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Isle man's case shows ciguatera's risk
By Diana Leone
Advertiser Kauai Bureau
LIHU'E, Kauai A Kauai man's case of ciguatera poisoning that hospitalized him for more than two months highlights the danger of eating reef fish in Hawaii.
Tom Pickett, 53, speared a knifejaw fish while free diving off Kauai's north shore on Aug. 2 and he and his wife, Katie, dined on it two days later.
The Picketts both became ill within hours of eating the "delicious" fish and "we both knew what it was," Katie Pickett told The Advertiser.
What they couldn't know then was that Tom Pickett would be hospitalized until mid-October, at times unable to walk, talk or feed himself because of the neurotoxin's effects.
Pickett has been home in Kílauea a little more than three weeks, but is still measuring progress by small increments, such as gaining back a couple of the 50 pounds he lost, or reclaiming daily routines such as shaving and flossing.
Pickett can eat now, but is still getting supplemental nutrition. He's expected to need physical and occupational therapy for some time.
"Our big goal for him is a shower," said Katie Pickett, who has mostly recovered from a milder case of the disease and has been by her husband of 25 years throughout the ordeal.
For the active bodysurfer, free diver and co-owner of Kílauea Bakery and Pau Hana Pizza, the slowdown has been extreme, Katie Pickett said.
Tom Pickett still struggles with corralling his thoughts and the physical act of speaking, and chose not to comment for this article.
"I was never concerned he was going to die," Katie Pickett said in a phone interview. But it's now clear that her husband will be one of the cases for whom recovering from ciguatera is a months-long, or even years-long process.
Ciguatera is a naturally occurring marine toxin produced by microorganisms that live on algae. The toxin accumulates in fish that eat the algae but doesn't affect them.
People who eat fish containing the neurotoxin usually experience symptoms that can include weakness and muscle pain, diarrhea, vomiting, chills, itching, sweating, dizziness, numbness, tingling and headache. A unique symptom is the sense of "temperature reversal," when hot things feel cold and cold things feel hot.
"I feel it's safe to say that his situation is severe by normal standards, but certainly not without precedent in the population of ciguatera sufferers," Paul Bienfang, ciguatera project leader at the Pacific Research Center for Marine Biomedicine, said of Pickett's case.
Bienfang, with the help of spearfishing clubs on Oahu and Maui, has been collecting data on "hot spots" for ciguatera-containing fish in the Islands for about two years. His maps are posted at www.fish4science.
But that doesn't mean other locations are ciguatera free.
The state Department of Health compiles the number of ciguatera fish poisoning cases reported each year by doctors. Through September, 14 illnesses had been reported this year. The highest number of cases in the past decade was in 2002, when 69 cases were reported to the Health Department statewide.
The numbers are believed to be much lower than actual instances of illness because many people don't see a doctor for a mild case and doctors aren't required to report the cases they see, said Becky Kanenaka, the Health Department's foodborne disease surveillance and response coordinator.
By comparison, the most reported foodborne illness for Hawaii was campylobacteriosis (usually transmitted by chickens) with 657 cases in 2008, Kanenaka said.
Ciguatera fish poisoning is also under-reported worldwide, according to information on Bienfang's Web site.
Anyone who insists on eating reef fish can improve their chances of avoiding ciguatera, Bienfang said, by:
• Avoiding "the usual suspects," which include roi, barracuda, jacks, wrasses, wild kähala, menpachi, ulua and papio, eel, kole, weke, manini, palani and hapuupuu.
• Never eating the head, viscera, gonads, liver or eggs of reef fish, which can contain higher concentrations of toxin.
All aquaculture and deep sea fish are fine, Bienfang said. "There has never been a ciguatera incidence with aquacultured moi or kähala."
However, "the idea that there is safety in avoiding the bigger fish, but the smaller ones are OK is simply not true," Bienfang warned.
"Within species, we see no size-dependency of frequency or degree of toxicity."
Some fishermen say there is seasonal variation in the instance of ciguatera around the Hawaiian Islands, but "I'm not a fisherman," Kanenaka said.
"It's whether or not fish consume the toxin" that makes them transmitters of the disease, Kanenaka said. "In a school of fish, not all the fish may have it."
Fishermen are concerned enough about ciguatera that Hawaii Fishing News magazine publishes DOH statistics about ciguatera poisonings, with the type of fish caught and location.
"Not a lot of people get it, but when you get something like that, it becomes a real big deal" for the person who is sick, said Chuck Johnston, Hawaii Fishing News editor and publisher.
"It's always out there. It's like winning the lottery, but in a bad way," Johnston said.
Many anglers use the one commercially available test kit, Cigua-Check, which was developed at the University of Hawaii and is marketed by Oceanit.
Tom Pickett regularly used Cigua-Check and didn't eat fish that tested positive, Katie Pickett said.
In retrospect, the Picketts believe the test kit he used on the knifejaw they ate was compromised because it had been exposed to high temperatures during a camping trip. They don't blame the test, which comes with a disclaimer that it must be used as directed, Katie Pickett said.
Bienfang, who does testing for the DOH, confirmed ciguatera by testing leftovers of the Picketts' fish.
During Tom Pickett's stays at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific and Kuakini Hospital, doctors made exhaustive tests on him, looking for something other than ciguatera poisoning that might be causing his symptoms, but found nothing, Katie Pickett said.
They concluded that Tom Pickett had a milder case of ciguatera in the past, which makes a person more susceptible to future illness, she said.
There's no real treatment for ciguatera poisoning.
"The disease causes a lot of fatigue," Katie Pickett said. "It's a fine line to balance trying to keep him active and build up more muscle and at the same time not tire him."
Friends and family from Hawaii, the Mainland and around the globe including the Picketts' two daughters away at college have used a Web log to send get-well wishes to Tom.
"We have been trying a few new meds this week with no ill side effects, and are getting ready to add a big mix of nutrients and supplements, which the docs feel he needs to regain all the natural health he had," Katie Pickett wrote recently on the Web log.
"It's all basically an experiment, but I feel better about being more proactive," Katie wrote. "We all know that his nerve damage will take time to heal ... there are no magic potions, but he definitely took a lot of damage to his system and our aim is to support the healing."
Friends of the Picketts are bringing them meals, cleaning their house and otherwise helping out.
Tom Pickett's "voice can be weak, hard to understand," Katie Pickett said.
