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Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habit (psychology) Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, however learners may also autodidacticism. Education can take place in Formality or Informal education settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy.
Formal education is commonly divided formally into such stages as preschool or kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and then college, university, or apprenticeship.
A right to education has been recognized by some governments and the United Nations.Article 13 of the United Nations' 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes a universal right to education. ''ICESCR'', Article 13.1 In most regions, education is compulsory education up to a certain age.
Education began in prehistory, as adults trained the young in the knowledge and skills deemed necessary in their society. In pre-Literacy societies, this was achieved orally and through imitation. Story-telling passed knowledge, values, and skills from one generation to the next. As cultures began to extend their knowledge beyond skills that could be readily learned through imitation, formal education developed. Schools existed in Egypt at the time of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.
Plato founded the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in Europe. The city of Alexandria in Egypt, established in 330 BCE, became the successor to Athens as the intellectual cradle of Ancient Greece. There, the great Library of Alexandria was built in the 3rd century BCE. European civilizations suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in CE 476.Geoffrey Blainey; ''A Very Short History of the World''; Penguin Books, 2004
In China, Confucius (551–479 BCE), of the State of Lu, was the country's most influential ancient philosopher, whose educational outlook continues to influence the societies of China and neighbours like Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Confucius gathered disciples and searched in vain for a ruler who would adopt his ideals for good governance, but his Analects were written down by followers and have continued to influence education in East Asia into the modern era. Founded in 1088, the University of Bologne is considered the first, and the oldest continually operating university.Nuria Sanz, Sjur Bergan: "The heritage of European universities", 2nd edition, Higher Education Series No. 7, Council of Europe, 2006, ISBN, p. 136
Elsewhere during the Middle Ages, Islamic science and Mathematics in medieval Islam flourished under the Islamic caliphate which was established across the Middle East, extending from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Indus in the east and to the Almoravid Dynasty and Mali Empire in the south.
The Renaissance in Europe ushered in a Scientific revolution and appreciation of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press, which allowed works of literature to spread more quickly. The European Age of Empires saw European ideas of education in philosophy, religion, arts and sciences spread out across the globe. Missionaries and scholars also brought back new ideas from other civilizations – as with the Jesuit China missions who played a significant role in the transmission of knowledge, science, and culture between China and Europe, translating works from Europe like Euclid's Elements for Chinese scholars and the thoughts of Confucius for European audiences. The Enlightenment saw the emergence of a more secular educational outlook in Europe.
In most countries today, full-time education, whether at school or homeschooling, is compulsory for all children up to a certain age. Due to this the proliferation of compulsory education, combined with population growth, UNESCO has calculated that in the next 30 years more people will receive formal education than in all of human history thus far.Robinson, K.: [http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html ''Schools Kill Creativity'']. TED Talks, 2006, Monterey, CA, US.
In India, for example, Compulsory education#Variation in countries spans over twelve years, with eight years of elementary education, five years of primary schooling and three years of upper primary schooling. Various states in the republic of India provide 12 years of compulsory school education based on a national curriculum framework designed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training.
Secondary education occurs mainly during the teenage years. In the United States, Canada, and Australia, primary and secondary education together are sometimes referred to as K–12 (education) education, and in New Zealand Year 1–13 is used. The purpose of secondary education can be to give common knowledge, to prepare for higher education, or to train directly in a profession.
Secondary education in the United States did not emerge until 1910, with the rise of large corporations and advancing technology in factories, which required skilled workers. In order to meet this new job demand, High school (North America) were created, with a curriculum focused on practical job skills that would better prepare students for White-collar worker or skilled Blue-collar worker work. This proved beneficial for both employers and employees, since the improved human capital lowered costs for the employer, while skilled employees received higher wages.
Secondary education has a longer history in Europe, where grammar schools or academies date from as early as the 16th century, in the form of Public education, fee-paying schools, or charitable educational foundations, which themselves date even further back.
Community colleges offer another option at this transitional stage of education. They provide nonresidential junior college courses to people living in a particular area.
Higher education typically involves work towards a degree-level or foundation degree qualification. In most developed countries, a high proportion of the population (up to 50%) now enter higher education at some time in their lives. Higher education is therefore very important to national economies, both as a significant industry in its own right and as a source of trained and educated personnel for the rest of the economy.
University education includes teaching, research, and social services activities, and it includes both the undergraduate level (sometimes referred to as tertiary education) and the graduate student (or postgraduate) level (sometimes referred to as graduate school). Some universities are composed of several colleges.
One type of university education is a liberal arts education, which can be defined as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting broad general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational education, or technical curriculum."
In the past, those who were disabled were often not eligible for public education. Children with disabilities were repeatedly denied an education by physicians or special tutors. These early physicians (people like Itard, Édouard Séguin, Samuel Gridley Howe, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet) set the foundation for special education today. They focused on individualized instruction and functional skills. In its early years, special education was only provided to people with severe disabilities, but more recently it has been opened to anyone who has experienced difficulty learning.
While considered "alternative" today, most alternative systems have existed since ancient times. After the public school system was widely developed beginning in the 19th century, some parents found reasons to be discontented with the new system. Alternative education developed in part as a reaction to perceived limitations and failings of traditional education. A broad range of educational approaches emerged, including alternative schools, autodidacticism, homeschooling, and unschooling. Example alternative schools include Montessori method, Waldorf education (or Rudolf Steiner schools), List of Friends Schools, Sands School, Summerhill School, Walden's Path, The Peepal Grove School, Sudbury Valley School, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and open classroom schools. Charter schools are another example of alternative education, which have in the recent years grown in numbers in the US and gained greater importance in its public education system.
In time, some ideas from these experiments and paradigm challenges may be adopted as the norm in education, just as Friedrich Fröbel's approach to early childhood education in 19th-century Germany has been incorporated into contemporary kindergarten classrooms. Other influential writers and thinkers have included the Switzerland humanitarianism Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi; the United States transcendentalism Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau; the founders of educational progressivism, John Dewey and Francis Wayland Parker; and educational pioneers such as Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner, and more recently John Caldwell Holt, Paul Goodman (writer), Frederick Mayer, George Dennison, and Ivan Illich.
In informal learning, there is often a reference person, a peer or expert, to guide the learner. If learners have a personal interest in what they are informally being taught, learners tend to expand their existing knowledge and conceive new ideas about the topic being learned.
Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is a term used to describe self-directed learning. One may become an autodidact at nearly any point in one's life. List of autodidacts include Abraham Lincoln (U.S. president), Srinivasa Ramanujan (mathematician), Michael Faraday (chemist and physicist), Charles Darwin (naturalist), Thomas Alva Edison (inventor), Tadao Ando (architect), George Bernard Shaw (playwright), Frank Zappa (composer, recording engineer, film director), and Leonardo da Vinci (engineer, scientist, mathematician).
A recent meta-analysis found that online and blended educational approaches had better outcomes than methods that used solely face-to-face interaction.U.S. Department of Education, [https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies], 2010
Schools deliver education, with support from the rest of the education system through various elements such as Education policy and guidelines – to which school policies can refer – curricula and learning materials, as well as pre- and in-service teacher training programmes. The school environment – both physical (infrastructures) and psychological (school climate) – is also guided by school policies that should ensure the well-being of students when they are in school. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has found that schools tend to perform best when principals have full authority and responsibility for ensuring that students are proficient in core subjects upon graduation. They must also seek feedback from students for quality-assurance and improvement. Governments should limit themselves to monitoring student proficiency.
