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New Survey Sheds Light on Americans' Attitudes about Teen Pregnancy and Sex
This week, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy released With One Voice 2012, America's Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy. This survey tells us quite a bit about the roles parents play in the sexual decision-making of young people, how young people and adults feel about sexuality education, what they think about contraception, and the power of the media.
As someone who writes about teen sexual behavior quite often, I do worry that we spend too much time worrying about (to steal a line from a friend) who puts what where and how often. While it is certainly important to know what teens are doing, it is equally important to know what they are thinking. This week, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy released With One Voice 2012, America's Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy. The report reveals the results of a nationally- representative survey of teens (ages 12 to 19) and adults and is the latest in a series of surveys the organization has released since 2001 that ask about sex, contraception, and teen pregnancy. The goals of these surveys are to "regularly assess and report on opinions" and to supplement the behavior data on teen sexuality that is collected by surveys such as the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBS) and the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).
This survey tells us quite a bit about the roles parents play in the sexual decision-making of young people, how young people and adults feel about sexuality education, what they think about contraception, and the power of the media.
The Role of Parents
Adults seem to worry a lot about the negative messages that young people receive from the media and their friends but it turns out that they need not be so concerned. The survey found that when it comes to sexuality, parents are more influential than anyone else including peers, media, religious leaders, and teachers. Moreover, the survey found that teens think it would be easier to avoid pregnancy with their parents' help and support. Unfortunately, while they think their parents have good intentions, many teens believe them to be unprepared to talk about these issues. Specifically, teens were asked:
When it comes to your/teens' decisions about sex, who is most influential?
- 43 percent of teens ages 12 to 14 said parents, 19 percent said friends, 8 percent said the media, 6 percent said religious leaders, 5 percent said siblings, 5 percent said teachers and educators, and 8 percent said someone else.
- 36 percent of teens ages 15 to 19 said parents, 24 percent said friends, 9 percent said the media, 6 percent said siblings, 4 percent said teachers and educators, and 12 percent said someone else.
How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement: "It would be much easier for teens to postpone sexual activity and avoid pregnancy if they were able to have more open, honest conversation about these topics with their parents."
- 87 percent of teens (ages 12 to 19) agreed with this statement with 53 percent saying they strongly agreed and 34 percent saying they somewhat agreed.
How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement: "Parents believe they should talk to their kids about sex but often don't know what to say, how to say it, or when it to start."
- 90 percent of teens agreed with this statement with 51 percent saying they strongly agreed and 34 percent saying they somewhat agreed.
Teens' overall desire to talk to their parents did not surprise the author of the survey who explains that it is in line with "a large body of social science research suggesting that overall closeness between parents and their children, shared activities, parental presence in the home, and parental caring and concern are all associated with a reduced risk of early sex and teen pregnancy."
Monica Rodriguez, president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), is also not surprised by these findings: "This confirms what we've known, that teens look to their parents and want to hear from them on these issues and that parents need to be prepared to answers their kids' questions."
The survey suggests that parents really do want to help their teens navigate the tricky waters of sexuality and sexual behavior. For example, 90 percent of adults agreed that talking to parents would help teens delay sexual activity and prevent teen pregnancy. And, contrary to the images we have of parents running out to buy chastity belts at the first sign their teen is sexually active–79 percent of parent of teens said that if their teen were having sex they "would hope they could come talk to [me] so [I] could help ensure they were using birth control" as opposed to just 9 percent who said they would "be angry and try to convince them to stop having sex."
Unfortunately, the good intentions and willingness may be lost because of a lack knowledge and comfort with the topic; like teens, 88 percent of adults agreed that parents "often don't know what to say, how to say it, or when to start." The author notes that "parents continue to say that they really do need help when it comes to talking to their kids about sex and related topics."
Rodriguez says that parents should not be discouraged because there are a lot of resources out there – including books and websites – dedicated to helping them take on this task. She adds that parents should "look at resources designed directly for kids as well so that they can get a good idea of what is age appropriate."
The Role of Education
If people only listened to politicians and pundits on the issue of sexuality education it would be easy to believe that there are only two types of programs–one that tells young people to put an aspirin between their knees until they're married and one that hands them condoms and how-to-manuals and sends them on their way—and that these are totally incompatible. When other people are asked about this topic (both teens and adults), though, it turns out that they take the pretty rational view that abstinence and contraception can and should peacefully coexist. Specifically, when asked:
"Do you wish you/teens were getting more information about abstinence, more information about birth control or protection, or more information about both?"
- 49 percent of teens and 74 percent of adults said both, 7 percent of teens and 13 percent of adults said abstinence, and 13 percent of teens and 9 percent of adults said birth control or protection.
"Do you think the primary message of these [federally funded programs] should be to help teens postpone sex, provide teens with information about birth control or protection, or provide teens with information about postponing sex andbirth control or protection?"
- 65 percent of teens and 62 percent of adults said both, 19 percent of teens and 25 percent of adults said primarily providing information about postponing sex, and 11 percent of teens and 13 percent of adults said primarily providing information on birth control or protection.
According to the author, these findings show that in the real world people do not see sex education as an either-or proposition. He goes on to point out that:
"…the extraordinary progress that the nation has made in reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing in the past two decades has been driven by a combination of less sex and more contraception."
Educating young people about both, therefore, is a "common sense approach."
One of the other questions about sexuality education also shows common sense but may not be as simple as the survey seems to suggest. When asked if they agree or disagree with this statement, "Federally funded programs should primarily support those programs that have been proven to change behavior related to teen pregnancy," a clear majority of adults (72 percent) agreed.
I, too, agree at least in theory but I fear this is oversimplified and that without first providing a little more context, the answer is not particularly meaningful. Obviously, we would all like to put our money toward programs that have already been proven to work whether they focus on sex ed or other topics. This is what the Obama administration is doing through its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative which provides funding to organizations across the country to conduct prevention programming. Tier 1 of this program requires grantees to choose an evidence-based program (from a relatively small list of those that have been rigorously evaluated) and replicate programs "with fidelity." Many educators agree, however, that this is too limiting because we don't have enough programs that have been proven effective and the ones that have tend to be narrowly focused both in the topics they cover and the audiences they are intended to reach. Rodriguez says this is why Tier 2 of this program is so important, though it is a much smaller pot of money this funding is going toward innovative approaches and that will hopefully add to our knowledge base about what can be effective.
To Rodriguez, though, the most alarming finding of the survey when it comes to education, is just how low teachers and educators fell on the scale of influence; they were lower than friends, siblings, religious leaders, and the media with just 5 percent of teens ages 12 to 14 and 4 percent of teens ages 15 to 19 noting them as the most influential people when it comes to sex. Rodriguez believes that: "Educators and school administrators need to do some soul searching about why this is. Is it because we've censored ourselves–as a result of restrictive policies or fear of controversy–to the point that young people just don't see us as a good source of information?"
The Role of Contraception
The survey's findings when it comes to contraception are a bit of a study in contradiction. Teens, it seems, think they know everything they need to know in order to protect themselves from unintended pregnancy yet admit they don't all that much about either the male condom or the birth control pill. Moreover, an alarming number of them believe that contraception is somehow irrelevant to whether they get pregnant. Specifically:
When asked if they agreed with the statement: "I have all of the information I need to avoid an unplanned pregnancy"
- 75 percent of teens ages 12 to 14 agreed as did 86 percent of teens ages 15 to 19.
When asked, how much they thought they know about male condoms and how to use them
- 6 percent of teens ages 12 to 14 thought they know everything, 27 percent know a lot, 50 percent know a little, and 16 percent know nothing.
