Friday, June 7, 2013

5 things to note in Game 1 of NBA Finals

MIAMI (AP) ? Five things to note from San Antonio's 92-88 win over Miami in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night:

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LEBRON'S NIGHT: LeBron James' stat line from Game 1 of the NBA Finals was absurdly good: 18 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists.

It's the second time in his postseason career that he's finished with at least that many points, rebounds and assists in a game. And oddly, both times, he's come out on the losing end of those games.

The first one was May 13, 2010, when he finished with 27 points, 19 rebounds and 10 assists in Cleveland's loss to Boston ? notable because it was the last game he played with the Cavaliers.

The only other players in the last 20 years to finish with at least 18, 18 and 10 in a playoff game: Rajon Rondo, Kevin Garnett, Scottie Pippen and Tim Duncan.

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NOTHING EASY: When Miami forces turnovers, it leads to fast breaks and usually LeBron James dunks.

And when the Heat get running, there is no defense.

So the Spurs did exactly the best thing possible to prevent that: They didn't turn the ball over.

San Antonio had four turnovers ? total ? in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, which was 10 less than its season average and three less that it had in any other game this season. The last time the Spurs had four turnovers in a game was Dec. 2, 2007, and the San Antonio starting five combined for only one giveaway in that game.

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BOSH'S SHOTS: Chris Bosh was 6 for 10 from 2-point range, 0 for 4 from 3-point range, including a miss from long range that would have gotten the Heat within one point with about a minute remaining.

The Heat have no problem with Bosh taking the long shot, though the Spurs were clearly trying to ensure that the likes of LeBron James, Ray Allen and Mike Miller did not have any good looks from 3-point land in the final minutes. Bosh was alone, the shot missed, and the Heat wound up falling in Game 1.

"No mattter what the situation is I have confidence in myself and I know my teammates have confidence in me," Bosh said. "Every shot I shoot I expect to go in. Some do, some don't."

He's now shooting 14 for 50 ? 28 percent ? in his last five games.

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CONSISTENT DUNCAN: Tim Duncan has been in 23 Finals games.

They all pretty much end up the same.

Usually, he gets a double-double, and the Spurs win.

San Antonio is 17-6 now in Finals games, and Duncan has gotten at least 10 points and 10 rebounds in 20 of those. He had 20 points and 14 rebounds in Game 1 against Miami, the 15th 20-10 game of his Finals career.

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UP NEXT: The teams return to the practice court on Friday, with Game 2 in Miami not scheduled until Sunday night.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/5-things-note-game-1-nba-finals-081347945.html

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Fertility drugs, nature better than horse roundups

FILE - In this May 17, 2011 file photo, wild horses run around in a fenced field at the Stewart Conservation Camp in Carson City, Nev. An independent panel of scientists that spent two years reviewing the U.S. government's controversial management of wild horses plans to release a series of recommendations Wednesday, June 5, 2013, to combat skyrocketing costs and help quell decades of conflict on public rangelands. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher, File) LAS VEGAS SUN OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES

FILE - In this May 17, 2011 file photo, wild horses run around in a fenced field at the Stewart Conservation Camp in Carson City, Nev. An independent panel of scientists that spent two years reviewing the U.S. government's controversial management of wild horses plans to release a series of recommendations Wednesday, June 5, 2013, to combat skyrocketing costs and help quell decades of conflict on public rangelands. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher, File) LAS VEGAS SUN OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES

Horses stand behind a fence at the BLM Palomino Valley holding facility on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 in Palomino Valley, Nev. A scathing independent scientific review of wild horse roundups in the West concludes the U.S. government should likely instead let nature cull the herds. A 14-member panel assembled by the National Science Academy's National Research Council, at the request of the Bureau of Land Management, concluded BLM's removal of nearly 100,000 horses from the Western range over the past decade is probably having the opposite effect of its intention to ease ecological damage and reduce overpopulated herds. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Some of the hundreds of mustangs the U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently has removed from federal rangeland peer at visitors Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at the BLM's Palomino Valley holding facility about 20 miles north of Reno. The National Academy of Science's National Research Council released a two-year study Wednesday recommending ways to curtail sky-rocketing costs associated with caring and feeding for the animals, as well as alternatives to the controversial roundups. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Dust rises over the government corrals on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 in Palomino Valley, Nev. A scathing independent scientific review of wild horse roundups in the West concludes the U.S. government should likely instead let nature cull the herds. A 14-member panel assembled by the National Science Academy's National Research Council, at the request of the Bureau of Land Management, concluded BLM's removal of nearly 100,000 horses from the Western range over the past decade is probably having the opposite effect of its intention to ease ecological damage and reduce overpopulated herds. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Horses stand behind a fence at the BLM Palomino Valley holding facility on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 in Palomino Valley, Nev. A scathing independent scientific review of wild horse roundups in the West concludes the U.S. government should likely instead let nature cull the herds. A 14-member panel assembled by the National Science Academy's National Research Council, at the request of the Bureau of Land Management, concluded BLM's removal of nearly 100,000 horses from the Western range over the past decade is probably having the opposite effect of its intention to ease ecological damage and reduce overpopulated herds. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

(AP) ? A scathing independent scientific review of wild horse roundups in the West concludes the U.S. government would be better off investing in widespread fertility control of the mustangs and let nature cull any excess herds instead of spending millions to house them in overflowing holding pens.

