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The Alaska AFL-CIO has endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), reports state federation President Vince Beltrami.
Alaska is the thirty-third state AFL-CIO to endorse HR 676. The endorsement resolution passed last month at the federation's annual Legislative Conference.


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No hostile information campaign in S'pore, but TikTok accounts flagged: MHA
TikTok conducted internal investigations which showed that the accounts did not appear to be of foreign origin. PHOTO: AFP
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SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has flagged to TikTok for review multiple accounts that appear to be inauthentic, even as it said it has not detected a coordinated hostile information campaign against Singapore to sway public opinion on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Responding to queries from The Straits Times, it said on Friday (March 25) it has noticed accounts that "repeatedly (voice) opinions to convey a misleading impression of widespread local opposition to the Government's position", referring to comments that have surfaced on TikTok condemning Singapore's sanctions against Russia.
It said these accounts usually lack personal information, use a TikTok-assigned username with a string of numbers, and have no followers yet follow a high number of accounts.
But a spokesman for the social networking platform told ST that it has reviewed all the flagged accounts but will not be acting against them as they do not violate its guidelines.
It had also told MHA that these accounts do not appear to be of foreign origin.
A spokesman for MHA told ST: "We have detected TikTok accounts involved in local online discussions about the Ukraine conflict, with characteristics that suggest that they may be inauthentic."
The spokesman further warned: "Foreign actors may want to influence local opinion in their favour, to garner general public support, or even to turn the public against positions taken by the Government, for their own vested interests."
The ministry's comments come after an article in ST last week reporting a surge in the number of such accounts making pro-Russia comments on the video-sharing platform.
"URA", a battle cry of the Russian Armed Forces that has become a rallying cry for Russia supporters globally, is a common refrain.
Others seemingly belittle the Singapore Armed Forces to give the impression that it is hopeless for Singapore to take an opposing position to a big nuclear power.
Many of the accounts also seem to be targeting a regional audience by using Malay.
Asked why the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act, which seeks to correct false statements of facts made online that could harm national interest, has yet to be used against these actors, MHA said the accounts they have detected are more likely to use a strategy of swarming online space with opinions.
"(They) galvanise others towards their opinion, and not necessarily by spreading false statements of fact per se," MHA said.
The ministry advised Singaporeans to check the authenticity and credibility of information they come across and exercise discretion when deciding whether or not to spread it further.
"We should generally rely on reputable, identifiable and institutional sources for our information, and cross-check information we get from elsewhere against such sources," MHA said.
S'poreans support Ukraine and back government sanctions on Russia: Poll
Debate rages online over S'pore's stance against Russia's invasion of Ukraine
According to an online poll conducted on March 9 and 10 by The Blackbox Research, the reality of public opinion is very different from the skewed impression of Russian support given by the mass of online commenters.
A vast majority of 95 per cent of the 1,711 Singaporeans interviewed supported or sympathised most closely with Ukraine in the conflict, while six in 10 agreed with the Republic's decision to impose sanctions on Moscow.
The nature of TikTok makes it difficult for casual users to determine whether or not the accounts are manned by real users, since people can begin posting using only an e-mail account.
But observers have noted that Russia and several other states have a history of using bots or hiring Internet trolls to flood social media accounts to distort public discourse.
TikTok is gripped by the violence and misinformation of Ukraine war
The pattern of online discourse over Russia's invasion of Ukraine has also been concerning enough to draw the attention of observers.
In a strongly worded post on Tuesday, retired Singapore diplomat Bilahari Kausikan referred to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's strong position against Russia's aggression and said those who believe that Singapore should keep its head down are very much mistaken.
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"It is very telling that Hun Sen, who is close to both Beijing and Moscow, understands very clearly what is at stake in Ukraine for all small countries everywhere, whereas too many Singaporeans - a minority I think but still useful idiots parroting arguments of foreign powers - still propagate the line that small countries should be quiet and not do what they can to protect and advance their interests just because they are small," he said.
"If our pioneer generation leaders had adopted such an attitude, Singapore as we are today would not exist."
Why Russia's invasion of Ukraine is an existential issue for Singapore
Russian envoy to Singapore criticises decision to impose sanctions over Ukraine

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There will be no practice on Friday, December 16th for 7th or 8th grade girls. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
JH girls practice for both 7th grade teams and 8th grade "B" team is canceled for Friday. Practice will end at 4 today, the 8th, due to the boys "D" league game.


A new variance reduction technique for the Monte Carlo solution of integral equations is introduced. It is based on separation of the main part. A neighboring equation with exactly known solution is constructed by the help of a deterministic Galerkin scheme. The variance of the method is analyzed, and an application to the radiosity equation of computer graphics, together with numerical test results is given.
The \(L_2\)-discrepancy is a quantitative measure of precision for multivariate quadrature rules. It can be computed explicitly. Previously known algorithms needed \(O(m^2\)) operations, where \(m\) is the number of nodes. In this paper we present algorithms which require \(O(m(log m)^d)\) operations.
The problem of full solution of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind with data from Sobolev spaces with dominating mixed derivative is studied. Existing estimates for the univariate case are extended to arbitrary dimension.
The local solution problem of multivariate Fredholm integral equations is studied. Recent research proved that for several function classes the complexity of this problem is closely related to the Gelfand numbers of some characterizing operators. The generalization of this approach to the situation of arbitrary Banach spaces is the subject of the present paper. Furthermore, an iterative algorithm is described which - under some additional conditions - realizes the optimal error rate. The way these general theorems work is demonstrated by applying them to integral equations in a Sobolev space of periodic functions with dominating mixed derivative of various order.


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Billy Stanley
Faith Of Elvis
Billy Stanley, Elvis Presley's stepbrother, shares the untold story of the iconic singer's Christian faith–its deep influence on his music, films, relationships, commitment to his family and fans, and his love for the Gospel.
When seven-year-old Billy Stanley and his two younger brothers moved to Graceland in 1960, Elvis eagerly welcomed them, embracing his new roles as big brother, spiritual mentor, protector, and playmate. On their first night together, Elvis introduced his brothers to bedtime prayers as he thanked God for his new siblings. Soon after, he began to read the Bible with them, and he continued both practices for the next seventeen years.
During Billy and his brothers' teenage years, Elvis shared his experiences of filming movies (including stories about the leading ladies who acted beside him), offered dating advice, and even doled out gentle discipline after two of the brothers once used a blue light to pull over cars in hopes of picking up women. Billy was particularly drawn to the times he bonded with his big brother through car racing, the wind on their faces as they sped through God's creation in Elvis' Ferrari, Pantera, or pink Cadillac.
Billy joined Elvis on tour for several years, helping as part of his road crew, bringing Elvis's Bible along, and witnessing his growing number of adoring fans. Elvis loved his fans in return, which is why he was drawn to Gospel music–it allowed him to share God's abundant love.
In The Faith of Elvis, Billy gives his first-hand accounts of Elvis's life and abiding belief in Jesus and heaven, which has been kept from public view until now. Though the King of Rock and Roll struggled with addiction and with his notorious playboy image, Billy reveals that the true Elvis was deeply committed to ensuring his family and his fans knew the true King, Jesus Christ


