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The Impact of Defense Expenditure on Economic Growth
AbstractThe goal of this paper is to analyze the relationship between defense expenditures and economic growth in Romania, trying to find out the existence, direction and intensity of this connection. The methods which I used are cluster analysis, quintile analysis, regression technique and Granger causality. The results suggest that in Romania there is a negative correlation. A potential cause of the negative effect of defense expenditures on economic growth in Romania is the high proportion of the spending on equipment and other operational spending. Also I have considered the implications of the budgetary restriction – the limited resources might be given priority for other programs.
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One can learn alot through trial and error @ SG. Also you will gain experience with the cutting edge technology. Money is not a problem so you will be compensated for your work and given the tools to do an effective job. The work environment is very close knit and personable. You will develop life long friendships and relationships. The benefits are great and very competitive compared to other manufacturing facilities. Even with all of the drawbacks SG is a great place to work. The location is excellent. There is constant growth and the sky is the limit for future of this company.
The amount of commitment is excessive due to the lack of capable people to step up to the plate. The management and leadership qualities could use some work. There is alot office politics and fear tactics used to ensure that you get the job done. Alittle more professionalism and tact by the upper management team will attract a more professional and talented market.
Work on an effective succession plan to develop future leaders. Also think before you do things then you would not have to cover up all of the indiscretions later on.
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Twelve year old Severn Suzuki speaking at the UN Earth Summit (1992)
I got an email from someone with a link to a youtube film, a film of a twelve year young girl giving a speech at the UN Earth Summit that took place in Rio de Janeiro 1992. During the first seconds of the film I didn't quite understand what was going on – What is that child doing there? – I thought, but I quickly realized, that what I was seeing was something really amazing: a twelve year old child telling to the world that enough is enough, telling to the world leaders to stop destroying the fauna and flora, to stop polluting the air, the ocean and the soil, to end the poverty and social injustices, to stop killing our earth…
This was sixteen years, today Severn Suzuki is is an important environmental activist, was a member of Kofi Annan's Special Advisory Panel in the past and initiated different projects, such as the Internet-based project called "The Skyfish Project".
I encourage everyone to watch this video, may it serve as an inspiration for us all. (The transcript can be found below.)
About Severn Cullis-Suzuki @ Wikipedia
Some interviews with Severn Cullis-Suzuki can be found here, here and here.
Severn's speech transcript:
Hello, I'm Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. – The Environmental Children's Organisation.
We are a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds from Canada trying to make a difference:
Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We raised all the money ourselves to come six thousand miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future.
Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak for all generations to come.
I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard.
I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have nowhere left to go. We cannot afford to be not heard.
I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it.
I used to go fishing in Vancouver with my dad until just a few years ago we found the fish full of cancers. And now we hear about animals and plants going exinct every day — vanishing forever.
In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterfilies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.
Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age?
All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you!
* You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer.
* You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream.
* You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct.
* And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert.
If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organisers, reporters or poiticians – but really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles – and all of you are somebody's child.
I'm only a child yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion strong, in fact, 30 million species strong and we all share the same air, water and soil — borders and governments will never change that.
I'm only a child yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.
In my anger, I am not blind, and in my fear, I am not afraid to tell the world how I feel.
In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, and yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, afraid to share.
In Canada, we live the privileged life, with plenty of food, water and shelter — we have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets.
Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent some time with some children living on the streets. And this is what one child told us: "I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter and love and affection."
If a child on the street who has nothing, is willing to share, why are we who have everyting still so greedy?
I can't stop thinking that these children are my age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born, that I could be one of those children living in the Favellas of Rio; I could be a child starving in Somalia; a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India.
I'm only a child yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this earth would be!
At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us to behave in the world. You teach us:
* not to fight with others,
* to work things out,
* to respect others,
* to clean up our mess,
* not to hurt other creatures
* to share – not be greedy.
Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?
Do not forget why you're attending these conferences, who you're doing this for — we are your own children. You are deciding what kind of world we will grow up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying "everyting's going to be alright" , "we're doing the best we can" and "it's not the end of the world".
But I don't think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My father always says "You are what you do, not what you say."
Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown ups say you love us. I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you for listening.
18 Responses to "Twelve year old Severn Suzuki speaking at the UN Earth Summit (1992)"
wow!!!!!such a meaningful and fabulous speech!!!!!i loved it…i think this should be published and u know it might make a difference!!!
An excellent speech by a school child, being an environmental education teacher i have used this speech in my classroom as a teaching aid for the students to reflect on the current environmental issues.
Thanks Severn Suzuki!
it's a damn shame when a young girl who is learning has to re- teach adults on how to act as adults and have a soul!!!!!
I am Indonesian. I can't speak English, but I understand what Severn Suzuki said. "Saya sangat mengapresiasi isi pidato itu, dan saya gunakan sebagai bahan buletin untuk menyadarkan para teman seusia saya untuk bangkit layaknya Severn. Kita jangan tergantung pada orang dewasa. Saya, seorang yang baru berusia 14 tahun, mengaku kita semualah yang harus bergerak. dan kepada seluruh orang dewasa di seluruh dunia, jangan buat masa depan kami HANCUR!", that's my speech in Indonesian Language. Thanks Severn Suzuki, May Alloh Subhanahu Wataala give you the "hidayah"
It is wonderful to see & listen a child of 12 year old has given such a meaningful, touching to heart and also a beautiful speech.
A child and yet so very inspirational. You made me cry Severn! The world needs compassion, sharing, understanding, love, people with HEARTS like you my dear.
Our hearts are dead and we are killing the most wonderful gift of God to us. Let's hold hands, let's put our differences aside, let's quit the fight for greed. Let's do something good like Severn.
It's is not good enough to say "what a wonderful speech" let's do something about it and lets' start from our own homes because we are all guilty of it!
Dear Severn, please carry on with your wonderful work. I have started making a different and hope everyone joins us!
A great speech, very inspiring I'm left speechless too ….
it is wonderful to see & listen a child of 12 year old has given such a meaningful, touching to heart and also a beautiful speech. You made me cry.
it was very lovable,fabulous and interesting speech.
its really really great severn .
u rock
greattttttttttttt speech
whatever u have said is exactly correct.
it touched my heart
i loved it very very very ——– ——– ——— ———————————————————— —- much
I've learnt about Severn Suzuki and her amazing speech at Earth Summit 1992 in Hot, flat, crowded world book. I've listened to her speech several times yet never have I found it less moving and less inspirational.
