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Before accepting the assignment please read all. The paper needs to be at least 7 pages long not including the cover and reference page. Only the sources attached can be used as references. The paper
Before accepting the assignment please read all. The paper needs to be at least 7 pages long not including the cover and reference page. Only the sources attached can be used as references. The paper needs to have at least 10 in text citations. You must answer all of the questions covered in the Roman Numeral section. You must write the assignment covering all points in the grading rubric that is attached. The report needs to be complete by 12:00 noon on 3/2/2019. You must be willing to make corrections if needed.
The purpose of this project is to apply leadership concepts to a crisis leadership situation and to make recommendations for a crisis-ready culture.
The key to doing well in this assignment is to use course materials from all seven weeks. While there is a focus on Week 7 content, students are expected to apply the concepts learned from weeks 1 through 6 as well. Moreover, students are expected to apply examples from the case scenario to concepts learned from the course materials. Students will not need to use course materials outside of those provided in this classroom, so use of any other course materials should be highly discouraged.
A Snapshot of the Case and the Underlying Issues:
This case focuses on a crisis that was created because of poor leadership decisions and behaviors. The decisions made by Higgins created the problem, but at the core of this problem was the poor leadership of Brown. Higgins made a decision to purchase genetically modified Echinacea for short-term gain. She made this decision without consulting with anyone. But the crisis could have been prevented by Brown. Brown demonstrated:
the wrong leadership style in giving Higgins free rein
low emotional intelligence by not demonstrating control of his emotions and not managing conflict well
that he was not an Authentic leader, in that he didn't clearly communicate the values most important to him and to Biotech (the core values). Knowing that the core values would have possibly allowed Higgins to reframe her decision making (in other words she would have understood sustainability and customer-centricity come before short term profits). Moreover, Brown did not take ownership of the problem – another sign of an unauthentic leader.
Finally, this case demonstrates what can happen when culture, structure, and strategy do not align. After working through these leadership issues, students will provide recommendations to make Biotech crisis-ready.
Skill Building:
You are also completing this project to help you develop the skills of analysis, critical thinking, and writing a report. Writing is critical because in business it is important to convey information clearly and concisely and to develop a personal brand. Developing a personal brand is important because it is the ongoing process of establishing an image or impression in the minds of others especially those in positions above you. Having a strong personal brand can lead to opportunities that include promotions.
Skills: Writing, Critical Thinking, Developing a Personal Brand, Situational Analysis, Writing a Report.
Outcomes Met With This Project:
use leadership theories, assessment tools, and an understanding of the role of ethics, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, competencies, values, and attitudes to evaluate and enhance personal leadership skills
assess the interactions between the external environment and within an organization to foster responsible and effective leadership and organizational practices
Develop individual awareness, style and communication skills that enhance leadership skills
Integrate and apply analytical principles and concepts of leadership to make strategic decisions.
Step 1: The Scenario
Read the Case Scenario that follows and answer Mr. Barney's questions in the form of a report. Address the report to Mr. Barney.
You walk into your office one morning and see an article on your desk. You pick it up and realize that Mr. Barney, the CEO, placed it there! He also has some questions on a post-it note and a request for recommendations.
Max Barney was exhausted. He had just finished a long meeting with his current VP of Headquarter Operations, Michael Brown. Michael, who was himself getting ready for retirement, was giving Barney a rundown of a recent crisis that impacted the company. While the dust seemed to be settling, Barney recognized that this was one of the worst things to ever happen to his company.
Michael recalls the crisis in the following way:
"On the morning of January 19th, I got a call from Joanne Edwards, my contact at our major distributor, Happy and Healthy Foodmart. She told me that three of her customers had complained that Biotech's echinacea had made them ill. I called our legal department immediately to put them on alert. By noon that day, the number of reported illnesses had risen to seven. By January 22nd, the worst possible news came in – one of those people had actually died.
I called my team together immediately to come up with a plan for an immediate Recall. We needed to manage this crisis with our employees, our distributors, and most of all our customers. Controlling the message to the public and the media was critical. We'd had Recalls before, but never in reaction to a customer death. This was a whole new ball game for us.
Once the Recall had been put in place, we needed to get to the bottom of the echinacea problem. We started looking at the suppliers and ended up in the Purchasing Department. When we discovered that Henrietta Higgins, the Assistant Director of Purchasing, had cut a deal with a new supplier I became furious, Max. I mean, it was not one of my proudest moments."
"That's understandable," replied Max, "go on. Tell me more."
"Well, Higgins received an offer from a new supplier to buy genetically modified echinacea. She explained that she thought it was a good move because it would save the company over 20% on the wholesale price. She made the decision unilaterally, Max, without every going to her supervisor or to me to discuss it."
"What did you do when you found this out?" asked Max.
"I fired her, of course. We had no other choice, Max. It's because of her we have this crisis. And on top of that, we've decided to halt all sales of all echinacea in the foreseeable future."
"Who's we?" Max asked, with concern in his voice now.
"My team, of course. I told my managers about my decision and they're all behind me 100%. We all know how important it is to act quickly in this situation, Max. You can trust me to turn this situation around."
Max left the meeting sure about two things. First, he was secretly relieved that Michael was nearing retirement. The new VP of Headquarter Operations could start fresh. Second, he had just finished reading an article about a "Crisis Ready Culture". He knew that it was time for Biotech to start developing a crisis-ready culture.
Max drops by your office with a copy of that article. He has a post-it note on the article, with the following questions and a request for recommendations:
What Leadership Styles were used in the recent echinacea crisis? Discuss the leadership style of every person involved.
What Leadership Styles would be most beneficial in a crisis-ready culture?
What leadership competencies were evident in the recent echinacea crisis? Discuss the leadership competencies of every person involved.
What leadership competencies would be most needed in a crisis-ready culture?
What role did Emotional Intelligence (or lack of Emotional Intelligence) play in the echinacea crisis?
What role would Emotional Intelligence play in a crisis-ready culture?
What role did Authentic Leadership (or lack of it) play in the Echinacea crisis?
What role would Authentic Leadership play in a crisis-ready culture?
What role (if any) did Biotech's current culture play in the Echinacea crisis?
How can Biotech align its current strategy, culture and organizational structure to develop a crisis-ready culture?
Give three specific and actionable recommendations that could be implemented to develop acrisis-ready culture for Biotech. (Each recommendation should be supported by course materials).
Step 2. The Questions to Answer
You will answer the 11 questions above provided in Step 1.
Step 3. Write the Report.
Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) report should be no more than seven (7) pages double-spaced, Times New Roman-12 points font. Those five pages do not include therequired Title Page, Reference Page and Appendix. You will use the following format.
The report should use Roman Numeral numbering for each section and answer each of Mr. Barney's questions, as follows:
The Leadership Styles demonstrated in the recent echinacea crisis. Provide evidence for your claims from the case scenario and support your claim with course material.
The Leadership Styles that would be most beneficial in a crisis-ready culture. Support your reasoning with course materials.
The leadership competencies that were evident in the recent echinacea crisis. Provide evidence for your claims from the case scenario and support your claim with course materials.
The leadership competencies that would be most needed in a crisis-ready culture. Support your reasoning and conclusions with course materials.
The role that Emotional Intelligence (or lack of Emotional Intelligence) played in the echinacea crisis. Provide evidence for your claims from the case scenario and support your claim with course materials.
The role that E.Q. would play in a crisis-ready culture. Support your reasoning and conclusions with course materials.
The role that Authentic Leadership (or lack of it ) played in the Echinacea crisis. Provide evidence for your claims from the case scenario and support your claim with course materials.
The role that Authentic Leadership would play in a crisis-ready culture. Support your reasoning and conclusions with course materials.
The role (if any) that Biotech's current culture played in the Echinacea crisis. Provide evidence for your claims from the case scenario and Biotech Company Profile and support your claim with course materials.
How Biotech can align its current strategy, culture and organizational structure to develop this crisis-ready culture. Support your analysis with course materials.
Three specific and actionable recommendations that Biotech leadership could implement to develop this crisis-ready culture. (Each recommendation should be supported by course materials). Make sure these three recommendations are actionable (in other words, leadership can take your advice and put it into practice immediately) and specific (in other words, not too general that it cannot be easily understood). For example, "change leadership style" is not actionable today, and too general to be clearly understood. However, "train leaders on different leadership styles" can be put into practice today and is specific enough to be understood. (Do not use this example in your answer!).
Reference Page – provide references to match your in-text citations, written in APA format.
Step 4. Submit the Completed Report in the Assignment Folder.
Submitting the project to the Assignment Folder is considered the student's final product and therefore ready for grading by the instructor. It is incumbent upon the student to verify the assignment is the correct submission. No exceptions will be considered by the instructor.
Other Required Elements:
Read the grading rubric for the project. Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade.
Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.
Paraphrasing is allowed. Direct quotes are not allowed. You do not need to cite or reference this leader for the purposes of this report.
Direct quotes are NOT allowed if they are quotation from course materials. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document, but put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage to the source document, using in-text citations in APA format. Changing words from a passage does not exclude the passage from having quotation marks. If more than four consecutive words are used from source documents, this material will not be included in the grade and could lead to allegations of academic dishonesty.
In-text citations should be included in ALL SECTIONS of the report, and should demonstrate application of the course material. Note that a reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.
You may only use the course material from the classroom. You may not use books or any resource from the Internet.
Provide the page or paragraph number, where applicable.
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Q: Limitations of and alternatives to tries in languages other than English? The trie data structure is often a great way to store strings in English. It works by building a tree where each edge is labeled with a letter, and the path to a marked node in the tree spells out one of the words in the data structure.
This data structure works well in English because there are "only" 26 letters in the English alphabet (a "reasonable" branching factor), those characters have consecutive ASCII values (so the child pointers can be stored in an array keyed by the index of the letters used by each child), and there are many English words with common prefixes (so there is a lot of redundancy in the structure).
I'm a native English speaker with only limited knowledge of other languages and alphabets, but it seems like many of these properties don't hold in other languages. I know that French, Spanish, German, and Hungarian, for example, frequently use accented characters that aren't stored continuously with the remaining letters in Unicode space. Hebrew and Arabic have vowel markings that are usually indicated above or below each letter. Chinese uses a logogram system, and Korean Hangul characters consist of triples of smaller characters grouped together.
Do tries still work well for data stored in these languages and alphabets? What changes, if any, are necessary to use tries for this sort of data? Are there any data structures that work well for strings in those languages and alphabets that are particularly well-suited to them but would not be useful or efficient in English?

