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If You Think You'll Stick With That First Job a While, Think Again
By Miriam Finder Annenberg
Students from City College of New York wait to hear first lady Michelle Obama speak at their graduation ceremony in New York, June 3, 2016.
SourceSam Hodgson/The New York Times/Redux
Because too much company loyalty can hold back the newest members of the workforce.
As spring turns to summer, students across the country — many in their early 20s — graduate college and join the workforce. But they shouldn't get too comfortable in their new cubicles. According to a summary finding from a recent National Longitudinal Survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:
More than half of recent graduates ages 18 to 24 with a bachelor's degree or higher left their jobs within a year.
To be precise, 55.3 percent of that demographic went job-hopping before they got their autogenerated congratulatory first-year email from human resources. Though the survey followed a group of people born between 1980 and 1984, experts believe it's consistent long-term behavior as they trace the transition from school to work and adulthood and compare this generation's actions to those of earlier generations. "Nothing is crazy in what we're finding," says Donna Rothstein, a research economist with the survey. "It looks very similar from year to year. There's no big jump."
Rothstein says the numbers from the most recent survey reflect similar results from a survey that followed members of the baby boomer generation, which found 69 percent of respondents ages 18 to 24 remained at their jobs less than a year, regardless of education level. "Basically, when they're young there's a lot of churning," Rothstein says.
This latest group was first interviewed in 1997, and response rates from the 8,994 participants are 80-plus percent. While more than half of those surveyed with at least a bachelor's degree left their job within a year at ages 18 to 24, those numbers shifted drastically for those older than 25. Data shows that as the subjects got older, they spent more time in each position and stopped the frequent job-hopping.
As for why job turnover tends to be higher among young people — like recent college graduates — Rothstein says it's about finding jobs that are the right fit. "If you have a good match, it tends to last a lot of time," she says. "[These young people] are trying to find a better match."
To some extent, you have to be in charge of your own professional development.
Nicole Belyna, recruiting manager
Human resources professionals agree. "It forces employers to understand their turnover a little more," says Nicole Belyna, a recruiting manager in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Society for Human Resource Management talent acquisition expertise panel.
And when young employees see benefits like pensions, raises and employer health insurance disappear, they discover moving around jobs has its own benefits, like learning new skills or earning higher pay. Belyna notes young employees find they often can advance in their fields more quickly at a new company than they can by staying put and waiting for a promotion or a raise — the time-honored move-out-to-move-up strategy. Switching jobs can help young members of the workforce find the best fit for them in terms of role and culture as well.
"To some extent, you have to be in charge of your own professional development," Belyna says. "There is a mindset that if you don't like the culture of where you are … or if what's important to you in a workplace changes, you've got the opportunity to start fresh."
So, to any recent graduates who find themselves in jobs that feel like the wrong fit, it's OK to leave within the year. Half of your peers — as well as generations of workers before you — have your back.
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Sharif through his counsel filed the appeal, requesting the high court to set aside the verdict of the accountability court through which it rejected his plea to merge all the three references into one.
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Sant'Omobono Imagna est une commune italienne de la province de Bergame dans la région Lombardie en Italie.

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Bedulita, Berbenno, Brembilla, Corna Imagna, Costa Valle Imagna, Roncola, Rota d'Imagna, Valsecca

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Commune dans la province de Bergame

