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Local mental health counselors said they are seeing a sharp increase in the demand for their services from those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, part of a nationwide trend reported by the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year.
At the same time, a congressional investigation released latelast month showed more than $50 million in mental health funds forveterans has gone unspent in the last two years. Veterans groupshave responded by calling on the VA to spend more on mental healthfor veterans -- and spend it more effectively.
"The VA must do a better job of spending those dollars that are allocated to it," said Paul Rieckhoff, an Iraq war veteran and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
In North County, the Vista Veterans Center reported a 71 percent increase in the number of visits by recent combat veterans seeking help for mental problems from fiscal year 2004 to fiscal year 2005, from 287 to 491. The VA Hospital in San Diego recorded a 58 percent increase, from 459 to 727 from fiscal years 2005 to 2006.
"I think it makes sense that more people would be coming in because the war has been going on for some time now and more and more veterans are being discharged," said Joe Costello, executive director of the Vista center.
Evidence of the trend is beginning to show up in statistics kept at VA hospitals and satellite clinics. More than one-third of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are seeking help for symptoms linked to post-combat stress or other disorders, a tenfold increase over the last 18 months, according to a study released by the VA earlier this year.
Jeffrey Matloff, program director for the San Diego VA hospital's post-traumatic stress syndrome team, said the number of Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans seeking treatment for mental and health problems is now "running neck and neck" with the combined number of veterans from other wars.
"There's less stigma attached to coming in and getting help," Matloff said. "The diagnosis of PTSD is much more recognized now than in other wars."
Repeated deployments pushing up numbers
Advocates for veterans and mental health professionals say repeated deployments to combat areas make it more likely that service members will develop some or all of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome, even if they don't see combat.
"A year in the combat zone has changed them, whether you've been in an intense firefight or not," Costello said. "Sometimes, adjusting to those changes are stumbling blocks in civilian life."
Mental health professionals say that veterans who do not or cannot receive treatment for mental disorders are vulnerable to symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome -- mood swings, anger, excessive anxieties, depression and high-risk behavior.
"There's a lot of substance abuse, particularly with younger folks driving down the road at 100 mph, drunk," Costello said.
The murky nature of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the threat of ambush never disappears, is another factor cited by Matloff in the increased mental health caseload.
"You're involved in largely civilian areas, where you don't know where the danger may be coming from. All that uncertainty may make it more difficult as far as the rules of combat and stress on the people who have to be on the front lines, and there are no front lines," Matloff said.
Not all the reasons why more veterans are seeking mental health treatments are negative. Counselors praised the military for informing combat veterans of the availability of mental health services inside and outside the armed forces, a change from previous reluctance to venture into discussions about the psychological effects of combat.
Nevertheless, service members still perceive risks in discussing the subject, said Karen Schoenfeld-Smith, director of the San Diego Veterans Center.
"It's easier to keep quiet, particularly if you're interested in maintaining your career in the service," she said. "But the military has been very proactive, in its own way, trying to encourage people to go get treatment."
Despite the findings that money for mental health services is going unspent, three local counselors interviewed insist the part of the VA system serving San Diego County has the capacity to meet increased demands for counseling, at least for the near future.
But Rieckhoff says the VA, as a nationwide system, needs "dramatically increased" funding along with more efficiency to ensure it spends all the money it receives from Congress.
"The VA needs to get ahead of the curve and be proactive," Rieckhoff said. "We shouldn't have to wait until there's an increase in homelessness and martial problems."
Critics question mental health spending
The increase in cases, coupled with the congressional investigation showing that more than $50 million in mental health funds for veterans has gone unspent in the last two years, has prompted complaints from veterans groups. They question the government's spending practices -- and overall commitment -- to the mental health of veterans.
Ira Katz, chief of mental health services for the VA, said in a telephone interview with the North County Times that critics have misinterpreted the findings of the investigation, and that the administration held off on some spending to make sure money was being spent on the best programs.
"We want to make sure people know what works, what doesn't work and get doctors collaborating on plans," Katz said. "The department did not spend the full amount of mental enhancement dollars that were available to it over the last two years. As a result, some question the VA's commitment to mental health. That's just not the case."
The congressional investigation was conducted by the Government Accountability Office, an agency that works for Congress and studies ways to make government programs more efficient and less expensive.
The report on the VA said the agency failed to spend $54 million in fiscal years 2005 and 2006, money that was intended to pay for easier access to mental health counseling and for raising awareness of the service among veterans.
Fiscal years in the federal government run from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. The $54 million was part of a total allocation of $300 million for new mental health initiatives offered by the VA over the last two fiscal years.
The Government Accountability Office report also concluded that an additional $35 million initially reserved for mental health was shifted to another fund where it could be used for other purposes.
"As a result, it is likely that some of these funds were not used" for mental health initiatives, the report said.
System needs streamlining, officials say
The report said VA officials interviewed by investigators said the money was not used because "there was not enough time in the fiscal year to do so" and it took too long to hire new staff members.
The report was written at the request of members of Congress and submitted to the Veterans Affairs subcommittee on health in the House of Representatives. The authors of the report said their agency was asked to show how the VA was spending money designated for new mental health initiatives in fiscal years 2005 and 2006.
Katz said training, new hiring, education and other changes in what he called the "culture" of the VA also led to delays in spending the mental health money. He said the administration is committed to improving the mental health of the country's veterans.
Katz gave the example of a veteran who might need treatment for three conditions -- heart trouble, depression and alcoholism. Normally, such a patient would see three doctors working separately from each other in what Katz called "silos."
"This is really onerous," he said. "The existence of all these silos is all too often a barrier to people getting the care they need."
Creating more collaboration among doctors has taken some time, he said.
"Primary care and other doctors work side by side so a patient's cardiac condition, depression and drinking can be treated by his primary care doctor, not three doctors in three different systems," Katz said.
In 2004 and 2005, VA officials decided to add a total of $300 million for mental health initiatives to deal with expected increases in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking counseling.
The VA's National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome predicted in July that "the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are the most sustained combat operations since the Vietnam War, and initial signs imply that these ongoing wars are likely to produce a new generation of veterans with chronic mental health problems associated with participation in combat."
Katz said he is well aware of the trend, and is working to make sure the VA is prepared to serve veterans who need help.
"Mental health is important and retiring veterans have great mental health needs," Katz said.
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South Africa Wins Rain-Affected ODI, Takes SeriesBloemfontein, South Africa, Jan 18: South Africa sneaked a four-run win over Sri Lanka on the Duckworth/Lewis method in a rain-affected third one-day international on Tuesday to clinch the five-match series 3-0.South Africa was 179-5
Bloemfontein, South Africa, Jan 18: South Africa sneaked a four-run win over Sri Lanka on the Duckworth/Lewis method in a rain-affected third one-day international on Tuesday to clinch the five-match series 3-0.
South Africa was 179-5 after 34 overs chasing Sri Lanka's 266-9 when rain came down at Chevrolet Park.
Umpires called the game off about an hour and 20 minutes later, handing South Africa a narrow victory and first series win under new skipper AB de Villiers.
De Villiers was 39 not out at the end and Albie Morkel 7 not out, but Faf du Plessis's career-best ODI score of 72 from 99 balls had pushed South Africa within reach of victory. Du Plessis' innings was crucial after Lasith Malinga (2-20) struck twice and the home team slipped to 113-4.
