For its last, the Coupe de la Ligue did not see big, but it saw far. Very far. Until the penalty shoot-out. And in the end, it is Paris Saint-Germain who wins (0-0, 6-5 in the tabs).
The Mustache Cup therefore ends as it began. Olympique Lyonnais now need the ultimate Champions League miracle to play Europe next year.
Thirty-five degrees at kick-off, barely less than 30 at the final whistle, two more-than-necessary cool breaks. Like the entire Paris basin, the Plaine Saint-Denis was transformed into an oven on Friday evening. The players, who did not necessarily need this to draw, necessarily suffered, with the lot of technical inaccuracies that implies. From the start of the second half, the Lyon midfielder showed signs of fatigue on the Parisian blocks, splitting the team block in two. And after the hour of play, Paris got into it too. The result: the two teams played a nice ping-pong match at regular intervals. We had come to see football, but why not.
Mbappé missed, OL (almost) took advantage
Thomas Tuchel is struggling to play his team without Kylian Mbappé. Uninspired, his team swung a lot ahead, hoping that Icardi or Di Maria discovered unsuspected talents of hares. Obviously in vain. Without the threat of the “Bondy TGV”, OL were able to apply their plan by playing fairly regularly high by spinning the ball until Depay, or Cornet played Kurzawa, not to his advantage tonight. ‘like his counterpart Mitchel Bakker, whom one wonders even if he has the level to play in National 2. It is often passed on the Parisian right lane, therefore, but less in the axis, where Memphis and Dembele, despite a few flashes of brilliance often collided with the Presko-Thiago hinge.
Marco Verratti above the fray
The Italian will have been one of the rare satisfactions of PSG, with Neymar. Thomas Tuchel, who had promised a Verratti “fit” yesterday at a press conference after having spared him against Saint-Etienne in the final of the Coupe de France had not therefore lied, the Italian appeared solid on the lawn of the Stade de France, Friday, as evidenced by his playing time tonight. Well-felt tackles, an interesting volume of play – in the 98th he even made a deep left side call – despite the weather conditions and above all, above all, this fascinating ability to get out of dangerous and / or desperate situations unscathed. The John McClane of Paris Saint-Germain.
Anthony Lopes above the clouds
If the Stade de France was able to fall asleep in front of a soporific extension, it is thanks to the OL goalkeeper. The Portuguese thwarted Neymar’s plans. Whether on free kick or head (89th), the Brazilian hit a wall. In his own style, Lopes has often pitched in the toes and flown above the clouds to keep his goals untouched. And, of course, he got tangled up with a PSG player. A full match, therefore, for Toto Lopes.
Rafael and Traoré below everything
There could have been no penalty shootout. At the very last minute of extra time, Rafael mows down Di Maria at the edge of the box, concedes an ultra-dangerous free kick and takes a red card. Unfortunately for Bertrand Traoré, Neymar did not put his free kick to shorten the meeting. On the other hand, he coldly transformed his penalty just before the Lyon striker failed in front of Navas. Like what, the plague status of the match is sometimes played for nothing.
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Rostec turned to President Vladimir Putin with a request to instruct the Cabinet of Ministers to stimulate the transition of domestic airlines to the Russian reservation system, which is being developed by the state corporation (the letter is at the disposal of Izvestia).
To operate the unified settlement system on the territory of the Russian Federation, Rostec created the RT-Transcom enterprise. The company is faced with the task of creating a modern and secure data center in the country, “as well as transferring data from leading Russian airlines, primarily Aeroflot and S7 PJSC, from imported to domestic software,” the appeal says.
Today Aeroflot works with the American Saber reservation system, and Ural Airlines – with the European Amadeus.
Sergey Chemezov suggests linking the provision of state support to airlines with the transition to the use of domestic software products.
In July 2019, the Russian government issued a decree according to which, by October 31, 2021, airlines will have the right to work only with those reservation system providers that store and process information about domestic Russian transportation – passengers, fares and fees – in the Russian Federation.
