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DWTS: Charlie White and Meryl Davis Say They're "In It Together"
Olympic ice dancing gold medalists Charlie White and Meryl Davis found themselves in a strange position when they signed on for Season 18 of Dancing with the Stars: rather than being partners, as they have been on the ice for 17 years, they'd actually be competing against each other. But they don't really see it that way.
"I guess technically speaking, we are competing against each other, but it couldn't feel further from that," Davis tells TVGuide.com. "We really feel like we're in it together."
And it's true that, by necessity, White and Davis spend more time together than any other pair of celebs this season. When TVGuide.com spoke to the duo one morning last week, they were traveling together by car through New York City, getting ready to do promotions for the "Stars on Ice" tour, which they're currently juggling along with Dancing. The "Stars on Ice" schedule consists of several dates per week around the country, and so their DWTS pro partners, Sharna Burgess and Maks Chmerkovskiy, have been meeting them in tour cities to squeeze in dance rehearsals.
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"We just have gotten into sort of a rhythm," White explains. "I think too, because we're having so much fun with both, that that really helps. As long as your spirits are high, you can get over being tired. If you're tired and you're not happy about it, then you're going to struggle. But we're having so much fun that we're sort of able to push past the exhaustion of the schedule and really make the most out of everything."
Check out our full Q&A with White and Davis to get their thoughts on whether they have an unfair advantage in the competition, as well as White's reaction to Len Goodman and Carrie Ann Inaba saying his and Peta Murgatroyd's dance last week wasn't really a rumba.
So you've started the "Stars on Ice" tour. How are you managing your crazy schedules?
CharlieWhite: [The first week of "Stars on Ice"] was a challenge, because we were just on the ice all day long and then had to squeeze in the four hours of training with our brand-new switch partners, either first thing in the morning or late at night.
MerylDavis: There have certainly been a couple moments where I felt a little overwhelmed by fatigue ... but I think fatigue is kind of quickly wiped away by the excitement, and just our enthusiasm for the experiences that we're having. And also I think that last week, learning the numbers for "Stars on Ice" as well as being with different partners that we didn't know quite as well, I think that was definitely a big challenge. Now that we know the choreography for the skating, I think we feel a little bit more comfortable in our ability to tackle both things.
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How did you both feel about the switch-up this week?
Davis: I felt great about the performance on Monday. Val [Chmerkovskiy] definitely challenged me with that routine, and so the beginning of the week was definitely not easy. But he's an incredible dancer and teacher, and so I felt really good about what we put out there on Monday.
White: It was fun to switch partners. I think it was a good challenge for all the stars to test their mettle with someone they're unfamiliar with. The great thing is that all of the professionals are so experienced and such good dancers that in a way they're interchangeable. They all have something that makes them special, but in terms of just their ability to make great things happen, they're all very, very capable. I certainly found that to be the case with Peta. I thought that she did a really, really wonderful job. I was super pleased to do the dance she put together, and I thought it was interesting having a little bit of a back and forth between the judges.
Charlie, what was your reaction to the judges' feedback that the dance wasn't a rumba?
White: When we looked back and saw what we did, we were very happy with it. ... From our perspective, it was quite clearly a rumba. What Len said about the hip movement, I was moving my hips. I could have moved them more, but I don't think that takes away from the steps of the dance being a rumba. But again, it's a personal preference type of thing. ... It's tough to take when you have such a wide range, but are at the same time trying to improve as a dancer. It's not like I feel like I'm at the apex of years of training. And so, it's different for me than it was for Peta, who felt like she put together a great dance, and I agree.
And Meryl, since Maks is your permanent partner, what was your reaction to Julianne Hough's comments that his routine felt "phoned in"?
Davis: Maks doesn't phone anything in. ... I think it's unfortunate that those comments were made, and I thought it was a great dance.
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Meryl, were you surprised or disappointed that you didn't get paired with Derek Hough, since he choreographed one of your Olympic routines?
Davis: We were all given the option of encouraging people on Twitter to pair us with a certain pro, but I just decided I would kind of let [voters] decide. I didn't want to encourage anything in any particular direction, because as Charlie said, all the pros are so amazing that I knew I would be in good hands regardless of who I was with. So, I was really psyched to be with Val.
Now that you've worked with both Chmerkovskiy brothers, what's the biggest difference between their coaching styles?
