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Counting wraps up, election results 'pending certification' in Montgomery County
Public comment focuses on drop boxes, vote by mail
Montgomery County Board of Elections Chairman Ken Lawrence Jr., left, and Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Gale listen to comments from members of the public during an election board meeting on Nov. 4 in Norristown. (Rachel Ravina – MediaNews Group)
By Rachel Ravina | rravina@thereporteronline.com | The Reporter
NORRISTOWN — The 2022 election vote counting was declared closed by Montgomery County Commissioners at their meeting on Thursday, but that didn't stop county residents from continuing to sound off about drop boxes.
"I have suggestions on how to improve elections," said Ambler resident David Morgan. "Voting should be done in person on Election Day. Spending on drop boxes and voting by mail can be saved."
Election topics have dominated much of public comment in recent months, as people have expressed concerns around election security as well as outrage over mail-in voting and the dozen drop boxes situated throughout the county for voters to return their mail-in ballots.
"I have witnessed people dropping multiple ballots. I have witnessed the security guards depositing ballots and I have sat there and noticed there are only a few people coming," said Lower Pottsgrove Township resident Tara Houseal. "So why can't we have Election Day on Election Day instead of election season?"
County election officials have maintained that drop boxes are monitored by surveillance, with voter services staff present to assist voters.
In an interview ahead of the election, Commissioners' Vice Chairman Ken Lawrence Jr., who heads the county Board of Elections, said personnel were on-site at each drop box location making sure that "people have signed and dated" their ballot and "also not allowing them to put in more than one ballot, which is the law."
Also disapproving of drop boxes, Upper Salford Township resident Suzanne Stepanik called for increased "transparency" surrounding election procedural information.
"Since unfortunately, it appears that likely we'll have mail-in and drop-box ballots in the future, it is imperative that more transparency be part of the process," Stepanik said. "To those ends, it is necessary that written chain of custody procedures be made available to the public and posted in local newspapers."
Lower Merion Township resident Adrian Seltzer responded to fellow commenters.
"I am totally willing to help those people who do not understand the election process, and to understand it, so they understand how their comments do not equate with what the actual process is," Seltzer said.
"Yes, some people have to give ID. If they're the first time voting in their precinct, yes, they have to give ID. Some people — nurses, emergency staff — work 12-hour shifts, [so] getting to the polls on Election Day can be a struggle, especially if you work far away from home," she continued. "So there's other issues, and I am more than willing to speak to you about them, and why what you're saying is not reasonable."
Lawrence complimented election workers in his remarks at the meeting.
"We can't do this without the hundreds of people who sign up, and are committed to making sure we have free and fair elections each and every time," Lawrence said. There were 2,475 poll workers who worked on Election Day, according to Dori Sawyer, Montgomery County's director of elections.
Montgomery County experienced a 68.49 percent voter turnout rate, according to unofficial results obtained from an election summary report. There were 607,301 registered voters and 415,942 ballots cast.
In addition to mail-in and in-person votes, there were 2,567 provisional ballots counted of the 3,166 that were returned, according to a dashboard detailing unofficial results. Of the 914 military ballots returned, 895 ballots were counted, and 19 were rejected.
The counting of in-person, mail-in, military, and provisional ballots was completed by the Montgomery County Office of Voter Services, but results are "pending certification." All results are considered unofficial until the election is certified by the Montgomery County Board of Elections. Certification is expected by Nov. 28, according to Lawrence.
Unofficial results from Montgomery County's 2022 general election show a geographic representation of how people voted in Montgomery County. (Image provided by Montgomery County)
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The Female Angle: Too Little, Too Late?
"Wild salmon advocates expressed relief Thursday after Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that the federal government will stage a judicial inquiry into the collapse of sockeye salmon runs on the Fraser River.
Details will be announced Friday in Vancouver by Stockwell Day, federal Trade Minister and regional minister for British Columbia.
Day is expected to name a judge to head the inquiry and to announce terms of reference. The inquiry will have the legal power to compel witnesses to testify — meaning that federal scientists will have the freedom to discuss their concerns about sockeye without fear of repercussion.
Sockeye runs spawning in the Fraser drainage have been in a two-decade decline after years of spectacular abundance in the 1980s, and hit a 50-year low in summer 2009.
That has prompted concerns, as detailed in a recent book by B.C. author Alex Rose, that sockeye are heading for a population failure on the scale of the collapse of Atlantic cod.
In his book, Who Killed the Grand Banks, Rose suggests that sockeye are beset by the same conflicting political agendas that enabled East Coast fishermen to push cod to the brink of extinction.
Documents show that while the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was officially predicting strong sockeye returns and a commercial fishing opportunity for Fraser sockeye in 2009, others at DFO were warning of a probable collapse based on grim results in ocean test fishing programs dating back to 2007.
B.C. New Democrat and Liberal MPs, first nations, commercial and sport fishing groups, conservation groups and local governments have all been calling on the government for action but until Harper's announcement there was no evidence that the Tories intended to respond.
The reason for the decline remains a mystery, although poor marine survival rates among juvenile salmon migrating into the ocean for the first time appear to be the principal culprit.
Climate change effecting ocean temperature, declining ocean salinity, dwindling food resources and health threats from fish farms along salmon migration routes have been suggested as possible explanations — but the official position of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is that no specific cause is known.
"I think it's crucial that they release a complete understanding of what happened with the sockeye collapse here on the West Coast," Chamberlin said.
He wants the inquiry to look at potential for sea lice infestations and disease transfer from salmon farms to juvenile wild salmon.
Craig Orr, executive director of Watershed Watch Salmon Society, wants the inquiry to look at the "disconnect" between DFO researchers who warned in 2007 of the pending collapse based on an absence of juvenile 2009-class Fraser sockeye in ocean test fishing, and DFO's "rosy" pre-season forecasts for the 2009 sockeye Fraser return.
"An inquiry should allow them to compel testimony from the managers and the scientists, which is good," Orr said.
Phil Eidsvik, spokesman for the BC Fisheries Survival Coalition, said the inquiry is "great news for B.C. salmon.
"I couldn't be more pleased – we have been asking for a full judicial inquiry into the management of Fraser salmon since 1992," Eidsvik said.
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I temi wellsiani sono delle tematiche letterarie che contraddistinguono un particolare genere letterario fantascientifico, creato da Herbert George Wells tra la fine del XIX secolo e la prima metà del XX secolo.

A influire su tutti i racconti e i romanzi dello scrittore vi sono tutte le osservazioni tecniche e scientifiche che rendono ogni storia narrata emozionante e di parziale rilievo scientifico, vista la conoscenza dello scrittore sulla zoologia e sulla biologia.

Alcune tematiche trattate dello scrittore saranno anche una rivelazione in campo letterario, essendo temi o rivisitazioni nuove e affascinanti.
La critica è ormai unanime nel considerare i romanzi di Wells un'importante esperienza narrativa, ponendo lo scrittore, assieme a Jules Verne, come padre fondatore del romanzo scientifico. Tutte le esperienze narrative, cresciute nel corso degli anni e fortemente percepibili nei romanzi e nei racconti del 1895, gettano le basi per la fantascienza contemporanea, attraverso la dinamicità delle tematiche che spaziano dal racconto psicologico, a quello realista in chiave psicologica, tra il sogno e la speculazione ideologica, arrivando alla critica sociale, temi che lo scrittore manterrà per tutta la sua carriera letteraria che caratterizzeranno i racconti e i romanzi wellsiani.

Temi wellsiani

Ad influire notevolmente sugli scritti di Wells sono le opere letterarie che ebbe modo di leggere in giovane età, come La Repubblica del filosofo greco Platone, e L'Utopia di Tommaso Moro. L'ideale di uno Stato mondiale accompagnerà Wells per l'intera vita, emergendo nei suoi ultimi scritti, dove ne sarà un franco sostenitore.

Leggere le opere di Wells come semplice letteratura rende i suoi scritti, per la critica letteraria, insoddisfacenti e manchevoli. Di fatto, quando Wells si dedicò alla narrativa scientifica operò su un elemento ispiratore fittizio, pur servendosi di un particolare linguaggio narrativo, il romanzo e il racconto. Il suo intervento permise una trasformazione del raccontare, sicché le sue narrazioni non erano più rapportabili direttamente al reale, ma si riferivano al reale attraverso il virtuale, non seguendo più la norma della veridicità, ma quella della plausibilità.

Il genere letterario di Wells si trova nella ricerca di nuovi mondi, in un campo ricchissimo di nuove ipotesi scientificamente plausibili o con consolidate basi scientifiche, può spaziare nella scienza e in nuovi argomenti dimostrabili, come il tempo e lo spazio, distaccandosi dalle chimere della letteratura tradizionale e addentrandosi in un genere letterario che prima di lui, solo Jules Verne aveva in parte affrontato.

