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Commentary: Saving Potesta, an Unlikely Story
- Jan 2, 2013
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Claire Novak, staff writer for The Blood-Horse, shares the story of a record-breaking racehorse who was saved by veterinarians after sustaining a life-threatening injury during training. Share your thoughts on the blog page.
Her name means "power," and in four starts the seal-bay filly they call Potesta exuded just that.
After a runner-up finish in her March 22 debut, she took the Hollywood Oaks off a maiden score, set a track record while blazing a mile in 1:34.86 in the Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar, and was prepping for a start in the Zenyatta Stakes with her connections flying high on the possibility of a Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic run. They thought she could win it.
"She was so classy around the barn and track," recalled bloodstock agent Craig Rounsefell, son-in-law of trainer Mike Mitchell. "From the first time Mike first galloped her, he knew he had something special. Breezing, she could pretty much do whatever time you wanted to do. On the racetrack, too, horses don't really do what she did."
But here's the thing about racehorses and horse racing in general: not much goes according to plan.
And so it was that 80-year-old owner Joe Scardino found himself listening to the news no one connected to a promising Thoroughbred wants to hear, standing at home in California on an early Friday morning in September as Mitchell worked with vets to stabilize the 3-year-old daughter of Macho Uno, who had sustained a condylar fractured in her left foreleg in a training accident.
"I have to tell you, that was one of the worst calls I've ever gotten," recalled Scardino, who campaigned Potesta with 70-year-old partner Anthony Fanticola. "She was prepping for the Breeders' Cup. She had broken the track record and was doing extremely well. Then we got that awful call when she hurt herself. I was at home. I just remember going numb."
Compound fractures such as the one Potesta sustained--where bone breaks through the skin--are tough to repair in humans, let alone horses. Thousand-pound animals aren't good at standing on three legs for long. Infection can set in. And where racehorses are concerned, it takes a special patient to survive such an injury. Bred to run, conditioned to levels of peak athleticism, Thoroughbreds put on sudden hold are prone to complications and, if they manage to survive surgery, can further injure themselves during the lengthy recovery process. The prognosis is always grim.
Still, there was something remarkable about Potesta, the star of Scardino and Fanticola's then-two horse stable. As veterinarians at Alamo Pintado Equine Medical Center worked to stabilize the injury, which was high above the ankle, she complied perfectly.
"She was such a good patient," Rounsefell remembered. "It was pretty grim when she was injured, but she got up there and really helped herself through the whole process. They put four screws in to bring it back together. The vet said the whole way through it couldn't have gone any better, from the actual surgery itself to the recovery process. Each day she just exceeded their expectations--her whole career, she always exceeded expectations. She's just a special horse."
Scardino and Fanticola, who have been partners for the past 15 years, are purely in the racing business, and don't maintain breeding stock. At the time of Potesta's injury, their only other contender was Breeders' Cup Mile runner Obviously, who finished third behind Wise Dan and Animal Kingdom.
"We don't have that many horses, and when we get a runner like that, well, it's not like we've got a barn full of stakes contenders," Scardino said. "With Potesta, it was really exciting because she was getting better and better and we didn't know how good she was going to be, really. The excitement was at its highest peak."
The owner said saving the filly at all costs was a top priority after her injury.
"The cost was not on our minds at all," he said. "She was so good to us, my gosh. Anything we could do, we wanted done. I told Mike Mitchell and so did my partner, 'We don't care what it costs, we want to save her."
Rounsefell made multiple trips to Alamo Pintado to monitor Potesta's progress. She recovered well enough to ship to Three Chimneys Farm near Lexington, Ky., where she will be consigned to the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale as hip no. 134.
"The whole way through, we just wanted the best thing for the horse," Rounsefell recalled. "It was incredible how quickly she healed, and when they took the final X rays the doctor gave the all-clear to leave and come to Kentucky. The actual injury site itself looks fantastic. It's quite remarkable that the whole thing only happened a few months ago."
Rounsefell said Potesta's untapped potential, a career cut short by injury, could live on in her foals.
"When you look at her from a physical standpoint, you'll struggle to find a better type at the sale," he remarked. "She's got size and scope and she's correct and you'd struggle to put a hole in her, really. She's just a first-class type. She had that freakish ability and nobody really knew where it would end."
This update on Potesta, bred in Kentucky by Maynard Farm and B.A. Man out of the Furiously mare Katzen, was issued for the benefit of the many racing fans who followed her brief but illustrious career.
"There were always people coming around the barn, sort of fans wanting to see if they could give her a carrot or take a picture with her," Rounsefell recalled. "She did have a following, that's for sure. For a filly that only had a couple of starts, she struck a chord."
Originally published on BloodHorse.com.
About the Author
Claire Novak
Winner of the 2011 Eclipse Award for Feature/Commentary and the 2008 Louisville Metro Journalism Award for Sports Writing, Claire Novak has melded her love for human-interest journalism and the equine breed into a successful Turf writing career. Since her first freelance article on racing was published at BloodHorse.com in 2005, her byline has appeared in the New York Times, ESPN The Magazine, and on ESPN.com, among others. She lives near Lexington and, when not writing about racing, can often be found jumping her Thoroughbred, Bob.
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TheWrap grilled Vincent Bruzzese, the newly minted CEO of Motion Picture Group LLC, on the day he announced a break off from Ipsos OTX and set a course as an independent research company.
What set this in motion? This is a very amicable split. From our perspective we're looking forward as an independent company to evolve research beyond what it has been.
There are so many changes to the research landscape, what is the reason for that? Despite the fact that there's a number of research companies, tools, innovations, you see more movies losing money than ever before. Now there's an "Ishtar every three or four months. There's blame to go around, and the blame on the research side is the consumer has changed, but the way we do research has not.
Financial sources and p&a (prints and advertising) funding is beginning to dry up. Too many people are losing too much money. Unless you're Pixar, your gut is wrong. It's our job to find out why.
So how will you change that? From our perspective there's a clear goal – mitigate risk, maximize return and maintain art. We want to evolve our products. We want to evolve the way we talk to moviegoers with this goal in mind: is this a movie that will be well received, and at the script stage, should it be financed?
Our script assessment product has a perfect record at determining at the script stage whether a movie is financially viable to exceed its ultimate box office requirement.
Also read: Ipsos OTX Sells Motion Picture Market Research Group (Exclusive)
A perfect record? Pardon my skepticism. We've worked on 20 major releases.
So what are the details of the deal? Will there be new working capital provided? Motion Picture Group, of which I'm now CEO, is well funded, and supported and backed by investors that believe in our vision and what we're going to do.
What changes will you make? There will be threefold changes: a reemphasis of our mission statement, getting to the heart of playability and marketability, walking the line of art and commerce. Evolving our products that speak to today's consumer in language that is different than in 1979. And all research should be kept in context. The analysis for a film to be $10 million at the box office needs to be different than for $100 million at the box office.
Script assessment, screenings, ad testing and tracking need to be a cohesive through line and tell a single story. And tell the story; anybody can report numbers. Our job is to interpret what moviegoers are saying or will say and tell their story.
We're not going to rest on our laurels, we're looking at major expansion, content analysis archetypes and at consumer entertainment worldwide.
How big is the market research business? I believe you do about $20 million a year? We're top three, with NRG and Marketcast. We all notice the same thing. There's a $100 million market research pie that three companies are vying for, that doesn't make much sense using tactics from 1979. We need to expand the pie.
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House Bee
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Beehive thickness?
May 19, 2013, 11:32:54 am »
Hello and good morning; I am new to the forum and new to beekeeping. I have just started 2 new hives this year but have been researching the topic of bees for over 2 years, but never researched details on building one. I purchased my beehives locally and am not very happy with the craftsmanship. I never thought I would be trying to make my own hives, even though I have read many times that it is a chore of the beekeeper. Well with that said my questions is can I use rough cut lumber from a saw mill, and how thick can the walls of the hive be? Asking these questions I feel a little "duh" coming on... but I want to make sure I do not harm my bees nor waste my time. I also thought... well in the wild they can be found in tree hollows, that must be pretty thick. My bees are Carnies and not wild ones would this change their behaviour as well as their aggressiveness? I read some bees prefer the rough inside over the smooth. Will this leave more crevices for Small Hive Beetles to hide? I have only found a couple, one in each hive so far. I have my own design in mind, that uses a mixture of many ideas from others. Thank you for your time and knowledge.
Super Bee
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May 19, 2013, 11:44:00 am »
They will coat the inside of the box rough or smooth. You'll want to use a standard thickness so that any equipment you purchase will fit properly.
Welcome to the bee forum and enjoy.
Field Bee
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May 19, 2013, 11:48:59 am »
I would not use rough cut unless I sanded it. Even the band sawed lumber is rougher than planed wood. I buy #2 or culled un assembled hive bodies. Knot holes mean nothing to me. could be I need another entrance somewhere else. I do build a few from scratch. :) d2
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Galactic Bee
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May 19, 2013, 12:05:14 pm »
I have built hives from wood ranging from thickness of ½" up to 1.5" thick. From plywood, to OSB, to planed pine. Bees don't care. I have built hives from polystyrene board from ¾" to 2" thick. Again, bees don't care. If you're going to build all your own stuff, then dimensions really don't matter much (except for bee space). If you're going to inter mix feeders, QEs, and commercial woodenware, it would be wise to do as tefer says.
I have a log sitting the backyard with feral bees in it. It's walls are about 2" to 5" thick BUT it weighs a half ton, literally. :-D
House Bee
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May 19, 2013, 12:18:19 pm »
Great input guys thank you a bunch! So roughness may be an issue. But thickness is definitely not. I will start soon on a test hive and will be posting more info on this endeavor. Thinking a 2in. thickness will also raise my r-value. I will also try to make all needed except for frames seems like that could be a pain :-X. I knew this would be better than my bee guy, who is never in shop!
House Bee
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May 19, 2013, 01:53:45 pm »
Thickness doesn't matter in the least. I'm not in a hive beetle zone so I cannot speak to roughness as a design consideration regards the beetle.
I build medium supers out of rough sawn fenceboards that are under thickness (5/8" - 11/16"). The roughness just gives the bees something to do when they want to polish and coat their hive. That extra propolis filling the rough means the boxes really, really attract wild swarms when used as traps. So I argue that you gaining a really efficient trap system by using rough.
I use the fence boards because they are dirt cheap on sale. If you have access to a gypo sawmill, you might be able to get even cheaper material. The standard depth of deep brood is 9 5/8 -- and modern milled 1x10 are 9 1/2 or less. I used to buy 1 x12 and rip it down, but now I use 1 x10 -- and only use deeps on the bottom where the undersize doesn't matter because the space added by the bottom board.
I cheat the length of the mediums a bit less (about 1/8) to 19 3/4", so the inner hive length dimensions are same. I use 16 1/4 as the outside width, as the extra width doesn't matter, and the bees work the outside of the 1st and 10th frame better.
I run some 8 frame deeps, and I have 4/4 board scrap added on the long sides-- this means the 8's can sit on 10-frame bottomboards, and I don't have to have special bottoms. I can also add a 8 box to the top of a 10 stack and not leave an escape gap on the sides.
As I have mentioned before, my boxes are not finger jointed, but I use #20 cabinet biscuits for the corners. Cabinet biscuits are engineered ovals that glue into special slots cut with a tool called a biscuit cutter. This has worked extremely well, and makes the construction quick. The fenceboards are redwood or incense cedar. These species don't seem to cup. Eastern cheap wood will cup, so the finger joints might be necessary.
Using a $1.69 fenceboard, and 8 biscuits (at 2.5 cents each) + 8 drywall screws to tighten, means I build a medium for well under $2.
House Bee
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May 19, 2013, 02:20:39 pm »
Thank you much JW. Reading about your process has answered some other concerns of mine and has even given me an extra idea for my supers. So I will ask you another question :roll:, lol. Since I will be using the rough cut lumber should I just use water seal as my outside protectant or paint? I have read using water seal on rough cut would require more than paint. I can do either it will not matter. Just asking to get an idea for a budget on this project. Thx again I like to get feedback on my ideas, since some are far fetched, and love to learn from others that have already walked down the road.
House Bee
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May 19, 2013, 03:06:57 pm »
Sun is the enemy of wood. You want the paint to protect it. The sun will dry the outside, and the hive moisture on the inside will cause the wood to cup. The moisture seals I am familiar with have high volatiles to get the oil to penetrate, I don't think a lot of volatile vapor is good for the bees. Think boats, unless you have an unlimited budget, varnished brightwork is a maintenance nightmare, and a good coat of paint is preferred.
Go to the hardware and get a 5 gal of their Mis-Matched special. They all but give away the mis-matched, and you can pick out a premium exterior latex. In my experienced the mis-matched are sold at the same low price regardless of the grade of the original.
Anyone laying deckboards is familiar with laying the heart side out, to resist cupping.
I know there are proponents of wax dipping supers, but seems like a lot of equipment to invest in.
BAH, in general, I believe you are "overthinking" the process. Copy what is tried and true, get familiar and established with your colonies, and then begin experimenting. Just get out there and get the bees established.
House Bee
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May 19, 2013, 03:58:50 pm »
BAH, being a fellow TN beek I think you might want to re-think that 2" thickness. If your building 10 frame hives, that's going to be mighty heavy when it's full of bees/honey. Hope you have a good strong back! :roll: Also consider that you will have to modify everything you might purchase because of the wood thickness. This is my 7th year beekeeping & I build all my own stuff out of 3/4 lumber. We don't, as a rule, have winters that merit wood that thick. Just something to maybe consider. It's your call & your back. :-D
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House Bee
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May 19, 2013, 04:57:12 pm »
JW you are 100% correct about where I need to be concentrating on. I do not plan to waste a lot of time yet on building a hive, for now I am just digging in to the info and just readying myself to make quite a few more during any down time. I am a student and still have 2 years of clinicals left. So I do not have a full time job and just enjoy staying busy. But will definitely look into just painting hives, thank you for all your advice.
Hello Beeman; I was thinking of making just the brood boxes out of the roughcut. Since the supers will not be needed during the overwinter, I was thinking of using JW idea on the fencing boards which are so much lighter to deal with. Also could even just make a transfer box to hold heavy frames for transport. But do totally agree that it will weigh on my back if I intend to keep moving for inspection :th_thumbsupup:.
The cost, where I live at least for me, will be at 35 cents a foot. That's for 1" (plus) by 10'' (plus) by 12' and up, but some boards can be almost 2". Don't think I will be able to get a better deal. Lowes would run me $4+ Ace hardwood $3-4+.
As far as all the other wood components still have to check designs and stuff this is still an idea in the make. I am hopeful to make beehives that I may be able to give away, at a small cost to me, so that I can do my part in saving the bees :bee:. Not really worried about a huge profit. I was told if I was into beekeeping for a job... I should get a new job, lol. Too many variables to factor and a lot of factors that only lead to more hard work. In the medical field honey is a wonder that has many benefits, with that said just trying to do my part. Note: not saying bees are not profitable just trying to keep my head screwed on right and focusing on other things. Thanks again guys one of the better bee convos I have had all year
Field Bee
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July 05, 2013, 06:55:38 am »
I buy a lot of lumber from a bandsaw mill not far from here.
They usually cut it 7/8 - 1 inch thick and I then plane it down to 3/4 inch thickness.
The reason I started buying from the mill is a lot of the lumber yards don't carry a 10 inch wide board anymore.
So if I make a deep box or a medium it would cost just as much to build either one.
Another reason is the planed thickness of a milled board can be from 3/4 - 13/16 inch which can throw off Box Joint measurements.
So far this season I have built over 450 boxes of various depths.
84 hives consisting of a screened bottom board, 2 deeps, 1 medium, inner cover and telescoping top.
I'm suppose to be retired. yeah right.
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Super Bee
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July 05, 2013, 10:29:53 am »
I have been considering building some brood chambers out of rough cut lumber. The ouside does't really matter, except for the weight. You would want to use at least 3/4" I think. It is the inside that needs to be standard size. I am thinking about building a long hive, 20 deep frames, with supers on top in the middle.
New Bee
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July 03, 2017, 10:25:47 pm »
Getting back to the R-Value...
With keeping the inner dimensions standard for use of standard frames and other equipment and not regarding weight; A thicker outside could insulate the hive from outside temperature.
Is this a factor to keep the bees from using too much honey to keep warmer in winter or cooler in summer?
Galactic Bee
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July 03, 2017, 11:33:26 pm »
If it were not about weight, my hives would be thicker. I use 2-1/2" thick insulation boards under the cover of my hives and it really makes a difference. If I leave them out, on a hot sunny day, the one without the insulation will be bearding real bad and the rest are inside working.
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."--Mark Twain
New Bee
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July 04, 2017, 04:24:24 am »
If you want to give your bees a highly insulated hive, use either EPS or PIR (polystyrene or polyisocyanurate) cut to shape and glued or purchase molded hives.
Bernhard Mobus put in quite a bit of time studying wintering bees and found that a highly insulated hive causes a problem most beekeepers would not expect. Bees need water. When they metabolize honey, they produce water by releasing water that is in honey and also from metabilizing sugars from honey (1 - C6H12O6 + 6 - O2 = 6 - C02 + 6 - H20). As you can see from the chemical transition, most of the water in the hive comes from metabolized sugar. In a highly insulated hive, the bees reduce honey consumption so much that they run short of water. Larger colonies experience this more than smaller colonies. A highly insulated hive can therefore kill a large colony over winter by starving them for water. Small colonies that would otherwise be incapable of maintaining a heated cluster can survive and thrive in a highly insulated hive.
The one thing I would not do is make hives with 2 inch thick walls. That is a lot of excess weight to move around.
47 years beekeeping, running about 20 colonies in square Dadant hives.
New Bee
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Buy the rough cut lumber and season it in a dry place for a year. You won't believe how much green wood will shrink.
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Far from being outraged that the IRS has singled out tea party groups for scrutiny, North Florida tea party leaders say they feel vindicated by the agency's efforts.
Far from being outraged that the IRS has singled out tea party groups for scrutiny, North Florida tea party leaders say they feel vindicated by the agency's efforts.
Tea party presidents in Ocala, Gainesville and Jacksonville say the controversy proves what they've been saying all along — that the federal government has grown too powerful and has no qualms about using its power to silence political dissension.
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Tea party leaders acknowledge they have strong political views but insist those views are non-partisan. While they routinely call out politicians by name and blast government policies, they avoid endorsing candidates for election and don't support political campaigns monetarily, they say.
Much of their effort is also directed toward what they call educational efforts. The tea parties often hold forums on topics like the U.S. Constitution and government history, for instance, almost always to illustrate how governments have strayed from the principles outlined in the Constitution.
"We're not anti-Democrat and we're not anti-anything," said Hunter, of Tea Party Solutions in Ocala. "We also don't support the Republican Party just because it's the Republican Party. We're probably one of the biggest critics of the Republican Party because they say one thing and then do another. In fact, the Democrats are probably more honest because they do what they say they're going to do, even though it's un-American."


