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kijiji fredericton Just as Taylor Swift wrapped up her monumental Eras Tour , Kelly Ripa provided some thoughts on what the superstar should do next. During the Tuesday, December 10 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark , Ripa reflected on the pop star's incredible achievement to her husband and co-host Mark Consuelos, noting that Swift, 34, has shattered records, performing to over 10 million fans worldwide and generating more than $2 billion in ticket sales. "She really pulled off quite the feat," Ripa, 54, said to Consuelos, 53, adding, "And now the mourning period begins," acknowledging how much the world has been swept up in the magic of the tour, which came to an end in Vancouver on Sunday, December 8. When Consuelos asked his wife what she thought the "Fortnight" singer might do after such an intense and rewarding experience, Ripa jokingly suggested, "You go to Disney World!" However, Consuelos, the voice of reason, suggested Swift take some time to rest and relax after her grueling schedule. He noted that the singer would likely face a bit of an "adjustment" now that the tour was over. "I bet for her, it's going to be a transition — an adjustment," he noted. Ripa, on the other hand, offered a more work-oriented suggestion: "I think she should sit down and write a book about the tour," she said. "People want to hear about the tour, and then she can record the audio version!" With excitement, Ripa added, "I've got it all worked out for her, call me for more ideas!" The host pointed out in the episode that the 14-time Grammy winner had performed 152 shows across five continents over two years, Ripa later admitting that she initially thought Swift's tour consisted of many more performances. "From my zoomed-out perspective of just following it on the news and watching my friends post about it on social media, I would have thought she performed way more than 152 shows," the former soap opera actress said. "I would have said triple that many," she doubled-down, referencing the way the media and fans alike made the tour seem endless with constant posts and coverage. While Swift's post-tour plans are unknown right now, fans can get a glimpse into the journey through her Eras Tour Book –– a visual coffee table book which was released on Thanksgiving weekend. The duo also agreed they'd love to have Swift join them as a guest on their show, which airs on ABC weekdays at 9 a.m. E.T.

India’s 13th prime minister and a key architect of the country’s economic liberalization, Manmohan Singh, died on Thursday at the age of 92. He was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi following a health emergency at his residence. Doctors confirmed his death late Thursday evening. Born in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan), Singh held significant roles in Indian public life, including as finance minister, where he introduced reforms in 1991 that opened the Indian economy to global markets. A former economist with a doctorate from Oxford University, Singh also served as governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Singh became prime minister in 2004, leading the nation for a decade. During his tenure, his government oversaw a civil nuclear agreement with the US in 2008 and other significant initiatives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences on social media, saying: “India mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders, Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji. Rising from humble origins, he rose to become a respected economist. He served in various government positions as well, including as Finance Minister, leaving a strong imprint on our economic policy over the years. His interventions in Parliament were also insightful. As our Prime Minister, he made extensive efforts to improve people’s lives.” Singh is survived by his wife, Gursharan Kaur, and their three daughters.

