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DOHA, Qatar - Former Virginia men's tennis player Ted Angelinos (Class of 2008) won his fourth career ATP Futures Circuit singles title last week in Doha, Qatar.
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'Onegin,' 'Boris Godunov' performed in concert by Mariinsky Opera and Orchestra
With the globe-straddling Valery Gergiev as artistic and general director, the Mariinsky -- known as the Kirov during the communist era -- has enjoyed renewed attention and admiration. One of the coolest things about its visits is the opportunity to experience the value of an old-fashioned ensemble-style company, with a reliable, resident troupe of singers who switch back and forth from major to minor roles with ease and (apparently) grace. Before the jet age started, this sort of family-style company was much more common. There's a lot to be said for such cohesiveness.
The 2010 Kennedy Center programming shows some signs of fiscal restraint. There's only one staged opera this time, but hardly a low-budget item: Prokofiev's suitably large-scale "War and Peace," March 6 and 7. This week, two concerts of opera excerpts will be offered -- a Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov evening March 3; a sample of Tchaikovsky works March 4 (with high-profile soprano Anna Netrebko in scenes from "Iolanta").
The Mariinsky visit opened last weekend with two operas presented in concert form, Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" and Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov."
The "Onegin" cast on Friday night featured what might be considered one of the company's 'B' roster of artists, but the lack of star power did not dim the solid musical values, the palpable sense of involvement in the drama (even without scenery or costumes, there was a good amount of genuine acting displayed by the principals on the edge of the stage).
Gergiev conducted, as he prefers to do, without a podium. In a few passages of the score, he didn't seem terribly engaged, allowing phrases to plod along, and he failed to secure totally tight playing from the orchestra (I got the impression the musicians were simply tired). But most of the opera came vividly to life nonetheless; Gergiev had the softest, subtlest moments communicating with great poetic impact.
Alexey Markov sang the title role with a firm baritone and increasingly powerful phrasing. As Tatyana, Irina Mataeva's voice tended to turn edgy at the top, but her singing was otherwise lovely in tone and expressive shading. Sergey Semishkur revealed a youthful sound and affectingly ardent style in the role of Lensky. Mikhail Petrenko offered considerable tonal warmth and smoothness in Prince Gremin's aria. There was character-rich vocalism from Ekaterina Semenchuk (Olga), Andrey Popov (Triquet), Svetlana Vitman (Larina) and Elena Vitman (Nurse).
Sunday afternoon's performance of "Boris" was to have been conducted, like everything else in this DC visit, by Gergiev, but he got called to Vancouver to participate in closing ceremonies at the Winter Olympics. In his place stepped
Evgeny Nikitin gave a noble account of the title role. Whatever he lacked in depth and roundness of tone, he made up for with interpretive weight; the hallucination and death scenes were sung with particularly gripping force. Petrenko was again impressive, this time as Pimen. Dmitri Voropaev sang the Fool's lament eloquently (too bad that, in this version of the score, the lament did not return as the opera's final, haunting word). The rest of the large cast delivered effectively.
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"Gays Can Marry, As Long As They Marry The Opposite Sex"
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That, in a nutshell, was Michele Bachmann's answer to a high school student's question asking why gay couples can't get married:
Maybe she wouldn't mind then if I were to marry her daughter.
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Ference has been a solid addition to the bruins. That said, plus applause for his social comments and commitments, he is slowing from prior injuries and age. Neither Bartkowski or Krug have his experience, but both are faster, and move thepuck up better. Claude will have a challenge on his hands.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Michael Strahan will not come out
of retirement to help out the New York Giants. The seven-time Pro Bowl defensive end has told FoxSports.com he will stay retired and not return to the Giants to replace Osi Umenyiora who is out for the season with a knee injury.
Strahan says he considered an 8-million-dollar offer to rejoin
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MMA Madness and live-blogging at this week's IFL team semifinals
As many of you have noticed, I've been neglecting this blog and haven't been writing as much in the last month or so. First, I want to apologize for not living up to my end of the bargain and delivering you the latest in MMA news. Second, I want to say there's a good reason for my absence.
That reason is a new MMA Web site called MMA Madness that launched last Thursday. I am the Executive Editor of that site and I believe that it will soon be the one-stop shop for all your MMA needs. At MMA Madness, we have a professional group of international MMA writers, many of whom have extensive prior MMA journalism experience. In addition, we have a comprehensive list of MMA fighters and MMA events from all the major MMA leagues that continues to grow. And, we have a unique MMA Fantasy game for fans out there who enjoy competition.
