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Kirk Cousins is set to return to Minnesota for the first time since joining the Atlanta Falcons in one of the biggest games of Week 14. At this time of year, Kirk Cousins usually is layered up, bracing to fight the elements when he walks out of his stadium. As a member of the Atlanta Falcons , the quarterback has been able to ditch the thick coats and the snowcaps. That is, until he returns to Minnesota to face his former team, the Minnesota Vikings , this weekend. Former Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan believes this could be Cousins’ last game before he is benched. However, as it stands, fans believe he has every reason to bring his best game on Sunday for personal reasons. Broncos WR Jerry Jeudy is a recent example of a player who was moved on from in the off-season and returned to his former stadium with a vengeance, leaning into the revenge game narrative. Cousins was asked about whether he would feel similarly in need of revenge. Kirk Cousins’ thoughts on return Speaking in a press conference clip via “Up and Adams,” the quarterback expressed what he felt about the upcoming walk down memory lane. “I think the emotion is really gratitude. That’s kind of the word that comes to mind is just gratitude. When I arrived there as a free agent, they took a chance on me. Ownership took a chance on me. The organization did. I think just so many teammates who gave so much to help me, coaches who gave so much to help me,” he said. Cousins is 6-6 this season in desperate need of a win to keep up in the suddenly tight NFC South. Will he slip under .500 against the quarterback who replaced him? Kirk Cousins hits brick wall The former Vikings quarterback started the year strong, delivering a 6-3 start. However, since then, he is 0-3 and hasn’t thrown a touchdown in almost a month. In total, he has thrown for 0 touchdowns and six interceptions since dominating the Dallas Cowboys on November 3. His struggles have come against the New Orleans Saints, Denver Broncos, and Los Angeles Chargers. Will his struggles linger into December? This article first appeared on NFL Analysis Network and was syndicated with permission.Caracas, December 5, 2024 ( ) — Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez is in China on an official visit to “review and strengthen” the cooperation map established last year when the countries elevated their relationship to an Upon her arrival in Beijing on Wednesday, Rodríguez stated that the allies nations will revise cooperation agreements in “multiple strategic areas,” including politics, energy, economy, finance and technology. “We will strengthen our framework for cooperation as well as ties of complementarity and mutual development in different areas to continue solidifying a historical relationship and deep friendship that reached in 2024,” Rodríguez on social media. Rodríguez went on to add that China and Venezuela have a “shared vision” regarding a new multipolar world “where the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples of the Global South are respected.” She remarked that the BRICS organization would play a key role in advancing multipolarity. On Thursday, the Venezuelan vice president met with her Chinese counterpart Han Zheng, with both officials reportedly committing to achieve “greater progress” in bilateral relations. According to the , Han said China is eager to fully implement the “all-weather strategic partnership” reached last year as well as “strengthen practical cooperation.” For her part, Rodríguez reiterated Venezuela’s respect for the one-China principle and emphasized the need to strengthen multilateral coordination to “oppose unilateral illegal sanctions, safeguard national security and development, and international fairness and justice.” In recent years, Venezuela and China have deepened their strategic political and economic ties as both governments aim to counteract Western hegemony and unilateral coercive measures. Since 2017, the Caribbean nation has faced severe hardships caused by the US-led economic blockade which has particularly targeted the crucial . In September 2023, Presidents Nicolás Maduro and Xi Jinping the countries’ relations to an “all-weather strategic partnership” and signed 31 agreements to boost collaboration in areas such as oil, scientific development, healthcare, and space exploration. The new level of bilateral partnership was considered historic with Venezuela being the first Latin American country to enter the “all-weather” category reserved by Beijing for its closest allies. The upgrade reflects China’s growing role as Venezuela’s primary trading partner in Asia, particularly in crude oil purchases. On the eve of her trip to China, Vice President Rodríguez the country’s 2025 budget proposal to the National Assembly (AN), estimated at USD $22.7 billion. The figure represents an increase of nearly 11 percent from this year’s $20.5 billion budget and nearly doubles the $11.6 billion allocated in 2023. It still stands at around a fifth of the government’s $118 billion budget for 2015. Rodríguez attributed the recent sustained increase to “consistent ” since 2021, citing an 8.5 percent GDP growth in the first three quarters of 2024 as measured by Venezuela’s Central Bank. The Caribbean nation is set for a fourth consecutive year of economic improvement, though GDP remains below 30 percent of its high mark in 2014. “This budget reflects the victorious resilience of the Venezuelan economy amid adversity and economic suffocation that have targeted our workers and production processes,” she told lawmakers on Tuesday. “In these challenging conditions, Venezuela is now one of the fastest-growing countries in Latin America.” The vice president detailed that 77.6 percent of next year’s budget will be dedicated to social investment, focusing on education, healthcare, security, science and technology, public infrastructure, and housing. The spending plan incorporates input gathered from thousands of popular assemblies held across the country. Rodríguez also highlighted that the budget includes a special fund for chosen and managed directly by the Venezuelan people through communal circuits, as well as an additional allocation for the Essequibo region. According to , tax revenues are expected to contribute $5.25 billion to the budget, financing 28 percent of total spending. Venezuelan authorities have praised tax collection, which has more than doubled year-on-year in 2024. In contrast, Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA will cover 53 percent of expenditures, amounting to $10.1 billion, down from an estimated $11.9 billion this year. The remainder of the country’s annual financing will come from mining, loans, and debt issuances. On Thursday, Parliament President Jorge Rodríguez that the 2025 budget proposal had been approved by the legislature and sent to the Maduro government for its promulgation.

