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A regional beer and wine distribution company is contemplating building a $20 million facility within Broadpointe Industrial Park in Mills River that would create 15 jobs and relocate its offices, warehouse and 92 employees from Arden.
A regional beer and wine distribution company is contemplating building a $20 million facility within Broadpointe Industrial Park in Mills River that would create 15 jobs and relocate its offices, warehouse and 92 employees from Arden.
Empire Distributors Inc. has maxed out its 60,000-square-foot office and warehouse facility at 10 Walden Drive, said Doug Rose, general manager of Empire Asheville, one of eight beverage distribution hubs the company owns throughout Georgia and North Carolina.
The company — which distributes 3,000 different wines and 500 beer products — expanded its Arden operations by 25,000 square feet about eight years ago, Rose said, but "it was pretty much full the day we did the expansion. It was sort of a Band-Aid."
Rose said Empire has been searching for a larger warehouse to lease for about a year, "but we couldn't find anything, so we're going to build." Besides Mills River, the company is considering other sites in the region for construction of a roughly 150,000-square-foot warehouse and 10,000 square feet of offices, he said.
The Mills River location near the intersection of Broadpointe Drive and Old Fanning Bridge Road makes sense for a variety of reasons, Rose said. It's close to the airport and Interstate 26, with quick access to Interstate 40, and it's near Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.'s new brewery across the river.
Empire distributes Sierra Nevada beers, along with Guinness, Genesee, Grolsch, Harp, Pyramid Ale, Samuel Adams, Sweetwater and other well-known brands. The company covers 27 counties in Western North Carolina, from the Tennessee border east to Hickory and north to the Virginia border.
"We would like to say that's going to be the new location, but we haven't nailed it down yet," Rose said of the Broadpointe site. "Last night was a big step, though."
On Monday evening, the Henderson County Board of Commissioners held a public hearing about a possible incentives package for Empire. No one spoke except Andrew Tate, president of Henderson County Partnership for Economic Development. He said the county is contemplating an incentives package worth $479,060 over a maximum period of seven years, with a potential first-year grant of $71,904.
The incentives are "not a tax cut," Tate said Tuesday. Rather, he said the county is anticipating what tax revenues would be derived from the company's investment in real and personal property and granting back 70 percent, "provided they meet the performance thresholds for employment, investment and wages."
Tate said the average yearly wage for the 15 new jobs would be $40,000, about $7,500 more than the average county wage for full-time employment.
As proposed, Empire would invest $17 million in real property, excluding land acquisition, and $3 million in equipment. Rose said the bulk of the personal property investment will be for a new conveyor and racking system, which is "much more advanced" than the company's current one.
Mills River Town Council will take up its own potential incentives package, worth as much as $20,890 over seven years, at a public hearing at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29.
"What incentives, how much and how long we offer them, that will be up to councilmembers," said Mayor Roger Snyder. "Overall, I think Empire would be a good fit for Mills River. From our perspective, we're getting revenue off vacant land, so it'll help our tax base. Once they get going, I think they'll be a real asset to the community."
If Empire does choose to build in Mills River, Snyder said the town will have to work with the N.C. Department of Transportation and Empire to make sure Broadpointe Drive is fully paved so construction traffic and delivery trucks have an alternative to using Old Fanning Bridge Road.
Currently, part of Broadpointe Drive is gravel north of label manufacturer UPM Raflatac. Paving the road throughout its length would allow Empire trucks the option of accessing U.S. Highway 280 instead of using Old Fanning Bridge, Snyder said.
Old Fanning Bridge Road has been improved to help service the Sierra Nevada plant across the river, Snyder said, but "going toward 191, it's residential. I want to make sure we keep the residential traffic and the industrial traffic separate as much as possible."
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson on June 17 said a public health emergency exists at the Libby asbestos site in northwest Montana.
Over the past years, hundreds of asbestos-related disease cases have been documented in this small community, which covers the towns of Libby and Troy.
The announcement was made at a joint press conference with Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester.
This is the first time EPA has made a determination under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) that conditions at a site constitute a public health emergency. This determination recognizes the serious impact to the public health from the contamination at Libby and underscores the need for further action and health care for area residents who have been or may be exposed to asbestos.
Investigations performed by the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry have found the incidence of occurrence of asbestosis, a lung condition, in the Libby area staggeringly higher than the national average for the period from 1979-1998. EPA is working closely with the Department of Health and Human Services, which is making available a short-term grant to provide needed asbestos-related medical care to Libby and Troy residents.
