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Commencing Sample Shipment of All-in-One RF Modules for LTE Base Station for Small Cells
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has recently commenced sample shipment of "TPM-2606P2" all-in-one Radio Frequency (RF) modules for Long Term Evolution (LTE) base station for small cells. These modules are expected to dramatically shorten LTE base station development and production periods.
With the recent spread of smartphones and other mobile devices, mobile phone system traffic is increasing dramatically. As a promising means for coping with the above situation, operators have started to use small cells that can exclusively cover small areas where traffic is concentrated. Sumitomo Electric has developed an all-in-one RF module that can be used in a LTE base station for a small cell, on the basis of the technology for the remote radio heads*1 that have already been commercialized. The company has started sample shipment of the new RF module.
The all-in-one RF module "TPM-2606P2," is intended for use in a 2.6 GHz-band TD-LTE*2 base station which will become widely used in future. All RF circuits (transmitter amplifier, receiver amplifier and transmitter/receiver switch) essential to construct a base station are compactly modularized. Use of the new RF module will dramatically shorten base station development and production periods and simplify the introduction of small cells.
【Advantages of Sumitomo Electric all-in-one RF module "TPM 2606P2"】
1.Transmitter amplifier
The Doherty-type amplifier*3 used in the amplifier enhances the power utilization efficiency to 40% or more (when outputting 6 W LTE signals).
2.Receiver amplifier
The balanced amplifier*4 used in the amplifier achieves low-noise, high input power tolerance together with low reflectance properties of the antenna port.
3.Transceiver/receiver switch
A combination with a circulator*5 lowers switching loss and application power, thereby enhancing the switching reliability.
4.Distortion compensation circuit
The new RF module comprises a circuit that can compensate for distortion that occurs in the transmitter amplifier, thereby eliminating the necessity for additionally installing an expensive distortion compensation circuit outside the module. This module design also frees the production department in charge from such problems as non-compliance of the combination of the amplifier and distortion compensation circuit with the applicable standards.
In addition to this RF module, the company is advancing the development of RF modules for 2.6 GHz band FDD-LTE*6 and 3.5 GHz band TD-LTE. Different transmission powers and frequencies are available on request. For further information, please contact us.
【Principal specifications】
2,496–2,690 MHz 3 GPP standard band 41
<Transmitter>
Saturation output power
45 dBm min. When measured at antenna port
Transmission gain
Within 50 ± 2.0 dB
Adjacent channel leakage power Ratio
-47.0 dBc max. When outputting 6 W LTE signals (PAPR = 7 dB)
<Receiver>
Receiving gain
Noise figure
2.5 dB max.
Input IP3
0 dBm min.
<Others>
-33 to +85°C Base plate temperature
23 W max. When transmission percentage is 80%
Outside dimensions
17 mm (H) ×143 mm (W) × 103 mm (D)
【Functional block diagram】
【External appearance】
*1 News released on June 16, 2011
*2 TD-LTE:
A 4th generation mobile phone communications system LTE which separates transmission and receiving on a time-sharing basis
*3 Doherty-type amplifier:
An amplification system consisting of two amplifiers arranged in parallel to operate one or both of them depending on the magnitude of the output power, thereby achieving both high output and high power utilization efficiency at the same time
*4 Balanced amplifier:
An amplification system that operates two amplifiers in parallel to double the input signal tolerance and balance out the signals reflected from the two amplifiers, thereby totally reducing reflected signal
*5 Circulator:
A passive electronic device consisting of three terminals The signals received through one of the ports are transmitted to only the next port, while the signals received through the last port are transmitted to the first port.
*6 FDD-LTE:
A 4th generation mobile phone communication system LTE which separates transmission and receiving by frequency


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510(k) approval process is too big to fail no matter how flawed it may be
Posted by earlstevens58 in 510k process, FDA, FDA 510k process, FDA Review, FDA Warning
Arnold & Porter, Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, Food & Drug Administration, Institute of Medicine, Medical device, Medtronic, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Washington D.C.
7.29.11 | Arundhati Parmar Source: MedCityNews
The Institute of Medicine released its report Friday calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to scrap the 510(k) certification for medical devices altogether. But could it be that the 510(k) system is too big too fail?
In an interview following the release of the report, one of the 11-member IOM panel that provided the non-binding recommendations told MedCity News that the FDA has been "heroically" trying to make sure that products cleared through the 510(k) process are both "safe and effective." But the FDA has been given the wrong tool to make that determination.
Making that judgment on the basis of "substantial equivalance" means that FDA is "guaranteed to get the wrong answer," said William Vodra, an IOM panelist and retired attorney with Washington, D.C. law firm Arnold and Porter. The question of substantial equivalence is wrong because itessentially implies that as long as products are similar to a predicate device, it meets the threshold of safety and effectiveness.
"FDA cannot polish their shoes without a shoe polishing kit," Vodra said. "That's the problem."
Instead of asking for substantial equivalence, the question that FDA should be authorized to ask is "do the benefits of the products outweigh the known and potential risks?" Vodra said. He added that the answer should come from knowledge of the product at the time of clearance and from FDA's ability to gather more information after the product enters the market and its ability to act on the information.
"We are trying to link pre and post market information together," Vodra said.
It is notable that IOM, the only party involved in the process that could be considered a scientifically neutral observer found the 510(k) process so flawed as to recommend its elimination.
But FDA has invested too much time and resources on reforming the 510(k). Earlier this week they issued the first draft guidance of when a device may require a new 510(k) submission.
And even before the IOM issued its report, the FDA wasalready distancing it from the panel and its forthcoming recommendations.
The industry has hit back hard saying that Congress won't seriously consider recommendations to go back to the drawing board and craft a new system. And Medtronic, the world's largest medical device company, said that the company does not support scrapping the 510(k).
Which goes back to the initial question, "is 510(k) too big too fail?"
It certainly appears to be so.
510(k) approval process is 'too big to fail – no matter how flawed it may be (medcitynews.com)
Institute of Medicine – Public Health Effectiveness of the FDA 510(k) Clearance Process (earlsview.com)
Report could sway FDA device review process (earlsview.com)
Report: IOM review of the FDA 510(k) process due Friday (earlsview.com)
510(k) reforms: FDA downplays the impact of the IOM study on the eve of its release (earlsview.com)
U.S. advisers call for overhaul of FDA device approval process (msnbc.msn.com)
IOM's 510(k) assessment says FDA should abandon the entire process (medcitynews.com)
Regulatory Reform Series #5 – FDA Medical Device Regulation: Impact on American Patients, Innovation and Jobs (earlsview.com)
Analyst: Expect more PMA applications post IOM's 510(k) assessment (medcitynews.com)
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Noting that it was his "pleasure" to have initiated the work at Kashi Vishwanath, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "I have dreamt for a long time to work for this place. When I was not in politics I came here several times and used to think that something should happen here."
Pushing 70 and indisposed, it would have been understandable had Congress president given the road show a miss. But while it shows her commitment and energy, it equally points to the crisis in leadership within the party.
