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Posted on 05/04/2012 5:35:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Previously, we advanced two possible hypotheses that might explain what is currently happening with the number of seasonally-adjusted initial unemployment insurance claim applications being filed in the U.S. each week:
In that post, we indicated that we might not know which hypothesis was correct until sometime this summer. But that was before the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its initial estimate of the number of new jobless benefit claim filings on Thursday, 26 April 2012. Now, it is very possible we might know the answer as early as this upcoming Thursday, 3 May 2012.
We've updated both charts showing our two hypotheses to incorporate the data as it stands as of the BLS' 26 April 2012 report. The first chart illustrates our first hypothesis:
In this chart, we would seem to be realizing our first hypothesis, in that the indicated trend, which we've identified as Trend I, is in the process of flatlining.
Now take a closer look. Focusing in on the data from 4 February 2012 through 31 March 2012, we see that the mean trend line for all data reported since 3 December 2011 has shifted in the past week so that all but one of these data points are below the line.
Following the well-established rules developed by Western Electric over half a century ago to determine whether or not an existing trend has broken down after having been in statistical equilibrium, which are visually depicted in the bell-curve image (it's not there for decoration!), we find that all it would take for us to declare this hypothesis to be false is for the most recent data, for the week ending 21 April 2012, to be revised upward by more that 2,000 claims, as the resulting change in the mean trend line will place the data for these nine consecutive weeks below it.
If the BLS keeps to its recent track record, it will definitely be revising the number of new jobless claims recorded for the week ending 21 April 2012 upward when it revises its data for that week this Thursday, 3 May 2012 - the only question is by how much.
Our second chart shows what the new trend would look like at this point in time:
This Thursday, our two hypotheses regarding the current trend in new jobless benefit claim filings will enter the theoretical Thunderdome, and very possibly, only one will leave. Stay tuned!
You know nothing about me, but I've seen your garbage on FR for way too long.
Of COURSE a snotty, know-nothing reprobate like Toddy would be one of your comrades-in-arms.
As for Willie Green - I remember him, but he was never one of my comrades. BTW - I consider you to be a FR Johnny-come-lately... **snicker**
The ones who forgot that this is a Constitutionalist site. That's why I've never been suspended.
You & Toddy - apparently you forget from time to time.
Basically, guys like rude don't want you to believe your own lying eyes:
COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
ABBOTT: Good "subject". Terrible "times". It's about 9%.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.
COSTELLO: You just said 9%.
ABBOTT: 9% Unemployed.
COSTELLO: Right 9% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 16% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that's 9%...
COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 9% or 16%?
ABBOTT: 9% are unemployed. 16% are out of work.
COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.
COSTELLO: But ... they are out of work!
ABBOTT: No, you miss my point.
COSTELLO: What point?
ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work, can't be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn't be fair.
COSTELLO: To who?
ABBOTT: The unemployed.
COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.
ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work...Those who are out of work stopped looking. They gave up. And, if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment roles, that would count as less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!
COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?
ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how you get to 9%. Otherwise it would be 16%. You don't want to read about 16% unemployment do ya?
COSTELLO: That would be frightening.
ABBOTT: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means they're two ways to bring down the unemployment number?
ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.
COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.
COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
ABBOTT: Bingo.
COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to just stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like an economist.
COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said!
There was a FReeper, long before your time, who would spam threads when they were losing an argument. (Not that we're having an argument, here—I simply posted some facts). Out of respect for the deceased, I will not mention her name. You, on the other hand, need some anti-menopausal medication.
BTW - the above wasn't spam, it was mockery. There were those who were good at it, before your time. :-)
Sorry, sweetheart. Unemployment compensation has nothing to do with the way the unemployment rate is calculated, despite whatever fiction you write. Fact.
Here's what we were talking about, meine kleine hübschling:
The unemployment rate depends heavily on the labor participation rate.
Here is an actual Fed economist on the subject (not some anonymous Interwebs sniper with an unknown agenda):
"Interpreting the Recent Decline in Labor Force Participation" - Willem Van Zandweghe (in the Economic Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. )
Published 1st quarter, 2012.
Your eyes flash beautifully when you're angry, rudey. But don't worry your pretty little head about it. You might catch on eventually if you think about it long enough.
I'll post the "summary" of my #13 again:
the government keeps track of the number of folks receiving UI. It results in the numbers reported as "initial claims" and "continuing claims." Those two numbers stand alone from the "unemployment rate" (U-3 or otherwise). The "labor force participation rate" (which is the primary method to massage the U-3 number) also has nothing to do with the number of folks receiving or not receiving UI. [emphasis added]Pay particular attention to the italicized portion. It is what set you off. It's odd that you think the subject is something different a day later.
How is it even possible to confuse unemployment compensation with the labor force participation rate? Who honestly believes that the following two statements are in conflict?
unemployment compensation has nothing to do with the unemployment rateWould it be easier if I tried to explain that I'm not eligible for UI (I'm not), but if I lost my job I would be counted as unemployed as long as I'm looking for another?
the unemployment rate depends heavily on the labor participation rate
It's not easy, but he works at it.
It's amusing watching that sweet little girl rude/Toddy talking to herself...
It's amusing watching your ignorance on display.
It's like your very own BMW motorcycle seat...
Well, let's see who you've harassed lately:
There seems to be a pattern here...
Wow, you talk dirty when people point out your ignorance.
The notion of the opinion of some electrons on "ignorance" is also quite amusing.
Do you ever wonder how many times he or she has been banned? I wonder if that's the reason for the sensitivity.
There's only so many ways I can point out that you are wrong. At the end of the day, you are still wrong.
The Vanishing Workers [The labor participation rate is back where it was in December 1981].Note how many times unemployment compensation is mentioned. Hint for the rest of you who cannot count: zero.
Clearly over 8 million people are unemployed and not collecting unemployment.
Of course if facts could kill that meme, this wouldn't be the 100th thread you've had to try to correct the error.
One of the funnier things about correcting the misperception is how people react.
1. They run away and sulk, orGood times.
2. parse the language and argue it means the opposite of what it means, or
3. call me a troll, or
4. claim they meant something else, or
5. exclaim that "Your craps not worth reading."
Theres only so many ways I can point out that you are wrong. At the end of the day, you are still wrong.
There's only so many ways I can point out that you're just a guy posting on the Internet. You've got a fanboi to cheer you from the cheap seats, which means doodley-squat.
I agree that you think you're right about something. **snicker**
Well, you've got that strawman about beat to pieces...
Now, because you no longer qualify for Federal unemployment benefits, if you don't have a job, you don't count.It is false, for the reasons I demonstrated. It's also where you parachuted in. So if it's a strawman, point it out to the guy who made it.
I neglected to mention, this is usually the point where the APB goes out on one of the anti-FReeper sites: "halp, I'm getting my ass kicked." And the clown parade begins.
That way, you're not gadding about the rest of the forum, abusing other Freepers over "how many of rude's or Toddy's strawmen can dance on the head of a pin".
BTW - I guess I'm not as familiar with "anti-FReeper sites" as you and undoubtedly Toddy seem to be, having never had a reason to frequent such sites.
I have beaten up on some few anti-FReepers here over the years. It was fun, and they were more skilled than you two Siamese inbreds. :-)
Not likely. You can't even remember what you write day-to-day. And instead of simply admitting that you were wrong, as I have countless times, you engage in insults and otherwise just pout about it. Some skill.
