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Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the college and university winners of its second-round grants under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program. Totaling $500 million and representing the second installment of a four-year, $2 billion federal investment in postsecondary education designed to help workers transition to new careers, the TAACCCT grants carry a significant open educational resources (OER) requirement: "All educational materials developed through the grants will be available for use by the public and other educational providers through a Creative Commons license." For more on the program generally, as well as to see the list of first-round projects, visit: http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/.
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Run Dad, RUN!
Dad actually does care! Who would have thunk.
Dad snaps his fingers well. He walks well. He thinks well. He runs well. Let's hope he finds Calvin well.
He well, er, will. ;)
Scaring huh? so much responsiblity to look after a kid. esp. when you love him sooo much as a parent!
This dad really does know his son…
We are fine thinking "evil" thoughts until we realize that they might be possible …. and then it's RUN!
Hope Calvins mom don't read the Calvin & Hobbes comics otherwise Dad will find himself in the tiger pit.
errr, well said Puddleglum2
See Dad run. HAHAHA!! At least he knows where to look. Hope he finds Calvin before the little devil in the pit!
Susan001, have you ever been to a zoo? It IS cruel!
Susan001: The pit is not like a dark stinky hole. A pit in a zoo is an area that is made to look like the animal's natural habitat, but it is lower and usually separated from the public by a dry moat. This way the presence of humans is made irrelevant. No, there is nothing inherently cruel about it.
I think dad is fears more for the Tigers.
Please remember that these strips were written some time ago. Most good zoos today try to provide a habitat close to that of the animals natural habitat. It's not perfect but many of the animals we see in zoos today are either rescued or born in captivity. Some rescued animals can be returned to the wild if they are treated properly while in human care, but many cannot due to injury, etc.
Thats quite a few temptations in one day eh Dad? first the crocodile pit .. next the tiger pit .. not to mention there are going to be lions, leopards, panthers, bears ., Hope dad can hold out for the day .. ;-)
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Dad snaps his fingers well. He walks well. He thinks well. He runs well. Let's hope he finds Calvin well.
Let us hope he finds Calvin well and not 'in the' well.
Puddleglum2 said, (last post 2 days ago) If Calvin's father found Calvin hurt, or worse, would he still feel like doing the second one of those contrasting things he mentioned, especially if he found Calvin in that condition (strangled)?
Yukoner said, "We are fine thinking "evil" thoughts until we realize that they might be possible….and then it's RUN!" You made a similar comment to mine, but in entirely different words so I can't accuse you of plagiarism. You might not even have seen my post. At any rate, you expressed a cogent thought adequately…superbly even - Snagglepuss
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NEWARK — Hope Williams liked to dance. She told jokes, gave advice to feuding friends. And she always smiled — anything to entertain a crowd or to be kind to her neighbors.
"I can't believe she's gone." said Evelynn Diaz, who knew Williams for 24 years. "She's so funny. She always makes everyone laugh."
Williams, 33, died in the crossfire of what authorities believe to be a gang-related shooting Saturday. Williams is believed to be an innocent bystander, the Essex County Prosecutor's office said.
Diaz glanced out her window late Saturday afternoon and saw Williams laughing with neighbors at the Garside Street block party.
Diaz did not attend the block party, because she doesn't like to be outside in her Newark neighborhood, she said. She walked to the back of her house and soon after heard "pop, pop, pop, pop." She thought it was fireworks for the party, but it turned out to be gunfire.
Later, Diaz fell apart in tears when she discovered Williams had been shot and killed outside 96 Garside St.
No one has been arrested in the incident, but it is believed to be gang related and the investigation is ongoing, said Katherine Carter, Essex County Prosecutor's office spokeswoman.
More details regarding the deadly block party were released yesterday, as neighbors continued to mourn Williams' death. Authorities said a fight between two people at the cookout precipitated the shooting. One of the intended targets ran for cover from the shooter, and toward the porch where Williams also scrambled to take cover.
She was struck by a bullet. The intended target ran away unscathed.
The entire party ran for safety. And two other people were shot and sent to University Hospital for treatment. Both were later released.
Williams also lived on Garside Street but a block away, taking care of her mother. Diaz said she saw Williams' mother outside the crime scene crying the day her of the shooting.
Three bullet holes are scattered among the front porch, and at least two more hit the siding of the front of the house.
A memorial was erected outside a Mount Prospect Avenue house on pieces of cardboard tied to a chain link fence. Williams' picture and her date of birth to date of death — 06/10/1977 to 06/19/2010 — donned the sign. Heart shaped balloons that read "I love you," were tied to the fence and a dozen candles were placed on the ground. People approached the memorial to sign it with wishes for Williams and her family.
