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I still have plenty of Tean's tom yam paste that I brought over from Malaysia.Some of the date are just expired and some expired date is still not far away.I guess ,I have to use all the paste as soon as possible before it's goes bad..So today,I make some tilapia fish with this exotic paste..I ate 2 bowls of rice with this yummy fish.This dish is really delicious and satisfactory..One word ....... priceless!!
4 large pieces boneless tilapia,cut into 3 pieces each
3-4 sweet pepper,remove seeds and cut or slice
1 medium onion,peeled and slice
1 pack tom yam paste (Tean's brand)
2 tbsp sambal paste or chili paste *optional*
1 tbsp tamarind powder or 100gm tamarind pulp with 100 ml water,removed pulps just use the juice
2 tbsp sugar
salt to taste
3 tbsp oil
1:Heat wok or skillet at medium with oil and tom yam paste.Use spatula to stir for 30 seconds.Add in sambal paste,onion and sweet pepper,mix well.
2:Add in all the seasoning and tilapia. Flip over the the fish on both side.Check the seasoning.Carefully stir the ingredients,don't mush up the fish too much
3:Dish out and serve warm rice or noodle.
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eSports, oh God no...
Well whatever, someone already took counter-strike... But I'm assuming it can be taken up again?
Here's my game:
But the title clearly has the name eSports on it.
Sooo.. yeah, should we include the actual people playing it or just the idea of it being a competitive match between two opposing teams?


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I've already written about Linux static routing configuration. However, sometime you need to configure Linux routers dynamically to get changes of network connections by communicating information about which networks each router can reach and how far away those networks are. These days most network admin prefer to use OSPF or BGP over RIP. Linux and UNIX system can act as router using special software.
Quagga Software
Quagga is a network routing suite providing implementations of OSPF (v2 & v3), RIP (v1, v2 & v3) and BGP (v4) for Unix-like platforms, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and NetBSD. Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra. Quagga is intended to be used as a Route Server and a Route Reflector. It is not a toolkit, it provides full routing power under a new architecture.
Zebra IP Routing Manager
zebra is an IP routing manager. It provides kernel routing table updates, interface lookups, and redistribution of routes between different routing protocols. zebra is included with quagga software.
Install quagga
Debian / Ubuntu Linux user type the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install quagga
RHEL , Fedora, CentOS Linux user type the following command:
# yum install quagga
quagga Software Configuration
quagga configuration is beyond the scope of this blog post; I recommend reading official configuration documentation for further information.


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To keep astronomy advancing, we have to advocate for ourselves. We have to protect the skies, and call on our world leaders to fund science. Want to change the world? Do it here!
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Classrooms come in many sizes, & sometimes have no walls at all. If you teach astronomy in the classroom, in an after school program, or in another environment, let's talk about how we can improve astronomy teaching together.
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How do you share/inflict ;-) astronomy with others? From sidewalk astronomy with telescopes to guerrilla astronomy with iPads, talk about sharing the cosmos.
Call for Citizen Scientists...
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Israel's assault on the people of Gaza "dramatically escalated" overnight as hundreds of missiles bombed the civilian population living in the walled-off territory.
According to the Ma'an new agency's latest reporting, the airstrikes "killed 30 Palestinians overnight Wednesday and Thursday, including a family of eight, bringing the total death toll [this week] to 81."
Updating their tracking of the number of children killed during the assault, Defense of Children International-Palestine reports on Thursday that a "total of 14 Palestinian children, including four toddlers, have died in airstrikes since Israel launched a major military offensive on the Gaza Strip Tuesday."
Israeli officials, however, indicated the assault was "going according to plan" and would continue.
"The military's successes so far have been very significant," said Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on Thursday. "We will continue until [people living in Gaza] understand that this escalation is not beneficial to them and that we will not tolerate rocket fire toward our towns and citizens."
Critics of Israel's widescale assault—which is using warplanes, naval ships, aerial drones, and ground forces lined up on the border—say the operation, like others before it, is clearly disproportionate.
Mohammad Momani, a spokesperson for the government of Jordan—which maintains a peace agreement with Israel—described the behavior of the Israeli military as "barbaric aggression" that would have "negative repercussions on the Gaza Strip and the whole region."
Momani condemned "the military aggression that Israel has launched in the Gaza Strip" and said Jordan is calling for "its immediate halt."
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, ahead of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday warned that "Gaza is on a knife edge."
"The deteriorating situation is leading to a downward spiral which could quickly get beyond anyone's control," he continued. "The risk of violence expanding further still is real. Gaza, and the region as a whole, cannot afford another full-blown war."
Developments about the ongoing attack on Gaza are trending on Twitter under the hashtag #GazaUnderAttack (Warning: some images in this feed may be graphic):
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Documenting just some of the Gaza civilians killed in the most recent bombings, Ma'an reports:
Early Thursday, Israeli warplanes targeted a building in Khan Younis, killing eight members of the al-Hajj family. Over 30 people were injured in the strike.
Most of the victims were children, al-Qidra said, adding that Israeli forces bombed the building without a warning or asking them to evacuate.
Tariq al-Hajj, Najla al-Hajj, Aminah al-Hajj, Saad al-Hajj, Omar al-Hajj, Aminah al-Hajj, and Basimah al-Hajj, 57, were named as the victims.
Earlier, nine Palestinians were killed and at least 10 injured when Israel targeted Waqt al-Marah coffee shop on a Khan Younis beach.
Locals said dozens of people were watching the World Cup semi-final game when Israel fired a missile at the crowd.
Muhammad Khalid Qannan, his brother Ibrahim, Hamdi Kamil Sawali, Suleiman al-Astal, Ahmad al-Astal, Mousa al-Astal and Muhammad al-Aqqad were identified as some of the victims.
Muhammad Ihsan Farawneh, 18, was found dead on Thursday under the rubble of the cafe.
Another airstrike in the al-Zawayda village in central Gaza killed four members of the Shalat family; a couple and two children.
