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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Elias, Eric (Mitchell Victor)
Elias, Eric (Mitchell Victor), guitarist, bassist, educator, author; b. Anderson, IN, 26 August 1965. His parents (Robert, b. 1941 and Karen, b. 1940) moved to upstate NY when Eric was a toddler. After several moves around the Hudson Valley area, Eric's family settled in Oswego, NY (near Syracuse). While Eric's siblings (Sophia, b. 1986, Katherine, b. 1984, Julian b. 1969, Rob, b. 1964) took some music lessons or expressed interest in music, only Eric maintained a desire to play professionally.
He began by playing folk instruments like the dulcimer at age 11 and graduated to his first guitar a year later. Eric studied everything from folk to rock while in high school and developed an interest in jazz at that time. In 1983 Eric began studies in classical guitar with Lawrence Johnson at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY (B.S. in social sciences). Throughout his undergraduate years, Eric performed in several jazz combos, school ensembles, toured England with a fusion band and studied beginning piano. Eric then attended Bucknell University (MS Educational Psychology) and studied jazz and classical guitar with David Cullen. While in graduate school, he continued to perform in various groups and played bass for the Bucknell Jazz Rock Ensemble. Upon graduation in 1990, Eric returned to Rochester, NY and studied classical guitar with Norman Tibbils. He furthered his jazz studies with guitarists Steve Greene and Mark Manetta during this time as well.
Along with playing in a jazz group, Eric also played guitar for a gospel choir. It was at this time that he began performing as a solo guitarist in both the jazz and instrumental folk genres, blending his jazz and classical influences. Elias frequently performed in Toronto, played at several festivals, opened for Maynard Ferguson and performed with guitarist Phil Keaggy. In 1996 Eric moved to the Hartford, CT area and began studying jazz guitar with Rich Goldstein from the University of Hartford, often sitting in with Randy Johnston's guitar ensemble class. In 1999 Eric completed a diploma certificate through Guitar College (studying with Rich Severson) and received a Baldwin Scholarship to study Brazilian guitar with Joe Carter at the Hartford Conservatory. Eric has also received a scholarship to the National Guitar Workshop.
Elias continues to learn and perform on a variety of instruments including: upright bass, mandolin, banjo, alto sax, piano and percussion. He teaches private jazz, fingerstyle guitar and bass students and has developed a pedagogy for jazz guitar and bass instruction. While studying in the Hartford area, Eric completed numerous guitar arrangements and transcriptions of Charlie Parker's music, which have recently been published. In 1999 he began writing a column for Just Jazz Guitar Magazine on the fundamentals of improvisation and contributes interviews and photographs as well. Eric was twice selected to be included on recordings for the Connecticut Classical Guitar Society. He endorses Stromberg Guitars and has done numerous workshops for both Stromberg and the CT Classical Guitar Society. Eric was nominated as one of the best solo performers in Hartford for the year 2000, as well.
While Eric has increased his role as an educator, he continues to remain active as a performer and composer. He plays regularly with the Elias & Nelson Jazz Guitar Duo, performing unique arrangements of standards and original works. He also performs a solo guitarist and with various small combos throughout NY and New England. Eric's songs have been recorded on several local and national television shows. Eric is married to Carlita Rankin (b. 1970) and has one daughter, Kiara (b. 2001).
Recordings, Broadcasts and Films:
-Conversations With My Strings (1998); My Compliments (Elias & Nelson Jazz Guitar Duo) (2002)
-Contributed compositions and/or performances to: Robert Messore: Focus (2001), New England Landscapes- CT Classical Guitar Society (2000), The Gift of The Guitar- CT Classical Guitar Society (1999), Susana Lopes Band (1999), Wales Road: Traveling Mercies (1995), Susan Trump, The Tree of Life (1995).
-Cabin Country, Nationally syndicated PBS show. Composed the theme song and intermittent music.
-Simply Living, pilot PBS show, composed theme song and intermittent music.
-Entrada, local NY TV show, composed the theme song.
-About 10 unissued audio and video performances from various festivals and venues with gospel, folk, rock and jazz performers.
-Several live radio performances on WWUH (University of Hartford 1997-1999).
-Friday Night Folk, local television concert and interview (1996).
Works by Elias:
-The Fundamentals of Jazz Guitar Improvisation Volume I (Phunquie Pholk 1998)
-The Fundamentals of Jazz Guitar Improvisation Volume II (Phunquie Pholk 2001)
-Bass Guitar (Phunquie Pholk, 1999)
-Charlie Parker Transcriptions for Guitar Volume I Blues (Phunquie Pholk 2002)
-Charlie Parker Transcriptions for Guitar Volume II Jazz (Phunquie Pholk 2002)
-Arpeggio and Position Studies for Guitar (Phunquie Pholk, accepted for publication)
-Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Performance - Book and Video (Phunquie Pholk accepted for publication)
By Eric Elias and Joe Carter:
-The Art of Solo Jazz Guitar Arranging (Phunquie Pholk accepted for publication)
Numerous short publications including columns, interviews, articles and CD reviews in Just Jazz Guitar.
A variety of reviews about Eric's publications and recordings are in print as well (Just Jazz Guitar, Minor 7th, Jazz Improv, Free Time, City Magazine, The Hartford Advocate).
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Police allegedly found heroin during search
March 19, 2009
Elkhorn — A former Walworth Elementary school teacher and an attorney are facing charges after police executed a search warrant March 7 in Lake Geneva and allegedly found heroin.
Katie M. Luessenhop, 26, 250 S. Edwards Blvd., Apt. 146, Lake Geneva, has been charged with three felony counts of bail jumping and one count of possession of a narcotic drug.
She already faces charges of felony possession of narcotic drug and misdemeanor possession of cocaine stemming from a Sept. 18 incident at Walworth Elementary School.
She pleaded not guilty to those charges Feb. 25.
Stephen M. Compton, 44, 250 Van Bee Circle, Williams Bay, is due in court March 20. Deputy District Attorney Joshua Grube said a criminal complaint will be filed by then.
He said the Sheriff's Department has referred several charges to him, but he hasn't yet made any decisions.
"It looks like there will be a felony criminal complaint," Grube said.
Compton was arrested March 7 with Luessenhop and was released on a $10,000 signature bond, of which $2,000 was paid in cash.
However, he was arrested again March 11 for felony bail jumping and is in custody in lieu of a $100,000 cash bond.
The Wisconsin Bar Association's Web site lists Compton as an attorney with an active and good status. His practice is listed as his home address.
Check the Regional News Web site Friday for an update on the story.
Luessenhop was released from custody March 11 on a $10,000 cash bond.
If convicted of the five felony counts, Luessenhop faces up to 25 years in prison and $65,000 in fines.
Because the original offenses occurred within 1,000 feet of a school, the court is required to impose 100 hours of community service for that charge.
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According to the criminal complaint on Luessenhop's March 7 arrest:
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JC Penney: The Next Front in the Icahn Vs. Ackman Spat?
