production. .
Many characters in the play ultimately have ill-fated endings–whether they are sold off into slavery or surrounded by the deaths of their loved ones. Acting as one of the main roles in the play, Hecuba, Lulu Dalzell '21 initially struggled with finding a connection to her character.
"The subject matter is so upsetting and so hard to put on especially as a high school student," Dalzell said. "But I'm happy that I could get into my character and really discover her emotions throughout the show, even though she lived such a different live than I do."
Another challenging aspect in adapting a Greek tragedy was reading and analyzing a script translated from ancient Greek,as well as deciphering the word choice and language of the characters.
"Personally, it was more difficult at the start of the process to really find that intimate connection with the character I was playing," Emily Desser '21 said. "Her story and setting is miles and miles from my own." In the play, Desser played the tragic character of Andromache, who loses her husband as well as her beloved son throughout the story, in addition to being unwillingly wed off as a concubine to a Greek man.
Even director Horowitz had found it difficult to maintain the balance between acting and raw emotion.
"Rushing it means you're either going to be faking onstage, or you're going to go too deep into your own emotions and you'll get stuck there."
Still, the cast praised Horowitz on his professional advice and creating a sense of teamwork and unity.
During the showing, the cast seamlessly brought to life the melancholy tone of the play, from dressing on the costumes of colorless, battered, war-torn togas as well as creating the set of a destroyed, crumbling city in ancient Troy.
"One of the themes that I enjoyed most in this show was that it is centered around women," Violet Cooper '21 said. "In the end, the women have to rise above the misery they have already endured, and face their new lives of degradation with wisdom and integrity."
However, transforming this small stage into the island of Troy was not an easy process. Throughout the long rehearsal planning, the cast had encountered several obstacles. In just under a month, the cast and tech crew struggled with a lack of space as well as time, having to prepare the stage just three days before the opening night.
"It was a challenge considering that we had such a small budget," Dalzell said. "Also getting rehearsal time and rehearsal space in the auditorium lobby because it was very loud during school."
Ultimately, however, the show was regarded as a huge success by the members of the play. One of the most rewarding aspects of the show was displaying their work and effort in front of a live and engaged audience.
"Putting the show up in front of a real audience was really rewarding and to see a genuine reaction from them gave the show a whole new purpose," Rao said.
Additionally, their captivating emotional performance had touched the hearts of many audience members.
"One of the accomplishments over the weekend was probably having people come up to us after the show and having them say that the play really meant something to them and how beautiful it was," Emma Saxon '21 said (playing Aurelia in the Greek Chorus).
Throughout the entire process from rehearsing to performing, the cast and crew developed a strong bond with each other.
"As a senior, and as someone who's very quickly coming to the end of high school," Horowitz said, "I'm glad it was different, and I learned a lot about myself through this play."
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The Iowa Supreme Court decision in Nelson v. James H. Knight DDS, P.C., et al, filed December 21, 2012, has drawn national attention for the holding that the termination of Nelson's employment was not in violation of the Iowa Civil Rights Act's prohibition of discrimination based on sex.
Nelson worked for Knight's dental office for over ten years, along with an all female staff other than Dr. Knight. In the last year and a half of her employment, Dr. Knight complained that her clothing was too tight, revealing and "distracting". Dr. Knight's wife, Jeanne, also an employee of the dental practice, complained that Nelson flirted with Dr. Knight, was cold toward her, criticized another dental assistant, and would hang around after work when just Dr. Knight was there while everyone else went home. While Nelson indicated that he made a comment that "if she saw his pants bulging, she would know her clothing was too revealing" and another comment on her sex life, Nelson did not complain or tell him that she was offended.
Nelson and Dr. Knight began texting each other during the last six months of her employment, including while he was on a vacation with his children, and his wife stayed at home. Jeanne Knight learned of the texting, confronted her husband, and demanded that he terminate Nelson's employment because "she was a big threat to our marriage." They consulted with their pastor, who agreed. Dr. Nelson then terminated Nelson's employment.
