This may be a little last minute but your Mother's Day brunch menu needs these scones on it! They are unbelievably delicious! They are inspired by the Petite Vanilla Bean Scones at Starbucks. I bought one there last week and while it was good these are so much better! They are soft and moist and the vanilla flavor in them is so refreshing.
I thought these sweet, mellow scones paired perfectly with a vibrant, tart cup of Hibiscus tea. That's only how I ate the first one then after that I was just snarfing them down all day, so elegant and ladylike right :)?
These scones are brimming with vanilla bean seeds, as in so many my mom told me she thought they were poppy seeds from the photos. I was happy to see how much my mom loved them! She hasn't been eating many sweets as of late because she's on a low sugar diet (just out of choice not health reasons), but I just kept watching her reach for one after another as we were sitting there talking. It's definitely easy to lose track of how many of these you've eaten. They are a little smaller than the traditional scone (not quite as tiny as Starbucks) so that helped me feel a little better about it when I began to lose count. Try them soon, you'll love them too!
These sweet tender scones are even better than Starbucks! They're perfect for a weekend breakfast or a party such as a wedding shower.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone liner, set aside.
In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt for 20 seconds, set aside. In a mixing bowl or 2-cup liquid measuring cup, whisk together 2/3 cup heavy cream, egg, vanilla bean seeds and vanilla extract until well combined, chill in refrigerator until ready to use.
Add butter to flour mixture and cut into flour using a pastry cutter or fork until it resembles coarse meal. Add cream mixture to flour mixture and stir using a rubber spatula until it starts to come together, then knead mixture (just in the bowl by hand) several times until it has come together well (it will be slightly sticky to work with but will give you moist scones in the end. Also be careful not to overwork the dough so you get tender scones).
Pour mixture onto a floured surface and gently shape and pat into a 7 by 7-inch square. Cut into 9 equal squares, dusting knife with flour as needed to prevent sticking, then cut each square in half on a diagonal to create two triangles (see photo above). Transfer to prepared baking sheet spacing scones evenly apart, and brush tops lightly with remaining 1 Tbsp cream. Bake in preheated oven 12 - 14 minutes until set. Cool on a wire rack then spoon vanilla glaze over tops and spread to edges. Allow glaze to set at room temperature. Store in an airtight container.
Whisk together all glaze ingredients in a mixing bowl well, add more powdered sugar to thicken if needed.


