ED Issues Guidance to Avoid Discriminatory Use of AIThe Pittsburgh Steelers take on what is typically an unenviable task -- traveling on a short week for a Thursday night primetime game. However, a few things are playing in Pittsburgh's favor as Week 12 of the NFL regular season kicks off. Namely, the "trip" to Cleveland is a little more than two hours by road and when the Steelers arrive there, they'll be facing a backup quarterback at the helm of a massively underwhelming 2-8 Browns team. The Steelers (8-2) are coming off a huge win over Baltimore to stay atop the AFC North. And Pittsburgh is beginning to set its sights on potential home-field advantage come playoff time. ODDS AND TRENDS The Steelers are a consensus 3.5-point favorite. That includes at BetRivers, where they have been backed by 80 percent of the spread-line money. Pittsburgh's -195 moneyline to simply win the game has been even more popular, drawing 95 percent of all money wagered. The Browns enter Thursday night having failed to cover the spread in nine of their past 12 games. Meanwhile, the Steelers have covered the spread in every game during their five-game win streak. The 37.0 total points line has seen the Over backed by 65 percent of the money and 70 percent of the total bets. Each of Cleveland's past eight November home games has gone under the total points line. PROP PICKS --Steelers WR George Pickens Over 50 Receiving Yards (-195 at DraftKings): Russell Wilson has thrown six touchdowns in the four games since he took over as the starting quarterback. Two of those have gone to Pickens, who has at least 74 receiving yards in each of those games. There is some concern that Pittsburgh gains a big early lead and turns to a run-heavy attack, but Wilson throws an excellent deep ball and that plays into Pickens' strength. This is the most popular player prop at the book. --Steelers RB Najee Harris Anytime TD (+100 at BetRivers): That potential for a run-heavy approach should benefit Harris, who found the sledding tough against Baltimore with 63 yards on the ground. He was also held out of the end zone for the second time in three games. Keep in mind that Cleveland has allowed only three touchdowns on the ground all season, but the Browns have allowed 12 through the air. Harris has a trio of scores on the ground and receiving through 10 games. KEY STAT The Browns have won the first quarter in five consecutive home games against the Steelers. THE NEWS The Steelers have certainly been locked in. They are currently riding a five-game winning streak, most recently edging the Baltimore Ravens 18-16 on Sunday. Chris Boswell booted six field goals against Baltimore, while Wilson completed 23 of 36 passes for 205 yards and an interception. Meanwhile, Cleveland continues to go through the wringer. The Browns ended up on the wrong end of a 35-14 blowout while facing the host New Orleans Saints on Sunday, marking their seventh loss in the past eight games. Cleveland now has to go up against one of the most unforgiving defenses in the league. Browns quarterback Jameis Winston is determined to direct a fundamentally sound performance against Pittsburgh, which allows the second-fewest points per game in the NFL (16.2). "It's precision passing. Getting the ball out on time. Elite operation and just doing our job. It's the simple things," Winston said. "This team (the Steelers) is not going to try and fool you. They're going to line up and say, 'Give us your best, we're going to give you our best.'" Winston threw for 395 yards and two touchdowns on 30-for-46 passing in the setback against New Orleans, with Jerry Jeudy hauling in six catches for 142 yards and a score. Star running back Nick Chubb continued to struggle since his return from a knee injury that cut his 2023 season short, finishing with 50 yards on 11 carries. INJURY REPORT The Browns could be without standout defensive end Myles Garrett, who missed practice on Tuesday because of a hip injury. Wide receiver Elijah Moore (shoulder), guard Joel Bitonio (pectoral) and cornerbacks Denzel Ward (ribs/ankle) and Greg Newsome II (shoulder) were among those limited during the session. Linebacker Alex Highsmith is dealing with an ankle issue and was ruled out by the Steelers along with cornerback Cory Trice Jr. (hamstring). THEY SAID IT Wilson is starting to feel like he might be part of something special, but he also doesn't want Pittsburgh to get ahead of itself. "I definitely think that we have a chance (to make a deep playoff run)," said Wilson, who has played in two Super Bowls. "I think the biggest thing for us is continuing to just take each week as the most important week of it all. "I think that it's not really even just the week, it's just the day, it's just the moments in between. I think the greatest teams, the greatest players, in any sport, especially the teams I've been on, is the moment -- it's never too far away. It's right here, right now. And you're just locked into that." PREDICTION Divisional road games on short weeks typically shape up as a daunting task. That's not the case for the Steelers, who will be hyper-focused to put this one out of reach early before enjoying 10 days ahead of a trip to Cleveland. With a second game against the Browns before a huge game at Philadelphia, this is not an under-manned opponent Pittsburgh will look past. --Steelers 27, Browns 19 --Field Level Media