"His thinking is affected in weird ways," she said. "Some things he can remember, but he's also had a lot of hallucinations and delusions.
"He often thinks he can get up and go to work and do the things that he's always done."
Friends and family must guard to see that Pickett doesn't hurt himself with a fall, as happened in the hospital.
Katie Pickett said she's grateful to have medical insurance, but it doesn't pay more than the bare minimum for home care needs.
While being home has raised Tom Pickett's spirits, "there's the realization that you can't do all the things you'd normally do when you're at home. ... It can be overwhelming," she said. "We're trying to see what works for us right now."


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Pneumonia and other lung infections are the number-one killers of children worldwide – deadlier than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, but in developing countries lacking medical staff and laboratories the illnesses are often treated blindly with antibiotics.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced it will give US$40 million to improve screenings for pneumococcal disease - the most common forms being pneumonia and meningitis.
In five developing countries yet to be selected, Gates Foundation will pay for laboratories to use screening techniques such as inflating children's lungs with mist to get lung samples, and MassTag PCR technology to test for up to 30 causes of infection.
Samba Sow, the director of Mali's Centre for Vaccine Development, told IRIN that improving diagnostics is just as critical to saving lives as vaccines. "A given vaccine will cure only certain serotypes [strains]. Few [sub-Saharan African] countries can say 'here is the data, this is the vaccine we need.'"
The World Health Organization (WHO) in August 2008 approved the use of a pneumococcus vaccine in 72 countries that qualify for donations from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).
The alliance plans in 2009 to offer vaccines - donated by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals - that protect against seven strains of the lung disease – 1.3 million in Rwanda and 500,000 in The Gambia.
GAVI has estimated that accurate pneumonia diagnostics and vaccinations can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children every year.
Sow told IRIN the true number of children dying from or vulnerable to pneumonia is hard to measure. WHO estimates two million deaths per year worldwide from acute respiratory infections, of which pneumonia is the most common.
Sow said when children fall ill in Africa, they are most often treated for malaria without laboratory confirmation. "People almost never think about pneumonia. If a child is lucky, the antibiotic [given] will kill the [pneumococcus] pathogens. In Africa, antibiotics are used like candy."
Medical studies have shown that more than one-third of pathogens causing pneumococcus are resistant to antibiotics. "Patients are still at risk of dying even with antibiotics," said Sow. "Good diagnoses can save lives. And the ideal is to have vaccines to treat those accurate diagnoses."
This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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In Their Own Words
August 04, 1864
Civil War Desperation Recorded
A Cobb County man recorded in his diary an encounter with some Confederate deserters - who had done so to try and provide for their families - who were in a desperate situation:
"I met an Ox Wagon load of Women & children with 3 men going to town from the powder Springs Road, to look for work & something to eat, as they had been stripped of everything. The 2 younger men told me they had deserted from our Army as it fell back & exposed their Homes & families, and that they have been compelled to conceal themselves the greater part of the time to avoid our scouts, that while on the Road today about 7 miles below town, they were overhauled by some of our scouts, who seemed determined to shoot them as deserters, but told them on a/c of the women & children with them they would spare them. What a time of care & watchfulness we in this county are passing through, the danger to life & property demands vigilance on the part of every one. War reduces even civilized men to a state of barbarism. …"


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How to create effective sustainable on-going improvement.
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We received an inquiry from a hospital asking how we work with clients to create effective sustainable cross functional teams, once the excitement of the complex collaboration is complete. It is normal after a launch, when the individual thrill is gone and hospital staff are using the technology on a daily basis, to settle into the lull of general satisfaction with the basic gains.
Do we sacrifice the full extent of the potential gains of a technology implementation by settling on the early gains of go-live? You have to create a culture of constant improvement to truly receive the return on investment of the products acquired…. if not then they are just products and not really a tool to improve patient experience.
Here are a few tips that work for us:
The Cadence.
This is really important once you lose the cadence (consistency) then it's hard to restart without a "new technology implementation or initiative." Our "Blue Pants Program" (Patient Experience Program) is very simple. We meet quarterly with leadership and provide a list of gaps we have identified using the data from their technologies. They pick the gap or gaps that resonates most with their initiatives or objectives. We are often asked to tackle all gaps at once, but we find it more effective to focus on one or maybe two at a time.
The gap(s) become a focus for a period of 3 months. We work out the details of "how" with the cross functional team, then engage monthly with consistent individual end users to give hands on feedback. At the end of the year we give a synopsis of the achievements made.
This cadence does three things:
- It creates consistency and focus for the organization around constant improvement. It is a huge culture boost to see hard work paying off and displayed in reality of data.
- It brings unity and comradery to the team as we focus on a common goal together. Comradery and a little competition….which is never really a bad thing if the culture is one where "we win together".
- It teaches people to engage, in real time, with data on a regular basis – creating a more data driven culture. Data driven cultures are results driven cultures.
The Executive Leader.
It is critical to have an executive say (and mean) "we want change" and "we believe in data". We have observed several times where this is said but the same executive team does not make it a priority.
The executive leader creates the opportunity and permission for allocations of resources. We have an extremely successful client, whose CNO is the constant champion for the cause of data being used to create real change. They have had great improvements and transformed their culture to one that values data. She is phenomenal.
The Leader creates three things:
- Opportunity to implement change. If a gap or gaps are identified, and resources are required to adjust the technology, process, policy or behaviors (that's the four areas we focus in on) then the leadership must allocate the resources. If leadership is disengaged, then it will never become a priority.
- Set the example. This is a tricky one. The leadership must integrate data into their conversations, their expectations and their evaluations…. so important.
- Set the priority. A lot can be solved if you look at the right data– it can be like drinking from a fire hose. While a collaborative team can provide insights on where energy, time, and money can be focused – it is ultimately the responsibility of the leadership. (They are also accountable for things to their board, or boss)
Sphere3® has worked with dozens of hospitals to help implement real ongoing change. Our tool Aperum® pulls information from nurse call, cardiac, and RTLS and puts the information into the hands of the care team in real time. It allows a hospital to leverage data at the point of care. Hospitals we work with use the data to adjust caregiver workload, respond to patient concerns, and relieve alarm fatigue in real time when it matters most. Our analytics tool is complimented by an integrated mobile leadership rounding and hourly rounding that gathers patient feedback then uses real time nurse call analytics to better respond to their needs.


