Anthony Harrison

“This is the very first song I wrote inspired by a slave narrative,” Giddens said in introduction.
And then, a hitch: A man named Will Henry, sitting on the floor and cradling a Budweiser, decided to pipe up.
“That’s not where we’re at right now,” Henry said.
“That’s where I’m at every day,” Giddens said.

The opulence and prestige of today’s tournament was just a dream 30 years ago. It evolved dramatically in that time, thanks to visionaries like former ACC Assistant Commissioner Dee Todd and behind-the-scenes champions of the game like officials observer Doreen Bryant.

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, the parodic polka performer, brings his epic Mandatory World Tour to the Greensboro Coliseum on Saturday, June 18. TCB Sports Columnist Anthony Harrison spoke with him over the phone on Tuesday, June 7.

It’s just a game, I tried to remind myself. It’s all just a game kids play in the backyard.

I Madé Lasmawan, a stocky Balinese man dressed in black and gold, lit two sticks of incense and planted them in a pot next to delicate red flowers. Lasmawan chanted solemnly as the creamy, spicy aroma unexpectedly filled the room, and he tapped a small prayer bowl before ending with the mantra, Om, shanti, shanti, shanti. Be calm.

After the Carolina Panthers’ win over the New York Giants on Sunday, I spoke over the phone with Panthers team photographer Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez as she healed from a broken leg in Charlotte.

Matty Sheets scrawled the note in blocky capital letters on a flimsy bar napkin as hardcore quintet Thieves for Jesus — the final act on the bill for the Nov. 18 Battle of the Benefits — thrashed through their set in the dark yet bubbly front corner of New York Pizza.
“This feels like when the election results were coming in,” the note read. “If the Humane Society wins, I wanna start a fire.”

“The rut is a beautiful thing,” my cousin Madison told me.

Well, friends — we’re friends by this point, right? — we’ve been through a lot together. You’ve seen it all.
So you’re evermore prepared to do it all again.
Continued vigilance on angling for the best deals is the best and arguably only way you’ll continue saving on supply costs for your dental organization.

You’ve laid the groundwork for big-time savings on your dental organization’s supply costs, but now, you’re sending your new formulary out into the world — in other words, into the hands of your staff. What good is all the work you’ve done if no one follows the new standards?

Clinical trials have concluded. Your CETs have approved products, and the trial results have been analyzed. You’ve solved any possible pricing irregularities and determined the best compromises between product quality and price. Now, it’s time to separate the wheat from the chaff.

If you’ve handpicked a crack team of doctors and provided a reliable infrastructure for testing out the products in question, then the step of evaluating trial results should be relatively easy.

At this point in our nine-step process, we’ve been working mostly in the abstract. You’ve organized and reviewed a lot of purchase data, and you’ve negotiated with vendors and suppliers about the products used by your dental organizations. Now, we’ll apply all our conversations and research to real-world situations. It’s time to start clinical trials.

After the flurry of activity we saw in Step Three, this portion of our nine-step process might seem like a step back. But when reviewing offers, you need to take some time to collect yourself and compare your options.

We’ve been doing a lot of homework up to this point in our nine-step process. But here’s where the rubber meets the road: manufacturer negotiations.