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Nate Berg is a freelance reporter and a former staff writer for CityLab. He lives in Los Angeles.
Cities, with their hard surfaces and black streets, are really good at soaking up solar energy. These sorts of surfaces retain heat, making them markedly warmer than less paved areas, in a process known as the urban heat island effect – a name that calls to mind a hellish slow-roast in an oven of urbanity. It's not exactly deadly, but higher temperatures in cities have been blamed for greater energy use and, by extension, an increase in CO2 emissions and the proliferation of climate change – all of which makes it hard to look at the urban heat island effect as anything but a big problem.
But there may be at least one surprising side-benefit to this urban insulation: higher temperatures in cities have been found to greatly increase the growth of some trees. Red oak seedlings planted in New York City have been found to grow nearly eight times faster than the same trees planted in more suburban and rural areas, according to new research published in the journal Tree Physiology.
In the spring seasons of 2007 and 2008, researchers planted sets of red oak seedlings in four different locations: within New York City's Central Park, in a plot in the suburban Hudson valley, in a rural forest near the town of Palisades, New York, and in a remote site in the Catskill foothills about 100 miles north of the city. The altitudes of the sites ranged from about 28 meters above sea level in Central park up to 233 meters above sea level in the foothills, but that range had little impact on differences in tree growth. "The difference in altitude was really quite slight," says Stephanie Searle, lead author of the study. "The only real effect would be a further increase in temperature."
Searle and her team watered and fertilized each set of seedlings every week under the same conditions. By August the city seedlings had developed about eight times the biomass as the other two sets of trees.
Temperature seemed to be the determining factor. On the hottest days, temperatures near the city trees were an average of 4 degrees warmer than their country cousins. On the coldest days, city temperatures were an average of 8 degrees warmer. Despite other conditions that might have influenced this faster growth, the researchers have determined that the hyper-growth speeds are largely attributable to the higher temperatures in the city. They confirmed this hypothesis with seedlings grown in a lab under similar temperatures and conditions.
Trees can provide a number of benefits to urban areas. Their positive impact on property values has been documented extensively. Urban trees have also been found to provide a significant economic benefit to cities due to their role in stormwater treatment, energy use reduction, air quality improvement and carbon sequestration.
Trees have also been found to help counter the urban heat island effect that is apparently helping them grow much faster – a negative feedback loop that suggests planting more trees in the city makes a lot of environmental sense. The warmer temperatures caused by the urban heat island effect are certainly causing problems in cities, but they're also creating what have turns out to be ideal conditions for tree planting.
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Now more than ever, public transportation is not just about ridership. Buses, trains, and subways make urban civilization possible.
The coronavirus crisis stands to dramatically reshape cities around the world. But the biggest revolutions in urban space may have begun before the pandemic.
With cities in lockdown and workplaces closed, the big drop in traffic and transit riders allows road repair and construction projects to rush forward.
What do we know so far about the types of places that are more susceptible to the spread of Covid-19? In the U.S., density is just the beginning of the story.
For city residents, equitable access to local green space is more than a coronavirus-era amenity. It's critical for physical, emotional, and mental health.


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Reports: Suns agree to trade Sebastian Telfair to Raptors for Hamed Haddadi
Sebastian Telfair's time in Phoenix is reportedly up. (Barry Gossage/Getty Images)
By Ben Golliver
The Suns have agreed to trade guard Sebastian Telfair to the Raptors in for center Hamed Haddadi and a protected second-round pick, according to ESPN.com and USA Today Sports.
Telfair, 27, signed a one-year deal with the Suns last summer. He's averaged six points and 2.5 assists off the bench for a rebuilding Phoenix team.
This trade opens up minutes for 2012 first-round pick Kendall Marshall behind starter Goran Dragic. Telfair will back up starter Kyle Lowry in Toronto, adding depth at the position after the Raptors parted with Jose Calderon in their trade for Rudy Gay last month. The Raptors, currently No. 10 in the East, are hoping to make a push for the No. 8 seed after reshaping their roster. They are five games behind eighth-place Milwaukee.
Haddadi, 27, was acquired by the Raptors from the Grizzlies in the Gay trade. The Iranian center made just 13 appearances for the Grizzlies, averaging 1.2 points and 1.8 rebounds, and did not suit up for the Raptors. He is under contract through the 2013-14 season after signing a two-year, $2.7 million deal last summer.