Gaza-based journalist, Mohammed Omer, has also continued to track and report on the crisis on his Twitter account:


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Springer reaches out to injured DeShields
OAKLAND -- As one of his closest friends and a former roommate of Delino DeShields Jr., Astros outfielder George Springer took some time late Friday to talk via phone with DeShields, who sustained a fractured cheekbone when he was hit in the face by a pitch while playing for Double-A Corpus Christi.
"I talked to him just to see if he was doing OK, and make sure he was all right, and he's in good spirits and he wants to get back out there," Springer said. "He knows that he's going to have to hang out for about a month or so."
DeShields was placed on the disabled list and is expected to miss a few weeks of action. Springer said he couldn't tell anything was wrong with DeShields while talking to him.
"He seemed like he was in good spirits," Springer said. "He didn't really say anything bad about it. He just said it happened and he just said he got hit. I didn't really see it until he sent me a picture, and it looks bad. But he's a tough kid. He'll be fine."
Astros manager Bo Porter said he sent DeShields a text message.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with him and we hope that he recovers and everything is OK," Porter said. "It's always very concerning when you get hit in the face area. A lot can happen there."


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Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.
Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. "It's an insane way to draw", she says, "but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort. My drawings take longer to create than a painting of equal size and detail."
"It was all abstract and conceptual art when I attended university. My teachers told me that figurative art went 'out' in the Middle Ages and that I should express myself using form and shapes, but splashes on canvas and rocks on the floor bored me. I knew what I wanted: I wanted to create something no one had ever seen before, something that was brewing in the back of my brain. I used to sit for hours in the library copying Durer, Memling,Van Eyck, Goya and Rembrandt. The photographer, Diane Arbus, was another of my inspirations. Her use of black and white hit me at the core of my Being. Black and white is the color of ancient photographs and old TV shows… it is the color of ghosts, longing, time passing, memory, and madness. Black and white ached. I realized that it was perfect for the imagery in my work."
"… Lipton is a borderline-fanatical artist who props herself on a stick for at least 6 hours every day, drawing almost unrealizably thin lines and feathery details with a permanent-point pencil, betraying layer upon layer of dark secrets, sleepless nights, and footsteps in the hall."
- Juxtapoz Magazine
"… but it's not just her pencil that is sharp, her wit has an equally fine point which comes through in the titles of her detailed drawings."
- The London Evening Standard
"Technically Lipton is a profound draftsman. She captures nuances of light and shade with masterful proficiency."
- Artweek
"Her exhibition returns constantly to the theme of social masks while laying bare those deeply harboured fantasies and terrors which belie supposedly "normal" appearances."
- The Times (London)
"No escapism here; all dark corners are revealed."
- The Guardian
"Laurie Lipton draws in immaculate pencil with the precision of a brain surgeon. The results are stunning, worrying, funny and, above all, vengeful."
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These award winning Tidy Books kid's Bookcase and kids bookshelves makes books completely accessible; even the smallest child finds it easy to see and choose their books independently, because kids do judge a book by its cover! These slimline and stylish kid's bookcases are a practical storage system that allows a large number of kid's books to be displayed facing outwards.
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It was nice having my bookcase all ready for me. I can now find my books a lot easier. Do you know how much easier it is to actually grab a book by just looking at it? Yes us little ones do choose books by their cover and not by their spine. Tidy Books knew that! Tidy Books Bookcase comes with 4 shelves that are all sized differently. After all all books aren't the same size. Another of the great thing that I loved about my Tidy Books Bookcase is that it comes with the alphabet listed on each shelf. They're all raised and I not only get to learn them but I also get to learn the colors as well. What a great learning tool. Since I received my Tidy Books Bookcase my love of reading has increased tenfold. I no longer need mommy's help in choosing my books.
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This course is intended for the individual with little or no firearms experience at all. There is not a great deal of range shooting time in this class. This is the perfect class for a new shooter or someone interested in preparing for the marksmanship portion of the Texas License To Carry Handgun class.
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There's a curiously wide-eyed article from the New York Times, about some recent science fiction novels that have uncannily come true, which is making the rounds online. Are science fiction novelists really predicting the future after all?
Er, no. What it boils down to, in the end, is that some people wrote books about economic disaster and dystopia, which came out during our current economic crisis. And now that our economic situation seems to be worsening again, they're looking a bit prescient. As the article points out, it's easy to predict disaster, because you're bound to be proven right eventually — it's a lot harder to predict advances in technology or science with any reliability.
(And weirdly, the Times misses at least one science fiction author who can lay claim to having predicted some of our current troubles: Brian Francis Slattery, whose Liberation came out a lot earlier than the authors the Times picks up on, and has a lot more specifics to boot.)
Anyway, false alarm. Science fiction books are still just speculation and thought experiments, with no real predictive value.
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The Models Own x Hed Kandi range caught my eye as soon as the press release dropped into my inbox. I painted mine almost immediately with the bright neon coral shade from the collection called Hedonist, but my housemate stepped in to model Ibiza Mix for me. The Models Own and Hed Kandi range reflects the spirit of Ibiza and all things summery. Ibiza Mix nail polish is a fun shade full of multi coloured glitter (pinks, blues, greens and golds) which I think reflect the colour of the sea and the sun all suspended in a clear polish. Im surprised Models Own haven't released their own version of OPI's Rainbow connection yet, but this is similar but with more blues and golds rather than multi coloured rainbow. I'd love to see more of these clear glitter nail polishes from Models Own. I highly recommend this shade as its fun and unique and great for layering! I can't wait to use it!
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Banana Cabaret, Balham, is one of London's longest running, premiere stand up comedy clubs; a favourite with comedians and audiences alike and always one of the best lineups in town. All your favourite household-name comics have performed in our iconic round room. Many of them still do!
