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World of Kung Fu
World of Kung Fu is a relatively new free MMORPG. Although the game is another 'fantasy' title, it is extremely polished and has an incredible amount of overall content, ranging from crafting skills to end-game 'instances'. The game's auto-movement feature and fair amount of in-game quests also enhance the gameplay. If you're looking for a polished 'new' free MMORPG, World of Kung Fu just may be for you. The game's nine available weapons are:
Sword – Swords are the simplest of weapons and the most balanced.
Hook – Hooks users posses powerful recovery and regeneration skills.
Fan – Fan users are experts in Leechcraft and healing arts. They tend to have lower hit points than the other classes in the game.
Hammer & Axe – Hammer & Axe users are warriors of great power, with the ability to deal large amounts of damage within melee range.
Broadsword – Broadsword users have low defense, but incredibly high attack power.
Spear – Spear users are capable of using many deadly area-of-effect skills, and tend to have high attack power.
Staff – Staff users are powerful in both defense and offense. They are capable of stunning their opponents and dealing damage quickly.
Bow –Bow users are capable of dealing damage from a distance, but are vulnerable in melee combat.
Fist – Fist users are capable of dealing large amounts of damage through area-of-effect skills, but generally have less hit points than other classes.
- Status: Released
- Business Model: Free to Play
- Developer: World of Kung Fu
- Publisher: World of Kung Fu
- Category: Stand-alone
- Genre(s): 3D, Adventure, RPG, Fantasy
- Platforms: PC
- +Friendly and helpful GMs.
- +Varied classes (Nine in total!).
- +Interesting 'King' System.
- -Balance issues between classes.
- -Uninspiring monster names/designs.
- Only a single race - Human.
- Recommended System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP / Vista / 2000 / 98 / ME
- CPU: 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 or better
- GPU: nVIDIA Gefore 5600 / ATI Radeon 9550 or better
- HDD: 2 GB Free
- Description: World of Kung Fu is a relatively new free MMORPG. Although the game is another 'fantasy' title, it is extremely polished and has an incredible amount of overall content, ranging from crafting skills to end-game 'instances'.
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Star Hôtel is a cosy, quiet and pleasant hotel located in a lively district in the heart of Nice.
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Excellently-communicated hotel in the heart of Nice: 2 minutes from Avenue Jean-Médecin, 10 minutes from the famous English Promenade, the Mediterranean Sea and the Old Nice (Vieux-Nice) and also a 10-minute walk from the SNCF train station. See our location
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Sherri McMillan has worked in the fitness industry for more than 20 years and has received numerous industry awards, including the 2006 IDEA Fitness Director of the Year, the 1998 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year, the 1998 CanFitPro Fitness Presenter of the Year and the 2005/2006 ACE Fitness Educator of the Year- Runner up. McMillan is a fitness trainer, a fitness columnist for various magazines and newspapers, author of five books and manuals, including "Go For Fit - the Winning Way to Fat Loss," "Fit over Forty" and "The Successful Trainers Guide to Marketing," a featured presenter in various fitness DVDs, an international fitness presenter, and a spokesperson for Nike, Nautilus, Twist Conditioning and PowerBar. She can be reached at www.nwFitnessEducation.com where you can also sign up for her blogs.
At Northwest Personal Training, based in Vancouver, WA, we conduct a variety of group personal training programs. We have had to work hard to ensure our sessions are different enough from a typical group fitness class so that people will pay an additional $120 per month to have access to these programs.
Here is a list of do's and don'ts on which our trainers are evaluated. Feel free to use these at your club:
1. Study your group. All clients complete a client information questionnaire before they enroll in our programs. If you see a new person in your group, ask them if they have any concerns, injuries or medical issues of which you should be aware. Ask them if they mind if you review their client information questionnaire so you can better know their history and goals. They'll appreciate that you care and will be more likely to want to return to your programs because you know who they are and what they want.
2. Be prepared and organized. You cannot "wing" a group training session. Managing a number of people with various goals, fitness levels and needs requires that you have spent some time thinking through the logistics of the entire session from start to finish. Use a lesson plan to help design your programs.
3. Prepare before your session and be early. Be there five to 10 minutes before the start of the session to organize equipment and circuits. Prepare technically by having a goal, purpose, format and educational topics, and having your equipment ready, your music cued and having backup music on hand. Clients like to know you are organized. Prepare your attitude to make sure the next hour is the best part of your clients' day and remembering that they are there for you. Be hospitable by being accessible five minutes before your session and standing at the reception/class entrance to welcome clients. It also means interacting with participants by asking a question, stating a fact or giving an opinion, such as "Jane, this is your fourth time here this week. Congratulations! You've been so consistent lately." Ask yourself who is arriving, whether you know everyone by name and whether you need to introduce yourself to someone new. Determine whether anyone has physical problems requiring modification and whether everyone is wearing the proper clothing and footwear.
4. Introduce yourself and quickly explain the workout focus and format.
5. When using circuits, teach them in a timely fashion. When it is time to teach the group the next exercises in the upcoming circuit, do it quickly and concisely so people aren't waiting around watching for too long. Demonstrate each of the exercises and point out two to three key technique points.
6. Distribute your time equally among all participants. Learn how to politely explain to a client demanding too much of your time that you must help the others. Physically make eye contact and spot each person in your program at least once per session.
7. When using circuits, facilitate and manage the session effectively. The biggest obstacle for a trainer who is only well versed in one-on-one training is how to practically manage sessions with a number of clients. It takes a skilled trainer to ensure that a group training session is not chaotic. Always know what each client is doing at all times. Always know what's going to happen next and what equipment you'll need.
8. Be able to improvise and adjust exercises. You may have designed an exercise within a circuit that is not appropriate for one member of your group. Be ready to think quickly and improvise, so you can make minor adjustments and modifications to any exercise.
9. Give permission. Be sure that your clients know that they can modify an exercise if they do not feel comfortable with it. Instruct them to immediately alert you to any concerns they may have with a particular exercise so you can make an adjustment.
