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Red foxes hunting small animals show a specific behaviour known as 'mousing'. The fox jumps high, so that it surprises its prey from above. Hearing seems to be the primary sense for precise prey location in high vegetation or under snow where it cannot be detected with visual cues. A fox preparing for the jump displays a high degree of auditory attention. Foxes on the prowl tend to direct their jumps in a roughly north-eastern compass direction. When foxes are hunting in high vegetation and under snow cover, successful attacks are tightly clustered to the north, while attacks in other directions are largely unsuccessful. The direction of attacks was independent of time of day, season of the year, cloud cover and wind direction. We suggest that this directional preference represents a case of magnetic alignment and enhances the precision of hunting attacks.
1. Introduction
Recently, we reported that in the absence of strong extrinsic and intrinsic influences, grazing and resting cattle and deer prefer to orient their body axes in roughly north–south directions, i.e. they tend to align along the geomagnetic field (GMF) lines [1]. No such directional preference was recorded in animals under high-voltage power lines, where the GMF is disturbed, providing direct support for the hypothesis of magnetic alignment [2]. Magnetic alignment may be a more widespread phenomenon among animals than previously thought, which raises questions about its biological significance.
The functions of magnetic alignment may be manifold. The interaction between magnetosensation and homeostatic, neurovegetative and metabolic functions has been proposed (cf. [3]) but empirical and experimental evidences to support this possibility are lacking. Magnetic alignment in ruminants may help to synchronize movement of individuals in herds. However, magnetic alignment is even more prominent in resting and sleeping animals, and here it is more difficult to explain. Maintaining a certain magnetic direction may provide a constant directional reference for spatial orientation (cf. [1,2,4]). It can also serve as a basic tool for cognitive mapping of everyday surroundings and learning new landmarks (cf. [5–7]).
Here, we report a case of compass preference, exhibited in another behavioural context. Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) hunting rodents show a specific behaviour known as 'mousing'. The fox jumps high, so that it surprises its prey by striking from above. Although the sensory mechanisms of prey location have not been explicitly studied, observations of foraging foxes suggest that hearing plays a decisive role. Prior to an attack, foxes move forward very slowly and deliberately, with ears erect, cocking their heads from side to side indicating that they are paying careful attention to auditory cues. Preliminary observations, obtained prior to this study, suggested that the body direction of foxes as they attack their prey was non-random.
2. Material and methods
Mousing behaviour was observed by 23 experienced wildlife biologists and hunters in 84 wild red foxes (V. vulpes) in 65 localities in the Czech Republic, in different habitats, between April 2008 and September 2010, and at different times of day. The body orientation of a fox while preparing for a jump was recorded in 95 hunting series, in which a total of 592 hunting jumps were observed. Body orientation was measured with a compass with accuracy of 10° with the angle indicating the head direction. In 200 jumps, the immediate success or failure of the attack could be clearly determined. We calculated means over repeated measures of individuals that were used in further analysis (second-order statistics). We analysed the heading direction of jumps with respect to the height of vegetation or snow cover, time of the day, season of the year, observer, sex and age of the fox, and other relevant variables. The Rayleigh test was used to test for the significant deviation from a random distribution (see electronic supplementary material for details).
3. Results
A hunting series lasted on average 19 min (±18 min; ranging from a few seconds up to 88 min) and involved on average seven (±17; 1–31) mousing jumps. Foxes preparing for the jump showed a preference to head for the north-eastern direction (figure 1a). Analysis of all jumps in all hunting series revealed highly significant deviation from randomness (43 ± 86°, n = 592, r = 0.322; Z = 61.3; p < 10−12). Directions of jumps were not correlated either with the absolute or relative time of day or with the day or season of year (see the electronic supplementary material). There was no significant difference between mean heading of all jumps in low vegetation cover (where the fox would be likely to see its prey; figure 1e) compared with those in high vegetation or snow cover (figure 1b). However, north-east-oriented jumps (and particularly in high cover) tended to be more successful than jumps in other directions (figure 1 and the electronic supplementary material). In other words, a large majority (74%) of successful attacks in high cover were confined to a cluster centred about 20° clockwise of magnetic north with a small (15%) secondary cluster at due south, while attacks in other directions were largely unsuccessful. In fact, high cover attacks performed within the angular segment of 340°–40° were highly successful (72.5%), and those within the segment of 160°–220° had success of 60 per cent, while attacks initiated in other magnetic alignments had a success rate under 18 per cent.
4. Discussion
The tight clustering of preferred (and particularly of successful) attack directions cannot be explained by an effect of light cues (sun position, celestial polarized light pattern, asymmetrical lighting, etc.) since observations were carried out at different times of day, at different seasons of the year, under overcast (most often) and clear skies (see electronic supplementary material for detail). Nor was this clustering a response to wind direction, which varied from observation to observation, and rarely came directly from the north or south. Note also that recordings were made by different observers at a number of different locations. Clustering of successful jumps in high vegetation or higher snow cover, where visual guiding of attacks is unlikely, is highly significant (figure 1c), showing that directional heading has a profound effect on hunting success under conditions in which visual information is not available to augment auditory cues. In low vegetation, where the prey can be spotted also by sight, directional heading seems to play a less decisive role (figure 1f).
In the absence of any other source of directional information that can explain the non-random alignment of fox predatory attacks and, in particular, the precise alignment of successful attacks on prey in high cover and under snow, we propose that these responses are another case of alignment with respect to GMF. In contrast to magnetic alignment responses in other animals where the adaptive significance of the behaviour remains a mystery [3], in foxes, the relationship between attack direction and attack success provides a valuable clue to the adaptive significance of this behaviour. The question then is why should alignment with respect to an absolute (presumably magnetic) reference have such a profound impact on attack success and, in particular, why should this relationship be more pronounced in high cover that limits the use of visual cues to guide predatory attacks?