SHILLONG: Acting on a tip off, a special cell of the East Khasi Hills police along with the Special Operation Team (SOT) arrested an HNLC linkman along with other six overground workers of the outfit including a woman on Thursday night.
HNLC linkman Manbhalang Jyrwa alias 'Man', who is believed to be a close confidant of the outfit's publicity secretary Sainkupar Nongtraw was arrested from his residence at Nongrim Hills.
The six overground workers have been identified as Bakmenlang Kharpuri of Mawkhar Block VI, Goldy Khongwir, Lawanbiang Dohkrut, Stadpyrkhat Langstieh of Lum Shyiap, Golf Link, Phaiborlang Donshiew of Sngithiang, Mawprem and Jolene Hazel Khongwir of Wahingdoh.
The arrested persons have been remanded in ten-day police custody.
Informing his here on Friday, East Khasi Hills SP M Kharkrang revealed that the real name of the HNLC linkman is Sulfiyan Ali Hazarika.
"He (Hazarika) was responsible for editing and publishing articles and propaganda of the HNLC. Several Facebook pages depicting the resurgence of the outfit like 'We are back' which was updated after the firing incident at Lumdiengjri police station and also articles in which the HNLC claimed responsibility of the act were brought out by him," Kharkrang said while also informing that he was also tasked with the job of bringing out articles to indicate that the outfit was alive and aware of the daily events in Khasi and Jaintia Hills.
"All articles sent by Sainkupar Nongtraw are vetted and edited by him," Kharkrang said, while adding that Hazarika also acted as both adviser and link man for the HNLC by providing inputs on all activities in the State.
The SP also informed that in 2012, the outfit's top brass had tried to publish a souvenir but it never materialized.
Kharkrang informed that police have seized a laptop, three mobile phones, one dongle and two newspapers from the possession of the link man.
Following the arrest of the HNLC linkman, police carried out a late night operation and arrested six over ground workers who had provided shelter to members of the outfit who perpetrated the firing incident at Lumdiengjri PS and were directly involved in the attempt to hoist the HNLC flag at Student's Field, Jaiaw.
Folowing the arrests, HNLC publicity secretary Sainkupar Nongtraw in a Facebook update claimed that the outfit had launched an attack against police personnel at Trongpleng, Mawsynram on Friday evening.
Kharkrang, however, clarified that the incident had not occurred.


This popular textbook regards the Pentateuch as a literary whole, with a single theme that binds it together. The overarching theme is the partial fulfilment of the promises to the patriarchs. Though the method of the book is holistic, the origin and growth of the theme is also explored using the methods of traditional source analysis. An important chapter explores the theological function of the Pentateuch both in the community for which the Pentateuch was first composed and in our own time. For this second, enlarged edition, the author has written an Epilogue reassessing the theme of the Pentateuch from a more current postmodern perspective.


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The Epilog technical details page has more information about what exactly is logged and provides example logging files and a way to send the data to your own server for evaluation.


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Home/From The Paper/Dan Rattiner's Stories/Trap Door: When You Can Hide Behind a Declaration That You're Dead
Trap Door: When You Can Hide Behind a Declaration That You're Dead
Dan Rattiner April 9, 2018
Cartoon by Mickey Paraskevas
Three years ago, a 63-year-old man named Constantin Reliu returned to his homeland in Romania to live out his senior years. Arriving at the airport in Bucharest, he got on the customs line for citizens with passports. When he showed his, the customs agent told him that Constantin Reliu was dead. They'd take his passport.
Reliu vigorously insisted it was him, though, and so they took him aside where senior officials compared him to his passport. They measured the distance between his eyes and determined the distance was the same as on the passport. They asked him questions about his hometown of Barlad—Where is town hall? What street did he live on?—and he told them. They checked his fingerprints and they matched. After six hours of grilling, they agreed it was him and let him and his passport through.
But they couldn't do anything further about the fact that he was dead.
Today, he is still dead. But he has made a big deal about it. So, the Associated Press, upon learning of it, interviewed him by phone.
He told them he had migrated from Romania to Turkey 25 years ago to get work. He'd send for his wife once he was settled. He'd found work as a cook. But she didn't come. And so three years later, in 1995, he returned to Romania, only to find she had taken a lover.
Filing for divorce, he went back to Turkey and resumed his work there, remaining for the next 22 years until last December, when, because of expired papers, Turkey told him he'd have to go back to Romania. He thought of this as an opportunity. He'd retire and dabble with part-time work.
But that could not happen. In 2016, his wife had him declared dead. She'd also moved to Italy.
Reliu got very emotional on the phone in his interview with the AP. He was near tears. He said he applied to have his death certificate overturned in the regional capital of Vaslui. But they refused, saying he had applied "too late."
"I am not sure if I am divorced or not. I am not sure whether she married someone else or not. Nobody will tell me."
He said he'd gone to officials in Barlad and asked them to issue him papers declaring that he officially "existed," but they also refused. He also asked them to overturn his death certificate, and they referred him back to Vaslui saying Vaslui handled that procedure.
"I am officially dead, although I'm alive," he told the AP. "I have no income and because I am listed as dead, I can't do anything. I am a living ghost."
He then said he was going to cry.
Personally, I think that Reliu is taking all this too hard. There's lots of things you can do when you're officially dead. For example, you could start having an affair and then one morning just leave. You would be off like the wind.
You could steal—I am not recommending this, but you could. You could steal a big $2,000 flat-screen TV from a house—a surveillance video camera inside one such house here in East Hampton shows a thief very clearly doing just that, sitting in a chair, watching it before leaving with it—and when you get arrested they'd have to let you go.
You could park at the beach without a parking sticker. Who could they give a ticket to?
You would work for cash—you don't take checks. You'd have no worries about credit scores and people hacking into your identity. So what if a pickpocket took your wallet? If you got lots of cash—again, I'm not recommending stealing—and wanted to give some to charity, you could convert your cash to a money order and give it anonymously.
And so what if you couldn't vote? Look where it's gotten us.
You could lead a happy go-lucky life. Travel around the country. Camp in Yellowstone Park. Take naps. Go waterskiing. Sit in bars and meet people—leaving your cash tip on the counter.
Personally, if I were dead, I wouldn't be making such a big deal about it. I wouldn't call the AP. I'd keep it hush-hush.
Daniel Alarcón and Debora Kuan Lead Writers Speak Wednesday on April 18
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Abba Kyari: A Quick Look Into The Profile Of Nigeria's Most Accomplished Policeman!!
Abba Kyari, an assistant police commissioner of Lagos State has been labelled 'Nigeria's Jack Bauer' due to his effort in bringing high-profile hoodlums and criminals to justice.
41-Year-Old Kyari who is the youngest high-ranking police officer in Nigeria most recently was instrumental to the arrest of the country's most notorious and wanted kidnapper, Evans in Lagos.
We bring a brief profile on one of Nigeria's most outstanding policeman who has accomplished a lot in his career.
Abba grew up in Maiduguri, Borno State, where he attended Government Primary and Secondary Schools in Maiduguri. He is also a graduate of Geography from University of Maiduguri.
He did his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Akwa Ibom State in 1998 and joined the Nigeria Police Force as Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police in 2000.
Kyari joined the Police Mobile Force, popularly known as Mopol in 2005 and was there for about five years until his posting to Lagos Command October in 2010. He was deployed as the second in command (2/IC) to SARS and later became the OC SARS on January 15, 2011.
After completing his training in the Police Academy Wudil Kano, Kyari was posted to Adamawa State where he served in Song, Girei and Numan Local Government Area with remarkable successes in crime bursting.
He stood out when he led the arrest of a notorious armed robber called, 'Ndagi' a.k.a Spirit. Spirit held Numan, the third biggest town in Adamawa State hostage for several years before his eventual arrest. From then, there was no looking back for this intelligent officer with a sharp investigative mind and sometimes deadly courage.
Kyari joined the Police Mobile Force, popularly known as Mopol in 2005 and was there for about five years until his posting to Lagos Command October in 2010. He was deployed as the second in command (2/IC) to SARS and later became the OC SARS on January 15, 2011. It was said that the then Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, who decorated him with several awards, resisted ceaseless attempts by the Police high Command to have Kyari redeployed out of Lagos. This was on account of his amazing achievements in combating the menace of armed robbery and kidnapping in Lagos.
1. Kyari was instrumental to the arrest of the kidnappers of former Minister of Finance, Dr. Okonjo Iweala's mother. The kidnappers used to operate in Delta, Edo and Port Harcourt. This gang killed the former deputy Governor of Anambra State and kidnapped the wife of a sitting Supreme Court Judge.
2.He was instrumental in the arrest of the most notorious armed robber in the South West, Mr. Abiodun Egunjobi, otherwise known as Godogodo. Godogodo was arrested in Ibadan, Oyo State, with some of his gang members and confessed to have killed over 150 Nigerians, including over 50 policemen during his 10 years reign as the kingpin of South West armed robbers.
3.There was also the shocking arrest of the General Overseer of a church located at Ejigbo. The General Overseer was part of the gang of robbers that attacked the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. The gang was later discovered to have operated at Ogun, Kwara and Rivers States.
4.There was also the arrest of Benjamin Osinachi a.k.a China and his entire gang of kidnappers based in Ghana, but operated in Nigeria. Their victims included a sitting High Court Judge, a sitting local government chairman, many expatriates, amongst others.
5.Kyari and his men also arrested the kidnappers that abducted Dangote's cousin. Another gang that kidnapped a British citizen, Mr. Dickson Lee, along the International Airport Road, was also defeated. The Briton was kidnapped moments after landing in Nigeria.
6. He was also at the forefront of the arrest of the nanny who kidnapped three boys belonging to same parents. The kids were called 'the Orekoyas kids'. The nanny was arrested within three days that the case was transferred to Kyari and his men.
7. He also was behind the rescue of the three kidnapped female students from Babington Seminary, Ikorodu, Lagos in March 2016, and the arrest of the culprits. Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode expressed his gratitude after the rescue operation.
8. He was also instrumental to the kidnap and eventual gunning down of Notorious kidnapper, Henry Chibueze Aka VAMPIRE in March 2017.
1. IGP Commendation Award for Courage 2012, 2013, 2014. Governors Award for Gallantry, Leadership and Service excellence 2011, 2012, 2013.
2.Commissioner of Police Commendation Award for Courage 2011.
3.Best Anti- Crime Police Officer in West Africa from Security Watch Africa, Star Award from CRAN 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
7. He is married with 5 kids.