"I would have liked the game to go to the end," De Villiers said, "but I am proud of the boys. We pulled it back with the ball and were solid with the bat."
Sri Lanka's competitive total was earlier set up by a second successive half-century by Upul Tharanga in a 94-run opening stand with captain Tillakaratne Dilshan (33).
Sri Lanka couldn't capitalize on its strong start, however, as Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara (38) and Dinesh Chandimal (36) didn't go on to make big scores when well-set. Nuwan Kulasekara hit a quickfire 40 down the order but the tourists were reined in when a 300-plus scores was possible.
South Africa spinners Robin Peterson and JP Duminy had a wicket each to remove the openers, while fast bowler Morne Morkel finished with 2-65.
The Sri Lankans were still unfortunate not to have the chance to see the game through and apply late pressure on the home team, which still needed 88 runs off 16 overs when the weather intervened.
"We're definitely disappointed to lose the series like this," Dilshan said. "We had a great chance to win today, with Lasith (Malinga) still having five overs with almost 90 runs to go. We'll try to finish strongly in the last two games."
Tharanga made a rapid start, crashing five fours and two sixes in his 58 from 65 balls before Peterson had him caught off a top-edged sweep by Colin Ingram. Dilshan fell eight runs and two overs later.
Sangakkara and Chandimal added 52 for the third wicket but their stand was ended with a Du Plessis direct hit from backward point to run out Sangakkara.
Sri Lanka slipped from a strong position at 154-2 to add just 112 more runs in the last 20 overs, despite late rallies from Nuwan Kulasekara and Kosala Kulasekara, who made 19 from 20 balls.
Malinga fired out Graeme Smith and Ingram in a deadly opening spell and recalled opener Alviro Petersen fell for 17 trying a reverse sweep off Dilshan to leave South Africa 52-3.
Du Plessis and Duminy rebuilt with their 61-run partnership until Duminy was given run out for 25 when Nuwan Kulasekara threw down the stumps.
TV replays appeared to show Duminy just home and the surprise decision by third umpire Billy Doctrove left South Africa's players shaking their heads in bewilderment and coach Gary Kirsten clearly angry. In his disappointment, Duminy took a long time to leave the field.
Du Plessis hit seven fours in his third ODI half-century and even though he was also run out after struggling with cramp — the fifth run out in the match — No. 6 De Villiers dragged South Africa above the required run rate with three fours in his 39 from 36 deliveries.
It was just enough for a fifth ODI series win in their last six for the Proteas and sent Sri Lanka to a fifth straight loss in limited-overs contests.

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- Defective Product Design - A case can be made for defective design when the product or item is inherently dangerous. The infamous Ford Pinto is a famous example of defective design. The gas tank of the Pinto was placed dangerously close to the rear bumper and could potentially explode in a rear-end impact. Given the frequency of rear-end accidents, this design was inherently dangerous and defective.
- Defective Product Manufacturing - Defective manufacturing occurs when a safely designed product is assembled improperly. For example, every lawnmower that comes off the assembly line is supposed to be assembled to exact specifications. If one lawnmower somehow comes off the line with the blades improperly installed the manufacturer will be liable if the device causes injury.
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In search of a Google Android tablet, the Google Nexus 7 is a 7 inch tablet that my be the best android tablet currently available. The Nexus 7 runs on the latest version of Android, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. This Google Android tablet was made for Google Play and designed to challenge the Amazon Kindle Fire. At Google Play there are over 600,000 applications and video games available for Android and more eBooks, magazines, movies and music than one can handle.
The Google Nexus 7 is available for pre-order, for $199 you can get the 8GB version or for $249 with 16GB. There is no expandable memory so this may seem to be limiting to the media maniac, but don't worry you can get free cloud storage. Being the first Android Jelly Bean 7 inch tablet, you would expect it to be the best android tablet out there. Yea, well it is. The Google Nexus 7 has the speed that prevents lags. It is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and requires Wi-Fi connectivity. It supports Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n speeds.
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UPDATE: Here is an Update we recevied from The Entertainment Book.
"We are excited to announce that we have resumed operations as a going concern on March 27, 2013, after filing a chapter 7 bankruptcy petition earlier in March. During this time, we will to continue to serve our consumers, merchants, partners and vendors, pending our sale, which is expected to occur on or about April 22, 2013."
The Entertainment Book Bankrupt?!
It has been reported that The Entertainment Book has filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy.
According to the Detroit News, "he question of whether Entertainment Book coupons would continue to be honored hasn't been addressed by anyone involved."
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy isn't the kind where they restructure and try to save the company. chapter 7 pretty much says it's over.
According to Coupons in the News, "If you've already paid money for an Entertainment Coupon book, you may worry whether the companies whose coupons are in the books will still honor them. Since the coupons are already paid for, there's no reason for them not to. Of course, with the coupon company itself out of business, there's no one to ensure that the coupons are still worth more the paper they're printed on. But only the most unscrupulous or confused company would take advantage of the situation and invalidate its coupons."
So, if you have bought a book, you should be okay. I just would not recommend placing any new orders at this time.Follow Us On: Mojo's Facebook , Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest and catch all our deals!


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A history of Wigderson critics
You think I get bounced pretty hard in the Waukesha Freeman Sound Off? My grandfather was criticized pretty harshly by a columnist for the Waukesha Freeman in 1952.
Zimmerman, according to reports, practically challenged the local leaders of the party to defeat him. It seemed to be a speech intended to make a fight, and he got it. At the same time the young politicians sprinkled throughout the hall were peddling Wigderson's campaign and working on their elders' long smoldering resentment toward "Old Zim." Wigderson wasn't particularly impressive, but it was a chance to offer some reward to the energetic youngster arrogant office-holder.
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The odds will heavily favor Zimmerman, of course. The average voter isn't much concerned with party regularity or the relations of organization politicians.
The office is scarcely a vital one. The habit of voting for Zimmerman is a strong one, after a generation. But "Old Zim" is aging—many of the delegates were surprised to note his halting walk across the platform for his perfunctory speech — and it may be that if his young challenger makes a reasonably effective campaign he can earn consideration for a future nomination, or even an interim appointment to the office some day.
The fact is, although it is rarely discussed with any candor, that this office and the state treasurer's office are losing public interest and awareness. There must be many more persons of greater suitability for the office of state secretary than the young and obscure lawyer who was picked by the convention. Yet he was about the best that was offered.
The paucity of candidates for this and other offices reveals their diminishing importance and suggests, perhaps, that some day the legislature will recognize reality and abolish them altogether.
Man, those Waukesha Freeman columnists can be real bullies sometimes.
It is pretty sad that they were talking about abolishing the Secretary of State and State Treasurer positions back in 1952 and those two public offices continue to exist.


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Like its previous incarnations, the SuperTooth Crystal Bluetooth car speakerphone is slim at only 1.93" x 5.12" x .055" and extremely easy to use. So when I took on this review I thought it would be a piece-of-cake until my car blew up and I needed to put this test on hold.
While waiting to get the chance to put the SuperTooth Crystal through its paces I thought I'd read the instructions and become acquainted with the functionality, but my husband had other ideas. Needless to say he had it paired with my phone before I had the chance to crack the cover of the limited instructions booklet, basically because it couldn't be simpler to use, just turn Bluetooth on your device and hold down the power button for eight seconds.