Check this out. Now we are "pinned down." LOLOL
Your puke pile is beginning to smell, not that anyone else is noticing... :-)
Me, I've got state monthly revenue reports to review. That's where the real economic action is at.
You can keep up the Abbott & Costello routine with the irrelevant, fictitious unemployment rate all you want to.
You've done nothing of the sort, you child. I've edited three articles, played computer games, gone to work, written a letter, checked baseball scores, and watched a movie. You are not that good.
Your posting history tells a different story:
Whole lot of little rudeboygirl not goin' on...
You're so apoplectic that someone would dare to diss you that this thread is all you're thinking about.
You won't be able to NOT reply to me on this thread for 48 hours. Me, I can take it or leave it.
BTW - is your fanboi Toddy busy with his homeys over at the Anti-Freepers?
If you post to me, or speak about be, then I'll post to this thread. And I don't know what linking to my posting history accomplishes. I've probably posted 700 threads and 50,000 comments.
Didn't even last five minutes....
I hope her reports are closer to reality than her performance here.
1. Defend the indefensible.The only thing I'm left wondering is how much time will he spend under the rock before he crawls out and does it again?
2. Then become indignant when challenged.
3. Then claim that you were talking about something else altogether.
4. Finally, pat yourself on the back for your sacrifice.
Hey, look! - some of us (that being me) have enough self-restraint to actually not reply to a thread for 48 hours or more:
You won't be able to NOT reply to me on this thread for 48 hours. Me, I can take it or leave it.
Others, who have less self control, can only last minutes (less than 5 minutes, to be exact).
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Back in August we wrote about the ridiculous situation with the National Music Publishers Association suing a bunch of lyrics sites for not paying up to help promote songs. This action helped push at least one of the sites, LyricWiki -- which was user generated lyrics -- to shut down (though, Wikia picked up the project and paid up to the NMPA). Now it appears that the NMPA has forced another one of these sites to shut down and hand over all of the money it made. Once again, be careful singing along to or quoting any lyrics. The songwriters and publishers want to get paid every time you do.
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Anonymous Coward, 6 Jan 2010 @ 9:19pmJesus christ, they really couldn't make people less interested in buying music if they fucking tried. Suing people left right and center, forcing lyrics sites offline, suing people who listen to the radio in public places. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that want to make music as illegal as heroine and crystal meth.
Anonymous Coward, 6 Jan 2010 @ 10:02pm
Well, downloading music does fuel the drug trade. -
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willard w. grimes, 31 Jan 2010 @ 2:41pm
i am not a musician or a singe but have penned lyrics to five songs and need talent to get them recorded and money coming my way, any suggestions -
edgebilliards (profile), 6 Jan 2010 @ 10:42pmit seems there's gotta be something i'm missing. there has to be some remotely sane reason that these companies snuff out possible "infringement" wherever it appears. is it to avoid setting some sort of precedent? are they worried there will be a swarm of infringers if they appear to have turned a blind eye? maybe they do it because it sets music rights at ridiculous values in the eyes of the court (see any decision on "public performance" infringement, alternately, music piracy lawsuits).
it's getting harder and harder to believe that some of these ludicrous cases are merely money-grabs. in a lot of them, the money is barely worth the effort. i understand that lyrics sites use derivative works by commercials means, but how is that damaging to anyone? -
Chris in Utah (profile), 7 Jan 2010 @ 12:18am
Just a thought but 1984 orwell comes to mind.
The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran
the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite
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Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2010 @ 12:22amThe article appears to indicate they went after Motive Force LLC and its owner Sean Colombo again which is the same guy that did lyricswiki. The article mentioned apps. I'm guessing the NMPA was not happy enough taking down just lyrics wiki, but now also want to go after any apps that used it. In this case my guess would be his LyricWiki Challenge game based on LyricWiki songs.
TFP, 7 Jan 2010 @ 12:42am
Eat the rich - it's the only way to be sure.We should probably start with Bono. -
Marcel de Jong (profile), 7 Jan 2010 @ 3:39am
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*sharpens his knives and forks*
*fires up the BBQ*
Do you want head or tails first? -
Stupidity, Squared
If they want us to quit creating lyric sites and apps, why don't they give us the !@!$@# lyrics in the first place? They should be included with digital downloads. They don't provide them, then stop any means of getting them. What is their rationale? I don't understand this at all. I think they're all high on something. -
Anonymous Coward, 7 Jan 2010 @ 9:25am
Re: Stupidity, Squared
Probably cocaine -
Griff (profile), 7 Jan 2010 @ 1:30am
Aren't the lyrics public domain information ?
If a song has been played on broadcast radio, with the listener not agreeing to any TOC's then surely the fact of what the lyrics are is then in the public domain.
If someone standing next to me hears the song and says "What did he just sing ?" am I in breach of the law to answer that question ? Or to charge for answering the question ? Or to hold up an advert while answering the question for free ?
What about if that conversation happens in an online forum ?
It's very short step from discussion forum to wiki site, surely.
We need judges with more backbone... -
cc, 7 Jan 2010 @ 2:45amAttacking lyrics sites is THE stupidest thing they can do. Say, I hear a song on tv or on the radio, what's the easiest way to find out what it is? Google some of the lyrics!
If there are no lyrics online, the song doesn't get found.
But, on the other hand, if it's a song that's not actively being promoted and doesn't have the backing of their huge wads of cash (to get it huge amounts of exposure), I may never hear it again. That's to their advantage, because I may otherwise go buy something that they are selling instead of what I want to hear. Would not be surprised if this is really their rationale. -
PaulT (profile), 7 Jan 2010 @ 6:00am
"If there are no lyrics online, the song doesn't get found."
Truer words have never been spoken. I've certainly found songs this way.
On the other hand, if lyrics are always available, sites like this wouldn't exist: http://www.kissthisguy.com/
"buy something that they are selling instead of what I want to hear"
Sadly, this is exactly how the music industry has been run for the last 30 years, and they've gotten relatively good at it. A shame they can't recognise that this is what's causing their revenues to fall... -
Anonymous Coward, 8 Jan 2010 @ 10:35amas an artist, i feel my blood boiling with news like this. the publishers are shooting songwriters in the foot. i make music so that others can experience it and take something from my art, this is sending the entirely wrong message to music fans.
2Sports, 9 Jan 2010 @ 3:41amI heard a song on the radio yesterday and Googled the lyrics to find out who it was. This took me to a lyrics web site and I was able to find out who it was and I later bought it on iTunes!!
I simply can't imagine the mentality of shutting these sites down, Lord know how much I'll have to pay if I decide to sing along to it in the car...


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By drew dixon
September 26, 2011
The nature of God remains a subject largely untouched by video games. Games like Assassin's Creed, Red Dead Redemption and Dragon Age: Origins ask significant questions about religion. Japanese games have a history of appealing to pantheons of mythical gods. From Dust asks the player to act as a tribal deity protecting your worshipers from natural disasters. Spiritual forces, mythical gods and religion are common subjects in games, but serious, thoughtful explorations of faith in a singular, omnipotent God are largely absent from the gaming industry. El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, a game based on the Dead Sea Scrolls' Book of Enoch, breaks new ground in this realm.
