Heat win 21st straight, beat Bucks 107-94

Miami Heat's Chris Bosh drives against Milwaukee Bucks' Ersan Ilyasova, left, in the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 15, 2013, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Miami Heat's Chris Bosh drives against Milwaukee Bucks' Ersan Ilyasova, left, in the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 15, 2013, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Miami Heat's LeBron James dunks against the Milwaukee Bucks in the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 15, 2013, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade reacts after hitting the floor during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday, March, 15 2013, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Miami Heat's Dwayne Wade lies on the court during the first half against the Milwaukee Bucks in an NBA basketball game Friday, March 15, 2013, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

MILWAUKEE (AP) ? The Miami Heat had just watched the Super Bowl when Shane Battier delivered a speech that left quite the impression.

Whatever he said that night in Toronto, the Heat sure took off from there.

They haven't come down yet.

LeBron James and Chris Bosh each scored 28 points, and the Heat made it 21 straight wins, beating the Milwaukee Bucks 107-94 on Friday night.

Only three other teams have won 20 in a row in one season, and the Heat now trail just the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers (33) and the 2007-08 Houston Rockets (22) after moving ahead of the 1970-71 Bucks.

The Heat haven't lost since they fell at Indiana on Feb. 1, and they return Sunday to the place where this streak started two days later, back when they were a mediocre road team barely on top of the Eastern Conference standings.

"I think the biggest thing for our team was watching the Super Bowl and getting away from basketball in a sense and just enjoying each other," Dwyane Wade said. "We got the famous speech from Shane Battier and we've been rolling ever since."

What did Battier say?

"You had to be there," Bosh said. "It was after watching the Super Bowl. It was a good game, we had a great time. I guess the main focus was that you're going to miss me when I'm gone."

Bosh laughed.

"It was not so much about him," he continued. "He tied in everything. He tied in life to the Super Bowl. It was just everything. It was a good time."

It's been nothing but good times for the Heat ever since, although there was a scary moment for them in this game.

That was when Wade walked to the locker room with what the team said was a neck strain after crashing to the court in the early going. The Heat overcame that and led by as much as 17 in the third quarter, then withstood a push by the Bucks to keep the streak going.

Bosh hit from all angles and was 12 of 16 in the game, nailing two 3-pointers. He even converted a four-point play that made it 67-53 about five minutes into the third quarter.

James was his usual dominant self, and Wade finished with 20 points as the Heat avenged a loss at Milwaukee in late December. There's a chance these two teams could meet in the first round of the playoffs, and Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings basically said bring it on.

"I still don't take anything back about playing Miami in the first round," he said afterward as he kept his eyes on North Carolina State's ACC tournament game. "I still think we match up well against them. We just had an off night tonight."

Ersan Ilyasova led Milwaukee with 26 points and a season-high 17 rebounds. Jennings scored 21 but was 6 of 15 from the field, and the Bucks shot just over 37 percent. Monta Ellis struggled, finishing with seven points after scoring 26 in the previous game at Washington, and the Bucks dropped their third straight.

Larry Sanders got ejected for the second straight game with 2:44 left after he was called for a foul against James and picked up two technicals.

Despite all those issues, the Bucks cut the lead to 85-79 with 8:53 remaining when J.J. Redick nailed a 3 and Ilyasova hit a free throw after Battier got called for a loose ball foul. Battier then answered with a 3 and Bosh hit a runner to get the lead back up to 11 after Ilyasova's 3-pointer rimmed out.

The Heat got a major scare when Wade crashed to the court after Sanders blocked his layup.

He took a shot to the head from Sanders' hip on the follow through and landed hard. Wade stayed down as play went the other way and was tended to for about two minutes underneath the basket after the game was stopped with 7:17 left in the first period.

Wade walked to the locker room and came back out early in the second. He re-entered the game with 7:45 left in the half and quickly hit two free throws and a layup.

Wade said he was examined for a concussion and never lost consciousness, although his hands went numb for a while because he smacked them when he hit the floor. They were still sore after the game.

James scored 17 in the first half, Bosh added 13 points and the Heat shot just under 54 percent on the way to a 51-42 halftime lead.

