Pope Francis urged drowsy and dull kids to swap their sofas and video games for walking boots on Saturday at an international Catholic youth festival in Poland.
He advised sitting-room furniture devoted the illusion of safety from ache, fear or worries, permitting the sitter to kick back and lose themselves for hours in the latest television reveal or their smartphones.
For many people it is easier and better to have drowsy and dull children who confound happiness with a sofa, he told an estimated one million people gathered at a vigil in a vast plain near Krakw.
Dear young people, we didnt come into the world to vegetate … We came for another reason: to leave a mark, he said.
The times we live in do not call for young couch potatoes but for young person with shoes, or better, boots laced.
Francis, 79, told being constantly glued to screens where the terrible events of the world become simply another story on the evening news numbed youngsters to the agony of others.
He prayed for war-torn Syria, quoting a pilgrim from the towns of Aleppo who had witnessed before the pope and crowds of the fight between life and death in her forgotten city.
Our response to a world at war has a name: fraternity, he said.
The pontiff had said on his arrival in Poland on Wednesday that the world was at war. His visit came a day after the jihadist murder of a priest in France and in the wake of a series of attacks in Europe.


Open Minded Debate: Is Tribalism a Problem in the Somali Diaspora?
Every month, the Anti Tribalism Movement hosts a debate that allows people to contribute to a positive, constructive and enlightening discussion about an issue that affects our community.
These Open Minded Debates have allowed those who take part to air their concerns in front of a group of panelists in an effort to work toward potential resolutions. Last week, SOAS university welcomed the first OMD of 2018. The topic for January's debate was 'is tribalism a problem in the Somali diaspora'.
Tribalism remains deeply embedded within Somali community; meaning people in the diaspora can feel its residual effects. In Somalia, clans are evenly represented in the nation's parliament through the 4.5 formulas, whereby the four dominant clans are given ¼ representation while marginalized clans are given the remaining half. Many view this as illegitimate, favouring clan politicians who use tribalism to further their own agenda.
At last week's OMD, the goal was to discuss the impact of this political clanism on the country, the role of tribes in the peace-process of Somalia and, most importantly, whether tribalism remains a problem in the Somali diaspora.
The debate was headed up by two panelists: Dr Yusuf Sheikh Omar, Research Associate at SOAS university and a peace and reconciliation practitioner in Somalia; and Adam Matan, managing director of Anti-Tribalism Movement and an expert on conflict resolution, tribalism and community leadership.
Matan, who felt the first step towards it must entail the deconstruction of myths and narratives surrounding tribalism, echoed this. It is an issue deeply entrenched with communities, so building bonds between different groups will require a shift in mindset.
Ultimately, to diminish the divisions between tribes and clans will require the cooperation of all Somalis, both at home and in the diaspora. 'We need to work together to fight against discrimination in the Somali community,' Matan concluded.
If you would like to attend next month's Open Minded Debate, be sure to check our Facebook page for updates about February's event.
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What is copyediting, anyway?
'Copy' just means any piece of text that's going to be published or submitted for review. It could be text for a website, business literature such as brochures, maybe a job application. Or it could be a longer piece of writing, such as an academic text or even a full-length novel.
Copyediting is working with this text to make sure that sentences flow smoothly and logically. This means ensuring that grammar and punctuation are correct and that there aren't any glaring typos, off-putting repetitions, or odd word choices.
There are many different elements involved in copyediting, and the services offered by one editor under this banner may be different from another. This is what I do as part of my comprehensive copyediting service:
Work at paragraph level, examining sentence structure and making sure that writing is clear, consistent, and flows well.
Examine word choices, avoiding repetition and making substitutions where necessary.
Revise and re-order some sentences, making suggestions for alternative terms if needed.
Ensure that spelling, grammar, and punctuation are clear and consistent throughout.
Fact-check – I won't check every statement and piece of information in your text, but I will ensure that links are functioning and that names of places, people, and organisations are correct.
Scan for potential legal and copyright issues.
Check for tone, sensitivity, and use of appropriate terminology.
What is proofreading, anyway?
Proofreading is the final step for a piece of text, right before publication. By this stage, all of the content will have been finalised and the text will have been copyedited. The proofreading stage is like a final quality check.
As part of my full proofreading service, I will:
Scan for errors, including typos, grammatical mistakes, and incorrect punctuation.
Check page numbering, headers and footers, and references.
Ensure consistency in use of font and style.
Check formatting, including line spacing and use of paragraph breaks.
But I already have a spelling and grammar check in Microsoft Word.
Doesn't this do the same job?
No! Honestly, it really doesn't. Spellcheck is a useful tool, but it can't compete with the services of a professional proofreader. All spellcheck does is highlight words which are spelled incorrectly, according to a pre-programmed list. That's it.
It won't pick up instances where you've repeated the word, or where you've typed the wrong word but spelled it correctly. For example:
Manager/Manger
Excited/Exited
Compiles/Complies
Lose/Loose
Through/Though
Assess/Asses
And of course, that perennial favourite of editors everywhere:
Public/Pubic*
*Although this is funny, it cannot compete with my favourite typo of all time. When we work together, I'll let you know what that is!
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Genres across the Disciplines: Student Writing in Higher Education
Hilary Nesi, Sheena Gardner
Genres across the Disciplines presents the first detailed descriptive account of assessed writing in UK higher education sectors across more than 30 disciplines, from first year undergraduate to postgraduate level. The authors apply a sophisticated framework to examine how the core functions of explaining, developing arguments, reporting research and preparing for professional life shape the writing produced by university students.
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How Do Truck Drivers Provide ELD Driver Logs to Police?
The truck driver, coolly, confidently directing 50,000 pounds of steel, rubber and cargo down the wonderful highway – the quiet rumble of a 14.8-liter engine generating 500 horse power. This is the life of the cowboy, the rugged sojourner, taking in the wild aroma of freedom and adventure.
While the American landscape paints a hardy picture of this free-spirited individualism, drivers inevitably must confront the realities of modern law enforcement and federal regulations, which includes hours-of-service monitoring. By December 2017, all commercial trucks will have to be equipped with electronic logging devices. The question becomes: How do truck drivers provide ELD driver logs to officers?
While all of ABCO Transportation trucks are equipped with ELDs, transmitting ELD driver logs to officers during traffic stops warrant explanation.
ELD Mandate Requires Drivers Provide Logs to Officers
Industry expert Annette Sandberg examined aspects of the federal government's ELD mandate during a conference with FleetOwner, an online information source for fleet leaders. Sandberg was an administrator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and deputy administrator for the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Preliminary versions of the mandate underwent numerous revisions during its development in order to establish a set of regulations with the aim of making public roads safer and protecting drivers. Fleets and drivers are responsible for adhering to the mandate's requirements of equipping their trucks with the devices, which replace paper recording of hours of service.
Once the mandate goes into effect in December 2017, drivers must demonstrate to enforcement officers that their trucks are compliant with mandate requirements.
"The ELD rule requires certain transfer capabilities for all devices. An ELD provider must decide which type of transfer capability they will have," Sandberg said.
There are two types of capabilities:
Peer-to-Peer Transfer (Local Transfer): This requires the ELD (or eLogs) manufacturer to have both Bluetooth and USB 2.0 available
Telematics Transfer (Electronic Transfer): This requires the ELD (or eLogs) manufacturer to have both web services and SMTP email available.
"These two types of transfer methods allow roadside enforcement to download the driver's logs," Sandberg said. "If for some reason the 'transfer' methods do not work, the device must allow the roadside officer to see the display without entering the truck.
"The new rule has additional data that must be on the display including items such as the driver's CDL number, beginning and ending odometer, and ELD malfunctions to name a few."
Read our earlier articles explaining how the ELD mandate affects drivers and shippers. If you have more questions about the ELD driver logs, contact us today.