A variety of animals have been shown to derive azimuth ('compass') information from the horizontal component of GMF (cf. [3]). The vertical component (course and slope of field lines) of GMF (inclination) varies geographically between 0° at the equator and vertical ±90° at poles and it can allow animals to distinguish between the 'equatorward' and 'poleward' ends of the magnetic axis (e.g. [8,9]). The predictable spatial variation in inclination has also been shown to provide some animals with one coordinate (roughly corresponding to north–south position) of a bicoordinate 'magnetic map' or geographical position sense [10]. The other coordinate may be provided by geographically specific intensity (strength) of the GMF (cf. [11]). Within the home range of a non-migratory species like the red fox, however, inclination and intensity are effectively constant and unlikely to be used for differential 'micro-scale' geographical position determination. However, the inclination of the magnetic field might be used also to derive information about relative horizontal distance (see [7] and the electronic supplementary material). Here, we suggest that mousing red foxes may use the magnetic field as a 'range finder' or targeting system to measure distance to its prey and thus increase the accuracy of predatory attacks.
When hunting for prey in high cover or under snow, foxes are unable to use visual cues to augment auditory cues to target prey. Other predators that specialize on small mammals, and rely primarily on auditory cues to locate prey, have evolved specialized mechanisms to increase the accuracy of prey localization. For example, barn owls have asymmetrically positioned ears with the right ear-canal opening higher than the left one. This asymmetry allows the barn owl to determine the elevation of a sound by comparing sound intensity and time differences between its two ears [12]. The present findings suggest that foxes may have evolved a different solution to this problem. First, the fox tilts its head when attending to sounds produced by a potential prey, creating thus asymmetric position (different height above the ground) of both ear-canals. Secondly, as suggested here on the base of the model presented by Phillips et al. [7], a fox that approaches an unseen prey along a northward compass bearing could estimate the distance of its prey by moving forward until the sound source is in a fixed relationship to the magnetic field, e.g. it coincides with the inclination of the magnetic field. This would consistently place the fox at a fixed distance from its prey, allowing it to attack using a highly stereotyped leap (see electronic supplementary material). Thus, when visual information is limited, using the magnetic compass to provide a more accurate estimate of distance from the prey could account for the dramatic increase in predatory success of attacks aligned to the north and south field (J. B. Phillips & M. S. Painter 2010, personal communication). If so, this would be the first documented case of an animal using magnetic compass input to estimate distance, rather than direction.
A magnetic targeting system, as proposed above, could be mediated by a magnetite-based compass mechanism like that used by subterranean mole-rats (cf. [13]). An alternate possibility is a magnetic compass mechanism based on a light-dependent radical pair reaction mediated by specialized photoreceptors in the retina [14,15]. Evidence for such a photoreceptor-based magnetic compass mechanism has led to speculation that the GMF may be perceived as a pattern of light intensity of colour superimposed on the animal's surroundings [14]. If so, the three-dimensional pattern [7] could provide a 'targeting' system as proposed here. Note that unlike the targeting system used by a jet fighter pilot, such a magnetic coordinate system would be fixed in alignment with respect to magnetic north. A fox moving in a fixed direction when approaching its prey (i.e. moving to the north), could approach until a specific component of the visual pattern generated by the magnetic compass is superimposed on the source of the sound from the prey, so that it could initiate an attack from a fixed distance. Note that unlike a magnetite-based magnetic compass, a magnetic targeting system that produces a three-dimensional 'visual' pattern, which is axially symmetrical [14], might also be used for targeting prey when aligned to the south, which could explain the secondary clusters of successful attacks to south (figure 1 and the electronic supplementary material).
The study was partly supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project no. 524/06/0687) and the Research Center of Biodiversity (LC0607). We thank M. Painter and J. B. Phillips, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments.
- Received December 1, 2010.
- Accepted December 13, 2010.
- This journal is © 2011 The Royal Society


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USA Today has realized that the way people find out about new music has changed. It appears they're a bit late to figuring this out, but to their credit, they still beat the recording industry. What they've really discovered is the whole long tail phenomenon, though they don't actually mention that. Basically, they point out the internet, beyond file sharing, has created large communities of people designed to help them find new music they like -- and that they seem to congregate around niche areas that the recording industry has traditionally neglected. This is the entire point of the long tail -- and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. However, the recording industry still is confused, and still thinks they can control what people listen to. Once again, though, just like with the news business, the real trick is in getting others to spread the word for you.

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The Peace, which Sets the rest of the World at Ease, increases, think my Perplexities and Anxiety. I have written to Congress a Resignation, but I foresee there will not be a Speedy decision upon it, and I Shall be left in a State of Suspence that will be intolerable, Foreseeing this, I am determined not to wait for an Acceptance of my Resignation, but to come home without it, provided it does not arrive in a reasonable Time.
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Sharing the Secret was made as a television drama in
the United States in 2000 and first released in the UK on DVD in
2003. It received a Peabody
award in 2001 for the accuracy of its portrait of a
teenager in crisis. Directed by Katt Shea, with perceptive
performances from its cast, it explores the subject of bulimia
nervosa in a high achieving teenage girl, Beth, whose parents
divorced a few years earlier. Offering a wonderful platform for a
discussion about eating disorders in general, it could also be used
to explore the differential diagnoses that may be associated with
the symptom of binge eating. Of additional interest is the fact
that Beth's mother, Dr Nina Moss, is a child psychologist who
treats children suffering from emotional difficulties as a result
of divorce but who is unable to detect the early signs of emotional
difficulty in her own daughter.
