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Monday, December 31, 2012
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SPORTS: Neah Bay blows out Aussie Travelers at Crush in the Slush; other prep basketball results
SPORTS: Neah Bay blows out Aussie Travelers at Crush in the Slush; other prep basketball results
Tyler McCaulley and Ryan Moss led the offensive onslaught, both drilling five 3-pointers apiece. McCaulley led all scorers with 17 points and Moss had 15.
The Red Devils also got 14 points from Abraham Venske in the win.
After Neah Bay jumped out to a quick 15-2 lead midway through the opening quarter, assistant coach Stan Claplanhoo, who was filling in for head coach Gerrad Brooks, did a five-in, five-out substitution. The Red Devils also pulled back on defense.
?We didn?t show our game today,? Claplanhoo said. ?We usually pressure [on defense] all the time.?
Despite the wholesale changes, Neah Bay continued to roll and finished the quarter with a 26-2 advantage.
The game provide an opportunity to for the Red Devils to play together at full strength.
They were short-handed due to members of the 1B state runner-up football team not having met the required number of practices.
?It was good to get a game in,? Claplanhoo said. ?Some guys? shots are coming around.?
McCaulley is one of those late arrivals finally finding his shooting touch.
?Those shots weren?t falling a week ago,? Claplanhoo said of McCaulley?s hot shooting night.
It was the only game in the Crush in the Slush Tournament for Neah Bay. The Red Devils are off until Tuesday, Jan. 8, when they host Forks, which beat Neah Bay 60-54 earlier this month.
Neah Bay 79, Aussie Travelers 21
Travelers 2 3 5 11? 21
Neah Bay 26 15 26 12? 79
Individual scoring
Neah Bay (79)
Halttunen 8, Venske 14, J. Greene 6, Z. Greene 6, Claplanhoo 5, Doherty 5, Reamer 2, Moss 15, Buttram 2, McCaulley 17.
Forks 62,
Mary M. Knight 30
OCEAN SHORES ? A day after suffering their first loss of the season, the Spartans clubbed the Owls on Friday in the North Beach Invitational.
Forks was coming off a 62-59 setback to a hot-shooting Taholah team Thursday.
?It was good after our first loss to come together and not play sporadic,? Forks coach Rick Gooding said.
?It was a great all-around win. Every single player contributed. We got back to playing team basketball.?
Braden Decker followed up a career-high 29 points Thursday with 14 points, nine rebounds and five assists.
Guard Colton Raben shook off a scoreless game to tie Decker with a game-high 14 points.
Leo Gonzales grabbed 13 rebounds and scored 10 points. Mark Jacobson had 10 boards and eight points.
The Spartans? shooting was much better than Thursday when they only made 29 percent of their shots. They doubled that number Friday, shooting 58 percent from the field.
Forks 62, Mary M. Knight 30
Mary M. Knight 5 10 11 4? 30
Forks 16 11 21 14? 62
Individual scoring
Mary M. Knight (30)
O?Neil 4, Willey 8 Jimenez 7, Robecker 2, Dierkop 6, Ogg 2.
Forks (62)
Raben 14, Abrahams 4, Gilmore 5, Harris 2, Decker 14, Hatch 5, Jacobson 8, Gonzales 10.
Centralia 85,
Port Angeles 63
CENTRALIA ? Justice Tasby exploded for 36 points as the Tigers beat the Roughriders for the second time this season on Thursday.
Port Angeles fell behind 27-10 in the first quarter and was unable to get back in the game.
Hayden Gunderson led the Riders with 15 points. He also dished out five assists and pulled down nine rebounds, including four on the offensive end.
Caleb Treider added 13 for Port Angeles, and Garrett Payton and Derek Schumacher scored 12 each. Schumacher also had seven rebound and Payton had six.
Sophomore Hunter Hathaway grabbed nine boards and scored six points.
Although four players scored in double figures, the Riders only shot 34 percent from the field and were just 4 for 26 on 3-point attempts.
?We shot way too many 3s,? Port Angeles coach Brent Stephens said. ?We settled for 3s when we could have taken good two-point shots.?
Port Angeles was without its best post player, Marshall Elliott, who is out for three weeks with a concussion.
They also didn?t have Nathan Angevine and Lambros Rogers, both key members of the Riders? rotation.
Centralia beat Port Angeles earlier this month 92-53.
?We bridged the gap [17 points] from last time,? Stephens said. ?We made it competitive.