"This is a tragic public health situation that has not received the recognition it deserves by the federal government for far too long. We're making a long-delayed commitment to the people of Libby and Troy. Based on a rigorous re-evaluation of the situation on the ground, we will continue to move aggressively on the clean-up efforts and protect the health of the people," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. Secretary Sebelius said that "the Department of Health and Human Services has been working closely with the EPA and the residents of Lincoln County for a number of years to conduct screenings and help provide access to care. Now, we have come together … to offer a new grant to provide short-term medical assistance for screening, diagnostic, and treatment services in a comprehensive and coordinated manner in partnership with local officials on the ground in Lincoln County. "
"This is a great day for Libby. This is a town that was poisoned by W.R. Grace, then had to wait year after year as the last administration failed to determine that public health emergency exists. But today is a new day," said Sen. Max Baucus. "Today is the day that Administrator Jackson did the right thing and made this vital determination. Today is the day that Secretary Sebelius declared that people in Libby will get the health care they need. Today is the day that, after years of work, we were able to succeed in getting this done. Yet, we won't stop here. We will continue to push until Libby has a clean bill of health."
Sebelius tasked two HHS agencies—the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry—to help county residents. These two agencies will support a new grant to assist affected residents who need medical care. Local officials are currently putting together a grant proposal that will lay out options for provision of medical care that will work for the residents of Lincoln County. HHS anticipates that this grant can be awarded in August 2009.
The Libby asbestos site has been on the EPA's Superfund National Priorities List since 2002, and cleanup has taken place since 2000. EPA has made progress in helping to remove the threat of asbestos in the land and air, and with it, the increased risks of lung cancer, asbestosis, and other respiratory problems. While EPA's cleanup efforts have greatly reduced exposure, actual and potential releases of amphibole asbestos remain a significant threat to public health in that area.
The Libby asbestos site includes portions of the towns of Libby and Troy and an inactive vermiculite mine seven miles northeast of the town. Gold miners discovered vermiculite in Libby in 1881; in the 1920s the Zonolite Company formed and began mining the vermiculite. In 1963, W.R. Grace bought the Zonolite mining operations. The mine closed in 1990. It is estimated that the Libby mine was the source of over 70 percent of all vermiculite sold in the United States from 1919 to 1990.
Last month, W.R. Grace and three individual defendants were acquitted of criminal charges under the Clean Air Act alleging they conspired to conceal the health dangers posed by the contamination. A fourth individual defendant, the company's in-house counsel, was scheduled to stand trial in September, but prosecutors filed a notice Monday that charges against him had been dismissed.


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Yahoo BOSS is a suite of services that provides Developers premium API's that can support Search and Geo applications. BOSS Geo services include two primary offerings today, Placefinder and PlaceSpotter, which allows developers to geo-enrich their applications and make them more location aware. Learn more about the offerings below.
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PlaceFinder allows you to convert street addresses like, "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC", or place names like, "Washington, DC", into geographic coordinates of degrees latitude 38.898717 and longitude -77.035974 that you can use as the center of a map or the position for a map marker. This conversion is called "geocoding" and can be used to make your applications location-aware. The service also allows you to convert geographic coordinates into street addresses or place names. This conversion is called "reverse geocoding" and can be used to provide user feedback when only coordinates are known.
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Heading to Kauai in a couple of weeks. I've read some wetpixel recommendations from previous years but not much in terms of detailed advice on locations to dive and dive operators that offer the best experience for a UW photographer.
- Which dive operator(s) do you recommend? Specifically no cattle boat operators, wanting to maximize bottom time without depending on lesser skilled divers, and very knowledgeable crew that can point out unique photo opportunities?
- I plan on diving Niihau for a 3-tank dive. Anyone with reviews on dive operators and favorite experiences to share on this dive adventure?
- Any other site recommendations for great wide-angle shooting (I don't plan on doing much macro for this trip)? I'm looking for the main posers the island has to offer - sharks, turtles, monk seals, and other unique local sea creatures.


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Opinion: Small Businesses Get Sacked
Fran Tarkenton, NFL Hall of Famer and founder of OneMoreCustomer.com, on small business confidence. Plus, who does he favor to win this weekend's NFL playoffs? Photo: Getty Images
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This morning, BikeRadar received a 250g package of EPO… No, not so fast – it's actually a controversially named variety of coffee from Paniagua, a company based in Somerset, UK.
The name Paniagua comes from the Spanish term 'pan y agua', which translates to 'bread and water' – a phrase used in professional cycling to identify riders who aren't doping. The term was brought to the fore by confessed doper Tyler Hamilton in his tell-all book The Secret Race.
EPO coffee is handcrafted using a cast iron Probat roaster, by award-winning artisans Extract Coffee Roasters. The 100 percent Arabica goods are said to be ethically sourced and feature a blend of Brazilian Daterra and Costa Rican beans honey-processed to deliver a sweeter and fruitier taste – "sweeter than a solo breakaway on the Ventoux" as Paniagua put it.
Described as "premium gear" it certainly isn't cheap; for £7.50 you get just 250g of either espresso grind or whole beans.
Before long we made a blend of EPO in our faithful office cafetiere and shared it between a team of coffee connoisseurs (and one sceptical tea drinker). Feedback was unanimously positive as far as taste was concerned, but we suspect the price tag will make EPO a treat rather than a habit for most.
