In conclusion, while the prospect of young Chinese players moving to Europe holds great promise for their development and advancement in the football world, the adaptation process is a critical factor that cannot be overlooked. By recognizing the challenges and implementing proactive strategies to support and nurture these players, Chinese football can maximize the potential benefits of foreign aid and pave the way for a brighter future for its aspiring talents on the global stage. Embracing diversity, fostering inclusivity, and prioritizing the well-being of young players are essential steps towards achieving success in the international football arena.In conclusion, the sentencing of the four public officials and the teacher involved in the illegal production and sale of "Ba Bao Dan" serves as a warning to all individuals that actions that endanger public health and safety will be met with severe consequences. It is essential for everyone to abide by the laws and regulations governing the production and sale of traditional Chinese medicine to protect the well-being of the community.
Alibaba Cloud, the leading cloud computing service provider in China, recently faced a significant challenge when a fire broke out at one of its data centers. The incident occurred in the early hours of the morning, prompting an immediate response from the company's emergency response team and local fire brigade. Thanks to their swift action and coordinated efforts, the fire was successfully extinguished, and there were no reports of any injuries or casualties.Dozens of striking postal workers with London local 566 rallied Saturday outside the Canada Post administration building on Highbury Avenue. Organized by the London and District Labour Council, the rally had guest speakers from multiple unions showing their support for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) who have been on strike for just over two weeks. “We're fighting for pensions, we're fighting for safer working conditions, especially for our letter carriers and we’re fighting for wages,” said Kim Rouble, president of CUPW Local 566. “Nobody wants to be on strike, but we are fighting for a cause, and they're very justified in being out here. That's why you're seeing the strength and the unity and the numbers that you're seeing. We believe in what we're fighting for.” Joining them was Mark Platt, the National director of the Ontario region of CUPW. “It's inspiring to see the members standing up for themselves,” said Platt. Striking Canada Post workers chant during a rally on Highbury Ave. on Saturday Nov. 30, 2024 (Brent Lale/CTV News London) “This is the time our membership has their voice and has a chance to tell the employer that they want to be treated with fairness and respect, and they want to get decent wages in a collective agreement. We’re into a third week of a job action against the employer, and the employer has not been moving that whole time. The Minister of Labor intervened last Wednesday and sat the parties down and said he wasn't going to bail the employer out. He told the parties that there has to be a negotiated settlement.” The rally comes just days after Canada Post has laid off striking employees. Canada Post spokeswoman Lisa Liu confirmed the layoffs, saying they are temporary. She said the organization has informed some employees that the collective agreements are no longer in effect and their conditions of employment have now changed, as per the Canada Labour Code — referring to the section of the code that covers lockout notices. "Our business has been significantly impacted leading up to and throughout this labour disruption. We have taken steps to adjust our operations," Liu said. Neither the union nor Canada Post provided details on the extent of the layoffs. Earlier in November, Canada Post issued a lockout notice but said it didn't intend to lock out employees, instead saying the notice would allow the company to make changes to its operations in order to respond to the effects of a strike. London-North-Fanshawe NDP MP Lyndsey Matthyssen attended to show support for the striking workers, and said this “government has never stood up for workers.” London MP Lyndsey Matthyssen speaks to the crowd of striking Canada Post workers during a rally on Saturday Nov. 30, 2024 (Brent Lale/CTV News London) She is happy the government isn’t interfering in the dispute and added that her party won’t ever let it happen. “These are incredible folks that are fighting for themselves, they are fighting for their jobs, are fighting for pay equity and a fair living wage,” said Matthyssen. “They're fighting for so many things against an employer that is bullying them, that is doing illegal things, and we can't allow that to happen.” CUPW said it has filed an unfair labour practice complaint with the Canada Industrial Relations Board over the layoffs of striking employees. Striking Canada Post workers from CUPW Local 566 march up Highbury Ave. on Saturday Nov. 30, 2024 (Brent Lale/CTV News London) CUPW said the layoffs are an "intimidation tactic" that violates the Canada Labour Code. Canada Post spokeswoman Lisa Liu said in a statement that the Crown corporation has received the complaint and is reviewing it. Liu said Canada Post denies any violation of the labour code. “We're waiting for the employer to come back to the table and seriously negotiate with us,” said Platt. “The picket lines across the country have had huge amounts of membership on them, and they're strong, and the members want to get this settled and out of the way so we can get back to work and deliver Christmas to the employer. They have to stop with the tactics. They have to get down to bargaining and get a settled agreement out of the way so we can get back to serving Canadians.” The rally ended with a march down Highbury Ave, with workers chanting “solidarity” and ‘hold the line.” “We're 55,000 strong, so it's not just London, it's 55,000 of us and our families,” added Rouble. - with files from The Canadian Press Shopping Trends The Shopping Trends team is independent of the journalists at CTV News. We may earn a commission when you use our links to shop. Read about us. 