Article from Reason by Mike Riggs.
If you think the Department of Justice has more than enough tools to wage the war on drugs, a bill passed by the House would create a fast-track scheduling system that could lead to the criminalization of kratom, nootropics, and pretty much anything that gives you a buzz and isn't already illegal.
The House of Representatives voted on Friday to create a new schedule of banned drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, called "Schedule A," and to give Attorney General Jeff Sessions broad new powers to criminalize the manufacturing, importation, and sale of substances that are currently unregulated, but not illegal. The bill is now headed to the Senate, where co-sponsors Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R–Iowa) will likely have little problem whipping votes.
The Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogs Act, or SITSA, is intended to crack down on drugs that closely resemble currently banned or regulated substances in either their chemical structure or intended effects. SITSA would also empower the attorney general (A.G.) to add drugs to this new schedule with few checks from other branches of government.
As its name implies, SITSA is a response to the increased importation of fentanyl analogs—drugs based on the potent opioid fentanyl and that work similarly in the body, but are slightly different at a formulaic level—which have made their way into the U.S. heroin supply and driven overdose death rates to an all-time high.
Great; this'll work as well as the gov't war on poverty! AND at the same time, it'll hurt people dealing with chronic pain who need such meds to have any quality of life.
The BEST way to get a complex job done is give it to Congress and the faceless Government.
If someone is id CHRONIC pain, have it documented and get a prescription. Schedule "A" drugs are available to those who can prove their need. The Black Market exists to sell unlawful drugs to those who either do not have a need, or can not prove a documented need! That is why so many jurisdictions have legislated "Recreational" drugs.
Who and what will be the likely victims of Law Enforcements Expanded Powers? DId members of congress who voted for this even casually view the questionable performances of law enforcement already, sad to note, a matter of history?


When you are going to battle, it would be nice to know your opponent's battle strategy. The same is true with criminal law: when you are going up against a prosecutor, it's vital to understand how prosecutors think.
I do. I am criminal defense attorney Shannon D. Sexton. Before I started my own firm defending people facing criminal charges in Northern Kentucky, I worked as a felony prosecutor (known as an Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney) in Jefferson County, Kenton County, and Campbell County, Kentucky. I not only gained valuable trial experience, I understand — inside and out — how prosecutors build a case against a criminal defendant.
Because I know how a case is put together, I know where to look for weaknesses to break it down. I also put my knowledge of establishing a case to work on behalf of my clients; I do not merely defend against what the other side presents, I build a case that defends my clients based on the facts of the situation.
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Okay, so maybe we don't love the cubicles that much, but we certainly enjoy writing all over them. Lau cubicle graffiti ranges from funny, to weird, to shocking and back to incomprehensibly weird again. After we check our Georgetown emails, scroll through our news feeds, live-tweet our pleas for help and peruse a few sunset instas, we turn to Lau cubicle graffiti for just a few more minutes of procrastination before facing our stacks of work.
We at 4E have already brought you some of the best stall scribbles and grout jokes, so now it's time for some cubicle love. I've gathered some favorites from the lower level to the fifth floor just for you.
It's also pretty obvious that the cubicles were the original Georgetown Confessions. Same anonymity, same scandal, different yet luxuriously beautiful stained wood background.
Most of the cubicle writers were just looking for comfort in each other and most of the time we found it. You guys are just too sweet!
Finally here's some quality graffiti that can't be labeled. We're at Georgetown: we think outside the box.
Note: The Hoya does not condone vandalism, even if it's hysterical.


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Cardinal, Red-crested
Exhibit: Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Family: Emberizidae
Genus: Paroaria
Species: coronata
South America. Eastern Bolivia and south central Brazil, south to north central Argentina and Uruguay. Was introduced to Hawaii (Oahu, Kauai & Maui). Red Crested Cardinals are not related to true cardinals at all. They are actually members of the tanager family, which includes North American species like the Scarlet and Summer Tanagers.
Prefer semi-open areas with shrubs and scattered trees. Tend to gather near water.
Length: 6 – 7 inches.
3 – 6 years in the wild. Up to 13 ½ years in captivity.
Breeding is usually from June to September.
Pairs come together for the breeding season only.
Nest in low shrubbery. Build sturdy nests of assorted plant materials
Lay 2 – 3 eggs, greenish white in color with brownish or mauve streaks. Eggs are at times heavily streaked. Female does all of the incubation of the eggs, which hatch in 12 – 13 days.
Both males and females feed the chicks, which fledge after about 2 weeks and are independent within another month.
Wild: Seeds, and a variety of insects.
Zoo: Seed (millet), assorted greens, mealworms and crickets
Prefer stream side habitat, and both males and females can be seen "inspecting" vegetation from ½ meter to 8 meters above the water. This behavior generally seen during breeding season and may just be that the birds are searching for insects. This emergent vegetation has many aquatic insect larvae which is a good source of nutrients for young chicks.
These birds are known to be adapted to dealing with a wide variety of habitats, including human inhabited areas.
They have a very heavy beak, with an ability to crack very tough seeds.
Have been kept as house pets, and breed readily in captivity.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Late last year, the Rankin County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting the discharge of a firearm within 500 yards (more than a quarter mile) of a platted subdivision, or hunting with a bow within 100 yards of a platted subdivision. The ordinance was passed with little notice or opportunity for affected landowners and sportsmen to express their opposition to it.
State law already makes it illegal to discharge a firearm into a dwelling. The effect of this far-reaching local ordinance has been to create large "No Hunting Zones" that extend far beyond subdivision property lines into neighboring tracts of land – without regard for the property rights of those landowners or for cases in which firearms could safely be discharged on those properties with absolutely no threat to neighbors.
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Rhizome cuttings are a type of stem cutting.
Like cane, shrub and other stem cuttings however, you do have to use cutting with nodes. Rhizome cuttings can be made any length.
In the illustration the rhizome is cut into two inch sections. Most rhizomes can be rooted directly into your potting mix without any special considerations.
The rhizome is fleshy and can easily maintain inself until roots and leaves form. Some more delicate varieties such as rexes may do better if rooted in an enclosed container though.
Long rhizomes can even be rooted in water like you would any stem cutting. They are slightly more prone to rotting in water though since they are so fleshy.
Although leaf cuttings on rhizomatous types will give you more plants in the long run, rhizome cuttings will give you a new plant faster.
It's a good method for those that just want another plant or two and aren't worried about producing larger numbers of plants. The rhizomes don't have to have leaves to root and grow.
When using the tips of rhizomes remove the largest leaves, they'll probably fall off during rooting anyway. Make sure the rhizome has good contact with the rooting medium but not buried more than half way.
Tip cuttings from rhizomes can be rooted upright with the cut end stuck one half to one inch into the rooting medium.