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Urban Meyer is a straight out liar - evidence showing Circle of Trust existed at Florida
On a conference call today, Urban Meyer denied many of the accusations in the SN report by Matt Hayes (http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-04-09/urban-meyer-florida-ohio-state-ncaa-violation-recruiting-drugs-program-will-musc) especially accusations of preferential treatement with a "Circle of Trust." Well in less than 4 hours, Sports By Brooks has found not only one BUT TWO citations where Urban Meyer was quoted using a Circle of Trust. Here is a screen capture of the evidence from the Gainesville Sun & SI:
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2000 Ford F250 Super Duty - Project Super Cross Part 2Posted in Project Vehicles on August 1, 2008
Roll Up Your Sleeping bag, stuff in that last pair of jeans, and meet us at the truck! Project Super Cross is just about finished and we're ready to hit the road. Last month we told you about the goal of transforming this '00 Ford Super Duty into a formidable cross-country wheeler, one that you could stuff with all your buddies, gear, and wheeling supplies and travel from one remote destination to another. With a deadline looming and only a little over a week before my dad and I were slated to leave on our journey from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Los Angeles, we still had plenty of work to do.
With the four-door shortbed taking up valuable space at Cape Fear 4x4, shop owner Danny Farrow, along with a few old friends and family that were bribed with promises of free meals, kicked it into high gear as we moved into the final stages of the build. With most of the drivetrain work done, we still needed to bolt on a few of the major components that would help our rig survive whatever terrain we would encounter. By using parts from common aftermarket companies such as Pro Comp and Interco, we knew that if we cut a tire or broke a leaf spring, we could find a replacement at one of the many 4Wheel Parts stores across the country, and that's peace of mind. Though there's never anything certain about a cross-country adventure, one thing we didn't count on was having so little in the way of a shakedown run with the truck. Be sure to check out next month's issue as we get started on our cross-country adventure and live to tell the tale. For more information on Project Super Cross and exclusive photos from the build, check us out at www.4wheeloffroad.com.
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Tackling a project like this with as limited a time frame as we had is sometimes beyond ridiculous, and each time we pull it off it's simply mindboggling how we managed to get it done. To all our friends, family, and especially the crew at Cape Fear 4x4 for getting there early, staying late, and working through the holidays to help get this truck finished, we thank you.
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I'm just learning Visual Basic. It's kind of fun but my VB book really sucks. I've been doing a little searching. And Thought I might ask the great communtity of Antionline. So here goes. I've got this program I'm supposed to do as an assignment.
The main form is supposed to calculate which i got ok. The calculations is done. Then once it outputs to the label captions. I'm supposed to move the answers from the captions to a summary form. The whole point of the summary form is to display today's totals. So everytime there is a calculation on the main form it's supposed to print out to the calculations on the labels, then move to the summary form. Now how do I move the output from the captions on the main form to the seperate summary form? And then how do I keep on adding to the summary everytime there is a calculation?
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I love pamphlets. They seem in many ways the perfect parcel for poetry - small enough to carry anywhere, brief enough to devour in a single sitting and yet so full and rich that we can return to them again and again and still find something new. They allow a poet to introduce themselves, to tell a story or to take an image, a tone, and let it ring through the pamphlet like a bell. Often when I'm judging a single poem prize I'm left longing to read more by the poet, to see their poem within the full feather fan a longer work provides, and so judging the 2018 Poetry Business Pamphlet competition was a pleasure. The standards were exceptionally high and the fact that David and I shared many of the same choices is testament to the ability that fine poetry has to shine out. Many wonderful poets have begun their careers with a Poetry Business pamphlet and so it felt very exciting to be part of this early stage. Thank you to all the shortlisted poets - you made our job a joy so take heart and keep your faith in your work - and congratulations and three cheers for this year's wonderful winners! – Liz Berry
It was heartening to note that almost all the poets in contention did in their different ways and with different emphases address the common central facts of human existence: love, death, grief and the will to happiness. It reinforces one's faith in the whole endeavour of poetry to see those essential things being written about in the real context of our own day and age. I've noticed this before in judging such competitions. Poets want to say what it is like now – living and caring for a loved one with cancer or dementia, for example. Taking all the pamphlets together, there was great variety of subject, poetic form and tone of voice. Singly, some stuck too much to the anecdotal (what 'really' happened) and with that came then a certain monotony or flatness, the experience or occurrence wanting, to become a poem, a vitality which is not necessarily there in the 'facts of the matter'. And one question: is it now generally thought that poets needn't (or perhaps even shouldn't) rhyme at all? I'd be sorry if that were the current teaching. But in conclusion: back to my beginning. The scores of poems here, by eighteen authors, demonstrate not just the necessity for poetry but also the life of it, the good it does. – David Constantine
Rebecca Cullen is from Nottingham. She started to write poetry after careers in teaching and the civil service, and has an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University. She is in the final stages of her PhD 'Mastering Time: Time and Temporality in Contemporary Poetry' at NTU, funded by Midlands3Cities DTP and the AHRC. In 2016 she was the second poet-in-residence at Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of George Gordon, Lord Byron. Her poetry has been published in 'The North', 'New Walk' and New Poetries VII.
