Pacers rebound with 106-83 rout of Hawks in Game 5

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Frank Vogel made a few simple lineup adjustments and a strong pregame pitch. It was just what the Pacers needed Wednesday night.

Indiana played more physical and more focused basketball than Atlanta, and for the first time in this best-of-seven series played defense the way Vogel has been coaching it all season. Against all that, Atlanta never had a chance.

Veteran David West broke out of a series-long funk to score 24 points, Paul George finished with another double-double and Indiana pulled away for a 106-83 victory to take a 3-2 lead over the Hawks.

"We needed to re-establish our confidence," said Vogel, the Pacers coach. "We're still a young team. We needed to re-establish our ability to slow them down."

Indiana did that and a whole lot more on a night in which it was virtually flawless.

West looked like his old self backing down defenders, then spinning away to hit his trademark step-back shots. George went making 7 of 8 shots from the field, finishing with 10 rebounds and five assists ? another strong showing in a series he's dominated in Indiana's three wins.

Vogel changed the rotations, keeping some starters with the second unit to add scoring punch. And after posting the best defensive field goal percentage in the NBA this season, the Pacers finally managed to hold Atlanta under 50 percent shooting.

The blowout, Indiana's third straight at home in the playoffs, even allowed the starters to get a few extra minutes of rest.

If the Pacers end a 13-game losing streak at Atlanta on Friday, they would win this best-of-seven series and advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals for the second straight year. Thanks to Boston, they might not even go into the next series at a substantial disadvantage after the Celtics closed to 3-2 with a stunning 92-86 win at New York.

A few days ago, Indiana didn't dare contemplate such a possibility with so much at stake against the Hawks. Now, suddenly, everything seems OK, though the home team has won every game.

"It's the playoffs. It's good that both teams know how important it is to get home victories," George said. "In the playoffs, it's all about what team is going to be dominant on the road. Neither team has really done that yet."

The Hawks were the latest victim of the home-court curse on another ugly night at Indiana.

They made only four baskets during a 57-minute decisive third quarter.

Josh Smith picked up his fifth foul with 7:35 left in the third quarter and was non-factor the rest of the way. He finished with 14 points and five rebounds. Al Horford added 14 points and Devin Harris had 13.

Three players ? Smith, Jeff Teague and Ivan Johnson ? drew technical fouls, all on dead balls. Atlanta was called for two more technicals because of defensive 3-second calls, got outrebounded 51-28 and still had to hear Indiana fans complain that the Pacers weren't doing enough on the glass, and were outscored 36-28 in the paint.

The worst part: After losing the lead on a layup by West with 6:36 to play in the second quarter, the Hawks never mounted another serious charge. They headed home again looking for answers.

"We have to pound the ball in there to Al and Smooth (Smith) and when we get the opportunity to get in the lane try to make plays," Teague said when asked what the Hawks must do better. "We just have to shoot the ball better, me personally."

That much was obvious after Wednesday's 25-of-75 performance.

But the Hawks also must figure out a way to contend with the physical Pacers, too.

"This is the first time that I felt like we've played true defense in this series," West said. "I thought everyone came in and stayed with the game plan in terms of being aggressive, and our hands were active and we just made plays on the defensive end."

West scored the last six points in an 8-0 run that turned a 31-28 deficit into a 36-31 Pacers early in the second quarter lead. Indiana followed that with a 9-4 spurt to take a 45-37 lead and never trailed again.

Then the rout was on.

Indiana then opened the second half on a 12-3 run and extended the lead to 68-48 when George knocked down a 3 and George Hill followed that by hitting the free throw for Smith's technical and 19-footer on the ensuing possession. Atlanta cut the lead to 81-67 at the end of three, but the Pacers put it away with a 12-4 fourth-quarter run to that left Atlanta in a 21-point deficit. The Hawks never challenged again.

"I was just dialed in and focused; I really wanted this one tonight," George said. "I'm going to have the same focus on the road."

Notes: Atlanta scored 24 points in the third quarter despite shooting just 4 of 14. ... Colts linebacker Robert Mathis, former Indiana basketball players Jeff Oliphant and Brian Evans, and former Pacers center Rik Smits all attended the game. ... Game 6 will be played in Atlanta, where the Pacers have lost 13 straight. ... The two teams have met three other times in the playoffs. Indiana has only won one of those series.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pacers-rebound-106-83-rout-hawks-game-5-030457066.html

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The Insane Camera Tech That Captured NASA's Space Shuttle Launches

Sadly NASA?s Space Shuttle program is shuttered, but when you're feeling whimsical at least you can still watch footage of the behemoth being sent into space. What you might not know, though, is that NASA threw all kinds of camera tech at recording the launches for posterity?and this video shows it off.