A: I've found that tries work well for Western European languages, as well as for Cyrillic and many other alphabetic languages. Come to think of it, the only languages I had trouble with were Chinese, Japanese, and other logographic writing systems. And for those, the trie was useless.
The sequential Unicode values of English characters isn't really a huge benefit. Although it suggests the simple node implementation:
CharNode
    char
    array[26] of CharNode

That structure isn't particularly helpful. It can make things faster, but at a fairly high memory cost. Even at the second level of a trie, that array is remarkably sparse. By the time you get to the fourth or fifth level, it's almost all dead space. I did an analysis of that at one point. I'll look around and see if I still have the numbers.
I found it nearly as fast to have a variable-length array in the node, with items ordered by frequency. Beyond the second or third level of the trie, the character I was looking for was almost always in the first or second position in that array. And the space savings was quite large. Rather than 26 references per node (104 bytes in my implementation), I had a one-byte count, and then five bytes per reference. So as long as there were fewer than 21 children for a particular node (which was most of the time), I saved space. There was a small runtime penalty, but not enough in my application to matter.
That's the only modification I had to make to my trie structure to make it support all of the alphabetic languages I was working with. As I said, I was working mostly with Western European languages, and for those it worked beautifully. I know that it did work with Hebrew and Arabic, but I don't know how well it worked. It met our purposes, but whether it would have satisfied a native speaker is unknown.
The trie I built worked well enough for our purposes with any language whose characters fit within the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane. There was a little weirdness when working with surrogate pairs, but we pretty much ignored those. Basically, we just treated the surrogate pair as two characters and let it go at that.
You do have to decide whether you want to treat accented characters as separate characters, or if you want to map them. Consider, for example, the French word "garçon," which some people will spell "garcon," either because they don't know any better or they don't know how to make the character 'ç'. Depending on what you're using the trie for, you might find it useful to convert accented characters to their un-accented equivalents. But I suppose that's more of an input cleansing problem than a trie problem.
That's my fairly long-winded way of saying that a standard trie should work well for any alphabetic language, without any language-specific modifications. I don't see any obvious way to use a trie for a logographic language. I know nothing about Korean Hangul, so I can't say whether a trie would be useful there.

A: As an addendum to @JimMischel's answer, I'd like to bring up the issue that in other languages there are often multiple equivalent ways to write the same thing. Vietnamese (based on the Latin/English script) is a particularly good example where letters with two accents are common. For example, Ặ (U+1EB6) can technically also be written with the sequences Ă + dot, Ạ + breve, A + breve + dot, A + dot + breve.
Unicode normalization can solve this problem by converting a string to a standardized canonical order. There are 4 different variations, NFC, NFKC, NFD, and NFKD. I won't go into too much detail here, but the first two are "composed forms" which tends to shorten the string, grouping base characters with its accents, while the last two are "decomposed forms", doing the opposite.
Hangul is an interesting case: It is an alphabet, though all the letters of a syllable are written together in a block. Both the individual letters and the syllabic blocks exist in Unicode. Normalization can solve this, though the number of distinct syllables is quite large. Using NFC/NFKC might not be useful for a trie, but in this case, using NFD/NFKD to decompose syllables to the constituent letters would work.
A few other unrelated points to consider:

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*In addition to the garçon/garcon point already brought up, you have the cote/coté/côte/côté problem, which are all distinct French words. Similarly, vowel marks in Hebrew and Arabic are not usually mandatory, which can occasionally cause ambiguities.

*The alphabets1 of South and Southeast Asia can get large compared to English, roughly twice the size.

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*They are strictly termed abugidas, where vowels are written as diacritics/accents, but this distinction can usually be ignored from a programming point of view.

