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Tagged: all caps, CSS, flashlight, font
December 6, 2011 at 4:31 pm #7406
Dear Kriesi support,
1. I hope you can help me find a way. I'm a bit fresh. I want to use two web fonts I bought via the @font-face rule, to replace the Cufon headlines (and possibly some paragraph text as well). I suppose I need to add some bits of code to the CSS file, but which one? There are so many of them in the wordpress folder. Should I find it in the WordPress css folder, or down in wp-content > themes > flashlight >css?
Would it require further trickery to use my fonts in other instances than just headlines? That is, can I or should I assign different text formats to use my fonts? … Oh wait, my brain is tilting a little…
2. Is there a way to turn off the ALL CAPS headlines in Flashlight's "Default Layout Big"? I like the size of the big titles, but would love if if they were, you know, Normal Case.
God, this theme is lovely.December 7, 2011 at 5:46 am #57851
to start off you'll have to disable cufon fonts by setting your styling to "no custom fonts". You can insert the CSS code to include your fonts in custom.css in your css folder, this file should overwrite other previous settings.
Well, depending on where you bought the fonts and if they require you to upload the actual fonts you have to make sure that wherever you upload these you have to adjust your CSS code so it knows where to look for the fonts.
As for the uppercase issue you can open up your style.css and find
#top .post-title.big_title
Here, you can remove the text-transform line.December 7, 2011 at 1:18 pm #57852
Hello Chris, thank you for your response.
1. Right, disabling the custom fonts, that works. Next: the only custom.css file I can find is in wp-content > themes > flashlight > css.
At the moment, all that this file says currently is: "/* Have fun adding your style here :) – PS: At all times this file should contain a comment or a rule, otherwise opera might act buggy :( */" I guess this is where any code I add in the Quick CSS box ends up.
But you are suggesting I put the @font-face declaration into this custom.css file, is that correct?
2. I found the style.css and the text-transform line you suggested, and changed 'uppercase' to 'none'. That got rid of uppercase in the content areas, but I still have uppercase in the menu (which is a custom menu, as you can do in Flashlight).
I found that style.css contains several instances of "text-transform: uppercase;". Should I change all of them to "none"?December 8, 2011 at 3:01 am #57853
1) Yep, the custom.css file is there to overwrite other settings & apply new ones – you can paste any code in there. So yes, correct.
2) The menu items are set to uppercase under this line in your style.css
.main_menu .menu li a strong
You can set it to none there.December 8, 2011 at 12:49 pm #57854
Great. It works too. Thank you kind Sir!December 8, 2011 at 1:54 pm #57855December 8, 2011 at 3:11 pm #57856
So am I, Dude. I love good support.
Even so, I'm sorry to say I'm still missing something. I've put the @font-face declaration into the custom.css, but nothing's happening on my site (and here I should probably point out that I'm running it local, since my client (friend) want it to launch only when everything is in place).
It's like the rest of the css doesn't pick up on my "use this font family!" command. Hmm.
Edit 1: Tried to open my localhost page in Firefox with Error Console turned on. Wow. Lots of warnings about "Declaration dropped". Wish I was smarter. :´(
Edit 2: Next, I tried to add declarations for h1 and h2 in my custom.css. That only made content headlines use Times intstead of Helvetica Neue. What have I done wrong?December 8, 2011 at 4:00 pm #57857
Did you assign the right font family to the elements? Make sure that the font file path/url is correct.December 8, 2011 at 4:35 pm #57858
Hey Dude.
Yes, I believe I did. My whole custom.css looks like this:
font-family: 'tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly';
src: url('fonts/tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly.eot');
src: url('fonts/tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly.woff') format('woff');
But I only see Helvetica. I tried to add some tags, like this:
h1 { font: 48px/1 tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly, Verdana, sans-serif;
h2 { font: 24px/1 TarzaNar-290711001EmigreWebOnly, Verdana, sans-serif;
But that only turned content area headlines to Verdana. Can't say whats wrong. Hopefully you might.December 8, 2011 at 5:29 pm #57859
I'm pretty sure that tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly isn't the font family – can you post a link to the website and/or font file on your serverDecember 8, 2011 at 7:05 pm #57860
Thank you for wanting to help me. At the moment I can't give you a link – my client wants me to work locally until everything is ready for launch. Which really is too bad, because I think I need someone else to look at this.
But the tarzana… files are the only font material I got when I purchased a web font license from Emigre. And they're terribly strict on these licensing matters.
Oh wait – you're saying that the font-family name could be the culprit? I gotta check.
Edit: Nope. I changed the font name, in the font-family line, to "Tarzana Narrow Bold" which is the official name of the font. But no luck.December 9, 2011 at 12:42 pm #57861
Dear Dude,
In another thread ( https://kriesi.at/support/topic/font-change-1 ), you gave member Glark this advice: "apply your font-face font/webkit font to the .cufon_headings class". That sounds a bit different than the various method I have tried to get my web fonts to run. I don't know enough about CSS, but I've sort of been suspecting that all the Cufons are picking a fight with the @font-face declaration. Could you elaborate a bit on the cufon_heading, kindly?
Also, in another thread ( https://kriesi.at/support/topic/font-face-kits-available), davestewart talks about updating the class-style-generator.php file. Could it be related to the troubles I'm having? Or am I just simply wrong?December 9, 2011 at 12:47 pm #57862
Yes – you can use following code:
.cufon_headings {
font-family: "tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly", Verdana, sans-serif;
to apply the font to all "cufon marked" headlines.December 9, 2011 at 1:09 pm #57863
Thank you Dude. Is there a certain place where I should put that? I tried pasting into the Quick CSS box. That only gave me Verdana, BUT it works in the custom menu too, which is a first. Great! So, I tried pasting the @font-face declaration
(double checked the path) into the Quick CSS box, but it's still just Verdana. Oh, wait… Changed the font family name to the weird code name…
Gaah! It works! Nerdgasm!!December 9, 2011 at 1:11 pm #57864
Okay, so the trick is to lead Flashlight to load @font-face through the Cufon headings… or something. Here's what it looks like for me (in the Quick CSS box)
.cufon_headings {
font-family: "tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly", Verdana, sans-serif;
font-family: 'tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly';
src: url('wp-content/themes/flashlight/fonts/tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly.eot');
src: url('wp-content/themes/flashlight/fonts/tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('wp-content/themes/flashlight/fonts/tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly.woff') format('woff');
Jaysis. Finally.December 12, 2011 at 3:15 am #57865
So it all works now? Let us know if there's anything else :)December 12, 2011 at 2:14 pm #57866
It does work. Now I'm gonna try to screw it up by adding the other font variants. And I'm still working locally, so we'll see how many paths I break when I launch the page.
Hopefully, this might help anyone else who wants to use webfonts through @font-face, with the Flashlight theme, on WordPress. And even more hopefully, Kriesi thinks it works fine and won't alter the code in an update down the road. The awesome guy.December 14, 2011 at 7:25 pm #57867
Allright, let's ramp it up a bit.
1. Not a real problem, but odd:
Right now, I have the same CSS (for my fonts, seen below) pasted in my custom.css and in the Quick CSS box in the Theme Options. I have found that if I delete it from the Quick CSS frame, the custom css will not load either. Isn't that a bit weird?
2. Ambition:
After succeeding in loading @font-face, I want both my font variants to work, but I can't figure how. I have Tarzana Bold and Medium, and I would like Bold on h1 headings and Medium on h2's. Below is my code, which does not do the trick. As seen earlier, it does load the first (Tarzana Bold, "tarzanarbol") both in the menu and as content heads, but not the second (Tarzana Medium, "TarzaNar"). Can you help me figure out why?