Davis: They definitely have different styles of teaching. But I think it's really wonderful working with them, because I think they really enjoy working together. They use their differences as ways to kind of help each other. Val was sending videos to Maks all week, asking for feedback, and I know Maks is always asking for Val's opinion as well. So, it's so cool having the two of them with different perspectives and different eyes for things, because you really are getting the best of both worlds.
Has the competition been harder or easier than you expected?
White: It's tough to say. Each week is so different. Going from modern to tango to jive to rumba, each has such a different feeling and such a different approach, and the choreography is so different. It's such a week-to-week basis in finding how tired you're going to be, whether or not you're going to be able to get into the character, how easily you can learn the steps. I think overall, it's been about what I expected. And I think part of that is what you put into it of course, but I think the biggest thing is that it's still super enjoyable.
Davis: I think the dancing itself has been very challenging. ... Whether it's the Latin hip movement, or certain types of footwork, I think it's been surprisingly challenging for us to overcome our natural tendencies that we've gained after years of being on the ice. But at the same time, I'm having even more fun than I expected to. ... We're just thrilled to be a part of it.
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How different is learning dance choreography than rehearsing for your skating routines?
Davis: We're so used to movement in general on the ice. But I think because so much of our days and the majority of our lives have been spent on the ice, we kind of like to think that the laws of physics that apply on the ice are the way it is on the floor as well. And because our previous dance experience has always been taking what we learned on the floor directly to the ice, I think it was hard for us to kind of wrap our minds around the idea of dancing on the floor for the sake of dancing on the floor.
White: I think the biggest difference is on the ice you know the patterns of steps. You know how one thing leads into another. And so, you don't have to remember exactly what the step is when you're doing the choreography; doing the actual steps kind of jogs your memory. Whereas in ballroom, because I'm so unfamiliar with what step leads into another, and ... if you should be walking on your heel or on your toe, or rising up or staying low, depending on the dance, it kind of seems like after every step there's just an infinite amount of possibilities, and so you really have to just focus on what comes next. And I think that's quite hard on the brain. That's what I've felt, even more so than physical exhaustion, is just mental exhaustion, trying to stay on top of everything and keep your timing up as well.
Some people say your ice training puts you at an unfair advantage.
Davis: I certainly think that it's more challenging for us perhaps than most people realize. ... We all bring something different to the table. Whether you're an actor, you're a pop star, a singer, I think everybody has these qualities that they're able to bring into their performances. And certainly, we're using our backgrounds and our previous experiences to create the best performances we can. But I think everybody's doing that.
White: I think what's special about [the cast] is that everyone sort of brings their own uniqueness and flavor to making their dances interesting. All the professionals are really bringing that out in their stars. Drew [Carey] or Cody [Simpson] or James [Maslow], they all have their sort of thing that they're able to throw into these dances that's unexpected to some degree, but makes it so interesting to watch. ... In terms of just an actual competition, it's really good. And it's fun to be a part of.
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Is it odd to be going up against each other?
White: For Meryl and myself, it just really feels like we're in it together still. I don't know what it would take [for us to] actually be competing against each other. At this point, coming off of winning the Olympics ... we just have a different mindset coming in. We feel like we're doing a lot of this together. And in fact, we are. Right now we're sitting in a car together and we're traveling all over the country together and learning these steps, and we're on the same journey together. Our approach to everything is really just about self-improvement. It's not so much about competing against other people. That's how it was on the ice, and that's how it is on the ballroom floor. So, in that sense, we feel like we have each other's support, and I think that makes it a lot easier.
Davis: It's hard to explain. I guess technically speaking, we are competing against each other, but it couldn't feel further from that. We've been on this incredible journey together for 17 years, and our interests have been aligned almost our entire lives, so we just have this team mentality. We have this natural support for one another that has been formed over such a long period of time, and in this circumstance, I feel like we're supportive of one another. We are having fun together. We really feel like we're in it together.
Charlie, Erin Andrews told me last week that she feels like your personality is starting to come out more. Are you getting more comfortable in the ballroom?
White: It's tough, with the change of dance, to get some consistency. But at the same time, I definitely do feel like I'm a lot more comfortable week to week. I do think it's showing, and that's super sweet of Erin to say. With the jive definitely, it was fun, and that is sort of my personality. That's what I like to bring to everyday life, and not just the dance floor. Being able to sort of have that translate into a dance was special.
What are you working on for this week?
White: This week is Disney week. I can't tell you the song, but we're doing jazz. I think the whole Disney thing is about cheerfulness, and so much of it for me and for a lot of the other dancers is sort of connecting with your childhood and what made you so happy back then. I think it's going to be a very fun and funny week that everyone should look forward to.
