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Games 2013, 4(1), 66-88; doi:10.3390/g4010066
Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Biased Beliefs and Distributional Other-Regarding Preferences
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AbstractThis study investigates the relationship between an actor's beliefs about others' other-regarding (social) preferences and her own other-regarding preferences, using an "avant-garde" hierarchical Bayesian method. We estimate two distributional other-regarding preference parameters, α and β, of actors using incentivized choice data in binary Dictator Games. Simultaneously, we estimate the distribution of actors' beliefs about others α and β, conditional on actors' own α and β, with incentivized belief elicitation. We demonstrate the benefits of the Bayesian method compared to it's hierarchical frequentist counterparts. Results show a positive association between an actor's own (α; β ) and her beliefs about average(α; β) in the population. The association between own preferences and the variance in beliefs about others' preferences in the population, however, is curvilinear for α and insignificant for β. These results are partially consistent with the cone effect [1,2] which is described in detail below. Because in the Bayesian-Nash equilibrium concept, beliefs and own preferences are assumed to be independent, these results cast doubt on the application of the Bayesian-Nash equilibrium concept to experimental data.
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"Survivor" would be great, were it not for all the surviving. The next morning at Team Brains, Garrett is happy to get rid of David, but he's whining about how he isn't having fun. "It's not like a cool adventure for me," he complains. "I don't want to play 'Survivor' to survive in the wilderness," says a man who has apparently never watched the game he's playing. It turns out that in his poker world, Garrett is regularly served chicken and vegetables. He's weirdly specific about that. Garrett and Spencer are prepared to vote out a girl next time, any girl. Kass feels blindsided, but she also knows that she's the swing vote. Garrett and Spencer offer her Final 3 and they shake on it, which she calls "a stupid handshake."
Batman and Pippen. Is anybody else feeling like it's been too long since we saw Team Beauty? I agree. Instead, we're going fishing with Team Brawn, which Cliff Robinson has been "inching at the bit" to do. Cliff thinks that Woo is going to be his wingman, the Robin to his Batman, the Pippen to his Jordan. They cement their pack by capsizing the boat. Sarah decides that Cliff is likable. Lindsey loves him. Uh-oh. Kiss of death. Tony isn't feeling the same passion for his tall comrade.
Country Folk Alliance. Brice thinks that everybody on Team Beauty is playing dumb. He thinks Alexis is over-relying on being cute, but he can't quite figure out Jefra, who really wants to talk about her bodily functions. Morgan figures she's successfully got Jeremiah in her back pocket, talking about being from the Silicon Valley, which would probably be a euphemism, except that she seems to be all-natural. Brice has decided to play wingman so that Jeremiah can spend time with Morgan. "I feel like we need to be the brains of the operation," Brice tells Morgan and Jeremiah, as they make a Country Folk alliance.
I've gotta admit, "Malnu-Trisha" is mean, but kinda clever. Team Brawn is gathering wood, but Trish doesn't think Lindsey is doing her share of the gathering. Lindsey is not a fan of "Malnu-Trisha," even developing an impressively cruel Trisha impression. "I'm from Boston, Mass. She hasn't met me yet. Because if I really snapped on her, she'd still be crying right now," Trish says of Lindsey. Tony and Trish align. Tony's building a Spy Shack. I don't understand how he thinks this is going to work, but Tony is eying Cliff as the lead lion in the pride and he wants to take him out.
Blood and Brawn. Immunity is back up for grabs. The challenge begins with a swim to an underwater bamboo cage. Each cage hold fish traps, which contain "a very complicated" fish puzzle. They're also playing for Reward. Wanna know what they're playing for? A fishing kit and some spices. The second place team gets some hooks and lures. Cliff and Brice sit out the challenge. Because of J'Tia's weak swimming, Brain Tribe struggles here as well. The fish traps are heavy, but Garrett somehow finds his physicality and becomes dominant, leading Brains to a surprisingly huge lead as they reach the puzzle. Sarah and Tony are bleeding, but Brawn is a reasonably close second, with Beauty struggling. Sarah's impressive at puzzling and Brawn takes control and finishes first! J'Tia is dismal and suddenly LJ moves into second. "Are they still working on them puzzle? I think I'm on the wrong tribe," Sarah tells Jeff, whose contempt for Brains couldn't be more obvious. LJ finishes! Brains is going to Tribal. Wow. Let's just send J'Tia packing, because that was weak-sauce. "I feel like I let my tribe down," J'Tia says.
Call him Sutton Foster, cuz he's a Tony winner! Because it's hard to imagine Brains is going to do much strategizing, we actually return to Brawn. Everybody respects Sarah and Sarah respects that they solved the puzzle through a sea of blood. It's a nice Reward basket that they received, but Tony is sure it has to contain something Immunity-related. And he's right. It's a clue and he's confident he knows where to look. He rushes off and, very swiftly, he has the Idol. "I'm king of the jungle!" he says repeatedly.