?For us to bridge the gap like that without a starter and two other contributing players [shows] we?re improving.?
Centralia 85, Port Angeles 63
Port Angeles 10 15 24 14? 63
Centralia 27 13 22 23? 85
Individual scoring
Port Angeles (63)
Gunderson 15, Hathaway 3, Isett 6, Payton 12, Rixon 2, Schumacher 12, Treider 13.
Home (85)
Blaser 9, Scott 11, Neely 5, Waring 3, Housden 3, Tasby 36, Stodeman 8, Baumann 10.
Girls Basketball
Sequim 36,
Mornington 29
PORT TOWNSEND ? A 25-point second half helped the Wolves overcome a slow start and beat the Mornington Breakers of Australia in the Crush in the Slush Tournament at Port Angeles High School on Friday morning.
Sequim nearly went the entire first quarter without a point, scoring its first and only bucket with five second remaining in the period.
Any win is a beautiful win for the Wolves, though, especially considering they were without their leading scorer, Alexas Besand, and only senior, Columbia Haupt.
?It?s a big win, especially for our confidence,? Sequim coach Evan Still said.
With those key players missing, Still said the focus was to give playing time to less-experienced players.
Two players typically on the Sequim JV team, Jordan Miller and Judy Villella, were important contributors to the win, especially in the first half when the offense was stagnant.
Villella finished with four points and Miller scored three.
Hailey Lester and Elise Beuke led Sequim with seven points apiece. Emily Wallner added six.
Because they were facing a team from another continent, Sequim had to play without any prior scouting. Therefore, the Wolves had no choice but to keep the game plan simple.
?We just told the girls to play our game, and for the most part we did,? Still said.
Sequim 36, Mornington Breakers 29
Mornington 5 10 8 6? 29
Sequim 2 9 13 12? 36
Individual scoring
Sequim (36)
Miller 3, Lester 7, Cummins 2, Bentz 3, Guan 2, Wallner 6, Beuke 7, Villella 4, Anderson 2.
Quilcene 47,
Clallam Bay 27
QUILCENE ? The Rangers earned a non-league win over the Bruins on Friday behind 15 points, six rebounds and fives steals by freshman Jerrica Viloria.
?Our girls really came together and played as a team,? Quilcene coach Briana Weller said.
?We saw the floor and were able to react to the Bruins? physical play.?
Weller added that tough defense gave the Rangers several fast-break opportunities.
Many Quilcene players contributed to the victory.
Team captain Andrea Lara scored 13 points and tallied five steals.
Sophomore center Sammy Rae had 11 points, 12 rebounds and three blocked shots; freshman Megan Weller had four points, 10 boards, five assists and six steals; and Alex Johnson, yet another freshman, scored two points, grabbed three boards and finished with two steals off the bench.
Zeria Signor led the Bruins with 10 points.
?I was happy with our defense, we had 20 steals as a team,? Clallam Bay coach Kathleen Winter said.
?We had two quarters that we couldn?t make much happen offensively. We had 31 turnovers for the game.?
The Bruins? record is now 4-2 on the season. They start league play Friday at Crescent.
Quilcene improved to 4-5. The Rangers next travel to Seattle on Friday to face Shorewood Christian in a league matchup.
Quilcene 47, Clallam Bay 27
Clallam Bay 11 4 10 2? 27
Quilcene 8 17 13 13? 47
Individual scoring
Clallam Bay (27)
Signor 10, Erickson 7, Welever 4, Larrechea 4, Butler 2.
Quilcene (47)
Viloria 15, Lara 13, Rae 11, Weller 4, Johnsen 2, Kieffer 2.
Burlington-Ed. 69,
Port Angeles 42
PORT ANGELES ? Shayla Northern?s 13 points weren?t enough for the Roughriders on Friday afternoon.
Krista Johnson contributed nine points for Port Angeles and Krista Johnson added nine more.
The Tigers, who Port Angeles coach considers one of the top 2A teams in the state, were led by Sydney Brown with 21 points and Mariah Swanson with 15.
Burlington-Edison 69,
Port Angeles 42
Burlington-Edison 17 18 19 15? 69
Port Angeles 15 9 9 9? 42
Individual scoring
Burlington-Edison (69)
Brown 21, Swanson 15, Agen 11, Lopez 7, Torset 4, Capron 4, Brecknridge 4, Rabenstein 2, McTaggart 1.
