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The American Veterinary Medical Association and Hills' Pet Nutrition is launching a program to promote weight loss for 48 million overweight pets. Celebrity fitness guru Gunnar Peterson is kicking off the 2008 Hill's PetFit Challenge to help America's cats and dogs lose 50 million pounds this year. Log on to www.petfit.com and download Gunnar's free, people and pets workout video. Readers will also be able to: - Sign-up your pet for the 2008 PetFit Challenge: The Search for America's Fittest Pets where five cats and five dogs will be selected as finalists and travel to New York City for a live judging event. - Find out complete tour schedule for the PetFit Tour to talk to nutritionists and attend free fitness classes in your area. - Get free useful tips on how to help your pets stay fit.
Grant bides his time over selection
Avram Grant admits he is facing one of the toughest decisions of his managerial career ahead of Sunday's Carling Cup final against Tottenham at Wembley. Grant is agonising over whether to recall captain John Terry and midfielder Frank Lampard. Both players were absent when Chelsea clinched a place in the final and while Grant says it is not his intention to punish them for being injured, he accepts there is a case of rewarding those who got them to Wembley. "I think always about the next game," admitted Grant. "John and Frank were injured but I don't intend to punish any player that wants to play. They both wanted to play every game, even every training game, but they were injured. I am not going to punish them for that or because other players played very good." He added: "Rewarding players is not the main thing but I am thinking about that.
Gap In Health Rates Between Socioeconomic Classes Unchanged, Study ...
ScienceDaily (Jan. 2, 2008) Over the past century, the United States has witnessed historic advances in public health and medicine that have contributed to improved health and a significant increase in life expectancy for all socioeconomic groups. But despite 100 years of historic advances, University of Minnesota sociologists have found that the health gap between classes has not changed. .
Hubble captures dance of the galaxies
The larger galaxy on the right is seen nearly face-on, with a giant arm of stars, dust and gas reaching out and around its smaller neighbour, which is viewed edge-on. The shapes of both galaxies have been distorted by their gravitational interaction with one another. The pair are known collectively as Arp 87, and are just one celestial coupling among hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in the nearby universe. Arp 87 was first discovered and catalogued by the astronomer Halton Arp in the 1970s, and was described in Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. The Hubble image, a composite of red, blue, green and infra-red exposures, was taken using the telescope's wide field planetary camera 2. It shows a corkscrewing bridge of material spanning from one galaxy to the other, suggesting stars and gas are being drawn from the larger galaxy into the gravitational pull of the smaller one.
UK 'missed chance to build up £450bn sovereign wealth fund'
Norway has used its North Sea revenues to build up a sovereign wealth fund, while Middle Eastern states have recently used their funds to take stakes in banks that have run into trouble as a result of the global credit crunch. John Hawksworth, PWC's chief economist, said that even had the UK saved only half its North Sea receipts it would have a fund bigger than that of Kuwait (£213bn) and not far behind Norway's £322bn fund. It would, however, still only been worth just over half Abu Dhabi's £875bn fund. Hawksworth added that oil money allowed taxes to be kept lower than would have been possible without either rising national debt or sharp cuts in public spending as a share of the economy. "Since oil revenues were greatest in the first half of the 1980s, this was also when this potential effect was greatest.
Keeler: 'Bars and fights and guns': Neto played rough game
Before tearing up Circle City with the Indiana Pacers of the old ABA, the Cedar Rapids native was a star power forward at Drake from 1963-67. "Bars and fights and guns - it was a part of it. You come into our locker room, it looked like a Wild West saloon. There'd be guns hanging in the lockers. Half of (the players) would smoke at halftime. Today's a whole lot different." .
Ben SGT/USMC from United States writes:
I have a friend at work who is all ga-ga about Obama.
I told him that McCain will win the election; he wasn't happy with this prediction.
He mentioned the waves of delegates supporting Obama vs the paltry Rep show-ups. I told him it didn't matter--only one vote counts, and the deomgraphic that is atwitter with Obama tend to stay home and let someone else do the voting.
He mentioned how Limbaugh and Coulter are dissing McCain. I told him this was a deliberate strategy to make McCain more attractive to the Bush-haters.
He told me that the US economy is tanking, and people want a change. I told him that aside from the subprime fiasco, the US is doing pretty well. Besides, Obama has no plan yet; Dems tend to be protectionist, so he may become anti-NAFTA, which is bad for us.
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