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Darrmar storage is a family run self storage business in Palmanova, Mallorca that aims to offer secure and dry yet affordable storage space in South West Mallorca for both business clients looking to store goods and stock and personal customers for those requiring additional personal storage.
Darren, the Managing Director of Darrmar and his family have been based in Mallorca since 2008 and have from this date been successfully operating in the Demolition, waste removal and rubbish clearance sector, gaining an excellent reputation for being friendly, reliable and offering quick solutions at a cost effective price.
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Be a hero and rescue the princess in the colorful world of Gemstone Castle! Help the hero to reach the princess by matching the gemstones that are separating them. You get bonuses for huge combinations and finishing the level quickly in this addicting matching game. Always watch out for the time as it will get more difficult to finish in the later levels.
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Saab, the iconic Swedish auto maker, seems to be facing one sob story after another. The troubled auto firm recently filed for bankruptcy protection, as the auto firm needs to reorganize itself and shed debt to return to viability. New chapter in sordid Saab saga In 2009, General Motors announced that it would be divesting Read on! →
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Cricket Week 2014
The weather was kind to us for the first half of the week in 2014 but tailed off from the MCC game onwards on Wednesday.
On the field, cricket week started on "the Friday before", the 4th July 2014, in the evening with a keenly contested Old Oaks game against principal sponsors Savills and a barbecue.
Off the field, we again partnered Sevenoaks Lions to stage the Sevenoaks Beer Festival, which is now officially part of The Sevenoaks Summer Festival, and at the same time help to raise money for their charitable work.
We also held our first folk music festival with some local artists from 20.00 to 23.00 on Friday and Saturday which gave a very peasant end to each evening.
The beer festival continued on Saturday with more live music from 20.00 to 23.00; on Sunday the beer festival would down with a Junior game in the morning and the Jazzers playing in the afternoon whilst the bandstand hosted one of the area's local bands.
- Then the main week started on Monday
- Monday we hosted to Lloyds of London for the Club XI fixture in an all-day game.
- On Tuesday we welcomed a KCB XI who brought a strong collection of league cricketers and followed that up by winning the final of the local knock out competition, The Clark Trophy, at 18.15 when SVCC will play Penshurst Place.
- On Wednesday SVCC played MCC to entertain the Savills Day crowds.
- The Thursday the six-a-side competition was a wash out
- The Friday game was also a wash out, but the Kent Legends lunch for 184 guests was another great success and we are eternally grateful to Chris Tavaré, "Deadly" Derek Underwood and Dave Fulton for giving us their time and tales or yore.
We are grateful to the Swan Mill Paper Company for supplying us with paper tableware and equally grateful to the local community who support us by bringing guests including in 2014:-
- Greenaway Chartered Accountants
- Wells Associates
- Savills
- Sanlam Private Investments
- X Connect Trading
- NJT Accountancy (UK) Ltd
- Handelsbanken
- Salisbury & Co
- Clarkson Wright & Jakes
- Offset Architects
- MOL LNG Transport (Europe) Ltd
- Gary Gabriel Associates
It is always a popular event so please book fast to ensure you get a table!!
Roll on 2015!


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The last couple of months have been quite stressful. Strangely enough, I have found the ultimate relief in early Almodóvar films.
"Almodóvar?" you ask. "Isn't that the director who makes those flamboyant, disturbing Spanish movies with Antonio Banderas or Penelope Cruz? How can those be stress relief?"
I respond to your rhetorical question with another one posed by A.O. Scott:
"Can there be such a thing as exuberant melancholy?"
No, seriously – Tony's question is a valid one with regard to Almodóvar's films. How can he make movies that breathe so well – that can be funny, disturbing and tragic all at the same time without resorting to recognizable clichés? Whether or not one buys into the auteur theory, Almodóvar has an unmistakable directorial signature that nevertheless produces a very different film every time. To quote Tony again, "[his] plots thicken and explode according to their own peculiar logic." (Which is why I'm s0 excited about I'm So Excited.)
Kika is an uneven, postmodern, self-conscious mess with spectacular pacing and characterization. The film is about an upbeat protagonist in a vicious, cruel society full of the depraved and the depressed, much like in Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky (2008). It has all the trappings of a dark comedy, but Almodóvar (as with many of his early comedies) reaches for the bottom of the abyss.
The titular protagonist is a make-up artist who gets involved in affairs with a voyeuristic photographer and his writer/serial killer father Nicholas. The apex of the film occurs when the voyeur son Ramón films from a distant apartment as Kika is raped three times by a randy prison escapee, all whilst Ramón's father murders a woman in the bedroom upstairs. While any other film would frame this moment in the most misogynistic terms imaginable – emphasizing the voyeuristic affinities between the spectator and the three male perpetrators – Almodóvar manages to play the scene for laughs (i.e., the rapist convict lasts for a ridiculously long time), and our sympathies never stray from Kika and her companions.
And so I got to thinking about HBO comedies and all this long-form television that people so hungrily consume these days… and how all of it could be so much darker and sympathetic toward women, if only Almodóvar were at the helm. Discussions of Bertolt Brecht recall how good the director was at drawing connections between material conditions and the agency of those characters who must endure them. Almodóvar outclasses Brecht by finding endless labyrinths of desire within both the society and characters who maneuver within it, such that we are constantly transitioning between ironic and melodramatic registers in a fashion pleasurable to the astute viewer.
I don't think it's on Netflix (OK, it's on Hulu Plus.) But it's a gem worth seeking for its total reconfiguration of genre, expectation, and gendered expectations of narrative. An invasive-but-friendly brain massage.
In an age that continuously exalts novelty, I'm suddenly excited to re-watch all the titles from the 1980s and 90s that I seem to have curiously missed.


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Common cause of gout is the accumulation of a chemical called uric acid. Uric acid is a normal breakdown product of another chemical called purines. The treatment involves controlling the inflammation, which causes the pain and swelling and ultimately damage to joints. Also, lowering the uric acid level is a logical means to controlling gout.
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The specific dose and the manner of taking these medicines are best discussed with your healthcare provider. Common side effects of these drugs include stomach upset and ulcers from prednisone and ibuprofen type of medications, diarrhea from colchicine and sometimes gout can get worse from allopurinol especially if the person is not on colchicine first during an acute attack.