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Parada – w jeździectwie stan konia uzyskiwany poprzez działanie pomocy jeździeckich, zakończony zatrzymaniem konia. Podczas parady koń jest w pełni skupiony na pomocach, jeździec zaś musi być pewien, że przekazuje koniowi komunikat. Ciężar konia powinien być równomiernie rozłożony na wszystkich kończynach, a potylica powinna być najwyższym punktem jego ciała. Koń powinien pozostawać w zebraniu, uważny i gotów do reakcji na sygnały jeźdźca.

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Q: In iOS, selected cell should move to top portion without any disturbance in UITableView I asked one doubt yesterday, here at this link
In that I got 4 answers. Those 4 answers helped me to solve my problem. But now in same scenario, I have another issue. When I open 3rd cell it opens in same place.

I want to close that cell, so I press the button then it closes successfully. but the issue is after closed, it goes to top position.

How to solve this issue. I think I did mistake in calling this method scrollToRowAtIndexPath. In my previous question, (Refer the 1st line link) I changed a single line in below described method.
- (void)method_Expand:(UIButton*)sender
{
    int_SelectedIndex = sender.tag;
    [tbl_CalendarList scrollToRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:int_SelectedIndex inSection:0] atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop animated:YES];
    NSLog(@"Selected Button : %ld",(long)int_SelectedIndex);
    if ( int_TempSelectedIndex != int_SelectedIndex)
    {
        int_TempSelectedIndex = int_SelectedIndex;
    }
    else
    {
        int_TempSelectedIndex = -1;
    }
    [tbl_CalendarList reloadData];
}

A: According to your previous question your method_Expand: is called when custom in-cell button is tapped. Try changing your code to:
- (void)method_Expand:(UIButton*)sender
{
    int_SelectedIndex = sender.tag;

    NSLog(@"Selected Button : %ld",(long)int_SelectedIndex);

    if ( int_TempSelectedIndex != int_SelectedIndex)
    {
        int_TempSelectedIndex = int_SelectedIndex;

        [tbl_BlogList scrollToRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:int_SelectedIndex inSection:0] atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop animated:YES];
    }
    else
    {
        int_TempSelectedIndex = -1;
    }
    [tbl_CalendarList reloadData];
}

This way tapped cell will scroll to top only when it is being expanded and not when it is being collapsed.
EDIT: there is another way
- (void)method_Expand:(UIButton*)sender
{
    int_SelectedIndex = sender.tag;

    NSLog(@"Selected Button : %ld",(long)int_SelectedIndex);

    if ( int_TempSelectedIndex != int_SelectedIndex)
    {
        int_TempSelectedIndex = int_SelectedIndex;
    }
    else
    {
        int_TempSelectedIndex = -1;
    }

    [tbl_CalendarList reloadData];

    if (int_TempSelectedIndex >= 0)
    {
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_thread(), ^{
            [tbl_BlogList scrollToRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:int_SelectedIndex inSection:0]
                                atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop
                                        animated:YES];
        });
    }
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Zohar talks to labor lawyer John Provost, this year's Boren Chertkov Resident, about his background in journalism, his law practice, and the book he completed while at Blue Mountain Center.
Zohar talks to Jane McAlevey, activist and author of Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, about writing, organizing, and her upbringing.
Zohar talks to three young leaders in The Encampment for Citizenship, a non-profit organization that conducts residential summer programs with year-round follow-up for young people of widely diverse backgrounds.
Zohar talks to Jenny Johnson, a poet and lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, about her work, her interest in nature, and her residency at Blue Mountain Center.
Luke talks to Jonathan Smucker, an activist/organizer and Berkeley sociology Ph.D. student about his Mennonite background, his work with groups like Iraq Veterans Against the War and Beautiful Trouble, and his new experiences in academia.
Zohar talks to Cali Brooks, Executive Director of the Adirondack Foundation, about the Adirondacks, rural life, and the challenges of philanthropy.
Luke talks to Ashley Makar, editor at Killing the Buddha and author of You Were Strangers: Dispatches from Exile, about her work with refugees, her faith, and her cancer diagnosis.
Zohar talks to poet Jon Sands, author of The New Clean and founding curator of Poets in Unexpected Places, about childhood, activism, therapy, and salad dressing.
We join Kristin Kimball, co-owner of Essex Farm in Essex, NY and author of The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love, to talk about her transformation from city gal to farmhand.
The first episode of the BMC Podcast is here! Hosts Luke Nathan and Zohar Gitlis talk a little bit about themselves and how the podcast's going to be structured. Then Luke joins Aditi Vaidya, Senior Program Officer at the Solidago Foundation, for a short conversation about a conference she planned at BMC called "The New Economy."


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Back in 1991 the British press was full of investigations relating to a particular auction house. Among the stories was the London dealer who denied that he had hidden in a wardrobe during a police raid in India (Sarah Jane Checkland, "Sotheby's expert denies hiding", The Times (London) November 28, 1991).
Hodges explained that Ghiya was "a kind of Indian Medici," whose relationship with Sotheby's was so close that he would stop at Hodges's house in Shepherds Bush on his way into London from the airport to drop off antiques he had carried on the plane.
Think of the impact that Giacomo Medici has had on the world of classical antiquities: museum after museum returning antiquities to Italy ... and who knows what other 1000s (literally) of items have yet to identified.
So Ghiya's role in supplying Indian antiquities is compared to Medici. Keefe continued with the account of Operation Blackhole and the work of Indian superintendent of police, Anand Shrivastava, who is tracking down the looters.
Its estimate was $25000-$35000. It remained unsold. There is no mention of collecting history.
The piece appears to have been mentioned in an earlier report (Antony Barnett, "Sotheby's faces probe on sales of temple loot: The arrest of an Indian millionaire on charges of stealing antiques has raised questions about the role of a famous British auction house in the sale of rare artefacts", The Observer July 6, 2003).
On 22 September 2000, there was a major auction of Indian art and antiques at Sotheby's in New York. One lot in the catalogue was a twelfth-century red sandstone figure that was priced at Dollars 35,000 (pounds 21,000).
Indian police now confirm that this valuable sculpture was stolen from the Vilasgarh temple in September 1999. The theft had been recorded at the local police station.
'Ghiya purchased these idols for one million rupees (pounds 13,000) and smuggled them out of India,' said Srivastava.
Why am I interested in this story? Why should I be curious about Indian antiquities that surfaced without documented histories on the New York market in 2000?
What will be scale of the fallout from the "Ghiya Conspiracy"?


