In a recent interview, Butragueno acknowledged the taxing nature of the current schedule and the toll it can take on the players' bodies. With matches coming in quick succession, the risk of injuries naturally rises. However, Butragueno stressed that injuries are par for the course in professional football, especially during intense periods like this. The key, he pointed out, is to be proactive in preparing the team physically and mentally to cope with the challenges ahead.
Gisèle Benoit still gets goosebumps when she remembers the first time she saw a family of eastern wolves emerge from the forests of the Mauricie National Park, under the backdrop of a rising moon. It was 1984 and Benoit, then in her early 20s, had been using a horn to try to call a bull moose when she instead heard a long howl, followed by an adult wolf stepping out to a rocky shore accompanied by a half-grown youth and four pups. “I will never forget that,” she said of the magical moment. “It’s anchored in my heart forever.” It was only later that Benoit, an artist and documentary filmmaker, learned that the wolves she saw weren’t grey wolves but rather rare eastern wolves. The species, whose population is estimated at fewer than 1,000 mature adults, could soon be further protected by new measures that are raising hopes among conservationists that attitudes toward a once-feared and maligned animal are shifting. In July, the federal government upgraded the eastern wolf’s threat level from “status of special concern” to “threatened,” based on a 2015 report by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. That report found the population count may be as low as 236 mature individuals in its central Ontario and southern Quebec habitat. The eastern wolf is described as medium-sized canid with reddish-tawny fur that lives in family groups of a breeding pair and their offspring. Also known as the Algonquin wolf, it is largely restricted to existing protected areas, including Algonquin Park in Ontario. The federal Environment Department said in an email that development of a recovery strategy is underway, adding it would be “written in collaboration with provincial governments, federal departments responsible for the federal lands where the eastern wolf is found as well as First Nations groups and Indigenous organizations.” The order triggers protection for the species on federal lands and forces Ottawa to prepare a recovery plan. However, the fight for protection could be an uphill battle in Quebec, which does not even recognize the eastern wolf as a distinct species. A spokesperson for Quebec’s Environment Department said Quebec considers the eastern wolf a “genetic group” rather than its own species. “Recent study shows that the eastern wolf is a distinct entity, even if it comes from several crosses between the grey wolf and the coyote,” Daniel Labonté wrote in an email. “However, scientific knowledge does not demonstrate that this genetic grouping constitutes a species in its own right.” Labonté added that this lack of recognition was not a barrier to protecting the animal, since the law also allows for protection of subspecies or wildlife populations. In October, Quebec launched a program to collect samples to improve knowledge on the distribution of large canines, including the eastern wolf. The government said it is currently “impossible to assert that there is an established population” in Quebec due to low numbers — amounting to three per cent of analyzed samples — and the “strong hybridization that exists among large canids.” Véronique Armstrong, co-founder of a Quebec wildlife protection association, says she’s feeling positive about both the Canadian and Quebec governments’ attitudes. While wolves were once “stigmatized, even persecuted,” she said, “we seem to be heading in the direction of more protection.” Her group, the Association québécoise pour la protection et l’observation de la faune, has submitted a proposal for a conservation area to protect southern Quebec wolves that has already received signs of support from three of the regional municipalities that would be covered, she said. While it’s far from settled, she’s hopeful that the battle to protect wolves might be easier than for some other species, such as caribou, because the wolves are adaptable and can tolerate some human activity, including forestry. John Theberge, a retired professor of ecology and conservation biology from the University of Waterloo and a wolf researcher, spent several years along with his wife studying and radio-collaring eastern wolves around Algonquin Park. Back in the 1990s and 2000s, they faced a “huge political battle” to try to expand wolf protection outside park boundaries after realizing that the far-ranging animals were being hunted and trapped in large numbers once they left the protected lands. Conservationists, he said, faced resistance from powerful hunter and trapper lobbies opposed to protecting the animals but in the end succeeded in permanently closing the zones outside the park to hunting and trapping in 2004. Theberge says people who want to save wolves today still face some of that same opposition — especially when governments including Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia kill wolves to protect endangered caribou. But he believes the public support for protecting wolves has increased from when his career began in the 1960s, when they were treated with fear and suspicion. “Nobody wore T-shirts with wolves on them back then,” he said. Over the years, there have been questions about whether the eastern wolf may be a grey wolf subspecies or a coyote-wolf hybrid. But in the order protecting the wolves, the federal government says genetic analyses have resolved that debate, showing that it is a “distinct species.” Benoit, Theberge and Armstrong all believe that while it’s important to protect the eastern wolf from a genetic diversity perspective, there is value in protecting all wolves, regardless of their DNA. Wolves, they say, are an umbrella species, meaning that protecting them helps protect a variety of other species. They kill off weak and sick animals, ensuring strong populations. They’re also “highly developed, sentient social species, with a division of labour, and strong family alliances,” Theberge said. Benoit agrees. After years spent watching wolves, she has developed great respect for how they live in close-knit families, with older offspring helping raise new pups. “It’s extraordinary to see how their way of life is a little like humans’,” she said.
