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Martin Campbell-Kelly's September article on the origins of computing traces the history of machine computation from Charles Babbage, the 18th century British mathematician, through the 20th century. Yet according to many of our readers, we made a critical omission.
John Hauptman, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, writes:
The first person to build and operate an electronic digital computer was a physics professor, as correctly noted in your excellent article "Dr. Atanasoff's Computer," Scientific American, August 1988 [not online]. Atanasoff's first computer was a 12-bit 2-word machine running at 60Hz wall-plug frequency and could add and subtract binary numbers stored in a regenerative memory using a logic unit built with seven triode tubes. This was 1937. There was no war, no Pearl Harbor, just a theoretical physicist trying to solve problems in quantum mechanics with his students at Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa.
Edward B. Watters of Newberg, Oregon, points to a legal decision that also calls into question the traditional story—namely, that the first digital computer was the ENIAC, a machine built in 1945 by J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania:
In one of the longest cases, almost five years, in the history of the U.S. Federal Courts, Honeywell v. Sperry Rand , U.S. District Judge Earl R. Larson concluded in the verdict, published on October 19, 1973, that the Eckert and Mauchly patent for the ENIAC was invalid. Judge Larson declared that Eckert and Mauchly "did not themselves first invent the [ENIAC] automatic electronic digital computer, but instead derived that subject matter from one Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff."
We asked Campbell-Kelly, a professor of computer science at the University of Warwick in England and the author (along with William Aspray) of Computer: A History of the Information Machine, for his views on the Atanasoff controversy. He replies:
Computer historians are cautious about asserting priorities to inventors. I did not state that Eckert and Mauchly invented the electronic computer, but rather that they invented a particular computer, the ENIAC. I also said that "computing entered the electronic age with the ENIAC" which is true in the sense of a practical computing instrument of fairly broad application.
There were several electronic computing developments during World War II, both preceding and contemporaneous with the ENIAC, of which the Atanasoff machine was one—others included the NCR code-breaking machines, the Zuse Z4 computer in Germany, and the Colossus code breaking computer in the U.K. In a short article I could not acknowledge them all.
Atanasoff's machine was a little-known computer that was restricted to a narrow class of problem, was not programmable, and was never fully functional. Atanasoff discontinued development in 1942. The Atanasoff computer was virtually unknown until 1971 when it was uncovered in a patent suit brought by Honeywell against Sperry Rand to invalidate the ENIAC patent. During the trial it was revealed that Mauchly had visited Atanasoff and saw his computer in June 1941. What he learned from this visit cannot be known, but the design of the ENIAC bore no resemblance to the Atanasoff computer. Mauchly himself claimed that he took away "no ideas whatsoever." Although the judge gave priority of invention to Atanasoff, this was a legal judgment that surprised many historians.
In the article, Campbell-Kelly goes on to emphasize that the most important innovation—and one generally overlooked by casual observers—was the development of the stored-program computer concept by John von Neumann and collaborators in 1945. He writes that "this layout, or architecture, makes it possible to change the computer's program without altering the physical structure of the machine. Moreover, a program could manipulate its own instructions. This feature … would confer a powerful flexibility that forms the very heart of computer science."
What do you think? Should Eckert and Mauchly continue to receive credit for inventing the first electronic computer? Or Atanasoff? Or have von Neumann's contributions to computing theory been overlooked in favor of less important but more tangible physical machines?
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It has been historically held locally that the design for the first computer was written on a cocktail napkin in a Rock Island, Illinois bar while Dr. Atanasoff was having lunch.
We would hate to have to give up that distinction.
Another omission: I recall an article in Sci Am a few years ago concerning a gear-like object found on the sea floor near a Greek island. Upon examining it with imaging tools that penetrated the accretions covering the object, it was found to be a device for calculating recurring astronomic events, such as moon phase, eclipses, and the like. This was certainly the first analog computer, a couple thousand years before the analytic engine of Babbage.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe first computer wasn't digital, it was analog. The earliest one I know of is the Antikythera mechanism ( which isn't to say it's the earliest one we have by any means. )
As for programmable digital computers, I'd say you should be looking at mechanisms like player pianos for prior art. The rolls are arguably programs; paper tape in the most basic sense; and the machine's ability to engage many bits at a time for various sums, differences and shifts of discrete vibratory modes is comparable in many ways. Storage of, and combination with, previous states is managed with control of damping.
This is just one thing that comes to mind. Personally, I don't think the invention of the computer - digital or analog - is as clear cut as some would like us to believe.
Germany 1938 - Konrad Zuse Z1
Germany 1941 - Konrad Zuse Z3
As with 'man's first powered flight' unfortunately it is the one who is the loudest that gets the award (USA Again).
As with 'mans first powered flight' it is he who shouts the loudest, who gets the qudos! Again that was the US of A!
As with 'mans first powered flight', it's he who shouts the loudest who gets the award. Again it is the US of A.
The whole question of who was first is only of interest to clerks in a patents office. It is clear that modern computers developed from a whole range of sources, as is true of most things. Great minds think alike, and many people have had great ideas that they have had no way of realising, only to see their inventions appear elsewhere. Even Edison got most of his inventions from his staff. And so even inventors do not really benefit from their ideas, but just their employers who can afford the patents.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhere is the definition of what is considered a "computer" ?
No mention of Alan Turing?
Posidonius of Rhodes created the first calculating device, the Antikythera device, which has been shown to have remarkable mathematical properties.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe first complex mathematical calculating device was the Antikythera mechanism, purportedly built by Posidonius of Rhodes.
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Was a guy named Bambridge and mostly his female assistant back in the 1800's the first real computer? I think he called it a computing engine.
To my mind, the ability to be programmed is what distinguishes a computer from every other electronic device. While this characteristic is now blurring the line, this is only a recent development (primarily due to the inclusion of MPU's in a device's design). If it cannot be programmed (without a significant change to the device), it's not a computer.