Port Angeles (42)
Northern 13, Johnson 9, Walker 6, Jeffers 4, Jones 3, Hinrichs 2, Millsap 2, Lee 2, Hofer 1.
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Source: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012312309987
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Police: Five dead, about 20 wounded in Oregon tour bus crash
LA GRANDE, Ore. (AP) ? A tour bus crash crashed Sunday on an icy stretch of interstate in Oregon, killing five people and injuring about 20 others, authorities said.
Police say the bus lost control around 10:30 a.m. on the snow- and ice-covered lanes of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon. The bus crashed through a guardrail and went down an embankment a few hundred feet.
Rescue workers were using ropes to help retrieve people from the crash scene. State police said the charter bus was carrying about 40 people, but they did not say where the vehicle was traveling to or from.
The bus crash was the second fatal accident in Oregon on Sunday morning due to icy conditions. A 69-year-old man died in a rollover accident
State police have not released information on the company that owns the bus.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/5-killed-oregon-tour-bus-crash-84-215107655.html
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
French panel overturns 75 percent tax on ultrarich
PARIS (AP) ? A French constitutional panel has thrown out a plan to tax the ultrawealthy at a 75 percent rate, saying it was excessive.
The constitutional council ruled Saturday that the highly contentious tax, which President Francois Hollande promised to impose while campaigning, was unfair. It was intended to hit those with incomes over ?1 million ($1.32 million).
The French government approved the tax in its most recent budget, but even before many said it would do little to stem the country's mounting fiscal problems and would drive away the wealthiest citizens. Hollande's popularity, meanwhile, has been tanking as the country's unemployment continued its rise for the 19th straight month.
In recent weeks, Gerard Depardieu ? France's most famous actor ? moved to Belgium to avoid his home country's high taxes.
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A better pencil sharpener? Inventor dreams of erasing life's annoyances
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Long lines at amusement parks. Traffic stalled at rush hour. Cycling uphill. To most of us, these are just minor problems we face in an otherwise comfortable existence.?To Anwar Farooq, they are personal call-outs, challenges that he must answer with his own ingenuity. These days, the math?teacher and habitual?inventor is wrestling with the age-old problem of the?pencil sharpener.
"When I saw my students struggling with the regular pencil sharpener, I honestly knew that there must be an alternate approach, so I started thinking," Farooq, who teaches?at Maywood Academy,?southeast of Los Angeles, told NBC News.
That's not the first time Farooq "started thinking."
His inventions, spanning 1986 to now, may?seem whimsical at first, but on closer inspection are like early ancestors of devices in use today. There's a bike where your pedaling is boosted by an air compressor, for instance. If you replace the air compressor with an electric motor, you get today's battery-powered bikes.
There's?the Robocam, a?remote-controlled camera platform that's a precursor to telepresence robots and smartphone?videoconferencing apps alike.
For those annoying amusement park or movie theater?lines, Farooq proposes a chain of connected, moving chairs.?You take a load off, enjoy the?built-in entertainment system, and before long, it's your turn to get up and enjoy the ride or show. He calls it Waiting Is Fun.?It may seem far-fetched?... until Disney goes and installs one in Tomorrowland.
The idea Farooq seems most proud of is the?Rapid Commute. Cars traveling from the outskirts of a city?drive right onto a high-speed train, as if they were boarding a ferry boat. The train then brings them to a central location downtown, where they disembark. Next month he will be presenting it to the Transportation Research Board, an off-shoot of the non-profit?National Research Council,?at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
And then there's the?Quick N Silent pencil sharpener.?
* * *
Pencil sharpeners are, in fact, one of the few classroom technologies that have?not?experienced a radical redesign in the past century. The most common type of institutional sharpener, the hand-cranked type you can still see?mounted to a wall or the teacher's table in classrooms all over the world,?was introduced in 1904.
Sure, electric versions have been introduced, but?the cylindrical mills rotating in "planetary" fashion within?are still dominant ? despite the inconsistency of their results.
Nevertheless, when Farooq wrestled with how to modernize the?pencil sharpener, he didn't look to some?laser that could hone the tip of a pencil with micron-level precision. Instead, he found inspiration in the distant?past.
"I remembered that people carried pocket knives and they just used those to sharpen pencils quietly and efficiently."
He set to work on the new machine based on the same principles.
