Atletico is looking to win the Europa League for the third time in nine seasons, after triumphing in 2010 and again in 2012, shortly after ‘Cholo’ Simeone was appointed coach.“We can’t wait for the final to come around,” full-back Juanfran told Radio Marca as Atletico target a first trophy since 2014, when it won La Liga.“With ‘Cholo’ lots of things have changed at Atletico. Everything we have experienced in these last few years we will remember forever. I hope we can get another little medal.”It would be a first, and possibly last major medal as an Atletico player for Griezmann, who was raised not far from Lyon but has spent his whole career in Spain.The 27-year-old forward joined Atletico from Real Sociedad on the back of its title success in 2014, but could soon be on his way to Barcelona.Griezmann and Diego Costa will lead Simeone’s attack as Atletico return to Lyon, where it lost 3-0 to Dynamo Kiev in the final of the now defunct Cup Winners’ Cup in 1986.Atletico have had plenty of heartbreak in European finals down the years, as have Marseille.The French club have previously appeared in four, losing three, the exception being their victory over AC Milan in the inaugural Champions League final in 1993.Rudi Garcia’s team were not expected to make it this far, having started their European campaign in the qualifying rounds last July.But after rousing wins over RB Leipzig in the last eight and Salzburg in the semifinals, OM and their passionate fans are now dreaming of glory on home soil.“Those who won the Champions League in 1993 are still heroes because nobody else has done it since,” Dimitri Payet told Uefa.com.“We know how tough it is. Of course, that’s an added source of motivation, and if we do win the final, our names will be written into the club’s history books forever.”Marseille are also battling for a top-three finish in the French league, and the fear is that fatigue will be a factor as they try to break down Atletico’s brilliant defence.“They are a big club, a super team with great players and a great coach. They are used to playing in big European matches. They are clear favourites but we will do everything to create a surprise,” winger Florian Thauvin told sports daily L’Equipe.Payet is “optimistic” he will shake off a minor muscle problem to feature in Wednesday’s game, where Marseille will hope to have a big support behind them.Only around 11 500 of their fans will officially be in attendance, however, but several thousand more should make the three-hour trip to Lyon.Authorities are preparing for the threat of trouble, with a big rivalry developing in recent years between Marseille and Lyon.Since reaching the final, Marseille fans have taunted Lyon and their outspoken president Jean-Michel Aulas with chants of: “We’re going to smash up your house”.There will be 1, 250 police officers deployed in the city and around the Groupama Stadium to take care of possible fans’ troubles.EUROPA FINALMarseille Vs AtleticoCAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUEEtoile du Sahel Vs Zesco UtdCAF CONFED CUPCARA Vs EnyimbaDjoliba AC vs WilliamsvilleGor Mahia Vs USM AlgerYoung Africans Vs RayonAl Hilal Vs Al MasryAS Vita Vs ASEC MimosasAduana Vs RajaNPFL (Today)El Kanemi Vs Akwa UtdPlateau Utd Vs LobiShare this:FacebookRedditTwitterPrintPinterestEmailWhatsAppSkypeLinkedInTumblrPocketTelegram After painful defeats in recent continental finals, Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid is determined to justify its status as favourite in tonight’s Europa League showpiece against Marseille in Lyon. Kick off time is 7.45pm.Atletico lost in extra time to Real Madrid in the Champions League final of 2014, having been seconds away from victory in 90 minutes, and then lost on penalties to their city rivals in the final of the same competition two years later.An exit from this season’s Champions League in the group stage came as a big surprise for a formidable side spearheaded by Antoine Griezmann in attack, but they have put that behind them to close on glory in Europe’s less prestigious competition. read more