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[ARCHIVED] Media Release COVID-19 - May 1, 2020
Website: www.rowancountync.gov/covid-19
Email: covid-19@rowancountync.gov
Rowan County Case Information: https://bit.ly/rowan-covid19-hub
Why Should I Wear a Mask While in Public?
As we move into another weekend under the Stay-at-Home order, it is important to answer a common question: "Why should I wear a mask while in public?" The short answer is that if you don't wear a mask, you could get someone else sick.
According to the CDC, "We now know from recent studies that a significant portion of individuals with coronavirus lack symptoms ("asymptomatic"), and that even those who eventually develop symptoms ("pre-symptomatic") can transmit the virus to others before showing symptoms."
This means that even if you don't think you're sick, it is likely you'll spread the virus to others. This becomes even more likely if you are interacting in close proximity while speaking, coughing, or sneezing. The CDC recommends wearing masks, to include cloth face coverings, any time you are in public. In addition, maintaining 6-feet social distancing and frequent hand washing remains critical to slowing the spread of the virus.
Additional CDC Information on making, wearing, and cleaning a cloth face mask may be found on the CDC's website.
Rowan County Register of Deeds to Resume Passport Services
Effective Friday May 1, 2020, the Rowan County Register of Deeds will resume Passport Services with the following restrictions:
Masks are required before entry into office
Office access is restricted to applicants only
tj.brown@rowancountync.gov
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Updated 24 May, 2018 - 03:11 aprilholloway
Did Humans Walk the Earth with Dinosaurs? Triceratops Horn Dated to 33,500 Years
A Triceratops brow horn discovered in Dawson County, Montana, has been controversially dated to around 33,500 years, challenging the view that dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago. The finding radically suggests that early humans may have once walked the earth with the fearsome reptiles thousands of years ago.
The Triceratops brow horn was excavated in May 2012 and stored at the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum. The Museum, which has been in cooperation since 2005 with the Paleochronology Group, a team of consultants in geology, paleontology, chemistry, engineering, and education, sent a sample of the outer portion of the Triceratops brow horn to Head of the Paleochronology Group Hugh Miller, at his request, in order to carry out Carbon-14 dating. Mr Miller sent the sample to the University of Georgia, Center for Applied Isotope Studies, for this purpose. The sample was divided at the lab into two fractions with the "bulk" or collagen break down products yielding an age of 33,570 ± 120 years and the carbonate fraction of bone bioapatite yielding an age of 41,010 ± 220 years [UGAMS-11752 & 11752a]. Mr. Miller told Ancient Origins that it is always desirable to carbon-14 date several fractions to minimize the possibility of errors, which Miller requested, and that essential concordance was achieved in the 1000's of years as with all bone fractions of ten other dinosaurs.
Triceratops, a name meaning "three-horned face", is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that is said to have first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period, about 68 million years ago in what is now North America, and became extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago. However, scientists from the Paleochronology Group, who perform research relating to "anomalies of science", maintain that dinosaurs did not die out millions of years ago and that there is substantial evidence that they were still alive as recently as 23,000 years ago.
Classical reconstruction of a Triceratops ( Wikimedia Commons )
Until recently, Carbon-14 dating was never used to test dinosaur bones, as the analysis is only reliable up to 55,000 years. Scientists never considered it worthwhile to run the test – since it is generally believed that dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, based on radiometric dating of the volcanic layers above or below fossils, a method which the Paleochronology Group states has "serious problems and gross assumptions must be made".
"It became clear years ago that paleontologists were not just neglecting to test dinosaur bones for C-14 content but were refusing to. Normally a good scientist will be curious about the ages of important fossil bones," Mr. Miller told Ancient Origins in an email.
YouTube video explaining results of carbon testing on dinosaur bones
The results of the Triceratops Horn analysis are not unique. According to Mr. Miller, numerous C-14 tests have now been carried out on dinosaur bones, and surprisingly, they all returned results dating back in the thousands rather than millions of years.
"I organized the Paleochronology group in 2003 to fill a void with regards fossil wood and dinosaur bones as I was curious as to their age by C-14 dating. We thus have used C-14 dating to solve the mystery why soft tissue and dinosaur depictions exist world-wide. Our model predicted dinosaur bones would have significant C-14 and indeed they did in the range of 22,000 to 39,000 years BP."
Results of C-14 tests on dinosaur bones provided by the Paleochronology Group .
This find goes against the mainstream view by paleontologists and geologists, who assert dinosaurs lived from 220 million and 65 million years ago, during the Mesozoic Era, and state Homo sapiens did not appear until about 200,000 years ago - in the Middle Pleistocene, Middle Paleolithic (Eurasia), or Middle Stone Age (Africa). However, people who believe in Young Earth Creationism and numerous other independent researchers have pointed to ancient artwork, such as the "dinosaur" carved at Angkor Wat, and the Acámbaro figures (which even seem to show humans riding dinosaurs) as evidence to support their perspective. Most agree that this artwork was made long before modern science had pieced together dinosaur fossils and conducted analyses to produce detailed reconstructions of their appearance.
Top left: Relief carving at Angkor Wat, Cambodia (1186 AD). Top Right: Textile from Nazca, Peru (700 AD). Bottom: Tapestry in the Chateau de Blois (1500 AD)
Even more intriguing than the results of the C-14 dating on the Triceratops bone is the discovery of soft tissue in dinosaur fossils. In the March 2005 issue of Science , paleontologist Mary Schweitzer and her team announced the discovery of soft tissue inside a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex leg bone from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, a controversial finding considering scientists had thought soft tissue proteins degrade in less than 1 million years in the best of conditions. After recovery, the tissue was rehydrated by the science team and testing revealed evidence of intact structures such as blood vessels, bone matrix, and connective tissue.
Mark Armitage and Kevin Anderson also published results of a microscopic analysis of soft tissue from a Triceratops horn in the peer-reviewed journal Acta Histochemica . Mr. Armitage, a creationist, claimed that the preservation of cells is a scientific impossibility if the dinosaur really walked the Earth over 66 million years ago. On this basis, he opened a discussion with colleagues and students about the implications of such a finding being that the creationist perspective is correct and that dinosaurs existed much later than mainstream science maintains, a move that promptly saw him fired by the University of California .
While the Paleochronology Group says it is not "of any particular creed or denomination", there are undoubtedly those with creationist beliefs among the group, a fact which critics may say could bias their results. Nevertheless, the group has urged any and all scientists to replicate their results by carrying out rigorous C-14 testing on any dinosaur sample.
"Every sample tested yielded significant original Carbon-14 by extensive cross-checking of their ages in bone collagen, bulk organics and carbonate from bone bioapatite on AMS units and obtained concordance. Thus, the overwhelming odds are that most if not all unpetrified or even supposed petrified dinosaur bones in museum and university collections will show the same result," Mr Miller told Ancient Origins. "We urge therefore that all those in charge of such collections see if they can replicate our findings. The implications are immense."
Previous attempts to publish C-14 test results were repeatedly blocked. Raw data without interpretation was blocked from presentation in conference proceedings by the 2009 North American Paleontological Convention, the American Geophysical Union in 2011 and 2012, the Geological Society of America in 2011 and 2012, and by the editors of various scientific journals. The Center for Applied Isotope Studies at the University of Georgia, who conducted 'blind' C-14 tests on dinosaur bones, without knowing what they were, refused to conduct further C-14 tests after finding they were testing dinosaur bones. Paleontologist Jack Horner, curator at Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies, who excavated the Tyrannosaurus Rex remains that contained soft tissue, even turned down an offer of a $23,000 grant to carry out a C-14 test on the remains.