- 14 percent of teens ages15 to 19 thought they know everything, 50 percent know a lot, 32 percent know a little, and 4 percent know nothing.
When asked how much they thought they know about birth control pills and how to use them
- 2 percent of teens ages 12 to 14 thought they know everything, 12 percent know a lot, 47 percent know a little, and 38 percent know nothing.
- 6 percent of teens ages 15 to 19 thought they know everything, 30 percent know a lot, 48 percent know a little, and 16 percent know nothing.
When asked how much they agreed or disagreed with the following statement: "It doesn't matter whether you use birth control or not, when it is your time to get pregnant it will happen"
- 42 percent of teens agreed and 57 percent of teens disagreed.
As I said, these results seem somewhat contradictory. Teens are committed to preventing pregnancy and think they know how but in order to truly know how they would need all of the information about both male condoms and the pill and few teens even pretend they know it all. (And I'd venture to bet some of the select few who think they do are wrong.) Obviously, this suggests that we need to provide more information to teens about the ways in which they can protect themselves but I fear that this may not be enough if more than 40 percent of teens think contraception is irrelevant if it's their "time to get pregnant."
I think this speaks to a general negative attitude that we have toward contraception in this country; whether it's abstinence-only-until-marriage programs telling students that using a condom is akin to playing Russian Roulette or Rush Limbaugh telling a law student that asking for contraceptive coverage was proof she was a slut. Providing young people with information about contraception–particularly male condoms which also protect against STIs–is a vital first step but we have to change the tone of the conversation about this topic completely if we're going to make more progress.
The good news is that adults seem to understand this and agree that our political dialogue, at least, is missing the mark on this issue. Specifically, 75 percent of adults agreed with the statement, "Policymakers who are opposed to abortion should be strong supporters of birth control." The author explains this sentiment eloquently, saying:
"Over the past year, much of the public discourse about contraception has been considerably less than enlightening. In particular, the number of public figures and policymakers cynically conflating abortion and birth control has been especially disheartening and puzzling. That men and women of good will disagree about abortion is understandable; the hostility to preventing the unplanned pregnancies that frequently lead to abortion is not."
The Role of the Media
The survey also asked parents and adults about the role of the media and though, as I mentioned earlier, few young people referred to this as the strongest influence on their opinions about sexuality, participants readily agreed that the media does play a role. For example 75 percent of teen boys and 84 percent of teen girls agreed with the statement, "When a TV or character I like deals with teen pregnancy it makes me think more about my own risk of causing pregnancy and how to avoid it."
Teens and adults were asked specifically about the MTV shows 16 & Pregnant and Teen Moms which have been the source of contention with some viewers thinking they glamorize teen pregnancy and make celebrities out of teen moms and others believing that they show a realistic portrayal of the difficulties of parenting young. Most of the teens who had seen the show fell into this latter category with 77 percent believing it "helps teens understand the challenges of pregnancy and parenting." Parents of teens though were less convinced with only 53 percent taking that point of view and 48 percent believing it "makes pregnancy and parenting look easy and fun."
We sexuality educators talk a lot about "teachable moments" when it comes to media message and often suggest that parents use what they see on TV to start conversations. Both adults (75 percent) and teens (73 percent) agreed that the television shows or movies can be good launching points for conversations between parents and teens though only 47 percent of teens says this actually happens sometimes or often in their family. Interestingly, 74 percent of parents of teens said they did use TV to spark conversation sometimes or often. The difference in responses between teens and parents does make one wonder what parents were really saying and what their teens were really hearing.
The authors concluded: "In short, media can, and often is, a force for good on teen pregnancy and related issue." I will just add that it is up to those of us in education and public health to reach out to media makers to help them use this power for good and not just salaciousness or profit.
Keep Asking
The survey is quite extensive and asks many more questions of teens than I can cover here but I do want to touch on the one that I find most disturbing. Teens who have had sexual intercourse were asked if they wish they had waited longer; a majority (78 percent of sexually experienced teens 12 to 14 and 55 percent of sexually experienced teens 15 to 19) said that they did. According to the author, this is consistent with finding from the previous surveys, "In fact, over the years, one of the most consistent findings reported in the With One Voice series has been the regret many teens feel about the timing of early sexual activity."
More than any other finding, this suggests to me that we are doing something wrong – though it is not immediately clear where we are missing the mark. Is it that teens are continually being pressured into having sex before they really want to? If so, what are the key sources of these pressures, how can we help teens handle them, and how do we change those message in the long term? Or, is it that through our very mixed messages about sex, teens are taught that they can have sex but really should feel at least a little bad about it afterward. Either way, we need to do better. Rodriguez sees it as evidence of the gaps in education: "This is where we are missing the boat about what young people really want from sexuality education. It should be less about plumbing and symptoms and more about the decision making. If we gave young people more opportunities to have honest and real conversations about sex and consider their own feeling and values about it, maybe they would feel better about their decisions."
Insights like these are why surveys that go beyond who does what, with whom, and how often are important. This one asks many important questions but, of course, I have many more. Let's keep asking so we can understand not just what teens are doing but what they are thinking and feeling in order to make better policies, create better programs, and ensure that teens make decisions they are comfortable with – even after the fact.


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I just read an interesting report from my ex-colleague Larry Cannel from Gartner ("The Post-2.0 Era: Social in the Context of My Work"). It was recently published under the Burton IT1 Research if you have access. My thoughts - not directly in response to Larry's report, just in general concerning Enterprise 2.0 (which is what came to mind as I read the document)...
Are We In The Post-2.0 Era?
Yes. And No.
The term "Enterprise 2.0" (E2.0) has been around since 2006. However, many of the technologies associated with E2.0 have been around longer (e.g., blogs, wikis, RSS) while others emerged post-2006 (e.g., micro-blogging). The most recent definition of E2.0 is on Andrew McAfee's blog:
Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers.
Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities.
Platforms are digital environments in which contributions and interactions are globally visible and persistent over time.
Emergent means that the software is freeform, and that it contains mechanisms to let the patterns and structure inherent in people's interactions become visible over time.
Freeform means that the software is most or all of the following:
Free of up-front workflow
Egalitarian, or indifferent to formal organizational identities
Accepting of many types of data
The term has been abused to the point where its definition has been stretched and altered to fit the agenda of vendors, analysts, and media pundits. However, if we are trying to determine whether we are in a Post-E2.0 era, I think it is important to acknowledge definitions and intended meaning from the person who invented to term (Professor McAfee). It should be noted that McAfee I believe also stated that there were parallels his use of the term E2.0 and Web 2.0.
Before getting to a Post-E2.0 era it's also relevant to think about the Pre-E2.0 Era. Before the term E2.0 emerged, the collaboration market was pretty stable from a technology viewpoint. While people used e-mail to collaborate, technically e-mail was considered a messaging tool. Collaboration technologies included discussion forums, web conferencing, and virtual workspaces. Virtual workspaces were the "hot topic". They aggregated document libraries, discussion forums, team calendars, and some level of task organization, into a cohesive destination – a single place for people to "go to" when they needed to work together. Other technologies such as portals, search, content management, instant messaging and presence tools helped round out the typical collaboration manifest (even though they were not technically collaboration tools per se). There had been earlier inflection points in the timeline of collaboration tools as well. Expertise location grew out of the KM heyday of the late nineties for instance. Still, around 2006, the technology landscape was fairly stable.