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Not in direct talks with Taliban: MEA
Posted on November 10th, 2018 Last modified on November 13th, 2018 CommentsViews : 948
Amid reports of a significant shift in stance with India attending talks with the Taliban at the second 12-nation 'Moscow format meeting of consultations on Afghanistan' in Moscow, the Ministry of External Affairs has clarified that no direct conversation between the two sides was part of the agenda.
Important Facts:
Russia has invited a group of senior Afghan politicians to talks with the Taliban in Moscow, in which India would be participating at a "non-official" level by sending two former senior diplomats to Moscow.
The delegations from India, Pakistan, the U.S., China, Iran and five Central Asian Republics including Uzbekistan and the Taliban will be attending the multilateral peace talks.
It will mark the first time an Indian delegation has been present at the table in talks with the Taliban representatives.
The talks, known as the "Moscow format" will include a "high-level" delegation from the Taliban as well as a delegation of Afghanistan "High Peace Council", along with twelve countries.
It is aimed at building an inclusive intra-Afghan dialogue in order to advance the national reconciliation process.
USA and Pakistan have also agreed to send their representatives to peace process.
The talks has come at a time when the Afghan government is struggling to recover control of districts lost to Taliban insurgents while casualties among security forces have reached record levels.
Hamid Karzai, former Prez of Afghanistan, who ran the country for 13 years following the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 has become a vocal critic of US policy, and is among those planning to travel to Moscow.
Karzai believes that Washington is using Afghanistan as a client state to keep an eye on its foes Iran, Russia and China and Pakistan.
Diplomatic engagement between the Taliban and the US gained momentum recently after US special envoy for peace in Afghanistan met Taliban leaders in Qatar. But many Afghan politicians expressed concern that they have been left out of the process.
Afghanistan stand:
It has angered officials in Kabul who say it could muddle the U.S.-backed peace process in Afghanistan.
According to officials in Kabul, holding talks with Taliban at multiple forums will further complicate the peace process backed by the U.S.
Shift in India's stand vis-a-vis Taliban:
India had refused to recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan (1996-2001) and had opposed talks with the Taliban at least until a few years ago, insisting thus far on an "Afghan-owned, Afghan-led and controlled" process.
It would mark the first time an Indian delegation would be at the table with a Taliban delegation from its political office in Doha since the IC-814 hijack in 1999 .
According to government officials said that the decision was the outcome of "close discussions with the Afghanistan government," and it was felt necessary for India to have a "presence" there.
India would have preferred a direct process between the Ghani government and the Taliban, but since that is not possible, a regional process like the one in Russia is the next best option.
Significance:
The Moscow talks underline the increasingly active role Russia is playing in Afghanistan, decades after Soviet forces withdrew from the country, with business investment plans, diplomatic and cultural outreach, and small military support for the central government.
In 2014, it reopened a cultural center in Kabul. Since 2016, it has provided thousands of Kalashnikov rifles to the Afghan government.
Karzai noted that peace negotiations also need to involve regional powers, most notably Russia and China as well as neighbors including Iran to make the negotiation process more holistic and consensus-based.
Published November 10, 2018 By ForumIAS
Categorized as Test 1 Tagged Afghanistan issue GS 2 High Peace Council International Relations Moscow format Taliban
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43% of the non-users of the Internet are willing to adopt the medium if the content is provided in local language (I differ with this view, my note is at the end of the post).
As of December 2013, there were 213 Million Internet users in India (71% urban). Of this, 169 million access Internet at least once in a month.
Penetration in rural villages is not high resulting in total penetration to less than 15% of the total population.
37% of the Internet users in urban India use the Internet in local language and most of them access such content in Hindi. The usage has increased by 49% from 2012.
56% of Internet users in rural India use local language.
There has been a 15% growth in the penetration of local language users amongst the active internet users compared to 2012.
Language videos are very popular in the rural areas.
There is sufficient content in Indic to keep users engaged. Just take a quick look at Oneindia's verticals which are in multiple languages – Lifestyle, Automobile, Technology, Travel. The reason many don't know about the language sites is because search engines are yet to do a better job in giving Indic sites more exposure. Over the years Indic algorithms have improved on Google but we want further improvements!


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On the age of 14, Paris Hilton made her means onto the rookie scene. On the identical time, the younger lad was additionally venturing into the world of modeling. As such, very quickly in any respect, these concerned within the New York social scene knew who Paris was. Not solely was she the lifetime of the get together and the superstar, however she was the heiress. Which means it has change into nice when easy life star I received out. And since anybody who needs to be related together with her, wherever Paris goes, the plenty will comply with.
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Paris turned an heiress on account of her household's affiliation with the Hilton Resort Group. A resort chain that started with the acquisition of a resort in Cisco, Texas by Paris' great-grandfather, Conrad Hilton. On account of the resort's success, extra motels have been bought, permitting the Hilton Motels Company to go public in 1946.
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The resort chain ultimately went international, permitting the Hilton household to amass a web value of $4.5 billion. Nonetheless, Paris' grandfather, Barron Hilton, had no intention of bequeathing such an enormous fortune to his household. As a substitute, he introduced in 2007 that after his loss of life, All however three p.c should be donated For the Conrad N. Hilton Basis. And that is precisely what occurred in 2019, leaving Paris with practically $5.6 million. Not a small quantity however only a drop within the bucket when the Hiltons have been value tens of millions earlier than.
For this reason Paris Hilton is perhaps in advertisements for the Hilton resort, however she's not an heiress anymore.
Hilton Motels is not affiliated with the Hilton household
Because of the success of the resort business and the truth that generations of Hiltons have been concerned within the administration of the large resort chain, it was understood that Hilton Motels Company would stay a household enterprise for generations to return.
Nonetheless, that was not the case, and the Hilton Motels Company was offered. And within the course of, he made some huge cash for the Hilton household.
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In 2007, the choice was made to promote the Hilton Motels Company to the Blackstone Group. However this was no strange sale. It was the corporate's "second largest sale" ever, paying $26 billion for the resort chain and related title.
The sale coincided with Barron's announcement that 97% of the household's fortune would go to charity.
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Nonetheless, lengthy earlier than this time the Paris household was a part of the New York social scene. Due to this, the title Paris was well-known. She did not want the household's resort title to assist her social standing, which allowed Paris to construct a fortune on her personal.
Paris Hilton continues to be technically thought of an heiress
Whereas she might not have billions of {dollars} to inherit, that does not imply Paris is not an heiress. It is because her father, Richard Hilton, is value fairly a bit of cash himself. Like his grandfather Conrad, Richard is a self-taught man.
Richard began his entry into the true property world by working for an actual property funding banking agency. He later began an funding agency with the assistance of his companion, Jeffrey Hylan. And Hilton and Helen have been born.
On account of beginning his personal firm, Richard now has a "web value of $350 million." An quantity that shall be divided between Paris and her three brothers, except Richard makes the choice to donate to charity as nicely.
How does Paris Hilton generate profits today?
Though Paris might inherit a big sum of cash sooner or later, she will not be sitting on her laurels within the meantime. As a substitute, Paris is making her personal fortune together with her Participation in lots of business tasks.
And the Based mostly on her web valueShe's fantastic with out her household's cash.
The entrepreneur made her first huge buck when she and her buddy Nicole Richie starred within the actuality sequence, easy life. The present lasted 5 seasons. And with the making of Paris $5 million for only one season of the presentgot here out with a number of million to her title when the sequence wrapped.
Paris can also be concerned in supporting fragrance manufacturers. These manufacturers have made $2 billion through the yearsof which Paris will get a portion.
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As of late, because of her affect and onerous work, Paris "45 branded shops and 19 completely different product strainsTheir mixture has "generated $4 billion in income". However Paris will not be the place the Paris story ends.
between them Early participation in cryptocurrency And now with NFT artwork and forays into the Metaverse, Paris stays forward of the curve.
And identical to her days within the membership scene the place she influenced what individuals wore, the place they frolicked, and the way they talked, Paris is influencing traits within the tech world, too. All of which allowed her to single-handedly create a $300 million greenback empire.
So, whereas Paris should endorse manufacturers, together with Hilton Motels, she is a businesswoman in her personal proper. And though her heiress wealth standing wasn't as enormous because it was once, that did not matter. to me Girls's well being Paris makes cash on her personal phrases, nevertheless she needs.
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Sometimes, something happens that is just, well, magical. We were pretty blown away but the quite spectacular SS 2012 catwalk (or cat-ride) from the fabulous Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton at Paris fashion week. The audience were treated to a fabulous white fairground carousel complete with white horses all ridden by models in a dreamlike trance until each one stepped down onto the catwalk to show off the collection.
The colour tone was pastel and the mood ethereal with a strong focus on some seriously sixties a-line and 50s puff ball skirt styling. Clearly, Ms Moss was the star of the show in a feathered mini dress and bridal inspired headband. We loved the retro shapes contrasted with steel toe capped pointy shoes and were left very ready for next summer! So beautiful, so sixties....so getting a carousel in the living room. End of.