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Some scattered notes on COVID-19 in Australia
A comrade from Australia sent us this report on the local situation. Feel free to send us updates from your region…
Can you briefly describe the economic impact of the current crisis and give examples of attacks on wages and conditions of local workers by the bosses and the state?
Local impact has been muted by broad use of temporary guaranteed income programs to keep businesses employing workers (Jobkeeper), and temporary welfare payment increases to support unemployed people at the peak of lockdowns. Jobkeeper has largely delayed the full impact of the economic crisis by subsidising businesses both large and small. Even businesses that were going to go under even if the corona-crisis never happened were able to use Jobkeeper to temporarily stay afloat as "zombie firms". Crucially, though, the majority of casual workers were not covered by Jobkeeper; the only casuals covered were those meeting very strict "long-term casual" criteria. The program ended on the 28th of March and the full impact will be seen in the coming weeks, but it will likely involve many lost jobs.
Businesses that could not access Jobkeeper for whatever reason largely passed on the pressure to their employees. Some were forced to take leave entitlements or unpaid leave during lockdowns, forced redundancies, forced to work shortened work hours or change locations of work, and some were still expected to work even when waiting for COVID test results. The rest just got sacked.
Workers were further encouraged to deal with the economic hit by cannibalising their own future, with the government deploying a program that allowed the early release of superannuation funds. When the program closed at the end of 2020, approximately three million people had withdrawn, in total, around $35-40 billion worth of their own retirements. The full repercussions of this won't be seen for some time, but they will be severe, particularly for women, who tend to have substantially less super than men.
Unemployment benefits were increased during the worst of the crisis but are gradually being cut, bringing them back down to near pre-COVID levels. In addition, the drudge-work forced on the unemployed has been picked back up; after being put on hold, claimants will now be expected to meet their "mutual obligations" like attending interviews again in order to receive the payment. People will be expected to apply for increasing numbers of jobs every month. Those unemployed for more than six months will also be required to undertake a specialised "intensive training" for job skills.
Which new or oppositional political forces emerged as a response to the crisis and to the lockdown?
The political ground hasn't shifted as much in Australia as it has in other countries due to the relative success of our political class in containing the virus. Anti-lockdown protesters only really became a force in Victoria, which was the only Australian state to have a prolonged second lockdown, thanks to a bungled hotel quarantine situation. It was primarily conspiracist-run and naturally oriented to the right-wing; it seemed to be mostly composed of the small businessmen and the like, mirroring the division found in other countries between between small bourgeois who find it hard to weather the storm and larger corporations that are able to push through and even profit.
In fact, it is likely that incumbent politicians will come out of this looking better than ever — Liberal/National PM Scott Morrison's approval ratings have jumped quite substantially, and the Labor Party in Western Australia defeated the Coalition by a comically large amount:
Because of this, the Corona-crisis often takes a backseat to other concerns; in particular, the developing stoush with China. As the diplomatic collapse increasingly takes the character of a trade war, the current Australian government — based on a coalition of urban conservative Liberals and rural Nationals — finds itself split on how to move forward. Neither side particularly wishes to back down from its present hawkishness, particularly as Chinese hegemony begins to contest our own empire for influence over Oceania and South-East Asia. However, the Nationals — the traditional voice of Australian commercial agriculture — have flagged interest in a more protectionist approach to Australian trade, in opposition to the Liberals' persistent free-tradeism.
Has the lockdown impacted workers or political groups when trying to organise protests? Has the form of repression changed? How do people react to this?
Left-activists generally took the approach of trying to push the limits of protest restrictions as much as they could, however the success of this is dependent on the amount of people they can mobilise. The BLM marches progressed largely unimpeded; in Sydney this was helped by a deus ex machina last-minute court decision declaring the rally legal, but there were so many people that the cops wouldn't have been able to do much even if the court did not rule in the protestors' favour.
Less popular causes do not fare as well, and activists have faced serious repression for protesting. A number of activists have been arrested and/or fined; one of our close comrades had their wrist broken by the cops. The strategic discussion on the left is largely centred around how best to challenge the restrictions, about how conciliatory or how confrontational we should be towards the authorities and the restrictions. As of April 2021, rallies tend to be able to proceed without much police opposition; it became hard for the government to try and block protests when tens of thousands were encouraged to attend football matches at the same time.
The reception of the protests vary and is hard to assess accurately. Suffice to say, it can elicit strong opinions from either side, but the majority of people either don't particularly care, or cease to care once it leaves the media cycle.
What is the current theoretical and practical effort of your group in order to relate to the new situation of crisis? How could an international collaboration be useful for you in that regard? What are your concrete questions to comrades abroad?
This report was instigated by someone who is a member of Black Flag Sydney and the Red and Black Notes collective, who also participates in the Sydney Anarcho-Communist Reading Group. Generous assistance has been provided from two Brisbane-based libertarian socialists not part of any specific group. Sydney Anarcho-Communists primarily exists as a way to introduce new people to anarchism, to help current anarchists develop theoretically, and to bring together existing anarchists with a view to forming a more concrete organisation. Black Flag is a modest attempt at working on creating that organisation, whilst also recognising that we're still finding our feet and developing.
Writing in a personal capacity — Sydney Anarcho-Communists is a very new formation and Black Flag is even newer. There is a sense that more discussion needs to take place amongst ourselves before launching more directly into workplace-oriented projects. At present, our work is primarily about participating in existing activist campaigns (like climate strike, refugee justice, gay rights, etc), trying to push them forward, connect them together, and bring in new layers of people.
I am personally in favour of "living" the politics a bit more, taking the sort of approach the Angry Workers do. I feel the limitations of our current ways of doing things quite acutely, as well as the general drawbacks of the current left milieu, but I am currently unable to do much to rectify things myself until I recover fully from a health issue I'm dealing with. Beyond that, there's still the omnipresent challenge of finding people that are on board!
In terms of what we could get from greater international collaboration — I really can't overestimate how important the sharing of information is. Not just theory either, but even the day-to-day reportage stuff that you'd find in workers' papers and bulletins. Probably the most important thing we can do is to keep that information flow going, bouncing ideas off each other, reporting back on what works and what does not, identifying similar patterns in the class struggle in our own countries, seeing where they link up.
For instance, perhaps we could see some similarities in the way state multiculturalism and the smothering layer of "community" middlemen works in both Australia and the UK, or perhaps working with Indian comrades to understand the sorts of class dynamics at play among the Indian migrants who come to Australia, and whether they could potentially be used as a "bridge" between workers in the first and third worlds.
As well as that, there is of course the possibility of mutual support, even if on a smallish scale; for example if workers in a Hyundai factory in Hyderabad go on strike, perhaps we could try and get information about that to Hyundai workers here, or at least try and raise some sort of a ruckus outside Hyundai Australia HQ? I have no idea if there actually is a Hyundai factory in Hyderabad but you know what I mean.
Two case studies
Changes in tertiary education: Australian universities entered into a serious financial crisis when international travel wound up and borders shut down. The universities' business model had been built on high-paying international students, and once that stream dried up, so did the $3-4.5 billion in fees, rents and so on they provided. As expected, the universities laid off tens of thousands of workers. A preliminary sector-wide attempt by the National Tertiary Education Union to negotiate around the offer of "voluntary" pay cuts was rejected by the bulk of its membership, who mobilised significantly to reject such a strategy, but the union persists with similar approaches at individual universities.
Whilst some often take a "who cares" attitude to the changes in the university sector, they will have a greater impact on the outlook of the working class than some realise. Most workers are invested in the education system because it represents one of the few avenues of upward class mobility: most workers would like their children to go to university and get a nice respectable job. If a university degree no longer guarantees well-paying employment in the manner it used to, then it can be expected that the outlook of the working-class will change.
Engaging with student struggle in this area can be difficult for the left, though it rarely admits it. It can often veer into a kind of conservative nostalgia ("universities should be about learning for the sake of learning again") or middle-class entitlement ("I have an expensive degree, I don't deserve to be working this casualised job to make ends meet, I should be a lecturer"). This is intensified by the government's particular approach, which is to nearly double the cost of arts degrees while reducing the costs of "practical" degrees like agriculture, again provoking resentment towards arts students, putting these people in the awkward position of having to justify their course of study and career trajectory.
As a result of these deteriorations in conditions, more and more students will feel financial squeezes, and more and more will be forced to work longer and harder. When I was doing my social work degree, we were made to do two four-month long, nine-to-five, Monday-to-Friday unpaid placements, alongside a massive stack of schoolwork. Had I not been living at home, it would have been impossible; I know a number of other students that were forced to drop out or delay their placement for another year or two while they saved up enough cash. I know a few people that lived on their own and essentially survived on about three or four hours sleep, in between working and studying non-stop.
Already the majority of students have to work and pay rent; this proportion will only increase. This raises increased opportunities for drawing in people based on the collective experience of being exploited, not simply because they have the "right ideas"; there's real potential here to overcome the usual sort of activist-sect recruitment that leftists tend to specialise in on campuses. We're relatively good at drawing in people based simply on political agreement, but comparatively bad at drawing them in based on who they are in functional terms, and what purpose they serve — for their manager at Nandos, their useless landlord, the faceless university bureaucrats, their future bosses; but also for their coworkers, roommates, fellow students, and for the wider working class.
Immigrant labour: as with most western developed economies, the Australian economy involves a significant amount of immigrant labour. Though immigrants make up a significant proportion of both the working and middle-classes in Australia generally, there is no sector where this is more obvious than in agriculture.
Australian agriculture is broadly dependent on migrant labourers working as farm-hands, sheep-shearers, pickers and so on; these groups are severely exploited. The international travel restrictions triggered by the COVID-crisis have led to an immense labour supply shortage. Enormous amounts of produce have been left to wither on the vine due to a lack of workers to pick them; the National Farmers' Federation estimates the losses have been worth around $43 million so far.
The government has allowed the entry of temporary migrant workers from Pacific Island countries to pick fruit; such programs will continue, but the prospect of farmers writing off the entire growing season — as they may do in instances of drought or floods — remains. Of course, one can't overestimate the significance of this. Despite the labour shortages, profits are increasing and the 2020-21 period saw farmers reap $66 billion, the highest amount on record. Nevertheless, there's still something interesting to explore here.
The response from the union that nominally covers agricultural workers, the AWU, has been to simply (and rather pointlessly) demand that employers hire Aussies instead of migrants. The union quite rightfully points to the fact that the workers' visa status facilitates their exploitation, but instead of pressing for the easing of visa conditions, regularisation of status (eg) they will simply demand (in senate submissions and in the media, not on the picket line…) that Aussies be hired first.
The Australian government has attempted to mobilise citizens — primarily young Australians in their late teens/early twenties — to go and pick fruit for a season, sweetening the deal with subsidies and grants (including direct payments of up to $6000, according to reports). They've largely been a dismal failure, however, with only about 500 people jumping in to fill a 26 000 person gap.
There's an undercurrent of "well, the Aussies are lazy" among both farmers and some of the migrant workers themselves. The Australian left accurately responds that the jobs are hard (particularly in the Australian summer), the pay often very poor (you're paid piece-rate on most farms, intensifying the difficulty of the job) and the bosses often ratbags (sexual harassment of female workers is a major issue). At the end of the day, why would a young person in the city abandon support networks of family and friends, uproot their entire life and move temporarily to work a job that sucks and doesn't pay that well? Particularly when there are still jobs going in the city!
The Australian left is right to point this stuff out, but its primary weakness is that it has little ability to influence things and tap into the latent collective power the produce-pickers currently hold. Instead, the workers are portrayed as hapless victims; in such an environment, it becomes doubly easy for bastards like the AWU to call for the ending of migrant exploitation by simply deporting the migrants and hiring Australian citizens, who are presumably inexploitable. The labour shortage could be used as tremendous leverage in class struggle, but there are few attempts to try and cohere together the various workers and push forward the lower-level struggle that no doubt already exists on these farms.