I imagine some people may say a 12-year-old child only had childish ideas, knew nothing about economics, politics and hard-work. For me, those are really bad excuses as nature exists independently long before such things were created by human. I wish (only wish) we could think and act like a child who only needs to know either right or wrong, either black or white.
Some sentences in Severn's speech has moved me a lot. They are "I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you!", and "even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, we are afraid to share". And the most impressive one is "You are what you do, not what you say". I've taken it as a guide for my life.
she is twelve, and what is this
I have been listening Severn's speech for quite a number of times. Every time i listen it moved me towards environment. What move me more is sharing our resources for others who do not have.
Somebody might thinks that the speech was fabricated by thinking that 12 yrs old will not have the capacity of such speech. Even if it was, i still relished on the speech.
I am workin in conservation for sometime, this speech is an inspiration even after 18 years.
well , i'm not very good in english , i'm indonesian but i'm really interest with ur speech. And i realize , that i'm only a little part of the world. And i love ur speech , i hope we have better future.
to tell u guys the truth……………………. i loved it it was touching and meaing full but maybe sometime you might wanna fix it because u have to many mistakes but oher than that u did an amazing job lol
I have been teaches this not really long time ago
when the first time at class…my teacher just gave me the reading of the speech by Severn.
at that time me only me that cry at my class
I cry..but I wanted to stop that, but I can't..because your speech was very IMPOSSIBLE for U that only 12-years old can make that a very good speech
that can touched some one :)
What a speech from a 12 year old. Very strong & inspiring. and from someone who's not poor. It made me cry. please send this speech to everybody you know around the world. make a petition in the hope the politicians will listen & do something.


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Christian Belt said...
It would make sense for that to be the way they fix it, but I just logged into the beta 5 minutes ago and tested it out, and it doesn't seem to have been fixed quite yet. I popped Arcane Power and then proceeded to cast alternating Arcane Barrages and Arcane Missiles at everything in sight. I was critting on average every other cast. At one point, I critted on an Arcane Barrage, then all five missiles of an Arcane Missiles cast in a row. If it isn't Arcane Power causing that, then then I can't explain it.
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Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll had one of his worst games in 12 years said the Belfast Telegraph. Photo: Robert Charles
Gloom has temporarily descended upon the northern press corps following England and Ireland's deeply flawed wins against Argentina and USA and Wales' tough but ultimately self-inflicted loss to South Africa, and the selection crosshairs have been put on some big targets - Ireland five-eighth Jonathan Sexton and, more surprisingly, talismanic English prop Andrew Sheridan.
The Irish, it seems, are looking forward to Saturday's game against Australia about as much as a trip to the dentist and then a temperance bar. "We're massive underdogs, we have a lot to prove," five-eighth Ronan O'Gara - the man likely to replace Sexton, confessed despairingly in the Daily Mail. "I think we're looking for performance first of all and then the result will be further on."
Hugh Farrelly, writing in the Irish Independent, echoed O'Gara's fatalistic approach. "The prediction for Ireland remains the same: get to the quarter-finals behind Australia as underdogs and then bank on a 'Kidney Special'," he wrote of their hopes and coach Declan Kidney. On current evidence, a Kidney transplant is more likely.
The mood is so black that even Brian O'Driscoll does not escape the backlash. "I cannot recall so poor an O'Driscoll performance in the 12 years in which he has graced the international stage, causing me to wonder about the fitness of a man who has had one match since May," raged the Belfast Telegraph's Niall Crozier. "Is he match-fit?"
Perhaps Ireland can attempt to take some consolation from an intriguing table put together by The Times, which revealed that Australia were a surprisingly lowly fifth in the average yardage gained on each run during the first round of matches.
France topped the table with an average of 6.18 yards gained from 89 runs, New Zealand were second with a 6.12-yard average from 100 runs and Fiji came third with 73 runs at an average of 5.53 yards.
The Scots were in fourth with 98 runs at 5.37 yards, the Wallabies fifth with 105 runs and an average of 4.67 yards and the plodding Poms made 4 yards on average from a miserable 62 runs.
On the other hand Ireland attempted 90 runs against the USA defence, progressing 3.6 yards each time - so perhaps their pessimism is justified.
In England, it's the less-than-frightening performance of Sheridan causing the grey hairs.
"The Sale prop has done admirably well to recover from a bicep operation," began the London Telegraph's Gavin Mairs, "but he failed to make a significant impact at scrum time or in the loose in Dunedin's Otago Stadium and is now under pressure from Matt Stevens."
The Guardian's Eddie Butler concurred. "England looked better with Ben Youngs at scrum-half and Matt Stevens in the front row. Perhaps they should also swap Dylan Hartley and Steve Thompson, Tom Palmer and Courtney Lawes."
But Sheridan need not fret, for he has some good company. "[Jonny Wilkinson] was guilty of playing too deep at times and failing to give his centres more time on the ball," Mairs added in his list of players under pressure.
Quote of the day: "At half-time we were saying as coaches that we thought it went over and Francois Steyn walked past and said he thought so too." Wales coach Warren Gatland, in the London Telegraph, laments Wayne Barnes' officiating after the already infamous James Hook penalty that never was.
Insight of the day: "England are, at present, one-dimensional, overdosing on the physical, as are the Boks." Paul Ackford in the London Telegraph.


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Behind the scenes of classic movie monsters.
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I'm reposting this because I know there are people out there who need this. I might not know your name, or what you look like, but I really care for you and I want you to be happy. Because that's what you deserve. You can always talk to me. I'll be here for you to listen, give advice or support, cheer you up, or talk to you about anything you want. You are never alone. I love you. Stay strong and never give up.
it breaks my heart how large that number is. I'm always here if anyone needs advice, or just someone to talk to. Stay strong. I love you all <3 xxxxx
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Thanks for the merry christmas. Sorry I haven't been on lately. I got a concussion and as I was healing I found out my grandpa has stage 3 lung cancer. It's been really busy and just a lot at once. Thanks so much for the mail though. It really made my day
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History of the sky
Ken Murphy installed a camera on top of the Exploratorium in San Francisco and set it to take a picture every ten seconds for a year. A History of the Sky is those pictures as a series of time-lapse movies where each day is represented with a grid. So what you see 360 skies at once:
Time-lapse movies are compelling because they give us a glimpse of events that are continually occurring around us, but at a rate normally far too slow to for us to observe directly. A History of the Sky enables the viewer to appreciate the rhythms of weather, the lengthening and shortening of days, and other atmospheric events on an immediate aesthetic level: the clouds, fog, wind, and rain form a rich visual texture, and sunrises and sunsets cascade across the screen.