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Hydrogen cyanide was not isolated in a pure form until 1786 when Scheele extracted it from the dye Prussian blue. Its toxicity was soon discovered by Scheele who, upon breaking the flask of his newly found fluid, was killed by the resulting vapours.
Cyanide is a rapidly toxic agent that is found in liquid and gaseous form. It is used in many chemical compounds including medications and can be found endogenously in plant and bacteria. It is important to know the unique mechanism of action of this poison as delay in treatment can have disastrous consequences to the patient.
Industries that use cyanide include metal extraction and refining, electroplating, photography and fumigation. Suicides are the commonest cause of cyanide poisoning. Deliberate contamination of medications and food has occurred recently. Another source of cyanide includes the combustion of wool, silk, synthetic rubber and polyurethane.
The availability of antidotes to cyanide poisoning varies around the world. In Australia dicobalt edetate IV, sodium nitrite IV and sodium thiosulfate are available. In North America amyl nitrate pearls for inhalation can also used be used. Hydroxocobalamin is widely used in Europe but only has limited availability in North America and Australia.
The management of cyanide poisoning requires firstly the identification of patients who may be at risk of cyanide poisoning and the selection of antidotes. This is complicated by the lack of a readily available assay and the variability of available antidotes. With an understanding of these concepts, you too, will be able to treat that secret agent who is trying to kill himself (or herself) before they reveal the secret plans.
Average lethal dose of HCN taken by mouth between 60 and 90 mg (adult); this corresponds to about 1 teaspoonful of a 2% solution of hydrocyanic acid and to about 200 mg of potassium cyanide.
Poison used for feral animal control: Especially used for possum fur recovery, either a paste or pellets are used.
Smoke from fires: Any compound containing carbon and nitrogen has the potential to convert into cyanide. Wool is a particular hazard in this country.
Industry: Used widely as various salts for electroplating; heavily used in the mining industry for extraction of gold.
Foods/dietary supplements: As amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside, found in various species of plants particularly Prunus spp. (apricot, peach, apple, cherry, plum) and the cherry laurel; Apricot kernels have been sold in "health" shops and have been used as a bogus treatment for cancer (Laetrile).
Smoking: Most common form of cyanide exposure, may lead to "tobacco amblyopia".
Acetonitrile: Chemical found in some cosmetic removers and used in laboratories, is metabolised to cyanide once ingested.
Toxic by respiratory, oral and dermal routes.
There appear to be two mechanisms explaining the toxic effects resulting from cyanide poisoning.
This intra-mitochondrial enzyme is an essential catalyst for the use of oxygen to reoxidise reduced cytochrome a-a³. The cyanide ion is attracted to and will bind the ferric (Fe3+ ) iron in this enzyme. Its inhibition essentially halts electron transport and intra-cellular respiration. This leads to anaerobic respiration and production of a severe lactic acidosis.
A high level of cyanide intoxication has been noted to cause pulmonary oedema believed to be secondary to left ventricular failure and increased pulmonary wedge pressure caused by pulmonary-arteriolar and/or coronary arterial vasoconstriction.
These vary from mild vertigo, headache and confusion to precipitous death related to pulmonary oedema/cardiac arrest. Patients are classically described as being "pink" due to elevated venous oxygen content (similar to CO poisoning). In fact intoxicated patients frequently present cyanosed. Lactic acidosis is a prominent feature on biochemical investigation.
100% O2, or as close to this as can reasonably be obtained, does have some antidotal effect. More particularly O2 increase efficacy of the other antidotes used in the treatment of cyanide intoxication.
This compound enhances the body's detoxification of cyanide ions by providing exogenous sulphate to enhance metabolism of cyanide to thiocyanate (via the sulphurtransferase enzyme rhodanese), which is subsequently excreted in the urine. It does not have the rapid ability to reactivate cellular respiration as the cyanide ion binding compounds outlined below. It is generally accepted that sodium thiosulphate should be administered in all moderate and severe poisonings.
This provides alternate binding sites for cyanide ions thus preventing binding to, or enhancing the removal from, the cytochrome oxidase enzyme complex.
(approx. 2-3%). Now thought to be useful by reversing the vasoconstrictive action of severe cyanide poisoning. To be efficacious amyl nitrite must be used in association with O² by breaking the ampoule within the O² supplying mask.
This forms methaemoglobin (Fe3+ ) from haemoglobin (Fe2+ ). If enough methaemoglobin is formed in the blood stream it attracts cyanide away from inhibited cytochrome oxidase, by mass action, forming cyan-methaemoglobin and allowing resumption of cellular respiration. This antidote should be administered in conjunction with thiosulphate.
Sodium nitrite is contra-indicated for the treatment of those suffering concurrent carbon monoxide and cyanide poisoning, as may be expected in fire victims. The loss of oxygen carrying capacity due to carboxyhaemoglobin generated by exposure to smoke is exacerbated if methaemoglobinaemia is intentionally induced for the treatment of cyanide intoxication. Sodium nitrite may cause haemolysis in G6PD deficient patients, and an extended period of methaemoglobinaemia in those with a methaemoglobin reductase deficiency.
Dicobalt edetate chelates the cyanide ions, and each molecule is able to bind to two cyanide ions. A variety of animal studies have shown dicobalt edetate to be superior to both sodium nitrite alone, or in combination with sodium thiosulphate. Though some have questioned the validity of these results when extrapolated to man.
Hydroxocobalamin chelates to cyanide by giving up an hydroxyl group and binding a cyano group forming non-toxic cyanocobalamin, which can then be excreted in the urine.
An effective antidote without significant apparent side effects, but its use is limited by expense.
Cyanide presents a number of hazards to those rendering first-aid/medical treatment to victims. It is dangerous both dermally, even the gas, and via the respiratory route. Vomitus is likely to liberate hydrogen cyanide gas.
Mouth to mouth/nose artificial respiration is contra-indicated due to hazard.
Gastric decontamination either by induction of emesis or conventional gastric lavage, may be hazardous to those attending the patient. Activated charcoal maybe be administered, especially following cyanogenic glycoside ingestion.
Hydroxocobalamin, 5 g (70 mg/kg for children) by rapid i.v. infusion. This dose may be repeated once or twice, depending upon response, with i.v. infusions over 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Sodium nitrite should not be used in the presence of concomitant carbon monoxide poisoning, or in those with G6PD deficiency. Prolonged methaemoglobinaemia may occur in those patients with a methaemoglobin reductase deficiency.
Dicobalt edetate is not recommended for use if the diagnosis of cyanide intoxication is in doubt.


