Washington holds off Arizona State for 60-54 win

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Tony Wroten patiently prodded the defense, found an opening and took off.

Seeing an opposing player slide under the basket, the freshman didn't hesitate, launching himself into the air to throw down a rim-shaking dunk, sending the defender sprawling to the floor.

His team in need of a basket against a gritty opponent, Wroten provided an emphatic one that had even him amazed.

Wroten scored 22 points and ended a pair of rallies with three-point plays, including a dunk over Arizona State's Jonathan Gilling, lifting Washington to a 60-54 win over the Sun Devils on Thursday night.

"That might have been the best dunk I've ever had," said Wroten, who screamed and pointed to the crowd after the dunk. "I wasn't even expecting that to happen. He just moved over and I just dunked on him, I guess."

Washington (13-7, 6-2 Pac-12) labored offensively in the first half and struggled from the perimeter all night, making just 1 of 8 from 3-point range. Second-leading scorer Terrence Ross struggled to find his shot, missing his only two shots of the second half while going 4 of 13 from the floor.

No need to worry with Wroten on the floor.

The athletic, 6-foot-5 guard gave the Huskies a spark, hitting 9 of 12 shots, grabbing six rebounds and handing out three assists. He also had the two biggest plays of the game, the dunk over Gilling for a three-point play to put Washington up seven and a putback to make it 53-46 with just over a minute left.

"He was the difference in the game tonight," Arizona State coach Herb Sendek said.

Arizona State (6-14, 2-6) had its chances before Wroten's big plays.

The Sun Devils kept the high-scoring Huskies in check in the first half and fell into a big hole after going scoreless for more than 6 minutes to open the second, yet found a way to claw their way back behind Gilling.

He hit two of his five 3-pointers in the final 6 minutes to keep Arizona State close, but the Sun Devils never made it all the way back from the early hole to lose their third straight without leading scorer Trent Lockett, out with a right ankle sprain.

"I really thought we could beat these guys," said Gilling, who finished with 20 points and five rebounds. "Maybe they're more athletic than us, but I don't think their players are better than us, so I'm really disappointed."

After an up-and-down nonconference season, Washington has pulled it together in the Pac-12.

The Huskies entered Thursday night's game just a half-game behind California and Oregon after winning four of five, and have been rolling with their up-tempo style, leading the conference in scoring at 78 points per game. Washington rolled in its last game, bouncing back from a loss to Cal with a 76-63 win over Stanford behind Wroten's 21 points.

The Huskies figured to have another easy game lined up against wobbly Arizona State.

The senior-less Sun Devils struggled the start of the season, struggling with turnovers, suspensions and injuries.

Arizona State has been unsteady at the point, even before Keala King was dismissed from the team earlier this month, and entering Thursday ranked 333rd out of 336 teams in turnover margin, forcing 10.3 per game while giving it away an average of 16.6 times.

The Sun Devils have struggled offensively all season, and it's gotten worse since Lockett went down against Oregon State. They managed to beat the Beavers, but scored just 54 points in a lopsided loss to Colorado and 43 in a blowout against Utah on Saturday, one of its worst games in Sendek's six seasons in the desert.

It didn't start off as a walkover.

Arizona State struggled early against Washington, missing eight of its first 11 shots, and went more than 4 minutes without a field goal later in the half. The Sun Devils made up for it with solid defense and kept the game at a favorable-to-them slow pace to lead 24-22 at halftime after Chris Colvin's buzzer-beating, coast-to-coast layup.

The Huskies struggled against Arizona State's zone, taking tough shots against pressure and dribbling into the lane with nowhere to go. Washington missed all three of its 3-point attempts and was 10 of 26 overall in its lowest-scoring half of the season.

Washington started to find a rhythm on offense in the second half, hitting five of its first six shots while tightening up defensively to open with a 14-1 run.

The Huskies hounded Colvin into three turnovers in the first 5 minutes -- two that sailed into the crowd -- and held the Sun Devils scoreless until Ruslan Pateev hit a layup at 13:52.

"We came out early and were hardly contesting any of their shots," Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said. "More on the defensive end, we came out (in the second half) and didn't leave their shooters open, had better position."

Arizona State clawed its way back to within four, but the Wroten dunk over Gilling put the Huskies up 46-39 with 5 1/2 minutes left.

