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Wat Ket Karam (วัดเกตการาม)
Wander among coins dating back hundreds of years, ancient farm tools and pottery, Lanna royal costumes plus captivating black and white photographs of old Chiang Mai
117 m from hotel
96 Charoen Rajd Rd
Reviving oritenal elegance in a historic setting
This luxurious 30 suite boutique Hotel is built around a colonial teak homestead built in 1880s. It is located in a leafy residential enclave a few minutes walk from the historical Wat Gate Temple, Ping River and boutique shopping area. Four stunning suite types range from 70 -135 square meters; two with small private pools.
Tiled verandas, cane shades, rattan furniture and free standing Victorian baths are reminders of days gone by, blend with modern facilities including outdoor gardens showers, flat screen televisions and wi-fi.
A range of bespoke dining options include Palette Restaurant, Jack Bain's Bar, The Parlor, Wine Cellar, The Dining Room, Kitchen and Private Dining, using organic ingredients from the Hotel's garden.
Recreation facilities include the Spa, Gymnasium and Swimming Pool.
Trip Advisor – Top 5 in Chiang Mai
Conde Nast Hot List Hotel 2013
Travel & Leisure Magazine IT list 2012
Best 5 star in Thailand – Mekong Alliance Award 2013
Only steps away from the Ping River's Restaurant & Bars, Museum and craft boutiques.
Only 15 minutes drive from Chiang Mai International Airport
Complimentary Wi-Fi & Nespresso coffee machine, CD and DVD players in every room
Personal in room music system with iPod, iPhone, iPad docking
Butler service
Unique historical site and cultural centre of Thailand
Couples, Honeymooners, LGBT
A guide to great places nearby 137 Pillars House
Wander among coins dating back hundreds of years, ancient farm tools and pottery, Lanna royal costumes plus captivating black and white photographs of old Chiang Mai
117 m from hotel
96 Charoen Rajd Rd
High quality Thai home wares are elegantly displayed in a historic six pillar teak wood house.
137 m from hotel
The neighborhood's most famous restaurant has welcomed luminaries like Hilary Clinton to its Ping Riverside tables for reliably delicious Thai and Western fare
173 m from hotel
Don't miss vanilla sky <3
177 m from hotel
53 Charoen Rajd Rd.
I <3 u Good View :* joop... ;)
196 m from hotel
13 Charoen Rajd Rd.
Mile High band is so damn cool^^
246 m from hotel
9/11 Charoen Rat Rd
Very nice place to chill out, good food and great view
281 m from hotel
1 Charoen Rajd Rd.
Coffee here is the best one in Thailand.
308 m from hotel
Charoenrat Rd
คำดารา come with your Dara ^^
402 m from hotel
Waroros Market is a 3-storey building and its surrounded walkway behind the row of town-shops attached to Vichayanon Rd, Chang Moi Rd, Khuang Mane Rd and Lao Joe Alley. (Cont.)
424 m from hotel
Wichayanon Rd.
Jelly beer not bad :)
472 m from hotel
201 Charoen Rajd Rd.
Any kinds of cheesecakes here are lovely.
0.7 km from hotel
28 Chiangmai-Lamphun Rd.
All sweet are so delicious!
0.9 km from hotel
1 Chang Moi Soi 2
Lots of fun shopping !!
1.0 km from hotel
Chang Klan Rd.
This is the place to be on a sunday evening in Chiang Mai. Treat yourself with some nice souvenirs.
1.7 km from hotel
Ratchadamnoen Rd.

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Principal Investigator(s):
Eugene Zilov, Marianne Moore, Stephanie Hampton
Three generations of a single family of Siberian researchers have been monitoring water quality and microscopic life in Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and largest lake, over the past 60 years. More than 25 million years old, Lake Baikal is almost a mile deep (> 1600 meters) and spans 4 degrees of latitude; the volume could fill all of the Great Lakes in the United States. Approximately every two weeks, Dr. Lyubov Izmest'eva's research team at Irkutsk State University ventures onto this vast lake in a research boat - or across the ice in winter - to collect water samples and analyze them back in their laboratory, just as Dr. Izmest'eva's mother and grandfather did before her. As a result of this family's hard work and dedication, we are now able to use this incredible legacy of data to understand how the world's largest freshwater lake has responded to major environmental disturbances such as pollution and climate change in the past half century. Such an understanding is important not only because Lake Baikal itself is such a special place - harboring higher biological diversity than any other lake, including the world's only freshwater seal - but also because analyzing this detailed data set helps us to predict how other lakes may respond to similar disturbances that threaten freshwater systems worldwide.
In July 2006, Stephanie Hampton (UCSB), Marianne Moore (Wellesley College) and Brian Dennis (University of Idaho) traveled to Siberia to meet with the Russian team on Lake Baikal. We carried out our NCEAS working group activities there for the first time - the Siberian researchers have traveled to Santa Barbara twice before (July 2005 and January 2006) to meet at NCEAS. This time the Americans endured the long trip to Siberia and finally experienced the grandeur of this amazing place. An advantage of us traveling to Lake Baikal was that we were able to meet with many Russian scientists we would not have otherwise met, and speak with them through translators, enriching our understanding of the ecosystem and the scientific culture of Russia.


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Mastodon Drummer Brann Dailor Talks 'The Hunter' + Touring With Opeth and Ghost
Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor was the guest on Full Metal Jackie's radio show this past weekend. Dailor talked all about his thoughts on the band's latest album 'The Hunter,' as well as being on the road with Opeth and Ghost. If you missed Jackie's show, check out her interview with Brann Dailor of Mastodon below:
What has it been like to be out with Opeth and Ghost?
Ghost is incredible and so is Opeth, it's been a lot of fun and everybody's friends so we hang out.
