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Community Living of Brookfield also agrees to pay $2,800 to resolve retaliation claims Employers:    Community Living of Brookfield LLC, Brookfield, Wisconsin                             Matthew Sebuliba, owner and operator Action:           Consent judgment and order Court:             U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in MilwaukeeThe U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court judgment requiring a Wisconsin residential group home and its owner, Matthew Sebuliba, to pay 27 caregivers a total of $27,184 – representing $13,592 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages – after investigators from the department’s Wage and Hour Division identified overtime, minimum wage and recordkeeping…

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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is it possible that one day we could make Mars like Earth? – Tyla, age 16, Mississippi When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.” The plot drew me in, with its depiction of the “Genesis Project” – a new technology that transformed a dead alien world into one brimming with life. After watching the movie, my teacher asked us to…

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The UK is the first country in the world to offer a national vaccination programme that uses the same vaccine to protect both infants and older adults from RSV The vaccine will protect infants and older adults, easing winter pressures on the NHS Eligible people urged to take up offer when rollout begins in September The UK will become the first country in the world to have a national programme that uses the same vaccine to protect both newborns and older adults against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). The rollout, which will start from 1 September in England, includes both a…

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SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good morning, everyone.  And it’s a pleasure to be here with all of our colleagues from the G7, which is really the essential coordinating committee for the world’s leading democracies.  We have an opportunity today to follow up on the very good work that our leaders did in Apulia, and I want to thank again my friend and our chair Antonio Tajani for the remarkable work that Italy did and continues to do in leading the G7 this year.  I think you see through the G7 extraordinary collaboration and coordination on the critical issues of our time,…

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In our everyday life, we are surrounded by objects that have properties enabling them to perform certain functions. Rigidity and softness enable an object to perform a specific function. These propoerties are seemingly opposing in nature, and one property cannot be traded for another. For example, pillows are soft to provide the necessary cushioning and comfort. A rolling pin is rigid and round to be able to roll over dough. Once these objects are fabricated, those properties cannot be changed. A pillow cannot flatten dough, and a rolling pin cannot provide support for a head and neck. But imagine if…

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An explosion rocked the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv on July 8, 2024. The explosion, part of a broader Russian missile attack on Ukraine, killed dozens of people. The sight of children fleeing the hospital grabbed international attention. Ukraine immediately condemned the attack. “It is very important that the world should not be silent about it now and that everyone should see what Russia is and what it is doing,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Likely due to the horrific nature of the act, Russia responded by arguing it was one of Ukraine’s own surface-to-air missiles that hit Ukraine’s biggest pediatrics…

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In 2022, EU exports to non-EU countries generated €2 526 billion of gross value added, or 17.7% of the total gross value added in the EU. The share increased by 0.2 percentage points (pp) compared with 2021 (from 17.5%) and by 3.9 pp compared with 2010 (from 13.8%). Jobs of 31.1 million people in the EU were supported by exports to non-EU countries in 2022 and they accounted for 14.5% of the total EU employment. The share remained stable compared with 2021 and increased by 2.6 pp compared with 2010 (from 11.9%). Source datasets:  Eurostat calculations  This information comes from Full…

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the successful resolution of a course of remediation addressing alleged labor rights violations at the RV Fresh processing facility in Michoacan, Mexico, under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Rapid Response Labor Mechanism. The Secretary of Labor and U.S. Trade Representative co-chair the Interagency Labor Committee.After U.S. officials requested Mexico review the matter in February 2024, the two governments negotiated a course of remediation in April 2024. RV Fresh has responded by distributing a neutrality statement and guidelines, implementing a zero-tolerance policy against employer interference in union affairs and by conducting comprehensive training for all personnel.…

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The Medical Research Council’s (MRC) prizes recognises the breadth and diversity of skilled people needed for the future biomedical research and development workforce. MRC Impact Prize The MRC Impact Prize celebrates outstanding individuals and teams across a broad career stage who have made transformative impacts in three areas: open science impact outstanding team impact early career impact Dr Joan Chang from The University of Manchester was awarded the Early Career Impact Prize for her work championing the institutional postdoctoral community since 2017. Professor Paul Denny from Durham University accepted the Outstanding Team Impact Prize on behalf of the Global Network…

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The previous Conservative administration under Rishi Sunak had referred to China as an “epoch-defining challenge” but resisted calls from backbench Tory MPs to formally label Beijing as a “threat.”  Back in the game Robertson is one of several New Labour figures that have been moved to top jobs under Starmer in his first week in office.  Cabinet Office chief Pat McFadden, part of the prime minister’s inner circle of top ministers dubbed the “gang of four,” served under both Blair and Gordon Brown, while newly elected MPs returning to the party after years of absence, such as Douglas Alexander, the…

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