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By Richard Prebble
The untold story of New Zealand's biggest business turnaround
"That spring morning I walked into the Prime Minister's office still fairly green. I walked out the biggest businessman in New Zealand history—as chief executive of twenty billion dollars worth of business (in todays terms about one hundred billion). I was in charge of the country's air, road and rail systems, its national post office and phone company, half the country's forests, all the Landcorp farms, an insurance company, a bank, a computer company, all the nation's electricity generation and the national grid, air traffic control, a property company and a printing works."
Written by former Member of Parliament Richard Prebble, this is the story of one of the biggest business turnarounds ever: how changing the culture was the key to turning 21 government trading departments into profitable businesses.
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We were this close (seven-hundredths of a second-close) to missing a Phelps-Lochte face-off. This guy just can't get motivated. After deciding to saunter his way through the London Olympics, participating in only seven events and not the eight he dominated in Beijing, Phelps almost wound up competing in only six. Almost.
Phelps won the final spot in the qualifying meet for the 400 IM and did so by the slimmest of margins.
He won his heat in 4 minutes, 13.33 seconds, barely beating Hungary's Laszlo Cseh, who finished in 4:13.40. Cseh will miss the final after winning silver in 2008 and bronze in 2004.
Lochte qualified in third place overall.
In just barely qualifying, Phelps keeps alive his attempt to become the first male swimmer to win an event in three consecutive Olympics. The only problem (aside from almost not making it) is that Lochte—who won Bronze in the event at Beijing—has beaten Phelps at this year's Olympic trials and the 2009 and 2011 world championships.
Michael Phelps barely makes 400 IM final vs. Ryan Lochte [USA Today]
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When British journalist Rachel Polonsky moved to Moscow in the late 1990s, she found herself living at No. 3 Romanov Lane – a grand Czarist-era apartment building that later became home to the Soviet elite. One day Polonsky's upstairs neighbor let her into his apartment – formerly the home of Stalin's ruthless henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. Her exploration of the remnants of Molotov's magnificent library became the motif around which she built her book Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History. I recently had the chance to ask Polonsky about her life at No. 3 Romanov Lane, her travels in Russia, and her feelings about the country that both saddens and delights her.
Q. No. 3 Romanov Lane was full of so many memories, some rather tragic in nature. Did you feel haunted by the past when you lived there or has a new spirit now taken over?
I always felt the presence of the past very powerfully in No.3, even before I stepped inside the house. I think that everyone who visited the building was moved to think about its strange history; I cannot remember anyone who came into it who did not comment on both its grandeur and its tragedy. Some Russian friends said they could not have lived in it because of the historical evil they associate with it; because it was a refuge for their persecutors in the Soviet regime. Delving into the building's past, finding out names and stories, and writing about it was my way of inhabiting the building, a way of sharing it with those former occupants whose presence was still so vivid. It was also a way of bringing back the good people who had lived in it, and its original purpose, which was to be a home to civilized families. I am still haunted by the many stories I did not uncover, the stories I did not have the space to tell in "Molotov's Magic Lantern," the secrets the building still keeps.
Q. The hypocrisy of Communist elites living in a luxurious old-world building as a reward for helping to create a new classless society seems overwhelming. How do you think that Molotov and his colleagues justified this to themselves?
When No.3 was first expropriated by the Party, the apartments were communalized. It was during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites. There were terrible food shortages; living conditions were rough and precarious for most people in Moscow. At that time, the lifestyles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries would not have been luxurious at all. That changed quickly as the new regime established itself after victory in the Civil War, when the Party's pragmatic New Economic Policy was introduced to try to end the shortages, and a free market in consumer goods was reintroduced, though living conditions were still turbulent, and not at all "bourgeois" for anyone. Later in the 1920s, the Bolshevik elite became more openly comfort-loving. Stalin's great enemy, the revolutionary Trotsky, who was dragged out of the building by the secret police to be sent into exile at the end of the 1920s, railed against the Stalinist elite, ridiculing them as a new bourgeoisie. He despised the way in which they had quickly been seduced by what he called the "automobile and harem" culture of privilege, at how they drank wine and attended the ballet and gossiped when they should have been working night and day for world revolution.
Molotov himself expressed discomfort about the comfort-loving habits of the Party elite; he could not justify it according to the Marxist theory that he believed should guide his life. He was rather ascetic in his own personal habits, we are told, but his wife, Polina Zhemchuzhina (who was sent to the Gulag in 1949) famously loved the high life. She visited spas, wore furs and fine scent, loved cut flowers and dinner parties and hosting private music recitals. Soviet
society was rigidly hierarchical, and the people at the top soon developed a sense of entitlement.
Q. Did you feel that you came to know Molotov the man as you lived in his building and browsed in his library? What did you feel about him as a person?
I felt that through my contact with the remains of his library (and what I saw was just fragments of a formerly huge collection of books), I was able to approach his life story in a new way, and indeed, to think about books and libraries in a new way. I was able to contemplate him as a reader, as a serious reader, as someone who revered books, for all his fanaticism and the terrible crimes he committed. I learned what I could about him from other sources, from records of wide-ranging conversations he had late in life, from published biographies, including a very thorough and revealing biography by his distinguished grandson, Vyacheslav Nikonov. Molotov put ideas before people, and was able to sentence to death people who had considered him a friend, and to appease his own conscience. He proposed using numbers rather than names on death lists; he wanted to distance himself from the humanity of other people. He loved his wife dearly, but he did not intervene to prevent her arrest, or even speak up against it. Books can be easier to love and cherish than other people for a man like that.
Q. Do you think the Russian national character was altered by Communism – or is it more powerful than any ideology?
I find it hard to talk about "national character" – although, as I think the cultural historian Ernst Gombrich said once, anyone who has traveled is aware that there is such a thing as national character. Soviet Communism lasted for the best part of a century – it was its own kind of civilization and belief system. It formed ways of life, habits of behaviour, social attitudes, which it exported to other nations, and which have lasted. There is nostalgia for that Communist culture too. Restaurants have opened in Moscow that serve Soviet-style food in the Soviet manner, and people love them. At the same time, this particular ideology took root in Russia, in the deep rich soil of that culture, and many aspects of that culture survived, or have been revived, since the demise of Soviet Communism. One only has to visit a Russian Orthodox Church to become aware of those deep cultural roots and their powers of survival.