Davis: Maks and I will be dancing a samba. I'm excited to get going with it. ... I think it's going to be a fun week.
Dancing with the Stars airs Mondays at 8/7c on ABC.
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Most people, if asked to contemplate a snakebite, would probably imagine a world of pain. But the venoms of snakes are very complex mixtures of chemicals, many of which have unexpected effects on the body. Now, researchers have dug through the contents of venom from the black mamba, and found it contains a potent painkiller, as effective as morphine, but lacking some of the side effects.
Black mambas in general have a fearsome reputation. They're one of the largest venomous snakes in the world, as well as one of the fastest moving. But their reputation is enhanced by their venom, which contains potent neuro- and cardio-toxins—ones that can cause paralysis and an irregular heartbeat.
Nevertheless, a group of French researchers included some black mamba venom in a screen they were doing. The goal was to find inhibitors of acid-sensing ion channels, proteins that appear on the surface of some nerve cells that are associated with the ability to sense pain from a variety of causes (not just acid). When triggered, these ASICs allow charged ions to enter nerve cells, starting a nerve impulse that can make its way to the brain.
The authors purified two small proteins (57 amino acids) that stuck to ASICs, which they termed mambalgins. They used the protein sequence to identify the genes that encodes them, and found they belong to a larger group of venom proteins called three-finger toxins. Most three-finger toxins kill the nerve cells they stick to, but that doesn't seem to be the case with mambalgins. In fact, animal testing revealed that the mambalgins "do not produce motor dysfunction, apathy, flaccid paralysis, convulsions or death upon central injections."
What they did do is quickly inhibit the ASICs expressed both in the brain and those found on sensory nerves in the periphery. That translated to a pain-killing ability that was roughly on par with morphine in some experiments. It also worked both when injected at the site of injury and when given systemically. That indicates it can block pain in sensory nerves and the relaying of pain signals by the central nervous system. The central nervous system effect appears to act independently of that pathway that mediates the effects of opioids.
In fact, the authors argue that the mambalgins reveal the presence of a previously unidentified pathway in the brain that relies on a specific combination of ASICs. It's impossible to ask a mouse about any side effects of being injected with these proteins, but the authors argue that the mambalgins are "powerful, naturally occurring, analgesic peptides of potential therapeutic value."
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Record high temperatures and rapid expanding drought across the country are resulting in an increase in spiders and other bugs.
"All insects are cold-blooded, so in extreme heat they develop quicker, which results in more generations popping up now compared to previous summers," said Jim Fredericks, an entomologist and wildlife ecology expert with the National Pest Management Association.
One spider to watch out for is arguably one of mother nature's most dangerous, the brown recluse. The extreme heat is driving brown recluses to seek refuge inside homes.
Easily disguised as a common house spider, the venom from a brown recluse can cause irritation to the skin, lesions, and in rare cases, death.
"All spiders have a venomous bite, but only a few can be medically dangerous to humans, and the brown recluse is a top concern," said Fredericks.
The brown recluse spider is smaller than you might imagine - about the size of a quarter. It's tan in color and has a dark spot in the shape of a violin on its body.
You aren't likely to see them roaming around during the day - like their name suggests, they are reclusive. They typically hide in dark corners of your home, or in stored items like boxes and in closets.
"A common misconception is that spiders like to bite people," said Fredericks. "But they actually don't recognize people as a food source, and will typically only bite as a defense mechanism."
A bite from a brown recluse will be painless at first. Within three to eight hours, the bite site will become swollen, red, and tender to the touch. In 95% of cases, the irritation ends there and the bite will heal on its own without developing into a more serious irritation.
In some cases, however, the venom begins to break down the cells in the skin and progress into a necrotic lesion needing immediate medical attention. This process takes about two to three weeks.
"It is rare for a brown recluse to result in death, but it can occur in children or adults who are allergic to the spider's venom," said Fredericks. "It best to get medical attention right away if bitten, to make sure you aren't allergic."
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Brown recluse spiders are generally concentrated in the midwestern and south-central regions of the United States.
Reduce your risk of being bitten by wearing long gloves if sorting through dark spaces in your home or moving boxes and furniture. Experts also recommend setting out glue boards (which can be purchased at your local home improvement store) to catch the spiders before they have an opportunity to bite.
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The stunning downfall of golf legend Tiger Woods has a chapter that very few are willing to discuss.