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In conclusion, the proposed ban on DJI and Da Jiang Innovations represents a significant escalation in the national security review of Chinese drone manufacturers. As the US government seeks to safeguard critical infrastructure and protect sensitive data, it faces difficult decisions about how to balance security concerns with economic considerations and technological advancements. The outcome of this debate will have far-reaching implications for the drone industry, national security, and the future of US-China relations.S.Africa's Breyten Breytenbach, writer and anti-apartheid activistOn the other hand, the continued expansion of the export volume suggests that there are underlying strengths in the domestic economy that are driving demand for products and services. Improvements in technology, product quality, and market access could be contributing to the increased export volumes, as businesses find new opportunities to expand their presence in global markets. Additionally, government policies and initiatives aimed at promoting trade and investment may also be playing a role in supporting export growth.
Good luck figuring out the Houston Texans right now. Sunday’s disheartening defeat to the Titans saw DeMeco Ryans’ side fall to 7-5 , but the loss was felt in more ways than one with cornerback Jalen Pitre suffering a pectoral injury. Pitre left the game midway through the first half and did not return, suffering what was initially believed to be a shoulder injury after spending a lengthy period in the blue medical tent. #Texans CB Jalen Pitre has been diagnosed with a pectoral injury. He will have an MRI tomorrow to determine the severity. Per @AaronWilson_NFL Jimmie Ward seems to be filling in at Nickel and just got a pick 6. pic.twitter.com/5A8cwbVq1R Reports surfaced after Houston’s 32-27 loss that the former second-round pick had suffered a pectoral injury, one that could turn out to be a complete tear, hence bringing an abrupt end to his season. An MRI on Monday will give us an official diagnosis, but after falling victim to some friendly fire on a tackle, Pitre’s absence could prove devastating for a Texans defense that has found it difficult to keep opponents off the scoreboard in the second half. Matt Burke’s defense has come under scrutiny in recent weeks after surrendering 19 unanswered second-half points three weeks ago against Detroit, and 12 against Tennessee on Sunday afternoon. Now in his third season, Pitre has developed into one of the league’s most reliable nickel corners, known for his hard-hitting style and elite tackling ability – a category he leads all Texans defenders in. With Pitre’s future status uncertain, Jimmie Ward figures to be the Texans’ answer at nickel moving forward.
In conclusion, the controversy surrounding Rockstar's directive to the GTA 6 scriptwriter to handle LGBT+ themes with care highlights the complex intersection of creativity, representation, and social consciousness in the gaming industry. As players and critics continue to engage in debates about the portrayal of diverse identities in video games, the industry must grapple with the challenge of balancing artistic freedom with ethical considerations to create a more inclusive and respectful environment for all.The heightened volatility in global markets has made investors more cautious and risk-averse, as they navigate through uncertain market conditions. The rapid swings in market sentiment and elevated levels of uncertainty have underscored the importance of diversification and risk management in building resilient investment portfolios.
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Robert F. Barsky, Vanderbilt University Noam Chomsky, one of the world's most famous and respected intellectuals, turned 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than half a century, multitudes of people have read his works in a variety of languages, and many people have relied on his commentaries and interviews for insights about intellectual debates and current events. Chomsky suffered a stroke in June 2023 that has severely limited his movement, impaired his speech and impeded his ability to travel. His birthday provides an occasion to consider the tremendous corpus of works that he created over the years and to reflect on the many ways that his texts and recordings still critically engage with contemporary discussions all across disciplines and realms. Chomsky's vast body of work includes scientific research focused on language, human nature and the mind, and political writings about U.S. imperialism, Israel and Palestine, Central America, the Vietnam War, coercive institutions, the media and the many ways in which people's needs are subjugated in the interest of profit and control. As a scholar of humanities and law, I've engaged with Chomsky's work from an array of perspectives and authored a biography called "Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent" and a book on Chomsky's influence called "The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower." One important theme in his broad corpus is his lifelong fascination with human creativity, which helps explain his vociferous attacks on those who seek to keep the rabble in line. Early days Avram Noam Chomsky was born on Dec. 7, 1928, in Philadelphia. He and his younger brother, David Chomsky, were raised in a lively household by Elsie Simonofsky and William (Zev) Chomsky, progressive educators who were deeply immersed in wide-ranging Jewish and Zionist cultural activities. Chomsky often dates his own interest in teaching and learning to his close readings of Hebrew works with his parents and to the lively educational experiences he enjoyed at the Oak Lane County Day School, an experimental school that subscribed to John Dewey's approach to immersive learning and