Sunday, September 30, 2012

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The Chairman of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), Dr Kofi Annan, has called on African leaders not to be complacent despite the success chalked up in the area of agriculture in the recent past.

He said it was time African leaders upheld their part of the bargain by increasing investments and encouraging public private partnerships to ensure that all farmers, large and small, contributed to ensuring food security on the continent.

?We cannot afford to lose the momentum in ensuring food security now and action is required from all governments on the continent and every partner to achieve this,? he said.

Dr Annan, a former United Nations Secretary General, was addressing the 2nd African Green Revolution Forum in Arusha Tanzania Thursday.

He said African governments must help farmers to expand their farms and to treat their farms as businesses.

He indicated that through the Alliance for a Green Revolution on Africa (AGRA) seven countries had been reached with 330 new varieties of crops while 380 hectares of land had been rejuvenated in the last three years.

Dr Annan said Africa could transform its agricultural sector significantly, if their leaders collaborated with the right partners adding that strategic change would only occur with result oriented partnerships.

Tanzanian President, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, blamed African leaders for not doing enough to ensure adequate investment in agriculture.

He noted that many African countries had failed to implement the 2003 Maputo Declaration which enjoined them to commit 10 per cent of their budgets to agriculture leaving the sector undeveloped.

Opening the ongoing AGRF, President Kikwete said though African leaders knew what they needed do to revolutionalise agriculture and help change the fortunes of millions of Africans whose lives depended on agriculture, they had not done that.

He said: ?We know what needs to be done, we are doing something about it but we have not done enough to support the development of agriculture in Africa.?

President Kikwete said if African leaders did not invest in agriculture, the much taunted agricultural transformation would be like ?a song without dancers.?

He said it was time for African leaders to adopt more effective ways of growing and developing agriculture on the continent to promote food security, enhance nutritional levels and create better living conditions for the people.

President Kikwete indicated that though most economies in Africa relied on agriculture, the sector remained backward characterised by traditional methods of farming, low use of improved seeds, fertilisers and lack of financial credits.

He said it was disturbing that despite the fact that about 70-80 per cent of Africa?s population were involved in agriculture, only five per cent of all arable land was irrigated in Africa.

Also he said Africa used only 10 per cent of the world?s fertiliser.The results, he said, had been small farm sizes, low yields, low income and poverty.

He said it was not surprising that about 239 million of the continent?s people were food insecure.

President Kikwete stressed the crucial need for African leaders to help scale up investments in agriculture by investing in irrigation, increase support for research and agricultural development and support mechanised agriculture.

He called on leaders to be responsive to the needs of all farmers, especially small holder farmers, to reduce poverty and hunger and enhance living standards.

The President of the AGRA, Ms Jane Karuku, noted that misguided policies and neglect had affected the development of agriculture in Africa and stated that the AGRA was committed to working to unlock the potentials in the agricultural sector of Africa.

She said subsistence farming should not be seen as an acceptable way of farming and that the AGRA continued to provide improved seeds and technical support, particularly for small holder farmers to improve their productivity and profitability and integrate them into competitive markets.

Ms Melinda Gates, Co-founder and Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said there was the need to improve agriculture in African countries if they wanted to see a change in the lives of its people.

Over 1,200 stakeholders in agriculture, including 14 heads of state, 23 ministers of agriculture, agri-business entrepreneurs and farmers are attending the forum in Arusha Tanzania.

The AGRA is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help promote food security on the continent.

The three-day forum being held on the theme: ?Scaling Investment and Innovation for Sustainable Agricultural Growth and Food Security would discuss effective ways to ensure food security on the African continent.?

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Israelis see no Iran war this year after Netanyahu's speech

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's U.N. speech about Iranian nuclear advances has dampened speculation in Israel that he could order a war this year.

Analyzing Thursday's address in which Netanyahu literally drew a "red line" on a cartoon bomb to show how close Iran was to building nuclear weaponry, commentators saw his deadline for any military action falling in early or mid-2013, well after U.S. elections in November and a possible snap Israeli poll.

"The 'decisive year' of 2012 will pass without decisiveness," wrote Ofer Shelah of Maariv newspaper on Friday.

Without explicitly saying so, Netanyahu implied Israel would attack Iran's uranium enrichment facilities if they were allowed to process potential weapons-grade material beyond his red line.

Maariv and another mass-circulation Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, said spring 2013 now looked like Netanyahu's target date, given his prediction that by then Iran may have amassed enough 20 percent-enriched uranium for a first bomb, if purified further.

But the front pages of the liberal Haaretz and pro-government Israel Hayom newspapers cited mid-2013 - Netanyahu's outside estimate for when the Iranians would be ready to embark on the last stage of building such a weapon, which could take only "a few months, possibly a few weeks".

Iran, which denies it is seeking nuclear arms, said Netanyahu's speech made "baseless and absurd allegations" and that the Islamic Republic "reserves its full right to retaliate with full force against any attack". Israel is widely assumed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal.

Israeli diplomats were reluctant to elaborate on Netanyahu's speech, saying its main aim was to illustrate the threat from Tehran.

Asked on Israel's Army Radio whether Netanyahu had signaled he would strike in the spring if U.S. and European Union sanctions fail to curb Iran's nuclear work, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said: "No, no, I would not go that far."

"The prime minister clarified a message to the international community (that) if they want to prevent the next war, they must prevent a nuclear Iran," Lieberman added.

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Netanyahu's increasingly hawkish words on Iran in recent weeks and months strained relations with U.S. President Barack Obama, who has resisted the calls to set Tehran an ultimatum while fending off charges by his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, that he is soft on Israel's security.

Netanyahu praised Obama's resolve in his U.N. address, which the prime minister described as advancing their "common goal" - a strong signal that Israel would not blindside Washington with a unilateral attack on Iran.

Israel Hayom pundit Dan Margalit said the speech constituted "an almost explicit acknowledgment that he (Netanyahu) is declaring a truce in the public argument between him and the president. At least, until after the (U.S.) election."

Netanyahu has political worries too, given deadlock in his coalition government over the 2013 budget which, if not ratified by December, could trigger an early Israeli election next year.

In a broadcast editorial, Army Radio depicted war with Iran as no longer an imminent dilemma troubling the prime minister.

Instead, the station said, Netanyahu would have to decide "whether he is going to elections sooner, in January, February, or maybe March, or whether he will be able to pass the budget, take care of the Iranian issue and then go to elections in October (2013) as scheduled."

