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North Carolina's unemployment rate ticked up a bit in November as the state lost 12,500 jobs, according to numbers released this morning by the state Employment Security Commission.
But according to other numbers released today, personal income in North Carolina has still grown more than in any state in the Southeast -- and more than in all but three other states -- since the lowest point of the recession.
"These numbers show us that North Carolina's economic recovery needs support from policymakers," said Alexandra Forter Sirota, director of the NC Budget & Tax Center. "All options must be ...

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Author(s): Barry Strauss
Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who started a prison breakout with 74 men, armed with kitchen knives. It grew into a full scale rebellion against Rome, the most famous slave revolt in history. With an army of gladiators, ex-slaves and other desperadoes, he managed to defeat a succession of Roman armies and bring the Republic to its knees.
The story of the most famous revolt of the ancient world, and its legendary leader, Spartacus the Gladiator.
Barry Strauss read History at Cornell and gained a PhD at Yale in 1979. He is now Professor of History and Classics at Cornell University. The author of nine books, he has appeared in many TV documentaries, and has contributed op-ed pieces to the WASHINGTON POST and LOS ANGELES TIMES.

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Sotir Davidhi is the muralist owner of Mural by Design that creates beautiful spaces with site-specific murals inspired by customer needs and vision. Previous Collaborations with artists and interior design companies: HGTV Star - Tylor Devereaux http://tdinteriordesign.com HGTV Star - Taniya Nayak https://taniyanayak.com Bridget Bohacz + associates, inc. http://bridgetbohacz.com Mural by Design has earned the best customers service for the year of 2018, according to the largest interior design social media, Houzz.com
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David George is CEO of ITV America, encompassing production companies ITV Entertainment, Leftfield Pictures, Sirens Media, Thinkfactory Media, High Noon Entertainment and Good Caper Content, with responsibility for the group’s creative development, production and operations.
During his tenure, he has developed such breakthrough series as the reimagined Queer Eye for Netflix – winner of 10 Primetime Emmy Awards, including five consecutive wins for “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” from 2018-2022 – as well as the award-winning Alone for The History Channel, which continues to grow in popularity heading into Season 10. George was instrumental in the US sale of ITV format and UK mega-hit Love Island; in 2022, he brokered an unprecedented 80-episode deal to bring the hit series to Peacock for its fourth and fifth seasons, following the first three seasons on CBS. George also oversaw the US sale of international game show format The Chase to ABC in 2020. He has spearheaded the franchising of iconic “hidden treasures” series Pawn Stars, which is still in production and airing on HISTORY, and maintains oversight of long-running shows like HISTORY’s Forged in Fire and Counting Cars, and Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey, as well as critically acclaimed documentary specials such as ESPN Films’ Year of the Scab and National Geographic’s Billy the Kid: New Evidence, produced with Kevin Costner.
As CEO, George also helped to secure ITV America as the exclusive unscripted production partner of both Blumhouse Television and Jimmy Kimmel’s production label, Kimmelot (Crank Yankers, Revenge of the Nerd).
Previously, George was CEO of Leftfield Entertainment where he helped expand the Leftfield production group, managing a broad roster of unscripted series, documentaries and live programming across cable, broadcast and streaming platforms (Leftfield Entertainment was acquired by ITV in 2014). George originally joined Leftfield Pictures in 2010 as an executive producer and rose through the ranks, becoming president of Leftfield Pictures in 2014.
He began his career at cable network MTV where he executive produced and oversaw the majority of the decade-long run of the network’s iconic Total Request Live (TRL), as well as other series, live events and specials, including the Emmy-nominated Legally Blonde: The Musical, and pioneered the digital content and streaming strategies for TRL and MTV’s Video Music Awards.


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NEW YORK — The family of Avicii is thanking his fans for their support days after the superstar DJ died.
Avicii, born Tim Bergling, was found dead Friday in Muscat, Oman. Details about his death were not revealed.
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“We would like to thank you for the support and the loving words about our son and brother. We are so grateful for everyone who loved Tim’s music and have precious memories of his songs,” his family said in a statement released Monday.
The Grammy-nominated Swedish performer received a number of tributes at concerts and Coachella, ranging from acts like Nick Jonas to Kygo to Tiesto. Stockholm fans observed a minute of silence in his honour on Saturday.
“Thank you for all the initiatives taken to honour Tim, with public gatherings, church bells ringing out his music … and moments of silence around the world,” the statement read. “We are grateful for the privacy during this difficult time. Our wish is that it continues that way.”

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Matt Stairs’ most notable moment was almost certainly his homer in Game 4 of the 2008 NLCS. But the guy played for so long and for so many different teams that he pretty much saw and did it all in his major league career.
Over at The Hardball Times today, Chris Jaffe collects some of the neat, weird and wonderful of Matt Stairs’ career.
Did you know he had six RBI in one inning once? Or that he once played second base (only once)? If not, and if that intrigues you, give Chris’ piece a click. Time well spent.
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Maximus may have been all fish-out-of-water proposing an inhabited viaduct over Wellington’s the Basin Reserve over at Eye of the Fish, but it seems that somebody is reading that blog over in our good old Mother Country… Boris Johnson, Lord Mayor of London no less…
As Jonathon Glancey writes for the Guardian:
The idea of building a new bridge across the Thames lined with shops and houses, just like Old London Bridge, the one “falling down, falling down” in nursery rhyme lore, is a well worn one. This is one of those hardy perennials in the world of eye-popping design projects, one that refuses to go the way Old London Bridge did soon after its successor opened in 1831. It has now been revived by the London mayor, Boris Johnson.
Like Boris, and very unlike Glancey (the Guardian’s architectural columnist), our fishy friends are all in a frenzy for such ticky tacky structures (Glancey’s take on them), and provide some alluring eye-candy in support of their upstream position.