"She's always so helpful," said Marilyn Irizarry of East Orange. Irizarry had been friends with Williams for six years. "Whenever anyone was in trouble she was there to help, whether it be financially or just any way she could. She was never in any kind of trouble."
Another friend, Leo Vazquez, or "Flako" as Williams and other neighbors call him, said Williams talked loud, filling a room with joy. She also comforted friends when they had problems. He said she liked to party and have her beers, but that displayed her friendliness.
"This is all so much," said a frazzled Vazquez, who lives at 104 Garside St. "She was so cool. She loved me as a friend. ... This is all so painful. And I'm nervous to be outside. She didn't bother nobody."
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For an awesome experience you need a good client device with a sensitive touch screen and a good wifi reception. Also an old Galaxy S1 is fine :)
Before we start I want make a recommendation to everyone. To have all functionalities of DroidMote, make sure that DroidMote Server for Android at first start, install the configurations files. You can see if in the SERVER device you have this files after you have started DroidMote Server for the first time: (valid only for the Android Server)
Read the F.A.Q. nr. 24 if you don't have this files.
To connect DroidMote Client to DroidMote Server, you can click menu -> connect or single tap on touchpad and write the ip that you see in the DroidMote Server when it is started.
In the last versions of the client, you can also search automatically the servers active in lan with the search button in the connection dialog box.
One finger move the mouse, two fingers for multitouch actions. The multitouch actions are all relative to the last mouse position.
For drag you can long press on an item and move one finger, single tap on touchpad to release.
Two finger very close to swipe up/down and left/right.
You can scroll also with the dedicated scroll button that active the mouse wheel. press the button and move one finger up/down, single tap on touchpad to disable.
In the settings (menu->settings) you can also enable the "Fast Scroll" function that i use daily. When you enable this checkbox, to activate the mouse wheel, you can long press on touchpad and move one finger up/down (when you active the fastscroll, the drag mode is activable with a second long press).
You can write on the remote device, with the android soft keyboard of your client device. To open the keyboard press the dedicated button on the touchpad.
On the stock android keyboard you can type, voice dictation and gesture typing (gesture type are supported only from stock android keyboard 4.2)
You can customize the keyboard to support many languages with the server side configurations files droidmote.kl and droidmote.kcm (in the same way that explains google, and you can use also unicode characters) The keyboard language supported by default are languages with Latin characters, Russian and Arabic. You can select your preferred language in droidmote server settings. If you want write in Chinese, in the client device you can use the english keyboard and in server device you can install the Google pinyin keyboard and from android Settings -> Language and Input select pinyin ime as default ime. In this way you can write well also in Chinese.
Volume up act as supplementary delete key, and volume down is for CTRL key, in this mode you can use also shortcut like CTRL + key
The TouchMouse mode (Setting->TouchMouse) is an hybrid input device that instead of using left and rigth mouse button, use touch action. This can be used for same android games that not support a real mouse. Infact you can click on the buttons menu of this games only with the TouchMouse. TouchMouse work only if you have selected a touch profile, because it need the remote screen size and orientation field in the touch profile.
The TouchMouse is necessary and usable only in Android. In Windows and Linux not work.
The DroidMote Gamepad, work in two way.
The default mode is a real controller simulation and the second is the Gamepad2Touch mode for games that don't support external controller but only touch actions.
So with the DroidMote soft Gamepad, you can play multi-touch-only games and games that support hardware controllers.
In the default mode the soft gamepad of DroidMote simulate a real controller, so if a game supports a real controller you can already play in this mode.
The accelerometer can be used only in games that support a real controller/gamepad and can be customized with the SERVER side configuration file droidmote.kl or with a dedicated in-game menu for controller/gamepad customization (in this menu, enabling the accelerometer in the Client Settings->Enable Accelerometer, you can map the accelerometer axis, moving the phone, to some predefined game actions).
If you want use the accelerometer, but your game don't have a dedicated menu for controller/gamepad customization, look this post viewtopic.php?f=14&t=644
All keyboard keys, gamepad buttons, sticks axis and accelerometer axis, can be customized in the SERVER configuration file droidmote.kl and you can load your custom keylayout in DroidMote Server -> Settings -> Change keylayout.
If in DroidMote Client settings you select "Directional Keys to Buttons", the directional keys around the left gamepad stick, became standard gamepad buttons.
In the Gamepad Tab of DroidMote Client, the volume up /down are extra buttons for auto fire or other actions.