BJP President Amit Shah on Wednesday inaugurated the parliamentary office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is the elected representative of people from this temple town.
After visiting the temple, the Prime Minister elect went to famed Dashashwamedh Ghat and took part in 'Ganga Aarti' for about half-an-hour amid chanting of 'shlokas' and blowing of conch shells.


because it routes the 'return' on every 'TButtonClass'-Descendant, i.e. TCheckBox.
the code. I hope it is JVCL-compliant an you will integrate it.
With this componant you are able to say explicit which component recieve the 'return'(AllowComponent-List) or never reciev(DisAllowComponent-List).
The hole code is in the Additional Information and in the attachment.
The Original Code is: JvEnterTab.PAS, released on 2002-05-26.
Portions created by Peter Thörnqvist are Copyright (C) 2002 Peter Thörnqvist.
A unit that converts all Enter keypresses to Tab keypresses.
THe implementation for CLX would have to be slightly different, but not by much. What do you think?
I think both possibilitys should be implemented.
customize all within the object-inspector(quick and dirty).
(which is more elegant and powerful).
event option is in CVS, we won't go further.


A hurting person is a broken person. A healed person is a whole person. In one of F.W. Boreham's essay's on Thomas Huxley, he demonstrates why he was not only a prince among preachers and writers but also a prince among pastors. Professor Thomas Huxley was a friend of Charles Darwin and was so vigorous in his defence of Darwinism and opposition to Christianity, that he became known as "Darwin's Bulldog". Christian leaders of his day would preach against him and rail from their podiums how Huxley was as "cold as ice and as hard as steel". But Boreham shows that Huxley was actually a broken man!
Four years after the birth of his son, Huxley experienced heart-break. He wrote in his journal Thursday: Played with my four year old son ... Friday: My son has taken ill ... Saturday: I carried my cold, lifeless son into my study ...Sunday: Scarlet Fever, God knows, Amen.
Behind his appearance of ice and steel was deep hurt. They say that "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." But they are wrong! There is a pain that comes from disappointment, disloyalty, denouncing, and defamation that hurts far more than the pain caused by any stick or stone! Thomas Huxley felt that pain and shook his fist at God. F.W. Boreham masterfully points out that the contemporary Christians misinterpreted this fist-shaking as purely an intellectual objection to God, the Bible and Christianty - when in fact, it was in reality the ache of a broken man. He wonders how things might have been affected if someone hadpastored Thomas Huxley. That is, listened to him, shared with him a fuller revelation of God from the Scriptures, and prayed with him? (You don't need the title "pastor" to do this.) After the death of his beloved son, Thomas Huxley wrote "Amen" in his journal, locked it, and never opened it again.
¶ There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
The path to wholeness is wonderfully seen in Romans 8. A whole person is someone whose sins are forgiven and they now stand in Christ as a new creation (Romans 8:1-11). As a new creation, they have new ways to talk, new ways to react, and new ways to think (Romans 12:1-3).
As a hurt person, sometimes even the slightest criticism causes a reaction that is aggressive or deeply sullen. A whole person considers the criticism and evaluates it without malice toward their critic. A hurt person continually rehearses their hurt to others, whereas a whole person has chosen to put it behind them. Hurt people often withdraw from others. They either become independent, or overly dependent (thus continuing to set themselves up for disappointment). Worse still is when a hurt person finds another hurt person and they become co-dependent. This contrasts with a whole person who lives inter-dependently (relying on others and being relied upon).
It seems that Thomas Huxley never knew of the Saviour's willingness to forgive him especially since all he received from Christians was harsh judgment.
When you're broken, your resilience levels are extremely low. Whole people were broken people who had to learn to endure. Sometimes all you can do is just keep going. Romans 8:12-17 teaches that endurance requires a "putting to death" of fleshly )non-spiritual) desires and being led by the Holy Spirit. When you are led by the Holy Spirit you will discover that He calls you to walk humbly, love mercy, and to do justly which always involves treating people nicely who you would rather treat harshly. But the same Holy Spirit who calls us to reflect Christ in the way we treat others is the same Holy Spirit who helps us to do what He calls us to do.
The second step to becoming whole is learning to stand when you would ordinarily run to isolation, alcohol, your work, your toys, or your pills.
Thomas Huxley probably had no close models of Christian endurance. Today we desperately need followers of Christ to toughen up and endure rather than withdraw from Church or following Christ for the flimsiest of selfish reasons, and to actually model forgiveness and reconciliation rather than pettiness and victim-posture.
A person will be hurt and broken for as long as they deny what has really happened (or is happening). Romans 8:18-25 introduces the hurting person to reality. Romans 8:20 would have to be one of the prime candidates for most confronting Bible verse. It states, without apology, that life is full of "futility" (disappointment, heart-ache, betrayal, sickness, divorce, death, and so on). But Romans 8:20 doesn't just state the obvious. It points the hurting to "hope" in the One who actually subjected all of creation to this state of things.
Broken people struggle to accept that life is unfair at times. Whole people feel the same pain that hurt people do. But a whole person has life's setbacks sting them. A "sting" is pain that doesn't last. When a hurting person realises that bad things happen to good people, they are better able to process their pain. Victor Frankl, a survivor of the Holocaust Concrentration Camps, noted that the optimists were among the first to lose hope and die during their ordeal. Pessimists soon followed. It was the realists who stood the best chance of survival. Survivors of the Japanese Changi Prisoner of War Camp tell the same story. Facing reality, as unwelcomed as it may be, helps a person to become whole. This was dramatically demonstrated by former CIA Special Agent, Brian May, in the movie Taken, when he told his panicking daughter, "Listen to me...They are going to take you." Even though his daughter didn't want to hear that, she needed to hear it.
Thomas Huxley almost certainly did not understand this. He could not see any hope in the midst of his darkest hour - a time when a kind word, a listening ear, a heartfelt prayer may have made all the difference.
"Daddy! Catch me!" Ruby would cry out as she lept off a table into what she assumed would be my arms. It's no secret that my most often "go-to" verse in the Bible is Romans 8:28. In this section of Romans 8 (verses 26-31), we see that the fourth step to becoming whole is to trust God - despite our circumstances. Let the immensity of Romans 8:28 grab you by the shoulders and stare you down so that you are beckoned to look deep into its unfathomable eyes and get a glimpse of infinite peace.
Like Ruby, if you begin to get Romans 8:28 you'll probably be more inclined to jump off life's tables and into the divine arms of your Father. When the painful stuff of life happens, a hurting person questions God's claim to be God. But a whole person worships. Thomas Huxley once asked a Christian colleague why he trusted Christ. After listening to him Huxley remarked, "I'd give my right arm to believe that!" These are not the sentiments of a man of ice or steel, but of a hurt man.
Romans 8:32-39 is literally infinitely profound. The fifth step to becoming a whole person is to realise, really realise, really really realise, that God is love. And to then apprehend the profundity of this pre-emminent truth: God loves you! A wholeperson rests in this sublimely magnificent fact. In fact, if you "get" this truth, you will have done steps 1-4 as well as step 5! In other words, you can almost bypass steps 1-4 if you do step 5 (although steps 1-4 result from doing step 5).
"As our initial conversation drew to a close," Daly says, "I had felt the Holy Spirit prompting me to share a thought with my new friend. 'You know'—I addressed him by name—'God loves you just as much as He loves me. Do you know that?' There was silence across the table as this man dropped his head and looked off to the side. He wasn't able to say a word in response. But he didn't have to say anything. I saw tears in his eyes."
It's a shame that Thomas Huxley didn't have someone like Jim Daly take him out for a coffee and share with him step 5. The challenge for us today though is that we are surrounded by so many broken and hurting people who need to know how to be genuinely whole and need to see models of what wholeness looks like.
Some people fake Wisdom. In Paul's epistle to the Colossians he told them that fake wisdom and true wisdom have two different appearances. The shocking thing about Paul's distinction, is that what he describes as fake wisdom is usually, even today, thought of as true wisdom! And the problem with what he calls true wisdom, is that it is very boring! Before we discover how to be wiser in Paul's view, let's consider one of the oldest and greatest examples of wisdom.
How on earth could even wisdom resolve this problem? After all, Solomon wasn't there. There are no witnesses. And besides,some would scoff: they're just prostitutes so what does it matter? Given this impossibly difficult situation it's not wisdom that most people look for. Many people would rather pray and have God simply tell them straight up what to do. But Solomon's response was brilliant despite being initially shocking. Often the wisest course of action seems strange to those who can't see wisdom at work. King Solomon asked for asword to resolve this dispute!
¶ Then the king said, "The one says, 'This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead'; and the other says, 'No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.'" And the king said, "Bring me a sword." So a sword was brought before the king.
Genuine wisdom has a God-glorifying flavour to it. Fake wisdom has a man-glorifying end to it. Genuine wisdom comes from God and causes its beholder to act humbly and at times: counter-intuitively. Certainly bringing a sword to resolve a dispute over the identity of a baby's mother seems a little counter-intuitive.
Solomon had no intention of hacking the baby with the sword. It was a test. Wise people conduct lots of tests. In a book that he contributed to, the Book of Proverbs, Solomon lists testing as one of the twelve ways to derive at a wise decision. In this instance the test was designed to reveal who the true mother was. And it did.
1Kings 3:26 Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him." Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother."
This episode marked the beginning of Solomon's reputation as a wise man. The sad unfolding of Solomon's life is that despite starting out with the advantage of divine wisdom, he died a fool. Yet to most people who witnessed the latter part of his life, it appeared that Solomon was still incredibly wise. He wrote thousands of Proverbs, songs, poems, and scientific discoveries. Yet the latter part of his life was cloaked in fake wisdom. They are many wise-sounding teachers today who may have started out their journey with a spark of God-gifted wisdom but then forsook the truth of God's Word, His revealed wisdom, and began dispensing fake wisdom. It may sound wise to suggest that prayer should only ever be contemplative, but this wise sounding idea can not stand in the presence of the true wisdom of God's Word which invites us to present to God all of our requests and petitions in prayer (Philippians 4:6; 1John 5:15). It may sound wise to suggest that all religions will ultimately lead a person into eternal life in heaven, but it soons becomes apparent that this wisdom is a vile pretender when true wisdom enters the room.
The Apostle Paul knew that his beloved Colossian church was under attack from people employing fake wisdom. These people appeared to be wise - but they were not.
His entire epistle to the Colossians is fueled by the pastoral desire for them not to be taken captive by these peddlers of fake wisdom. He contrasts this human wisdom, which he says merely has the appearance of wisdom, with God's wiisdom which is: a gift from God (Col. 1:9); the basis of true Biblical preaching about Christ (Col. 1:28); only found in Christ (Col. 2:3); the essence of true Christian fellowship (Col. 3:16); and the way in which we should be seen by the world (Col. 4:5).
There are many people promoting the appearance of wisdom today. They tell people that Jesus is not unique. They claim that following Jesus of Nazareth is only one of many ways to find God's approval and that any religion will ultimately get you to Heaven. They come up with clever ways of reading the Scriptures to make it sound like there will be no ultimate, final, and everlasting judgment on anyone. They reason that if God is love, and that surely love will win, that God would never really allow anyone to die in their sins (John 8:24). They assert that God is not really a Person, but a mere cosmic force and that we too are just expressions of that "universal force" which is why death is not really the end or even the beginning - it's just a doorway to the next reincarnated expression we morph into. To which Paul cries out to the Colossians - "Fake wisdom!" Against the backdrop of this first century fake wisdom, the Apostle speaks beyond his first century audience and into our present day.
¶ Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
Before Solomon experienced true wisdom, he had what only most of us could dream of. At the beginning of his reign God appeared to him and offered him anything he wanted. Wisely, he chose wisdom. Today we have a higher wisdom available to us in Christ. Don't settle for the false, man-made wisdom of self-appointed gurus - despite how large their TV audience is or how many Twitter followers they might have! You can begin to become familiar with this true wisdom as you open up His Book and allow it to cleanse, feed, and shape your mind. The next time you have a tricky decision to make, it's not so much a Word from Heaven you need, or man-made fake wisdom, but the true wisdom that comes being taught by the Spirit of God from God's Word resulting in a radical change of character. James calls fake wisdom "demonic"! And he calls true wisdom "pure".
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Father God, please help us to be wise and grant us an increased desire to be washed, watered and wised by Your Word. Amen.
Hurt people hurt people. We've all probably encountered that and perhaps we've even been the one doing the hurting. Being hurt hurts. But it can become a comfortable hurt. A hurt that we befriend. A hurt that makes us safe. A hurt that we can control. A hurt that gives us what we want. The process to becoming healed of this hurt can also hurt. And because it is an unfamiliar hurt, it creates anxiety. This causes the hurt person to blame-shift, to withdraw, and to become highly critical. Ironically, this makes helping hurt people really difficult. But it can be done.
Some people have only ever known hurt and pain. From the youngest age they were the victim. They felt that all they every really experienced was rejection, betrayal, and mocking from those they had a reasonable expectation of acceptance, loyalty and affirmation. For these people, wholeness has been allusive to the extent that as far as they know, they have never known it. The first step to healing for such hurt people is a clearer vision of what the map to wholeness looks like.
All hurt people travel with a map. From this map they derive the directions for navigating through their life. They come to certain "forks" in the road they are travelling on (which look like criticism or even a challenge, to anyone else). Their map marks these "forks in the roads" as attacks, or rejection, or pain. Their map suggests taking the high road. This road must be traversed by offence, anger, and slander.
Whole people travel the same life journey but with a different map. They reach the same fork in the road but instead of their map marking these moments as attacks, rejection, pain, their map indicates growth, opportunity, and love. Their map suggests taking the low road. This road is traversed by humility, listening, and understanding.
Many whole people were once hurt people. But they were blessed to have a glimpse of what wholeness looked like. When they saw it, it exposed their unforgiveness, malice, and withdrawal. It somehow revealed to them that each of those things were crippling them. This vision of wholeness encouraged them to use a different life-map. The next fork in the road was the hardest road-fork they had ever faced because they were so used to their fight or flight map that when they read their new map, its directions included: listening, blessing, teachableness, and even generosity! As a hurt person they had previously become defensive, spiteful and self-justifying. But their choice to be whole removed these responses from their map.
A whole person still feels pain - although they respond quite differently to a hurt person. A whole person still faces disappointment, disrespect, and disloyalty, yet they take the low road of blessing those who spitefully mistreat them. They hold their tongue - not because they really want to yell at the one standing in their way - but because they have chosen to listen first. Rather than become defensive, they become inquisitive. Although the criticism from another person stings, they treat it as a gift that might help them improve - rather than to let that sting fester into a serious hurt. At other times when someone expresses their displeasure with them they can reasonably assess whether this person's opinion is what they use to define their identity or worth. In many cases, it will not be and in these instances they may find themselves quietly, but resolutely, disagreeing with their protagonist. And this introduces my final thought on achieving wholeness as a hurt person.
Whole people are neither dependent or independent people. Hurt people need other people. We all hurt from time to time and in those times we need the help of others. But some hurt people react by withdrawing from others and become independent. "I'll never let anyone close to me again!" they silently vow to themselves. Of course, connecting two hurt people together often results in co-dependency. Hurt people in a co-dependent relationship feel that they both need the other person, and that the other person needs them. A whole person doesn't allow someone else to become unreasonably dependent upon them. Even a parent knows that their infant child's dependency upon them is reasonable for a season. A whole child will replicate their parent's wholeness and grow to become a reliable, dependable, interdependent adult.
The Apostle Paul once lived as a hurt man. He then encountered Christ and became a whole man. He wrote to a people who were once hurt, the Colossians, and described to them the behaviour of hurt people.
¶ Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
And that's one of the clearest visions a hurt person can have for what wholeness looks like. The only truly whole Person is the only Person who can truly help a hurt person to become a whole. Sometimes, because a hurt person is so down and feeling so low, all they can do is to reach out and up to just touch the hem of His presence (Matt. 9:21). But this simple act of praying can be the beginning of a journey to wholeness - a journey that Christ does not leave you to walk alone.
I'm preaching through the Gospel of Luke this month. As I've pondered the earthly life of Christ through Luke's account, several things stand out that have magnified the wonder of Christ to me.
Firstly, Luke was a Gentile but he felt it necessary to carefully use Jewish and Hebrew terminology to present Christ to his Gentile audience. He uses language that was not commonly in use by those who did not worship God. "Christ." "Son of Man." "Son of David." "Messiah." Sometimes we become overly-sensitive about using "Christian-ese" without realising that there is a richness to the language that rather being avoided should perhaps be explained to our audience. Here in Tasmania this is a growing challenge. We live in a state that has the highest rate of: "No Religion" ticked on the Census. Added to this, Tasmania has the highest rate of "absentee church members" in Australia (people who identify a church as their church but do not regularly attend). We also seem to have a somewhat hostile political climate that arguably scorns Christianity and Judeo-Christian values. Presenting an accurate picture of Jesus to a culture not familiar with the Bible is a growing challenge for us.
Sure, we could reinvent Jesus and "re-package" Him to a world more likely accept a kind, sensitive, misundertood, troubled, social worker. But this is not the Jesus that Luke is presenting to the world. Luke's Jesus is the One foretold by the Prophets. He is the One who came not to primarily set up relief-programs or give the world Millennium Goals. He came to save people enslaved, blinded, poisoned, and corrupted by self-deceiving-yet-enticing sin!
Everything in the Old Testament was written about Me, Jesus said. Wow. With this one verse in his Gospel, Luke has just taken a pinch of salt and sprinkled in the spiritual mouths of his readers. Imagine being a Gentile unfamiliar with the Old Testament Scriptures and you've just read that! Everything in the Law of Moses - all the ceremonies, all the animal sacrifices, the layout of the Tabernacle, the conquest of Canaan, and the ministry of the prophets - point to Jesus!
F.W. Boreham writes in A Handful Of Stars, that many people miss the point of the Bible. Why read the Bible? Jesus gave a profoundly simple answer: Me. And F.W. Boreham suggests that this sublimely simple answer to the why question is confused by readers who are looking for laws to keep when they read the Bible. They are looking for the Bible's Prohibitions (Thou shalt not...) - the things that God forbids. They may ignore the Precepts (Thou shalt...) - the things that God commands be done. To read your Bible like this is to live as a pauper while have a million dollars in your bank account! "Everything written about Me" Jesus said. The Bible is firstly about a Person, not Prohibitions or even Precepts.
Why do people join Christ's church? For worship? Being a worshiper is high and noble calling. For fellowship? Being in fellowship is needed. We are told to worship The Christ. We are told not to neglect to fellowship (Heb. 10:25). But before we are called to worship or fellowship, we are called to follow Christ. We could call ourselves a Christian and worship Christ but if we are not following Christ, we are a Christian in name only. We could call ourselves a Christian and fellowship with other believers but if we are not following Christ we are deluded into thinking that our mere associations make us a Christian.
Luke's Gospel present Jesus as Someone foretold in the ancient Scriptures. He presents Jesus quoting the Scriptures. He then closes his Gospel with the bold claim that all Scripture actually about Jesus! If we want to follow Jesus we must search for Him in the Scriptures. F.W. Boreham says that we must approach the Scriptures in the right order: The Person, The Precepts, The Prohibitions. By seeing the Person of the Scriptures our hearts are glowing with a warmth to do the Precepts of the Bible, and then are hearts feel revolt for the very things that the Scriptures Prohibit. We devote ourselves to the Person of Jesus. We delight to do His will. We despise those things He warns against. The order is important. The "why" is not a "what" but a "Who".
Open your Bible today and you'll be opening more than a book. Join me in Luke this Sunday and it will cause you to join with Him on Monday. Why read the Bible? Because Jesus said, "It speaks of Me." The Why of Me is really the Why of Him.
Geoff, Kim and I recently walked the Overland Track (from Dove Lake to Lake Saint Claire). On a walk like that you soon (re-)discover where your strengths and abilities lie. As I trudged along as Kim bounded along, I was glad to take any available opportunity for a break. Kimhowever was keen to not only do the Overland Track (again) but to take as many of the sidetracks as possible. This included climbing some of Tasmania's highest peaks. Geoff was invited to join in the mountaineering side-trips and declined each time. Out of sheer pastoral concern and sympathy for Geoff I agreed not to abandon him as Kim set off each time to clamber. As I observed Geoff resting with his baggage through the slits of my eyes, it reminded me of King David's early military career and just how relevant it is for today's church.
