| Therapy dog Annabelle is a real treat for Falls residents
''I can still eat, gab and complain and I do it all,'' confided Emma Holmes, 87, scooting her wheelchair behind Annabelle, a luscious English bulldog and the attraction of the day. Stand back. Dressed in a sequined pink brimmed hat and feathery boa, the 50-pound pooch provided a breathtaking view, a combination of slink and waddle as she strolled through the Cuyahoga Falls Village Retirement Community, home to about 130 seniors, including the charming Holmes. ''She's the dearest thing,'' said another resident, Anita Plazzo, 80. ''It's the second time I've seen her. I'm still fairly new here.'' It's a regular route for the therapy dog and her mother hen, Cindy Vacco of Kent, who've been visiting the home for four years to bring doggie kisses and good cheer to folks who sometimes struggle to find them.
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She told police she killed him as he came at her when she attempted to break up a fight between him and their 25-year-old son, Christopher. Gryboski, a doctor in South Yarmouth, also told police that Lancaster had physically and mentally abused her and their two sons for years... Read the rest of this Globe story here. Leave a comment _____________________________ Patrick's education advisor offers experienced voice A Cape Verdian he has long connections with Cape Cod BRIDGEWATER, Mass. - Dana Mohler-Faria had spent the day in Boston. Instead of going home to his wife and son on the Bridgewater State College campus, the college president stopped by the Student Government Association meeting. It was 8:30 p.m. He stayed until 9:45 p.m. "He hadn't eaten dinner yet.
Why can’t the English be more like the French?
Big faces, pear-shaped torsos with heavy low-slung bosoms . . . one could be cruel about the English physique. But to my practised eye there is nothing wrong with the raw material; it’s just that they don’t know how to showcase their charms. The British press takes great pleasure in women failing to look good. Whole pages are devoted to photographs of celebrities getting it wrong: heavy bosoms falling out of cocktail dresses, pixie boots, helmet hair, ill-judged accessories. In France we could never run such pages, even if we wanted to. Why? Because you could never find women in the the public eye looking embarrassing. Remember that shot of Ségolène Royale in her bikini? A political leader in her fifties with the body of a 25-year-old.
Old Media Lets Obama's Shaky CEO Earnings Claim Go Unchallenged
It's an extraordinarily clever claim. It gets your attention. It's misleading. And of course, Old Media isn't questioning it. I am referring to the following statement made by Barack Obama in radio ads currently running in Ohio and Texas: Some CEOs make more in 10 minutes than some American workers make in a year. In the full context of the ad, I believe that what Obama wants listeners to take away is that "Quite a few CEOs typically, year after year, make more in 10 minutes than some American workers make in a year." But let's limit things to the literal wording. Start with a full-time minimum-wage worker who earns (rounded) $12,000 annually ($5.85 per hour times 2,080 hours is a bit more than that). How much would a CEO have to make in a year to be earning over $12,000 every 10 minutes? .
Saturday Talk
Jim Wooten condemns water conservation measures as "absurd," relying on data that is not only misleading but irrelevant to the needs of Georgians in communities downstream from metro Atlanta ("Streetcars, pools and tax 'rebates'," @issue, Feb 1). The experts he quotes say that Atlanta's water use accounts for only 2 percent of the flow in Florida's Apalachicola River during droughts. This statement is true only for annual average statistics. I'm reminded of claims by Olympic boosters that Atlanta's annual average temperature was 72 degrees, information that was clearly irrelevant to athletes competing in the 90-degree weather of August 1996. Likewise, annual average water statistics calculated hundreds of miles downstream are equally irrelevant to the ongoing water crisis in North Georgia and the aggressive actions that must be taken now to improve the way we manage our limited water supplies.
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