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A teacher and a parent were honored at the 8th grade graduation of the Hebrew Academy Chabad in Huntington Beach.
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The Hebrew Academy Chabad of Huntington Beach 8th grade graduation was held on a beautiful Southern California evening in the new Value Circle on the 11 acre campus. The grassy knoll was set with chairs for the parents and guests.
The ceremonies were introduced by Head of School, RabbiYitzchok Newman. Principal, Dr. Megan Carlson was on hand to present the diplomas to the graduates. Assistant PrincipalsDeborah Wilcoxson and Rabbi Yossi Rapoport presented awards as well.
Rabbi Dovid Rapoport, Shliach of Mequon WI, was the guest speaker, emphasizing the responsibility a young Jewish woman has to her family, community and the world.
7th grader and Honor Marshall Mushka Goorevitch played the processional on the piano as Honor Marshal Leeat Hatzav led the graduates to the dais. Chaya Mushka Kantor was the 8th grade class representative.
A young student Shliach spoke about the impact of the Rebbe, through the influence of his shluchim, on the Jewish community of Orange County, California. Thousands of students have been brought through the doors of Hebrew Academy Chabad since its inception in 1969, and many send their own children to the school today.
Parent Volunteer Carrie Hertzberg was honored for her dedication to the school and her 'Be the Best You Can Be' program which is designed to improve the character of HAHB students.
Deborah Wilcoxson was awarded the Teacher of the Year award for all she has done for the students.
"We are proud and pleased that every young woman from this year's graduating class will be returning to the Hebrew Academy High School," said Rabbi Newman.
"A 100% retention of students from eighth grade to high school is a great achievement and a testament to the stellar education and relationship between parents, students and the administration at the Hebrew Academy."


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A pulverizer or grinder is a mechanical device for the grinding of many different types of materials. For example, a pulverizer mill is used to pulverize coal for combustion in the steam-generating furnaces of fossil fuel power plants.
- 1 Types of coal pulverizers
- 2 Beater Wheel Mill
- 3 Hammer Mill
- 4 Demolition pulverizer
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 Bibliography
Types of coal pulverizers[edit]
Coal pulverizers may be classified by speed, as follows:[1]
- Low Speed
- Medium Speed
- High Speed
Low Speed[edit]
Ball and tube mills[edit]
A ball mill is a pulverizer that consists of a horizontal rotating cylinder, up to three diameters in length, containing a charge of tumbling or cascading steel balls, pebbles, or rods.
A tube mill is a revolving cylinder of up to five diameters in length used for fine pulverization of ore, rock, and other such materials; the material, mixed with water, is fed into the chamber from one end, and passes out the other end as a slurry.
Both types of mill include liners that protect the cylindrical structure of the mill from wear. Thus the main wear parts in these mills are the balls themselves, and the liners. The balls are simply "consumed" by the wear process and must be re-stocked, whereas the liners must be periodically replaced.
The ball and tube mills are low-speed machines that grind the coal with steel balls in a rotating horizontal cylinder. Due to its shape, it is called a tube mill and due to use of grinding balls for crushing, it is called a ball mill, or both terms as a ball tube mill..
These mills are also designated as an example size, BBD-4772,
- B – Broyer (Name of inventor).
- B – Boulet (French word for balls).
- D – Direct firing.
- 47 – Diameter of shell (in decimeters) i.e. 4.7 m diameter.
- 72 – Length of shell (in decimeters) i.e. 7.2 m length.
The grinding in the ball and tube mill is produced by the rotating quantity of steel balls by their fall and lift due to tube rotation. The ball charge may occupy one third to half of the total internal volume of the shell. The significant feature incorporated in the BBD mills is its double end operation, each end catering to one elevation of a boiler. The system facilitated entry of raw coal and exit of pulverized fuel from same end simultaneously. This helps in reducing the number of installations per unit.
Mill construction details[edit]
A ball tube mill may be described as a cylinder made of steel plates having separate heads or trunions attached to the ends with each trunion resting on suitable bearings for supporting the machine. The trunions are hollow to allow for the introduction of discharge of the materials undergoing reduction in size. The mill shell is lined with chilled iron, carbon steel, manganese steel, or high chrome liners attached to shell body with counter sunk bolts. These liners are made in different shapes so that the counter inside surface of the mill is suited for requirement of a particular application.
The shells are of three pieces. The intermediate shell connects to the end shells by flange joints and the total length of shell is 7.2 m. The liners are fastened to the inner side of mill shell (cylindrical part) to protect the shell from the impact of the steel balls. There are 600 liners of ten variants in each shell weighing 60.26 tonnes. The original lift value of the liners is 55 mm. and the minimum lift allowed is 20 mm.
The primary air input to a ball tube mill performs a dual function. It is used for drying and as the fuel transport medium, and by regulating it the mill output is regulated. Governed by the pulverized fuel outlet temperature requirement, the cold air and hot air dampers are regulated to achieve the correct primary air temperature. In addition to raising the coal temperature inside the mill for drying and better grinding, the same air works as the transport medium to move the pulverized coal out of the mill: it travels through the annular space between the fixed trunnion tubes and the rotating hot air tube onwards to the classifier. Coal-laden air passes through double cone static classifiers, with adjustable classifier vanes, for segregation into pulverized fuel of the desired fineness, and coarse particles. The pulverised fuel continues its journey towards the coal burners for combustion. The coarse particles rejected in the classifier are returned to the mill for another cycle of grinding.
In order to avoid excess sweeping of coal from the mill, only part of the primary air, directly proportional to the boiler load demand, is passed through the mill. Furthermore, to ensure sufficient velocity of pulverized fuel to avoid settling in the pipes, an additional quantity of primary air is fed into a mixing box on the raw coal circuit. This by-pass air tapped from the primary air duct going into the mill makes an appreciable contribution to the drying of raw coal, by a flash drying effect, in addition to picking up the pulverized fuel from the mill outlet for its transportation towards the classifiers.
The tube mill output (responding to boiler load demand) is controlled by regulating the primary air-flow. This regulation, by sweeping pulverized fuel from the mill, is very fast; comparable with oil firing response, but needs the coal level to be maintained in the mill. A control circuit monitors the coal level in the mill, and controls the speed of the raw coal feeder to maintain it. Maintaining the coal level in the mill offers a built-in capacity cushion of pulverized fuel to take care of short interruptions in the raw coal circuit.
The mill is pressurized and the air-tightness is ensured by plenum chambers around the rotating trunnion filled with pressurized seal air. Bleeding seal air from plenum chamber to the mill maintains separation between pulverized fuel in the Mill and the outside atmosphere. Inadequacy or absence of seal air will allow escape of pulverized fuel into atmosphere. On the other hand, an excess of seal air leaking into mill will affect the mill outlet temperature. As such the seal air is controlled by a local control damper maintaining just sufficient differential pressure for sealing.
Medium Speed[edit]
Ring and ball mill[edit]
This type of mill consists of two types of rings separated by a series of large balls, like a thrust bearing. The lower ring rotates, while the upper ring presses down on the balls via a set of spring and adjuster assemblies, or pressurised rams. The material to be pulverized is introduced into the center or side of the pulverizer (depending on the design). As the lower ring rotates, the balls to orbit between the upper and lower rings, and balls roll over the bed of coal on the lower ring. The pulverized material is carried out of the mill by the flow of air moving through it. The size of the pulverized particles released from the grinding section of the mill is determined by a classifier separator. If the coal is fine enough to be picked up by the air, it is carried through the classifier. Coarser particles return to be further pulverized.