.cufon_headings {
font-family: "tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly", Verdana, sans-serif;
font-family: 'tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly';
src: url('wp-content/themes/flashlight/fonts/tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly.eot');
src: url('wp-content/themes/flashlight/fonts/tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('wp-content/themes/flashlight/fonts/tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly.woff') format('woff');
font-family: 'TarzaNar-290711001EmigreWebOnly';
src: url('wp-content/themes/flashlight/fonts/TarzaNar-290711001EmigreWebOnly.eot');
src: url('wp-content/themes/flashlight/fonts/TarzaNar-290711001EmigreWebOnly.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('wp-content/themes/flashlight/fonts/TarzaNar-290711001EmigreWebOnly.woff') format('woff');
h1 { font-family: 'tarzanarbol-290711001EmigreWebOnly', Verdana, sans-serif;
h2 { font-family: 'TarzaNar-290711001EmigreWebOnly', Verdana, sans-serif;
}December 14, 2011 at 7:35 pm #57868
3. Variation
I tried duplicating the first cufon line and put in the second font, like this:
.cufon_headings {
font-family: "TarzaNar-290711001EmigreWebOnly", Verdana, sans-serif;
but that only changed all menu items and content headers to the second font (Tarzana Medium). That's not the solution, then.
Also: how do I, for instance, keep menu titles bold but use medium on certain page headers? Using <h2> in the title box doesn't work.December 20, 2011 at 7:35 am #57869
I might have been a bit over-demanding, but at least the site is up and running live now. http://www.hikki.se/
I want to point out that I can under no circumstances recommend building a wordpress site locally – at least if you're not some sort of elite developer. It's really hard to say the secrecy is worth all the terrible hassle. Terrible, I tell you! :D
Notes: I haven't been succeeded in telling Flashlight to use Bold for h1 and Medium for h2 yet. Also, if I delete the css from the Quick CSS box, it seems to go away completely, even though it's also stored in the custom.css file. Still, damn this theme scales beautifully.
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Cate's California Cottage
Name: Cate
Location: Silver Lake — Los Angeles, California
My house is a small (roughly 700 square feet) 2 bedroom 1 bathroom 'California cottage' in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. It's a Sears kit home from 1926, as are the next 4 or 5 houses next to mine.
I've owned the house now for just over 2 years and have decorated with swap meet finds and 2nd hand furnishings. I love color. I didn't hold back when I moved in and painted almost every room in house. The colors range from bright orange to dark brown.
My inspirations stem from magazines, blogs (Apartment Therapy is a fixture in my RSS feeder!), the artwork I've gathered over the years and a general desire to live in a comfortable, inviting space. I also love living by myself and allowing my mildly girly touches to flourish as I imagine there will eventually come a time when I have to consider a male perspective on my house's appearance.
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by Mary Hesdorffer, Nurse Practitioner
Executive Director, Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation
Researchers from Creighton University School of Medicine accessed the National Cancer Database (NCD), and issued a report on their findings. They analyzed the years between 2000 and 2010. In the United States, 26,605 patients were diagnosed during this period of time. The NCD accumulates this data on approximately 70% of all cancers diagnosed in the states. If one were to add in the 30% not recorded it would take us close to the number of 3,458 cases per year that we use as a figure when we present on mesothelioma. This supports that the numbers of diagnosed mesothelioma patients have remained fairly steady over these past years.
Not surprising were the reports that mesothelioma patients were 89% Caucasian, 78% male and 60% over the age of 70. We talk about the changing face of mesothelioma, but perhaps that perception is created because younger patients access the web, engage in social media and are able to draw more attention to their plight. Or perhaps one could argue that when 30% remain unaccounted for in this database the figures could be different in terms of age, race and gender.
Recently, I took the opportunity to speak with Dr. Karen Antman, Dean of Boston University School of Medicine, to discuss the earliest days of mesothelioma research. Dr. Antman, prior to writing one of the first clinical trials in mesothelioma, canvased the database of the Harvard system and told me that even then she was surprised by the number of young patients she found in the archives. So perhaps this phenomenon is not new.
What does not surprise me is that 36% of patients under the age of 50 underwent surgery, and 12% over the age of 80 also underwent a surgical procedure. It takes a good physicality to undergo this surgery and return to a quality of life that is sustainable and acceptable to the majority of patients.
In reading the report, what did not surprise but disgusted me, was that insurance weighed so heavily in the surgical arena. "Patients with private insurance received more surgical treatment (28%) than patients with Medicaid (22%), Medicare (18%), and VHA (12%)(p<0.009)" (J Clin Oncol 31, 2013 (suppl; abstr e18501). Our Veterans seem to be denied surgery when compared to those with private insurance. 21% of all patients in this database underwent surgery which explains why attempting to mount a robust surgical trial in mesothelioma will not be possible and we will continue to rely on case series and small powered trials to obtain surgical statistics in advising our patients.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The hunt for the Griffin, a ship commanded by legendary French explorer La Salle, has taken an unlikely detour from northern Lake Michigan to a small-town hospital, where modern technology may help determine whether a wooden slab is wreckage from the 17th century vessel.
A team led by explorer Steve Libert, who has searched 30 years for the mysterious craft, hauled the roughly 400-pound beam ashore in June. He discovered a 10.5-foot section of it protruding from the lake bed in 2001 during dive near uninhabited Poverty Island, and received permits this summer to dig beneath it. But his crew discovered the beam wasn't attached to anything.
Disappointed but undaunted, Libert's next goal is determining the age of the tree that produced the timber and when it was cut down. He thinks the beam could be the bowsprit — a spur or pole that extends from a vessel's stem — of the Griffin, which disappeared with its six-member crew and a cargo of furs in 1679.
On Saturday, his crew will lug the massive object to the radiology section of Otsego Memorial Hospital in Gaylord for a procedure usually performed on humans: a CT scan, which generates detailed X-rays. It will be the first time the hospital's machine has been used for anything other than examining patients, radiology director Andy Lanway said. Elsewhere, CT scans have been used to study the interior of archaeological objects and artworks.
In this case, the plan is to produce images of tree rings within the beam, which is smaller in diameter than a telephone pole. It's a noninvasive way to seek information that otherwise could be obtained only by cutting into it.
"This is a very important step," Libert said. "If that piece comes out of the CT scan and it's some 330 years old ... there's only one ship it could belong to, and that's the Griffin." No other ship of European design was sailing on northwestern Lake Michigan at that time, he said.
The images will be sent to Carol Griggs of Cornell University, an expert in dendrochronology, which uses ring patterns to date trees. Griggs, who visited Michigan last month to see the waterlogged timber, said she hopes to help solve the mystery but made no promises.
She'll try to match the timber's ring patterns with those in a Cornell archive that includes trees from centuries ago. If the timber has enough rings, Griggs said, she should be able to estimate the year the source tree was felled.
"I'm a little worried about the bowsprit because from what I could see, it doesn't have that many rings in it," Griggs said. "I could see rings at the narrowest end, but there just aren't a whole lot. But that's why we're doing the CT scan."
It may take a year to complete the analysis and write a report, she said.
The hospital in Gaylord, 225 miles northwest of Detroit, is near the timber's storage spot— a location Libert is keeping secret to prevent theft or vandalism. The beam is submerged in water and preservative chemicals.
Hospital officials required Libert to obtain insurance against possible damage to the machine.
The request from Libert's organization "was very much out of left field," spokeswoman Christie Perdue said. "But if the hospital can help determine what the piece of wood is and where it came from, we're happy to help."
Libert, a retired government intelligence analyst, says he became fascinated with the Griffin as a teenager and has spent much of his adult life — and more than $1 million of his own money — seeking it.
For years, he wrangled in court over the purported bowsprit with the state of Michigan, which claims ownership of shipwrecks and objects wedged into its Great Lakes bottomlands. State officials consider the timber on loan to Libert's associates through this year, state archaeologist Dean Anderson said. All sides agree that if it is from the Griffin, it is French property.
"But the archaeological evidence I've seen thus far doesn't indicate this is part of a wreck," Anderson said.