"[T]he public should be made aware that the discovery of soft tissue, C-14 in dinosaur bones and dinosaur depictions world-wild renders current beliefs about how old they are obsolete," said Mr Miller. "Science is about sharing evidence, and letting the chips fall where they may."
Although the exploration of dinosaur soft tissue has provided some exciting discussion and possibilities, University of Bristol scientists completed a study on the preservation of keratin protein in dinosaur fossils in 2018 and warned against believing the dating results others have shared. Evan Saitta from the University of Bristol's School of Earth Science explained:
"Decay and mild maturation resulted in some intriguing textural differences in degradation patterns based on the type of keratin such as curling versus crimping of filaments when matured. These results may show promise for identifying relatively recent archaeological keratin remains but when maturation conditions are increased to simulate conditions present during burial and fossilisation, the keratin degrades into a foul-smelling, water-soluble fluid that can dissolve or leach away from the fossil."
While there is a possibility that the C-14 test results were a result of contamination or error, (even though the results were replicated and rigorous pre-treatments were carried out by the University of Georgia to control for this), or are perhaps due to some other factor, it seems reasonable to expect scientists to attempt more than a few replications of such groundbreaking test results. Failure to investigate or even acknowledge such significant findings unfortunately suggests that some scientists are more interested in holding on tight to current perspectives, rather than seeking to advance knowledge and understanding in this field.
Top Image: Triceratops horn discovered in Dawson County, Montana, which yielded C-14 results of around 33,500 years.
By April Holloway
creationist
April Holloway is a Co-Owner, Editor and Writer of Ancient Origins. For privacy reasons, she has previously written on Ancient Origins under the pen name April Holloway, but is now choosing to use her real name, Joanna Gillan.
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Paul Eastburn wrote on 17 June, 2021 - 18:56
Researchers may have misinterpreted any portion of the data on either side of the debate. If the dating is in error, the whole foundation is in question. Calibration for dating methods relies on these assumptions.
We possess data... and speculation based on assumptive interpretation of data. The words observe, speculate, assume, probability, appears, theorize, hypothesize, postulate, and conjecture are friendly. Apparent solutions are often simply one facet of an answer, or entirely wrong.
The portrayal of dolphins or whales on ancient maps possibly indicates descriptions by observers are misinterpreted by artists, an observer was not observant, an artist was untalented, or either was inarticulate. Wanted posters illustrate the same point; inaccuracies exist and sometimes point to the wrong suspect.
Curiously, creationist groups are assumed to be biased, and the 'established theory' group is assumed to be unbiased. Science is a method to search for answers. Researchers develop a hypothesis and then modify their hypothesis based on the outcome of data collection, testing, and experimentation. Succinctly, a hypothesis appears to be a preconceived bias modified to fit data interpretation.
Information rather than speculation allows study and entertainment of possibilities without preconceived conclusions. Research scientists interpreted data to indicate eggs, butter, and milk were less healthy than suggested alternatives in the recent past. Broader data collection and interpretation eventually proved the opposite.
Moderation does not often make headlines. We have varying degrees of probability constructed upon the same.
AlanP wrote on 23 April, 2021 - 21:50
How does this help creationists? According to them the Earth's about 5000 years old!
On a different note, if the dating of the rocks and the dating of the bones within them are so hugely different, then one of them's gotta be wrong!
Crunchyhippo wrote on 4 July, 2020 - 04:53
Being an unapologetic creationist, I think some may enjoy my book "Noah: A Novel," (Jeffrey Dykes) which also covers dinosaurs and man, leviathan, behemoth, giants, and dragons, while striving to remain faithful to Genesis. It's more an adventure novel more than historical fiction.
karen v ryan wrote on 25 May, 2018 - 07:26
looks more like an Auroch horn
kerri matuszak wrote on 16 April, 2016 - 21:54
If the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave paintings date around 32,000–30,000 BP .. and humans did not roam about then whom would these artists be? lol
3 August, 2021 - 14:57 Mark A. Carpenter
Arctic Circle Anomalies: Archaeological Insight Under the Permafrost
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1 July, 2021 - 14:37 ashley cowie
THAT Asteroid Only Accelerated Inevitable Dinosaur Extinction
A team of scientists have discovered dinosaurs were on a downturn about 76 million years ago, 10 million years before the asteroid hit Chicxulub in modern Mexico causing the mass extinction of non-...
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23 April, 2021 - 02:29 Caleb Strom
Does Ta Prohm Temple Depict a 'Domestic' Dinosaur?
Mainstream paleontologists say that dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years before the evolution of modern humans. This, however, has not stopped the suggestion that some dinosaurs may have survived...
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15 April, 2021 - 14:34 ashley cowie
2020, Year of the Deeply Ancient Beasts
Pterodactylus is an extinct genus of pterosaurs whose members are commonly known as pterodactyls. Pterodactylus antiquus was the first pterosaur to be named and identified as a flying reptile, while...
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13 March, 2021 - 17:52 Alicia McDermott
World First: Dinosaur Found on Fossilized Eggs with Babies Inside!
Scientists have made a major discovery in Ganzhou City in China's southern Jiangxi Province. They've found the remains of a dinosaur sitting on its nest of fossilized eggs. The dinosaur, an...
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8 October, 2020 - 14:00 ashley cowie
Missing Link in Dinosaur Evolution Discovered in the Gobi Desert
Buried beneath the sands of Mongolia 's Gobi Desert for 68 million years, multiple skeletons of a new species of feathered, two-fingered, toothless dinosaurs have been unearthed by a team of...
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My language thoughts, advice and entreaties.
I've lost 22 pounds (from 202 to 180) in the last 24 weeks. I still eat the same bad foods as always, except for sweets.
Basically it's been via the oldest method around – more exercise, less food. Interestingly, I've enjoyed the process.
I have one more pound to go, and then I'll work on maintaining.
Every summer my wife and I eat everything in sight for 9 or 10 weeks. I pack on serious pounds, then work for 9 months to take it off. Of course that is not a recommended way to live. I shouldn't use gorging as a reward; it's self-defeating. And I assume my body would prefer to avoid such sugar spikes.
I know all that. But … I'm 71 years old; ask me if I plan to change.
All I can say is that when it's time to shed, the following works for me.
That doesn't mean I'm fanatical about no sugar. If I eat out, I don't inquire about whether there's any sugar in the Italian sauce. But I don't eat dessert.
Because sweets are my biggest downfall in the weight life, I usually tackle step #1 alone for 10-14 days before moving on seriously into #2.
Oh, another note. I haven't drunk alcohol for the last 41 years, so those calories are not a factor.
Usually this means walk 1-2 miles every day it isn't raining or I'm not playing golf. That's it. I either do that or hit an elliptical and a stationary bike for 15 minutes each. Some days I do both (machines and walk).
Again, nothing fanatical. It's just important not to be sedentary.
#3 – Oh, this is scary territory, here, #3. But it is the KEY to my losing weight.
Let's not name #3 yet. You're not gonna like it. Unless you try it.
But I did this, tried it, accepted it, and now I LOVE IT!
Ready? Here we go: Two days a week, I fast.
Also, pretty soon your tummy shrinks, and you don't need as much food. You crave less; you know it's OK to feel hungry for a few hours. Amazing, but true.
We eat because we're hungry, yes … but also because we're stressed, or bored, or someone just walks by and says "Here, want a donut?" Uh, sure!
When I'm fasting twice a week and never eating sweets, I simply decline those offers. And I feel MUCH better.
Twenty-two pounds isn't cable-TV show-worthy, but it is great to have clothes fit better, tie my shoes more easily, etc. I sleep better, do yoga better.
I assume some are wondering what a typical 600-calorie day consists of, what my meals are on those days. Again, you can eat anything you want as long as the portions keep you in the right calorie count.
Breakfast is 4 oz. of granola cereal with 2% milk.
Lunch is ½ cup homemade chicken noodle soup and a hard-boiled egg. My alternative lunch is ½ of a big delicious apple, plus a slice of Swiss cheese.
Dinner is 1/3 cup [measured unpopped] of popcorn cooked in a tablespoon of olive oil. No butter. Or, if I feel a need for protein, it's ½ of a chicken breast [grilled] and some low-fat cottage cheese.
No snacks during the day. Hungry and happy.