Nuclear standoff. There isn't much doubt that J'Tia should be going home next. Garrett suggests openness and honesty and puts Kass on the spot. Showing, again, her honestly, Kass tells J'Tia that it has to be her. They have an actual open forum where the guys and Kass all agree that J'Tia is the target, but Tasha wants no part of this. She wants to scheme and backstab and she doesn't like Garrett telling her she can't scheme. "This is 'Survivor,' you go talk," Tasha tries saying. "I don't want to do that anymore!" Garrett whines. "Then quit!" Tasha instructs him. "If you didn't want to play the game how it should be played, get out of here," Tasha tells us.
Nuclear meltdown. After a commercial, we're EXACTLY where we left off. J'Tia isn't prepared to roll over. "Garrett. You're an idiot. What are you doing? You're a first-class grade-a moron at 'Survivor,'" Spencer sighs to the camera. So Tasha scrambles on her own. "Why can't I be top dog? I can make it happen," Tasha posits. But not flipping can be flopped without Kass. They leave J'Tia alone, which doesn't seem like such a bad idea until J'Tia decides she might as well burn this whole thing to the ground. Semi-literally. Calling herself the mental patient who shouldn't have been left alone, J'Tia dumps all of their rice in the fire. "See what happens when you leave crazy people alone?" she says. Ummm. Well, that was weird. "Who poured rice on the fire," Kass asks, as if there were multiple suspects. This is not what Garrett wanted. People bring him chicken and vegetables. CHICKEN AND VEGETABLES! "How did we come up with the criteria for Brains? I'd like to see that data," Kass cracks. Well. OK. This will not be a suspenseful Tribal Council.
Tribal Council, No.2. The conversation goes very much as you'd expect, with criticisms of both J'Tia, but also the open forum discussion. Because it's what J'Tia does, she candidly confesses the rice-dumping. "Not my best moment. Not at all," J'Tia says. "She's volatile," Tasha says. "There's a reason blindsides work, it's not because they're fun, it's because they're effective," Probst explains. J'Tia feels like Garrett spanked her butt in front of everybody. "Jeff, I feel like my game is being stifled right now," Tasha complains, on the verge of tears. The Garrett/Kass/Spencer alliance is outed by Garrett, who is a really dumb Brains guy. Tasha is pissed off. Spencer is annoyed. Probst is incredulous. "I have no idea what is about to happen. It's been very enlightening and it's been crazy," Probst says.
The Vote, No.2. Spencer and Garrett still vote for J'Tia, who votes for Garrett. Nobody plays an Idol. Probst tallies: J'Tia. Garrett. J'Tia. Garrett. GARRETT!!!! HAHAHAHA. Oh, good times. Spencer is stunned and practically ready to follow Garrett out the door. "This is the oddest tribe I've ever seen," Probst says.
Bottom Line, Part 1. Like Super-Smart Tasha, I'm curious about the criteria used to select the Brains Tribe. That was as silly a bit of mutually assured destruction as you'll ever see on "Survivor." There's no way that if you're David, you select Garrett in that first selection. How can you? You don't know what you're selecting and you have to at least consider the possibility that you want your tribe to win challenges. You need to pick somebody who you can politely justify picking and who doesn't have throbbing neck veins and a glower suggesting he'll get revenge. Immediately. Gender and strength are always the easiest and fastest things to align around in "Survivor" and David put himself in an immediately weak position and paid the price. As you do. And then Garrett turned around and literally couldn't have done more things wrong. Well, that's not true. He could have also cost his team the challenge. J'Tia did that 100 percent on her own, being unable to swim or do puzzles. But the open forum, followed by abandoning J'Tia, followed by outing and alienating his alliance, followed by not whipping out the Idol the second he realized there was even a slight chance that he might be in trouble. I guess Garrett needs his chicken and vegetables to maintain any semblance of intelligence? But he really just never wanted to play "Survivor." He wanted to play... I dunno. Maybe "Big Brother"? Or maybe he just wanted to be on the World Series of Poker. So David and Garrett both did everything wrong and now Team Brains is just about the weakest team you could ever put together. They're one scrawny guy, one seemingly strong woman, one middling woman and one massive liability going back to a camp without rice? That's pretty dire. But if they'd voted out J'Tia, as they really probably had to, they were going to go back to camp with one strong guy who was only going to get deader and deader in the keys as his hunger grew. The Brains Tribe was always going to have zero margin for error, because even if "Survivor" hasn't given an advantage to brute force and athleticism for a long time, you can only take advantage of the puzzle-heavy "Survivor" balance if you succeed at the thing you're supposed to succeed at. I feel a little bad for Spencer, who made a stupid alliance and then couldn't do anything about it, but only a little bad, because Garrett didn't even have to lie about his decision back at the camp and everybody just accepted it. Lame.