To play with a multi-touch-only game, you can create a touch profile with the free windows app "Touch Profile Creator" that you find in the download section of this forum or with Touch Profile Creator for Android.
Once you have created a touch profile, the result xml file can be copied on the device with DroidMote Client inside in the main internal sdcard folder, or in Download folder, or in a special folder called droidmote (usefull if you want have all touch profiles in one place).
To play with a multi-touch-only game with the touch profile created by you, you can select it in DroidMote Client Settings. Open Settings click on Gamepad2Touch and Select touch profile.
When you are in the Gamepad Tab or in Touchpad Tab and you have an hardware controller attached (bluetooth, wired and wireless controllers incluse ps3 controller and xbox controllers), the commands of the hardware controller are forwarded to DroidMote Server.
In this way you can also play all android games with your hardware controller.
This function is usefull also if: you want play multi-touch-only games with your hardware controller with the touch profiles of DroidMote Client, you want transform your wired controller in wireless controller, your android device don't support your hardware controller.
This feature works on Android, Windows and Linux. Is implied that your hardware controller is already working on the client device, regardless DroidMote Client.
From Android 4.3 in DroidMote Client you can have another usefull feature, the droidmoteIME.
One of the functionalities that you can do with the droidmoteIME is to run on the same android device both the client and the server via the loopback address 127.0.0.1
In this way if you don't have another android device, you can use all the touch profiles of DroidMote for play all your multitouch-only games with your preferred hardware controller.
To switch between input method editors (IME) you can long press on the keyboard icon of DroidMote Client.
The droidmoteIME open useful scenarios also when you want play Windows games on your android device because you can run the client in background and utilize in foreground all your preferred remote desktop app but the beauty is that you can use your preferred hardware controller attached to your android device and not to Windows. (for nomal games and multitouch games) Is implied that you are running the DroidMote Server for Windows on your Pc.


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I ain't been on this site in ages. Reason being like alot of folks...life catches up with you so you get less time to really post. Doesn't mean you don't follow the team...long as I got internet...and DirecTV..I've never missed a game. Or story about the KNICKS...living in Phoenix and all.
I've occasionally just not logged in and I've read some of the blog posts and what have you. To me the Houston apologists, and Marbury apologist's are what have hurt this site but not calling these spades spades. Simply put.
Bring back Houston? Seriously the man is 38...stole what I feel was 120 million from us...and can't play with his hip and knees anymore. His time is over and one...the ship on that has sailed and sank.
Marbury a leader? **** if he ****ing was one it would've shown up a long time ago. "Best PG in the leauge" right? C'mon.
Crawford a shooting guard? Chuckleford is more like it.
Robinson? Nice athletic little man, but not a team leader. I love his heart, hate his stature.
Lee? Closet thing we got to an Oakley...needs to show more movement and athleticism.
Chandler? Haven't seen much. Balkman? Not enough playing time. Jeffries? Bust. Jerome James? HUGE BUST.
Curry? I want to undo that trade so bad, and get back our 2nd pick from last year's draft, another bust. Should've went after Chandler.
Collins? Haven't seen him get in the game enough to have an opinion.
Randolph? Good start but I would try like hell to restructure that contract.
Q rich? Another bust.
KnicksFan4Realz is just being real saying how he sees it. I didn't see anything on his post saying he left the Knicks cos they stunk. He says he had things that caught with him outside cyberlife. I myself am not impressed with our lineup as well. Who isn't unimpressed? Heck I don't even have a favorite player on the Knicks since Houston/Sprewell. Anyway I hope we still try to acquire some more young talent and get rid of the perennial losers on this team. And I pray to God this Gallinari turns out to exceed our expectations.
Start fresh under new management! We don't need any more unproven veterans! Go for youth!
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^^^ since last year, and still with it!
[1.10.09] Get Sergio Rodriguez at 2010!
i'm not even gonna post a clear picture cuz its not even worth it, thats why you got sonned by that other dude, klong or whatever, you "gangsta" over the net though right? ight so you'll come c me, n get washed face to face, **** outta here ***** clot
-Marbury/Chandler/Gallinari Supporter...
^^^ since last year, and still with it!
[1.10.09] Get Sergio Rodriguez at 2010!
what the **** happened here? I missed a war 2 nights ago, it got deleted. And now this dudes about to start cryin lmao at him catching feelings.
Look at Yankee's fans...when the team starts going to ****...less people show up..merchandise don't sell as well...people don't watch the games as much...it goes into a strong decline..hurting their bottomline..$$$$.