Vertical spindle roller mill[edit]
Similar to the ring and ball mill, the vertical spindle roller mill uses large "tires" to crush the coal. These mills are usually found in utility plants.
Raw coal is gravity-fed through a central feed pipe to the grinding table where it flows outwardly by centrifugal action and is ground between the rollers and table. Hot primary air for drying and coal transport enters the windbox plenum underneath the grinding table and flows upward through a swirl ring having multiple sloped nozzles surrounding the grinding table. The air mixes with and dries coal in the grinding zone and carries pulverized coal particles upward into a classifier.
Fine pulverized coal exits the outlet section through multiple discharge coal pipes leading to the burners, while oversized coal particles are rejected and returned to the grinding zone for further grinding. Pyrites and extraneous dense impurity material fall through the nozzle ring and are plowed, by scraper blades attached to the grinding table, into the pyrites chamber to be removed. Mechanically, the vertical roller mill is categorized as an applied force mill. There are three grinding roller wheel assemblies in the mill grinding section, which are mounted on a loading frame via pivot point. The fixed-axis roller in each roller wheel assembly rotates on a segmentally-lined grinding table that is supported and driven by a planetary gear reducer direct-coupled to a motor. The grinding force for coal pulverization is applied by a loading frame. This frame is connected by vertical tension rods to three hydraulic cylinders secured to the mill foundation. All forces used in the pulverizing process are transmitted to the foundation via the gear reducer and loading elements. The pendulum movement of the roller wheels provides a freedom for wheels to move in a radial direction, which results in no radial loading against the mill housing during the pulverizing process.
Depending on the required coal fineness, there are two types of classifier that may be selected for a vertical roller mill. The dynamic classifier, which consists of a stationary angled inlet vane assembly surrounding a rotating vane assembly or cage, is capable of producing micrometer-fine pulverized coal with a narrow particle size distribution. In addition, adjusting the speed of the rotating cage can easily change the intensity of the centrifugal force field in the classification zone to achieve coal fineness control real-time to make immediate accommodation for a change in fuel or boiler load conditions. For the applications where a micrometer-fine pulverized coal is not necessary, the static classifier, which consists of a cone equipped with adjustable vanes, is an option at a lower cost since it contains no moving parts. With adequate mill grinding capacity, a vertical mill equipped with a static classifier is capable of producing a coal fineness up to 99.5% or higher <50 mesh and 80% or higher <200 mesh, while one equipped with a dynamic classifier produces coal fineness levels of 100% <100 mesh and 95% <200 mesh, or better.
In 1954 a Jet Pulverizer was developed in which operates like a Vertical Pulverizer only the item is pulverized by the high speed air action. For example, forcing coal against coal.[2]
Bowl mill[edit]
Similar to the vertical roller mill, it also uses tires to crush coal. There are two types, a deep bowl mill, and a shallow bowl mill.
High Speed[edit]
Attrition Mill[edit]
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Beater Wheel Mill[edit]
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Hammer Mill[edit]
A hammer mill is used on farms for grinding grain and chaff for animal feed.
Demolition pulverizer[edit]
An attachment fitted to an excavator. Commonly used in demolition work to break up large pieces of concrete.
See also[edit]
- Grinding mill
- Burr mill
- Cement mill
- Power station
- Fossil fuel power plant
- Thermal power plant
- Roller Coal Mills
- ^ Coal Pulverising Mill Types, by Glenn Schumacher, 2010
- ^ "Jet Pulverizer." Popular Mechanics, April 1954, p. 156.
- Schumacher, Glenn (201). Coal Pulverising Mill Types. ISBN 978-0-646-53759-7.

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Once Milan had been chosen as the city to host the exhibition Italy then had the honour of choosing the central theme. Taking into consideration the current world crises italy chose 'Feeding the Planet' and 'Energy for Life' in the hope of opening up an international discussion on these major challenges. They say that they are hoping that "Expo Milano 2015 will provide an opportunity to reflect upon, and seek solutions to, the contradictions of our world".
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Couple 'branded too old to adopt' face losing their 3-year-old granddaughter
A THREE-YEAR-OLD has been taken away from her grandparents after they were told they were "too old" to adopt her.
A judge said the couple would be too old to act as the girl's guardians when she turned 15
The grandfather and grandmother, aged 70 and 58, had been left responsible for their only grandchild after the youngster's mentally ill mother was sectioned.
A judge has ruled that the girl - who was handed to foster parents and cannot be identified for legal reasons - should be adopted at the end of July.
The 3-year-old's single mother, aged in her 30s was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in January after self-harming.
She was then looked after at her grandparents' home in Shoeburyness, Essex, before a social worker turned up on a week later and demanded they give the child to foster carers.
The judge said the grandparents, who could not argue their case as they were ineligible for legal aid and were unable to afford representation, would be too old to act as the girl's guardians by the time she reached 15.
This is despite the grandmother being just one year older than Britain's oldest mother Sue Tollefsen was when she gave birth to her daughter Freya aged 57 in 2008.
The couple now face a race against time to win the right to appeal against the toddler's adoption, which is set to go ahead on July 31.
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I hate fake enthusiasm.
I love the simple phrase "keep it real."
It's hard to be honest in sports to the public. You can't say the injuries of a college football player because the kid is also a college student and his privacy is protected. A manager isn't going to tell you how bad a player is if the contract is too big to cut him.
Every year, I laugh at overly-optimistic fans. I stopped laughing at ASU fans Thursday night.
I attended a Sun Devil Club dinner. Of course, there was some pep rally stuff — Coach Graham declaring victory versus certain opponents and A.D. Steve Patterson making mention of ASU's win over Notre Dame at the negotiation table. Little digs and bravado are expected at these events, and 123 other teams in college football do the same thing. There was something more, however.
Todd Graham told ASU fans to quit telling him they had a great season last year. He declared 2012 "good." He said 8-5 should be the minimum standard. He told the fans to expect championships. I didn't take it as pep rally talk or building up a sense of false hopes. It's simple. Coach Graham believes if the bar isn't there, you'll never hit it.
He also didn't shy away from the attendance problem. He hit it straight on. He explained to fans how important the game day experience is to success. Obviously, it's important for crowd noise to disrupt an opposing offense. We all know 18-to-22-year-old kids can be intimidated or enthused by a loud and engaged crowd. There's more to it, though.
Attendance can affect the outcome of a college football game. It affects the future of a college football program even more. The number one issue in college football recruiting is uniforms. Number two is game day atmosphere. ASU has very little. The crowd received the message from all angles. Safety Alden Darby brought it up. Defensive coordinator Paul Randolph spoke on the benefits of a loud crowd. Patterson preceded Graham by declaring the crowd size vital to future projects for the athletic department.
Usually, this message is met with complacency, anger, ignorance or apathy from ASU fans. I've been saying the same thing for years. I get consistently ripped by a minority of ASU fans who refuse to take any blame for the lack of football/basketball consistent success over the last two decades.
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There are four NBA teams in Cali. One is the presumptive favorite to win the Western Conference; the other three are, uh, not as good. (Check out the latest ESPN.Com Power Rankings). In the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, senior writers Ric Bucher and Chris Broussard debate, albeit briefly, on which team is a bigger mess: the Warriors or the Clippers. We wanted to give 'em a chance to flesh out their thoughts a little, lest any Mag readers miss the point. Here now, a deeper discussion on the topic. (These two have done this before.) So seriously, who's in a worse situation: Nellie or Mike Dunleavy?