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MANY gay people would consider Kath and Kim's Jane Turner ''super awesome'': in an early episode of the TV comedy, her character Kath tried to encourage her daughter Kim's suspected lesbianism and even danced with drag queens at a gay club.
Then, in 2010, Turner turned up on stage in London's West End, playing several characters, including the mother of real-life late playwright Timothy Conigrave in the theatrical adaptation of his autobiography Holding the Man.
She drew on life experience: Turner was a high school friend of Conigrave and his lover, John Calleo, who both died of AIDS-related complications.
Now, Turner is standing up, or perhaps dancing Kath Day-Knight-style, for same-sex marriage. She will be reunited with her co-stars Guy Edmonds and Matt Zeremes, who played Conigrave and Calleo in Holding the Man, in a new feature film musical to begin shooting in the new year called Super Awesome!
Edmonds and Zeremes have written and will star in the film as two straight composers who want to write a Broadway/West End-style musical about same-sex marriage - but who are clueless on the topic.
The comedy musical has a quietly subversive aim: to make the Australian Parliament change its mind and allow same-sex marriage, using what Kath would call ''umour''.
''I haven't seen the final script but they're finessing the final draft,'' says Turner, who's to play an ''oracle'' called Deb, the owner of a comic book store.
''I think they're gorgeous boys and really talented, so when they said, 'Can you come and help do a pitch for us?' I said 'sure'. They gave me an outline of the story and it sounded really funny, just up my alley, camp and musical, and I trust them to make something good and really funny.''
Turner is ''totally pro-'' same-sex marriage: ''I don't see why homosexuals and lesbians should be treated any different to others and not have the exact same rights.
''It's all about love and sharing and commitment to each other so I can't really see what the big drama is. There are plenty of problems in the world we should be focusing on rather than something negative like anti-gay marriage.''
Edmonds and Zeremes, both of whom identify as heterosexual, are likewise committed to reforming legislation to allow same-sex marriage in Australia. The pair - neither of whom will sing in the movie - will soon announce the full cast.
The pair have raised most of the film's funding but will crowd fund an additional $50,000 through indiegogo.com/superawesome to finance filming some scenes in Britain.
''We started writing Super Awesome! just under a year ago in Los Angeles; Matt and I were both in LA for a pilot season as actors, and we'd been talking about collaborating on something for quite a while,'' says Edmonds.
Zeremes says they had ''such a ball'' working with Turner on Holding the Man in London, despite it being a sad play, which had reinforced their feelings on behalf of gay friends that same-sex relationships should be recognised.
''We are doing a comedy but we're going to explore deeper issues within the comedy,'' says Edmonds. ''On a personal level, the whole Holding the Man experience, the five or six years of it [beginning in Sydney] was very profound and one in which we got to know a lot of gay people and hear stories from our audience members.''
Edmonds and Zeremes say Super Awesome! will have a ''light touch'', and will not be aiming to preach.


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CIA: We didn't tell anybody not to respond to the request for help during the Benghazi attack
**Written by Doug Powers
During the VP debate, Joe Biden joined other Dems and rolled over on the intelligence community by citing bad intel for the initial explanation that a YouTube video was responsible for the Benghazi attack.
Two can play that game:
Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate."
File that brushback pitch under "how to keep yourself from ending up under the blame bus in 25 words or less."
With that return poke in Joe Biden's eye out of the way, who did give the "stand down" order and denied the request for help? I'll bet the CIA knows, and everybody else realizes that, which is why we likely won't see Biden or anybody else in the administration publicly scapegoating the intelligence community over Benghazi again.
Update: By the way, Fox News stands by their story about help being denied. On the surface the CIA's statement looks more like a rebuke of various politicians and administration officials (or a preemptive move against upcoming allegations) than a denial of the Fox News report. The Fox story never reported exactly which agency or person ordered the stand down, while CIA's statement comes across as if they're defending their agency against a direct accusation of the CIA making the "stand down" call. The CIA didn't claim nobody in the US government denied help to those on the ground in Benghazi — they said that if it happened nobody in the CIA had anything to do with it. At least that's how I read it. Your mileage may vary.