The education sector is fully integrated into society, through interactions with a large number of stakeholders and other sectors. These include parents, local communities, religious leaders, NGOs, stakeholders involved in health, child protection, justice and law enforcement (police), media and political leadership.
Several UN agencies have asserted that Comprehensive sex education should be integrated into school curriculum.
Chimombo pointed out education's role as a policy instrument, capable of instilling social change and economic advancement in developing countries by giving communities the opportunity to take control of their destinies. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in September 2015, calls for a new vision to address the environmental, social and economic concerns facing the world today. The Agenda includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 4 on education.
Since 1909, the ratio of children in the developing world attending school has increased. Before then, a small minority of boys attended school. By the start of the 21st century, the majority of all children in most regions of the world attended school.
Universal Primary Education is one of the eight international Millennium Development Goals, towards which progress has been made in the past decade, though barriers still remain.Liesbet Steer and Geraldine Baudienville 2010. [http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=4755&title=funding-basic-education What drives donor financing of basic education?] London: Overseas Development Institute. Securing charitable funding from prospective donors is one particularly persistent problem. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute have indicated that the main obstacles to funding for education include conflicting donor priorities, an immature aid architecture, and a lack of evidence and advocacy for the issue. Additionally, Transparency International has identified political corruption in the education sector as a major stumbling block to achieving Universal Primary Education in Africa.. Sustainable capacity development requires complex interventions at the institutional, organizational and individual levels that could be based on some foundational principles:
Similarities – in systems or even in ideas – that schools share internationally have led to an increase in international student exchanges. The European Socrates-Erasmus Program provides many opportunities for students from central Asia and eastern Europe. Programs such as the International Baccalaureate have contributed to the internationalization of education. The global campus online, led by American universities, allows free access to class materials and lecture files recorded during the actual classes.
The Programme for International Student Assessment and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement objectively monitor and compare the proficiency of students from a wide range of different nations.
The internationalization of education is sometimes equated by critics with the westernization of education. These critics say that the internationalization of education leads to the erosion of local education systems and indigenous values and norms, which are replaced with Western systems and cultural and ideological values and orientation.
The One Laptop per Child, a group out of MIT Media Lab and supported by several major corporations, has a stated mission to develop a $100 laptop for delivering educational software. The laptops were widely available as of 2008. They are sold at cost or given away based on donations.
In Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) has launched an "New Partnership for Africa's Development E-School Program" to provide all 600,000 primary and high schools with computer equipment, learning materials and internet access within 10 years.
The report showed some cases of successful voucher and subsidy programs; evaluations of international support to the sector are not widespread. Addressing regulatory ineffectiveness is a key challenge. Emerging approaches stress the importance of understanding the political economy of the market for LCPS, specifically how relationships of power and accountability between users, government, and private providers can produce better education outcomes for the poor.
Other commonly employed modalities include musical, interpersonal, Verbal reasoning, logical, and intrapersonal.
Dunn and Dunn follows a similar but more simplified approach.
Some theories propose that all individuals benefit from a variety of learning modalities, while others suggest that individuals may have preferred learning styles, learning more easily through visual or kinesthetic experiences.Barbe, W. B., & Swassing, R. H., with M. N. Milone. (1979). ''Teaching through modality strengths: Concepts and practices''. Columbus, OH: Zaner-Bloser A consequence of the latter theory is that effective teaching should present a variety of teaching methods which cover all three learning modalities so that different students have equal opportunities to learn in a way that is effective for them. Guy Claxton has questioned the extent that learning styles such as Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic(VAK) are helpful, particularly as they can have a tendency to label children and therefore restrict learning. Recent research has argued, "there is no adequate evidence base to justify incorporating learning styles assessments into general educational practice." Researchers in educational neuroscience investigate the neural mechanisms of Reading (process), numerical cognition,
As an academic field, philosophy of education is "the philosophical study of education and its problems (...) its central subject matter is education, and its methods are those of philosophy". As such, it is both part of the field of education and a field of applied philosophy, drawing from fields of metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches (speculative, prescriptive or Analytic philosophy) to address questions in and about pedagogy, education policy, and curriculum, as well as the process of learning theory (education), to name a few.
Some authors stress its value to the individual, emphasizing its potential for positively influencing students' personal development, promoting autonomy, forming a cultural identity or establishing a career or occupation. Other authors emphasize education's contributions to societal purposes, including good citizenship, shaping students into productive members of society, thereby promoting society's general economic development, and preserving cultural values.Christopher Winch and John Gingell, ''Philosophy of Education: The Key Concepts'' (2nd edition). London:Routledge, 2008. pp. 10–11.
The purpose of education in a given time and place affects who is taught, what is taught, and how the education system behaves. For example, in the 21st century, many countries treat education as a positional good. In this competitive approach, people want their own students to get a better education than other students. This approach can lead to unfair treatment of some students, especially those from disadvantaged or marginalized groups. For example, in this system, a city's school system may draw school district boundaries so that nearly all the students in one school are from low-income families, and that nearly all the students in the neighboring schools come from more affluent families, even though concentrating low-income students in one school results in worse educational achievement for the entire school system.
College basketball coach John Wooden the Wizard of Westwood would teach through quick "This not That" technique. He would show (a) the correct way to perform an action, (b) the incorrect way the player performed it, and again (c) the correct way to perform an action. This helped him to be a responsive teacher and fix errors on the fly. Also, less communication from him meant more time that the player could practice. on how earnings are related to the schooling and other human capital. This work has motivated a large number of studies, but is also controversial. The chief controversies revolve around how to interpret the impact of schooling.David Card, "Causal effect of education on earnings," in ''Handbook of labor economics'', Orley Ashenfelter and David Card (Eds). Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1999: pp. 1801–63James J. Heckman, Lance J. Lochner, and Petra E. Todd., "Earnings functions, rates of return and treatment effects: The Mincer equation and beyond," in ''Handbook of the Economics of Education'', Eric A. Hanushek and Finis Welch (Eds). Amsterdam: North Holland, 2006: pp. 307–458. Some students who have indicated a high potential for learning, by testing with a high intelligence quotient, may not achieve their full academic potential, due to financial difficulties.
Economists Samuel Bowles (economist) and Herbert Gintis argued in 1976 that there was a fundamental conflict in American schooling between the Egalitarianism goal of democratic participation and the inequalities implied by the continued profitability of capitalist production.
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Hi again, I need to create a query to get the client email starting from one of his webdomains (domain_id)
So I have to Select email from clients where ??? Join ???
is there a E.R (Entity Relationship Diagram) of ISPConfig?
Most records in ispconfig have a column sys_group_id which define the group a record belongs to and each group is woned by a client. So you can get the client that owns a record by using the sys_group_id of the record that you have, then look up the client_id from sys_group table.