10. Work your clients hard. Clients like to know that you can push them a little harder than they can do on their own. This adds value to your sessions.
11. Use various personal training tools. To make a group training session look different from a group exercise class, use tools that a client couldn't have access to on their own. This will add value to the sessions and will ensure clients continue training for the long-term.
12. Mix it up. If you don't mix it up, clients will get bored quickly and believe that you have nothing new to teach them, which can cause them to discontinue training. However, if you mix up the workouts and introduce them to new exercises, sequences and equipment, they will see the value in continuing. Keep them excited and help them avoid plateaus.
13. Educate. Every week, come prepared with your teaching focus for that session. For example, one week you may teach the group the importance of water, and the following week, you may teach them the concept of momentary muscle fatigue. Regularly refer to the teaching focus during the session so that by the end of the hour, your clients have a strong grasp about the relevance of the topic. Regularly bring client handouts to your sessions.
14. Make clients accountable. All of our group training clients meet with a trainer initially to establish a schedule. They are then scheduled into our group training appointment calendar so we know when they are supposed to be there. If a client does not show up for a scheduled session, call them immediately. Without judging, help your clients commit to their goals. If a client repeatedly misses a session, ask about reassessing their schedule.
15. Start and finish on time. Clients really like to know that sessions will start and finish as scheduled. Watch the clock and stay on schedule.
16. Give homework. Give each client something to practice or think about before the next session. Remind everyone what his or her accountability commitment is for the week.
17. Foster the development of friendships. Introduce all participants to each other. Remind them that they are in this together. Get them to high-five each other or pull them in for a group cheer at the end of a workout.
18. Foster self-esteem. Regularly point out an individual's improvement to the entire group. Ensure that your feedback is quantitative and specific. This will help to develop your clients' confidence and self-esteem.
19. Be committed. The first group training session may not be as smooth as you'd like, but you'll get better with practice. Keeping your clients laughing and working hard will go a long way towards keeping them as ongoing clients.
The don'ts are the opposite of the do's. It's that simple.


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Long lines. High spirits. The buzz of the microphone. This is what to expect at most New York City venues on a Saturday night. But at the Canal Room, Saturday is a night of a different color, specifically one of neon green and hot pinks... with a touch of glitter, to boot. Yes, it's 2011, but your soundtrack is Rubix Kube, "The Ultimate 80s Tribute Band."
Now, for the many who've raged late nights at Joshua Tree or the newly revamped Culture Club, the thought of reminiscing about scrunchies and shoulder pads once more might make you cringe, but this timewarp feels different. It's like New Year's Eve in 1989, and at the stroke of midnight, your favorite tunes from a time that once was take over the mic, the speakers, and vocal cords of everyone around. Great drinks, a fun approachable crowd, and no costumes required. Yes, heaven is a place on earth. It's called the Canal Room.
Want a preview? Let us take you back... ah, the 80s, a glorious decade. Could this be "True?"
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Canal Room
285 West Broadway
New York, NY 10013
Don't know what you have going on this Saturday night yet? Let us decide for you and tune in to 1st Look for the best of NYC Nightlife this Saturday, October 1 after Saturday Night Live. Check your local listings.


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Def Leppard / Dio Guitarist Vivian Campbell Weds Longtime Love Caitlin Phaneuf
Congrats are in order! Even though Def Leppard / Dio guitarist Vivian Campbell and his longtime love Caitlin Phaneuf have been a couple for several years, they decided to make it official with a wedding ceremony on Friday (July 4).
Campbell posted about the ceremony on his Facebook page, stating, "My girl and I got married yesterday. We had a great ceremony featuring family and friends and the [Def] Leppard band and crew. So happy!" Phaneuf had previously worked as part of Def Leppard's road crew.
In the same post, Campbell, who continues to fight cancer, revealed that his latest round of chemotherapy had begun to physically affect him. He explained, "I have to buzz cut my hair as I'm leaving most of it on my pillow due to the new chemo I started. I'll be sporting a new 'do' tonight in Irvine." See an image of Campbell with his shaved head here.
The guitarist was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2013. After initial treatment, it was thought that Campbell's cancer was in remission. But the rocker recently revealed that the lymphoma had not completely gone away and more treatment was needed.
In the time since, he's been undergoing what he calls "a high-tech chemo" that's part of a clinical trial and that it initially had not affected his hair, nails or skin. He added that if the cancer is back in remission by the end of the band's touring in August, he intends to undergo a stem-cell transplant as a preventative measure to keep the cancer from coming back.
Def Leppard are spending their summer on tour with KISS. Dates can be found here. The band is also working on new music, with an album expected to arrive in 2015.


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#10 from 2017: Campaign Art: Food Waste
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), annually around the world 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted. In the world, where about one in nine people do not have enough food ( that's some 795 million people), food waste presents an enormous opportunity for tackling food insecurity.
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Kidney donor, recipient connect on Facebook
Some people wait years and never find an organ donor, but one Milwaukee woman refused to wait and donated.
How she did it shocked everyone.
Natasha Coe's phone became quite the tool in February of 2010 as she was devastated by death.
"My ex-boyfriend, his uncle died of kidney related failure," Coe said. "His funeral was on that Thursday. On that Friday, I thought, "There's got to be something that I can do.'"
That something was to get on Facebook.
"I pretty much said, 'Does anybody want a kidney?'" Coe said
The 33-year-old said she learned there were few risks, and out of hundreds of Facebook friends, someone responded.
"The girl I went to high school with, she messaged me saying, 'My stepmom needs a kidney,'" Coe said. "I was not close to her at all."
Debbie Will had never met Coe. She was on dialysis, needed a new kidney and Coe was the perfect match.
"I said, 'What blood type is she?' and she said, 'B positive,' and I said, 'I'm B positive, too,'" Coe said.
Coe let her friend Sheila Teruty film everything.
"She kind of just brought it up, 'Yeah, I'm donating my kidney.' 'Yeah, when did that happen?'" Teruty said.