Nelson filed suit, alleging in a single count, that in terminating her employment, Dr. Knight "discriminated against her on the basis of sex". She did not allege that sexual harassment had occurred during her employment. The District Court ruled in favor of Dr. Knight on summary judgment. On appeal, the Iowa Supreme Court affirmed, noting that the Iowa Civil Rights Act, specifically Iowa Code §216.6(1)(a) makes it unlawful to discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because of the employee's sex. Generally, it is unlawful sex discrimination for an employer to terminate an employee if sex is a motivating factor in the employer's decision. Nelson claimed that she would not have been terminated "but for" her sex.
The Iowa Supreme Court reviewed cases from other courts across the United States, including a recent Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals case, which found that "sexual favoritism", where one employee is treated more favorably than members of the opposite sex because of a consensual relationship with the boss, does not violate Title VII (the corresponding federal law prohibiting sex discrimination). Tenge v. Phillips Modern Ag Co., 446 F. 3d 903 (8th Cir. 2006). The Eight Circuit noted that under such circumstances, any benefits were based on the sexual conduct, and not the gender of the employee. Similar cases were cited for the proposition that unfavorable treatment based on consensual sexual conduct did not violate Title VII. See Platner v. Cash & Thomas Contractors, Inc., 908 F.2d 902 (11th Cir. 1990)(employee terminated for being a perceived threat to the marriage of the owner's son when son's wife became jealous). See also Keen v. Regional Emergency Med. Servs. of Ga., Inc., (M.D. Ga., No. 7:11 - cv 00106, Oct. 15, 2012) (no retaliation found for conduct of employee's wife who took action against Plaintiff because Plaintiff had an affair with her husband, although employer may be subject to claims on other grounds).
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When a distinguished art collector and auctioneer is contacted by a reclusive woman to value her arts and antiques, a world of art, passion, love and mystery collides. My review of The Best Offer is after the jump.
Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) is the type of man most of us may only ever glimpse once or twice in our lives; he's certainly unlike anyone we know. A solitary man whose passion and obsession for uncovering rare art and antiques grew from childhood, and has seen him become the most respected in his field, and the head of his own auction house. While nothing less than perfection on the surface, Virgil's desire to surround himself with beautiful and rare woman sees him running a scam with Billy (Donald Sutherland) to acquire valuable pieces of art at unthinkably low prices. In his home, away from the world, he enjoys the company of these beautiful woman, they are his escape.
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The Masters presents a pressure that is unlike almost any challenge in sports. Reed, who lives in The Woodlands, is uniquely built for it.
A member at Bluejack National in Montgomery, a Tiger Woods-designed track that is the most Augusta National-like course in the area, Reed has had the look of a future Masters champion for years.
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How Much Does Smoking Really Cost over a Lifetime?
With the average cost of a pack of cigarettes at a little over $5.50, you may not realize just how much it costs to smoke over a lifetime. Although you probably know that it certainly adds up over time, the costs are truly staggering.
According to research conducted by WalletHub, on average smoking costs more than $1.6 million over a smoker's lifetime. The personal finance website conducted a state-by-state analysis of the total financial cost of smoking, including the cost of a pack of cigarettes per day for several decades, health care expenses and other costs of smoking. The study assumes that the smoker in question is an adult that began at age 18 and smokes a pack a day until the age of 69. Out of the $1.6 billion, roughly $156 billion is due to lost productivity and $170 billion is related to direct health-related costs from smoking.
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Gawker v Hulk Hogan: A Settlement Ends the Saga
Gawker, the inflammatory media outlet, shut down a couple months ago due to some nasty business with Terry Bollea, universally-known as Hulk Hogan. Following a $140 million judgement in August, founder Nick Denton filed for personal bankruptcy and Gawker spiraled into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Univision Communications bought Gawker Media Group for $135 million, saving several of the company's publications but laying Gawker to rest.
After a 4-year long legal battle, the issue has finally resolved itself to the tune of $31 million, quite a bit less than what the Florida jury agreed that Hogan was owed. When the amount was first announced, Denton wrote an article outlining the true reason for the trial. Apparently, Gawker's coverage of the sex tape dredged up bitter memories of past recordings in which Hogan used damning commentary and inappropriate terms. Denton claims that just days after Gawker released their article, Hogan sent a text message to radio host Bubba Clem saying, "We know there's more than one tape out there and a one that has several racist slurs were told. I have a [pay-per-view special] and I am not waiting for anymore surprises ..." Evidently, the lawsuit was a distraction, an attempt to scare others away from digging into Hogan's past.