La formulazione di questo nuovo tipo di narrativa fantastica è certamente connessa all'enorme entusiasmo per la scienza, che Wells aveva maturato fin da ragazzo, nonché alla sua straordinaria capacità immaginativa, evidenziando un precoce interesse e un'ottima capacità nell'ideare congetture..

Wells ebbe due occasioni favorevoli nella sua vita che lo misero in grado di conseguire gli ideali di conoscenza scientifica che avrebbero influito sui suoi futuri scritti. La prima occasione avvenne nel 1880: il direttore della scuola di Midhurst, H. Baytt, colpito dalla straordinaria vivacità nel suo ingegno e dall'ampiezza dei suoi interessi culturali, gli offrì un posto per venti sterline l'anno. La realtà dell'allievo-insegnante accompagnerà Wells per molti anni.
La serietà degli studi e il sacrificio che Wells compie durante gli anni trascorsi alla Midhurst Grammar School gli permettono di ottenere nel 1884 una borsa di studio presso la Scuola Normale di Scienze in South Kensington (quella che in seguito diverrà la Royal College of Science fino a diventare parte integrante dell'Imperial College London).

Wells ripose così piena fede nella scienza e i suoi scritti saranno influenzati, nel corso degli anni, dalle relative scoperte scientifiche e dagli avvenimenti a cavallo dei due secoli in cui lo scrittore produrrà le sue opere più famose. Il primo tema che cambiò profondamente le sue convinzioni e le sue credenze nel campo scientifico, le teorie dell'evoluzionismo darwiniano, anche se quello maggiormente percepibile, non fu l'unico. L'abolizione del convenzionalismo e dei tabù sul piano dell'etica e del costume iniziata dalla nuova scienza dell'Io, dalla psicologia sperimentale, consacrata poco tempo dopo da Sigmund Freud e Ivan Pavlov, la diffusione della consapevolezza sociale, che trovava finalmente risposta in movimenti riformistici e rivoluzionari, quali il Fabianesimo e in un secondo momento la Rivoluzione d'Ottobre e le continue scoperte scientifiche, sempre più frequenti e vaste, operate da Marconi, dai coniugi Pierre e Marie Curie, da Planck, da Bohr e da Einstein, saranno tutti temi che influenzeranno gli scritti di Wells nel corso degli anni, facendolo maturare sotto l'aspetto letterario.

Il romanzo scientifico

Gli scrittori britannici, prima di tutto, tendevano a minimizzare il ruolo degli eroi individuali, assumendo una prospettiva evoluzionistica e una visione tetra del futuro, mostrando scarso interesse. Negli scritti di Wells questi temi sono molto marcati.

Si può notare come in molte delle opere l'umanità risulta condannata, a causa di fattori biologici che ci riguardano fin dai più antichi progenitori scimmieschi, o l'evoluzione della specie avvenga in maniera regressiva come nel caso dei Morlocchi de La macchina del tempo. Il protagonista wellsiano appare, diversamente dai romanzi e racconti Ottocenteschi statunitensi, anonimo e spesso impotente di fronte alle forze della natura.

La narrativa utopica e distopica, contraddistinta da una forte impronta didascalica e intellettualistica.
Il romanzo che vede come protagonista lo scienziato faustiano, reso celebre da Goethe nel poema drammatico Faust.
Il romanzo inteso come avventura ed evasione, al di fuori di un preciso schema ideologico o speculativo.

L'evoluzionismo darwiniano
La società tardo-vittoriana era perseguitata dalle implicazioni del darwinismo. Le idee delineate nell'opera L'origine delle specie di Charles Darwin (1859) e L'origine dell'uomo e la selezione sessuale (1871) sono state assimilate negli anni 1880 e 1890, inizialmente dalla comunità scientifica e poi da gran parte dell'opinione pubblica. Per molti, l'equilibrio tra fede e dubbio si era rovesciato in modo preoccupante a favore di quest'ultimo, e le domande sulle origini, la natura e il destino del genere umano erano diventate materia da affrontare per la scienza, piuttosto che per la teologia. Il capitolo finale di L'origine dell'uomo e la selezione sessuale contiene un passaggio in cui Darwin conclude che gli umani sono "discesi da un quadrupede peloso dalla coda" che, attraverso vari stadi intermedi, si è evoluto da "una creatura simile ad anfibio, e questo di nuovo da alcuni animali simili ai pesci".
L'evoluzione ha anche sollevato dubbi in un altro senso. Inizialmente appariva logico che l'evoluzione avrebbe sempre portato a miglioramenti fisici e mentali con caratteristiche più deboli e meno utili sradicate nel tempo; tuttavia, fu presto riconosciuto che questo non era necessariamente il caso. L'evoluzione è un processo meccanicistico senza una mano guida o un obiettivo finale e quindi, si è argomentato, in alcune circostanze la degenerazione in forme meno complesse era altrettanto probabile quanto il progresso in quelle più complesse.

Tra il 1884 e il 1885, Wells ha modo di conoscere Thomas Henry Huxley, suo insegnante di biologia.
Huxley era considerato, assieme a Matthew Arnold, la più potente influenza intellettuale di quel periodo in Inghilterra. La sua influenza sul giovane Wells sarà tangibile nei suoi futuri romanzi e racconti, offrendoci i suoi angoscianti pensieri connessi al pericolo dell'uso improprio della scienza, della tecnica e delle macchine. La sua opinione concorde sull'origine della specie di Charles Darwin, opinione rafforzatasi sotto la guida del suo maestro Huxley, estremo sostenitore dell'evoluzionismo darwiniano tanto da essere soprannominato Il mastino di Darwin, e interpretando in chiave romanzesca l'ontogenesi di Ernst Haeckel, teorizzando un'evoluzione mostruosa di una specie esistente in natura, credendo e condividendo le idee sull'evoluzione del noto naturalista, ma non ammettendo che l'uomo e l'animale fossero messi sullo stesso piano.

La teoria di Darwin cambiò negli uomini il modo di vedere se stessi e il mondo che li circondava. Con l'accettazione del fatto che gli umani discendono dagli animali diventava palese che anche l'uomo è un animale. Il mondo naturale assunse una tinta fosca nelle menti dei più, poiché gli animali selvaggi erano immaginati in perenne stato di competizione gli uni contro gli altri. Il mondo fu visto in termini di minore "solidità": siccome molti milioni di anni fa esso era del tutto diverso dall'attuale, fu chiaro a molti che l'impatto dell'uomo sulla Terra non era poi così grande, e che l'uomo stesso avrebbe potuto estinguersi in un futuro. L'interpretazione di Wells della teoria dell'evoluzione delle specie non si limita solo ad un'osservazione della natura, ma applica tale teoria al futuro, contemperandola con dati forniti dalle punte più avanzate della fisica e della matematica, dell'economia e della sociologia, anticipando le tendenze dominanti del nostro secolo.

Nel 1885 pubblica sullo Scienze School Journal The Past and Present of the Human Race, il racconto scritto come esercitazione scolastica che revisionerà e ripubblicherà nel 1893 sul Pall Mall Budget col titolo The Man of the Year Million.
Nel racconto, Wells immagina un momento in cui lontani discendenti del genere umano sarebbero stati dei grandi cervelli che galleggiano in vasche di fluidi nutritivi, dove l'umanità vivrebbe di chimica e raggi solari su un pianeta cui aveva distrutto tutte le altre forme viventi, vegetali e animali. Il raffreddamento del Sole e di conseguenza quello della Terra costringe gli eredi dell'umanità a vivere in gallerie sotterranee collegate alla superficie con dei pozzi di ventilazione.

Degenerazione

Era idea diffusa nel XIX secolo che la civiltà potesse essere in declino e che le cause del declino stessero nel cambiamento biologico. Queste idee derivano da concetti pre-scientifici di ereditarietà ("contaminazione ereditaria") con l'enfasi creata dal Lamarckismo sullo sviluppo biologico attraverso lo scopo e l'abitudine. I concetti di degenerazione erano spesso associati ad atteggiamenti politici autoritari, incluso il militarismo e la razzismo scientifico, nonché con timori sul possibile declino nazionale. La teoria ha origine in concetti razziali di etnia, registrati negli scritti di scienziati medici come Johann Friedrich Blumenbach e Robert Knox. A partire dalla metà dell'Ottocento, divenne influente in psichiatria attraverso gli scritti di Bénédict Morel e in criminologia con Cesare Lombroso. Si nutrì anche dell'ideologia del nazionalismo etnico, attraendo, tra gli altri, Maurice Barrès, Charles Maurras e l'Action Française. Intorno al 1890, nel lavoro di Max Nordau e altri esponenti della teoria, la degenerazione divenne un concetto più generale nei commenti sociali.

