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Read Pelton's piece, but in short the flap went something like this: Dallas defeated Phoenix in the season opener 111-108 but despite the Mavs' victory, Kenny & Charles disemboweled their defense of Phoenix's patented S/R. In particular, they shook their heads at Dallas' choosing to switch on the S/R, and Barkley pretty much made a wholesale condemnation of the switch as a defensive strategy. Mark Cuban, who has guys documenting every set, got pissed off because - as Pelton's data bear out - there's no empirical evidence suggesting that the switch is a less effective strategy than running under the screen, or hedging, etc. The war of words degenerates, blah, blah, blah.
Pelton pored over the data of a game between Phoenix and Detroit about ten days later and determined that Cuban's beef had merit - the switch is no less an effective defense of Phoenix's S/R than any other method.
The obvious relevance of Pelton's piece today is that, somewhere in a Phoenix hotel suite, Mike Dunleavy is weighing his defensive options. What's interesting is that, over the past 36 hours, I've both read and heard criticism of the Lakers suggesting that they would've been better served by having Smush [if that is your real name] run under the screen - which he did in three instances, each time resulting in a long-range Nash miss -- more frequently.
I'm not convinced this 0-3 on the Under is anything more than an aberration (besides, let me ask you - if the Clips are leading by one and PHX is coming down with :15 seconds remaining and Livingston runs under a Nash screen with :07, would you not put a bounty on Dunleavy's head?)
Here's why I think the Clippers are well-suited to defend the Phoenix high screen and roll with a switch, particularly with Livingston on the floor:
Like Detroit, our bigs are quick and mobile and our backcourt defenders are big and long. By switching Livingston or Ross...or even Mobley onto Diaw or Thomas, the Clippers don't kill themselves, and can certainly buy themselves the second or two they need for a proper baseline rotation - provided they execute.
What concerns me is Kaman's being drawn out to the top of the circle on the Nash-Diaw drag that worked so effectively on the Lakers. I'd like to think that Kaman is more capable than Kwame, but the Clippers will need to have a set rotation prepared for this, because this S/R is proving to be PHX's bread-and-butter. Because when Diaw comes up top, this is going to leave Brand alone in the right corner on Marion - where the Matrix sets up on this play. Mobley or Maggette will be guarding Bell or James in the left corner. PHX's other body is usually set up on the wing.
If Brand comes over for help, then someone - either our wing defender (Livingston/Cassell) or the other corner guy - has a split-second decision to put a body on Marion...or they could collapse on Diaw - though, as you saw with the Lakers, he gets to the basket far too quickly for most frontcourt defenders to have adequate time to help.
The difference between defending Phoenix well and laying out the red carpet for them is a matter of a nanosecond.
A quick baseline rotation and Boris Diaw's attempted layup says hello to Elton Brand's palm. A clumsy switch by Chris Kaman and Nash is in the paint for an uncontested 12-footer - abusing Kaman the way he did Kwame off the switch. Good anticipation by Shaun Livingston on repeated possessions and the Clips can effectively cut off one wing of the Phoenix offense. Poor rotation on the perimeter and James Jones and Raja Bell can set up a couple of chaise lounges in the corners and go to work - maybe they'll hit...and maybe they won't.
Game One is always exciting, particularly when, like the Clippers, you're the vagrant at the postseason cocktail party. But what makes Clipperblog so giddy about this game - especially having watched virtually every minute of the LAL/PHX series - is that Clipperblog is dying to see how the Clips choose to defend Phoenix. It's how we felt before the season premiere of The Sopranos.


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Rocky Mountain Power wants the public involved as soon as possible in the early planning stages of its massive transmission line projects and it's no wonder why.
RMP plans to invest $6 billion on 2,000 miles worth of high-voltage lines across the Intermountain West and it wants no unpleasant surprises for itself or property owners along the way. Some of those lines could be routed through Castle Country.
So the company did its research of all probable pathways in Carbon County and personally invited landowners along the routes to a briefing on the USU Eastern campus last Thursday.
In a short speech, Community Manager Debra Dull outlined the situation.
It has been about two decades since the company has done any major upgrades to its electric transmission system. During those 20 years, demand for power has gone up 26 percent. Despite the recent recession, the public appetite for energy has grown because of population and business growth, central air conditioning and all sorts of appliances.
Now it is time add some new transmission lines because the system will be at capacity and its reliability in jeopardy before 2020.
One of those new high-voltage pathways, the so-called Gateway South project, has preliminary - but by no means final - routes to cut across Carbon or Emery county, or both. That would mean a row of tall steel lattice towers, each reaching 140 to 190 feet into the sky.
Engineers estimate that the average distance between the towers would be 1,000 feet, meaning four or five to the mile.