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An Identitarian, a Civic Nationalist, & a Classical Liberal Walk into a Stream (the Third One Cucks)
Travis LeBlanc
Andy Warski
We're one week into 2018, and the front-runner for this year's White Nationalist MVP is a guy who is not a White Nationalist (yet) and someone who most in the Dissident Right hadn't even heard of until a few weeks ago.
That's not to say that no one had heard of Andy Warski. His +250,000 YouTube subscribers had certainly heard of him. His dark comedy videos blasting SJWs, feminists, and miscellaneous Leftist kooks have received millions of views, and his show Warski Live was a hangout for Alt Lite and Skeptic E-celebs.
Which makes you wonder why the hell Andy Warski would want to start hanging around a bunch of White Nationalists. Under his own name, no less. Conventional wisdom has always held that if you want to get involved in White Nationalism, its best to have nothing to lose, as our foes will do their best to take whatever you have from you. I'm not complaining. I just hope the lad knows what he's getting himself into.
It was only last June when Warski Live was the scene of the public crucifixion of YouTuber Rage After Storm, who had days before sent the entire YouTube Skeptic Community into conniption fits for the crime of saying that race is real.
In that stream, Warski's then-friends Kraut, Jeff Holiday, and others took great delight viciously mocking Rage and even condescendingly concern-trolled her over her mental health. That stream was the first big shot in the ongoing Alt Right vs. Skeptic War, and at the time Warski was firmly with the egalitarian Skeptics.
But it appears Mr. Warski has had one hell of a character arc since then.
Last month, after the infamous Kraut and Tea doxing server scandal and revelations of unconscionable misdeeds by former Skeptic friends and associates, Warski began to distance himself from the Skeptics and has taken steps to make amends to people on the Far Right, even going as far as apologizing to RageAfterStorm and endorsing the truthfulness of race realism.
Around the same time, when organizers of the Kilroy Free Speech Conference decided to drop its most Right-wing speakers (James Allsup, Faith Goldy, and Baked Alaska) without any warning or explanation, Warski, who was scheduled to speak the conference, withdrew out of solidarity with the Far Right activists who were denied the platform they were promised and had promoted. That's some serious old school integrity.
And then Andy's Warski Live streams started to get interesting. Very interesting.
First, he appointed French Canadian biologist J-F Galiepe, an unabashed ethnonationalist, co-host of Warski Live.
Then on Warski's December 27 show, Warski set up a debate on race realism with not one, not two, but three top-notch race realists (J-F Galiepe, The Alternative Hypothesis, and Tara McCarthy) who took turns crushing and humiliating their neoliberal SJW adversary, the slippery and repellent Steve Bonnell II, aka Destiny.
Destiny, a neoliberal's neoliberal to the core, reacted to the debate loss by accusing J-F Galiepe of being a sexual predator and Andy Warski of being pro-pedophilia. You know the old saying: if you can't beat 'em, defame 'em.
The race realism stream was the talk of the town in White Nationalist circles for days, for understandable reasons. We're not used to being treated fairly.
In 2017, White Nationalism received more attention from the MSM than it ever hoped. While these hatchet pieces have done much to bring brand awareness to near maximum, much of the public is not any closer to knowing what we actually believe than they were a year ago. For all the attention the MSM lavishes on us, one thing they have not and will never do is give White Nationalism a fair hearing. All interviews are deceptively edited to portray White Nationalists in the most unflattering light, omitting any important talking points.
Unless they have been living in a cave, everyone is aware that there is something called the Alt Right that exists mostly on the internet and is kind of racist or something. But how many of those people could actually articulate what we believe? Well, other than that we believe in "hate" and "white supremacy" that is?
So for someone with an audience of a quarter-million bluepilled normies to be kind enough to let a bunch of reactionaries run wild and unfiltered on his platform is a thrilling new experience for us. A quarter-million subscribers may be small in the grand scheme of things, but it's the quality of the exposure that is exciting.
It was around this time that White Nationalists assigned Andy Warski the affectionate nickname "Racewarski." And it appears the name is sticking.
After the race realism debate, Warski started coming under heavy criticism from friends and others in the YouTube community for giving a platform to "Nazis" and "white supremacists." But rather than back down, he took things a step further.
A few days, later Warski announced on his show that he had been contacted by one Richard Spencer and was planning on having America's most famous White Nationalist on his show to debate a yet-to-be-announced opponent. When Spencer's debate opponent was announced, it was not to be some random screeching SJW which everyone expected but none other than alpha Skeptic Sargon of Akkad.
Thursday's stream was billed as a "conversation" and not a "debate," and that may very well have been Warski's original intention. But the fans, both Skeptic and WN, were anticipating something grander, more important, and more romantic: a showdown between the insurgent Alt Right and the Skeptics. A real Clash of the Titans with blood, explosions, and one person leaving totally BTFO'd.
That's what everyone expected it to be. That's what everyone wanted it to be. And that's what they got.
If you haven't already seen it, you can watch the whole stream here.
Now, Richard Spencer would not be my first choice to represent White Nationalism in a debate of this significance. He's actually quite weak as a debater. (And here.) But if the opponent is Sargon of Akkad, he's good enough for jazz. Besides, even Jared Taylor and Mike Enoch lack Spencer's level of name recognition, which helped turn Warski's stream into the high-profile event that it was.
The big takeaway from the debate is that if Sargon of Akkad is the best the YouTube Skeptic community has to offer, then the Skeptics are in deep trouble. Because even Richard Spencer ate Sargon's lunch (Sargon could stand to lose some weight though.)
Far from landing the knockout blow that Sargon and his supporters hoped for, Sargon failed to land a single punch, and ended the encounter dazed and flustered.
Sargon's fatal flaw as a debater is his inability to comprehend how anyone of sound mind could hold any worldview other than his own. This is true of a lot of people. Maybe even most. But most people are not professional commentators you would expect to be at least literate, if not fluent, in their opposition's talking points, even if they don't subscribe to them.
So when Spencer did not agree to some of Sargon's basic assumptions ("No, free speech is not an unqualified good," "No, aristocracy is not a priori bad"), all Sargon could respond with was "Wow, just wow" and the like.
The difference between identitarianism and classical liberalism is the difference between political objectives and political principles. While the classical liberal believes an objective immoral if it violates a moral principle (in Sargon's case, individual freedom), the identitarian views a principle as illegitimate if it impedes a moral objective (in Spencer's case, the preservation of the white race).
But those who fetishize their principles will eventually come to embrace principled defeat as the history of the post-war GOP will testify. To the identitarian, there is no such thing as "moral victories." You either win or you lose. And unless you're an accelerationist, you never win by losing.
In the stream, Sargon made some stunning admissions, the most conspicuous being that he does not care about the fate of white people (or black people for that matter). He only cares about the people and making sure that everyone has their rights protected.
What Sargon doesn't (or pretends not to) understand is that if the classical liberal values he holds sacred are to survive in any recognizable form, they are dependent on the continued prosperity, dare I say supremacy, of white people. Classical liberal values are a distinctly European thing. Libertarianism is even more specific than that. It's a distinctly Anglo-American phenomenon, incomprehensible to most European continentals. This is White Nationalism 101.
People may call the idea of an ethnostate fanciful, but it's not nearly as utopian as the idea of a society of Somalis and Pakistanis extolling the virtues of the non-aggression principle, gender equality, and advocating for the privatization of roads. There may not be absolute free speech in the ethnostate, but there will be a hell of a lot more free speech than there will be in a West overrun by Muslims and Africans.
You would hardly know it from the post-match commentary, but there was a third guy in the debate as well: the shirtless one himself, civic nationalist and militant pragmatist Mr. StyxHexenHammer666.
I like Styx. He's a talented and hardworking guy and about as smart as a person can be while still being a normie. Ideologically, he's halfway between Spencer and Sargon. He opposes the ethnostate on practical grounds and gave some thoughtful practical objections. He's still wrong, but at least he didn't come off as a hyperventilating moral grand-stander like Sargon.
The refreshing thing about Styx was that he was the only person in the debate representing any particular brand. Spencer is the most visible figure in the Alt Right, while Sargon of Akkad is the big cheese of the Skeptics, and thus their fates are intertwined with those of their respective movements.
Styx, on the other hand, is really a lone operator. Because Styx was not under the same pressure to win one for his team, he came off as more relaxed and gave the most polished performance of the night.
Many have said that the Warski Live debate would have been more interesting and productive if it had been just Spencer and Styx. I would agree with this assessment. And for anyone else who does, Counter-Currents' very own Greg Johnson will debating ethnonationalism with Styx on Tara McCarthy's channel this Tuesday.
And there were also some late additions.
Halfway though, Millennial Woes came off the bench and showed some uncharacteristic aggression. MW scored what I think was the biggest kill shot of the night when he asked Sargon if Lawrence Fishburne was white. Sargon said he did not know. That is the moment Sargon lost the debate. Up until that moment, Sargon had merely been arguing badly, but by saying that he did not know whether Lawrence Fishburne was black or white, Sargon revealed that he was not even arguing in good faith.
Two other commentators came on late for the anti-identitarian side: Kevin Logan, a British Leftist who has an unhealthy obsession with Millennial Woes, and Romanian skeptic Vee, who believes all the same stuff Sargon does, except Vee says it with a comical foreign accent.
Sargon left the stream early, citing fatigue, but then immediately went on his own channel for a post-debate stream with his most devoted sycophants. The whole video reeks of damage control. The fact that he felt the need to make such a video at all suggests that Sargon knew he performed poorly and wanted to release a video to put a positive spin on what people just witnessed.
The Spencer/Sargon debate stream was a massive success. Over 12,000 were watching the debate live, at one point, making it the #1 live stream in the world on YouTube and trending on Twitter. Since its broadcast, the debate has been watched by over 200,000 people. Andy Warski has said he is setting up future debates with more too-hot-for-TV commentators like Mike Enoch from TRS and manosphere icon Roosh V.
Andy Warski has really been a godsend for the movement, as he has come into our sphere at a time when Facebook and Twitter have started clamping down on pro-white voices with renewed vigor and public protests have started yielding diminishing, if not negative, returns. A month ago, we looked to be on the verge of losing access to normies. Now we're on the offensive again.
The biggest white pill of all from the debate was the amount of money that Andy Warski made during the stream, reported to be around $20,000. This is incredibly encouraging. If White Nationalism is to break into the mainstream, the best way to do so is to prove that spreading White Nationalism is profitable.
We are in politics, true, but we are also in entertainment, and entertainment is a business. If it can be proven that someone can make a dollar off of letting White Nationalists have their say on their platform, you can be sure that there will always be someone out there willing to pick up the dollar. Our enemies understand this and are in a panic.
But the burden of proof is on us to prove that there is a demand for what we have to say.
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4 Hours, and then I followed it on with another 3 hours video about this interview. So you could say I was rather immersed in this stuff for about two days.
About the interview, I think enough has been said.
But what stood out to me was this: When I returned to my normal media consumption I was immediately overpowered with "bad this, bad that, racist this and that, white bla bla bla".
It was then that I suddenly understood the appeal of the (extreme?) alt-right. In those 7 hours of podcasting, I felt that the (extreme?) alt-right was offering an alternative upbeat vision of the future. A future without getting your nose rubbed in "racism" every day, a future in which our children can live better ives than we did.
I still do not agree with Spencer's future vision. But it is easy to see the appeal to the younger generation.
If the alt-right wants to win it should do that: give a vision of a better future. Stop complaining, there is enough of that in the current system, and people are sick of it.
That was imo the true genius stroke of Spencer: "I want to reach for to the stars."
DSY
Im glad you pointed at how near the end Sargon straight up says he does not care about any group. Then who the hell are you to argue about morality and principles if you don't care about anyone other than some abstract theoretical concept of the people?
It seems as if the entire skeptic argument was something not might be perfect in the future ethnostate so the answer is to do nothing, while allowing the real tyranny of the current system to continue apace. Then constantly whine in a sarcastic feminine tone "do you even understand what I'm saying?"
It was a fun four hours of video, can't believe I listened to the whole thing.
There is something good about Sargon and others: Their questions make us think and refine our arguments. I think his "8 questions" turned out to be quite stimulating so far.
Voryn Illidari
Full marks to Spencer, Warski, and Woes. Looking forward to seeing Greg on Tara McCarthy. Glad she's still having her interviews.
An aside on "Destiny." I need to watch that podcast where he gets trounced. A year ago I saw his debate with JonTron, which turned my stomach. For one, Destiny represents the quintissential Bugman urbanite Leftist: he lisps like a faggot, is very skinny and effeminate looking, has the small beard that low-T cucks still seem to develop, wears hooded sweatshirts like the Silicon Valley cucks do, and fully embraces the neoliberal worldview. You look at him and just watch to squash him, as he will only ever be an enemy to our people. Hearing him prattle on about divertthity was too much. What made it worse was that JonTron–whom I respect for coming out in favor of Whites being a majority in thejr own nations–just did not have the necessary data or talking points to put Destiny in his place. The very next day, some dude from the Stormer who's name escapes me went on to debate Destiny. Though I did not watch the whole thing, I was not feeling like he was driving the necessary points home either, and he kept clearing his throat, which got annoying (no disrespect to him though). I'm glad that some people finally did crush that little Bugman.
We are taking the internet by storm. We just need to keep doing what we're doing.