Bottom Line, Part II. There's fun stuff happening over at Team Brawn, with the peculiar spyshack, Tony's pointless professional lie, everybody's crush on Cliff Robinson and the possibility that Trish may know some people in Southie capable of having Lindsey whacked. I can root for Cliff. He's a goof. And I like Sarah some, though I'd like her more if she were 100 percent convinced that Tony was lying to her, rather than just thinking things aren't quite right.
Bottom Line, Part III. I give Morgan credit for fast thinking about the Idol clue and being able to lie to her Beauty tribemates, not that she's lying to geniuses. And I give Brice credit for smartly playing wingman and getting himself in solid position. I don't get why Brice is in the Beauty tribe, mind you. And I don't get why Alexis is in the beauty tribe. Neither of them is unattractive at all, but if you're pretending that there's any purpose whatsoever in the three-way tribal division, the people in Beauty need to be capable of moving mountains, or at least convincing people to move mountains for them. Brice could prove very, very successful in this game, but it's going to be by using his brains, not his beauty. Probably swapping Brice and Garrett would have gone a long way towards making some sense of this season. Something probably had to be done about Trish as well. I get that "Survivor" liked the alliteration, but "Brawn" doesn't just mean "strong." It implies muscularity. I know that Pilates makes you crazy strong in certain ways, but even if Trish is "strong" and even if she would say that "physicality" is her greatest attribute, Tony is brawny, Trish is not.
Bottom Line, Part IV. I don't think the season was cast as purely as it would have been if they'd decided the Brains/Brawn/Beauty twist far enough in advance. That, unfortunately, renders the core twist a little bit moot and instead we just have one really pathetic, weak tribe against two tribes that look very close to "Survivor" Business As Usual. But we've also had a couple seasons in a row in which random reshuffling led to tribes of wildly disproportionate strengths. So, no big different. However, there's a great relief to a season without any returning players, where we can watch people do stupid and inexperienced things and not feel like they should know better. Tonight felt much more like "real" "Survivor" than anything we've seen for a long time, even if we might have seen lots of instances of better-played "Survivor." We had two episodes and we got two blindsides, including one blindside of a guy with an Idol. And the other guy with an Idol, Tony, found it the old-fashioned way, with a clue he was smart enough to identify, rather than just going around poking his hand in every tree. So that was a good start to the "Survivor" season, in my book, even if Beauty/Brawn/Brains is a MacGuffin.
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The emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, is a relatively new invasive pest that has killed millions of North American ash (Fraxinus spp.) trees in both managed and natural forests of northeastern and Midwestern states since its discovery in 2002.
EAB has invaded 15 states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin) and two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec).
Economic cost of potential EAB damage to ash trees has been recently estimated to reach more than $10 billion wi... [more]
The Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) (ALB) is an invasive pest from Asia that came to Canada, the United States and Europe concealed in solid wood packing material.
It is a serious threat to deciduous hardwood trees in urban, suburban, and forested parts of the country. Larvae bore into a tree's heartwood, damaging and eventually killing the tree. If it became widely established in North America (it is already established locally), it could be one of the most destructive and costly invasive species ever (USDA Program Aid No.1655). This is target of current USDA eradication efforts.
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No genome information of primitive hymenoptera (Symphyta, sawfly) is available vs higher suborder (Apocrita, Apis, Nasonia etc.). This species is a hymenopteran model maintained in laboratory through year.
Tools such that transgenesis, systemic RNAi, artificial egg activation, artificial fertilization by cryopreserved sperm injection, etc. are established.
DNA from a single haploid male (10-15 microgram/male) and from haploid offspring from a single mother (30-50 males) are available anytime.
Data were generated by the Baylor College of Medicine's i5k pi... [more]
The melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae, originally from the Indo-Malayan region, is an important Tephritid agricultural pest with a broad host of fruit and vegetables of tropical and sub-tropical regions. It was the first tephritid species introduced in Hawaii. Damage to fruits and vegetables occur by female oviposition, subsequent larvae feeding and rotting due to the introgression of bacteria and fungus in the flesh. Adult flies are between 6 to 8 mm in length, with distinctive wing pattern.
The oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) is an important agricultural pest in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, impacting over 150 fruits and vegetables in tropic and sub tropic regions. In addition, B. dorsalis is established across the Hawaiian Islands and is a species of concern in the continental United States, with numerous interceptions and detections made annually, often triggering eradication efforts and quarantines. In addition to being an important pest species, B. dorsalis, as a member of the family Tephritidae, can serve as an important species for comparison to the well characterized drosophilid group, ha... [more]
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The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi), is the primary pest of olives. Olive fly's larvae are monophagous, feeding exclusively on olive sap. Under favorable weather conditions, the flies have three to five generations per year, reaching extremely high population densities. The species expansion range closely follows that of the olive tree. It includes the entire Mediterranean basin, South and Central Africa, Canary Islands, the Near and Middle East, California and Central America. There have also been reports of Bactrocera species collected from wild olive trees in China, suggesting the presenc... [more]
Cockroaches. Cockroaches were so plentiful in the Carboniferous period that this late Paleozoic era is sometimes referred to as "The Age of Cockroaches."