According to the police report from when Woods was arrested for a Memorial Day DUI, his race was described as "black," despite the fact that he describes himself as a "Cablinasian" — a hybrid term he coined from being white, black, American Indian and Asian.
Obviously there's no checkbox for "Cablinasian" on a police report. But it's clear that the officer who filed the report on Woods' arrest went off his first glance, or what he may have thought when he saw the golf champion on TV or in the news.
It appears that the officer may have said, "No, you're black."
And that's what many black people in barbershops and nearby water coolers at their places of employment have always thought about Woods' description of his ancestry.
After his record-breaking performance at the Masters golf tournament back in 1997, Woods appeared in a Nike commerical saying, "There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play on because of the color of my skin."
Soon after, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Woods said that it bothered him when he was considered African-American growing up. He wanted people to know the full range of his ancestry.
And to some, that revelation was perceived as Woods downplaying his blackness.
There are some within the black community who believe that Woods has done everything possible to distance himself from being black in order to make himself more accepting to white people and their sponsorship dollars. Similar accusations were made in the recent documentary "O.J. Made In America," about former football star and convicted felon O.J. Simpson.
"He's African, but he's a good-looking man. You know, he almost has white features. He wasn't the typical black look, African look," commercial director Fred Levinson said, in the documentary, of Simpson's groundbreaking Hertz rental car ad. "What white America got out of it was they could point to somebody that had 'made it' and demonstrated unequivocally that we are more than willing to not just accept you, but to embrace you."
That type of "acceptance" is what black people tried to warn Tiger about.
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Turkey with brown sugar-cider brine
If you are going to go to the (admittedly little) trouble of brining your Thanksgiving turkey, be sure to set the bar higher than simply adding moisture.
Granted, this is the primary goal of a brine.
Soaking the bird in a salty solution prior to roasting does help plump the meat and keep it moist during cooking.
But this also is a great opportunity to add plenty of added flavor to your holiday turkey.
To make the most of that opportunity, we decided to brine our turkey in apple cider, brown sugar, sage and black pepper.
The flavor ends up being at once subtly sweet, but also boldly savory.
And that is a combination that makes the meat a perfect partner for all of the classic Thanksgiving sides that you'll be serving this year.
Start to finish: 2½ to 3 hours (plus brining)
Makes a 12- to 14-pound turkey with gravy
For the turkey
12- to 14-pound turkey
½ gallon apple cider
½ cup kosher salt
½ cup packed brown sugar
½ cup minced fresh sage
1 tablespoon crushed black peppercorns
For the gravy
¼ cup white wine
2 cups low-sodium chicken or turkey broth
3 tablespoons instant flour, such as Wondra
3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh sage
Salt and ground black pepper
Place a 2½-gallon zip-close plastic bag upright in a large bowl. Place the turkey in the bowl, then pour in the cider, salt, brown sugar, sage and peppercorns.
Seal the bag, squeezing out as much as possible as you do so.
Massage the bag to mix the ingredients in the liquid.
Refrigerate and let brine for a minimum of 8 hours, turning the turkey now and again.
When ready to roast, heat the oven to 350º F.
Fit a roasting pan with a rack.
Remove the turkey from the brine and discard the brine. Pat the turkey dry with paper towels, then set it onto the roasting rack. Roast for 2 to 2½ hours, or until the temperature of the breast reaches 160º F and the thighs reach 170º F. If the turkey begins to darken too much, cover it loosely with foil.
Transfer the turkey to a serving platter, wrap with foil, then set a couple of layers of bath towels over it to keep it warm.
Remove the rack from the roasting pan. Place the roasting pan over medium heat on the stovetop (you may need two burners) and bring the juices to a simmer. Add the wine and scrape up any browned bits on the bottom of the pan. Pour the broth into the pan, whisking continuously. Then add the flour and whisk to combine. Simmer for 5 minutes, while continuing to stir. Season with sage, salt and black pepper.
Nutrition information per serving: 420 calories; 170 calories from fat (40 percent of total calories); 19 g fat (5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 185 mg cholesterol; 4 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 2 g sugar; 56 g protein; 480 mg sodium.


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The Obama Administration has filed a brief in support of a Maryland photojournalist who says he was arrested and beaten after he took photographs of the police arresting two other men. The brief by the Justice Department argues that the US Constitution protects the right to photograph the actions of police officers in public places and prohibits police officers from arresting journalists for exercising those rights.
The lawsuit arose from a June 2011 altercation in which photojournalist Mannie Garcia witnessed Montgomery County police arresting "two young Hispanic men" in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. Concerned that the police were using "excessive force," Garcia says he pulled out his camera and began photographing the scene from a distance of about 30 feet.