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said this month that Washington would have "about a year" to stop Iran should it decide to cross the threshold of producing nuclear weaponry - a more expansive timeline than that put forward by Israel.

That could spell fresh clashes between the allies over Tehran's continued 20-percent uranium enrichment, a process the Iranians say they need for medical isotopes but that also brings the fissile material much closer to weapons grade.

An Israeli official briefed on the government's Iran strategy cautioned against interpreting dates Netanyahu gave at the United Nations as deadlines, saying the preparations had already been made for military strikes.

"When he says Iran will have a bomb by this-or-that point in time, that in no way means the war option must wait until then," the official told Reuters. "There are other considerations to the timing - operational and strategic."

(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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Dot Earth Blog: How Rachel Carson Spurred Chemical Concerns by Highlighting Uncertainty

9:09 a.m. | Updated below |
Rachel Carson?s work and legacy are being actively assessed at the moment, given that her landmark book, ?Silent Spring,? was published 50 years ago this week.

A good starting point is??How ?Silent Spring? Ignited the Environmental Movement,? a fascinating feature by Eliza Griswold in last Sunday?s New York Times Magazine. And of course there?s ?On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson,? the new book by William Souder (I?m reading it now; here?s the Times review). If you?re in the Boston area, I?ll be on a panel at Harvard University later today with the author and climate campaigner Bill McKibben and Frances Beinecke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, to discuss the book in the broader context of science and environmental advocacy.

But of all the fresh considerations of Carson?s work, there?s one that stands out for me at the moment ? a recent paper by two researchers of rhetoric and writing who dug in on ?Silent Spring? drafts, notes and revisions and found that Carson had a remarkable and rare trait for someone so committed to raising public concern about a pressing environmental issue. Rather than downplay scientific uncertainty and gaps in understanding, she progressively amplified what was unclear about the human impacts of DDT and other synthetic compounds on humans and wildlife.

The authors, Kenny Walker, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, and Lynda Walsh,?an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, describe how surprised they were by this pattern, given a large body of work, including ?Merchants of Doubt,? the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, showing that inflating uncertainty has mainly been the task of industry-backed efforts to blunt public concern and policy.

With Carson?s approach to conveying risk, they write, she appears to have created ?a bridge across the is?ought divide in science-related policy making, using the uncertainty topos to invite the public to participate by supplying fears and values that would warrant proposals for limiting pesticide use.?

This stands in stark contrast to the ?Be Worried? approach that some have tried (in vain) on global warming over the years. Mind you, Carson?s book has plenty of passages, from beginning to end, warning powerfully of the ?grim specter? of a poisoned future.

But this look inside Carson?s five-year writing process shows an approach to conveying risk that seems relatively rare in environmental messaging these days. [9:09 a.m. | Updated | William Souder offered an invaluable reflection on the paper after reading my post, which you can read in full below.]

I invited Walker, whom I met while visiting the University of Arizona in January, to write a ?Your Dot? post describing what he and Walsh found in researching the paper,???No One Yet Knows What the Ultimate Consequences May Be? ? How Rachel Carson Transformed Scientific Uncertainty Into a Site for Public Participation in?Silent Spring??(published in January in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication). Here?s his essay:?

Kenny Walker on Rachel Carson?s use of uncertainty to raise public concerns about DDT:?

The 50th year anniversary of ?Silent Spring? invites reflection not just on the book, but on how we have paid attention to it for half a century. We tend to celebrate ?Silent Spring? from the moment of publication forward, and this tendency ignores the rich history before publication?the five-year long process of meticulous research, writing, and rewriting. We tend to forget that ?Silent Spring? did not just arise from Rachel Carson?s head fully formed. It was part of an ongoing conversation about the uncertainties of life in the postwar period. If we focus on the process behind ?Silent Spring,? and not just the product, what lessons might we learn about the strategies Carson used to enter the conversation and frame the scientific debate around toxic chemicals?

In a study published last January, Dr. Lynda Walsh, an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and I sought to answer this question by researching Carson?s composing process, with a particular focus on the crucial topic of uncertainty. We defined uncertainty as both ignorance (we do not know) and risk (a probability distribution of likely outcomes), and identified 33 places in ?Silent Spring? where Carson expressed uncertainty. I then went to the Carson Papers archive at the Beinecke Library at Yale University to examine her sources, and her drafting process at these 33 locations. What I found was that not only did Carson underline, circle, and annotate her sources with particular attention to uncertainty, she amplified its use in later drafts. Sitting there at the archives, I witnessed where and when Carson crossed out entire sections, and inserted expressions of ignorance and risk in order to frame her carefully selected case studies. In our paper we argued that Carson adapted and adopted uncertainty from her sources and deliberately used it to provide a site for public participation in scientific debates.

For example, chapter 3 is titled ?Elixirs of Death.? In an early draft of one section, she tells us about the storage and accumulation of DDT in the human body, and how even small amounts have been shown to cause acute liver poisoning. She ends this section by telling us: ?There has been no such parallel situation in medical history. We have some intimations as to what the ultimate consequences may be, but it is too early to know the full story.? Here she gives her readers some basic facts about DDT, and then claims ignorance: ?[I]t is too early to know what will happen.? But the final version foregrounds uncertainty, ??Scientists do not agree upon how much DDT can be stored in the human body,?? and ends with a double dose of uncertainty as ignorance and risk: ?All these facts . . . caused Food and Drug Administration scientists to declare as early as 1950 that it is ?extremely likely the potential hazard of DDT had been underestimated.? There has been no such parallel situation in medical history. No one yet knows what the ultimate consequences may be.?

These revisions are one example of a strategy we saw Carson use consistently: Add uncertainty at the level of ignorance to destabilize the science, then articulate the harms, hazards, or consequences behind our current actions, and drive it home with a visceral image of risk (which she does in this example through images of liver damage, the accumulation of DDT in milk and butter, and the ability of toxic chemicals to pass to breast-fed human infants, and to a fetus in utero). Other revisions from certainty to uncertainty show up in her direct quotes from soil scientists, and in a section about estrogen and uterine cancer. Only in her last draft does she add: ?Although medical opinion is divided on the question, much evidence exists to support the view that similar effects may occur in human tissues.? These additions connect to her general thesis about ignorance and risk: ?I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm.?