James threw down a hard dunk off a spin move late in the first quarter and drove for a one-handed reverse jam along the baseline early in the second. He also nailed several turnaround jumpers even though Marquis Daniels was all over him.

Notes: Sanders blamed his ejection on frustration and seemed to infer that the Heat get preferential treatment from the referees. "I can imagine it's hard for a referee to ref a Miami Heat game," he said. Coach Jim Boylan said he would talk to Sanders about toning down his emotions so he doesn't hurt the team. ... Milwaukee did not attempt a free throw in the first half for the second straight game but wound up hitting 19 of 21 in the second half.

Associated Press

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Children of divorced parents more likely to start smoking

Friday, March 15, 2013

Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans.

This University of Toronto study, published online this month in the journal Public Health, shows that men who experienced parental divorce before they turned 18 had 48-per-cent higher odds of ever smoking 100 or more cigarettes than men whose parents did not divorce. Women from divorced families were also at risk, with 39-per-cent higher odds of smoking in comparison to women from intact families.

"Finding this link between parental divorce and smoking is very disturbing," says lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson, Sandra Rotman Chair at University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. "We had anticipated that the association between parental divorce and smoking would have been explained by one or more of three plausible factors, such as lower levels of education or adult income among the children of divorce; adult mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety among the children of divorce, or other co-occurring early childhood traumas, such as parental addictions or childhood physical, sexual or emotional abuse.

"Each of these characteristics has been shown in other studies to be linked with smoking initiation. However, even when we took all these factors into account, a strong and significant association between parental divorce and smoking remained."

In the study entitled "The Gender-Specific Association Between Childhood Adversities and Smoking in Adulthood: Findings from a Population Based Study," investigators examined a representative sample of 7,850 men and 11,506 women aged 18 and over, drawn from the Center for Disease Control's 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. A total of 1,551 sons and 2,382 daughters had experienced their parents' divorce before the age of 18. A total of 4,316 men and 5,072 women reported that they had smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their life.

From this study, researchers cannot determine why parental divorce is linked to smoking initiation. However, co-author Joanne Filippelli, a University of Toronto doctoral student, suggests it is possible that "children upset by their parents' divorce may use smoking as a coping mechanism to regulate emotions and stress. Some research suggests this calming effect may be particularly attractive to those who have suffered early adversities."

Recent master's of social work graduate and co-author Candace Lue-Crisostomo said that this study shows adults from divorced families are more likely to smoke but it's not known exactly when or why they began smoking. "These findings need to be replicated in longitudinal studies before causality can be established. If the parental divorce-smoking link is shown to be causal in future studies, then smoking prevention programs targeted at children whose parents are going through a divorce might prove helpful."

Cigarette smoking is one of the leading preventable causes of chronic illness and premature death. The estimated economic burden of smoking exceeded $193 billion annually in the U.S.

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EU delays action on pesticides ban

15 March 2013 Last updated at 09:23 ET By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News

EU nations have been unable to reach agreement on proposals to ban the use of three pesticides that have been linked to the decline of bees.

The European Commission had called for a two-year EU-wide moratorium, but a number of nations opposed the plans.

A recent report by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) concluded that the pesticides posed a "high acute risk" to pollinators, including honeybees.

The commission is expected to redraft its proposals ahead of another vote.

Member states were unable to reach a qualified majority in order for the proposals to be adopted.

The news of the stalemate has angered groups that had been campaigning in favour of the ban.

Legal advice

Avaaz condemned the UK's and Germany's decision to abstain, saying the governments had "caved in to the industry lobby".

"Today's vote flies in the face of science and public opinion and maintains the disastrous chemical armageddon on bees, which are critical for the future of our food," said Avaaz senior campaigner Iain Keith.

In a YouGov poll commissioned by the campaign network, 71% of almost 2,000 people questioned in the UK supported the commission's proposals to impose the moratorium on the insecticides.

Avaaz said that it, along with other groups, would be taking legal advice as to whether the outcome of the vote could in challenged in the courts.

The chemicals in question - imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianindin - belong to a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids.