Registration at MMA Madness is free, so please check out www.mmamadness.com when you aren't reading my work here at Baltimoresun.com.
I also wanted to let you know that I will be at this Thursday's IFL team semifinals at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J. live-blogging for Baltimoresun.com. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and features two best-of-five team matches -- Sabres vs. Pitbulls and Silverbacks vs. Anacondas. Click here to find out more about the fight card and the IFL. (Note: MMA Madness does have an advertisement on IFL's Web site.)


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The Castle of Good Hope was built 1666-79 and is the oldest building in the entire country. Nowadays it accommodates a museum – and the army's headquarter.
The pentagonal defensive wall is even older as it was made from soil and woods in 1652 by Commander Jan van Riebeeck.
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|Capitol Comments - Week 6 in the Iowa Senate
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After six weeks of session, the Iowa Senate started debating this week. Two bills set the posturing stage and had more meaning in messaging than actual content of the legislation. House File 45 was approved by the Iowa House in the second week of session with a projected cut in state spending of $500 million over three years. This same bill was passed out of the Senate on Thursday with a projected cut in spending of $10 million over a three year period. Though many believe this bill is destined for a conference committee showdown, it is more likely the bill is done. Think of this bill as a form of messaging between the Republican majority in the House and the Democratic majority in the Senate and how they perceive each other's goals. True government spending appears in appropriations bills. Both sides understand a zero line item in House File 45 doesn't limit actual funding of a program in May.
The second posturing bill came in the establishment of allowable growth for education spending. After the House previously approved zero percent allowable growth the Senate on Wednesday passed allowable growth at 2%. Knowing the establishment of an allowable growth rate at any percent in February is superficial to the actual appropriation which the legislature makes in May I asked the Senate Appropriations Chair to explain how we plan to fund education this year at any level. My line of questioning was shut down by the Senate President citing, the state's future ability to pay is irrelevant to the establishment of a promise to pay today. This idea makes complete sense, only when you don't think about it. Though this bill is destined for a conference committee showdown, only through appropriations will we see how much the state picks up and how much falls on local property taxpayers.
The Senate moved in a positive direction in debate Thursday afternoon when we unanimously approved Senate File 209 which called for the full coupling of the Iowa Tax Code with the Federal Tax Code. This bill allows Iowa taxpayers to deduct items on their state income tax filings similar to their federal filings. Think of it as a nearly $200 million savings to taxpayers. Though it does not take effect until you do your taxes next year, it is still a positive move for keeping more money in your hands.
On a side note, the buzz has started over redistricting. The conference board members are set, census data is out and maps will soon be drawn. I have not grown as curious or apprehensive about changes as many of my colleagues. I have no doubt I may lose half my district or even more. Be proud in the fact Iowa is an exemplar in setting districts; politicians don't get to make this decision.
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"Men's Health" magazine has put together a list of the Hottest Celebrity Moms.
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Section all-star tourneys shorter, riskier
Try to save pitching, but don't overlook an opponent either. Scout the competition, but don't become intimidated.
And by all means, avoid the losers' bracket.
The next stage of Little League baseball's postseason begins Saturday with the first round of the Section 4 Tournaments, and the Roseville area has a dog in every hunt: 9- and 10-year-olds, 11-year-olds, Major, Junior and Senior.
A deep pitching staff and hard-hitting lineup from one through nine can win a team a championship and a berth at the next level in three games, but the section level also harbors as many side effects as the latest cholesterol medication.
Lakeside's Major all-star team overcame two losses to Woodcreek — in pool play and the championship round — by beating Woodcreek twice in the title games of the District 54 tournament.
For the section tournament — a sprint compared to District 54's marathon — Lakeside drew what is akin to a play-in game against District 5 Sunrise at 5 p.m. Saturday at McBean Park in Lincoln. The other three teams can win the title in three games. It would take the Lakeside-Sunrise winner a minimum of four, and the championship game is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Fortunately for Lakeside, it's loaded with pitching, including starters Darren Nelson, Jacob Baranowski and Matt Voelker, and quality arms in Brett Walston and Alex Dailey.
"We know what we have to do to succeed, which is to try to balance our pitching and have enough in reserve but not assume we're going to beat anybody and go soft on pitching," Lakeside manager Steve Dailey said. "We do have confidence in a bunch of our guys. The question will be how can we balance those three horses we have?"