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The Obama administration urged the courts to use "considerable skepticism" when police officers use vague charges like disorderly conduct, loitering, or resisting arrest to retaliate against those who record their public activities. "Courts have routinely rejected officers' attempts to criminalize protected speech through the use of charges that rely heavily on the discretion of the arresting officer on both First and Fourth Amendment grounds," the Justice Department argued.
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While we wish all our readers and friends the joy of the season, for our Jewish friends, Christmas Eve often means eating Chinese food and going to see a movie. Eating at a Chinese restaurant is somewhat difficult on a gluten-free diet, because of the prevalence of soy sauce. Also, language barriers can make communication difficult, which is why I love Triumph Dining's gluten-free dining cards that are customized to different cuisines.
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- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 3 tablespoons gluten-free tamari sauce
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 1/2 pounds pepper steak or ribeye steak, cut against the grain into 1/8-inch thick strips
- 3 tablespoons high heat cooking oil, divided
- 2 heads broccoli, cut into small florets
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- Combine orange juice, tamari, ginger, rice wine vinegar and honey in a bowl. Mix in cornstarch and set aside.
- Season the meat with salt and pepper.
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in large skillet over medium high heat until hot but not smoking. Cook meat, stirring often, until mostly cooked through, about 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer meat to a plate.
- Drain fat from skillet. Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil to skillet along with broccoli and garlic and cook over medium heat, stirring often, until broccoli is bright green and tender, about 1 to 2 minutes.
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I found the recipe so easy to work with last year, but a bit more difficult to cut out the circles this year. It helped when I chilled the dough in the freezer then liberally sprinkled rice flour on the wax paper when I was rolling out the dough. Go figure. There is so much that goes into baking — the smallest changes in ingredients, temperature, etc., end up making a big difference.
My kids love shaping the hamantaschen and doing a "magic" trick: taking the circles of dough and turning them into triangular cookies. They also love thinking of crazy fillings to put in the hamantaschen. This year we tried marshmallows, white chocolate chips, Nutella and mint M&Ms, along with apricot and raspberry jam. I actually like the traditional prune and poppy seed fillings, but I did not have the ingredients on hand.
Check out this cute, short video of my older daughter shaping hamantaschen, and turning circles into triangles. Yes, she really does say to "gently, carefully, tenderly" fold up the dough!
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Suffice to say that plebiscite must and should be held in Indian Occupied Kashmir in accordance with the mandate of UN. Nothing more nothing less.
This is a matter of principles.
The concept is no different than what we Americans are doing in Puerto Rico. Let the people decide their fate. This is what democracy is all about.
Unlike what hindoos did in Indian Occupied Kashmir, we Americans didn't send in the Army to Puerto Rico to occupy it and raype the people.
Hi. I'm Darius. And I eat kitty poop. I also eat my rabbits boogers. Delightful.
Tastes like chicken
I ate all my boogers. Now I will eat my rabbits poop
Tastes like chicken
I am a di ck. And I eat my own boogers.
Tastes like chicken
Hi. Well yes. I eat my own ear wax. I add it to chicken poop. Really tastes great. Kind of like monkey.
I love to ear:
Kitty poop
Piggy poop
Ox poop
Boy poop
Girl poop
Lady poop
Kentucky guy poop
Kentucky gal poop
Texas man poop
My boogers..moist
My boogers. .dry
Louisiana guy boogers
Louisiana girl poop
Arizona guy poop
Arizona girl poop
Texas doggie poop
Florida girly poop
Florida girly boogers
Wait. Wait. There's more stuff I like to eat :
Florida kitty boogers
Florida guy boogers
Florida girly poop
Utah guy poop
Utah girly poop
Utah kitty poop
Utah doggie poop
Utah old man poop
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.......Wow. Lot's of food items...........
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Kansas girly boogers
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Paris kitty poop
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French woman poop
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Hi. I'm Jim.
I pick my nose and eat my moist gooey boogers. Really good.
Tastes like chicken
Me too! Me too!
I pick my nose and eat my green wet boogers.
I also import kitty poop from India. Mm good.
Tastes like chicken
Wow. I eat them. My boogers have sodium and protein. Really good.
They taste like chicken
Prominent Indian writer and human rights activist, Arundhati Roy has said that Indian army and police are using raype as a weapon against people in Kashmir and parts of India like Manipur.