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They appear to have bought the argument that a single popular article, which carried no advertising and which stimulated no sustained increase in traffic, had increased Gawker's brand value by $15 million, and that the wrestler should be paid $4.95 for each view of the video on Gawker's sites as well as many others over which we had no control, racking up an additiona $35 million. And they awarded him $60 million for emotional distress with precious little evidence that he actually experienced any ...
The settlement was revealed ahead of the disclosure statement hearing in court. From the get-go, Denton believed that the appeals court would decrease the amount owed to Hogan. He was correct in that. However, the ruthlessness of Gawker's true rival, Peter Thiel, is what finally pushed the parties involved to agree on a settlement. Thiel funded the lawyer who handled Hogan's lawsuit among others; such things are but a passing penny to someone whose net worth is $2.7 billion. In a blog post, Denton says that the parties reached a settlement agreement "that allows us all to move on, and focus on activities more productive than endless litigation."
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Cybercrime And Bad Statistics
Some surveys are more unreliable than others
Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley are both at Microsoft Research. Florencio is with the Multimedia, Interaction and Communication group, and Herley—a Principal researcher— is with the Machine Learning Department. Both have made important contributions to many areas of computing, including especially security.
Today I want to talk about a brilliant piece of theirs on cybercrime that just appeared in this Sunday's New York Times—it is in the Sunday Review section on page five.
The essence of their opinion piece is given away by its title: "The Cybercrime Wave That Wasn't." They make a strong case, in my opinion, that the claims of huge losses to consumers—over 100 billion dollars a year—being made about cybercrime are just not correct. Not even close. They point out that
[S]uch widely circulated cybercrime estimates are generated using absurdly bad statistical methods, making them wholly unreliable.
This is a pretty strong statement.
I was immediately attracted to their piece, partly because of the topic, cybercrime; and mostly by the word "absurdly." In my experience, where absurd methods are being used by responsible people, interesting and tricky science is there to find. In this spirit let's take a look at the issue that they raise.
The problem is that the cybercrime estimates are based on surveys of individuals, surveys that ask essentially "what did cybercrime cost you this year?" There may be other ways to get this information, but companies are unlikely to answer questions about cybercrime. Hence even the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must rely on surveys.
Now surveys are reasonably well understood, relatively reliable if done correctly, and a powerful method of assessing how people feel about an issue. There have been some terrific failures over the years, but in general they are a useful tool.
Perhaps the most famous failure was the Truman-Dewey prediction. Logistical matters in 1948 induced the Chicago Tribune newspaper to put its first editions out earlier than before, and on Election Night, November 3, the deadline came before most voting returns started coming in. Hence they relied on their Washington correspondent, who relied on polls all showing a solid lead for challenger Thomas E. Dewey over President Harry S. Truman. Truman's words while posing for the iconic photo
were: "This is one for the books."
Closer to our time, three famous prediction mistakes impacted our lives. Surveys prior to January 1, 2000, indicated that the Y2K Problem would cause far more economic damage than it did. It is still not clear how much credit proactive measures should receive for the relative lack of problems, but it seems clear as some even noted beforehand that the problem had been severely overestimated.
Exit poll results caused the state of Florida to be prematurely called as a win for Albert Gore in the 2000 US presidential election, and led to mistaken expectations of a win for John Kerry in the 2004 election, before returns started coming in. The latter was a much wider-scale phenomenon, and there remains controversy over the assertion that Republican voters for President George W. Bush showed a lower rate of participation, thus skewing the surveys toward Kerry. There is general speculation that results for survey answers perceived as unpopular are generally depressed, and about other ways people might lie on voting surveys. But even so, any single change makes just a tiny difference in the total.
Numeric Surveys
Suppose instead of an election poll we have a job-approval poll. Imagine that the entire population has people, each with values
meaning: means they strongly approve the job the President is doing, means approve but not strongly, neutral, disapprove, and strongly disapprove. The goal of the survey is to ask people for their values, and then make a guess at the value of the sum of all preferences, i.e. at
Then is the average degree of support, or disapproval if negative.
If the people are sampled randomly, then this is a terrific method for determining the sum of their values. If they "lie" and do not tell the truth when asked for their values, then sampling will still work well. The key is that we need only have some reasonable bound on the fraction of people that will lie. Besides lies there are many other ways to mess up, but we will put these all together: people can, for example, misunderstand the survey question.