Glancey’s main issue (beyond the lack of an architectural imagination), is the time it takes to cross one these inhabited structures – he describes the infamous London Bridge as if he were there, and similarly disparages the Venice’s Rialto, and Florence’s Ponte Vecchio. This might well be an issue in the proposed inhabited Basin flyover, which is somewhat contradictory to its rationale for a more efficient transportation network, but for a new London Bridge, could be something of a draw card. The ‘problem’ isn’t really that of inhabited structures anyway – it has more to do with such bridges being on modern day tourist routes – the ‘uninhabited’ Charles Bridge in Prague is a case in point – the peak tourist congestion is something to behold…
This just shows that Glancey’s ideal:
Most of us would surely prefer to cross a beautiful, open bridge offering fresh air and inspiring views of London
…could surely be just as impractical, by his own definition of bridge function, as any inhabited structure might be. Luckily Londoners already have a series of open pedestrian-catering bridges over the Thames, including the Foster’s infamous wobbly bridge.
But it is not the bridges, inhabited or otherwise, that intrigue me about Glancey’s position, it is his notion that the ‘best’ way to get from A to B is via the straight line – the most efficient route. This a priori notion colours his evaluation of the new London Bridge proposal, prompting his dismissive response, but also revealing the Modernist within. After all, it was Le Corbusier who said:
Man walks in a straight line because he has a goal and knows where he is going […]. The pack-donkey meanders along, meditates a little in his scatter-brained and distracted fashion, he zigzags in order to avoid the larger stones, or to ease the climb, or to gain a little shade; he takes the line of least resistance…
To stay for all your life a free thinker: this is the meaning of Slow living; to have the courage to stop, ponder and made your own choices before external events and trends will sweep you away.
I’m all for slowness (even if it makes me an ass) – it seems to me that the more instantaneous we make things – such as communication – the poorer the quality of those ‘things’. Where is the value in being ‘tweeted’ – no really? Photography is my favourite hobbyhorse – the advent of digital cameras saw a vast drop in image quality. The much-desired instantaneous of image capture supplanted image quality to the degree that eventually hyper-saturation and hyper-sharpness overtook detailed subtlety and thoughtful craft as the digital medium, in its earlier stages, could not produce the latter qualities. Now we are going through the whole process again with the instantaneousness of mobile phone cameras. Sure, we get images where we may not have before, but looking at most of them, is it really worth it? Like digital cameras, our mobile phone cameras will get better, but the art of slow photography will be well-lost by that stage, as we point and shoot at any eye-candy that we happen to be passing by… (kind of the equivalent of the construction worker’s wolf whistle – superficial, meaningless, and in bad taste).
Back on topic: Corbusier’s (and Glancey’s) totalitarian stance does not allow for the meanderer, the slow walker, the flaneur, or the tourist. We know the type of public spaces that have resulted from Corb’s urban theory, and the vast amount of effort in the subsequent decades that has gone into relearning how built environments can foster the type of social interaction that was eliminated from the functionalist city and their vast plazas of emptiness, to be crossed at high speed from point A to point B.
The Art of Slow Living also, of course, makes the 2-3 minutes that we might save by having a Basin Fly-over in the first place seem rather an extravagant waste of gaining time.
Similarly, the proposed London Bridge – inhabited rather than simply being another thoroughfare over the Thames (of which there are numerous examples anyway), may ‘cost’ the pedestrian several extra minutes as they travel from one side to the other, but surely the benefits of the creation of a ‘place’ far outweigh this – a place that supports commerce, social interaction, and life in all its messy vitality. Helmut Einhorn once proposed a similar ‘place’ as a bridge over the Wellington Urban Motorway when he was working on that project. It consisted of gardens and public spaces than actual buildings, but the concept is the same. Wellington’s City to Sea Bridge also attempts to evoke such concepts to transcend the simple thoroughfare function of a bridge, with arguably some success.
That Glancey can still base his architectural criticism from a purely functionalist stance today is a little bit disappointing – given his position. Does he disagree with Jane Jacobs, William Whyte, even Jan Gehl, and a whole host of other urban observers who have spent so much time and effort in trying to get us to see where we went wrong in our postwar cities? We might be the pack-donkeys, but in my view, Glancey is almost certainly the jackass…
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
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Obama goes to Havana
Relations between Cuba and the US are improving. This is a positive step.
Barack Obama went to Cuba last week. This was the first visit by a US president to Cuba in nearly a century.
For the first half of the 20th century, the US kept Cuba under overt control. Then, in 1953, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara led a guerilla movement that eventually overthrew the US-supported dictator Fulgencio Batista. Establishing a socialist regime in 1959, Cuba was taken into the communist fold and remained reliant on Soviet Russia for the duration of the Cold War. During the 1960s, Cuba became the epicentre of the Cold War – from Kennedy’s infamous Bay of Pigs invasion, and his attempt to overthrow the revolution, to the infamous Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world held its breath.
Cuba remained under a US blockade and trade embargo after the end of the Cold War. So the recent improvement of relations between the two countries is of great historic importance. Following two years of secret talks, it was announced last year that diplomatic relations would be re-established. Two meetings at regional conferences followed, and, last week, US president Barack Obama visited the Cuban president, Raul Castro.
The trip was full of spectacularly awkward moments, from the peculiar handshake between Castro and Obama to Castro’s criticisms of US healthcare. Nonetheless, both were clearly pleased to be taking part in the meeting.
So what has the establishment of diplomatic relations changed? The financial and trade embargo on Cuba remains – this can only be lifted by Congress, which is currently controlled by a Republican Party hostile to the idea. GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz, whose father left Cuba before the revolution, denounces the move outright.
Cuba remains a tightly controlled authoritarian system marked by human-rights abuses and state oppression. However, it has been undergoing slow internal change, with small-scale private businesses opening, and limited (though highly censored) internet becoming available.
While the embargo remains, Obama’s moves are largely symbolic. However, the recent visit, and the determination of the Obama administration to begin normalising relations with Cuba, is to be lauded – particularly as it has been done in the face of much hostility from the US political establishment. The US embargo of Cuba is a historical anachronism – a fit of pique to punish a colony that was determined to assert its own sovereignty, and an ongoing injustice to the people of Cuba. So, for this visit, Obama is to be congratulated.
As the US gears up to elect its next president, it is worth reflecting on Obama’s foreign policy legacy. At times, he has made some pragmatic and reasoned decisions – such as the Iran nuclear deal and the partnership with Russia in Syria. But his presidency has also been marked by some of the worst excesses of post-Cold War liberal interventionism: the funding of jihadists in Syria; the Libyan intervention; the drone war in Iraq, Syria and Pakistan; and the intervention in Ukraine.