The thick cables strung along the towers would carry energy charged at 500,000 volts. In contrast, the big lines leaving the Hunter and Huntington plants are 345,000 volts.
Dull explained that the new lines cannot parallel the existing rights of way. The reason for this is system reliability. All these towers are out in the open, which means they'll be affected by storms, landslides, forest fires, and other calamities.
Putting lines too close together would increase the odds of one natural disaster knocking out all the lines.
The whole Gateway south project will span 400 miles as the crow flies from the southeastern edge of Wyoming to the Clover substation near Mona.
RMP has come up with a web of route alternatives to traverse that distance, with each alternative selected on the basis of reliability and environmental considerations.
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The 18th round of secretive negotiations on the formation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — a massive so-called free trade treaty — is about to begin in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. In advance of that confab, one group has announced the creation of a campaign to stop the TPP from becoming the law in the United States.
The campaign, called Flush the TPP, is being sponsored by PopularResistance.org. According to the web page promoting the effort, "a movement to stop the TPP is expanding rapidly. Every Tuesday, people across North America are holding actions against the TPP, from education events to civil disobedience."
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PopularResistance.org's Flush the TPP website rightly reports that "this massive trade agreement is a high priority for transnational corporations, and they are working fast to make it law."
As The New American reported just after the start of President Obama's second term:
In an article published by World Politics Review, for example, Edward Alden writes that the Obama administration's acceptance and acceleration of the TPP is the "biggest swerve" away from a global Great Depression.
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The global financial crisis of 2008 and the recession that followed produced the first steep decline in world trade since the Great Depression. Yet rather than falling down, the United States and other countries have managed to swerve and keep going.
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A weekend domestic situation turned tragic just across the Tennessee line, with a woman and her 6-year old daughter dead, her live-in boyfriend shot. The incident began at about 10 Saturday night at a residence shared by Mark Johnson, Heather and Lexi Buchannan with
Johnson County deputies responding to the McEwen Road home for the domestic disturbance in which shots were fired. The first arriving deputy found himself under fire as the woman, later identified as Heather Buchannan fired at the deputy in a brief stand-off before fleeing the home with her daughter in tow. The two were seen heading into the woods as backup arrived, and an all night search was launched, ending around 8:30 Sunday morning when Bill Dunn arrived at his son's McEwen Road home to find a woman and child dead on a well head near the front of his yard. Both had been shot in the head. Sheriff Mike Reece said it appears that the deaths were a murder-suicide.
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Kidney failure treatment—hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplantation—is costly, and most people need financial help. The average cost to Medicare per person in 2011 was1
Financial help is available from the Federal Government and other sources. In 1972, the U.S. Congress passed a law that allows most people with kidney failure coverage by Medicare.
Health care providers often bill private health plans for additional costs. States and other sources may also help. A person can live years with kidney failure, so getting help to pay for treatment is important.
1U.S. Renal Data System. USRDS 2013 Annual Data Report: Atlas of Chronic Kidney Disease and End-stage Renal Disease in the United States. Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; 2013.
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ESRD (end-stage renal disease): the legal term for permanent kidney failure. Renal means kidney.
hemodialysis: a treatment for kidney failure that filters wastes and extra fluid from the body. Hemodialysis uses a machine outside the person's body to circulate a person's blood through a filter, called a dialyzer.
kidney transplant: surgery to place a healthy kidney from someone who has just died or a living donor, usually a family member, into a person's body to take over the job of the failing kidney.
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out of network: health care providers who are not in a plan's network. In some health plans, health care and prescriptions cost more if received from these providers.
peritoneal dialysis: a treatment for kidney failure that uses the lining of a person's abdominal cavity to filter blood.
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To get Medicare for kidney failure, a person must meet two conditions:
Three main types of Medicare health plans are available:
Four types of Medicare Advantage plans are available:
Those already on dialysis cannot join most Medicare Advantage plans. However, a person who had a Medicare Advantage plan before kidney failure can keep the plan. In some regions, special needs plans are designed for those on dialysis. A person can call 1–800–MEDICARE (1–800–633–4227) to learn if region-specific special needs plans are available for those on dialysis.
More information about Medicare Cost Plans and Demonstration or Pilot Programs can be found on the state Medicaid website at www.medicaid.gov or by calling 1–800–MEDICARE (1–800–633–4227). State Medicaid offices can provide more information about PACE. See the section on Medicaid.
A person can apply for Medicare online at www.ssa.gov or at a local Social Security office. Social Security's toll-free number is 1–800–772–1213, TTY 1–800–325–0778. A person can call to set up a time to meet with someone at a local office and apply.
A person with ESRD can apply for Medicare at the start of dialysis or at the time of a kidney transplant. The Medicare start date depends on the type of treatment:
Medicare continues for as long as a person is on dialysis and pays a premium, even for people who have jobs. Medicare will end for the following two reasons:
The rules for which plan pays first depend on which other health insurance a person has.