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Mercy Ball Brings In $2.5M For New Cancer Center
Mike Frager, left, Ann Frager, Rob Hixson, Gina Hixson, James Frager, chairman of Scripps Mercy Hospital Foundation Advisory Council, and Devon Frager at Scripps 47th Annual Mercy Ball. Photo courtesy of Bob Ross and Carol Sonstein
Scripps 47th Annual Mercy Ball raised $2.5 million to help fund the construction of the new state-of-the-art Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center on the Scripps Mercy Hospital campus. Nearly 560 people attended the event. The new cancer center will provide the latest in treatments, research and clinical trials, and other support services critical to patients and their families. During the event, William Stanton III, M.D., Scripps Mercy Cancer Center medical director, was recognized for his 46 years of compassionate care with a donor's gift of a $5 million endowed medical directorship. Scripps leaders, physicians, donors and community volunteers gathered at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown San Diego. The Mighty Untouchables band provided the entertainment. Honorary co-chairs of the event were the Mickelson family; Mary, Phil Sr., Phil Jr. and Amy.
Survivors' Stories Show Importance of Mercy Ball's Mission
Mercy Ball Brings in $700,000 to Support Scripps' Facilities
Scripps Mercy to Get $59 Million Cancer Center
Scripps Health Breaks Ground on $59M Cancer Center
Mercy Ball Raises Funds for Breast Cancer Programs
New Chief of Staff Named at Scripps Mercy Hospital
Mercy Ball Brings More Resources to the Fight Against Cancer
Scripps' Spinoff Gala Puts $2.5M Into Cancer Fight


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Stability of Nitrofurantoin in Extemporaneously Compounded Suspensions: METHODS
Preparation of Suspensions
Nitrofurantoin suspensions (10 mg/mL) were prepared by crushing commercially available nitrofurantoin 50-mg tablets (Apotex Inc, Weston, Ontario, lot GE3153) and resuspending the powder in a 1:1 mixture of Ora-Sweet and Ora-Plus (Paddock Laboratories Inc, lots 4140869 and 4040385, respectively). Six replicates were prepared in separate 50-mL amber plastic prescription bottles (Richards Packaging Inc, RIGO Products Division, Gloucester, Ontario; polyvinyl chloride [recycle code 3]). Three of the bottles were stored at 4°C (refrigerated) and 3 at 25°C (room temperature). All bottles were exposed only to fluorescent light in the laboratory.
The physical appearance of the suspensions was evaluated qualitatively at the time of preparation and at weekly intervals up to 91 days. All suspensions were tested for odour and taste and were visually examined for changes in colour (against white and black backgrounds), viscosity, formation of precipitates, and ease of resuspension as samples were collected during the 91-day study period. Immediately after the physical observations were completed, each bottle was manually shaken for 10 s, and 2 samples were drawn. One sample (1.5-mL) was stored at -85°C until day 91, when a single batch analysis was performed by a stability- indicating high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method developed in the authors' laboratory. This method was similar to previously published methods. The second sample (also 1.5-mL) was allowed to equilibrate to room temperature, and the pH was then determined. The pH meter (model 8000, VWR Canlab, Mississauga, Ontario) was calibrated at the beginning of each testing session.
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Preparation of Stock and Standards
Stock solutions of nitrofurantoin at concentrations of 0.50, 1.00, 2.00, 3.00, and 4.00 mg/mL were prepared by diluting nitrofurantoin 4 mg/mL in HPLC-grade acetonitrile (Fisher Scientific, Richmond, British Columbia, lot 042332). The internal standard was furazolidone (Sigma-Aldrich Canada Ltd, Oakville, Ontario, lot 029H1117) at a concentration of 2.0 mg/mL in HPLC-grade acetonitrile. Standards were prepared by combining a 0.5-mL aliquot of each stock solution and a 0.5-mL aliquot of furazolidone 2.0 mg/mL. The final concentrations of nitrofurantoin in the samples injected onto the chromatograph were 0.25, 0.50, 1.00, 1.50, and 2.00 mg/mL. The final concentration of the internal standard was 1 mg/mL. These dilutions achieved optimal chromatographic characteristics. Before injection into the chromatographic system, all standards were passed through a 0.45-pm microfilter (Acrodisc GHP syringe filter, Gelman, Ann Arbor, Michigan, lot 40530) to prevent injection of impurities onto the column.
The HPLC instrumentation (model 2690, Waters Alliance Systems, Waters Ltd, Mississauga, Ontario) consisted of a delivery pump, an automatic injector equipped with a 200-pL injector, a YMC ODSA 4.0 ± 20 mm guard column (Waters Ltd, lot 4044110501), a YMC Pack ODS-AP 6.0 ± 250 mm column (Waters Ltd, lot 062506286W), and an ultraviolet detector set at 250 nm (model 2487 dual-wavelength absorbance detector, Waters Ltd). The mobile phase consisted of a 28:72 (v/v) mixture of acetonitrile and 10 mmol/L KH2PO4 salt buffer (Sigma-Aldrich Canada Ltd, lot 101K0025) at pH 3.0. All solvents were HPLC-grade and were filtered before use. The flow rate was set at 1.75 mL/min.
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A 5-point calibration curve was prepared, with a blank (acetonitrile only) at the beginning of each run, to ensure that there was no carry-over from one run to the next. The range of this calibration curve (0.25 to 2.00 mg/mL) encompassed the diluted (1.00 mg/mL) test concentration of nitrofurantoin. The calibration curve was generated by least-squares regression of the peak area ratio of nitrofurantoin to furazolidone and the concentration of each standard. The precision of the assay was evaluated by intraday and interday validation methods. Intraday variability was determined by running 0.50, 2.00, and 3.00 mg/mL stock solutions (diluted to standards of 0.25, 1.00, and 1.50 mg/mL) in quadruplicate throughout a single day, and interday variability was determined by running the same concentrations (as in the testing for intraday variability) in quadruplicate daily for 4 days. The means, standard deviations, and coefficients of variation were then calculated. The acceptable limit for the coefficients of variation was defined a priori as less than 10%.
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SF City Attorney Investigating Potentially Unlicensed COVID Testing Company
By Andria Borba January 11, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Filed Under:Coronavirus, COVID-19, San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced Tuesday his office is investigating a local COVID testing operator that could be working without a license.
Chiu recently sent a letter to testing company Community Wellness America, Inc. asking for proof that it obtained the proper licenses to operate within the city.
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"It would be unacceptable if there are rogue actors who are trying to exploit the situation, setting up unlicensed testing facilities to try and make a quick buck," said San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu. "We're specifically looking for a specific federal license that these operators are supposed to have."
In a press release, Chiu said the letter was part of a new operation with the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) to track down unlicensed testing operators in the city.
"During this Omicron surge, ensuring the integrity of our COVID testing operations is of the utmost importance," said Chiu. "Our testing capacity is stretched to the maximum right now, and there is understandable anxiety about finding a test."
Chiu's office said that it received reports of Community Wellness America, Inc. possibly operating without a license starting Jan. 5. The company hosted testing sites near Golden Gate Park and Dolores Park among other areas, and when asked, those pop-up testing operations were unable to produce valid, up-to-date Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) licenses, according to reports.
At the corner of Dolores and 18th Streets on Monday, the company had set up a pop-up testing site. On Tuesday, that site was gone and the company was under investigation by the city.
San Francisco requires all testing operators to have a valid CLIA license issued by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which they can receive by demonstrating they use only FDA-approved COVID tests.
"Private testing operators do not need to obtain a license from the San Francisco Department of Public Health in order to perform COVID tests in San Francisco," Chiu's office said. "However, if an operator intends to conduct testing on city property or block a public right-of-way, the operator must have a permit issued by the San Francisco Department of Public Works."
KPIX did some checking into Community Wellness America and found a number of details.
IRS documents reveal the organization is 501c3 – a tax exempt public charity. The certificate on display at the pop-up site next to Mission High School was for its partner, Crestview Clinical Laboratories — which is supposed to test all the samples, but that certificate had expired in November. KPIX found a federal website indicating it actually expires at the end of this month.
Chiu is concerned about whether the tests being handed out are valid along with other issues.
"In addition to individuals who may not be getting tests that are legitimate, licensed or authorized, we are concerned at the same time members of the public might be having their personally identifiable information taken by those rogue operators and used for who knows what," said Chiu.
No one know if it that is the case with Community Wellness America. The medical director told KPIX he was surprised the lab certificate had expired, but didn't answer any other questions.
A testing site would be allowed to operate on the sidewalk in San Francisco with a permit from the Department of Public Works. DPW tells KPIX that no such permit exists for Community Wellness America anywhere near Mission High School or in the city at all.
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KPIX tried to contact the owner of Community Wellness America. He is licensed to practice acupuncture in the State of California, but has yet to return any calls or emails.
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United Supermarkets, Market Street selling at-home COVID-19 test kits, starting Oct. 12
Posted: Oct 8, 2020 / 02:32 PM CDT / Updated: Oct 8, 2020 / 02:32 PM CDT
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — United Supermarkets and Market Street will begin selling at-home COVID-19 test kits to customers, starting Monday, Oct. 12.
The test kit is a partnership between United Supermarkets and Market Street parent company, United Family, and Phosphorus Diagnostics.
In a press release, Tim Purser, United Family Director of Pharmacy, said, "Some of the advantages of these at-home testing kits include no appointments, no lines and best of all, no uncomfortable nasal swab."
Though the process of getting an at-home test is not like getting any other item at the grocery store.
Customers who want to purchase an at-home test kit must complete the following steps, according to the press release:
Visit scheduletest.com to complete a medical questionnaire and request a test.
A United Family pharmacist will authenticate the information, review and order the test
Next, the customer will be contacted about payment and get a notification that the test kit is ready. Guests may pick up the test kit or have it delivered/shipped to their address
Then, guests will complete the sample collection and send it to the lab with the prepaid shipping envelope
Within 72 hours or less, the guest will receive their results
The press release also states United Family will not be able to bill insurance for the test so customers will have to pay out-of-pocket for the test; however, guests can get reimbursements from their insurance companies by sending a receipt of their purchase.
As for a price, the United Family press release did not indicate how much the company will charge for the test.
by PJ Green / Jan 16, 2021
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Tax season is right around the corner.
That's why preparers with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program are getting ready to assist those throughout the community.
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — At the North Texas State Hospital, more than 970 vaccines were administered as part of the Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health District's vaccine clinic.
This clinic was appointment-based and was a partnership between the health district, Wichita County Judge Woody Gossom, the state hospital and the community healthcare center.
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health District announced it will be receiving almost 2,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine next week.
Health district officials said they are not sure the exact date they will be getting the doses, but said it will be during the week beginning on Monday, Jan. 18.


