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This was a big girls' soccer win Wednesday night for defending state 1-A champion Southwest.
But if you spoke to coach John Sweeney following the Stallions' 1-0 victory over Coastal Plains 1-A Conference rival Dixon, you would likely get the impression that he took the result with a grain of salt.
"Obviously we have been the top two in the conference for the last few years and so this helps," Sweeney said. "But we've already seen a pretty good East Carteret team and we will see them again, and we know we are going to see Dixon again. So we take nothing for granted. It's just nice to get one more win."
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Southwest now sits in first place in the
"We needed this win because of our nonconference record," Carroll said. "It's a real big win."
The Bulldogs (3-5-3, 1-1) were hoping to defeat the Stallions after Dixon lost to its rival three times last season, including a season-ending defeat in the playoffs.
"I told the girls the team we just played, there's a reason why they have won two of the last three state championships. They are very, very good," Dixon coach Josh King said. "We played very well against them and had three or four really good opportunities to score.
"We had our chances. We just didn't put them away."
Fortunately for Southwest, Carroll capitalized on her scoring chance.
Ashley Johnson started the opportunity with a free kick from 35 yards out that landed in the 18-yard box. The ball bounced off a Dixon defender and landed in front of Carroll, who fired the ball at the goal.
The shot sailed over Dixon goalkeeper Miranda Davis and went in.
"The (defender) cleared it out and I just turned and struck it and it went in," Carroll said. "I didn't think it did. Sweeney always says when the ball is around the box, just shoot it and that's what I did."
And Sweeney certainly wasn't complaining about how his team scored.
"That was an angle where we want Ashley to drop it in because from that distance you really don't have a play," he said. "You just want to drop the ball inside the box and hope in the scramble that you create something.
"Kim got it and it was a terrific finish. She's done that for us a couple of times already this year."
The Stallions had other chances, particularly early in the second half, to extend their lead. Southwest opened the second half with a pair of point-blank shots inside the 18 but was denied by Dixon.
"I thought we probably had a little bit better of the run of play (in the second half)," Sweeney said. "In soccer, all you can hope to do, consistently, is create chances. I was really pleased with the kind of chances we created for ourselves. We need to continue to work on finishing those, but a lot of credit goes to the Dixon goalkeeper."
Still, Sweeney was pleased with his team's overall effort.
"I thought we played for 80 minutes," he said. "We did good things. We just need to do more of those good things."
Dixon managed just 4 shots on goal, but moved the ball well at times.
The Bulldogs' best attack came moments after Charity Kennedy left the match with 17:10 left in the first half with an injured left knee. Kennedy's injury appeared to have motivated Dixon.
About two minutes after Kennedy went down, the Bulldogs' Brianna Pollock had a strong shot near the left post that was blocked by Southwest goalie Erika Ware.
About three minutes later, Pollock had a nice header following a throw-in, but that too was saved by Ware.
"Our team always shows some fight and resolve," King said. "They fight for each other and it says a lot of their character. They play for one another. We really would have liked to have capitalized right after that and get a goal or two, but it just didn't turn in our favor tonight."
Southwest's defense had a say in that. The Stallions allowed just one second-half shot, which came with 2:25 left in the match.
"We have a defense that is experienced and particularly experienced with playing together," Sweeney said. "They do a wonderful job of communicating and covering for each other. Dixon obviously has terrific attacking options and that is what it took, that collective effort."
Dixon 0 0— 0
Southwest 1 0— 1
GOALS—S: Carroll. ASSISTS—S: Johnson. IN GOAL—D: Davis (6 saves). S: Ware (4 saves). SHOTS ON GOAL—D 4, S 7. CORNER KICKS—D 3, S 8. RECORDS—D: 3-5-3, 1-1, hosts East Carteret on April 10. S: 4-4-2, 2-0, at Swansboro today.


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Alice and Rick Eller sit with their six dogs (from left) Horace, 12, Kendall, 3, Bessie, 9, Tika, 12, Patch, 8, and Lucky, 17, at their home on Camano Island.