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Bella is Carlisle's daughter in the 1700s. One night, Carlisle doesn't come back from his hunt to take down the vampires. Bella is forced into a marriage with a man who becomes abusive. One night, a year after Carlisle bacame a vampire, her husband nearly kills her and she is left out on the streets, where she is changed. So, what will happen? Will she meet her dad? And will he have another family when she finally meets him?
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"Night Daddy," I said as he left the house, to go looking for the vampires.
We were, possibly, the closest father and daughter ever. Of course, back when Mama was still alive, sje was the one who I would confide in, but she had died because of a fever back when I was 8.
At first, me and Daddy were heart broken, and he could scarcely look, yet alone speak, to me because I reminded him too much of her.
But then, because of our hardship, we bonded and we were now the greatest friends ever.
Both of us missed each other a lot when we had to part but when we met again, the time away from each other was worth it because Daddy always had presents for me.
I wasn't a spoilt child from it like some people had thought I would be. On teh contrary, I wouldn't ccare if I had nothing as long as I still had Daddy.
We were very rich, the richest in the city which we lived in. Daddy's father had been the highest priest in the church here and his father had been too and so had every first born male for 8 generations.
But Daddy had decided to follow a medical career and I was super proud of him. Tonnes of people would here would have died if it wasn't for him. His father and everyone in the town agreed with me.
I hadn't yet been married although, that wasn't because there had been no offers. There had been many, but then I wasn't stupid. They were all because I was said to be the 'beauty of the town' and because I was Carlisle's only child so everyone knew all his money would be given to me.
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"Lady Isabella!" came the voice of my servant, shaking me awake.
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Israel's "moderate" Palestinian peace partner Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday marked the "catastrophe" (Nakba) of Israel's modern rebirth by publicly claiming that the Jews are trying to ethnically cleanse Jerusalem of its Arab population. If that is true, then Israel is the absolute worst practitioner of ethnic cleansing in history.
In a televised speech, Abbas accused Israel of "building settlements in Jerusalem and around it...while there is a massive destruction of [Arab] houses in the city and their original inhabitants are being uprooted on a daily basis."
While it is true that the Jerusalem Municipality occasionally demolishes Arab homes, it does so because those structure were built without proper permits. The reality is that Jerusalem only demolishes a small fraction of the illegally-built houses for fear of international backlash, and that many local Arabs are getting away with breaking the law simply because of their ethnicity.
Abbas continued by regurgitating the conspiracy theory that Israel is targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque that sits atop the Temple Mount and that it is "trying to make Muslims and Christians flee the city by imposing heavy taxes, a policy which can only be called ethnic cleansing."
As a non-Arab resident of Jerusalem, this writer can confidently say that those high taxes are shared by all the city's residents.
But countering Abbas' specific points is not necessary, since the numbers simply do not support his wild outburst.
Since Israel took control of the eastern half of Jerusalem in 1967, the local Arab population has grown by an amazing 257 percent, far faster than the growth rate of the city's Jewish population at 140 percent. Even in recent years, which is presumably what Abbas was focusing on, the Arab population's growth rate has far outstripped the Jewish growth rate. For instance, in 2009 there were approximately 285,000 Arabs living in Jerusalem. A year later, that number had grown to over 293,000. Officials speculated that by 2035, Arabs would constitute 50 percent of the city's population. (Numbers provided by the Central Bureau of Statistics)
Again, if Israel is what Abbas says it is, then it is the most incompetent ethnic-cleanser in history, and Jerusalem's Arabs have little to fear. But that won't stop Abbas, who knows well by this point that the international media laps up negative accusations made by himself and others of Israel's antagonists with little or no reservation.
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As we talked on the phone, I reflected on my 2001 trip to Romania's capital city. I recalled visiting its only jazz club, Green Hours. I recalled meeting with its only university jazz professor, Mircea Tiberian. I recalled my visit to the jazz department (a closet-like practice room barely large enough to contain a beat-up piano and upright bass) to which I donated a dozen jazz CDs by Seattle artists. Overwhelmed by the magnitude of his monumental task, I wished Prof. Smith good luck, thinking he'd need it.
A year later I again heard from the professor, and I could hardly believe the news. Smith had collected donations from contacts in America and Europe for over $30,000 worth of music, recordings, improvisational methods and supplies. He directed the student big band in a nationally televised broadcast at the first-ever Bucharest International Jazz Festival. He staged a gala history of jazz concert, sponsored by the American Cultural Center, unveiling his newly formed Romanian National Jazz Ensemble to capacity crowd. He was awarded the 2003 National Radio Music prize for jazz. Lastly, and most importantly, he had accepted another six-month tour of duty (from January to June, 2004) at the National University in Bucharest.
Almost overnight, Tom Smith jump-started a rag-tag jazz program, quintupled enrollment, and instilled a measure of confidence and poise in musicians who were generally considered second-rate hacks, kilometers behind the classical musicians in respectability and reputation. The curious professor with his melodious trombone and Southern drawl had become an overseas hero-a goodwill ambassador of America's original music. His is an remarkable story, and it's not over.
All About Jazz: What were your expectations at the beginning of your initial Fulbright in Bucharest?
Tom Smith: In all candor, not very high. Although I was well aware of some high quality musicians, I knew that the Romanian jazz infrastructure was almost nonexistent. It was like dealing with a great team without uniforms or a stadium. The whole thing was a big mess. Most of my trepidation came from the email contact I had initiated with the Romanian jazz community. Romania is a very strange place regarding issues of national pride. In fact Romania may be the only European country in need of MORE nationalism. Most Romanians harbor low opinions of their own personal accomplishments and activities. They are a dazed, mentally fatigued population, and the jazz community is no exception. In fact, some of the email letters were desperate enough to use as means for securing free music-related donations. One bassist in particular wrote a letter desperate enough to forward to the attention of Jamey Aebersold. A few days later, he sent over a box of materials from his publishing company. Pretty soon, a number of companies followed suit. This was the beginning of everything.
AAJ: Describe the National University of Music (the conservatory) jazz program when you first arrived there in the fall of 2002.
Tom Smith: I will never forget my first encounter with those guys. I actually entered the university incognito on their first day of school. Like many places in the States, administration was staging an orientation forum/concert for the whole student body. I sat there for about an hour, and during that time, I heard some very good classical music. This of course did not surprise me. The Romanian National University of Music is a major European conservatory with over a thousand students. I fully expected to hear great classical violinists and pianists, and I was not disappointed. After a time, there was a break, prompting me to believe everything was over. Just as people were beginning to stand, a jazz quartet staggered on the stage in a haphazard manner. They were dressed as if they didn't care, and talked on stage as if no one was in the audience. Uh oh, I thought. This could go very badly. Then a tenor player counted off a tempo, and they were off. It was "Joy Spring," and they played it very well. I was so relieved, since their demeanor had demonstrated another very possible outcome. When it was over, they all forgot to bow and the drummer knocked over the microphones with his high-hat stand. This took my mind off the fact that he was only wearing one shoe. The audience was half impressed, half confused. For that matter, so was I.