One of the first Christian game studios, Wisdom Tree, put out a number of games in the '90s, including Bible Adventures and Exodus. More recently, Left Behind Games, an overtly Christian game studio, released a game that gives players the task of converting or killing heathens in the tribulation. Neither of these studios, however, succeeded in presenting the player with a nuanced picture of God. The God of Bible Adventures is cheesy and potentially legalistic, and the God of the Left Behind games is borderline offensive. "El Shaddai" is Hebrew for "Almighty God," and true to its name, the game presents an appropriately mysterious God. While based on an Apocryphal text (the Book of Enoch was probably written sometime around 300 B.C. and is not considered Christian canon), El Shaddai is the most nuanced and thoughtful treatment of faith in God that I have seen in a video game.
The game centers on the Biblical figure Enoch, who is charged with the task of subduing the fallen angels who have been mating with humans and building the Tower of Babel as a testimony to their independence. If Enoch, the only human being never to die (God "took him" Gen. 5:24), fails to overcome the fallen angels mankind will be destroyed by a flood.
The Christian who approaches El Shaddai as if it were biblical theology will be continually frustrated. It's not based on Christian canon and even takes some modern liberties with its apocryphal subject matter. Enoch wears designer jeans and, in one stage, drives a motorcycle. Enoch's guide through the game is the angel Lucifel (if it's not obvious, think "Lucifer"), who also wears designer clothing and talks to God on a cell phone. In El Shaddai, Lucifel has not yet fallen and is one of heaven's most powerful angels. Some of the game's most interesting sequences involve Lucifel. He rewinds time to save Enoch, equips him with armor and speaks to God on his behalf. Christians should be slow to discredit the game based on these liberties for two reasons. First, the game was made by a multi-faith team and consequently we should not expect the game to mirror an orthodox understanding theology or faith. Secondly, due to its interactive nature, authorial intent in games is far more open than other mediums.
I spoke with Shane Bettenhausen, director of New Business Development at Ignition Games (developers of El Shaddai) about the game and he warned me that when playing El Shaddai, "it is a little hard to completely understand everything the game is trying to tell you and some of the storytelling is purposefully vague. There are some holes that were left in there that the director actually wanted the player to fill in with his own ideas." El Shaddai's plot is confusing at times and other times outright baffling. This appears to have been intentional on the part of the developers and the result is a refreshing treatment of God and faith.
Much of the critical discussion about El Shaddai has centered on its art style. The game's lead designer, Sawaki Takeyasu (art director for Okami and the Devil May Cry Series) has created a fascinating world. Everything around Enoch is constantly moving and changing. The game has chosen an otherworldly setting and the art succeeds in conveying to the player a sense of foreignness and wonder. When you first approach the Tower of Babel, it's hidden in a shroud. As you get closer, its extravagance is further and further revealed. Another portion of the game has Enoch descending into Hell which is depicted in an appropriately dark, foreboding and deceptive fashion. The environs of the game morph both to deceive and amaze. It's an appropriate setting for a tale about fallen angels, God and the heavenly realm.
The game itself is a combination of hack-and-slash fighting, 3D exploration and 2D platforming. But the mechanics of each of these tasks are complimented with heavenly elements. When Enoch falls off a platform, you hear the sound of someone snapping their fingers, referring to Lucifel rewinding time to save Enoch. When Enoch falls in battle, he is revived by the archangels and given new armor. Each time he is brought back to life, he remarks, "No problem, everything's fine" as if he expressing determination to complete the holy task that lay before him.
El Shaddai takes some liberties in its treatment of God, Lucifel and the archangels. However, it is some of these very liberties that allow the game to shine in its treatment of God and faith. Take for instance Lucifel's conversations with God on his cell phone. Enoch is never privy to what God is saying, in each instance Enoch only hears Lucifel's side of the conversation. What is God saying about Enoch? What is God going to do? Is God going to help Enoch or is He testing him? When driving a motorcycle, control of Enoch is taken away from the player numerous times as he miraculously evades certain death. Is this the hand of God orchestrating Enoch's fate? At one point when a battle seems to be going poorly for Enoch, a beam of light pours down from the heavens and consumes his enemy. Upon witnessing this event, Enoch shudders and asks, "Was that the power of the Lord?"
Observing Enoch attempt to discern the hand of God is not far from reality. Most players who complete the game will certainly find themselves with more questions than answers. Is that not true of the Christian's walk with God? While far from strictly biblical, El Shaddai's treatment of God is appropriately complicated and mysterious. Enoch's faith, despite these complexities, perseveres. Much like life, exactly how God's hand was at work in guiding Enoch through his quest remains a mystery. While far from perfect, it's refreshing to play a game that treats the nature of God with the nuance and complexity that the subject deserves.
In addition to helping pastor a church plant in Alabama, Drew Dixon is an editor at Christ and Pop Culture. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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I don't think GTA is a good example--I explicitly stated that what I found interesting about El Shaddai was its exploration of a singular, omnipotent deity. I am unsure as to how GTA does that.
I suppose you could sense God in some of those games in which case, El Shaddai's overtness is what distinguishes it but that is a significant distinction in my opinion. Games have been purposely less than overt with regard to dealing with such a deity up to this point. I appreciate El Shaddai for taking some risks in that regard.
Do you think the games where you play a deity are more or less challenging theologically than games where you play a mortal interacting with a deity? I found Black and White rather tiresome -- I could be a good deity (using carrots) or a bad deity (using the stick) or somewhere in-between. But I didn't find the game terribly interesting.
Games where your moral choices affect the way other characters respond to you I found more interesting, but, I confess, I haven't played a game where you obviously interact with a deity (apart from the game designers!). So this game sounds interesting.
I probably need to play some of the "god" games more to have a strong opinion about them but generally when I have played those games, you were so limited in what you could do as a "god" that I never really found them all that compelling I guess.
I agree with you on being interested by games that present you with moral choices to make. However, interestingly enough El Shaddai is almost completely linear and yet I thought it handled its subject matter quite brilliantly.
Not sure how this qualifies as "creepy," any more than dismembered fallen bodies in COD would qualify as creepy. That's what makes gaming cool...it's individual.


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Four Doña Ana County buildings were re-opened at 11:10 a.m. after being evacuated since mid-morning due to bomb threats.
After interviewing four finalists for the position of county manager today, the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners unanimously chose Brian D. Haines to assume the helm of county government.
Several county commissioners, working with a local employment advocacy group, have received three computers to help jobseekers search area employment listings.
The Doña Ana County/Las Cruces Office of Emergency Management has announced the distribution of a community-wide survey aimed at measuring the public's knowledge of emergency response capabilities in the area.
An independent evaluation committee has forwarded five names from the 158 applicants for the position of Doña Ana County Manager.
Applicants are being sought for a vacant seat on the Doña Ana County Planning and Zoning Commission, a seven-member board of volunteers whose members review land-use and development matters at twice-monthly public hearings.
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True Story, Anal, Female / Girl, Female solo, First Time, Fisting, Scatology, School, Teen Female Solo, Water Sports/Pissing, Written by women
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Posted Thu 16th of June 2011
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?Devil take this traffic!? growled Nathan Garrett as he stared at the rain-blurred brake lights of the SUV sitting just two feet in front of the front bumper of his green ?95 Oldsmobile. ?What?s the goddamn hold-up??