'New Era Of Indian Manufacturing...' Tata Sons Chairman N ChandrasekaranDirector Elia Kazan ‘s “ The Visitors ” was barely noticed when it was released in 1972, and it hasn’t had many opportunities for reappraisal since. While several of Kazan’s other movies that were commercial failures during their initial runs — most notably “Baby Doll,” “ A Face in the Crowd ” and “ Wild River ” — have since been canonized as classics, “The Visitors” remains obscure. That’s a shame, because it’s a fascinating case of Kazan applying his talents to film that initially seems like a major departure, but on deeper examination reveals itself to be a personal and profound work. A new Blu-ray from Kino Lorber provides the perfect opportunity to take a closer look after decades in which “The Visitors” was almost impossible to find (and almost never in watchable transfers — the long out-of-print MGM DVD reduces the entire movie to a murky blob). The story is stark and simple: Years after he testified against his platoon-mates, who raped and murdered a Vietnamese civilian during the war, Bill Schmidt (James Woods in his feature debut) receives a visit from them at his rural home. The motives of the visitors (Steve Railsback and Chico Martinez) are initially unclear to Bill’s wife Patricia Joyce) and father-in-law (Patrick McVey), but it doesn’t take long for their calm politeness to turn to menace and intimidation — or for them to form a disturbing alliance with the macho father-in-law, who clearly despises his daughter’s pacifist son. The movie is essentially a slow tightening of the screws as Kazan — working from a screenplay by his son Chris — creates a steady sense of unease that never quite gives the audience the release one might expect. The stripped-down nature of “The Visitors,” which only has five characters and takes place entirely on the piece of property where Bill lives, returns Kazan to his theatrical roots, though the film is highly cinematic in its rhythms. Kazan and editor Nicholas T. Proferes — doing double duty here as cinematographer too, just as he did on Kazan’s wife Barbara Loden’s film “Wanda” — eschew conventional coverage for long takes that exacerbate the tensions inherent in the premise, and they choose shots that often keep us from seeing what we really want to see. Characters are shot from the back, or in oblique angles that obscure their faces, and typical reaction shots are few and far between. The result is a truly unsettling — and, for the few people who saw “The Visitors” when it came out, evidently unpleasant — experience made all the more troubling by its moral ambiguity. “The Visitors” was the first American film to seriously address the Vietnam War and its repercussions, and it’s extremely provocative in the questions it raises about where to draw the line when it comes to brutality in wartime and the necessity of turning young men into monsters to fight our wars. Stanley Kubrick would take these ideas and run with them to greater effect in “Full Metal Jacket,” but Kazan was there first. Aside from the content, one of the most shocking things about “The Visitors” is how grimy it is; Kazan, even when he was shooting allegedly vérité movies like “Pinky,” was always a major studio filmmaker with a certain degree of polish, but that polish is completely absent here. That’s because “The Visitors” was shot on 16mm for less than $200,000, money Kazan raised independently in an effort to assist his son Chris. Kazan, in fact, always claimed “The Visitors” was more Chris’ film than his; he wanted to help his son realize his screenwriting ambitions, so he encouraged him to write something they could shoot at Kazan’s own country home in Connecticut with minimal resources. Chris took a real-life incident as his starting point — the same one Brian De Palma would use as the basis for “Casualties of War” 16 years later — and added what he knew about the My Lai massacre into the mix to hypothesize about what the perpetrators of that atrocity might have been like when they got home. Kazan got the idea to collaborate with his son Chris from his wife Barbara; after he saw what she and Proferes did on “Wanda,” he decided to try their guerrilla approach out for himself. He couldn’t have picked a better subject, because instead of straining against its limited resources “The Visitors” is defined by them in artistically productive ways. It’s claustrophobic, grainy, ugly, and sparse — the perfect visual language for the cruelty at its core. Proferes’ camera adeptly alternates between cramped, off-kilter compositions and snowy landscapes in which we see lonely figures in long shot barely able to move. In both cases, the characters are dehumanized in the same way the war has dehumanized them. Kazan may have claimed the movie belonged to his son, but there’s no question that the themes resonated with him. He had, at least as far back as “A Face in the Crowd,” been interested in the evils that could be justified in the name of American values, and it’s impossible not to recall Kazan’s HUAC testimony in the scenes depicting Bill’s guilt over informing on his peers. The film’s connection between class resentment and sexual violence, which emerges when the Railsback character sets his sights on Bill’s wife, is another Kazan trademark, dealt with most effectively and most famously in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” In spite of Kazan’s categorization of “The Visitors” as an impersonal project, he acknowledged that shooting under its tight restrictions — the whole thing was shot at his own country home with a crew of just four people — reinvigorated him to some degree. He said “The Visitors” returned him to “the purity of poverty,” and excitedly talked about making more films using its methodology. Sadly, as film scholars Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio note in their superb audio commentary on the Kino disc, this plan never came to pass. Kazan made only one more film, “The Last Tycoon,” and its auspices as a studio project with big movie stars and glossy production values made it the antithesis of “The Visitors.” Not that the money helped — “Tycoon” was a miserable experience for Kazan and he never made another movie, spending the rest of his life writing novels and a memoir. Perhaps if “The Visitors” had met with any kind of critical or commercial approval, Kazan would have made good on his promise to make more films of its ilk, but in terms of reception, it was an unmitigated disaster. (At least in America — it did find some critical respect in France.) What should have been a new beginning was the beginning of the end for Kazan, but 52 years after the power of “The Visitors” is tough to ignore.