That first encounter was a real message. From that moment forward I knew what my job was all about. These guys had to get organized and professional. Moreover, the process had to be fast, because I was uncertain if I could put up with too much of that stuff. Those first few months were a real war of wills. Not one of them owned a watch-not a one. They thought it was their God-given right as recently freed men to appear for rehearsals at any time that suited them. In those first few days, you would hear ten cell phones ring at once, and suddenly the music would stop. I thought I was going to kill them all. Then one day there was a breakthrough. One of the more enlightened musicians started taking notes every time I demonstrated something. Then he would gaze attentively at the behavior of his colleagues, and start taking more notes. I had no idea what he was doing, but you can probably imagine the things that ran through my mind.
Finally after three days of this, the guy supervised a huddle with the other guys, and then walked towards me grinning like a crazy man. "Professor Smith, my colleagues and I have considered your comments regarding the strong suggestion that we be silent during repetitions (rehearsals). To our delight we have discovered that when we are quiet, the music does in fact improve." I was astonished. To him, this revelation had been the equivalent of an epiphany. "Do my colleagues concur?" he shouted to the others in the room. "We concur!" they all shouted back in unison. "Very well professor, we will never talk during the repetitions ever again." And you know what? They never did. All of this now seems like a very long time ago. In the present they behave like any collegiate big band musicians from the West and the quality of their performances demonstrate that.
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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual to shrubs; cotyledons generally petioled, withering early
Stem generally erect
Leaves palmately compound in CA, generally cauline; stipules fused to petiole; leaflets 317, generally oblanceolate, entire
Inflorescence: raceme; flowers spiraled or whorled; bracts generally deciduous
Flower: calyx 2-lipped, lobes entire or toothed, generally appendaged between lobes; banner centrally grooved, sides reflexed, wing tips slightly fused, keel generally pointed; stamens 10, filaments fused, 5 long with short anthers, 5 short with long anthers; style brushy
Fruit dehiscent, generally oblong
Seeds 212, generally smooth
Species in genus: ± 200 species: especially w North America, w South America to e US, also tropical South America, Medit
Etymology: (Latin: wolf, from mistaken idea that plants rob soil of nutrients)
Some cultivated for fodder, green manure, edible seed, ornamental; some naturalized from CA in e North America, South America, Australia, s Africa;
some (e.g. L. arboreus, L. latifolius, L. leucophyllus ) have alkaloids (especially in seeds, fruits, young herbage) TOXIC to livestock (especially sheep)
Reference: [Barneby 1989 Intermountain Flora 3(B):237267]
Infl length does not include peduncle
Horticultural information: Many lupine taxa need seed pre-treatment (scarification, stratification, inoculation) for successful germination.
Perennial 115 dm, green-glabrous to silvery-hairy
Stem erect
Leaves basal to cauline; stipules 212 mm; petiole generally 115 cm; leaflets 59, 1060 mm, < 10 mm wide, glabrous to hairy above, hairy below
Inflorescence 516(25) cm; peduncle 110 cm; pedicel 16 mm; flowers whorled to not; bracts generally deciduous
Flower 514 mm; calyx upper lip 48 mm, 2-toothed to entire, lower lip 48 mm, entire to 3-toothed, bulge or spur 03 mm (may be variable on 1 plant); petals blue, violet, or white, banner back generally hairy, patch yellowish to whitish to 0, upper keel margins ciliate, lower keel margins glabrous
Fruit 13 cm, hairy or silky
Seeds 26, tan, brown, or red
Ecology: Montane forest, sagebrush scrub
Elevation: 10003500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, Great Basin Floristic Province, Desert Mountains
Distribution outside California: to s Canada, South Dakota, New Mexico
Highly variable; vars. intergrade. Var. rubricaulis (Greene) Welsh
Synonyms: L. alpestris Nelson
probably not in CA
Horticultural information: TRY.


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Saturday, December 31, 2005
If…….You Must Ponytail
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Old Man Style…Williamsburg, New York
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Window Shopping…….Domenico Vacca, Mad. Ave.
Friday, December 30, 2005
Nolita Street Vendor
Friday, December 30, 2005
Style At The Former Fulton Street Fish Market
Thursday, December 29, 2005
On The Street……#10 Jacket, Midtown
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Young Fencers….New York City
Thursday, December 29, 2005
On The Street…….Girl In A Yellow Scarf
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
On The Street….Flea Market, West 39th Street
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Old Man Style…Williamsburg, New York
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Why I Love This Look – Ralph Lauren Fall 2005
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Inside Domenico Vacca, Soho, New York
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
On The Street…….Nolita, New York
Monday, December 26, 2005
On The Street…….Cream Coat
Monday, December 26, 2005
Why I Love This Look – Ralph Lauren
Monday, December 26, 2005
The Living Definition Of "Cute Girl"
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Merry Christmas!
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Soho Sailor
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Another Orange Scarf
Saturday, December 24, 2005
A Good Pair Of Shoes Is Hard To Throw Out
Friday, December 23, 2005
Why I Love This Look – Burberry
Friday, December 23, 2005
On The Street…. Soho, New York
Friday, December 23, 2005
On The Street…….Gold Tooth
Thursday, December 22, 2005
On The Street…. Fur Hat, Soho, NYC
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Why I Love This Look – Dries Van Noten
Modern Vintage. Even if you can't afford any of his clothes, Dries can deeply affect your style by the inspiration his shows can offer for use of color, overall silhouette, and his unique ability to mix themes and periods.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Christmas Wish List…Racing Style, Koto Bolofo
Koto Bolofo is one of my favorite fashion photographers ,but he is really so much more, including documentary filmmaker. For this book Koto has recreated a automobile race circa 1940′s England with drivers, cars, pit-crew, fans and signage all true to the period. Imagine L'Uomo Vogue meets Car & Driver. Really fantastic.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
The New Skater Style
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
French James Dean
In a vague way this photo reminds me on that famous photo of James Dean walking in Times Square while wearing an overcoat.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Lapo Elkann. Nephew Of Gianni Agnelli
I found these while surfing the net. Notice the Italian flag "monogram" on the sleeve cuff in the top photo.
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
On The Street….The Parisian Way, Soho, New York
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Sartorialiste In A Great Coat
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Why I Love This Look – YSL
The gloves,
The scarf,
The shoes,
The pocket square,
The accessories take an unremarkable suit to a whole new level.
Monday, December 19, 2005
"A Favorite English Sentence" by G.Bruce Boyer
A Favorite English Sentence
G. Bruce Boyer
"If you will kindly step through, sir?"
The first time I heard those words was on my second trip to London. I'd been there once before, when I was a student and had no money to speak of. None to even whisper about. There was a chain of shops called Burton's selling good English-quality ready-made clothes, and I'd bought a wonderful checked Harris Tweed sports jacket off-the-rack. It was almost bullet-proof, and served me well for years.
But this time I was determined to have a real Savile Row suit, handmade with all the trimmings: working buttonholes on the sleeve, step-lapelled waistcoat, silk-lined trousers, boutonnière loop behind the lapel, the works!
So, on a wonderfully crisp Spring morning, a resolute young man briskly walked across Piccadilly and through the Burlington Arcade, marched down the Row and, bringing his courage to the sticking point, pushed through the heavy Victorian oak and beveled glass front door of one of the most reputable bespoke tailoring firms in the world — all the while thinking of the kings and presidents, film stars and international diplomats, Greek shipping magnates, English dukes, Texas oil millionaires, and Continental boulevardiers who had preceded him.