He said it could be part of a "pound net," a type of fishing gear used in past centuries in which heavy stakes with netting attached were mechanically driven into the lake bed. Libert said the timber lacks features of a pound-net stake, including a sharp point on one end. French experts who participated in the June dive said the timber appeared to be a bowsprit.
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There is always a silver lining, I guess: rather than admit that their guy performed poorly, the Democrats are using the debacle of Wednesday night's debate to raise more millions from their supporters. Their theme is that Mitt Romney got the better of Barack Obama by "lying," which apparently is supposed to explain why Obama couldn't string two coherent sentences together. The "lies," of course, go unspecified. The Democratic Party is bombarding its email list with messages like this one:
Subject: This is what happens when you lie:
John — Mitt Romney sure didn't bargain for this:
The day after he straight-up lied to the American people, we're less than 400 donations away from hitting 10,000 for the day. Will you help us get there?
Chip in $3 to help us hit 10,000 donations for a Democratic majority before midnight >>
Thank you,
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And this one:
Subject: here's the problem:
John —
Mitt Romney bounded off the stage on Wednesday night with a wide grin from cheek to cheek, proud of himself for delivering all the 'zingers' his staff wrote up for him.
But here's the problem: he just made stuff up. By one count, he misled the nation 27 times in 38 minutes! On Medicare, on Obamacare, on taxes, on Wall Street Reform, on you name it… Mitt said whatever he had to to score political points.
Will you step up to help us call out Romney and the Republicans' lies before tonight's ad buy deadline?
Donate $3 or whatever you can to fight Republicans' misleading attacks and back up President Obama with a Democratic majority >>
Remember when the Romney campaign said, "we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers"? They weren't kidding. Now, it's up to us to do something about it.
Help us spread the truth about Republican attacks:
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Who knows? Maybe the Democrats will be able to use Obama's defeat to raise more millions from gullible grass roots supporters. Still, I am pretty sure they would have preferred that their candidate not do a face-plant in front of 67 million people.


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As a poorly known species endemic to the Western Balkans, the Balkan Snow Vole (Dinaromys bogdanovi) is in the focus of a continuous research and educational activities of the Association BIOM. Its goal is to better understand the Balkan Snow Vole biology in order to evaluate its current conservation status in Croatia and propose adequate conservation measures.
This species may be declining in parts of its range as a result of competition with the European snow vole. Within a project initiated in 2010 with the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb and Zagreb ZOO, BIOM has been working on the conservation of the karst biodiversity through the research of this rare species. Due to the large knowledge gaps the Balkan Snow Vole has a Data Deficient (DD) status in the Red Book of Croatian Mammals, while globally the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ lists it as Vulnerable (VU).
Captivity research in Zagreb ZOO and extensive field visits provided more knowledge on the ecology and distribution of the Balkan Snow Vole, which is a prerequisite for effective conservation action. The project included educational presentations and panels for students in Zagreb and Split, hikers and local communities that increased their awareness on conservation concerns and promoted biodiversity of the Croatian karst.
Field examination of the Croatian karst revealed a whole biocenosis of specialised rock-dwelling species in the same habitat. They are relict, range-restricted and have fragmented populations, for example the Dalmatian Wall Lizard (Dalmatolacerta oxycephala), Mosor Rock Lizard (Dinarolacerta mosorensis) and isolated subspecies of the Garden Dormouse (Eliomys quercinus ssp. dalmaticus).
Ongoing and fast habitat fragmentation in the Balkan Snow Vole core area highly increases the probability of its local extinctions. This fragmentation follows the fast infrastructure growth that needs to be mitigated by the appropriate environmental conservation actions. Without them, local extinctions and additional fragmentation of this species range (and possibly other ecologically similar species) will most probably occur in the next several years.
Following Croatia's accession some of the important nature conservation documents have changed. The annexes of the Habitats directive (Directive 92/43/EEC) were amended to add new species and habitats, amongst which is the Balkan Snow Vole.
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By Keith Coffman
DENVER (Reuters) - Accused movie theater gunman James Holmes was held in restraints for several days at a psychiatric hospital last November after jail officials determined he was a threat to himself, his lawyers said in a court filing made public on Friday.
The disclosure came in a motion by Holmes' public defenders to have a videotape of his hospitalization turned over to them by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, which runs the jail where he is being held without bond.
Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester ordered the sheriff's office to preserve and maintain the videotape "pending further order of the court."
The court filings were made public on the same day that Sylvester rejected a motion by defense attorneys to declare Colorado's insanity defense law unconstitutional. Holmes, 25, is scheduled to enter a plea in the case on Tuesday.
Holmes is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the July shooting rampage that killed 12 moviegoers and wounded 58 others during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado.
Defense lawyers said in the motion that Arapahoe County attorneys not involved with the prosecution asked a judge last November 15 to transfer Holmes to a hospital because he was a danger to himself and in "immediate need of a psychiatric evaluation."
That same day, Holmes was transported by ambulance from the jail to Denver Health Medical Center's psychiatric unit "where he remained for several days, frequently in restraints," the motion said.
That hospitalization, defense lawyers noted, was separate from an earlier incident where Holmes was treated at a hospital for injuries "that resulted from potential self-inflicted head injuries in his cell."
The motion said the sheriff's office refused to give the video to prosecutors or defense attorneys at the direction of Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.
Robinson told Reuters on Friday night that he had released a "relevant video to both sides," but citing a gag order imposed by the judge in the case, declined to comment on its contents.
Robinson said his office had been "straightforward and cooperative" in the case, and that he would not release the hospital video because it was taken outside his jurisdiction.
"I told them (attorneys) that I didn't have the authority to give them that video because it was taken in Denver and they'd have to go through them," he said.
In rejecting the defense motion to declare Colorado's insanity defense law unconstitutional, Sylvester said defense lawyers had raised the issue prematurely since Holmes had yet to enter a plea, and prosecutors had not indicated whether they would seek the death penalty.
Lawyers for Holmes last week challenged the constitutionality of a Colorado statute that requires a defendant who raises an insanity defense to submit to examinations by court-appointed psychiatrists.
Defense lawyers argued that the law, which would compel Holmes to provide potentially damaging information that could be used against him at trial, or at sentencing should he be convicted, violated his Fifth Amendment guarantee of protection against self-incrimination.
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Nebraska Sweeps The Wildcats At Home
Lincoln, Neb. - The 10th-ranked Nebraska women's tennis team (12-1, 1-0 Big Ten) defeated No. 32 Kansas State (4-4, 0-0 Big 12) Saturday at the Nebraska Tennis Center, 7-0. The Huskers were able to manage the doubles point despite some tough games to head into singles where they topped off the match with some much-needed victories. This is the 45th time that the teams have met and Nebraska leads the series 33-12 following the triumph.
Nebraska struck first in doubles with a victory at the No. 2 position where Janine Weinreich and Stefanie Weinstein defeated Wildcats Carmen Borau-Ramos and Ivana Kubickova 8-2. The Huskers claimed the doubles point at the No. 1 position where No. 13 Mary Weatherholt and Patricia Veresova ousted Kansas State's No. 31 Petra Niedermayerova and Karla Bonacic 8-3 to make the score 1-0. The remaining match at the No. 3 spot quickly wrapped up with Nebraska's Maggy Lehmicke and Izabella Zgierska toppled Wildcats Amina St. Hill and Gema Bolado-Yusta 8-1.
The Huskers headed into singles with the 1-0 lead and extended that cushion to 2-0 with a victory at the No. 5 spot where Janine Weinreich defeated Kansas State's Amina St. Hill 6-1, 6-1. Nebraska's Patricia Veresova toppled the Wildcats' No. 94 Karla Bonacic 6-2, 6-2 at the No. 2 position to push the lead to 3-0.
Nebraska sealed their victory at the No. 3 position when Stefanie Weinstein defeated Kansas State's Ivana Kubickova 7-5, 6-3 with the overall score at 4-0. With the match decided, Nebraska snagged their next point at the No. 4 spot when Maggy Lehmicke knocked off the Wildcats' Ana Gomez Aleman 6-3, 6-2 to extend the tally to 5-0.
