Dog Massage by Vancouver Animal Massage on City TV's Breakfast Television

Nicola Way of Vancouver Animal Massage is featured on City TV's Breakfast Television demonstrating basic massage techniques on Billy, the beagle. She is being interviewed by Dawn Chubai. Vancouver Animal Massage provides therapeutic rehabilitative massage for animals throughout the Vancouver area. Trained in both Tellington-Touch and deep tissue massage, Nicola Way combines a wealth of experience in contributing to the recovery process of rehab and post-surgery patients, optimizing show dogs' mental and physical performances, and enhancing the general well-being of all small animals through influencing positive changes in her animal clients. Massage can help in maintaining an animal's level of health and fitness by decreasing muscular tension, assist an animal in rehabilitation from an injury or illness, enhance show dogs' peformance potential, and contribute to reducing mental anxiety. Working animals, elderly pets, healthy athletic animals and companion animals, all benefit from a regular massage routine.

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Russian Television Journalist Killed -- Ilyas Shurpayev

en.wikipedia.org Russian Television Journalist Killed March 21, 2008 - 6:11am MOSCOW (AP) - A journalist for state-run Russian television was found dead in Moscow early Friday and prosecutors have opened a murder investigation, colleagues and officials said. Firefighters found Channel One correspondent Ilyas Shurpayev's body in his apartment with stab wounds and a belt around his neck, Channel One spokeswoman Larisa Krymova said. She said a fire was apparently set in the apartment after the attack. The Investigative Committee, a branch of the prosecutor's office said a murder investigation was underway. It said nothing about a possible motive. State-run Vesti-24 television cited a concierge in Shurpayev's building as saying he had called down from his apartment early Friday to ask her to let two young men in. Shurpayev, 32, was a native of the mostly Muslim Dagestan province and had worked in Russia's violence-ridden North Caucasus, which includes Dagestan and war-scarred Chechnya. Dagestan is plagued by tension among rival groups and political factions. Hours before his death, Shurpayev wrote in his blog that the owners of a newspaper in Dagestan banned a column he wrote and instructed its staffers not to mention his name in publications. "Now I am a dissident!" was the title of the last entry in the Web journal under his name. More than a dozen journalists have been slain in contract-style killings in Russia since 2000. Many journalists appear to have been targeted for ...

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