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Ann Gray has a Creative writing MA from the University of Plymouth. Her most recent collection was At The Gate (Headland, 2008) Her poems have been selected for the Forward Prize Anthology, commended for the National Poetry Competition, won the Ballymaloe poetry prize and shortlisted for the Forward prizes best single poem in 2015.
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We both loved this moving, tender collection of poems which explores what it means to have and to lose a mother. The poems in this pamphlet are lyrical, carefully crafted with a lightness of touch and, so importantly, "unafraid to be kind". At once a joyful and aching read. – Liz Berry on Ann's Collection, 'I Wish I Had More Mothers'
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David Constantine, born 1944 in Salford, Lancs, was for thirty years a university teacher of German language and literature. He has published several volumes of poetry (most recently – 2014 – Elder); also two novels and four collections of short stories. He is an editor and translator of Hölderlin, Goethe, Kleist and Brecht. To OUP's Literary Agenda Series he contributed Poetry (2013). With his wife Helen he edited Modern Poetry in Translation, 2003-12.
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☠ Graphics of unasuvas.
Hello! I've been experimenting with graphic art for a long, long time & I just thought I could share some of my latest icons & stuff with the people of AS. Most of my artistic tastes stem from hanging around LiveJournal too much so you'll mostly just see textless, borderless icons with selective color. Hell, I think it's artsy
I take requests though, so if you want borders & text, I'll try to be flexible.
For now, I'll show you guys my latest icons from the fandoms I'm into at the moment. If anyone wants to snag any, feel free to do so.
[ Digimon Adventure ]
[ Digimon Adventure 02 ]
[ Digimon Savers ]
[ Pokemon ]
[ Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro ]
[ Higurashi no Naku Koro ni ]
[ Umineko no Naku Koro ni ]
If you saw the Majin Tantei Neuro icons, you can also see that I can color manga pages as well.
Spoiler for examples of my work:
So... I could use some constructive criticism. I seriously love it. Tell me how I can improve on making icons, coloring manga, etc.
Oh yeah, and if you want to see a lot more of my work, click on the banner in my signature and you'll be directed to my livejournal. All my graphics entries are public so no registration is required or whatever.
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☠ If you want me to change anything on your finished product, let me know as soon as possible because I save the .psd for two weeks at most. After that I delete it and the only way to edit the finshed product is to color it over again... and I really wouldn't wanna do that.
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Same here. I think the coloring is great. You have chosen perfect colors to match the manga black-white style. A lot of people who color mangas tend to use way too bright colors thus making the pictures look not that great D: but yours, I could easily say, that they could be the originals. Also I don't really think there's anything wrong with your icons either. Maybe on some of them, the font could be better but that's it I guess. Nice works.
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@ everyone
Wow, thanks for all the feedback & cookies.
I'm glad you all liked my coloring.
Looking forward to more feedback & critique soon.
@ Dreamiel
I'd be happy to fulfill that request. Do you have a certain scan in particular that you would like me to color? Or do you want me to look for a suitable scan? Because I'm comfortable with both. ^.^
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Source: From Kataribanashi-hen. Scans from koesuki.
Time: about 8½ hours
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Whoo, this is the longest I've ever taken for coloring, even for a two page spread.
But it was really fun to color & I have to admit that this scene is really cute.
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In the mean time, I colored a short little panel from ... I forgot what the source comic is but I'm pretty sure it's from koesuki...
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Source: I'm pretty sure it's from some sort of Higurashi Anthology...
Time: about 1½ - 2 hours?
Any criticism, comments or questions? Is it obvious that I have no life outside school & PhotoShop?
EDIT: I just saw my comments on my reputation thingy and apparently someone wants to see a tutorial on how to get the coloring on my icons. I'll post it up when I have the time.
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I merely colored manga scans by manga-ka and other artists. I suck at drawing anyway.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton said that while his surgically repaired ankle is getting better, it's not completely healed.
The Pro Bowl player participated in his first full practice Friday night at Fan Fest since undergoing surgery in March.
Newton looked sharp throwing passes but struggled with his footwork and timing on handoffs. He didn't appear to run with a limp until after practice when he jogged over to sign autographs for some of the 36,315 fans in attendance at the team's downtown stadium. The event signaled the official start of training camp for the NFC South champions.
''I can't stress enough that I'm not 100 percent yet,'' Newton said.
At one point Carolina's trainer Ryan Vermillion came over to check on the fourth-year quarterback during practice, but Newton said it was just precautionary.
''It's just going to take treatment and time,'' Newton said, adding that his rehab is right on schedule.
Coach Ron Rivera said the Panthers will take it slow with Newton, making sure to avoid any potential setbacks.