Alice Eller and her husband, Rick, adopted 12-year-old Pomeranian Tika, right, and 12-year-old black lab Horace from Old Dog Haven.
The great thing about adopting an older dog is that they are so easy to care for. They are housebroken. They are accustomed to humans. They know their names and probably some simple commands.
And they are so happy to be part of a family.
Those are all the reasons that Camano Island couple Alice and Rick Eller adopted two dogs from the dog sanctuary known as Old Dog Haven.
"The older dogs are so much less effort and they are so appreciative," Alice Eller said. "All they want to do is be with you and love up."
The Ellers stumbled on the Old Dog Haven website when they were searching for a golden retriever.
But after being interviewed by Old Dog Haven co-founder Judith Piper, the Ellers agreed to look into adopting Tica, an older Pomeranian, a breed of dog the Ellers knew little about.
When they met Tica, the dog came trotting out to greet them. Her last two remaining teeth couldn't contain her tongue. which hung off the side of her mouth.
"She washed our faces and it was all over. Rick just melted," Alice said. "She was friendly and sweet as can be."
The Ellers had such a good experience with Tica they went back to Old Dog Haven and adopted Horace, a black lab who had been unable to use one hind leg after his former owner ran him over and took him to the shelter rather than to the vet.
Horace is like a big lap dog and though he's gimpy, the Ellers take him on short little walks twice a day.
He doesn't need a lot of exercise, Alice Eller said.
"Horace -- the name just reached out and grabbed me," Alice said. "Now we call him 'our little Ho.' "
Tica and Horace joined the Ellers' four other dogs, all Papillons. And Alice Eller said she has her eye on adopting another dog from Old Dog Haven.
The Ellers call themselves "very doggie people."
"I look at that website every day. We may need to put a block on it," Alice joked.
The Ellers have time for these dogs with Rick retired and Alice working only every other week as a nurse. Still, they wouldn't consider getting a puppy -- their youngest dog is 3.
"We call ourselves 'The Retirement Inn of Camano Island,'" Alice said.
The Ellers also wouldn't consider getting a dog from any other place except Old Dog Haven.
The Ellers truly believe in Piper's ability to place the right dog with the right owner.
The Ellers also believe Old Dog Haven does the best job at finding homes for older dogs in need of a new family.
"Once you've discovered Old Dog Haven why would you go anywhere else?" Alice asked. "It's an amazing organization."
The Ellers believe in Old Dog Haven so much they have put the organization in their will. Alice Eller calls that her backup plan.
"These are our kids; we don't have kids," Alice said of her dogs. "And should anything happen to us, I'd rather our dogs go to Old Dog Haven because I know Judith will find them a good home."
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The key thing to know about Old Dog Haven is that there isn't a public facility to go and view a dog.
Old Dog Haven is operated in the home of Lee and Judith Piper in Arlington.
Dogs up for adoption from Old Dog Haven are either in a foster home or ODH is posting a dog for another party, such as the dog's owners, a shelter or another organization.
Another key thing about ODH is that the Pipers really want these adoptions to succeed. So unlike a shelter, ODH posts a lengthy biography on each dog so potential adopters really get an insight into the dog's background and personality.
More information makes for more permanent adoptions.
"We really want these adoptions to succeed," Judith Piper said. "They've been abandoned once and we don't want that to happen again."
That's why the Pipers started Old Dog Haven in 2004 -- to find permanent homes for abandoned, neglected and abused older dogs.
Since then, the Pipers have created a network of foster homes that has grown from 50 homes in 2004 to 149 foster homes today.
The couple handled 57 adoptions last year -- a total of 117 counting the referrals. The couple deals with 23 shelters with many dogs coming from the Everett Animal Shelter, PAWS in Lynnwood and similar animal assistance centers.
Before a dog is put into a foster home, the animal gets a complete checkup at the vet, along with any necessary medical procedures. The average cost per month for vet care is about $38,000.
"We have a large number that come to us in really crumby shape," Piper said.
The waiting list for dogs in need of a foster home is 15 dogs.
"We want for them to be in a family. That's the whole point," Piper said.
And that home should be a permanent one.