Read more in the exclusive material of Izvestia:
Software – we fly: airlines want to transfer to the domestic booking system
Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho is interested in signing Colombia winger Luis Diaz, 23, from Porto.(Record – in Portuguese)
Inter Miami, the Major League Soccer side owned by former England captain David Beckham, want to make Barcelona and Uruguay forward Luis Suarez, 33, their first big-name signing. (Mundo Deportivo – in Spanish)
Manchester City and Paris St-Germain target David Alaba’s agent is asking Bayern Munich pay the 28-year-old Austria left-back 20m euros (£18m) a year to extend his contract. (Bild – in German)
Talks between Manchester United and 23-year-old English goalkeeper Dean Henderson – who spent the season on loan at Sheffield United – are at a vital stage after weeks of negotiations. (Sky Sports)
Chelsea are prioritising the signing of Leicester City’s England left-back Ben Chilwell, 23, over other options in that position, including Ajax’s Argentine defender Nicholas Tagliafico, 27, and Getafe’s Spain Under-21 international Marc Cucurella, 22. (Goal)
West Ham United are interested in Queens Park Rangers and former Republic of Ireland Under-21 full-back Ryan Manning, 24. (Telegraph – subscription required)
Atletico Madrid have rejected an improved offer of 25m euros (£22.6m), plus 21-year-old France midfielder Matteo Guendouzi, from Arsenal for Ghana defensive midfielder Thomas Partey, 27. (AS – in Spanish)
English former Burnley, West Ham and Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart, 33, is close to a move to Scottish champions Celtic.(Sun)
Brazil forward Hulk, 34, is considering a move to the Premier League when his contract at Shanghai SIPG expires in January. (Talksport)
Premier League newcomers Leeds United are targeting FC Utrecht’s 25-year-old Dutch right-back Sean Klaiber as they look to do early business in the transfer window. (Voetbal International – in Dutch)
However, Leeds’ hopes of signing Argentina Under-20 winger Thiago Almada are fading, with the 19-year-old telling his Velez Sarsfield team-mates he wants to stay in his homeland. (Leeds Live)
Watford are in talks with Vladimir Ivic over their vacant manager’s job after the 43-year-old Serb left his role as head coach at Maccabi Tel Aviv, where he won consecutive league titles. (Mail)
Barcelona are looking to offload February signing Martin Braithwaite, 29, with the Denmark forward not in manager Quique Setien’s plans for next season. (Mundo Deportivo – in Spanish)
MacKenzie Scott Gives 17 Billion to Historically Black Colleges and
MacKenzie Scott, one of the world’s richest women, pledged one year ago to give away her money “until the safe is empty.”
On Tuesday, Ms. Scott, an author and philanthropist who was once married to Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, said she had so far given $1.7 billion to a long list of institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities as well as organizations that support women’s rights, L.G.B.T.Q. equality, and efforts to fight climate change and racial inequities.
“I gave each a contribution and encouraged them to spend it on whatever they believe best serves their efforts,” Ms. Scott said in a Medium post in which she listed more than 100 organizations that received donations.
Ms. Scott, who was married to Mr. Bezos for 25 years, is estimated to have a net worth of $36 billion and is the fourth-richest woman in the world, according to Forbes. Ms. Scott, 50, received 4 percent of Amazon’s shares as part of the couple’s divorce settlement.
A Princeton graduate who studied under Toni Morrison, Ms. Scott pursued a career as a writer even as she helped Mr. Bezos start his business.
Soon after the divorce, Ms. Scott, still using her married name, signed the Giving Pledge, noting that she had “a disproportionate amount of money to share.”
Other wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have also signed the pledge, a project that encourages billionaires to promise to give away at least half of their wealth over their lifetimes.
Several of the organizations that received donations from Ms. Scott, including Howard University and Tuskegee University, said the gifts were the biggest contributions their institutions had ever received.
Howard University said it received $40 million, a donation it described as “transformative.”
