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Kenya’s domination at the 41st World Cross Country Championships in Guiyang, China, was proof of the benefits of hard training, a Kenyan athletics official has said. Barnabas Korir, Athletics Kenya Nairobi Branch chairman, said on Sunday that the feat is testimony that hard training and discipline are still the prime factors for success in athletics and shames the drug cheats, reports Xinhua. “Before the team departed for Guiyang, the runners were put in a high-altitude residential camp in Kigari in central Kenya where they trained under seasoned coaches,” the chairman said....

Chief among them was Clint Capela, who set a career high with 31 points as the Rockets beat the Nuggets 125-113. “He did what he was supposed to do,” said Harden, who had 32 points. “He finished. He played extremely well. Played hard.” P.J. Tucker set a career high with seven 3-pointers and scored a season-high 21 points to help Houston win for the 12th time in 14 games. Capela had 19 points by halftime as Harden fed him again and again....

On Wednesday night that player was Danuel House, who had a career-high 23 points to help the Rockets to a 117-108 victory over the Miami Heat. “When those two guys get going downhill it puts a lot of pressure on a lot of people which causes me to be open-open,” House said. “So thank you Russ and James.” Harden scored 34 points, Westbrook had 27 and the Rockets snapped a three-game skid....

Harden strengthened his MVP bid with a triple-double game-winning display as the Rockets trumped reigning champions the Golden State Warriors 135-134 in overtime on Thursday. The 2018 MVP – who had 44 points, 15 assists and 10 rebounds – recorded his fifth successive 40-point game and hit a game-winning three-pointer with just a second remaining in OT at Oracle Arena. “You could argue for him as the best offensive player of all time,” Morey told ESPN following Houston’s win over their Western Conference rivals....

Biden wants to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) struck between Tehran and Washington, DC in 2015 which promised Tehran economic incentives for curbing its nuclear program. Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump scuppered the deal, reimposing heavy sanctions to try to strongarm Tehran into new talks. Ongoing talks in Vienna between Tehran and the P4 + 1 group of countries has revived hopes of both a new nuclear deal as well as a rapprochement between Iran and the United States....

If you know what all the hardware on the first generation iPad (aka model number a1219) is used for, you’ll be able to get the most out of your iPad. This article can help you learn. Home Button: This is maybe the most important button on the iPad. It’s certainly the most used. You press this button when you want to exit an app and return to the home screen....

Mumbai – Under-19 World Cup winner Harmeet Singh will be part of the Cheteshwar Pujara-led Rest of India side for the Irani Cup tie against reigning Ranji Trophy champions Rajasthan. The match has been shifted to Bangalore from Jaipur. The domestic season opener will take place in the southern city from Sep 21 to 25 after the Jaipur venue was deemed unfit to host the match. Harmeet, the left-arm spinner who helped Indian colts win the title in Australia, has also found a place in the India ‘B’ squad for the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy scheduled from Sep 29 to Oct 2 in Rajkot, the BCCI All-India Senior Selection Committee decided here Monday....

Dolly Parton, Patti LaBelle and Kristen Chenoweth are among the actors who will be appearing across the next two months of Christmas films. Blake Shelton will also be back to produce Time for You to Come Home for Christmas, a sequel to the 2018 film based on one of his songs, Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas. The 10th anniversary year of “Countdown to Christmas” on Hallmark will include 24 new films, while Movies & Mysteries will air 16 new films as part of their “Miracles of Christmas” strand....

This year, celebrities dressed up as everything from cartoon characters to clones of themselves, giving us some of the most creative looks ever. Here are this year’s top five best-dressed women for the spooky season. Heidi Klum as a worm & 4 other best-dressed women celebrities for Halloween 1) Heidi Klum as a Worm The Victoria’s Secret model and television personality didn’t hold back when it came to expressing her vision for the spooky season, raising the creepy bar even higher....

By visiting the new Halo 5 interactive website, players are able to earn a REQ pack by watching 10 very short videos. Five of the videos detail Spartan Locke’s side of the campaign, while the other five videos follow Master Chief’s point of view. After all the videos have been viewed, players will receive a free REQ pack, and will be made aware of its contents. This is a nice gesture and a clever way to market the game, but even so, there are many fans that are still annoyed that there are microtransactions at all in Halo 5....