Time-lapse: Yep, still fascinating.
[murphlab via Data Pointed]
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Super geeky cool. But I'd say the photos were taken a lot more frequently than every 10 minutes – perhaps every 10 seconds.
Yep, according to the the History of the Sky page (http://www.murphlab.com/hsky/), "[A]n image of the sky is being captured every 10 seconds from a camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium, on the edge of San Francisco Bay. The images collected over each 24-hour period are assembled into a 6 minute movie (at 24 frames/second)."
No problem.
My sons made me play this three times this morning at breakfast. Thanks so much for sharing it.
The idea is intriguing but I found myself wanting that puzzle to be assembled by the clouds/fog rather than by time. I found myself only able to concentrate on any one pixel except at sunrise and sunset. That looks like a real fun data set to explore.
A year of effort. I was hoping for something more.
Absolutely fantastic. Was it just me though or did the sunrises and sunsets not seem to be in a completely smooth "domino effect" from day to day (or frame to frame as shown in the video)?
I really wanted to watch this without interruption but couldn't take the constant buffering both times around. so frustrating, know its not your fault. just venting!!! grrrrrrrrr
Neat. I was surprised by the lack of colors (red, oranges, etc.) but I guess that depends on where the camera was pointed. Also, at about 3:09 in row 1, column 5, was that a person?
LOL! yah i saw that too. looks like a person bending over. like the atlas statue or something.


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What am I going to do? When I first came to Leuven two years ago, I envisioned a career as an academic Arabist, journalism was merely a way of paying for school, and I couldn't wait to leave Belgium for more exotic social and intellectual terrain. Two years later, I'm a post-Sovietologist, journalism has become the cornerstone of my career, and I'm terrified of leaving this country of deep continuities and all the people here I've come to love.
A few weeks ago at the Zonnekompas café on Brusselestraat, a strange tan and yellow book, slumped in one of the bookshelves, caught my eye. It was entitled Steppevolken, an out-of-print Dutch translation of the out-of-print English book Horsemen of the Steppes by the deceased American archeologist Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. This was a highly unusual discovery given the context, for, as its name suggests, Zonnekompas is a New Age cafe, brimming with texts on spirituality, science fiction, astrology and the like; rarely does one find a proper academic work therein, much less concerning Central Asia, my region of passion. Intrigued and desirous to try my literary Dutch, I asked the café's owner if I could have it, and she generously granted my request.
Well, my literary Dutch proved terribly deficient, but I couldn't let the book go. Everyday since finding it, I've kept it in my bag, frequently rummaging through its pages, reading the occasional paragraph and glancing at the 1960s pen-drawn illustrations. It wasn't until this past weekend when I began to realize that the book's significance for me lies not in its content, but in its symbolism: its peculiarity, right down to the timing of my discovery of it, captures of the essence of the dilemma with which I'm currently faced.
When I left my homeland over two years ago, I did so with the intention of never returning. I've always felt more like myself "out here", in the world, away from the inward-looking giant of America. I also intuited — correctly, as experience has since proven — that my career would only pick up in the intellectual and international context of Europe. However, in April 2009, I was not only desirous to leave, but also ready for it, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. All the signs were there, too. In the last weeks of my American existence, there were many uncanny, synchronous encounters that confirmed to me that I was making the right decision.
Not so with my Belgian existence. I truly feel called to Central Asia, but I simultaneously find that I'm not yet prepared to completely let go of here — the quietly mystical Ardenne, the joyous Atomium, ugly Brussels, and stately Namur and Arenberg — these new landmarks of my psyscape. It's been very difficult to hold onto those left behind across the Atlantic, especially as I find my mind more and more turning eastward; will Belgium also slip from my grasp? Indeed, must it?
The book signifies two problems, the solutions for which I fear could be contradictory but I pray are reconciliable or even harmonious. The first problem is practical and emotional: simply put, I'm not a European citizen, and with my visa expiring on Halloween, time is running out. I'm irrational when it comes to the possibility of returning to America — that country of the future feels like yesterday for me — but I'm also confronted with the professional requirement to learn Russian, and for as much career reasons as personal and spiritual ones, I long to really get to know the generous people waiting for me in Central Asia. Acquiring a medium- to long-term visa in either context is not easy, and without a meaningful job opportunity either here or there, I'm basically limited to student status.
The second problem is spiritual with two dynamics. The first is narcissism: the insecure part of me, raging at insults and injustices real and perceived here in the West wants to continue climbing the social ladder. It sneers at Leuven and rejoices when various professors urge me to apply to more prestigious (i.e., better branded) universities in Germany, Italy and Sweden. Some questions: does this constitute a moment of temptation? Is what is really at stake whether I can tame raw, panicked ambition and egoistic existentialism for a more anonymous path? Am I even thinking in the right categories? Can I disentangle this from the more genuine desire to be challenged in an intellectual environment populated by people who know more about me about topics I care about?
The second dynamic was brought to my attention by Ben Schewel: whether I can also detach. He believes that for God what may really matter is neither the journey nor the destination, but the willingness to pursue the light beckoning to us in the fog, wherever it may lead us. I'm reminded, on the one hand, of Abraham and his son upon the sacrificial mount, and on the other hand, of all those experiences in my own life the importance of which proved to have nothing to do with my expectations — trying to join the FBI in 2006 led me to rebuilding my broken and aimless life, deconstructiong the Qur'an for my first Master's thesis in 2008 led me to the Baha'i Faith, my job with neweurasia led me to a region where I can do what so few intellectuals and journalists can really say they do — making a difference — and studying Averroes in Leuven led me to a profound encounter with the sublime within my own bloodline. Thus, what's really at stake in the question of Belgium versus Central Asia isn't Belgium or Central Asia at all.
