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The death this Wednesday of the screenwriter Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara, at the age of 80, has coincided with the farewell of the iconic series of which he was co-creator, Cuéntame cómo pasó.

An ending that seems scripted and that many have wanted to take advantage of to highlight the contribution of Ladrón de Guevara (Madrid 1943-2023) to comedy in cathodic fiction.

"We say goodbye to Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara (Madrid 1943-2023), who died today. He was one of the creators of Cuéntame, a series that ends its broadcast tonight. We appreciate his talent and his work in a long career as a #screenwriter. Rest in peace ", wrote the ALMA screenwriters union, in a comment on X.

The screenwriter Ignacio del Moral, a friend and colleague of his since they met in Eva y Adán, agencia matrimonial, has described him as "a fun, cultured, committed, joking and grumpy guy."

As it could not be less, the official Cuéntame account has joined the tributes: "Our history could not have been written without him."

Ladrón de Guevara was, along with Patrick Buckley and Miguel Bernardeau, one of the creators of Cuéntame cómo pasó, a series in which he developed the format, in addition to writing and coordinating a large part of its scripts for 17 seasons.

From journalism to television

He began his professional career as a journalist in newspapers such as Informaciones y Pueblo – an editorial that would inspire Toni Alcántara's work in the series –, in addition to collaborating with agencies such as Fax-Press and Colpisa.

He abandoned journalism to dedicate himself to writing plays and television fiction. Before Cuéntame, he worked on other legendary series such as Farmacia de Guardia or Los ladrones van a la oficina and others such as Tío Willy, Eva y Adán, agencia matrimonial, Querido maestro, Siete días de amor, Manolito Gafotas or Gente encantadora.

As a screenwriter he was awarded various national and international awards: New York Festival, Ondas, Fotogramas, Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias de Televisión, the Premio Nacional de Televisión in its first edition. He was nominated for an Emmy in 2003 as co-creator of Cuéntame.

Although his best-known work was as a screenwriter, he wrote more than twenty plays and won awards such as the Calderón de la Barca, Borne, Rojas Zorrilla and Ciudad de San Sebastián, and novels, such as El champán frío y la venganza caliente.

Americans are often surprised to learn than they aren't "Americans" in Spanish, but something else entirely. Spanish speakers are equally surprised to learn that insisting that Mexicans, Chileans, and Venezuelans are "Americans" in English is wrong. This video is an attempt to remedy this gulf in communication between countries and continents (or is it all just one continent?)

Surveillance and the threat of imprisonment: Euronews spoke to Russian queer activists who have chosen to stay in the country, despite increasing hostility towards the LGBTQ+ community

According to a survey by Open society foundations, more than a third of 18-35 year olds favour a military regime or an authoritarian leader. How did it come to this?

The Central Sindical Independiente y de Funcionarios (CSIF) considers "insufficient" the 0.5% increase in the salaries of public employees that will be effective in the payroll for the month of October. This increase is applied as a variable linked to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) within the Framework Agreement for a 21st Century Administration signed by CCOO and UGT with the Government of Spain in October of last year.

After knowing the CPI data, which in Castilla-La Mancha increased by 0.5% in August to stand at 2.9%, CSIF considers that salaries continue to be well below inflation indicators, as reported by the center union in a press release.

Not in vain, the aforementioned agreement established an increase of 6% for three years plus 1.5% in variables until 2024. "Unfortunately, the average CPI in 2022 was 8.4% and the current forecast is for it to be in 2023 at 3.9%. In the best of cases, public employees are losing five points of purchasing power in just two years," CSIF has criticized.

The president of CSIF Castilla-La Mancha, Julio Retamosa, has highlighted that "any increase is always positive, but in this case it is not only insufficient, but it represents a real injustice for public employees." "With the public workers they settled for the first offer that the Government put on the table. CSIF did not sign that agreement, it was unthinkable. CCOO and UGT overturned the negotiation that we had managed to start with the massive demonstration that we carried out in Madrid "he lamented.

For all these reasons, CSIF has urged the Government to sit down again with the union organizations present at the General Table of Public Function to renegotiate an agreement that alleviates the loss of purchasing power, which in Castilla-La Mancha has exceeded 20% since 2010, "to which the Cospedal Tax would have to be added".

"Prices continue to rise, with going back to school more expensive in recent years, with the shopping basket that has risen more than 10%, with fuel prices that continue to rise, and underlying inflation above 6%. We are witnessing widespread impoverishment," concluded Retamosa.