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When Steve Jobs came back to run Apple in summer 1997, he famously told Apple's Mac fans "we need to get away from this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose." He then announced a $150 million investment in the then-struggling Apple by Microsoft -- with Bill Gates joining the Macworld Expo announcement via satellite -- and a commitment by Microsoft to keep Office for Mac on the market and at parity with the Windows version. That investment went a long way toward calming investor fears and set the stage for Jobs and team to reinvent and reinvigorate the Mac, then create the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad over the next decade.
Fifteen years later, it appears that Microsoft has concluded that for Windows to survive, the iPad has to lose.
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For more than a decade, Microsoft has failed in its tablet ambitions, with the various Pen and Tablet editions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7 falling flat, and the heavy tablets that used them saw, at best, minuscule sales to a handful of hospitals and government agencies that had no other options. No one knows the number actually sold, but it has to be less than 2 million over those dozen years. By contrast, Apple has sold about 70 million iPads in just over two years of that tablet's existence.
Office and SharePoint on the iPad nowhere in sight
Microsoft is of course hoping to change that record with the release of Windows 8 for Intel-based tablets and Windows RT for ARM-based tablets this fall. But perhaps to hedge its bets, Microsoft is also trying to isolate the iPad by discouraging access to a key Microsoft technology -- its Office suite -- through iPad-targeted hikes in desktop virtualization fees.
Apple released an iPad version of its iWork office productivity suite for the iPad shortly after the iPad's release, and a small company called Quickoffice followed suit, creating what has become the standard-bearer for a cross-mobile office suite. Microsoft Office for iPad is nowhere to be found. (There's also no Android version, but with the iPad accounting for more than 90 percent of actual tablet sales, Android doesn't matter.) Microsoft also has no SharePoint client for the iPad, and its Office 365 cloud service's versions of SharePoint and Office do not work on the iPad in any meaningful degree.
Microsoft's strategy is clear: Do not encourage iPad purchases by making Office or SharePoint available for that rival tablet. In the PC space, where Apple's Mac line continues to grow in market share while Windows PCs have been on decline, Microsoft has continued to make its so-so Office available, but not a SharePoint client or Office 365 integration -- Gates' 1997 commitment to Office on the Mac clearly stopped there.
Given Microsoft's circling of the wagons around Office and SharePoint, enterprising companies such as CloudOn developed cloud-based Windows and Office environments that iPad users could access to get the full Office suite. Entrepreneurs such as Daniel Gomez and Harmon.ie have also developed SharePoint clients for the iPad: SharePlus and SharePoint Mobile Client, respectively. But let's face it: If Microsoft had quality versions of Office and SharePoint for the iPad, it would own the tablet productivity market in a flash.
Microsoft's risky bet on Windows 8
Microsoft has decided it doesn't want to be an office productivity company first and foremost. Instead, it wants to keep the Windows hegemony it has long enjoyed by throwing up roadblocks to slow iPad adoption. That's understandable, but not realistic. At best, Windows will be a major OS on PCs and mobile devices, competing with a merged OS X and iOS, and perhaps with Android. Still, owning 30 to 50 percent of the overall computing OS market is no small thing, if only Microsoft could see that.


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URBANST 153: CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 206E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175)
This course takes students on a trip to eight capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin, Modernist Vienna, and bustling Buenos Aires. While exploring each place in a particular historical moment, we will also consider the relations between culture, power, and social life. How does the cultural life of a country intersect with the political activity of a capital? How do large cities shape our everyday experience, our aesthetic preferences, , and our sense of history? Why do some cities become cultural capitals? Primary materials for this course will consist of literary, visual, sociological, and historical documents (in translation); authors we will read include Boccaccio, Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, Montesquieu, Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Irmgard Keun, Freud, and Borges.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: Daub, A. (PI) ; Edelstein, D. (PI) ; Surwillo, L. (PI)
2016-2017 Winter
3-5 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI |
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 10
01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Mon, Wed 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM at 260-113 with Daub, A. (PI); Edelstein, D. (PI); Surwillo, L. (PI)
Instructors: Daub, A. (PI); Edelstein, D. (PI); Surwillo, L. (PI)
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URBANST 161: U.S. Urban History since 1920
The end of European immigration and its impact on cities; the Depression and cities; WW II and the martial metropolis; de-industrialization; suburbanization; African American migration; urban renewal; riots, race, and the narrative of urban crisis; the impact of immigration from Asia, Latin America, and Africa; homelessness; the rise of the Sunbelt cities; gentrification; globalization and cities. Final project is history of a San Francisco neighborhood, based on primary sources and site visit.