But I don't know how to proceed. I stand upon a crossroad that has arisen unexpectedly on the steppe of my life. To my left is Belgium and all the desperate attempts to hold onto her; to my right is Central Asia and all its unknown terrains; and the soil beneath my feet is beginning to crack as legal and financial drought approaches. The darkness of America looms behind me, gloating, You forsook me; now I'll forsake you. I want you to fail, while the horse of reason, awaiting her rider, gazes at me, her eyes saying, Perhaps the roads' divergence is only an illusion, for there is only one horizon to which all roads lead. The sun is rising. Must I choose one path, or can I walk forward and make my own?
The book is in my hands. Is it only a sign of my dilemma, or is it something more: a divine confirmation that somehow, in some way, I can — and should — find this middle path? I don't know.


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Detailed flow field measurements were performed to investigate the development of the three-dimensional wall jet, the effect of initial conditions on the development of wall jets and the evolution of the large-scale vortex structures that causes the large lateral growth rate in the flow. Single-point measurements in the wall jet exiting a contoured nozzle indicated that there were two regions in the intermediate field 10 ≤ x/D ≤ 40. The flow underwent a significant change in the region 10 ≤ x/D ≤ 20 as it adjusted to the wall. The changes of the profiles of the moments and the reorientation of the regions of the mean streamwise vorticity slowed down in the region beyond x/D=20 and were not apparent by x/D=40. The comparison of measurements of wall jets exiting the contoured nozzle and the fully developed long pipe indicated that changes in intial conditions do affect the jet half-widths and the decay of the maximum streamwise velocity through near and intermediate fields. The differences in growth rates of wall jets, profiles of moments and contours of the mean streamwise vorticity in the two jets were reduced in the region after x/D=10 and were not apparent in the region beyond x/D=20 - 30. Measurements of two-point, two-time correlation of the streamwise fluctuating velocity indicated that the large-scale vortex structures that consist two pair of horseshoe vortices in the flow continued to develop throughout the intermediate field. In particular, the inner vortex structures were induced towards the wall by the outer structures and the legs of the outer structures inclines relative to the streamwise direction as the flow evolved downstream. Measurements also indicated that the flow below the outer region of the streamwise vorticity was laterally convected faster than the outer vortex structures.
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1. Becky said on Sept. 22, 2010
This marks the first time I've ever read that a woman's face "gives insight into her long-term reproductive value." No explanation is given, but I'm wondering why this strikes me as vaguely offensive?
Sept. 20, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas — Men who are looking for short-term companionship are more interested in a woman's body than those looking for a long-term relationship, who focused on a woman's face, according to new research from psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.
A woman's body generally provides cues about her state of fertility while her face gives insight into her long-term reproductive value, according to previous research. So the new findings suggest men seeking a short-term relationship have psychological adaptations to look for partners who are fertile and can produce offspring.
"Men's priorities shift depending on what they want in a mate, with facial features taking on more importance when a long-term relationship is the goal," says psychology graduate student Jaime Confer, who co-authored the research with graduate student Carin Perilloux and Professor David Buss. "Mating is central to the engine of natural selection. This research helps clarify people's preference."
Women showed no significant difference in their interest in faces or bodies when looking for short-term or long-term mates, according to the study published this month in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
Previous research has examined the qualities that make faces and bodies attractive, such as symmetry and waist-to-hip ratio. But this is the first study to experimentally analyze the relative importance of faces and bodies as whole components.
As part of the study, 375 college students were shown an image of another person, whose face and body was hidden, who was described as either a potential short-term or long-term mate. The participants had the option of looking at either head or body, but not both.
Twenty-five percent of men who were told to consider the mate as a long-term partner looked at their potential partner's body. In contrast, 51 percent of those who were told to consider her as a short-term partner chose to look her body.
Confer and her colleagues are considering follow-up research in which participants will be asked if they want to see the faces or bodies of potential rivals who may be stealing their mates. That could help reveal if men and women feel more threatened by a pretty face or a good body.
For more information, contact: Gary Susswein, Office of the President, 512-471-4945; Jaime Confer, 512-761-5757.
1. Becky said on Sept. 22, 2010
This marks the first time I've ever read that a woman's face "gives insight into her long-term reproductive value." No explanation is given, but I'm wondering why this strikes me as vaguely offensive?
2. Jason Shear said on Sept. 23, 2010
It would be useful to include a direct link to the relevant article when the primary point of a story (as in this case) is to report the results of new research.
3. Candace said on Sept. 23, 2010
Intriguing. Looking forward to the results of the new study and possibly the same study regarding women's preferences.
4. Sean said on Sept. 23, 2010
@ Becky - Yeah, don't worry, evolutionary psychology spits in the face of modern-day political correctness. I'm not a psych major or anything, but from what I've learned, it seems as if a symmetrical face is a signal of overall health. So perhaps a woman who has a symmetrical face now will be healthy in the long-run so that a guy can have many babies that will be cared for in the future.
5. Rachel said on Sept. 23, 2010
It's offensive because women are inconsistently valued, or so says the article. But when is that news?
6. Jen said on Sept. 24, 2010
What is somewhat disturbing is that someone is funding this research.
7. Mark said on Sept. 24, 2010
How does a women's face give "insight" into her "reproductive value" and why isn't the body just as good of an indicator of "reproductive value." This doesn't sound remotely scientific. Don't bring in concepts like evolution without being able to back them up with data that isn't based on relative terms with hazy definitions.
8. Deena Berg said on Sept. 24, 2010
I'm afraid this sounds like "duh" research to me too. Did they ask the men what their reasoning was? I may be old and jaded, but I bet it goes something like this, "she can hide her body under clothes if we stay married a long time and she lets herself go, but I can't put a bag over her face every day for the rest of her life. "
9. Jacob said on Sept. 24, 2010
There's nothing offensive about these concepts, people. If you've ever taken a biology course, then you know that organisms instinctively look to select the mates with whom they can produce the most viable offspring.
Of course in today's society that isn't our main priority (consciously anyway), because we tend to look at the opposite sex as a partner for life, not just as a baby factory.
This study is referring to the animal, reproductive instincts within humans, not whether men actually value women as people. Of course they do.
Evolutionary psychology doesn't spit in the face of political correctness. You're just looking at it in the wrong context. In studies like this, people are looked at as one of many species in the animal kingdom, not as the dominant lifeform with its culture and its politics. It's just saying, from a biological standpoint, this is what we are genetically disposed to value in mates.