Old Dog Haven has a pretty good record in regard to returns. Only two dogs were returned last year; Old Dog Haven will take a dog back even if it was adopted years ago.
In one of those cases, the dog was returned to ODH after two and half years from a woman who suddenly went blind.
There are sometimes cases of divorce, where a couple had adopted a dog but must return the animal because neither one can take it alone.
"We have to have reasonable expectations but it's hard to be sure," Piper said. "We want placements that will work out."
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TARBORO — Tarboro's first half statistics told the entire story of its Eastern Plains 2A Conference contest with Kinston on Tuesday: Nine points, 21 turnovers, 31-point halftime deficit.
Kinston ended up rolling to a 75-32 victory in a one-sided mismatch that it dominated from the opening tap.
The only suspense was whether Tarboro's final turnover output would exceed its point total. On that end Tarboro came up just short, committing 31 miscues as Kinston in the second half backed off a full court trap that completely befuddled the hosts in the first 16 minutes.
"Our pressure early gave us separation," Kinston coach Perry Tyndall said. "We were able to get a lot of easy transition baskets in the first half."
Suffocating defense allowed Kinston (11-2, 4-0) to end the first half on a 17-0 run. Add in the first bucket after intermission and those 19 unanswered points gave Kinston a 42-9 lead.
But this one was over long before that.
Kinston also ended the first quarter with 10 straight points in building a 20-6 advantage. The margin was never again that close.
Coupled with Friday's 73-31 win over Farmville Central, Kinston has now outscored its last two league opponents by a combined 148-63.
"We've really been playing well defensively since the holiday tournament," Tyndall said. "The thing is, and I don't want to sound like I'm nitpicking, but there're still some areas we can improve on."
Tyndall cited his team's inconsistency in stopping its opponent's dribble penetration, especially in the first three minutes when dynamic point guard Tony Gregory sliced his way to his team's first six points and kept Tarboro (5-8, 1-2) close.
"We picked up too many fouls because we didn't rotate over quick enough," Tyndall said. "It's a minor issue but it's still something we've got to get better at."
Offensively, 13 Kinston players reached the scoring column, led by Denzel Keyes, who tallied 23 to go along with a game-high 13 rebounds.
Kinston's biggest lead was 44 at 70-26 with 2:47 left in the game.
"What I really liked tonight was our effort," Tyndall said. "Even with the game out of hand, we kept playing hard all the way to the end."
The Kinston girls left no doubt either, racing to a 27-12 halftime lead en route to an easy win.
Like the boys, girls coach Hubert Quinerly was able to clear his bench early and often.
Two players, Anshonee Addison and Takerian Harper, collected 10 points apiece for Kinston (11-4, 4-0), while Lydia Rivers added nine points and 13 caroms.
Kinston actually trailed 7-6 before embarking on an 11-0 run spanning the end of the first quarter and the first three minutes of the second.
No player for Tarboro (5-8, 1-2) scored more than seven points.
Kinston 20 20 16 19—75
Tarboro 6 3 12 11—32
KINSTON (11-2, 4-0) — Denzel Keyes 23, Taylor 9, Ingram 7, Ham 6, Hart 6, Williams 5, Rouse 4, Canady 4, Dawson 3, White 3, Lopez 2, Jones 2, Joyner 1, Jackson.
TARBORO (5-8, 1-2) — K. Jones 8, D. Jones 7, Gregory 6, Roberson 3, Pittman 2, Exum 2, Winstead 2, Clapp 2, Dickens, Brown, Bailey, Battle, Hyman.
Kinston 12 15 13 13—53
Tarboro 7 5 7 4—23
KINSTON (11-4, 4-0) — Anshonee Addison 10, Takerian Harper 10, Rivers 9, Vermillion 7, Drumgoole 7, Loftin 4, Williams 3, Clark 3, Thi.
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borri wrote:Kit wrote:That is Doc's point. :)
Still don't get it. If Pek is all muscle, the he should weigh alot more than Pau. But he doesn't. Only 6 pounds?
