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Charles F. Roland, Jr., 83, of Warwick passed away July 9, 2013 at home. He was the beloved husband of Joan E. (Bradley) Roland for 60 years.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was a son of the late Charles F. Roland, Sr. and Wilhelmina (Snefsky) Roland. After service in the Korean War, in which he was awarded the Purple Heart and the Combat Infantry Badge, he worked as a Quality Control Engineer. In this profession, he worked for the Westinghouse Atomic Power for US Steel, where he was assigned to the development of the USS Nautilus, and Knox Glass in Industrial and Quality Engineering Posts. He moved to Cranston, Rhode Island in 1966, while with Knox Glass, and joined Corning Glass Works in Central Falls as a Quality Control Supervisor in 1967. He traveled to and lived in Venezuela, Hungary and the USSR representing Corning quality interests. After GTE took over the Central Falls plant, he retired in 1987. A graduate of the Providence Diocese Ministry Institute, he then took a staff position at St. Mark Parish in Garden City. He moved to Warwick in 1999, where he was a communicant of SS Rose & Clement Parish.
He was the beloved father of Charles J. Roland and his wife, Diane, Richard M. Roland and his wife, Barbara and Paul G. Roland and his wife, Kathleen, all of Warwick and Barbara E. Fournier and her husband, Peter of North Kingstown. Loving grandfather of Kristen, Kristina, Andrew and Nicholas Roland and Daniel and Matthew Fournier. Cherished brother of John M. Roland, Sr. of Valencia, Pennsylvanis and the late Ronald W. Roland.
His funeral will be held on Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. from The Urquhart-Murphy Funeral Home, 800 Greenwich Avenue, Route 5, Warwick (Exit 12A on I-95) with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in St. Clement Church, 111 Long Street, Warwick. Burial, with military honors, will follow in Rhode Island Veterans' Cemetery, Exeter. Relatives and friends are invited and may call on Friday from 4-7 p.m.
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text: USFR Weekly Recap - December 15-16, 2012 December 15, 2012 08:43 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By AgDay TV             THIS WEEK ON U.S. FARM REPORT EPISODE # 2053 DECEMBER 15-16, 2012 As always, we want to hear from you, send comments to firstname.lastname@example.com or leave us a voice mail at 800-792-4329. JOHN'S OPEN: Hello and welcome to U.S. Farm Report, I'm John Phipps. Well, fellow cliff-dwellers, don't look down. I'm starting to wonder if the austerity crisis has been a little oversold. Wall Street seems curiously calm, and I think those guys don't wait until the last minute to prepare defenses. Farmers are realizing we have much at stake in the negotiations. But that should also trigger a realization we are among the fabled "takers". You can't lose entitlements you don't get. In about a week, I expect more detailed information about what the world looks like over the cliff. But I suspect it will be less dramatic but every bit as painful as we have heard. HEADLINES: Farmland prices hit a new high in the nation's top corn producing state - Iowa. They are up 24% from a year ago. Those are the results of data collected by Iowa State Extension economist Mike Duffy. The AG department released its December supply-demand figures. And there were no significant changes. Our partners at Profarmer poured thru the data. Managing Editor Brian Grete notes the changes in the USDA forecast. There was little improvement in the drought monitor this week. The plains - from north to south remain - are getting little reprieve, impacting livestock and crops. In the next half hour, I'll look at efforts to keep barge traffic flowing on the drought impacted Mississippi River. Now back to John for "crop watch". CROP WATCH: Crop watch this week... ROUNDTABLE: Al Pell is joined by Gregg Hunt and Brian Basting for our weekly roundtable discussion. JOHN'S WORLD: Amid all the minute-by-minute coverage of the fiscal cliff, too little coverage was given to the historic policy change at the Federal Reserve. Chairman Bernanke set aside vague "fed-speak" for precise targeting for monetary policy. Basically, the fed is reweighting its dual responsibility of controlling inflation and battling unemployment. Until the jobless number drops below 6.5% or inflation consistently exceeds 2.5%, interest rates will be essentially flat at their historic lows. For critics who wring their hands over uncertainty, this should clear up one part of the picture. And for those who have been predicting runaway inflation triggered by these fed actions to increase the money supply, the shelf life on those dire forecasts have long since expired. Remember the Phipps rule of economic predictions: if it doesn't come true in two years, it's just wrong. While folks have written in to say there is serious inflation, citing everything from pickup prices to college tuition, we need to keep in mind that inflation is calculated from all the things people buy, not just what you buy. And it has averaged 2.6% for twenty years. Until we get more Americans to work and wages begin to rise for more than the upper class, inflation will not be a threat. The fed actions are a good, but not sufficient step to help that day arrive. The rest of the remedy is to avoid an austerity crisis with agreement on fiscal policy by Congress and the administration. 2ND HALF JOHN'S OPEN: Hello and welcome to U.S. Farm Report, I'm John Phipps. Every Christmas season I try to seek out an unfamiliar Christmas carol to add to my playlist at home. Thanks to modern music technology, I've unearthed Bavarian folksongs, Swedish tunes and 19th century American Christmas anthems to add to my collection. Last year i found "Jesus the Light of the World". It's now number three on my all time list. This year I'm adding "When a Child is Born" by the moody blues. Also some standards by tenor Jose Diego Florez. The only problem is my playlist is now roughly 28 hours long. But in my defense, you'll only hear "Little Drummer" boy once. HEADLINES: The Army Corps of Engineers says it has tentatively scheduled two private contractors to remove rock pinnacles on the Mississippi River next week. Those rock formations near southern Illinois are potentially hazardous to towboats on this important shipping channel. One of the tax cuts that could change - as part of the fiscal cliff - is the estate tax. It's levied on property when someone passes away. After much complaining and YouTube protests, the USDA has agreed to let schools feed kids more calories. SPIRIT OF THE HEARTLAND: Walnut harvest has wrapped-up in California, which grows just about all the walnuts in this country. Its important cash crop for Dax Kimmelshue and his wife Karen. 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The public faces for the pro- and anti-Issue 2 campaigns can agree on one thing: The current system for drawing up legislative and congressional districts is broken.
The public faces for the pro- and anti-Issue 2 campaigns can agree on one thing: The current system for drawing up legislative and congressional districts is broken.
"There's a better way to conduct the redistricting process than the system we currently have in place," said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Protect Your Vote Ohio, a group that opposes the constitutional amendment.
"For 50 years, the party out of power has been trying to get a reform and the party in power has been saying, 'We need a fix, just not this fix,' " said Sandy Theis, senior adviser and spokeswoman for Voters First, a group supporting the the amendment.