The Sun Devils pulled within four on a 3-pointer by Gilling with 1:39 left, but Wroten answered with another three-point play on a putback, and the Huskies maintained their cushion over the closing seconds to send Arizona State to its ninth loss in 11 games.

"It just wasn't so much a function of actions or things like that, (it's) just our awareness, especially on the defensive end and our constitution of making plays that we're capable of making," Sendek said.

Source: http://www.king5.com/sports/Washington-holds-off-Arizona-State-for-60-54-win-138178344.html

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Video: Senate Preview of Obama's Speech

Sen. Chris Coons, (D-DE), and Sen Ron Johnson, (R-WI), discuss what they hope to hear from President Obama tonight, and how to tackle tax reform.

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Amanda Knox, Parents Face Slander Charges in Italy

It's been nearly four months since Amanda Knox returned to the U.S. after spending four years in an Italian jail. Now she may be going back to the country.

Why return to a place where she was jailed for so long?

Not to see the sights, although her lawyer says she still loves the country and would even consider returning as a tourist one day. But in the more immediate future, Amanda may testify on behalf of her parents, who face criminal charges of slander.

Curt Knox and Edda Mellas, who are divorced, are charged with slandering the Perugia police based on statements they made to London's Sunday Times.

In the interview, they repeated Amanda Knox's claims that she had been physically abused and verbally threatened by police during an interrogation.

How living at home in Washington State, Amanda Knox, 24, is expected to be called as a defense witness at their trial, which is set to begin on March 30.

Knox's murder conviction was overturned last October, but she also faces slander charges for statements regarding police conduct she made during her trial.

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Financial plan: Flint union contracts under review

Flint? A financial plan from Flint's state-appointed emergency manager says city employee union contracts are currently under review for possible renegotiation.

The Flint Journal reports that the plan includes Michael Brown's suggestions for reducing the city's projected $11.3 million deficit. A copy of the plan was released to the public Tuesday.

According to the plan, Brown wants to cut costs through "negotiated union contracts, consolidation and shared services." His next steps include restructuring collective bargaining agreements and reorganizing departments.

Flint Mayor Dayne Walling said in a statement that the proposals "highlight the need for greater cooperation."

Brown was appointed last year. He has broad authority to make changes in the financially troubled city, including the power to oversee city government and toss out union contracts in some situations.

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HTC EVO 3D: poof, no more Carrier IQ software

It's been exactly a month since we received word that Sprint was disabling Carrier IQ software installed on its carrier-branded devices, and this week we witnessed a firmware update on the HTC EVO 3D that quietly removes all traces of the tracking software completely. Neither company was forthcoming about this particular feature disappearing -- we have a hunch they're trying to keep the public from being reminded that CIQ ever happened -- but Android Authority discovered that both HTC IQAgent and IQRD were completely gone after the update. So add this to the list of the build's other performance enhancements, and here's to hoping that we'll start seeing a plethora of other devices getting similar releases.

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Reader Roundup: Pets in Your Bed? | Apartment Therapy

When we first got our French Bulldog, Luna, I was adamant that she would sleep in her own bed. For one thing she was so small I was worried I would roll over her and smother her, and for another, I thought she would make the bed dirty.

Now that she is no longer tiny and she is savvy enough that she is more likely to slowly push me out of the way rather than the other way around, I have been worn down over time and she now has full reign of the human bed.

I often see photos of pets lounging on furniture, but do you let your pet sleep in bed with you?

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Liver and thyroid cancer rates rise

"Relatively large" increases in the prevalence of liver and thyroid cancer, two less common forms of the disease, have been reported by Statistics Canada.

The agency released its report, Canadian Trends in Cancer Prevalence, on Tuesday, calling it the first such detailed report of the trends in the country.

Prevalence rates for prostate cancer, the most common cancer in Canada, rose substantially, mainly because of the aging of the population over the study period 1997 to 2008, according to the report.

Increases in the prevalence of breast cancer, the second most common cancer and the most common in women, were "more moderate."

Prevalence is defined as all cancers diagnosed within a given period among people alive on a specified date. In contrast, "incidence" refers to newly occurring cases.

The five-year prevalence rate for cancer overall rose 2.1 per cent a year between 1997 and 2008.

Liver cancer factors

Larry Ellison and Kathryn Wilkins of the agency?s health statistics division said both the incidence and observed survival rose over the study period, with only about 20 per cent of the increase in prevalence due to aging of the population.