Mikael [Akerfeldt] from Opeth is rumored to be one of the members of Ghost and you're obviously on this tour; are you sworn to secrecy about all their identities?
I haven't met anyone from Ghost yet, so I don't really know who they are. They sort of appear onstage and then after the show they just disappear but the people that put their equipment together and stuff those people are nice.
They just magically show up on the stage?
Wow, I'm going to have to see for myself. 'The Hunter' — the record hit number 10 on Billboard, you earned a Grammy nomination for 'Curl of the Burl' and it was named album of the year by several prestigious music magazines, so the bar is set pretty high. What's next?
I have no idea [laughs], that's the last thing on my mind at the moment. We have so much touring in front of us so at this stage it's more about perfecting the live show and then thinking about what to do next. As far as our live we still have two and a half weeks left of this tour and then we leave immediately for Europe we're there for six weeks and then after that I'm only thinking about getting home hanging out at my house.
After you're don,e you'll take a break, regroup and then figure out what's next.
Yeah, I think it's important to let time pass and let yourself be influenced by what's happening in your life and not try to push anything and that's what we've always done and that's what we will continue to do because I think that the album should be a perfect snapshot of what you've gone through those couple years that have gone by of all the touring and whatever else has happened to affect your life. That's what will ultimately decide for us what the next record will be about and what it's going to sounds like.
'The Hunter' took Mastodon further outside of its comfort zone than before, there was no concept, no philosophy of classical elements, do you miss that or would you rather go even further beyond what people expect from the band?
I don't miss it at all, yeah I don't miss it. The record was fun to make and it was a lot less stressful to be honest.
It was the first time to not have to make everything come together, it was a bunch of great songs.
Yeah, it had to be that way because of the fact that there was some people going through some hard times so we couldn't make out practice space be that stressful environment that it usually is. Whereas if we were to write a riff like the one that's in 'Curl of the Burl' our older selves would have said "No, we have to make it more complex, we have to make it harder for us to play and harder for people to get into." This time we had to be satisfied with a simpler version of ourselves.
Do you find that you are constantly challenging yourselves to be better or do something different?
I think that's an unspoken thing with us, we all sort of come from that place. That's the kind of music that we like, we like Frank Zappa, we like the Melvins, we like Neurosis, Queens of the Stone Age — bands that are different and doing something different and always pushing the envelope so to speak and striving to be different in some sort of way and that's just from kids — all four of us how we were brought up. That's how we approach music, looking at it from a different angle and trying to tweak it to make it odd in some way and fit our personalities as people.
What's your favorite Zappa tune?
Oh I don't know. I have no idea. 'Hot Rats' is an incredible album start to finish is a winner.
I don't know if you got a chance to catch the 'Metal Evolution' mini series but it anchored it's prog episode with Mastodon and you're constantly tagged as a prog metal band but what do you think people who aren't prog fans like about Mastodon?
Probably the fact that our new record isn't really a prog record at all. [Laughs] I don't know, I think we're pretty hooky, there's a lot of accessibility in there as much as put the odd time signatures and the this and that — I feel like we always give some meat and potatoes along with it, along with the spaghetti.
Meat and potatoes with spaghetti.
Food references everybody understands food right? It's either that or sports references. We have some meaty riffs that people can sink their teeth into and then for us nerds there's some technical aspects as well so I think it's all about the balance. One of the things I like about our band is the fact that I think we've found that good balance.
I would have to agree.
Thank you, we try not to alienate people that don't want to do math equations when they're listening to music, they just want to bang their heads.
I just think it's always been a happy medium, I feel like it's always been accessible for both – proggy enough for the prog fans but accessible enough for the casual hard rocker, metal fan or just rock fan in general.
That's right, everything you said is true. [Laughs]
You can hear Full Metal Jackie Sunday nights at 10 PM on 99X!


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I will just go ahead and rant on this little thing that has been on my mind for quite a long while now. I just need to ask all of you fashionable beings out there if imitation is the best form of flattery. Some might agree with the statement, others might not. I, for one, highly disagree.
I have this acquaintance I know whom I met a little while back. After a while, friends of mine started noticing that this person, let's call this person A, started to become more like.. Me. Everything that I did, A did. Point in view, my lifestyle habits (not really when it comes to Fashion – I will just go ahead and declare that I'm a million more times more fashionable than this fashion catastrophe.), the things I do, the style of clothes I wear and stuff.
It annoys the hell out of me when it seems like my identity has been stolen/robbed.. It's very much like Katie Holmes "copying" Victoria Beckham in terms of style and haircuts. Okay. I will just say that I whatever A does, I do it so much better – who the hell wears flip flops to the city? – in terms of everything.
A friend did exclaim recently: " OMG that's you! only looking less hot and in need of major plastic surgery, new clothes, new hair and a new character!". Shocked, I was not. Annoyed, very much.
So, have any of you felt this way before? Have any of you been imitated to the point of annoyance?


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The Wall Street Journal, one of the world's most respected newspapers, has suggested recently that the ongoing economic crisis could be resolved in part by the charitable institution of waqf created by the Muslim civilisation and used effectively by the Ottomans. In its broader sense, a waqf in Islamic history is an endowment consisting in donating a building, a sum of money or plot of land for charitable purposes. The donated assets are held by a charitable trust. The institution of waqf played a great role in nurturing solidarity and charity in Muslim countries and continues to represent one of the most original and active aspects of the social and economic structures of the modern Islamic world.
by Cem Nizamoglu*
|Figure 1: Wall Street Jounal
The Wall Street Journal, one of the world's most respected newspapers, has suggested that the economic crisis that led to big protests in USA could be resolved in part by the charitable institution of waqf (plural awqaf) created by the Muslim civilisation and used effectively by the Ottomans.