Last offered: Spring 2014 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
URBANST 164: Sustainable Cities (EARTHSYS 160)
Service-learning course that exposes students to sustainability concepts and urban planning as a tool for determining sustainable outcomes in the Bay Area. Focus will be on the relationship of land use and transportation planning to housing and employment patterns, mobility, public health, and social equity. Topics will include government initiatives to counteract urban sprawl and promote smart growth and livability, political realities of organizing and building coalitions around sustainability goals, and increasing opportunities for low-income and communities of color to achieve sustainability outcomes. Students will participate in team-based projects in collaboration with local community partners and take part in significant off-site fieldwork. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Chan, D. (PI)
2016-2017 Winter
4-5 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 13
01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM with Chan, D. (PI)
Exam Date/Time: 2017-03-22 3:30pm - 6:30pm (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Chan, D. (PI)
URBANST 165: Sustainable Urban and Regional Transportation Planning
Environmental, economic, and equity aspects of urban transportation in 21st-century U.S. Expanded choices in urban and regional mobility that do not diminish resources for future generations. Implications for the global environment and the livability of communities.
Last offered: Autumn 2015 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
URBANST 168: Housing & Community Development--Policy and Practice (PUBLPOL 158)
How federal, state and local governments have worked with private and nonprofit sector actors in creating housing, as well as downtown, waterfront and neighborhood development. Legal and financial mechanisms, tax policy, reuse of historic structures, affordable shelter.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors: Gale, D. (PI)
2016-2017 Autumn
3 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 4
09/26/2016 - 12/09/2016 Tue, Thu 11:30 AM - 1:20 PM at 200-030 with Gale, D. (PI)
Instructors: Gale, D. (PI)
URBANST 169: California's Minority-Majority Cities (CSRE 260, HISTORY 260)
Historical development and the social, cultural, and political issues that characterize large cities and suburbs where communities of color make up majority populations. Case studies include cities in Los Angeles, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties. Comparisons to minority-majority cities elsewhere in the U.S. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: McKibben, C. (PI)
2016-2017 Autumn
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 1
09/26/2016 - 12/09/2016 Thu 4:30 PM - 7:20 PM at 50-52H with McKibben, C. (PI)
Instructors: McKibben, C. (PI)
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URBANST 170: Place-Making Policies (POLISCI 220, PUBLPOL 225)
This reading and research seminar considers the numerous ways that governments conduct social policy by shaping and remaking geographic places. Representative topics include: housing aid programs, exclusionary zoning, controls on internal migration and place of residence, cars and their place in cities, and the politics of western water projects. Students will conduct original field research on the consequences of these policies for economic, social, and political outcomes. Prerequisites: None.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors: Nall, C. (PI)
2016-2017 Spring
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 1
04/03/2017 - 06/07/2017 Tue, Thu 9:30 AM - 11:20 AM at Encina West 202 with Nall, C. (PI)
Exam Date/Time: 2017-06-12 8:30am - 11:30am (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Nall, C. (PI)
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URBANST 173: The Urban Economy (PUBLPOL 174)
Applies the principles of economic analysis to historical and contemporary urban and regional development issues and policies. Explores themes of urban economic geography, location decision-making by firms and individuals, urban land and housing markets, and local government finance. Critically evaluates historical and contemporary government policies regulating urban land use, housing, employment development, and transportation. Prerequisite: Econ 1A or permission of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2016 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI
URBANST 182: Activating Urban Spaces (ARTSINST 182, CEE 131F)
This course will look at how public urban spaces are structured with a particular eye to the involvement of art and artists, whether formally or informally, in shaping the built and social environment of the city. Throughout the course particular focus will consider the possibilities for engaging social justice outcomes through spatial intervention drawing on examples from around the world. Interventions in urban spaces enact local change by making art the language of civic engagement; in this way a mural or performance or reconceptualized public space can become a method to address issues of locally prioritized inequality. We will use Stanford University and the Bay Area as our local research sites, making trips into the field to analyze methods, approaches, and experiences of urban spaces in action as well as bringing experts who work in related fields into the classroom. Sites of study include parks, public art, and street festivals by looking at arts organizations, city projects, community groups, and individual artists. The class will operate as a hybrid seminar and collaborative studio workspace which supports students in using ethnographic, visual, mapping, historical, and participatory methods in developing projects that respond to a particular site of their choosing.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: Taylor, J. (PI)
2016-2017 Spring
4 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 12 / 20
04/03/2017 - 06/07/2017 Wed 3:30 PM - 6:20 PM at McMurtry Building rm 360 with Taylor, J. (PI)
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COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M's all-time winner in football games, R.C. Slocum, earned a well-deserved honor on Tuesday: entrance into the College Football Hall of Fame.