Three years after bringing in the nation’s No. 11 recruiting class according to collegesoccernews.com, Wisconsin men’s soccer hasn’t had much to show from it.In the seasons since, the Badgers went 8-23-6, haven’t won a Big Ten Tournament game and failed to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. Reasons for the poor performances include, the team was young and inexperienced and there were too many holes to fill after key departures like AJ Cochran. But regardless of what has happened over the past two seasons, the Badgers feel they are ready to put their poor results behind them.Men’s soccer season roundup: Although record disappointing, some bright spots in 2015The Wisconsin men’s soccer season came to a close on Nov. 8 as Indiana knocked them out of the Big Read…Mark Segbers, a junior forward who finished 2015 with the second-most points for Wisconsin, believes the team will have to adopt a new mindset that places a do-or-die attitude on every game. But as he pointed out, something much more ordinary can lead the Badgers to success — being confident.“A lot of times we did play well and broke other teams down,” Segbers said. “But in that final third we just couldn’t put the ball away. I think it just comes down to being more confident, more lethal. You have to believe that every chance you get is going to hit the back of the net.”That approach, Segbers said, is what he feels will make the difference after the Badgers scored just 19 goals in 2015.Though Wisconsin lost midfielder Drew Connor to graduation, with the likes of Segbers, Tom Barlow and Mike Catalano patrolling and distributing from the midfield, the Badgers are in good hands to continue bypassing opposing defenses.A solid attack that features 2015 leading scorer Christopher Mueller, and a defense led by New Zealand international Sam Brotherton, will be a potent units to compliment the midfield.Men’s soccer: Attacking midfielder provides spark for UW in first two wins of seasonAfter starting the season 0-4, the Wisconsin men’s soccer team needed a jolt of creativity and energy. This spark came Read…With all of those pieces in place, the team will hold a higher line so they don’t find themselves on their heels as much as last season, when they were outshot 287 to 187. It’s a tactic which head coach John Trask feels the team is now ready for since they can handle tracking back if they lose possession.“A lot of [goal scoring] is going to come from practice and how we practice,” Segbers said. “When we do our drills, sometimes we’re not pressing enough and that’s something we’re going to do a lot this year. When we get a team stuck in their final third it can lead to good things.”When trying to pin opposing teams in their own zones, the Badgers will be more likely to draw fouls, in dangerous positions no less, and be able to take advantage of set-pieces. An athletic team with a high press will also undoubtedly force turnovers and have better counterattacking play, all of which will lead to goals.But the Badgers don’t want to stop there and are looking to further the damage done by a high press with fluid passing and smart runs off the ball. The group of promising upperclassmen and sophomores, despite some already playing two seasons together, are looking to reach an ever higher level of understanding each other’s play.“We need to make sure that when we get back to Madison, we’re working on all of our combinations,” Brotherton said. “We’re trying to become a team that’s comfortable playing with each other and can be clever all game.”It won’t, however, take until preseason to work on furthering that understanding. After qualifying for the Confederations Cup as a member of the New Zealand national team in early June, Brotherton joined Premier Development League side Des Moines Menace alongside fellow Badgers Barlow, Nick Jones and Alex Masbruch.Men’s soccer: Sophomores on verge of emerging from ‘growing pains’For the Wisconsin’s men’s soccer team, some sophomores and key players have been tasked with running the show for the Read…Des Moines currently sits at the top of the top of the Heartland Division of the PDL, with the aid of Barlow’s six goals, Jones’ two and the undocumented contributions of the others. They are also six points ahead of Segbers’ Chicago Fire U23 squad, also in the same division.Segbers leads the team with four goals and three assists, adding to the impressive play that the Badgers have showcased this offseason. But while they may be division rivals, the competition is nothing but friendly, Segbers said. He and his teammates will congratulate each other back in Madison, after their PDL games and continue to be a close-knit bunch despite now sporting different colors.“[Having players in the PDL] is critical,” Trask said. “The PDL does an excellent job of giving these guys the opportunity to play at a high-level all summer long…and [Des Moines head coach Mike Matkovich] has been pleased with the UW guys so far.”The experience and camaraderie is the perfect combination to achieve what the team so desperately wishes to this fall — a Big Ten Tournament win. read more