The treatment includes medicines like allopurinol, which decrease the level of uric acid, or there are other medicines like colchicine, which decrease inflammation. Also there are medicines called uricosuric agents that increase the removal of uric acid in urine. Colchicine works best if taken really early in the attack and sometimes repeat does may need to be taken periodically such as every two hours or so till there is pain relief or a maximum dose is reached or there are side effects like gastrointestinal upset.
Question : I'M a 55-year-old man who has been suffering from joint pains for a couple of years.
I've consulted my family doctor and was told I'm affected with gout.
Is there any natural remedy for this?
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Besides that, alcohol, coffee and foods rich in purine such as seafood, beans, sweetbreads and anchovies should be avoided.
Try to increase intake of food high in dietary fibre (vegetables and fruits) and complex carbohydrates (oats, barley, bran).
Combination of exercise, diet, rest and relaxation is important in achieving an optimum level of health and wellness.
Light exercise such as brisk walking helps to keep the joint cartilage lubricated.
It also strengthens the supporting muscles, tendons and ligaments and increases the range of motion and flexibility of the joints.
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Healthy weight management is also important as being overweight can burden the joints, especially the knees, thus aggravating the pain. You may also consider Bowen therapy, a series of precise connective, non-invasive tissue moves that stimulates the energy flow and activates the body's natural healing ability.
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Answer : GOUT is a painful and potentially disabling form of arthritis.
It causes pain, tenderness, redness, warmth and swelling in some joints.
This is due to the increasing levels of uric acids in the body.


text: The team headed north in this edition of Eclipse Cares. Volunteering at the Lakeview Pantry, Eclipse helped unload, organize, and pass out food to those in need. Lakeview Pantry's mission is to eliminate hunger in the Chicago community, and they donate 1.3 million meals a year to over 7,000 clients. Eclipse was happy to help!


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While catching up on a bunch of recent episodes from the Perception & Action Podcast, I thought I might compile some of my thoughts on them as they relate to how we design effective training sessions.
The first of these focused on the rate of change in an athlete's performance due to practice. Ep. 84 – Time Scales in Motor Learning
1:58 … We learn things at different rates and we do not learn at a consistent rate, experiencing periods of stagnation and even regression, with occasional lurches back to the norm or beyond. Some also progress faster than others. I think it's important for coaches to be aware of this and help athletes not to get discouraged if things aren't improving as quick as one would hope or if there are moments where they seem to go backwards. It's all part of a normal learning process.
6:55 … "Warm-Up Decrement" is the time it takes someone to get back to an already-achieved level of performance when revisiting a known task. It's probably not due to loss of ability, but in not being adequately prepared for the task at hand. So, it's important that athletes be appropriately aroused for the task, focused on the right learning objectives and to have realistic expectations for the task's procedure and possible outcomes. If a coach throws athletes into an activity with no mental preparation, they will waste time just figuring out what they're supposed to do.
8:45 … When we over-do an activity, we will see a decline in performance over time. The phenomenon of "reminiscence" is when we see a return to a normal level of performance when returning to it after a period of rest. Fatigue certainly is a factor, but people can improve upon previous 'best' after re-starting the task later. This is common among rugby kickers who do well for the first few, dip in quality even after just a few, but then return to kicking well after doing another task in between. (Dave Alred seems to only let his kickers and golfers do just a few in a row before they have to do something else, and then return to a short set of shots, etc. etc.). So why do we improve?
Prof. Gray: "When we start with a different set of initial conditions, it encourages a performer to take a different route through perceptual motor space to find the appropriate movement solution. When we keep the conditions the same, the performer will settle at a locally optimal solution that it may be difficult to get out of." (11:39)
11:58 … This is why athlete-centred coaching is so effective. We consider each as a unique individual with specific needs and that relishes a new challenge. It's breathing air into a fire to stoke the flames rather than adding yet another log onto one that's down to just coals. It may keep going at the same rate doing so, but it'll never grow without stirring it up and allowing it to breathe.
I think it's important to consider this when warming up for a training session. Is doing the same old thing really sparking athletes for the challenges and learning to come? Without a doubt, it's important for athletes to get loose and get the blood flowing, but this can be done in countless different ways. I give credit to the last team I coached on this: they were okay with spending 10 minutes at the start of every session doing some kind of fun game – even kids games! – that had them moving in many directions at a high tempo. I can't think that anyone ever pulled a muscle and it really sold me that the traditional dynamic warm-up wasn't completely necessary.
This podcast also highlighted how a varied approach better prepares the brain for optimal learning.


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Q. I have Windows 7, but I was really used to using XP, and I don't
want to change. How can I make my new Windows 7 computer look and
work more like XP?
A. I found many sites that provide info on how to make Windows 7
look and act more like XP. Here are two:
This first one is what most people agree upon - changing the task
bar and desktop to make them look and act more like XP. (Though most
people tend to prefer the features and function of Windows 7 to XP.)
The changes are quite easy - just follow the instructions you find
here. You can go back to the Windows 7 style just as easily.
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Then, if you want to spend more time and effort, you can go to
site, where there links to a bunch of free software and
solutions that allow Windows 7 to more nearly emulate XP. I don't
know whether the referenced programs would place an addition drain
on your system resources (CPU cycles or memory).
Finally, here is a web site that has a very good
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Windows 7 - 50 pages, lots of illustrations, all in a downloadable
PDF document. In order to get it, you have to sign up for their
newsletter, or "like" them on your Facebook page.
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Area Enclosed by Parametric Curves
We know that area under the curve `y=F(x)` is `A=int_a^b F(x)dx` where `f(x)>=0`.
If curve is given by parametric equations `x=f(t)` and `y=g(t)` then using substitution rule with `x=f(t)` we have that `dx=f'(t)dt` and since `x` is changing from `a` to `b` then `t` is changing from `alpha=f^(-1)(a)` to `beta=f^(-1)(b)`. It is not always a case, sometimes `t` is changing from `beta` to `alpha`.
So, `A=int_a^bF(x)dx=int_alpha^beta F(f(t))f'(t)dt=int_alpha^beta g(t)f'(t)dt`.
Area Enclosed by Parametric Curves: `A=int_(alpha)^(beta)g(t)f'(t)dt` (or `int_beta^alpha g(t)f'(t)dt`).
Example. Find the area under one arch of cycloid. `x=r(t-sin(t))`, `y=r(1-cos(t))`.
