SAfrica OK to advance to Olympic relay final

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius reacts after fellow team members crashed out of a men's 4x400-meter relay heat during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius reacts after fellow team members crashed out of a men's 4x400-meter relay heat during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

LONDON (AP) ? Oscar Pistorius and his South African teammates are moving on to the 4x400-meter relay final at the Olympics without even finishing the heats.

The double amputee will get a chance to run for an Olympic medal after track officials awarded an extra spot in the final following a successful protest by South Africa.

In the opening round Thursday, a Kenyan runner collided with South Africa's Ofentse Mogawane as he made his way around the final bend in the second leg of the race. Mogawane fell and clutched at his left shoulder as the baton rolled away.

Set to run next in the relay, Pistorius stared at the scene in disbelief. He put his hands on his head and began walking off the track, figuring his time in London was done.

In the span of two hours, Pistorius went from crestfallen to celebration. On Twitter, he said, "IT'S ON!! We in the FINAL."

Following the race, Kenya was disqualified from the competition when the referee ruled that Vincent Mumo Kiilu cut across too soon and caused Mogawane to fall. Kiilu had a spike mark on the back of his right shoe and Mogawane dislocated his shoulder.

Track and field's governing body said Pistorius' team will run in an outside lane after the jury met and "agreed to advance the South African team, even though they did not finish the race, considering that they had been severely damaged in the incident with Kenya."

Originally, three teams from the two heats were supposed to advance automatically, along with the next two fastest times. The last lane was going to be empty. The Bahamas, the U.S., Britain and Trinidad and Tobago were among the other qualifiers.

Willem Coertzen was competing in the decathlon and glanced up after Mogawane hit the track, but wasn't aware of South Africa's inclusion in the relay final until after he'd finished pole vault.

"I'm ecstatic," said Coertzen, who is South African. "I haven't seen it happen before like that, could be something new, but I'm excited for them. After everything that (Pistorius) has been through, good luck to him."

This was quite a day for Pistorius.

Quite an Olympics, too.

After a long battle for inclusion in able-bodied competition in the individual events, Pistorius ran the 400 meters and advanced to the semifinals before finishing last in his heat.

Last week, the IAAF announced he could run any part of the 4x400 relay at the Olympics, not just the opening leg when runners have to remain in their assigned lanes for a lap.

"This whole experience was one of the highlights of my career," said Pistorius, the first amputee to compete in track at the Olympics. "I just had the most amazing experience representing my country. My experience here, everything has been superb. From the organization to the crowd to the fans and to friends. I couldn't have hoped for a better time.

"It's so hard. You have so much support from back home. We would have loved to have represented our country today and finished the race."

Now, as it turns out, Pistorius and his teammates will get that chance.

"Will be up on the 3rd leg tomorrow for the Final! Really can't wait!" he posted on Twitter, adding "Emotional roller coaster!"

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AP Sports Writer John Pye contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Aspirin's Effect on Cancer Death Risk Stirs Questions

Taking aspirin once a day reduces a person's risk of dying from cancer, but the benefit may not be as great as was previously thought, a new study says.

In the study, people who took a daily aspirin were 8 to 16 percent less likely to die over an 11-year period compared with people who did not take aspirin.

That's much less than the 37 percent reduced risk of cancer-related death found by a study published in March in the journal the Lancet.

"Our results provide additional support for a potential benefit of daily aspirin use for cancer mortality, but important questions remain about the size of this potential benefit," said Eric Jacobs, of the American Cancer Society's Epidemiology Research Program, who conducted the new study.

Although the results are encouraging, "it is still premature to recommend people start taking aspirin specifically to prevent cancer," Jacobs said. "Expert committees that develop clinical guidelines will consider the totality of evidence about aspirin's risks and benefits when guidelines for aspirin use are next updated," he said.

Aspirin and cancer risk

The benefit of aspirin seen in the Lancet study seemed larger than expected, given that previous work found no decrease in the risk of dying from cancer among people who took aspirin every other day, Jacobs said.

In the new study, Jacobs and colleagues analyzed information from more than 100,000 people who were periodically asked about their use of aspirin.

Between 1997 and 2008, about 5,100 participants died of cancer.

The yearly rate of death from cancer among men who did not take aspirin was 596 deaths per 100,000 people. The rate was 493 deaths per 100,000 people among men who took daily aspirin.

For women, the yearly rates of death were 337 deaths per 100,000 among those who did not take aspirin, and 295 deaths per 100,000 among those who took daily aspirin.