Q. Many of the scenes that you describe as you travel through Russia felt to me rather desolate and bleak. Am I imagining things – or did Russian life sometimes feel sad to you?
Chekhov wrote about the "excess of space" from which Russians suffer. The landscape itself can be profoundly melancholy; its desolation, its extent, the way in which it can diminish the individual. There are pockets of stupendous wealth in Russia, concentrated in the cities, principally in Moscow. The very wealthy tend to lead double lives; that is, they spend a lot of their time, and keep a lot of their wealth, outside Russia. They all have some kind of "exit strategy," so the urge to improve the lives of the mass of their compatriots is weaker than it should be. Many people in Russia still live in conditions of stark poverty, however, and lead hard lives in a harsh climate and have very few opportunities. That is sad to witness, and sad to contemplate. On the other hand, Russia is full of talent and creativity; of great traditions, tastes, unique pleasures, and people with big hearts. My own children gained so much from Russia's wonderful educational traditions. I have never encountered teachers as serious, committed, and skilled as I have in Moscow. It was all the good things that kept me in Russia for 10 years, and I am enduringly grateful for what Russia gave me and my family. I miss the taste of good Russian food, I miss my childrens' teachers, I miss the Russian steam bath (the banya), I miss the emotional directness of my Russian friends, their sense that life is a serious matter, as well as their earthy humour. I miss many things about Russia that I cannot find anywhere else in the world....
Q. Is there a "new" Russia that is very different from the old?
In history, new forms are always taking shape out of the old. That is what makes it so fascinating. Russia opened itself to the outside world after the end of Communism, and there was a rush to catch up with Western ways of life – now many people in Russia are trying to strengthen a distinctively Russian way of thinking, of doing things, of faith, of politics. Sometimes this takes the form of anti-Westernism, or a more general xenophobia, and this is cultivated by the official media and can be very ugly. In many ways the "new" Russia is about rediscovering the "old" Russian culture that was more or less erased or obscured by Communism. The revived Russian Orthodox faith is very important in the new Russia. Unfortunately, official corruption, which has been a longstanding problem in Russia, is still a disabling factor; it holds back healthy social and political development in the "new" Russia, robs people of opportunities to thrive, and makes them want to leave a homeland that in many ways they still love.
Marjorie Kehe is the Monitor's book editor.
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In December we initially had one housesit organised which was repeated a few times throughout the winter months. Then closer to Christmas came the opportunity to care for the neighbour's cat and how could we resist caring for a cat especially one who goes by the name of "Junky".
Our main housesit for the month was a resit. The main character was Fudge and his family who we now call friends. Surely you remember Fudge? He used to walk around the streets of Aubonne, check those moments out by reading: Neighbourhood Walks – Aubonne.
With Africa as his birthplace, a few abodes around Europe you could say he is one well-travelled dog. This makes him a very adaptable and agreeable chap to look after, and, we are very fond of him, to the point that we shall miss him.
Our time here has been what we would describe as very much "relaxed", we enjoyed our walks around the neighbourhood, with daily strolls to the beach. It had been an ideal time to spend organising future travel. As we have a roadtrip with five days up our sleeve to get to our next housesit in France and a return one on a different road in the coming weeks.
Back to Marbella, well we are not quite in Marbella, appropriately 8 km away, which is a good thing. As precisely, where we are there are no highrise buildings and the universal language, isn't English, with tourists, not being a regular sight.
Many of the houses are build quite similar, with other streets having traditional Spanish houses. What is common here, is the use of locked gates and high fences. Which is surprising for a country that has a low crime rate. Most I would say are to keep their dogs from wandering.
Fudge has a dislike for some small noisy four-legged varieties. Especially those that wait until he is near their fences. Sniffing his way, minding his own business relaxed as any dog could be, then comes that unexpected yelping, a groan is returned and we move on. By the time our equilibrium is restored, we are back to square one! Oh, those annoying yelpers say Fudge. One day, we met those yelpers on a walk, they didn't look so scary or noisy when Fudge growled at them as we passed them by.
Every dog has its day.
In the middle of the housesit, we had our first Spanish Christmas, read more about that in this post Our first Spanish Christmas. Well, the big fat jolly man didn't make much of an impact on this household and in fact not for many Spanish as the Feast of Epiphany is traditionally Spain's main festive holiday, when children receive their presents brought not by Santa Claus, but by the Three Kings. While in other countries, Christmas decorations have been packed away and normal working life has resumed, in Spain the holiday spirit continues until January 6th.
On that the day we were heading on a roadtrip to France, while Spaniards are more likely to be tucking into a Roscón de Reyes, a Three Kings cake baked in a ring and decorated with candied fruit and hiding a, sometimes lucrative, surprise.
A small figurine of the baby Jesus, or a little toy for children, is typically hidden inside the dough, as is a dry fava bean. Whoever finds the trinket is crowned king or queen of the celebration, while the one who sees the bean has to buy the Roscón the following year.
We did spot one random King hightailing his way down an escalator while we were in search of a hairdresser on one of our rare "malling" days. The Squire eventually got his haircut, and we never saw that King or his cohorts again.
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Game 2: Detroit at Toronto pregame
Due to some past problems here at the Dome, the Rogers Centre's alcohol liscense has been revoked for tonight's game. So no booze Bird fans. That, combined with the usual drop-off between Opening Day and Game No. 2 attendance, should make for a sparse crowd tonight.
"It's a little different today," Jays manager Cito Gaston said. "We'll miss the other 30,000 people."
The fans weren't the only ones affected by the beer issue today, either.
"They took it all out of the clubhouse," Gaston said. "I haven't opened my fridge yet to see if there's any in there."
After Monday's 12-run, 15-hit outburst from his lineup, Gaston opted to stick with the same starting nine. I say if Travis Snider keeps swinging like he did this spring and how he hit last night it'll be tough to keep him in that ninth hole.