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Has anyone else had this happen to them yet? On all of my laptops I am now seeing a serious CPU utilization problem with svchost.exe like clockwork each time I power on the machine or resume from hibernate.
svchost.exe will sit there at 95% CPU utilization for a good maybe 5 minutes and then the machine is back to normal. Looking at that PID of svchost.exe in process explorer shows that it is a ntdll.dll heap allocation causing the CPU usage. I have the full string at home, can post that later.
I wish I could say how long this has been going on, maybe a couple weeks?
I have noticed this issue with my IBM laptop and every customer I have with an IBM laptop.
Note: Not blaming IBM laptops.
I have narrowed down the issue to windows automatic updates. I don't know how MS has changed the update software or plugin, but whenever it automatically looks for new updates or I manually go to the windows update. SVCHOST process always runs at a 100% cpu usage.
Because of this usage it takes an extremely long time to find, download and install the updates. It does install them though.
The only solution I have is to switch off completely the automatic updates service and only check the windows update website once every week.
Try that and see if your issue is the same. Please post that string though. BTW how did you get that string, is it start->run>cmd, then tasklist /svc
Download this bad larry and run it;
Open it up, doubleclick on the offending svchost.exe and go to the 'Threads' tab. On your first time it'll throw up a warning about not having the debugging tools, but thats ok. Sort by CPU and you'll see which DLL is sucking up all the processor time.
Here is the string on mine when it goes ballistic....
...unfortunately it seems that this is a rather mundane and routinely called string. I can tell you though that hte svchost that contains this is definitely the one with the windows update client running inside of it.
Are these things fully patched? Any drivers that could be potentially interfering?
If it's anything like mine, it's due to Windows Updates, at least according to ProcessExplorer (confirmed by turning off autoupdates).
Mine started a month or so ago. sfc /scannow finds nothing wrong. I suspect a recent winupdate, but am not concerned enough to troubleshoot further.
Out of 7 computers in my house, only my older HP laptop is affected by this. If I let it go long enough, like tens of minutes, it will eventually go back to normal.
As jx3000 and Shades of Grey said, it's definitely something to do with WU, but mine's been going on for two or three months now.
I don't use that laptop very often, but when I do I just use Process Explorer to force kill it, then run WU manually.
Is VMWare Server installed??
It does this exact same problem described in the OP on both my home workstation and my work laptop.
Hmm, I have this installed as well.
No VMServer here. My machines are all older stuff, I only update when something breaks.
Latitude CPx, 750MHz, 192MB RAM, WD Scorpio 60GB
HP Omnibook 500, 700MHz, 512MB RAM, WD Scorpio 40GB
If I let it run it goes back to normal. I guess I'll just turn off AU for now, I know when patch Tuesday is.
Can you guys with that issue try something? When the computer is NOT having that problem, type wuauclt /detectnow at the command prompt and see if the problem comes back.
'wuauclt /detectnow' forces updates detection.
I did it with automatic updates on this machine disabled and it seemed to do nothing. I then enabled automatic updates (for every friday at 3am) and it immediately started the high CPU usage again. I noticed that the Context Switches of ntdll.dll were climbing at a rate of about 75 per second and was at about 45k before I killed ntdll.dll.
Once things stabalized I ran /detectnow again and everything seems to be fine. Man.. this is really annoying!
Wow I am glad I saw this thread, I thought it might just be my machine having this problem!
I have been having this issue on my home machine for a month or 2, but haven't really had the time to investigate it.
I too noticed that the svchost.exe process containing wuauclt.exe was the culprit.
Scorp - according to process explorer, the string on my svchost.exe is almost identical to yours:
Dilbert - I tried your suggestion and every time i run wuauclt.exe /detectnow it pegs the processor for about 2 minutes.
I think MS should fix this. They do want us to have it turned on.
I see this ALL over, not just on notebooks.
It also happens in WSUS-managed environments, it's not exclusive to the MS update servers.
And yeah, it's REALLY fucking annoying, especially on crappy machines with only 256MB of RAM...
Whats worse is that as of 2 patch cycles ago we started having servers hang on reboot after WSUS pushes an update to them. The box sits there at "Windows is shutting down", but never does. The machine is 100% operational, but the console is inaccessible. Remote Desktop does't work and when you connect via KVM all you can do is see that message about shutting down.
It requires you to physically power down the server and restart it. If you go to Windows Update via IE there is no problem and it restarts perfectly fine.
Exactly the problem we're seeing at one of our clients too.
I've let this problem go thinking it's just my old HP machine and I didn't want the mysterious svchost problem. I've noticed on the WMI reports that many comptuers on the office (1Ghz-2ghz) are having their svchost.exe sit at 90-100% for 1-3 minutes. They are set to auto download and bug for install. If I try and kill it I lose my onboard NIC and sound and have to restart so every time it checks I have to wait for it complete.
Thankfully most of my users don't keep their taskmanger open like I do so they just mention every now and again that it can get slow.
The Windows Update high CPU utilization issue is *supposed* to be fixed in an update. This Q&A said November 1, I haven't seen anything yet.
After seeing everyone else being affected I am not sure if I should feel happy or sad. Just fix it please, MS, thank you.
We've encountered this too. The following usually helps, although it's not a preventative measure, only a corrective one:
ok what the hell. I have AU turned off on this machine and it has been just fine for a few days. Just now I'm sitting here and the damn thing started doing it again. ahhhhhhhhhhhh...
Interesting, while I haven't experienced high CPU utilization, I've experienced horrendous RAM & Virtual Memory utilization in SVCHOST.exe
Especially if I leave my laptop on for more than 2 days. Just today I had svchost.exe chewing up 200Mb of RAM and 500Mb of VM! Even with 1.2Gb of RAM it sure slows my laptop down to a crawl.
I have disabled automatic updates and seems to work fine now.
Before that I have installed all the updates without any success in lowering cpu usage for svchost.
Hate to dig this up on my first post, however I've encountered the same issue after installing and updating a beta of Office 2007. I've since uninstalled it, but that hasn't solved the problem with the high CPU usage instance of svchost.exe and consequentially when it's ended the loss of sound and networking abilities forcing a restart.
Had anyone used Microsoft Update instead of Windows Update? I'm running a relatively new install of XP and can confirm that this was brought on by the installation of 2007 or the visit to Microsoft Update as the installation showed no signs of it before the install process. I'd of course been to Windows Update before; no visits of which caused this issue.
I've temporarily remedied it by the solutions suggested above, but some what comically I'll likely have to visit the source of the problem to see if Microsoft fixes it.
Also for curiosities sake, what networking and sound components are all the affected running? I'm on AC'97 Audio and an RTL8139/810x integrated network (a Gigabyte GA-7VT600-1394).
we've been evaluating the two hotfixes above with reasonable success. Either way it appears to be an issue with MSI.dll and 916089 seems to be the ticket
THANKS!! I'll give that a try.
In addition to jwnin's advice above, I have had better luck also deleting the contents of the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CatRoot folder (not the folder itself, just the contents).
That said, I also have a request in with MS to get the 916089 hotfix.
I logged in with premier, here you go guys. If you need another version let me know.
These are the 916089 Hotfix.
Cheers man, but it hasn't seemed to help. Could you get your hands on 914810? Being a registered OEM partner, you'd think I'd have access to these things...
I would cleanup the softwaredistribution folder before saying its a failure:
stop automatic updates service
delete c:\windows\softwaredistribution
either restart automatic updates or reboot
remember the patch isn't installed until you reboot after the installation
Probably unrelated, but several of the patches left the spewage of WINdows patches all over our workstations, you know, the temporary install directories?
at the root of C.
Doesn't appear to be any particular patch, some have one folder, some have three or more...
I just installed 916089 and deleted c:\windows\softwaredistribution.
So far it seems much better after turning automatic updates back on. I'll have to use the machine for a few days to see how it goes.
Let me know if you still want that other hotfix.
This affects win2k as well, although that 916089 hotfix appears to only be for XP and 2003. It's more annoying on a laptop because it causes the fan to spin up to high speed after a couple minutes.
Must investigate further, but I'm glad there seems to be a solution...
Is there a win2k version of that hotfix? The XP version refuses to install under win2k.
Stopping the Automatic Update service and/or turning it off in the control panel fixes this, but as I'm setting up this laptop for someone else, I definitely want to leave auto updates on.
It's annoying because on every bootup, it svchost.exe and reg.exe combine to take 100% CPU for about 6 minutes. If I try to reboot or shutdown before this finishes, reg.exe will not terminate, and I have to kill it.
Thanks that solved my problem
I installed some office sp2 updates the other day and ever since svchost has gone crazy.
I installed WinXP_290365_ENU_i386_zip.exe
Tried to delete software distribution but no luck
Went into safe mode and deleted it.
Rebooted but windows crashed
Rebooted again and it worked. Svchost only used about 5-40% and didn't climb over 30MB ram.
Rebooted again and it's now now at 0%. No problems now
Thanks again, I hate having issues with my pc... no matter how small.
Just curious what's in software distribution? It has over 70MB
The XP patch it did nothing for my networked PCs... Anyone else still getting CPU spikes?
They went away for a while for me after the patch, but seem to be back after applying the latest round of updates.
The patch did nothing for my machine, I finally just had to disable AU service.
Any update on this? I have run into this at work and it is affecting most of the computers on my network.. It happened after upgrading to WSUS from SUS and pushing out the client that upgrades Office as well as just Windows.


