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The sophistication of our electronic devices—from the light-as-a-feather laptop to the smartest smartphone—represents a pinnicle of human scientific progress at this cool down of the 21st century.
Software is the lifeblood of computer technology that makes it all possible. A smartphone is little more than a paperweight without the operating system that enables us to download and enjoy all of those wonderful apps.
As the demand for software has become universal, the natural evolution of technological progress is to standardize and commoditize basic needs, in order to provide everyone with a solid foundation (of source code) upon which to build new capabilities to solve new problems. Open source software is the present stage of that evolutionary process.
Open Source Semantics
In 2009, the Office of the DoD CIO released a memorandum titled, Clarifying Guidance Regarding Open Source Software (OSS), in which it defined OSS as "software for which the human-readable source code is available for use, study, reuse, modification, enhancement, and redistribution by the users of that software." It continues, "In other words, OSS is software for which the source code is 'open.'"
What does that mean, exactly? It means every line of code is available for anyone to read, study, learn, and ideally, to improve. The philosophy is simple: all of us are smarter than any one of us. OSS is built and developed by a community. It is an example of network-mediated peer collaboration where people all over the world can work together without the coordination of any central hierarchy.
Take Wikipedia, for example. The principle is the same—just swap encyclopedic knowledge for software code. People across the globe contribute a piece of information, based upon their area of expertise, which is then reviewed by peers. If someone disputes the veracity of that information, they may voice their concern to the community and by majority consensus the facts will aggregate until the truth eventually emerges.
When it comes to software development, OSS represents a shift away from out-and-out competition between commercial entities, to a more collaborative approach to solving common problems and then innovating on top of those shared solutions.
"It's a cool shift that you see in society as a whole," said Chris Holmes, chairman and founder of OpenGeo, a proprietor of open source geospatial software. "Look at social media and the way people now collaborate on the Internet."
OSS development was the first collaborative effort to leverage the power of the Internet to do more than individuals could do alone, he explained. Because software developers were the closest to the Internet, they were easily able to communicate and work together in this way. OSS is the result of connecting the world so that people can communicate and evolve through collaboration to develop better tools and solve each other's problems.
Write as You Fight
There are many advantages gained from using OSS. It is traditional military doctrine that the ability to maneuver and adapt more rapidly than your adversaries creates a strategic advantage. "Open source software is important because it gives us the strategic advantage to be more agile in the delivery of IT systems," said Dan Risacher, associate director for strategy and policy within the Office of the DoD CIO, and author of the 2009 memorandum on OSS.
With OSS, you have access to a huge library of components that you don't have to go develop or even pay for, he said. You have to figure out how to support and integrate them, but you can adapt and build software more rapidly.
"If you really want to build technology faster, you have to have access to it, all the way down to the source code," said John Scott, a senior systems engineer with RadiantBlue Technologies. Our adversaries plan around our strengths now, he added. We've got to be able to create new strengths in the field—this is the battle of the future. "You see it in cyberspace," Scott continued. "Things are happening instantaneously and you have to be able to modify your source code and change things on the fly, in the fight."
The rapid deployment of IT systems and on-the-fly software modifications for traditional warfighters and cyber-warfighters alike are very real capabilities provided by OSS that serve an ever-increasing need for speed in the battles of today and tomorrow.
The Acquisition Challenge
One of the biggest challenges to quick implementation of new technology is the historically cumbersome traditional acquisition process. A significant culture change would be required to expedite this process, but there is an increasing recognition of the need for change.
"If we create policies that prevent us from effectively using open source software," Risacher said, "potentially we are shooting ourselves in the foot, because Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and insurgents do not have such policies. They will use the tools that best meet their mission needs." The deeper problem, according to Scott, is that the DoD acquisition process is set up to build and acquire large chunks of expensive hardware—a tank, for example. But software is never done; it's never complete. The hardware changes, languages change, communications change. Once a tank is built, it's basically done, unless you upgrade it.
"The mindset has to change," Scott said. "It's an ongoing process where you're always going to be building new stuff, new capabilities."
With how quickly those new capabilities are developed now, software really can go from the lab to the battlefield instantaneously, he added. The challenge is to streamline the acquisition process so that new software technology can be deployed at the rate it is developed.
Freedom of Choice
Another attractive advantage that OSS offers is cost savings.
"We use open source as much as we possibly can," said Dr. Ann Carbonell, director of the Information Integration Office with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. "It's a wonderful way to reduce your total cost of ownership." Carbonell explained that one of the challenges of selecting and securing a software contract in the past was for example trying to differentiate among five competing proprietary software vendors offering similar products. "With OSS, you actually have a community out there that is really trying to reduce that redundancy and let you know what is unique versus common, and that takes a lot of the workload right off of our plates," she said.
Licenses from proprietary vendors are also costly. Those applications that are no longer needed because of a viable OSS alternative allow government to divest from that ever-growing cost.
Fundamentally, OSS is the commoditization of technology so that we can invest in new problems and harder problems, not old problems, explained Scott. By lowering the barrier to use and development, things get cheaper and competition increases. Technologies that everyone uses get commoditized so costs come down, creating a virtuous cycle or feedback loop that sustains itself.
The cost is never zero though. It may be free to download, but OSS will require service and support commensurate to customer needs. The good news is that there are many companies who provide OSS service and support. Customers can choose new service providers without the need to reinvent the wheel, or rebuild any system from scratch, since those companies are familiar with the OSS upon which their systems and capabilities have been built.
This is a significant difference from the proprietary business model where, once a customer is locked in, they are bound to a single company for support on that proprietary software or system. The difference is freedom of choice, with negligible entry and exit costs. End users have the power and control over the software, rather than the vendor.
a rising tide
There are many proprietary software vendors that provide essential capabilities to the government and military. Hybrid systems or stacks that have OSS components bundled with proprietary software are becoming more common.
One of the great advantages to using OSS as a platform to build upon is the widespread support of a community.
Maintenance is a major expense that is not always accounted for. When there is an entire community working on OSS, maintaining it, building it, and relying on it, that maintenance cost is spread across a much larger group.
Many companies and organizations have taken advantage of this collaborative approach to problem-solving. The open source community solves common problems, allowing resources to be dedicated for work on unique or more difficult ones specific to mission needs or organizational requirements.
Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, famously said, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
Or in the words of JFK, "A rising tide raises all boats."
"If you really want to build technology faster, you have to have access to it, all the way down to the source code." said John Scott, a senior systems engineer with RadiantBlue Technologies
To read a web-exclusive interview with Bob Gourley on open source software, click here

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) Newly-released figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show the population of minorities is growing faster in Minnesota than the national average.
But, the state is less racially diverse than the country overall. About 17 percent of Minnesota's residents are minority, compared to 30 percent of the nation as a whole.
The figures show Asians are the fastest growing ethnic group in Minnesota. The Asian population has increased 3.4 percent from 2011 to 2012. State demographer Susan Brower says the increase of 7,750 Asian residents is the result of births to people already in Minnesota and to a wave of immigrants from India who have come to the state for high-tech jobs.
Blacks are Minnesota's largest minority group, followed by Hispanics, Asians and American Indians.