Where Theis of the Issue 2-backing organization and LoParo of the opposing group fail to find common ground is how to make repairs.
"If Issue 2 passes, we'll have better government for the next 10 years," Theis said.
"The more you read what's in Issue 2, the less sense it makes," LoParo said.
The proposed constitutional amendment would wrest control of redistricting from the state legislature, when it comes to Congressional seats, and the Ohio Apportionment Board in the case of the state House and Senate.
The board's members include the governor, secretary of state, state auditor and two legislative appointees.
"It creates an unaccountable, taxpayer-funded bureaucracy," said LoParo, one-time spokesman for Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell now in a similar capacity for the ballot issue committee formed to block passage of Issue 2.
Led by the League of Women Voters of Ohio and including a coalition of Democratic and labor groups, Voters First "was created to take the power over drawing our congressional and legislative districts out of the hands of the politicians and put it in the hands of the people," its website states.
Protect Your Vote Ohio is composed of mostly Republican groups but also nonpartisan and bipartisan organizations "who all realize that Issue 2 is a flawed amendment," LoParo said.
Theis, who covered politics in Ohio for 25 years, most recently during a decade with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and LoParo were both asked last week what messages from their campaigns are working with voters and how the remainder of the time before the election will be spent by both camps.
"We'll simply explain to voters what Issue 2 does," LoParo said in response to the latter question.
"I think one of the most-effective things we're doing is we're giving them examples of how broken the system is," Theis said.
"I think the anecdotal stuff really helps put it into context."
Along with the "unaccountable" message -- LoParo uses the term or its equivalent a lot -- Protect Your Vote Ohio will point out the $15 million price tag for setting up and running the citizen redistricting commission called for in Issue 2, including staff.
That cost would be spread over eight years, with $9 million to $12.9 million coming in the first two years, according to the cost estimate calculated by the state Office of Budget and Management at the request of Secretary of State Jon Husted.
Such estimates are required for ballot measures.
"That's a pretty hefty price to pay for a commission that's not accountable to taxpayers and, quite frankly, in the opinion of several Ohio newspapers, does not fix the deficiencies in the current system," LoParo said.
Theis countered by saying Voters First officials for months had been expecting a "comically large price tag" to be attached to the amendment.
"We were not at all surprised," she said, noting the existing system costs about $2 million and that the replacement redistricting commission would do its work only every 10 years in response to the U.S. Census.
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One of my branches is Brand from New York state. I have as far back as David Brand, born 1778 in Schoharie and then moved to Erie. He married Sophia Elliot who was also from NY state and a family history states that she was the daughter of a sea captain and the family had shipping vessels. I estimate Sophia to have been born sometime in the late 1780s.
David traveled to Iowa where one of his sons was starting a farm and mill. While helping his son, David died in December of 1854 in Warren County, Iowa. Sophia did not follow David to Iowa and is rumored to have lived in New York state until her death, but I have no info about that.
The son I descend from was DeWitt Clinton Brand, born 27 Jan 1824 in Erie, NY and died 28 Mar 1906 in Springhill, Warren County, Iowa. DeWitt married Lovisa Ranney, born 21 Aug 1831 in Agusta, NY and died 25 Dec 1919 in Springhill, Warren County, Iowa. Her family history is well detailed in historical documents (daughter of Eli Ranney and Evaline Parmalee).
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Despite concerns about political gridlock in Washington, diversified manufacturer 3M (NYSE:MMM) reaffirmed its 2012 earnings on Wednesday and projected earnings growth of about 8% for next year.
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Pour Les Enfants set for Nov. 15
Garth House is holding its 27th annual "Pour Les Enfants" fundraiser Nov. 15 to raise child abuse awareness. The event's theme is "The Edge of the Woodlands" and is inspired by the poem by Cicely Mary Barker "Song of the Bugle Fairy."
"The sentinel (in the poem) is like the Garth House's guard watching over these abused children," said Marion Tanner, executive director of the Garth House.
The event will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. There will be live and silent auctions with a meal prepared by the Texas Chef's Association included with ticket purchase. Tickets are $100 per person.
A raffle drawing will also take place with a chance to win a 2013 red Mustang convertible, Tanner said.
"Sponsors paid for the Mustang completely," said LeAnn Garth, Pour Les Enfants chair of the Mustang subcommittee. "One hundred percent of every dollar goes to counseling for the kids."
S&M Family Outlet in Beaumont will be holding a shopping day Nov. 9 in support of the event, as well, giving 10 percent of net sales that day to the Garth House. The shopping day will include a raffle drawing for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate. Tickets are $1 each, 6 for $5, 12 for $10, or 25 for $20.
According to the foundation's Web site, "Garth's mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect and to lessen the trauma to child victims of sexual and severe physical abuse during the investigative, prosecutorial and healing process. Garth House provides the child victim with a safe environment to tell their story."
Garth House is at 1895 McFaddin in Beaumont. For more information or to purchase tickets for the event, contact Marion Tanner at (409) 838-9084 or visit www.garthhouse.org.
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A suspect has been arrested in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl out of her bedroom last week, but cops are searching for a second suspect, Los Angeles police said today.
Cops on Sunday collared Daniel Martinez, 29, of West Hills, Calif., and charged him in last week's kidnapping of the girl from her San Fernando Valley home.
The girl, whom ABC News has not identified, was abducted from her home around 3 a.m. last Wednesday. She was found about 12 hours later, barefoot and bruised and wearing different clothing than she had on when she was kidnapped.
Police believed she was held at a storage facility and at another location, and was transported in two cars.
Bail was set at $100,000, but it is unknown whether he has hired an attorney.
Martinez, however, is not the principal suspect in the kidnapping, police said. Cops are still looking for Tobias Dustin Summers, 30, a transient with a criminal history.
"We have no information that the [girl's] family knew this individual or that the individual knew any members of the family," Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said of Dustin this weekend.


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After winning bronze at USA Fencing's North American Cup last weekend, 10-year-old Shaun Kim of Greenwich is headed to Wroclaw, Poland to compete in his first international fencing competition.
Shaun, a student at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, is currently ranked 11th in the nation in Youth-10 Boys Saber.
He started fencing when he was seven encouraged by his father, who always admired the sport and enjoyed watching his college friend compete at Princeton University.
Shaun took to fencing quickly and began competing just last year. He placed seventh in his first tournament.
The athlete trains at Tim Morehouse Fencing Club in Port Chester, owned by U.S. Silver Medalist Tim Morehouse.