The film opens with teenager Beth having breakfast
in a restaurant with her father John, who is remarried and has a
young son. Beth excuses herself to go to the toilet, looking
tense and upset. We next see her in the flat, where she lives with
her mother Nina, as Beth is doing homework w ith a friend. Her
mother comes home hungry that evening and is unable to find a
portion of Chinese food that she had stored in the fridge. Beth
tells her that she had thrown it out because the smell made her
feel sick. Nina comments to Beth that she has grown 'tall and
skinny' and Beth replies that she likes looking that way. These
first few minutes set the scene for the story that unfolds,
introducing the suspicion of something secretive about Beth's
behaviour concerning food and that she has a particularly acute
focus on her own body image.
Beth is a bright and able student who has a passion
for ballet. She is struggling to fit in with her peers, who are all
preoccupied to some extent with their body appearance and the world
of dating. At a friend's party, Beth actively sabotages the
approaches of a boy and in the following scenes she is seen to
avoid eating, always giving a seemingly plausible reason for her
abstinence, until we are eventually shown her binging secretly on a
large amount of food before making herself vomit.
Her father wants to integrate Beth more fully into
his new family and invites her to stay over at his house for a
weekend, something that she has not done since his remarriage. In a
particularly poignant scene, during the first sleepover, her father
tells Beth that she is gorgeous and then says "I wish I'd frozen
you at 10, you're growing up so fast". Beth, clearly upset by this,
denies that she is growing up. In contrast, Beth's mother does not
have a new partner but works long hours as a child psychologist.
She and Beth appear to have an overly close, loving relationship in
which Nina even shares certain details about her patients. Indeed,
Nina's therapy sessions with one young girl, Rachel, are shown in
some detail. The film portrays Nina's attempts to 'give Rachel a
voice', to express the difficult feelings she has in her father's
newly blended family. This storyline contrasts brilliantly with
Beth's reality in which her parents seem to have worked hard to
avoid any openly expressed negative emotions about their
separation, although animosity simmers just below the surface.
This, in turn, has left Beth trying hard to please them both with
her compliant behaviour and high academic achievements.
Beth's secretive bulimic behaviour finally comes to
light as her physical health deteriorates and she collapses at
school. Forced into therapy by her mother, Beth initially rebels
but then begins to engage with the therapist, allowing her to
acknowledge her illness. It is only then that she asks for some
inpatient help, as she recognises the need to get some distance
from both her mother and her father. In a brilliant scene between
Beth and Nina, in which Nina describes the shame and guilt that she
is having to bear, Beth shouts out angrily " It's not about
you....it's about me". The film ends with Beth beginning to make
progress in the inpatient unit but with more still to achieve,
viewers must decide how they feel about her future.
As a clinical case study, Sharing the
Secret presents a very good portrait of bulimia nervosa and
provides an excellent presentation of some of the underlying
psychological issues that may play a part in the genesis of an
eating disorder in the teenage years. The film also offers an
opportunity for discussing the difficulties that may be encountered
in trying to engage sufferers in any form of psychological therapy.
Sharing the Secret could also be used for teaching
students about the wider effects that an eating disorder, in one
family member, can have on others in the family. In particular, it
explores the painful struggle of a mother who is forced to cope
with the guilt she feels about failing to recognise her own
daughter's eating disorder.
There is a useful, detailed discussion on the topic
of bulimia and binge eating in an article by Zaffra Cooper and
Christopher G. Fairburn, in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
(2009) 15: 129-136 entitled Management of bulimia nervosa and
other binge eating problems (abstract).
This article was a revision of a paper by Christopher G. Fairburn
with the same title, published in Advances in
Psychiatric Treatment (1997), vol. 3, pp. 2-8, now
freely available in its entirety. Beth clearly presents the three
cardinal features required for the diagnosis of bulimia nervosa;
frequent binges of large amounts of food; the use of vomiting,
fasting and or exercise to control shape and weight, and, lastly,
an extreme focus and concern about weight and body shape, indeed a
fear of being fat, bound up closely with a low self-worth. All of
this occurs without excessive weight loss.
Further information can be found on
eating disorders at the Royal
College of Psychiatrists website as well as a
leaflet on anorexia and bulimia. The
choices website has a good short video featuring
consultant psychiatrist Professor Janet Treasure, from the eating
disorder unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, discussing
CBT for the treatment of bulimia nervosa has a good
evidence base and there is an interesting article discussing the
use of CBT for a variety of conditions when working with young
people and their families, entitled Cognitive-behavioural
therapy with children, young people and families: from individual
to systemic therapy in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
(2010) 16: 23-36 (abstract)
written by consultant psychiatrist Nicky Dummett.
With its excellent portrait of an eating disorder
in a teenager, I would definitely recommend Sharing the
Secret to anyone interested in working in the field of child
and adolescent psychiatry regardless of their discipline. This film
may also be of interest to sufferers and their families.
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'Michelle Obama Ran Her Hand Across My Back'
Kurt Andersen enjoyed an intimate, sexy moment with Michelle Obama; a Chicago Tribune writer made an orgy of his meal and Micki Maynard rocked out. The Twitterati were feeling carnal.
Radio host Kurt Andersen was practically seduced by the First Lady.
The table manners of the Chicago Tribune's Bill Daley offended someone.
The Huffington Post's Matthew Palevsky filed some citizen journalism about his flight.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Micki Maynard would like you to know her New York Times podcast is badass.