Dailey has plans — A, B and C — which include holding some pitchers to fewer than 35 or 20 pitches to keep them eligible the following game and trying to avoid the maximum 85-pitch outing … and more.
Of course, if Dailey has to reach even deeper for another plan …
"We're blessed with a strong hitting team," he said. "Hitting solves a lot of problems with your pitching."
Like Lakeside, Woodcreek's 9/10 team had to win twice in the championship to advance, including a rally in the final inning of the deciding game.
Woodcreek now plays host to the section tournament at home: Mahany Field.
On top of that, Woodcreek drew a bye and will have a chance to watch the other four teams play before it opens at 5 p.m. Sunday against the Tri-City/Cosumnes River winner.
That's an advantage.
"We're going to get to see their pitchers, who they end up burning," Woodcreek manager Mike Watari said.
Then again …
"The disadvantage is boys can see the other teams may have some monsters," Watari said. "They could get intimidated."
Watari also stressed the importance of playing one game at a time. A team caught looking ahead can earn a quick trip to the losers' bracket, which would mean five games in five days and even six games in six days if that team were to come back to win the championship.
"I've seen it happen before," Watari said. "You can't look ahead. You have to play for that one game. When you get to the championship game, you have to beat that team twice. That's not an easy task by any means."
James Penn's Woodcreek Junior team learned last year after losing its opener and fighting back to the title game. But after blowing away the field in the District 54 tournament last week, Woodcreek plans to keep rolling along.
"We're not going to change anything," he said.
Senior (at American River College): Woodcreek vs. District 6 champion, 8 p.m. Saturday. If Woodcreek wins, it would play at 8 p.m. Monday; if it loses Saturday, it would play at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Junior (at C-Bar-C Park in Citrus Heights): Woodcreek vs. Tri-City, 8 p.m. Saturday. If Woodcreek wins, it would play at 8 p.m. Monday; if it loses Saturday, it would play at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Major (at McBean Park in Lincoln): Lakeside vs. Sunrise, 5 p.m. Saturday. If Lakeside wins, it would play Land Park Pacific at 5 p.m. Sunday; if it loses Saturday, it would play at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
11-year-olds (at Stonehouse Park in Rancho Murieta): Roseville West vs. District 5 champion, 1 p.m. Saturday. If Roseville West wins, it would play at 5 p.m. Monday; if it loses Saturday, it would play at 2 p.m. Sunday.
9/10-year-olds (at Mahany Field): Woodcreek vs. Tri-City/Cosumnes River winner, 5 p.m. Sunday. If Woodcreek wins, it would play at 7:30 p.m. Monday; if it loses Sunday, it would play at 5 p.m. Monday.


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We may be routinely orbiting, roving, drilling and lasing Mars, searching for elusive traces of life and reconnoitering sites for future human missions, but that doesn't mean studies of the red planet don't throw up surprises. On the contrary.
Take this March 21, 2013 observation by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of the southern edge of Acidalia Planitia, a plain located in the planet's northern hemisphere.
These irregular depressions with weird raised rims aren't impact craters and they can't be wind-blown features as the pits contain boulders that could not have been moved by the Martian winds. HiRISE mission scientists don't believe they could be caused by volcanism either.
Scientists believe the Acidalia Planitia region of Mars was once the location of a huge ocean, so it seems plausible that it may have been caused by some fluvial process. They may also have been caused by shallow lenses of water ice that have since sublimated into the atmosphere, leaving these small basins. But that doesn't obviously explain why the depressions have raised rims.
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"Ancient glaciation is another possibility, perhaps depositing ice-rich debris next to topographic obstacles," said HiRISE principal investigator Alfred McEwen, planetary geologist at the University of Arizona. "Future images of this region may provide clues, but for now this is a mystery."
A wider-angle view of the mystery pits show them hugging a long, raised ridge:
If I had to place a bet, I'd put my money on some kind of ancient permafrost process -- perhaps the water ice sublimation idea or some more complex subsurface process that caused the slumping of material. The long ridge that the pits seem to be formed along is interesting too, so some kind of tectonic process shouldn't be ruled out.
Acidalia Planitia is a fascinating region. It is, after all, home to the famous "Face on Mars" mystery that captivated the world for years until advanced orbital missions proved that the "head" was actually a mesa (a Mars hill) and the "face" was just a trick of the light.