He said Newton will continue to undergo treatment on a daily basis, but was thrilled to see the team's leader back on the field.
Rivera said he hopes to have Newton available for all four preseason games.
''It was good to see Cam out there,'' Rivera said. ''He's a little rusty in terms of his quarterback to running back exchange. But he's working himself back in and he has to work those techniques. But it was nice to see him make some nice throws.''
Rivera said Newton's footwork still needs to improve.
''A big thing is developing that footwork and getting that flexibility back in that ankle,'' Rivera said. ''As he practices and goes through day by day we have to be smart with it. I think he will work back into shape pretty soon.''
Newton had surgery in March after experiencing soreness in his left ankle following Carolina's 23-10 NFC divisional playoff loss at home to the San Francisco 49ers. Newton gave the ankle about two months to improve after the season, but when it was clear it wasn't getting better the decision was made to have surgery.
Newton is coming off a Pro Bowl season in which he threw for 3,379 yards and a career-high 24 touchdowns while leading the Panthers to a 12-4 record and the NFC title.
Newton, in typical fashion, played up to the large crowd that came out to see the two-hour practice on a rare cool Charlotte summer night.
In between drills Newton got the crowd roaring when he started ''the wave'' in the lower bowl of the stadium. A few minutes later, Newton slowed down the speed of the wave with his arms before getting the crowd to shift the direction of the wave.
Newton later drew cheers when he completed a 40-yard pass to rookie wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin, the team's first-round draft pick, near the left sideline.
''This is great,'' Newton said of the turnout, the largest in Fan Fest history. ''We are expecting this turnout every time. They hold us accountable and we have to put a great product out there.''
Defensive end Greg Hardy, who was convicted on July 16 on two domestic violence charges, was also back on the field and was playing up to the crowd, waving his arms up and down in his usual fashion.
Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman said the team is following the NFL's lead and allowing the legal process to play out before handing out any punishment to Hardy. Hardy has appealed the conviction and will have a jury trial.
No date has been set, but more than likely it will not happen until next year.
The Panthers will move training camp practice on Saturday to Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Saturday.
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Deb A. needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Young Hearts
Young Hearts is a moderately priced line of girls sportswear for Infant, Toddler and 4/6x.
We sell mostly 2pc and 3pc sets (pant sets, jacket sets, short sets, etc), including a lot of denim.
We have been a very traditional line with a little trend mixed in.
Young Hearts is over 30 years old and in dire need of a new look!!
Logo must appeal to young girls and their moms.
We want a hangtag that is fresh, bright, eye appealing and with an edge....but still keep in mind that our customer is a young girl ranging from age 12 months thru 6 or 7 years old.
Hangtag should be maximum size 5 x 3 1/2" (l x w). It can be die cut shape (but please not a heart, we are so over that!!!).
It can include photo, graphics, etc.
Colors can be bright or pastel, but must read GIRL.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has partnered with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), another agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to develop HCAHPS; the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey. CMS is using the 27-question HCAHPS survey (a standardized survey instrument and data collection methodology) to help healthcare consumers make "apples to apples" comparisons of hospital care from the patient perspective. Results from this survey were first published on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website on March 28, 2008, with data from more than 2,500 hospitals around the country now available as part of this first release.
Griffin originally adopted the HCAHPS patient experience survey instrument as its sole patient satisfaction survey in 2005, and its scores have continued to compare favorably to both Connecticut hospitals and other hospitals participating in the various state and national pilots of the HCAHPS survey tool.
Griffin's historical and current fiscal year appear below, along with the average scores from Connecticut hospitals and hospitals across the country for each of the 10 composite HCAHPS categories. (Griffin's fiscal year runs from October 1 - September 30).
How often did nurses:
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How often did doctors:
Before giving you any new medicine, how often did hospital staff:
(Score = % answering "Always" to both questions)
After you pressed the call button, how often did you:
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How often were your room and bathroom kept clean?
(Score = % answering "Always")
How often was the area around your room quiet at night?
Would you recommend Griffin Hospital to your friends and family?
(Score = % answering "Definitely Yes")
Using any number from 0 to 10, where 0 is the worst hospital possible and 10 is the best hospital possible, what number would you use to rate this hospital?
(Score = % ranking hospital 9 or 10)
A fundamental belief at Griffin is that to provide an exceptional patient experience every employee is considered a caregiver. The hospital also believes that a patient's HCAHPS overall rating is based on the total hospital experience and includes the many unique aspects of the Planetree patient-centered care model. This unique Planetree experience includes amenity services such as: volunteers baking muffins and cookies in residential kitchens on patient units; gentle had rubs provided to patients; live entertainment, including musicians and artists on nursing units; and the hospital's therapy dog visitation program.
Griffin continues to dedicate its efforts at the department level and through interdisciplinary groups to create an exceptional patient experience. The hospital appreciates the feedback it receives from its patients and visitors, which it uses to further improve its care processes. If you would like to provide feedback on your Griffin Hospital experience please email us.