Beverly TackettBeverly Tackett, 85, formerly of Wellington, died Saturday, August 13, 2016 at the Villa Maria Nursing Home in Mulvane.Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 5 p.m., Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at the St. Anthony-St. Rose Catholic Church in Wellington. No Visitation is scheduled.  A memorial has been established with the Villa Maria Nursing Home and may be left with Shelley Family Funeral Home of Wellington. For further information please visit www.shelleyfamilyfh.com.Beverly Tackett was born on December 6, 1930 the daughter of Timothy and Violet (Stockman) Reichenberger in Andale. She was a 1947 graduate of Andale High School before graduating from St. Francis Nursing School in Wichita. On June 10, 1966 she was united in marriage with Gordon Tackett in Sacramento, CA.After her nursing career Beverly worked as a secretary at Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas. Later she helped run a plumbing business and was the second female to have earned her plumbing license in the state of Kansas. Beverly loved to cook and made her family a priority. She loved to spend time with her children and grandchildren.Beverly is survived by her daughter, Glenda Martens and husband Kim; sons, Walter Langford, Robert Tackett, Greg Tackett and James Tackett; brothers, Gary Reichenberger, Marc Reichenberger, John Reichenberger and Danny Reichenberger; five grandchildren, Ryan Hay, Parker Robinson, Zachary Langford, Connor Langford and Mallory Tackett and great grandson, Attikus Hay.Beverly is preceded in death by her parents, husband Gordon in 1995 and brothers, Bob and Tim Reichenberger. read more

Former Chelsea midfielder Dennis Wise believes retaining Eden Hazard is a must and revealed what he thinks they can do to ensure itThe Belgian winger is yet to commit his long-term future at Chelsea with his current contract set to expire in June 2020.Hazard has recently teased the possibility of fulfilling a childhood dream of his by signing for Real Madrid, who were strongly linked with a move for him last summer.But Wise reckons a few quality signings along with a top-four finish in the Premier League this season could enough to convince Hazard to stay at Stamford Bridge.“It’s very important to keep him,” Wise told Metro.“I think from a Chelsea point of view if they want to win trophies they need to keep Hazard.Jose Mourinho is sold on Lampard succeeding at Chelsea Tomás Pavel Ibarra Meda – September 14, 2019 Jose Mourinho wanted to give his two cents on Frank Lampard’s odds as the new Chelsea FC manager, he thinks he will succeed.There really…“It’s very important because he’s such a quality player.“Every Chelsea fan would love to keep him and hopefully we can tie him up for longer.“But the important thing from Hazard’s point of view is what other personnel comes in at Chelsea Football Club and whether they can get back into the Champions League.“He wants to play Champions League football – he hasn’t this year – but if they can get that spot for next year and add a couple of top quality players then it can [help] change his mind.“He’d know then that the club can compete because at this moment Manchester City and Liverpool are in front.”Hazard has managed eight goals and six assists in 17 appearances this season for Chelsea, who will face league leaders Manchester City this Saturday. read more

Obaidul QuaderRuling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said his party’s arch enemy Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has nothing to do except lying while seeking vote from people for the next general election, reports UNB.Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, came up with the remarks while inaugurating district Awami League’s fresh member collection drive at Harimohan Government High School ground in Chapainawabganj.”Looting through Hawa Bhaban will resume if BNP is voted to power and the country will be champion in corruption and anarchy once again,” the AL leader claimed.He urged the people to vote for AL to continue the “advancement and progress of the country”.He also warned his party men saying that those leaders not acceptable to people and party activists won’t get nomination for the next general election.District AL president Monuddin Mandal presided over the programme where AL central joint general secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak, organising secretary Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury and Rajshahi city unit AL president and ex-mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton also spoke. read more

00:00 /29:40 To embed this piece of audio in your site, please use this code: Share In the extended version of Craig Cohen’s conversation on Houston Matters with Woodlands-area Republican Congressman Kevin Brady, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says he hopes to get tax reforms — such as the border adjustment tax — passed this year, despite the battle over the GOP healthcare bill. He also says he thinks more people would support the Republican healthcare plan if they only understood it better.Also, the congressman discusses civility and bi-partisanship on Capital Hill in the weeks following the shooting at a GOP baseball practice in June. Plus Brady updates us on the status of his colleague (and roommate when he’s in Washington), Rep. Steve Scalise, who was shot during the attack. X Listen read more