Carson?s choice to deliberately increase her use of uncertainty in ?Silent Spring? came as a bit of surprise since in the well documented cases of tobacco, acid rain, and global warming, it was the skeptic?s strategy to amplify doubt, not the scientist?s. In Carson we saw a counter-example: her composing process suggested that uncertainty is a crucial site for public participation and precautionary action. Uncertainty?s ability to disrupt knowledge (?we don?t know?) and actualize risk (?potential for harm?) gave the public a place to draw their own inferences, make their own evaluations, assert their right to know the potential hazards they face, and to motivate policy action. Uncertainty provided the readers of ?Silent Spring? a clearly defined role in an otherwise inaccessible scientific controversy. Uncertainty shaped the promise of Carson?s book: to let the public decide for themselves.

Of course, I am not claiming that Carson?s use of uncertainty is the cause behind the success of ?Silent Spring.? But if you take the same strategy and follow the reception of uncertainty through the media, such as the CBS broadcast on ?Silent Spring,? and in the President?s Science Advisory Committee policy documents, in Carson?s testimony before Congress, and in the E.P.A.?s ban on DDT, you can witness the same strategy to assert ignorance and risk, and use visceral images to transform scientific uncertainty into a political certainty.

One of the primary lessons 50 years after the publication of ?Silent Spring? is that expressing uncertainty is not just a skeptic?s position. Uncertainty is a way to manage scientific ethos and provide grounds for the public to participate in scientific controversies. Strategically managing uncertainty offers scientists a way to appear trustworthy, protect against bias, and assert their practical wisdom, moral virtue, and goodwill toward the audience. Scientists need to make it a habit to express uncertainty skillfully. They must do so in ways that provide an accurate assessment of choice in the face of our perpetual ignorance, and our inevitable uncertainties.

In a followup exchange after he sent his piece, Walker provided what I think is a valuable capping thought:

If you can be accurate yet still use uncertainty to frame the impact, you?re not only trustworthy, you?re interesting, and you effectively shape the terms of debate. We?ve all got to stop ignoring uncertainty, and instead learn to manage it. Fifty years later, I think that?s one of the primary lessons of ?Silent Spring.?

9:09 a.m. |Update

William Souder, the author of ?On a Farther Shore,? sent this invaluable note this morning:

This is an illuminating and important study of ?Silent Spring? and how Rachel Carson understood and deployed scientific uncertainty in making her arguments in the book?which turns 50 on this very day. And the conclusions reached by these authors make sense in light of Carson?s approach. A relentless reviser, Carson also depended in all of her books on a vast network of experts, scientists, scholars, and physicians who reviewed and commented on her work in progress. Carson listened to these reviewers.

This was particularly true in the section of ?Silent Spring? dealing with cancer, which Carson re-wrote several times, in the process moderated her claims of a link between pesticides and the disease in part on the advice of her own oncologist (Carson was being treated for the breast cancer that eventually ended her life at 56).

I also think the authors of this study offer wise advice to those of us writing today about issues like climate change: Rather than cede the useful concept of uncertainty to those who would deny scientific consensus, we?d do better to embrace and explore uncertainty for what it is?a valuable and inevitable part of scientific discovery.

One more thing that makes this study of Carson?s approach so fascinating is that I think you have to try to imagine the context Carson was working in in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The idea of chemicals contaminating what Carson called ?the total environment? was novel at the time. And it was her recognition of an exact parallel with the steady rain of fallout from nuclear testing that helped her explain what we knew?and didn?t know?about the consequences and potential collateral damage from heedless tampering with global ecosystems. It?s no accident that Baby Boomers became the vanguard of the environmental movement. They grew up drilling for Armageddon (?Duck and Cover?), and when they read Silent Spring they GOT IT.

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Friday, September 28, 2012

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WEDNESDAY Sept. 26, 2012 -- A colorectal gene database will help further research into the disease, a new study suggests.

The CRCgene database gathers all genetic association studies on colorectal cancer. It allows researchers to accurately interpret the risk factors of the disease and provides insight into the direction of further research, according to Julian Little, with the department of epidemiology and community medicine at the University of Ottawa, and colleagues.

To determine the genetic factors associated with colorectal cancer, they analyzed data from all published genetic association studies on colorectal cancer.

The researchers identified 16 independent gene variants with the strongest links to colorectal cancer, among 23 variants, a number lower than expected. Unfortunately, the researchers say, this reduces the feasibility of combining variants as a profile in a prediction tool to identity people who are at increased risk for colorectal cancer and who should be screened for the disease.

Even so, the analysis "provides a resource for mining available data and puts into context the sample sizes required for the identification of true associations," the researchers wrote in the Sept. 27 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

About 950,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed each year, according to a journal news release. Risk factors for the disease include age, diet, lifestyle and possibly genetics.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about colorectal cancer.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Ancient Buddhist statue made of meteorite, new study reveals

ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? An ancient Buddhist statue which was first recovered by a Nazi expedition in 1938 has been analyzed by a team of scientists led by Dr. Elmar Buchner from the Institute of Planetology, University of Stuttgart. The probably 1,000-year-old statue, called the "Iron Man," weighs 10 kilograms, portrays the Buddhist god Vaisravana and is believed to originate from the pre-Buddhist Bon culture of the 11th Century. Geochemical analyses by the German-Austrian research team revealed that the priceless statue was carved from an ataxite, a very rare class of iron meteorites.

It sounds like an artifact from an Indiana Jones film: a 1,000-year-old ancient Buddhist statue which was first recovered by a Nazi expedition in 1938 has been analyzed by scientists and has been found to be carved from a meteorite. The findings, published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science, reveal the priceless statue to be a rare ataxite class of meteorite.

The statue, known as the Iron Man, weighs 10kg and is believed to represent a stylistic hybrid between the Buddhist and pre-Buddhist Bon culture that portrays the god Vaisravana, the Buddhist King of the North, also known as Jambhala in Tibet.

The statue was discovered in 1938 by an expedition of German scientists led by renowned zoologist Ernst Sch?fer. It is unknown how the statue was discovered, but it is believed that the large swastika carved into the centre of the figure may have encouraged the team to take it back to Germany. Once it arrived in Munich it became part of a private collection and only became available for study following an auction in 2009.

The first team to study the origins of the statue was led by Dr Elmar Buchner from Stuttgart University. The team was able to classify it as an ataxite, a rare class of iron meteorite with high contents of nickel.

"The statue was chiseled from an iron meteorite, from a fragment of the Chinga meteorite which crashed into the border areas between Mongolia and Siberia about 15.000 years ago. "While the first debris was officially discovered in 1913 by gold prospectors, we believe that this individual meteorite fragment was collected many centuries before," said Dr Buchner.

