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Putting together a 11-game streak is especially impressive when you are missing your key players for the majority of the streak. Take a look at the teams the Spurs have beaten over this 11-game stretch, which goes back to January 13: January 13 San Antonio Spurs 106-88 Minnesota Timberwolves Led by 20 points from Tony Parker and 15 from Gary Neal, the Spurs shot 56% from the floor for their 12th straight home win....

“Opening up to third-party app marketplaces means there’s less control over store and app content, which means that, at the end of the day, the quality of apps users find in the Microsoft Store is going to be lower,” tech expert Isaac Naor told Lifewire in an email interview. Windows Opens Up The new Microsoft Store will launch to the public alongside Windows 11 on October 5, and will be available to Windows 10 users in the coming months....

The notion of 19th-century paupers living in degradation was largely exaggerated for middle-class readers, according to “The Working Class at Home, 1790-1940.” Co-edited by Joseph Harley, Vicky Holmes and Laika Nevalainen, the book attempts to set the record straight about the lives of working-class people. It argues that far from living in perpetual poverty, the Victorian working class “made the best of their situations to create relatively comfortable environments.”...

I was just one more Lambert Strether, the dutiful and humorless Yankee of Henry James’s “The Ambassadors,” coming to France to rescue a wayward young man from the corruptions of the Continent, only to end up having his own Hot Chocolate Moment. No other country has ever bewitched Americans quite like France. American painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries loved the Paris of skylights and louche women....

Green is one of the most popular stars making noise in the 2021 NBA Summer League. He was picked second overall by the Houston Rockets in the 2021 NBA Draft, and is expected to be their cornerstone player and the next face of the franchise. Jalen Green has been balling out in the ongoing NBA Summer League, and the fans are excited for his NBA regular-season debut. However, we might not see Green again for a while, as he was diagnosed with soreness in his right hamstring, and is likely to be sidelined for the rest of the Summer League....

Coconut, a palm with multiple uses and known by the producing communities as the “tree of life”, has been supporting the livelihoods of approximately 20 million workers around the globe. Coconut is a staple nutritional resource for communities, especially around the tropical world, in the form of products such as milk, cream, oil and coconut juice. In world trade, it has a commercial history dating back to the 1880s, when there was a high industrial demand for coconut oil to produce soap and cooking oil....

With Photomath’s latest competition, dogs can “climb up the corporate ladder,” with their introduction into the field of comforting students. Photomath is a leading education app in the U.S. which helps students with math homework and class. The app lets students scan equations before showing them a step-by-step explanation to work it out on screen. Now, the app is looking for its very own therapy pup who is “a pro at calming anxious students,” to “help students leave the tears at the table when it comes to troubling math homework and stressful studies....

The Mass Effect franchise is full of lore that creates a well-rounded, in-depth understanding of the world that players dive into. This lore includes intense backstories to establish each alien race, its history, and its place in the Milky Way galaxy. Quarians in the Mass Effect universe are humanoid, nomadic aliens that live on the Migrant Fleet and are known for their ongoing battle against their own creations, the Geth....

With an architectural history that dates back 1,000 years, Prague has one of the few perfectly preserved city centers in the world, and the plans to redraw its surrounding skyline have set off perhaps the most passionate clash over preservation in Eastern and Central Europe. As some of the newest members of the European Union, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Baltic states have all enjoyed booming economies, in which developers insist that old (sometimes historic) buildings need to make way for the demands of an increasingly rich populace and work force....

The second part of A Couple of Cuckoos has been quite a rollercoaster ride. As a matter of fact, there are more mediocre episodes with only a handful of good ones. However, recent episodes have shown us the fact that the showrunners seem to be finding a new formula for the series. They’re still not quite there yet, but the fact that they keep tweaking and improving in every episode is certainly a good sign....