Thusly, having to always have a quality product on the floor...u gotta make moves that are good. And if u know as a team when you **** up people are going to hold u accountable...u tend to **** up less.
26 titles..compared to what their 7 combined? If that...
U really support ur team..and they hand u inferior product..don't support em..they'll get the message. And you'll be forcing them to give u a quality team..not just some bs..to keep the salary cap low...but they know your dumb enough to keep coming so why should they then spend money to be competitive? Don't believe me...ask Kansas City Royals fans? Only reason this don't work to great in football is because u only get 8 home games.
Want them team to get better players, coaches, gm's? Boycott with your wallet...push ur heart to the side.


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For the past 28 years, Ahern & Associates has assisted numerous trucking and logistics companies in establishing and improving their sales and marketing programs. As part of Ahern's services, it is important to recognize that an effective sales program involves continually changing the culture of the way that sales and marketing people offer services, as well as their behavior.
Trucking is a cyclical business – it's a pennies business, and it's constantly changing. In order for salespeople to be successful:
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- Have a strong belief in themselves as well as the product or service that they are selling.
Many times I hear, "This individual is a natural salesperson", but that is not a factual statement. Salespeople are not born, they are created.
Salespeople that aren't successful, are people afraid of success.
- They state that they want to succeed; but
- In some cases, they are afraid of achieving success.
A successful salesperson:
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A successful salesperson is always properly prepared.
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- Know how to create opportunities.
I constantly hear from salespeople that aren't performing, that all they have to sell in the trucking industry is rates. That's the farthest thing from the truth. Particularly today, in an industry where there are dramatic capacity constraints because of a lack of drivers;
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- Yes, rates are important, but if all you have to sell are rates, then choose another profession.
It is important for salespeople to master the knowledge of their company products and services, and learn to be an effective listener. The trucking industry is a relationship business, regardless of what some may believe. Part of the process of implementing a successful sales program is determining how salespeople create relationships and forms bonds of trust. Sales people need to:
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One of the primary reasons sales and marketing programs fail is because salespeople are not prepared:
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- They find excuses to blame others for their lack of achievement.
It's important for salespeople and owners of trucking companies to recognize that:
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- The buyer has the answer: the sales person has the questions
- Relationships come first, task second
- People buy using their own buying patterns, not the seller's buying patterns; and
- A salesperson has nothing to sell if there is no one to buy.
Product knowledge is useless until the sales individual knows how their product or service will benefit and profit the customer. On the surface, this seems simple, but I challenge salespeople daily to determine how far they've gone to understand how their customers actually use their product or services on a day-to-day basis. How do they use it? How does it bring benefit to the Buyer's working environment?
Ahern's processes consist of working with salespeople to assist them in overcoming objectives and establishing goals. We work with management to hold salespeople accountable for their actions and continually work with their sales staff to improve their overall performance.
Over the years, Ahern & Associates has discovered that in numerous instances, a trucking company's sales staff needs to change their behavioral patterns to specific responses so that a sale can be completed. If pricing is the sole objective that your sales staff complains about for not obtaining market share, that means they are failing. They are failing to utilize the proper approach to obtain the results that you desire. The same applies to sales managers.
When managing a sales staff, I use what I call buyer facilitation – sales managers must understand that there is a different sales cycle and different expectations as to how a sale should proceed. In essence, Ahern works with sales people to focus on the Golden Rule – "Stop, Think, and Listen".
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Jan. 31, 2015, would have marked the 100th birthday of the American Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton. But having died suddenly in Thailand on Dec. 10, 1968, while overseas to speak at conferences for Catholic monastic communities in Asia, Merton never lived to see a birthday beyond his 53rd. Yet his wisdom, writing and model of Christian engagement with the world continue to be relevant and timely.
Though Thomas Merton's life was short, his output in terms of writing, poetry and correspondence was extraordinarily productive. The diversity of his work makes abundantly clear his importance in a number of areas related to Christian living, creative expression and social action. His continued popularity is confirmed by his perennial status as a best-selling author, a rare accomplishment. Many of his books have never gone out of print. The depth of his thought and spiritual genius is confirmed by the ever-growing bibliography of new articles and books written about Merton by scholars in diverse fields from theology and spirituality to American history, literature and peace studies.