These beaded Christmas ornament hooks are best-sellers at Christmas bazaars and craft shows; they also make great homemade Christmas gifts.
You'll be surprised how quick and easy these hooks are to make.
Clip off about 4 inches of wire. Find something fat enough to make a hook shape when you wind the wire around it – I used the handle of a paint brush. Bend the wire clockwise to make the hook then, on the straight end, thread on a very pretty bead. For smaller beads I added three beads with a bigger one in the middle and two smaller beads at each end. For larger beads, like the flag bead, one is enough. I love that flag bead!
When you thread on the last bead, bend the wire so that the beads won't fall off, as shown in the picture. With something larger than your first dowel or pen, (maybe a magic marker or a highlighter marker) bend a large loop, again going clockwise at first but with the next loops going anti-clockwise, or the opposite way of the first hook at the top.
Make the anti-clockwise loops with needle nose pliers, simply circling the wire in towards the larger loop.
Put a fancy Christmas ornament on the bottom loop and feed it through until it lies on the larger loop. Make several of these for a great homemade Christmas gift.
Fast, easy and it really does look great and one of a kind.
Is there a good way to store the beaded ornament hooks to keep them from getting tangled?
That's a good question. I use a small box and set the hooks down in a single layer, followed by a small piece of tissue paper (or recycled wrapping paper), then put another single layer of hooks on top. I think any organizer for earrings would also work perfectly.


Discussion in 'Ask the Meister' started by lovetogamble, Oct 20, 2003.
Has anyone had any dealings with casinos that use the Soft Gambling Software, such as Vegas Saloon, Egypt Gold, Platitum Player?
Are these casinos reputable and most of all do they pay players?
Some people have opinions. Look in the "Online Casino Complaints" section of this forum, the thread is titled, "Soft Gambling sites ain't paying."


ACAP Latest News has previously reported more than once on albatrosses and petrels becoming entangled with or ingesting latex balloons. Records include entanglements and/or ingestions for the Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes and Arctic Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis in the Northern Hemisphere and Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris, Northern Macronectes halli and Southern M. giganteus Giant Petrels, Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris and possibly Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica (one of the most southerly breeding seabirds) in the Southern Hemisphere (click here).
Two more procellariiform species, both ACAP-listed, can now be added to the above list.
Beach-washed carcasses of a Grey-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma (01 July 2015) and a Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria fusca (09 October 2015) collected from Fraser Island, south-east Queensland, Australia both yielded pieces of balloons on necropsy by University of Tasmania PhD student, Lauren Roman.
David Stewart reports to ACAP Latest News that the Light-mantled Albatross more than likely died from a blocked gastro-intestinal tract (GIT).
The Grey-headed Albatross also included a plastic straw, the first such record of ingestion by an albatross known to ALN, at least from the Southern Hemisphere.
Some environmental NGOs are also working against single-use plastic straws.
Read more on the above two incidents here.
With thanks to David Stewart.