All right, CB, this is a little bit like arguing over what's worse, a poke in the eye or a shot to the groin, but the Warriors' lot strikes me as worse because no one knows who's running the show or what they're trying to accomplish. Is Chris Mullin in charge? No. Don Nelson? Maybe. Bobby Rowell? Probably, but he's doing a Jim-Buss-from-behind-the-curtain number, and we know how well that went in Lakerland. Are they rebuilding? They should be, but re-upping Nelly and Stephen Jackson is a win-now mentality. Leaving a bunch of young players to get jerked around as Nelly chases Lenny Wilkens' all-time win record. It's all too reminiscent of 15 years ago, which resulted in a toxic spill that had the Warriors wishing they were the Clippers for years.
I feel you. And while I'm saying the Clippers are in worse shape, your boys on the Bay are definitely hurting too. The big problem in Clipperland is that they've committed five years, $65 million to an uncommitted Baron Davis. We all know how great Baron is when motivated, but when he's not motivated he can totally drain a franchise and that's what he's done in LA. Notice that Baron has played more than 67 games just once in the past 7 years, and not surprisngly, that was a contract year ('07-08). He was, ahem, motivated, and it worked because he got the Clips to pony up big bucks. Now that he's got his money, though, dude's just not motivated, especially in his hometown of LA, where he can work toward reaching his goal of becoming a movie producer in Hollywood. Sources say BD doesn't want to practice, watch films or run Mike Dunleavy's plays. I hear his antics are starting to rub off on the youngsters and turn off the vets. If they could trade BD, they'd be okay since they do have talent elsewhere, but with 4 years, $53 millie left on his deal, his age (30 in April), his long history of injuries, and his rep for dogging it, good luck on that front.
Injuries have undercut both squads, but at least Dunleavy has used the setbacks to let his young talent get some valuable experience. If nothing else, Eric Gordon and Al Thornton are raising t heir value, if not proving better days are ahead in Clipperland. The Warriors give DeMarcus Nelson starter's minutes and then cut him. Rob Kurz, a hardworking journeyman who is, at best, a 10th man on a good team, is played ahead of a potential superstar, Anthony Randolph. For what? And if the Clippers decide—as they should—that their pieces don't fit, they've got some tradeable pieces with a surplus of quality big men and the aforementioned improving youngsters. What do the Warriors have? Stephen Jackson, and even his attractiveness has been reduced by the three-year extension he just signed. Monta Ellis, because of base-year compensation, is impossible to move. Minutes for Randolph, Marco Bellinelli and Brandan Wright have been too sketchy to create any serious value. Corey Maggette? Contract too big. Jamal Crawford? Another fat contract with a couple of years left. And I'd still argue that if healthy—a big if—the Clippers have the raw talent to at least be in the hunt for that eighth playoff spot. The Warriors couldn't reach that level with a ski lift.
The Warriors' problem is mainly that Nellie is acting up. Not a small problem, I know, but if he'll straighten up (or quit), the Warriors will be in pretty good shape with Monte Ellis, Anthony Randolph, Brandan Wright, Andris Biedrins and others. Really, both of these teams are struggling with a hard-to-deal with personality who's kind of got their franchises by the short hairs - Nellie and B-Diddy. I just wonder how much longer Clippers owner Donald Sterling will keep his wallet open. He was notoriously stingy with the cash years ago and since he began paying guys a few years ago, he's got nothing to show for it. If he decides to get frugal again, all that young talent—Thornton and Gordon—could be being developed for another team. And hardly any of the Clips vet talent has proven it can win. Baron and Chris Kaman haven't been past the second round. Zach Randolph's never been to the playoffs since he became a big-time scorer/rebounder, and Marcus Camby's last taste of playoff success was on that magic carpet ride in New York in the "truncated" '99 season. So even if Baron was acting like a choirboy, this team would be first-round and out at best, stuck in mediocrity with three big contracts (Baron, Zach, Kaman) running through 2011.
Dude, you're talking about getting to the second round of the playoffs as if that's something to be sneezed at. The Warriors have gotten that far once in the last 20 years, Boom-Dizzle was instrumental in getting them there and the city was ready to throw a parade. Jason Richardson and Al Harrington were part of the winning formula and Nelson had a hand in all three of them going elsewhere. Here's where it gets scary: With $12 million coming his way the next two years, the Warriors are going to be s-s-slow in getting rid of Nelson and he's not leaving that money on the table. So, in light of what's happened already, imagine what might still transpire before he's done. That's my whole point: the Clippers are certainly a mess, but it's hard to see their situation getting worse. The Warriors' meltdown, if history is any indication, is only at jello level. Next stage: puree.


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A PROMINENT Melbourne lawyer has been banned from all soccer matches in Victoria for two years for abusing a female junior referee.
Tax lawyer Aldrin De Zilva was last night found guilty of misconduct at a heated tribunal hearing after a teenage match official was reduced to tears during an under-13 match earlier this year.
Mr De Zilva, a qualified barrister, solicitor, accountant and former Football Federation Victoria board member, was banned from any FFV-sanctioned match "in any capacity whatsoever'' for two years.
It means he cannot attend any FFV-sanctioned matches as a spectator, coach, match official, marshal or referee.
Mr De Zilva, who did not attend last night's hearing and released a statement suggesting his "unsullied reputation and character'' had been attacked, was also ordered to attend a respect and responsibility course by September 30.
Tribunal chair Mark Goldblatt said the charges facing Mr De Zilva were "very serious'' and accused him of treating the hearing with "complete and utter contempt''.
The hearing was told Mr De Zilva directed "offensive, insulting and/or abusive language'' toward a 17-year-old referee during a match between Dandenong Thunder and Goulburn Valley Suns at Shepparton on April 13.
Mr De Zilva was team manager of the Dandenong under-13 team, for whom his son was playing, when three red cards were handed out.
Dandenong Thunder was fined $2000 after also being found guilty of misconduct.
Dandenong under-13's coach at the time of the incident, Fitzy Ibraimi, was suspended from all FFV events in any capacity for six weeks and ordered to take a respect and responsibility course. The club was fined a further $3000 for a separate misconduct charge.
"Adults need to show an example and send a message because kids are impressionable,'' Mr Goldblatt said.
Mr De Zilva resigned as an FFV executive after the Herald Sun revealed the case against him last month.
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Nov 14, 2010 - 3:55 pm
I heard him interviewed on NPR the other week and he was talking about this. Good article
Nov 19, 2010 - 10:07 pm
Well, I did this to my cousin. She had advanced cancer. While my cousin was visiting, I talked about a friend of mine whose mother just died from cancer...blah blah blah. My last sentence trailed off like I had run out of air when I realized what an idiot I was being. Luckily for me, my cousin was an amazing, bright woman who realized that I did not mean harm. I had a chance to apologize. She passed away a year later.
Now I have skin cancer. And I get from well meaning friends and family..."skin cancer?, thats nothing.", or my personal favorite, "just get out in the sun it doesn't matter!", amoung other comments.
And I think...just like me...a few years ago.
Nov 23, 2010 - 5:41 am
Should have figured you and Phil for Hitchens fans :)
Take care, my friend,
PS: My favorite one is where I was trying to eat Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner (I think Christmas) just a month or two post head/neck cancer surgery, and a lady we had over (a widowed lady we invited every year) sat beside me at dinner table and commented on how she wished she had my willpower as I struggled to eat tiny bits of anything. HAHAHAHA.
Always makes me laugh.
Dec 01, 2010 - 12:56 pm
great article thanks for linking it
I am recovering from Thyroid cancer and the worst thing i hear is "well if your going to get cancer then Thyroid cancer is a good one" or something to the like from Doctors.
I have gotten to the point that i asked if they wanted a transplant of my thyroid tissue.