This little mystery of odd depressions, however, probably won't be solved until we can get a robotic or human mission to view the pits up-close. Until then, we can only speculate.


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Hugh Grant's laughter medicineHugh Grant played practical jokes on his mother while she was dying of cancer - in a bid to keep her spirits up.
In a new book aimed at helping friends and families of cancer sufferers, entitled 'What Can I Do To Help?', the 'Notting Hill' actor reveals for the first time how he coped with mum Fynvola's illness and death.
Recalling his hospital visits in his mother's last days, Hugh writes about how he made his beloved mum laugh by wearing her bedpan as a hat and blowing up surgical gloves to resemble udders.
He says: "I got a bit bored and went back to tormenting her - my personal favourite being secretly activating her hospital bed so that the head and legs both lifted to put her in an amusing jack-knife position.
"The inflated surgical-glove-cum-udder, the cardboard potty as millinery and gulping the patients' oxygen to alleviate hangovers also passed the hours."
Hugh also jokes that a disastrous attempt to blow-dry his mother's hair may have "finished her off" - because she tragically died the next day.
He said: "I even blow-dried her hair on the day before she died, which was frankly not the success I had hoped for, and which may - I now concede - have finished her off."
Hugh was so distraught when Fynvola died that he temporarily put his successful movie career on hold to allow him time to grieve.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — College of Charleston President Glenn McConnell has fired men's basketball coach Doug Wojcik.
The move Tuesday comes more than a month after the school said it was investigating Wojcik, who players, assistant coaches and staffers in the athletic department said he verbally abused them.
McConnell said in a statement that Wojcik's dismissal was immediate and for cause. He did not detail reasons for the move and said he and the school would have no further comments about it.
Wojcik came over from Tulsa two years ago. He led the Cougars to the Southern Conference tournament finals in his first year, but fell to 14-18 this past winter in College of Charleston's first in the Colonial Athletic Conference.
Messages left with Wojcik's attorney, Scott Tompsett, were not immediately returned.
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When I read of rival researchers' complaining that Ho has somehow monopolized media attention at their expense, I wondered why such a distinguished publication would print such tabloid nonsense.
There are at least four reasons why Ho gets so much media attention:
(1) He often has something new and exciting to say;
(2) he is accessible to the media and many of his detractors aren't;
(3) he has a gift for clear description of often complex issues and in explaining his findings with common-sense metaphors; and
(4) he brings a much-needed optimism in the weltschmerz of AIDS.
I found Waldholz's statement that "while other scientists typically wait to discuss their work after publishing the results in scholarly journals, Dr. Ho has grabbed headlines by making claims at scientific conferences months before publishing the results in scientific journals" inaccurate and misleading. Scientific meetings are the primary venue for the presentation of new data, often before publication. AIDS and other infectious disease meetings have always been the venues for the latest news in clinical management of HIV disease. Ho's presentation of data at these meetings is no different in practice from the presentation of other data by thousands of other investigators.
The article also questioned the ethics of asking a patient doing well on antiviral combinations to stop therapy. There are ethical questions about many and possibly most clinical trials. But in this case, it's the wrong ethical question.
There should be no doubt about the risks of stopping antiviral therapy in this trial. The risks are well delineated to the patient, including the opportunity to resume therapy if the virus remanifests. The real ethical question is how patients balance their own ethical obligations to others with HIV/AIDS with their obligations to themselves and to those who love and depend on them. Those of us who benefit from research on others with the same disease have an increased obligation to participate in trials that could benefit others. Unfortunately, too many of us participate in trials only as long as they benefit us. That is the major ethical problem with most trials.
One activist moaned that Ho's experiment "will falsely raise hopes."Hope is a feeling that what one desires may happen. Most of us who have HIV, love someone with HIV, and/or have dedicated our lives to meeting the scientific, clinical, political, and social challenges of the pandemic have been sustained by hope. And Ho and his colleagues who have pioneered the advances in combination antiviral therapy have revitalized that hope. There is no false hope-only false hype.


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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today launched the nScope eMRI preclinical imaging system at the annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. With its new nScope eMRI system, Agilent is transforming how researchers view disease.
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The latest addition to Agilent's MRI product line, the nScope eMRI system features an improved interface that enables unparalleled ease of use. Optimized packages uniquely align with specific user requirements, and a redesigned workflow ensures simple and ergonomic operation.