"I have got to use this platform to raise awareness," Coe said.
Coe said her work at Running Rebels, a nonprofit that works with at-risk Milwaukee teens, influenced her decision.
"Everyone here does things outside of here that they love and to give back to the community. I gave back not because I want something out of it," Coe said.
Watching it all unfold was hard for Teruty to even believe.
"It was crazy," Teruty said.
She documented before the surgery and after, And what it all meant for the stranger on Facebook.
"I feel like a semitruck rolled over me," Coe said.
"It's going to be a completely different life for me all over again," Will said.
Coe said there was a lot of pain, and she'll never forget it. Scars and even a tattoo mark the donation and now a film for others to see.
"Just how important organ donation is and how special this specific story in Milwaukee was," Teruty said.
For now, the only place to see the 30-minute documentary will be at the Running Rebels Wellness Fair on April 20. They're located at 13th Street and Fond du Lac Avenue in Milwaukee.
If anyone wants to learn more about kidney donation, visit the National Kidney Registry.


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For over 25 years, Brantford Local Computer Guru SYD BOLTON has dreamed of opening a museum to showcase the history of personal computers. Many children have no idea about life before a 'mouse', when 'green screens' ruled the day, and a time well before the Internet was available to everyone. Relive your earlier computer days or find out how we roughed it in the 70's and 80's.
Over 50 interactive computer displays from over 1,000 computers in total. We have over 25,000 artifacts with approximately 5,000 in our building at any given time.
The Personal Computer Museum also runs a free computer giveaway program in our community. Your donations help!
The museum is currently CLOSED
We now have the largest known collection of computers in Canada, the largest known collection of video games in Canada, and the largest known collection of CED video discs (perhaps in the world!)
We are always looking to expand our collection. Please check out our most wanted page for the machines we are after. We are the perfect place to recycle old computers, so bring them to us during our open houses. Recyling computers is important to us. You can also donate money to help our cause or become a member today!
We are looking for a bigger location! If you can help us out, let us know! We are transitioning to become the Personal Computer & Video Game History Museum. Winner of several Shining Stars Tourism Awards,
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Basically Schmidt isn't going to North Korea to talk Kim 3.0 into opening up the country's borders and allowing people to read what they want. Analysts believe he could advocate some liberalization and kindly ask the Supreme Leader to loosen some restrictions in education.
Mind you, Kim Jong-un has been sending some reconciliatory messages in recent days, but we are setting the bar pretty low here. Anything short of threatening nuclear war is considered reconciliatory by Pyongyang standards.
Perhaps it is all a big ploy, a Stalinist maskirovka on Kim Jong-un's part. He could be trying to brainwash Schmidt and force him to transform Google into a totalitarian company modeled along the lines of the DPRK. Or Apple. Then again, maybe he just needs Google Maps to guide his Taepodong ICBMs, since using Apple Maps on nuclear missiles doesn't sound like a very good idea.
Still, there's always a chance Kim Jong-un could be sincere. Maybe the poor guy just wants a Nexus 4 for the missus and can't get it anywhere?


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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned the Indian Olympic Association on Tuesday over elections that could result in a tainted official taking over as the only candidate for secretary-general, a source close to the IOC said On Tuesday.
The ban means an effective end to funding from the IOC to the national Olympic committee (IOA), no Indian officials attending Olympic meetings and Indian athletes banned from competing at the Olympics under their country's flag.
Lalit Bhanot, who spent 11 months in custody last year following corruption charges that plagued the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and who is out on bail, was confirmed for the post late on Friday after the rival faction pulled out ahead of Wednesday's election.
- 'Ban an opportunity to clean the mess'
- 'Bye, bye IOA. Hope to see you soon, clean!'
The IOC has been angered by government interference in the elections and had warned the IOA in a letter of a possible suspension.
The IOA has been directed by a Delhi court to hold the elections adhering to the government's sports code, while the IOC wants the governing body to abide by the Olympic charter.
The IOC blamed non-cooperation by the Indian government and the IOA for the current situation.


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#33 Ryan Daniel
|Madison, Tenn. (Goodpasture High)
2006-2007: Played in 17 games, all in a reserve role. ...Scored a season-high seven points vs. Fisk (Nov. 25). ...Was a perfect three-of-three from the field against Fisk Nov. 25. ...Scored in five games. . ...Twice grabbed a season-high four rebounds in a game (vs. North Florida Dec. 2 and at Missouri Nov. 16). ...Made his Lipscomb debut Nov. 11 against Tusculum. ...Played season high 16 minutes at Missouri.
2005-2006: Red-shirt.
2004-2005: Transferred to Lipscomb after playing his freshman season for Auburn University of the Southeastern Conference. ...Played in 18 games for Auburn, averaging 0.5 points and 0.6 rebounds per game. ...Scored a season-high eight points and grabbed four rebounds, also a season high, against Colorado State on Nov. 30, 2004.
High School: As a senior averaged 17 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. ...Also averaged 1.7 blocks per game. ...Scored 1,244 points and grabbed 741 rebounds at Goodpasture, both totals rank him second in school history behind former Kentucky and NBA player Ron Mercer. ...Four-year starter. ...All-District team as a sophomore, junior and senior.
Personal: Born: June 5, 1985. ...Parents are Jackie and David Daniel. ...Featured on Fox Sports Net South on "NCAA on Campus" while at Auburn in story that detailed how he handles basketball and college with a hearing impairment. ...Was the tallest player on the Auburn team.


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In 1994, President Clinton issued Executive Order 12898, which directed each federal agency to "make achieving environmental justice part of its mission…." Not too much damage was done during the Clinton administration, and the initiative happily languished under President Bush. But under Lisa Jackson's leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency, environmental justice is back with a vengeance.
The EPA has promulgated Plan EJ 2014 as its implementation of Executive Order 12898. There is a basic problem, of course, from the agency's perspective: it doesn't actually have statutory authority to enforce standards of "environmental justice." The EPA acknowledges this in its description of Plan EJ 2014:
Plan EJ 2014 is not a rule or regulation. It is a strategy to help integrate environmental justice into EPA's day to day activities.