Also, Detroit's Brandon Inge had some nice things to say about Toronto ace Roy Halladay, especially the cut fastball Doc was featuring on Monday night.
"That's the best cutter I've seen, including Mariano Rivera. I've never seen anything like that in my life."
Today's lineups:
1. Cutis Granderson, CF
2. Placido Polanco, 2B
3. Magglio Ordonez, RF
4. Miguel Cabrera, 1B
5. Carlos Guillen, LF
6. Gerald Laird, C
7. Marcus Thames, DH
8. Brandon Inge, 3B
9. Adam Everett, SS
Starter: Edwin Jackson
1. Marco Scutaro, SS
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Alex Rios, RF
4. Vernon Wells, CF
5. Adam Lind, DH
6. Scott Rolen, 3B
7. Lyle Overbay, 1B
8. Rod Barajas, C
9. Travis Snider, LF
Starter: David Purcey
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Nice 6 innings from Purcey,a quality start, 3 hits 1 run. Too bad we got all our hits yesterday. Purcey deserves a win here
wooo Aaron Hill. BJ time, lets hope he doesn't blow the job.
Wow did i ever jinx that, Brandon Inge, first pitch of the at bat, gone.
Alright. Battle of the bullpens now, without BJ. I like the Jays chances.
I like this team.
I thought the Jays were lucky to win that one. Had Leyland left Jackson in there for the rest of the inning they would have likely lost but regardless i'm obviously happy they got the win. It's too bad about Ryan blowing the save on his first opportunity, that wont exactly give me confidence that the job will get done when he comes in. I did notice that he topped off at 89 MPH on the Detroit broadcast. Finally, nice to see that Rolen is showing some pop in his first 2 games.
I've been impressed with Rolen all spring, maybe Jordan will give us an article about his showings of late…. he sure has looked good.
Enigma, I don't think I'd get excited about Ryan's velocity yet, that ball he threw to Inge was middle center with no movement and Inge hammered it. Watching Ryan pitch tonight actually caused me more concern about him than what we've heard.
I think he might be resorting to a 4 seamer on occasion to get his velocity back up, BUT it loses movement seen before on his fastball. I might be wrong about that, but that pitch to Inge was flat, straight and slow. Inge was licking his chops waiting to clobber it. lol
I still think he should be at Dunedin working it out because I doubt Cito is going to keep running him out there to blow saves, particulary when we pay him 10 mill. a year for the privilege.
You are right, we were lucky to win this one, maybe it's the year for The Jays to get the breaks. Good to have Hill back and nice to see Rolen off to a good start.
I agree completely on your assessment of Ryan. You could tell during his warm-up that he couldn't get the ball down. He used to rely on his movement and location. If you take that away from him, there are THOUSANDS of pitchers that can throw straight 90mph fastballs down the middle of plate who will play for the league minimum.
An interesting tidbit about Thursday's game from the Canadian Press as reported on Sportsnet.com
TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays made Ricky Romero the sixth overall pick in 2005, while Rick Porcello was selected 27th overall by the Detroit Tigers in 2007.
On Thursday, the two pitchers will become the first pair of first-rounders to make their big-league debuts against one another, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. It's a small and obscure piece of baseball history, but a piece of baseball history nonetheless.
"That's actually pretty cool," said Romero, a 24-year-old lefty from Los Angeles. "Two young up-and-coming guys making their debut, should be pretty fun. It's exciting for me, I'm sure he's excited too. I have my whole family here, it's obviously going to be a good experience, a day you're never going to forget."
Added Porcello, a 20-year-old righty from Morristown, N.J.: "I don't think about it too much, I've got my hands full with trying to get some hitters out. But it's kind of cool that's the first time it's going to happen."
It's always hard to pinpoint the moment a young pitcher arrives; last night could be Purcey's.
When Purcey started the 7th inning he'd only given up 1 run on 3 hits and in fairness that run could have been saved if Hill had applied a different tag on Inge's slide into 2nd base in the 3rd inning. The replay showed Inge extending his arms around either side of Hill's glove to be safe.
Purcey's "moment" came in the 7th when Detroit had already scored and had runners on 2nd and 3rd with only 1 out. Cito called for an intentional walk to Inge and Purcey promptly soft tossed his first pitch over Barajas's head to the backstop.
Barajas recoved the ball and quickly tossed it to Purcey so the runner on 3rd couldn't score, and Purcey, seeing the runner on 2nd out of place tried to gun him down by throwing it 2 feet over Scutaro's head into center field. The runner on 3rd scored and I'm sure Purcey was looking for a big hole to dive into to cover his embarassment.
But he didn't do that, what he did was strike out Inge, get Thames out and retire the side with no more damage.
As the year goes on, this game will only show up as a no decision for David Purcey-reminding all of us the win loss record of a pitcher isn't the best way to gage how effective a starter is-it's how many quality starts they give us.
Purcey kept us in the game long enough for Camp to do his job and the hitters deliver the runs, a quality start for sure.
Time will tell whether this was Purey's arrival moment or not, but if it wasn't it certainly went a long way to getting him there. I for one hope it was.


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What is the difference between these two sentences?
a)I have read this novel.
b)I read it about 8 years ago.
Why is the same tense used for this in other languages?
the word saw is the suitable word it should be using here, cause the word yesterday had clarified the time which is past simple, cause if we choose have seen that means we will not need to the word yesterday which located in the end of the sentence as the rule says.
but with yesterday we use the simple past tense.
for example we can say I saw King of Darkness yesterday.
I have seen King of Drakness.
What is the difference between these two sentences?
a)I have read this novel.
b)I read it about 8 years ago.
Why is the same tense used for this in other languages?
The Past Simple Tense is used
a) To show something that happened in the past
b) To express an action wholly completed in the past:
The Past Perfect Tense states that an action was completed at a certain point of time in the past
This tense refers to two periods of time, one action being completed before the other takes place
I had my hair cut. help with grammar please
Hi there, can anyone help me? i have two sentences:
1) i had my hair cut.