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Sexton Lumber is very focused on production. Its annual lumber production currently stands at 85 to 90 million board feet, with the goal to produce 100 million board feet.
EMPLOYEES and EQUIPMENT: Key ingredients to a successful mill
Sexton Lumber owners Kevin and Susan Sexton have a successful business approach, making solid investments in equipment—but they also know their employees are key to the company's success, and recently acknowledged that with special cash bonuses.
By George Fullerton
Kevin Sexton grew up in the lumber business, working in his father George's sawmill in Bloomfield, Newfoundland. The Sexton mill sawed purchased logs as well as cants from smaller mills, and marketed lumber throughout Newfoundland and Labrador (NL).
Kevin and his wife Susan established their own wood processing business in Bloomfield, debarking and chipping pulpwood, and trucking the chips to the Abitibi newsprint mill at Grand Falls, and Corner Brook Pulp and Paper (Kruger).
When George announced his retirement in 1996, Kevin and Susan made the decision to take over the sawmill business and went looking for a more modern mill which would provide higher production and complement their pulp chip business.
"I'm good at finding used equipment and making it work," says Kevin. "We found a Kockums Cancar chipping saw in Montana, and brought it home and set it up.
"It was a struggle," he added. "It was designed for big logs and we only have small logs, so it was not really very productive."
The balsam fir and spruce they work with typically generate two eight- or nine-foot stud logs and an eight-foot pulpwood bolt.
Kevin and Susan Sexton first established a wood processing business in Bloomfield, Newfoundland, debarking and chipping pulpwood, and trucking the chips. When Kevin's Dad, George, retired, Kevin and Susan made the decision to take over the family sawmill business—and haven't looked back since.
"I was looking around for equipment which would process our small logs efficiently, and I kept looking over the HewSaw, but it was out of our budget. But eventually we were convinced that was the direction we had to go if we were going to stay in the sawmilling business," explained Kevin. "It was a real stretch for us, to invest in a million-dollar mill when you are walking around with just twenty bucks in your pocket, but we made an investment in the HewSaw in 2000, and built infeed and downstream with used equipment."
Regarding his propensity to gather up used milling equipment, Kevin made note that the current mill continues to operate with salvaged step feeders he bought for $1,200 each. Kevin shared that they have had great performance with the first HewSaw, and have since added two more HewSaws (2012 and 2019) to their operation.
"We are focused on production, and you have to have the best and most up-to-date technology in order to stay competitive," stated Kevin.
Sexton Lumber's annual production currently stands at 85 to 90 million board feet, with the goal to produce 100 million board feet.
"As we brought the third HewSaw on line, we developed bottlenecks downstream in the mill. We are working to smooth out those bottlenecks and work toward that 100-million board feet goal."
Currently, about half of Sexton production is marketed throughout Atlantic Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI), and the other half is marketed in the United States. Lumber shipped off Newfoundland and Labrador goes half by road transport (mainly backhauls to the Mainland) and the balance through Oceanex marine service.
In the yard, eight- and nine-foot logs are loaded to infeed decks by two Cat 325 and two Liebherr LH50 wheeled log loaders. Logs feed to three 18-inch VK debarkers, and are scanned with Prologic and VAB technology and sorted to bins according to size.
Kevin pointed out that they saw batches of similar sized logs, so the HewSaws do not have to reset a lot between logs, compared to simply sawing mill run logs.
Logs are positioned for sawing with a PHL positioner on the first HewSaw, with a HewSaw positioner on the second, and a Sawquip positioner on the third.
The VAB optimizer identifies lumber with excessive wane and it flows to a Newnes edger, and then feeds into the stream to a Carbotech positioner and Carbotech trim saw.
In the yard, eight- and nine-foot logs are loaded to infeed decks by Liebherr equipment. Logs feed to three 18-inch VK debarkers, and are scanned with Prologic and VAB technology and sorted to bins according to size.
Trimmed lumber is sorted with a 42-bin Carbotech system and then stacked with a Carbotech stacker.
Lumber drying is handled by three Wellons kilns; two 130,000 board feet and one 80,000 board feet, for a total 340,000 board feet capacity. Drying energy is generated by a Wellons boiler burning sawdust and planer shavings. Sexton had recently upgraded their older kilns with new coils and fans which improve production, and provided a 15 per cent gain in efficiency.
The spruce drying cycle currently stands at 28 to 30 hours, while the balsam fir cycle is 45 to 50 hours. Previously, dry cycles were 48 hours for spruce and 72 hours for fir.
Lumber dressing is handled by Stetson-Ross planer technology, with integrated tension controls by Wolftec, which provides a high degree of productivity. Daily production is around 400,000 board feet (50,000 board feet/hour).
The planer infeed has a VAB wane-up system. The trim saw is a TS Manufacturing system. The eighteen-bin sort system and stacker are Carbotech. Wheel loaders handling lumber in the yard include two Cat 930 machines, a 180 Hitachi and two Liebherr 550 units.
Currently, about half of Sexton production is marketed throughout Atlantic Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI), and the other half is marketed in the United States.
Lumber shipped off Newfoundland and Labrador goes half by road transport (mainly backhauls to the Mainland) and the balance through Oceanex marine service. Oceanex delivers to the ports of Halifax and Montreal, where lumber is reloaded on rail service for delivery to U.S. destinations.
Lumber is brokered through Brunswick Valley Lumber, based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. "They are a great outfit to work with—they have found markets we could not have hoped to turn up by ourselves," explained Kevin. "They also have a great logistics team which handles lumber transport."
In 2009, the AbitibiBowater pulp and paper mill at Grand Falls closed and the company's wood supply area was re-allocated to sawmills which had previously purchased logs through Abitibi. As a result, Sexton Lumber became responsible for harvesting their wood supply and became loggers.
As with equipping their sawmill, the Sexton's assessed harvesting technologies, and leaned favorably to the Tigercat line. As with HewSaw, they thought Tigercat had the best technology and best support, but financially was out of their reach.
Kevin took a close look at the Tigercat 1075 forwarder at the 2014 Atlantic Heavy Equipment Show, and later made the deal with equipment dealer, Wajax, and took delivery later that same summer. Since then, the harvest team has grown to include three Tigercat 845 bunchers and five Tigercat processors, which work along with two Volvo and two Cat processors.
The first 1075 forwarder was matched with a second 1075 and a 1085, along with a twenty-tonne Rottne, to complete the forwarding team. The harvesting crew work ten-hour single-shifts, five days per week.
A Cat 320 log loader loads some 20 owner operators, who deliver to the mill hauling B-train or quad trailers. The log haul, from the mill to woods and back, is about nine hours.
Susan Sexton serves as Sexton Lumber's chief scaler, as well as managing both the log trucking and lumber trucking operations. Sexton operates 20 highway tractors of their own, divided to chip and hog fuel, and lumber delivery.
Sexton Lumber had great performance with their first HewSaw, and have since added two more HewSaws (2012 and 2019) to their operation. Above, one of the three HewSaws with Sawquip positioner.
Sexton Lumber handles their own wood road construction and the team includes Cat and Liebherr excavators, a 40-tonne Cat rock truck, a John Deere 850 dozer, and a Cat grader.
Logging supervisor Gary Freak is supported by Resource Innovations Inc., based in Corner Brook, which handles block layout and liaison with provincial government forestry officials.
One of the most recent production projects in the Sexton mill has been the installation of a Doucet finger jointing line.
"Our logs are short to start with, so after they get processed through the mill, we end up with a lot of shorts, so finger jointing allows us to utilize those shorts and make long lumber, up to thirty-two feet long," explains Kevin. "To date we have sold some twenty-four foot lumber to an open concept design project. All our finger joint product is marketed in NL.
"We have had great support from the Maritime Lumber Bureau to help us certify our finger jointed lumber," added Kevin. "However, we faced another challenge which was to convince our customers that our finger joint product met a high quality standard and was equal or better than a regular piece of sawn lumber."
Currently, finger joint lumber production is 8 to 9 million board feet annually. Another marketing initiative is pressure treated lumber.
"We ship lumber throughout NL and we saw a demand for pressure treated, so we built a plant and now we can add pressure treated lumber to the load and serve that customer demand."
Yet another marketing initiative involved building a drying system for hog fuel.
"We were selling wet bark to Kruger, but it was not a very profitable operation," says Kevin. "We were looking for an opportunity to get better value out of the hog fuel and Kruger indicated that dry hog fuel could command a better price. We built a drying system consisting of a hog and hammer mills and a three-pass dryer."
The hog fuel plant has generated a good deal of excitement for Sexton Lumber, but the business has also seen challenges.
Back in 2015, a spark detector alarm on the conveyor system in the dry storage building alerted operators of a fire, and that was immediately followed by a dust explosion which lifted the roof off the storage building.
"Thankfully there were no injuries, but it was a windy day and we had embers dropping all over the mill site. Thanks again to our local volunteer fire department, the fire was extinguished, with damage limited mainly to the conveyor system and the storage building," said Kevin.