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If the CIA can compromise our gadgets, can't others do the same?
By Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff,March 8, 2017, 6:00 a.m.
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at its headquarters in Langley, Va.(Carolyn Kaster/AP/file 2016)
Oh great. Now I have to worry the Central Intelligence Agency is spying on me through my Samsung television set, intercepting my text messages, and using the phone's camera to secretly photograph me.
Not likely, but all too possible. According to the shocking data dump on Tuesday by the radical anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, the agency could infiltrate billions of devices worldwide. And here's a bigger worry: If the CIA can compromise our gadgets, any reasonably bright foreign spy, cyber-crook, or terrorist will eventually be able to do the same. The WikiLeaks report suggests the CIA is doing nothing to prevent this — on purpose.
The CIA has declined to comment. But according to the WikiLeaks dump, the agency has collected dozens of "zero-day exploits." These are security flaws in software operating programs such as Apple iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows that let an intruder illicity seize control of a digital device. "Zero-day" is tech-speak for a flaw that no one else knows about. Spies love zero-days because they can infiltrate a system for days, weeks, or months before being detected.
WikiLeaks claims the CIA, in cooperation with the United Kingdom's spy agency MI5, developed an attack that secretly activates the microphone on Samsung Corp.'s smart TV sets, allowing agents to remotely record conversations in hotel suites or conference rooms.
Other zero-day bugs allow spies to intercept text messages and voice calls sent on Apple or Android phones. It doesn't matter if the user has an app like Signal or Telegram that encrypts traffic; the bug captures the data before it becomes encrypted.
These exploits represent extraordinary work by brilliant engineers, and frankly, it makes me proud to be an American. But it also poses a nasty problem. The same bugs that make these exploits possible could eventually be uncovered by America's enemies, or even by common criminals.
Shouldn't the intelligence community protect us by reporting the problems to the software makers?
"It's a real conundrum," said Stuart Madnick, cybersecurity expert and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. "Currently, the mission of the CIA and the NSA is to be spies," not to help secure domestic data networks, Madnick said. "Revealing the zero-days would not be an obvious part of their mission."
Except that in 2010 the Obama administration made it a policy that when intelligence agencies discover such bugs, they should help software makers find and fix them. The agencies can apply for an exception in special cases, but those must be approved by a review board made up of senior executives of several agencies, including the departments of Homeland Security and Commerce.
The Obama administration publicly acknowledged the tricky balance between disclosing vulnerabilities and exploiting them for intelligence advantage.
"Too little transparency and citizens can lose faith in their government and institutions, while exposing too much can make it impossible to collect the intelligence we need to protect the nation," Michael Daniel, Obama's cybersecurity coordinator, wrote in a post on the White House home page in 2014.
Yet the WikiLeaks report claims the CIA has 24 zero-day exploits for Android devices alone, as well as an unspecified number for Apple iOS devices.
In addition, the CIA allegedly has developed ways to compromise computers running the major operating systems, Apple's Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.
And the agency told nobody.
Kade Crockford, director of the Technology For Liberty project at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said the spy agency's decision not to warn about these bugs poses a major security problem for users of digital devices worldwide.
"The fact that these documents leaked is evidence that it's very, very hard to keep a lid on this stuff," Crockford said. "As soon as this information is leaked or stolen, millions and millions of people are at risk."
WikiLeaks says it's in possession of the actual software code — several hundred million lines of it. But the same organization that cheerfully subverted Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign through a series of leaked e-mails has decided it's too dangerous to publish the attack software — for now, at least.
"Once a single cyber 'weapon' is 'loose' it can spread around the world in seconds, to be used by rival states, cyber mafia, and teenage hackers alike," WikiLeaks warned.
For privacy absolutists there's an easy answer: Make it mandatory for spy agencies to report all zero-day bugs, so they can be fixed. That might cripple America's ability to spy on rival nations, or on terrorists. People in the intelligence community call this "going dark."
But Bruce Schneier, a security software developer and a fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, said living with billions of easily hackable devices is far worse. "A dark world where nuclear power plants can't be hacked is safer than a bright world in which they can," Schneier said.
Maybe there's a middle path. Perhaps our spies could be given, say, one year to exploit each new bug. Then they'd be required to report it — no exceptions, no appeal. That would cut the risk to public safety and give the spies time to find new ways to raid our systems.
It's an imperfect solution, perhaps no solution at all. But there's no going back to the old ways. WikiLeaks has seen to that.
Hiawatha Bray can be reached at hiawatha.bray@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeTechLab.