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Liberian security officers at a barricade closing off the quarantined West Point neighborhood in Liberia. Abbas Dulleh / AP
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After initial attempts to stop the virus' spread failed, what can the region and the rest of the world do?
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West Africa's Ebola outbreak is now the largest ever recorded, and with no known cure or vaccine, officials are shifting their strategy toward containment.
South Africa closed its borders to certain travelers Thursday and is the first African country that doesn't border the infection zone to impose Ebola-related travel restrictions.
The countries hardest hit are Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In those three countries, more than 1,300 people have been killed and at least 2,400 people are believed to have been infected.
Neighboring Senegal completely shut its border with Guinea on Thursday, in addition to banning air and sea travel to and from all three countries. Guinea deployed medical officers to its borders to evaluate the health of travelers.
But Liberia may have taken the most dramatic step in trying to control the virus. Just outside the capital, Monrovia, the neighborhood of West Point was quarantined Wednesday, with no advance warning for its residents. Now no one is allowed in, and no one is allowed out, resulting in desperate food shortages and widespread panic.
Strained health care systems and poor national infrastructures are contributing to Ebola's rapid spread. The virus can be transmitted only through contact with bodily fluids like blood, sweat and saliva. For infected people, the fatality rate can be as high as 90 percent.
A lack of trust among medical teams, local officials and the public may be making things even worse. For many people in the U.S. and West Africa alike, Ebola provokes fear but remains little understood.
What began as a public health issue is now also a political one, making it that much harder to solve.
How can a place like Monrovia handle a public health emergency of this magnitude?
What can a quarantine introduce into an already complicated equation?
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Battlefield 1 – Game Mechanics
General Mechanics
-All classes and soldiers have unlimited sprint, unlike in COD. This allows you to traverse the long distances in the game rather quickly.
-Like in COD, you can jump and climb over objects. You can also vault over taller walls which takes more time.
-Many doors, windows, and gates can be opened and closed.
-When you see an enemy, look at them and press the spotting button to mark them for your teammates. This makes a marker appear over their head and puts them on the minimap. You are able to see their health, class, and name when they are marked. Vehicles can be spotted.
-Players can only be marked by other players and flares. Spotting is only temporary.
-Players and vehicles have a health bar in the lower left-hand corner. When injured, players can wait for their health to passively return, but it is much faster to be healed by a medic's healthpacks or health box. For Vehicles, see Vehicle Mechanics below.
-Ammo is limited for both soldiers and vehicles. For players, the only way to recover ammunition is from Supports dropping ammo packs and crates. Weapon ammunition recovers the fastest, while gadgets and grenades recover the slowest. Vehicles reload in a different manner, see Vehicles Mechanics down below.
-Melee is available to everyone. When looking at an enemy, pressing the melee button will cause you to melee attack them. Damage, hit radius, and speed of the attack is determined by your selected weapon. Melee attacks from behind are always instant kills and allow you to take an enemy's dogtags. Melee attacks also break windows and certain objects in the environment.
-Bayonet charging is only available to Assaults, Medics, and Scouts. To bayonet charge, hold your melee button down while sprinting. Your soldier will scream and sprint forward with greater speed, and your vision will blur slightly. While charging, you cannot shoot or vault over objects. Hitting an enemy with a bayonet charge is an instant kill. After charging, you cannot sprint. The longer you charged, the longer you have to wait to be able to sprint or charge again.
-Suppression is caused by being shot at. Suppression causes your screen to blur, reduces accuracy, and increases recoil. Different weapons cause different amounts of suppression.
-Gas grenades thrown by the enemy will produce a cloud of gas that will cause damage to you while you are in it. To remove the effect and prevent taking damage, put on your gas mask as prompted. -While wearing a gas mask, your vision is reduced and you cannot aim down your sights. You can mitigate this disadvantage by equipping weapons with great hip-fire accuracy.
-Unlike in COD or some shooters, bullets in Battlefield have travel time, much like in real life. Bullets do not reach their target instantly. Some guns have lower velocities than others(pistols rounds will move more slowly than bolt action rifle rounds). Make sure you aim ahead of your target if they are moving. This applies to all weapons in the game.
-Similarly, bullets also have drop. In general, the higher the velocity, the less drop there will be. At long ranges, aim above your target.
-Accuracy is affected by your stance(standing, crouch, prone), movement, suppression, the presence of a bipod, and the amount of time you've fired. Firing in bursts not only keeps recoil in check, but also increases accuracy at range. Moving around and hipfiring with an LMG will produce worse accuracy than going prone and firing in controlled bursts. Edit: Maintaining fire with LMGs produce the best accuracy.
-You cannot fire while jumping.
-Reloading also works slightly differently to COD. Some weapons might carry one bullet more than the stated capacity(spawning in with 31 rounds in the gun, but the magazine carries 30). This is because you have one round in the chamber already. If you only partially empty the gun, you will reload with a full magazine + one round in the chamber. If you empty the gun, you will have a longer reload because you need to charge the gun and will only have the stated capacity.
-Reloading with certain rifles also has somewhat unusual mechanics. The starting weapon for the Medic class, the Cei-Rigotti Factory, has a capacity of 10 rounds. Instead of a detachable box magazine, it is fed with clips of five rounds each. If you empty the gun, you load in two clips. If you empty it halfway, you load in one. However, emptying it partially, say you have three rounds left, you would load in one clip, and then two loose bullets. In some cases, it may be faster to fire the gun a few more times and reload.
-It is faster to pull out your pistol than to reload.
-For the support class, especially the weapons with large magazines, it is possible to overheat your weapon. Firing your weapon for extended periods of time will cause the barrel to overheat, leaving you unable to fire for a bit.
-Bayonets do not affect ADS time.
Vehicle Mechanics
-In Battlefield, many maps allow the use of vehicles, ranging from cars, horses, tanks, boats, and aircraft. To spawn in one, select a spawn point with the appropriate vehicle symbol that has a vehicle available to spawn in. This is displayed by a number next to or below the symbol, showing the number of vehicle spawns available.
-All vehicles have limited health. This health does not regenerate. The only way to regain health in a vehicle is to be repaired by a Support with the Repair Tool, or to self repair(On PC, this is the X button by default). Self repairing restores a small chunk of the vehicles health, and no other actions can be done while self-repairing. Any damage taken during that time will interrupt the repair, requiring you to start all over again.
-Some weapons on vehicles have unlimited ammo, displayed as an infinity symbol in the ammo counter. However, these weapons are limited in that they can overheat. It is best to fire these weapons in bursts to prevent overheating. If they overheat(you deplete the meter), then you will be unable to fire for a short period of time.
-Weapons with limited amounts of ammo, like cannons, are more akin to a bolt action rifle. For instance, the light tank's cannon starts with 4 rounds. At any point after firing a round, the tank can begin replenishing the rounds which takes a lot longer than reloading. It is advisable to be replenishing whenever you are not in combat to keep the tank combat ready.
-Other weapons, such as bombs on aircraft, can only be used once before requiring replenishing.
-All vehicles can be disabled. This occurs after a certain amount of damage has been taken and reduces the fighting capacity of a vehicle, either be slowing its movement, destroying guns, or impairing turret traverse speed. These effects cannot be reversed unless the vehicle is repaired, unlike in previous Battlefield games.
-Different parts of vehicles take different amounts of damage. The front of a tank will take less damage than the sides or the rear. The angle of impact also matters; hitting the sides at a flat angle will do the most damage, while hitting at a higher angle will reduce the damage. If the angle is high enough, the rounds will simply ricochet off and cause no damage.
-Vehicles are in fact customizable, though to a limited degree. After selecting a vehicle, go to the customization screen, and you have the option of selecting a different layout for your vehicle of choice, allowing you to change playstyles.
Other Mechanics
-There is no friendly fire, though you can kill teammates if you bring a building down on them. Please don't do this
-Capturing a control point is only possible in the area defined on the map. This area can be seen on the minimap as a sort of opaque area around the capture point.
-Capturing a control point can only be done when more allies are in the zone than enemies. The more teammates there are, the faster you will cap. If you are capturing by the point still belongs to the enemy, they can still spawn near the area. The same applies to friendly cap zones that are being captured by enemies.
-You can spawn in your spawn area, in capture zone owned by your team, in certain vehicles, and on squadmates provided they are not under fire.
-When dead, you are able to see the distance between you and medics nearby, allowing you to see if someone is coming to revive you. Even if it says nothing, it is best to wait until the deployment bar has filled up, as you cannot deploy until then. Might as well wait for a medic to come revive you, you never know! Seriously you fucks let us revive you
-At random, special kits will spawn on the field. These kits give players access to unique weapons and gadgets not normally accessible to players, such as flamethrowers or hand-held heavy machine guns. These kits usually give the player more health, but also reduce regen. If you are a special kit, stay near medics to keep your health up, and medics should stay near these special players to help keep them alive.
-While these special players are strong, they are all instantly killable by a bayonet charge.
-Use smoke or gas grenades to help push objectives. Smoke heavily obscures enemy vision, and gas can prevent snipers from aiming down their sights. Gas and smoke also provide some area denial, cutting off chokepoints and such.
-In conquest, the losing side is given a very powerful vehicle, either a massive zeppelin, a battleship, or an armored train. These vehicles can be ridden by multiple players and can be very effective in killing infantry, tanks, and aircraft. These vehicles also have a large amount of health and require a great team effort to take down. Like in other vehicles, different parts of these special vehicles can be disabled(ex, destroy the gondolas on the Behemoth to kill players and destroy guns).
-Aircraft can be damaged by pretty much everything. If a bomber is giving your team trouble, try to deal some damage with lmgs, mounted guns around the map, or the Anti-Aircraft guns.
-If you are a squad leader, don't forget to mark objectives for your squad. If your squad attacks/defends the point you marked, you and your squadmates get a ton of extra points. The same goes for reviving, resupplying, and healing squad members.
-Remember, Battlefield is a team game. Don't go off on your own and sit back in spawn trying to snipe people from 300 meters away, push up and help your team cap zones. You will get more points and you'll help your team win the game. Lone-wolfing it can only get you so far. Even if you don't think they need any, drop ammo and health packs around. They're unlimited and don't cost you anything, and its free points.
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There were a variety of answers, each stressing a different aspect of the gospels: Conservatives tended to stress the importance of challenging the world towards sounder teaching and of pushing it to pay more attention to the issues of family, marriage, and private morality. Liberals tended to put the stress on social justice and the issues of peace and poverty. Both agreed that the world needs to be challenged in the area of consumption and greed.
The issues of challenge that were named are valid and important, but I had a nagging thought that perhaps we, the churches, need to speak something else to the world before we speak these other challenges or certainly concomitant with them. I also had the nagging impression that, albeit for different reasons, both the liberals and the conservatives were deriving a secret glee from the fact that the world wasn't working very well, that it was paying a heavy price in terms of sadness, despair, and dissipation for not listening to us, the churches.
What, beyond the challenges of truth and justice, should we be speaking to the world? Words of understanding, consolation, comfort. One the major tasks of the churches is to console the world, to comfort its people.
"Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God." I heard this echo from Isaiah from a wonderful old priest shortly after I was ordained: Working for a summer in one of our Oblate parishes, I was living in the rectory with an elderly priest, a fine, saintly man. He had been ordained for more than 50 years and had, during all those years, been exemplary, honest, faithful, and generous. He was deeply respected. Now, in his late 70s, legally blind, and semi-retired, he celebrated mass every day, heard occasional confessions, and spent most of the rest of his time praying. I was taken by his goodness.
One evening, sitting with him, I asked him: "Father, if you had your life as a priest to live over again, would you do anything different?" I was expecting him to say no, given his obvious goodness and fidelity. His answer surprised me.
He's right. What the world needs first of all from us, the churches, is comfort, help in lifting and understanding its complexity, its wounds, its anxieties, its raging restlessness, its temptations, and its infidelities and its sin. Like the prodigal son, the world needs first of all to be surprised by unconditional love. Sometime later, and there will be time for that, it will want hard challenge.
And our comfort must be offered not on the basis of what is best inside of human understanding. The comfort we offer rather must be the product of what we ourselves feel when we come to know for ourselves the ineffable, all-empathic, all-embracing, all-forgiving heart of God.
We will comfort the world, and it will be comforted, when we show it that God sees its heart with the eyes of the heart, that God feels for it more than it feels for itself, that God never feels frightened by the assertions of human freedom, that God always opens another door when we close one, that God is not put off by all the times when we are too weak to do what is best, that God understands our complexity, our weaknesses, our anger, our lusts, our jealousies, and our despair, that God never stops loving us even when we put ourselves in hell, and that God descends into all the hells we create, stands in inside of our muddled, wounded, and guilty hearts and breathes out peace.


