panalo999 net NoneKnight stops 20 shots, Florida rolls past Carolina 6-0 for 2nd win over 'Canes in as many daysPrudential Financial Board of Directors Elects Andrew Sullivan as Next CEOWASHINGTON — The number of job postings in the United States rebounded in October from a 3 1/2 year low in September, a sign that businesses are still seeking workers even though hiring has cooled. Openings rose 5% to 7.7 million from 7.4 million in September, the Labor Department said Tuesday. The increase suggests that job gains could pick up in the coming months. Still, the latest figure is down significantly from 8.7 million job postings a year ago. Last month, job openings rose sharply in professional and business services, a category that includes engineers, managers, and accountants, as well as in the restaurant and hotel and information technology industries. The number of people quitting their jobs rose in October, a sign of confidence in the job market. And layoffs tumbled to just 1.6 million — below the lowest figures in the two decades that preceded the 2020 pandemic. Taken as a whole, Tuesday's figures suggest that the job market might be stabilizing at a modest level, with hiring moderate but layoffs uncommonly low. The unemployment rate is at a low 4.1%, even though job gains slowed sharply in October, according to the monthly jobs report. The slowdown in job growth last month reflected mainly the impact of hurricanes and a strike at Boeing. “There's a lot of cause for optimism," said Cory Stahle, an economist at Indeed, the job listings website. "The fact that job openings ticked up is always an encouraging sign.” Tuesday's figures mean there are now 1.1 available jobs for each unemployed worker, a healthy figure. Before the pandemic there were usually more unemployed people than openings. Still, the latest ratio is down from a peak of roughly two job openings per unemployed person two years ago. Businesses have pulled back from the hiring frenzy that occurred as the economy emerged from the pandemic recession. Tuesday's report, known as the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, showed that overall hiring slowed in October. Total hiring slipped to 5.3 million from 5.6 million, though that decline reflected hurricane-related disruptions. The JOLTS report is separate from the monthly jobs figures, which will be released Friday. That report is forecast to show a net gain of nearly 210,000 jobs in November, up from an anemic 12,000 in October. Tuesday’s report also showed that the number of Americans who quit their jobs rebounded in October to 3.4 million, after having reached a four-year low in September. An increase in quitting is a good sign for the economy, because it suggests that people are confident enough to search for new job opportunities. The Federal Reserve is watching the jobs data closely. Any sign that hiring is sharply weakening could encourage Fed officials to cut their key interest rate more quickly, to try to bolster borrowing and spending and support the economy.

Callander’s Bill Barber rink is open to skaters but use at your risk. So cautioned the municipality as warm weather is expected to roll into the region this week. You can still use the rink, just be mindful of the quality of ice. Municipal staff noted, “Given the warmer weather expected in the coming days, it will not be possible to flood the ice.” Therefore, expect all the grooves and chips to remain, and for the ice surface to diminish over the next few days. If condition worsen, the town will close the rink. Safety first. However, the lights will stay on from 4 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., so you can still get your evening skate on. Last year, the rink didn’t open at all during the Christmas break due to the warm weather. Skaters had to wait until January 10th to hit the ice. See: Callander’s Bill Barber rink set to open next week Keep an eye on the municipality’s website and social media page for updates. The Bill Barber rink is located behind Callander’s Community Centre on 1984 Swale Street. David Briggs is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter who works out of BayToday, a publication of Village Media. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s online media association said two reporters were killed and several others were wounded in a gang attack on Tuesday on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital. Street gangs have taken over an estimated 85% of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and they forced the closure of the General Hospital early this year. Authorities had pledged to reopen the facility Tuesday but as journalists gathered to cover the event, suspected gang members opened fire in a vicious Christmas Eve attack. Robest Dimanche, a spokesman for the Online Media Collective, identified the dead journalists as Markenzy Nathoux and Jimmy Jean. Dimanche said an unspecified number of reporters had also been wounded in the attack, which he blamed on the Viv Ansanm coalition of gangs. Haiti’s interim president, Leslie Voltaire, said in an address to the nation that journalists and police were among the victims of the attack. He did not specify how many casualties there were, or give a breakdown for the dead or wounded. “I send my sympathies to the people who were victims, the national police and the journalists,” Voltaire said, pledging “this crime is not going to go unpunished.” A video posted online by the reporters trapped inside the hospital showed what appeared to be two lifeless bodies of men on stretchers, their clothes bloodied. One of the men had a lanyard with a press credential around his neck. Radio Télé Métronome initially reported that seven journalists and two police officers were wounded. Police and officials