Susan and Kevin are quick to praise their employees for their successes and in particular point out some of their senior managers.
"Neil Greening has been with us something like 20 years. We like to call him the Minister of Finance. He has learned the lumber business intimately, both on the production side in the mill and on the marketing side. Neil provides daily and weekly production reports, so we know exactly what is working well and what needs attention. We make no investment or purchase decision without the blessing of our Minister of Finance," declared Kevin.
Kevin also pointed out general manager Mike Butt as a key part of the management team. Some 25 years ago Mike retired as Captain of a Fisheries research vessel to work at Sexton Lumber.
"Both Mike and Neil bring their perspectives to our management meetings and we discuss issues thoroughly, and together we make the right decisions for the business," said Kevin.
The Sexton team is on the receiving end of praise from their suppliers. "Newfoundlanders have had to develop the ability to 'make things happen' to create success," says Neill Gibson, of VAB.
"The team at Sexton Lumber are a perfect example of this can-do attitude and this philosophy definitely starts at the top. Kevin and Susan have found extraordinary individuals like Mike Butt and his right hand man in terms of the optimization and electronic integration of equipment, Danny Champion, to really make the primary and secondary transformation of logs to lumber hum."
Gibson says VAB can't wait to help celebrate the first year the mill produces over 100 million board feet of product, and also establish the next target volume for the future.
Kevin maintains that adopting new technologies is absolutely critical for remaining competitive in the lumber business. He also recognizes that their 120 employees, and the contractors working for the company are also critical to the success of Sexton Lumber.
Lots of companies voice their appreciation for their employees' contribution and commitment to their employer. In June 2021, the Sexton's literally put their money where their mouth was, and shared some $2 million in bonuses with their employees, amounting to $10,000 for each employee. Literally, they decided to "walk the talk".
"The lumber business turned out to be really good in 2021, despite our concerns that the COVID might have shut us down," says Kevin. "We made the best profits we've seen in many years, and we decided it was time to share that good fortune with our employees. I left the details up to Susan and Neil, and they organized the employees to come by the office for a special announcement after their shift."
Susan added: "There was quite a bit of tension with some employees, because their experience was that a special announcement from an employer was not always good news. But when they opened their letters and saw the cheques, the tension switched to a happy surprise."
"That bonus meant a lot to our employees. For some it meant the ability to complete some home renovations. For others, it was an opportunity to visit family living away, and for some it was the ability to purchase a quad or some other toy they would otherwise not be able to afford," explained Kevin. "We did not intend for the bonus to be publicized, but word got out and then the media got hold of it and we had them calling for details.
"It felt good to share our success with our employees," says Kevin.
On the Cover:
Logging company Tri Valley Construction Ltd., of Princeton, B.C., did not hesitate when they were approached by Cat and B.C. Cat dealer, Finning, about participating in a trial of the new Cat 538 machine—and the new machine has proven itself in B.C.'s Southern Interior. Tri Valley is also getting involved in more steep slope logging, with the purchase of Tractionline and Harvestline equipment from The Inland Group. (Cover photo courtesy of Tri Valley Construction).
Major industry expansions in Saskatchewan
Big things are happening in the forest industry in Saskatchewan, with a new timber allocation from the Saskatchewan government supporting growth of the industry, including a $100 million expansion of Dunkley Lumber's Carrot River sawmill.
Moving into steep slope equipment
Tri Valley Construction has been working with some new logging equipment, having solid success with Cat's new 538 machine, and the company is now springboarding into getting involved with steep slope logging equipment in B.C.'s Southern Interior.
Franklin Forest dives into different markets
Franklin Forest Products turns out a variety of wood products—everything from wood for logging road bridges to diving boards—from its spectacular location on Vancouver Island's Alberni Inlet, using an interesting combination of mill equipment.
Livestock—and logging
Livestock still makes up a good portion of the business for B.C.'s Ootsa Lake Cattle Company, but it has also been doing more logging the last few years, including an interesting project for a community forest.
Turning out more lumber on The Rock
Newfoundland's largest sawmill, Sexton Lumber, has seen some big increases in demand for lumber, and has incorporated a number of equipment changes to improve efficiencies.
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Included in this edition of The Edge, Canada's leading publication on research in the forest industry, are stories from the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre (CWFC) and FPInnovations.
Tech Update:
From power upgrades to safety improvements, read all about what's new in mulcher systems in this issue's
The partnership of Alberta sawmill Vanderwell Contractors—which will be supplying the raw material for a $35 million biofuel and hydrogen commercial demonstration project partnership—with a biofuel producer deserves praise, says Tony Kryzanowski.
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Hillary Clinton's Black Lives Matter Meeting Talked Police Militarization, LGBT Rights, And Racism
Patrick Frye
Hillary Clinton's Black Lives Meeting has concluded and thus far we have been hearing bits and pieces of what was discussed. The group apparently talked about a variety of topics with the Democratic 2016 presidential candidate, including police militarization, black and LGBT rights, plus institutionalized racism.
In a related report by the Inquisitr, Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has called the Black Lives Matter movement a collection of "misfits," and claims the groups should be protesting joblessness and failing schools, not the police.
In the past, relations between the Black Lives Matter movement and Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have been strained. Members of the group have been seen targeting progressives who may otherwise be sympathetic to their cause. In fact, Donald Trump has even mocked Sanders over an incident in which Black Lives Matter activists commandeered Sanders' microphone and essentially shut down his event.
Based upon a transcription provided by NPR, Hillary Clinton's Black Lives Matter meeting went fairly well. Clinton met with a number of Black Lives Matter members, including DeRay Mckesson, Brittany Packnett, Johnetta Elzie and Samuel Sinyangwe. Mckesson says the meeting started with an informal discussion on Twitter, but the Clinton campaign was able to work in 90 minutes for them to discuss the major issues.
We just finished the meeting w/ @HillaryClinton re: #CampaignZero, race, & criminal justice. pic.twitter.com/22ma5p4kJF
— deray mckesson (@deray) October 9, 2015
"We talked about a range of issues spanning from private prisons to mental health services for young kids to the role of the federal government ensuring equity in local and state governments in a community," explained Mckesson. "So it was a tough conversation, candid conversation. I'm hopeful that it will lead to an informed platform that she eventually rolls out."
The biggest difference of opinion was the role of police within local communities. In recent times, the Department of Homeland Security has been providing military grade gear to police units, and it is even possible for cops to buy a MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protection) vehicle designed for war in Afghanistan and Iraq. While the Black Lives Matter movement wants the power of the police reduced, it is claimed that Clinton has said "police presence was necessary." At the same time, all in attendance reportedly agreed that ending police militarization should be a major platform.
Meckesson has already been involved in the creation of what they are calling Platform Zero. According to the Huffington Post, the basic concept is that the United States must "reform existing structural issues with policing and put in place new systems that will end police violence against black Americans." Platform Zero also calls for mandatory police body cameras, racial bias training for police officers, and the creation of a special federal prosecutor whose job it is to investigate all cases where a civilian is seriously injured or killed by police.
"In this moment, everything is on the table, right? There are no more sacred institutions," Mckesson said last month. "What we know to be true is that there are structures and systems that were intentionally put in place that were harming people, and the protest community is willing to question all of them."
While it seems uncertain if Hillary Clinton's Black Lives Matter meeting ended with her fully supporting all the measures proposed by Platform Zero, it did seem Clinton found other issues where they were in full agreement.
That moment when you hear @HillaryClinton say that the violence against trans women of color is a national crisis. pic.twitter.com/OwrcgXOSFc
— CHERNO BIKO (@ChernoBiko) October 9, 2015
Another major issue was ending private prisons funded by the federal government. Although specifics were not released, Clinton also discussed racism in relation to her meeting with the Black Lives Matter leaders.
Racism is America's original sin. To those I met with today, thank you for sharing your ideas. -H https://t.co/ICqYepExxB
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 9, 2015
What do you think about Hillary Clinton's Black Lives Matter meeting? What issues do you consider most important in the upcoming election?
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Q: How to print Hive query after substitutions (to debug it)? In order to avoid duplication or parameterize a query we can compose a query from many parts via substitution. However we might want to see the resulting query and check if it is correct. How to do it?
Consider a very minimal query:
hive> set hivevar:foo=bar;
hive> select "${foo}";