Mind you I love going to cancer support groups where everyone is eithor a survivor, or battleing cancer or a loved one. Sure we talk about friends faimly and such who have died of cancer or our own personal battles but it helps in that situation since if you dont feel like talking about cancer then you just dont show up to that group meeting
Feb 21, 2011 - 2:32 am
My daughter-in-law who is blind is very blunt and when I was diagnosed with cervical cancer told me "Well, if you have to have cancer, that's probably the best kind to have because it's so easy to treat!"
May 08, 2011 - 6:45 pm
" i know how you feel." welp, hate to say it, but even if you have fought cancer, you still dont know how i feel. " you have such courage!" well, good it is showing now because sometimes the fear is overwhelming. " keep up the faith!" as opposed to what? glad to see others have the same experiences as i do. sometimes i just gotta laugh at the good intentions of others.
May 14, 2011 - 10:44 am
NOT that I'm opposed to thinking positive, but I hate the censorship. Hey, sometimes I am afraid/mad/resentful/depressed/just plain whiny, and I need to be allowed to be that in order to get past it. I have a friend who does sort of a virtual fingers-in-the-ears, "la la la la la" whenever I express any thought that isn't happy.
Jun 06, 2011 - 5:50 am
Hmmm...my wife has been doing that for more than 30 years and it has nothing to do with cancer :)
Take care,
Oct 13, 2011 - 6:54 pm
I get sick to death (pun intended) - when people say I need to be positive! I always say -I am positive - positive that I have cancer. WOOOHOOO!
Oct 14, 2011 - 8:09 am
I am positive that I feel bad and I am not going to work today….
Jun 07, 2011 - 2:40 pm
Reading the article, I see it written:
I must make a note to ask what stage I am at with my peritoneal cancer. I was told to prepare for the worse from day one, but some sentences seem say the same thing more precisely. Maybe we just hear them differently.
"there was the unreasonable urge to have a kind of monopoly on, or a sort of veto over, what was actually sayable"
I've not yet been in this position (I think). Will probably come, but I can place what he means.
Oct 24, 2011 - 3:05 pm
I found this was just an accepted greeting in passing at school, and the acceptable answer was to be positive, no matter who was answering or how you felt. I don't think anyone truly listens to your answer. I read on the ACS site that a much better question, if someone really wants to communicate with a cancer patient and take the time to listen, is "What are you feeling today?"
The communication I seemed to have to deal with was, "Gee, you look great." Now, I actually looked horrible. Steroids had made me put on 60 pounds. The chemo was doing a number on my skin and it looked abolutely horrible. I could no longer use the chemicals to dye my hair. (privately, I loved my white halo around my face) My eyelids had started to droop so much, I could no longer see well enough to read. My feet hurt so badly, I had started waddling. So I truly was a sight that contributed to sore eyes.
I decided that what they really meant was, Gee, you still have your hair, OR Gee, you're still alive. Never expected to see you again. I did't take too much offense, because I never expected to see them again either, but 4 years later with my 2nd recurrence behind me, here I am making excuses for my well-meaning friends and acquaintances.
Oct 30, 2017 - 7:45 pm
The worst thing I've encountered was random strangers and "friends" who suddenly started showing up and messaging to ask "what are you going to do with your farm?" I've been asked to list it by realtors, asked when it was to be auctioned off, and received multiple offers. Mind you I have never even considered selling as it is in a trust for my children. Since the word got around that I have cancer people apparently expect me to sell out and die. I'm appalled by the nerve of people.


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William Turnbull Documentary "Beyond Time"
The VIP reception held across the street from LACMA at:
5900 Wilshire Blvd, Variety Building Gallery
Saturday, April 30, 2011, 6:00-7:15 PM
Film Screening
Saturday, April 30, 2011, 7:30 PM
Bing Theatre
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
William Turnbull has been recently described as "the most important living British artist." A celebrated sculptor and painter, over the past sixty years his artwork has helped define Modern and Contemporary art. As part of an on-going series of events celebrating the important contributions of this influential artist, BritWeek will premier the film "Beyond Time: William Turnbull" at LACMA as part of the BritWeek celebration. The film, a collaboration between the artist's son Alex Turnbull and Pete Stern, features narration by Jude Law.
View the trailer at: www.williamturnbullart.com
Bing Theater l Ticketed: $7 LACMA members; $10 general admission. Call 323 857-6010 or visit lacma.org.
Matt Small
Friday, April 29, 2011, 7:30 PM
Merry Karnowsky Gallery
170 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Matt Small is an artist whose painting is best understood as an extension of his beliefs and worldview. Matt is a passionate believer in social inclusion and that, given the opportunities to be heard and respected, all individuals have something of value to contribute to society. The subject matter of Matt's portraits tends to be the marginalized and voiceless in society, those who are socially excluded and often viewed as statistics or pawns in a wider political game as opposed to individuals with the latent potential to contribute and enrich society if only given the opportunity to be heard. By painting portraits of individuals on the outskirts of society, often young black men, Matt encourages us to spend time with people who we may chose to overlook in our daily lives and in doing so forces us to challenge our prejudices and recognize our shared humanity.
Pete Stern
Friday, April 29, 2011, 7:30 PM
Merry Karnowsky Gallery
170 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Pete Stern is a multi-media artist born in London England. Encouraged by the freedom of thought of the 1960s, energised by the anarchic attitudes of the punk movements of the 1970s and a constant aversion to mediocrity, Stern has a natural inclination for searching beyond the surface, beyond the standard rhetoric, beyond the other side of something else, beyond a particular state of mind or emotion and into an area that lies outside of what is known, both physically and in the abstract.
Marcos Lutyens
Schedule of Happenings
April 30, 2011 - 6:00 pm - 7:15 PM
"Beyond Time : William Turnbull" VIP Reception held at the Marcos Lutyens exhibition.
Gallery Open: May 3rd - May 21st
May 10th 7.30pm - 10pm Public Performance
SPEED DREAMING is a project that explores automatist behaviors at the convergence of machines and the body-mind system. The exhibit is divided into 4 main bodies of work:
Attacca explores the mind machine interface of the segway and how space and time relationships are blurred when an activity takes place, perhaps leaving a residue at that location
Bestiary: Raëlians is part of a multi year project that traces thought forms in the unconscious mind of various groups of people. In this case a group of Raëlian bishops and guides
As you listen An Excerpt of Erik Niedling and Ingo Niermanns documentary. This excerpt is centered around a Lutyens induction in New Yorks Time Square
Automata Automatica A series of drawings that are based on automatic patterns and behaviours.
Christopher Farr: Weather Report
Wednesday, May 11 - 7 PM - 10 PM
1933 S. Broadway, Suite 1240 Los Angeles, CA 90007
Open to the public - Free parking
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Los Angeles, CA --The BritWeek Art Program, in partnership with The British Council and in collaboration with the L.A. ART MACHINE present, world-renowned rug and textile designer Christopher Farr, who will curate a special exhibition Weather Report as part of BritWeek Art Program 2011, to be held at SOURCE LA, L.A. MART DESIGN CENTER, May 11 June 11. The concept is a dialogue/conversation of work done by artists and designers selected by Christopher Farr. On the surface the work may seem contradictory, without apparent connection other than the choices made by one man whose career has straddled fine art, textiles, rugs, and modern furniture.
This exhibition, headlined by a Jorge Pardo rug designed exclusively for Christopher Farr, is the centerpiece of Weather Report and served as inspiration for Farr to ignore the traditional conventions of curating this installation for the BritWeek Art Program. Jorges ability and desire to see no barriers between so-called fine art, and applied art is amply demonstrated in the intensity of his vision and sublime sense of color. Included in this exhibition are works by: Claire Joseph, Tierney Gearon, Michael Boyd, Bill Barminsky, Patrick Bolton, Randall Harrington, Jorge Pardo, and Christopher Farr himself.