The struggling retailer received a nasty surprise from a group of its bondholders last week.
JC Penney
(NYSE:JCP) shares have sunk 53% since February 1, 2012, the day the company brought in its new "Fair and Square" prices policy.
Under the plan, spearheaded by recently hired CEO Ron Johnson, who is best known as the creator of
(NASDAQ:AAPL) retail stores, JC Penney did away with its ubiquitous coupon sales and went with an "everyday low prices" policy. The thinking was that customers would come into the store more often instead of waiting for a sale; it's an approach that has been used to great effect by a number of other retailers, most notably
"Coupons were a drug, they really drove traffic," Johnson said at the time.
But going cold turkey doesn't appear to be the tonic that the 110-year-old chain needed. The move has instead pushed customers to look elsewhere for the deals they used to get from JC Penney—or shop at online retailers like
In the first quarter after JC Penney announced the move, sales dove 20.1% from a year earlier, and the company posted an adjusted loss of $55 million, or $0.75 a share. The damage continued in the next quarter, with sales dropping 22.6% and Penney's loss widening to $81 million, or $0.37 a share. And in the company's latest
, which ended October 27, 2012, the hill got steeper: Sales slumped 26.6%, and adjusted loss ballooned to $203 million, or $0.93 a share.
JC Penney Reverses Course
Stung by the losses, JC Penney has recently begun to reverse course. The creep back toward coupons started with the company's Black Friday sale, under which JC Penney mailed customers a $10 "gift" to use at the stores.
"This invitation is in no way a reflection of a departure from our Fair and Square everyday low prices," JC Penney spokesperson Kate Coultas
in an email to the Associated Press at the time
Now, JC Penney has announced that it will offer other sales tied to certain times of the year. Right now, for example, it is offering discounts on jewelry in the run-up to Valentine's Day.
JC Penney Bondholder Group Could Make Life Miserable
As if this weren't enough, the company now faces a challenge from a group of its bondholders. On February 4, JC Penney received a letter from law firm Brown Rudnick that accused it of breaching a covenant of its bond indenture agreement by putting up store inventory as collateral for a line of credit it took out in January 2012.
The firm claimed to represent more than 50% of holders of the company's 7.4% bonds due in 2037. In all, these investors hold about $326 million of debt. However, the letter alleges that the company could be in breach of this covenant for all of its $2.9 billion of long-term debt. The letter also said the bondholders believed that, as a result of this alleged action, all the company's debt could become payable in less than three months—something that would almost certainly drive it out of business.
JC Penney has since filed a lawsuit to stop the group from declaring a default on the bonds. "We believe this notice of default is invalid, completely without merit and is intended to create self-interested trading opportunities in the market, and we will therefore vigorously defend the interests of JC Penney and all of our constituencies," CFO Ken Hannah responded in a statement quoted by Bloomberg.
Enter the Hedge Fund Honchos
Adding to the intrigue is the fact that activist investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management is Penney's largest shareholder, with a 17.8% stake.
Ackman has made headlines lately by very
publicly duking it out
on CNBC with fellow hedge fund manager Carl Icahn after Ackman recently revealed his 20-million-share short position in nutritional supplement maker
(NYSE:HLF). Ackman had previously called Herbalife a "pyramid scheme" whose stock price was headed to zero, to which Herbalife CEO Michael Johnson
by calling Ackman's comments a "bogus accusation" and "blatant market manipulation."
The CNBC debate between Ackman and Icahn was a colorful affair that will not be soon forgotten. In it, Icahn repeatedly referred to Ackman as "this Ackman guy," and called him a "crybaby in the schoolyard." Ackman responded by laying out in detail his past dealings with Icahn and calling him a "bully" and "a guy who takes advantage of little people."
The Herbalife affair is at the heart of the soap opera: Icahn and other wealthy investors have bet against Ackman by
going long
on the stock. That could put Ackman in a "short squeeze" if the share price moves higher, forcing the short sellers, including Ackman, to cover their positions.
The episode goes well beyond Ackman and Icahn: On January 9, Daniel Loeb of Third Point Investments revealed that his hedge fund held 8.2% of Herbalife—a stake worth $350 million, according to the
Wall Street Journal
. There has also been speculation that Third Point once
JC Penney.
All this history, along with a number of other factors, caught the attention of the Zerohedge.com website, which published a February 4
pointing out that the timing of the bondholders' letter (January 29) came just after the CNBC dust-up between Ackman and Icahn. That's particularly suspicious, argues Zerohedge, in light of the fact that JC Penney took out the line of credit in question over a year earlier. In addition, the Zerohedge article pointed to a sharp jump in trading volume for JC Penney 2037 debentures on January 25, the very day of the CNBC confrontation. There are other connections, too. For example, Icahn is also a Brown Rudnick client.
"All of the above is, for now, conjecture," writes the site. "But it just fits too perfectly: the timing, the approach (so typical of the old school Icahn), and the target: because nothing would crush 'retail expert' Ackman, who is openly feuding with Icahn over Herbalife, as a JC Penney bankruptcy. And nothing would bring greater validation to Icahn's claim that he 'does not respect Ackman as an investor,' uttered during the infamous January 25 debate."
New Concept Has Legs—But Current Troubles Could Trump It
None of this does much to inspire confidence in the stock. Despite its troubles, however, there are some signs of life in the company.
For example, Johnson's
to convert JC Penney into a collection of "stores within stores" is gaining traction. The plan started with Sephora beauty boutiques in 2007, and the company is also setting up outlets for Levi's, Martha Stewart, and the Canadian Joe Fresh fashion brand.
The concept is performing well so far: Johnson has said the Sephora boutiques have produced 5% same-store sales increases "independent of the JC Penney performance."
The problem? Johnson may be running out of time: the company plans to complete the rollout in 2015. That may be just too late for both Penney and its bondholders.
This article by Chad Fraser originally appeared on
Investing Daily
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Tour Itinerary
Day 1: As the Côte d'Azur unravels its roads before us, you will enjoy the wonderful cliffs, the sea, and the charming little villages of this beloved coast. The day will end in Cassis, but before getting there you will have experienced the route des Crètes high above the sea, with its fabulous panoramic views of the area. Cassis is a little seaside resort snuggled at the foot of a very tall cliff called Cap Canaille.
Day 2: A ride through the Camargue (see our Camargue Tour) will end in Languedoc, a region well known for its astounding Roman towns and monuments, as well as its wine and aperitifs! We will spend the night in Sète, the largest fishing port of Languedoc-Rousillon, also know as the Venice of Languedoc. The charm of Sète is in the effortless energy that spills from the canal, the sea, the streets, and the restaurants. It is no wonder that Georges Brassens, who is buried here, was imbued with song and word, and also that it provided the inspiration for Paul Valèry.
Day 3: Leaving the coast to climb slowly up the "Black Mountain," we will visit the "Cité de Carcassonne", following the Canal du Midi and driving through some of the historical towns on the way. Carcassonne and its Cité, built during the 5th century, has medieval fortifications that are ranked among Europe's finest.