The civil protest movement organised under the name of "Occupy Wall Street" that protests against the unequal incomes in New York, the economic crisis, banks and unemployment has now completed its first month. The protests have now extended beyond the US borders and became a global phenomenon. Interesting comments on the "Occupy Wall Street" protest were written by Charles Landow and Courtney Lobel in Wall Street Journal (WJS): How Billionaires Can Build Bridges to the Middle Class (October 17, 2011). We read in the article in that "Co-founder of the major private equity firm Carlyle, is asking the public how to use $1 billion of his $2.7 billion fortune to create jobs." As an answer to Mr. Conway and other billionaires, the WSJ replied "Build a bridge!".
But why "bridges"?
According to the article "One of the most urgent economic problems facing the U.S. is the deplorable state of the country's roads, bridges, railways and other essential networks. In its latest report card in 2009, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave U.S. infrastructure a D. A recent report from the Organization for International Investment concluded that this poor infrastructure "is eroding the country's ability to attract and retain dynamic global companies that create high-productivity, high-wage jobs."
|Figure 2: Ottoman Waqf Civilization (Osmanli Vakif Medeniyeti) by Prof. Ziya Kazici
Therefore WSJ asked: "Why shouldn't these citizens have the opportunity to invest directly in infrastructure projects of their choice, along with incentives to do so?"
WSJ explains: "The 400 wealthiest Americans have a total net worth of $1.53 trillion. The top 50 alone hold more than $700 billion in personal wealth." Thus "Their donations could be combined with public funds, and they would receive tax benefits and naming opportunities."
This donation investments by rich people solution comes from a historical example, according to the WJS: "There is a precedent: Ottoman-era Turkey lacked a budget for the provision of basic services. To fill the void, more than 35,000 private foundations, known as vakif in Turkish, funded public-works projects and municipal services, from water systems and schools to hospitals, bridges and roads. Many modern Turkish foundations have continued to supply traditional infrastructure—the Sabanci Foundation, for example, has built more than 120 schools, hospitals, libraries, orphanages and other facilities. These assets are then transferred to state ministries, which run them."
As a poetic irony to this, Ottomans once said: "If you would like to get to know us after our era, please refer to our vakifs(waqfs); as these are our best works that present us." (Ferit Devellioglu, Ottoman-Turkish Encyclopaedic Dictionary with Old and New Letters, Ankara, 1993)
What are these Waqfs then?
Before going into details, one should ask why this is relevant to Muslim Heritage, an academic portal, which is a non-religious and most importantly "non-political" web site.
The answer is in the topic itself. First of all, Muslim Heritage studies historical achievements by chronicling the contributions to science, technology, medicine and culture made between 700 and 1700 to prove that "the Dark Ages" were not really that dark at all. Thus it would not be so strange to say that the Waqf tradition is relevant to Muslim Heritage topics. For example, we published the following article: Ottoman Cash Waqfs Revisited: The Case of Bursa (1555- 1823) by Professor Murat Cizakca.
In its general meaning, Waqf means "charitable foundation". The term comes from an Arabic root, with the sense of 'to stop', 'to hold back', 'to stand still and to tie'. It means also one person religiously and socially devoting all or some parts of his assets to the public in order to meet some of their needs for the sake of The God.
Figure 3: The word Waqf is used in the Islamic Law in the meaning of holding a property and preserving it so that its fruits, revenues or usufruct are used exclusively for the benefit of an objective of righteousness while prohibiting any use or disposition of it outside its specific objective (Source).
There is no constraint behind this behaviour. Rather, the charity endowment entailed by the Waqf concept aims at managing a religious and conscious responsibility among individuals and in society at large. In its historical implementation in Islamic history, the waqf foundation as a solidarity institution stresses the dimension of getting away from self-centred thoughts and caring about others rather than self preservation and self development.
For a detailed study, see Ahmad Dallal, "The Islamic institution of Waqf: An Historical Overview," in Islam and Social Policy, edited by Stephen P. Heyneman (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004), where the author examines the organization of charity in Islam. Dallal describes the Islamic system of awqaf by introducing the conditions for becoming a legitimate founder of awqaf, the role of an administrator, and the legitimate (and illegitimate) uses for waqf revenues--e.g., municipal public works, education, food for the poor, etc.
|Figure 4: First pages of the Suleymaniye Kulliye (Complex) deed (waqfiyya) written in 1557. Vakiflar Genel Mudurlugu Arsiv & Nesriyat Mudurlugu Arsivi, N° 52 (Source)
Even though the rise of the first charity foundations in the Islamic society date back to the early times of Islam, the Waqfs were a decisive economic and social instrument that marked the Ottoman era(1299 to 1923).
The Ottomans applied the charity endowments in the education domain. It started with the madrasa (schools or universities), such as the madrasa of Kara-Khanid Khanate (Karahans 932-1212) established by the grand Turkic Seljuq Ebû Ishak Ibrahim b. Nasr Tabgaç Bugra (? - 966), Khan of Karahan.
Since the establishment of the early Turkish Islamic schools, Turkish sultans established foundations as requirements of their new beliefs and old traditions. The idea of the charitable foundation reached the Ottomans through a series of the Anatolian Seljuqs (Selçuklular) and other Turkic Islamic governments. During this process that also included the Ottomans, the Muslim Turks enclosed the geographical region from Turkestan to Western Europe in a circle of solidarity by establishing foundations to meet the needs of people.
People have always desired to live happily and peacefully. Therefore the idea and the foundation of charities are a method of translating these ideas into practice…
In that case "is Waqfs a solution?" Some might say "it is absurd", some might say "why not" like WSJ newspaper. Turks took pride in this and it was the one of the most popular headlines of that week in Turkey. There were also opinions against it such as the headline of one of the major Turkish Newspapers Milli Gazete, saying "Trying to patch up the Capitalism with Ottoman system" by researcher Abdülkadir Özkan.
The Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC), the builder of Muslim Heritage and 1001 Inventions believes that studying and remembering the past can help to build a better future but leaves its applications or the arguments, in this case, to the economists and politicians. Still it is nice to see this kind of news, related to the topics of interest to FSTC, once in a while.
Figure 5: Turkish Prime Ministry declared that 2011-2012 as "Waqf Civilization Education Year" (Source)
Further Reading
- [Andhra Pradesh Wakf Board], What is Wakf, Andhra Pradesh Wakf Board website
- Belemqeddem, Ruqayya, Awqaf Meknes fi 'ahd Moulay Ismail (Waqf of Meknes in the era of Moulay Ismail). Rabat: Publication of the Moroccan Ministry of Waqf and Islamic Affairs, 1413H/1993.
- Benabdellah, Mohammed bin Abdelaziz, Al-Waqf fi al-Fikr al-Islami (Waqf Endowment in the Islamic Thought). Publication of the Moroccan Ministry of Waqf and Islamic Affairs, 1416H/1996.
- Bouregba, Said, Dawr al-Waqf fi al-Hayat Al-thaqafiya fi 'ahd al-dawla al-'alawiya (The Role of Waqf in Moroccan Cultural Life in the Era of the Alawi Dynasty). Rabat: Publication of the Moroccan Ministry of Waqf and Islamic Affairs, 1417H/1996.
- Cizakca, Murat, Ottoman Cash Waqfs Revisited: The Case of Bursa (1555- 1823). Published 27 June 2004.
- Dallal, Ahmad, "The Islamic institution of Waqf: An Historical Overview," in Islam and Social Policy, edited byStephen P. Heyneman. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.
- Faroqhi, Suraiya, Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
- Gaudiosi, Monica M., "The Influence of the Islamic Law of Waqf on the Development of the Trust in England: The Case of Merton College", University of Pennsylvania Law Review (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol. 136, No. 4, April 1988: pp. 1231–1261.
- Gatteschi, D., Real property, Mortgage and Wakf According to Ottoman Law. London: Wyman & Sons, 1884.
- Gerber, Haim, "The Waqf Institution in Early Ottoman Edirne", Asian and African Studies, vol . 17, 1983, pp. 29-45.
- Gerber, Haim, Economy and Society in an Ottoman City: Bursa, 1600-1700. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1988.
- Haiti, Abdessattar, Al-Waqf wa-Dawruhu fi al-tanmiya (Waqf Endowment and its Role in Development), Doha: Publication of The Qatar Ministry of Waqf, 1998.
- McChesney, R. D., Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine (1480-1889). Princeton University Press, 1991.
- [Kuwaiti Ministry of Waqf], Towards a Developmental Role of Waqf Endowment, Research papers of a Seminar organized and published by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Waqf (1-3 May 1993).
- Micheau, Francoise, "The Scientific Institutions in the Medieval Near East", in Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science. Edited by Roshdi Rashed with the collaboration of Régis Morelon. London/New York: Routledge, vol. 3, pp. 985–1007; pp. 999–1001.
- Naciri, Mekki, Al-Ahbas al-Islamiya fi al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiya (Islamic Bequest in the Kingdom of Morocco). Rabat: Publication of the Moroccan Ministry of Waqf and Islamic Affairs, 1412H/1992.
- Peri, Oded, "Waqf and Ottoman Welfare Policy", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 35, 1992.
- Rashid, Khalid, Wakf Administration in India: A Socio-Legal Study. Vikas Publications, 1978.
Shefer, Miri, "Charity and Hospitality. In M. Bonner et al., Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts. New York: State University of New York, 2003.
- Singer, Amy, Constructing Ottoman Beneficence, An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem. New York: State University of New York, 2002.
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Paper tape, part of a collection of paper tape programs and sub-routines used for input to CSIRAC. This is a program tape.
The collection includes the original University of Melbourne Computation Laboratory Paper Tape Library of 12 hole tapes of subroutines and programs, and program and data tapes from staff and outside users.
Most of the paper tapes were 12-track punched paper tapes. 5 hole paper tapes were used primarily for data input and output rather than program input. However, 5 hole program tapes could be produced by using Interprogram, an English language programming system rather than using machine language.
Each tape has a 'T' number. The Computation Laboratory Paper Tape Library consisted of tapes with a tape number less than 700. There were not 700 tapes but the number 700 was arbitrarily chosen to separate the Computation Laboratory Library tapes from user tapes.
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Interprogram Preparatory Program 16 Nov 1959
Further information may be found in the headers of either the .CVT or .TSP files.
The Interprogram tapes, HT 13509.191 and HT 13509.314 to HT 13509.322 inclusive, were created by Dr. G. W. Hill. These were a very important development. Interprogram was a programming system using the English language. The University of Melbourne and many others were users. Most of these tapes are in poor condition, torn, patched and most of them will not run as
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New Mexico Tech Expanding IRIS-PASSCAL Instrument Center, Oct. 2, 2008
"Tech is the international standard for portable seismic research instruments."
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SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 2, 2008 – Dr. Daniel H. López, president of New Mexico Tech in Socorro, authorized the expansion of the on-campus building that houses the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center and the EarthScope Array Operations Facility. The 1,300 square-foot addition, scheduled for completion in spring 2009, will primarily provide laboratory and office space for PASSCAL's recently expanded Polar Program activities supported primarily by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs.
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Instrument Center Director Bruce Beaudoin said PASSCAL has supported polar research since 1989.
"Only recently we secured funding from the Office of Polar Programs to develop the equipment and strategies to support seismology in these extreme environments," Beaudoin said.
Tim Parker, Polar Program Manager for IRIS PASSCAL, spearheaded the efforts.