Daily aspirin was associated with a reduced risk of cancer-related death regardless of how many years participants took the drug. This finding was in contrast to previous studies, some of which have shown people need to take aspirin daily for 10 or more years to have a lower risk of dying from cancer.

There was no link between aspirin use and risk of cancer-related death for smokers, the researchers said.

Possible side effects

The new findings on aspirin and risk of cancer-related death echo those of studies conducted in the past, Dr. John Baron, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, wrote in an editorial accompanying the study.

"The big picture on aspirin use and cancer is very positive," Baron said.

However, taking aspirin does come with risks, Baron said, including an increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.

Because people in the new study were not randomly assigned to take daily aspirin, the findings may have been influenced by the health behaviors of the study population, the researchers noted. For example, those who took a daily aspirin may have been more likely to seek medical attention, they said.

The study and editorial are published in today's (Aug. 10) issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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Television section

For the week of July 16-22

1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.17 million.

2. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.99 million.

3. "The Bachelorette" (Sunday), ABC, 8.86 million.

4. "The Bachelorette After the Final Rose," ABC, 8.8 million.

5. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 7.61 million.

6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.46 million.

7. "Two and a Half Men" (Thursday), CBS, 7.43 million.

8. "NCIS," CBS, 7.2 million.

9. "The Bachelorette" (Monday), ABC, 7.16 million.

10. "Hell's Kitchen" (Monday), Fox, 6.333 million.

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Introducing the Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 (Sponsored Video)

The new GALAXY Note 10.1 Android tablet from Samsung has some awesome looking features that are making me drool just a little. First of all, the S pen stylus is supposed to provide pen on paper usability for note taking, sketching and photo editing. The tablet comes with several apps that feature stylus input. Then [...]

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Virden Recreation Centre News for Wednesday, August 8th| Virden ...

Summertime is a busy time for Virden Parks and Recreation.

The Virden Pool is in operation from 6:30am until 930pm each weekday and from 1pm-8pm each weekend and offers a large range of programming from lap swims to swimming lessons to public swimming and special events such as the two Aqua Zumba sessions being held on August 14th and the Pool Party being held on August 18th.

In addition to all the activity in the pool the Pool Staff are busy getting ready to take part in the Virden Wild West Daze and Indoor Rodeo Parade on August 18th.

Inside the Virden Recreation Centre the Arena has been host to the Virden Collegiate graduation ceremonies which involved removal of the ice, followed by the return of the ice for the Cutting Edge Skating School which is in its final session this week, Sticks and Pucks being offered today and Thursday and hockey schools, practices and games.

The ice will come out again at the end of the week to make way for the Virden Indoor Rodeo and be put back in following the Rodeo to make way for the Virden Oil Capitals practices as well as figure skating, hockey teams and public skating events.

The Community Banquet Hall in the Virden Recreation Centre has been home to numerous socials, weddings and other community events each week and will be home to events related to the Virden Indoor Rodeo which begins in just one weeks time.

Maintaining Victoria Park is part of Virden Parks and Recreations role and this year the park has been home to a number of events from the announcement of Virden?s newest hockey team, the MJHL Virden Oil Capitals to a series of Music in the Park events and barbeques.

The next Music in the Park is tomorrow, Thursday August 11th, beginning at 6pm and features a barbeque hosted by the Cadets followed by performances by Kendra Kvemshagen and Gerry Lund and Friends.

Victoria Park is also the home of Virden?s outdoor tennis courts which have been getting quite a bit of use this year.

Virden Parks and Recreation is also responsible for maintenance of the baseball diamonds, which are in great shape and the soccer pitch which was home to the Challenger Sports Summer Soccer Camp this year.

There are lots of recreational activities planned for this week and the coming weeks.
Take some time to have some fun at the Virden Pool, Recreation Centre or at one of the other recreational offerings.

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New global warming culprit: Methane emissions jump dramatically during dam drawdowns

ScienceDaily (Aug. 8, 2012) ? Washington State University researchers have documented an underappreciated suite of players in global warming: dams, the water reservoirs behind them, and surges of greenhouse gases as water levels go up and down.

Bridget Deemer, a doctoral student at Washington State University-Vancouver, measured dissolved gases in the water column of Lacamas Lake in Clark County and found methane emissions jumped 20-fold when the water level was drawn down. A fellow WSU-Vancouver student, Maria Glavin, sampled bubbles rising from the lake mud and measured a 36-fold increase in methane during a drawdown.