Second, it is my opinion that if a device hasn't been constructed and proven to be functional, it hasn't been invented. Until that milestone is reached, it can only be said to be conceived.
How about the Jaquard loom where perforated cardboard defined the desigs woven by the machine in the 18th century, more or less!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe Jaquard programable loom where designs are determined bya perforated board and the player piano. These although not electronic are programable computers!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAs with most new advances of technology, it is, as the article clearly shows, difficult to pinpoint a single 'invention' to credit. The evolving of the digital computer, as I see it, the result of a will and intention powerd by WW2 and based on the work of scientists as Von Neuman, Alan Turing and many more. The Colossus vas in deed a programmable computer altough purpose built. The ENIAC vas probably the first 'comersial' unit, as many og its predesessors were coverd by deep secracy at its time.
All together - no one was really first - it was, and is, part of a coninnious evolvment that has yet to see its limits!
A couple of folks have mentioned the Antikythera mechanism (speculatively attributed to Posidonius of Rhodes). Certainly an amazing and surprising machine for its age, whether to call this a computer or not is debatable. It is worth noting that, in the late 18th century, when machines very similar to the Antikythera mechanism were finally constructed in western Europe, they were not counted as computing devices though the concept of a computing device was understood and the word "computer" was already in use (it applied to people -- human computers). While these "orreries" in the 18th century simulated the motion of the planets, they did not "compute" to any useful degree. Further, when Babbage started work on his analog computer a few decades later, no one suggested that the earlier orreries had beaten him to the punch. Calling the Antikythera machine a "computer" is equally problematic. Of course, if one insists on caling the Antikythera machine a computer, a reasonable compromise would be to refer to all orreries as "computers" too. Any and all mechanical contrivances which simulate planetary motion or any other phenomenon could be called "computers". But all of that dilutes the meaning of the word.
Finally, for those who brought up the Antikythera device, this article was NOT talking about the first computer. Mechanical and electro-mechanical computers certainly came first. Sophisticated electro-mechanical computers were found on nearly every US submarine during the Second World War, just to name one example. The question at hand is just this: does the Atanasoff machine count as the first true ELECTRONIC computer.
really? wow i didnt even now this.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIS THIS ALL TRUE?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWILL SOMEONE GIVE ME "ACURATE" INFORMATION ON COMPUTERS?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSO WHERE WAS IT INVENTED
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisJEEZ IF IDIDNT NOW ANY BETTER ID THINK U WERE LYIN
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTruth be told, John Vincent Atanasoff, he was the first to build the electronic digital computer-- the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. Digitalization is the shuttle that moved man so far in a short period.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisJacquard loom is programmable. The path that leads to the modern computer should be sought out in the electronic-digital-looms, if you will.
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Just thought I would let you know that the first shipment of fish came in tonight. 3 fish, Male Champsochromis, Protomelas Spilonotus Tanzania, and Placidochromis sp. "Phenochilus Tanzania". This is by far the easiest shipment process that I have had... Apart with a bad accident of baby fish. **sigh**, my plan was to move 30 1 inch fry out of 20 gallon into the 90 and for whatever reason that decided to act very "skiddish" and let oh let me tell you did that attract my 7 inch female Nimbochromis Venusteus, she stays in that tank because the male is too hard on her. Well she started going nuts on the little guys, then of course that just excited every other fish in that tank. I ended up losing 15 of them in about two minutes, but I guess that is how it is in nature as well. I managed to save 15 and have them set up in a tank... ANYWAY, back to the exciting part. The Protomelas was showing tons of color out of the bag, this was the Wild Caught fish, no cuts wounds or anything that jumped at me to say it was wild caught. One thing I did notice. THIS FISH WAS SKIDDISH. He just went bonkers and was running around nailing the side of the tank. I turned the lights off right away in the room and still heard him going to town on the glass, I then put a towel over the tank in hopes that in other heater lights or anything wouldn't bother him. I am sure he will be a lot more friendly once we become introduced haha. The champ is only 4.5 inches, "he" didn't seem to have any color, but definitely looks different than my champs, I am a little worried about adding him to the 220 because of his size so I think in a couple of weeks I might put him in my 90 gallon and just let him gain a bit of size, I would hate to put him in the 220 only to get killed. And last but not least, my absolute favorite, the Phenochilus Tanzania, the pictures I have seen of this fish do NOT give it justice. It is just so beautiful. I would say mine is about 4 inches, has a very nice deep blue and seemed to be a very social fish. I added it to the 20 gallon tank and walked in the room a bit later and the fish was following me when I would go to one side, it was almost acting like it wanted food lol. Anyway, I plan to not feed the fish for at least two days. I am not sure if any of them will end up right in my 220, my fish are pretty big, but maybe it will work out. I think my favorite so far is the Pheno followed by the Tanzania, then champ, although I bet I will love that guy when he colors up.
One Question: I have the champ in a 29 gallon all by himself, I have the Tanzania in a 10 gallon all by himself, in a couple days would I possibly be able to add the Tanzania in with the Champ? I wondered if maybe the extra space in that tank would make it feel a little bit more comfortable? Both of these fish came from the same guy, same water, share your thoughts!
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2012 has been a breakthrough year for the up-and-coming actor.
On his first day as a substitute teacher at Humboldt Park's Pedro Albizu Campos High School in 2010, actor Arturo Soria was thankful for two words at the bottom of his lesson plan: "role play." Once the required academic portion of class was completed, Soria had the uninterested students stand and play "Zip Zap Zop," a popular backstage warm-up in which those words are passed around the circle at a rapid pace, and watched as they filled with energy. That one-off gig would lead to two years working at the high school and a new nickname: the "Zip Zap Zop" Teacher.