10. Billy said on Sept. 24, 2010
@Candace: Did you miss the above quote from the SAME STUDY: "Women showed no significant difference in their interest in faces or bodies"?
Glad I could help.
11. Guillermo Aldana said on Sept. 24, 2010
12. Amy said on Sept. 25, 2010
Get over it. This is not offensive at all. All it is doing is delving into the natural instincts we as humans have. They are not trying to slight men or women in any way; they are researching human behavior, and if you don't like the results, aw well.
13. Rebekah said on Sept. 25, 2010
I agree with Jen. It IS offensive that somebody is funding this research, especially because it is so clearly biased. Do people not realize that women very often are the ones who choose their partners? Even if those reasons are not physical, some research could be done on the psychological components of attraction...for example, on the personality traits of a potential partner.
14. Jimbo said on Sept. 26, 2010
Everyone needs to tranquila here. Wouldn't you want a guy who valued your face more than your body? I'm pretty sure that's a lot more objectifying. And don't act like 1) women don't do the same thing to men or 2) physical attraction isn't important.
15. Sean said on Sept. 26, 2010
Don't let emotions get in the way of scientific research. Just because the results may be offensive to some doesn't mean it's not worth knowing.
16. Ryan said on Sept. 27, 2010
Why is that disturbing? Would you rather we not fund any research? How are we to learn what motivates behavior?
17. Billy said on Sept. 27, 2010
@Candace: Perhaps you missed the statement in the above article: "Women showed no significant difference in their interest in faces or bodies when looking for short-term or long-term mates."
18. Christy said on Sept. 27, 2010
Question: What if they say you have both? "You have a beautiful face and body." What would that mean?
19. Sean said on Sept. 28, 2010
Of course this spits in the face of political correctness. As we've seen here, you can't report the conclusions of your evolutionary psychology study without offending people. You'll always come up with statements like "men prefer women with good bodies because it signals fertility, or women prefer well-off men so that they can provide for their offspring better." Try getting elected after saying something like that.
THE POINT IS that you can't let these notions of political correctness influence what researchers can discover about ourselves.
@ everyone else hating on this article - Obviously this isn't intended to have all their findings in it. It's basically just a human interest article that you might find in a newspaper. The researchers likely have reported their findings to a scientific journal. If you want your hard facts, take the time to sift through what probably amounts to 40+ pages of jargon. If you just want to know something interesting, which I suspect is all you wanted when you clicked this link, simply read this article.
20. Brian said on Sept. 28, 2010
Correct me if I am wrong...The study shows that when asked what they seek in their short/long-term mate, they SAY body/face, but this study does not confirm that their choice is the actual criteria they use. Consciously they may say one thing when in reality they evaluate a mate based on something entirely different.
21. jane said on Sept. 28, 2010
How do they account for the attraction between non-heterosexual people then?
22. jane said on Sept. 28, 2010
Sean--it's offensive not because the results are politically incorrect, but because the study as a whole is biased in a way that reflects a sexist underlying ideology.
Also, the study doesn't really prove anything. We are never told what physical characteristics the men prefer, or their reactions to what they see once the halves of the picture are revealed. So who's to say this has ANYTHING to do with fertility? What are the signs of a "fertile" body (most of what evolutionary psych has so far theorized has been disproven years ago)? "Beauty" is a cultural construct; this may prove something about a very specific demographic (American male college students, probably mostly united by race, ethnicity and class as well), but it doesn't do much more than that.
23. LORRAINE INGERSOLL said on Sept. 29, 2010
Men and long marriages are confirmed by "happiness"! If a man sees his wife is happy...that is what he comes home for. If she is not happy, he will lose interest. Lorraine
24. Van said on Sept. 30, 2010
Why all the drama? No one ever said that the only criteria for men and women selecting mates is based on a decision tree of face or body. Obviously the mating psychology is substantially more sophisticated. Have you ever heard anyone choose a mate based only on face and body knowing that the person is a psycho or an axe murderer? Of course not. The research is simply implying that if a mating decision was based on only two criteria, which one, if any, has more influence and at what stage. Fundamental research is key to understanding human behavior. I applaud the researchers' effort to analyze another set of data in that goal.
25. D Newcomb said on Sept. 30, 2010
What is meant by long-term productive value? Here is my take: Short term relationship = priority is sex. It is physical but impersonal. Long term relationship = interest in an intimate companion. A face - eyes, expression of emotions, etc. influence the connection one has with a person on more levels than just physical. A face gives you a glimpse into a person's soul or psyche, if you will. It is not just about beauty.
26. Dave said on Sept. 30, 2010
Sexual data for homosexuals would be a statistical aberration, which does not further reproduction of the species.
27. chrissy said on Sept. 30, 2010
@Deena Berg - Hahahahhahahahaha. That was a hilarious comment.
28. John said on Sept. 30, 2010
If a man is picking a woman for a long term relationship he looks at the face to try and discern if there is intelligence. If he is looking for a woman for a short term sex relationship intelligence is less important than how healthy the woman is. Women are probably the same. "Attractiveness" is complicated. This test is simple, so results are crude.
29. Barbara said on Sept. 30, 2010
Although I realize this is research, it seems as though a short-term relationship would not necessarily be concerned, from the male's vantage point, about whether the woman is fertile and healthy. Perhaps I am missing something?
30. Joe H said on Sept. 30, 2010
Wow, really? Can I get some of this research money? I'll study the effects that beer has on a man's criteria of a woman's body and face. Oh yeah, I already know the answer - there's an inverse relationship. Duh!
31. Felisa Grace said on Sept. 30, 2010
We're in the middle of the greatest economic recession since the 1920s and this is the best research the psychology department at UT could come up with for funding? What a great waste of dollars. Sad. And shallow.
32. Stacey said on Sept. 30, 2010
A true "mate" is someone you are going to make a baby with, irrespective of the amount of time you are going to spend with them in or out of a relationship. Unless participants were told, "consider this person as someone with whom you want to have children" the simple fact that birth control exists skews the results from a true understanding of fertility and reproduction.
33. Kathy said on Sept. 30, 2010
I'd be more interested in an article like this if it were rather they were intelligent, athletic or fun! Some men and some women...are just pigs. This is actually research?
34. James Thornton said on Oct. 1, 2010
What's disturbing here is someone actually paid money for this dross. Let me guess...Taxpayer-funded?