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Wolf by Wolf wins Teen Readers Choice Award
The votes have been counted and the Teen Readers Choice Award goes to Wolf by Wolf, an alternate-history thriller written by Ryan Graudin.
Wolf by Wolf finished with 351 votes, well ahead of second-place finisher The Lie Tree (Frances Hardinge) and third-place finisher The Rest of Us Just Live Here (Patrick Ness).
The voting broke down like this:
Wolf by Wolf -- 351
The Lie Tree -- 212
The Rest of Us Just Live Here -- 209
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly -- 187
All American Boys -- 160
Exit, Pursued by a Bear -- 153
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda -- 144
The Memory of Light -- 143
We Are All Made of Molecules -- 139
Audacity -- 84
The Teen Reader's Choice Award is the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board's first student-driven book award, facilitated by CCRSB Library Services. Launched in 2012, students in grades 7-12 nominated their favourite book, read the top 10 most-nominated titles, and voted for what they considered to be the best book.
Since then, the Award shortlist has been selected by CCRSB Library Staff to engage students with current critically-acclaimed fiction titles published for young adults. The Top 10 books are based on the best critical reviews, readers' reviews, and the books' performances on well-respected awards lists. These titles represent a wide range of genres and include some of the best fiction and non-fiction books published within the previous year.


