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Civilization: The Way We Live Now – powerful, troubling photographs of a crowded planet and uncertain future
Author: Sasha Grishin
Source: The Conversation
Date: 17/9/19
In 1955, an enormous photographic exhibition, The Family of Man, challenged the world as to what it meant to be human. The curator, Edward Steichen, assembled 503 photographs by 273 photographers from 68 countries, while his brother-in-law, the poet Carl Sandburg, provided the lyrical subtext to the show and its title.
In his poem, The Long Shadow of Lincoln: A Litany (1944), Sandburg wrote, "There is dust alive/ With dreams of the Republic,/ With dreams of the family of man/ Flung wide on a shrinking globe".
Taloi Havini & Stuart Miller Sami and the Panguna mine 2009–10, 80.1 × 119.9 cm, type C photograph National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2014 © Taloi Havini and Stuart Miller
In some ways, this new vast exhibition, Civilization: The Way We Live Now, a version of which has just opened at the National Gallery of Victoria, catches the flame of the challenge of The Family of Man with its dreams of humankind living on a rapidly shrinking globe.
The show brings together over 100 contemporary photographers from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Australia with over 200 photographs. Unlike its illustrious predecessor of more than 60 years earlier, many of the photographs in this exhibition are huge in dimensions and in a very wide range of mediums.
Massimo Vitali, Italian born 1944, Piscinao de Ramos 2012, Lightjet print. 232.5 x 185.5 x 6.0 cm. © Massimo Vital
"Civilization", the title of numerous exhibitions, conjures the image of civilisations of the past – Egypt, Rome, Byzantium – empires that rose and collapsed. This exhibition explores the concept of a "planetary civilisation" – one, where for the first time in human history, more people live in cities, than in rural settings.
Reiner Riedler, Austrian born 1968, Wild River, Florida 2005 from Fake Holidays series type C photograph. 100.0 x 120.0 x 4.0 cm. © Reiner Riedler
Human mobility and interconnectivity have meant that more people, countries and economies are interdependent than ever before. For the first time, there is a real prospect that the human species stands to comprehensively annihilate itself, not through an act of war, but through man-made climate change and over consumption. It is also the first time that photographers are virtually everywhere and are photographing virtually everything.
Gjorgji Lichovski, Macedonian born 1964, Macedonian police clash with refugees at blocked border 2015, type C photograph. 70.7 x 104.0 x 3.5 cm. © epa european pressphoto agency / Georgi Licovski
The curators of this exhibition, William A. Ewing and Holly Roussell, have examined many thousands of contemporary photographs and have spoken to hundreds of photographers around the world.
Through this process of interrogation, the material has suggested eight fluid, porous sections around which the exhibition is arranged: Hive, Alone together, Flow, Persuasion, Control, Rapture, Escape and Next. These, as Ewing stresses, are some of the broad themes that are preoccupying many of the world's finest photographers today.
Priscilla Briggs. American born 1966 Happy (Golden Resources Mall, Beijing), from the series Fortune 2008 type C photograph 100.0 x 128.0 x 4.5 cm © Priscilla Briggs
Last year, the exhibition was shown in Seoul, earlier this year in Beijing and now it is in Melbourne, where it has been considerably trimmed of some of its international content and supplemented by a number of Australian photographers.
Ashley Gilbertson, 1,215 American soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors pray before a pledge of enlistment on July 4, 2008, at a massive re-enlistment ceremony at one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces in Baghdad, Iraq 2008, from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot series, type C photograph 69.0 x 94.0 x 5.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist. © Ashley Gilbertson / VII Network
Next year, the exhibition will travel to Auckland, in 2021 to Marseilles and there is promise of future venues in the coming years. The Family of Man was to tour for eight years and attracted over nine million visitors and there is every possibility that this exhibition will match or exceed this number.
'Homogenising humanity'
If The Family of Man posed the question what do humans have in common to make them human, photographs in Civilization focus on what the curators term the "shared human experience". The historian Niall Ferguson noted in his book Civilization: The West and the Rest (2011): "It is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history that a system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has ended up homogenising humanity."
Mark Power, British born 1959, The funeral of Pope John Paul II broadcast live from the Vatican, Warsaw, Poland, 2005. from the series The Sound of Two Songs, 2004–09, type C photograph 106.7 x 134.0 x 4.4 cm. Courtesy of Magnum Photos London © Mark Power / Magnum Photos
This homogenised humanity prevails in many of the photographs, whether it be in the claustrophobic clutter of the great metropolises of the "Hive" or the truly unsettling images of the "Next" section. This is a future where a perfect race appears in Valérie Belin's models, robots replace humans in Reiner Riedler's photographs and we leave this crowded planet in the images of Michael Najjar.
Valérie Belin, French born 1964, Untitled. from the Models II series, 2006, pigment inkjet print 130.0 x 105.0 x 4.0 cm. Courtesy Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels © Valérie Belin
In navigating this extensive exhibition, you experience mixed emotions – on one hand these photographers are holding up a mirror to this concentrated global urban environment that we recognise as real and a shared experience, but on the other hand this is an exhibition of very significant art.
Many of the names of these photographers read like a roll call of some of the leading documentary and art photographers in the world.
In one of the iconic images of this exhibition, Thomas Struth's "Pergamon Museum 1, Berlin" (2001), a huge type C photograph, our civilisation has recreated a past civilisation so that we can stand in triumph over past achievements.
The great veteran photographer, Lee Friedlander, records America through the prism of the car window, while the Canadian Edward Burtynsky presents a huge panoramic view of mass food production in his "Manufacturing #17, Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province, China" (2005).
The young Russian photographer, Sergey Ponomarev, in one of the most moving photographs in the exhibition, "Migrants walk past the temple as they are escorted by Slovenian riot police to the registration camp outside Dobova, Slovenia, Thursday October 22, 2015" comments on the theme of mass migration in the era of the new world order.
Sergey Ponomarev, Migrants walk past the temple as they are escorted by Slovenian riot police to the registration camp outside Dobova, Slovenia, Thursday October, 22, 2015 2015, from Europe's Refugee Crisis series type C photograph, 70.6 x 104.0 x 3.2 cm, Courtesy of The New York Times. © Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
There is also a powerful section on images of escape – an escape from a created reality that now imprisons us – the fake wilderness in American amusement parks recorded by the Austrian Reiner Riedler or the American Jeffrey Milstein's "Caribbean Princess" (2014) an inkjet print from the Cruise Ships series.
Jeffrey Milstein, Caribbean Princess 2015, from the Cruise Ships series 2014, inkjet print. © Jeffrey Milstein
A hallmark of a memorable exhibition is that it seduces the viewer through its sheer beauty, while at the same time making us question the reality that we inhabit.
Civilization: The way we live now is an important milestone exhibition that raises questions of the single planetary civilisation that is now evolving, where a stranger on social media may appear more real than our neighbour, and where our very future appears increasingly problematic.
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Antetokounmpo has triple-double, Bucks beat Trail Blazers
Nov. 21, 2019 at 7:53 pm Updated Nov. 22, 2019 at 8:04 am
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee crowd greeted Carmelo Anthony with a loud ovation when the 10-time All-Star was introduced before the game. It cheered louder after the Bucks extended their winning streak to six straight.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had his second triple-double of the season and Milwaukee beat Anthony and the short-handed Portland Trail Blazers 137-129 on Thursday night.
"Giannis is Giannis," Anthony said about the reining MVP. "He's a tough check. I thought tonight we actually did a pretty good job. Even though he had a triple-double, when you look at that, it's like 'Oh, he had a hell of a game.' But I thought, for the most part, we were back on him. We loaded up on him. He got some and-1s, he got going a little bit. … He found some guys, they made some 3s, kind of opened the game up."
Antetokounmpo had 24 points, 19 rebounds and a career-high 15 assists to lead the Bucks to their seventh win in the last nine games against Portland.
"I couldn't get going offensively," Antetokounmpo said. "Shots weren't falling and they were showing a lot of crowds. I tried to find my teammates and they were in the right spots. They were able to knock down shots and to roll hard. I just did half of the work and my teammates did the rest."
Antetokounmpo, who also had a triple-double in the season opener, became the first player in franchise history to record a game with 20 points, 15 rebounds and 15 assists. The 6-foot-11 forward has 16 career triple-doubles. Milwaukee is 14-2 in those games.
Eric Bledsoe added 30 points and six assists in the Bucks' highest-scoring game of the season.