While a general consensus appears to affirm the enduring status and legacy of Merton's life and work, there are detractors who claim he is outdated and his appeal overstated. Among the most recognizable critics of Merton's legacy and relevance is Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the current archbishop of Washington, D.C. In 2005, when Cardinal Wuerl was bishop of Pittsburgh, he chaired a committee that oversaw the production of a new United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, which was aimed particularly at young adults. Each chapter was to include a profile of an American Catholic whose life and work could serve as a model for Christian living. As the author and peace activist Jim Forest recalls in an afterward to his biography of Merton, Living With Wisdom, Cardinal Wuerl decided that the profile of Merton originally planned for the catechism should be removed from the draft text. Among the reasons given was that "the generation we were speaking to had no idea who [Merton] was."
As both a member of the millennial generation and a professional scholar of Merton's work, I take Cardinal Wuerl's remark very seriously. In a sense, he is right. Not many of my peers—let alone people younger than I—know Merton in the same way that previous generations have, many of whom read Merton's spiritual autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain and recognized Thomas Merton as a household name.
Yet in another sense Cardinal Wuerl's reported view discounted the power of Merton's true legacy. Merton does, in fact, resonate with the young adults who are introduced to his work, and it is the responsibility of the American church to remedy precisely what the cardinal was diagnosing. We must pass on to the next generation the wisdom and example of Merton so young Catholics can know him too.
As we celebrate the centenary of Merton's birth it seems fitting to take a closer look at some of the ways Merton can continue to speak to us today. Several themes are especially timely, particularly for us millennials.
The Original 'Slacktivist'
Conversion is arguably the most significant theme in Merton's life. Those who came to know Merton first through The Seven Storey Mountain would recognize it as the thread that drives the narrative. Born to creative but largely unreligious parents, both of whom died before Merton turned 16, Merton grew up in an environment mostly devoid of religious practice or reflection. From the time of his memoir's publication onward, Merton was hailed as a contemporary St. Augustine, whose "modern-day Confessions" highlighted how God's grace breaks through an all-but-atheistic young man's self-centeredness to inspire conversion to Christianity and eventually religious life. This is how Merton presented his story, which concludes with his entrance into the Trappist Order at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky.
But Merton's conversion did not end there. Real conversion never ends. In fact, like Augustine's Confessions, Merton's memoir bears the marks of what literary critics call the "unreliable narrator." We are presented with a compelling narrative, undoubtedly grounded in truth, but one that nevertheless emphasizes certain elements and overlooks others. With time on our side, as well as the resources of Merton's journals, correspondence and the impressive official biography by Michael Mott, we know that his young adult life was probably much like the experience of the average college student. He questioned his beliefs, experimented with political associations, including Communism, developed his creative and artistic side, made lifelong friends, got into trouble and was shaped by his undergraduate mentors. If anything, Merton suffered most acutely from a closed worldview and lack of awareness of the needs of others, especially those outside his immediate circle.
This introspective worldview followed the young Merton into the monastery and can be seen in his early writings. It is not that he was misanthropic or dismissed those who suffered, but that he was preoccupied with his own spiritual journey. The 1940s and early 1950s saw the publication of books and essays by an enthusiastic young monk who wanted to share his faith with others, but the themes verged on the solipsistic: solitude, contemplation, asceticism, the monastic vocation. If we take Merton at his narrative word in The Seven Storey Mountain, then the conversion we are left with is one from the self-centeredness of "secular life" to the navel-gazing of "religious life."
But as Lawrence Cunningham of the University of Notre Dame has written, "The period of the 1950s was a time of deep change in Merton's thinking, a change radical enough to be called a 'conversion' (or, perhaps better, a series of conversions)." Merton's experience of graced conversion did not end with his profession of religious vows and the donning of a Trappist habit. Rather, the shifts in Merton's outlook on the world and God's presence in it powerfully influenced his writing style and subject matter. It was as if a veil was lifted or his eyes were opened to the realities of violence, injustice and suffering around the world. He began to correspond with civil rights activists, world leaders and artists. He established what he would later describe in a letter to Pope John XXIII as "an apostolate of friendship" that allowed him to reach out to so many through his writing and correspondence.
Merton's turn toward the world and the prophetic shift in his priorities seems to offer a timely lesson for today's young adults. The neologism "slacktivism" has gained currency recently to describe the minimal efforts people engage in, often by means of social media, to "support" an issue or cause, but that have minimal or no practical effect. These produce mostly a sense of self-satisfaction from having done "something good."