"Our goal is build champions on and off the field of play and while the results are important," Morehouse said.
"Shaun and his teammates fence with spirit and work hard, support one another and are good sports when they compete."
The club is ranked 7th in the country in youth fencing. At the recent North American Cup, which involved over 2,000 youth competitors from across the country, nine fencers from Tim Morehouse Fencing Club in Westchester and Manhattan earned national points, including three from Greenwich: Shaun, Robert Wang and Max Denner, who is now ranked 8th nationally in Youth-12 Boys Saber.
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Shaun's medal and the silver medal won by Aria Bevacqua, who trains at the Tim Morehouse Fencing Club in Manhattan, represent the first North American Cup medals in Youth-10 Saber earned by the club.
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When he's not fencing or doing his homework, Shaun competes on the YMCA swim team in Greenwich and enjoys golf and skiing.
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The Greek word "diabolos" meant an "accuser" or "slanderer," and the Septuagint used this word to translate the Hebrew for "accuser" and "adversary," which usage was adopted by the writers of the New Testament who also used "diamonion," the Greek for "demon."
Although the classical Greeks sometimes used the word "demon" in a good sense as a sort of guardian god or goddess, in the New Testament it is always used in an evil sense, and is equivalent to "devil." "Lucifer" (or light-bearer, a name strictly speaking, not found in the Sacred Scriptures) is the name of the chief devil, whereas "Satan" (meaning "adversary" or "enemy") is used not only for him but also in a general sense for any devil.
The burden of proving the existence of the devil by the light of reason alone is impossible in itself. We can (and will) show the existence of personal, evil powers but it would be very difficult to reason to their existence and also to the full identity of their inner being, we know as the devils. For this we must of necessity go to the pages of divine revelation, that is to the Bible, and accept this evidence as true, truth based on the triumph of the God–man Jesus over the power of this, His adversary (-ies).
The pages of anthropology offer no solution, or at least not an adequate solution. All that the respected explorers and scholars can validly do is to relate what they find, a widespread belief in evil powers and the magical arts. Any attempt to explain this as a form or outgrowth of animism (whereby everything, even the rocks and waters, is considered to have a soul) cannot possibly be more than an unprovable theory. The facts can be accounted for just as well (and in the light of divine reason, better) by saying that this was a distorted remnant of primitive tradition (that is, from the beginning), supported by their own experiences of a seemingly evil one.
In comparison with the extravagant quality of the ancient myths and primitive folklore, the Bible is quite emphatically reserved. The devil is the serpent in the Garden of Eden (Gn 3). Quite obviously he is more than a serpent since he has intelligence and can speak — and he also lies. He is clearly a tempter (see also 1 Chs. 21:1).
In the Book of Job (1:6-12; 2:1-7) he is seen in a poetic dramatization which allows him free access to God. His envy of Job's goodness is evident, and under the guise of testing it, he hopes to destroy it and prove God wrong. Thus he is more of a destroyer.
Devils are also involved in the pagan religions (Dt 32:15-18; Ps 106/105:36-37 and see also 1 Cor 10:21-22), and therefore are understood to have much power over the entire world. The devil is also shown as the accuser of man, at least somewhat falsely in this case (Zech 3:1-4). Jesus will call him "the father of lies" later (Jn 8:44). Devils have power to harm physically and even to kill (Tb 3:8), but they can be overpowered by good angels (Tb 8:3).
There are many references in the New Testament outside the Gospels, and we will mention some of them in the course of further explanation. But from all these it will become obvious that the Scripture is clear on the existence of the devil. These above references are sufficient here to show that the devil exists and was realized as evil long before the time of Christ.
Without going into the many confrontations which Jesus had with devils who had taken possession of various people, we can sum up his position in this way: Jesus as Son of God and our Savior came to teach us about matters of religion. Thus He did not come to teach mankind that the earth was round or about DNA, germs and the like. Therefore, the Hebrew concept of the physical universe was false, because this error is not a matter pertaining to our salvation and is strictly not taught by the sacred Scriptures. But if there were no such being as the devil, God would be bound to tell the people, just as He corrected the Pharisees on their interpretations of the Law, and corrected the apostles as to the cause of the blindness of the man who was born that way (Jn 9:2-3). But in this very important religious matter of the devils, Jesus is constantly affirming their existence by word and action as we will see in the text.
Another way in which the reality of Satan can be indicated is by experience. We are not saying that everybody experiences the devil as a definite person, nor are we asking that everyone claiming such experience be believed. The findings of psychiatry in many individual cases may indeed be accepted as true, that such an "experience" is nothing but an overwrought imagination prompted by internal weakness or compulsions.
Two cautions are appropriate here however. The first is that, although the clinical evidence fits into well-known categories, the devil (whose general policy is to remain hidden) can still be involved and is attacking the patient in his weakest area. The devil is no gentleman. The second caution is the danger of generalization. Since some people are deceived concerning attacks or undue harassment by the devil, it would be false to say that all cases are therefore self-deception. A medical doctor would be forbidden to practice if he judged all complaints to be groundless just because some are. Psychiatrists have often been inept in cases which involve possession by the devil, and therefore they cannot be accurate in dismissing lesser forms of disturbance such as what are called diabolical obsession.
There are many instances of obsession by the devil recorded in reliable accounts. We will briefly look at two. One of the most well-reported is that of St. Anthony of Egypt as recorded in The Life of St. Anthony the Great, written by a man who had at one time been his disciple, St. Athanasius (A.D. 293?-373), the heroic bishop of Alexandria. Written not long after the death of Anthony, the Life shows him as a well-balanced man who attracted many others by his holiness and was in fact the founder of monasticism. The account of his experience with devils is in his own words (Life, Chs. 22-44), and the calmness and balance of the man certainly does not argue for a psychotic case. He details his experiences usually in general terms; the devil "taking the form of women, of wild beasts, of reptiles, of gigantic bodies, and the troops of soldiers" (Ch. 23), much of which have given artists inspiration for several centuries. He does not dramatize, but argues against fear and inspires confidence in overcoming the devil with the help of God.
Another example took place in more modern times, at least when there were railroads and the world was filled with scepticism. He is the Curé of Ars, St. John Vianney (d. 1859), who was renowned in his time for his power to read souls. People would come from all over Europe to his small village in southern France just to go to confession to him. Our interest in him in this article is the well-authenticated fact that he was tormented for 30 years by the devil. He would be dragged around his room at night, the curtains set on fire, with continual noises preventing him from sleeping. These were attested to not only by those with whom he lived but also by those in rooms near him when he would be away from his parish.