It should also be noted that the idea of "contextual collaboration" had also emerged circa 1999. The idea of embedded collaboration services contextually within line of business applications, like virtual workspaces, would help drive adoption, and increase effectiveness of collaboration experiences. Portals represented the best-in-class capability back then to enable contextual collaboration since application and collaboration portlets could be composed into a single, integrated user experience. While there were plenty of technology limitations, it's important to historically note that today's siren call to integrate social tools into business apps and processes is not a new idea. The argument is redundant with the case made over decade ago that contextual integration of collaboration tooling is better than forcing people to go to another place to get work done. That said, we do have better tools, integration methods, architectures, etc to accomplish this goal in a more comprehensive manner.
So when E2.0 emerged, we (as an industry) had already gone through a cycle of tools, suites, and platforms that started out as stand-alone silos and evolved into platforms with development interfaces that allowed people to build collaborative applications, and integrate collaboration services into portals. The tooling was not as advanced as what we have today, but the cycle is similar in certain respects to what we are witnessing happening in the market today re: E2.0.
One thing E2.0 accomplished is that it gave a name to an underserved area of collaboration. E2.0, per McAfee's definition, targeted emergent collaboration rather than the more activity-centric/document-centric collaboration prevalent at the time. E2.0 identified a more free-form type of information sharing and collaborative interactions where participation was optional, more community-centric, and "free of up-front workflow". E2.0 platforms made people's interactions visible over time – a counter to the virtual workspace tools that were often made more permission-based. Even though E2.0 remained a "squishy" concept and encouraged the type of evangelism that often derailed KM efforts, it did open the door to a new array of tools that were categorized as enterprise social software: blogs, wikis, RSS, tagging, bookmarking, micro-blogging, and so on.
Since then, the E2.0 (enterprise social software) market has evolved from an array of stand-alone tools and suites to an environment where platforms are becoming more dominant. Development interfaces are maturing, and we are beginning to see "social applications" (e.g., ideation, Enterprise Q&A) emerge and discussion of how social capabilities need to be integrated with line-of-business applications.
Social platforms that started off as an explicit destination site (mimicking the model made popular in the consumer market) are now becoming an integration hub that enables a distributed social experience across devices, content, and applications as well as a centralized store of people's social data. This does not mean that stand-alone tools no longer have their place in the overall ecosystem, but increasingly such tools need to integrate and co-exist with infrastructure services that embed social capabilities.
Sound familiar? This is a more advanced version of what was transpiring circa 2006, albeit with better tooling, methods, and architectures, etc. It's not a perfect comparison – mobile and analytics are much more prominent today than earlier, consumerization of IT, etc. etc. Still, I find the parallels interesting and often not recognized.
So back to the original question – are we in a Post E2.0 Era?
Yes: The technology has become less volatile. We're not seeing the continued wave of new tools entering the space as we did years ago. The user experience and tooling is becoming more ubiquitous. In some ways, this is the Hype Circle playing. We are also beginning to think less of E2.0 as an end in-and-of-itself and more of a means-to-an-end. Organizations are not doing E2.0 for the sake of E2.0 but to improve certain business and organizational capabilities. The more we talk about the non-technology aspects of employee participation, information sharing, collaboration, etc – then E2.0 has achieved its goal and it's time to move on. For instance, E2.0 has opened up the door to analytics being an integral part of collaboration strategies – something that was not assumed prior to E2.0. We do need to think in more purposeful ways, adopt a renewed focus on worker experiences – however we need to avoid losing some of the softer goals (e.g., KM-related) of E2.0.
No: While the technology discussion is less prominent, there is much to be learned and applied from a non-technological perspective. We have barely scratched the surface of our understanding when it comes to issues raised by E2.0 pertaining to identity, participation, social networking, social capital, media literacies, and so on. We are also just at the beginning when it comes to understanding the cultural, structural, and change management aspects of what E2.0 dynamics trigger. While it's fashionable to dismiss the softer aspects of E2.0 and over-generalize / over-simplify that we merely need "to get work done", that viewpoint will likely result in very traditional approaches when it comes to applying E2.0 technologies to improve worker productivity and business performance.
For me, the issue is not "do we focus on the community and social networking aspects of E2.0 … OR … do we focus on integrating E2.0 into business activities to get real work done" – I would rather suggest that strategsts replace the OR with an AND to find the proper balance. Each side has value and a focus on both is necessary.

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Gov. Malloy Open To Having NHL Hockey Back In Hartford
By CHRISTOPHER KEATING and PAUL DOYLE
January 07, 2013
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Monday he is talking to investors seeking to bring an NHL franchise to Hartford, but he emphasized the return of hockey remains a remote possibility.
"I have spoken to individuals who have expressed a desire to bring a team to Hartford,'' Malloy said during an afternoon press conference.
Malloy said that The New York Post incorrectly reported Sunday that he had formed a group to work on bringing big-time hockey to Connecticut.
"I have not put a committee together,'' Malloy said. ''If you are sincere and you want to meet with us, we will meet with you. But to date, I have had no meetings with anyone about their specific interest.''
After 14 years as mayor of Stamford and two years as governor, Malloy said, "There's not a year that I haven't been approached by somebody who wants to bring a professional team to somewhere.''
Malloy's spokesman, Andrew Doba, said the governor had only agreed to talk to a group that had approached the state with a proposal.
"They were able to get his ear on it. People have an idea. They see an opportunity with the lockout ending,'' said Doba, referring to the 113-day NHL labor dispute that ended Sunday.
"Right now, there are no specific proposals" for Connecticut, said Doba, who would not identify the group that talked recently with Malloy. The NHL's Hartford Whalers left for North Carolina after the 1996-97 season. Almost annually since then, proposals for bringing a team back have surfaced.
NHL spokesman Frank Brown said Monday there are no plans for expansion or relocation.
Frank E. Russo Jr., who heads business development for Global Spectrum, one of three bidders vying for the management contract for the XL Center, said Monday the company had not heard about a fresh effort to bring the NHL back to Connecticut.
That was surprising, Russo said, because Global Spectrum's parent company, Comcast Spectacor, owns the NHL Philadelphia Flyers franchise.
"We would love to see the NHL come back here, but there's a lot of competition," Russo said. "There are several cities that want an NHL franchise."
In 2008, Hartford leaders met with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman about attracting a team to the city, but found the lack of a new arena was a substantial obstacle.
Bettman "showed that the NHL has been watching the Connecticut market. He had a lot of data. He knew our television market is larger than some of the markets they're in,'' said Matthew J. Hennessy, who served as former Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez's chief of staff and who attended the meeting.
"It was clear the NHL was keeping its eye on the Hartford market, but the story was you need a new facility. Bettman said you need a new facility, and you need an owner who will foot the bill," Hennessy said.
Asked if he had any interest in a new arena in Hartford, Malloy said: "You never say never. If somebody comes in and says they want to build something and they're going to do it on their own dollar, that's a very different proposition. But the cost of these things coming out of the ground is pretty great. Let me be very clear. I have not spent any amount of time considering that.''
In the past, Malloy has downplayed the possibility of the NHL returning to Hartford. Malloy said a year ago that while he had talked to Bettman, the NHL was not close to returning to Connecticut. More recently, former Whalers' owner Howard Baldwin failed in a nearly three-year effort to bring an NHL team back to the XL Center.
When the league does expand or shift an existing franchise, Quebec City is expected to top the list of destinations. The city broke ground in September on an NHL-ready arena that will seat 18,000 for hockey. The city was home to the Quebec Nordiques from 1972 to 1995 before the franchise moved to Denver.
Hamilton, Ontario, and Toronto are also considered as possible sites for an NHL franchise. Kansas City's Sprint Center, which opened in 2007, is also a potential location. Seattle also has won approval to build a $490 million hockey and basketball arena.