Come da oggetto dell'opera Zoological Regression Wells afferma che non sempre l'evoluzione segue un processo di miglioramento evolutivo, se infatti l'evoluzione si basa su una costante crescita, lo scrittore prende in considerazione la teoria della degenerazione sociale, paragonando l'ascesa evolutiva ad uno schema di alti e bassi con evoluzioni e regressioni costanti.

Wells prosegue lo scritto affermando che la più nota e forse la più grafica e tipica illustrazione del corso regressivo si trova nel genere delle Tunicata, che costituiscono un gruppo del rango Subphylum, e che comprende, tra una grande varietà di forme, le ascidie, Wells sottolinea come la metamorfosi indurrebbe in errore un osservatore inesperto, che avrebbe potuto inizialmente inserire nel regno minerale o vegetale, confondibili poiché semplicemente grumi informi di una rigida; sostanza cartilaginea semitrasparente, in cui sono incastonati ciottoli, ramoscelli e sporcizia, e solo l'esame più attento di questo esterno poco promettente avrebbe scoperto qualsiasi prova del vivente all'interno.

Neodarwinismo

Uno dei primi temi che Wells affronta con i primi articoli giornalistici nel 1887 sono l'intuizione di qualcosa che ricorda un incipit sul principio di complementarità, la distinzione tra due punti di vista fondamentali, rivolti ai fenomeni, e in particolare verso la naturale percezione umana.

Il concetto prende forma dalla teoria di August Weismann, uno dei più acuti teorici dell'evoluzionismo e dell'ereditarietà. Accolse con entusiasmo le teorie di Charles Darwin, contribuendo alla loro diffusione e alla loro accettazione in Germania, contribuendo in maniera sostanziale con deduzioni personali, avvicinandosi e successivamente diventando la "guida" del movimento "neodarwinista" che negava in maniera categorica la trasmissibilità dei caratteri acquisiti. Un'evoluzione dettata della selezione, la cui azione avviene sulle variazioni individuali ereditarie, tutte esclusivamente di origine interna. L'azione che l'ambiente esercita sul corpo degli organismi, non si ripercuote sulle cellule riproduttive, annullando gli effetti dell'eredità e di conseguenza dell'evoluzione.

Viaggi nel tempo

Nel 1888, nel periodo in cui Wells si trasferì a Uppark, per far fronte alla sua cagionevole salute incominciò ad abbozzare degli scritti, che in seguito bruciò perché reputati da lui stesso infantili. La svolta decisiva avvenne quando, dopo quattro mesi di permanenza a Uppark, Wells accettò l'invito dell'amico Burton, trasferendosi per un periodo di tre mesi in Etruria.

In questo periodo Wells cominciò a lavorare su alcune bozze, iniziando così i suoi primi racconti fantascientifici. Nello stesso anno pubblicò sul Science School Journal il racconto The Chronic Argonauts, considerata la sua prima opera di rilevanza fantascientifica, nonché anticipazione di quello che sette anni dopo sarebbe diventato il suo primo successo letterario; l'opera venne pubblicata in tre episodi tra aprile e giugno e rimase incompleta per volontà dello stesso Wells. Nel racconto è presente l'influenza letteraria - a detta dello stesso Wells - di Nathaniel Hawthorne, uno dei più importanti narratori statunitensi dell'Ottocento, i cui scritti vennero letti dallo scrittore nel suo periodo di permanenza a Uppark.
Tale influenza risultò però ridotta: solo l'atmosfera claustrofobica della piccola città gallese e la mentalità ristretta della popolazione nei confronti dello straniero è riconducibile a La lettera scarlatta, mentre il setting e alcuni topoi, come la misteriosa casa colonica in cui si trasferisce il dottor Nebogipfel e attorno alla quale ruota buona parte della vicenda, ricordano La casa dei sette abbaini.

Tali richiami letterari collocano Wells in un filone narrativo di interpretazione simbolica che trova come massimi esponenti proprio Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville e Henry James, con rappresentazioni sul Modus vivendi, sulla moralità, sul Fantastico e sul Soprannaturale, con i temi evolutisi nel rinascimento americano e nel trascendentalismo.

Anche se il testo wellsiano è saturo di richiami mitologici, l'autore riesce a trasformare l'elemento simbolico in un elemento decisamente funzionale al flusso narrativo , avvicinandosi più ad una prospettiva paradossale, dove il simbolo è soggetto a un maggior numero di interpretazioni portatrici di un certo grado di complessità.

Nella narrazione del racconto, l'autore sfrutta la natura mitologica del viaggio degli argonauti a bordo della loro nave Argo, trasformandola in una narrativa funzionale, dove non solo sottolinea la natura essenziale del viaggio, ma ne giustifica anche l'assoluta necessità, non a caso Wells definisce il Dott. Nebogipfel come depositario di un sapere superiore che gli consente una visione lungimirante e l'abilità artigiana di costruire la macchina.

Wells intreccia alla narrativa del racconto, le tematiche sociali, rendendola appunto funzionale.
Tale tematica è riscontrabile nelle future opere wellsiane, ad esempio in uno dei suoi romanzi più famosi, La macchina del tempo.
H.G.Wells concepì l'idea di "La macchina del tempo" come un'analisi accurata della società britannica di epoca vittoriana.

Si possono notare infatti le condizioni degli Eloi, i discendenti della classe dirigente di età vittoriana, dipinti come creature paradisiache a cui non mancha nulla, che vivono nel loro mondo fittizio di agio e benessere, ma nella realtà accuditi in veri e propri allevamenti, mostrando agli occhi del lettore il decadentismo borghese  e viceversa, i Morlocchi, discendenti degli operai sfruttati della medesima epoca, che vivono ancora nelle viscere della Terra, uscendo la notte per raccogliere gli Eloi migliori da usare per nutrirsi, mostrando il riscatto operaio sulla classe borghese.

Nonostante il riscatto sulla borghesia, Wells sembra voler sottolineare le differenze tra i due schieramenti sociali, come se la classe operaia di fosse riscattata solo in parte. Infatti se da un lato i Morlocchi allevano gli Eloi, e hanno una grande agilità, dall'altra sono mostruosi e vulnerabili alla luce solare, stesso vale per gli Eloi, candidi e delicati ma allo stesso tempo assoggettati dai loro opposti.
Ancora una volta l'evoluzionismo darwiniano si mostra agli occhi del lettore, dividendo le due specie sul piano biologico per cause di vita in differenti ambienti.

Origine dell'idea
In un saggio del 1880 di Charles Howard Hinton intitolato Che cosa è la quarta dimensione?, l'autore suggerì che i punti che si muovono nello spazio a tre dimensioni potrebbero essere immaginati come intersezioni successive di una statica disposizione quadridimensionale delle linee passanti attraverso un piano tridimensionale, un'idea che ha anticipato le nozioni di linea oraria (world line) e di quarta dimensione assimilabile al tempo presenti nella teoria della relatività di Albert Einstein, nonostante Hinton non se lo sarebbe aspettato e l'articolo fosse soprattutto incentrato sulle possibilità di una quarta dimensione spaziale. Nello scritto Hinton si occupa dell'idea della quarta dimensione come spazio piuttosto che come tempo. L'argomento mostrato geometricamente propone che un'estensione da un quadrato a un cubo sia essenzialmente lo stesso tipo di estensione che da una linea a un quadrato, Wells lavora da queste idee sulla prima pagina di The Macchina del tempo. Nel 1934 Wells scrisse nella sua autobiografia che mentre studiava per diventare uno scienziato, sentì parlare e impose l'idea di una cornice quadridimensionale per una nuova apprensione dei fenomeni fisici, che successivamente diede una cornice per la sua prima fantasia scientifica. Nella prefazione curata da Wells nell'edizione del 1931, Wells afferma che l'idea sviluppatasi nella Macchina del tempo non è mai stata una sua peculiare idea, il che suggerisce che Wells avesse sentito parlare del lavoro di Hinton sul tempo come una dimensione.
Le prime pagine dell'opera di Wells mostrano chiaramente lo stesso modo di pensare di Hinton. Il protagonista spiega la quarta dimensione in termini di geometria, ma questa è sviluppata in modo che la quarta dimensione sia vista come temporale piuttosto che spaziale. Gli effetti sono gli stessi, come afferma Hinton che "un corpo a quattro dimensioni apparirebbe all'improvviso come un corpo completo e finito, e come all'improvviso scomparirà, non lasciando alcuna traccia di se stesso, nello spazio ...".