At the No. 6 position, Nebraska's Izabella Zgierska edged out the Wildcats' Carmen Borau Ramos 6-3, 6-3 to push the margin to 6-0 before the match came to a close at the No. 1 position where the Huskers' No. 16 Mary Weatherholt emerged victorious over Kansas State's No. 17 Petra Niedermayerova 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
The Huskers head to Iowa City on Tuesday March 5 to face their second Big Ten opponent the Iowa Hawkeyes at 3:30 p.m.
No. 10 Nebraska - 7
No. 32 Kansas State - 0
Lincoln, Neb.
1. No. 16 Mary Weatherholt (NU) def. No. 17 Petra Niedermayerova (KSU) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
2. Patricia Veresova (NU) def. Karla Bonacic (KSU) 6-2, 6-2.
3. Stefanie Weinstein (NU) def. Ivana Kubickova (KSU) 7-5, 6-3.
4. Maggy Lehmicke (NU) def. Ana Gomez Aleman (KSU) 6-3, 6-2.
5. Janine Weinreich (NU) def. Amina St. Hill (KSU) 6-1, 6-1.
6. Izabella Zgierska (NU) def. Carmen Borau Ramos (KSU) 6-3, 6-3.
Order of finish(5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 1)
1. No. 13 Mary Weatherholt/Patricia Veresova (NU) def. No. 31 Petra Niedermayerova/Karla Bonacic (KSU) 8-3.
2. Stefanie Weinstein/Janine Weinreich (NU) def. Carmen Borau-Ramos/Ivana Kubickova (KSU) 8-2.
3. Maggy Lehmicke/Izabella Zgierska (NU) def. Amina St. Hill/Gema Bolado-Yusta (KSU) 8-1.
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Corliss Street Baptist Church
Monday, September 24, 2018
Hearts Ablaze for Jesus!
Jesus Invites us - "Come Follow Me" - "Come and See" "Look the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29, NIV).
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The Covenant of the Corliss Street Baptist Church
Having Been led by the Spirit of God to profess faith in Jesus Christ, and having been baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we do now solemnly and joyfully affirm our covenant with God and with each other.
We pledge to serve Christ in the fellowship of this congrgegation. We shall endeavor to love one another, to remember one another in prayer, to share in each other's joys, and to sustain each other in times of distress. We aspire to be a fellowship of the concerned where the lost may find Jesus Christ, sinners may find pardon, seekers may find meaning for their lives, where all who come may find welcome. We shall strive to be responsible church members through faithful attendance study, and giving.
We shall seek to be obedient to Christ in our daily living. Within our homes, in our labor, and while at leisure we shall strive for attitudes and actions which reflect God's Spirit working through us. Believing that our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit, we shall endeavor to avoid experiences and habits which defile the body and hinder our witness.
Bound together in a fellowship of faith with all who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, we shall pray and labor for a spirit of unity among all Christians.
Believing that our call to be a church is a call to witness in the world, we dedicate ourselves anew as servants of the Lord of all life. Whenever people are in bondage to ignorance, poverty, fear, or prejudice, we shall strive for justice, freedom, dignity and peace. Whenever people are separated by barriers of hostilty and distrust, we shall be ministers of God's reconciling love. As we pledge our support to the work of our misionaries throughout the world, we commit ourselves to the mission to which God calls us all.
Acknowledging our human fraities and ever seeking forgiveness, we profess our need of the Holy Spirit, and commit our lives to Jesus Christ, and through Him to the care, the judgment, the deliverance, and the mercy of Almighty God. Amen


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In a new post to his blog Court Ewing takes a look at integrating your PHP application with one of the most popular and powerful CRM solutions out there, Salesforce.
If your primary clientele is small to medium business owners, as I imagine is the case for most professional developers these days, chances are you have developed custom applications that interact with Salesforce CRM. For those of you that have not had the delight of integrating with Salesforce, let's walk through the most common integration techniques.
He starts with the Force.com web services and shows how to generate your WSDL, get your security token for requests and gives some example code that uses both to test the login. He follows this with examples of the five methods that are a "must know" for anyone using the API - upsert, retrieve, getUpdated, delete, getDeleted. He throws in a few "gotchas" at the end - one dealing with retrieve calls and their results and the other relates to how the PHP toolkit handles errors.


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More changes are in store for California's raisin industry in the next five years than the industry has seen in the past 50, according to Vaughn Koligian, chief executive officer of the Raisin Bargain Association (RBA).
Those changes are not coming easy in an industry where the average age of its 5,000 producers is 62 with an average vineyard size of 40 acres.
The changes are being forced on producers because it is an industry in an economic free fall, tumbling 34 percent in crop value in just two years due to overproduction and low sales. Prices have fallen to levels not seen in 20 years.
"There will be a totally new industry 10 years from now," Koligian told the annual Agribusiness Management Conference in Fresno recently.
California's raisin industry has long been competing in a world market with a federal post-harvest volume control marketing order. Marketing order delegates determine crop size and market potential and release almost always less than 100 percent of the crop ("free tonnage") to compete against lower-price world competitors. The rest is considered surplus and sold at below what the industry sees as free tonnage prices.
In the past surplus raisins have been used for subsidized school lunch programs, distilled into alcohol and even used for cattle feed.
Import raisin gains
California-produced raisins have generally enjoyed a strong reputation for quality and earned higher prices, but that is changing. Turkish, Iranian and Afghanistan raisin production is not only increasing, but also quality has also improved, said Koligian.
This is putting a price squeeze on California raisin growers. The only way out, according to Koligian, is sales growth.
Koligian said pressure is mounting to compete toe-to-toe for world markets against foreign producers. However, most growers cannot do that using the long established, labor-intensive methods of drying raisins on paper trays between vine rows.
DOV advances
Increasingly more producers are investing $5,000 per acre to retrellis or establish new vineyards where raisin-type grapes, mostly Thompson seedless, are Dried-On-The-Vine (DOV).
These DOV vineyards not only eliminate much of the hand labor associated with on-ground drying, but they produce as many as three times as many raisins as field dried raisin vineyards. This reduces the per ton cost of producing the fruit, meaning DOV producers can produce more tons for less money than on-ground producers.
This disparity is causing considerable division in the industry, and resulting in on-line raisin price bidding wars, Koligian said. This is also shattering the long-standing relationships between packers and growers.
"I look forward to getting back together again," he said.
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Daniel Gookin
was born in Kent, England, about 1612, and died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 19, 1687, after a distinguished career as soldier, historian, and protector of the Indians from unjust exploitations. Gookin went with his father to Virginia in 1621, but, sympathizing rather with the Puritan than with the Cavalier, he moved, in 1644, to Cambridge, where he was soon made captain of militia and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Deputies, of which he became Speaker in 1651. In 1652 he was elected magistrate, and in 1656 appointed Superintendent of all Indians under civil authority. He held this office till his death, in spite of unpopularity, occasioned by the protection he gave to his aboriginal wards during and after King Philips War. He was associated with Eliot in mission work among the Indians. He visited England in 1656 and again in 1657, efficiently protecting on his return in 1660 the fugitive regicides Goffe and Whalley. He was one of the licensers of the Cambridge Printing Press in 1662, wrote in 1674
Historical Collections of the Indians of Massachusetts
(published by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1792), and also a never-published and long since lost
History of New England.
The prospectus of this second book, issued with his first, is so good as to make us regret greatly the loss of his manuscript, which was probably destroyed by fire. A third work of Gookins,
An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England,
finished in 1677, just after King Philips War, was also lost for many years, but was finally found in England and sent back to America, the American Antiquarian Society printing it in the second volume of their
(1836). In 1681 Gookin was made Major-General of the Colony, and was an active assertor of popular rights in the agitation which preceded the withdrawal of the Colonial Charter (1686), thus recovering much of the favor he had lost by his advocacy of charity toward the Christian Indians. He died so poor that his friend Eliot solicited ten pounds from Robert Boyle for his widow. Both as a brave, good man and a scholarly, straightforward writer he deserves to be better remembered.