Whereas diabolic obsession comes from the outside, the term "possession" describes the power of the devil over the body of the victim, but never directly over the will. Acting from within, he can command the faculties such as speech. The victims are not necessarily sinners; sometimes they are too young to have incurred such evil through their own fault. The phenomena include enormous strength (e.g. a child must be held down by several strong adults), the ability to speak not only in languages not learned but in dialects which are spoken in a very limited and distant territory, and the knowledge of the secret sins of others in the room. There are often two or more voices, one of the victim and the other entirely different (e.g., a gutteral voice in a child) which the evil spirit often uses. Also common are the repelling of any holy object such as a crucifix, and the ability to detect holy water even when it is disguised as ordinary water.
The exorcism requires that the name of the spirit be found out; this is difficult because of the lies that come from this evil spirit. The exorcism is often very exhausting physically and emotionally for the exorcist, even long afterwards (see The Rite of Exorcism). It is therefore amusing to read the older skeptics who want to attribute all this to mental conditions and who declare that a competent psychiatrist could have cured the trouble without an exorcism.
The truth is that many of the more modern victims have had psychiatric help without effect. At times a psychiatrist has been present to observe the successful liberation by exorcism. Yet it is sometimes held that these successful exorcisms are not evidence of the devil simply because a psychiatric history indicated mental defects. But whether they had true mental defects is irrelevant because, as we have said, the devil will seek out our weaknesses and use them — or he wouldn't be a very competent devil. The fact of going to a psychiatrist is a normal action in our times whenever something happens that is too big to handle. The basic fact is that in true cases of diabolical possession, psychotherapy is unable to help whereas the exorcism produced a permanent cure.
Some members of the psychiatric or psychological profession attempt to explain, and will name a cause for some part or other of such phenomena but always must helplessly retreat to the safe ground of "unknown forces" (non-diabolic of course) which are alleged to be responsible for the whole of the phenomena. Thus they have no adequate explanation whereas that of a powerful evil being who hates both God and the good is able to account completely for everything.
During his life, Jesus drove out many devils; sometimes they are listed in a specific incident (e.g., His first recorded exorcism: Mk 1:21-28; Lk 4:31-37); at other times they are mentioned only in general (e.g., later the same day: Mt 8:16; Mk 1:32-34; Lk 4:41).
At times one might wonder why there were so many afflicted by devils in those times whereas there seem to be relatively few now (although we have been told by missionaries more than once that the devil is very much in evidence in pagan lands). A conjecture which seems to be valid is that we would expect the devil to concentrate his forces and consolidate his position by many possessions in the area (Palestine) where he expected the Messiah to appear.
As to the allegedly fewer possessed people nowadays, it might really be that the devil is hiding his presence even among many he does possess. That way he can use them better. When he wishes it, they act diabolically, as a devil would in the same situation. Perhaps even world leaders have been of this type. How else does one explain the Holocaust of the Jews and others in World War II? Or the Communists' killing of even more millions of their own people? Nevertheless, the devil shows his presence openly at times because he does not want to be forgotten. He plans and hopes for a quite total domination before Jesus comes again.
It is said that the Jews often mistook disease for possession, diseases that they did not understand. Probably to some extent they did this, but it is not a universal solution to the problem. In the first place, Matthew, a man not to be moved easily by the people's opinions (a former publican would have overcome that), lists "all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics and paralytics" (4:24). Likewise: "He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all the sick" (8:16. see also Mk 1:32,34). This indicates some medical knowledge, as well as the power of discretion. We also have Luke who was a physician and is recognized as such (from his writings) by discerning scholars. This should make us reluctant to correct the evangelists unless the evidence is clearly in favor of a purely natural cause.
We cannot take the time and space here to go into the details of each case in the Gospels. We will do some of this individually in the text. Where there is no doubt, we will follow the evangelists. In general statements we will leave them as they are judged by the evangelists, but allow for some influence of the general opinion of the people. Let it be noted here, however, that the devil often leaves with violence (see Mk 9:25; Lk 4:35), whereas a sick man cured has only wonder and gratitude. This difference was evident to the evangelists or to their sources — allowing for the fact that devils are able to cause diseases, as we shall discuss here later.
As for Jesus' alleged accommodation to the superstitions of the people — making believe that He was casting out devils where there were none — somewhat like the tricks of a professional magician on a stage — this cannot be held for one whose message must be founded on truth and whose divine nature is Truth. So far from merely tolerating a popular superstition, Jesus converses with the possessing devils and sometimes allows them partially to have their way (Mt 8:32). He also described how a cast-out devil acts (Mt 12:44-45; Lk 11:24-26) and told the apostles why they had failed to drive one out (Mk 9:27-28), having earlier given them the power to do so (Mt 10:1; Mk 6:7; Lk 9:1. See also Mk 16:17). Jesus cannot be said to have merely tolerated superstition; He actually taught that it was true.
The existence of the devil, however, does not explain his origin. It would have been impossible for God to have created the devil as such, that is, as evil, because God can create only what is good. The truth is that God created angels, very many thousands of them, all good. Somehow there was a test proposed to them, even as in our life many tests are given to all of us. We do not know strictly taken what this test was (see St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I, 63, 1-2). Since the devil has no body, he cannot commit sin in the many ways that we sin through our bodies. The basic answer, even though without knowing the details, is that the devil out of pride wanted to be independent of God. Lucifer, the leader, possessed power of great proportions but wanted more and was able to influence many other angels to follow him.
The result was the creation of hell in which the devils are imprisoned although some are permitted to leave in order to tempt us. Eventually they will all be there forever. The fires of hell do not harm them as they would a body; the punishment is that it constitutes a prison and a humiliation to their pride by being confined (perhaps by matter), something very inferior to their spiritual nature or perhaps something even worse which is not known to us.
However, as the result of their fall, the devils have not lost their nature which is the nature of angels; that is, they are pure spirit, without bodies and having all the powers of angels — although with the necessary blindness that follows sin. Their pride is their worst characteristic. They do not have virtues in the proper sense, but only the natural qualities of greatly superior intellect, a stubborn will, and certain relative power over matter (see St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I, 114, 1-5, and CCC, No. 395).
Wherefore, their enormous knowledge makes devils an uneven match against a human intellect in any context of knowledge alone. However they are not to be trusted for information because of their evil tendency to lie. Nor for prophecy because, as St. Anthony says (Life of St. Anthony, Ch. 32), they would be able to predict the flooding of the Nile by knowing that there were heavy rains in Ethiopia, and consequently this is not true prophecy. However, they do not know the undetermined and contingent things which depend on the will of God or sometimes even on the human will.