In an age of hyperconnectivity and rapid communication, young women and men are instantly aware of what is happening around the globe. The result is something like a preliminary conversion, a move toward awareness of something beyond oneself. But the slacktivism of today is not unlike the religious interiority of Merton's early conversion. Over time Merton came to realize that he was (to be anachronistic) a slacktivist, someone who thought he was doing good for others but without taking the risk of putting himself in relationship with those he sought to help. Millennials can look to Merton as a model of someone who remained open to continual conversion, open to the challenge of God's spirit, open to doing something more and risking much for the sake of another. He used his social location within the monastery, on the margins of society, to critique the injustices of his time—racism, nuclear armament, poverty—and then reach out to support, comfort and guide his readers and help to organize change.
Reading across Merton's corpus, beyond The Seven Storey Mountain into his social criticism of the 1960s, can offer young people today a model for moving from slacktivism toward solidarity, from Tweeting about an issue toward doing something real about it.
Interreligious Dialogue
In October 1968, near the end of his life, Merton concluded a talk to a group of monks in Calcutta and with these now famous lines: "My dear brothers, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are."
Merton's ongoing conversion opened him up to a variety of encounters and relationships that traversed the boundaries of the early 20th-century insular world of American Catholicism to engage in dialogue with people of different faiths and those with no affiliation at all. As early as the 1950s, Merton anticipated one of the monumental shifts that would emerge from the Second Vatican Council. Even today Merton is criticized by some who hold to a naïve reading of the patristic saying, Extra ecclesiam nulla salus ("Outside the church there is no salvation") and believe that Merton overstepped his bounds as a Catholic priest by participating in dialogue with Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and Christians of other denominations. Some have even gone so far as to claim that Merton had "abandoned his faith" for some syncretic religious view. This could not be further from the truth.
There is nothing in Merton's published works, nor in his private journals and correspondence, that would indicate interest in leaving the Catholic Church. In his 1966 book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Merton wrote:
The more I am able to affirm others, to say "yes" to them in myself, by discovering them in myself and myself in them, the more real I am.... I will be a better Catholic, not if I can refute every shade of Protestantism [or other faiths], but if I can affirm the truth in it and still go further.
At the root of Merton's engagement with people different from himself was the sense of "original unity," which he recognized bound all people together as children of God. He understood that he could not have an authentic conversation about faith with others if he did not have a firm commitment and deep love for his own tradition. Before Vatican II promulgated "The Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions," Merton already understood that "the Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these [other] religions" (No. 2).
There is much that can be said about the still timely insights Merton presents to us about engaging other religious traditions. Perhaps the most pertinent is the need to live honestly in the tension between maintaining one's own faith commitments and humbly learning from the experiences of others, all the while holding onto the belief that we are indeed, somehow, "already one."
The Dalai Lama wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times in 2010, "While preserving faith toward one's own tradition, one can respect, admire and appreciate other traditions." He went on to explain that it was none other than Thomas Merton, with whom he met personally in 1968, who offered him this insight. "Merton told me he could be perfectly faithful to Christianity, yet learn in depth from other religions like Buddhism. The same is true for me as an ardent Buddhist learning from the world's other great religions." For Merton then, as for the Dalai Lama today, compassion for and personal encounter with people of other faiths does not diminish one's own religious convictions—if anything, it strengthens them. Merton shows us as much by living out what he came to realize was his "vocation of unity," to borrow a phrase from the Merton scholar Christine Bochen.
The Potential Appeal
Merton continues to speak a prophetic word to us today, but who is listening? Cardinal Wuerl may be correct that Merton is not as popular as he once was, but it is not because Merton does not appeal to young adults. Courses on Merton's life and work are taught at colleges and universities around the United States today. The International Thomas Merton Society (on whose board of directors I currently serve) established the Robert E. Daggy scholarship program in 1996 to fund young adult participation at the society's biennial conference. Set up by the late Rev. William Shannon, a renowned Merton scholar and the first president of the Merton Society, the scholarship has helped hundreds of young women and men delve more deeply into the popular and scholarly discussions about Merton's life and work. My own travels speaking around the country and abroad offer anecdotal confirmation that when young adults are exposed to Merton's writings and thought, they are captivated and often can relate to his experience of conversion, his openness to the diversity of others and his radical commitment to social justice and peace.
Merton's writings are having an impact in a variety of locations and among diverse populations. There are currently 43 local chapters of the Merton Society and more continue to spring up, especially in Europe. But perhaps the most unexpected chapter is the one in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Shirley, Mass. Founded in 2013 by the retired educator and Merton enthusiast John Collins, the chapter is an outgrowth of a talk he gave about Merton at the inmates' request. In an interview with The National Catholic Reporter, several of the incarcerated men—some who have been in prison for decades—spoke about the significance of reading Merton. Joseph Labriola recalled being in solitary confinement, discovering a copy of Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation in his cell and reading out his cell's window to other convicts. One prisoner, Timothy Muise, said that the Merton group "affords men the opportunity to change, to re-evaluate their life in God's light."