2) i wouldn't if i were you.
I'd like to know the tenses used in them and how can i explain them to someone in an easiest way.
The first sentence: It's a kind of passive voice in the simple past tense. The general form of this sentence is "to have smth done". I think you've known the meaning already.
The second sentence: It's an unreal conditional sentence in the present tense. The general form is "If + S + V.ed , S + would do".
Hope it can help a little.
present perfect tense always cause a big or actually a huge problem for me
I don't know how to use it and when I should use it
It is very difficult for me
please can you help to understand it very well
I would be thankful and grateful if you explain it for me


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Subject: Agricultural Sciences Publication Date: 2016 Author Name: Rajeev K. Varshney Keyword Term: Drought tolerance
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Deepa Jaganathan; Mahendar Thudi; Sandip Kale; Sarwar Azam; Manish Roorkiwal; Pooran M.Gaur; P. B. Kavi Kishor; Henry Nguyen; Tim Sutton; Rajeev K. Varshney, 2016, "Intra-specific genetic map data of ICC 4958 x ICC 1882 by Genotyping-by-sequencing approach", https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/HQ8RJV, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1To enhance the marker density in the "QTL-hotspot" region, harboring several QTLs for drought tolerance-related traits identified on linkage group 04 (CaLG04) in chickpea recombinant inbred line (RIL) mapping population ICC 4958 × ICC 1882, a genotyping-by-sequencing approach was...
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Bhimana Gautami; Manish K. Pandey; V. Vadez; S. N. Nigam; P. Ratnakumar; L. Krishnamurthy; T. Radhakrishnan; Makanahally V. C. Gowda; M. L. Narasu; Dave A. Hoisington; S. J. Knapp; Rajeev K. Varshney, 2016, "Individual and consensus QTL maps of Groundnut from ICGS76 X CSMG84-1, ICGS44 X ICGS76 and TAG24 X ICGV86031", https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/SQSI3T, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1With the aim of understanding the genetic basis and identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for drought tolerance, two new recombinant inbred line (RIL) mapping populations, namely ICGS 76 × CSMG 84-1 (RIL-2) and ICGS 44 × ICGS 76 (RIL-3), were used. CMap Visualization Li...
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Rajeev K. Varshney; Mahendar Thudi; Spurthi N. Nayak; Pooran M.Gaur; Junichi Kashiwagi; L. Krishnamurthy; Deepa Jaganathan; Jahnavi Koppolu; Abhishek Bohra; Shailesh Tripathi; Abhishek, Rathore; Aravind K. Jukanti; Veera Jayalakshmi; Anilkumar Vemula; S. J. Singh; Mohammad Yasin; M. S. Sheshshayee; K. P. Viswanatha, 2016, "Chickpea Individual and consensus genetic map data for ICC 283 x ICC 826, ICC 4958 x ICC 1882", https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/6D13J9, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1Analysis of phenotypic data for 20 drought tolerance traits in 1–7 seasons at 1–5 locations together with genetic mapping data for two mapping populations provided 9 QTL clusters of which one present on CaLG04 has a high potential to enhance drought tolerance in chickpea improvem...
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What you should know about global dedupe
Global data deduplication can yield significant capacity savings, but its most attractive feature may be the architecture it's built upon.
- Arun Taneja, Taneja Group
The buzz around data deduplication continues unabated. Based on our experience, many IT users have already deployed data deduplication to some extent in their data centers. And many of those who haven't taken the dedupe plunge are planning to in 2011. Still, we estimate that only approximately 20% of worldwide enterprise data is protected on disk, with another 50% still to be added to that number. The rest will stay on tape or remain unprotected.
But even as shops enjoy the benefits of dedupe, some are beginning to worry about the proliferation of secondary disks. And many of those are wondering if global deduplication might actually deliver more efficiency across large amounts of data. But before we get into global data deduplication, let me define data deduplication itself, especially in contrast to primary storage optimization (PSO). The term data deduplication has become so overused that vendors often include PSO technologies within its meaning.
At Taneja Group, PSO is defined as the technologies that reduce capacity requirements for primary storage, while secondary capacity optimization (SCO) refers to solutions that reduce required disk capacity for protecting data on secondary storage (including long-term archiving). We differentiate between the two because the technologies behind each are drastically different.
Data compression vs. data deduplication
The main technology for PSO is compression, while the cornerstone of SCO is data deduplication. Compression technologies look at a data stream and try to eliminate unneeded 0s and 1s algorithmically such that no data is lost when it's uncompressed. Data deduplication at a file level will delete a duplicate file and replace it with a pointer. Dedupe at the sub-file level will do the same, except it uses a number of pointers, one each for the sub-file or chunk. Data deduplication doesn't try to crunch the file as compression does. It looks for duplicates within a repository either at a file level or sub-file level. Compression can also be applied to secondary storage -- a lot of backup data is compressed before it's written to tape and most SCO products add compression on top of deduplicated data.
Global vs. local dedupeNow let's look at global data deduplication. When you install your first data deduplication solution for your backups, the system needs time to extract duplicates at the sub-file level. The capacity reduction may be only 2 to 1 in the first week, with one full and six incrementals, for instance. As more weekly fulls and daily incrementals are done, the ratio will improve, often to about 20 to 1.
If the backups were done intelligently and the same data wasn't repeatedly dragged to the backup disk, we wouldn't need data dedupe. Global deduplication comes into play when a single system can squeeze out the duplication across the entire enterprise, rather than only across each system.
Current data deduplication systems vary in the way they perform dedupe, such as whether they do it inline or post processing, if they use a virtual tape library (VTL) or network-attached storage (NAS) interface, and so forth. But a major architectural difference is whether the systems are single node or scale-out (sometimes called clustered). Scale-out solutions can perform global data deduplication simply by adding nodes. Even a system of just two nodes enhances reliability as the configuration can withstand a failure of a disk in any node, or the failure of an entire node. The nodes can be managed as a single system to create a global deduplication solution. A single-node system has no visibility into other nodes, so even though there may be chunks or files that are exactly the same on multiple nodes they'll be viewed as unique data and stored on each node.