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Thesis show opens in UNO Gallery - Entertainment - UNO Gateway

Published:?Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Updated:?Wednesday, May 1, 2013 18:05

Photo by Joe Shearer / The Gateway

Visitors discuss their thoughts on some of the oil paintings in Karen Follett?s series, ?The Tourist Gaze,? while at the opening of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Show in the UNO Gallery on April 7.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Show exhibits the works of the select few art students who have risen through the ranks and are about to obtain their degrees in Fine Arts. ?

The thesis show gives art students a chance to display their final college works and show what they have worked on throughout their college experience.

The exhibit showcases four students with a variety of media such as oil painting, watercolors, installations and colored pencils. The four exhibits vary in subject matter, although three of them depict human beings in some way.

In the hexagon room is Maggie Jorgensen?s two installation pieces titled ?The Voice of the Artist.? The first is her rendition of what a garden would look like in a futuristic post-apocalyptic world.? The garden is made from lights, foil and beads. A manifesto, a large tile slab with a long prose piece written on it, serves as warning to ?the next generation? reading it.

Jorgensen?s other piece is the eye-catching ?Titanium Heart.?? Over six feet tall and composed of stacked lumber like a Tinker Toy, it dominates the hexagon room. Inside the structure is a small, white pedestal with a silver heart on top. Along the insides of the lumber, Jorgensen has written words that go along with her theme of the artist?s voice with fragments such as ?Someday I may be strong enough to make the external?.? Jorgensen?s mix of dramatic installation pieces and complex poetry makes an interesting part of the thesis show.

?The Tourist Gaze? by Karen Follett is a series of oil paintings on canvas based on the artist?s photographs of her travel locations, including Africa, South America and China. These large-scale paintings mix abstraction with realistic elements. Follett usually makes a face or a person the focal point, while blurring the background slightly out of focus.

Follett says in her artist statement that her paintings are ?socially derived? interpretations of the romantic view tourists have while visiting exotic locations.

Dan Cavanagh?s thesis artwork ?Concentricity? includes small, colored pencil drawings and a large piece that takes up one wall of the gallery. Cavanagh?s art is very patterned and symmetrical. He primarily uses repeating shapes with vivid colors.

His large piece, ?Quilt of Our Times? is made up of many small individual mixed media pieces that use wood, spray paint and medicine bottle caps. Cavanagh?s use of contrasting and repeating colors inside confined shapes is very visually appealing and effective.

?En L?Air: A Study of Dancers Defying Gravity? by Emily Jordan is definitely the most striking collection in the exhibit. Her dance-inspired works include small watercolor studies and very large oil paintings, all of dancers.? Her pieces are striking but playful, controlled but flowing, serene but intense. One can almost sense the movement of the dancers from the paintings. Jordan has beautiful details, but up close one can see her pencil marks and sketches on the finished painting. This lends to the feel of the paintings, they are well done but with urgency. Jordan?s paintings leave the viewer wanting more, to see where the dancers are about to go next.

The thesis exhibit runs through May 4 at the UNO Art Gallery, in the Weber Fine Arts Building.

Source: http://www.unogateway.com/entertainment/thesis-show-opens-in-uno-gallery-1.3039654

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HeartMath Inner Balance Review: Like Meditation Training Wheels

The benefits of consistant meditation are too well told. Lower stress, better focus, easier sleep. But despite its inherent simplicity, it can be really tough to learn and practice, especially if relaxation doesn't come naturally.

The HeartMath Inner Balance is designed to hold your hand as you learn, which may be all some of us need.

What Is It?
It's an app for iOS that, bundled with a hardware accessory, that's built to get you into a calm, focused, zen-like state.

Who's It For?
People who have been curious about meditation (or who have tried and failed to learn) but learn better when they have some guidance.

Design

The hardware consists of a small clip (not unlike one you'd use to keep chips from getting stale) that gently attaches to your earlobe. The sensors in that clip monitor your heart rate. The clip is attached to a wire that goes into your phone's 30-pin connector (you'll need an adapter if you have the newer lightning connector on your phone/tab). The app itself looks outdated, despite it being new. Think 2009 iOS apps.