*This time period is called the "Medicare secondary payer coordination period."
Having Medicare Part B plus another health plan can limit what a person pays out-of-pocket for health care. In some cases, Medicare can limit how much a health care provider charges for services. If a person does not have Part B, the health care provider or dialysis clinic can bill the individual or group health plan and the person at a much higher rate. The person may have to pay what the plan does not pay.
In some situations, a person who has other insurance may be able to save money by not enrolling in Part B until the 30-month coordination period is over. The person would not have to pay the Part B premiums during that period.
Should a person with other insurance wait to start paying for Part B?
These booklets from Medicare offer more information about Medicare's kidney failure treatment coverage:
An employer or union group plan may help pay treatment and prescribed medication costs under the following circumstances:
People with kidney failure should read their health insurance policy carefully to make sure it covers kidney failure treatment. If they have questions about their benefits, they should ask their insurance agent or employer benefits counselor.
The following federal programs can help cover the cost of kidney failure treatment:
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State programs such as Medicaid, Medigap, and Medicare Savings Programs are funded in part by the Federal Government. However, states provide the services and decide who receives help.
Medicaid. Medicaid is a state program for those with low incomes and few assets. Each state runs its own program. The Federal Government requires that Medicaid programs cover a specific set of services; however, states can choose to cover more services in addition to the ones required. A person may have Medicaid alone or Medicare and Medicaid. If a person has both types of coverage, Medicare pays first and Medicaid pays second. Medicaid may pay for things Medicare does not. A person can apply for Medicaid at a city or county Department of Social Services office. A social worker can explain a state's Medicaid program and help a person apply. More information about Medicaid can be found at www.medicaid.gov.
Medigap, also known as Medicare supplement. A Medigap plan can help pay what Original Medicare does not pay for covered services. Insurance companies sell Medigap coverage. People who have a Medicare Advantage plan cannot also have a Medigap plan.
For people who are 65 and older, federal law says that in the first 6 months a person has Part B, companies cannot deny an application or limit payment for anything Original Medicare covers based on the person's health. Some states make insurance companies sell at least one Medigap coverage plan to those under 65 with Medicare. State insurance offices can explain the plans in their state. Local offices can be found by clicking on a map at www.naic.org/state_web_map.htm.
Medicare Savings Programs. Some states may pay Medicare premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance if a person has low income and few assets. A city or county Department of Social Services can determine whether a person is eligible.
Kidney-specific state assistance programs. Some states use state funds to help pay for specific kidney-related costs. A dialysis or transplant clinic social worker or a social worker in a local Department of Social Services can help a person determine if a state has a kidney program.
State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP). SHIPs get money from the Federal Government to give free health insurance advice to those with Medicare. A person who needs more health insurance should talk with a SHIP counselor or a social worker.
Many programs can help specific populations such as U.S. veterans; military service members, retirees, and families; American Indians and Alaska Natives; children; people with disabilities; job seekers with kidney failure; kidney transplant recipients; and living organ donors.
For U.S. veterans, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) can help pay some health costs. Veterans can see if they qualify and apply online at www.va.gov/healthbenefits. A veteran can learn more at a local VA hospital or by calling 1–877–222–8387. Some VA hospitals provide dialysis. Others contract with dialysis clinics to give veterans better access to treatment. The VA also has its own network of transplant centers.
A person may be able to get TRICARE—the health care program serving uniformed service members, retirees, and their families worldwide—if that person is
TRICARE for Life is a specific TRICARE plan that offers secondary coverage for people who have Medicare Part A and Part B.
Information about TRICARE and phone numbers for its four regions can be found at www.tricare.mil.
The Indian Health Service may help members of federally recognized American Indian or Alaska Native tribes. More information is available on the Indian Health Service website at www.IHS.gov. An American Indian or Alaska Native may also be eligible for help from public, private, and state programs.
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) gives free or low-cost Medicaid to children whose parents earn too much for Medicaid, though not enough to pay for a health plan. CHIP may also provide assistance to parents. CHIP is a federal and state program. More information can be found at www.insurekidsnow.gov or by calling 1–877–543–7669.
A person can find state and local help for people with disabilities at www.disability.gov. On this website, a person can learn more about civil rights, community life, education, emergency planning, work, health, housing, technology, and transportation. A social worker can refer a person to federal, state, and local resources.
Laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act protect people with certain disabilities, including kidney failure. A person with kidney failure may find job training and job seeking information through
More information about Social Security work incentives, the "Ticket to Work" program, and who can help, including vocational rehabilitation programs and employment networks, can be found at www.chooseworkttw.net.