Various explanations for rising liver incidence have been suggested, they said, including:

- Increases in immigrants from countries where hepatitis B and C virus infections and exposure to aflatoxins that can lead to liver cancer are more common.

- Rising incidence of hepatitis C infection linked to intravenous drug use and sharing of needles.

- Growing rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Many countries have also reported increases in thyroid cancer incidence rates, especially among young and middle-age women. Advances in diagnostic techniques are thought to be a factor, though a recent U.S. study suggested more detection alone can?t explain the increase in that country, the authors said.

Rates declined for cancers of the larynx and a type of uterine cancer.

The biggest disparity between the sexes was for lung cancer. The five-year prevalence proportion fell slightly among men but rose among women ? a difference that was attributed to sharper decreases in smoking prevalence among men since the mid-1960s.

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Lead poisoning common in Burmese refugee kids (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Many Burmese refugee children bound for the U.S. may have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood, a new government study finds.

Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that of 642 U.S.-bound Burmese children, 90 percent had some amount of lead in their blood. Overall, 5 percent had lead poisoning -- including nearly 15 percent of children younger than 2.

High lead exposure is especially dangerous for young children, since it can permanently damage their developing brains.

In the U.S. and other developed countries, children's lead exposure dropped substantially after the heavy metal was removed from gasoline, house paints and other products. But studies have found that lead poisoning is still fairly common among refugee children who come from countries where lead exposure is a bigger problem.

For the new study, CDC researchers focused on Burmese children who were living in one of three Thailand refugee camps before coming to the U.S.

In 2008, there had been reports of high lead poisoning rates among children who were resettled in the U.S. after living in those camps -- suggesting that at least some of their lead exposure happened in the camps.

The CDC researchers found that of 642 refugee-camp children tested over two months in 2009, nearly all had some detectable lead in their blood. And the number with lead poisoning was several times higher than what's seen in U.S. children.

Of children younger than 6 -- the most at-risk age group -- about 7 percent had lead poisoning. In the U.S., it's estimated that 1 percent of kids in that age range suffer lead poisoning.

What's more, refugee children younger than 2 had a lead poisoning rate of 14.5 percent.

Children were considered to have lead poisoning if their levels were at least 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. That's the CDC's current threshold.

A federal advisory panel, however, just recommended that the threshold be lowered to 5 micrograms. It has long been known that even lead exposures lower than 10 micrograms per deciliter are linked to lower IQ in children.

The CDC already recommends that all refugee children have their lead levels checked within three months of arriving in the U.S.

CAR BATTERIES, REMEDIES, ANEMIA AT FAULT?

The current study is the first to test children's lead concentrations before they come to the U.S., according to the CDC researchers, led by Dr. Tarissa Mitchell.

And the findings point to some factors that put children at particular risk while they're still in refugee camps.

Many children with lead poisoning were exposed to car batteries in their homes, which families used to generate power for electronic items. Children younger than 2 were particularly likely to have touched or "mouthed" the batteries.

Young children who'd been given traditional remedies at the camps were also at increased risk of lead poisoning, the researchers found.

Past studies have found that some traditional medicines are contaminated with lead. When Mitchell's team tested seven remedies sold at the Thai refugee camps, they found that one -- a "multipurpose infant remedy" called Gaw Mo Dah -- had lead levels far above what's considered acceptable in foods in the U.S.

But the biggest factor seemed to be anemia, which is most often caused by iron deficiency. Anemia is known to make children more vulnerable to lead poisoning.

The CDC recommends that when refugee children in the U.S. are tested for lead levels, they also be screened for anemia and have a "nutritional assessment."

But the current findings also show that efforts are needed in the refugee camps themselves, according to Mitchell's team.

The Thai camps, they say, have already started educational campaigns to warn families about the dangers of lead exposure.

Once children are in the U.S., the CDC researchers say, families should be placed in "lead-safe" housing. And after their first lead test, children younger than 6 should be re-tested within six months of settling into permanent housing.

Burma, also known as Myanmar, was under military rule until last year, when a civilian government was installed following elections. Each year since 2007, up to 15,000 Burmese refugees have resettled in the U.S. from camps in Thailand.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/zNNv7x Pediatrics, online January 16, 2012.

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