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Samsung Electronics is joining forces with retailer Carphone Warehouse to create 60 dedicated Samsung stores in Europe, hoping that will help keep the growing competition in the Android smartphone market at bay.
The stores will be opened in the next three months across the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands. The 60 stores will be a mixture of new locations and of existing Carphone Warehouse locations that will be converted to sell Samsung products, according to a Carphone Warehouse spokeswoman. About a third of the stores will be in the U.K. making it the largest market, she said.
The stores will sell smartphones, tablets, laptops and wearables, according to Samsung. With the European economy improving, the company sees an opportunity to increase sales with this push. Also, while consumers knows its smartphones and tablets, the dedicated stores will draw more attention to its laptops and the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, Samsung said.
Dedicated stores have been a mixed bag for manufacturers of consumer electronics. While Apple's chain of stores has flourished, other manufacturers, such as Nokia, are closing down their retail operations.
Samsung's retail push follows the opening of three stand-alone stores in Spain last year, also operated by Carphone Warehouse, so Samsung is convinced it has found a winning concept.
"The deal will benefit both sides. Samsung is desperate to replicate Apple's famous retail store experience, while Carphone Warehouse badly needs to develop fresh revenue streams in the saturated European mobile market. I expect Samsung to use its flagship stores as showrooms to generate a feel-good factor around the brand," said Neil Mawston , executive director at Strategy Analytics.
As all markets mature and become more crowded, retail becomes more critical. However, whether the stores can remain profitable long-term, as more sales of consumer electronics shift online, remains to be seen, according to Mawston.
Last year Samsung extended its worldwide lead over Apple to 160.5 million smartphones, but the company isn't impervious to increased competition in the smartphone sector. Its market share dropped from 29.1 percent to 28.8 percent year on year during fourth quarter, while Huawei Technologies, Lenovo and LG Electronics all increased their share, according to IDC.
"Samsung is a bit like Nokia a few years ago; very dominant, biggest product portfolio and biggest distribution, but everyone is gunning for them," said Mawston.
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There had been promise, at least on paper: two world-class operatic luminaries in their company debuts, deployed on John Gunter's attractive hillside set under a Nagasaki sky nicely lit by Duane Schuler. But the visual problems presented by Catherine Malfitano's Cio-Cio-San (a.k.a. Butterfly) and Luis Lima's Pinkerton were seldom offset by vocalism of more than utility grade.
There had been promise, at least on paper: two world-class operatic luminaries in their company debuts, deployed on John Gunter's attractive hillside set under a Nagasaki sky nicely lit by Duane Schuler. But the visual problems presented by Catherine Malfitano's Cio-Cio-San (a.k.a. Butterfly) and Luis Lima's Pinkerton were seldom offset by vocalism of more than utility grade.
TX: TX:The Los Angeles Music Center Opera presents Giacomo Puccini's two-act opera, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on David Belasco's play. Conductor, Richard Buckley; production by Ian Judge, restaged by Christopher Harlan; Both singers,after all, were born in 1948, a fair span of years for the depiction of a 15-year-old ex-geisha and her callow youth of an American wooer. Hailed worldwide for a repertory of roles extending from bitch-goddess Salome to the fragile Mimi, Malfitano's Butterfly was at least a triumph of illusion over reality, her sweetly elegant phrasing — marred on opening night, however, by a startling array of squeezed or misdirected high notes — giving the lie to her rather matronly presence. Director Christopher Harlan's blocking on the raked stage did what it could to cancel out the reality of a Butterfly looming over a diminutive Pinkerton (whom the libretto has her describing at one point as "strong and tall"). TX:At the start general director Peter Hemmings announced that at least 12 company members had come down with some kind of respiratory ailment, that Suzanna Guzman's Suzuki would yield to Tihana Herceg, and that Rodney Gilfry would go on as Sharpless as scheduled but craved forbearance. Among the lesser roles, Louis Lebherz's brief scene as the outraged Uncle-Priest was one of the opera's stunning moments. TX:There were few of those, however, as the music chugged along under Richard Buckley's unadventurous musical direction.Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; 3,201 seats; $ 120 top)
Sets, John Gunter; costumes, Liz da Costa; lighting, Duane Schuler. Opened, reviewed May 21; runs through June 7. Running time: 2 hours, 55 min.
Cast: Catherine Malfitano (Cio-Cio-San), Luis Lima (B.F. Pinkerton), Tihana Herceg (Suzuki), Rodney Gilfry (Sharpless); Beau Palmer, Andrea Trebnik, Lesley Leighton, Agostino Castagnola, Donna Marie Covert, Daniel Ebbers, Louis Lebherz, Tod Fitzpatrick, Laurinda Nikkel, Ayla Kell, Dean Elzinga. (In subsequent performances Suzanna Guzman sings Suzuki and John Atkins sings Sharpless.) A butterfly with clipped wings, however beautiful, cannot soar. The Los Angeles Opera's seasonal finale, fourth time around for Puccini's mellow tear-jerker over the company's 10-year span, was similarly afflicted.


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Lewis Hamilton stormed to pole position for his home British Formula One Grand Prix yesterday, with German teammate Nico Rosberg qualifying alongside him in an all-Mercedes front row.
The 2008 world champion, chasing his first win for Mercedes after leaving McLaren last year, started the session with a wave for the crowd from the pit wall and ended it with the fans saluting him.
"Storming job there, Lewis, storming job," the team told him over the radio.
The pole was the 28th of Hamilton's career and Mercedes' fifth in eight races.
"The crowd do make a huge difference... I come here with an extra boost of energy. I just want to pay them back," said Hamilton, who also qualified on pole at Silverstone in his debut 2007 season and won in 2008.
"That was a lap for them," said the Briton, who jumped out of his car after parking up in the pit lane and stood arms outstretched to applause from the grandstands.
Red Bull's triple world champion Sebastian Vettel qualified third and will share the second row with teammate Mark Webber, in what will be the Australian's last British race before quitting Formula One at the end of the year.
"They are bloody quick in qualifying ... they seem to be in a different world on Saturday afternoons," Vettel said. "But points are scored on Sunday and the last few races have been pretty good for us."
Britain's Paul Di Resta for Force India and young Australian Daniel Ricciardo, the Toro Rosso driver bidding for Webber's drive next year, will line up together on the third row.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, 36 points behind Vettel in the championship, qualified 10th in a disappointing performance from the Italian team, who had Brazilian Felipe Massa in 12th place.


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A speech by Sarah Slamen, a 28-year-old Texas woman, was cut short Monday while protesters rallied against the Texas anti-abortion bill that could shut down most abortion clinics and prevent the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy. During a hearing in the state Senate, the woman was interrupted by senators and removed from the room by state troopers, as seen in a YouTube video. In her speech, she said, "Thank you for every hateful statement degrading women and girls to sex objects and brood mares and bald eagles and leather wallets, like your eloquent pro-life supporters have done today." As she was taken away, Slamen called the legislature a "farce" and a "bunch of liars." Pro-choice activists are attempting to overthrow the bill in its second session, after a filibuster helped in the first. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill in the next 48 hours.