Hinton in seguito introdusse un sistema di cubi colorati attraverso lo studio del quale era possibile imparare a visualizzare lo spazio quadridimensionale (Casting out the Self, 1904). Il sistema richiedeva molto esercizio, e in seguito qualcuno sostenne che questi cubi avevano portato più persone brillanti alla follia.

I racconti scientifici di Hinton, compreso Che cosa è la quarta dimensione? e Un mondo piatto, furono pubblicati in una serie di nove opuscoli da Swan Sonnenschein & Co., tra il 1884 e il 1886. Nell'introduzione a Un mondo piatto, Hinton si riferì al recente Flatlandia: Racconto fantastico a più dimensioni di Edwin Abbott Abbott, spiegando che aveva un disegno simile ma un'intenzione differente. Secondo Hinton, Abbot usava le storie come un palcoscenico su cui mettere la sua satira e le sue lezioni, mentre Hinton nel suo lavoro diceva di volere soprattutto ragionare sui fatti concreti. Il mondo di Hinton esisteva più sulla superficie di una sfera che sulla superficie di un piano. Strinse ancor più il suo collegamento ad Abbott scrivendo Un episodio su Flatlandia: o come un semplice quadrato scoprì la terza dimensione, del 1907.

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package com.github.jengo.java.program.design10.ch27;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class WeightedNineTailModel extends NineTailModel {
    /** Construct a model */
    public WeightedNineTailModel() {
        // Create edges
        List<WeightedEdge> edges = getEdges();

        // Create a graph
        WeightedGraph<Integer> graph = new WeightedGraph<Integer>(
                edges, NUMBER_OF_NODES);

        // Obtain a BSF tree rooted at the target node
        tree = graph.getShortestPath(511);
    }

    /** Create all edges for the graph */
    private List<WeightedEdge> getEdges() {
        // Store edges
        List<WeightedEdge> edges = new ArrayList<WeightedEdge>();

        for (int u = 0; u < NUMBER_OF_NODES; u++) {
            for (int k = 0; k < 9; k++) {
                char[] node = getNode(u); // Get the node for vertex u
                if (node[k] == 'H') {
                    int v = getFlippedNode(node, k);
                    int numberOfFlips = getNumberOfFlips(u, v);

                    // Add edge (v, u) for a legal move from node u to node v
                    edges.add(new WeightedEdge(v, u, numberOfFlips));
                }
            }
        }

        return edges;
    }

    private static int getNumberOfFlips(int u, int v) {
        char[] node1 = getNode(u);
        char[] node2 = getNode(v);

        int count = 0; // Count the number of different cells
        for (int i = 0; i < node1.length; i++)
            if (node1[i] != node2[i]) count++;

        return count;
    }

    public int getNumberOfFlips(int u) {
        return
                ((WeightedGraph<Integer>.ShortestPathTree) tree).getCost(u);
    }
}

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Fredrick fine with shadow | Rock Hill Herald
Fredrick fine with shadow
By David Cloninger - David Cloninger
COLUMBIA -- Ever since he signed his transfer form saying he was coming to South Carolina from Georgia Tech, Zam Fredrick has been in a shadow.
It's cast by backcourt mate Devan Downey, three inches shorter but still looming larger. Downey's the point guard and the kid who's wowed USC fans in the season's first two games with his stunning speed and scoring skills.
Fredrick's fine with it -- as the son of one of USC's most recognized stars, he's had his share of the spotlight already.
"He did it before, he's been through this already, and he was pretty good at it," Fredrick said, describing his relationship with his father, Zam Fredrick Sr. "He taught me everything I know, so I take his advice."
Downey joined him and the pair sat out last year, working on their games in practice. Then the year was finally up and the duo started in the backcourt for an exhibition win against Guilford and the season-opening rout of S.C. State last week.
Downey had 27 points and seven steals against the Quakers, 24 points and seven assists against the Bulldogs. But while everybody congratulated him, Downey deflected the credit to Fredrick, who scored 10 points on Guilford and 14 against S.C. State.
"We're both trying to be leaders," Downey said.
Fredrick will have his famous father in the Colonial Center tonight when the Gamecocks (1-0) take on The Citadel (1-0). Son's planning on showing Dad he can play just as well as Dad did back in the day.
"I'm a combo guard," Fredrick said, dropping into a quick-fire explanation of his skills. "I can play the one, I got point guard skills, but I attack the basket and I try to create plays like a two-guard. Handle the ball well enough to play the one, make good-enough decisions to play the one, but I can score the ball like the two."
He's done both so far, spelling Downey at point guard and directing the offense or playing wingman to Downey's take-over style. Fredrick's had seven assists in two games, getting the ball to perimeter threat Dominique Archie, the inside-out Dwayne Day or into the paint for freshman Mike Holmes.
Still a way to go before anything's decided on the season, but for the beginning, at least, Fredrick's easing his way back into the spotlight.
Just like Dad used to.
"I want to leave my own mark," Fredrick said. "I want to be known as my own guy with my own name. Talk about what he did and talk about what I did, not about us together."
SOUTH CAROLINA GAMEDAYTHE CITADEL (1-0) AT SOUTH CAROLINA (1-0)
• When: 7:30 p.m.
• Where: Colonial Center, Columbia
• TV: None
• On the Web: Live Gametracker at uscsports.com
• Tickets: Available at the box office
• The Citadel's probable starters: G Cameron Wells 6-1 Fr. (17.0 ppg, 7.0 rpg); G Zach Urbanus 6-2 Fr. (7.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg); C Demetrius Nelson 6-8 Sr. (5.0 ppg, 8.0 rpg); F Phillip Pandak 6-6 Fr. (24.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg); F Austin Dahn 6-4 Fr. (20.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg)
• South Carolina's probable starters: G Devan Downey 5-9 So. (24.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg); G Zam Fredrick 6-0 Jr. (14.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg); G Brandis Raley-Ross 6-2 So. (7.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg); F Mike Holmes 6-7 Fr. (8.0 ppg, 7.0 rpg); F Dominique Archie 6-7 So. (8.0 ppg, 1.0 rpg)
• Notes: Each team is coming off a strong performance in its season-opener. USC had a 30-point lead over S.C. State in the first half before winning 92-67 and The Citadel set a school record for most points scored in a game with a 131-79 rout of Daniel Webster. ... The Gamecocks have a short turnaround from a game three nights ago but get the next three days off to prepare for Southern Cal. ... The Bulldogs stroked 21 3-pointers in their opener.
• Next up: USC hosts No. 18 Southern Cal at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Who will win the ACC Coastal Division?
Guard Kendal Moore 'fitting into the flow' at NC State
Coastal Division preview: Is it Virginia's turn?
By Joe Giglio
Six different teams have won the ACC's Coastal Division in the past six years. Is it Virginia's turn in 2019? With the outlook for Duke, North Carolina and the rest of the division heading into ACC Kickoff.
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Teddy Greenstein: Is Urban Meyer done coaching college football? Fox Sports is banking on it
Newly released NCAA records don't show cooperation from Early, Gassnola in NCSU case
She's on NC State's basketball team. But she still had one high school game to play.
Death of 22-year-old former Duke women's lacrosse player doesn't appear to be suspicious

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Q: Why is there not a concurrent TreeMap? I have a few question related to java.util.concurrent package:

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*Why in the java API there is the non-concurrent TreeMap on one side and the concurrent  ConcurrentSkipListMap on one other?

*Why did not they call it ConcurrentTreeMap? Is it safe to say that a SkipListMap includes a TreeMap?
For example a non concurrent HashMap has got its concurrent counterpart ConcurrentHashMap. Why does it not happen for the TreeMap?

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Why there is the non-concurrent TreeMap on one side and the ConcurrentSkipListMap on one other?

I suspect this was done because making a tree structure concurrent was too difficult or suffered from locking performance problems.   In terms of ordered collections, SkipLists are very simple data structures and provide similar behavior and performance to trees so the ConcurrentSkipListMap (and Set) might have been easier to make concurrent.
I'm actually more disappointed that there isn't a non-concurrent SkipList collection myself.

Is it safe to say that a SkipListMap included a TreeMap?

No.  It is safe to say that a SkipList gives similar features in terms of an ordered collection of items that gives O(logN) performance for lookup, insert, delete, etc..  At least it gives a probabilistic approximation of that performance.
Here's a good page about skiplists.  They are extremely cool data structures.  I can only hope the are taught in modern programming data structures classes.

A: The TreeMap class is called that way because it is implemented using a balanced search tree. The ConcurrentSkipListMap is called that way because it's implemented using a skip list. Why is there no concurrent version of TreeMap? Possibly because it's hard to make a tree structure that scales to high levels of concurrency; a concurrent skip list is easier to implement correctly.