Since my car was out of commission for about a week I had to come up with other ways to proceed with my assignment. So keeping in mind that the SuperTooth Crystal can pair via Bluetooth with two phones at a time, we took it for a spin in my husband's car and made calls that came through better than I expected, and certainly better than my old Bluetooth earpiece.
My biggest concern was what would happen when we actually got a call in on one of our phones or worse yet, calls on both phones — fortunately there is a call waiting function. During this excursion we did not run into dulling calls, but we did each get calls. We positioned the SuperTooth Crystal over the passenger seat and of course the first call that came in was for my husband, who was driving. We asked the caller how we sounded, and the feedback was that I sounded crystal clear while my husband sounded far off.
My next call was with my friend, Moira, who has a built-in Bluetooth speakerphone in her car and a superior sound system. I have had past conversations with her on my Bluetooth earbud and she has commented that I sounded canned or like I was in a tunnel. I didn't mention that I was using a new system and asked her how the call sounded; she told me I sounded great and much better than in the past.
Still without a car and wanting work on my review, I took the SuperTooth Crystal speakerphone indoors. I loved it—it worked much better than, again, my Bluetooth earbud, which cracks and loses the connection if I get too far from the phone. Not so with the Crystal. I could leave my cell on the first floor of my home and still get clear reception on the second floor, which I found amazing since according to the specs the SuperTooth Crystal Bluetooth operating range is 10 meters or about 30 feet.
I finally got my car back and wanted to try out the other features of the SuperTooth Crystal Bluetooth speakerphone, which by the way is also incredibly easy to install in your vehicle with its magnetic clip that attaches to the visor for easy access to answering calls, increasing or lowering the volume.
I just popped it in and off I went, making a call to my friend Denise to let her know I was on my way to pick her up. I asked her about the sound quality, and again the connection sounded great on both ends. We were heading to a place I was not familiar with I was so excited to try navigating with the Crystal Bluetooth.
Here's where I ran in to some trouble. It seems my BlackBerry Curve's navigation system would not connect to the Crystal Bluetooth… which also meant I could not stream music from my phone either. I was super disappointed so I went out to my local phone store to investigate. According to the rep I talked with the technology may just be old enough that it doesn't match up with current Bluetooth options. Guess it must be time for an upgrade.
I brought the speaker into the office, where we could play with it more using an iPhone, and music sounded pretty good coming out of the speaker, a little better than the phone speaker. It like it could just hit the right volume for an enclosed space like a car, but at max volume there was some distortion. We could even talk to Siri through the speaker (although as usual, she didn't understand anything we were asking).
Despite not being able to stream music or navigate while putting the SuperTooth Crystal Bluetooth speakerphone through its paces I'd give it a big thumbs up over an in-ear Bluetooth headset.
You can learn more at the SuperTooth website or buy a SuperTooth Crystal from Amazon by clicking here.
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text: School supplies needed for disadvantaged, sick students July 31, 2013 While school supply shopping is in full swing, consider picking up an extra pencil, ream of paper or glue stick. The department of pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch is sponsoring a school supplies drive for disadvantaged GISD students and UTMB pediatrics patients. Items requested include spiral notebooks, No. 2 pencils, binders, backpacks, rulers, flash drives, construction paper, combination locks and highlighters. The department will be collecting supplies through Friday, Aug. 23. Items may be dropped off in the main lobby of John Sealy Hospital at Eighth and Market streets or in Research Building #6 (formerly the Children's Hospital) Room 3.300 on the UTMB campus. Contact Tayna Vazquez at email@example.com or call 409-772-5270. Complete list of items needed: Crayola crayons (24 ct.) Large bottles hand sanitizer Glue sticks White glue (no gel glue) Boxes of Kleenex Washable markers Blunt edge scissors and Fiskars scissors Wide-ruled composition notebooks Single-subject spiral notebooks (wide/college rule) Three-subject spiral notebooks Pocket folders (with brads) Pencils (No. 2, no mechanical pencils) Map (colored) pencils Supply box Backpacks (no wheels) Ball point pens Binders (1", 1.5", 2") w/ pockets 8-tab dividers Pencil pouch to keep in binder Color markers Wide-rule and college-rule notebook paper Ziploc baggies Combination locks Rulers Erasers Hand-held pencil sharpeners Flash drives Highlighters Expo dry erase markers Construction paper « Back | The Newsroom »


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Stoic is pleased to have come to an agreement with King regarding Stoic's The Banner Saga trademark, which enables both parties to protect their respective trademarks now and in the future.
The Banner Saga - Development Updates
Stoic has a few updates on The Banner Saga webpage. The first post talks about what the developer is working on right now, and apologizes for being silent for a while.
Sorry we've been really quiet these days! Let me give you a brief run down on what John, Alex and I have been up to since launching the Saga and what we're doing right now.
Leading up to the launch of the Saga we were working about 16 to 18 hour days for weeks upon weeks. No exercise and fueling the body on a diet of pizza and beer for long periods of time can really take it out of you. Since then we've only intermittently been in the studio. All of us have given back some time to our families who were as exhausted as we were. My wife has been taking care of my two boys. Taking them school, to cub scouts, giving baths, reading books before bed, camping, mowing our yard, making all the dinners, basically keeping the house running and doing it solo for over a year. The same holds true for the other guys in similar capacities. John, Alex and I gave pretty much everything we had to The Banner Saga, but so did our families. We wouldn't do anything different. We knew getting this game up and running would be an effort but it was truly a labor of love (as cheesy as that saying is). Alex and family took off on a cruise, then went out to chill in Colorado. John hit Seattle then relaxed in Paris and ate really good fondue. I went skiing in Colorado then did a road trip to Florida to visit family. All of us needed to take a step back and enjoy life again…for a time.
The second post shares good news about the legal problem with the games name. You may remember King claimed they owned the name a few months back.
The final post is about a new live stream with Indie Game Mag.
We're happy to announce that we will be chatting with the hitbox team courtesy of Indie Game Mag on Monday Night (March 31st) starting at 6pm PST. Come join the channel and chat with us and the hitbox crew.
We'll be live at http://www.hitbox.tv/IndieGameMagazine
Information aboutBanner Saga
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Strategy-RPG
Platform: PC
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ELYRIA — Several people were arrested Sunday after officers were sent to the scene of a large disturbance in which a woman and her child were allegedly threatened with a gun.
At 8:54 p.m., officers responded to the scene of approximately 15 to 20 people who were standing outside of 1612 West Ave.
Police said the alleged victims — Tarina and Tonya Howard — were crying hysterically about a woman pointing a shotgun in their direction and threatening them and children who were with them.
The woman, identified as Shean Johnson, 38, was intoxicated and standing in the front yard of the home, according to police. Police said Johnson was having difficulty balancing and standing, and she was disheveled in a way that her dress nearly exposed her breast.
Johnson was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated menacing, using weapons while intoxicated and tampering with evidence after police interviewed several witnesses at the scene.
Police said it was determined that Johnson walked out on her front porch and pointed a shotgun at one of the women and her child while they were visiting a friend across the street. A police report did not list what prompted the alleged threats.
The shotgun — a 12-gauge Westernfield, Model 40N — was found in tree nearby. Officers confiscated the loaded gun and secured the weapon.