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Personally I think its awful, can't find my way around it and find it very difficult to post or access the areas I want, please go back to the old format.
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Personally I think its awful, can't find my way around it and find it very difficult to post or access the areas I want, please go back to the old format.
My Gast is Flabered.
No matter what anyone say's 100% is the maximum you can get.
If you see a deleted post, my Avatar say's it all.
Just give it some time to get used to it. Most people don't like change & immediately dislike things without giving them a REAL chance. Lots of people rubbished the old format because it had issues so this is the result, something new. Remember - minds are like parachutes, they only work when they are open!
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Not so scale, Almost ready to fly, Soon to be scrap,
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Super Skybolt and 30cc CITABRIA
Hanger 9: Twist 60; Value Hobbies: Mini-Stik 25
Future Project:Top Flite GS A6M ZERO
RIP: H9 Spitfire & H9 P-47
Don't be afraid to say what you really think! I'm sure there will be problems (my #%^$! enter key won't work) but at least they appear to be listening. Remember, the dinosaurs didn't change & look what happened to them. Some people have no problems at all with the forum - or computers - or jets - or much of anything. When I think about this it can't be any more difficult than my transition from JR programming to Futaba! - John.
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I think it sucks major sack
Joseph K
I'll reserve final judgements for a week from now and give them time to get things sorted. I do however shake my head at the amount of problems the new site has. I've seen bigger forums do huge upgrades smoother than this. Some will argue that for a free forum we have no right to complain and that may be true, but at the same time a forum without members isn't a forum so free or otherwise one would think they would focus more on a smooth transition. Some of the biggest issues such as the login problems have existed for four days now, that should have been one of the first issues they fixed. I personally hate the look, it's very drab and plain, but as I say, I'll reserve final judgement for a week from now.
remember when people actually BUILT their airplanes?
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site stinks .... everything is less convenient... it takes scrolling 1.5 pages to get to actual posts. posting pics if a multi - multi - multi step process . at that, picture quality once the pics show up is even worse than the lack of convenience (due to whatever stingy compression is being done ) ..
RCU has officially "jumped the shark" a wee, or a month wont make a difference, unless the whole site is moved to yet another entire platform.
I just don't get it. The look is awful with the muted colors and boring layout. The surfing is lame. Pics are lame. That about covers it, I guess. Maybe we'll all get used to it....
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If a guy was to go shopping at a certain jet site where all your dream(works) products could be found, and look at the header on there, one could probably find a brand new good place to discuss their hobby, just sayin.
remember when people actually BUILT their airplanes?
Seems like I need to log in every time I return to the site. Very inconvenient. I must be missing something.
Honestly it feels like its gone back in time I couldn't even get past logging on at first. Logged on but after that it kept asking me to log on and when I tried it sent me to my info page. Could not even report a bug up until now.
Its gota get better it cannot possibly get worse. Reply to thread not working have to use "Post quick Reply"
it is just as carpy as every v bulletin site i have ever had the displeasure to use.
Bottom Feeder Brother #13
when they outlaw R/C, only outlaws will have R/C
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At this point, not a fan...
I dont think PMs are working either which sucks as well....RCU now sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before.
Joseph K
Is anyone seeing anything in the "rcu heartbeat"/ "top 15 thread" box?
disappointed in the new site big time
I'm going to reserve judgement until I have a chance to use more.
Um. It looks lame and doesn't work right. Is there anything else I missed?
I don't think the default text size is big enough and they should have done way more testing before they released it to the masses. Generally not keen but have seen worse


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Knee injury cuts short career of Rams' Jesse Carr
Senior re-injures ACL, to miss final season
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CSU's Carr hopes to be `That Guy' next season
Injured senior guard eyeing return in 2013-14
Game notes: Eustachy, Rams host Montana in regular-season opener
Colorado State looks to extend 13-game home win streak vs. Grizzlies
Six award winners honored
Myers will be inducted into NFF Hall of Fame Dec. 4
CSU men's basketball vs. Metro State highlights - 10-27-12
CSU men's basketball vs. Metro State highlights - 10-27-12
CSU men's basketball vs. No. 17/17 UNLV highlights - 2-29-12
CSU men's basketball vs. No. 17/17 UNLV highlights - 2-21-12
CSU men's basketball vs. Wyoming highlights - 2-18-12
CSU men's basketball vs. Wyoming highlights - 2-18-12
CSU men's basketball vs. Air Force highlights - 2-4-12
CSU men's basketball vs. Air Force highlights - 2-4-12
CSU men's basketball vs. No. 13/12 San Diego State highlights - 1-28-12
CSU men's basketball vs. No. 13/12 San Diego State highlights - 1-28-12
CSU men's basketball vs. Nevada - March 9, 2013 (Dan Byers)
CSU men's basketball vs. Nevada - March 9, 2013 (Dan Byers)
Colorado State vs. Murray State (AP - 3/15/12)
Pierce Hornung led Colorado State with 12 points and matched a career-high with 17 rebounds.
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Photos from the Rams' March 14 practice in preparation for their second-round NCAA Tournament game against Murray State.
CSU men's basketball vs. TCU - 2012 MW Championship Quarterfinal - 3-8-12
CSU men's basketball vs. TCU - 2012 MW Championship Quarterfinal - 3-8-12
Colorado State vs. TCU (AP - 3/8/12)
Colorado State vs. TCU (AP - 3/8/12)
Suffered career-ending knee injury after re-tearing ACL in his left knee, the same injury that forced him to miss the 2012-13 season.
Missed the 2012-13 season after suffering an injury to his left anterior cruciate ligament on Sept. 20, 2012...Granted a sixth year of elibility by the NCAA on May 2, 2013.
Paced the Rams with 2.7 assists-per-game, the ninth-most in the Mountain West over the entire season...Ranked second in three-point percentage on the team, connecting on 43.1 percent...Added a season-high 17 points in CSU's semifinal loss to San Diego State at the Mountain West Tournament (March 9)...Propelled the Rams in their opening-round matchup of the Mountain West Tournament against TCU (March 8), with 10 points, seven rebounds and a career-high nine assists... Added 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting at Boise State (Feb. 15)...Pulled down a career-high 8 rebounds in addition to scoring eight points and dishing out four assists in CSU's win over Air Force (Feb. 4)...Went a perfect five-for-five from the field, tallying 12 points and six rebounds, and dishing out five assists in CSU's double-OT win over TCU (Jan. 14)...Secured a CSU victory over Denver (Jan. 11), connecting on 3-of-4 free throws in the final 21.1 seconds of the game...Recorded seven assists in CSU's win over Nebraska-Omaha (Jan. 7)...Hit three clutch free throws in the final 1:25 of the Colorado (Nov. 30) game, to help the Rams clinch the in-state victory...Was a perfect 8-of-8 from the free-throw line and added three rebounds, two steals and five assists in CSU's overtime win over Manhattan (Nov. 22)...Received the Merrill-Ghenn Award, which is given to the school's most outstanding male scholar athlete...Was named a Mountain West Scholar Athlete and to the academic-all-Mountain West squad.