?Probably an accident,? said his sixteen-year-old daughter Megan, who was sitting next to him in the passenger seat. Slim and pretty, she was the apple of her father?s eye, particularly since her mother had passed away eighteen months ago. Her dark brown hair tumbled down to her shoulder-blades, and her winning smile and bubbly personality made her one of the most popular girls in her school. This evening she and her father were returning home from the state cheerleading competition, where she had, along with her team-mates, placed twentieth out of thirty-two high schools. This was partly due to her own error ? a stumble that had thrown several of the girls off their rhythm. She was feeling miserable about this, of course, and she knew she would be cold-shouldered at school for at least a week by girls she normally considered friends.
Right now, however, something else was beginning to press on her mind. ?Dad, can we pull off at the next exit and find a restroom somewhere?? she said. ?I really need to go.?
?You?re kidding, right?? said Nathan. ?The chances of us reaching an exit in the next hour are slim to none, I would say.?
Megan sighed and shifted uncomfortably in her seat. She was really getting quite desperate ? she was not sure she could hold out for an hour. ?Perhaps the radio will have some traffic news?? she suggested.
?Good idea,? agreed Nathan, and he tuned the radio in to the traffic report. Upon learning of a pile-up four miles ahead, he cursed in disgust. ?We could be stuck here a while,? he said grimly.
Megan squirmed. ?Dad, I really need to go!? she said urgently.
Nathan watched the rain bouncing off the hood of the car. ?You want to go out and squat by the side of the road?? he suggested.
Megan looked out at the miniature river flowing by at the edge of the road. ?You?re kidding! I?m not going out in that! And I certainly wouldn?t ?squat? in view of all these cars.?
Nathan?s eyes lit upon a bottle of water that he had brought for the journey. He lifted it to his lips and drained the last of it. ?Here,? he said, handing it to her. ?Can you manage to pee in that??
Megan stared at it. ?No!? she said. ?For one thing, I?m not a boy and can?t aim that well.? Then she shrugged and turned away in embarrassment. ?And for another, I don?t need to pee.?
Nathan was startled. ?Oh!? he said. ?Well for heaven?s sake, if it?s a number two, I?m sure you can hold out until we get home.?
?But that could be hours!? said Megan. ?And I don?t think I can!?
Nevertheless, she tried. But as the next half-hour wore on, and they moved less than a car-length, her desperation increased until she was clutching at her abdomen in pain. ?Dad!? she gasped. ?I?ve got to go!?
?I?m sorry, there?s nothing I can do about our situation,? snapped Nathan, who had been getting more and more irritable as the time passed. ?You?ll just have to wait, unless you want to go out in the pouring rain and take a dump on the shoulder. Why so desperate, anyway? You used to be able to hold on for a week or something.?
Megan bit her lip. For as long as she could remember it had been her habit to wait as long as possible before emptying her bowels ? her doctor had called her a ?classic anal retentive?, which was to say that she was a neat freak, pedantic about the damnedest things, almost obsessive about things being exactly where they should be ? and with a tendency to avoid defecating until she could wait no longer. Her parents had thought that she was cured of this ? they had taken her to a specialist after one-too-many accidents in grade school ? but she had merely become more skilled in washing her soiled panties on the sly.
Nathan found Megan?s silence ominous. ?Just how long has it been?? he asked with a frown.
?Um ? a while,? confessed Megan. She writhed in her seat, clenching her anus tightly shut against the enormous pressure threatening to force it open from within.
?How long is a while?? Nathan inquired.
?A ? week,? said Megan, grimacing in pain as a new pain began to build inside her bottom. ?Or so??
?A week or so?? echoed her father. ?Megan, I thought we?d fixed that habit of yours!?
Megan gasped in pain ? she could bear it no longer. ?Oh Dad, I can?t hold it!? she exclaimed. It hurt too much to keep clenching, so she eased off a bit, and straight away the rounded tip of a thick, hard poo began to poke its way out of her anus.
?Well try!? said Nathan desperately.
?It?s no good,? moaned Megan as her anus slowly dilated around the emerging turd. At least it wouldn?t get very far ? her bottom was pressed against the car seat and that, at least, would prevent the accident from being too severe, even if it did not prevent her cheerleading panties from getting messy.
?What ? you mean you?re ? having an accident?? asked Nathan in disbelief.
Megan buried her face in her hands. ?I?m sorry, I can?t keep it in,? she said, and she began to cry as her poo met the resistance of the seat and halted, having come out barely an inch. Immediately the pressure began to build again, and Megan realized she would have to let some more out, or the pain would continue to grow. She raised herself up off the seat a couple of inches, and her poo started moving again, creeping out of her rectum and slowly pushing out the fabric of her panties.
?Well you can?t just sit there and let it happen!? exclaimed Nathan. ?You?ll mess the seat! Find something to put under you, at least!? He reached forward and turned the fan up to full blast, hoping that this would help to keep the smell to a minimum. He did not dare open a window ? the rain was pouring down harder than ever.
Megan turned and looked in the back seat, but saw nothing that she could put underneath her bottom. Sighing, she eased herself down on to her left buttock so that she could lift her left hand off the seat. She unbuckled her seatbelt and carefully took off her jacket, while her poo continued to slide out of her anus into her white cheerleading panties. If they had been regular panties, she might already have marked the car seat, but these were of a denser material, with a wide gusset, a thick lining, and rather more coverage at the front and back than her normal panties.
She lifted herself further off the seat and slid her jacket underneath her, spreading it out over the entire seat area. Thank goodness it was washable! Then she sat down ? or tried to. But six or seven inches of her poo was now tenting her panties away from her buttocks, and if she sat down the poo would squish and make an even worse mess. So she planted her hands either side of her bottom and held herself a few inches above the seat, though she quickly realized she could not maintain this position for very long.
Nathan was shaking his head. ?I can?t believe you?re messing yourself,? he said angrily. ?At your age!?
Megan?s lip trembled. ?I?m sorry Daddy,? she said, and then the whole misery of her failure at the competition, her teammates? accusing stares, and now this new humiliation of crapping herself in front of her dad, and his anger at her, all ran together in her mind and she burst into tears.
Nathan sighed in exasperation. Then he looked over at the bowed head and shaking shoulders of his lovely daughter, and he felt guilty for adding to her woes. ?Don?t cry,? he said awkwardly. ?I?m sorry I yelled. I know you?ve had a bad day and I shouldn?t be making it worse for you.?
?I?m ? s?sorry I?m having an accident,? said Megan through her sobs. Her poo was now bending in the middle, arching backwards while it continued to emerge at a slow but steady rate. This meant that the turd was now the shape of an upside-down question mark, but the more it folded, the more compressed it became, and when it began to fold sideways as well its shape became less defined ? a firm, lumpy bulge that slowly stretched her panties further and further down towards the seat.
Nathan reached out and patted her shoulder. ?There, there,? he said. ?Don?t worry about the accident. I?m not really angry with you, I?m just ? surprised, that?s all.? Then, as she continued to sob, he said softly, ?There, there ? just let it all out.?
He was talking about her tears, but Megan, still feeling considerable pain in her bowels, thought he was giving her permission to empty her bowels completely. ?Thanks Dad,? she said with a weak smile. ?I think it will help.? Then she held her breath and gently pushed, speeding the expulsion of her poo.