UPDATE:
Although hive -v prints the query to be executed the substitutions are not resolved:
It echoes the query but unfortunately without substitutions resolved:
$ hive -v
hive> set hivevar:foo=bar;
set hivevar:foo=bar
hive> set hivevar:query=select "${foo}";
set hivevar:query=select "${foo}"
hive> select "${foo}";
select "${foo}"
OK
bar
Time taken: 2.062 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s)

Moreover I'd like a solution that works primarily in beeline, since hive CLI is deprecated.

A: Since variable substitution in Hive is based on plain strings we can:

*

*store a query in another variable:
hive> set hivevar:foo=bar;
hive> set hivevar:query=select "${foo}";

*then print it (note that all substitutions are resolved):
hive> set query;
query=select "bar"

*and execute it:
hive> ${query};
OK
bar
Time taken: 0.131 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s)

A: I encountered the same frustration when I had my sql in a file, and was running it with
hive -f

This didn't completely solve my problem, but adding
set;

before my query, allowed me to see how the ${hiveconf:variable} was being resolved.

A: You could launch the hive command line with hive -v and it will echo back the SQL it is about to execute.

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Hi, sorry for the delay: I took a few days off.
I tested with the build named r1675003 that was available today (April 20).
The problem is indeed fixed.
>> command-line option "-X -remoteexit" doesn't work anymore.
>> like it used to in previous releases.
>> Has anybody else encountered this ?
>> Is this the right forum to report bugs ?


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July 18, 2018 (Source) — Ur-Energy Inc. (NYSE American: URG; TSX: URE) ("Ur-Energy") and Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE American: UUUU; TSX: EFR) ("Energy Fuels") are pleased to announce that on July 18, 2018, the U.S. Department of Commerce ("DOC") initiated an investigation into the effects of uranium imports on U.S. national security. This investigation was requested by Ur-Energy and Energy Fuels in their Petition for Relief Under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (the "Petition"), which was filed jointly by the companies on January 16, 2018.
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Under ACCA's global public value remit the organisation is committed to building the profession in parts of the world with no tradition of accounting practice. As part of this agenda ACCA is working with Afghanistan and has recently met with employers, learning providers and policymakers to discuss progress. The meeting, which was held in Dubai and coordinated by ACCA and the Afghanistan Ministry of Finance (MoF), builds on an MOU signed between them in February 2015.
The discussions supported the development of concrete action plans through which ACCA, the Afghanistan MoF, and their partners in Afghanistan – including learning providers, the government and employers – work collaboratively to increase the capacity of the national profession.
Dr Afra Sajjad, head of education - emerging markets, ACCA, said: 'This is about ensuring the delivery of ACCA qualifications in Afghanistan in a sustainable way that meets local needs and ensures a pipeline of qualified accountants. Our experience of supporting tuition providers to deliver quality tuition and implementing a holistic range of support for students, tutors and employers will be key to establishing a pipeline of qualified professionals in the face of the unique challenges in Afghanistan.


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A forgotten Canadian returns home from the war on terror
Matthew Behrens
Canadian Khalid Awan paid one of the heaviest imaginable prices for the system of racial profiling, mass arrests and indefinite detentions that targeted racialized communities after 9/11.
Mohamed Harkat should never be deported to torture
Monia Mazigh
It's been 16 years since Mohamed Harkat was arrested on a secret hearing security certificate. Today he is still threatened with deportation to his native Algeria.
Trudeau torture controls approach Orwellian stature
Ralph Goodale's series of new memos defy the absolute prohibition on torture. This is immoral and foolish, given how Canadian citizens have been treated and the deserved payouts they have received
RCMP labels anti-torture caravan a 'Criminal Act by Terrorists'
What follows is a cautionary tale that, despite all the assurances by the RCMP that they would never consider protests to be terrorism under C-51, this remains standard operating procedure.
Bill C-51 is criminalizing radical youth in return for the illusion of security
Kevin Metcalf
Students have both the most to lose from Bill C-51 -- and the greatest role to play in defeating it.
Six reasons why you should participate in the national security consultation about Bill C-51
The government is listening to Canadians. This time, that's a good thing. We need you to tell the government exactly what you think needs to be changed with this law to protect your rights.
B.C. Court finds RCMP organized terrorist plot
At the end of July, the Supreme Court of British Columbia found that agents of the RCMP engaged in the planning of, preparation and funding for, and facilitation of a terrorist offence.
One year after initiating Charter challenge, CJFE renews campaign to review and repeal sections of Bill C-51
On the anniversary of filing a Charter challenge to Bill C-51, CJFE is encouraging Canadians to make their voices heard on this issue through a new parliamentary e-petition.
Redress is overdue for targets of Canada's no-fly list
It has now been five months since we started hearing about Canadian kids affected by the Canadian version of the no-fly list and unfortunately, the situation hasn't improved much since.
After years of injustice, Canada should bring Hassan Diab home
This week, a French judge ordered the release of Hassan Diab from jail while an investigation into his case continues. Canada should follow suit and give Diab due process.