"To be able to join a group of coaches that I looked up to and admired during my career, and now to be associated with them, is an unbelievable honor," Slocum said. "This is validation of the players, the assistant coaches and the entire staffs I was so fortunate to work with here at Texas A&M."
Slocum was 123-47-2 over his 14 years at A&M, and his teams won three consecutive Southwest Conference titles (1991-93), two Big 12 South titles (1997 and 1998) and a Big 12 championship ('98). His teams finished in the Top 10 three times in that span.
Slocum, raised in Orange, played football at McNeese State and has been honored as a distinguished alumnus by his alma mater. As a young man I covered his Aggies from 1995-2002, and typically walked away from his press conferences motivated to tackle any tasks at hand and having learned a little more about life – just from his talks to us, usually in conversation after the recorders had been turned off.
Slocum's motivational skills and charisma were always underrated – but his teams averaged nine wins per season for a reason.


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A stand-alone electric fireplace can serve as a strong focal point with the help of a faux chimney breast. Build a frame using two-by-fours and nail white-painted faux brick panelling to the board frame. Face the side edges of the boards with painted 4″ MDF planks and apply base caps to the corners for a polished finish. Place the chimney breast on the wall with the fireplace and mantel flush against it — voila!
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Update old furniture with new upholstery.
When decorating a new living room, this homeowner used all their own old furniture and simply had it recovered. An easy-clean vinyl on the chairs is kid-friendly and cost-effective.
Revive worn wood floors with a fresh coat of paint.
Window treatments don't have to be complicated — simply cut panels of raw linen fabric to length, leaving the edges unhemmed, and hang from a rod using drapery hooks. Group together simple black frames to create a gallery wall featuring your own black and white photographs.
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Use inexpensive ceiling medallions as art.
"I love the way a cluster of store-bought medallions injects a plain-Jane wall with so much texture and old world detail," says H&H editor-in-chief Suzanne Dimma. Made of light fiberglass, the ceiling medallions (available at your local hardware store) can be hung using picture-hanging strips. Paint a mix of styles in graduating shades of the same colour for an effect like this.
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Tastefully update flea-market finds so that they look stylish, not secondhand.
This room proves that affordable, vintage finds can add sophistication to any space. The chair was found in an antique shop with tattered, outdated pink upholstery. Stripping the stain from the wood frame and retufting and reupholstering it in neutral linen gave it a classy, Barbara Barry effect. The collection of frames are from various thrift stores and even the garbage. A few coats of matte white spray paint made them like new for a cohesive art wall. A round pedestal table found at Value Village was also transformed with two coats of black paint to become a new side table. The teal throw and patterned toss cushions add personality to an affordable white sofa from Ikea.
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To enter into or prepare for a lengthy war, battle, or conflict; to adopt a combative or warlike position. While the true origin is uncertain, the phrase was popularized in English by The Godfather novel and films, where it referred to warring mafia families housing their soldiers in small, secure apartments to await orders. While Republicans have shown some flexibility over other contentious issues, it looks as though they're ready to go to the mattresses over the issue of gun control. We'll go to the mattresses if that's what it takes to defend ourselves!


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Manager Chris Hughton must keep Norwich out of the bottom three of the Barclays Premier League or face the consequences, chief executive David McNally has warned.
On Friday night, basement club Fulham axed manager Rene Meulensteen and replaced the Dutchman with former Bayern Munich coach Felix Magath in a dramatic attempt to stave off the threat of relegation.
The Canaries have slipped back into the danger zone and are now just one point above 18th place following Wednesday night's 2-0 defeat at West Ham, which left Hughton's men with just one win in 11 games.