Tobias Keene: Pomp and Ceremony
May 13, 2011 7:00 to 10:00 PM
Groundfloor Gallery
433 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA
Tobias Keene is a third generation British painter who currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His artwork explores, through the immediacy of color, texture and form, a quality of lost innocence. His paintings exemplify the resplendence of children, animals and static objects.
"My work is the subconscious portrayal of childhood memories that are running into an unknown ambiguous future". He has had several one-man exhibits in Los Angeles and New York, with Earl McGrath Gallery as well as group shows including "Fresh" at MOCA Los Angeles and "Dirty Little Secret" at Indica Gallery, New York on November 11t, 2010.
Keene's work is also held in several prominent private and public collections and currently hangs in the permanent collection of The Trout Museum of Art, alongside his Father and Grandfather.
Love in the hand is worth two in the bush
May 3, 2011
6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Rankin Gallery
8070 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
British photographer, Rankin, in conjuction with Fahey/Klein Gallery, launches his first exhibition at his new gallery on Melrose Avenue, - entitled 'Rankin's Rubbish'.
Best known for his celebrity portraiture and fashion photography, with 'Rankin's Rubbish', Rankin instead turns his lens to rendering more beautiful the detritus of everyday life.
'I have always wanted to call an exhibition 'Rankin's Rubbish'. I love the humour in the title - its not what people expect, especially as the opening show to a new venture. I always approach my work with a sense of fun. I want to amuse people with my photographs, and I try never to take myself too seriously. Thats a very British character trait and, in this sense, this is a very British show! I was inspired by Irving Penn's still life images of cigarette butts and other discarded items. His images are beautiful, and he elevates the mundane to almost become objects to admire. I've always been obsessed by minute detail, and the patterns that emerge when you look at something so closely. I see faces in everything. ' - Rankin
The private view of Rankin's Rubbish will be held on 3rd May at Rankin's gallery, 8070 Melrose Avenue. The event is a special preview of the new gallery, in honour of Britweek. The gallery officially opens on 26th May.
About Rankin:
Photographer and director, Rankin, lives and works in North London. Over the last 22 years he has earned a reputation for his exceptional portraiture and is repeatedly commissioned for global advertising campaigns, editorial features and is exhibited in galleries around the world. As a director, he frequently shoots music videos, commercials and documentaries as well as directing an award-winning feature film, The Lives of the Saints.


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Wayne Howell of Jamestown was paralyzed below the waist more than four years ago when an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) rolled over on him and damaged his lower spine.
"It was March 29, 2009," he recalled.
"The ATV was new. It was the first one I had owned.
"I was driving up a hill behind another ATV driven by a younger person. They couldn't make it over the crest of the hill, so I stopped to give them some room.
"Because of the slope of the hill, my ATV was at an angle. It started to roll over. I was underneath it when it stopped," he explained.
Howell was 69 at the time.
During the next three and one-half years, he spent hours in hospitals and rehabilitation units in the Knoxville area trying to regain some movement in his legs.
"The doctors told him he would never walk again," said his wife, Irene.
"He had little feeling in his legs. He felt no pain if the doctors stuck him with a needle, or pin," she said.
About a year ago, Howell had virtually exhausted his options. Not only was the lower part of his body unable to move, but he had lost much of the muscle mass in his arms and upper body.
His wife heard from a friend that the exercise pool at the Cumberland Medical Center Wellness Complex in Fairfield Glade had a device to lift paralyzed persons in and out of the water.
It provided some hope because it was closer to home than Knoxville, and Howell knew how to swim, he could float in the water and possibly get some activity, his wife explained.
So they drove from Jamestown to Fairfield Glade, became Wellness Complex members, and committed to meet twice a week with Wayne Henline, a certified personal trainer.
Henline encouraged Howell to begin working in the pool to strengthen the muscles he could still use.
"We found with a little effort and support, he could push up on his toes in the water. We started with that," Henline said.
For the last year, Howell's wife has driven him the 45 minutes from Jamestown to Fairfield Glade, twice a week to work out with Henline.
Over the past year, with effort, he has re-learned to stretch his hips and move sideways in the water while hanging on to the edge of the pool.
By pulling and pushing on the hand rails at the pool entrance he can now lift and lower his legs to step up and down on one of the underwater steps leading out of the pool.
"The further up he raises in the water, the less buoyancy supports him, the more effort it takes, and the stronger he gets," Henline explained.
"When we started the sideways movement, he could only go for 30 seconds and then he needed to stop and rest," Henline said.
"He could only handle about 15 minutes of total exercise time at the beginning," he said.
"Now, he can open his hips and go back and forth for a minute, and then repeat it one or two times with only a brief rest. Now, he can work in the water for 30 minutes," Henline said.
Howell is rebuilding his upper body muscle to a point where his biceps are visible when he strains on the pool hand rail.
"We're working with him so he can proudly wear a tank top again," Henline jokes.
Howell says that Henline and the Fairfield Glade Wellness Complex "has done more for me than anyone or any place I've been over the past four years."
Howell proudly reports that he can now sit on a chair in the shower without holding on to any side rails or bars.
His wife said Veteran's Administration doctors, who examined him in July, reported he is beginning to regenerate nerve tissue in his legs.
Asked why, at 74, he is going through what some might consider an extreme effort, Howell said:
"I want to walk again."
Henline smiled.
"Last week he said he merely wanted to move again with a walker. He doesn't know if he will ever again, but as I told him when he first came in, let's find out."


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Ignatian Humanism: A Spirituality for the Twenty-first Century
Book titles commonly call for some explanation. This title all but cries out for one. Virtually every word of it raises questions. First, Ignatian. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, a humanist? If humanism implies anything, it implies a high regard for human freedom. Wasnt it Ignatius Loyola who wrote something to the effect that what he sees as white he will believe to be black if the Catholic Church hierarchy says so? That hardly sounds humanistic. Putting together the words Ignatian and humanism is curious, to say the least. What do I mean by humanism?
Or by spirituality, for that matter? Doesnt spirituality have to do with escaping from lifes temptations and challenges by going off someplace where people pray all day? What does that have to do with life in the twenty-first century? Dont Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits go back to the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, when they battled Protestants as part of the Catholic Counter-Reformation? Most Catholics and Protestants have risen above those old quarrels. What does the sixteenth century have to say to the twenty-first? Answers to some of these questions simply raise more questions.
Most of this book is devoted to five Jesuit humanists. In that case, why not just call it Jesuit Humanism? Or, if its about spirituality, why not Jesuit Spirituality? Why Ignatian? Again, for that matter, why Humanism? Most of these questions will be addressed in the chapters that follow. Some will take the entire book to answer adequately. Others, like the last, can be dealt with at the outset.
A book with Ignatian Humanism in the title will not, I hope, mislead librarians into cataloging it next to Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, or Jean-Paul Sartre. This book assumes, on the contrary, that humanism is more encompassing than its narrower, purely secular subspecies. And it makes dual claims. One is that Ignatian spirituality is rooted not in the Catholic Counter-Reformation conflict with Protestantism but in sixteenth-century Renaissance humanism, indeed that its humanistic features are so numerous and intrinsic as to justify calling it a form of humanism. The second claim is that those humanist features make it exceptionally relevant for anyonenot just Roman Catholics and maybe not just Christians eitherlooking for a way to live a responsible spiritual life at the dawn of a new century, in which the only constant seems to be change. For a clearer understanding of the two foregoing claims, the reader deserves some immediate explanation of what I mean by three words under discussion here: spirituality, humanism, and Ignatian. The first two have evolved from ideas that reach back deep into the history of Western culture. They have come to acquire disparate, sometimes competing definitions, necessitating the addition of modifying adjectives that point to their particular historical provenance. The third word is one of those adjectives.