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Lou Williams On Joining Lakers, Leaving Raptors
Lou Williams opens about joining the Lakers, not getting an offer from the Raptors and much more.
On Sunday, the Los Angeles Lakers and Lou Williams agreed to terms on a three-year, $21 million deal. Basketball Insiders' Alex Kennedy caught up with Williams. Here is the full Q&A:
Basketball Insiders: How did this deal come together? When did the Lakers start showing interest in you?
Lou Williams: "Well, they were one of the first teams to reach out to me once free agency began and they just started to touch base with us. At that point, we weren't sure what direction we were heading in because we wanted to see if [returning to] Toronto was going to work out. Then, yesterday, the talks got a little bit more serious and it just looked like a good opportunity for me to take. It really only took, like, five minutes to get done once we entered serious talks."
Basketball Insiders: You've played with a lot of great players throughout your career and now you get to team up with Kobe Bryant.
Lou Williams: "It'll be fun. It'll be an amazing experience. A lot of guys don't get the chance to play with one of the best players in the world. I'm excited, especially with him playing the same position that I play, so hopefully I'll be able to learn from him. I'm looking forward to just being around him. Greatness is contagious. For him, at 36 years old, to be able to still compete at a high level and have success in his career, you have to respect that. Hopefully, I'll be able to pick up some things from him."
Basketball Insiders: I know that being a Laker can be crazy. Ramon Sessions once told me he got chased through a hotel by fans. That Laker Nation fan base is passionate. Have you already experienced that a little bit since it was announced that you would be joining the team?
Lou Williams: "Yeah (laughs). Laker Nation is a real thing! It's real, man. I got a ton of new followers and my social media stuff has been going crazy for the past day now. Laker Nation has been welcoming me, saying they're excited, things of that nature. I'm really looking forward to being part of that culture. It's also an honor to be a part of the rich tradition they have in Los Angeles. To be a part of that, it's going to be something special for me."
Basketball Insiders: They just added you and they're also acquiring guys like Roy Hibbert and Brandon Bass. How good can this Lakers team be next year?
Lou Williams: "We just have to see how we can put everything together. We'll see the final product once we're going into training camp. I appreciate the fact that they are making moves and they are trying to become a competitive playoff team again. They're trying to get back to the winning that they've always had. I'm really looking forward to my future there."
Basketball Insiders: You mentioned the final product, do you think more moves are still to come?
Lou Williams: "We honestly didn't get into that. We didn't have those conversations yet. There was mutual interest, we didn't play games and we just got the deal done quickly. Now, I'm looking [at the rumors] just like everybody else is looking. I'll be traveling to Los Angeles later this week and I'm sure we'll have more conversations then about where the organization is going. Then, we'll see what happens from there."
Basketball Insiders: This is a great opportunity for you, but you're also leaving a situation in Toronto where you were successful, won Sixth Man of the Year and got name-dropped in Drake songs (laughs). Was it tough to move on from the Raptors and leave that organization?
Lou Williams: "Just to speak candidly, it caught me by surprise that we didn't get something done. I made it clear that I wanted to be there and I thought, with the type of year that I had, the feeling would be mutual. Unfortunately, it wasn't. I think they wanted to go in a different direction and become more of a defensive-minded team. With the way that the playoffs ended, I think it left a sour taste in management's mouth and they went out and picked up defensive players. They got DeMarre [Carroll], they got Cory Joseph, they got [Bismack] Biyombo – guys who they feel like can help them on the defensive end. They told me, basically, that I could walk. That was unfortunate, but it'll work out for both sides. They got a guy who is from Toronto, Canada who will replace me in Cory and now I have an opportunity to continue my career as well, so it worked out for everybody."
Basketball Insiders: So just to be clear, they didn't make you an offer?
Lou Williams: "No."
Basketball Insiders: You're known for coming off of the bench and providing that spark. Do you think you can repeat as Sixth Man of the Year and defend your title in Los Angeles?
Lou Williams: "Absolutely. I look forward to it. That's become something that is part of my career and it's a role that I've learned to love over the years. If you're going to be a Sixth Man, if you're going to come off of the bench, you want to be the best one to do it."
Basketball Insiders recently caught up with the newest member of the New York Knicks, Kyle O'Quinn, as well. Check out that Q&A here.
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Latest Manufacturing Outlook survey shows challenges facing the sector are starting to bite
Britain's manufacturers have scaled down their growth forecasts for 2023 in response to the escalating economic crisis and the expected impact on consumers and major markets.
The revision comes in the Q3 Make UK/BDO Manufacturing Outlook survey which is forecasting growth for manufacturing of 0.6% in 2023, down from 1.7% being forecast as recently as June. Make UK has also reduced its GDP forecasts from 3.6% this year to just 0.3% in 2023.
In response, given the potential for the economic situation to deteriorate further, Make UK has reiterated its call for government to bring forward, on Friday 23 September, a package of policy measures on a scale in line with those seen during the worst points of the pandemic. Make UK says this is essential to prevent permanent scarring of the economy, help protect viable companies and avert significant job losses.
The latest Manufacturing Outlook survey shows the challenges facing the sector are starting to bite with growth forecasts reducing / Picture: Getty/iStock
As well as short-term measures, Make UK also reiterated its call for a long-term National Manufacturing Plan which sets out a longer-term vision for the sector and its impact on the economy. The measures in the statement on Friday must build on the actions to help business deal with escalating energy costs, with a range of measures to aid cashflow, provide greater access to labour and encourage investment, especially in energy efficiency technologies.
In a worst-case scenario of companies being asked to stop production or, a reduced working week, government should also introduce an energy furlough scheme similar to that introduced during the pandemic.
Stephen Phipson, chief executive of Make UK, said: "Whilst industry has recovered strongly over the last year, the storm clouds are gathering in the face of eyewatering costs and a very difficult international environment. This threatens to shatter expectations of a sustained recovery from the pandemic and put many perfectly viable businesses at risk. As a result, urgent and decisive action is needed by the Chancellor to help shield the economy and protect companies and jobs, otherwise we risk a permanent scarring of the economy."
Richard Austin, head of manufacturing at BDO, added: "Manufacturers continue to see activity slow, with growing inflationary pressure resulting in uncertainty for the sector. We are seeing input prices at near record levels for the second quarter in a row as profit margins continue to fall. There is great uncertainty across all business sectors, and we welcome government support to help with soaring energy prices.
"We hope the government recognises the particularly uncertain and vulnerable position manufacturers and other energy-intensive industries find themselves in with respect to energy bills, which could stall momentum at a time when the sector needs investment. Substantial investment and ongoing government support are needed to avoid the loss of viable manufacturing businesses and job losses across industries. A commitment to enhance tax incentives to encourage investment in energy-saving plant and machinery would be helpful in the current circumstances."
Make UK has reiterated its call for a long-term National Manufacturing Plan which sets out a longer-term vision for the sector / Picture: Getty/iStock
The measures being proposed by Make UK:
• Reverse the decision to increase NICs that came into force in April 2022
• Extend the business rates relief for retail, hospitality and leisure to include manufacturing and extend to the end of 2023
• Simultaneously undertake a full and fundamental reform of business rates
• Maximise incentives to enable businesses to be less reliant of the grid, including extending the 100% business rates exemption for plant and machinery from 12 months to three years
• Reform of the wholesale electricity market by urgently resetting the current marginal price model in the electricity market
• Expand the current tax exemption for work-related training into a Training Investment Allowance, providing a tax rebate on investment in training for existing employees
• Introduce apprenticeship standard premiums for apprenticeship training where there are shortages and commit to a full review of the Apprenticeship Levy
• Enable full expensing on capital equipment for up to two years then make the increase to the Annual Investment Allowance permanent
According to the survey, the balance on output fell from +10% in Q2 to +5% (Q1 was +24%) with total orders falling from +20% to +15% (+42% in Q1). The domestic market with a balance of +12% (+16% in Q2) continues to outpace the export market which has almost ground to a halt at +3% (+4% in Q2).
Recruitment intentions held up at +10% (9% in Q2) while investment intentions remain flat at +7% (5% in Q2) as companies cut or postpone their plans in response to rapidly escalating costs. The situation on energy costs remains especially acute with 60% of companies in a recent Make UK survey saying the increases were business threatening, with over half saying they expect to see their energy bills double in the next year.
The survey also showed these costs are still being passed on, although the survey suggests this is becoming harder to do. UK prices fell very slightly (+53% from +54%) with export prices falling from +52% to +51%. Significantly, looking forward, both UK and export prices are expected to continue falling to +48% and +42% respectively. While these figures remain high by historical standards, they are a significant reduction on the figures seen over the last year.