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has a website called Transplant Living at www.transplantliving.org/before-the-transplant/financing-a-transplant/. Read more about UNOS in Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Transplantation.
The National Living Donor Assistance Program may help those who want to donate an organ, though cannot afford to. Donors should let the transplant center know they want to apply for help to pay travel and living costs. More information about this program can be found at www.livingdonorassistance.org.
The Federal Government, some state governments, and private companies give donors medical leave. Some states give tax deductions or credits to living donors.
Private organizations include charities and foundations. A few exist specifically to help people with kidney disease and kidney failure, such as the
Medicare recommends the following ways to save money on medications:
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease's (NIDDK's) Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases supports programs and studies to help improve treatment for those with kidney disease and kidney failure. The Malnutrition, Diet, and Racial Disparities in Chronic Kidney Disease (MADRAD) study is looking at the role malnutrition plays in the high death rates of people on dialysis. The study will focus on racial differences in survival of people on dialysis to understand why African Americans and Hispanics fare better than non-Hispanic whites. Investigators hope that the findings will help improve survival in all dialysis patients and possibly in people with other chronic diseases. MADRAD is funded under National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical trial number NCT01415570.
Clinical trials are research studies involving people. Clinical trials look at safe and effective new ways to prevent, detect, or treat disease. Researchers also use clinical trials to look at other aspects of care, such as improving the quality of life for people with chronic illnesses. To learn more about clinical trials, why they matter, and how to participate, visit the NIH Clinical Research Trials and You website at www.nih.gov/health/clinicaltrials. For information about current studies, visit www.ClinicalTrials.gov.
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Mar. 12, 2015
Liberian Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf admits mistakes in her early response to Ebola, when she deployed military personnel and police and sealed off neighborhood in Monrovia in effort to contain disease, moves that created distrust and unrest; Sirleaf says fear of 'unknown enemy' prompted her response; Liberia's Ebola rates have since declined drastically. MORE
Feb. 28, 2015
Liberian Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf calls on United States to maintain assistance against continuing Ebola crisis. MORE
Dec. 8, 2014
Anger builds over decree by Liberian Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf banning all political rallies in Monrovia in attempt to prevent further spread of Ebola; critics allege that true motive was to promote victory for Sirleaf's son Robert in hotly contested Senate race. MORE
Dec. 5, 2014
Liberian Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf prohibits all rallies and other mass gatherings before scheduled senatorial election, insisting that they risk increasing spread of Ebola outbreak; order comes as country is making progress in slowing disease. MORE
Oct. 31, 2014
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, as first elected leader after devastating civil war, has pushed the country to economic growth, but gains have been halted by the Ebola outbreak; she is Nobel Peace Prize winner and arguably most recognized African leader, but Ebola threatens to derail that legacy. MORE
Sep. 13, 2014
Liberian Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf implores Pres Obama for help in managing the country's expanding Ebola crisis and warns that without American assistance disease could send country into civil chaos. MORE
Aug. 30, 2014
Liberia's government lifts Ebola quarantine in West Point neighborhood of capital Monrovia; move comes 10 days after attempts to cordon the neighborhood from rest of city sparked deadly clashes between residents and security forces; incident has caused many to question Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's ability to handle the outbreak. MORE
Aug. 29, 2014
Monrovia, Liberia, has become, in a few short weeks, a major focal point of Ebola epidemic, with outbreak overwhelming government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; she has placed West Point neighborhood under quarantine, adding to chaos; her handling of epidemic presents her with political crisis that is galvanizing opposition. MORE
Aug. 31, 2013
Op-Ed article by Liberian editor Rodney Sieh holds libel suit filed against his newspaper FrontPage Africa, which led to his imprisonment and shutdown of paper, belies Liberia's reputation for press freedom; contends as long as advisers to Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf can unduly influence courts, government will continue to intimidate the press. MORE
Jan. 21, 2012
Op-Ed article by community rights activists Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor and Rachael S Knight asserts that Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is risking future conflict by awarding huge tracts of land inhabited by rural Liberians to foreign investors. MORE
Dec. 11, 2011
Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni journalist Tawakkol Karman for their campaigns to advance women's rights and safety. MORE
Nov. 11, 2011
Liberia's incumbent Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is re-elected by an overwhelming margin in a runoff vote that was marred by a boycott by her opponent Winston Tubman, who claimed that there was fraud in the first round. MORE
Nov. 9, 2011
Liberian Pres Ellen Sirleaf Johnson is poised to win a second term in an uncontested presidential runoff election, but day is dampened by low voter turnout and lingering bitterness from clashes between the police and opposition supporters; the election, only the second since nation emerged from 14 years of civil war, was intended to solidify the country's fledgling democracy but instead could exacerbate divisions. MORE
Nov. 5, 2011
LIberian opposition presidential candidate Winston Tubman withdraws from runoff election against Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and urges supporters to boycott the polls. MORE
Nov. 1, 2011
Liberian presidential candidate Winston Tubman says that he could still withdraw from upcoming presidential runoff elections even after his demand for the resignation of the head of elections was met; Tubman came in second in first round of voting, but Pres Ellen Johnson Sirleaf did not win the majority needed to avoid a runoff. MORE
Oct. 15, 2011
Partial returns in Liberian presidential election suggest that incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf could be headed for a runoff election in November. MORE
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Liberia Reports New Cases of Ebola
Three cases have emerged in the country since it was declared free of the virus on May 9, highlighting the continuing threat of viral outbreaks in West Africa.