From the public's perspective, the hazard of what is an essentially extra-legal set of ideologically-driven policies is that the EPA may abuse its permitting powers by making demands on the companies it regulates that are not justified by any statute or regulation, but that are backed by the implicit threat that if the company fails to do the EPA's bidding, it won't get the permits it needs to operate.
The EPA hints at such a strategy in its plan document:
This implementation plan outlines a process by which the workgroup will research, solicit ideas for, prioritize, and then develop a suite of tools to better enable overburdened communities to have full and meaningful access to the permitting process and for permits to address environmental justice issues to the greatest extent practicable. For the first year, our activities will focus on developing a cohesive suite of tools most applicable to EPA-issued permits, and also collecting a larger set of tools for a public database.
What does that mean, exactly? It is deliberately vague, but a later discussion of "tools" that are "outside of traditional permitting" sheds some light:
§ Guidance and trainings on using resources and programs outside of permitting including:
o Helping communities develop and adopt community-specific, comprehensive environmental justice plans.
o Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE).
o Encouraging the creation of Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP)-like mitigation projects (diesel retrofits, off-site street sweeping, tree planting, landscaping, public playgrounds and green spaces, etc.).
o Good Neighbor/Environmental Benefit Agreements.
o Performance Partnership Agreements.
o Memoranda of Agreement/Understanding involving EPA, communities, facilities; and state, local, or tribal governments.
o Increasing and maintaining active listening, engagement, and follow-up with communities outside of permitting actions.
o Creating plain language summaries of proposed or existing permit-related regulations that have a greater impact on overburdened communities, and/or a plain language guide for rulemaking with the purpose of educating citizens on how to influence the rulemaking process in a meaningful way.
This passage on "enforcement tools" provides the clearest glimpse into how the EPA thinks it can pursue an "environmental justice" agenda for which it has no real authority:
In situations where air emissions from individual or multiple industrial facilities continue to adversely affect community health despite their compliance with emission limitations, some businesses may be willing to take voluntary action to further reduce the emissions that adversely affect the community. Examples of such voluntary actions include: a health clinic established and operated together with local, state, and community members; a household hazardous waste collection drive; a local company voluntarily agreeing to post compliance monitoring information directly on a public website, to allow community members to check on compliance; and "good neighbor agreements" between local companies and communities to address facility effects not regulated by a permit or other law.
Emphasis added. So, putting it all together, the EPA is asserting that it can use the permitting and enforcement authority granted to it by Congress to extract "voluntary" concessions from the regulated community to advance the goals of a program created through an Executive Order. This is the sort of lawlessness that the administrative state fosters.
Is this concern only hypothetical? No. Tomorrow, we will give an example of how the EPA tries to achieve an illegal end by intimidating the companies that are subject to its regulations.


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Parrott's girls' team won first place at the conference championship meet Tuesday, while the boys took third.
Three Arendell Parrott Academy students became the school�s first swimmers 20 years ago.
Two decades later, the Parrott swim team made its mark as the Patriots were crowned champions at the Eastern Plains Independence Conference meet at the Woodmen Community Center Tuesday. The girls won first place with a score of 321, while the boys came in third with 237 points.
�They were absolutely primed,� said coach Stewart Perry of the entire team. �I saw some competiveness in some of my swimmers that I haven�t seen all year. I think the excitement of hosting our first conference meet at this wonderful pool really put a surge of adrenaline in them.
�They�ve raced better than I�ve seen them race all year.�
Parrott placed first in five races against swimmersfrom six other conference schools.
APA won its first championship in Raleigh in 2006. No individual swimmers won their races that year, but the depth of the team earned the victory.
But it was relays that helped Parrott rise to the top Tuesday, as the girls earned gold in the 200-yard medley relay and the 400-yard freestyle relay. The boys placed first in the opening relay and closed the 400 free team race with silver.
�It�s a team sport, not an individual sport,� Perry said. �That�s one thing a lot of people think, they�re just racing. You saw today the relay was everything.�
The meet opened with a win for both Parrott teamsin the 200-yard medley relays. Sisters Sarah and Grace Fountain, Katie Frank and Maggie Tyndall were the girls� relay swimmers. Rudolph Perry, John-Michael Leighton and brothers Wilson and William Archie comprised the boys� relay.
The elder Fountain sister, Sarah, a sophomore, was named EPIC Swimmer of the Year.
�We wanted to come out with our first relay for the girls and make it big,� said Fountain, 15. �We were really uplifted by that.�
Fountain won the first race after the break, the 100-yard butterfly, and also finished at the top in the 100-yard backstroke. In the fly, she raced against two seniors.
�I�ve dedicated a lot of time in what I do,� said Fountain, who swims year-round. �It�s always nerve-wracking seeing competitors and seeing other people that I have a chance to race, but that�s the fun part about it � racing.�
While Fountain was well-prepared for the meet, snowy weather also affected the Patriots, who were grounded four days last week.
�We have the best facility in the area so that was to our advantage, but the weather was an issue,� Perry said. �When the kids are out of the water that long, it�s kind of scary to think in three days we�re swimming for a championship, but it worked out.�
Many of Perry�s young swimmers also faced seniors from the other schools, including eighth-graders Wilson Archie and Tyndall. They both won gold at the championship.
�I was a little bit scared,� Tyndall said. �The girls had a good meet overall.�
She added, �It was an honor to host (the conference championship). The team�s been here 20 years and we got to host it on the 20th anniversary. That was exciting.�
Jessika Morgan can be reached at 252-559-1078 and email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @JessikaMorgan.
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|Bill Weir of ABC-News
- would a large calcification in a major artery been detected in a routine annual exam?
- Was/is there a history of heart disease in Bill Weir's family? Doesn't ABC-News require - or encourage - its employees and key players to undergo wellness tests? Better yet, does yours? Or do you have your own wellness plan in place?