Former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is the favourite to replace Antonio Conte, according to the Express.
It seems absurd to even suggest that Conte could be on his way out, having convincingly won the Premier League title just five months ago. However, ever since the Blues lifted the trophy, there has been a grey cloud hovering over the club, and the Express believe that it could force Conte out the exit door.
Ancelotti's time in SW6 was staggering similar to Conte's. He smashed records in winning the title in his debut season, but fell short the next time around and felt the full wrath of the unforgiving Roman Abramovich.
The Express claim that he could now be given a second shot at success at Chelsea. They note that betting firm William Hill has him now as the favourite to replace Conte, with ex-Borussia Dortmund chief Thomas Tuchel the second favourite.
Best case scenario, Conte stays, but if he does depart, there's few better options to replace him that King Carlo.


Almost four years after the Rohtak sisters accused three boys of sexual harassment on a bus. The boys have been acquitted by a Sessions Court in Haryana for the second time on all charges.
Currently working on their farms, they are in desperate need of a job to sustain their lives and their family's.


In 1934, I moved to Florence. I worked nights and had my whole afternoon free. Vittorini was just finishing his translation of Lawrence. He spent the first ten days of every month reading, studying, or writing whatever he liked, and spent the other days translating English and American authors; that's how he made a living. We'd see each other practically every afternoon, latish, and stroll through the city, talking about politics and the books we were reading. Then we'd go to the Giubbe Rosse, a café frequented mainly by contributors to Solaria and foreign writers and artists staying in Florence. I had started my career as a novelist in circles that were unfriendly to the Solarians, but over time my views had shifted and I was increasingly anxious to meet writers who were different from those I had read up till then, to evaluate their opinions, to get some idea of what was being produced outside of Italy. Before long I'd made friends with Montale, with Alessandro Bonsanti, with Arturo Loria. They alerted me to magazines, books, and movements that Vittorini, by this point focused on the English authors, was leaving behind; and from all of them I drew lessons and nourishment.
For a long time our lives ran smoothly, unchanging; the same walks, the same readings, the same women. We often said to each other that no one was better than we were at putting into practice that old Venetian proverb: "Better to let the house burn down than give up a habit."
Somewhere toward the end of 1935 or the beginning of 1936, Elio first met Vasco Pratolini (whom I'd met once as a boy) on Via Toscanella where he lived close to Rosai's house, and it must have been none other than Ottone [Rosai] who introduced us. Vittorini was impressed with the liveliness, the intelligence of the things that Vasco wrote, he'd sensed from the ideas set forth and those merely foreshadowed that this was a young man willing and able to head in the right direction, and he did everything and anything he could think of until he was finally able to meet him in person. This marked the beginning of a warm friendship that lasted until Elio's death. I seem to remember that they met between the first or the second of Pratolini's stays in the sanitarium. Elio patiently explained to Vasco what Fascism really was and that its only true alternative could be Communism. If I'm not mistaken, it was Vittorini who got Vasco's first story published. While Pratolini was in the sanitarium, now Sondalo, for the second time, he and Elio wrote each other every day.
When Vasco came back to Florence, after our usual daily walk Elio and I would go practically every afternoon to a little café called Da Tonino, located in Via Martelli and frequented by old magistrates, whores, and reporters. We'd sit at a table with Ottone Rosai, Bruno Rosai, Berto Ricci, Pratolini, Renzo Grazzini, Bruno Becchi, and a few others.
The friendship between me and Vittorini flourished especially in 1936 and the years that followed, as if a seed long buried underground had germinated more luxuriantly than one that grew and flowered more normally. From 1936 to 1938, except for his short trip to Sardinia—a journey he took as part of a group, as the prize for winning a literary competition—we were never far apart. Even during the summer he'd go to Bocca di Magra and I'd go to Forte dei Marmi, and we saw each other frequently. I remember that I cycled over to see him often with Silvio Guarnieri and his wife.
I'd gotten married and I lived in a house near Elio's, not much more than half a kilometer away. Not a day passed that I, after working until 5:30, didn't go by to get him, or else he would come to my house to take slow walks together around the Fortezza Da Basso and then go on to the Giubbe Rosse. Elio and I enjoyed talking with Montale, Tommaso Landolfi, and Antonio Delfini and every day we would meet someone new there: we met Camillo Sbarbaro, the painter Arturo Tosi, Giorgio Pasquali, and Gianfranco Contini. They all made for pleasurable company. I have a great debt of gratitude to Montale for what he taught me at the time, just as I profited from my friendships with Carlo Bo, Mario Luzi, and Leone Traverso.
Elio was generous and he also found joy in the accomplishments of others. He appreciated my short stories. He said that they were the Italian counterparts of certain American writers' and that it was important that I had achieved those results without knowing those writers, nor was he therefore ever willing to let me read them. I had taken a new and admirable path: I should continue under my own steam. One afternoon he came by to take me out for a cup of coffee. I was just starting to write Conservatorio di Santa Teresa. I asked him to wait a little while: I wanted to finish writing a sentence. There was a stack of pages on a table. Elio started reading them. "Why, this is a beautiful short story," he said. "I'm looking for a novel," I told him. "That was just a beginning, then I headed off in another direction." "These are important new developments for you, plus it's a finished story. There's a landscape here that didn't used to exist in you. I'll take it to Alessandro Bonsanti, for Letteratura," Elio said. "He needs short stories." "At least let me rewrite it," I said to him. "It's a first draft." "I know you," said Elio. "If you rewrite it, you'll transform it or you'll throw it away." He folded the pages, put them in his pocket, and added: "I won't give it back to you." He wouldn't even let me correct the galleys. That was "Anna e Bruno," and it was July of 1937.
Around then Landolfi, Vittorini, Delfini, and I decided to write a novel together. I was supposed to write the first chapter, Vittorini and Delfini would write two more, then Landolfi would write the ending. Each of us would narrate it in our own style, taking the plot of the book as far as he thought right, then the others would carry on from there. We came to an understanding and, at night, Delfini, Landolfi, and Vittorini would often come to see me at the newspaper to talk a little about the work in its broad outlines. I'd already started on it when, dining together one night, Delfini challenged Luzi to a duel because of some misunderstood phrase. I still have the written challenge: a few words scrawled on a scrap of paper. Landolfi, having fun at Delfini's expense, really wanted the duel to take place. But the brief incident didn't rise to the threshold of a duel, and Delfini's seconds, Montale and Sebastiano Timpanaro, wound up settling the matter with Luzi's seconds, Alessandro Parronchi and me, and all it took was a simple verbal clarification, as was only right. Both Delfini, in vengeance, and after him Landolfi, in a fit of rage at having missed the sight of "the soil of Florence drenched with the blood of that Emilian swine," withdrew from the project and the novel wasn't written.
Elio had a very particular concept of literature (entirely and inevitably directed toward a search for symbols, in spite of heroic attempts to set out in other directions) and he also had a very particular concept of literary history. Often he couldn't handle being contradicted. That may explain his rejection of Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard. Occasionally I'd hear someone ringing my doorbell. There I'd find a Brit or a Frenchman or an American sent to see me by Vittorini. They'd ask me to tell them about twentieth-century Italian fiction. "But didn't you ask Vittorini about that?" I would ask. They'd start laughing. "We talked about it for two hours," they would reply, "but then suddenly, as if someone had just called him to order, Vittorini fell silent. With a snicker he told us: 'Maybe I'm too sectarian and I have it all wrong. Go talk to my friend Bilenchi, he's more objective than I am and he can put matters into better historical context.'"
The war broke out in Spain; we feared for "the Reds" and we suffered as much as was possible. Vittorini and Pratolini wrote articles against Franco until they no longer could, signing them with their own first and last names or with pseudonyms: Abulfeda for Elio, Juvenilis and Kinopa for Vasco. We talked furiously about it every day, and Elio's thoughts went to Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Lenin. Then, as never before, it seemed clear to us that the only war worth fighting was a civil war. But Elio wasn't satisfied with writing and arguing about it. He and Vasco made up their minds to go and fight for the Spanish Republicans. They came up with a specific plan to leave the country. The Paris Expo had been announced. Pratolini, disguised behind the letterhead of Il Bargello, offered articles free of charge to Il Regime Fascista, the most impeccably credentialed publication in Italy; the paper's editors, taking on good faith any letter from the weekly publication of Florence's Fascist federation, issued to Vasco—though his name was unknown outside of Florence and he wasn't even enrolled in the newspaper guild—credentials as their foreign correspondent. This document soothed any and all doubts, and police headquarters issued Pratolini a passport. Vittorini applied for a passport in turn, but he was turned down. He went to see a functionary at police headquarters countless times, a certain Dottore Rosselli or Rossetti, I can't remember which, who was supposed to process that application and every time promised he'd take care of it and never did.
Vittorini told me about his plan too, and asked me if I wanted to go to Spain with him. I hated Franco as much as he did, I considered that to be a war worth fighting, but Elio's plan struck me as unattainable. We belonged to no anti-fascist organizations, we had no one to turn to; once we were in Spain, it would be hard to explain our struggle, how we had come to our ideals. Elio told me he was in touch with a few blue-collar workers, that he possessed the Paris address of a person who would help us on our journey into Spain. As the days passed, Elio became increasingly impatient and I clung more firmly to my views. By now it was clear that the democratic nations had betrayed the Republicans out of class interests. That war, possibly the last romantic war to be fought, was being transformed into a dress rehearsal for a looming world war that was going to involve Italy, too: Only then would the time come for us too to fight in our country.
I also went to Colle di Val d'Elsa to ask the advice of a friend who was a factory worker and a Communist. Plenty of his comrades, and he himself, would have liked to go to Spain, but the most important struggle for us Italians would begin here in Italy, and possibly sooner than later. Even as an act of propaganda, our effort wouldn't amount to much: We were little-known writers, complete nobodies outside of Italy. If we had been able to take with us a hundred or so young Fascists willing to announce to the world their dissent from the regime's policies, then our flight from Italy would take on a concrete significance. But to go to Spain, just two or three of us, wasn't worth it. The powerful resources of the Fascist propaganda machine would drown out our feeble voices.