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When using WordPress themes, the compatibility and security of the scripts are sometimes taken for granted and ignored by a lot of people. But how sure are you that your third party scripts are compatible 100% with WordPress and secure, with no holes that might expose you?
But what does being compatible with WordPress mean? Aren't all themes compatible because they work once installed? How can I check if I am using badly written scripts?
We are going to try in this quick tip to cover some of these answers and help you understand how to check your WordPress website for weaknesses and loose ends because of the plugins or themes you are using.
Note: This quick tip is also addressed to developers that are writing WordPress plugins or themes.
Checking for Compatibility, Fast and Easy
Before we look into a slightly detailed idea of how to check your theme compatibility with WordPress, we are going to look at a very easy way to identify any bugs, deprecated functions or other incompatibilities your theme might suffer from.
Use Free Plugins!
"All of these plugins are used by the theme review team on WordPress.org"
There are three free plugins that you can use in order to check your theme's code compatibility with WordPress and to look for any bugs you might have missed:
A free plugin used mostly by developers, that helps you check if your theme is compatible with all the latest WordPress standards. This plugin, just like the other two, is used by the WordPress.org Theme Review Team in reviewing the submitted themes on WordPress.org. Among its features it also has the option of enabling Trac formatting so the error messages can be just copied and pasted directly into a Trac ticket for the theme (for those using Trac for feedback on code, this is a good feature).
This plugin, also free, also from WordPress.org and also for developers, it is an incredibly useful plugin for checking deprecated functions, files and function arguments that the active theme might be using. This allows you to make sure you are using all the newest WordPress core functionality of your current installed version. Even more helpful, it logs incorrect function usage for all WordPress 3.1+ installations.
This one's cool and useful. It not only does an extensive debugging of your theme and outputs the result in your footer but also checks the current loaded page to see if it validates.
So there you have it, everything you need to easily get started on theme development if you are a developer or just to check your currently installed theme for compatibility, you just install these plugins and have fun watching your theme react. I'm not going to go into detail with the functionality of each plugin as there is no point in that for the purpose of this tutorial.
A Little More Technical
In this part we are going to take a look at what to look for and check when building a theme so that you might get a lower error count in your logs when checking the final result with the previous plugins.
Say "No" to Deprecated Functions
Sometimes you just are used to doing stuff a certain way, other times you find an online tutorial that has exactly what you need and you don't know that it might be outdated, or maybe you just search for how to code something in your theme and you don't notice that the function even though it is in the codex and is well documented, it is deprecated and there's another way to achieve your goal, a more compatible way.
How do you know the function you want to use is deprecated? Well, the most obvious and quick way, if you check the codex for it, you will notice a big red colored text message telling you it's deprecated on the top of the page like in the next example picture:
There are many deprecated functions in WordPress, if you want a complete updated list of all of the deprecated functions, you can find it on the Deprecated Functions page of the Codex.
Code Quality and Integration
This part is mostly for developers. No matter what you are doing, you must do it right, and here I am referring to using the right code in the right place. If you want a category, tag, comment section, date, author etc. elements integrated into your theme for example, make sure you are using the best approach that you can use by doing this in WordPress. Don't re-invent the wheel, try to find out how something is done and do it the right way, and most importantly watch out for easy integrations like script and style registering and enqueueing, generating URLs to your theme, working with files, pictures and data from the database. WordPress has all the tools you need to help you do most, if not all, of your required theme functionality.
These are just a few examples of approaches you need to look out for when coding. There are plenty.
Header, Footer, Sidebar
Some things might seem to work at the beginning but if they are not implemented correctly, they will not work. The most important aspect of this idea in a theme's functionality are the header.php, footer.php, and to a lesser extent sidebar.php files, that are the default header, footer and sidebar files that you normally include into your theme code. Getting to the point, if these files are not implemented correctly, your theme will not be compatible with WordPress at all, as there is necessary core functionality happening inside these files. When and if you get errors from the plugins we mentioned at the beginning, you might find your missing or bad code in one of these files.
The most important file in any WordPress theme, as it is the file that holds all the main code core functionality. This is the place where everything happens, the bakery, the "source". Here, you run all your hooks, register your scripts, create the widgets, implement everything and anything you might require in your theme. So I think it's safe to say it's the number one place to look for errors when they turn up.
Core Features
WordPress has a number of functions that you might want to include in your website where they should be included.
That's a little vague, isn't it? Let's look at an example: if your websites has a blog version, and you want that blog to have all the flexibility and compatibility with WordPress, and most if not all plugins, you might want to make sure you integrate with the functionality generating that page the core features needed by WordPress or the plugins to do their magic. Things like integrating the sidebar properly, the comments section, writing the loop correctly and even generating the header and footer files is a very important part of the compatibility you should be looking for.
WordPress development has some rules and approaches, make sure you know what they are when implementing anything and make sure you are not missing something important that might make your theme incompatible or insecure. Don't forget to test, re-check and stay up to date with all the updates that the new WordPress versions bring.