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September 9, 2018 John DuMond History, True Crime	1971, Attica Correctional Facility, Attica Riot, crime, history, Nelson Rockefeller, New York State Police, prison, riot, true crime
On this date in 1971, over 1200 inmates at the state prison in Attica, NY started a riot that would last four days. The riot began with the killing of a corrections officer, then the rioters took about 40 prison employees hostage. Three inmates were killed during the riot in what appeared to be cases of "prison justice." When negotiations broke down, Governor Rockefeller — hoping to look tough on crime for a possible Presidential run — ordered State Police to retake the prison by force. In the ensuing assault, 29 rioters and 10 hostages were killed.
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August 11, 2016 John DuMond History, True Crime	1965, crime, history, los angeles, riot, true crime, Watts Riots
On this date in 1965, a minor scuffle following a traffic stop in Los Angeles would escalate into what would become known as the Watts riots. The unrest would continue until August 17th. When it was all over, 34 people were killed, over 1000 injured, and 3400 arrested. Almost a thousand buildings, mostly businesses, were damaged or destroyed. Damage was estimated to be about $40 million.
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Do not use latest revision,I am not able to get normal sound in cutscenes on any revision after official 3.0,so this is latest revision wish should be used for this game.
I tested it more,and for both LLE and HLE fps needs to be 30 in order to get proper sound in cutscenes.
Enabling vbeam and disabling idle skipping should help with fps in cutscenes.
How much fps do you get in cutscenes with LLE,vbeam on and idle skipping off ?
Bottom line: both disabling idle skipping and enabling vbeam helps with fps and sound in cutscenes.
You cant enable vbeam with HLE sound though.
OK I tried these settings with the official 3.0 build. I get 27-28 FPS in cutscenes with vbeam ON, idle skipping OFF and LLE on thread. The audio is choppy at all times even when I am not in cut scenes. Strangely, if I move the texture cache from FAST to SAFE I lose about 10 FPS but the audio gets smoother.
Then check "Accurate VBeam emulation"
Using Idle skipping OFF, vBeam ON and LLE On thread. I get 22-29 FPS during the cutscene, but the audio is choppy no matter what I do.
Using HLE WITH vBeam I can get 30 FPS in the cutscene no problem, but the audio sounds horrible. The second I turn vBeam OFF the FPS DROPS to 20 FPS! Choppy audio this way as well.
It seems no matter what I do I have choppy audio.
Did you try HLE +idle skipping OFF ?
BTW i7-740QM is not enough to play this game properly,thats why you are having problems.
I can barely get the sound working properly in cutscenes with 3.2 ghz sandy bridge desktop cpu.
BUT,really old build such as one by lectrode you tried should help.
Did you try ALL these settings combinations on that build ?
You havent properly tested old build.


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I Am a Golem. My Body Was Built by Human Hands.
An excerpt from 'Golem Girl: A Memoir.'
By Riva Lehrer	 October 6, 2020 October 6, 2020
The following is the prologue from Riva Lehrer's memoir Golem Girl, an illustrated memoir of a Jewish artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies.
The Latin roots of "monster" are monere, meaning "to warn," and monstrum, an omen, or a supernatural being that indicates the will of a god. "Monster" shares its etymological root with "premonition" and "demonstrate."
My first monster story was Frankenstein.
Though this first Creature was more James Whale than Mary Shelley. When we were little, my brothers and I would abandon the great outdoors and race inside in time for the Saturday monster movie matinee.
Two hours of ecstatic dread. Of delicious nightmares in chiaroscuro black-and-white.
Every few weeks, it would be his turn. I waited for his graceless body, his halting gait and cinder-block shoes. I could recognize the operating room where he was born. I knew he was real, because we were the same—everything that made him a monster made me one, too. We had more in common than scars and shoes. Frankenstein is the story of a disabled child and its parent. It is also the story of a Golem.
Humans have told stories of magically animated creatures for thousands of years. Ancient religions from Babylonia and Sumer, to Mexico, Africa, and China, all assert that gods formed the first human beings out of clay. Enki and Prometheus are but two creators who formed a being and gave it life. These days, we have Victor Frankenstein and his
Creature, but long before them, the Jews had Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel and his Golem.
Golem (goylem in Yiddish) is Hebrew for "shapeless mass" and first appears in Psalm 139 of the Hebrew Bible, in which Adam is referred to as a golmi. Adam is brought to life by the breath—the word—of God, transformed from inert matter into vibrant life: the first Golem. The difference is that Adam becomes fully human, while Golems of legend never do.
Iterations of this legend date from as far back as the eleventh century, but the most famous version dates from sixteenth-century Prague. The Golem of Prague tells the story of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (an actual historical figure, known as the Maharal) and his creation of a living being made of clay. Golems wend through our stories, from Pygmalion's statue to the Bride of Frankenstein to Mr. Data and Seven of Nine; from the Cylons to C-3PO, R2-D2, and Chucky the doll. And, of course, to Gollum himself.
While these are not all Golems, exactly, every creature is made of inanimate material that is shaped and awakened by the will of a master (and nearly every story is of a master—not a mater—a male who attempts to attain the generative power of the female body).
Golems are built in order to serve a specific purpose. Adam, it is said, was built for the glory of God. The Golem of Prague was built to save the Jews from a pogrom. Frankenstein's monster was built for the glory of his maker, and for the glory of science itself. These Golems were not created for their own sake. None given purposes of their own, or futures under their control. Golems are permitted to exist only if they conform to the wishes of their masters. When a Golem determines its own purpose—let's call it hubris—it is almost always destroyed. The Golem must stay unconscious of its own existence in order to remain a receptacle of divine will.
Yet every tale tells us: it is in the nature of a Golem to wake up. To search for the path from being an It to an I.
66 Degrees, 2018. 24" x 36", Acrylic on wood. Private collection.
In Golem stories, the monster is often disabled. Speechless and somnambulistic, a marionette acting on dreams and animal instinct. In Yiddish, one meaning of goylem is "lummox"; to quote the scholar Michael Chemers, from God's perspective, all humans are disabled.
The day I was born I was a mass, a body with irregular borders. The shape of my body was pared away according to normal outlines, but this normalcy didn't last very long. My body insisted on aberrance. I was denied the autonomy that is the birthright of normality. Doctors foretold that I would be a "vegetable," a thing without volition or self-awareness. Children like me were saved without purpose, at least not any purpose we could call our own.
If I once was monere, I'm turning myself into monstrare: one who unveils.
Excerpted from Golem Girl: A Memoir, by Riva Lehrer, Copyright © 2020 by Riva Lehrer. Excerpted by permission of One World, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Artwork © 2020 by Riva Lehrer, from Golem Girl. Image of Riva in header by Shterna Goldbloom.
Riva Lehrer
Riva Lehrer (she/her) is an artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people with impairments, and those whose sexuality or gender identity have long been stigmatized. A longtime faculty member of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Riva Lehrer is currently an instructor in medical humanities at Northwestern University.


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La scorzonera purpurea (nome scientifico Scorzonera purpurea L., 1753) è una specie di pianta angiosperma dicotiledone della famiglia delle Asteraceae.

Etimologia
Il nome del genere (Scorzonera) ha una etimologia incerta; potrebbe derivare da più radici quali "scorzon" in francese antico, "Scorsone" in italiano e "escorzonera" in spagnolo, il cui significato è "scorza nera"; ma anche "vipera", forse dall'uso delle sue radici come antidoto al morso dei serpenti.. L'epiteto specifico (purpureum) fa riferimento al colore della corolla dei fiori di questa specie.

Il binomio scientifico di questa pianta è stato proposto dal botanico Carl von Linné (1707 – 1778) biologo e scrittore svedese, considerato il padre della moderna classificazione scientifica degli organismi viventi, nella pubblicazione "Species Plantarum" (Sp. Pl. 2: 791) del 1753.

Descrizione

Habitus. La forma biologica è emicriptofita scaposa (H scap), ossia sono piante perenni, con gemme svernanti al livello del suolo e protette dalla lettiera o dalla neve, spesso sono dotate di un asse fiorale eretto e privo di foglie.

Fusto.
Parte ipogea: la parte sotterranea consiste in una sottile rizoma avvolto da un feltro di fibre brune. Le radici sono secondarie da rizoma.
Parte epigea: la parte aerea del fusto è eretta, ramosa, glabra e striata.  L'altezza di queste piante varia da 20 a 45 cm.

Foglie. Le foglie sono lineari, canalicolate e larghe 2 – 5 mm (lunghe circa 2 - 3 dm) e possono essere ripiegate a doccia. Le foglie superiori sono semiabbraccianti. Le foglie lungo il caule sono disposte in modo alterno.

Infiorescenza. Le infiorescenze sono composte da un unico capolino. I capolini sono formati da un involucro di tipo piriforme-allungato composto da brattee (o squame) disposte su parecchie serie all'interno delle quali un ricettacolo fa da base ai fiori tutti ligulati. Le squame si dividono in due tipi: inferiori e superiori. Quelle inferiori sono lesiniformi; all'apice sono ottuse o arrotondate. Il ricettacolo è nudo, ossia privo di pagliette a protezione della base dei fiori. Diametro del capolino: 3 – 5 cm. Dimensioni delle squame inferiori: larghezza 1,5 mm; lunghezza 6 mm.

Fiori. I fiori sono tutti del tipo ligulato (il tipo tubuloso, i fiori del disco, presente nella maggioranza delle Asteraceae, qui è assente), sono tetra-ciclici (ossia sono presenti 4 verticilli: calice – corolla – androceo – gineceo) e pentameri (ogni verticillo ha 5 elementi). I fiori sono ermafroditi e zigomorfi.

 Formula fiorale:
 */x K , [C (5), A (5)], G 2 (infero), achenio

 Calice: i sepali del calice sono ridotti ad una coroncina di squame.
 Corolla: le corolle sono formate da una ligula terminante con 5 denti; il colore è rosa-purpureo. Lunghezza della corolla: 30 – 33 mm.
 Androceo: gli stami sono 5 con filamenti liberi, mentre le antere sono saldate in un manicotto (o tubo) circondante lo stilo. Le antere alla base sono acute. Il polline è tricolporato (con due lacune), è echinato (con punte) e anche "lophato" (la parte più esterna dell'esina è sollevata a forma di creste e depressioni).
 Gineceo: lo stilo è filiforme con peli sul lato inferiore; gli stigmi dello stilo sono due divergenti. L'ovario è infero uniloculare formato da 2 carpelli.
 Fioritura: da (maggio) giugno a luglio.

Frutti. I frutti sono degli acheni con pappo di setole piumose. L'achenio è lungo 10 – 12 mm, ed è liscio sulle coste; all'apice è ristretto. Il pappo è bianco ed è lungo 12 mm.

Biologia
 Impollinazione: l'impollinazione avviene tramite insetti (impollinazione entomogama tramite farfalle diurne e notturne).
 Riproduzione: la fecondazione avviene fondamentalmente tramite l'impollinazione dei fiori (vedi sopra).
 Dispersione: i semi (gli acheni) cadendo a terra sono successivamente dispersi soprattutto da insetti tipo formiche (disseminazione mirmecoria). In questo tipo di piante avviene anche un altro tipo di dispersione: zoocoria. Infatti gli uncini delle brattee dell'involucro si agganciano ai peli degli animali di passaggio disperdendo così anche su lunghe distanze i semi della pianta.

Distribuzione e habitat

 Geoelemento: il tipo corologico (area di origine) è Sud Est Europeo - Sud Siberiano (Steppico).
 Distribuzione: in Italia si trova raramente soprattutto al Nord-Est e in parte negli Appennini centrali. Oltre confine, nelle Alpi, si trova in Austria (Länder dell'Austria Inferiore). Sugli altri rilievi europei si trova nel Massiccio Centrale e nei Carpazi. Questa specie si trova oltre che nell'Europa (parte centrale e orientale - esclusa la parte più a nord) anche nella parte occidentale della Siberia meridionale.
 Habitat: l'habitat tipico per questa specie sono i prati aridi e stepposi; ma anche le pinete e i gineprai. Il substrato preferito è calcareo con pH basico, bassi valori nutrizionali del terreno che deve essere secco.
 Distribuzione altitudinale: sui rilievi queste piante si possono trovare fino a 1500 ; frequentano quindi i seguenti piani vegetazionali: collinare e in parte quello montano (oltre a quello planiziale – a livello del mare).

Fitosociologia

Areale alpino
Dal punto di vista fitosociologico alpino la specie di questa voce appartiene alla seguente comunità vegetale:
 Formazione: delle comunità a emicriptofite e camefite delle praterie rase magre secche
 Classe: Festuco-Brometea
 Ordine: Festucetalia valesiacae
 Alleanza: Cirsio-Brachypodion

Areale italiano
Per l'areale completo italiano la specie di questa voce appartiene alla seguente comunità vegetale:
 Macrotipologia: vegetazione delle praterie.
 Classe: Festuco valesiacae-brometea erecti Br.-Bl. & Tüxen ex Br.-Bl., 1949
 Ordine: Festucetalia valesiacae Br.-Bl. & Tüxen ex Br.-Bl., 1949
 Alleanza: Cirsio-brachypodion pinnati Hadac & Klika, 1944

Descrizione: questa alleanza comprende praterie steppiche semi-aride (meso-xerofile) dominate da Brachypodium pinnatum e Bromus erectus, che si sviluppano su suoli profondi e calcarei in aree calde ed aride. La distribuzione dell'alleanza è relativa alle regioni sub-continentale dell'Europa centro-orientale, mentre In Italia è diffusa soprattutto sulle Alpi. Tradizionalmente queste praterie venivano pascolate in modo estensivo o sfalciate.

Sistematica
La famiglia di appartenenza di questa voce (Asteraceae o Compositae, nomen conservandum) probabilmente originaria del Sud America, è la più numerosa del mondo vegetale, comprende oltre 23.000 specie distribuite su 1.535 generi, oppure 22.750 specie e 1.530 generi secondo altre fonti (una delle checklist più aggiornata elenca fino a 1.679 generi). La famiglia attualmente (2021) è divisa in 16 sottofamiglie.

Filogenesi
Il genere di questa voce appartiene alla sottotribù Scorzonerinae della tribù Cichorieae (unica tribù della sottofamiglia Cichorioideae). In base ai dati filogenetici la sottofamiglia Cichorioideae è il terz'ultimo gruppo che si è separato dal nucleo delle Asteraceae (gli ultimi due sono Corymbioideae e Asteroideae). La sottotribù Scorzonerinae è il secondo clade che si è separato dalla tribù.

Con gli ultimi studi filogenetici da questo genere sono stati scorporati diverse sezioni (Takhtajaniantha, Lipschitzia,  Ramaliella, Epilasia e altre ancora trasformate in generi autonomi). Da questa operazione Scorzonera è risultato un genere monofiletico con quattro cladi maggiori e poche specie isolate. La specie S. purpurea appartiene al "Scorzonera purpurea clade", individuato dai seguenti caratteri: i cauli hanno dei residui di guaine fogliari; le foglie sono intere e le brattee dell'involucro non hanno un corno; i fiori sono colorati di viola o rosa; gli acheni hanno il carpoforo; l'epidermide degli acheni è papillosa.

Il numero cromosomico di S. purpurea è: 2n = 14..

Sandro Pignatti nella "Flora d'Italia" la S. purpurea è messa a capo dellAggregato di S. purpurea e accomuna la specie di questa voce con la specie Scorzonera rosea. Quest'ultima specie può essere confusa con S. purpurea in quanto la corolla ha più o meno lo stesso colore; si distingue comunque in quanto la rosea ha le foglie piane e più larghe e le squame inferiori dell'involucro sono acute. (nella pubblicazione appena citata la S. purpurea è indicata come Podospermum purpureum (L.) W.D.J.Koch & Ziz.

Sinonimi
Questa entità ha avuto nel tempo diverse nomenclature. L'elenco seguente indica alcuni tra i sinonimi più frequenti:
 Hieracium subcoeruleum E.H.L.Krause
 Podospermum purpureum (L.) W.D.J.Koch & Ziz

Altre notizie
La scorzonera purpurea in altre lingue è chiamata nei seguenti modi:
 Purpur-Schwarzwurzel
 Scorzonère purpre

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
Podospermum purpureum Global Compositae Checklist Database
Podospermum purpureum IPNI Database
Podospermum purpureum EURO MED - PlantBase Checklist Database