The increasing diversity of Merton's readership is clear evidence that he is neither outdated nor irrelevant. It would seem that a century after his birth, Merton still has much to offer the church and world, and there is no indication that his reflections on peacemaking and interreligious dialogue will be outdated anytime soon. His wisdom speaks deeply to the hearts of those who encounter it. One can only imagine the possibilities that another century of his influence may have in bringing us all closer to that "original unity" about which he speaks, helping to lead us to recognize that "what we have to be is what we are."
Daniel Horan, you have written a very interesting article. It could be edited down somewhat and be used as a valuable resource for discussion, be it on an individual basis or for a group discussion.
The following are examples of the content that would result in an interesting reflective discussion.
- His becoming aware of world reality as it is and being profoundly impacted by it, while at the same time, recognizing God's presence in it, followed by his commitment to involve himself in it by enthusiastically dialoging and sharing with all.
- He viewed his involvements as "an apostolate of friendship", similar to the witnessing of Pope Francis.
Jack Moynihan
The subcommittee on the Catechism of the USCB has published a new catechetical high school text Jesus and the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic with imprimatur and all those good things. As with the previous one they hold various people up to illustrate chapters. For chapter three, "The Church is Holy" it is Thomas Merton who they hold up with four pages about him. None of the other people held up in the book – mostly historical saints – gets that amount of space. Having had the big uproar about him being deleted from the previous version, his inclusion now is being overlooked…
Cardinal Donald Wuerl ... who?
One of the ways envy, or bias, fails to recognize itself is by pretending it is reasoned action.
It was a little myopic and a little disingenuous for Wuerl to proffer, "the generation we were speaking to had no idea who [Merton] was."
Not unlike an imagined desultory and officious aide to Pope Innocent III in 13th century, scoffing, saying of Francis of Assisi, "He'll never amount to anything. Give him a blessing. Send him home!"
We might imagine the good cardinal-lobbyist of Washington D.C. thinking he was doing the church a favor by responding to the whispered 12th century question of Henry II about Thomas Becket, updated, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome monk?"
Not now.
I think one of the chief ways in which Merton can speak to millennials (or anyone else for that matter) involves his perspective on how to make sense of the evil and the suffering that we see everywhere around us. In the face of events like Sandy Hook, the continuing devastation in Syria, the rampages of Boko Haram in Nigera, etc., etc., I believe that many people, the young in particular, throw their hands up in sorrow and conclude that we are alone in a dark and cruel universe. But on the contrary, as Merton explains in The Seven Storey Mountain:
"It is only the infinite mercy and love of God that has prevented us from tearing ourselves to pieces and destroying His entire creation long ago. People seem to think that it is in some way a proof that no merciful God exists, if we have so many wars. On the contrary, consider how in spite of centuries of sin and greed and lust and cruelty and hatred and avarice and oppression and injustice, spawned and bred by the free wills of men, the human race can still recover, each time, and can still produce man and women who overcome evil with good, hatred with love, greed with charity, lust and cruelty with sanctity. How could all this be possible without the merciful love of God, pouring out His grace upon us?"
You don't know who I am. If I could show you a way to better know God, and by extension be a better Catholic, would it matter? Those who are truly searching will understand. Those who have read Thomas Merton's work attest to the fact of its efficacy. Why wouldn't one want to include such a tool?
I'm loathe to weigh in on the other comments, since there are going to be people on both sides of any argument. (I happen to be on Horan's and Merton's side on this one. Merton was both Catholic and catholic.) But I can say -- without disagreement -- that the beautiful photo portrait of Merton should have been attributed to his friend John Howard Griffin. Maybe I just missed it.
In October 1968, near the end of his life, Merton concluded a talk to a group of monks in Calcutta and with these now famous lines: "My dear brothers, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are."
This is the problem as you assiduously describe, "To what is Merton referring to?" Its ambiguity lends itself to relativized interpretations from any angle. Has he in his attempt to convey mystically what he's experienced spoken about an abstract idea or revealed his conviction for the Person of Christ? His mysticism lends itself but to ideas that are ambiguous at best and controversial at least. If we are in love with Christ, the Person, how can one come to know God when we attempt to present Him as an abstract idea that any faith can relativize and adopt for themselves, and in doing so, not completely present Him as He revealed Himself through The Church?