Gookin to Charles II.
[From Historical Collections of the Indians in New England, written in 1674.]
The Epistle Dedicatory.
the High and Mighty Prince Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Royal Sir,
I have read that Artaxerxes Mnemon, king of Persia, going his progress, the people used to present him with their several gifts in the way; and among the rest a countryman, having nothing else to present him with, ran to the river, and taking up his hands full of water, presented him with that. Artaxerxes was so taken therewith, that he gave the fellow a considerable beneficence.
So have I, dread Sovereign, presumed to offer this poor mite, as a testimony of my affection. I must acknowledge it is most unworthy to kiss your royal hands, being so meanly apparelled in an Indian garb. But the matter therein contained, being a true account of the progress of the Gospel among the poor Indians, within your dominions, and that under the influence of your royal favor, this, as I conceive, is not unmeet for your Majestys knowledge. Therefore let it please your Majesty graciously to accept and peruse these Collections, and especially that humble proposal made in Chap. 12. Sect. 5. as a necessary expedient to promote this great work, and which must have its life, under God, from the rays of your Majestys favor.
The God of heaven and earth bless your Majesty with all temporal, spiritual, and eternal blessings in Christ Jesus; and make you more and more a nursing father to his church; that under your shadow it may rejoice, and every individual person thereof be encouraged in all ways of godliness and honesty.
So prayeth he that is one of the most unworthy, yet desirous to be reckoned among the number of your Majestys most dutiful and loyal subjects.
Cambridge in New England,
December 7th, 1674.
The Origin of the Indians.
[From the Same, Chap. I.]
the original of the Savages, or Indians, in New England, there is nothing of certainty to be concluded. But yet, as I conceive, it may rationally be made out that all the Indians of America, from the Straits of Magellan and its adjacent islands on the south, unto the most northerly part yet discovered, are originally of the same nations or sort of people. Whatever I have read or seen to this purpose, I am the more confirmed therein. I have seen of this people, along the sea coasts and within land, from the degrees of 34 unto 44 of north latitude; and have read of the Indians of Magellanico, Peru, Brasilia, and Florida, and have also seen some of them and unto my best apprehension, they are all the same sort of people.
The color of their skins, the form and shape of their bodies, hair, and eyes, demonstrate this. Their skins are of a tawny color, not unlike the tawny Moors in Africa; the proportion of their limbs, well formed; it is rare to see a crooked person among them. Their hair is black and harsh, not curling; their eyes, black and dull; though I have seen, but very rarely, a gray-eyed person among them, with brownish hair. But still the difficulty yet remains, whence all these Americans had their first original, and from which of the sons of Noah they descended, and how they came first into these parts; which is separated so very far from Europe and Africa by the Atlantic Ocean, and from a great part of Asia, by Mar del Zur, or the South sea: in which sea Sir Francis Drake, that noble hero, in his famous voyage about the world, sailed on the west of America, from the straits of Magellan, lying about 52 degrees of south latitude, unto 38 degrees of north latitude: where he possessed a part of the country, and received subjection from those very tractable Indians, in the right of the English nation, and his sovereign prince, the famous queen Elizabeth, then reigning, and her successors, and gave it the name of New Albion: which country lies west northerly of Massachusetts in New England: for Boston lies in 42° 30' and New Albion in 48° of north latitude, which is near six degrees more northerly.
There are divers opinions about this matter.
First, some conceive that this people are of the race of the ten tribes of Israel, that Shalmaneser carried captive out of their own country, A.M. 3277, of which we read in II. Kings, xviii.
; and that God hath, by some means or other, not yet discovered, brought them into America; and herein fulfilled his just threatening against them, of which we may read, II. Kings,
. from 6 to the 19 verse; and hath reduced them into such woful blindness and barbarism, as all those Americans are in; yet hath reserved their posterity there: and in his own best time, will fulfil and accomplish his promise, that those dry bones shall live, of which we read Ezek. xxxvii.
. A reason given for this is taken from the practice of sundry Americans, especially of those inhabiting Peru and Mexico, who were most populous, and had great cities and wealth, and hence are probably apprehended to be the first possessors of America. Now of these the historians write, that they used circumcision and sacrifice, though oftentimes of human flesh: so did the Israelites sacrifice their sons unto Moloch, II. Kings, xvii.,
. But this opinion, that these people are of the race of the Israelites, doth not greatly obtain. But surely it is not impossible, and perhaps not so improbable, as many learned men think.
Secondly, another apprehension is, that the original of these Americans is from the Tartars, or Scythians, that live in the north-east parts of Asia; which some good geographers conceive is nearly joined unto the north-west parts of America, and possibly are one continent, or at least separated but by some narrow gulf; and from this beginning have spread themselves into the several parts of the North and South America; and because the southern parts were more fertile, and free from the cold winters incident to the northern regions, hence the southern parts became first planted, and most populous and rich. This opinion gained more credit than the former, because the people of America are not altogether unlike in color, shape, and manners, unto the Scythian people, and in regard that such a land travel is more feasible and probable than a voyage by sea so great a distance, as is before expressed, from other inhabited places, either in Europe, Asia, or Africa; especially so long since, when we hear of no sailing out of sight of land, before the use of the loadstone and compass was found. But if this people be sprung from the Tartarian or Scythian people, as this notion asserts, then it is to me a question, why they did not attend the known practice of that people; who, in all their removes and plantations, take with them their kine, sheep, horses, and camels, and the like tame beasts; which that people keep in great numbers, and drive with them in all their removes. But of these sorts and kinds of beasts used by the Tartars, none were found in America among the Indians. This question or objection is answered by some thus: First, possibly the first people were banished for some notorious offences; and so not permitted to take with them of these tame beasts. Or, secondly, possibly, the gulf, or passage, between Asia and America, though narrow, comparatively, is yet too broad to waft over any of those sort of creatures; and yet possibly men and women might pass over it in canoes made of hollow trees, or with barks of trees, wherein, it is known, the Indians will transport themselves, wives and children, over lakes and gulfs, very considerable for breadth. I have known some to pass with like vessels forty miles across an arm of the sea.
But before I pass to another thing, suppose it should be so, that the origination of the Americans came from Asia, by the north-west of America, where the continents are conceived to meet very near, which indeed is an opinion very probable; yet this doth not hinder the truth of the first conjecture, that this people may be of the race of the ten tribes of Israel: for the king of Assyria who led them captive, as we heard before, transported them into Asia, and placed them in several provinces and cities, as in II. Kings,
xvii. 6
. Now possibly, in process of time, this people, or at least some considerable number of them, whose custom and manner it was to keep themselves distinct from the other nations they lived amongst; and did commonly intermarry only with their own people; and also their religion being so different from the heathen, unto whom they were generally an abomination, as they were to the Egyptians; and also partly from Gods judgment following them for their sins: I say, it is not impossible but a considerable number of them might withdraw themselves; and so pass gradually into the extreme parts of the continent of Asia; and wherever they came, being disrelished by the heathen, might for their own security pass further and further, till they found America; which being unpeopled, there they found some rest; and so, in many hundred of years, spread themselves in America in that thin manner, as they were found there, especially in the northern parts of it; which country is able to contain and accommodate millions of mankind more than were found in it. And for their speech, which is not only different among themselves, but from the Hebrew, that might easily be lost by their often removes, or Gods judgment.
A third conjecture of the original of these Indians, is, that some of the tawny Moors of Africa, inhabiting upon the sea coasts, in times of war and contention among themselves, have put off to sea, and been transported over, in such small vessels as those times afforded, unto the south part of America, where the two continents of Africa and America are nearest; and they could not have opportunity or advantage to carry with the small vessels of those times any tame beasts, such as were in that country. Some reasons are given for this notion. First, because the Americans are much like the Moors of Africa. Secondly, the seas between the tropics are easy to pass, and safe for small vessels; the winds in those parts blowing from the east to the west, and the current setting the same course. Thirdly, because it is most probable, that the inhabitants of America first came into the south parts; where were found the greatest numbers of people, and the most considerable cities and riches.