Florencio and Herley note that all this changes in numeric surveys when the values are allowed to range from zero to infinity. See their technical paper here for details.
The problem is that even if most of the values in the sample are zero, a few very large values will have a huge effect on the estimate for the sum. And these large values can be lies. In their NYT piece they point out that one FTC survey on identity theft would have added 37 billion dollars to the total based on just the answers from two respondents. Just two—as in one, then two.
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Ken notes that a related issue plagues his chess research because of widespread inaccuracies in records of moves in chess games, even in top-level chess tournaments. For example, a game from the 2010 Women's Grand Prix tournament in Ulanbaatar reached this position after Black's move 33…Rd8:
Undoubtedly White traded Rooks by 34. Rxd8+ Qxd8 and then play continued 35. Qc3 Qd6. All sources Ken knows, however, give the moves 34. Qc3 Qd6 putting Black's Queen in-take, and the gamescore miraculously stays legal for the remaining 22 moves, with both Queens often left in-take to the phantom Rooks. This originally racked up huge amounts of player error in the computerized move analysis that underlies Ken's model. And none of it is true. Update: Subsequent to this post and the head of ChessGames.com contacting me in May, this gamescore was fixed.
The causes of errors are all too human, even when games are played on special sensory boards and transmitted in real time. The Rooks may have been traded too softly for the captures to register. There is a quirk that sometimes causes spurious King moves at ends of games. When human scoresheets are typed into databases, the letters 'c' and 'e', and 'b' and 'd', are often confused. By Ken's estimates, upwards of 1% of games have mis-recorded moves. This would make 2,000 bad games in the 200,000 games he has analyzed to date, and over 60,000 in the most extensive game collections.
This is too many for one person to sift and correct by hand, and in over a quarter of cases Ken has examined, he does not even see a fix to suggest. Happily his data-processing scripts flag the most egregious cases, and he hand-cleaned the set of 6,000 games analyzed in depth to train his model, but he suspects enough uncaught "erroneous error" to skew the other totals by 5–10%. This makes a significant difference in the correspondence between his aggregate-error statistics and chess Elo Ratings that is established in his followup paper.
Not all gamescore errors lead to the appearance of blunders, and the small effect of those can be ignored. The problem is distinguishing spurious high error values from cases where players really do blunder on consecutive moves. Should we place a cap on the amount of error that can come from any one game? Or can we weight the data points by a confidence value that shrinks as the error increases?
A Sampling Challenge
Note that Ken's training set of 6,000 games is essentially a kind of sample of the whole population. In general we cannot go and fix errors in our samples, however. It may help that we have an estimate like 1% on the rate of false data points, but when the data is numeric and unbounded, we may not have a good estimate on the total numeric magnitude of the error.
This seems like an important problem that might benefit from tools we have in theory of computation. Imagine the above setup of people, but add the assumption that some are allowed to lie. How can one use sampling methods to ask only a small fraction of the people their values, but avoid having a few liars affect the final estimate unduly?
This leads to the question: Can we sample in a way that stands a good chance of avoiding the false data points altogether? Ken and I have some initial ideas how this might be possible, but have no definite results to report. We do note that having statistical methods that work in the presence of lies seems to be a fundamental problem.
Open Problems
Just a repeat: can we handle liars in the estimation of sums? In the estimation of other values? Are there reasonable models that would be able to help here? Beyond cybercrime estimation we believe that such questions must be common in many places. Can we help?
Another problem dear to Ken is to fix up the chess record. The modern way of recording full play-by-play, pitch-by-pitch, manager move-by-move information of Major League Baseball games apparently began only in 1984. RetroSheet.org was founded to collect pre-1984 data and has about 100 volunteers. Can we mount a similar effort to assure accuracy of historical chess game scores?
[fixed "based" to "bad" in first section's quotation]
John Riegsecker permalinkApril 18, 2012 12:05 pm
The quote should read "absurdly bad statistical methods", and not "absurdly based statistical methods".
balachthon permalinkApril 18, 2012 2:52 pm
Just FYI: For me, the "37 billion" is showing up as "2X billion" (I can tell it is meant to be 37 by mousing over for the hovertext). A similar bug appeared for me in the recent April 11 post on the Lonely Runner Conjecture, which was also noted in the comments section there by iitdelhireport and Stijn.
