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There were plenty of other keenly-contested three-set matches on the second day of the tournament. First round action will continue in Cincinnati on Day 3 as well, with other big names taking on each other. Here is a look at some of the highly-anticipated matchups tonight: Men’s singles Stan Wawrinka vs Grigor Dimitrov: The two former top-10 players are set to clash in the opening round here. While neither of the two had the best of results in the past couple of months, they are more than capable of playing a big game on their given day....

City of Heroes Before there was Champions Online and DC Universe Online, there was the super-powered and addictive City of Heroes. CoH was the first MMO to feature super heroes, which was a nice change of pace from all of the medieval fantasy MMOs that were dominating the market at the time. In its seventh year, CoH still rules over its competitors in the comic book arena. During the seven years of the MMO’s existence, NCsoft and developer Paragon Studios have created 20 “Issues” of new story content and players have created more than 40 million Heroes and Villains....

The club are playing their first home fixture since 22 people were killed in a terror attack at the Manchester Arena in May, while a further 15 people died in incidents in and around Barcelona last week. In memory of the victims, City will wear Manchester’s iconic worker bee on their shirts, with Catalonia’s red and yellow colours incorporated. Pep Guardiola’s side will also wear black armbands for the Premier League clash against Ronald Koeman’s Everton....

“The walk will start from Jadavpur University, at 8B bus stand, at 2 p.m. and finish at Deshapriya Park (south Kolkata). We are propagandizing the word Paralympics and trying to generate awareness for this section of athletes and sports,” Harsh Jaiswal, secretary, CWF, told IANS. “Para-athletes across the state and the nation as well as students from different disability schools will walk together with people from all strata of society,” he said....

The news broke today for what is set to be a largely different Civilization game than any other in the series. Five years in the making, Civilization 5 will feature a completely different game engine than any of its predecessors. The developers have tweaked a lot of the usual formula, and Civ Vets like me will be in for an interesting ride in dealing with the changes we’ve grown accustomed too (Civilization 1 came out in 1991, and the formula has largely stayed the same)....

With the expansion pass, more leaders and civilizations are comingto Civilization 6. Some may be returning from previous titles and some may be brand new to the series as a whole. The following are great choices for future additions to the game via the expansion pass. While some of the returners may have their abilities changed around with the updated game mechanics, they could still work well in Civilization 6....

Being the flagbearer at the opening of the Asian Games may have matched it. “It was probably one of the happiest days I’ve had in my career, in my life,” Clarkson said Sunday, a day after the opening ceremony in the Indonesian capital. “Just seeing everybody’s face, how happy everybody was.” Clarkson has an American father, and a mother with Filipino roots, which qualifies him to play for the Philippines at the Asian Games....

At Sunday’s Advance Auto Parts Clash, an exhibition tune-up ahead of the Daytona 500, Logano will be back on the track competing for the first time since he overpowered rival Martin Truex Jr. down the stretch at Homestead for his first championship. MORE: Watch the Clash at Daytona live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) Truex will be in a new car, the No. 19 under Joe Gibbs Racing management. He previously raced the No....

As a refresher, Shatter is a clone of 1976’s arcade classic Breakout. Originally released for the PS3 back in 2009, Shatter essentially sees players destroy fields of blocks using a ball and a paddle. The gameplay seems pretty basic, and it is, but developer Sidhe Interactive was clever enough to marry it with a series of electrifying soundtrack that made the whole experience such a blast. For players who didn’t get the chance to play it back then, they will get a second chance to experience it with Shatter Remastered Deluxe....

Jami Warner, executive director of the American Christmas Tree Association, an industry trade group, said extreme weather has hit tree growers hard. “It’s a double whammy—weather and supply chain problems are really hampering the industry,” she said. “Growers have been hard hit by floods, fires, smoke, drought, extreme weather conditions.” Record-breaking heat and wildfires in Oregon and Washington, the country’s biggest tree-growing states, have had an impact. Warner could not provide an estimate on how many fewer trees there will be this year because they take up to 10 years to grow....

Finding stuff on the internet is pretty easy. What’s hard is finding that exact web page you knew you were reading last week. You know what it was about, but no matter how hard you try or how much time you spend, you just can’t find it in your history or even a regular search. Journeys is a new feature in Google’s Chrome desktop browser that fixes that. When you type in a word from a previous research session, Journeys asks if you want to “resume your research” and takes you back to where you left off....

Chrono Cross: Shadow Forest Sleeping Monster The first step toward passing the Shadow Forest sleeping monster is to collect the Aroma Pouch. Fortunately, this key item is found very near to the monster, and classic JRPG fans should direct their attention to the small waterfall in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Indeed, there is a cave under this waterfall, and the Aroma Pouch is in a chest that is situated at the back of that cave....

Schumer criticized Trump’s Monday remark that the president has been taking hydroxychloroquine to stave off infection from the coronavirus, urging the president to “follow the scientists” and not just say “whatever suits his ego at the moment.” The Democratic New York senator and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday both expressed concern that Trump’s Monday letter suspending contributions to the WHO and his ridicule of China’s health officials is hampering a collaborative worldwide effort to find a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic....

Born Charles Elwood Yeager in 1923, Chuck became one of the world’s most-renowned test pilots after the second World War. Yeager tested rockets, experimental crafts and rocket-powered machines. On October 14, 1947, he became the first human to break the sound barrier when he flew the Glamorous Glennis at Mach 1, and he did it at 45,000-feet altitude over Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert. That was just the first of many speed and altitude records he would go on to break in his lifetime....

ABORTION Though evangelicals haven’t passed the Human Life Amendment or succeeded in overturning Roe , they have had some luck tinkering at the margins. Congress passed the partial-birth-abortion ban; it was challenged in federal court, and this week the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the measure. Congress also passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which counts a violent crime against a pregnant woman as a crime against two people....

The St. Paul First Lutheran Church in North Hollywood said the “disrespect” seen in the viral video posted by actress Alex Marshall-Brown is not representative of the place of worship’s values and confirmed the men have since voluntarily stepped down from their positions. The footage, which Marshall-Brown posted to social media, shows two men putting up a sign on a tree while she sits on the grass outside the church....

Former US Open champion Cilic, who led Croatia to a Davis Cup trophy in November, skipped last week’s Maharashtra ATP tournament to rest. The wait was worth it as he posted a gritty 6-3, 4-6, 15-13 win over Kevin Anderson, recovering from 2-7 down in the new final-set tiebreaker that will be used at the Australian Open for the first time next week. Under the rules, the first player to win at least 10 points by a two-point margin takes the match....

This tournament was followed by the Citi Open in Washington and it delivered beyond expectations with the sudden and volatile resurgence of yet another Australian Nick Kyrgios. He looked determined throughout the week as he overcame challenges in the form of Tsitsipas, Medvedev, and Simon. The title win in Citi Open for Kyrgios was immediately succeeded by a first-round loss to Kyle Edmund in Rogers Cup. The Canadian Masters (Rogers Cup) witnessed Rafael Nadal winning his 35th ATP Masters 1000 title after easing past the young Russian Daniil Medvedev, 6-3, 6-0....

The data, published in the July issue of the Journal of Endocrine Society, looked at the effect of three daily 500 milligram (mg) doses of cinnamon over the course of 12 weeks. All 54 study participants were considered prediabetic, but only 27 received cinnamon in capsule form. The rest received a placebo. After 12 weeks, people on the placebo had higher fasting blood glucose—the mount of sugar in the blood after an overnight fast—but levels in people consuming cinnamon remained stable....