The university said Ms. Scott’s gift would help support a student retention program that gives financial assistance to students who receive the maximum amount of aid under the federal Pell grant program.
“We hope that other donors will follow her example to lift the financial burden off of deserving students and help make ends meet so they can focus on graduating on time,” Wayne A.I. Frederick, the president of the university, said in a statement.
Lily D. McNair, president of Tuskegee University, said Ms. Scott had donated $20 million to the university.
“This gift comes at an opportune time for us,” Ms. McNair said in a statement. She said she envisioned the money would help fund student scholarships and campus improvement projects.
“The gift will allow us to become the Tuskegee of the 21st century,” she said.
In her post, Ms. Scott said that last fall she asked a team of nonprofit advisers to help her identify organizations that have directly helped marginalized groups.
“I began work to complete my pledge with the belief that my life had yielded two assets that could be of particular value to others: the money these systems helped deliver to me, and a conviction that people who have experience with inequities are the ones best equipped to design solutions,” Ms. Scott wrote.
She added that the work of giving away more than half her fortune “will last for years.”
Unlike other ultrawealthy donors, who often establish their own foundations, Ms. Scott gave directly to causes and underrepresented groups doing work on the ground, said Rob Reich, a Stanford University political science professor who has written about the drawbacks of modern philanthropy.
He also noted that her donation had no strings attached, an approach he praised as “anti-paternalistic.”
But Professor Reich emphasized that the public should realize that the Giving Pledge does little to a reduce a person’s overall wealth.
“If you pick the year that someone signed the Giving Pledge and look at their wealth today, almost all of those people today have more wealth than they did when they signed the Giving Pledge,” he said. “They’re richer today than when they signed the pledge because their wealth has grown more quickly.”
The public should generally be wary of billionaire philanthropy, said Chuck Collins, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, which has examined how the wealth of those who signed the Giving Pledge has continued to grow exponentially.
“They’re giving their money away so that’s better than building a multigenerational dynasty or buying another yacht,” Mr. Collins said. “The generous impulse is real.”
But those donations are often used to write off taxes, shifting the burden to other taxpayers, Mr. Collins added.
“We should have healthy skepticism about these big gifts and announcements because we the taxpayer give a pretty substantial subsidy to the wealthy to pay for them,” he said.
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One tonne of high technology: Seven instruments, 23 cameras, two microphones and a drill
The multi-billion-dollar, decade-long effort to bring rock samples from Mars to Earth gets under way on Thursday.
It starts with the US space agency’s latest rover, called Perseverance, which is launching from Florida.
When the robot lands on the Red Planet in February, it will not only search for evidence of life but also package rock samples for return to Earth labs.
This will take an elaborate mix of future missions, but it all begins with the one-tonne, six-wheeled rover.
Lift-off of Perseverance on a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket is timed for the start of a two-hour window that opens at 07:50 local time (12:50 BST; 11:50 GMT).
It’s the third mission heading to Mars this month after launches by the UAE and China.
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Artwork: Did Mars ever host life? The evidence could be held in the planet’s rocks
Once Perseverance takes off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, it faces a seven-month cruise to the Red Planet.
It’s being targeted at a 40km-wide, near-equatorial bowl called Jezero Crater.
Satellite images suggest this held a lake billions of years ago. Scientists say the rocks that formed in this environment stand a good chance of retaining evidence of past microbial activity – if ever that existed on the planet.
Perseverance will spend at least one Martian year (equivalent to roughly two Earth years) investigating the possibility.
Unlike the previous four rovers Nasa has sent to Mars, its new machine is equipped to directly detect life – either current or in fossilised form.
But any evidence it uncovers will almost certainly have its sceptics, which is why researchers want to bring whatever Perseverance finds back home for the deeper analysis only sophisticated laboratories on Earth can perform.
How is Perseverance different from earlier rovers?