Day 4: Time to go up into the mountains along their twisting roads! After a day ride up the Pyrénées, the tour will stop in Andorra. This tiny principality in the Pyrénées -- a mere bump on the border between France and Spain – is one of the smallest countries in Europe, and has one of the highest standards of living in the world.
Day 5: After loading our van with the tax-free gifts from Andorra we will be back on the bikes on our way down the Pyrénées to the Mediterranean coast and the region of Roussillon, until we get to Béziers, the "Capital of vineyards and vine" and its cathedral.
Day 6: After leaving the coast, the tour takes the winding roads up the Cévènes, land of hills and valleys to reach Florac for the night. Florac is a real geological crossing of the schist Cévènnes in the South, the Mont Lozère in the North and the Causse Méjean plateau. It's also the place where the rivers Tarnon, Mimente and Tarn come together. The water flows cheerfully through the center of the town with little waterfalls and very big trout, giving it a unique character.
Day 7: The plan for this day is to cruise down the Cévènes, past the Rhône and to start to climb the Pré-Alps. The group will enjoy picturesque canyons and winding roads, spending the night in Sisteron. This site has been fortified since time immemorial; its citadel and the solitary bridge across the River Durance stand as a fearsome sentinel over the city. Way back when he cam bask into "business", Napoléon's march passed through Sisteron.
Day 8: Time to head towards home and descend the Alps towards the French Riviera and the sea.
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Stella Garnett (nee Beck), of Brunswick, entered into rest Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Middleburg Hts. She was born April 23, 1927 in Brownsville, Pennsylavania, to Robert and Mary Agnes (nee Abbott) Beck.
Stella was a homemaker and a punch press operator. She loved traveling and spending time with her family, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
She is survived by her beloved husband, Thomas H. Garnett; children, Charles (Linda) Benci, Robert (Karen) Benci, Cheri Benci and Kimberly (David) Marshall; stepchildren, Thomas Garnett, Charles (Kathy) Garnett, Gloria (Charles) May, and Marcella (Miguel) Rodriguez; well as many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents; and stepchildren, Richard Garnett and Michelle Ward.
Friends may join the family for visitation Monday, April 8, 2013, from 5 until 8 P.M., at Carlson Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, 1642 Pearl Road (½ mile South of Route 303), Brunswick. Services will be at 11 A.M., Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at Carlsons Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made to the Siedman Cancer Center, Southwest Community Health Foundation, 18697 Bagley Road, Middleburg Heights, OH 44130.
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Texas Tech Red Raiders vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
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Texas Tech Red Raiders vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Jan. 2, 2011
Game 14
Starting the Game for Texas Tech: Brad Reese (1), David Tairu (25), D'walyn Roberts (5), Paul Cooper (31), and Mike Singletary (32).
Starting for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi: Demond Watt (21), Justin Reynolds (23), Horace Bond (32), Terence Jones (5), and Jaamon Echols (55).
At the Half: Texas Tech led 33-18.
The 18 points given up by Texas Tech in the first half is the fewest number of points allowed in any half this season.
The Islanders sank 7-of-24 FG attempts (.292), 2-of-8 Three-Pt. FG attempts (.250), and 2-of-5 FT attempts (.400).
The Red Raiders sank 13-of-26 FG attempts (.500), 4-of-4 Three-Pt. FG attempts (1.000), and 3-of-5 FT attempts (.600).
Final Score: Texas Tech 75 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 55
The Islanders had three players in double figures: Justin Reynolds (20), Terence Jones (11), and Demond Watt (10).
David Tairu led the Red Raiders with 18 points. Mike Singletary posted 17 points and handed out 6 assists. Jaye Crockett's six blocks against TAMU-CC equals the United Spirit Arena record set by Zakee Wawood of ETSU (11/23/03).
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EA iPhone games are on a major sale this weekend on the Apple App Store. Electronic Arts games are some of the best iPhone games including the Sims, Madden NFL, Dead Space and other hits that gamers of all age enjoy. Long Island iPhone users in particular love EA games, as Madden NFL holds a special status in the hearts of local gamers. Long Islanders are always on the lookout for big dales, so it comes as no surprise that they will take advantage of this sale.
Many of the EA iPhone games are on sale for $1 this weekend, as it is a major holiday weekend. Here is a list of all the games on sale for $1:
- Scrabble
- Tetris
- Monopoly and Monopoly Here & Now
- The Sims 3 and Ambitions
- The Game of Life
- Clue
- NBA Elite 11
- Madden NFL 11
- Spore Origins
- Battlefield: Bad Company
- Need for Speed Shift and Hot Pursuit
- Battleship
- Yahtzee Adventures
- Surviving High School
- Boggle
- The Simpsons Arcade
- Pictureka
- SimCity Deluxe
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12
- Dragons Lair
- Command and Conquer Red Alert
- Reckless Racing
- Sudoku
- NCAA Football
- Snood
- Skate It
- Dead Space
- Bop It!
- Connect 4
- Mirror's Edge
- High Caliber Hunting
- Jewel Quest Mysteries
- Star Trek
- Fight Night Champion
- Lite Brite
- Lemonade Tycoon
- Liqua Pop
- Swap This
All of the better games on this list are in bold and are recommended for download while the price is low. Some of the games are at a huge discount like NBA Jam, Dead Space, Tiger Woods and Fight Night. These games are definitely worth a look, as they are good ports of major console games.
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The purpose of this experiment is to study the production, induction, conservation, and distribution of charge. We will use a very sophisticated electrometer to measure voltage. The voltage measured will be proportional to the amount of charge induced in, or delivered by touching to, a Faraday ice pail or an isolated conducting sphere.
Insulators are materials in which all electrons are firmly bound to atoms and are not free to move. Insulators resist the flow of electrons. This is referred to as resistance to current flow or, simply "resistance". In this course, we will usually deal with resistance as a "lumped" parameter confined to circuit components called resistors. But it is important to remember that all materials, except superconductors, exhibit some resistance as an inherent property of the bulk material.
Conductors are materials, usually metals, in which not all electrons are firmly bound to the atoms in the crystalline lattice of the material. Some are free to move. The number of free electrons per atom varies with the conducting material, but one per atom is a typical number. The strength with which a particular (outer) electron is bound to an atom in a conductor is reduced by the influence of many other atoms nearby in the crystalline lattice of the material. The fact that some outer electrons in metals are relatively easy to remove from the electrical attraction of the nuclei of their individual atoms means that the material exhibits a relatively low resistance (compared to non-metals) to the flow of current (electrons). Electric fields provide the force that causes charges to move and currents (moving charges) to flow.
The key issue is: Why do charges move at all? The answer is: They move in response to a force exerted by an "electric field." We will discuss electric fields in detail in Experiment 3. For now, the following will suffice.