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The Universe wouldn't be the same without the Higgs boson. This legendary particle plays a role in cosmology and reveals the possible existence of another closely related particle. The race to identify the Higgs boson is on at CERN. This Holy Grail of particle physics would help explain why the majority of elementary particles possess mass.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree - or does it?
Research has shown that contrary to what was thought from previous studies, spin-outs don't systematically set up shop near their parent companies. To stay or to leave, what's the best strategy? "I was really surprised, when doing this research, to find that 50% of spin-outs don't necessarily establish themselves near the parent company," observes Christopher Tucci from EPFL.
A device shows how blood is circulating in the skin. It already facilitates the work of burn specialists and plastic and reconstructive surgeons.
Manufacturing solar cells that are one thousand times thinner than conventional cells. That is the challenge the researchers have set for themselves.
The enigmatic quantum dot is the basic building block for quantum computers. Physicists have developed a new theory to determine the optical properties of these dots based on the principles of symmetry. Physicists from EPFL have created a pyramidal dot that's just shy of 100 nanometers high, about 200 atoms on a side.
Researchers have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological "computer" network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells using logic combinations of five cancer-specific molecular factors, triggering cancer cells destruction. Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson, from ETH Zurich, has spent a large part of his career developing biological computers that operate in living cells.
Precise measurement of the molecular weight, size and density of a nanoparticle in a single procedure is now possible, thanks to an ultracentrifugation method. Although nanoparticles are used in a variety of domains - such as medicine, solar energy and photonics - there is still much about them to be discovered.
Scientists have discovered a potential new approach for inhibiting the growth of pathogenic fungi. Ultimately, immunocompromised patients with fungal infections, in particular, could benefit from this work. As temperatures soar and more and more people cool off at outdoor pools, the incidence of so called swimmer's ear - an infection of the ear canal - also rises.
Environmentally friendly fuels are not just of interest for use in cars. The University of Birmingham has been operating a canal boat with a fuel cell drive for three years now.
Scientists model sediment deposits carried by the Naviscence River in the Swiss Valais canton. They are simulating possible scenarios for the future of the Zinal ski area, which could be threatened by the river.
The CLOUD experiment has been designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols - tiny liquid or solid particles suspended in the atmosphere - under controlled laboratory conditions. Atmospheric aerosols are thought to be responsible for a large fraction of the seeds that form cloud droplets.
Like far away galaxies, powerful tools are required to bring the minute inner workings of neurons into focus. A team of scientists report how Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM) can now be used to observe neuronal activity in real-time and in three dimensions—with up to 50 times greater resolution than ever before.
An electromagnetic three-phase motor will enable the watchmaking industry to build watches that are three times more efficient and that can include more applications.
Researchers have developed a new breast cancer diagnostic method, and is now carrying out first tests on non-preserved human tissue. This new method should be able to reveal structures that cannot be seen using conventional mammography. Standard procedures only determine the extent to which X-rays are attenuated by various tissue structures.
Many substances and nutrients are exchanged across the cell membrane. Scientists have developed a method to observe these exchanges, by taking a highly accurate count of the number of proteins found there. Proteins on the cell surface play an essential role in the survival of the cell. They govern the exchanges between the interior and the exterior.
For the first time, scientists gathered oil and gas directly as it escaped from a deep ocean wellhead — that of the damaged Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
Scientists are starting a new field campaign in the Val Ferret. They're collecting data to study how the environment influences flood rates in mountain valleys. Predicting natural disasters in order to inform and warn populations residing in risk zones is a major challenge today. "Mathematical models exist, but they still don't take into account all the data that are needed to establish reliable predictions, such as the influence of air temperature, the formation of thermal winds or the impact of precipitation," explains Professor Marc Parlange.
How will Swiss radioactive waste be disposed of?
If Switzerland does indeed abandon nuclear energy within the time-frame announced by the Swiss Confederation, the question of the burial and disposal of the accumulated waste needs to be addressed.
Detecting cancer cells and destroying them, injecting drugs with extreme precision into diseased cells in the human body - these are just two examples of what scientists are attempting to accomplish using iron oxide nanoparticles.


With its 3.067-mile circuit containing 22 turns, Imola was the first of three Italian courses to challenge the 25-rider grid in the 2012 World Superbike Championship.
And when the riders arrived in Italy for Round 2 of 14 this weekend, the favorite became the Italian Max Biaggi aboard the Aprilia Racing Team RSV4. But the 2010 World Superbike Championship missed out on the podium in both 21-lap races.
And both races were won by Biaggi's rival, the reigning World SBK Champion who split a win with Biaggi at the season opener in Phillip Island, Carlos Checa.
Following his double at Imola Sunday, the Spaniard Checa now has five wins at Imola, and gave Ducati an impressive 13 wins in 19 races at Imola since the track debuted on the WSBK schedule in 2001. This was sure to delight fans of Ducati considering Ducati Headquarters is just north of Imola in Bologna.
Joining Checa on the podium in both races was Kawasaki Racing's Tom Sykes and BMW Motorrad's Leon Haslam, respectively.
Starting from the pole, Sykes opened race one with the lead, holding it until lap 11. That's when Checa, who started from third on the grid, passed the Kawasaki ZX-10R.
Over the next few laps, Checa showed the dominance of the 1198R, setting the fastest lap of the race (1:47.877) en-route to the win. When Checa crossed the finish line, Sykes would follow 3.206 seconds later, and Haslam 5.593 seconds later. Biaggi would finish fourth, with his teammate Eugene Laverty in fifth.
Race 2 was very similar with Sykes taking the early lead, setting the fastest lap that became the new lap record at Imola – a 1:47.552.
But on lap seven, Biaggi was making his way to the front. He first encountered a battle with Biaggi, and then Haslam.
On lap 14, Checa got pass Sykes, and took control of the race, eventually winning 1.935 second ahead of Sykes, and 2.969 seconds ahead of Haslam. Biaggi would again finish fourth, with Honda World Superbike's Jonathan Rea in fifth.
Following Imola World SBK, Checa now slips into the overall points lead with 75, four ahead of Biaggi. Sykes is in third with 69 points.
The 2012 World Superbike Championship now breaks for two weeks before heading to Assen April 20-22.


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High-throughput data is revolutionizing neuroscience, as microarrays revolutionized genomics ~ fifteen years ago. The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies®) Initiative in the US and similar efforts around the world will soon allow us to eavesdrop on the conversations among thousands or millions of neurons. This talk will introduce some of the technologies that are changing the face of neuroscience, illustrate some of the insights that have been gained recently, and expand on the promise to come, drawing on recently published work as well as the speaker's own research.
I will first describe the ongoing census of the surprising diversity of brain cells, and then the new technologies to measure brain activity. After decades of steady slow improvement in electrical and magnetic measurement, the capacity and resolution of optical imaging are more than doubling each year. Other optical technologies enable precise interventions in circuits.
I will then describe a few recent findings using these technologies: how memories are formed and recalled; how skills can be selectively erased; what imagination may look like; how apparently false memories can be implanted in animals.