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When someone in your family has cancer, it may mean many things to you. Other people who have been through it say it can be a lot of things: confusing, scary, lonely, and much more. You may find that you have feelings that are hard to understand and sometimes hard to share.
This article tells about the experiences of others who have had a family member with cancer. Some of what you read, especially about feelings, may not make sense or seem right to you. It may even seem silly. Or it may seem a lot like what you've felt and what has happened to you.
Remember, feelings aren't "good" or "bad." They are just feelings and are normal and shared by many others. And even if you try to wish them away or ignore them, or if you feel guilty or ashamed of them, they'll still be there.
A good way to handle feelings is to admit you have them and to talk about them. Talk with your parents, other adults, or your friends. Or you can talk with others who have had a family member with cancer. You'll be surprised how much better you feel once you have talked about your feelings.
Sometimes it's not easy to talk about what you feel or about problems. Not only is it hard to say what you feel, but other people may not be ready or able to listen or to be helpful. Some of your questions may upset your parents because they don't know how to answer or because your worries remind them of their own. It's possible that your parents may not be ready to talk when you are. They may need more time to sort things out in their own minds before they can talk with you. Some parents, no matter how much they love their children, don't know how to talk about upsetting things with them. If your parents aren't able to talk with you about your feelings, they may be able to help you find someone you can talk to, like someone at the hospital, a relative or friend, or a teacher or school counselor.
Here is what some others who have had a parent or brother or sister with cancer have said about what they felt.
The girl who said this had a sister with cancer, but it can be just as scary when a parent has cancer. When someone is first diagnosed with cancer, it may seem as though your whole world has fallen apart. You may not know much about it, so you may remember what you've heard about cancer before. Being afraid someone might die from cancer is normal, especially if the only people with cancer that you have known have died. And being afraid that you or another person in the family might catch it is normal, too. Why? Because there are so many things you can catch from someone else such as a cold or the flu. It's easy to think cancer may be the same, but doctors and other scientists know that you cannot catch cancer from anyone. Learning about cancer can help you. You will feel less afraid when you know more about the disease.
Hearing about treatments and tests can be hard. Some people find it's scary just to think about the needles and blood tests and radiation treatments. Sometimes, learning about these things and talking to the person with cancer (or someone else) about what it's really like is the best way to deal with these fears. If a trip to the hospital is possible, it might help.
Sometimes, when one parent has cancer, the other one spends a lot of time at the hospital and away from the rest of the family. Having their parents at the hospital instead of at home can be scary to some young people. They may worry about their parents and need to have someone special to call to make sure that things are all right.
Until you understand what does and doesn't cause cancer, it's easy to think that anything could have done it -- even words or a fall.
Just as words can't cause cancer, neither can bruises or bumps or even broken bones. Never forget: It was nothing you did, said, or thought that caused the cancer.
Some people are afraid to tell any one what they are thinking and may feel guilty for a long time. Even if your parents can see that something is worrying you, they may not be able to guess what it is. It's hard to talk about, especially if you think you've done something wrong, and everyone will be mad at you. But it is best to get it out in the open so you and your parents or someone at the hospital can talk it over.
People sometimes feel guilty because they are well, and their parent or sibling is sick. Young people may feel that it's not right for them to enjoy things they like to do when the person with cancer can't do what he or she likes. These feelings show that you care about your family, but it's important to care not only for the person with cancer but also for yourself. It's best for everyone if you keep being you and doing things that are important to you.
People who have a brother or sister or a parent with cancer can feel angry at that person for getting sick and changing their lives. This may seem wrong, and people sometimes feel guilty about getting mad. But if having someone with cancer in your family means you can't be with your parents as much or have to stay somewhere else or give up things you like, it can be hard. Even if you understand why it's happening, you don't have to like it. Others who have been through it say it's important to remember that things won't always be this way. And when you get mad, remember that it doesn't mean you are a bad person or don't love the person with cancer. It just means you're mad.
One of the things that young people get mad about is feeling left out or neglected. Some feel that they don't get as much attention as before, and they often are right. Family members, including your parents, all have a lot on their minds, and they may have to put all their energy into helping the person with cancer. This may not leave much time for you, especially if they are going back and forth to the clinic or hospital.
Young people often feel that the brother or sister with cancer gets more attention from their parents.
Young people may feel that their sibling with cancer gets away with a lot of things that they can't do.
Why do some parents do this? It's not because they don't love all their children. This is a confusing time for them, just as it is for you. They have to learn a lot about cancer and hospitals very fast. They are tired and worried. They see one of their children sick and may try to make up for it by giving that child a little more attention. Parents know, as you do, that some people die from cancer, and they could be afraid of that and want to do all they can for your brother or sister who has cancer. Sometimes they give a young person with cancer special treatment that isn't wanted.
For whatever reason, and whether your brother or sister likes it or not, your parents may give special treatment to the one who has cancer. At times like this, it's normal to feel jealous, even if people tell you that you shouldn't because you're not sick. But it's natural for you to want time with your parents and some special attention, too.
Young people who have a parent with cancer also may feel neglected.
When one parent has cancer, the other one may be so busy that neither one of them can spend much time with the rest of the family.
If you feel like you're not getting much attention, whether you have a parent or a brother or sister with cancer, remember that the person with cancer is getting more attention because they need special care, not because you are loved less.
You may be lucky and have a special friend and friends who treat you the same as before your family member was diagnosed with cancer. But many young people with cancer in their families have found that they've lost some of their friends. Sometimes this happens because friends may not know much about cancer and may be afraid of catching it from you. Or they may not know what to say and find it easier to stay away than to be embarrassed. Having cancer in your family may make you act a little different because you're upset or scared or embarrassed or because you want to be with your family.
If your friends don't understand, they may think that you don't want to see them anymore. It can be a hard time for all of you.
What can you do? You may need to reach out to your friends, even if that's hard to do. Maybe everyone won't respond as you'd like, but it helps if you give them a chance. Often friends just don't know how to act and need you to tell them how you want to be treated. They also may need you to show that you still need them, even if you seem a little different because you're upset. You may want to invite them over to watch TV, play video games, or just to talk. Let them know that you still enjoy talking with them on the phone or going to the movies -- just as you did before.
If this is a hard time for you, remember that it won't last forever. Old friends may become close to you again. And people who have lost friends have found that they also made new ones. There may be someone at school who has had a sick person in the family and will understand how you feel. That person could be a special new friend.
When your friends do talk to you, some of them may not say what you want to hear. Sometimes, especially in the beginning, people ask a lot of questions that are hard to answer.
One way to answer your classmates' questions is for you and your parents to talk to your teacher and see if the teacher or someone who knows about cancer and its treatment can talk to your class. Ask the doctor, nurse, or social worker about a school conference or classroom presentation. This will give your friends a chance to ask their questions and be sure they're getting the right answers -- not about your family member but about cancer in general.
"Are you going to get cancer from your mother?"
"Why does your brother always wear that cap? Did his hair really fall out?"
"Is your dad going to die?"
"What did your sister do to get cancer?"
You may want to get help finding answers to questions like these. There may be several people to ask such as your parents, teacher, or school counselor, an adult friend, or the doctor, nurse, or social worker. And remember, you always can tell people that you don't want to talk about something or that you don't know. You don't have to answer their questions. Sometimes, though, trying to answer a few questions and talking about your feelings can help others understand what you are experiencing.
Sometimes people who have a person with cancer in their family may feel embarrassed because now their family is different. It is different from what it used to be, and it is different from their friends' families. And people who ask them questions they can't answer just embarrass them more. So sometimes they want to try to leave the cancer at home and hope that none of their friends learn about it. Of course, you can't really do that because when someone you love is sick, you need people you can talk to and who understand if you're upset. If you feel a little embarrassed around people because someone in your family has cancer, remember that others have felt this way also and that this feeling often goes away once everyone has gotten used to what is happening.
Even though others feel all right about asking a lot of questions, some people with a family member who has cancer find that it embarrasses them to ask questions. Just remember: No question is a dumb question if you don't understand it.
When someone you love has side effects from cancer treatments, you too have to learn to live with these changes. It may seem a little strange at first, or scary, but other people have found that they soon got used to it. Some people outside the family may not understand, and they may hurt the feelings of the person with cancer.
It's hard to imagine why anyone would want to tease James, but it's not as important to know why someone did it as it is to know that these things may happen, and that you can't always protect your brother or sister. What you can do for people with cancer is try to understand how they feel and help them see that they still have friends. And if you tease them from time to time, like you did before they had cancer, it's not a bad thing, as long as you don't keep it up for long or keep doing it when you see that it really hurts their feelings. Brothers and sisters all tease each other, and it's important that, even when your brother or sister has cancer, you treat each other as much like before as you can.
You may be shocked if the person who has cancer looks different after coming home.
Even if someone tells you that your family member won't look the same, you may not be prepared for the changes. Try to find out what type of changes to expect. It may be hard for you, but it's important to remember that, even if they look different, they're still the same person.
Some young people who have a family member with cancer may change a little themselves. Sometimes they don't realize it or don't know why. But with all the new and different experiences and feelings, it's not surprising that people change. They may have trouble at school or be unable to concentrate or to get along with other people as well as they did before.
They may start to be a little less careful or do things that are dangerous, maybe getting hurt more often.
They may worry a lot about getting sick themselves and may even get sick more often. Their school grades may fall, or they may become more involved in school than they were before and make better grades.
Any of these changes can happen because young people who are scared or worried or whose lives have changed may need more attention at home. Just as with other problems or worries, it helps to talk with people who care and understand what's happening.
If you haven't noticed that you have changed, someone else may notice and want to talk to you about it. If they do, it's because they want to help. Your parents or teachers or social workers at the hospital or clinic all may be able to help if you've changed in a way that isn't good for you or that makes you sad and uncomfortable.
Not all of the changes are bad; some may be good. Many young people who have had cancer in the family felt it has helped them grow up. Others say it also has brought their family closer together.
Reprinted from CancerNet, a service of the National Cancer Institute.