Her arms were tired, though, and she was reluctantly coming to the conclusion that she would have to squish the poo in order to make a little room in her panties. So she gingerly settled herself down, and grimaced as she felt the hot stickiness of her poo ooze up her butt crack and forwards along her gusset. Then, still feeling very full, she raised herself up and drew her legs up on to the seat, settling into a kneeling position so that she was sitting on her feet, with her heels well apart to allow plenty of room for her panties to bulge out between.
All this maneuvering had caused her to clench her anus shut, pinching off the poo, but now she resumed pushing, and her anus opened once again to allow her compacted turd to slide out into her panties. This section was very knobbly and hard, and felt rather painful as it bumped its way through her anal sphincter. It met the mass of poo already in her panties and was diverted forward, bending a little as it headed for her gusset. After eight or nine inches had emerged, Megan pinched it off and took a breather.
Her father had tucked his nose inside his shirt in order to avoid the worst of the smell. ?Looks like the traffic?s beginning to move again,? he remarked in a muffled voice. ?You?d better get your seatbelt back on.?
?Oh shit,? muttered Megan. Then she blushed at her language. ?Sorry Dad.? She pulled her seatbelt around in front of her and clicked it into place, while still kneeling on the seat. She started pushing again, and more of the knobbly hard section began to slither out. Then it halted as a particularly wide lump reached the end of Megan?s rectum and nestled against the inside of her anus. Grunting with effort, she bore down hard, and slowly the lump began to stretch her sphincter out to a diameter of two inches ? two and a half ? three inches? Her eyes watering, Megan gave a huge effort and pushed extra hard. The giant lump slipped through, followed by several inches of softer poo, and Megan panted in relief.
Nathan turned up the wipers and began to crawl forward, following the SUV. He glanced across and noted Megan?s red face. ?See this is what happens when you hold it in for a week,? he scolded her gently. ?Why on earth can?t you go every day, or at least every other day, like other people do??
A rope of smooth, semi-soft poo was now sliding easily out of Megan?s anus, to her relief. ?I know, I know,? she said. ?I just ? I don?t even like to think about taking a dump, so I generally don?t until I can?t put it off any longer.?
As she continued to fill her panties with softer poo, the front end of the nine-inch lumpy turd had become anchored in the middle of her gusset. Its upper end was now being pushed slowly forward by the growing mass of soft poo, which was hitting the largest lump and spreading out every which way from there. When the flow of soft poo stopped, the upper end of the knobbly section was positioned at the opening of Megan?s vagina.
Megan carefully unfolded her legs from beneath her ? it was time she sat down again to make more room. As she gently lowered herself down, however, her father braked suddenly as the SUV slammed on its own brakes, and Megan found herself sitting down rather harder than she intended. As her bottom hit the seat, she gasped in shock ? something had just slid right up into her vagina!
Feeling rather sick, she realized that it must have been part of her poo. She lifted herself quickly off the seat, but unfortunately the poo did not slide back out ? it was firmly lodged inside her now. Reaching between her legs, she screwed up her face in distaste as she felt her lumpy, squishy gusset. As she pressed against one lump, however, she felt something pressing deep inside her cunt. She shuddered ? only about half an inch of the poo was protruding from her vagina ? there was no way she could get it out without removing her panties.
?Are you okay?? asked Nathan. ?Something wrong? Apart from the obvious, I mean.?
?No ? no, I?m fine,? said Megan, blushing furiously. There was no way she could admit to her father what had just happened.
The rest of the poo had pancaked around her buttocks, with only that one large lump remaining pretty much its original shape. Some of the softer poo had crept forward along her gusset as far as her clitoris ? she could feel it oozing between her labia, which was totally gross.
There was more to come, however, so she tucked her feet back under her and got herself into a kneeling position again. Then she relaxed her anus, and gently pushed once more. After a brief rush of soft poo, she felt the consistency change again ? now there were some moderate-sized, but fairly smooth, ball-shaped lumps squeezing their way through her anus. One of them was larger than the others, and she grunted a bit with the effort of popping that one out.
?You?re still pooping?? asked her father, hearing the grunt. ?Haven?t you, I don?t know, relieved enough pressure yet??
?You said I could let it all out!? said Megan.
Nathan?s brow furrowed, then the light dawned. ?I meant you should let yourself cry!? he said. ?I didn?t mean you should let all your poop out!?
?Oh!? said Megan, turning white. She clenched her anus to stop further expulsions. ?I thought ? oh no!?
Nathan sighed, and then shrugged. ?Don?t worry about it,? he muttered.
?Oh but I was in such pain!? said Megan. ?It feels so good to get rid of it. I promise I?ll try to be better in future about going more regularly.?
?Damn right you will!? said Nathan. ?Well I guess you might as well finish what you?ve started, if it will help you feel better.?
?Thanks Dad,? said Megan gratefully. ?These panties seem to be able to hold quite a lot.?
Nathan?s hair stood on end. ?No details, please!? he exclaimed. ?I don?t want to hear it.?
Megan smiled despite herself, then her face took on a look of concentration as she resumed pushing. The poo that was now emerging was firm, smooth, and not too wide, and feeling it slide through her anus was almost pleasurable. She felt it curling around beneath her buttocks, adding a lumpy layer to the already thick pad of poo that was filling the back of her panties.
She pinched it off and slid her feet out from beneath her so that she could sit down again. This time, as she settled herself gently down, she could feel poo oozing all the way up to her waistband, not to mention further forward along her gusset until her entire pussy was cradled in the warm mess. As she shifted her position, she felt a little tingle in her loins as the ridge of poo between her labia stroked over her clitoral hood. This was rather nice, so she did it again, and smiled with secret pleasure as she was rewarded with another tingle.
As subtly as she could, she gyrated her pelvis, grinding her pussy into the poo in her panties. This had two effects: first, her clitoral hood was dragged back so that her clitoris was exposed and caressed by the ridge of poo, and second, the poo in her vagina was pushed inwards a little, which caused it to slide over her g-spot.
A little moan escaped Megan?s lips, and she hastily turned it into a throat-clearing. Her father glanced across at her, but he did not look suspicious. Forcing herself not to make a noise, Megan began to grind her pussy into the poo with a steady rhythm, so that the poo in her cunt slowly eased in and out, gently fucking her while the ridge of poo along the middle of her gusset lavished delightful attention on her clitoris.
Her cheeks flushed red as she felt herself approaching orgasm. She closed her eyes and ever-so-slightly increased the pace of her gyration. Soon she was unable to prevent her breath from coming in gasps.
?Megan, what are you doing?? asked her father suddenly.
On the brink of orgasm, Megan was shocked back to reality and her eyes snapped open. ?Nothing!? she said quickly.
Her father said nothing, but frowned and faced forward again. The traffic was beginning to move a little more steadily now ? he judged that they might be home within the hour if all went well. He only hoped that the rain would stop, so that he could open a window and let some of the smell out.