After scoring 10 points on 4-of-14 shooting in 24 minutes in his season debut Tuesday night against the Pelicans, Anthony had 10 points in the first half Thursday. Anthony finished with 18 points (6-of-15 shooting) and seven rebounds for the Trail Blazers, who were without Hassan Whiteside (hip), Damian Lillard (back), Zach Collins (shoulder) and Jusuf Nurkic (leg).
"He's getting his sea legs after having that year off," Portland guard CJ McCollum said about Anthony. "Getting used to that movement, getting used to how the game is flowing."
McCollum scored 37 points and Skal Labissiere added 22 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks for Portland. The Trail Blazers lost their third straight game overall and their sixth straight in Milwaukee.
The Bucks made their first seven shots, including three 3s, and led 17-6. Milwaukee never trailed.
The Bucks also had their highest first-half total, leading 72-58.
The Blazers used a 40-point third quarter to close the gap and pulled within 117-115 with just over 7:00 play. But Brook Lopez and Wes Matthews hit back-to-back 3s to seal the Bucks victory.
"I thought we competed," McCollum said. "I thought we played hard. Obviously, we came up short. But I thought it was a step in the right direction."
Milwaukee made 21 of 26 free throws against 12 of 14 for the Trail Blazers and outrebounded Portland 58-41.
"Keep in mind, their starting center (Lopez) didn't even get a rebound," Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts said. "So they did all that rebounding without even their center getting it. So they got them from a lot of different positions. We have to be aware of it. We can't assume that anybody else is going to get it. We don't have one guy that's going to go snatch all the rebounds. We gotta do it with five guys."
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Antetokounmpo made his first career NBA start against Anthony. The date was Dec. 18, 2013. Giannis had 10 points and seven rebounds before fouling out. Carmelo scored 29 points in New York's victory.
Trail Blazers: At Cleveland on Saturday night.
Bucks: Host Detroit on Saturday night.
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"The diva sees you struggling, curls her fat lips into a smug smile, and makes another demand. "Oh, and do that without continues," she says with a sassy shake of her hips. You get three lives in ZSG and not a single continue. It demands that you grab 100 pieces from a potential 100 or more levels without getting a single game over, and with only one hit per life. "
Some games are like divas. They can be pushy, unreasonable and demanding of ridiculous tasks. The old school shmup Zunou Senkan Galg is like that from the start. First thing ZSG does is demand you grab 100 pieces of a weapon so you can destroy the mysterious antagonist Dragg. You might think there's some easy way to do this, as if pieces are constantly coming down the screen at you, but the stone cold reality should hit you after about the fifth part or so: there's only one piece per level. Remembering this handy skill called math, that puts us at 100 levels. It's then that you hit the power button or click on the cute little X at the top right hand corner of your emulator and move on to bigger and better games.
But being the dutiful assistant in this relationship, you just can't let the diva down. You decide to tolerate all 100 of those levels, come hell or high blood pressure. You swoop in and grab five, six, seven pieces and everything's going fine until the diva makes another demand: she wants you to dodge rain drops. That screen that started off reasonable enough is soon filled to capacity with waffles, sperms, lightbulbs, and depressed Walmart logos, and eventually their projectile. Enemies come in massive swarms with bullets flying at you from every angle, leaving you little room at all between shots and sometimes even cornering you. This might be a doable task were it not for the slightly loose controls, causing you to accidentally fly into the wall and quite often into enemies or shots. I can't count the number of times I crashed into a plain vertical wall just because I wasn't able to gauge my ship's speed and position correctly in relation to all the stimuli on the screen.
The diva sees you struggling, curls her fat lips into a smug smile, and makes another demand. "Oh, and do that without continues," she says with a sassy shake of her hips. You get three lives in ZSG and not a single continue. It demands that you grab 100 pieces from a potential 100 or more levels without getting a single game over, and with only one hit per life.
Perhaps the biggest demand is that you do it all without losing interest. Either the challenge will scare you off or the cheap development. It's understandable for games from 1985 to feel primitive, but ZSG goes the distance. You have to battle through only three different environments--a river, what looks like a cross between a boiler room and a tiled bathroom wall, and outer space with flickering stars and intermittent floating pieces of pipework and machinery that all look slapped together--none of which have anything remotely interesting about them. Meanwhile, you listen to the same droning, irritating music loop over and over again. There are no power ups or items or anything that enhances your ship or your shots. You go about it with the same, dull, straightforward gameplay from start to finish. After 30 levels you head back to the river and the cycle stars a new. All to be done for roughly 100 levels. Many would call this game vanilla, but that's an insult to a delicious, yet uninteresting flavor; try cardboard.
If you value your free time, you'll tell that diva to get bent and find yourself a real job. Sure, there's an invincibility code that makes ZSG doable, but who wants to play 100 or more levels with zero challenge? Bottom line, there are far better games and even better shmups out there, ones that have a more stable difficulty and interesting gameplay. Life's too short to play awful games or take unreasonable demands from stuck up divas. Give this game the finger and walk out on it. You'll only be doing yourself a favor.
If you enjoyed this Zunou Senkan Galg review, you're encouraged to discuss it with the author and with other members of the site's community. If you don't already have an HonestGamers account, you can sign up for one in a snap. Thank you for reading!


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With a new story coming to light seemingly every single day, there's no question that all the news about Russia and its interference in the 2016 election is confusing. So, it's fair to assume that a lot of people were surprised on Wednesday when Senators Richard Burr, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Mark Warner, the Democratic Vice Chairman, held a joint news conference discussing the Senate's Russia probe.
The biggest takeaway from the press conference was Warner's comment on one part of Russia's strategy to destabilize the election, which concerned the Kremlin hiring 1,000 paid trolls to generate fake anti-Clinton stories targeted at specific areas in the U.S. Warner did not elaborate on where those specific areas were, but he alluded to the committee investigating trolls targeting Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The significance of Russia targeting these three specific states is simple: they are all swing states that President Donald Trump narrowly won. They were also the three states included in the unsuccessful recounts prompted by Jill Stein.
The news conference was an attempt to assure the public that the Senate's investigation would not be mired in controversy and unprofessionalism. Burr and Warner seemed acutely aware of the fact that one big story was Republican House Intelligence Committee Chariman Devin Nunes' bizarre actions over the past week. "Let me set the ground rules real quick. We'll answer anything about the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation. We will not take questions on the House Intelligence Committee," Burr said as he smirked and as Warner audibly laughed.
The two senators also outlined their plans to interview 20 witnesses in public or private hearings for their investigation, including Jared Kushner and the ever-controversial Paul Manafort, as was first reported by the Times. Burr also added that the committee had already held conversations with some people, most notably Michael Flynn.
Yesterday morning, the committee held its first public hearing, which led to two startling revelations. The first was that Marco Rubio's presidential campaign and Senate reelection campaign were subject to social media attacks and hacks of campaign staff that came from computers with IP addresses located in Russia. The other revelation centered around testimony from Clinton Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Center For Cyber and a senior fellow at the George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. He said that Russia has a cache of false information campaigns that it can use against politicians from both sides of the aisle and that Trump also uses false narratives against his opponents.
Here's hoping that the committee's investigation, which looks like it will take quite a while, upholds that standard.


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The Weekly Closeout: Petco to test a new store concept, and Balance Athletica rebrands
Petco will open stores in rural areas with products for pets and livestock, while the athleisure brand changed its name to Vitality following a lawsuit with New Balance.
Courtesy of Petco
It's been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week and what we're still thinking about.
From Lanvin Group prepping to go public to the Ocean Shipping Reform Act passing in the Senate's commerce committee, here's our closeout for the week.
Lululemon enters tennis with first collection designed for the sport
Lululemon is launching its first collection designed specifically for tennis in stores and online on Tuesday, the retailer said in details emailed to Retail Dive. The new line launches in collaboration with Lululemon brand ambassador and pro tennis player Leylah Fernandez, who will compete in Lululemon's new line this season. The apparel was designed for movement and products include sport-specific features like tennis ball pockets.
Pro tennis player Leylah Fernandez will sport the collection as a Lululemon brand ambassador.
Courtesy of Lululemon
Lululemon's women's tennis offering includes a tennis dress, a high-rise tennis skirt, multiple bras and a jacket. The men's collection includes tennis shorts and a vented T-shirt, and Lululemon is also selling accessories like visors. More products will launch in the summer. The expansion puts Lululemon into more direct competition with sports generalists like Nike and Adidas, but the retailer is also keeping its athleisure focus with the new offerings, touting the broader applicability of its tennis apparel.
"The versatile styles are easily paired and layered with Lululemon sweat and lifestyle collection pieces for on and off the court," the company said in details about the line.
