Archive for February, 2009

Officers on dog sleds on northern patrol to mark OPP centenary (Toronto Star)

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

One-thousand cool kilometres to celebrate 100 hardy years.

Where downward dog meets Snoop Dogg (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Yoga and weight-training mix it up at Corepower’s Sculpt Yoga class.

Women Depends On Alert Dog To Monitor Diabetes (NBC 17 Raleigh)

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Longtime diabetics like Kristin Rogers know all too well the dangers of low blood sugar. There are lots of high tech methods to help monitor it, but she is relying on a more low-tech and low cost approach - a golden retriever named Maggie. “I’ve always liked dogs, so I thought this […]

Braving the smell of wet dog and sweaty lumberjack - all in the name of teamwork (Jacksonville Daily News)

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

They scaled walls, crawled under barbed wire and slogged through dark brown, chest-deep water that, when disturbed, emits an odor something like a combination of wet dog, sweaty lumberjack and ammonia. All in the name of teamwork.

Living with a Black Dog, a picture book which offers practical and humorous tips on living with a depression (Guardian Unlimited)

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

For more than a decade, Matthew Johnstone hid his depression like a dark secret. But after spending most of his adult life struggling to accept the condition, the 44-year-old author and illustrator learned to embrace “the black dog”. The metaphor for depression, made famous by Sir Winston Churchill, is […]