sanjeri/Getty ImagesStudy participants often answer questions differently, depending on the questioner’s gender. Sex hormones can affect results, too.The results of an IQ test can depend on the gender of the person who’s conducting the test. Likewise, studies of pain medication can be completely thrown off by the gender of the experimenter. This underappreciated problem is one reason that some scientific findings don’t stand the test of time.Colin Chapman found out about this problem the hard way. He had traveled to Sweden on a Fulbright scholarship to launch his career in neuroscience. And he decided to study whether a nasal spray containing a hormone called oxytocin would help control obesity. The hormone influences appetite and impulsive behavior in obese men.“I was really excited about this project, from what I understood about how the brain works, I thought it was kind of a slam dunk,” he says.Chapman set up the experiment and then left for a few years to attend Harvard Law School. When he returned, the findings were not at all what he expected, “and I was really disappointed because this was my baby, it was my big project going into neuroscience.”But Chapman, who is now a graduate student at the University of Uppsala, says his idea turned out to be right after all.“There was another research group that around the same time came up with the same idea,” he says. “And they ran basically the same project and they got exactly the results I was expecting to get.”That led him to wonder what had gone wrong with his experiment. One possibility was that the hormone he was using, oxytocin, can waft through the air and affect social interactions, especially between heterosexual people of opposite sexes. So he started to worry that hormones from the experimenters could have been messing up his results.One man and two women had been conducting the actual experiments. But when he went to find out which scientist did which test, “nobody had kept track of that, because that’s not something that’s commonly kept track of in science, just in general.”Chapman and two colleagues now argue that’s a huge mistake. In this review paper in the online journal Science Advances, they dig back through the history of science and find many, many other examples of studies that are influenced by whether the experimenter and subject are the same gender.“Even something that’s supposedly as stable as IQ can be affected by the gender of the experimenter,” he says, referring to a study conducted in the 1970s. “If you have a female experimenter with a male student, for instance, you’re going to see higher IQ scores.”It’s also a big problem in pain research. A heterosexual man participating in a pain experiment will report more pain to a male tester than to a female, Chapman says. He suspects this is partly because the man is — subconsciously or otherwise — trying to impress the woman, and partly because the biochemistry of sexual attraction is at work.“If you’re testing out a new drug for pain, and you’re getting these kinds of great results, you might want to look at [the genders of] who’s running the experiment and who’s participating in the experiment, because that could explain it more than the drug itself,” Chapman says.And the subjects of these experiments don’t even have to be humans.In 2014, researchers discovered that the sex of a laboratory worker could completely screw up the results of pain experiments in rats and mice.A sweaty man’s T-shirt in the room, or a swab from a man’s armpit, was enough to skew the results. Even scents from other animals affected the rodent studies.“If you present the male chemical in front of rats or mice, they are stressed and that stress ends up killing pain,” says Dr. Jeffery Mogil, a neuroscience professor at McGill University who led that study.The study got a fair amount of attention at the time. But since? “Scientists change their practices very, very slowly,” Mogil says, “and I think it would be fair to say very little has happened” as a result of those eye-opening observations.In the meantime, scientists continue to come across these problems. Mogil saw a report at the Society for Neuroscience meeting last November, in which mice responded to an antidepressant only when it was administered by men, not women.He and Chapman agree that a simple first step would be for scientists to report the gender of the people who run these kinds of experiments. Editors of scientific journals could require that, or funding agencies. But at the moment, they don’t.You can contact Richard Harris via email.Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. Share read more

Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday cited figures to suggest claims of Opposition candidates being prevented from filing nominations for the rural polls were exaggerated. Until now, 11 per cent uncontested seats – a “feat” achieved during the Left regime in 2003 – had been the highest for a rural poll in Bengal. Some political scientists feel that the quantum of uncontested seats – which means where the ruling party has won even before a single vote has been cast – will be around 30 per cent this time. Also Read – Heavy rain hits traffic, flights “The major Opposition parties have filed 74,000 nominations in 58,000 seats. If Independents and others are considered, the total number would reach 90,000. How can they say that they are being prevented from filing nominations?” Mamata asked. But a Calcutta-based political scientist said: “She has given the total number of nominations, but not the number of seats where the Opposition could file nominations…. In some areas, the Opposition parties filed nominations together and that’s why the count may look impressive. Mamata also swatted away the Opposition charge that violence led by the ruling party had resulted in a “breakdown of democracy”. According to her, the BJP organised people from Dumka in Jharkhand to create problems in Mohammedbazar in Birbhum while the trouble in Nalhati, also in the same district, was fabricated. read more