Evil spirits are able to take on other forms by manipulating matter. Being purely spiritual in nature, they cannot be seen and therefore the horns and tails given them by artists are only our need to have some sort of picture. In fact, since the devil prefers to deceive rather than terrify, his disguises may be much more attractive.
They are not independent principals of evil in a dualism of two gods, according to the teachings of the Manicheans. They are always under the control of God who permits them to work evil in the world in order to bring about the greater good willed by God, not easily grasped by reason.
The first such intervention is the well known temptation of Adam and Eve. Even before the time of Christ, the serpent in the Garden was understood as being the devil. The Book of Wisdom, written within 100 years before the Christian era, tells us: "Through the devil's envy, death entered the world" (2:24). Envy on the part of the devil would have come because we are destined to enjoy the happiness that was once within his grasp. This is therefore a confirmation of the doctrine that he was created in grace but fell from it through his sin.
The first temptation was the beginning of uncounted others so that he is well described by St. Peter: "Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour" (1 Pt 5:8). And this sort of enemy will be present until the end of time.
Temptation by the devil is under the control of God who limits him (see 2 Cor 12:7-9). When we read in St. Luke (4:13) that the devil departed from Jesus "until an opportune time," we may conclude that God limited the temptations, otherwise Satan would have tempted Jesus continually and interfered with His mission. There is no evidence in the Scriptures or tradition that we all have a personal devil, as we have a guardian angel.
Another restraint upon Satan is the fact that he cannot directly act upon the human will; only God can do this and, even then, the will is free. However the devil has power over matter, and this would include our bodies by which he can influence by our cravings. He also can work on our nervous system and, through this, especially on the brain (which is a system of nerves). He can arouse emotions of various kinds through the imagination and past memories. Falling into sin, however, is our own doing — provided that the intellect and will are at least to some extent operating. He is not directly active in every temptation or sin (see CCC, Nos. 2846-2849).
We become strong against him, as well as against those temptations arising from our weakness, by self-discipline whereby we strengthen our will, by prudence through which we avoid occasions of sin, and most of all by the grace of God which is especially given to those who ask for it humbly and who use the means of grace as outlined in any solid book (the Catechism of the Catholic Church) on the Christian or spiritual life.
We mentioned the devil's power to induce illness. This is not to say that he becomes a germ or virus. But certain diseases can be brought on by the nervous system, not only in the nervous system itself, but also in the various organs which operate by means of muscles and nerves. We read at times in books on the various stages of the spiritual life that men or women had diseases that doctors are unable to diagnose or cure. This is not to make the devil a major suspect in regard to our health — here again he is limited by God — but poor health is one way of discouraging us and he will not pass up any opportunity, if permitted, to bring us to that state of spiritual, mental and physical inertia.
There is no reluctance in Jesus to attribute certain diseases to the devil, as in the case of the woman with the curved spine (Lk 13:11,16). Surely not all diseases should be attributed to Satan, nor does Jesus do so. We may even infer that the attribution of the people regarding such influence of the devil was more extensive than His. Yet He certainly could have used other language in such situations, but He does not. We must also be aware of the lack of total knowledge of the causes of diseases on the part of the medical profession even today. What we take so absolutely true in our illnesses is called by them "the germ theory of disease."
The difficulty with such a presentation as we have given here is that the whole may be obscured by the parts. Behind all of the devil's varied activities, there is a master plan. His pride, which lost him his place in heaven, impels him to get as many followers as possible and not only for the next world. He also wants a kingdom in this world. His ultimate design is what he asked of Jesus in the third temptation, that we fall down and adore him. This he sees as a compensation for what he has eternally lost.
The devil's kingdom in a fundamental sense consists of all who are in mortal sin: to the extent that they sin mortally they are at least temporarily his. Some people even (unconsciously for the most part) work to further his domination over the minds and hearts of others. He has some who help him more consciously. With the spread of witchcraft, the interest in the occult, and devil worship in a century of unparalleled material and scientific progress, his hopes should be running very high.
His plan is to work toward the false exaltation of man; man can best be imprisoned by pride. Nevertheless in the end he himself will want to be worshiped by all. Whatever the vehicle by which he hopes to ride into this kind of power, it will be highly organized, even as its master is (see Mt 12:26; Mk 3:26; Lk 11:18).
It should be noted that this plan of the devil will ultimately fail. Jesus by His death and resurrection has all power given to Him in heaven and on earth (Mt 28:18), even as man. The final struggle with evil that will take place at the Second Coming will be won by Him. He will judge the living and the dead, assigning each man and woman to the destiny deserved. The devil will reign, but amid eternal torment for himself and all who have followed him (Mt 25:41-46). It is a part of our call as followers of Christ, and out of true love for neighbor, to make that number as few as possible.
FATHER HOFFMAN, O.P. (1913-1998), was ordained a priest in June 1941, taught physics, mathematics and moral theology. FATHER COLE, O.P., is professor of moral and spiritual theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.
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The 1940 US Census was released last week. Here is the census for my great grandparents, Mary (Kurth) and Oliver Finnestad (starting at line 53).
In 1940, three of their six sons, Oliver Jr, Verlis and Robert and two of their three daughters, Lois and (Alice) Leota were living with their parents. Mary and Oliver Finnestad were living in Creston, Ogle county, Illinois.
Oliver and was still employed as a farm laborer. Oliver Jr was working as a meat cutter at a retail establishment and Verlis was employed with a grain company.
Some of the questions on the census are difficult to read. Below is a legible blank census form as an explanation of symbols.
Oliver was the son of Carline (Quitno) and Ole Finnestad Sr. His grandparents were Mari (Iversdatter Nord-Skaar) and Ole Finnestad Sr.
Monday, April 9, 2012
1940 US Census - Oliver Finnestad
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Cuomo's cameo in bridge mess
They're two giant-personality, neighbor-state governors who might both end up crowding onto the national political stage, but few people have paid much attention to what goes on between Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo.
Christie's traffic back-up scandal has changed that, putting a spotlight on what's been a generally good working relationship between the Republican governor of New Jersey and the Democratic governor of New York. Though the governor's office in Albany denies there's anything to it, political chatter in New York has focused on what Cuomo knew about the scandal coming to light, and when.