Returned from an injury-plagued 2009-10 season to play in all 32 games for the Rams in 2010-11, averaging 4.2 points, and collecting 52 assists and 20 steals...Had one of his strongest performances of the season with 13 points in a win over Utah (March 2)...Tied a career high with 9-for-9 shooting from the free-throw line...Tied a career high with five assists against Dominican (Dec. 30), despite playing 15 minutes...Recorded a season-high three three-pointers, including the go-ahead bucket with 5:05 in the first half against Ole Miss (Dec. 23), notching his 13th career double-digit scoring game...Tied a career high with five assists and pulled down five rebounds, one shy of his career best, to go along with 10 points at Colorado (Dec. 8)...Hit a layup with 0.6 seconds left in regulation to send the game to overtime...With 18 points vs. Sam Houston State (Nov. 27), scored in double figures in consecutive games for the first time since Jan. 20-24, 2009, when he set a career high in points with 21 at Wyoming...The 18 points vs. the Bearkats was the second most in his career...Shot 8-of-12 from the floor, tying a career high in made three-pointers...Was honored with the Mountain West Scholar-Athlete award in June and earned academic all-MW accolades.
Appeared in just four games because of a pelvic injury that began toward the end of his freshman season...Scored 15 points, pulled down six rebounds and recorded five steals in limited action...Best performance of the season came on Dec. 28 at Fresno State, where he scored eight points...Granted a medical hardship waiver after the season.
Posted playing time in 25 games and started 18 times before missing the final six games of the season due to a strained groin... Scored 219 points, averaging 8.8 per game... His average ranked fourth on the team and fourth all-time in school's history among freshmen... Led the team with 63 assists, which also ranks fourth all-time in CSU history among freshmen... He recorded at least one assist in his final 15 games... Played 666 minutes, averaging 26.6 per contest, which was fourth on the team... Shot .443 from the field (74-167), placing third among players with at least 100 attempts... His points-per-game average ranked third among all freshmen in the Mountain West Conference... His .344 three-point percentage, 33 made three-pointers and 96 attempts ranked third among teammates with at least one attempt per game... Made at least one three-pointer in 19 games...Scored in double figures in five of six games during a stretch from Jan. 17 through Feb. 7, averaging 13.67 points in those contests... During that stretch, scored a career-high 21 points at Wyoming on Jan. 24.
Attended Ainsworth (Neb.) High School...Earned four letters for the Bulldogs in both track and basketball...Four-time all-conference player and three-time conference MVP...Three-time Class C all-state, two time Class C captain and two-time all class super state...Team MVP in basketball all four years and twice in track...Led the Bulldogs to three conference championships and one state title, in 2007...Holds many school and state records, including the state record in career three-pointers with 303...Graduated with a 4.0 GPA...Member of the National Honor Society and was on the academic all-state state team for four years.
Born Sept. 20, 1989, in Omaha, Neb. ...Son of Amy and Jeff Carr...Has one sister, Ellie, and two brothers, Eli and Casey, who ran track at Concordia University of Nebraska...Majoring in business administration.
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Posted on 04/27/2012 6:57:39 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
April 27, 2012
I deal on a regular daily basis with self-identified conservatives all across America who are addicted to the Republican Party. And when it comes to the impending nomination by their party of the most liberal governor in U.S. history, Mitt Romney, their reactions are overwhelmingly in line with the classic symptoms described below. We can't make them face reality, of course. All we can do is to keep pointing it out to them, in the sincere hope that they will recover in time to help save the country.
From Wikipedia :
Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The subject may use:
The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality. Where denial occurs in mature minds, it is most often associated with death, dying and rape.
In this form of denial, someone avoids a fact by lying. This lying can take the form of an outright falsehood (commission), leaving out certain details to tailor a story (omission), or by falsely agreeing to something (assent, also referred to as "yessing" behavior). Someone who is in denial of fact is typically using lies to avoid facts they think may be painful to themselves or others.
This form of denial involves avoiding personal responsibility by:
Someone using denial of responsibility is usually attempting to avoid potential harm or pain by shifting attention away from themselves.
For example: Troy breaks up with his girlfriend because he is unable to control his anger, and then blames her for everything that ever happened.
Denial of impact involves a person's avoiding thinking about or understanding the harms of his or her behavior has caused to self or others, i.e. denial of the consequences. Doing this enables that person to avoid feeling a sense of guilt and it can prevent him or her from developing remorse or empathy for others. Denial of impact reduces or eliminates a sense of pain or harm from poor decisions.
This type of denial is best discussed by looking at the concept of state dependent learning. People using this type of denial will avoid pain and harm by stating they were in a different state of awareness (such as alcohol or drug intoxication or on occasion mental health related). This type of denial often overlaps with denial of responsibility.
Many who use this type of denial will say things such as, "it just happened". Denial of cycle is where a person avoids looking at their decisions leading up to an event or does not consider their pattern of decision making and how harmful behavior is repeated. The pain and harm being avoided by this type of denial is more of the effort needed to change the focus from a singular event to looking at preceding events. It can also serve as a way to blame or justify behavior (see above).
This can be a difficult concept for many people to identify with in themselves, but is a major barrier to changing hurtful behaviors. Denial of denial involves thoughts, actions and behaviors which bolster confidence that nothing needs to be changed in one's personal behavior. This form of denial typically overlaps with all of the other forms of denial, but involves more self-delusion. Denial at this level can have significant consequences both personally and at a societal level.
Harassment covers a wide range of offensive behaviour. It is commonly understood as behaviour intended to disturb or upset. In the legal sense, it is behaviour which is found threatening or disturbing.
DARVO is an acronym to describe a common strategy of abusers: Deny the abuse, then Attack the victim for attempting to make them accountable for their offense, thereby Reversing Victim and Offender.
Psychologist Jennifer Freyd writes:
...I have observed that actual abusers threaten, bully and make a nightmare for anyone who holds them accountable or asks them to change their abusive behavior. This attack, intended to chill and terrify, typically includes threats of law suits, overt and covert attacks on the whistle-blower's credibility, and so on. The attack will often take the form of focusing on ridiculing the person who attempts to hold the offender accountable. [...] [T]he offender rapidly creates the impression that the abuser is the wronged one, while the victim or concerned observer is the offender. Figure and ground are completely reversed. [...] The offender is on the offense and the person attempting to hold the offender accountable is put on the defense.
>>Sarah Palin working with secret forces in the Newt camp will force a brokered convention!<<
Is that true? If this is true I feel much better.
You've really inspired me. I think I'll run for President, myself, under the banner of the "Not A Snowball's Chance in H*ll" party.
My donation website will be up shortly.
I hear ya. But in this case what was there was sufficient to make the point.
The two statements are contradictory in this context.
You lied. Me pointing this out is not calling you a name, it is just me stating the truth.
You do not believe that Mitt Romney is more liberal than Deval Patrick. That is why you won't explicitly say that you do believe this.
Instead all you do is play dishonest word games.
People on this thread have wondered why conservatives don't just form a third party, and why existing third party candidates are all such weirdos. You are an excellent object lesson in the fallen nature of humankind and the difficulty of creating honorable political movements.
Through this thread you have made Mitt Romney look better.