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Im having a problem with talented, its seems the rogue combat swords after level 60 and all the subtlety talents are faded out and I can't select them.
I've tried updating talented and making a new copy of templates.lua in the save variables folder but to no avail.
Everything else seems to be working fine, except what I need of course!
Any Ideas?
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By Sean Ingram
LAKELAND, Fla. No more easy games.
The Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys found that out the hard way in Saturday nights' 63-62 win over No. 14 Benedict (S.C.) College in the NCAA Division II Tournament South Regional in the Jenkins Field House on the campus of Florida Southern College.
Tech (23-8), the fourth seed in the South Region and Gulf South Conference champion, trailed for the first time since 18:02 in the first half after Benedict's Martinis Woody sank a pair of free throws with 19.4 seconds to go in the game. After a Wonder Boys time out, Laithe Massey got a dangerous bounce pass inside to senior Thiago Cordeiro, who got the ball up, off the glass and in with 8.4 seconds left and was fouled.
Thiago missed the free throw, giving the Tigers (24-6) one more chance for the win. After a time out with 4.8 seconds remaining, Bennie Lewis took the inbounds pass, drove inside to the right baseline and launched a six-footer that bounced twice on the rim and was rebounded by Friedel, who held the ball until time ran out.
Tech will be rewarded with a 6:30 p.m. matchup today against the host Florida Southern Moccasins, who beat Lemoyne-Owen College 94-77 before the Wonder Boys' game Saturday night.
Tech senior Chad Henderson led all scorers with 18 points. Cordeiro had 14, senior Troy Marcus netted 10 and Friedel ended up with nine. Darius Lane led the Tigers with 12 points. Bennie Lewis and Aubrey Brown each netted 10 points.
"We had a set call to get the ball inside," third-year head coach Mark Downey said in the postgame press conference. "Our point guard, Laithe [Massey] made a big play and got him [Cordeiro] the ball on that [pick and] roll. We were trying to run stuff for our big [guys], but they [Tigers] were plugging it, and we were having a hard time getting the ball inside. The last [play], we thought if we pulled them away from the rim a little bit, that we could get him the ball. They stayed man, and I really thought they were gonna be zone [defense]. Laithe made a good play, and Thiago finished it. I wish he would have made that free throw, but ... for about four and a half seconds there, I thought I was going to have a heart attack."
"That was an amazing pass," Cordeiro said after the game. "The play before that, we ran a play for me to get the ball, but I couldn't get open. When we called a time out, I told Laithe, 'Give me the ball,' and he said, 'You weren't open.' I said, 'I don't care. Take your time and give me the ball.
"The next play, I saw him look at me and I knew he was going to pass, and I made a screen for him. He put the ball to me between two players, I don't know how, and it gave me a chance to make the layup."
Cordeiro said the Wonder Boys discussed at halftime how they weren't really focused on running their offense after they would gain the advantage. It's a mistake they can't make again tonight against Florida Southern College.
"We have to make sure we don't go through this again," he said. "We have to focus and execute on offense and defense. They will have the sixth man the crowd but that's why we have to be mentally prepared, put all those people aside and concentrate on the game and not let them bother us."
Massey said Cordiero's defender went underneath, and a small gap between them allowed Massey to get the ball to the Brazilian.
"It was a pretty easy pass, because he's 6-foot-11," Massey mused. "He's a big target. Our team has a big heart, and we've been fighting all year. I think we've been the underdog, and everyone's saying it was a fluke for us to be here. I think we've come out and proved a lot of teams wrong. We're here playing hard with nothing to lose. We're trying to make history with each game.
"I think this close game opened up our eyes and made us realize that we're not going to get anything easy, that we're going to have to work for everything. They [Moccasins] will have a big crowd in here, and it will be pretty loud in here. If we just play hard tonight, things will work out for us, like coach has been telling us all year."
The Wonder Boys weathered a six-minute, first-half scoring drought in the first half but led 30-26 at halftime. In the second half, Tech led by six points (57-51) after Henderson's layup with 5:24 remaining. But Benedict clawed its way back again and got within 57-56 on 5-of-6 free throws during a two-minute span.
"Benedict just kept making shots. Man, they didn't want to go home. We were kind of on our heels," Downey explained. "Lately, we've been plugging opponents' point guards, where we put our wings in the lanes. Tonight, they [Tigers] made us pay for it. Every time we helped [point guards on defense], they found an open shooter and made it.
"We still held them to 38 percent (22-of-58) from the field, and that's one of our goals every night. We outrebounded by one (40-39), which, I'm not too happy about that. The guys battled, and Benedict played really, really well. I really thought that last shot was going in."
Both teams hit just six 3-pointers 6-of-15 for Benedict, 6-of-17 for Tech and Friedel explained the Tigers hit open shots even when the Wonder Boys had hands in their faces.
"We missed some shots, but we were trying to get the ball inside," Friedel said. "That's where we had a lot of success all year, trying to get the ball down low to Troy [Marcus] and Thiago. We just keep trying to pound inside."
Downey said whether Benedict was in a man-to-man or zone defense on the last play, Tech's plan was to go inside and get something around the basket.
"Usually, we do to people what Benedict did to us tonight," the coach said. "Those guys were denying us and forcing our point guards to make decisions. Offensively, I didn't know if we had our best effort. Dusan [Radivojevic] was sick, and it makes us a lot different when he's taken out of our repertoire."
But the Wonder Boys found a way to win survive and advance which is what it's all about this time of year.
"It just feels great. We don't want to go home," Friedel said. "We've never been here before. We've got to stay focused and try to get the next game."
Downey and assistants Kurt Young and Wes Corkins spent Saturday night after the win breaking down film of the Moccasins, who put away Lemoyne-Owen with a big second half and a loud home contingent during Saturday's game. But Tech's coach said this is what the tournament is all about.
"I think that's fun," Downey said about the atmosphere the Wonder Boys will face today when Florida Southern and Tech tip off at 6:30 p.m. "That's what you get for winning the region. You get the home court. Really, if we're going to get to Massachusetts [Elite Eight], we'd have to beat them [Moccasins] at some point. Let's tip it up, go head to head and see what happens. Once they turned the tide tonight, boy, they put the foot down. They're a really good team. Hopefully it will be a good game."
Benedict which knocked out Florida Southern last year and reached the South Regional championship game -- trailed 30-26 at halftime but quickly cut its deficit to 30-29. Tech scored six straight, half of them on free throws from Cordeiro, and took a 36-29.
A 3-pointer from Henderson put the Wonder Boys ahead 41-34, then Cordeiro hit an inside jumper, missed the free throw and later hit 1-of-2 for a 44-34 lead with 12:24 left in the game.
A traditional 3-point play from Terrell Northington gave the Wonder Boys another 10-point cushion (47-37) at the 11:25 mark. But the Tigers closed within 53-48 with 7:52 to go, Lewis cut the lead to 53-51 with his 3-pointer with 6:39 left.
The Wonder Boys took a 10-point lead in the first half three times, but went scoreless for more than six minutes. Cordeiro scored Tech's first baskets on inside and outside jumpers for a 4-0 lead. Benedict took its first lead on a 3-pointer from Aubrey Brown (5-4), but Wonder Boy junior Renard Allen hit a jumper and 3-pointer to give Tech its 13-9 lead at the 14:20 mark.
After Michael Holmes tied the score 13-13 with his basket, Massey hit an inside jumper, then Friedel and Henderson hit back-to-back 3-pointers for a 23-13 lead midway through the first half.
Terrell Northington's basket with 6:25 to go was the last one Tech would hit until Friedel's 3-pointer with 12 seconds before the break. Benedict scored nine straight to pull within 27-26, and later Massey launched a half-court shot as the buzzer sounded that went in, but it was waved off by officials after it bounced off the 30-second shot clock above the rim.