promoted individual creativity over competition with other students. A precocious learner, Chomsky at 12 years old read the proofs for his father's book about a 13th-century Hebrew grammarian named David Kimhi. It was an auspicious beginning to a life immersed in philology, philosophy and the study of language and the mind. From very early on, he sought to understand innate human propensities for freedom, dignity and creativity, which inspired his interest in fostering those properties of human nature. While Chomsky's parents were what he called normal Roosevelt Democrats, he was drawn to more radical approaches to society and to the promotion of noncoercive social structures. At age 10, he read about the Spanish Civil War, which inspired him to write an editorial about the fall of Barcelona for his school's newspaper. This was an early harbinger of his public intellectual work and his vociferous challenges to systems of oppression and illegitimate authority. As a young man, Chomsky joined a socialist wing of the Zionist youth movement that opposed a Jewish state, and from his readings and discussions he came to favor Arab-Jewish class cooperation in a socialist Palestine. His deep knowledge of Palestine and Israel, bolstered by his ability to read and speak Arabic and Hebrew, helped inform his many vehement critiques of Israeli state power. Radical pedagogy After an early education focused on self-discovery and free-ranging exploration, Chomsky was introduced in high school to rote learning, competition with other students and a mainstream system of values. In reaction, he began to make regular trips to New York City, where he explored bookstores. He also made regular visits with a relative who ran a newsstand on 72nd Street that served as a lively intellectual center for emigrés interested in more radical approaches to society. In 1944, Chomsky completed high school and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania. Although he has expressed some dismay about the structures of conformity and status quo thinking he encountered there, he did find inspiration in courses with philosopher C. West Churchman, linguist Giorgio Levi Della Vida and, moreover, linguist Zellig Harris. Chomsky knew members of the Harris family because Zellig Harris' father hosted Jewish services in the Harris home that the Chomsky family occasionally attended. Chomsky's father's approach to the study of language bore similarities to Zellig Harris' work in Semitics, the study of Arabic, Hebrew and other Semitic languages. Harris invited Noam to read the proofs of his "Methods in Structural Linguistics." This highly anticipated book was rooted in the idea that the function and the meaning of linguistic elements are determined by their their relationship to other components that make up sentences. After working hard to understand Harris' linguistics paradigm, Chomsky eventually abandoned it, but he remained fascinated by Harris' political views and by the unstructured, lively and creative debates that he promoted. Chomsky met Carol Doris Schatz at the Hebrew School where her mother taught and Chomsky's father was principal. Years later, when they were both students at the University of Pennsylvania, they started dating. They were married in 1949, and four years later they decided to move to an Israeli kibbutz, or communal agricultural settlement. They had expected to find a culture of creative free thinking there. Instead, they were deeply disappointed to find what Chomsky described as ideological conformity to Stalinist ideology. They returned to the U.S. after only six weeks. The young couple settled in Boston and started a family. Noam pursued graduate work, while Carol paused her own studies to raise the children. She later returned to research on language acquisition, which she eventually taught and researched at MIT and Harvard. Carol Chomsky died in 2008. Noam remarried in 2014, to the Brazilian translator Valeria Wasserman Chomsky. When Chomsky was a student, most academic psychologists described human language as a system of habits, skills or dispositions to act that are acquired through extensive training, induction, generalization and association. By this account, language grows incrementally with experience, reinforced by a system of rewards and punishments. This framework was at the heart of a structuralist paradigm, which analyzed the form and meaning of texts as different parts of the same thing. Any language, from this standpoint, restricts how phonemes and morphemes – the smallest units of sound and meaning in language – and other constituents are assembled and distributed. By this view, humans have the capacity to learn language in ways akin to how they acquire other kinds of knowledge. Chomsky's Ph.D. work, the resulting 1957 book "Syntactic Structures" and his New York Review of Books review of B.F. Skinner's "Verbal Behaviour" challenged this paradigm and heralded the Chomskian linguistics revolution. Chomsky's starting point was that humans are endowed with universal grammar, which is activated by exposure to natural language. Children gain proficiency in a language by building on innate knowledge. This means that the capacity for language quite literally grows in the mind in a manner akin to how organs develop in the body. Chomsky's interest in innate human abilities draws in part from a range of philosophical treatises penned in the 17th and 18th centuries and associated with the Port Royal system of logic and Enlightenment philosophy, which emphasized science, individual liberty and the rule of law. He developed these ideas in a book called "Cartesian Linguistics," which outlined his intellectual debt to the writings of, among others, Descartes, Kant, Rousseau and Wilhelm von Humboldt. By the early 1960s, Chomsky's work had gained him recognition in linguistics, philosophy and