For the last half-decade, many have told me to listen to said British band. Being the curmudgeon that I am, I refused. I figured I'd go to the band on my own when I felt ready. As it happens, their new album Holy Fire was sent over and so I decided to listen. I guess now I felt ready (whatever that means). So, three listens. Time for a verdict.


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Is social media an alternative political challenge?
Afsan Chowdhury | Published: 00:00, Dec 05,2018	| Updated: 23:32, Dec 04,2018
— The Hill
POLITICAL space in Bangladesh is limited by several factors. Some of them are structural, others social, legal and political too. That points to a lack of interaction and accountability options for the citizens. The result of this has been the rise of social media as a political space which is not controlled totally by conventional control mechanisms.
Most people do make political statements on Facebook which they would never do elsewhere. They may even look down upon politics as it exists in Bangladesh. Yet, they express their opinions by posting them. Some do so less formally by liking or disliking statements of others. But there is no doubt that social media is a more politically inclusive space than Paltan Maidan space.
New global and Bangladesh reality
THE causes behind the rise of social media are many but are not unique to Bangladesh. In most places, it has risen dramatically and in the United States, it has become such a major issue that elections have been influenced by it. Trump has used social media extensively and its increasingly mainstreamed there.
In the United States, the issue is not that of lack of space but of control. Trump supporters feel that professional media belong to the liberals which translates into the Democrats. The result has been the rise of the alternative voices — the left-outs who feel that they need to say what they think and cannot find the right space. Hence, the clout of social media has risen but it exists in addition to the regular political space which has not shrunken. So, both feed each other and the chemistry between the two are obvious as well. It is a new and extra space, not a substitute space.
However, in Bangladesh, the situation is slightly different as the political space has shrunken due to several reasons. State political leaders have not been able to develop a participatory system which allows most to be included. Politics in Bangladesh follows a set pattern which means having access to all the power groups, plenty of money, muscle power, social network and link with a variety of network and family connections. On top of that, belonging to the right political party is important.
Conventional politics excludes most people
THE result of such an equation is that the business of politics has a high entry bar and most are not eligible to apply. On the other hand, the desire to speak out is high as well and it is here that the two have met and produced an alternative, the social media. The rise of this phenomenon is also linked to the shrinking of the formal political space. The greater the restrictions imposed on conventional politics, the greater the expansion of the social media space.
The authorities have responded with a variety of rules, laws and supervisions and the growth of digital security apparatus is high. This cuts across regimes and power clusters and just about everyone who is powerful and has a stake in the many power games. To many of them which includes the government and law enforcers, surveillance, apprehension and internment are where the focus is but the digital world is so wide and varied that it is not always easy to control it.
Can social media be controlled?
THE capacity to control the digital world is limited and this is not just in Bangladesh but even in an advanced country like the United States or China. The very nature of technology and its constant innovations make it an elusive prey to hunt down. Every government worth its name has chased the beast but phantoms are far too many in that world. And the problem does not look like it is about to go away.
Each country has some unique features and ours is the rise of information black market, partly explained as 'fake news'. Any visit to YouTube will show that there are so many sites beaming anti-government propaganda that it is impossible to stop them as one springs up when one dies. With an ever-growing diaspora population, this is not about to go away. But many in Bangladesh turn to them because they feel they are not getting enough real news as censorship is at work.
That problem can be traced again to the political system that is at best limited to power groups, including the politicians, but not limited to them. When such a situation exists, the only political space which allows entry to those wishing to participate is social media. The authorities monitor it for several reasons but constricting a space challenge is one.
An alternative space but without power?
WHEN more people are on social media than activists of all the parties put together, the problem is that a new space is more active than the conventional one. No matter how much the monitoring is, the sheer size prevents control. But its influence is not on conventional politics which can be controlled but extra-conventional political activities like movements. That is why the authorities are anxious given the experience of the last one year.
The decision by the Election Commission that they shall monitor social media actually recognises the challenge that social media has become to mainstream politics. Media can influence political behaviour only this much but social media can go much beyond that and challenge the political structure that exists in the country. And as more turn to social media by default as they cannot engage in the conventional, the problem will not grow less.
In such circumstances, we are perhaps seeing a challenge to the political structure which has grown over time in Bangladesh. It is a small challenge, but it is a real one, nevertheless.
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from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Optional, TypeVar

from azure.core.exceptions import (
    ClientAuthenticationError,
    HttpResponseError,
    ResourceExistsError,
    ResourceNotFoundError,
    ResourceNotModifiedError,
    map_error,
)
from azure.core.pipeline import PipelineResponse
from azure.core.pipeline.transport import AsyncHttpResponse
from azure.core.rest import HttpRequest
from azure.core.tracing.decorator_async import distributed_trace_async
from azure.core.utils import case_insensitive_dict
from azure.mgmt.core.exceptions import ARMErrorFormat

from ... import models as _models
from ..._vendor import _convert_request
from ...operations._scope_role_assignment_approval_steps_operations import build_list_request

T = TypeVar("T")
ClsType = Optional[Callable[[PipelineResponse[HttpRequest, AsyncHttpResponse], T, Dict[str, Any]], Any]]

class ScopeRoleAssignmentApprovalStepsOperations:
    """
    .. warning::
        **DO NOT** instantiate this class directly.

        Instead, you should access the following operations through
        :class:`~azure.mgmt.authorization.v2021_01_01_preview.aio.AuthorizationManagementClient`'s
        :attr:`scope_role_assignment_approval_steps` attribute.
    """

    models = _models

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs) -> None:
        input_args = list(args)
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        self._serialize = input_args.pop(0) if input_args else kwargs.pop("serializer")
        self._deserialize = input_args.pop(0) if input_args else kwargs.pop("deserializer")

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        """
        error_map = {
            401: ClientAuthenticationError,
            404: ResourceNotFoundError,
            409: ResourceExistsError,
            304: ResourceNotModifiedError,
        }
        error_map.update(kwargs.pop("error_map", {}) or {})

        _headers = kwargs.pop("headers", {}) or {}
        _params = case_insensitive_dict(kwargs.pop("params", {}) or {})

        api_version = kwargs.pop("api_version", _params.pop("api-version", "2021-01-01-preview"))  # type: str
        cls = kwargs.pop("cls", None)  # type: ClsType[_models.RoleAssignmentApprovalStepListResult]

        request = build_list_request(
            approval_id=approval_id,
            scope=scope,
            api_version=api_version,
            template_url=self.list.metadata["url"],
            headers=_headers,
            params=_params,
        )
        request = _convert_request(request)
        request.url = self._client.format_url(request.url)  # type: ignore

        pipeline_response = await self._client._pipeline.run(  # type: ignore # pylint: disable=protected-access
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        )

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        deserialized = self._deserialize("RoleAssignmentApprovalStepListResult", pipeline_response)

        if cls:
            return cls(pipeline_response, deserialized, {})

        return deserialized

    list.metadata = {"url": "/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignmentApprovals/{approvalId}/stages"}  # type: ignore

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Q: JavaScript from John Resig Learning Advanced JavaScript #45 function highest(){
          return makeArray(arguments).sort(function(a,b){
            return b - a;
          });
        }

function makeArray(array){
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}

assert(highest(1, 1, 2, 3)[0] == 3, "Get the highest value.");
assert(highest(3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)[1] == 4, "Verify the results.");

This example is #45 from John Resig`s Learning Advanced JavaScript. http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/#45
Here are some questions which I would appreciate some help with. Thanks in advance.
1).  when function highest() returns makeArray(arguments), does function makeArray take place before the sort function in function highest? So that after makeArray() runs, the remaining part
sort(function(a,b){
    return b - a;

of function highest continues and the sort takes place on the Array returned from makeArray?
2) In function makeArray(array), what exactly is "call" calling?
3) In function makeArray, is slice used because call takes its arguments separately rather than as an array?
4) In the final assert, does the [1] represent the location in an array of the 4 > i.e. after the sort there is an array ['5','4','3','3','2','1']

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*Yes, that's exactly right. These actions happen in sequence.