Using a theater warm-up as a teaching exercise shows how Soria, 25, incorporates what he's learned in performance outside of the theater. Conversely, his personal experiences have informed his characters onstage, particularly during the past year.
A New Jersey native and son of a Brazilian mother and Ecuadorean father, Soria has an East Coast Latino background that made him the perfect fit for the quick-talking, razor-sharp Stonewall rioter Tano in the Inconvenience's Hit the Wall, the breakout play of last spring's Steppenwolf Garage Rep. For his role as L.A. gangster Creon in Victory Gardens' Oedipus el Rey, Soria mined his experience at Pedro Albizu Campos. "For the idea of what it is to be in a gang and what it is to live in this neighborhood and to look over your shoulder, I took a lot of influence from my students and the community," Soria says over drinks at Lincoln Park café Bourgeois Pig.
Soria has stopped teaching since turning Equity earlier this year, with classroom time replaced by daytime rehearsals for Victory Gardens' upcoming Equivocation. In Bill Cain's historical drama, Soria plays Sharpe, a member of William Shakespeare's acting company. The role is a distinct departure for the actor, and his first foray into Shakespearean language since graduating from the Theatre School at DePaul in 2009. "I'm still transitioning," Soria says. "I've been wanting to read my lines with a dialect that's more urban, and it doesn't work as well. I'm having to retrain myself to speak in a different pattern."
That re-education has proven handy, especially in the audition room. "My Shakespeare auditions, I always bomb them. Yesterday, I had an awesome Shakespeare audition, partly because of this play and learning to talk again." He prepared for that audition with the help of costar Bruce A. Young. Learning from established professionals has been one of the major boons of going Equity, Soria says. But a part of him misses the gung-ho cooperative spirit of the city's storefront scene.
"For me, what's exciting about storefront theater is the ensemble and the family that you build with those people," Soria says. "With Hit the Wall, we were all very collaborative. There's this sense that we're in this together, we're going to build it together."
Soria considers the role of Tano a high point in his career, a sentiment shared by Hit the Wall director Eric Hoff: "Arturo's knowledge of queer history and queer politics, he understands that as an educator and an activist and an organizer. Combined with his natural talent as a performer, he really understood what the role of Tano was all about."
For his next project following Equivocation, Soria takes on a very familiar role: his mother. "My mom is an entertainer, she just doesn't get paid for it," he jokes. Presented as part of MPAACT's Solo Jams series, You Don't Know My Life, Ni Mi Madre is the latest step in his growth as a writer and performer, an evolution that Soria is happy to experience in Chicago.
"When I graduated, I was thinking a lot about where I want to go: Should I go back home to New York? Should I go to L.A.? I'm really proud that I stayed in Chicago and stuck it out."
In previews now, Equivocation opens Monday 24.


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One billion people.
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Just as merchants viewed the port of Shanghai as a gateway to China's enormous market potential in the nineteenth century, online firms see search engines as a clear entrée to a rapidly growing digital population, with emerging economies like China holding the greatest opportunity. So it is no surprise that competition among online search firms to dominate the Chinese market is only getting hotter.
To examine this dynamic picture more closely, several areas are considered here: the background of search engines and online search in China; the history of major players Yahoo!, Google, and Baidu, along with their strategies in several domains; trends in this space, and their implications for approaching the Chinese search market.
Search Engines and Online Search in China
Search engines are web-based tools that use software-based "spiders" to search keywords online and index relevant web pages, with advanced technologies seeking to understand the keywords' context. Search engines' general goal, of course, is to provide the matches most relevant to a user's query.
Google and Yahoo! dominate the U.S. search market, enhancing their capabilities regularly (e.g., recent MP3, video, blog, and natural language forms of search). Search firms generate revenues through advertising, with advertisers paying to be featured as sponsored links (usually on a cost-per-click basis). Thus their success depends on offering high value propositions to both consumers and advertisers.
China's Internet population grew 20 percent to 137 million users in 2006, and is expected to overtake the United States in about three years. The majority of Internet users are in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Though dominant in the United States, Yahoo! and Google have struggled in China, facing challenges understanding Chinese users/advertisers, competing with local rivals (e.g., Baidu), and navigating regulations.
In 1999 Yahoo! partnered with 3721.com, China's first search engine, and soon after invested $1 billion in alibaba.com, turning over its Chinese operations to alibaba, an unprecedented move. But ongoing management culture clashes have contributed to Yahoo!'s owning only 5 percent of the search market. Google began in 2004 in China with an investment in local player Baidu. "Google underestimated China," said Baidu's Chief Scientist. Perhaps Google agreed, attempting to launch independent operations there a year later. Though Google offered a more localized search engine (www.google.cn), brand confusion and regulation issues, along with the rise of Baidu, led to a share drop from 33 percent to 21 percent over 2006. Baidu, founded by Robin Li in 1999, has used its Chinese language search to capture 62 percent of China's market.
Long-term success for these players in China will depend on five factors: building a wide user base; developing ecosystem partners; attracting advertisers; understanding government regulations; sustaining a talented, innovation-focused management team including strong local capabilities.
Who are China's Searchers?
To succeed, search engines must understand Chinese end-users, especially how they differ from U.S. users. For example, Chinese users are younger, with 72 percent under thirty. They are also more entertainment-focused; 31 percent mentioned music as one of their primary search goals. Baidu's strong mp3 search channel addresses this need, helping it capture 85 percent of music searches. Chinese users also prize online communities and user-generated content, based in part on the culture's focus on close relationships. "Baidu's social networking products have even more traffic than its search engine," according to a Baidu executive. Beyond Baidu, Tencent, owner of QQ—China's most popular instant messenger (150 million users)—may be able to attract much of the market to SOSO, its search engine.