July 3, 2015, Friday
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As Ebola Retreats, Obama Urges Vigilance and Preparation in West Africa
During a visit to Washington by the leaders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, President Obama said the global response must continue.
April 16, 2015, Thursday
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Liberian Leader Concedes Errors in Response to Ebola
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf acknowledged on Wednesday that she had made a mistake in ordering a tough security crackdown at the height of the Ebola crisis last year.
March 12, 2015, Thursday
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Liberia's President Urges U.S. to Continue Ebola Aid
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia praised the American efforts to fight the virus, which have helped to nearly eliminate new cases.
February 28, 2015, Saturday
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How Ebola Roared Back
For a fleeting moment last spring, the epidemic sweeping West Africa might have been stopped. But the opportunity to control the virus, which has now caused more than 7,800 deaths, was lost.
December 30, 2014, Tuesday
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Liberian President's Ban on Rallies Is Seen as Political
Critics say a decree by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia that bans all political rallies in Monrovia to prevent the further spread of Ebola is really an attempt to ensure victory for her son's Senate campaign.
December 8, 2014, Monday
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Liberia Bans Election Rallies to Fight Ebola
In issuing the crowd-control order, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf argued that large concentrations of people at election rallies were precisely the situations that could spawn new infections.
December 5, 2014, Friday
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The Shifting Ebola Epidemic
Recent gains in controlling the virus have been encouraging, but the world must guard against complacency.
November 16, 2014, Sunday
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Liberia President, Citing Ebola Gains, Ends State of Emergency
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said she would not extend the state of emergency, which had angered critics.
November 14, 2014, Friday
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For a Liberian Family, Ebola Turns Loving Care Into Deadly Risk
The Doryen family, unbowed survivors of Liberia's civil war, saw seven members die from the virus in a matter of months and lost its sense of unity.
November 14, 2014, Friday
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Obama Hosts West African Leaders
The president met with the leaders of the Ebola-affected nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea on Wednesday to discuss how the United States could help them as they rebuild after the outbreak.
Obama Hosts Liberian President Sirleaf
President Obama praised Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Liberian president, for her leadership during the Ebola epidemic. Ms. Sirleaf thanked Mr. Obama for his response to the crisis.
Sirleaf Speaks on Ebola Outbreak
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia talked about flaws in the Liberian health care system and rebuilding it after the Ebola epidemic.
Talking With Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
A conversation between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Alison Smale, executive editor of the International Herald Tribune.
TimesCast | Ending Liberia's Civil War
October 7, 2011 — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the current president, and Leymah Gbowee, a peace activist, were awarded the prize for their roles in moving the country beyond its violent past.
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The first Navy-Marine Corps classic was cancelled last night after the court on the USS Bataan became too slippery for Florida and Georgetown:
There were 3,500 fans at Mayport Naval Station and the game was being broadcast live on NBC Sports Network. Roughly 1,000 military personnel were in attendance. The game tipped off at 9:15 p.m. and was called at 10:38.
Florida led 27-23 at halftime in a season opener that will not count in the record books. The game will not be made up, and the stats will not count. After the 20-minute halftime ended, city and game officials huddled with Florida coach Billy Donovan and Georgetown coach John Thompson III near midcourt. After meeting for 10 minutes while the players warmed up, the game was called.
The crowd was told over the public address system that the game was over. Both coaches then spoke to the fans over a microphone.
"It's dangerous down here," Thompson told the crowd.
Donovan voiced his concerns as well while speaking to the fans.
"This is very disappointing," Donovan said. "The floor is just too wet, and we don't want anyone getting hurt."
Another game aboard a naval vessel was canceled earlier in the day because of court condensation. Ohio State and Marquette were scheduled to play aboard the USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, S.C.
"I never noticed anything in the first half," Florida junior forward Erik Murphy said. "I never slipped. I noticed a couple times when play was stopped kids were drying the court, but I didn't think anything of it. When we came out for warm-ups it still seemed OK, but if you look at the floor now, they made the right decision."
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Exposure to cold temperatures is believed to be the cause of death of a Caldwell woman.
