Further, while the employee is on leave or while serving on jury duty, the employment is deemed continuous for the purposes of calculating annual vacation entitlement and additional pension, medical or other benefits to which the employee is entitled.
However, this rehearsal was different. Bruno Mars' trombone player and 24-year-old Memphian Kameron Whalum stepped to the forefront of the stage and grabbed the microphone. He counted off the first song and led the band in preparation for his debut solo show at Beale Street's Hard Rock Cafe.
On Dec. 30, Ken Balcomb, a scientist at the Center for Whale Research, noticed the newborn orca while monitoring a pod, dubbed J-pod, which hangs around Puget Sound, a large Pacific Ocean inlet. The baby killer whale is likely about seven or eight days old now. The whale's birth is encouraging news for the pod, which lost a pregnant female earlier in December. The 19-year-old female whale named J-32 died somewhere in the Strait of Georgia before scientists hauled her ashore to perform a necropsy.