did not immediately respond to calls for information on the attack. Street gangs have taken over an estimated 85% of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. They forced the closure of the General Hospital early this year during violence that also targeted the main international airport and Haiti’s two largest prisons. Authorities had pledged to reopen the facility Tuesday but as journalists gathered to cover the event, suspected gang members opened fire. Video posted online earlier showed reporters inside the building and at least three lying on the floor, apparently wounded. That video could also not be immediately verified. Johnson “Izo” André, considered Haiti’s most powerful gang leader and part of a gang known as Viv Ansanm, which that has taken control of much of Port-au-Prince , posted a video on social media claiming responsibility for the attack. The video said the gang coalition had not authorized the hospital’s reopening. Haiti has seen journalists targeted before. In 2023, two local journalists were killed in the space of a couple of weeks — radio reporter Dumesky Kersaint was fatally shot in mid-April that year, while journalist Ricot Jean was found dead later that month. In July, former Prime Minister Garry Conille visited the Hospital of the State University of Haiti, more widely known as the General Hospital, after authorities regained control of it from gangs. The hospital had been left ravaged and strewn with debris. Walls and nearby buildings were riddled with bullet holes, signaling fights between police and gangs. The hospital is across the street from the national palace, the scene of several battles in recent months. Gang attacks have pushed Haiti’s health system to the brink of collapse with looting, setting fires, and destroying medical institutions and pharmacies in the capital. The violence has created a surge in patients and a shortage of resources to treat them. Haiti’s health care system faces additional challenges during the rainy season, which is likely to increase the risk of water-borne diseases. Poor conditions in camps and makeshift settlements have heightened the risk of diseases like cholera, with over 84,000 suspected cases in the country, according to UNICEF. ___ Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-america Evens Sanon, The Associated PressGophers expected 2025 football recruiting class

Arsenal are the set-piece masters but here is how Fulham can avoid making the same basic errors as the Gunners' rivals, writes DANNY MURPHY Arsenal have scored 22 goals from corners since the start of last season But there are lessons Fulham can learn ahead of Sunday's Premier League clash LISTEN NOW to It's All Kicking Off!: Why can't Chelsea win the league? They made seven changes and still scored five. Do you think Liverpool could do that? By DANNY MURPHY Published: 09:49 AEDT, 8 December 2024 | Updated: 10:02 AEDT, 8 December 2024 e-mail View comments Set-pieces are fashionable again thanks to Arsenal but the reality is they’ve always been important. You have to admire the delivery of Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka , but their success this season is also due to opposition defenders and goalkeepers not doing the basics. If the Gunners were facing Nemanja Vidic and John Terry every week — players who had real desire to win that first header — and proactive goalkeepers like Peter Schmeichel, they would find it much harder. Ahead of Sunday’s game at home to Arsenal, Fulham should study Manchester United ’s midweek performance at the Emirates as how not to stop corners against the Gunners. When the ball was in flight, United’s defenders were static, while Arsenal’s players were on the move, allowing them the jump to win the all-important first contact. Basic stuff. It’s also important goalkeeper Bernd Leno has the presence and confidence to help his team out. United keeper Andre Onana has been good this season but he should have taken some of the Arsenal crosses when they were so close to him. Jurrien Timber (No 12) heads in against Man United on Wednesday night - both of Arsenal's goals in the 2-0 victory came from corners as the away team struggled all night against set plays Set-piece specialist coaches like Arsenal's Nicolas Jover (right) have become all the rage It's important that Fulham keeper Bernd Leno has the presence and confidence to help his team out and claim corners when his side faces Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon It’s a trend among many of today’s goalkeepers to stay on their line. Managers seem to consider it more important a keeper is good with his feet than commanding his box. It’s wrong, and Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has one of the best at taking pressure off his defenders in David Raya. It would have been harder to score from set-pieces against some of the goalkeeping monsters like David Seaman and Schmeichel. The best I worked with was Mark Schwarzer. He took responsibility and, if he came out to punch or catch, you wouldn’t be in his way for long. If we had a particular problem — Kevin Nolan would try and back into Schwarzer when we played Newcastle — we’d sort it out among ourselves. Clint Dempsey, who was as strong as an ox, would get between our keeper and Nolan. But I don’t see many modern players finding solutions themselves. Special set-piece coaches are all the rage now, so I was glad to hear Sean Dyche and his staff are in charge of them at Everton. My view is existing coaches should be capable of producing innovative corner routines, otherwise what are they there for? Phil Thompson led our set-piece work at Liverpool and we also had a say as free-kick takers: Steven Gerrard, Gary McAllister and Jamie Redknapp as well as myself. I don’t think Arsenal have reinvented the wheel but they have established a useful fear factor. When David Beckham was about to whip in a corner when we played Manchester United, the natural reaction was, ‘Oh, crap!’ Yet we were helped out by having Sami Hyypia, who had real intent to make it his ball. Arsenal deserve praise for their routines but opponents could make it harder and Leno could be the key man on Sunday. Arsenal Mikel Arteta Fulham Share or comment on this article: Arsenal are the set-piece masters but here is how Fulham can avoid making the same basic errors as the Gunners' rivals, writes DANNY MURPHY e-mail Add commentLeonardo DiCaprio Ripped For 'Disrespectful' Move At Tropical Hotel