- And finally, what can you do when people feel they are invincible? Very few are reporters who were asked (and allowed) by their network to undergo tests totaling thousands of dollars as part of a week-long feature called, The End of Illness. Amazingly, this also happens to be the title of David Agus's book.


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|December 5, 2013
|5:00 - 9:00 pm
|Mayborn Museum Complex
|The Mayborn Museum will be a warm place to step off the bus during Christmas on 5th this year. Baylor buses will transport guests between the Mayborn Museum and 5th Street.
All Aboard the Mayborn Express will be open for this special event beginning at 5:00 pm. The extensive train set-up in the Anding Traveling Exhibit Gallery will include elaborate scenes of bridges and trestles, cities and towns, and depict both the past and present. The young and the young-at-heart will enjoy imagining the excitement of being a train engineer!
The Mayborn Museum is staying open late until 9:00 pm for our guests to visit this popular exhibit.
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Upgrade to Latest Version of Merge PACS(TM) Also Enhances Workflow for Community Hospital
CHICAGO, Feb. 22, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that Graham Hospital has selected Merge Healthcare's entire iConnect Enterprise Clinical Platform as well as Merge Honeycomb Archive to implement an enterprise-wide imaging strategy.
"At Graham Hospital we strive to apply forward-thinking technologies to deliver on our mission of providing compassionate, quality health services. Clearly, interoperability and cloud solutions represent the future of imaging," explained Jim Schreiner, CIO, Graham Hospital.
"With iConnect Enterprise Clinical Platform we will be able to deliver anywhere, any time access to images as well as secure storage of images in the iConnect Enterprise Archive. We will then be utilizing Merge Honeycomb Archive for cost-effective, long-term storage of the second copy of our patient images. We believe that by taking an enterprise-wide view of imaging we will see a decrease in our total cost of ownership and reduce the drain on our internal IT resources," Schreiner concluded.
"As a long-time Merge PACS user, this new enterprise-wide imaging strategy builds on our partnership with Merge," added Penny McElroy, Director of Imaging. "We knew that we wanted to upgrade to the latest version of Merge PACS and realized it was also the perfect opportunity to think longer-term while simultaneously improving our radiology workflow in the near-term."
"We have seen clients from large IDNs to community hospitals like Graham Hospital start to really embrace enterprise imaging strategies and look at the cloud as a viable solution to the business and operational challenges they are facing," said Jeff Surges, CEO, Merge Healthcare. "Additionally, now that Meaningful Use Stage 2 rules include image-enabling the EHR as a menu set measure, Graham will be well-positioned to meet these future requirements."
Merge's iConnect Enterprise Clinical Platform is the industry's only comprehensive solution for collecting, archiving, viewing, sharing and exchanging any type of image, anywhere, any time. It includes iConnect Access*, a zero-download DICOM image and XDS server, iConnect Share, a gateway for image sharing across the enterprise and iConnect Enterprise Archive, a vendor-neutral archive to create an enterprise imaging strategy. Ranked the VNA global market leader by InMedica, it works with existing applications, leveraging widely-used web and healthcare technology standards, to provide a vendor neutral interoperable environment.
Merge Honeycomb cloud-based applications are designed to help healthcare stakeholders collaborate and improve the delivery of care while reducing costs. Merge Honeycomb Archive provides a long-term storage option that houses images securely, in multiple locations, providing anywhere, any time access. It delivers comprehensive functionality in a high-availability, high-security framework that meets HIPAA and other privacy requirements.
Merge PACS, a real-time picture archiving communication system, enhances clinical, operational and administrative functions with an approach that emphasizes workflow efficiency and customer satisfaction. Its modular design allows for easy integration with a broad range of third-party systems.
*iConnect Access is not FDA-cleared for diagnostic use on mobile devices.
About Merge Healthcare
Merge is a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare. Merge's enterprise and cloud-based solutions for image intensive specialties provide access to any image, anywhere, any time. Merge also provides health stations, clinical trials software and other health data and analytics solutions that engage consumers in their personal health. With solutions that are used by providers and consumers and include more than 25 years of innovation, Merge is helping to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare worldwide. For more information, visit merge.com.
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Shortly after joining the Jette Parker Young Artist programme in 2011, Justina Gringyte made her Royal Opera House Main Stage debut in Plácido Domingo's Operalia gala. Performing the role of Rigoletto's Maddalena, she shared the stage with some of the greatest opera singers of the last thirty years. A year later, she appeared at the Our Extraordinary World gala, singing 'Im Treibhaus' from Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, in front of the Queen. 'The two galas have been real highlights for me,' she explains, 'from a singer's point of view, they were unbelievable, unforgettable and beyond all my expectations.'
For Justina, performance has always been a passion. 'Before I even saw opera, I knew I wanted to be a singing actress,' she remembers. 'When I was small, I would put on my mum's clothes and use the table as my stage. My dad was a singer and my mum was an actress, so I thought I would combine them both!'
Despite her singing ambitions, before pursuing a career as a vocalist she studied piano. 'My father always said I needed to be musically well-educated and that piano would serve me well. I was fanatical about it. Playing the piano was my way to let out music and to express myself.'
Even so, when Justina first came to the UK in 2006 on an Erasmus programme, it was as a singer rather than a pianist. 'I started focusing on singing when I went to the Academy of Music in Lithuania. Then, when I came to the UK, I met singing coach Buddug Verona James: she is the main reason I'm here. Because of her, I returned to study a Post-Grad with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Then I got into the National Opera Studio, along with fellow Jette Parker Young Artists Hanna Hipp and Susana Gaspar.'
The Jette Parker Young Artist Programme employs singers as salaried members of The Royal Opera for a two-year period, offering instruction in all opera disciplines, including stagecraft, languages and musical interpretation. 'For me it's wonderful that I can learn languages. The full package, and the support it offers, is fantastic and some of the people on the programme have really helped me develop as an artist.'