35. upali said on Oct. 1, 2010
Van and Newcomb, I am glad you guys have seen the research in the true academic spirit. Most people tend to get carried away without reading the article properly and analyzing the objective of the study. C'mon guys, this is a different perspective, not necessarily 100 percent, but has rationality. I will always go for a pretty face coupled with the emotional qualities of the mate. A Texas Ex from the beautiful island of Sri-Lanka
36. Ken said on Oct. 3, 2010
So how does a woman become desirable when she's past the point of being fertile? Do I study how she holds a pencil?
37. DJ Dodson said on Oct. 4, 2010
Mating rituals as a dessert menu? The questions asked in this research say a lot - about the research perspectives.
Cf, Researching "which of only two candies children might prefer while watching a TV show versus a movie" will never encourage "a 40 hour work week and a diet of cruciferous vegetables."
Cosmetics companies might be interested in this sort of thing. If the object is to choose the "candy coating" for deception, I am reminded of the cowbirds that lay their eggs in another species' nest for "free childcare." Buyer beware! DJ
38. Guillermo.Aldana said on Oct. 4, 2010
There is absolutely nothing disturbing about research, folks. This is merely a summary of results. The fact that is was funded, well, I think you would be surprised at what gets funded out there. If the research helps us quantify what has been suspected regarding human behavior, then I see nothing wrong with that. If the research is biased toward anyone due to lack of integrity of the researchers, then we should all have a problem with that. Early on this century taxpayers funded research on how bats bounce off and receive sound back. Somewhere there was a Texan saying, "What?" Well, that research led to sonar, which UT Austin is now well known for through its Applied Research Laboratory. Maybe in time, this study can help us understand other parts of human behavior. Food for thought. Latin Elvis
39. Guillermo.Aldana said on Oct. 4, 2010
@Lorraine: A lot of wisdom in your comment BTW.
40. Richard said on Oct. 26, 2010
@Jane 22
Ugh. Tarzan comment Jane remark "because the study as a whole is biased in a way that reflects a sexist underlying ideology." Hoggedybosh.
Great! Let's choose not to study things merely because they don't please us. Feminist studies do not trump mother nature.
"Sexist underlying" is absolutely Freudian.
Though I have to agree, the importance of the study topic teeters somewhere between the trivial and the obvious...surely this was funded by an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant.


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that was the best meal i had all year
- suzigirl Dec 15, 2012 05:02 PM
I was inspired by the Los Angeles thread what was the best meal of 2112. So this one is for everyone. What was your favorite meal this year and was it an occasion or did you find a great recipe? Anything goes. For me it was actually two, but they were for the same occasion. I was at a wedding for a friend out of town and the rehearsal dinner served prime rib and creamed spinach and baked potato. The salad was ice cold with a homemade ranch that I also used on the potato cuz it was just that good. The creamed spinach was the best I have ever had bar none. And the meat and horsey sauce were lip smacking. Just the right meat to fat ratio. The next day at the wedding they served lobster. Also perfect done just right in a catering service situation. Again ice cold salad and the side was charred corn on the cob. Everything was exellent. Later I found out they were one and the same restaurant/catering company. If i get back to Wolfboro NH I will eat there every night. Cannot remember the name of the place right now but they were outstanding. So now comes the million dollar question... what's yours?
Oh man, I might just say it was the dim sum at Orchids Garden in Las Vegas last weekend. We were dim sum starved after the LV strip sticker shock on everything there, so I looked online and found one with a lot of 4-5 stars. Honestly, the food was fantastic (except for the fried squid, it was very greasy, but it tasted good), the prices were really reasonable, and the staff was very attentive without being annoying. Also, there was no line to get in there, which is a clarion call to me after we'd spent two days in LV waiting in line to go up a damn escalator. A lovely little dim sum haven in crazy LV. That makes it one of the best this year due to low expectations and minimal to zero human humiliation, Las Vegas style.
re: EWSflash
I have yet to try a dim sum restaurant because there isn't one here and I got outvoted in out of town situations so i quit voting with the ex. Where I am has alot of restaurants so it is surprising there isn't dim sum here.if I get a shot at trying one I will.
re: suzigirl
I'm surprised at how few there are around me, too. There are two in Tucson and not that many more in the whole Phoenix area, judging from a search I did a while back.
Well for me, it wasn't a meal, but I recently tried the cheesecake at Phillips European in Rochester, NY ... and I swear ... it was like having a religious experience.
Not this year, but was just remembering a very basic meal I was once served in Iceland on a day bus trip. We were herded into a big lunchroom. There was some kind of soup. Then came the main event, huge platters of chunks of steamed codfish that must have been swimming in the North Atlantic 30 minutes earlier. That, and big bowls of plain boiled potatoes that had a garden-fresh potatoey flavor, and pitchers of sweet melted butter to pour over them. That was it. Some sort of pudding or cake, I don't recall, and there must have been something to drink, but what I remember was absolutely plain ingredients (fish, potatoes, butter) of incomparable freshness and quality---without distractions of method or extraneous ingredients. There was a lesson in that meal.
re: Querencia
Querenica, I want that meal now! I can taste it in my head....
I had a minor mechanical problem with my truck and had to spend an unscheduled night in Wyoming a couple of weeks ago, this very nice 50 something lady that worked at a C-store felt bad for me and took me to her home. She made me baked chicken and a box of rice-a-roni. Best meal I had all year (believe me!)
re: mrbigshotno.1
Aww. That is very sweet. Its nice to hear about the good souls that are out there
Tricky question. Not least as the year is not yet over and I'm eating a Michelin 2* meal tomorrow night.
Tricky also because we had two supremely wonderful meals during the year. A 2* and a 3*. Different styles of cooking and different experiences, so it's difficult to make a straight comparison, so it'll have to be a tie between them:
re: Harters
Both meals sound divine. I can see why it would be difficult to pick one
The special vegan tasting menu at Atelier Crenn in SF. Every bite was incredible. A truly memorable experience.
I have to say, the best meal all year was/is the meal my husband and I have every Sunday night (a bit predictable?!?). Grilled salmon and marinated onions. Not fancy, not gourmet, but dependable, reliable and oh-so-good!
Best of meal of all time? Potentiall the Frosted Flakes served on an airplane flight somewhere over the Pacific on my way (as a child) to Tahiti.