Obama’s varied record shows that we live in a very fluid time for international relations, meaning that it is often difficult to predict how states will act. There is much talk about the ‘new Cold War’ between Russia and the US, yet what is lacking is the overall political imperative of communism vs capitalism. Thus, in one region – Syria – the US and Russia co-operate, while, in others, they come into conflict.
Tara McCormack is a lecturer in international politics at the University of Leicester. She is author of Critique, Security and Power: The Political Limits to Critical and Emancipatory Approaches to Security, published by Routledge. (Buy this book from Amazon(UK).)
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties:
We have a 1-1/2 year old Siamese cat, Nahla. When she was a year old, she went in to the vet to be fixed, and during that, she had a complication and went into cardiac arrest. After two weeks in ICU, they determined she would be okay except for the fact that she was blind. We brought her home and she adjusted really quickly — she does great getting around our house. It’s been five months, and we recently got a puppy. We took the puppy straight to a room where she does not go, and let her have free run of the rest of the house so that she would feel comfortable. She seemed to do well — no hissing, only fluffing her tail up when she would pass the puppy’s room. This morning, however, she had an “accident” in our bedroom (her safe place) and there seemed to be a bit of blood in her stool. She’s been staying mostly in our bedroom since then, but still seems okay. She’s also still been eating well. Could this have been just from stress of the new puppy?
Siouxsie: It seems to us there are a couple of things going on here, and we’re not totally sure they’re related.
Thomas: Sometimes cats will have a little bit of blood on their stools if they’re constipated — the straining and hard stools will cause tiny tears in the blood vessels around the anus.
Bella: On the other hand, diarrhea can also produce small amounts of blood because of the irritation it causes.
Siouxsie: Stress can cause changes in bowel habits, as it can with humans. Nahla may also be reluctant to use her litterbox if it’s near the puppy’s room, so if this is the case, you may want to try moving it to an area that feels safer.
Thomas: If you are going to move her litterbox, though, you’ll need to do it slowly, particularly since she’s blind.
Bella: We would recommend that you call your vet about the bloody stools. They’d rather have you call if nothing serious is wrong than have you not call if she does have a big problem.
Siouxsie: They’ll probably want you to describe the blood you’re seeing on her stools, because this will help them to determine if Nahla should come in right away.
Thomas: The second part of this issue is the stress of having a new puppy in the house. You’re doing the right thing by letting Nahla have run of the house and ensuring that the puppy doesn’t have unsupervised contact with her.
Bella: However, the two of them are going to have to meet at some point.
Siouxsie: We’d strongly recommend that you start training the puppy, if you haven’t done so already. Nahla will be a lot safer if the dog responds promptly and correctly to your commands.
Thomas: Crate training the pup might be a good way to allow Nahla and the pup to get to know each other in a safe way. Inside the crate, the puppy won’t be able to physically touch Nahla but will get to know her body language.
Bella: Of course, you’ll want to make sure Nahla’s litterbox is in a place where she won’t get ambushed by the puppy (and where Puppykins won’t eat the “snacks” he finds in there).
Siouxsie: You might also try Feliway or a calming pheromone collar for Nahla. These products release scents that help cats to feel less stressed and can help alleviate behavior problems like inappropriate elimination. Here are some other ways to be sure Nahla is comfortable in her home, even if changes do happen.
Thomas: PAW Rescue has some great tips for introducing a new dog to a cat. We think these could be helpful as you go about introducing your new puppy to Nahla.
Bella: We think you’ll be heartened by this wonderful story of a blind cat and a blind puppy who are the best of friends. We think that with training and with the advice from PAW Rescue, Nahla and the pup will become friends, too.

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- A wise someone once said, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again.
There is nothing new under the sun."
And by someone I mean the book of Ecclesiastes from the Tanakh or the Christian Old Testament.
And this bit of knowledge has maintained its relevance more than 2000 years later especially when it comes to the fiction we enjoy.
And I'm not just saying that because I'm rereading the latest New York Times' bestseller retelling of "Pride and Prejudice", I'm not saying I'm not.
But from James Joyce's "Ulysses" to "Bridget Jones's Diary", you've probably read a book that was just a modern retelling of a well-established story, which is to say nothing of other forms of media and their own obsessions with retelling and rebooting.
And despite what you're writing 101 instincts might tell you, this is neither bad nor lazy writing, or even a new concept, because let's be honest, sometimes a story is just so danged good, it bears repeating sometimes more than once, sometimes multiple times.
I'm looking at you Ms. Jane Austen.
(happy music) So why do we retell stories?
To put it simply in Wilde's words, "There is art found not in a work's perceived originality, but in the way the artist has used or deliberately not used and arranged preexisting thoughts and motifs to make something that is entirely their own."
So with that, let's take a look at three authors who engage in literary up cycling and compare starting with the bar himself, great gay of history, William Shakespeare.
That's right, our Billy Boy would probably be rocking in archive of our own account today.
Written centuries before Wattpad was a twinkle in the Internet's collective eye, many of Shakespeare's works are retellings of historical events or common narratives that were already well established in Elizabeth in England.
According to Professor Gordon McMullan, director of the London Shakespeare Center at Kings College, "With almost no exception, Shakespeare got his stories from elsewhere, and reworked them in his own way.
The point was, everyone did this.
The concept of originality like genius was invented at the end of the 18th century."
And for immigrant children everywhere, I wish it had stayed there, personally.
Even works as ubiquitous and widely taught as "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet" are retellings of some other story.
The former being based on a 1562 English translation of an Italian poem, "The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet" by Arthur Brooke.
The latter being derived primarily from the medieval Scandinavian legend of "Amleth" and perhaps more alluringly from what is referred to "Ur-Hamlet", a play of unknown origin published more than a decade earlier in 1587 which some scholars believe may have been written by Thomas Kyd, Shakespeare's contemporary.
Then there are his historical plays which take a very loose, but poetic take on real life figures like Julius Caesar and King Richard III.
BTS fanfiction has nothing on Shakespeare's take on "Henry V", for example.