I was also wondering what I should do once the door silently but firmly closed behind me and left me standing inside the entrance of this august, intimidating establishment.
Not to worry, as the English say. Standing outwardly calm, but inwardly shaking like a wet dog, I was quietly approached by an elderly gentleman in impeccably-cut pin-stripes, who very properly and politely asked me if he might be of assistance. "Oh, I want a suit," I brightly said. Trust me to say the right thing.
"Of course, sir," he calmly replied, taking me gently by the elbow and ushering me down the worn and faded Persian carpet, between the long oak refectory tables groaning under rolled bolts of worsted and tweed. And did I prefer town or country suiting, he inquired.
I spent the next forty-five minutes or so going through the cloth swatch books, dozens and dozens of them – there must have been a hundred different patterns of district checks in tweed alone – some containing squares of cloth I thought I'd seen twenty minutes before in another book. My elderly guide stood demurely at my side, offering a word or two of encouragement or advice if I turned to him with a swatch between my fingers.
"Very serviceable piece of worsted, that is, sir. Perhaps a bit too heavy, though, for your climate at home, would you think, sir?
In one book I spied a handsome plaid of rusty brown with a lavender and Kelly green over pane. Did he think it was a bit loud?
"Well, I wouldn't necessarily say loud, sir. But perhaps it does tend to mutter a bit." Scratch that one.
Finally, I settled on a mid-weight, grey cheviot cloth in a miniature herringbone pattern.
"An excellent choice, sir, if I may say so," my well-upholstered counselor intoned. "You may be interested to know that this particularly cloth has been woven for us for almost a hundred years now. Had a suit of it myself when I was younger." And then the magic request.
"And now, sir, if you will kindly step through?". His outstretched arm directed me toward the muted elegance of that burnished wood cubicle with the beveled triplex full-length mirror and malt-colored flannel curtain: THE FITTING ROOM.
I'll save the operations of the fitting room for another time. Suffice it to say here that it is a place of both magic and mystery, as well as considerable consolation and gratification denied even to prayer. And so the words, "And now, sir, if you will kindly step through," have always had a spiritually transforming effect on me, as well as the slightly more prosaic literal one.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
So-Ho-Ho-Ho, Christmas Shopping In Soho, NYC
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Window Shopping…….Ralph Lauren Holiday Season
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Christmas Time In The West Village
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Sartorialist On Ice
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Street Vendor….The English Eccentric
This guy sells vegetable slicers on the street in NYC. After listening to his pitch over and over again in about a 10 minute span I believe he started out as a bit of a character but has turned into a full-blown super stylin' eccentric.
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Duffle Coat….Union Square, Manhattan
Friday, December 16, 2005
A Few Questions For Domenico Vacca
Domenico Vacca was kind enough to answer a few questions for The Sartorialist about the future growth of his company.
Q: Do you have a design background?
A: My grandmother was one of the best tailors in the South of Italy. I grew up looking at her designs and patterns, and that was the best experience I could have ever had.
Q: As a percentage, what is the volume split between the men?s and women?s collections?
A: 60% Men, 40% Women
Q: You have grown your business very quickly in the U.S.; any plans for Europe or Asia?
A: Milan in September 2006, Hong Kong after that, with London and Paris and Moscow following.
Q: Do you see offering the DV label through specialty or department stores?
A: I have many requests from the department stores, but quality and exclusivity do not match with the department store concept. We are working on a new formula that may work!
Q: Any new product categories in the works?
A: We just launched the formal wear and evening wear collections, and we are working on perfumes, jewelry and watches.
Q: Fashion shows?
A: September 2006 New York City. All Sartorialists are invited!
Q: Are you going to Hollywood?
A: We are already in Hollywood with a store on Rodeo Drive, and three movies for which we designed and manufactured the entire wardrobes in 2005.
?Stranger than Fiction?, the new movie of director Marc Forster (?Finding Neverland?), where I designed the wardrobes for Dustin Hoffman, Will Farrell, and Queen Latifah.
"The Inside Man?, the new movie of director Spike Lee, for which we designed the wardrobes of Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer and Jodie Foster.
"Mission Impossible 3″ for Tom Cruise.
Also, we dress on a regular basis Scarlett Johansson, Melanie Griffith, Jodie Foster, Nicollette Sheridan, Usher, Diddy, Kanye West, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, and many designers such as Valentino Garavani and Tommy Hilfiger.
Friday, December 16, 2005
Window Shopping…….Domenico Vacca Display
Thursday, December 15, 2005
G. Bruce Boyer To Contribute To The Sartorialist!
I am thrilled to announce that well known style writer G. Bruce Boyer has written a small piece exclusively for The Sartorialist.
Mr. Boyer ,who recently released a great book on Fred Astaire which can be found at B & N.com, has written a small remembrance entitled "A Favorite English Sentence" about his first experience buying a suit on Savile Row.
It is really quite wonderful, I will post it Monday, December 19th.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Inside Domenico Vacca….Sal Cipriano, Madison Ave. Manager
One of the points that I found most interesting during my conversation with Domenico Vacca, was that by basing his company in the U.S., it actually allowed him to make it more Italian in look, quality, and tradition than if he had opened it in today's Italy. He cited the current Italian economic conditions (fewer affluent Italians), and cultural climate (a growing casualness in dressing), combined with the fact that the American customer has become less label conscious and more quality driven, as the elements that helped affirm his decision.
A lawyer before moving into fashion full-time, Domenico, unlike most of his high-end, but very old school, Italian and English counterparts, has a very clear strategic plan for the growth of his business, the look of his products, and the promotion and marketing of his brand. He takes great pride in explaining how he has carefully crafted a business based on an Italian spirit of fashion and an American attitude towards marketing and customer service.
Domenico has succeeded in quickly carving a niche for his luxe look. In a very short span of time he has opened six boutiques: 3 in Manhattan, plus locations in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour, and Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Window Shopping…….Domenico Vacca Display
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Style Profile…Giuseppe de Corato – CEO, Luigi Borrelli
Giuseppe de Corato is all of 32 years old and already President and CEO of Luigi Borrelli U.S.
I began by asking him how he began ,at such a young age, at such an old school company?
He replied by saying that both his father and grandfather had always worn Kiton and Battistoni and that as he grew up…..ok, stop right there, I already hate him.
Thats like a woman telling another woman that she use to play dress-up in her mom's old Chanel hand-me-downs, it's just not fair.
Borrelli is currently in a serious expansion mode having just opened a new boutique in San Francisco and is currently finalizing plans for several new locations in other major cities across America.
The Sartorialist, stifling his growing envy, asked Giuseppe about sartorial advise given and received, and about his own personal style.
Best sartorial advice from your Dad?
Don't follow trends. Classic dressing is timeless and always in fashion.
Best sartorial advice to pass down to your son?
Listen to your grandfather.
Hardest thing for American customers to understand about the ?Italian fit?.
Americans believe that more fabric is more comfortable. The Italian fit emphasizes a fit that is closer to the body. It gives the wearer a leaner, more fit look.
The first thing I look at in another Sartorialist?s outfit
I always notice fit first, but a sense of style always makes the impression.
I always break this fashion rule.
I never polish my shoes.