"The imaging protocols are a valuable step toward the ease of use of a clinical system while retaining the full flexibility of an experimental system," said Ian Marshall, a professor at the School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. "They will be particularly useful to new users who wish to generate biomedical results without being bogged down in technical detail."
The nScope eMRI system is focused on researchers who need the valuable information that can be gleaned from MRI. The system has been designed with the explicit goal of making the imaging aspect of their research as simple as possible.
"We are very pleased with how we have been able to take the former Varian MRI product and shape it into a basic tool for the biological research community," said Regina Schuck, vice president for Agilent Research Products. "This new product is a key step forward in Agilent's commitment to being a leader in the field of life sciences."
All pre-clinical researchers will enjoy the ease-of-use evolution that includes integrated specimen life support, precise laser-guided sample positioning, and ergonomic workflow. The MRI software has improved image viewing tools, as well as a collection of validated protocols appropriate for routine imaging experiments for brain and heart. For the advanced users, there are new CSI tools designed for use with DNP experiments enabling customers to push their 13C research forward.
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How do you turn being the family joker into a professional gig? Well, thats something we ask local broadcast legend Terry Meiners.
Terry Meiners has been a radio personality on WHAS-AM in Louisville, Kentucky, since 1985. The Terry Meiners Show airs weekdays from 3 P.M.- 7 P.M.
Terry is also a recognized face in the local TV market. He frequently appears in commercials and co-hosts the WHAS Crusade for Children, the long-running annual local telethon benefiting children's charities.
Louisville Life visits Terry in his home to learn about his childhood as one of 14 kids; how he got into the broadcast business and what continues to drive him after more than 30 years on radio.
For more on Terry Meiners, visit TerryMeiners.com. Plus, read about his passion for fitness here.
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I just found out that I am a loose knitter. Somewhat along the lines of Kelley (as she describes herself on the podcasts). I would love to knit socks with magic loop, but I have no idea what size needle to use. I have a limited budget so I can't afford all of the various sizes to see what guage I would knit at to make socks.
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Hi Marcey,
Do you have a particular sock yarn in mind that you are planning on using? That might affect your needle size a bit. Depending on how loose you knit, I would suggest a 1 - maybe even a size 0. Do you have any spare needles that are smaller in size? Sometimes, if I have them, I use 2 dpns for a swatch if it is the size I am looking into and then I find the actual needles I am planning on using with my yarn.
And like Cheryl said, use at least a 40" circ for magic loop. I know people that have used shorter for this method, but especially for beginners - a longer cord is much easier to work with.
Good luck - magic loop is really wonderful! And don't forget, Knit Picks has a great section of tutorials - here is a tutorial on just magic loop :)
If you are just starting out, there are patterns for socks that use worsted weight yarn. It is a great way to learn how to knit socks, especially since you don't have to fuss with small needles or yarn. And it goes much faster too :) Then you can work your way down to sport weight yarn, then to sock and fingering weight yarn.
Good luck, and keep us posted! Unfortunately, gauge not only changes from person to person but also depending on what needles you are using, changing from straight to circs, from wood to metal - it is a tricky thing! Keep us posted on how your socks go once you get started :)
I LOVE your needles. I especially like the sharp tips. I have another brand that I occasionally use and find I am now completely spoiled with your tips and cannot use the other brand because of their blunt tips ;-) That being said I would love a fixed circ in a 9". I knit socks almost exclusively and knit magic loop but think it would be so much faster on a 9 inch. Please consider this addition :-)
Hi Sue!
Thanks for your suggestion, I'll be sure to pass it along :)
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I emailed this to customer service, but I also want to make a plea here for smaller needle sizes in the fixed circulars (00 & 000). This would be such a boon for loose knitters. Kelly should be sympathetic, no? She has mentioned that she's a loose knitter on the podcast. Besides, I'm not the only one. Please see Ravelry thread: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/sock-knitters-anonymous/1880248/1-25#12
I also wish that Knit Picks carried more of the very tiny needles. In addition, I wish the smaller size needles that need to have the fixed circular cord, could have the cord so that extra length could be added to it as needed. If it came with a connector in the middle of the cord, then additional cord length could be easily added and the needles themselves would be a fixed circular attachment to the cord. Actually, there is no reason this couldn't work for every size needle.
ok so i want to start my first pair of socks and im not sure should i order dpns or circs.. for some reason dpn's scare me.
but if i wanted to make a trial pair with a basic acrylic yarn medium weight what size of dpn and circs would u recommend?