Ross Snider permalinkApril 18, 2012 5:21 pm
Might it be possible to run something line RANSAC on the data to find a consensus amoung inlier datapoints?
April 18, 2012 10:57 pm
The question of liars seems potentially connected to a problem which I was told a few years ago was essentially open: Suppose A has picked a positive integer s from 1 to n, and B wants to figure out what s is. If B is allowed to ask A questions of the form "is s greater than/less than _" and A always answer truthfully, then B can win optimally with no more than 1 + log_2 n questions. What are the asymptotics if A is allowed to lie some number of times (known to B)? Last I heard, a good bounds aren't known even for A having no more than a single lie in the general case, and two lies isn't understood well at all. Unfortunately, I don't have a reference for the problem (in fact, if someone does have a reference I'd like to see it myself!). This seems like a thematically similar question.
Rahul permalinkApril 19, 2012 8:29 am
The paper "On Playing Twenty Questions with a Liar" by Dhagat, Gacs and Winkler addresses this question.
Sasho permalinkMay 1, 2012 12:28 pm
Well there are some simple upper bounds. For example if there could be at most $k$ lies, each query can be posed $k+1$ times, making sure that the right answer is given at least once. For any query for which there are contradicting answers, one more query is made to verify which answers is the correct one. This gives $(k+1)\log n + k + 1$. Are there examples where one can do better?
I do recall a similar problem about optimal bounds for comparison sorting with lies.
me permalinkApril 19, 2012 6:14 am
Anyone knows if there is some crowdsourcing going on to find scoresheet typos in those collections? Should be an interesting diversion to some…
April 19, 2012 2:24 pm
The problem actually lies in the extrapolation method. Asking people how much money they lost is not a simple binomial nor gaussian distribution problem. Since we know that money distribution follows a pareto distribution within the population, we should expect random samples to reflect a similar distribution.
People can look up pareto distributions on wikipedia, but I do want to mention the interesting fact that there is a shape variable associated with the distribution. When that variable goes to infinity, the pareto distribution becomes the dirac delta function.
In any case, the data collected might still have some error associated with liars, but it should be recognized that large numbers are not outliers but are in fact important members of the distribution.
April 19, 2012 2:32 pm
I would also add that despite some of my past discontent with Taleb's books, "Fooled by Randomness" and the "Black Swan" I believe his general point about a significant part of the world follow power law statistics should be appreciated.


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3/4 cup sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
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3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
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1/2 cup milk
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1/2 tsp salt
1 Tablespoon corn syrup
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Whipped Cream
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1/4 cup sifted powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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1 cup thinly sliced strawberries
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Recently, we took the whole crew to the human trough, also known as Golden Corral. Our oldest was busy, but we also had our married daughter, her husband, and baby, so eleven of us.
This visit, I decided to let Bo (9yo with Ds/ASD) come with me to fix his plate so he could make his own choices. He was ecstatic and delighted in carefully making selections of all the foods he loves. I noticed, like our neurotypical kids, his plate of food was all in the same color family…from beige to bright orange which made me smile. He wasn't a fan of the fried shrimp he chose, but he loved the sweet potato casserole for which we got seconds.
Like all kids, dessert is where his true passion lies and he was in heaven with all the choices. After looking the selection over carefully, he finally landed on a chocolate cupcake with pink frosting which he quickly devoured and was rewarded with another one. After he finished that one, he noticed his brother, Eon, had just returned to the table with an exact duplicate. He very excitedly pointed and showed everyone around that Eon had a cupcake. At first, I thought he wanted Eon's, but it soon became clear that he was just excited someone else was going to enjoy the thing he loved. He mimicked each bite his brother took with excited clapping in between. If he could speak, it was so obvious he would've been saying, "Isn't it amazing? That frosting is so good! Don't you love it?"
As empathy is a skill he has not yet mastered, we were delighted with his delight for his brother. We were all smiling and laughing. I winked at my husband and when I looked back over to Bo, his whole hand was suddenly covered in poop. It took a second before we comprehended what we were seeing. Then, the whole table erupted with cries of, "EW, ICK!" from the younger kids. I dove for my purse that had the wipes in it and hastily wiped it all off, while my dear husband prepared to scoop him off to the van for a change of pull-up.