Using It
You hook the clip up to your ear and fire up the app. When you start a new session it asks you to select your mood: Excited, Anxious, Angry, Happy, Peaceful, Content, Sad, or Bored. When you start, your screen displays a colorful circle that expands and contracts. You are supposed to time your breath with the circle. Doing so generally lowers and evens out your heart rate. There are four other screens to choose from. Two are just other forms of the breathing visualization, and two track your stats and metrics as you go.

As you meditate you are striving for what HeartMath calls "coherence,"which is when your breathing patterns and heart rate fall into a steady rhythm together. There is a colored dot in each screen which tells you if you're in low coherence (red), medium coherence (blue), or high coherence (green). The app delivers a bit of coaching to help keep you on track as you go, and your sessions can go for as long as you like. At the end of the session you are asked to rank your mood again, and have the option of writing a journal entry. All of the info is saved in a log.

The Best Part
It actually works. If you've ever had any success in meditation, you will be familiar with the sense of serenity that quickly comes while using the app. Once you get into a state of "high coherence" you really do start to feel blissed-out and relaxed, but still quite focused. Advanced meditators won't need it at all, but it's great for someone who is starting out and/or needs a little help with focus.

Tragic Flaw
That would have to be the price. This thing costs a hundred bucks! For an app and a mono-tasking sensor. That's pure crazy. Especially because, at some point, someone is going to realize that you can actually use the camera on your phone as a very accurate heart rate monitor (when you put your finger over it), and they'll build an app that does exactly this and sell it for two bucks.

This Is Weird...
There are a lot of anomalies in the app. For instance, you can be on one screen and it's telling you to exhale, then switch to a different screen and it says you should be in the middle of an inhalation. It's very inconsistent.

Test Notes

• There are four levels of difficulty. The higher you go, the more narrow the parameters for keeping you in coherence. I was the Buddha at level one (that's good!) but really struggled to get into high coherence at level four.
• There's a fair amount of customizability in the settings. For instance, you can choose to extend or shorten the breath duration. The app could definitely benefit for more (and better) coaching throughout the sessions.
• You can turn sound on, but you shouldn't. If you do, it will play somewhat abrasive tones to let you know what level of coherence you're in. But the tones seem to come at random times, and I found them so distracting that it ended up annoying me out of coherence. Problematic, when the whole point is to meditate.
• There is no Android version yet, though HeartMath says that's coming within the year. It would probably have to be a Bluetooth version, as Android phones don't have 30-oin connectors.
• The wire with the ear-clip and the 30-pin adaptor are two separate pieces. Why? Who knows, but the hardware already feels kind of low-budget and that only adds to that feeling.
• It seemed to be measuring my heart rate fairly accurately, but I decided to take it off my ear and clip it to a blanket instead. Rather than simply registering nothing, it perceived a heart rate that fluctuated between 80 and 150 beats per minute. From a blanket. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Should I Buy It?
For $100? No. Which sucks, because despite the somewhat janky-looking software, we actually love this thing. We're ADHD internet people and we struggle with meditation. We know how good it is for us, but it's hard for us to do. This app/gadget really helped a lot, and make us feel better, decreased stress, and even made us work with more focus. So, maybe for some, the $100 is worth it. For $25, we'd be telling the whole world to buy it. But for most of us, the cost is just too high for something we know we could probably do on our own (even if we don't).

Again, for people who already meditate regularly, there's not much point to this thing, but for us beginners, it's wonderful. If HearthMath can modernize the app and bring the price down on the accessory (or just let us use our phone's camera, which would open it up for Android, too) then they've got a real winner on their hands. [HeartMath]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/heartmath-inner-balance-review-like-meditation-trainin-486146209

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3 Ways Hummus Can Help You Slim Down - Shape

When it comes to having a healthy fridge, staying stocked with low-calorie, high-nutrient foods makes eating right an easy choice. That's why we love keeping ours stocked with hummus. Here's why the condiment classic can help you drop pounds.

1. It's a low-calorie substitute: Who needs mayonnaise (90 calories per tablespoon) when a dollop of hummus (27 calories per tablespoon for a basic hummus recipe) on your sandwich satisfies just as well? The creamy spread also works well to quiet dip cravings or as a salad dressing substitute to help you shave calories in your daily meals.