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Washington high-school state championships unlikely to be held during COVID-19 pandemic
Nov. 3, 2020 at 11:51 am Updated Nov. 7, 2020 at 2:53 pm
Nathan Joyce
Seattle Times high school sports coordinator
High-school state championships in Washington could be the latest thing lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association announced more changes Tuesday as it tries to field sports for the 2020-21 academic year.
The Executive Board, made up of 13 school administrators from across the state, decided that for a season to take place, 50 percent of the schools in a region must be eligible (as determined by COVID-19 metrics) for league games.
The Board also decided that seasons will likely culminate in a regional championship rather than a state championship. While COVID-19 numbers would make that scenario likely, the WIAA hasn't shut the door on holding a state tournament.
"(We're) not eliminating it," WIAA sports and activities information director Casey Johnson said. "But certain things would have to happen."
What those regional events would look like are up in the air, but a "Final Four" scenario is likely to be played at a high school. The WIAA is allowing league and districts to decide how teams would qualify for those events. The details for culminating events for sports such as swimming and diving and cross country are being worked out.
A region would need eight schools in a classification in a particular sport to hold a regional championship. If those requirements can't be met, regions could combine.
These latest decisions give the WIAA flexibility to get any sports it can up and running. If schools are unable to meet the 50 percent threshold, the WIAA has the flexibility to move that sport to a different season.
Last month, the WIAA released guidelines on how sports could return to play using guidance from the Governor's office and the Department of Health. A school's ability to return to play will be based on the number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents in its county along with the percentage of positive tests.
The WIAA is divided up into three regions. Region A has Districts 1 and 2 (which includes the WesCo, KingCo and Metro leagues). Region B has Districts 3 and 4 (which includes South King County and goes down to the Oregon border). Region C encompasses all of Eastern Washington.
The next season in the WIAA's revamped calendar is winter (which includes basketball, wrestling, swimming and diving and gymnastics), which is to begin practice Dec. 28. The WIAA guidelines classify sports by risk, and basketball and wrestling fall into high-risk categories. Swimming falls into the low-risk category and gymnastics are medium risk.
According to the state's COVID-19 dashboard, King and Snohomish counties' numbers would not allow for even medium-risk sports to be played were the season to start today.
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Mohamed Moez Belhassine (), né le  à Tunis, est un haut fonctionnaire et homme politique tunisien.

Biographie

Formation
Après avoir obtenu une maîtrise en économie internationale de la , il intègre le cycle supérieur de l'École nationale d'administration à Tunis en 2005.

En 2008, il obtient un master professionnel en analyse économique et développement international de l'université d'Auvergne, puis un certificat de spécialité en gestion de projets et coopération internationale en 2011 de l'École nationale d'administration en France, avant de terminer avec un diplôme de fin d'études du cycle supérieur de la même institution.

Parcours professionnel
En 2005, il commence son parcours professionnel en qualité de conseiller des services publics au sein du cabinet du ministre du Tourisme. À partir de 2006, il assume successivement les fonctions de chef de service et de sous-directeur au bureau de la mise à niveau touristique relevant du ministère du Tourisme.

De 2014 à 2017, il est directeur auprès du cabinet du ministre du Tourisme, chargé du bureau de la mise à niveau touristique puis, jusqu'en 2021, il est PDG de la Société des loisirs touristiques, une entreprise publique.

En 2020, il occupe le poste de directeur général de l'Office national du tourisme tunisien.

Le , il est nommé ministre du Tourisme dans le gouvernement de Najla Bouden.

Vie privée
Il est marié et père de deux enfants.

Notes et références

Ministre tunisien du Tourisme
Élève de l'École nationale d'administration (France)
Étudiant de l'université Clermont-Ferrand I
Naissance en septembre 1977
Naissance à Tunis