I'm not sure what you mean by "medium weight," but if I were you I'd use circs and magic loop method (which I'm sure you can google by this point, if you don't know this already). As for the size of the needles--4? With fingerling, I use 0 or 1 because I'm a loose knitter.
Also, I'd listen to one of Kelley's recent podcasts on how to knit socks with an after-thought heel. Makes turning the heel seem much easier, and I want to try that next.
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Never Mind the Gap
How the retailer's clothes got so dreadful.
It's hard to overstate the importance of black pants to young women in the early 1990s. Once you found a pair that fit perfectly—and maybe a good square-toe black ankle-boot to match—half the work of assembling a sleek, confidence-building wardrobe was done. My "magic pair," on which I blew nearly a week's salary, were made of cotton velvet and cut in the manner of blue jeans. I still remember the trepidation and excitement with which I brought them to the register of the Daryl K boutique on Bond Street. I wore them at least four days a week.
My secondary pair of black pants, however—tab-fronted, boot-legged, made of a cotton-polyester blend with a slight sheen—came from the Gap. They weren't quite as fabulous as my Daryl Ks, but I wore them the other three days of the week. My best black A-line miniskirt—summer's answer to black pants—also hailed from the retail behemoth. With patch pockets and white over-stitching, it had a relaxed feel that matched up nicely with my size-too-small cap-sleeve T-shirts and clunky black slides.
These days, I never think of walking into a Gap. And neither, it seems, does anyone else. Last year, profits at North American Gap stores fell 10 percent, while the share price of Gap Inc.—which includes Banana Republic and Old Navy—fell 16.5 percent. (For a Slate Moneybox on the company's financial woes, click here.) Once synonymous with the very category of mid- to high-end chain stores it helped to invent, the Gap is now in serious trouble. What changed? Was it the Gap, or was it us?
It's hard now to recall, but for a brief moment in the early '90s the Gap's stripped-down aesthetic seemed like a rare gesture of authenticity in a world of excess. The attitude was cemented in a popular ad campaign, shot by Annie Liebovitz and others, that featured black-and-white portraits of semifamous hipsters (Spike Lee, Joni Mitchell, Henry Rollins, Liz Phair) wearing Gap basics. Sharon Stone's 1995 Academy Awards appearance—the screen diva, presumably in a show of rebellion against the bejeweled insanity of Oscars past, wore a full-length Valentino silk-crepe trumpet skirt with a black stretch-cotton Gap tee—only enhanced the populist appeal. What's more, the brand seemed to matter. A recurring Saturday Night Live skit featured "the Gap Girls." The retailer merited its own spoof ad campaign: an ingenious poster that featured a picture of the Führer in chinos and jack boots and announced, "Hitler Wore Khakis." Critics wrote about the brouhaha in high-end outlets like Artforum.
How did the Gap fall off the cultural map? In search of answers, I recently paid a visit to a mammoth Gap store on lower Fifth Avenue in New York. The company has launched an interior redesign campaign in select locations, but this store was still marching to its old Swedish-minimalist-meets-middle-school-gymnasium drummer: pale wood floors, lots of white wall, track lighting. For 12 noon on a Tuesday, the place seemed modestly populated.
The women's department that day was highlighting drawstring blouses and cropped trench coats that tied at the waist. The khaki version of the latter, for $68 (reduced now to $39.99), had the makings of a modern-day Gap classic. But the proportions were off: It was cut too short in the hips. A rubberized version of the coat was cut longer but imprinted with a blinding purple-and-magenta pattern that recalled an appalling shower-curtain from the late 1970s. Offered for $88 (now $59.99), it was a true eyesore. There was also a nice, narrow-fitting military-inspired jacket for $68. However, I'd seen versions of the same style at both H&M and Old Navy for less.
These items point up the Gap's two underlying problems. For starters, the brand is still aligned in the public imagination with the back-to-basic ethos of the '90s. Which is to say, T-shirts and jeans. As such, it can't begin to compete with the knock-off meccas (H&M, Zara, Club Monaco, etc.) that have become popular in the froufrou-mad '00s. These days, it seems, we want our mall stores to be ripping off high-fashion houses, not mass-producing sweat pants. But when the Gap moves in this direction (as with the unfortunate Prada-wannabe trench), it misfires badly. The company has hired a new designer whose first efforts will hit stores this fall, but even so, it's hard to imagine the Gap doing well selling asymmetrical sweaters and crocheted gaucho pants.