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Airbus Launches Airbus Atlantic, a Global Player for Aerostructures
Airbus officially launched a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Airbus Atlantic, on Saturday, January 1st, 2022. The new subsidiary becomes a global player for aerostructures, supporting 13,000 team members in five countries across three continents.
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On Monday (January 3, 2022), Airbus announced the launch of Airbus Atlantic, a new wholly-owned aerostructures subsidiary, which was officially established on Saturday, January 1st, 2022. The new company groups the strengths, resources and skills of Airbus' sites in Nantes and Montoir-de-Bretagne, along with the STELIA Aerospace sites worldwide. The unification of these sites is part of the company's transformation project announced in April 2021, with the goal of strengthening the value chain of aerostructures assembly within Airbus' industrial structure. With over 500 direct flying product suppliers and more than 2,000 indirect general procurement product suppliers, Airbus Atlantic will be an essential element in the group's value chain and aerostructure supply chain.
In Monday's announcement, Airbus Atlantic's CEO, Cédric Gautier, said,
"At the heart of Airbus, Airbus Atlantic aims at meeting the great challenges linked to a sustainable aviation industry, pioneering new technologies. Our first mission will be to ensure the satisfaction of all our customers and to establish new standards of excellence in terms of quality and operational efficiency. I have full confidence in the talent, enthusiasm and commitment of the Airbus Atlantic teams to write this new chapter of our history with success."
Airbus Atlantic will have an estimated annual business volume of approximately €3.5 billion, while supporting 13,000 team members in five countries across three continents. The new company will hold the second position for global aerostructures, will be number one for pilot seats and will rank in the top three for Business Class and First Class passenger seats, which will continue to be marketed under the STELIA Aerospace brand.