An electric field is a model, a mental construct. Here is how it works. Many experiments show that if there is a charge q at some location in space and we introduce a "test" charge, q0, there is a force between the charges acting along the line joining their centers given by
If we return the charge q to its original location after each test and place the test charge successively at many, many points and map the resulting force at each position, we will observe that at any given point in space there is a force with a magnitude given by equation (1) that acts along the line joining the two charges. This can be thought of conceptually as a "field of force." The field of (electric) force per unit test charge generated by the charge, q, is given by
Hence, the electric field is defined as the force (magnitude and direction) (in Newtons) experienced by a unit test charge, q0, (in Coulombs) at a distance r (in meters) from a given charge distribution, q. The model we have chosen to use (because it is useful) is that this interaction is mediated by the "electric field" (of force).
Gauss' Law relates the electric field measured at any point in space to the distribution of charge, q, that generated the electric field. A qualitative statement of Gauss' Law is: The number of electric field lines passing through a closed surface surrounding a collection of charges is proportional to the net charge within the closed surface. The surface is usually chosen to be a sphere or cylinder to make the math easier—another of those imperfect simplifying models for which physics is famous or infamous. This hinges on having chosen the convention that we draw a fixed number of electric field lines from a unit charge. A quantitative statement of Gauss' Law is:
is a vector perpendicular to a closed surface enclosing charge, q. is the electric field at the distance, r, from the point charge (or from an arbitrary charge distribution if the distance from the charge distribution, r, is very large compared to the size of the charge distribution—another flawed, but simplifying, model).
A conductor is (by definition) a material in which charges are (relatively) free to move. Thus if there is an electric field in a conductor, due to charges introduced to the conductor, the charges will move until the electric field within the conductor is zero. I.e., they will move until the net force on all charges in the conductor is zero. Thus, all points in a conductor under static conditions (no charge flowing) are at the same potential and we say that the conductor is an equipotential structure. We will see in Experiment 3 that electric field vectors are always perpendicular to equipotential surfaces. Electric fields are NEVER parallel to equipotential surfaces because the direction of the electric field is along the line of maximum change in electric potential. The minimum energy arrangement for an isolated charged conductor is when any excess charge is uniformly distributed on the conductor's surface. All this means that, under static conditions, excess charges can exist only on the surface of a conductor. This excess charge may redistribute itself in the presence of an external electric field, as we will see in this experiment.
Consider an electrically isolated, uncharged, spherical conductor. That it is uncharged means it has no net charge. That is, each positive atomic charge is paired with a negative electron and these pairs of charges are uniformly distributed within the conductor.
Consider now an electrically isolated, spherical conductor with a net positive charge. As we saw above, the net positive charge will, in the absence of an external electric field, be uniformly distributed on the surface of the conducting sphere.
Imagine what happens when the charged sphere is touched to an uncharged conducting sphere. (Remember, both spheres are isolated—they are not in contact with anything but each other.) Two conductors in electrical contact form a single equipotential surface. Thus the net positive charge will distribute itself uniformly over the surfaces of the two spheres. If the spheres are then separated, ½ the original positive charge will be found on each sphere. This permits obtaining two spherical conductors with identical charges. Consider what happens if we now momentarily ground one of the spheres. This leaves us with one sphere with ½ the electrical charge of the original charged sphere and one uncharged isolated sphere. If we again bring the spheres into contact and then separate them, the result is two spheres with ¼ the charge on the initially charged sphere. This technique was used repeatedly in early experiments that determined the laws of electrostatics.
Suppose you started with an uncharged, isolated sphere and an identical sphere containing a net charge q. Suppose that initially the two spheres were so far apart that the 1/r2 dependence of the electric field (of force—see Equation (2)) generated by the charged sphere produced no observable effect on the uncharged sphere. Under these conditions, the paired charges on the uncharged sphere would be uniformly distributed. What would you expect to happen to the uniform distribution of charges on the uncharged sphere when the positively charged sphere is brought close to it without touching? Since the second sphere has a positive charge, would you expect it to attract or repel the electrons in the uncharged sphere? What about the positive charges in the uncharged sphere—would you expect them to move? We will address these questions in this experiment.
Consider a long, hollow, conducting, isolated, uncharged, cylindrical shell with open ends. (This is an approximate model of the Faraday Ice Pail we will use in the experiment.) If you introduce a positively charged sphere into the center of the cylinder without touching the cylinder, what would you expect to happen? Consider equation (1). Electrons on the cylinder would experience an attractive electrical force due to the positively charged sphere. As negative charges move to the inner surface of the cylinder, they leave behind a net surplus of positive charges which are not free to move. Within the metal of the cylindrical shell, as we have discussed before, there would be no electric field. The conducting cylindrical shell will be an equipotential structure and its surface will be an equipotential surface. In static equilibrium, there will be a net negative charge on the inner surface of the cylindrical shell and a net positive charge on its outer surface. The electric field, within the material of the cylinder, due to this separation of charges in the cylinder, is exactly equal in magnitude to and in the direction opposite to that of the electric field generated by the charged sphere inside the cylinder. An observer or detector outside the cylinder would see exactly the same net positive charge on the surface of this cylinder as on the charged sphere. If I now momentarily ground the cylindrical shell, while the charged sphere is still inside, what do you think would happen? The connection to ground will provide electrons to neutralize the net positive charge on the outer surface of the cylindrical shell. It will not affect the net negative charge on the inner surface of the cylinder. This net negative charge on the inside of the cylinder exists in response to the electrical forces generated by the positively charged sphere. Note that now the system consisting of the charged sphere and the cylinder is electrically neutral and no observer outside the cylinder would observe any electric field from this system. Recall what we did. We used a momentary grounding of the cylinder to add sufficient electrons to the cylinder to exactly neutralize the excess of positive charge on the outside of the cylinder induced by the positively charged sphere. Thus the added amount of negative charge is exactly equal and opposite to the net positive charge on the sphere and the system (sphere plus cylinder) is now electrically neutral. I.e., there is no net charge on the system and there is no electric field produced outside the cylinder (the outer boundary of the system).
If I now remove the positive sphere from the electrically isolated cylinder without touching the cylinder, would you expect there to be a net charge remaining on the cylinder or would you expect it to be neutral? Recall that the momentary contact with ground provided a source of electrons to neutralize the positive charges on the outer surface of the cylinder. It did not affect the negative charges on the inner surface of the cylinder. Thus, after the positively charged sphere is removed we would expect that the cylinder would have a net negative charge.
Suppose we repeat the above procedure of inserting an electrically isolated positively charged sphere into the, initially neutral, isolated conducting cylinder. This time, we touch the positively charged sphere to the cylinder and then remove the sphere. Would you expect any residual charge on the cylinder? If you are not sure, review the discussion above about bringing an isolated charged sphere into contact with an isolated uncharged sphere. Also consider what it means electrically that two conductors in contact form a single equipotential surface.
