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The Indian captain has decided to give the landmark June 14-18 Test a miss to prepare for the England tour by playing for Surrey in the County Championship, a decision that has evoked mixed response. In an interactive session with cricket historian Boria Majumdar, Clarke said he always prioritised playing Test cricket, irrespective of the opposition. “I’m really surprised… I don’t know why, it’s Virat’s choice. I think a Test match is a Test match....

While the maker Supercell thought it would wow fans with recent turns and tweaks on Clash of Clans, the Air Sweeper is finding no takers despite helping in enemy progress slowdown. Primarily, fans have taken to Facebook commenting to vent their anger on how Air Sweeper actually hatches off balloon traps in the game. More so, some fans allege that Air Sweeper actually lets the enemy understand when and where the same will blow off....

At the Leroy D. Feinberg Elementary School in Miami, a science teacher starts a lesson by holding up an ice cube and asking “Is it hot?” The point here is vocabulary. Only after the students who come from homes where English is not spoken learn the very basics will they move on to the question of just what an ice cube might be. The first grade at Magnolia Elementary School in Lanham, Md....

But the man who gained plaudits and admiration from football fans around the world with his smiley, eccentric attitude, has lost himself in the managerial merry-go-round ever since. Nine months after he delivered the Foxes their most coveted piece of silverware, Leicester took the harsh, albeit understandable decision to sack Ranieri. It was an astonishing, unforeseen decision from Leicester’s managing directors after the club endured a reality check; finding themselves in the midst of a relegation battle halfway through the following season....

The creation of their Origin service, in order to compete with Valve’s Steam, may have been a step in the right direction for some - but a very disturbing revelation in regards to their user agreement may only make the company’s reputation worse. Obviously, whenever you install something on your computer, a user agreement will pop up presenting rights and legalities. If you’re anything like most gamers or computer users, you just skip past and continue the installation....

If you’ve been working from home and feel like your desk is starting to get unruly, Logitech has a new docking station it wants to sell you. The Logi Dock, like the rest of its ilk, is designed to aid with desktop de-cluttering by way of acting as a stand-in for a bunch of power cords and cables. The kicker is it’s also designed to integrate with remote meeting services like Zoom and Google Meet....

Van Buitenen has won strong support in the European Parliament, which was already due to vote this week to censure the commission over its failure to control fraud and waste. A two-thirds majority–a long shot but not impossible–would force the sacking of all 20 commissioners. Commission president Jacques Santer claims a cleanup is already under way and says the auditor’s offense was going public in violation of EU employee-confidentiality rules....

But still, we can't help but read into Alexander's miles-wide smile from a ChicagoHoopsMedia video from over the weekend when asked about how his recruiting with the Jayhawks is going. Just go to the 2:10 mark for the question and answer. The 6-9, 240-pound prospect from Curie Metropolitan in Chicago is believed to be leaning toward Kansas, because his girlfriend, Caelynn Manning-Allen, will be a freshman on the Jayhawks' women's team this winter....

Namely, Bleszinski got angry about the Gears of War 2 tweet because it was making light of the state in which the game’s main sidekick, Dominic Santiago, finds his wife. As fans of the old Xbox classic will know, Dom ends up having to euthanize Maria due to her being tortured and severely catatonic as a result of being one of the humans that were initially enslaved by the Locust Horde....

Clint Capela was the 25th overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft. The Swiss native played six seasons with the Houston Rockets before he was traded to the Atlanta Hawks as part of a four-team trade in February 2020. In his six seasons with the Rockets, Capela averaged 12.7 ppg and 10.4 rpg. He also led the league in field-goal shooting (65.2%) in the 2017-18 regular season. Capela was also one of the key players on the Rockets roster that reached the 2018 Conference Finals and lost to the Golden State Warriors in seven games....

Late this afternoon Hillary Clinton’s staff sent out an ominously titled memo: “Watch What They Do, Not What They Say,” the subject line warned. The email blast was sent to scores of reporters in what can only be an attempt to move downward the double-digit victory margin the media narrative has set for Clinton, who finds herself in the odd position of being cast as a loser even if she technically wins Pennsylvania....

Never for a moment have I doubted that politics was as rough-and-tumble as anything I see on the sporting fields. Still, for all the name-calling and smear tactics of presidential campaigns present and past, never have I witnessed such a low blow as the one inflicted on Hillary Clinton last night. And this one apparently didn’t come from the Obama camp, but from anonymous Democrats, who compared the New York senator to Tonya Harding....

Would the team boycott the game? What type of statement would players make? Would they make a statement at all? The team had a meeting on Saturday morning to discuss options, and while a boycott was briefly considered it was never a real possibility. So how would the team respond as a collective whole? By wearing its warmups inside-out before Sunday's afternoon game in Oakland, Calif. Pictures tell a lot, including the one of the warmup jerseys together at midcourt and the black armbands worn during the game....

According to the Copyright Act of 1976 authors may recapture the rights to their works after waiting a set amount of time and providing appropriate notice. Barker followed these requirements, but Larry Kuppin, who had purchased the company that released the film, said that he could not recapture the rights. Kuppin argued that the terms of the agreement were to be interpreted under U.K. contract law, and therefore the Copyright Act of 1976 did not apply to the situation....

Toy Fair brimmed with techno-toys, ranging from tiny PDA’s for five-year-olds to baby dolls with enough onboard smarts to mug, cry and whine almost like the real thing. Fueled by “smart-toy” research at places like Intel, Microsoft and MIT, chips and software have crept into everything from toy trains to dollhouses. The result is a new era of toys that are increasingly intelligent–and a new generation of parents who are concerned that these interactive toys rob kids of more traditional fun....

In its report, for example, IBM says that the Internet’s first major commercial use will be business-to-business purchasing; IBM reckons this market to be 10 times larger than the consumer market. From Colgate-Palmolive we learn that in India annual use of toothpaste is only 67 grams per person, compared with a global average of 362 grams; as nations grow richer, their citizens brush more. Johnson & Johnson, the health-products company, reminds us of the rapidity of economic change; last year 35 percent of the company’s sales came from new products of the past five years....

After last night’s heart-stopping humdingers, it was the turn of the batsmen to take centrestage, and the New Zealand side delivered a powerful shock to the struggling Australian squad – a shock that left the Scorchers demoralized. Both sides lost quick wickets early into their respective innings, but while one recovered well, the other struggled hard to keep up with an ever increasing rate. Chasing a daunting target of 243, the Perth team could only muster 180/6, going down by 62 runs....

What happened between Punk and Cabana? Back in 2014, CM Punk appeared on his friend Cabana’s Art of Wrestling podcast, and spoke in detail about his WWE departure and what led to it. During the interview, Punk slammed WWE doctor Chris Amann, stating that he was negligent towards Punk’s health and well-being. Punk added that Amann had misdiagnosed a staph infection that was bothering him for a while. Amann didn’t take the comments kindly and filed a defamation lawsuit against both Punk and Cabana....

“I definitely think part of that is what influenced this. There’s a lot of guys in pro wrestling that just kind of have this MMA fantasy and they never act on it. I’m acting on it.I don’t want to be one of those guys who sits there and goes, ‘I could have done that or I should have done that.’ I can, so I’m doing it.” He also spoke on his eventual debut in the UFC:...