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GAZA: Grief, Horror, Outrage, Remembering
[Prefatory Note: Slightly revised at the end.]
How can one not feel intense grief for the young Palestinians who out of despair and fury joined the Great March of Return, and so often found death and severe injury awaiting them as they approached the border unarmed!!?
This was not a gratuitous event, or something that happened spontaneously on eitherside. After 70 years of Palestinian suffering, with no end of torment in sight, to show the world and each other their passion was what would be seen as normal, even admirable, demonstrating a spirit of resistance that endured after decades of repression, violence, humiliation, and denial of the most fundamental of rights. After 70 years of Israeli statehood, this violent confirmation of our worst fears and perceptions, seals a negative destiny for Israel as far as the moral eye can see.
When exposed to such visual images of resistance and sniper violence the scene expresses the horror of burning steel rubbing against raw flesh. There is no way to grasp this particular cartography of risk, vulnerability, and security than to have recourse the language and imagery of horror. Such a sad narrative of horror will linger on both sides to haunt both collective and individual memories, but one with tragic pride, the other with repressed shame.
The horror was magnified by coinciding with obscene celebratory events in Jerusalem where Americans representing the Trump presidency, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and the American Ambassador, David Friedman, brought infamy to the United States by this unseemly display of indifference to crimes against humanity being unabashedly committed as they spoke. Such moral and political insensitivity will not and should not be forgotten.
Words are all we have, but they will do. As Thomas Merton taught some crimes
are situated in the domain of the unspeakable.
The occasions for outrage about the treatment of the Palestinian people are many, but the Israeli reaction to this Palestinian march reaches a new level of moral, political, and legal wretchedness. It recalls the cry of religious leaders of conscience in the last stage of the Vietnam War, expressed by their dutiful compilation of criminal acts of American violence committed in relatively defenseless Vietnam bearing the telling title—NOT IN OUR NAME.
As Jews, as Americans, as human beings, isn't it about time to take a similar stand, and at least create symbolic distance between the perpetrators of these crimes and ourselves?
The feeble Israeli claims of its right of self-defense or attributing Palestinian martyrdom to Hamas are so shallow and lacking in credibility as to discredit further rather than provide justifications for this exhibition of homicidal violence on a massive scale not as isolated incident but as a series of arrogant reenactments.
REMEMERING
Not with words or argument, but with tears, and tears will not do.
Certainly as the Martyrdom of Gaza, and quite possibly seen as a kind of silent bonding by the Palestinian people with the African victims of the Sharpeville Massacre (1960) or the civil rights marchers at Selma (1965) but far worse!
From this darkness will come an as yet undisclosed inspiration.
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By Stephen E. Robinson
During the past several decades an increasing number of ancient religious writings have come to the world's attention. Whole libraries of religious texts have been discovered at Qumran in Palestine and at Nag Hammadi in Egypt. These and other exciting discoveries have in turn renewed interest in the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the Old and New Testaments times.
Since some of this literature provides important information for biblical studies, a strong interest in it has naturally developed among Latter-day Saints. Unfortunately, the texts were originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Coptic, and other exotic languages, and informed discussion of the documents is often confined to scholarly journals. Thus, few Latter-day Saints are able to study the texts firsthand or to evaluate the claims that are sometimes made about them.
The following information is intended to help interested students understand what this ancient literature is, where it comes from, and what might be said about its relationship to the gospel.
The word apocrypha means "hidden" in Greek. In Judaism and early Christianity, this term was originally applied to important teachings that were to be kept hidden from the general public. However, by the fourth or fifth century A.D., the Christian world of that time had largely rejected the idea of special or "hidden" teachings and thus rejected any books that claimed to preserve such teachings. Consequently, during this period the word apocrypha came to have a new meaning—"heretical" or "rejected." Over the centuries the terms apocrypha or apocryphal have again been amended through usage, and are now understood to mean "not scriptural." In this broad sense any religious writing that claims divine inspiration but which is not found in the scriptures is called "apocryphal." It is in this sense that the ancient writings discussed in this article are called "apocryphal."
However, when the term "the Apocrypha" is used (usually with a capital A) it refers specifically to a collection of books accepted as scripture by Roman Catholics and by the Eastern Orthodox church, but believed by most Protestants to be non-scriptural. Hence their designation by Protestants as "the Apocrypha."
In the third century B.C., Greek-speaking Jews translated the Hebrew Old Testament into the Greek language. Three centuries later, about A.D. 90, the rabbis revised and standardized the Hebrew Old Testament. Comparing the earlier Greek translation, called the Septuagint, with the later Hebrew text of the rabbis, one finds that the Septuagint version contains about fifteen more books than the Hebrew. These "extra" books are the Apocrypha of the Old Testament. Obviously, the translators of the Greek Septuagint believed that the books of the Apocrypha were scripture, and the later rabbis did not. Since the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches accept the contents of the Septuagint as authoritative, they accept its additional books as inspired scripture. However, since most Protestants accept the Hebrew text of the rabbis as authoritative, they do not accept the Apocrypha as scripture.
The books usually included in the Apocrypha are First and Second Esdras, Tobit, Judith, the Additions to Esther, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (also called the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sirach), Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah, the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men, Suzanna, Bel and the Dragon, the Prayer of Manasseh, and First and Second Maccabees. To these the Eastern Orthodox add Third and Fourth Maccabees and Psalm 151.
While the larger Christian world is divided in its views on the Apocrypha, Latter-day Saints are fortunate to have received revelation on this subject. In March 1833, the prophet Joseph Smith asked the Lord if his studies of the scriptures should include the books of the Apocrypha. The Lord's response is preserved as section 91 of the Doctrine and Covenants: [D&C 91]
"Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you concerning the Apocrypha—There are many things contained therein that are true, and it is mostly translated correctly;
"There are many things contained therein that are not true, which are interpolations by the hands of men.
"Verily, I say unto you, that it is not needful that the Apocrypha should be translated.
"Therefore, whoso readeth it, let him understand, for the Spirit manifesteth truth;
"And whoso is enlightened by the Spirit shall obtain benefit therefrom;
"And whoso receiveth not by the Spirit, cannot be benefited. Therefore it is not needful that it should be translated. Amen." (D&C 91:1–6.)
Accordingly, it has been the position of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that the Apocrypha are not scripture, but that they may be of value if read with the Spirit. One who studies the gospel aided by the Spirit is equipped to discern truth from error in the Apocrypha. The words to one of our hymns, "Now Thank We All Our God" (Hymns, no. 120), were taken from the Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus (50:22–24). First and Second Maccabees provide valuable historical information for the period between the Old and New Testament. The Apostle Paul seems to have quoted more than once (Eph. 6:13–17; Rom. 1:20–31, Rom. 9:20–22) from the Wisdom of Solomon, a book which teaches, among other things, the premortal existence of souls (8:19f) and the creation of the universe out of unformed, uncreated matter (11:17). The Prayer of Manasseh is surely one of the most beautiful prayers of repentance ever written.
Yet these same books also contain passages that are incompatible with the principles of the gospel—hence the important limitations imposed by the Lord in his discussion of the Apocrypha in Doctrine and Covenants 91. [D&C 91] Furthermore, the revelation considers only the Old Testament Apocrypha. Since that revelation was given, other apocryphal literature has been discovered. Obviously, section 91 does not address such recent discoveries as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi codices, and other newly found manuscripts, but the principle of that revelation undoubtedly still applies: "Therefore, whoso readeth it, let him understand, for the Spirit manifesteth truth." (D&C 91:4.)
The Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
The word pseudepigrapha (pronounced sood-ehpig-ra-fa) literally means "falsely attributed." Originally this term referred to books such as the Psalms of Solomon, the Testament of Adam, or the Apocalypse of Moses—all of which were attributed to Old Testament characters who could not have written them. Eventually, however, it came to be used for all the books written by Jews in the period roughly between 200 B.C. and A.D. 200 which claim to be inspired but which are not found in the Hebrew bible or among the Apocrypha. A few books authored by Christians are also generally included among the Pseudepigrapha.
Unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Nag Hammadi codices, the Pseudepigrapha were not discovered, but have been preserved individually in museums, libraries, and monasteries throughout the world. The major importance of the Pseudepigrapha is that they come from around the time of Jesus and therefore provide a background of popular culture and religious beliefs against which to place our study of the Old and New Testaments. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha together partly fill in the historical, cultural, and religious gap that otherwise exists in our knowledge of the period between the testaments. They also reveal that some of the beliefs and practices of Judaism and Christianity at the time of Christ were quite different from what they became shortly thereafter.
Like the Apocrypha, the character of the Pseudepigrapha is not uniform. Some of them, like the Treatise of Shem, which deals with astrology, are clearly of little interest to Latter-day Saints. But others are of extreme interest. For example, the History of the Rechabites, also called the Narrative of Zosimus, preserves an ancient but mixed-up tradition about people leaving Jerusalem at the time of the prophet Jeremiah and being led by the Lord across the ocean to a land of promise (VII–IX). The Book of Enoch teaches that the spirits of the dead are segregated into special areas according to their degrees of righteousness to await the resurrection and the judgment (1 En 22). Second Enoch (23:5) teaches the premortal existence of the soul, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (TLevi 2–4) refer to three heavens or degrees of glory. Second Baruch stresses the free agency of man and teaches that the consequences of Adam's sin were limited to physical death and that each person is responsible for his own sins. The Testament of Adam (3:1–5), the Apocalypse of Moses (14, 15), and the Vita Adae et Evae (29, 30) describe how Adam called his posterity together shortly before his death, blessed them, and prophesied all that would happen to them down to the end of the world. This event is also described in Doctrine and Covenants 107 as the gathering at Adam-ondi-Ahman. (D&C 107:53–56.)
Latter-day Saint interest in the Pseudepigrapha is based mainly on these and other bits of tradition which parallel the beliefs and practices of the Church. Nevertheless, in many cases these same books also contain teachings which Latter-day Saints would regard as not doctrinally accurate. One must remember that the Pseudepigrapha are indeed "falsely attributed." They consist mostly of bits and pieces of older traditions which have been reworked by later authors. Even the Book of Enoch, which is referred to in the New Testament (Jude 1:14–15), shows signs of having been edited since that time.
Sometime in late 1946 or early 1947, Bedouins discovered some ancient leather manuscripts in a cave on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. Over the next decade ten more caves in the general area of Wadi Qumran were also found to contain ancient manuscripts. These Hebrew and Aramaic documents, now called the Dead Sea Scrolls, are the literary remains of an ancient Jewish sect that once lived at Qumran. Most scholars now identify this sect with the Essenes.
Archeologists have determined that Qumran was inhabited roughly between 130 B.C. and A.D. 68. This means that the Dead Sea Scrolls were being written in the period just before, and perhaps even during, the lifetime of Christ. Naturally, the scrolls add greatly to our knowledge of the "theological climate" of the time.
Both biblical and nonbiblical writings are found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Fragments of every book of the Old Testament except Esther have been found at Qumran, including more or less complete copies of Isaiah, Psalms, and an Aramaic text of Job. The importance of these biblical manuscripts is that they are about a thousand years older than the oldest previously known manuscripts of the Old Testament. Because the biblical manuscripts among the scrolls show relatively little change from the Old Testament that has come down to us, the Dead Sea Scrolls confirm the basic reliability of the Old Testament as we know it, at least as far back as the beginning of the Christian era.