One arch of the cycloid is given by `0<=t<=2pi`.
We have that `x_t'=r(1-cos(t))`.
Therefore, `A=int_0^(2pi)r(1-cos(t))r(1-cos(t))dt=`
`=r^2 int_0^(2pi)(1-cos(t))^2dt=r^2 int_0^(2pi) (1-2cos(t)+cos^2(t))dt`.
Now, we need to use double angle formula and integral becomes:
`Ar^2 int_0^(2pi)(1-2cos(t)+1/2(1+cos(2t)))dt=r^2 int_0^(2pi) (3/2 -2cos(t)+1/2cos(2t))dt=`
`=r^2(3/2 t-2sin(t)+1/4sin(2t))|_0^(2pi)=`
`=r^2((3/2 2pi-2sin(2pi)+1/4sin(2* 2pi))-(3/2 *0-2sin(0)+1/4sin(2*0)))=`


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Ari Graynor Boards Showtime's Jim Carrey Dark Comedy (Exclusive)
Ari Graynor is returning to the small screen.
The actress, who previously starred in CBS' Bad Teacher, has joined the ensemble cast of Showtime's Jim Carrey dark comedy I'm Dying Up Here.
The hourlong drama centers on L.A.'s celebrated and infamous stand-up comedy scene of the 1970s. The pilot will delve into the inspired and damaged psyches that inhabit the hilarious but complex business of making an audience laugh.
Graynor will play the series regular role of Cassie, an ambitious comedian from Texas who wants to be taken as seriously as her male comic contemporaries. Smart, witty and determined — to the male comics she's one of them, yet club owner Goldie (uncast) isn't convinced she's ready for the big time and challenges her to dig deep to find her identity.
Graynor, whose credits include For a Good Time Call and Celeste & Jesse Forever, is represented by UTA, Authentic Talent and Lichter Grossman.
Set to film in the fall, I'm Dying Up Here is written and exec produced by former stand-up comedian Dave Flebotte (Will & Grace). Carrey and Flebotte will executive produce alongside Michael Aguilar (The Departed) and Christina Wayne (Copper). The pilot is based on the nonfiction novel by William Knoedelseder and will be directed by Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies). The dramedy hails from Endemol Shine Studios and Assembly Entertainment.
Graynor joins previously announced castmembers including Erik Griffin, Andrew Santino and Stephen Guarino.
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Hearing aid wait a 'disgrace'
Laois-Offaly TD Sean Fleming has branded the treatment of people waiting for hearing aids from the HSE as a disgrace.
Deputy Fleming said he had recently been informed by the HSE that the general waiting list to be called for a hearing aid is at least two and a half years, a disgraceful record that is leaving some of the most vulnerable members of society in a highly precarious position.
"I recently raised this matter with the Minister for Health and this is the official response," said Deputy Fleming, slamming the two and a half year waiting time.
"This response proves the system has absolutely broken down and is damaging to people's health and well being," he asserted.
Deputy Fleming went on to say that many people with hearing difficulties and especially the elderly are being condemned to a period of long silence by the HSE because they cannot be called to be fitted with a hearing aid.
"The cost of going privately is very dear and out of the reach of many people," he pointed out.
"Finally, the Minister and the HSE need to introduce a bit of humanity in how to deal with people in these situations," concluded Deputy Fleming.


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Anyone who's ever seen an episode of America's Next Top Model knows that being a model is hard work. And as further proof, two anonymous models — who go by H and S — have set up the Shit Model Management Instagram account to show us what the reality of the #ModelLife is, from the cramped changing rooms, to the unrealistic expectations from agencies, to the stressful waiting periods between paychecks.
"In the modeling industry, you experience rejection on a daily basis ... There is extreme pressure to be thin, beautiful and interesting at all times," H told Fashionista.com. "It's hard for models to speak up about the uncomfortable parts of the job because we don't want to disappoint our agents, and because we are so disposable to clients ... This account is a place where models can laugh about the absurd parts of the industry, and it also shows agents and clients how we really feel." And it turns out there's a lot of "absurd" stuff to laugh at:
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I was born and raised in Tuscaloosa as an Auburn fan. I am a biochemistry major at Auburn and hope to pursue a Master's degree in General Science Secondary Education after I graduate. I am a member of the Honors College at Auburn. Through the Honors Serves Organization, I tutor local high school students for the ACT. I also work as a barista at a cafe and pretend to know a lot about coffee. I first fell in love with Chemistry in my high school Chemistry class thanks to my incredible teacher. My career goal is to show high school students how interesting and enjoyable chemistry can be just like my teacher did in high school and hopefully teach them some valuable life lessons along the way.
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As you've probably noticed, pop culture is having a bit of a superhero moment right now. Sometimes, it feels like every genre movie or TV show has a superhero twist or at least plot structure built into it.
In this era of #PeakSuperhero, it can be easy to lose track of the other supernatural shows on TV, but there are still many fantastical shows that operate outside of the gravitational pull of the superhero genre. So we're taking some time to recognize those brave storytelling souls.
Here are nine supernatural shows that may have been overlooked in this year of superhero mania. If you're looking to take a break from the world of Marvel and DC, but stay within a story where magic, mysticism, and powers are still a thing, why not try one of these gems? Also included below is where to catch up with each, so you can binge over the holidays.


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Two Sixth Form pupils have achieved a significant honour from a prestigious national science competition.
Imogen Camp and Head Girl Gowri Pradeep, Year 13 pupils at the school, recently took part in the British Biology Olympiad, which is open to students in post-16 education studying at school or college.
The competition consists of two, 45-minute multiple choice papers to be taken online under staff supervised exam conditions, with those achieving the highest scores offered the opportunity to attend an award ceremony in London.
There was plenty to celebrate from a Rydal Penrhos perspective, with Imogen further showcasing her immense academic prowess by securing a Gold Award as a result of her exceptional efforts.
Gowri also emerged from the competition with an enormous amount of credit, scooping a Silver Award to add to her exceptional list of achievements during her time at the school.
Senior School Head Sally Ann Harding, said: "This was an outstanding effort from Imogen and Gowri, who are two of Rydal Penrhos' brightest young minds and will undoubtedly go on to great things in the future.
"They embody everything we look to install into our pupils during their education here at Rydal Penrhos, and They can be enormously proud of their continued success and overall influence on school life."