There are about 4,500 species of cockroaches in 515 genera, but many more remain to be named. The genus Blattella contains 51 species.
In the 375 years since its original description, the German cockroach has had 23 scientific names, including several in the genera Blatta, Ectobius, Phyllodromia, Ischnoptera, and Eublattella.
Blattella asahinai (Asian cockroach) is most closely related to B. germanica and in the laboratory the two hyb... [more]
The japygid Catajapyx aquilonaris is a blind predator of the soil. Like Protura (Acerentomon maius) and Collembola (Sminthurus viridis), Diplura lack wings, mirroring the wingless insect ancestor. Like in all primarily wingless hexapods, sperms are not transferred directly during copulation. Males rather deposit a spermatophore on the ground and females subsequently take the spermatophore up.
Diplura are critical for understanding the evolutionary origin of Hexapoda (e.g., terrestrialization), the evolutionary origin of wings (ancestral condition in Diplura), and the evolution of direct sperm transfer (ances... [more]
Provides appropriate phylogenetic sampling across diversity of class Arachnida.
Data were generated by the Baylor College of Medicine's i5k pilot project.
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The medfly has been an established lab organism for several decades, and is notable as being the closest non-drosophilid relative to Drosophila subject to genetic analysis, with broad chromosomal syntenic relationships established. It is also one of the most important agricultural pests worldwide due to its broad plant host range throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions.
Genetic studies have been driven by efforts to use genetic manipulation to improve the sterile insect technique which is used to control medfly and several other tephritid species through multi-tactical integrated pest management approaches. It was among the ... [more]
The two species of bed bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) usually implicated in human infestations are Cimex lectularius and C. hemipterus. Humans may also rarely become incidental hosts of Cimex species that normally fed on bats and birds. Although C. lectularius has a cosmopolitan distribution, C. hemipterus is limited to the tropics and sub-tropics.
The bed bug Cimex lectularius is a member of the family Cimicidae, a group of true bugs that are highly specialized for feeding on blood, mainly that of humans, birds, and bats. All these hosts occur in temporally and spatially predictabl... [more]
Copidosoma floridanum is the best studied insect that undergoes polyembryonic development. Its development is highly novel and has also evolved a caste (social) system by novel mechanism.
Particularly unique is this species produces >2000 clonal progeny per egg that are genetically identical. This unique feature of development provides an enormous quantity of DNA for full genome sequencing that derives from a single male (haploid) egg. The technical advantage this provides is unrivaled by any other parasitic hymenopteran.
The species is in continuous culture such that material is immediately available. The species is im... [more]
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The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri, is a sap-sucking, hemipteran bug in the family, Psyllidae. It is an important pest of citrus, as it is one of only two confirmed vectors of the serious citrus disease, Huanglongbing or greening disease (Lallemand, J., A. Fos, and J. M. Bové. 1986. Transmission de la bacterie associé à la forme africaine de la maladie du "greening" par le psylle asiatique Diaphorina citri Kuwayama. Fruits 41: 341-343.)
It is widely distributed in southern Asia and has spread to other citrus growing regions.
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If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path to action. And this nation will act.
George W. Bush, 17 September 2002.
It seems to me that there are two different ways of understanding the targeted killing of UK citizens Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin by a Royal Airforce-piloted drone on 21 August 2015, in Raqqa, Syria. (Khan was the target of the strike, and Amin was also killed by it. Both Khan and Amin are described as "ISIL fighters.")
The first poses some difficult constitutional and public law questions for the UK government, but does not require any kind of radical re-interpretation of international law governing the use of force.
The second way of understanding the strike amounts to a sea change in the UK's legal position, and indeed aligns it with several US legal positions in the "war on terror" which, hitherto, no European state has formally embraced.


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Ratspeak is the the shrill and sly language of the rats of New York City's subway. When a curious boy is granted his wish to speak and understand the secret language of the rats, he brings a curse upon his home. "Ratspeak" is a standalone story by the acclaimed author of Vassa in the Night (Tor Teen, September 2016).
"MEESA BACK!" Rogue Binks is Even More Disturbing Than The Binks Awakens
Almost a year ago, we let the Jar-Jar in with the utterly WTF mashup trailer The Binks Awakens from the brilliant and twisted mind of YouTuber Michael Murdock. But Jar-Jar Binks isn't the Force; he's more like Samara from The Ring, as he's no longer content with taking over just one Star Wars trailer. No—he had to return in Rogue Binks, in which he plays every role in the forthcoming Rogue One. And he's not alone.
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Vinnie's Pizzeria in Brooklyn has been lauded across the internet for their delightfully geeky pizza combinations. Like a real-life Bob's Burgers, the fine folks of Vinnie's aren't afraid to commit the most egregious acts of punnery to give you a unique pizza experience. We've gathered a few of our favorites new and old.