If Pek is fat, then he should weigh less than Pau. Which he doesn't.
i don't either, i re-read the comment multiple times, did like a triple-take, and it still doesn't make sense to me


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The death of Osama bin Laden has driven a stake into the heart of the Left, causing progressives to bleed and moan as their unholy alliance with radical Islam absorbs the devastating May 2 blow.
The radical Islamic half of the romance is in agony as it sheds bitter tears for the mass murderer. Indeed, Hamas, Hezbollah, the armed wing of Fatah, and tens of thousands of radical Muslims around the world have prominently displayed their sorrow and anger for the world to see.
The alliance's leftist half is, meanwhile, also deeply grieving. The guru of the leftist political faith, Noam Chomsky, is responsibly leading the way. Having distinguished himself, among other intriguing ways, as a Jew who has traveled to Lebanon to embrace personally the leaders of Hezbollah, whose stated top priority is to rid the world of Jews, the M.I.T. professor emeritus has not disappointed the faithful, progressive flock. Furiously responding to the assassination of the Left's idol, Chomsky fumed in his recent article: "We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic."
The al-Qaeda leader's killing is an outrage, in Chomsky's mind, because Bush's "crimes vastly exceed bin Laden's." Chomsky is outraged not only that the operation was clearly "a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law," but also that its victim had never been legally proven to be the perpetrator of 9/11. Undoubtedly, Chomsky's Gulag Denial mindset continues unabated, for having shamelessly attempted to deny the Khmer Rouge's Holocaust in Cambodia was clearly not enough to satiate Chomsky's totalitarian odyssey.
Following in the leftist guru's tracks, Glenn Greenwald fumed over at Salon.com that Americans were cheering and feeling patriotic that "someone just got two bullets put in their skull." This is terrible in leftist eyes because that "someone" is not George W. Bush but rather America's most wanted enemy-terrorist. Greenwald is also very upset that a question lingers over whether bin Laden really had to be killed and not taken prisoner instead.
Heaven forbid! A targeted assassination of the leader of al-Qaeda, a jihadist terrorist organization that has killed thousands of innocent American citizens. Oh, the unjustness of it all! One wonders whether Greenwald will be able to soldier on.
Meanwhile, Curtis Doebbler, a leftist "human rights" lawyer who teaches at a Palestinian university, grieves that the "West is now celebrating the death of someone who, however misled and wrong-minded, was a person who was willing to fight for the poorest and the most vulnerable people in the world to the very end of his life." He continues: "That the US had to kill him in violation of international law makes all the more believable Osama Bin Laden's claims of Western hypocrisy and the need for a better alternative."
The "alternative" that Doebbler is dreaming of and that Osama had in mind? Well, it's not that complicated: it's what Islamists are offering leftists – and that which leftists are salivating over – in their unholy alliance: Sharia law.
Let's also not be too confused over why "progressive" feminist Naomi Klein called out for bringing "Najaf to New York" in her infamous 2004 column in The Nation, in which she reached her hand out in solidarity to Muqtada al-Sadr and his Islamo-fascist Mahdi Army in the Iraqi Shi'ite stronghold of Najaf. Klein understands very well what bringing Najaf to New York means: the Shi'ite stronghold, where Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army at one time ran their torture chambers and sowed their terror, replicated on America's shores.
The list of leftists weeping over the death of Osama is endless: Dan Rodricks at the Baltimore Sun complaining that killing Osama is "not justice"; Laura Flanders at The Nation condemning the raid as "Americans seeking sense and getting vengeance"; former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt denouncing Osama's death as "clearly a violation of international law"; and the terrorist-loving Code Pink's Medea Benjamin unable to disguise her agony over at the Huffington Post, counseling us not to sink "into a false sense of triumphalism in the wake of Bin Laden's passing."
It is no surprise that members of the political faith are mourning over the death of Osama. The context for their grief is perfectly explained, as I have documented in United in Hate, by how much they celebrated 9/11. Let's take a trip down memory lane to regain the picture. It is important to understand the Left's sadness right now by briefly recreating the chilling scene of a decade ago.