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The Pittsburgh Courier's Discursive Power, 1910-1940
By Adam Lee Cilli September 8, 2021 1
"The Pittsburgh Courier is widely read in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois," April 1941, photographer Russell Lee (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
"A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence," wrote Joel A. Rogers in the May 16, 1936 issue of the Pittsburgh Courier. By then, Rogers's historical vignettes had appeared so often in the Courier that they seemed commonplace, yet they reveal much about the paper's greater mission to reshape American racial discourse. From the Progressive Era through the interwar years, the Courier stood as a bulwark against the anti-Black rhetorics that had pervaded mass culture. It bolstered African Americans' sense of self-worth each week by publishing positive accounts of Black life and by celebrating major achievements of Black historical figures. It marshalled powerful arguments against white supremacist racial theories and contested demeaning portrayals of African Americans in the press and popular culture. And it raised consciousness among African Americans about the major issues they faced.1
The Courier began operating in 1910 and initially catered to a local audience. But over the ensuing two decades, under the leadership of the paper's publisher and editor, Robert L. Vann, it expanded its coverage, grew its circulation, and developed into a national news outlet for Black America. By 1935, the Courier had usurped the Chicago Defender as the largest Black newspaper in the United States, and it regularly featured exclusive essays from such national leaders as W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Walter White. Like the Defender, Baltimore Afro-American, New York Age, and other Black news outlets, the Courier provided a vital space for New Negro intellectual discourse where African Americans fleshed out questions concerning modernity, mass culture, and urbanization.2
Despite the Courier's importance, scholars since the 1970s have tended to emphasize the paper's shortcomings. Robert L. Vann, for instance, has been characterized as a duplicitous and insincere self-promoter whose editorial campaigns and reform initiatives were motivated not by an earnest desire for racial justice but by a calculated effort to enhance his political stature and increase the Courier's circulation. This depiction of Vann as an essentially conservative figure determined to boost his status at the expense of working-class African Americans reflects a larger interpretive tradition concerning the nature of Black reform work. While highlighting the grassroots activism of everyday people from the working class, scholars have tended to characterize Black reformers as bourgeois accommodationists singularly committed to racial uplift ideology and incapable of seeing past their narrow class interests.
The result, in general, has been a fairly static portrayal of Black reform work that misses important nuances. Vann certainly was interested in acquiring political power, and there is no doubt that he actively sought out ways to enhance the Courier's circulation; the paper's survival depended on that. But he also regularly crossed class, racial, and ideological lines in pursuit of racial advancement. This pragmatic, utilitarian approach to activism has befuddled historians. Like reformers in the Urban League and NAACP, Vann's efforts included but extended beyond racial uplift ideology, and his class and gender biases informed but did not dictate the direction of his social justice initiatives. Working in a bleak racial climate, he adopted a flexible strategic posture calculated to seize upon changes in mainstream political culture. Thus, Vann changed his political position and party affiliation several times in the interwar years, and the Courier's editorial stances changed accordingly. For Vann and most of his interwar era colleagues, the racial challenges seemed too great and the available allies too scarce to permit an exclusive commitment to any one ideology or tactical formula.
Perhaps unconsciously, scholars often place ahistorical expectations on Black reformers that fail to account for the extraordinarily difficult environment in which they operated. Throughout the early twentieth century, African Americans of all classes faced overwhelming hostility from whites across the social and economic spectrum. Physicians and psychologists respectively conducted cranial studies and developed IQ tests that alleged to prove the mental superiority of Anglo-Saxons, while the writings of social Darwinists and eugenicists made their way into high school and college textbooks. Outside academia, ordinary Americans attended world fairs that featured exhibits of primitive African and Asian villages alongside Western exhibits showcasing great scientific advancements. Meanwhile, a newly emerging mass culture disseminated crude anti-Black stereotypes nationwide through films, radio programs, books, songs, magazines, and newspapers. The early twentieth century witnessed a surge of racist ideology, and mass culture served as the medium through which it gained expression. For millions of white Protestants who did not personally know any African Americans, it provided a racial education that justified upholding white supremacy. D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film, Birth of a Nation, so inspired them that they established Ku Klux Klan chapters in cities and towns from California to Maine.
In this discursive arena, this terrain of racial thought, the Courier under Vann waged battle for three decades, from 1910 until Vann's death in 1940, fighting doggedly to change the discussion about race, to decry, debunk, and delegitimize racist portrayals of African Americans, and to celebrate Black achievement. For Vann, racial pride and solidarity served as the foundation of political unity. As head of the Courier, he made a special effort to publish inspiring accounts of Black accomplishments in the city and across the country, and in the process, he helped thousands of African Americans feel proud of their history.
The historical vignettes referenced above demonstrate this. In the 1920s, the Courier became the first Black newspaper to dispatch a journalist, Joel A. Rogers, to Africa to conduct historical research. Rogers used his findings to publish detailed columns on the importance of African kingdoms to world history, and this work would later inform an illustrated feature called Your History. First appearing in 1934 and continuing through the forties, Your History included a short historical vignette by Rogers and a corresponding illustration by George L. Lee. Through it, every Saturday, Black parents across the country could read stories to their children about Black heroes in America and Africa. The importance of having an accessible source of information on Black history was not lost on Black educators, either. In a January 1935 letter to the editor, a teacher in New Orleans praised Rogers and Lee "for stimulating a study of Negro History, a subject with which we should all be acquainted and yet, one of which we know the least!" Like Nettie, the fictional character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, many African Americans learned about their heritage through Rogers's column. "Africans once had a better civilization than the European," she wrote to her sister, Celie. "I get this from reading a man named J. A. Rogers."3
In other sections of the Courier, readers could find articles celebrating the accomplishments of famous contemporary African Americans such as Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, and Joe Lewis. The paper also promoted Black internationalism through its positive coverage of Haiti, Ethiopia, and Liberia.
As the Courier grew, Vann and his staff gained experience mobilizing public opinion around issues that affected African Americans locally and nationally. In 1931, for instance, the paper led a campaign to have the Amos n' Andy show removed from the air. First broadcast in 1928, the radio show featured two characters, Amos Jones and Andy Brown, voiced by white actors Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who journeyed from a farm in Georgia to Chicago, where they started a taxi company. For Vann, the characters' crude dialogue degraded African Americans and reinforced negative racial stereotypes. Over a six-month period in 1931, he campaigned to remove the show from the air. His national petition decried the show as "detrimental to the self-respect and general advancement of the Negro" and called for a million signatures. The Courier regularly published updates on the petition, indicating the names of signers from each state, whom it praised as "100% Negro Americans." By the time Vann ended the campaign in late fall 1931, the petition had garnered almost seven hundred thousand signatures.4
The drive, though ultimately unsuccessful, offers another example of the Courier's commitment to shaping racial discourse. Through thirty years of persistence, Vann's paper ultimately helped change the moral tone of American race relations for future generations. Dozens of editorial campaigns and thousands of newspaper articles, features, and cartoons slowly chipped away at the edifice of white supremacy and affected the way people discussed race, rights, and human dignity. This collective effort pushed multiculturalism closer to the mainstream of American political culture outside the South and helped make possible the formation of powerful interracial coalitions during the civil rights years.
Joel A. Rogers, "Your History," Pittsburgh Courier, 16 May 1936. ↩
See "Robert L. Vann and the Pittsburgh Courier in the 1932 Presidential Election: An Analysis of Black Reformism in Interwar America," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 141, no.2 (2019): 141-176. ↩
Peter W. Clark, "History Teacher Acclaims 'Your History' Feature as One of the Finest Things in the Courier," letter to the editor, Pittsburgh Courier, 19 January 1935; Alice Walker, The Color Purple (New York: Harcourt, 1982), 129. ↩
For example, see the petition and names of signers in Pittsburgh Courier, 8 August 1931, and "Engage Comic Pair at Picnic," Pittsburgh Courier, 22 August 1931. ↩
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Adam Lee Cilli specializes in U.S. social history from the late nineteenth century through World War II. His first book, Canaan, Dim and Far: Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945 (University of Georgia Press, 2021), illuminates the social justice efforts of journalists, scholars, social workers, medical experts, lawyers, and other professionals who navigated the fraught racial landscape of the urban North during the first phase of the Great Migration.
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Joseph F Fenwick | September 9, 2021 at 9:55 am
Not much has changed, we are still looked at as second class, less educated and oblivious to what's going on around us. I spent 8 years in the US Air force from Nov. 1959-Aug 1967 trying my best to prove that African Americans are just as capable as are white Americans at doing their job at a level of performance highly acceptable. 42 years in a civilian job accomplishing the same level of expertise. In both arenas I worked my way up to supervisory level at each job or department I was assigned.
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Barrow Concedes Defeat In Georgia Secretary Of State Race
Associated Press • Dec 5, 2018
John Barrow was defeated in the Tuesday runoff by Republican state Rep. Brad Raffensperger, who'll take over as secretary of state in January.
The losing Democrat in Georgia's runoff election for secretary of state says he wishes his Republican rival "every success" as the state's new elections chief.
Former congressman John Barrow conceded the race in a statement Wednesday. He was defeated in the Tuesday runoff by Republican state Rep. Brad Raffensperger, who'll take over as secretary of state in January.
Barrow had said earlier Wednesday he wasn't ready to concede because there were still outstanding absentee votes to be counted.
Raffensperger says he's got "a full plate" to deal with following contentious midterms focused on security concerns with aging voting machines and allegations that some voters faced unfair obstacles at the polls.
He told The Associated Press on Wednesday that problems at the polls were "relatively minor" overall and "there was no concerted effort of any suppression whatsoever."
He said he would like to replace Georgia's paperless electronic voting system in time for municipal elections next year.
The Georgia race gained an unusual amount of attention this fall after as Democrats complained the previous secretary of state, GOP Gov.-elect Brian Kemp, used the office to suppress votes and improve his odds of victory.
Kemp strongly denies those allegations, pointing to big increases in voter registration during his tenure and record turnout in the midterm elections.


Good and insightful post, with stats about the amount of traffic received. Even just before New Year, when everyone was presumably on holiday, TechCrunch brought in almost 10'000 visitors over 3 days (but this spike also includes a Hacker News post, so I would estimate the amount of actual TechCrunch traffic at about 7-8'000 confirmed).
It's a good story, and the author, Roberto Martinez draws some conclusions from the experience. The most important one is that TechCrunch is more useful as a source of early credibility and links than as a source of raw traffic.


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The '16+' GB is total worst case.
Eventually, I got P11 installed.
Sadly, due family illness, I've not yet made much use of P10, P11, TurboCAD etc or the raft of 3D models I'd acquired.
Good thing you solved it Sad to hear about the illness.
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This is strange. I've been using SanDisk sticks for creating USB 'recovery sticks' for a long time. And everything works fine. But my system configuration is different. i5 with 16GB and Win7.
Yes, any USB stick would have worked. The original poster has updated the thread. The Sandisk stick was working fine, only 6GB was required to create a recovery stick.