An equipotential surface can only exist when there is no electric field parallel to the surface. Thus charges re-distribute themselves until the net electric field (net electric force) parallel to the surface is zero. This can only occur when the distribution of charges is uniform on the surface. When the distribution is uniform, each charge experiences uniform electric force (Equation (1)) from all sides, hence the net electric force (electric field—Equation (2)) is zero.
Unless you manage to stick some conductor like your keys into a standard electrical outlet (DO NOT DO THIS) there is no voltage and current that you will work with in this lab that will hurt you in any way. Please observe the following safety rules in this lab.
Rule 1: Turn off the power supply before handling any connections on, or wires connected to, the power supply.
Rule 2: Never touch two terminals of a power supply together. Voltages of 5-15V and currents greater than 10A can result in flying, molten metal particles that are, at a minimum, painful and at a maximum can permanently damage your eyesight.
Rule 3: If you must handle wires or connections at a high voltage, use only one hand with the other hand in a pocket or held behind you. There are no voltages and currents, other than those directly from the wall outlets, in this lab that can create a problem and if you obey Rule 1 the situation will never arise anyway.
There are three parts to this experiment. The manual is quite detailed and complete and I will not go into detail on the experiments here. My goal here is to help you see the "forest" because it is very easy to get lost in the details of the experiment (the "trees") and lose track of the point of the experiment (the "forest"). A famous expression that makes this point and is popular in US Air Force circles is: "When you are up to your behind in alligators, it is hard to remember that you set out to drain the swamp." (This is a bowdlerized version, but you get the point.)
Part 1. In Part 1, we will generate charges using what are referred to in your manual as Charge Producers. By rubbing them together, charge is transferred from one to the other. This is exactly the process that takes place when you rub a plastic rod with fur or a glass rod with silk or when you scuff your feet on a carpet on a very dry winter day. We will place these Charge Producers into an isolated, conducting, cylindrical shell as described above in the THEORY section. This cylindrical shell is called a Faraday Ice Pail or Faraday Charge Pail. It consists of an electrically isolated wire-mesh cylinder surrounded by another, larger, mesh cylinder that serves to shield the Charge Pail from the influence of external charge distributions (electric fields). It is very important that the shield be kept grounded and the Charge Pail be grounded when you are directed in the manual to do so. We will examine charging the Charge Pail through induction by, and by contact with, the Charge Producers. You will use a very sensitive electrometer to measure the voltage (electrical potential difference) between the Charge Pail and the grounded shield. The voltage measured using the Electrometer, as we will see quantitatively in Experiment 2, is proportional to the net charge on the pail. In this experiment, the actual value of the voltage is not important. What is important is the comparison of the voltage at one point in the experiment to the voltage in another. These comparisons are a surrogate for comparisons of net charge because voltage is proportional to charge in this experiment. The constant of proportionality is the capacitance, C, and hence q = CV).
Part 2. In Part 2, we examine conservation of charge. Charge is conserved and we will attempt to demonstrate this with the Charge Pail and the Charge Producers. In this experiment, a very large part of the goal is to get the provided equipment to give the expected results. This will not always happen the first time. You may have to ground everything and repeat parts of the experiment several times. If you are taking this course in Fall Semester, you will have to deal with the influence of high humidity that tends to permit charges to "bleed off" readily. If you are taking the course in Winter Semester, you will have to deal with low humidity that keeps charges from bleeding off readily (good news), but also allows for the build-up of static charges on your body and clothes (bad news). These static charges can have attention-getting results as when you scuff your feet across a carpet on a very cold day and then touch a metal doorknob.
Part 3. In Part 3, we use two isolated, conducting spheres. We will charge, then isolate, one (the Charged Sphere) and then momentarily ground (and hence neutralize all excess charges on) the second (the Sampling Sphere). We will then observe what happens to the charge distribution on the Sampling Sphere when the Charged Sphere is brought close to the Sampling Sphere. We will sample the charge distribution on the Sampling Sphere with what is called in your manual a Proof Plane. It is a plastic wand with flat paddle on one end. The surface of the paddle is aluminized. When held so the surface of the paddle is tangent to the surface of the sphere and brought into contact with the sphere, the surface of the Proof Plane and the sphere form an equipotential surface and the Proof Plane acquires a charge density representative of that on the surface of the sphere at the point of contact. Recall the observation above that two conductors in contact comprise a single equipotential surface. Because the Proof Plane removes some of the charge from the sampled sphere, it is important to not ground the Proof Plane between contacts with the sphere being sampled. This prevents depleting the net charge on the sampled sphere. By not grounding the Proof Plane between contacts with the Sampling Sphere, each time the Proof Plane contacts the sphere, any charge removed previously is returned to the sphere.
These are not high-precision or high accuracy experiments. The charge bleeds off the Charge Producers and Proof Plane relatively quickly when there is significant water vapor in the air. Hence these experiments work better in January than in September. Take your Electrometer readings quickly. Move the Charge Producers into and out of the Faraday Charge Pail slowly.
Let's look at what happens physically when you introduce a positively charged Charge Producer into the Faraday Charge Pail. Note that the pail and shield are each connected to one of the two plates on the capacitor in the Electrometer. This capacitor is not shown in Figure 1. As shown in Figure 1, the positively charged Charge Producer induces a negative charge on the inside of the Faraday Charge pail. It does this by attracting negative charges from the outside of the pail and from the wire connecting the pail to one plate of the Electrometer Capacitor. This leaves a net positive charge on the plate of the Electrometer capacitor connected to the pail. The other plate of the Electrometer Capacitor is connected to earth ground and draws from the earth ground enough electrons to balance the positive charge on the plate connected to the pail. The positive charge on the outside of the Faraday Ice Pail induces a negative charge on the inside of the shield. This negative charge on the inside of the shield comes from electrons attracted from the outside of the shield. If the shield were not connected to earth ground, the outside of the shield would be left with a net positive charge. But the shield is connected to earth ground and the positive charges on the outside of the shield attract sufficient electrons from ground to neutralize the outer surface of the shield. The shield now has a net negative charge. The potential difference between the two plates of the Electrometer Capacitor is proportional to the charge on the Charge Producer and appears on the Electrometer meter. The voltage recorded by the Electrometer is related to the charge by
QElectrometer is the magnitude of the charge on the capacitor in the Electrometer and CElectrometer is the capacitance of the Electrometer capacitor. We will explore equation (4) in Experiment 2.
Figure 1. Charge distribution resulting from
charge induced on the Faraday Charge Pail.
When you connect something to ground, the ground may drain off an excess of negative charges or act as a source of negative charges to neutralize a surplus of positive charge. NOTE: This surplus of positive charge may be only local. That is, a conducting body may have zero net charge (e.g., as a result of having been momentarily grounded), but may, as a result of some external distribution of charges, have a non-uniform distribution of charge on its surface. Electrons are free to move. Under the influence of the electric "force" field produced by an external charge distribution, the electrons in a conductor may redistribute themselves. The positive charges of the atoms in the metal lattice are not free to move. As a result, one portion of the conductor may have a net negative charge while another portion may have a net positive charge. The entire conductor, however, may be electrically neutral—i.e., it may have no net charge on it.
I have not told you exactly what will happen and why when, in Part 3, you look at the charge distribution on a conducting sphere in response to the proximity of a charged conducting sphere. However, I have given you the information in these lecture notes you need to figure it out. Note that the most significant difference between the two spheres in Part 3 and the Charge Producer and Pail in Figure 1 is that while the Charged Sphere (analogous to the Charge Producer in Figure 1) is connected to the power supply and held at a fixed voltage, the Sampling Sphere (analogous to the Pail in Figure 1) is isolated except when momentarily grounded as directed in the steps in your manual.
The Electrometer we will use is state-of-the-art for teaching-labs. It has an internal resistance of 1014Ω. As you will see in later labs when we work with other voltage measuring devices, this is a HUGE resistance. For all practical purposes, it is an open circuit. The key point is that the internal resistance of the meter is so large that effectively no current flows through the meter and hence it does not change the charge distribution on the Charge Pail. As we will see in great detail later, nearly all electrical measuring devices perturb the circuit being measured by drawing current from it. By Ohm's Law, the voltage across a resistor is given by the current through the resistor times the resistance,
A measuring device that draws current from the circuit will reduce the current through the resistor and as a result the device will measure a voltage smaller than actually exists across the resistor when the meter is not connected. Don't get hung up on this right now. Just keep in the back of your mind the truism that nearly all measuring devices perturb the circuits being measured and hence produce measurements that are not truly representative of the parameters in the unmeasured circuit. We will explore this in great detail. This is one of the major unifying themes of this course.
- The Electrometer is so sensitive you must discharge it before each use.
- The Electrometer is so sensitive that you must regularly ground yourself by touching the outer shield on the Faraday Charge Pail, e.g., with the edge of your hand. To convince yourself of the importance of this, without touching the shield, move your hands and arms around over the Faraday Charge Pail—you will see the needle on the Electrometer move. This is particularly important in January when the air is so dry that you can easily build up thousands of volts in static charge just by moving around.
- Keep the Electrometer as far as possible from the Faraday Charge Pail.
- Do not touch anything connected to the Electrometer unless you are grounded (e.g., by touching the shield on the Faraday Charge Pail, or by touching the outer sheath of a BNC connector at the end of a coaxial cable). On a dry day, you can easily acquire a charge sufficient to "peg" the Electrometer. To peg a meter means to make the needle hit one stop or the other with great force. This can easily damage an analog meter such as the Electrometer.
- It is vital the Electrometer and the Electronic Voltage Supply be grounded to a single "earth ground" such as the green female banana plug receptacle on the side of the power block above the lab benches.
- Set the Electrometer initially on the 100V scale so you will not peg the meter. Move to a more sensitive range as needed.
- The total charge on an isolated body is constant. But it may not be uniformly distributed if the body is in an external electric field.
- DO NOT rub the aluminum-surfaced Proof Plane on the blue or white Charge Producers. The white or blue surface becomes contaminated and the Charge Producers no longer work properly.
- DO NOT touch the blue or white Charge Producers with your fingers. Oils from your hands will interfere with the operation of the Charge Producers.
- Do not touch the conducting spheres with your skin. Skin oils will damage them.
- Some electrons in metals are free to move. The positive charges are fixed. Hence a net positive charge in a indicates of an absence of electrons. A net negative charge indicates an excess of electrons beyond what is needed to neutralize the positive charges.
In answering the questions, keep in mind the following points.
- Two conductors in contact comprise a single equipotential surface.
- Charge is conserved.
- When you rub fur on plastic or silk on glass, the magnitude of the net charge on the fur and plastic or silk and glass is zero.
- Gauss' Law
- These notes.
- I will take off points for things that are blatantly wrong.
- If an answer shows a sincere effort, but lack of understanding, I will comment, but be merciful.
- Your answers must be legible.
- You must attempt to answer all questions and do all exercises even if you did not complete the relevant portion of the experiment
If you send me an e-mail indicating you have read these lecture notes, I will raise your final semester grade by 1%.


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Spring Break, Portugal-StyleParis, Spring 2012
[gallery link="file" order="DESC"] During the third week of April, us IES Paris students get a week off to celebrate all our hard work with a good old fashion Spring Break. However, unlike my normal spring breaks from college, where I might drive from LA to San Francisco or make a few days trips to Malibu, this year I went to Portugal. Everyone came back at the end of the week with stories from every country in Europe (and even a few from Northern Africa), reminding me how darn lucky I am to be over here on this side of the Atlantic getting to experience any given new culture any given weekend. There are so many completely different places within such close proximity, exploring the continent is both relatively easy and hugely rewarding! So, here are some pictures from my trip to the Algarve and Lisbon. All the best, Ariana
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Feb 6, 2014: I've just uploaded a new paper on arXiv 1402.1395 with E. Grenier (ENS Lyon) and Y. Guo (Brown). This paper concerns spectral instability of shear flows in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with sufficiently large Reynolds number: $R\to \infty$. It is well-documented in the physical literature, going back to Heisenberg, C.C. Lin, Tollmien, Drazin and Reid, that generic plane shear profiles other than the linear Couette flow are linearly unstable for sufficiently large Reynolds number. In this work, we provide a complete mathematical proof of these physical results.
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Hung Tran and I are organizing a summer school on "PDEs and Applied Mathematics" at Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics in Hanoi, Vietnam, July 14-25, 2014. The summer school will include five main lecture series by David Gerard-Varet (Paris 7), Hiroyoshi Mitake (Hiroshima), Toan Nguyen (Penn State), Hung Tran (Chicago), and Kevin Zumbrun (Indiana), of about five to eight hours each, that will be aimed at the level of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs. All lectures are in the mornings, leaving the afternoons open for discussions. There will be a one-day workshop in which several participants will deliver short research talks. More details can be found at the VIASM institute's webpage.
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This summer program includes several short courses and workshops that will be aimed at the level of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs. Most lectures are in the mornings, leaving the afternoons open for discussions. Our primarily goal is to attract young and talented researchers to work in PDEs, and to build up a network between scientists in Vietnam and abroad.
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New rules have to be introduced to include transgender females after last month's Miss Canada hopeful was disqualified.
New rules have to be introduced to include transgender females after last month's Miss Canada hopeful was disqualified.
I think it's a good thing. I mean transsexual people are what they want to be, and maybe if they're genetically not the gender they want to be, their minds is, and behavior! Why shouldn't they have a chance so compete... So definitely a good thing ^^
I thought these beauty pageants were strongly for the concept of "natural beauty".
Yeah, but there are hardly any "natural beauties" there anymore... Most of them are probably artificial, to put it bluntly, in one way or another..
Yeah, there are definitely some fake tits involved.
Probably not Agent O, but if the non-transsexual people are artificial and can participate, then the transsexual people should also. I have a feeling they're more "natural" then the non-transsexual ones...
And Tim - you would know all about that!