Reshaping the Lancaster Monarch of England as not just a war hero, but as a complex and sometimes unscrupulous ruler whose military ambition comes at the cost of tremendous violence and bloodshed, whole academic careers have been devoted to the study of Shakespeare's Henry ad plays dissecting how the texts paralleled and prophesized events in the playwright's contemporary England and the rise of the Tudor Dynasty.
And yet as much as we think of them as high literature today, Shakespeare's works at the time we're seen as popcorn for the unwashed masses that is easily available written in language that was easily understandable to poor uneducated folk and cheap rehashes.
Professor Jessica McCall and Kavita Mudan Finn perhaps capture best the uncanny parallels between how Shakespeare's retellings and modern fanfiction work saying, "Amongst fans and the academics who study them, it is generally accepted, perhaps even a truth universally acknowledged, that a good portion of what we consider canonical literature including Shakespeare also fits the broadest definition of fanfiction, in that it is clearly written in response to or adapting a specific source text.
Although it is difficult to reconcile any category that comfortably includes both Shakespeare's plays and El James' 'Fifty Shades of Grey', 89% of which had already appeared on the internet as a piece of Twilight fanfiction entitled 'Master of the Universe' Some have argued that this juxtaposition is the very point fandom."
But Shakespeare was hardly the first or last person to throw his hat into the retelling ring and come out the victor, nor was he the only person making modernized hay out of antiquity.
And we can't talk about modernized retelling without talking about James Joyce and the sprawling work that is his "Ulysses", dear God.
"Ulysses" is based on that flagship of high school literature, "The Odyssey", Homer's ancient Greek epic poem concerning (indistinct) hero Odysseus and the many perils he face as he is trying to return home to his kingdom in Ithaca.
And FYI Ulysses is just the Roman version of the name Odysseus, for the nerds out there that wanted to make sure I pointed that out.
A fixture of study, Joyce was hardly the first person to grapple with retelling "The Odyssey", however, what Joyce ended up creating is considered one of the most important modernist texts of the 20th century.
In place of Odysseus is Leopold Bloom.
And instead of spanning a decade in ancient Greece, his adventures occur over one June day in modern Dublin.
Where "The Odyssey" is comprised of 24 chapters, "Ulysses" roughly corresponds to them in 18 stream of conscious segments.
Birming with characters and plot situations that all directly are lifted from the source material.
Your Penelope, your Stephen Dedalus and whatnot.
But Joyce uses these similarities to convert Odysseus' trials into the psychological feeling of being lost, lost to modern conceptions of day-to-day living, lost to feelings of national identity, lost an Ireland's relationship to the United Kingdom.
From his 1980 introduction to the work, Canadian literary scholar, William Hugh Kenner remarked, "Ulysses and The Odyssey are identical in not existing, save as manifestations of human trade of power, products of an artistic process that is like a natural process, and that intuits in many times comparable situations, whether in the mind of Homer of Chios or in the mind of James Augustine Joyce.
Both far from the scenes of their stories created their heroes and recreated an epic geography.
Both were guided by the circumstances they knew, warfare, seafaring, marvels, commerce, perambulation, novelties."
All this to say that James Joyce was what the kids might refer to as the true godfather of the modern AU.
That is the writer who is able to take a story older than written tradition, and definitely draw significance from both the similarities and differences by placing it in a new setting.
So this is why I toil and labor over my Inu Yasha fanfiction because you know what?
Lord just shown where we needs to be in present day so that he can be with me.
Speaking of female desire, misunderstood by audiences, no video essay about modern retellings would be complete without talking about the queen herself, Jane Austen.
And the profound legacy she has left to literature and its fascination with retellings.
I bring up Austen, not because her novels are specifically retellings, though she herself often use well worn, romantic and comedic contrivances that had long existed in literature and contemporized them for her own readers, but because of the profound impact her body of work had on the modern commercial novel and media in general.
From "Bridget Jones's Diary" to "Clueless" to "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters", if we have one social acceptable cache for stories of retelling outside of Shakespeare, it's our girl Jane.
I don't think there's a way to capture this vibe succinctly so here's just some of the novels that are direct retellings of her work.
This doesn't even begin to touch on film, comic book, and television reiterations of her work in which we have an eight-hour long episode and this is a publicly funded program, so we're not trying to waste your money with that.
Although, go watch PBS's adaptation of Sanditon.
Arguably the most financially successful from this list is Helen Fielding's, "Bridget Jones's Diary" and it's sequel "The Edge of Reason" based on Austen's novels "Pride and Prejudice" and "Persuasion".
Though, the Bridget Jones character existed before the publication of both books as a reoccurring fictional columnist for the Independent, when writing her book, Fielding saw the parallels between Jones's obsession with modern femininity, fashion, and dating and the way Austen's Elizabeth Bennett finds herself constantly struggling with the social mores of Regency England.
Said Fielding rather cheekly when asked if she lifted the plot of her books from Austen, "I thought both plot and leading men had been well market-researched over a number of centuries, and that Jane Austen wouldn't mind.
Anyways, she's dead.
Austin wrote about the minutiae of women's lives in a way that is funny and dazzlingly accurate, giving you insights into what was going on in the social world without your even realizing you're getting an incredible history lesson."
But we reach a conundrum here.
Despite "Bridget Jones's Diary" success, there is an issue.
For all of the Austen retellings that exist in the market, almost all of them are relegated to the dreaded genre of chick lit or women's literature.
Because we don't just read.
Why is it that if we can peg down Shakespeare and James Joyce as artist artistically acceptable examples of literary recyclists, that we look at books like "British Jones's Diary" or Jenny Lee's best selling retelling of "Anna Karenina", "Anna K" as disposable or barely a step above fanfiction, which again, shouldn't be an insult anyway.
We've already done an episode in part on this, click on the link above, but to be succinct, retelling especially ones sold as retellings are a big part of genres that tends to skew towards marginalized audiences, audiences with women, with LGBTQ+ people, and BIPOC audiences.
And that's a whole basket of conceptually difficult apples to unpack.
We be picking through those and those dynamics for another 12 hours and again, this is a publicly funded video.
But I think these actually speak to a larger truth about why retellings exist and why we keep coming back to them.