Methane is 25 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. And while dams and the water behind them cover only a small portion of Earth's surface, they harbor biological activity that can produce large amounts of greenhouse gases. There are also some 80,000 dams in the United States alone, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams.

"Reservoirs have typically been looked at as a green energy source," says Deemer. "But their role in greenhouse gas emissions has been overlooked."

Deemer and Glavin's findings will be on display this week in a poster session at the national meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Portland.

Their efforts are part of a larger attempt to appreciate the role of lakes, reservoirs and streams in releasing greenhouse gases. A study published last year in the journal Science conservatively estimated that the ability of terrestrial ecosystems to act as carbon sinks, storing greenhouse gases, could be one-fourth less than estimated once emissions from reservoirs are considered.

The WSU-Vancouver work is the first to actually demonstrate and quantify the relationship between water-level drawdowns and greenhouse gas releases, says John Harrison, Deemer and Glavin's advisor and an assistant professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

The research could lead to different ways of managing drawdowns, he says, as emissions may be higher in summer months, when warmer temperatures and low oxygen conditions in bottom waters stimulate the microbial activity that produces greenhouse gases.

"We have the ability to manage the timing, magnitude and speed of reservoir drawdowns, which all could play a role in how much methane gets released to the atmosphere," Harrison says.

Managers can also consider the optimal time to take out a dam, Deemer says. While a dam removal may lead to some greenhouse gas emissions initially, she says it will be a one-time occurrence, while emissions can recur with regular drawdowns. The ability of soils and plants to store greenhouse gases could also make reservoir decommissioning a net sink, she says, but researchers "simply don't know at this point."

With Army Corps of Engineers funding, Deemer now plans to look at three other reservoirs in Oregon and northern California's Klamath basin.

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Advantages of an Ultrasound Technology Associate's Degree

In the United States, the healthcare industry is one of the best industries in providing great job opportunities to individuals. One of the most lucrative career opportunities in the healthcare industry is ultrasound. If you are considering a career in ultrasound, you should prepare yourself by earning an associate?s degree in ultrasound technology. This will eventually make your resume more powerful when you apply for sonography jobs in hospitals, private clinics, and other locations.

Though, it is not necessary to obtain an associate?s degree in ultrasound technology to become an ultrasound technician, (you can opt for a certificate program in diagnostic medical ultrasound), most employers prefer to hire technicians who have earned an associate degree in ultrasound technology from a reputed sonography school and have registered themselves with national agencies like; the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS). Qualified individuals are always more impressive and desired by potential employers.

Apart from this, there are various advantages to getting an associate?s degree in ultrasound technology, these are:

• You will be able to explain the exact treatment processes to patients.
• You will be able to understand and learn the correct way of handling ultrasound and sonography equipment.
• You will be able to understand the proper way of keeping patient records.
• You will be able to perform sonogram imaging procedures with skill.
• You will be eligible for a higher salary package.
• You will learn how to prepare an effective work schedule.

After completion of an associate?s degree program, you could work in any hospital or laboratory of your choice with strong confidence in your knowledge and skills. However, if you want to study further to enhance these skills, you can go for specialization courses in sonography, as there are plenty of specialized courses for an ultrasound technician. These can include: obstetrics and gynecologic sonography, abdominal sonography, breast sonography, and neuro sonography.

What you will learn in specialized courses

In Obstetrics and Gynecologic Sonography you will learn methods of handling and taking visual scans of the female reproductive system, as well as the development and wellbeing of a growing fetus.

In Abdominal Sonography you will learn the methods of identifying the exact cause of ailment in the kidney, gallbladder, pancreas, intestines and liver. Additionally, you will also learn to identify the problems related to the male reproductive system.

In Breast Sonography you will be able to learn various ways of detecting breast cancer and other issues related to the breast.

In Neuro Sonography you will get to know various ways to detect problems related to the brain and nervous system.

Working Conditions

Generally, an ultrasound technologist works a 40-hour week in a hospital or laboratory where imaging machines are used and maintained for sonography purpose. However, in some medical cases, they might need to perform their duties inside the patient?s hospital room, but that depends on the health status of the patient. An ultrasound technician can also work as a travelling basis using a mobile imaging service provider, where they will have to go to different locations where people do not have easy access to such medical services.

Browse SonographySchoolsU.com and find best Sonography Schools in Florida that offers various sonography associates degree programs to start career in the field of Sonography Ultrasound Technology.

Source: http://toddsblogs.com/referenceandeducation/2012/08/08/advantages-of-an-ultrasound-technology-associates-degree/

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