You aren't even going to win the vote in your own bathtub.
My campaign doesn't take donations though. Neither does our national party, nor do our state parties. Instead, we urge folks to expend their resources where 100% of it goes directly to the real need.
I think you've lost the argument. I'll try not to take your insults personally though. You're going through a process.
It is not true. It is just someone's dream.
Running for President is very difficult, time-consuming, expensive, and it takes a lot of talented people working together.
Newt and Sarah simply can't do it this year. Newt tried and it didn't work out for him. Sarah chose not to try. There is now no time, talent, or money available to them to run for President.
The primaries are essentially over. The nominees will be Obama and Romney and a handful of people who will win nothing.
Realville. Welcome.
Who voted for this putz? If the "conservative" vote is rigged to this extent all over the country - or worse: that "conservatives" would actually vote in such a liberal - we're finished.
(1) You seem to overlook the shenanigans of Obamination in appointing czars, issuing Exec Orders left and right and basically ignoring BOTH the Constitution AND Congress.
(2) If re-elected, He will screw the US Supreme Court for the rest of our lives and most of our kids' lives, issue Allah only knows what new pile of exec orders, continue to trash the fabric of this once great nation, etc, etc, etc.
(3) What SIGNIFICANT action have you seen from ANY of the last round of tea party supported bozos that got elected, other than the occasional NO vote on some stupid piece of legislation. The utter and absolute corruption so rampant in DC quite simply infects EVERYONE who is part of that monstrosity called the US Federal Government. With recognition of Edmund Burke's prophetic principal about the relationship of power and corruption, may I reword it to fit what we have seen in these latter days of the USA:
Power corrupts and ANY SIGNIFICANT amount of power will begin the corruption process, usually not reversible, of most people today beyond any hope of reversal or redemption.
(Just review in your own mind for a few moments, the behavior of any member of the "public service" sector, from local and county through state and up to federal "service", and count up any SIGNIFICANT players who have NOT been corrupted.)
(4) The ONLY thing of ANY significance about the '12 election is to defeat OB or, better yet get him declared ineligible before the election.
(5) And, BTW, OB has set such a horrendous pile of steaming precedents, that I seriously doubt ANY future POTUS will be morally clean enough to resist taking advantage of them, with the possible exception of Sarah Palin.
Please riddle me this, cowboy:
Who is more liberal? Mitt Romney or Deval Patrick?
>>Realville. Welcome.<<
I don't like it in Realville.
I'm in MI so my primary is over. I think I'll go onto Pinterest.
Part of me wishes I could be in denial at times. Being a cynic isn't always fun. But then I have to admit, I do enjoying spotting the flaws in my and others positions.
Good question. Must be folks who decide what to do based on what they see and hear on television.
May I quote you?
That's what I've been trying to say but couldn't find the words.
No third-party Presidential candidate has shown the power needed to win the Electoral College vote. Also, my State doesn't allow voting for write-in candidates.
My concern is a simple one: the President of the United States is first and foremost an executive, who is supposed to administrate the laws passed by Congress as interpreted by the Courts. The problem is our existing Chief Executive doesn't like that -- forgetting he is no longer a Senator -- and tries to write regulations (with the force of law) more to his liking. I didn't like that with Bush, and I like it even less with Obama. Yes, the President has veto power over law, a veto that can be overridden by Congress. I don't know how Congress can provide checks and balance against Executive Orders -- I don't see that in the Constitution.
So for me, it's rock-and-hard-place time.
Obama has been President for three years, yet I've not seen any original written articles or work product from him from before he was President. (What work product? Nothing significant from the Illinois legislature, and damn little from his stint in the U.S Senate. And nothing from his college days.) He remains a cipher.
I've not yet started a publications search on Mitt, so I don't know if he is as secretive -- but there is his record as Governor, which means there will be work product to read and analyze.
I prefer facts to crickets, which means that, absent a document dump from Obama, my "choice" is clear.
I just want some assurance that we aren't jumping from the frying pan into the fire...
Anyone that thinks Romney is a conservative isn't one either.
I will say this: I thought I was pro-life until I saw your posts. You made a fundamental shift in my belief on this vital issue and for that I thank you.
I also trust you are who you say you are.
You are looking through such a narrowed field of vision -- narrowed by pure fear and panic -- that you are only thinking of this election in terms of Obama, nothing else. As would be true in any field, restricting your perception to such a tiny context makes you vulnterable to BIG miscalculations.
Were not in denial so much as we are realists... Elections have always been about selecting the lesser of two evils...Ill take my chances on the new guy.
And those of us who have done our due diligence in checking Romney's documented record are also realists in that we recognize that he is fully as evil, intentional or not, as Obama on EVERY MAJOR ISSUE: Global warming, nationalized health care, abortion, activist judges, and the homosexual agenda. You pretend that there is a "lesser evil" in the equation; we TRUE realists understand the fallacy of such thinking in the case of Romney.
And those of you that see the light and decide that Romney is just not your guy, can vote for whom?
If it is O vs R in the general, I will be remembering, as should you, what happened to Clinton when he won with a wimpy plurality of 43% -- a full 57% of Americans had voted against him, and it weakened him politically so much that in the mid terms, he got his ass whooped by the Republican Revolution. I am mindful -- and you should be, too -- that when the final tally reveals that the majority of Americans voted against the victor, it hurts the victor politically, makes him weak, and empowers his opposition both in his own party and in the other party.
THEREFORE, I will vote third party for the express purpose of using my vote to make sure whichever disgusting socialist statist wins, Obama or Romney, has the slimmest, most devastating plurality possible. At this point, the thing that would give us the BEST chance of salvaging American freedom would be for Obama to win on a 34% plurality, with 66% of American voters on record as voting against him; it would mean that conservatives won a major battle in recovering the Republican party, it would mean Congress would go hard right in the mid-terms, and it would mean Obama's agenda would be very nearly dead in the water.
You've restricted your thinking to worst-case Obama scenarios. Fine -- now switch gears and start thinking AS A REALIST about what would really happen if, God forbid, Romney won. First, however, you have to acknowledge his documented record.
Romney would be MUCH more damaging to conservatism, and therefore to America, than Obama. I'm voting third party to influence the plurality, but I'll be praying Romney loses. Romney is BAD NEWS for everybody.
Yeah, well, I understand. I'm also no fan of Freud. But the facts about the process we call "denial" are pretty hard to deny.
I know mitt romney... I know exactly what he is... I know exactly who he is and what it is that he believes... and all of this together is why I will NEVER VOTE FOR THAT POS!
>>Romney would be MUCH more damaging to conservatism, and therefore to America, than Obama<<
Oh bull.
Without an American System of Government, there ARE NO conservatives.
Unless your idea of Conservatism is Sharia. Because that's where we are headed under Obama.
>>And those of us who have done our due diligence in checking Romney's documented record are also realists in that we recognize that he is fully as evil, intentional or not, as Obama on EVERY MAJOR ISSUE: <<
Can you please point out which communists Mitt appointed to his cabinet? How many radical Islamics he put into positions of advising law enforcement?
Any Van Jones or Mohamed Elibiary types in the government of MA?