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My husband and I have mused about where we'd like to retire for most of our 22-year marriage. Cape Cod so he can spend his time deep-sea fishing? A pied-à-terre in New York, where we lived when we were first married? Or perhaps Napa Valley so we can indulge our shared passion for wine?
It turns out that we are talking about the wrong things when it comes to retirement planning, says retirement coach Roberta Taylor co-author of The Couple's Retirement Puzzle. "The mistake many people make is basing their decisions on a fantasy."
Ouch. It seems that while it's good to have a vision, you also need a plan—and it's far too easy to imagine sunset walks in wine country and postpone grittier discussions about how to pay for it.
One tiny consolation: We have lots of company. Most people don't talk about retirement planning in a thoughtful, constructive way until, well, it's time to retire. One 2006 study found that a third of people over age 40 said they have not yet saved any money for their retirement.
And according to Fidelity Investments, just 41% of couples surveyed in 2011 do handle retirement decisions together—which leaves about one in six couples
who don't.
Is that surprising? Most couples have a tough time talking about their monthly credit card bill, never mind the vast unknowns of retirement. Plus, surveys show that many couples lie about debt, spending, and fight like Congressional reps facing a fiscal cliff.
How do you get past all that to get in synch about one of life's main events?
Agree to agree. You've heard that one way to diffuse tension is to list your wishes and goals for your golden years, and ask your partner about theirs. Take the convo to the next level and focus only on what you agree on. Novel idea: don't even discuss the points of contention (for now).
Work as a team. Most couples fall into static financial roles over time. She always pays the bills. He keeps track of the 401k. She's the breadwinner. He stays home. Whatever your pattern is, make an Olympian effort to step out of those roles in order to start your action plan, says Judy Haselton, president of Harmony Financial Advisors
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NEW YORK -- The Yankees had one selection to make on the first day of the First-Year Player Draft. The organization believes that it made it count, taking Mississippi State left-handed reliever Jacob Lindgren with the 55th overall pick.
Lindgren, a hard-throwing junior from Bay St. Louis, Miss., was ranked by MLB.com as the No. 41 prospect entering the Draft and has been touted as one of the nastiest relievers in college baseball.
NEW YORK -- The Yankees had one selection to make on the first day of the First-Year Player Draft. The organization believes that it made it count, taking Mississippi State left-handed reliever Jacob Lindgren with the 55th overall pick.
Lindgren, a hard-throwing junior from Bay St. Louis, Miss., was ranked by MLB.com as the No. 41 prospect entering the Draft and has been touted as one of the nastiest relievers in college baseball.
"I knew maybe one team would take a chance on me, and I'm just very happy it was the New York Yankees," Lindgren said. "It's like a dream come true. I'm glad they had confidence in me with their first pick. I'm ready to show them what I can do for their organization."
Lindgren indicated that he intends to sign quickly, and the Yankees may be tempted to move him aggressively through their system once he's under contract. It has been suggested that Lindgren could be one of the first members of this Draft class to have an impact in the big leagues, perhaps as soon as this season.
"I've actually gotten word of that, and I think that's pretty cool that people think that," Lindgren said. "But making it to the big leagues is not easy. It's going to take hard work. I have to keep developing my game and getting better one day at a time. If the Yankees think it's my time to go up, I'm ready for it."
In 26 appearances this season for the Bulldogs, the 21-year-old Lindgren was 6-1 with three saves and a team-leading 0.81 ERA. He ranked first among all relievers nationally with 100 strikeouts, leading the nation with 16.3 strikeouts per nine innings.
In 55 1/3 innings, the 5-foot-11, 203-pound southpaw allowed nine runs (five earned) and 23 hits, walking 25. Lindgren's opponents batted .124, the lowest mark on the Bulldogs' staff.
"Jacob has been very successful in a tough conference and has produced exceptional strikeout numbers," said Damon Oppenheimer, the Yankees' director of amateur scouting. "We are very happy to have selected him."
Asked to name a big league pitcher he'd compare himself to, Lindgren said: "There's a lot of good big league pitchers out there, but I've heard some people compare me to Phil Coke before."
Lindgren is one of five finalists for the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Stopper of the Year Award, which honors the top relief pitcher in college baseball.
He is also a semifinalist for the 2014 Gregg Olson Award -- college baseball's breakout player of the year -- and a finalist for the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, given annually to the top collegiate player in Mississippi.
"I like having the ball when the game's on the line," Lindgren said. "I'm just really attacking hitters with my best stuff."
A solid starting pitcher on Mississippi State's 2013 College World Series runner-up club, Lindgren moved to the bullpen after the Bulldogs lost several relievers to pro ball. He responded to the switch well, saying that it makes him "more aggressive and explosive."
"It really changed what kind of pitcher I am," Lindgren said. "I went from throwing in the upper 80s and lower 90s to now throwing in the mid 90s. My slider plays better. I'm just kind of ready to see if my stuff [translates], what's in store for me in the future and if the Yankees still want me to be a reliever."
His best pitch is a wipeout slider that arrives at 82-88 mph with late bite. His fastball has jumped from 87-91 mph as a starter to 91-95 mph as a reliever. He has a sinking changeup as well.
"Jacob has two Major League pitches that are above average and possess swing-and-miss quality," Oppenheimer said. "He has been extended for multiple innings and holds his stuff consistently."
A multi-sport standout and first-team all-state pitcher at St. Stanislaus (Miss.) High School, Lindgren was previously selected by the Cubs in the 12th round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft.