Arundhati Roy in a media interview in New Delhi while commenting on the issue of the recent Delhi raype incident said that when raype was used as a means of domination by the Upper Caste of the Hindus or by army and police in India, it always went unpunished.
Hi. I'm Catalina.
I stick my fingers into my nose then eat my boogers. Salty but good.
I also eat camel and donkey poop from India
@ Catalina. .Nailed it!
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Have you noticed Indian taxi drivers picking the wax off their ear with a pinky finger and picking their nose with the other hand while driving cabs in NYC? Then they start eating the samosa with chutney and licking their fingers like there is no tommorow. For dessert they first do a two finger pinch on their balls, eat a ladoo and suck lick their fingers off their hands. They have it pat down to a science. They claim to have a degree from Benares Commerce College. Majoring in nose picking and ball scratching. LMFAO
I pick my nose. Take out the green slime salty stuff. And I eat it. Really good.
Tastes like chicken LMFAO
Hi. I'm Jaceb.
I eat kitty poop from India. It is very soft.
It tastes like chicken .
Love to stick my fingers into a pig * an us * and eat the tasty poop. It's a real treat. I love it. I love it all.
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Hmmm. Sounds like the "Annual An ul Pig Day" in Pakistan. In April 7 Pakis attend a pig fair and eat pig poop by using and inserting their dirty little paki fingers into pig butt.
Mmm tastes like chicken
Been there. Done that. My pig was sick from the asss. So I got sick.
Now I only eat kitty poop. Safer and it tastes like chicken
@Pepe. Nailed it!
Hi. I eat kitty poop from Nevada and India.
I also eat Modi's poop.
Tastes like chicken
Oh but so true.
Modi has sweet chocolate poopie. I love it.
Tastes like chicken.
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I love India poop. Really good
Tastes like chicken
Hi ya.
I eat girly poop from India. Awesome beautiful flavor.
Tastes like chicken.
Just pooped.
Guess late supper is ready.
I put peanut butter on a monkey's asss and eat it.
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Tastes like chicken
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Mark L. Hopkins: Welfare or Workfare?
President Donald Trump recently called for getting "millions" of welfare recipients back to work. He also has called for a major effort to deal with the crumbling infrastructure that faces cities and states all across the country. Is it a serious problem?
The city of New Orleans reports that their water pipes are more than 100 years old. This past year, at the end of a rainy 10 days, South Carolina closed more than 80 roads, 36 bridges and there were 32 dam failures. Do you remember the Interstate-35 Mississippi River Bridge collapse in Minnesota in 2007 that killed 13 and injured 145? Should I mention the Flint, Michigan water system disaster? These, according to our experts, are just the tip of the iceberg.
Perhaps there is a change in approach with our welfare program that could benefit our problem with infrastructure. What if welfare became workfare? Welfare was originally designed to create a hand-UP for people in difficulty rather than a hand-OUT, which it seems to have become. In 40 years of working with public entities of various purposes, I have never met a person, Democrat or Republican, who wants to give money to able people who refuse to work.
Two decades ago, we had 4 million adults on welfare, more than six times the number of 638,000 we have today. With fewer numbers on the welfare rolls it seems an ideal time to go back to something that worked almost a century ago. It is time to recreate workfare, to tie our support for the unemployed to productive work.
During the Great Depression, we had large numbers of men and women out of work and we had major infrastructure problems all across the country. The Federal Government devised a workfare program to provide subsistence aid to families but only when a member of the family would enroll in one of a number of programs that provided productive work. With the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt people went back to work nation-wide through the CCC, the WPA, and several other workfare programs. The Roosevelt Great Depression programs provided no welfare, only workfare.
The stated purpose of the CCC and the WPA was, "to provide one paid job for all families where the breadwinner suffered from long term unemployment." The focus was on work rather than "the dole" because work "promoted self-respect, reinforced the work ethic, and provided skills training and experience."
The CCC program was set up for young men ages 17–28 and provided work, subsistence while on the job, and a salary, 90 percent of which was sent home. During its time from 1933 to 1942, the young men of the CCC planted 3 billion trees, built lodges and trails in our parks and wilderness areas, and created or improved parks in more than 800 cities nation-wide. The WPA was focused on roads, bridges, and public buildings. Together the two programs employed more than 14 million men and women.
I grew up in a small town in southern Missouri that had a public park, swimming pool, and paved streets all supplied by one or another of these workfare programs.
Today, perhaps more than at any other time in the past 60 years we are in good position to give workfare another try. Our welfare rolls are low and our infrastructure needs are the greatest they have been in many years. Our new president has promised a major thrust into infrastructure renewal with an emphasis on roads and bridges nation-wide.