Elio refused to admit defeat and even without a passport remained determined to go to Spain. He told me, one day, that during the summer he'd tried to make it to Corsica with the help of a few fishermen, I seem to remember they were from Bocca di Magra or one of the neighboring villages, but his plan had failed.
Right around that time Elio, Vasco, and I, by this point inseparable, began to read The Class Struggles in France and other writings by Marx that Vittorini had secretly borrowed from an official of the National Library. At the time, Signora Anita Mondolfo, later purged for racial reasons, was the director of the National Library, and I don't remember whether she too was a member of the group. Shortly thereafter, a friend of mine who was also a journalist brought me from Paris the fourteen volumes of Das Kapital in Molitor's translation as well as Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany, and I've managed to hold onto this book. This friend worked at the same desk as me, he was a religious man, almost outspoken in his Catholic faith and, perhaps for that very reason, a true anti-fascist.
One afternoon Elio and I were summoned to police headquarters. A commissario, a short, stocky Sicilian who was very well mannered, first delivered a short lecture to both of us on how a good citizen should behave, then, with sigh after sigh, informed us that we had been overheard making the following statements: Fiume was Yugoslavian; General Franco was a subversive, a vulgar butcher and possibly worse than Hitler; Picasso was the greatest painter on earth; Croce was an illustrious thinker, the most important man in Italy. Those were all things that we really had said, Elio and I, alone, one Sunday morning when, in a break from our usual practice, we'd met at the café. It must have been a confidential informer who told the police, a waiter that we'd suspected for some time. Elio admitted to the commissario that he had expressed those opinions and also signed the interview transcript. When he was done, I was questioned next. After pointing out that I didn't care much about Benedetto Croce, that I didn't see a great difference between him and the political class that was governing Italy, because the liberty that he called for was an abstract liberty in the service of a small number of people who ran the economy and the government, not of the people as a whole, the exploited, I did admit having made the other statements attributed to me. At the outbreak of the war in Spain, I said, opinions about Franco had been exceedingly disparate. Some Fascist newspapers and magazines, including Critica fascista, edited by Giuseppe Bottai, had discussed the aggression of the military against the legitimate Spanish government—adducing numerous doubts and concerns—and the then vague possibility of an Italian military intervention in favor of Franco. To me, Franco was not a revolutionary but the grimmest reactionary on the face of the earth and had nothing to do with the Spanish people; he was a general who, in cahoots with the priests and the grand bourgeoisie, was trying to implement a coup against a non-Communist government, a government made up, in fact, of representatives of bourgeois parties.
The commissario wanted me to sign a transcript as well, but I refused. I sat down to wait. The man, stout and of average height, gazed at me sadly, repeating his request from time to time. Hanging on the wall behind him was a portrait of Mussolini. He turned around, pointed to it, and said to me: "This man has saved the fatherland." "If you say so," I replied. "What?" the commissario said, "do you deny that, do you even deny the fatherland?" I replied calmly that we understood the concept of the fatherland, but it seemed excessive to us that a fatherland, all fatherlands, should stand in the way of the tranquility of human beings. As for Picasso, last of all, that was an aesthetic opinion and I didn't have to answer to anyone about that. We didn't talk about Fiume.
I waited curiously to see how this strange episode would end, thinking that a similar scene had played out before the gaze—childish, ironic, and at the same time wise—of Vittorini. After two hours, I lost my patience. I told the commissario either to arrest me or let me go. He said nothing. Then I asked for permission to phone my wife to tell her I'd be late and my lawyer to inform him of the imbroglio into which I'd fallen. "Who is your lawyer?" the commissario asked me. "Giorgio Querci." He was a first-rate lawyer, known widely as a liberal and an anti-fascist. The scene took on pathos. The commissario, deeply moved now, almost with tears in his eyes, opened a cabinet and pointed to a stack of files contained in folders of various colors. "You see," he exclaimed, "these are all anti-fascists. If you start in too, professor, what will become of us then?" After that, he let me go and said farewell with a handshake.
Elio and I had arranged to meet in a small café on Via dell'Ariento. Just a short while before, the policeman had said the same words to him, pulled the same moves, including the wave of the hand toward Mussolini and opening the cabinet door. We were excited and at the same time worried. We tried to reconstruct what had led up to this episode. The previous Sunday, when we had talked about politics, he and I had been alone. The phrases that the commissario had confronted me with were crumbs of a longer discussion, gathered by someone who had probably overheard us as he moved from one table to another. We were imprudent and had been unable to keep our voices low. We also joked a little about the commissario himself and the way he acted. Vittorini was very calm, wholly absorbed, like me, in behaving in a way that would get us out of this alive. We would need to act with cunning, pretend to be Fascists when we were with fanatical and untrustworthy people, and be wary of everyone save for a few friends.
But then Elio thought back on what had happened and, still disappointed that he hadn't managed to reach Spain, spent the next few days in the throes of a furor. He lit into himself, and into me, denouncing his and our overweening ambition. "Just think," he said, "young men like us now are in prison or fighting, and we aren't doing anything practical." In vain, I told him that each of us are born as they are and not as they wish they were, that our path would have more twists and turns, but that if we persisted in our beliefs and our studies, there would be a tomorrow for us as well. "Whores is what we are," Elio said. "We're just a couple of whores. I published an article in Il Bargello entitled 'The Real Culture Is Popular Culture,' and Mussolini, having read and approved it, took it as the basis for establishing the Ministry of Popular Culture. We're just a little red flower in the buttonhole of our master's jacket."
Finally, without a word to anyone, Vittorini resigned from the Fascist Party. He went in to the Montemaggi neighborhood office where he was registered and, saying that he could no longer even formally appear to be a supporter of a regime that relied on spies and the police, he turned in his membership card. Proceedings were begun at once to send him into domestic exile. It was Gioacchino Contri who intervened to save Elio—Contri was a mild-mannered, intelligent man who understood the problems afflicting young people, pushing them to reach outside the narrow boundaries of the political space assigned to them in that period. Contri wrote a letter to Guido Buffarini Guidi, Minister of the Interior, whom he'd known in Pisa as far back as the earliest years of the Fascist movement. This warded off police proceedings against Elio. Contri also insisted that Vittorini—who was very poor and depended in part on the money he managed to scrape together with his articles for Il Bargello to support his wife and two children—go on writing for the newspaper of the Fascist federation, though perhaps under a false byline. Elio gratefully accepted and signed his articles with the same pseudonym, Abulfeda, that he had used other times. Particularly when there was a thorny subject under discussion, all three of us would write the piece together: Elio, Vasco, and me. Contri had given Vittorini complete freedom to pick his topics and develop them as he pleased. To pay for these articles, Contri showed them as having been written by Vasco or by other contributors occasionally published in the magazine, such as Margherita Fasolo and Elsa Bergamaschi, who then turned the money over to Elio.
Romano Bilenchi was very much an Italian writer's writer, treating issues of emotion and philosophy as inseparable from the political. He was a journalist from the very beginning, a member of the liberal wing of the Fascist Party (hard for us to imagine perhaps, but, after all, even Mussolini came to the Fascist Party as a socialist and a newspaper editor), and later a communist.
This excerpt of Bilenchi's descriptions of his early life in Florence and his close friends—who included Elio Vittorini and Vasco Pratolini, to mention the two most prominent literary names—contains a few of the themes that characterized his work.
Even here, in a memoir, we see a clean spare style, unhurried and unemphatic, though not without glints of humor. The comical hand-puppet police inspector who performs the same shtick with every dissident he summons to his office, as if they were unruly toddlers, gives us a flavor of life under the thumb of a repressive state. While that state was careless and slapdash in its enforcement, it was and remained a grim presence in everyday life, one that affected personal life and emotional health in a devastating way.
Though it was then that Bilenchi began publishing, he had a long period of relative silence in the 1950s and 60s, and only began publishing again in the 1970s, in particular with his book Il bottone di Stalingrado, a virtual psychological and spiritual biography of twentieth-century Italy that won the prestigious Viareggio Prize. Italy in the 1970s, after the "hot summers" of left-wing unrest in the late 1960s and the Years of Lead (the lead of the bullets and the leaden oppression of a quasi-civil war), still reflected the emotional damage of the years before World War II.
Bilenchi's writings contain many of the themes that marked those two crucial periods in Italian history, and he and his better-known friends, Vittorini, Pratolini, and Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale struggled to process the national catastrophe that was Fascism. A great deal of that struggle was worked out in conversations in the café they all frequented: the Giubbe Rosse, on Florence's Piazza della Repubblica.
Perhaps that struggle is one reason that, even in his earliest years, Vittorini was too canny to let Bilenchi hold on to his own short story (as he describes in this excerpt). Over the years Bilenchi wrote and rewrote, edited and re-edited, planed, carved, and chiseled his work. Many of his books were published repeatedly, and the fact that the reviews varied widely offers us a glimpse into the way Italy changed as much as the perception of Bilenchi's important work.
Romano Bilenchi was born in 1909 in Colle Val d'Elsa near Florence, the city where he died eighty years later in 1989. He was a writer and a journalist, but also a public thinker and part of a lively social circle that fed on ideas and ambitious projects, with a life that spanned the years of Mussolini and Stalin. He was raised as a Socialist, resigned from the Fascist Party in 1940, fought in the Italian Resistance, and tore up his Communist Party membership card in 1956 in the aftermath of the Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising. He then rejoined the party in 1972. His first novel, Vita di Pisto (1931) was followed by several more, culminating with Il conservatorio di Santa Teresa (1940), widely considered his best work. He wrote four books during the war years, two of which—La siccità and La miseria, The Drought and Poverty respectively—were joined by Bilenchi's last book, the novella Il gelo (1982), translated into English as The Chill. His Il bottone di Stalingrado won the Viareggio Award.