Meteorites inspired worship from many ancient cultures ranging from the Inuit's of Greenland to the aborigines of Australia. Even today one of the most famous worship sites in the world, Mecca in Saudi Arabia, is based upon the Black Stone, believed to be a stony meteorite. Dr Buchner's team believe the Iron Man originated from the Bon culture of the 11th Century"The Iron Man statue is the only known illustration of a human figure to be carved into a meteorite, which means we have nothing to compare it to when assessing value," said Dr Buchner. "Its origins alone may value it at $20,000; however, if our estimation of its age is correct and it is nearly a thousand years old it could be invaluable."

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Quitting driving: Families key but docs have role

In this photo taken Sept. 24, 2012, Lee Sneller, left, follows his wife Pat Sneller to their car so Pat can drive him to an appointment in Flower Mound, Texas. Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys _ but there's new evidence that doctors could become more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population. A large study from Canada found that when doctors warn patients, and driving authorities, that they may be medically unfit to be on the road, there's a drop in serious crash injuries among those drivers. The study, in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, couldn't tell if the improvement was because those patients drove less, or drove more carefully once the doctor pointed out the risk. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

In this photo taken Sept. 24, 2012, Lee Sneller, left, follows his wife Pat Sneller to their car so Pat can drive him to an appointment in Flower Mound, Texas. Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys _ but there's new evidence that doctors could become more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population. A large study from Canada found that when doctors warn patients, and driving authorities, that they may be medically unfit to be on the road, there's a drop in serious crash injuries among those drivers. The study, in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, couldn't tell if the improvement was because those patients drove less, or drove more carefully once the doctor pointed out the risk. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

EMBARGOED UNTIL 5 P.M. EDT, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 2012 - In this photo taken Sept. 24, 2012, Pat Sneller, left, talks about her husband Lee Sneller and his experience with Alzheimer's at their home in Flower Mound, Texas. Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys _ but there's new evidence that doctors could become more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population. A large study from Canada found that when doctors warn patients, and driving authorities, that they may be medically unfit to be on the road, there's a drop in serious crash injuries among those drivers. The study, in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, couldn't tell if the improvement was because those patients drove less, or drove more carefully once the doctor pointed out the risk. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

EMBARGOED UNTIL 5 P.M. EDT, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 2012 - In this photo taken Sept. 24, 2012, Pat Sneller, right, talks to her husband Lee Sneller as they prepare to leave for an appointment in Flower Mound, Texas. Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys _ but there's new evidence that doctors could become more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population. A large study from Canada found that when doctors warn patients, and driving authorities, that they may be medically unfit to be on the road, there's a drop in serious crash injuries among those drivers. The study, in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, couldn't tell if the improvement was because those patients drove less, or drove more carefully once the doctor pointed out the risk. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

(AP) ? Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys ? but there's new evidence that doctors could have more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population.

A large study from Canada found that when doctors warn patients, and tell driving authorities, that the older folks may be medically unfit to be on the road, there's a drop in serious crash injuries among those drivers.

The study, in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, couldn't tell if the improvement was because those patients drove less, or drove more carefully once the doctors pointed out the risk.

But as the number of older drivers surges, it raises the question of how families and doctors could be working together to determine if and when age-related health problems ? from arthritis to frailty to Alzheimer's disease ? are bad enough to impair driving.

Often, families are making that tough choice between safety and independence on their own.

"It's very scary," said Pat Sneller of Flower Mound, Texas, who talked her husband, Lee, into quitting about a year after he was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

The couple had recently moved from California, one of the few U.S. states that require doctors to report drivers with worrisome health conditions to licensing authorities. Pat Sneller was stunned to learn Texas doesn't require that doctor involvement, and health workers advised her to ride with her husband and judge his abilities for herself.

Eventually her husband called home in a panic, lost while driving in unfamiliar Dallas for volunteer work. A long scrape on the car that he couldn't explain was the final straw. In 2010, she persuaded him to quit driving, although the now-72-year-old's license remains good until 2014.

"He still says occasionally, 'I can still drive, you know,'" Pat Sneller said.

By one U.S. estimate, about 600,000 older drivers a year quit because of health conditions. The problem: There are no clear-cut guidelines to tell who really needs to ? and given the lack of transportation options in much of the country, quitting too soon can be detrimental for someone who might have functioned well for several more years.

It's never an easy discussion.

"It did not go over so well," Benjamin Benson recalls of the time when his sons told the 87-year-old they feared his reflexes had slowed too much for safe driving.

"I've never had an accident," the Peabody, Mass., man said. His family's response: "Well, do you want to wait for the first one?"

The retired accountant wasn't ready to quit then, but he quietly began to analyze what would happen to him and his wife, who doesn't drive, if he did.

His longtime doctor wouldn't advise one way or the other. So over a few months, the couple tried online grocery shopping. They took a taxi to the dentist, not cheap at $38 round-trip. But Benson calculated that maintaining and insuring the car was expensive, too, when he drove only 3,000 miles a year.

A few weeks ago, Benson surprised his family by giving away the car, and he says he's faring fine so far.

"Most people in our age group know that it's inevitable and play around with the idea that it's going to come and the only question is when," Benson said. "I didn't want to be pushed into it."

Unlike in most of the U.S., doctors in much of Canada are supposed to report to licensing authorities patients with certain health conditions that may impair driving. Ontario in 2006 began paying doctors a small fee to further encourage that step ? and researchers used the payments to track 100,075 patients who received those warnings between April of that year and December 2009 (out of the province's more than 9 million licensed drivers).

They compared the group's overall rate of crashes severe enough to send the driver to the emergency room, before the warnings began and afterward, and found a 45 percent drop, reported lead researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier, a University of Toronto professor. While the study included adult drivers of all ages ? for conditions ranging from epilepsy to sleep disorders, alcoholism to dementia ? most were over age 60. A small percentage of the province's licensed drivers have received warnings, Redelmeier stressed, and licenses are suspended by authorities between 10 percent and 30 percent of the time.

His study highlighted one reason physicians don't like to get involved: About 1 in 5 of the patients who were warned changed doctors. There also was an uptick in reports of depression.

Doctors aren't trained to evaluate driving ability, and the study couldn't tell if some drivers were targeted needlessly, noted Dr. Matthew Rizzo of the University of Iowa. Yet he called the research valuable.