It's either vote for a hardcore Leftist or for a hardcore Leftist and both will continue to take us up the river of collectivism.
Think I'll write in Sarah.
EV, those are all good questions at #33, and since you've been doing this for some time now, you really should have a page up that lists all of that information.
It's really hard to take your efforts seriously when that information isn't already available.
What date certain do you expect page(s) up to give all your background data and information that relevant to any candidate running for office.
There really isn't such a thing as an anonymous run for the presidency.
Let's cut through all the chit.
Romney is a gun-grabbing, baby-killing, big government statist, liberal fellow-traveler, and so is anyone who supports him and urges others to support him.
There it is, like it or not.
If you're looking for the usual credentials, I'm not your guy.
Bearing in mind that it is the folks with the usual credentials who have gotten us in the mess we're in.
I'm thinking you for one are NOT in denial. :-)
Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Obama and Romney are just men. When we violate God's law, we have someone much more important to worry about.
They shouldn't.
Here's the thing. Personally, I'm not evangelizing or trying to convince anyone not to vote for Romney. I know what I have to do, and I can explain my reasons. However, I do think it's important folks know what they are voting for, and that's all I've been doing——here, and IRL. On this forum, though, when people start getting into denial about Willard or hitting me for my decision, I hit back.
I'm as scared of another 4 years of Obama as anyone else. I am absolutely furious that the GOP-e, and the fools who voted for Romney in the primaries, have made it impossible for me to vote against him. And I've wavered. Back when Obama was caught promising the Russian guy "flexibility", I wondered if I needed to vote for Romney despite what I knew. So I prayed, told God I was confused and needed direction, and I got my confirmation.....almost immediately afterwards.
For me, as a Christian, I can't vote for a man who enabled abortion in MA (still going on today) and who cuddles up to sodomites. Romney's problems there-—and yes, his Mormonism, too-—are insurmountable for me. If I pull the lever for him, I will have to stand before Jesus and tell him, well, Lord, I know you hate abortion and sexual perversion, but I thought you'd make an exception because Obama was in office. I'm not a perfect Christian by ANY means, but I just can't align myself with Romney. My country is very important to me, but God MUST come first.
Excellent post.
We can survive a wicked man in public office. But we cannot survive an electorate that has abandoned God, self-evident truth, and the moral principles upon which this free republic, and our claim to liberty, rest.
For quite awhile of late my tagline has been: "You can be a Romney Republican or you can be a conservative. But you can't be both. Pick one."
That is perhaps the best post anyone has made to me on FR in the twelve years I have been here. Thank you!
Why, when they have spent their time equating "Republican" with "Conservative", and denigrating the more Constitutionally based stances of third parties on individual issues as part of the denigration of "those wackadoodles"?
Now, to admit they were wrong, not just about some of the wackadoodles' positions, but defending the GOP like a battered spouse, is a bit too much for their egos to stand.
...and why existing third party candidates are all such weirdos.
When a group is constantly and vocally portrayed as being composed of a certain element of society, the members of that social element will tend to concentrate there and seek approval from others of like mind, whether the portrayal was accurate or not. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.
There too lies a huge obstacle to forming a third party; overcoming the stigma which has been placed on anything which might disturb the status quo, by both Parties.
I, too, don't think "usual credentials" are the only credentials.
What I want to see ARE the credentials whatever they might be.
Then I'll be the one to make up my mind for me.
But, to expect me to make a blind decision is unreasonable.
So, put your credentials, your background, qualifications, experience, etc., whatever it might be, in the public domain. Otherwise, the request is for people to make a decision undergirded by zero information.
You and I both know that such a thing will not fly.
If staying at home means that O will make it back in, how many babies will be killed?
They are pushing for death of those already born. How many will be condemned with your lack of action?
How many will be killed if, God forbid, one of our conservative Supreme Court justices need to be replaced? When a baby killing lib tilts the court, will you be able to say, "Oh well, I didn't vote for him."? That's more than four years and babies will be killed for all time. We can't go back. No matter how we vote after that, the courts will overrule it.
Lord love you if you can. I can't.
It's time to get over our fury at the stupid GOP. Because the GOP didn't really give us this choice. The people did.
So.... Jesus wants you to waste your vote?
My God gave me brains to choose. He also knows enough to understand that we have to choose the "less-than-ideal" at times to prevent greater evil.
You are voting for the best person to hold an office, not for a person whose sins you have to bear.
I'm sorry, but that is just not a clear thinking strategy. Obama is far too dangerous as a sitting President in he last term with nothing to lose, for us to discard a chance to vote against him for the sake of sending a message somewhere.
However, I did enjoy a decade of close association with someone who was a high-level member of the Reagan Peace Through Strength team that ultimately brought down the Soviet Union, Dr. Alan Keyes. He taught me a lot in this area particularly.
In any case, my fundamental views concerning foreign policy and national defense are stated in the America's Party Platform.
Some excerpts from that document:
"We believe in a supremely strong, prepared, and well-equipped civilian-controlled United States military, and a bold, visionary and intelligent program of principled constructive engagement with the rest of the world. For us, "peace through strength" is not a mere slogan. It is the means of survival for our country in a very dangerous and often hostile world. Our friendship should be a sought-after possession of all men and women of good will everywhere in the world. Our enmity should be something that all rightfully fear." "As Ronald Reagan opposed and defeated the designs and desire of the Soviet Union to dominate the world and place it under the tyranny of their Evil Empire, we stand unalterably opposed to all who approve of, plan or commit terrorist acts. Since the first principle of America is the protection of innocent human life, any who would use acts of terrorism targeted at innocent civilians to forward their political, ideological or religious aims incur our effective and determined enmity." "We completely oppose any action that surrenders the moral, political or economic sovereignty of the United States and its people, and demand the immediate restoration of that sovereignty wherever it has been eroded." "We demand the immediate securing and continuous vigilant maintenance of our sovereign territory and borders. We oppose any private or governmental action that rewards illegal entry into the United States in any way, and demand speedy and full enforcement of our laws concerning all such activities." "The right of self-preservation and self-protection is inherent in all persons, communities and societies, which is why we fiercely defend the indispensable provisions of our Second Amendment. Liberty cannot be protected if the people have been stripped of the physical means of doing so."
"In 2003, Romney chose a hard core environmental activist,Douglas Foy, to be Secretary of Commonwealth Development. In this position he was charged with developing a scheme to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.
With Mr. Foy by his side, Mr. Romney joined activists outside an aging, coal-fired plant in 2003 to show his commitment to the emissions caps. I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant, that plant kills people, he said."
Gosh, be patient. I told him I would answer his questions. I have other duties that take up large chunks of my day.
"two of Romneys appointments have how found a home in the Obama White House.
Gina McCarthy, the chief EPA clean air regulator, also worked as an environmental regulator for then-Governor Romney. Her role now is as point guard (nyuk) in the Obama "
"Another Romney environmental adviser in the effort to regulate greenhouse gases is now Obamas Director of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren."
I have run several small family businesses.
A) Quit spending more than we take in.
B) Quit spending money, including the money of our posterity, on things that are outside the Constitution's Enumerated Powers.