Forcing a Theme: Disney's Fun and Fancy Free
What diabolical plot is being hatched in the brain of this poor demented duck?
As the United States emerged from World War II, Walt Disney felt increasingly desperate—and removed from the animation that had previously been his heart and soul. The majority of his films had been box office bombs, and even the cartoon shorts that had helped build the company before Snow White were facing increasing competition, especially from a director/animator called Chuck Jones over at rival Warner Bros. The money earned from producing training films for the Defense Department was gone, and distributor RKO Films refused to let Disney release Snow White and Dumbo on a yearly basis. Walt faced a crisis: his studio still didn't have enough money to put together a full length animated picture, but the collections of cartoon shorts weren't doing all that well either, strongly suggesting that the studio needed to return to longer features in order to survive.
What Walt Disney did have was a cartoon loosely based on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk, featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy.
Trollhunter: Fun with Found Footage!
One of the great things about being a professor of matters medieval is being able to enjoy how the Middle Ages pops into our popular culture in a variety of interesting ways. It's an extra level of entertainment, and helps to explain the happy feeling I got when I watched the 2010 film Trollhunter, which I'll be introducing to you today.
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This Week in Publishing: Pottermore Presents and Unbound Worlds
This week in science fiction/fantasy (and related subjects) publishing news… Beloved book universes, from J.K. Rowling's wizarding world to M.R. Carey's post-outbreak future from The Girl with All the Gifts, are expanding thanks to recently-announced sequels and prequels. New Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi covers abound, a young adult anthology will reimagine Asian mythology and folklore, and we look at what's next for the Hugo Award fiction winners.
Midnight in Karachi Episode 60: Malka Older
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Twitter Gives Us All the Feels Over Fictional Deaths
The conversation pops back up now and again on Twitter, and the results are always devastating–if you ever need a good cry, just type in the hashtag #fictionaldeathsillnevergetover.
It's fair to say that your average fan has a lengthy list, but here are a few that seem to crop up over and over… along with a few personal asides. (Some spoilers below, obviously, but nothing recent! There will be no spoiling of season finales!)
Creatures of the Deep: Why I'm Addicted to My Biggest Fear
In this ongoing series, we ask SF/F authors to describe a specialty in their lives that has nothing (or very little) to do with writing. Join us as we discover what draws authors to their various hobbies, how they fit into their daily lives, and how and they inform the author's literary identity!
When I was small, my first reaction to seeing the sea was to run straight into it, until my feet lost the bottom and my head went under.
The only way my parents could stop me was to tell me the ocean swarmed with monsters: blue sharks and makos, cruising in wait just yards from shore.
I became terrified of the sea, but obsessed with its leavings. The crab shells, the shrimps, the jellyfish. The dead cod that washed up one long August, and which I dragged aimlessly for a mile or so up the beach before burying in disgust.
Television's Greatest Hacker has been Hacked!
Rami Malek and his Mr. Robot character, Elliot Alderson, have one thing in common: they shy away from social media. During a conversation with Stephen Colbert, the actor confessed that while he had an Instagram account, he'd never actually posted anything. At this point, Colbert startled the actor by telling him he had about 100,000 followers, and then, eager to please a hungry audience, whipped out a selfie stick and hijacked Malek's account.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time Wins the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award
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When George Orwell finished his classic dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he eagerly had a copy sent off to his high school French teacher.
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I absolutely adore this trend in comics of showing superheroes off duty and dealing with day-to-day issues, where it's less about physical prowess and more about the ramifications of using their abilities. It's more interesting to me to see the powerful confront their powers and the effect their powers have on the powerless. Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye is hard to beat, but Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta's The Vision comes close. This isn't a story about Vision kicking ass and taking names but a smaller scale tale of ethics versus morality, family versus friends, interlopers versus denizens.
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Today we're looking at Robert W. Chambers's "The Yellow Sign," first published in his 1895 The King in Yellow collection. Spoilers ahead.
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Church community mourns loss of 2 teens in crash
TRABUCO CANYON - Two teenage boys were killed after the silver Ford Mustang in which they were riding slammed into a tree on Live Oak Canyon Road Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Investigators believe speeding along the winding road may have led to the deadly wreck.
Mark Motley, 18, of Trabuco Canyon was behind the wheel of the Mustang when it crashed about half a mile north of O'Neill Regional Park around 1:40 p.m., according to the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner's Office. His passenger was Zachary Raffety, 17.
Raffety and Motley were pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck.
Skid marks about 300 feet long marked the spot where the car skidded off the road and crashed, wrapping the wreckage around a tree.
"This road is a windy road, and it doesn't lend itself to high speeds," said Capt. Greg McKeown of the Orange County Fire Authority.