The body of 21-year old Sarah Langley was found Sunday by family members...less than a mile from where her car crashed in Olive Township.
Noble County Sheriff Stephen Hannum says Langley apparently attempted to walk from the crash to a friend's home,
The exact cause of death has not been determined.
Her car wrecked, but no sign of the woman who was driving it for over 24 hours. Sunday, the missing Caldwell woman's body was found.
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SLA was the first place I truly understood what being a disciple of Christ meant. Over the two weeks I was shaped into a leader with a heart for growing the kingdom of God and learned what it truly means to die every day for Christ. SLA taught me to be a fully committed leader focused on God's will for my life and discipling others.
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The market is moving into the back end of the corporate earnings season as just about half of the companies in the S&P 500 SPX, -0.68% index have already turned in quarterly results.
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"Because earnings in general have not been disastrous, I think that's been a positive surprise for people," spurring investors to drive stocks higher, said Michael Yoshikami, chief executive of Destination Wealth Management.
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Share price gains for Valero Energy Corp. VLO, -3.63% and Pfizer Inc. PFE, -0.72% after better-than-expected quarterly results helped push the stock market higher last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.29% is now above the 14,000 level for the first time since late 2007. The Dow also notched its best January performance since 1994 and the S&P 500 index had its strongest January advance since 1997. Read about the market's January performance.
Along with the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.87% the major equity indexes have risen for five consecutive weeks. Stocks climbed Friday after jobs and manufacturing reports lifted Wall Street's view of the economic recovery. See Friday's action in U.S. stocks.
With a year-to-date gain of 6.1%, the S&P 500 is in "extreme overbought territory," and that "naturally has brought out fear of a correction, which…should be temporary and may have already begun," Tony Dwyer, U.S. portfolio strategist at Canaccord Genuity, told clients in a note Friday.
Three separate "thrust"-type indicators have taken place so far this year, which suggests a double-digit gain from current levels, and a downside limited to 3% to 5% in a correction, he wrote.
Yoshikami said he expects the market in the short term is "going to move into a fairly choppy environment until we figure out what's happening with sequestration. That's the big trigger for the market."
Sequestration refers to deep, automatic cuts in domestic and military spending to start March 1 unless Congress and the White House change the terms of the current plan that will cut spending by $1.2 trillion over nine years.
The cuts may weigh on economic activity on the heels of a contraction in gross domestic product in the fourth quarter. The economy contracted by an annual rate 0.1%, in part because of a plunge in military spending, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.


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This morning Wayne Gretzky was on SportsNet radio in Canada and spoke about the lockout.
He told Brady and Lang that he thinks that a deal could be done soon and a season starting soon after.
Gretzky said, "My gut still tells me that over the next six weeks I think that they will get a deal done, and I think there's too many people that want to play, and I still see hockey being played come January for a 40- or 50-game schedule. Let's all try and stay positive and hopefully the two sides can come to an agreement and get hockey back in the sports pages and away from the business pages."
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Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, Britney Spears -- all are former Disney stars who have made bad decisions since leaving the Mouse House.
Some have rebounded. Britney settled into life with her sons and recently landed a two-year gig in Vegas. Zac went to rehab to address a serious cocaine habit. As for Miley, whose wild behavior and split from fiance Liam Hemsworth have been topping headlines, it's too early to tell.
But what about the current crop of Disney stars?
Carolyn Hennesy, who recurs on The Disney Channel show "Jessie" playing the title character's neighbor Rhoda Chesterfield, has no fears about that cast going down the wrong path, especially lead star Debby Ryan. See why:
Sounds like Debby has a good head on her shoulders, but the same can't be said for other young Hollywood starlets.
Click on the "Launch Gallery" link below to see which former good girls have gone bad.
P.S. For those of you wondering why there are half-naked men behind Carol, she was attending a charity at The Abbey, a gay bar in West Hollywood.
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Looking back, as I enter my third year as president of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, I am struck by how surprising the first 24 months of my tenure have been.
I have been surprised by the questions asked, surprised by what comes out of my mouth in response, surprised by the enormity of the job and the energy it requires, by how quickly people here become part of my family, and by how much we have accomplished and how much we have yet to do.
There are also things that no longer surprise me. The average tenure of a university president is one that comes to mind. But the small daily surprises are something I've come to appreciate.
Early in the summer of 2006, I met the granddaughter of an alumnus who had at one time shown interest in supporting the university. After a delightful conversation, she stood and up and told me the cart (meaning her interest in contributing to the university) was in the ditch, but that this didn't mean it had to stay there in perpetuity.
I dropped her an e-mail message a few weeks later, putting in writing this idea we discussed about transforming our campus culture into one where our students were actively engaged every day in the civic life of our community. She wrote back and never mentioned anything about a cart or a ditch. After a few additional electronic conversations, it seemed that an idea was taking hold -- the Oglethorpe Center for Civic Engagement -- that would connect our academic program with our growing civic-engagement efforts.