President-elect Donald Trump's proposed new arrangement for any company looking to expand in America garnered immediate suspicion and criticism Tuesday on social media. In a post to his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, Trump said: "Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals. GET READY TO ROCK!!!" This idea drew scorn and doubt from some commenters, who saw it — along with Trump's billionaire-run blue ribbon committee to advise on how to slash government programs — as the surrender of America to an oligarchy. "For $1 billion, Trump says you can avoid environmental regulations," wrote MSNBC contributor Sam Stein on X. "We’re have (sic) a land clearance sale, America," wrote Condé Nast legal affairs editor Luke Zaleski. ALSO READ: Agenda 47: Alarm sounded about Trump’s dystopian plans for his second term The reception on rival platform Bluesky was similar. "A government of oligarchs that will exist to solely serve the interests of oligarchs while distracting working people with culture wars," wrote former GOP adviser turned anti-Trump strategist Ron Filipkowski. "A government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires," wrote history professor Aviel Roshwald. Others weren't entirely opposed to an idea like this, as permitting reform has been a bipartisan idea gaining traction in recent years — but some questioned why Trump created such a transactional arrangement. "Probably better just to expedite permit approvals regardless of whether one invests a billion dollars or more," wrote history professor Aaron Astor. "Permits shouldn't be granted if the project will cause environmental damage. The problem is the delay in approval (or denying) them. Ironically, downsizing the government of its Federal workforce will make permit approval even more inefficient."
Apple launches AI integrationTech occupation unemployment rate inches down to 2.5% DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. , Dec. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The tech workforce saw modest movement in the latest national employment data, according to CompTIA , the nonprofit association for the tech industry and workforce. Analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) #JobsReport data reveals the tech unemployment rate for the month fell slightly to 2.5%, matching the low end of the rate for 2024. The national unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2% in November. Employment within the technology industry sector was essentially flat with a decline of 1,636 jobs for the month. 1 The tech sector employs nearly 5.6 million people, which translates to a percentage decline of essentially 0%. Tech professions throughout the economy declined by 6,000 in a national workforce of nearly 6.5 million workers. 2 "While a flat month in the aggregate as some employers take a breather, the data continues to highlight the diversity of hiring activity across the tech workforce," Tim Herbert , chief research officer, CompTIA. "Across industry sectors, metro areas and company sizes harnessing tech talent remains a top priority." Active employer job postings for new hiring totaled more than 475,000 in November, down about 42,000 from October. 3 Companies added nearly 184,000 new tech job postings last month, with employers in consulting, finance, manufacturing and technology hardware, software and services among the most active. Artificial intelligence (AI) hiring momentum continues to build. In the aggregate employers recorded nearly 331,000 active job postings throughout 2024 in recruiting for AI job roles and AI skills, a year-over-year increase of 71%. Across all tech occupations 44% of November postings did not specify a four-year degree requirement for applicants. Some occupations had notably higher percentages, including network support specialists (84%) and tech support specialists (71%). The data indicates hiring for work from home (WFH) positions is holding steady at about 20% of total tech job recruiting. On a hiring activity volume basis, the top WFH positions include software developers, IT project managers, data scientists and analysts, tech support specialists, and systems analysts. The "CompTIA Tech Jobs Report" is available at https://www.comptia.org/content/tech-jobs-report . About CompTIA The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is the world's leading information technology (IT) certification and training body. CompTIA is a mission-driven organization committed to unlocking the potential of every student, career changer or professional seeking to begin or advance in a technology career. Millions of current and aspiring technology workers around the world rely on CompTIA for the training, education and professional certifications that give them the confidence and skills to work in tech. https://www.comptia.org/ 1 Labor market data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and employer job postings from Lightcast may be subject to backward revisions. 2 Monthly occupation level data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tends to experience higher levels of variance and volatility. 3 Active job postings include open postings carried over from previous months and new postings added by employers. Media Contact Steven Ostrowski CompTIA [email protected] +1.630.678.8468 SOURCE CompTIA