Hartford has been home to the Connecticut Whale, the New York Rangers' American Hockey League franchise since 1997. The Rangers lease at the XL Center expires this summer. Madison Square Garden officials have said the company would not stand in the way of an effort to bring an NHL team to Connecticut.
Malloy is a hockey fan and was the force behind the decision to upgrade UConn's program to Hockey East. UConn will play games at the XL Center after joining Hockey East in 2014.
Courant staff writers Rick Green and Kenneth R. Gosselin contributed to this story.
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Columnist Glenn Greenwald describes how, in the wake of the Boston bombings, people formed opinions about the world and government based on little information.
In this conversation with Bill, The Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald describes the manhunt for the perpetrators of the Boston marathon bombings as a "political event" that connects to larger questions about our culture, and explains how, in the wake of the event, people were forming opinions about the world and government based on little information.
"What I saw was everybody glued to the television in order to observe and engage with a very political event," Greenwald says, "political because it was infused with all kinds of political messages about Muslims, about radicalism, about what the proper role of the police and the military are in the United States."
"What you could see, in how people were observing, was their political impressions about the world, about their government, about political debates being formed based on the very few incidents that they really pay attention to."
Watch the full conversation between Bill Moyers and Glenn Greenwald this weekend on Moyers & Company.


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Check out this week's Danger Zone interview with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life and MarketWatch.com.
Rydex Series Fund: Utilities Fund (RYUTX) is in the Danger Zone this week due the poor quality of its holdings and the poor performance of its sector as a whole.
We recently released our 1Q13 Sector Rankings for ETFs and mutual funds report, and the Utilities sector comes in at second-to-last. Only two of the 47 Utilities sector funds manage to achieve even a Neutral rating, and none are Attractive or better.
RYUTX exemplifies why this sector is so poorly rated, as a whopping 89% of its value is allocated to stocks with a Neutral or worse rating. When you invest in a mutual fund, you're investing in every stock that fund owns, and right now RYUTX owns a lot of poor stocks.
On top of that, RYUTX has an outrageously high total annual cost of 6.49%, which mean the fund's holdings have to outperform its benchmark by more than 6.49% every year to create any value for clients. This high a cost should be a red flag for any fund; for one with as poor holdings as RYUTX, it's a clear sign to stay far, far away.
70% of assets in the Utilities sector are in Dangerous or worse rated funds. Clearly, too many investors are putting their money in the wrong places. This is chiefly due to the lack of research on the quality of holdings. As we've discussed before in Low Cost Funds Dupe Investors, the available data on fund costs is solid. Investors are generally great at allocating to cheap funds.
However, there is a serious lack of quality research, outside of New Constructs, into the holdings of ETFs and mutual funds. Instead, backward-looking research has dominated the dialogue on funds for years, telling investors to focus on historical performance rather than do their due diligence on the quality of a fund's holdings. Only our predictive rating methodology gives investors the tools to seriously analyze the stocks they are actually buying into when they invest in a fund.
Disclosure: Sam McBride contributed to this post. Neither David Trainer nor Sam McBride receive compensation for writing about any specific stock, sector, or theme.


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David Leestma
David Leestma is an American astronaut who was born on May 6, 1949, in Michigan. Before he became an astronaut, Leestma was a Navy test pilot. He logged over 3000 hours of flight time.
Leestma became an astronaut in 1980. He has spent over 533 hours in space on three spaceflights.
Leestma made his first spaceflight aboard Mission 41-G in 1984. The crew spent eight days studying the Earth. In 1989, he flew aboard a Department of Defense mission. Leestma made his last flight aboard Spacelab ATLAS in 1992. The crew studied the Earth%s atmosphere.


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Dear change seekers,
In recent weeks you have worked hard to make India a safer place. The recent Delhi gang-rape case dominated headlines and received world-wide attention, mainly due to your efforts. However, be mindful of certain worrisome negative aspects of this outrage. What you stand for is worthwhile, justified and necessary. However, the way you are going about it is not. You may create a lot of noise, but not the desired change. It is important to understand India first.
India, no matter what your Civics teacher told you, is not an equal country. India is divided into four classes with different levels of power. For simplicity, let us call these classes the Ones, Twos, Threes and Fours (deliberately avoiding upper-lower classification).
The Ones are our political masters. They control India, primarily through control over land, resources and laws that govern us. They don't directly own assets, but control the asset owners, the Twos.
The Twos are our industrialists and capitalists. These Twos help secure and increase the power of the Ones. Business magazines honour them with terms like 'the dynamic entrepreneurs of a new liberalized India'. While some may deserve such accolades, most don't. Twos become big because they serve the Ones well. The Ones allow the Twos to become rich through limited competition and tightly regulated approvals. Real estate, mining, infrastructure or most other sectors, no company in India can thrive without support of the political class.
The next class, the Threes, are people like you and me, the primary readers of this newspaper. We are people with a certain amount of affluence and education, comprising around 10 per cent of India's population. While life is a struggle for many Threes, they do have a basic standard of living and a modest access to opportunities. However, the Threes still do not get speedy justice, accountable leaders or a protective police force.
Notably, Threes have recently acquired a new media power. Threes are affluent and buy things advertisers want to sell. Hence, the media caters to Threes. The Threes dominate social media too. Whatever trends on social media, makes its way to the evening news. This power to dictate the news and influence public sentiment is real and substantial.
The Delhi gang rape victim was a Three, and the gruesome case made the rest of the Threes feel vulnerable like never before. The Threes wanted the rape to be debated. Hence, for almost a month little else could be discussed in a country of 1.2 billion people. However, in the process, the Threes might have done some damage. For despite the well-intentioned outcry, the Threes inadvertently displayed they care about themselves much more than another huge class they alienated, the Fours.
The Fours are the ninety of the country, people with limited education, abysmal standards of living and little hope for a better future. The Fours are our farmers, slum dwellers, domestic helpers and the hundreds of millions of Indians without proper healthcare, education and infrastructure. These Fours get no debates on TV. People won't protest for them on India Gate.
The Threes either shun them, or impose their newfound modern values on them. For example, Fours may see women-men relationships in a regressive way, borne out by centuries of cultural indoctrination. The Threes, exposed to the latest Western beliefs, will mock them.
If you noticed the various debates and opinions on the case, the Threes only accepted ideas in line with their own liberal, modern value system. Nobody could dare say anything even slightly alternative or stress on the Indian reality without being ridiculed, mocked and being termed a perpetrator of rapes.
The Threes found a new power, but used it like the Ones and Twos use theirs — for self-serving purposes.
For will we ever passionately discuss the issues and lend our media power to issues that affect the Fours? Will we go to India Gate to help slum dwellers get proper drinking water, for instance? Did we care about the other Indians' news in the past month?
As we alienate the Fours, we leave them open to be exploited by the Ones. The Ones echo the sentiments of the Fours and throw some scraps at them. In return, the Fours ignore the Ones' misdeeds and bring them back to power. Meanwhile, we Threes keep screaming and watch our own self-created reality show.
This is no way to create a revolution, or even change. We have to take the grassroots Fours along. We cannot bully people into agreeing with our views. If we want people to change, we should not mock or deride. Instead listen and understand first and slowly nudge people towards change. Don't just laugh at anyone who says women should cover up and not venture out at night. Suggest that while this old belief may come from a place of practical reality, this lets the perpetrators off the hook and so cannot be the primary solution. I am not saying these people are not regressive. However, if you want change, be inclusive.