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Yellow ribbons of hope printed with #FindAlice and tied to trees and railings became the symbol of one the UK’s biggest missing person’s hunt, when a schoolgirl disappeared from a canal towpath over 10 years ago. Worried friends of the 14-year-old’s family, along with hundreds of concerned residents, pinned up thousands of missing posters of Alice Gross, with her light brown hair in a high ponytail ,all over the West London borough of Ealing - hoping for her swift return. The case was so famous and the campaign so impactful, that, to this day, Alice’s smiling face is, sadly, very recognisable. A month later, the ribbons still fluttering in the wind, became a memorial to Alice, whose body had been found in the River Brent. For 34 days that summer, Alice’s tormented family lived in hope that their little girl would come home. “It was Thursday August 28, 2014, when Alice didn’t come back from her walk,” recalls her mum Ros, 61. Chatting in her Chichester house, decorated with homemade arts and crafts., she points to two embroidered cushions, saying: “You can tell the ones I’ve done compared to my artist daughter Nina’s.” Creativity has kept her and Nina sane over the years, but the grief of losing her youngest nestles just below the surface. Recalling agonising memories of that very first day when Alice had been gone for five hours, and she called the police to report her missing, Ros says: “People were saying, ‘Oh she'll be staying with friends that you don't know about. She'll be back’. But there were things that made me think that that was not the case – her phone went dead and she hadn't taken any money with her.” Helicopter blades whirred overhead as police searched the local area. “Alice hadn’t been well. She was anorexic so there were mental health concerns and she was seen as high risk,” explains Ros. As day turned to night, an extremely worried Ros, husband Jose and their elder daughter Nina, who was 19 then, waited for a knock on the door. “We went to bed in our living room,” Ros reveals. “But I was back out by 4.30am, looking around the streets, going around the local parks, just hoping.” News spread quickly and soon the local community was galvanised. Friends and neighbours rushed to support the devastated family – keeping them company and organising meal rotas. “Nina set up a social media group and we had about 25,000 followers,” says Ros. “We called in the charity Missing People very early in the campaign, and they organised the posters, and a stall at Ealing Broadway. They had a 24-hour helpline which was critical – because police’s Victim Support only kicks in when a crime has been committed, so we really needed Missing People.” The campaign used social media to spread the message far and wide, but that brought its own problems. “We had incredible people who were really good at monitoring online, but we still had lots of false sightings and social media trolls and unhelpful speculation. I think there was also a lot of magical thinking going on. People would say on social media, things like, ‘The yellow ribbons can guide her home’. Alice knew where she lived. She didn't need to follow ribbons.” The family worried that if they said the wrong thing to the media, the public could turn on them. “I’d seen it happen before in cases, but the families involved are suddenly exposed to something that's totally traumatising and you’re thrown into the public eye. The only thing fuelling you is adrenaline. You're not trained, you’re in shock, you're not sleeping and you’re running on empty,” she says. Under immense scrutiny in police and press interviews, the family had kept Alice’s anorexia private on the advice of the eating disorders charity Beat. “She hadn’t been well and we wanted to maintain some sort of privacy for her,” says Ros. “But one day a one-word note was pushed through the letterbox which said ‘Anorexia?’ We felt like we were being forced to reveal personal details, which then came under intense media speculation.” At home, the family were in their own separate worlds of pain. Ros kept busy but the turmoil of those days meant she spent a month barely sleeping. “When I was going to bed, I just had a washing machine head, it was going round and round, and I’d be doom-scrolling on my phone.” Six days after Alice went missing, the police got a break in the case. Ros recalls, “Alice went missing on August 28 and her rucksack was discovered on the following Tuesday – Sept 2. At that point, the murder squad got involved.” Seven days on from her disappearance, detectives released CCTV footage of the last known sighting of Alice as she walked alone along the Grand Union Canal towpath at Brentford Lock. “You get the idea from TV dramas that they can identify people from CCTV very quickly,” Ros says. “Actually it’s very slow, they have to painstakingly go through a lot of footage to find this tiny grainy figure.” How to donate to Missing People Donate online: Visit this link or head to www.missingpeople.org.uk/mirror - read why we're supporting this campaign here. Text: To donate £5 Text HOPE5 to 70660 - To donate £10 Text HOPE10 to 70660 - To donate £15 Text HOPE15 to 70660 Terms & Conditions: *Text costs £5/£10 or £15 plus network charge. Missing People receives 100% of your donation. Obtain bill payer’s permission. Charity No England and Wales: 1020419 , Scotland: SC047419. Missing People will send regular updates via text and may contact you at any time to ask for your contact preference. Post: Please include your name and address and make cheques payable to ‘Missing People’ via free post: Freepost Plus RRKY–XSEC–XAEC. - Missing People - Roebuck House - 284 Upper Richmond Road West - London - SW14 7JE How your donation will help: £5 could help a missing child reach support - 11 could answer an urgent Helpline call from someone who is missing - £33 could give three families advice and help from a Support Worker - £110 could pay for two vital Counselling sessions to help a family to cope with the toughest of all losses How to contact Missing People - free and confidential: Call: 116 000. Text: 116 000. Email: 116000@missingpeople.org.uk How to contact Samaritans for mental health support: Call 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org Alice’s broken family waited with dread for the worst news from police, but when the call came, it was from an unexpected source. “I was at home that Friday, dusting for some reason, when the phone rang. It was our dentist – the police wanted permission to use Alice’s dental records. My heart sank. Even though everybody else seemed hopeful, at that moment, I felt we were not going to have a great outcome. Her voice breaking, Ros continues: “I’m sorry, this is the bit where I might cry. “The day she was actually found was on my birthday and I remember I had a dreadful cold. The following Tuesday, on September 30, the police came around 7pm and we were all, you know, sitting on the edge of our seats. They knocked on the door and it was the inspector and the family liaison officer, and they brought us news Alice had been found. I just felt completely numb. I didn't cry, I just thought ‘who do I have to tell?’” The inquest into Alice’s death opened in June 2016, but the sadness and loss didn’t end there for Ros – within two years, her parents had also died. “They never recovered from Alice’s death,” she adds. “My mum had a stroke in February, and died within a week. Then my dad came to London to hear the end of the inquest and ended up that day in hospital and was diagnosed with stage four cancer. He lived with me for the last couple of months and died in October 2016.” The man police would have charged with Alice’s murder was a foreign national who had hanged himself from a tree a mile from the towpath where he is believed to have abducted her. Alice’s family has asked that we neither print the name nor mugshot of the man who stole their daughter’s life. The family was torn apart by the ordeal, and Ros and her daughter Nina moved to Chichester. There, Nina went to study art at West Dean college. And Ros did a course in creative writing to help channel some of her pain. “Creative writing is a really important way of reclaiming your story and shaping your right narrative. It’s helped me with processing my experience of grief and also honouring my daughter,” she says. A highly polished upright piano sits with its lid closed in Ros’s dining room. She nods at it and says, “It’s been a long time since Alice played her piano. She would sit at it, plinking around. She read music and composed her own songs, and played the violin. She wanted to have a career in music. “I can't get rid of it – even though I play incredibly badly.” Ros has been helped to heal from the trauma by giving back to Missing People, this paper’s Christmas charity, which helped her through the darkest times - sharing with them her writing gift, and also singing with the famous Missing People choir. “We meet once a month and we write about our experiences. It will perhaps be used in the Evening of Hope and Remembrance,” explains Ros, describing the evening where all the