*It's calling Array.prototype.slice and passing  array which is the arguments object of highest. When called with no arguments, slice simply returns a copy the object it's working on. This is how we convert the array-like arguments object to an actual array.

*See #2. slice and call are used in tandem to produce a copy of arguments that's an actual array.

*Yes, again, you're correct. The highest function returns an array containing its arguments sorted in descending order.

A: As I was answering this, another answer was posted.  But I think that most of the confusion shown in the question comes down to one key point.
In JavaScript, functions and methods are objects.  Which may have properties, etc.  When you say Array.slice you get the slice method.  When you say Array.slice() you now are calling the slice method.  So Array.slice.call accesses the call property of the slice method on the Array object.  (That property happens to be a method in its own right.)  And Array.slice.call( stuff ) calls that.
That's a pretty fundamental fact of the language which is easy to miss.  But if you don't understand that point, you'll find code that uses it virtually impossible to actually understand.

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Q: Assigning variable with return value I am new to iOS, if you look at the following code, I would expect both x and y to be "hello"
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

     NSString  *x,*y;

     y=    [x getstring];

}//viewDidLoad

-(NSString *)getstring{

    return @"hello";

}

Yet, I get this error: No visible @interface for NSString declares the selector 'getString'
I tried many things, I defined getstring in the .h file

A: Your x variable is type on NSString ant there is no method getString defined there.
I believe you want to call [self getstring] instead:
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The Navy Wants Hypersonic Weapons on Its Stealth Destroyers
April 29, 2021 Topic: U.S. Navy Region: Americas Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: NavyMilitaryZumwalt-ClassDestroyersShipsMissilesStealth Destroyer
Mounting costs and looming sustainability concerns prompted the Navy to revise its long-term plans for its new destroyer class, repurposing its three Zumwalt ships—USS Zumwalt, USS Michael Monsoor, and the upcoming USS Lyndon B. Johnson—as blue-water strike platforms.
by Mark Episkopos
The new Zumwalt-class destroyers will be the first U.S. Navy vessels to receive a key hypersonic upgrade, according to the military.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday announced earlier this week that the Navy will debut its first at-sea hypersonic missiles on one of the service's three Zumwalt-class destroyers "by 2025," as first reported by USNI News.
Gilday's announcement upended widespread expectations that the Navy's Virginia-class cruise missile submarines and Ohio-class guided-missile submarines were first in line to receive the upcoming missile. "Our biggest [research and development] effort is in hypersonics—to deliver that capability in 2025 on a surface ship and then on Block V [Virginia-class] submarines," he added.
The upcoming weapon is being developed from the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) program, a U.S. Navy effort that aims to procure a hypersonic missile that can hit any target in the world in less than an hour. As described by the Congressional Research Service, the prospective missile "would not only allow the United States to pursue an adversary without relying on forward bases, it would also allow the United States to reach targets deep inside an enemy's territory if that area were out of the range of U.S. forces deployed at bases or on naval forces in the region." With rapid launch times, speeds exceeding Mach 5, and a reported accuracy of six inches within target location, the upcoming hypersonic missile can credibly threaten critical enemy assets and infrastructure in high-intensity environments.
The military anticipates that the CPS program will enhance Washington's conventional deterrent and power projection capabilities against its Russian and Chinese competitors, both of which are actively procuring hypersonic weapons capabilities. The fitting mechanism remains unclear, though the Navy has previously reviewed plans to replace the Zumwalt-class destroyer's 155-millimeter gun mounts with multiple all-up-round canisters to accommodate the new hypersonic weapon.
Gilday added that the Navy is actively investing in directed energy weapons development to mitigate surface ships' vulnerability to certain types of advanced missile threats. "I think directed energy with respect to the future survivability of the fleet is really important," he said. "If you think about the fact that a Ford-class carrier generates three times the electrical power of a Nimitz-class, or that we've got excess power generation in Zumwalt-class destroyers." The Zumwalt line's advanced integrated power system can feasibly generate the electricity required to power this technology.
The Zumwalt-class was introduced in 2013 as a line of modern guided-missile destroyers with stealth capabilities, boasting the bespoke Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) system. But the project encountered no shortage of design and procurement challenges, with LRLAP development facing termination in 2016. Mounting costs and looming sustainability concerns prompted the Navy to revise its long-term plans for its new destroyer class, repurposing its three Zumwalt ships—USS Zumwalt, USS Michael Monsoor, and the upcoming USS Lyndon B. Johnson—as blue-water strike platforms. The CPS weapon upgrade is slated to become a key part of those efforts, reinvigorating the troubled Zumwalt line with a newfound battlefield identity.
Mark Episkopos is a national security reporter for the National Interest.
Source URL:https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/navy-wants-hypersonic-weapons-its-stealth-destroyers-184003