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FREDDY GRAY: Why Trump is looking to Britain as he plans to crack down on illegal migrants - as an example of how NOT to do it Follow DailyMail.com's politics live blog for all the latest news and updates By FREDDY GRAY Published: 23:31, 22 November 2024 | Updated: 23:50, 22 November 2024 e-mail 2 View comments Speak to anyone in Donald Trump ’s orbit and the message is clear: fixing the border is paramount. The incoming administration will stop at nothing to resolve the vast migrant crisis that has afflicted America under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris . And senior Team Trump members are looking at Britain, in particular, as a salutary lesson in how uncontrolled immigration can hobble a country. Elon Musk , aka Trump’s First Buddy, is especially interested in what he regards as the disastrous British experiment with multi-culturalism. As his outbursts on social media suggest, he was profoundly affected by the anti-immigration riots in Southport, as well as by Labour ’s attempts to clamp down on free speech in the aftermath. A Common’s select committee’s decision to ‘summon’ Musk for a parliamentary grilling on the subject this week has only added to the sense in Trumpworld that something is going badly wrong in what Musk calls ‘the Mother Country’. Musk promptly retaliated by saying UK MPs will be called to the US to ‘explain their censorship and threats to American citizens’. Republicans in Washington, meanwhile, have attacked Britain’s Online Safety Act as part of a ‘tsunami of censorship headed towards America’ and vowed that the incoming administration is ‘committed to confronting this growing threat’. JD Vance , the vice president-elect, has many British friends and does not appreciate Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner calling him ‘fruity’ for having suggested that the United Kingdom is ‘the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon . . . especially since Labour just took over’. Fixing the problem that is the US border was a key campaign point for Donald Trump (pictured) Migrants take part in a caravan towards the border with the United States in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, on December 24, 2023 Immigrants keep warm by a fire at dawn after spending a night alongside the U.S.-Mexico border fence on December 22, 2022 in El Paso, Texas Even more importantly, Donald Trump himself shares Musk’s and Vance’s concern that the UK is not OK. ‘Musk’s affection for the UK is extraordinary,’ adds Nigel Farage, the Reform leader. ‘We’re very lucky to have these people coming in. In fact, throughout Trumpworld, from the big man down, the affection for our country runs deep. They are currently looking on with a sense of despair about what’s happening here.’ As the proud son of an even prouder Scotswoman, Trump is widely said to be troubled by the left-wing zealotry of Keir Starmer’s administration. He’s also determined to show the West that the world’s most powerful democracy can and will stop uncontrolled mass migration. Read More Trump threatens to unleash Elon Musk on rebel Republicans who refuse his Cabinet picks ‘We see that cultural cohesion in the UK has collapsed,’ says an immigration adviser at Trump’s Palm Beach estate in Mar-a-Lago. ‘We see that Western notions of free speech and public behaviour have collapsed. We look at that and we think: “Hmm . . . we don’t really want that for America.” ’ There’s even talk in Trump circles of taking over the British Conservative party’s Rwanda scheme, which Labour has abandoned, as a destination for migrants deported from America. But the incoming US administration is under no illusions that any ‘third-party option’ will make the immigration issue magically disappear. Under Joe Biden’s watch, the US has allowed up to ten million ‘aliens’ to enter the country, illegally. Trump knows he has been re-elected in large part because he explicitly promised to fix the broken border and remove masses of illegal migrants. Unlike the Labour Party, or indeed the Tories before them, he fully intends to deliver. Trump’s team is now assembling what it believes is a crack team of fierce border hawks to, as The Donald puts it, Make America Safe Again. Americans who