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The PASSCAL Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech supports state-of-the-art, low-power, portable seismic instrumentation for investigator-driven experiments worldwide. With more than 3,500 instruments, the Center is the largest "lending library" of seismometers in the nation. The university in Socorro is home to the national seismology instrument center, with more than $20 million of top-of-the-line "broadband" seismic sensors and another $50 million of other seismic equipment, all funded by the National Science Foundation.
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As before, the subject is largely sex -- the series' very title is a porn trope -- a subject much, even too much, on the minds of people who make television. But where sex as depicted or exploited on most TV shows tends to feel forced, added on, farcical, juvenile, gratuitous or actually, if non-explicitly, pornographic, "Schumer" takes it as a kind of sociopolitical riddle that lies at the heart of gender roles, power relations, self-esteem and much seemingly unrelated human activity. Like Louis C.K., she's interested in people and how they are -- the interview segments, on the street, or sitting down with a chosen subject, are funny but also genuinely curious -- and like "Louis," this is a show that goes intelligently to extremes; it is outrageous, in a mature way. It is true that the younger generations speak of sexual parts and practices with a heedlessness older generations might find alarming, though should not find surprising given that they have grown up on a diet of cable television, hip-hop and Internet pornography: porn, sister, it's just a click away, click away, click away. But that sort of openness doesn't make sex any less confusing -- possibly the more so, since there's so much of it so flagrantly about.
The new season begins with an all-male focus group analyzing the last season, in which every comment goes back to the star's personal appearance ("She looked better in the stand-up for sure, but then there were just way, way hotter chicks in the skits") and whether she'd be worth sleeping with. ("If nobody knew" is the consensus; the kicker is that she's pleased.) Occasionally the points are obvious -- Schumer as a Maria Sharapova type ("I think the most incredible part of Schumeranka's game is how she manages to be so thin and still have such large breasts") -- but even the less subtle sketches are well-executed, and more often Schumer and her writers (women and men under head writer Jessi Klein) take the material down side roads, to where the strangest and most surreal ends contain an uncomfortable truth.
In a variation on a sketch from last season (which is also a kind of version of the pre-Python "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch), a group of women negatively one-up one another: "I was cyber-bullying my niece on Instagram the other day," says Schumer, "and I literally ate 15 mini-muffins -- I'm so bad," referring only to the food.
"Yesterday after I knelt on my gerbil to hear what sound it would make, I ate a whole ball of mozzarella like it was a peach," says another woman. "I'm so bad."
Schumer: "Two weeks ago when I was having -- well there's no term for how late term of an abortion this was -- anyhoo, I literally ate an entire bucket of wings and chased it with a 16-ounce lobster. I'm like, why am I still eating for two -- I'm so bad.... Do you think I'm a monster?"
"You're not bad, you're stick thin."
A satire of Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom" set in a fast food restaurant, with Josh Charles (who was on Sorkin's "Sports Night") as the manager, catches its stylistic tics -- the walk-and-talk, the overripe dialogue ("You tell corporate I'm not putting apple slices on my menu -- what's next, no more chicken beaks in the everything?"). But it also goes to the power point: "I worked my way up to being the GM of a Sbarro in Tel Aviv," says Schumer, as Charles' assistant, "and then one day I'm stuffing couscous into a calzone and I realized a woman's life is worth nothing unless she's making a great man greater."
"Medora" (PBS, Monday). Filmmakers Davy Rothbart (a "This American Life" contributor, significantly, author, and the editor-publisher of Found, a journal of discarded ephemera) and Andrew Cohn (also connected to Found) spent a year and a half tracking a small town high school basketball team -- declared the worst in Indiana -- and have brought back something quite beautiful and acute. Presented as part of the PBS series "Independent Lens," it has some of the beats of a sports movie -- the team does improve -- but it's also a story of young men struggling in a struggling place. (Some are poor, and some are really poor.) The fortunes of the Hornets are made, with little effort necessary, also to stand for the place where they live; both are in danger of disappearing, of being melted, for practical reasons, into some larger administrative body. (There is a prayer at one point, that "in 100 years, the Hornets will be playing ball," which is a prayer for Medora as well.)
The film is inspirational -- "Believe in one another," says the coach, "talk to another, communicate" -- without being unrealistic; these characters navigate their future one day at a time. "Hopes and dreams, they can let you down," says a player cut from the team. One deals with an absent father, another with an alcoholic mother, a third with parents who love but expect little from him. Yet it's also a story of mentors, and teammates, and adults who parent kids when their own parents aren't up to it. (The team's coach and assistant coaches all work full-time elsewhere, as a policeman, a stone cutter and a parson.) "I know that some people say that the Medora basketball team sucks," says one kid. "I don't really care. It's our basketball team. Basketball is really all we have." A climactic game is tremendously exciting, and like the rest of the film, beautifully photographed, with an eye for humble domestic details, the local landscape, the weather, the air.
"Hannibal Buress: Live from Chicago" (Comedy Central, Saturday). The recurring character Buress plays on "Broad City," Ilana Glazer's boyfriend of convenience, a dentist laid back sometimes nearly to invisibility, is not the lively person onstage in this fleet stand-up special, a follow-up to 2012's "Animal Furnace." Formerly on staff at "Saturday Night Live" (where he reportedly had only one sketch performed) and "30 Rock," and currently the sidekick on the Adult Swim's mock-talk "The Eric André Show," Buress works fast and occasionally furious here without losing his essential friendliness. Much of the hour is occupied with apparently true stories (partying in New Orleans, meeting Scarlett Johansson, Third World vacations, white people who call him brother, running alongside a cab that refused to pick him up: "I don't know what I wanted from that -- like he was going to stop the cab and go, 'Wow, you're fast -- get in, get in! Damn, you're so fast I'm not even racist anymore'"), some quick jokes and occasionally pulling back to observe the comedy process. Like any good comic, he finds the world, himself included, astonishing and absurd. Bonus points for use of the word "finagle."