During the course of the investigation, four others were arrested for allegedly not cooperating with police officers.
Sylvester Oliver, 64, was charged with obstructing official business and resisting arrest; Demann Wilson, 34, was charged with obstructing official business and illegal use of food stamps and Tennyson Thomas, 36, and
Amber Eccelston, 18, were charged with obstructing official business.
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ADRIANO – Trainer Graham Motion sent his Lane's End Stakes (GII) winner to the Churchill Downs racetrack Friday morning for a 1½-mile gallop under Alice Clapham in preparation for Saturday's 134th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands.
Adriano, who finished ninth in his only dirt start after acting up in the paddock prior to the Fountain of Youth Stakes (GII) at Gulfstream Park in February, has impressed his trainer during a string of schooling sessions in the Churchill paddock. The son of A.P. Indy behaved particularly well on Thursday afternoon, when he schooled between races along with Derby morning line favorite Big Brown.
"I was really pleased. The last day doing it, I didn't want to get over there and have a bad experience. It was kind of his dress rehearsal," said Motion, whose colt visited the paddock before Friday's gallop. "There was a lot of action. I was glad."
Motion, who saddled Chilito for an 11th-place finish in the 1998 Derby, said the presence of speed horses outside his colt's No. 15 stall in the auxiliary starting gate makes it difficult to figure out how the Run for the Roses will set up.
"I'm going to talk to Edgar about it and get his thoughts on everything," said Motion, referring to jockey Edgar Prado. "I think certainly the way Edgar rode him last time, I'd be surprised if he was in the front group, unless they go kind of steady. But he'll certainly be in the second group or close to it."
While Adriano's ability to handle dirt tracks as well as he's run over turf and Turfway Park's synthetic track is still in question, his trainer has not doubts about the Kentucky-bred colt's credentials to handle classic distances.
"The one thing I feel best about is that he'll handle a mile and a quarter and with some of these horses, it's going to be a question mark," he said.
ANAK NAKAL/COOL COAL MAN – Trainer Nick Zito's Derby duo both galloped 1½ miles Friday morning under exercise riders Heather Stark (Anak Nakal) and Megan Smillie (Cool Coal Man).
Zito said he didn't have much of a handle on how the 20-horse Derby will be run, but he said he was somewhat intrigued by the presence of speed in stalls 18 (Recapturetheglory) and 20 (morning line favorite Big Brown) of the auxiliary starting gate.
"I think it's going to be very interesting, because Recapturetheglory is just inside Big Brown, and I don't see (Recapturetheglory) not going or trying to get the lead," Zito said. "I don't know what's going to happen, but I'd say it's very interesting."
Cool Coal Man, the Fountain of Youth (GII) winner at Gulfstream Park who disappointed on Keeneland's Polytrack in the Blue Grass, will break from the No. 1 hole, two spots inside stablemate Anak Nakal and far inside the speed horses.
"I'd like him to get away and get comfortable somehow," he said. "Luck is going to play a big part. You just hope he gets the chance at least to get close and be in a good position."
Julien Leparoux will ride Cool Coal Man, while Rafael Bejarano will be aboard Anak Nakal.
BIG BROWN – The morning after his breeze, the Boundary colt walked the shedrow at Barn 22.
Trainer Rick Dutrow said the colt came out of his three-furlong work in :35.40 in fine shape. Dutrow said he has enjoyed the journey to America's biggest race and is eager for race day to arrive.
"It's been so much fun," he said. "I just can't wait until (Saturday) when they load him in the gate. It's very exciting, over the top."
Dutrow will make one equipment change for the Derby: Big Brown will wear wraps – bandages – on his front legs. It's a precautionary move, Dutrow said, an attempt to prevent the colt from burning – or scraping the back of his right front heel again.
"It's just going to help protect where he burns a little bit. There is no reason to try it again. I'm sure he'll run the same race, but if he was to burn it might make us miss something, which we don't need to deal with. So I'll just protect him."
Dutrow compared a horse burning a heel to the rubbing people feel when they wear a new pair of shoes.
"I should have put them on him last time because he burned again, but I didn't," Dutrow said. "It didn't cost us anything. So, since he's done it a couple of times, I might as well put the front bandages on to protect him."
Big Brown wears the wraps daily and Dutrow said the colt is quite comfortable with them on.
"He's got plenty of experience with the front bandages," Dutrow said. "Even after he ran the first two times, I kept front bandages on him every day just because you need to protect that little spot when you want to train him. He's very, very used to them."
BIG TRUCK/TALE OF EKATI – Barclay Tagg's two Derby entrants shared a common training schedule at Churchill Downs Friday morning.
"They galloped a mile and a half, both of them," said Tagg, whose colts were ridden by exercise rider Kristen Troxell. "They went out and stood there for a while, looked at the crowd. They jogged to the end of the grandstand; they turned around and galloped a mile and a half. Both of them did the same thing."
Tagg said he didn't have a clue how Derby 134 would unfold, unlike the ever-confident Rick Dutrow, trainer of morning line favorite Big Brown.
According to Dutrow, there's Big Brown and some horses in the race. "I think it's a wide-open race. Who knows? I don't think anyone really knows except Dutrow," Tagg said. "He, at least, says what he thinks; I'm not knocking him for it. He's a friend of mine. I like Dickie Dutrow. He seems to know what's going on better than I do."
Tagg did have a best-case scenario for Big Truck, the Tampa Bay Derby (GIII) winner, and Tale of Ekati, who won the Wood Memorial (GI) at Aqueduct in his last start.
"My horses go to the front and lead the whole way and finish in a dead-heat to win," he said.
The worst-case scenario would be that the Churchill Downs racing strip comes up muddy, said Tagg, whose Wood Memorial winner finished a distant fourth in the slop at Monmouth in last year's Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile (GI) and whose Tampa Bay Derby victor checked in fifth in the Hutcheson (GII) in the Gulfstream slop.
"It'll be a big factor. If it's nice, I'll be very happy. I'm not good with mudders," he said.
Eibar Coa will be aboard Tale of Ekati, while Javier Castellano has the mount aboard Big Truck.
BOB BLACK JACK – The California-bred son of Stormy Jack was out at 7:15 Friday morning at Churchill Downs under exercise rider Joe Deegan, but there wasn't any heavy lifting on his menu. The dark colt merely did a little jiggy-jog over to the starting gate, stood quietly in it for a while, then jogged back – finally returning to his temporary home in Barn 45.
"He did fine," said Deegan. "No problems."
Trainer James Kasparoff was happy with what transpired and noted that he would jog his charge once around the big oval Saturday morning at about 6:30 to take some of his Derby Day edge off.
The saga of Bob Black Jack started with him being bought as a yearling for a mere $4,500 in October 2006. James Kasparoff picks it up from there.
"My brother Tim and his partner, Jeff Harmon, were looking for a horse and this one got recommended to me," he remembered. "He was out at a farm in Riverside County in a place called Romoland (midway between San Diego and Los Angles and about 75 miles from each) and in May (2007) we went out to take a look. I liked what I saw and the price they were asking was in our budget. We wound up getting him for $25,000.
"I knew early on he could run and I knew I didn't want to put him in for a claiming price when we finally got to the races. I ran him with California-bred straight maidens last year at Del Mar and he fit. He's been doing well ever since."