Spirituality is a word moderns tend to identify with matters otherworldly and exotic. It conjures up images of hermits in deserts and gurus on mountaintops. When modified by Catholic adjectives like Benedictine, Carmelite, or Trappist, it brings to mind clicking rosary beads and silent cloisters. In the early 1960s, Protestant theologian Paul Tillich lamented that the words spirit and spiritual had lost any meaning for modern Western culture. Books surveying the religious landscape spoke of secular cities and the death of God. Spirituality was associated with matters pious and churchy. Anyone could see that the churches were in trouble and that the 1960s were anything but pious.
If he were alive today, Tillich would express pleasant surprise at the comeback spirituality has made in the last thirty years in North America but then quickly add, he knew we couldnt do without it. Bookstore shelves are crammed with titles ranging from the classics of Western spirituality to Eastern mysticism, Blessed Mother Teresa, and New Age. Without much reflection on the difference, peoplethe younger generation in particular identify themselves as being spiritual but not religious. Though church life is in decline, interest in spirituality is thrivingwhich is not to say that the moguls of popular culture acknowledge it as something central to the human enterprise. The mass media still tend to see spirituality as a fringe phenomenon best ignored except at Christmas and Easter or at times like the 9/11 terrorist attacks when "God bless America" came so easily to the lips.
The resurgent interest in spirituality merits reflection, if only because it tells us something important about ourselves. At the same time that science and technology are creating new forms of life and already have the basic knowledge and skills to clone human life, we are experiencing a need to talk about ourselves in terms other than DNA molecules and genes. When biologists demonstrate how little genetic difference there is between human beings and higher primates, when anthropologists discover the bones of ancestors that we share with those primates on our evolutionary family tree, we are drawn to focus on that difference. There is something at our core that resists being reduced to merely bigger brains and clever thumbs.
The word spirit is how we talk about that core. The Englishalong with the Italian and Spanishgoes back to the Latin spiritus, which, like its Hebrew and Greek counterparts, has to do with wind, the air we breathe, and, as a result, life. Spirit is what the prescientific ancients saw as the difference between a living person and a corpse. In German, Geist links spirit to the Geisteswissenschaften, the "sciences of the spirit" that study the full range of human endeavor and its achievements. The French esprit suggests that spirit has something to do with being fully alive. All these cognates give us some idea why spirit and spirituality resisted being swept into the dictionarys dustbin for obsolete words. They point to something inalienable and central to who we are. They point to that difference, that something more, that makes it possiblehow did someone put it?for the rubbing of horsehair over gut to come out as Beethovens First Violin Sonata. They point to that which makes us unique . . . which makes us human.
It is also in that dimension we call the human spirit that we experience what we in the West, under the influence of the Judeo-Christian tradition, call the Holy Spirit. That familiar but confusing compound is translated more prosaically as holy wind or holy breath. Because the Hebrew for holy (qadosh) refers to that which is out of the ordinary, Holy Spirit became the way the Hebrew and Christian scriptures talk about God not far off in some seventh heaven but as a mysterious power (like the wind) that is beyond the ordinary and yet experienced as a presence (like the breath we inhale and feel deep within us).
Spirituality is about the experience at the core of our beings of something a power, presence, drive, longingthat is beyond the ordinary. Defined in this way, spirituality is not about something at the fringes of human life. It is not a leisure-time activity or option for people with a taste for the exotic. It is about what one thoughtful author has called the "holy longing" or "dis-ease" (St. Augustine called it a "restlessness") at the heart of human life.1 It is about the eros, the energy or drive within us that shapes our actions and ultimately our lives. Seeing spirituality this way makes it a "nonnegotiable," more basic than religion:
Long before we do anything explicitly religious at all, we have to do something about the fire that burns within us. What we do with that fire, how we channel it, is our spirituality. Thus, we all have a spirituality, whether we want one or not, whether we are religious or not. Spirituality is more about whether or not we can sleep at night than about whether or not we go to church. It is about being integrated or falling apart, about being within community or being lonely, about being in harmony with Mother Earth or being alienated from her.2
This view of spirituality is obviously at odds with those who see it as something only for churchgoers or devotees of the paranormal. But does that make it so broad as to become meaningless? Is it an abuse of the word to say that people who do not pray are spiritual? (Whether or not their spirituality is adequate or complete is another question.) But how else do we take people at their word when they say that they are spiritual though not religious? How else do we interpret Albert Einstein, when though not one to frequent a synagoguehe tells us that, as a scientist, he wanted to know Gods thoughts? How else do we understand Spinoza, the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher, being regarded both as an atheist and as "God-intoxicated"? How else do we explain researchers who make their science a religion, or self-styled atheists with a totally selfless commitment to justice? For the prescientific ancients, spirit was what held a body together, keeping it from disintegrating. For us moderns, as individuals or in communities, spirituality can still be a way of talking about what holds us together, what keeps us from disintegrating.
Humanism is another word with a complicated history. But it has an even wider range of possible meanings that, if left unmodified, make it hopelessly ambiguous, some might even say useless. To resolve the difficulty, some authors argue that its unmodified use should be restricted to the eighteenth-century Enlightenments rejection of religion and to themselves the modern proponents of that rejectionwho would include signatories of the 1933 and 1973 Humanist Manifestos; the members of various national humanist leagues, such as the American Humanist Association, which publishes The Humanist, and those who agree with the notion that humanism constitutes an alternative to religion with a term less negative than atheism.
Atheistic (a.k.a. secular, rational, or ethical) humanists are not the only ones to advocate limiting the word exclusively to themselves. There are conservative Christians of various churches and denominations who happily cede the word to secularists for the sake of having an unambiguous label for the enemy camp. Televangelists of this stripe, for example, blame all that is wrong in America and modern culturefrom public education to the feminist movementon humanism, regarding it with the same animosity as they do liberalism, their other (or is it the same?) bête noire.
Despite such efforts at simplification, however, humanism remains stubbornly ambiguous. The Oxford English Dictionary offers several different subdefinitions, which one scholar of the words usage and history finds to be only a fraction of the various senses and contexts in which it has been applied. Its range extends, as he puts it, "from the pedantically exact to the cosmically vague." One of those vague but, I would argue, legitimate extended meanings refers to humanism as an evaluation of human achievements and cultivation of human enrichment. But in addition to that nondescript, nonthreatening definition are meanings that carry powerful positive or negative connotations, depending on ones ideological allegiance.3
The word, in a word, is loaded. For those who salute it, humanism stands for human freedom and dignity, synonymous with the best of modern Western culture. At the other end of the playing field, postmodern critics of the Enlightenment fault the word for masking its users restriction of full dignity and freedom to a particular race (white), gender (male), and class (fellow aristocrats, landowners, or nationals). Like the Athenian Greeks whom they emulated, the colonial founding fathers who announced American independence with a declaration that "all men are created equal" owned slaves. In the course of Western history, full humanity at various times has been denied to women, children, those who did not speak Greek (or more recently English), and Jews. For its critics (like Theodor Adorno), the Enlightenments rationalist, humanist enterprise came to its logical conclusion at Auschwitz. For more recent postmodern critics of the word (Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida), the humanity to which humanism appeals and on which it is based is little more than a pretentious metaphor.