Megan was desperate to climax, but she did not dare to try the same thing again. Instead she let her anus open up again, lifted her bottom off the seat, and pushed hard, so that a long, smooth sausage of poo quickly extruded from her rectum and curled up against her buttocks. This was followed by a rush of semi-soft poo which billowed out from her anus and filled every available nook and cranny, smoothing out the bulge in her panties and surging forward along her gusset to fill out the front of her panties. As it flowed over her clitoris, Megan felt like she was being continuously licked by an immensely long tongue. Her nipples hardened in her bra and the flush came back into her cheeks, but she forced herself to breathe normally.
She continued to push until the front of her panties were bulging so much that a little hill had formed in her lap, over which was draped her short cheerleading skirt. If her father saw that ? well, it did not really matter, since he knew she was messing herself anyway.
She reached beneath her bottom with one hand, and cupped the bulge in the back of her panties. It was worse than she thought, hanging down several inches beneath her buttocks. If she sat down now, her poo would splurge out of the legbands of her panties and all over her jacket. Instead she tucked her feet back under her, and knelt with her heels right at the outer edges of her buttocks, supporting little more than her hips.
In this position she let out some more poo ? a series of soft, squishy lumps that merged with what was already in her panties and merely served to make the sagging bulge a little more huge. Still feeling extremely horny, she reached between her legs, under her skirt, and felt around for the tip of the poo in her vagina. It was buried now beneath a mass of soft poo, but she sank her fingers into the nylon-veiled squishy mass until her probing fingers found the hard, round end of the knobbly turd. Pushing it inwards, she quivered with pleasure as she felt it slide deeper inside her, then she let it go so that it slid out a little, then she pushed it back in. After just a couple of minutes of fucking herself like this, she was almost at her climax.
But then, ?Stop playing with it!? said her father. ?For heaven?s sake, what are you doing??
Frustrated once again, Megan sighed and withdrew her hand. ?I was just making sure my panties aren?t leaking,? she said.
?Oh,? said Nathan. ?And are they??
?No, they appear to be holding it all,? said Megan.
?Good,? said her father.
Megan scowled resentfully for much of the rest of the way home. The rain had slackened off over the past few minutes, and as Nathan pulled into their driveway, there was only a light drizzle speckling the windscreen. He stopped the car, switched off, and climbed out. On the other side, Megan opened her door and very carefully stepped out. Her skirt was splaying out oddly on account of her massively bulging panties, and when she felt behind her she realized with a sense of fascination that the bulge was actually sagging below her hemline. She waddled slowly indoors, anxious not to spill any poo, but as she walked she could feel her panties beginning to slip downwards. Stopping in the hall, she reached back with both hands and held her splayed fingers underneath the enormous bulge.
Her father turned to face her. ?I?m sorry if I was a little hard on you in the car,? he said to her. ?This must have been an awful experience for you. I should have been more sympathetic.?
?That?s all right Dad,? she told him with a smile. ?It was my own fault for holding it in so long.?
?Well,? he said, a little awkwardly, ?I just want you to know ? you?re still my princess.?
She threw her arms around him happily, and he held her close for a full minute before drawing back. ?Now,? he said, ?you?d better go and take a shower.?
Megan nodded, and she proceeded to climb the stairs slowly, cradling her bulging panties in her hands as she went. Upstairs in the bathroom, she stripped off everything but her panties, then she switched the shower on and climbed in when it reached her desired temperature. Finally alone with her poo, she plunged her hand into the front of her panties, her fingers sinking deep into her mushy poo, and she masturbated furiously until her entire body was shuddering in the most intense orgasm she had had for a long time.
Lumps of poo were falling from her panties as she gradually came off her pleasure high, and somewhat reluctantly she pulled them down to her ankles and stepped out of them. Washing all the poo from her bottom and pussy, she stepped on all the lumps with her bare toes and mashed them into a liquidy mess, which she then swept towards the plughole.
It was not until she was nearly clean that she remembered the poo still in her vagina. She was about to take it out, when a delightfully wicked thought occurred to her: why not leave it in?
She finished washing herself, then she climbed out and dried herself very carefully, using toilet tissue to mop up the brown water which kept trickling down her inner thighs. Eventually this trickle stopped, and, wrapping herself in a towel, she brushed her teeth and dried her hair. Then she went back to her room, dropped the towel, and pulled out a fresh pair of panties. These were white silk, much prettier and skimpier than her cheer panties, and she put them on with a contented smile. Climbing into bed, she switched off her bedside light, turned on to her side in a semi-foetal position, and snuggled up to her favourite teddy bear, which she had had since she was six years old.
She could feel her knobbly poo still buried inside her vagina, and it felt heavenly. As she gradually drifted toward sleep, it vaguely occurred to her that her bowels were not quite empty yet. Smiling to herself with her eyes closed, she relaxed her anus and pushed. A soft poo, about an inch and a half in diameter, started snaking its way out of her rectum and into the back of her panties, and she sighed with pleasure at the sensation. Not firm enough to hold its shape very well, it curled up and squished together slightly into a soft, lumpy mass which, once fully expelled, slid partially down over one buttock. This did not feel very comfortable, so she reached back and pressed it between her buttocks again, and a little into her pussy. Then, sensing that there was perhaps a little more yet, she pushed as hard as she could. Sure enough another poo, slightly firmer and thicker, began to emerge. Megan pushed it out with steady pressure, using her hand to guide it along her gusset as it inched further and further forward. By the time it broke off, its tip was pressing nicely against her clitoris.
One last, long push filled the back of Megan?s panties with a shapeless mass of very soft poo, and, lying thus with her buttocks and pussy cradled in a delightful warm soft sticky embrace, she finally drifted off to sleep.
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Anonymous reader
2015-08-30 11:22:18
Such a hot story. Jerked off several times
anonymous reader
2012-07-14 03:32:45
This story has helped me cum so many times... Thanks to whoever wrote it :)
anonymous reader
2011-07-16 06:03:41
i would love more of these stories whether its from bj44 or Aruther Saxon. these stories are hot ♥♥♥
2011-06-19 08:23:16
ok.............ok........sorry......the both stories posted y me were written by Arthur Saxon..........i will soon edit the stories and add you name as an Aurthur.......and even i loved your work.........
Arthur Saxon
2011-06-18 16:14:13
As previously stated (thank you!) this is my story "Accident on the Interstate", which was written back in 2004 when this person "bj44" was (allegedly) 11 years old. I have reported the issue - I don't mind people re-posting my work ... as long as they credit me appropriately!
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By Dasha Afanasieva
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A senior member of Syria's opposition coalition said on Friday opponents of President Bashar al-Assad had smuggled samples from victims of an alleged chemical weapons attack out of Syria for testing by experts.
"We took them and sent them outside Syria," Syrian National Coalition Secretary General Badr Jamous told Reuters in Istanbul, but declined to say where the samples had been sent.
President Bashar al-Assad is under increasing international pressure to allow U.N. inspectors access to the rebel-held site of Wednesday's reported mass poisoning, which if confirmed would be the world's deadliest chemical attack in decades.
The opposition coalition said it would ensure the safety of U.N. chemical weapons inspectors in areas of Syria it controls.
"We will ensure the safety of the U.N. team ... It is critical that those inspectors get there within 48 hours," coalition spokesman Khaled Saleh told a news conference.
Saleh's comments were an apparent rebuttal of suggestions from Moscow earlier that the opposition was preventing an objective investigation into allegations that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack.