Greater civilisations have fallen because they failed to prevent land degradation and land use changes. “Land” is a broad term referring to solid ground, encompassing everything from mountains to valleys, with a composition that includes soil, rock, sand, and other terrains. Soil, in particular, is essential for sustaining all living beings—sustainability. Soil fertility is both a biophysical and public property. It is also a social property because all of humankind depends on it for food production. A Harvard archaeologist, through research using remote sensing data and excavation findings, reveals exquisite signs of long–lost societies and shows that past civilisations made no attempts to adapt to natural landscapes, continuously insisting on developing urban lands for centuries until their land became uninhabitable, leading to the collapse of entire civilisations. Ancient pessimistic societies had a very thin margin for activism against their rulers’ will. This inflexibility may be the main reason for the collapse of most ancient civilisations worldwide. The United Nations has stressed that societies around the world are still ignoring land degradation, refraining from action against land development, while governments continue urban land expansion under the banner of sustainable cities. This suggests that current societal beliefs are misguided and that more activism is needed to reverse the damage. Previously, it was widely accepted that the Earth was flat—a dominant yet erroneous worldview 2,000 years ago. Similarly, we are mistaken again as we ignore land degradation and fail to conserve global land resources. Research findings Archaeological research shows that civilisations rise and fall depending on how societies manage their land amidst population growth and urbanisation trends. Currently, around 35.9 billion tons of fertile soil are lost annually due to human activities like land use changes and soil erosion. If governments do not respond swiftly, the modern world will suffer a similar fate. Now some small steps to prosecution of environmental harm have already been made at the International Criminal Courts (ICC), Hauge. Netherlands, which has adopted the Rome Statue in 1998. A silent hazard Geoscientists at Virgina University revealed that major cities on the Atlantic coast are sinking by 1 to 5 mm per year. New York City, for instance, is sinking at an average of 1 to 2 mm annually. The city’s 1,084,954 buildings weigh about 1.68 trillion pounds—almost double the weight of all humanity combined. The Netherlands sinks at a rate of around 7 mm a year despite having an incredibly sophisticated system to keep the country afloat, now paying the price for unprecedented land use changes. This fate may be possible in Colombo if land use changes continue with numerous skyscrapers along the coastline. Researchers believe that, in the next 25 years, there could be significant repercussions, with skyscrapers in urban areas eventually collapsing if land use changes persist. Against this backdrop, this research aims to explore the relationship between four variables: land use change, environmental activism, international treaties, and the environmental rule of law, while examining whether environmental activism can help mitigate land depletion. The research reveals that environmental litigation has significantly increased over the last decade due to a rise in environmental activism along with international treaties aimed at curbing land degradation. Despite these developments, environmental legal frameworks remain fragmented, with insufficient coordination between national governments, indicating that the international community requires global, progressive environmental activism to address land degradation leading to ecocide law–unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts. By adding ecocide law as a fifth crime to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the perpetrators of environmental destruction would suddenly be liable to arrest, prosecution and imprisonment that can be justifiable. Lastly, global environmental law must be jointly studied with human–land activity with ecology, society and law concurrently. Country policies should occupy a central place in the current debate over ‘law and society with ecology. Law and society with environmental law studies provide an important contribution to mitigating 21st–century emerging issues that provide green ideas for scholars in science, technology, engineering, social, economic, policy, and environmental study areas. In our previous publication, this researcher speculated a similar argument for social change through business and society dimensions. This research will be published in a peer-reviewed Scopus-indexed journal. The authors continue the dossier on ‘business and society’ and ‘society and ecology’ with environmental law research through the lens of a holistic health, safety and environmental management paradigm. (Dr. W. M. Wishwajith is an Agricultural and Food Scientist and Dr. S. P. H Spencer Vitharana works as an Environmental and Applied Scientist.)