Balance Athletica rebrands following New Balance trademark infringement lawsuit
Denver-based athleisure brand Balance Athletica this week announced it would rebrand as "Vitality," which the company said would allow it to "elevate and evolve nearly four years after its founding." The change is set to take place across its digital and social media channels, as well as across all future product releases, in the coming weeks.
Although the company made no mention of it in the press release, New Balance filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Balance Athletica in November of 2020, alleging that the smaller company used a "confusingly similar mark Balance Athletica to sell the same goods, to the same consumers, using the same marketing channels."
New Balance argued at the time that "actual confusion in the marketplace has already occurred," pointing to a Poshmark post in which a user identified a Balance Athletica product as "New Balance." The company also took issue with Balance Athletica's trademark application for the phrase "achieve balance," saying that it has used the phrase "achieve with New Balance" since the '90s.
"For more than a decade, the company prominently used the achieve mark on nearly every shoe box it sold, which corresponds to hundreds of millions of pairs of shoes," New Balance said at the time.
The lawsuit was closed in September 2021, and now Balance Athletica is rebranding. "I am excited for the evolution of Balance into Vitality," CEO Taylor Dilk said in a statement about the rebrand. "Our mission of inclusivity, commitment to our customers, and focus on confidence-inducing apparel will remain at the forefront."
Lanvin Group preps to go public in SPAC deal
Lanvin Group on Tuesday announced that, after merging with special purpose acquisition company Primavera Capital Acquisition Corporation, it will list on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol LANV. Proceeds are expected to be up to $544 million, which will be used to accelerate the company's brand portfolio and fund acquisitions.
"We are excited to partner with Primavera for our next chapter of growth across Europe, North America and Asia," Joann Cheng, CEO of Lanvin Group, said in a statement.
Lanvin Group is the parent company to French couture house Lanvin, Sergio Rossi, Wolford, St. John Knits and Caruso. It operates in over 80 countries, with more than 300 stores. The Lanvin Group expects to open over 200 new stores by 2025.
Petco announces new store concept, reaffirms 2022 guidance
During Petco's first investor day since returning to the public markets last year, the retailer announced a number of initiatives to achieve long-term growth, one of which is a new store concept.
Aimed at consumers in rural communities, the pet retailer unveiled a store that will feature products for pets and livestock.
"We know there's key areas across the United States that are being underserved today, especially in pet specialty, and especially in areas where Petco currently doesn't have very much market space," Justin Tichy, Petco's chief stores officer, said at Wednesday's investor day.
The new stores, which are freestanding, will first open in Petco's second quarter in southern states. Tichy said Petco already identified "hundreds of potential markets that we could serve," adding that the concept has the potential to drive $1.3 billion in revenue.
The pet retailer also reaffirmed its financial guidance for 2022, expecting revenue to be between $6.15 billion and $6.25 billion and adjusted EBITDA to be between $630 million and $645 million.
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American Dream this week announced DJ Pauly D, of "Jersey Shore" fame, will be doing an event at Nickelodeon Universe, which is the largest indoor theme park in the Western Hemisphere. It just happens to be in a mall.
On April 2 guests that are 18 or older can experience the theme park while listening to the beats that Pauly D drops. VIP packages will run you nearly $130 a ticket, and general admission is close to $70.
American Dream this fall opened a luxury wing, dubbed "The Avenue" that features high-end retailers like Dolce & Gabbana, Mulberry and Hermès. It is also the home of a new, two-story Toys R Us flagship store, which was scheduled to open in December. But it is also having problems with debt, and its parent company recently asked for a four-year extension on a $1.7 billion loan.
What we're still thinking about
That's the additional number of Macy's locations that will feature the retailer's Backstage store-within-a-store concept, starting April 9. The locations will dedicate anywhere between 11,000 to 16,000 square feet of their stores to Backstage. That's on top of 45 stores in a similar announcement last year, along with a few stand-alone locations. Eventually the company envisions 270 Macy's stores will have Backstage shop-in-shops.
After losing share to major off-pricers for years, Macy's now points to its off-price business, dubbed Backstage, as key to its turnaround. As such, the company continues to clear more space for it, mostly within its own stores.
Notably, this year's expansion includes Macy's Herald Square flagship in New York City and its State Street Chicago flagship (formerly Marshall Field's). It remains to be seen whether these spaces bring new customers or added sales to Macy's or just shift them away from the full-price areas, which will soon include new and revamped private labels, another key part of Macy's long-term growth strategy.
Off-price retail wasn't able to avoid the economic uncertainty or supply chain troubles of the pandemic and in fact was hit particularly hard when stores were temporarily closed in 2020. But the sector retains important strengths, including a still-robust inventory pipeline and healthy foot traffic, and stands to gain from inflationary pressures as shoppers look for price breaks wherever they can find them.
Not to be outdone, Nordstrom this week also announced two new store openings at its off-price Rack brand, one in Phoenix and another in Riverside, California. But for the Seattle-based department store, which has been in the off-price business for decades longer than Macy's, maximizing Rack is not just about expanding its footprint: The company is also shaking up its leadership.
Nordstrom has long said that its customers who shop at both its off-price and full-price banners spend more than those who shop just one or the other, and for years Rack has been its strongest performer. But now Rack is faltering, and CEO Erik Nordstrom at the end of last year promised to do something about it.
While some investors are said to want it spun into a separate company, for now any big changes to its operations will come from within. The company has turned to three seasoned off-price veterans to help Erik Nordstrom make good on his promise.
That was Destination XL's 2021 net income, which was the first positive annual profit the men's big-and-tall apparel retailer has made since 2012. After nearly a decade in the red, the company posted record revenue and earnings as demand surged last year. With the cash it generated, it was able to pay off its long-term debt and revolver.
All of this follows a tough 2020, which brought a steep drop in apparel demand as weddings and other events were canceled, and workers stayed out of offices. After going into "survival mode" that year, and a boom year in 2021, Destination XL said it is now focused on customer acquisition and retention, and new distribution channels to grow sales.
What we're watching
Shipping reform heads to the Senate
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act passed in the Senate's commerce committee earlier this week. The bill would give the Federal Maritime Commission more power to investigate carriers and require the agency to issue regular reports, among other provisions. Now the bill is headed to the full Senate. (The House passed its own version late last year.)
In calling on the committee to approve the bill, American Apparel & Footwear Association CEO Steve Lamar said in a statement that it would bolster the Federal Maritime Commission as well as strengthen the supply chain and ensure fairness in ocean shipping.
"Long delays, contract breaches, price gouging and excessive and unjust fees by carriers, and lack of access to equipment to move our product have resulted in huge delays and exorbitant costs that have translated into surging inflation that threatens our economic recovery," Lamar added.
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And That German Knight Then Visited the Temple Mount (Another, Too)
See my previous post on the book, "The Pilgrimage of Arnold von Harff / Knight / from Cologne, through Italy, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia, Nubia, Palestine, Turkey, France and Spain, which he Accomplished in the years 1496-1499
Starting on page 207.
we came to the Temple of Solomon® which stands one hundred and sixty paces from the temple of Christ. Item, by means of gifts and other friendly help, I was taken by a Mameluke into this temple. But no Christian or Jew is suffered to enter there or draw near, since they say and maintain that we are base dogs, and not worthy to go to the holy places on pain of death, at which I was frightened. But this Mameluke instructed me that if I would go with him one evening, dressed in his manner, he would take me into the Temple, and that if I was recognised I was to reply like a heathen with the words and speech, and to use the words and make the signs which I was forced to use when it happened that I was imprisoned at Gazera, as I have related above, ^ whereupon the heathen would show me honour and suffer me to go, as indeed happened. Item the Mameluke fetched me one evening from the monastery at Mt. Sion and took me to his house, in pretence that I should have spent the night -with him, where he dressed me in the clothes and apparelled me like a Mameluke. Thus we both made our way at evening towards the Temple of Solomon which, by his direction, was opened and forthwith closed so that we should not be crowded: for this I had to give four ducats.