The merits of global deduplication may seem obvious, but in practical terms they're somewhat diminished. Would you want to put all your eggs in one basket with a single solution for the entire enterprise? And if you have multiple subsidiaries, would it be desirable for them to share one backup repository? Probably not. But that's not to suggest that scale-out solutions are bad; I see scale-out as the preferred architecture as it mitigates proliferation and lets you decide whether to create one monolithic system or multiple standalone systems.
But I'm not convinced that global deduplication is necessarily the primary reason for preferring scale-out products. Global deduplication will yield better reduction ratios, but when compared to standalone systems, the difference is often less than dramatic.
When global dedupe truly matters
However, there are places where global deduplication matters immensely. Take Symantec Corp.'s NetBackup PureDisk solution as an example. You install it in the main data center with smaller versions at each of your remote locations. All of them are scale-out, but it's likely the data center installation is indeed multinode while the remote ones are single-node (or dual-node) systems. The data is chunked up at each remote site, automatically checked against the master unit in the data center to see if it already exists there, and then either moved or marked with a pointer. Because the data center unit is the reference point, all data across all remote sites is deduplicated and the master unit is indeed very efficient in terms of data deduplication. Keep in mind that even single-node solutions, such as EMC Data Domain and others, allow such elimination across remote sites. But having a large, scalable unit at the data center does make a difference in this case. EMC recently added a two-node Data Domain system where each node is indeed aware of the other and eliminates duplication across both nodes. We consider this a "quasi" scale-out system that's perhaps a precursor to a full-blown scale-out solution in the future.
FalconStor Software Inc.'s solution is a bit different architecturally. Its VTL is scale-out but doesn't have integrated data deduplication. Another scale-out FalconStor product, Single Instance Repository (SIR), sits on the same local-area network (LAN) and performs data deduplication on a post-process basis. One would consider this an example of a system capable of doing global deduplication.
NetApp adds compression to dedupe
NetApp's approach is unique in the industry because it offers a dedupe feature that's shipped free of charge (although it has to be licensed). This is the single case in the industry where deduplication, as we define it, is used for optimizing capacity on primary and secondary storage. It uses a post-process method that looks for block-level redundancies to shrink the data. When data is needed by the application it's presented in the original format, perhaps with a small amount of latency since the file has to be reconstituted. If the storage is being used to store backups, the capacity optimization is done in exactly the same way. This is the only solution we've seen that has applied deduplication technology to both primary and secondary data. Recently, NetApp added compression for both primary and secondary data. This makes NetApp unique in its approach to capacity optimization, and blurs the lines I defined earlier, but it currently doesn't offer global deduplication.
Permabit Technology Corp. is another noteworthy player. Until recently, the firm offered an appliance designed for archival data. It's classic scale-out, and uses data deduplication and compression to optimize capacity utilization. Permabit recently isolated the deduplication engine and made it available to OEMs who lack PSO or SCO technologies. Because Permabit's archival system, Permeon, can be used as a backup target, as an archive or as tier 3 primary storage, the company claims its data reduction engine combines the benefits of all capacity optimization technologies and applies equally to primary or secondary storage. BlueArc, LSI and Xiotech Corp. have signed on as OEMs for this technology. From a global deduplication perspective, Permabit's architecture does indeed meet our definition, as do NEC's HydraStor and Sepaton's VTL with DeltaStor appliances.
Global data deduplication is an important feature, especially as it applies to data management across remote sites. And it's hard to argue against having a smaller number of systems to manage. Being able to scale simply by adding another node with the system automatically redistributing the data on the back end is a great benefit, too, and it's hard to argue against getting a few more percentage points of deduplication across the enterprise. But don't chase global data deduplication at all costs. Choose a scalable architecture, but not just for the global data deduplication it delivers.
BIO: Arun Taneja is founder and president of Taneja Group, an analyst and consulting group focused on storage and storage-centric server technologies. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I'm back in the organic bulk bins again, this time tackling steel cut oats. Sure we all know how heart healthy oatmeal is, but when it's in steel cut form it's even healthier.
Steel cut oats are whole oats (also called groats) that have been cut (by steel) into fourths. The outer husk is removed, but the endosperm, bran and germ remain. They are very high in fiber and protein, low in fats and sugars.
Because steel cut oats are dense, they require a long cooking time, about thirty minutes stove stop. I don't have that kind of time in the morning so I decided to cook them overnight in the crock pot with a simple recipe. I pulled out my ancient smaller crock pot (the one I got for free when opening up a checking account in college - that's how ancient it is) because I thought they might burn in my larger crock pot. The prospect of waking up to a hot, already cooked breakfast really appealed to me.
Here's what I did.
I sprayed the crock with nonstick spray and added 1/4 cup of water.
Into the water went ¼ tsp of salt.
Next I added 1 cup of organic steel cut oats and stirred. I let it sit for 8 hours overnight.
The result: something bland and a bit like wall paper paste.
I added agave nectar and raisins, it helped a little.
I'd love to be able to tell you this was a smashing success. See, everything in the bulk bins is awesome! But I can't. I was disappointed because I had read that steel cut oats aren't as mushy as rolled oats and have a nuttier, stronger flavor. Maybe I used too much water. Maybe they cooked too long. I have plenty left, so I'm going to find the time to do them on the stovetop and give them a second chance.
If anyone has had any luck with steel cut oats, please share your recipe.
I made enough to feed my family of four. Price for 1 cup of steel cut oats from the bulk bin? About 60 cents. That's not disappointing.
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We've learned of another music twist for Facebook's F8 announcement on Thursday: Myxer Social Radio, from the six-year-old MP3, wallpaper, and ringtone company Myxer. It plans to join the social, smartphone world with a real-time group listening streaming radio service that will let friends listen together via Facebook — not only that, but it will sculpt the group listening rooms based on music it thinks people there will like.