Motley graduated from Santa Margarita Catholic High School last year. Raffety was a junior at the high school and on the school's junior varsity lacrosse team. Raffety's teammates held a prayer service for him Tuesday night in the Sacred Heart Chapel.
"There is nothing sadder or more difficult to deal with in a school than the death of a student or that of a recent graduate," said Principal Ray Dunne of Santa Margarita Catholic High School. "Our prayers are with both families during this very difficult time. At times like this, it is important that all students are present for one another and lean on one another for comfort and strength. It is in being family for each and asking Our Lord to give us strength that we are able to attempt to cope with tragic deaths."
Religion teachers and the chaplain for the Diocese of Orange, the Rev. John Weling, were on campus Tuesday evening to counsel students. Grief counselors will be at the school Wednesday.
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Charred rubble, and a gaping hole are all that remain of a Moultrie home.
Fire officials say the house at 315 1st Ave. NW was set ablaze in the early hours of Thursday morning while occupants were still inside, asleep.
They say the fire could have been caused by arson.
Both occupants survived the fire, but officials say the outcome could have been much different.
Fire Marshal Levon Cooper says the occupants, a man and a woman, escaped thanks to fire department-installed smoke detectors going off, as well as a neighbor banging on a back door.
The Moultrie Fire Dept. has been installing fire detectors in at-risk area homes since 2002 -- since then, over 78 lives have been saved.
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After surviving not one but two major labels, Rachael Yamagata had a campout in a house with her musical friends and had her fans fund her new disc, before demanding her manager wear her our on a touring schedule. Welcome to Rachel's wonderful world ...
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1661 – He wa born on the 21st of April in Brno, Moravia, now Czech Republic.
– He also known as Camellus, was a Jesuit missionary and botanist to the Philippines.
1683 – He was sent first to the Marianas.
1688 – He transferred to the Philippines.
– He wrote Herbarium aliarumque stirpium in insula Luzone Philippinarum (Herbs and Medicinal Plants in the island of Luzon, Philippines).
– Kamel established a pharmacy in Manila the first in the Philippines.
1706 – He died on the 2nd of May in Manila, Philippines.
– The genus Camellia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus.


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CNBC just did a documentary on research report sites, they mentioned flash market research (google em) and how retail investors have made millions on their picks because they come out ahead of the street. Flash market research is now profiling SNTA, this could be HUGE for us!!!
I would not be surprised if they drop a news release here. Technicals aside, there is serious strength against a down day in the index averages. We are also due for a number of material news pieces to hit. Usually when something drops, stock activity reflects the day of the release, at least... More


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I realize there are faqs and how-to's on this subject, and I've checked them against my code and still can't see what I've done wrong. I've built more than a few sites with footers locked to the page bottom, but this one is driving me nuts! I've been staring at it for over a day now...I just can't see the solution.
In FF and IE8, it works perfectly. In IE6&7, the footer sits below the main content area (#innerWrapper), but it allows the sidebar widgets to extend underneath.
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I am looking to post a teaser to the post and have the post authenticated by password.
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Search engines can read the teaser... and only authenticated users either paid or unpaid are able to acess the post.
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Keeping an eye on the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Samajwadi Party Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday scathingly attacked the Congress-led-UPA government over the Food Security bill. Yadav termed the bill as "anti-farmer" and said when the Monsoon session of the parliament is about to begin in a couple of days, then why ordinance? This government is corrupt and just thinks of its political mileage anyhow.


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You are a very busy person with a lot of responsibilities at work (not to mention what is going on at home). Everything seems…
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My husband just showed me this article! The kid is standing on a chair and breast feeding from his mom- he's almost 5 and it will be on the cover of Time magazine soon!
I personally just think that 4 and 5 years old is too old for a child to still be breastfeeding.
Here's the link: http://gawker.com/5909256/mom-puts-boob-in-giant-preschool-sons-mouth-on-cover-of-time


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Save time and calories by omitting the second bun bottom and simply making 1 patty instead of 2 with the 3 ounces of beef. This way, you'll need only 1 1/2 tablespoons of sauce. You'll be left with a more nutritionally balanced burger. Plus, you'll still have room for some fries or a side salad, all the while still enjoying that great Big Mac flavor . . . in minutes. - Chef Devin
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Complaint Review: Birch
Birch2300 Main Street Kansas City, Missouri United States of America
Birch Tom was the "customer service" manager I sopke with. Screwed over phone sale "contract" I never agreed to Kansas City, Missouri
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Then i get a call today from Birch saying we were being charged a $500 fee for "breaching contract"! When I spoke to Tom in Customer Service he was not willing to waive my fee on the presumption that I had made a "verbal contract" as per their sales call.
This is bad business.
I do not feel that we are obligated to pay this exorbitant charge, especially for a d**n sales call.!!!