2. It fills you up: Made from chickpeas, hummus is a great source of protein and fiber, both of which will help keep you feeling full. Adding hummus to your favorite healthy meal will help give your body sustained energy for your workouts or will keep you from reaching for junk food when your stomach starts grumbling in the afternoon. In fact, a small study even found that people who ate more chickpeas in their diet ended up eating less low-fiber, high-fat foods?and ended up losing more weight because of it.

3. It's easy to make: It's well known that homemade food helps you keep pounds in check, since you know exactly what's in your meals. Luckily, not only is making a batch of hummus simple to make?just throw your ingredients in a blender?but also, the versatile condiment lends itself to many different flavor profiles to keep your taste buds from becoming bored. Check out a few of our favorite healthy hummus recipes to get inspired!

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Source: http://www.shape.com/blogs/fit-foodies/3-ways-hummus-can-help-you-slim-down

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Added Sugars Make Up 13 Percent Of U.S. Adults' Calorie Intake, Report Shows

Added sugars make up 13 percent of American adults' calorie intake, according to new government data from 2005 to 2010.

According to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, calories from sugars and solid fats should only make up 5 to 15 percent of our total calories each day.

The new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report also shows that men consume more total calories from sugar than women, though there is not a difference between the sexes when looking at the percentage of sugar intake in total consumed calories.

Foods are the biggest source of Americans' added sugars, with 67 percent of calories from added sugars coming from food and 33 percent of calories from added sugars coming from drinks, researchers also found, and most of the added sugar calories are coming from foods eaten right in the home.

Other key points of the new report:
- African American men and women consume more calories from added sugars than white or Latino men and women.
- Americans consume more added sugars from foods at home than from out of the home.
- Consumption of added sugars goes down with age. For example, added sugars make up 14.1 percent of calories for men ages 20 to 39, and only 10.7 percent of calories for men ages 60 and older. And added sugars make up 14.5 percent of calories for women ages 20 to 39, but only 11.2 percent of calories for women ages 60 and older.
- Added sugar consumption seems to be tied to income level. For example, added sugars made up 14.1 percent of calories for men in the lowest income level in the study, compared with 11.5 percent of calories for men in the highest income level. For women, added sugars made up 15.7 percent of calories for those in the lowest income level, compared with 11.6 percent of calories for those in the highest income level.

The data from the report is based on results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which involves dietary recall surveys of people throughout the U.S.

A recent study of added sugar consumption in kids also showed that added sugars are largely coming from foods, not drinks, in the diet. USA Today reported on the National Center for Health Statistics, which came out last year, showing that 59 percent of kids' added sugars are from foods, and that an average of 16 percent of kids' daily calories come from added sugars.

Research on added sugar is important because studies have linked it with a variety of health ills. Most recently, a study published in the journal PLoS ONE showed an association between added sugar and Type 2 diabetes rates -- even after taking into account calorie intakes and obesity levels.

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Tests link deadly ricin to Obama letter suspect

James E. Dutschke stands in the steet near his home in Tupelo, Miss., and waits for the FBI to arrive and search his home Tuesday April 23, 2013 in connection with the recent ricin letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker. The Mississippi man charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and others was released from jail Tuesday on bond, while FBI agents returned to Dutschke's house where they'd previously searched (AP Photo/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Thomas Wells) MANADATORY CREDIT

James E. Dutschke stands in the steet near his home in Tupelo, Miss., and waits for the FBI to arrive and search his home Tuesday April 23, 2013 in connection with the recent ricin letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker. The Mississippi man charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and others was released from jail Tuesday on bond, while FBI agents returned to Dutschke's house where they'd previously searched (AP Photo/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Thomas Wells) MANADATORY CREDIT

In this Tuesday, April 23, 2013 photo, Paul Kevin Curtis speaks to reporters as his brother Jack Curtis looks on in Oxford, Miss. Curtis, who had been in custody under the suspicion of sending letters which tested positive for ricin to U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., spoke about how the charges against him were dismissed without prejudice Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bert Mohr)

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) ? Ricin was found in the former martial arts studio of the man suspected of sending poison letters to President Barack Obama and other public officials, and was also discovered on a dust mask and other items he threw in the trash, federal prosecutors said in a court document made public Tuesday.

The affidavit says an FBI surveillance team saw James Everett Dutschke remove several items from the studio in Tupelo, Miss., on April 22 and dump them in a trash bin about 100 yards down the street. The items included a dust mask that later tested positive for ricin, the affidavit said.

Traces of ricin also were found in the studio and Dutschke used the Internet to buy castor beans, from which ricin is derived, the affidavit said.