Being a mom of a 3-year-old has definitely changed my preferences in many things, like food choices, shopping locations, and TV shows. It has also forced me to just roll with the punches and to take life as it comes. When my daycare had to close for a couple of weeks, I took advantage of the opportunity to make myself not care as much about the piles of laundry and dishes to clean or work to accomplish. I made an effort to really evaluated some of the toys and shows that my son truly enjoys. While some cartoons that my son gets a kick out of make me cringe in annoyance or roll my eyes in its brainlessness, I have to remind myself that these shows are written for young children. They are not meant to entertain adults. That is what shows like House of Cards or Big Bang Theory are for.
So, here a some cartoons that I found that either my son and I can watch together, or that I can let him watch while I try to accomplish some tasks without worrying about what he is watching.
3. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood – Remember Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood? This show follows a preschool-aged tiger, who is friends with many of the characters from the original show, like Caterina and Trolley, in the world of Make Believe. Kids can relate to the typical behavior and social issues that they will encounter, like sharing, not always getting their way, loss, respect of family, and curtesy. There are catchy songs that not only teach a lesson, but also get stuck in your head, like "clean up, pick up, put away; clean up everyday" and "when you have to potty, stop and go right away; flush and wash and be on your way". Many times these little verses remind my son to put toys away before taking another one out, to deal with separation anxiety, and follow simple hygiene rituals. While there are a few hidden stereotypes in some episodes, this show is fantastic for preschool-aged kids to learn appropriate ways to interact with other kids and adults. "Ugga-Mugga"!
4. Tom & Jerry – The classic cat vs. mouse, with the occasional bulldog! Despite the occasional cartoon violence and scenes with smoking, this vintage cartoon completely entertains its viewers, young and old. Most of the time, I am watching this cartoon with my 3-year-old because it takes me back to my childhood. I have yet to come across something that I have needed to fast forward past or explain to him. There is no racism or biases in this cartoon that other cartoon series of the time, like Bugs Bunny, contain. Common sense should prevail here. I grew up watching Tom & Jerry and have never thought to hit my dog or my sibling with a brick or an axe. The ridiculousness of Jerry trying to best Tom in each episode ensures that my son knows it is all pretend and cannot actually happen. If you want to sit and enjoy a cartoon with your youngster, I recommend this one.
5. Super Why – This show is great for 2 – 4 year olds. The colors are vivid and the graphics do not overload its very young target audience. Wyatt, Red, Princess P, and Alpha Pig jump into a book and travel through fairy tale stories, such as The Princess and the Pea and Jack and the Beanstalk, in order to find an answer to the problem presented at the beginning of the episode. Viewers learn letters, numbers, phonics, and basic problem solving while seeing classic fairy tales comes to life. The characters also have to work together and help each other out in order to find the answers needed to solve problems. There are no scary villains and basic social skills are taught in this show. My 3 year old son loved this show for a couple of years. However, I think that he has gotten bored already with it. That is why I think that it is great for a very young audience.
6. Dinosaur Train – Brightly colored dinosaurs, educational facts about dinosaurs, and a TRAIN! My son was first attracted to this show because he loves trains. Then, he got to know the Pteranodon family and Buddy. He is learning about the different types of dinosaurs, basic facts about them, and the different eras of time they lived in. Viewers learn what some scientific terms mean, like hypothesis, biped, and ecosystem. This show also instills the importance of family and that not every family looks or acts the same. Unconditional love from family members and curiosity about different lifestyles is the reason I love that my son loves this show.
7. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends – While this cartoon series has very few female characters and they only give value to trains that are "useful", it has behavior-shaping lessons for kids at a very young age. This show has some rude and snotty characters, like the Troublesome Trucks and Diesel 10, but it teaches children that not everyone that you come in contact with is going to be nice with good intentions. We cannot isolate our children from "mean" people, and this show has good lessons on how to live with th ose types of characters. Thanks to this show, my son now categorizes people he comes in contact with to characters on the show – devious people are like Diesel, know-it-alls are like Emily, calm and helpful people are like Victor, cheeky and self-centered people are like Thomas. When I am not around my son, this helps him relate an experience he is having to an episode so he can deal with the situation. I believe that my son only finds this show interesting is due to his love of trains. If you have a girl who is not all that interested in trains, she may not enjoy this show at all.


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Atherton school asbestos scare prompts WorkCover call
Kirsty Nancarrow
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Teachers at Atherton State High School, south-west of Cairns, in far north Queensland have given the Education Department one week to respond to their concerns about asbestos removal.
Meetings were held at the school last week with unions and asbestos experts after the decontamination of two classrooms and a staff room.
Unions are also urging staff at the school to file WorkCover notifications in the wake of an asbestos scare.
The Education Department offered to brief teachers last week on the recent decontamination of classrooms and a staffroom.
Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) spokeswoman Maureen Duffy says staff are worried about contamination because the source remains unknown.
"They believe all of the asbestos in Atherton State High School should be removed as well and they've asked for clarification by a date in a week's time as to whether or not that has occurred," she said.
"If it hasn't by then, I'll be returning to the school on the 23rd of November and we will then be balloting whether or not industrial action will proceed with all of the teachers.
"The other unions will also be taking measures."
Ms Duffy says the issue has caused a great deal of stress for some teachers who are concerned about their possible exposure to asbestos during the past 18 months.
"What the unions have done is to recommend that all of the teachers and the other workers concerned lodge WorkCover notifications in case of some form of disease occurring later, so that they will be able to claim under WorkCover," she said.
"We've also been at the school and the teachers have passed six resolutions."
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Should Michigan Skip The Whole Daylight Savings Time Idea?
Daylight Savings Time could be coming to an end in Michigan if one lawmaker has their way.
Would You Rather Have Higher Gas Tax or Toll Roads In Michigan?
If you hate the idea of a higher gas tax, what do you think about Michigan having toll roads?
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You'll probably notice more Michigan State Police cars than normal on the roads tonight.