Says Scholar/Professor Richa Nagar, "Stories shape our sense of self, who we believe we are, our sense of our own inherited privileges and misfortunes our affinities, identifications, and allegiances.
Stories also shape what we wish or hope to do in order to give our existence meaning, whom we wanna stand or fight with, whom or what we want to help or rescue in order to uphold what we think is ethical or just telling stories involves making decisions or moves, and each retelling of a familiar story may either give birth to new meanings, nuances, and affects or erase their possibility.
Thus, each storyteller can be seen as a translator of stories with the responsibility to retell stories in ways that can do justice to them."
That is that the saying there is nothing new under the sun is not an inherently negative statement.
Rather, that story is persevere because they have some universality to them that has their time and place as society moves away and towards them again.
The minutiae may change the trappings different but when we retell a story, we are asked to consider its power.
What does a story say about where we came from?
What does it mean about where we are are now and where we are going?
And while necessity might be the mother of invention, it is in repetition we find these truths.
All this to say, please pre-order my re-imagining of "Frog and Toad" titled "Gerbil and Hamster".


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Entertainer and entrepreneur Thembi Seete has shared a beautiful picture of her son on her social media 23 weeks ago on his second birthday.
Seete has never shared his son’s face on social media, and hardly posts about him, except on special days.
She never made a public announcement of her pregnancy and the birth of her son Dakalo. Speaking to Tshisa Live regarding her pregnancy in 2018, Seete said: “In my culture, we don’t share information about the baby until it is born. The time will come when I am ready to share, but for now, let’s just say 2018 is going to be an eventful year for me.”
In her recent post, Seete shares: “I loved you before I knew you my mokomosos, my boom boom.”
Her privacy on motherhood had some of her followers asking: “Am the only one who didn’t know that Thembi has a child?”
She has chosen to keep her son from the limelight, and she is doing it very well.

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ECOTOURISM BUSINESS COMPETENCE IN CREATING COMMUNITY INCOME
The economic development of a region is determined by the increase of contribution of economic sector activity. The tourism sector is one of the economic sectors that has an important role in and is able to grow the regional economy. Sustainability of the tourism sector of the economy can not be separated from the role of environmental resources as tourism attractions (objects). This study is to analyze ecotourism business competence in creating income of community. The study is designed in a descriptive-quantitative way. The collection of data used is observation and interview. The data used is descriptive-quantitative in order to determine and analyze the ecotourism business competence and its impact on improving income of community. The results show that the strategy to achieve an income community must be supported by having business competence based on ecotourism. Business competence is dominated by social competence in creating people’s income in the tourism sector, yet less attention to other competencies. Ecotourism development is done by building the overall business competence and network of cooperation between the parties concerned.

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Broadway's Queen of Hearts returns to her hometown stage
Actress and singer Karen Mason came back to Chicago just in the nick of time. She’s been wowing crowds in New York, performing in dimly lit cabarets and under the bright lights of Broadway. But Arlington Heights is where Mason grew up and it’s in Chicago that she’ll host her one-woman-show, Setting New Standards.
The run starts tomorrow night at Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret in Wicker Park. To learn more about her solo act, Karen Mason joined Eight Forty-Eight. Karen Mason’s one-woman-show, Setting New Standards begins a six-day run Wednesday night at Davenport's in Wicker Park.
She’ll then return to New York where she’ll prepare for her role as the Queen of Hearts in Wonderland.

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It’s been a busy week at work. On Wednesday, I missed my tiny window to grab lunch between meetings and finally stopped to deal with my hunger pangs by eating a milk chocolate Freddo at 3pm (cue violins). On Thursday, I was determined to take a proper break, step outside, enjoy the sunshine and get a decent feed.
Last week, I blogged about the City of Perth’s food truck trial and the Comida do Sul Brazilian food truck, and mentioned that I’m slowly working my way through their menu. Today’s lunch was the Egg Prato (‘egg plate’, AU$12), with a fried egg, shoestring fries, crushed farofa (roasted Brazilian yam), vinagrete (tomato salsa), black beans, garlic kale and rice. The tender black beans looked like sludge but were absolutely delicious, and the egg was a beautiful sunny-side up with a bright gooey yolk. I wasn’t so keen on the crushed farofa, which was like sawdust underneath the fries – it may have been easier to eat/appreciate if it had been sprinkled over the beans. The vinagrete and garlic kale are terrific in the O Mutante ‘mutant’ sandwich but I think they’re even better in this combo, with rice (hidden under the red and green, in this picture). I got my decent feed, all right! And I reckon this would make an awesome breakfast.
For more details, see my previous blog post on the Comida do Sul food truck.

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Central America gets new storm alert system
A new system of early forecasts for storms and bad weather, with alerts every 30 minutes, will be in operation this summer in Central America and southern Mexico, the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations announced yesterday.
The system, dubbed NextStorm, will provide short-term forecasts of powerful electrical storms or heavy rainfall likely to cause flooding.
The news came while Costa Rica is still fixing up the damage in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Alma.
NextStorm represents “a major advance in putting earth observation data and other tools to work in protecting people and livelihoods in southern Mexico and throughout Central America,” GEO Secretariat director José Achache said.
”We’re thinking in terms of text-message alerts to cell phones and other kinds of easily accessible announcements, all with the aim of minimizing or avoiding injuries, deaths and economic losses due to bad weather,” said Jacqueline Schafer, assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is heading the project.
The new system, according to Panamanian meteorologist Annette Quinn, “will provide greater security for the region. Ports and air terminals, in particular, will benefit, while dock workers will be better protected against lightning.”
For two years the new system has been on trial to identify and analyze in a period of between 30 and 60 minutes the specific elements that each storm is bringing, such as lightning, strong winds, turbulence or sudden floods.
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TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recordati Rare Diseases Canada Inc., a biopharmaceutical company providing orphan therapies for patients with rare diseases, today announced the commercial launch of PANHEMATIN®, the first prescription medication approved by Health Canada for the treatment of recurrent attacks of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP).