New York's first selection of the Draft came in the second round because of compensation picks lost for signing free agents Brian McCann, Jacoby Ellsbury and Carlos Beltran this past offseason.
"It was one of the biggest honors of my life, and I'm just happy that the Yankees had faith in me with their pick," Lindgren said. "I'm super excited and ready to begin my journey with the New York Yankees."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.


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Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, on Monday, warned employers of labour over rejection of corps members posted to their organisations by the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in the state.
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The Minnesota Twins and first-round draft pick Kohl Stewart, are close to signing a deal. Last week, Stewart told the Twins he would pursue baseball rather than play football at Texas A&M.
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In his senior year at St. Plus X, he went 5-1 with a 0.18 ERA in 40 innings while striking out 59 batters and walking 16.
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Folks think the Rev. Collin Adams is smart, but the 32-year-old Pollocksville preacher has more questions than answers.
POLLOCKSVILLE | Folks think the Rev. Collin Adams is smart, but the 32-year-old Pollocksville preacher has more questions than answers.
That constant questioning, and a penchant for trivia and a competitive spirit, is landing the Pollocksville Presbyterian Church minister on the television show "Jeopardy" on Sept. 23.
Adams said the experience will finally get him one up on his father, who is also a preacher in Blairsville, Ga.
Born in West Virginia, Adams grew up in Blairsville, also in the Appalachian Mountains and the highest point in Georgia, at a location he described as "about two hours from everywhere near the N.C. border" closest to Murphy.
The location gave him and his dad eight years with time on the sofa to compete against each other while they watched the long-running, popular quiz show on TV.
"I grew up in a house where there were always books around us, a lot to read, and because of that I sucked up facts and trivia," he said. "I don't know where it goes in my head but it seems to stay. I even had a 'Jeopardy' audio book, a recorded game, and we would go on trips as a family and play it in the car."
When Adams went to high school in Blairsville, then to Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tenn., he was on the academic team and Scholar's Bowl team.
His major was in human growth and development: "Basically elementary education without a teacher certification," he said. "I decided to go to seminary my senior year of college."
Adams said he also did trivia at local bars in college and confessed that he's been so obsessed with fact collecting that "my wife accuses me of cheating because I read Trivial Pursuit cards for fun."
He had never seriously considered being on "Jeopardy" until a friend posted on Facebook that he'd signed up for the test. Adams realized that he didn't necessarily have to go to California to try out.
"I missed the East Coast registration so I had to do it on Central Time, at 11:30 at night and I wasn't sure how I did," Adams said. "About two months later, I got an email saying I was invited to Nashville where they give you another test to make sure you didn't have a Google window open or a smart friend standing by when you took the first test."
"My wife and I went," he said. "They put you on camera, basically to make sure you don't stammer, then said 'don't call us, we'll call you.'"
As it turned out, they called.
"I happened to be in the yard mowing the lawn. My church secretary texted and said 'someone is about to call. You need to answer.' It was Glen from 'Jeopardy' asking me to be on the show. Of course, I said yes."
Frances Waters, Pollocksville Presbyterian Church secretary for the past 3 1/2 years, said, "We were all so excited when he took the online test and ended up in Tennessee, then L.A. for the finals. We love him here. He's a lot of fun but can be serious, just a good minister."
When that final call came, Adams said, "I did a happy dance and ran out front door. My wife was with the dogs at the vet and I tried to walk calmly through Pollocksville but found myself running down road flailing my arms. I guess everybody thought I was being chased by bees. Then I called everybody telling them."
He got flight information and took a quick trip to Los Angeles with his wife to play the game.
Did he win?
Adams said the Jeopardy show officials set strict limits on what he could say about his performance before it airs.
"I told wife afterwards that I did not embarrass myself and it's something that can never be taken away from me: I was on 'Jeopardy' and fulfilled an eight-year dream I had while sitting on the couch with my dad."
His father had looked into getting on "Jeopardy" when Adams was a teenager, he said, "when you had to fly to L.A. for tryouts."
What was his father's reaction?
"When I told him, he was so proud and so envious you could hear it dripping from his voice."
Adams' parishioners and community are proud as well.
Mayor Jay Bender, an elder and church clerk, said, "We are excited for him, looking forward (to) seeing him on the show.
He said he will be in the church fellowship hall for the Sept. 23 airing beginning at 7 p.m. "I wouldn't miss it. There will be a crowd up there I'm sure."
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As the release of Saints Row IV approaches, some who have been caught up in its marketing schemes may be interested in the earlier games of the Saints Row franchise. We have already taken a look at Saints Row: The Third, and thanks to the Humble Deep Silver Bundle, which is still on sale as I write this, we can now take a look at Saints Row 2.
The Saints Row franchise features the Third Street Saints gang creating chaos with gunfire and explosions, and Saints Row 2 is no exception. After waking up from a coma and busting out of prison, you, as the leader of the Saints, go to the Stilwater Courthouse to free Johnny Gat, a Saints Lieutenant who is most happy when murdering. From there you proceed to challenge and defeat rival gangs and a rather corrupt company, all in an open-world action-adventure environment. By the way, the game has received a Mature rating from the ESRB for violence, strong language, and more, and some screenshots in this review may also contain such content. If you should not be seeing such content, you should probably not be reading a review for a game that contains so much of it.
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Few doubt he is right in terms of long-term revenue growth for the marcoms business. But, this week, it is arch rival Maurice Lévy, the Publicis boss, who is claiming to have created "the largest, most complete concentration of digital skills and competencies in the world".
The Frenchman's justification was the mega-merger between Publicis' two big digital networks, Digitas and LBi. It is the latest move in an enjoyably cut-throat game of chess between the two holding companies.