Catherine Ann helps her mother, Isabel, who has vascular dementia, with everyday tasks like feeding and cleaning.
Unpaid caregivers of seniors with dementia put in more hours and experience higher levels of distress than those providing care for other seniors.
Defined as family members, neighbours and friends who take on an unpaid caring role to support someone with a diminishing physical ability, a debilitating cognitive condition or a chronic life-limiting illness,Reference1 these caregivers would benefit from increased community support to help them manage care for both their loved ones and themselves.
CIHI's analysis finds that several key factors affect unpaid caregivers of seniors living with dementia. We spoke with 2 Canadian caregivers whose experiences reflect those findings.
Liz is a caregiver to her husband, Dave, who has frontotemporal dementia and is also being treated for bladder cancer. Dave's dementia progressed quickly after his diagnosis in 2012 and his behaviour became too aggressive for Liz to handle on her own at home. He now resides in an assisted-living facility.
Catherine Ann cares for her mother, Isabel, who is in the terminal stages of vascular dementia. Catherine Ann is a mother of 2 young children and her husband works outside the province 21 days at a time. Catherine Ann is supported with 62 hours of home care a week.
Catherine Ann, who lives in a small town in Newfoundland and Labrador, has been her mother's primary caregiver since 2012.
CIHI's analysis finds that caregivers of seniors with dementia provide an average of 26 hours of care each week. This is substantially higher than the 17 hours provided by caregivers of those without dementia.
Most seniors with dementia have a caregiver, and they are unlikely to live alone — only 13% compared with 21% of seniors without dementia. Caregivers of seniors with dementia are primarily children (58%) or spouses (32%).
When thinking about the time spent caring for loved ones, Liz and Catherine Ann admitted that the hours of care can be difficult to quantify.
Liz visits her husband twice a week at his assisted-living facility and speaks with him every night on the phone. In addition to making sure he has everything he needs in his apartment and managing his medical appointments, she spends a lot time acting as an intermediary between Dave and the facility staff.
"This was a surprise, because I thought that since Dave was in assisted living, I would be less stressed," she said.
Isabel is now in the terminal stages of dementia. Catherine Ann, having cared for her mother through the progress of her disease, has lived through many iterations of caregiving. "It's not as intense now as it was before. When was younger and mom was more active, sometimes she'd be awake at night and so I could easily spend all night with mom and be up all day with the baby... Now, really, for mom, it's a different kind of ensuring quality of life. Her speech is very limited so interaction with her means being in the room, but it's a different kind of time commitment," she said.
According to CIHI analysis, more than 4 out of 10 caregivers (45%) of seniors with dementia exhibit symptoms of caregiver distress — almost twice as many when compared with caregivers of seniors without dementia (26%). 38% of caregivers express the symptoms of distress, anger or depression and 21% feel unable to continue their caring activities (compared with 19% and 12% for caregivers of seniors without dementia, respectively).
Liz's emotional distress has since manifested as physical symptoms, and she is currently taking medication for gastrointestinal problems associated with stress.
Between caring for her mother and raising 2 children, Catherine Ann reflected, there have been moments of feeling depleted and having nothing left to give. Living in rural Newfoundland and Labrador also makes it challenging to access care for her own health. To stay healthy, she regularly talks with a therapist on the phone.
Isabel lives in a multi-generational home that includes her son-in-law, Wayne, and 4-year-old grandson, Xavier.
Liz and Dave built their life around his nursing pension, but due to his cognitive decline he retired early in 2009, before he was diagnosed with dementia. Now 70% of his net pension covers the cost of his care at the assisted-living facility, which will go up to 80% when he eventually transfers to a long-term care facility. At age 68, Liz works 3 days a week as a social worker in her community in B.C.
Moving back to her family home in Newfoundland and Labrador was originally a 6-month plan for Catherine Ann and her partner. But soon after they arrived, they found out they were expecting their first child and that her mother was no longer able to travel between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. They decided to stay put and Catherine Ann, who worked in conflict resolution and restorative justice, has not gone back to work.
Providing effective support to those living with dementia in the community and to their families is an important component of dementia strategies. If caregivers receive help to better manage the complex needs of the people they care for, hospital visits or transitions to higher levels of care may be improved. In addition, caregivers would be enabled to maintain their caregiving activities and have a personally rewarding experience.
Odds ratios measure the association between factors and caregiver distress. For instance, an odds ratio of 1.2 for wandering means that caregivers of seniors with dementia have 20% higher odds of experiencing distress compared with caregivers of those without dementia.
CIHI's analysis identified the primary drivers of distress among caregivers of seniors with dementia.
Home Care Reporting System, 2015–2016, Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Carers Canada. Carer facts External link, opens in new window. Accessed May 18, 2018.
Alzheimer's Association. 2017 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures External link, opens in new window. 2017.


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Ehhhh... El Torito. Who care!
Cesaro since he is on a big push. Swagger is almost a jobber and RVD doesn't care anymore.
So Cesaro will probably get the pin on Jack Swagger to gain victory.
Paige will win and retain her title. No doubt!
Bad News Barrett hopefully. Big E is so blank and boring.
The Shield... I wish. But it will be a hard fought battle and a very good match.
Superman Cena will probably wins as usual. Maybe the WWE will surprise us all by letting Bray Wyatt win this one.
Daniel Bryan will keep his title. It would be pointless to put the title around Kane's waist at this stage of his career.
JTG still employed by the WWE???