Before King David was King David, he was a type of mercenary army commander. But his "army" was a motley crew.
And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
Distressed, debted, discontented. Not exactly an army commander's first choice for his platoon! But this was what David had to work with. And it soon became obvious that despite their willingness to be in his army, not all of them were cut-out to be front-line soldiers.
On our 80km, 5 day hike, I witnessed many people thoroughly enjoying the experience. They seemed to soak in every sight, every sound, every smell. What ever inconvenienced them faded dimly into the background as they revelled in the joy of traipsing over rocks, up steep hills, through streams, down gullies, and across moors. Unlike me, these people were made for walking and walking and walking. In a church there a parallels to this. What is for some people with the gift of helps can be an utter delight, can be for those with the gift of giving a dreary drudge. What is an enriching experience for those with the gift of preaching can be a traumatic nightmare for those with the gift of mercy.
David and his commandos had returned to their village to discover that the Amalekites had raided it.
¶ Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way.
The Bible tells us that David and his men wept till they had no more strength to weep. They were all overcome by exhaustion. Disappointment can have that physical affect on a soul. Disappointment plus exhaustion is a horrible chemical mix for a team. Soon, all the people were talking of stoning David! This was obviously not rational. They were blaming David for their setback! In their great distress (remember, these were already "distressed" and broken men when they joined with David) they now saw David (not the Amalekites!!!) as the source of their predicament. How would you have responded to a a situation like this?
David sought strength from God. He was renewed mentally (he could now think clearly and wisely). He was renewed spiritually (his soul was now unsettled in the presence of the Almighty One). He was renewed physically (our bodies can be energized by non-physical means).
And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue."
As I sat, somewhat exhausted, at the foot of Mount Pelion East, I was reflecting on David's daring course of action from this point, and the new set of problems it caused. It seems that every time in church-life we take a positive course of action that it is potentially creating an unforeseen problem for some others. For example, just before I left for my hike I was asked about how we are going to roster our Christmas Day Service. Afterall, who wants to be doing "extra-curricula" activity on such a holiday? By rostering some of our team on for Christmas Day we are running the risk of using already tired and perhaps distracted people becoming even more tired and distracted. And then there's Easter in around 120 days or so from now. We face similar problems as a leadership. Like David, the window of time to act is very small. Like David, most of our teams are already made of somewhat exhausted people. Like David, we hear God say "Pursue ... overtake... hurry" Like David found, not everyone on the team can contribute equally.
The main delight I experience in doing a long bushwalk is knowing that Kim has thoroughly enjoyed herself. I carry in 20+ kg backpack, some of the food needed for the trek, the cooking implements, and a few other incidentals. By doing this, I am contributing in a small way to making it possible for Kim to do such walks. Not that it's entirely needed on these sort of tracks, but I also provide protection for our baggage when she sets off up short mountain side-track trails. But in King David's case, those who were carrying and guarding the baggage were fulfilling a vital role of preserving the whole army's assets.
All of David's 600 men were exhausted but 200 of them were too exhausted to continue so they stopped pursuing and remained with the baggage. Sometime life gets like that doesn't it. We are at times exhausted or even too exhausted yet the need to pursueurgently certain tasks is ever present. On our recent bushwalk there were more times than my manly pride will allow me to admit that I wanted to take a rest rather than keep up with superKim. In those moments of aching weariness I had to keep focussed on keeping going - pursuing.
David strengthened himself in God and was able to rise to the challenge of not pursuing but finishing the task. When he eventually caught up with the Amalakite raiders his mission was only half complete. Please forgive me but sometimes I only complete things within our church by halves. I preach a message and sometime err by thinking my mission is done as I fail to complete the mission through challenging, confronting, or inviting people to respond. Or even worse, I preach but then fail to pray that the preaching might linger and be effective in producing the kind of change God calls for. David caught up with the Amalakites. But he still didn't have his goods or his family back! We can build a nice building, prepare a great worship or outreach service, present wonderful music and messages, but allow our exhaustion to keep us from completing the task: summoning lost sinners to be reconciled to their God.
Amalakite raids don't happen often. But when they do they are nearly always most inconvenient. The times when God calls us to especially step up and pursue a mission are often the times when we are most exhausted, distressed, disillussioned, disappointed or indebted. Such was the case when William Carey embarked on his great mission to India and when Hudson Taylor embarked on his mission to China and William Wilberforce embarked on his mission to reform England, and when Christ went to the Cross. Each Christmas and Easter, it is the case with many of us. But thank God that Carey went to India and laid a foundation for over 300,000,000 people to come to Christ. Thank God that Hudson Taylor went to China were he laid a foundation that today sees over 10,000 Chinese a week come to Christ. And thank God that Wilberforce went so that millions of souls have now had the freedom to come to Christ.
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives. Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. David brought back all. David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him, and said, "This is David's spoil."
Now that I have completed another 5 day walk, I run the ever-present risk of bragging about my achievements and making those who have not done it feel inferior, or worse still, those who have attempted it - but not completed it - feel like failures. The reality is though, that I barelycompleted and most of the time I was struggling and glad of the opportunity to look after the baggage. In what might seem a surprising twist in the David story, those who did not go on with him to slay the Amalakites and recover what was their's, were not seen as slackers and in fact, some of those who actually did go with him and actually did fight were called wicked because of their attitude toward others less capable. These seemingly victorious yet apparently "wicked and worthless" warrirors felt that those who remained behind with the baggage did not contribute to their victory and should therefore not share in the spoils of victory.
Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart."
It's too easy in church-life to feel that those who aren't on the front-line of serving arenot contributing to the overall war-effort and desired victory. But this is dead wrong. At Legana we desperately need more baggage minders. Minding baggage can look like tweaking the sound, opening the door, distributing the communion, serving a cup of tea, washing up, weeding, sweeping, counting the offering, preparing a roster, and most especially praying. We need more people to celebrate the wonderful joy that God has given them to preserve our God-given resources (our "baggage") through serving others in what is non-front-line ways. And for the rest of us who can put on our boots and keep pursuing (though we are exhausted at the time), let us not think that our privileged roles are anymore important than those mind our baggage.
David wasn't inventing a new principle. God had inscribed this principle in the Law (Numbers 31:27). It shows that God can call someone into "ministry" and yet that ministry may not involve the typical front-line activities of standing before a conregation and speaking or even directing them. The apostle Paul had something to say about this also. In Romans 12 he lists how God has comprised the church with people bearing different gifts, talents, ministries, and abilities. Some, he may as well have said, will be called by God mind the baggage while the rest race off to pursue a very small window of opportunity to redeem that which is rightfully God's.
Yesterday as I was at the airport on my way to film some interviews for the F.W. Boreham documentary, the Melbourne Football Club was in the Virgin Airlines' Lounge. What was interesting was not just that the team comprised of the players - but that the team also included non-playing team members. They had massuers, statisticians, first-aiders, admin staff, a really fat guy, and a few others. Interestingly, they all wore exactly the same team uniform. Even Football Teams understand that there's more to a victory than just what happens on a football field. It's a healthy church that can apply this same principle. If you feel like you've been left out or left behind in the mission of our church, don't just sit with the baggage - mind the baggage by praying fervently, serving diligently, and giving generously so that our victory can be made possible.
The young Ebenezer followed his father, the Rev. Henry Erskine, to their old kirk in 1690 for the Catechism Class. The children were drilled in the questions, but F.W. Boreham tells us that young Ebenezer was struck by the answer to the 43rd Question of the Shorter Catechism which starts with I am the Lord thy God. These words were planted deep into the mind of Ebenezer and would take a further twenty or so years before they would germinate.
Following in his father's footsteps, Ebenezer became a pastor at Portmoak, Scotland.
But Ebenezer's understanding of God and His Word was about to dramatically change. His wife, who knew God, prayed fervently for her husband to meet Christ. She then took seriously ill. The fever gripped her. She begain speaking to her husband in her delirium and "her words were wild and passionate." She spoke of the Lord and His dealings. Her husband was pierced "to his soul." As she lay on her death-bed, Ebenezer cried out to the God he did not know.
The words of the Catechism: I am the Lord! I am your God. I am the Lord your God - gripped the mind of Ebenezer. These words of Scripture transformed his mind.
¶ Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Despite being religious, Ebenezer Erskine was lost. Then the Lord, the Lord his God, gripped his mind. He realised that the Lord God had a rightful claim on his life. He discovered that what he was taught in his childhood was no mere religious program, but life! Parents should ever be mindful that what they teach their children by word or by deed may take years before it germinates!
Ten years after his conversion the full impact of what Christ had done in his thinking was felt by congregation when he preached not from notes, not from rehearsal - but from his soul as he gazed through the eyes of those in his congregation into souls and declared that God is their God, their Lord, and that Lord thy God was their God! This sermon would go down in history as one of the greatest ever preached in Scotland. Ultimately he would lead to one of the greatness spiritual revivals Scotland had ever witnessed. All because a father sowed a seed of Scripture into his son, a praying wife pervently interceded for her husband, and the Lord God intervened.
¶ Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
Some people who believe the Bible to be divinely inspired resolve these obscure verses by using a combination of ignoring them and ascribing to them a "lesser" divine inspiration. But if the Bible's own claims about itself are taken seriously, then this approach can not be reconciled with such claims.
Joseph Scriven was in love. The day before his wedding he had arranged to meet his bride-to-be for a romantic tryst just outside Dublin. As she rode her trusty horse over the bridge where her love was waiting for her on the other side, the horse was startled and bucked her off into the River Bann below where she drowned. He wrote to his mother that his world had collapsed. He recovered and fell in love with Miss Falconer whom he intended to marry only to have his rival steal her heart. Heart-broken he left for Canada. He eventually fell in love again. But just before he married, his fiancé suddenly contracted pneumonia and died. He then wrote another letter to his mother that would be immortalized in verse for generations to come.
Joseph Scriven undoubtedly asked God "Why!?" It's a question that is asked which invites a non-verbal response, such as a hug, or simply time given listening to the anger, doubts, and frustrations of the hurt. Many people have found God in such inexplicable pain and loss. In asking God "Why?!" they soon discover that what they thought was God's silence was actually God's response. Us ponderous types tend to analyse and dispense theoretical answers to such questions from the hurt and broken who are battling the tragic loss or dibilitating injury of a loved one, while the more wiser among us are not entering into such vain exercises. Instead, they are making meals, mowing lawns, baby-siting children, washing clothes and answering phone calls. In the midst of Joseph Scriven's pain he found solace in not being the beneficiary of love but the giver of it.
Joseph Scriven found Christ in the eye of his storm. He began to look for opportunities to serve. He was seen around Port Hope, Ontario, chopping wood and milking cows to help certain widows out.
Scriven became a familiar sight around Port Hope, a big man with bushy white hair and full white beard, carrying a buck and a bucksaw, offering to cut wood for anyone who was unable to cut his own or pay someone to do it for him. But he wouldn't cut wood for hire.
Battling heart-ache, grief, troubles, disappointments, discouragements, temptations, and sorrows, Mr Scriven found Christ as his Healer, Burden-Bearer, Refuge and Solace. I was reminded of these things today after I had my morning meditation from Second Timothy where the aged apostle Paul lists those who had either "left" him, "betrayed" him, or "damaged" him.
Despite all that had happened to Joseph Scriven, he turned to Christ rather thanfrom Christ. It is utterly bewildering that someone would be let down by a fellow believer and turn away from Christ! Firstly, it is not only possible to continue to love someone who has disappointed you and let you down - it is imperative that you do so. A casual reading of Colossians 3:12-14 seems to demand that our loving each other be done against the backdrop of reasons for strained relationships with each other. The next time you are offended by, disappointed with, angry about, another Christian, don't burn the relationship! Especially don't curse your church because of it. Rather, turn to Christ for the grace and strength to be able to fulfil Colossians 3:12-14 (and Romans 12:9-21). Secondly, don't hold Biblically uninformed views about what you can expect from those you love or those who love you. It is very possible for those who love you to let you down. Someone can still love you even though they disappoint you. Joseph Scriven found all of this to be true.
¶ Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive..


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Stepan Sus (; * 7. Oktober 1981 in Lwiw, Ukrainische SSR) ist ein ukrainischer Geistlicher und Kurienbischof im ukrainisch griechisch-katholischen Großerzbistum Kiew-Halytsch.

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Stepan Sus studierte am Theologischen Seminar des Heiligen Geistes in Lwiw. Anschließend wurde er 2005 zum Diakon geweiht und empfing am 30. Juni 2006 das Sakrament der Priesterweihe. Er diente als Kaplan an der Akademie der Landstreitkräfte und anderen Bildungseinrichtungen in Lwiw und war zwischen 2008 und 2012 verantwortlich für die Seelsorge der Soldaten in der Erzeparchie Lemberg der ukrainisch griechisch-katholischen Kirche.

Die Synode der Bischöfe der ukrainisch griechisch-katholischen Kirche wählte ihn zum Kurienbischof im Großerzbistum Kiew-Halytsch. Am 15. November 2019 ernannte ihn Papst Franziskus zum Titularbischof von Zygris. Die Bischofsweihe spendete ihm am 12. Januar 2020 Swjatoslaw Schewtschuk, Großerzbischof von Kiew-Halytsch. Mitkonsekratoren waren Ihor Wosnjak, Erzbischof von Lemberg, und Paul Patrick Chomnycky, Bischof von Stamford.

2015 erhielt Stepan Sus den Orden der Ukraine "Für Verdienste" (dritter Klasse).

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PC Gaming Alliance Shrinks by Two Sizes
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Gamesindustry.biz reports that Microsoft and NVIDIA have departed the PC Gaming Alliance, a movement the two organizations helped found. Neither firm offered a reason for departure.
The PCGA was founded a couple years ago, if memory serves, to advance the PC as a viable platform for gaming. As consoles grow in market share, and development costs for PC (plus the ever-present threat of piracy) continue to spiral upward, the platform has long been losing its dominance. Which kind of sucks for people who like PC gaming.
Now, since the PCGA's founding it's not actually done much to further its goal. In fact it's been one of the quietest and meekest industry organizations out there, neither vociferously campaigning for the importance of the PC nor working particularly hard to draft new adherents. With the exit of two companies that are arguably the most important players on the stage, the PCGA is likely to become more of a technical advisory board than an industry rabble-rouser. PCGA president and Intel exec Matt Ployhar has even said as much.
The world of computer gaming is a complicated place, where conflicting desires and malleable corporate alliances and enmities define the landscape much more than "what's best for gamers." While Microsoft has no vested interest in destroying PC gaming, it does have a keen interest in strengthening its hold over the living room – that means Xbox 360. Microsoft would rather you bought your games for that platform. The abominable Games for Windows Live service – improved but still a festering blight – demonstrates that at least some within the company are willing to sabotage PC gaming a little bit in order to further the company's designs on your television. To be perfectly blunt, you don't put together a piece of software that bad unless you intend to.
NVIDIA is another story. This firm has its fingers in many pies. While as gamers we tend to think of them as a gaming hardware company, that's only a piece of the puzzle. NVIDIA is very heavily invested in high performance computing, for example, where the GPU will soon eclipse the CPU (if it hasn't already) as a means of performing predictive modeling and simulation for manufacturing, product design, and other sectors that haven't yet adopted HPC.
NVIDIA certainly has reason to support gaming on the PC. While it and its competitors in the GPU sector make the vast majority of their revenue from integrated or low-ticket video cards, there is cachet and income to be had in the ultra-high end. NVIDIA's Fermi graphics architecture is only just getting off the ground and right now it's looking like a winner. Naturally, being tapped to design graphics cores for the next generation of consoles is also high on the company's priority list (historically AMD/ATI and NVIDIA have battled for control of Xbox and Playstation graphics), but there are no next-gen consoles coming… at least not at the present time. Nintendo is likely working on one, but Microsoft and Sony see (wisely) content to let what they've got keep going for a few more years.
So what's basically unclear is why these two organizations left the Alliance. We may never know the actual reason, though I'm sure both companies will release heavily-lawyered statements explaining their impetus. Another key question is whether it matters. Frankly the PCGA hasn't done much in its time on this earth, and that may honestly be why companies are dropping out. Meanwhile the PC has enjoyed its own resurgence without the help of the Alliance: Valve has come to dominate digital distribution, developers in Eastern Europe still tend to be committed to the platform and and producing some of the most imaginative work, the rise of the Super-Indies have resulted in games such as Minecraft, Amnesia, Immortal Defense, and what have you, all on the PC; and of course the Zyngafication of the platform means that casual games have become an enormous revenue opportunity for those who capitalize well on the space.
Thus while the PCGA, never very impressive, grows less impressive with these departures, it may wind up achieving its goal after all.
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04/13/2017 Matt "Steerpike" Sakey
Matt "Steerpike" Sakey
Tap-Repeatedly Overlord Steerpike is a games industry journalist and consultant. His earliest memories are of video games, and hopes his last memories will be of them as well. He's a featured monthly columnist with the International Game Developers Association, and is internationally published in an assortment of dull e-Learning texts and less dull gaming publications. He also lectures on games at various universities.
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4 Responses to PC Gaming Alliance Shrinks by Two Sizes
Lewis B 02/23/2011
Great Article Steerpike.
I blame Steam! Its got to be the real reason!
Jakkar 02/23/2011
Skipping down to the comment area half-way through the article to announce;
GLEE! Finally, this means I've found a place I can share my deranged conspiracy theories about Microsoft's wicked machinations without getting the strange looks and the gag and the oh no, not the mop, not the mop again..
… I'll just resume reading now.
Hrmm.
I'm glad to see the PC an underdog for two reasons; one – the Indies get more attention from PC owners in general, and thrive, two – with graphics technology held back by and large by multiplatform emphasis demanding compatibility with the Xbox 360, we're no longer lost in an eternal graphics race whereby only the rich and dedicated gamers get the full experience, or a competitive edge.
Nonetheless, it saddens me every time I see a game with potential dull its edge for the sake of crossplatform development. I tire of the argument that there is no 'consolification' of complex titles, for there is no real argument; it's real. Oblivion was the first big step in that direction and only recently have we seen developers acknowledge the trend and work against it – such as with Battlefield: Bad Company 2's fairly decent PC version.
In the middle-years there it was getting so bad even the PC developers were intentionally crippling their products to match an ideal notion of what makes a console game popular. Case in point; Left 4 Dead's horrendous server brower/quick matching at release.
Armand 02/25/2011
Thanks for the info Steerpike. Oh, and all hail Steam.
TOm 06/10/2011
The reason why PC gaming industry is dying is because it is less profitable. This is why the alliance is shrinking because the companies related in the PC gaming industry is shrinking.
It is shrinking because of several market forces. PC games are being pirated too much! = Less profit for the game publishers and developers. No body works for free.
Computer Gaming is complicated for the average joe. When it comes to buying games. A Xbox buyer needs to know 1 thing. The video game box must have the label XBOX 360 on it. Thats all. The same can be said about PS3 and Wii gamers. Its simple! Your grand ma, children and wife can buy a console game for their love ones. Its just that easy!
Plus the PC gamers must overcome the relatively tedious and long installation of a video game… For console gamers. they just put their game in the console and press a few buttons and they are ready to go.
PC gaming also have a horrible history with compatibility and installation issues. People remember how complicated it was and they continue to believe that it is the same.
Also buying a Gaming PC is complicated. the video card requirements are soo tricky for the average joe. a layman couldnt figure it out.
Only hardcore gamers and ethusiast knows how to work around it.
Hardcore gamers and techies are also more likley to feel more comfortable surfing the internet. They are more pickier when it comes to buying video games. They also are more open to buying video games online because they know that publishers like Valve is a legit company. to the avg joe. Steam is just another website which can potentially be hazardous.
Gaming PC's are really expensive. They cost twice as much as an average mid priced PC. If you buy anything lower in retail the games performance will be bad which ruins the exprience. I know people can build fast PC's but not everybody can. In other words alot of people got burned when they try to buy gamin PC's its too expensive and complicated!
Due to all these factors that keeps casual and normal gamers out of the PC gaming world… the volume of new PC games being purchased are shrinking rapidly.
Xbox, PS3 and Wii is cheaper than ever too!
Why buy a PC???
Because the Pictue looks better?
well it comes at a price!
Developers will have to spend more time and make less money on the PC platform.