I was in New Orleans in August 2006, working to restore homes in the lower 9th Ward and covered head to toe in gear (Tyvek suit, helmet, work gloves, boots and goggles) when my phone rang. It took me a minute to unzip far enough to locate the device.
"Larry," the voice said, "I want you to know we are going to make the center happen." That's the way I heard about one of the largest individual gifts ever made to Oglethorpe. Among many other things, the gift has allowed us to buy two new carts (we call them vans down here) to transport our students into the community every day of the week.
A cart of a different sort was part of another surprise. Last year, a young student made an appointment with me to talk about the state of Oglethorpe's recycling program. Now, in terms of the size of our effort, we looked more like Rhode Island than Texas, so I was a bit anxious about the meeting.
Jessica arrived and proceeded to tell me everything she thought needed to happen on campus. Of course she was right, but at the moment, I knew the resources to make all that happen were unavailable. I was about to explain why we couldn't do what she was asking when Jessica proceeded to Part 2 of her presentation. If we could provide her and a few of her fellow students some plastic bins and a used golf cart, they were prepared to do all the work.
The bigger surprise, however, is that a year later, Jessica and her band of green students continue to show up every day for duty.
When I arrived at Oglethorpe, there were few signs of religious life on campus. That was another surprise, given my assumptions about religious activism in the South. The fact that there was no appreciable Jewish presence on campus hardly registered with me until the spring of 2006, when a young student and his mother sat in my office, trying to decide where Nathaniel would enroll (yes, I do want to talk to every high school student who visits our campus, and that was a surprise, too).
Nathaniel had been accepted to many institutions, but had narrowed down his choices to Oglethorpe and one larger, more well-known university nearby. The family is Jewish, and since I am Oglethorpe's first Jewish president in its almost 200-year history, Nathaniel wanted to know about Jewish life at the college. The other university he was considering had, literally, a thousand Jewish students and a well-established organizational structure for them.
Here was my moment of truth -- how truthful was I prepared to be?
I took a deep breath and said, "Well, Nathaniel, that's a great question. It's true that if you go to [that university], you will find it easy to participate in religious life and maybe in a few years you might take a leadership position in one of their many Jewish organizations. On the other hand, if you come to Oglethorpe, you can start our Jewish Student Association and be president from day one. You can change this place, and I will help."
I knew that soliloquy would not have be persuasive to many 17-year-olds, and I was fairly certain at the end of the meeting that neither Nathaniel nor his mom were convinced of my logic.
After the fall semester got under way, however, I glanced up one day to see Nathaniel in his Atlanta Braves hat, walking across the campus. We chatted briefly. Neither of us mentioned anything about religion. If I recall, we talked baseball. Several weeks later, I saw a notice posted in our student center announcing an upcoming meeting inviting students interested in forming a Jewish student association to attend.
By the end of Nathaniel's first year at Oglethorpe, his vision and energy have stimulated three other student religious groups to spring up or be resurrected.
This past week, I was in our gymnasium at about nine p.m. and members of our women's basketball team were running full court. They asked me if I wanted to play; I think they were kidding. I know I surprised them when I responded affirmatively. There were now eleven of us. They picked up teams fairly discretely, and then the captain walked over to me: Dr. Schall, you have winners. For those who have never played pick-up basketball, that may seem like an honor. It actually means the two players who picked the teams selected everyone but me. Well, at night's end, they actually asked me to come back (apparently, I can still play a bit), even the young woman I elbowed in the mouth by accident. Man, was she surprised!
One of those groups was the source of yet another surprise. It came last spring when Mustafa Abdullah, the founder of the newly formed Muslim Student Association on the campus, came and asked me to be the club's faculty adviser. My first thought, naturally, was, What would my mother think? Two seconds later (her line was busy), I said yes, I would be honored to serve.
In addition, the Jewish, Catholic, Christian and Muslim student associations jointly sponsored an interfaith movie night. Mustafa Abdullah selected a movie about the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Nathaniel and others collectively prepared and cooked a meal of culinary delights that would be served at a traditional Passover Seder and at an Easter Sunday celebration. Mustafa began the evening welcoming the crowd in Arabic, Hebrew and English, wishing everyone peace.
Not surprisingly, I was incredibly proud.


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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwideby Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the seeds of humanitarian activism.
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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.
They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.
Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it's also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.