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Article content This edition of the Hidden Game is dedicated to Josh Anderson . Say what you will about fighting in hockey and the frontier justice mentality that exists, but the Canadiens’ veteran forward wasted little time Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden settling a five-week-old score. And credit Anderson for taking the law into his own hands; someone had to. Before the game was two minutes old, Anderson put a beating on Rangers’ captain Jacob Trouba, landing right hands, repeatedly, on the New York defenceman. They briefly separated and Anderson, 6-foot-3 and 226 pounds, pounded the crap a second time out of Trouba, no Caspar Milquetoast at 6-foot-3 and 212 pounds. In World Wrestling Entertainment, they would have called this two out of three falls. Trouba, you’ll remember, delivered a clean — albeit vicious — hit on Canadiens’ defenceman Justin Barron when the teams met at the Bell Centre on Oct. 22. Barron suffered an apparent concussion on the play, although that was never confirmed by the organization, and defenceman Mike Matheson subsequently fought Trouba that night. The teams will meet a third time Jan. 19 in Montreal Canadiens fans might want to circle that date, given the hate these two clubs seem to have for each other. Canadiens right wing Josh Anderson fights New York Rangers defenceman Jacob Trouba in the first period of game Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, in New York. Photo by Adam Hunger / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS News you need (Part I): The Rangers ended a five-game losing streak — their longest in four seasons — with Saturday’s 4-3 victory. Montreal, idle since Wednesday, should have taken better advantage of a team that played in Philadelphia Friday afternoon. It was New York’s first set of back-to-back contests this season. Last season in the second game, the Rangers’ record was 11-1-0. News you need (Part II) : When New York’s Artemi Panarin opened the scoring nine minutes into the game, it was the Rangers’ first power-play goal in nine games, dating back to Nov. 12, against Winnipeg. News you need (Part III): The Rangers continue to beat the Canadiens like a rented mule. New York is 5-0-1 in its last six against Montreal and 9-2-1 dating back to February 2020. News you need (Part IV): The win was the 1,700th in Rangers history on home ice. News you need (Part V): New York has won 13 games this season and has allowed two or fewer goals in all but two of those victories. Another Cy Young candidate: Rangers forward Chris Kreider, who returned to the lineup after missing three games with back spasms, has a 9-0 stats line — the differential between goals and assists. The 33-year-old, who has been with the team since 2012-13, has been the subject of trade speculation. Another $400 stick down the drain: Panarin was at the point in the game’s seventh minute when his stick shattered. Some penalties are good: Kreider would have had a good scoring opportunity off a rebound one minute later — until he was held by Emil Heineman . Some penalties are not: Kreider was guilty of holding Kaiden Guhle in the offensive zone nearly 13 minutes into the game. He doesn’t score much, but ...: Credit Christian Dvorak for his screen on goaltender Jonathan Quick, allowing Matheson to snap the puck past him at 11:47 of the opening period. Late goals are killers: The Canadiens played a decent first period — until Vincent Trocheck scored New York’s second goal with 3.1 seconds remaining in the period. Until they’re not: Montreal came out quickly in the second period, generating three shots in the opening two minutes. NHL officiating at its best (Part I): Kreider blatantly interfered with Anderson early in the period. Nonetheless, no penalty was assessed. Dumb penalty: Seconds later, Sam Carrick was called for unsportsmanlike conduct, with Arber Xhekaj — of all players — unwilling to drop the gloves. This one would have been a mismatch, considering Carrick is four inches shorter and outweighed by 38 pounds. Swedish sandwich : Late in the middle frame, Trouba and Trocheck delivered a one-two punch on Heineman. NHL officiating at its best (Part II): It certainly looked like a routine check to us. Nonetheless, Anderson was penalized for roughing against Ryan Lindgren in the second period. Mika Zibanejad scored on the ensuing power play — his first goal in six games. News you need (Part VI): Cole Caufield is on pace for 50 goals after scoring his 14th from a tight angle at 4:16 of the third period. Hit of the game: Brett Berard, playing only his fourth game this season, left favouring his right shoulder after being crunched against the boards by Kirby Dach in the third period. Pass of the game: Lane Hutson to Nick Suzuki on the Canadiens’ third goal, with six minutes remaining in regulation time. Karma is a bitch: It might have been an unfortunate break, but players must control their sticks. The struggling Dach, with one goal this season, took a double minor for high-sticking Zibanejad at 17:20 of the third period. With 23.3 seconds remaining, Kaapo Kakko scored the winning goal. Next time, decline the penalty: Montreal went 0-for-3 with the man advantage. Braden Schneider of the New York Rangers checks Jake Evans of the Montreal Canadiens during the first period at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024 in New York City. Photo by Bruce Bennett / Getty Images Quick stats: Matheson had four shots, was a plus-3 and logged a team-high 26:07 of ice time. Dach also had four shots. Samuel Montembeault faced 28 shots for a save percentage of .857. They said it: “I loved everything about our game, but I’m not going to talk about the refs,” Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis told reporters in New York following the contest. “I thought we deserved better, obviously,” Suzuki told the media in New York. “I thought we played better than them. It’s a tough way to end the game like that, giving up a goal that late.” “I thought we answered how we had to in the third period,” Alex Newhook said in New York. “It would have been nice to get one more. We had enough looks to get one more.” hzurkowsky@postmedia.com x.com/HerbZurkowsky1Tyronn Lue: Lack of Respect in Lakers' 19-Year Offer, Rejecting Terms without Respect