"Justified" (FX, Tuesdays). The Elmore Leonard-based series this week reaches the penultimate episode of what was recently announced to be its penultimate season. There are absurdities in these Kentucky hills, where law and lawlessness do banter and feint. There are so many changes of allegiance that it's hard sometimes to keep track of what's going on, which characters for the moment are making common cause and who's out to cheat or kill whom, or even the particular thing they're all chasing after. (Currently, it's a load of Mexican heroin, though with Nick Searcy's Chief Deputy Marshal Art Mullen in critical condition, and Joelle Carter's Ava Crowder trying to survive in prison, the drama is scattered all around. And as usual, family loyalties and fallings-out are at the heart of the action.)
The confusion doesn't matter much, because Graham Yost, expertly channeling Leonard's mix of action and comedy, has created a series as tense to watch as it is comfortable to inhabit. Smart casting helps: This season we've had Eric Roberts, Alicia Witt, Mary Steenburgen and Shashawnee Hall, among other guests. As Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens, the hero at the center of piece, Timothy Olyphant is ridiculously attractive; as the self-possessed deadliest shot in town, he is nerveless and witty -- it's as if you took John Wayne's Ringo Kid, William Powell's Nick Charles and James Garner's Jim Rockford and blended them together and poured. Like many great lawmen of fiction, Raylan understands the law on his own, not on received terms; his moral sense is a practical one: not every transgression needs to be marked paid. As much can be said of his criminal mirror image, Walton Goggins' Boyd Crowder, who manages to be heroic in his own way. (Boyd and Ava are the ones living the series' great love story at the moment.) Their lives, naturally, are a mess.
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Mentoring youngsters helps entire community
Sabrina is quite fond of her Big Sister, Adria, saying, "Adria was not only that woman who helped me with my young teenage confusions but someone that I think of as one of my heroes. She never judged me for my choices or what I had to say about my life, and that, I believe, is why our relationship grew into what is now a lifelong friendship. I look at Adria as a part of my family and love her as if she were like a mother to me. We spend holidays and special moments of our lives together. If it weren't for this program I honestly don't know where my life would have taken me."
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U.S. Embassy Kabul commemorated Memorial Day with a ceremony held in the flag-lined courtyard in front of the main chancery. The Kabul Marine Security Guard detachment lowered the flag to the "retreat" bugle call and then re-raised it, as tradition dictates, to the National Anthem.
Charge d'Affaires David Pearce gave the keynote address, recognizing the sacrifices of both men and women in uniform as well as those of us who choose to willingly serve beside them in areas of active combat. He called attention to the plaques at the base of the embassy that commemorate fallen Chief of Mission personnel, including Ambassador Adolphe "Spike" Dubs, who was abducted by terrorists and killed in 1979; Tom Stefani, who was killed in a roadside bombing in Ghazni Province in 2007; three DEA agents killed in a helicopter crash in Badghis Province in 2009; and seven mission employees killed in a suicide bombing in Khost province in 2009. The address was followed by a musical interlude led by the embassy's volunteer choir, the Star Spangled Singers.
The Memorial Day ceremony was a solemn and moving occasion.
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Eric in New Mexico writes:
I'm not much of one to stand on ceremony to honor the fallen, as I think the best way to honor them is for the living to finish the job they gave their lives to see finished succesfully.
Here's a point blank assement of the way the war on terror has been conducted;
I don't view terrorism as a tactic, I view it as a mindset that practices terrorism as the perfered methodology of waging a world wide war on the infrastructire of civilization and civil society.
The last time we fought a world war, America along with a lesser number of allies than today, defeated both Hitler's armies and the Japanese empire's forces in half the time we've spent trying to defeat al-quaida and the Taliban.
I find this simply fact very telling in that we have yet to prosecute this war to our fullest abilities in order to force the laying down of arms and the enemiy walking the road to peace, or causing him to rest in peace, six feet underground.
And this my dear friends at the State dept, should be the only options we give them in any offer of unconditional surrender...non negotiable, and persued with all aspects of national power to the hilt.
Unconditional surrender will happen when they no longer have weapons and supplied flowing to them via state sponsors of terror, and this job won't be called anything like finished, until there are no state sponsors of terror left in power on this planet to persue such a vile mindset as embodied in people like bin laden, bashar al Assad, the ayatollah of Iran, Aminidijad, Al sheebab and others of like mind and methodology.
We seem to believe that this victory can come at the remote push of a button and a missile from drones when in fact the source of these problems has yet to be adequately addressed.
Unless we do, the next ten years are going to make the last ten years look like a cakewalk in the park!
And if you doubt me just wait for it, but you'll do so at America's and civilization's vast expense.
All you diplomats need to be reminded every once in awhile what the stakes are because not everything can be resolved through diplomacy the way you wish and hope it can be.
Ashim C. in India writes:
@ Eric -- I agree with you when you say terrorism is a mindset and that a good tribute to martyrs is to bring to war against terrorism to it's ;ogical conclusion.
His reference to victory of US allied forces against Germany, Italy and Japan is interesting. Allied forces with US and Russia, my hunch is was nemerically stronger, and with US industrial capabilities behind them was probably technically superior also. But more importantly two things... US is technically still capable of destroying most war machineries anywhere but it is to her credit that US does not bring to use it's military might for various reasons which include strong anti war public opinion in USA and elsewhere... limited and proportionate use of force is a good diplomatic exercise too. See US has fought more wars post second world war but there still are no countries not seeking good relation with USA...i think US should make more efforts to enlist active support of important regional players around the theater of wars ... in as much as most regional players are affected by terrorism, regional players stay away because certain nuances of their foreign policy compulsions... imagine for instance if afghanistan war were declared as an effort to remove all state sponsored terrorism in central and south asia... many strong regional powers would like to join more so as member of UN peace-making forces...for that will solve many regional problems too...internal conditions of south asian countries are ripe for many policy changes...but offer has to be sugar coated..