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Hello, I have a clutch situation on a 2007 K1200GT. 20k miles and the clutch is engaging when you start the MC in gear. One dealer says I need a new clutch and another informed me it could be a toque problem.
Does anyone have/had a problem with this or any information.
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Carleton presents an Evening with The '53 Swingbillies
Submitted by Jessica Paxton on Sun, 01/19/2014 - 1:59pm
Jan 24 2014 8:00 pm
Location:Carleton College Concert Hall
Carleton College is pleased to present a not-to-be-missed performance by The '53 Swingbillies, taking place Friday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. in the Carleton College Concert Hall. This event is free and open to the public.
The '53 Swingbillies honor several musical traditions, including Gypsy Jazz, Western Swing, Rockabilly and Swing. 1953 being the year that both Django Rheinhardt and Hank Williams died, as well as the year that guitarist/singer/songwriter Mark Kreitzer and fiddler Tom Schaefer were born, there may well be a cosmic connection beyond a love of the music! The band is rounded out with bassist/vocalist Chuck Kreitzer and percussionist Anthony Ihrig.
An infinitely danceable band, The '53 Swingbillies offer a sophisticated, fresh take on all things swing and country. Be sure to wear your dancing shoes!
Acclaimed folk musician Mark Kreitzer is a lecturer in American folk instruments at Carleton. He plays and teaches the banjo, mandolin, mandola, mandocello, fiddle, Dobro and bass. In addition to his award winning instrumental skills, he is an award winning songwriter, member of the Minnesota Rock and Country Hall of Fame, and currently teaches songwriting at Cretin-Derham High School in St. Paul. In 2012, he wrote the music for an adaptation of Mark Twain's "Life On The Mississippi." Kreitzer performs solo and with his own Mark Kreitzer Band, as well as with the gypsy jazz bands Mill City Hot Club, and Clearwater Hot Club, and the traditional New Orleans influenced band Patty and the Buttons. He can be seen sitting in with many other local bands, including Becky Schlegel, Rugged Road, the Southside Aces and French 75. His songs have been recorded by Joe Carr and Alan Munde, Becky Schlegel, the Middle Spunk Creek Boys, on his solo recording "Pages," and the self-titled "Mark Kreitzer Band" CD on the Okey-Dokey record label.
Listen to samples from The '53 Swingbillies online at www.markkreitzer.com/bands/53swingbillies/.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of Music. For more information, including disability accommodations, please call (507) 222-4475. The Concert Hall is located on First Street, between Nevada and Winona Streets, in Northfield.