Thats a lot of baggage for a word first coined to describe an academic reform. In the early nineteenth century, a group of German educators began promoting a curriculum that gave pride of place to what they regarded as the wellsprings of Western civilization and culture, the literary classics and achievements of ancient Greece and Rome. They called their program Humanismus, a word evocative of the Italian Renaissance umanisti, who advocated replacing Aristotle and scholastic theology with the study of Cicero, Virgil, and other Latin and Greek classic texts. The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century umanisti were speech and letter writers for the nobility and ruling magistrates of their day. But they were also the teachers of grammar, rhetoric, history, and ethics, who cultivated what they calledborrowing a phrase from Cicerothe studia humanitatis, or what today we call the humanities. Needless to say, the word has wandered far beyond the precincts of academe or the fifteenth-century Italian taste for literature.
Renaissance humanism will be treated at some length in chapter 2 of this book. Suffice it for now to say that virtually all the Renaissance humanists were practicing Christians. They did not renounce religion or Christian faith. But they did criticize the Latin style and pedagogy of the "scholastics," who dominated university faculties at the time. And some humanists could be quite forthright in criticizing the state of the church, clergy, and popular piety, most notable among these being the acerbic priest Erasmus and his friend Thomas More. Both, though critical Catholics, would stoutly rebuff any aspersions cast on their Catholic loyalty or humanist credentials. Other Christians with substantial humanist claims are, to name but a few, Florentine Platonist Pico della Mirandola, Luis Vives and Fray Luis de León in Spain, Jacques Lefévre dEstaples in France, and John Milton and John Donne in England. The word can also be justifiably ascribed to more recent, though heterogeneous, Christian thinkers such as Gabriel Marcel, Thomas Merton, Paul Tillich, and (Erasmus redivivus?) Hans Kung.4 Obviously humanism cannot be simply identified with irreligion.
But what do the ideas and writings of the above Christian humanists have to do with those heroes of secular humanism for whom Christianity and the church were not objects of loyal criticism but contempt? One thinks here of Diderot (for whom Christianity was "the Great Prejudice"), David Hume ("Christian superstition"), and Voltaire ("écrase linfame"). Humanists less polemical but just as averse to all forms of religion were Karl Marx ("opium" for the oppressed masses) and Sigmund Freud ("neurosis"). Clearly we have here two very different strains of a bifurcated intellectual tradition, both laying claim to be legitimate heirs of the Renaissance humanists.
The genesis of the secular humanist tradition is to be found in the writings of the eighteenth-century British freethinkers and French philosophes who made up what came to be called the "Age of Reason" or "Enlightenment" (siècle de lumières; Aufklärung). The Renaissance umanisti had immersed themselves in alternative topics of interest (the humanities) from the narrower, theological discourse (divinity) of the Middle Ages. The events of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries contributed to transforming that alternative taste into a distaste for religious discourse altogether.
The religious wars that followed the Reformation and the imposing achievements of scientific reason (Copernicus, Galileo, Newton) gave ample grounds for Enlightenment philosophers to forego interest in contentious religious doctrines and concentrate on matters human and empirical. (Alexander Pope summed up the attitude of the age famously: "Presume not God to scan; the proper study of Mankind is Man.") Those in England who did give thought to religion gave rise to Deism, which rejected revealed religion in the name of reason and a natural theology that was sure that God and the afterlife were quite capable of rational demonstration (John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity; John Toland, Christianity Not Mysterious). From first polite and then undisguised indifference to religion, there followed the hostile contempt exemplified by Diderot, Hume, and Voltaire, cited above.
In Germany, Immanuel Kant put an end to natural theology with his critique of rational attempts to prove the existence of God or an afterlife. He also formulated what became the classical definition of Enlightenment as emancipation from religious authorities who would presume to shackle human reason ("the end of humankinds self-imposed infancy"). Without dwelling any further on its historical evolution, secular humanism today can be described in terms of four basic assumptions. As articulated by a leading historian and representative of secular humanism, those four assumptions are: that we humans are on our own, that this life is all there is, that we are all responsible for our own lives, and that we are responsible for the lives of our fellow human beings.5 One will notice that these are all faith assumptionsbut a faith, their author would argue with a nod to Kant, within the limits of reason alone.
The Enlightenment tradition uncoupled the concept of human dignity from its moorings in the biblical belief that human beings are created in the "image of God." It has been argued (John Pawlikowski) that this disconnect and the "death of God" in Western culture (Friedrich Nietzsche) are what made it possible for the Nazis to attempt to overthrow the Judeo-Christian values that underpinned European civilization, providing the most horrific example of what has been called the "anti-humanism" of modernity.6Totalitarian nation-states came to claim the allegiance once reserved for religion. But the issue need not be belabored here. This book is not a critique of the Enlightenment or secular humanism. It seeks rather to illustrate an alternative humanist tradition, one, I would argue, with equal claim to the title and the Renaissance legacy.
The ambiguity of the word humanism, left unmodified, should be clear enough by now. There are too many disparate kinds of humanism, which may share enough features to justify the generic noun but still differ enough to require adjectival specification. Chapter 2 will look in some detail at those common features. Several of the specifying adjectives have already been encountered. There is, of course, the original Renaissance or literary humanism, and the classical humanism of Greece and Rome that the umanisti emulated. There is Enlightenment or secular humanism, also referred to, according to ones preferred nuance, as scientific, rational, atheistic, agnostic, or ethical humanism.
The term religious humanism is no less ambiguous than the unmodified noun, since theists and nontheists alike have used it to describe themselves. Christian humanism (which secular humanists generally regard as an oxymoron) stands alongside Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish humanisms. (Martin Buber, Abraham Heschel, and Emmanuel Levinas come to mind as Jewish humanists; Gandhi as a Hindu humanist.) Other kinds of humanism one finds in the literature are German romantic, liberal, existentialist, Marxist, philanthropic, and socialist. And, as if those adjectives were not enough, here I am suggesting anotherIgnatian.
In this book I will try to make the case that the spirituality that began with Ignatius Loyola and the founding of the Society of Jesus was and remains so deeply imbued with distinctive features it absorbed from the Renaissance humanism of the day that it deserves to be called a kind of humanism. I will illustrate how this humanism has evolved over the centuries, thanks to an aptitude for accommodation prized in Renaissance education and inherent in the spirituality and ethos of the Society of Jesus (hence the "dynamic" in the books subtitle). But if that is the case, why Ignatian humanism? Why not Jesuit? Because Ignatian spirituality is broader than the Jesuit spirituality embodied in the Society of Jesus. One does not have to be a Jesuit to embrace the principles and practices of Ignatian spirituality.
Ignatian spirituality has its origins in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola. Jesuit spirituality does too, but also in the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, which give it a decidedly distinctive coloring. The Jesuits are a religious order of men tied together by vows, including a distinctive fourth vow that gives them a special relationship to the popes. Ignatian spirituality embraces a wider spectrum of adherentslaymen and laywomen without vows, non-Jesuit diocesan priests, congregations of religious women founded by Jesuits and influenced by their spirituality, in fact anyone who has taken the time to make the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises either completely or in part. That means not only Roman Catholics but also a variety of Christians who have no ecclesial ties to the bishops of RomeAnglicans, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, members of the United Reformed Church, Mennonites, and Quakers.7 All of these non-Jesuits constitute what I like to call, borrowing a phrase from the (1995) Thirty-fourth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, the "extended Ignatian family."8
Though not a Jesuit, I consider myself a member of this family on a number of counts. I have taught at a Jesuit university for nearly a quarter of a century and try to provide my students with the vision and values of a Jesuit education. Several years ago, over the course of nine months, I made the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in a so-called (nineteenth annotation) "retreat in daily life." It was during the course of that experience that I decided to research and write this book for anyone, like myself, drawn to or interested in Ignatian spirituality. The members of that group for whom this book is not specifically intended are the Jesuits themselves, although even those learned men may discover some forgotten nugget of wisdom among the familiar chestnuts or a new insight gleaned from a perspective more distant than theirs.
In addition to readers drawn to Ignatian spirituality, this book is also for my colleagues and students at Saint Louis University; their counterparts at other Jesuit colleges and universities; alumni, boards of trustees, and supporters of Jesuit institutions; in short, anyone involved in Jesuit education or ministry. That includes my Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist colleagues and students and those uncertain of any faith, whoperhaps without knowing why (though I hope this book will help give some answers)find themselves at home in a Jesuit academic setting.
Thats a good reason why Ignatian spirituality deserves to be called a kind of humanism, and why Ignatian humanism needs to be seen in the broader context of a "spiritual humanism," as I have called it elsewhere.9 There are persons I know whose spiritual eros or energy is not nourished or directed by any church or organized religion, but whose integrity, commitment to justice, and concern for the needs of their fellow human beings all bespeak a depth appropriately described as spiritual. Ignatian humanism I will try to show in the chapters that followargues for a God at work in the lives of people even when they give up on religion or the notion of God.
The organization of my argument is simple enough. The first chapter describes Ignatian spirituality in the context of its origins in the life of Ignatius Loyola. The second outlines the characteristics of Renaissance humanism and their influence on Ignatian spirituality and the founding of the Society of Jesus. Chapters 3 through 7 will illustrate how that humanism has continued to evolve, exemplified in the lives and ideas of several notable Jesuits. These are Matteo Ricci, who pioneered interreligious, intercultural dialogue in China; Friedrich Spee, a pre- Enlightenment champion of human rights; scientist and visionary Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Karl Rahner, who plumbed the theological depths implied by Ignatian spirituality; and Superior General Pedro Arrupe, who brought the Society of Jesus into a new era by returning it to its roots. A concluding chapter will attempt to draw together the lessons of the preceding chapters, arguing that the Ignatian humanism that has evolved over the centuries has a distinctive relevance for our own times.
In virtually every sphere of cultural criticism, analysts seem agreed, we are living in a time of transition. The by-now-overused word postmodern however one defines itpresupposes that an era has come to an end. Whether it happened in World War I, at Auschwitz, or Hiroshima, the rationalist dogmas that constituted the foundation of modern Western culture have come into question. We no longer take it for granted that progress is inevitable or that science and technology alone will save us. Our computers give us more information than we know how to handle. The Hubble telescope brings onto our living room coffee tables color photographs of galaxies colliding and stars being born millions of light-years away. People from continents and cultures once oceans away now move into our neighborhoods and study or work at desks across the hall.
For the closest analogue to our own day, I would suggest, one must look to the Renaissance. That too was a time of wider horizons and new knowledge overturning former certitudes. Though it looked to the past for guidance, the Renaissance became the bridge to modernity. We in the postmodern, early twenty-first century could do worse for guidance than to look to the Renaissance and its humanist values, as embodied in Ignatian spirituality. Ignatian humanism may not be the answer for everyone looking to live a responsible twenty-first century spirituality or faith-life. I dont claim it is the only way, but it is one way. Its humanism is an aspect of Ignatian spirituality that I personally find helpful and appealing, one that I trust the reader will too.
I dont claim that this book tells the whole story of Ignatian spirituality (let alone Jesuit history), or that the Jesuit humanists I treat here even begin to exhaust the possibilities. Other candidates worthy of consideration are scientists Christopher Clavius (who designed the now universally adopted Gregorian calendar), Athanasius Kircher (Egyptologist and inventor of an early film projector), and Roger Boscovich (who in the eighteenth century anticipated modern atomic theory by more than a hundred years). In the arts, poet Gerard Manley Hopkins comes to mind, as well as the lesser known Domenico Zipoli, who in 1716 gave up composing Baroque oratorios for Italians to write music for natives at Jesuit missions in what are now Paraguay and Bolivia. An entire book could be written on American Jesuit humanists like pioneers Jacques Marquette, Pierre De Smet, and Eusebio Kino. Pioneering intellectuals in such a book would include freedom of conscience champion John Courtney Murray; ecumenist Gustave Weigel; and philosopher-theologian Bernard Lonergan. But arbitrariness is unavoidable in an enterprise such as this, and an author must draw lines somewhere.
My only regret is that, in telling the story of Ignatian humanism, I find myself writing exclusively about Jesuits and therefore celibate males. Women were among the most formative influences on the life of Ignatius Loyola. (It is doubtful he would have survived his reckless penitential excesses were it not for the women of Manresa.) Women were among his earliest supporters and among the first to "make" his Spiritual Exercises. His letters to women fill a hefty volume.10 But until recently, Jesuits were almost the only interpreters and developers of Ignatian spirituality. Happily, that is changing.11 The histories of the many religious orders of women inspired by Ignatian spirituality have yet to be written. I would hope that a volume like this one might encourage research in that direction, enriching the concept of Ignatian humanism with a feminist perspective.
Books this wide-ranging do not get written without help from generous colleagues. Nor in this instance, from a generous and supportive university. When I conceived the idea that eventually became the Shared Vision video series on Jesuit education, it was J .J. Mueller and Thomas Rochford who collaborated in refining and realizing the project, Saint Louis University that underwrote it, and Jesuits James Blumeyer and Lawrence Biondi who supported it. Research on Shared Vision prompted me to write a 1995 article in America magazine entitled "The Spiritual Humanism of the Jesuits." Among the letters in response to that article came a suggestion to expand it into a book. The rest, as they say, is history.
I am particularly grateful to Saint Louis University for financial support in the way of research grants from its Marchetti and Mellon Funds and for a research leave and sabbatical that allowed me to bring this book to a timely conclusion. My sincere thanks also to the staff of the universitys Pius XII library, especially archivists John Wade and Randy McGuire and theology specialist Ronald Crown, and to my research assistants over the last several years, Andy Matthews, Dennis Durst, Brett Huebner, and Daniel Dunivan. I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the inspiration afforded me by Renaissance historian John OMalley, whose book on the first Jesuits intrigued me enough to venture a book along these lines.
Colleagues and friends who have been willing to read and offer helpful criticism of parts of this manuscript or who have made helpful suggestions include Bernhard Asen, Claudia Carlen, Paul Coutinho, Marian Cowan, Philip Fischer, David Fleming, Paul Garcia, Mary Garvin, Philip Gavitt, Dolores Greeley, John Haught, Thomas King, Vincent OKeefe, John Padberg, Robert Phillips, Carl Starkloff, Bill Stauder, Kenneth Steinhauser, James Voiss, Xiaoxin Wu, and the members of the Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality, in particular Robert Bireley and G. Ronald Murphy. I wish to acknowledge George Lane, Jim Manney, my copy editor Rebecca Johnson, and the staff at Loyola Press for their support of this project. Special thanks too to my manuscript editor, L. B. Norton, for her sharp eye and wise counsel. Any shortcomings in these pages are, of course, my responsibility and not theirs. Finally, for the English teachers skills she honed in a previous life and for her unflagging moral support in this one, my love and thanks to my wife, Mary Elizabeth Hogan. This book is dedicated to those colleagues and students at Saint Louis University who have enriched both our lives with their spirituality, humanism, and friendship.
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