psychology. His own research, and that conducted by the growing number of linguists who adopted his approach, led to significant advances in the study of syntax, generative grammar, language and the mind, semantics, form and the interpretation of language. His political engagement was documented in what I believe is a remarkable collection of interviews and books about U.S. imperialism, the Cold War, the Middle East, Central America and Southeast Asia, including "Problems of Knowledge and Freedom" and "For Reasons of State." Puzzled by Americans' spirit of resigned consensus, he began to collaborate with Edward S. Herman on books including "Counter-Revolutionary Violence," "The Political Economy of Human Rights" and "Manufacturing Consent," which was turned into a popular film by the same name. Common thread The common thread connecting Chomsky's many intellectual projects are four "problems" that were the focus of much of his life's work. One is Plato's problem, which considers why it is that humans, whose contact with the world is brief and limited, can come to know so much. The second is Orwell's complementary problem, which asks how is it that human beings know so little given the amount of information to which they have access. The third is Descartes' problem, which pertains to the human capacity to freely express thoughts in constantly novel ways over an infinite range by means that are appropriate to circumstances but not caused by them. Finally, there's Humboldt's problem, which focuses on what constitutes language. These problems are connected in different ways to how people learn, what impedes human development, and to speculations about the initial state of the language faculty, which he outlined in a range of texts, including "Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use," "Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures," "The Minimalist Program" and "Why Only Us? Language and Evolution," with Robert C. Berwick. Remarkably tenacious and active, Chomsky continued to publish and to speak out on contemporary issues into his mid-90s. His ideas evolved but were rooted in a series of deeply seated ideas about the nature of the human mind. He is one of the most cited intellectuals in history, and he was voted the leading living public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll. Millions of people have watched his debates and discussions with William F. Buckley, Angela Davis, Alan Dershowitz, Michel Foucault, Howard Gardner, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Perle, Jean Piaget, Briahna Joy Gray and even Ali G. As the figure widely viewed as the founder of cognitive sciences, Chomsky has been critical of the hype surrounding big data, artificial intelligence and ChatGPT. As a voice for the downtrodden and the oppressed, he has spoken from the perspective of human rights, intellectual self-defense and the popular struggle through independent thinking against structures of power and subjugation. Chomsky's extraordinary achievements resonate far and wide – and are likely to continue to do so into the future. Robert F. Barsky, is a professor in the College of Arts and Science and Associate Faculty in the School of Law at Vanderbilt University i This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/noam-chomsky-at-96-the-linguist-educator-philosopher-and-public-thinker-has-had-a-massive-intellectual-and-moral-influence-232698 .What starts as a clash of egos and culinary skills soon evolves into a complex and compelling relationship, characterized by a delicate balance of sweetness and torment. As Li Jia and Zhang Wei navigate the turbulent waters of their intertwined destinies, they must confront their own inner demons and overcome the obstacles that threaten to tear them apart.
This incident serves as a sobering reminder that no one is above the law, and those entrusted with enforcing it must be held to the highest standards of conduct. The repercussions of this scandal may have far-reaching implications for the reputation of the legal system in Heilongjiang province and beyond.I'm A Celeb 'feud' brewing as fans insist Ant McPartlin 'can't stand' contestantRico Carty, who won the 1970 NL batting title when he hit a major league-best .366 for the Atlanta Braves , has died. He was 85. Major League Baseball , the players' association and the Braves paid tribute to Carty on social media on Sunday. No further details on Carty's death were provided. “Carty was one of the first groundbreaking Latino stars in the major leagues, and he established himself as a hero to millions in his native Dominican Republic , his hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, and the city of Atlanta , where he was a beloved fan favorite,” the players' association said in its statement. The Braves said Carty left an indelible mark on the organization. “While his on-field accomplishments will never be forgotten, his unforgettable smile and generous nature will be sorely missed,” the team said in its statement. Carty made his big league debut with the Braves in September 1963. He batted .330 with 22 homers and 88 RBIs in his first full season in 1964, finishing second to Dick Allen in voting for NL Rookie of the Year. The Braves moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta after the 1965 season, and Carty got the franchise's first hit in its new home on April 12, 1966, against Pittsburgh. Carty had his best year in 1970, batting .366 with 25 homers and a career-best 101 RBIs. He started the All-Star Game after he was elected as a write-in candidate, joining Willie Mays and Hank Aaron in the NL outfield. Carty batted .299 with 204 homers and 890 RBIs over 15 years in the majors, also playing for Cleveland, Toronto, Oakland, Texas and the Chicago Cubs. He retired after the 1979 season. ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB