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CCS Insight
Ben Wood
VR device market declines in 2018 but outlook remains positive
Monday, December 3rd, 2018
Virtual Reality Device Market Declines in 2018 But Outlook Remains Positive
Research firm CCS Insight forecasts 8 million virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets and glasses will be sold in 2018, down from 10 million in 2017
Smartphone VR headsets sales have collapsed, but standalone devices like the Oculus Go hold great promise
CCS Insight expects the market will return to growth in 2019, reaching 14 million devices
52 million VR and AR devices will be sold in 2022 with a market value of $8.5 billion
LONDON — The challenges facing makers of head-worn virtual and augmented reality devices are underlined in the latest forecast from technology analyst firm CCS Insight. Despite early enthusiasm and a continued expectation of significant long-term potential for the technology, CCS Insight believes there is still significant work to be done to improve the user experience, software platforms and content availability. This sober yet positive message is the main conclusion of the company's recently published global market report for VR and AR devices.
Shipments of VR and AR devices, worldwide, 2015-2022
Source: CCS Insight VR and AR forecast (November 2018)
CCS Insight expects that slightly less than 8 million AR and VR devices will be sold in 2018, growing to 14 million in 2019 and to 52 million in 2022. CCS Insight's chief of research, Ben Wood, comments, "We continue to believe that content is the key to unlocking adoption of VR. Although some games companies and adult content creators have embraced VR technology, much more needs to happen to persuade consumers that VR devices are a must-have item".
The market for VR has gone through several phases, according to CCS Insight. Wood observes, "The first wave of consumers used basic cardboard viewers, which helped them understand the potential of the media, but the limited experience meant most people quickly lost interest. We don't even include such devices in our forecast anymore". He continues, "Attention then turned to smartphone-based devices such as the Samsung Gear VR and the Zeiss One Plus VR. These devices have played an important role in raising the awareness of the technology over the past three years, but interest in these devices has now waned".
This is reflected in CCS Insight's forecast, which shows a dramatic drop in sales of smartphone VR devices, from close to 8 million units in 2017 to fewer than 3 million this year. This steep decline has occurred despite heavy price cuts and extensive promotions over the past 12 months.
Wood notes, "We believe the device market has now shifted away from the early wave of cheaper, less-functional cardboard and plastic smartphone VR viewers. We expect the next wave of adoption to come from dedicated devices that offer a more compelling, wire-free experience".
CCS Insight believes the advent of standalone VR headsets will help reinvigorate the product category. All-in-one devices overcome the inconvenience of being attached to a PC, smartphone or games console, and so deliver a better VR experience. The company believes devices such as Facebook's Oculus Go and Oculus Quest, which are being offered at a retail prices of $200 and $400 respectively, are good examples of the future of VR. Wood notes: "The Chinese market is looking particularly promising and Facebook's partnership with Xiaomi has certainly helped standalone VR headsets make a strong start in China".
CCS Insight expects standalone devices to be the key driver of VR adoption in the next few years by both consumers and businesses. Its latest forecast shows demand will grow over 16 times between 2018 and 2022 when 29 million standalone VR headsets are forecast to be sold.
While there is much excitement about standalone devices, CCS Insight still believes there is an important role to be played by tethered devices like the Sony PlayStation VR, HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. These devices, which require additional computing equipment or a games console, will remain an important part of the market, especially as they become wireless.
CCS Insight forecasts that 5 million tethered VR headsets will be sold in 2019, growing to 18 million in 2022. These devices are well suited to meet the needs of the most dedicated gamers, who want a best-in-class experience. Sony, which CCS Insight considers as the most successful manufacturer of tethered VR headsets to date, looks set to continue with its strategy of offering its VR headset as an accessory to the large number of PlayStation owners.
CCS Insight's latest forecast also assesses the market for AR smart glasses. These have seen significantly slower adoption than their VR cousins, but interest remains high. The main use for AR devices continues to be in business operations such as customer service, logistics, remote servicing, design and other related applications.
Businesses have taken a cautious approach to AR devices, initially focusing on pilot deployments, but CCS Insight believes there are signals of growth. Wood comments, "We are seeing a rising number of companies committing to deployments of tens or hundreds of augmented reality glasses as they start to see the clear benefits of head-worn technology in the workplace". However, he cautions, "Despite this gathering momentum we still think it will take time for the AR device market to grow. We don't expect cumulative sales to exceed 1 million worldwide before 2021".
When thinking about AR glasses for consumers, Wood notes that these devices continue to be "more common in science fiction than in real life" with little evidence of a product with mass-market appeal any time soon. Nevertheless, CCS Insight's long-range forecast does include a scenario of accelerated adoption if a major consumer brand like Apple decides to enter the market.
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Beggar and Rich Man Experience a Change
DEAD TOWARD THE LAW, BUT NOT BURIED
IN THE FAVOR OF THE THEOCRACY
The Pattern of Judgment
Torments of the Rich Man
No Relief for the Rich, but Comfort for the Poor
The Rich Man and Lazarus—Parable or Narrative?
1. In his sermon what changes did Jesus indicate for poor and rich?
IN HIS sermon on the mount Jesus said: "Happy are those who are conscious of their spiritual need, since the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them. Happy are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness, since they will be filled." In contrast with these words pronouncing such kind of persons happy he said: "But woe to you rich persons, because you are having your consolation in full. Woe to you who are filled up now, because you will go hungry. Woe, you who are laughing now, because you will mourn and weep." (Matt. 5:3, 6 and Luke 6:24, 25, NW) Jesus illustrated these changes for poor and rich in his parable of the beggar Lazarus and the rich man. He pictured the changes as coming by death.
2. At death what happened to Lazarus and the rich man? What did Lazarus' new position indicate?
2 Jesus said: "Now in course of time the beggar died and he was carried off by the angels to the bosom position of Abraham. Also the rich man died and was buried. And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, he existing in torments, and he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in the bosom position with him." (Luke 16:22, 23, NW) The New World Translation, in its footnote, says of this "bosom position" that one occupying this position is "as when reclining in front of another on the same couch at a meal". It denotes a position of favor with Abraham. Death ended the beggar condition for Lazarus and put him in a favored place. The question now is, When did he die, and in what sense? There are facts to give answer.
3, 4. When and as a result of what did the Lazarus class die?
3 The Lazarus class died when the Kingdom news began to be told to the poor ones whom the religious clergy despised and neglected. They were sinners needing repentance, the harlots, the publicans, the circumcised Samaritans, and finally the uncircumcised Gentiles; and these accepted the news and became followers of the Messiah, Christ the King. This began in the days of John the Baptist, for he came preaching in the wilderness: "Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near. I, on the one hand, baptize you with water because of your repentance; but the one coming after me is stronger than I am, whose sandals I am not fit to take off. That one will baptize you people with holy spirit and with fire." (Matt. 3:1, 2, 11, NW) About six months after John began Jesus was baptized by him and was anointed with God's spirit to be the Christ. After forty days of temptation in the wilderness he came back to John and began gathering his disciples. Particularly after John's arrest in the following year Jesus retired to Galilee and began preaching like him: "Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near." En route to Galilee he even preached to the despised Samaritans.—Matt. 4:17, NW; John 4:1-42.
4 While in the synagogue of his hometown of Nazareth he read to the congregation his preaching commission from the prophet Isaiah: "Jehovah's spirit is upon me, because he anointed me to declare good news to the poor, he sent me forth to preach a release to the captives and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the crushed ones away with a release, to preach Jehovah's acceptable year." With that he added: "Today this scripture that you just heard is fulfilled." (Luke 4:16-21, NW) Some time later John the Baptist in prison sent to him for some verification that he was really the One that was to come. Jesus told John's messengers: "Go your way and report to John what you are hearing and seeing: The blind are seeing again, and the lame are walking about, the lepers are being cleansed and the deaf are hearing, and the dead are being raised up, and the poor are having the good news declared to them." (Matt. 11:2-5, NW) Ah, yes, the Lazarus class were having the good news preached to them, and that led to their death as a beggar class, spiritually diseased and hungry. No longer were they going to the "rich man's" gate for food, but were flocking to Jesus the Messiah. Those conscious of their spiritual need and hungering and thirsting for what was right were being filled and comforted.
5. So to what were the Lazarus class now pressing forward? And ahead of whom were they entering in, and why?
5 After John's messengers left Jesus said: "From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of the heavens is the goal toward which men press, and those pressing forward are seizing it. For all, the Prophets and the Law, prophesied until John." (Matt. 11:12, 13, NW) Jesus said something very similar just before he gave his parable of Lazarus and the rich man. After exposing the self-righteousness of the money-loving Pharisees who were listening in, Jesus said: "The Law and the Prophets were until John. From then on the kingdom of God is being declared as good news, and every kind of person is pressing forward toward it." (Luke 16:16, NW) Or, to quote Moffatt's translation: "And anyone presses in." Every kind of person, or, anyone? Yes; the lowly Lazarus class, which once begged from the "rich man", was pressing forward toward the kingdom and seizing it. In view of this fact Jesus finally told the chief priests and the religious elders: "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the harlots are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God. For John came to you in the path of righteousness, but you did not believe him. However, the tax collectors and the harlots believed him, and you, although you saw this, did not feel regret afterwards so as to believe him." (Matt. 21:23, 31, 32, NW) So the Lazarus class died to those religious leaders and were conducted to the right source for food, comfort and relief.
6, 7. So what divine provision was now due to be minutely fulfilled? By whom and how?
6 Now God's kingdom was being preached and anyone or every kind of person was pressing toward it to enter it, especially after the apostle Peter was authorized to use the "keys of the kingdom". Even the Lazarus class was pressing toward it. So it was time for the law of Moses to be fulfilled down to the last particle of a letter. Hence Jesus went on to say: "Indeed, it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one particle of a letter of the Law to go unfulfilled. Everyone [Anyone, Mo] that divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he that marries a woman divorced from a husband commits adultery." (Luke 16:17, 18, NW) As a son of a Jewess, Jesus came to be under the law of Moses. But he as a perfect Jew did not come to destroy that Law from God; he came to fulfill it. He had to prove himself to be the Seed of Abraham which was first foretold in Moses' writings. As such Seed he must be sacrificed on God's altar, in the same way that Abraham's beloved son Isaac was offered on the altar at God's command, this resulting in God's oath-bound promise, "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."—Gen. 22:1-18.
7 As prescribed in Moses' law, Jesus must fulfill it by being offered up as the real passover lamb, "the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." Yes, he must be offered in sacrifice like those animals slain at Mount Sinai, whose blood Moses as mediator sprinkled on the book of the Law and the people in order to validate the Law covenant between God and Israel. But Jesus' blood validates a new covenant between God and spiritual Israel, by which God really forgives sins beyond remembrance. To fulfill the many prophetic pictures in the Law, Jesus also had to be offered like the bullock and Jehovah's goat on the day of atonement, the blood of which sacrifices was taken by the high priest into the Most Holy and sprinkled before the divine mercy seat. Only Jesus had to rise from the dead and ascend as High Priest into heaven itself and appear in God's most holy presence to offer there the blood or value of his sacrificed human life for believers on earth. By these means his followers on earth could gain true righteousness from God. In fulfilling these and other features of the Mosaic law Jesus fulfilled the purpose of it. So it was taken out of the way and was nailed to the torture stake on which he died.—Ex. 12:1-13; John 1:29; Ex. 24:3-8; Lev. 16:1-19; Heb. 9:11-28; 13:10-13; Rom. 10:4; Col. 2:14.
8. What did Jesus there say regarding divorce, and why so?
8 Because the Law of Moses was then being fulfilled and removed from his believers, Jesus declared that the divorce provision in the Law whereby a man could have more than one living wife did not apply after this to his followers. (Deut. 24:1-4) The Law covenant through Moses was passing out and the new covenant through the Greater Mediator, Jesus Christ, was superseding it. Under it if a Christian got a divorce from a marriage mate on any grounds other than sexual unfaithfulness, then if either of these remarried that one would be guilty of adultery. The Christian standard of marriage under the new covenant would be that established by God in the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. The man had but one living wife given him for the purpose of raising children to fill the earth and subdue it to a paradise state. (Matt. 19:3-9; Gen. 1:28; 2:21-24) God provided no divorce for the perfect pair. Likewise a married Christian must be the mate of only one living partner and should be faithful to that one. This statement of Jesus on the marriage situation must have irritated the Pharisees who followed Talmudic teachings on marriage and who were listening in.
9. How did Paul say the Lazarus class were discharged from the Mosaic law, and for what purpose?
9 Showing how the Jewish members of the Lazarus class had died to their former beggarly condition under the Law covenant, the apostle Paul addresses some of them: "Can it be that you do not know, brothers, (for I am speaking to those who know law,) that the Law is master over a man as long as he lives? For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law of her husband. So, then, while her husband is living, she would be styled an adulteress if she became another man's. But if her husband dies, she is free from his law, so that she is not an adulteress if she becomes another man's. So, my brothers, you also were made dead to the Law through the body of the Christ, that you might become another's, the one's who was raised up from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in accord with the flesh, the sinful passions that were excited by the Law were at work in our members that we should bring forth fruit to death. But now we have been discharged from the Law, because we have died to that by which we were being held fast, that we might be slaves in a new sense by the spirit, and not in the old sense by the written code."—Rom. 7:1-6, NW.
10. So upon whom were the Lazarus class no longer dependent for food? Why?
10 Thus the Lazarus class had died to the Mosaic law and was no longer subject to the "rich man" class or dependent upon that Jewish clergy class for anything. They had "died together with Christ toward the elementary things of the world" which the "rich man" class taught. Their life was now "hidden with the Christ in union with God". They no longer begged from the "rich man". No, they followed Jesus' command, "Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy," and avoided them.—Col. 2:20; 3:3 and Luke 12:1, NW.
11. Where does Jesus' story locate Lazarus after death? Why does this prove it a parable?
11 But did you notice one interesting point? What? That, though Lazarus died, the parable does not say the beggar was buried and put in Hades, as was the case with the rich man. In place of being buried and going to Hades, the beggar was "carried off by the angels to the bosom position of Abraham". Thus the Lazarus class is not pictured as a dead class, "dead in your trespasses and sins," but as very much alive, "alive toward God." (Eph. 2:1; Gal. 2:19, NW) All these features about Jesus' story here prove that it does not tell of a literal Jewish "rich man" and of a literal beggar in Israel named Lazarus. Why should a literal Jew named Lazarus be carried at his death to Abraham's bosom just because he was a beggar covered with ulcers and licked by dogs? Furthermore, the literal Abraham had been buried eighteen centuries before this and his bosom had moldered in the grave, in the cave of Machpelah, near Hebron. He was not reclining at a feast and able to entertain Lazarus. (Gen. 25:8-10) Abraham's son Isaac was buried with him at his death. (Gen. 35:27-29) Abraham's grandson, surnamed Israel, was also buried with him at death. (Gen. 49:29 to 50:13) When speaking of his death, Jacob said: "I will go down to Sheol [into hell, Dy] to my son mourning." (Gen. 37:35; 42:38, AS) Since Jacob was gathered to his people at death and was buried with his fathers, and thus went to Sheol or hell, Abraham must also be in Sheol or hell, that is, in the common grave of mankind, or Hades.
12. Where do religionists say Abraham then was? What questions does this raise about transportation to hell?
12 The religious clergy of Christendom teach that Abraham is in the hell taught in their creeds. That hell is in two parts, in the center of the earth: one part is called paradise or limbo, where the souls of those faithful ones went who died before Christ's sacrifice; the other part is called Gehenna, with literal flames of torment, where the rich man is. Hence to be in Abraham's bosom means to be in an underground paradise. If that is true and if that is where a literal beggar named Lazarus went at death, how is it that angels carried him there? Do angels carry dead beggars to the center of the earth to Abraham's bosom? Who, then, carried the rich man to the flames of torment—demons? The Scriptures say Jesus went to hell, but got out again by God's resurrection power. (Ps. 16:10; Acts 2:27, 31, 32) The Revelation or Apocalypse tells us: "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." (Rev. 20:14) So Jesus got out of hell in time, so as not to land with it into the lake of fire. If, now, hell is at the center of the earth, as religionists claim, then what becomes of the earth when hell is cast into the lake of fire?
13. Why does it not do to say Abraham's bosom was transferred from hell to heaven?
13 Now look here, says someone, paradise or Abraham's bosom has been transferred from hell to heaven since Jesus' death, resurrection and ascension to heaven! But how can that be? On the day of Pentecost, ten days AFTER Jesus' ascension, the inspired apostle Peter said: "David did not ascend to the heavens." So neither did Abraham nor anybody in his bosom. (Acts 2:1, 29, 34, NW) Moreover, Jesus told his parable of the rich man and Lazarus some weeks at least before dying on the torture stake at Calvary. So Jesus had not yet ascended to heaven and paradise could not yet have been transferred from hell to heaven at the time he spoke. And yet Jesus said angels carried the dead Lazarus to Abraham's bosom.
14. Why, then, is the Abraham of the parable not in any hell?
14 So from all the absurdities into which the religionist falls by arguing that Jesus' story is literal, it is apparent that he spoke a parable. And this will show up more and more as we look at further absurdities and contradictions in a literal interpretation. It follows, therefore, that the Abraham to whose bosom angels carried Lazarus is symbolic, just as Lazarus and the rich man are. This symbolic Abraham is not in hell. Why not? Because Abraham in the parable represents Jehovah God himself. When faithful Abraham, "the friend of God," offered up his only son Isaac on Mount Moriah, he was a prophetic picture of Jehovah God offering up his only-begotten Son Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul wrote his fellow Christians to say: "Those who adhere to faith are the ones who are sons of Abraham. . . . You are all, in fact, sons of God through your faith in Christ Jesus. Moreover, if you belong to Christ, you are really Abraham's seed, heirs with reference to a promise." This proves that Abraham pictured Jehovah God, who is the real One in whom all the families of the earth will be blessed. In further proof, the apostle tells the Lazarus class: "Now we, brothers, are children belonging to the promise the same as Isaac was"; and Isaac was the son of Abraham.—Gal. 3:7, 8, 26, 29; 4:28, NW.
15. What, then, does being carried to Abraham's bosom mean? Why was the beggar's name appropriate?
15 To lie in the bosom of someone at a banquet meant to occupy a place of loving favor with that one. For example, concerning Jesus we read: "No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is in the bosom position with the Father is the one that has explained him." (John 1:18, NW) The apostle John occupied such a favored place at the last passover, for we read: "There was reclining in front of Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, and Jesus loved him. So the latter leaned back upon the breast of Jesus and said to him: 'Master, who is it?'" (John 13:23, 25, NW) To be carried by angels into Abraham's bosom means, therefore, to be transferred from the despised beggarly condition of Lazarus at the rich man's gate into the loving favor of the Greater Abraham, Jehovah God. It means to be adopted by him as a son of God to be associated with the promised Seed of Abraham, Jesus Christ. It means to have close fellowship with Jehovah and his Son and to feast with them at the "table of Jehovah". As it is written: "This partnership of ours is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. . . . if we are walking in the light as he himself is in the light, we do have partnership with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin." (1 Cor. 10:21 and 1 John 1:3, 7, NW) How fitting, then, the beggar's name Lazarus! It means "God is helper".
16. Whom did the angels that carried him there picture? Why?
16 We see, then, that, to begin with, the beggar Lazarus pictured the remnant of natural Jews who exercised faith in God, accepting the message of his servant John the Baptist and of his Son Jesus Christ. Remember how Jesus said of the despised chief tax collector Zacchaeus after his conversion: "This day salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man came to seek and to save what was lost." (Luke 19:9, 10, NW) John and Jesus were as angels, or messengers, to conduct the Jewish remnant into this position of Abrahamic favor. Mark 1:2 says respecting John: "Here I am, sending forth my messenger [or, angel] before you, to prepare your way." (NW; margin) Jesus confirmed the application of that prophecy to John, at Matthew 11:10, 11. And referring to Jesus Christ himself, the prophecy at Malachi 3:1 said: "And the Lord whom ye seek will suddenly come to his temple, and the Angel of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts."—Da; Dy.
17. Whom did the Lazarus class come to include? How?
17 But Jesus started off the preaching to the Samaritans, too, and he foretold the extension of the Kingdom gospel to the Samaritans and finally to the Gentiles. (Acts 1:8) So the Lazarus class came to include the believing Samaritans and the believing Gentiles, beginning with the Italian centurion Cornelius. Thus these also were transferred from a poor beggarly state in this world into the bosom of divine favor. So we read: "Now the Scripture, seeing in advance that God would declare people of the nations righteous due to faith, declared the good news beforehand to Abraham, namely: 'By means of you all the nations will be blessed.' Consequently, those who adhere to faith are being blessed together with faithful Abraham."—Gal. 3:8, 9, NW.
18. What did Jesus say after the expression of a centurion's faith?
18 In the second year of Jesus' public ministry a Gentile centurion or army officer, whether Cornelius or not, we do not know, manifested unusual faith in Jesus' healing power. This was a sample of what faith was to be found among the despised Gentile "dogs", as the self-righteous Jews called them; and so Jesus predicted a conducting of these poor, sin-diseased, hungry people of the Gentile nations into the "bosom position of Abraham". In his amazement Jesus said: "I tell you the truth, With no one in Israel have I found so great a faith. But I tell you that many from eastern parts and western will come and recline at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens; whereas the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the darkness outside."—Matt. 8:5-12, NW.
19-21. (a) Here, whom does Abraham picture, whom Isaac, and whom Jacob, and why? (b) So whom do the three together picture?
19 This was not saying that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob of old were then reclining at a table in the kingdom of the heavens; for these three men were not prophets greater than John the Baptist, and Jesus said, "A person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than him." (Matt. 11:11, NW) In Jesus' words Abraham represents the Greater One in whom all families of the earth will be blessed, Jehovah God the Great Father. Therefore Isaac, Abraham's only son by his wife Sarah, represents God's only-begotten Son Jesus Christ, whom God anointed to be King of kings.
20 Jacob received life from Abraham through Isaac and so was Abraham's grandson. Likewise, the Christian congregation receives life from God through Jesus Christ. "The Christ also loved the congregation and delivered up himself for it." "The Christ also is head of the congregation, he being a savior of this body." (Eph. 5:23, 25, NW) "That one surrendered his soul for us." (1 John 3:16, NW) At the time when God declares the members of the congregation righteous the perfect human life that Jesus surrendered is counted to them. To that extent Jesus becomes father to them, just as Isaac was father to Jacob, and just as much as Jesus will become the "Everlasting Father" to believing obedient mankind in the new world. (Isa. 9:6) But that human life imputed to his congregation is sacrificed in imitation of Jesus Christ and for the vindication of God's supremacy and name. So Jehovah God the Greater Abraham begets them by his life-giving spirit. They become his spiritual sons, adopted members of the Seed of Abraham, members of Christ's body. Hence in this trio of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom the Christian congregation is well pictured by the last one, Jacob, and it is made up of joint heirs with Jesus Christ in the Kingdom. It has a Jewish remnant or nucleus to begin with and the Gentile believers are added later.
21 In that way Abraham, Isaac and Jacob stand for God's kingdom arrangement, The Theocracy.
22. Hence what did Jesus mean by saying many would come from east and west and recline with those three in the Kingdom?
22 Hence when Jesus marveled at the Gentile centurion's faith and predicted that many people of the non-Jewish nations would come from east and west and recline with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the heavenly kingdom, he meant that many Gentiles would exercise faith when the Kingdom gospel was preached to all the nations. By reason of their faith in God's message about his Christ they would be transferred from a pauper condition of alienation from God and spiritual starvation, and would be brought like Lazarus into Abraham's bosom. That is, they would be received into Jehovah God's favor and taken to his heart and adopted as his sons and heirs of the Kingdom with Jesus Christ, the Seed of Abraham. They would come into the favor of The Theocracy where the Jewish remnant was, and would feast at the "table of Jehovah" on spiritual riches of Scriptural truth and sacred service as his witnesses. This has been going on during the past nineteen centuries, and has reached a climax in our day.
23. What must we leave to our next magazine issue to discuss?
23 But other interesting and important parts of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus remain yet to be discussed to complete our understanding of the matter, especially as it pertains to our own day. For lack of space in this issue, we must leave it for articles in the next succeeding issue of The Watchtower to explain to our mutual pleasure and profit.
The spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn.—Isa. 61:1, 2, AS.

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In the past, medicines and surgery were the only options patients had. Surgical neurectomy is often too invasive and pharmacological intervention will not always provide the long-lasting relief of symptoms. This left limited options — until now.
While oral medications and nasal sprays can provide you with some short-term relief, if you're looking for a longer term solution without the harsh side effects, you may want to look into Clarifix provided here at Houston ENT & Allergy Services.
Today, the introduction of ClariFix provides patients with a potentially more definitive solution with the possibility of offering long-lasting chronic rhinitis symptom relief. ClariFix, which is developed and manufactured by Arinnex, Inc, for runny noses is a newer treatment that is showing to be a very efficient procedure.
ClariFix is a new breakthrough cooling device that treats chronic stuffy or runny nose — referred to as chronic rhinitis. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the ClariFix cryosurgical tool, and many ENT doctors all over the country are using it. It's the only device the FDA has cleared for chronic rhinitis.
The treatment gets right down to the root of the problem — the inflamed underlying nerves and tissues.
Is minimally invasive under local or topical anesthesia.
Uses cryotherapy with a well-known safety profile.
Is an efficient procedure in a surgical setting or in-office.
Our ENT doctor can perform the ClariFix for runny noses procedure right in their office. Only topical or local anesthesia is required. The ClariFix tool freezes a small nasal tissue area in the back of your nose using a special cooling probe. The cooling time only takes a few minutes.
The ClariFix device uses the well-known properties of cryotherapy and allows ENT doctors to interrupt the neural pathways that trigger the symptoms of rhinitis. The ClariFix treatment provides patients with an effective, safe and durable solution.
During the ClariFix procedure, our ENT physician delivers cryotherapy, freezing, shrinking and destroying the inflamed tissue, which provides the patient with lasting symptom relief.
Other types of thermal-based tissue destruction techniques denature collagen which results in inflammation and could cause safety issues around large blood vessels. They've also been linked with neuroma formation.
ClariFix selectively freezes the "runny nose nerve." There's no cutting or suturing involved. Our doctor applies the cryoprobe to the mucosa overlying the nerve. The procedure is associated with no downtime and immediate recovery.
A typical ClariFix treatment should take no more than a half hour, and has been shown to substantially decrease congestion and runny nose symptoms.
The biggest benefit of ClariFix is relief: Four out of five people treated with the ClariFix device revealed long-lasting improvement.
In the past, neuromodulation (to reduce the stimulation the nasal nerve produces) has been shown to ease runny noses that many individuals suffered with. Originally, the procedure involved cutting the nerve and this resulted in some unintended consequences. Thanks to ClariFix, doctors can now select the nasal nerve out and reduce its function without the need to sever the nerve. This is a huge advancement in chronic rhinitis treatment.
ClariFix is a safe procedure. It's been found to be a procedure that's well-tolerated and doesn't have any procedure or device-related serious negative events.
If you experience any of these mild side effects, they typically resolve within a few months of the treatment.
With any treatment that depends on diagnosis and assessment, recovery times can vary. You'll want to talk with our doctor about what you can expect after the procedure. In most cases, only local or topical anesthesia will be used and therefore, you'll be able to drive yourself home.
You may experience some mild discomfort and congestion for the first couple of days after the procedure, but then you'll start enjoying improved symptoms long-term. ClariFix may be able to cure your chronic rhinitis and eliminate your need for medicines, like non-sedating antihistamines for allergic rhinitis and steroid nasal drops and sprays, oral contraceptives and immunotherapy for nonallergic rhinitis.
Our Houston ENT doctor will provide you with instructions to follow after your ClariFix procedure. Generally, there's minimal downtime and full recovery. You should begin seeing dramatic improvement between seven and 30 days after treatment.
To get treated for chronic rhinitis with ClariFix, call us here at Houston ENT & Allergy Services at 281-649-7000 or by request an appointment online.


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Mix oats, wheat flour, chopped dates and milk.
Put mashed banana peels to the milk mixture and mix well.
Heat a tawa , apply some butter on it.
Use 1/4 cup of the batter per pancake and pour into the tawa.
Fry over low heat on one side until light brown and turn to the other side and cook until done.
Finally drizzle some honey on the pancakes and serve hot..
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The Grumman XF10F Jaguar survived as only a single completed, flyable prototype and existed briefly from 1952 into 1953.
Unless otherwise noted the presented statistics below pertain to the Grumman XF10F Jaguar model. Common measurements, and their respective conversions, are shown when possible.
ENGINE: 1 x Westinghouse XJ40-WE-8 turbojet engine developing 6,800lb of thrust.
4 x 20mm autocannons in the nose.
Underwing hardpoints for the carrying of conventional drop bombs and rockets to fulfill the strike role.
• Model 83 - Company model designation.
Detailing the development and operational history of the Grumman XF10F Jaguar Carrierborne Jet Fighter / Strike Fighter Prototype. Entry last updated on 3/12/2019. Authored by Staff Writer. Content ©www.MilitaryFactory.com.
The Model 83 was a submission put forward by Grumman to the United States Navy (USN) as a single-seat, single-engine jet fighter. The proposal was revealed in early September of 1947 and intended for carrier-based operations - as a fighter it could carry a battery of 4 x 20mm cannon (never fitted) as well as bombs and rockets for the strike role. Unlike other early-generation jet fighters, the Model 83 was to fit the APS-19 radar. The wing mainplanes were fitted amidships and sported sweepback along the leading edges while the tail section, encompassing a single fin, mounted the horizontal planes high (forming a "T" style tail unit). The jet engine would be aspirated through wingroot intakes keeping the nose free for armament and radar. The cockpit was set ahead of midships with generally good vision for the pilot.
It was intended that the aircraft would take on the British Rolls-Royce "Nene" turbojet engine as the "XJ42-TT-2" to be produced locally by Taylor Turbine. The engine was to produce up to 5,000 lb of dry thrust output and featured an afterburning capability which would increase thrust to 8,000 lb for short periods. The prototype designation for the Model 83 became "XF10F-1" and an April 1948 USN contract followed for two machines (one flyable and other a static test article). The name "Jaguar" was eventually associated with the design.
Preliminary work provided unique insight into the proposed aircraft and issues related to handling were revealed which led engineers to rework some facets of the design. A "variable incidence" wing was introduced to compensate and a USN increase to the fighter's expected range brought about additional revisions which, inevitably, led to increased overall weight for the carrier-based fighter development. Grumman was able to produce a mockup before mid-1949 but the program was beginning to face rising obstacles which put its future in doubt. The Westinghouse afterburning XJ40 turbojet was now the engine being fitted promising thrust output up to 11,000 lb.
Instead of the variable incidence wing, Grumman managed to convince USN authorities that a variable-geometry wing would solve ongoing handling issues at low- and high-speeds and this was then installed on the finalized prototype. The product achieved its first flight in prototype on May 19th, 1952. Sufficiently impressed, the USN followed an order for 112 machines under the model designation of "F10F".
Despite the push forward, the Jaguar ended its service life as only a single prototype (the second prototype lay incomplete before the end). There proved too many issues (performance, technically and mechanically related) for the Jaguar to overcome - performance from the temperamental XJ40-WE-8 engine led to an underpowered aircraft as thrust output reached only 6,800 lb during tests. The variable-geometry wing worked as planned but proved a bit too impractical for frontline carrier-based fighter use. As a result, the Model 83 / XF10F project was ended where it stood (and the production order subsequently cancelled) during April 1953. Despite this, the exposure for Grumman engineers was priceless despite the overall "failure" of the product in question - the "swing-wing" capability was used to perfection in the Grumman F-14 "Tomcat" fleet defense fighter of the 1970s.
Grumman performance estimates for their Model 83 included a maximum speed of 686 miles per hour, a service ceiling of at least 30,000 feet and a rate-of-climb nearing 10,100 feet-per-minute. Combat radius was listed at 440 miles. The XF10F-1 prototype exhibited a maximum speed of 710 miles per hour and a range out to 1,670 miles. Both airframes were ultimately expended or scrapped.
Graph showcases the Grumman XF10F Jaguar's operational range (on internal fuel) when compared to distances between major cities.


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Mike Ward ist der Name folgender Personen:
* Mike Ward (Politiker, 1942) (* 1942), neuseeländischer Politiker
 Mike Ward (Politiker, 1951) (* 1951), US-amerikanischer Politiker

Siehe auch:
 Michael Ward

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/**
	Display the contents of the current working directory.
	The format is similar to the Unix ls -l
	This is an example of a bsh command written in Java for speed.

	@method void dir( [ String dirname ] )
*/
package bsh.commands;

import java.io.*;
import bsh.*;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.Calendar;

public class dir
{
	static final String [] months = { "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr",
		"May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec" };

	public static String usage() {
		return "usage: dir( String dir )\n       dir()";
	}

	/**
		Implement dir() command.
	*/
	public static void invoke( Interpreter env, CallStack callstack )
	{
		String dir = ".";
		invoke( env, callstack, dir );
	}

	/**
		Implement dir( String directory ) command.
	*/
	public static void invoke(
		Interpreter env, CallStack callstack, String dir )
	{
		File file;
		String path;
		try {
			path = env.pathToFile( dir ).getAbsolutePath();
			file =  env.pathToFile( dir );
		} catch (IOException e ) {
			env.println("error reading path: "+e);
			return;
		}

		if ( !file.exists() || !file.canRead() ) {
			env.println( "Can't read " + file );
			return;
		}
		if ( !file.isDirectory() )  {
			env.println("'"+dir+"' is not a directory");
		}

		String [] files = file.list();
		files = StringUtil.bubbleSort(files);

		for( int i=0; i< files.length; i++ ) {
			File f = new File( path + File.separator + files[i] );
			StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
			sb.append( f.canRead() ? "r": "-" );
			sb.append( f.canWrite() ? "w": "-" );
			sb.append( "_" );
			sb.append( " ");

			Date d = new Date(f.lastModified());
			GregorianCalendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
			c.setTime(d);
			int day	= c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
			sb.append( months[ c.get(Calendar.MONTH) ] + " " + day );
			if ( day < 10 )
				sb.append(" ");

			sb.append(" ");

			// hack to get fixed length 'length' field
			int fieldlen = 8;
			StringBuffer len = new StringBuffer();
			for(int j=0; j<fieldlen; j++)
				len.append(" ");
			len.insert(0, f.length());
			len.setLength(fieldlen);
			// hack to move the spaces to the front
			int si = len.toString().indexOf(" ");
			if ( si != -1 ) {
				String pad = len.toString().substring(si);
				len.setLength(si);
				len.insert(0, pad);
			}

			sb.append( len.toString() );

			sb.append( " " + f.getName() );
			if ( f.isDirectory() )
				sb.append("/");

			env.println( sb.toString() );
		}
	}
}

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Q: Merging two dataset in Stata with inconsistent ID I have 2 dataset as follows:
input province municipality year str5 muni_name population
1 1 2000 AAA 1000
1 2 2000 AAB 5000
2 1 2000 AAC 1500
2 2 2000 AAA 3000
3 1 2000 AAA 5600
end

input province municipality year str5 muni_name population
1 1 2010 AAA 2000
1 2 2010 AAB 6000
10 5 2010 AAC 3500
10 6 2010 AAA 7000
11 1 2010 AAA 6000
end

In each dataset, observations are uniquely identified by the combination of province and municipality. However, the value of the province or municipality may change depending on the year. Technically, province 2 municipality 1 in year 2000 is the same as province 10 municipality 5 in year 2010. We can tell this by the same muni_name. However, the challenge arises because muni_name does not uniquely identify the observation. In fact, there are municipality name that is found in multiple province (AAA is found in province 1, 2 and 3 in year 2000).
I'd like to have the final merged dataset as follows:
input id year str5 id_name population
1 1 2000 AAA 1000
1 1 2010 AAA 2000
1 2 2000 AAB 5000
1 2 2010 AAB 6000
10 5 2000 AAC 1500
10 5 2010 AAC 3500
10 6 2000 AAA 3000
10 6 2010 AAA 7000
11 1 2000 AAA 5600
11 1 2010 AAA 6000
end

I'd like to have the merged data to be uniquely identified by province, municipality and year. For the conflicting province municipality code, I'd like to replace the province municipality with the most recent year.
What is the best way to do this? My current idea is as follows: Ideally, I'd like to consider a match to be 'perfect match' if province, municipality and muni_name all coincides (AAA and AAB in province 1 corresponds to this). Among the observation that are not 'perfect match', I'd like to match by non-duplicate muni_name (let's call this semi-perfect match). In this example, AAC corresponds to this.
Lastly, for duplicated muni_name (AAA) that is not 'perfect match', I'll match based on the province of other perfect match or semi-perfect match. Note that AAC and one of the AAA is in the same province. Since AAC is matched to province 10 in 2010, AAA in the same province should also be matched to province 10 in 2010.
How can I code the following match strategy in Stata?

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To start, salad of pigs' cheek with leeks and lentils. Then a main course of either pigeon breast stuffed with smoked aubergine and pickled walnuts covered in game and garlic sauce, served with mashed turnips and shallots, or salmis of pheasant served with redcurrants and chestnuts, and braised celery.
Then, for dessert, roasted figs or caramelised raspberries and lemon posset.
Just another night chez Tapehead and by coincidence, the very same dishes knocked up on this week's Masterchef.
For this week's semi-final, Loyd Grossman is joined by lunching legend, Alan Yentob, and Sally Clarke of Clark's in Kensington, the first high-quality restaurant to offer set menus only.
"Would you normally associate lemon grass alongside a dish like pheasant? Asks a suspicious Grossman.
"I would not," exclaims Clarke, sounding uncomfortably like Lady Bracknell.
She disdainfully summarises contestant Number Two's menu as "rather ambitious" and mercilessly taunts Yentob for admitting that, at home, he still uses sun-dried tomatoes (peasant).
By the end, Yentob condescends to offer the judgement that he "would happily be cooked for by all of them again".
When Grossman talks about things like "that combination of the rosemary and the crushed coriander we were worried about earlier," Tapehead simply nods his head in agreement: he was worried about it too.
The highlight of this week's episode is Grossman's extraordinary pronunciation of risotto. Elsewhere, a cornucopia of wild mushrooms is outdone only by much talk of seasonality and rosticity: look at the rosticity on that.
After all that, lemon posset and roasted figs, what would slip down better than a quick dram and Wooldridge On Whisky ?
So far this series has offered an abundance of remarkable (not to say, encouraging) anecdotes and traditional tales from people fond of a tipple, including the recipe for Queen Victoria's favourite nightcap (half a glass of claret topped up with malt whisky).
Tapehead is grateful to the doctor who reveals that five to 10 per cent of liver transplant patients with cirrhosis simply start again, putting their new, revitalised liver to good use.
In this, the last of the series, up pops Tapehead's old drinking mucker, the Duke of Argyll, who shares the story of his first proper drink (aged four), after which, needless to say, he didn't touch another drop for "a viry, viry long time".
His parents were having their "usual daily cocktail party" (in Biarritz). A shaker of dry martini later, he was out cold on the floor, and whisked to hospital to have his stomach pumped – all before his strict Presbyterian nanny found out and resigned.
The usual story in other words.
Inspired by this series, Tapehead is pondering a move up to the Scottish islands, to the sort of village where they pour whisky over their dead so everyone can pay their respects without too much of a pong. They'll sell their best milking cow to pay for the funeral too and rightly regard it as bad luck not to drink every last drop of the whiskey provided.
This week, no doubt, they'll be toasting Taggart, whose sad demise has blighted Tapehead's TV week. Mark McManus's face will live long in the memory, as will his acid humour an iron courage.