Threes should also lend their media power to support issues affecting the Fours. India's poor are a not separate species from us. They are Indians who deserve a better standard of living. If the politicians didn't protect the Twos so much, we could open the economy further, truly liberalize and create a lot of opportunity.
Let us fight for the Fours too. They will join us, and make us a truly politically relevant force. This way, we will be able to take on the ultimate power abusers in India – the Ones and the Twos. And then, and only then is when true change will happen.
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Bow Wow Puts Kandi Burruss On Blast
Bow Wow is not happy with one of the former members of the So So Def family. The "106 & Park" co-host slammed Kandi Burruss, who will not take part in the upcoming So So Def Anniversary Concert on February 23.
Kandi who got her start from Jermaine Durpi went on to add songwriter, reality tv-star and entrepreneur to her resume is also launching her Ladies Night tour the same night as the So So Def concert.
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Bow Wow felt slighted and posted the following to Facebook:
"JD likes to keep quiet but… Yo Kandi is wack for not wanting to show up for jd for "20th anniversary so so def show" put ego to the side and give the fans what they want and understand w/ out jd know one would even know who you are. You aint Michael, this aint the Jackson 5. She act'n like she booked out like she too busy! Better yet dont come. The ones thats there are the ones who really got live for JD and the history if the label."
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In my continuing quest to work on spreading my influence, I figured I may as well add another thing to help figure out just what kind of influence I have, at least through this blog.
Back in June, before really thinking much about this project, I added Topsy, which allows people to retweet my blog posts if they like them without having to sign up for a service like TweetMeMe. This time I've installed the plugin called fbLikeButton. You have to put it in just like that, because there are a lot of plugins for the like button for Facebook. However, this one was the highest rated by people who have tried others, and I know why. It was the only one that didn't require me to go to Facebook and set up a script to use it.
You'll notice at the end of the post that the "like" button shows up just under my copyright notice. You have the choice of having it at the top or bottom or in both places, but I chose the bottom because it interfered with my "listen" button, and I figured having it at the end of the post make it easier for anyone who liked it and didn't want to go back to the top. Of course, it would be nice if my Topsy allowed me to do that as well, but I think I like it just the same. You can also make it wider or thicker, so to speak, and you can select "recommend" instead of "like"; I stuck with the regular one. And if people click on it, their names and image will show at the end of your post as well; you get to determine if you want faces to show, and I decided to go that route for now.
What the like button does… heck, let's just show what Facebook says it does:
"When the user clicks the Like button on your site, a story appears in the user's friends' News Feed with a link back to your website."
And there you are. I hope you "like" this post.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Just a question. Does Linux/Pluto have any power management options? (i.e. spin down of hard discs when not in use, etc) I haven't built my core yet but I keep wondering if all of the hard drives will keep spinning even if nothing is recording.


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This is a creative portfolio & travel related design with welcome, news, and advertising section. It has five menus in the up-right corner and three other menus in the bottom part. It has a great, illustrated island landscape in the bottom of the design. It's colorfull and stylish! The package has 7 pages!
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Brownsville, Texas • Shortly after her daughter was shot to death by a former lover, Hermila Garcia remembers hearing these comforting words from the local Texas prosecutor: "I am the state. I am the law. I am going to represent and defend your daughter."
Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos' office did secure a murder conviction and 23-year prison term against Amit Livingston, but federal prosecutors allege he also orchestrated a scheme to line his own pockets that allowed Livingston to escape. Five years later, the killer remains at large.
A dozen people, half lawyers, have been indicted as part of a federal probe into what some observers call the most widespread case of judicial corruption they've ever seen. The saga has gripped the community in this southernmost tip of Texas.
Besides Villalobos, two others charged were present the day Livingston dodged prison: Abel Limas, the judge who presided over the murder trial, and Eduardo "Eddie" Lucio, a lawyer who represented the victim's children in a civil case.
"I don't know what is stronger, the pain of losing my daughter or the courage that those who mocked us have given me," Garcia said.
While Lucio and Villalobos are scheduled for trial next month, it was the case against Limas who was convicted and awaits sentencing that showed how deep the alleged crimes go. His indictment outlines the bribes and kickbacks exchanged for judicial discretions prosecutors say turned his courtroom into a criminal enterprise and earned him at least $257,000.
A cascade of indictments followed implicating a former state legislator, a former investigator from the prosecutor's office and most recently Villalobos. Federal wiretaps on Limas' phones intercepted some 40,000 calls, some of which have provided an ugly glimpse of justice behind closed doors where friendships and bribes among lawyers and judge sometimes tipped the scales against the legal process.
"It's been building steadily ever since the first charges came out," said Anthony Knopp, professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas-Brownsville. "I think people are even more horrified with each new accusation and revelation. It seems to be so extensive within the legal community."
Villalobos' attorney Joel Androphy declined to answer questions about the case before trial, which is set for Aug. 30, saying only "somebody has got some things wrong." Lucio also declined to comment when asked recently in the federal courthouse where he and Villalobos watched Limas testify against another lawyer.
But many observers consider the Livingston case to be the most egregious of all. Federal prosecutors allege that Villalobos conspired with Limas and Lucio, a longtime friend and former law partner, to game the system at the expense of justice.
Limas and Villalobos were well acquainted. Villalobos was the first prosecutor assigned to his court in 2001 and later worked as his court's public defender until running for district attorney.
For their scheme to work, federal prosecutors said, it involved a conspiracy among key players both in Livingston's criminal trial and the civil case against him on behalf of the three children of the murder victim, 31-year-old Hermila Hernandez. They say Villalobos set Lucio up to represent the three children, and the criminal and civil cases both landed in Limas' courtroom.
The trio's target was the $500,000 bond put up for Livingston's release before trial. To get it, they convinced Limas to convict and sentence Livingston on the same day, thereby freeing up the bond to be used as the settlement in the lawsuit.
But Limas also agreed that day to Livingston's request that he have 60 days to get his affairs in order before reporting to prison. That meant putting Livingston on the street without any bond highly unusual for a convicted killer already sentenced to decades in prison.
Houston attorney Greg Gladden, who represented Livingston in the criminal and civil cases, said the negotiations over his client's murder plea seemed to proceed normally until Limas agreed, at Villalobos' insistence, to sentence Livingston on the same day he pleaded guilty.
"We're in chambers and the judge said, 'That's fine we'll just do the plea and we'll reset it for sentencing,'" Gladden said. "Villalobos says, 'Well, no judge, we don't care if you want to let him turn himself in later but the family is here, the press is here, we want to get it all done now. We want you to sentence him now, and if you want to let him voluntarily surrender, we don't care about that.'"
Gladden was stunned. Livingston would be let loose for 60 days without bond on a promise he'd return to serve his sentence.
"I walked out of the courthouse wondering, you know that means the sheriff is going to have to release the bond money once the civil case is resolved and I just wonder how much of that money Villalobos is getting," Gladden said.
The answer, according to the federal indictment: $80,000. That came out of the $200,000 Lucio received in attorney's fees on the wrongful death suit. Together they kicked about $10,000 to Limas to keep him quiet, according to the indictment.
"I felt humiliated, mocked," Garcia said in Spanish recently at her home in San Juan. "Why did they mock us? Why? (Villalobos) is a cynic."
When Garcia heard Limas had pleaded guilty to racketeering last year, she and another daughter went to the FBI office in Brownsville. They had complained to the FBI in McAllen in 2007 after Livingston disappeared, but didn't have any proof.
At the Brownsville office last year, the agent who greeted them said, "We've been waiting awhile for you, Mrs. Garcia."
Moises Salas Jr., president of the Cameron County Bar Association, said repairing the system's image will take years.