"The message from this paper is that doctors have some wisdom in knowing when to restrict drivers," said Rizzo. His own research shows some cognitive tests might help them better identify who's at risk, such as by measuring "useful field of view," essentially how much your brain gleans at a glance ? important for safety in intersections.

Today, the American Medical Association recommends that doctors administer a few simple tests in advising older drivers. Among them:

?Walk 10 feet down the hallway, turn around and come back. Taking longer than 9 seconds is linked to driving problems.

?On a page with the letters A to L and the numbers 1 to 13 randomly arranged, see how quickly and accurately you draw a line from 1 to A, then to 2, then to B and so on. This so-called trail-making test measures memory, spatial processing and other brain skills, and doing poorly has been linked to at-fault crashes.

?Check if people can turn their necks far enough to change lanes, and have the strength to slam on brakes.

Dr. Gary Kennedy, geriatric psychiatry chief at New York's Montefiore Medical Center, often adds another question: Are his patients allowed to drive their grandchildren?

"If the answer to that is no, that's telling me the people who know the patient best have made a decision that they're not safe," said Kennedy, who offers "to be the bad cop" for families or primary care physicians having trouble delivering the news.

There are no statistics on how often doctors do these kinds of assessment.

"It's this touchy subject that nobody wants to talk about," said Dr. Marian Betz of the University of Colorado, whose surveys show most senior drivers don't think their doctors know whether they drive. She is testing if an advance directive would help get older adults talking with their doctors about how to keep watch on their driving fitness before trouble arises.

More objective measures are needed ? and to help find them, hundreds of older drivers are letting scientists install video cameras, GPS systems and other gadgets in their cars as part of massive studies of everyday driving behavior.

Identifying who needs to quit should be a last resort, said Jon Antin of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. He helps oversee data collection for a study that's enrolling 3,000 participants, including hundreds of seniors, in Florida, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington. The drivers undergo a battery of medical checks before their driving patterns are recorded for 12 to 24 months.

"If you identify people at risk, maybe you can intervene to prolong the safe driving period," agreed Dr. Shawn Marshall of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He helps lead Canada's CanDrive II, a project that's tracking 928 drivers in their 70s for five years, to see how their driving changes as they get older.

For now, advocacy groups like the Alzheimer's Association and AARP offer programs to help families spot signs of driving problems and determine how to talk about it.

"I would like to think that my husband would say, 'You really shouldn't be driving anymore' and I wouldn't get mad at him," said Sally Harris, 75, of Crystal Lake, Ill., who took AARP's "We Need to Talk" program in hopes of broaching the subject with a 90-year-old friend who's having driving problems.

Others turn to driver rehabilitation specialists, occupational therapists who can spend up to four hours evaluating an older driver's vision, memory, cognition and other abilities before giving him a behind-the-wheel driving test. Some doctors and state licensing authorities order those evaluations, but programs can be hard to find, often have waiting lists and cost several hundred dollars that insurance may not cover.

Having a professional involved can keep family relationships intact, said Pam Bartle, a driver rehab specialist at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, Ill.

Still, "you could have the sweetest, nicest little old lady and she'll turn on you on a dime if you tell her she can't drive," Bartle said. "It's a desperate thing for people. They can't imagine how they'll manage without driving."

___

Associated Press writer Carla K. Johnson in Chicago contributed to this report.

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Iranian oil still flows through largest trader

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A sign is pictured in front of Vitol Group trading commodities company building in Geneva in this October 4, 2011 file photo.

By Luke Pachymuthu, Randy Fabi and Chen Aizhu, Reuters

SINGAPORE/BEIJING?- Vitol, the world's largest oil trader, is buying and selling Iranian fuel oil, undermining Western efforts to choke the flow of petrodollars to Tehran and put pressure on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.

Vitol last month bought 2 million barrels of fuel oil, used for power generation, from Iran and offered it to Chinese traders, Reuters established in interviews with 10 oil trading, industry and shipping sources in Southeast Asia, China and the Middle East. A spokesman for Vitol declined to comment.

Swiss-based Vitol is not obliged to comply with a ban imposed in July by the European Union on trading oil with Iran because Switzerland decided not to match EU and U.S. sanctions against Tehran.

The company earlier in the year stopped trading Iranian crude oil from its main European offices before the July 1 EU embargo deadline. But the trading sources said it has continued to deal in Iranian fuel oil from the Middle East.

The tale of the cargo of Iranian fuel oil involves tanker tracking systems being switched off, two ship-to-ship transfers, and blending of the oil with fuel from another source to alter the cargo's physical specification.

Privately-held Vitol SA is led by its long-time CEO Ian Taylor, a Briton. Taylor was among leading donors to Britain's ruling Conservative Party named in March by the Prime Minister's office as having dined with David Cameron at his private apartment in Downing Street amid the fall-out from a "cash for access" party funding scandal. Britain is a vociferous critic of Tehran's nuclear program and a leading advocate of the EU sanctions.

Swiss loophole
Vitol has said previously it is in compliance with sanctions against Iran, but has declined to say whether or not it would follow the strict EU regulations rather than Switzerland's.

Rival Swiss-based traders Glencore and Trafigura said in July they had halted all Iranian oil trade, even though the Swiss government opted against following measures imposed by Washington and Brussels.

The measures have halved OPEC member Iran's crude oil export revenues, devaluing the rial currency and bringing financial hardship to millions of Iranians.

On top of the EU ban, Iran's four biggest oil buyers - China, India, Japan and South Korea - have reduced their imports by at least a fifth to secure exemptions from the threat of U.S. financial sanctions on their companies.

Vitol last year earned record revenue of $297 billion, a near-five-fold increase since 2004. It does not reveal profits.

Fuel oil is a small part of its trading portfolio, accounting for $24 billion of revenue last year compared to $105 billion from crude and $100 billion from other refined products.

Profit margins on oil trade are typically very low, but traders said Iran's difficulties in finding buyers because of sanctions are likely to have made for a fat profit margin for trading its fuel oil.

Ship-to-ship
Vitol acquired the Iranian fuel oil early this month in a ship-to-ship transfer off Malaysia from a National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) vessel, the Leadership, onto a Vitol-chartered tanker, the Ticen Ocean.

The Ticen Ocean was sub-contracted by Vitol for floating storage off the Malaysian port of Tanjung Pelepas from Titan Petrochemicals, a Hong Kong company which itself hired it from shipowner Frontline of Norway.

