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Former interns from "Saturday Night Live" who filed a class action lawsuit over unpaid work have reached a $6.4 million settlement with NBCUniversal.  The settlement still has to be approved by a federal court in New York.

The interns "received no compensation or compensation at a rate less than the applicable hourly minimum wage" while working for NBCUniversal, according to court documents.

The lawsuit was filed last year by former interns Monet Eliastam, Jesse Moore, Alexander Vainer and Rheanna Behuniak against NBC Universal, which is owned by Comcast (CCV).

The interns accused NBCUniversal of illegally classifying them as interns exempt from federal and state minimum wage and spread-of-hours pay.

The document did not say how many SNL interns were participating, but capped the number at 8,975.

[CNNMoney (New York) First published October 24, 2014: 8:01 AM ET.]

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Sweden's government instituted a military draft for both men and women, because of what its defense minister called a deteriorating security environment in Europe and around Sweden.

Sweden abolished compulsory military service for men in 2010 because there were enough volunteers to meet its military needs. It has never had a military draft for women.

The government said "the all-volunteer recruitment hasn't provided the Armed Forces with enough trained personnel. The re-activating of conscription is needed for military readiness."

In 2013, Neighboring Norway introduced a law applying military conscription to both sexes.             Join the draft....

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In 1999, the Justice Department broke up a “vitamin cartel” that had been led by European companies,  [Roche and BASF]. The companies overcharged big food and beverage makers like Kellogg, Coca-Cola and Nestlé. Eventually the makers of bulk vitamins agreed to pay more than $1.5 billion to settle the accusations.

Soon afterward, the Chinese gained a dominant share, and after several big European producers left the business, the Chinese companies began raising prices. By 2001, the Chinese companies were acting as a cartel and fixing the price of vitamin C.

A group of American companies accused the Chinese producers of acting in concert to raise prices in violation of United States antitrust laws. The case is significant because China produces about 80 percent of the world’s supply of ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, an important ingredient in food and soft drink items as well as animal feed and cosmetics.

The Chinese vitamin C makers was ordered by a United States District Court to pay $162.3 million in fines after a jury found the companies guilty of price-fixing.

The case was striking because of the unusual defense that the Chinese companies mounted. While acknowledging in court that they had colluded to set prices, lawyers said they were compelled to do so by the Chinese government.  

The verdict was the second time in two decades that vitamin makers had been accused of violating antitrust laws.         Just a thought.

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Surgery and chemotherapy treatments for her breast cancer had knocked the energy right out of her and all she wanted to do was snuggle under the bedcovers all day.  

Now research bears out what many found by instinct. Exercise helps people battling the fatigue caused by cancer and by its treatment and usually does it better than drugs do.

Karen Mustian of the University of Rochester looked through all the studies they could find on the various ways to help cancer patients get their energy back. Exercise was the clear winner, they reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Oncology.

So exercise regardless.  

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 The 14-year-old claims he and Stephanie Peterson had a relationship. He told his mum and dad that he had been sneaking out at night to have sex. He claims they had sex several times, including once in her car parked in a driveway and twice inside a barn at his house.

According to the boy, his grades began to suffer because he was spending so much time with Peterson.

During interviews, it is claimed the teenager told investigators it all started when she started sending him images of herself in a state of undress.

Peterson resigned from her position as science teacher at New Smyrna Beach middle school in Florida, two days before her arrest.

It was also revealed that Peterson is going through a divorce, and began proceedings last month.
The media will be dancing their way to the bank with this story. But it is a sad one.
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