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Generative AI models like ChatGPT are trained using vast amounts of data obtained from websites, forums, social media and other online sources; as a result, their responses can contain harmful or discriminatory biases. Researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the University of Luxembourg have developed LangBiTe, an open source program that assesses whether these models are free of bias and comply with legislation concerning non-discrimination. "LangBiTe hasn't been created for commercial reasons, rather to provide a useful resource both for creators of generative AI tools and for non-technical users; it should contribute to identifying and mitigating biases in models and ultimately help create better AIs in the future," explained Sergio Morales, a researcher in the Som Research Lab Systems, Software and Models group at the UOC Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), whose Ph.D. thesis is based on this tool. The thesis has been supervised by Robert Clarisó, member of the UOC Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications and lead researcher of the Som Research Lab, and by Jordi Cabot, a researcher at the University of Luxembourg. The research is in the journal . Beyond gender discrimination LangBiTe differs from other similar programs due to its scope, and according to the researchers, it is the "most comprehensive and detailed" tool currently available. "Most experiments used to focus on male-female gender discrimination, without considering other important ethical aspects or vulnerable minorities. With LangBiTe we've analyzed the extent to which some AI models can respond to certain questions in a racist way, with a clearly biased political point of view, or with homophobic or transphobic connotations," they explained. The researchers also stressed that, although other projects classified AI models based on various dimensions, their ethical approach was "too superficial, with no detail about the specific aspects evaluated." A flexible and adaptable program The new program lets users analyze whether an application or tool that incorporates functions based on AI models is suitable for each institution or organization's specific ethical requirements or user communities. The researchers explained how "LangBiTe doesn't prescribe any specific moral framework. What is and isn't ethical largely depends on the context and culture of the organization that develops and incorporates features based on generative AI models in its product. "As such, our approach lets users define their own ethical concerns and their evaluation criteria, and adapt the evaluation of bias to their particular cultural context and regulatory environment." To this end, LangBiTe includes libraries containing more than 300 prompts that can be used to reveal biases in the AI models, each prompt focusing on a specific ethical concern: ageism, LGBTIQA+phobia, political preferences, religious prejudices, racism, sexism or xenophobia. Each of these prompts has associated responses to assess whether the response from the model is biased. It also includes prompt templates that can be modified, allowing the user to expand and enrich the original collection with new questions or ethical concerns. Much more than ChatGPT LangBiTe currently provides access to proprietary OpenAI models (GPT-3.5, GPT-4), and dozens of other generative AI models available on HuggingFace and Replicate, which are platforms enabling interaction with a wide variety of models, including those of Google and Meta. "Furthermore, any developer who wants to do so can extend the LangBiTe platform to evaluate other models, including their own," added Morales. The program also lets users see the differences between responses by different versions of the same model and between models from different suppliers at any time. "For example, we found that the version of ChatGPT 4 that was available had a success rate in the test against of 97%, which was higher than that obtained by the version of ChatGPT 3.5 available at that time, which had a success rate of 42%. "On that same date, we saw that for Google's Flan-T5 model, the larger it was, the less biased it was in terms of gender, religion and nationality," said the researcher. Multilingual and multimedia analysis The most popular AI models have been created based on content in English, but there are regional projects under way with models being trained in other languages such as Catalan and Italian. The UOC researchers have also included the function of evaluating tools in different languages, which means that users can "detect if a model is biased depending on the language they use for their queries," said Morales. They are also working on being able to analyze models that generate images, such as Stable Diffusion, DALL·E and Midjourney. "The current applications for these tools range from producing children's books to graphics for , which can spread distorting and/or negative stereotypes which society obviously wants to eradicate. "We hope that the future LangBiTe will be useful for identifying and correcting all types of bias in images that these models generate," said the UOC researcher. A tool for compliance with the EU AI Act The features of this tool can help users comply with the recent EU AI Act, which aims to ensure that new AI systems promote equal access, gender equality and cultural diversity, and that their use does not compromise the rights of non-discrimination stipulated by the European Union and the national laws of its member states. The program has already been adopted by institutions including the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), which has to assess several popular generative AI models.