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Almanac Between Issues
June 10, 2008
$50 Million Gift From Anne and Jerome Fisher for New Translational Medicine Research Center
A $50 million gift from philanthropists Jerome and Anne Fisher will support a new eight-story biomedical-research center at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to the growing field of translational medicine, which emphasizes an accelerated pace for converting laboratory discoveries into medical therapies.
Slated to open in 2010, the Anne and Jerome Fisher Translational Research Center will be adjacent to Penn's two new state-of-the-art outpatient-care facilities that will begin operations this year and in 2009. Together, the three facilities will reconfigure the Penn medical campus to tightly align medical research and care and to enable Penn to offer the most advanced treatments for cancer, cardiovascular disease and other serious health conditions.
"All of us at the University of Pennsylvania are enormously grateful to Anne and Jerome for this incredibly generous and transformational gift which will further position Penn at the forefront of bench-to-bedside medicine," President Amy Gutmann said.
"The Fishers' long and steadfast commitment to Penn has profoundly impacted the University, and this significant gift continues their legacy of supporting eminence in areas that become signature strengths of Penn, such as the Fisher Program in Management and Technology and the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library."
"Anne and I love Penn," Mr. Fisher said, "and we have long felt that investing in this world-class university is investing in the future of humankind itself. We are especially pleased to be able to make a contribution that will impact advances in health care, something which touches everyone's life."
This most recent Fisher contribution to Penn is the largest capital gift to the University's "Making History" fund-raising campaign. It is one of the largest gifts in the history of Penn and the second largest gift to PENN Medicine. A professorship in hematology and oncology named in honor of the Fishers' daughter, Jodi Fisher, is also included in this donation.
Translational research is an example of Penn's interdisciplinary efforts to address some of the most pressing health issues facing society today, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Each of the eight floors of the Anne and Jerome Fisher Translational Research Center will be the size of a football field. The 400,000-square-foot structure will dramatically increase Penn's research space.
Through its imaginative design and its connections to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, the Roberts Proton Therapy Center and other centers of patient care, the facility will provide an innovative home for the research engine that keeps PENN Medicine at the leading edge of medical care.
The Center will enable the recruitment of additional top scientists in key strategic areas and will accommodate the research and office-based activities of 100 principal investigators and 900 additional staff.
"This generous gift by the Fishers will have a far-reaching impact on our institution by transforming PENN Medicine into one of the world's leading centers of translational medicine," said Arthur H. Rubenstein, dean of the Penn School of Medicine and executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. "This new research center makes possible an unprecedented level of focused scientific exchange among researchers, clinicians and educators from which will emerge important new medical knowledge and treatments."
"The ultimate beneficiaries of the Fishers' gift are patients in the region, in the nation and from around the world," Ralph W. Muller, chief executive officer of the Penn Health System, said. "The new research center provides Penn the ability to further link its twin strengths of basic research and patient care by enabling its physician scientists to convert biomedical insights into prevention, treatments and cures."
Mr. Fisher, founder and chairman emeritus of the Nine West Group Inc., is a 1953 graduate of Penn's Wharton School and has grandchildren who are Penn alumni. He and his wife have been active supporters of Penn for many years.
Their previous gifts to Penn, totaling more than $14 million, include renovations to two other landmark buildings at Penn, the Fisher Hassenfeld College House and the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library. They also helped establish the Fisher Program in Management and Technology and the Anne Fisher Graduate Fellowship that provides endowed financial aid for graduate fine arts students.
Mrs. Fisher served on the Board of Overseers for the Graduate School of Fine Arts, now known as the School of Design, from 1992 to 2002, and in 1999 was awarded the Dean's Medal in Landscape and Architecture.
Mr. Fisher served on the Wharton School's Undergraduate Executive Board and Board of Overseers in 1992-2004. In addition, he was a University trustee from 1996 to 2000, and both served as members of the College House Advisory Board from 2000-2001. He has been a member of PENN Medicine's Board of Trustees since 2006 and is an honorary emeritus trustee of the University.
The international firm of Rafael Viñoly Architects PC is designing the center to incorporate innovative features that will support the collaboration of researchers across disciplines. Viñoly's portfolio includes courthouses, museums, athletic facilities, laboratories and arts centers.
"Making History: The Campaign for Penn" has a goal of $3.5 billion to be raised by June 30, 2012. More than half of that amount has been raised thus far.
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― elwisty (elwisty), Saturday, 19 February 2005 19:06 (twelve years ago) Permalink
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 March 2005 11:06 (twelve years ago) Permalink
― JoB (JoB), Monday, 28 March 2005 11:34 (twelve years ago) Permalink
"Yes, I'm THAT good."
(Actually, regular reader/sometime poster Melinda Mess-Injure is going to be presenting at this!)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 March 2005 12:05 (twelve years ago) Permalink
Yes they were a miracle.
I'm gonna have to kick your arses in a minute with Smiths talk. Just warning you.
― Get Unbanned (Bimble), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:37 (eight years ago) Permalink
"The death of a disco dancer Well, it happens a lot 'round here And if you think Peace Is a common goal That goes to show How little you know
The death of a disco dancer Well, I'd rather not get involved I never talk to my neighbour I'd rather not get involved "
Prescient, yes?
― bidfurd, Sunday, 8 February 2009 20:45 (eight years ago) Permalink
Just read this thread, really quite something, anyway there's a couple of question I would like to ask relating to the issues raised in this thread, there is talk of Morrissey and The Smith's "legacy". I was wondering how peoples view had changed taking into account his perhaps nostalgia based comeback and obviously Smiths / Moz indebted yet achingly conservative bands reclaiming the indie / NME world. There's a notion put forward here that provincial Britain as Moz understood no longer exists but these bands seem like a studied attempt to speak to / about provincial Britain in the way Moz did. Though The Libertines who I am thinking of her got derailed by their own myth pretty quickly without bring anything particularly interesting to the table. Whilst perhaps someone like The Streets does talk about provincial Britain in a way that doesn't reek of conservative nostalgia though of course it could be argued he is part of a very different tradition and a completely different vision of Britain. The lyrics of many You Are The Quarry songs suggest that Britain no longer exists for Morrissey as anything but memory and pastiche (Come Back To Camden, Irish Blood, English Heart)? But was it ever anything but that? This is reminding me of the thread on Bob Dylan if Dylan is the link between two eras is Morrissey a sort of link between two significantly different epochs of British cultural history, from mining to malls or something. From tin mines to Tescos? Corner shops to Co-Op?― elwisty (elwisty), Saturday, 19 February 2005 19:06 (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^so glad this guy stopped posting
― Limoncello Carlin (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:05 (eight years ago) Permalink
elwisty a villa fan by any chance?
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:06 (eight years ago) Permalink
It's the other one, but I get them confused all the time as well tbh.
― Limoncello Carlin (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:11 (eight years ago) Permalink
the miracle of this thread. best ilm thread ever?
― alex in mainhattan, Sunday, 8 February 2009 21:41 (eight years ago) Permalink
One of those great old threads where I look through it years later hoping, "Man, I hope I didn't say something really stupid during this terrific discussion." And I didn't say anything at all, thankfully.
― Mark, Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:04 (eight years ago) Permalink
TBH I only recently started watching footage of early Smiths concerts. It is kind of incredible that this man was a pop star:
Not even like charmingly Michael Stipe-ish geekiness.
― Sundar, Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:09 (eight years ago) Permalink
(Like, speaking as someone who's pretty awkward and unco-ordinated but harbours no ambitions to pop stardom.)
― Sundar, Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:13 (eight years ago) Permalink
Just academic stardom.
― the pinefox, Monday, 9 February 2009 13:04 (eight years ago) Permalink
This thread was also amazingly self-renewing -- it had Nabisco, Dr C and Carmody writing great screeds early on, but years later the marvellous Mary could still pop up and write an even bigger one.
― the pinefox, Monday, 9 February 2009 13:09 (eight years ago) Permalink
I think elwisty got the return and ? keys on his computer confused.
― Ozman Bin Laden (Raw Patrick), Monday, 9 February 2009 13:15 (eight years ago) Permalink
lol aspergers
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 9 February 2009 13:33 (eight years ago) Permalink
lol you're a dick
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 00:11 (eight years ago) Permalink
Heads up -- from the folks who brought you the New Order/Joy Division Recycle blog:
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 14:29 (seven years ago) Permalink
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:10 (seven years ago) Permalink
Thanks, Ned.
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:46 (seven years ago) Permalink
― peacocks, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:19 (seven years ago) Permalink
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 18:14 (seven years ago) Permalink
Stoked for this.
― more lunacy and witchcraft! (kkvgz), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 18:22 (seven years ago) Permalink
Hope some fans pick up the idea and do this for The Cure too.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 18:32 (seven years ago) Permalink
I know it's in bad taste to go "OMG this thread is so good!!!"
But yeah, OMG this thread is so good!!!
― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 19:44 (seven years ago) Permalink
It is good! (today's stinking it up a bit, though)
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:03 (seven years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:07 (seven years ago) Permalink
it was my emoticon, wasn't it ... :(
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:08 (seven years ago) Permalink
Still no Smiths action figures...
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:13 (seven years ago) Permalink
Sorry Ned, now I feel bad.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:21 (seven years ago) Permalink
http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2009/1/30/17/morrissey-almost-nude-23290-1233354574-13.jpgshit just got real
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:56 (seven years ago) Permalink
actually wait a second, what is andy cairns from therapy and that guy from sum 41 doing in mozza's band?
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 20:57 (seven years ago) Permalink
― seger ros (crüt), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 21:00 (seven years ago) Permalink
you know I looked at the name of that URL and still I thought it was going to be of action figures
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 21:02 (seven years ago) Permalink
As for "having a car with *'only'* a tape deck"... jeez. That's what I call living in the World's Only Remaining Superpower.
I still think of this post, often, when driving
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 00:07 (seven years ago) Permalink
in case you missed this:
Search and Destroy : New Order
― Bee OK, Friday, 27 August 2010 04:35 (seven years ago) Permalink
umm, i missed it, but that is one of the most amazing album covers i've ever seen. please let that be real.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Friday, 27 August 2010 04:39 (seven years ago) Permalink
To re-revive:
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 October 2010 14:49 (seven years ago) Permalink
Don't like the sound of Wnr Br0$ shutting their blog down. Surely they'd have bigger fish to fry.. ah well let's hope so.
Meanwhile there's a brilliant How To Buy The Smiths article right at the back of MOJO December issue which just came out in the uk. It goes for Hatful.. as the best album, as voted for by writers and members of MOJO forum. I concur!
― piscesx, Saturday, 30 October 2010 10:45 (seven years ago) Permalink
Heads up, folks. It's started:
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 October 2010 12:32 (seven years ago) Permalink
didn't really 'get' the smiths until recently - this will be a good way back in. cheers!
― dayo, Sunday, 31 October 2010 12:37 (seven years ago) Permalink
i can see just from the first blog post that i'll be learning a few things here. and there was me fancying myself as some kind of Smiths expert! what was Brixton Ace i wonder? never heard of it before.
― piscesx, Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:27 (seven years ago) Permalink
this is going to be fun, those cover scans are incredible.
― ILB's biggest fanboy for the SF Giants (Bee OK), Monday, 1 November 2010 01:33 (seven years ago) Permalink
― piscesx, Monday, 1 November 2010 02:44 (seven years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 November 2010 02:46 (seven years ago) Permalink
well i didn't think it possible to make the smiths interesting in 2010, but here we are
― Sniiiiip! (electricsound), Monday, 1 November 2010 02:53 (seven years ago) Permalink
hand in glove was amazing, thanks for posting the updates about this...would have had no idea.
― skip, Monday, 1 November 2010 03:04 (seven years ago) Permalink
shocked by how excited I am for this
― Mark, Monday, 1 November 2010 03:30 (seven years ago) Permalink
had no idea about a planned RATF single. Jeane was always a brilliant song. one of the few lesser known B sides thanks to it's exclusion from the 80's era compilations.
― piscesx, Monday, 1 November 2010 04:02 (seven years ago) Permalink