In seven starts for his connections, Bob Black Jack has brought back a check every time, including three wins, and has banked $442,925. The winner of Saturday's Kentucky Derby receives $1,451,800; second is worth $400,000; third $200,000; fourth $100,000, and fifth $60,000.
James Kasparoff makes no bones about it.
"This horse," he says with a smile, "has exceeded expectations."
Veteran Richard Migliore will handle Bob Black Jack in Derby 134 and they will depart from post No. 13.COLONEL JOHN – Trainer Eoin Harty watched the Tiznow colt move through a 1½-mile gallop during the two-hour-training period Friday that was shortened because the Kentucky Oaks program started in late morning.
"I sent him out at 6:30 because the track closed early," Harty said. "I wanted to get a semi-decent track and I still wanted to be able to see him. When it was bright enough, I took him out there."
Harty's assessment: "He looked fantastic."
Compared to the previous two days when dozens of people visited Barn 41, the Derby home of the WinStar Farm colt, it was very quiet Friday morning. Harty took care of chores, including picking up tickets, and spent some time chatting with Mike Pegram, owner of 1998 Kentucky Derby winner Real Quiet, and Mike Tice, the former NFL player and head coach, who is now on the staff of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Harty said everything has gone according to plan with Colonel John for what will be his first Derby appearance as a head trainer.
"I'm excited," he said. "It's been a great couple of weeks. It's a pity it has to end, but it does. That's what we're here for."
Jockey Corey Nakatani, who has the mount in the Derby, stopped by the barn to say hello to Harty and take a look at the colt. Nakatani has ridden Colonel John in the four of the colt's six races and guided him to a victory in the Santa Anita Derby (GI) on April 5.
Nakatani was aboard when Colonel John broke his maiden on Oct. 7 and has seen how the colt has developed during the past seven months.
"He's just gotten better and filled out and matured with every step that he had a chance to," Nakatani said. "That's what you're looking for in the younger two-year-olds and becoming three."
In the Santa Anita Derby, Colonel John responded when Nakatani moved him to the outside and urged him to quicken and they caught Bob Black Jack to win by a half-length.
"There is no question that when I asked him he gave me what I was asking him for," Nakatani said. "That's what it takes. It takes a very special horse to be able to do those things from two to three. They may be really exceptional at 2 and then at 3 the other ones catch up, but he seems like he's gotten better and progressed every time."
Colonel John will be Nakatani's 14th Derby starter. His best finishes were fourths with Green Alligator in 1991 and Halory Hunter in 1998. The veteran jockey is taking a pretty straightforward approach to this Derby assignment.
"I'm going to go out there and ride the horse and ride him to win," he said.
COURT VISION/Z HUMOR – After a brief tour of the Churchill Downs paddock, Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott's pair of contenders for Kentucky Derby 134 turned in 1 ½-mile gallops Friday morning in preparation for Saturday's feature. Mott reported that all is well in his camp and that both runners had completed all of their paddock schooling.
"They will both train a little tomorrow morning on race day," Mott said. "We'll just take them out for something light to stretch their legs."
IEAH Stable and WinStar Farm's Court Vision, winner of last fall's Remsen (GII) and most recently third in the Wood Memorial (GI), will try to follow the path of horses such as Real Quiet (1998), Funny Cide (2003) and Giacomo (2005), horses in the past decade who came into the Derby winless as 3-year-olds, but exited draped in roses.
Zayat Stables' Z Humor will try to become the second offspring of Distorted Humor to win the Derby in the past six years, joining 2003 victor Funny Cide.
COWBOY CAL/MONBA – Trainer Todd Pletcher's Derby duo had their final bit of exercise coming up to their mile-and-a-quarter run Saturday when they both went trackside Friday morning at Churchill Downs.
The dark gray Monba, who races for the partnership of Starlight Stable, Don Lucarelli and Paul Saylor, was out at approximately 6 a.m. and galloped about a mile and a quarter under Patti Krotenko. Stablemate Cowboy Cal, a homebred Stonerside Stable runner, also had Krotenko aboard for a two-mile jog.
Pletcher, who led his colts on and off the track at the six-furlong gap, reported that "everything was good."
Monba, a Maria's Mon offspring, will be ridden by Ramon Dominguez. Cowboy Cal, a son of Giant's Causeway , will have the saddle services of John Velazquez.
Four-time Eclipse Award winner Pletcher was asked if he would have any special instructions for his riders.
"Not a lot," the trainer said. "They're just going to have to feel their way around there through the early going. I'd expect Monba would be in a stalking position and that Cowboy Cal would be sitting right behind the front speed."
DENIS OF CORK –Mr. and Mrs. William K. Warren Jr.'s Denis of Cork visited the paddock and starting gate and then galloped a mile and an eighth under trainer David Carroll.
"He did much better at the gate today," Carroll said. "Yesterday he was on edge a little. He will go out and jog a mile and an eighth in the morning. He's sitting on go. He's on edge, but not over the edge. He is just looking to run"
Denis of Cork will break from post position 16 under Calvin Borel, who rode the Harlan's Holiday colt to victories in his first two starts.
Carroll, who never has had a Kentucky Derby starter, was asked what he would be looking for Saturday.
"I hope he gets a clean break and a good trip," Carroll said. "The first turn is going to be pivotal. By the time they get to the first turn, I'm sure Calvin will be getting closer to the rail. After that, you are just looking for a clean trip.
"He will probably be 10 to 15 lengths out of it early. I am hoping it is a real legitimate pace and down the backside he can start picking his way through horses. He's got a good cruising speed. I don't know if Big Brown is the speed of the speed, but I'd love to see a 45 and change or 46 half to have a shot."
Carroll, who gallops many of his horses, was asked which of the Derby entrants had caught his eye in the morning.
"Big Brown is a good looking horse, Colonel John and Pyro," Carroll said.
The road to Kentucky Derby 134 was one that began to take shape at Churchill Downs in late November when Denis of Cork broke his maiden with an impressive, eight-wide move in a seven-furlong race.
The following morning that dawned raw and clear, Carroll was talking about Dogwood Stable's Blackberry Road, who had run second in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (GII) the day, and Denis of Cork and the Derby dreams that were born.
"It was cold that morning, I remember it well," Carroll said. I dreamed about it (The Derby) and thought about it and in December we thought about what we wanted to do with this horse and we had to come up with a game plan. We wanted to go the Arkansas route and that was December. He won an allowance and that was great; he won the Southwest and that was great and then nothing (in the Illinois Derby) and now we are here.
"We had a game plan and obviously he had to go out and execute it, but I thought he had potential. That's why I thought it would have been tough not to have the opportunity to be in it. We're ready."
EIGHT BELLES – Trainer Larry Jones took Fox Hill Farms' Eight Belles to the track earlier than usual Friday morning, jogging three-eighths of a mile and galloping another five-eighths.
"We may need to get a huge umbrella to hold over Churchill Downs," Jones said of potential wet weather in the area. "She's never run on an off-track, but a gray on the mud, that's supposed to work."
("Bet a gray on a rainy day" is the actual saying.)
While Jones says he's not a gambling man, he commented on how much backing the only filly in the Kentucky Derby will receive at the mutuel windows.
"I think about half the people will be rooting for her, whether their husbands like it or not.