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The Atlanta octet performs songs from its latest record Welcome Home, as well as its greatest hits. Zac Brown Band. Austin City Limits Hall of Fame Cyndi Lauper. Don Henley.
Zac Brown is a country singer, songwriter, and bandleader, one of the brightest stars in a generation of performers set on changing the paradigm of the country music business. He's also a record producer, record label head, and philanthropist set on making the world a better place for as many people as possible. With his winning combination of country, bluegrass, reggae, and Caribbean music, he appeals to country fans and jam band hippies, and could well cross over to lovers of world music and pop. He sold over 30, copies of the first two self-produced albums he made for his own Southern Ground label, and "Chicken Fried," the Zac Brown Band's first single to get national distribution, went platinum with over a million downloads. His first nationally distributed album, The Foundation, sold , copies within weeks of its release in late Brown was born in in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Dahlonega, a small town in the north Georgia mountains. He was the 11th child in a family of 12 kids, and grew up in a split family.
Elliott Scheiner was the engineer. The lyrics are about a spiritual quest, typical of Morrison's work. Morrison remarked on the song and how its use of homophones lent it alternate meanings:. Originally I wrote it as 'Into the Misty'. But later I thought that it had something of an ethereal feeling to it so I called it 'Into the Mystic'.
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package ldap

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"

	ber "github.com/go-asn1-ber/asn1-ber"
)

// SimpleBindRequest represents a username/password bind operation
type SimpleBindRequest struct {
	// Username is the name of the Directory object that the client wishes to bind as
	Username string
	// Password is the credentials to bind with
	Password string
	// Controls are optional controls to send with the bind request
	Controls []Control
	// AllowEmptyPassword sets whether the client allows binding with an empty password
	// (normally used for unauthenticated bind).
	AllowEmptyPassword bool
}

// SimpleBindResult contains the response from the server
type SimpleBindResult struct {
	Controls []Control
}

// NewSimpleBindRequest returns a bind request
func NewSimpleBindRequest(username string, password string, controls []Control) *SimpleBindRequest {
	return &SimpleBindRequest{
		Username:           username,
		Password:           password,
		Controls:           controls,
		AllowEmptyPassword: false,
	}
}

func (req *SimpleBindRequest) appendTo(envelope *ber.Packet) error {
	pkt := ber.Encode(ber.ClassApplication, ber.TypeConstructed, ApplicationBindRequest, nil, "Bind Request")
	pkt.AppendChild(ber.NewInteger(ber.ClassUniversal, ber.TypePrimitive, ber.TagInteger, 3, "Version"))
	pkt.AppendChild(ber.NewString(ber.ClassUniversal, ber.TypePrimitive, ber.TagOctetString, req.Username, "User Name"))
	pkt.AppendChild(ber.NewString(ber.ClassContext, ber.TypePrimitive, 0, req.Password, "Password"))

	envelope.AppendChild(pkt)
	if len(req.Controls) > 0 {
		envelope.AppendChild(encodeControls(req.Controls))
	}

	return nil
}

// SimpleBind performs the simple bind operation defined in the given request
func (l *Conn) SimpleBind(simpleBindRequest *SimpleBindRequest) (*SimpleBindResult, error) {
	if simpleBindRequest.Password == "" && !simpleBindRequest.AllowEmptyPassword {
		return nil, NewError(ErrorEmptyPassword, errors.New("ldap: empty password not allowed by the client"))
	}

	msgCtx, err := l.doRequest(simpleBindRequest)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	defer l.finishMessage(msgCtx)

	packet, err := l.readPacket(msgCtx)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	result := &SimpleBindResult{
		Controls: make([]Control, 0),
	}

	if len(packet.Children) == 3 {
		for _, child := range packet.Children[2].Children {
			decodedChild, decodeErr := DecodeControl(child)
			if decodeErr != nil {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to decode child control: %s", decodeErr)
			}
			result.Controls = append(result.Controls, decodedChild)
		}
	}

	err = GetLDAPError(packet)
	return result, err
}

// Bind performs a bind with the given username and password.
//
// It does not allow unauthenticated bind (i.e. empty password). Use the UnauthenticatedBind method
// for that.
func (l *Conn) Bind(username, password string) error {
	req := &SimpleBindRequest{
		Username:           username,
		Password:           password,
		AllowEmptyPassword: false,
	}
	_, err := l.SimpleBind(req)
	return err
}

// UnauthenticatedBind performs an unauthenticated bind.
//
// A username may be provided for trace (e.g. logging) purpose only, but it is normally not
// authenticated or otherwise validated by the LDAP server.
//
// See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4513#section-5.1.2 .
// See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4513#section-6.3.1 .
func (l *Conn) UnauthenticatedBind(username string) error {
	req := &SimpleBindRequest{
		Username:           username,
		Password:           "",
		AllowEmptyPassword: true,
	}
	_, err := l.SimpleBind(req)
	return err
}

var externalBindRequest = requestFunc(func(envelope *ber.Packet) error {
	pkt := ber.Encode(ber.ClassApplication, ber.TypeConstructed, ApplicationBindRequest, nil, "Bind Request")
	pkt.AppendChild(ber.NewInteger(ber.ClassUniversal, ber.TypePrimitive, ber.TagInteger, 3, "Version"))
	pkt.AppendChild(ber.NewString(ber.ClassUniversal, ber.TypePrimitive, ber.TagOctetString, "", "User Name"))

	saslAuth := ber.Encode(ber.ClassContext, ber.TypeConstructed, 3, "", "authentication")
	saslAuth.AppendChild(ber.NewString(ber.ClassUniversal, ber.TypePrimitive, ber.TagOctetString, "EXTERNAL", "SASL Mech"))
	saslAuth.AppendChild(ber.NewString(ber.ClassUniversal, ber.TypePrimitive, ber.TagOctetString, "", "SASL Cred"))

	pkt.AppendChild(saslAuth)

	envelope.AppendChild(pkt)

	return nil
})

// ExternalBind performs SASL/EXTERNAL authentication.
//
// Use ldap.DialURL("ldapi://") to connect to the Unix socket before ExternalBind.
//
// See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4422#appendix-A
func (l *Conn) ExternalBind() error {
	msgCtx, err := l.doRequest(externalBindRequest)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer l.finishMessage(msgCtx)

	packet, err := l.readPacket(msgCtx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return GetLDAPError(packet)
}


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Trump campaign: Obama born in the US
By: Allissa Corak
Posted: Sep 16, 2016 2:03 AM EST | Updated: Sep 16, 2016 2:05 AM EST
By Daniella Diaz CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Donald Trump's campaign on Thursday said he believes President Barack Obama was born in the US, a major reversal from a line of attack Trump launched five years ago.
The announcement late Thursday night is an attempt by Trump's campaign to take the controversial issue -- which helped propel him to political prominence -- off the table ahead of the first presidential debate later this month.
But Trump himself has not flatly said Obama was born in Hawaii.
Jason Miller, a campaign spokesman, released a statement reading, "In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate."
Miller added, "Inarguably, Donald J. Trump is a closer. Having successfully obtained President Obama's birth certificate when others could not, Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States."
'I just don't want to answer it yet'
Earlier Thursday, Trump refused to say whether he believes Obama was born in the US, despite recent efforts by his top surrogates to downplay the so-called "birther" controversy.
"I'll answer that question at the right time. I just don't want to answer it yet," Trump told The Washington Post.
Clinton slammed Trump's comments to the Post while speaking at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute event in Washington later Thursday, saying he needs to stop his "ugliness" and "bigotry."
"He was asked one more time: Where was President Obama born? And he still wouldn't say Hawaii. He still wouldn't say America. This man wants to be our next president? When will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry," she said. "This is the best he can do. This is who he is. And so we need to decide who we are."
Her campaign Thursday night said Trump needs to publicly say Obama was born in the US.
"Trump needs to say it himself. On camera. And admit he was wrong for trying to delegitimize the country's first African American President," campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted.
And Clinton's campaign tweeted from her official account, "President Obama's successor cannot and will not be the man who led the racist birther movement. Period."
Surrogates downplay controversy
In speaking to the Post, Trump was responding to a question about whether Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager, was being accurate when she said last week that Trump now believes Obama was born in the United States.
Trump told the Post he didn't want to talk about the "birther" controversy anymore, but refused to say what he believed about it.
"It's OK. (Conway) is allowed to speak what she thinks. I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on other things," he said. "I don't talk about it anymore. The reason I don't is because then everyone is going to be talking about it as opposed to jobs, the military, the vets, security."
Conway told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day" last Friday that the so-called birther controversy is over. Her remarks came after similar comments from Trump surrogate and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said that Trump now believes Obama was born in the United States.
Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, also drew a clear distinction with Trump last Wednesday by saying that he believed Obama was born in the US.
Trump campaign blames Clinton
In his statement, Miller said, "Mr. Trump did a great service to the President and the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised."
He was referring to a controversy from the 2008 Democratic primary fight between Obama and Clinton. In a March 2008 interview with "60 Minutes," Clinton said she took then-Sen. Obama's word that he was not a Muslim, but when pressed if she believed he was, she replied, "No. No, there is nothing to base that on -- as far as I know."
Clinton, however, was not questioning Obama's birthplace.
The 'birther' controversy
Regardless of the controversy's origins, Trump has used it to launch his political career. In 2011, he emerged as one of the fringe movement's leaders, repeatedly seeking to cast doubt on Obama's citizenship and legitimacy in office.
"I have people that have been studying (Obama's birth certificate) and they cannot believe what they're finding ... I would like to have him show his birth certificate, and can I be honest with you, I hope he can," Trump said on NBC's "Today" show. "Because if he can't, if he can't, if he wasn't born in this country, which is a real possibility ... then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics."
He continued to make media appearances and call Obama's birthplace into question on Twitter, eventually pushing Obama to release his long-form birth certificate -- which proves he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961 -- at a White House news conference.
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