Over the course of her first Season, Justina performed roles ranging from Flora in Verdi's La traviata, to the Third Nymph in Wieler and Morabito's controversial production of Dvorák's Rusalka. She is currently appearing in Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur.
'It's a very powerful piece and the whole opera is very good theatre,' she explains. 'The music is colourful, and of course, John Tomlinson, Christine Rice and Johan Reuter are such a strong cast.'
Justina will sing the role of Third Innocent, in a group with five singers and several actors. 'It's a real challenge. I actually find my role really difficult. Vocally it's very stop and start and the stage rehearsals are tricky.'
Looking ahead, Justina will cover the role of Fenena in Daniele Abbado's new Royal Opera production of Nabucco, and will perform in both John Fulljames's new production of Rossini's La donna del lago and Nicholas Joël's production of La rondine. Away from the Royal Opera House, she is scheduled to sing the role of Fenena in the Welsh National Opera's production of Nabucco: "After being coached and prepared by the people at the Royal Opera House, I'm not scared to go anywhere!"
The Jette Parker Young Artists scheme is supported by Oak Foundation.


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Was just catching up with the news, and there was a press conference with Sachin, where the little master was upset in the Australian team on how they reacted after getting the Champions Trophy.
If you all remember, when the Australian team was up on stage to receive the trophy, Ricky Ponting used a hand gesture to tell Powar to hand over the trophy, and then one of the Australian member, (I think it was Shane Watson, I could be wrong) pushed Powar out of the way.
Sachin reacted saying that he was disappointed in the Australian team, and they should have respected their elders and such great figures in the Cricket World.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you agree with Sachin that it was wrong?


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HELSINKI - The `Clash of Clans' mobile game maker Supercell is selling a 51 percent stake to Japan's SoftBank and GungHo in a 1.5 billion deal.
CEO Ilkka Paananen says the partnership will speed Supercell's goal of becoming the "first truly global games company," and help it to deliver games to hundreds of millions of new consumers.
Paananen said on the company's web site Tuesday that Supercell's head office will remain in Finland.
Telecommunications and Internet company SoftBank Corp. paid 80 percent of the investment with GungHo Online Entertainment, which has worked before with Supercell, providing the rest.
Supercell, which started developing games for tablets in 2011, has produced more than 165 games on 12 different platforms. It is also known for the popular `Hay Day' game.


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PerBy brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 338 Designs von 88 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Norea Media Mission is a Christian missions organization that has produced radio programs for Norwegians since 1956, and later also television programs. Today we support missions projects on 4 continents, in more than 30 languages, and all of it is non-profit. Our major new initiative in Norway will be a cross-denominational, modern Online Church based on the same model as LifeChurch.tv's Online Church in USA (http://www.lifechurch.tv/). This entails several online experiences every week. Our new Online Church will have its own brand. It will be a cross-denominational Online Church for Norwegians worldwide, and not be tied to a specific local church.
Words that describe the contents of our new Online Church and how we want to be perceived are (not in priority order): Modern, serious, open, inclusive, connecting people, reflective, encouraging, inspiring, confidence-inspiring, motivating, supportive, understanding, powerful, visual, simple…
…and not an orthodox, old, weird group.
Our vision (and slogan) is to give people hope for life and eternity.
Slogan: "Håp for livet og evigheten" (Translation: Hope for life and eternity)
Young modern/urban Norwegians worldwide, between 20 and 39 years who seeks God and the meaning for life.
We believe that the URL will be important to market. It is therefore important that a logo includes our web address iKirken.no as an important element (or maybe the main logo?). However, it may be difficult to use only iKirken.no (Translation: inChurch.no) as a logo, for example, when it comes to creating small squared buttons. Then we'll also need a symbol (logo) representing iKirken.no.
Logos we like:
You'll find a lot of modern church logos on the PowerPointSermons.com's Logo Portofolio: http://www.powerpointsermons.com/?p…searchlogo
Here are a few other things to think about:
1. The logo should have variations with and without text:
INTERNETTKIRKEN (Translation: The INTERNET CHURCH, with smaller letters, as an explanation to the main text)
iKirken.no (main text and the name of the new Online Church. The name will also be our web address.)
"iKirken.no" and "INTERNETTKIRKEN" can be placed in the order you find the best.
2. The logo may be used in several ways, with and without text.
- On our new website, As (animated?) vignettes on TV, On roll-ups, As square marks (like buttons on an iPhone or a Twitter avatar.)
Please feel free to experiment with colors!
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg
and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images.
(see attachment for more details)
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Portlandia Tour: Kumail Nanjiani heads to a chicken halfway house
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As we wait for a new episode of Portlandia to air, we find ourselves looking for ways to fill the time until Friday at 10/9c. We're making doilies and micro-separating our recycling into different shades of green, brown and clear glass (yes there are shades of clear) and, of course, dusting our vagina pillows. Luckily, Kumail Nanjiani is here with another installment of Kumail Tours Portland to keep us entertained until we get to see the latest episode in Portlandia's brand new third season.
In the continuing adventures of Kumail in Portland, Kumail heads to Peeps Unlimited, a sort of halfway house for retired chickens and ducks located a few miles outside of Portland. Watch a brand new installment of Kumail Tours Portland and be sure to tune in to a new episode of Portlandia on Friday at 10/9c:
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On November 24, 2005, the Red Sox acquired SP Josh Beckett, 3B Mike Lowell, and RP Guillermo Mota from the Marlins for P Jesus Delgado, P Harvey Garcia, SS Hanley Ramirez, and SP Anibal Sanchez.
The Background
Josh Beckett had his best season to the point prior to the trade in the 2005 season, going 15-8 with a 3.38 ERA and 166 strikeouts in 178 2/3 innings pitched. However, he was entering his 5th full season, and would be eligible for free agency after the 2007 season. Mike Lowell, however, was the main reason for the potential trades being floated. The Marlins were desperately looking to slash payroll, and Lowell was due $9 million in 2006.