Second, the Gap may be the victim of its own success, insofar as its sister retailers have diluted the brand. Old Navy sells the 'round-the-house styles that made the Gap famous at lower price points. Meanwhile, Banana Republic proffers office-ready, boutique-quality versions of the same standbys, which makes the Gap look dowdy and down-market by comparison. Moving into the main room, I did find some of the old staples for sale—but the prices and quality were never quite right. The polo shirts, for example, had a streamlined shape and came in a pleasing array of jewel tones but were a tad expensive at 24 bucks a pop. The T-shirts, on the other hand, were cheap but featured a superfluous little pocket located somewhere near the collarbone. Honestly, who needs a pocket up there?
The Gap, which began as a blue-jeans store, is also having trouble with denim. Mimicking luxury retailers like Barneys New York, Gap stores now feature "jeans bars" with a dedicated salesperson. And the company is cutting jeans for all kinds of bodies—a noble concept. But the Gap has made the process so complicated that it takes an advanced degree to figure out which pants to try on. I fingered one seemingly promising pair on the shelf only to find them marked "original" "boy cut" "left weave" "ankle." Huh? Hoping to master the categorization system, I consulted gap.com but only grew more confused. What is the difference, for example, between "straight boy cut" and "original long & lean"? It was enough to make me think I might get another few months' wear out of last year's Sevens.
Which leads us to the other problem with the Gap's denim selection. Like it or not, the '00s are the era of the $200 designer jean. The labels themselves may be smaller than they were in the early '80s (when Jordache, Bon Jour, and Sergio Valente were duking it out—at least in my New Jersey suburb). But for those in the know, the back pocket stitching of today's favored brands exudes cool. The Gap, however, has forfeited this territory—in most cases, leaving the back pocket blank. At the same time, designer jeans outfits choose whimsical labels for their wares: names that are no more mystifying than the Gap's but that sound a lot less like homework. Right now, for example, the New York boutique Intermix is offering "J Brand 914 cigarette jeans." You don't need a chart to get the idea: You'd better start chain-smoking if you want get these babies on.


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What Is War Good for? Ask a Chimpanzee.
What apes and monkeys can teach us about the roots of human aggression.
These fission-fusion societies create opportunities for violence, says Richard Wrangham, an anthropologist at Harvard University. Because communities subdivide during the day, it's likely that a subgroup from one community will encounter a smaller subgroup (or even a solitary individual) from another community near their border. Given this imbalance of power, as Wrangham calls it, the risk of getting injured in an attack is low for members of the larger subgroup, and a successful assault is possible.
This isn't senseless violence. Male chimpanzees seem to resort to warfare to weaken their neighbors, with the ultimate goal of expanding their own territories, gaining new resources, and attracting new mates. It worked at Gombe, where increasing territory for the victors also led to higher infant survival rates, shorter intervals between births, and other benefits due to the better supply of food. Lethal raids have also helped chimpanzees living in Tanzania's Mahale Mountains and Uganda's Kibale National Park take over terrain from their neighbors.
(Skeptical anthropologists such as R. Brian Ferguson of Rutgers University, however, argue that chimpanzee violence is actually abnormal behavior that's a consequence of human interference. For example, Goodall initially lured chimpanzees to her study site with bananas, and the provisioning might have disrupted natural relationships among the chimp groups. At other sites, deforestation might play a role—and is being blamed for recent wild chimp attacks on humans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.)
In the case of spider monkeys, Aureli's team says the raids began after a lonely spell for the males of the eastern community—it was the longest period in at least five years that all of the females in their group had nursing infants, meaning that none of the mothers was ready to get pregnant again. Storming into their neighbors' territory may have been the eastern males' only chance to find potential new mates. Even if harassment seems like a strange courtship strategy, in at least one instance, a female from the western community spent a few hours with the eastern males following an attack (although no mating was observed).
These examples show how similar social and ecological factors may have allowed spider monkeys and chimpanzees to independently evolve a capacity for violence through convergent evolution. That doesn't mean these primates are programmed to attack. Variation within and between species demonstrates how flexible their behavior is, responding to different circumstances as they arise.