John Fetterman Becomes First Senate Democrat On Truth SocialArticle content OTTAWA — Former cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault says he is trying to repair any damage he has done by making shifting statements about his connections to Indigenous heritage, as he faced more accusations on Thursday of trying to mislead Parliamentarians. The Edmonton MP testified before the parliamentary committee on Indigenous and Northern affairs on Thursday, the first time he has spoken publicly since leaving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet last month amid growing calls for him to resign after it was revealed the company he co-owned had bid on federal contracts by declaring itself as fully Indigenous owned. Boissonnault, who was serving as employment minister, has said a former business partner was the one to have made that claim and did so without seeking his consent or having any knowledge of it happening. He apologized on Thursday for how he has described his family’s ties to Indigenous ancestry. He delivered his first apology in Edmonton weeks earlier. “It has been a difficult time to see our family’s history be challenged publicly and I recognize the ways in which I described my heritage have not always been as accurate as they could have been,” Boissonnault said. “I have never attempted to leverage my adopted family’s history for personal or political gain.” When he was first elected in 2015, Boissonnault called himself “non-status adopted Cree.” This fall, he clarified that his adoptive mother and brother were in fact Métis. Before leaving cabinet, Boissonnault’s former office also confirmed that his great-grandmother, whom he had repeatedly referred to in Parliament as being a “full-blooded Cree woman,” was in fact not, but that her family had Métis lineage. The committee heard that had been Boissonnault’s understanding of his family growing up until recently, and that it was during the COVID-19 pandemic that his adoptive mother and brother learned more about their history and became citizens with the Métis Nation of Alberta. “As someone adopted into an Indigenous family, I wanted to speak about that history in a way that was respectful and accurate. That is why I worked with an Indigenous researcher, and how I arrived at the term ‘non-status adopted Cree,'” he said in a prepared set of opening remarks. “This term ensured that I claimed no Indigenous status for myself, while also honouring the Indigenous heritage of the family who adopted and raised me.” During his testimony, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis challenged Boissonnault on how the researcher in question has since stated that he did not give Boissonnault that term, and asked if he wanted to correct his opening statement. The MP responded by saying he had been “very clear” during his initial remarks. “I said that I chose the term ‘non-status, adopted Cree’ after having the conversation,” said Boissonnault. “Frankly, that’s what we’ve come to expect from you,” Genuis replied. Boissonnault added he “came up with the term” to try to honour his family. Conservative MPs repeatedly pressed the representative on how he could be believed, with Michael Barrett, the party’s ethics critic, at one point questioning whether he was a journalist, as he stated he was when he first entered politics. “I was a regular reporter for the francophone news outlet, Radio-Canada,” Boissonnault said. Last summer, a report by Quebec newspaper Le Devoir raised questions about those claims. “You said one thing, and the exact opposite is true,” Barrett said. NDP MP Lori Idlout, who is Inuk, also questioned how Boissonnault was trying to make amends for any harm done to Indigenous people through his statement, at one point saying he had engaged in race-shifting. Pointing to his apologies, Boissonnault said that process was ongoing, and not only was he open to hearing her advice, but that he had been speaking with Indigenous elders and other leaders. “I have checked in with Indigenous leaders and elders about using Cree in my speeches,” he said. “Do they still want me to do that? Do they still think it’s appropriate? So I’m having these conversations. I think that’s part of my own learning journey here.” “I never intended to be unclear about my history or my family’s history, and I think that is an important personal act for me when it comes to reconciliation.” He added to Idlout: “And if I could, I would say thank you in your language, if that were appropriate, but I’d seek out your consent to do that first. So I will just say thank you. ” For years, Boissonnault would begin funding announcements and speeches in Parliament with a Cree greeting. He would also sometimes refer to himself as “Strong Eagle Man,” which he told Thursday’s committee was a name gifted to him by an elder in Edmonton in 2021 as part of a ceremony hosted by a society dedicated to