In addition to encouraging and rewarding pupils in their studies, the BBO is the first stage in selecting a team to represent the UK at the International Biology Olympiad (IBO).
The IBO seeks to challenge by both theory and practical tests some of the top pre-university biology students in the world, with more than 60 countries taking part.
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Despite the UK government's pro-blockchain stance, commercial banks have put a dozen or more bitcoin exchanges out of business by denying or withdrawing facilities. Without a fundamental change in approach, the banking sector will hamstring progress in this 'bleeding-edge' sector of fintech, forcing cryptocurrency entrepreneurs to work outside of the national banking system in the process.
Of course bitcoin is perfectly legal in the UK although unregulated, but the hub of the matter centres on the banks' attitude to the cryptocurrency in this country and that they "won't play nice". That is according to one crypto protagonist I spoke to at the recently held Blockchain Expo London event late this January.
And, so it would appear given recent history in the sector with a host of exchanges having hit the buffers and gone out of business - all despite the British government's approach to blockchain.
Just take the following email message issued by Cryptopay, a bitcoin brokerage. It will barely have come as a surprise to the majority of Cryptopay's British customers, especially those who have been active in the bitcoin world for more than a few months.
"I regret to inform you that starting from 1st February, British Pound deposits and withdrawals are no longer supported by Cryptopay due to updated bank policies."
It's a message that has been repeated time and time again ever since bitcoin first gained a measure of popularity in the UK, and with it, the need to exchange the digital currency for Sterling (GBP).
Cryptopay allows people to buy and sell bitcoin easily. Not so easily any more, however. Cancellation of GBP deposit and withdrawal facilities means they are limited to SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) transfers, making the service all but useless to most British customers.
Neither is Cryptopay alone. Over the past three or four years, perhaps a dozen or more UK bitcoin exchanges and brokerages have launched and floundered as their banking facilities were withdrawn. They ended up with either awkward workarounds or sinking entirely.
Indeed, in 2015 around eleven bitcoin firms across the globe were reported and profiled by Coindesk to have been shuttered for various reasons including heightened competition and insufficient cash. According to another source (bravenewcoin.com) reporting in late October 2015 "at the very least 36 bitcoin exchanges" had folded.
Britcoin, later to be re-branded Intersango, launched in 2011. Before it ultimately shut down for good, it had repeated problems with UK bank transfers, detailed in one of its updates from August 2012 (their site is now defunct) that read as follows.
"Bridging the gap between the conventional banking system and bitcoin is a challenging and expensive task. We have had many issues dealing with the conventional banking system; missing transfers, crippling technical issues, accounts frozen without warning, and even accounts closed without warning."
Later, in early 2014 Bit121 launched when bitcoin was emerging into the light. The same happened. After a promising start, banking facilities were withdrawn and the exchange was no longer able to function.
Another outfit, 'In Bitcoin We Trust' (ibwt.co.uk), suffered the same problem. For a while, as they tried to cling on by their fingernails, they resorted to using postal orders, of all things.
Coinfloor, currently one of the only UK exchanges in operation, uses international SWIFT transfers, which incur a significant cost and delay; as a result, the minimum transfer in is £1,000 (c.$1,250).
UK Peer-to-Peer Services
Instead of traditional exchanges, the UK has a series of peer-to-peer services that match individual buyers and sellers. Sellers are typically trusted individuals, where trust is established by feedback and reputation.
They work by pairing a buyer and seller for a specific amount of bitcoin. Once the buyer has paid - typically with a bank transfer - the seller sends the bitcoins. It gets around the problem of centralized organizations that can be shut down by the bank.
However, the anxiety that pervades bitcoin businesses in the UK is evident here too. On at least one popular site, buyers are instructed never to include 'bitcoin' in the payment reference, on pain of being permanently banned from using the service.
UK versus Other Nations
So what's the picture in other jurisdictions around the globe. Well, Russia has just relaxed its regulatory stance and adopted a 'wait-and-see' approach, which has effectively legalized bitcoin and made it possible to open exchanges there.
Other countries are much more progressive. Switzerland, for example, has made it very easy to buy bitcoins through a large network of ATMs on their rail system, and recently in the town of Zug a system was trialled for paying bills using bitcoin.
The same in Japan, where it's possible to pay electricity bills with bitcoin. America has a more complicated regulatory framework, but things are becoming much clearer since the BitLicense was implemented in 2015. Many states are now following New York's approach.
China is also clarifying its position somewhat. Bitcoin is legal there, but they appear to be taking a 'caveat emptor' approach. The People's Bank of China recently met with a number of big Chinese exchanges, after which they stopped the highly leveraged trading for which these exchanges are well known. Much of the volume was believed to be fake as they had zero-trading fees.
Fintech versus Banks
You could understand why banks might once have been reluctant to deal with transactions from bitcoin exchanges.
A few years ago, bitcoin was best known to the public as the means by which drugs could be bought on the Internet's dark markets - chiefly the Silk Road, which was raided by the FBI in October 2013. Its borderless and quasi-anonymous nature meant that it could also be a useful vehicle for money laundering.
But that was then and this is now. Bitcoin has come a long way since the days of the Silk Road, and there is a fast-growing segment of the fintech industry that makes use of both bitcoin itself and the wider blockchain technology that it pioneers.
The mismatch between government and the banking sector may also appear as odd. The UK government is vocally pro-blockchain research and development, as last year's 'Distributed Ledger Technology: Beyond block chain' (Jan 2016) report and the activity around it unequivocally demonstrate.
Some say we are in a bizarre situation where the British government claims we are open for business, but the banking sector stands threateningly in the doorway.
Remember too that these are not distinct entities. Since the financial crisis the taxpayer has been a majority shareholder in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the bank that fell hardest and required the largest bailout. That stake stands at some 82%, and at the time of writing there is no immediate appetite to reduce it. RBS simply isn't ready yet. That ought to form an important piece of leverage.
Britain has a reputation for being a fintech hub with London at its beating heart, and aspires to blaze a trail in the promising new world of blockchain application. The banking sector has evidently taken exception to that.
It probably does not help matters that, right at this moment, UK banks are facing another existential threat: the reality that, out of the European Union (EU), London could lose its status as a global financial hub. Several have already taken the decision or are seriously considering moving their headquarters out of The City.