Chinese users, for whom the Internet is still relatively new, have few pre-set expectations for search engines, representing an opportunity to set new rules and a challenge to avoid imposing Western standards. For example, Chinese users may be more amenable to being offered paid search results (as Baidu does) and less concerned with censorship than Western users. In general, they are willing to try new offerings, and seek diverse product mixes.
Age and profession tend to influence Chinese users' search engine preferences: 49 percent of Google users work in enterprises; 48 percent of Baidu users are students. "We are trying to change Google's user interface [to be more dynamic] to attract the young people," says a Google employee. But converting those already accustomed to a rival search engine remains a major challenge: "You start with a search engine, you get used to it," says a Guanghua MBA student.
Partnership Power
Several recent high-profile partnerships across industries (e.g., Best Buy and Five Star Appliances) have illuminated the value of a collaborative approach to China, which extends to search engines. Chinese companies possess tremendous local knowledge and recognized brands that could benefit their Western peers. A former Yahoo! China employee even suggests that foreign search engines should seek 50 percent domestic-owned partnerships to overcome China's challenges. For example, China's government is more sympathetic to such alliances, and its legal system is much easier to navigate with a local partner.
Yet partnerships generate their own share of challenges, as well. These include undercutting by Chinese partners (e.g., Yahoo! sued partner 3721.com's founder for stealing trade secrets and poaching employees), difficulties integrating firms due to cultural differences, and the costs of negotiating profit-sharing.
Yahoo! has been the most aggressive with partnerships and acquisitions, whereas Google has opted to approach China without local allies. The Yahoo-alibaba partnership demonstrates the value of complementary offerings: alibaba has provided Yahoo! with an ecommerce channel through its alibaba marketplaces, drawing a larger user base and more traffic.
Acquiring Advertisers
In the United States, 99 percent of Google's revenues come from advertising, illustrating the importance of attracting advertisers seeking to place either display ads (e.g., banners) or sponsored links (known as "paid search"). Search engines focus mostly on the latter.
Online advertising represents only 2.3 percent of total ad spending in China, but has been growing at over 75 percent annually. In second quarter 2006, Baidu had a 50 percent share of sponsored-links revenues; Google and Yahoo/alibaba had approximately 16 percent each. These numbers are disproportionate to shares of users, where Baidu, Google, and Yahoo! hold 62 percent, 20 percent, and 4 percent, respectively. China's paid search market is highly fragmented, containing mostly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), many of which don't even have websites and thus require more handholding.
Partly for this reason, SME-advertiser acquisition in China requires a larger salesforce, in contrast to the self-serve model dominant in the United States. Search engines have used both direct (i.e., employed by the firm) and channel (contracted) salesforces in China, with the latter typically targeting locations outside the major cities. Baidu has successfully used discounts and incentives to motivate channel salespeople (who do not represent a given engine exclusively), while Google has struggled to combat fraudulent resellers claiming to be Google-certified. Yahoo! purchased 3721.com largely for its three hundred-agent channel salesforce. But channel sales tend to present poor quality control; 26 percent of Chinese advertisers were concerned about misleading practices with these distributors.
Another challenge is advertiser payments. Google requires that SMEs use international credit cards, which are hard to obtain, or work with one of 20 Google partner agencies that can handle non-credit transactions (for a 20 percent fee). Baidu uses its knowledge of the local market to avoid these stipulations for advertisers, but has recently had to increase the deposit required from SMEs, slowing its ad revenue growth, especially from smaller firms.
And not all advertiser clicks are created equal. Already a thorn in the side of Google U.S., "click fraud" refers to deliberate clicks on paid ads to force target companies (those whose ads are clicked on) to pay more. Survey respondents estimated that 34 percent of Baidu clicks, and 27 percent and 24 percent of Yahoo! and Google clicks, respectively, in China were fraudulent or invalid, leading to advertiser dissatisfaction and churn. The higher rate for Baidu may result from its policy of including paid search ads within natural search results, which may confuse users and lead to unintentional clicks.
A search firm's overall success with advertisers depends on the strength of its salesforce, distributors, and agencies. Improving performance in one or more of those areas (e.g., Google's gaining the ability to accept local payment) should improve advertising revenues.
Governmental and Legal Gatekeeping
The Chinese government imposes censorship rules on all search engines operating in China. Among the over eighteen thousand sites reported to be blocked: websites of outlawed groups (e.g., Falun Gong); news sources, including the BBC, that may cover taboo topics (e.g., Tiananmen Square); Taiwan government sites; sites containing obscenity and pornography; Dalai-Lama-linked sites. Imperfect filters also block non-threatening sites; for example, Google in China blocks date.com, an online dating service. Western businesses must balance the development of censorship-friendly products with the potential backlash from human rights groups such as Amnesty International. In early 2007, the major search engines asked the U.S. government to define rules for complying with censorship demands.
Beyond censorship, search firms in China must deal with increased litigation around intellectual property protection. For instance, Baidu and Yahoo! China were named as complicit in guilt (for linking to unauthorized free music download sites) in lawsuits brought by EMI, Sony BMG, and several others representing fourteen hundred recording artists. Despite an initial Beijing court ruling for Baidu, continued criticism and litigation may lead to significant modification of mp3 search options on all engines.
The War for Talent
All three major search engines experience major staff turnover, especially at the engineer and senior management levels. Google, which can offer better compensation, has had better luck recruiting recent college graduates than Baidu, which may lead to a shortage of managers for the latter in the near future. Yet Baidu, the most local firm, has generally strong local product management teams, which are crucial assets. Google and Yahoo! are increasingly recruiting local talent, but all three players must continually foster innovative thinking among all teams.
The firms also strive to strike a balance between local talent and U.S. teams. Google, for example, transferred a whole Chinese team from its Mountain View headquarters to set up the China practice, which ensured a higher level of compatibility between the new office and U.S. operations, but may make it more challenging to improve local capabilities. Nationalism also plays a role in recruiting. Baidu promotes itself as "Search by Chinese for Chinese." One interviewee suggested, "People go to Google because they want to go to the United States. People go to Baidu to benefit China."
To make ongoing progress in the battle for search engine dominance in China, all players must attend carefully to the issues covered here: developing an installed base of loyal users; reaching advertisers with attractive terms and a robust salesforce; establishing strategic partnerships; managing regulatory/legal issues and the war for talent.
Early leader Baidu must continue fostering product innovation and partnerships, Google should build stronger local capabilities, and Yahoo! must sort out management issues and develop a clear identity as part of alibaba.com. All three will also do well by addressing some or all of the following trend-related tasks: capturing more Internet users from emerging cities and/or school-age segments; incorporating search with other services; developing more offerings for mobile users. Playing thoughtfully in these areas as part of an overall plan to please Chinese users, partners, advertisers, and the government, will help search engines drive more of China's one billion people to their one tiny text box.
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I read this post today from Chris Wesley and it's one that really got me thinking. Do I try and prevent fires from starting in my ministry, or am I waiting too long and having to put fires out? Check out the tease below, the entire post can be found here.
Everyone likes to be ahead. When you are ahead you feel more in control, you feel like you are at a manageable pace and life is good. To fall behind can happen for a number of reasons. If you are tired, confused or, overwhelmed it's easy to let the work pile up. In youth ministry, falling behind is constantly checking emails, always responding to phone calls, putting together projects last minute, not knowing what you are going to talk about tonight, etc.
The reason you are falling behind is because you've learned to be reactive instead of proactive in your ministry. To become proactive one must be intentional or else you let life happen and you are playing catch up. If you spend the majority of your time trying to keep up then you'll miss the important aspects of ministry, like building relationships. So, you want to get ahead; however, to get there you need to know what reactive ministry looks like compared to proactive.


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And what this what sequestration.
Is it's a terrible way to cut spending I don't disagree without.
But could not cut two and a half percent out of the total budget over a year when it's twice the size it was ten years ago.
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Angry -- was doctor Tom Coburn -- -- senator from the great state of Oklahoma talking to Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
About sequestration.
Automatic spending cuts so that cuts the reductions that increases.
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I think that were ready to make a pretty bold statement here is that the world may not in fact and on Friday there is a possibility.
That like -- Mayan apocalypse the sequester apocalypse may have been overstated.
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Pleasantly rough and we welcome your pleasant roughness here -- -- excited and I think he should run right he could I mean it's he's totally -- Oklahoma State state and he's over 35.
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Well doesn't feel like much is changing Chris yeah -- It feels like people are pretty pessimistic they think that.
In terms of finding -- a logical way of dealing with the sequester -- they seem to think that it's going to hit on Friday and then.
The question is after several weeks when they go to DV continuing resolution to fund the government.
-- they find some way out of the deal or or how does it work.
But bottom line and we heard that Claire McCaskill on FOX News Sunday saying that on for a balanced approach meaning more tax revenue to be included.
We've also heard from people like Mike Rogers -- the house intelligence chairman who would like to see more.
Precision cuts if you will so the second aircraft carrier could go to the Middle East but maybe that EPA guy won't go to his conference somewhere.
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Now might win and Republicans are already -- voters are already working on their continuing resolution language.
That would reflect lower funding levels in the sequestration.
The Wall Street Journal reports that senate Democrats.
Are concerned that if they don't have anything to counter with they don't have a -- they may be forced into taking with the Republicans have offered.
Well that's right and so that's why some Republicans are moving forward think in -- -- this won't be bad if we can set the bar lower lower number this could actually do some of the things that we.
Think we were elected to do by coming to Washington did try to get a handle on spending and so.
Republicans are moving forward as if these sequester is going to take place and and those numbers are the new reality and so then the pressure becomes on the senate Democrats to figure out.
What their next step will be.
They may be winning to a certain degree the PR war when the president rolls out.
The first responders and some of the people saying that these folks are not going to be on the job if these cuts go forward.
But there may be a practical impact of the future funding fights if you will from what comes out this week in terms of the sequester.
Nothing like -- four year -- budget battle to get everybody excited Mike Emanuel we thank you very much for making time for Santa.
So this basically the case brother hurt I -- suppose.
I wrote car.
Don't -- -- to about gun control.
Guns guns at him and you can't you can't let go -- even if you live in DC.
All right I wrote a column the talks about the best actor in a drama.
Barack Obama.
And all of the dramatics that have surrounded the sequestration.
You can have them anyway simply for the -- to follow me on Twitter.
Don't think I've had the cost of it's a credit because today would you think about it reading my immediate reading my -- but I'm gonna Tweety here in -- second for you in an editorial that last.
But basically my point being.
This isn't one crisis this is a crisis that really started in the spring of 2011 and will continue till the spring -- 2015 this is divided government and this is Brock bond isn't gonna do big deal.
Yeah and it's a crisis that began I would actually argue even before that well absolutely gained like sixty I think -- And I think you're exactly bit but -- but Mexican American war was really.
You know we're still we're still.
Long shadows over Bryant exactly -- Zuma but more more more recently it's it's also get through it goes back a little bit further.
Back when you know President Obama and Democrats in congress they ran the whole the whole.
They were everything and that and I and I all and I feel like a broken record is and keep -- -- this but my goodness if they wouldn't it if they.
You saw this coming which they should have seen because everybody.
Saw coming.
You know -- anybody who studies that -- -- the spending and and with the federal government has.
My goodness they they had they controlled the White House and both chambers of congress they could have either cut the way they wanted to cut hole or didn't like cutting.
I've been sending my point if he's -- this is for dramatic.
I was getting.
Thank you -- it.
-- they raised taxes -- -- -- actually come up with the money to -- So that they don't ever had to cut any spending.