Our goal is to have one million or more principled patriots in place by this summer who will each run their own front porch campaign and drag fifty, or a hundred, or more people to the polls with them. If they do that, we win.
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Auguste Comte
From Wikiquote
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (17 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher who coined the terms "sociology" and "altruism" and developed forms of social discipline he called Positivism.
- To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
- A Course of Positive Philosophy (1832 - 1842) [Six volumes]
- Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. … Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions.
- Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852)
- Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
- As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay
- Foreknowledge is power.
- As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay
System of positive polity (1852)[edit]
- System of Positive Polity, Volume II, translated by Frederic Harrison, Longman, Green & Co., London, 1875 - University of California Libraries/Internet Archive.
- Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
- Bk. 1, chap. 1; as cited in: Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book, (1914), p. 224
- Every attempt to refer chemical questions to mathematical doctrines must be considered, now and always, profoundly irrational, as being contrary to the nature of the phenomena. . . . but if the employment of mathematical analysis should ever become so preponderant in chemistry (an aberration which is happily almost impossible) it would occasion vast and rapid retrogradation....
- Language forms a kind of [[wealth], which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
- Volume II, page 213.
- Notwithstanding the eminent difficulties of the mathematical theory of sonorous vibrations, we owe to it such progress as has yet been made in acoustics. The formation of the differential equations proper to the phenomena is, independent of their integration, a very important acquisition, on account of the approximations which mathematical analysis allows between questions, otherwise heterogeneous, which lead to similar equations. This fundamental property, whose value we have so often to recognize, applies remarkably in the present case; and especially since the creation of mathematical thermology, whose principal equations are strongly analogous to those of vibratory motion. This means of investigation is all the more valuable on account of the difficulties in the way of direct inquiry into the phenomena of sound. We may decide the necessity of the atmospheric medium for the transmission of sonorous vibrations; and we may conceive of the possibility of determining by experiment the duration of the propagation, in the air, and then through other media; but the general laws of the vibrations of sonorous bodies escape immediate observation. We should know almost nothing of the whole case if the mathematical theory did not come in to connect the different phenomena of sound, enabling us to substitute for direct observation an equivalent examination of more favorable cases subjected to the same law. For instance, when the analysis of the problem of vibrating chords has shown us that, other things being equal, the number of oscillations is hi inverse proportion to the length of the chord, we see that the most rapid vibrations of a very short chord may be counted, since the law enables us to direct our attention to very slow vibrations. The same substitution is at our command in many cases in which it is less direct.
- Bk. 3, chap. 4; as cited in: Moritz (1914, 240)
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)[edit]
- The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte Freely Translated and Condensed by Harriet Martineau in Two Volumes (1853) - (1896 edition in the Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection)
- After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.
- Book VI: Social Physics, Ch. II: Principle Philosophical Attempts to Constitute a Social System
- The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies.
- Book II: Astronomy, Ch. I: General View
Quotes about Comte[edit]
- Catholicism minus Christianity.
- T. H. Huxley, on the ideas of Comte.
- M. Comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything contemplated in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers.
- Of M. Comte I have only read a few absurd passages.
- Louis Pasteur, as quoted in The life of Pasteur (1902), by René Vallery-Radot, p. 163
- The philosopher Comte has made the statement that chemistry is a non-mathematical science. He also told us that astronomy had reached a stage when further progress was impossible. These remarks, coming after Dalton's atomic theory, and just before Guldberg and Waage were to lay the foundations of chemical dynamics, Kirchhoff to discover the reversal of lines in the solar spectrum, serve but to emphasize the folly of having "recourse to farfetched and abstracted Ratiocination," and should teach us to be "very far from the litigious humour of loving to wrangle about words or terms or notions as empty".
- J. R. Partington, Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)
- The only true and scientific method according to Comte is therefore the inductive method and science is only such as is based on experiment. Secondly, the aim and apex of science is the new science of the imaginary organism of humanity or of the super-organic being-humanity: this new imaginary science being sociology. From this view of science in general it appeared that all former knowledge was false, and the whole history of humanity's knowledge of itself fell into three, or really two, periods: # The theological and metaphysical periods, lasting from the commencement of the world until Comte # and the present period of true science — positivism — which began with Comte.
This was all very nice; there was only one error, namely, that the whole edifice was built on the sand — on the arbitrary assertion that humanity is an organism. That assertion was arbitrary because we have no more right to acknowledge the existence of an organism of humanity not subject to observation than we have to acknowledge the existence of a triune God and similar theological propositions. That assertion was fallacious because to the conception of humanity, that is, of men, the definition of an organism was incorrectly affixed despite the fact that humanity lacks the essential sign of an organism, namely a centre of sensation and consciousness. We only call an elephant or a bacterium an 'organism' because, by analogy we attribute to those beings a similar unification of sensation and of consciousness to that we are conscious of in ourselves; but in human societies and in humanity this essential indication is lacking, and therefore, however many other indications we may detect that are common to humanity and to an organism, in the absence of that essential indication, the acknowledgement of humanity as an organism is incorrect.
But despite the arbitrariness and incorrectness of its fundamental basis the positive philosophy was accepted most cordially by the so-called educated world, so important for that world was the justification this philosophy afforded to the existing order of things by regarding the present rule of violence among men as Just. What is remarkable in this connexion is that of Comte's works which consist of two parts — the positive philosophy and the positive politics — the learned world only accepted the first: the part which, on the new experimental basis, offered a justification for the existing evil of human societies; but the second part, dealing with the moral obligations of altruism resulting from acknowledging humanity as an organism, was considered not merely unimportant but even insignificant and unscientific.- Leo Tolstoy, What then must we do? (1886); as translated by Aylmer Maude.
- Kierkegaard was interested in the development of the existent, individual, concrete human personality. Its chief Kierkegaardian stages are the esthetic, the moral, and the religious, and they form a striking contrast to Comte's trio: the theological, the metaphysical, and the scientific. For one thing Kierkegaard's highest stage of human existence is the religious, while Comte's is the scientific; for another, the Kierkegaardian personality's journey through its stages is absolutely free.
- Morton White ed. The age of analysis 20th century philosopher, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1955 p. 120-121
External links[edit]
- Profile at NNDB
- A General View of Positivism at Marxists.org
- Profile at Philosophy Professor.com
- Profile at BluPete.com
- Profile at Find-A-Grave
- Positivist Church of Brazil
- Auguste Comte and Positivism
- The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte, freely translated and condensed (1896) by Harriet Martineau, in the Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection
- "The Three Cs and the Notion of Progress: Copernicus, Condorcet, Comte" by Caspar J M Hewett


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Has God Lost the Battle?
This sermon is longer than usual, but I felt that I wanted to tell my own story at the end of the sermon for some personal reasons that you will understand when you read it. I hope you find this sermon encouraging. It certainly did my heart good to study the text and then consider God's kindness to me when I was a confused but very religious teenager.
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His former club Middlesbrough had an offer accepted by Swansea on Thursday morning but his agent ruled out a return to his former club and instead he arrived at the Stadium of Light for a medical and to agree personal terms.