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What to know about testosterone boosters
Increasing the levels of testosterone is actually easier than you would think. The body naturally will produce less of this hormone as you get older, but there are things that we personally do every single day that cause it to spike to lower levels. An example of this would be working at a very stressful job, or having extreme problems with your significant other, causing you to experience more stress than you have ever felt in your life. If you were to measure the amount of testosterone in your blood, it would be very low, simply caused by the stress in your life. Studies have actually shown that relaxing, taking time to walk outside, and getting away from your problems can actually elevate these levels back to normal. However, if you would like to do something else that can boost them up, such as taking supplements that actually work, here are some proven testosterone boosters that are going to help you have plenty of this hormone every day.
Why we need testosterone
There are a couple of reasons why having plenty of testosterone is so important for proper functioning of the body. For example, if you are losing your sex drive, unable to maintain an erection, it may very well be because this hormone is so low in your body. It is also possible that you do not get out enough, getting into direct sunlight, mostly because sunlight produces vitamin D. This has been shown to help boost the levels of this hormone significantly, or you can simply take the supplement. Let's take a look at some supplements that you might want to consider taking because they are very beneficial in maintaining testosterone levels, literal testosterone boosters that you should start taking regularly.
Supplements that are testosterone boosters
The first supplement that you need to take can be found in fish oil, flaxseed, Chia seed, and many other natural products. It is called omega-3 fatty acids. These are used by the body to build cellular structure, and these particular lipids are also referred to as high density lipoprotein. The more of these that you have, the more testosterone your body will produce, so taking supplements of omega threes is very necessary. Second, you can take zinc which most people do in order to improve their immune system. Without proper levels of this trace mineral, you can be looking at skin problems, difficulties with mental cognition, and the diminishing of your immune system. Zinc is necessary for testosterone production, and therefore having the supplement every single day can ensure that the levels of this hormone will be, at a base minimum, what you need. Lastly, if you want great results then you can use Testo XL. This works time and time again. It's a top pick amongst many experts.
Finally, if you are going to do strength training that is rigorous, testosterone is simply going to be produced automatically. But you might also want to consider taking ranch chain amino acids, like those that are found in whey protein, because they can also help elevate this hormone when taken with each workout that you do.
These are just a few of the testosterone boosters that have shown great promise with people that have use them over the years. You might want to consider adding some of them to your daily diet, and also adapting some of the habits that we have mentioned in order to get your testosterone levels back to normal.


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Book your room at Pierre & Vacances Résidence Centre
Get an overview of this hotel3-star residence, walk to Tour St. Nicolas
Located in the heart of La Rochelle, this residence is within a 10-minute walk of L'Espace Encan de La Rochelle and Tour St. Nicolas. La Rochelle Hotel de Ville and Tour de la Chaine are also within 15 minutes.
Property Features
Along with an indoor pool, this residence has self parking and laundry facilities. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include multilingual staff.
Room Amenities
All 99 rooms have free WiFi and feature kitchenettes with refrigerators, microwaves, and dishwashers. Other amenities available to guests include TVs, safes, and free toiletries. Housekeeping is available once per stay.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Pierre & Vacances Résidence Centre14 Quai de Marans La Rochelle Charente-Maritime 17000
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Pierre & Vacances Résidence Centre features an indoor pool, multilingual staff, and laundry facilities. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Limited onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis (surcharge).
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Laundry facilities
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
- Total number of rooms - 99
- Number of floors - 3
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Luggage storage
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Offsite parking reservations required
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Indoor pool
- Multilingual staff
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
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Self parking (surcharge), Parking (limited spaces), Offsite parking reservations required
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- Bathtub only
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 8 AM and 10 AM.
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The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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Check-in time ends at 7 PM
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Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Guests must contact this hotel in advance to reserve a baby kit (bed, high chair, etc.) (surcharge). Contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- Deposit: EUR 200.00 per stay
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.65 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 18 years of age.
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- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 8.50 for adults and EUR 4.00 for children (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 9 per day
- Pet fee: EUR 9.00 per pet, per day
- A late check-out fee will be charged
- In-room safe fee: EUR 3 per day
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 10.00 per stay
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- Pierre & Vacances Résidence Centre
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Complaint Review: Pimsleur Approach/ Internet Order LLC
Pimsleur Approach/ Internet Order LLCPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania United States of America
Pimsleur Approach/ Internet Order LLC They will make unauthorized charges to your card Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*Consumer Comment: Here's what I found on their order page, just below and to the left of the order form...
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Pimsleur Approach/ Internet Order LLC tries to deceive people out of $300 , sometimes more if you don't catch it. They are trying to scam you on purpose. They try to trick you. Go onto their webpage and type in all of "Secure Order Form" and not see that "Important Information: Pimsleur Rapid Fluency Purchase Program" since it is in fine fonts below the "Submit my order" button . Customer service berates you for agreeing to terms and conditions if you "supposedly" did not desire to receive the additional courses, excluding the fact that you would never have been able to purchase the original $10 product without doing so. You can't use your credit/debit card info from one purchase to impose another.