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Here's last month's spot illustration for Doctor Who magazine. It's for an audio adventure called Time Reef. Mindful of other illustration blogs that include roughs and pencils I'm sticking up the process for this illo.
I produced a quick colour rough with my faithful wacom in Photoshop, DWM approved, then I did some finer, "proper" figure drawing type stuff (also in Photoshop) before exporting it over to Illustrator. I should point out that the folks at DWM, aware of my various styles, asked for something not too cartoony.
In Illustrator I just draw over the top of the image freehand using the pencil tool with the stroke set to zero. Most illustrators use the vector tools to make perfect shapes. The truth is I didn't understand how to use illustrator when I started (still don't!) and so picked up the pencil tool and started drawing shapes of colour and sticking them together. The Monk and Cat image from the Guardian that sits in the top right corner of this blog page is an early example of my Adobe Illustrator stuff.
I'll be starting on my next spot illo for DWM soon (a Colin Baker one! Eek!), I've had the brief for a couple of weeks, but I haven't got a clue what I'm going to do with it yet. It'll certainly be done in Illustrator though, I love the way it leaves drawing looking so immediate and fresh. Perfect for spot art that should have impact without becoming dominant and distracting. Basically Adrian Salmon's Time Team illustrations are perfect for the magazine in that respect, mine are attempting to do a similar job.
Lovely, and I think you're being modest about Illustrator leaving the drawing looking fresh and immediate, that's purely down to your drawing and how you use the program. For some people it deadens what they do but definitely not in your case.
I just can't get to grips with Illustrator much at all, I always feel like I'm fighting against it whenever I've tinkered about with it, I find it remarkably unintuitive (as if a mathematician designed an art program) and I admire anybody that can use it well.
Have you tried just drawing freehand with the pencil tool set to zero stroke weight? Like I say, I came across this technique by accident and ignorance, but it does make the whole process more immediate and intuitive.
I know what you mean about it being very geometric, the pen tool is really confusing when you first use it.
I'll have to give that method a go. I'm currently using Illustrator for lettering, I'm just about getting to grips with that...slowly learning the mysteries of the pen tool for the occasional balloon and for making tails. I'm normally okay at getting to grips with most software but I do seem to have had a bit of a block when it comes to Illustrator.
I am doing an illustration degree at Cambridge, I need to find out a few illustrators opinions for my dissertation, would you be prepared to answer a few questions??? Please.


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South America, amplified to include all of Latin America
Franklin H. Martin
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by Franklin H. Martin
Published 1927 by Revell in New York .
Latin America,
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LC Classifications R464.5 .M3 1927
Pagination xxiv, 435 p.
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It depends on which book you're reading. (The things this demonstrates about geography, college/uni, and where those two things dovetail are things I choose to be amused by in this specific context.) To begin with, there is no universal consensus. Latin America is a region rich in history, culture, and modern tourist attractions. It is defined as the region where two of the five Romance languages, i.e., Spanish and Portuguese, are spoken by the majority. The region is made up by virtually the entire South and Central America, as well as a few Caribbean islands.
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Pilcher. Latin America generally refers to territories in the Americas where the Spanish, Portuguese or French languages prevail: Mexico, most of Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto America is, therefore, defined as all those parts of the Americas that were once part of the Spanish, Portuguese and French ies: Latin America is generally understood to consist of the entire continent of South America in addition to Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean whose inhabitants speak a Romance language.
The peoples of this large area shared the experience of conquest and colonization by the. Latin America is a region of the Americas consisting of countries where the people speak Romance languages (languages that came from Vulgar Latin).
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Between and all of Latin America except the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico slipped out of the hands of the Iberian powers who had ruled the. Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions looks at the US/Latin-American relationship from a slightly different perspective.
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Overlapping and distinct mechanisms of action of multiple sclerosis therapies
J. J. Graber, C. A. McGraw, D. Kimbrough, S. Dhib-Jalbut
In the last two decades MS has changed from an idiopathic condition with only symptomatic treatments to a disease with better characterized pathophysiologic underpinnings and several treatments that modify its long-term course based on specific mechanisms of action. There are now several FDA approved options for therapy at the onset of disease, and discussions have begun on choosing the best treatment in individual patients and what option to choose next in patients who are failing their current treatment. Numerous studies have begun to highlight that the underlying pathology of CNS damage may be different in subsets of patients, raising the possibility that some may respond to a treatment with a mechanism of action that is targeted to 'their' MS. Trials are ongoing of numerous new agents with different mechanisms of action and some combination therapies. A better understanding of how each therapy works may guide decisions on initiating, combining or changing therapy in a more rational way to improve patient outcomes. Further knowledge of underlying mechanisms of disease in different patients with 'the same' disease may lead to more targeted therapies, as will biomarkers that predict clinical response to therapy. Studies of the effects of various agents used in MS reveal both overlapping and distinct mechanisms of actions that may be relevant to their efficacy and side effects in individual patients. However, it is important to remember that most agents are approved based on their reduction of MRI lesions and relapse rates over a short time frame. These measures only partially correlate with long-term disability, which may be the most relevant clinical outcome for people with MS. Fixed disability requires years to become apparent, and there is a lack of large studies of biomarkers for chronic outcomes. In addition, few large studies correlate response to therapy with cognitive outcomes, which are a major cause of chronic disability. This review will attempt to summarize clinically relevant knowledge of the mechanisms of action of current FDA approved therapies for MS in the context of ongoing clinical trials of combination therapy and address rational approaches to changing therapy in a patient suspected to be 'unresponsive' to their current treatment.
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Things continue to progress on the running front, although that progress has slowed. The most recent obstacle that has held things up is what I have pictured here: an interval training session where five different 12 minute runs are conducted, with walks in between.
It has been a tough wall to climb over. Numerous times something would ache - sometimes very early into the run - and I'd tap out. While I know the mind wants to quit far earlier than the body will, I am also cognizant of my age and want to make sure that I don't do anything which could lead to injury.
Now that interval training is complete, I move to longer runs, but shorter amounts of total running. For example, while the image of my nemesis session shows 60 minutes of running, my run tomorrow is scheduled for three 15 minute intervals for a total of 45 minutes running. Psychologically, it seems quite doable. Hopefully the body feels the same way.
I'm 8 weeks away from my first ever 10k, and I'm on pace. Let's hope things stay that way and I can avoid any walls like the one that I just got over.