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"I was born and brought up in the north east so I know first-hand the intense passion that people have for their football in this part of the world - it's special and there's nowhere else like it."
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Two-loss showing at nationals an 'unacceptable result' for Cascades: Tuchscherer
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Al Tuchscherer could have easily written off his team's two-and-out performance at the CIS women's basketball nationals as one of those proverbial "valuable learning experiences."
His University of the Fraser Valley squad was, after all, making its debut at the CIS championship, and they were seeded seventh in the eight-team draw at the University of Regina.
But that's not how the Cascades head coach is wired. In the aftermath of his team's two defeats – 62-57 to the Saint Mary's Huskies in Friday's quarter-finals and 70-52 to the McGill Marlets on the consolation side Saturday – Tuchscherer bemoaned a missed opportunity.
"It was pretty disappointing, there's no doubt about it," said Tuchscherer, whose Cascades were never ranked lower than No. 4 in the nation during the regular season and peaked at No. 1 in January.
"Quite frankly, it's an unacceptable result for the season we've just had. There's a lot of unfinished business here. I don't think we played particularly well."
The Cascades trailed Saint Mary's by 14 points at the start of the fourth quarter on Friday, but reeled off a 13-0 run to get within a point at 51-50. The Huskies staved off UFV down the stretch, however.
Nicole Wierks did a great job defensively on Saint Mary's star guard Justine Colley, limiting the national player of the year to 17 points on 4-of-18 shooting from the field.
But Tuchscherer was perturbed by the officiating – UFV was whistled for 21 personal fouls compared to just eight for the Huskies, and Saint Mary's boasted a 22-9 edge in free throw attempts.
"It sounds like sour grapes at this point, but in the middle of it, you're like, 'This can't be happening right now,'" he said. "It was pretty disheartening. I don't know how many coaches came over to me after the game and said it was ridiculous, how did your team maintain its composure. It was just quite sick, to be honest with you.
"Every 50-50 battle was a foul for us. It was beyond crazy."
After playing the late game on Friday, UFV was in the early game Saturday vs. McGill, and they struggled offensively, shooting just 27.7 per cent from the field en route to a decisive defeat.
Kayli Sartori scored 15 points in the loss, while Aieisha Luyken chipped in with 12 and Jaslyen Singh notched eight points off the bench.
"It wasn't our best effort, for sure," Tuchscherer noted.
The Cascades figure to be among the nation's elite again next season, with every player on the roster eligible to return. But that's of little solace to Tuchscherer at this point.
"We can look at that, but there's no guarantees – it's tough to get there (to nationals)," he noted. "I have a problem with our team, if that's what we're thinking: 'Let's go this year and react to what happens.' We can't be reacting to what happens. We need to go there and kick down the door and make it happen."


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The Dolphins made some news this week, but it was off the field. How will HBO handle it?
Let's find out:
-We open with Miami coach Joe Philbin, reflecting on the death of his own son last year in the face of the news that Andy Reid's son, Garrett died this week. HBO obviously had to address the issue at some point. This seems like the most appropriate way to do so.
-Obviously, the producers will be looking for new breakout stars this week. Otherwise, Hard Knocks will take a serious step down in episode 3, in terms of compelling personalities.
-Les Brown may be the guy they're looking for. He has just about zero chance to make this team, but gets highlighted again anyway. But here's my question about Brown: If he wowed the scouts with his speed and is built more like a wideout than a tight end, why aren't they trying him at wide receiver?
-Mike Sherman minces no words with the tight end. "You were terrible. I would cut you." Then the tight ends coach hosts his own meeting. Why does he sit in the back of the room? If he's addressing his players, shouldn't he be in front?
-Ryan Tannehill sings "Lean on Me" for his teammates. Is this the Bill Withers original or the Club Noveau remake that hit number one on the billboard charts in 1987?
-David Garrard was probably brought in to be something of a tutor to Tannehill. He shows that he's living up to the that job by telling the rookie not to dive for extra yards in practice. No reason to get hurt in practice.
-Yup. They shaved a cock into that guys head. It's very well done. Which ever nameless defensive player did the shaving has a future at the barber shop when his career in the NFL is over.
– Reggie Bush! I absolutely forgot he was on the Dolphins. I bet he wishes he had made his first appearance in Hard Knocks by making a play instead of making up a nickname for a previously unknown player. That being said. 7-11 is a great nickname for a wideout that's always open. Good job, Reggie Bush
-24 minutes in for Chad Johnson's first appearance this week. He talks about how other guys get arrested, but he doesn't. FORESHADOWING! If Aaron Sorkin wrote such an obvious foreshadowing on The Newsroom, the internet would destroy him for telegraphing his plot. And they would be right to do so.
-O-line coach Jim Turner has a boston accent and is a former marine. He also makes an excellent boner joke after showing his players the Dolphins cheerleaders' "Call Me Maybe" video.
-I really like the fact that the Dolphins QB's genuinely seem to like and get along with each other. Even when Garrard is hurt, he's still smiling in the QB meeting.
-Did Mike Sherman really yell "Dag Nabit!" when Chad Johnson dropped a pass? I thought only angry old prospectors on Scooby Doo say that.
-Great shot of Jeff Ireland by himself, dealing with the Garrard injury.
-It's not until 49 minutes in that they deal with Chad Johnson's arrest. And they handle it well. Hard Knocks has managed to turn Chad Johnson back into a person, stripped of the bluster and the persona. He's just a guy who fucked up and now he's paying the consequences. And Joe Philbin comes off like a thoughtful man making a tough decision. TMZ must be appalled.


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SAN MARTIN, Calif. — The passion for Aaron Mansfield became a pain for some Pennsylvania farmers.
Mansfield, one of the eight finalists for the World Long Drive Championship, found the perfect spot to practicing launching tee shots. The range went 250 yards down a slope, then up a hill for about 50 yards until it reached a row of tall trees. A drive would have to travel 340 yards in the air to leave the property.
That was no problem for Mansfield — but it was for the farmers.
The next stage will have a little more glitter.
Mansfield and seven others will compete on a makeshift grid at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. They each get six drives, and the longest shot that stays within the 50-yard wide grid claims the winner-take-all prize of $250,000.


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BOWLING GREEN — As two of the Northern Lakes League's best baseball teams filed out of Carter Park Monday night, winds were gusting viciously from the north.
Had such conditions been in place over the previous two hours, it's unlikely Southview would have enjoyed the offensive explosion that it did. It's far more unlikely that such a factor would have made a difference in the outcome.
Four of Southview's 13 hits traveled beyond the outfield fence, propelling the seventh-ranked Cougars to a 12-1 rout and a season sweep of Bowling Green.
David Vandercook clubbed two home runs, as did Kirk Stambaugh, who allowed just three hits over seven innings to post the win.
"The kids did a nice job swinging the bats," Southview coach Ed Mouch said. "It looked like they saw the ball well."
Bowling Green's defense cooperated too. The Bobcats (10-8, 6-3) committed all three of their errors over the first two innings and fell behind 6-1. Starting pitcher Max Beattie lasted just 11/3 innings, allowing five hits and six runs, though just two of them were earned.


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