AIP is a rare metabolic disorder caused by reduced activity in one of several enzymes that generate heme, a complex molecule used to transport oxygen around the body. AIP attacks most commonly present as episodes of intense abdominal pain accompanied by other highly variable gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, psychological, or neurological symptoms that can be life threatening or progress to irreversible neuronal damage.
Although there is no prevalence information in Canada, based on European data, there are between 1 and 2 patients per 100,000 with the disease, which would translate into 360-720 Canadians with AIP, of which 20% have symptoms that would require treatment (Source: Canadian Association for Porphyria/ Association Canadienne de Porphyrie).
“We are excited that PANHEMATIN® is now available for Canadian patients as a treatment for painful and devastating AIP attacks,” said Renata Sklodowska, M.D., Director Medical Affairs, Recordati Rare Diseases Inc. “The fact that a disease is uncommon does not mean that it should go untreated. Recordati remains committed to supporting patients with rare disorders, including the needs of the Canadian AIP community.”
PANHEMATIN® (hemin for injection) is an enzyme inhibitor derived from processed red blood cells and administered by injection as a prescription medication. For more information about PANHEMATIN® and Recordati Rare Diseases Canada Inc., visit www.recordatirarediseases.ca.
About Recordati Rare Diseases Canada Inc.
Recordati Rare Diseases Canada Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company committed to providing often overlooked orphan therapies to underserved rare disease communities in Canada. Recordati Rare Diseases Canada Inc. and our sister company, Orphan Europe, are part of the rare disease business within the Recordati Group, a public global pharmaceutical company committed to the research and development of new specialties with a focus on treatments for rare disease.
Recordati Rare Diseases Canada’s mission is to reduce the impact of extremely rare and devastating diseases by providing urgently needed therapies. We work side-by-side with rare disease communities to increase awareness, improve diagnosis and expand availability of treatments for people with rare diseases.
The company’s Canadian corporate headquarters are located in Toronto, with global headquarters located in Milan, Italy.

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Women Enabled International is deeply distressed by the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization today, which overturns a nearly 50-year legal precedent and eliminates a federal right to abortion in the United States. As a result of this decision, abortion could become illegal or severely restricted in over half of U.S. states and territories, with devastating consequences for the lives and health of more than 40 million women and other people with the biological capacity to become pregnant.
Abortion is essential health care to which women and gender minorities—with and without disabilities—need safe and legal access in order to exercise control over our bodies and lives, live with dignity, and achieve full recognition of our personhood. Restrictions on access to abortion have a disproportionate impact on the lives and well-being of women and gender minorities with disabilities.
· Pregnant persons with disabilities may face significant health impacts and complications from pregnancy, including as a result of their impairments, and so may require access to abortion to ensure protection for their own health and lives.
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Islam allows for a woman to divorce her husband in five stages, in which she may divorce him within a span of five years of their marriage (1/3 of her period) and she can only do so within a five year span for any remaining period of her current husband.
The Islamic marriage contract, however, is different from that of Westerners who are bound to the marriage contract for life and as such, a woman cannot divorce her husband without first getting permission from her husband and the Islamic court system. In the Islamic marriage contract, the woman must provide proof of her husband's death , the wife must get her husband's permission to remarry, and her husband must consent to remarriage. If the husband dies, then the wife is free to remarry.
Islamic marriage contracts also state that the wife has a right to decide for herself what happens to the husband. The husband, however, is not allowed to make the wife his property, nor can he divorce her by force. The Islamic marriage contract is the legal equivalent to a divorce decree that is given by a Muslim court to a married woman.
The husband is also required to provide food, clothing and shelter for his wife and her children. He must also pay her a divorce fee. A married Muslim woman may not remarry without the permission of her husband. This can happen, however, after the death of the husband. There are many ways that a husband can leave his wife, but only when the wife has given her consent and he has a child from her. This is why women who are widowed are allowed to remarry, and why a widow sex dating bristol is allowed to remarry as long as her husband's death is not announced. In order to get divorced, a woman must prove that she has been guilty of adultery by a threefold proof. Her father must also be named and she has to prove that her marriage was annulled by a father, brother, or a relative in her husband's family. In the case of a woman married under the age of 16, she is not allowed to get divorced.
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This post is personal…really personal. I pray God will use it in your life. Live free, my friend.
One last wish.
The longing of a dying mother’s heart.
A wish that only one person could have satisfied. But he didn’t.
If you’ve read any of my books, you know that my childhood was a cauldron of violent arguments, alcohol-induced rage, and physically terrifying fights. As a child I saw things that a child should never see and heard things that a child should never hear. My parents were a mess. Their kids were even messier.
But God—my two favorite words in the Bible.
I met Jesus in a powerful way when I was fourteen years old, my mom followed when I was seventeen, and my mean old dad accepted Christ when I was twenty. Our family was a portrait of mercy and grace painted by the hand of an all-loving God.
A lot of forgiveness took place over the next thirty years as God reshaped and remolded once hardened hearts. But not everyone received the gift. Some held it at arms length and said, “No thanks. I’m hanging onto my hate.” Some chose to cling to unforgiveness and grasp resentment with a tight unrelenting fist. And the gift of grace was refused.
My mom did not get her final wish…to see one of her children one last time. I was sad for her, but mostly, I was sad for him. He missed the blessing of seeing the miracle of Mom’s gentleness, Mom’s humble kindness, Mom’s overflowing love for her family. He missed the preciousness of her final days.
Friend, I don’t want you to miss out on a single blessing God has for you. Not a one. Nothing will block the flow of grace like an unforgiving heart. Click & Tweet! Unforgiveness is drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die. Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free and realizing the prisoner was you.
Once there was a little boy who had his hand caught in a valuable vase. After many failed attempts to get it free, his father decided the only solution was to smash the vase. But before the hammer came down upon the delicate porcelain, his father said, “Son, let’s try one more time. Open your hand inside the vase, and then bring your fingertips together. Now, try and slide your hand out of the opening.”
Then the boy looked up at his dad and replied, “I can’t, Daddy. If I do that, I’ll drop my penny.”
How many times do we miss out on God’s abundant blessings because we hold onto the pennies?
Are you clinging to unforgiveness with a tightly-clenched fist that says, “By golly I am not going to forgive that person who hurt me? She/He doesn’t deserve it!”