"I understand that (U.S. Senator) Hillary (Clinton) is backing Eight Belles. I heard that on TV," he said.
Numerous media outlets have carried the news of Clinton's selection in the Kentucky Derby and former first daughter Chelsea is expected to attend Churchill Downs on Saturday.
Eight Belles will stay in the barn Saturday morning and, like most Derby contenders, simply walk the shedrow.
"He went good," Pieper noted afterward. "It's all in Mike Smith's hands now."
Smith, the Hall of Fame jockey who has ridden the dark colt in all five of his starts to date, will be back aboard the quick sophomore when he breaks from post No. 19 in Saturday's 134th Kentucky Derby. He'll wear the silks of the Cubanacan Stables of Carlos Juelle and Dr. Jose Prieto.
Smith was on hand from his California base to observe the exercise and he and trainer Paulo Lobo walked back to Barn 33 with the colt following the leg-stretching.
"We're all set," said Smith.
"Perfect," was Lobo's comment.
"Everything is good," the trainer added. "I gave him that day off Thursday (when he only walked the shedrow) as was my plan; as I always do. I probably won't put him on the track in the morning."
PYRO/Z FORTUNE – The next time trainer Steve Asmussen's Derby duo sets foot on the Churchill Downs surface it will be to walk over for Saturday's 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. Both Pyro and Z Fortune turned in their final pre-Derby conditioning drills Friday morning by galloping 1 1/4 miles. Asmussen said they will walk the shedrow Saturday morning in advance of the main event.
Both Pyro and Z Fortune schooled in the paddock during Thursday's racing program, among a large crowd that has become the Derby Week Thursday norm.
"The paddock went very well for both," Asmussen said. "They'll be left alone today – no more schooling is necessary."
Zayat Stables' Z Fortune exits a second-place finish in the Arkansas Derby (GII) in which he ran a career-best effort, according to his trainer. How he bounces back from that effort holds the key to his success or failure Saturday. Meanwhile, Winchell Thoroughbreds' Pyro, the third choice at 6-1 in Mike Battaglia's Derby 134 morning line, exits a career-worst effort in the Toyota Blue Grass (GI).
So does Asmussen have any clearer answers to the status of Pyro after his three weeks of training, post-Blue Grass?
"Not until he runs," the trainer flatly said. "We're as interested to see as everyone else."
RECAPTURETHEGLORY – After several days of very strong gallops, trainer Louie Roussel III opted to take the edge off his Illinois Derby (GII) winner Friday morning with a short blowout down the lane. Under exercise rider and assistant trainer Lara Van Deren, Recapturetheglory was let loose a bit for a three-sixteenths of a mile drill through the long Churchill Downs stretch. Roussel caught the last furlong in :13.20.
"The next 24 hours will just be time to relax and enjoy it all," the affable conditioner said. "We've done everything we can and now it's just up to Recapturetheglory. We're armed and dangerous for tomorrow. We'll just hope he gets into the feed tub and does everything right."
Co-owned by Roussel and his longtime pal, New Orleans car dealer Ronald Lamarque, Recapturetheglory will be the connections' first Derby starter since Risen Star finished third in this race 20 years ago. Kentucky Derby rookie rider E.T. Baird will try to emulate 2004 Derby-winning jockey Stewart Elliott, who is the only rider since Ronnie Franklin in 1979 to wear the roses following his first attempt at racing's Holy Grail.
SMOOTH AIR – Trainer Bennie Stutts Jr. sent out Mount Joy Stable's Smooth Air to the track Friday morning to jog a half-mile and gallop 1 ½ miles under exercise rider Susie Milne.
Smooth Air had an easy work Thursday, going three-eighths in :38.20. "It was just a nice, easy blowout," said Stutts. "That was just a maintenance work yesterday to open his lungs up. A reporter asked me why he went back to the track today. This was an easy gallop, nothing hard. He'll walk tomorrow."
Smooth Air will be reunited with jockey Manoel Cruz in the Kentucky Derby. The Brazilian-born rider has been aboard the colt in all seven of his races. While this marks Cruz' first mount in the Derby, he has ridden two winners at Churchill Downs from five mounts, including a win here Thursday.
"I feel calm and confident," said Cruz on Friday from the jockeys' room, where he was preparing for his two mounts on the day's 11-race card. "It's very important to ride in this race. It is a race that everybody wants to ride in. I'm grateful for the opportunity."
Cruz has been a leading rider in his homeland as well as at Tampa Bay Downs and Calder Race Course in Florida. He has won 1,767 races in the United States since arriving here in 2000.
VISIONAIRE – Brandon and Diannah Perry of Vision Racing looked on as their Kentucky Derby contender, Visionaire, received a bath outside trainer Michael Matz's barn on Friday morning after galloping 1 ½ miles. Vision Racing, which co-owns the Grand Slam colt with Barry Irwin's Team Valor International, also includes John and Jill Stephens of Florida.
"It's been great," said Brandon Perry about the experience of having a horse in the Derby for the first time. "We're trying to soak it all in."
Brandon's previous experience with horses came in the show ring with American Quarter Horses. He met Diannah, who introduced him to Thoroughbred racing, in 2000, and the two were married three years later. Today, the Perrys own Paragon Farms, a 200-acre commercial breeding operation in Lexington, Ky. Diannah also introduced Brandon to the Stephenses, who own a training center in Marion County, Fla, where they break young horses for such owners as Roy and Gretchen Jackson. Among their graduates is 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, who was trained by Matz.
The Perrys and the Stephenses formed Vision Sales (www.visionsalesllc.com) as a pinhooking operation, buying yearlings and reselling them as two-year-olds. In their first year together, the team acquired Visionaire for $300,000 at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale. Visionaire was consigned to two sales in 2007, but was repurchased each time. A deal to privately sell the colt, who already had undergone surgery to remove a chip in a knee, didn't materialize. Visionaire went to Matz to begin his racing career for Vision Racing.
At the time, the Kentucky Derby was an event the Perrys wanted to attend as racing fans.
"At first, we thought wouldn't it be great to just go to the Kentucky Derby," Brandon Perry said. "To even have a thought of having a horse associated with you in the Derby--truly it wasn't realistic at the time. We were just trying to make a living. We try to sell good horses and hope they do well."
Visionaire's allowance win in January at Gulfstream Park in the colt's third career start impressed his connections and a few others in the industry.
"Up until that point, Michael had had him for six months, and he was a nice horse," Brandon Perry said about Visionaire. "He was so laid back it was hard to get a read on him. I was down at Gulfstream for that race. When he burst on the rail and won by (5 1/2) lengths that day, I could tell Michael was excited and that we really had something. I think that was the first time that it entered our mind that maybe there's a shot (to be in the Derby)."
After that race, Vision sold 51 percent interest in Visionaire to Team Valor, and the colt was on the Triple Crown trail.
Matz said Visionaire would jog a mile on Saturday morning.


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NOW: Go to garage sale and buy a metal two gallon pail and a metal average sized cake pan.
Go to the Sand and Gravel Co., or to a lake shore and fill up the pail with fine sand.
Place pail of sand in the garage with the cake pan over the pail to keep out leaves and cats.
Have a small rug available to be used by the door when needed.
When winter comes, and perhaps a sleet storm, and you find a coating of ice on the walk ways. You are now ready!