I never break this fashion rule.
I always wear a jacket in the evening.
Favorite store?
Peck (food) Milano
Worst fashion mistake?
Favorite ?fashiony? movie?
Thomas Crown Affair
Describe personal style:
Neapolitan elegance
You feel best wearing?
Something hand-made.
Most overrated item in menswear?
Designer labels.
Most underrated item in menswear?
Most stylish city?
Never caught wearing?
Favorite fashion magazine?
L'uomo Vogue
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Flea Market Find…..A Very Fine Man
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Hands Of A Tailor
Want to know the mark of a true tailor?
Check their index fingers.
Red, calloused, puffy, these are the hands of a craftsman.
Pictured above is Gerardo, he is the tailor at Domenico Vacca.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Young Girls Of Williamsburg Run With The Marathoners
I took this photo while shooting the New York Marathon this year. I've run the NYC Marathon twice so I actually saw the potential of this shot about 8 years ago.
Every year the Marathon makes its way through Williamsburg, a mostly Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn. A huge group of young Hasidic girls run back and forth between the runners, giggling and screaming the entire time.
The Marathon is such a great event, it brings together so many different types of people to support the runners. In my opinion it is the best sporting event in the city.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Window Shopping…….Domenico Vacca, Dec 12th
Monday, December 12, 2005
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Monday, December 12, 2005
Inside Domenico Vacca….Oliver Gerona, Fifth Ave. Manager
Domenico Vacca does color very, very well. When I met with Domenico the other day, he told me about the little white lie some of his customers tell when first shopping in his store.
Apparently they tell Domenico they are "colorblind", and ask him to put together shirt, tie, sweater combos. Over time it becomes clear they are not colorblind but "colorscared". Domenico said one of the best rewards of selling is when they start coming by the store to show off the outfits and color combinations they put together themselves, and how much they appreciated his help in finding their sartorial voice.
To me that is what "service" is all about. Sure the follow-up calls, and home delivery, and whatever, are nice but I want expert help in making me look better and more personal in my own clothes.
Pictured above is Oliver Gerona, the manager of the Fifth Avenue store. He is one of those guys that can help you look much better than you ever thought you could, but that would still not be quite as good looking as him.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Sartorialiste On Ice
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Inside The Luciano Barbera Showroom
I was the Barbera showroom the other day and Michal showed me the most perfect blazer/sweater/coat/jacket thing. A cashmere/wool ribbed knit that wears like a sweater but fits like a jacket. This jacket was one of his top sellers for Fall 2005.
If it is at all above freezing outside this would be my first choice.
I love how Michal adds his own sprezzatura with the attitude he gives the tie.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Be Bold
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Old Man Style…Harlem, New York
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Street Artist….Soho, New York
You've got to appreciate any guy brave enough to wear one pair of Bathing Ape sneakers, let alone two colorways at one time.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
On The Street…. 57th Street, Midtown
Saturday, December 10, 2005
39th Street Flea Market…Midtown, Manhattan
The Chelsea Flea Market at 26th and Sixth was a New York institution for the chic elite.
Recently it was forced to relocate to West 39th Street, luckily the flea market finds are just as great and the chic are just as elite.
Friday, December 9, 2005
Style Profile…Jonathan Quearney, The Modern Tailor
I usually use the phrase "sweet and sinister" to describe a girl, but somehow that phrase perfectly fits Jonathan Quearney. He is charming like a typical Irish born and raised young man, but you can just tell that under the surface there is an edge.
I get the sense that he knows that if he is entering the slowly devolving arena of Savile Row that he better do it with his eyes wide open and search for how to make tailoring relevent to the modern customer.
One way he has done this is by understanding and embracing modern fashion, not fighting it. Jonathan is a partner in a very cool men's knitwear collection in London called Aluma & The Tailor.
I met Jonathan when he was in New York recently and asked him a few questions about his personal style,
Must have item for Fall 2005?
If you want to add something useful to your wardrobe: softly tailored garments in plain velvets.
Favorite store?
B- Store, Conduit Street, London W1 England
Style icon?
For me, it was my bro, Hamo Quearney. He was part of a 3rd wave of mod culture and our dad was a tailor; he literally had it all sewn up.
Worst fashion mistake?
I can remember at 14 wearing an indigo denim shirt, tie, braces, and a biker jacket a lot. It does not seem so bad now because it was an unconscious fashion sense, and that?s what style is for me.
Most cherished item?
My left-handed tailors shears; they are an irreplaceable tool-of-the-trade in my case.
Favorite item of clothing?
An Anderson & Sheppard top-coat that was regularly worn in the 90?s at High Grove Estate by Thomas Mahon when attending his duties as royal tailor to HRH Prince of Wales. It is a hand-me-down, and the softest, tailored, knee length over garment one could own,
Favorite ?fashiony? movie?
Michael Caines suits in ?Get Carter? look so modern even today.
Describe personal style?
When I first visited Paris in the late 90?s what caught my eye the most was the vagrants sense of style and how they dressed. It was completely uninfluenced by any trend, for obvious reasons. It came from necessity.
Once I observed a man standing inside the door of the restaurant; I thought he had an amazing presence while he waited for the leftovers. It was winter and he was head-to-toe in tailored garments combined in the most amazing patterns. This was not shabby chic; quite the opposite, this man looked his best. I don?t dress like a French vagrant, but their sense of style inspired me greatly.
You feel best wearing?
Wearing a suit when people least expect it.
Personal Style quirk?
I am a tailor, so I wear a combination of more garments in a day than a computer programmer, for example.
This gives me the opportunity to experiment with more colors and patterns in my style. Because my clothes fit well I can contrast that with a combination of different tailored garments.
Dress to impress whom?
If you can be trusted, you should dress to impress yourself.
Most overrated item in menswear?
$2000+ designer suits.
Really bad value for money and quality.
My dad always said, if you want somebody to care about how you look go to a specialist.
Craftsmen today are still around for one simple reason, they love what they do.
Most underrated item in menswear?
A hand-made suit,
We all need a staple wardrobe and its true that many people today say they don?t need to wear a suit – I think this says a lot. Technology and other industries that are heavily marketed are convincing us to part with a large part of our disposable income. I compete against Motorola and Nokia for the customers? money in today?s menswear market.
Most stylish city?
Never caught wearing?
Same color shirt and tie together; it?s the lazy option.
When I was high school I wore?
The school uniform colors but not the school uniform.
Shine your own shoes?
Always, when I have time
Clean excess dirt / then apply even layer of polish and leave to dry / use a piece of cotton to remove the excess polish / then shine with a polish brush / the brush strokes in an anti-clockwise motion paying particular attention to the toe and heel areas.
When I travel up an escalator I use the bristles by my feet to shine my shoes.
Learning about the crafts of shoemaking, shirt making, hatmaking, textile printing, watch making etc.
Favorite fashion magazine?
Good For Nothing Magazine (former editor of Sleaze, Slazenation Stuart Turnball) because it?s young and I never want to grow up completely.
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Window Shopping…….Domenico Vacca
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Saks Outlines Plans For SFA Turnaround
In WWD today "Saks Outlines Plans For SFA Turnaround."
Saks says
The top priority is better inventory management to help gross margins – Fewer Clothes.