I am struck with the words of Paul to the Colossians: “Forgive as the Lord forgave you” (Colossians 3:13).
Forgiveness is not for the benefit of the person who hurt you. It is for the benefit of the one doing the forgiving. Click & Tweet!
I don’t want you to miss out on a single one of God’s blessings. Let go of unforgiveness. Grab hold of grace. Be free.
Lord, thank You for forgiving me. I don’t want to miss out on any of the blessings You have for me because of a hardened heart. Today I forgive _________ for __________ once and for all. Even though I don’t feel like it, I am obeying Your command. I am letting go of this penny and coming to You with an opened hand to receive all You have for me. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Do the voices in your head tell you that you are not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, or just not enough, period? If so, it’s time to stop listening to the lies that sabotage your confidence and start embracing the truth of your true identity in Christ. It’s time to overcome the lies of the enemy with the promises of God.
Join me in the Enough: Silencing the Lies that Steal Your Confidence online Bible study. The dates are Oct 9-Nov 26. Even though it started yesterday, it’s not too late! We’re just getting started. Click here to sign up!
Could you please respond to me personally? I was also hurt physically and emotionally and sexually abused by various step fathers from 5 years to 12 years. My brother and I both were abused and he was 17 months younger than me. We wanted our Grandmother but were threatened if we told. So we lived a lie and me being the oldest and only girl just endured. If I told you my life no one would believe it. I look back and see God’s hand or I wouldn’t be alive. Even as an adult I sought out help at 22 yrs old in CA where my husband was stationed yet 3 different men whom I sought help only abused me more. I began to think I was like my Mother and although went to church and loved God there has been a huge hole in my heart since that time. One of these men was a Pastor whom I thought I could trust. He just kept wanting me to reenact the rape scene until I finally understood..he was enjoying me explaining exactly what happened to me. Being young, 20 years old I felt like I did as a child.. “the only sane person in and insane world.” I currently have PTSD and depression with anxiety. You wouldn’t know it b/c I fake it well as seen from my childhood. I am married and my daughters are adults now yet in my heart it’s so sad and lonely. I so wish I felt unconditionally loved. I have a Christian husband but we struggle at times b/c of our differences in being raised. He came from a very loving home and 5 brothers and sisters and loving parents. I have sought out only female Psych for many years but she has done all she can do. Does Jesus love me?
Yes Jesus and God love you. The suffering we endure in this world is to help give us an experience to have true compassion. I have found much healing with the plant medicine ayahuasca, if you feel it’s call go to it.
How did you know that at just the right time in my life I would need to read this. I thought I had already forgiven these people in my life. When I read your post about letting go of unfogiveness and grabbing hold of grace I literally trembled and cried. You said this post is personal, really personal. It was as if God was using you at that very moment to speak to my heart. I never realized the bondage I was really in. This unforgiveness was choking me and I thought I had already forgiven these people in my life. I feel as though I can breathe now. I let go of all those pennies.
Thank you for your love and obedience in reaching the heart of a broken Mom.
I’m so excited to be doing your online Bible Study Enough.
I signed up for you “Enough” Bible Study. I ordered the Book and you said the study material was in the back of the book. Will I still get the emails that I’ve missed? The book should be here on Monday, the 15th so I can get started. Hope to hear from you. Joy

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What causes that painful ice cream headache?
Posted July 31, 2016
July is National Ice Cream Month, which means people may be getting more ice cream headaches, also known as "brain freeze" or "cold stimulus headaches."
Though a common occurrence, it wasn't until 1988 that cold stimulus headaches were officially recognized as a condition by the International Headache Society.
The technical name of brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, which means nerve pain in the top of the mouth. This is why many people think that if you hold your tongue to the roof of your mouth, the sensation will go away.
While it is a fairly common phenomenon, researchers still do not know exactly what causes sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. But there are theories.
"We think it has to do with the body's reaction to the cold, like a protective mechanism," Dr. Yasha Kayan, a neurointerventionalist at Abbott Northwestern, told CBS News. "One of the theories is that there's extra blood flow to the brain and that increases the pressure in the brain and gives you a headache."
Medical News Today shared research that Dr. Jorge Serrador, a cardiovascular researcher at Harvard Medical School, had done on brain freeze. He asked research participants to sip ice-cold water through a straw to induce brain freeze while doctors monitored blood flow to the brain. They found that blood flow to the brain increased when research subjects experienced brain freeze. This could mean that the pain felt during brain freeze comes from a rapid increase in blood flow to the brain through the anterior cerebral artery, which increases pressure in the brain. The pain goes away when the artery and blood vessels return to normal and pressure in the brain stabilizes.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center neuroscientist Dwayne Godwin told Science Daily that drinking or eating cold things fast doesn't give the mouth a chance to adjust to the cold. Ice cream or cold liquid can rapidly change the temperature at the back of the throat. That's where the internal carotid artery, which carries blood to the brain, is located.
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SANTA FE – Today, the New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) announced the successful implementation of a substantial $409 million increase in reimbursement rates for most Medicaid health care providers. This significant investment is designed to fortify and support the health care workforce in New Mexico, ensuring that the state’s 869,528 Medicaid customers receive essential health care services.
“We are incredibly proud to have completed the roll-out of these rate increases, a testament to our commitment and support for New Mexico’s health care workforce and the state’s 896,528 Medicaid customers,” said Kari Armijo, cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Human Services Department. “This initiative became a reality thanks to the invaluable support, investment and partnership of the governor and the Legislature.”
Starting from claims made on July 1, 2023, New Mexico Medicaid providers will see increased payments. This change is the result of a thorough rate benchmarking study that HSD conducted in 2022. Claims for reimbursement have been automatically reprocessed with the rate increases retroactive to July 1.
“Thanks to this substantial funding boost, Medicaid providers across New Mexico will now receive reimbursements at rates as high as 120% of Medicare,” said Lorelei Kellogg, acting director for the New Mexico Medicaid program. “By elevating rates, New Mexico Medicaid continues to work toward the goal of ensuring that all New Mexicans enrolled in the program have access to vital health care services.”