Chimpanzees are a good example of this flexibility. In the Taï Forest of Ivory Coast in Western Africa, chimps are less violent than they are in Eastern Africa. Christophe Boesch of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology thinks there are fewer chimp murders at Taï because the chimpanzees have more tight-knit communities. The animals probably stay in closer contact throughout the day because the risk of being eaten by a leopard is higher at Taï than at other field sites, and safety in numbers is their best defense against this predator. As a consequence, it's less likely that a gang of male chimps will find a vulnerable individual to attack.
And then there's the bonobo. Bonobos are a different species of great ape, found only in remote parts of the African Congo, that split from chimps just 1 million years ago. Bonobos live in the same sort of fission-fusion social system as chimpanzees, yet these primates are peaceful—possibly because they are a female-centered species. When bonobo females enter a new group, they make strong friends and allies with other females. And when a group encounters another community, females will mingle with the outsiders, even mating with their neighbors, both male and female. Although scientists are still trying to understand why chimps and bonobos differ, Takeshi Furuichi of Kyoto University in Japan suspects female bonobos' greater willingness to mate with males has something to do with it. Unlike female chimps, female bonobos mate with males even when they are already pregnant, which may help minimize aggression and fighting among males within and between groups.
Spider-monkey violence is still a bit of an enigma. Since these primates have not been as well studied as chimps, it's not clear how common spider-monkey raiding is or whether it varies from site to site. Aureli and his colleagues predict that, in general, it's probably rare compared to chimp attacks because spider monkeys live in smaller territories and at higher densities. It's probably unusual for a group of male spider monkeys to come across a lone individual vulnerable to attack.
What, if anything, do these examples of primate behavior say about the origins of human warfare? Anthropologists suspect that early hominids lived in fission-fusion societies. If that's the case, then our earliest ancestors probably engaged in some violent attacks. But as modern primates reveal, the violence was probably variable. Not all early hominids necessarily raided and killed their neighbors. Unfortunately, finding evidence for war in the archaeological record is difficult. Warfare probably didn't escalate in size and frequency until the past few hundred thousand years, as Homo sapiens evolved and developed greater brainpower and more complex culture, and more things to fight over. Today, human biology, ecology, and culture interact in ways that allow humans to be the most violent, despicable beings on Earth—as well as the planet's most compassionate, cooperative creatures.


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Spouses of U.S. immigrants holding high-skill H-1B visas will be able to work in the country later this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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BSO takes nature walk with Beethoven, Frans Lanting, Philip Glass
Music can tell stories as riveting as the best literary texts, can paint images as vivid as the finest works on canvas. That message is reinforced on the first half of the latest Baltimore Symphony program, and then, to an extent, reversed on the second.
The sonic-only pictorial lesson comes from Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony, the composer's extraordinary evocation of a visit to the countryside, complete with babbling brook, tipsy farmers and a cool thunderstorm.
This classic is matched with a multimedia production, "LIFE: A Journey Through Time," with an evolutionary tour of nature through the work of National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting, matched to music by Philip Glass.
Here, the sounds serve as complement or counterpoint to the imagery. The accompaniment was not created with the visual in mind, but matched to it subsequently. The pictures clearly could stand on their own without a note, but the match-up provides an extra kick.
Marin Alsop, who was instrumental in generating the Lanting/Glass epic, introduced it to the BSO in 2007. Given all the other music available by Glass, one of Baltimore's most famous sons, and given that his 75th birthday will be observed on Tuesday, it's disappointing that we didn't get something new to the BSO repertoire. "LIFE" is a compilation of previously existing pieces (arranged for orchestra by Michael Riesman). A symphony by Glass would have been very welcome.
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the performance Alsop drew from the ensemble Friday night at Meyerhoff (where the program will be repeated Sunday afternoon). The tight rhythmic pulse and vibrantly nuanced melodic patterns produced a suitably absorbing sound-world to take in Lanting's brilliant images on a giant screen.
The Beethoven symphony at the start found the BSO in likewise disciplined, sensitive form. Alsop shaped the score with evident affection. She stayed on familiar paths, in terms of tempo and phrasing, but breathed a good deal of freshness into the performance with beautifully shaded dynamics and lyrically shaped phrases. The orchestra played admirably. Woodwinds added to the aural landscape with particular charm.
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The Canon City Daily Record reported Sunday the measure would also ask voters whether to impose a tax on marijuana if retail sales are approved.
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The council is scheduled to consider the measure Monday night.
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