Immediately, I was horrified and embarrassed, although I tend to roll with these things pretty well and it didn't take me too long to laugh it off.
I share this story because it is so typical of our life with disability. We have very high highs, followed a split second later by very low lows. Usually, as in this case, we have a great sense of humor and are able to bounce back pretty quickly. But sometimes, it's a lot and more than a little overwhelming. I know that we are not alone in this experience (okay, maybe we are in this particular experience, but I'm speaking more generally.) I know of many great families who are currently dealing with the "lot" part of parenting kids with disabilities.
I don't have answers on how to live in daily bliss with these types of challenges. I'm not great at keeping my cool when a child is knocking over chairs and threatening to upend the dining room table. I could use some work on how to calmly endure backseat spitting when a sibling is losing their shit over it. I definitely need some tips on how to keep my sanity when the one thing that calms Bo is his favorite youtube videos of children shrieking and behaving badly.
The only thing I do know is that this life has given me a new lens. I see the world differently. I see people as more valuable. I am more convinced of Imgago Dei in everyone, regardless of ability, class, education, choices, behavior, or status.
I recognize that everyone has a story to which I'm not privy. I can and should withhold judgment, always. Acceptance, inclusion, and unconditional love are key. I have a much deeper understanding of grace and now recognize that everyone needs it including, maybe especially, myself.
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The perineum is a diamond-shaped region below the pelvic diaphragm and is divided by an imaginary line drawn between the ischial tuberosities into anteriorly the urogenital triangle and posteriorly the anal triangle.
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The perineum is bounded by the pubis anteriorly, the ischial tuberosities anterolaterally, the sacrotuberous ligaments posterolaterally and the coccyx posteriorly.
The urogenital triangle is the anterior part of the perineum and it contains the penis and scrotum in males and mons pubis, labia majora and minora, clitoris and vaginal and urethral orifices in females. A sheet of fascia covers the urogenital diaphragm inferiorly, the perineal membrane, which divides the urogenital triangle into the deep perineal pouch superior (deep) to the membrane and the superficial perineal pouch inferior (superficial) to the membrane. The perineal membrane is less conspicuous in females.
The anal triangle contains the anus and its sphincters and also the ischioanal fossa on either side in both males and females.
The central tendon of the perineum is the midpoint of the joining line between the ischial tuberosities and is called the perineal body. The perineal body lies behind the vagina in females and supports the vagina against prolapse. The anal sphincters, bulbospongiosus muscle, transverse perineal muscle and levator ani muscles are attached to the perineal body in the midline.
Arterial supply
The internal pudendal artery is a branch of the internal iliac artery and is the main supplier of the perineum.
The pudendal nerve (S2 to S4) and its branches is the nerve of the perineum and pelvic floor.
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Imaging is required to assess pelvic floor laxity in women with urinary and bowel continence issues.
Provides limited visualization of the pelvic muscles.
Muscles of the pelvic floor can be imaged with MRI and pelvic floor movements can be assessed with dynamic MRI.
MRI is the modality of choice in assessing the complex perineal lesions and their relations to the adjacent structures. It provides guidance for surgical planning due to its greater sensitivity and specificity than the other non-invasive imaging techniques.
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Series Determination
Boudreaux and Thibodeaux aren't very good at math, so they need you to write a program that can determine the second degree polynomial used to generate a given sequence of three integers. As proof that you've figured out the polynomial, they want your program to print out the next 3 integers in the sequence.
You know that each sequence is generated by a polynomial of the form f(x) = Ax2 + Bx + C, where A, B, and C are integers in the range (-103 <= (A, B, C) <= 103). You are given the values f(0), f(1), f(2) and are to determine the values f(3), f(4), f(5).
Input to this problem will consist of a (non-empty) series of up to 100 data sets. Each data set will be formatted according to the following description, and there will be no blank lines separating data sets.
Each data set consists of a single line containing the space-separated integer values of the polynomial evaluated at 0, 1, and 2 (in that order). These values will be in the range (-103 <= (f(0), f(1), f(2)) <= 103).
For each data set, there will be exactly one line of output containing the space-separated integer values of the polynomial evaluated at 3, 4, and 5 (in that order). These values will be in the range (-104 <= (f(3), f(4), f(5)) <= 104).