1. Turn on the oven to 400 degrees.
2. Put about 1 to 2 cups of sand in the cake pan.
3 Put the cake pan of sand into the oven.
4 Place the old rug by the door to wipe feet on when through.
5 In about 10 minutes shut off the oven, open the outside door, and with hot pads remove cake pan of sand and carefully carry it to the ice.
6. Hold the cake pan near the walkway and shake a fine coating onto the ice.
7. You will now have nearly perfect traction as you walk.
8. It will stay on the surface and works until the ice disappears.
9. Put the material away and be ready for the next icing of the walks.
No Salt! That takes quite a while to be effective, corrodes the metal railings and automobiles, and causes the concrete to crumble and bridges to collapse.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has paid banks, lawyers and other advisers 26.5 million pounds for work related to setting up its scheme to insure risky assets held by two banks.
Investment banks Citi (C.N) and Credit Suisse CSGN.VX and asset manager BlackRock (BLK.N) were among seven firms to be paid for advice, according to a Treasury response to a Freedom of Information request by Reuters.
Part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) and Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L) plan to insure about 585 billion pounds of their risky assets through the government's asset protection scheme (APS).
Terms of the complex scheme have not yet been finalised. The banks agreed to participate more than six months ago, but Lloyds is considering options to limit its involvement in the plan or raise funds privately, industry sources have said.
Lloyds in March agreed to pay 15.6 billion pounds to insure 260 billion pounds of assets.
The Treasury said certain fees related to the APS would be recoverable from RBS or Lloyds, so 26.5 million pounds did not represent a net cost to the Treasury.
Law firm Slaughter & May and accounting and financial services companies Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers also provided advice, the Treasury said.
A breakdown of how much each firm received was not provided.
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Another photograph of a red squirrel, this time taken just two days ago during another outing with friends at the amazing little Eskrigg Nature Reserve on the outskirts of Lockerbie in southern Scotland. This place is a beautiful and very well maintained reserve and owes its existence to the hard work and tireless efforts of Jim Rae, a retired biology teacher, and his many enthusiastic volunteers. Very well worth a visit and a haven not only for red squirrels but also for an amazing variety of wild bird life.
We had taken some shelled hazelnuts along with us and we certainly succeeded in attracting a few red squirrels with them although they still remained at quite a distance and, being incredibly quick, were still very difficult to photograph, even with a long lens.
And, funnily enough, as soon as I looked at this picture I was reminded of the advertisement for Cadbury's Whole Nut chocolate bars - some of you might remember the little ditty -
"Nuts! Whole Hazelnuts! Cadburys take them and they cover them in chocolate!" - sung to the tune of the Banana Boat Song!
You can see a larger version of this photograph on "beta" TE here.
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lousat (103153) 2014-06-27 2:35
Hi John,a perfect pic for treknature too,truly beautiful and made with great detail and bright colors despite the dark light and the distance too i think.Have a nice weekend and thanks,Luciano
jhm (167752) 2014-06-27 3:20
Hello John,
One of the most beautiful pictures with these little rascal, a pity here in Belgium are a lot of American squirrels, she are bigger, this are the exterminators of the indigenous, these American squirrels come of the people out of the environment.
Excellent captured, nice composition, colours and sharpness are of high quality.
Very well done, TFS.
Have a nice weekend,
williewhistler (16606) 2014-06-27 6:01
Hello John,
you`ve managed to catch the little blighter at just the right time with the evidence still in it`s mouth,always a big plus for Natural History shots I`m told.
With a bright eye and bushy tail the details and natural colours are impeccable,a cracker.
Best regards Les.
macjake (77779) 2014-06-27 9:28
Hi John
How do you guys photograph these squirrels!?
they tend to be shifty little critters!
they always look so nervous, always looking behind or over their shoulders - but then again if I were that little and I had so many creatures wanting to eat me I'd be a constant nervous wreck too! lol
this guy even has a large "S" shape in his tail, how cool is that :)
love the colors, love the nut in its mouth.
and I see you had to use the full length of your lens too, which is often the least sharp and focused, but your shot looks great. The little hairs have alot of detail in them...fun post John
holmertz (64602) 2014-06-27 10:16
Hello John,
I do hope the Cadbury nuts didn't have their shells left :-). Squirrels are cute little things, although some people don't like them for their appetite for small birds and eggs. But I find them irresistibly charming, and this one you captured with such perfect sharpness that I can feel the softness of its fur (at least I like to imagine that).
Kind regards,
No_One (4) 2014-06-27 11:17
Hi John,
Excellent picture of this little red furry fiend, and congrats for getting it, everytime I lift my camera near these little guys they run a mile! Not only is it a fantastic portrait of the creature, but a bonus that its a red one! We are struggling in Ireland to increase the population of reds as the greys continue their ceaseless march across the country. A great document shot of a creature that may not be around too much longer.
Thanks as always
jjcordier (79297) 2014-06-27 22:25
En grande version, on apprécie encore plus la grande qualité de ce "portrait" d'écureuil gourmand aux belles couleurs fauves.
hi john
So crisp, and taken at the peak moment when he swallows a hazel nut. I know it's difficult to take them in picture, generally they go on the other side of the tree trunk and escape. In France we have this kind of brown squirrel, not the small grey ones i can encounter in the Manchester parks.
have a nice WE
timecapturer (49288) 2014-06-28 3:10
Hi John
wonderful wild life shot this. Immaculately sharp and perfectly posed too! I do remember the advertisement tune too! I have 3 of these beggars in my garden but of the grey variety and I wish it was just nuts that they fed upon, rather than destroying my flower beds and pots burying various items gathered from neighbours bird feeders. The red ones look so much smaller that the grey variety, but that must be because they are less domesticated I suppose. Super shot!
Have a good weekend - B.
Tigerlily (3379) 2014-06-28 3:56
Morning John,
Excellent timing! I like the nut in its mouth..That's also called Bribery..:-D. A very beautiful shot. Beautiful colour and detail, the DOF is perfect for focusing the main subject.
Have a nice weekend.
mesutilgim (98560) 2014-06-28 12:07
Hello John,
It's not easy to capture this cute squirrel in full action and that pinsharp ! Even if you used a tele for it.
Just great !
TFS and have a nice weekend
emka (114779) 2014-06-29 1:45
Hi John, Cute animals and the quality of this picture is excellent. I saw that you wrote about the red squirrels in my garden. I saw them several times but probably didn't make any photos, or at least I do not know where they could be. So as Workshop two photos from the park near my home. The squirrels are always there and when you have some nuts (I am senile and always forget to take) you call them: basia, basia (it is the cozy form of Barbara, I do not know why)they come and take the nuts from the hand. They are quite bold, have no fear of people.
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delpeoples (60236) 2014-07-02 4:25
Caro Giovanni
You and the squirrels really have a simpatico going on don't you? You've produced quite a few excellent wildlife shots recently, especially with these nutty fellas starring. Beautiful rich colours and light. I love the way the light shines on his glossy coat. The shallow depth of field is superbly done too. Wonderful work.
Ciao caro
Silvio1953 (162240) 2014-07-03 12:51
Ciao John, great capture of cute creature in nice acrion, wonderful colors, fine details and splendid sharpness, very well done, my friend, ciao Silvio
annjackman (21903) 2014-07-13 6:03
Hi John,
I see red squirrels so rarely so it is lovely to see this one close up. Pin sharp with wonderful detail in the coat and eye. A really excellent natural history shot. Did you experiment with cropping off the out of focus bit at the bottom?