Item this Temple of Solomon is a fine round and lofty church roofed with lead. Around it is a churchyard, without buildings, which is all paved with large white marble stones, as it is also within. I measured the inside of the church. In length it is seventy-two paces and fifty wide. In the Temple there are thirty-two fine marble pillars, which support the vaulting of the church. In this Temple, eastwards, is a small round tabernacle or chapel five feet long and broad, placed on twelve pillars, a spear's height from the ground, in which the heathen priests now pray and hold their services. It is held in great reverence and regarded as a holy place, and many ampullae burn there continually. Formerly the Jews held this tabernacle or chapel in great honour and reverence, and regarded it as a holy place, for on it stood the Ark of God, in which was their holy treasure, namely the two tables which Almighty God gave to Moses on Mt. Oreb, on which were written the Ten Commandments, also Aaron's rod. Therein lay also the written word of God, also the rod with which Moses smote the Red Sea and it was divided, with many other holy things, which the Jews held in great reverence before the birth of Christ. Item beneath this tabernacle is a small piece of rock enclosed with an iron railing, called the holy rock,^ on which many wonders and miracles of God have been performed, for instance Melchisedek, the Priest, offered on this rock wine and bread to the God in Heaven. Also Jacob, the Patriarch, lay sleeping with his head on this rock, and saw a ladder set up from this rock to heaven, upon which the angels of God ascended and descended. When he awoke he said: 'surely this is a holy place, and I knew it not.' On this rock King David saw an angel standing with an outstretched naked sword. Further the Jewish priests made their sacrifices to God on this rock. Our Lord Jesus also wrought many miracles on this rock, which the Mameluke could not declare to me. The heathen hold this rock in great reverence, and have very many lamps burning there.
Item on the left in this Temple there is an altar almost like ours, for it is open on all sides. Here formerly the Jews made their sacrifices, offering doves, hens and turtle-doves to God in heaven. But the heathen have now set a compass [dial] on the rock so that by it, in their manner, they may know the hours. Beside this altar Zacharias was slain.
Item this Temple of Solomon has four doors by which one may enter. The doors are all made of ancient cypress wood and are carved with ancient histories. Item by the door, to the north, is a square cistern in which the heathen wash the members with which they have sinned by day or night, thinking to cleanse themselves daily by washing, and they do this before they pray, thinking that otherwise their prayers would not be acceptable to God in heaven. This is the cistern or fountain mentioned in the holy writ, wherein it is said 'I saw the water go in and out' . Item I saw in this Temple no pictures or figures, as we have in our Churches, but it is a beautiful Temple with many lamps burning, at least five hundred, as I was in fact told and saw with my eyes. Item in this Temple of Solomon our Lord Jesus preached often to the Hebrews, and taught and wrought many miracles there. Here also he drove out the buyers and sellers because they did not observe the Sabbath. Item this is where our Lord Jesus was tempted of the devil and suffered himself to be carried to the summit of Solomon's Temple. Here also the Jews threw down St. James the Less from the summit of the Temple to his death.
Item from this Temple, southwards, we came from here to the courtyard of the Temple, through a door called by us Christians Porta Speciosa,^ through which St. Peter and St. John passed when St. Peter healed the lame man, as is told in the Evangelium. Item we went from this Temple eastwards, some twenty-six paces, into a very fine mosque or church called Porticos Salomonis.^ When the Christians possessed Jerusalem it was called the Church of Our Blessed Lady, where for a long time she went to school.
Item this church, Porticus Salomonis, is much longer than the temple of Solomon. It is finely built and roofed with lead, and has within it forty-two marble pillars and eight hundred lamps, which bum there daily. Since the heathen have this church in great reverence, no Christian or Jew may approach it.
Item at the end of this church we went down a great staircase into a vault, which was a stable of the Sultan or the Mamelukes, with accommodation for some six hundred horses.® Since the church is wholly vaulted below we could see well, from its appearance, that in Christian times it was a crypt in which Mass was celebrated, as can be seen from the many altars which are still there. Item we went from this crypt into a beautiful little mosque or church, which is built quite close to the church Porticus Salomonis. This was built by the old Sultan Kathubee, who died five years ago and is honourably buried there. A hundred lamps bum there daily
Item from this church we went some thirty paces to the right hand, westwards, across this fine courtyard which is paved with marble, fifteen paces from the temple of Solomon. We came then to the Golden Door® through which our Lord Jesus rode in on Palm Simday, sitting on an ass. This gate is of cypress wood covered with copper, and is much cut and mutilated. Therefore the heathen guard the doorway closely, so that no Christian may approach it. They have also their cemetery outside the gate towards the Vale of Jehoshaphat, where they bury their dead. Therefore they guard the gate closely against Christians and Jews, whom they regard as more filthy than dogs, lest they should tread on their graves. We broke and cut off many pieces of the wood and copper which I carried back with me. At this gate there is plenary absolution from all sins, both penalty and guilt.
Item we went from this Golden Gate, westwards, from the courtyard of Solomon's temple, and came to a pool of standing water, called Probatica Piscina,® where our Lord Jesus worked many miracles. No Christian or Jew may approach it except by secret help.
Item we went westwards and came to St. Anne's House,* which the Christians in former times made into a beautiful church, but now the heathen have turned it into their praying house or mosque, so that the Christians cannot enter, but by means of secret help and gifts we were allowed to go in. We went through the transept, and at the side of the church we climbed through a narrow hole in the arch of a large window, being forced to carry lighted candles so that we could see, and came to a little vault in which St. Anne, the mother of our blessed Lady, departed from this earth. We went then to another vault in which our blessed Lady was born. Here is forgiveness of all sins both penalty and guilt. Item next day the Mameluke took me from the church back to Mt. Sion, and no one knew that I had slept the night at the Mameluke's house.
The Dome of the Rock was known to medieval travellers as Templum Domini. Most travellers (including Boldensele, p. 261) speak of the lead roof. Von Harff 's critics have denied the truth of the story of his entry, but he was not the only fifteenth-century traveller to get in. Tafur (p. 61) entered, disguised as a renegade, and describes it as * a single nave, the whole ornamented with gold mosaic work. The floor and walls are of the most beautiful white stones and the place is hung with so many lamps that they all seemed to be joined together'. It was doubtless a dangerous and expensive escapade, but not perhaps as dangerous as was thought. Fabri (ii, p. 257; cp. ii, p. 242 f.) knew a knight who would have got in, if his courage had not failed him at the last moment. Guylforde (p. 44) looked into the vaults through a back door. Cp. Ludolph, p. oB; Casola, pp. Rdhricht-Meisner, p. 30, note i. Mandeville (p. 54) also claims to have entered the Templum Domini, but he had letters under the Sultan's great seal. There is a long and interesting note in Warner's edition of Mandeville, p. i8i. The large edifice on liie S. side of the Temple area, called in the Middle Ages indiscriminately Palatium, Porticuscu Templum Salomonis (Robinson, 1, p. 44a), now the Aksa mosque. For a description, see Gabriel von l^ttenberg (1527), Rdhricht-Meisner, p. 406. * On these extensive vaults, see Robinson, i, p. 446. ^ The Madrassa (teaching mosque) el Ashrafiya, which stands on the W. boundary of the Haram enclosure. Vincent & Abel, Jirusalem Nouvelle, PT. IV, 1926, p. 981. But Kait Bey was buried in Cairo. ^ Fabri (i, p. 459) says that the Saracens cut off pieces of the plates and nails and sold them to the Christians, who often risked their lives by going there at night and tearing off little pieces. The relics were said to be proof against apoplexy, falling sickness and plague. ® Casola (p. 248) saw vestiges of the 5 porches mentioned in John v, 2. Many pilgrims drank the water. Casola adds: 'When I saw the filth I left it alone, it was enough for me to wash my hands there.*
* Guylforde (p. 30) notes that the Saracens suffered none to enter except 'pryvely or for brybes*. Cp. Rohricht, p. 20, note 248, for references to other pilgrims who got in. Breydenbach (1483-84) carried away portions of the stonework which was believed to be good for pregnant women (26 July). For a description, see De Vogu6, Eglises^ p. 233. It is the best preserved of the crusading edifices.
And here is from the book, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a travel memoir which first circulated between 1357 and 1371.
And from the church of the sepulchre, toward the east, at eight score paces, is Templum Domini. It is right a fair house, and it is all round and high, and covered with lead. And it is well paved with white marble. But the Saracens will not suffer no Christian man ne Jews to come therein, for they say that none so foul sinful men should not come in so holy place: but I came in there and in other places there I would, for I had letters of the soldan with his great seal, and commonly other men have but his signet. In the which letters he commanded, of his special grace, to all his subjects, to let me see all the places, and to inform me pleinly all the mysteries of every place, and to conduct p. 55me from city to city, if it were need, and buxomly to receive me and my company, and for to obey to all my requests reasonable if they were not greatly against the royal power and dignity of the soldan or of his law. And to others, that ask him grace, such as have served him, he ne giveth not but his signet, the which they make to be borne before them hanging on a spear. And the folk of the country do great worship and reverence to his signet or seal, and kneel thereto as lowly as we do to Corpus Domini. And yet men do full greater reverence to his letters; for the admiral and all other lords that they be shewed to, before or they receive them, they kneel down; and then they take them and put them on their heads; and after, they kiss them and then they read them, kneeling with great reverence; and then they offer them to do all that the bearer asketh.