SFA will invest in building the Saks luxury image with customers- increasing marketing budgets for more events. Jennings, SFA President, pointed to three new restaurants at SFA as part of the strategy to create a luxury environment. – More Food.
Like I need more food from Saks
From Saks customers I hear they want more educated salespeople, and from the designers/brands that sell to Saks they want more educated buyers.
More than a few times I've heard that vendors are frustrated by 24 year-old buyers with no real knowledge of the area they are buying. Maybe that is why the merchandise mix is often off.
Saks- please stop rearranging the chairs and make us believe in you again.
Use the Apple Stores as a prototype,
They don't need restaurants, they have an educated staff that believe so strongly in the product that a customer cannot help but fall under their spell of confidence and knowledge.
Shopping at Apple is a total WOW experience and that is what I want when spending $2500 on a suit.
Thursday, December 8, 2005
On The Street…. Harlem, New York
Thursday, December 8, 2005
This Is How To Wear A Coat
I love how slim this coat is, and yet Mory is still able to wear his suit jacket underneath comfortably. Notice the pocket square in the coat.
Precision of cut!
Checkout the Eredi Pisano website.
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Made-To-Measure Room, Kiton Boutique, Manhattan
The Power of Intimidation.
Kiton U.S. is housed in a turn-of-the-century bank. The big moneymaker "Made-to-Measure" room is easily one of the most impressive spaces in New York men's retailing. Beautiful, original woodwork and modeling, chandeliers, and a huge table of full-size bolts of cloth from which to choose your suit, are all carefully utilized to separate you from your money. Luckily you come away with one of the most elegant and well-crafted suits in the business.
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Old Sailor…6th Ave., Manhattan
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Orange Crush
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Kiton Boutique, NYC….Nicola Zilli
Luciano Barbera defines "sprezzatura" as detachment, quiet confidence, or low-key style.
Nicola has this in spades.
Let's not confuse sprezzatura, though, with refinement or perfection; Nicola is a little shaggy, a little raw, and if you saw his shoes, certainly a little quirky. Think Agnelli without the money.
If I was still single I would sign up to be his wingman. What is the Italian word for "wingman"?
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
The Proper Way to Beret
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Window Shopping…….Bergdorf Goodman 11/19
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Kiton Boutique, Manhattan
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
On The Street….Lower East Side, New York
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Flea Market Find…..The Portrait 2
Monday, December 5, 2005
Kiton Boutique,NYC….Jose M. Rodriquez
Perfectly tailored suit….Check
Perfectly showing just enough Pocket Square….Check
Perfect Shoes…Check
Perfect frames for face shape…Check
Perfect turn-of-the-century stair case to pose in front of….Check
Monday, December 5, 2005
Sartorialiste – Sweet & Sinister
Sunday, December 4, 2005
Custom Made Boots, Farmer's Market, Union Square
Sunday, December 4, 2005
The New Skate Style….It's Still About The Hair
Sunday, December 4, 2005
The New Skate Style….Shoe Tree
Sunday, December 4, 2005
On The Street…. Brooklyn, New York
Saturday, December 3, 2005
Sartorialist "Best Practice" For The Weekend
The Scarf.
I think his is fantastic, and the way it is tied (not too tight), almost like it has its own personality.
It shows how a simply but strong accessory can make an entire look.
Saturday, December 3, 2005
Window Shopping…….Barneys New York, Moncler
Friday, December 2, 2005
In The Mix….Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Let me point out a few details.
Spectator shoes, wide-cuffed glen plaid pants, beret, bike.
Did I mention the Gucci-belted fur collar and cuffed coat?
Friday, December 2, 2005
Kiton Boutique, Manhattan
Friday, December 2, 2005
D. Singer Fabric Store…Lower East Side, Manhattan
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Style Profile…David Anicich – Luigi Borrelli, New York
Where has all the good sales help gone?
I found one, David Anicich, the store manager at Luigi Borrelli in Manhattan. New customers come to David because they want the "Borrelli Look"; their eye might not pick up the subtle nuances that separate Borrelli from say Brioni but they know it is different somehow.
When the customer steps out of the dressing room and David starts working his magic, you can see the customers face go from puzzled concern to "ahhhh…thats the look I was going for." The pants might be a little shorter than they are use to, the jacket a little more snug, the collar a little more spread, but they love it.
David is like that barber who gently but firmly tells you that a mullet might not be the best haircut for your face shape.
The Sartorialist asked David a few questions about his personal style.
Best Sartorial advice from your Dad?
Always punch your weight and dress your age.
Best Sartorial advice to pass down to your son?
Listen to your tailor, but always remember you have to wear the suit.
Hardest thing for American customer to understand about the ?Italian fit??
That a suit (or shirt) that fits the body is more natural, comfortable and flattering way to dress than the shapeless (relaxed?) fit most men are used to wearing.
You build your daily look around your?
My mood and who I need to be on that day.
The first thing I look at in another Sartorialist?s outfit?
The overall fit. A man who understands how his clothes should fit always looks confident and "put together".
I skimp when buying?
Jeans! classic Levi's on sale!!!
I splurge when buying?
Seven fold ties and bench made shoes.
I never break this fashion rule?
I NEVER wear a watch and ALWAYS wear formal shoes with a tuxedo.
Favorite store?
Casa dello Sport in Firenze and Marinella in Napoli
Favorite item of clothing?
An old pair of suede chukka boots.
Describe personal style?
Classic Dad.
Personal Style quirk?
Re-tying my tie throughout the day until I get it right.
Dress to impress who?
My sons.
Most overrated item in menswear?
Most underrated item in menswear?
A good tailor and an honest salesman.
Most stylish city?
New York. The mix of styles and level of self expression is like no other city.
Never caught wearing?
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Don't Call Me Today, I Just Got The New Bruce Weber Book!
Bruce Weber is the best photographer in the fashion world.
Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch, has any current photographer created more iconic advertising images? At the same time no other fashion photographer shows more heart in photographing both models like Kate Moss or his Montana ranching neighbor with equal dignity and beauty.
I saw Bruce once at the Film Forum waiting for the crowd to exit the premiere of his Letter to True movie. No entourage or assistants, just Bruce standing in the lobby. I introduced myself and told him how much I enjoy his work ( understand, I'm a New Yorker so I never do that) and he could not have been more pleasant and accommodating. Bruce is one of the few photographers that you can learn a little more about acceptance and humanity by looking at the full catalog of his work.


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Chuck Missler goes 'extraterrestrial' in sermon
See video evidence that Bible is 'from outside our ... domain'
Chuck Missler, whose military and business career spans decades, continents and industries, has reached a startling conclusion about the Bible. It's not from our "time domain."
In another word, it's "extraterrestrial."
He's created a video that provides the evidence.
"The Bible is incredible, and you can demonstrate it is of extraterrestrial original," he said in a Jan. 27 talk to the Christ's Commission Fellowship church.
The video has attracted attention already on the Internet.
Missler, a Naval Academy graduate and former branch chief of the Department of Guided Missiles, also has had a remarkable 30-year executive career, serving on the board of directors of 12 public companies and as CEO of six of them.
For 20 years he balanced his high-profile corporate career with his teaching commitment at a weekly Bible study at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, Calif.