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Every good feeling you have right now?
We deserve it.
I am so sick and tired of being that nerdy kid in the corner waiting to dance with the prom queen.
How many years have we stuck by this team only to go "Ahhh, crap."
When you meet people and you mention you are a Seahawks fan they almost look at you like you have a mental disorder.
So suck it up. All of you. WE DESERVE THIS.
Finally, we have a team that doesn't get that they are the Seahawks. (Long time diehards get that).
This team wants to beat the living shit out of their next opponent.
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The new indictment of Dr. Phil Astin, Chris Benoit's personal physician, is the latest installment of how government authorities seem to be working overtime to avoid providing the baseline public information by which the gruesome Benoit double murder/suicide might spur badly needed reforms in pro wrestling health and safety standards.
The woeful Fayette County sheriff's report was already published with gaps in the record so fundamental and systematic that it is impossible not to conclude that the cops were either in over their heads up against World Wrestling Entertainment, or blatantly kowtowing to WWE's desire for minimalist disclosure. As noted earlier in this space, the county failed to probe a day's worth of calls to Benoit's cell phone in between when he died and when the company's Inspector Clouseau-like security chief, Dennis Fagan, called 911. Scott James (Armstrong) and Chavo Guerrero weren't even interviewed in depth about the cryptic text messages they received from Benoit, and about whom they subsequently informed.
Now the U.S. Attorney for Northern Georgia, in coordination with the regional office of the Drug Enforcement Administration, shows the American people just where their priorities lie: in kicking already broken "mark" doctors when they're down. Last July Astin was indicted on seven counts of prescribing drugs beyond the legislative guidelines for legimate medical purposes. The government proceeded to confiscate Astin's property and assets, and he was reduced to working part time at a garage while on house arrest awaiting trial. In a "superseding" indictment filed May 29, the feds have piled on a total of 175 counts of promiscuous prescriptions. The indictment names 19 patients, identified only by initials. They include Chris Benoit ("C.M.B.") and Nancy Benoit ("N.E.B."). Other wrestlers on the list appear to be Rey Mysterio ("O.G." -- Oscar Gutierrez), Mark Jindrak ("M.R.J."), Hardcore Holly ("R.W.H.") and Buff Bagwell ("M.A.B.").
The aspect completely missed by the Atlanta media -- which have given us such indispensable scoops as "Seven-year-old Daniel Benoit says 'pooh-bear' in home answering machine message" and "Pastor reveals that Chris was studying the Bible," while ignoring that the sheriff buried crucial cell voicemail and text message evidence -- is that the new Astin indictment doesn't say a word about steroid pushing. That is what this hapless doc to the stars was most known for in the regional sports community. All 175 counts involve excessive prescriptions for painkillers and anti-anxiety medications. But Percocet, Oxycontin, Lorcet, Xanax and Soma are comparatively trivial byproducts of a sports-entertainment drug culture dominated by anabolics and growth hormone.
Last summer the DEA's search warrant for Astin's office noted that he had prescribed Benoit a ten-month supply of steroids every three to four weeks. As with so many things said at the time by both the feds and the Fayette County district attorney, prosecutors at all levels have made a conscious decision not to close that loop. For whatever reasons -- and any wrestling fan can responsibly speculate on what those reasons are -- the powers-that-be just don't want to go there.
Pointing out that the Astin indictment is a work of airbrush art makes me no friends among the most zealous advocates of the research of Chris Nowinski's Sports Legacy Institute, which showed that Chris Benoit suffered long-term brain trauma from serial concussions. Mike Benoit, Chris's father, believes the resulting mental impairment basically explains, by itself, what I see more as an existentially inexplicable set of bizarre behaviors, likely with multiple components.
I remain agnostic on all this; Mike Benoit may yet be proven right all the way down the line. Making summary judgments on the massively broad and deep evidence of steroid abuse, however, won't get us there. Rather, all the evidence in every possible area should be daylighted so that it can be weighed accordingly.
Another thing for the brain-trauma camp to consider: Exactly what's the conflict between the concussion and drug theories? Sure, one may ultimately be more important than the other, just as the stress of the wrestling schedule may be more or less important than the content of the marital dispute that triggered domestic violence in Chris Benoit's home. But like steroid abuse, concussion syndrome -- which unquestionably was accelerated in recent years by the introduction of a hard-core style -- is part and parcel of an unregulated industry with no regard for the safety of its workers.
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The largest Anglo-Catholic group in the Church of England is expecting an exodus of thousands of Anglicans to Catholicism after a decision to ordain women as bishops without sufficient concessions to traditionalists. Stephen Parkinson, director of Forward in Faith—a group that has about 10,000 members, including more than 1,000 clergy—said July 13 that a large number of Anglo-Catholics are considering conversion to the Catholic faith.