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Gleuel är en stadsdel till Hürth i Rhein-Erft-Kreis i Nordrhein-Westfalen, Tyskland. Den 31 oktober 2008 bodde det 6389 personer i Gleuel. Stadsdelen ligger vid motorvägen A1.

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This extraordinary one of a kind Alexandrite and Diamond Pendant features an extremely rare 41.76ct pear shaped cabochon Alexandrite set in platinum. It is accented with a 0.24ct faceted Alexandrite and a 1.93ct vibrant Cat's Eye Chrysoberyl in 22k yellow gold. The centerpiece is surrounded by a custom accent of over 100 diamonds (1.28ct twt, SI1/GH) pave set in 14k rose gold and is finished with a drop pear shape diamond (1.25ct SI2/G) set in platinum. The pendant hangs permanently from our rose gold hand forged chain (link to chain on website) accented with diamonds.
Alexandrites are known for their color change characteristic – a natural phenomenon that occurs based on the light source. In natural daylight they show as a rich bluish-green and in incandescent light they change to a purplish red. Both of the Alexandrites in this pendant show strong color change. The Cat's Eye Chrysoberyl is the same mineral as Alexandrite (Chrysoberyl) but a different variety and is a deep yellow and shows an intense "eye" across the gemstone.
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by SGT David O Olsen to remember Nihsen, Dallas Lee, SP 5.
I was flying the helicopter in which Dallas died. Please contact me.
I will never forget the day you made your final flight, fearless, aggressive. And I will forever see your face as your eyes closed for the last time. I plan to see you once again one day, salute your bravery, and shake your hand for laying down your life for myself, Mike, Hai Doan and Mevan Le. We are forever grateful. I won't forget.
Dallas, I was born in 68 so I was not around for the Vietnam war, just learning about it by reading and watching. I find it overwhelming to think of all the lives of innocent young people cut short fighting for the USA. Your service to our country is greatly appreciated and I honor you today.
I wish I could of met you. My dad tells me stories about you all the time! Thank you for serving our Country. You'll be forever missed and never forgotten. I love you!
You were one of the brave that answered the call. You honored us by your service and sacrifice. We now honor You each time we stand and sing the words, THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE. Thank you for your bravery, courage and dedication to our Country and freedom. Rest In Peace and Honor.
UH-1 extracting overrun artillery base troops, all Vietnamese and 1 American. Dallas one of two gunners, strongly urged mission. Aircraft struck numerous times but flew in and out. Dallas died enroute to Kontum medical support, struck in back by small arms fire which had penetrated three walls of aircraft before stricking him. A true hero and man's man. Pilot was Maj. Jim Gibbs, Unit Commander. I was Co-pilot. Mission successful, no crash, one Vietnamese soldier killed/1 wounded but boarded and survived.
"And God said who shall we send. I answered I am here, send me."
Today our society is surrounded by terrorism and anxiety. American soldiers are fighting for our great country today as you did during the Vietnam War. You stepped up to become a hero of the United States and I want to thank you for that.
Dallas this poem is for you, I Still See The Tracers.
The air was alive with sound it embraced everything It was like being woven in a cocoon. Then there were the tracers and the only sound you didn't hear was your own gun. Every landing zone was the same only the tracers were different most rained down from above sometimes they fluttered up from the ground. But they were always there. Now the sound is slowly receding, but it is still rolling though time. And I still see the tracers, Orange and Red, Green strangely bouncing off trees, curling off the ground. I don't wonder anymore about the why's I just be. I still see the tracers and I still hear the sound, the Lord does work in the Soul of Being and the Heart of Love. He does lead an the following is oh so easy. LEST WE FORGET.


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Foreign convicts face separate jails
Some opposition parties in Parliament want to place foreigners convicted of crimes in prisons that are much more spartan than those housing Norwegians. They argue that there's not such a pressing need for rehabilitation, since the foreign convicts face deportation after serving their terms.
This relatively new prison at Halden caught international attention because of its spacious, individual cells for prisoners, flat-screen TVs, outdoor areas and a wide variety of rehabilitation programs. Critics don't want foreign convicts to get such treatment. PHOTO: Justisdepartementet
"We don't need to offer these (convicts) education or other help to prepare them for a life in Norway," Bent Høie of the Conservative Party (Høyre) told newspaper Aftenposten on Tuesday. "We don't need to use resources for rehabilitation of those who won't be released into Norwegian society, but rather will be sent out of the country."
The Conservatives have also proposed tougher prison terms for those convicted of terrorism and crimes against humanity, along with stricter terms for probation for those convicted of violent crimes.
Norway's most conservative party, the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp), has long complained that foreign convicts view prisons in Norway as so nice that there's not much element of punishment involved in them. Progress Party leader Siv Jensen told newspaper Dagbladet that corrections authorities must use much tougher measures against foreign prisoners.
"Today's prison conditions can seem like pure holiday accommodation for many of the foreign criminals," Jensen told Dagbladet. "We'll get a stronger preventative effect if we create a tougher regime." She proposes simply buying prison space in the convicts' homelands and shipping them out immediately after they're convicted.
With both the Conservatives and the Progress Party holding a majority of voter support in recent public opinion polls, their new agreement on tougher, more spartan prisons for foreign convicts may come about. A government run by them would offer food and shelter to foreign convicts, but not much more. They would differ sharply from, for example, a new prison in Halden that caught headlines internationally for offering all prisoners private cells with flat-screen TVs and a wide variety of activities and open space.
Høie of the Conservatives said their government would allow corrections' authorities to differentiate between Norwegian and foreign prisoners. Jan Bøhler, justice spokesman for the Labour Party, called the proposal "irresponsible."
"I think it's irresponsible for top politicians to propose something like this," Bøhler told Dagbladet. "Jensen offers a quite slanted version of reality that almost attracts foreign criminals who can think that's actually how it is."
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You are a worker at the pyramid. By digging the hole in the ground you have discovered an ancient map. Being very foolish and following the curious instincts in your blood, you tried to explore the map. Unfortunately you lost your way within labyrinth and have to find the way out of the maze going through the 50 chambers while nasty creatures are after you. Some of them are faster then you are while the others are just as fast as you.