And in this Templum Domini were some-time canons regulars, and they had an abbot to whom they were obedient; and in this temple was Charlemagne when that the angel brought him the prepuce of our Lord Jesus Christ of his circumcision; and after, King Charles let bring it to Paris into his chapel, and after that he let bring it to Peyteres, and after that to Chartres.
And ye shall understand, that this is not the temple that Solomon made, for that temple dured not but 1102 year. For Titus, Vespasian's son, Emperor of Rome, had laid siege about Jerusalem for to discomfit the Jews; for they put our Lord to death, without leave of the emperor. And, when he had won the city, he burnt the temple and beat it down, and all the city, and took the Jews and did them to death—1,100,000; and the others he put in prison and sold them to servage,—thirty for one penny; for they said they bought Jesu for thirty pennies, and he made of them better cheap when he gave thirty for one penny.
And after that time, Julian Apostate, that was emperor, gave leave to the Jews to make the temple of Jerusalem, for he hated Christian men. And yet he was christened, but he forsook his law, and became a renegade. And p. 56when the Jews had made the temple, came an earthquaking, and cast it down (as God would) and destroyed all that they had made.
And after that, Adrian, that was Emperor of Rome, and of the lineage of Troy, made Jerusalem again and the temple in the same manner as Solomon made it. And he would not suffer no Jews to dwell there, but only Christian men. For although it were so that he was not christened, yet he loved Christian men more than any other nation save his own. This emperor let enclose the church of Saint Sepulchre, and walled it within the city; that, before, was without the city, long time before. And he would have changed the name of Jerusalem, and have clept it Aelia; but that name lasted not long.
Also, ye shall understand, that the Saracens do much reverence to that temple, and they say, that that place is right holy. And when they go in they go bare-foot, and kneel many times. And when my fellows and I saw that, when we came in we did off our shoes and came in bare-foot, and thought that we should do as much worship and reverence thereto, as any of the misbelieving men should, and as great compunction in heart to have.
This temple is sixty-four cubits of wideness, and as many in length; and of height it is six score cubits. And it is within, all about, made with pillars of marble. And in the middle place of the temple be many high stages, of fourteen degrees of height, made with good pillars all about: and this place the Jews call Sancta Sanctorum; that is to say, 'Holy of Hallows.' And, in that place, cometh no man save only their prelate, that maketh their sacrifice. And the folk stand all about, in diverse stages, after they be of dignity or of worship, so that they all may see the sacrifice. And in that temple be four entries, and the gates be of cypress, well made and curiously dight: and within the east gate our Lord said, 'Here is Jerusalem.' And in the north side of that temple, within the gate, there is a well, but it runneth nought, of the which holy writ speaketh of and saith, Vidi aquam egredientem de templo; that is to say, 'I saw water come out of the temple.'
And on that other side of the temple there is a rock that men clepe Moriach, but after it was clept Bethel, where the ark of God with relics of Jews were wont to be put...
...And from that temple towards the south, right nigh, is the temple of Solomon, that is right fair and well polished. And in that temple dwell the Knights of the Temple that were wont to be clept Templars; and that was the foundation of their order, so that there dwelled knights and in Templo Domini canons regulars.
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Limbo - more or less finished game, critique?
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Myself and my brother wrote a game a while back but never really got around to doing anything with it. It's a boffer weapon larp. (anytime you see a weapon mentioned, just picture a foamed piece of pvc pipe, packets are cloth filled with bird seed used to peg each other dodgeball style) The game takes place in a trance/dream world - in the land of the dead. We were going for a sciencefiction-purgatory.. sorta.
Anyways, we've played around with the combat system with up to four people with good results. Though we never got to see how it plays in a larger larp setting with a dozen or more players, so in a way it's never really been truly playtested. At least we don't feel like it has.
I was wondering if I could get some brutally honest feedback on it before taking it abroad for real testing. I'm just curious what parts you like, what you don't, how well the manual conveys the world, where you feel like the loose ends are, or any other thoughts you might feel like sharing.
The game is called Limbo. The manual is 12 pages and in word format. It can be downloaded at:
http://www.filefront.com/14423581/LimboMasterDocumentsm4_03_orangepatch.doc
Re: Limbo - more or less finished game, critique?
Before I check out the rules, I'd like to learn a little more about the playtesting, in your own words. I know little about boffer LARP play beyond the basics (although there are other people here who know a lot), so it would help me to understand exactly how your rules, or some of them, differ significantly from those in other games. If you can describe those in terms of what happened in your small-group playtest, I think I'd be able to read the document in a helpful way.
Best, Ron
Our playtesting was combat only. There's four different "sets" of abilities. We did one on one runs with each set verses another as well as some mixing of ability sets to see how they work together. There's a few roleplayish abilities that haven't been truly analyzed at all.
Most of the boffer larps that I've played have involved verbals such as:
"2 normal"
"2 normal damage"
"2 iron damage"
when swinging a weapon, thus dealing 2 damage. Everyone's got a set number of hitpoints, you just keep track in your head. Spells were always a bit trickier, you'd say a verbal such as:
"i summon a magic missle"
then you'd take whatever amount of damage that spell did. (lot's of memorizing for numerous spells) There were also numerous ability or spell effects such as rooting someone to one spot, poisoning them, instantly killing them, etc.
Often times in larps, players would be swinging 6 damage, 9 damage, 13 damage or any other barrage of random integers. When writing limbo we wanted to step away from this complexity by simply defining 3 kinds of hits.
"white damage" (does 1 damage)
"red damage" (does 2 damage)
"black damage" (does 4 damage)
Playtesting using these 3 colors for damage yielded much, much easier combat counting at a loss of character customization. We were happy with the results. Another problem we had with the traditional larp mechanics was the "tags" system. Each spell or ability you could use had it's own tag. When you used that spell/ability, you tore that tag. Tags were basically ammo, once you're out, you're out. Often times during larp games people would be out of "ammo" and feel useless till the next "reset." (when everyone gets their abilities renewed)
We wanted to step away from this by making "ammo" renewable through combat. Anytime someone dies, they drop the equivalent of "health" and/or "mana." Playtesting with this mechanic felt limited given that we never exceeded four players, though it added an element of strategy to the game whenever someone died. We were pleased with the results we got. We pushed this mechanic further by setting hitpoint and mana packets in the center of the combat arena where it became a strategy point, trying to either get to the packets first or keep your opponent away from them.
These are the two biggest fundamental differences I think. Again, when comparing Limbo to other larps, I'm only comparing to the larps in my region. I've seen games where the color of the weapon indicated damage, others where it's "army style" i.e. you get hit in the arm, you can't use that arm, etc. though I've never gotten the chance to play one. =\
I'm still interested in feedback if anyone cares to share. =D
Joe Endzel
I've been a LARPer in a combat heavy game for about 4 years now. I like that you're trying to simplify things to help with balance. I feel that a subtractive approach is great in LARPing as the games are almost always complicated. Now I do have some questions which will help me, help you.
How much is combat going to be a part of the overall game? Are most problems resolved with battles, or is it a rarer occurence?
What skills are you trying to support and reward with combat? Is being good at the combat game more/less important then being good at using your characters abilities? If that sounds awkward I'm asking if a fragile ranged character can win in melee by virtue of swinging his sword better. Or will the tactics be more character and ability based?
Thanks in advance. BTW, I play a game that is "army-style" so if you have any questions on how that style of play influences that game, I can shed some light in that area.


The Mission of Henry College is to prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding. Educating students according to a classical liberal arts curriculum and training them with apprenticeship methodology, the College provides academically excellent baccalaureate level higher education with a biblical worldview.
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"The purpose of Christian education is always twofold," according to Robert Littlejohn and Charles Evans (2006). "We want our students to grow spiritually, intellectually, and socially, and we want them to foster similar growth in society" (p. 18).
To be of any earthly good, a person must understand the world around him and recognize what it needs. He must be capable of discerning between what is true and good and beautiful in society and what is not, and he must be empowered to make a difference through perpetuating the former. In short, he requires wisdom and eloquence. Our activist must understand himself to be the inheritor of a dependable tradition of wisdom (rooted in a transcendent, authoritative source) that he has the responsibility to steward and to articulate to his contemporary world. (Littlejohn & Evans, 2006, p. 18).