Shunji (LA) tops my 2012 list. The liver and onions at Bouchon in Yountville last week was pretty special. Spaghetti carbonara at Roscioli in Rome is worthy of a 2012 mention.
My new fave comfort food, steak frites. I seared a hanger steak in a big, hot, salted pan, peppered it, and reduced red wine (cheap PN, I believe it was BV Coastal) around it. It was served rare with the last tablespoon of wine/pepper/salt reduction in a sort of rimless soup plate, nestled with the frites. The frites were paired with a lemony mayonnaise. It was all paired with a Chehalem '08 Pinot Noir. Dessert was more frites and mayo. Second dessert was a chocolate ice cream soda.
The three meals of 2012 that came to my mind immediately were: peking duck, foie gras creme brulee, and a homemade tomato sauce with fresh pasta that my husband and i made at home together.
I'm going to EMP in a few weeks though and I imagine I'll be adding some dishes to that list!
Last year was easy. The crab feast with Alkapal and her hubby. One of the best meals ever.
This year I'll have to put forth two. One here in TO and the other on the road.
Early this year a place called Stack Smmmoked opened on what is our Main St. (Yonge St) I dropped in for a burger during burger week and was happy with what I saw. I returned a few months later for a few visits and blogged about it.
Not one meal per se but just finding this place has been great. I absolutely love it. Basically, it's a sandwich shop. Burgers, taco and more conventional sandwiches (some of the BBQ type) pretty much fill up the menu. Loving sandwiches it's really geared for me. So with that, the single best thing I've had from there is the Smoked Meat Sandwich. It's their spin on Montreal Smoked Meat (Basically a brisket corned like beef and smoked like pastrami). It is awesome. They make great M&C and their burger 2.0 is excellent.
On the road I'd have to say dinner at Nadine's in Pittsburgh was the best. We spit 3 sandwiches between the 2 of us. Fried baloney, meat ball and the open face roast beef featured on Triple D. All were great especially the roast beef. The place is a great dive bar and very friendly.
My favourite lunch was at the Bar Room at the Modern in Manhattan last spring, and my favourite dinner was a meal of contemporary tapas at Cava in Toronto.
The best meal I had this year had nothing to do with famous and starred restaurants. I'm guess I'm impressed with all of you that have so many visits to those places that you just can't decide which is best.
The best meal I had in 2012 was at our summer family gathering. We held it in an old and familiar place – a small island in southern Maryland where we spent many summers 25+ years ago. You have to haul everything over on a boat, and there is our history in such a ramshackle place, but it was the best meal of my year.
We all bring lots of great food, but it is the steamed crabs that are the best meal you ever have in any year. They are pulled from the water on that same morning, and we get some clams to steam, as well. We sat on picnic tables and cursed the bugs, but we did what we've done for many decades – Maryland crab feast by the water is the best meal you can have in any year, IMO!
Hard to decide, i had some good food this year. In the end the winner is a meal with visiting aunt and cousins at Side Street Inn in Honolulu. The menu is what we call heavy Pupu's, each of the 10 of us ordered one dish apiece to share, plus we got a double order of Kim Chee Fried Rice. Since the family was leaving the next morning for Hawaii Island I got "stuck" with the leftovers, so I got to remember and enjoy the meal a few more times. We got a couple of types of fish, one or two beef dishes, clams (untouched by me), calamari, a couple of chicken dishes, and a pork dish or two.
Runner's up would be at Guelaguetza, an Oaxacan restaurant in Los Angeles with old and new friends - and food I sure can't get in Honolulu, wonderful Mole. Early in the year I visited one of Honolulu's premiere restaurant's, Alan Wong's and had a spectacular meal there with a fellow chowhound and his wife. But I expected that to be wonderful, somehow its the meals that are unexpectedly great that catch your attention. I also had a great birthday dinner with friends at Kilauea Lodge in Volcano on Hawaii Island. Finally and most recently Mexican Seafood at Luibueno's in Haleiwa on Oahu - fantastic ceviche, fish burrito, and margaritas with an old and dear friend here visiting.
Elk bourguignon. Chuck shoulder 'french butchered'. All the usual other ingredients except I used my own home made wine. I did a different take on the dish though. I ladled the finished bb into a large steam table pan (liberated from my old restaurant) and spread a couple of inches of mashed roasted garlic mashed potatoes on top. Into the oven. Oven roasted veg. with balsamic on the side.
We had another couple for dinner that night. They ate and ate and ate. They asked my wife: "Do you eat like this all the time"? My wife said: "Pretty much". Desert was fresh blue berries my wife and our guests had picked from our bushes in whipped cream
I was on vacation last month in upstate NY and my friend prepared steaks at home. I am still thinking about that steak. Don't know where she got them, or what cut they were, but they were possibly the best steaks I've ever had.
Other best meal, last weekend. House of Brews in Huntington Beach. Fish Burrito.
It was Khao Man Gai at a grocery/restaurant called Thai Fresh in Austin. It's just amazing how much flavor can come from just that pile of chicken, rice, and the little sauce container.
That meal was a happy surprise. We had gone to Austin on a food truck self-tour, eaten all sorts of great things, and got a flat tire one the way out of town. This place was near the tire shop, and had a nice outdoor area to sit with the gatorhound. It ended up as my best meal 2012!
re: PotatoHouse
I love carpaccio. There is a place where I am that has it on the menu that is really good. Ice cold everything including the plate. Some places miss that step. And the olive oil and balsamic are top quality
re: suzigirl
I'm so with you. When it's good, it's REALLY great. And memorable.
re: chefathome
I really is. It can be a real treat with the buttery meat and the salty cheese and caper berries. Lovely
re: suzigirl
It really is a beautiful thing. Thinking about the most recent version I had (excellent) transports me in one second flat. I can just taste it. The textures and flavours are just so, well, perfect. :)
re: chefathome
The first time I hat it was a horror but being the trooper that I am I tried it again. I am glad because I have had some real gems
re: suzigirl
You two and Carpaccio need to get a room. ;)
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Are you a carpaccio lover? ;)
There are just sooooooo many. One meal in Paris was particularly great - veal head, rabbit pate, grouse mousse...but I'd choose a meal in Croatia over that.