September 11, 2001, clearly represented a personal vindication for leftists everywhere. The images of the innocent people jumping to their deaths from the Twin Towers evoked glee from them – as they clearly saw only poetic justice in American commercial airplanes plunging into American buildings packed with American citizens. For leftist believers, the jihadist terror war now promised to succeed where Communism had failed: to obliterate the capitalist system itself.
In the blink of an eye after the Twin Towers went down, leftists were beating their breasts with repentance for their own government's supposed crimes and characterizing the tragedy that their nation had just suffered to be some form of karmic justice.
Immediately following the 9/11 attack, leftist academics led with a drum roll. The very next day after the terrorist strike, Chomsky exonerated the terrorists, stating that the Clinton administration's bombing of the pharmaceutical plant in Sudan constituted a far more serious terrorist act and warning that 9/11 would be exploited by the United States as an excuse to destroy Afghanistan.
Leftist academics across the country echoed Chomsky's themes, cheering the 9/11 terrorist acts, which they deemed a just retribution for America's transgressions. History professor Robin Kelley of New York University stated: "We need a civil war, class war, whatever to put an end to U.S. policies that endanger all of us." History professor Gerald Horne of the University of North Carolina asserted that "the bill has come due, the time of easy credit is up. It is time to pay." Professor Eric Foner of Columbia University, the renowned Marxist historian, expressed his personal confusion about "which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." Barbara Foley, a professor of English at Rutgers University, felt 9/11 was a justified response to the "fascism" of U.S. foreign policy. Mark Lewis Taylor, a professor of theology and culture at Princeton Seminary, thought the WTC buildings were justifiable targets because they were a "symbol of today's wealth and trade." Robert Paul Churchill, a professor of philosophy at George Washington University, rationalized that the terrorist attack was justified. "What the terrorists despised and sought to defeat was our arrogance, our gluttonous way of life, our miserliness toward the poor and its starving; the expression of a soulless pop culture . . . and a domineering attitude that insists on having our own way no matter what the cost to others."
Of course, the infamous Ward Churchill, as we know, outdid all the others, blaming not only Bush and America but the "little Eichmanns" themselves for the attacks.
Churchill, Chomsky, and their kin on the academic Left were joined by prominent figures in the progressive culture at large. Norman Mailer stepped forward to opine that the suicide hijackers were "brilliant." In his view, the attack was completely understandable, since "Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel which consequently had to be destroyed."
Oliver Stone affirmed that he saw 9/11 as a "revolt" and compared the ensuing Palestinian celebrations with those that had attended the French and Russian Revolutions, while Susan Sontag held that the terrorist attack was the result of "specific American alliances and actions." From the religious camp, Tony Campolo, a leading Christian evangelist who served as one of former President Clinton's "spiritual advisers," believed that 9/11 was a legitimate response to the Crusades.
The American flag, a hated symbol to the Left, also became a target. Novelist Barbara Kingsolver was incredulous that her daughter's kindergarten teacher instructed the students to come to school the next day dressed in red, white, and blue. Nation columnist Katha Pollitt had the same reaction regarding her teenage daughter's impulse to fly an American flag outside the family home. Pollitt told her that she could "buy a flag with her own money and fly it out her bedroom window, because that's hers, but the living room is off-limits." This was, Pollitt explained, because the American flag stands for "jingoism and vengeance and war."
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I have family in Tennessee. Tennessee is home to lots that is good about America: barbecue, blues, jazz, Elvis, the St. Jude Memorial Research Center/Children's Hospital, not to mention some gorgeous scenery and important history. But gods have mercy on us, they are crazy there. And it is just getting worse.
The State Senate passed a bill which banned the word "gay" in schools. HB600–a bill which prohibits local municipalities and counties, including local school districts, from enacting local laws or school policies that protect LGBT against discrimination–has passed. There's another bill pending, pointed out by Blue Texan, which says
that teachers must be helped "to find effective ways to present the science curriculum as it addresses scientific controversies." It also says that teachers may not be prohibited from "helping students understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught."
Controversies, like how The World As We Know It was formed when the Holy Unicorn pooped glitter? Or the debate about which came first Chicken Who Laid The Egg That Became The World, or The Egg Whence Hatched Chicken?