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Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) has reported to the Labor Inspection the non-payments carried out by the company 'Seguridad Límite 24 Horas'. Their security guards at the visitor center of the Cabañeros National Park, in Horcajo de los Montes, have not been paid for two months, which has led the union to report the situation to this autonomous body of the Government of Spain.

As they have stated, currently the workforce has not received the payroll for July and August and, according to the union, the company "has no intention of settling the salary debts that it already accumulates or of paying the remaining monthly payments until another company, Seguridad Integral Secoex SA, will take over the contract in the middle of next October”.

Initially, they contacted those responsible for these workers, since they continue to provide service, just as Seguridad Límite 24 Horas continues to promptly collect monthly payments from National Parks. However, since this company learned that their contract was not going to be renewed, they stopped paying payroll, seeking to be taken over by the new company, as reported by the Secretary of Organization of CCOO-Hábitat Castilla La Mancha, Alejandro Jiménez.

The union also points out that the lack of income is not the only problem of these security guards, but that "in order to collect the salaries of those who are creditors, they have to file lawsuits against the current company, against which He is going to succeed her in the contract and even in front of the client himself [National Parks]; with the time, inconvenience and additional expenses that this entails.”

CCOO denounces a "sad situation" in the private security sector

The company Seguridad Límite 24 Horas, which in the Community of Madrid has a staff of 30 people, provides its security services in three Public Administration centers: the General Secretariat of Treasury and International Financing, the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Bullfighting Affairs Center. Apparently, as explained by CCOO in a statement, the company had not paid regularly for some time.

Added to this is that the company does not have a branch in Madrid, with its main headquarters in Albacete, which has led many of its workers to complain about not having a structure in the region.

Likewise, the union has contacted different clients to make the situation known, waiting for them to intervene and take measures to expedite the collection of pending payrolls. In this sense, the head of CCOO Security Sector of Habitat Madrid, Luis Bernal Ruiz, assures that "this situation only ratifies the sad situation that the private security sector is going through."

A situation that, as he explains, occurs "due to the continuous allocation of clients to security companies, especially in the public administration, under a criterion largely based on price and to companies with the cheapest economic proposal."

For this reason, CCOO has asked clients of security companies, as well as administrations and public organizations, "not to trust 'cheap' companies to provide these services." Explaining “that they weigh the price is logical”, but not that they put it “before the criteria of solvency and responsibility”. Regarding this, to conclude, they defend that "there are very serious and consolidated companies in this sector that can offer the service completely correctly."cio and to companies with the cheapest economic proposal."

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Some weeks ago, I decided to block lemmy.world from my profile, because I only saw memes and shitposts from that instance, and I found easier to block the whole instance instead of blocking single communities.

But I keep seeing communities from that instance when I'm browsing all. Why is that?

The PSOE gets the first step to keep the Moncloa. The socialist Francina Armengol has been elected this Thursday president of the Congress of Deputies thanks to the agreement with the progressive forces and an in extremis pact with Esquerra Republicana and Junts. An absolute majority with 178 votes in favor that make the Balearic Islands president of the Lower House and will allow the Socialists and Sumar to gain control of the Table.

Armengol has thus prevailed over the candidate proposed by the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, in a vote that directs the negotiation for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as president of the Government, which once again depends on the will of Carles Puigdemont's. Gamarra has only managed to add the support of the Canary Islands Coalition and the Union of the Navarro People to the PP votes; Vox has decided to vote for its own candidate after verifying that those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo will not give them a position on the Congress Table.

Both Junts and ERC assure that this agreement is limited solely to the Mesa, but it is undoubtedly a first gesture that makes it easier for negotiations to begin to form a new coalition government. A PP victory this Thursday, all sources agree, would almost certainly have led to a repeat election.

Catalan separatists have kept this vote in suspense until the last minute. It was only cleared up during the Junts per Catalunya management meeting on the morning of this same Thursday. According to negotiating sources, the General Secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, would have communicated to his party during that conclave some details of the agreement reached.

According to Junts sources, among these agreements is the use of Catalan in Congress -to which Armengol would explicitly refer in today's speech after being elected-, the reopening of the investigation commission on the so-called 'State sewers' and the creation of a committee of investigation into the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on 17-A.