This makes PC platform an epic fail. which will ultimately hurt Windows. Because windows will be come more subsitutable. This is why chrome, andriod, iOS and other emerging rivals are growing quickly. they may not have a huge marketshare but they are putting alot of pressure from the top end low, end and the ect…
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Posted on December 28, 2020 by Warren Schmidt
We will be taking a look at another person that would be celebrating her 150th birthday if she was still alive today. She was a Palisch, and she would go on to marry a Fischer. This was not the first time that a Palisch woman would marry a Fischer man. When I do stories on either the Palisch or Fischer families, I know I will have to determine whether I will be discussing an Altenburg Palisch or a Frohna Palisch, or whether I will be discussing an Altenburg Fischer or a Frohna Fischer. So, if I do a story of a Palisch marrying a Fischer, I know I have a real challenge ahead of me.
We start with today's birthday girl, Sarah Mathilde Palisch, who was born on December 28, 1870. She was the daughter of Ernst and Juliane (Hoffstetter) Palisch. I have this photo of Sarah's parents.
Sarah was the 7th of 8 children in her Palisch family. Only the last child, Gotthilf A. Palisch, was baptized in Frohna. All the previous children, including Sarah, were baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Altenburg. She was born in 1870, but baptized in 1871. Here is Sarah's baptism record.
Sarah Palisch baptism record – Immanuel, Altenburg, MO
That last son, Sarah's younger brother, Gotthilf A. Palisch, was the locally famous Doc Palisch, who served Frohna's medical needs for a lot of years. I will also insert here the fact that both Frohna and Altenburg had doctors that served for very long times. Those two were Doc Palisch and Doc Fischer. Previous posts have been written about these two.
Sarah was born too late in 1870 to be found in that year's census, so the first census in which we find her was the one taken in 1880. Based on others listed near their household on the census, this couple was living in Frohna. Her father, Ernst, had died in 1876, so we do not find him in this entry. Her older 18 year-old brother, Henry, was doing the farming for the family. Sarah was said to be 8 years old, but I think she was at least 9.
1880 census – Brazeau Township, MO
Now, we will look at Sarah's groom. His name was Martin Johannes Fischer, the son of Friedrich Ferdinand and Martha (Weinhold) Fischer. Martin was born on March 18, 1870. Let me point out here that there was another Martin Fischer who was born in 1864 who was the son of Friedrich Albert and Emma Marie (Palisch) Fischer. That was a Fischer/Palisch pair from the previous generation. It was that branch of the Fischer family from which Doc Fischer came. Martin J. Fischer was baptized at Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna, Missouri. Below is his baptism record.
Martin J. Fischer baptism record – Concordia, Frohna, MO
Contrary to Sarah, his future wife who was also born in 1870, Martin Fischer was born early enough in the year to show up in the 1870 census. He was shown to be just one month old, and his father was a retail dry goods merchant.
Martin Fischer would also lose his father when he was quite young. His father died in 1874. We find the Fischer household in the 1880 census in which Martin was 10 years old.
Martin J. Fischer married Sarah Palisch on September 11, 1892 at Concordia, Frohna. We can view this couple's marriage license.
Fischer/Palisch marriage license
The church record for this wedding gives some additional information. First, we see that Martin's older brother, Rev. Joseph Fischer, assisted with this marriage ceremony. I think he was serving a church in Illinois at the time. We also see Doc Palisch as one of the witnesses for this marriage.
Fischer/Palisch marriage record – Concordia, Frohna, MO
Our German Family Tree lists 6 children born to Martin and Sarah. Two of them were born before the 1900 census was taken. I have included some Palisch entries to show this neighborhood made up of Fischer's and Palisch's. Doc Palisch was living in Martin's household at the time while he was still single.
Henry Palisch operated a general store in Frohna. We see that store in this photo where it is called the Palisch Brothers Store. Behind the store is the Martin Fischer home and farm. In the distance, you can see Concordia Lutheran Church.
Palisch Brothers Store/Martin Fischer home
Next, we can view the Fischer household in the 1910 census. I have included the Doc Palisch household. He was married by then. All 6 of the Fischer children can be seen in this entry.
The maps produced in 1915 show a parcel of land identified as being owned by the Julia Palisch heirs which was likely farmed by Martin Fischer.
The 1920 census shows Martin's family next to Henry Palisch's family. At this time Sarah and Henry's mother, Juliane, was still alive at age 82 and living in the Fischer household.
The last census in which we find Martin Fischer was the one taken in 1930.
Martin Fischer died in 1931 at the age of 60. We can take a look at his death certificate. I'm a little bit curious why Doc Palisch did not sign this death certificate.
Martin Fischer death certificate
We can still find Sarah Fischer in the 1940 census living with her son, Walter, and his family.
I was unable to find a photo of Martin, but I did locate one that is said to be Sarah Fischer.
Sarah Fischer
Sarah Fischer died in 1951 at the age of 79. Her death certificate is signed by Doc Fischer from Altenburg. Her brother, Doc Palisch, had died about 4 months earlier in 1951. For some reason, Sarah's birth year on this form is 1871.
Sarah Fischer death certificate
Martin and Sarah Fisher are each buried in the Concordia Lutheran Cemetery in Frohna, Missouri. Sarah's gravestone also says she was born in 1871, but I think that is incorrect. Perhaps folks looked up her baptism record and saw that she was baptized in 1871.
Martin and Sarah Fischer gravestones – Concordia, Frohna, MO
As you now can see, the Palisch and the Fischer in this story would be placed in the category of being Frohna Palisch's and Frohna Fischer's.
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Susan Fischer Craton says:
I really enjoyed this post! My great-grandfather was Martin Fischer's brother (Gotthilf). Thank you so much for the work you do to keep these stories alive.
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A Federal Government remote work for the dole program has received an $11 million Budget boost targeting youth.
The Community Development Program, which started in 2015, has provided more than 12,400 job placements to participants in regions including the Kimberley.
At this month's Federal Budget, it was revealed millions would be spent developing and implementing a CDP youth engagement strategy together with schools.
A spokesman for Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said funding would be provided across all CDP regions and will support providers to deliver new strategies.
"The funding will be imple-mented flexibly, supporting CDP providers to work with local schools, existing youth services and other stakeholders to deliver a strategy that best meets the needs of the community," he said.
Mr Scullion said it was expected CDP youth engagement strategies would begin from June.
"Evidence suggests that young people who live in remote Australia are at a significant risk of disengaging from the workforce or schooling. Of particular concern is the lag in time between young people leaving school and engaging in the CDP," he said.
The CDP is not affected by the major changes to welfare announced in the Budget, which included a new compliance framework for job-active program regions, drug testing and the removal of exemptions due to drug or alcohol misuse.
The minister's spokesman said CDP could be affected by the changes to the Disability Support Pension from July 1 and "tighter reasonable excuse rules for non-compliance due to drug or alcohol related reasons for remote job seekers".
The CDP is the subject of a Senate inquiry into its effectiveness, which is due on September 14. Funding for the new youth strategy will come out of the Indigenous Advancement Strategy's Jobs, Land and Economy Programme.
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