Sample Input
0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 3 0 1 4 0 2 8
Sample Output
0 0 0 1 1 1 4 5 6 9 16 25 18 32 50
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NORWICH – A motion to disqualify the Chenango County District Attorney from prosecuting the case of an alleged homicide involving the murder of a New Berlin woman has been denied. The motion alleges a conflict of interest which would have required the appointment of a special prosecutor from outside the district attorney's office.
Ganesh R. Ramsaran, 38, of New Berlin, was indicted in May of 2013 for second degree murder, a class A-I felony, in connection with the alleged murder of his 36-year-old wife, Jennifer L. Ramsaran. According to indictment papers, Ramsaran intentionally caused the death of his wife at the couples' 449 Sheff Road residence in the Town of New Berlin, on or about December 11, 2012.
Jennifer was first reported missing by her husband on December 11, 2012. At the time he claimed she had failed to return from a shopping trip to Destiny USA in Syracuse. Her body was found some ten weeks later down an embankment adjacent to Center Road in the Town of Pharsalia. Two days later, on February 28, once the Chenango County Sheriff's Office had confirmed the identity of the body, her husband posted the following to a Facebook page: "I would like to thank all those who gave up many precious hours of their own lives to help look for Jennifer. To all of the friends and family of both mine and Jennifer's, I thank you ... who worked many hours voluntarily and provided support to me and my children, awareness and non-stop searching for Jennifer. I thank you all."
Editor's Note: This quote was first published in The Evening Sun on February 28, 2013. The Facebook page, entitled "Jennifer L. Ramsaran Missing Person," has since been taken down.
Following his arrest, Ramsaran's attorneys have staunchly maintained his innocence.


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Greg Schiano said he didn't want to ""gush too much" on West Virginia, and then the Rutgers coach did just that about the 8-3 team he will be hosting Saturday at noon.
Schiano spent the better part of his Monday press conference raving about the Mountaineers.
On Mountaineers quarterback Jarrett Brown, who ranks first in the Big East in total offense at 218.2 yards per game:
""We had him in a camp and we knew what a great passer he is. When he started chucking the ball a lot in the '06 game, it wasn't a shocker. He is a good quarterback and a good athlete."
On tailback Noel Devine, the Big East's second-leading rusher at 112.0 yards per game:
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Question: What is a tax ditch? Answer: Tax ditch channels range in size from six to 80 feet wide, and two to 14 feet deep. The dimensions depend on the acreage being drained and the topography. A Tax Ditch Association is an organization, formed by a legal process in Superior Court, that comprises all landowners (also referred to as taxables) of a particular watershed or sub-watershed. The operations of a tax ditch are overseen by ditch managers and a secretary/treasurer.
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Electricity: Before & After
We must never forget the impact providing power to this region has had on people like Edna Ruske, who wrote the following letter to MPEI, dated November 9, 1956:
"There was a time when I cleaned and filled kerosene lamps each day; when I carried water from the stream up the steep little hillside to the house; when I heated water on a wood stove and washed over a board - and laboriously tended the heavy irons in the same manner. When I placed perishables in a little wire cage outside a north window and hung my meat in the garage - striving (vainly at times) to keep things from freezing too hard or from spoiling in the heat. When, in my craft work, I sewed and polished by hand - when I slept under a pile of heavy quilts and blankets, on those 50-degree below nights which left me as weary each morning as I had been when I went to bed.
For the brilliant light which comes at the touch of my finger - for the water which flows at my command (hot or cold), for all the wonder-working appliances which ease my day, for the soft, light blanket which keeps me toasty, warm in any temperature - for these- and oh so many things I THANK YOU! Not only this time of year, but every day of the every year - I say it gratefully and I remember 'the good old days' when there was no electricity to lighten and brighten my world."


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Last night I threw two books away. It is my way to offer burnt offerings to The Lord in this day and age. For the most part, it was the conclusion of business regarding the Event, the War in Heaven, etc. It means that the visions should be receding now, and I actually get the sensation that this is happening. It will be a strange thing, to have a "normal" mind again, but like any reversion to a regular situation, I supposed I will get used to it in a hurry. I have prayed not to forget all the lessons I have learned, nor the miracles I have seen. Yea, verily. A new chapter is about to begin. The beginning is near.
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