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Ashim,
"...but there still are no countries not seeking good relation with USA."
I've read most of your posts on this forum and I find that they are well thought out and fair minded as well as offering perspective, and I agree with you that working with "regional players" as you put it is important.
However, in regards to the quote above, there are exceptions to that rule...and you'll generally find that state sponsors of terror not only have no great wish to have good relations with the US, they habitually seek to cause problems for ourselves and other peace loving nations.
A perfect example is the fact that one ayatollah or another in Iran has been leading chants of "death to America" every Friday at prayers for the last 32 years.
Never mind the fact that we really have no wish to go to war with Iran, it would seem they wish to start a war with us, by arming, aiding and abbetting those terrorists that we are at war with..al quaida and others associated.
One asks why America has so many friends and allies?...and how is it that America makes friends and partners of former enemies like Gemany and Japan?
Two reasons basicly;
One, we feed a heck of a lot of people around the world and assist when natural disaster strikes.
two; While hell has no fury like that of the US when attacked and we go kick butt, we don't war against a people, we war against governments and non-state actors who threaten the peace of nations.
Asa well as being magnanamous in victory, which was the mindset that created the Marshall plan.
The same mindset that set to work rebuilding Afghanistan to help the Afghan people get back on their feet after 30 years of Soviet occupation, war, and civil war.
We have what terrorists do not, which is empathy for the average human being caught up in conflict.
The other day the Russian foreign minister Lavrov described the Syrian crisis and the massacre of children as "taking two to tango" and went on to describe this as being multiple dancers in "a disco".
Well, When terrorists killed a bunch of Russian kids in Beslan, no one described that as a tango, or a disco dance here in America.
And such remarks from the Russian foreign minister are a pretty good indication why Russia does not enjoy the same kind of good relations with nations around the world as America does, simply because of the lack of empathy involved for the victims and their families in such remarks.
All the while they sell arms to Assad the terrorist and his thugs.
When has Russia taken it upon itself to feed the starving people of the world?
It's Foreign policy is self serving, hypocritical in the extreme, and with friends like Assad, they don't need enemies. They have no friends as a result of their own stupidity on the world stage, other than sponsors of terror.
Yety we work with them to try and keep the world from blowing itself up in a nuclear mayhem, and we call that a "reset" partnership.
Personally if the Russian Federation has aspirations of hegemony by the veto in the UNSC, I think they might as well forget about earning anyone's respect in that process, for lack of doing the right thing and removing Assad themselves, since he's their little "Frankenstein" monster they've helped to create and breast feed on the Russian diplomatic tit to this day.
Lavrov's living in the land of "nyet" and has his head filled with rocks apparently.
And you wonder why folks around the world look to the US to support their democratic aspirations?
We're almost the only game in town, because eventually we will get around to removing the roadblocks to humanity's progress when no one else has the political will nor the guts to remove dictators and sponsors of terror from power. And it's always best to do that with friends who are willing to stand with us if at all possible.
Ashim C. in India writes:
@ Eric,
I agree with most of your positions. I am sure you know this if you have been following my comments.
I found the space you gave to Russia little out of proportions. I don't follow Russia much... i follow china and pakistan...
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Well Ashim, my comments on Russia were not directed towards you so much as they were to the Russian government who I'm guessing reads this blog too, and if they took my assesment to heart might just realize a great truth about how not to get stuck on stupid, in international fora....(chuckle).
As for Pakistan and China, they seem bound and determined to implode by their own unique brand of political stupidity in their own ways. One doesn't realize their own soveregnity has been completely compromised by terrorism, not by drone strikes. And the other couldn't do right by its people if they all came en mass and bit that government on its backside, as it's looking more like an evil corperate empire than a "people's republic".
I'm not sauggesting America's perfect...my point is that all nations at this point in time are dysfunctional and folks need to get over it.
Simple...the world would be a much better place to raise kids in if the political will to get a grip were alive and well in the minds of governments, but they seem all too stuck on themselves and thus stuck on stupid.
I guess it's up to those of us brave enough to call it like we see it to move them off that stuck place they've impaled the future of humanity upon.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
I should probably pose an alternative to the dysfuntional state of nations, since there should be no complaint without solution.
Let's start with the premis that there are some 7 billion solutions and counting on this planet, and about one one-ten thousandths of 1% of humanity causing most of the rest of humanity's problems and conflicts across the globe.
Afghanistan being the modern crucible for both the problems and the solutions, as what started there may end there, if people are willing and determined to live life rather than be in conflict begetting death.
What was it Mohammed said to a young man wanting to join jihad with his father?
Every time the boy asked, he told him to honor his mother until the boy wore Mohammed (pbh) out and he grined (I would imagine he probably had a sense of humor) and said, "Honor your father, now go home and take care of your mother."
(as best I remember the quote)
Now there's a solution!
One folks may possibly believe in.


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ABC News claims that Republican party leaders have given up on Joe Miller in Alaska and are now banking on Lisa Murkowski as the best bet for Republicans to keep the Alaska Senate seat. As evidence, it cites a "high level" Republican source and the fact that the National Republican Senatorial Committee in its latest ad spent 25 seconds attacking Democrat Scott McAdams and less than five seconds mentioning Joe Miller.
The NRSC denies ABC's story, and I believe the denial. First, there's no reason why anyone should give up on Miller's campaign. Although he's behind in the polls, I don't think it's possible to conclude from these polls that he has no chance, or even that he is less than even money to win. The polls do not, and cannot, adequately take into account the obstacle that Murkowski's non-presence on the ballot poses to her campaign.