Annette Dobbs, who owns the small shopping center where the studio was located, said authorities padlocked the door to it sometime the search. She said Tuesday that FBI agents haven't told her anything, including whether the building poses a health threat. Inside the studio is one large room with a smaller reception area and a concrete floor. Police tape covered the front and the small back door.

Dutschke, 41, was arrested Saturday by FBI agents at his home in Tupelo, and is being held without bond pending a preliminary and detention hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oxford.

The FBI searched his home, vehicles and studio last week, often while wearing hazardous materials suits. Attention turned to Dutschke after prosecutors dropped charges against an Elvis impersonator who says he had feuded with Dutschke in the past.

Dutschke told The Associated Press last week that he didn't send the letters. His lawyer, federal public defender George Lucas, had no comment Tuesday about the information in the affidavit.

Dutschke was arrested as part of the investigation into poison-tainted letters sent to Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and Lee County, Miss., Judge Sadie Holland.

The affidavit said numerous documents found in Dutschke's home had "trashmarks" that were similar to ones on the letters sent to the officials.

"Trashmarks are flaws or marks that come from dirt, scratches, or other marks on the printer. They are transferred to each piece of paper that is run through the printer," it said.

It also describes text messages allegedly sent between two phones subscribed to Dutschke's wife, including one on April 20 that said "get a fire going" and "we're coming over to burn some things."

The FBI has not yet revealed details about how lethal the ricin was. A Senate official has said the ricin was not weaponized, meaning it wasn't in a form that could easily enter the body. If inhaled, ricin can cause respiratory failure, among other symptoms. No antidote exists.

The most notable case of ricin poisoning was in 1978, when a Bulgarian dissident was lethally injected with it by an operative of that country's secret service.

Dutschke also bought 50 castor beans off eBay in November 2012 and 50 more in December 2012, the affidavit said.

The affidavit had been sealed since it was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Oxford. It also said that on evening of Dec. 31, 2012, someone using his "computer downloaded a publication, Standard Operating Procedure for Ricin, which describes safe handling and storage methods for ricin, and approximately two hours later, Immunochromotography Detection of Ricin in Environmental and Biological Samples, which describes a method for detecting ricin."

An expert at the National Bioforensics Analysis Center in Fort Detrick, Md., said the extraction process employed in this case appears to have been more involved than "merely grinding castor beans," the affidavit said.

A witness, who is not named in the document, told investigators that Dutschke once said years ago that he knows how to make poison that could be sent to elected officials and "whoever opened these envelopes containing the poison would die."

Judge Holland dismissed a civil suit that Dutschke filed in 2006 against the witness, who accused him of making sexual advances toward the witness' daughter, the affidavit said. In April, Dutschke pleaded not guilty in state court to two child molestation charges involving three girls younger than 16. He also was appealing a conviction on a different charge of indecent exposure. He told AP that his lawyer told him not to comment on those cases.

The lawsuit isn't Dutschke's only connection to Holland. She is part of a family that has had political skirmishes with him.

Her son, Steve Holland, a Democratic state representative, said his mother encountered Dutschke at a rally in the town of Verona in 2007, when Dutschke ran as a Republican against Steve Holland.

Holland said his mother confronted Dutschke after he made a derogatory speech about the Holland family. She demanded that he apologize, which Holland says he did.

Dutschke's MySpace page has several pictures with him and Wicker. Republicans in north Mississippi say Dutschke used to frequently show up at GOP events and mingle with people, usually finding a way to get a snapshot of himself with the headliner.

The first suspect accused by the FBI, Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, also had also had ties to Holland. Curtis was arrested on April 17 at his Corinth, Miss., home, but the charges were dropped six days later. After his arrest, Curtis said he was framed and gave investigators Dutschke's name as someone who could have sent the letters, the affidavit said.

Some of the language in the letters was similar to posts on Curtis' Facebook page and they were signed, "I am KC and I approve this message." Curtis often used a similar online signoff.

Curtis has said he knows Dutschke and they feuded over the years, but he wasn't sure what caused it.

Dutschke made a brief appearance Monday in federal court, wearing an orange jumpsuit with his hands shackled. He said little during the hearing other than answering affirmatively to the judge's questions about whether he understood the charges against him. U.S. Magistrate S. Allan Alexander set his preliminary and detention hearing to take place Thursday.

He faces up to life in prison if convicted.

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Mohr reported from Jackson, Miss. Associated Press writers Jeff Amy and Emily Wagster Pettus contributed to this report.

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