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Q: Can we delete the dictionary from list of dictionaries whose all key: ' ' (empty string) Example:
reader = [{'Name': 'a', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''}, {'Name': 'b', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''}, {'Name': '', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''}]

expected result:
reader = [{'Name': 'a', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''}, {'Name': 'b', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''}]

I want to remove last dictionary whose all values are '' empty string.

A: Here you go:
reader = [
    {'Amount': '12', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': '', 'Score': '', 'Updated Date': '', 'Company': 'neo', 'Email': '  ', 'Phone': '8002857', 'Fax': '', 'Created By': '', 'Name': '', 'Agent Owner': '', 'Source': '', 'Contact Name': 'XYZ'},
    {'Amount': '34', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': '', 'Score': '', 'Updated Date': '', 'Company': 'pop', 'Email': '', 'Phone': '8002857', 'Fax': '', 'Created By': '', 'Name': '', 'Agent Owner': '', 'Source': '', 'Contact Name': 'abc '},
    {'Amount': '', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': '', 'Score': '', 'Updated Date': '', 'Company': '', 'Email': '', 'Phone': '', 'Fax': '', 'Created By': '', 'Name': '', 'Agent Owner': '', 'Source': '', 'Contact Name': ''}
    ]

reader = [row for row in reader if not all(v == '' for v in row.values())]
print(reader)

Output:
[
{'Amount': '12', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': '', 'Score': '', 'Updated Date': '', 'Company': 'neo', 'Email': '  ', 'Phone': '8002857', 'Fax': '', 'Created By': '', 'Name': '', 'Agent Owner': '', 'Source': '', 'Contact Name': 'XYZ'},
{'Amount': '34', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': '', 'Score': '', 'Updated Date': '', 'Company': 'pop', 'Email': '', 'Phone': '8002857', 'Fax': '', 'Created By': '', 'Name': '', 'Agent Owner': '', 'Source': '', 'Contact Name': 'abc '}
]

UPDATE:
The question has been edited. Here is an update to the above answer which uses the latest sample input/output in the question:
reader = [
    {'Name': 'a', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''},
    {'Name': 'b', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''},
    {'Name': '', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''}
]
reader = [row for row in reader if not all(v == '' for v in row.values())]
print(reader)

Updated outputs:
[
{'Name': 'a', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''},
{'Name': 'b', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''}
]

A: You could iterate your list of dicts and check if each dict has any value that has length greater than 0:
reader = [
    dict_element
    for dict_element in reader
    if any(value for value in dict_element.values())
]

Notice that using value instead of len(value) > 0 is equivalent since strings are casted to False only when the string is empty ("").

A: use list comprehensions:
   reader = [_dict in reader if list(_dict.values())!=[''for i in len(_dict)]

A: Use a comprehension:
out = [l for l in reader if any(l.values())]
print(out)

# Output
[{'Name': 'a', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''},
 {'Name': 'b', 'Created Date': '', 'Updated By': ''}]

A: using filter:
reader = list(filter(lambda x: any(x.values()), reader))


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The Battle of Midway in June 1942 was one of the decisive moments in the war in the Pacific and Finlay portrayed this historic episode by presenting the aircraft carriers as beehives, fuelling their warriors with honey and sending them out to attack the enemy hive. In The Battle of Midway II (1977), the rosebushes represent the vast distance of ocean that separated the rival fleets, which never came into sight of each other. The accompanying print uses Latin text to commemorate the ships that perished in the battle.


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