This person attended my high school for two years, and was a part of the girls' soccer team. What I remember about her:
- Acted like a slut ( I don't mean to note that in the defamatory sense, )
- Dressed very inappropriately
- Breath stank
- Did not concentrate in school
HAHA. Set myself up for that one didn't I.
It was known all around our school, (Windermere Secondary). A friend of mine sat behind her in math 10, (of which she rarely ever attended) and everytime she opened her mouth to speak, a putrid stench would fill the air. Or so I've been told.
What did she look like before she became a she?
Just to clarify, you can be trans and be completely. Other than the sex reassignment surgery (genitals), nothing else is really. . . mandatory I guess. Although that's really the wrong word cause not all trans people get it. From what I've read she started transitioning at a young age, like hormones at 14. And at 14, you would basically just replace male puberty with female puberty and could really therfore get away with minimal surgery. So she could be all natural, although I have say she doesn't look it. Lol so even though she's probably had facial surgery and is apparntly a stink breathe whore, I'm still happy for her and really our whole community. Any questions? I'd be more than happy to answer any, as the, um. . . Resident expert on the subject
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Study Abroad Photo Contest
Philadelphia, PA, United States; (Outgoing Program)
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Study Abroad Photo Contest
The photo contest is open to current Saint Joseph's University undergraduates who studied abroad during the 2014-2015 academic year. For purposes of the contest, the academic year comprises of fall 2014, spring 2015, summer 2015. This includes year abroad, semester abroad, SJU Summer Programs, non-SJU summer/winter programs, and SJU Study Tours. Photos must be original work (no professional photos) and must have been taken during their study abroad period (no photos of the entrant).
Subject Matter
Entries do not have to be limited to your program site. (A student studying in Florence, for example, could submit a photo taken in Venice during an interim sojourn.) We also reserve the right to exclude any photos deemed "inappropriate" by the University. Students should submit photos in the following categories:
Photos should capture students actively engaged and learning in the classroom, on a class excursion, or other learning setting, including nontraditional settings. Photographs in this category can either be taken by or of the entrant.
Cultural Engagement
Photos should depict students participating in a local activity, actively involved in the local culture, or interacting with the local population. Photographs in this category can either be taken by or of the entrant.
Photos should be of a landmark or landscape that is clearly identifiable as an international location that captures the spirit of study abroad. Photographs in this category must have been taken by the entrant.
Number and Format of Submissions
- If you meet the eligibility requirements, you may submit one photograph per category.
- Photos must be submitted in electronic form.
- Photographs may be black-and-white or color.
- Photo formats accepted are .jpg or .png.
- Digital submissions must be uploaded using the online submission form by clicking 'Apply Now' above. No email submissions or prints will be accepted.
Photo submissions will need to be submitted by 11:59pm September 15th.
Entries will be evaluated by a team of judges from across campus. Judges decisions are final.
Prizes will be awarded to 1st place & 2nd place winners in each category. The winners will be notified by e-mail or phone.
All entries will be displayed on the SJU Study Abroad Facebook page, the CIP website, during International Education week, and an announcement will be made to students, faculty and staff on the Nest. In addition, photographs may be used by the CIP for office promotions online or in print.
Important Advisory
By submitting images, you are attesting that you have the rights to use the image and give the Center for International Programs the right to use the image for promotional purposes. Copyright remains with photographer and the Center for International Programs will not sell images to any third party. Photographer will be credited when possible, but may not always receive credit.
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To view the photos from 2013-2014, please view our Facebook album.
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Video: Lone Soldiers Wish a Happy Independence Day
IDF releases a video in which lone soldiers wish Israel a happy 64th Independence Day.
By Elad Benari, Canada
First Publish: 4/28/2012, 1:01 AM
The following video released by the IDF in honor of Israel's 64th Independence Day features lone soldiers – young individuals who choose to make aliyah and enlist in the army, leaving their families behind in their country of origin.
The soldiers are seen greeting their families and wishing Israelis a happy Independence Day.
(Arutz Sheva's North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)


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- RedCedarNovember 28, 2010 at 3:13 PM
Cute. :)ReplyDelete
He is remarkably adorable, his near cat-like expressions adding to the interest he causes.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Is he the same in both pictures? In n.1 he really is so cute, sweet and beautiful! I agree with the above comments.ReplyDelete
I love him, want to kiss him and have him for the rest of my life. But what's his name?
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Following a successful lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Brian Butler has now filed a lawsuit against the Butte (MT) Central Catholic Schools on behalf of Shaela Evenson. Announcement of this lawsuit first appeared in the Montana Standard newspaper on Aug. 22, 2014.
The Diocese of Helena received an anonymous letter informing it that Evenson was pregnant on Jan. 9, 2014. The Diocese fired Evenson on Jan. 10, 2014 on the basis that she had violated her employee agreement that stated that she must follow Catholic teachings to be employed in the local Catholic schools. Evenson taught for nine years. She is not Catholic, and part of her claim is that the Diocese of Helena does not investigate the compliance to church teachings for unmarried males or females.
There was no sexual misconduct involved in Evenson's pregnancy. Evenson was impregnated through artificial insemination. Evenson successfully delivered a son on March 7, 2014 for her and her partner, Marilyn Tobin. While Pope Francis I has stated acceptance of homosexuals into the Catholic Church, local dioceses like the one in Helena are not as liberal in their views.
Like the 2013 case of Carla Hale in Columbus, OH, Evenson was in conflict with Catholic dogma by having a same-gender partner. The birth of the son through artificial insemination by Evenson was a further violation of Catholic Church teachings.
The Catholic Church has this to say about artificial insemination and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) through the Catholic Courier publication that claims that it represents official church views.
The church considers IVF and artificial insemination morally unacceptable for at least three fundamental reasons.
First, from the time the ovum is fertilized, a separate human life has begun that has its own identity and dignity. Commercial, scientific and other procedures often performed on lives begun in vitro violate the respect and physical and spiritual reverence owed to these lives.
Second, IVF procedures particularly involve producing a number of zygotes (fertilized ova). Some or all are usually placed in a womb; all but one or a few of them usually die one way or another. In some procedures, this involves direct killing of human lives; in others, it may not. At the very least it wrongly places new human life in high risk of death.
And third, this process of initiating new human life is a subversion of the dignity and unity of marriage and of the integrity of natural and necessary parental relationships with children as they come into the world.
The federal regulations stated in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) are clear that a woman cannot be fired for becoming pregnant.
Pregnancy Discrimination & Work Situations
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) forbids discrimination based on pregnancy when it comes to any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay, job assignments, promotions, layoff, training, fringe benefits, such as leave and health insurance, and any other term or condition of employment.
Butler successfully won the Cincinnati lawsuit based upon this statute, and he is following the same approach for Evenson in the Montana case. If these cases get to the Supreme Court of the US, it is difficult to predict the outcome.