Intelligent design, creationism or Holy Unicorn poop, hopefully students won't experience the effects of evolution firsthand via nuclear mutations, since their state (the only one that permits the commercial burning of nuclear waste) has accepted the "offer" of 1,000 tons of radioactive leftovers from Germany, after the Czech Republic passed on the nifty glow-in-the-dark goo, according to the ironically named Donald Safer, chairman of the Tennessee Environmental Council. Yes, they burn nuclear waste in Tennessee.
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Youth in East Kinston now have options for their Saturday mornings.
A Kinston couple began a robotics class in March at Holloway Center, serving nearly 20 children as young as 8-years-old.
Walter Harvey said the class builds robots from scratch out of various materials and programs them on computers.
As Kinston Robotics is in the beginning stage, there is only a pair of robots to work with. Harvey focuses on the programming and engineering aspects, which still interests the children.
He and his wife Beulah provide lunch and some transportation for the students in addition to teaching them the craft.
"Robotics is taking over the world," Beulah Harvey said. "In our community, with the black children growing up, they're not really taught robotics."
The Lenoir Community College criminal justice student said she's always had a passion for helping children and hopes Kinston Robotics allows youth in the East Kinston to participate in an alternative activity.
"A lot of the kids that come to the program are from the inner city, East Kinston," Beulah Harvey said, "They're surrounded by a lot of the things going on. (Robotics) just takes their mind off of that and on to something else."
Walter Harvey said his goal when he returned to Kinston in 2007 from Massachusetts was to teach children the skill he learned while travelling with a certification in electronics and computers.
"It was something I found real easy and interesting," he said. "When I had this in mind, I just wanted to jump start the community."
His future goal for the class is to enter a robotics competition next year.
"I'm trying to get the money together to get enough robots for everybody," said Harvey, who has supplied materials thus far with his own money. "We need enough robots, we need more computers. That's the mission: to try to get what we need to keep going."
The Harveys, who have two teenage children in the program, said the community can donate in various ways — from providing food and scrap materials to speaking to the class.
While the program only began in March, Walter Harvey said he's gotten pleasant feedback.
"The response I got from the parents after the first couple of classes was, 'That's all the kids talk about: robotics,' " he said. "It's really made me feel like I've got to do more. (The children have) taken a real interest in it. I know it's more out there that would love to do it."
Beulah Harvey said the children have been eager; Walter even missed a graduation in Massachusetts last weekend because he didn't want to miss the class.
"They need an outlet," Beulah Harvey said about the youth. "If you put a little bit into them, you'll get out a lot. We're just trying to put into the kids so we can get out them because they are our future."
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As the most powerful and most controllable XTR-level brake of all time, XTR Trail absolutely assassinates wide-open descents with uncanny consistency, delivering more confidence than ever before.
The new XTR Trail lever delivers big power. As the first XTR lever equipped with Servo-Wave, riders can precisely control 25 percent more power with highly-adjustable and responsive one-finger braking.
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SEATTLE - It is a rare step in the world of hip hop: An artist using music to speak in favor of same-sex relationships.
But that s exactly what Seattle-based rapper Macklemore did in a song called Same Love, which has gained viral status this past week. The artist, whose real name is Ben Haggerty, performed the song with friend and music colleague Ryan Lewis (watch it below).
The accompanying video, which tells the story of a gay couple, sparked a flurry of interest in recent days online. As of Thursday, it was nearing 1.2 million views on YouTube.
Haggerty, through his manager, cited a sore throat as a reason not to comment on Thursday.
Kerri Harrop of Music for Marriage Equality said the issue is very personal to [Macklemore]. He grew up on Capitol Hill. He s got two gay uncles, a gay godfather.
She said Macklemore's song will help reach younger voters who may not be aware that same-sex marriage is on the ballot in November.
Ben has a large reach in young voters, his story is very sincere, said Harrop.
Chip White with Preserve Marriage Washington said he has not watched the video. However, he said he feels his group's message against R-74 is resonating.