In this formulation, "wisdom" refers to the Spirit-informed understanding of all of life, and "eloquence" refers to the ability to communicate that understanding persuasively to others and thus to impact the culture. These two goals have always been a hallmark of classical education. Johann Sturm, the great Reformation educator, said that the goal of his Christian academy was to instill "a wise and eloquent piety" (Spitz & Tinsley, 1995). To achieve this end, Sturm built his academy around the classical liberal arts.
Patrick Henry College has as its mission the cultivation of "timeless Biblical values" and the formation of leaders equipped to "shape our culture"; that is, to "wisdom" and "eloquence." Thus, PHC has adopted the educational model of the classical Christian liberal arts.
The ancient Greeks and Romans had one kind of education—pragmatic, technical, job- oriented—for their slaves, equipping them to serve their masters and to contribute to the economy (Joseph 2002). They were given a "servile" education, from the Latin word servilis, meaning "worthy of a slave." But free citizens of the Greek democracy or the Roman republic needed to cultivate all of their human powers, developing skills of thinking and communication to enable them to contribute fully to the polis of which they were a part. To this end, the Greeks and Romans developed a "liberal" education, from the Latin word liberalis, meaning "worthy of a free man" (Glare 1983).
But it was not Greeks and Romans but Christians who systematized—and Christianized—liberal education. It was the church father Cassiodoras in the 6th century who first drew up the Seven Liberal Arts: the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric; and the quadrivium of arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy.
Medieval theologians, in inventing the university, added to the liberal arts (the skills of the human mind) the three liberal "sciences" (the realms of knowledge): natural science (knowledge of objective reality, including empirical science and philosophy); moral science (knowledge of human beings, including history, government, and law); and theological science (knowledge of God, including Scripture and theology). This is the context for hailing theology as the "Queen of the Sciences," since God is the source and the foundation for all knowledge and, hence, all education (Kimball, 1986).
The Renaissance was sparked largely by a rebirth of classical learning, focused not just on the logic of the scholastics but the rhetoric of the Greeks (Kimball, 1986). The classical liberal arts principle of returning to the sources led, in the field of theology, to a re-emphasis on the Bible, and thus to the Protestant Reformation. And when Luther and Melanchthon planned the Reformation schools, to enable all Christians to read the Bible, they designed them so that not just the elite but the masses would not just learn to read but would also receive a "liberal" education (Faber 1998). And while acknowledging the Aristotelian notion that liberal education pursues knowledge as an end in itself, Luther related the concept to his doctrine of vocation. He maintained that cultivating one's God-given talents by means of the liberal arts can equip Christians for whatever arena of love and service to the neighbor that God calls them to (Veith 2006).
Classical liberal arts education flourished again with the neo-classical movement of the 18thcentury and was instrumental in the nation's founding (Pangle & Pangle 1993). But it gradually faded in the 19th century, and in the 20th century was largely supplanted by Dewey's Progressive education. The liberal arts came back somewhat in the 20th century in higher education with core curricula and "Great Books" programs. And yet, the original conception of the liberal arts has been all but lost, as the common, coherent, wide-ranging curriculum of the liberal arts has given way to narrow academic specialization. In many, if not most, institutions, even the core curriculum has become fragmented, with students choosing from a menu of isolated classes that have little to do with each other and little to do with the intentional cultivation of the human mind.
Recently, not only the liberal arts but the classical liberal arts have been rediscovered by Christians endeavoring to create an alternative kind of education for their children than that offered in mainline secularist schools. Douglas Wilson (1991) pioneered an approach to Christian education built upon the Trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Today, over 200 private Christian dayschools are members of the Association of Classical & Christian Schools (2006), following Wilson's curriculum and principles. In addition, there are an untold number of classical Christian schools unaffiliated with ACCS, such as those connected to the Society of Classical Learning and various denominational institutions.
Classical Christian education has also become a major curricular model for homeschoolers (Veith & Kern, 2001, pp. 67-81). Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer's The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (1999) has become a bestseller for W. W. Norton, a major secular publisher. Other widely-used classical resources for homeschoolers include Laura Berquist's Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum: A Guide to Catholic Home Education (1994) and the online tutorials SCHOLA, Escondido Tutorial Service, and the Great Books Academy. Classical Conversations is a national network of homeschool co-ops and seminars. Today a complete K-12 classical curriculum is available online, in real-time classes, through online schools such as that of Veritas Press and Wilson Hill Academy. There is even a magazine for families pursuing this educational approach, Classical Homeschooling.
The dramatic academic success of the classical Christian model—as evident in test scores and student achievement (Veith & Kern, 2001, pp. 25-26)—is highly significant, since an increasing number of Christian young people are now receiving a better education than their secularist peers, which, in turns, equips them for high-level Christian service and cultural influence.
Despite the success of homeschoolers and classical Christian schools, few Christian colleges have taken an active part in this educational reform movement. Patrick Henry College was founded specifically to serve the best and the brightest of Christian homeschooled young people. Thus, the classical liberal arts—with a strong Biblical foundation—is at the heart of PHC's educational philosophy.
PHC has a rigorous and extensive core curriculum of 63 credits, plus foreign language. The University of Chicago, which is famed for its liberal arts core, only has 45. The National Endowment for the Humanities, in a project designed to promote liberal education, proposed 50.
The PHC core embraces all seven of the classic liberal arts: grammar (Research and Writing; four courses in a foreign language;1 courses in logic, rhetoric, mathematics, geometry, music, and science (with biology and physics taking the place of the ancient "astronomy").
In addition, PHC requires two courses in the history of the United States, and two courses in the history of the Western World, two Western Literature courses, two courses in the theology of the Bible, Principles of Biblical reasoning, philosophy, Constitutional Law, economics, and two courses in Freedom's Foundations.
The classical liberal arts, of course, is not just a sequence of courses but a conceptual framework and a methodology. The seven liberal arts cultivate mastery of language (grammar), analysis (logic), communication (rhetoric), aesthetics (music), numbers (mathematics), spatial relations (geometry), and empirics (astronomy) (Veith & Kern, 2001, pp. 11-16). Thus, other courses in a variety of subjects can contribute to this breadth of education.
The liberal arts stress content, the imitation of excellence, the pursuit of knowledge that is valuable in itself, and the exercise of the whole range of talents that God has given. The liberal arts curriculum is broad in scope, but its parts are integrated with each other, as students explore the connectedness of all the disciplines.
The core curriculum embraces the whole range of the content areas, as classified according to the "Natural Sciences" (biology, physics, philosophy), the "Moral Sciences" (history, law, the humanities), and the "Theological Sciences" (the Bible, theology, and the undergirding of every course in Christian truth).
The foundational liberal arts are the Trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. These have to do with mastering language. Grammar is about exploring the structure, rules, vocabulary, and conventions by which language operates. Logic has to do with using the mind to analyze and discovertruth,aswellastodistinguishbetweentruthandfalsehood. Rhetoric is the art of effective communication that persuades others, and is thus a key to cultural influence.
Grammar has to do with basic knowledge; Logic with understanding; Rhetoric with creative personal application. The Trivium is a particularly powerful concept, in that every subject can be said to have its grammar (the foundational facts, rules, and information), its logic (the thinking required for understanding), and its rhetoric (its original application). In fact, the Trivium's emphasis on knowledge, understanding, and application is a direct parallel to Bloom's Taxonomy, so that an ancient concept of education is confirmed by modern educational psychology. Each part of the Trivium has its appropriate method of learning: grammar by lecture, reading, and practice; logic by dialectic (that is, Socratic questions and discussion); and rhetoric by student performance and application (Joseph 2002).
At Patrick Henry, classes tend to be heavily oriented to reading (often of the "great books" in the field) (grammar), discussion (logic), and student projects (rhetoric). PHC's apprenticeship requirement exemplifies the rhetorical dimension of classical education, and it also follows the model of how classical universities prepared young people for their professions, giving them a rigorous grounding in the liberal arts and then sending them out to practice their craft under a master/mentor.
The classical liberal arts core curriculum is a true core. That is, every student in every program takes every class. There is no electivity in the core, which means that professors in the upper level programs can know what their students have already been exposed to—what books they have read, what subjects they have studied, what skills they have developed—so that learning can build on a common foundation.
One objection to having a 63-credit core would be that it would seem to necessitate fewer courses in the major program. Actually, though, since Patrick Henry—in another unusual feature— has a restricted number of majors and specialties, this is not necessarily the case.