Get your papers /documents/files together and file a lawsuit in your local Small Claims Court, file reports with the Financial Protection Board; write Penn Attorney General, your District Attorney, the Federal Trade Commission, BBB .
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While not in all caps or bolded, it is not hard to read/comprehend. YOU basically Ripped Off yourself. No, I don't work for Pimsleur...never have. Good luck with your "lawsuit", I predict it's going nowhere, as the terms are CLEARLY stated.
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Definition of cremate in English:
verb[with object]
1Dispose of (a dead person's body) by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony.
Example sentences
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- Some great teachers of the past told their students simply to cremate their body and dispose of it, because the body is not important.
- Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikhs cremate their dead.
1.1 informal Burn (something), typically food.
Example sentences
- We hid in the Garden of Remembrance, cremating a few cigarettes and swearing too much in the presence of the recently scattered, until an hour later, Roger arrived for his old man's funeral.
- Summer - a time for relaxing in the garden, cremating sausages on the barbecue and falling over from too much exertion in the beer cans department.
- And the way to ensure that you 'don't cremate it on the outside and it's red on the inside' is to ensure you have the right heat and some patience.
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- But they have promised they will take 'public taste' into account before any decision is made to redirect the hot air from the cremators into the chapel.
- Not many people know this, but most modern-day cremators are about 30 inches wide, and new furnaces are now being built around 10 inches wider.
Late 19th century (as cremation): from Latin cremare 'burn'.
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How do I remove those pesky third-party sites from my blog?
How do I remove those pesky third-party sites from my blog?
are still showing up
what have you tried to stop them?
what ads from what blog?
please post more details.
Despite having my own URL?
Is that not enough for ADs to be removed? In other websites, once you're paying, ads are immediately removed. I assumed WordPress was like that. I usually visit my own site on my mac, and I've never seen the ads before, but when I visited on a laptop without having logged in, every single entry has an ad.
They're Google ads.
with whom?
Despite having my own URL?
is your site with WordPress.com ?
then you would be in the wrong forum - .com is over at http://en.forums.wordpress.com/
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For my corporate WP installation, I use Active Directory Authentication, which works perfectly. However, to require all users to log in, I am using a plug-in called Private WordPress (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-wp/). Suddenly, when using Chrome or Firefox, I cannot log in with my WP admin account (I have more than one, and none of them work). The screen doesn't shake it's head.. it just blanks out the password after a few seconds and sticks on the sign-in screen.
I CAN log in with an account in our AD, though. I can log in with a WP id which is not set to admin access.
When I use IE9, it works perfectly. I can log in with either a WP or AD account.
I have dumped the cache, history, everything from Chrome and restarted Chrome in an effort to get it working again. No luck!
It's not imperative that the Chrome works (we use IE at work), but will all the talk about hacking plug-ins this week, I'm a bit worried about the stability of the Private WP plug in.
Does anyone use something else in a corporate or personal WP environment to require log-in for each user?
Anyone else notice problems with this particular plug-in?


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Federal Student Work Experience Program
The 2015-2016 campaign launches October 28, 2015. Students must apply to be included in this year's inventory.
The Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP) provides full-time students with the opportunity to explore their interests and develop their skills.
- Students are not required to have previous work experience in order to apply
- Students must meet the program's eligibility criteria
- Jobs can be offered on a full or part-time basis
What kind of jobs are there?
We have a wide variety of cool jobs from coast to coast, varying from outdoor field work and research to office positions in administration, IT and finance, from work in trades to policy and communications and many more!
Be sure to check out our departmental programs that allow you to apply directly to some of our most popular student positions:
- Student border services officer
- Student guide in France
- Crew member and coxswain for the Inshore Rescue Boat Service
- Science students supporting the work of the Great Lakes Area Program
- Aboriginal student program
- Guide interpreter at Rideau Hall and La Citadelle
- Capital information officer and tour guide
- Science computing student
Does the field of security interest you? This year there is an FSWEP inventory exclusively for security job opportunities. You must apply to that inventory separately.
Reminder: Once we launch the new campaign, we will no longer be selecting students who applied to our 2014-2015 campaign. If you are still a full-time student and want to be considered for jobs, please submit a new application on or after October 28.
How does it work?
- Full-time students apply to the national FSWEP inventory.
- Federal government organizations send a request to the Public Service Commission (PSC), owner of the inventory, for a list of students who match specified criteria for the jobs they want to fill (e.g., education, language, skills, work location).
- The PSC performs a random search of the FSWEP inventory, based on the specified criteria, to find a minimum of five students that match.
- The PSC contacts the students by e-mail to confirm their interest in the job.
- The PSC sends the confirmed list of names to the requesting organization.
- The manager at the requesting organization reviews the student applications and invites students for tests and interviews, as required.
- A job offer is made to the chosen student(s).
- The results appear in the jobs.gc.ca account of the students who were considered for the job.
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