McNally maintains while the manager - who oversaw a £20million summer spending spree to strengthen the squad - continues to have the support of the board for now, the situation remains constantly under review in a "results business".
In an interview with BBC Radio Norfolk and Archant, McNally said: "We are too close for comfort.
"Chris has been told in no uncertain terms 'get us out of that position and keep us out', but equally, we're three points off 10th."
McNally continued: "As far as giving any certainty for Chris, or anyone else - it's a results business. Whether that's Chris Hughton as manager or me as chief executive or anybody else, we're paid to do our jobs.
"As long as we achieve what is required of us, then we'll stay in work.
"It would be wrong at any level, delinquent almost, to give any guarantees.
"All I would assure Norwich supporters is that we are watching it very carefully.
"The whole board is aware of the strength of feeling from the support."
Hughton was appointed in the summer of 2012 following the departure of Paul Lambert to Aston Villa, and eventually guided Norwich to a mid-table finish.
Norwich's main problem this season, though, has been a lack of goals, with just 19 in the league - club-record £8million signing Ricky van Wolfswinkel failing to find the net since the opening day.
McNally continued: "I know, having invested in the summer, the supporters expect us to be in a higher position, which is a natural conclusion considering this is our third season in the Premier League.
"Last season, we finished 11th. We had the 20th biggest payroll.
"I know Chris is working hard to do what we need to stay in the league and move up the table.
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Chen Hongshou is a major figure in Chinese art of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. This exhibition explores his visually compelling work and his response to the turmoil of his times.
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CINCINNATI -- Manager Mike Matheny said the scheduling wasn't intentional, but in lining up Shelby Miller's season debut on Friday, he gives the 23-year-old Miller an immediate chance to face the team that gave him fits a year ago -- the Pirates.
Miller's start in Pittsburgh-- one the Cardinals kept from happening in the National League Division Series -- comes at a ballpark where he posted a 6.10 ERA in two starts last year. Overall, Miller went 0-4 with a 5.32 ERA against Pittsburgh, which batted .319 off of him. He lost only five of his other 27 season starts.
"I just made mistakes against them," Miller recalled. "It's not really that I pitched badly. It just didn't go the way I wanted it to. … I'm not worried about who I face first. If it was Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Miami Marlins, it's not a big deal to me. I'm just happy to get back out there and start pitching in games that count and try to help the team win."
The Cardinals had some flexibility in ordering their rotation out of Spring Training and could have opted to start Miller against the Reds instead. But the Cardinals, believing that last season's struggles will eventually be seen as an outlier, didn't see the necessity to tweak the schedule as such.
"It was really at the point of trying not to get too creative as much as trusting that these guys are making some of the adjustments that they need to make," Matheny said. "I think this short representation of what he's done against a particular team, it doesn't necessarily line up that he shouldn't do better. And we're not going to run away from teams at this point with limited amount of exposure."


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Six graduating seniors have been selected to serve as student marshals for the College of Communications during spring commencement exercises scheduled at noon Saturday, May 4, in the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus of Penn State.
The students chosen have shown outstanding achievements both in academics and extra-curricular activities, prompting their selections as representatives for their respective majors.
Eric Feinstein, from Ellicott City, Md., will serve as the overall marshal for the College of Communications. Feinstein will be graduating with a major in broadcast journalism and a minor in political science. He has completed internships at WRC-TV (NBC 4) in Washington, D.C., and Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic. Feinstein was a producer and reporter for the student-produced "Centre County Report." He also was a producer for "Penn State Sports Night" and a reporter and analyst for Penn State Network TV.
Feinstein is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Tau Alpha honor societies, the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism and the Penn State chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Blaire Kelly, from Jenkintown, Pa., will serve as the advertising/public relations student marshal. Kelly majored in advertising and psychology, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She completed an internship with Carat Media Agency, served as the media and integrated marketing communications chair for the American Advertising Federation's National Student Advertising Competition and was creative manager for the business division of The Daily Collegian.
Kelly also was an active member of the advertising club and the club swim team. She was involved with the Penn State Dance Marathon as a member of an operations committee and has done work for an environmental communications research project.