Publicis had already bought Razorfish for $530 million in 2009, but WPP snapped up AKQA last summer for a similar sum. After that, Sorrell took a swipe at LBi, which he said was a "roll-up" of businesses rather than one "organic" company. Lévy subsequently hoovered up LBi anyway, days later, and now we are seeing Publicis' attempt to tidy things up: to provide a unified global digital offering for clients.
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i don't have problems reading text from PC, the more annoying is that the texts don't last until my "hunger" has been satisfied....
this is why i am constantly on the prowl for new romantic light novels and manga.
Manga: Kouko in lawyer attire.....i was like WoW!! but the tragic development was a bit too much...
I must have written it a few pages back....i would not have rejected her if i was in Yana's place... (I am craving for someone to love me....and he just dumps her like that) no justice...
LN: The party's on.....even with Kouko's bad state right now I hope she will relax a bit and get closer to Banri. a party is for people bonding....and given that the second volume has a span of few days... this party must have a significant role in the plot for later.
But I have a guess that Linda will capture Banri's attention, Yana is going to try to hook up with Chinami, 2D will be in his world, and at the end of the party Kouko will be walked home by Banri only to cry in front of him..... Well this is just a guess.(I was in Kouko's shoes many times having a bad time while being at a party, but because i went always home alone I just self-pitied on my way home)
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UPDATE: We've seen chapter 16 of the manga now. It covers the first part of the second chapter of the second novel, where Banri & Kouko go to their second Omaken meeting. This is the meeting where Linda sneaks Banri the gift of a pair of sneakers, leaving Kouko wondering just what there might between the two of them.
A bit of humor: they preserved the scene where the former president of the club gave everybody hand-fans (uchiwa) for Awa Odori, with YES painted on one side, and NO painted on the other. The scene where everybody gets smart-alecky with them.
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And we are in for more volumes, it appears. The very last sentence of the Postscript in Golden Time Extra (just released last week), reads like this
Not that I had heard even a whisper of rumor regarding when exactly this series will end, let alone that volume 5 might have been the end of the story. So it appears we can expect more, presumably now in the fall semester of classes.
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I speculate that in the end he will get his memories back, but they will be integrated with what the Ghost has been observing all along, and the new person will be a blend of the new and the old.
But that's just speculation. I really don't know anything for sure, beyond what I have translated and put out there for anybody to read.
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That translation is from google translate and not a translation from a human. It is also from a Chinese translation and not directly from Takemiya's Japanese text. The Chinese have translated 4 volumes.
Volume 6 of the light novel will get released on April 10.
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Another site with a Chinese translation:
Translation of that site using google translate:
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If I felt I were in a race to provide a translation, I suppose I would be bothered. The point of this exercise from the start has been to learn how to read and understand Japanese, with a side of translation as well. So, if you're really anxious to get hints as to the future story, go on ahead and read using Google Translate.
Not that my work is even close to perfect, but mechanical translation of oriental languages still leaves very much to be desired . . . especially free mechanical translation.
I suppose I was that impatient as a teenager or twenty-something too, but I don't remember it. That was a long time ago.
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Windows Workflow 4 – A New Product with an Old Name
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Windows Workflow 4 is a major rewrite of the library. While it has the same goal, to provide a modeling language for long-running tasks, there are some significant differences coming out of what is essentially a complete rewrite.
First a note on backwards compatibility. There is none. You can use the Interopt activity to call a WF3 workflow from WF4, but there are significant restrictions. For example you cannot use WF3 Send and Receive activities, nor can you suspend the workflow or invoke other workflows.
Rewriting a WF3 workflow in WF4 can be a daunting task. WF4 uses pure XAML to define workflows, which makes them much easier to programmatically generate but also means you lose the ability to leverage Code activities. State Machine workflows are not supported in WF4, so anything based on them will have to be redesigned. The way it handles errors is also significantly different, hence the reason the Suspend and Terminate activities are gone. Many of the other activites also changed name and/or semantics. Matt Milner's change list from July seems to the most up to date.
If you are new to Windows Workflow and don't have anything invested in the legacy version you are in for a treat. WF4 claims to greatly simplify hosting workflows, managing data, and creating custom activities. Gone is the requirement to use dependency properties to flow data between activities.
A key selling point for Windows Workflow 4 is its integration with Windows Communication Foundation and Windows AppFabric. Microsoft envisions developers building message passing applications in a "WCF on the outside, WF on the inside" style with Windows Server AppFabric providing the hosting.
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Never understood the value in WW...
Giorgio Galante
Given the above opinion, an extremely large & complicated application would be the only situation where one should consider using WW. Microsoft's decision to 'reboot' WW and throw out backwards compatibility without much consideration makes it a poor choice from a long term viability perspective. Why tie yourself to a technology that will likely be tossed out in 2 years?
Anyone considering a workflow engine/tool for .NET applications should consider alternative 3rd party solutions first.
Re: Never understood the value in WW...
Rafael Costa
As for the added complexity vs implementing solutions in code, I can agree that WF is not the most appealing idea for most developers. However, it can provide with a flexibility for quick changing scenarios not requiring a lot of code being rewritten, since that with WF it is mostly a matter of dragging boxes around.
I've been working with WF3 for some pretty hardcore stuff for about a year, and I can say that focus on business people designing solutions is really what it is meant for. I haven't had the chance to play around WF4 in depth yet, but looks like a good job was done this time.
Re: Never understood the value in WW...