A 14-member panel assembled by the National Science Academy's National Research Council, at the request of the Bureau of Land Management, concluded BLM's removal of nearly 100,000 horses from the Western range over the past decade is probably having the opposite effect of its intention to ease ecological damage and reduce overpopulated herds.

By stepping in prematurely when food and water supplies remain adequate, and with most natural predators long gone, the land management agency is producing artificial conditions that ultimately serve to perpetuate population growth, the committee said Wednesday in a 451-page report recommending more emphasis on the use of contraceptives and other methods of fertility control.

The research panel sympathized with BLM's struggle to find middle ground between horse advocates and ranchers who see the animals as unwelcome competitors for forage. It noted there's "little if any public support" for allowing harm to come to either the horses or the rangeland itself.

The report says the current method may work in the short term, but results in continually high population growth, exacerbating the long-term problem.

The American Wild Horse Preservation Fund, a national coalition of more than 50 advocacy groups, said the report makes a strong case for an immediate halt to the roundups.

"This is a turning point for the decades-long fight to protect America's mustangs," said Neda DeMayo, president of the coalition's Return to Freedom.

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is among the livestock groups that have voiced support in the past for aggressive, increased use of fertility control but remain adamantly opposed to curtailing roundups. Horse advocates themselves are not united behind the idea of stepping up use of contraception on the range.

"We are grateful that the National Academy of Science recommends stopping cruel roundups, but we challenge their decision to control alleged overpopulation like a domestic herd with humans deciding who survives and breeds," said Anne Novak, executive director of Protect Mustangs in San Francisco.

The conflict has raged for decades but has intensified in recent years for cash-strapped federal land managers with skyrocketing bills for food and corrals and no room for incoming animals.

"The business as usual practices are not going to be effective without additional resources," said Guy Palmer, a pathologist from Washington State University who chaired the research committee.

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said the report should serve as a wakeup call to bring changes he and others in Congress have urged for years.

"These unsustainable practices are a waste of taxpayer money and jeopardize the health and safety of wild horses across the West," he said.

BLM officials said they welcomed the recommendations to help in their effort to make the program more cost-effective. Spokesman Tom Gorey said the agency "needs and wants to do a better job" managing horses, but said those advocating an end to all roundups are misguided.

"It appears that our critics want to use the report as a propaganda tool to stop gathers," which the BLM is required to do by law, Gorey said.

"Do the American people and does Congress support changing the law so that BLM would carry out a laissez-faire management policy that would subject horses and burros to mass starvation or dehydration by letting Mother Nature work her will?" he asked in an email to The Associated Press.

Panel members said they found little scientific basis for establishing what BLM considers to be appropriate, ecologically based caps on horse numbers and even less basis for estimating the overall population itself.

"It seems that the national statistics are the product of hundreds of subjective, probably independent, judgments and assumptions by range managers and administrators," the report said.

BLM's current population estimate likely is anywhere from 10 percent to 50 percent short of the true level, the report said.

The number of animals at holding facilities surpassed the estimated number on the range in 10 Western states earlier this year for the first time since President Richard Nixon signed the Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971.

The agency averaged removing 8,000 horses from the range annually from 2002 to 2011. Last year, it spent 60 percent of its wild horse budget on holding facilities alone, more than $40 million, the committee said.

Palmer said the public traditionally adopted about 3,000 of the horses annually but that has fallen off in recent years.

"The goal would be to manage horses better on the range so that any numbers that would be taken off would be matched with the adoption demand, which is not the current case."

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/b2f0ca3a594644ee9e50a8ec4ce2d6de/Article_2013-06-05-Wild%20Horses-Independent%20Review/id-aa3c7181ef014f8093e6cb2c32a725c0

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Fort Jackson commander facing adultery charges

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation.

The Army says Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts reportedly was in an altercation with another woman, not his wife. Roberts was suspended from his job by Gen. Robert W. Cone, commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command, while the investigation continues.

Roberts took command of Fort Jackson in April 2012.

He has been in the Army for about 29 years and served as the director of Iraq training and advisory teams before taking the Fort Jackson post.

The suspension is the latest in a series of scandals involving senior military officers in recent months.

Brig. Gen. Peggy Combs will serve as interim commander during the investigation.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fort-jackson-commander-facing-adultery-charges-212346851.html

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The Daily Roundup for 05.21.2013

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Microsoft's next Xbox: The rumor roundup

DNP  Microsoft's Next Xbox the rumor roundup

It's been eight years since Microsoft and Sony announced new consoles, and tastes have changed considerably. Back then, new gaming gear was launched at E3, or using Elijah Wood-fronted MTV specials, but this time around Microsoft is pitching a tent on its Redmond campus for the world's media to huddle under. With less than 24 hours before the next Xbox is revealed, it's high time we sifted through the leaks, rumors and prognostications to see what we know, or at least, what we think we know about a little box called "Durango."

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Turkey to increase $1 bln credit line to Egypt by $250 mln : Deputy PM

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two Pakistani ministers in charge of water and power explained what can be done to end power cuts of up to 20 hours a day in parts of the country enduring temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and above - absolutely nothing, it seems, except raise prices. The power shortages have sparked violent protests and crippled key industries, costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in a country already beset by high unemployment, a failing economy, widespread poverty and a Taliban insurgency. ...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-increase-1-bln-credit-line-egypt-250-083844463.html

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