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Size doesn't matter; lose excuses, exercise
Sports and exercising are not just for athletes. People of all abilities, ages and sizes can find physical activities that are enjoyable. The benefits of exercise are lengthy, losing weight to letting off steam and stress you've been building from work or from the holiday rush. Your doctor may have told you to start exercising. What is the first thing that comes to mind? Some might say, "What will I wear?' or "I don't want my friends to see me this big." Many excuses may come to mind such as, "It's too hot', "I don't have the time" or "I don't have the money." .
Fitness challenge logs globe-circling
FREDERICK -- The goal was to lose a ton of weight, log enough miles walking, running, biking or swimming to travel around the world and to perform a full year's worth of other fitness activities. Throughout 2006, the NCI-Fort Detrick Fitness Challenge pitted the employees of several cancer research agencies at Fort Detrick against civilian and military employees at the post to see who could lose the most weight or work out the longest. Collectively, employees at all the divisions did log enough miles to circle the world and did perform a year's worth of other fitness activities, but official weight loss added up to 1,077 pounds, or half a ton. Larry Arthur, Ph.D., president of Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC, challenged other SAIC employees, employees of the National Cancer Institute and Fort Detrick to get moving in 2006.
Woodward says sacking of England's fitness guru was the last straw
Sir Clive Woodward admitted yesterday he had just received a Christmas card from Francis Baron - and immediately renewed his attack on the Rugby Football Union's chief executive. Baron had responded to Woodward's weekend broadside against the RFU by suggesting that the architect of England's World Cup triumph in 2003 was out of touch after two years out of the game. But Woodward, who also refused to rule out a return to rugby, fought back yesterday when he said: "It's a good line of his but it's nonsense. It's just a smokescreen and it's not addressing the issues. I speak regularly to people like Dave Reddin, who left the game two days ago, and he's at the cutting edge." .
Chronic fatigue is a chronic problem
SACRAMENTO (Special to the NNPA from the Sacramento Observer) - Wilhelmina D. Jenkins was a scientist, a physicist, who worked with microscopic particles on a daily basis, studying every minute detail of their structure and function. Yet when an unknown entity attacked her body, she was at a complete loss. "I usually describe it as sliding down the rabbit hole with no idea of when I would hit bottom," Jenkins shared. Now at age 56, Jenkins, is literally a "poster child" for the disease she had not even heard of when she first became ill in 1983. The Atlanta, Ga. resident is part of a photo exhibit that is traveling the country to raise awareness of chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis.
Metrologic Announces Extension of Expiration Date in Connection ...
18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Metrologic Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: MTLG) today announced that it will extend until December 21, 2006 the expiration date of its offer to purchase from eligible employees all of their outstanding eligible options to purchase shares of Metrologic common stock granted under Metrologic's 1994 Equity Incentive Plan. The tender offer will now expire at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 21, 2006, unless extended. Tenders of options must be made prior to the expiration of the tender offer and may be withdrawn at any time prior to that time. As of 12:00 noon on December 18, 2006, options exercisable for 318,133 shares, representing 100% of the total eligible options, had been tendered. Additional Information and Where to Find It In connection with the tender offer, Metrologic filed an offer to purchase with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 21, 2006.
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