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Interview with Magnus Stanke, author
Welcome Magnus! What made you want to write a novel?
I never thought I'd write a novel. Love songs and film criticism, yes, even screenplays, but a novel – never. There just wasn't enough time in the day, what with the teaching, the shiatsu, life in Spain, not to mention the reading, the travelling, the film-watching…
And then I started 'Falling in Death and Love' and everything changed. Now I can't stop, am already busy writing the next one and contemplating the one after that.
Still, it'd nice if the days were a bit longer. Just saying
Tell us WHO IS Magnus Stanke?
I am a German national but I live in Spain and I write in English. Much to my own surprise I have just completed and published my first novel – the reason I'm surprised is that I had stopped writing about ten years ago (at the time I was doing screen plays and film criticism), and to be honest I never thought I'd ever write a novel. Until I actually started last year (well, in 2014), and now I can't stop.
This book sounds great, tell us about it.
I'm currently working on the second book of my Retro-Thriller cycle. The first one, 'Falling in Death and Love' is set in 1977 on the Spanish island of Mallorca – I suppose it's comparable for Americans with Cancun in Mexico, except that the latter is not an island.
Anyway, Spain's long term dictator General Franco had just died a couple of years earlier and the country was in transition from dictatorship to democracy. Some old conservative powers were still at work and obviously none too impressed with these changes, this opening up to a new reality while the Spanish people were initially still afraid that the clock be turned backwards.
Mallorca was already a very popular holiday destination for Europeans and tried to present a different, modern picture of Spain to the tourists who brought their highly desirable hard currency to the country.
My story then has this as a backdrop, not exactly a free-for-all kinda place, but a disorienting time with much positive potential; however the protagonist can never be sure who to trust or where to turn for help – he is being chased by a combination of hitmen and the police.
The book I'm writing now is set in Germany in the Cold War. The story begins in the late seventies and ends in the early nineties and in a way it's the opposite to the first one. Here everything is grey and cold…
What style of writing do you adopt?
I try to keep it light and fast-moving from the first line. My favourite crime authors are all Americans, the hard-boiled school. While I wouldn't claim to be able to write like Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson or Elmore Leonard I'd say it's pretty obvious that they influenced, nay – informed my style (I'm glad I don't have to look anybody in the eye whilst making such self-aggrandising statements; I blush even as I think these words)
What do you find challenging about the writing life?
Time. The fact that I have at best two hours per day to spend writing after my bread-and-butter job.
If you could write from any place on earth, where would you choose to write from?
Somewhere (even) warmer than Spain; maybe Thailand or the Caribbean
When asked to set goals, what do you see( for yourself or current WIP) in five years with your writing?
In a utopia, in five years time I'd like to write full-time, live in a warmer place, have finished the Retro-Thriller trilogy and started on my Time Travel trilogy
What are you reading right now?
Gone for Good by Harlan Coben, Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith, El pez en el agua by Mario Vargas Llosa and John Gilbert, the last of the Silent Stars by Eve Golden
Varies by season, but generally I mention Haruki Murakami, Vargas Llosa and a lot of hard-boiled authors
Give a bit of advice for an aspiring author.
Well, you have to find your own writing rhythm, of course. What helps me is to start is a detailed outline of the story, chapter by chapter. And then keep at it – inspiration: 10%, perspiration: 90%
You can find Magnus Stanke and his book at these sites:
This is a US-friendly link to the book on Amazon: Falling in Death and Love
Magnus Stanke's Facebook page
Follow him on Twitter @MagnusStanke


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What lasted is what the soul ate.
you marveled that Brits taught their dogs to read.
only convenient after long suffering.
It's the price we pay, part of our birthright.
with a spoon and eat it with jelly.
blood 2.5 billon times in a normal life.
in the attic), or just sounds an old house makes.
Bill Brown is the author of nine poetry collections and a writing textbook. His newest books are Late Winter (Iris Press 2008), The News Inside (Iris Press 2010) and Elemental (3: A Taos Press 2014). The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts awarded him The Distinguished Teacher in the Arts. He has been a Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a two-time recipient of Fellowships in poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Brown has published hundreds of poems and articles in college journals, magazines and anthologies. The Tennessee Writers Alliance named Brown the 2011 Writer of the Year. He lives with his wife, Suzanne, and a tribe of cats in the hills north of Nashville.


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Q: How do you create new windows workspace with TFS command line client that is running on unix How would I work with the TFS command line client that is running on a aix/unix box to run the tf commands. For example I'm unable to create local windows workspaces that connect to the tfs version control folders that are on a windows server. The version of command line client that is running on the unix box is (/TFS/TEE-CLC-12.0.0). I can't find any documentation how the client can be used when running on unix to connect local windows files to the version control files on a server.

A: Getting source files down from the server requires three steps on any platform:

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*Create a workspace on your server.  A workspace is what contains the metadata about the files you want on the server and the files you have locally.
(Technically, you don't create a workspace on the server, you do it on a Team Project Collection which is a logical unit in the server; by default you have a single Team Project Collection on your server called - uncreatively - "DefaultCollection".)

*Create one or more working folder mappings that indicate the server's file paths you want to get, and where to put them on your local disk.  For an uncomplicated project, this is as simple as mapping $/Project/Folder to C:\Project\Folder or /project/folder.

*Do a get, to download the files from the server, placing them in the local folders you configured in step 2.
For example, I have a cross-platform project which happens to be Team Explorer Everywhere itself.  In this case my server is https://tee.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection.  My source is located on the server at $/TEE/Main.  And I want to place it on my AIX box is /build/tee/main.
Neither the server nor the server folder change because I'm not on Windows.  The only thing that changes is - unsurprisingly - the local path.  I'll walk through these steps on my AIX 5.2 box:

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*Create a workspace:
ethomson@aix:~% tf workspace -new MyWorkspace -collection:https://tee.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection
Workspace 'MyWorkspace' created.