Best wishes, Ann
p.s. back home now. Rich now free at end of August so may come down to meet up
cornejo (51046) 2014-07-18 10:25
Hi John, very good photograph of this beautiful and interesting squirrel, very well captured in this beautiful image with good sharpness, light and color. Very good and interesting job well done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.
Good afternoon and happy weekend.
Warm greetings from southern Spain.
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is there a way to store your music on a micro SD card and have it show up in the music library?
I installed a micro sdxc 64gb card, synced music to it using the terrible Windows 8 app, and it showed up under the music app. When I used WMP to sync music, it was terribly laggy, and just a bad experience, so I deleted everything, and used the Windows 8 app again. It works much faster on the phone, but the app on the computer is just plain stupid....
The links provided will help you do that with some issues. THe music will stop if on sleep and your folders may show up in your photos folders which is more of a annoyance, but not an issue.
I just gave up and will just move over music from my card if needed and move back over if need more space.
This is a better method than the link above. It might be a little more work, but just follow the instructions to the letter, and you'll be able to use your microSD as if it were just an extension of your hard drive.
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Why is this better than the method on winsupersite? I've done it that way and it appears to work perfectly. Just wondering what the issue is?
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I just saw all the comments about the photos not updating correctly (maybe it was user error, I dont know). I didn't have any problems with the junction points.
+1 on the junction point approach. It worked better for me than the Paul Thurott site approach.
I better try see which fits you better, the junction point one I used failed to show some certain pics..
Are you sure any of these work after a reboot?
I had to go through an incredibly convoluted process for it to work reliably every time, involving VHD's and auto-mounting scripts.
Whichever of the three processes you try, the real trick is to make sure 3rd party apps can see the files.
After trying each of these, I've installed a large number of 3rd party apps that are wrongly coded to look only on the explicit path for Music, Movies and Pictures on the local memory on the device. I've sent feedback to a number of these developers. But until they make the necessary changes to look into the appropriate libraries - not just an explicit directory path - many of them won't be able to see the media you've placed here and make use of it.
Libraries is how it works. That's fine. The problem is more with Windows and indexing than the way third party apps work, since they all (and MS's own apps as well) work the same. The solution isn't junction points. It's a location that can be indexed. Junction points means squat in that respect. The next time the Surface reboots, it'll be gone and it won't index anymore.
Folders in a VHD can be indexed - so your best bet at this stage is to create a VHD that takes up all of the SD card (which obviously needs to be formatted as NTFS), and then create folders in the VHD which you then include in the appropriate Libraries. You'll also then need to mount the VHD on boot with a Scheduled Task. A massive hassle for something that should be simple, but this is the only way I could figure out to get content indexed properly even after a reboot.
Now, the follow-on question is, since I've formatted my card as NTFS and have all my files on a VHD, wouldn't there be problems with file interchange? In many cases, yes. Which is why you'll need to enable the Server service and access the Surface via your LAN and then share the folders in the VHD, which is a useful thing to have anyways (and set power settings for the Surface to not sleep when on AC - though good luck getting that to stick :eck:).
Even then, the MS Music app is crap at displaying changes in the indexed content. The Windows 8 music experience really is a steaming heap of turd, something that makes iTunes 10 look like a work of genius...
... and I'm paying 10 bucks a month for it, when they should be paying me to Alpha test this pile of crap.
I have used the VHD method, but the only thing I can't get to work is the mounting of the VHD on boot. Do you have any good tips or resources you can point me to for this?
You'll need a DISKPART script file.select vdisk file="full path of vhd file"
attach disk
Then you'll need a batch file that's called as a Schedule task on bootup which hasdiskpart /s "full path of above script file"
in it.
Double check Indexed Locations after a reboot. If the folders have stuck, success. If not, you're doing something wrong.
^^^^yup these guys know what they are talking about, but for the average joe this is going to be impossible for them to do. Hopefully MS fixes indexing so we don't have to do this massive workaround that does not cause normal people's heads to explode.
Forgot one thing: When making the Scheduled Task, make sure you have 'Execute only on AC' turned off, as it's on by default.
(i.e. if you reboot the Surface on battery power, it won't re-mount the VHD)
Isn't all the stuff with VHD and scripts a bit unnecessary? I'm pretty sure when I tried the way from thurrot's site, after I'd mounted the SD card I also went to indexing options under control panel and made sure the new library locations were listed as indexable. I even tested by adding new files to the libraries, and although it wasn't instantaneous, the music app did update with the new music after a few minutes.
Reboot your Surface and see if it'll still see any changes made to your library from the SD card. (or go back into Index and see if it's still there)
Unfortunately I've returned my Surface. Great device (with some shortcomings), but I'm going to need full Win 8 and not RT. I thought I could do without legacy apps but there are a few that I still need and there aren't likely to be RT equivalents due to the restrictions of the RT OS.
Having said that, pretty sure I rebooted my Surface after an update and library was still working but could be wrong.
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Let me put you at ease in that case. You didn't check it after you rebooted (if indeed you did).
And yes, all the above seems ridiculous. And that's because it is.
I hear what you're saying but I'm almost positive the mapped SD card remained in my library locations after a reboot. Admittedly I DON'T think I then added music and checked if the music app updated.
Honestly, you'd think MS would have got this sorted out by now, especially given the fact that most everyone will be using the microSD as storage for media.
Would it be possible to list all of these steps for doing the VHD and mounting via script and Task Scheduler in one post? Maybe we could then get a moderator to sticky it to the top of the Windows 8 tablet forums (as I'm guessing it affects all, not just the Surface?) so everyone can benefit?
I for one would be grateful to be able to refer back when I get a subsequent tablet.
The mappings survive a reboot if you use the winsupersite approach. I just rebooted and checked, my library links to the SD card mounted into a directory in C:\users\me were there.
The mapping of course survive a reboot - that's what they're supposed to do. But look in your indexed locations.
The relevance is not that junction points don't work. It's that the locations are no longer indexed after a reboot.
I'd really like someone else to figure out a simpler way. Or ideally "app" it and then publicly make fun of MS that they had to do it (if it's negative press, there shouldn't be any problems having it being picked up by the Mactard tech-press-at-large). Because the steps are ridiculous and in general Microsoft needs to work on this whole Music and storage mess. Stat.


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Sébastien: download a 4.0.2.A.42 ftf file, put it in C:\flashtool\firmware click flash, flash mode, choose the ROM you've downloaded and connect your phone pressing the down volume key.
Sébastien: Your phone must run Android 2.3.4 4.0.2.A.42 (Not the 4.0.2.A.62 build !)
Ali Feraoon: Ok how to do downgrade ?
Ali Feraoon: Me 2 :(
Schools: Learn how to get phlebotomy training in California! The job pays decent money for the amount of schools needed to graduate.
ics root for xperia ray, arc S and neo V 5 out of 5


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This quote is perfection.
Interesting…we'd all like an exciting life xoxo
love, love, love this!
I love this! My favorite part…I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over…AWESOME.
Absolutely love this quote! What a joy it is to find ordinary things exciting.
What a smart fellow – great quote to love by
I'm greedy like this too!