Stef Sewell
First off, business users are writing their own workflows today using WF3. We have a workflow product that leverages WF3 deeply to provide a business process designer and execution environment. There are a number of gaps in WF3 that we have had to fill to provide an enterprise workflow product but the WF3 runtime is very much at the heart of our product.
There is no question that WF4 is a ground up re-write of workflow. .NET 4 includes the WF3 workflow implementation in the System.Workflow namespace and all of the new WF4 types are in the System.Activities namespace. This means that investment in WF3 is not thrown away, it will still run on the CLR4. There are limitations integrating WF3 and WF4 processes and migration is a difficult problem. Microsoft is well aware of the situation and is providing as much guidance as it can to try to help migrate WF3 to WF4. Just google 'Microsoft WF4 Migration Guidance'
If you looked at WF3 and thought it was too complex or missing features, please take a look at WF4. The programming model is simpler, the flowchart paradigm is much more easily understood by business users, the workflow definition now includes state as a first class concept, the workflow services feature of WF4 + WCF4 is a very compelling approach to write services.
While WF4 can be used to write long running, durable business processes, it can also be used to implement much shorter, in-memory workflows too. If you have a piece of business logic that requires co-ordination of service calls or async operations, workflow is a good option. You can call a workflow directly in .NET code via the WorkflowInvoker class, which also gives you a way to unit test workflows.
The team at Microsoft have spent alot of time looking at the performance of the runtime and believe they have achieved a 10x to 100x improvement in common use cases. Our experience of the WF4 runtime is that it is indeed faster.
I've been working with WF4 for 9 months now and I'm finding it a very compelling technology. It gives you an extensible, declarative programming model with a fully customizable designer. It's easy to write a DSL to capture your business processes and then transform this into an executable workflow. Workflow Services make WCF service authoring a breeze. When combined with AppFabric, it gives an out-of-the-box service hosting story for durable, long running processes that can be load balanced.
WF3 and WF4 are very different beasts, Microsoft has invested very heavily in WF4 - evidence of this is the AppFabric Workflow Services which leverages IIS/WAS as a hosting environment.
Just my two cents.


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Third time a charm as Ross and Walsh claim gold at Stavanger Grand Slam
The US pair beat the Spaniards 2-0 (21-12, 21-15) to add Stavanger gold to their wins at the Fuzhou Open and Moscow Grand Slam from earlier in the year.
"The way my heart has been racing all day and the way we battled all week it is such a culmination of our hard through work through the ups and downs," Walsh said. "We played steady; we played with fire and a lot of heart."
The pair have only been together since the 2013 Gstaad Grand Slam, but since then they have now claimed World Tour gold at five tournaments.
For Ross her latest win in Norway's south-west is her fourth and will sit alongside her and Jennifer Kessy's success at the 2009 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships and the 2011 Stavanger Grand Slam, the last time the event took place.
"I love this place, I think I would love it regardless," Ross said. "The atmosphere is amazing the fans are great and so into it and the weather is beautiful.
"We played great, it isn't the place we just played great together."
Fernandez and Baquerizo were playing in their first ever Grand Slam final, but like the two Open finals they had played in it ended in defeat.
Nonetheless it is another step in the career of a pair who are fast establishing themselves among the leading sides in women's beach volleyball.
"It was very exciting to be in the final," Baquerizo said. "They played a very good match and I think the defended really well and they got a lot of my side outs. I think they were superior in this match, and they did a good job.
"We want to keep earning good results and our goal is to be in the semifinals as much as possible. So this is great. You have to be in the final to win the gold medal, so we hope we have another chance, many more."
Slovakians make history with maiden bronze medals
Natalia Dubovcova and Dominika Nestarcova made history when they became the first Slovakian team to win a World Tour medal when they claimed the bronze.
In a three-set thriller they held their nerve in the third set to beat the Netherlands' Marleen van Iersel and Madelein Meppelink 2-1 (21-19, 16-21, 15-12).
"In the second set I didn't feel very good, but we kept working and started to win points," Dubovcova said. "It is the first medal for Slovakia, so it feels amazing."
Before Stavanger the furthest the pair had ever reached were quarterfinal finishes at the 2012 Gstaad Grand Slam and 2013 Rome Grand Slam.
"We are very happy because we've never reached a semi before and now we've got a bronze," Nestarcova added. "I think we believed we could do it, so we are very happy."
The double-gender US$800,000 FIVB Stavanger Grand Slam runs from Wednesday, June 25 until Sunday June 29. It is the eighth event and the fourth Grand Slam on the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar that features nine Grand Slams and 11 Open tournaments.
The 2014 World Tour began at the Fuzhou Open in China in April and concludes at the Durban Open in South Africa in December. Next up on the World Tour calendar is the Gstaad Grand Slam which runs from July 9-13.


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In a shocking move, Microsoft has reversed the DRM policy on Xbox One. This is seen as a good move for consumers, but what does it mean for the games industry? It seems like this move will hold back the gaming industry for a while, unless alternatives are found.
It's all software as Microsoft are showing so that means web the world is ready for always on stuff they can re add it easily.
As for drm I am glad it has been done away with and hope we don't hear about such controversy again.
The main point of this article appears to be: "I think that a lot of publishers will design games to be used online heavily, which was a major trend seen at E3. Games like Watchdogs and Titanfall thrive on online interaction, even in single player mode. Another thing they can do is incentivize digital versions of their games; give gamers a reason to buy online instead of on disc. From exclusive in-game items which cost the publishers nothing, to slightly discounted prices."
In other words, there are ways for publishers to advance their interests in a more subtle and seductive manner. MS, at least, was trying to address issues that are not going to go away. As the need for physical copies of games declines, and digital sales increase, the same issues that provoked controversy in recent weeks will return and will need to be dealt with, rationally.