Frontline said Titan had told it the ship was not used to store Iranian oil. "Our only counterpart in this matter is Titan and they have said it is not correct that there has been Iranian oil on the boat," said Frontline CEO Jens Martin Jensen.

Titan did not return calls or emails seeking comment.

The Leadership left Iran's main oil export terminal at Kharg Island during the week of August 23, passing through the Strait of Malacca before disappearing from freight tracking systems off the Malaysian coast on September 4. Since sanctions were imposed, Iranian vessels have frequently switched off the onboard 'black-box' transponders used in the shipping industry to monitor vessel movements.

Industry sources in Tanjung Pelepas who monitor shipping transfer operations in Malaysian waters said Vitol later brought alongside another tanker, the Speranza, to replace the Ticen Ocean as floating storage. The Speranza, owned by China's Sino Shipping Holdings, arrived at Tanjung Pelepas on September 13-14, Reuters data shows.

Vitol also transferred some of its fuel oil from the Ticen Ocean between September 11-12 to another vessel, the Kamari I, according to Reuters data. That cargo was delivered to Vitol's storage terminal on the Malaysian island of Tanjung Bin, inside Tanjung Pelepas port, one trading source said.

'Special blend'
Traders said the company then blended the oil in storage with fuel oil sourced from Europe, calling it a "special blend" and offered it to Chinese traders. Reuters was given a copy of the specifications of the cargo on offer.

Vitol first asked a $30 premium to Singapore's benchmark 180-centistoke fuel oil price, said a Chinese industry executive who manages some of China's many small, independent refineries, known as teapots. That would have valued the 2-million-barrel cargo at about $250 million.

"Because the offer was too high, our people didn't really carry on the talks," the Chinese executive said. "Vitol also appeared not in a hurry to sell, so was not being aggressive."

Two Asian refinery buyers who were then offered the oil said the asking price was cut to a $12-$14 premium to Singapore benchmark prices, or around $175 million in total.

"Vitol is offering the cargo as a special blend to teapot refiners in Shandong," said a China-based trader. "No one's agreed to buy the Vitol cargo. I declined because I wasn't sure of the quality and specifications."

At the time of publication it is not known whether Vitol had agreed a deal to sell the oil.

Insurance
Vitol's use of the Ticen Ocean to store Iranian oil could put the tanker's insurance at risk. The vessel is insured by the North of England P&I Association.

The EU's oil embargo bans EU insurers who underwrite around 90 percent of the world's tanker fleet from providing cover for ships carrying Iranian oil.

Mike Salthouse, director of North Insurance Management, which acts as manager for the North of England P&I Association, said it would not provide cover for tankers storing or transporting Iranian oil.

"We would not expect to continue to insure any fleet actively engaged in this trade," he said, but declined comment specifically on the Ticen Ocean.

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Greek protest turns violent during general strike

ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Police clashed with protesters hurling petrol bombs and bottles in central Athens Wednesday after an anti-government rally called as part of a general strike in Greece turned violent.

Riot police used tear gas and pepper spray against several hundred demonstrators after the violence broke out near the country's parliament. Protesters also set fire to trees in the National Gardens and used hammers to smash paving stones and marble panels to use as missiles against the riot police.

About 50,000 people joined the union-organized march in central Athens on Wednesday, held during a general strike against new austerity measures planned in the crisis-hit country. The action, the first large-scale walk-out since the country's coalition government was formed in June, closed schools and disrupted flights and most services.

Everyone from shopkeepers and pharmacists to teachers, customs workers and car mechanics joined the demonstration, seen as a test of public tolerance for more hardship after two years of harsh spending cuts and tax hikes.

"People, fight, they're drinking your blood," protesters chanted as they banged drums.

As the strike got under way Wednesday, Greece's prime minister and finance minister hammered out a ?11.5 billion ($14.87 billion) package of spending cuts demanded by the country's international lenders.

Greece's politicians have struggled to come up with more austerity measures that would be acceptable to its rescue creditors, with disagreements arising between the three parties that make up the coalition government. The country has been dependent on international loans from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund since mid-2010. Without them, Greece would be forced into a chaotic default on its debts and possibly into an exit from the 17-country bloc that uses the euro.

The country's lenders have demanded more fiscal reforms if they are to continue issuing more rescue payouts. The next payment of ?31 billion hinges on the government agreeing to further cuts.

Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras formulated a deal on the new ?11.5 billion austerity package for 2013-14, along with another ?2 billion in improved tax collection, a finance ministry official said Wednesday morning.

The other two party leaders were to be briefed by Samaras on Thursday, a party official said. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.

Wednesday's strike shut down the Acropolis, Greece's most famous tourist site, and halted flights for hours. Ferry services were suspended, schools, shops and gas stations were closed and hospitals were functioning on emergency staff.

One of those striking was Athens hospital worker Alkis Betses, who has seen his monthly salary fall from ?1,300 to ?800 (($1,680 to $1,035), says new cuts will bring it down to ?600 ($775).

"How can you survive on 600 a month, with ever-rising taxes, and continue to pay bills and buy necessary supplies?"

Betses said hospitals have been hard hit by spending cuts, with staff shortages and long delays in doctors' overtime pay for night shifts.

"The resentment has been there for long before the new measures. Imagine what will happen when they're made public," he said.

____

Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/greek-protest-turns-violent-during-general-strike-112625967--finance.html

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Obama: Disputed game means NFL needs regular refs

President Barack Obama answers a question as he returns to the the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama answers a question as he returns to the the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

(AP) ? The embarrassing NFL referee saga and the disputed call that gave the Seattle Seahawks a victory over the Green Bay Packers on Monday night has reached the campaign for the White House, with President Barack Obama deeming it "terrible" and declaring it was time to get regular officiating crews back on the job.

"I've been saying for months we've got to get our refs back," Obama said as he returned to the White House from an appearance before the United Nations. In a tweet that went out under over his initials, Obama said: "NFL fans on both sides of the aisle hope the refs' lockout is settled soon."

In a rare moment of agreement with Obama, GOP running mate Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin native, also said it was time to bring back the "real refs." But he used the episode on the football field to argue a partisan case for kicking the president out of office.

"It reminds me of President Obama and the economy," Ryan said in Cincinnati. "If you can't get it right, it's time to get out. I half think that these refs work part-time for the Obama administration in the budget office. ... They're trying to pick the winners and losers, and they don't even do that very well."