But whether for fear of competition, over-caution around fraud and money-laundering, or simply a laziness to change course regarding something that was once primarily associated with drug purchases, they seem to have closed ranks and apparently taken the collective decision not to work with bitcoin-related businesses.
Closing The Loop
Fiat money, created and curated by banks, is inherently centralized. The central bank creates central bank money, which includes physical coins and notes as well as the electronic central bank reserves that are written into existence in Quantitative Easing.
Commercial banks create the majority of the money supply, by lending money into being - not, as is popularly believed, by lending out customer deposits - even under a fractional reserve system.
This centralization of seigniorage - derived from Old French 'seigneuriage' (right of the lord (seigneur) to mint money) - and of the payments system is diametrically opposed to bitcoin's decentralized money creation and complete freedom over payments. The nature of bitcoin is that transactions cannot be reversed or blocked, since there is no intermediary to carry out a transfer on your behalf - as regular payment processors do.
Perhaps it's no wonder the two systems don't interface well - they are the financial equivalent of oil and water. And, addressing this problem without the assistance of the banking sector is not straightforward.
Money cannot easily flow from the blockchain economy into the traditional financial sector and vice versa without that co-operation.
Ideally this would not be necessary: money would circulate within the bitcoin economy as bitcoins. Goods and services would be paid for in bitcoin and the recipients would themselves spend those bitcoins. In reality, of course, this doesn't happen. The sector is not large enough to offer all the goods and services required to make bitcoin a broad enough means of payment.
Moreover, bitcoin's volatility means it's not really suited as a unit of account or store of value. It's a great medium of transfer, but its price against fiat fluctuates too much for most people's comfort.
This can make for something of a chicken and egg situation. The bitcoin economy won't expand until bitcoin is more suited as a means of payment; it won't be better suited without greater growth and stability. But if it's not possible to close the loop of the bitcoin/blockchain economy in this way, perhaps it's possible to expand it.
Fiat On The Blockchain
'Real' money - the fiat pounds Sterling (GBP) issued by central and commercial banks - is not going out of fashion any time soon. It has problems. In some cases some say it's barely fit for purpose. But we need it, because being as it is issued by banks and governments, that's how we pay for our mortgages, taxes, loans and much else besides. And, with the help of the right blockchain it could be improved with relatively little effort.
Now if we take as an example Waves, a custom blockchain-powered tokens platform that raised over $16m last summer through crowdfunding, it makes it easy to create your own crypto tokens, which can be used to represent whatever you want. These can be sent anywhere, almost instantly, thanks to the borderless and efficient nature of the blockchain.
Making Waves
Key to Waves' overall strategy is creating fiat-backed blockchain tokens. Here the idea is that a trusted organization - a bank or other financial institution of some kind - will act as a gateway between the fiat world and that of the blockchain.
In practice, this involves holding fiat money in a fully insured, audited account and issuing tokens representing each unit of it on the Waves blockchain. Customers pay money into the gateway using a bank transfer or other suitable means, and the gateway issues them with the same sum in blockchain tokens. For example, £1,000 is added to their account, and they send 1,000 wavesGBP to the customer.
The same exchange happens in reverse when customers want to cash out their wavesGBP and have them sent as 'real' GBP (Sterling) to their bank account. Each gateway is responsible for compliance in their jurisdiction. Waves is essentially the toolkit.
This naturally raises the same issue that exchanges have: if the UK's banks are anti-bitcoin and anti-blockchain money more generally, how do you get them to co-operate by letting organizations issue GBP tokens in the first place?
In practice, this step can be dealt with in much the same way as the exchanges do it - by using foreign banking facilities and moving money around using SEPA or SWIFT transfers. Yes, the costs are the same, but that may not matter so much as it does for bitcoin, because the result is something very different.
Making Money More Efficient
Sasha Ivanov, the Ukrainian CEO and founder of Waves, commenting said: "Waves isn't trying to replace existing money. We already have money - US dollar (USD), Sterling (GBP), Chinese Yuan (CNY), Euro (EUR). Bitcoin is money too. But we do think we can make money more efficient." Waves is built on the Scorex platform, which is itself based on Scala I, with Bitcoin and its clones being C++ as well as Java being occasionally used.
He added: "By putting fiat money on the blockchain we can make it faster and more transparent and we can reduce costs and times for sending it abroad. By doing so we can introduce competition and encourage the banks to be more accountable."
A graduate in Theoretical Physics from Moscow State University, Ivanov opined further: "If the banking sector in one country won't work with us, we will work with banks in another jurisdiction. The nature of the internet, open source software more generally and blockchains specifically is that they are not confined geographically."
So, if one organization won't work with them another will. Ultimately, according to the Ukrainian "there is nothing to lose by embracing this technology, and much to gain."
Frictionless Fiat
The problem with bitcoin exchanges is the costs involved in moving money into and out of them, and the fact that this is probably a regular requirement for customers.
If you are paid in bitcoin, you will likely want to cash it out to pay bills and buy things. The difference with wavesGBP is that once the money is on the blockchain, it can be used as money - including as a store of value.
There is not such an immediate pressure to cash it out into real GBP, incurring the costs of exchange and transfer involved in the traditional financial system. It can be sent anywhere in the world, almost instantly and at practically zero cost. Furthermore, it can also be used to invest in crowdfunds, which will be one of the Waves platform's chief purposes.
Critically, it will be possible to exchange funds quickly and easily on the built-in decentralized exchange (DEX). And, wavesGBP could be exchanged for wavesUSD or wavesGOLD with minimal cost. One could even exchange it for bitcoin (wavesBTC) and withdraw it via a bitcoin gateway - which is, in fact, the first gateway to be created on Waves.
Now, if you need to cash it out and pay your mortgage, for example, you'll run into the same issues and will incur the gateway's costs. But making blockchain-based money a lot more like fiat money means that storing your tokens doesn't come with the same problems of them fluctuating in value.
Tokens can circulate in the blockchain economy more readily and usefully, without being converted back to fiat. This is because they are essentially already a form of turbocharged, blockchain-powered fiat.
WavesGBP's value is just the same as the Pounds (GBP) in your bank account, but this money can do things that bank-issued money cannot. At that point, expanding the blockchain economy starts to make more sense, because you can build network effect now that businesses and consumers do not have to worry about their money holding its value from day to day.
This does not entirely solve the problems of the UK banking sector's hostile attitude towards bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, but it does suggest that the roadblocks they throw up will not be insurmountable. It's just that the answer will be to work around them rather than with them.