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Warren Buffett's investment success is hard to ignore, given the massive price increase of his primary investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A 0.12% ) ( BRK.B -0.01% ) . This is why every new Buffett stock acquisition gets huge attention on Wall Street. One of the most recent additions was Domino's Pizza ( DPZ -1.25% ) . Here are three things investors need to know before running out and buying this restaurant chain's shares just because Buffett bought it. 1. Warren Buffett isn't always right Successful investors on Wall Street are often viewed as having magical powers. To that end, Buffett's nickname is the Oracle of Omaha. That can lead smaller investors to put people like Warren Buffett on a pedestal that they may only partially deserve. Yes, Buffett's successes have built huge amounts of wealth. But he is still a human being, and he makes mistakes. As an example, Buffett backed the merger of Kraft and Heinz to form Kraft Heinz . The original plan was for it to be run by investment firm 3G Capital, which partnered with Buffett on the merger and had a history of successfully cutting costs to boost profitability at stodgy old companies. That plan didn't work out as well as hoped, 3G Capital is now out of the picture, and Kraft Heinz is working on a new approach. The stock has lost around two-thirds of its value since the tie-up in mid-2015. That's just one example -- there are others. In fact, Buffett himself often points out his mistakes in Berkshire Hathaway's annual reports. Yes, he is a good investor overall, and his portfolio is filled with stocks that have been huge winners. But he isn't perfect. There are losers in the mix, too. Just because he, or one of his associates, buys a company for Berkshire Hathaway doesn't mean you should. It might not work out as planned, or it might not be an appropriate stock for your portfolio because it doesn't mesh with your style of investing. KHC data by YCharts. 2. Domino's Pizza isn't cheap One of the core aspects of Buffett's approach is to try to buy great companies at an attractive price. It doesn't look like Domino's is totally in line with that standard. For starters, the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is around 28 right now. That's only a little below the company's five-year average of 30, and roughly in line with the P/E of the broader consumer discretionary sector (using the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF as a proxy). It is also about the same level as the S&P 500 index, which is trading near all-time highs. "Fairly priced" may be an appropriate description, but "cheap" certainly is not. It's true that the business is performing well in some ways right now. For example, Domino's same-store sales in the United States rose a solid 3% in the third quarter and were up 4.5% through the first three quarters of this year. However, the third quarter of 2023 saw same-store sales in the U.S. market decline 0.6%, and that figure rose just 1% through the first nine months of 2023. So 2024 results are coming off a low base, and it's pretty clear that what goes up can also go down. To highlight that fact, same-store sales in the international market, where Domino's Pizza has more stores, were up just 0.8% in Q3 2024, down from 3.3% in the same quarter of 2023. Given that Domino's valuation is similar to the market, which is near all-time highs, investors might be pricing in too much good news for a business that can be highly variable over time. And don't forget that the restaurant industry is highly competitive. 3. Domino's is huge, and moving the needle could be hard Domino's Pizza has around 6,900 U.S. locations and another 14,000 foreign restaurants. Altogether, it has well over 20,000 locations. That's a very large number, and it changes the game for a restaurant company like Domino's Pizza. There are usually two ways that restaurants grow. The first is through opening new locations, while the second is by luring more customers into its existing locations (which is what same-store sales measures). Domino's Pizza opened a net total of 72 new locations in Q3 2024 (there were 208 openings and 136 closures). Over the past year it opened 805 stores, which is 4% growth year over year. However, the openings in the third quarter amounted to less than half a percentage point of growth. It will require massive investment of time, energy, and money for store openings to keep driving the top and bottom line, which the Q3 slowdown hints could be hard to achieve. That leaves same-store sales as the more important driver of financial success. But, as highlighted above, fickle customers can render that key metric highly volatile. Buffett could have jumped aboard at the perfect time, it's always possible. But it is also just as possible that Domino's Pizza will stumble if people decide that its pizza isn't so great anymore. Given the intense competition in the restaurant sector, there's probably more risk here than many investors realize. Don't just follow anyone Buffett often laments how investors act like lemmings, unthinkingly following hot fads and trends. One of his many pithy quotes is: "A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth." Yet, in an ironic twist, Wall Street buys the stocks Buffett buys with lemming-like consistency. There's no harm in researching the stocks Buffett buys for Berkshire Hathaway. But make sure you only buy the ones that make sense to you. That list may or may not include Domino's Pizza, but there are some very clear reasons to be skeptical of this recent purchase if you take the time to look.AP News Summary at 5:57 p.m. EST

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