The Red Sox had won the AL Wild Card in 2005 with a 95-67 record, but were needing a solid pitcher to slot in behind Curt Schilling and Tim Wakefield. Current 3B Bill Mueller was also going to be a free agent, and the organization did not necessarily want to hand over the job to the young Kevin Youkilis.
The Moving Pieces
In Boston, Beckett slotted into the front end of their starting rotation, and Lowell as their starting 3B.
In Florida, Hanley Ramirez was installed as the starting shortstop, and Anibal Sanchez was sent to the Marlins AA affiliate.
What Happened Next
The return for the Red Sox in the 2006 was a bit of a mixed bag, as Beckett went 16-11 over 204 innings, but posted a 5.01 ERA. Lowell had a solid season, hitting 20 home runs, driving in 80 runs, and posting a .284 batting average. The team itself however, did not make that playoff push that they had grown accustomed to. They went 86-76, and finished 3rd behind the Blue Jays in the AL East.
The Marlins were extremely happy with the players they got in return, specifically Hanley Ramirez. He won the 2006 NL Rookie of the Year award behind a stellar season: .292, 17 HR, 59 RBI, 51 SB, and 119 runs scored. Anibal Sanchez came up and gave the team a shot in the arm as well, posting a 10-3 record with a 2.83 ERA in 17 starts.
The Net Moves
Red Sox – First Level
- Josh Beckett remains with the team, signing a contract extension first through the 2010 season, and now through the 2014 season. He has been a bit up and down overall, posting a 69-37 record with a 4.29 ERA in 880 2/3 innings pitched. He has 804 strikeouts and 232 walks, and has represented the Red Sox twice in the All-Star game.
- Mike Lowell is also still with the team, despite their best efforts to move him in the past 2 seasons. He has posted a .291/.347/.472 line with 79 HR and 368 RBI, and was an All-Star once.
- Guillermo Mota spent approximately 1 month with the team, before being traded on 1/27/2006 to the Indians with Andy Marte and Kelly Shoppach for C Josh Bard, OF Coco Crisp, and P David Riske.
Marlins – First Level
- Hanley Ramirez has developed into the NL's best shortstop, and one of the top fantasy players overall. In 737 games, he has hit .313/.384/519 with 119 HR, 375 RBI and 190 steals. He has made 3 All-Star appearances, and has won 2 Silver Slugger Awards. In addition, the Marlins have signed him to contract extension through 2014.
- Anibal Sanchez has seen some rough patches, mostly due to injuries and inconsistency, but still pitches for the Marlins. He has a 28-25 record with a 3.62 ERA in 430 1/3 innings pitched. He's struck out 323 and walked 190.
- Jesus Delgado pitched 2 innings in the Majors with the Marlins, and was selected off waivers by the Mariners on 3/15/2009. He appears to be out of organized baseball at this point.
- Harvey Garcia threw a few more innings (12 1/3), but was released by the Marlins on 3/16/2009. Must have been roster clearing time that week.
Red Sox – Second Level
- Josh Bard appeared in 7 games for the Sox, and was used primarily as the personal catcher for knuckleball pitcher Tim Wakefield. It became clear very quickly however that he was not well suited for the task, and was traded by the end of April to the Padres with P Cla Meredith for C Doug Mirabelli.
- Coco Crisp was with the Red Sox through the 2008 season. He hit .271/.330/.390 with 21 homeruns and 70 stolen bases during his time there, but was traded when it became clear that prospect Jacoby Ellsbury was ready to man center field. Crisp was traded to the Royals for RP Ramon Ramirez on November 19, 2008
- David Riske made 8 appearances with the Red Sox in 2006 before being traded to the White Sox for P Javier Lopez.
Red Sox – Third Level
- Doug Mirabelli became the personal catcher for Tim Wakefield again, and spent both the 2006 and 2007 seasons in that role before retiring.
- Ramon Ramirez spent the 2009 and part of the 2010 seasons with the Sox, posting a 7-7 record with a 3.46 ERA out of the bullpen. He was traded on July 31, 2010 to the Giants for minor leaguer Daniel Turpen.
- Javier Lopez was in the Red Sox bullpen from 2006-2009, and posted a 5-3 record with a 3.30 ERA, primarily as a LOOGY reliever. He left the Red Sox as a free agent after the 2009 season.
Overall Reactions
I think that this is another one of those trades that worked out well for both teams. The Red Sox, led by the performances of Beckett and Lowell, won their 2nd World Series in 4 seasons in 2007. Whether or not they come to regret the extension that they gave to Josh Beckett recently in the same way that they regret the one that they gave to Lowell remains to be seen, but as I've said before, flags fly forever. They also got some decent production out of Crisp while he was in Boston, and got a solid reliever in return for him.
The winner, if I had to pick one, would have to be the Marlins though. Ramirez has become a perennial MVP-caliber player, who routinely is at the top of the batting average charts as well as the stolen base leader boards. They were able to sign him to a team-friendly contract extension through 2014, and Ramirez remains the franchise player for a team that was in desperate need of one when the team traded 1B Miguel Cabrera and P Dontrelle Willis. I am not sure he will be able to stay at shortstop once that contract expires, as his fielding is less than amazing at a high-defense position. But time will tell on that one, and in the mean time the Marlins are enjoying every bit of production he provides.


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Hope your holiday was a lovely, mostly uneventful one. I've learned to want uneventful Christmas.
A few years back, a couple of Scrooges tried to break into our house at about 4:00 am early Christmas day. Fortunately, we called 911 in the middle of it, and they caught them about a mile from the house. Got inside the police car to ID the perps whilst wearing a ski jacket worn over my PJs and some silly pink feathered slippers I used to own. Then we had the one year where my daughter caught a stomach bug of some sort and threw up all night into Christmas morning. If your kid is too sick to want to open Santa presents, that is very sad sick.
Hopefully your Christmas was blessedly free from criminality and vomit or other things that are displeasant.
My presents to you.