"Much needed signals from the opposition, including its readiness to guarantee the safety and effective work of U.N. experts on territory controlled by militants, unfortunately are not forthcoming," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"It is directly preventing an objective investigation into the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria."
Syrian activists have said they are trying to get body tissue samples from victims of the attack near Damascus to the team of U.N. inspectors staying in a hotel a few miles away.
The U.N. experts have been in Syria since Sunday to investigate three previous alleged chemical attacks in the country dating from months ago.
In what it said was a preliminary report into Wednesday's attack based on multiple sources, including a source within Assad's forces and testimony from opposition activists, the opposition coalition said 16 missiles were launched in an initial assault shortly after 2:30 a.m. (2330 GMT).
Local residents reported missiles falling in the Zamalka neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of the capital, far from the front lines, and hundreds of people died in their homes as exposure to the gas spread, the report said, noting that not all of the missiles were carrying chemical warheads.
It said a second district came under missile attack around ten minutes later and that shortly after 4:00 a.m. another 18 missiles were launched towards a southern suburb. Citing activists, it said four of the missiles to hit that neighborhood were loaded with chemical weapons.
"Medical reports show the victims exhibited symptoms consistent with exposure to sarin gas," the report said.
"However, we cannot definitively ascertain the exact nature of the materials and the deployment method used to target civilians in the Damascus suburbs," it said, and urged an immediate visit by the U.N. inspectors.
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Seth MacFarlane does not plan to address the recent Barack Obama birther controversy on upcoming episodes of his hit Fox comedies.
"I think the birth certificate issue is something that will pretty quickly go away and people will find a new ridiculous thing to get all wound up about," he says.
MacFarlane, the creator of "Family Guy," "The Cleveland Show" and "American Dad" is famous for poking fun at pop culture and current events.
"I wouldn't waste a whole half hour on TV about something that no one will be talking about a year from now," he says.
The 35 year-old media mogul has enough on his plate these days: in addition to directing his first live action movie ("Ted," due next year), he is preparing for this weekend's first-ever three show crossover event.
"The concept of the trilogy dates back, I suppose, to the theme nights of the 1980s where you would have three or four sitcoms in a row and there would be a theme that was kind of interwoven into each one," he told reporters in a conference call Wednesday.
In the episodes airing Sunday, a hurricane sweeps through the towns of Stoolbend, Quahog and Langley Falls, bringing many of the characters together on screen for the first time.
"There were talks initially about doing a crossover with all the characters with all the shows – which does play a part in this," MacFarlane says. "But it became a little bit of a conundrum because you have three different staffs, each of whom is writing three separate sets of characters and there is no way to blend them all together without affecting the other episodes. So it was a little bit of a challenge.
"But this idea of an outside force that kind of sweeps its way through all three shows, linking them together, seemed like kind of a cool way to accomplish that."
A risk? Perhaps – but that's just fine with MacFarlane.
"If it is something that could potentially ruin the show forever, then it is something we should try," he says. "At the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen? Better to go out taking some risks than to rest on your laurels and fall into some lazy pattern."


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Jessica Simpson, the candle holder?
Jessica Simpson has to be drunk, right? What other explanation could there be? She posted this video of herself on her Twitter, and it's very odd. She's seen placing a burning candle in her ear. WTF? Exactly what I was thinking.
Ken Paves' voice is annoying!
UPDATE: After the commenter below pointed it out – I looked it up and this process is called "Candling". Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermal-auricular therapy, is an alternative medicine practice claimed to improve general health and well-being by lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal. According to medical researchers, it is both dangerous and ineffective. Claims that the practice removes earwax have been disproved. The claim by one manufacturer that ear candles originated with the Hopi tribe has also been disproven.
I never knew such a thing existed! (Doesn't make the video any less strange, though!)


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There's five PS4 games in total, thanks to cross-buy.
There's five PS4 games in total, thanks to cross-buy.
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I wonder if it made all that money back?
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Don't vote on your favorite.
Deja vu: DmC Devil May Cry misses the cut.
Psychonauts and Shank 2 for $2.50 each? Count me in!
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COLUMBUS, Ohio The discovery of genetic differences affecting up to a third of the population could take the guesswork out of prescribing the correct dose of 25 percent of drugs currently on the market, researchers say.
The scientists found two genetic variants that alter the activity level of an enzyme responsible for processing, or metabolizing, drugs ranging from the painkiller codeine to the breast cancer drug tamoxifen.
The Ohio State University researchers who found these differences say that pending additional research, the variants are good candidates for inclusion in an existing biomarker test that guides drug dosing.
The current test is designed to determine the enzyme's activity level, or expression, to predict whether a patient will fall into one of four categories: poor, intermediate, extensive or ultra-rapid metabolizer. Metabolism speed affects how much medicine a patient needs.
But there are limits to the existing test: The current biomarker panel is based on variants that have been associated with how patients respond to different doses of drugs.
The researchers who found these previously unidentified variants, however, have determined the specific effects that the variants have on drug metabolism. One reduces the enzyme's activity twofold by turning off a function of its gene, and the other is located in an enhancer region of the gene, meaning it increases the enzyme's expression between two- and fourfold.
"If you don't consider these two variants, the current biomarker panel can cause incorrect dosing," said senior author Wolfgang Sadee, professor and chair of pharmacology and director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics at Ohio State. "The better the test, the more value it has. Adding these variants to the panel would make the test more predictive and robust with respect to application in the clinic."
Ohio State has applied for a patent on the addition of these variants to a clinical biomarker test.
The research is published online in the journal Human Molecular Genetics.
The study included a clinical trial of 164 children, about one-third of whom were African American. The results show that these two variants are common in both Caucasians and African Americans, and confirmed that the variants influence how patients metabolize the cough suppressant dextromethorphan.
Being able to apply this testing to more than one ethnic group is significant, Sadee said, because most current dosing decisions are made based on genetic findings in only whites.
The findings suggested that about one-third of people would be expected to have lower enzyme activity, and therefore slower, or intermediate, drug metabolism not so low that they are poor metabolizers. Another 6 percent would have higher enzyme activity and be categorized as ultra-rapid metabolizers. Only by testing for these variants would clinicians know for sure.
The variants were found by lead author Danxin Wang, a research scientist and adjunct associate professor in pharmacology at Ohio State. They are called single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs (pronounced "snips").
Each gene contains two alternative forms called alleles that are functionally identical in most people. However, in some cases, the activity level, or expression, of an allele can differ from its partner allele in a single gene. That difference the genetic variant, or SNP affects the function of the protein or enzyme produced by that gene.
Wang used liver tissue samples from Caucasians to conduct the analyses that identified where these two functional variants are located on the CYP2D6 gene. The clinical trial testing these variants' effects against dextromethorphan is just the beginning the researchers hope to expand these trials with multiple drugs and eventually enter clinical biomarker tests.
"The current panel can determine whether an individual is a poor or ultra-rapid metabolizer. The SNPs we found will more precisely predict whether an individual is in the ultra-rapid or intermediate metabolic range," Wang said. "The poor metabolizers are well-defined by the current panel with variants with no enzyme activity at all."
A poor metabolizer is likely to experience high toxicity from medications processed by this enzyme, or get minimal or no benefit at all if a drug such as codeine needs to be activated by it. Ultra-rapid metabolizers, on the other hand, may not benefit from drugs processed by the enzyme or suffer adverse reactions from drugs that need it for activation. Metabolizer status has pronounced effects on treatment outcomes and cost of therapy.