But these, or any other notions, can amount to no more than rational conjecture; for a certainty of their first extraction cannot be attained; for they being ignorant of letters and records of antiquity, as the Europeans, Africans, and sundry of the Asians, are and have been, hence any true knowledge of their ancestors is utterly lost among them. I have discoursed and questioned about this matter with some of the most judicious of the Indians, but their answers are divers and fabulous. Some of the inland Indians say, that they came from such as inhabit the sea-coasts. Others say, that there were two young squaws, or women, being at first either swimming or wading in the water; the froth or foam of the water touched their bodies, from whence they became with child; and one of them brought forth a male; and the other a female child; and then the two women died and left the earth: So their son and daughter were their first progenitors. Other fables and figments are among them touching this thing, which are not worthy to be inserted. These only may suffice to give a taste of their great ignorance touching their original; the full determination whereof must be left until the day, wherein all secret and hidden things shall be manifested to the glory of God.
But this may upon sure grounds be asserted, that they are Adams posterity, and consequently children of wrath; and hence are not only objects of all christians pity and compassion, but subjects upon which our faith, prayers, and best endeavours should be put forth to reduce them from barbarism to civility; but especially to rescue them out of the bondage of Satan, and bring them to salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ; which is the main scope and design of this tractate.
The Gratitude of Hiacoomes.
[From the Same, Chap. III.]
this strait, several of their carnal and unconverted kindred and relations applied themselves unto Hiacoomes and his wife, [who was in a delicate condition and dangerously ill] pressing them to send for a powow, and use that help for relief. But both husband and wife utterly refused their temptation; the man being willing to submit to Gods disposal, and lose his wife, though he loved her dearly, rather than take assistance from the devil and his instruments, whom he had renounced; and the woman, who was the sufferer, yet, through the grace of God, was endowed with such christian fortitude, that she also utterly refused this method for her deliverance, and would rather lose her life than seek help that way. In this exigence, they earnestly cried to God in prayer, to show mercy to them for Jesus Christs sake; imploring also the prayers of Mr. Thomas Mayhew, junior, their teacher, and other English christians, living nigh them. Mr. Mayhew, being affected with the case, got together some godly christians to meet together; and those kept a day of fasting and prayer, to implore the help of God for these poor, distressed, christian Indians. And the Lord was graciously pleased to hear and answer their prayers, and shortly after gave the woman safe deliverance of a daughter; which the father named by a word in the Indian language, which signified in English, Return. When Mr. Mayhew, the minister, understood this, he demanded of Hiacoomes the reason, why he gave his daughter that name; whose answer was to this effect: Sir, said he, a little while since, you know, I and my wife and children, were travelling on apace in the broad way to hell and all misery, and going from God; but now, since you preached to us, I, and my wife and children, are, through Gods grace,
back the contrary way, with our faces set towards God, heaven, and happiness. Secondly, you know, before my wife was delivered of this child, how great peril of life she was in, and God seemed to be very angry with us; but he was intreated and heard our prayers, and is
to us with mercies, in my wifes safe deliverance of this daughter. And for these two reasons, I call this child Return. This story is most certainly true; and was told me distinctly by Mr. Thomas Mayhew, junior, their minister, Hiacoomes being present, in travelling on foot between Watertown lecture and Cambridge, the Indian that was the principal person concerned being with him .
Concerning Choice Indian Youths.
[From the Same, Chap. V.]
was much cost out of the Corporation stock expended in this work, for fitting and preparing the Indian youth to be learned and able preachers unto their countrymen. Their diet, apparel, books, and schooling, was chargeable. In truth the design was prudent, noble, and good; but it proved ineffectual to the ends proposed. For several of the said youth died, after they had been sundry years at learning and made good proficiency therein. Others were disheartened and left learning, after they were almost ready for the college. And some returned to live among their countrymen; where some of them are improved for school-masters and teachers, unto which they are advantaged by their education. Some others of them have entered upon other callings: as one is a mariner; another, a carpenter; another went for England with a gentleman, that lived sometimes at Cambridge in New England, named Mr. Drake, which Indian, as I heard, died there not many months after his arrival.
I remember but only two of them all, that lived in the college at Cambridge; the one named Joel, the other, Caleb; both natives of Manilas Vineyard. These two were hopeful young men, especially Joel, being so ripe in learning, that he should, within a few months, have taken his first degree of bachelor of art in the college. He took a voyage to Marthas Vineyard to visit his father and kindred, a little before the commencement; but upon his return back in a vessel, with other passengers and mariners, suffered shipwreck upon the island of Nantucket; where the bark was found put on shore; and in all probability the people in it came on shore alive, but afterwards were murdered by some wicked Indians of that place; who, for lucre of the spoil in the vessel, which was laden with goods, thus cruelly destroyed the people in it; for which fault some of those Indians was convicted and executed afterwards. Thus perished our hopeful young prophet Joel. He was a good scholar and a pious man, as I judge. I knew him well; for he lived and was taught in the same town where I dwell. I observed him for several years, after he was grown to years of discretion, to be not only a diligent student, but an attentive hearer of Gods word; diligently writing the sermons, and frequenting lectures; grave and sober in his conversation.
The other called Caleb, not long after he took his degree of bachelor of art at Cambridge in New England, died of a consumption at Charlestown, where he was placed by Mr. Thomas Danforth, who had inspection over him, under the care of a physician in order to his health; where he wanted not for the best means the country could afford, both of food and physic; but God denied the blessing, and put a period to his days.
Of this disease of the consumption sundry of those Indian youths died, that were bred up to school among the English. The truth is, this disease is frequent among the Indians; and sundry die of it, that live not with the English. A hectic fever, issuing in a consumption, is a common and mortal disease among them. I know some have apprehended other causes of the mortality of these Indian scholars. Some have attributed it unto the great change upon their bodies, in respect of their diet, lodging, apparel, studies; so much different from what they were inured to among their own countrymen.
These awful providences of God, in frustrating the hopeful expectations concerning the learned Indian youth, who were designed to be for teachers unto their countrymen, concurring with some other severe dispensations of God obstructive to this work,some whereof may be hereafter mentioned,caused great thoughts of heart unto the well-willers and promoters thereof. Some conceived, God was not pleased yet to make use of any of the Indians to preach the Gospel; and that the time of the great harvest of their ingathering is not yet come, but will follow after the calling of the Jews. Others thought that this honor of their instruction and conversion shall be continued with Englishmen. Others were of opinion, that Satan, the great enemy and opposer of mens salvation, who had for many years held these poor barbarians under his dominion, did use all his stratagems and endeavors to impede the spreading of the Christian faith, that he might the better keep possession of his kingdom among them. But others, whose faith I hope in God was active and vigorous, did conclude that there was nothing more in these providences and remoras, than did usually attend and accompany all good designs, tending to the glory of God and salvation of souls; whereof plentiful examples are recorded in Holy Scriptures, especially in the primitive times; which in several chapters or the Acts of the Apostles may be demonstrated .
Wannalancets Canoe.
[From the Same, Chap. VII.]
5th, 1674, according to our usual custom, Mr. Eliot and myself took our journey to Wamesit, or Pawtuckett; and arriving there that evening, Mr. Eliot preached to as many of them as couid be got together, out of Mat. xxii.