At first glance, Perseverance looks to be a copy of the Curiosity robot Nasa sent to Mars’ Gale Crater in 2012. Indeed, the new robot even incorporates some leftover parts from the earlier mission.
But the seven instruments on Perseverance are either major upgrades or totally new.
Expect some remarkable new imagery from the 23 cameras on the vehicle – and sound, because the Perseverance mission carries microphones as well.
“We hope to capture some of the sounds of entry, descent and landing; and some of the sounds of driving around, merging that with the video we can take,” explained Jim Bell, the principal investigator on the rover’s mast-mounted camera system, MastcamZ.
In addition to geological investigations and the search for life, there’s an emphasis on future human exploration.
The Moxie instrument will practise making oxygen from Mars’ carbon dioxide-dominated atmosphere; and there are even samples of spacesuit material aboard to see how they cope in the planet’s harsh environment.
This is purely a technology demonstration. Ingenuity aims to prove that aero vehicles can operate in Mars’s rarefied air.
The 1.8kg machine will be deployed from Perseverance’s belly once a suitable location for its flight experiments has been identified.
Ingenuity’s twin, counter-rotating blades will have to spin extremely fast to get off the ground.
Engineers have five sorties planned over a 30-day period, with the ambition on each excursion of climbing ever higher into the sky and getting further away from Perseverance.
“Today, we simply don’t use the aerial dimension in space exploration, but in future we will,” said Nasa’s Ingenuity project leader, MiMi Aung. “They will be used, for example, in a scouting function. When humans arrive, or indeed future rovers, the rotorcraft will go in front and gather high-definition images of the way ahead,” she told BBC News.
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Why is Jezero Crater so interesting to scientists?
Jezero is named after a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In some Slavic languages the word “jezero” also means “lake” – which should explain the fascination.
This 500m-deep bowl once saw huge volumes of water flow in through the western wall to pool on the crater floor.
Where the water entered, it even deposited sediments to form a delta. Perseverance will try to land next to this feature.
Jezero displays multiple rock types, including clays and carbonates, that have the potential to preserve the type of organic molecules that would hint at life’s bygone existence.
Particularly enticing is the “bathtub ring” of sediments laid down at the ancient lake’s shoreline. It’s here that Perseverance could find what on Earth are called stromatolites.
“These are ancient fossilised microbial mats,” explained rover deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan.
“They leave behind very thin layers, with concentrations of particular elements and organics at repeated intervals. We’ll be looking for those fine laminations, looking for chemistry and textures you wouldn’t expect if these things were just abiotic, or didn’t involve life.”
We know from the search for the earliest life on Earth that the evidence can sometimes be controversial.
So, even if Perseverance stumbles across rocks that appear to have been fashioned by some ancient Martian biology, it will almost certainly require confirmation by analytical instruments on Earth that are far superior to the miniaturised versions carried on the rover.
That’s why a key task for Perseverance will be to package its most interesting rocks in small metal canisters and leave them on the Jezero Crater floor.
Nasa and the European Space Agency (Esa) intend to go fetch these tubes with two more missions that are scheduled to leave Earth in 2026.
It’s a remarkable endeavour involving a second rover, a Mars rocket and a huge satellite to ship the sample tubes home, getting them here in 2031. “You can argue that what we’ll be trying to do is as complicated as the Apollo Moon landings – when you think of the complexity of the robotics involved,” David Parker, director of human and robotic exploration at Esa, told BBC News.
“And it will also be a step on the way to sending humans to Mars because the architecture of this Mars Sample Return project is really a scale model of a human mission with its multiple vehicles that have to launch, land, launch again, rendezvous in orbit and return to Earth.”
Nasa and Esa estimate the total cost of getting samples back to Earth, including the $2.7bn (€2.3bn; £2bn) cost of Perseverance, will come to at least $7bn (€6bn; £5.4bn).
An illustrated guide to Mars Sample Return
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Caught between nations: Chinese-owned TikTok faces a US investigation
TikTok has launched a direct attack on Facebook, accusing it of being a “copycat” and trying to end TikTok’s presence in the US under the guise of patriotism.