text: I had a disagreement with an SUV in Mandeville, LA Monday March 12th. I had the bike taken to Hebert BMW in Baton Rouge Tuesday morning. They immediately went to work on my bike making temporary repairs so that I could get on the road home to Albuquerque. They even took a front axle from a new bike for me as mine was bent. I was charged very fairly for the work and was on my way at 4 PM and arrived home the next day. I was treated very well and certainly recommend this dealership. Thanks to everyone there for helping me through a bad situation far from home.


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The name's Beth. I love HP clearly. I also love writing and this is one of the ways I'm adapting to try and get more of it in.
My favorite characters are Ron and Ginny Weasley. I also like Hermione, Snape, and Neville. I'll read most any ship except H/Hr, I'm a R/Hr shipper all the way, although I do like other ships that contradict like D/G and H/G.
Oh and I love music and challenges because they give me inspiration!
I'll leave you with some lyrics,
" do you do you like dreaming of things
so impossible or only the practical
or ever the wild or waiting through all your bad bad days
just to end them with
someone you care about
or do you like making out
and long drives and brown eyes
and guys that just
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KOIN-TV: PSU prof builds pressure suit in living room (video)
Portland State University professor Dr. Cameron Smith builds a space suit in his living room. He'll use it to reach 50,000 feet -- the lower stratosphere -- in a balloon he also plans to build. He's already built a prototype for the capsule/module he'll sit in while manning the controls. The professor of anthropology plans to take lfight some time in 2014, after testing his space suit in a hyperbaric chamber, then getting his balloon pilot's license.