We are building enthusiasm. There is a groundswell of support from people who are opposed to redefining marriage, said White.
He also hinted the group will make a strong push in the next couple of weeks. TV ads will educate Washington, White said. There are serious negative impacts if marriage is redefined by society.
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CHAPEL HILL — Duke didn't merely spoil the occasion, the Blue Devils crashed North Carolina's party Sunday afternoon.
Instead of another memorable milestone for Tar Heels coach Sylvia Hatchell, she was stuck with a forgettable first half.
Fifth-ranked Duke ran roughshod through No. 11 North Carolina in an 84-63 blitzing that had the makings of an even larger blowout in Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball at Carmichael Arena.
"We kind of knew in the backs of our minds to be spoilers," Duke center Elizabeth Williams said.
Hatchell will have to wait for career victory No. 900, absorbing a thrashing that turned a possible showdown into a series of meltdowns.
"We started out like we were intimidated," Hatchell, a Hunter Huss graduate, said. "I hate to say that."
Duke (20-1 overall, 10-0 ACC) bolted to a 36-7 lead before settling for a 50-19 halftime advantage.
"We came out really focused," Williams said. "We were making the right decisions."
Junior guard Chloe Wells scored a career-high 18 points on 6-for-7 shooting on 3-pointers and Tricia Liston added 15 points. The Blue Devils made 11 of 18 attempts from beyond the 3-point arc.
Tierra Ruffin-Pratt's 18 points and Waltiea Rolle's 17 points paced the Tar Heels (20-3, 8-2).
Hatchell's next chance for No. 900 comes Thursday night at Boston College, which has a sub-.500 record. Only two Division I women's coaches have climbed to the 900-win mark.
Hatchell said she hopes the pursuit of another milestone hasn't become a distraction, though she acknowledged the increased attention on the program because of it.
What onlookers witnessed in this latest game wasn't a pretty sight for the Tar Heels.
"The first half we weren't even hardly in the gym," Hatchell said. "I was about to use all my timeouts. … The first half, I don't know how much worse it could have been."
Duke's opening burst included nearly 60-percent shooting from the field, including 6 of 8 on 3-pointers, for the first 12 minutes.
A 17-6 run for the Tar Heels to start the second half brought them within 56-36.
"We should have done that in the first half," Rolle said.
Hatchell didn't stop caring. With 12:49 remaining when two officials had differing calls on a block / charge ruling and the final decision went against the Tar Heels, Hatchell threw a fit and waved her arms to ignite crowd.
Next came a Duke turnover and ensuing fast-break layup for North Carolina's Brittany Rountree, closing the cap to 60-42. The Blue Devils called timeout, and Liston scored the next five points to quell the threat and set up the final stretch of their fifth straight victory in the series.
"Sylvia approaching that kind of success, that's pretty special," Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie said. "All I can say is congratulations to being in that position."
Wells had a total of 18 points across the previous three games.
"I didn't really know how well I did until after the game," she said.
McCallie already was aware of the impact Wells had.
"As much as Chloe hit shots, she was an incredible defender," McCallie said.
Duke's Haley Peters scored 14 points in a game-high 37 minutes and Williams finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds for her third double-double of the season.
NOTES …: Outgoing chancellor Holden Thorp had a particularly up-close view of the wreckage as he was the guest coach and sat at the end of the North Carolina bench. … Duke has reached 20 overall victories and 10 ACC triumphs for the 16th consecutive season. … North Carolina was charged with 24 of the game's 46 turnovers.


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Everett cyclist kept riding during 9 weeks of cancer treatment
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Rich Braun, 60, of Everett, rides his bike home from work down Colby Avenue on Wednesday afternoon. Braun rode his bike 14 miles every day to work and back home during his 9 weeks of treatment for prostate cancer. He is now celebrating a year in remission.
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For his final proton therapy cancer treatment, Rich Braun, rode his bike 20 miles to the Seattle Cancer Cure Alliance�s offices.
Not even cancer.
Not even when it's near the seat of his pants.