This, you think, is the very essence of France, until you read those little signs that tell you the tomatoes (which are really pretty tasteless) come from Moroccan hothouses, the grapes from South Africa, kiwis from Chile and the haricots verts from Kenya. You can’t even be sure where that boar bit the dust. The congenial quaintness of the street market, in fact, draws directly on globalization. What Emile Zola once called “the belly of Paris,” the rich, ripe, smelly center of the wholesale food business, long since moved out of downtown to a cargo hub near Orly airport....

No such Daredevil game is currently announced, but there are always rumors making the rounds online. As such, it is interesting to consider what kind of mechanics it could use and how it might blend gameplay between nightlife crime-fighting and daytime courtroom drama. Many developers would likely be able to achieve a satisfying Daredevil experience and apply their stamp on Marvel’s pantheon of modern games. Naughty Dog has not yet dipped its toe into that realm and may stick to original IPs instead, but it would be an excellent developer to adapt the Man Without Fear....

Die-Hardman’s forced betrayal of Cliff, a man that saved him countless times in war and someone he viewed as a hero, leads to one of the best-acted scenes in the game. Through Die-Hardman’s confession, in-game lore like interview data, and the devastating sequence that highlights Cliff’s death, the bond the two had is constantly referenced. That closeness would be interesting to show in a Death Stranding prequel game for a few reasons....

The film, which opens this week, is set in London during World War II. Fiennes plays a moody novelist, Maurice Bendrix, caught in a triangle with a beautiful woman (Julianne Moore) who’s married to a boring civil servant (the outstanding Stephen Rea). When she breaks off their intensely hot affair, Bendrix grows even more obsessed with her. “He’s got a cruel streak,” said the actor. “But then you kind of warm to him, because–as Neil says–his hatred and anger is all because he’s desperately in love....

The Federal Reserve Board normally manages the nation’s credit supply with all the gravity of the Church of England. Once every six weeks, 12 governors and regional bank presidents meet secretly between the gold damask-covered walls of the Fed’s Washington boardroom to set the supply and price of bank credit. This Fed Open Market Committee issues no announcements. Instead, financial smoke signals are sent to the government bond market via manipulations of the so-called Federal Funds rate–the price of money that banks borrow overnight from one another....

When Ghost of Tsushima was initially announced and the gameplay trailer was subsequently shown at E3 2018, it came as a surprise to quite a number of people. Those familiar with Sucker Punch Productions before Ghost of Tsushima knew the studio best for the Sly Cooper and Infamous franchises. Compared to those games, Ghost of Tsushima was a massive departure from previous titles. RELATED: Ghost of Tsushima Player Shows What Game Looks Like at 4K 60 FPS...

China billed last week’s goose-stepping gala as a celebration of progress. But apart from a high-tech, modernist veneer, it looked far more like a throwback to the cold war. A float bearing a giant portrait of Jiang followed those of his predecessors: Mao the Revolutionary, and Deng Xiaoping the Reformer. To cement his own legacy as China’s supreme leader, Jiang aims to become known as the “Great Reunifier.” His bid for immortality is a unification of the motherland, winning back the stray bits of turf, like Hong Kong and Taiwan, that foreign aggressors had helped tear away when China was weak....

Nicole dines with her two children at the trendy Mezzaluna trattoria. Nicole heads home with the children. Later she calls the restaurant, saying that she left her prescription sunglasses there; a waiter and friend, Ronald Goldman, offers to drop them off at her home. Goldman leaves the restaurant. Car with lights on spotted in front of Nicole’s home. At some point, Nicole and Goldman are stabbed to death. Limo driver arrives to take O....

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Too much concentration of power in one company’s hands is a dangerous thing (“Microsoft’s Six Fatal Errors,” Science & Technology, June 19). It’s a ray of hope for consumers that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson stood up to Bill Gates’s purported boast that “this antitrust thing will blow over.” Let us all hope that this ruling will prevent Microsoft from stifling its competition. Doug Long Downers Grove, Ill....

Sqor Sports put together a brief #SuperBowl history by the numbers, from most wins by a team/player/coach to most points scored by a team in a game. Keep up with Sqor Sports for insights and exclusive athlete content. Brett Favre and Steve Weatherford Signed Jersey Giveaway #BigGameParty