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Dzogchen Rinpoche Jigme Losel Wangpo Selected as Eighth Nyingma Head
By Anne Wisman
Buddhistdoor Global | 2019-01-22 |
The Seventh Dzogchen Rinpoche Jigme Losel Wangpo. From tibetanreview.net
Dzogchen Rinpoche Jigme Losel Wangpo has been selected as the eighth head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Seventh Dzogchen Rinpoche was appointed to the position on 15 January by the heads of the principal monasteries of the Nyingma tradition, during the 30th Nyingma Monlam in Bodh Gaya, India.
Dzogchen Rinpoche will succeed His Holiness the Kathok Getse Rinpoche Gyurme Tenpa Gyaltsen after his sudden passing in November last year.*
The 54-year-old principal holder of the Dzogchen lineage has yet to accept the position as he was not present at the annual Nyingma prayer gathering in Bodh Gaya.
At last year's prayer meeting, in January 2018, the late Kathok Getse Rinpoche was appointed as the head of the Nyingma tradition as part of a new system. During a meeting of representatives of the Nyingma school, it was unanimously decided that the leadership of the school would rotate among the six principal Nyingma lineage holders in of three-year terms. The six principal lineage holders represent the six main monasteries of the Nyingma tradition: Dorje Drak, Dzogchen, Kathok, Mindrolling, Palyul, and Shechen.
Under this system, Dzogchen Rinpoche, being the Dzogchen head, was second in line among the six Nyingma lamas for the role of supreme head of the Nyingma tradition, and will be the eighth Nyingma Head after the late Kathok Getse Rinpoche.
Kathok Getse Rinpoche held the position for less than a year. He passed away last November after an accident in Nepal. He was 64. According to reports, Kathok Getse Rinpoche slipped while leaving a retreat center near the village of Hattiban just outside Kathmandu, where he had been sitting in retreat. He eventually passed away from the injuries he sustained in the fall.
Dzogchen Rinpoche Jigme Losel Wangpo was born in Sikkim, in 1964. He was recognized at an early age as the Dzogchen lineage holder by the fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Thupten Trinley Palzang, which was later confirmed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He was enthroned on 8 October 1972, at the age of eight, at Sikkim's Royal Palace at Gangtok. The ceremony was officiated by Dodrupchen Rinpoche and other lamas.
Dzogchen Rinpoche trained extensively in both the Gelug and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1976, at the age of 12, Dzogchen Rinpoche left Sikkim for Dharamshala, where he became a student in the Buddhist School of Dialectics. His studies were personally supervised by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and after seven years at the Buddhist School of Dialectics, Dzogchen Rinpoche obtained the title Rabjampa (equivilent to a master's degree in Tibetan Buddhism). He was 19 at the time.
In addition to receiving personal tutelage from the Dalai Lama, Dzogchen Rinpoche has studied under many a great master, including Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and Trulshik Rinpoche, all of whom have held the position of head of Nyingma school.
The Nyingma school is the oldest of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the other schools being Gelug, Kagyu, and Sakya.
* His Holiness Kathok Getse Rinpoche, Seventh Head of the Nyingma School, Passes Away in Nepal (Buddhistdoor Global)
Dzogchen Rinpoche Jigme Losel Wangpo selected new head of Nyingma (Phayul.com)
Nyingma Tibetan Buddhists select Dzogchen Rinpoche as new head (Tibetan Review)
Dzogchen Rinpoche appointed as the 8th Nyingma head (The Tibet Express)
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The UN launches on Wednesday its "decade for action" on road safety to cut the 1.3 million deaths on the road each year.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), road traffic accidents kill more people around the world than malaria, and are the leading cause of death for young people aged five to 29 – especially in developing countries. Each year up to 50 million people are injured in traffic accidents, globally.
"Road traffic crashes are a public health and development crisis," says WHO director general Margaret Chan. "Every day, road traffic crashes claim nearly 3,500 lives and injure many thousands more. The vast majority of those affected are young people in developing countries."
The economic consequences are also significant: According to the WHO, car crashes cost the world more than $500bn each year. And the WHO warns that accidents on the road are also a leading cause of disability worldwide.
In advance of the summit on the millennium development goals (MDGs) in New York last September, campaigners argued that the figures on road deaths worldwide should serve as a "global wake-up call". But while traffic accidents are dramatic, road safety is not seen as the most pressing development issue. Through its decade for action, the UN aims to change that, hoping to aggressively mobilise interest and action around improving the world's roads. By 2020, the UN hopes to have reduced road deaths by 50%.
So where are the world's most dangerous roads? Which countries are hardest hit? To mark the launch of the UN decade, we've pulled out the most recent data on traffic deaths and injuries, from the 2009 Global status report on road safety. We've included both the data on the reported number of traffic deaths per country and the WHO's estimates of what the actual numbers are (the WHO is currently updating its figures).
• according to WHO estimates, Eritrea is home to the highest concentration of road deaths (48.4 per 100,000 people), followed by the Cook Islands, Egypt and Libya.
Note: The WHO is set to release updated data on road traffic accidents around the world in 2012. It will also add new statistics, such as the number of people who arrive at hospitals via ambulance, and the number of people who suffer disabilities after traffic accidents.