The negotiation has not finished closing until this morning, with contacts that took place until the early hours of this Wednesday and crossed documents between the socialist negotiators and Junts, in addition to ERC. The Republicans have also given the green light to the last document, which contained the same commitments as with Junts.

The Republicans have also negotiated one last point, under the heading of the "dejudicialization" of the "political conflict" in Catalonia through the "necessary legal channels", which has ended up receiving the yes of the PSOE. ERC understands that this is a commitment that the Mesa will not block the processing of an amnesty law in case it is proposed.

As ERC has detailed, the possibility of using languages ​​other than Spanish will materialize in an organic law, which guarantees the use of Catalan in all State instances, including justice, and which also culminates the Government's commitments on the promotion of languages ​​in Europe.

Junts's position has been of maximum hardness until practically the end of the negotiation. Less than 24 hours after the vote, Junts had not made a decision on what he would do and the former president sent a message through X (formerly Twitter) in which he claimed "verifiable facts" to give his votes. Puigdemont was referring to public commitments, which for the moment the PSOE had circumvented. The negotiation, however, intensified hours later, when the negotiators accepted some of the independence demands to gain support for Armengol.

The agreed points are three demands that the Catalan parties had insisted on throughout the last legislature. The use of Catalan and languages ​​other than Spanish in Congress was one of the issues in which ERC and Junts considered that they could push the PSOE further, after Sumar had launched this proposal in recent weeks. It was more difficult to get investigative commissions into the use of the Pegasus program to spy on independentistas or the 17A attack, two matters on which the Socialists had never considered that a parliamentary commission should be opened.

The definitive document

But the negotiation with Junts has been definitively unblocked early this Thursday with the registration of a key document: the Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, has submitted a written request for Catalan, Basque and Galician to be languages co-officials of the European Union.

The registration occurred at 8:18 a.m. this Thursday. Albares has sent the petition to the European Council, in which the representatives of the Governments of the Member States meet to discuss and agree on modifications to the Treaties of the Union.

The petition, if approved, will mean that Catalan, Galician and Basque will be co-official languages ​​of the European Union: they will be able to be used in the European Parliament, political representatives will be able to address community institutions in that language and official documents will be also translated into those languages.

PSOE and Sumar guarantee a progressive majority in the Table

After obtaining the presidency, the PSOE and Sumar have guaranteed a progressive majority in the whole of the Table. This body is key to deciding highly relevant issues regarding the functioning of the Chamber during the legislature, such as who can or cannot form a parliamentary group when it is on the verge of what the regulation establishes, where the deputies sit, the hiring of the groups or the times of intervention in plenary.

Thanks to a pact between the eventual government partners, the PSOE is left with three positions on the Congress Table (the presidency, a vice-presidency and a secretary) and Sumar with two (a vice-presidency and a secretary). This allows the progressive bloc to control five of the nine positions in this body. Alfonso Gómez de Celis will repeat as first vice-president and Esther Gil, deputy of the coalition led by Yolanda Díaz, will have another vice-presidency. Gerardo Pisarello will repeat as secretary as part of Sumar's quota and Isaura Leal will be the secretary on behalf of the PSOE.

The Popular Party has taken over the rest of the posts. José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro and Marta González will have a vice-presidency each and Guillermo Mariscal and Carmen Navarro will be secretaries of the table. The PP had enough votes to guarantee those four positions on its own, although it could have given a seat to Vox as a gesture in view of a possible investiture vote for Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The popular have ruled out this movement, which has annoyed the far-right formation. Santiago Abascal's party, as a gesture of protest, has decided to vote for its own candidate for the presidency of Congress and not for Cuca Gamarra after verifying that they would not have a place on the Table.

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Hello, everyone.

I started Strattera for ADHD in March this year. I changed my breakfast 4 or 5 times already since then, because I can't stand its flavour after some period of time. Sometimes because of that bitter feeling that atomoxetine causes, and sometimes because of breakfast doesn't taste good. Now I'm taking peanut butter jelly sandwiches, which hides that bitter taste of atomoxetine... but peanut butter gives me an awful taste and feeling afterwards, despite the fact that I like peanuts.

I'm tired of this, and I don't know what else I should do. I tried drinking orange juice, I tried drinking milk with biscuits, I tried cheese and ham sandwiches, and now this.

Does anyone suffer from the same thing?

UPDATE: Apparently there is something I missed when I read the instructions. Atomoxetine can cause dysgeusia between 1% and 10% of patients. I'm doomed.