His comments came after the General Synod, the national assembly of the Church of England, voted at a meeting in York to approve the creation of women bishops by 2014 without meeting the demands of objectors. A July 12 statement from Forward in Faith advised members against hasty action, saying now was "not the time for precipitate action."
"This draft measure does nothing for us at all," said Parkinson. "We explained very carefully why we could not accept women bishops theologically. We explained what would enable us to stay in the Church of England, but the General Synod has decided to get rid of us by giving us a provision that does not meet our needs," he said. "They are saying either put up or shut up and accept innovations, however unscriptural or heretical, or get out."
Parkinson said he expected thousands of members of Forward in Faith to consider accepting Pope Benedict XVI's offer of a personal ordinariate, issued last November in the apostolic constitution "Anglicanorum coetibus," in which a group of Anglicans can be received into the Catholic Church while retaining their distinctive patrimony and liturgical practices.
"Many, I expect, will be exploring the provisions of Pope Benedict's apostolic constitution. We have got 10,000 members, so clearly we are talking about thousands," he added.
A number of breakaway national Anglican churches, in communion with the Traditional Anglican Communion rather than the much larger Worldwide Anglican Communion, have already written to the Vatican to accept the pope's offer. The defection of thousands of mainstream Anglican traditionalists from the Church of England would represent the largest single block.
Parkinson said developments were unlikely within the next six months, however, adding that until women bishops are ordained, Anglican traditionalists had a "couple of years" to think about what to do.
The Forward in Faith statement said the proposals must be considered by provincial synods in September and the outcomes could be debated a month later when Forward in Faith holds its annual meeting. The decision by the General Synod came after nearly 12 hours of debate on a compromise proposed by the Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury and Archbishop John Sentamu of York was narrowly defeated.
The diocesan synods have now been asked to scrutinize a scheme where women bishops would have the authority to make alternative arrangements for objectors through a statutory code of practice. The Anglo-Catholic group of the synod had wanted episcopal visitors, or "flying bishops," to minister to their members instead, but their requests were rejected.
If the resolution is supported by a majority of the diocesan synods, it will be returned to the General Synod for ratification in 2012.
Archbishop Williams told the General Synod that its vote illustrated that the Church of England was "committed by a majority to the desirability of seeing women as bishops for the health and flourishing of the work of God's kingdom, of this church and this nation.
"We are also profoundly committed by a majority in the synod to a maximum generosity that can be consistently and coherently exercised toward the consciences of minorities and we have not yet cracked how to do that," he said during the July 12 debate.
The Church of England first voted to ordain women as priests in 1992, a move that led to about 500 clergy defecting to the Catholic Church.
Since 1994, when the changes came into force, more than 5,000 women have been ordained as Anglican priests. Last year, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales set up a committee of bishops to liaise with Anglicans interested in a personal ordinariate, which will resemble a military diocese in structure, and also with the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. On July 5, Catholic Bishop Malcolm McMahon of Nottingham met about 70 Anglican clerics to discuss the possibility of an English ordinariate.


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The text in the photo is hard to read, but it says "Not Your Mama's Cupcakes… no offense to your mama!". The cupcake flavors are "Jamaican Me Hungry" (chocolate cupcake, mocha mousse filling, chocolate frosting); "Color Me Caramel" (caramel cupcake / caramel mousse filling / vanilla buttercream); and "Lemony Entertain You" (lemon cupcake / cream cheese mousse / strawberry buttercream).
It was auction time again last weekend, and I agreed to donate a dessert. Pictures of the donated desserts are put out for silent auction, bidders bid for their table's dessert that evening, and everyone wins. I couldn't decide what to donate and I didn't feel like I had a lot of time for the project. So, I decided on three kinds of cupcakes with three different fillings and three different frostings – apparently that's what you do when you can't make up your mind and don't have too much time…
I actually came up with dessert concept and the "naming" of everything in a flash – my husband asks me where this stuff comes from and I just look at him, shrug, and say "It just pops out of my head." I liked the concept (and the titles for everything) a lot more than I liked the idea of doing the work to make it happen – but happen it did. I was told that the three dozen cupcakes went for $250, which made me very happy and I decided it was worth it in the end!
As interesting as the cupcake project was, it's not the only thing I wanted to write about today under the subject of having to make up my mind. I've made a few big decisions, and I wanted to share the latest. I've accepted an opportunity to work in marketing communications with a food-related company, and I'm really excited about it. It's a full time position, which means I'll be closing the doors of Just Specialties Fine Food and saying goodbye to our beautiful, easy, elegant chocolate kits and baking kits – five years after loving them into existence and shepherding them through the wily world of specialty foods. I'm really proud of what we built and how we operated – we were always quality driven and customer-oriented. I learned so much. We accomplished so much.
To paraphrase Ecclesiastes, to everything there is a season – food lovers can certainly relate to that. It was a very good season – thank you for being a part of it.
I will still be blogging here at Bake~Eat~Love – so please keep reading!
Have you ever had to make up your mind?