The porcinis were freshly picked and lightly grilled, the restaurant makes its own grassy green olive oil (the restaurant overlooks the groves, fruit trees and so on), there was soft cottage cheese over which the oil was drizzled, freshly-picked fresh herbs and produce...it was divine. They were generous with the fresh white truffles. The octopus was succulent and plump - buttery tender. The scallops with roe were barely touched; the squid ink risotto? Painfully wonderful. Same with the uni. All plucked from the sea nearby. The ultimate in freshness. The service was impeccable as were the views. It was like being in paradise! Did I mention they also have their own vineyards?
re: chefathome
That truly sounds unforgetable. My mouth is watering and that's not just a figure of speach
re: suzigirl
It was sublime. Absolutely wonderful! Can't wait to return in the spring.
re: chefathome
I wanna go. I am pretty small. You can sneak me in your luggage.
re: suzigirl
How's May 2 for you? That's when our flights are booked.
re: chefathome
I bet it is beautiful in May. Sounds perfect. :-)
re: suzigirl
It is truly lovely. We spend each May and October there so you have your pick! :)
re: chefathome
Both please.
re: suzigirl
re: chefathome
Hi, I will be spending two weeks in Croatia in September. Four of those nights are in Istria. I'm assuming that the restaurant you are describing is in Istria, due to the description of the oil, vineyards, truffles, etc. Care to tell me the name of the restaurant? It sounds fantastic.
Also, do you have any other recommendations? I've done a lot of research on Croatia (it is my first trip), and I have a long list of possibilities. I'm trying to narrow them down.
re: chefathome
Do you know the name & location of that restaurant? I'll be in Croatia for all of May. Thanks!
I have had a number of lovely meals this year, but the one that springs most immediately to mind was in Venice. My parents came to visit me in Europe and I took them on a two week trip through some of the great cities, and by the time we got to Venice we were pretty worn out. We had three days there and two of them were rainy and dismal, and some of the food was not so great.
On the third day, I had planned an excursion to the outer islands of Murano and Burano, with a stop on the island of Torcello for lunch at Venissa. The weather was gorgeous that day, but with beautiful weather comes HORDES of tourists, and the vaporetto from Murano to Burano was INSANELY packed. I could tell my parents were reaching the end of their rope, until I told them to get off the boat at Torcello. We were the only passengers that disembarked there, and we literally had the island ALL to ourselves - to the point where I wasn't sure I was in the right place. We wandered up the sidewalk until we came to a gap in the fence that serves as an entrance to the grounds of Venissa and our jaws just dropped.
The restaurant is set on the tip of the island, surrounded by its own small vineyard and gardens. We were served exquisite food and lovely wine from their own vines on the patio. It was like being in a whole other world, without another tourist in sight (a couple more people came as the afternoon wore on, but for the first half of our meal we had the place to ourselves). I don't remember everything we ate, but I know there was impeccably fresh seafood, wonderful and interesting cheeses, and a fabulous pork belly with baby artichokes. After lunch we walked around the vineyard and soaked up the sun, and looked at the multi-colored houses of Burano without dealing with the crowds. Just a spectacular day, largely because I know how much my parents enjoyed it. I have a very cute picture of them standing under a trellis in the vineyard that brings back the memory perfectly!
Winter 'boat camping' with my wife. Echo Bay Saturna Is.
Those are Dungeness crabs taken from the trap minutes before slow sautéing in clarified 'brown butter' and a drop of Madera served with a glass of ehrenfelser


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Adventure #5-0: The Crashon September 9, 2009 at 12:52 am
Well, this is something drove me truly nuts today, so I figured it had to be put into comic form.
So, pretty much, I'm a pussy and ran from the colission, then fessed up, and found out that I probably would have been better off acting like a man in the first place. Then I got my dick caught in my pants zipper, so it all evens out in the end!
Also, they were playing the Beatles all day in the store, so that softened the blow on alot of my self-inflicted harm.


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I'm actually going to post what I posted on the actual article:
First let me preface this by stating that I came out, as gay, to my parents when I was 17 and everyone else soon after. At McGill University I facilitated the coming out group, was on the Queer McGill executive, volunteered for Queerline (LGBT info/help line), ran an organization that does workshops in Montreal high schools on sexual orientation and gender identity, and helped organize a march on Parliament Hill in support of same-sex marriage back in 2004.
I love sports. I cross-country skied and played soccer competitively in high school, I run marathons, I strive to complete an Iron Man before I'm 35, I now play in a soccer league, tennis when I get the chance, and I'm an avid skier and snowboarder.
To the people who have commented blasting other Queer people who enjoy watching or participating in sports, YOU'RE F'N MORONS. You have no idea what your talking about. The lack of intelligence and pure lunacy in the comments made is shocking. I'm so disgusted and pissed off that I'm going to have to point out your idiocy in a long post.
First – Participating in sport is about being active, enjoying an activity with other people or on your own, it's about pushing yourself, and in many cases about enjoying the outdoors.
Second – I fail to see how training for marathons, or playing soccer, or snowboarding down breath-taking sunshine bowl in Whistler in any way lowers me on the social totem pole some of you seem to have planted yourselves atop of. Nor do I see how it makes me a self hating gay guy. Yeah I'm so self hating I've likely done more the community in 4 years through my activism than most of you will do in your life time.
Third – I play sports because I enjoy them. I love running, in the winter mornings seeing the sun rise on lake Ontario while I'm finishing a 15 or 20k is awesome! I love playing soccer with my team cheering them on when I'm off and pushing myself to do better each time I'm on the field. I love the feeling of making a good play, or stopping one. Also the feeling of beating a personal best or running past a biker on a hill is up there close to good sex.
Fourth – Sports are sexy and inspirational. Forgive me for enjoying watching fit sweaty (and sometimes muddy) men pushing themselves to their limits or grappling with each other to get possession of the ball. Forgive me for enjoying watching a fit guy in a tight spandex swim suit or body suit as they plow through the water to race down the sides of mountains at break neck speeds I couldn't dream of doing on those pitches. Excuse me for enjoying the excitement on people's faces as the finish a race, or beat a personal best.
And just to be clear I don't only like sports. I LOVE the arts as well. Acting, singing, painting/drawing, or playing the french horn or harmonica. The arts have been a very important part of my life since I was little.
I'm also going to be marrying my sports loving boyfriend next year, I guess that's just another example of how closeted and self hating I must be for enjoying sports. So to all you haters of sport and of people who enjoy sport I proudly raise my middle finger to you who Can't Understand Normal Thinking.
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