Avid cyclist Rich Braun of Everett biked his usual 14-mile roundtrip daily commute to work during his nine weeks of 44 treatments for prostate cancer.
For the final treatment, he pedaled 20 miles to Seattle Cancer Care Alliance's Proton Therapy ProCure Center.
"I just rode all the way down there," Braun said. "They couldn't believe I rode from home."
This month marks one year of success from proton therapy. The regimen targets high doses of radiation to tumors with minimal harm to nearby healthy tissues.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths in men. According to the American Cancer Society, about 230,000 new cases are diagnosed a year. The risk increases with age for what is usually a slow-growing cancer that forms in tissues of the male reproductive gland.
Braun's cancer was detected though a PSA, or prostate-specific antigen, screening test. His employer, Marine Spill Response Corp., started offering free screening tests to workers after a corporate executive was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
"I did my first PSA test back in 2010," said Braun, a communications supervisor for the national company that cleans up oil spills. "It wasn't zero like it should be. It was up a little bit. The next year it was up a little bit more. The next year it was up a lot."
A biopsy revealed the cancer hadn't spread. The urologist told him there was time to explore options such as surgery or radiotherapy.
Braun joined a prostate cancer support group at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett to learn more about the various treatments.
"I started listening to their stories," he said. "It seemed like everybody had some issue. The big one was incontinence. That doesn't fit my lifestyle. I bicycle. I ski a lot. I do a lot of cross-country skiing during the winter. The whole idea of wearing a diaper and trying to do these things wasn't going to cut it."
This is, after all, a guy when asked his age replies "60 and a half."
Braun researched proton therapy, which the company executive had successfully had undergone in Southern California, the closest treatment center at the time.
"I knew that was the way I wanted to go," Braun said.
He couldn't afford to go to California for three months, but he didn't give up.
"In one of my searches I saw a little blurb that something was going to open in Seattle," he said. "It was going to open in spring of 2013. This was in September the year before."
Braun decided to wait it out. He watched the ProCure Center being built on the University of Washington's Medicine's Northwest Hospital & Medical Center campus.
"They had a live web cam looking down where you could watch as they were building the facility," he said. "I'd watch the guys moving around and then they'd stop for lunch and I was like, 'Come on. Get to work, guys.'"
The monitoring paid off. "When they opened it. I was the first person on the doorstep," Braun said. "They weren't really even ready for people to really come."
He was among the first graduates.
"He's a good example of the patients we see. A lot are motivated like him," radiation oncologist Dr. L. Christine Fang said.
Proton therapy is also used to treat brain tumors, breast cancer and other cancers.
"It stops at a specified distance. It spares a lot of normal tissue," Fang said.
It often has no or minimal side effects. That's the good news.
The bad news: It's expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it, but Braun's did.
Fang gave him the nod to continue the daily bike rides to work during treatment. Braun has done the same 40-minute route from his north Everett home to the office near the Boeing plant for years. People along Colby Avenue can set their watch by the guy in the yellow safety vest with the big grin and mustache.
After biking to work, Braun's wife would pick him up and drive him to Seattle for treatment.
There, it would go something like this:
"I'd drink about 20 ounces of water," Braun said. "I'd go in, put the gown on. Sit on a graphite table. They line you up to make sure it's the same every single time. Once it's all confirmed with the computers and everything, then they'd have a snout that comes down. That's what the protons come out of. They'd all leave and go back in their rooms and do their thing and you wouldn't hear anything. A couple minutes later, they'd come back and turn me around on the other side and make sure I was lined up. Then they'd all disappear."
The device was "like something out of 'Star Wars.' It was the coolest thing," Braun said. "I couldn't feel anything. One time I accused them, 'Are you sure you guys are doing anything?'"
On the last day of treatment in Seattle, in addition to surprising the medical staff by riding his bike, he put big smiley face temporary tattoos on his body where the proton beams were aimed.
Braun now gets PSA tests every three months. So far so good.
He encourages other patients to explore treatment options to do what fits best.
"Do your research. You have to be your best advocate," he said. "If I went to Las Vegas and gambled, I'd want to gamble on something with the best odds in my favor."
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