"If you could give a drug and get an immediate response, then that in itself would be a marker for the drug's effect. But there is no immediate response for many drugs," Sadee said. "Having a pharmacogenomics marker test that's viable and useful could predict when caution is needed in prescribing drugs."
In the case of antidepressants or antipsychotics, for example, with delayed clinical effect, an ultra-rapid metabolizer would have to take the drug for weeks before finding out that a drug isn't having any effect, while a poor metabolizer is likely to have toxic side effects. And with codeine, which is converted into morphine in the body, an ultra-rapid metabolizer could inadvertently overdose on morphine by taking too much codeine.
The Ohio State pharmacogenomics group is among the few in the world pursuing hard-to-find genetic variants that significantly alter biological functions. For the past 30 years, scientists studying genetic variants have focused on genetic variants that change enzyme function by altering the encoded amino acid sequence.
Sadee's lab, however, focuses on variants that are harder to detect and analyze because they have no direct role in determining the protein sequence; they exist in deeper and often overlooked regions of genes. Sadee has designed a technique to determine variant functions based on measurements of how much messenger RNA (mRNA), a carrier of genetic information, each specific allele expresses an activity that occurs before amino acids are assembled.
"We're finding now that in 90 percent of cases, it would appear that the SNP working at the protein level is not the one that affects function instead it's the SNP that affects mRNA expression," Sadee said. "It turns out SNPs in the middle of nowhere in regions formerly called junk DNA are actually in the middle of something."
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Far Cry build 1318 - v1.2 -
Far Cry build 1318 - v1.2
Far Cry build 1318 - Patch 1.2
Shader Model 3 enabled on the GeForce 6800 Series !
As you know Shader model 2 versus 3 has been widely discussed among new graphics cards. Let's quickly sum it up. If you program or play computer games or even recently attempted to purchase a video card, then you will have no doubt heard the terms "Vertex Shader" and "Pixel Shader". NVIDIA recently introduces Shader model 3 in their GeForce 6800 Series where ATI witrh their x800 series stuck to Shader model 2.
What is a Shader ?
Vertex and pixel shaders allows graphics and game developers to create photorealistic graphics on the PC. And with DirectX, programmers have access to an assembly language interface to the transformation and lighting hardware (vertex shaders) and the pixel pipeline (pixel shaders).
All real-time 3D graphics are built from component triangles. Each of the three vertices of every triangle contains information about its position, color, lighting, texture, and other parameters. This information is used to construct the scene. The lighting effects used in 3D graphics have a large effect on the quality, realism, and complexity of the graphics, and the amount of computing power used to produce them. It is possible to generate lighting effects in a dynamic, as-you-watch manner. Each shader is basically nothing more than a relatively small program executed on the graphics processor to control either vertex or pixel processing.
Far Cry uses Shader technology bigtime !
The discussion we noticed a lot from ATI customers are like these "Hey, who needs Pixel and Vertex Shader 3.0?; there is not one game that supports it and it that won't happen this year also". So that fact has now been changed a little. ATi proclaims that Shader Model 3.0 is not important right now which on a certain level is very true. It's not rather important right now. Shader model 3 is not about better image quality either, it's about small performance increases. Now that alone is a valid reason to at the least consider this over the current Radeon x800 generation.
Shader Model 3.0 titles that we can expect soon: Lord of the rings; Battle for Middle-Earth, Stalker, Vampire; Bloodlines, Splinter Cell X, Driver 3, Grafan, Painkiller, Far Cry and more...
Last night I received an email from NVIDIA, they have the new FarCry patch on their FTP available for the press to test. Goodness ! I was hey .. what the hell ... Shaders 3.0 finally something to test ! So I downloaded Directx 9.0c, not yet available to the public, but use google will ya ? After installing and patching Windows towards DirectX 9.0c, and upgraded towards ForceWare 61.45 SM3 compatible we where ready to take Far Cry for a little test drive in Shader model 3 mode.
Monday the patch will be publicly available. If you grab the new patch and update everything yourself and would like to try a test-run then this is what you need to observe for the proper codepath:
FarCry.exe -DEVMODE "#demo_num_runs=1" "#demo_quit=1" "map volcano" "demo guru3d" "r_sm30path 0"
This is the shader model 2.0 Path.Now to enable shader model 3 you need to take this line:
FarCry.exe -DEVMODE "#demo_num_runs=1" "#demo_quit=1" "map volcano" "demo guru3d" "r_sm30path 1"
The 1 equals enable there. Of course you need to select your own timedemo.
If you haven't played the demo or the game, well shame on you! Far Cry's story centers on Jack Carver, who has put a mysterious past behind him in favor of a less stressful life chartering boats in the South Pacific... or so he thinks. After delivering a female journalist to an uncharted island, Jack's boat is attacked and he subsequently finds himself stranded against a group of mercenaries, at which point his adventure begins. Graphically Far Cry is amazing; the action takes place in a huge, brightly colored environment with dense jungle style shrubbery, peacefully quiet beaches and large indoor areas. The excellent shadow effects simply bring the game to life with reflections on walls and even on your own weapons as you creep through the trees. Its like something straight out of a movie, helped along by the lighting and tight, crisp textures.
Test system
- ASUS A8V (AGP 8x enabled)
- 1024 MB DDR400 - Dual Channel
- Radeon x800 Pro, XT, GeForce 6800 GT, Ultra
- Athlon 64 3800+
System Software:
- Windows XP Professional Pro SP1
- DirectX 9.0c
- Detonator 61.45 WHQL Candidate for GeForce cards
- Latest reference chipset and graphics card drivers
Far Cry itself then, build version 1318 patch v1.2 - We heavily modified the system.config file to make it as hard as possible on the graphics core !
We took four different levels of the game, on each level we ran a timedemo. This is a little different compared towards our standard Far Cry time-demo so don't compare the results just yet with our reviews please.
To measure the power of the graphic's card we benchmarked in 1600x1200x32 with 16x Anisotropic filtering, because ... well that's the stuff why you spend 400 USD for right ?. At driver level we selected: Anisotropic optimizations disabled. Trilinear enabled. We did this so that we can compare the results towards ATi's x800 series later on.
This is just a quick test to show some results, nothing more. We barely had time to do anything at all .. I just got everything running fine a couple of hours ago. Here we go:
Far Cry SM3 | Volcano | Training | Regulator | Research |
It's impossible to play Far Cry without being completely blown away by the graphics engine; the game engine is THAT good. Volcano, Training, Regulator and Research are the different levels we submitted a timedemo on. I must add that we did give the time demo's several runs; here and there we noticed small FPS differences, but think in terms of like 1-2 FPS differences.
The SM3 performance differences between the levels are big, some levels simple make more use of shaders.The demo's provided come from CryTek and not from NVIDIA to kill of a presumtion. These levels are inside the new patch.
Hey as you can see, that's extra performance people. We measured an up to 25% (not overall) performance increase on the overall framerate which makes Shader Model 3 somewhat more interesting then it did a few weeks ago. The performance increase is level dependant though and in some level just a few percent. The NVIDIA 6800 cards obviously have room for small performance gains making the 6800 series even more interesting.
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