NEW YORK (AP) — In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs — including Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January. “The first term, everybody was fighting me,” Trump said in remarks at Mar-a-Lago . “In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.” Tech companies and leaders have now poured millions into his inauguration fund, a sharp increase — in most cases — from past pledges to incoming presidents. But what does the tech industry expect to gain out of their renewed relationships with Trump? A clue to what the industry is looking for came just days before the election when Microsoft executives — who’ve largely tried to show a neutral or bipartisan stance — joined with a close Trump ally, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, to publish a blog post outlining their approach to artificial intelligence policy. “Regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs,” said the document signed by Andreessen, his business partner Ben Horowitz, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and the company’s president, Brad Smith. They also urged the government to back off on any attempt to strengthen copyright laws that would make it harder for companies to use publicly available data to train their AI systems. And they said, “the government should examine its procurement practices to enable more startups to sell technology to the government.” Trump has pledged to rescind President Joe Biden’s sweeping AI executive order, which sought to protect people’s rights and safety without stifling innovation. He hasn’t specified what he would do in its place, but his campaign said AI development should be “rooted in Free Speech and Human Flourishing.” Trump’s choice to head the Interior Department, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, has spoken openly about the need to boost electricity production to meet increased demand from data centers and artificial intelligence. “The AI battle affects everything from defense to healthcare to education to productivity as a country,′′ Burgum said on Nov. 15, referring to artificial intelligence. “And the AI that’s coming in the next 18 months is going to be revolutionary. So there’s just a sense of urgency and a sense of understanding in the Trump administration′′ to address it. Demand for data centers ballooned in recent years due to the rapid growth of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and local governments are competing for lucrative deals with big tech companies. But as data centers begin to consume more resources, some residents are pushing back against the world’s most powerful corporations over concerns about the economic, social and environmental health of their communities. “Maybe Big Tech should buy a copy of ‘The Art of The Deal’ to figure out how to best negotiate with this administration,” suggested Paul Swanson, an antitrust attorney for the law firm Holland & Hart. “I won’t be surprised if they find ways to reach some accommodations and we end up seeing more negotiated resolutions and consent decrees.” Although federal regulators began cracking down on Google and Facebook during Trump’s first term as president — and flourished under Biden — most experts expect his second administration to ease up on antitrust enforcement and be more receptive to business mergers. Google may benefit from Trump’s return after he made comments on the campaign trail suggesting a breakup of the company isn’t in the U.S. national interest, after a judge declared its search engine an illegal monopoly . But recent nominations put forward by his transition team have favored those who have been critical of Big Tech companies, suggesting Google won’t be entirely off the hook. Cook’s notoriously rocky relationship with the EU can be traced back to a 2016 ruling from Brussels in a tax case targeting Apple. Cook slammed the bloc’s order for Apple to pay back up to $13.7 billion in Irish back taxes as “total political crap.” Trump, then in his first term as president, piled on, referring to the European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who was spearheading a campaign on special tax deals and a crackdown on Big Tech companies, as the “tax lady” who “really hates the U.S.” Brussels was eventually vindicated after the bloc’s top court rejected Apple’s appeal this year, though it didn’t stop Cook from calling Trump to complain, Trump recounted in a podcast in October. Trump hosted Cook for a Friday evening dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly. Neither Apple nor the Trump transition team has commented on the nature of their discussions. Altman , Amazon and Meta all pledged to donate $1 million each to Trump’s inaugural fund. During his first term, Trump criticized Amazon and railed against the political coverage at The Washington Post, which billionaire Bezos owns. Meanwhile, Bezos had criticized some of Trump’s past rhetoric. In 2019, Amazon also argued in a court case that Trump’s bias against the company harmed its chances of winning a $10 billion Pentagon contract. More recently, Bezos has struck a more conciliatory tone. He recently said at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit in New York that he was “optimistic” about Trump’s second term, while also endorsing president-elect’s plans to cut regulations. The donation from Meta came just weeks after Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at Mar-a-Lago. During the 2024 campaign, Zuckerberg did not endorse a candidate for president, but voiced a more positive stance toward Trump. Earlier this year, he praised Trump’s response to his first assassination attempt. Still, Trump in recent months had continued to attack Zuckerberg publicly. And Altman, who is in a legal dispute with AI rival Elon Musk, has said he is “not that worried” about the Tesla CEO’s influence in the incoming administration. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company earlier this year alleging that the maker of ChatGPT betrayed its founding aims of benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits.
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