Not ambiguous at all. Catholics should be able more than any other religion to say, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the Father of us all, making Jesus the brother of us all, in the Holy Spirit. I think Pope Benedict XVI and earlier as Head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith is responsible for failing to exploit the advantages of the Scriptural teaching of the universal call to salvation by his false concern of relativism. He also undermined the stress of Vatican II in its Documents of World Religions and its document on Ecumenism. Cardinal Wuerl follows the same track.
The author, Fr. Horan, in this article is too kind to Cardinal Wuerl in pointing out his hidden agenda by omitting inclusion of Merton in an American Catholic Catechism..
What you state is not what Merton stated, hence the ambiguity. Surely, you can see this. If he had stated this clearly as you so deftly do, I'm sure his intended audience (i.e., members of other faiths) would not have identified with it. This is the reason why some within The Church are reluctant to acknowledge everything Merton stated as being completely in line with Church Teaching. Maybe had he lived would he have been able to clarify further what he meant. As for relativism, it is here whether you acknowledge it or not, and Pope Benedict in his writings clearly delineates its modern reality with its apparent refusal to acknowledge less even discuss objective realities based on transcendental truths.
I cannot deny that relativism, scientific naturalism, materialism, atheism exist and flourish, but I do not see that in Merton. I often think that as soon as someone becomes a Pope, such as John Paul II and Benedict XVI, suddenly their books are discovered and they become best sellers. Before being elected Pope, few ever heard of them or their books. Merton had no such advantage, People love him and read his books solely on the basis of what he said and did. To me that is what is important and not whether Cardinal Wuerl decides he has reason to exclude him from the new American Catholic Catechism. Merton's books and ideas continue to be read and followed almost fifty years after his death. If Merton had made it to the Papacy, he would have been canonized by now.
Thank you Father Horan. I think I will go ready Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation now.


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Clinical response to adalimumab: relationship to anti-adalimumab antibodies and serum adalimumab concentrations in rheumatoid arthritis
- Geertje M Bartelds1,
- Carla A Wijbrandts2,
- Michael T Nurmohamed3,
- Steven Stapel4,
- Willem F Lems3,
- Lucien Aarden4,
- Ben A C Dijkmans1,3,
- Paul Peter Tak2,
- Gerrit Jan Wolbink1,4
- 1Jan van Breemen Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 3VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 4Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Correspondence to:
MrG J Wolbink
Department of Rheumatology, Jan van Breemen Institute, Dr Jan van Breemenstraat 2, 1056 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; g.wolbink{at}janvanbreemen.nl
- Accepted 4 February 2007
- Published Online First 14 February 2007
Background: A substantial proportion of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) do not respond, or lose initial response, to adalimumab treatment. One explanation for non-response is that patients develop anti-adalimumab antibodies.
Objectives: To evaluate the incidence of formation of antibody against adalimumab and the association with serum adalimumab concentrations and clinical response.
Methods: In a cohort of 121 consecutive patients with RA treated with adalimumab, serum adalimumab concentrations and antibodies against adalimumab were measured together with clinical response variables before and up to 28 weeks after the start of treatment.
Results: Anti-adalimumab antibodies were detected in 21 patients (17%) during 28 weeks of treatment. EULAR non-responders had antibodies significantly more often than good responders (34% vs 5%; p = 0.032). Patients with antibodies showed less improvement in disease activity (mean (SD) delta DAS28 0.65 (1.35)) than patients without antibodies (mean delta DAS28 1.70 (1.35)) (p = 0.001). Patients with antibodies during follow-up had lower serum adalimumab concentrations at 28 weeks than patients without antibodies (median 1.2 mg/l, range 0.0–5.6 vs median 11.0 mg/l, range 2.0–33.0, respectively; p<0.001). Good responders had higher serum adalimumab concentrations than moderate responders (p = 0.021) and non-responders (p = 0.001). Concomitant methotrexate use was lower in the group with anti-adalimumab antibodies (52%) than in the group without antibodies (84%) (p = 0.003).
Conclusions: Serum antibodies against adalimumab are associated with lower serum adalimumab concentrations and non-response to adalimumab treatment.
- DAS28, disease activity score in 28 joints
- DMARD, disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug
- EULAR, European League Against Rheumatism
- HACA, human anti-chimeric antibody
- RA, rheumatoid arthritis
- TNF, tumour necrosis factor
Published Online First 14 February 2007
Funding: Abbott Laboratories. CAW is supported by a grant (945-02-029) from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw). The study sponsors had no involvement in the study design, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, the writing of the report, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.
Competing interests: Professor Dijkmans and Professor Tak are members of the advisory board of Abbott and have received honoraria for lectures.