It comes as TikTok, owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, faces fresh scrutiny.
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said TikTok was now being reviewed over national security concerns.
Meanwhile, Facebook and other big tech firms are due to defend their practices in front of the US Congress.
TikTok has long battled allegations that it is too close to the Chinese state – something it fiercely denies.
Announcing the review, Secretary Mnuchin said TikTok was being investigated by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which examines commercial transactions for national security concerns.
A recommendation would be made to President Donald Trump this week, he said. Mr Trump separately said that his administration was “thinking about” making a decision on the app later this week.
It came shortly after TikTok published a firmly worded defence of its role in the United States.
‘Not the enemy’
Chief executive Kevin Mayer said that while big firms “rightly” come under scrutiny, “we have received even more… due to the company’s Chinese origins”.
He went on: “TikTok has become the latest target, but we are not the enemy”.
He also took direct aim at Facebook, writing off its new Instagram Reels feature as a TikTok clone.
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Much like Tiktok, the app is focused on short-form ephemeral video.
“Facebook is even launching another copycat product, Reels (tied to Instagram), after their other copycat Lasso failed quickly,” Mr Meyer’s statement said.
Lasso had been referred to as “a TikTok clone” by media outlets for its similarities, but was shut down in July.
Mr Meyer also defended the cultural impact of TikTok, and warned that without his firm, American advertisers would be left with fewer options.
A repeated theme was that TikTok was good for competition. Without it, he wrote, “competition would dry up and so too will an outlet for America’s creative energy”.
He also insisted the company had no political leanings or agenda.
This is not the first time TikTok has faced trouble. It was recently banned in India amid heightened tensions between that country and China.
The Moms Are Here ‘Wall of Moms Groups Mobilize Nationwide
More recently, new chapters of Wall of Moms collectives have mobilized across the country, with several turning out at demonstrations on Saturday. A group of about 50 Wall of Moms participants marched in Seattle as clashes between police and protesters intensified, said Christine Edgar, who helped organize the local chapter. One of those arrested, Sonia Alexander, 46, a mother of two, said she was taken to the emergency room after a flash-bang grenade exploded near her leg.
A delegation in Oakland, Calif., waved large peace signs and marched at the front of a demonstration; one mom carried a sign that read, “Schedule: Bath time, Bed time, Fight fascists, Defend Black lives, Repeat.” In Aurora, Colo., on Saturday, the Wall of Moms held arms and flowers at a protest in honor of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old who died last summer after police in Aurora restrained him with a chokehold. At Saturday’s demonstration, a person was shot and wounded after a car drove through the crowd.
Wall of Moms groups in Missouri, North Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Chicago and Maryland are reaching out to local activists and plotting their next steps, organizers from each group said in interviews.
Gia Gilk, 45, a mother in Albuquerque, N.M., started a Facebook group to organize a local Wall of Moms chapter last week, thinking she would attract 30 or 40 members. Within 24 hours, she said, almost 3,000 moms had signed up. “I’ve never done anything like this before,” said Gilk, about coordinating the group. “I just think it’s time for us to finally stand up.”
Benches Clear in First Astros Dodgers Game Since Cheating Revelations
Yeah, the other teams still don’t like the Astros very much.
Baseball really and truly came back on Tuesday in Houston with the first bench-clearing brouhaha, which included the usual jawing and posturing, but no punches thrown.
It was the first game between the Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers since the revelation that Houston had been stealing signs via an illegal video stream and communicating them to batters by banging on a trash can. The scheme was used in the 2017 World Series, which the Astros won over the Dodgers in seven games, giving Los Angeles an extra incentive to hold a grudge.
“I think it’s a pretty safe assumption that if they weren’t cheating, we would have won the World Series,” Dodgers pitcher Alex Wood said this spring.