This initiative highlights the agency’s continuous efforts to strengthen New Mexico’s health care system, ensuring that the most vulnerable populations have uninterrupted access to care. Medicaid providers can expect the effects of these extra funds to kick in as of November 2023.
The rate increases represent the first two phases of a strategic three-phase approach aimed at boosting payments to Medicaid providers. The proposal for phase three rate increases has been included in the agency’s budget request for state fiscal year 2025.
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Shania Twain recently released a video for her new single “Giddy Up!” a track from her upcoming sixth full length album, Queen of Me.
The video, directed by Marmofilms, featuring a bunch of dancers, contains scenes filmed at various places such as, a restaurant, a bar, a grocery store, and a car shop where Twain plays a lead mechanic.
“The saying ‘Let’s Go Girls!’ is such a wonderfully uplifting sentiment now, but it’s just something I said during the recording in the studio and I guess that’s the same for ‘Giddy Up!'” Twain said in a statement. “These lines come to me when I’m thinking about how to put a little ‘pep in my step.’ I want people to feel good when they hear the new album. I want to set a celebratory tone and ‘Giddy Up!’ is a way to call to the audience and say ‘let’s get ready for some fun!'”
“I left my heart at a waterin’ hole/ Somewhere in small-town Ohio/ Headed out west to Arizona/ ‘Cause the East Coast weather’s too cold, cold, cold/ Easy come, easy go/ I got a fast car with the nineties on/ Not a soul on the road but the road is home,” Shania sings in the first verse before busting into the party hearty chorus.
“Smiles for miles/ All up on my face/ Wear it, share it/ ‘Cause we ain’t got time to waste/ Up in your giddy up/ Giddy, giddy up/ Up in your giddy up/ Drunk in the city/ Got litty in the cup/ Up in your giddy up/ When it gets tough, gotta get a little love/ Put some up in your giddy, giddy up,” she sings over the song’s bouncy rhythm.
The 12-track Queen of Me album arrives on February 3, via Republic Records.
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UN votes to condemn Trump’s Jerusalem decision
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly to condemn President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel despite threats from the US to pull funding from the world body.
Some 128 countries voted for the resolution, while nine voted “no,” and 35 nations abstained, including Canada and Australia.
The vote came after US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley issued a direct threat to the UN saying that the US will think twice about funding the world body if it voted to condemn Trump’s decision.
“The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in this assembly,” Haley said. “We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world’s largest contribution” to the UN and when other member nations ask Washington “to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit.”
Haley said the US will put its embassy in Jerusalem regardless of the vote.
“That is what the American people want us to do and it is the right thing to do,” Haley said. “This vote will make a difference in how Americans look at the UN,” she said. “And this vote will be remembered.”
Haley’s remarks followed a threat from Trump himself, who mentioned the UN vote at a Wednesday Cabinet meeting. “We’re watching those votes,” the President said. “Let them vote against us, we’ll save a lot. We don’t care.”
Few countries seemed cowed, with nation after nation blasted the US at an emergency session of the General Assembly, condemning the Jerusalem decision as illegal, destabilizing, and a violation of international law leaving Washington largely isolated.


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One of the many fears related to the introduction of the single European currency in January this year was that the new money would be used to hide increases in prices.
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A guest column I wrote for the China Economic Review.
2011 was a year marred by extreme volatility in markets, an earthquake and tsunami that disrupted global supply chains, renewed inflationary worries in Asia and, above all, the near collapse of the euro zone. read
HONG KONG (Dow Jones Investment Banker) – Singapore Exchange Ltd. (SGX) may have made headlines this year with the listing of one of Asia’s largest IPOs, Hutchison Port Holdings Trust, and, potentially, with the proposed flotation of Manchester United F.C., but Chinese mid-caps are increasingly leaving the shores of the Lion City to seek a quotation in Hong Kong. The reasons include, above all, greater liquidity, a wider following on the part of sell-side research analysts and, ultimately, a higher valuation.
HONG KONG (Dow Jones Investment Banker) – Logically, there’s reason to offer around-the-clock trading on securities: Investors can trade from their home turf some of their large holdings. But Vale S.A.’s Hong Kong listing shows the value of such an option is questionable in practice.
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ABOARD USS CARL VINSON, At Sea (NNS) -- Whether they are taking a break from a busy workday to shop at the ship's store or getting a haircut at the barbershop, Sailors aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) rely on the aircraft carrier's Sales and Service (S-3) division to enhance their quality of life on a daily basis.
Recently, Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command (COMNAVSUPSYSCOM) recognized the diligent efforts of the Gold Eagle's S-3 division by naming Carl Vinson "Best in Class" in the Pacific Fleet 2002 Ship's Store Retail and Service Excellence Award program. According to Rear Adm. Justin McCarthy, COMNAVSUPSYSCOM, Best in Class signifies a superior level of customer service and excellence.
"Your ship's store personnel are commended for their hard work, sacrifice and commitment to excellence," said McCarthy in the award announcement. "Their efforts have had a significant impact on boosting morale and improving the quality of life for their shipmates."
This is the second consecutive year that Carl Vinson's S-3 division has received this award, which acknowledges outstanding leadership, superior financial accountability and unequaled customer service.
"Our key to success has been that we consistently work by the book everyday," said Lt.j.g. Chris Mayfield, Carl Vinson's sales officer, who credits his divisions success, in part, to accurate records and bookkeeping.
While an organized business and transaction records play a vital role in the successful operation of the ship's stores, barbershop, laundry and vending area, it is the customer service skills of the ship's servicemen who operate these facilities that make Carl Vinson's S-3 Division one of the most important morale boosters for the crew.
"We have over 5,500 (Sailors) aboard -- that's a small city -- and we're the only store in town," said Mayfield. "If a Sailor can't get clean laundry or a haircut, that affects his work."
For many of the carrier's Sailors, who have experienced the Navy's ship's store program improving throughout the years, the significant effort put forth by Vinson's store personnel is apparent.
"In general, I think that ship's stores are improving throughout the fleet," said Chief Aerographer's Mate (AW) Gerald Smoot. "However, this (Carl Vinson) is by far the best ship's store I've ever seen."
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For related news, visit the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) Navy NewsStand page at www.news.navy.mil/local/cvn70.