, the parable of the marriage of the Kings son. We met at the wigwam of one called Wannalancet, about two miles from the town, near Pawtuckett Falls, and bordering upon Merrimac River. This person, Wannalancet, is the eldest son of old Pasaconaway, the chiefest sachem of Pawtuckett. He is a sober and grave person, and of years, between fifty and sixty. He hath been always loving and friendly to the English. Many endeavors have been used several years to gain this sachem to embrace the Christian religion; but he hath stood off from time to time, and not yielded up himself personally, though for four years past he hath been willing to hear the word of God preached, and to keep the Sabbath. A great reason that hath kept him off, I conceive, hath been the indisposition and averseness of sundry of his chief men and relations to pray to God; which he foresaw would desert him, in case he turned Christian. But at this time, May 6th, 1674, it pleased God so to influence and overcome his heart, that it being proposed to him to give his answer concerning praying to God, after some deliberation and serious pause he stood up, and made a speech to this effect:
Sirs, you have been pleased for four years last past, in your abundant love, to apply yourselves particularly unto me and my people, to exhort, press, and persuade us to pray to God. I am very thankful to you for your pains. I must acknowledge, said he, I have, all my days, used to pass in an old canoe (alluding to his frequent custom to pass in a canoe upon the river), and now you exhort me to change and leave my old canoe, and embark in a new canoe, to which I have hitherto been unwilling: but now I yield up myself to your advice, and enter into a new canoe, and do engage to pray to God hereafter.
This his professed subjection was well pleasing to all that were present, of which there were some English persons of quality; as Mr. Richard Daniel, a gentleman that lived in Billerica, about six miles off: and Lieutenant Henchman, a neighbor at Chelmsford; besides brother Eliot and myself, with sundry others, English and Indians. Mr. Daniel before named desired brother Eliot to tell this sachem from him, that it may be, while he went in his old canoe, he passed in a quiet stream: but the end thereof was death and destruction to soul and body. But now he went into a new canoe, perhaps he would meet with storms and trials; but yet he should be encouraged to persevere, for the end of his voyage would be everlasting rest. Moreover he and his people were exhorted by brother Eliot and myself to go on and sanctify the Sabbath, to hear the Word, and use the means that God hath appointed, and encourage their hearts in the Lord their God. Since that time I hear this sachem doth persevere, and is a constant and diligent hearer of Gods Word, and sanctifieth the Sabbath, though he doth travel to Wamesit meeting every Sabbath, which is above two miles; and though sundry of his people have deserted him, since he subjected to the Gospel, yet he continues and persists.
One of Gods Ends.
[From An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians.]
Doubtless one great end God aimed at was the punishment and destruction of many of the wicked heathen, whose iniquities were now full; the last period whereof was their malignant opposition to the offers of the Gospel, for the Pakanahats and the Narragansetts, those two great nations upon whom the dint of war hath most especially fallen, (for they are almost totally destroyed), had once and again the Gospel offered to them. But their chief Sachems malignantly rejected and opposed it, and consequently the people followed their examples. And notwithstanding they were very conversant among the English, especially the Narragansetts, and commendable for their industry and labor among the English, yet had the most of them no hearing ears unto the glad tidings of salvation offered in the Gospel, and very few of them delighted in communion with the Christian Indians. And here I shall insert a matter of remark. After the war began with Philip, the English, having cause to be suspicious of the Narragansetts sent some soldiers to Mr. Smiths of Wickford, that lived near them, designing thereby to put upon them a necessity to declare themselves friends or enemies, and to push upon them the performances of former articles of agreement between the English and them, at which time, being in July, 1675, they complied to a treaty of continuing in peace and friendship with the English. But among other articles, the Narragansetts, by their agent Potuche, urged that the English should not send any among them to preach the Gospel or call upon them to pray to God. But, the English refusing to concede to such an article, it was withdrawn, and a peace concluded for that time. In this act they declared what their hearts were, viz. to reject Christ and his grace offered to them before. But the Lord Jesus, before the expiration of 18 months destroyed the body of the Narragansett nation, that would not have him to reign over them, particularly all their chief Sachems and this Potuche, a chief councillor and subtle fellow, who was taken at Rhode Island, coming voluntarily there, and afterward sent to Boston and there executed.
The Wiles of the Indians.
[From the Same.]
at first thought easily to chastise the insolent doings and murderous practices of the heathen. But it was found another manner of thing than was expected; for our men could see no enemy to shoot at, but yet felt their bullets out of the thick bushes where they lay in ambushments. The enemy also used this stratagem, to apparel themselves from the waist upwards with green boughs, that our Englishmen could not readily discern them, or distinguish them from the natural bushes; this manner of fighting our men had little experience of, and hence were under great disadvantages. The English wanted not courage or resolution, but could not discern or find an enemy to fight with, yet were galled by the enemy. The Council, having advice hereof from the commanders of the army, judged it very necessary to arm and send forth some of the Praying Indians to assist our forces, hereby not only to try their fidelity, but to deal the better with the enemy in their own ways and methods, according to the Indian manner of fighting, wherein our Indians were well skilled, and had our [their] counsel practiced, and also to be as scouts and forlorns to the English; for the Indians generally excel in a quick and strong sight for the discovery of any thing; and then they have a very accurate sagacity in discovering the tracks of man or beast. And also they are subtle and wily to accomplish their enterprise, especially they keep a deep silence in their marches and motions, whereas the English are more prone to talk to one another and make a noise, whereby the enemy, discovering them before they come near, either prepare for them, or take their flight, as is most for their advantage. And here I shall take leave, as a parenthesis, to insert a short and true story of an Indian chief, captain under Uncas, who marching in this war as scout with some English soldiers, of Connecticut, one of the English soldiers had on a new pair of shoes that made a creaking noise as they travelled. The Indian captain was not quiet until he had persuaded the fellow with creaking shoes to take his moccasins and wear them, and the Indian carried the Englishmans shoes at his back, and went himself barefoot. Another English soldier had on a pair of leather breeches, which being dry made a rustling noise; the Indian captain was not satisfied until he had persuaded the man to take off his breeches, or else to wet them in the water to prevent their rustling. By this relation, which is a truth, we may observe how circumspect and careful they are in order to obtain advantage of their enemy.
Defence of the Indians.
[From the Same.]
the Councils endeavors in the former orders, and the testimony of these English witnesses on behalf of the Christian Indians, yet the clamors and animosity among the common people increased daily, not only against those Indians, but also all such English as were judged to be charitable to them. And particularly, many harsh reflections and speeches were uttered against Major Daniel Gookin, and Mr. John Eliot, the former of whom had been appointed by the authority of the General Court of Massachusetts, and approbation of the Honorable Governor and Corporation for Gospelizing those Indians, to rule and govern those Indians about twenty years, and the latter had been their teacher and minister about thirty years, as if they did support and protect those Indians against the English; whereas (God knows) there was no ground for such an imputation, but was a device and contrivance of Satan and his instruments, to hinder and subvert the work of religion among the Indians; for neither had any of our Christian Indians been justly charged, either with unfaithfulness, or treachery towards the English, since the war begun (that I know of). But on the contrary, some of them had discovered the treachery, particularly Walcut the ruler of Philip, before he began any act of hostility, as is before mentioned, and since the war have served the English faithfully, but yet must be content to receive such retribution from too many, (at whose hands they have deserved other things,) but now both the Christian Indians, and all that favored them are enemies to the English, and ought to be proceeded against accordingly, if some men might have had their wills, so great was the rage and unreasonable prejudice of many at the time. It might rationally have been considered, that those two persons above named, who had (one of them for above twenty years, and the other about thirty years,) been acquainted with, and conversant among those Christian Indians, should have more knowledge and experience of them than others had, and consequently should be able to speak more particularly concerning such of those Indians whom they knew (according to a judgment of charity) to be honest and pious persons. And if at such a time, they should have been wholly silent and remiss in giving a modest testimony concerning them when called thereunto, God might justly have charged it upon them, as a sin and neglect of their duty, had they for fear declined to witness the truth for Christ, and for these his poor distressed servants, some of the Christian Indians. And in this day of Massah and Meribah, some that have the repute and I hope truly godly men, were so far gone with the temptation, that they accounted it a crime in any man to say that they hoped some of those Indians were pious persons, or that they had grounds of persuasion that such and such would be saved. This cruel frame of spirit (for I can give it no gentler denomination) arose I apprehend from a double ground, first, the malice of Satan against Christs work among those Indians and to hinder their progress in religion: for they finding Englishmen, professing the Christian religion, so enraged against them, and injurious to them without cause, as they well knew in their own consciences, whatever others thought or spake to the contrary, this was a sore temptation to such weak ones and little children as it were in the ways of Christianity, and hereby to incline them to apostasy, and if the devil by this stratagem could have prevailed, then the whole work of Christ among them, so spoken of, blessed and owned by the Lord, would have been utterly overthrown: this would have gratified Satan and his instruments greatly.