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In Memoriam: Amos Jessup
March 18, 2019 By Mike Rinder 7 Comments
by Janis Gillham Grady (Sorry for the delay, as most of you know, I was out of touch on a cruise for the last week)…
Sadly, we all get older and there is a time when each of us will decide it is time to go.
With that said, it is time to say goodbye to someone many of us have known and loved – Amos Jessup who passed away today – March 14, 2019.
Amos had been sick recently, which I had announced about a month ago to many of his friends. It was thought that he was recovering as he was getting his motor skills back along with his speech, however, after a rough night last night, he was in a lot of pain, he refused to go to the ER and wanted to just remain in his living room chair. He seemed okay, so his son took the dog out for a short walk – only to find upon his return that Amos had moved on to a new world.
I first meet Amos when I was 11 years old on the Royal Scotman. As a Commodore's Messenger I interacted with Amos many times during our Sea Org years together, when he was the Captain of the Avon River/Athena, later the Chief Officer and even Deputy Captain of the Apollo and again in 1975 when I did the mission to Toronto org and put him on post as the Executive Director.
After being a successful executive for many years, Amos kept returning to the auditing chair, where he loved to help people by auditing them. Even after Amos left the Sea Org over 30 years ago, he continued to audit and help people.
Amos was one of those people that I and many of his old shipmates will greatly miss – at our reunions, he was always the one to arrive with his guitar in hand, ready for any song we could throw at him for everyone to join him in song. He was well known to bring laughter and joy to the room with his fun-loving smile and joyful character. He cared about people and wanted to make them happy.
Amos was also very helpful with my first two books about growing up in the Sea Org – he was a behind the scenes reminder of various things that occurred and always offered whatever help he could in editing and improving my books for which I will always be grateful.
Only two years ago, Amos and Daly moved from San Diego to North Carolina and in that short time Amos made dozens of new friends. Upon hearing the news of Amos' passing a bunch of them showed up at his home yesterday and kept proposing locations for his memorial "party." As they discussed it, each proposal would be shot down in favor of a bigger place (starting with his big back yard). On Sunday, a special memorial program about him will be aired on the local radio, where he was featured many times, with music and poetry.
In Daly's own words, that ability to make friends really created a new life, in a place 3,000 miles from San Diego, within less than a year.
Amos is survived by his wonderful wife (for putting up with us all!), Daly and his son Tucker.
We will be missing Amos jamming on his guitar at the June 22 Burbank Reunion where instead we will remember and honor him along with our other big loss – Bill Franks.
Filed Under: Scientology, Sea Org Tagged With: Amos Jessup, In Memoriam, Janis Gillham Grady
Tucker Jessup says
Thank you so much for this touching tribute; I'm sorry I didn't see it earlier. Dad would love to be remembered in such a beautiful way. It was very shocking to find his body the way I did, but I just know it was his time to go. He may have been improving, but his quality of life was minimal. He could barely speak or write clearly, and his walking was incredibly limited. Right before I took the dog out, I tucked him in to his recliner with a couple of blankets, kissed the top of his head and said "I love you". I'm just very happy those were my last words to him.
Bob Burtman says
The radio tribute to Amos will air tonight from 7-10 on WHUP in Hillsborough, where he spent a fruitful couple of years after moving to San Diego. We'll be rebroadcasting his five appearances on WHUP between September 2016 and December 2018, all of which I had the privilege of hosting – two of those were music sessions (one solo and one with band) and three shorter segments featuring his poetry. You can listen live on whupfm.org or any time after that on demand via the website – it'll be posted within a couple of days along with the five individual shows, just type Amos Jessup in the search box. A remarkable fellow indeed!
Ronn S says
Very nice Janis. Its tough losing anyone, but special friends are a special kind of loss.
Dave Stokes says
Amos Jessup relieved Emile Gilbert as the CO of the Toronto Org in 1975, April or May, as I recall.
I was the full time (D and F) Basic Courses supervisor at that time and had been since November, 1973.
The other Basic Courses super was Real Laplaine.
My senior was Cyndy Nelson, D of T.
My Tech Sec was Gary Jepson.
My Dir I and R was Blair Sisson.
Morning roll call at 8:30 a.m. was mandatory for the 50+ staff at that time (all of us were Full Time staff).
Roll call was held in the large open space of Div 6, first floor, 124 Avenue Road.
We did the usual Org Board chanting drill.
Then Amos Jessup (straight from Flag) was introduced.
I was shocked.
Emile Gilbert was removed!
Who was this new guy?
Amos stood up to face this large morning gathering of usually sleepy but now wide awake staff.
For 3 or 4 minutes he lit into us.
He criticized our collective efforts, products and intentions.
He questioned our ethics.
He challenged our commitment to KSW.
Very harsh.
He then said, "There will be changes."
"Who is Dave Stokes?"
I stood up.
The entire room went silent.
Amos said, "You are no longer the Basic Courses Supervisor."
"You are re-assigned to the Book Unit" (selling paperback copies of DMSMH on the street).
And then, the knife to the heart.
Amos Jessup, looking from side to side at all the faces of the assembled staff, declared, "Maybe now he can get STRAIGHT Scientology into the hands of the public!"
The inval, the eval, and the sarcasm, dripped off every word of that last sentence.
As did the hate.
The meeting continued.
Other staff members were removed, reposted, busted and excoriated that morning.
None of which I remember.
IMO, 1975 was the high-water mark of Scientology in Toronto.
It has been downhill ever since.
Amos Jessup was only the CO for a few months.
Then HE was gone.
No data as to why.
Amos Jessup's legacy in Toronto is very simple: He was in command at the beginning of the long decline of the Toronto Org.
Anybody wishing to improve my memory and/or fill in the surrounding contextual details may email me directly at davestokes02 at gmail dot com.
Never met Amos but heard of him since the 70's. Always thought he had such a cool name.
Rest in Peace Amos Jessup.
Judi Light says
OMG no! The last I had heard from Daly a few months ago, Amos was doing quite well and was out and about – improved physically and playing his music . I am so sorry for your and Tucker's loss Daly. Amos was a kind, gentle, loving man with gobs of talent. HIs book is amazing and his writing is delicious.. a tapestry of words and a fabulous read. For those of you who want a tremendously touching read…"Beyond the Cascade" is superb.
Hey Amos! You've shed your body. I'll bet you're in one incredible place!