A number of the core classes tie into the Government major: A two-semester "Freedoms Foundations" sequence, studying issues of government by discussing classic texts on the subject; two semesters of American history; two semesters of European history; Economics; and Constitutional Law do advance the government program in crucial ways. The same holds true for the liberal arts majors, with core classes directly impacting the programs in literature, history, and liberal arts.
The upper division courses also employ a liberal arts methodology. For example, the various Government tracks use the specialized "great books" that have shaped each discipline. Learning the basics of the field (grammar), in depth discussions (logic), and writing projects (rhetoric) characterize every class.
In fact the three-part structure of the curriculum also reflects the classical liberal arts. The core, where students learn basic knowledge from a number of fields, corresponds to grammar. The majors, in which students arrive at greater understanding, as they study a field in depth, corresponds to logic. The apprenticeship requirement, in which students creatively apply their knowledge and understanding in a real-world context, corresponds to rhetoric. Thus, a Patrick Henry College education is unusually comprehensive, rich, and effective.
Another element of the classical liberal arts, according to Littlejohn and Evans (2006), is a particular "ethos," which they describe as "the essence or the 'feel' of the school as a community of faith and learning" (p. 53).
Ethos is the inarticulate expression of what the community values. It includes the quality of the relationships within the school, the traditions, the professional comportment, the approach to classroom management, the out-of-class decorum, the aesthetic personality of the school reflected in the student and faculty dress codes, the visual and auditory imagery, and the physical plant itself. And ethos is interfused with the academic culture including curriculum, pedagogy, faculty preparation, and student learning. Ethos is the way in which the school expresses (or doesn't) truth, goodness, and beauty through the experiences of every person who enters our halls. (pp. 53-54).
For example, Littlejohn and Evans point out that "the physical environments of our schools are a prime opportunity to teach our students that beauty is something that God values and that ought to characterize all of our lives." They argue that "there is no excuse for schools that purport to teach the absolute values of truth, goodness, and beauty not to make their students' surroundings beautiful" (p. 67).
Patrick Henry College promotes an "ethos" appropriate to its ideals. Students dress professionally. They agree to abide by high standards of ethics and personal conduct. The buildings and furnishings are attractively designed, with allusions to the neoclassical styles associated with our nation's founding. High standards of quality are evident, from the furniture in dormitory rooms to the food in the dining commons.
Foundational to all of the classical liberal arts as studied at PHC is the Christian faith, which provides a framework and a unifying narrative for all of PHC's classes. Theology at PHC, as at the original classical universities, is the Queen of the Sciences.
Far from usurping or limiting learning, God's Word offers a bigger vision of truth than merely human ideologies can provide. It is the standard of truth by which all human ideologies are judged. At the same time, the Christian faith gives a grounding for truth wherever it is found, shows the limits of human ideas in a fallen world, and frees Christians to explore all of learning (Veith, 2003).
A "liberal arts education" is associated with the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and is generally contrasted with the practical, job-focused training of "vocational education." Actually, though, liberal arts education has historically been complementary with a very practical approach to on-the-job training: the apprenticeship methodology, which is a distinctive of Patrick Henry College.
Though this approach goes back to classical and Biblical times, apprenticeship as a formal educational methodology had its origins in the medieval guilds. A young person would learn a trade or a profession under the tutelage of a "master" in that trade or profession. Working side by side with the master and helping him do his work, the apprentice learned by means of practical, real world experience.
These universities taught the classical liberal arts. Though professional colleges developed in specialized fields, such as theology, medicine, and law, the foundation for them all was the liberal arts. The liberal arts involved the study of the arts (grammar, logic, rhetoric; arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music) and sciences (natural science, moral science, and theological science) for their own sake, rather than what we would call "vocational training." But the broad education of the liberal arts was considered foundational for all professions, which, for the most part, were entered into through apprenticeships.
With the Reformation, the liberal arts were connected to "vocation" in the theological sense, that God calls every Christian to a life of service in the family, the country, and the workplace.
The Reformation was accompanied by an educational explosion, motivated by the necessity to equip all Christians—women as well as men, plow boys as well as nobility—to read the Bible and thus to enter a personal relationship with God through His Word (Deuteronomy 6). Significantly, the Reformation schools and home schools did not stop with teaching basic literacy. They adopted the curriculum and the pedagogy of the liberal arts.
"You parents cannot prepare a more dependable treasure for your children," said Luther, referring to earthly blessings, "than an education in the liberal arts" (Plass, 1989, § 1319). In his influential educational manifesto, "To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany, That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools," Luther took up the question of whether it is not enough simply to teach people how to read in their own language and concluded that educating children through the liberal arts is particularly beneficial to society. Opposing the monastic view that only "spiritual" callings are legitimate vocations for Christian service, Luther stressed that the "conduct of government" should also be of concern to Christians. "In order outwardly to maintain its temporal estate, the world must have good and skilled men and women, so that the former may rule well over land and people and the latter may keep house and train children and servants aright. Now such men must come from our boys and such women from our girls. Therefore the thing to do is to teach and train our boys and girls in the proper manner" (Luther, 1524).
The norm, however, was for young people to study the liberal arts—whether on the primary level or at the university—and then enter their professions, usually through some form of apprenticeship. Universities came to offer special programs in law, medicine, and theology. But even then, neophytes prepared with this more specialized training generally apprenticed themselves to "masters" who mentored them with on-the-job experience.
In America's early years, young men, including Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, entered the legal profession by becoming apprentices of practicing attorneys (Legal education, 2004). Apprenticeship was also the route to becoming a medical doctor (Medical education, 1996) and to becoming a pastor (Rowden, 1971, pp. 83, 86).
The Apprenticeship methodology is still used in professional training today. Even with the advent of modern medicine, the apprenticeship model survives in medical schools (Glossary of Pediatric Clinicians, 2006) with future doctors put on the hospital floor as "interns" under the supervision of an experienced attending physician. Today's theological seminaries also often include an apprenticeship phase—variously termed "vicarage year" or "mentored field experience" or "practicum"—in which the pastor-in-training works in a congregation with an experienced pastor. Business schools also generally give students on-the-job experience through internships.
The apprenticeship methodology is at the heart of the distinctive educational approach offered by Patrick Henry College. By offering vocation-related experience and application of classroom learning, apprenticeship is the culmination of PHC's classical Christian liberal arts curriculum.
Apprenticeship at PHC is integrated with the school's classical Christian liberal arts educational philosophy. Though grammar, logic, and rhetoric are foundational subjects—the Trivium of the classical liberal arts—they also each carry their own pedagogical approach (learning, dialectic, and performance) and can serve as a conceptual framework for a comprehensive education (knowledge, understanding, and application) (Veith & Kern, 2001; Joseph, 2002).
Apprenticeship represents the "rhetoric" stage of the liberal arts. Students, having learned the "grammar" of their disciplines and understanding its "logic," go on to apply what they have learned in the "rhetoric" of their own creative performance in the field.
Furthermore, because PHC students have been equipped by the core liberal arts curriculum, they tend to have a strong knowledge base (grammar), are skilled in analysis (logic), and can express themselves well in speaking and writing (rhetoric). Thus, as they move into their major programs, where the Apprenticeship Methodology is featured, they are well-prepared to excel in their future callings.
The liberal arts make connections between disciplines. They also make connections outside of disciplines, to the formation of free citizens, to the formation of human beings as they live not just to themselves but in relationship with others. And education in the Christian tradition particularly has always been concerned with how the Christian is to live in the world, from facing moral issues to discerning personal vocation—that is, how to live out one's faith in the various callings of the workplace, the family, the church, and the culture. So a liberal arts education, especially a Christian liberal arts education, is not simply a matter of the classroom but needs to extend into the rest of a student's life.
In a liberal arts college, that means, among other things, that academics and student life need to be connected with each other. Patrick Henry College makes a special effort to bring these realms together.
Higher education today tends to segregate and compartmentalize students' academic pursuits from their social life. This often becomes institutionalized with highly professionalized Student Affairs offices and highly specialized Academic Affairs programs existing side by side, but never communicating or interacting with each other. Students, though, must navigate through both worlds in order to have a successful college career.
Much recent scholarship in the area of Student Affairs points to the harmful effects of this compartmentalization. G. S. Blimling and E. J. Whitt (1999) in their attempt to identify best practices in college and university Student Affairs programs decry the "fragmentation and compartmentalization in higher education" (p.11).
Blimling and Whitt say that institutions of higher education are becoming more complex, and with that complexity has come a loss in the sense of community and a type of collective disassociation. Students are one of the primary losers in the fragmented educational process presented on many college campuses (p. 10).