The insecticides work by affecting the central nervous system of insects, causing paralysis and death.

"There is certainly fairly convincing evidence that they pose a significant threat to bees," ecologist Prof David Goulson from the University of Stirling told the BBC's Farming Today programme.

"Essentially, the problem is because [the chemicals] travel to all parts of the plant, the chemicals get into the pollen and nectar, then pollinators, such as bumblebees, consume them," he explained.

"The amounts they consume is quite small because the concentrations in pollen and nectar are very low, but then they are very toxic chemicals."

A report published by EFSA scientists in January identified a number of risks posed by the three insecticides.

It assessed the possible threats to the pollinators from exposure to residues in pollen and nectar, dust and guttation fluid (some plants exude sap in the form of droplets).

However, it added that in some cases it was "unable to finalise the assessments due to shortcomings in the available data".

'Open mind'

A number of EU countries, including Italy, had imposed a ban on the use of the chemicals at a national level but others, including the UK, were against the commission's calls for a two-year EU-wide ban.

Speaking in the House of Lords on Wednesday, UK Environment Minister Lord de Mauley said the government was approaching the issue with an "open mind".

"We are, indeed, doing further analysis on fieldwork we have had carried out specifically to address this issue because it is vital that what we do is proportionate and based on the science," he told peers.

"As to whether there is an effect on the honey harvest, it is difficult to say because we do not have categoric evidence that there is an unacceptable level of harm to bees."

Friends of the Earth's head of campaigns Andrew Pendleton said that there was "more than enough evidence that these chemicals are linked to bee decline to place immediate restrictions on their use".

"This is a cop-out by a significant number of European governments, including the UK - it means yet more dither and delay while our bee populations plummet," he added.

Following the vote, it was said that EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg would "consider the next step".

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21793365#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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New BlackBerry Work Space service separates work, personal data on iOS and Android

There?s apparently a new slogan at BlackBerry (BBRY): If you can?t beat ?em, integrate ?em. BlackBerry on Thursday announced Work Space, a new feature for its BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 mobile device management platform that aims to ?provide complete separation between work and personal data.? If this sounds familiar, that?s because BlackBerry has already brought this capability to its own devices with its own BlackBerry Balance feature?? the difference is that Work Space is extending some of Balance?s capabilities to iOS and Android devices. Expanding the reach of its security services to multiple platforms is crucial for BlackBerry, especially as it faces added heat from Samsung (005930), which plans to aggressively market its devices to the enterprise as business tools. BlackBerry?s full press release is posted below.

BlackBerry Previews Secure Work Space Technology for Third Party Platforms

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Extending BlackBerry?s trusted, gold standard security to separate work and personal data on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets

Mar 14, 2013

Waterloo, ON?? BlackBerry? (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) today confirmed its commitment to bringing a solution that will separate and secure work and personal data on mobile devices to third party platforms. Secure Work Space for iOS? and Android? will be managed through BlackBerry? Enterprise Service 10, BlackBerry?s multi-platform enterprise mobility management solution which builds upon more than a decade of enterprise and security expertise and is the most widely deployed mobility solution in enterprises today.

An update for?BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10?will soon extend BlackBerry security capabilities for data-at-rest and data-in-transit and provide complete separation between work and personal data. The BlackBerry Secure Work Space solution includes secured client applications for email, calendar, contacts, tasks, memos, secure browsing and document editing for each device that is provisioned via BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.

?With BlackBerry? Balance? technology, we offer the industry?s only true compromise-free separation of work and personal data and applications,? said David J Smith, EVP, Enterprise Mobile Computing. ?With Secure Work Space for iOS and Android devices, we?re extending as many of these features as possible to other platforms, critical in today?s?Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)?world. BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 offers administrators a single, intuitive platform enabling them to effectively and securely manage a variety of devices while protecting their corporate assets and at the same time providing employees the flexibility they desire.?