We are the richest nation in the world with the highest standard of living. We continue to prove that we are not going to let our least fortunate citizens go without food or shelter. The issue for us is welfare or workfare. I vote for workfare. As the popular Michael J. Fox movie told us, you can go, "Back to the Future," and we should.
— Dr. Mark L. Hopkins writes for More Content Now and the Anderson Independent-Mail in South Carolina. He is past president of colleges and universities in four states. Books by Hopkins currently available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble include "Journey to Gettysburg" and "The Wounds of War," both Civil War-era novels, and "The World As It Was When Jesus Came." Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Joseph H. Eto is a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he is a senior advisor to the Electricity Markets and Policy Department in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, and a strategic advisor to the Grid Integration Group in the Energy Storage and Demand Resources Division.
Joe has authored over 250 publications on electricity reliability, transmission planning and operations, demand response, distributed generation, utility integrated resource planning and demand-side management, and building energy-efficiency technologies.
Between 1999 and 2020 Joe led the program office for the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, which was a national laboratory-university-industry R&D consortium founded by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, the National Science Foundation's Power System Engineering Research Center, and the Electric Power Group that conducted research and analysis on electricity reliability and transmission technologies.
Joe has served the U.S. Department of Energy on a variety of topics related to electricity reliability. He led coordination of technical support for preparation of DOE's National Electric Transmission Congestion Studies (2006, 2009, 2015). He was appointed by the Secretary of Energy to serve on the Electricity System Working Group of the U.S.-Canada Power Outage Task Force, which investigated the Aug. 14, 2003 blackout. He led coordination of technical support for the preparation of DOE's National Transmission Grid Study (2002). He also served on the Secretary of Energy's Power Outage Study Team, which conducted independent investigations of high-profile power interruptions that occurred during the summer of 1999.
In 2013, he received the best paper award for the Electric Energy Systems Track, 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
In 1989, he received both the Crosby Field Award for best technical paper and the Willis H. Carrier Award for best presentation by an author under the age of 32 from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers.
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At the end of March, I was part of a panel of artists (including Karen Cole, Jill Zaheer, Roxanne Evans Stout, Julie Prichard, and Michelle Ward) gathered to discuss our work and Seth Apter's new book, The Pulse of Mixed Media.
It was an interesting morning and for those who were not able to attend, Seth has posted a rather abbreviated video of the discussion.
If this doesn't satisfy you, there is more on Seth's blog. More importantly, there's Seth's book, brimming with many more inspiring thoughts and art thingees.


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Editorial: Home Energy and the Fracking Dividend
Most of us will agree that it's technically feasible to build homes that consume dramatically less energy than today's typical home. And in most locations we can build a home that draws net zero energy from the utility. But it's economics that makes us hesitate. Specifically, it's the value of those energy savings. Can the additional investment be offset by anticipated reductions in energy costs? It's the same thing for retrofits of existing homes: Do the lower energy bills justify the costs?
That's where fracking enters into the equation. With dramatically lower natural-gas prices, some efficiency measures will take longer to pay for themselves in bill savings. Or at least that's the claim. We aren't aware of a downturn in those key indicators of efficiency activity—sales of insulation, efficient windows, condensing furnaces, and the like—but reduced demand could easily be camouflaged by the recent upswing in the housing market. And what about the homes that already use natural gas for combinations of space heating, water heating, cooking, clothes drying, pool heating, and (increasingly) fireplaces? (That's about half of American homes.) Should they expect a fracking windfall of lower utility bills or increased consumption? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess "Not much." Why?
First, most of our home energy bill goes to electricity. The average electric bill is about three times higher than the average gas bill. Cheap natural gas is displacing coal in some regions. That coal was already relatively cheap, so instead of getting cheaper energy, we are mostly getting cleaner energy. Also, the price of natural gas doesn't affect the other costs that determine electricity rates—that is, the costs of building and operating the power plants and transmission lines. Utilities may invest some of the savings they may realize from fracking to update the embarrassingly obsolete—and sometimes dangerous—infrastructure. That might be a good thing.
How will fracking affect the price of natural gas paid by residential customers? That's not altogether clear. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) data shown in Figure 1 capture the price trends from 1980 into 2012. Prices have fallen in recent years, but only to 2004 levels. (They seemed high then!) Further price reductions are likely, though.