Hold back the gaming industry?
The gaming industry is a hundred billion dollar industry.
This generation was fantastic and millions of ppl rented and purchased used games.
Just stop lying and showing big publishers as victims.
Here's an idea. Maybe the successful publishers will be the ones who employ the best developers.
Wrong. It's was good for gamers and the industry. MS had a bad policy in the DRM and this would have spread through the industry like a cancer. The industry will do just fine.
Where are the xbox fans calling the X1 names like its the "FUTURE"
I wanna know what they think now about the DRM removal.
I'm pretty sure the industry would be fine if MS hasn't joined


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Makes me feel clean all over to see a cartoon doing what makes cartoons unique.
How about you?
You just like butts.
is this a 12x beat?
HAHA it's great. It's so cool when you see that he turns in his bathtub.
I like these cartoons. I recently saw "swing you sinners". I like this over the top crazy things that happens!
What the hell was that sneaky little rabbit up to?
Saturday is bath time.
Are butts not one of the funniest pieces of anatomy? Whoever animated that probably thought so.
Interesting choice of music, By The Beautiful Sea from the 1914 musical, For Me And My Gal.
All these cartoons from 1929 up to the mid 1960's featured great popular music - real popular music, stuff that mom and dad and the kids knew. Today, studios are unwilling to budget money for music licensing to allow the musical director for a cartoon to use snippets here and there of popular tunes to enhance the score, create a connection with the audience, etc., and a lot of scores seem to have become nothing more than a collection of cues, or unimaginative bits and pieces that might as well not be there.
pure fun!
It's weird to see ^__^ eyes in something so old
Also this looks really really good! Amazing butt action
I submit this Japanese piece as meeting all five criteria to one degree or another:
Ohhhhh... MANGO!
this is a very bizarre yet fun animation. I do feel a little perverted after witnessing that, probably because of the animators way of drawing all the rolls on the hippo and the way it slithered through the bath tub. The hippos butt was a nice climax as well.
I never knew personal hygiene could be so much fun until I watched the hippo bathing.
I'd give anything to see that real live hippo try to cram its body into that tiny tub.
I love the somersault he does in the bathtub. It's completely impossible, fun, AND believable, all in one fowl swoop!
- trevor.
ps: What luck to find that picture of the hippo at the bottom, eh?
I need to start learning how to do that
This whole cartoon is a trip- But I captured the hippo part because of the nice physics hahahha.
Wow that's cool!


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On Friday, Oct. 11, festivalgoers will enjoy a single stage at the foot of Newport Avenue beginning at 4 p.m., where there will also be a beer garden. The night's entertainment will be a Band Slam competition to pick the best cover or tribute band in the area, resulting in $3,000 in prizes. Artists were chosen through several rounds of "battle of the band" contests at Winston's Beach Club. On hand will be performers like the Elvis Costello tribute group The Distractions, Top 40 band The Big Lewinsky and —just in time for Halloween — Rob Zombie impersonators American Zombie.
On Oct. 12, there will be a full-day event beginning at 10 a.m., featuring two stages. The Main Stage will be hosted by inimitable local personality and crooner Jose Sinatra, and include sets from the Stranger, Hi Roots, Mike Pinto, Sandollar, Jet West, Atlantic Rising and The Routine, along with authentic oompah music between sets, courtesy of The Bavarian Beer Garden Band and The Rey Vinole Oktoberfest Band.
Beer garden admission is limited to those 21 and up. Admission is $3. Funds raised go to help fund the Ocean Beach MainStreet Association and the Ocean Beach Community Foundation.
But Oktoberfest is not just for the grownups. All ages are encouraged to turn out at no cost to soak up a host of oompah bands and entertainers performing on a second Seaside Stage on Abbott Street, featuring Lobster Bob.
Ted Wigler, talent booker at local venues Winston's and the 710 Beach Club, has been involved with the event's music component since it's inception nine years ago.
"At this point, we look for artists that have some sort of local following and, hopefully, a San Diego following," he said.
Wigler said the decision to expand music to two nights has added a distinctive element to the festival.
"To make it a two-day event, we wanted to do something totally different and off the hook, as well," Wigler explained. "We wanted to stay away from cover bands on the main day but realized there's a huge market for cover bands in the San Diego music scene."
Ariel Levine of the Elvis Costello tribute band The Distractions is an Ocean Beach resident and considers that to be a bonus when playing the event.
"Absolutely. It's nice to show my neighbors what I can do and it's flattering to be recognized around town," he said. "I've only played within OB limits a few times and I always look forward to another opportunity. I think this show, whether we win or lose, will be a real accomplishment as an Obecian."
He said he loves the outdoor nature of the event.
"I love the festival feeling," Levine said. "I don't often get to play outside. Every time I do, it's a blast. Also, I get to come down off the stage and join the festivities, as opposed to hiding backstage at a venue." He admits, though, that outdoor gigs offer challenges.
"It's a bit harder to hear clearly as the sound just escapes immediately. Also, wind can be a pain. But it's a lot more fun," he said.
Fellow Ocean Beach resident Chris Warner, guitarist for Jet West, agrees.
"There are, for sure, differences between outdoor and indoor gigs," he said. "Indoor gigs are great because all that energy from the crowd is harnessed within closed doors. But outdoor shows allow you to connect with your surroundings a lot more and enjoy Mother Nature to her fullest."
The band has opened the event once before.
"We are very thankful to be able to participate in the events like this one," said Warner. "Being a part of your greater community is what it is all about, and this festival is a great experience."