Ernie Lehman, from Navarre, Ohio, will serve as the film-video student marshal. Lehman, a member of the Schreyer Honors College, will be graduating with majors in film-video and marketing. He is a recipient of the 2011 Penn State START Conference Diversity Award and has served as president and race director of the cycling team.
Lehman served as a teaching assistant in the Smeal College of Business and worked as a research assistant in the College of Communications. Lehman is a producer, videographer and editor for StudioNow on campus and has completed the Boy Scout requirements for rank of Eagle Scout.
Anita Oh, from North Wales, Pa., will serve as the journalism student marshal. Oh, also a member of the Schreyer Honors College, will be graduating with a broadcast journalism major and sociology and international studies minors. She is a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha honor society.
Oh served as president of the Penn State chapter of Ed2010 and as beauty and health editor of Valley Magazine. She was a freelance writer for the Centre Daily Times and served as an anchor for the "Centre County Report." Oh participated in the international reporting class that traveled to Shanghai and has completed internships at Fox News Channel, B94.5 Radio in State College and J-14 Magazine. Oh also served on two THON committees.
Alyssa Bender, from York, Pa., will serve as the student marshal for media studies. Bender, also a member of the Schreyer Honors College, will be graduating a media studies major and sociology minor. She is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity.
Bender served as a College of Communications peer mentor and worked as an economic and community development program assistant at Penn State. She was a member of two THON committees and a dancer for THON 2013. She also worked as a camp counselor at the Summer Institute for the Gifted.
Sara Battikh, from Panama, will serve as the telecommunications marshal. She completed majors in telecommunications and economics, and a minor in business. Battikh has completed internships with Copa Airlines, Buenos Dias-TVN Panama and Telefonica Movistar.
She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society and the Penn State Marketing Association. She is one of six students to serve on the board of directors for The Daily Collegian and worked as an anchor and producer for ComRadio, the Internet-based, student-run radio station housed in the College of Communications. Battikh is a member of the Hispanic Catholic Ministry and the Lebanese Student Association.


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Going vegan? Lasagna recipe, cooking classes at Seasoned Chef in Denver
If you read Doug Brown's exploration of vegan cooking in today's paper and thought "it's time to go meatless… and beyond," the Seasoned Chef has the class for you.
(And if you want the Senderak family's tasty lasagna recipe, keep reading, it's at the end of this post.)
Debbie Strom will teach I Can't Believe It's Vegan!, an omnivore's approach to another way of eating, at The Seasoned Chef on Monday, May 21, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $70.


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Time to Eat the DogsA Podcast About Science, History, and Exploration
Michael Robinson
Welcome to Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. I am a professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. I study the role of exploration in science and culture. My first book, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, winner of the 2008 Book Award from the Forum for the History of Science in America, takes up the story of Arctic exploration in the United States during the height of its popularity, from 1850 to 1910. My second book, The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent, winner of the 2019 Davis Prize in the History of Science, describes at the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis, a theory claiming that many native peoples were the descendants of a prehistoric "white invasion" from Central Asia.
A central goal of this podcast is to broaden the conversation about science, history, and exploration and expand it beyond the limits of my own discipline, the history of science. Lots of people –explorers, scientists, artists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and historians– have things to say about exploration. The hope is that this podcast will serve as a clearinghouse of ideas about exploration as it is discussed across many disciplines.
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For many polar explorers, dogs served two purposes. They pulled sledges, and when they broke down, they were eaten as food, first by the healthier dogs, and then by the expedition party. Sometimes this happened as a last resort. Sometimes it was a part of a plan, a calculation of food, weight, and distance.
Exploration was difficult, even deadly, work. Explorers had to make decisions with a rational, and at times ruthless, efficiency. This did not always jibe with their public personae however. Explorers were often associated with the noblest traits of the nation, a set of ideals that did not include eating dogs (or other members of the party).
There is some black humor in the name, but it also illustrates something more broadly true: explorers had to hew closely to complicated, even contradictory, codes of behavior. They were expected to be fiercely patriotic yet were often deeply egocentric. They seemed desperate to escape civilization yet also seemed equally obsessed with their public images back home. For me, these contradictions are the most interesting part of exploration history because they are most revealing about society, culture, and human nature. And they make good stories too.
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Saint Timothy's is the follow-up to Needle's debut release Songs Your Mother Never Sang You and was mastered by Kramer of Low and Galaxie 500 fame.
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