Cichorioideae
Taxa classificati da Linneo

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Lamberson leading PANTHER's materials characterization advances to combat traumatic brain injuries
Professor Leslie Lamberson is part of a multi-organization collaboration that will study traumatic brain injury (TBI) in soldiers with an award from the Office of Naval Research.
The project team includes investigators from Colorado School of Mines, The University of Wisconsin- Madison (lead), Brown University, Robert Morris University, The University of Southern California and Team Wendy (industry leaders in the design and development of innovative head protection). The team is part of the PANTHER Program (Physics-bAsed Neutralization of Threats to Human tissuEs and oRgans), an interdisciplinary research hub focused on the understanding, detection and prevention of TBI.
Lamberson explained that the first goal of the project is to understand and predict the onset of TBI at the cellular level. While models have been developed to simulate TBI and to estimate the force of blunt or blast impact on the brain, little is known about the magnitude and direction of forces at the cellular level that initiate TBI. Without this critical knowledge, protective equipment such as helmets cannot be adequately designed or tested.
The second goal is to develop a sensing system embedded in helmet liners that measures the impact kinematics of the head (not the helmet or liner). The sensing system will be designed for use in existing helmets or in future combat helmet liners.
Finally, the team will develop a quantitative engineering framework to determine the ability of the helmet-liner system to prevent or significantly mitigate TBI.
"This is where Mines comes in," Lamberson said. "Our role in the project is to examine current and next-generation military helmet liner materials under various impact loading scenarios." With these experiments, she and Stylianos Koumlis, a research assistant professor in mechanical engineering, will be able to characterize and understand the protective properties of these materials and their potential to mitigate TBI.
Lamberson and Koumlis will receive approximately $750,000 of the $10 million award over a period of three years. "Our Mines team is extremely honored to be part of a team that's developing next-generation improved-protection materials. It's very satisfying to know that what we are doing in the lab will directly improve the lives of our soldiers and citizens," Lamberson said.
"This is a true cradle-to-grave project, as our interdisciplinary team includes experts at the neural tissue level in medical sciences all the way to an industry partner that manufacturers and certifies the current Advanced Combat Helmet for the military," Lamberson added. "That's what it takes to be successful on an endeavor as large as PANTHER."
Dr. Leslie Lamberson is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Extreme Materials and Structures (XSTRM) Lab. Her research focuses on mechanics of materials under extreme conditions, impact physics, dynamic fracture and full-field metrology techniques.
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Qiqihar's 2nd Detention Center Brutally Tortures Dafa Practitioners
On September 1, 2001, police officers Xing Huimin and Wang Mingjiang from Xingongdi Police Station arrested practitioner Jia Jie. The head of the political security section of the Tiefeng police station, whose last name is Cheng, and two thugs interrogated and tortured Jia and then sent her to Qiqihar's 2nd Detention Center.
In the 2nd detention center, practitioners Pan Hongdong, Li Zhenzhong and Li Bo were detained past their scheduled Novemeber release dates so they appealed to the Chief Lin Yonggui. After Lin rejected their request, the three practitioners went on hunger strike. Prison doctor Sun Weichen and other policemen force fed them and tied Li Bo to the "Death Bed" (Note: A special torture that tied a person on a board at a fixed position with no movement possible for a long time). Sun and other vicious policemen forcibly inserted tubes into Li Bo's nose to force-feed him and put Li Bo in so much pain that he couldn't stop loudly crying out.
In support of Li Bo, two other women practitioners, Pan Hongdong and Li Zhenzhong, first requested to talk to Chief Lin face to face and asked him to stop the persecution. Lin refused to talk to them. Seeing no other options, female practitioners went on hunger strike to appeal to Chief Lin. After 4 days of hunger strike, police Lu Zhengguo told them that Chief Lin was going to talk to them, and rounded up Wen Jie, An Jingtao and Zhang Shuzhe. The three practitioners were led away and then were separated. Wen Jie was taken to officer Yan's office and beaten badly by Chief Lin, leaving wounds all over her body. She was also shackled such that her arms, hands and feet were chained together behind her back. She was then suspended in an excruciating position and later force-fed a mixture of cornstarch, salt and water.
Zhang Shuzhe was taken to chief Sun's office. Sun asked Zhang whether she wanted to eat or not. Zhang answered, "If you stop persecuting Dafa practitioners, I would go back to eating." Sun then asked several criminal inmates assisting him to shackle Zhang Shuzhe as was done to Wen Jie, above. An Jingtao was also shackled for continuing her hunger strike. The vicious thugs force-fed the three, inserting plastic tubes into their esophagi through their noses and ordering the criminals assisting them to twist the tubes around and cause the practitioners excruciating pain. Some of those who remained in the group cell, Jia Jie, Zhao Hezhi, Chu Li and others heard the painful cries and asked Chief Lin to stop the torture. Lin entered their cell and threatened, "I would continue to beat them even if I could be charged with a crime." Zhao Hezhi was struck on the chest, falling heavily to the ground. Jia Jie's front tooth was knocked loose, her nose and lips swollen and bleeding. Chief Lin wouldn't let her go, grabbing her hair to knock her down and kick her. Shi Shufang grabbed Lin's foot, making him so angry that he kicked Shi Shufang's ribcage. Practitioner Feng Yanqin, who was formerly party secretary of disciplinary committee in a newspaper, also had a bunch of her hair torn out.
Practitioners Wen Jie, Chu Li, Li Xingya, Su Yan, Gong Haiou, Han Weidong, Li Huifeng, Wang Weihua and Wang Yudong were sentenced in Jianhua District Court to 9 years, 4 years, 10 years, 8 years, 10 years, 8 years, 12 years, 4 years and 10 years respectively. A total of 11 practitioners were sentenced. Dafa practitioners felt they were not guilty and decided to appeal but the court refused to consider them, conjuring up false excuses even though they knew it was wrong to do so.. They even recorded that the "defendants agree with their sentences" on the conviction notices. On January 16, the 11 practitioners, refusing to have their pictures taken, were brutally beaten again.
We call upon practitioners in Qiqihar to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil forces there.


According to Eurostat, more than 625,000 persons having applied for asylum in the EU in 2014, representing a 44% increase on the previous year and the highest number of applicants within the EU since the peak in 1992.
Sadly, one of the European Social Network's (ESN's) key studies has never been more relevant today than when it was published over 10 years ago. Bringing together human rights agencies, government, immigration officers, social workers, managers, ombudsman, researchers and, crucially, young asylum seekers themselves, this two year Europe-wide programme examined the way young people were treated upon their arrival at borders in a number of European countries in terms of the justice and care systems, and what subsequently happened to them later.
Perhaps not surprisingly, one of the main findings was the confirmation that 'the maintenance of immigration controls took precedence over the rights of children'.
some young people were returned to their country of origin without proper safeguards.
Overall, it was concluded that the' inconsistencies of countries' approaches to their asylum was of great concern'.
The rights to liberty and security of person are fundamental human rights, reflected in the international prohibition on arbitrary detention, and supported by the right to freedom of movement. While States have the right to control the entry and stay of non-nationals on their territory, this right needs to be exercised while respecting refugee and human rights law standards.


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Member Bios
Brass Inc Playlist
WALT TANNER: Lead Vocals, Sax
A native of Central New York. Walt is a veteran singer and sax player.
His musical training began at the age of six with classical study and later jazz.
At age fourteen he joined his first rock band.
Walt has played in various groups including James Street, and has performed in many different venues over the years. After some time off, Walt's desire to perform and love of music has brought him back to the stage as the front man of Brass Inc.
Dee Macomber:Lead Vocals, Perc.
Dee Macomber is thrilled to be the newest member of Brass Inc. She holds a bachelor's degree from Ithaca College majoring in woodwinds, and a Master's from CUSE (Go Orange!) Dee is a seasoned veteran, singing in bands such as The Electric Chick Magnets, Prime Time, Alter Ego, and the 8 Track All-Stars. When not lending her powerhouse vocals to the stage, Dee teaches elementary school band in the ESM school district and is a mom of two future rock stars.
RICH CARLTON: Drums,Vocals
Rich was born and raised in the C.N.Y. area and started drumming early under the tutelage of Herb Flower. He grew up playing in different bands with people he met while playing in a local drum and bugle corps. In the early 80's Rich moved to the Penn., Delaware and South Jersey area where he played professionally for 8 years in various bands covering many different styles of music. While performing, Rich also was able to study with some of the areas prominent Latin percussionists. After moving back into the area in the late 80's, Rich settled down to start a family. As fate would have its way, Rich would join the World Champion Syracuse Brigadiers Drum and Bugle Corps as a player and instructor. It was there that Rich became re-acquainted with three horn players who where playing in this band. from the "Brigs" who invited him to join and has been with B.I. ever since.
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TOM CHEKAN: Guitar, vocals
Tom has been playing guitar for nearly 30 years. He has played on and off with different bands and musicians throughout the years.
Tom also has spent time in the studio recording original material.
Most recently Tom has played with Reality Check and Max Shadow and the Wayward Horns.
BRIAN BURKE: Trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
Brian has been playing trumpet for over 3 decades. During his high school days, he was selected to the All-State jazz band and All-State orchestra.
He continued his music education at Onondaga Community College and was a member of their brass ensemble.
Over the years he has participated in some of the areas local drum and bugle corps. including the World Champion Syracuse Brigadiers Drum & Bugle Corps as a marching member/soloist.
Brian also was selected and participated in the Drum & Bugle Corps Eastern All Stars who performed in the 1994 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
He is a current member of the Syracuse Brigadier Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps..
Previously played with Max Shadow and the Wayward Horns.
Clayton was born and raised in Central New York, where he participated heavily in his school music programs, including field band, jazz band, and concert bands. He attended college at the Crane School of Music then went on to perform with various drum and bugle corps. Clayton has been working as a pit orchestra musician in the local musical theatre scene since 2014. In addition to Brass Inc, Clayton performs regularly with Brig Juice Mini Corps and The Hit Men Brass Band.
Dave Frateschi: Tenor sax, flute, piccolo
VIC TUMBIOLO: Piano, vocals
A native of Central N.Y., Vic has been playing keys for 30 years. During that time, Vic has played with several bands performing many differnt varieties of music. Wanting to test the waters playing with a horn band, Vic has joined up with the band and has been a hit from the start. "I feel I finally found a musical home performing with Brass Inc". We think so too! Vic's previous bands were The Prison City Rockers, Group Theropy, Nobodys Boys, and The Toonz.
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