*Create a working folder mapping from $/TEE/Main to /build/tee/main:
ethomson@aix:~% tf workfold -map '$/TEE/Main' /build/tee/main -collection:https://tee.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection -workspace:MyWorkspace

*Get the files.  (Now that you have configured a working folder mapping, you do not need to specify the server URL or the workspace name as long as you specify the local path.)
ethomson@aix:~% cd /build/tee/main
ethomson@aix:/build/tee/main% tf get -recursive .
/build/tee:
Getting main

/build/tee/main:
Getting build

/build/tee/main/build:
Getting .project
Getting .settings
...etc...


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PHL reports China…
PHL reports China ship breach of sea regulation
PHILIPPINE COST GUARD
By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza, Reporter
A PHILIPPINE government vessel on Sunday reported a recent close distance maneuvering incident involving a China Coast Guard (CCG) ship in Scarborough Shoal.
The Philippine Coast Guard said it was the fourth time within a 10-month period since May last year that CCG ships sailed too close to Philippine vessels, a "clear violation of the 1972 International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS)."
"The behavior of the involved CCG vessels increased the risk of collision with four of our capital ships," said PCG commandant, Artemio M. Abu in a statement on Sunday.
"Hence, we immediately coordinated with the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to address this issue through rules-based and peaceful approaches," he said.
The most recent incident was on March 2 where a "CCG vessel with bow number 3305 conducted a close distance maneuvering of approximately 21 yards towards BRP Malabrigo (MRRV-4402) while the said PCG vessel was sailing at the vicinity waters off" Scarborough Shoal, which the Philippines calls Bajo de Masinloc.
The first incident, which involved a vessel of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources manned by PCG personnel, was reported in May 2021.
The second and third incidents were reported by two PCG vessels during a maritime capability enhancement exercise on June 1 to 2 last year.
"We are fully aware of dangerous situations at sea, but these will not stop our deployment of assets and personnel in Bajo de Masinloc, Philippine Rise, and other parts of the country's exclusive economic zones (EEZ)," Mr. Abu said.
SEA DISPUTE, OTHER POLICIESPresident Rodrigo R. Duterte's handling of the country's territorial dispute with China topped the policies that Filipino voters want to change once a new president is elected after the May 9 elections, according to a survey conducted by a public opinion research firm last year.
WR Numero Research, citing its 2021 survey, said in a statement sent to BusinessWorld that 45.13% of Filipino voters want the new administration to "deviate from President Duterte's soft China approach in asserting the country's claims" over the West Philippine Sea.
Mr. Duterte has been accused of gambling Philippine territories to appease China, from which he got about P1.2 trillion in investment and loan pledges to boost big-ticket infrastructure projects. But critics said few of these have materialized.
The survey also revealed that Filipino voters want changes in how the government handled ABS-CBN Corp.'s franchise renewal as well as in the implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law, which was cited by 44.27% and 24.77% of the respondents, respectively.
It also showed that a portion or 12.49% of the electorate wants a change in how the government runs its campaign against the illegal drug trade, which has killed thousands of suspects.
Filipino voters also want a change in the "Build, Build, Build" (BBB) program (7.18%), as well as in granting the free tuition fee in state universities (4.93%), WRN said.
"While some respondents want change in the massive infrastructure program, the BBB also emerged as the top choice that voters want the new administration to continue," it said.
The research firm said around 66% of the respondents preferred the administration's infrastructure program, followed closely by the free higher education program (64.6%), and the drug war (60.83%).
It said only 16.55% preferred the TRAIN law, while 15.75% and 11.87% want the same handling of the South China Sea dispute and the same approach to ABS-CBN franchise, respectively.
WRN said it used several levels of statistical intervention in its digital surveys to arrive at accurate results.
"The firm conducted a digital survey of 1,200 unique respondents with a 95% confidence interval from a high-quality online panel that is representative of all classes."


What is a Front-End Load?
A front-end load is a commission or sales charge applied at the time of the initial purchase of an investment. The term most often applies to mutual fund investments, but may also apply to insurance policies or annuities. The front-end load is deducted from the initial deposit, or purchase funds and, as a result, lowers the amount of money actually going into the investment product.
Front-end loads are paid to financial intermediaries as compensation for finding and selling the investment which best matches the needs, goals, and risk tolerance of their clients. So, these are one-time charges, not part of the investment's ongoing operating expenses.
The opposite of a front-end load is a back-end load, which is paid by deducting it from profits or principal when the investor sells the investment. There are also other types of fund loading, including level loads, which charge an ongoing annual fee.
Front-end loads are assessed as a percentage of the total investment or premium paid into a mutual fund, annuity or life insurance contract. The percentage paid for the front-end load varies among investment companies but typically falls within a range of 3.75% to 5.75%. Lower front-end loads are found in bond mutual funds, annuities, and life insurance policies. Higher sales charges are assessed for equity-based mutual funds.
Mutual funds that carry front-end loads are called load funds. Whether an investor pays a front-end load depends on the type of shares in the fund that he owes. Class-A shares, also known as A-shares, typically carry a front-end load. Generally, the sales charge on a load mutual fund is waived if such a fund is included as an investment option in a retirement plan such as a 401(k).
A front-end load is a sales charge or commission that an investor pays "up front"—that is, upon purchase of the asset.
The percentage paid for the front-end load varies among investment companies but typically falls within a range of 3.75% to 5.75%.
While they leave less capital to invest, front-end-loaded funds have lower ongoing fees and expense ratios.
When mutual fund investments and annuities were first introduced to the market, investors were only able to access them through licensed brokers, investment advisors, or financial planners. The front-end load concept arose out of an effort to provide compensation for these go-betweens—and of course, to encourage them to put clients into a particular product.
Nowadays, individuals can often purchase products directly from the mutual fund company or insurance company. The lion's share of the contemporary front-end load goes to the investment company or insurance carrier that sponsors the product. The remaining portion is paid to the investment advisor or broker who facilitates the trade.
Some financial professionals argue that a front-end load is the cost investors incur for obtaining an investment intermediary's expertise in selecting appropriate funds. It could also be considered payment in advance for the expertise of a professional financial manager to oversee the client's money.
Investments that assess a front-end load do not charge an additional fee for redemption of shares previously purchased, although trading fees may apply. Similarly, the majority of front-end load investments do not charge investors an additional sales charge when shares are exchanged for a different investment, as long as the same fund family offers the new investment.
Investors may opt to pay up-front fees for several reasons. For instance, front-end loads eliminate the need to continually pay additional fees and commissions as time progresses, allowing the capital to grow unimpeded over the long-term. Mutual fund A-shares—the class that carries front-end loads—pay lower expense ratios than other shares pay. Expense ratios are the annual management and marketing fees.
Further, funds that don't carry up-front fees often charge an annual maintenance fee that increases along with the value of the client's money, meaning the investor may wind up paying more. In contrast, front-end loads are often discounted as the size of the investment grows.
On the downside, since front-end loads are taken out of your original investment, less of your money is going to work for you. Given the benefits of compounding, less money at the outset has an impact on the way your money grows. Over the long-term, it may not matter, but front-end-loaded funds are not optimal if you have a short investment horizon; you won't have a chance to recoup the sales charge through realizing earnings over time.
Also, given the plethora of no-load mutual funds available currently, some financial advisors argue that no one should be paying any sales charges—front, back or ongoing.
Many companies offer mutual funds with varying loads to meet the investing style of any investor. American Funds Growth Fund of America (AGTHX) is an example of a mutual fund that carries a front-end load.
To illustrate how the load works let's say an investor invests $10,000 in the AGTHX fund. They will pay a front-end load of 5.75%, or $575. The remaining $9,425 is used to purchase shares of the mutual fund at the current share net asset value (NAV) price.