"Down here, I think the perception has always been that the lawyers are crooked, the judges are crooked and they're all kind of watching each other's back, you know greasing the skids for each other," Salas said. "And this comes out and I think for the general public, I hear people saying, 'Well, that just confirms what we always believed.'"


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MS lines up 10 bulletins for bumper Patch Tuesday
Including three critical fixes for IE and Windows
Microsoft is lining up a bumper load of 10 security bulletins covering 34 vulnerabilities for June's Patch Tuesday release.
Three of the 10 bulletins, due on 8 June, cover critical flaws, normally defined as security holes that might allow an attacker to take full control of the targeted machine. The other seven notices fall in the lesser category of important and deal with bugs in Windows and Office.
The critical vulnerabilities affect all supported version of Windows (including Windows 7) and Internet Explorer.
"The June release is a large update and will keep system administrators busy, even if they have migrated to Windows 7 already," explained Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys.
The updates are due to cover two unpatched vulnerabilities in SharePoint (KB983438) and an information leakage bug in Internet Explorer (KB980088), he added.
More details will come with the release of the patches on Tuesday.
In the meantime, Microsoft's pre-release bulletin can be found here.
An overview from SANS Internet Storm Centre can be found here. ®


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aurora borealis
Aurora Borealis - May 8, 2012
A March 7 X5-class flare delivered a glancing blow to our ionosphere and led to over 24 hours of auroral activity. I headed south to avoid the clouds over Seattle and ended up near Black Diamond and captured the dim, but active display.
The aurora, as visible from our area, rarely get the waving and curling arms you see in photos from Norway and the Yukon, but we do get to see the full extent of the rays, from the green base to the violet and red tops.
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Aurora Borealis!
Sunspot group 1261 has had a busy week unleashing at least 3 M-class solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) toward the Earth last week. While still year from solar max, this is quite a bit of activity. I took a photo of the sun and sunspot group 1261 from my deck last week:
Aurora Borealis Again!
It happened again! A very energetic sunspot blew a nice blast of plasma directly toward the Earth this November and it created an unbelievale auroral display in Washington. Tim and I managed to get our cameras running at the peak of the storm. November 7, 2004
A directly Earth-directed X1 flare blasted past the our magnetosphere last night around 7pm on up to around midnight, and oh my what a show it was.
Aurora Borealis
The third largest recorded coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun slammed into the earth around midnight on October 28 spurning the intense aurura all the way from California to Goergia. For a short period, the aurora was visible between the clouds in here in Bothell. managed to get some photos before the clouds closed in completely.


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We've been working on our spring/summer garden lately and just finished up a project I've been wanting to do for a while! After seeing a whole variety of different kinds and styles via Pinterest, I knew I wanted to make some cute plant markers for the garden. And, Big Brother thought we needed a garden bug! 😉 One thing we have a lot of is rocks–so painted rock garden markers it is! Aren't they cute?!
This project was so easy to do with help from one of my favorite crafty products– Elmer's Painters Markers. I love them and already had a couple of packs. But, I needed a few additional colors to help with my fruit & vegetable paintings! So, I was thrilled to see that they are now offering single Painters for only $1.97 a piece. There was a good variety of colors sold individually–and I snagged 5 that I didn't already have. (You can see my whole shopping trip here on Google+).
DIY Painted Rock Garden Markers "How-To":
- Large rocks
- white paint (& paint brush)
- Elmer's Painters
1. Start by painting your rocks. This was a perfect job for kiddos to help with, as it doesn't really matter how messy it gets. Big Brother had great fun painting!
2. Once all the rocks are dry, use your Painters to write/draw on the rocks. With Big Brother learning to read and a 2 year-old around, I decided that I wanted our markers to have words and pictures. The Painters were easy enough to use that Big Brother could even help with a few of our drawings. He colored in our tomato and helped work on our ladybug! If you allow for a little drying time, you can use colors on top of other colors with no problem!
3. That's it! Easy, right?! Once everything is dry, go put your little cute creations in the garden & enjoy! 🙂
What is growing in YOUR garden right now?
For more from Elmer's, be sure to follow along with them on facebook and/or twitter.
Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™. #CBias #SocialFabric #ExpressYourself. However, all photos, opinions, and experiences are my own.


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TechRadar Verdict
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Speedy 7200rpm HDD
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Expensive for 500GB
Why you can trust TechRadar
Although Iomega's Portable Hard Drive Mac Edition costs a little more than most 500GB drives, you're getting a lot for your money. With brushed aluminium sides and black plastic base and top, it looks great next to your iMac or Apple Display.
The hard drive itself is a speedy 7200rpm model, which tops the the more common 5400rpm HDDs used in most portable drives, and it boasts both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connectivity. A FW400- to-800 cable is included, along with a standard FW800 lead, and the USB cable has two Type A plugs for when extra power is needed.
Like most recent Iomega drives, it comes supplied with a downloadable suite of applications. You get a 12-month free subscription to Trend Micro Smart Surfing for Mac, MozyHome Online Backup (2GB free) and Iomega's own QuikProtect backup software.
You also get a Drop Guard case, which protects the drive against falls of up to seven feet, and if you download the Iomega encryption application, you can protect your data with AES 256-bit security.
The 7200rpm drive proved its worth in our benchmarking tests, where it achieved random read/write speeds of 11.175/16.519MB/s under FireWire 800, and 11.326/12.491MB/s with USB.
Our only reservation is the price. The Western Digital My Passport Studio 1TB is twice the capacity and costs less. That's not to say Iomega's is poor value for money. Far from it. But if you don't need the higher transfer speeds, you're probably better off with a larger capacity or a cheaper drive.
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This is the handsome rugged face of a | |
Full name | "Mr." Aristotle |
Born | 384 B.C. Stageira, Greece |
Died | 322 B.C. Euboea |
Era | A long long time ago, |
Region | In a polis far far away... |
School | Hard Knocks Greek Academy |
Main interests | Stuff |
Notable ideas | Other stuff |
Influenced by | People who knew some different stuff |
Influenced | Other people who owed him money |
Favorite snack | Grapefruit |
"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. Almost."
Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great, and all around philanderer[1]. His teachings covered many topics, including politics, physics, sex, music, ethics, sex, and of course, Greek daytime stage drama. Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates were the most important philosophers of Western society. Without them, the Earth as we know it would have been lost in chaos and despair. Aristotle's works influenced many thinkers [2] throughout the following centuries, most prominently his views on science shaped medieval scholarship until Newton came around and shredded everyone's collective knowledge into a thousand tiny pieces. Paradoxically, the Catholic Church borrowed heavily from his use of logic as well in their own scholastic traditions (see Spanish Inquisition for more information).
Aristotle was born to an autonomous commune roughly during the spring of 384 B.C. Due to the free-spirited nature of their collective and the liberal views on sex that the members had, no birth certificate or father ever surfaced for Aristotle. After angering the collective for puking on the ringleader's shoes, Aristotle was left on the side of the road to fend for himself at the ripe age of 14 months. Luckily for the infant, a man by the name of Nichomachus happened to walk by hours later. Being incredibly rich and important, it was only natural for him to pick the child up and adopt him as his own.
As a young man Aristotle astounded the members of the aristocracy with his incredible wisdom. He would often be able to accurately predict the outcomes of that day's lottery numbers. This made him incredibly popular with the Greek nobility. One of these Greek aristocrats was the philosopher Plato. Being a very shrewd but intelligent business proprietor, Plato offered to let Aristotle study at his school, the creatively-named Plato Academy.[3] At the age of 18, Aristotle left for Athens and joined Plato where they reasoned together often and explored life's mysteries together.