Seattle won 14-12 over Green Bay after referees ruled a Seattle receiver caught the ball amid a pile of bodies in the end zone on the game's last play. The NFL conceded that a Seattle penalty in the course of the play went uncalled and cost the Packers the victory, but the league upheld the catch itself and the Seahawks' victory. Legions of football fans watched the play and the referees' call in disbelief, and buzzed about it all day Tuesday.

Typically, Obama, a diehard Chicago Bears enthusiast, is not one to wish the rival Green Bay Packers well.

But besides being an avid sports fan, Obama recently has redoubled efforts to win in the Packer's home state of Wisconsin. His campaign recently started airing ads in the state and Obama held a rally Saturday in Milwaukee, his first visit to the state since February.

The NFL locked out the officials in June after their contract expired. The league has been using replacement officials, who have come under increasing criticism over the way they handled some games.

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One that Obama watched the Monday night game and "thinks there was a real problem with that call."

"He said that what happened in that game is why both sides need to come together, resolve their differences so that the regular refs can get back on the field so we can start focusing on a game that so many of us love rather than debating whether or not a game was won or lost because of a bad call," Carney said.

Obama said in a phone interview Tuesday with The Des Moines Register that he doesn't blame the replacement refs.

"They've been put in a tough situation," the president said. "But the fact is this is a fast, tough game to control. And it doesn't make sense to me for a league that's been so successful not to want to put their very best out there."

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Young cancer survivors often forgo medical care due to costs

Monday, September 24, 2012

Many survivors of adolescent and young adult cancers avoid routine medical care because it's too expensive, despite the fact that most have health insurance. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The results indicate that expanding insurance coverage for young cancer survivors may be insufficient to safeguard their long-term health without efforts to reduce their medical cost burdens.

Medical care in the years after a cancer diagnosis is particularly important for detecting any long-term health conditions associated with their cancer treatment; however, little is known about the extent of care that survivors of adolescent and young adult cancers receive in the years after their diagnosis and treatment.

To investigate, Anne Kirchhoff, PhD, MPH, of Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and her colleagues analyzed national survey responses from younger adults ages 20-39 years: 979 who were diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 15 to 34 years and were at least five years from diagnosis, compared with 67,216 controls who had no cancer history.

While adolescent and young adult cancer survivors had similar rates of being uninsured as those without cancer (21 percent versus 23 percent), survivors were 67 percent more likely to forgo routine medical care due to costs in the previous year. Cost barriers were particularly high for younger survivors aged 20 to 29 years (44 percent versus 16 percent of controls) and female survivors (35 percent versus 18 percent of controls). Survivors reporting poorer health also experienced more cost barriers.

"The Affordable Care Act is an important step to ensuring that adolescent and young adult cancer survivors have health insurance coverage and improving their health care access; however, they need to be educated about the importance of regular health care to monitor for late effects," said Dr. Kirchhoff. "Furthermore, even the insured survivors in our study reported unmet health care needs due to cost barriers, suggesting that adolescent and young adult cancer survivors need resource supports beyond health insurance."

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The word that I try not to use (except when referring to bumblebees); the word I do not necessarily want associated with me or my family; the word that personally sparks annoyance when others use it as a reason for not keeping in touch, or getting their work done. (but only because this word has become so twisted and poisoned)

Busy.

We choose how Busy we are. I know a mama, she?s dear to my heart, and she?s always Busy. It is as if we sometimes can?t not be Busy. It is as if we become afraid of silence, afraid of space, afraid of moments of peace, quiet and nothing.

When we look at our ?to-do? lists, and I love my to-do lists ~ they keep me focused and allow me to make leaps and bounds toward accomplishing important tasks and projects tied to promises. But when? we look at our lists, how often are they muddied up with things that we don?t truly have to do? Or at least we don?t have to do them today?

How many of those items can we delegate, minimize or just plain dump. Does it really matter if? Will anyone notice if? Will our lives truly be better if? Does it have any meaning? Or is it just clutter?

Here?s to decluttering our to-do lists. And I tell you, each time you scratch something off because it truly doesn?t matter, or won?t matter in a couple days, the feeling is empowerment.

Just think how many moments can be saved and used in better ways!

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Best of love to you in your moments,

Love & Sincerely, Katie
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Ravens vs Browns Live Stream online Info, Week 4 NFL Game ...

Ravens vs. Browns

Ravens vs. Browns:In a game title title that could ask them to a stride closer to an AFC North division crown, the 8-3 Baltimore Ravens will visit Cleveland to battle some-7 Browns in Week 13. The Ravens presently hold a tiebreaker inside the Gambling for your division lead.

Baltimore remains a bit of the schizophrenic team this season since it has large wins over teams like the Steelers, Cincinnati Bengals and San Francisco Bay Area 49ers, but has lost towards the type of the The town of the city of jacksonville Jaguars and Dallas Seahawks.

Understanding that, the Browns won?t always be described as a walk-in-the-park. After coming a late lead in the Bengals the other day, the Browns? already-slim playoff hopes are really virtually non-existent. That?s to not condition they?re not going to desire to beat the Ravens, though, since it is always a substantial competition when the ?new? Browns face the ?old? Browns.

Nearly all are probably chalking this like a Ravens victory already, Ravens vs. Browns? despite the fact that that?s most likely probably the most likely scenario, the Ravens have defied logic sometimes this season. Because of that, the Browns could pose a threat, especially in your house.

Ravens vs. Browns live stream? TV Channel, Time,zone and other information.
Where: Brown Colours Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio

When: Sunday, 12 ,. 4 at 4:05 p.m. ET

Watch: CBS WJZ 13 (Baltimore) and WOIO 19 (Cleveland)

Listen: WIYY 97.9 FM (Baltimore) and WMMS 100.7 FM (Cleveland) Sirius XM Satellite Radio: XM Internet 863 (Baltimore) and XM 234 (Internet 868, Cleveland)

Live Streaming Audio: Nfl.org Audio Pass ($29.99 for year, $27.99 team specific, $9.99 monthly)

Here Week 4 Full Game schedule

THU, SEP 27

TIME (ET)

TV

LOCATION

Cleveland at Baltimore 8:20 PM NFL M&T Bank Stadium

SUN, SEP 30

TIME (ET)

TV

LOCATION

Carolina at Atlanta 1:00 PM FOX Georgia Dome
New England at Buffalo 1:00 PM CBS Ralph Wilson Stadium
Minnesota at Detroit 1:00 PM FOX Ford Field
San Diego at Kansas City 1:00 PM CBS Arrowhead Stadium
Seattle at St. Louis 1:00 PM FOX Edward Jones Dome
San Francisco at NY Jets 1:00 PM FOX MetLife Stadium
Tennessee at Houston 1:00 PM CBS Reliant Stadium
Cincinnati at Jacksonville 4:05 PM CBS EverBank Field
Miami at Arizona 4:05 PM CBS U of Phoenix Stadium
Oakland at Denver 4:05 PM CBS Sports Authority Field at Mile High
New Orleans at Green Bay 4:25 PM FOX Lambeau Field
Washington at Tampa Bay 4:25 PM FOX Raymond James Stadium
NY Giants at Philadelphia 8:20 PM NBC Lincoln Financial Field

MON, OCT 1

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Chicago at Dallas 8:30 PM ESPN

Betting Line: Baltimore (-7)

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Which team will win farmville?