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Farooq was always an inventor at heart, but he told us that, growing up in Pakistan, he never had a chance to exercise his creative capabilities. "Even if I had an idea, we were from the lower middle class, so we didn't have any money to do anything," he told us. "My biggest break is that I came to a country like America ??and now I can do those things I desire."
But even after moving to the U.S. in the 1970s, inventing hasn't been exactly easy for Farooq. In fact, following his dreams can at times be something of an expensive habit. "Of course it's a hardship to me and tight financially," he admitted. "My wife says, 'Why don't you take up gambling?'"
At least to him, though, the cost is worth it.?"I live for that, that excitement of finding something, of discovering something." He points out that the famed inventor Nicola Tesla died a poor man, but now they're building a Tesla?museum. Farooq doesn't expect a museum, but he does hope that his inventions will outlast him.
It may be his latest baby, the pencil sharpener,?that lives on. Even in our increasingly?digital world, Farooq feels strongly that pencil and paper, as?a medium for recording thoughts and images, won't disappear any time soon.?"Yes, it is old and unglamorous technology, but it's foolproof and works as advertised."
Its biggest asset is its low cost: "It's cheap enough to be owned by almost anyone in the world," he said.
When he finally figured out how to implement the pocket-knife method of sharpening, Farooq built a mock-up and?patented his design.
His prototype doesn't grind, like the rotary sharpeners in classrooms?worldwide. Nor does it shave around the edge, like the small twisty?single-blade sharpeners that predate the rotary type. Instead, it uses multiple blades to whittle down the edge from all sides at once. True to its name, the blades slice down the end of the pencil, exposing a sharp tip and plenty of lead in a single, silent pass.
Farooq is looking for funding to start manufacturing the device, which he has continually modified over the last few years in his spare time.?A crowd-funding attempt at?Fundageek, a website for inventors, has not produced much income. But he intends to put a more complete version of the device up for consideration on Indiegogo, a larger platform for collecting funding.
In the meantime, Farooq will keep on inventing. His own modest?website lists two things ? Personal Safety 360 and GPS Live Cam ??that he isn't ready to discuss publicly.
"When I came to this country,?I wanted to do something positive, a legacy to leave behind." Whether his inventions find widespread adoption or not, Farooq's insatiable inventor's spirit may continue to inspire the kids in his classroom ??as well as those who encounter him through his growing portfolio.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC?News Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.
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Last-minute deal averts East Coast port strike
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A strike that could have crippled 15 major ports on the East Coast and the Gulf and put a crimp in the nation's commerce?has been avoided after dock workers, port operators?and shippers agreed to a deal that extends the workers' contract, a federal mediator said Friday.
The parties settled on a 30-day extension of the contract after a meeting Thursday with Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George H. Cohen, the FMCS said in a statement.
The parties had faced a Saturday deadline for resolving the labor dispute. The International?Longshoremen's Association, which represented the dock workers, had threatened to strike a day later.
The strike would have shut down major ports, including the port of New York and New Jersey, the largest on the East Coast and the second-largest port in the U.S. to handle manufactured goods from China.
Earlier Friday, The White House had urged the parties to resolve their differences. The dispute centered on a cap to payments to dock workers based on the weight of the container cargo, known as "container royalties."
The new contract does not eliminate the royalty payments, according to Benny Holland, an executive vice president for the ILA.
"The royalty will stay intact. We have worked out a formula for it," he said in an interview.
Established in 1960, the royalty payments to ILA workers are based on the tons of container cargo that move through a port. That tonnage has risen from 50 million tons in 1996 to 110 million last year, according to the alliance. Total payments last year were $211 million, according to the USMX, or an average of $15,500 per worker.
The original idea was to protect longshoremen from wage losses expected as a result of "containerization," in which more and more goods are packed in the now-familiar 20- and 40-foot long boxes. Those take less manpower to off-load than the less-standardized containers they replaced.
Both sides also fought over the guaranteed eight-hour workday in the current contract and the seven-man "lashing gang." Lashing crews, or gangs, secure the cargo containers to the vessel using metal lashing rods to keep them from moving while the vessel is at sea. The maritime alliance wanted to eliminate each.
?The container royalty payment issue has been agreed upon in principle by the parties, subject to?achieving an overall collective bargaining agreement. The parties have further agreed to an?additional extension of 30 days (i.e., until midnight, January 28, 2013) during which time the?parties shall negotiate all remaining outstanding Master Agreement issues, including those?relating to New York and New Jersey," the federal mediator's statement said.
CNBC and?Reuters?contributed to this report.
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