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Neil Portnow in "America's Next Top Model"
"America's Next Top Model" Contestants Compete For GRAMMY Opportunity
Tune in to the CW on Wednesday, Oct. 20 to watch Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow participate as a guest judge on the reality series "America's Next Top Model." In this episode, the contestants meet at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles for a challenge that will award an opportunity to serve as a trophy presenter during the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 13, 2011. The winner will attend the GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles and act as an onstage escort for award winners during the live telecast.
Hosted by fashion model and TV personality Tyra Banks and currently in its 15th cycle, "America's Next Top Model" gives a selected group of women the opportunity to launch a career in the demanding world of high fashion supermodeling. The contestants participate in a different competition each week and are judged by Banks, Vogue Editor-At-Large Andre Leon Talley, and photographer Nigel Barker, with Jay Manuel serving as photo shoot creative director. In addition to Portnow, guest judges during this cycle include fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, supermodel Karolina Kurkova and designer Diane von Furstenberg, among others.
This season's winner will receive a contract with IMG Models, a fashion spread in Vogue Italia with an additional spread and cover in the beauty section of Vogue, and a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl.
"America's Next Top Model" will air Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m./7 p.m. C on the CW. The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards will air live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.


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Lattice offers free "@MachX02 Speed" seminars
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The folks at Lattice Semiconductor have just announced their @MachXO2 Speed Seminar Series in partnership with their worldwide network of sales representatives and distribution partners.
This seminar series includes hands-on technical training and live hardware demonstrations that focus on the innovative MachXO2 PLD features that speed the design process and reduce time-to-market. The seminars hands-on hardware demonstrations utilize the versatile, battery-powered MachXO2 Pico Development Kit, which is discounted to $29 for the remainder of 2012.
The initial @MachXO2 Speed seminar focuses on nine new reference and demonstration designs that enhance the usability of the built-in I2C, SPI and User Flash Memory functions in the low cost, low power MachXO2 PLD familys unique Flash memory-based Embedded Function Block (EFB). New technical features include commented, pre-verified RTL and C code that is easily re-usable to help engineers get a head start on their own design implementations.
The @MachXO2 Speed seminars are available worldwide from Lattice and its network of sales and distribution partners. The MachXO2 Embedded Function Block simplifies the design process for our programmable logic customers, said Rita Megling, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Lattice distribution partner Nu Horizons Electronics. We look forward to mobilizing our field applications engineering team to help our customers complete their PLD designs faster than ever.
The @MachXO2 Speed seminars cover a wide variety of topics, including:
- I2C-Slave (Lattice reference design number RD1124)
- SPI-Slave (RD1125)
- UFM access (RD1126)
- Embedded Programming (RD1129)
- I2C Master with I2C Slave (Lattice demonstration design number UG55)
- SPI Master with SPI Slave (UG56)
- Master I2C & SPI Using C and the LatticeMico8 Microcontroller (UG54)
- Programming via the Wishbone Bus Interface (UG57)
- Low Power Control (UG58)
Customers can sign up to schedule an @MachXO2 Speed seminar by Clicking Here or by contacting a local Lattice sales office by Clicking Here.
Pricing and availability
Promotional pricing for the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit is $29 for kits ordered via the Lattice Online Store and through Lattice Distributors through December 31, 2012, or while promotional quantities last. Click Here for more information regarding the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit.
Lattice's entire portfolio of reference designs optimized for the MachXO2 family can be downloaded at no cost from the Lattice website by Clicking Here.
Other demonstration designs, application notes and further information about the Lattice MachXO2 PLD family can be found by Clicking Here.
All MachXO2 PLDs are fully production qualified and have been shipping since 2011. MachXO2 PLDs feature a broad range of densities, packages and speed grade options and are available for ordering via the Lattice online store. Free Lattice Diamond design software can be downloaded by Clicking Here.
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2006 California Jamboree After Dark - Online Car and Truck Show Coverage
The 2006 California Jamboree After Dark Car, Truck, and Hot Rod Show & Cruise provided plenty of Saturday afternoon and evening entertainment for Long Beach, California, enthusiasts and residents.Attracting a variety of custom rides, this marked After Dark's first year of hopefully many more to come. Beginning in the afternoon, continuing through sunset, and concluding in darkness always throws an exciting twist on any show. It seems that when the sun goes down, the show heats up, and an even better time begins to brew. Darkness also makes spark-showering, frame-dragging trucks more prominent. After Dark took advantage of the night's black canvas by featuring a rail drag contest to let spark-throwing rides show off. For West Coast shows, dragging contests seem to be a special treat, and enthusiasts certainly took advantage of this opportunity during After Dark.


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Serra High School in Tierrasanta was on lockdown this morning after a school police officer heard a possible shot fired in a canyon near the campus.
Officers were called to the school on Santo Road just after 6:30 a.m. after someone reported seeing at least two people carrying copper wire from a locked construction site on the north side of the campus, police said.
The suspects fled when police arrived. As an officer searched for the thieves, he thought he heard a gun being fired, police said.
Officers searched the canyon and surrounding area but did not locate the men. The lockdown was lifted about 9:40 a.m., police said.


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As for the holy Martyrs of Sinai and Raithu, those of Sinai contested during the reign of Diocletian, about the year 296; those of Raithu were slain about the middle of the fifth century. On both occasions, the perpetrators of these massacres were a barbarian tribe called Blemmyes, from parts of Arabia and Egypt.
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Terry Anderson
Tue, 11/22/2016
It is appropriate that Elouise Cobell be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but it would be better yet if the federal government would grant all Native Americans the freedom suggested by the award's title - especially when it comes to energy development.
Mark Pennington
Thu, 10/20/2016
Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen
Thu, 10/20/2016
Shawn Regan
Thu, 10/20/2016
Jonathan Adler
Thu, 10/20/2016
Accounting for dynamic nature requires revisiting the underpinnings of environmental law and management.
James Huffman
Thu, 10/20/2016
Gregg Simonds
Thu, 10/20/2016
Terry Anderson
Wed, 01/13/2016
In light of the Malheur standoff, the New York Times asked six contributors "should the government still own so much land in the West, and should its control over that land be reduced?"
Reed Watson,
Tue, 06/30/2015
Congress should stop acquiring more federal land for the park system and start maintaining what we've already got.
Terry Anderson
Mon, 03/16/2015
Millennials want results, not regulations. Younger generations care about the environment — over 80 percent are concerned about global warming and resource scarcity — but they want environmental bang for their buck.


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The tornado watch is in effect until 8 p.m. Saturday for Monroe, Arkansas, Drew, Bradley, Jefferson, Desha and Lincoln counties.
A flash flood warning is in effect along a line from Camden through Little Rock to Brinkley and to the Blytheville area. The weather service said 5 to 6 inches of rain is possible in some areas and many streams and rivers are already rain swollen.
A flood warning and flash flood watch are in effect for much of the remainder of the state.


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Our Ravishing Script Wedding Invitation Suite Design pairs perfectly with the teal and gray hues! This invitation set is sophisticated and trendy with the running script. This suite can customized to any color palette from our color chart!


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Dow's new GE corn would rely on toxic 2,4-D herbicide
In the brave new world of bio-tech agriculture, the big pesticide/herbicide makers have argued for years that their genetic seed inventions would reduce the use of chemicals.
It made sense, to argue for that. Almost everyone agrees that our health and the environment would benefit from reduced pesticide use. And Americans react strongly when they find their food has been compromised by chemicals. Think of the Alar apple scare, or the more recent outcry over strawberries doused with methyl iodide, a fumigant suspected of causing cancer.
Chemical companies tapped into citizen concern about pesticides by promising they could engineer corn and soybeans to resist certain "safer" chemicals, such as Monsanto's Roundup. That would reduce environmental harm and give farmers a break, because they could use Roundup whenever they wanted without fear of harming their crops. They'd get higher yields with little downside, because the Roundup would biodegrade, and America would feed the world….Read More