After graduating, Aristotle toured the island of Lesbos with an acquaintance, Xenophobocrates. The two collected specimens of the various regional flora and fauna. The list of species discovered by the two runs for pages and pages, but these are the highlights: the Speckled Frog of Lesbos, the Lesbian Whale, Homosexual Women, and the California Condor.
Aristotle returned to mainland Greece the following year and was contracted by Phillip II of Macedon to head the exclusive Royal Macedonian Public School. It was at this academy that Aristotle taught many famous thinkers, conquerors, and kings of the 4th century B.C. This long and illustrious list includes: Alexander the Great, Alexander the Average, Alexander the OK, Alexander the Typical, Dave, Alexander the Overweight, and Ptolemy. Only two of these guys are really sort of noteworthy in modern times, but Alexander the OK was in fact the most popular kid in class. Aristotle mentored these young men in such topics as philosophy, politics, cooking, cleaning, rummy, and common gardening techniques. Of all of these lessons, Alexander the Great was quoted as saying that, "the most useful of information to the application of modern [sic] warfare is the orderly arrangement and care of herbs, of which I was taught by Master Aristotle. To him I am ever grateful."
Aristotle opened his own personal academy in Athens in 335 B.C. now known as the Lyceum. It was during his time in Athens that Aristotle wrote his principal works, the most famous of which is entitled Politics. Other famous works of Aristotle include Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, and Ethics. Aristotle was well-known by his contemporaries for his creative titles.
Logic is the employment of anti-stupidity. More specifically, it is the process in which one makes non-idiotic decisions or conclusions about the world. Aristotle is regarded as the principle author of the theory of logic. Aristotle's understanding of logic was the principle process of discovery and understanding until late-19th century mathematics circle-jerks produced modern notional theories. It was indeed to poke fun at these people that the writer and photographer Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Sunderland.
Before Aristotle, the earth was devoid of logic and reason. Chaos existed everywhere and there was no order. People were incapable of making rational decisions and killed anything they saw that was unfamiliar to them. Then, at the age of 47, Aristotle ascended Mount Olympus and received instruction from mighty Zeus himself. "Go forth, and bring light to the nations, my son," Zeus said. "But Lord, how am I to do this?" asked Aristotle. "Bitch! Don't back talk me!" thundered the Mighty One. Thus Aristotle began instructing Greeks everywhere on the subject of logic.
Sexual Logic
Aristotle is often credited and appreciated for his teachings on the logic of sex. He often regarded the act as one of the most logical things human beings could do. His most famous quote on the subject is probably from his address to the students of Delphi University in 334 BC: "Hurngh! OOOPH! Oh, Zeus, I'm... I'M... AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Customarily, Aristotle would give weekly tutoring sessions to lucky pupils, both male and female, on his sexual logic. Whilst engaged in the act itself, Aristotle would often pose questions and give thoughts to the lucky student.
Aristotle's sexual logic is often summed up in what is today called "Aristotle's Law of Libido." This theorem accounts for just how logical sex really is. Many people point out that libido has nothing to do with logic and reason. Historians believe Aristotle chose this particular concept for the name of his law as a crude way to brag about his prowess in bed. The theorem has four parts that explain the logic:
- Sex feels great.
- Sex is a commodity to be bought, sold, given as charity, or as a gift. Therefore, sex = currency.
- Sex is fun.
- Sex feels great.
Aristotle's Scientific Method
Some claim that the Muslims were the ones who are responsible for laying the groundwork for the modern ways of science. This is utterly preposterous, as Aristotle developed his own scientific method prior to the creation of Islam. While the Arabs were still tent-dwelling polytheists instead of house-dwelling polytheists like the Greeks, Aristotle used his magnificent brain to conclude that science was formulaic and related to observation instead of being associated with the sacrifice of virgins and the inhaling of herbs. After reaching these conclusions he developed his step by step process for the creation of science:
- Step 1: Be puzzled by something. The world is confusing; chances are there are things that you don't understand.
- Step 2: Watch that something. Aristotle first decided to watch his cat and see what he could learn.
- Step 3: Record observations of that something. Aristotle noted that his cat tended to be lazy and do nothing.
- Step 4: Make a logical conclusion about that something based on said observations of that something. Thus Aristotle scientifically proved that cats are lazy assholes.
- Step 5: Gloat to others of your discovery. Aristotle began to parade the streets of Athens proclaiming that cats were lazy assholes. The Greeks were jealous indeed.
From here many in antiquity began to make their own scientific discoveries. Mostly, though, Aristotle used his theory to legitimize his crazy ideas about the physical world, rather than produce any actual new knowledge. When people would point out that small rocks were not capable of being buoyant, Aristotle would simply retort that he had proved it through his method. When asked to elaborate, Aristotle would plug his ears with his index fingers and loudly shout that he had seen it himself many times. People at that point simply gave up trying to argue with him.
Physics and Metaphysics
Most of Aristotle's contributions to science involved his preliminary observations of the physical world. In fact, Aristotle's crazy theory about how light is a physical object turned out to not be crazy, but actually true. Aristotle reached this conclusion, however, as a result of bad science and luck and not through intuition (although Aristotle would probably be the first to argue against that). You see, Aristotle was walking into the city square of Athens from the west one morning. When he rounded the corner of πολλά γατάκια Avenue, he was met by the blinding morning light. He then crashed into a parked cart and stumbled around in a daze. After waking up some hours later, Aristotle concluded that he had been hit with an extra strong dose of sunshine that morning.
Aristotle mistakenly 'fell over' a number of scientific truths in this way[4] . For example, he determined that the earth is round when he spilled a bag of marbles down a hill. He discovered atoms while eating an apple. Aristotle is, however, most famous for his discovery of Bernoulli's Principle almost 1,500 years before Bernoulli was born. Aristotle was fishing on the Αλφειός River one weekend in 317 BC. He observed that the globs of spit he was strategically placing in the river were speeding up when they went through smaller channels of passage, like between rocks. While Aristotle was wrong when he concluded that it was the spit that was making the water faster, his observations were nonetheless correct. When Bernoulli discovered his own principle in the 1700s, he was actually trying to find an alternative form of acceleration for waterborne vehicles, the main method of the time, of course, was to spit on the bow of the vessel.
Aristotle's Cat
As you've probably guessed by now, Aristotle was very fond of his cat[5]. He spent a lot of time observing it and making absurd scientific conclusions about it. It is no accident then that most of Aristotle's observations and theories about the natural world were based on or revolved around cats. Of all the horrifying "discoveries" Aristotle gave us about felines, there was one useful thought experiment he developed that is still relevant to philosophy today. Aristotle's Cat is essentially a thought experiment that attempts to understand two fundamental physical truths about the universe, and what would happen in the event that both truths should collide with one another. The first truth of Physics that Aristotle observed is that toast always lands butter-side down. The second is that cats always land on their feet. Aristotle contemplated this one day when he had set out to get a snack. Having prepared a piece of toast (since there were no grapefruit to be found anywhere nearby), Aristotle proceeded to butter it. Just as he finished, his cat, Muffin, leaped from a high perch and startled him. The philosopher was astounded when Muffin landed on its feet after performing an in-air 180 degree turn and that the toast did the same to land butter-side down. Aristotle contemplated this dichotomy and secluded himself in his study, deep in thought. He then formulated his now famous Cat.