supporters and families come together at Christmas to remember those missing and those who have died . As a lasting link to her musical daughter, Ros also gets very involved in the choir. “I can’t sing,” she laughs. “But I can hide among all the other singers.” The year after Alice’s death, a very special service in remembrance was held in her honour at London’s St Martin’s-in-the-Fields, where the choir sang Alice’s song Don’t Let It Go Away in a fitting tribute to her memory. “Alice would be 24 now,” says Ros softly. “I often wonder what she would have been doing now, but I do think she have stuck with the music because she loved it so much.”New Delhi : The government on Thursday said it has achieved digitisation of "record of rights" to the extent of 98.5 per cent of available land records (except some northeast states and Ladakh) in rural areas. The ‘Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme’ ( DILRMP ) has been extended up to March 2026 and an amount of Rs 2,428 crore has been released to states/UTs from 2008-09 to 2024-25, according to the Ministry of Rural Development. Also, 1,150 projects have been sanctioned across 28 states and 2 UTs (Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh), with Rs 4,574.54 crore (56 per cent) of the Central share disbursed (as of December 20), the ministry informed. In September 2024, the Department has launched a new programme "National geospatial Knowledge-based land Survey of urban HAbitations (NAKSHA)" under the DILRMP scheme for the creation of land records in urban areas as a pilot in 150 cities across the country. According to the government, the pilot programme is implemented with the active cooperation of the Revenue and Urban Development departments of states/UTs and is proposed to be completed in a year’s time. A financial outlay of Rs 193.81 crore has been allocated for the programme. This programme will provide clarity on ownership of land and solve land-related disputes in urban areas, said the government. With regards to the digitalisation of maps/field measurement books, 95 per cent of maps/field measurement books have been digitised. Cadastral maps have been linked to the ‘Record of Rights’ in 72 per cent of villages in the country. "Registration of land and property has been computerised under DILRMP to the extent of 96 per cent of sub-registration offices (SROs). Integration of Revenue and Registration records have been completed in 89 per cent of SROs in the country," the government said. An innovative measure taken up in DILRMP is the assignment of ULPIN/ Bhu-Aadhaar (Unique Land Parcel Identification Number) to land parcels. So far, ULPIN has been assigned to 23 crore land parcels.

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LGBTQ+ rights advocate warns Republicans against focusing on transgender restrictionsRuben Amorim reveals key factor behind Man United stars abandoning plans to wear LGBT rainbow jackets after Noussair Mazraoui refusal - as he insists there is 'no doubt' over the club's values Man United had planned to wear an LGBT rainbow jacket before taking on Everton Mazraoui declined to do so as the gesture went against his religious beliefs 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 CHRIS WHEELER and MICHAEL PAVITT Published: 22:31 GMT, 6 December 2024 | Updated: 22:32 GMT, 6 December 2024 e-mail View comments Ruben Amorim has revealed that the solidarity among Manchester United 's players was the key factor in in the decision to abandon plans to wear rainbow-themed jackets supporting the LGBT + community before Sunday's win over Everton . The gesture went against the religious beliefs of Noussair Mazraoui so the rest of the United players decided not to leave the Morocco international as the odd man out when they walked out before the game at Old Trafford. Amorim explained: 'It was a group decision as players, as it should be. There's three difficult things to manage. On one side, it's club values. There's no doubt what this club believes and fights for. Then you have religion, which you have to respect. It's our values to respect other opinions. 'And the third thing is the group thing. 'I won't leave Nous alone, we're a team'. The majority of the players believe in one thing, but they saw one guy alone and said let's be together. 