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#top646 Moreover, the allocation of year-end bonuses and thirteenth month pay can reveal important insights into a company's culture and values. Companies that prioritize meritocracy and performance-based rewards are more likely to distribute generous year-end bonuses to high-performing employees as a way to recognize and retain top talent. On the other hand, companies that emphasize employee well-being and satisfaction may prioritize the equitable distribution of thirteenth month pay to all employees as a form of financial stability and support.The Vikings have prepared for the game against the Atlanta Falcons without veteran quarterback Stephon Gilmore this week, and on Friday he was officially ruled out ahead of the matchup on Sunday afternoon at U.S. Bank Stadium. The news isn’t surprising given the fact that Gilmore hasn’t practiced at all this week at TCO Performance Center. He’s been nursing a hamstring injury since last week when he left a victory over the Arizona Cardinals. Though the Vikings believe that Gilmore has avoided anything serious, they are clearly being cautious with him so not to make anything worse. The loss of Gilmore in the short term will thrust veteran cornerback Fabian Moreau into a bigger role on defense.

NoneUSDA to collect final 2024 crop production and stocks data As the 2024 growing season comes to an end, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will contact producers nationwide to gather final year-end crop production numbers and the amount of grains and oilseeds stored on their farms. At the same time, NASS will survey commercial storage facility operators to determine year-end grain and oilseed stocks. “These surveys are some of the largest and most important surveys conducted by NASS each year,” said Marlo D. Johnson, NASS’s Great Lakes Regional Director. “The data we receive from these year-end surveys are the basis for official USDA estimates of production and harvested acres of all major agricultural commodities in the United States and year-end grain and oilseed supplies. The results from these surveys will benefit farmers and processors by providing timely and accurate information to help them make critical year-end business decisions and begin planning for the next growing and marketing season.”The deployment of 5G EasyMacro in subway tunnels represents a major advancement in the field of telecommunications and positioning technology. By leveraging Huawei's cutting-edge 5G infrastructure and China Mobile's extensive network capabilities, the project demonstrates the feasibility of delivering high-speed, reliable, and precise location services in challenging underground environments.“Saturday Night Live” alum Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut, “Y2K,” makes for a fascinating test case of Gen Z’s appetite for all things 2000s. His comedic sensibility, honed through throwback TV parodies on “SNL,” is at once broad and hyper-specific. In the nostalgic “Y2K,” he hits the big signposts that will delight the younger generation craving the simpler times of a pre-9/11 world, but he also gets granular with late ’90s music, fashion and culture in a way that one could only understand if they actually lived through it. Zoomers just won’t pick up everything he’s putting down, and that may work against this otherwise exuberant and somewhat messy teen horror-comedy. Mooney and co-writer Evan Winter fuse the “let’s throw a big party” plot formula to “The Terminator” for their “Y2K” script, but it also feels like they just wrote down everything they could remember from the late ’90s and threw it at the wall: Enron, the “Macarena,” PalmPilots, Limp Bizkit, the swing revival. Some are quite obvious and on-the-nose, others more arcane. Add in some well-worn movie tropes, a list of outrageous horror movie kills and a “TRL”-friendly soundtrack and that’s essentially the movie. Jaedan Martell, one of horror’s preeminent sad boys ( “It,” “The Lodge,” etc.), plays Eli, a dorky kid who loves his ebullient best friend, Danny (Julian Dennison), and has a crush on Laura ( Rachel Zegler ), whom he hopes to kiss at the big turn-of-the-millennium New Year’s Eve party after he finds out she’s broken up with her college boyfriend (Mason Gooding). But in a bit of revisionist history, the Y2K bug is real — so real, in fact, that every electronic device and appliance bands together into freakish robotic monsters in order to kill the teens, enslave the parents and achieve the “singularity.” Despite the deep wealth of period culture on display, “Y2K” doesn’t necessarily feel lived-in — it’s a bit too wink-wink, nudge-nudge with it and feels forced, especially with the wall-to-wall needle drops. There are fun nods to era-specific tribes and trends, with quick references to the swing kids, ravers and rap-rock skater types, but where Mooney and Winter’s approach excels is in the deep cuts for the real ’90s-heads out there, like Daniel Zolghadri’s character as CJ, a socially conscious hip-hop kid wearing baggy khakis and a bucket hat, talking about his rap group, Prophets of Intelligence, and scolding his peers for their “corporate” music taste. Mooney is also a standout as Garrett, a burnout video-store clerk with dreads, who represents jam-band stinky hippie culture, and he nails every note-perfect inflection. But references like this will likely sail right over the heads of a zoomer audience — you simply had to be there in order to get it. Most of the audience at the film’s Los Angeles premiere didn’t react to even broader pop-cultural nods, such as several Limp Bizkit jokes (singer Fred Durst plays himself in a slightly larger-than-cameo role). The surface pleasures of “Y2K” are outlandishly fun, but plot-wise, the film is structurally unsound. While it cribs bits and pieces from too familiar genres, it’s too loose in how scenes flow into each other or how the story progresses from A to B. Although Durst is a welcome sight, it’s still entirely random how he shows up, and the final resolution is sketchy at best. What’s interesting about Mooney’s vision is that he’s packaged contemporary technological anxiety into a memory piece. Fear about artificial intelligence taking over humanity is a modern concern, but it wasn’t what we were worried about with the Y2K bug. Still, there’s also something kind of profound in contemplating 2000, even if it is refracted through this movie’s silly lens. In the 24 years since, it’s been decades of terrorism, war, political instability, a widening wealth gap and rapid advancements that have rewired our culture, our brains and how we relate to each other. Perhaps 2000 was, indeed, a fundamental switch, one that Mooney has zeroed in on through his imperfect but amusing “Y2K.” Ultimately, the project is a success, because he made this millennial — who was 16 in 1999 — profoundly nostalgic for what seems like a more innocent time. Katie Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.

Moreover, the focus on structural reforms will play a vital role in enhancing economic resilience and competitiveness. Governments are expected to prioritize reforms that address structural bottlenecks, boost productivity, and promote innovation. These reforms will not only help unlock growth potential but also ensure long-term sustainability and resilience in the face of future shocks.As the situation unfolds, it is imperative for all stakeholders to rely on official communications from Haier and refrain from spreading unverified information. The company's commitment to its workforce and values remains steadfast, ensuring that its employees and stakeholders are treated with respect and transparency at all times. Haier's resolute stand against the rumors serves as a testament to its unwavering commitment to ethical business practices and responsible corporate conduct.

Wall Street drifts lower as it waits for inflation data