343 Industries has been actively working on the title post-release, and made some recent large scale adjustments to campaign difficulty for both single player and co-op playthroughs. The sixth free downloadable content pack, entitled Memories of the Reach, is also approaching release. Instead of relying on DLC packs to supplement its full-game sales, 343 Industries has been releasing all of the extra content packages for free, relying instead on microtransactions for residual income....

Usually, the Halo games are a one-man show as Master Chief shoots his way through enemies with occasional moral support from Cortana or an AI troop of space marines. Things should be much more team-based this time around, as players work collaboratively with a squad of teammates to power through the game’s campaign. A recent demo displayed by the game’s developers explains that even when players aren’t playing the campaign with friends using the online co-op mode, the other squad members will still be there to help out....

First introduced in the popular Halo 3, the Mongoose is a small ground vehicle that allows players to travel across the map quickly. Unfortunately, this speed comes at the loss of firepower as it does not have any onboard guns. While the series has introduced a modified version of the vehicle called a Gungoose, one player recorded a highlight from a game that suggested that the basic Mongoose was more deadly than previously thought....

Gameplay demos running on PCs rather than official hardware isn’t out of the ordinary, but it is a bit strange that Microsoft decided to showcase Halo Infinite on PC first, even with comparable specs. There’s still no Xbox Series X release date, but the console is confirmed to launch this holiday season, which is just a few months away, so running the demo on PC is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser from a consumer standpoint....

Among the missing content that players want to be added into Halo Infinite are campaign co-op, a long-standing feature of the series, and Forge, a map editor and creation toolset. Months before the release of the game, the developers announced that more time was needed to get these popular features ready. As a result, they were delayed until sometime in 2022. While an update about this additional content was expected to arrive in January, it is now February, and players continue to wonder about the future of the title....

Halo Infinite was also heavily criticized for the implementation of its Battle Pass, as well as a lack of playlists that resulted in users not being able to select a game mode of their choice. 343 Industries has released the highly requested slayer playlist, in addition to SWAT as well as free-for-fall, and the developer has continued to communicate with the audience throughout the post-launch period. A new leak suggests that more fan-favorite playlists will be coming to Halo Infinite in the near future....

The new modes will launch on May 3, 2022, alongside two new maps, a new battle pass, and new armor cores, as part of Halo Infinite Season 2 Lone Wolves. Halo Infinite is the latest iteration of the iconic first-person shooter franchise by Xbox. Infinite brilliantly balances fun physics-based arcade movement with balanced gunplay to present an amazing multiplayer title. The easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay loop paired with the free-to-play monetization makes it very approachable for new and old franchise players....

As seen in the Twitter exchange below between a fan and Chris Lee, the latter explained certain choices that were made by 343 Industries to use Halo: Infinite as a means to continue the story after the events of Halo 5, and in order to do so, the studio must make some changes. This has lead to the forthcoming game being so “ambitious” that the developer was required to build a new engine so as to support its vision....

Reddit user samurai1226 shared a video early Thursday showcasing what they believe is a type of aim assist that actively pushes the player’s reticle away from opponents when firing a sniper rifle and using mouse and keyboard controls. The video shows the Halo Infinite player using multiple different weapons with both controller and mouse+keyboard configurations. When they show the sniper rifle using mouse+keyboard, however, it appears that the reticle frequently adjusts itself away from the opponent’s hitbox....

During Halo Infinite’s appearance at Gamescom 2021, 343 Industries and Xbox revealed a specialty line of products to celebrate Halo’s 20th Anniversary. Some of the announced items include a beautiful Halo Infinite Xbox Series X console that is mostly black and gray with gold highlights and a speckled top, and a Master Chief-themed Xbox Elite Series 2 controller based off the legendary Spartan’s armor. Unfortunately, as has been the case with most console acquisitions in the past year, these items sold out almost immediately and have yet to see a major restock anywhere....