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For weeks, Cuomo refrained from saying much publicly. But on Saturday, following a speech at the National Action Network, reporters pressed him for answers, and he gave a few short answers that nonetheless were his most extensive public comments on the issue to date.
( Also on POLITICO: Romneyworld buzzes over Christie troubles)
At the heart of the questions: the whistleblower who led to the exposure of Christie's aides, first in a private email that went so far as making an accusation of possible illegal activity and then in public testimony that contradicted claims of a "traffic study," is Port Authority executive director Pat Foye, a Cuomo appointee who is close with several top Cuomo aides.
The lane closures were "done on the Jersey side," Cuomo said, drawing a clear separation between "Jersey officials" and Foye, whom he described as "clearly shocked" and "not happy" when he discovered what happened.
Asked what his own response was to Foye's original email, Cuomo deferred.
"Well, where we are now … everybody wants the same thing," Cuomo said, "facts."
( QUIZ: How well do you know Chris Christie?)
He skipped a chance to criticize Christie, saying only, "I think Governor Christie made it clear that he is very displeased with what happened."
In the emails and messages released, Christie's aides mocked the trouble they caused — and attacked Foye for the motives behind his response to the lane closures. Christie's aides and appointee look petty, vindictive, and potentially criminal. Without any spin, Cuomo's appointee comes off as the man who overrode the lane closures, looked into what went wrong and testified truthfully about what he in his email called an "abusive decision which violates everything this agency stands for."
Though few will say so publicly for fear of angering Cuomo, in interviews, close to a dozen people in and around New York politics registered their doubts that Foye would have sent such a harsh and extensive email, leaked early on, and continued to have had such an active role, without more contact with the governor's office. In their minds, Cuomo is too much of a top-down operator, and Foye too cautious for them to believe it.
( PHOTOS: Who's who in the Christie bridge flap)
Cuomo and his circle tend to bristle at what they say is a caricature of him as a micromanaging obsessive constantly working all the political angles, but that's done little to chase it from people's minds.
Amid both a political scandal that's national news and a U.S. attorney's investigation which is still taking shape, Cuomo and his aides have avoided saying much publicly before the governor's own comments Saturday. The governor's office says Foye told Cuomo's office about the email only after it was sent — he forwarded the email to a top Cuomo aide several hours later — informing them that something strange had happened that he was trying to get to the bottom of, but did not point the finger at Christie or his appointees. Other emails released show Cuomo aides asking what was going on, and asking in response to Foye's request to talk, "Wasn't this in New Jersey?"
"Pat Foye acted independently and responsibly," said a Cuomo aide.
( See POLITICO's full Chris Christie coverage)
This hasn't tamped the skepticism.
Foye "couldn't have written that harsh a note without telling at least Howard Glaser or Larry Schwartz," said longtime New York Democratic consultant George Arzt, naming two members of Cuomo's inner circle. "But I think he told the governor what he was doing. Being a person who's so cautious, there's no way that Foye would not have told the governor."
Arzt said Foye later called him to say his only concern had been clearing the traffic, and he hadn't informed the governor's office.
"All I can say is it wouldn't have happened in Andrew Cuomo's administration that he didn't know what his people were doing," said Jay Jacobs, a former Democratic state chairman whom Cuomo eventually replaced on the job. "And his team runs a tight ship, and it's a real tight ship—nobody would have gotten away with that in the Cuomo world."


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Assertiveness means being positive and confident about ourselves-- our ideas, opinions and talents--and expressing these in the service of our values. It means acting on aspirations and exercising abilities,recognizing that each person is expressive and affirmative in a unique way.
Assertiveness is the positive form of aggressiveness. When we are assertive, we have the strength to resist negative or hurtful influences.We think for ourselves, ask for what we need, and speak up to protect our selves and others.
When we practice assertiveness, we practice self-esteem, citizenship, and valor. Though it may not always seem so, to be assertive is to be a blessing in the world.
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Last night, with the help of my assistant pastry chef (Benjie), I finally had a chance to make pie pops. Although fun to make, it is a long process, especially if you are like us, and like to make things from scratch. You could do things the more convenient way, and buy pre-made dough, and pre-made pie filling, and then just put all of the ingredients together, but where's the adventure in that?
So, first came the dough. The other blogs that we found the pie pops on used traditional pie crust, but I wanted to try something different, so I made a dough that is similar to cookie dough. In fact, the recipe I used is from the Culinary Institute of America's book, Baking and Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft, called 1-2-3 cookie dough. You may be thinking it is called that because it is easy as 1-2-3, which is true, but it is really called that because the recipe's formula is a 1 to 2 to 3 ratio of butter, sugar, and flour. (ex: 1lb butter, 2lbs of sugar, and 3lbs of flour, with the addition of eggs (4) and flavorings.) I also used pie dough, just to see and taste the difference. The cookie dough recipe is similar to the CIA's recipe for traditional pie dough, which they conveniently call, 3-2-1 pie dough. (3 parts flour, 2 parts butter, 1 part water.) I will share all recipes used at the end of this post. All of the recipes I used were really easy, mostly containing steps basically including "put all ingredients in bowl and mix together". As far as textures go, the cookie crust was crunchier, and the pie dough was flakier, but both were good. I also liked the look of the cookie dough pops better, they came out shiner and just all-around nicer-looking.
Next, we made the fillings! We tried three different pie fillings, blueberry, pecan, and pumpkin. While it was fun to have all of the different flavors in the end, next time we are going to stick with one flavor. This is for simplicity, and because you do not use a lot of filling for each pop, we ended up making a full pecan pie, a blueberry cookie crumble, and have the left over pumpkin pie filling waiting it's turn to be made into a full-sized pie in the freezer. So much pie! I think the pops made with the cookie crust were the best, because you can add more filling, and the ratio of crust to filling was perfect, compared to the pie dough, which left little room for filling, and therefore, the high ratio of crust to filling was not good.The fillings were all good, my favorite was the blueberry, not to sweet, not too tart. The pumpkin filling was okay, but would be better with real pumpkin, and not canned. (Yes,we used some convenience items. Perhaps later, when pumpkins, and other squash items are in season, I will make pumpkin pie from real pumpkin.) The pecan filling was gooey, and tasted good, but since it was the runniest, it created the flattest pops. I am happy to have used the rest of that filling for its own full-sized pie (made with leftover pie dough). Yum! I have not tried the blueberry cookie crumble, which was leftover cookie dough, left over blueberry filling, sprinkled with brown sugar, a little bit of flour, and cinnamon. I am sure it is good, though.