Adrianna Kezar (2001) has studied three ways of remedying the current disconnect between academics and student life: restructuring; planned change; and cultural change. Patrick Henry College integrates academics and student life in all three ways.
Both the Dean of Academic Affairs and the Dean of Student Affairs meet together weekly for the sharing of information and mutual consultation. This meeting becomes a forum for discussing special student needs (for example, the academic accommodations needed by a student afflicted with Lyme's disease), working out conflicts (for example, scheduling difficulties between a class-sponsored concert and a student-organized play), and solving problems (for example, student complaints about an academic policy).
Also, the Dean of Student Affairs is an associate member of the Faculty Senate (which consists of the faculty as a whole). The Dean participates in the deliberations, giving the perspective of Student Life. The Dean also participates in Faculty Workshops, including giving presentations on topics such as identifying depression and other problems in students and getting them the help they need.
Students themselves play a significant role in college governance. Students are represented at the Faculty Senate, the Executive Cabinet, and other committees. And the Student Senate can propose policies that are considered according to the Governance Protocol.
PHC plans educational events and learning activities outside the classroom as part of the regular activities of student life. Some of these are formal activities; others are informal.
Daily chapel activities include formal worship on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The President's office schedules speakers who will deliver substantive and challenging content in their messages. Tuesdays are for Christian Study Groups, with the campus community divided into small groups for Bible study, prayer, or a book study. These often involve the participation of faculty and staff, who thus have the opportunity to interact with students outside of a classroom setting. At times, the whole campus community has studied the same book—for example, Littlejohn and Evans on the liberal arts in the Christian tradition—which provides a common intellectual experience, creates common frames of reference, and promotes an ethos of reflection beyond the classroom. Thursdays are for Wing Chapels, in which students meet in their residence wings for Bible study, worship, and mutual support. These are led by the Resident Assistants, who thus can interact with the students in their wing on a deeper level.
PHC also hosts a number of lectures and seminars throughout the year. Each semester includes a Faith & Reason Lecture, for which classes are cancelled to hear a faculty member and, alternately, a visiting scholar present a paper on a significant issue involving both Christianity and scholarship. This is accompanied by small group discussions, a special all-campus luncheon, and a panel discussion consisting mainly of questions from the student body. Coffee House Lectures, often sponsored by student organizations, feature smaller, more intimate presentations. Then there are seminars throughout the year on topics such as the job search, LSAT preparation, and the like.
Less formally, the RAs operate the Residence Life Programs, the purpose of which "is to promote and advance student learning and development within each of our living areas on campus." Each RA puts on at least one program per semester. Drawing on faculty members and outside facilitators, the topics have included the development of study skills, discussion of health issues, presentations on spiritual disciplines, and particular topics such as "Women and Culture" and story- telling.
Student Affairs cooperates with Academic Affairs in operating the Peer Tutoring Program, which matches students who are on academic probation or who need help with particular subjects with student coaches.
are also alert for troubled students, and, when necessary, the Office of Student Affairs refers them to professional counselors.
As Kezar (2001) has shown (pp. 68-71), the most important factor in the integration of student life and academics is the campus culture. PHC seeks to create an authentic community of faith and learning.
The core curriculum, which all students take with no electivity, gives students a common academic experience that they can talk about and apply outside the classroom and that draws them together around books and ideas. G. D. Kuh (1996) stresses the importance of creating a common vision of learning and developing a common language. PHC students really do come together around the classical Christian liberal arts, an educational approach that is taught and reinforced throughout the campus culture. And the common language of "telos" (the end or purpose), "vocation" (the individual calling from God to love and serve one's neighbor according to one's gifts), and "ethos" (the entire community climate) can be heard not only in classrooms and lecture halls but in the coffee shop, the dining commons, and informal conversations.
PHC fosters student responsibility, leadership, and initiative. The college's drama group, Eden Troupe, is entirely run by the students, who put on stellar performances that they themselves have planned, produced, and directed. Student clubs, such as the De Toqueville Society, bring in their own speakers and also organize social events. Streaming Media is a group for student filmmakers. PHC students also tend to be activists, getting involved in groups such as the International Justice Mission, which battles human trafficking. Even academic-related activities, such as the award-winning debate, Model UN, Mock Trial, and Moot Court teams, depend heavily on students to handle logistics and coaching.
The student culture includes a statement of community standards and an honor code, which students agree to uphold. Students also follow a dress code during class times to underscore the seriousness of academic pursuits and to cultivate a sense of professionalism. Student disciplinary issues are handled in a way to encourage personal responsibility, appealing to a sense of honor, Christian integrity, and love of neighbor, as opposed to a system of external control and forced compliance to external rules.
The concept of ethos, as described in Littlejohn and Evans (2006), which is quoted earlier in this statement of the college's philosophy of education, describes well the inter-relation of every facet of an institution committed to giving students a liberal arts education. Again, ethos "includes the quality of relationships within the school, the traditions, the professional comportment, the approach to classroom management, the out-of-class decorum, the aesthetic personality of the school." Student life, no less than the academic programs, shapes the ethos of PHC as a community devoted to both faith and learning.
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The City Plan Commission approved on Oct. 28th an updated proposal for Greenwich Park Apartments, one of the first hoops the project must clear. If approved by the Common Council, this would be the latest in a series of new development in the neighborhood. In just a few years The East Side would see 22,500 square feet of new commercial space and 290 new residential units in the immediate area. This will increase demand for businesses that meet daily needs as well as add more energy to the neighborhood.
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Greenwich Park Apartments
2303 -2353 N. Farwell Ave
This is a proposed affordable housing development for the city parking lot on Murray/Thomas/Farwell Aves and also includes development plans for the adjacent US Bank parking lot. The City Plan Commission held a hearing on Monday, Oct. 28 to consider a change to the original plan previously approved for the site.
Details: Mercy Housing Lakefront Inc. is proposing a two-phase project. First phase would entail a six-story, 56 unit residential building with 100 residential parking , and the second phase would include a second six-story building with up to 44 additional residential units and parking. Currently there are 35 public parking spots on the lot and 25 public parking spots are included in the development proposal. An additional 10 parking spots would be added to the street on Murray Ave since the driveways would no longer be needed on that side. The building will be a mix of affordable and market-rate apartments. There will be units for families making less than 30 percent of the area's median income and units for families making as much as 60 percent of the median.
The East Side Architectural Review Board recently approved the general massing and construction details for this project. The developer told the ARB that solar panels will be added and grants will be applied for to make the building LEED certified to include a green roof.
The project's future is tied to whether it receives affordable housing tax credits from WHEDA. This first round of city zoning approvals is required in order to apply for the tax credits. If it recieves the tax credits the project would begin in 2015.
Rendering View from Farwell & Thomas Aves for Phase One
View from Murray Ave for Phase One
View from Murray Ave for Phase 2 of the project
Prospect Mall Apartments
2217 N. Prospect Ave
As you can see by the photo and in this photo gallery by Urban Milwaukee, the original mall, now owned by Robert Joseph of Joseph Property Development is redeveloped with larger window openings. The first business announced as a new tenant is Potbelly Sandwich Shop, known for featuring live music by local musicians in each location. Work has begun on the upper new addition to the original building dating back to 1912. When completed the building will feature 10,000 square feet of commercial space and 52 new apartments with great views. The East Side Architectural Review Board recently approved some revisions to the building materials that will be used on the upper new addition to the building. Learn more about the project>>
Are you lamenting the loss of the Prospect Mall of yesteryear? It's time to support the East Side businesses that are still around today. Shopping/eating/playing local is what keeps our local favorites around.
Photo credit: Urban Milwaukee
Oakland & North Aves
1800 E. North Ave
Site preparation is underway on this most visible corner on the East Side to become a new mixed-use development by developer Robert Joseph of Joseph Property Development. The East Side Architectural Review Board met three times on this project to make sure the design was something special for the corner. There is still debate over this design on the East Side's facebook page.
What will really define the look of this building will be the business(es) that fill the street level floor of the place. When completed there will be 6,000 square feet of first floor commercial space and 39 new apartments above.
Former Pizza Man Site
The Standard @ East Library
On the corner of Cramer & E. North Ave new pillars rise from this very active construction site. By the end of 2014 you will see a new East Library with additional retail space and 99 apartments above. (The East Library is temporarily housed at 2430 N. Murray Ave during construction of this project.) The Milwaukee Public Library just announced the two artists that were chosen to create public art for inside the new East Library. You can read the latest and see the winning submissions by visiting here.


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