They could've done that they could've done without Republicans.
And they could have done it without all of this obstructionism.
For us.
Republicans and things like that but they didn't do it and that's the reason they didn't do it this is politically unpopular and -- and and they didn't wanna pay the price for.
But -- now.
They're faced with that with Republicans in the house who refuse to go along with this idea of taking even more money from hard working Americans.
And and and -- with that with that option.
Vs the option of actually finding cuts they would rather just complain and blame Republicans for refusing to allow them to.
But the -- that is the truth is if you really keynesian if you really believe that the way to.
Supercharged economy -- -- government spending.
You know probably has done about wage and consistency and -- but quite yes Chrysler -- just making sure they know how would you -- I I just don't say I just today it I don't use words that you said in his -- -- -- but the Indians and I don't I know enough to know I'm not want them you're not you're definitely not one of them now okay so where the Keyes is that Alan Keyes.
Yes that's -- you are you are possibly one of them yet.
For the keynesian and they believe that any government spending even if wasteful.
It is good in the sense that it it.
Puts that money out into the economy.
And that.
And it -- it rewards.
Those that deserve at least reward as opposed to -- I guess this is the -- -- -- -- that's looking at a different which is the -- and if you make money.
The government shouldn't stand between you and the person that you're making money from -- and and gobble up that money and then steal that money.
Unless there is a very very very specific and high and important purposeful.
-- -- that wants to know if it's casual Friday already know this is -- is not this he's not being as casual Monday being pro American.
All right we're gonna take a quick break but when we come back.
We will talk about a possible presidential candidates Tom Coburn included.
But others that mr.
Berger thanks could -- currencies the ET -- we'll talk about that and more when we come back -- Iraq.
And that is the executive mansion.
The federal government also known as the White House.
And this is -- welcome back -- look inside the White House today President Obama -- meeting with talking to governors the -- of the various dates of the several states who were in town.
For the annual meeting of the National Governors Association they had lunch with the president today he told them stuff.
Told them that the sequester is bad and things like that.
But while some of those guys are in -- they're probably wondering what it would be like if they were the host instead of the guest.
So what about some potential candidates for 2016 were intent on this weekend -- -- over the weekend and and today Charles hurt is willing to engage.
In this sort of rank speculation because it's fun.
The here's the deal.
This war the Democrats.
All of their -- -- Hillary Clinton were probably there in the room yet.
Martin O'Malley governor of Maryland you had Andrew Cuomo governor of new York and Joseph Biden.
Are all.
It's true.
-- I love the idea of Joseph Biden right.
I think -- -- love the idea of Joseph Biden I would love to cover that would that be are we.
He and -- absolutely but -- but it it's it but it's kind of funny.
-- the idea that people keep asking him -- that this has become.
A very serious issue.
So yeah.
Parts split from reality right -- which is why you and I enjoyed front and in our sadistic way but they're -- -- those those who is anybody else on the -- -- other than O'Malley Clinton.
I don't yet from New York -- his or somebody else out there.
I think that there are a number of different contenders but I think that but I don't get that any of them matter because there's so far.
Down get to get down the total that there obviously Hillary is the number one if for health is I didn't see and also if she actually would go along with -- I think it is to speak totally honestly.
I think it's.
That's -- kind of a stretch to think that she is going to this point.
Go along with it but I think I look and I think that just the Democrats -- cry if it -- very upset.
But it takes a lot of an enormous amount of energy it takes an enormous amount of.
Fortitude that she is as he put forth in the past.
And come up short.
And -- and she was a -- and she was a sure thing.
She it's whatever was five years is a sure thing Arenas that are built that there was no doubt about it whatsoever and I'm sure in the back her -- she's like a -- sure thing again particularly Florida.
And so as your president is -- Yeah but also she's a political animal maybe she I think she probably would enjoy watching Joseph Biden run as much as you and I was well it is it is by -- you have to -- this you have to give the upper hand to.
He -- me if I were to -- all you can run Cuomo but this put this is part of what's pushing the Democrats the left.
Talking about.
Talk about this that with a straight face like like Andrew Cuomo is that he is a viable choice of the huge -- New York used to be a giant state it's still pretty good.
-- get a like Yankee from the northeast I just don't see that like appealing that he's -- -- gotten it yet.
But that's like man of the -- -- yeah -- special anymore that's.
The government the Italian Americans have never had a president -- that's a true fact.
He but I mean c'mon we've -- -- that.
Memo in -- -- yeah I disagree with that would have to say the judicial branch you know pretty well locked up in court.
It's obviously it's not what that is listed in mean could've been as low -- and -- -- seventy cholesterol counts -- what's.
Well obviously he has the high cholesterol.
Count aggravated the highest girth of all New Jersey.
Governor but but I -- -- present its.
Or hurricane -- if he got to blame in the right places and -- -- Romney's I'm.
And I understand it around because that -- anything that -- but I mean my goodness.
Republican governor of New Jersey and he -- just.
Off the charts.
But I would believe that I would see him as being more palatable just because it goes sort of against the ruling on the Democrats -- -- opened up for a little while ago.
Does it -- -- back.
-- article you are any -- artists socially socially moderate.
That's Obama hugging guys going to use these.
Endorsing is just storm through Super Tuesday endorsing the -- -- -- -- -- -- prime.
I can see that -- For the nomination I'm talking about as ever before running and -- -- general I would see that before I would -- Andrew Cuomo.
Grabbing people's doesn't do any good news you are upset about it they're like admitted yeah I am upset and -- -- -- and win Pennsylvania.
What about the Republicans.
So you've got now and but what lies in the Democrats in the form about.
What is moving though people -- Cuomo and O'Malley and Biden to the left rally.
He's the Maryland is like a hugely democratic noting report.
Luxury but it plays and he -- an Irish hand these -- Biden now locally this.