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By Ben Golliver
In rare public comments, Bulls guard Derrick Rose said this week that his return to the court is not imminent.
Rose, who suffered a serious knee injury in April 2012, told USA Today Sports that he still has work to do before he will be ready to make his season debut for the Bulls.
"I don't have a set date," Rose told USA TODAY Sports on Monday in his first extensive interview since the 2012-13 NBA season began. "I'm not coming back until I'm 110%. Who knows when that can be? It can be within a couple of weeks. It could be next year. It could be any day. It could be any time. It's just that I'm not coming back until I'm ready."
How close is Rose to 110%?
"Right now, probably in the high 80s," he said. "Far away. Far away."
Rose returned to full-contact practices with his teammates in January after taking part in more limited practice sessions in December. He underwent surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee in May 2012, nine months ago.
Chicago has fared quite well without Rose, going 30-21 this season, good for fourth in the Eastern Conference and just one-half game behind the Pacers for the Central Division lead.
Even though it seems as if Rose's rehabilitation has lasted forever, there are still more than nine weeks remaining in the regular season. Ideally, Rose would have, at minimum, a few weeks to work himself back into shape before the start of the postseason. If he's still repeating the "far away" mantra in late March, then it might be time to worry. It goes without saying that the utmost caution is in order here, and not only to minimize the possibility of a re-injury. Expectations and hype surrounding his return are bound to be massive; slow-playing every step of his rehabilitation helps put Rose in a better position to succeed once he does return.76ers


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Monomorium dichroum
Panama City, Panama
Monomorium ergatogyna
Queen and workers.
Mt. Tamalpais, Marin Co., California, USA
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA
Monomorium ergatogyna worker ant showing the typical alarm response: gaster raised and waving about a droplet of venom on an extruded stinger.
Grass Valley, California, USA
Empire Mine State Park, California, USA
Monomorium floricola
Monomorium floricola ranks among the most traveled of all ants. This diminutive species has spread with human commerce to nearly every lowland tropical region. Here, a worker tends to a mealybug in Panama.
Isla Contadora, Panama
Worker ants tending a mealybug.
Isla Contadora, Panama
Among the most common arboreal ants in tropical gardens worldwide is Monomorium floricola, a tiny species that has travelled the world with commerce. This colony is nesting in a hollow twig. Armenia, Cayo District, Belize.
Monomorium kiliani
On a cold winter day, a worker ant slowly forages across a rotting log. Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia.
Foraging worker brings a seed back to her nest.
Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Monomorium minimum
Monomorium minimum, the little black ant.
Glen O. Jones Lake, Illinois, USA
Colonies of the little black ant, Monomorium minimum, may have dozens of functional queens. High Falls State Park, Georgia, USA.
A colony of little black ants, Monomorium minimum, with multiple queens. High Falls State Park, Georgia, USA.
Queen ant in the nest. High Falls State Park, Georgia, USA.
Ants often collect nectar from flowers, but they generally make poor pollinators compared to flying insects. This little black ant has picked up a few pollen grains as it vists a black foot daisy. Austin, Texas, USA.
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"The pure mind, the ubiquitous essence -Andrew108 wrote:I've been reviewing this thread in light of the huge Dzogchen and Buddhism thread. During the Dzogchen and Buddhism thread I came round to the view that contrivance is really important. Contrived practice and the notion of progress plays really well with the Dzogchen view. Just to have Dzogchen by itself with no progress to be made or just to be interested in 'my primordial potentiality' seems impoverished and more like an obstacle. We need these conceptual practices and ideas of progress because otherwise we might get 'lost' in Dzogchen. It's not right to only want the essence of the teachings.
it is spontaneously, originally, perfect;
so strenuous engagement with the ten techniques
is unnecessary, superfluous.
...I am inscrutable and cannot be cultivated.
All the ten techniques are likewise transcended,
so nothing can be done to affect me.
Those who try to approach me on a causal path,
desirous of catching a glimpse of my face,
seeking me through the ten techniques,
fall straight to earth like a tenderfoot sky-walker,
tumbling down due to deliberate effort.
I, the supreme source, I am the revelation,
and transcend every sphere of activity,
so a view of me cannot be cultivated,
and the ten techniques are meaningless.
If you still think that the ten techniques have purpose,
look at me, and finding nothing to see,
taking no view, remain at that zero-point.
Nothing ever separates us from unoriginated simplicity,
so vows and discipline are redundant;
the essence is always spontaneously present,
so any effort to find it is always superfluous;
self-sprung awareness has never been obscured,
so gnostic awareness cannot be generated;
everybody already lives on my level,
so there is no place to reach through purification;
I embrace all and everything,
so there can be no path that leads to me;
I am forever incapable of dualization,
so there is never anything to be labeled 'subtle';
my form embraces everything,
so there has never been any 'duality';
I am self-sprung awareness from the very beginning,
so I can never be nailed down;
since I am the heart of total presence,
there is no other source of secret precepts."
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The Tannahill Weavers are one of Scotland's premier traditional bands. Their diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fire-driven instrumentals, topical songs, and original ballads and lullabies. Their music demonstrates to old and young alike the rich and varied musical heritage of the Celtic people. These versatile musicians have received worldwide accolades consistently over the years for their exuberant performances and outstanding recording efforts that seemingly can't get better…yet continue to do just that.
The Tannahills have turned their acoustic excitement loose on audiences with an electrifying effect. They have that unique combination of traditional melodies, driving rhythmic accompaniment, and rich vocals that make their performances unforgettable. As the Winnipeg Free Press noted, "The Tannahill Weavers – properly harnessed – could probably power an entire city for a year on the strength of last night's concert alone. The music may be old time Celtic, but the drive and enthusiasm are akin to straight ahead rock and roll."
Born of a session in Paisley, Scotland and named for the town's historic weaving industry and local poet laureate Robert Tannahill, the group has made an international name for its special brand of Scottish music, blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms. The Tannahill Weavers began to attract attention when founding members Roy Gullane and Phil Smillie added the full-sized highland bagpipes to the on-stage presentations, the first professional Scottish folk group to successfully do so. The combination of the powerful pipe solos, Roy's driving guitar backing and lead vocals, and Phil's ethereal flute playing breathed new life into Scotland's vast repertoire of traditional melodies and songs.
Three years and a dozen countries later, the Tannahills were the toast of Europe, having won the Scotstar Award for Folk Record of the Year with their third album, The Tannahill Weavers. Canada came the next summer, with thousands at the national festivals in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Toronto screaming an approval that echoed throughout the Canadian media. The Regina Leader-Post wrote, "The Tannahill Weavers personify Celtic music, and if you are given to superlatives, you have to call their talent 'awesome'."
Since their first visit to the United States in 1981, the Tannahills' unique combination of traditional melodies on pipes, flute and fiddle, driving rhythms on guitar and bouzouki, and powerful three and four part vocal harmonies have taken the musical community by storm. As Garrison Keillor, the host of "Prairie Home Companion", remarked, "These guys are a bunch of heroes every time they go on tour in the States".
Over the years the Tannies have been trailblazers for Scottish music, and their tight harmonies and powerful, inventive arrangements have won them fans from beyond the folk and Celtic music scenes. The Ithaca Journal writes, "Traveling overseas to perform always thrusts the artist into the role of cultural ambassador. If that is the case, the Tannahill Weavers make Scotland out to be a country to desire, one with an appreciation of the old, an acceptance of the new and a quick and playful wit."
1994 saw the release to critical acclaim of Capernaum, which won the Indie Award in the USA for Celtic Album of the Year from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors and Manufacturers. Now with their 15th album, Alchemy (2000), the Tannahill Weavers are firmly established as one of the world's premier Celtic artists. From reflective ballads to footstomping reels and jigs, the variety and range of the material they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and lively Scottish spirit.
Quotes From the Press
"These guys are a bunch of heroes every time they go on tour in the States" – Garrison Keillor, Prairie Home Companion
"…world class musicians with passion and a healthy sense of fun, keeping alive and making accessible the very heart of the tradition itself." – Mojo Magazine
"…as close to perfect as it gets in an imperfect world…there is no Celtic group which can match the enigmatic Tannahill Weavers for pure excitement." – R. Weir, Sing Out
"…no band of their ilk has performed with more energy or authority than the Tannies, who blend guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, fiddle, whistles, bodhran and pipes into a lilting product as fine and enduring as the textiles woven by namesake weavers of their Scottish hometown, Paisley." – Westword, Denver, Colorado
"…the Weavers' unpretentious manner and superlative playing set them apart from most other Celtic groups. In a world where good taste has become a scarce commodity, the Tannahill Weavers are a wealthy bunch." – Michael Lipton, The Charleston Gazette
"Versatility is their strong suit, backed up by instrumental brilliance and on-stage high spirit." – Vancouver Press
"Past meets present for a heckuva future!" – St. Paul Pioneer Press
"If you haven't yet discovered the emotional power and beauty of Celtic music, then you owe it to yourself to see firsthand one of the best traditional Celtic folk bands in the world – The Tannahill Weavers. No other group comes close to matching their musical style and breathtaking harmony. Whether they're performing an a cappella ballad with beauty and precision, or a hard-driving Gaelic battle tune, this band is one of a kind, featuring stunning vocals, as well as the best guitar, pipes, fiddle, bodhran, and tin whistle players anywhere." – Miami Valley Guide to Musical Diversity