Okay, time for recipes! The filling recipes all came from the wonderful internet and the dough recipes came from the CIA's Baking and Pastry book, as previously mentioned.
1-2-3 cookie dough: I scaled down the recipe to yield about 3 pounds of dough. This may sound like a lot of dough, but it gets used quickly. If you do have leftover dough, you could make a crumble, like I did, or refrigerate or freeze for later use. This makes really great tart dough, for those of you who like fresh fruit tarts.
8 ounces (2 sticks) butter
1 pound of sugar
2 eggs
1.5 pounds of flour
Cream together butter and sugar. Add the eggs, one at a time. Slowly incorporate all of the flour. Be sure not to over mix, just be sure that all of the ingredients are combined.
Cover, and chill until cool to the touch.
Use plenty of flour underneath dough when rolling it out. However, too much flour will prevent it from sticking together. If using for pie pops, you should be able to roll out pressed together scraps 2-3 times.
Since I don't want to make this post uber long, I am just including links to the filling recipes I used:
Blueberry, Pumpkin, and Pecan.
Although I like the recipe for 3-2-1 pie dough, from the CIA, I did use this one, which follows the same recipe formula, but is easier to measure for those Suzy-homemakers out there with out the convenience of a kitchen scale. This makes enough for a bunch of pops, or one 9″ pie crust. This can also be refrigerated or frozen for later use.
Pie Dough:
3 cups flour
1 cup (2 sticks) butter
1/2 cup of water, cold
Place flour in a bowl. Cut butter into small pieces, about pea-size, and place in bowl. Toss around butter pieces, to be sure they are all completely covered in flour. Start to press dough together. This will help determine how much water should be used. My dough was coming together nicely, so I started out by adding only 1/4 cup of water. Then I pressed the dough together, and added just enough water to form a soft, smooth dough.
I was able to keep pressing together all of the scraps of dough and adding some dough that had not been rolled out yet, which allowed me to re-roll numerous times.
We followed the instructions on Bakerella's site on how to make the pie pops. Despite all of the work to be done for the dough and the fillings, the actual assembly is pretty easy. Basically, cut out the circles of dough, place them on the cookie sheet, press on lollipop sticks (found at a craft store), place on a spoonful of filling, place another circle of dough on top, use another stick to help press down the top layer of dough, brush tops with egg white, bake in 375-degree oven for about 10-14 minutes. Let cool, and enjoy!
Okay, I am currently having trouble uploading the pictures, so you will have to use your imagination for now, and I will try to upload them soon!


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Taunton State Hospital beds are set to be gradually shifted to the new facility in Worcester in August, according to the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.
The new $302 million, 428,000-square-foot Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital will accept patients from the old Worcester State Hospital when it closes in August, before remaining patients from Taunton State will be moved there as well.
On Wednesday, the DMH took members of the media on a tour of the new Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital facility, where there will be about 850 employees and 320 beds, with an operating cost of approximately $60 million.
Taunton State Hospital beds are set to be gradually shifted to the new facility in Worcester in August, according to the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.
The new $302 million, 428,000-square-foot Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital will accept patients from the old Worcester State Hospital when it closes in August, before remaining patients from Taunton State will be moved there as well.
Incoming mental health patients from Taunton State and Worcester State will be living in a more state-of-the-art setting, designed with a modern concept of recovery with an emphasis on personal control of living space, availability of small group environments and the ability to venture out into more communal neighborhood areas, DMH officials said.
On Wednesday, the DMH took members of the media on a tour of the new Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital facility, where there will be about 850 employees and 320 beds, with an operating cost of approximately $60 million.
Individual within community
One of the advantages to the new facility highlighted by DMH Commissioner Marcia Fowler and the Worcester hospital's Chief Operating Officer Anthony Riccitelli is that each patient at will have his or her own private bedroom and bathroom. Riccitelli said the building's design is "recovery-oriented," providing a greater number of smaller spaces for small groups and individual counseling within the building's color-coded units. Those are complemented by larger activity spaces and the building's "neighborhood" areas, along with a long downtownlike setting featuring shops and cafes that also connects different parts of the building.
"The bedroom is sort of the most private space for the patient," Riccitelli said. "And the patients have the capacity to go from individual bedrooms into their residential corridors, onto their unit. As they get more engaged in more social activity, they can move out into the neighborhood, which is essentially a large rehab space. Just about all the space in that area is recovery-oriented, including therapy suites, work spaces, large activity areas. And then as you gain more and more of that acceptance into a social space you have the downtown space itself, which is a very large, integrated space."
Fowler said that having all one-person bedrooms is an advantage over four-patient bedrooms, which are typical at Taunton State.
"A lot of times, when you have units where people are forced together, people tend to get more agitated," Fowler said. "And then there are those who are afraid — people come into hospitals a lot of times and they are afraid of each other. Plus, it just respects people's dignity of not having to share a bedroom with three other individuals and to have a private bathroom."
On each unit, patients will also have access to a kitchen and a dining area, in addition to the larger, more communal cafeteria.
Fowler said the new facility fosters peace and quiet, along with providing the ability to have more personal choices about their environment.
"Aside from just addressing the basic human needs of individuals — to have privacy, calm, quiet, and to have a space together away from other folks — it really is an environment that allows for a lot of personal choice and autonomy," Fowler said. "There is a lot more ability for people to make decisions about where they are, who they are with, when they want to engage and to be able to make choices."
Built for safety, longevity
Fowler said one improvement over older hospitals is that all the fixtures in the units at Worcester Recovery Center are suicide-proof. Units are supplied with coat hangers that are rigged to collapse when too much weight or pressure is applied and switches designed to prevent self-electrocution. She said that all the items in the room are made so that they cannot be broken, which saves money. Riccitelli said the windows are shatterproof; 2,000 pounds per square inch is needed to crack the glass.
The building, which in many ways resembles a college dormitory, also has other amenities and services, including a salon, a chapel, a bank, two fitness rooms (one with a retracting blind allowing light to come in from a window on the ceiling), an indoor half-court basketball court, classrooms, a computer lab, eight outdoor courtyard areas, meditation areas, porch areas, electronic messaging boards for communication on the units, and two conference rooms (one for court proceedings, with equipment that will allow patients to participate from their units). At one point, Fowler pointed out that the fitness rooms at Taunton State are less ideal because they are located in the basement of the building.
Fowler said a modern facility with a residential rather than an institutional appearance is the more humane environment that mental health patients deserve, but said the philosophy behind the design is to help patients recover more quickly and reintegrate them into the community.