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For children, whose love of swimming and water goes beyond the four strokes, the Aquatic Skills Framework is a challenging and enjoyable way to progress in-water abilities.
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Top scientist's fears for climate
September 1, 2006 Posted in News
One of America's top scientists has said that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change.
In his first broadcast interview as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Holdren told the BBC that the climate was changing much faster than predicted.
"We are not talking anymore about what climate models say might happen in the future.
"We are experiencing dangerous human disruption of the global climate and we're going to experience more," Professor Holdren said.
He emphasised the seriousness of the melting Greenland ice cap, saying that without drastic action the world would experience more heatwaves, wild fires and floods.
He added that if the current pace of change continued, a catastrophic sea level rise of 4m (13ft) this century was within the realm of possibility; much higher than previous forecasts.
To put this in perspective, Professor Holdren pointed out that the melting of the Greenland ice cap, alone, could increase world-wide sea levels by 7m (23ft), swamping many cities.
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He blamed President Bush not only for refusing to cut emissions, but also for failing to live up to his rhetoric on harnessing technology to tackle climate change.
"We are not starting to address climate change with the technology we have in hand, and we are not accelerating our investment in energy technology research and development," Professor Holdren observed.
He said research undertaken by Harvard University revealed that US government spending on energy research had not increased since 2001. In order to make any progress, funding for climate technology needed to multiply by three or four times, Professor Holdren warned.
Last year, the UK's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, held a science conference to determine the threshold of dangerous climate change. Delegates concluded that to be relatively certain of keeping the rise below 2C (3.6F), CO2 levels in the atmosphere should not exceed 400 parts per million (ppm) and the highest prudent limit should be 450 ppm.
In October, at an international conference in Mexico, UK environment and energy ministers will try to persuade colleagues from the top 20 most polluting nations to agree on a CO2 stabilisation level.
Professor Holdren expressed doubt that progress could be achieved because if the US administration agreed that there was a need to limit CO2, this would inevitably lead to mandatory caps. President Bush has already rejected that option.
For more than a year, the BBC has invited the US government to give its view on safe levels of CO2. Our request is repeatedly passed between the White House office of the Council on Environmental Quality and the office of the US chief scientist.
To date, we have received no response to questions on this issue that Tony Blair calls the most important in the world. Professor Holdren called on the US Government to back the UK position.
John Holdren, in addition to his presidency of the AAAS, is a director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University.
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Home » News » Davido Reveals His Father Got Him Arrested In 2011 Over His Wayward Lifestyle
Davido Reveals His Father Got Him Arrested In 2011 Over His Wayward Lifestyle
By Olamide Onipede
| Friday, February 19th, 2016
Davido speaks out in a recent interview with U.S Fader Magazine, the music star spoke on an array of things on how he went to school and didn't finish his studies and ended up being arrested by his dad when he got back to Nigeria from the U.S, below is the excerpt from the interview;
Davido was 16 when he had arrived in Huntsville, a year earlier. His father, Dr. Adedeji Adeleke, a well-known businessman and Seventh-day Adventist in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of over $300 million, dropped him off with his passport, $2,000 cash, and freshman registration documents for Oakwood University, a historically black Christian college. (People often attach the honorific 'Chief' to Dr. Adeleke's name, referring to his wealth and power, largely earned through his founding of Pacific Holdings, a company that deals in steel, oil, gas, and more.) Davido had already spent time in the U.S.—he was born in Atlanta, and sometimes visited in the summer—but much about life in the States was new to him. "That was the first time I had a phone in America. There was unlimited calling. I never saw nothing like that before," he remembers. "In Nigeria, you gotta pay before you get what you want."
The school roomed him with another international student, a Rwandan track athlete—"I was like, 'Okay, wow. They just put all the African people together?'"—but he gravitated toward an upstairs neighbor named Jaymo, an American kid whose speakers constantly rattled Davido's ceiling. "One day, I went to go check what the noise was. I went upstairs, opened the door, and the guy had a full studio in his room," he says. "I told him that I was trying to do music, too. He asked me, 'How much do you have to invest in equipment?' And I said, '$2,000.' He was like, 'That's too much.'" They went to Guitar Center with $500.
From then on, Davido spent most of his time making beats and recording vocal references to send to a cousin in Lagos, a fellow musician with a trove of industry contacts. His grades slipped, and after three semesters, he dropped out and left town without telling his father. First he went to Atlanta, where he used his older brother's ID to get into clubs, and funneled the money Chief Adeleke sent for school and living expenses toward drinks and motels. Later, he threw out his SIM card and hopped on a plane to London, where he went MIA for several months as he shifted his focus from production to vocals. "There was no Snapchat, no Instagram. There was barely Twitter," he says. "I just went off the radar."
Chief Adeleke, meanwhile, had been on the hunt for his son. When Davido finally returned to Lagos in 2011, with new tattoos and piercings, his father had him apprehended by police officers at the airport. Having failed to bring home the business management degree he'd been sent to America to complete, Davido reached a compromise with his father: he, still a teenager, would attend a private university two hours north of the city. His music dreams would be sidelined until he had honored his family by graduating. Davidoreturned to school, but often snuck out of his dorm room to hobnob at industry parties and blew off exams to record.
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On May 16th, Judge Anita Harold Ashley held Circuit Court in Grantsville, according to Prosecutor Shannon Johnson.
Michael Hall, Jr., was scheduled to appear for sentencing. He was not transported to the hearing from the Regional Jail and his hearing was rescheduled to June 12, 2018.
Michael Wayne Cain appeared for a motion hearing. He entered a plea of guilty to Child Abuse Resulting in Injury, a felony, and to Domestic Battery, a misdemeanor. The Court conditionally accepted his plea and will sentence him on August 1, 2018.
Heather Davis appeared for a Motion to Revoke her Home Confinement and a first appearance. Davis did not contest that she had violated her home confinement and asked that she be returned to home confinement.
The State moved that Davis' bond be revoked. The Court revoked her bond and ordered that she be held in the Regional Jail until her arraignment on June 12, 2018.
Richard Talley appeared for a Review of his Competency Evaluation. After review of the evaluation, this Court found that Talley was competent to stand trial and could be found criminally responsible. His case was remanded to Magistrate Court for further proceedings.
George Michael Parsons appeared for sentencing. The Court ordered him to the custody of the Division of Corrections to undergo a sixty day diagnostic evaluation. The Court will sentence Mr. Parsons when the evaluation is complete.
The Court also heard twelve Juvenile cases on May 16.
On May 17th, Judge Anita Harold Ashley continued Circuit Court.
Prosecutor Shannon Johnson said that Rickey Carpenter appeared for sentencing following conviction at jury trial. Carpenter was sentenced to one to fifteen years in the state penitentiary for Possession with Intent to Deliver, Hydromorphone, a Schedule II narcotic drug, a felony; one to five years in the state penitentiary for Possession with Intent to Deliver, Methamphetamine, a Schedule II non-narcotic drug, a felony; one to three years in the state penitentiary for Driving revoked for DUI, Third Offense, a Felony; and one year in the Regional Jail for Fleeing from an Officer by Any Means Other than the Use of a Vehicle, a Misdemeanor.
Carpenter's sentences for Possession with Intent to Deliver are to be served concurrently to one another but concurrently to his sentences for Driving Revoked for DUI and Fleeing, for a total of two to eighteen years.
Carpenter was given credit for one hundred sixty days and it was recommended that he complete the residential substance abuse treatment program while incarcerated.
John Klapka; Angela Yoak; Henry Earl Stutler, Jr.; Jason McVey; Shanelle Cottrell; Melissa West; Jamie Miller; Evan Hersman; Travis Boggs; Thomas Cain; and Jason Conrad all appeared for a First Appearance following indictments.
They will all appear for arraignment on June 12, 2018. Bobby Blosser did not appear for First Appearance. A capias was issued for his arrest.
Brandon Batton appeared for a review of his plea agreement. It was reported that Mr. Batton was doing well on probation and the court extended his probation until December 6, 2018.
He was also ordered to pay, jointly and severally, seven hundred dollars restitution. Denzil Lee McKay, Jr. appeared by video conference for a status hearing regarding his competency. It was reported to the court that Mr. McKay was just admitted to Sharpe Hospital and had not yet regained competency. A review hearing was set for August 29, 2018.
The Court also heard seventeen juvenile cases.


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