I'm working on a couple of Texans-specific posts, but in the meantime I wish to give you some presents. Hard to wrap things over the web, so they will have to be links:
Baked Goods:
A few years back at FanHouse, I offered as a Christmas present, "Irish Whiskey Cake That Will Change Your Life for the Better." Every once in a while at a tailgate, I will run into someone who baked it and loves it. It is easy, makes your house smell incredible, and it's so good you will want to eat it for breakfast too if you are anything like me.
If I could change the recipe a bit, I would suggest that for most people, you don't have to cook it nearly as long as 1 hour. Also, if you put a little bit of flour on the chocolate chips and butterscotch chips, it stops them from all floating down to the bottom of the pan. (That's my mom's tip from Thanksgiving–she made one then. Yum.).
Seriously, even if you are the cooking inept, you can do it. Or, at a minimum, email it to someone you know who loves you and likes to cook.
Daily Mental Health.
If you are reading this, you are likely a Texans fan. This means you could use as much daily mental health as you can get. I wrote about this earlier in the year, but this is my favorite Houston Email/Website of the year. Give them your email, get the messages, and I bet even after a week you'll find that it starts your day off nicely. Everybody I know that subscribes to the email are happy that they did.
Something a Little Funny.
This is the most popular video on YouTube in 2011. I just recently saw it because my husband has decided it is really funny to do the dog's voice in daily conversations.
"The Texans won the AFC South."
"They are going to the playoffs"
"The Texans are going to have a home playoff game."
"Yeh, home playoff game good?"
"But they have to do it with their backup backup quarterback and Andre Johnson coming off of injury."
"EEEEYYYYYYYOOOOOOO" I do not know how to spell this dog's wail.
Any links you want to share?
Please share any links you think are positives for whatever reason–helpfulness, humor, whatever. Please keep them clean because it is a newspaper blog and I do not want you to get banned.
Hope your new year brings Houston Texans wins.


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I've been working as a Creative Director on Dungeon Defenders 2 for a few months now, and as a Concept Artist on DD2 for long before that, so this game means an awful lot to me. It means a lot to all of us on the team. This game has been a long time coming and it's something a few of us had been thinking about, hell DREAMING about for over a year now. The entire team has poured immeasurable amounts of blood, sweat, and tears into this project, in spite of some very public dark times at the studio. I really never thought that something as simple as a positive review would have such an emotional impact on me, but because of everything we've gone through, it absolutely does.
We'll be showing the game at NYCC, and I would love it if anyone who will be at the con would stop by and play our game! Let us know what you think of it! What you like, what you don't like, what you think could make the game stronger, etc. Any feedback would be very appreciated. We've done everything we could to make the best possible game we could make, and it's fantastic to see that it's (so far) being well received. I've never been more proud of what we've accomplished and of the team that I work with!
IGN Review
Gameplay footage!
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The founders of Doggie Delights, Owen Kefallinos and Grace Gaumer, are baking up fresh, all-natural dog treats and selling them at a local farmer's market.
If your dog loves treats (and what dog doesn't?) then two kids in Cohasset want to meet you. The founders of Doggie Delights, Owen Kefallinos and Grace Gaumer, are baking up fresh, all-natural dog treats and selling them at the Cohasset Farmer's Market.
More than just a fun summer business, Owen, a sixth-grader, and Grace, a fifth-grader, are working to raise money for the Scituate Animal Shelter. Already the business endeavor of Doggie Delights has been able to donate $127 to the local shelter that serves Scituate, Cohasset, Hingham and Hull and has a goal to donate $500.
The project started off when Owen received the dog bone recipe book from his mother's friend. He made one of the book's treats and tested it out on his lab-mix dog, Athena. She loved it.Would other dogs feel the same?
To find out, Owen left some of them in his Fairoaks Lane neighbors mailboxes and offered them to dogs he saw along the way. The dogs just ate them up, literally.
Owen knew he was on to something and decided to take the product to the masses, or at least the hundreds of people who flock to the Thursday afternoon Cohasset Farmer's Market. With the help of his mom, Lisa, they got a permit from the market and his next-door neighbor Grace joined the effort.
Each week they bake up fresh nearly 400 dog treats in at least two different flavors. They bag a dozen of them in bags decorated with the company's logo and sell them at the market. The treats come in different dog-centric shapes: the classic dog bone, a doghouse and a fire hydrant.
The treats come in different flavors from peanut butter to cinnamon to barbeque, even a "diet" bone for those pups watching their waistline. Each week, the kids cook up a different assortment.
The recipes, gleaned from a colorful picture book, have all natural, human grade ingredients. The treats are even edible by people, but they don't recommend serving them for dessert at your next dinner party.
"I tried it, but it was gross," said Grace. But, the dogs all seem to like them, which is a key part of their "marketing strategy." Owen and Grace take their product to the Common and go up to market visitors and ask if they have a dog. When dogs are with their owners, they offer samples to the furry friend. If the dog approves, they ask the owner to come over to their stand to buy some.
The direct consumer marketing is working. Each week at the farmer's market they seem to gain in popularity. They now have a logo, a T-shirt with Doggie Delight logo and customized bags. Every week they've sold out of the biscuits.
"Some people don't have dogs, but they like our logo so we're going to be selling shirts soon," said Owen, an entrepreneur in the making. He likes the money that comes along with the business and the feeling he gets when donating a portion to the Scituate Animal Shelter.
Grace, on the other hand, is the natural salesperson of the duo, according to the parents. She animatedly describes the many different types of dogs and owners she runs into at the farmer's market — there are dogs that don't eat in public, others are on a diet, and many refuse treats due to allergies.
"But most of the dogs are glad to get a treat," said Grace.
Both Grace and Owen describe themselves as animal people. Grace lives with three dogs and two cats, while Owen has one dog and two frogs.
Owen and Grace will be selling the treats at the farmer's market roughly every other week. Their table is located near the Holly Hill Farm stand and Sagestone Beads. When the farmer's market season ends in October, they plan to sell the treats at Twist in the Village.
A bag of a dozen treats can be purchased for $5 and two bags can be purchased for $8.