He has written books and created DVDs, and his wife, Nancy, co-founded the ministry Koinonia House.
After a devastating earthquake in 1992 demolished their home in Big Bear, California, the couple moved Koinonia House to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and K-House now reaches tens of thousands through its monthly newsletter, radio shows, podcast, Bible study materials, and conferences. More than eight million Bible study resources have been distributed in the U.S. and in over 35 countries around the world.
"I get so tired of people who mean well and say you can't prove the Bible but then make some positive statement," Missler said. "Yes, you can."
The teaching lecture highlights some of the things Missler says God hid in the Bible but have been discovered.
For example, he cites some of the genealogies in the Old Testament, specifically the generations from Adam through Noah.
Catch up on Chuck Missler's latest teachings, in "The Angelic Realm," "The Kingdom, Power and Glory," "The Origin of Evil," "Twilight's Last Gleaming" and many more.
He explained there is a message in the sequence of the names Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech and Noah.
According to the associated letters in Hebrew alphabet, the names together say: "Man appointed mortal sorrow. Blessed God shall come down teaching that His death shall bring the despairing comfort."
A miracle, he said.
"There's no other way to convince me that the complete Gospel message from the New Testament would have been included in the Old Testament by a bunch of Jewish rabbis," he said.
He described it as a supernatural document.
"Do you get the feeling God knows what he's doing? Get the feeling he's in control of every detail?" he asked.
"The more you study your Bible you'll see these connections."


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"Well, that went well," writes Amy Welborn, one of my favorite Catholic bloggers. She's referring to the media maelstrom over "Light of the World," Peter Seewald's book-length interview with Pope Benedict XVI. Did you hear about it yesterday? Long story short is that L'Osservatore Romano broke the embargo for releasing excerpts from the book. And all hell broke loose. Here are the first five headlines I grabbed off of Google News:
Pope says condoms sometimes permissible to stop AIDS
Pope Says Condoms to Stop AIDS May Be Acceptable
Pope Benedict says that condoms can be used to stop the spread of HIV?
Pope signals historic leap in fight against Aids: Condoms can be justified
Pope says some condom use 'first step' of morality
Earlier in the day Times (U.K.) religion correspondent Ruth Gledhill tweeted "About to do Sky News on Pope's condom conversion!" A condom conversion! Wow, this is huge news!
Before we go on, you may want to read the actual remarks from Benedict, helpfully published by BBC. It's not long and has plenty of discussion about how the media perverts news. And you might also note that you won't find the words "permissible," "justified" or "acceptable" in those remarks. You'll note that there is literally nothing in there about procreative sex or birth control.
The remarks are terribly fascinating, and explain some of the somewhat complicated teaching on the church's concern for an individual's moral progress. And the remarks are clearly way too complicated for the media to understand. Even some of the professional folks went for drama over accuracy.
Here's the first paragraph of The New York Times report:
ROME -- Pope Benedict XVI has said that condom use can be justified in some cases to help stop the spread of AIDS, the first Vatican exception to a long-held policy condemning condom use. The pope made the statement in a series of interviews with a German journalist, part of an extraordinary effort to address some of the harshest criticisms of his turbulent papacy.
Well, the first sentence is where the problems arise. You really should read all of the remarks in context but the interview asks about the March 2009 trip to Africa media maelstrom over his comments that condoms won't solve the African AIDS crisis. He expands on that, explaining his view that sexual immorality is the problem that go far beyond a condom fix. And then:
This means that the sheer fixation on the condom implies a banalization of sexuality, which, after all, is precisely the dangerous source of the attitude of no longer seeing sexuality as the expression of love, but only a sort of drug that people administer to themselves. This is why the fight against the banalization of sexuality is also a part of the struggle to ensure that sexuality is treated as a positive value and to enable it to have a positive effect on the whole of man's being.
There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants. But it is not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection.
Anyway, even if some dumbing down of these comments by reporters is called for, they're giving the impression that the Vatican has turned about on birth control and condom usage. And that's really not the case at all. Even if they were accurately characterizing the comments, there needs to be a much more careful use of terms. I know that everyone likes to say "The Vatican" for anything happening within 200 miles of the Vatican, and yes, this is the Pope making these comments. But an interview with a journalist does not count as an ex cathedra official pronouncement. So to call this a Vatican exception is overstating.
Later in the story, the comments are actually explained well. But how many people get past the headline and first paragraph? I mean, at the end of the piece, the article quotes someone saying flat out that it would be wrong to say "Pope Approves Condoms" and that the Pope is saying condom use is immoral but could be an indication of an awakening that someone needs to be more conscious of their actions. That sounds right, it's just in contrast with the beginning of the article that says the opposite.
The BBC said:
Pope Benedict appears to have changed the Vatican's official stance on the use of condoms to a moral position that many Catholic theologians have been recommending for quite some time.
And here's the Associated Press:
Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that condoms can be justified for male prostitutes seeking to stop HIV, a stunning turnaround for a church that has long opposed condoms and a pontiff who has blamed them for making the AIDS crisis worse.
So are these comments a stunning repudiation of previous Vatican policy or just a reiteration of basic Catholic teaching? Let's check with Vatican reporter John Allen, quoted in the Catholic Herald:
Leading Vatican commentator John Allen said: "Pope Benedict XVI has signaled that in some limited cases, where the intent is to prevent the transmission of disease rather than to prevent pregnancy, the use of condoms might be morally justified.
"While that position is hardly new, in the sense that a large number of Catholic theologians and even a special Vatican commission requested by Benedict XVI have endorsed it, this is the first time the Pope himself has publicly espoused such a view.
"The comments do not yet rise to the level of official church teaching, but they do suggest that Benedict might be open to such a development."
The rest of that article includes comments from others saying that Benedict's comments are reiterations of Catholic teaching, for what it's worth. Anyway, let's see how coverage progresses. On the bright side, things can only improve from here.


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Cumberland County Sheriff's Office Record, 1864Item 67746 info
Maine Historical Society
The bond of $100 Martin had to pay would be $1,480 today. He probably could not afford it.
Martin had to wait until the last Tuesday in July when the Supreme Judicial Court met in order to have his case heard. The ledger says he was released on August 2.
But he had a second trial in October and according the the Supreme Judicial Court Record the District Attorney declined to prosecute. He was released and went back to his regiment.


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On This Day...
1814 - Christen: Elizabeth Bourn,
1824 - Birth: Leroy James Lawrence Dark, Meriwether County, Georgia
1833 - Marriage: Bryant Cole Byrd and Mary Straughan, Crawford County, Indiana
1855 - Birth: William Marion Crain, Columbia County, Arkansas
1879 - Birth: Emma Johanna Karnitz, Minnesota
1889 - Birth: Jennie Pitcher,
1912 - Birth: Clifford Bennett Omdahl, Skagen Township, Roseau County, Minnesota
1922 - Birth: Marcellus Theisen, Minnesota
1928 - Marriage: Omar Holt Williams and Emma Gertrude McMurry, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
1928 - My maternal grandparents were married. I never met my grandmother, as she died in 1950, but I did meet my grandfather on one of my few trips down to Louisiana.
This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman


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