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This is a basic commentary on the Greek text of Galatians, written for Schools and Colleges and should be of great assistance to those learning Greek. My thanks to Book Aid for providing a copy of this public domain work for digitisation.
Arthur Lukyn Williams [1853-1943], The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians with Introduction and Notes. Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. Hbk. pp.160. [Click here to visit the download page for this book]
The History of the Galatians and of the Province of Galatia
The Galatians of the Epistle: Who were they?
The Galatians of the Epistle: Who were they? (continued)
The Time of Writing
The danger to which the Galatians were exposed, and the manner in which St Paul met it
The permanent value of the Epistle
The Canonicity of the Epistle
A Plan of the Epistle
Commentaries, etc.
Chronology of part of St Paul's life
Note A: The term "Arabia" in the Epistle
Note B: ii. 1–10 in relation to Ac. xv. 4–29
Note C: Legal customs mentioned in the Epistle
Note D: Archbishop Temple on iii. 20
νόμος and ὁ νόμος
πνεῡμα and τό πνεῡμα
Scriptural
The same methods have been adopted in the preparation of the following Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians as in that of the volume on the Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon, viz. first, the independent use of concordance and grammar, and only afterwards the examination of commentaries and other aids.
The difficulties of the Epistle are not of the same kind as those of Colossians and Philemon. There (especially in Colossians) many strange words which in after years acquired highly technical meanings had to be considered; here rather historical circumstances and Jewish modes of thought.
The former of these unfortunately are still far from certain. Even the district intended by Galatia is doubtful, and the discussion of it is often conducted with more warmth than its importance warrants. Personally I greatly regret that I am unable to accept the very attractive theory presented with so much brilliancy of expression and originality of thought by Sir William Ramsay, viz. that the Churches of Galatia to w horn St Paul here writes are those whose origin is described at length in Acts xiii. and xiv. Its fundamental presupposition is that, as St Paul's plan of campaign was to win the Roman Empire for Christ by seizing strategic points, he would not have visited so outlying a part as Northern Galatia. Hence if the Acts and our Epistle, backed up though they are by the consensus of Patristic evidence, appear to say that he did do so, this can be only in appearance not in fact. But I confess that the more I study the arguments adduced against the prima facie meaning of the passages in question the less they impress me, and, in particular, all attempts to date the Epistle on what may be called the Southern theory appear to me to fail. I therefore find myself reluctantly compelled to adhere to the older opinion that the Epistle was written to the Churches of North Galatia, at a date between the writing of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians and the Epistle to the Romans.
Of more permanent interest is the revelation in this Epistle of St Paul's training in Jewish modes of thought and exegesis. These indeed may be traced in every book of the N.T. (though the words and phrases due to them are often grossly misunderstood by friend and foe), but here they obtrude themselves on the most careless of readers. No one but a Jew accustomed to Rabbinic subtlety would have thought of the argument of the curse (iii. 13, 14), or of the seed (iii. 16), or even of Sarah and Hagar (iv. 21- 27). These and other examples in our Epistle of the working of Paul's mind ought perhaps to have given more stimulus to the study of his mental equipment than has been the case.
Far more important however in our Epistle than either of these two rather academic subjects is its insistence upon the true character of the Gospel. St Paul opposed, with all the warmth of knowledge bought by experience, the supposition that Christ came only to reform Judaism, to open its door more widely to the Gentiles, or to attract them by the substitution of another Law of commands and ordinances for that to which they had been accustomed as heathen. It is the verdict of history that his efforts, though successful for the moment, have to a great extent been a failure….
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Adams, William Forbes
ADAMS, WILLIAM FORBES: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Easton (Md.); b. at Enniskillen (70 m. s.w. of Belfast), County Fermanagh, Ireland, Jan. 2, 1833. He came to America at the age of eight, was educated at the University of the South, and was admitted to the Mississippi bar in 1854, but subsequently studied theology, and was ordained deacon in 1859, and priest in the following year. He was rector of St. Paul's Church, Woodville, Mass., from 1860 to 1866, when he was called to the rectorate of St. Peter's, New Orléans, but went in the following year to St. Paul's in the same city, where he remained until 1875. In that year he was consecrated first missionary bishop of New Mexico and Arizona, but was compelled by illness to resign. He then accepted the rectorate of Holy Trinity Church, Vicksburg, Miss., where he remained from 1876 to 1887, when he was consecrated bishop of Easton.