The EIA data also tell us that seasonal fluctuations in residential gas prices can be almost as large as the fracking dividend. It will take attentive consumers to tease out the actual cost reductions amid these fluctuations.
The last reason that fracking will depress natural-gas prices less than some had hoped is that new, large gas customers are lining up. Increased demand by power plants is already taking up some of the surplus. Industry is also retooling to find new uses for the gas, and some companies are moving their energy-intensive operations back to the United States. Remember those expensive facilities we built to import liquefied natural gas from elsewhere? Well, now the oil companies are repurposing the terminals to export American natural gas!
No doubt about it—low energy prices are bad for the energy efficiency business—so there's some sour grapes here. But that sour taste isn't likely to be that sour, or to last that long.
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The Sign of the Fours
During the month of January, my wife and I were attending parent-teacher conferences for one of our children. We walked into the building and went to sign in at the desk. There, my wife pointed out the odd date on the sign in form. Instead of reading, "1/15/13," as one might expect given that the month was January, it read, "4/15/13." Given the freezing temperatures outside, one might be forgiven for assuming that this represented some sort of wishful thinking. In fact, though, closer examination of the sign in sheet revealed that someone earlier in the day had written the date using a stylized number "1," such that it looked vaguely like a four. Everyone after that simply copied down the date as they saw it written, apparently without giving any thought to the fundamental lack of logic inherent in the situation. In other words, even though it was January, even though it was freezing cold and there was snow on the ground, even though we weren't even a month past New Year's Day, even though, in other words, all the data screamed "January," people were writing April for the date.
Now, if this phenomenon were limited to people signing into meetings, it would be quite unremarkable. Unfortunately, that's not the case. This sort of automatic pilot behavior happens all too often in businesses. In businesses, though, it's rarely quite so benign as writing down the wrong date on a form. Rather, it can involve misreading or misunderstanding critical instructions, with results that do not become obvious until much later in the product development cycle.
At one company, engineers assembling a set of medical tools would quickly glance at the notes left by the person who worked on the previous step, and then take the appropriate actions based on those notes. Alas, the "sign of the fours" played in quite frequently: when the notes were ambiguous, people would often interpret them in ways that made no logical sense given the nature of the product or the point in the development cycle.
At another company, a senior person gave a rather bizarre presentation to a client because he was quite convinced that was what he'd been told to do, even though logic would have suggested that just maybe he was misinterpreting his instructions. In a famous example from WWII, a young pilot mistook the humming of the general sitting next to him in the cabin as instructions to raise the landing gear, even though the plane was still racing along the runway. As a result, the plane crashed. Time after time, we've all seen people make apparently nonsensical decisions or take actions that appear to make no logical sense simply because they are reacting to the "sign of the fours"; we may even have done it ourselves from time to time.
So what is going on here?
In virtually every one of these situations, the common element is time. "So what?" you might ask. Time, after all, is a common element in every situation. The key, though, is in how we perceive time. When we perceive themselves as being rushed or short on time, we tend to make snap decisions based on whatever is in front of us. That number looks like a four? Okay, write down a four for the month even though it's January. The general gestured with his hand? Clearly he wants the landing gear up even though we're still on the ground.
Ironically, this perception of time is often an illusion. We talk all the time about "saving time," but no matter how much we save, it's never there when we want to make a withdrawal. Time is money until we actually try to get a refund. We all get sixty minutes to the hour, 24 hours to the day. Nothing we do can change that. The only real decisions we have are how we allocate that time and how much we can get done during the time available to us. Counter-intuitively, the more we try to schedule, cram, and pack our days, the less we actually do: we become more prone to distractions and mistakes. Athletes who feel rushed moved very fast, but lose more often. Athletes who have learned the trick of feeling like they have lots of time tend to win, even in such high speed sports as fencing.
The secret, therefore, is to structure our time so that we don't feel so rushed. It's not that we're changing the amount of time we have, merely how we perceive it. The master fencer perceives time in slow motion, and thus appears to always be in the right place at the right time. Since all of us have a tendency to underestimate how long projects will take, one trick is to change our perception of the deadline by creating a series of challenging, but realistic, deadlines that we can miss and still be ahead of the game. So long as we take our self-imposed deadlines reasonably seriously, we will get a great deal done, yet when we don't make them, we still feel in control and able to focus. It's when we feel events rushing down upon us that we become most vulnerable to the "sign of the fours."
Of course, this whole discussion does beg the question of how many of those people who wrote "4/15/13" instead of "1/15/13" then went rushing off to deal with their income taxes.