Second, as Ed Morrissey points out, there is good reason for the NRSC to focus its fire on McAdams – he represents the only way the Republicans can lose the seat. The Republicans can hold the seat with either Murkowski or Miller.
It's also important that Miller finish ahead of McAdams. If McAdams were to finish second behind "write-in candidate," the write-in votes would then have to be counted and some of Murkowski's votes would probably be disqualified for technical reasons. Thus McAdams could squeak out a victory. But if Miller is ahead of McAdams, only Murkowski or Miller can win.
Under these circumstances, it makes sense for the NRSC to try to drive down McAdams' vote and, in particular, to discourage any voters who have become disaffected with Miller from voting for McAdams. Quite simply, that is the optimal strategy for keeping the seat in Republican hands.
It's possible that there are influential Republicans in Washington who are rooting for Murkowski, either because they like her or because they think Miller may be difficult to work with. But there's no reason to believe that the focus on attacking McAdams stems either from any belief that Miller can't win or any preference that he not do so.
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LOS ANGELES -- Andy Pettitte stood at his Dodger Stadium locker, guided a hand over the salt-and-pepper flecks near the back of his scalp, and talked about hoping to be able to "will" the Yankees into the playoffs -- on muscle memory alone, perhaps.
That synced quite well with the statement from Joe Girardi's office chair, as the manager opined that he can't get all that frustrated with the Yankees' lack of offensive production since their roster just isn't built to "score a ton of runs."View Full Game Coverage
LOS ANGELES -- Andy Pettitte stood at his Dodger Stadium locker, guided a hand over the salt-and-pepper flecks near the back of his scalp, and talked about hoping to be able to "will" the Yankees into the playoffs -- on muscle memory alone, perhaps.
That synced quite well with the statement from Joe Girardi's office chair, as the manager opined that he can't get all that frustrated with the Yankees' lack of offensive production since their roster just isn't built to "score a ton of runs."View Full Game Coverage
Neither could be characterized as a particularly encouraging comment. The Yankees scored two runs on Tuesday night, and that wasn't enough, as Mark Ellis connected for a game-winning single in the ninth inning to lift the Dodgers to a 3-2 victory at Chavez Ravine.
"There's no doubt it's getting late. We need to win," Pettitte said. "All you can do now is look to tomorrow. We lost again tonight, and all you can do is be positive and try to build on things."
That might fall upon the front office as Wednesday's 4 p.m. ET Trade Deadline approaches. General manager Brian Cashman has been busy seeking upgrades, but there is a possibility the Yankees will simply have to look toward their active roster and their disabled list, hoping the club's current assets will be enough down the stretch.
"We've talked about it all year long, that we're going to have to win close games," Girardi said. "It's how we're going to have to win games. For us, the first couple months we were winning all these games, and now we've lost some, and they're difficult losses. But the effort is still there."
The game-winning hit came as Ellis caught up with a Shawn Kelley slider and flared it into left field, sending Andre Ethier racing home with the deciding run after he'd singled and stole second base.
"It cost us the game, really," Kelley said. "I've got to find a way to get that last out. There were two outs. But Ellis got the bat on it, and we lost the game."
The rally spoiled a strong effort by Pettitte, who seemed to be back on track with in one of his best outings of the season, albeit one matched through seven innings by Dodgers counterpart Zack Greinke.
"I was happy with the way [Pettitte] threw the ball," Girardi said. "To give me seven innings, and only give up two runs against a lineup that's scoring a lot of runs, that's pretty good pitching. It's just unfortunate we weren't able to score a few more off of Greinke."
That didn't seem likely early, as an electric, star-studded L.A. night started in familiar fashion for Pettitte, who allowed a first-inning run for the career-high sixth straight start.
Yasiel Puig pelted the center-field fence with a hard first-inning double, narrowly missing a home run. He advanced to third base on a flyout to right field, challenging Ichiro Suzuki's arm, and scored as Hanley Ramirez stroked an RBI single up the middle.
Juan Uribe connected for a solo home run off Pettitte in the second inning, delivering a long drive inside the left-field foul pole. But that was all Pettitte would permit, scattering eight hits while striking out three and walking none.
"I felt pretty good after the first inning," Pettitte said. "The first inning, my ball was cutting again, the two-seamers I was trying to throw. It would be nice to get through a first inning without giving up a run."
Pettitte's effort was helped in the third inning when Ichiro threw out Ramirez trying to score from second base on A.J. Ellis' single to right. Alfonso Soriano also made a nice catch in left field to take a hit away from Uribe in the seventh.
But New York's limited lineup, ranked 23rd in the Majors in runs scored and 28th in OPS, was able to produce just two runs over seven innings against Greinke.
"We really didn't threaten too much through the course of the game. He threw well," Yankees captain Derek Jeter said. "He's been doing that to a lot of different teams. I think it would be kind of unfair to him to say we just didn't have any weapons. I thought we've got some guys who are capable of swinging the bats, but he was better than us."
After Pettitte allowed his first-inning run, Lyle Overbay connected for a solo homer in the second, his 12th of the year and the Yankees' first on the road since July 2.
The Yankees tied the game again in the fourth as Soriano doubled to left, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Overbay's groundout to shortstop.
Greinke then settled in, allowing the two runs on five hits, and the Yankees were handcuffed by relievers Ronald Belisario and Kenley Jansen in the eighth and ninth innings.
The "will" Pettitte speaks of may very well be there, but it wasn't enough -- yet again. If there is to be October action in the Bronx, that'll have to change as soon as possible.
"It's too early to be talking about that," Jeter said. "We've got to go one day at a time. I don't think about playoffs. We lost a tough one today; we've got to win tomorrow. That's the bottom line. It's way too early to be talking about playoffs."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.