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When the U.S. government can kill you, explained
Adam Serwer writes: On Monday, the Obama administration explained when it's allowed to kill you.
Speaking to students and faculty at Northwestern University law school, Attorney General Eric Holder laid out in greater detail than ever before the legal theory behind the administration's belief that it can kill American citizens suspected of terrorism without charge or trial. In the 5,000-word speech, the nation's top law enforcement official directly confronted critics who allege that the targeted killing of American citizens violates the Constitution.
"'Due process' and 'judicial process' are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security." Holder said. "The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process."
Who decides when an American citizen has had enough due process and the Hellfire missile fairy pays them a visit? Presumably the group of top national security officials—that, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, decides who is targetable and forwards its findings to the president, who gives final approval.
There won't be any drone strikes in Denver anytime soon. But you might want to be careful when traveling abroad, because Holder made it clear that there are no geographical limits in the fight against Al Qaeda. "Neither Congress nor our federal courts has limited the geographic scope of our ability to use force to the current conflict in Afghanistan," Holder said. "We are at war with a stateless enemy, prone to shifting operations from country to country."
Holder's speech did outline some concrete limits to when the US government is allowed to target its own citizens. The target has to pose an "imminent threat of violent attack" to the US and be beyond the ability of American authorities to capture, and the strike can't violate international standards governing the use of force by killing too many civilians or noncombatants.
But don't assume that when Holder says "imminent threat of violent attack," he means that you're actually part of a specific plot threatening American lives. "The Constitution does not require the president to delay action until some theoretical end stage of planning when the precise time, place, and manner of an attack become clear," Holder said. That would introduce an "unacceptably high risk of failure." When he refers to "failure," Holder presumably means failing to kill the target before the attack or plan for an attack materializes, not the possibility that the government might accidentally kill an innocent person.
If the standards for when the government can send a deadly flying robot to vaporize you sound a bit subjective, that's because they are. Holder made clear that decisions about which citizens the government can kill are the exclusive province of the executive branch, because only the executive branch possess the "expertise and immediate access to information" to make these life-and-death judgments.
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4 thoughts on "When the U.S. government can kill you, explained"
Clif Brown March 6, 2012 at 1:05 am
"we are at war with a stateless enemy…"
Wait a minute, didn't Obama say early on that the War on Terror is over?
Holder's address could have been 50,000 words and the fact would still remain that administrations decide what they want to do and then come up with a concoction of words to "explain" it. A lawyer can make it all the way to attorney general, but is still a lawyer.
How might it be possible to separate the Justice Department from the Executive? Looking over history, it seems like job 1 for the DoJ is to cover for the President's policies, continually making silk purses out of sows ears, in this case deconstructing due process. A big problem is that the President appoints the AG, a recipe for bending the law like a noodle.
Is the highest law the Constitution or is it the desire of the President? The AG puts on his magician's hat and, PRESTO, the latter leaps right out of the former…if only you look at it the right way!
How about the DoJ under the judicial branch?
nowhere March 6, 2012 at 5:14 am
"When the President does it, that means it is not illegal" At least Nixon wasn't claiming the legal right to murder anyone he pleased, whenever and wherever he pleased. Well, we can sure see why the current administration gave a pass on prosecuting the crimes committed by the previous one: they intended to commit exactly the same crimes and call them legal themselves. If someone had told me 15 years ago that one day words like these would be coming from some of the highest offices in the U.S.A. I would have thought they were paranoid conspiracy nut.
Tom Hall March 7, 2012 at 10:53 am
" 'Due process' and 'judicial process' are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security" Holder said. "The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process."
These are among the most chilling words that can be uttered by a government official. The deliberate attempt to separate the notion of due process from the authority and supervision of the judiciary is a matter of the gravest order and consequence. Rights and obligations obtained under the Magna Carta and the US Constitution have been flouted by successive administrations. No nation can enjoy "security" under such violent, arbitrary rule. The liquidation of citizens by a state (to say nothing of the killing of foreign nationals around the world) which declares itself immune from judicial constraint is of course a hallmark of dictatorship.
zebowillis March 9, 2012 at 9:39 am
What I am disgusted by is the fact that no one is bothering to protest this. Not one of the anti-war politicians or left wingnuts are out there telling the Government "not in our name". I'm am disgusted by the craven politics of it. Cause it's Obama it's cool, but if it's Bush by god it's wrong. Disgusting.


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Blu-ray/DVD Review: WHITE CHAMBER (2019)
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Written and directed by Paul Raschid, WHITE CHAMBER, filmed in a mere 12.5 days, takes us into a near future that is entirely believable considering the world's current political climate. This psychological thriller holds you at the edge of your seat until the very end, and when you think it's done, Raschid has one more twist for you, never letting up. Who, exactly, are the bad guys and the good guys in a "civil war"?
The movie opens on a woman held hostage in a small room, void of distinction other than its complete lack of distinction. An altered voice puts her through a series of questions and punishments to show us just what kinds of torture this space is capable of, and though she pleads a lack of knowledge, her captor tests her repeatedly; does she deserve it? A flashback of the previous five days slowly brings us up to speed: who this woman is, her partners, why they're all there, and who her captor is.
Dr Elle Chrysler (Shauna Macdonald) leads a research team, assisted by Saundra (Sharon Maughan), Ed (Nicholas Ferrell), and new to the team is Ruth (Amrita Acharia). Their victim/test subject is known only as Zakarian (Oded Fehr), and according to Dr Chrysler, he is the enemy. In the search for chemically enhanced soldiers, the facility uses chemical and psychological torture to test Zakarian. I've often mused that the truest way to torture someone is to force them to watch a loved one suffer, and Raschid puts this theory to the test brutally. Ruth is young, and in her own words, has no stakes in this war, her family is safe, and the war has never touched her, but as she continues to witness the testing done in this facility, she begins to question the research and the treatment of Zakarian, becoming just as much a victim of this research as he.
WHITE CHAMBER is a harsh, and real, look at what lengths a government will go to squash a civil war, to regain control of a people that dare stand up to the growing injustices foisted upon them at the hands of a broken government. Is White Chamber a futuristic psychological thriller, or is it, like Idiocracy, a warning? WHITE CHAMBER is now available to own on Blu-ray and is rated NR.
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