serving two-spirit community members. “They said I gave voice to the voiceless, and that the reason they chose ‘Strong Eagle Man’ was because I would be flying back and forth to Ottawa after the election.” A notice to the community about that event also said it was to thank Boissonnault for helping it secure funding. Boissonnault told Thursday’s committee he was in he first steps towards launching legal action against Stephen Anderson, the former business partner whom he said was responsible for bidding on federals contract in June 2020 by billing their medical supplies company as wholly “Indigenous” and “Aboriginal-owned.” He said he stepped away from their company, Global Health Imports, which has since been named in different lawsuits, following his re-election to Parliament in September 2021 after losing the 2019 election. Boissonnault said the reason he had no knowledge of his former business partner’s June 2020 bids was because he was not involved in federal contracts, given his position as a member of Parliament, which meant he had to follow lobbying rules. National Post staylor@postmedia.com Get more deep-dive National Post political coverage and analysis in your inbox with the Political Hack newsletter, where Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson and political analyst Tasha Kheiriddin get at what’s really going on behind the scenes on Parliament Hill every Wednesday and Friday, exclusively for subscribers. Sign up here . Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our politics newsletter, First Reading, here .The No. 5 Penn State Nittany Lions (11-2) host the No. 12 SMU Mustangs (11-2) at Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania in the first round of the College Football Playoff. Opening kick is at noon ET, and Penn State is an 8.5-point favorite. What channel is Penn State vs. SMU on? What time is Penn State vs. SMU? Penn State and SMU play at Noon ET. 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CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders re-signed veteran kicker Rene Paredes on Wednesday while also restructuring quarterback Vernon Adams Jr.'s deal. Calgary signed Paredes to a two-year contract extension. The Canadian was scheduled to become a free agent in February. The Stampeders acquired Adams last month from the B.C. Lions. The club and player agreed to terms on a restructured contract for the 2025 and 2026 seasons. "The restructured contract will give us more salary-cap flexibility to sign free agents and retain our own players who will be eligible for free agency in February,” Dave Dickenson, Calgary's head coach and general manager, said in a statement. “Vernon remains under contract for the next two seasons and we’re excited to have him in Calgary.” Adams, an eight-year CFL veteran, posted a 6-3 record last season with B.C., completing 197-of-302 passes (65.2 per cent) for 2,929 yards with 16 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He recorded six 300-yard passing games while also rushing for 213 yards and three TDs in 40 attempts. He completed 20-of-33 passes for 317 yards with two TDs and three interceptions in B.C.'s 28-19 West Division semifinal loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Paredes, a six-time all-star, has played 13 seasons with Calgary — ranking him fourth all-time in franchise history in terms of longevity — and his 229 regular-season games place him second in the Stampeders record books. He made 41 of his 44 field-goal attempts (93.2-per-cent success rate) over 18 games in 2024. Paredes has played 248 career regular-season and post-season games for the Stampeders since signing as a free agent in 2011. His 2,286 career regular-season points place him eighth on the CFL’s all-time list and he was part of Grey Cup-winning teams in 2014 and 2018. “I’m very excited to be back with the organization,” Paredes said in a release. “My family and I love the city and it’s a blessing to have spent my entire career as a Stampeder. The last two seasons have been a challenge for us as a team but I’m looking forward to doing everything I can to help turn things around.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 11, 2024. The Canadian Press

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. severely lags behind China in shipbuilding capacity, lawmakers and experts have warned, as the Biden administration tries to build up the country's ability to develop and produce weapons and other defense supplies to fend off war. Speaking at a congressional hearing Thursday, Rep. John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said the country lacks the capacity to “deter and win a fight” with China and called for action. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Get updates and player profiles ahead of Friday's high school games, plus a recap Saturday with stories, photos, video Frequency: Seasonal Twice a week