Facebook, we have confirmed with multiple sources, will launch an initiative tomorrow to let music services put deep hooks into its social network, allowing friends to join each other to listen to the same song in real time, which will, of course, give them yet another reason to use Facebook, either to log in to those services or see what their friends are listening to. Most of these services are unlimited on-demand music subscriptions (see: MOG), but Myxer's offering will be 100-percent-free, ad-supported streaming radio.
Myxer Social Radio will offer group listening rooms somewhat along the line of those in Turntable.fm, but without users having to select which songs play. Instead, the service will analyze their Facebook Likes and possibly other information like Last.fm accounts in order to spin an appropriate selection of tunes for friends to enjoy together and comment on, using music from its ten-million-song-plus catalog.
Some of these features will launch soon, Myxer founder and CEO Myk Willis told Evolver.fm, while others will wait until the fourth quarter.
"We're not trying to build the largest listening rooms in the world — we're trying to build rooms for people who actually know each other, for the most part," explained Willis. "We're steering the programming in those rooms based on who is actually listening at that time. Turntable.fm is a great, fun activity, but it's an active thing… this is very passive and lean-back, when it comes to programming."
All of Myxer's group listening rooms will be free on the web (via Facebook), iPhone, and Android, unlike some (but not all) of the other impending Facebook music services. All three versions will require a Facebook log-in and include visual ads, audio ads, and sponsored rooms. Some of these audio ads will only be two-seconds long, which should be short enough to stop people from reaching for the mute button.
Turntable.fm already has one super-faithful copycat, and as Facebook rolls out its not-so-secret music initiative on Thursday, we expect more of them to come. To try to compete, Myxer has one feature we haven't seen elsewhere: Song Stories, which are basically crowdsourced DJ moments. Users can shoot a short clip of themselves talking about a particular song, and when other people hear that song in a group listening room — even a roomful of strangers — that clip could play before the song.
"Song Stories is something I'm hugely excited about," explained Willis. "I don't think people will 'get' it until they experience it, but it's a way for people to record 30- or 40-second clips with their cameraphone or webcam that are associated with the song. Myxer Social Radio takes care of cataloging it and figuring out when to show that, and who it would be appropriate to show it to. These stories can be anything from funny to authoritative, and in some cases the artist will be leaving song stories. Some of them are very sad — they add an emotional dimension that I think people will think is very powerful. And in an advertising context… [the as-yet-unnamed launch sponsor] has some brand assets that lend themselves to stories about songs."
Myxer Social Radio will require Facebook to log-in, in part so that you see rooms where your friends are when you launch the app, and in part to power the Myxer Social Boost feature, which tailors the music in any room to the Likes of the people there. And when you notice that a friend is listening to something in a particular room, you can join them at the same point in the song.
"You sync up exactly, when you hop into a room in Myxer Social Radio," explained Willis. "We really stress the idea of listening with your friends, and when you listen together, it's in real time, for each part of the song, and you can interact via chat — and it doesn't matter what device you're connecting to the service with — iPhone, Android, [the web], or whatever."
This is Myxer's first foray into streaming radio on all three platforms (iPhone, Android, and the web-via-Facebook). Myxer founder and CEO Myk Willis told Evolver.fm that he'd waited until this moment, in part, to coincide with Facebook's big music plans.
"The intersection of mobile, social, and free, despite the cliches — that's the sweetspot for us… The real-time group listening is one of those things that we kept coming back to," he said. "We want to bring people together around music, and that is such a clear way to do it."
We already considered 2011 to be the year of the group-listening app, even before tomorrow's Facebook F8 announcements. But if Facebook succeeds in providing the connective tissue for music services, real-time group listening will prove to be much more than a passing fad.


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Scorpions – Lonesome Crow (1972)
Chances are you have heard the final studio album, Sting in the Tail from the Scorpions by now. Have you ever listened to the Scorpions first studio album? The Scorpions debut Lonesome Crow was released 38 years ago in 1972 (gasp!). This album has a sound deeply seated in the seventies, and probably has more in common with bands like Iron Butterfly, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix & Cream. The music is early progressive rock, and is unlike anything else you will hear in the Scorpions' discography. Even as a teenager, Michael Schenker proved to have some incredible guitar skills, although you have NEVER heard him play like this. Klaus Meine's voice wasn't as much in the forefront of the music as it is today, but when he does cut loose, you can almost sense a level of greatness within him. I can't imagine what the folks who heard this first time in the seventies thought, but this is some trippy, psychedelic music that must be fully listened to, to be appreciated.
If you are the type of person that needs big sing-a-long hits, Lonesome Crow will not be an album for you. There aren't any songs on this CD that would translate over to radio play very well. This CD does however showcase the raw early talent of this amazing band that so many of us have come to love over the years. Playing Lonesome Crow in 2010 will take you back to an era when rock was still primal, strange and unpolished. It is a radical beginning for the Scorpions, and is an album that requires multiple listens before you can fully grasp what you are hearing. Lonesome Crow is a mind-bending masterpiece that ought to be essential to all Michael Schenker fans, and Scorpions die-hards.
Rating: Out of 10
Track Listing:
- I'm Going Mad
- It All Depends
- Leave Me
- In Search of the Peace of Mind
- Inheritance
- Action
- Lonesome Crow
Scorpions are:
Klaus Meine – Vocals
Michael Schenker – GLead Guitar
Rudolf Schenker – Guitar
Wolfgang – Dziony – Drums
Lothar Heimberg – Bass Guitar
super ! desconocia estas canciones hata que me puse a buscar y ahora estoy muy emopcionado , buen video !!
I had a red vinyl version of this which was marked "not for sale" which I picked up in the late seventies. I no longer have it (don't ask). All I have now are the memories of playing it over and over again in college. Thanks for posting the video. I can't find this on Rhapsody.
Yeah, nice post! I did listen to Lonesome Crow for the first time in 2010 and I thought the album was great! BTW this kind of sound is ultra modern today! Hope to see them live (for the last time???) in September here in Brazil!