The nonbiblical material from Qumran falls roughly into three main categories: (1) rule books, (2) wisdom literature, and (3) biblical commentaries. The rule books include such items as the Manual of Discipline, the War Rule, and the Temple Scroll. Together they define the regulations of the community. Often these regulations are written as though coming directly from God, who speaks in the first person.
The Manual of Discipline lays down rules of personal conduct, lists the various officers of the community and their duties, outlines the procedures for joining and for being expelled from the community, and describes the community's ordinances and rituals. The War Rule instructs the community how to conduct the final battle that the Essenes believed would take place between good and evil at the last day. The Temple Scroll discusses rules of ritual cleanness and uncleanness, proper conduct for the king and his subordinates, instructions for building a future temple at Jerusalem, and other matters.
It should be noted here that there is nothing in the Temple Scroll connected with the Latter-day Saint concept of temples and temple work. The temple described in the Temple Scroll is closed to women, and the ordinance to be performed there is animal sacrifice. The Manual of Discipline does refer to a progressive initiation within the community with some familiar elements (such as wearing white clothes and learning sacred teachings), but this is nowhere related to the temple.
The wisdom literature among the Dead Sea Scrolls consists mainly of psalms, poetry, prayers, and other texts used in worship services. Most of this material is fragmentary except for the Hymns Scroll and the Psalms Scroll. The Psalms Scroll contains forty-one psalms from the Old Testament, four psalms that are known from apocryphal Latin, Greek, and Syriac sources, and three psalms previously unknown to modern scholars.
The commentaries found at Qumran are the Genesis Apocryphon (a retelling of the stories of Noah and Abraham) and commentaries on the books of Habakkuk, Isaiah, Nahum, Micah, and others. Most of these are fragmentary. In addition, there is a short work about Melchizedek as a kind of divine warrior-judge who will return to the earth at the end of the world. There is also a scroll made of copper which was not part of the Essene library but which was put into one of the caves perhaps fifty to a hundred years after the Essene community had been destroyed. The Copper Scroll is of particular interest to Latter-day Saints, since it confirms that important information was preserved on metal by Palestinian Jews.
The Dead Sea Scrolls reveal many beliefs and practices similar to those of the early Christian church and of the Latter-day Saints. Among these are a belief in baptism by immersion for the remission of sins (CD 10; baptismal fonts have been found at Qumran) and a belief in the necessity of receiving the Holy Ghost (CD 3). The community was governed by three presidents assisted by a council of twelve (1QS 8). In each local area of the sect there was a bishop who administered financial affairs, ascertained the worthiness of members, and acted as a common judge (CD 9, 13–14). The sect had a sacred meal of bread and wine administered by a priest (1QS 6). They believed in revelation through prophetic leaders and accepted the writings of these leaders as scripture (1QpHab 7). They also had a form of communal living (1QS 1, 6) similar to that of Christians in the New Testament (Acts 4:34ff).
All of this leads to the conclusion that in many ways the Essenes may have been closer to the gospel than other Jewish sects. And yet, we must remember that the Essenes did not have the fulness of the gospel. They were not Christians, and no New Testament material has ever been found at Qumran. Despite the similarities to Latter-day Saint beliefs in some respects, the Essenes also had doctrines and practices incompatible with the gospel. For example, they expected not one Messiah but two. They practiced celibacy and believed in a form of astrology. Although Jesus accepted the authority of the Jewish high priest and the sanctity of the Jerusalem temple, the Essenes denied both. And, contrary to certain claims, there is no evidence that the prayers on the bread and wine at Qumran were in any way similar to our own.
The New Testament Apocrypha
The term New Testament apocrypha refers to books written by Christians in imitation of the books of the New Testament. They deal with characters or events taken from the New Testament and claim divine inspiration in the writing. (This narrow definition of the New Testament apocrypha excludes works like the Shepherd of Hermas or the Didache, which are usually classed with the Apostolic Fathers or as Patristic literature. These will not be discussed in this article.)
Generally, the New Testament apocrypha were written between the second and the ninth centuries A.D. They are valuable to historians because of the evidence they give for the changes that took place in Christianity during this period. Some of these books were written for entertainment or as historical fiction. Others attempt to provide fictional details of events not fully explained in the New Testament, such as the childhood of Jesus. Other texts dwell endlessly on the torments of the damned after the day of judgment. Still others seem to have been written in an attempt to justify new doctrines that were making their way into the church after the Apostolic period.
There are over one hundred texts in the New Testament apocrypha. Most are of little use to Latter-day Saints. One notable exception, however, is the Syriac Hymn of the Pearl, which is preserved in a later work entitled the Acts of Thomas. The Hymn is a beautiful allegory of the plan of salvation. It includes references to a premortal existence, heavenly parents, mortal probation, an exalted elder brother, reunion with the heavenly family, and ultimate exaltation. The Hymn of the Pearl was probably written in the first century A.D.
A few others of the New Testament apocrypha are of interest because they preserve pieces of older traditions that may have come from earliest Christianity. For example, the Acts of Pilate preserves several fragments about Jesus' descent into the spirit world, his preaching there, and his leading out the righteous souls who accepted him.
The Nag Hammadi Codices
In late 1945, a collection of thirteen papyrus books was discovered in a jar buried near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. These thirteen books, or codices, contained a total of forty-four separate works written in the Coptic language. Most of these date from between the late second and early fifth centuries A.D. and are the product of a kind of Christianity called Gnosticism.
The terms Gnosticism and Gnostic come from the Greek word for knowledge (gnosis). While not all Gnostics believed the same things, the Nag Hammadi Codices confirm that most believed salvation was determined more by what one knew than by what one did. In fact, many Gnostics believed that good works were of little value and that the proper function of religion was to teach a knowledge (gnosis) of secret mysteries.
Some Gnostics rejected the Old Testament scriptures (as in The Second Treatise of the Great Seth 63:17ff), and most revised or reinterpreted them. A common element in the Nag Hammadi codices, for example, is the identification of Jehovah with the devil (Apocryphon of John 13; On the Origin of the World 103), and the consequent reversal of the Old Testament perception of good and evil (as in the Testimony of Truth 46–48). Thus, many Gnostics believed that the serpent was the hero and Jehovah was the villain in the Garden of Eden (Hypostasis of the Archons 88–89; On the Origin of the World 118–119). It followed from this that those who obeyed God were evil, and those who disobeyed him were good (as in the Apocalypse of Adam and the Second Treatise of the Great Seth 62–64).
Many Gnostics denied the true humanity of Jesus and the reality of his death and resurrection (the First Apocalypse of James 31:15ff, Apocalypse of Peter 81–3, and the Book of Thomas the Contender 143:10ff). Since they believed that salvation was determined more by knowledge than by behavior, most Gnostics denied the need of any atonement for sins. In most Gnostic documents Jesus is represented not as a Savior but as a teacher of mysteries (as in the Gospel of Thomas).
In spite of all this, a few of the Nag Hammadi writings do show traces of doctrines familiar to Latter-day Saints. For example, the Exegesis on the Soul teaches that the soul came from the presence of God where it lived in a premortal state (133:20ff). The Teaching of Silvanus mentions Christ's descent into the underworld and his freeing of the captive spirits there (104, 110). The Gospel of Thomas, which is only slightly Gnostic, contains several statements attributed to Jesus which some scholars feel may in fact be genuine, though they are otherwise unknown.
Nevertheless, it is those passages among the Nag Hammadi codices which deal with mysteries and initiations that have generated the most interest among Latter-day Saints. For example, the gospel of Philip describes an initiation in three stages, corresponding to the three chambers of the Jerusalem Temple (69:14ff). In the last stage, which was called the Bridal Chamber, a sacred marriage was performed which was believed to be eternally binding (70:19ff) and which had to be performed in mortality (86:1ff). In the Dialogue of the Savior, Jesus supposedly tells the disciples how to ascend to the Father (120:20ff). And in the Apocalypse of Paul (23:1–25), Paul is represented as vanquishing the hostile ruler of the sixth heaven by showing him a sign and then proceeding on to the tenth heaven. The actual content of the mysteries taught in the Nag Hammadi codices usually centers on the themes of creation and the fall of Adam and Eve (as in the Apocryphon of John).
In the initial excitement over finding some ideas among the Nag Hammadi codices that are similar to those of the Latter-day Saints, some readers have lost sight of a very important fact: though some things are similar, they are never the same. There is not a single passage among the Nag Hammadi codices which could be said to exactly describe Latter-day Saint practices. There is not a single line of text that could be called a translation of Latter-day Saint ordinances. On rare occasions there are similarities, but always there are differences. The reason for this is simple: the Gnostics did not have the Gospel. By the time the Nag Hammadi codices were written, Gnosticism had already been an apostate movement for generations, perhaps even centuries.
There has been a tendency in some Latter-day Saint circles to suggest a direct link between the Gnostics and the true primitive Church. This is impossible, for the Nag Hammadi codices show the Gnostics to have been in some respects even further from the gospel than the post-apostolic "orthodox" church. But just as a Geiger counter can still detect traces of radiation in an empty container that once held radioactive elements, so Latter-day Saint readers can detect traces of departed truth in the empty writings of the Gnostics. Thus, the Nag Hammadi codices are of interest to Latter-day Saints because they seem to demonstrate that certain doctrines and ordinances, whose very existence was denied by later "orthodoxy," were part of early Christianity. They also provide us with the negative example of a people whose lust for mysteries and secret doctrines caused them to lose the simple truths of the gospel.
The apocryphal literature of the Bible provides important historical information and other background for the study of the scriptures and early Christian history. It provides large samples of the languages of biblical times, and this helps translators and scholars better understand the exact meanings of difficult words and phrases in the biblical texts. Some of these documents are of interest to Latter-day Saints because they seem to confirm that doctrines taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith and subsequent modern prophets were known in the ancient world. Often these parallels are exciting, but always we must remember to treat the evidence honestly. Sadly, sometimes enthusiasts misstate facts and distort perspective in their eagerness to find support for their views.
Apart from the revelation about the Apocrypha in Doctrine and Covenants 91, [D&C 91] no official statements about apocryphal literature have been made. Everything said about them, even by well-meaning Church members, is only opinion.
Metzger, Bruce M. An Introduction to the Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.
Metzger, Bruce M., ed. The Oxford Annotated Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
The Pseudepigrapha
Charles, R. H. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. Volume 2. Oxford University Press: Clarendon, 1913. (This classic edition will be rendered obsolete by the publication of the following title.
Charlesworth, James H., ed. The Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, in press.
Vermes, Geza. The Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Second edition. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1975.
Vermes, Geza. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977.
Hennecke, Edgar; Schneemelcher, Wilhelm; and Wilson, R. McL., eds. New Testament Apocrypha. 2 volumes. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1963.
Robinson, James M. The Nag Hammadi Library. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1977.
Illustrated by Robert Barrett
Qumran was inhabited roughly between 130 B.C. and A.D. 68. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in nearby caves, shown here. (Photography by Floyd Holdman.)
First Maccabees in the Apocrypha relates several important happenings, among them the story of a national Jewish awareness led by the aged priest Mattathias. (Engraving by Gustave Dore.)


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Nils Herlitz (1888–1978) was a Swedish historian, legal scholar and politician of the Moderate Party. He served as the third President of the Nordic Council in 1955. He served as a member of the upper house of the Swedish parliament from 1939 to 1955.

Herlitz was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy in 1971.

Awards and decorations
   Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (21 November 1963)

Honours
Honorary doctorate, University of Oslo, 1961

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Members of the Riksdag from the Moderate Party
1888 births
1978 deaths
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star
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