'It's three things we have to manage and respect, and it's a hard issue to address. I think we did it in a good way. We need to respect everything but we also to respect the religion of Nous and his culture.' Asked if it will be an issue again in future, Amorim replied: 'I don't know if Nous is going to change his religion and his beliefs. We will address at the time if it comes, but it's a really hard decision.' Man United scrapped plans to wear an LGBT rainbow jacket after Noussair Mazraoui refused In previous seasons, United have worn the top to show their support for the LGBT community Man United head coach said players made a 'group decision' to not leave out Mazraoui Man United had issued a statement in midweek following reports Mazraoui had refused to wear the rainbow jacket. Manchester United said the club 'welcomes fans from all backgrounds, including members of the LGBTQ+ community', adding: 'We are strongly committed to the principles of diversity and inclusion. 'We demonstrate these principles through a range of activities, including support for our Rainbow Devils supporters' club, and campaigns to celebrate our LGBTQ+ fans and combat all forms of discrimination. 'Players are entitled to hold their own individual opinions, particularly in relation to their faith, and these may sometimes differ from the club's position.' United's LGBT fan group Rainbow Devils issued a response, saying they were 'disappointed' in the summer signing. In a post on X, the organisation wrote: 'As part of this year's Rainbow Laces campaign, Rainbow Devils worked closely with - and had great support from - Manchester United and the Fan Engagement team. 'This has included working with the Manchester United Foundation to spread the message of inclusivity with local schools, to a Q&A with two Men's first team players, to supportive messages from many Men and Women first team players (including an individual one from captain Bruno Fernandes). 'On this latter occasion, which was United's official Rainbow Laces game, the players were due to wear specially designed jackets pre-match to mark the occasion. Shortly before the game, Rainbow Devils was informed that these jackets would not be worn. Mazraoui (left) - who is a devout Muslim - told teammates he would not wear it due to his faith Former United stars Cristiano Ronaldo (middle) and Jadon Sancho (right) pictured in the jacket 'The reason being that one of the matchday squad had refused to wear the jacket on the grounds of their personally held beliefs. Therefore, to maintain the team ethos and togetherness, none of the players would be wearing them. 'This was obviously a great disappointment to Rainbow Devils, but also to all those who had worked hard at the club to deliver this event. 'We are aware of who the player concerned is, but we feel it isn't our role to single him out, and risk spoiling all the other positive things that the majority of those at the club have done. 'We respect the right of this player to have his own views, whilst also feeling disappointed that he put the rest of the squad into a position where they felt that they couldn't wear their jackets. 'We also worry what kind of negative effect this incident might have on any player at the club who may be struggling with their sexuality. Man United were among three clubs to have seen their players involved in controversy over surrounding rainbow clothing. As part of the Premier League 's Rainbow Laces campaign to support the LGBTQ+ community, top-flight captains were given rainbow armbands to wear for last weekend fixtures and matches in midweek. Sam Morsy and Marc Guehi shook hands before kick-off in midweek, with Morsy not wearing a rainbow armband while Guehi did Guehi was reprimanded for having 'I love Jesus' written on his armband on Saturday The Crystal Palace star had 'Jesus loves you' written on his rainbow armband on Tuesday night England and Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi defied a Football Association reprimand by writing a religious message on his rainbow-coloured captain's armband against Ipswich Town. Guehi had written a similar message on his armband for last weekend's fixtures. Ipswich skipper Sam Morsy twice refused to wear the rainbow armband, citing his religious beliefs. In light of Morsy's refusal to wear the rainbow armband on the weekend, Ipswich released a statement insisting the club 'proudly supports' the Premier League's campaign. 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Key details about the man accused of killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEOTech 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 sostrowski@comptia.org +1.630.678.8468 View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/latest-employment-data-shows-little-change-in-tech-job-market-comptia-analysis-finds-302325237.html SOURCE CompTIA