The Hobby Lobby decision allows tightly held corporations to refuse birth control insurance coverage based upon religious grounds. The Catholic Church is a tightly held organization, although not a corporation. Given some of the extremely conservative justices on the Supreme Court that also happen to be staunch Catholics, these decisions could go either way.
The Supreme Court seems unable to apply the 14th Amendment equal protection clause to same-gender marriages, but lower federal courts continue to press forward in declaring these bans as being unconstitutional. If the federal court in Montana decide that the Diocese is liable for damages to Everson, this may set precedents for other states based upon similar lower federal court decisions.
The initial coverage by the Montana Standard provides more details on the timing of the events leading up to the lawsuit.
Separation of church and state should be maintained. State and federal laws prohibit discrimination based upon sexual preferences and pregnancy. The Catholic Church should be required to follow these laws. The Supreme Court may still disagree.


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Enfinger Gets Back On Track At Berlin
MARNE, Mich. – Grant Enfinger picked a great time to take GMS Racing to victory lane for the first time Saturday, winning the Federated Auto Parts 200 at Berlin Raceway.
"This one is huge for so many reasons," Enfinger said after winning his fifth ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards race of the 2014 season. "Our crew chief, Ryan London lost his step-father this week. It's a wonder he even made it here tonight, but it shows what a great leader he is of this team."
Enfinger led 181 of 200 laps in dominating the race at the .438-mile short track. Austin Wayne Self finished second for the second time in three weeks, Brennan Poole came home third, Kyle Weatherman made a late surge to finish fourth and Tom Hessert earned a top five.
Enfinger started second, but shot past Menards Pole winner Mason Mitchell for the lead by the time the cars hit the backstretch and held it for most of the race. He slipped back and out of the top five at one point, but a four-tire pit stop that saw him come back on the track in second place was the key, he said.
"This GMS pit crew worked their butts off tonight and gave me a great pit stop," he said. "We went in fourth and came out challenging for the lead. They just did a great job in the pits. And, my spotter, Joey Coulter, did a great job getting me through some lapped traffic and changing my lines a couple times. I'm so happy for everyone on this team Motor Honey/Casite-Allegiant Travel Chevrolet team."
Enfinger moved to within 25 points of Mitchell, who finished 10th and kept the series point lead after 14 races of the 20-race season. The series heads to Springfield next weekend for the first of two dirt track races of the season.


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What can you buy for 50 cents in 2010? Even my local newspaper, The Canton Repository, is more than that! Half a dollar doesn't get you coffee at McDonald's - in fact, if you are lucky you may be able to find a Snickers on sale for that amount. But tomorrow, Monday January 25th, you can shop for a new-to-you sweater, skirt, pair of jeans, coat, and even a purse and spend just two quarters!
The Village Discount Outlet offers a great deal on Mondays. Let me explain how it works - this chain of thrift shops color codes their merchandise with different color tags, and each day two colors are on sale for 50% off the regular price. On Monday, one color is just 50 cents per item. With two locations in my area (Akron and Cuyahoga Falls) as well as one in Youngstown, there are plenty of great deals for all ages and sizes. Half the fun is in the search - you never know what you might find! For those in the know, thrift shops offer a multitude of ways to stretch your clothing budget. If you haven't tried it yet, tomorrow is the perfect day to start!


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Howard Stern Visits Jimmy Fallon, Bashes Leno & J. Lo, Talks America's Got Talent
Howard Stern appeared on Wednesday's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," and the brand new "America's Got Talent" judge had a lot to say.
While plenty of the conversation was devoted to his "AGT" gig, Stern also managed to mock Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien; needle Jennifer Lopez and the "American Idol" crew; make things very uncomfortable with The Roots' guest guitarist Mick Taylor; and reveal some behind-the-scenes details about Fallon's recent interview with President Obama.
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PS-SYRi for V4
This set includes:
1. Character Morphs (++ morphs for V4 required)
~ Syri HEAD INJ/REM Pose
~ Syri HEAD2 INJ/REM Pose
~ Syri HEAD3 INJ/REM Pose
~ Syri BODY INJ/REM Pose
~ Nipple On/Off Pose
~ V4 Genital On/Off Pose
2. Skin Textures & Mats (Poser 7+, DS & Simple, and Poser 9+ SSS)
~ Main Texture set - Medium skin
Good to know - All base and tattoo options from the Main, Medium Skin, texture set option can be mixed and matched with our very popular Lavinia & Lavinia Cyborg Expansion character set (sold separately), which most of you already own. How's that for added value! :)
~ Bonus Light Skin Texture & Mats (Poser 7+, DS & Simple, and Poser 9+ SSS)
* Please note - No Everyday Face MAT options (only the main medium skin set includes the everyday face and lip options)
~ Bonus Dark Skin Texture & Mats (Poser 7+, DS & Simple, and Poser 9+ SSS)
* Please note - No Everyday Face MAT options (only the main medium skin set includes the everyday face and lip options)
3. Figure Poses
Note: The poses were made using the Syri body shape - some minor adjustment of arms and hands may be needed depending on the clothing or if another body shape options is used. You may use any gun you own with the poses, just load the weapon to V4 as you normally would and pose her hands using any provided hand pose for the gun being added. Next, apply the lock finger utility pose to V4's gun hand. This will keep the action poses from changing the hand pose when you apply the pose(s) to V4. DS users, please be aware certain Poser utility poses, such as locks for body parts do not work in Daz Studio. You will need to manually lock the body part(s) using the options in the parameter editor.
4. Face Poses
~ 12 Facial Expressions, plus 1 zero expression face pose
5. Props
~ A lit Cigar prop, with morphing smoke (800x800, 879x879)
System Requirements:
PC and Mac compatible
Supported Software:
Poser 7 up, Daz Studio 3.1 up
Note: The SSS MATs require Poser 9 or higher
Needed Files:
Victoria (V4)
++ Morphs for V4
Promo Credits:
Hair: SAV Alpha Scalp, SAV Alpha Moikana by StudioArtVartanian, Ersa Hair & Cleone Hair by Mairy, 3Dream (Renderosity), Kleo Dread Falls by AprilYSH (DAZ)
Clothing & Shoes: Fawne by Orion1167, Omega Huntress X by Luthbel, V4 Dark Raven by MindVision G.D.S., DarkStarBurning (DAZ), B-Girl II by 3D-Age, Rilaun Boots by shadownet, ghostman & pixeluna (Renderosity), Cynagtala by shadownet, ghostman & pixeluna (RuntimeDNA)
Props and Accessories: Exploited by inception8 (RuntimeDNA), Rockabilly Burlesque for V4 by RDNA Pro, HC2 - The Abomination Dungeon by mapps, Richardphotos, Femme Fatale & Venus 2813 A.D. by pixeluna & chucknepo (Renderosity)
Backgrounds and Lights: Deviney's Backgrounds (DAZ), Promo 3 Background by LWPerkins, IDL STUDIO BUNDLE - STUDIO NOIR - EXP 1 and 2 by Colm (RuntimeDNA)