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Mdina Town
Alleyway in Mdina, Malta
Photo by: Eirik Newth, Creative Commons
Mdina is a medieval town in Malta. It is also considered as the "Silent City", a town that covers an area of about 314 square kilometers with a population of about 300.
The town features a number of walls and the first wall here was built around 700 BC by the Phoenicians. Mdina is too far from the sea and it is also the highest point in the island. It is also the place where the Apostle St. Paul lived after he was involved in a shipwreck.
The major walls in the town were built in the 10th and 11th centuries. During this period, the town streets, moats and fortifications were widened. In the year 1693, a massive earthquake struck the town and majority of the structures were destroyed including the St. Paul's Cathedral. Later the cathedral was rebuilt by the Knights of Malta in a Baroque style.
In the present, the city is one of the major tourist spots. It features a limited number of houses and has a smaller population. The major attractions in the town are:
St. Paul's Cathedral
It is a Roman Catholic Cathedral built in between the years 1697-1702. The cathedral was designed by Lorenzo Gafa and it houses several paintings belonging to the 15th century. The baptismal font in the cathedral is made of Irish wood; in addition the cathedral also features a massive collection of silver coins and plates.
Vilhena Palace
The Vilhena Palace was built in the year 1454 and in the year 1908 it was converted to a hospital and closed in 1956. In 1973 it reopened as a museum.
The other attractions in the town include the St. Agtha's Chapel, St. Nicholas Chapel, National History Museum and Bastion Square.
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'This Is Not Justice': Senior Lawyers React to Hyderabad Encounter
The 'encounter' killing of the four men accused in the rape and murder of a woman veterinarian in Hyderabad touched a national nerve, with lakhs of tweets (and counting) in just a few hours, some cheering and others concerned at what they saw as one more instance of vigilantism.
Thousands of people aired their views, many recalling that Cyberabad Commissioner VC Sajjanar, who carried out the "encounter", had been involved in a similar incident in 2008.
Leading lawyers and activists from across the country have voiced serious concerns over the manner in which this 'encounter' took place – and the implications of this kind of extrajudicial action.
The Quint has taken the views of several legal experts including Justice RS Sodhi, a former judge of the Delhi High Court, as well as lawyers known for their work in the field of women's rights, human rights, and criminal reform to understand whether these killings could be construed as justice, and whether the many problems in our judicial system are a justification for such action.
Also Read: Hyd Encounter: Preserve Bodies, Submit Post-Mortem Video,Orders HC
Supreme Court lawyer Karuna Nundy, who was one of the experts consulted for the criminal law reforms in 2013 after the Nirbhaya case, pointed out the dangers of killing the men before they had been convicted in a court of law.
"Now nobody will ever know if the four men killed by the police were innocent men, arrested fast to show action. And whether four of the most brutal rapists roam free, to rape and kill more women," she said.
Senior lawyer and human rights activist Vrinda Grover called the killing of the accused "absolutely unacceptable", and added that the act only added to the state's "arsenal of unlimited arbitrary violence" in the name of equality for women. She also noted the dangerous way in which the police were escaping accountability by conducting extrajudicial killings like this:
""Using people's anguish, despair and anger, the police is actually usurping the power of the court, the police is escaping accountability, just when hard questions are being asked."" -
Grover noted that the Supreme Court has laid down several guidelines for investigation of encounter cases, including the registration of an FIR against the police and an independent judicial inquiry,
Also Read: 'They Snatched Weapons, We Retaliated': Hyd Police on Encounter
'People Are Not Thinking Through This 'Justice''
Former Delhi High Court judge RS Sodhi says that he does not see this as an encounter because they were under custody and the accused attempt to escape. "Shooting people is not a satisfaction of law," he explained.
""Firstly, we do not know whether they are the real culprits. Second, if they were trying to run away, do you have to shoot? Why can't your policemen be fit in service, why can't you run after them and get them?"" - RS Sodhi, former Delhi High Court judge
Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, who heads the Human Rights Law Network, questioned why people were delighted by this 'shortcut to justice'. He warned that there was a need to look at situations like this more carefully, adding that "The persons who say that even if it is a fake encounter, it does not matter, are presuming that the person killed is the person who committed the rape and murder."
""You are condemning an innocent person to his death. You are telling the parents of this boy that it doesn't matter whether your son was innocent or not. Somebody had to die. So he had to die."" - Colin Gonsalves, Senior Advocate
Senior advocate Kamini Jaiswal, who has long advocated for important criminal reforms, also warned against viewing the killings as a delivery of justice, pointing out that this is against the rule of law:
""Let us not celebrate and encourage this sort of a justice system, let us not celebrate and encourage this kind of encounters. We have a rule of law in this country, and the rule of law must follow."" -
Also Read: Is Hyderabad Encounter 'Justice Served' in the Rape & Murder Case?
'Delays in Judicial System Aren't Justification for Encounters'
Karuna Nundy wants this to be a wake up call to the judiciary and the government to make sure that delays in the justice system are fixed and such incidents are dealt with.
""Primarily, it's the problem of the government and the government coordination with the high courts. We must have more judges and just more of the justice system. The reason that we have these delays is because the bandwidth of the justice system is very limited. We have one of the lowest judges per million, one of the lowest police per million in the world."" - Karuna Nundy, Supreme Court Lawyer
"You can't flog the judiciary as an alternative and get away, brush everything under the carpet," says Justice Sodhi, adding, "Taking alternative routes and measures is not rule of law. You can't cut corners, you cant allow the police to accuse, investigate and then judge and execute the sentence. You can't allow it."
Kamini Jaiswal said there was certainly a need for speedy justice, but that this wasn't the way to achieve it:
""Of course I believe that in such cases there should be fast track courts, there should be immediate appeals, time-bound appeals, time-bound mercy petitions, everything should be finished in minimum time. But that doesn't mean we can be a trigger-happy nation.""'Law Presumes the Police Is Guilty of Murder'
Colin Gonsalves explains that as per the law, there has to be an investigation of the police officers for murder when it comes to encounter killings.
"The law will presume that the police officers are guilty of murder," he told The Quint, elaborating that "the police officers will be required to prove that they are in fact innocent, so there is a reversal of the burden of proof."
Kamini Jaiswal believes that the circumstances of the killings indicate that they were entirely the mistake of the police and confirms that an FIR should be registered against them.
""There should be an FIR registered against the crime of killing. This must be investigated as per the guidelines and terms of full bench judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. There should be FIR against police officers who are guilty."" - Kamini Jaiswal, Senior Advocate
Also Read: What Next After a Police Encounter? SC Has Laid Down 16 Guidelines
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Q: transform:scale to fullscreen? Good day all,
A series of differently sized images are each individually wrapped in left floating differently sized divs on a horizontally scrolling web page. I want to be able to tap on a div to scale it to fullscreen, (by adding a css class containing the scale instruction, with toggleClass), and tap on the image (which is now fullscreen and thus obscures the div) to return to normal (by removing the class from its wrapping div).
I have found various options to do this for a background image (with a known size) and there are nice fullscreen galleries, but this one evades me.
Because of the different sizes, I cannot use scale(2) or some other fixed value. It is at all possible to webkit-transform:scale to a destination size like 768x1024 rather than a scale factor?
Many thanks!

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Beringia!: Current Insights on the Geology, Climate, Paleontology, Floristic Assembly, and Biodiversity of a Subcontinent that is Central to Northern Hemisphere Biogeography
Harris, AJ [1], Xiang, Qiuyun (Jenny) [2], Ickert-Bond, Steffi [3].
Beringia!: Current Insights on the Geology, Climate, Paleontology, Floristic Assembly, and Biodiversity of a Subcontinent that is Central to Northern Hemisphere Biogeography.
Beringia comprises the high latitude, subcontinental region that once bridged the northern Pacific Ocean and facilitated migration of plants and animals (including people) between North America and Eurasia. In the modern time, Beringia is partially submerged beneath the northern Pacific and Arctic Oceans but remains emergent within Russia, Alaska, and northern Canada. The subcontinent represents a key to understanding how patterns of modern floristic diversity in the Northern Hemisphere emerged and, simultaneously, is home to a vital ecological system supporting Arctic life. While the role of Beringia in facilitating patterns of modern biodiversity in Eurasia and North America are widely studied, historical and modern-day aspects of the subcontinent itself remain less well known. Therefore, our integrative symposium on Beringia brings together experts from diverse scientific fields, including those not typically represented at Botanical Society of America (BSA) meetings, and has the objective to cover emerging research and thinking on the following broad topics: 1) geological, climatic, and paleontological history; 2) role in historical biogeography, floristic exchange and assembly; 3) modern biodiversity; and 4) insights on teaching about the subcontinent. Speakers in this symposium include those familiar to the community who will discuss their newest findings, as well as experts from the fields of geology, climatology, and vertebrate paleontology. We have selected speakers who have made, and continue to make, invaluable contributions to research on Beringia and who reflect gender, cultural, and ethnic diversity within our scientific community. Our symposium has a novel format consisting of six talks followed by a later forum for questions and discussion among the speakers and early-career attendees, especially undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs.
1 - South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, Xingke Road 723, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 44, 510650, China
2 - North Carolina State University, Plant And Microbial Biology, 100 Derieux Place, Gardner Hall 2115, Raleigh, NC, 27695, United States
3 - University of Alaska Fairbanks, Herbarium (ALA) and Dept of Biology and Wildlife, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA


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