"New York Times columnist Kristof and his wife, WuDunn, a former Times reporter, make a brilliantly argued case for investing in the health and autonomy of women worldwide. 'More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century,' they write, detailing the rampant 'gendercide' in the developing world, particularly in India and Pakistan. Far from merely making moral appeals, the authors posit that it is impossible for countries to climb out of poverty if only a fraction of women (9% in Pakistan, for example) participate in the labor force. China's meteoric rise was due to women's economic empowerment: 80% of the factory workers in the Guangdong province are female; six of the 10 richest self-made women in the world are Chinese. The authors reveal local women to be the most effective change agents: 'The best role for Americans... isn't holding the microphone at the front of the rally but writing the checks,' an assertion they contradict in their unnecessary profiles of American volunteers finding 'compensations for the lack of shopping malls and Netflix movies' in making a difference abroad. (Sept.)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"[T]his gripping call to conscience...tackles atrocities and indignities.... But the poignant portraits of survivors humanize the issues, divulging facts that moral outrage might otherwise eclipse." New York Times
"Kristof and WuDunn forcefully contend that improving the lot of girls and women benefits everyone.... Intelligent, revealing and important." Kirkus Reviews
"Kristof and WuDunn reinforce the truth behind the terrible statistics with passionately reported personal stories...including a final chapter suggesting how readers can help." Booklist
Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world.
An exciting new voice offers a fresh portrait of Africans thriving in the face of adversity, showing the way forward for development on the continent and beyond.
A call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances: a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery; an Ethiopian woman left for dead after a difficult birth; an Afghan wife beaten ruthlessly by her husband and mother-in-law. But we meet, as well, those who have triumphed — a formerly illiterate fistula patient who became a surgeon in Addis Ababa; an Indian woman who saved herself and her children from prostitution — and those who make it their work to provide hope and help to other women: the victim of gang rape who galvanized the international community and created schools in rural Pakistan; the former Peace Corps volunteer who founded an organization that educates and campaigns for women's rights in Senegal. Through their stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to progress lies in unleashing women's potential — and they make clear how each of us can help make that happen.
Fiercely moral, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.
The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves
Africa is a continent on the move. Itandrsquo;s often hard to notice, thoughandmdash;the Western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual dynamism and informal social adaptation driving the past decade of African development. Dayo Olopade set out across sub-Saharan Africa to find out how ordinary people are dealing with the challenges they face every day. She discovered an unexpected Africa: resilient, joyful, and innovative, a continent of DIY changemakers and impassioned community leaders.
Everywhere Olopade went, she witnessed the specific creativity born from African difficultyandmdash;a trait she began calling kanju. Itandrsquo;s embodied by bootstrapping innovators like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned his low-budget, straight-to-VHS movies into a multimillion-dollar film industry known as Nollywood. Or Soyapi Mumba, who helped transform cast-off American computers into touchscreen databases that allow hospitals across Malawi to process patients in seconds. Or Ushahidi, the Kenyan technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief.
The Bright Continent calls for a necessary shift in our thinking about Africa. Olopade shows us that the increasingly globalized challenges Africa faces can and must be addressed with the tools Africans are already using to solve these problems themselves. Africaandrsquo;s ability to do more with lessandmdash;to transform bad government and bad aid into an opportunity to innovateandmdash;is a clear ray of hope amidst the dire headlines and a powerful model for the rest of the world.
About the Author
Sheryl WuDunn is married to Nicholas D. Kristof and they were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. As longtime foreign correspondents for the New York Times, they won the prize for their coverage of the Tiananmen student movement in China and its bloody suppression. Mr. Kristof won a second Pulitzer for his op-ed columns in the Times. He has also served as bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, and as associate managing editor. At the Times, Ms. WuDunn worked as a business editor and as a foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing. They live near New York City.
Table of Contents
Introduction The Girl Effect
Chapter One Emancipating Twenty-First-Century Slaves
Fighting Slavery from Seattle
Chapter Two Prohibition and Prostitution
Rescuing Girls Is the Easy Part
Chapter Three Learning to Speak Up
The New Abolitionists
Chapter Four Rule by Rape
Mukhtar's School
Chapter Five The Shame of "Honor"
"Study Abroad"—in the Congo
Chapter Six Maternal Mortality—One Woman a Minute
A Doctor Who Treats Countries, Not Patients
Chapter Seven Why Do Women Die in Childbirth?
Edna's Hospital
Chapter Eight Family Planning and the "God Gulf"
Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends
Chapter Nine Is Islam Misogynistic?
The Afghan Insurgent
Chapter Ten Investing in Education
Ann and Angeline
Chapter Eleven Microcredit: The Financial Revolution
A CARE Package for Goretti
Chapter Twelve The Axis of Equality
Tears over Time Magazine
Chapter Thirteen Grassroots vs. Treetops
Girls Helping Girls
Chapter Fourteen What You Can Do
Four Steps You Can Take in the Next Ten Minutes
Appendix: Organizations Supporting Women
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