"The reality is, people are locked in here, and we do not want to have people here to consider a locked psychiatric facility home," Fowler said.
Comparison to Taunton State
Supporters of Taunton State Hospital have said they were never against the more modern environment that the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital provides. But many say that DMH and Gov. Deval Patrick misjudged the quality of the Taunton facility, which was originally established in 1854.
Patrick planned on closing Taunton State outright in favor of using funds from the Taunton facility for the new one in Worcester, before a compromise in the Legislature led to 45 beds staying open at Taunton State at a cost of about $5 million for the year.
Karen Coughlin, a Taunton State Hospital nurse and vice president of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, said that while the Worcester Recovery Center will be a high-quality facility, no one should underestimate how therapeutic Taunton State is. She also noted that $19 million in capital improvements were invested in Taunton State starting in the 1990s.
Coughlin said that, although Taunton State does not incorporate the modern architecture that DMH has heralded at the new Worcester facility, the Taunton campus is large, serene and connected to the community, within walking distance of local businesses.
"We have a beautiful campus that is also very quiet," Coughlin said.
Coughlin said that while Worcester Recovery Center has its downtown area for patients, Taunton State Hospital also has similar options.
"We have a canteen, we have a thrift shop, we have a greenhouse," Coughlin said. "We also have a recreational facility (which was built in the 1990s). There are a lot of positives at Taunton State."
Coughlin said that while Taunton State does not have private bedrooms and bathrooms for every patient — although some patients do have their own rooms there — this is not always the benefit it's made out to be.
"Sometimes it doesn't help with isolation of patients," Coughlin said. "Sometimes they are very isolated. Some also get support from peers, and them being in a dorm helps them with the social aspect."
Coughlin said that, during the political debate about Taunton State, she and others told legislators that the facility was not as "antiquated" as the administration made it out to be.
"When we went up to the Statehouse to meet with legislators, we brought pictures of Taunton State," Coughlin said. "Unfortunately, many were under the impression it was antiquated and falling down, along the lines of what stigma is attached to psychiatric hospitals built a long time ago. The legislators were clearly surprised at the pictures. Unfortunately, there was a continued push to characterize it as something that it's not."
Despite the differences between Taunton State and the Worcester Recovery Center, the contention of Taunton State supporters remains the same. They say that continuing care beds need to be available in southeastern Massachusetts, and that Taunton State is the facility that fits the purpose.
Coughlin said that it's important for mental health care beds to be located closer to the patients' families who are from southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the Islands.
"It's about patients receiving care in communities they live in," Coughlin said. "In the southeastern area, there is a need for long-term continuing care and to maintain the support in the community. I think Taunton State is an absolutely wonderful facility that provides incredible care and compassion to the patients that it serves. I'm proud to be a worker there."


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The bloom is off the Mets' early season rose. After a quick start that included winning the first two games in last weekend's series in Philadelphia, the Mets have lost three straight and four of their last five.
They are still over .500, but the sense this could be a different year is fading. Thirteen games is two small a picture to frame it a season, but the crispness that opened the year is gone.
Frank Francisco, who opened with three straight saves, has given up four runs in his last three appearances. Last night he walked Melky Cabrera on four pitches to lead off the tenth. Cabrera stole on a pitchout, which is almost impossible to do, and scored on a two-out single.
That's three red flags in one inning: the leadoff walk; stealing on a pitchout shows an inability to hold runners and a lack of concentration; and the two-out hit is indicative of not putting away an inning. A successful closer doesn't do any of those things on a consistent basis.
Francisco has good stuff, but has always been erratic in the little things, such as those mentioned above. Explains in large part why he was was available.
There's more to be concerned with:
By definition, Jon Niese had a quality start giving up three runs in six innings, but needed 109 pitches to do so. That's clearly working too hard. That many pitches should take him through the eighth, at least. Maybe complete-game worthy.
However, it was an upgrade from what the Mets received their two previous games from R. A. Dickey and Johan Santana. This afternoon it is Mike Pelfrey, who has been anything but calming and comforting.
The starting pitching is key to whatever success the Mets have this year and it must improve.
Offensively, Jason Bay homered and got another hit, but neither he nor Lucas Duda are hitting in the clutch. Bay struck out with runners on second and third and one out in the tenth. Both hitters are 1-for-13 with RSIP. That's 2-for-26, which translates into a lot of runners left on base and empty innings. A lot of losses, too.
Also offensively are the continuing struggles of Ike Davis who struck out twice while going hitless five times last night. His swing gets longer and loopier by the game.
All teams are going to have night like that occasionally, but the Mets' last four losses have exposed their flaws greatly.
I wrote several times this week how the Mets had to snap out of it to avoid a downhill slide. They are in one now.
ON DECK: Starting lineup.


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To the Editor:
I wonder how much the Genoa-Kingston community knows about the values of their school system.
What G-K parents should ask about is the curricular priority list and methods of the administration, and about the subject areas that were sacrificed in the guise of saving a relatively few dollars with the reduction in force actions of March 19.
The District 424 school board answers some of these questions, at least for the 2013-14 school year, by denying formal, licensed visual arts education to its middle school students.
What is to be gained?
As a veteran art teacher, I was at the higher end of the teacher pay scale in District 424, but considering my district tenure (18 years), experience (30-plus years), expertise (PhD equivalent) and many extras I was able to integrate into instruction, the salary could be considered a bargain. I'm an award-winning instructor and a practicing, prize-winning, published studio artist as well, after all.
So, again, what was gained by my ouster and the cut of middle school visual art in G-K?
Perhaps my belief that the district's thirst for technology is clouding the judgment of how best we should teach our children has been mistaken for noncompliance. But I was "honorably dismissed" and noted as having done "a good job of integrating technology into her classroom."
Was it because of her always honest answers to student questions? Ones like: "Is it true you were fired?" Her truthful answer: "No. I was let go because the school board believes that art, with me as your teacher, is too expensive for you to learn. Please let your parents know that I have not done anything wrong."
One might also think that she was laid off due to her dedication to hands-on manipulative problem-solving, which isn't easily "assessed" within a cyber context. But don't we want students to have as much of this proven type of learning as possible?
Could it be the grandiose mythology that anyone can teach art?
I encourage and challenge the G-K Community to ask the simple question: Why?
Then, please, explain the answer, if you get one, to the student body and to this impassioned art educator.
Remember these questions each time you spend looking at anything creative; a human activity, as it happens, nearly impossible to avoid.
As for this visual art teacher … I'll just miss the kids.
Julie Sorensen