In the sixth inning, the Dodgers were ahead by 5-2, and their reliever Joe Kelly was on the mound. He seemed to be having control problems and got behind in the count against Alex Bregman, 3-0, with some very bad pitches. Pitch four was the worst, a fastball that flew behind Bregman’s head. Bregman ducked sharply to avoid it, but it was an obvious ball four.
Tension was in the air after the pitch, but players stayed on the benches. Kelly’s previous wildness perhaps gave him the benefit of the doubt, and indicated the pitch might have been unintentional.
It was a little harder to call the next one unintentional. After a groundout and another walk, Kelly threw high and inside again to Carlos Correa, who likewise had to duck out of the way. There were some stares, but the at-bat continued and Correa wound up striking out.
Then the jawboning really ignited, and Kelly was seen making faces at Correa. The Astros said later that he had said, “Nice swing,” after the strikeout.
At last the teams could no longer resist, and poured onto the field. No shoves or punches were seen, but there was plenty of arguing and shouting as dozens of players and coaches spilled onto the field.
In the center of the action was Astros Manager Dusty Baker, who didn’t let his mask stop him from giving an extended piece of his mind to the umpires. “Balls get away sometimes, but not that many in the big leagues,” Baker told reporters after the game.
While some of those in the scrum were wearing masks, most were not, and the contretemps took place at distances that were far from social. The sport’s health and safety protocols for this season state: “Players must not make physical contact with others for any reason unless it occurs in normal and permissible game action,” and players were at the very least skirting this line.
Things calmed down after the confrontation, and the game ended, 5-2, to the Dodgers.
Kelly was with the Boston Red Sox in 2017, not the Dodgers, but he is known as being something of a combative player. After the game, he denied throwing at either Astros player and said his facial expressions were merely an imitation of Correa.
While the Astros were hit with fines and the loss of draft picks over the cheating scandal, and their manager, A.J. Hinch, and general manager, Jeff Luhnow, were fired in the aftermath of the cheating revelations, many in the league would have liked to see even harsher penalties. Perhaps a few have resolved to deal those punishments themselves by way of an inside pitch or two.
Other teams besides the Dodgers have expressed displeasure with Houston for the cheating scandal. It could well be that Tuesday’s fracas is not the last one in this short season.
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Madonna claims to have been exposed to Covid-19 on her Madame X tour earlier this year
Pop star Madonna has been censured by Instagram after sharing a video about a coronavirus conspiracy theory to her 15 million followers.
In her post, the singer claimed a vaccine for Covid-19 had already been found, but was being hidden to “let the rich get richer”.
Instagram blurred out the video with a caption saying: “False Information”.
It also directed users to a page debunking the claims in the video, noting there is no coronavirus vaccine.
The video was later deleted from Madonna’s Instagram page, but not before fans protested at her decision to share the post.
Among them was pop star Annie Lennox, who commented: “This is utter madness!!! I can’t believe that you are endorsing this dangerous quackery.
“Hopefully your site has been hacked and you’re just about to explain it,” she added.
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The star previously called coronavirus “the great equaliser” in a video posted from her bath
The video in question showed a group called America’s Frontline Doctors speaking outside the US Supreme Court building at an event organised by Tea Party Patriots Action.
In the clip, Dr Stella Immanuel, a doctor from Houston, said she had successfully treated 350 coronavirus patients “and counting” with hydroxychloroquine.
Facebook and Twitter had previously removed the video, flagging it as misinformation; while Donald Trump Jr. was banned from tweeting for 12 hours as a penalty for sharing the clip.
According to Instagram, flagging a post as false makes it harder for users to discover “by filtering it from Explore and Hashtags, and reducing its visibility in Feed and Stories.”
This is not the first time Madonna has made controversial claims about coronavirus. In March, she posted a video from her bath, describing the virus as “the great equaliser”.
Two months later, she revealed she had tested positive for antibodies, supposedly granting her immunity from the disease.
“So tomorrow I’m just going to go on a long drive in a car, roll down the windows and I’m going to breathe in the Covid-19 air,” she told her fans.
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