The Secure Work Space solution enables customers to save considerable effort and expense as they no longer need to configure and manage expensive VPN infrastructures to provide mobile device access to data and applications that reside behind their corporate firewalls. With end-to-end enterprise mobility management, a straightforward deployment process, and a global and flexible technical support model, BlackBerry offers a secure and reliable solution as the clear choice for enterprises and governments to support BYOD policies for iOS and Android platforms. Additional applications can easily be secured and added to the workspace, without the need to modify source code.

?The vast majority of?smartphones?on the market aren?t adequately secure for corporate or government work,? said Robert Enderle, Principal Analyst, Enderle Group. ?Currently BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 combined with BlackBerry Balance or Secure Work Space has the only volume solution which has been designed from the ground up to provide the security most IT departments require.?? With this announcement BlackBerry is expanding beyond their own top to bottom approach to security to address this need on other platforms.??With this product BlackBerry is showcasing their security legacy by providing a stronger cross platform security solution than anyone else can in the market.?

Closed beta testing for Secure Work Space has already started and general availability will be offered by the end of the second quarter, calendar year 2013. More details will be announced at the BlackBerry Live conference in May, 2013 in Orlando, Florida.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-space-separates-personal-data-ios-android-220057569.html

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Steubenville prosecutor: Girl was ?too impaired to say no?

The trial of two high school football players charged with raping a young woman during a night of partying has begun, and it's causing a rift in a town where football is a great source of pride. NBC's Ron Allen reports.

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

The two Ohio high school football stars accused of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl humiliated ?somebody who was too impaired to say no, somebody who was too impaired to say stop,? a prosecutor said Wednesday.

In her opening statement at a trial that has divided the football-obsessed town of Steubenville, prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter also said that the girl was ?soft-spoken, mumbling and not participating? in the assault.

Two players, quarterback Trent Mays and wide receiver Ma?Lik Richmond, are accused of using their hands to violate the girl in a car and in a basement during a night of victory parties last August.

The case became national news because graphic cellphone photos and video, including a YouTube posting of a partygoer cracking crude jokes about the alleged rape, spread on social media.

In a brief opening statement, Brian Duncan, the lawyer representing Mays, said simply: ?Trent Mays did not rape the young lady in question.? The lawyer for Richmond declined to make an opening statement.

Jason Cohn / Reuters file

Harding Stadium, home of the Steubenville High Big Red football team. Two members are going on trial Wednesday for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl in a case that drew national attention.

The girl, who told police she didn?t remember the incident, will be among dozens of witnesses taking the stand. Three players who have not been charged but allegedly witnessed the encounters are expected to testify for the prosecution.

The prosecution?s evidence also includes a photograph posted on Instagram of Mays, 17, and Richmond, 16, carrying the teen out of a house by her arms and legs.

The prosecution called six witnesses on Wednesday, including two 17-year-old girls who knew the alleged victim.

Questioned by prosecution and defense attorneys about how much the teen girl had to drink, the first witnesses testified they saw the alleged victim on the night of Aug. 11.

One of the girls, a Steubenville High student, said alleged victim was having difficulty walking but never appeared to pass out. She also testified that after midnight, Mays and the victim, who said she was OK, left a house party. That came despite efforts by the witness to stop her.

Prosecutors appeared to try to show how drunk and nonparticipatory the alleged victim was, while the defense attempted to show that she was making decisions that night and at one point told friends she was fine and able to take care of herself.

The other 17-year-old witness said she had never seen her friend so intoxicated.

The final witnesses of the day were the Steubenville police detectives involved in confiscating phones and other devices from people involved in the case and getting them to the state lab for analysis. The defense on cross examination was able to get police to concede it took 16 days before the accusers shirt and pants were taken to the lab for analysis.

The trial has put the town, where ?Big Red football? dominates life, under a harsh spotlight. Town officials and business leaders have taken to the media to say that the case doesn?t reflect Steubenville.

In a sign of the tension surrounding the case, Richmond?s grandmother has said she has been threatened.

If convicted, Mays and Richmond could be held in a juvenile jail until they are 21.

NBC News correspondent Ron Allen, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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This story was originally published on Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:56 AM EDT

Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/13/17286184-as-rape-trial-opens-prosecutor-says-girl-was-too-impaired-to-say-no?lite

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