The thought experiment prompts one to contemplate the nature of these two phenomenon. The first component of the exercise is the assumption that if you attach a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and then throw it up in the air, it will create an anti-gravity device. Since the buttered toast would want to land butter-side down, and the cat's legs would be suspended in air and thus flip the cat to ensure it lands on its feet, the combined effect is a weightless, spinning, cat/toast machine. After this assumption has been accepted, the thinker then ponders the nature of such a device and its implications for humanity. Aristotle's contemporaries barely understood gravity, let alone the complex nature of defying it, so the most sophisticated answer to the experiment usually entailed detaching the toast and eating it, and then taking the cat home to eat at a latter date.
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In modern times, however, the exercise proves quite complex given our vast understanding of the universe. A detailed diagram of how complex the question has become is found to the right. Mathematics has been able to prove that if in mid-hover the cat eats the toast, the cat will then collapse on itself, creating a singularity that in fact may be the key to time travel. Many attempts to create such an event, though, have resulted in many face-down pieces of buttered toast and many dead cats who were dropped from great heights. There has never been a successful demonstration of Aristotle's Cat, so many have concluded that Aristotle probably meant for his Cat to be a device for getting people to think about the complex nature of physics. Some say that we have yet to perfect a pure-enough butter to use. Still others think that Aristotle may have just been nuts.
Death and Aftermath
Aristotle died in 322 B.C. as a destitute man. He had blown all of his money in the Euboea Casino and was forced to hand over all of his worldly possessions to the owners of the establishment. Aristotle even had to give up his beloved cat, Muffin. Alone and cold on the streets of Euboea, Aristotle was assaulted by local teenagers who had identified him as the student of Plato, who was in turn the student of Socrates, who had in fact been executed for corrupting the youth of Athens. Most teens in Greece were taught to hate and fear Socrates from the moment they entered teendom. Parents would often tell these Greek Youth that if they did not eat their vegetables, Socrates would come in the night and corrupt them in their sleep. Naturally, the teens in question were weary of the student of the student of Socrates. The long and short of it is that Aristotle was beaten to death for crimes Socrates had not committed by crazy teenage Greeks.
Aristotle's death sent shockwaves throughout Greece. Most were displeased that the crazy old man would no longer be around to entertain them, others were extremely glad that he was gone since he was often a drain on the local economy.[6] Mostly though, people were upset that he would not be around to pay off his sizable debts. At the time of his death, it was estimated that Aristotle owed money to a fifth of the entire male Greek population. It comes as no surprise then that about a fifth of the Greek male population attended his funeral and harassed Aristotle's relatives for gold coin.
Aristotle is infinitely more popular today than he ever was in ancient Greece. The Catholic Church uses his models of logic to simultaneously show how one should logically approach a problem or idea and also how one should not live their life if they want to go to heaven. Aristotle is also very popular with old ladies who own cats as they are able to identify with him the most. Aristotle's teachings, however, have proven to be extremely important to Western[7] philosophy, both modern and ancient. Without Aristotle, another one of Plato's students would have taken up the role as his mentee and this article would have been about that individual instead. But that, as Aristotle would have said, would have been a very academic question indeed!
- ↑ Philandering was the Eighth or the unspoken Liberal art.
- ↑ In the loosest definition of the word.
- ↑ A direct translation of Plato's name into English would render it 'Fat Guts' or 'Lard Arse'. Plato was the nickname for the very rotund Aristocles. Just as well he stuck to being called Plato for future scholars.
- ↑ Unlike most Greeks, Aristotle didn't mix his wine with water so perhaps this is an example of alcoholic Aristotelian happenstance.
- ↑ Aristotle's first animal choice - a hamster - got stuck in the eternal spinning wheel of circular logic. The luckless rodent is still there, metaphorically speaking.
- ↑ Everyone wanted to be a philosopher, to use their brain to think and their body to experiment with other students. No one wanted to actually work any more.
- ↑ Please note, we are not talking about Country & Western music here, or Dolly Parton.
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The best way to avoid becoming a fossil is to be small and live in deep, tropical waters. So say four paleontologists who have published a detailed, global study of clam preservation. Their work is intended to enhance evolutionary studies by determining what's missing from the fossil record and why.
"Everyone talks about how imperfect the fossil record is, but not many people do anything about it," said David Jablonski, the William Kenan Jr. Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. "We're not doing this for the sake of knowing more about clams, but for knowing more about how to answer biological questions in the fossil record more rigorously."
Jablonski co-authored the study along with James Valentine, University of California, Berkeley; Susan Kidwell, University of Chicago; and Kaustuv Roy, University of California, San Diego. Their study, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, appears in the April 10-14 Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The findings will help scientists link the recent fossil record with modern biodiversity to better understand the role of humans in bringing about change in patterns of life on Earth, said Kidwell, the William Rainey Harper Professor in Geophysical Sciences. "This gives us some strategies for how to zero in on the most reliable data," she said.
The PNAS co-authors focused on bivalves (clams, scallops, oysters, cockles and their kin), because they serve paleontologists the way geneticists use mice or fruit flies as model systems. Jablonski called the clam "a real bellweather" for understanding many long-term changes in biodiversity.
Said Kidwell: "This group is hughly important out there in the modern seas, constituting a big fraction of animal diversity." Some clams are tiny while others are giants. They pursue lifestyles ranging from parasitic to predatory, and they live everywhere from deep-sea trenches and intertidal zones to freshwater lakes and streams. But do they all have the same chance of becoming fossils?
Jablonski, Kidwell and their colleagues based their study on an examination of museum specimens, combing the scientific literature and conducting statistical analyses. They determined the fossil occurrence of all 1,282 major types living today, then assessed why 24 percent of them failed to become fossils. In some cases, key factors were inextricably linked. "For example, deep-water species tend to have small bodies because there's so little food down there," Jablonski said. "Small body size turns out to be bad news for preservation in general, and thus deep-sea species are undercaptured."
Surprisingly, they found that burrowing clams living within sediments were no more likely to become fossils than similarly sized varieties that lived out in the open.
Perhaps fittingly, parasitic clams fared the worst. "They live inside the burrow of another animal, like a shrimp, or they live parasitically upon the soft tissues of another organism. These guys have a lousy fossil record," Kidwell said. "If you're living inside the tissues, or directly attached to the tissues of another organism and it dies, then you're attached to a corpse of decaying organic matter, which is not favorable to shell preservation."
The team also found that shell composition played virtually no role in distorting the bivalve fossil record, echoing the findings of a related study that Kidwell published in the Feb. 11, 2005, issue of the journal Science. That study showed, contrary to longstanding expectations, that clams with durable shells were not better represented in the fossil record than those more prone to dissolving.
The PNAS co-authors suggest three remedies for dealing with the weaknesses they've documented in the fossil record. First, leave out the poorly documented groups. "Set some kind of cutoff on the quality of the record you're going to include in your analysis," Jablonski said. "Sometimes focusing on the most reliable fraction of the record will be the best way to go."
Second, use all available data, but check to see if the evolutionary patterns they detect are consistent with the distortion of the fossil record. If the patterns run counter to the distortion, then they have probably identified a biological trend so strong that it has overwhelmed the flaws of the fossil record.
Lastly, "we can actually think about ways to correct the record numerically," Jablonski said, adding back the missing varieties in their expected proportions.
The fossil record of other organisms could be assessed in much the same way, Jablonski said, producing a clearer picture of the biological dynamics of the past.
"The gauntlet is down: look at other groups. Look at sea urchins. Look at birds. Look at mammals. Look at flowering plants," he said. "I'd like to think that we've produced a template for analyzing other groups. And of course as those analyses begin to accumulate, we'll have a much clearer picture of what's missing from the fossil record and how to make corrections, producing a clearer picture of the biological dynamics of the past."
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