were effectively dismissed as ‘far right’ only a few years ago are now being brought in to direct the effort at all levels of federal government. Elon Musk , aka Trump’s First Buddy, is especially interested in what he regards as the disastrous British experiment with multi-culturalism Trump knows he has been re-elected in large part because he explicitly promised to fix the broken border and remove masses of illegal migrants, writes Freddy Gray Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government have brought an end to Tories short-lived Rwanda policy Trump has named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, to be his telegenic yet tough Secretary of Homeland Security. Noem’s political career appeared to be on its uppers earlier this year after she published a memoir in which she bizarrely confessed to having shot and killed a 14-month-old dog called Cricket in a gravel pit because the pet was ‘dangerous’ and ‘untrainable’. ‘I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn’t tell the story here,’ she wrote. Such overt political incorrectness is exactly what Donald Trump, who also happens to dislike dogs, is looking for when it comes to immigration control. And Noem will be ably supported from within the White House by Stephen Miller, another figure of hate in polite society for his hardline views, who is to be Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy. ‘You cannot conceive of a nation without a strong, secure border,’ Miller says. ‘It is fundamental and essential to the idea of sovereignty and national survival.’ Read More Major update in Donald Trump's hush money trial sentencing To do the even uglier work on the frontlines of the US immigration war, Trump has appointed the impressively thuggish figure of Tom Homan. He’s a former New York police officer who served in Trump’s first administration as acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ‘He’s a cop’s cop,’ says Todd Bensman, author of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History. ‘He especially understands what’s happened in the past three years under Biden.’ Homan appeared this week on the podcast hosted by Donald Trump Jnr, the President-elect’s eldest child, and promised to implement a strategy of ‘shock and awe’. He said: ‘I’m getting a lot of negative press, but they simply don’t understand that I don’t care what they think of me. I’m going to do the job. Please keep screaming, keep yelling, coz I’m coming. And me and the president of the United States, we’re going to make this country safer.’ Homan boasts that the ‘best part of this job is that I’m guaranteed success because I’m following such utter failure’. On ‘day one’, he insists, the new administration will end ‘catch and release’ – the Biden policy of arresting illegal immigrants, then letting them go free. Trump has named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (pictured), to be his telegenic yet tough Secretary of Homeland Security To do the even uglier work on the frontlines of the US immigration war, Trump has appointed the impressively thuggish figure of Tom Homan (pictured) Homan is a former New York police officer who served in Trump’s first administration as acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homan’s plan is to go after ‘the worst, first’. By this he means tracking down known criminals – including, according to official records, some 13,000 immigrants who have been convicted of homicide but somehow aren’t in jail – as well as the many foreign-born individuals ICE considers threats to national security. The next objective is to catch and expel ‘fugitives’ – the 1.2 million or so people who have ignored orders from the US government to leave. Joe Biden did, in fact, issue a number of executive orders to deter and remove illegal migrants but the Democrats in charge of homeland security conspicuously failed to implement his proposals. ‘Biden put in place some tools for solving the problem,’ says one source. ‘We’re going to actually use them.’ Read More Dana White makes shock political U-turn after backing Donald Trump in the election As a demonstration of his resolve, Trump is willing to go further than his predecessor and deploy the US Army or National Guard to carry out his orders. On his Truth Social platform this week, the president-elect confirmed that his administration will ‘use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion’. The Trump deportation programme also intends to tackle the further 10 million or so undocumented migrants within the United States. As Homan puts it, ‘If you are here illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder.’ If the rhetoric sounds brutal, that’s the point. Trump is playing mad-man politics: intimidating his opponents into believing he is crazy enough to do just about anything in order to push his agenda. ‘It’s everything the president does,’ says an insider. ‘What we’re seeing is the aggressive first phase of a Trump negotiation.’ The Trump administration knows that, in a country as large as America, tracking down and forcibly removing quite so many people will be near-impossible. On his Truth Social platform this week, the president-elect confirmed that his administration will ‘use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion’ The Trump deportation programme also intends to tackle the further 10 million or so undocumented migrants within the United States There was a global outcry over ICE agents separating migrant families and putting children in cages during Trump's last term– a policy that began, in fact, under President Obama The agenda is more to make the political, economic and social conditions so uncomfortable for non-US citizens, or those without visas, that many will ‘self-deport’. Trump’s Department of Commerce, led by the billionaire Howard Lutnik, will introduce tougher laws to stop businesses from using undocumented labour. US border officials, meanwhile, will deploy the ‘carrot not stick’ approach, making it clear to migrants that, if they depart the country they entered illegally, their chances of being granted asylum or citizenship in the future will not be harmed. Read More MAGA ally Kelly Loeffler emerges as the frontrunner for top role in Trump's Cabinet ‘It’s a silver buckshot, not a silver bullet approach,’ says a source. ‘We’re going to be doing a million things to try to establish facts on the ground.’ More realistic experts admit that the idea of some voluntary mass exodus is mostly wishful thinking. It’s also acknowledged that, in a country as large as America, any forced deportation drive will run up against insurmountable obstacles, even if Trump’s administration spends a trillion dollars trying. The big idea, rather, is that the very harshness of the action against illegal entrants will create a significant psychological barrier to those following their path. Insiders point to the first Trump term, when a dramatic drop-off in migrant numbers coincided with the global outcry over ICE agents separating migrant families and putting children in cages – a policy that began, in fact, under President Obama. For this reason, Team Trump 2.0 actually wants its opponents to howl about the inhumanity of its agenda: the more the media denounces the President as a racist xenophobe, the better. Mexico’s new leader Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who was elected on her pledge to smash the cartels, is seen as a crucial ally by the Trump administration The 2024 election showed that, even in the most migrant-heavy parts of the American south, Trump's anti-immigration platform has majority appeal The incoming administration will revive the ‘remain in Mexico’ policies of Trump’s first term, which pressured the Mexican government to quell the waves of migrants The people-smuggling gangs operating in Latin America will get the message that America is no longer a soft touch. And Trump is confident he has already won the political argument, having been re-elected on a promise to fix the border no matter what. It also helps that so many Latino voters now support Trump. The 2024 election showed that, even in the most migrant-heavy parts of the American south, his anti-immigration platform has majority appeal. The worry for Republicans looking to the 2028 election, in fact, is that the Democratic Party may finally have understood that the Biden-Harris administration has lost the debate. Noem, Miller and Homan believe their side now has the moral high ground. They point to evidence that the US government has, in recent years, ‘lost’ some 300,000 migrant children, many of whom have been drawn into drug dealing and the sex trade. Team Trump will also wage a popular war on the Mexican drug cartels, which run the people-trafficking business and whose fentanyl-smuggling operations result in tens of thousands of American dying each year. The incoming administration will revive the ‘remain in Mexico’ policies of Trump’s first term, which pressured the Mexican government to quell the waves of migrants. Mexico’s new leader Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who was elected on her pledge to smash the cartels, is seen as a crucial ally on this front. She has been quick to establish cordial relations with Donald Trump since his victory. Last, though not least, comes the actual wall. Thanks to his real estate background, Trump is sensitive to the criticism that his first administration only ever erected a small section of the great barrier he promised to build across the southern border. For Trump 2.0, its completion will be their leader’s crowning achievement. ‘We gotta build the wall,’ says Homan. ‘The wall works.’ Nobody seems to care, this time, if Trump doesn’t make Mexico pay for it. Labour Donald Trump Share or comment on this article: FREDDY GRAY: Why Trump is looking to Britain as he plans to crack down on illegal migrants - as an example of how NOT to do it e-mail Add comment More top stories
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