-- is shooting is he's a double barrel rattled -- How -- two people if I'm.
Now rather than his cooler weather pushing Democrats laughter exhibit American does he -- in -- but.
-- What Democrats are doing now they're exam has something to do with getting ready for these primaries and -- liberal base right Cuomo's thinking about a national audience of Democrats when he does the -- -- right.
Yeah but yeah I guess but I -- yeah I'm surety it and that's correct but.
But it's -- good but it's a big loser.
Long term I mean even.
You know Obama when he when he talked river we talk down about guns my -- It during the primary if he had to take.
Two or three weeks to spend -- and yeah.
I think -- and and and and it was a disaster story curry it was and not super helpful announcement -- yeah.
-- little bit of fun and there are a lot of other places it that are important to two Democrats where that sort of thing just it's just it's just one of those totally clueless things.
Where where especially.
You know liberals.
Northeast liberals but with -- where Washington just has no.
Did as a total disconnect with the real America about.
About people that happens liking their freedom in the form of governance.
-- right.
So it.
It is a trends in by the way you were accepted it was the onion that is identified.
That it was a -- -- watching it watching trans am.
Gave me the if he had he has it was classic words with -- with the Phoenix right there Odom Peter -- Burt Reynolds popular -- that -- OK and Lauren are you prepared Internet to have your bounds of good taste -- -- Further still -- is because when we come back we're going to have our own Oscars mr.
hurt and I right here are going to do that.
And talk about what political -- might have been given out in Washington.
Instead of Los Angeles last night.
-- -- if you have any suggestions whether to send the men and will laugh even the last all the harder.
So get ready for some good time.
Just in cigarette -- live from the White House the first lady of the United States.
Michelle Obama.
And those star struck stargazers were.
These celebrities who were at the where they have that at Grauman's Chinese Theatre where they have it out in Hollywood that they have the Oscars last night and they had a special surprise for Michelle Obama.
The first lady of the United States who appears there was some.
For some reason people from the armed forces.
And this.
And the flowers I don't know -- -- -- for birdie instruments on the White House exit -- I don't know what they have to do that I don't I went I don't.
Hopefully they've got a good and she's got a better on the horizon and used to by now with what you -- guys I guys my people have guns there's but it figures -- alcohol old Charlie hurt.
The Washington Times is with -- still in -- has agreed to -- us.
Here's what I sort of long is the White House can play that game which about about playing in Hollywood and at what point do do do do are you kidding doesn't really.
What do you mean how long ago I did that get I get that but.
But at some point.
People -- their hands and our.
It merited it but what was it that bonds jumping the shark I think there's no throwing up Jenkins jumping the Charles Atlas of yes it was and after those are happy -- -- -- -- at some.
The Obama has jumped the -- with all -- -- so they don't think Ayers -- some of that stuff I don't have papers today to shuffle.
People of celebrities to go crazy about celebs you can keep going on Rachael Ray and Ellen DeGeneres and you wouldn't you want.
And nobody cares and it's fine I don't know you're getting in the way over.
-- -- place we're trying to have -- event here so we decided we hear it in power play decided that.
We should have -- of our own.
On par with the Oscars in terms of giving out some giving -- some prizes in politics.
We'll start out with one of my favorites that is best cost him.
Best cost him.
Now this was starting with this -- because it's the easiest won a best -- goes to Frederica Wilson and democratic congresswoman from Florida who never goes anywhere without a giant cowboy hat on.
Preferably this red sparkly one that is for the more formal occasions.
Congressman Wilson who has been on this telecast.
Knows she explained to us that you have to stand out somehow in Washington gives -- a sparkly red cowboy hat will always have you stand out.
I go Barney Frank received for sure of that house floor with the -- with this language that was -- grows off.
-- okay well this is the difference between you and family telecast.
OK how about best supporting actors best supporting actor Jimmy nominees for best supporting actor you know I I -- and the envelope to Joseph Biden.
Because he gets to support yeah he's just so fantastic and no matter how bad the White House does -- -- always -- divides it.
He's -- -- -- -- -- Linda -- with you don't want anything to happen this is a guy and our hope is to keep jogging this yeah smoke it's because if I'm gone that's that's -- true effort.
-- the academy that power play academy of arts and sciences went.
A tie it was a tie I think Rick Perry Newt Gingrich Herman Cain Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann and it's tied for best supporting actor because obviously.
Mitt Romney if any of them had been able to get it together for more than about.
48 hours.
Mitt Romney would have lost the Republican nomination just because -- All of them led him at one point or another.
And he even would literally literally they all those people let him at one point or another up to it but it -- Herman Cain -- -- Herman -- and the whole thing that with the former employees and -- -- and people like the fourth anyway.
Garrett just did not Romney.
So good excuse Cory -- and that was Fox News contributor I mean I'm trying to get about power play because he is good he has the 999 that you moment I.
I have a new -- -- by the way what's that nine and a via its isn't it it's Florida it's one that's culturally and -- because -- still sort.
He's he's varies throughout your kid that's strong OK how about best actor in a comedy American people.
Little screwed everything that happened and it's kind of -- horror.
Horror horror comedy be like scream the gays -- be this good.
Yeah okay well -- power play tentative arts and sciences -- arts and sciences went with vice president Joseph Biden.
As the -- that if this could actually -- show -- serialized the local fight you and -- just the union leadership it would be Cuba -- yet well.
Shouldn't be on a couple of close.
What -- We have days serious -- -- rule on the show that we use and hours and not like to talk about that.
I know people from east region elect Republicans vote.
OK best actor in a drama.
Who is the best actor and you can't be Obama that is that is not as Barack Obama as he was -- after -- if.
And Richard the third and Richard the third well he definitely is good at making things sound dramatic combat and it helps him doesn't.