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Component/s: vsphere-cloud-plugin
Environment:Jenkins ver. 2.89.2, vsphere-cloud 2.16
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After upgrading from jenkins 2.73.3 to 2.89.2, the configuration screen 'jenkins/configure' load fails when drawing 'template' select box from plugin.
When vsphere-cloud-plugin is removed then everything works fine.
please leave it open, because i do not understand what you did that the issue is solved
i tested the installation on a clean jenkins and was not able to add a Vsphere Cloud. I tested it on an upgrade and got the hanging configuration.
So what ever I wrote helped you to fix it - please help me to understand
I just disabled the vSphere plugin (without uninstall), then downloaded hpi again and I've installed it manually. After restart everything works.
did you had to add the configuration for the vsphere cloud again or was is it still there ( because you didn't uninstalled it)? is the launching for the jenkins agent working?
Yes, I needed to add the configuration again (it was empty after deactivation). I did not uninstall it to avoid losing dependencies. I can't test "Slave virtual computer running under vSphere Cloud" still.
This is caused by the core bug that does not install command-launcher plugin even though it should, resulting in ClassNotFoundError.
Will be fixed towards 2.89.3, is already fixed in the weeklies.


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Six trade unions representing employees at the Honolulu Advertiser voted yesterday to authorize a strike.
The unions have been working under contract extensions since June 9, when the previous contract expired.
While the possibility of a strike is not immediate, union officials hope the vote will send a message to management that employees want to continue bargaining.
"The idea isn't to get a strike; the idea is to get a settlement that can be fair and that we can live with," said Wayne Cahill, administrative officer of the Hawaii Newspaper Guild.
Lee Webber, the newspaper's publisher and president, said the company has been sincerely working with the union's negotiating committee.
Unionized employees of the Honolulu Advertiser overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike yesterday.
The vote was 358-17.
"It shows the members are resolved to get a better contract," said Wayne Cahill, administrative officer of the Hawaii Newspaper Guild, one of six unions representing 600 Advertiser employees. "The members aren't buying what the company is selling."
Lee Webber, president and publisher of the Advertiser, said in a statement that the company has been "sincerely" working with the Hawaii Newspaper and Printing Trades Council, an umbrella group representing the six unions at the paper.
"Our belief is that we can come to an agreement," Webber said.
While last night's vote approves a strike, such an action would be at least 30 days away, Cahill said.
"There's a lot of work involved in setting up a strike," he said. "We'd rather put that energy into bargaining a contract, but this company won't bargain with us."
Union officials hope the vote shows the paper, which is owned by Gannett Co. Inc., that employees stand united in their desire for a better contract.
"We want to negotiate," said Mike Leidemann, an Advertiser reporter and president of the Hawaii Newspaper Guild. "We want them to come back to the table, and I think this sends a tremendous message; we're not going to roll over, just accept what they want."
More than 300 employees packed into a meeting hall at the International Longshore and Warehouse Union offices in Honolulu. After a private meeting, employees met with their respective unions and turned in their ballots.
The six unions at the paper represent printers, distributors, mail room workers, reporters, ad reps, circulation employees and others who are not management.
Union leaders say the company has not bargained with the unions. The company did not meet with the union from June to November, then on Jan. 25 presented a final offer that could be implemented if not ratified within 30 days.
The proposed contract would be retroactive from June 10, 2007, and run to March 1, 2009. The employee's last contract expired June 9 but continues because of an extension agreement.
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Ian Rutka, a sales rep at the paper, supported the strike authorization vote because he said the proposed contract was a "step backwards."
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ere is the finally finished knit project, that I unraveled and redid.
I loved working with this yarn and I am happy to be done! It is very warm and can be used as a scarf also, but Floridians may look at me funny… I am a little bit unsure of it as a shoulder wrap and wore it a little further up on my neck with my black jacket because it is so cold out today! I feel like Florida has had an actual winter this year. I like it; lets keep it! I also heard that it's been snowing in New York, an obscene amount of snowfall, and I am hoping we aren't going to freeze on our honeymoon! You can't pack light for winter.


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Can't even make this stuff up.
Azealia Banks calls it like she sees it.
A video of Banks cursing out a flight attendant and calling him a "******* ******" then spitting in another man's face went viral this week, and Banks remains unapologetic. Soon after, Banks used the publicity to promote her music via Twitter, but the backlash was apparently too much. In an effort to defend herself, Banks unleashed her racial fury today (Sep. 24), and left us a bit speechless.
She posted on Twitter today: "Whiteness may be a mental Illness. the general disregard for other people's struggle that white folk generally have is not of this earth."
Whiteness may be a mental Illness. the general disregard for other people's struggle that white folk generally have is not of this earth— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 24, 2015
And if all the pharmaceutical companies have a pill for every emotional disorder why don't they invent something to cure whiteness?— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 24, 2015
Why have they not invented a pill to save the planet from whiteness? There has to be someway to affect that reptilian cortex and fix it.— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 24, 2015
The peoples of the world are drowning in white language, white culture, white religions, white ideals. Who is gonna save us from it?— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 24, 2015
Need a recap of what went down earlier this week that's causing Banks to spiral?
A passenger sitting next to Banks tells TMZ, when the Delta flight landed just before 1 AM Tuesday, Azealia made a beeline for the front door. She had been sitting in seat 6A but a French couple in the 3rd row was blocking her exit as they pulled their luggage from the overhead bin.
The eyewitness says Azealia tried to squeeze by the couple when the French man put his hand out. Azealia went nuts. The eyewitness says she spit in the man's face, punched him in the face and clawed at his shirt.
At that point the flight attendant grabbed Azealia's bag and told her to calm down. She lost her balance, fell to the seat, stood up and then a tug-of-war over the luggage ensued. This is where the video begins.
Azealia demands to take her bag and leave, and eventually calls the flight attendant a "f***ing f***ot" — a homophobic slur.
The the co-pilot came out and told Azealia the police were called. She then ran off the plane, dropping her cell phone.
Police caught up with Azealia at baggage claim and spoke with witnesses as well, but the French couple decided not to press charges because they were here on holiday and didn't want the hassle.
Azealia claims the French man actually hit her in the face. She adds, "I don't tolerate bitchassness and I don't tolerate men putting their hands on me."
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