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For your Browns farmville is principally about pride and looking to create money for hard times, along with the Ravens farmville is large for playoff positioning. Once the season ended today, Baltimore would win the AFC North, there is however still around the month remaining, meaning the Ravens can?t afford to think about anybody lightly.

Each time a winnable game pops up, the Ravens have to take advantage. That?s something they haven?t always transported this out season while using Jaguars and Seahawks being prime good good examples. Baltimore must prove it?s equally in a position to beating inferior rivals since it is beating teams on one level. A convincing conquer Cleveland on the road would accomplish just that.

Ravens Injuries Report

Questionable: RB Ryan Mahaffey (concussion), RB Anthony Allen (leg), DL Arthur Manley (mind), LB Ray Lewis (ft), LB Dannell Ellerbe (leg), DB Chris Carr (back)

Browns Injuries Report

Questionable: RB Montario Hardesty (calf), RB Owen Marecic (mind), DL Jayme Mitchell (ankle), DL Kaluka Maiava (knee), LB Quinton Warrior warrior spears (hamstring), DB T.J. Ward (ft, finger)

Probable: QB Colt McCoy (elbow)

Fantasy Start Them, Sit Them and Sleeper

Start: RB Ray Grain (BAL)

Ravens running back Ray Grain is not his explosive self within the last a few days, but he?s a good chance revisit form in the Browns in addition to their 29th-ranked run defense. Grain only one 100-yard game within the last six days, but he?s worthy of might more against Cleveland.

Sit: RB Peyton Hillis (CLE)

After missing a few days getting a nagging hamstring injuries, Browns running back and Madden 12 cover boy Peyton Hillis returned to action the other day in the Cincinnati Bengals. Hillis exercised perfectly in the Bengals? stout defense, acquiring 65 yards on 19 carries. I wouldn?t expect anything a lot better than that against Baltimore?s defense now.

Sleeper: WR Greg Little (CLE)

Therefore the Ravens hold the league?s fifth-ranked pass defense, but that doesn?t imply Browns rookie receiver Greg Little is important-sit candidate. He?s really heated lately having a minimum of five grabs in three consecutive games, so when Cleveland is playing from behind, Little will most likely be a common target of quarterback Colt McCoy.

What they?re Saying

Despite the fact that the Baltimore Ravens presently sit in to start with inside the AFC North by getting an 8-3 record, offensive coordinator Cam Cameron has frequently been belittled. The offense remains an enigma of sorts and will be a large cause of all the team?s three deficits. Regardless of public perception, Ravens mind coach John Harbaugh thinks Cameron is doing a fantastic job this season, according to Edward Lee in the Baltimore Sun.

Cam is doing an admirable job with leading that side from this. We?ve required to kind of search for ? week to week ? methods to find away to complete the most effective we could to win football games. Sometimes we?ve done a lot better than in some cases ? a lot of us. Making this where we?re at.

Ravens Player To Check Out: RB Ray Grain

The Ravens offense remains up minimizing this season just like a unit and of that?s due to the casual play of running back Ray Grain. While Grain has shown the capability to think about over a game title title, he?s also completely disappeared on several occasion. That?s a thing that simply can?t happen on Sunday.

Cleveland has one of the league?s worst run protection, meaning a massive game will there be to consider for Grain. I?m unsure quarterback Joe Flacco might be reliable in large moments yet, therefore it is absolutely imperative that Grain can get going right before this years national football league 2010 nfl playoffs. This might help because the jumping-off reason behind a late-season tear.

Browns Player To Check Out: QB Colt McCoy

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Ravens vs. Browns

Ravens vs. Browns

Ravens vs. Browns : Browns quarterback Colt McCoy is definately not probably the most sexy quarterback option inside the Nfl, however when very little else he?s consistent. He isn?t normally prone to trigger for just about any huge game, but he?s doing sufficient to help the Browns postpone. He will have to simply do that on Sunday if Cleveland may have any chance to complete the upset.

McCoy likely won?t be capable of depend round the running game due to Baltimore?s stout run defense, so it will be around him. They key in the Ravens defense is keeping drives and keeping them round the area. If McCoy can execute rapid-passing game perfectly, your Browns could surprise the Ravens.

Key Game: WR Anquan Boldin versus. DB Joe Haden

Some casual experts don?t realize, the Browns hold the top-ranked pass defense inside the Nfl. Probably the finest reason behind your is cornerback Joe Haden. It?s not taken extended for Haden to develop right into a top-notch corner which he perfectly may be approaching the echelon in the New You?ll be able to Jets? Darrelle Revis.

Making Baltimore?s offense one-dimensional may help much the Browns in this particular game, and Haden may be just the guy to make it happen. The Ravens? top wide receiver is clearly Anquan Boldin, so Haden will most likely be shadowing him for most Sunday?s game. If Haden locks Boldin lower like he?s doing other products, the Baltimore offense have a difficult time.

Round the Hot Chair: RB Peyton Hillis

Along with his contract in the conclusion of the year, Browns running back Peyton Hillis is playing for just about any body body fat new deal, possibly with Cleveland. Hillis? proneness to injuries and perceived bad attitude might possibly not have endeared him for the organization, though, so he will need to play well lower the stretch to have the ability to earn that contract.

It won?t be simple in the Ravens defense, however when Hillis can stick out on Sunday, it may be enough for your Browns to consider re-signing him. Probably the leading office already features its own mind composed one way or any other, but Hillis is essentially who audition to remain a newbie within the league.

Conjecture: Ravens 24, Browns 13

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