-- -- -- -- William Harris who ran this did that lesbians in the Republican Party they can't they can't rub close together again yeah they're like.
They it's.
It just so.
And yet they're they're doing like a mayberry RFD episode and this guy's this guy's doing Richard three.
-- -- stuff that's not an -- check out.
In fact I think they should you sort of go into remission.
For us three years is just an eighteen months -- they just need to take eighteen months all this government terms yet.
Yet well we have a video with a nightmare but it's not like -- -- the senate and then those -- -- little bit -- agents.
Cherokee that are -- is sour is our down around about this best best special effects Washington and -- -- -- -- -- Paul Ron Paul run is what the academy came up with.
Do Ross Perot is the -- -- -- -- -- for a always holding up something always has chart and you know what.
Nobody can see it nobody really knows -- to -- and -- -- -- -- the lines I've got all these sweetly jubilee lines -- the place and it was funny would have.
Happened when Romney picked him that he can explain it and -- people if I was like no hint it's no one can explain this stuff because by the time you've.
You've said the word 1000000000018.
Anybody including you and me it just glaze over like -- -- it's all know there's no numbers and when they say that I hear keynesian.
Kenzie -- can keep it here.
Authorities thought you'd -- that's -- your.
All right this -- mean.
Best editing best at it.
Steve croft -- had to do it I'm sorry because that was Steve croft who said that he got to do all the softball interviews the president because they like it.
The study was good -- Atlantic Canada park where people and those.
-- And last category of course appropriately as best picture best picture of the year.
Who gets the honor in your book.
-- -- Yours is the best that's what's gonna you know everybody you are still here it's by far my favorite Bill Clinton looking at Kelly Clarkson during variety of topics and not a -- -- they say it's -- bombing.
That's Oakland.
I don't know what -- bombing is in Arkansas -- are.
I'll check in and out checking it out hey girl you are you -- an American Idol it's nice -- and hit it just saying -- -- -- rural credit yeah that isn't Hot Springs and copy of photo Bob yeah good from this angle to the exact collective lever it that's what you're critically injured -- -- wouldn't for me exactly can I could run again would you implement record.
Didn't look at that they like his leg of that money -- yeah.
Where where what that's he said -- what -- in that -- you know you know it shouldn't who's.
If if I was back then they got my truck maker a fifty yes he did yes he didn't like the Washington he language he uses a good look at -- looking Murton and she's probably best look -- -- -- -- -- headed and then I got was also agreed to it was yet.
Stricter with active it's alchemy of his I mean it got through second tour of England was picked as he got -- boy got loose he got good -- starting out no they didn't with the impeachment.
Sorry about that I would -- it was total dragged away we didn't.
-- I think what is the media was focused on.
Or sex yes exactly since you talk about stimulus.
And and -- and since they weren't taught me the economy it just it just didn't.
And congratulations to Ray LaHood.
Now the secretary of commerce with the time with the club manager for president Clinton's impeachment.
Well done.
OK -- -- we thank you thank you indulging us today the Internet as grateful as always for your wise it's replies quite so now.
Power play roles mean more excellent -- -- second half hour of excellent lies ahead just seconds from now.
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The parents of Chelsea Carley and Brian Bilger announce the couple's engagement and approaching September 2013 wedding.
Chelsea is the daughter of Murray and Laurie Carley of Tiffin. She graduated in 2009 from Columbian High School. She will graduate in May fom Heidelberg University with a bachelor's degree in early childhood and special education.
Brian is the son of Alan and Marsha Bilger of Tiffin. He graduated in 2002 from Columbian High School and owns and operates Bilger's Lawn and Landscape, Tiffin.


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Black Bean 'n' Pumpkin Chili Recipe
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 medium sweet yellow pepper, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 cans (15 ounces each) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (15 ounces) solid-pack pumpkin
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 2-1/2 cups cubed cooked turkey
- 2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Cubed avocado and thinly sliced green onions, optional
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and pepper; cook and stir until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer.
- Transfer to a 5-qt. slow cooker; stir in the remaining ingredients. Cook, covered, on low 4-5 hours. If desired, top with avocado and green onions. Yield: 10 servings (2-1/2 quarts).
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I've made this 3 or 4 times now, most recently for a Halloween themed potluck at work. Because we were supposed to come up with a spooky theme I labeled it Pumpkin Chile with Black Beetles. The beetles, of course, were the black beans. I didn't have any turkey so I sprinkled some Southwestern style seasoning on a package of chicken thighs after removing the skin and baked them. When the thighs cooled off I chopped them up and added them to the chili. I usually cook this on the stove top since I 'm not patient enough to wait for the slow cooker. I made a double batch and poured as much as I could fit into the slow cooker the next morning. Several coworkers took some of the leftovers home for dinner. It did come out a little soupy (add broth gradually) but it tasted great.
I made this without the meat (I didn't have any), used vegetable broth (not because I'm vegetarian, but because it's what I had on hand), and I oven roasted about a pound of pumpkin chunks from a small pumpkin and pureed it. I also used a can of Rotel instead of diced tomatoes. Roasting the pumpkin made it really yummy.
Delicious and the pumpkin gave it a different flavor
Made this just last night... we did not have turkey, so substituted chicken, and found that delicious. We LOVED the pumpkin in this.
My daughter does not like chili, period. Except this one. She can't digest chili-powder foods very well, but we have found that when I substitute pumpkin pie spice for most (not all) of the chili powder, and add some brown sugar and a bit of cinnamon I have to make a double batch or we won't have any leftovers. Also, when I use ground turkey we like the texture more. Great dish!
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4. Got half scale Quck Ref Sheet - negative. Any chance of some downloadable versions?
Have used cm rather than inches (see 2 above ) but thats a bit fiddly for grand maneouvres, half scale in inches would be just fine for my 15mm armies on 6 by 4 tables.


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