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23 March 2010
Mass. Records Closed to 1841?
Do you have Massachusetts ancestry? Barbara J. Mathews, CG, President of the Massachusetts Genealogical Council, alerts us to Massachusetts Senate Bill 820, which will close all vital records after 1841. Yes, that is not a typo: 1841.
S820 states that only the person named in a vital record or his parent, guardian, or attorney can look at a record or get a certified copy of a record. This law applies for records all the way back to 1841, that is, to all the birth and marriage records for the last 169 years.
The bill's text eliminates the current section that closes out-of-wedlock births and replaces the entire section with text that closes all births and marriages. Proposed by Patricia D. Jehlen of the Second Middlesex District, the last sentence states, "The provisions of this section shall not apply to such records, returns or notices recorded or filed prior to January first, eighteen hundred and forty-one or to such copies thereof." You can see the full text at http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st00/st00820.htm
We cannot ignore this bill. Please write to members of the House Ways and Means Committee right away to stop this bill from moving forward. Massachusetts is an open records state and has been so since 1641.
To access a list of the Massachusetts House Ways and Means members, go to http://www.mass.gov/legis/comm/h34.htm. From the committee listing, you can click on the name of any member and go to that member's personal page. Full contact information is on the member's page, including telephone, mail, and email. Put "Against Senate Bill 820" in the subject line of your email. Genealogists, protect your interests!


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National Fuel Gas (NFG) held a recent analyst meeting and disclosed additional information on the company's position in the Utica Shale in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The company is at an early stage of evaluation of the potential and can't yet determine the acreage exposure or resource potential of the Utica Shale.
National Fuel Gas drilled a vertical well in the Jewett area of McKean County, Pennsylvania in June 2011. The company found 400 feet of gross reservoir at a depth of 10,000 feet in the Utica, Point Pleasant and Trenton formations.
National Fuel Gas plans to spud a vertical well in the Henderson area in September 2011 and another horizontal well in the Tionesta area in 2012. The company believes that most of its acreage is located in the dry gas window of the play.
National Fuel Gas conducts its exploration and production operations as Seneca Resources Corporation.


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Two students named 2012 David J. Beck Fellows
Chelsea Barnard of Port Neches and Elisabeth Maxwell of Beaumont have been chosen as the 2012 recipients of Lamar University's most prestigious undergraduate award, the David J. Beck Fellowship.
This is the first time in the four-year history of the fellowship that two David J. Beck Fellows have been chosen in a single year and the first time that a student has been selected twice. Maxwell also is the 2011 David J. Beck Fellow.
LU President James Simmons announced the selection of Barnard and Maxwell in a ceremony Monday in the University Reception Center on the eighth floor of the Mary and John Gray Library, during which four finalists for the honor also were recognized.
Simmons presented Barnard and Maxwell with engraved medallions and certificates. Each student also will receive a full scholarship for one year – including tuition, fees, books and on-campus room and board – and funding to pursue a summer project proposed as part of her application packet.
Barnard, 20, a junior English major, plans to revisit the pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral in its contemporary setting to explore Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" as a living work while documenting her journey with a blog, video and book.
Maxwell, 21, a junior biology major, plans to complete a research project on two species of manta rays in Mozambique in conjunction with the Foundation for the Protection of Marine Mega-fauna. As the 2011 David J. Beck Fellow, she completed an internship with the South African Shark Conservancy this past summer to further her interest in marine biology and conservation. Monday's ceremony also included a presentation by Maxwell about her 2011 summer project.
"The summer project proposals by both were innovative and creative, and the committee believed the projects would greatly add to each fellow's undergraduate educational experience," said Kevin Smith, senior associate provost and selection committee chair. "Both projects complement the students' academic interests very well and will prepare them for their careers and for further education."
Barnard said she was "beyond ecstatic" when notified that she was chosen as a Beck Fellow. Through the Lamar University Honors Program, she learned about the fellowship early in her college career, but initially did not think it was attainable for her.
"At Lamar, my professors have pushed me to do different things, and I've become a lot more confident in myself," Barnard said. "This opportunity is wonderful. It allows people to go somewhere they normally wouldn't be able to go financially, especially in college, and create a research project that relates particularly to them."
She credits her English professors at Lamar with nurturing her love of British literature and expects her summer project to help her toward her goal of becoming a professor of British literature at the college level. Her mentor for the project is Steve Zani, associate professor and chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages.
Along with the Honors Program, Barnard is involved on campus as executive vice president of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, as service chair of Circle K service organization and as a twirler in the marching band. She works on campus as community assistant for the Texas Academy of Leadership in the Humanities and in the Department of English and Modern Languages.
Maxwell said she was excited to learn that two fellowships would be awarded this year and would not have reapplied otherwise. She tried to choose a research project that would require more than she would have been able to achieve this year and would utilize the knowledge she gained through her internship at the South African Shark Conservancy.
"This is only possible because of my experience this past year. I wanted to make sure I was building on what I've already accomplished. I wanted to keep the momentum I've built over this past year and see just how much I can achieve," Maxwell said.
She plans to conduct genetic analysis and testing on the two species of manta rays to determine their population structure. To prepare for her research, she will work in the lab of her project mentor, Ana Christensen, associate professor of biology, this spring.
Maxwell is involved on campus as president of Rotaract service club, as historian of the Honors Student Association and as a Lamar Ambassador. She works as a student biologist at Grayburg Fish Farm and on campus in the JoAnne Gay Dishman Department of Nursing.
A unique undergraduate fellowship program, the David J. Beck Fellowship was made possible by a generous gift to the Lamar University Foundation from David J. Beck, a 1961 LU graduate and founding partner of Beck, Redden & Secrest, LLP, a boutique litigation firm in Houston. A distinguished alumnus, Beck created the fellowship to reward academic excellence and to allow top students to further challenge themselves.
The David J. Beck Fellowship is open to full-time undergraduates of any major with a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher and may be repeated upon successful reapplication. Based on application packets, the Beck Fellowship committee selected six students for finalist interviews and recommended Barnard and Maxwell to receive the fellowship.
Four finalists were honored at Monday's ceremony with certificates and cash awards of $750.
Anastasia Cotton, a nursing major from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, proposed traveling to South Africa for a global health study program and to Nepal for a clinical internship at a hospital through the Institute of Field Research and Expedition Volunteers Abroad. She was also a finalist for the 2011 fellowship.
John Knapp, a music major from Baytown, proposed building a violin.
Ashanti Mayes, a Spanish/pre-pharmacy major from Beaumont, proposed volunteering in a pharmacy in Cusco, Peru, for two months through Experimental Learning Abroad Experiences. She was also a finalist for the 2011 fellowship.
Gwendolyn Mumford, a studio art major from Vidor, proposed working at an orphanage in either Kenya or Nepal through Outreach International to assist children with school lessons and creative arts activities.
For more information on the David J. Beck Fellowship, visit lamar.edu/beckfellowships or call (409) 880-8400.


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Barack Obama Elected President
Democrat Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the United States of America on Tuesday night.
The 47-year-old senator from Illinois defeated Republican Sen. John McCain. Officials said voters came out in record numbers on Election Day — 130 to 140 million people.
The crowd is going wild in Grant Park in Chicago, where Obama will give his first public speech as president-elect.
Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President on January 20, 2009.


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